<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	
	>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Saul Landau: Death of a Propagandist</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:21:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	
	<item>
		<title>By: Realpolitik</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5294727</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Realpolitik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5294727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Your comments are persuasive and sensitive, but they are naive and dangerous.  Landau apologized for the excesses of the left while hammering those of the right. That tells you everything. He made his choice and when you set out to spin info in favor of your lefty views, you are doing propaganda, just like Mark Tapson is doing in his article above. The only aspect of what you write that gives me pause to reconsider is that these social revolutions in the developing world were caught between east and west, communism and capitalism with the deck stacked against them because global corporations don&#039;t like change and don&#039;t want rules changed that will effect their bottom lines. If Landau had focused in his films more on that &quot;rock and a hard place&quot; I&#039;d agree with the gist of your commentary but the truth is he excused all political action that was promoting, or supposedly promoting, socialism. You can&#039;t deny that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comments are persuasive and sensitive, but they are naive and dangerous.  Landau apologized for the excesses of the left while hammering those of the right. That tells you everything. He made his choice and when you set out to spin info in favor of your lefty views, you are doing propaganda, just like Mark Tapson is doing in his article above. The only aspect of what you write that gives me pause to reconsider is that these social revolutions in the developing world were caught between east and west, communism and capitalism with the deck stacked against them because global corporations don&#8217;t like change and don&#8217;t want rules changed that will effect their bottom lines. If Landau had focused in his films more on that &#8220;rock and a hard place&#8221; I&#8217;d agree with the gist of your commentary but the truth is he excused all political action that was promoting, or supposedly promoting, socialism. You can&#8217;t deny that.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: disagreerestrategiesnotmotives</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5294372</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[disagreerestrategiesnotmotives]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5294372</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Sorry I posted this as a comment to a comment below, by mistake, when I meant to post it as a comment to the article.)





I knew Saul Landau well  for 30 years. Since I had lived and worked in
a half dozen developing countries and am passionately interested in economic
development strategies as they effect the global poor, we argued often, long
and bitterly about Cuba, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. I
agreed with him on Chile, Jamaica, and El Salvador. I never doubted for one
moment that Saul&#039;s basic lens was what social changes would benefit the poor
majority of the countries he studied, filmed and wrote about. We often
disagreed about what political changes would bring about the greatest benefits
to the greatest numbers, but I never felt the need to question the sincerity of
his motives, which many of the comments here above explicitly or implicitly do.

 

What I think is very tragic about an article such as this, and the majority
of the comments that follow, is that by demonizing the man, they miss his
contributions as a journalist and thinker.  Simple rhetoric doesn&#039;t really
tell you anything.  For example, even Henry Kissinger knew that you had to
have a revolution in Nicaragua after 46 years of the Somoza
&quot;kleptocracy&quot; (Kissinger&#039;s label). There is no denying the fact that
the Sandinistas had some die-hard Marxists in their upper echelons, and had
gotten a lot of their training, guns and support from Cuba and the USSR, but ow
relevant did that really turn out to be? Where would you have turned if you
were 20 years old and living in that sh...thole in 1960 and 1970? Saul Landau&#039;s
film &quot;Target Nicaragua helped to uncover yet another time a US President
thwarted the law to carry out nefarious plans in the name of &quot;national
security.&quot; 

 

Today the US has close business and political relations with Vietnam and
China.  No one seems to care that their rhetoric is communist, nor that in
practice they have state-run capitalism. What is relevant, to me, is that since
1990 Vietnamese rice farmers have have a 50% real dollar increase in income; I
don&#039;t find it that relevant whether such a miracle occurs in a free market
environment or in a state run economy.  Who gives a crap? 

 

It is not only totally inappropriate to compare Saul Landau to Goebbels and
label him stupid and evil, it fundamentally displays to me two things. Such
&quot;thinking&quot; isn&#039;t really interested in analysis, only rhetoric. And,
such &quot;thinking&quot; is still caught in a communism versus democracy
cold-war framework that is completely anachronistic. 

