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Your Enemy,
George Soros
George Soros: Hit-man for the British Oligarchy 2
Does Soros Have a Drug Problem? 6
George Soros: The Forced-Open Society 9
The Case of Malaysia 13
George Soros Buys the Nomination,
Obama Borrows It 16
Lessons for Denver: FDR’s 1932 Victory
Over London’s Wall Street Fascists 18
The British financial Oligarchy is desperately committed
to completely annihilating all forms of sovereign
nation states from our planet, most importantly the United
States, and George Soros is their chosen hit-man to accomplish
the task. Directly, on behalf of the city of London,
George Soros, with the aid of his puppet, Democratic
National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, bankrolled
filthy operations against Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary
campaign, to guarantee that no policies which reflect
a revival of Franklin Roosevelt’s commitment to the
lower 80% of family income brackets take hold in the
White House after November 2008. Soros is no new comer
to the world of criminal activity. According to former
associates and published reports he was handed his startup
money by Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s right-hand
man, George Karlweiss, who also launched the career of
fugitive narcotics-trafficker Robert Vesco. Since then, Soros
has been involved in various vicious operations, under
the direction of the British Empire, such as financial speculative
warfare to destroy national currencies, pushing
murderous, “useless eater” euthanasia policies, and massively
financing international campaigns for the legalization
of drugs. But of course, the disgraceful character of
George Soros is not solely attributable to himself, but
rather, it was partially generated by his handlers during
his formative adolescent years: the Nazis.
The Golem is born
The pathetic creature known as George Soros made a
willful decision early in life to become the character that
he is now: a Golem. A teenager during the Nazi Occupation
of his homeland, Hungary, Soros began his genocidal
legacy by working for the killing machines that slaughtered
500,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
Young Soros was given a job looting the properties of Jews
under the regime of SS Lt. Gen. Kurt Becher, head of the
Waffen SS section known euphemistically as The Economic
Department of the SS Command.
Introduction
Back during Presidential campaign year 2004, my associates and I were calling attention
to an important book on the subject of The Confessions of an Economic Hit-
Man. That man had a conscience. In the following report, LPAC is featuring a much bigger
story, on the subject of George Soros as a political-economic hit-man. The George
Soros we present in this report, has no conscience about what he has done, or what he
does. This is a report written, in large part, by Soros’ own mouth.
George Soros is not a top-ranking financier, he is like the mafia thug, without a real
conscience, like a thug sent to kill a friend of yours, but only a hit-man for the really big
financial interests, hired out to rob your friends, and you, of about everything, including
their nation, and your personal freedom.
George Soros does not actually own Senator Barack Obama; some other people do;
but, Soros is a key controller, and seemingly the virtual owner of both Democratic Party
Chairman Howard “Scream” Dean, that Party, perhaps your political party, and, in fact,
your nation, which are both what political-economic hit-man George Soros is aiming to
destroy.
—Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
June 16, 2008
George Soros: Hit-man for
The British Oligarchy
by Hector A. Rivas, Jr.
Soros credits his father for his own good fortune in
avoiding the gruesome scenes of the concentration camps.
In a broadcast on WNET/Thirteen TV on April 15, 1993
Soros recalled those experiences that formed his beastly
identity: “When the Germans came in, he [the father—ed]
said, ‘This is a lawless occupation. The normal rules don’t
apply. You have to forget how you behave in a normal society.
This is an abnormal situation.’ And he arranged for
all of us to have false papers, everybody had a different arrangement.
I was adopted by an official of the minister of
agriculture, whose job was to take over Jewish properties,
so I actually went with him and we took possession of
these large estates. That was my identity. So it’s a strange,
very strange life. I was 14 years old at the time.” His Father,
Tivadar Soros, professed further that, “as pseudo-
Christians, we had not quite reached that level of Christianity
where we were willing to return bread for stones.”
The Soros family indeed offered plenty of stones to the
many poor Hungarian Jews who were shipped off to Auschwitz
to meet their death.1
The Soros family was among the “elite” Hungarian
Jews, which afforded them the ability to make arrangements
to survive under the Nazi occupation. Prince Alexis
Scherbatoff, former member of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence
Corps before and after WWII, alleged that Soros
obtained his first small fortune by selling his share of the
loot seized with the Nazis. He reported that Soros’ first accomplice
was another Hungarian Jew, who sold rubies
and other Nazi plunder in Belgium after World War II.
Ben Hecht, author of the book Perfidy, documents the
activities of the Nazi Economic Department in Hungary,
and the atrocities committed by the employers of young
Soros. The Department was in charge of pillaging Jewish
properties and “removing the gold fillings from the millions
of teeth of the dead Jews; in cutting off the hair of
millions of Jewesses before killing them, and shipping
bales of hair to Germany’s mattress factories; in converting
the fat of dead Jews into bath soap, and in figuring out
effective methods of torture to induce the Jews awaiting
death to reveal where they had hidden their last possessions.”
George Soros was confronted with such images during
an interview with Steve Kroft on CBS’s 60 Minutes on December
20, 1998:
Kroft: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of
what happened to George Soros’ friends and neighbors.
(Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their
shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
Kroft: (Voiceover) You’re a Hungarian Jew. . .
Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
Kroft: (Voiceover) . . .who escaped the Holocaust. . .
(Vintage footage of women walking by train)
Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. (Vintage footage of
people getting on train)
Kroft: (Voiceover) . . .by–by posing as a Christian.
Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Right. (Vintage footage of women
helping each other get on train; train door closing with
people in boxcar)
Kroft: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get
shipped off to the death camps.
Mr. Soros: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say
that that’s when my character was made.
Kroft: In what way?
Mr. Soros: That one should think ahead. One should
understand and–and anticipate events and when–when
one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I
mean, it was a–a very personal experience of evil.
Kroft: My understanding is that you went out with this
protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted
godson.
Mr. Soros: Yes. Yes.
Kroft: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation
of property from the Jews.
Mr. Soros: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
Kroft: I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience
EIRNS/Stuart Lewis
George Soros
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1. Masquerade, Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary, Tivador
Soros, Arcade Publications, New York, 2001.
that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for
many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. Soros: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child
you don’t–you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created
no–no problem at all.
Kroft: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. Soros: No.
Kroft: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and
here I am, watching these people go. I could
just as easily be there. I should be there.’
None of that?
Mr. Soros: Well, of course I c—I could be
on the other side or I could be the one from
whom the thing is being taken away. But
there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there,
because that was—well, actually, in a funny
way, it’s just like in markets—that if I weren’t
there—of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody
else would—would—would be taking it
away anyhow. And it was the—whether I was
there or not, I was only a spectator, the property
was being taken away. So the—I had no
role in taking away that property. So I had no
sense of guilt.
Crafted and Unleashed
Nazi collaborator George Soros, set off to
England in 1947 where he became the protégé
of radical positivist Sir Karl Popper, who
taught at the Fabian Society-initiated
London School of Economics in the
1950’s. This is the same Karl Popper
who blamed a large part of the crises
of developing countries on the “political
stupidity” of its leaders. Popper
himself states that, “We [the Empire—
ed] have liberated these states
too early and in too primitive a way.
These are no-law states yet. The same
would happen if you’d leave a kindergarten
to itself.” Soros’ mentor then
argued that the “civilized world” has
the right to launch wars against the
Third World for the sake of “peace.”
Soros bowed to his masters, and carried
out that war.
Soros used his Quantum Fund to
conduct financial warfare through
derivatives and currency speculation.
On the European front, in 1992 Soros
won a key battle against the European
Rate Mechanism (ERM), which
was Europe’s financial structure to
maintain stable exchange rates
among the currencies of Europe. Soros created a financial
crisis so that the system could be replaced by the Maastricht
Treaty, which established the Euro as the single European
currency, and put financial authority in the hands
of one central bank, controlled by the Anglo-Dutch Oligarchy.
This plot began when representatives of Soros met on
June 2, 1992, with top British and Anglo-Dutch financial
Acrhives of Mechanical Documentation, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
A member of the German SS supervises the boarding of Jews onto trains during a
deportation action in the Krakow ghetto.
Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May
1944.
predators, on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s yacht Britannia.
2
Part of this operation can be understood by looking at
his attacks against the Italian lira in the early 1990’s, which
earned him 400 billion lira within a matter of days, while
the Bank of Italy was forced to spend $48 billion of its reserves
in a vain attempt to defend its currency. Within a
few years, Soros was under criminal investigation for
these sinister attacks. Members of the Movimento Internazionale
per Diritti Civili Solidarieta first submitted testimony
on Soros to the Milan court in 1995, and by the
next year, investigations were launched out of Rome and
Naples, which were reported on in the Dec. 24, 1996 issue
of Corriere della Sera: “The investigation has just started,
but the results could be explosive, and the name of the individual
being officially investigated gives an idea of how
delicate this investigation is: The name is George Soros. . .
The crime is stock-jobbing. . . It concerns the attack on the
lira.”
Of course, not all of the money used in this operation
can be attributed to “Golem” Soros, but was only money
that was handed to him, by London. After all, a Golem
doesn’t make himself, he is created and, true to form, Soros’
natural instinct is only to do what he is told in order to
survive.
His father taught his boy how to follow his masters
very well under the Nazi occupation in Hungary: “The
most rational approach, in my view, was complete separation,
followed by a quiet effort to blend in with the general
population. That is the way animals do it: when they sense
danger, instead of presenting a clear target to their enemies,
their natural mode of self-preservation is to blend
with the scenery and simply disappear. Naturalists call
this phenomenon “mimicry.”3
Soros was raised to behave like a beast, and so he does.
Upon the destruction of the ERM, which set the stage for
Maastricht and, inevitably, the Lisbon Treaty, Soros had
only this to say: “I’m sure speculative actions have had
some negative consequences. But that does not enter my
thinking at all. It cannot. If I abstained from certain actions
because of moral doubts, then I would cease to be an
effective speculator. I have not even a shadow of remorse
for making a profit.” He continues, “I did it only to make
money. 4
Project Death
On Nov. 30, 1994 Soros spoke before an audience at the
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and announced
his new foundation, Project on Death in America, to shift
the training of hospitals, nurses and doctors away from
expensive life-saving treatment, to the proper care of the
dying. In pushing euthanasia legislation, Soros made the
Nazi “useless eater” policy legal in the U.S.
