What Do You Know About The Clintons? (Part 2)

April 6, 2016, 3:49 pm

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The Clintons' War on Women | Roger Stone and Stefan Molyneux

Published on Apr 4, 2016

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Why Bill’s Past Could Still Hurt Hillary

The right hopes to turn the feminist consensus on rape against the Clintons.

By Michelle Goldberg

Dec. 30 2015

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/bill_clinton_s_sexual_past_can_still_hurt_hillary.html

Donald Trump has all but promised us that in 2016 we will revisit the peregrinations of Bill Clinton’s penis. “You look at whether it’s Monica Lewinsky or Paula Jones or many of them,” he said Tuesday on NBC’s Today show. “That certainly will be fair game. Certainly if they play the woman’s card with respect to me, that will be fair game.” Like that, thanks to Trump’s near-supernatural command of the news cycle, Bill’s sexual history returned to the headlines. With Bill about to head out on the campaign trail—and with Hillary putting gender issues at the center of her bid for the presidency—it’s likely to stay there for a while.

Among Democrats, the conventional wisdom is that this can only help Hillary. Bill Clinton remains incredibly popular. People historically rally around Hillary when she seems like a victim—her approval ratings surged during the Lewinsky scandal. Besides, the oft-married Trump can’t credibly attack anyone for infidelity, especially given his own past defenses of Bill, whose only sin, in Trump’s estimation, was not cheating with hotter women. As Josh Marshall writes, “[I]n a general election, with an electorate not driven by the things that drive Trump supporters, having a thrice married, philandering blowhard like Trump trying to beat up on a woman over her husband's philandering, about which she is if anything the victim rather than the perpetrator, is almost comically self-destructive on Trump’s part.”

Right now, though, we’re pretty far from a general election. And I’m not so sanguine that this can’t hurt Hillary, if only by undermining Bill’s effectiveness as a campaigner and complicating Hillary’s feminist message. That’s because, for the right, the Clinton sex scandals aren’t about infidelity. They’re about sexual harassment and assault. Conservatives are itching to turn the new feminist consensus on sexual violence against the woman who wants to be the first feminist president. As a New Hampshire voter asked Hillary Clinton earlier this month, “You say that all rape victims should be believed. But would you say that about Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and/or Paula Jones?” Clinton’s somewhat awkward response: “Well, I would say that everybody should be believed at first, until they are disbelieved based on evidence.”

Right-wing journalists and operatives have been laying the groundwork for an attack on Bill Clinton’s sexual history for months. In October, former Trump adviser Roger Stone published The Clintons’ War on Women, with a forward by Kathleen Willey, the former White House volunteer who claims that Bill groped her. Willey—who, according to the independent counsel report on Whitewater, gave false information both in a legal deposition and to the FBI—has launched a website seeking other women willing to publicly accuse Clinton of sexual impropriety. In November, right-wing radio host Aaron Klein landed an interview with the usually press-shy Juanita Broaddrick, who accused Bill Clinton of raping her in 1978, when he was Arkansas attorney general. Speaking to Klein, Broaddrick railed against Hillary’s attempt to position herself as a champion of women.

The cases of Jones, Willey, and Broaddrick have been very thoroughly investigated and endlessly chewed over. No evidence against Bill Clinton was ever found, though he did settle Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit for $850,000. But our rules for talking about sexual assault have changed since the 1990s, when these women were last in the news. Today, feminists have repeatedly and convincingly made the case that when women say they’ve been sexually assaulted, we should assume they’re telling the truth. Particularly when it comes to Broaddrick, it’s not easy to square the arguments against believing her with the dominant progressive consensus on trusting victims. This is a tension that people on the right are eager to exploit.

Let’s recap. In 1999, Broaddrick publicly claimed that Bill Clinton had raped her in a hotel room 21 years earlier. She reportedly told a few people about the alleged assault at the time, and right-wing operatives shopped the story during Clinton’s first presidential campaign. Broaddrick refused to talk, however, and she later denied the rape in an affidavit in the Paula Jones case. It was only when she was interviewed by the FBI in the course of Kenneth Starr’s investigation that she changed her story and said the rape had in fact happened. (In the New York Times, she explained the about-face by saying she hadn’t wanted to go public but felt she couldn’t lie to federal investigators.) Shortly afterward, frustrated with rumors that had begun to circulate about her, she gave several high-profile interviews.

We will probably never know the truth of what happened between Broaddrick and Clinton. But today, few feminists would find her shifting story disqualifying. Consider, also, another piece of evidence that was marshaled against Broaddrick in the 1990s: Three weeks after the alleged assault, she attended a fundraiser for Clinton. Speaking to Klein, she says she was traumatized and blamed herself for what happened. “I felt responsible. I don’t know if you know the mentality of women and men at that time. But me letting him come to my room? I accepted full blame.” In any other context, most feminists today would find this credible. After all, many were outraged when rape skeptics tried to discredit Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz because she’d sent friendly Facebook messages to her alleged rapist after the alleged rape.

To be clear: I don’t think for a moment that the people who hope to use Broaddrick against Hillary care about victim blaming. And it would be a profound sexist irony if these accusations, having failed to derail Bill Clinton’s political career, came back to haunt his wife. Nevertheless, it’s easy to see why many on the right are giddy at the prospect of a new national conversation about Bill Clinton’s sex scandals, and thrilled that Trump is giving them one. As Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro told the Washington Post, “The irony of the situation is that the old Clintonian defense, ‘everybody lies about sex,’ doesn't fly in a world in which Hillary has declared that nobody lies about sexual assault.”

Glenn Kessler, who writes the Washington Post’s Fact Checker column, published a piece on Wednesday titled, “A guide to the allegations of Bill Clinton’s womanizing.” It is divided into “Consensual affairs” and “Allegations of an unwanted sexual encounter.” Kessler’s bottom line: “Trump’s claim is a bit too vague for a fact check. In any case, we imagine readers will have widely divergent reactions to this list of admitted affairs and unproven allegations of unwanted sexual encounters. But at least you now know the specific cases that Trump is referencing.” Trump likely knew what he was doing in getting Kessler to remind us.

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Also See:
What Do You Know About The Clintons?
(Part 1)
24 December 2015
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/12/what-do-you-know-about-clintons.html
and

Bill Clinton was a Great President. Wasn't He?

03 October 2007

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2007/10/bill-clinton-was-great-president-wasnt.html

and

Three Hopeful Presidential Candidates

13 December 2007

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2007/12/three-hopeful-presidential-candidates.html

and

Some News From the Democratic Race

18 April 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2008/04/few-observations-of-metamorphasus-of.html

and

What Happened in Benghazi?

31 October 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/10/what-happened-in-benghazi.html

and

The Saga of the Benghazi Report!

22 December 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/12/the-saga-of-benghazi-report.html

and

Hillary Clinton's Testimony on Benghazi!

24 January 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/01/hillary-clintons-testimony-on-benghazi.html

and

What's with Recent U.S. Presidents?
27 June 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/06/whats-with-recent-us-presidents.html
and
The Next President of United States - Hillary Clinton!

21 December 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-next-president-of-united-states.html

and
War on Drugs is a Farce!
09 January 2014
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/01/war-on-drugs-is-farce.html
and

Will Hillary Run For President?

19 April 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/04/will-hillary-run-for-president.html

and

Hillary Clinton, the Wanttabe President!

06 October 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/10/hillary-clinton-want-be-president.html

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Can It Get Worse in Venezuela?

April 6, 2016, 5:39 pm

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Venezuelan Dies on Raft Set for Aruba

This is Not the First Time Someone Has Died Escaping Venezuela's Severe Economic Crisis

Sabrina Martin

April 4, 2016

https://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2016/04/04/venezuelan-rafter-dies/

Aruba’s press reported the discovery of a discomposed body found on Baby Beach in San Nicholas. (Animal Político)

The body of a Venezuelan rafter who tried to enter Aruba aboard a raft was found on March 29 off the island’s coast, Colombian news channel NTN24 reported.

The man, identified by his friend as Joemar Vargas, died trying to make the crossing last Monday morning in an attempt to enter Aruba illegally, authorities said.

Vargas is a native of Venezuela’s northeastern state of Falcon. His body was returned to his family, who are now handling burial arrangements, according to reports.

Not the First Venezuelan Rafter

This is not the first time a Venezuelan has tried to leave the country by crossing international waters — a phenomenon that has led some to draw parallels to the situation in Cuba.

Venezuela is widely considered to be one of the unsafest countries in the world, with one of the lowest minimum wages on the continent. Access to food and medical care are also scarce. In addition, flights out of the country are extremely expensive. Often, people have no other choice but to leave by raft like Vargas.

In June 2015, three Venezuelan students illegally entered Trinidad and Tobago by a raft in an attempt to escape their country’s severe economic crisis facing their country.

The three women were fined US$1,576 for trespassing by immigration authorities.

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A Day Out at the Black Market in Venezuela

Widespread Inflation, Shortages Lead Desperate Venezuelans to Unregulated Street Vendors

By Scott Tong

April 3, 2016

https://panampost.com/editor/2016/04/03/a-day-out-at-the-black-market-in-venezuela/

Scarcity and rationing in Venezuela leads to staple food being sold at markups on the streets. (Jorge Galindo/Marketplace)

For three years in a row, Venezuela has reported the highest inflation rate in the world. The reported rate is 186 percent, though independent estimates range from 400 percent (by Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke) and 720 percent, a projection by the International Monetary Fund.

According to the IMF, the country’s economy shrank 10 percent last year and is projected to contract an additional 8 percent in 2016.

And Venezuela’s currency loses value by the day. A year ago on the black market (which virtually everyone uses), one U.S. dollar bought 200 Venezuelan bolivars. Today, it buys more than 1,000.

Imagine your grocery bill going up 17-fold. That would come out to something like:

•Loaf of bread: $32

•Dozen eggs: $18

•Pound of coffee: $85

This tries to capture the reality of Venezuela.

“It’s Common to Sleep in Line”

Noslen Ramos, a mother of three, queues up daily in Maracaibo. (Jorge Galindo/Marketplace)

Single mom Noslen Ramos queues up daily outside state supermarkets in the western city of Maracaibo, which is two hours from her home. She is a mother of three and sells empanadas on the street for minimum wage.

“The situation is critical,” Ramos said. “We need flour and rice. And coffee. Right now, we have no food for lunch.”

Crude oil prices have crashed, and so has normal life. Around 20 people line up in front of the store, but 200 more have been shooed around to the back alley, ostensibly to hide the crisis.

“It’s common to sleep in line,” Ramos said. “If we come at five in the morning, there’s already a big line. The people in the front, they probably slept here.”

On any given morning, there is no guarantee anything will be on the shelves when shoppers arrive. Even if items are available, each person can only buy two of any item in a week, said Ramos’s sister Michelle Suarez.

“The problem is, our family has 12 people, Suarez said. “So two bags of rice lasts just one day. So we go to other supermarkets and shop all day. Some stores don’t take cash, but I don’t have a debit card. And the bank says there’s not enough plastic to make more.

If they don’t find rice here, they’ll buy a bag at a place where they know it’s available – the black market. The price is steep: a one kilo (1.6 pounds) bag of rice costs the equivalent of two days of pay. A large can of milk costs one full week’s salary.

“It’s absolutely the worst ever,” said Caracas pollster and analyst Luis Vicente Leon of the firm Datanalisis. “It’s amazing. It’s very difficult to find any country in the world right now that people cannot find essentials.”

Essentials products out on a table at the black market. (Jorge Galino/Marketplace)

The Datanalisis index of scarcity, reflecting goods missing from store shelves, exceeds 70 percent. The reasons are complex. It amounts to economic multiple organ failure.

First, Venezuela hardly produces anything domestically, besides petroleum (oil sales are 96 percent of the country’s import revenue).

Price controls destroy the profit motive for domestic makers, who sometimes sell their products for a loss. And the ruling socialist government has taken, or expropriated, entire private companies.

“They expropriate the majority of the sugar companies, and you cannot find sugar,” Luis Vicente Leon said. “They expropriate coffee companies in Venezuela, and you cannot find coffee. They expropriate Owens-Illinois, and we cannot find packages.”

So Venezuela imports just about everything. But now there’s not enough oil revenue to buy imports.

“We are mixing two different illnesses right now,” Luis Vicente Leon said. “The illness coming from the intervention, and the impact of the oil market.”

And the country has printed so much money, inflation has soared. During my trip, a national newspaper showed on the front page this graphic of the country’s ballooning money supply.

“Venezuela’s money supply surpassed 4 billion bolívares in 2016, a 100-percent increase.” (Marketplace)

Solution: the Black Market in Venezuela

Shortages drive anyone who can afford it to the black market. Mostly, bootleg sales take place underground: buyers find sellers through friends, or through closed chatgroups on Facebook or WhatsApp. It is illegal activity, after all.

But in Maracaibo, the black market is an actual place. The contrabando, as sellers call it, sits on tables out in the open.

The odd part, to an American, is that this contrabando is available every day at Aisle 3 in my local Safeway: flour, rice, coffee, Tylenol. I went in with fixer/translator Yesman Utrera and photographer Jorge Galindo, on a specific mission: to find infant formula for our driver’s baby. By the time we found two cans to compare prices, both were sold.

At a couple points, I lost track of translator Yesman, when he started shopping himself for coffee and medicine. “Got to get it where you can,” he said.

We didn’t linger too long: Yesman and Jorge noticed the illegal sellers were nervous, and there is always a risk in Venezuela of violence and kidnapping. Back in the car, we jotted down the prices, comparing the state regulated price with the black-market price. Here’s that page from my notebook:

The average markup, by our quick-and-dirty math: 17 times.

Not everyone can afford these prices, of course. An elderly woman selling plantains at the market said she couldn’t find milk for her grandchildren at the official stores. And she couldn’t pay the scalper price, so she cobbled together her own milk substitute – from plantains.

“I open up the fruit and take the seed out – otherwise it hurts their tummy,” the woman said. “I cook it and blend it. Then I cook it again for 5 minutes, stir and add a little sugar. It’s the economy, you know?”

Back in the grocery line, the two sisters weren’t just hungry and frustrated about the shortages and black-market prices. They were furious — at people they considered profiteers in this crisis. Noslen Ramos said she assumed some of food missing from store shelves slipped out the back door.

“Every day when I walk to work,” Ramos said, “I see trucks loaded with flour, sugar, rice, shampoo, milk, driving to Colombia to resell them. I want to take a picture, but I’m scared what might happen to me.”

Michelle Suarez said she once hitchhiked on a truck loaded with basic consumer goods. At each military check point, she said, the driver bribed a soldier to go on through toward the border.

Before we left, Ramos cited a Bible scripture about a famine prophecy coming true. Things will likely get worse, unless oil prices miraculously skyrocket. By one estimate, the available petrodollars to buy food and medicine will shrink in 2016 by two-thirds.

Scott Tong is a correspondent for Marketplace’s Sustainability Desk, with a focus on energy, environment, resources, climate, supply chain and the global economy. Follow him at @tongscott. This article was originally published on Marketplace.

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Also See:

Venezuela Is Out of Food! Who's Next?

15 February 2016

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/02/venezuela-is-out-of-food-whos-next.html

and

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/04/financial-crunch-economic-collapse-part.html
and
(Part 14)
07 June 2012
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/06/financial-crunch-economic-collapse-part.html
and

(Part 15)

02 November 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/11/financial-crunch-economic-collapse-part.html

and

Recession? ... Depression? ... What is Going On?

(Part 1)

06 October 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2008/10/recession-depression-what-is-going-on.html
and

(Part 2)

02 February 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/02/recession-depression-what-is-going-on.html

and

(Part 3)

19 April 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/04/recession-depression-what-is-going-on.html

and

(Part 4)

02 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/08/recession-depression-what-is-going-on.html

and

(Part 5)

17 September 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/09/40-million-americans-subsisting-on-food.html

and

(Part 6)

17 September 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/09/40-million-americans-subsisting-on-food.html

and

Jobs, Jobs, Where are the Jobs?

(Part 1)

20 April 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/04/jobs-jobs-where-are-jobs.html

and
Chavez, Venezuela, & Socialism
02 June 2009
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/06/chavez-venezuela-socialism.html
and
Are Suspicious 'Suicides' Really Government Murders?
(Part 2)
25 March 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/03/are-suspicious-suicides-really.html
and
Are there Changes in Store for Venezuela?
08 March 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/03/are-there-changes-in-store-for-venezuela.html
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What Happened to Justice Scalia?

April 8, 2016, 12:22 pm

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Nobody Seems to Know How Exactly Antonin Scalia Ended Up Dead Underneath a Pillow

J.K. Trotter

2/15/2016

http://gawker.com/nobody-seems-to-know-how-exactly-antonin-scalia-ended-u-1759176340

On the morning of February 13, the owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch, in the west

Texas town of Shafter, discovered the cold body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in one of the ranch’s hotel rooms. The owner, John Poindexter, later told the San Antonio Express-News, “We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled. He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap.”

In quick, confusing succession, local news outlets declared three different causes of death. First it was unspecified “natural causes.” Then it was a heart attack (or a “myocardial infarction”), which is considered a natural cause of death. Then, finally, it reverted to “natural causes” again—not a heart attack—with one additional detail: According to a local judge chosen to assess the circumstances of Scalia’s death, his heart had simply stopped beating. The confusion apparently arose from a quirk in Texas law that allows judges to officially attribute deaths to natural causes without personally inspecting the deceased person’s body. As a triple-bylined Washington Post report explained last night:

It [took] hours for authorities in remote West Texas to find a justice of the peace, officials said Sunday. When they did, Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara pronounced Scalia dead of natural causes without seeing the body — which is permissible under Texas law — and without ordering an autopsy.

One of two other officials who were called but couldn’t get to Scalia’s body in time said that she would have made a different decision on the autopsy. “If it had been me . . . I would want to know,” Juanita Bishop, a justice of the peace in Presidio, Tex., said in an interview Sunday[.]

In her interview with the Post, Guevera insisted that she issued her evaluation of Scalia’s death after consulting with on-scene law enforcement officers, who detected no signs of foul play, and Scalia’s doctor in Virginia, who disclosed that his patient had been dealing with unspecified health issues in recent weeks.

The judge did not elaborate on why she declined to have Scalia’s body undergo an autopsy. That decision is particularly notable given the fact that members of Scalia’s family apparently told employees of the El Paso funeral home where his service was held on Sunday that they did not want the state to perform an autopsy. The same decision seems even more conspicuous in light of unconfirmed reports that Scalia requested the cremation of his remains in his written will. A cremation would, after all, likely destroy any evidence of foul play.

(If the reports about Scalia’s requested cremation are true—and, as of now, there’s nothing beyond a few joking tweets to suggest they are—then his understanding of religious doctrine was slightly more flexible than he let on. You may recall that the justice was a devout Catholic who disputed the validity of the Second Vatican Council, a sweeping set of changes enacted by Church officials in the 1960s. One of those changes consisted of lifting the Church’s centuries-long ban on cremation. Considering the show he made of rejecting Vatican II’s legitimacy, the idea that he would ask to be cremated in his will is, if not unbelievable, at least fairly odd.)

As of Monday morning, it’s still unclear whether authorities will perform an autopsy on Scalia’s body, a state of limbo thathas alreadyinspired morethan a few conspiracy-minded conservatives to demand more information about Scalia’s demise. According to CBS News, officials are still debating the next steps to take. The justice’s remains are scheduled to be transported on a Monday flight from El Paso to an undisclosed location in Virginia, near the home where Scalia lived with his wife, Maureen, and their nine children.

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Did Obama Murder Antonin Scalia? The Conspiracy Theories, Explained

Ashley Feinberg

2/16/2016

http://blackbag.gawker.com/did-obama-murder-antonin-scalia-the-conspiracy-theorie-1759442785

A dead Supreme Court Justice, a mysterious pillow, missing autopsies, the 10-year anniversary of Dick Cheney shooting a guy in the face, and he was a mere 79 years young. Whether or not these factors have any bearing on what happened to Antonin Scalia is irrelevant, because put together, it’s a conspiracy theorist’s dream come true.

For the hordes of amateur internet sleuths asking the questions no one else dares, the question is less what happened to Scalia than who. Some of their cases are more diligently compiled than others, and none of them totally make sense, but then again—that’s what They want you to think.

So, to support the pursuit of truth, here are some of the best Scalia conspiracies the internet has to offer. Trust no one.

Obama Murdered Scalia

Is there anything Barack Hussein Obama wouldn’t do?

Exhibit A: Obama was told hours before the public knew

According to (what else but) Infowars.com, President Obama knew about Scalia’s death hours before the information became publicly available. They point us to a report from DC Whispers, which, according to the internet’s leading Jade Helm conspiracy resource, “routinely publishes controversial reports based on inside sources”:

Word reached the White House hours before formal media announcements were made regarding longtime Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia having been found dead while vacationing at a Texas resort. First the speechwriters were summoned to provide the appropriate tone for Barack Obama’s remarks.

During that same time, Obama and Valerie Jarrett were already initiating a long-standing plan for what they viewed as a prime opportunity to make Mr. Obama relevant once again and an opportunity that the President was said to be thrilled to have before him.

Thrilled, you say, Mr. Hussein Obama? How very curious, indeed.

Exhibit B: The Judge who blocked an autopsy was previously accused of a murder coverup

Now that Justice Scalia’s body has been embalmed (at the “family’s” “request,” so they say), any hope that an autopsy might reveal the truth is null and void. Which is awfully convenient considering the fact that the usual justice of the peace for Presidio, Texas, Juanita Bishop, just so happened to be indisposed that day for a “work-related event.”

The justice that took her place, Judge Cinderella Guevara, had previously not ordered an autopsy on a young girl whose parents allegedly would have preferred otherwise, according to this blog post from a Daily Kos user named “Singing Lizard.”

Exhibit C: The last roadblock to Obama’s global climate change agenda

Conveniently for Obama and his coterie of climate change alarmists, Scalia’s death came just a few days after the Supreme Court blocked Obama’s centerpiece climate legislation. But now, with that pesky judge out of the way, there’s a good chance the plan will move over to the D.C. Circuit Court, where it’s very likely to finally get approved.

Exhibit D: Huge if true

Conclusion

Sure—unless it’s a false flag attack from the Republican base to rally their voters.

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Scalia Dead: Eyes Wide Shut With Queen Of The Damned

By Paul McGuire

March 1, 2016

NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/McGuire/paul281.htm

While staying at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County, Texas, Justice Scalia died in his room. One might think he actually died of natural causes except the official narrative keeps changing like something from Alice in Wonderland. First a pillow is found completely over his head; then the pillow is found just on the top portion of his head. When the reports of Scalia’s death first came out there was no mention of a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine being found on the nightstand next to him, although, as one who suffered from sleep apnea, he normally needed one. Then, mysteriously, the Washington Post reported that Justice Scalia was found lying in bed with his arms to his side and “his bed covers smooth.” Clearly the Washington Post is trying to tell us something. Who sleeps without ever moving a muscle so that bed covers are smooth? Certainly not a man who had sleep apnea.

A man with sleep apnea tosses and turns like crazy during the night, snoring very loudly, except for the countless times he becomes silent and it appears he is almost dying and then all of a sudden there is a loud gasping for air! A man with sleep apnea doesn’t wake up with his covers smooth. John Poindexter (owner of Cibolo Creek) said Scalia retired around nine p.m. saying he wanted a long night’s sleep. This would have indicated that he was probably very tired because, having sleep apnea, he did not sleep well, so he would have almost certainly plugged in and physically put on the (CPAP) machine breathing mask. At the very least, he would have taken sleep medication because he would have wanted to make sure he slept. Either of these two choices alone would have demanded an autopsy. But let’s suspend logic for a moment, since apparently the authorities charged with carrying out their duties threw logic out the window before they knew any facts to begin with.

The authorities in were Sheriff Danny Dominguez and the Justice of the Peace, Cinderela Guevara. She did not come out to view the body and refused to order an autopsy, and declared that Scalia had died from “heart failure,” then changed it to “natural causes.” This is contrary to Texas law when someone dies alone, no doctor is present before or after death, and the cause of death is unknown (despite all of Cinderela’s magical pronouncements).

As it turns out Justice Scalia belonged to a secret society…the International Order of St. Hubertus, whose American branch was started in 1966 by members of the Bohemian Club associated with the Bohemian Grove. This where things begin to sound conspiratorial, because in an identical manner the Illuminati founded Skull and Bones at Yale University in 1832 as Chapter 322 of a pre-existing German secret order. Apparently, members of the International Order of St. Hubertus, who wear long green robes and use terms and symbols (like the Maltese Cross) also used by the Masons, the Rosicrucian’s, and the Knights Templar), were having a meeting at the Cibolo Ranch. When you see the artwork and the decorative masks hanging prominently on the walls of the resort it looks like something from Stanley Kubrick’s movie Eyes Wide Shut. The artwork is dark and demonic with skeletons and a disfigured woman with her eyeball ripped out of its socket. Just the normal kind of artwork which you would have at a normal spa designed to relax you.

It’s almost as if the artist who decorated the Cibolo Creek Ranch is the same one who painted the sinister paintings of World War III and the apocalypse on the walls of the Denver International Airport. According to a Washington Post article entitled “Justice Scalia Spent His Last Hours With Members of this Secretive Society of Elite Hunters” dated February 24, 2016, “the Society of St. Hubertus, an elite international men’s only hunting club has its roots going back to 1695 in the Czech Republic.”

But let’s go back to the connection of the Society of St. Hubertus with the Bohemian Grove, where numerous U.S. presidents, senators, congressmen, heads of multi-national corporations, and world leaders attend. When the elite gather at the Bohemian Grove they participate in a “mock” sacrifice ceremony called the “Cremation of Care,” in front of a giant owl statue which symbolizes the ancient god of the Canaanites: Moloch. In the Old Testament we read how the Canaanites would offer up their infant children to Moloch and burn them alive as a sacrifice to this demon god. When the ancient Israelites would rebel from the Biblical god they would also participate in the worship of Moloch. But the question has to be asked: why do so many members of the elite, including U.S. presidents, participate in a “mock” worship ceremony to the pagan god Moloch where they burn effigies of human infants? On whatever level you look at this, it is extremely dark, sick, and satanic.

We may never know exactly how Justice Scalia died, but his involvement in a secret society connected to the Bohemian Grove raises far more important questions. In our book The Babylon Code, I and my co-author Troy Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, look at the important role secret societies have played in world events and in the founding of America up until present times. In Stanley Kubrick’s movie Eyes Wide Shut the famous satanic cult-orgy scene where the participants were wearing masks to hide their true identities was filmed in one of the Rothschild castles.

While we focus in on how Scalia died and consider the probability that he was assassinated, the bigger question is who were the other 35 members of this secret cult who were at the Cibolo Creek Ranch? We may never know the answers to these questions because their identities have not been made public.

One final note. If you think those masks that were left up on the wall of the Cibolo Creek Ranch were left there by accident and that the empty beds eerily lined up in the hall on the way to Scalia’s room were there because they were cleaning, you better think again. Whatever happened at the Cibolo Creek Ranch was done in plain sight, as Kubrick suggested with his play on words in the title of his movie, Eyes Wide Shut, or we could say, “Eyes Wide Open!” For the average American who lives in a surreal trance state, it does not matter if their eyes are wide open because even when they appear to be open, they are actually “wide shut.” One of the most powerful men in the world, Justice Scalia, died under very questionable circumstances. With so many critical decisions before the Supreme Court, Scalia’s mysterious death, can appear very convenient.

But, ultimately for the mass majority of Americans it does not matter because most of them will have already forgotten. Scalia’s death is just another image among countless images of death and chaos which remain buried in the collective consciousness of America’s kaleidoscopic soul. May God have mercy on us all, or we to will walk with “eyes wide shut” into Hades hand in hand with the Queen of the Damned.

Paul McGuire: radio talk show host, author, feature film producer and television commentator.

Paul McGuire is the author of 22 books, such as the best-selling, The Day the Dollar Died and Are You Ready for the Microchip? Paul is the host of the syndicated television show, The Paul McGuire Report. Paul McGuire hosted the nationally syndicated talk radio show, "The Paul McGuire Show" for 10 years. Paul McGuire is a television commentator and has been a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and CNN.

Paul is the producer of two science fiction films in Hollywood. The History Channel did a 2-hour special with Paul McGuire entitled Seven Signs of the Apocalypse. Paul has interviewed numerous world leaders, Presidents and Prime Ministers. Paul lives in Los Angeles, California.

At fifteen years old, Paul was demonstrating with radical activist Abbie Hoffman and made an honorary member of the Black Panther Party. However, while studying Altered States of Consciousness at the University of Missouri, Paul had a miraculous experience hitchhiking in a remote area similar to the movie Field of Dreams. Paul re-thought his socialist and humanist world view and rejected it as completely false. Paul has devoted his life to communicating truth to people.

Website: PaulMcGuire.us

E-Mail: newmediavoice@aol.com

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Supreme Court Justice Scalia — Murdered By A Hooker

By National ENQUIRER Staff

Posted on Mar 4, 2016

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/antonin-scalia-murder-conspiracy-prostitute-sex-scandal/photo/149939/

In a bombshell world exclusive, The National ENQUIRER has learned that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was a highly planned “political assassination” orchestrated by the CIA and carried out by a $2,000-a-night hooker! A top Washington, D.C. source said the Feb. 13 death of the 79-year-old jurist at a remote Texas ranch just 15 miles from Mexico was part of a “shocking conspiracy that tracks back to the CIA and the White House!"

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Why Some People Believe Scalia Was Murdered

By R. Kelly Garrett

On February/22/2016

http://www.newsweek.com/was-scalia-murdered-and-other-questions-worth-asking-429223
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Photo: Twitter/Allen West)

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Photo: Twitter/Allen West)

This article first appeared on The Conversation.

The Conversation following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on February 13, a former criminal investigator for Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department named William O. Ritchie, took to Facebook.

“My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas,” he wrote.

With those words, Ritchie helped draw national attention to an emerging conspiracy theory: that Scalia may have been murdered.

According to The Washington Post, Ritchie continued that he was “stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” before pointing out the many flaws he saw in published accounts on the subject.

Ritchie wasn’t the first to float this conspiracy. Conservative radio talk show host Alex Jones suggested as much in a video he posted to Facebook on the day of Scalia’s death (“The question is: Was Antonin Scalia murdered?”).

The next morning, the Drudge Report pointed out that the judge was found with a pillow over his head, presumably providing additional evidence of foul play. Conservative political commentator Michael Savage also weighed in, wondering, “Is it a conspiracy theory to ask questions that are so obviously in need of answer, or is it just common sense?”

But as someone who has studied how and why misperceptions emerge and spread, Ritchie’s words struck me as noteworthy. Unlike Savage or Jones, Ritchie’s livelihood isn’t dependent on appealing to a conservative audience or making shocking allegations.

To the contrary, this is a man who made his living investigating crimes through the accumulation of evidence and the judicious use of reason. It is at least plausible that his primary motivation is to ensure that the truth is known.

The Scalia conspiracy theory is likely to strike many—especially liberal Democrats—as hard to fathom. Why should anyone be surprised at the death of a 79-year-old man when the average life expectancy of a man in the U.S. is 77?

Why is the decision by Scalia’s family not to have an autopsy performed met with skepticism?

And why second-guess the U.S. Marshals Service, an agency charged with protecting justices of the Supreme Court, when it concluded that there was no foul play?

Is It Really So Strange?

It may be tempting to assume that reasonable people are immune to conspiracy theories, but doing so would be a mistake. Research into misperception, rumor and conspiracy theory suggests that even reasonable individuals can reach conclusions that don’t align with the best available evidence.

Researchers have identified numerous strategies that individuals use to assess what is true. Under the right circumstances, each can lead to misperceptions. For example, if a claim is consistent with other things you know, you will likely find it easier to understand, which in turn makes it seem more truthful—a phenomenon that has been called the illusory truth effect. Claims that contradict a prior belief, in contrast, tend to elicit counterargument.

The coherence and explanatory power of a causal story also influence whether it is believed. Individuals will often stick with a plausible explanation even if the available evidence doesn’t support it. In a classic study, researchers found that individuals would continue to attribute a warehouse fire to paint held in a storage room even after they were told—and could recall—that the storage room was empty at the time of the fire.

For those who see government-supported conspiracies as an everyday reality, the suggestion that Justice Scalia’s death is part of a coordinated plot to gain political advantage may well seem sensible, even if solid evidence is lacking. Without knowing anything about Ritchie’s political views, we can’t say whether this was a factor here, but it is likely to play a role in some individuals' assessments.

One final consideration that individuals use when assessing whether a claim is true is the belief of others. The more often we hear a claim, the easier it is to believe—especially claims that come from people we know and trust.

For example, one of the most important predictors of what Americans think about the risks posed by climate change is what members of Congress say and do about this issue. The more Democrats voice support for the issue, and the more Republicans are critical of it, the more polarized Americans have become.

In light of this, we should expect Donald Trump’s recent speculations about the Scalia conspiracy theory to contribute to growing public concern about this possibility.

The Challenge of Setting the Record Straight

Notably, research suggests that misperceptions—including belief in unsupported conspiracy theories—are not primarily due to a lack of information. Nor can such beliefs be attributed to so-called media echo chambers.

My colleagues and I have found that most Americans consume news from a diverse range of outlets. (And if you’re skeptical of analyses based on Americans’ self-reported news exposure, note that behavioral studies yield similar results, both online and off.)

So is there anything we can do to defuse the Scalia conspiracy theory or others like it? Many studies, including this one by a colleague and me, find that attempts to correct misperceptions often fail. Sometimes they fail spectacularly. Indeed, some scholars conclude that humans are hopelessly irrational, that emotional biases will always win out.

Yet, even if we are inherently emotional beings, there may still be hope for humans’ ability to reach reasoned conclusions. Studies suggest that fact-checking—whether by the media or by members of one’s own social network—can help promote more accurate beliefs. Fact-checking can also motivate political leaders to be more careful about the claims they make.

Some of the best strategies—as journalist Craig Silverman points out in his article “Lies, Damn Lies, and Viral Content”—include focusing debunking efforts on the idea, not the person, and being mindful of the biases described here. (Other good reviews of correction strategies are here and here.)

There may also be things that individuals can do to reduce the biases to which all humans are prone. We can, in psychologist Daniel Kahneman’s words, “think slowly,” striving to reduce our reliance on intuition and gut feelings, instead focusing on more thorough examination of the evidence. Indeed, there is evidence that when individuals are made aware of their biases, they are often able to compensate.

But this will not always be enough, since there is ample evidence that reasoning skills and careful thought can actually increase bias.

Taken as a whole, research suggests that even thoughtful individuals with good intentions—including Ritchie—are prone to embrace claims for which there is little evidence, and to defend those claims in the face of contradictory evidence. This is particularly likely when stakes are high, when outcomes are hard to explain or accept, or when a claim is consistent with one’s political values.

The evidence suggests that Ritchie’s speculations are wrong, but there is nothing surprising about his suspicions.

R. Kelly Garrett is associate professor of communication, The Ohio State University.

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Where's the Gratitude? Muslim Refugees Attack Canadian Students!

April 11, 2016, 1:51 pm

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I'm in Halifax, Nova Scotia to get to the bottom of story that's making international news. This weekend, TheRebel.media told you about a news story in the Chronicle Herald, containing a mother's claim that her Grade Three daughter had been attacked by refugee students who had allegedly said, "Muslims rule the world."

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What REALLY happened to that Halifax news story about Muslim "bullies"?

Published on Apr 11, 2016

Faith Goldy is reporting from Halifax, Nova Scotia about a local news story that went viral, then was pulled from the paper's website. MORE: http://www.therebel.media/truth_about...
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That version of the story was later altered on the paper's website with no explanation.
Then it was replaced by an apologetic editorial statement -- the most politically correct statement of its kind I've ever seen in the media.
(Since I filmed my report, above, the Chronicle Herald has replaced that statement with ANOTHER statement, which I'll report on later today.)
I'm in Halifax to seek the truth.
Frankly, I'd prefer to find out that children were not being hurt and that newcomers are assimilating to their new home -- who wouldn't?
But ultimately, I'm here to get the facts and will bring them to you.
Stay tuned.

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Canada: Muslim migrant children choking, brutalizing non-Muslim students

By Robert Spencer

April 9, 2016

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/04/canada-muslim-migrant-children-choking-brutalizing-non-muslim-students

UPDATE: The Chronicle Herald first deleted references to Muslims, and then pulled this story entirely. It reflects badly on the multicultural project, you see. But Blazing Cat Fur has the original and every iteration here. The Rebel has them here.

“One boy yelled ‘Muslims rule the world’ while choking her daughter. School staff intervened, but to her knowledge, the students were not disciplined further.” That could be Canada’s epitaph.

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“Parents worried over school kids’ brutality at Chebucto Heights Elementary School,” Chronicle Herald, April 8, 2016:

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HALIFAX — Concerned parents are reporting incidents of violence by refugee students at Chebucto Heights Elementary School.

Reports of students choking, pushing, slapping and verbally abusing their fellow classmates are causing parents to worry about the school’s disciplinary action.

“There has always been some fighting and bickering going on at the school but never to this degree,” said Missy, the mother of two children who attend Chebucto Heights. She asked to be referred to by her nickname for this story.

Missy said her daughter, who is in Grade 3, was choked on Monday and Thursday last week by two refugee boys. A chain was used on both occasions, but she cannot confirm the size or strength of the chain. She said one boy yelled “Muslims rule the world” while choking her daughter. School staff intervened, but to her knowledge, the students were not disciplined further….

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Stop Agenda 21 Now Before It's Too Late!

April 17, 2016, 7:44 pm

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Yellowstone National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Site - United States
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Ancient Burmese kingdom awarded World Heritage status
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AGENDA 21 THE MOVIE: THE MEGACITIES ARE COMING.
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ANONYMOUS: NWO Documentary *Agenda 21 Exposed*

Published on Apr 6, 2015

This is a documentary series exposing the truth and possibilities of the operations of Agenda 21, Project Bluebeam, Project Blue Book, HAARP, and a few others and how might each operation bring forth the New World Order all working together on the one world goal agenda. Please do share it to others.

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Agenda 21: Bankrupting America into Utopia--One City at a Time

Published on May 31, 2013

Agenda 21 is a 1992 United Nations' policy document which calls for using Smart Growth and Sustainability to remake the world into a new global order--devoid of private property and free enterprise. In this address, Alexandra talks about what Agenda 21 is, how it is being implemented throughout the U.S., and what you can do about it.
In 1986, Alexandra Swann graduated at fifteen years of age with a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Brigham Young University and a GPA of 3.85. The following year, when she was sixteen, she received a Master's Degree in History from California State University. After graduation, she taught history and English as a second language for four years at El Paso Community College before opening her own business.. In 1989, her book, "No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master's Degree at Age Sixteen", was published. She currently writes "Paying for Protection", http://www.protectionmoney.blogspot.com, a regular blog about the impact of excessive government regulations, including regulations designed to prevent climate change, on American society and freedom. She is author of "The Planner", a novel about the impact of Agenda 21 in America, and co-author of "The Chosen" about the NDAA. For more information visit her website at http://www.frontier2000.net.

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The Politburo of the United Nations is already U.S. President

Call on Ted Cruz and Donald Trump with this on-point message: “The most important issue before America and the Free World is STOPPING AGENDA 21 FULL STOP"

By Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives

April 14, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-politburo-of-the-united-nations-is-already-u.s.-president

No matter who emerges as the 45th president of the USA on November 8, it is not the newly-elected president who will get to control civil life.

That privilege belongs to The Politburo of the United Nations, which while most people still seem to hold only in the abstract, now controls almost every facet of civilian life.

The United Nations Politburo is already president of the United States; the president, prime minister and king of almost every other country on Earth. Long before gaining—through breath-taking stealth—the highest offices of the lands, they already owned the mayors and municipal councils of both towns and cities, whose elected officials were used both knowingly and unknowingly to spread their toxic Agenda 21.

