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George Soros Puts $50 Million Towards Attacking The Free Market
Commie Pinko George Soros has a brand new idea for destroying America and he’s putting $50 million behind it.
According to Newsweek, Soros aims to “purge” economics of its “free-market zeal”. In other words, Soros wants to dismantle free market capitalism as we know it.
Now financier George Soros is announcing a $50 million effort to speed things along. This week Soros is gathering some of the leading practitioners of the market-skeptic school, who were marginalized during the era of "free-market fundamentalism," among them Nobelists Joseph Stiglitz, George Akerlof, Michael Spence, and Sir James Mirrlees. He’s also creating an "Institute for New Economic Thinking" to make research grants, convene symposiums, and establish a journal, all in an effort to take back the economics profession from the champions of free-market zealotry who have dominated it for decades, and to correct the failures of decades of market deregulation. Soros hopes matching funds will bring the total endowment up to $200 million. "Economics has failed not only to predict and explain what happened but has also failed to protect society," says Robert Johnson, a former managing director at Soros Fund Management, who will direct the new institute. "That’s what the crisis revealed. The paradigm has failed. There is no guidance."
George Soros has spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to destroy America — so this is nothing new. What is new is that for the first time we have a president who actually agrees with him.
Video: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Doesn’t Think George Soros Is Left-Wing
This is hilarious. Kudos to Orin Hatch:
(hat tip Weasel Zippers)
The Democratic Party’s Hidden Soros Slush Fund
Michelle Malkin has an excellent column today in which she identifies the democratic party’s hidden Soros slush fund. If Barack Obama is elected, his administration along with a far left Congress will steer millions in tax payer dollars into a so called “Social Investment Fund Network.”
Every victory that Democrats have had over the last eight years is directly attributable to George Soros and his numerous left-wing organizations. Obama’s “Social Investment Fund Network” should really be called the “Thank You George Fund” because that’s exactly what it what it would be.
The McClellan Book: A Weapon Of Mass Deception
An article in today’s Washington Post reveals startling new details about just how Scott McClellan’s book came to be.
Peter Osnos , the founder of Public Affairs, the left-wing company that published “What Happened,” described Scott’s initial book ideas as a “a not-very-interesting, typical press secretary book.”
Osnos said McClellan just needed “editorial guidance” to tell the story he wanted to tell all along. Which sounds to me like a pretty stunning admission.
Roughly translated, Osnos is saying that Scott initially turned in a boring (and likely accurate) book and those books don’t sell. So Osnos gave Scott some “editorial guidance” and together they produced the hatchet job your reading today!
To further prove my point, Osnos told the Washington Post this:
“First we had to ascertain what kind of book he wanted to write,” said Osnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor. “We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren’t interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.”
Yet another stunning admission from Osnos. He’s basically saying that Public Affairs wasn’t interested in publishing a defense of the Bush Administration. Scott’s book needed to pass their test of “independence, integrity, and candor.”
The “integrity, independence, and candor” Osnos refers to means that Scott’s book would have to conform to specific liberal talking points if Public Affairs was going to publish the book.
Which explains why Scott’s former boss Ari Fleisher said he was blind sided by the book. Fleisher said he kept in touch with Scott and spoke to him several times over the last year. He said Scott told him the book would be complimentary to the President, but admitted taking some shots at Rove and Libby.
Then when he saw the book he couldn’t believe what he was reading. Moreover, everyone who knows Scott says the way the book reads doesn’t sound like him at all. Bartlett, Rove, Perrino, and Fleisher all say that he doesn’t write like that and it sounds like someone else.
Clearly, Scott’s publisher took the book and did a complete overhaul on it. Nearly every accusation leveled at the administration by left-wing blogs concerning the Iraq war, Valerie Plame, and more, over the last few years is included in the book.
The final icing on the cake is the George Soros connection to all this. PublicAffairs Books is owned by Perseus Books Group. Perseus Books Group is owned by Perseus Funds Group. Perseus Funds Group has a holding company called Perseus LLC which has several joint ventures with George Soros.
Is George Soros Behind The McClellan Book?
LGF has uncovered some very interesting connections between Scott McClellan’s publisher and George Soros. Check it out!
Recent “Bush Lied About Iraq” Study Funded By George Soros
With the surge strategy in Iraq showing progress, the number of horror stories for the NY Times to put on the front page has been severely reduced. However, the liberal media struck gold this week with another rehashing and repackaging of the “Bush lied about Iraq” story.