 

Saul Landau cared deeply about human rights and what political and economic
systems would benefit the majority of people in Latin America and the
Caribbean. He saw first hand the evil that that right-wing dictators, often
aided by the US via the CIA, would perpetrate to maintain their rule. He was,
in my view, too quick to ignore the procedural human rights violations (free
speech, due process, political freedoms) of revolutionary socialist regimes,
because he believed that they delivered better on substantive human rights
(food, medicine, education, land and housing reform). Here we sometimes
disagreed.  But it wasn&#039;t because he was some sort of Marxist-Lenninist
dupe, plotting for the day that a Soviet style one-party state would rule the
world. Let&#039;s not forget: Saul Landau was the guy who accompanied C. Wright
Mills to the Soviet Union when MIlls toasted a state gathering by hoping aloud
for a time that Trotsky would be freely published in the USSR and saying that
when such a time came it would mean that democracy had really arrived
there.Landau was also the guy who portrayed the superficial sycophants around
Fidel, and who was making a film on the treatment of homosexuals in Cuba when
he died. You who demonize him would like the world to be as simple as black and
white, but the sad truth for many of us who have lived and worked in countries
where the vast majority of the population go to bed every night undernourished
and without diarrhea medication, is that the political and economic reality of
different nations, while perhaps not gray, takes deep scrutiny to see
clearly.  Solutions are even more obscure. Landau was engaged in that
scrutiny--indeed with bias, like anyone--and he offered a much need
counterpoint to the superficial myopic rhetoric that formed the basis of 
US foreign policy toward the developing world since WWII, and informs what
often passes for investigative journalism. 

 

Even if those who indict him above do not agree with his views, they should
admire his accomplishments (over 40 films and over a dozen books, numerous
journalistic awards, human rights awards), appreciate the perspectives he
brought, admire his courage (his colleague was blown up by a car bomb for g-d
sake and he himself was threatened on numerous occasions), and respect his
motives. 

 

