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		<title>Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans.  Click here to read earlier articles.]
Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans.  Click </strong><a href="http://biggovernment.com/author/taylorking" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a><strong> to read earlier articles.]</strong></p>
<p>Top <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/23/a-name-americans-should-know-jodie-evans-and-the-obama-hollywood-terrorist-connection/">Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans</a> met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOeV5szb--M">Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama</a> a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.</p>
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<em>Jodie Evans and Jane Fonda, photo by Jane Halifax</em></p>
<p>The meeting with the Taliban was kept secret by Evans and her group Code Pink in <a href="http://codepink4peace.org/blog/tag/afghanistan-delegation/">reports</a> she and the group posted from Kabul and in interviews with the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html">media</a> and <a href="http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/code-pinks-jodie-evans-no-rethink-on.html">bloggers</a> about the trip. Fonda, a close friend of Evans, let the secret meeting slip in an <a href="http://janefonda.com/armand-hammer-museum">account of her dinner with Evans</a> at a fundraiser for the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles:</p>
<p><em>Last Saturday, My dear friends Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky, invited Richard and me to join them at their table at a fundraiser at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood. It was a good evening for lots of reasons. I had never been to the museum and definitely want to go back. Clearly it is a courageous place, very cutting edge. Then, too, I saw lots of friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and I sat next to Jodie who told me a little about her recent trip to Afghanistan with an American delegation that included a retired colonel, and member the State Department </em>(<a href="http://www.opednews.com/author/author4347.html">Army Reserves Col. (Ret.) and ex-diplomat Ann Wright</a>).<em> While there, she met with people ranging from the brother of President Karzai, Afghan members of Parliament, activists, to warlords and <strong>members of the Taliban</strong> (emphasis added.) Jodie is co-founder of the peace organization, Code Pink, and always willing to go to any lengths to try and find out what’s really going on. Bottom line: everyone she met with wants the U.S. Military out of their country. They feel our presence there has brought more violence rather than security. Please read a short article she wrote about the trip which is on the <a href="http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/100709.html">Women’s Media Center</a> website.</em></p>
<p>There is precedent to suspect that Evans is acting as a conduit for the Taliban to Obama. In June, her fellow Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin hand carried a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/04">letter out of Gaza</a> from the terrorist group Hamas addressed to Obama.</p>
<p>Over the seven years of its existence, Code Pink has acted as propaganda shills for the anti-American governments of Iran&#8217;s <a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/25/activists-talk-love-not-war-with-iranian-president/">President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a>, Venezuela&#8217;s <a href="http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=class&amp;class=20&amp;type=116&amp;printsafe=1">President Hugo Chavez</a>, Bolivia&#8217;s <a href="http://codepinkdc.blogspot.com/2008/07/visiting-bolivia-in-turbulent-times.html">President Evo Morales</a>, Cuba&#8217;s <a href="http://codepinkalert.blogspot.com/2007/01/guantanamo-reflections-from-jodie-evans.html%22">Castro brothers</a> and Iraq under <a href="http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BCDA4B32-1A38-4131-926D-66075EA20C23">Saddam Hussein</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/04">Middle</a> <a href="http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1167">Eastern</a> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=05D6F775-4573-45AD-AD87-83F4282D7532">terrorist groups</a>.</p>
<p>Fonda has her own history of working with America&#8217;s enemies. During the Vietnam war <a href="http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/fonda.htm">she visited North Vietnam in 1972</a> and was photographed manning an anti-aircraft battery used to shoot down American planes. Fonda also recorded propaganda radio broadcasts for the North Vietnamese communists</p>
<p>In 2007 Code Pink brought Fonda out of protest retirement at a so-called antiwar demonstration held at the <a href="http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1535">Navy Memorial</a> in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>What was in the package that Evans gave Obama at the San Francisco fundraiser? She describes what she gave Obama in an article at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jodie-evans/delivering-a-message-to-o_b_326666.html">Huffington Post</a>:</p>
<p><em>&#8230;we were careful to make the package very user and security friendly. It was filled with photos, quotes, thousands of signatures </em>(on a petition against more troops for Afghanistan)<em>, a copy of Rethink Afghanistan and our 25-minute interview with Afghan MP Dr. Roshanak Wardak from Wardak Province, who is adamant that the U.S. should not send new troops and rather, must leave.</em></p>
<p>Evans notes that she gave a similar package to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who was also at the fundraiser being held in her city.</p>
<p>No mention is made by Evans on whether she relayed oral or written messages from the Taliban to Obama. However, it is a strong possibility given Fonda&#8217;s revelation and Code Pink&#8217;s history.</p>
