George Soros Has Purchased the Democrat Party. Liberals are stupid!
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George Soros Has Purchased the Democrat Party. Liberals are stupid!
The odd billionaire hates Israel, wants to end American dominance and
supports legalizing drugs. And now he has a disturbing new role in the
Democratic Party.
George Soros: Billionaire for the Radical Left
By Lowell Ponte
November 13, 2003
UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION HE CAN NEVER BE PRESIDENT, but if any Democrat
gets elected President in 2004 it will be because this foreign-born
billionaire kingmaker, George Soros, pledged to raise $75 million to
defeat incumbent Republican President George W. Bush.
"George Soros has purchased the Democrat Party," said Republican
National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson.
Since he who pays the piper calls the tune, what tune will this
international financier demand from the party and President his
millions purchased? What hidden agendas and interests, domestic and
foreign, might
be served?
Can any American trust a Democrat Party whose strings are pulled by
this controversial Radical Left-inclined puppet-master? Soros funds an
army of leftist foundations and enterprises. He reportedly provided
$20 million in seed money for the Center for American Progress,
described by the Wall Street Journal as "a new liberal think-tank that
is financing the likes of Bush-hating pundit Eric Alterman" (of The
Nation Magazine). He has also helped fund and coordinate anti-Bush
tactics with the Democrat-aligned,
Gore-supporting ultra-leftist group MoveOn.org.
Can parents keep their kids drug-free if a Democrat President must
dance to the intoxicating tune of George Soros, who has donated
millions to marijuana-decriminalization groups and initiatives?
Democrat and former Jimmy Carter Administration Secretary of Health
and Human Services Joseph Califano called Soros "the Daddy Warbucks of
drug legalization."
Can Israel survive, given the hostility that Jewish-born Soros has
expressed toward the Jewish State? A global philanthropist, Soros has
rarely donated to Jewish charities or causes. But in a November 5
speech to a conference of the Jewish Funders Network, Soros blamed the
policies of President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for
the upsurge in worldwide anti-Semitism.
Soros also blamed himself for the rise in anti-Semitism because he is
one of the "Jewish financiers" who, in his agreement with the vicious
words of just-retired Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad,
"rule the world by proxy."
Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League,
called it "absolutely obscene" that Soros blames Israel and Jews for
anti-Semitism and used the rhetoric of anti-Semites in doing so.
Said Foxman: "He buys into the stereotype?It's blaming the victim for
all of Israel's and the Jewish people's ills."
And what happened to longstanding Democrat demands that we pass
"campaign finance reform" to get the "corrupting influence" of wealthy
contributors out of politics?
Days ago Democratic campaign frontrunner for the 2004 nomination
Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont, announced that he would
decline public funding of his campaign to avoid the $45 million
spending ceiling this would put on his primary campaign. (Dean has
already raised $25 million.)
Dean urges two million supporters to send him $100 apiece, but he
surely does not expect this to happen. Dean is willing to run without
federal matching funds only because he knows that big money can and
will be provided to him by billionaire George Soros, who last
September hosted a fundraiser at Dean's Vermont home.
(Dean's wife and therefore children are Jewish, but he has moved away
from America's traditional bi-partisan support for Israel. This is
probably part of what Soros likes about Howard Dean and would expect
Dean to make U.S. policy if elected President.)
But will the American people vote for a candidate and Democratic Party
that George Soros rules by proxy?
"A President Dean," says a Wall Street Journal Editorial, "would owe
far more chits to Mr. Soros than Vice President Dick Cheney has ever
owed to Halliburton. All this gives the lie to the reform promise to
get big money out of politics?."
Who is this shadowy, controversial man George Soros? Born in 1930 in
Hungary, he watched Nazis march into his nation and kill relatives in
a 1944 extermination of 440,000 Hungarian Jews. He survived by
pretending to be Ayran, and then witnessed Soviet Marxists replace the
Nazis. "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule," he says, "have
sensitized me."
Soros' father Tivador, a lawyer/publisher/writer, changed the family's
real last name, Schwartz, to Soros in 1936. "Soros grew up in a
family that was so detached from its Jewish roots," summarized a
Business Week reviewer of his biography, "that they even vacationed in
Nazi Germany, with Tivador shrugging off ?No Jews Allowed' signs by
telling his wife, ?You are a foreigner, it's not for you.'"
After World War II, Soros fled alone as a poor 17-year-old immigrant
to London, where he worked at a variety of small jobs. "I broke my
leg and was taken care of, free of charge, by the National Health
Service," recalled Soros with gratitude. "I depended on government
assistance." He also, with resentment, remembers from these years how
little assistance various Jewish social welfare agencies he approached
were willing to give him.
