Skousen CAFE: ‘The Naked Communist’ Is Back!

You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive our free e-letter Skousen Investor Cafe, or you purchased a product or service from its publisher, Eagle Financial Publications. [Skousen's Investor CAFE] [Forecasts & Strategies]( [Fast Money Alert]( [Five Star Trader]( [Home Run Trader]( [TNT Trader]( ‘The Naked Communist’ Is Back! By Mark Skousen Editor, [Forecasts & Strategies]( 08/01/2024 Sponsored Content [3 Tiny Stocks CRUSHING Amazon Right Now]( Amazon is up 25% year to date - which makes them the second-best performing big-tech stock behind Nvidia. But I've pinpointed 3 tiny stocks CRUSHING Amazon this year. They're flying under Wall Street's radar right now, but combined…These 3 tiny stocks are up 250% this year! That's roughly 10 times Amazon's year to date return...and they're not showing any signs of slowing down. [LEARN MORE.]( “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who COUNTS the votes.” -- Joseph Stalin “We underestimate the extent to which we have been marinated in Marxist philosophy in our schools and society.” -- Senator Mike Lee In 1958, at the height of the Communist scare, my uncle, W. Cleon Skousen, wrote a bestselling book called “The Naked Communist.” It sold nearly 2 million copies. It was reprinted by popular demand in 2017. Movie producer Cecil B. DeMille suggested the title “The Naked Communist” because Cleon’s book “stripped the communists of all pretense and propaganda.” The Communist Takeover of Venezuela Suddenly people are talking about “The Naked Communist” following the sham re-election of Marxist/Communist Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela. According to exit polls, the opposition had a two-to-one victory, even without the voting of nearly eight million Venezuelan exiles. The public was finally fed up with the economic collapse of the once-richest country in Latin America. Alas, six hours later Maduro was declared the winner with 51% of the vote. Riots broke out, and the government thugs arrested leaders of the opposition. No doubt Maduro and other communist leaders were taught well from Joseph Stalin, who said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” Short of a military coup, Maduro will do everything in his power to stay in office. He wisely took over the military in Venezuela years ago. Sleep Well, Comrades After the election, the New York Times reported, “Mr. Maduro said he was relaxed about the fallout from the election and the claims of fraud and had ‘slept like a baby’ on Sunday night.” Maduro's comment reminds me of another statement by Joseph Stalin: “To choose one's victim, to prepare one's plans minutely, to stake an implacable vengeance and then go to bed... there is nothing sweeter in the world.” (quoted in “The Naked Communist,” p. 229) There Is Hope in Argentina But let us not be entirely pessimistic. Libertarian and Austrian economist Javier Milei has been elected president of Argentina and is doing everything in his power to push back the devastating policies of the Peronistas of wasteful government spending and runaway inflation. He has had some success in returning the glory days of Argentina by cutting inflation and encouraging foreign investment to come back. If he succeeds, it could encourage the rest of Latin America to throw off the failures of central planning and socialism. Buena suerte! [Here’s Why Green Energy Is CRASHING]( It’s not just because the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine. It’s because Republicans AND Democrats are now turning to a new, alternative energy source that can power America with efficient, 100% clean energy for decades.[See the full story here.]( Cleon Skousen and ‘The Naked Communist’ Mentioned Twice on the Tucker Carlson Show In the past two weeks, Cleon Skousen and “The Naked Communist” were discussed on the Tucker Carlson Show. Ben Carson, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told Tucker and his audience about Cleon’s list of “Communism’s 45 Goals” published in 1963, and how many of them have already been achieved. The list includes official recognition of Red China… gain control of the teachers unions… break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV… discredit American culture and traditional family values… eliminate prayer in the schools… discredit American founding fathers... It even includes “taking over one of the two major political parties.” Senator Mike Lee told Tucker that he had re-read “The Naked Communist” in preparation for a talk he gave in Utah on the new book, “There Were Giants in the Land: Episodes in the Life of W. Cleon