<p>Code Pink&#8217;s image as kooky but well-meaning women committed to peace is belied by their words and actions. At home they work to <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/14/obama-ally-code-pink-justifies-fort-hood-terrorist-attack-cashes-in-on-massacre-in-veterans-day-fundraising-appeal/">undermine morale in our soldiers</a>, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/09/obama-ally-code-pink-targets-children-of-military-families-for-psychological-abuse/">their families</a> and the American public. Abroad they work with terrorist enemies of the United States.</p>
<p>And one of Code Pink&#8217;s co-founders, Jodie Evans, works with President Obama. Is anyone in our nation&#8217;s capital paying attention?</p>
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		<title>First They Came For the &#8220;Climate Criminals&#8221;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had the pleasure of Greenpeace taking my trash every Sunday night after I put it out &#8212; the contents winding up in staged &#8220;stories&#8221; in outlets like Deutsche Welle, the Independent, El Pais and Old Red herself, the Guardian, whose reporters never even called before cobbling unrelated offal together to spin their yarn. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have had the pleasure of Greenpeace taking my trash every Sunday night after I put it out &#8212; the contents winding up in staged &#8220;stories&#8221; in outlets like Deutsche Welle, the Independent, El Pais and Old Red herself, the Guardian, whose reporters never even called before cobbling unrelated offal together to spin their yarn. Not content to address the issues when old fashioned (if lame) intimidation efforts were handy, the green machine have also labored over breathless press releases announcing with whom they&#8217;ve seen me dine, and plastered the walls and leafleted Kyoto negotiating conferences with my mug as a &#8220;climate criminal&#8221;. As I detailed in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Hot-Lies-Alarmists-Misinformed/dp/1596985380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1255531256&amp;sr=8-1">Red Hot Lies</a></em>, that&#8217;s child&#8217;s play compared with the death threats and attempts on scientists&#8217; lives when they dare push back against The New Red that is Big Green.</p>
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<p>So naturally, when I see an email touting a &#8220;tribunal&#8221;, in Spanish though it may have been, I look closer. Courtesy of a translating software and a little cleanup work, here&#8217;s today&#8217;s missive from Friends of the Earth International. When reading it, recall how the International Criminal Court was hailed by academics and even our then-president as an environmental treaty. Recall how we are poised to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty which despite its name purports to regulate land-based sources such as transport and electricity generation, just like Kyoto except that it has its own court, one that has already shown its willingness to go rogue and set its jurisdiction <em>ad hoc</em>.</p>
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<p>Then recall the poem commonly attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller, and wonder if you, too, might be the sort of criminal our woolly green friends are on the lookout for, even if you don&#8217;t yet know it. But don&#8217;t worry, past threats on the lives of &#8220;skeptic&#8221; scientists aside, it&#8217;s only &#8220;moral punishment&#8221; they seek to mete out. What that means, to be determined later:</p>
<blockquote><p>NOTICE TO THE PRESS<br />
Friends of the Earth International<br />
October 14, 2009<br />
First International Court of Justice Climate</p>
<p>Cochabamba, Bolivia, 14 October 2009 &#8211; With the aim of identifying and morally punish[ing] those who violate the environment, this 13 and 14, held the First International Audience Climate Justice in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and it is intended that the UN continue that work.</p>
<p>This initiative comes to the search for compromises and solutions world governments have not been able to achieve against Change Climate.</p>
<p>The initiative seeks to influence institutions like the Organization of the UN to step in the formation of courts  consider the crimes related to climate change, plus explore options for preserving the environment.</p>
<p>The court has received reports of at least ten people and nations indigenous descent, peasant movements and fishermen, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Brazil and Bolivia to be argued in hearings and reviewed by a panel of recognized social and environmental activists, including ecologist Richard Navarro, representing Friends of the Earth International.</p>
<p>&#8220;Rich countries must dramatically reduce their OWN greenhouse gas emissions already. That is the first step towards climate justice. Besides climatic and ecological debt must be recognized and paid. False solutions such as agrofuels are [NB: not?] acceptable,&#8221; according to Irene CENSAT Velez de Agua Viva (Friends of the Earth Colombia) and co-Coordinate of the Climate Justice Program of Friends of the Earth International.</p>
<p>The First International Climate Justice Court is also the result of an initiative to make Bolivian President Evo Morales, last September in a United Nations conference, in which proposed the establishment of a tribunal against the change climate, as permanent investigative body to governments and companies that pollute the environment.</p>
<p>The government of Evo Morales has shown a strong stance in defense of environment and Mother Earth and their negotiating positions United Nations on climate change have been very constructive, according to Friends of the Earth International.</p></blockquote>
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