He was also a very loving and considerate person who went out of his way to
help his friends, and even on occasion those who considered themselves his
enemies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Sorry I posted this as a comment to a comment below, by mistake, when I meant to post it as a comment to the article.)</p>
<p>I knew Saul Landau well  for 30 years. Since I had lived and worked in<br />
a half dozen developing countries and am passionately interested in economic<br />
development strategies as they effect the global poor, we argued often, long<br />
and bitterly about Cuba, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. I<br />
agreed with him on Chile, Jamaica, and El Salvador. I never doubted for one<br />
moment that Saul&#8217;s basic lens was what social changes would benefit the poor<br />
majority of the countries he studied, filmed and wrote about. We often<br />
disagreed about what political changes would bring about the greatest benefits<br />
to the greatest numbers, but I never felt the need to question the sincerity of<br />
his motives, which many of the comments here above explicitly or implicitly do.</p>
<p>What I think is very tragic about an article such as this, and the majority<br />
of the comments that follow, is that by demonizing the man, they miss his<br />
contributions as a journalist and thinker.  Simple rhetoric doesn&#8217;t really<br />
tell you anything.  For example, even Henry Kissinger knew that you had to<br />
have a revolution in Nicaragua after 46 years of the Somoza<br />
&#8220;kleptocracy&#8221; (Kissinger&#8217;s label). There is no denying the fact that<br />
the Sandinistas had some die-hard Marxists in their upper echelons, and had<br />
gotten a lot of their training, guns and support from Cuba and the USSR, but ow<br />
relevant did that really turn out to be? Where would you have turned if you<br />
were 20 years old and living in that sh&#8230;thole in 1960 and 1970? Saul Landau&#8217;s<br />
film &#8220;Target Nicaragua helped to uncover yet another time a US President<br />
thwarted the law to carry out nefarious plans in the name of &#8220;national<br />
security.&#8221; </p>
<p>Today the US has close business and political relations with Vietnam and<br />
China.  No one seems to care that their rhetoric is communist, nor that in<br />
practice they have state-run capitalism. What is relevant, to me, is that since<br />
1990 Vietnamese rice farmers have have a 50% real dollar increase in income; I<br />
don&#8217;t find it that relevant whether such a miracle occurs in a free market<br />
environment or in a state run economy.  Who gives a crap? </p>
<p>It is not only totally inappropriate to compare Saul Landau to Goebbels and<br />
label him stupid and evil, it fundamentally displays to me two things. Such<br />
&#8220;thinking&#8221; isn&#8217;t really interested in analysis, only rhetoric. And,<br />
such &#8220;thinking&#8221; is still caught in a communism versus democracy<br />
cold-war framework that is completely anachronistic. </p>
<p>Saul Landau cared deeply about human rights and what political and economic<br />
systems would benefit the majority of people in Latin America and the<br />
Caribbean. He saw first hand the evil that that right-wing dictators, often<br />
aided by the US via the CIA, would perpetrate to maintain their rule. He was,<br />
in my view, too quick to ignore the procedural human rights violations (free<br />
speech, due process, political freedoms) of revolutionary socialist regimes,<br />
because he believed that they delivered better on substantive human rights<br />
(food, medicine, education, land and housing reform). Here we sometimes<br />
disagreed.  But it wasn&#8217;t because he was some sort of Marxist-Lenninist<br />
dupe, plotting for the day that a Soviet style one-party state would rule the<br />
world. Let&#8217;s not forget: Saul Landau was the guy who accompanied C. Wright<br />
Mills to the Soviet Union when MIlls toasted a state gathering by hoping aloud<br />
for a time that Trotsky would be freely published in the USSR and saying that<br />
when such a time came it would mean that democracy had really arrived<br />
there.Landau was also the guy who portrayed the superficial sycophants around<br />
Fidel, and who was making a film on the treatment of homosexuals in Cuba when<br />
he died. You who demonize him would like the world to be as simple as black and<br />
white, but the sad truth for many of us who have lived and worked in countries<br />
where the vast majority of the population go to bed every night undernourished<br />
and without diarrhea medication, is that the political and economic reality of<br />
different nations, while perhaps not gray, takes deep scrutiny to see<br />
clearly.  Solutions are even more obscure. Landau was engaged in that<br />
scrutiny&#8211;indeed with bias, like anyone&#8211;and he offered a much need<br />
counterpoint to the superficial myopic rhetoric that formed the basis of<br />
US foreign policy toward the developing world since WWII, and informs what<br />
often passes for investigative journalism. </p>
<p>Even if those who indict him above do not agree with his views, they should<br />
admire his accomplishments (over 40 films and over a dozen books, numerous<br />
journalistic awards, human rights awards), appreciate the perspectives he<br />
brought, admire his courage (his colleague was blown up by a car bomb for g-d<br />
sake and he himself was threatened on numerous occasions), and respect his<br />
motives. </p>
<p>He was also a very loving and considerate person who went out of his way to<br />
help his friends, and even on occasion those who considered themselves his<br />
enemies.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: disagreerestrategiesnotmotives</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5294246</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[disagreerestrategiesnotmotives]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5294246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew Saul Landau well  for 30 years. Since I had lived and worked in a half dozen developing countries and am passionately interested in economic development strategies as they effect the global poor, we argued often, long and bitterly about Cuba, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. I agreed with him on Chile, Jamaica, and El Salvador. I never doubted for one moment that Saul&#039;s basic lens was what social changes would benefit the poor majority of the countries he studied, filmed and wrote about. We often disagreed about what political changes would bring about the greatest benefits to the greatest numbers, but I never felt the need to question the sincerity of his motives, which many of the comments here above explicitly or implicitly do. 