The mainstream media, which gives saturation coverage to gossip about all Republican presidential contenders, virtually ignore UN encroachment on civilian lives and file the far-reaching Agenda 21 under ‘c’ for ‘conspiracy’.

But the UN Politburo wields more power than any Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, even though operating from the shadows.

Their members are real people. Look at their pictures and keep their names on file. They are the ones imposing Agenda 21 on you and your neighbourhood by pretending to have a monopoly on “sustainability”.

Participation in the Chief Executives Board includes the Executive Heads of the United Nations, its 11 Funds and Programmes, the 15 Specialized Agencies, and the Related Organizations - International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Trade Organization. Under the chairmanship of the United Nations Secretary-General, the Executive Heads meet twice a year to consider policy and management issues impacting organizations of the United Nations system.

This cabal that both runs the world and readies to impose One World Government on humankind.

Few of these people, whose pictures appear on Canada Free Press (CFP) are ever elected. They are appointed in privacy.

This cabal that both runs the world and readies to impose One World Government on humankind, is going into overdrive to elect Hillary Clinton only because she will be the president who will give it the least resistance.

It was J. Gary Lawrence, advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, who provided an alibi for the UN push for world takeover, hiding Agenda 21’s UN roots from the people: (Canada Free Press March 1, 2011)

“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear “one-world government‟ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined “the conspiracy‟ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.”

Protected by diplomatic immunity and masquerading as ‘peace makers’, the UN is reaching its über zenith some seven months before the American election. On April 22, 130 of its world leaders will sign COP21, the all-encompassing Agenda 21, bequeathed on a largely unknowing society by an equally unknownto society, late Maurice Strong. (Agenda 21)

“U.N. Agenda 21 calls for governments to take control of all land use and decision-making power from private property owners. It is assumed that people are not good stewards of their land and the government will do a better job if in control.

“Individual rights in general are to give way to the needs of communities as determined by the governing body. Moreover, it is proposed that people be resettled into islands of human habitation, close to employment centers and transportation. Another program, called the Wildlands Project spells out how most of the land is to be set aside for non-humans.

“U.N. Agenda 21 cites the affluence of Americans as being a major problem which needs to be corrected. It calls for lowering the standard of living for Americans so that the people in poorer countries will have more…i.e. redistribution of wealth. Although people around the world aspire to achieve the levels of prosperity we have in the United States and will risk their lives to get here, Americans are cast in a very negative light and need to be taken down to a condition closer to average in the world. Only then, proponents say, will there be Social Justice, a cornerstone of the U.N. Agenda 21 plan.”

And all of the above is just the top, peeled-back layer of the insidious Agenda 21 killing off freedom and liberty not just in America but almost everywhere on earth.

Since Clinton’s presidency and even before, no U.S. administration has ever tried to stop Agenda 21 from its chokehold on civilian life.
CFP, who learned everything it ever knew about Agenda 21 by decades observing Canadian Maurice Strong in action, and at at the knee of the late Henry Lamb, respectfully disagrees with writer/activist Tom DeWeese, who suggests trios of citizens asking questions at public forums to “watch those clueless candidates squirm” as the best way to bring Agenda 21 to public attention.

“Do this to them at enough public gatherings and I guarantee they will start to look into the issue so they aren’t unprepared the next time,” he writes.

If Agenda 21 officially becomes the law of the land on April 22, there won’t be a “next time”, Mr. DeWeese.

There are seven short months between now and November 8, time to call on Ted Cruz and Donald Trump with this on-point message: “The most important issue before America and the Free World is STOPPING AGENDA 21 FULL STOP.”

The only possible remedy for the 2016 presidential election is to come out of the weeds to coalesce around one or both of the two Republican front-runners. That’s the only way out in keeping Agenda 21 enabler Hillary Clinton out of office.

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Who is This Guy in the Oval Office? (Part 25)

April 26, 2016, 7:31 pm

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Putin Tells Everyone Exactly Who Created ISIS

Published on Oct 1, 2015

Here's something you probably never saw or heard about in the west. This is Putin answering questions regarding ISIS from a US journalist at the Valdai International Discussion Club in late 2014.
Say what you want about Putin... when he's right, he's right.

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Obama finally tells the truth!
Published on Aug 17, 2015
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How Many Illegal Alien Criminals Released by Obama Were Involved in Violent Protests Against Trump?

Protest Turns Violent at Donald Trump Rally in Costa Mesa, California

By John Lillpop -- Bio and Archives

April 29, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/how-many-illegal-alien-criminals-released-by-obama-were-involved-in-violent

Perhaps it’s just coincidence or simply a matter of bad timing, rather than a vast left-wing government conspiracy against American citizens by an administration known to be openly and bitterly hostile to all things American.

Still, the confluence of events is quite remarkable.

To wit, recent reports indicate that the Obama administration released, rather than deported, thousands of criminal illegal aliens, including some guilty of murder and rape.

This is particularly ironic when considering the fact that violent protestors, many carrying Mexican flags, rioted against Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in Costa Mesa on Thursday.

Asreported regarding the nonsensical release of murderers and other violent illegal aliens:

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revealed that 124 illegal immigrant criminals released from jail by the Obama administration since 2010 have been subsequently charged with murder.

A Center for Immigration Studies report on the data from ICE to the Senate Judiciary Committee added that the committee is not releasing the names of the murder suspects.

“The criminal aliens released by ICE in these years — who had already been convicted of thousands of crimes — are responsible for a significant crime spree in American communities, including 124 new homicides. Inexplicably, ICE is choosing to release some criminal aliens multiple times,” said the report written by respected director of policy studies, Jessica M. Vaughan.”

With respect to the violent protests,as reported:

“A protest outside a campaign rally for Donald J. Trump in Costa Mesa, Calif., turned violent late Thursday night, as the crowd smashed a police car, the authorities closed nearby streets and officers arrested about 20 people.

The unrest erupted outside an amphitheater where Mr. Trump, the favorite in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, was addressing several thousand supporters, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.”

The big, urgent question: Has the Obama administration deliberately released illegal alien killers in order to populate violent anti-Trump riots?

John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. Pray for John: He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where people like Nancy Pelosi are actually considered normal!.

John can be reached at: satirebylillpop@yahoo.com

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Will Obamacare Collapse Before Obama Leaves Office?

Media should be holding Obama and the Democrats accountable for the damage this law has done to America's health care system, to the job market, to the family budget of millions of Americans

By Roger Aronoff -- Bio and Archives

April 29, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/will-obamacare-collapse-before-obama-leaves-office

Obamacare has turned out to be a massive boondoggle for the American people, despite the media’s consistent attempts to cover up this law’s failures. After all, to disparage Obamacare is to tarnish President Obama’s legacy. But as Marc Thiessen, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, points out in a recent opinion piece for The Washington Post, Obamacare’s, and therefore Obama’s, enduring domestic legacy will do “more to discredit big government than 1,000 Reagan speeches ever did.”

The typical mainstream media playbook stipulates that all opposition to liberal policies must be reported as originating with Republicans or conservatives. Thus, The Hill recently cast opposition to Obamacare as Republican presidential partisanship. “Health insurance companies are laying the groundwork for substantial increases in ObamaCare premiums, opening up a line of attack for Republicans in a presidential election year,” wrote Peter Sullivan for The Hill.

Majority of Americans disapprove of Obamacare

However, according to a January CBS News/New York Times poll, the reality is that a majority of Americans disapprove of Obamacare. That was reconfirmed in a Pew Research Center survey released this month, showing that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of Obamacare, while only 44 percent approve. Those angry about this law are not just a fringe group incited by Republican campaign rhetoric.

Many Americans were forced by the Obama administration into this unsustainable program that has high deductibles and ever-increasing premiums. “According to a 2014 McKinsey survey, about three-quarters of those in the exchanges were previously insured on commercial plans, either through their employers or the individual market,” writes Thiessen. “They were doing fine without taxpayer-subsidized insurance but were pushed into Obamacare.”

According to the Heritage Foundation in 2015, a net 4.5 million Americans lost their employer-based coverage in 2014. “Because the reduction in employer-group coverage offset almost all of the increase in individual-market coverage, the net change in private-market coverage during 2014 was an increase of just 260,000 individuals,” write Edmund F. Haislmaier and Drew Gonshorowski for Heritage.

While Obamacare did change the law to allow those with preexisting conditionsaccess to care, it has also had disproportionately negative effects in exchange for that benefit. Was the rise in the number of insured really worth the cost? After all, health care access does not always translate into better health care service. In fact, the real world effect is often quite the contrary.

‘If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.’

As Thiessen pointed out, “The president promised ‘if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.’ But commercial insurers who stay in Obamacare are responding to massive losses by narrowing provider networks, with fewer doctors and hospitals to choose from. And those that quit are being replaced by Medicaid HMOs with even less doctor choice.”

Heritage’s numbers showed that Obamacare has helped very little to expand health care coverage outside of the Medicaid expansion.

Also, how many Americans have lost, or cannot find, full-time jobs because of Obamacare? As we have previously cited, Mort Zuckerman, the chairman and editor of U.S. News and World Report, writing for The Wall Street Journal, argued that “Many employers cut workers’ hours to avoid the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide health insurance to anyone working 30 hours a week or more.”

By casting opposition to Obamacare as merely Republican partisanship, Sullivan has ignored the fact that Hillary Clinton herself has argued that she would “look at all the employment rules” to reverse Obamacare’s perverse incentives.

“You know, we’ve got to change that, because we have built in some unfortunate incentives that discourage full-time employment,” said presidential candidate Mrs. Clinton in December of last year.

If Sullivan is so interested in outlining presidential candidates’ Obamacare policies, why did he not report on Mrs. Clinton’s stated desire to reexamine the law?

Health care insurers have been bleeding red with billions of dollars of losses

Health care insurers have been bleeding red with billions of dollars of losses, despite the Obama administration’s generous re-insurance and risk-corridor subsidies. Those “subsidies are set to expire in 2017, meaning that insurers will have to make ends meet without billions in handouts,” writes Doug Badger for National Review. This may lead to even sharper increases in Obamacare premiums than have already occurred.

“Even if insurers had received all the reinsurance and risk-corridor handouts they sought—an average of $1,106 per enrollee, or nearly 25 percent of premium—they still would have lost money, our study found,” writes Badger. As it is, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) decided to defy the law and stiff the Treasury, sending billions in payments to insurers instead.

Thiessen proposes that insurance companies have three ways to respond to their current financial dilemma: “scale back coverage…raise prices or…get out of the exchanges entirely.” He believes that many insurers will choose the last option—but any of these changes can only make a bad situation worse for Obamacare’s enrollees.

Obamacare’s prohibitively high deductibles push costs back onto consumers rather than insurers, while the true costs of health care remains hidden.

“This is the adverse selection spiral—higher premiums lead to a worse risk pool, which leads to higher premiums, which leads to an even worse risk pool, and so on,” writes Brian Blase for Forbes. He and scholars at the Galen Institute and Heritage Foundation found in a new study that without reinsurance subsidies the insurance companies would have had to charge 26 percent more for their premiums in 2014. In other words, the government is hiding the costs of Obamacare, and throwing good money after bad.

Obamacare’s subsidies cannot mitigate the effects of narrow networks, high deductibles, or insufficient care and dwindling doctor choice. Even Sullivan writes that insurers face a “smaller, sicker, and costlier” pool of enrollees than expected.

“Does this mean that Obamacare is finally entering its ‘death spiral’? Not exactly,” argues Thiessen. Instead, Obamacare consumers may face reduced quality in their health care plans.

Few mainstream media outlets report fairly about the disaster that is Obamacare, where nobody seems to have enough money to provide, or purchase, health care without big government bailing them out. Instead, Sullivan of The Hill ended with a quote from Chris Jennings, a health advisor to Hillary Clinton, who also advised Obama on health care reform, that “The ‘sky is falling’ argument is not at all compelling…It is predictable, but it is not compelling.”

The sky doesn’t need to fall on Obamacare to expose the law’s underlying flaws. We have previously documented how Obamacare was falsely sold to the American people, and how the original law was just a starting point for Obama administration bureaucrats who then added more than 20,000 pages of burdensome and confusing regulations to it.

By refusing to discuss the actual problems with Obamacare, the mainstream media are complicit in helping Obama and the Democrats scoot past the next election while claiminga great achievement for America.

Instead, the media should be holding them accountable for the damage this law has done to America’s health care system, to the job market, and to the family budget of millions of Americans.

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Obama tries telling Brits wanting out of the EU what to do

But then again Marxist name-calling of their enemies is now universal

By Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives

April 24, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/obama-tries-telling-brits-wanting-out-of-the-eu-what-to-do

The most ridiculous sound in the world has gotta’ be the one of an overbearing Barack Obama rattling his saber at Brits who want out of the EU.

It’s going to take more than insipid “back off” orders from from the likes of Obama to frighten Brits from voting the way they want on Brexit.

A feeble quack from a lame duck on his way out of public office will never dim the knowledge that it comes from a no-boots-on-the-ground in jihadist-held territory, no-skin-in-any-game-but-his-own, semi-golf pro, part-time president.

Tough talk from politicians rarely leave any traction of note.

True-grit Brits with a storied history have no fear from a man whose own history is one held under lock and key.

As a fighter, Obama’s only a fop.

It would take the imagination of a Walt Disney for anyone to ever conceive of an Obama crossing the Delaware to fight the Brits on that long ago frigid Christmas night.

Had Obama, or anyone even remotely like him, donned a red coat during America’s fight for independence, Cornwallis would have yelled, “Back of the queue for you, Buddy!”

“President Barack Obama told Britain today that it would have to ‘go to the back of the queue’ if it leaves the European Union, then tries to negotiate its own trade deal with the United States.” (Daily Mail, April 22, 2016)

One can almost hear the long gone, heroic Winston Churchill calling out Obama’s self-proclaimed ‘bro’ Prime Minister David Cameron for letting Obama get away with stating:” A US-UK trade agreement is not going to happen ‘any time soon.”

“A US-UK trade agreement is not going to happen ‘any time soon,’ Obama said during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron. (Daily Mail)

‘Not because we don’t have a special relationship but because given the heavy lift on any trade agreement, us having access to a big market with a lot of countries rather than trying to do piecemeal trade agreements, which is hugely inefficient,’ the U.S. leader said.”

Obama fancies himself still being in charge through Hillary Clinton after the November 8 presidential election, a fantasy that depends on her making it to the Oval Office.

“Obama faced a furious backlash overseas this morning over what has been called a ‘downright hypocritical’ push for Britain to stay in the European Union. (Daily Mail)

“In a highly controversial intervention in the EU referendum campaign, Obama pleaded with British voters in a local newspaper and then the press conference not to cut ties with Brussels.

‘The United States wants a strong United Kingdom as a partner, and the United Kingdom is at its best when it is helping to lead a strong Europe,’ Obama said during a news conference at Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

In his op-ed Obama also invoked the spirit of the Second World Warby claiming the sacrifice of GIs meant America has a stake in the EU debate and said the decision in June’s referendum ‘will echo in the prospects of today’s generation of Americans as well’.

Most Brits would know that these words are from the same Obama who has gutted the American Armed Forces; the same one who saw Marine duty as one that had two Marines hold umbrellas over his and the head of his friend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the light rain of a White House Rose Garden press conference.

“London Mayor Boris Johnson accused him of making an ‘incoherent’ and ‘inconsistent’ argument.” (Daily Mail)

Is it too late to draft Boris as a Republican presidential candidate?

“A furious Johnson said this morning: ‘The Americans would never contemplate anything like the EU for themselves or for their neighbors in their own hemisphere. Why should they think it right for us?’ (Daily Mail)

“Obama told residents of the UK today he doesn’t believe he’s overstepping.”

He doesn’t believe wiping out America in his unasked for Fundamental Transformation of America is overstepping either, Your Worship.

In any case, like most social justice engineering Marxists, Obama thinks there is no such thing as overstepping, period.

“Ultimately ‘this is a decision for the people of the United Kingdom to make,’ he told them.(Daily Mail)

‘I’m not coming here to fix any votes. I’m not casting a vote myself. I’m offering my opinion, and in democracies everybody should want more information, not less, and you shouldn’t be afraid to hear an argument being made.

He said, ‘That’s not a threat, that should enhance the debate.’

What a joke from a president who labels all American dissidents who happen to disagree with any of his policies as ‘racists’, ‘bigots’, ‘homophobes’ and ‘Islamophobes’.

“The U.S. president said he feels it’s his prerogative to clarify the U.S. position rather than have it defined by British politicians.

‘So they are voicing an opinion about what the United States is going to do, I figured you might want to hear from the president of the United States what I think the United States is going to do,’ he said.

‘And on that matter, for example, I think it’s fair to say that maybe some point down the line there might be a UK-US trade agreement, but it’s not going to happen any time soon because our focus is in negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done.

He added, ‘The UK is going to be in the back of the queue.’

With friends like Obama who needs enemies?

“Obama brought up WWII and the international institutions the US and UK designed together including the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, and NATO.

‘All of those in some degree constrained our freedom to operate and occasionally we had to deal with some bureaucracy,’ he said, ‘it meant that on occasion we had to persuade other countries and we don’t get 100 percent of what we want in each case but we knew that by doing so, everybody was going to be better off.’

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Obama’s Recipe For Disaster

By Chip McLean

November 27, 2015

NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/McLean/chip129.htm

Growing up with an interest in government and politics as I did, I often thought about having conversations with various leaders – especially U.S. presidents. I had visions of lengthy philosophical discussions and asking questions to gain a perspective on the ideas that drove those men. I never dreamed that one day we would have a president - as we do today - that only one question comes to mind …“Mr. Obama, are you out of your damn mind?”

Barack Obama has spent the last seven years making good on his promise to “fundamentally transform” our nation. The problem is that the nation didn’t need any fundamental transformation – the system of government given to us by our founders, or as Ben Franklin said in 1787, “a republic, if you can keep it”, served us well.

The tough thing has been the “keeping it” part. Through the years, those seeking to exert more government control over our existence have been incrementally chipping away at it. Barack Obama is but the latest miscreant attempting to do so, but in his case – especially in his second term – he has dropped any pretense at “preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States.”

At this point there is very little left of a republic that was based upon limited government and individual liberty. Through the gradual erosion by those who prefer to replace those ideals with a socialistic, globalist vision, the “transformation” (destruction) is all but complete.

Despite this unbridled growth of the federal behemoth, the one most imperative responsibility of the federal government – that of providing for the common defense - has been abrogated. Obama’s desire to flood our nation with 250,000 Syrian refugees isn’t just a misguided policy – it’s a recipe for a disaster of epic proportions. Obama, along with his fellow travelers on both the left and the right who support open borders/amnesty have already caused this “transformation” to change the very makeup and culture of the United States to the point that – as Breitbart news said in a recent headline, the “Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country’”.

The Breitbart article was linked to results from an Ipsos poll where a strong majority of people agree that they do indeed feel like strangers in their own country. Who can blame them? When millions are here illegally who don’t speak English and won’t learn, who care nothing about our culture and history and prefer that which they left behind, who gobble up benefits provided by the American taxpayer, who wind up displacing American workers who need jobs, not to mention that every day the news includes more stories about illegal aliens who have murdered, raped, driven drunk and killed innocent Americans and then fill our streets demanding their “rights”- and do so without any fear of being deported by the Obama administration – is it any wonder that Americans feel like they are indeed strangers in their own land? Is it any wonder that Donald Trump is resonating with so many?

The recent attacks in France have demonstrated just how reckless unchecked immigration truly is. Europe is seeing the inevitable chickens coming home to roost. The Islamic invasion of Europe has been allowed to go unchecked for a number of years, resulting in large enclaves of Islamists that reside in what has come to be known as “no go zones”, or perhaps more accurately as Daniel Pipes said, “semi-autonomous sectors”. Regardless of what you choose to call it, granting any form of autonomy to hostile groups on your own soil is a less than safe proposition.

The groundswell of European natives had already been rising, calling on their governments to put an end to this insanity before the recent Paris attacks. Now the opposition from everyday Europeans has reached fever pitch, resulting in at least some of those nations to rethink their stances on immigration. The fact that at least one of the attackers in France arrived using a Syrian passport demonstrates just how easily Jihadists can embed themselves with the wave of “refugees”.

Implementing a temporary freeze on all immigration – legal and illegal – is a logical safeguard as we sort out what is going on. At the very least, halting any and all “refugee” resettlements into our country is the compellingly logical first step. Unfortunately this president has been incredibly devoid of logic with regard to the situation (or any other for that matter). He has doubled down on his call for more refugees to be brought into our cities and towns against our wishes – this despite the fact that in addition to a majority of Americans, a majority of states’ governors are now on record opposing the resettlement. The states have this right by virtue of the tenth amendment but Obama no doubt will show no more fealty to the constitution on this matter than he has on any other.

As this article was being written, Obama made a statement that he is “not afraid” of ISIS defeating us (or ISIL, as he for some reason prefers to call them). No, I don’t suppose Obama would be particularly afraid when the government spends millions of taxpayer dollars annually on armed secret service agents, equipment, armor-plated limousines, intel and the like for his protection. It is disturbingly ironic that while the president is afforded this much protection he remains vehemently opposed to our own second amendment rights (although that would be a subject for another column).

As far as Obama is concerned, it’s full steam ahead for Syrian (and all other Islamic) “refugee” resettlement. His recent statements that those opposed to his policy are “scared of widows and orphans” and that we who prefer Christian refugees to Muslims coming to America are “un-American” are as Pat Buchanan said in a recent column, “petulant and unpresidential.” On target as usual, Buchanan said later in his column, “Who is this man of the left to dictate to us what is ‘un-American’?” Indeed. Stopping our borders from being overrun by people who at the least do not wish to assimilate into our culture, and at the worst, pose a threat to our very existence isn’t being “xenophobic, hateful, bigoted, racist, ad nauseum” – it’s common sense – something in short supply in Washington these days.

The aforementioned Donald Trump, on a recent interview with radio host Michael Savage, basically stated that we are “19 trillion in debt and bringing in refugees” – the Middle East is letting the U.S. do it because (our leaders) “are dumb”.

“Dumb” would be an improvement. When you really boil it down, Obama’s bizarre insistence on flooding us with refugees from an area of the world that is a hotbed for jihadists – and home to a religion that is completely incompatible with western values comes down to three possibilities:

1. Obama really is “dumb”

2. Obama is insane

3. Obama is deliberately destroying our nation

I’m going with all of the above, with the added caveat that number three needs to include the question, “and at whose behest?” (still another subject for a future column).

The fact is that Obama’s stance is reckless and dangerous – so much so that there should be a serious investigation into removing him from office through impeachment or perhaps the 25th amendment.

There is an old saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Sadly, Barack Obama does not even possess the acumen of a broken clock.

Chip McLean is the founder and editor/publisher of CHO News Publishing, the umbrella for both Capitol Hill Outsider and Capitol Hill Coffee House. He is also the co-founder, along with Chris Adamo, of Rino Tracker.

Chip is a former broadcaster and long time sales professional whose interest in politics began in 1964 at the age of eight, when his parents took him to a Barry Goldwater rally during the presidential campaign. In addition to his work at Outsider News Publishing, Chip’s columns have appeared in a number of online conservative publications.

Website: CapitalHillCoffeHouse

E-mail: chipmclean@capitolhillcoffeehouse.com

E-Mail: chipmac@capitolhilloutsider.com

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Will Obama Suspend 2016 Election & Become 3rd Term President Under Martial Law?

Published on Jan 10, 2016

A dictator Obama seeks to suspend the 2016 election and become 3rd term President under the Martial Law.

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Obama Announces Plans For A Third Term Presidential Run

by Darius Rubrics

October 2015

http://newsexaminer.net/politics/obama-announces-plans-for-a-third-term-presidential-run/

Washington, DC — President Barack Obama shocked the country this morning with news that he is running for a third term.

“I can’t abandon the American people now when they need me more than ever,” Obama told reporters at a press conference this morning. “We’ve come this far as a nation, now is not the time to do something different. This is the change you wanted and this is the change you’re getting.”

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told CNN he does not agree with Obama and his announcement. “This defies everything the Constitution stands for,” Paul said. “We can not let this man have a third term.”

In the history of this country only two presidents have served more than two terms, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The major problem for Obama when he runs in 2016, is the 22nd Amendment. In short, the 22nd Amendment states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…”

The U.S. Constitution does make an exception in the 22nd Amendment though: “This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.” This means Obama’s third term presidential run is only valid if he receives 75% approval from the Congress.

A bill to abolish the 22nd Amendment was recently introduced into Congress by New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano and is gaining popularity. This is exactly the kind of news that makes an Obama 2016 Presidential run possible.

Paul Horner who is a spokesman for the Obama Administration told reporters how amazing this news is for the country. “Obama is guaranteed to win in 2016 and then we’ll all be able to enjoy this great man for another four years. Things could not get any better for the American people. I’m so stoked!”

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Also See:
Who is This Guy in the Oval Office?
(Part 1)

16 February 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/02/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office.html

and

(Part 2)

22 April 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-2.html

and

(Part 3)

16 June 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-3.html

and

(Part 4)

03 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/08/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-4.html

and

(Part 5)

03 January 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-6.html

and

(Part 6)

20 May 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/05/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-6.html

and

(Part 7)

21 November 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-is-that-guy-in-oval-office-part-7.html

and

(Part 8)

14 February 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2011/02/who-is-that-guy-in-oval-office-part-8.html

and

(Part 9)

03 August 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-is-that-guy-in-oval-office-part-9.html

and

(Part 10)

10 October 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2011/10/who-is-that-guy-in-oval-office-part-10.html

and

(Part 11)

11 December 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/12/who-is-that-guy-in-oval-office-part-11.html

and

(Part 12)

18 April 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/04/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-12.html

and

(Part 13)
01 July 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/07/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-13.html

and

(Part 14)

25 October 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/10/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-14.html

and

(Part 15)

14 December 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/12/taxpayers-spent-1.html

and

(Part 16)

22 May 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/05/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-16.html

and

(Part 17)

27 July 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/07/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-17.html

and

(Part 18)

07 October 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/10/who.html
and
(Part 19)
13 December 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/12/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-19.html

and

(Part 20)

10 February 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/02/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-20.html

and

(Part 21)

03 June 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/06/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-21.html

and

(Part 22)

22 December 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/12/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-22.html

and

(Part 23)

23 October 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/10/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-23.html

and

(Part 24)
01 February 2016
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/02/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-24.html
and
Who will be the Next First Lady?
01 July 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2008/07/next-first-lady.html

and
Is Michelle Obama a Princess?
02 October 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/10/is-michelle-obama-princess.html

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Was Princess Diana Assassinated?

April 30, 2016, 6:02 pm

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The Huge Secret That Princess Diana Knew

Published on Apr 4, 2016

By: David Icke – From the book “The Biggest Secret”

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Author Alan Power: "Prince Philip had MI6 murder Princess Diana!"
Published on Nov 19, 2014
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WHO KILLED DIANA? - Best Video On This Subject
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The Real Reason Why Princess Diana Was Assassinated. Ex MI Agent Testifies
Uploaded on Dec 26, 2011
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Conspiracy Theory Thursday—The Princess Diana Death Conspiracy

Helen Thomas

Posted on 10/29/2015

http://popdust.com/2015/10/29/princess-diana-death-conspiracy/#slide1

The Princess Diana Death Conspiracy theory first popped up within hours of the tragic, unexpected death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997—and the theory just isn’t going away.

It is over a decade and a half since the world woke up to the shocking news that 36-year-old Princess Diana had been involved in a fatal car accident.

The crash happened just after midnight on August 31, when the Mercedes carrying a divorced Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed, 42, careered out of control in a Paris tunnel. They had just left the Ritz Hotel which is owned by Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed and were en route to Dodi’s apartment. They were accompanied by two members of the Al Fayed staff.

Both the driver of the vehicle, Henri Paul and Dodi were killed instantly when the vehicle spun out of control. Diana survived for just over three hours before succumbing to her injuries, and Trevor Rees-Jones, Al Fayed’s bodyguard was injured, but survived.

The initial blame lay firmly with the pack of paparazzi who were chasing the vehicle, however official investigators subsequently concluded that the driver, Henri Paul was drunk and speeding at the time of the crash, resulting in his loss of control.

The Theory

The overriding theory is that Princess Diana was killed deliberately by the British secret service, MI6 to prevent her from marrying Dodi Fayed, bearing his child—a step sibling to a future king—and becoming a Muslim. This would have embarrassed and de-stabilised the monarchy could not be allowed to happen.

It is alleged that just after the black Mercedes entered the winding Pont de l’Alma tunnel, a black motorbike and two cars (one dark, one white) followed into the tunnel in a tight formation.

The white car approached and clipped the Mercedes, pushing it off line and allowing the motorbike to surge ahead. There was then a flash of light—a strobe—followed by a thunderous bang as the Mercedes slammed into the tunnel’s 13th pillar.

The motorbike stopped and the passenger got off and peered inside the vehicle. He then turned to his partner and raised his arms into an X: the military signal for “mission accomplished” before speeding off.

The “Proof”

Lack of CCTV images. There were more than 14 CCTV cameras in the underpass yet astonishingly, none recorded footage of the fatal collision.

Neither Diana nor Dodi were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash, prompting speculation that the vehicle may have been sabotaged. Diana ALWAYS wore her seat belt when travelling in the back of a vehicle. Tragically, it has been confirmed that had the couple been wearing their seat belts, both would have survived the crash.

The white Fiat Uno—the unidentified white car was seen to collide with the Mercedes at the entrance of the tunnel. There was white paint found on the Mercedes, proving that the cars had come into contact. The Fiat Uno was never officially found. Eye-witnesses Georges and Sabine Dauzonne saw the vehicle emerging from the tunnel and said that the driver of the car seemed perturbed by something in his rear-view mirror. They identified former security guard Le Van Thanh as that man. Forensic tests confirmed that paint and rubber on Thanh’s car matched traces found on the Mercedes, but French police ruled him out of the investigation for some reason.

Former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson‘s sworn testimony. Tomlinson testified that;

In the years leading up to the fatal crash, MI6 used a paid informant in the security department of the Ritz Hotel. He concludes that this informant was Henri Paul.

In 1992 he was shown documents of an outline plan to assassinate the Serbian leader President Slobodan Milosevic while he was being driven. The plan involved an almost identical scenario to the crash that killed Diana—using a strobe light to disorientate the driver of the vehicle; ensuring the crash took place in a tunnel were the close proximity to concrete walls/pillars ensured the maximum damage plus it was noted that a tunnel would yield fewer casual witnesses.

One member of the paparazzi who routinely followed Diana was a member of “UKN“. A small group of part-time MI6 agents who provide ad-hoc services to MI6, such as surveillance and photography. It is not known whether the undercover pap was present at the time of the fatal incident.

Tomlinson has been subjected to intimidation tactics ever since he raised his theories, including being arrested and deported on his arrival at JFK for an appearance on NBC—on the instruction of the CIA.

A former soldier identified only as ‘Soldier N’ claimed that MI6 had help from the military service in engineering the crash. The former British special forces sniper told both his former wife and in-laws that the SAS (British Special Air Service) commando unit was behind the deaths and also the cover up.

Author Alan Power wrote a book, The Princess Diana Conspiracy with the aid of another former SAS soldier. In the book he confirms that Diana was killed by MI6 with military aid. He claims the existence of the secret assassination squad called “The Increment Team”, and corroborates Tomlinson’s assertions.

Eye-witness Francois Levistre said that a flash of white light was directed at the couple’s vehicle, causing the crash. He then said he had stopped near the tunnel’s exit and saw the motorcycle passenger get off, look inside the crumpled vehicle and make a hand gesture to the bike’s driver before they sped off.

The letter Diana wrote to her butler Paul Burrell in 1993. Burrell hid the letter from investigators, fearful that it would never see the light of day. In the letter, Diana warned; “This particular phase in my life is the most dangerous. My husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for him to marry.” Clearly prophetic.

Princess Diana with her butler Paul Burrell

Dodi’s father, Mohamed Al Fayed alleges that Diana was pregnant at the time of the accident. He claims that Diana broke this news to him in a phone call on August 31. Diana’s body was embalmed with inordinate and illegal haste after her death, making it impossible to carry out a pregnancy test to prove whether or not she was carrying Dodi’s child.

Whilst the British establishment tried to downplay the assertion by Mohamed Al Fayed that the couple were engaged in order to undermine his conspiracy theory allegations, there is CCTV footage of a Ritz Hotel staff member collecting an item from a jewellers and taking it to the couple’s suite in the hotel. A ring with the inscription “Dis-moi Oui” (Tell me Yes) was discovered after the couple’s death. A receipt dated the day before the crash was also recovered, listing a “bague de fiancaille” (engagement ring).

The paparazzi photographers had crowded at the Ritz Hotel having heard rumors that there was to be an announcement of the princess’s engagement or pregnancy.

Henri Paul, who was Deputy Head of Security at the hotel wasn’t due to be on duty that night but returned just to drive the couple. There have been claims that the blood used to test his alcohol level at the time of the crash (thereby concluding that his drunkeness contributed to the accident) was actually not his, but that of a suicide victim. This is further evidenced by the fact that there were high levels of carbon monoxide in his blood, consistent with that of exhaust fumes (as would be evident in a suicide by hose to tailpipe). It is widely accepted that Paul didn’t draw a breath after the crash, and the level of carbon monoxide found would have rendered him unable to drive so it wasn’t there before the crash.

The Deputy Head of Security and stand in driver, Henri Paul

There is CCTV footage of Paul hovering outside the rear entrance of the hotel on the night of the crash, waving to a photographer. You can then see one of the paps raise his camera in response, which if you take into account the evidence of Richard Tomlinson that Paul was being paid by MI6 and that there was an MI6 plant in the pap pack, is incredibly suspicious. Perhaps Paul was involved in the plan up to a certain point—not knowing that he was actually driving to his death?

Lord Stevens, who conducted the official inquiry into the accident in the UK met with Paul’s parents in 2006 and assured them that their son had not been drunk—that he’d only had two drinks that night. Yet just over a month later, the official report was published saying that Paul was three times over the drink-drive limit and that his ‘drunkeness’ had caused the crash. Why the sudden change of heart?

You know there’s an old saying: “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not following you…”

Diana’s death was such a shock to the world, and such a tragedy. Just because the thought that she was killed deliberately is difficult to comprehend, it doesn’t make it untrue.

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Queen claimed ‘someone must have greased the brakes’ on hearing of Princess Diana’s car crash

The Queen exclaimed ‘Someone must have greased the brakes’ in reaction to hearing about Princess Diana's car crash, according to Ingrid Seward’s new book, ‘An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words’

By Sian Harrison

15 Aug 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/diana/11805078/Queen-claimed-someone-must-have-greased-the-brakes-on-hearing-of-Princess-Dianas-car-crash.html

Queen Elizabeth and Princess Diana are said to have had an ‘extraordinary and complex’ relationship Photo: Getty Images

The Queen’s initial reaction to news of Princess Diana’s car crash was that ‘someone must have greased the brakes’, it has been claimed.

Diana was killed in August 1997, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, when the car they were travelling in crashed in Paris.

As news of the accident reached the Royal Family, before it was realised Diana had died, Her Majesty reportedly issued the remark.

The claims were made in Ingrid Seward’s new book, ‘An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words’.

The Royal biographer said the comment hinted at the ‘extraordinary and complex’ relationship between the two women.

Writing in the Daily Mail, she said: “At first it was thought that, though the car crash in the Pont de l’Alma tunnel was serious, Diana had not been killed.'

CCTV footage of Princess Diana leaving the Ritz hotel in Paris on the night of the accident Photo: PA

“According to one witness present when the Queen heard the initial news, she mused out loud: ‘Someone must have greased the brakes'.”

Diana’s untimely death triggered national mourning, and the Queen faced some initial criticism from the public for not leaving her holiday retreat at Balmoral and returning to London immediately.

There was also consternation over the refusal to fly a flag at half mast from Buckingham Palace.

Ms Seward wrote that the Queen was ‘bewildered’ by these criticisms, as the flag not being flown while she was not in residence was ‘mere protocol’.

Prince of Wales wrote of fear of divorce in private letter

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She claimed the decision to stay in Scotland was made so the young princes William and Harry were given the chance to ‘absorb the shock of their mother’s death’ in private.

The Royal expert added: “Her first priority was to protect them.”

The Queen making a televised address following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales Photo: Rex Features

Her book also claims the Queen was initially very fond of the young Diana Spencer, writing to a friend that: “She is one of us.”

But Ms Seward said that, as the princess became nervous and the Queen’s concerns about the increased press attention grew, their relationship turned cold.

Diana and the Queen initially had a warm relationship Photo: Getty

He said the relationship was ‘brought into sharp relief’ by the publication earlier this week of new behind-the-scenes photographs of Diana’s wedding to Charles in 1981.

She added: “Despite the joyous occasion, there is little evident warmth between the two women or even a flicker of happiness on either face — a glimpse, perhaps, of their underlying anxieties and the great emotional gulf between two such differing personalities.

Ms Seward previously disclosed the Queen’s reaction to the crash in an earlier book, ‘The Queen and Di’, published in 2000.

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Peel the Onion to See Where We Are Going!

If Agenda 21 is implemented, then masses of people will be removed from rural areas, and perhaps the suburbs, crammed into small living quarters in the cities, this is the optimistic view, and travel will be restricted either by law or self imposed due to lack of finances or means of travel.

All the world heritage sites will be restricted for the elites who will have the financial ability to travel and the required credentials, not to mention the free time to enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Do your homework, research, read, and connect the dots and see what conclusion you arrive at.

There is another scenario that is far more negative that involve FEMA camps but, for now, I'll leave that for another time.

These do not need to be only options we have as I believe that the forces of evil will not succeed so, somewhere in the timeline going forward, we will overcome "them". Pray often to stay strong and always be optimistic no matter how dark the skies. Peace be with you.

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Klondike to make United Nations world heritage site bid in 2017

by Myles Dolphin

Friday April 22, 2016

http://www.yukon-news.com/news/klondike-to-make-united-nations-world-heritage-site-bid-in-2017/

St. Andrews Church in Dawson City. The Yukon government announced this week it is investing $116,000 to help the Tr'ondek Hwech'in First Nation finalize its bid to nominate the Klondike as a UNESCO world heritage site.

A committee led by the Tr’ondek Hwech’in First Nation plans on submitting a bid to nominate the Klondike as a world heritage site by February 2017.

It’s hoped that the designation - awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO - would help draw more tourist dollars to the area.

The Klondike has been on the tentative list to become a world heritage site since 2004.

World Heritage Project Manager Paula Hassard has been involved with the project for over 10 years.

She said the committee is currently working on finalizing a lengthy nomination dossier, consulting with various stakeholder groups in the area and writing a management plan.

“It takes a while to go through all of this and we’re still learning the process ourselves,” she said.

The plan is meant to show the World Heritage Committee the Klondike will be managed responsibly, said Molly Shore, communications assistant with the World Heritage Project.

“We need to show them we’re protecting the cultural values of the site,” Shore said.

“In some places they’re starting from scratch when creating a management plan. But since the Yukon is such a well-legislated place we’re pulling information together and putting it into terms that makes sense to them.

“We want to make sure it’s not a big fat document that no one can understand.”

The committee has also been in talks with other stakeholders such as the Klondike Placer Miners’ Association, the Yukon Chamber of Mines, the Klondike Visitors Association, the Dawson Chamber of Commerce and the Dawson City Museum.

Shore said it’s important for everyone involved to know that activities such as placer mining can continue in the area despite the application to become a world heritage site.

“We haven’t been endorsed by the mining community yet,” Shore said, “but we haven’t truly been endorsed by anyone yet because that’s not really possible until our work is closer to being completed.”

Hassard estimates the committee won’t know whether it’s been accepted as a world heritage site until the summer of 2018.

