Posted on 11/17/2003 5:09:51 PM PST by PhiKapMom
“Asked whether he would trade his $7 billion fortune to unseat Bush, Soros opened his mouth. Then he closed it. The proposal hung in the air: Would he become poor to beat Bush? He said, ‘If someone guaranteed it.’” (Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs. Bush,” The Washington Post, 11/11/03)
Soros’ Open Society Institute Has Contributed Over $6.8 Million To Reform Groups Like Common Cause, Public Campaign And Democracy 21 That Aim To “Reduce The Role Of Big Special Interest Money In American Politics.” (Byron York, “Democrats Throw The Spirit Of Reform Out The Window,” The Hill, 11/5/03)
By Pledging At Least $15.5 Million In Soft Money To Defeat Bush, Soros Is Single Largest Political Contributor In American History. (Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs. Bush,” The Washington Post, 11/11/03; Byron York, “Democrats Throw The Spirit Of Reform Out The Window,” The Hill, 11/5/03)
Will Reportedly Spend $100 Million To Defeat Bush. (Robert Kuttner, “Growing Power Of Small Money,” The Boston Globe, 11/12/03)
Why? Defeating Bush Is “The Central Focus” Of His Life And “A Matter Of Life And Death.” (Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs. Bush,” The Washington Post, 11/11/03)
Likened Bush Administration To Nazis, Calling America “A Danger To The World” Under Bush. (Laura Blumenfeld, “Soros’s Deep Pockets Vs. Bush,” The Washington Post, 11/11/03)
Democrats’ 2004 Battle Plan Against Bush Includes Effort To “Maneuver Around The New Campaign-Finance Law By Redirecting Now-Banned Big Donations Away From The Democratic Party To A New Set Of Groups That Will Coordinate Attacks On Mr. Bush.” (Jacob M. Schlesinger and Jeanne Cummings, “Game Plan: To Beat President, Democrats Hone A 5-Point Strategy,” The Wall Street Journal, 11/13/03)
Weren't also former senior administration Republicans over the past memebers also?
General Gogol and "M" are briefing Commander Bond this week. (c8
Duh! Thanks for fixing that one.
In addition, Bush is a dreaded Christian, and looking at him for them is like holding a cross in front of a vampire.
Also, although you may not consider President Bush conservative, rest assured a large chunk of the elecotrate does.
Already fixed up a GS pic with BC when I found your ping.Soros again huh ?? I wonder if he and clintoon are good buddies ?? ...
Detest is the word, but they mask their out-right hatred for him behind words such as 'cowboy' and 'dangerous.'
Democrats are seething mad about Florida and the fact that their attempt to steal the election failed.
CFR was created by the Rockefellers in 1921 and one of the first things it heroically did was encourage the Anglosphere's involvement in the middle east. It was this simple but astute effort that secured our access to fossil fuels during WWII. Without it, the west might have collapsed.
How does CFR influence its members? That's a good question, but my suggestion would be that one start with its mission statement below. A simple answer would be through association and common ambitions.
It's clear that some of our best and some of our worst foreign policy efforts have been led by CFR members or people who were listening to them. CFR is literally the history of our government's involvement overseas over the last 80 years. Those who accuse CFR of controlling our country are either falling prey to anti-Americanism or are actively seeking to sew discontent and anger within our midst. CFR members run the gamut of political opinions and ideals, and often differ with each other in significant ways. I would complain that CFR members have had too much confidence in American power, and not enough confidence in our ideals. Mission statement:
Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments. The Council, which is headquartered in New York with an office in Washington, DC, does this by:
- Convening meetings in New York, Washington and in other select American cities where senior government officials, global leaders, and prominent thinkers come together with Council members to debate and discuss the major issues of our time;
- Conducting a wide-ranging studies program where Council fellows produce articles and books that analyze foreign policy issues and make concrete policy recommendations;
- Publishing Foreign Affairs, the preeminent journal covering international affairs and U.S. foreign policy;
- Maintaining a diverse membership, including special programs to foster interest and expertise in the next generation of foreign policy leaders;
- Sponsoring independent task forces whose reports help set the public foreign policy agenda; and
- Providing up-to-date information about the world and U.S. foreign policy on the Council's website, www.cfr.org.
"REALITY-BASED" DRUG EDUCATION PUSHED BY PRO-DRUG LEGALIZERS
On October 29, 1999, the pro-drug, pro-legalization Lindesmith Center and the San Francisco Medical Society held a "Just Say Know: New Directions in Drug Education" conference in California.
Nearly 300 educators, health professionals, drug treatment and prevention specialists, parents and students from around the world attended the event.
The conference is another step by the drug culture to increase the pressure to replace the "no-use" messages which work with "safe-use" programs in schools throughout the world. This form of "harm reduction" complains that, since kids are going to use drugs anyway, they should be taught to use drugs "responsibly" and that they can have "healthy" relationships with drugs.
Publicly, the supporters of "safe-use," "reality-based" drug education deny that they want to legalize drugs. They say that they want to "reform" drug laws and drug education. However, the policies they propose are integral components of the world-wide drug legalization movement.
The Lindesmith Center and its west-coast director, Marsha Rosenbaum, are financed by billionaire George Soros. Soros has pumped over $30 million into the drug legalization movement in the past decade. His money helped pass several state initiatives to legalize marijuana for "medicine" and helped set up a sophisticated drug culture prominence on the Internet. His support of drug "harm reduction" and the lessening of drug law enforcement and penalties is moving many nations dangerously close to legal, increased drug use.
The "no-use" drug education policy and enforcement has widely been credited with the dramatic reductions of youth drug use from 1980-1992 in America. It helped reverse the widespread youth drug problem which had been encouraged by the lenient drug policies pushed by many of the same drug culture supporters in the 1960's and 1970's.
"Safe Drug Philosophy Is a Step Backward", Sue Rusche, S.F. Chronicle, 1999
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