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{{welcome|sig=[[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]] 23:36, 30 March 2014 (EDT)}}

Hi [[User:Joaquín Martínez|Joaquín Martínez]]. Thanks. I have read it. Did I do something wrong in my edits? Thanks.

==ISP use only==
You will cease from using proxies to access the site. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 03:05, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
:Maybe his IP address is blocked due to no fault of his own. Andy could unblock it if we had an email for him to write to as far as him giving Andy his IP address. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:15, 25 April 2014 (EDT)
::I sent you an e-mail, my ISP's IP is blocked. I blanked my IP address here for security reasons.
From:
To: cpwebmaster@conservapedia.com
Subj: User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt - Proxy due to blocked ISP address
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 06:07:00 -0600
Good morning User:Karajou and User:Conservative.
Please unblock my dedicated IP address of __________.

I have been enjoying editing and contributing to Conservapedia (my
favorite source for Conservative viewpoints-news-knowledge).
However, early on after creating my user account
(User_talk:TheAmericanRedoubt) my dedicated ISP address of
________________ was blocked and I was forced to sign up for a VPN-
Proxy in order to even see the site. I get a "Error 118
(net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT): The operation timed out."

No one else at my ISP uses my IP address since I pay extra each
month to have it dedicated to just me. I have been with that ISP
since Dec. 2013.

I would love to continue working on content. For now, as I peruse
each article of interest, I just correct spelling errors-typos and
adding hyperlinks or See Also as appropriate based on
Conservapedia:Quick_reference and
Conservapedia:Editing_article_and_talk_pages until I can slowly
establish to you administrators my sincerity and respect for this great resource.

Thank you in advance for unblocking my address.
God bless.
Sincerely,
[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt]] 17:09, 26 April 2014 (EDT)

== Redirect pages ==

Please place a lower priority on redirect pages and focus more on content creation. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:10, 25 April 2014 (EDT)

== Communist Party USA ==

Hello,

I noticed that you added [[:Category:Communist Party USA]] to several pages. Please bear in mind that [[Conservapedia:Commandments|Conservapedia Commandment #1]] applies to categories, and take special care to ensure that the categories of articles about living people do not include defamatory or unsourced content. Thanks, [[User:GregG|GregG]] 20:36, 3 November 2014 (EST)

Thank you for the advice, I will keep that in mind. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]]

== Orphaned Pages ==

Hi, I see you are interested in doing administrative tasks, so would you please help us to de-orphan all Lonely pages from [http://www.conservapedia.com/Special:LonelyPages here]?--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 14:44, 1 December 2014 (EST)

Sure JoeyJ, I'd be happy to help. Any guidelines? I searched under Conservapedia:Orphan_pages but couldn't find anything. Should I base my work on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan_pages as generic advice? [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 14:58, 1 December 2014 (EST)

:Thank you! Just take an article from [[Special:LonelyPages]] and link to it from another article. For example I did so with [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Agriculture&action=historysubmit&diff=1119789&oldid=1112019 Biodynamic agriculture].--[[User:JoeyJ|JoeyJ]] 15:07, 1 December 2014 (EST)

::Got it. Thanks for the quick response. Will do. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 15:10, 1 December 2014 (EST)
:::You are doing a lot of needed work at Conservapedia. Keep up the good work! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 22:47, 1 December 2014 (EST)

==Red Links==

The proliferation of red wikilinks in your edits reminds me of the Walrus and the Carpenter:
:''The walrus and the carpenter were walking close at hand,''
:''They wept like anything to see such quantities of sand.''
:''"If seven maids with seven brooms swept for half a year,''
:''Do you suppose," the walrus said, "that they could get it clear?"''
:''"I doubt it " said the carpenter, and wept a bitter tear.''

:I have tended to sweep up after me the links I have generated in my 200odd thousand words of edits here. Who has the job of sweeping up the multiple links you are throwing around with gay (ahem) abandon? I think you should start sweeping, boyo, because, from bitter experience, I know no one else is going to do it. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 22:29, 10 December 2014 (EST)

===Article Creation for Red Links===
Thank you Alan for your concerned advice and great Walrus and Carpenter quote. Being an [[amateur radio]] ham operator, I have a lot of articles on that I have been working on and will be pasting them in soon. The amateur radio area has been a big source of my new "red links" for article wiki-links. Same thing in the area of economics-finance. I do indeed intend to sweep up after my red links. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 22:43, 10 December 2014 (EST)

:Thank you. Appreciate the reply. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 22:54, 10 December 2014 (EST)

== See also and Contrast ==

Although I am only very new here, I don't think your see also and contrast with sections look very nice or add much to the articles. Having such info in an popup box like they have on some wikipedia pages might be a better way to go. Phil [[User:PhilH|PhilH]] 02:43, 11 December 2014 (EST)

===Thanks - Popup Box Suggestion===
Hi Phil, thanks for the suggestion, I will look into doing a popup box nav bar instead. Thanks for the feedback. Welcome to Conservapedia. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:46, 11 December 2014 (EST)

'''NOTE to Fellow Editors and Admins:''' Over the next few days, I am working on a collapsible "See Also" navigation template for the diverse topics of the [[Internet security]] article I am also working on. The template will be based on the [[Template:Liberalism]] "look and feel" since it has a lot of topics in a small amount of "real estate". Also, please note that I plan to rapidly submit articles for the "red links". Thank you for your patience. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 12:10, 11 December 2014 (EST)