Skousen,” which my wife Jo Ann and I compiled and edited. He worried that Marxist ideology has infiltrated our culture -- our schools, churches, media, government and even corporate headquarters. Is Kamala Harris a Marxist? Vice President Kamala Harris has definitely been influenced by Marxist ideology. Her father was a Marxist economist from Jamaica who taught at Stanford University. She doesn’t just favor equal opportunity for the less fortunate but “equal outcomes” -- true “equity” as she calls it -- through subsidies and welfare to the poor and confiscatory taxes on the rich. Her election in November would advance the big government, anti-capitalist policies of the Biden-Harris administration. New Memoirs Based on Private Diaries Senator Lee said that he has just finished reading the Giants book and loved it. “Cleon Skousen was truly a giant -- one who inspired me in so many ways. I encourage everyone to read the story of this great man, which will inspire you to join the cause of liberty.” What’s the Giants book all about? After three years of hard work by my wife Jo Ann and I, his personal story can be told for the first time, in his own words, revealing never-before-published details about his personal and family life, his six careers and his influence with top government and religious leaders. The book includes over 190 rare photographs and newspaper clippings. Over his 70-year career as an FBI agent, chief of police in Salt Lake City, BYU professor, author of the “Thousand Year” books, leader in the anti-communist movement and defender of the Constitution, Dr. Cleon Skousen gave over 10,000 speeches and wrote several bestselling books that have sold millions: “The Naked Communist”… “The Naked Capitalist”… “The 5,000 Year Leap”… “The Making of America”… and “The Thousand Years” books about the Bible (which still sell today, because they bring the Bible to life like no other book). Labeled the “Constitutional guru” of the conservative movement by the New York Times, Cleon Skousen constantly defended our Constitutional rights and warned America about the dangers of communism, which he regarded as “the greatest threat to liberty on the earth today.” Our book has been endorsed by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Heritage Foundation’s founder Ed Feulner, Senator Orrin Hatch, conservative marketing genius Richard Viguerie, former congressman Bob McEwen, Leadership Institute founder Morton Blackwell and many others. He was long-time friends with former congressman Ron Paul. Radio host Glenn Beck wrote, “When I die, there are two people I want to meet, and one of them is Cleon Skousen. Have you ever read a book that literally changed the course of your thinking and your life? God bless Cleon Skousen for his untiring efforts to bring Constitutional principles back to this promised land.” [Where are the record-setting stocks going?]( Wondering if you should be bullish or bearish on Nvidia for the remainder of the week? Don't worry about "buying the news" or getting scared into selling when the A.I. can guide your way. In other words, be rational. The same A.I. that predicted the banking crisis, housing market crash and Covid crash recently forecasted 2 massively bullish moves for Nvidia. [Join me LIVE to learn how we're trading this ticker and 3 more with this A.I. forecast](. Giants Book Banned in China! When our publisher tried to print a low-cost edition of the book in China, the Chinese government intervened and prohibited his book from being published in China. The printer wrote us, “I was informed that China won’t allow it to be printed in any mainland printer due to its contents, what they referred to as ‘sensitive material.’” I guess they took offense to such statements as “no patriotic American can be either a communist or a supporter of communism” (p. 155) and “Mao’s ‘butcher’ was believed to have supervised the slaughter of some thirty-five million Chinese” (p. 320). Our publisher chose to print it in “free” South Korea. Highlights: --Why 1913, the year of his birth, became a special year in Cleon’s drive to achieve political success. “God gave me a mission in life to fight the three political mistakes of 1913!” (See p. 308-309). --Working with the “ruthless” J. Edgar Hoover during his 16 years with the FBI, plus Skousen’s encounters with gangsters Mickey Cohen, Bugsy Siegel and “Machine Gun” Kelly (pp. 49-51, 80-84, 88-90, 270-271). --Meeting famed “Gone with the Wind” actress Olivia de Havilland and how he used a secret tape to show how she was being duped by a Communist front organization: Her surprising reaction (pp. 85-87). This story is worth the price