What I think is very tragic about an article such as this, and the majority of the comments that follow, is that by demonizing the man, they miss his contributions as a journalist and thinker.  Simple rhetoric doesn&#039;t really tell you anything.  For example, even Henry Kissinger knew that you had to have a revolution in Nicaragua after 46 years of the Somoza &quot;kleptocracy&quot; (Kissinger&#039;s label). There is no denying the fact that the Sandinistas had some die-hard Marxists in their upper echelons, and had gotten a lot of their training, guns and support from Cuba and the USSR, but ow relevant did that really turn out to be? Where would you have turned if you were 20 years old and living in that sh...thole in 1960 and 1970? Saul Landau&#039;s film &quot;Target Nicaragua helped to uncover yet another time a US President thwarted the law to carry out nefarious plans in the name of &quot;national security.&quot; 



Today the US has close business and political relations with Vietnam and China.  No one seems to care that their rhetoric is communist, nor that in practice they have state-run capitalism. What is relevant, to me, is that since 1990 Vietnamese rice farmers have have a 50% real dollar increase in income; I don&#039;t find it that relevant whether such a miracle occurs in a free market environment or in a state run economy.  Who gives a crap? 



 It is not only totally inappropriate to compare Saul Landau to Goebbels and label him stupid and evil, it fundamentally displays to me two things. Such &quot;thinking&quot; isn&#039;t really interested in analysis, only rhetoric. And, such &quot;thinking&quot; is still caught in a communism versus democracy cold-war framework that is completely anachronistic. 



Saul Landau cared deeply about human rights and what political and economic systems would benefit the majority of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. He saw first hand the evil that that right-wing dictators, often aided by the US via the CIA, would perpetrate to maintain their rule. He was, in my view, too quick to ignore the procedural human rights violations (free speech, due process, political freedoms) of revolutionary socialist regimes, because he believed that they delivered better on substantive human rights (food, medicine, education, land and housing reform). Here we sometimes disagreed.  But it wasn&#039;t because he was some sort of Marxist-Lenninist dupe, plotting for the day that a Soviet style one-party state would rule the world. Let&#039;s not forget: Saul Landau was the guy who accompanied C. Wright Mills to the Soviet Union when MIlls toasted a state gathering by hoping aloud for a time that Trotsky would be freely published in the USSR and saying that when such a time came it would mean that democracy had really arrived there.Landau was also the guy who portrayed the superficial sycophants around Fidel, and who was making a film on the treatment of homosexuals in Cuba when he died. You who demonize him would like the world to be as simple as black and white, but the sad truth for many of us who have lived and worked in countries where the vast majority of the population go to bed every night undernourished and without diarrhea medication, is that the political and economic reality of different nations, while perhaps not gray, takes deep scrutiny to see clearly.  Solutions are even more obscure. Landau was engaged in that scrutiny--indeed with bias, like anyone--and he offered a much need counterpoint to the superficial myopic rhetoric that formed the basis of  US foreign policy toward the developing world since WWII, and informs what often passes for investigative journalism. 



Even if those who indict him above do not agree with his views, they should admire his accomplishments (over 40 films and over a dozen books, numerous journalistic awards, human rights awards), appreciate the perspectives he brought, admire his courage (his colleague was blown up by a car bomb for g-d sake and he himself was threatened on numerous occasions), and respect his motives. 