==See Also for "[[Internet security]]" article==
* '''[[Security]] [[Software]] and [[Security-focused operating systems | Security-Focused Operating Systems]]''' to protect [[unalienable rights | unalienable]] [[Fifth Amendment]] - [[Fourth Amendment]] [[Right to Privacy]] ([[Internet privacy]], [[Information privacy]], [[Expectation of privacy]]) and [[Second Amendment]] - [[First Amendment]] ([[Freedom of information]] and [[Political freedom]]) rights against [[unconstitutional]] [[Gun control]] - [[Internet censorship]] [[Big government]] [[Police state]], [[hackers]], and "[[5 U.S.C. § 3331|all enemies, foreign and domestic]]" of [[American values | American]] [[liberty]].
** '''[[Anonymity]] with [[Tails (operating system)|Tails Operating System]]''': [[Linux]]-based with [[Tor (anonymity network)]], [[Firefox]] [[Iceweasel]] [[browser]], [[HTTPS Everywhere]] [[encryption]]
** '''[[Prism-break.org|Prism-Break.org]]''': Opt out of global data [[surveillance]] programs like [[PRISM]], [[ECHELON]], [[XKeyscore]] and [[Tempora]].<ref>"Help make [[mass surveillance]] of entire populations uneconomical! We all have an [[unalienable right]] to [[privacy]], which you can exercise today by [[encrypting]] your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary products and services."</ref>
** '''[[Open source | Open Source]] [[Free software]]''' not over-priced tracking by [[Microsoft]]-[[Apple]]-[[Google]]-[[Android]]
* '''[[Privacy search engines | Privacy Search Engines]]: [[Duck Duck Go]]''' and [[Ixquick]]: [[Privacy]]-oriented [[Search engine]]s instead of tracking by [[Google]], [[Yahoo]] and [[Bing]]
* '''[[Internet anonymity | Internet Anonymity]] - [[Right to be forgotten]] [[Pseudonymity]]''' ([[Pseudonym]]) using [[Anonymous web browsing]] with [[Tails]] and [[VPN]] ([[Virtual Private Network]]), [[HMA]], [[OpenVPN]] and [[IPsec]] , [[Proxy server]]s, [[Anonymizer]] ([[Anonymous proxies]])
** '''[[Mozilla Firefox]]''' with [[Browser extension]]s instead of [[Microsoft]] [[Internet Explorer]], [[Google Chrome]], [[Safari (web browser)]] and [[Opera (web browser)]]
** '''[[Browser security | Browser Security]]''' via [[HTTPS Everywhere]] ([[HTTPS]] ([[HTTP Secure]]) instead of [[Plaintext]] ([[Cleartext]]) [[HTTP]]; and [[NoScript]] to stop [[JavaScript]]
** '''[[Ad filtering | Ad Filtering]]''' ([[Privacy mode]] and [[Adblock Plus]] or [[Ghostery]]) to stop [[Ad tracking]] - [[Website visitor tracking]] via [[Geolocation]], [[Geotargeting]], [[Personally identifiable information]] and [[Device fingerprint]]s
* '''[[Internet safety | Internet Safety]], [[Computer security | Computer Security]] via [[Password strength]] and [[Password manager]]s''' via [[KeePass]] or [[LastPass]] and [[Antivirus]]-[[Firewall]]
* '''[[Secure communication | Secure Communication]]:'''
** '''[[E-mail privacy | E-mail Privacy]] and [[Email encryption | Email Encryption]]:''' [[Claws Mail]] or [[Enigmail]] or [[Kontact]] using [[Hushmail]] or [[MyKolab]], [[Anonymous remailer]], instead of tracking by [[Microsoft Outlook]], [[Mozilla Thunderbird]] using [[Yahoo! Mail]], [[Gmail]] [[iCloud]]
** '''[[Secure messaging | Secure Messaging]] and [[Off-the-Record Messaging]] via [[I2P]]''' [[Instant messaging]], [[Cryptocat]], [[Bitmessage]] instead of [[Skype]], [[Yahoo! Messenger]], [[Internet Relay Chat]], [[Google Plus]], Facebook
** '''[[Silent Phone]] with [[Silent Circle]]''' instead of [[Android]] or [[iPhone]] [[Smartphone]]
** '''[[OPSEC]]:''' "[[Loose lips sink ships]]"
* '''[[Encryption]]:''' [[Encryption software]], [[Disk encryption software]], [[LUKS]] or [[TrueCrypt]] instead of [[Microsoft]] [[BitLocker]], [[PGP]] and [[GNU Privacy Guard]], [[Data encryption]], [[Public-key encryption]], [[Cryptography]]-[[Cryptanalysis]]-[[Cryptology]]-[[Steganography]]
* '''[[Peer-to-peer | Peer-to-Peer]]:''' [[Sneakernet]], [[Friend-to-friend]], [[Darknet (file sharing)]], [[Anonymous P2P]] instead of [[BitTorrent]]
* '''[[Deep Web]] - [[Dark Internet]]:''' [[Tor]], [[AmRD]], [[Tor2web]], [[The Hidden Wiki]], [[Anonymous blog]]
* '''[[Cryptocurrency]]-[[Digital currency | Digital Currency]]-[[Alternative currency | Alternative Currency]]-[[Virtual currency | Virtual Currency]]: [[Bitcoin]]''' and [[Hard money]]-[[Precious metals]]-[[Tangibles]] versus [[PayPal]], [[Google Wallet]], [[Credit cards]] and [[inflation]]-prone [[Dollar (U.S.)|U.S. Dollars]]: [[Federal Reserve System]]'s [[Keynesian economics]] [[Ponzi scheme]] of [[Quantitative easing]]-[[Debt monetization]] [[devaluation]] of [[Fiat currency]] through [[Money supply]]-[[Treasury bill]]s bought mostly by [[China]] and [[Japan]]

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'''NOTE to Fellow Editors and Admins:''' I plan to do the same thing for the bottom of page collapsible navbar for for the diverse topics of the [[Amateur radio]] article and related articles I am also working on as a [[amateur radio license|licensed ham radio operator]]. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 12:10, 11 December 2014 (EST)

Please do not edit this (without discussing it here first) until January 1, 2015. Thank you. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 21:36, 11 December 2014 (EST)

==See Also for [[Amateur Radio]]==

Here is the original topic list I am working on:

* [[Amateur radio]]
* [[Amateur radio glossary]]
* [[Radio communication technologies]]

