http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080813_2 August 13, 2008 -- Manipulating the progressive media and diverting the news publication date: Aug 13, 2008 Download Print Previous | Next
August 13, 2008 -- Manipulating the progressive media and diverting the news This editor is participating in a national and international effort to stymie the plan by Democratic multi-billionaire financier and hedge fund manipulator George Soros to influence a Barack Obama administration's foreign and domestic policies. The effort will focus on educating the new Democratic congressional class as well as the news media on the history of Soros and his activities in fomenting crises, through "themed revolutions," in Eastern Europe and the nations of the former Soviet Union, attacking currencies and national economies, and engaging in predatory corporate practices that have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the United States. The initiative against Soros and his loyalists, who include retired General Wesley Clark, former US ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke, Carter National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, is in the initial stages and more information will be forthcoming as the project progresses. Soros has made common cause with the neocons in attacking Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, accusing them of being in nuclear league with one another. Soros is old neocon wine in a "neo-liberal" bottle. Needless to say, Soros is not someone who should be a spokesperson, let alone a funder, of what is supposed to be a pro-labor and social rights political party, the Democratic Party. Soros began his sordid career in hedge funds (a combination of a betting parlor and a Ponzi scheme contrivance) in the late 1960s under Georges Coulon Karlweis, the vice chairman of Banque Privee Edmond Rothschild in Geneva, Switzerland. In the late 1960s, Karlweis provided Rothschild funds to Soros' Quota and Quantum hedge funds. Karlweis was the grand master of global financial chicanery and shysterism, having been linked to schemes of Bernard Cornfeld's International Overseas Services (IOS), the firm that Robert Vesco looted before he went into fugitive status. Karlweis also had his fingerprints on the antics of Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert's junk bond racketeer. Soros has set himself up as a deep-pocketed prophet for liberal causes, yet he has diminished true progressives by spreading his ill- gotten profits through various front organizations. The main reason why former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel was ridiculed and marginalized by such operations as DailyKos, DemocraticUnderground, Move.On, and America Coming Together was that Gravel was the first to take on The Carlyle Group and its Democratic neo-con managing director David Rubinstein over the firm's attempt to hoodwink Alaska Native tribes over their assets. It turns out that none other than Soros is a major investor in the Carlyle Group. Soros was also an investor in George W. Bush's Harken Energy after it required a financial bail out. At last January's World Economic Forum in Davis, Switzerland, a conclave of the mighty and powerful that should be rounded up and trucked off to "extraordinary rendition" prisons, Soros was present with Carlyle's Rubinstein. To round off the attendee list of perpetrators of economic crimes against the peoples of the world was hedge fund Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman. Blackstone's former director was Lord Jacob Rothschild, Soros' old pal and financial colleague. These capitalist vultures have been picking up foreclosed homes at bargain basement prices from hard-working American families impoverished by such global shylocks due to the collapse of the U.S. dollar and the U.S. housing market. Soros, through his bought-and-paid-for "progressive" media entities has managed to stifle any news that casts light on his own anti- democratic and anti-progressive activities in the United States and around the world. It has also come to light that Soros and his minions have targeted this editor for retaliation for the past four years. From covering the 2004 election fraud in states like Ohio that involved Eastern European and Russian programmers in the employment of GOP operatives, to the Pamela Martin & Associates escort scandal involving top administration officials, to the activities of Russian- Israeli racketeers and gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, Leonid Nevzlin, and other colleagues of Soros, and the shooting of retired CIA agent Roland Carnaby in Houston, the Soros crowd not been happy. There is also ample reason to believe that this editor's phone call records and emails have been rifled through in order to obtain sources and funders. Note: it should be noted that the WMR site is very secure and protected by a firewalled server located outside the United States. Proving illegal surveillance is very difficult. Some fifteen years ago, this editor was chairing a privacy panel at a Baltimore conference sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. One panelist, whose father was a top NSA official, was asked how could one tell if they were under surveillance. Her response to the audience that was likely expecting a more technical response, was "you just have a feeling." Without going into details, this editor "has a feeling," based on events that have transpired with colleagues and supporters, that Soros' crew has been closely monitoring my activities and those of my colleagues and supporters. However, even with Soros' billions, two can play at his game. The effort to educate the public about Soros and his agenda will take on added significance during Senate confirmation hearings and briefings for new members of Congress about Soros-backed nominees in a possible Obama administration. Rather than expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia, there will be a well- publicized campaign to abolish NATO, a move that should have occurred when the Warsaw Pact was disestablished after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The duplicitous nature of Soros-backed governments, such as the Ukrainian government of President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and the Georgian government of Mikheil Saakashvili, will be examined in detail and reports issued and newspaper op-eds distributed. Tymoshenko and Saakashvili represent neo-Cold War and anti-Russian politicians who have been tainted by their association with corrupt parties linked to the Russian-Israeli Mafia, such as Tymoshenko's one-time business partner former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, now serving a prison term in California for money laundering, corruption, and fraud and Saakashvili's mysterious "Golden Fleece" charity in Cyprus. Soros will discover that what is worse than a "rebel without a cause" is a "rebel with a lost cause." Soros has left a trail of embittered businessmen and politicians the world over. The Democratic Party will come to realize that people will judge the party based on the company it keeps. And for Senator Obama, his visit to Soros' New York office last December with his hat in hand for money should not buy Soros globalist chips in an Obama administration. ---- Note: Soros' currency speculation sent the Malaysian economy into a tail spin some eight years ago. Soros is still widely despised in Malaysia. His answer to the bad press was to start his own "independent" news web portal, Malaysikini. The Malaysian government alleged that the "independent" new site received its funding from Soros via the "Southeast Asian Press Alliance" in Bangkok. Soros denied funding the site but it was later revealed that funding originated from the Center for Advanced Media in Prague, a contrivance of the Media Development Loan Fund, a project of Soros' Open Society Institute.