Although he would later become a naturalized American citizen, Soros
remains in social outlook very much a European and believer in the
paternalistic neo-feudalism euphemistically called "democratic
socialism" or "social democracy."
Soros in 1949 enrolled at the Fabian socialist London School of
Economics (one of whose later students would be adept businessman Mick
Jagger of the Rolling Stones). Soros there became friends with Sir
Karl Popper, philosopher and author of the 1945 book The Open Society
and Its Enemies. He graduated LSE in 1952.
From his interpretation of Popper's "open society," Soros developed
his own opaque philosophy. As described by former New York Times
journalist (and Soros publication editor) Michael Kaufman in his 2002
biography Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, "Soros
had developed a contempt for tribal sectarianism of all kinds and
found much of the zeal of pro-Israel Zionists to be unappealingly
chauvinistic."
According to Kaufman, Soros described his own Jewishness thus: "It did
not express itself in a sense of tribal loyalty that would have led
him to support Israel."
As to Soros' views concerning President Bush, Neil Hrab of the Capital
Research Center has written, "Financial analyst and Soros friend Byron
Wien thinks the financier may feel hostility toward all forms of
?right-wing nationalism,' perhaps as a consequence of growing up in
Nazi-occupied Hungary. And Soros may believe a strong Left can be a
good barrier to resurgent ?far-right' movements."
What this overlooks, of course, is that the Nazis were a movement of
the Left, not the Right. Nazi was a contraction of the German words
for "national socialist."
In the open society of America, young George Soros arrived on Wall
Street in 1956 with $5,000 and quickly demonstrated a singular genius
for investing others' money and his own. This "Hungarian Horatio
Alger" of financial sorcery came to be called "the greatest money
manager in the world" by satisfied clients of his Quantum Fund.
Soros was chief among the creators of the modern "hedge fund" through
which investors are protected by diversified simultaneous bets for and
against the economy in a variety of ways.
But Soros also made a fortune by high-stakes gambles such as currency
speculation in the world economy. In 1992, for example, he wagered $10
billion that by concerted attack he could devalue the British Pound.
He won, pocketed at least $1.1 billion profit in a single day, and
ever since has been called "the man who broke the Bank of England."
(By this act of economic rape upon ordinary British working class
savings accounts, Soros repaid Britain for the generosity and help it
gave to him as a struggling young immigrant with a broken leg.)
In the process of destroying the purchasing power of the British
Pound, Soros dealt a political blow to the government of British Prime
Minister John Major from which the Tory Party has yet to recover. This
is the same kind of damage he hopes to inflict in 2004 on America's
Republican Party.
Businesspeople tend to admire Soros for his power and skill, wrote
Andrew Leonard at Salon.com, and liberals tend to applaud his
generosity to leftist causes. But what if it had been Osama bin Laden
using financial machinations to break the Bank of England? Soros'
"life raises some troubling questions
about the autonomy of capital in the era of globalization," writes
Leonard. "Make enough money, and you don't have to obey anyone's
rules."
Similar high-roller global financial machinations by Soros over the
years have led to accusations that he caused the economic collapse in
Asia in 1997 and, according to one anti-Semitic publication, the
near-50 percent devaluation of the Russian Ruble in 1998.
Soros "was involved in the Mexican bailout with their President
Ernesto Zedillo," reported the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review last July,
adding, "Most recently, Soros worked on the Euro, pushing the U.S.
dollar down to a near all-time low." Soros has, in other words,
caused you to pay more for every imported product you buy.
Soros' 1998 book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society
Endangered called for more government controls to prevent abuses and
shortsightedness by "amoral" multinational capitalists. In effect,
Soros' message was, "Stop me before I kill again!"
But he was not so sanguine in 2002, when a French court found him
guilty of insider trading and fined Soros 2.2 million Euros (roughly
$2 million). He told reporters he would appeal the verdict but as of
yet has not, dismissing the court's ruling as "a queer decision." To
this multi-billionaire, a $2 million fine is a trifle, a mere slap on
the wrist.
Today Forbes Magazine ranks him the 28th richest person in the United
States, with an estimated fortune worth $7 billion. This comes after
Soros has given away an estimated $5 billion to causes ranging from
the Solidarity Movement in Poland to Vaclav Havel's dissident movement
in Czechoslovakia and to Leftist groups in the United States
(including the Democratic Party).