He was also a very loving and considerate person who went out of his way to help his friends, and even on occasion those who considered themselves his enemies.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew Saul Landau well  for 30 years. Since I had lived and worked in a half dozen developing countries and am passionately interested in economic development strategies as they effect the global poor, we argued often, long and bitterly about Cuba, Tibet, China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. I agreed with him on Chile, Jamaica, and El Salvador. I never doubted for one moment that Saul&#8217;s basic lens was what social changes would benefit the poor majority of the countries he studied, filmed and wrote about. We often disagreed about what political changes would bring about the greatest benefits to the greatest numbers, but I never felt the need to question the sincerity of his motives, which many of the comments here above explicitly or implicitly do. </p>
<p>What I think is very tragic about an article such as this, and the majority of the comments that follow, is that by demonizing the man, they miss his contributions as a journalist and thinker.  Simple rhetoric doesn&#8217;t really tell you anything.  For example, even Henry Kissinger knew that you had to have a revolution in Nicaragua after 46 years of the Somoza &#8220;kleptocracy&#8221; (Kissinger&#8217;s label). There is no denying the fact that the Sandinistas had some die-hard Marxists in their upper echelons, and had gotten a lot of their training, guns and support from Cuba and the USSR, but ow relevant did that really turn out to be? Where would you have turned if you were 20 years old and living in that sh&#8230;thole in 1960 and 1970? Saul Landau&#8217;s film &#8220;Target Nicaragua helped to uncover yet another time a US President thwarted the law to carry out nefarious plans in the name of &#8220;national security.&#8221; </p>
<p>Today the US has close business and political relations with Vietnam and China.  No one seems to care that their rhetoric is communist, nor that in practice they have state-run capitalism. What is relevant, to me, is that since 1990 Vietnamese rice farmers have have a 50% real dollar increase in income; I don&#8217;t find it that relevant whether such a miracle occurs in a free market environment or in a state run economy.  Who gives a crap? </p>
<p> It is not only totally inappropriate to compare Saul Landau to Goebbels and label him stupid and evil, it fundamentally displays to me two things. Such &#8220;thinking&#8221; isn&#8217;t really interested in analysis, only rhetoric. And, such &#8220;thinking&#8221; is still caught in a communism versus democracy cold-war framework that is completely anachronistic. </p>
<p>Saul Landau cared deeply about human rights and what political and economic systems would benefit the majority of people in Latin America and the Caribbean. He saw first hand the evil that that right-wing dictators, often aided by the US via the CIA, would perpetrate to maintain their rule. He was, in my view, too quick to ignore the procedural human rights violations (free speech, due process, political freedoms) of revolutionary socialist regimes, because he believed that they delivered better on substantive human rights (food, medicine, education, land and housing reform). Here we sometimes disagreed.  But it wasn&#8217;t because he was some sort of Marxist-Lenninist dupe, plotting for the day that a Soviet style one-party state would rule the world. Let&#8217;s not forget: Saul Landau was the guy who accompanied C. Wright Mills to the Soviet Union when MIlls toasted a state gathering by hoping aloud for a time that Trotsky would be freely published in the USSR and saying that when such a time came it would mean that democracy had really arrived there.Landau was also the guy who portrayed the superficial sycophants around Fidel, and who was making a film on the treatment of homosexuals in Cuba when he died. You who demonize him would like the world to be as simple as black and white, but the sad truth for many of us who have lived and worked in countries where the vast majority of the population go to bed every night undernourished and without diarrhea medication, is that the political and economic reality of different nations, while perhaps not gray, takes deep scrutiny to see clearly.  Solutions are even more obscure. Landau was engaged in that scrutiny&#8211;indeed with bias, like anyone&#8211;and he offered a much need counterpoint to the superficial myopic rhetoric that formed the basis of  US foreign policy toward the developing world since WWII, and informs what often passes for investigative journalism. </p>
<p>Even if those who indict him above do not agree with his views, they should admire his accomplishments (over 40 films and over a dozen books, numerous journalistic awards, human rights awards), appreciate the perspectives he brought, admire his courage (his colleague was blown up by a car bomb for g-d sake and he himself was threatened on numerous occasions), and respect his motives. </p>
<p>He was also a very loving and considerate person who went out of his way to help his friends, and even on occasion those who considered themselves his enemies.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Julia</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5282511</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5282511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Julia, Saul&#039;s daughter, who you quote.  When I said Saul was critical of the Cuban government for its censorship, I did not &quot;add&quot; it &quot;defensively.&quot;  It was part and parcel of his view of the place.  Somehow I doubt you have ever seen his film, Fidel.  If you had, you would see the viewpoint is much more subtle.  The viewing of that film would be the first step in my recommendation -- to get a life.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is Julia, Saul&#8217;s daughter, who you quote.  When I said Saul was critical of the Cuban government for its censorship, I did not &#8220;add&#8221; it &#8220;defensively.&#8221;  It was part and parcel of his view of the place.  Somehow I doubt you have ever seen his film, Fidel.  If you had, you would see the viewpoint is much more subtle.  The viewing of that film would be the first step in my recommendation &#8212; to get a life.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Nabuquduriuzhur</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276872</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nabuquduriuzhur]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What an incredible waste. Imagine if this man had chosen to do Good with his life, instead of supporting someone who murdered 100,000+ of his own people, not counting starvation, untreated disease, and so on.