A Soros-sponsored assisted suicide (a.k.a. homicide)
program to offer patients lethal prescriptions was the OreProject
on Death in America website.
Official portrait taken at Buckingham Palace, by Terry O’Neill
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince
Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
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3. Masquerade, Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary, Tivador
Soros, Arcade Publications, New York, 2001
4. London Guardian Dec. 19, 1992.
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2. This is the very same Queen Elizabeth which EIR discovered in the
1990’s was on the exclusive clients list of George Soros’ mega-million-dollar
offshore Quantum Fund in which he is once again currently active.
The Hustler on the
Street Corner
In 1985, in response to the chaos of
the British Empire’s dope trade, Lyndon
LaRouche called on nations to cooperate
in a “war on drugs”: “What we are fighting,
is not only the effects of the use of
these drugs on their victims. The international
drug traffic has become an evil and
powerful government in its own right. It
represents today a financial, political,
and military power greater than that of
entire nations within the Americas. It is a
government which is making war against
civilized nations, a government upon
which we must declare war, a war which
we must fight with the weapons of war,
and a war which we must win in the same
spirit the United States fought for the unconditional
defeat of Nazism between
1941 and 1945.”
Since then, the British Empire’s hustler
on the street corner, George Soros,
has continued pushing drug legalization
in the United States and has even strayed over to the other
side of the block and become a supporter of narco-terrorism
in South America and Asia. Soros’ immorality and
ruthless nature1 made him the perfect hit man for enforcing
the Empire’s drug operations. Provided with funding
through speculative activities, Soros launched his own
war against anyone opposing the looting policy of London.
Since the dope trade is the corner stone for the physical
and economic looting of nations by the British Empire,
Soros chose Lyndon LaRouche’s “war on drugs”2 as
gon Death with Dignity Act, which subsequently passed
in 1998: “As the first state in the United States to allow
physicians to help terminally ill patients end their lives,
Oregon’s experience will be closely watched by other
states.”5
Through the Open Society, the Death in America project
and other organizations concerned with “end-of-life”
issues began collaboration on “transforming the culture
of dying.” Soros promoted on his website a one-day seminar
coordinated by Balfour Mount, M.D. of Royal Victoria
Hospital in the mid-1990’s entitled “Searching for the Soul
of Euthanasia.” Soros offered his personal thoughts on
the matter: “The use of technology to extend life when life
has no meaning, does not make any sense. . . It may be
more negative than positive, because it causes unnecessary
pain and suffering, not to mention the expense.” (emphasis
added)
Does Soros Have a Drug
Problem?
by Alexandra Perebikovsky
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5. “http://www.soros.org/initiatives/pdia”
Foto ANCOL. Fernando Ruiz
President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, and negotiator for the FARC,
Raúl Reyes, during their 1999 meeting in the Colombian jungle.
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1. See George Soros: Hit Man for the British Oligarchy by Hector Rivas, in
this report.
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2. Dope, Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against the US, by a US Labor Party
Investigating Team, The New Benjamin Franklin Publishing Company,
Inc., New York, New York, 1978
his battleground. In defense of his drug hustling operations,
Soros wrote that, “The war on drugs was doing
more harm than the drugs themselves. . ..Drugs kill a few
people, incapacitate many more, and give parents sleepless
nights. . .”3 but, as he summed up, that is nothing
compared to the harm of nations intervening on the free
market.
Through his Open Society Foundation, Soros consistently
funneled money into his Drug Policy Foundation
(DPF) and Lindesmith Center to aggressively pursue drug
legalization in the United States. Soros claimed, “When I
decided to extend the operations of my Open Society
Foundation to the United States, I chose drug policy as
one of the first fields of engagement. I felt that drug policy
was the area in which the United States was in the greatest
danger of violating the principles of open society.”4
Soros used the DPF to fund the Marijuana Policy Project
(MPP), an organization committed to reviving the Woodstock
pot-smoking days of 1968. The MPP has given support
to states across the nation in the fight to legalize
marijuana and threw its support behind Barney Frank,
who lost no time in bending over backwards and lighting
up for the drug lobby by introducing HR 2618, a bill for
the “medical use” of marijuana. In 1996, Soros reached
deeper into the Queen’s underpants and funded ballot initiatives
to legalize “medical marijuana” in California and
Arizona through propositions 215 and 200, respectively.
These propositions made it legal even for children to whip
out the bong and receive doses of class one drugs. In 2000,
Soros took the legalization efforts even further and funded
a bill to set up the legal retail distribution of marijuana
in Nevada, thereby taking the first step towards more serious
drug legalization.
Meanwhile, in South America, his activities were
much more disastrous. With his fist in the British Empire’s
laundered money bags, Soros threw his weight behind
narco-terrorism in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. His
group Human Rights Watch/Americas is a major part of
the drug cartel’s drug production and terror apparatus,
deploying millions of dollars annually for dope propaganda.
In Colombia, he became the leading financier in
the fight to legalize cocaine and, through Human Rights
Watch, attacked government forces deployed against
drug cartel guerrillas, who were slaughtering people
across the region. On November 8, 1990, the Medellin
Coming from the mouth of Dick Cheney and his ilk, the
expression “War on Drugs” has been used to justify
launching unprovoked wars on sovereign nations, imposing
regime change on their governments, throwing
millions of penny-ante users and small-time dealers in
jail in the U.S., driving desperate peasants in drug producing
countries over the cliff into starvation, and coyly
backing one cartel of drug runners against another,
to keep the market under control—while religiously
taking a hands-off attitude towards the big bankers
who actually run Dope, Inc. from the very top.
For Lyndon LaRouche—who coined the expression
“War on Drugs” back in the 1970s—it has always meant
the exact opposite. On March 9, 1985, LaRouche presented
a 15-point war plan at a Mexico City conference
which centered on cooperation among sovereign nation
states, to identify, attack, and destroy the Britishcentered
[financial] interests who actually run the drug
trade. These interests act as a powerful governmentin-
fact, against which we must wage war. Treaties
should be agreed upon among nations, to conduct
joint military actions against the drug trade, “to the effect
that necessary forms of joint military and law enforcement
action do not subvert the national sovereignty
of any of the allied nations. . .” Intelligence and
technological aid “should be supplied with assistance
of the United States,” in order to eradicate all illegal
plantations, processing centers, and laboratories, and
all unlogged aircraft flying across borders, which fail
to land according to instructions, should be shot down.
And most significantly, “A system of total regulation of
financial institutions, to the effect of detecting deposits,
outbound transfers, and inbound transfers of
funds, which might be reasonably suspected of being
funds secured from drug-trafficking, must be established
and maintained. . . . Special attention should be
concentrated on those banks, insurance enterprises,
and other business institutions which are in fact elements
of an international financial cartel coordinating
the flow of hundreds of billions annually of revenues
from the international drug traffic.” Those involved
are guilty of “crimes against humanity,” based on the
Nuremberg standard. Confiscated drug funds, La-
Rouche added, should be allotted “to beneficial purposes
of economic development, in basic economic infrastructure,
agriculture, and goods-producing
industry.”
That is the essence of LaRouche’s “War on Drugs”—
and that is why George Soros, and his British masters,
hate it.
LaRouche’s War on Drugs
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3. The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American
Power, George Soros, pg. 27, Public Affairs, New York, 2004
4. Ibid. pg. 27
drug cartel, leading the violent murder and kidnapping
operations in Colombia, sent out a letter demanding that
the government publish a report by Soros’ Americas
Watch, which denounced the government’s anti-drug actions
as violations of human rights. One week later, Juan
Mendez, the leader of the Colombian Americas Watch
Report, called for “the most total disarmament possible”
of the Colombian military in order to allow “free trade”
of drugs to resume.
Using two groups in which he was a leading financier,
the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers and the Andean
Commission of Jurists, Soros then established an international
project called “Coca 95,” to support the dope
trade in Bolivia and Peru. At a conference on March 13-
14, 1996, the Andean Commission of Jurists sponsored
the “International Meeting on Current Scientific Studies
on the Effects of Coca Consumption on Humans,” in
which speakers attacked the anti-drug efforts of governments
as a threat to the environment! Calling for free trade
of all drugs, including cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and
synthetics, the Andean Council of Coca Leaf Producers organized
for an armed revolt in Bolivia. Soros even cut into
the heart of Peru, funding the presidential campaign of
Alejandro Toledo, thereby toppling the anti-drug government
of Alberto Fujimori and once again plunging the nation
into chaos.
Sound pretty bad? Well, it’s not new. The British Empire’s
drive for imperial control is what is truly behind
these attacks on nations. Soros’ promotion of narco-terrorism
is the equivalent of the “gunboats” employed by
the Empire in their launching of the 19th century Opium
Wars against China and India.
British Diplomacy
One of the leading drug traffickers
of the British Empire wrote that as
long as drug use continues to dominate
a country, “there is not the least reason
to fear that she will become a military
power of any importance, as the habit
saps the energies and vitality of the nation.”
5 For the last two centuries, the
British Empire, using this policy to
maintain its imperial control over the
world, has dominated the dope trade,
using it to prop up its horrific system of
slavery. The British East India Company
first opened up the opium trade with
China in 1715 but, it was not until Lord
Shelburne’s 1763-1783 melding of the
bankrupt East India Company and
near bankrupt British nation into a
global empire, that Britain had a monopoly
in the dope and slave trade.
Under the evil free trade doctrine of
Adam Smith, this British Empire used its might as a sea
power to construct a system of controlled trade and drug
trafficking to economically and culturally suppress nations.
