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It didn't surprise me to learn that the Kyle Rittenhouse defense team hired Dr. Jo-Ellan Dimitrius to assist them in the jury empanelment process. She did the same job for the O.J. Simpson defense team. Her expertise in predicting the behavior of jurorsgot her nicknamed "The Seer" by The American Lawyer Magazine.

Remember her if you commit a major felony, her assistance might save you, tooprovided that you could afford her.

Jon Heritage,Eugene

Beware of all the money being thrown at everything and everyone in the past and now. Anew$1.7 trillion government aid package is on its way.It may not be as innocent or generous as we are made to believe,but rather a sheepish way of gathering votes for the next election as Big Daddy Government comes to everyones aid.

My friends will just push our country further into a communistic America while youre lulled into believing its worth it.Think of it as a debtyoull never recover fromandfreedomyouve given away,because nothing is free.Think about itand beware!

Rita Lombard,Eugene

The recent front-page story about Afghan interpreterNasirullahSafi who risked his life to be the eyes and ears for American troops implicitly condones our repeated national violence for exploitation of global resources hidden within broadly racist ideological jingoism.

The Vichy French eyes and ears for Nazi occupation were not later treated kindly by their nation. The last plane out of Saigon, as Vietnamese collaborators scrambled to escape the wrath of their own people,wasa scene replicated recently in Kabul.

These two longest wars in U.S.history were launched without moral or legal justification upon countries innocent of any harm to us, inflicting terrible death and destruction upon both.

PresidentBush refused the Talibans requestfor evidence of Bin-Ladens guilt (there was none) and we launched a gratuitously stampeded, major military assault 7,000 miles away less than a month after 9/11, an obviously pre-planned, fully-prepared operation.

Control ofopium production, long an off-budget mainstay of U.S.covert operations, was a common objective of both wars, not the sacred myth of spreading democracy.

Recruitment of collaborators by diabolical methodslike CIA extortion and corruption in the VietnamPhoenix programoften requiring later rescue, is central in our resource-war template.

Jack Dresser,Springfield

Our crumbling infrastructure has been front and center in the news. A vast majority of citizens across the U.S.have felt the effects of our outdated infrastructure. Deteriorating roads, water systems and bridges are major issues in rural and urban areasand not addressing the situation soon could have devastating outcomes, especially with our increasing climate crisis.

Provedby his unwavering support of the Build Back Better andbipartisaninfrastructure frameworks,Rep. PeterDeFazio is leading the fight to update our nations infrastructure. This legislation supports rebuilding and restoring roads and bridges, all while creating new jobs and investing in communities nationwide. The framework also will put our country on the right path towarda sustainable future. The Build Back Better Act, which passed the House on Nov.19, includes investments in cleaner transportation options and would create a new Civilian Climate Corps and must be swiftly passed by the Senate.

DeFazio continues to fight for fair-wage jobs, innovative infrastructure and creation of an environmentally friendly transportation system. I am thankful for DeFazios decisive actions in working to fix our crumbling infrastructure affecting millions of citizens across the United States.

Anna S. Pelz, Eugene

TheRegister-Guard front-page story (Nov. 23) on state spending hatched atwo-plus-twoidea.If Oregon has $50million to spend on stuff like improvingstateparks, why not recreate a regional Civilian Conservation Corps and invite houseless men and women to apply?

It helps solve several problems at once and could be a model for the rest of our U.S. Yes,wecan make good use of our resources!

Graham Hoyt Lewis,Eugene

America went from the Greatest Generation,who defeated an enemy that killed more than 400,000people,by sacrificing and pulling together.

AfterWorld War II,inflation spiked as demand outpacedsupply.

People went back to work rebuilding our nation's infrastructure.

This current generation is trying to beat an enemy that has killedmorethan750,000Americansby whining about the "sacrifice" of wearing a mask, getting a proven vaccine and the price of gasoline and turkey.

Not exactly a profile in courage, but a profile of a spoiled generation.

Michael T. Hinojosa,Drain

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Three years after the Russian Revolution, an Austrian economist, Ludwig von Mises, argued that Communism would fail and explained why. Communism, or socialism, couldnt succeed, Mises wrote in 1920, because it had abolished free markets so that officials had no market prices to guide them in planning production. Mises was relatively unknown when he made his controversial forecast, but he acquired some international renown later as the leading spokesman of the Austrian (free market) school of economics. Since his death in 1973, his theories have gained new adherents, some now even in Eastern Europe.

The Soviet Union was launched with high hopes. Planning was to be done by a central committee, insuring plenty for everyone. The state was to wither away. But things didnt work out that way. The Soviet state soon became one of the most oppressive in the world. Millions of Russians starved in the 1920s and 1930s.

As Mises pointed out, the raw materials, labor, tools, and machines used in socialist production are outside the market. They are owned by government and controlled by government planners. No one can buy or sell them. No market prices can develop for them because they arent exchangeable.

Modern production is time-consuming and complicated. Producers must consider alternatives when deciding what to produce. And they must consider various means of production when deciding how to produce. Raw materials, tools, and machines must be devoted to the most urgent projects and not wasted on less urgent ones.

Consider, for instance, the planning of a new railroad. Should it be built at all? If so, where? And how? Is building the railroad more urgent than constructing a bridge, building a dam to produce electricity, developing oil fields, or cultivating more land? No central planner, even with a staff of statisticians, could master the countless possibilities. Machines might be substituted to some extent for labor; wood, aluminum, or new synthetic materials might be substituted for iron. But how will the planners decide?