Now that Landau is waiting in the flames of hades for the White Throne Judgement before Christ, think he&#039;s wishing desperately that he&#039;d done the right thing during his life, that he&#039;d listened to the church teachers as a kid and gotten Saved?


What an incredible waste.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What an incredible waste. Imagine if this man had chosen to do Good with his life, instead of supporting someone who murdered 100,000+ of his own people, not counting starvation, untreated disease, and so on.</p>
<p>Now that Landau is waiting in the flames of hades for the White Throne Judgement before Christ, think he&#8217;s wishing desperately that he&#8217;d done the right thing during his life, that he&#8217;d listened to the church teachers as a kid and gotten Saved?</p>
<p>What an incredible waste.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: herb benty</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276602</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276602</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear you! Maybe cause Olenin is creating communism here and they realize there is no need to move.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear you! Maybe cause Olenin is creating communism here and they realize there is no need to move.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: eib</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5331242</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eib]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5331242</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Muslims believe that?  I doubt it.  Every non-Muslim, and that means the majority of people now, is doomed to hell.  Even among Muslim women, we are told that most of them are condemned also.  Because, after all, a woman&#039;s soul is not a man&#039;s, in Islam.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Muslims believe that?  I doubt it.  Every non-Muslim, and that means the majority of people now, is doomed to hell.  Even among Muslim women, we are told that most of them are condemned also.  Because, after all, a woman&#8217;s soul is not a man&#8217;s, in Islam.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: eib</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276520</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eib]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Cuba is so great, then why doesn&#039;t Penn emigrate there?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Cuba is so great, then why doesn&#8217;t Penn emigrate there?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: herb benty</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276483</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we do agree on that at least. The Christian message is that God loves us]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, we do agree on that at least. The Christian message is that God loves us</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Moa</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276273</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&gt; &quot;Islam is a plague on the earth. Are you blind?&quot;

Agreed. Islam and its alliance with the political Left are the greatest danger to civilization and the Free World.

I don&#039;t know how you read my statements as me supporting Islam. Islam is even worse than Christianity in terms of sheer nonsense and unlike Christianity (which is scientifically wrong, but at least it is humane), Islam is barbaric, even more scientifically wrong, and just out-and-out evil.

Islam is evil - make no mistake about it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; &#8220;Islam is a plague on the earth. Are you blind?&#8221;</p>
<p>Agreed. Islam and its alliance with the political Left are the greatest danger to civilization and the Free World.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how you read my statements as me supporting Islam. Islam is even worse than Christianity in terms of sheer nonsense and unlike Christianity (which is scientifically wrong, but at least it is humane), Islam is barbaric, even more scientifically wrong, and just out-and-out evil.</p>
<p>Islam is evil &#8211; make no mistake about it.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Kukye</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5276239</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kukye]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5276239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m glad this man is dead aren&#039;t you?  Dust thou art and dust shalt thou return.


Now he is meaningless.  Can do no harm to others or to himself.  So great a hatred they have of America because God blessed her but not others.


They think like Satan, how unfair, how wrong.  Then they get beguiled by their own madness and &#039;viola, a film about a ruthless dicktator unfairly maligned by mean America.


