AIM Report: George Soros Tries to Buy Congress - October B
AIM Report | October 26, 2006
The Soros agenda is to transform American society into one in which the use of dangerous drugs and the practice of prostitution are accepted and protected by the government.
GEORGE SOROS TRIES TO BUY CONGRESS
Speaking at a Washington symposium on the continuing threat posed by illegal drugs to American society, Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation declared billionaire George Soros to be an "extremely evil person" who wants to legalize dangerous mind-altering drugs. Fay said that Soros, an atheist who is a major funder of the Democratic Party and liberal-left causes, is "our common enemy" and that he is determined to subvert traditional values and undermine America's families.
Soros, convicted of insider trading in France, is a financial speculator and hedge-fund operator who manipulates the currencies of the nations of the world in order to make himself rich. Some of his fortune, estimated at $7 billion, has been put into causes such as abortion rights, gay rights, drug legalization, voting rights for felons, euthanasia, and rights for immigrants and prostitutes. His Open Society Institute even helped underwrite attorney Lynne Stewart, subsequently convicted of helping terrorists. In 2004, he spent about $25 million in an unsuccessful effort to defeat President Bush for re-election.
In this election cycle, according to Roll Call newspaper, Soros has been cutting checks "to organizations expected to launch attacks on GOP House and Senate candidates in the run-up to the Nov. 7 elections." The money is going to a liberal group called Majority Action, "which is targeting GOP candidates…"
In an appearance at the same anti-drug event that featured Calvina Fay, Marc Wheat, staff director and chief counsel of the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, described Soros as someone who has no sense of guilt or responsibility for his actions. He noted that, during a December 20, 1998, interview with 60 Minutes, Soros acknowledged that as a 14-year-old Jewish boy in Hungary, his identity was protected and that he actually assisted in confiscating property from Jews as they were being shipped off to death camps. Asked by interviewer Steve Kroft if he had any sense of guilt over what he did, Soros replied, "no."
In the interview, Soros compared his actions to the operation of economic markets, saying, "…if I weren't there, of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would—would—would be taking it away anyhow." Soros then insisted he was only a "spectator" and had "no role in taking away that property." That is why, he said, "I had no sense of guilt."
Drawing attention to "The Guilt-free Record of George Soros," Wheat noted that Soros has said, in regard to his manipulation of currency markets, "I am basically there to—to make money. I cannot and do not look at the social consequences of—of what I do," and "I don't feel guilty. Because I'm engaged in an amoral activity which is not meant to have anything to do with guilt."
He makes money by exploiting human suffering.
Target America
Wheat said it is his belief that Soros has found America to be "a hard nut to crack" in terms of weakening America's traditional cultural values and institutions, and that the billionaire would be spending more time and money on activities in Europe, in an effort to fan anti-Americanism there.
Nevertheless, Wheat said he still considered Soros to be the number one danger to traditional values in the U.S. at this time.
Earlier this year, Wheat's boss, Rep. Mark Souder, became aware through an article by AIM that Soros-funded pro-drug groups had infiltrated the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington and were even being featured as speakers by CPAC organizers. He put a statement in the Congressional Record expressing alarm and asking, "What on earth were the CPAC organizers thinking?" He accused Soros of trying to manipulate conservatives, in the same way that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff had done.
One CPAC official has since come forward to say that Soros-funded groups will not be allowed to be part of CPAC next year.
If CPAC is purging the Soros influence at its conference, the same cannot be said for the national Democratic Party. As David Horowitz and Richard Poe maintain in their new book, The Shadow Party, Soros is engaged in an alliance with Senator Hillary Clinton not only for the purpose of controlling the Democratic Party but taking control of Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008.
Rights For Prostitutes
One of the most bizarre areas of interest for Soros is prostitution. In the name of solving the AIDS problem, Soros-supported prostitutes are demanding their "rights." The topic may seem strange to those unfamiliar with the Soros agenda. Rather than oppose dangerous conduct, such as using illegal drugs, the Soros approach is to legalize such behavior and "reduce the harm" associated with it, such as by providing free needles to addicts. This approach, which actually encourages the dangerous behavior and puts more people at risk of contracting serious diseases and even death, is now being applied to prostitution. The Soros plan is to legalize prostitution and then provide free condoms. In the cases of illegal drugs and prostitution, the behavior would not only be legalized but taxed and regulated and thus approved by government.