The designation for the Klondike would increase tourism for the area and would also provide more investment and business opportunities, the committee has said in the past.

The Yukon government announced this week it was investing just over $116,000 in the project for the 2016/17 fiscal year.

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Canada: Half Of World's Natural Heritage Sites Are Under Threat

Article by Kirsten Mikadze

Last Updated: April 15 2016

http://envirolaw.com/half-of-worlds-natural-heritage-sites-are-under-threat/?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=View-Original

(Left: Kirsten Mikadze)

A chilling report recently released by WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) has found that nearly half of the world’s UNESCO-designated natural World Heritage Sites are threatened by industrial activities including oil, gas, and mineral extraction, overfishing, and illegal logging.

Sadly, some of the world’s most iconic natural sites have made it onto the WWF’s list, including:

◾the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which is under stress due to extensive coral bleaching and is under further threat from the proposed Carmichael coal mine;

◾the Everglades National Park in the US, which has been so degraded by encroaching industrial and agricultural development, among other threats, that it has been inscribed by UNESCO onto its List of World Heritage in Danger;

◾Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, which has been investigated by UNESCO for threats from ongoing development in the oil sands (incidentally, it is Canada’s largest national park); and

◾Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks in Alberta and British Columbia, which is a system of 7 parks under stress from expanding resource development activities.

There are currently 229 sites designated natural and mixed natural/cultural world heritage sites. Under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, World Heritage sites are designated by UNESCO in recognition of their “outstanding universal value” (article 11). They must meet at least one of a list of selection criteria.

For “natural” heritage sites, that means they must:

◾contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance (criterion vii);

◾be an outstanding example representing major stages of earth’s history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features (criterion viii);

◾be an outstanding example representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals (criterion ix); or

◾contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation (criterion x).

Not only do Natural World Heritage Sites provide crucial support for a multitude of complex ecosystems, many are also sources of food, freshwater, and employment for millions of people, among other benefits. Many also act as carbon sinks and provide protection from the impacts of climate change. They are also important tourist draws, generating billions of dollars of revenue every year.

Once designated, the states in which they are located are expected to undertake measures to ensure the protection, conservation, and protection of the designated site (Article 5).

The WWF report makes a number of suggestions to minimize these threats, including the establishment of clear buffer zones to provide additional protection to sites.

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Kimberly Simmons is fighting to make the Detroit River a UNESCO world heritage site

Detroit-based historian and researcher has been working on UNESCO effort for eight years

CBC News

Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/simmons-unesco-detroit-river-1.3527734

A Michigan woman has been pushing for the Detroit River to be recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. (Geoff Nixon/CBC)

Kimberly Simmons has spent eight years trying to get the Detroit River recognized on a world stage.

Specifically, she wants it to become a UNESCO World Heritage site, on account of its role in the underground railroad decades ago.

And while the Detroit historian, researcher and author has done a lot of work already, she still has a long way to go to seeing her dream become a reality.

"We are eight years in and I really would like to see the mission completed within the next couple of years," Simmons recently told CBC Radio's Windsor Morning.

She estimates that about 30 people have had a hand in working on the effort so far, though Simmons is the only person working on it on a daily basis.

More than 1,000 around the globe

There are 17 sites in Canada with a world heritage designation, according to the UNESCO website. In Ontario there is just one — the Rideau Canal. Others in Canada include the L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site and Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park.

The United States has just under two dozen sites on the world heritage list. There are more than 1,000 of these UNESCO-recognized sites across the world.

In order for a site to make the list, it has to be considered to have "outstanding universal value" and it must meet at least one of 10 selection criteria.

In the case of the Detroit River, Simmons believes it can be recognized in the category for its traditional land or sea use that is representative of a culture.

"It's a natural border shared by two countries and drove [20,000] to 25,000 people to come here to find freedom," said Simmons.

'You have to convince the world'

Part of the process to getting a world heritage designation involves providing evidence of a site's history. And Simmons said there is a high bar for making that case.

"In order to get a designation of world significance to happen through the United Nations, you have to convince the world that what you say is true," said Simmons.
Kimberly Simmons, a Detroit-based historian, researcher and author, has been pushing for the Detroit River to be recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Submitted)

The effort is further complicated by the fact that it would be a designation shared by both Canada and the United States. That implies a need for buy-in on both sides of the border.

"We are talking two governments, along with just the people that surround it, that have to make this happen," said Simmons.

Simmons sees some big economic benefits for both sides of the border if the Detroit River could obtain the designation.

"Our river has the opportunity, not to just draw people to see a pretty river, but to draw big tourism dollars," she said.

For Simmons, there is a personal element to her quest to win a designation for the river, as some of her ancestors travelled along the underground railroad.

"My family has moved not very far from where they first landed in Sandwich, close to 180 years ago and therefore, the river has always been very, very significant to me and to the family," she said.

With files from the CBC's Tony Doucette and CBC Radio's Windsor Morning

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Designated World Heritage Sites

Afghanistan

Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley

Albania

Butrint

Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra

Algeria

Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad

Djémila

M'Zab Valley

Tassili n'Ajjer #

Timgad

Tipasa

Kasbah of Algiers

Andorra

Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley

Argentina

Los Glaciares National Park #

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil) *

Iguazu National Park

Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas

Península Valdés

Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks

Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba

Quebrada de Humahuaca

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

Armenia

Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin

Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley

Australia

Great Barrier Reef

Kakadu National Park

Willandra Lakes Region

Lord Howe Island Group

Tasmanian Wilderness

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 1

Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 2

Wet Tropics of Queensland

Shark Bay, Western Australia

Fraser Island

Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)

Heard and McDonald Islands

Macquarie Island

Greater Blue Mountains Area

Purnululu National Park

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

Sydney Opera House

Australian Convict Sites

Ningaloo Coast

Austria

Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg

Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn

Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape

Semmering Railway

City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg

Wachau Cultural Landscape

Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape *

Historic Centre of Vienna

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

Azerbaijan

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Bahrain

Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun

Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy

Bangladesh

Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat

Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur

The Sundarbans

Barbados

Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison

Belarus

Białowieża Forest *

Mir Castle Complex

Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Belgium

Flemish Béguinages

La Grand-Place, Brussels

The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)

Belfries of Belgium and France * 3

Historic Centre of Brugge

Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)

Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes (Mons)

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

Stoclet House

Major Mining Sites of Wallonia

Belize

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

Benin

Royal Palaces of Abomey

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

City of Potosí

Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos

Historic City of Sucre

Fuerte de Samaipata

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar

Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad

Botswana

Tsodilo

Okavango Delta

Brazil

Historic Town of Ouro Preto

Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda

Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil) *

Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas

Iguaçu National Park

Brasilia

Serra da Capivara National Park

Historic Centre of São Luís

Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves

Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves

Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina

Central Amazon Conservation Complex 4

Pantanal Conservation Area

Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves

Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks

Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás

São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão

Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea

Bulgaria

Boyana Church

Madara Rider

Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo

Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

Ancient City of Nessebar

Pirin National Park

Rila Monastery

Srebarna Nature Reserve

Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

Burkina Faso

Ruins of Loropéni

Cabo Verde

Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande

Cambodia

Angkor

Temple of Preah Vihear

Cameroon

Dja Faunal Reserve

Sangha Trinational *

Canada

L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

Nahanni National Park #

Dinosaur Provincial Park

Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 5

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

SGang Gwaay

Wood Buffalo National Park

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks # 6

Historic District of Old Québec

Gros Morne National Park

Old Town Lunenburg

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park *

Miguasha National Park

Rideau Canal

Joggins Fossil Cliffs

Landscape of Grand Pré

Red Bay Basque Whaling Station

Central African Republic

Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park

Sangha Trinational *

Chad

Lakes of Ounianga

Chile

Rapa Nui National Park

Churches of Chiloé

Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso

Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works

Sewell Mining Town

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

China

Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

Mogao Caves

Mount Taishan

Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian

The Great Wall

Mount Huangshan

Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area

Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area

Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area

Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains

Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa 7

Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde

Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu

Lushan National Park

Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area

Ancient City of Ping Yao

Classical Gardens of Suzhou

Old Town of Lijiang

Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing

Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing

Dazu Rock Carvings

Mount Wuyi

Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun

Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Longmen Grottoes

Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System

Yungang Grottoes

Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas

Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom

Historic Centre of Macao

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains

Yin Xu

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

South China Karst

Fujian Tulou

Mount Sanqingshan National Park

Mount Wutai

China Danxia

Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”

West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou

Chengjiang Fossil Site

Site of Xanadu

Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces

Xinjiang Tianshan

Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor *

The Grand Canal

Tusi Sites

Colombia

Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena

Los Katíos National Park

Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox

National Archeological Park of Tierradentro

San Agustín Archaeological Park

Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary

Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

Congo

Sangha Trinational *

Costa Rica

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park *

Cocos Island National Park

Area de Conservación Guanacaste

Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís

Côte d'Ivoire

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve *

Taï National Park

Comoé National Park

Historic Town of Grand-Bassam

Croatia

Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian

Old City of Dubrovnik

Plitvice Lakes National Park #

Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč

Historic City of Trogir

The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik

Stari Grad Plain

Cuba

Old Havana and its Fortification System

Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios

San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

Desembarco del Granma National Park

Viñales Valley

Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba

Alejandro de Humboldt National Park

Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos

Historic Centre of Camagüey

Cyprus

Paphos

Painted Churches in the Troodos Region

Choirokoitia

Czech Republic
Historic Centre of Český Krumlov

Historic Centre of Prague

Historic Centre of Telč

Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora

Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž

Holašovice Historic Village

Litomyšl Castle

Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc

Tugendhat Villa in Brno

Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Complex of Koguryo Tombs

Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Virunga National Park #

Kahuzi-Biega National Park

Garamba National Park

Salonga National Park

Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Denmark

Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church

Roskilde Cathedral

Kronborg Castle

Ilulissat Icefjord

Wadden Sea *

Stevns Klint

Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement

The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand

Dominica

Morne Trois Pitons National Park

Dominican Republic

Colonial City of Santo Domingo

Ecuador

City of Quito

Galápagos Islands

Sangay National Park #

Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

Egypt

Abu Mena

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

Historic Cairo

Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur

Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae

Saint Catherine Area

Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)

El Salvador
Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site

Estonia

Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Ethiopia

Simien National Park

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region

Aksum

Lower Valley of the Awash

Lower Valley of the Omo

Tiya

Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town

Konso Cultural Landscape

Fiji

Levuka Historical Port Town

Finland

Fortress of Suomenlinna

Old Rauma

Petäjävesi Old Church

Verla Groundwood and Board Mill

Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago *

Struve Geodetic Arc *

France

Chartres Cathedral

Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay

Palace and Park of Versailles

Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley

Vézelay, Church and Hill

Amiens Cathedral

Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange

From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve #

Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy

Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

Strasbourg – Grande île

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims

Paris, Banks of the Seine

Bourges Cathedral

Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge

Canal du Midi

Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu *

Historic Site of Lyons

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

Belfries of Belgium and France * 8

Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion

The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes 9

Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs

Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret

Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

Fortifications of Vauban

Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems

Episcopal City of Albi

Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin

Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche

Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

Climats, terroirs of Burgundy

Gabon

Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda

Gambia

Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites

Stone Circles of Senegambia *

Georgia

Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery

Historical Monuments of Mtskheta

Upper Svaneti

Germany

Aachen Cathedral

Speyer Cathedral

Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

Pilgrimage Church of Wies

Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl

St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim

Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier

Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 10

Hanseatic City of Lübeck

Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch

Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System #

Maulbronn Monastery Complex

Town of Bamberg

Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg

Völklingen Ironworks

Messel Pit Fossil Site

Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau

Cologne Cathedral

Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg

Classical Weimar

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

Wartburg Castle

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

Monastic Island of Reichenau

Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar

Upper Middle Rhine Valley

Dresden Elbe Valley Delisted 2009

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski *

Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen

Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany *

Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

Wadden Sea *

Fagus Factory in Alfeld

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

Margravial Opera House Bayreuth

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe

Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus

Ghana

Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

Asante Traditional Buildings

Greece

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae

Acropolis, Athens

Archaeological Site of Delphi

Medieval City of Rhodes

Meteora

Mount Athos

Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika

Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus

Archaeological Site of Mystras

Archaeological Site of Olympia

Delos

Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios

Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos

Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)

Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns

The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos

Old Town of Corfu
Guatemala

Antigua Guatemala

Tikal National Park

Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

Guinea

Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve *

Haiti

National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers

Holy See

Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 11

Vatican City

Honduras

Maya Site of Copan

Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve

Hungary

Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue

Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings

Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst *

Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment

Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta

Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)

Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape *

Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape

Iceland

Þingvellir National Park

Surtsey

India

Agra Fort
Ajanta Caves

Ellora Caves

Taj Mahal

Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram

Sun Temple, Konârak

Kaziranga National Park

Keoladeo National Park

Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

Churches and Convents of Goa

Fatehpur Sikri

Group of Monuments at Hampi

Khajuraho Group of Monuments

Elephanta Caves

Great Living Chola Temples 12

Group of Monuments at Pattadakal

Sundarbans National Park

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks

Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

Humayun's Tomb, Delhi

Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi

Mountain Railways of India

Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)

Red Fort Complex

The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

Western Ghats

Hill Forts of Rajasthan

Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area

Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat

Indonesia

Borobudur Temple Compounds

Komodo National Park

Prambanan Temple Compounds

Ujung Kulon National Park

Sangiran Early Man Site

Lorentz National Park

Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra

Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Meidan Emam, Esfahan

Persepolis

Tchogha Zanbil

Takht-e Soleyman

Bam and its Cultural Landscape

Pasargadae

Soltaniyeh

Bisotun

Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran

Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System

Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil

Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex

The Persian Garden

Gonbad-e Qābus

Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan

Golestan Palace

Shahr-i Sokhta

Cultural Landscape of Maymand

Susa
Iraq

Hatra

Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)

Samarra Archaeological City

Erbil Citadel
Ireland

Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne

Sceilg Mhichíl

Israel

Masada

Old City of Acre

White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement

Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba

Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev

Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee

Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves

Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves

Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal

Italy

Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci

Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 13

Historic Centre of Florence

Piazza del Duomo, Pisa

Venice and its Lagoon

Historic Centre of San Gimignano

The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera

City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

Crespi d'Adda

Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta 14

Historic Centre of Naples

Historic Centre of Siena

Castel del Monte

Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

Historic Centre of the City of Pienza

The Trulli of Alberobello

18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex

Archaeological Area of Agrigento

Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata

Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua

Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena

Costiera Amalfitana

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)

Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

Su Nuraxi di Barumini

Villa Romana del Casale

Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia

Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula

Historic Centre of Urbino

Villa Adriana (Tivoli)

Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites

City of Verona

Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)

Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)

Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy

Monte San Giorgio *

Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

Val d'Orcia

Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli

Mantua and Sabbioneta

Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes *

The Dolomites

Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany

Mount Etna

Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato

Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale

Jamaica

Blue and John Crow Mountains

Japan
Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area

Himeji-jo

Shirakami-Sanchi

Yakushima

Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)

Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

Itsukushima Shinto Shrine

Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

Shrines and Temples of Nikko

Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu

Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range

Shiretoko

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape

Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land

Ogasawara Islands

Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration

Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

Jerusalem (Site proposed by Jordan)

Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls

Jordan

Petra

Quseir Amra

Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)

Wadi Rum Protected Area

Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)

Kazakhstan

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly

Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan

Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor *

Kenya

Lake Turkana National Parks

Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest

Lamu Old Town

Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests

Fort Jesus, Mombasa

Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley

Kiribati

Phoenix Islands Protected Area

Kyrgyzstan

Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain

Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor *

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Town of Luang Prabang

Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape

Latvia

Historic Centre of Riga

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Lebanon

Anjar

Baalbek

Byblos

Tyre

Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)

Lesotho

Maloti-Drakensberg Park *

Libya

Archaeological Site of Cyrene

Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna

Archaeological Site of Sabratha

Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

Old Town of Ghadamès

Lithuania

Vilnius Historic Centre

Curonian Spit *

Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Luxembourg

City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications

Madagascar

Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

Rainforests of the Atsinanana

Malawi

Lake Malawi National Park

Chongoni Rock-Art Area

Malaysia

Gunung Mulu National Park

Kinabalu Park

Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca

Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley

Mali

Timbuktu

Old Towns of Djenné

Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)

Tomb of Asia

Malta

City of Valletta

Megalithic Temples of Malta 15

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

Marshall Islands

Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site

Mauritania

Banc d'Arguin National Park

Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata

Mauritius

Aapravasi Ghat

Le Morne Cultural Landscape

Mexico
Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco

Historic Centre of Oaxacaa and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán

Historic Centre of Puebla

Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque

Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan

Sian Ka'an

Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines

Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza

Historic Centre of Morelia

El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City

Historic Centre of Zacatecas

Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino

Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl

Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro

Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal

Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara

Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes

Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan

Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco

Historic Fortified Town of Campeche

Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche

Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro

Luis Barragán House and Studio

Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California

Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila

Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco

Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca

El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System

Mongolia

Uvs Nuur Basin *

Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape

Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape

Montenegro

Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor

Durmitor National Park

Morocco

Medina of Fez

Medina of Marrakesh

Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

Historic City of Meknes

Archaeological Site of Volubilis

Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)

Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)

Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)

Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage

Mozambique

Island of Mozambique

Myanmar

Pyu Ancient Cities

Namibia

Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes

Namib Sand Sea

Nepal

Kathmandu Valley

Sagarmatha National Park

Chitwan National Park

Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

Netherlands

Schokland and Surroundings

Defence Line of Amsterdam

Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao

Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout

Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)

Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)

Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)

Wadden Sea *

Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht

Van Nellefabriek

New Zealand

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand 16

Tongariro National Park #

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands

Nicaragua

Ruins of León Viejo

León Cathedral

Niger

Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves

W National Park of Niger

Historic Centre of Agadez

Nigeria

Sukur Cultural Landscape

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

Norway

Bryggen

Urnes Stave Church

Røros Mining Town and the Circumference

Rock Art of Alta

Vegaøyan -- The Vega Archipelago

Struve Geodetic Arc *

West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord

Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site

Oman

Bahla Fort

Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn

Arabian Oryx Sanctuary Delisted 2007

Land of Frankincense

Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman

Pakistan

Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro

Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol

Taxila

Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore

Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta

Rohtas Fort

Palau

Rock Islands Southern Lagoon

Palestine

Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem

Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir

Panama

Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo

Darien National Park

Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park *

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá

Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection

Papua New Guinea

Kuk Early Agricultural Site

Paraguay

Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue

Peru

City of Cuzco

Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu

Chavin (Archaeological Site)

Huascarán National Park #

Chan Chan Archaeological Zone

Manú National Park

Historic Centre of Lima 17

Río Abiseo National Park

Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana

Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa

Sacred City of Caral-Supe

Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System *

Philippines

Baroque Churches of the Philippines

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

Historic Town of Vigan

Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary

Poland

Historic Centre of Kraków

Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines

Auschwitz Birkenau

German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)

Białowieża Forest *

Historic Centre of Warsaw

Old City of Zamość

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork

Medieval Town of Toruń

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park

Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica

Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska

Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski *

Centennial Hall in Wrocław

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine *

Portugal
Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores

Convent of Christ in Tomar

Monastery of Batalha

Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon

Historic Centre of Évora

Monastery of Alcobaça

Cultural Landscape of Sintra

Historic Centre of Oporto

Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 18

Laurisilva of Madeira

Alto Douro Wine Region

Historic Centre of Guimarães

Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture

Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications

University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia

Qatar

Al Zubarah Archaeological Site

Republic of Korea

Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks

Jongmyo Shrine

Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple

Changdeokgung Palace Complex

Hwaseong Fortress

Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites

Gyeongju Historic Areas

Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes

Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty

Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong

Namhansanseong

Baekje Historic Areas

Republic of Moldova

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Romania

Danube Delta

Churches of Moldavia

Monastery of Horezu

Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania 19

Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains

Historic Centre of Sighişoara

Wooden Churches of Maramureş

Russian Federation

Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments

Kizhi Pogost

Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow

Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands

Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings

White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad

Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

Virgin Komi Forests

Lake Baikal

Volcanoes of Kamchatka 20

Golden Mountains of Altai

Western Caucasus

Curonian Spit *

Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery

Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin

Central Sikhote-Alin

Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent

Uvs Nuur Basin *

Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent

Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve

Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Putorana Plateau

Lena Pillars Nature Park

Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park

Saint Lucia

Pitons Management Area

San Marino
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano

Saudi Arabia

Al-Hijr Archaeological Site (Madâin Sâlih)

At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah

Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah

Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Island of Gorée

Niokolo-Koba National Park

Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

Island of Saint-Louis

Stone Circles of Senegambia *

Saloum Delta

Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes

Serbia

Stari Ras and Sopoćani

Studenica Monastery

Medieval Monuments in Kosovo

Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius

Seychelles

Aldabra Atoll

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve

Singapore

Singapore Botanical Gardens

Slovakia

Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity

Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments

Vlkolínec

Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst *

Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany *

Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area

Slovenia

Škocjan Caves #

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija *

Solomon Islands

East Rennell

South Africa
Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa

iSimangaliso Wetland Park

Robben Island

Maloti-Drakensberg Park *

Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape

Cape Floral Region Protected Areas

Vredefort Dome

Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape

Spain

Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada 21

Burgos Cathedral

Historic Centre of Cordoba 22

Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid

Works of Antoni Gaudí 23

Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain

Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias 24

Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches

Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)

Garajonay National Park

Historic City of Toledo

Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 25

Old Town of Cáceres

Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville

Old City of Salamanca

Poblet Monastery

Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida

Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

Doñana National Park

Historic Walled Town of Cuenca

La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia

Las Médulas

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

Pyrénées - Mont Perdu *

San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries

Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 26

Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares

Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture

San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco

Archaeological Site of Atapuerca

Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí

Palmeral of Elche

Roman Walls of Lugo 27

Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza

Vizcaya Bridge

Teide National Park

Tower of Hercules

Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana

Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija *

Sri Lanka

Ancient City of Polonnaruwa

Ancient City of Sigiriya

Sacred City of Anuradhapura

Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications

Sacred City of Kandy

Sinharaja Forest Reserve 28

Golden Temple of Dambulla

Central Highlands of Sri Lanka

Sudan

Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region

Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe

Suriname

Central Suriname Nature Reserve

Historic Inner City of Paramaribo

Sweden

Royal Domain of Drottningholm

Birka and Hovgården

Engelsberg Ironworks

Rock Carvings in Tanum

Skogskyrkogården

Hanseatic Town of Visby

Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå

Laponian Area

Naval Port of Karlskrona

Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland

High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago *

Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun

Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Switzerland

Abbey of St Gall

Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair

Old City of Berne

Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch

Monte San Giorgio *

Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces

Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes *

Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona

La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning

Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps *

Syrian Arab Republic

Ancient City of Damascus

Ancient City of Bosra

Site of Palmyra

Ancient City of Aleppo

Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din

Ancient Villages of Northern Syria

Tajikistan

Proto-urban Site of Sarazm

Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)

Thailand

Historic City of Ayutthaya

Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns

Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries

Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex

the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region 29

Togo

Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba

Tunisia

Amphitheatre of El Jem

Archaeological Site of Carthage

Medina of Tunis

Ichkeul National Park

Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis

Kairouan

Medina of Sousse

Dougga / Thugga

Turkey

Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia

Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği

Historic Areas of Istanbul

Hattusha: the Hittite Capital

Nemrut Dağ

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

Xanthos-Letoon

City of Safranbolu

Archaeological Site of Troy

Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex

Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük

Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape

Ephesus

Turkmenistan

State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”

Kunya-Urgench

Parthian Fortresses of Nisa

Uganda

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Rwenzori Mountains National Park

Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi

Ukraine

Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre

Struve Geodetic Arc *

Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany *

Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans

Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora

Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine *

United Arab Emirates

Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

Durham Castle and Cathedral

Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast

Ironbridge Gorge

St Kilda

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

Blenheim Palace

City of Bath

Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 30

Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church

Henderson Island

Tower of London

Gough and Inaccessible Islands 31

Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

Maritime Greenwich

Heart of Neolithic Orkney

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda

Derwent Valley Mills

Dorset and East Devon Coast

New Lanark

Saltaire

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

The Forth Bridge

United Republic of Tanzania

Ngorongoro Conservation Area 32

Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara

Serengeti National Park

Selous Game Reserve

Kilimanjaro National Park

Stone Town of Zanzibar

Kondoa Rock-Art Sites

United States of America

Mesa Verde National Park

Yellowstone National Park

Everglades National Park

Grand Canyon National Park

Independence Hall

Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 33

Redwood National and State Parks

Mammoth Cave National Park

Olympic National Park

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico

Statue of Liberty

Yosemite National Park #

Chaco Culture

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park #

Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Taos Pueblo

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Waterton Glacier International Peace Park *

Papahānaumokuākea

Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point

San Antonio Missions

Uruguay

Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento

Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape

Uzbekistan

Itchan Kala

Historic Centre of Bukhara

Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz

Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures

Vanuatu

Chief Roi Mata’s Domain

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Coro and its Port

Canaima National Park

Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas

Viet Nam

Complex of Hué Monuments

Ha Long Bay

Hoi An Ancient Town

My Son Sanctuary

Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park

Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi

Citadel of the Ho Dynasty

Trang An Landscape Complex

Yemen

Old Walled City of Shibam

Old City of Sana'a

Historic Town of Zabid

Socotra Archipelago

Zambi

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # *

Zimbabwe

Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas

Great Zimbabwe National Monument

Khami Ruins National Monument

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # *

Matobo Hills

Notes

Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".

name changed 2007 from 'Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)'

Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.

The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.

Extension of "Jaú National Park".

Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

The "Burgess Shale" property, which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".

Extension of "The Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple Monastery, Lhasa" to include the Norbulingka area.

The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.

The "Chateau and Estate of Chambord", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes".

10.

The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

11.

At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

12.

The "Brihadisvara Temple, Tanjavur", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Great Living Chola Temples".

13.

At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

14.

At the time the property was extended, criteria (iii) and (v) were also found applicable.

15.

The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the "Temple of Ggantija", to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".

16.

The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the "Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand".

17.

The "Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Historic Centre of Lima".

18.

(extension de « Sites d'art rupestre préhistorique de la vallée de Côa », Portugal)

19.

Extension of "Biertan and its Fortified Church".

20.

At the time the property was extended, natural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

21.

Extension of the "Alhambra and the Generalife, Granada", to include the Albayzin quarter.

22.

Extension of the "Mosque of Cordoba".

23.

The property “Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila in Barcelona”, previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the “Works of Antoni Gaudí”.

24.

Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.

25.

Extension of the "Mudejar Architecture of Teruel"

26.

(extension de « Sites d'art rupestre préhistorique de la vallée de Côa », Portugal)

27.

Following a survey of ownership carried out in the late 1960s, ownership of the totality of the walls was vested in 1973 in the Spanish State, through the Ministry of Education and Science. It was transferred to the Xunta de Galicia by Royal Decree in 1994.

The Spanish Constitution reserves certain rights in relation to the heritage to the central government. However, these are delegated to the competent agencies in the Autonomous Communities, in this case the Xunta de Galicia. For the Lugo walls the Xunta is in the position of both owner and competent agency. Under the Galician Heritage Law the Xunta is required to cooperate with the municipal authorities in ensuring the protection and conservation of listed monuments, and certain functions are delegated down to them. The Xunta operates through its General Directorate of Cultural Heritage (Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural), based in Santiago de Compostela.

The Master Plan for the Conservation and Restoration of the Roman Walls of Lugo (1992) covered proposals for actions to be taken in respect of research and techniques of restoration. This was followed in 1997 by the Special Plan for the Protection and Internal Reform of the Fortified Enceinte of the Town of Lugo, which is concerned principally with the urban environment of the historic town. However, it has a direct impact on the protection afforded to the walls, in terms of traffic planning, the creation of open spaces, and regulation of building heights. Another planning instrument which affects the walls is the Special Plan for the Protection of the Miño [river], approved by the municipality at the beginning of 1998.

There is at the present time no management plan sensu stricto for the walls in operation in Lugo: work is continuing on the basis of the 1992 plan. Nor is there a technical unit specifically responsible for the conservation and restoration of the walls. It is against this background that serious consideration is being given to the creation of an independent foundation, under royal patronage and with representatives from government, academic, voluntary, and business institutions, to work with the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Galicia. The work plan of this body would include the development and implementation of integrated conservation, restoration, and maintenance programmes.

28.

The WH area is managed directly by the Divisional Forest Officer from the Forest Dept. A national steering Committee co-ordinates institutions for Sinharaja as a National Wilderness Area, Biosphere Reserve (1988), and WH site. There are two management plans, prepared in 1985/86 and 1992/94, which emphasise conservation, scientific research, buffer zone management, benefit-sharing, and community participation.

29.

In 1979, the Committee decided to inscribe the Ohrid Lake on the World Heritage List under natural criteria (iii). In 1980, this property was extended to include the cultural and historical area, and cultural criteria (i)(iii)(iv) were added.

30.

The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

31.

Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".

32.

(renomination under cultural criteria)

33.

Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

*: transboundary property

#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

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Also See:

Stop Agenda 21 Now Before It's Too Late!

17 April 2016

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/04/stop-agenda-21-now-before-its-too-late.html

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Tampa Couple Arrested After They Use Taser to Discipline Teen

By Ellen Tumposky

Feb. 24, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-couple-disciplined-teen-taser-charged-child-abuse/story?id=12989785

A Florida couple who allegedly tasered a 13-year-old boy in their care to discipline him have been charged with child abuse, Tampa police said.

Christopher Lewis, 22, and Deonijhane "Amy" Menifield, 19, were arrested earlier this week, Tampa police spokeswoman Janelle McGregor said. She said Lewis was a relative of the victim, a 13-year-old boy whose name is not being released for confidentiality reasons, and was taking care of him.

Lewis had bought the stun gun about a week before the arrest, police said. "Since that time, both suspects have been using the stun gun as a form of discipline against the victim," according to a police statement.

"The 13-year-old boy told one of the employees at his school what was going on, and the employee called the police," McGregor said. "We noticed visible marks on the boy that were consistent with his story." The teenager had been tasered on his upper thigh, cops said.

Lewis and Menifield were arrested at their Tampa home on Tuesday and were both charged with child abuse. Lewis also faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon. Police said that when they arrested him, he was carrying a 12-inch hunting knife in his jacket.

A neighbor, Frances Helms, told ABC affiliate WFTS-TV that she watches the victim and saw the marks on the boy's arms this week. "It looked like a burn mark," said Helms.

"It's terrible, I would never treat a son of mine like that. It shouldn't be that way," she said.

Lewis told the station the teenager was his brother and denied using the stun gun on him. Police would not confirm the exact relationship between Lewis and the child.

Stun guns, originally developed for use by police, have been abused by private citizens in other recent incidents around the country. Last year in New Hampshire a couple were charged with using a stun gun on their three children, and in Jacksonville, Fla., a mother was charged with battery after she zapped a football coach with a stun gun during an argument.

It is legal in the state of Florida for ordinary citizens to possess stun guns, according to Deputy Dave Burney of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, as long as the guns are hand-held and do not have a "projectile device," which only police can use.

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Also See:
When the Absurd Becomes Reality!

(Part 1)

23 March 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/03/when-absurd-becomes-reality.html

and

(Part 2)

07 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/08/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-2.html

and

(Part 3)

21 February 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-3.html

and

(Part 4)

21 November 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2011/11/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-4.html

and

(Part 5)

24 December 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/12/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-5.html

and

(Part 6)

13 April 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/04/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-6.html

and

(Part 7)

19 June 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/06/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-7.html

and

(Part 8)

21 March 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/03/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-8.html

and
(Part 9)
09 July 2015
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/07/also-see-when-absurd-becomes-reality.html
and

(Part 10)

12 November 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/11/when-absurd-becomes-reality-part-10.html

and

Science Fiction or Future Reality?

01 November 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2008/11/science-fiction-or-future-reality.html

and

What is Truth? - Is Everything Relative? Does the End Justify the Means?

28 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-is-truth-does-end-justify-means.html

and

Are You Reality Denied?

25 March 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/03/are-you-reality-denied.html

and

"Wrongful Birth" Insanity!

14 November 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wrongful-birth-insanity.html

and
It's Everywhere: Be Wary of Myths, Fabricated Lies, and Distorted Data!
29 August 2015
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/08/its-everywhere-be-wary-of-myths.html
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Introducing George Soros
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
New York hedge fund manager George Soros is one of the most politically powerful individuals on earth. Since the mid-1980s in particular, he has used his immense influence to help reconfigure the political landscapes of several countries around the world—in some cases playing a key role in toppling regimes that had held the reins of government for years, even decades. Vis à vis the United States, a strong case can be made for the claim that Soros today affects American politics and culture more profoundly that any other living person.
Much of Soros's influence derives from his $13 billionpersonal fortune,1 which is further leveraged by at least another $25 billionin investor assets controlled by his firm, Soros Fund Management.2 An equally significant source of Soros's power, however, is his passionate messianic zeal. Soros views himself as a missionary with something of a divine mandate to transform the world and its institutions into something better—as he sees it.

Over the years, Soros has given voice to this sense of grandiosity many times and in a variety of different ways. In his 1987 book The Alchemy of Finance, for instance, he wrote: “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes or, even better, a scientist like Einstein.”3 Expanding on this theme in his 1991 book Underwriting Democracy, Soros said: “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood,” fantasies which “I wanted to indulge … to the extent that I could afford.”4 In a June 1993 interview with The Independent, Soros, who is an atheist, 5 said he saw himself as “some kind of god, the creator of everything.”6 In an interviewtwo years later, he portrayed himself as someone who shared numerous attributes with “God in the Old Testament” — “[Y]ou know, like invisible. I was pretty invisible. Benevolent. I was pretty benevolent. All-seeing. I tried to be all-seeing.”7 Soros told his biographer Michael Kaufman that his “goal” was nothing less ambitious than “to become the conscience of the world” by using his charitable foundations,8 which will be discussed at length in this pamphlet, to bankroll organizations and causes that he deems worthwhile.

“I realized [as a young man] that it's money that makes the world go round,” says Soros, “so I might as well make money.… But having made it, I could then indulge my social concerns.”9 Invariably, those concerns center around a desire to change the world generally—and America particularly—into something new, something consistent with his vision of “social justice.” Claiming to be “driven” by “illusions, or perhaps delusions, of grandeur,”10 Soros has humorously described himself as “a kind of nut who wants to have an impact” on the workings of the world.11 The billionaire's longtime friend Byron Wien, currently the vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Services, offers this insight: “You must understand [Soros] thinks he’s been anointed by God to solve insoluble problems. The proof is that he has been so successful at making so much [money]. He therefore thinks he has a responsibility to give money away”—to causes that are consistent with his values and agendas.12

GEORGE SOROS'S ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT

George Soros was born to Tividar and Erzebat Schwartz, non-practicing Jews, in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. Tivadar was an attorney by profession, but the consuming passion of his life was the promotion of Esperanto—an artificial, “universal” language created during the 1880s in hopes that people worldwide might be persuaded to drop their native tongues and speak Esperanto instead—thereby, in theory at least, minimizing their nationalist impulses while advancing intercultural harmony. In 1936, Tivadar changed his family surname to Soros—a future-tense Esperanto verb meaning “will soar.”13

When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, Tivadar decided to split up his family so as to minimize the chance that all its members would be killed together. For each of them—his wife and two sons—hepurchased forgedpapers identifyingthem as Christians; paidgovernment officials to concealhis family's Jewish heritage from the German and Hungarian fascists; and bribedGentile families to take them into their homes. As for George in particular, the father paida Hungarian government official named Baumbach to claim George as his Christian godson, “Sandor Kiss,” and to let the boy live with him in Budapest. One of Baumbach's duties was to deliver deportation notices to Hungary's Jews, confiscating their property and turning it over to Germany. Young George Soros sometimes accompanied the official on his rounds.14 Many years later, in December 1998, a CBS interviewer would ask Soros whether he had ever felt any guilt about his association with Baumbach during that period. Soros replied: “… I was only a spectator ... I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt.”

For the remainder of the article, please go to: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977

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Special Report: George Soros: Godfather of the Left

Liberal billionaire trying to give U.S. a liberal society it can’t refuse

By Dan Gainor & Iris Samberg

Published: 6/4/2012

http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/special-report-george-soros-godfather-left

Say the name George Soros and liberals see dollar signs – literally. The world’s 22nd richest man, according to Forbes, is now worth $20 billion. But Soros isn’t just noteworthy for the money he has – he’s notable for the money he has given away. Since launching his Open Society Foundations in 1984, Soros has donated more than $8 billion to charities around the world.

But instead of gaining a mighty reputation for his philanthropy, or his investment prowess, Soros is reviled abroad and criticized here in his adopted country. Most everywhere Soros, his foundations or his investing have gone, trouble has followed. He’s helped foment revolutions, undermined national currencies and funded radicals around the world. Soros has been convicted of insider dealing in France and fined $3 million, fined another $2 million in his native Hungary. His “foundations have been accused of shielding spies and breaking currency laws” and his investing strategy has been targeted for harming several national currencies.

Even his support for higher education raises huge red flags. Soros has contributed more than $400 million to colleges and universities, including money to most prominent institutions in the United States. He also helped establish Central European University which, in turn, uses its resources to promote his personal goal of an “open society.”

Here in the United States, Soros money provides the foundation for liberal organizations promoting everything from gay marriage and drug legalization to anti-death penalty strategies. While his charitable giving goes to liberal organizations with close ties to the Democratic Party, his political giving goes almost entirely to Democrats.

That’s not the story the broadcast networks have been telling about Soros for the past five years. There were 29 mentions of Soros during that time but only one gave any hint at trouble, and that was merely to mention he was “still known as the man who broke the Bank of England.” But ABC followed it up with: “That was all legal.” Only a sex scandal with a 28-year-old Brazilian actress gave Soros any negative publicity at all.

Soros Indoctrinates Students Around the World

Left-wing donor George Soros spent more than $400 million world-wide to indoctrinate students and teach them to promote liberal, and in some cases extremist, causes. He has even funded his own university that promotes his own unique philosophy of open society. His reach and influence far surpasses that of the Koch brothers, who have been vilified by the left and the media for their grants to universities.

While the left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brother’s donations to universities, their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times as much. Central European University and Bard College received the most from Soros. One professor at CEU praised the Occupy movement combining environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice. Grants to Bard College for “community service and social action” included a Palestinian youth group and an initiative to educate prisoners across the country. To top it off, all of the Ivy League universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and even religiously-affiliated institutions, were also funded by Soros.

Soros funded programs and classes at universities around the world promote his radical ideology. Soros’s Open Society Foundations granted $407,790,344 in gifts and commitments to higher education since the year 2000. The Koch brothers were vilified by the American political left for donating almost $7 million to universities while their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times that amount to the same type of groups. Alternet, funded by Soros complained about a “shady deal” that helped the Kochs fund Florida State University. Colorlines, also funded by Soros, said of the same donation: “FSU Trades Academic Freedom for Billionaire Charles Koch’s Money.”

Both Central European University and Bard College received vastly more money from Soros than every penny the Kochs donated to higher education. CEU has received more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the Soros foundations. And Bard has gotten $76 million from them.

Together, CEU and Bard received roughly 75 percent of Soros’s total contributions. Central European University was founded and endowed by Soros, providing an outlet for his own personal lecture series that was turned into a book for students to purchase. His ex-wife’s pet project, Bard Collect, received a new department for her to lead and supports Palestinian social programs.

Central European University and Bard College received specific donations for some of the most liberal courses and programs in the world. One course at CEU incorporated lessons of the Occupy movement and the teacher proudly described how the movement combined feminism, environmentalism, social justice, and the labor movement all under one roof. Programs at Bard include a Palestinian youth group, an initiative to educate prisoners across the country, and various other groups for “community service and social action.”

Ivy League schools to include Harvard, Columbia, and Yale were also well funded through the Soros foundations. A Harvard documentary on the War on Terror received Soros-funds along with various left-wing projects at other universities to include judicial and journalism initiatives. Programs that teach and promote Soros’s ideology are heavily funded across the board.