Never mind everyone wants to get out of Cuba who has not been brainwashed and make a beeline to America!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad this man is dead aren&#8217;t you?  Dust thou art and dust shalt thou return.</p>
<p>Now he is meaningless.  Can do no harm to others or to himself.  So great a hatred they have of America because God blessed her but not others.</p>
<p>They think like Satan, how unfair, how wrong.  Then they get beguiled by their own madness and &#8216;viola, a film about a ruthless dicktator unfairly maligned by mean America.</p>
<p>Never mind everyone wants to get out of Cuba who has not been brainwashed and make a beeline to America!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: johngardner</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275933</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[johngardner]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You aren&#039;t the first person to wonder what is going on with these people.  Suggest Rebecca West&#039;s &quot;The Meaning of Treason&quot; for insights into other cases; Conrad&#039;s &quot;The Secret Agent&quot; and/or &quot;Under Western Eyes&quot; for fictional treatment.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You aren&#8217;t the first person to wonder what is going on with these people.  Suggest Rebecca West&#8217;s &#8220;The Meaning of Treason&#8221; for insights into other cases; Conrad&#8217;s &#8220;The Secret Agent&#8221; and/or &#8220;Under Western Eyes&#8221; for fictional treatment.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: herb benty</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275765</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Livin&#039;, but most of these people are not poor or on food stamps. Who wants to be like Cuba, Russia, Venezuala, China? The leaders make sure they get &quot;elected&quot; every election. Why is totally corrupt communism, so appealing to free people.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Livin&#8217;, but most of these people are not poor or on food stamps. Who wants to be like Cuba, Russia, Venezuala, China? The leaders make sure they get &#8220;elected&#8221; every election. Why is totally corrupt communism, so appealing to free people.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Michael Garfinkel</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275642</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Garfinkel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275642</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we all all mortal, and only God is eternal, but hopefully, we will have lived to do the right thing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, we all all mortal, and only God is eternal, but hopefully, we will have lived to do the right thing.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: VillageMonster</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275636</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[VillageMonster]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Someday we may be joining them as well and all this will be gone.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someday we may be joining them as well and all this will be gone.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Livin'onthePlains</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275635</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Livin'onthePlains]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an obit about Brad Will who was shot a few years ago by the Mexican police when he was in Mexico trying to rabble rouse about some labor dispute. ( http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;frm=1&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBrad_Will&amp;ei=_uY2UvfGAenC4APgnYDwAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFaZsTdjaeLdNMlt4qhJRwlznf-pg)Pretty young when he was killed and fits your definition like a glove.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read an obit about Brad Will who was shot a few years ago by the Mexican police when he was in Mexico trying to rabble rouse about some labor dispute. ( <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;frm=1&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;ved=0CCkQFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBrad_Will&#038;ei=_uY2UvfGAenC4APgnYDwAw&#038;usg=AFQjCNFaZsTdjaeLdNMlt4qhJRwlznf-pg" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;frm=1&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;ved=0CCkQFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBrad_Will&#038;ei=_uY2UvfGAenC4APgnYDwAw&#038;usg=AFQjCNFaZsTdjaeLdNMlt4qhJRwlznf-pg</a>)Pretty young when he was killed and fits your definition like a glove.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Deep Space</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275632</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deep Space]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat off topic but this brought back a memory of when I lived in SF from the mid-sixties to the early seventies.  I used to play basketball on Saturday mornings at the Alice Marble park tennis courts on Hyde Street on Russian Hill.  For some reason Alvin Duskin - another aging Bay Area lefty and entrepreneur - would occasionally be there.  One time he brought one of his buddies to play - Saul Landau!  I knew of him because I had gone to SF State and one would&#039;ve been hard pressed not to have some awareness of all the heroic personalities from the left that were fighting the man to overcome his oppressive boot on our necks.  But for the real question you are all waiting for me to answer...was he a &#039;baller&#039;?  No, but gave it the old left-wing college try! (Duskin was better but no great shakes either).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Somewhat off topic but this brought back a memory of when I lived in SF from the mid-sixties to the early seventies.  I used to play basketball on Saturday mornings at the Alice Marble park tennis courts on Hyde Street on Russian Hill.  For some reason Alvin Duskin &#8211; another aging Bay Area lefty and entrepreneur &#8211; would occasionally be there.  One time he brought one of his buddies to play &#8211; Saul Landau!  I knew of him because I had gone to SF State and one would&#8217;ve been hard pressed not to have some awareness of all the heroic personalities from the left that were fighting the man to overcome his oppressive boot on our necks.  But for the real question you are all waiting for me to answer&#8230;was he a &#8216;baller&#8217;?  No, but gave it the old left-wing college try! (Duskin was better but no great shakes either).</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: herb benty</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5331216</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2013 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5331216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is one hell of a war coming, with a big reduction in the world&#039;s population likely. The nukes will be used this time.  English teacher??]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is one hell of a war coming, with a big reduction in the world&#8217;s population likely. The nukes will be used this time.  English teacher??</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275435</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 23:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;my family and I&quot;