* '''[[Radio]]:''' [[Radio waves]], [[Electromagnetic wave]], [[Radio frequency]], [[AM/FM]], [[modulation]], [[amplitude]], [[amplitude modulation]] ([[AM]]), [[frequency modulation]] ([[FM]]), or [[single-sideband modulation]] ([[SSB]]), [[Shortwave]], [[Two-way radio]], [[Portable radio]], [[Walkie-talkie]], [[Citizens band radio]], [[Family Radio Service]] ([[FMS]]), [[General Mobile Radio Service]] ([[GMRS]]), [[Multi-Use Radio Service]] ([[MRS]]), [[Motorola]], [[Marine VHF radio]], [[History of radio]]

* '''[[Amateur Radio]]:''' [[Emergency communications]], [[Amateur radio operator]], [[Call sign]], [[Selecting a radio]], [[Amateur radio glossary]], [[Amateur radio repeater]], [[Base station]], [[Amateur radio frequency allocations]], [[Amateur bands]], [[Amateur radio station]], [[UHF]] ([[70-centimeter band]]), [[VHF]] ([[2-meter band]]), [[HF]], [[Morse code]], [[Telegraph]], [[Mobile rig]], [[Radio codes and alphabets]], [[QSL card]]

* '''[[Antenna (radio)]]:''' [[Antenna theory]], [[Portable operation (amateur radio)]], [[Dipole antenna]], [[Antenna tuner]], [[Homebrew antennas]], [[Coaxial cable]], [[Balun]], [[Packet radio]], [[Propagation]], [[Protecting your HT Antenna]]

* '''Radio Standards Organization:''' [[Radio legalities]], [[Amateur radio license]], [[FCC]], [[American Radio Relay League]], [[International Telecommunication Union]] ([[ITU]])

* [[Satellite]]: [[GPS]]
* '''[[Cellular telephone]]:''' [[Mobile device]]s: [[Smartphone]]s and [[tablet computer|tablets]]
** [[Apple Computer|Apple]] [[iOS]] for [[iPhone]]-[[iPod]]-[[iPad]]
** [[Android (operating system)|Android]]
** [[BlackBerry OS|Blackberry]]
** [[Microsoft]] [[Windows Phone]] with [[Windows 8]]
** [[Cell phone health scare]], [[Mobile phones and brain tumor risk]]

* [[Bug-out bag]] ([[BOB]]) and [[Everday carry]] ([[EDC]])

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The same thing as above goes for the [[Permaculture]] article and for [[Firearms]] article.

==References==
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== Moved your general message to Conservapedians to the community portal ==

I moved your your general message to Conservapedians to the community portal located at: http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#Message_from_User:_TheAmericanRedoubt

It will be seen by more people that way. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:32, 13 December 2014 (EST)

===Thank you===

Thanks, I didn't know about that http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#Message_from_User:_TheAmericanRedoubt portal. I will spend some time on it. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:35, 13 December 2014 (EST)
::No problem. Glad I could be of help. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:06, 13 December 2014 (EST)

== Moved it back ==
I have "userfied" your material. "Userfication" is the process of keeping drafts of one's material in a subpage of their own user or talk pages until it's ready to be moved into mainspace. That (sort of) protects it from other people making "helpful edits" while one is working on it. It will also be safer from vandalism, though I assume you know that vandalism is easy to revert, since material is preserved in a page's history, and that, in any case, you can keep a copy (as I always do) on your own computer.

The userfied page is here: [[User talk:TheAmericanRedoubt/sandbox1]].

The place to tell people about your experience in amateur radio, communications technology, computers, gardening, medicine, firearms, and survivalism is your own user page.

[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:13, 13 December 2014 (EST)

** Thanks for the help and clarification SamHB. Will do.

== Workspace area for you ==

I created a workspace for your prepper material since someone deleted the material from the community portal.

Here is the workspace: [[User: TheAmericanRedoubt/Prepper|User: TheAmericanRedoubt Prepper material]]

I hope that helps. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 10:14, 13 December 2014 (EST)

::A lot of helpful people today! [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 10:16, 13 December 2014 (EST)

:::Thank you for moving it to there. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:14, 14 December 2014 (EST)
::::Your very welcome and happy holidays this Christmas season. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:43, 14 December 2014 (EST)
:::::Merry Christmas Conservapedians! [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:59, 14 December 2014 (EST)

== re: talk pages ==

Thanks for creating a ton of new material. We appreciate it.

Second, try to avoid creating short talk pages unless something needs to be discussed about the article. I created a workspace for you called [[User: TheAmericanRedoubt/IP camera]]

Again, thanks for creating all the new useful content about preparednesa and other matters. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 16:49, 15 December 2014 (EST)

** Happy to contribute to this great body of conservative knowledge and become part of the Conservapedia community. "Roger" that on the talk pages. Will do. So then is there no need to explain myself via a talk page if I revert someone else's edits of, for instance, appropriately related Categories / See Also that I added? Just make the changes and re-add the deleted Categories and See Also? Thanks again for your guidance for me as a bit of a newby. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 16:56, 15 December 2014 (EST)

::I respectfully disagree with Cons's advice, and have posted something on the Community Portal on the subject. You '''most certainly should''' feel free to explain any reversions, or anything else, on the talk page of the affected page. That's what the talk pages are for. [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] 17:10, 15 December 2014 (EST)

:::The talk pages are for discussions and not for keeping notes. I thought you were using the talk page to keep notes. You don't need to use a talk page to explain yourself. Just need the talk page for discussions about the articles. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:49, 15 December 2014 (EST)

==Quote from PHIL on "wiki content" and "wikifying"==
"You should wikify your content and contributions. Some of the stuff you have been adding, like the parts of the walmart and grocery store sections i removed have no place on a wiki or online encyclopedia. Phil [[User:PhilH|PhilH]] 17:41, 15 December 2014 (EST)"

=== Mate ===
"A lot of the content you are adding seems to be rubbish, what is the point of adding new content if it rubbish? Phil [[User:PhilH|PhilH]] 17:51, 15 December 2014 (EST)"

== Response to PhilH ==
I respectfully yet strongly disagree with [[User:PhilH|PhilH]]'s comment on my User Talk Page and deletions of my contributions to [[Wal-Mart]] and [[Grocery store]] regarding "[[just in time|Just in Time]]" contributions and its ramifications. Conservatives are concerned much more than liberals with the stability of society and its [[systems of support]]. So, Just in Time is a key concept to understanding both the success and fragility of American retail and manufacturing.