Soros Gave More than 50 Times as much as Koch Brothers to Universities, Liberals Still Scream Foul

The left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brothers donating to universities even though their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times as much. With more than $400 million given and pledged to higher education around the worlds, the American political left is still terrified that they aren’t indoctrinating enough.

ThinkProgress detailed the Koch contributions to higher education on May 11 2011, with Koch brothers’ contributions totaling nearly $7 million. That’s not even as much as the Center for American Progress, which operates ThinkProgress, has received from Soros.

ThinkProgress went on to criticize the Kochs, even saying that Charles Koch went on a “spending spree” to “buy academic freedom.” Soros, on the other hand, has spent more than $400 million on universities around the world. He’s not only managed to buy academic freedom, but win the hearts and minds of students around the world and train them to become left-wing activists.

David and Charles Koch are the libertarian businessmen in charge of Koch Industries. They have donated to libertarian and conservative groups along with medical research, the arts, and various other causes. Even with billions of dollars in funding from Soros, the left feels the need to criticize many of the Kochs much smaller endeavors.

Even major media organizations have gone after the Kochs for their contributions. The Kochs were described as everything from “the ubiquitous Koch brothers: the Zeligs of questionable funding” by The New York Times to the “implacable ideological foes of organized labor” by the Los Angeles Times.

Soros’s Center for American Progress, which received $7.3 million from his foundations, posted a report on their Think Progress blog titled “Koch Fueling Far Right Academic Centers at Universities across the Country.” In the article, the Koch-hating leftist Lee Fang lists universities that received money from the Kochs to include George Mason University, Utah State, and Brown. Totaling nearly $7 million, grants as small as $100,000 were criticized. A donation of $1.5 million to Florida State University supposedly gave the Kochs “a free hand in selecting professors and approving publications.”

While Charles Koch is referred to as “a dominant player when it comes to meddling with academic integrity,” Soros’s name appears nowhere in the article. Giving 50 times the amount cited by the Center for American Progress is ignored by liberal bloggers that are funded by Soros.

AlterNet, the unhinged liberal blog, reposted Fang’s report. They are part of the “Echo-Chamber” of liberal blogs created by the Media Consortium, which received $425,000. An additional $495,000 went to the Independent Media Institute, which is the parent-group of Alternet. They went on to describe the Kochs as “megalomaniacal mega-billionaires” and even were scandalized by Charles Koch, claiming that he went on “shopping spree for an invaluable bauble that most of us didn’t even know was for sale: academic freedom.”

Soros-Founded Central European University Rakes in the Cash

2011 marked the 20th anniversary of the Soros-founded Central European University. Since its inception, the Open Society Foundations have given more than $250 million in gifts and commitments to this European venture. The anniversary website lays out the mission since CEU’s founding in 1991, “The idea was that a multinational university could be a place to study the principles of open society.”

CEU is the prime example of liberal extremism funded at the university level. One professor even praised the Occupy movement combining environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice. Soros has used CEU for everything from promoting his books to hosting an economic conference group (that he of course funds) out to change the global economy. The Soros Lectures is one of Soros’s books, which was created from the lectures he gave at CEU. The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) hosted their 2011 conference at the university.

Praise for the extreme views of the Occupy movement came from one program

director.

Tamara Steger, the Doctoral Program Director for the Environmental Sciences and Policy, visited Zuccotti Park herself to learn about the movement. A video on the CEU YouTube channel showed Steger in front of a class with a slide behind her that said “How to OCCUPY peoples’ heads with your message…” Earlier in the video, she praised the Occupy movement for combining the environmental, social justice, feminist, and labor movements to talk about issues that “really mattered.”

CEU is dedicated to promoting Soros’s idea of an open society and “that professors and students could be recruited internationally to build a new and unique institution, one that would train future generations of scholars, professionals, politicians and civil society leaders to contribute to building open societies and democracies throughout the region and beyond.”

One of the schools “intellectual themes” for 2011 was “social responsibility of academia.” This indoctrination was described as “a university’s obligations to society and their discipline-specific manifestations.” Events were hosted throughout the year, with the goal of Soros’s open society at the forefront. Lectures included one on feminist voice through the Department of Gender Studies and another on global energy emissions to include low carbon output.

CEU hosted a series of five lectures by George Soros that he later turned into a book creatively titled “The Soros Lectures At the central European University.” The lectures and book lay out Soros’s vision for an open society and his view on economics and politics. The first two lectures laid out his theory of reflexivity and financial markets. The third and fourth examined the concept of open society and the potential for conflict with capitalism. Finally, he concludes with a lecture on China’s rising role in the world.

The University also hosted a Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Conference. INET received $50 million from Soros. The event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America isn't so dominant.

CEU even teamed up with Google in September of 2010 to co-sponsor the Internet at Liberty conference which addressed, “the ways in which dissidents and governments are using the Internet; and urgent policy and legal issues of online communication such as privacy and cybersecurity.” CEU’s President John Shattuck described the universities mission as one to promote open societies around the world, “CEU is committed to provide intellectual support for building and strengthening open and democratic societies that respect human rights.”

Departments at the university work hard to promote the Soros vision. László Pinté, Professor of Environmental Sciences, is labeled a sustainability expert that worked with the United Nations. He focused on sustainable development in order to deal with environment problems such as climate change and biodiversity conservation. The Department of Gender Studies description on CEU’s website proudly states, “faculty consider the intersection of gender and sexuality, especially as it relates to feminist theory, queer theory and gay rights activism.”

A seminar called “Promoting Integration Of Migrants And Minorities Through Media” was co-hosted by the Center for Environment and Security along with the Center for Independent Journalism- which ironically received more than $50,000 from Soros. This program described that the media “The media are in a position to play a crucial mediating role between immigrant and host societies” and “enhance social cohesion.”

Soros’s entanglement with the university is blatantly obvious when the Board of Trustees is examined. The Founder and Chairman of the Board is none other than Soros. More than half of CEU’s 20 member board are closely tied to the liberal financier. President of the Soros-funded Bard College Leon Botstein is Chairman of the Board.

Other board members include president of the Open Society Foundations Aryeh Neierand William Newton-Smith of the Open Society Foundation in London. Soros’s son Jonathan Soros is yet another familiar name on CEU’s board.

Other “less notable” connections to Soros on the Board include those affiliated with other Soros-funded universities along with other Soros-funded groups. Harvard’s Patricia Albejerg Graham and Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr. sit on the board with Gerhard Casper of Stanford University. Other groups funded by Soros are represented including Kemal Dervis of the liberal Brooking Institute, which received nearly $250,000. Journalist Kati Marton serves on the board as well. Organizations she has worked at during her career include the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch- $109,239,311, and New America Foundation- $3,831,875, National Public Radio- $1.1 million, International Rescue Committee- $1,267,475, and the Committee to Protect Journalists- $828,766.

Soros’s Favorite U.S. School- Bard College

The “progressive” Bard College in New York is a favorite of the Soros family. With more than $70 million in funding, Bard is the prime example of what Soros aims to achieve with his university funding. He gave an entire department for his now ex-wife Susan Weber to run after she was turned down for the job she really wanted. Bard celebrates left-wing causes and encourages students to go out and become activists for their own favorite causes.

The grants to Bard College show exactly what type of efforts Soros gives to in order to train student activists. Programs at Bard include a Palestinian youth group, an initiative to educate prisoners across the country, and various other groups for “community service and social action.” The school received $76,792,265 in gifts and commitments from Soros since 2000. From 2000-2010 they were granted more than $16 million with an additional $60 million in funding added to their endowment by Soros in 2011.

Soros was quoted in The New York Times, “as a general rule I do not support higher education in the United States.” Soros continued that the grant will “help Bard in its efforts to transform liberal education and bolster critical thinking worldwide.” While this is inherently false seeing as Soros gave more than $100 million to U.S. universities, it still highlight the fact that the programs at Bard are well representative of his views.

Bard is also the home to a department created by Soros’s now ex-wife for her to run. The Bard College Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture was created by Susan Weber (formerly Susan Weber Soros) after she was turned down for another job. As the New York Times described, “Mrs. Soros was turned down for the job of director of graduate education at the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons School of Design. So with $20 million of her husband's money, she started her own school.”

Imagine the hysterical fits from the liberal bloggers and the main stream media if one of the Koch brother’s wives did such a thing! Susan Weber, however, was hailed as savvy woman on a mission. The New York Times even compared her in the same article to “a long tradition of wealthy women who have been instrumental in founding cultural institutions” such as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s funding of the Whitney Museum and Abby Alrdrich Rockefeller and her contribution to the Museum of Modern Art. The comparison of a graduate program to two groundbreaking museums, however noteworthy, is a bit of an exaggeration.

Described as a “progressive college” by one of their own, Bard’s promotion of left-wing causes surely helped gain additional funds from Soros. 150 years of Bard College is celebrated in the video “Education for the Common Good.” This eleven-minute video describes how Bard is different from other universities. David E. Schwab II, Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustee described the institution as a “progressive college” and many of Soros’s pet projects are detailed.

Bard’s Institute for International Liberal Education helped found and is partnered with various institutions. Joint degree programs are offered in South Africa, Kyrgystan, Hungary, Russia, and a Palestinian school in Jerusalem. In Russia, they helped found The University of St. Petersburg. Soros directly donated an additional $5,928,599 to the Fund for the European University and St. Petersburg from his Open Society Foundations. In Hungary, they work with the Soros-founded Central European University which received more than $50 million from his foundations.

The Institute is also partnered with Al-Quds University in Jerusalem which provides higher education for Palestinians. Al-Quds is the only Arab university in Jerusalem with close to 12,000 students. They offer a U.S. and Palestinian degree at the Bachelor and Master’s levels to “educate future leaders and foster economic development.” They focus on “educating the whole person: socially, intellectually, and spiritually.” In the about section, Bard is described as a college that “sought to introduce liberal education in ‘countries in transition,’” following the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Soros is able to fund student activists through the Trustee Leader-Scholar (TLS). This program enables students to form groups for “Community Service and Social Action.” These programs provide students the ability to not just create your average student group, but ones that promote Soros’s liberal mission in the U.S. and globally.

The Bard Palestinian Youth Initiative, as described by co-founder Rosana Zarza described, is essentially a global non-profit, “We’re basically running an NGO. We’re doing huge things. We’re impacting the world. Going to Palestine and doing all of these things. It’s huge.” Their about us section states that they want “civil engagement, cultural exchange, and education are the fundamental means to building a viable and sustainable Palestinian state.” Below they describe the TLS as a program that “encourages and supports students to do challenging, even brazen acts of world change.”

Another program started by a former student focuses on another issue that Soros has worked on for the past decade. The Bard Prison Initiative, which received $600,000 in individual grants from Soros’s Open Society Foundations, is a degree program held in five New York correctional facilities. They provide degree programs for incarcerated men and women and created the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison to promote similar programs around the country.

Other academic programs prop up issues that are important to Soros himself. The Center for Environmental Policy, as described by Director Eban Goodstein, helps “facilitate national conversations about global warming solutions, clean energy solutions to global warming.” They host a National Climate Seminar via phone twice a month to bring together scientists, filmmakers, policy analysts, and anyone interested in “solving this truly civilization challenge.”

University Funding- Everything from the Ivy League to State Schools and Religious Universities

Soros gives money to a variety of other schools specifically to promote his left-wing causes. In addition to heavily funding Central European University and Bard College, Soros funded programs and classes at universities around the world promote his radical ideology. Soros’s Open Society Foundations granted more than $400 million in gifts and commitments to higher education since the year 2000.

All of the Ivy League universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and even religiously-affiliated institutions are funded by Soros. These grants went a documentary on the War on Terror from Harvard to studying race and ethnicity at Ohio State University.

Every one of the Ivy League colleges and universities received funding from Soros. More than $15 million was granted since 2000 to promote specific programs that line up with the Soros ideology. Columbia and Harvard were the real winners, receiving more than $8 million and more than $5 million respectively. Dartmouth bottomed out with a mere $3,000 with Princeton following at $36,000. All of the other institutions received over $200,000.

Nineteen schools received more than $1 million from Soros. Central European University and Bard College led the pack followed by Columbia, the European University at St. Petersburg, and Indiana University.

Money from Soros goes to everything from general operating funds to specific pet projects that influence the local community and the world. Whether it’s a top ranked university or a religiously-affiliated one, Soros has managed to find a left-wing cause to back with the help of his foundations.

Harvard received $60,000 in 2008 to “develop outreach program” for the film Secrecy. This 85 minute documentary on the War on Terror, “with homeland security and the war on terror becoming increasingly important issues, the U.S. government has grown more and more secretive, allegedly to protect the country and save lives. But is this culture of secrets at odds with democracy?” The documentary was also shown at the Sundance Film Festival, which received $5,742,000 from Soros, and at the Tribeca Film Festival, which got $85,000 from the Open Society Foundations.

Georgetown received $1,775,055 specifically allocated for the Justice at Stake campaign, whose mission it is to “keep state and federal courts fair and impartial.” Under the issues overview on their website they have three sections: federal court issues, state court issues, and diversity. They diversity section states, “People of color, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons, and persons with disabilities are underrepresented among state and federal judges.” It goes on to say that this can lead to bias and a more diverse bench is needed.

Other notable grants include $ 5 million to Indiana University to establish an “endowment for benefit of American University-Central Asia” in 2005. The American University of Central Asia provides U.S. accredited degrees through the Soros-funded Bard College. Ohio State University received more than $100,000 for their Kirwan Institute for the study of race and ethnicity while New York University received grants to complete a study on counterterrorism policing in Muslim communities.

Left-Wing Financier Throws Spends Millions on 2012 Election

When you like a product, you give it your stamp of approval – whether it’s the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval or the USDA imprint on food. But if you love a product, then you pony up the cash. George Soros knows this as much as anyone. Soros, the moneybags of the left, has spent $36 million in the last several years funding politicians and the left’s political machine. He also gave $550 million to liberal causes in 2000-2009.

There’s no product the Soros family likes better than Obama. The Democratic president has received more money from Soros and his kin than any other political candidate in the last 11 years – $16,000 and counting. They gave an additional $250,000 to the inauguration fund, with five members of the family each giving the maximum contribution of $50,000.

Given limits on donations, that’s an impressive amount of support. Obama leads a list of the most doctrinaire liberals running for office – all funded by Soros and his family. Those include former comic-turned Sen. Al Franken, lefty Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer and new “progressive” darling and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

Soros has propped up liberal politicians for years in the United States, with more than $4 million in direct funding from him and his family. Well known for funneling millions of dollars to liberal groups in their attempt to destroy President George W. Bush in 2004, Soros has continued to give money to promote causes and politicians on the left.

This campaign season, he’s already donated $100,000 to the Majority PAC and another $75,000 to the House Majority PAC. Both of those are designed to put Democrats in office and keep them there. While Soros initially stayed out of the 2011 Super PAC race by not donating to the pro-Obama Priorities USA, he later came out saying that he was undecided on if he would contribute to or create his own Super PAC.

Ironically, Soros has claimed he tried to stay out of domestic political turmoil, his political donations show otherwise. Soros claimed he tried to remain above internal politics in his opening essay to Chuck Sudetic’s book “The Philanthropy of George Soros.” Soros wrote that he learned, “to keep a greater distance from the internal politics of the countries where I have foundations.” Normal people would say they’d stay out. Soros just wanted to give the appearance of distance.

But he hasn’t stayed out of U.S. politics at all. Through an extensive network of nonprofits, media properties and activist organizations, Soros has become increasingly influential in American elections. His hold over the American political left is especially strong. But just trying to follow the Soros money trail almost requires your own personal accountant. To recap:

•He and his family gave more than $36 million to politicians and political groups through the past two decades.

•Most of that $36 million came in Soros’s epic battle to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004. Soros alone spent more than $32 million of that total to fund the anti-Bush campaign with liberal grassroots groups MoveOn.org, Joint Victory Campaign 2004, and America Coming Together among the top recipients.

•This is only a hint at Soros’s real political funding. He’s given more than $550 million to fund the liberal infrastructure in the United States – pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, pro-drug legalization, pro-union and pro-government-funded media as well as anti-faith, anti-death penalty and as anti-conservative as they come.

To put that in perspective, he vastly outspent the libertarian Koch Brothers in individual political donations 8 to 1. Promoting left-wing ideology to include everything from electing judges to immigration reform, Soros has exerted his power over the nation’s liberal political elite.

The Kochs have been labeled as everything from “Tea Party puppeteers” by New York Times columnists Charles M. Blow to industrialists that “help keep the Tea Party movement well-caffeinated,” and vilified for their extensive giving to conservatives. But Soros has fondly been described as a philanthropist. The media fail to note that Soros has outspent the Kochs in individual-funded political activity.

An analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics’s Opensecrets.org compared contributions by the Koch brothers and George Soros. This review from Sept. 21, 2010 showed Soros lavished more than $34 million on 527s, candidates, and committees. This compared with a mere $4 million from the Koch brothers. The Kochs do surpass Soros in funding to candidates, parties, and committees, but the difference is a little more than $800,000. Opensecrets.org is part of the Soros-funded Center for Responsive Politics. They received $500,000 in grants from the Open Society Foundation since 2000.

All this funding is a key part of the Soros empire with more than $8 billion donated through his Open Society Foundations – and it’s about to help impact another election.

But there’s been lots of negatives in Soros’s past as he’s spread his influence around the world. Soros wears criticism like a badge of honor. “I have now come under attack in several countries: in Hungary from Hungarian nationalists; in Romania from the Vatra Romanesca; in Slovakia from the communist party newspaper Pravda; in the Soviet Union by the organ of the hard-liners Sovietskaia Russiya,” he claimed in “Underwriting Democracy.”

Financial Concerns Persist

Soros’s Open Society Fund was created in 1979 as a charitable lead trust. Even its creator admitted his motives were “basically selfish” and he wanted a “tax gimmick.” He did it as a “trust for his children” The foundation charities themselves claim 1984 as their date of origin.

While Soros has been known worldwide for his investment skills, he hasn’t always managed to stay clear of the authorities. He was found guilty in France of an insider trading case about 20 years ago and has repeatedly failed having it pulled from his record. According to The New York Times, in September 2011, a French panel upheld his conviction because “he had bought and sold shares of Société Générale in 1988 with the knowledge that the bank might be a takeover target.” He was fined $3 million.

His fund ran into problems in Hungary, where Soros was born and lived till his late teen years. At issue was how he handled an investment into the “the country’s largest bank,” OTP. “His fund was fined $2 million by Hungarian regulators last week for having manipulated OTP’s stock price,” wrote The New York Times in 2009.

Even when he has steered clear of legal ramifications, he had some questionable dealings. In 1999, New York Times economist (and now Nobel Prize winner) Paul Krugman skewered Soros in a piece for Slate.com. The story, “Don’t Blame It on Rio … or Brasilia Either,” accused Arminio Fraga Neto of working with Soros in his role as president of Brazil’s central bank. Fraga was upset, saying he “did not have access to any privileged information” and Krugman posted a formal apology saying “Fraga has behaved entirely properly.”

A very positive profile of Soros in The New Republic in 1994 still explained that his investing angered several nations. “The president of the European Community and representatives of the French and Belgian governments have accused him of orchestrating ‘an Anglo-Saxon plot’ to undermine the French currency. The British government blames him for driving sterling from the European Monetary System,” wrote Michael Lewis.

Soros’s currency moves have long been controversial. The magazine Foreign Policy ran a cartoon of the billionaire in 2000 that shows Soros torturing a James Bond character and saying “You saw what my awesome destructive powers did to the British pound and Malaysian ringgit, 007 … Do you think your puny governments can stop me?” reported The Washington Post.

The Soros Foreign Policy

Morton Abramowitz of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace once said Soros became the “only private citizen who had his own foreign policy.” That remains true, though it often conflicts with that of the United States where he is a citizen. He has even helped fund the nonprofit group called Independent Diplomat, with the motto “a diplomatic service for those who need it most.” It represented Kosovo, Somaliland and the Polisario Front of Western Sahara, according to The New York Times. All three were looking for recognition as independent states.

Soros devoted much of his early foundation effort to the former Soviet Union and then its successor republics. The liberal New Republic quoted Soros in 1994 saying, “Just write that the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.” Soros is “possibly, fantastically, the single most powerful foreign influence in the whole of the former Soviet empire” they added. He gave so much money that “Sorosovat” “became a new verb in Russian, loosely meaning to apply for a grant.”

While Soros has even been nominated for Nobel Peace Prize, many governments have viewed him as the enemy. In 1997, the Soros foundation was fined $3 million by the nation of Belarus “for what the government said were currency exchange violations,” according to the May 2, 1997 New York Times. Belarus complained the organization had violated its tax status “by supporting unsanctioned opposition rallies and taken other actions that Belarus state television had earlier called “an intervention in Belarus’s domestic affairs.” As a result, Soros closed the Belarus foundation in November of that year, claiming the fines were “politically motivated.”

“In Albania, Kyrgystan, Serbia and Croatia, Mr. Soros’s foundations have been accused of shielding spies and breaking currency laws. His employees have been assault and threatened with imprisonment or financial sanction for alleged crimes” wrote The New York Times that same year.

Croatia went on to indict “three senior officials from a local branch” of the Open Society Foundations for tax evasion, according to The New York Times. It became “the first country in the former East bloc to criminalize the work of George Soros’s Open Society Institute.”

He ran into trouble in Thailand in 1997, as well. “The financier George Soros canceled a speech in Bangkok in February when protesters, including some respected local businesspeople, threatened to pelt him with rotten eggs and fruit.” The protesters credited Soros for the “collapse of the Thai baht,” their currency.

The prime minister of Malaysia had a much-publicized battle with Soros in 1997. Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad said “that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and immoral,” but his attacks also were laced with anti-Semitism and easily discredited. Soros said Mahathir was “a menace to his own country” and “a loose cannon,” according to the New York Times.

Soros was targeted by anti-globalization protesters at the 2001 World Economic Forum in Brazil. An Argentinian activist called him a “hypocrite and a monster,” reported the BBC. The next day he had to cancel a trip to Thailand “after protestors threatened to pelt him with rotten eggs and excrement.”

In 2004, “two young men threw water and mayonnaise at him” in Ukraine, accusing Soros of trying to push a “velvet revolution” just like had happened in Georgia, reported the BBC. That same year, a critic of that nation’s government said “Georgia does not exist right now, it is only another U.S. state whose governor is George Soros,” wrote Al Jazeerah.

His efforts went so poorly in Russia that they came close to open combat. In November, 2003 Al Jazeera reported, “men in battle fatigues have raided the Moscow headquarters of billionaire investor George Soros.” One of the Open Society executives said the attackers had removed documents as a “climax to a long-running commercial dispute.” Soros’s fund pulled out of Russia that year, after having lost a reported $2 billion.

Soros has enormous and global influence – typically purchased by either his own hand or his Open Society Foundations. At one point, he funded the entire government of the then-new nation of Georgia. “George Soros, the New York financier, helped to establish a special anticorruption fund to supplement the paltry salaries of most government employees, from the president (who gets $1,500 a month) down to border guards ($500 a month), wrote The New York Times in 2004.

In 2008, he gave $50 million to Millennium Promise, run by Soros buddy and economist Jeffrey Sachs. The goal of the project is to get “the world’s 22 richest nations” to increase their foreign aid budgets. He gave another $27 million in 2011 to a related project.

Soros has spread billions around he world – even to helpful projects. But his liberal views and aggressive undermining of governments makes everything he does suspect.

Soros Donates $550 Million to Liberal Causes

It's easy to see George Soros's imprint on most major American left-wing organizations. All you have to do is look at their financial forms. George Soros aids hundreds of left-wing groups in America each year under the auspices of his Open Society Foundations. In just 10 years, Soros has given more than $550 million to liberal organizations in the United States.

And that's really just a beginning. That total represents about 27 percent of the $2 billion given out by the American branches of his Open Society Foundations from 2000 to 2009. (2010 forms are unavailable and Open Society staff uncooperative.) Overall, he has given more than $8 billion to those foundations since they first started in 1993, as an outgrowth of his "open society" charity efforts dating back to 1979. His foundations credit him as having given that money "to support human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education in 70 countries."

According to The New York Times, the foundation claims "it is on track to give away about $860 million" this year. If things stay true to form for Soros, much of that money will head toward liberal groups in the United States. How that money is allocated takes on a new dimension as Soros just named criminal justice expert Christopher Stone the foundations' next president, starting in July.

Stone takes over what The New York Times calls "a sprawling constellation of more than 30 organizations that operate in places as diverse as Baltimore, Jakarta, the Kremlin and Congress." The Times left out that the Soros network is laughably left-wing: pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia, pro-gay marriage, pro-drug legalization, pro-union and pro-government-funded media as well as anti-faith, anti-death penalty and as anti-conservative as they come.

It's an important time for the foundations as Soros himself just turned 81 and has decided that he wants the charity to continue after his death. The foundations have focused on influencing America since late in the first term of President George W. Bush, who Soros strongly opposed. "I have to concentrate on what goes on in America. The fight for an open society now has to be fought there," reported The Moscow Times in 2003.

And fight it he has. Cause after liberal cause gets tens of thousands or even millions of dollars from Soros. According to the foundations, their support goes to "fund a range of programs around the world, from public health to education to business development." Some of that is true, even in the United States. Soros funds after-school programs, hospitals and the arts. While some of organizations have a liberal spin, they aren't necessarily left-wing.

But much of it flows to hardcore left-wing organizations. Eighty different liberal groups have received $1 million or more of Soros's charity in that time. Human Rights Watch, The Drug Policy Alliance, The Tides Foundation, National Public Radio, social justice initiatives and more all join the lefty millionaires club - thanks entirely to Soros.

The Drug Policy Alliance alone has received more than $31 million in those 10 years to oppose the "taboo associated with drug use." That commitment has earned Soros the title "sugar daddy of the legalization movement" from conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. Prominent supporters of drug legalization - Sting, Soros himself, and former talk show host Montel Williams - are featured in a Drug Policy Alliance video that calls the drug war a "war on people."

Some of Soros's other donations go to fund his extensive network of liberal media outlets, which have received more than $52 million. Those operations include a wide range of liberal news operations as well as the infrastructure of news - journalism schools, investigative journalism and even industry organizations.

All of that is designed to create what Soros has been pushing for decades to achieve - what he calls an "open society." But what exactly is an open society? In "Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism," he wrote that the concept is "an ideal to which our global society should aspire." But his influences are more complicated and more twisted.

Soros says he based the concept on works by philosopher Karl Popper, who Soros considers his mentor. "Popper proposed a form of social organization that starts with the recognition that no claim to the ultimate truth can be validated and therefore no group should be allowed to imposed its views on all of the rest," Soros wrote in "The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.""Open Society denotes freedom and the absence of repression," he summed up.

In that 2000 book, the current head of Soros's Open Society Foundations, Aryeh Neier, listed seven conditions of an open society that sounded entirely positive. They included:

•"Regular, free, and fair elections";

•"Free and pluralistic media";

•"The rule of law upheld by an independent judiciary";

•And "a market economy."

It's a pretty fair description of the United States, the very place Soros is trying to change. Looking at that list, it would be easy to believe in the benevolence of Soros. But he's been at this a long time and his public description has changed from something monstrous to something palatable.

In "Opening the Soviet System," which came out 10 years earlier, Soros depicted a much different reality of an open society. In a section entitled "Brave New World," he tried to "carry the concept of an open society to its logical conclusion." ("Brave New World," is also the title of Aldous Huxley's frightening view of a dystopian future where the global government controlled the population through sleep conditioning and drugs.)

Soros said: "in an open society none of the existing ties are final, and people's relation to nation, family, and their fellows depends entirely on their own decisions. Looking at the reverse side of the coin, this means that the permanence of social relationships has disappeared; the organic structure of society has disintegrated to the point where its atoms, the individuals, float around without hindrance."

And from there, the description gets worse. "Choices arise which would not even have been imagined in an earlier age. Euthanasia, genetic engineering, brainwashing become problems of practical importance. The most complex human functions, such as thinking, may be broken down into their elements and artificially reproduced. Everything appears possible until it has been proven to be impossible."

Naturally, this new open society would take its toll on the people living there. "Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a perfectly changeable society is the decline in personal relationships," wrote Soros. "Friends, neighbors, husbands and wives would become, if not interchangeable, at least readily replaceable by only marginally inferior (or superior) substitutes." Even personal interaction is at risk in this "open society.""Personal contact may altogether decline in importance as more efficient means of communication reduce the need for physical presence," he wrote.

At least there Soros was a bit honest: "The picture that emerges is less than pleasing. As an accomplished fact, open society may prove to be far less desirable than it seems to those who regard it as an ideal." The added, however that any society "carried to its logical conclusion" becomes "absurd." But he adds, "nevertheless, it should be clear by now that, as an accomplished fact, Open Society may prove to be far less desirable than it seems to those who regard it as an ideal."

The ending of that section specifically mentions Huxley's "Brave New World," along with "1984," and More's "Utopia," as imagined futures that went wrong. Yet even a casual reader can see many direct parallels between Huxley's world and the one Soros aspires to.

Point by point, "Brave New World" skewers that future. Huxley wrote about a one-world government - the "World State - where drug use wasn't just legal, it was strongly encouraged. There, population was restricted and citizens wore "Malthusian belts" with a ready supply of birth control for almost mandatory promiscuity. Abortions were performed in a "lovely pink glass tower" and actual births were done in a lab under direct control of the powers that be. "Brave New World" was written as satire of the other Utopias envisioned at the time. It featured and prominent anti-individual and anti-family themes.

Religion, in Huxley's world, was one of the "monstrous superstitions" confined to savages only and "positively a crime against society," replaced by a feel-good drug called "soma." Soma, readers were told, had "all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."

Soros criticized Huxley's work, but it's as if he used it as a model for his charitable contributions - pro-one world government, pro-abortion, pro-government controlled media, pro-drug and even pro-euthanasia and against the very institutions that stand for traditional values such as family and faith. Imagine if someone had read George Orwell's "1984" and then tried to make it happen. That's what Soros has done, only with another, equally awful look into the future.

Soros has spent hundreds of millions of dollars funding a "Brave New World" for Americans and even he admits it won't turn out well.

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Obama’s Master George Soros: Supporting America’s Enemies at Home and Abroad

by Cliff Kincaid

29 Oct 2011

http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2011/10/obamas-master-george-soros-supporting-americas-enemies-at-home-and-abroad.html

One of his own books calls him the “Stateless Statesman” and he has been honored as a “globalist.” He is usually referred to by the liberal media as a “financier” or “philanthropist.” In fact, George Soros is a billionaire hedge fund operator whose financial manipulations can affect the fates of nations and their currencies. His hedge fund, Quantum Funds, is based off-shore, making the sources of his funds practically impossible to determine.

Forbes magazine says Soros has a net worth of $22 billion, making him the seventh richest person in America.1 The only hedge-fund manager ranked in Forbes’s top ten, Soros lives in Katonah, New York. He has been using much of the money to support the Democratic Party and organizations associated with it.

The exact figure is not known, but it is reported that he spent at least $27 million to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004. At the time, Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, praised Soros for engineering the “privatization” of the Democratic Party through funding of the “527? political groups and bypassing what he called an incompetent Democratic Party apparatus.

He is considered by some the virtual owner of the Democratic Party, having contributed lavishly to the party, its causes and candidates, including Obama. Soros had backed Obama for president in 2008, saying that he had “the charisma and the vision to radically reorient America in the world,” and personally contributed $50,000, the maximum allowed, to the Obama inauguration.

The Soros “U.S. programs,” as they are called, had taken a new and more aggressive direction in response to Republican gains in Congress. “When the U.S. Programs began in 1996, we were in the middle of the Clinton Administration,” declared a “Status Report on Changes in the Open Society Institutes U.S. Programs.” It explained, “The election of a Republican majority in Congress in the 1994 midterm elections dramatized the ascendancy of an ideology that exalted the marketplace as the answer to everything, determined to shrink public responsibility for all except national defense and criminal justice. In launching a U.S. Program, George Soros sought to address the growing inequality fostered by this trend, and to promote public interest values and protect the public sphere.”

Soros made his first big money because of advice provided by Jim Rogers, his junior partner, who had recommended defense industry stocks and helped Soros profit from a defense boom. 3 Today, however, the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) argues for massive defense cuts 4 and was instrumental in the Obama policy change permitting open homosexuals in the Armed Forces of the United States. Our analysis shows that CAP is one of the top 15 organizations supported financially by the Soros-funded Open Society Institute (OSI).

The leading recipient of Soros money is the ACLU, which is so extreme that it favors the legalization of all drugs, even heroin and crack cocaine, and opposes virtually all measures taken to curtail drug use. In another example of its extremist approach, the group has rejected funds from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and participation in the Combined Federal Campaign, because acceptance of the money would require adopting measures to make sure it does not employ terrorists or support terrorist activity.

Soros hired Aryeh Neier as president of his Open Society Institute (OSI) in 1993. Neier had worked for the ACLU for 15 years, including eight as national director.

In his book, Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, Neier talks about his role in creating the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the same group that would eventually spawn the terrorist Weather Underground. Neier says that he hired Tom Hayden as one of the leaders but became disillusioned with Hayden and the pro-communist direction he took the organization. “I was anti-Soviet and anti-communist and was appalled by arguments that Soviet repression and the invasion of Hungary were defensive actions in response to Cold War aggression for which the United States bore prime responsibility,” he said.5

However, the book, published in 2003, makes no mention of one of Neier’s close associates at the ACLU, identified Communist Party USA member Frank J. Donner. The 1959 report of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, “Communist Legal Subversion: The Role of the Communist Lawyer,” features Donner as one of several lawyers identified as members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) before the committee.

Donner’s book The Age of Surveillance

For his part, Donner thanks Neier for helping prepare his 1980 book, The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System. A blurb from Neier is featured on the book flap, which quotes him as saying, “Frank Donner knows more about the theory and practice of political surveillance than anyone else. This magisterial book is essential and fascinating reading for anyone who wants to know why the government spies on its citizens and how this spying has shaped American public life.”

Donner refused to admit his CPUSA membership in an appearance before the committee and attacked those who testified truthfully before it.

(Left: Frank J. Donner)
The CPUSA was viewed by the FBI and the CIA as a subversive force representing a foreign ideology and America’s destruction. The CPUSA announced objective was a “Soviet America.” That is why the CPUSA and its agents, many of them secret members such as “historian” Howard Zinn, Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis, singer Paul Robeson and labor leader Harry Bridges, were under FBI surveillance and the subject of extensive files about their activities and associates.

The CPUSA was so extreme during its heyday that it not only defended the mass murderer Stalin but the Hitler-Stalin Pact. The group also supplied Soviet espionage agents in the U.S. Government.

This is significant in the case of Donner because, as the committee said in its report on the Communist lawyer, “A Communist owes his primary loyalty to an international revolutionary conspiracy, masterminded in Moscow toward complete enslavement of the earth’s people. By subordinating himself to this conspiracy, a lawyer becomes part and parcel of an operation designed to abolish our constitutional form of government and its guarantee of equal justice under law in favor of a slave-state existence.”

The nature of the problem can be found in the so-called Venona papers. These were decoded telegrams between Soviet spies in the U.S. and their superiors in Moscow showing that about 350 Americans conspired with or spied for the Soviet Union. John Earl Haynes, who with Harvey Klehr has written two books on Moscow’s ties to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA),

has said many of them were members of the CPUSA and that several Soviet spy rings were operating throughout the U.S. government. Members of the communist networks included Laughlin Currie, an adviser to FDR, and Harry Dexter White, assistant secretary of the Treasury.

Donner, in turn, leads to some other interesting personalities, including Morton Halperin, another top aid to Soros, and Robert Borosage, founder and president of the Soros-funded Institute for America’s Future and co-director of its sister organization, the Campaign for America’s Future. Borosage was director of the Center for National Security Studies, an organization thanked in Donner’s book, when Halperin was listed as an “associate” with the group. Borosage also served as director of the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies.

Robert Borosage

Halperin, Borosage, Jerry J. Berman, and Christine M. Marwick wrote the 1976 book, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies. They attacked the CIA for its role in overthrowing the Marxist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and the FBI for investigating the communist connections of Martin Luther King Jr. after being requested to do so by then-Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.

At the time of the publication of this book, Halperin was director of the Project on National Security and Civil Liberties, a joint project of the Center for National Security Studies and the ACLU. Berman was director of the Center’s Project on Domestic Surveillance.

Accused by Ernest W. Lefever of having “provided [CIA defector and paid Cuban agent Philip] Agee with classified information for his KGB-assisted book attacking the CIA,” 6 Halperin became “a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations” and one who “provides strategic guidance on U.S. and international issues.” The official bio states that he “previously served as director of U.S. Advocacy for the Foundations”7 and as Open Society Policy Center Executive Director. 8

Halperin’s telephones were tapped when he served under Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration. He was suspected as a leaker of classified information. When he was nominated as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping in 1993, testimony in opposition was provided by Francis J. McNamara. McNamara’s credentials included:

•Headed the National Security Program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).

•Research analyst and consultant to the House Committee on Un-American Activities; subsequently director of research and then its staff director.

•Executive secretary for the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB).

•Vice-chairman of the Security and Intelligence Foundation from 1987-90.

•Senior fellow at the Center for Intelligence Studies in Arlington, Virginia.

McNamara said the following about Halperin:

For some 25 years, as an employee of the Department of Defense and the National Security Council as well as in various private sector posts, he has violated security regulations and/or consistently attacked and strongly opposed generally accepted security practices, in addition to demonstrating extremely poor judgment about what constitutes sensitive security information.

Another reason for rejecting Halperin’s nomination is that he has revealed a sick, unhealthy animus and hostility toward the U.S. Intelligence Community and the individual agencies composing it, despite their vital relationship to the security of the Nation.

In the 1976 book, The Lawless State: The Crimes of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, Halperin and his co-authors wrote:

Communist party affiliation is hardly evidence that someone is a subversive foreign agent. Many members of the Communist party are and were patriotic citizens.

This comment was made in a chapter of the book on the matter of the FBI’s investigation and wiretaps of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It is preceded by the report that Stanley Levison, “a close friend and confidant of King,” was a member of the Communist Party USA.

Information about Levison’s work in the CPUSA was uncovered by Operation SOLO, described as “a long-running FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States and gather intelligence about its relationship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, and other communist nations.” The FBI says it officially began in 1958 and ended in 1977, although Morris and Jack Childs, two of the principal agents in the operation, had been involved with the Bureau for several years prior.

At the behest of Levison, according to John Barron’s book on SOLO, King hired Hunter Pitts “Jack” O’Dell.

Barron reported:

Unbeknown to Jack or Morris, Levison in the I950s met King and subsequently attached himself to the young civil rights leader as a personal confidant and advisor. At the behest of Levison, King later employed Jack O’Dell in the Southern Christian Leadership Council. Morris identified Jack O’Dell as Hunter Pitts O’Dell, a secret member of the party’s governing body, the National Committee. In November I959 Jackson revealed to Jack that O’Dell was working full time for King and that Levison worked closely with O’Dell.

On May 6, 1960, Jack reported: ‘Hunter Pitts [Jack] O’Dell is working full time in connection with the King mass meeting to be held in Harlem on May I7, I960. Working closely with O’Dell are Stanley and Roy Levison [Bennett]. The CP considers [the] King meeting of the most importance and feels that it is definitely to the Party’s advantage to assign outstanding Party members to work with the [Martin] Luther King group. CP policy at the moment is to concentrate upon Martin Luther King.’

Defending the IPS

In 1980, Aryeh Neier went to the defense of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), an organization with close ties to anti-American regimes that worked feverishly to undermine President Reagan’s anti-communist foreign policy. He wrote two articles for The Nation magazine (“The I.P.S. and Its Enemies” in the December 6, 1980 issue, and “An Open Letter To The Times Magazine” in the May 30, 1981 issue) disputing critical attention being focused on the IPS by the New York Times Magazine and conservative authors and writers.

