Branches of the Tree

Glenn talked about the Valarie Jarette branch yesterday. I have been looking into the roots of this movement, the Conservative Vice Lords of Chicago founded in 1967, and who supported them in their first attempt to "community organize". I started out looking at the Roosevelt Foundation since Glenn had mentioned them in relation to Van Jones. Then I hit the Jackpot. The Roosevelt Foundation gave them $15,000 today's equivalent of $170,000+. I looked down the list and looked and saw that the Ford Foundation gave them $150,000 today's equivalent of more than $1.5 million. Quite a bit more of an investment there.

Then I found out a direct link to that group for Obama. You know that job that his mother had to get to in Indonesia, the one that made Barack have to study at 4:30 am everyday, it was with the Ford Foundation. Their next door neighbor, Fran Korten, worked with her and knew her when Brack was away at college in the States. She and her husband, David Korten, an author of several "community organization" books , run [u][b]Yes![/b][/u] a very liberal magazine from WA. The magazine, www.yesmagazine.org, ran a very interesting article on Van Jones and one was titled, "Van Jones is a Patriot". I also found out that Danny Glover is on the board of this magazine.

This is not a huge earth shaking link but is just another example of how radicals seem to flock around our current president and you know what they say, "Birds of a feather, flock together."
Another branch, really root I want to look into a little more is the money. If Glenn wants to stop corruption in this government, he needs to take a deep look at U.S.A.I.D. It is the where a lot of money is being funneled to these organizations that support leftist causes through our government. Guess who runs this organization? The Secretary of State decides how U.S.A.I.D. fund money is spent. I'll keep digging, but anyone else who wants to pick up a shovel can join in as well.

One more interesting detail about the Ford Foundation is that it sponsors www.OneWorld.net, news organization that takes stories about social justice, green movement stuff, and unions. Yesterday they had a story about human trafficking from Africa to Italy. No mention about ACORN though.