==My response to Phil's deletions of my Just in Time content and other statements==
I have re-added this content since the main business model of both Wal-Mart and Grocery stores are predicated on the [[Just in time]] or JIT delivery system. Without it, Wal-Mart or grocery stores would not exist in anything resembling their current form.

If you wish to show how this is inappropriate on a Conservative Wiki Encyclopedia, then please elaborate, Phil. I can give you examples of other encyclopedia's and article on the Internet that address this major component of the American retail system.
[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 18:01, 15 December 2014 (EST)

==== Awaiting Response from User:Conservative or other Sysops ====
Since I have been spending and will be spending a lot of time creating content and you, Phil, seem to think it is "rubbish" and revert my contributions without any talk page discussion on the actual article page, I will await [[Special:ListUsers&group=sysop]] guidance, from [[User:Conservative]] or others.

Phil, as you said since you are "very new here", I am curious also to see what actual useful content you will be adding to Conservapedia rather than deletions and reverts. [[Special:Contributions/PhilH]]

[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 18:25, 15 December 2014 (EST)
::Ignore trolls (rude people). You can try to reason with someone who is acting a little gruff. But no sense wrestling with a proverbial pig in the proverbial mud. Feel free to steamroll over people who persist in being rude. You can ask an admin to mediate or ban a rude person. 22:23, 15 December 2014 (EST)

== re: tips about external links ==

Thanks for your recent contributions.

Two external link tips:

1. Avoid use of barelinks.

These are barelinks:

http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_one_year_food_supply_at_costco Letter

http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_costco_stores_as_a_s Letter

Instead format the links like this:

*[http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_one_year_food_supply_at_costco Letter Re: One Year Food Supply at COSTCO]

* [http://survivalblog.com/letter_re_costco_stores_as_a_s Letter Re: COSTCO Stores as a Source for Storage Food and Survival Gear]

2. Avoid mentioning the link was featured on the main page because people finding articles of yours via the search engines or though social media are not familiar with with our main page news feed. In addition, news becomes less newsworthy as time passes.

Again, thanks for your recent contributions. We appreciate them. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:51, 16 December 2014 (EST)

=== Important note ===

50% of a web articles credibility by web visitors is determined by how it looks. It may not be fair, but people do judge a book by its cover. Please do not use bare links. In the "See also" section of this article [[Constitutional carry]], you have bare links. If you could please fix the formatting and not use bare links anymore, it would be appreciated. See discussion directly above about bare links. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:37, 18 December 2014 (EST)
::I fixed the first bare link in your template. Please fix the rest. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:43, 18 December 2014 (EST)

==Thanks for the Mentoring and Support==
Will do. Again, I appreciate the mentoring and support since, although I am very technical, I haven't done much Wiki editing in a large community context like Conservapedia. So, my over-enthusiasm may need to be reined in sometimes or at least given a format and guidelines. I have a lot of free time for the next 30 days while on sabbatical and spending many hours editing Conservapedia seems a good way to invest it to share my enthusiasm for the Conservative-Libertarian-Patriot-Prepper movement. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:00, 16 December 2014 (EST)

== quick note ==

If you need help with how to do the edits in terms of formatting, I suggest two things:

1. Look how other people did the formatting on other Conservapedia articles.

2. Ask an admin such as [[User: Karajou]] and [[User: Aschlafly]] how to do various types of edits.

I am currently working on some projects and January I will be even busier, so unfortunately I can no longer be of assistance to you. Best wishes in your future editing. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 02:04, 16 December 2014 (EST)

===Editing Privileges after 12:30 PM PST?===
Got it. Regarding Editing Privileges after 12:30 PM Pacific Standard Time: Would you please tell me who do I talk to and how do I request such privileges?

[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 02:14, 16 December 2014 (EST)
:[[User: Aschlafly]] grants night editing. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 03:10, 16 December 2014 (EST)
::Lovely. Thank you and Merry Christmas! [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 03:12, 16 December 2014 (EST)

== re: quick note about sacramento talk page and other talk pages ==

I just wanted to be polite to you and explain something. I deleted the Sacramento talk page because the editor who deleted the material was a liberal editor who formerly edited some time ago.

If you are likely posting to a talk page to someone who is no longer going to be working with you on the article, there is no need to use the talk pages.

Keep the good work. We appreciate all your efforts. You are really doing a lot of wiki work. 23:07, 17 December 2014 (EST)

::Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense he was a liberal since he seemed upset at what I was posting about gun control and I felt obligated to justify it to him since he thought I was posting "rubbish" (in his words) about gun control and Second Amendment so much. Please see [[Talk:Free_state]] to see what I mean. I have a lot of time to invest in editing/contributing to Conservapedia for at least the next 30 days, so thanks for the encouragement. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:58, 18 December 2014 (EST)

== In the next 10 days, I am going to try to get you night editing privileges ==

In the next 10 days, I am going to try to get you night editing privileges. I hope you get them. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:11, 17 December 2014 (EST)
:You have night editing privileges now. Enjoy! [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:51, 18 December 2014 (EST)

::Excellent. Thank you for the help and flexible editing times. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:58, 18 December 2014 (EST)
:::Your welcome. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 04:30, 18 December 2014 (EST)

== I am going to endeavor to get you picture uploading rights ==

I am going to endeavor to get you picture uploading rights. You just need to promise to not upload copyrighted material and just upload pictures that are in the public domain, under a Creative Commons share license, etc. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 14:41, 19 December 2014 (EST)