The IPS was the subject of an article, “Think Tank of the Left,” by Joshua Muravchik that appeared in the April 26, 1981, New York Times Magazine. It noted that the IPS was formed in 1963 by Richard J. Barnet and Marcus Raskin, who both served in the Kennedy Administration. On defense and foreign policy issues, Muravchik pointed out, some of those associated with IPS had voiced support for Communist regimes such as Cuba and North Vietnam and revolutionary movements in Africa, Central America and the Middle East.

In addition, Muravchick noted, the IPS facilitated CIA defector Philip Agee’s travels in Europe, sponsored the controversial figure, Orlando Letelier, a Chilean Marxist with close ties to Cuba, and played a key role in the effort to restrict the operations of American intelligence agencies.

On domestic issues, Muravchik said that in 1978, at the request of 56 members of Congress, the IPS prepared a study of the federal budget that proposed a number of Socialist economic measures and a cut in the military budget by nearly 50 per cent. (Fifty-two members requested a similar study in 1982.) The Muravchik article noted that the IPS was seeking to strengthen its ties with Congress, the Democratic Party and organized labor.

Neier objected to the claim that IPS itself had a stand on political issues and took particular exception to charges that the organization engaged in subversive activity or “covert action.”

In fact, the evidence against the IPS was strong and convincing and has accumulated over time. Most troubling has been IPS manipulation and use of religious figures. Catholic Priest J. Bryan Hehir taught a course at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) “Washington School” called “Matthew, MARX, Luke and John.”

Once the communists seized power in Nicaragua, the IPS held events to rally support for the regime.

The 1987 book Covert Cadre documented the communist intelligence connections of the IPS and even featured photos of Soviet intelligence agents at IPS events.

The IPS conducted international conferences with Soviet KGB-affiliated research organizations such as the Institute of the USA and Canada and the USSR-USA Friendship Society. There was official concern over the use of these conferences by Soviet intelligence.

Saul Alinsky, whose disciples trained “community organizer” Barack Obama, also spoke at the IPS.

Soviet spy Alger Hiss, the United Nations founder and a U.S. State Department official, spoke at the IPS on March 23, 1984. IPS regards him as innocent and launched a series of “Alger Hiss lectures” in 2002, after receiving a bequest from the estate of Alger and Isabel Johnson Hiss.

Soviet spy Alger Hiss (at right) at the IPS.

The IPS promoted “Liberation Theology” at Georgetown University.

Senator Ted Kennedy worked closely with the IPS. This photo (below) is from the Institute for Policy Studies Annual Report, 1979-1980.

Another IPS associate, David Cortright, became the Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, an independent, national Catholic university. He was also listed as a sponsor and participant in the first national conference of the U.S. Peace Council, a CPUSA-controlled Soviet front. Notice, too, that Isabel Letelier spoke on behalf of the IPS.

Aryeh Neier, Morton Halperin, and others around Soros object to our intelligence agencies having the ability to use wiretaps, surveillance, and informants and undercover agents against certain political groups. They succeeded in crippling the CIA and FBI in the war against communists, fellow-travelers, terrorists and their sympathizers. These are the people and organizations that Soros now supports and which are acting to dismantle America’s defenses against the global Islamic threat.

Ironically, as noted by Paul Kengor in his book, Dupes, ACLU founder Roger Baldwin began his career working with the communists “but later he cooperated with the FBI in identifying Americans working for the KGB.”

Although some limited investigative powers have been restored in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, America is still vulnerable, as evidenced by the failure of the FBI to solve the post-9/11 anthrax attacks. It is also a reality that the U.S. Congress has nothing comparable to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the House Internal Security Committee, or its Senate counterparts. All of them were abolished by liberals in Congress.

On the executive level, the Attorney General’s list of subversive organizations is no longer in existence and the Subversive Activities Control Board was abolished.

It is curious but telling that George Soros would choose to surround himself with people who either associated with members of the CPUSA or turned a blind eye to the threat they represent. Even Soros’s book publisher, Peter Osnos of Public Affairs Books, has a questionable history. He began his career as an assistant to I.F. Stone, the pro-communist “journalist” named as a Soviet agent of influence who was the uncle of Weather Underground communist terrorist Kathy Boudin

Economic Warfare Against the West

Soros engaged in a complex financial transaction that resulted in the Bank of England losing billions of dollars defending the British pound before having to devalue it. This assault on the British currency has not been analyzed to the extent necessary. One author, George Taylor, wrote a book, Germany Tries Again,9 offering the theory that Soros benefitted from inside information from the German government, and that Germany is attempting to re-establish a position of dominance in Europe. The author notes that both Germany and Soros favored the break-up of Yugoslavia and support for the Muslims in Bosnia. Other analysts suggest the so-called “rich Europeans” who invest with Soros and conceal their identities are based elsewhere and have greater influence over him. Other analysts raise the possibility that Soros is supported by either China or Russia.

In any case, the idea that his wealth has resulted from his own deep understanding and analysis of global financial markets has to be challenged. The secret nature of his trading and currency manipulations lends itself to speculation about whether or not he is in cahoots with other special interests, including those hostile to the U.S.

Significantly, Soros recently failed in his effort to have the European Court of Human Rights lift his conviction in an insider trading case in France.

In a major U.S. court case filed by the law offices of David H. Relkin, Soros was charged with “money laundering, bankruptcy fraud, and bid rigging” and of having a “pattern of money laundering activities.” A Soros representative was quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying that the lawsuit was completely without merit. 10

The suit reviews some of what is known publicly about the history of Soros’s investments: “In August of 1990, according to Reuters News Agency, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents claimed that Banco de Columbia and other banks were conduits for Latin American drug money. In or about August 1994, according to Reuters, Soros acquired a nine percent interest in Banco de Columbia.”

(Left: George Soros)

Soros has categorically denied receiving money from drug cartels or any form of criminal activity. The fact remains, however, that at least some of his financial operations have been based offshore, in banking and financial centers that are reported to be considered conducive to money-laundering.

The U.S. Housing Market Collapse

Soros’s conviction in France for insider trading adds to the concern about his assault on the British pound and what role, if any, he played in the U.S. financial collapse. It stems from a meeting he had with John A. Paulson, a Wall Street trader who made billions of dollars on the decline in housing prices. Joshua M. Brown writes, “One of my favorite anecdotes from the book The Greatest Trade Ever was when John Paulson heads up to George Soros’ offices for a light lunch and a heavy discussion of how Paulson’s real estate/ mortgage crash trade was conceived and constructed.” 11

Gregory Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal had disclosed the meeting, noting, “Word of his [Paulson’s] success got around in the world of hedge funds — investment partnerships for institutions and rich individuals. George Soros invited Mr. Paulson to lunch, asking for details of how he laid his bets, with instruments that didn’t exist a few years ago. Mr. Soros is famous for another big score, a 1992 bet against the British pound that earned $1 billion for his Quantum hedge fund. He declined to comment.” 12

This refusal to comment undermines the idea of the “open society” that he claims to favor.

The collapse of the financial system in mid-September 2008 greatly damaged the electoral chances of the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, who were ahead in the polls at the time, and paved the way for Obama’s victory. Zubi Diamond is the author of the powerful book, Wizards of Wall Street, which carries the subtitle of “The scam that elected Barack Obama.” He accuses the hedge fund short sellers, including Soros, of being behind the U.S. financial crisis that enabled Obama to win the presidency.

Diamond says the Managed Funds Association (MFA), the lobbying arm of the hedge fund short sellers, is crafty and deceitful. “When they tell you that short selling contributes liquidity to the market, that is a lie,” he says. “Short selling destroys capital and takes away liquidity from the market. When they tell you that they are taking steps to remove manipulation from the stock market, that is a lie. They are taking steps to introduce manipulation to the stock market, and prime the stock market for manipulation and looting. When they tell you that the uptick rule is outdated, because of decimalization, that is a lie. They lie to deceive, to bring forth a big payday from short selling, hence the looting of America and America’s wealthiest corporations and their shareholders, sanctioned by their Washington D.C. lapdogs.”

“The most influential members of Managed Funds Association, the hedge fund short sellers, have an anti-capitalism agenda, an anti-industrialized nation agenda, and a far left liberal, Marxist radical agenda,” Diamond says.” Hedge Fund short sellers are not capitalist. They are anti-capitalist and they are not investors; they are anti-investors.” He says they “loot” companies and countries.

Soros Fund Management is a member of the “founder’s council” of the MFA, one of the most powerful lobbies and special interests in Washington, D.C. The MFA, which describes itself as “the global voice for the hedge fund industry,” fights proposals to impose more regulation on hedge-fund managers. The MFA includes managers affiliated with the 50 largest hedge funds who manage a “significant portion” of the estimated $1.1 trillion invested in hedge funds.

However, the Congress refuses to investigate Soros and his hedge fund. In fact, Soros is treated so well by Congress that he actually placed his June 3, 2008 testimony to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee into his book, The Crash of 2008 and What It Means.

Soros is not the only hedge fund operator, of course. Barron’s featured an interview with Adam Fisher, the 38-year-old founder of Commonwealth Opportunity Capital, which was carried under the headline, “How to Make Money in a World of Risk.” The point was that there is money to be made while the world–and eventually America–goes up in flames.

The hedge funds operate beyond the law and governments. One hedge fund manager tried to justify his activities by saying:

Truth can be very uncomfortable but worse than truth are those who try and evade the truth for long periods of times to achieve their ends. For example I praise John Paulson but his genius was to expose the 20 years of absurd subsidization of the housing market (Fannie/ Freddie, mortgage interest deductions, deductibility of property tax on income taxes that only benefits the poor, a local government industrial complex that encourages residential development and ever rising prices and a mortgage delivery system that was corrupt). There was no incentive for anyone to point these issues out because frankly everyone was in on it. The media too loved this as real estate brokers fueled ad pages as did mortgage brokers. Ending this charade was painful but didn’t it make sense for a country to allocate such an absurd amount of resources to an asset that really serves no value at all. Wouldn’t those resources be better diverted to healthcare, education, infrastructure rather than bigger and bigger houses? I lived in China and they tax the hell out of property and divert the money to infrastructure which makes all their people more productive. Yes they have some absurd problems too, but wasn’t the bubble in housing an extreme that needed to end? The fact that Paulson benefited from the issue in many ways is beside the point. Incentives in any ecosystem matter probably more than anything and whether you don’t like that he was rewarded for being a part of the end of this ridiculous real estate complex that’s simply part of being a species that requires incentives to find the right path.

This, then, is the mind-set of the hedge fund short seller. They believe they should set U.S. Government policies – not through open lobbying and pressure on Congress but through financial manipulations. They bet on the decline or collapse of a stock or currency through complex financial instruments handled mostly through secret off-shore accounts in order to damage or destroy a particular sector of the economy. However, before audiences such as those at the libertarian Cato Institute, they insist that they “provide liquidity and transparency to our capital markets” and that their operations “expose corporate fraud and mismanagement.”

Since Congress demonstrates no will to take on the power of these financial manipulators, at least at this point in time, it is incumbent to analyze where their activities are leading us – and the world.

Soros, the most powerful hedge fund short seller, is open about this part of his program. He wants to diminish the role of the U.S. in the world, including the value of the dollar.

He proposes what he calls “an annual issue of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) that rich countries would donate for international assistance.” The SDR idea is a variation of a global tax to finance more foreign aid. SDRs, created by the International Monetary Fund, have been defined as a form of international reserve currency intended to “supplement the existing official reserves of member countries” in transactions with the IMF. What Soros proposes would greatly alter and expand their use.

As someone who has developed a reputation for practicing financial and economic warfare against the nations of the world, he seems determined to drain more wealth away from the United States.

The Obama Administration’s unofficial point man in U.N. deliberations has been economist Joseph Stiglitz, a close friend of Soros who coordinated a “Commission of Experts” that reported to then-U.N. General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto, the notorious Communist Catholic Priest who received the Lenin Peace Prize from the old Soviet Union.

Stiglitz produced his own document which called for “the issuance of additional SDRs,” “additional sources of funding” for global institutions, a new global reserve currency, and a new global credit facility. In terms of new funding sources, the document called for “innovative sources of financing such as emission rights trading and financial transactions taxes…” The concept of “emissions trading” enables corporations to avoid limits on greenhouse gas emissions if they pay taxes to government. It was part of the “cap and trade” legislation that the liberals were pushing on Capitol Hill.

Chapter Five of this document, “International Financial Innovations,” goes into detail, declaring that “For some time, the difficulty in meeting the UN official assistance target of 0.7 percent of Gross National Income of developed industrial countries as official development assistance, as well as the need for adequate funding for the provision of global and regional public goods (peace building, fighting global health pandemics, combating climate change and sustaining the global environment more generally) has generated proposals on how to guarantee a more reliable and stable source of financing for these objectives.”

The document notes that an international airline ticket tax is now in effect, as a result of the actions of the “Leading Group on Solidarity Levies” that now involves close to 60 countries and major international organizations. This money is going to fight global diseases.

The term “Solidarity Levies” is U.N.-speak for global taxes.

The Stiglitz document explains, “Some of the initiatives that have been proposed encompass ‘solidarity levies’ or, more generally, taxation for global objectives. Some countries have already decreed solidarity levies on airline tickets but there is a larger set of proposals. There have also been suggestions to auction global natural resources-such as ocean fishing rights and pollution emission permits-for global environmental programs.”

Stiglitz at “Occupy Wall Street” protest

It goes on to say, “The suggestion of taxes that could be earmarked for global objectives has a long history. To avert their being perceived as encroachments on participating countries’ fiscal sovereignty, it has been agreed that these taxes should be nationally imposed, but internationally coordinated.”

So the nations of the world, including the U.S., will collect the taxes but then turn them over to institutions such as the U.N. The world body will function, in effect, like a global IRS. This is the Soros plan.

Stiglitz, it should be noted, showed up at the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in New York in October 2011 to show his support.

But there is a difference between the “good” Wall Street and the “bad” Wall Street that Stiglitz, being on the Soros payroll, doesn’t want to point out.

Zubi Diamond, author of Wizards of Wall Street & Washington Lap Dogs; The Scam That Elected Barack Obama, writes that an example of the good Wall Street would be someone like Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple: “These people create, run or finance money-making companies and serve the community with much-needed jobs and employment, products and services. The good Wall Street includes the general public mutual funds, retirement portfolios, common investors, banks and venture capital investors who finance and fund the loans for our homes and businesses. They fund and finance economic growth and expansion.”

By contrast, “An example of the bad Wall Street would be someone like George Soros. These people are the financial hedge fund short-selling operators who make money by betting on company collapse, economic calamities and catastrophes.”

Diamond says:

The only financial reform needed today is to regulate and monitor the hedge funds and the hedge fund short sellers, some of them which are registered off-shore to avoid scrutiny. These global operators, with investors who remain mostly anonymous, must be compelled to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), publicly disclose their positions in the markets, and maintain accounting and trading records for a period of 10 years so their activities can be monitored and scrutinized. Just like mutual funds, they must be prohibited from engaging in day trading activities.

Many people do not realize that the hedge funds are responsible for 75-90 percent of all trading activities on Wall Street. They are responsible for the extreme market volatility. They are responsible for everything that is bad on Wall Street.

In addition to regulating the hedge funds just like mutual funds and pension funds are regulated, his recommendations include:

•Reinstate the uptick rule.

•Remove mark-to-market accounting and replace it with historic cost accounting.

•Dismantle and discontinue trading on all the short Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), also called leveraged inverse ETFs.

•Reinstate the circuit breakers and the trading curb to kick in whenever the Dow Jones drops 150 points.

It is significant that Soros has expressed his sympathy for the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. According to one report, “Soros, during a presentation at the United Nations in Monday, told reporters he sympathized with the protesters’ anger over such matters as the bailout of banks and the inequities between rich and poor.” Soros said, “Actually I can understand their sentiment, frankly.”

Soros says this because he knows that the protests represent no threat to the way he does business. He operates off-shore, outside the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission and any laws or rules and regulations which may be passed or implemented. The “Occupy Wall Street” protests only threaten the “good Wall Street” businesses and banks which need and provide capital to create jobs and offer goods and services to the public.

Financing the Progressive Movement

Soros is, in the jargon of the left, a “fat cat” — perhaps the biggest fat cat of all time. And his funding recipients constitute a who’s who of the left, including the extreme left. These are the forces in society that want to see more government control over the private sector. However, their agenda is economic, social, and global.

This “fat cat” supports the causes embraced by the organizations he bankrolls. These include drug legalization, strengthening the United Nations, opposition to the death penalty, euthanasia, tax increases (including a global tax), immigrant rights, prisoner rights, feminism, abortion rights, and homosexual rights.

One notices that Soros finances the establishment of a number of “rights” that have never been self-evident or God-given rights under the American system. This reflects the influence of Soros’s mentor, philosopher Karl Popper, a communist in his youth who writings were later adopted as a basis for “democratic socialism” and the notion that government can bestow rights and manipulate the transformation of society on a gradual basis. Popper thought this approach would make Marxism’s emphasis on the alleged inevitable historical process and violent revolution unnecessary.

One right that he does not favor — the right to life from conception to natural death — is neutralized and undermined by his financial support for “abortion rights” and the “right to die.” His now-defunct $45 million “Project on Death in America” was used to promote euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Calvina Fay of the Drug Free America Foundation calls Soros an “extremely evil person” because of his support for and financing of drug legalization groups. Writer Jeffrey Kuhner called him the “21st Century Lenin” because of his extreme left-wing agenda.

Soros ignored most of the attacks until, in November 2010, Glenn Beck used his Fox News channel program to present an in-depth look at “the Puppet Master” and “one of the most powerful forces in the Progressive Movement.” The scrutiny led to a backlash against Fox News from Soros and his supporters, leading to Beck’s departure from the channel. One of the groups attacking Beck was Media Matters, recipient of $1 million from Soros.

Soros had justified his money to Media Matters by saying in an October 20, 2010 statement:

Media Matters is one of the few groups that attempts to hold Fox News accountable for the false and misleading information they so often broadcast. I am supporting Media Matters in an effort to more widely publicize the challenge Fox News poses to civil and informed discourse in our democracy.

Hence, this billionaire hedge fund short seller was openly declaring war on a private media organization with First Amendment protections under the U.S. Constitution. His war had an effect – Fox News channel personality Glenn Beck was eventually forced out.

This slide from a Van Jones Power Point presentation illustrates the segments of the progressive movement tied to Obama. They also represent the organizations, groups and movements financially supported by Soros. Jones himself has benefited from the Soros largesse.

But our major media would rather talk about the Koch Brothers.

In a major article entitled “Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,” New Yorker author Jane Mayer claimed that the Tea Party and other “right-wing causes” have received more than a hundred million dollars from the Koch Brothers, David and Charles, who are libertarians. The figure and characterizations of where their money goes are disputed. In any case, Soros, by his own estimate, has been spending far more.

Mayer had written a previous New Yorker article on Soros depicting him as well-intentioned, not that concerned about money, the victim of scurrilous attacks, and someone who simply wants his “ideas” to “be heard.” 13

In his 2002 book, George Soros on Globalization, he himself estimated that he had “provided foreign aid on a significant scale – roughly $425 million annually in the last five years – for the promotion of open societies.” 14 His 2004 book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, said his foundations had been operating “with total annual budgets averaging around $450 million for the last decade” and that he had spent “nearly $5 billion over the years.” 15 Other observers say the amount reaches $8 billion.

While the Koch brothers make money from refining, chemicals, building materials, and energy production, Soros makes money by manipulating currencies and betting on economic calamities and catastrophes.

In protesting a Soros appearance hosted by the University of Toledo, Edwin J. Nagle III, president and CEO of the Nagle Companies, highlighted “the immoral and unethical means by which he achieved his wealth.” He added, “I certainly didn’t see included in his bio the stories on how he collapsed whole country’s currencies for his own self interests so that many may suffer.”

Another difference is that the Koch brothers practice and support capitalism, while Soros is dedicated to undermining the American system.

While Soros has contributed billions of dollars to the transformation of America,

Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation, a Soros ally, has alone funneled $1 billion into the effort. His own bio declares, “Tides provides fiscal sponsorship for over 200 nonprofit projects across the country, launches and operates green nonprofit centers and has granted more than $1 billion dollars since 2000 alone.”

Pike, Tides Center founder, was given the ” America’s Future Lifetime Leadership Award” at the 2011 Campaign for America’s Future conference, a group whose Institute for America’s Future arm is subsidized by Soros.

Tides Center is now part of the Tides Network, which includes Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Tides Shared Spaces, and Thoreau Center for Sustainability. The Tides organizations’ aggregate annual expenditures have exceeded $200 million since 2007.16

Pike is the treasurer of the Democracy Alliance. The Washington Post reported that the Democracy Alliance was formed in 2005 with major backing from billionaires such as George Soros and Colorado software entrepreneur Tim Gill. Publicly, however, the group will only say, “The Democracy Alliance Community is made up of progressive investors/donors and movement leaders committed to a stronger democracy and more progressive America. Our Partners hail from business, politics, and philanthropy and provide millions of dollars of support for progressive causes.”

The Democracy Alliance says:

“Membership in the Alliance is by invitation-only.

“We provide you with personalized products and services to help you navigate the progressive landscape and make the most of your philanthropy.

“Each Partner receives professional investment recommendations including due diligence, analysis and ongoing performance monitoring that measures organizational impact, as well as access to a dynamic community of like-minded change-makers.

“In addition to the investment products and services, engagement in the Democracy Alliance includes: invitations to exclusive events and conference calls, regular communications, such as updates on important issues and the work of recommended organizations and quarterly newsletters and access to members-only community website and comprehensive Partner Directory.”

The leadership of the group consists of:

Board of Directors

•Robert McKay – Chair

•Steven Phillips – Secretary

•Drummond Pike – Treasurer

•Kelly Craighead

•Quinn Delaney

•James D. Gollin

•Nick Hanauer

•Mary Kay Henry

•John Stocks

•Ellen Susman

•S. Donald Sussman

•Ted Trimpa

•Michael Vachon

•Rob Stein – Founder Emeritus

Michael Vachon is the director of communications at Soros Fund Management, a spokesman for George Soros, and oversees Soros’ political contributions. He was previously the director of communications for the Open Society Institute and for The Commonwealth Fund.

On October 28, 2004, Michael Vachon interrupted a press conference called by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) to present evidence that Soros has been violating campaign finance laws in his multimillion dollar effort to put Democrat John Kerry in the White House. Vachon interrupted the question-and-answer period by shouting that the NLPC allegations were false and that he and a Soros lawyer were there to answer any questions.

NLPC filed a formal complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against Soros, alleging that he may have made illegal expenditures by failing to fully disclose expenses related to his swing-state speaking tour. This tour concluded on October 28 with his speech at the National Press Club. The NLPC noted that, according to FEC filings, Soros reported the expenditures for two-page newspaper ads he bought in swing states titled “Why We Must Not Re-Elect President Bush,” and for mailings with a similar theme. But nothing apparently has been reported for the significant travel, public relations and the other costs associated with his speaking tour.

NLPC President Peter Flaherty said, “Soros is a hypocrite. First, he bankrolled the groups that lobbied for passage of McCain-Feingold, but now he’s pouring millions through the law’s loopholes. And he has apparently violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by not disclosing the substantial sums he is spending on this speaking tour.”

In the end, the FEC said that it “found probable cause to believe that a violation by Soros occurred but in a 3-3 vote declined to authorize the FEC to file suit against him. The Commission closed the file and took no further action.”

Later the same day, a grieving parent who lost one of his children to a drug overdose attempted to tell the National Press Club that billionaire George Soros had to be stopped in his campaign to put John Kerry in the White House. But as he held up a photograph of his dead child and began to speak, Steve Steiner was quickly surrounded by security personnel who grabbed and muzzled him. He was roughed up and led away, suffering a dislocated shoulder, a punch to the back, threats of more physical violence, and five hours in the hospital undergoing X-rays and other tests. After the commotion, Soros gave his own speech and received a National Press Club coffee mug as a token of appreciation.

Interestingly, Soros was represented on that speaking tour by David Fenton, chairman of a controversial public-relations firm, Fenton Communications, and a one-time registered foreign agent. Fenton has represented the Soros-funded MoveOn.org and has worked for the Heinz Family Foundations. His career began as a photographer for Liberation News Service, which boasted contacts with communist guerrilla forces during the Vietnam War. Liberation News Service was named in honor of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, the phony “nationalist movement” established by Hanoi.

In the past, Fenton has represented the Salvadoran guerrillas, the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, CIA defector Philip Agee, the Marxist government of Grenada, communist Angola, the AFL-CIO, and the Campaign for America’s Future. Fenton represented the “Freedom to Marry” homosexual rights group and hired Cathy Renna, formerly of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Other Fenton clients have included the Ford Foundation, the (Ted) Turner Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.

While Soros spokesman Vachon had a lot to say in criticism of the NLPC complaint, he has been silent about alleged Soros involvement in the LightSquared scandal that is currently unfolding.

Timothy P. Carney of the Washington Examiner reported 17 that Soros invested in the telecom company LightSquared through a hedge fund, and that many of the nonprofits he finances backed LightSquared in regulatory and policy disputes. Those four Soros-funded groups were Free Press, Media Access Project, the New America Foundation, and Public Knowledge.

This may be an example of how Soros manipulates the system in order to make money. His investment is followed by agitation or lobbying by organizations he supports, in order to maximize his investment.

Carney noted that LightSquared is embroiled in controversy because it wants to construct a mobile broadband network to compete with AT&T, Verizon and Sprint but that its plan to do so could potentially disrupt or interfere with the global positioning satellite industry. The GPS is used by private businesses as well as the U.S. military.

In her article about the Koch Brothers, Jane Mayer had quoted Soros spokesman Michael Vachon as saying that Soros’s giving is “transparent” and that “none of his contributions are in the service of his own economic interests.” But when Carney tried to get a response for his article, he was told, “As a matter of policy, we [Soros & Company] don’t confirm or deny information on our investments.”

Soros Fund Management, which advises the Quantum Funds, recently announced that it was being converted into a family office to sidestep new Dodd-Frank financial regulations that require hedge funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission and meet exacting reporting standards. The bill may have been passed knowing that Soros could easily avoid its rules and regulations. However, its impact on businesses which have to comply is in the billions of dollars.

The “Open Government” Fraud

His close relationship with President Barack Obama can be seen in the financial and other support provided by his Open Society Institute to the “Open Government Partnership” project, announced at the United Nations on September 20, 2011, by President Obama and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist terrorist.

“We applaud presidents Obama and Rousseff for having launched this initiative,” the Open Society Foundations said in a statement. “We intend to work with partners around the world to wholeheartedly support and monitor the efforts of governments to make these commitments and to fulfill them.”18

Obama used his U.N. speech the day following the announcement to urge the world to “harness the power of open societies” in order to fight corruption. This sounded very much like George Soros himself, who has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year promoting “open societies” in the U.S. and around the world. His network is called the “Open Society Foundations” and Soros named one of his foundations the “Open Society Institute.”

A possible Soros role in the Obama Administration’s curious dealings with Brazil continues to generate controversy.

At a time when the Obama administration is resisting the issuing of more offshore permits for U.S. domestic oil exploration, it is doing just the opposite with Brazil.

The administration officially launched an “energy partnership” with Brazil in August. “We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you’re ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers,” Obama had told a group of Brazilian business leaders in May 2011.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank had proposed $2 billion in loans to the Brazilian oil company Petrobras to ensure the purchase of U.S. goods as the company explores for oil. The Ex-Im Bank had approved the loans on April 14, 2009, during a time when Soros was buying and selling millions of shares in the company.

It appears that the Open Government Partnership is making use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to create the public impression that Obama is open and accountable to the American people. Soros, who is funding the effort, stands to gain from this perception.

The Frank Marshall Davis Cover-up

This emphasis on an “open society” and “open government” is ironic for many reasons, especially because of the lack of information that was made available by the Obama campaign to the American people when Obama ran for president.

Through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and under FBI surveillance for 17 years. The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”

With the release of a 40-page “Unfit for Publication” report attacking Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, which drew upon material uncovered by Trevor Loudon and America’s Survival, Inc., the Obama campaign acknowledged that the mysterious “Frank” in Dreams From My Father was in fact Davis.

But the Obama report made no admission that Davis was a communist and didn’t dispute what had been documented about Davis’s membership in the Communist Party. Instead, the report tried to put some distance between Obama and Davis and played down instances in which Obama soaks up Davis’s anti-American thoughts and pro-communist “poetry.”

But if the relationship were so innocent, why didn’t Obama identify Frank by his full name in his book and denounce his communist and anti-American views?

The answer may lie in the nature of the network that Davis represented. It was secretive and designed to serve the interests of the Soviet-funded and controlled Communist Party USA. An investigation of Obama’s relationship with Davis leads to Davis’s attorney, Harriet Bouslog, another identified member of the CPUSA. Bouslog was a member-at-large of the executive board of the National Lawyers Guild, a CPUSA front, at the 1956 and 1957 conventions of the NLG. 19 She also represented Harry Bridges, a secret CPUSA member who served as president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

All of this is relevant to Soros because of his support for organizations closely tied to this network. Perhaps the most obvious example is the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which works hand-in-glove with the National Lawyers Guild. The CCR is a major recipient of Soros funds.

The CCR, in fact, is regarded as an off-shoot of the National Lawyers Guild, which was once officially designated a communist front and still remains the American affiliate of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, the old Soviet front.

To show their solidarity with the Marxist terror networks that bombed police stations and killed police officers in the 1970s and 1980s, the CCR’s board and staff took out a full-page ad in a November 2010 “commemorative solidarity booklet” distributed at a memorial service for the dead Communist terrorist Marilyn Buck. It described her as a “fierce warrior, human rights defender and fighter for justice.”

A member of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, which carried out a robbery of a Brinks truck in 1981 that killed two policemen and a security guard, Buck had been serving a prison term in California for her involvement in a long list of terrorist crimes. These included the Brinks heist and helping convicted killer Joanne Chesimard escape from prison. Chesimard fled to Cuba, where she is now living under the protection of the Castro brothers. She killed a New Jersey State Trooper and the FBI is offering $1 million for information leading to her apprehension.

When I inquired of the CCR why they had hailed Buck in such flattering terms, a press representative by the name of Alison Roh Park said, “We recognized her as a human rights leader,” adding, “There are hundreds of thousands of people who did celebrate her life.”

If this is true, then we have a much bigger internal security problem than anyone realizes. It means that, in addition to Islamic terrorists, revolutionary Marxism and its adherents still pose a threat. Significantly, Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn also paid tribute to Buck in the “commemorative solidarity booklet.” Several members of the Weather Underground, including Linda Evans, and two Puerto Rican terrorists were at the service in person, paying tribute to their “comrade” and “sister.”

Curiously, however, Soros not only ignores this threat by helps finance it. Former Weather Underground terrorist Bernardine Dohrn appeared at functions sponsored by his Open Society Institute. Linda Evans accepted a Soros grant.

As part of this effort to threaten and undermine America internally, Soros vigorously promotes the “rights” of criminals. Soros has provided the bulk of the money behind a well-organized “criminals lobby” in the U.S. that is working to make “prisoners’ rights” into the next big cause of the liberal-left.

The book, The New Jim Crow, is by Michelle Alexander, a former ACLU official who won a 2005 “Soros Justice Fellowship.” The thesis is that the criminal justice system is racist, that criminals deserve to be treated more leniently and that even convicted felons ought to have the right to vote. The acknowledgements section of the Alexander book gives special thanks to the Open Society Institute of George Soros.

Michael P. Tremoglie has written a report for ASI in which he notes:

If there is one issue in America that represents the fault line between liberals and conservatives, left and right, communist and capitalist, the middle class and the liberal intelligentsia – it is that of crime and punishment. Yet, the line is becoming distorted as liberals exploit libertarian fears of big government and conservative fears of being labeled racist.

He writes that some conservatives “have embraced the idea that incapacitation and deterrence do not work. By doing so, they have unwittingly accepted the doctrine of Marxist criminology which hypothesizes that criminal behavior is a function of society.”

Tremoglie adds:

Marxist criminology sheds light on one of the major differences between liberals and conservatives when it comes to criminal justice – the idea of deterrence. Marx (and Engels) rejected the deterrence doctrine. Instead they hypothesized that crime will only be eliminated by changing society’s social system.

This is what Alexander and people like Angela Davis believe. Davis is leading a movement to abolish prisons entirely. She is a former Black Panther and was for a time during the 1970’s an FBI fugitive. She was acquitted of murder charges after her capture and trial. She was also a Communist Party candidate vice presidential candidate during the 1980’s.

People like Alexander and Davis use the racism argument to validate their cause that prisons should be abolished. Their justification is the racial disproportionate percentage argument, which is fallacious.

There is a disproportionately greater percentage of African –Americans who are professional athletes in relation to the percentage of African-Americans in the general population. Does this mean that more millionaire black athletes are a sign of a “racial caste system?”

There are also a disproportionate percentage of men in prison in relation to their percentage of the total population. Is this an indication that the criminal justice system is a sexist caste system?

Tremoglie also takes note of who is behind the Alexander book:

Alexander’s book was published by The New Press. According to its website The New Press was “established in 1990 as a major alternative to the large, commercial publishers, The New Press is a not-for-profit publishing house operated editorially in the public interest. It is committed to publishing in innovative ways works of educational, cultural, and community value that, despite their intellectual merits, may be deemed insufficiently profitable by commercial publishers. Like the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio as they were originally conceived, The New Press aims to provide ideas and viewpoints under-represented in the mass media.”

The Board of Directors reads like a Who’s Who of leftwing activism. Among the Board of Directors are:

##BARBARA EHRENREICH, Honorary Chairwoman, Democratic Socialists of America and an author and columnist

##FRANCES FOX PIVEN, also an Honorary Chairwoman, Democratic Socialists of America

##MICHAEL RATNER, President, Center for Constitutional Rights. The Center was a leading advocate for freeing Lynne Stewart who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorist

The New Press authors include William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground, and Marxist Noam Chomsky.

A Private Foreign Policy

Aryeh Neier, president of the Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, began his career with the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch before coming to the Soros network. In talking about this transition, he wrote in his book, Taking Liberties:

I knew I could do many things that mattered to me through a foundation with such large resources. What I did not realize was that George Soros was in the process of becoming, as he has been described, the only private citizen in the United States – or, perhaps the world – with his own foreign policy and the capacity to implement it. He is unique in possessing the resources, the institutional mechanisms, the status, and the will to promote his policy on a global scale. 20

This extraordinary statement puts Soros in violation of the Logan Act. The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953, states:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.

A Congressional Research Service report, “Conducting Foreign Relations Without Authority: The Logan Act,” states:

The Logan Act was intended to prohibit United States citizens without authority from interfering in relations between the United States and foreign governments. There appear to have been no prosecutions under the Act in its more than 200 year history. However, there have been a number of judicial references to the Act, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a point of challenge concerning dealings with foreign officials. Although attempts have been made to repeal the Act, it remains law and at least a potential sanction to be used against anyone who without authority interferes in the foreign relations of the United States. 21

Writing in a Forbes article entitled “Are George Soros’ Billions Compromising U.S. Foreign Policy?,” Richard Miniter said:

Soros’ foreign policy is different. He pursues his own vision, undisturbed by his effect on other nations or the interests of his own. It is hard for foreign governments to hold him accountable and his goals and methods are usually kept secret. While the risks of Soros’ foreign policy to the U.S. are clear, they are clearly ignored by Washington policy makers and the White House press corps. Why? 22

Miniter’s answer is that because Soros has been perceived as an anti-communist by some and a left-wing Democrat by others, commentators on both sides of the ideological spectrum have refrained from attacking him.

He goes on:

Soros is hated because many Eastern Europeans and Central Asians believe that he is using his money to subvert their political systems. Rightly or wrongly, this view tends to promote anti-Americanism. And it gives dictators a talking point to use against American diplomats.

In fact, however, Miniter notes that “Soros does not have a particularly pro-America foreign policy, even though he does champion selected human-rights issues and bring down dictators.” He notes that Soros, in his book The Age of Fallibility, writes that “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.” Miniter explains, “He opposes America’s war on terror and sees America’s global leadership as a net negative for the world.”

In his book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, Soros attacks “neocons” and the Project for the New American Century, a group he describes as “a neoconservative think tank and policy advocacy group.”

Neocons are mostly anti-communists who left the Democratic Party. Critics charge that neocons are motivated by a desire to protect Israel. Soros seems to be attacking neocons for their perceived role in getting the U.S. into the Iraq war. Yet, in 1999 the neocons supported the NATO war on Yugoslavia launched by President Clinton. It was a war which did not benefit America, Israel or NATO. It only benefited the Muslim terrorists in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which had links to Osama bin Laden.

Like the neocons, Soros supported the Clinton Administration’s military intervention in the former Yugoslavia, which established the Muslim state of Kosovo. Congress did not authorize the Kosovo war under the War Powers Act. Clinton waged the war through executive orders without approval from Congress.

Soros opposed the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq, which was authorized by Congress and was designed in part to prevent the radicalization of the region by the expansionist Arab socialist Saddam Hussein regime. The war was based on questionable intelligence but the result of the intervention, the establishment of a democratic Iraq, could be some as beneficial to the region in the long term. Still, the invasion of Iraq was a major gamble by Bush.

Soros opposes unilateral U.S. military action and wrote Toward a New World Order: The Future of NATO, back in 1993. He figured that NATO could take on the military responsibilities of the “New World Order” until the U.N. was ready to do the job. The Soros plan was to make NATO, once an anti-Communist alliance, into a military arm of the U.N. This happened in Kosovo and then Libya, where Obama used NATO to enforce the U.N.’s “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine. NATO, which came into being through a treaty as a defensive military force, has been illegally transformed without the benefit of a treaty into an offensive military force. Although Soros strongly supports the concept, the “Responsibility to Protect” was mostly the work of the World Federalist Movement, a group dedicated to world government by strengthening the United Nations system.

His 2004 book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, was subtitled, “The Costs of Bush’s War in Iraq.” He wasn’t concerned about the costs associated with the illegal intervention in Kosovo. And he doesn’t object to forcing U.S. taxpayers to spend more on the U.N.

The National Security Archive

He has put enormous resources into an organization called the National Security Archive, which describes itself as “an independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University…[which] collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act” and “serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.”23 The group says, “The Archive’s $2.5 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues, contributions from individuals and grants from foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. As a matter of policy, the Archive seeks no U.S. government funding.”

An example of this was the 2002 book, The Pinochet File, published by the New Press, the same controversial left-wing publisher cited earlier. Written by Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project, it purports to be an analysis of U.S. intelligence support for the anti-communist government of Chile after the overthrow of Chilean Marxist President Salvador Allende. The acknowledgements section of the book notes the author’s deep involvement with individuals from the Marxist Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

This is critical information because IPS provided cover for such figures as Chilean Marxist Orlando Letelier, a paid agent of Cuba assassinated in Washington, D.C. in 1976 in a car bomb explosion tied to the Pinochet regime. This fact alone helps explain why Kornbluh would want to investigate and “expose” the U.S.-Chile relationship. This act of terrorism, which also took the life of Ronni Moffitt of the IPS, was the apparent result of an increasingly desperate and isolated regime in Chile that believed it had been betrayed by the United States after initial support for the anti-Allende coup.

Kornbluh gives thanks to many figures, including Robert Borosage, then with the IPS; Saul Landau of IPS; and Morton Halperin, who had been working in the “Policy Planning” Department at the Department of State under Madeleine Albright.

The one-sided treatment of Chile and the world’s first “freely-elected Marxist president,” as Allende was called, was not legitimate scholarship. It was propaganda designed to prevent the U.S. from countering other Marxist experiments in Latin America. This kind of material has had the desired and intended effect – making it practically impossible for U.S. intelligence agencies to assume an anti-communist posture in subsequent events, such as keeping Marxist Hugo Chavez from taking and consolidating power in Venezuela.