To make these decisions, planners must know the relative valuesthe exchange ratios or market pricesof the countless factors of production involved. But when these factors are government-owned, there are no trades, and thus, no market prices. Without market prices, the planners have no clues as to the relative values of iron, aluminum, lumber, the new synthetics, or of railroads, oil fields, farm land, power plants, bridges, or housing. Without market prices for the factors of production, the planners are at a loss as to how to coordinate and channel production to satisfy the most urgent needs of consumers.

More than 70 years have passed since the Russian Revolution and 45 years since the end of World War n. Why then do the Russian people still lack adequate housing and many everyday items? Why does agricultural produce rot in the fields for lack of equipment to harvest and transport it? Why are factories and oil fields so poorly maintained that production declines? Because the raw materials, tools, machines, factories, and farms are not privately owned. Without the bids and offers of private owners, prices reflecting their relative market values cannot develop. And without market prices, it is impossible to coordinate production activities so that the goods and services consumers need will be available. That is why Communism fails.

In a competitive economy, where factors of production are privately owned, these problems are solved daily as owners calculate the monetary values of the various factors and then buy, sell, and trade them as seems desirable, As Mises wrote in 1920, Every step that takes us away from private ownership of the means of production and from the use of money also takes us away from rational economics.

Today, even Communists are coming to recognize that Mises was right. The U.S.S.R., a socialist society without private property and monetary calculation, is still floundering in the ocean of possible and conceivable economic combinations, as Mises foresaw in 1920, without the compass of economic calculation. Will she now take the important step Mises recommended of introducing private ownership of the means of production?

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The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the now-discredited domino theory to justify its involvement in the Vietnam War and its support for a non-communist dictator in South Vietnam. In fact, the American failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of an impact than had been assumed by proponents of the domino theory. With the exception of Laos and Cambodia, communism failed to spread throughout Southeast Asia.

In September 1945, the Vietnamese nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnams independence from France, beginning a war that pitted Hos communist-led Viet Minh regime in Hanoi (North Vietnam) against a French-backed regime in Saigon (South Vietnam).

Under President Harry Truman, the U.S. government provided covert military and financial aid to the French; the rationale was that a communist victory in Indochina would precipitate the spread of communism throughout Southeast Asia. Using this same logic, Truman would also give aid to Greece and Turkey during the late 1940s to help contain communism in Europe and the Middle East.

By 1950, makers of U.S. foreign policy had firmly embraced the idea that the fall of Indochina to communism would lead rapidly to the collapse of other nations in Southeast Asia. The National Security Council included the theory in a 1952 report on Indochina, and in April 1954, during the decisive battle between Viet Minh and French forces at Dien Bien Phu, President Dwight D. Eisenhower articulated it as the falling domino principle.

In Eisenhowers view, the loss of Vietnam to communist control would lead to similar communist victories in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia (including Laos, Cambodia and Thailand) and elsewhere (India, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and even Australia and New Zealand). The possible consequences of the loss [of Indochina], Eisenhower said, are just incalculable to the free world.

After Eisenhowers speech, the phrase domino theory began to be used as a shorthand expression of the strategic importance of South Vietnam to the United States, as well as the need to contain the spread of communism throughout the world.

After the Geneva Conference ended the French-Viet Minh war and split Vietnam along the latitude known as the 17th parallel, the United States spearheaded the organization of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), a loose alliance of nations committed to taking action against security threats in the region.

John F. Kennedy, Eisenhowers successor in the White House, would increase the commitment of U.S. resources in support of the Ngo Dinh Diem regime in South Vietnam and of non-communist forces fighting a civil war in Laos in 1961-62. In the fall of 1963, after serious domestic opposition to Diem arose, Kennedy backed away from support of Diem himself but publicly reaffirmed belief in the domino theory and the importance of containing communism in Southeast Asia.

Three weeks after Diem was murdered in a military coup in early November 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas; his successor Lyndon B. Johnson would continue to use the domino theory to justify the escalation of the U.S. military presence in Vietnam from a few thousand soldiers to more than 500,000 over the next five years.

The domino theory is now largely discredited, having failed to take into account the character of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong struggle in the Vietnam War.

By assuming Ho Chi Minh was a pawn of the communist giants Russia and China, American policymakers failed to see that the goal of Ho and his supporters was Vietnamese independence, not the spread of communism.

In the end, even though the American effort to block a communist takeover failed, and North Vietnamese forces marched into Saigon in 1975, communism did not spread throughout the rest of Southeast Asia. With the exception of Laos and Cambodia, the nations of the region remained out of communist control.

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Rock Against Communism (RAC) was the name of white power rock concerts in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The Rock Against Communism movement originated in the United Kingdom in late 1978, as a response by the british neo-fascist[1] party National Front (NF) to Rock against racism.[2] The first RAC concert was in Leeds, England in 1978, featuring the bands The Dentists and The Ventz. RAC held one concert in 1979 and another in spring 1983, which was headlined by the white power punk band Skrewdriver, led by Ian Stuart Donaldson. After that, RAC concerts were held more often. They were often headlined by Skrewdriver and featured other fascist and neo-nazi bands such as Skullhead and No Remorse. In the mid-1980s, summer concerts were often held at the Suffolk home of Edgar Griffin, a Conservative Party activist and father of Nick Griffin, an National front organiser who later became the national chair of the British National Party. By the late 1980s, the RAC name had given way to the White Noise Club (another National front-based group), and later Blood and Honour, which was set up by Donaldson when they fell out with the NF leadership. As hardcore punk music became more popular in the 1990s and 2000s, many white power bands took on a more hardcore-influenced sound.

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