* Great, I was going to ask about that. I promise I will only upload PD and CC Share items as appropriate. I appreciate it. Merry Christmas.
[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 23:15, 23 December 2014 (EST)
:Due to vandalism and related activities, the owner of the website is granting picture uploading rights slower than he used to. We can look into this again in 2015. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 23:53, 23 December 2014 (EST)
:: No worries. I hope to continue to prove my dedication to and support of the ideals and goals of Conservapedia and earn picture uploading privileges. Thanks for thinking of it. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:09, 24 December 2014 (EST)
:::OK.[[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:13, 24 December 2014 (EST)

== re: wiki ampersand problem for titles ==

There is a wiki ampersand problem for titles. This is the best I could do: [[.40 Smith and Wesson cartridge]]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:15, 24 December 2014 (EST)

:: Great, thanks. I was wondering what was going on. Good solution.[[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 00:17, 24 December 2014 (EST)
:::Best I could do. The programmers should have foreseen that people would want to put ampersands in titles. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 00:22, 24 December 2014 (EST)

== Cato Institute and other "See also" sections ==

re: [[Cato Institute]] [http://www.conservapedia.com/Cato_Institute#See_Also "See also" section] and other see also sections.

You are going to need to pare down your "See also" section additions. For example, the Cato Institute does not delve too much into Nazism. The Cato Institute does not care about [[Fashion industry values]]. The Cato Institute is libertarian and not conservative. So they don't have a focus on combating San Francisco values. They don't care about small town values. In other words, they are not social conservatives.

Do you see my point? [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:06, 24 December 2014 (EST)

: Most definitely see your point. Those original See Also's were from a month ago when I was newer to Conservapedia and Wiki editing and was "getting carried away" making broad based See Also's. Other editors gave me the advice to keep it specific. Thanks for bringing it up again. As I slowly revisit my former edits to improve them, I will endeavor to remove my extraneous See Also's. The most recent Cato Institute edit I just made was one where I corrected a bad link I had made to the correct article spelling. Thanks again for the reminder and again, appreciate the Wiki mentoring. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 01:13, 24 December 2014 (EST)
::OK. Thanks. I am guessing that the Cato Institute attracts a wealthy crowd and they don't focus very much on preparedness. Most of their fanbase/audience probably has a diversified portfolio (land, stocks, gold, small business ownership, etc.). So you will probably want to pare that part down too. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 01:15, 24 December 2014 (EST)

== Project ==

Would you like to collaborate with other editors on a wiki project to help Conservapedia be a strong resource for a given topic.

The topic could be decided by the editors participating.

If you are interested, please go to: [http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Community_Portal#A_project_for_active_editors_to_collaborate_on The collaborative project]. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 21:54, 25 December 2014 (EST)

: Merry Christmas. I'd be happy to join in and help in any way I can. Thanks for the invitation. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 01:34, 26 December 2014 (EST)

== list of military strategies and concepts ==

The [[List of military strategies and concepts]] article should look more like these articles: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_strategies_and_concepts List of military strategies and concepts] and [http://www.businessinsider.com/33-strategies-of-war-you-should-apply-to-everyday-life-2012-5?op=1 HERE]. In other words, the "strategies" should be the focus since it is first in the title of the article. The concepts is secondary and more of an afterthought really.

I hope that helps. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 06:40, 26 December 2014 (EST)

: Got it. Thanks for the clarification. I will add more strategies. I was adding the major "strategists" and commanders as well, since many of them were seminal in creating the strategies. Happy Boxing Day [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 06:42, 26 December 2014 (EST)

==Guns==

I appreciate all the work you put in on weapons. I've had that on my to do list forever. I will adding pages and pictures soon enough. --[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 19:51, 26 December 2014 (EST)

: Thanks for the encouragement. I plan to add short and simple articles for all of the major categories of ammunition including [[ammunition reloading]] and for the top 50 firearms not currently having an article such as the [[bolt-action]]s ([[Winchester Model 70]], [[Savage Model 110]], [[Ruger Model 77II]], [[Remington Model 700]], [[Ruger American Rifle]], [[Mosin-Nagant]], [[Jeff Cooper]] [[Scout Rifle]], [[Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle]]), [[Ruger Ranch Rifle]], [[Ruger Mini-14]], [[Ruger 10/22]], the remaining [[Battle rifle]]s ([[M1A]], [[FN-FAL]]/[[L1A1]], [[HK91]], [[AR-10]]), the [[Battle carbine]]s ([[SKS]], [[AK-74]], [[AK-47]], [[AR-15]], [[Kel-Tek Sub 2000]]), [[shotgun]]s ([[Remington 870]], [[Mossberg 500]], [[Mossberg 930]]the different [[Glock]] models ([[9mm]] Glocks: [[Glock 17]]-[[Glock 19]]-[[Glock 26]], [[.40 Smith and Wesson]] Glocks: [[Glock 22]]-[[Glock 23]]-[[Glock 27]], [[.45 ACP]] Glocks ([[Glock 21]]-[[Glock 30]]), etc), [[.380 ACP]] [[Walther PPK]] and [[Glock 42]], Misc [[SIG]], [[SIG 226]], [[Smith and Wesson Military and Police]] pistols, [[Springfield Armory XD]], [[Baretta Nama]], [[Ruger LCP]], [[Ruger LC9]], [[Beretta 92]]; [[Revolver]]s ([[Smith and Wesson Model 29]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 629]], [[Ruger Redhawk]] and [[Ruger Super Blackhawk]], [[Colt Python]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 19]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 27]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 66]], [[Ruger SP101]], [[Ruger GP100]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 686]], [[Ruger LCR]], [[Smith and Wesson Model 10]]), [[Ruger MK.II]], etc. Plus the knives, [[Ka-Bar]], [[Cold Steel]] [[Buck Knives]], [[Spyderco]], [[Leatherman Multi-tool]], [[Swiss Army Knife]], [[CRKT]] etc.

I wish to add firearms, ammunition and knife pictures, but I am awaiting future picture upload rights once I have been a trusted part of the Conservapedia community for a while longer, I hope. [[User:TheAmericanRedoubt|TheAmericanRedoubt]] 09:24, 27 December 2014 (EST)

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'''Newsweek''' is a weekly newsmagazine, started in 1933. It is perhaps most famous for its now-debunked article<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44923 Debunking another Gitmo myth]</ref> about an incident at [[Guantanamo Bay]] in which a [[Koran]] was allegedly flushed down the toilet. The story was eventually proved false, and ''Newsweek'' was harshly criticized for it.