Efforts like those of the National Security Archive have another intended effect – to suggest to the media that the activities of Cuba and other hostile foreign intelligence services are to be ignored or dismissed in importance. In his book, The Prince of Darkness, the late journalist Robert Novak described how the Washington Post censored one of his columns concerning the Washington, D.C. activities of Letelier. Novak said the Post’s editorial page editor, Philip Geyelin, “spiked” the column because of “displeasure with the column’s content” about Letelier’s Cuban connections. Novak had received Letelier’s incriminating briefcase papers, recovered after his death. They showed Letelier getting money from Cuba.

The story is worth retelling now because America’s enemies continue to be very well organized in Washington, D.C., especially in regard to the “new Cuba” — Venezuela.

I had the opportunity soon after I came to Washington to understand first-hand why a paper like the Post shies away from exposing the activities of communist agents of influence in the nation’s capital.

Lawrence Stern, the national news editor of the paper, passed away in 1979, and Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media asked me to attend and observe his memorial service. I was astounded when a man identified as Teofilo Acosta was introduced and told the service: “I’m from Cuba. I am Marxist-Leninist. I am human. Larry Stern was my friend, one of my best friends. I loved him.” Acosta was publicly known as a First Secretary in the Cuban Interests Section that has been set up inside the Czech Embassy in Washington. In reality, he was a Cuban intelligence agent.

Hence, one reason the Post shies away from exposing the activities of communist agents is that their reporters and editors may associate with them. The husband of Post reporter Dana Priest works for the Center for International Policy (CIP), a far-left and Soros-funded group created with the assistance of Orlando Letelier.

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the Washington Post published excerpts of Top Secret America, a book based on a series of articles in the Post by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin. The book refers to “the new national security state,” meaning the U.S. military, the CIA, the FBI, and other public entities and even private contractors engaged in defense or intelligence work. One waits in vain for the Post to investigate and expose not only the international communist network, which still exists, but the strategic plans of the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups that want to destroy us.

“More than a dozen Washington Post journalists spent two years developing Top Secret America,” we were told.

The answer to the expansion of the “national security and intelligence system,” which is presented as a major problem in the work of Priest and Arkin, can be found in the activism of Priest’s husband, the silent partner in the series, a left-winger by the name of William Goodfellow. This is the open “secret” that the Post wants desperately to conceal from its readers. It leads to the exposure of the far-left networks behind much of the “real news” we see, read, and hear in the mainstream media.

Goodfellow runs the Soros-funded Center for International Policy (CIP), which “is in the vanguard of the movement to develop an alternative foreign and defense policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for human rights,” its newsletter proclaims.

Its other goals include:

•Finding “new ways to encourage cooperation” with the Castro dictatorship.

•“Reining in the CIA.”

•“Ending the war in Afghanistan,” and

•“Building public support for peace.”

William M. Arkin, a columnist and reporter with The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com since 1998, is the co-author of the book and the series and “has worked on the subject of government secrecy and national security affairs for more than 30 years,” his bio says.

In fact, he has made it his mission to expose the means by which the United States defends itself, in order to disarm the nation in the face of threats from the old Soviet Union and international communism and now from global Islam. In the 1980s he worked for the IPS.

The IPS affiliation is not noted in an old Post bio of Arkin but it is mentioned that he “co-authored Nuclear Battlefields in 1985, revealing the locations of all U.S. and foreign nuclear bases worldwide” and that the book was “condemned by the Reagan Administration” for obviously threatening the security and safety of those weapons. Publicity for the book’s release was handled by Fenton Communications and its president, David Fenton, later to become a paid agent of George Soros when he campaigned in 2004 to defeat George Bush for re-election.

Exposing communist influence activities is not on the agenda of the National Security Archive or Soros. Indeed, there’s no evidence that Soros has any interest in funding information collection efforts to obtain and disseminate congressional hearings and reports on domestic and foreign threats to the U.S.

Anatomy of a Smear

The Soros-funded Open Society Policy Center, headed by Morton Halperin, organized opposition to John Bolton as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and was

caught, as part of the effort, paying money to a political consultant, Robert B. Creamer, who had pleaded guilty to bank fraud and a failure to pay federal income taxes. He served time in prison for these offenses. This smear of Bolton helped prevent his confirmation and eventually resulted in his recess appointment by President George W. Bush to the post.

Creamer, a prominent Democratic political consultant, is the husband of Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky. He is the author of a 628-page book, Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win, that describes how the Democrats can become the permanent majority party by passing a national health care bill and giving amnesty to illegal immigrants. He was invited to the White House for the first state dinner in November 2009.

Creamer’s book is full of praise for Obama and even reprints Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address. The acknowledgements section describes how he, like Obama, was influenced by Saul Alinsky, described as “the legendary community organizer.” Book endorsements are featured from Obama adviser David Axelrod; Greg Galluzo of the Gamaliel Foundation, which originally sponsored Barack Obama’s work as a community organizer in Chicago; and Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).

Ironically, Soros talks frequently about promoting an “open society” when much about his own background remains hidden. Born in Hungary, it has been reported that he became an American citizen. Answers.com claims, “He is a naturalized American citizen. Since 1961.” 24 This claim may be based on a Business Week account from 1993 which reported, “George Soros became a naturalized American citizen in New York on Dec. 18, 1961, according to the Immigration & Naturalization Service.” 25 But the publication went on:

His Americanism, like his Judaism, is not something that Soros openly embraces.

It is not clear how the phrase “according to the Immigration & Naturalization Service” means that the publication verified Soros’s citizenship. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency does not provide that data directly to anyone except the person being naturalized or the original petitioner. 26

On the other hand, a person can lose his U.S. citizenship under certain conditions, including being convicted for an act of treason against the United States:

Treason is a serious crime, and the Constitution defines the requirements for convicting someone of treason. Treason is waging a violent war against the United States in cooperation with a foreign country or any organized group. It includes assisting or aiding any foreign country or organization in taking over or destroying this country including abolishing the Constitution. Treason also consists of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the US government or of betraying our government into the hands of a foreign power. If you are caught and convicted of treason, you can pretty much count on losing your US citizenship as well as serving lots of jail time. 27

It would be unfair to call Soros, who is Jewish, a Nazi sympathizer. Nevertheless, 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 went on to compare his predicament at the time 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.”

While Soros has a lot to answer for, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) is making use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to create the public impression that Obama has been open and accountable to the American people, despite the evidence to the contrary.

The Global Integrity group is managing the project and says that it is “supported by a diverse mix of charitable foundations, governments, multilateral institutions, and the private sector.”

The list includes:

•Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

•Inter-American Development Bank

•National Endowment for Democracy

•Open Society Institute (Soros-funded)

•Open Society Justice Fund (also Soros-funded)

•Sunrise Foundation

•U.S. Department of State

•Wallace Global Fund

•The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

•The World Bank

Google is listed separately as having provided $350,000.

OGP says that it is “overseen by a multi-stakeholder International Steering Committee comprised of government and civil society representatives” that includes Tom Blanton of the Soros-funded National Security Archive.

Incredibly, the National Security Archive was among several organizations presenting Obama with an “anti-secrecy award” at a ceremony last March that was closed to the public and the press. Politico reported, “…Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.”

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Dalglish said that Obama was given the award for “encouraging agencies to release information to the public…”

Even some left-wingers were offended by this, saying that the award should be rescinded and that “Such false awards only stand to backfire and hurt the cause of open government.”

FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, the founder and president of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, posted a video about the Obama award, exposing funding for some of the pro-Obama groups from George Soros and others.

1 http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/09/21/ranking-the-worlds-richest-hedge-fund-billionaires/

2 http://www.soros.org/newsroom/news/changes_20030801/memo

3 Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve, page 51.

4 A September 27, 2011, Politico article by Charles Hoskinson noted that CAP endorses some of the defense cuts “identified as dire” in an analysis by the staff of the House Armed Services Committee.

5 Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, page xxi.

6 http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.1445/pub_detail.asp
The Essential CIA

By Ernest W. Lefever , Posted: Friday, January 10, 2003 . ARTICLE . American Legion Magazine. January 10, 2003

7 http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/about/bios/halperin

9 Unpublished, made available to America’s Survival, Inc.

10 http://www.mmdnewswire.com/money-laundering-a-bankruptcy-fraud-involving-soross-invisible-interest-in-conseco-a-the-gm-bldg-3993/print.html

11 http://www.thefastertimes.com/wallstreet/2010/02/17/why-was-george-soros-taking-advice-john-paulson/

12 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120036645057290423.html

13 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/18/041018fa_fact3

14 George Soros on Globalization, page 21.

15 The Bubble of American Supremacy, page 132.

16 http://ineteconomics.org/people/advisors/drummond-pike

17 http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/soros-turns-obamas-lightsquared-imbroglio

18 http://www.soros.org/newsroom/news/transparency-pact-20110920

19 Communist Legal Subversion : the Role of the Communist Lawyer, 1959, page 32.

20 Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights, page xxxiv.

21 http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33265.pdf

22 http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2011/09/09/should-george-soros-be-allowed-to-buy-u-s-foreign-policy/

23 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/the_archive.html
24 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_George_Soros_become_an_American_citizen

25 http://www.businessweek.com/archives/1993/b333342.arc.htm

26 http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_can_you_find_out_if_someone_is_a_U.S._citizen

27 http://www.newcitizen.us/losing.html

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Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous

Human Events/Powerful Conservative Voices

Saturday Apr 2, 2011

http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous:

1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

2. Influence on U.S. elections: Soros once said that removing President George W. Bush from office in 2004 was the “central focus of my life.” He put his money where his mouth is, giving $23.58 million to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating Bush. His early financial support helped jump-start Barack Obama’s political career. Soros hosted a 2004 fund-raiser for Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and gave the maximum-allowed contribution within hours of Obama’s announcement that he was running for President.

3. Wants to curtail American sovereignty: Soros would like nothing better than for America to become subservient to international bodies. He wants more power for groups such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, even while saying the U.S. role in the IMF should be “downsized.” In 1998, he wrote: “Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”

4. Media Matters: Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that hyperventilates over any conservative view that makes it into the mainstream media. Now its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, telling Politico that the group was mounting “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the cable news channel, and would try to disrupt the commercial interests of owner Rupert Murdoch—an odd mission for a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation that is barred from participating in partisan political activity.

5. MoveOn.org: Soros has been a major funder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for liberal candidates. This is the group that had on its website an ad comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and ran the infamous “General Betray Us” ad in the New York Times, disparaging the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus.

6. Center for American Progress: Headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Clinton, the Center for American Progress has been instrumental in providing progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obama administration. There has also been a revolving door between the White House and the Soros-funded think tank, with Obama staffing his administration with many CAP officials.

7. Environmental extremism: Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his leftist environmental ideas have been funded by Soros’ money at these groups: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama’s stimulus package. Soros also funds the Climate Policy Initiative to address global warming and gave Friends of the Earth money to “integrate a climate equity perspective in the presidential transition.”

8. America Coming Together: Soros gave nearly $20 million to this 527 group with the express purpose of defeating President Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT’s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters. ACT was fined $775,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of various federal campaign finance laws.

9. Currency manipulation: A large part of Soros’ multibillion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an “economic war criminal.” Known as “The Man who Broke the Bank of England,” Soros initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit.

10. Delusions: Soros has repeatedly said that he sees himself as a messianic figure. Who but a megalomaniac would make these comments? “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god” or “I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.” If only the loony bin were an option. As it is, one of the wealthiest men in the world is using his billions to impose a radical agenda on America.

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Also See:
Would the Real George Soros Please Stand Up!
(Part 1)
03 December 2010
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/12/george-soros.html
and
The US Media and Fabrication of Facts!
(Part 1)
06 October 2010
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/10/us-media-and-fabrication-of-facts.html
and
The Reality of the Media - An Alternate Universe
18 May 2010
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2010/05/reality-of-media-alternate-universe.html
and
The Media - Why Didn't They Report This?
22 July 2009
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/07/media-why-didnt-they-report-this.html
and
TV, Radio, & Newspapers
28 July 2007
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2007/07/newspapers-other-media.html
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The Hypocrisy of the Never Trumpets

Stopping the train wreck that is Hillary Clinton and her Democrats will at least give us some breathing room.

By Tim Dunkin -- Bio and Archives

May 6, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/the-hypocrisy-of-the-never-trumpers

Now that Donald Trump has effectively done the unthinkable and secured the Republican nomination for the presidency, things are about to get a lot more interesting. One of these things will be seeing just how obsessive and off-the-wall the self-proclaimed #NeverTrumpers will get. From their oaths to actively support and vote for Hillary Clinton to their erstwhile plans to move to Canada, the tantrum-throwing is going to be entertaining, to say the least.

Some of them – many of them – will probably follow Mary Matalin, the ACELA-corridor pseudo-conservative “strategist” who moved today to change her party affiliation from the Republicans to the Libertarians. Now, if I were a registered Republican, I would say, “Good riddance!” However, since I’m not, I’ll leave it to the GOP base – who are despised by people like Matalin anywise – to say it for me.

However, things like this really help to demonstrate the hypocrisy of many of these Never Trumpers. And, really, the entire movement runs on hypocrisy like a car runs on gas.

Have you ever noticed how many of these prominent “conservative” pundits and other inside-the-beltway hacks who swear up and down that they won’t vote for Trump since he’s not a “real conservative” are themselves…not all that conservative? Take Jonah Goldberg, who has made the #NeverTrump movement his personal obsession. Last year, he was trying to convince us all to buy his “conservative case for gay marriage.” And then you have Andrew Sullivan, described by The Atlantic as a “pioneering advocate of gay marriage.”

And, of course, you have all the “pro-life” Never Trumpers in the DC circle who proclaim that “abortion is murder,” but then send the confusing signal that abortion isn’t actually murder, since the murderer is a “victim” (despite it being elective around 99 out of 100 times) and shouldn’t face any consequences herself. Among the Never Trumpers that I know personally are folks who cheered the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling, who publicly supported allowing gays to serve openly in the military, people who think we need “reasonable, common sense” gun control, and of course, all of them to a man are pro-open borders, pro-amnesty, and pro-multiculturalism.

If those are the “conservatives,” then I don’t want any part of their “conservatism.” The great irony is that if Trump is really as “pro-gay, pro-abortion, anti-gun” as they say he is, he ought to be right up their alley. Seriously, he should be their first choice, right?

So you have people like Mary Matalin and others joining the Libertarians, which is itself sort of an act of hypocrisy.

They profess that they can’t support Trump because he is “pro-gay” and “pro-abortion,” so they leave the GOP to join a political party which is…(wait for it)…pro-gay and pro-abortion.

Further, what to make of prominent Never Trumper Ben Sasse (R-NE), who is starting to face increasing scrutiny as to whether he used his position as a tutor to help cover up for pedophiles like Dennis Hastert and Mark Foley when they were abusing underage young men through the congressional page program. Whatever else Trump may have done in his life, facilitating pedophilic abuse of young men isn’t one of them.

Even aside from the social issues, these folks don’t really have a clue. Take Matalin, who gives her reasoning for joining the Libertarians as being that they more closely represent the “Jeffersonian, Madisonian sense” that she feels is being lost. This is a common sentiment among so-called “economic liberty” types who refuse to support Trump because he supports protectionism and opposes open borders (which libertarians support based upon the spurious and unworkable principle that “free people should cross borders freely”).

But, wait a second. The Founders were protectionists. The second bill signed by George Washington was a bill raising tariffs, which had been authored by James Madison. While he may have found Adam Smith’s free trade ideas intriguing, Thomas Jefferson still supported protection (especially after the War of 1812), and was himself not actually a big fan of our “modern” style of industrial, wage-earning capitalism (he preferred a more agrarian, “country gentleman” style of economic system, and called wage-earning for industrial capitalists “wage slavery.”) Even Alexander Hamilton – about the closest thing the Founding generation had to the sort of technocratic, industrial capitalist that is lionized by today’s modern libertarians – was a strong proponent of protectionism, even saying at one point,

“The superiority antecedently enjoyed by nations who have preoccupied and perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a more formidable obstacle than either of those which have been mentioned, to the introduction of the same branch into a country in which it did not before exist. To maintain, between the recent establishments of one country, and the long-matured establishments of another country, a competition upon equal terms, both as to quality and price, is, in most cases, impracticable. The disparity, in the one, or in the other, or in both, must necessarily be so considerable, as to forbid a successful rivalship, without the extraordinary aid and protection of government.”

Later, the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, said, “Give us a protective tariff, and we will have the greatest nation on earth.”

So Matalin simply doesn’t know what she’s talking about (a common affliction among the DC “intelligentsia” who typically have large vocabularies, but small ideas). In point of fact, the sort of unhindered free trade system that the Libertarians want to “return” us to has never actually existed. Not here, not anywhere, not ever. Nor should it. As we’ve seen, “free” trade is really nothing more than a ruse to enrich a relatively few globalist bigwigs while deleting national borders and “equalizing” wage scales with the poorest Third World countries so as to destroy a prosperous and healthy Middle Class. Don’t take my word for it, either. Karl Marx himself gave that as his reason for supporting free trade, when he gave a speech before the Democratic Association of Brussels in 1849,

“Moreover, the protectionist system is nothing but a means of establishing large-scale industry in any given country, that is to say, of making it dependent upon the world market, and from the moment that dependence upon the world market is established, there is already more or less dependence upon free trade. Besides this, the protective system helps to develop free trade competition within a country. Hence we see that in countries where the bourgeoisie is beginning to make itself felt as a class, in Germany for example, it makes great efforts to obtain protective duties. They serve the bourgeoisie as weapons against feudalism and absolute government, as a means for the concentration of its own powers and for the realization of free trade within the same country.

“But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.”

As we can see, Marx was not a fan of protectionism, which he felt was a means used by the middle classes (i.e. his “bourgeoisie”) to strength the nation internally and develop large-scale industry. He gave his tactical support to free trade, on the other hand, specifically because that trade scheme “breaks up old nationalities” and hastens the “social revolution” by concentrating wealth more quickly into the hands of a very small number of hands at the very top, while leaving everyone else behind, and thus supposedly more open to communist revolution. Marx approved of free trade, in part, because it served to destroy the nation-state and hastened the uniting of the world into one global body, which is a goal of revolutionary communism.

This, when you think about it, isn’t too dissimilar from the goals of those open-borders, “free people can cross borders freely” types like Matalin’s Libertarians.

That so many of the Churchianity-type Christians in the Never Trump movement are proposing a move to the Libertarians is also another type of hypocrisy, even aside from the total incompatibility between the social issues they profess to stand for “on principle” and the Libertarian Party’s goals and worldview.

The Libertarians are essentially what you have when Ayn Rand starts her own political party. And that’s not a good thing. Let’s face it – Ayn Rand was, in many ways, a nut. Most of today’s “conservatives” know of her because of the handful of fine-sounding quotes from her that get spread around the internet, while some others still have a nostalgia for her from back in their college days when they read the Cliff’s Note for Atlas Shrugged. Nevertheless, Ayn Rand’s Objective philosophy, while superficially “liberty-oriented,” ought to be completely off the table for anyone professing any sort of serious Christian faith, both because of its atheism and because of its purposeful callousness towards the poor and its rejection of the validity even of private charity. And yet, the Libertarians are wormy through and through with Objectivists, always have been and always will be.

Fact of the matter is, all those Christians out there who fetishize libertarian-style “economic liberty” are essentially double-minded, trying to have Christ and Mammon at the same time. This is not, of course, to say that the Bible teaches socialism or communism – it doesn’t – but Christians who think they can have Jesus and Ayn Rand contemporaneously are deluded, at best, and ignorantly compromising at worst.

“If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down.” (Exodus 22:25-26)

Can you see any libertarian being willing to help a poor brother out with an interest-free loan designed to help them get back on their feet, instead of making money off of them? Me neither.

“And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.” (Leviticus 25:35-37)

Wait, you mean we’re supposed to help the poor by “relieving” them, not charging them usury, not taking advantage of the situation? Hint – that’s what people in early America did all the time, taking care of the poor and indigent within their own communities, without having to rely on “government welfare.” In fact, “welfare” arose as a way used by the government to replace private and community-based voluntarism toward the poor.

“Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.” (Isaiah 5:8-10)

You mean God pronounces woe upon them who use their wealth and power to accrue to themselves more and more land, houses, etc. (i.e., the modes of wealth in that society at that time)? Yet, libertarian-style economic liberty says, “Go for it! Get as much as you can, everyone else be jiggered!” True, Donald Trump could stand to learn this lesson too. But, as the Never Trumpers are wont to remind us, Trump has never presented himself as a serious, committed Bible-believing Christian, either.

“The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.” (I Samuel 2:7)

“For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.” (Psalm 75:6-7)

Hunh? You mean wealth and poverty have a lot to do with God’s working and His plans, rather than “pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps” through our own virtue and hard work, as we like to pride ourselves in?

“Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.” (Galatians 2:10)

“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (I John 3:17)

“For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.” (Romans 15:26)

“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?” (James 2:15-16)

Oh, my. I don’t think Ayn would approve.

Yet, that’s what these professing Christians are yoking themselves up with, whether out of ignorance or out of foolishness.

Look, I can understand why folks find Donald Trump to be distasteful. I find him so myself, as well. Indeed, I’ve openly stated my preference for another spokesman for the movement of which he is currently the figurehead. But you can wish in one hand and pour water in the other and see which one gets filled first. Fact is, he won the primaries because more Republicans and independents voted for him than they did for any of the other candidates. You can’t be the people who called for a ticked off base to “rally ‘round” someone like Mitt Romney or John McCain in 2012 and 2008, and yet take your toys and run crying to your mommies now, without being a hypocrite.

And, yes, if you do so, you really are supporting Hillary Clinton. You – the “principled conservative” who won’t vote for Trump because he’s “pro-gay, pro-abortion, doesn’t talk about the Constitution” are essentially voting for Hillary…who is pro-gay, pro-abortion, hates the Constitution, and a whole lot more.

Oh, and spare me the “voting against Trump is not voting for Hillary” rationalizations. I can do math, people. When you have a limited number of something (i.e. votes) in a bipolar system (and let’s face it, third parties – even the vaunted Libertarians – are a non-starter), not matching a vote that one candidate gets with a vote for the other candidate is essentially giving that first candidate a free, unmatched vote, i.e. helping them to win. And I’m going to be devastatingly straight with you - if your principles include helping to elect Hillary…then your principles are worthless.

None of the candidates in this race could ever have “saved America” – not Trump, not Cruz, not Rubio, not any of them. But, throwing a temper tantrum definitely isn’t going to do anything to help this country in the long run. Stopping the train wreck that is Hillary Clinton and her Democrats will at least give us some breathing room.

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Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal

By Jo Becker and Mike McIntire

April 23, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.

And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.

The New York Times’s examination of the Uranium One deal is based on dozens of interviews, as well as a review of public records and securities filings in Canada, Russia and the United States. Some of the connections between Uranium One and the Clinton Foundation were unearthed by Peter Schweizer, a former fellow at the right-leaning Hoover Institution and author of the forthcoming book “Clinton Cash.” Mr. Schweizer provided a preview of material in the book to The Times, which scrutinized his information and built upon it with its own reporting.

Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation’s donors.

In a statement, Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, said no one “has ever produced a shred of evidence supporting the theory that Hillary Clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the Clinton Foundation.” He emphasized that multiple United States agencies, as well as the Canadian government, had signed off on the deal and that, in general, such matters were handled at a level below the secretary. “To suggest the State Department, under then-Secretary Clinton, exerted undue influence in the U.S. government’s review of the sale of Uranium One is utterly baseless,” he added.

American political campaigns are barred from accepting foreign donations. But foreigners may give to foundations in the United States. In the days since Mrs. Clinton announced her candidacy for president, the Clinton Foundation has announced changes meant to quell longstanding concerns about potential conflicts of interest in such donations; it has limited donations from foreign governments, with many, like Russia’s, barred from giving to all but its health care initiatives. That policy stops short of a more stringent agreement between Mrs. Clinton and the Obama administration that was in effect while she was secretary of state.

Either way, the Uranium One deal highlights the limits of such prohibitions. The foundation will continue to accept contributions from foreign sources whose interests, like Uranium One’s, may overlap with those of foreign governments, some of which may be at odds with the United States.

When the Uranium One deal was approved, the geopolitical backdrop was far different from today’s. The Obama administration was seeking to “reset” strained relations with Russia. The deal was strategically important to Mr. Putin, who shortly after the Americans gave their blessing sat down for a staged interview with Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko. “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves,” Mr. Kiriyenko told Mr. Putin.

Now, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and aggression in Ukraine, the Moscow-Washington relationship is devolving toward Cold War levels, a point several experts made in evaluating a deal so beneficial to Mr. Putin, a man known to use energy resources to project power around the world.

“Should we be concerned? Absolutely,” said Michael McFaul, who served under Mrs. Clinton as the American ambassador to Russia but said he had been unaware of the Uranium One deal until asked about it. “Do we want Putin to have a monopoly on this? Of course we don’t. We don’t want to be dependent on Putin for anything in this climate.”

A Seat at the Table

The path to a Russian acquisition of American uranium deposits began in 2005 in Kazakhstan, where the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra orchestrated his first big uranium deal, with Mr. Clinton at his side.

The two men had flown aboard Mr. Giustra’s private jet to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where they dined with the authoritarian president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev. Mr. Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when he expressed support for Mr. Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group, undercutting American foreign policy and criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, his wife, then a senator.

Within days of the visit, Mr. Giustra’s fledgling company, UrAsia Energy Ltd., signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by the state-run uranium agency Kazatomprom.

If the Kazakh deal was a major victory, UrAsia did not wait long before resuming the hunt. In 2007, it merged with Uranium One, a South African company with assets in Africa and Australia, in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction. The new company, which kept the Uranium One name, was controlled by UrAsia investors including Ian Telfer, a Canadian who became chairman. Through a spokeswoman, Mr. Giustra, whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $45 million, said he sold his stake in 2007.

Soon, Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States. In April 2007, it announced the purchase of a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states, followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming, Texas and Utah. That deal made clear that Uranium One was intent on becoming “a powerhouse in the United States uranium sector with the potential to become the domestic supplier of choice for U.S. utilities,” the company declared.

Still, the company’s story was hardly front-page news in the United States — until early 2008, in the midst of Mrs. Clinton’s failed presidential campaign, when The Times published an article revealing the 2005 trip’s link to Mr. Giustra’s Kazakhstan mining deal. It also reported that several months later, Mr. Giustra had donated $31.3 million to Mr. Clinton’s foundation.

(In a statement issued after this article appeared online, Mr. Giustra said he was “extremely proud” of his charitable work with Mr. Clinton, and he urged the media to focus on poverty, health care and “the real challenges of the world.”)

Though the 2008 article quoted the former head of Kazatomprom, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, as saying that the deal required government approval and was discussed at a dinner with the president, Mr. Giustra insisted that it was a private transaction, with no need for Mr. Clinton’s influence with Kazakh officials. He described his relationship with Mr. Clinton as motivated solely by a shared interest in philanthropy.

As if to underscore the point, five months later Mr. Giustra held a fund-raiser for the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a project aimed at fostering progressive environmental and labor practices in the natural resources industry, to which he had pledged $100 million. The star-studded gala, at a conference center in Toronto, featured performances by Elton John and Shakira and celebrities like Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Robin Williams encouraging contributions from the many so-called F.O.F.s — Friends of Frank — in attendance, among them Mr. Telfer. In all, the evening generated $16 million in pledges, according to an article in The Globe and Mail.

“None of this would have been possible if Frank Giustra didn’t have a remarkable combination of caring and modesty, of vision and energy and iron determination,” Mr. Clinton told those gathered, adding: “I love this guy, and you should, too.”

But what had been a string of successes was about to hit a speed bump.

Arrest and Progress

By June 2009, a little over a year after the star-studded evening in Toronto, Uranium One’s stock was in free-fall, down 40 percent. Mr. Dzhakishev, the head of Kazatomprom, had just been arrested on charges that he illegally sold uranium deposits to foreign companies, including at least some of those won by Mr. Giustra’s UrAsia and now owned by Uranium One.

Publicly, the company tried to reassure shareholders. Its chief executive, Jean Nortier, issued a confident statement calling the situation a “complete misunderstanding.” He also contradicted Mr. Giustra’s contention that the uranium deal had not required government blessing. “When you do a transaction in Kazakhstan, you need the government’s approval,” he said, adding that UrAsia had indeed received that approval.

But privately, Uranium One officials were worried they could lose their joint mining ventures. American diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks also reflect concerns that Mr. Dzhakishev’s arrest was part of a Russian power play for control of Kazakh uranium assets.

At the time, Russia was already eying a stake in Uranium One, Rosatom company documents show. Rosatom officials say they were seeking to acquire mines around the world because Russia lacks sufficient domestic reserves to meet its own industry needs.

It was against this backdrop that the Vancouver-based Uranium One pressed the American Embassy in Kazakhstan, as well as Canadian diplomats, to take up its cause with Kazakh officials, according to the American cables.

“We want more than a statement to the press,” Paul Clarke, a Uranium One executive vice president, told the embassy’s energy officer on June 10, the officer reported in a cable. “That is simply chitchat.” What the company needed, Mr. Clarke said, was official written confirmation that the licenses were valid.

The American Embassy ultimately reported to the secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton. Though the Clarke cable was copied to her, it was given wide circulation, and it is unclear if she would have read it; the Clinton campaign did not address questions about the cable.

What is clear is that the embassy acted, with the cables showing that the energy officer met with Kazakh officials to discuss the issue on June 10 and 11.

Three days later, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom completed a deal for 17 percent of Uranium One. And within a year, the Russian government substantially upped the ante, with a generous offer to shareholders that would give it a 51 percent controlling stake. But first, Uranium One had to get the American government to sign off on the deal.

The Power to Say No

When a company controlled by the Chinese government sought a 51 percent stake in a tiny Nevada gold mining operation in 2009, it set off a secretive review process in Washington, where officials raised concerns primarily about the mine’s proximity to a military installation, but also about the potential for minerals at the site, including uranium, to come under Chinese control. The officials killed the deal.

Such is the power of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. The committee comprises some of the most powerful members of the cabinet, including the attorney general, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. They are charged with reviewing any deal that could result in foreign control of an American business or asset deemed important to national security.

The national security issue at stake in the Uranium One deal was not primarily about nuclear weapons proliferation; the United States and Russia had for years cooperated on that front, with Russia sending enriched fuel from decommissioned warheads to be used in American nuclear power plants in return for raw uranium.

Instead, it concerned American dependence on foreign uranium sources. While the United States gets one-fifth of its electrical power from nuclear plants, it produces only around 20 percent of the uranium it needs, and most plants have only 18 to 36 months of reserves, according to Marin Katusa, author of “The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped From America’s Grasp.”

“The Russians are easily winning the uranium war, and nobody’s talking about it,” said Mr. Katusa, who explores the implications of the Uranium One deal in his book. “It’s not just a domestic issue but a foreign policy issue, too.”

When ARMZ, an arm of Rosatom, took its first 17 percent stake in Uranium One in 2009, the two parties signed an agreement, found in securities filings, to seek the foreign investment committee’s review. But it was the 2010 deal, giving the Russians a controlling 51 percent stake, that set off alarm bells. Four members of the House of Representatives signed a letter expressing concern. Two more began pushing legislation to kill the deal.

Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, where Uranium One’s largest American operation was, wrote to President Obama, saying the deal “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.”

“Equally alarming,” Mr. Barrasso added, “this sale gives ARMZ a significant stake in uranium mines in Kazakhstan.”

Uranium One’s shareholders were also alarmed, and were “afraid of Rosatom as a Russian state giant,” Sergei Novikov, a company spokesman, recalled in an interview. He said Rosatom’s chief, Mr. Kiriyenko, sought to reassure Uranium One investors, promising that Rosatom would not break up the company and would keep the same management, including Mr. Telfer, the chairman. Another Rosatom official said publicly that it did not intend to increase its investment beyond 51 percent, and that it envisioned keeping Uranium One a public company

American nuclear officials, too, seemed eager to assuage fears. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrote to Mr. Barrasso assuring him that American uranium would be preserved for domestic use, regardless of who owned it.

“In order to export uranium from the United States, Uranium One Inc. or ARMZ would need to apply for and obtain a specific NRC license authorizing the export of uranium for use as reactor fuel,” the letter said.

Still, the ultimate authority to approve or reject the Russian acquisition rested with the cabinet officials on the foreign investment committee, including Mrs. Clinton — whose husband was collecting millions in donations from people associated with Uranium One.

Undisclosed Donations

Before Mrs. Clinton could assume her post as secretary of state, the White House demanded that she sign a memorandum of understanding placing limits on the activities of her husband’s foundation. To avoid the perception of conflicts of interest, beyond the ban on foreign government donations, the foundation was required to publicly disclose all contributors.

To judge from those disclosures — which list the contributions in ranges rather than precise amounts — the only Uranium One official to give to the Clinton Foundation was Mr. Telfer, the chairman, and the amount was relatively small: no more than $250,000, and that was in 2007, before talk of a Rosatom deal began percolating.

But a review of tax records in Canada, where Mr. Telfer has a family charity called the Fernwood Foundation, shows that he donated millions of dollars more, during and after the critical time when the foreign investment committee was reviewing his deal with the Russians. With the Russians offering a special dividend, shareholders like Mr. Telfer stood to profit.

His donations through the Fernwood Foundation included $1 million reported in 2009, the year his company appealed to the American Embassy to help it keep its mines in Kazakhstan; $250,000 in 2010, the year the Russians sought majority control; as well as $600,000 in 2011 and $500,000 in 2012. Mr. Telfer said that his donations had nothing to do with his business dealings, and that he had never discussed Uranium One with Mr. or Mrs. Clinton. He said he had given the money because he wanted to support Mr. Giustra’s charitable endeavors with Mr. Clinton. “Frank and I have been friends and business partners for almost 20 years,” he said.

The Clinton campaign left it to the foundation to reply to questions about the Fernwood donations; the foundation did not provide a response.

Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $1.3 million and $5.6 million in contributions, which were reported, from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines. Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal: “It wasn’t the goal to buy the Wyoming mines. The goal was to acquire the Kazakh assets, which are very good,” Mr. Novikov, the Rosatom spokesman, said in an interview.

Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One.

The $500,000 fee — among Mr. Clinton’s highest — was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin that has invited world leaders, including Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, to speak at its investor conferences.

Renaissance Capital analysts talked up Uranium One’s stock, assigning it a “buy” rating and saying in a July 2010 research report that it was “the best play” in the uranium markets. In addition, Renaissance Capital turned up that same year as a major donor, along with Mr. Giustra and several companies linked to Uranium One or UrAsia, to a small medical charity in Colorado run by a friend of Mr. Giustra’s. In a newsletter to supporters, the friend credited Mr. Giustra with helping get donations from “businesses around the world.”

Renaissance Capital would not comment on the genesis of Mr. Clinton’s speech to an audience that included leading Russian officials, or on whether it was connected to the Rosatom deal. According to a Russian government news service, Mr. Putin personally thanked Mr. Clinton for speaking.

A person with knowledge of the Clinton Foundation’s fund-raising operation, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about it, said that for many people, the hope is that money will in fact buy influence: “Why do you think they are doing it — because they love them?” But whether it actually does is another question. And in this case, there were broader geopolitical pressures that likely came into play as the United States considered whether to approve the Rosatom-Uranium One deal.

Diplomatic Considerations

If doing business with Rosatom was good for those in the Uranium One deal, engaging with Russia was also a priority of the incoming Obama administration, which was hoping for a new era of cooperation as Mr. Putin relinquished the presidency — if only for a term — to Dmitri A. Medvedev.

“The assumption was we could engage Russia to further core U.S. national security interests,” said Mr. McFaul, the former ambassador.

It started out well. The two countries made progress on nuclear proliferation issues, and expanded use of Russian territory to resupply American forces in Afghanistan. Keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was among the United States’ top priorities, and in June 2010 Russia signed off on a United Nations resolution imposing tough new sanctions on that country.

Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States. The deal was ultimately approved in October, following what two people involved in securing the approval said had been a relatively smooth process.

Not all of the committee’s decisions are personally debated by the agency heads themselves; in less controversial cases, deputy or assistant secretaries may sign off. But experts and former committee members say Russia’s interest in Uranium One and its American uranium reserves seemed to warrant attention at the highest levels.

This deal had generated press, it had captured the attention of Congress and it was strategically important,” said Richard Russell, who served on the committee during the George W. Bush administration. “When I was there invariably any one of those conditions would cause this to get pushed way up the chain, and here you had all three.”

And Mrs. Clinton brought a reputation for hawkishness to the process; as a senator, she was a vocal critic of the committee’s approval of a deal that would have transferred the management of major American seaports to a company based in the United Arab Emirates, and as a presidential candidate she had advocated legislation to strengthen the process.

The Clinton campaign spokesman, Mr. Fallon, said that in general, these matters did not rise to the secretary’s level. He would not comment on whether Mrs. Clinton had been briefed on the matter, but he gave The Times a statement from the former assistant secretary assigned to the foreign investment committee at the time, Jose Fernandez. While not addressing the specifics of the Uranium One deal, Mr. Fernandez said, “Mrs. Clinton never intervened with me on any C.F.I.U.S. matter.”

Mr. Fallon also noted that if any agency had raised national security concerns about the Uranium One deal, it could have taken them directly to the president.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department’s director of policy planning at the time, said she was unaware of the transaction — or the extent to which it made Russia a dominant uranium supplier. But speaking generally, she urged caution in evaluating its wisdom in hindsight.

“Russia was not a country we took lightly at the time or thought was cuddly,” she said. “But it wasn’t the adversary it is today.”

That renewed adversarial relationship has raised concerns about European dependency on Russian energy resources, including nuclear fuel. The unease reaches beyond diplomatic circles. In Wyoming, where Uranium One equipment is scattered across his 35,000-acre ranch, John Christensen is frustrated that repeated changes in corporate ownership over the years led to French, South African, Canadian and, finally, Russian control over mining rights on his property.

“I hate to see a foreign government own mining rights here in the United States,” he said. “I don’t think that should happen.”

Mr. Christensen, 65, noted that despite assurances by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that uranium could not leave the country without Uranium One or ARMZ obtaining an export license — which they do not have — yellowcake from his property was routinely packed into drums and trucked off to a processing plant in Canada.

Asked about that, the commission confirmed that Uranium One has, in fact, shipped yellowcake to Canada even though it does not have an export license. Instead, the transport company doing the shipping, RSB Logistic Services, has the license. A commission spokesman said that “to the best of our knowledge” most of the uranium sent to Canada for processing was returned for use in the United States. A Uranium One spokeswoman, Donna Wichers, said 25 percent had gone to Western Europe and Japan. At the moment, with the uranium market in a downturn, nothing is being shipped from the Wyoming mines.

The “no export” assurance given at the time of the Rosatom deal is not the only one that turned out to be less than it seemed. Despite pledges to the contrary, Uranium One was delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange and taken private. As of 2013, Rosatom’s subsidiary, ARMZ, owned 100 percent of it.

Correction: April 23, 2015

An earlier version of this article misstated, in one instance, the surname of a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is Peter Schweizer, not Schweitzer.

An earlier version also incorrectly described the Clinton Foundation’s agreement with the Obama administration regarding foreign-government donations while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. Under the agreement, the foundation would not accept new donations from foreign governments, though it could seek State Department waivers in specific cases. It was not barred from accepting all foreign-government donations.

Correction: April 30, 2015

An article on Friday about contributions to the Clinton Foundation from people associated with a Canadian uranium-mining company described incorrectly the foundation’s agreement with the Obama administration regarding foreign-government donations while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Under the agreement, the foundation would not accept new donations from foreign governments, though it could seek State Department waivers in specific cases. The foundation was not barred from accepting all foreign-government donations.