(When another eccentric named Ross Perot in 1992 bought his own
political party and used it in a rumored secret scheme with Bill and
Hillary Clinton to divide the vote and thereby conquer incumbent
Republican President George H. W. Bush, Perot was only the 44th
richest American after making billions on government contracts. Bill
and Hillary were rumored to have promised him all the computer
contracts for their socialized medicine system, thereby making Perot
the single richest man in America.)
Soros is not just a nominal capitalist made rich through Communist
connections, as was Armand Hammer (who we now know delivered millions
of dollars from Moscow to the Communist Party USA). Soros may dislike
President Bush and American dominance in the world, but he generally
prefers private institutions to government bureaucracies and favors
local governments over the United Nations.
In his own eccentric way, Soros appears to be an opportunistic,
misguided idealist whose warped, surrealistic childhood produced a
warped view of society.
And now what Soros calls "the central focus of my life" is defeating
President Bush, an undertaking he deems "a matter of life and death."
"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," Soros told Laura
Blumenfeld of the Washington Post. "Then he smiled," she wrote, "'And
I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is.'"
Neoconservatives in the Bush Administration are viewed by Soros as "a
bunch of extremists guided by a crude form of social Darwinism."
"When I hear Bush say, ?You're either with us or against us,' it
reminds me of the Germans," said Soros, likening President Bush to the
Nazis and their slogans such as "Der Feind Hort mit," "The enemy is
listening."
"Bush feels that on September 11th he was annointed by God," Soros
told Blumenfeld. "He's leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious
circle of escalating violence."
Soros puts these arguments in a new book titled The Bubble of Global
Supremacy, due out in January. His publisher PublicAffairs Press
promises an "intensely critical analysis of the Bush administration's
foreign policy." An excerpt appears in the December issue of the
Atlantic Monthly magazine.
Because he wants "regime change" in the United States and opposes our
intervention in Iraq, Soros is supporting Howard Dean in particular
and the more left-wing Democratic candidates in general.
But what does it say about Dean and the Democratic Party that they
have sold their souls to this strange Euro-billionaire? George Soros
advocates legalized marijuana, hates and boycotts Israel, is regarded
by many as anti-Semitic, is a recently-convicted inside trader and
global financial manipulator who seeks an end to American supremacy -
that is, the global debasement and weakening of the United States?
Is this who American voters want as the puppet-master and power behind
the throne directing foreign and domestic policies of the United
States of America?
Indeed, will voters support a party that only months ago was screaming
for campaign finance reform to prevent the rich from dominating our
politics - but that now has rejected all such reform and instead sold
itself to a single eccentric billionaire whose anti-American views
resemble those of France?
Is this what Democrats now call democracy? Perhaps they should end
the pretense and just rename themselves George Soros' Party. Or the
Democratic Party and its candidates can reassert their integrity by
denouncing George Soros and refusing to take or benefit from this
oddball's money.
Al Green
along. Soros hates Bush...a kind of reverse anti-Semite!
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astron
Also , what is wrong with raising taxes from hemp and medicinal/social
marijuana ( we do it for alcohol and tobacco ) ?
Further , what is wrong with legalizing prostitution and making them pay
taxes ? We need those billions to fund our programs and repair the bridges
and roads .
In Australia , we have it , and there has not been an explosion in
prostitution or a rise in crime or decrepit morality .
Just some observations ..
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VICTOR HUGO
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Stronger than all the armies , is an idea whose time has come .
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Mike Craney
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> Don't you think Soros brings some balance into the ideological/culture
> war ?
It's a matter of perspective. What;s the most scary about Soros is how he'd
trash the US business climate to meet his ideological objectives.
Remember that Soros is not a businessman in the classic sense of the term.
He's an investor, primarily in the FOREX. Financially, what he wants is big
swings in currency valuations to make money on the spreads. If he backs a
guy whose policies will put the US dollar in the trash can, that's fine by
him, as long as he (1) has prior notice it's going to happen, and (2) is
short on the dollar. Dean fits the bill in both respects.
I'd be very interested to see if Soros is already short on the dollar.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if he is, and in which case, the current US
economic recovery is financially pissing him off to no end.
Mike
Al
> "astron" <ast...@texas.gov> wrote in
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> > Don't you think Soros brings some balance into the ideological/culture
> > war ?
>
> It's a matter of perspective. What;s the most scary about Soros is how he'd
> trash the US business climate to meet his ideological objectives.
>
> Remember that Soros is not a businessman in the classic sense of the term.
> He's an investor, primarily in the FOREX.
***Isn't this a brand of condom???