[[File:Palin-newsweek.jpg|thumb|Example of propaganda, with an un-presidential photo and a lead headline in a purported "news magazine": "She's bad news for the GOP--and everybody else, too." The goal is to give Palin opponents ammunition to fight her popularity. ''Newsweek'' issue dated Nov. 23, 2009]]

The criticism stemmed from the fact that ''Newsweek'' enjoys a nationwide audience and some degree of respect as a member of the [[Mainstream Media]], and as such is expected to maintain a certain level of factual accuracy.

The Washington Post Company announced on May 5, 2010 that it is putting ''Newsweek'' up for sale because the company can foresee no path to profitability for the money-losing magazine. The Post's magazine group, of which Newsweek is the biggest piece, lost $29.3 million in 2009 after losing $16.1 million the previous year.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/05/AR2010050502285.html Washington Post Co. puts Newsweek magazine up for sale]</ref>

August 2010, Newsweek was sold to the Harmann family for $1. <ref>[http://americanfreepress.net/html/newsweek_magazine_sold_232.html Influential Newsweek Magazine Sold for $1 To CFR’s Super-Rich, Pro-Israel Harman Couple, August 16, 2010]</ref> In July 2012, investor Barry Diller claims that Newsweek will eventually transition to an online only publication. <ref>[http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/newsweek-magazine-print-only/2012/07/25/id/446516?s=al&promo_code=F900-1 Newsweek Magazine To End Print Edition, NewsMax, July 25, 2012]</ref>

==See Also==
*[[Time magazine]]

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Scientific American

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'''''Scientific American''''' is a monthly science magazine which was first published in 1845.<ref>http://sciam.com/page.cfm?section=history</ref> It is the oldest continuously-published magazine in the [[United States]]. Scientific American publishes 15 foreign language editions and has a total of more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation worldwide.<ref name="aboutus">http://sciam.com/page.cfm?section=aboutus</ref>

==History and Influence==

In 1845, Rufus Porter founded the publication as a weekly broadsheet subtitled "The Advocate of Industry and Enterprise, and Journal of Mechanical and Other Improvements". The publication was sold 10 months later to Orson Desaix Munn and Alfred Ely Beach.

For a century, Munn & Company retained ownership of the magazine, which chronicled the major discoveries and inventions of the Industrial Revolution, including the Bessemer steel converter, the telephone and the incandescent lightbulb. Edison presented the prototype of the phonograph for inspection by the editors, and Samuel Morse, father of the telegraph, and Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, were frequent visitors to the offices in downtown New York City.<ref name="aboutus" />

== The pro-evolution magazine the Scientific American on bestiality ==

See also: [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]] and [[Theory of Evolution and Cases of Fraud, Hoaxes and Speculation]] and [[Atheism and bestiality]] and [[Irreligion and superstition]]

[[Bestiality]] is the act of engaging in sexual relations with an animal. The pro-[[evolution]] magazine the ''Scientific American'' speciously made this unwarranted speculation via their blog on the aberrant practice of [[bestiality]]:
{{cquote|After all, we are animals....

In any event, philosophical questions aside, I simply find it astounding — and incredibly fascinating from an [[evolution|evolutionary]] perspective — that so many people (as much as a full percent of the general population) are certifiable zoophiles. And scientific researchers appear to be slowly conceding that zoophilia may be a genuine human sexual orientation.<ref>Animal Lovers: Zoophiles Make Scientists Rethink Human Sexuality By Jesse Bering, March 24, 2010</ref>}}

Concerning the aberrant practice of [[homosexuality]], the licentious [[liberal]] community [[Views on Homosexuality|has more favorable views]] on [[homosexuality]] than [[conservative]]s plus has a history of inflating the number of people who are homosexuals.<ref>[http://www.cwfa.org/content.asp?id=2099 How Bad Science Helped Launch the 'Gay' Revolution] By Robert H. Knight</ref> In addition, liberals [[Evolution, Liberalism, Atheism, and Irrationality|are more likely to believe]] in evolutionary pseudoscience. Thus, it is not surprising the ''Scientific American'' engaged in the above cited speculation.

For more information please see: [[Evolutionary belief and bestiality]]

==Support for Patent Process==

Scientific American founded the first branch of the U.S. Patent Agency in 1850 to provide technical help and legal advice to inventors. A Washington, D.C., branch was added in 1859. By 1900 more than 100,000 inventions had been patented thanks to Scientific American.<ref name="aboutus" />

==External Links==
[http://sciam.com/ Scientific American]

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'''''Time''''' magazine is an American weekly publication that focuses on current events and has a [[liberal]]<ref>http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2008/02/19/time-talks-down-to-real-christians/</ref> bias. It was founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden in 1923. The magazine is known for its annual "Person of the Year" designation giving credit to the person believed to have been the most newsworthy individual of that year. The series was called "Man of the Year" before 1999 when the name was changed because recipients can be male or female. ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine follows similar photographic skewing as does ''Time''. Examples in the "Man of the year" award that can be seen as controversial includes [[Adolf Hitler]] winning in 1938 and [[Joseph Stalin]] in 1942.

== Biased Photos from Time ==

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File:Time magazine.jpg|Fallacious common media depiction contradicted by deciphering of Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder
File:Chart8.jpg|Black Box tapes showing KAL 007's regaining control after attack (for what really happened see [[KAL 007: Soviet stalk, shoot down, and rescue mission orders transcripts]]). But it is the Time Magazine cover to the left that has left its indelible impression to this day
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* [[Media bias]]

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'''The New Republic''' is a bi-monthly, [[neo-liberal]] magazine published in the United States. It was founded in 1914 by [[Herbert Croly]], [[Walter Lippmann]] and Willard Straight using Payne Whitney money. Croly and Lippmann were highly infliential contributors. The magazine immediately became--and remains today--one of the most influential organs for the discussion of public issues. Once considered reliably liberal, in recent years it includes as well many [[neoconservative]] ideas and attacks on liberals.<ref> For example, Sean Wilentz, "Who Lincoln Was" ''New Republic'' (July 15, 2009) is a 25,000 word aricle that rips apart liberal distortions about Lincoln by Henry Gates and other leftists.[http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2634954a-b287-480e-9fbd-8a4663174031 online edition]</ref>

==Reds==
Straight's son [[Michael Whitney Straight]] during the Administration of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] functioned as an editor, presidential speechwriter, and [[KGB]] operative.

