Posted on 09/26/2010 6:07:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
ping
I guess money can buy anything, including your honor.
Thanks jazusamo.
Sadly, to some it can. A person who has no self respect has nothing.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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"I was one of the many journalists who asked the question and received in return something significantly less than the truth," Mr. Besser wrote. OK, it was a lie."
Let's not get the wrong impression about Besser's reaction to this. It's not that Besser is particularly teed off at Soros or J Street. It's just that Besser is concerned that J Street's image, one that Besser and the rest of his cohorts on the Jewish left have been doing their best to build up in the last 2 to 3 years, will be tarnished.
Here is Besser in his own words:
"I don't happen to think that Soros in the evil incarnate; his philanthropy has done a huge amount of good in the world. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the right, and a lot of that has seeped into the general political culture.
"I don't think he's anti-Israel, either - but there's little question his views on Israel are outside the mainstream that J Street claims to represent."
No. How could robbing people on their way to Auschwitz via the cattle-car express be evil incarnate? It was just a job he had when he was 14. I can’t understand how he became a whipping boy for the right.
"I don't happen to think that Soros in the evil incarnate; his philanthropy has done a huge amount of good in the world. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the right, and a lot of that has seeped into the general political culture.
Don't tell me, let me guess. James Besser's father was Joe. Only a Stooge (or a son-of-a-stooge) could believe this crapola.
And Besser is an arrogant leftist.
Go f yourself and die, may your name be blotted out. You lied lied lied lied. Drop dead creep. Your last name is very Jewish but you need to see a psychiatrist because all you do at J Street is betray the Jewish homeland.
The commie Soros we know about.
But what’s the background on the “single donor in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, named Consolacion Esdicul”?
Very odd.
I haven’t a clue on this Esdicul, never heard of him before this and it is odd.
Consolacion Esdicul....she is a conduit/cutout. Such a name shows Catholic background and Portuguese (Macao?) or Filipino thing. Maybe she married one.
She gave J Street ~half of their operating funding. Why and who is she?
should have pinged you on #16
Thanks, I had posted a piece on this the day before by Lifson at the American Thinker and he’d never heard of Esdicul either.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2596209/posts
As for this Consolacion Esdicul
Legal Insurrection has more. As reported by Ben Smith:
Perhaps the strangest thing in Eli Lake's story on the funding of the liberal group J Street is that it got half of its money in 2008-9 from a single, obscure woman in China.
The group's 990 forms -- which I've also obtained and put online for the first time here -- show the group's single largest contribution, in the odd sum of $811,697 coming from one Consolacion Ediscul of Happy Valley, a Hong Kong suburb. Ediscul, whose name is Filipino, has no presence on Google or Nexis aside from this story, and people I spoke to in Jewish groups left and right had never heard of her. According to Smith, a J-Street spokeswoman says that Ediscul is an associate of a well-known and successful gambler, but provided no other information.
The commenter who noted these pages referred to The Advantage Trust as being related to Blackrock investments, but it appears to be controlled by or at least related to William Benter, the successful businessman / gambler mentioned in the Ben Smith post. So if the elusive Ms. Esdicul contributed to the charity in Honk Kong on behalf of The Advantage Trust, was her contribution to J-Street also using money from The Advantage Trust and/or Benter?
The mysterious large donor, Consolacion Esdicul, is better known as "Connie Esdicul" and even has a Facebook page. She appears to be a middle-aged woman who lives in the wealthy Happy Valley area of Hong Kong.
Ms.Esdicul has some unknown relationship with the New York hedge fund Black Rock and represented them at a charity event in HK. She presented a donation for Quality Camp to actor, Jackie Chan, from the Black Rock Advantage Fund in HK.
Black Rock has close ties to Soros ever since one of its founders, Keith Anderson, was appointed Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management 2 years ago.
so it was no surprise when White House visitor logs had J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami as a frequent visitor
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/09/25/index.html
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