The prime drug of choice was opium. With the deployment
of East India Company merchants into India, the West Indies,
and the United States, populations were forced to
grow opium and cotton on slave plantations. Banning any
kind of manufacturing in the colonies, cotton was exported,
loaded onto Royal British Ships, taken on a long trek all
the way to “the manufacturing house” of England, spun
into cloth, and dragged all the way back to India. Meanwhile,
Indian opium was exported to China, and the profits
were used to pay for the entire shipping and manufacturing
of the imported cloth! This system succeeded in enslaving
the populations of India, the Americas, and China, destroying
their land, and rendering the nations incapable of improving
their impoverished condition!
The Chinese emperor, sick at the sight of his destroyed
nation and attempting to resist this cultural enslavement
and bombardment of the population, “seized every particle
of opium; put under bond every European engaged in the
merchandise of it; and the papers of to-day (1839) inform
us that he has cut off the China trade, ‘root and branch.’ ”6
Furious, the British demanded that their “produce” (a.k.a.
Opium) be imported, or else. As one of the London Times
editors puts it, “We have everywhere obtained that our
goods shall be imported into all these countries. . .. To attain
http://www.heroin.org/images/babyopiate.html
An opium den in Manila, the Philippines.
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5. Jack Beeching, The Chinese Opium Wars, pg. 258, New York: Harvest
Books, 1975
6. George Thompson, Lectures on India in Lectures, Letters, Debates, Pamphlets,
and Related Correspondence of George Thompson, Manchester University,
John Rylands Library, 1834-1886.
those ends, we use all sorts of means, from courteous invitation
to bombardments. We prefer to employ mere eloquence,
because it is cheap and easy; but if talking fails we
follow it up by gunboats, and, in that convincing way, we
induce hesitating ‘barbarians’ not only to accept our two
unvarying conditions, but also to pay the cost of the expedition
by which their consent to these conditions was extorted
from them. China was so unwilling to listen to our advice,
so blind to the striking merits of our opium and our
consuls, that we were obliged, with great regret, to resort to
gentle force with her.”7 Any challenge to British imperial
policy was immediately met with gunboats and, in the case
of China, two opium wars between the years of 1839-1842
and 1858-1860 were waged in order to complete the process
of “opening up all of China”8 to British free trade. This
British imperial drive continued and, by the end of World
War I, the extent of British imperialism was felt everywhere.
Nations which had attempted to avert British imperial control
were destroyed economically and culturally and their
countries were flooded with drugs.
Revive the War on Drugs!
The British Empire still exists as an active threat to the
world today, though the name has since become taboo. If
you’ve bought in to the media-fed cover stories that history
occurs only as isolated local events and are thinking,
“I don’t believe in conspiracy theories,” then you don’t
know history. In reality the same financier and oligarchical
circles which were responsible for the launching of the
China Opium wars throughout the 18th-19th centuries,
typified by the ancient imperial models of Babylon, Persia,
and Venice, are responsible for creating the current
global financial and economic collapse.
George Soros is one of the main British instruments,
carefully chosen to be a front man of the Empire, covering
up for its disgusting looting policy, now known, euphemistically,
as globalization. Through organizations such
as Human Rights Watch and Open Society, Soros pushes
drugs and destroys nations. Soros says that now, “The
United States, like nineteenth-century Britain, also has an
interest in keeping international markets and global commons,
such as the oceans, open to all.”9 Just like the British
East India Company’s devastation of India and China
through two opium wars and decades of free trade, the
same Empire calls on Soros as the assassin in the destruction
of the United States. It is only through the obliteration
of British hack George Soros and the British Empire
which he represents, that we can hope to sober up the
United __________ States today.
7. As quoted in Henry Carey, Reply to the London Times, Letter V, pg. 2.
8. LaRouche in 2004 Special Report, To Stop Terrorism—Shut Down Dope,
Inc!, pg. 96, LaRouche in 2004, December 2001
George Soros:
The Forced-Open Society
By Leandra Bernstein
As the world financial system hobbles on its last legs,
the City of London has once again unleashed George
Soros to open the gates of hell at the present strategic
turning-point in world history. Soros has long been a
front-man chosen to subjugate nations by funneling offshore
money into corruption conduits coyly masked as
“philanthropic” and “human rights” organizations. His
purpose is to eliminate the U.S. system of national sovereignty,
as he states himself, “Democracy and open society
cannot be imposed from the outside because the principle
of sovereignty stands in the way of outside interference. . .
Admittedly it is difficult to interfere with the internal affairs
of sovereign countries, but it is important to face up
to the problem.”
Not Philanthropy. Misanthropy
During his first criminal investigation for stock manipulation
in 1979, George Soros started The Open Society
Fund. The Fund was used to create “open societies”
through philanthropic organizations now operating in
29 countries. Asserting that “states have interests but no
principles,” Soros explains that the ideal open society
would suppress particular national interests, while an
international political and financial structure takes responsibility
for the good of the so-called common good.1
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1. In this respect, Soros’s gushing admiration for the UN (emphatically the
5 member Security Council), WTO, World Bank, and IFTI (international
financial and trade institutions) is notable, as well as his past and present
collaboration with these institutions and their ranking members.
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9. George Soros on Globalization, George Soros, pg. 61, Public Affairs,
New York, 2002
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To serve that common good, Soros arms his philanthropic
organizations with cash, buying up key sectors within
the population who are then let loose to overthrow a government
that tries to maintain a “closed society.”2 If a nation
wishes to control its own natural resources, it’s a
closed society. If a nation wants to develop its economy
and power of labor through tariffs and regulations, it’s a
closed society. Any nation that rejects globalization (i.e.
British Imperialism), is a closed society and subject to
attacks from Soros and his shadow government of nationals.
The Open Society Institute (OSI), Human Rights
Watch, the Soros Foundation, the Extractive Industries
Transparency Institute, are all British-style intelligence
outfits under the supervision of Soros. In 2002, Soros admitted
to personally spending over $2.1 billion in 5 years
on his philanthropic ventures. Of his organizations, he
writes, “They work with the government when they can
and independently of the government when they cannot;
sometimes they are in outright opposition. When foundations
can cooperate with the government, they can be
more effective; when they cannot, their work is more
needed and more appreciated because they offer an alternative
source of funding for civil society. As a general
rule, the worse the government, the better the foundation
because it enjoys the commitment and support of
civil society.”
That same year, George Soros and Liberal Imperialist
(limp) Tony Blair launched the Extractive Industries
Transparency Institute (EITI), to create an international
standard by which nations rich in
oil, natural gas, and strategic metals
would report government-to-company
revenues. The international
organization (EITI) lobbies the governments
to adopt a standard for
revenue reporting which allows
them to peer into government-company
revenues in strategic industries.
Whatever they view as “closed
society” behavior is brought before
the tribunal of the paid-for demos;
or, if the behavior seriously threatens
imperial interests, the UN,
World Bank, IMF, WTO, etc can be
mobilized to implement sanctions.
This process of subjecting a sovereign
nation to a fixed international
standard of behavior is called,
“transparency.” The fixed relationship
among those subject nations is
called Empire.
Blair explicitly stated his vision for such international
institutions in a speech before the UN World Summit in
September 2005: “For the first time at this Summit we are
agreed that states do not have the right to do what they
will within their own borders, but that we, in the name of
humanity, have a common duty to protect people where
their own governments will not.”3 Already the EITI has 23
countries lined up to be swallowed into the Commonwealth
and looted. These nations are primarily throughout
Africa, but include crucial states bordering Russia and
China.
Yet, many well-meaning people inside the U.S. and
elsewhere have thrown their support behind Soros for his
“human rights advocacy,” rallying to the call of ending
“authoritarian regimes,” and increasing “transparency.”
The Fight for Eurasia
In his historic 1983 economic forecast, Lyndon La-
Rouche warned that if the Soviet Union were to reject his
Strategic Defense Initiative, adopted by President Reagan,
then “the strains on the Comecon economy would
lead to a collapse of that economic system in about five
years.” At his 1988 address at the Kempinski Hotel in Berlin,
LaRouche repeated that warning: “All of us who are
members of that stratum called world-class politicians,
know that the world has now entered what most agree is
the end of the postwar era. . . What governments do during
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2. To better understand this process, see Euripides’ Greek tragedy, The
Bacchae, on the cult of Dionysus.
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3. Earlier, in 1999, Blair demanded the NATO bombing of Serbia/Yugoslavia,
under the humanitarian guise of protecting Kosovo and Albania
against the Serbs. Blair’s rejection of the principles of the 1648 Treaty of
Westphalia have pioneered the modern era of pre-emptive war, and much
of the mess of our war-torn planet today.
Chris Jadatz
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the coming two years will decide the fate of all humanity
for a century or more to come. . .The time has come for a
bold decision on U.S. policy toward Central Europe.” At
that time, the LaRouche Movement was recruiting from
the influential circles throughout Eurasia around the
prospect of building the Productive Triangle and later the
Eurasian Land Bridge to transform the region into a prosperous
community of nation-states.
LaRouche was the first to identify and act on the coming
turning point in world history, but the British establishment,
also thinking in terms of long historical waves,
saw the crisis in Germany and the Soviet Union as an
opening for a drastic turn to their system.
Soros was their point-man, deployed into the fight to
build his foundations throughout the contested Eastern
European bloc. The Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland
was ground-zero for the European test-run of Jeffrey
Sachs’ “shock therapy” model, later used
throughout the region to implement free-market
looting, and monetary austerity. Soros wrote of the
Polish implementation, “The IMF approved and
the program went into effect on Jan. 1, 1990. It was
very tough on the population, but people were willing
to take a lot of pain in order to see real
change. . .Inflation has been reduced, but the outcome
still hangs in the balance because structural
adjustment is slow in coming. Production has fallen
30%, but employment has fallen by 3%. This
means the entrenched management of state enterprises
is using the respite it gained from wage
claims to improve its profit margins and keep the
workers employed. There is an unholy alliance between
management and labor that will be hard to
break.” In other words, Shachtian monetary austerity,
slave labor, and wrecking guarantees to state
workers.
This was the same model used to cripple Russia, where
Soros pushed the Shatalin Plan to shut down the Soviet
military-industrial economy and impose “budgetary discipline.”