According to Prof. Carroll Quigley, the chief achievement of ''The New Republic'' in 1914-18 and again in 1938-48 was to end American [[isolationism]] by calling for [[interventionism]] in Europe. Quigley states that William Straight allowed [[Communists]], dedicated to the overthrow of the [[U.S. Government]] by violent means, to come into the ''New Republic''. Lew Frank was the first. Frank joined a "Communist Research Group" which met in the
Manhattan home of the wealthy "Wall Street Red" and KGB operative [[Frederick Vanderbilt Field]].<ref>[http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time''], Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pp. 939 - 940. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>

An example of the [[disinformation]] practiced by the ''The New Republic'' is in its December 13, 1943, issue (p. 835) after the [[Teheran conference|Teheran]] and [[Cairo conference]]s. The magazine reported that "the great and shining achievement at Cairo and Teheran was a meeting of minds of the four leaders". In fact, Stalin had refused to meet with Chiang Kai-shek.<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/yaltabet.html ''The Yalta Betrayal''], Felix Wittmer, Claxton Printers, 1953, p. 51.</ref>

The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) wrote in its Report on the ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States'',
{{Cquote|''[[The Nation]]'' and the ''New Republic'' have long records as [[liberal]] publications. They cannot be described as Communist, but they are so [[infiltration|infiltrated]] with the [[Communist Party]] [[policy]] that they serve the interests of the Communists and [[Deceit|confuse]] liberals on many issues, much more than so some of the Communist publications.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States''] excerpted, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, Committee of the Judiciary United States Senate, GPO, Washington, D.C. 1957, p. 2822. (p.9 pdf). </ref>}}

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The '''National Geographic Society''' is a nonprofit group founded in 1888 in [[Washington, D.C.]], by 33 civic leaders to promote "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." The society publishes a monthly magazine, ''[[National Geographic]]''.

==External Links==
*[http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/index.html Official Website]
*[http://www.trivia-library.com/b/history-of-national-geographic-magazine-part-1.htm History of the National Geographic Society]
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'''Hugh Hefner''' promoted the "Playboy Philosophy" of self-centered hedonism for men and second-class citizenship for women (as men's playthings or "pets").
He is as much an arch-enemy of [[chastity]] and [[fidelity]] as [[Alfred Kinsey]].

Hugh Hefner is an [[Atheism|atheist]].<ref>[http://www.salon.com/2013/02/23/10_celebs_you_didnt_know_were_atheists_partner/ 10 celebs you didn't know were atheists], ''Salon'' 2-23-2010</ref>

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*[[Atheism and hedonism]]

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Nation (magazine)

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'''''The Nation''''' is a weekly [[magazine]] of opinion and reviews, first published in 1865. It was founded by [[E. L. Godkin]], the editor from 1865 to 1899. It has gone through several distinct changes. It was founded by abolitionists and in the 1865-1875 period supported Republican programs of [[Reconstruction]] in the South. In the Godkin years it was [[Libertarian]], and supported conservative [[Bourbon Democrats]] such as [[Grover Cleveland]]. At that time ''The Nation'' was the most sophisticated intellectual magazine in the U.S., and published many serious articles in politics.

It faded in importance after 1900 but was strongly revived under Oswald Garrison Villard, who assumed the editorship in 1918.
Since then it has represented the left in American politics.

The current Editor and Publisher is [[Katrina vanden Heuvel]], succeeding the now "Publisher Emeritus" [[Victor Navasky]].

''The Nation'' publishes 48 weeks a year, printing letters to the editor (including responses by article writers), editorial positions, columns by regular commentators, book reviews, and the ''Nation'' cryptic crossword, which has been set by cryptographer Frank W. Lewis since just after the [[World War 2|Second World War]].

==Communism==
''The Nation'' has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the [[Venona project]].

Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of ''The Nation'', has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."<ref>Navasky, Victor (July 16, 2001). [http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010716&s=navasky ''Cold War Ghosts'']]. The Nation. </ref>

The Nation infamously supported [[Pol Pot]], [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], and [[Josef Stalin]]:

===Denying Cambodian genocide===
"…The evidence is that in Cambodia the much-heralded blood bath that was supposed to follow the fall of Phnom Penh has not taken place. As for Vietnam, reports from Saigon indicate exemplary behavior, considering the situation. ‘There has been no evidence of a blood bath…as [was] so freely predicted abroad,’ writes George Esper of the A.P." – The Nation, "Blood-bath Talk", June 14, 1975<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/deniers/cambodia/nation.pdf</ref>

"If, indeed, postwar Cambodia is, as he believes, similar to Nazi Germany, then his comment is perhaps just, though we may add that he has produced no evidence to support this judgement. But if postwar Cambodia is more similar to France after liberation, where many thousands of people were massacred within a few months under far less rigorous conditions than those left by the American war, then perhaps a rather different judgement is in order. That the latter conclusion may be more nearly correct is suggested by the analyses mentioned earlier." - [[Noam Chomsky]] and Edward Herman, "Distortions at Fourth Hand," The Nation, June 6, 1977<ref>http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm</ref>