Andrew E. Kramer contributed reporting. Sarah Cohen contributed research.

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A version of this article appears in print on April 24, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Clintons, The Russians and Uranium.

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The Media is Non-Biased, Right? (Part 3)

May 15, 2016, 8:30 am

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Conservative news sites will overcome Facebook & Google suppression

God willing, Canada Free Press and other suppressed conservative sites will always be here, Marxist games of Facebook and Google notwithstanding

By Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives

May 15, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/conservative-news-sites-will-overcome-facebook-google-suppression

The truth isn’t trending on the Internet anymore but the trolls are still riding shotgun.

The ‘truth’ has become whatever Facebook and Google trend it to be. Pretending to ‘like’ and ‘Friend’ you (Facebook) and to ‘do no evil ‘ (Google), the deadly duo hijacked the Information Highway leaving all truth seekers stranded along the way.

How ironic that both would trap in their miasma of lies the same people who made their executives rich.

Hiding behind the 21st century ‘algorithm’ Facebook and Google want to leave Conservatives and Christians where their main mentor Barack Obama left the U.S. military—fighting for relevance and on the way out.

Conservatives and Christians espouse a message that neither Facebook nor Google are willing to hear.

Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt and Company are entitled to their opinions, but how dare they deny anyone in the masses from finding easy access to theirs?

Though they will continue to deny it, Facebook and Google suppress any ‘News’ that does not impart a clear left-wing message.

Facebook editors decide which stories will go viral leaving Conservative news sites off the list. Google search engines keep traffic flowing to mostly left-leaning sites knowing more than anyone else that no traffic means no advertising revenue for sites reporting on Conservative news.

Here are two key examples of truth-telling Facebook and Google style. Lois Lerner, who was head Pooh-bah at the IRS when the IRS was leaning on Tea Party Conservatives, didn’t trend on Facebook, but OWS (Occupy Wall Street) and Black Lives Matter did.

‘Google’ Hillary Clinton as you’re reading this and see how far back you have to go on Google’s front pages to find the Benghazi scandal. (For us—Top of Page 4)

Google will raise the argument that Benghazi is old news, but we should remember that it is Google who is digitally masterminding Clinton’s campaign for America’s ‘first female president’.

But the truth, which never changes, will always be there, no matter how far out of their way Facebook and Google go to suppress it.

It is the truth that ‘progressives’ and their vanguard millennials in countries like the USA, Britain, Canada, Germany among others work feverishly to take down the West.

It is the truth that the name for terrorism is “radical Islam” and that other names like JV will never change it.

It is the truth that legions of radical Islamists are being enabled by the far left to impose their caliphate world-wide.

It is the truth that Facebook and Google want Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office to complete Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America.

It is the truth that no rational president would ever set free felons, including rapists and murderers, unleashing them on the masses he was elected to serve.

It is the truth that God Almighty assigns gender to every baby born to the world.

It is the truth that no decent president would go into the bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms of every American public school in the name of civil rights for transgenders.

It is the truth that scripture is the only unchangeable truth while internet trends will continue to come and go.

It is the truth that Facebook and Google have had zero effect on the independent, fast-trending Drudge Report.

It is the truth that all conservative news sites will find the way to get to their readers, and true too that their readers can help them by going directly to their sites.

It is mostly thanks to those readers that Canada Free Press celebrates its 10th anniversary as an online daily today on Pentecost Sunday, and its 25th anniversary of the local investigative journal from which CFP originated.

God willing, Canada Free Press and other suppressed conservative sites will always be here, Marxist games of Facebook and Google notwithstanding.

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Also See:
Comrade, Welcome to the Police State!

(Part 1)

30 October 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/10/xxx.html

and

(Part 2)

29 September 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/09/us-police-state-fbi-raid-anti-war-group.html

and

(Part 3)

17 May 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/05/comrade-welcome-to-police-state-part-3.html

and

(Part 4)

30 March 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/03/comrade-welcome-to-police-state-part-4.html

and

(Part 5)

28 July 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/07/comrade-welcome-to-police-state-part-5.html

and

(Part 6)

14 August 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/08/comrade-welcome-to-police-state-part-6.html

and
(Part 7)
25 December 2014
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/12/new-toy-will-spy-on-your-children-for.html
and

Is Orwell Dead? Big Brother Isn't!

(Part 1)

14 April 2007

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2007/04/is-orwell-dead-big-brother-isnt.html

and

(Part 2)

21 May 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/05/is-orwell-dead-big-brother-isnt-part-2.html

and

(Part 3)

21 February 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/02/is-orwell-dead-big-brother-isnt-part-3.html

and

(Part 4)

30 May 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/05/news-nowplanted-progressive-propaganda.html

and

U.S. Civil Unrest, Crowd Control, and Detention Camps

21 October 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2008/10/brigade-homeland-tours-start-oct.html

and

Martial Law? Revolution? What is in the Future?

24 July 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/07/bizarre-you-decide.html

and

ID Cards - Soon Everyone will have One!

03 September 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/09/those-pesty-id-cards-everyone-will-have.html

and

Big Brother is Watching

(Part 1)

06 September 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-brother-is-watching.html

and

(Part 2)

02 February 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/02/big-brother-is-watching-part-2.html

and

(Part 3)

23 June 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/06/big-brother-is-watching-part-3.html

and

Big Brother in the United Kingdom!

02 April 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/04/big-brother-in-united-kingdom.html

and

America's Police State

03 January 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/01/americas-police-state.html

and

Do We Live in a Police State?

04 November 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/11/do-we-live-in-police-state.html

and

Police State Canada!

01 December 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/12/police-state-canada.html

and

What's with Google?

11 March 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/03/whats-with-google.html

and

Why is the Department of Homeland Security Stockpiling Ammo?

29 April 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/04/why-is-department-of-homeland-security.html

and

Is Canada a Police State?

01 July 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/07/is-canada-police-state.html

and

Kent State Massacre in 1970

08 May 2007

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2007/05/kent-state-massacre-in-1970.html

and

Lets Not Forget Ruby Ridge

11 December 2008

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2008/12/lets-not-forget-ruby-ridge.html

and

Aldous Huxley and George Orwell

03 March 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.com/2009/03/aldous-huxley.html

and
The Trap!
30 June 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/06/the-trap.html
and
Gary Allen's book - “None Dare Call It Conspiracy”
04 December 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gary-allens-book-none-dare-call-it.html
and
What They Don't Tell You!
05 December 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/12/what-they-dont-tell-you.html
and

Is the World Becoming a Police State?

23 April 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/04/whats-with-police-officers-supporting.html

and

The Media is Non-Biased, Right?
(Part 1)

03 November 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/11/the-media-is-non-biased-right.html

and

(Part 2)

20 December 2015

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/12/investigative-journalist-for-cbs-news.html

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Obama Wants Transgender Washrooms and Showers in All the Schools!

May 18, 2016, 1:22 pm

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Obama threatens to sue and defund public schools if they don’t obey him

Well, Mr. President....'Or else' can go both ways

By Dr. Laurie Roth -- Bio and Archives

May 16, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/obama-threatens-to-sue-and-defund-public-schools-if-they-dont-obey-him

Now the Napalm bomb is falling on schools and kids all across the country with the latest directive from Obama. As usual, hiding behind the curtain of minority rights, making it sound like a heartfelt desperate cause, Obama has ordered all public schools to allow anyone of any sex, transgender or whatever they think of themselves, to waltz into any boys or girls bathroom. The Transgender and mystery sex person also gets to pick whatever shower they want - boys or girls. Forget the rights, safety and comfort zone of 99% of the other kids in the school. They don’t matter—just the minority manipulated needs of the ‘mystery sex’ student.

Obama means business with this directive. He has threatened all kinds of lawsuits and to pull Government funds if the schools don’t submit and obey.

Parents, I know we all want to be compassionate and open to people of difference. That is most cool, but I know my 7th grade boy would feel more than a tinge horrified taking a shower after P.E. class next to a student with breasts hanging out and male private parts.

Thankfully, for my boy, I yanked him out of public school at the beginning of this year due to extreme bullying he was experiencing. He was also having related physical problems with Asthma. I can just imagine throwing him back into the public school system now where he can be abused some more by being forced to display himself naked in a shower room with a transgender student staring at him. I think not.

Obama went way too far starting the first year of his UN-Constitutional and anti-God rule as President, but now, he is directly assaulting the safety of all our children in the public school system. Just when a kid thought there might be a moment to himself in the bathroom, he is wrong. Now everyone else gets to be in there also. Our girls will just have to face it that privacy in the shower room will be no more. They must find a way to relax with the transgender student showering next to them talking about Mr. Frank in science class.

How many of you ladies would purposely walk into a men’s shower after a workout at a YMCA, undress and stand alongside the boys soaping up and spraying down?

No one, No one, No one, and No one.

We have watched Obama turn our fine military into a sized down, compromised, LGTB sexual playground. There seem to be legal and military rights for all the sexual wonder bread crowd and complete annihilation of Christian and speech rights. Chaplains praying in the name of Jesus now get written up, threatened or fired. Soldiers are not to have any real or personal beliefs that marriage is to be between a man and a woman. More than one solder has been demoted or fired daring to have a conservative or Christian opinion.

What now, folks

Obama has just opened a Pandora’s box. I predict a tsunami of lawsuits coming from Obama to schools. School leaders and parents all across the country no doubt will start forming class action lawsuits back at the Obama administration. I predict thousands of kids will be yanked from public schools by their horrified parents because of what Obama has shamefully done now.

All parents must fight to protect their kids from pedophiles and other perverts online, among strangers and friends at school. Now, however, Obama has brought this very real danger right into our living rooms - no, bathrooms - of our schools and homes.

It is time to focus our national horror and rage into countless lawsuits against Obama and his administration. Demand your school leaders rise up and protect our children by not allowing this to happen to our schools. Forget blackmail and funding issues. It is time to trust God, protect the rights and safety of our children and stand up and battle.

It is really very simple in businesses and schools. If officials everywhere are freaking out now over transgender rights, then they should do this. Direct a transgender or sexual mystery person to a private bathroom in a school, not the main one. The same idea should be implemented at department stores. Send them to a private bathroom somewhere in the store, not the public bathroom or public shower.

Obama has no interest in honoring and protecting the rights and safety of our kids, only the illegal alien, Muslim children and sexually unique variety. All others can disappear and shut up.

It is time yet again for our nation to stand in every way possible against Obama and this UN-Constitutional, un-Christian, unfair, immoral and stupid ruling demanding Transgender rights in any bathroom and any shower.

Well, Mr. President….‘Or else’ can go both ways. Our nation is going to rise up boldly against you and your vicious assault on our children and public schools.

Laurie Roth Show on USA Radio Networks

1-4p (ET) weekdays.

Just Who is this Annie Oakley of the airwaves?

Laurie Roth has a Ph.D. in counseling and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is happily married and currently resides in Washington State. She is a singer/songwriter with five CD albums to her credit.

She can be reached at: Drljroth@aol.com

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Obama Admin: Transgender BOYS Must Be Allowed To Shower With Your Daughters

By Lauren Richardson

November 3, 2015

http://truthuncensored.net/obama-admin-transgender-boys-must-be-allowed-to-shower-with-your-daughters/

The U.S. Department of Education found that a Chicago-area school district discriminated against a transgender student by failing to provide him with full access to the girls’ locker rooms, specifically, the showers.

The student, who has not been identified, participates on a girls’ sports team and so far has been required to change and shower separately from his female teammates and classmates, and rightly so. Regardless of him thinking he is a girl, he has a penis and does not belong in the shower with young girls.

According to the Obama administration, transgender rights trump everyone else’s so the girls have to shower with him. I wonder how Barack and Michelle Obama would feel if this were their daughters being told they have to shower with a man.

CNN reported:

A Chicago-area school district violated anti-discrimination laws by denying a transgender student full access to the girl’s locker room, federal authorities said, the latest inquiry to side with students who feel discriminated against by school policies.

The finding against Township High School District 211 concerns only one of numerous complaints of discrimination made by transgender students.

“All students deserve the opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities — this is a basic civil right,” Assistant U.S. Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon said in a statement Monday.

John McCormack, with the The Weekly Standard said that the case out of Illinois is the latest controversy since the Obama administration’s Department of Justice and Department of Education have ruled that anatomically male teenagers who think they’re girls have the right to shower and change clothes in girls’ locker rooms.

In September, 150 students in Missouri walked out of their high school to protest the school’s policy on transgender rights. As David French of National Review wrote at the time: “The controversy exploded after a girl at the school reported encountering an ‘intact male’ in the locker room. Exposing a penis to girls in a public high school is generally considered an act of sexual harassment, not part of the sexual revolution.”

The district has been given 30 days to reach a solution or face enforcement, which could mean the loss of Title IX funding. The federal law bans sexual discrimination.

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Also See:

Who is This Guy in the Oval Office?
(Part 25)
26 April 2016
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/04/who-is-this-guy-in-oval-office-part-25.html
and
Common Core and Mental Health!

11 July 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/07/common-core-and-mental-health.html

and

Common Core: Public Education or is it Indoctrination?

(Part 1)

02 April 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/04/public-education-or-is-it-indoctrination.html

and

(Part 2)

23 October 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/10/common-core-public-education-or-is-it.html

and

(Part 3)

03 March 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/03/blog-post.html

and

(Part 4)

25 January 2016

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/01/common-core-public-education-or-is-it.html

and
What is Happening in Education?
08 September 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/09/what-is-happening-in-education.html
and
Education Ain't What It Should Be (Part 1)
21 April 2008
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2008/04/education-aint-what-it-should-be.html
and
(Part 2)
12 June 2011
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/06/education-aint-what-it-should-be-part-2.html
and
(Part 3)
17 June 2012
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/06/technocratization-of-public-education.html
and
(Part 4)
16 May 2013
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/05/education-aint-what-it-should-be-part-4.html
and

(Part 5)

22 November 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/11/education-aint-what-it-should-be-part-5.html

and

(Part 6)

05 May 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/05/education-aint-what-it-should-be-part-6.html

and

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Sweden Is No Longer Sweden! (Part 2)

May 25, 2016, 11:18 am

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Sweden is Under Social Mind Control

Published on Sep 30, 2015

Paul Joseph Watson talks with The Angry Foreigner about Sweden's extreme liberal culture and how the migrant crisis is destroying the country.

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Welcome to Sweden

Published on Jun 15, 2015

Playlist for all my english videos: http://bit.ly/1RVPX8D
What is life like in Sweden? "The politicians are participating in a chicken race of “goodness” where everybody tries to one-up each other in caring for the citizens of OTHER countries while Swedish retirees, school children, handicapped and other vulnerable categories of people are thorougly ignored." - http://swedenreport.org/
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Let's clarify a few things.
1. No, there is no irony in an immigrant wanting to decrease immigration. Last year we took in 120'000 immigrants, the year before 100'000. Your countries aren't taking in as much so how the fuck can you whine about me uttering common sense and saying that we should take in maybe 5000-10'000 a year instead of 120'000 with our housing shortage? When me and my family came here in the 90's there wasn't a housing shortage like this one and Balkan people were easier to integrate too, so obviously immigration wasn't as big of a problem back then.
2. I don't hate blacks, arabs and jews. No idea why some of the comments are like that. I am not against immigration as a phenomenon. Of course Im not saying that every country should close it's borders. Im just asking that other countries take more responsibility with asylum seekers so that we in Sweden don't have to take as much. It's fucking killing us. Our politicians are too scared to integrate immigrants properly and it's causing problems for both the ethnic population and us who have come here over the past years.
3. Of course influences from foreign cultures can be positive. Foreign influences have helped make Swedish culture awesome, by introducing great food and music, to only mention a few examples. But that's not what multiculturalism is. Multiculturalism is when you refuse to acknowledge that foreign cultures have negative aspects as well as positive ones. Multiculturalism is cultural relativism. It's when a country adapts entirely to the immigrants, and not the other way around. I gave an example of this later on in the video with the "greeting quarrel" where the radical muslim refused to shake hands with a woman. That's not acceptable. This is a secular country, adapt to that.
Here in Sweden cultural relativism is the norm. Suggesting that some cultures are more civilized and evolved than others is considered to be racism. Which is retarded, obviously, since a culture isn't a person. A culture is a set of ideas in the shape of norms, values and traditions. You can't be racist towards ideas. Prefering one culture over the other only means that you have a personal taste, not that you hate people because of their skin colour.
Obviously, I don't mind immigrants who come to Sweden and respect western values such as equality and human rights for women + homosexuals. I do however mind immigrants who refuse to shake hands with women, beat their children, force their daughters to wear veils and demand respect for their religious medieval bullshit ideas about the world. Any sound atheist would.

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Sweden in Satanic Death Grip

By Erik Larssen

(henrymakow.com)

May 23, 2016

http://henrymakow.com/

(Left: Swedish woman) Fifty years ago, Swedish women were considered the most beautiful in the world.

Erik Larssen, a native Swededespairs for the future of his country.

"If you walk around in Sweden, you will see many soulless people with miserable face expressions and earphones. You see a lot of obese Swedish people and the Pride festival in Stockholm is enormous.

While Swedish people claim to be 'happy,' they are really miserable and lonely.

Is Sweden a harbinger for the West?

War is usually associated with guns and missiles but a mental civil war where man-woman, rich-poor, locals-immigrants, left-right politicians fight each other is just as devastating as any physical war.

Sweden is the frontrunner of the NWO and has a fully dedicated Marxist mainstream media (MSM) trying to undermine Swedish nuclear families and all forms of traditional culture and religion. Voltaire said that whoever you are not allowed to criticize is the one that rules you. Cabalist Jewry rules and hides behind the shield of Judaism, a religion they have destroyed along with numerous ordinary Jews. After almost 100 years of warfare in Sweden, we see the devastating effects today.

Sweden is widely considered a top-ranked country for family life. Yet Sweden is also a world leader in terms of divorce rates (47%), single-parent households and depression among young people.

Indeed, Sweden is a terrible place for children these days - this is the reality. The main reason is that Swedish parents don´t know family values and don´t raise their kids in a good way since they have been brainwashed by Marxism. The result is a generation of weak and sickly children without basic knowledge about human life.

In 2015, only 23.8% of Swedish kids were born to married parents. An astonishing 47% of all Swedes live in single households. In 20 years the depression rate among Swedish kids has tripled. Most Swedish boys are unsocial, addicted to computer games and have not learned basic self discipline. Furthermore, most Swedish parents buy into all vaccine schemes making the kids even weaker. Sweden has received more immigrants than any other western country (per capita) making Swedish kids feel even more lost.

COLLAPSE OF NUCLEAR FAMILY AND TRADITIONAL BELIEFS

Many Swedish people are naive, reserved and kindhearted. If you want to see true evil, check out the Swedish MSM which now promotes LBTG, atheist, materialist, sexist, feminist, anti-Putin and fear on a huge scale. Swedish MSM is controlled by the NWO mainly through the Illuminati Jewish families - and nobody dares to criticize them. First of all the Bonnier family (Bilderberg Jews) owns the largest parts of Swedish media and television and secondly there is the Hjörne crypto jews owning a big part. Other players are either controlled from the US (Schibsted) or by Swedish politicians or unions (Mittmedia).

(Left: The disaster of sinking M/S Estonia in 1994, killing around 800 people, was never fully investigated and remains an enigma to the public.)

In Sweden, you are regarded as a fool if you believe in God or divine creation. This is due to a Marxist ideology destroying the school system, children, State, Church and top politicians. The murders/"suicides"/disappearances of Ivar Kreuger, Raul Wallenberg, Olof Palme, Anna Lindh and KSI (top secret intelligence service) head Lars Ericsson adds fuel to the black smoke of Sweden. Palme´s autopsy protocol is still kept secret while Lindh´s murder looks like a psy op with a young assassin very confused claiming he was controlled by an inner voice during the murder (which we never have been able to confirm on film).

The "Sweden Democrat" party is rising fast and they are against mass migration - but they are Zionist controlled opposition. The same goes for the major alternative media sites. Swedish people are scared and do not react even when skeleton bones fall out of the Masonic HQ at Stockholm. Basically, there is a lack of courage and information in Swedish men.

SWEDISH FEMINISM MARXIST ATTACK ON FAMILY

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval...including the ugly ones."(Karl Marx)

Fifty years ago, Swedish women were considered the most beautiful in the world. Today´s Swedish women have been brainwashed into pursuing career and "equality" making them disregard feminine qualities. Many women behave, walk and dress like men. A foreigner asked me why Swedish women are terrible while Swedish men are good.

Another foreigner asked me why Swedish babies are so unclean. A French woman told me that Swedish dress style is different (uglier) from other countries. We can´t blame Swedish women but nowadays they don´t understand what is important in life - a harmonious family and traditional beliefs. Of course there are exceptions.

Swedish women are usually dictators at home and the man will be effeminate. Swedish men quietly endure their misery until she wants a divorce. A friend from the North told me that no Swedish women wants to stay there anymore so his village is full of Thai and Russian wives.

If you walk around in Sweden you will see many soulless people with miserable face expressions and earphones. You see a lot of obese Swedish people and the Pride festival in Stockholm is enormous. While Swedish people claim to be "happy" they are really miserable and lonely. Swedish people can´t imagine what is going on beyond the scenes and they are completely unaware of the evil forces behind their MSM, Government and Secret Police. Some insiders call it the most corrupt government on earth controlled by Mossad/CIA.

THE NEXT STEP- PSYOPS, MARTIAL LAW AND BAD WATER

(Left: Muslim immigrants are used as scapegoats in Sweden for terror actions)

The Swedish government and media are fighting Swedish people. It doesn´t matter which party you vote for, they are all controlled by the same evil power so the end result is the same.

The hallmark of a nation run by Illuminati Jews is that the government tries to destroy traditional culture and nuclear families. The current forecast for Sweden is more psy ops to instil fear of the Muslims. This will result in martial law and a zionist NWO puppet dictator. Swedish people will support anyone that promises "safety from the Muslims".

Watch out for the drinking water - large cities will be easy targets and Swedes drink the tap water in big cities. The water poisoning will be a global affair and it´s the easiest way to depopulate.

UNITY AND FAITH ONLY HOPE

A country without patriots, courageous men, unity, religion or traditional principles is doomed. Many Swedish people are kindhearted but they are unaware of the Marxist brainwash which destroys them.

Everyone can see where Sweden is heading and if some good people unite perhaps a miracle can take place. If patriotic Swedes working in secret services such as KSI, MUST, SÄPO and FRA realize that they and their country are being destroyed by their own Marxist employer - the NWO - perhaps there might be unexpected news from Sweden.

First Comment from Dan:

Two things Americans must understand about Sweden, is that it's against the law to question anything - even in the most meek, apologetic terms. Boys of Swedish ancestry aren't wanted at all by the Swedish government. Showing normal male character traits at all gets boys turned over to school psychologists who prescribe medication.

News is heavily censored in Sweden, to the extent that Swedes have been lied to about the reason they've gone from being a traditionally rape free society thirty years ago to be the 'rape capitol of Europe'.

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Sweden to deport nearly 80,000 asylum seekers amid migrant-linked violence

RT News

28 Jan, 2016

https://www.rt.com/news/330401-sweden-expel-80000-migrants/

Sweden is planning to expel nearly 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in the country in 2015, Interior Minister Anders Ygeman said, adding that their applications for asylum had been rejected.

“We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb to 80,000,” Swedish media quoted Ygeman as saying.

Police and local authorities have been tasked with organizing the departures by charter flights. The countries of origin of the rejected asylum seekers have not been disclosed.

Sweden, which has the population of 9.8 million people, is one of the EU countries that took in the largest share of refugees per head of population. In 2015, it accepted over 160,000 refugees and migrants.

However, the level of new arrivals has plunged since the beginning of January, when Sweden introduced systematic photo ID border checks, after stating that it has hit its limit in terms of receiving asylum seekers.

Swedish officials have been calling for greater security at asylum centers amid a surge in reports of violence.

Police officers have requested up to 4,100 new employees after a deadly stabbing attack in a refugee facility.

The attack happened at a center for underage, unaccompanied refugees in Mölndal, southern Sweden on Monday, where a 22-year-old female staff member was killed by a 15-year-old boy.

The victim was psychology graduate Alexandra Mezher. She was reportedly working the night shift alone when she was attacked. A motive for the attack was not immediately known.

"She worked at the center for about four months. She wanted to continue with her studies, but wanted to have a job to get experience first,”Mezher’s friend Lejla Filipovic told RT.

On Tuesday, over 40 asylum seekers were reportedly involved in a brawl at a refugee center in the Dutch city of Rosmalen, according to police. Twelve police cars were dispatched to the shelter.

In another incident last week, a police patrol consisting of 10 officers was forced to flee the Västerås refugee center in Sweden after being surrounded by a group of asylum seekers. The police were there to relocate a 10-year-old boy.

Tougher security measures have also been implemented in Sweden’s neighboring countries. Denmark approved a new law this week, making it legal to seize refugees’ belongings. Critics of the legislation have compared the new law to the Nazis’ confiscation of gold and other valuables from Jews during the Holocaust.

Meanwhile, the number of refugees trying to make their way to Europe across the Mediterranean is not subsiding. The UN revealed that already over 46,000 people have arrived in Greece since the beginning of the year, with more than 170 people killed trying to cross the sea.

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Also See:

Sweden Is No Longer Sweden!

(Part 1)

27 March 2016

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/03/sweden-is-no-longer-sweden.html

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Harper's Gone! Here's Justin! (Part 3)

May 25, 2016, 4:50 pm

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Obama-elected ‘Pretty Boy’ Goes ‘Bully Boy’

Up until now many Canadians believed that a Pretty Boy Powder Puff had been installed as their prime minister, now he can be viewed as a brutish thug who will even stoop to physical force to get his own way

By Judi McLeod -- Bio and Archives

May 19, 2016

http://canadafreepress.com/article/obama-elected-pretty-boy-goes-bully-boy

Utterly missed in today’s media coverage of the story that should be headlined ‘Pretty Boy Goes Bully Boy’ from Canadian Parliament in action yesterday, is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is desperate for Canadians to die faster, and that he was already an established bully before Barack Obama’s Campaign team helped elect him with a mere 39 percent of the popular vote.

It was the vote on the physician-assisted suicide bill going too slow that triggered the bully action that saw Trudeau on camera dragging off one member of the Opposition and elbowing off another.

Forgotten in this public display of temper was that Trudeau was a bully long before the Obama team helped get him elected. As Liberal leader In the October 2015 election, he banned all pro-life candidates from running for election in the closed-door Liberal Party.

Earlier this week, Trudeau forced on Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars to pay for the abortions of women overseas.

In love with his own mirror, selfies and videos, the prelude to yesterday’s manhandling of opposition members came only weeks ago with a Liberal Party-released video boasting Trudeau’s prowess with the push-up routine. Daddy (former Liberal PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau) photographed doing a pirouette for the Queen was a show-off, so is the son Canadians elected 31 years later.

Followed on Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets by thousands of ‘Good Looks Groupies’ from all over the world, Trudeau’s looks seem to have gone straight to his well-coiffed head.

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was accused of “manhandling” Opposition whip Gord Brown and elbowing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the House of Commons as MPs gathered for a vote on the government’s assisted-dying bill Wednesday afternoon.” (CBC, May 19, 2016)

That’s right, the ‘Push-up Prime Minister’ who only last week showed off his physical prowess on video, yesterday chose to get physical with his political opponents.

Only this time, more than his social media groupies got to see the show.

“In video from the House, Trudeau is seen walking toward Brown in a crowd of MPs in the Commons aisle, taking his arm in an apparent effort to move Brown toward his seat. While doing so, he encountered Brosseau, who was also standing in the aisle and was seen physically reacting after the contact. (CBC)

“I was trying to start the vote, the prime minister grabbed my arm. I immediately told the prime minister to let go of me — now,” Brown said in a statement released later. “Immediately afterward, the prime minister went back down the aisle of the House to confront other members of opposition parties.”  “I later told the prime minister he should NOT have gotten out of his seat,” Brown added.

“NDP House leader Peter Julian accused Trudeau of “manhandling” Brown, as MPs on all sides of the House shouted and Speaker Geoff Regan struggled to regain order.

“NDP MP Tracey Ramsey said the prime minister swore as he approached Brown and the opposition benches. “He said ‘Get the bleep out of the way,’” she said, adding Trudeau “violently” grabbed Brown.

“Sources told CBC News that Trudeau used the F-word — a profane utterance that decades earlier landed his father, Pierre Trudeau, in hot water in the same House of Commons.

“But it was Trudeau’s actions that provoked the most concern and anger from opposition benches.

“MPs were just about to vote on time allocation for Bill C-14, the government’s physician-assisted dying legislation.

“The prime minister later said he felt Brown was walking too slowly ahead of the vote.

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“After the incident, the prime minister again crossed the floor and engaged in a loud and heated conversation with NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.

“What kind of man elbows a woman? It’s pathetic! You’re pathetic!” Mulcair can be heard on tape shouting at Trudeau.

“An emotional Brosseau said later in the House that she had been “elbowed in the chest by the prime minister,” bringing Trudeau to his feet once again to “apologize unreservedly.”

“Brosseau said she was so upset from the incident that she had to leave the chamber, subsequently missing the vote.

“Her NDP MP colleague Niki Ashton said she was deeply troubled by Trudeau’s actions.

“I am ashamed to be a witness to the person who holds the highest position in our country do such an act. I want to say that for all of us who witnessed this, this was deeply traumatic. What I will say, if we apply a gendered lens, it is very important that young women in this space feel safe to come here and work here,” she said.

“He made us feel unsafe and we’re deeply troubled by the conduct of the prime minister of this country.”

“In a second attempt at an apology, Trudeau said he took full responsibility for the “unadvisable course of actions.”

“I want to take the opportunity … to be able to express directly to [Brosseau] my apologies for my behaviour and my actions, unreservedly. The fact is, in this situation, where I saw … I noticed that the whip opposite was being impeded in his progress, I took it upon myself to go and assist him forward, which I can now see was unadvisable as a course of actions that resulted in physical contact in this House that we can all accept was unacceptable,” he said.

“I look for opportunities to make amends directly to the member and to any members who feel negatively impacted by this exchange and intervention.”

“Julian said later what transpired was simply unacceptable.

“There is not a parallel in contemporary Canadian history. We hear about members becoming physical in other countries but that is not Canada,” Julian said as MPs raised points of privilege after the vote.

“Conservative MP Peter Van Loan said it was an “extraordinary example of physical intimidation.”

“I witnessed as [Trudeau] strode across the floor with an anger fierce, in his face and eyes, towards a group of individuals. What took place was the prime minister physically grabbing people, elbowing people, hauling them down the way,” he said.”

The scenario has changed. Up until now many Canadians believed that a Pretty Boy Powder Puff had been installed as their prime minister. Ironically they can now see via the videos to which he is so addicted that what they really have leading their country is a brutish thug who will even stoop to physical force to get his own way.

June 1 rally on parliament hill against euthanasia and assisted suicide.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Living with Dignity and the Physicians Alliance Against Euthanasia have organized a rally on parliament hill on Wednesday June 1 (12 noon - 1:30 pm) (Link to the rally information).

If you cannot attend the rally then please share this email with your contacts or on your facebook page. You can also donate towards the cost of the rally (Donation Link).

The rally may be our last opportunity to challenge Canadian society concerning euthanasia and assisted suicide and the dangerous language contained within Bill C-14.

You can still contact the Senators concerning Bill C-14. (Link to article). An explanation of Bill C-14 is attached to the email.

Thank you again for all your continued support.

Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and Glenn Beck.

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Also See:
Harper's Gone! Here's Justin!
(Part 1)
09 February 2016
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/02/heres-justin.html
and

(Part 2)

17 March 2016

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2016/03/harpers-gone-heres-justin-part-2.html

and

How Does the Future Look for Canada?
17 December 2015
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/12/how-does-future-look-for-canada.html
and
Are You a Fan of Justin Trudeau?
18 November 2016
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/11/are-you-fan-of-justin-trudeau.html
and
Why is Obama Getting Involved with Canadian Politics?
24 October 2015
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2015/10/obama-machine-takes-over-canada-by.html

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Did Obamacare Pass Because Americans Are Stupid?

May 26, 2016, 8:56 am

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Obamacare: Voters, are you stupid?

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/14/politics/obamacare-voters-stupid-explainer/?utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=7d7ed79c7b-CFP+Daily+Mailout&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d8f503f036-7d7ed79c7b-297723645

Washington (CNN) -- Years-old but newly scrutinized videos of MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber ignited a political firestorm this week because the self-described architect of Obamacare thanks "the stupidity of the American voter" for leading to passage of the president's signature piece of legislation.

With Obamacare open enrollment set to begin over the weekend and the Supreme Court set to weigh in again on the law next year, Republicans pounced, using the videos as additional ammunition in their case that President Barack Obama and his administration misled the American public on Obamacare.

Obama on Sunday dismissed the idea that his administration and other proponents of the law misled voters about the legislation, noting that "we had a yearlong debate."

"The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with ... is no reflection on the actual process that was run," Obama said.

So why should old videos of an economics professor matter?

Here's the gist: Gruber called voters stupid, Republicans are calling him the Obamacare architect, and Democrats are calling it all a big misunderstanding.

Still confused? This will help:

Was Gruber the "architect" of Obamacare?

Not exactly. This is a law that was passed by both houses of Congress and written in different forms by several Congressional committees. It's many thousands of pages long and has a myriad of different provisions. But Gruber clearly played an important role in crafting the idea behind the series of exchanges, subsidies and taxes that form the law's centerpiece. He continues to argue the country is better for Obamacare -- but we'll get to that.

And he doesn't look nearly as cool as this guy, who actually goes by the name, "the architect."

So why is he being called that? And what did he actually do?

Gruber's work did shape the Affordable Care Act in three key ways:

1. Gruber played a crucial role in crafting the health care law passed in Massachusetts during then-Gov. Mitt Romney's tenure. Gruber modeled the impact and effectiveness of that state's plans to implement an individual mandate -- the controversial policy that essentially forces people to get covered, or get fined.

And this matters because the 2004 Massachusetts law was the model for Obamacare. The "individual mandate" became a key component -- and political lightning rod -- of the health care law most people now call Obamacare.

Obamacare's next fight for survival

2. Gruber was hired in 2009 as a consultant by the Obama administration -- and paid nearly $400,000 -- for a year of his work. What'd he do? Gruber has called it "technical support" and "analysis." What he really did was take a bunch of numbers and model the effects of proposals that would later become the Affordable Care Act.

"If they hadn't had this kind of analysis, well, the law would not be designed as well," Gruber said on the O'Reilly Factor last year, discussing his work.

3. At least eight states called him in to counsel them on how to implement the health care law and set up state-run health insurance exchanges. So he's pretty important to Obamacare.

O.K. but this guy is still calling voters stupid! I vote. Am I stupid?

No, you're not stupid. At least we don't think so.

So why is he calling us voters stupid?

Let's first look at what Gruber actually said: He was defending the fact that the law was written behind closed doors and he said Democrats intentionally made the law confusing to mask the fact that the law instituted a new tax to pay for health reform. Why'd the Democrats do this? Voters don't like new taxes. Gruber said it was more important to get health reform than to be up front.

"It's a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter," Gruber said at the Honors Colloquium 2012 at the University of Rhode Island.

And: "They proposed it and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference," he said at Washington University at St. Louis in 2013.

The brunt of Gruber's argument is that policymakers crafting the law had to take politics into account. And politics means that politicians prefer to vote for a tax on insurance companies that will ultimately get passed on to consumers, rather than voting for a tax on consumers outright, for example.

Gruber's "stupid" comments are summed up his contention that people don't want to pay more taxes, even when they want cheaper or better things. For instance:

- Want better public education?

- Sure!

- Want to pay higher taxes to improve public education?

- Eh...

This also applies to voting for the individual mandate "penalty," as the Obama administration refers to it, rather than a "tax," as the Supreme Court ruled in 2012.

And it turns out that Gruber always knew a tax on expensive insurance plans would eventually grow to hit almost every insurance plan. He admitted as much in yet another video that surfaced on Friday. The White House and Democrats, by the way, promised up and down that the so-called "cadillac tax" wouldn't affect most Americans.
The guy who thinks voters are 'stupid'

But the controversy over whether the mandate is a "tax" isn't news, right?

Nope. But it is giving Republicans' claims that the Obama administration misled voters on the "truth" of the Affordable Care Act more credence.

So why are Democrats trying to distance themselves from Gruber?

Democrats clearly don't want Obamacare tarnished anymore than it already has because of one guy. And they definitely don't want him to be the face of Obamacare or Democrats' view on the law.

What they're trying to do is downplay Gruber's role in crafting the law.

On Sunday, President Obama speaking from the G20 summit in Australia called him "some adviser who never worked on our staff."

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Gruber "didn't help write our bill" and claimed not to "know who he is."

She wasn't being entirely up front on that point. Pelosi actually cited Gruber's work approvingly in 2009 and even mentioned him by name in an interview that same year.
Obamacare architect discussed misleading public in 4th newly uncovered video

Was Gruber making a larger point here that we're missing?

Definitely. If you can get past his condescending tone and insults, Gruber's speeches actually offer some insight into how policy is impacted by politics.

"If you had a law which said healthy people are going to pay in -- if you made it explicit that healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed, OK?" Gruber said.

And while the (impartial) jury on the Affordable Care Act is still out, the law has lowered that national uninsured rate and, so far, the law is proving to be cheaper than expected.

Either way, Gruber has said he believes the U.S. is better off with Obamacare than without it.

And if less transparency helps implement better policy, he's O.K. with that.

But am I? Are you?

You make that call.
Third video emerges of Obamacare architect insulting voters

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ObamaCare - Health, Euthanasia, Life in Jeopardy!

(Part 1)

20 July 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/07/health-care-obama-style.html

and

(Part 2)

10 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/08/obamacare-health-euthanasia-life-in.html

and

(Part 3)

27 August 2009

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2009/08/obamacare-health-euthnasia-life-in.html

and

The Last Word on ObamaCare - Maybe!

20 March 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/03/last-word-on-obamacare-maybe.html

and

Coming Soon - Death Panels!

23 August 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/08/coming-soon-death-panels.html

and

How is Obama's Healthcare Working Out?

14 October 2010

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2010/10/how-is-obamas-healthcare-working-out.html

and

More about ObamaCare!

24 January 2011

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2011/01/more-about-obamacare.html

and

ObamaCare is Still an Issue!

(Part 1)

03 April 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/04/obamacare-is-still-issue.html

and

(Part 2)

28 June 2012

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2012/06/obamacare-is-still-issue-part-2.html

and

(Part 3)

08 August 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/08/obamacare-is-still-issue-part-3.html

and

(Part 4)

27 October 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/10/obamacare.html

and

(Part 5)

19 December 2013

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2013/12/obamacare-is-still-issue-part-5.html

and

Will ObamaCare be Reversed?
(Part 1)

03 January 2014

http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/01/will-obamacare-be-reversed.html

and
(Part 2)
30 March 2014
http://arcticcompass.blogspot.ca/2014/03/obamacare-is-american-catastrophe.html
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Another Side To Winston Churchill?!

May 27, 2016, 5:46 pm

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Why Did Churchill Have Josslyn Hay Murdered?

January 11, 2016

The "Ugly Secret" of World War Two

By Henry Makow Ph.D.

(Revised from Dec. 7, 2007)

http://henrymakow.com/001523.html

The Man Who Knew Too Much

What "ugly secret" did this British aristocrat and colonial official know that caused the British secret service to murder him in 1941?

My hunch is he was illuminati and knew that Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were both Illuminati and World War Two was a charade.

SOE "Operation Highland Clearance" involved more than 100 people. In the early stages of the world war, why was it so important for the Churchill government to silence this man?

Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, (1901-1941) a senior British colonial (Kenyan) official, knew the real cause of World War Two and had the stature to be heard.