Soros’ program was a disaster: the privatization
of state industry, rotten deals to sell off Soviet military industrial
stockpiles, smuggling raw materials, weapons,
and drugs. In only five years, the labor force had largely
shifted from production to criminal activity, and Russia
saw the largest expansion of drug trade and drug use in
that region. 4
In the years following the Soviet break-up, Soros set up
Foundations in 23 countries. On the launching of the 1991
Balkans War, Soros dumped millions into the region, earmarking
$15 million in funds for political subversion in
Croatia alone. In December 1996, Croatian president,
Franjo Tudjman, launched a useful attack, saying, “With
the help of Soros, [the organizations] have entirely infiltrated
society. . . They have involved in their project 290
different institutions, as well as hundreds of people. . .
[T]hrough financial support, they roped in members of all
ages and classes, from high school students to journalists,
university professors, and academicians, from all circles
of culture, economy, science, health, law, and literature. . .
They openly say: Their duty is to change the property and
government structures through donations. . . To create favorable
circumstances for the subversion of the present
authority and situation in Croatia, to gain control over all
spheres of life, they intend to focus their energies and influence
on the media and the world of culture.”
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4. The spread of drug use coincided with an epidemic of HIV/AIDS largely
along the drug trade route into Afghanistan. Today, the Soros Foundation
prides itself in “treatment, advocacy, and harm reduction services” to deal
with HIV/AIDS and TB, the results of Soros’ free-market reforms.
Russian peasants. Ogonyok..
Soviet women show ration cards to buy food. Ogonyok 1991.
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During the same time, Soros set up the International
Science Foundation, offering sizable grants to Russian
scientists. People were poor and looking for a living; Soros
stepped in with projects and money. Many confided that
they knew it was wrong, but they needed the money to
survive. Though he was able to pay the scientists, Soros’
R&D investments were not nearly enough to accomplish
breakthrough work. U.S. intelligence sources were convinced
that Soros was just picking their brains. The ISF
initially offered large grants, but as Soros steadily withdrew
funds, he drew young scientists out of the country,
taking from Russia its most vital natural resource.
In 2003, Soros announced that he was officially withdrawing
support to Russia in order to focus more on the
United States, after becoming “preoccupied with problems
of globalization” and, since September 11, “with the
role that the United States plays in the world.” On June 12
of this year, the OSI announced an initiative to spend
$800 million over the next 10 years “to advance democracy
and progressive reform in the United States.” Grantees
will be funded to study how institutions like the EU
and the UN can be used to “influence or constrain illiberal
behavior,” and how stability and order can be maintained
after an “authoritarian regime” has been collapsed.
The shock troop attacks from Soros’ hordes in the East
should be fair warning to those in the U.S. who continue
to be soft on Soros’ “democratic reforms” and “open society”
projects.
There Is No Transparency Off-Shore
Contrary to the romantic view of super-financier,
George Soros, he has never acted alone in any of his operations,
and his primary self-interest has been saving his
sorry neck from his sponsors.
A decade before launching The Open Society Fund, Soros
left his post at Arnhold and S. Blechroeder Inc.5 with
sponsorship to launch the off-shore Quantum Fund N.V.,
which was reportedly managing $11-14 billion in 2001.
Both the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management,
operate as crucial sources for the money going to the international
projects cited above. By setting up in the Netherlands
Antilles, a British Protectorate, and excluding
American citizens from investing in the fund or sitting on
the board of directors, Soros eludes U.S. law enforcement
scrutiny, U.S. taxes, and other regulations, while demanding
transparency from everyone else.
Soros has gone so far out of his way to avoid U.S. laws
that he is not even on the board of his own fund, but serves
as official “Investment Advisor” through the New York
based Soros Fund Management. Instead, the list of investors
and the board of the Quantum Fund is stacked with
British, Italian, and Swiss financiers, with Queen Elizabeth
II holding a special position on the list of exclusive
clients. Quantum board member Richard Katz is also on
the board of the London N.M. Rothschild & Sons merchant
bank, and is the head of Rothschild Italia S.p.A.;
Nils O. Taube, is the head of the London investment group,
St. James Palace, a major partner with Lord Rothschild;
and George Karlweiss, of Edmond de Rothschild’s Swiss
Banca Privata. According to interviews and published
sources, Karlweiss played a key role in giving Soros the
initial start-up capital for Quantum. The Rothschilds’
banking apparatus, with its international branches, has
been, and remains at the center of British sponsored dirty
money and financial warfare operations, from money
laundering, to raw materials grabs, drugs-for-weapons
deals, sponsorship of international crime networks, and
significant control over the gold trade—which is essential
for the global drug trade.
Quantum board member and top Swiss financier, Edgar
de Picciotto, was involved in launching attacks against
LaRouche’s European organization through the mid-late
1980’s when he pushed money through the Swiss thinktank,
Geo-Pol, to fund the corrupt Laurent Murawiec,
presently residing at the neo-con Hudson Institute.6 De
Picciotto is presently the chair of the Union Bancaire Privee,
the offspring of a shady merger with Edmund Safra’s
Trade Development Bank, notably involved in the Iran-
Contra affair. Safra, who became too dirty for even the
British to use, was famously murdered in 1999 when under
investigation by Swiss and US authorities for using his
Republic Bank of New York to transfer billions of Federal
Reserve notes to Mafia-controlled banks in Moscow in the
early 1990’s. He was also under investigation for laundering
money through the Turkish and Colombian drug
trade.
According to former U.S. State Department intelligence
officers, familiar with the Soros case, Soros’ Quantum
Fund amassed its billions from “silent investors,” like
Marc Rich—as well as Mossad agents Shaul Eisenberg
and Rafi Eytan. During Soviet break-up, Quantum Fund
investor, Marc Rich,7 was crucial in the raw materials
smuggling. He did the ground work of coercing desperate
and corrupt Russian and Soviet leaders to sell the nation’s
raw material wealth to the global markets. That money
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5. Arnhold and S. Blechroeder Inc. represented Rothschild banking interests
in Germany during the period of Chancellor Bismarck. As of 1993 it
was the principal custodian of the Quantum fund, along with Citibank.
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6. In his 2001 Strategic Memorandum: Look What Happened in Brazil, Lyndon
LaRouche describes Laurent Murawiec as “a real-life ‘Beetlebaum’
of the legendary mythical horse-race, and a hand-me-down political carcass,
currently in the possession of institutions of a peculiar odor.”
7. Before running $2.5 billion in “natural resources” trade with Russia,
Marc Rich got his start in the triangular trade of weapons, oil, and drugs,
around the Afghan and Iran-Iraq Wars. EIR Special Report, To Stop Terrorism—
Shut Down Dope Inc. (2001), and EIR Special Report, The True
Story of Soros the Golem (1997).
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was then taken out of the country and invested in offshore
accounts. Rich, a U.S. fugitive since 1984, organized the
looting from his office in London, where he helped his
Russian contacts sell those materials normally used for
domestic consumption.
For 17 years, Rich was a fugitive in London from charges
of tax evasion, fraud, and trading with the enemy (Iran).
Rich hired Lewis Libby as his personal attorney. In 2001,
Al “stinking possum” Gore helped get a Presidential pardon
for Rich in the final hours of Bill Clinton’s term. Later,
in testimony before Congress, Libby admitted that he secured
the pardon for Rich by working through Gore’s former
chief of staff, Jack Quinn (as well as two former Mossad
agents employed by Rich).
A Piece of Advice:
The global economy is presently undergoing a hyperinflationary
blow-out. The international institutions and financier
networks outlined above, whose activities are illegal under
the United States Federal Constitution, have been positioning
themselves for decades to seize control now. It is now possible
for the government of the United States to immediately
shut down Soros’ filthy operations and launch the recovery
prescribed in LaRouche’s “Three Steps to Survival.”
It were wise for all those who are presently defending
George Soros by accepting his money to take pause: Whatever
happens otherwise, if the United Kingdom continues
its present course Britain’s imperial design (1763-2008) is
now soon doomed to a very early and ugly end. All that remains
in doubt on this account, is, whether or not the disintegration
of the British empire will carry the rest of European
civilization down with it, down into a prolonged,
planetary-wide dark age, down forever from the Britain of
Lord Shelburne which aspired to become a permanent
successor to the failed Roman Empire. Is the money really
worth it?8
The Case of Malaysia
by Alexandra Perebikovsky
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8. Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., “That Doomed & Brutish Empire,” EIR Volume
35, Number 11, March 14, 2008.
Technically, Malaysia gained its independence from the
British Empire in 1957. Since then however, the British
intention has been to continue using the nation as its
very own playground for its free trade chaos and looting
operations. In 1997 Lyndon LaRouche stated, “free trade,
practiced against the nations of Southeast Asia, is simply
a new form of colonialism, whose fruit is mass murder. In
that sense, there is no difference, in effect on people, between
free trade and Nazism.”
Up until the mid 90’s currency crisis, Malaysia was a
staunch follower of globalization, albeit taking significant
steps toward development in the years following their independence.
Since the British deployment of George Soros
into Southeast Asia to loot the currencies of these nations,
Malaysia has changed its view. In the mid-1990’s,
Lyndon LaRouche forecast that the so-called “Tigers” of
Southeast Asia,1 after years of globalization, hot money
flows, and destructive speculative activity would suffer
the same fate as Mexico after 1995—utter collapse. Indeed,
in the months leading up to July 1997, Soros worked
tirelessly to carry out London’s currency warfare, with the
intent to collapse the Southeast Asian economies. The Tiger
economies had succumbed to the flood of hot money
in the 1990s, which created bubble economies based on
inflated stock values and financial services. The government
“guarantees” on foreign investments, imposed by
the western speculators, ultimately bankrupted the Southeast
Asian national economies.