===Denying Soviet genocide===
"In a 1946 article…Walter Duranty explained to The Nation’s progressive readers that ‘purge’ meant ‘to cleanse’ in Russian, and that a house cleaning was all Stalin intended. In Duranty’s memorable words, Stalin had launched ‘a general '''cleaning out of the cobwebs''' and mess which accumulate in any house when its occupants are so deeply preoccupied with something else that they have no time to keep it in order.’... At the height of this house cleaning, Stalin was killing 20,000 Russian citizens a month. But according to The Nation (in 1946 as today) the main danger facing humanity was the incipient fascism of the West.”<ref>[http://frontpagemag.com/2012/06/22/fear-and-loathing-of-reality-at-the-nation/print/ Fear and Loathing of Reality at ‘The Nation’]</ref>

"Stalin did not plan or seek to accomplish genocide. Professor Charles Tilly of The New School in New York counts total deaths in the Revolution, including the Teror, famine and war, at no more than 100,000." - The Nation, March 6, 1989<ref>https://groups.google.com/group/alt.activism/msg/429e9d74df7d2624?&hl=en</ref>

"To me Lenin is the hero of a legend, a man who had torn the burning heart out of his breast in order to light up for mankind the path which shall lead it out of the shameful chaos of the present, out of the rotting bog of stupid current politics....His hero-character has almost no outward adornment. His heroism is of a type not rare in Russia--the modest, ascetic martyrdom of an honorable, intellectual revolutionary who honestly believes in the possibility of justice on earth; the heroism of a man who has renounced all the pleasures of life to do hard work for the happiness of mankind." - The Nation's Obiturary for Lenin<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/lenin-man?page=0,0</ref>

===Further denials===
The Nation has also advertised for [[Holocaust denial]],<ref>http://www.adl.org/media_watch/magazines/20040421-The+Nation.htm</ref> expressed skepticism that [[Saddam Hussein]] killed even 300,000 people,<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/consequences-killing-saddam</ref> published writings by [[Fidel Castro]]<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/castro-helps-chaacutevez-avert-coup</ref> and expressed admiration for [[Hugo Chávez]].<ref>http://www.thenation.com/article/conversations-chaacutevez-and-castro</ref> It has been accused of genocide denial and [[anti-semitism]].<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/deniers.html</ref>

The [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]] (SISS) wrote in its Report on the ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States'',
{{Cquote|''[[The Nation]]'' and the ''New Republic'' have long records as [[liberal]] publications. They cannot be described as Communist, but they are so [[infiltration|infiltrated]] with the [[Communist Party]] [[policy]] that they serve the interests of the Communists and [[Deceit|confuse]] liberals on many issues, much more so than some of the Communist publications.<ref>[http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Scope_of_Soviet_Activity.pdf ''Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States''] excerpted, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act, Committee of the Judiciary United States Senate, GPO, Washington, D.C. 1957, p. 2822. (p.9 pdf). </ref>}}

==Obscenity and perversion==
In 1989 ''The Nation'' published a lighthearted and positive portrayal of child sex slavery in Haiti. The author "was friendly with a charming and cultivated American priest who educated lads for export. The image of Father Martin in his robes--with his company of smiling acolytes, in uniform white cotton shorts, serving in the garden--stayed in my mind." The author reports that one [[pedophile]] "was beaming at the fun that was preceding the orgy ... maybe foreplay wasn't so bad when it just happened naturally." However, the author felt "embarrassed" and claims that he himself did not partake in any pederasty.<ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-8180313.html</ref>

==Further reading==
*Beito, David T., and Linda Royster Beito, [http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=22&articleID=261 "Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,"] ''Independent Review'' 4 (Spring 2000), 555-75, by two libertarian historians
* McWilliams, Carey. "One Hundred Years of 'The Nation'," ''Journalism Quarterly'' 1965 42(2): 189-197,
* Christman, Henry M. et al, eds. ''One hundred years of the Nation: a centennial anthology'' (1964)
*[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/i-f--stone--soviet-agent-case-closed-15120 I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed], ''Commentary'', Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Alexander Vassiliev, May 2009.

==See also==
*[[I.F. Stone]]
*[[Anna Louise Strong]]
*[[Progressives for Obama]]
*[[List of Communist publications]]

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National Geographic

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'''''National Geographic''''' magazine was first published in October 1888.
The magazine is famed for its photos from all over the world,
and is dedicated to sharing information about wildlife, cultures, and
promoting preservation of natural habitats. In recent years many
articles in the magazine have focused on environmental issues.
The nonprofit [[National Geographic Society]] was founded in January 1888 in [[Washington, D.C.]], by a group of 33 men who desired to form a society "for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”<ref> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ </ref> [[Alexander Graham Bell]] became [[president]] of the society in 1898. His leadership was key to increasing membership and revenue.
<ref> http://www.trivia-library.com/b/history-of-national-geographic-magazine-part-1.htm </ref> The magazine is published monthly in many languages and has a worldwide circulation of nearly nine million.<ref> http://www.reference.com/

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== National Geographic and the evolutionary paradigm ==
In the September 2005 issue of National Geographic, Joel Achenbach asserted that human [[evolution]] is a "fact" but he also candidly admitted that the field of paleoanthropology "has again become a rather glorious mess."<ref>Brad Harrub, Ph.D., [http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/350 ''The “Glorious Mess” of Human Origins'']</ref><ref name="bonesrightplaces">National Geographic (online edition), Joel Achenbach, [http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0509/resources_who.html PALEOANTHROPOLOGY, Out of Africa, Are we looking for bones in all the right places?]</ref> In the same National Geographic article Harvard paleoanthropologist Dan Lieberman states, "We're not doing a very good job of being honest about what we don't know...".<ref name="bonesrightplaces" />

[[Creation Ministries International]] wrote concerning the National Geographic and the [[archaeoraptor]] evolutionary hoax:
{{cquote|As more evidence of altered fossils begins to surface, one must seriously question the integrity of the fossil industry and the stories these fossils are supposed to tell. A Feb. 19, 2000 New Scientist article sheds light on the growing problem of faked and altered fossils. Referring to the Chinese fossil birds, paleontologist Kraig Derstler from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana says, ‘almost every one that I’ve seen on the commercial market has some reconstruction to make it look prettier.’<ref>http://creation.com/archaeoraptor-hoax-updatenational-geographic-recants</ref>}}

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