It didn't get any attention from the major media, but the cause of "sex workers" was a prominent topic at the recently concluded 16th International AIDS Conference. And one of the main forces behind this movement is the Open Society Institute (OSI) "Sexual Health and Rights Project," which pushes special "rights" for prostitutes. OSI boasts that its staff and grantees participated in over 25 conference presentations, satellite sessions and press conferences at the AIDS event.
The official conference newspaper highlighted a workshop at the conference on the subject of sex workers, HIV and human rights. The moderator, Melissa Hope Ditmore, was one of those consulted by the OSI in the June 2006 OSI study, "Sex Workers Health and Rights: Where is the Funding?" The report highlighted the role of OSI and various Soros foundations, as well as the Ford Foundation, in subsidizing "a large number of sex workers organizations," and attacked the Bush Administration policy for refusing to fund such groups.
Newsday Columnist and commentator James Pinkerton came across some of these organizations at the AIDS conference in Canada, noting with some surprise that "The effort to 'mainstream' prostitution is not at all a fringe issue here. It is being waged by those at the pinnacle of the AIDS establishment—for example, Melinda Gates, who delivered the keynote speech here last Sunday, alongside her husband, Bill Gates." He found one group, called "Stella," which "acknowledges funding from George Soros's Open Society Institute."
Pinkerton said the activists see AIDS and prostitution as "a chance to turn tragedy into an opportunity to re-engineer societies around the world…"
Subverting America's Traditions
The Soros agenda is to transform American society into one in which the use of dangerous drugs and the practice of prostitution are accepted and protected by the government.
This certainly seems newsworthy. A billionaire trying to help the Democratic Party take control of both Houses of Congress has an agenda that includes legalization of drugs and prostitution.
But, led by the Washington Post, the national press has seemed preoccupied with other matters, such as the "racially insensitive" remarks uttered by Virginia Senator George Allen when he singled out a Jim Webb campaign operative as a "macaca" at one of his campaign rallies. The term was deemed derogatory by the Post and other media. That is the name of the media game—get Republicans and let Soros do his dirty work.
Meanwhile, Thomas Edsall, who was the senior political reporter for the Post for many years, was a recent guest on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, where he acknowledged that the ratio of Democrats to Republicans in the national press was probably in the range of 15 or 25 to 1.
Edsall, who recently left the Post to work for the liberal New Republic, said, "there is a real difficulty on the part of the mainstream media being sympathetic, or empathetic, whatever the word would be, to the kind of thinking that goes into conservative approaches to issues…"
This is why George Allen gets savaged while Soros gets a free pass.
The one exception was a September 17 Soros interview by Wolf Blitzer on CNN, where the billionaire was asked about his comparison of the Bush Administration to the Nazis.
In his book, The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror, Soros charges that "The Bush administration and the Nazi and Communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the technique used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries."
Under questioning, Soros eventually conceded that, "…maybe I did go over the line, but I think that on the whole, my assessment is a balanced one. And the fact that, frankly, when President Bush said, you are either with us or you are with the terrorists, that's when I was reminded, but I should have probably kept it to myself."
He went on to say that while he won't spend as much money on political races this year as he did in 2004, "I think it would be very healthy for our democracy if the House at least was in Democratic hands."
BILL CLINTON'S KOSOVO WHOPPER
Of all the whoppers told by former President Clinton in his now famous September 24 Fox News Channel interview with Chris Wallace, perhaps the most outrageous was his claim that he was involved in "trying to stop a genocide in Kosovo…" In fact, Clinton's bombing of the former Yugoslavia killed more people than died in this "genocide." And his policy benefited Osama bin Laden and the global Jihad. Yet Clinton insisted to Wallace that he had tried to kill bin Laden.
In the year before the bombing, according to U.N. and other sources, some 2,000 people had been killed in a civil war in Kosovo. By contrast, a conservative estimate offered by Rep. Curt Weldon is that 6,000 were killed by U.S. and NATO bombs. Some estimates go far higher.