Soros financed a large portion of this hot money. He
began his attack on the Thai and Malaysian currencies in
February of 1997 “with a zeal I haven’t seen since the successful
assault on several European currencies around
three years ago” according to one analyst. 2 Through speculation
in futures markets, Soros’ Quantum Fund leveraged
$1.2 trillion. He took short positions against the
Thai baht, the Philippine peso, the Indonesian rupiah,
and the Malaysian ringgit, sending these currencies falling
by 40-70%, collapsing stock markets, and wiping out
currency reserves. The breaking point was in July of 1997
when the Thai baht was forced to float, with greater than
20% devaluation, after the government had unsuccessfully
spent over $15 billion trying to defend the currency.
The IMF austerity conditions imposed on these nations
following the collapse drove their economies back 15-20
years in their potential for development and their standard
of living.
On September 20, 1997, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr.
Mahathir Bin Mohammed stood before the IMF and defi14
antly spoke out against the looting
policies of the British Empire:
“We in Malaysia laughed at
the suggestion that our country
would follow the fate of Mexico.
. . . But now we know better.
We know why it was suggested
that Malaysia would go the way
of Mexico. We know now that
even as Mexico’s economic crash
was manipulated and made to
crash, the economies of other
developing countries, too, can
be suddenly manipulated and
forced to bow to the great fund
managers who have now come
to be the people to decide who
should prosper and who
shouldn’t.”
Prior to the attack on the
Southeast Asian markets, Mahathir
had been an outspoken
follower of globalization. However,
following the British Empire’s
organized takedown of
the Malaysian economy, the fantasy
of “free trade” was broken.
Reflecting the proposals of
economist Lyndon LaRouche,
Dr. Mahathir launched his own attack against speculator
George Soros, calling him a “moron.” EIR’s special report
“The true story of Soros the Golem; A profile of mega
speculator George Soros,” circulated widely in Malaysia’s
leading circles. London, surprised by Mahathir’s sudden
backlash, unleashed a string of slanders, including an article
published in the Asian Wall Street Journal on September
19, 1997, titled: “Malaysia’s Mahathir Finds
Strange Source for Soros Campaign; Asian Country’s Media
Tap U.S. Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.”
In an attempt to destroy any influence or connection Malaysia
had to LaRouche, London deployed Soros once
more to clean up the mess. Soros was given a chance to
defend himself against Prime Minister Mahathir’s accusations
and attempted to deny the charges—he was not
successful:
Ted Koppel: “You’re talking here about the Malaysian
Prime Minister.”
George Soros: “That’s right.”’
Ted Koppel: “And he, I mean
his charge is that you, in effect,
systematically set out to destroy
Malaysia’s currency.”
George Soros: “And that is
absolute nonsense. Now, you
know, what more can I say? It’s
just absolutely no foundation at
all.”
Ted Koppel: “Because—I
mean put it in easily understandable
terms. I mean if you could
have profited by destroying Malaysia’s
currency, would you have
shrunk from that?”
George Soros: “Not necessarily,
because that would have
been an unintended consequence
of my action. And it’s not
my job as a participant to calculate
the consequences. This is
what a market is. That’s the nature
of a market. So I’m a participant
in the market.”
Ted Koppel: “Apolitical,
amoral?”
George Soros: “That’s exactly
right.”3
The Backlash
In September 1998, Dr. Mahathir shocked the world by
declaring sovereign currency controls on the Malaysian
ringgit, pegging their currency to a fixed exchange rate
against the dollar, and thereby effectively ending the speculators
ability to loot the country through currency speculation.
Soros, and the entire western financial oligarchy,
went berserk, claiming that Dr. Mahathir’s actions against
IMF orthodoxy would bring damnation down upon his
country. In fact, as was later obvious to all, his defense of
the nation’s sovereignty saved the population from the
devastation suffered by every other nation that had been
subjected to Soros’ butcher knife.
Following Malaysia’s break with globalization, London
launched an even nastier operation to create an internal
crisis in Malaysia. Anwar Ibrahim was the deputy prime
minister and chosen heir to Mahathir; he became the target
to carry out the Empire’s brutal operation.
Anwar was later kicked out of his post as deputy prime
minister because he “lacked the moral standards required”
to lead the nation. Financed by Soros and his cronies
through the Open Society Foundation, Anwar pro-
Swiss-image.ch/Remy Steinegger
Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammed
in 2002.
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3. Pre-recorded interview with Ted Koppel, ABC News Nightline, Wednesday,
October 7, 1998
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1. It turns out that the Southeast Asian Tigers were no better than those
tigers of infamous “magicians” Siegfried and Roy—all doped up.
2. As described by Dawai Institute of Research Director Peter Scheifelbein
days after the meeting of Myanmars SLORC (State Law and Order
Restoration Council)
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ceeded to launch a campaign to bring down the
government of Malaysia. He portrayed himself as a
freedom fighter and champion of free market society,
denouncing the new government’s protectionist
economic policies and accused them of carrying
out a conspiracy to destroy him. Meanwhile, Soros’
Human Rights and Open Society organizations
played their part in labeling Mahathir as the “last of
the old-line Asian authoritarians” and showed Anwar
as the “reformer” trying to free the people of
Malaysia. The western media, including the Wall
Street Journal, continued to fuel the turmoil in Malaysia,
saying: “The sacking Wednesday night of
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
signaled the end of a battle for the soul of an important
nation. . . . At home and abroad, Mr. Anwar had
come to symbolize the democratic aspirations and
open-mindedness of a new generation, more at ease
in the world and less burdened with the pain of old
sleights and frustrations than the man he was expected
to succeed.” 4
Even Soros buddy, Al Gore, threw his weight behind
the speculators.5 On November 13, 1998, President
Clinton had been invited to speak at the Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, hosted by
Malaysia. Due to the severity of the Iraq crisis, Clinton
was forced to stay back and dispatched Al Gore
in his place. The resulting catastrophe occurred on
November 16 when Gore delivered a speech to the
APEC business advisory council where he called for
“short term” recovery by allowing “free markets to
work their magic” and, though not naming him, endorsed
Anwar Ibrahim over Mahathir to lead the nation. 6
Sprinkling salt in the wound, Gore echoed Anwar’s cries
for a new government: “People will accept sacrifice in a democracy,
not only because they have had a role in choosing
it, but because they rightly believe they are likely to benefit
from it. . . . The message this year from Indonesia is unmistakable:
People are willing to take responsibility for their
future—if they have the power to determine that future. . . .
Democracy confers a stamp of legitimacy that reforms
must have in order to be effective. And so, among nations
suffering economic crises, we continue to hear calls for democracy
and reform in many languages—‘people’s power,’
‘doi moi,’ ‘reformasi.’ We hear them today—right here,
right now—among the brave people of Malaysia.” With the
Malaysian government incensed and the Malaysian people
riled up, Gore promptly left the venue. A few days later,
then foreign minister Abdullah Badawi, sent the US a heated
letter of protest, warning that the United States would
be held accountable for inciting instability.
Malaysia Today
The escapades of Soros, Gore, and other London cronies
in Malaysia can only be seen in one light—the British
Empire’s continued aims at destabilization in Southeast
Asia. Today, Abdullah Badawi has taken over the post of
prime minister and Anwar, with one hand permanently
glued to Soros’ gluttonous money bags, is still running operations
aimed at destabilizing the government, including
his intended buy-off of parliamentarians in the opposition
party, the United Malays Political Organization. The fate
of Malaysia remains to be seen. However, in the context of
the current global financial collapse, its future lies in the
implementation of Lyndon H. LaRouche’s four powers
agreement7 and in the destruction of the British Empire
and its crony, George Soros.
World Economic Forum/swiss-image.ch
Al Gore at the Davos meeting in January 2008.
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4. The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 1998 issue
5. In the intervening decade, with weight to spare, Al Gore threw it behind
his own speculative venture in the cap and trade carbon market.
6. At that time, Anwar had been under arrest and on trial for charges of
corruption and sodomy.
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7. See Lyndon H. LaRouche’s, Three Steps to Survival
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George Soros Buys the
Nomination, Obama Borrows It
By Ed Hamler
The ongoing 2008 Presidential election represents
Soros’ importation of the techniques he has utilized
for popular subversion in foreign lands to the U.S. political
process. MoveOn.Org, an organization hugely funded
by George Soros, played a central role in Barack Obama’s
capture of the Democratic nomination, despite Hillary
Clinton’s clear superiority in the popular vote. Although
positioned as a pro-Obama instrument long before, as of
February of 2008, MoveOn officially backed Obama’s campaign,
sending him an army of “volunteers” and an established
money machine and fundraising base. As Lyndon
LaRouche has repeatedly warned, Obama himself is a
throwaway in the financial oligarchy’s plan to capture the
Presidency of the United States under conditions of economic
collapse. He was promoted to destroy the Clinton
candidacy and its potential for a Rooseveltian solution to
the financial collapse.
MoveOn.Org
MoveOn.org got its start in 1998, receiving major support
from the most fascist Democrats in the party, Joe
Lieberman
and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to censure President
Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Faced in
1998 with a worldwide economic collapse, President Clinton
called for a “new financial architecture,” echoing Lyndon
LaRouche’s call for a New Bretton Woods financial system.
Soros, at the same time, engaged in currency warfare,
which intentionally collapsed the Thai baht, the ringgit of
Malaysia, and the lira in Italy. In short order after the President
called for a new financial architecture, the Lewinsky
scandal blew-up. The Newt Gingrich-led Congress, along
with Al Gore’s treasonous faction inside the Democratic
Party fed the ensuing media frenzy, effectively destroying
the Clinton Administration’s economic program in its remaining
years. In its drive to censure President Clinton,
MoveOn demonstrated a proclivity for political prostitution,
appreciated by Soros’ controllers. Soros moved to buy
up MoveOn. By 2004, MoveOn, the so-called “grassroots”
organization, was practically owned by George Soros.
According to a Michelle Goldberg article in Salon.com,1
this process began in 2003. Soros and his associates had
decided to pour tons of money into the MoveOn coffers.
The total contributed from 2003-04 was about $6.2 million
dollars, the largest “soft money” contribution ever.
During 2003-2004, Soros and MoveOn heavily backed
Wall Street suckling Howard “Scream” Dean for President.