It’s been common practice in recent years during unfortunate periods of reduced violence in Iraq, for the media to find a fresh way to rekindle the “Bush lied, People died” argument.
That argument is continuously repackaged and trotted out to an eager left-wing press like it’s a brand new story, and the AP appears to be the first news organization in 2008 to tell that story again.
The latest reincarnation of the story comes to us in the form of a “study” conducted by two “non-partisan journalism organizations.”
The Center For Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism found (to their shock and horror) that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
They even give the exact number of “false statements” allegedly made by the administration.
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
Which inevitably led to the “Fund for Independence liberals in Journalism” to conclude:
“It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida,” according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. “In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.”
The part of this story you aren’t supposed to know is the one Texas Rainmaker is already out in front of. The two so-called “non-partisan” groups responsible for this story are both funded by anti-American as*hole George Soros.
Which makes those groups many things, but “non-partisan” damn sure isn’t one of them.
The Center for Public Integrity is funded by The Open Society Institute… yes, the same Open Society Institute founded by George Soros.
And the Fund for Independence in Journalism’s self-described primary purpose is “providing legal defense and endowment support for the largest nonprofit, investigative reporting institution in the world, the Center for Public Integrity, and possibly other, similar groups.”
The last Soros funded piece of propaganda was the now debunked study that claimed 650,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since the invasion.
Just exposing the fact that George Soros funded this latest study automatically gives it zero credibility, but putting that aside for a moment let’s instead focus on the substance of the piece.
The mantra radiating from the left has always been that Bush knew Iraq had no WMD, so the administration manipulated the intelligence to fool the public into supporting a war.
There’s no question that we did get it wrong on Iraq. We always assumed that Saddam never really destroyed his stockpiles after the 1991 Gulf war like he was supposed to, but we were wrong.
We know now from debriefing Saddam after his capture that he was bluffing Bush into believing he had WMD, to avoid looking weak to his old nemesis Iran.
Saddam had been lobbying the U.N. privately for more than a year to lift the decade old sanctions against Iraq, and was within months of achieving that goal.
He wrongly calculated that if he could stall and bluff Bush long enough, the sanctions would be lifted and he would once again be on easy street.
He was so confident that Bush wouldn’t really invade that only a few weeks before “shock and awe” began, Saddam hadn’t even started on a war plan.
You can read all about what Saddam’s life was like after his capture all the way up to his execution in Ronald Kessler’s book “The Terrorist Watch.” Kessler talks with the FBI agent who spent nearly a year talking with Saddam for 8 hours a day 7-days a week.
Saddam literally told the agent he was bluffing Bush about the weapons. So this nonsense about the Administration fabricating things is total bullsh*t.
Saddam convinced intelligence agencies from around the world including China, Russia, Britain, Israel, Australia, Egypt, Jordan, Italy, France, and Germany, that Iraq still possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. There was also anecdotal evidence to suggest that Saddam was at least interested in reconstituting his nuclear program again.
So Bush had the premier intelligence agencies of the world telling him that Saddam had weapons, and U.S. intelligence agreed with that assessment. Was he supposed to do nothing? He should have just ignored all that intelligence warning of a potential danger after the horrors of 9/11?
Let’s also take a look at what leading opponents of the war were saying about Iraq all through the 1990’s right up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This fantastic compilation comes from lawhawk at A Blog For All.
-Chris Jones
George Soros Funded Bogus Iraq Study
From the Times Online:
A STUDY that claimed 650,000 people were killed as a result of the invasion of Iraq was partly funded by the antiwar billionaire George Soros.
Soros, 77, provided almost half the £50,000 cost of the research, which appeared in The Lancet, the medical journal. Its claim was 10 times higher than consensus estimates of the number of war dead.
The study, published in 2006, was hailed by antiwar campaigners as evidence of the scale of the disaster caused by the invasion, but Downing Street and President George Bush challenged its methodology.
New research published by The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 people – less than a quarter of The Lancet estimate – have died since the invasion in 2003.
“The authors should have disclosed the [Soros] donation and for many people that would have been a disqualifying factor in terms of publishing the research,” said Michael Spagat, economics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
The only people who took that number seriously were the left-wing lunatics who hate America and hate President Bush. That study was nothing more than left-wing propaganda meant to damage America’s image around the world.
It’s certainly not surprising that George Soros would be behind the whole thing. We have written extensively about how Soros uses his vast wealth to fund a radical left-wing agenda.
The Lancet chose to keep silent about the Soros funding, because they knew the study would have had zero credibility at the outset with everyone except liberal kooks.
-Chris Jones
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