It's strange as well that Clinton complained to Wallace about the "neocons" attacking him when many of the same neocons in 1999 supported Clinton's war on Yugoslavia. The war was never approved by the U.N. or the U.S. Congress and in fact violated the War Powers Act. The main beneficiary of the intervention was a Muslim terrorist group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with links to bin Laden, who had declared war on America in 1996, bombed our embassies in Africa in 1998, and would later, of course, orchestrate 9/11.
When former CIA official Michael Scheuer came forward after the interview to say that the Clinton Administration "had eight to ten chances" to kill bin Laden and "they refused to try," he is making a statement that goes far beyond acknowledging Clinton Administration incompetence or a lack of will. The fact is that Clinton had a pro-Muslim foreign policy that actually benefited bin Laden and facilitated 9/11. Most Republicans don't mention this because too many of them were duped into backing Clinton's misguided policy in Kosovo. President Bush, then a candidate, even backed U.S. military intervention through NATO there.
Yet Scheuer's CIA also has a lot to answer for. It is noteworthy that the CIA issued a January 2000 report that essentially whitewashed the terrorist nature and Islamic connections of the KLA. The only public release of this dubious report came through Rep. Eliot Engel, in a posting on the website of the National Albanian American Council, which supports an Albanian Muslim takeover of Kosovo.
The Hoax-Begotten War
That report was prepared under CIA Director George Tenet, who gave February 2, 1999, testimony referring to the Serb "massacre at Raçak," which provided the pretext for NATO intervention against Serbia but which turned out to be a hoax. (See our April-A 2000 AIM Report, "The Hoax-Begotten War.")
Tenet was, of course, kept on by President Bush. Not only were Tenet's fingerprints all over the failed and deceptive policy in Kosovo, he told Bush that finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a slam dunk.
Interestingly, Al-Jazeera celebrated the fifth anniversary of 9/11 by airing several al-Qaeda videos, one of which showed two of the 9/11 hijackers saying their actions were designed to avenge the suffering of Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya. Nothing demonstrates the bankruptcy of the Clinton policy more than that. Not only did Clinton order the CIA to help the KLA in Kosovo, he ordered the CIA to arm and train the Bosnian Muslims and even approved Iranian arms shipments to them so they could establish a Muslim state there. Still, that wasn't good enough for the Jihadists. Nothing appeases them.
The Clinton policy of supporting the same extremist Muslim forces in Europe that subsequently attacked us on 9/11 is far more controversial than the policy of regime change in Iraq, which was officially a policy of Clinton, Bush and the Congress. Kosovo was never a threat to the U.S., and Serbia didn't even pretend to have weapons of mass destruction.
Kosovo Vs. Iraq
At least in Iraq, despite some questionable intelligence, the cause is just. The U.S. removed a dictator and is fighting for democracy and against the terrorists. Such a policy may in the short term provoke a strong anti-American reaction, as Al-Jazeera rallies the foreign fighters to Iraq to kill Americans, but it is vastly preferable to the Clinton policy of helping Muslim radicals come to power in places like Bosnia or Kosovo. What's more, as the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) acknowledges, in a statement that has been played down by most of the media, a victory in Iraq would deflate the forces of global Jihad.
Our media like to talk about Iraq, because they think the issue will damage Bush, but Kosovo gets no mention, except when Clinton himself or former officials of his administration bring it up and claim it as a foreign policy success. There is no coverage of the anti-Christian Jihad underway there. But seven years after the illegal Kosovo intervention, the September 15 Washington Post reported on a new World Bank study on fragile or failing states that "can breed terrorism." One of them is listed as Kosovo, which is not a state—not yet. Actually, in the report itself, Kosovo is identified as a "territory," not a province of Serbia, but the point remains valid. Kosovo was identified as being "outside the control of a recognized and reputable government," offering "fertile soil on which terrorism could thrive." Terrorism is thriving there, of course, because it was Clinton's official policy to support the terrorist KLA and remove Kosovo from Serbian control.
Let The U.N. Do It
The result was captured by the summer 1999 U.N. Association newsletter, The Interdependent, which showed Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on the cover with her thumb in the air. The headline was: "Kosovo: The U.N. Takes Charge."
Seven years later, the U.N. is still in charge. And the U.N. is sponsoring talks about whether Kosovo should now be an independent state. Clinton holdovers in the Department of State, such as Nicholas Burns, are said to favor Kosovo independence.