They later mobilized to ensure him a comfortable
seat as Chairman of the Democratic Party to do what he
does best: lose! As chairman, Dean’s mission has been to
demoralize the lower 80% of income brackets (the true
base of the Democratic party) while recruiting white collar
and affluent professionals, myspace addicted youth,
and as many minorities and trade unionists who will sell
their souls as a new “Democratic majority.” Despite Dean’s
sabotage, the American population gave the Democrats a
resounding victory in the 2006 mid-term election, turning
out in record numbers to vote on the basis of ending the
war and fixing the economy. But by October of the next
year, Congress’ support from the population fell, from
80% to below that of President Bush, due to Dean and
Pelosi’s roles in blocking any initiative to reverse the damage
wreaked by Bush and Cheney. Mission accomplished.
MoveOn also played an active and significant role in
the pressure campaign to make sure Senator Clinton
dropped out of the race for President, thus acting as a
front organization for Soros and his masters. MoveOn.org
sent out a sophistry-ridden email petition, ironically attacking
Clinton for putting pressure on the superdelegates
for support. It called on the superdelegates to let the voters
decide who the Democratic nominee will be:
“Stand up for Democracy in the Democratic Party.
“A group of millionaire Democratic donors are threatening
to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because
Nancy Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates,
should decide the Presidential nomination.
“They’re Clinton supporters and they’re trying to use their
high-roller status to strong arm the Democratic leaders.
“So let’s tell Nancy Pelosi that if she keeps standing up
for regular Americans, thousands of us will have her back.
“A compiled petition with your individual comment
will be presented to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic
leadership.
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1. Michelle Goldberg, MoveOn Moves Up, Salon.com, Dec. 1, 2003.
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“Full petition text:
“The Democratic nomination should be decided by the
voters—not by superdelegates or party high-rollers. We’ve
given money—and time—to progressive candidates and
causes, and we’ll support Speaker Pelosi and others who
stand up for Democracy in the Democratic Party.”
Of course, when Senator Clinton won the popular vote
and the real high-rollers of the world and the party establishment
united behind Obama, MoveOn stood fully exposed
as the expendable creation of these same forces.
Since Senator Clinton actually won the popular vote, will
MoveOn stand by its original statement?
Never one to miss an “opportunity” Soros also personally
profited from one of MoveOn’s biggest political campaigns.
In 2006, MoveOn and Center for American Progress
waged a campaign against Cheney’s Halliburton.
Halliburton’s stock dropped from $40 to $26 a share.
While MoveOn railed against Halliburton, Soros gradually
bought 1,999,450 shares. By December 2006, these
shares comprised more than 2% of his total portfolio,
making Halliburton the Soros Fund Management’s biggest
investment that year. Then, the attacks on Halliburton
stopped, and the stock value began climbing, climbing
all the way up to today’s $50/share.
Democracy Alliance
One further maneuver in Soros’ effort to take over the
Democratic Party was his formation of the Democracy
Alliance. In 2005 George Soros and 70 millionaires and
billionaires got together to discuss further prospects for
buying up the Democratic Party. On July 27, 2006 the
Washington Post reported that there was a requirement
that every member of the Democratic Alliance give
$200,000 to the organization, but most members gave
more, and Soros was one of the top three contributors.
Democratic Alliance funds were thrown into organizations
like the Center for American Progress (CAP) and
the Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now (ACORN). These organizations also played a role
in operations against Senator Clinton in the primary
campaign.
For example, on May 13, the day of the West Virginia
primary, John Edwards publicly stated his neutral position
concerning which candidate he would back for President
until the nominating convention in August. A day later
he came out to endorse Obama, following Obama’s
defeat by Senator Clinton by huge margins in the West
Virginia primary. Edwards thus participated in a public
spectacle meant to take the sting away from the millions
of votes Clinton received from the poorest state in the nation.
Edwards had just launched an anti-poverty campaign
called “Half-In-Ten,” which proposes to cut poverty
in half in the next ten years. Edwards anti-poverty campaign
received significant funding from the Soros controlled
CAP and ACORN organizations. In addition to
threats and other pressure tactics known to have been utilized
against super-delegates, one wonders what might
have been brought against Edwards concerning the funding
of the programs dearest to him?
Barack Obama
Obama himself has been blessed with Soros’ “soft money”
since he was an Illinois State Senator. Obama’s career in
national politics was catapulted by George Soros’ pool of
dough during his run for U.S. Senate in 2004. Throughout
that campaign year Soros kept tabs on Obama. On July 4,
2004, one month before the Democratic Nominating Convention
in Boston, Obama was the only candidate Soros personally
met with that year in Soros’ New York home. This
same year, Soros and his family raised $60,000 for Obama.
In 2006 Obama, as U.S. Senator for the state of Illinois,
had his sights set on bigger things. He met with Soros
again in his Manhattan office. That meeting lasted about
an hour. Immediately afterward Soros introduced Obama
to a dozen of the biggest money bags in politics, including
financier and hedge fund manager Orin Kramer and
Union Bank of Switzerland U.S. Chief Robert Wolf. A
week later Wolf had dinner with Obama in Washington
D.C. to craft his campaign strategy, one month before
Obama officially launched his Presidential bid.
Obama announced his candidacy for President in January
2007. In just four months, Soros and Wolf raised
$500,000 for Obama. From April until the closing months
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Howard “Scream” Dean
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of the primary campaign season, Soros and his associates
held a series of fundraisers and practically guaranteed a
steady flow of money into his campaign. In fact, Soros
played a major role in changing how political campaigns
are run in the United States, through his support for the
McCain-Feingold campaign reform legislation in 2002.
Soros’ Open Society claims that it provided the key logistical
support for the legislation by mobilizing itself and other
foundations to lobby for the legislation and to raise the
money needed to defend it against subsequent court challenges.
As a result of the McCain-Feingold act and subsequent
developments, PACs with wealthy sponsors, like
MoveOn, internet based “movements,” and wealthy bundler,
like those who predominate in Obama’s campaign,
have taken the place of constituency organizations, and
have thus become the central focus of all political activity.
So, after the vast sums of cash that were thrown around,
after key Clinton support was simply bought off, should
there be any mystery as to how Obama apparently got the
nomination?
LESSONS FOR DENVER
FDR’s 1932 Victory Over
London’s Wall Street Fascists
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On July 1, 1932 , New York Gov. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt won the Democratic
Party Presidential nomination
by a landslide vote of 945-190, over his
nearest rival and avowed political enemy,
the former New York governor and
J.P. Morgan tool, Alfred E. Smith. On
Nov. 8, 1932 , Roosevelt won a second
landslide victory, this time over incumbent
Republican President Herbert
Hoover. Roosevelt won 57% of the popular
vote, and swept the Electoral College
by 472-59. It was the greatest mandate
for change in memory, and FDR
immediately set out to return the U.
S.A. to the tradition of the American
System of political-economy, and, in so
doing, brought the country out of the
depths of the Great Depression, and
prepared the nation for the great battles
to come, against Nazism and Fascism—
and an expected post-war battle
to end the scourge of Anglo-Dutch colonialism.
Most Americans, with even a slight
degree of historical literacy, know these
basic facts about the election of 1932 . Few, however, know
how close the nation came to a disaster at the Democratic
nominating convention in Chicago; how close FDR came
to being deprived of the Presidential nomination, despite
a groundswell of popular support; and how ruthlessly his
Wall Street and City of London enemies sought to overturn
the outcome of the 1932 election, through attempted
assassination and coup d’état.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nomination as the Democratic candidate for President was far from
assured when the 1932 convention met in Chicago; it took four ballots, and a knock-down
drag-out political fight against the London-Wall Street interests who backed FDR’s opponents.
He is shown here campaigning in Kansas in 1932.
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It is that story, rarely told, that offers a vital lesson today
to the Democratic Party, and to the American people,
as the nation faces another monumental Presidential election—
an election, like 1932 , that once again may determine
whether the United States survives for another generation,
as the sovereign republic established by the
Founding Fathers.
A Challenge to Wall Street
From the time that Franklin Roosevelt was reelected
governor of New York in November 1930, by a sweeping
majority, he emerged as the clear frontrunner for the
Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 1932 . He
had already staked out a new direction for the nation,
through his published writings and speeches, and some of
the emergency measures he had taken as governor, to deal
with the crushing impact of the 1929 Wall Street stock
market crash, and the ensuing collapse of the U.S. economy.
In 1931, he pushed legislation through the Republicanmajority
New York State Legislature, which created the
Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA),
with Harry Hopkins as the executive director. The $20 million
program created jobs for the construction of hospitals,
schools, and other vital infrastructure in the state,
and provided other relief for the growing legions of unemployed.
But Roosevelt made it clear that his efforts in New
York were being countered, at every turn, by the Hoover
Administration in Washington, that was more committed
to bailing out the bankrupt financial institutions, than it
was to providing for the welfare of an increasingly desperate
American people.
In July 1928, FDR had penned an article for Foreign Affairs,
the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations,
which presented a “Democratic View” of “Our Foreign
Policy,” in which he boldly spelled out a radical overhaul
of American foreign policy, in the tradition of John Quincy
Adams and the Treaty of Westphalia. Before being striken
with polio in 1921, FDR had been Assistant Secretary
of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, and had
been the unsuccessful Democratic Party Vice Presidential
candidate in 1920.
FDR wrote in Foreign Affairs, “The time has come when
we must accept not only certain facts but many new principles
of a higher law, a newer and better standard in international
relations. We are exceedingly jealous of our
own sovereignty, and it is only right that we should respect
a similar feeling among other nations. The peoples of the
other Republics of this Western world are just as patriotic,
just as proud of their sovereignty. Many of these nations
are large, wealthy and highly civilized. The peace, the security,
the integrity, the independence of every one of the
American Republics is of interest to all the others, not to
the United States alone. . . . Single-handed intervention by
us in the internal affairs of other nations must end; with
the cooperation of others we shall have more order in this
hemisphere and less dislike. . . . The time is ripe to start another
chapter. On that new page there is much that should
be written in the spirit of our forebears. If the leadership
is right—or, more truly, if the spirit behind it is great—the
United States can regain the world’s trust and friendship
and become again of service. We can point the way once
more to the reducing of armaments; we can cooperate officially
and whole-heartedly with every agency that studies
and works to relieve the common ills of mankind; and
we can for all time renounce the practice of arbitrary intervention
in the home affairs of our neighbors.”