&quot;I did some calculations&quot;

A remember someone who once told me that the earth could support 20 billion people with a decent lifestyle.

They were an engineering major that switched to psychology.  I have no reason to doubt his judgment or that he was BSing me.

So far all the gloom and doom by people like the author of &quot;The Population Bomb&quot; have been wrong.  Their models, their calculations and their judgment have been wrong.  Instead of questioning their abilities and their philosophy they are doubling down.

A lot of people wringing their hands about all this have no technical skill or in a very narrow field, but they assume they have the acumen to talk about everything.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;my family and I&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I did some calculations&#8221;</p>
<p>A remember someone who once told me that the earth could support 20 billion people with a decent lifestyle.</p>
<p>They were an engineering major that switched to psychology.  I have no reason to doubt his judgment or that he was BSing me.</p>
<p>So far all the gloom and doom by people like the author of &#8220;The Population Bomb&#8221; have been wrong.  Their models, their calculations and their judgment have been wrong.  Instead of questioning their abilities and their philosophy they are doubling down.</p>
<p>A lot of people wringing their hands about all this have no technical skill or in a very narrow field, but they assume they have the acumen to talk about everything.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: herb benty</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-tapson/saul-landau-death-of-a-propagandist/comment-page-1/#comment-5275358</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[herb benty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://frontpagemag.com/?p=204021#comment-5275358</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama engineering the EPA to make the &quot;gas of Life&quot;- CO2-  a &quot;dangerous&quot; substance is what alerted me to the enviro- loonie plan to decrease the world&#039;s population. I did some multiplication at the Library a while ago. I looked up the square miles that make up Washington State, worked it down to the total sq feet, which was well over a trillion. I divided by earth&#039;s estimated 7 billion people and discovered that every human fits in Washington State with around 900 sg ft! And that&#039;s on only one level! I realize we cannot live that packed in but the overpopulation fanatics are very wrong. Done right, this earth could support many trillions of folks. But some of those, &quot;loonies&quot; are rich, Gates, Clinton etc and are joined with the &quot;Club of Rome&quot; and others to push for less people instead of helping people. I know of many cabins in the mountains where me and my family will flee if things get too hairy.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama engineering the EPA to make the &#8220;gas of Life&#8221;- CO2-  a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; substance is what alerted me to the enviro- loonie plan to decrease the world&#8217;s population. I did some multiplication at the Library a while ago. I looked up the square miles that make up Washington State, worked it down to the total sq feet, which was well over a trillion. I divided by earth&#8217;s estimated 7 billion people and discovered that every human fits in Washington State with around 900 sg ft! And that&#8217;s on only one level! I realize we cannot live that packed in but the overpopulation fanatics are very wrong. Done right, this earth could support many trillions of folks. But some of those, &#8220;loonies&#8221; are rich, Gates, Clinton etc and are joined with the &#8220;Club of Rome&#8221; and others to push for less people instead of helping people. I know of many cabins in the mountains where me and my family will flee if things get too hairy.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Object Caching 715/758 objects using disk
Content Delivery Network via cdn.frontpagemag.com

 Served from: www.frontpagemag.com @ 2014-12-30 04:57:33 by W3 Total Cache -->