The growing danger in Kosovo is compounded by the fact that the problem gets almost no attention in our media, which reported the false charges of genocide that provided the pretext for the military intervention in the first place but still refuse to correct the record and hold Clinton, Albright and then-NATO Commander, General Wesley Clark, responsible for what they have done.
Albright's Whopper
The media black-out is what enables Albright, in a lecture on religion and international affairs at Georgetown University on September 18, to declare, "Of all that we accomplished during my time in office, I'm proudest of what we did in Kosovo because we stopped the killing, and people are back in Kosovo living a free life."
A free life when Christian Serbs are fleeing and their homes and churches in Kosovo are being destroyed?
Albright's outrageous comments provide the answer in stark terms to the question: Whose side was the Clinton Administration on in the clash of civilizations between Islam and the West? All of the "missed opportunities" to kill bin Laden, and the interventions on behalf of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, didn't give us anything but more anti-American attacks, more terrorism, and, finally, 9/11.
Compounding the failure of the Clinton policy in Kosovo, the George Soros-funded International Crisis Group recently released a report saying that the international community "must avoid creating a weak state" and that the territory must have its own army. Left unsaid is that it would be an army dominated by former members of the KLA. That would be the ultimate reward for terrorism. The terrorists would become the official army of Kosovo.
Buried in the report, on page 8, you will find an interesting piece of information. It states that "A tiny but growing minority is turning to Wahhabi Islam," the dangerous brand of Sunni Islam underwritten by Saudi Arabia, which is also financing the building of many mosques in Kosovo. But this should come as no surprise. That element was always there, nurtured by the Clinton policy. Now it gathers force again, just as it did before 9/11.
It won't be enough to oppose independence for Kosovo. The terrorism problem will remain regardless of whether it is a province, territory or a state. But a U.S. position against independence will at least reflect belated recognition that the Clinton policy of encouraging terrorism in Kosovo has finally come to an end. The Bush Administration must side with Serbia in this important chapter in the clash of civilizations.
What You Can Do
Send the enclosed cards or cards and letters of your own choosing to Professor Doris Graber, Brian Williams of NBC News, and Christopher Burnham of the United Nations.
CLIFF'S NOTES
by Cliff Kincaid
DEAR FELLOW MEDIA WATCHDOG: October 11, 2006
WITH THE FORCED RESIGNATION OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN Mark Foley because of evidence that he is a pedophile predator, the House Congressional Republican leadership has a major scandal on its hands that could do far more damage that anything George Soros had planned for them. Some conservatives are trying to blame the scandal on Soros and the Democrats, and there is some evidence that Soros money went to a public policy group that obtained some of the incriminating emails that Foley sent to a former page. But the evidence also clearly indicates that Republican members of Congress and their staffers, some of them homosexuals, knew about Foley's homosexuality and overtures to male pages going back for many years. I have been brutally honest, telling the public television program NOW in an interview which aired on October 6 that House leaders have only themselves to blame for this scandal. Ironically, Foley was a co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and fought for legislation to "increase and tighten tracking of sex offenders and provide standards for notifying the public about these predators." Now he could be prosecuted for soliciting underage children for sex. We have been quoted on this matter by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, demonstrating how we serve as a valuable resource of conservative commentary and analysis for the major media. They come to us because we offer news and views they can't find anywhere else. Your support makes this possible.
PETER LABARBERA, WHO BEGAN HIS WRITING CAREER AT ACCURACY IN MEDIA UNDER AIM founder Reed Irvine, wrote about Foley's homosexuality back in 2003. However, Peter noted that Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual activist group, said, "I could care less about [Foley's] sexual orientation," and claimed that the congressman had no obligation to discuss it. That was the view of the House Republican leadership as well. Another top Republican, Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, who is retiring from Congress, has been an out-of-the-closet homosexual. The Washington Post reports that he says he knew about Foley's sexual overtures to male pages in 2000 and that he, Kolbe, used to open his Washington, D.C. home to the pages. In my opinion, Kolbe's involvement in this matter needs to be thoroughly investigated as well. You can visit Pete LaBarbera's website at www.americansfortruth.com.