The policies and ideas presented by FDR were not only
anathema to his Republican rivals. They were at fundamental
odds with the London-allied Wall Street interests
that held a vise-grip control over the Democratic Party,
from the top down.
Following his 1928 defeat by Hoover, the Democratic
Party Presidential candidate, Alfred Smith, FDR’s earlier
sponsor, turned bitterly against Roosevelt. Smith was furious
that FDR had won the 1928 New York gubernatorial
election, while he had been overwhelmingly defeated in
New York State by Hoover. FDR had also refused to give
Smith hands-on control over his top Albany appointments.
Even more to the point, Smith had already been coopted
by the powerful J.P. Morgan banking interests, which
were among the City of London’s flagship assets inside
Wall Street. Smith was installed as a top executive of the
Morgan-financed Empire State Corp., which built the Empire
State Building, and became a witting tool of the Morgan
interests, who had other, equally powerful hooks into
the Democratic Party.
Following the disastrous 1928 Hoover victory over
Smith, the Democratic Party had fallen deep into debt.
The party owed an estimated $1,600,000—a considerable
sum of money in those days. To bail out the party, Morgan
asset John Jakob Raskob stepped in to loan the party over
$370,000. In return, Raskob, who had managed Smith’s
failed Presidential campaign, was named chairman of the
Democratic Party. He, in turn, appointed another Morgan
man, former Democratic Congressman Jouett Shouse, as
the party’s executive director. Just months before taking
over the party, Raskob had lamented that he was not able
to vote for his favorite politician, Calvin Coolidge, for
President in 1928. Raskob had been a life-long Republican
up until that point.
Born in 1879, Raskob went to work for Pierre du Pont
in 1900, and rose rapidly through the ranks of the Morgan-financed
chemical and arms combine. By 1914, Raskob
was treasurer of the DuPont Corporation. Four years
later, after DuPont took control of 43% of the stock in General
Motors, Raskob was named vice president for finance
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of both GM and DuPont. By the early 1920s, Morgan had
bought a $35 million stake in GM, making it a joint Du-
Pont-Morgan venture. Raskob remained vice president of
GM until 1928, when he took over Al Smith’s Presidential
campaign, steering the New York Governor hard-right,
into the Morgan camp. Raskob remained at DuPont for
another decade, amassing a very large personal fortune.
Throughout the 1920s, Raskob was on Morgan’s list of
“preferred customers,” who were beneficiaries of insider
trading, and privileged stock purchases.
Fascism for All
During the 1920s, Morgan and allied London and Wall
Street banks had financed Italy’s Fascist leader Benito
Mussolini. In 1925, for example, Morgan partner Thomas
Lamont arranged a $100 million loan to the Mussolini
regime, at a point that the regime was in deep political
trouble.
At the same time that Morgan was bailing out Mussolini,
the DuPont and Morgan interests were launching a
proto-fascist
movement in the United States—ostensibly
in opposition to Prohibition, which had been enacted
with the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified
in January 1919. The Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment (AAPA) was headed by Capt. William
H. Stayton, but was run by a tightly knit group of Wall
Streeters, including Pierre du Pont, Irénée du Pont, Lammot
du Pont, John Raskob, and Charles Sabin. Sabin
was the chairman of the Morgan-owned New York Guaranty
Company. According to a Senate investigation into
the AAPA, by 1928, of the 28 directors of GM, 15 were
listed as members of the group, which promoted the repeal
of Prohibition, and the replacement of corporate
taxes with a tax on beer and liquor, based on the British
model.
The 1932 Democratic Convention
On Jan. 22 , 1932 , Roosevelt announced his candidacy
for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. The
convention was scheduled for late June in Chicago. From
the very outset, FDR was by far the favorite to win the
nomination and the Presidency. However, the top-down
Morgan interests that literally owned the Democratic Party,
through Raskob and Shouse, had other plans. They
launched a “Stop Roosevelt” operation, employing a number
of Morgan assets, and drawing upon party factions,
which had their own differences with FDR.
Morgan man Al Smith announced his candidacy on
Feb. 6, immediately creating a serious split in the New
York Democratic Party. A number of “favorite son” candidates
also entered the race, most with the understanding
that they would ultimately throw their support—at a
price—behind either FDR or some rival, in the event that
the convention was deadlocked. The Raskov-Shouse-Morgan
strategy was to deny Roosevelt the nomination on the
first series of ballots, and then draw support away from
the New York governor, and behind their chosen “compromise”
candidate, Newton D. Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s
Secretary of War (1916-1921), and later a lawyer for the
Morgan interests in Cleveland, Ohio.
Although FDR competed in the Democratic primary
elections, winning over half the delegates, he suffered
several setbacks, orchestrated by the Morgan crowd and
others. The biggest upset came in California, where Texan
John Nance Garner, the Speaker of the House, won
41% of the vote, to Roosevelt’s 32 % and Al Smith’s 26%.
Garner had campaigned against Roosevelt and Smith as
“Tammany Hall” politicians, and had the backing of William
Gibbs McAdoo, the California lawyer, who had been
Wilson’s Secretary of the Treasury (1913-1918), and a
two-time contender for the Democratic Presidential
nomination, in 1920 and 1924. McAdoo was the son-inlaw
of President Wilson, and, appropriately, had the
strong backing of the Ku Klux Klan in his 1924 bid for
the nomination (Wilson had shamelessly boosted the revival
of the KKK from the White House, through his promotion
of the Hollywood film, Birth of a Nation, which
lionized the racist organization). In 1924, McAdoo had
gotten into a pitched battle with Smith over the nomination,
deadlocking the convention for days, and leading,
ultimately, to the selection of a “compromise” candidate,
John W. Davis—yet, another lawyer for the Morgan interests.
McAdoo also had a very close relationship with the
country’s leading publisher, William Randolph Hearst,
who, at one time, had also sought the Democratic Presidential
nomination.
Going into the Chicago convention, Roosevelt had
well-over half of the 1,154 delegate votes needed to clinch
the nomination. However, the rules of the party required
a two-thirds majority, which meant that 770 votes were
needed to win. As long as the Morgan forces could block
any large crossovers, FDR could be defeated, despite the
fact that he had won 11 of the 13 primaries in which he
competed, and had won 44.5% of the total votes cast.
Memories of the disastrous 1924 nominating convention,
which took 103 ballots to break the deadlock between
Smith and McAdoo, added to the political climate,
favoring a Morgan-led anti-FDR “compromise”
nominee.
Adding to the political minefield facing FDR, was the
fact that Chicago’s Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was
allied with the “Stop Roosevelt” forces, and was a leading
proponent of the repeal of the 18th Amendment (he coveted
control over liquor licensing and taxation, which
would greatly enhance his financial and political power),
and he would control who would be allowed into the galleries
at the convention center, an important psychologi21
cal intimidation factor. Cermak had gone East on the eve
of the convention, to meet with Raskob and Shouse, ostensibly
to push an anti-Prohibition plank for the party
platform.
The Backdrop to the Convention
Cermak also hoped that the revenues generated by
hosting both the Democratic and Republican nominating
conventions would bail Chicago out of a desperate financial
crisis. 750,000 Chicagoans had lost their jobs since
the 1929 Crash; over 100,000 families were on some kind
of public welfare; half of the banks in Chicago had gone
under; city workers, including police and teachers, were
being paid in IOUs; and almost every luxury hotel in the
city’s famous downtown Loop was in bankruptcy receivership.
On the eve of the convention, 759 teachers had lost
their homes, because they had not been paid in five
months, according to the authoritative account of the
1932 convention, Happy Days Are Here Again, by Steve
Neal (HarperCollins, New York, 2004). And garbage collectors
had also gone on strike, after missing months of
pay, resulting in a pile-up of garbage everywhere.
Arriving delegates were greeted by “Hoovervilles” all
over the city. Writing for The New Republic, John Dos
Passos described the scene on Michigan Avenue: “Down
here the air, drenched with the exhaust from the grinding
motors of trucks, is full of dust and the roar of the
heavy traffic that hauls the city’s freight. They lie in rows
along the edges above the roadway, huddled in grimed
newspapers, men who have nothing left but their stiff,
hungry, grimy bodies, men who have lost the power to
want.”
Weeks before the convention opened, Samuel Insull,
the leading industrialist in Chicago, had lost his entire
$170 million personal fortune, when debts were called
in on his utility companies, which suffered huge losses
through the collapse of industry and the fall-off in electricity
consumption. The Morgan interests were widely
accused of being behind the pulling of the plug on Insull.
In June 1932 , thirty-nine small and medium-size
Chicago banks all went bankrupt, as part of the Insull
collapse.
Days before the convention opened, the major Chicago
banks, including First National Bank of Chicago and First
Union Trust, were hit with a run on deposits, estimated at
over $50 million. Next, Charles G. Dawes, former head of
Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation, announced
he was about to shut down his Central Republic
Bank and Trust Company, which had lost half of its $240
million in assets. Had Dawes’ bank shut down, the chain
reaction would have wiped out all of the major Chicago
banks. As the convention was opening, the RFC stepped
in with a $100 million emergency bailout loan, thus averting
a full-blown financial meltdown.
Morgan Versus FDR
Even before the battle over the nomination commenced,
a number of other issues had to be addressed,
that would vitally effect the outcome of the convention.
The first involved the seating of the Louisiana delegation.
Three contending delegations all showed up in Chicago,
reflecting the larger splits in the party between the proand
anti-FDR factions. At the time of the convention, Sen.