of the book! --A Church leader predicts in the summer of 1939, “There will be war!” which leads to Cleon’s first book, “Prophecy and Modern Times” (pp. 59-60). --Behind the scenes at the FBI headquarters on the Day of Infamy, December 7, 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (pp. 73-74). --His confrontation with an atheist professor and later a debate with the son of notorious atheist Madalyn O’Hair (pp. 38-42, 383-385). --His courtship of his high-school sweetheart Jewel Pitcher, and the secret to their marriage that lasted 74 years (pp. 43-44, 166, 479-480). --What it was like raising five boys and three girls, and why his faithful wife Jewel should be the co-author of Cleon’s book, “So You Want to Raise a Boy” (pp. 206-209). --How a Church leader’s public endorsement made “The Naked Communist” an overnight bestseller, selling over two million copies (pp. 153-154, 160-161). --Cleon’s appearance on nationwide TV at the Hollywood Bowl on October 16, 1961, with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Senator George Murphy and Ronald Reagan in “Hollywood’s Answer to Communism” (pp. 193-198). --Cleon’s friendship with Hollywood producer Cecil B. DeMille and his role in the filming of “The Ten Commandments” (pp. 136-140). --Friendships with the Osmonds (pp.373-375, 385), Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (pp. 166, 195), Art Linkletter (pp. 300-302), Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly (pp. 442-443) and economist Milton Friedman (pp. 299-300). --Did Elvis Presley read Cleon’s “First 2,000 Years”?! (pp. 351-352). --His special relationship with Ronald Reagan, and the behind-the-scenes reason why Reagan was forced to add George W. Bush Sr. to the Presidential ticket in 1980 (pp. 243-244, 331-332, 380-381, 387). --How his Freemen Institute helped elect Utah Senator Orrin Hatch; their close friendship (pp. 290-292, 308-309, 322-324, 365-367). --Cleon’s 70-year close relationship with Ezra Taft Benson as Secretary of Agriculture under Eisenhower and later as President of the LDS Church. --Confessing a weakness for defending controversial figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy (pp. 296-297), the John Birch Society (299), Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver (345-351) and Reverend Moon (pp. 343-344), and how they all eventually disappointed him. How to Order the First Edition for only $29.95 The first edition of “There Were Giants in the Land” is 544 pages long with lots of photographs spread throughout the text. Both Jo Ann and I wrote introductions and an index. Senator Hatch wrote the introduction. The book is available in hardback for $34.95 on Amazon, but we offer the best deal. You pay only $29.95 at [www.skousenbooks.com](. We pay shipping anywhere in all 50 states. Order your copy today. (They also make a great holiday or birthday gift.) It’s also available on Kindle for only $9.99. [Click here]( to check it out. The audiobook is available on Amazon for only $9.80. [Find it here](. Good Investing, AEIOU, [Mark Skousen] Mark Skousen Doti-Spogli Endowed Chair of Free Enterprise, Chapman University [Wikipedia]( [Newsletter and trading services]( [Personal website]( [FreedomFest]( [You Blew It!] The Pros and Cons of Wearing Masks By Mark Skousen Editor, [Forecasts & Strategies]( In a recent study, over 4,500 random participants were tested on the benefits of wearing surgical masks in public places over a two-week period, and compared to those who wore no masks. They concluded that wearing surgical masks reduced respiratory symptoms and infections by 30%. You can see the study [here](. There’s only one problem. These mask studies never address the costs associated with wearing masks. They focus solely on the benefits. They ignore the negatives, such as: --the ill effects of not breathing in fresh air (sometimes for 8 hours a day!), --the facial skin rashes, flair up of acne and other serious irritations due to prolonged wearing of masks, --the loss of language skills (children especially lose ability to communicate properly), --the loss of social relations (you can't see what a person looks like, or their expressions -- this is especially important when meeting with your doctor, people at work, friends and loved ones, etc.), --the billions of dollars spent to produce surgical masks (at least $10 each). And finally, the government's and businesses’ "busybody" tendency to mandate constantly the wearing of masks, which denies people's basic freedom. I was even thrown off a United flight back in 2021 because I wasn't wearing a mask properly. 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