REGARDLESS OF THE POLITICAL DAMAGE IT MAY SUFFER OR NOT SUFFER FROM THE FOLEY scandal, the Republican Party has a moral obligation to purge the influence of groups like the Log Cabin Republicans. One of their financial patrons, multimillionaire former Republican Congressman Michael Huffington, is the former husband of liberal activist Arianna Huffington. Foley and Kolbe appeared at the group's 2003 convention. Another pro-homosexual Republican group, known as the Republican Unity Coalition, has a board that includes David Rockefeller. When Foley was being considered as a possible Republican candidate for the Senate in 2004 and questions emerged about whether he was a homosexual, Charles Francis of the Republican Unity Coalition said it was perfectly acceptable that Foley did not respond because it was a "non-issue." If Republicans had dealt with it then, it would not have exploded so close to the November 2006 elections.
AIM SPONSORED A SHOWING OF OUR DVD, "TERROR TELEVISION: THE RISE OF AL-JAZEERA and the Hate America Media," on Capitol Hill on October 4. It was an overflow crowd of congressional staffers, who were asked to talk to their Members of Congress about the problem posed by Al-Jazeera International. The event, free and open to the public, was also attended by Al-Jazeera! That's right—a camera crew from Al-Jazeera showed up to see what we were doing. I saw that as further evidence of our effectiveness in this campaign. They obviously want to know what we are doing to stop their entry into the U.S. media market. They are fearful we might be successful. A pro-Arab blogger named Sami Jadallah has denounced me as "the appointed and anointed cardinal on patriotism" for opposing Al-Jazeera. We plead guilty to fighting to keep this pro-terrorist entity out of U.S. media markets. Especially during a time of war, patriotism is required.
ACCURACY IN MEDIA STARTED THE MEDIA REVOLUTION ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO BY questioning the wisdom being handed down from Walter Cronkite and others at the then-dominant three broadcasting networks. Unfortunately, one major college textbook can't get the basic facts straight about our founding. During a recent visit to Clemson University, I picked up a copy at the university bookstore of the textbook for the communications class, a book by Doris Graber titled, Mass Media and American Politics. It is described as the "classic text on the mass media." Graber has a reference in her book to Accuracy in Media, saying we were formed during the 1980s. In fact, AIM was founded by Reed in 1969. Students pay $56.95 for this textbook, which can't get the basic facts correct. I emailed her, asking for a correction, and haven't heard back. Perhaps you could have more luck. Please drop her one of the enclosed postcards.
SOME SAY THAT NBC NIGHTLY NEWS ANCHOR BRIAN WILLIAMS TURNED IN A HUMOROUS performance when he appeared on the NBC "Saturday Night Live" comedy show. But it wasn't as funny as his September 19 exclusive interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Williams' questions included: "Mr. President, you're here as a guest of the United Nations, under the protection of the United States. What is your message to the American people?" And "What was your reaction to the pope's speech? And do you accept his apology?" Williams admitted that he received a "staggering number of e-mails" about the interview that were "harshly negative." Williams countered: "shouldn't Democracy be bigger than that? How do we decide who we can interview...only those who are non-threatening and completely reasonable? Who decides that?" Please drop him a postcard about this.
AS WE GO TO PRESS, THERE ARE REPORTS THAT A MEMBER OF THE AXIS OF EVIL, NORTH Korea, has set off a nuclear bomb. The Bush Administration is taking this problem, as well as the Iranian threat, to the United Nations, which proved to be useless in the Iraq case. Meanwhile, despite claims about being more open, honest and reform-minded, the United Nations has confirmed that it will NOT be releasing the financial disclosure form filed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Please drop the enclosed postcard to U.N. official Christopher Burnham, an American, about this. Reporter Betsy Pisik of the Washington Times said that the form was filed as part of "several moves to reform the institution in the wake of the oil-for-food scandal." That was the scheme in which Saddam's regime paid off governments and individuals, including some in the U.N. If the U.S. had not invaded Iraq and overthrown Saddam, the scheme would have led to the lifting of international economic sanctions against Iraq and its full-blown pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. That's a benefit of the Iraq War that the media fail to remind the American people about. But if we don't have access to the financial disclosure forms, we don't know which top U.N. officials may be on foreign government payrolls. That means another scandal can easily happen. The U.N. needs as much media scrutiny as Congress and the executive branch. We will make sure they get it.
For Accuracy in Media,
Cliff Kincaid
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