Winston Churchill ordered the Secret Service (Special Operations Executive) to kill him. What "ugly secret" would make the British government go to so much trouble to murder a prominent British politician?

Significantly the conspirators chose the codename "Operation Highland Clearance" for Erroll's murder. The brutal eviction of Scottish tenants from their farms in the early 1800's is a fitting symbol for the dispossession of the human race by the New World Order, which the Second World War did so much to advance.

The popular version of the Nairobi, Kenya murder was depicted in the 1987 movie "White Mischief" starring Charles Dance as Lord Erroll and Greta Scacchi as Diana Broughton.

Erroll's body was found in the early morning Jan. 24, 1941 kneeling in the front passenger foot well of his car with a bullet wound behind the ear, murdered execution style. Erroll, 40, a widower, was having an affair with a married woman Diana Broughton and had dropped her at her nearby home after midnight.

Suspicion was cast on Diana's much older husband Sir Henry Broughton, who was tried but acquitted. The movie pins the blame on him and the decadence of the white settlement in general.

The murder would have remained unsolved but for a retired SOE insider who, informed of a terminal disease, gave the information to a colleague Tony Trafford who composed a 100-page memo. Trafford, since deceased, gave it to an author, coincidentally named Errol Trzebinski who was writing "The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder" (2000).

At 6 foot 2" with chiselled Nordic looks, Lord Erroll was a natural leader, heir to an ancient Scottish lineage, organized and intelligent, an excellent speaker with a photographic memory. A member of the Kenyan colonial legislature, he held the post of Military Secretary with important military and intelligence duties.

errol.jpg SOE "Operation Highland Clearance" involved more than 100 people. In the early stages of the world war, why was it so important for the Churchill government to silence this man?

THE GREAT RUSE

Essentially, Hitler was not interested in a world war. His design was to conquer the USSR in a "Nordic" alliance with England. Erroll belonged to the "Cliveden Set" a powerful section of the British elite that supported this alliance.

Churchill's backers, the Illuminati Jewish-owned Bank of England set Hitler up as a means to control Stalin, have a world war and destroy Germany once and for all. War enables them to concentrate power and wealth in their hands and slaughter national elites who might interfere with world government.

The bankers used the Cliveden types to fool Hitler into thinking England approved of his plans. Like proud proteges, the Nazis entertained the English and gave them information on their military build-up. Hitler probably saw himself as a British ally or even agent. The Nazis were set up. This is the real meaning of the "Policy of Appeasement."

The Cliveden Set divided into two groups, those who were aware of the trap, and those who were not. Erroll was one of latter who sincerely believed Hitler represented a bulwark to Communism. When the war broke out, Erroll did his patriotic duty. But he knew too much. He was aware of how Hitler and Churchill belonged to the same homosexual occult secret society and he may have spoken of it within range of MI-5 assets.

DEEP BACKGROUND

Errol's father, Victor Hay, was the British High Commissioner in the Rhineland. At age 20, Errol was the private secretary to the British Ambassador in Berlin. He spoke German and French fluently, knew the Prince of Wales, and was part of the European elite.

(Left: Hay with first wife) His diplomatic career hit the rocks in 1924 when he married a twice-divorced woman. Idina Sackville, eight years his senior. He followed her to Kenya where she had a large estate won in a divorce settlement. They had a daughter.

Erroll visited England, joined Oswald Mosley's Fascist party but later quit. He was a close friend with the Duke of Hamilton who was a linch pin in the Bank of England's "Hitler Project."

In May 1941, three months after Errol's death, Rudolf Hess, the Deputy Fuhrer, flew to Scotland to present Hamilton with a generous peace proposal. Both men were homosexuals. Hess was Hitler's homosexual lover in the Landsberg Prison and helped him compose "Mein Kampf."

It is probable that Hitler was created by a largely homosexual occult secret society that spanned both British and Nazi elites. This was called the Thule Society in Germany and the Order of the Golden Dawn in England. Aleister Crowley's Ordo Templi Orientis was the common link. (See the book by Kevin Abrams & Scott Lively, "The Pink Swastika", onlineChapter "Homo-Occultism")

Winston Churchill, a Druid, was part of this occult scene. (He was also a friend of Edward VIII, considered a Nazi sympathizer.) But the Nazis branch was not aware of the hidden English agenda. Erroll was silenced because he opposed Communism and knew Hitler had been set up. He could discredit Churchill and the British war effort.

(See Churchill's homosexual connection. )

THE MURDER

On Sept 7, 1940, a highly placed group including Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the Fourteenth Duke of Hamilton, met in Scotland and decided to terminate Jocelyn Hay, Lord Erroll. The matter was to be handled by SOE Cairo station.

Jock and Diana Broughton, left, were MI-5 assets who entered Kenya in Nov. 1940 to discover Erroll's intentions and to involve him in a love triangle that would obscure the real purpose of his murder. In December, another agent-couple entered Kenya and on the night of the murder, pretended to have engine trouble. They requested a ride back to town for the female who shot Errol. There were radio-controlled teams following Erroll.

Jock Broughton was tried but found innocent. He "committed suicide" shortly after returning to England. Diana who died in 1987, went on to marry one of the richest men in Kenya.

Trezebinski's retired SOE contacts try to put a slightly different spin on events suggesting Erroll was murdered because "ex-appeasers " in the establishment including "the Duke of Hamilton, senior figures in Chamberlain's last cabinet, close friends of Edward VIII and Edward himself" would be embarrassed by what Erroll knew. (p.280)

One insider told her Rudolf Hess, Lord Moyne and Erroll shared knowledge of some "ugly" secret. Jewish terrorists ostensibly murdered Lord Moyne in 1944 for this reason. Other Cliveden members who died mysterious and premature deaths were Lord Lothian (1940), Lord Rothermere (1940), Sir Harry Oakes (1943) and the former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain who died of "cancer" in Nov. 1940 six months after leaving office. Hamilton conveniently died in action in 1944. The two SOE agents also conveniently died in action.

According to this insider, the "ugly secret" is "not that Churchill had discovered the conspiracy [to make peace with Germany] and had been enraged but that he had been part of it." My hunch is that Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and FDR were part of the same kabalistic secret society (the Illuminati.) Lord Erroll opposed Communism but knew Hitler had been set up to fail. This is why Lord Erroll had to be silenced.

CONCLUSION

The ultimate "ugly secret" is that the USSR was a creation of British Freemasonry, financed by the Bank of England. They may have lost control of Stalin and created Hitler to menace him. But Stalin would have had to do something terrible for the British to have joined Hitler. Russian Communism was one half of their NWO Hegelian dialectic. We see it today in the form of arbitrary state power, repression and indoctrination. Nazism was also a dry-run for the New World Order but it was their Plan "B"

As Erroll's fate makes clear, intelligence agencies work for the Masonic central bankers, not for the countries they pretend to serve. They are used to eliminate any genuine threat to the banker's credit monopoly and world dictatorship agenda.

The real point is that history is a hoax, contrived by cabalist central bankers, to advance world tyranny. They empower satanists, perverts and misfits to create war and mayhem. For example, chaos relieved Winston Churchill's chronic depression. He confessed at the onset of WWI: "Everything is tending to catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up, and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like this?"

These monsters are our leaders. Subverted by a Luciferian cult, the moral bankruptcy of Western society is masked by material prosperity but this cannot last. Thus, they are erecting a police state while the intelligentsia and masses can still be bought with their own credit.
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The White Mischief Murderess: 70-year-long mystery over murder in debauched Happy Valley set finally solved

By Tasha Colin

Updated: 23 September 2010

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During her heyday, Alice de Janze kept a pet lion in her house and was seldom seen without a small monkey on her shoulder.

Rich and exquisitely beautiful, she captivated men from London to Nairobi with her dreamy grey eyes, bee-stung lips and fashionably boyish figure.

Nor was the exotic American heiress averse to their attentions. In an age when the average Englishwoman guarded her reputation like a priceless jewel, Alice was famed for being a party-girl who drank eye-wateringly strong Absinthe cocktails and could lure any man she wanted to her bed.

And there was plenty of opportunity for sex in Kenya's Happy Valley, the decadent Shangri-La created by upper-class white colonials between the wars.

White Mischief Murderess: Alice de Janze is now thought to have murdered Lord Erroll in Kenya

As a key member of the Happy Valley set, she thrilled to the continual round of louche parties, fuelled by alcohol and sexual intrigue - where one daring after-dinner game involved male guests sticking their appendages through holes in a sheet so the women could vote on their favourite.

For all that, Alice would have been long forgotten but for one detail: her passion for Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll.

Not because their affair, which outlasted two marriages on both sides, caused any great scandal - but because he was cut down in his prime at the age of 39.

The shockwaves caused by the violent death of this good-looking aristocrat have continued to reverberate to this day.

At least half-a-dozen books have been published about his murder at a deserted crossroads in the dead of night, and a movie about it - White Mischief - even featured Alice as a minor character, played by the actress Sarah Miles.

No one, however, has yet come close to solving the mystery of who killed Lord Erroll. Until now.

The breakthrough, 70 years after the event, comes not from a professional historian or forensic investigator but a retired international businessman who has doggedly pursued fresh leads for the past 12 years.

Paul Spicer started his quest with a considerable advantage: not only had he lived for two extended periods in Kenya himself but his mother, Margaret, had been a good friend of Alice since meeting her in 1925 when they both arrived in Kenya.

Colourful characters: From left, Raymond de Trafford, Frederic de Janze, Alice de Janze and Lord Delamere

Patiently, he returned again and again to see the very few remaining survivors of the Happy Valley era, collecting ever more compelling evidence.

To his astonishment, it all seemed to point to just one culprit: the fun-loving Alice de Janze. Far from being little more than a footnote in history, it appeared that she had literally got away with one of the most celebrated murders of the 20th century.

So why would Alice have wanted to kill her lover? And how can Spicer be so sure that she pulled the trigger? To answer these questions fully, we must go back in time to her first marriage - to a French count.

Alice Silverthorne - as she was then - was the daughter of a millionaire from Buffalo, New York, and had been packed off to Paris at 21 when her relatives grew alarmed at her growing closeness to a young mobster.

There, she soon met and married Frederic de Janze, a mild-mannered French count who remained steadfast and loyal to her until the end of his life.

For Alice, though, the marriage was a disappointment. The unfortunate de Janze lacked the powerful masculinity and sexual chemistry that she was later to find with other lovers, and she was soon casting her dreamy gaze elsewhere.

It had been Count Frederic's idea to whisk his young wife off to the balmy valleys of Kenya - then called British East Africa - after the birth of two daughters in quick succession left her feeling listless and trapped.

And their host there was none other than Lord Erroll and his new wife, Idina, whom they had met briefly in Paris.

In 1925, Erroll was already a pivotal figure in the new community of British aristocrats and rich socialites, who left their black servants to tend to their farms and their kitchens while they hunted, partied and played polo.

Blond, clever and an ace card and polo player himself, the Earl had begun devoting a good deal of his energy to seducing women, especially those who were married.

Everything conspired to intoxicate the previously listless Alice: her sexy host, the hot sun, the high altitude and the carefree bohemianism of her hostess.

Far from the restrictions of British society, Idina and Erroll had cast old repressions aside with abandon, sometimes throwing parties that would last for days at a time.

It was even rumoured that every person had to sleep with someone other than the one they'd arrived with before the party could finish.

For now, though, Idina was pregnant and she preferred to titillate her houseguests by inviting them to watch her take her daily bath or by asking them to dress in pyjamas and dressing-gowns for dinner.

As for Alice, she quickly swapped her Paris designer wardrobe for the loose shirts and corduroy trousers favoured by her hostess. And she was soon having secret sexual rendezvous with her host.

Charles Dance as Lord Erroll and Greta Scacchi as Lady Diana Broughton in the 1987 film 'White Mischief'

By all accounts, Lord Erroll was an extremely accomplished lover, so he may well have been responsible for her sexual awakening. Certainly, Alice could not hide her new-found joy.

Her forgiving husband decided to wait patiently till she came to her senses. Idina, meanwhile, positively encouraged the affair as she grew ever larger: better that Erroll bedded someone she knew and liked than an outsider, she reasoned.

Not surprisingly, Alice decided that she wanted to live in Kenya, and persuaded her husband to buy a nearby property, Wanjohi Farm. The affair with Erroll continued sporadically for nearly 20 years. Not that Alice let it cramp her style.

A year after her arrival, she fell wildly in love with the 26-year-old youngest son of a British baronet, who had decided to try his hand at big-game hunting and farming in East Africa.

The darkly handsome and athletic Raymund de Trafford was also a gambler and a cad, who had already left a trail of broken hearts. And once again, he behaved true to form.

After first promising Alice he would marry her if she left Frederic, he abruptly changed his mind a year later while they were both on a visit to Paris. Deaf to her anguish, he told her he'd be leaving on the evening train.

That afternoon, Alice went into a gun shop and calmly bought a 3.8 pearl-handled Colt revolver and shot him in the chest, before turning the gun on herself.

The scandal made headlines all over the globe as the lovers hovered for weeks between life and death.

But they both pulled through; and at the ensuing trial, Alice received a six-month suspended sentence for what was viewed by the French as a magnificent crime of passion.

The sweet-faced Alice de Janze had definitely proved that she was capable of shooting a lover.

Afterwards, she returned to Africa, where Lord Erroll had by now divorced his wife and acquired another - apparently more for her money than her beauty.

Alice resumed her affair with the dashing Earl, though she also pined for Raymund, pursuing him to England for regular visits.

In the end, her long- suffering husband agreed to a divorce and Raymund finally agreed to marry her. It was a pyrrhic victory, however.

Marriage, it seemed, brought out the worst in her new husband, who within weeks was gambling away her money and rowing with her in the street.

They quickly agreed to part, and she returned alone to Kenya to resume where she'd left off with Lord Erroll.

Perhaps Erroll and Alice would have continued their liaison for years had it not been for the sudden arrival in November 1940 of a new couple in their midst: Sir Jock Delves Broughton and his bride Diana.

(Right: Greta Scacchi in a scene from 'White Mischief')
Almost immediately, 27-year- old Lady Diana - who was 30 years younger than her husband - became the new reigning beauty of the Happy Valley. Everything about her conspired to irritate Alice.

Not only was the newcomer much younger than herself, but she was Alice's exact opposite in looks: blonde, blue-eyed and so voluptuous that there was much comment on her blatant sex appeal.

Nor did it contribute to Alice's peace of mind to discover that one of her potential beaux, a dashing Coldstream Guards officer called Dickie Pembroke, was completely smitten - though Diana evidently turned him down because he didn't have a title.

Lord Erroll, though, was another matter.

By Christmas, he and Diana were regularly being seen dancing together at the Muthaiga Club in Nairobi, in a manner that some members considered indecent. And very soon it became obvious they were having a raging affair.

Within weeks, Diana's husband, Sir Jock - a friend of Erroll's - gracefully bowed to the inevitable and agreed to a divorce. But Alice, who had never known her lover to be so enthralled, was consumed with jealousy.

At 40, she suddenly became aware that the powers of seduction that she had always taken for granted were finally on the wane.

Perhaps to prove to herself that she could still attract a man, she took Diana's leavings and threw herself into an affair with the snubbed Dickie Pembroke.

She was in bed on the night of January 23, 1941, when he rolled in from a night out at the Muthaiga club and reported to her that Sir Jock had just proposed a toast to the future of his wife and her lover.

He had then told Erroll to make sure his soon-to-be ex-wife was back at the marital home by 3am.

So Alice planned her revenge. She knew when Lord Erroll was likely to be driving his Buick back alone to his own house.

No one can be exactly certain about what happened next, but we do know that he was persuaded to stop at a crossroads leading to his home.

Two shots from a .32 calibre revolver were then fired at close-range. His body was discovered by two African dairy workers not long afterwards, and they alerted the police.

Even after everyone had trampled over the scene of the crime, it was still evident that there was a second set of tyre tracks that were peculiarly thick. No one appeared to make the connection with Alice's DeSoto car, which had enormously wide tyres.

When news broke of the murder, Diana was inconsolable - but Alice, far from breaking down, immediately demanded to see the body at the mortuary.

An ex-lover who accompanied her there remembered her passionately kissing Erroll's cold lips and declaring: 'Now you are mine for ever.'

The most obvious suspect, of course, was the cuckolded husband, Sir Jock Delves Broughton.

He was duly charged with murder - even though many could have attested that he was drunk on the night, had a broken wrist and suffered from night blindness.

Alice, who had never previously shown any desire to befriend him, became one of his most regular visitors in jail as he awaited trial. He could not possibly be found guilty, she assured him, because there was no evidence.

To her friends, however, she talked incessantly about how worried she was that the trial might go against him. Was she dreading that she might have to confess in order to save him from the death penalty?

When the trial finally got under way, Alice attended court every day, always arriving early to secure a good seat and taking copious notes.

Among those who gave evidence was her lover Pembroke, who had been brought in by the Crown to rule her out as a possible suspect, and duly testified that he'd been in bed with her at the time of themurder.

The prosecutor, meanwhile, had been sent two anonymous letters suggesting that the killer might be a discarded mistress, for whom Erroll would naturally have stopped his car. He chose to ignore them.

In the end, Sir Jock was found not guilty. At least two authors who have written about the case since believe he did commit the murder, and one writer is even convinced that Sir Jock's wife Diana was responsible.

In virtually every depiction of the Erroll murder to date, Alice is described, suspected and cleared of suspicion.

Eight months after Erroll's death, Alice told several friends over lunch that the first of her two 'deep wishes' had already come true, and now she wondered if the second would occur. She then drove straight to the graveyard where her lover was buried.

Twelve days later, on the morning of September 27, 1941, she went into her garden to collect several armfuls of flowers. Returning to her bedroom, she placed some in vases and scattered therest over her outsized bed.

Then she wrote out tags with the names of close friends and attached each to a piece of furniture - including two large African drums that served as night-tables.

Finally, after putting on her best nightgown, she swallowed a huge dose of Nembutal, lay down on the bed and shot herself through the heart.

Alerted by her hysterical servants, her doctor, William Boyle, arrived to find five letters at the scene: one to Pembroke, two to her daughters, one a suicide note and one to the police.

No one knows where the one addressed to the police is now. The contents were never officially released, possibly because the coroner was so shocked at their implication that he handed the letter to the attorney general.

If so, the attorney general - who also happened to be the prosecutor at Sir Jock's trial - may well have decided not to re-open that particular can of worms.

But Alice's friend Dr Boyle had already read the letter before handing it to the police, and he had also shown it to his wife. It contained nothing less than her full confession to Lord Erroll's murder.

Paul Spicer had known about the existence of this letter, but was unaware of its explosive contents until he tracked down Dr Boyle's daughter, Alice Fleet.

Only after meeting him several times did she decide finally to reveal what her mother had told her about the letter.

It made perfect sense. After all, Alice had the motive. She had the knowledge of Erroll's movements. She had the nerve, having already tried to shoot a previous lover dead. She had always been a good shot and seldom left home without her revolver.

Her route to the crossroads would have been swift, and Erroll would have immediately recognised her slim figure in his headlights.

But what of her alibi that she was with her lover Pembroke at the time? Spicer believes that it's certainly possible that Pembroke slept through her departure and return on the night of the murder.

And even if he'd heard her coming back, he loved her enough by then to want to protect her.

Other small pieces of evidence also slotted neatly into place.

Julian Lezard, another of Alice's lovers, had always suspected her, and had said as much to friends in later years.

Mary Leslie-Melville, a neighbour of Alice's, had told her daughter-in-law that a few years after the murder, a revolver of the exact calibre used to shoot Erroll had been found under some rocks on the border between their properties.

What did you do, asked her daughter-in-law. 'Nothing,' said Mary. 'Erroll was dead. Alice was dead. What good would it have done to tell anyone?'

Spicer was plagued with one unanswered question: why didn't Alice kill her hated rival instead of her lover? He discovered the answer after finding Alice's old housekeeper, Noel Case.

Alice, recalled Case, had been obsessed with the occult and firmly believed she would meet all her loved ones on 'the other side'.

Suddenly, the meaning of Alice's words to her friends about two 'deep wishes' was illuminated. Her first deep wish had clearly been to kill Erroll. Her second was to kill herself so she could join him on the other side.

Now that 70 years have passed, the evidence against Alice is likely to remain circumstantial. But it does appear overwhelmingly probable that she did indeed murder the man she loved, goaded beyond endurance by his love for her rival.

Certainly, any remake of the film White Mischief could no longer get away with featuring Alice de Janze as a bit-part player.

Adapted from The Temptress: The Scandalous Life Of Alice, Countess De Janze by Paul Spicer, to be published by Simon & Schuster on April 29 at £14.99. To order a copy (p&p free), call 0845 155 0720.

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Was Winston Churchill secretly GAY?

It's a suggestion many will consider an outrageous - and utterly implausible - slur on Britain's great hero. But in an intriguing new book a respected historian asks... Was Winston Churchill secretly GAY?

Churchill acquired a reputation as a misogynist who could be notoriously rude to women

He seemed relaxed in company of homosexuals and regarded their (illegal) activities as a subject for good-natured ribaldry

He married Clementine Hozier which is usually regarded as a love-match but reality seems cold-blooded

He became very close to Minister of Information Brendan Bracken and private secretary EdwardMarsh

By Michael Bloch For The Daily Mail

Published: 22 May 2015 | Updated: 26 May 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3093439/Was-Winston-secretly-GAY.html

While still in his 20s, Winston Churchill acquired a reputation, which he would never lose, as a misogynist who could be notoriously rude to the women he sat next to at dinner parties.

Even his first meeting with the woman who later became his wife was inauspicious. Characteristically, the young politician began by lecturing Clementine Hozier at the dinner table about himself, finally ignoring her altogether.

Did Churchill subsequently fall head-over heels? His marriage to Clemmie in his mid-30s is usually regarded as a love-match (he concludes the memoirs of his early life with the bald statement that they ‘lived happily ever afterwards’). In reality, it seems to have been rather cold-blooded.

By the time he proposed in the romantic surroundings of Blenheim Palace, his birthplace and ancestral home, he had become a privy counsellor and Cabinet minister.

Intensely ambitious, he needed a wife for career reasons. With his strong dynastic sense, he also wanted children. Clemmie, with her virginal beauty and upright character, seemed the best of the candidates on offer. According to some who knew him well, his approach to marriage was certainly less than romantic.

Violet Asquith, the sharp-witted daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister, would have liked to marry Churchill but she consoled herself with the reflection: ‘his wife could never be more to him than an ornamental sideboard.’ Similarly, Jock Colville, his future private secretary, wrote that Churchill looked to his wife to provide him with ‘a well-run household, ambrosial food, children and a loyal heart’.

Clemmie certainly supplied all this, but he seems to have taken her contribution for granted. He thought nothing, for instance, of buying Chartwell, his country house in Kent, without even consulting her, or of abandoning her for months on end, often to stay with one of the many friends she disapproved of.

Between the wars, Clemmie became increasingly exasperated by his emotional unresponsiveness and constant demands, and on several occasions considered leaving him. She bore him five children, but Churchill seems to have had a low sex-drive and to have been uninterested in lovemaking except for procreative purposes. On the other hand, he had strong romantic feelings which were generally focused on his own sex.

Was it possible that the man who led his country to victory in World War II had a gay side? I asked myself this question, not just about Churchill but also various other 20th century politicians, after completing a biography of former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe. Although Thorpe was gallant with ‘the ladies’, married twice, and fathered a son, he led a secret homosexual life.

Indeed, like all politicians of similar persuasion, he had to keep his gay life secret — for all homosexual activity was illegal until 1967, and continued to attract intense social disapproval for long after that.

A man's man: During his career, Churchill was close to his Minister of Information Brendan Bracken (pictured together around 1941)

I noticed that the skills which Thorpe developed as a clandestine homosexual (or ‘closet queen’, to use an expression which came in during the Sixties) were not dissimilar to those which made him such an effective politician; quick wits, acting ability, a talent for intrigue and subterfuge, a capacity for taking calculated risks.

In Thorpe’s case, there also seemed to be a psychological link between the thrill of ‘feasting with panthers’ (as Oscar Wilde described the dangerous allure of casual homosexual encounters) and the general excitement of politics. I wondered whether the same might be true of other homosexual or bisexual politicians, of which I suspected there might be more than generally supposed, because the fact of their being actors, risk-takers and intriguers would tend to draw them towards the profession.

Identifying my subjects was not easy; closet queens are by nature secretive. They do not, as a rule, keep diaries or write letters casting light on their sexuality, nor, if they can help it, do they allow gossip to circulate regarding their tastes.

In addition, they often destroy their papers or arrange for them to be destroyed after their deaths. If their biographies are written, their families usually ensure that the homosexual or bisexual aspect of their lives is barely mentioned.

So, is it fair to pose questions about the sexuality of long-dead politicians who can no longer answer back? In the not so distant past, to describe anyone, let alone a public figure, as a homosexual was a slur, but now that in most Western societies homosexuality is generally accepted, it is surely time to try to understand the strain of ‘closet-queenery’ which runs through recent political history.

This certainly implies no disrespect to these often brave and gifted men, and to the tribulations and disappointments they endured.

The British Prime Minister was also close with his private secretary Edward Marsh (pictured together in 1907)

Were these men hypocrites? Possibly, but hypocrisy is not one of the seven deadly sins; it can spare feelings, avert trouble and act as a useful social lubricant. It is, after all, said to be a very British quality.

As a schoolboy, Churchill may have had some encounter with the phenomenon at Harrow, which had one of the more homosexual reputations among the major public schools.

And then there was a curious episode at the outset of his career. Around the time of Churchill’s 21st birthday, one A. C. Bruce, a fellow subaltern in the Fourth Hussars, accused him of having ‘participated in acts of gross immorality of the Oscar Wilde type’ while they had been cadets at Sandhurst a couple of years earlier.

Bruce had just resigned from the regiment, claiming that Churchill and others had hounded him out of the Army on grounds of snobbery. His ‘case’ was taken up by the journal, Truth.

Wary of libel, Truth did not refer directly to the homosexual allegations, but Bruce’s father mentioned them in February 1896 in a letter to an officer who was buying his son’s military gear.

While still in his 20s, Winston Churchill acquired a reputation, which he would never lose, as a misogynist.

Less than a year after the trial of Oscar Wilde, which had ended with his being imprisoned for homosexual acts, this was the most serious imaginable slur. On being shown the letter, Churchill issued a writ for libel. Unable to prove the veracity of what he had written, Bruce senior settled the matter by issuing an apology and paying Churchill £500.

From boyhood onwards, Churchill had been consumed with ambition. If he did indeed have homosexual inclinations, Bruce’s allegations would have given him a serious fright and determined him to keep such feelings firmly under control.

Certainly there were elements in Churchill’s make-up which might have aroused suspicions of homosexuality. He was intensely narcissistic and exhibitionistic. He had an emotional personality, being easily moved to tears; he was a sybarite with a passion for silk underwear and he felt self-conscious about his short and hairless body, seeking to compensate for it with daring feats of endurance.

There were also elements in his background which might have nurtured a homosexual outlook. In boyhood, he worshipped his mother and his nanny while seeing little of his father, the maverick politician Lord Randolph Churchill. Moreover, during his teens, Churchill was profoundly affected by his father’s rapid physical and mental decline (rumoured to have been the result of syphilis).

This may have instilled a generalised suspicion of women which possibly explains why, unusually for a dashing cavalry officer, he seems to have had no significant physical experience of women before marrying.

In 1900, Churchill, now a war hero after his greatly self-publicised exploits in India, the Sudan and South Africa, entered the House of Commons as a Conservative. For the next three years, his closest friends were four other rebellious young Tory MPs, of whom one was outstandingly handsome and the other three were confirmed bachelors.

They called themselves ‘the Hughligans’, after Lord Hugh Cecil, youngest son of the Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. They also regarded Lord Rosebery, the former Liberal prime minister who was widely rumoured to be homosexual, as their mentor.

When he first met his future wife, the young politician began by lecturing Clementine Hozier (pictured on the occasion of their engagement 1908) at the dinner table about himself

Churchill subsequently switched to the Liberals. When they came to power in 1905 and gave him junior office as Undersecretary for the Colonies at the age of 31, he caused surprise by demanding to have a minor official named Eddie Marsh, whom he had recently met at a party, as his private secretary.

Marsh, two years older than him, was good-looking in a rather prim way; he had a high-pitched voice and effeminate mannerisms and was already known for his ‘crushes’ on handsome young writers and actors. He was also a foot-fetishist, who enjoyed pulling off the boots of young men returning from hunting at country-house parties.

After becoming Churchill’s private secretary, Marsh became slavishly devoted to his master, whom he continued to serve in the same relatively humble capacity in every ministerial post Churchill occupied for the next quarter of a century.

‘Few people have been as lucky as me,’ wrote Churchill to Marsh in 1908, ‘as to find in the dull & grimy recesses of the Colonial Office a friend whom I shall cherish & hold on to all my life.’

Churchill was introduced by Marsh to such ‘queer’ theatrical personalities, as Ivor Novello and Noel Coward, in whose company the politician seems to have been at ease.

In 1914, Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, met Marsh’s bisexual protege Rupert Brooke, and arranged for ‘England’s handsomest poet’ to be commissioned into a military unit under his control.

When Brooke died the following year, it was Churchill who wrote the eulogy in the Times: ‘Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with classic symmetry of mind and body, all that one would wish England’s noblest sons to be.’ There was another youth of almost equally angelic beauty, with whom he established a close and mutually dependent relationship lasting a decade. Sir Archibald Sinclair, a Scottish baronet and cavalry officer, hoped to become a Liberal MP and Churchill offered to launch his career, though the baronet’s looks were not matched by much in the way of brains.

He married 'Clemmie' in his mid-30s in what is usually regarded as a love-match (he concludes the memoirs of his early life with the bald statement that they ‘lived happily ever afterwards’). In reality, it seems to have been rather cold-blooded

When war broke out, Churchill was determined to ‘keep Archie safe’, securing for him the appointment of aide de camp to a friend who was a general.

In 1916, when Churchill went to command a battalion on the Western Front, he pleaded, successfully, to have Sinclair appointed his second-in-command. More jobs for Archie followed: as his friend’s military secretary in 1919, as his ‘assistant, confidant and Man Friday’ in 1921, and as Churchill’s air minister in 1940.

The baronet’s subservience to the prime minister earned him the nickname ‘the head boy’s fag’.Much of their early correspondence seems to have been lost, but what survives shows a mutual affection that verges on the amorous.

became the youngest Tory MP in 1924. Soon afterwards, he became Churchill’s parliamentary private secretary.

While having relationships with women (including the wife of fellow Tory MP, Harold Macmillan), Boothby also had a lifelong taste for working-class ‘rough trade’, eventually becoming a friend of the Kray Twins.

Sinclair, Boothby and Marsh came from backgrounds not altogether unlike Churchill’s. The same could not be said of Brendan Bracken, a wild youth who was not yet 22 when he swept the 48-year-old politician off his feet in 1923.

He was a conman on the make, claiming (among other tall stories) to be an Australian orphan educated at an English public school. In fact, Bracken was from Tipperary, the self-educated son of an Irish stonemason of republican sympathies. Though not exactly handsome, he had a striking appearance: tall and perky with a shock of flaming red hair.

In his early 20s, while serving first as a prep-school master who was famed for his flogging, then as a junior employee of a publishing firm, Bracken used to gatecrash smart parties in London and boldly introduce himself to well-known personalities. Some were sufficiently impressed to ask him to dinner.

One was the editor of the Observer, at whose table Bracken met Churchill. The politician was immediately smitten. ‘Who is this extraordinary young friend you’ve been hiding away?’ he asked the Observer editor, ‘I would like to see him again.’

He did not have long to wait: within days, Bracken found an excuse to visit Churchill at his London house in Sussex Square.

The only obstacle to their friendship was Clemmie, who was antagonistic towards Bracken and could not understand why Winston liked him. Because of her hostility, they ceased to meet in Sussex Square, but during 1923 Churchill moved into Chartwell, where Bracken became a constant visitor.

As Clemmie acidly remarked: ‘Mr Bracken arrived with the furniture and he never left.’

Indeed, Bracken became Churchill’s devoted fixer and henchman and, when war came, his parliamentary private secretary and then minister for information, a role to which this great fantasist and fixer was ideally suited. Churchill appointed him First Lord of the Admiralty in 1945, then asked him to serve with him again in 1951, saying: ‘I want you beside me, my dear.’

Was Bracken (who never married) homosexual? A diary he wrote as a young man hinted at goings-oninvolving Boy Scouts, and among the friends who helped him up the ladder, while also lending him large sums of money, were two rakish homosexual heirs to fortunes and peerages: Gavin Henderson and Evan Morgan. Later, Bracken’s two handsome (and heterosexual) assistants, Robert Lutyens and Garrett Moore, believed he was in love with them.

Churchill also fell for another handsome Scot: Robert ‘Bob’ Boothby (pictured with Churchill and his daughter Diana)

Bracken was one of a trio of devoted Churchill henchmen in the Thirties and Forties. The others were the intelligence officer Desmond Morton and the Oxford physics professor Frederick Lindemann (later Viscount Cherwell). Both of them were bachelors and Morton (who arranged for his papers to be posthumously destroyed) was reputed to be homosexual.

There is no shortage of other examples of Churchill taking a fancy to young men. These included the attractive homosexual Conservative MPs Victor Cazalet, Alan Lennox-Boyd, Ronnie Cartland and Jack Macnamara (a great favourite whom he promoted to important military roles during World War II).

Churchill also liked the writer Somerset Maugham’s ‘queer’ nephew Robin Maugham, whom he encouraged (unsuccessfully) to enter politics and to seek the hand of his youngest daughter.

He even warmed to the raffish Soviet agent Guy Burgess, then a 27-year-old BBC talks producer, whom he invited to Chartwell, presented with a signed copy of his speeches and offered to employ in the event of war.

The list goes on and on. He was taken with Anthony Eden’s handsome private secretary Valentine Lawford (later the lover of the male photographer Horst), whom he often ‘borrowed’, and was devoted to his wartime stenographer Patrick Kinna, still fondly remembered in Brighton’s gay community.

During the war, he became infatuated with Andre de Staercke, a seductive young Belgian diplomat who frequently found himself summoned to late-night drinking sessions by Churchill.

Churchill, pictured on the quarter-deck of warship on way to North Africa during World War II, summarised the traditions of the Royal Navy as ‘rum, sodomy and the lash

Churchill’s quixotic attempt to help Edward VIII save his throne in 1936, made against the advice of his friends and at some cost to his career, may have owed something to the sovereign’s Prince Charming looks.

As a rule, Churchill disliked women. He had been the member of the pre-1914 government most vehemently opposed to the suffragettes.

Apart from a few relations with whom he played cards, and his younger daughters Sarah and Mary, the only women whose company he enjoyed were pretty young ones who flattered and made a fuss of him, such as the Duke of Rutland’s daughter Diana Cooper in the Twenties, his socialite daughter-in-law Pamela (later Harriman) in the Forties, and Wendy Reeves, the wife of his literary agent, in the Fifties.

On the other hand, he seems to have felt relaxed in the company of homosexuals and regarded their (illegal) activities as a subject for good-natured ribaldry.

When the louche homosexual MP Tom Driberg caused surprise in 1951 by marrying an unattractive woman, Churchill quipped: ‘b*****s can’t be choosers.’ He also summarised the traditions of the Royal Navy as ‘rum, sodomy and the lash’.

When, in November 1958, the Foreign Office minister Ian Harvey was caught with a guardsman in St James’s Park, Churchill commented: ‘On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British.’

In old age, Somerset Maugham is said to have asked Churchill whether he had ever had a homosexual experience. Churchill allegedly replied: ‘I once went to bed with [the musical comedy composer and star] Ivor Novello: it was very musical.’

If such an event took place, we may assume that it was incidental. Yet it seems clear that his closest relationships were with men, even if they stopped short of the physical.

Adapted from Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians by Michael Bloch, published by Little, Brown on May 28 at £25. © Michael Bloch 2015. To buy a copy for £20, visit mailbookshop.co.uk or call 0808 272 0808. Discount until May 30, free p&p for a limited time only.

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Criminal Bankers Threaten Entire World Economy-Helen Chaitman

By Greg Hunter

On May 25, 2016 In Political Analysis

http://usawatchdog.com/criminal-bankers-threaten-entire-world-economy-helen-chaitman/#more-17362

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

Helen Davis Chaitman was the lead attorney representing the victims of the $65 billion Bernie Madoff scam. Madoff had help form JP Morgan Chase Bank, and what she found out was stunning. Chaitman explains, “JP Morgan Chase was the subject of a criminal complaint . . . it was charged with a criminal violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, which is a felony violation. JP Morgan Chase disgorged a small percentage of the profits it made on the Madoff relationship, and the government called it quits. Nobody was fired. Nobody disgorged bonuses, they just went on doing other crimes.”

Chaitman, who wrote a book called “JP Madoff,” documented that JP Morgan Chase paid nearly $36 billion in fines for various crimes just in the last four years. Chaitman says all the big banks are basically criminal organizations, and “all of them regularly engage in fraud.” Chaitman also says, “I could have written this book about HSBC, Bank of America or Citi Group. All the banks, and the government encourages them to do this, all of the banks have been operating like criminal enterprises. . . . The bankers have become such criminals it threatens the entire world economy.”

A key component in the Madoff fraud was Madoff never bought securities for his victims even though he claimed he did. The client statements were bogus, and Chaitman says JP Morgan Chase knew about the fraud for years. Chaitman contends, “Madoff had a group of people, a small group of people, who were grossly over compensated, who would just make up the statements after the fact. They had no securities. They had no stocks. They just had pieces of paper saying they had stocks. . . . Madoff never bought the stocks. He just kept all the money, and in fact, that’s why JP Morgan liked him as a customer. He kept on deposit billions of dollars, and JP Morgan Chase was free to use that money for its own purposes.”

Why no jail time for the management at JP Morgan Chase for a slam dunk criminal fraud? Chaitman says, “We have a President who doesn’t believe criminal bankers belong in jail, and he appointed an attorney general, Eric Holder, who had this nonsensical rationalization that the banks were too big to put in jail. In other words, JP Morgan Chase, America’s biggest bank, who does business with 50% of American households, and 80% of fortune 500 companies, should keep all the criminal bankers because we would not be able to operate without them.”

Chaitman says JP Morgan Chase alone has paid fines for multiple crimes and frauds. Chaitman explains, “They have admitted to violating the foreign exchange rules. They pled guilty to a felony with respect to that. . . . They have defrauded veterans. They have defrauded credit card holders. They have defrauded homeowners. There is no group of customers they won’t defraud if they can enhance their profits. Yes, in the last four years alone, they have disgorged $36 billion as settlements of charges brought with respect to all these violations.”

Chaitman says the $36 billion in fines is just a fraction of the profit JP Morgan Chase is making by committing various frauds. Chaitman says, “If you look at their financial statements, they are generating huge profits. That’s why everyone loves Jamie Dimon, but a lot of people loved Carlo Gambino too. (Dimon reportedly has a net worth of $1 billion.)

Chaitman contends the big banks are like mobsters. Chaitman says, “There is no question about it. They operate illegally because they can generate huge profits by doing so. They go from one crime to another, and when they get caught committing one crime, nobody gets fired. Nobody disgorges bonuses. They just take those people and put them in a new area where they haven’t yet been prosecuted.”

What will happen to the customers of the big banks in the next financial meltdown? Chaitman warns, “The customers will be destroyed, and if the banks still have enough money to buy Washington, the government will protect them just like it has since 2008.”

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Helen Chaitman, author of the new book “JP Madoff.”

(There is much more in the video interview.)

After the Interview:

Chaitman is appealing two rulings in Florida and New York for victims of the Madoff fraud. She continues to try to get money back for victims from JP Morgan Chase. You can keep up with Helen and the Madoff scandal by going to JPMadoff.com. There is also a book buying link on the home page.