Huey P. Long was backing Roosevelt, and his delegation
was being challenged by a former Louisiana governor, Jared
Sanders. After a rousing debate between Long and
Sanders, punctuated by loud anti-Long rants by Cermak’s
bleachers rabble, the Long delegation was seated, by a
convention vote of 638-514.
Next, the crucial vote on who would be the convention
chairman took place. Roosevelt had chosen Montana’s
Thomas J. Walsh, a 73-year-old, 20-year Senate veteran, as
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During the 1920s, J.P. Morgan (shown here), and allied London and
Wall Street banking interests financed Italy’s Fascist dictator
Mussolini. They intended to establish Fascism in the United States—
but they had to try to eliminate FDR in order to do it.
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his candidate. Walsh had presided over the tumultuous
1924 convention, before Morgan man Davis had won the
nomination, but was widely respected for the way he handled
that chaotic affair. The candidate of party chairman
Raskob was his fellow Morgan man, Shouse, the party’s
executive director.
By another close vote, 626-528, Walsh won the pivotal
chairmanship. The two narrow victories for the FDR forces
would prove decisive. FDR’s pointman in Chicago
(Roosevelt, in the tradition of nominating conventions,
stayed back in Hyde Park, New York, but had a special
speaker-phone hookup to his Chicago convention stadium
headquarters), James Farley, would write in his diaries:
“To me the most vital moment of the convention was the
seating of Huey Long’s delegation.”
Efforts by the Roosevelt team to change the party
rules, to end the two-thirds majority requirement, flopped
miserably, and almost cost FDR the support of some of
his Southern backers, who saw the rule as key to their
party influence. The Morgan faction, allied with many of
the urban political machines, from Cermak to Tammany
Hall, tried to push through an anti-Prohibition resolution,
with the aim of drawing Roosevelt into a divisive
side issue, that could split off some of his Southern backers,
who were among the leading proponents of the ban
on alcohol. Ultimately, the convention voted 934-213 in
favor of repeal of the 18th Amendment. Roosevelt had
successfully stayed on the sidelines, averting the Morgan
trap.
On June 30, Walsh convened the nominating session.
By the time the nominating speeches and seconding
speeches had been completed, it was 4:28 AM, on the
morning of July 1. All told, 11 names had been placed in
nomination. Among the key candidates hoping to win the
nomination in the wake of another disastrous 1924-type
stalemate, in the event the Morgan “Stop Roosevelt” operation
succeeded, were: Newton D. Baker, Speaker of the
House John Nance Garner, Maryland Gov. Albert Ritchie,
and Al Smith.
At the end of the first round of balloting, FDR had 666
votes, followed by Smith, with 201, Garner with 90, Ohio
governor and favorite son George White, with 52; and a
lineup of other favorite sons with a total of 143 votes
among them. On the second ballot, Roosevelt gained 11
votes, but the failure of any major holdout delegations to
break was a bad sign. Furthermore, Cermak was working
non-stop to break away Roosevelt delegates, as part of the
Morgan scheme to deadlock the convention for a half-dozen
ballots, thus forcing Roosevelt to throw in the towel.
While his efforts failed, the third ballot also was inconclusive.
At 9:15 a.m., the convention adjourned, to resume
again that evening.
From the opening gavel of the convention, FDR was
targeted for massive dirty tricks, including a vicious rumor
campaign that he was “too sick” to be President, another
that he was in bed with the KKK. One of the leaders
of the “Stop Roosevelt” operation was Walter Lippman,
who was circulating a petition among the convention delegates
to draft Newton Baker as the compromise candidate.
Lippman lied, “All through these various delegations
there is an astonishingly strong though quiet conviction
that the party can unite on a man who is stronger than any
of the leading contenders. That man is Newton Baker of
Ohio. My impression is that he is the first real choice of
more responsible Democrats than any other man, and
that he is an acceptable second choice to almost every
one.” Lippman’s petition was accompanied by a massive
telegram campaign, touting Baker as the savior of the party,
against FDR’s divisiveness.
FDR responded with his own telegram to all the delegates,
in which he promised, “I am in this fight to stay.
This is a battle for principle. A clear majority of the convention
understands that it is being waged to keep our
party as a whole from dictation by a small group representing
the interests in the nation which have no place in
our party.” FDR concluded, “My friends will not be misled
by organized propaganda by telegrams now being sent to
delegates. Stick to your guns. It is clear that the nation
must not and shall not be overridden. Now is the time to
make clear that we intend to stand fast and win.”
Roosevelt’s use of the term “the interests” was a direct
shot at the Morgan Wall Street and London crowd
that was behind the desperate drive to deny him the
nomination.
There are varying accounts of what happened next.
What is clear is that during the hours of July 1, between
the adjourning of the convention, and its resumption in
the evening, a deal was reached between the FDR forces
and Garner. Clearly, McAdoo had a role in the effort, and
Neal’s account identified Joseph Kennedy as a mediator
with Hearst. What is clear is that, faced with a prospect of
either Newton Baker or Al Smith winning the nomination,
should FDR fail to win the showdown fourth balloting, the
Texas and California delegations, both pledged to Garner,
went over to FDR, with the understanding that Garner
would be Roosevelt’s choice as Vice Presidential runningmate.
But even in the Texas caucus, the vote to support
FDR was by the narrowest 54-51 majority. And in the California
caucus, McAdoo was so uncertain of the outcome,
that he never took a vote, choosing instead to inform his
delegation that Garner had released the votes, but taking
the unilateral decision to pay back his rival Al Smith, by
personally announcing both the California and Texas endorsements
for FDR.
But there was more here than a backroom deal. Roosevelt
had clearly touched a deep chord among progressive
Democrats, who understood the implications of another
Morgan hand-picked candidate leading the Democratic
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slate.
By the time the convention reconvened, on the evening
of July 1, the Morgan-Raskob-Smith gang had been defeated,
albeit by a near-miracle of political perseverence.
Once Texas and California broke, Cermak delivered the
Midwest states to FDR, and triggered a stampede of all the
favorite son delegations.
Shouse, the Morgan man, bitterly wrote to Newton
Baker after the vote: “If McAdoo had not broken the pledges
he made, Roosevelt would not have been nominated.
On the fourth ballot there would have been serious defections
from his ranks with the result that some other nominee
would have been certain. That nominee would have
been either you or Ritchie.”
Understanding the divisive role of the Morgan gang
and the urgent need to heal the wounds of the convention
fight, FDR took the unprecedented step of flying out
to Chicago, to directly address the convention. The
whole country followed in rapt attention, as FDR flew,
through inclement weather, from Albany to Chicago. He
delivered a powerful speech, proclaiming his “New Deal”
for America.
Assassination and Coup d’Etat
In the wake of FDR’s landslide victory over Herbert
Hoover in the November 1932 general elections, the Morgan
and City of London financier faction quickly regrouped.
If they could not defeat FDR by the manipulation
of the ballot, they would use other means.
On Feb. 15, 1933 , less than a month before Roosevelt’s
March 4 inauguration as President, a “lone assassin” attempted
to kill him, during a rally at Bay Front Park in
Miami, Florida. An Italian immigrant unemployed laborer,
Giuseppe Zangara, fired at the podium, as Roosevelt,
ironically, was shaking hands with Mayor Cermak. Cermak
took the shot, and died several weeks later. While investigations
into the shooting never developed evidence of
a broader plot, interrogations of Zangara confirmed that
he intended to kill the President-elect, thus dispelling later
claims that he had been sent by Chicago mobster Frank
Nitti, to kill Cermak, who had cracked down on his Capone
mob rivals.
The Morgan hand was all over another plot to oust
Roosevelt, in the early months of his Presidency. As reported
to the McCormack-Dickstein Committee of the
House of Representatives, by Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington
Butler (USMC-ret.), a group of leading Morgan
and DuPont operatives, including the recently deposed
Democratic Party chairman John J. Raskob, and his executive
director, Jouett Shouse, conspired to organize a
miltary coup d’état against FDR, claiming that Roosevelt
was a “Jew Communist,” who would destroy the United
John J. Raskob photograph collection
John J. Raskob (right) went to work for the Morgan-linked Pierre du Pont (left), where he amassed a fortune, as one of Morgan’s “preferred
customers,” who benefitted insider trading and priviliged stock purchases. Raskob was the pointman for the Morgan-led opposition to FDR
within the Democratic Party.
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States through New Deal hyperinflation.
Members of the conspiracy first contacted Butler in
July 1933 , in an effort to recruit him to the plot; they asked
him to recruit an army of 500,000 World War I veterans, to
march on Washington and force Roosevelt’s resignation,
and the imposition of a regime, modeled on Mussolini
and Hitler.
In September 1934, the plotters established the American
Liberty League, with Al Smith, Raskob, the Morgan
lawyer John W. Davis, joining the ranks of the Grayson
Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Pew, Pitcairn, Rockefeller, and
Lamont interests. To set the stage for the outright pro-Fascist
bankers putsch, Henry Luce’s Fortune magazine devoted
its entire July 1934 issue to praise of Mussolini. Anglophile
editor Laird Goldsborough penned a signed
editorial, which proclaimed, “Fascism is achieving in a
few years or decades such a conquest of the spirit of man
as Christianity achieved only in ten centuries. . . .”
The true nature of the plot was exposed by General
Butler, who had been repeatedly approached by one of the
Morgan operatives, Gerald MacGuire, who had spent seven
months in Europe, at the start of 1934, making contacts
with leading Synarchists in Italy, France, and Germany.
Hesitant to signal Butler that the Morgan gang was
plotting a Hitler-Mussolini-style takeover of America,
MacGuire told Butler that the new movement, to save
America from FDR, was modeled on the French secret
military organization, Croix de Feu (Fiery Cross), which,
he lied, was like America’s Veterans of Foreign Wars or
Aemrican Legion. In fact, the Croix de Feu was a hardcore
pro-Fascist, pro-Nazi apparatus that had failed in
coup plots in France, and ultimately became part of the
collaborationist Vichy regime.
Butler smelled the rat and took his story to the news
media and the Congress, resulting in a tremendous scandal—
in part due to the fact that Congress was afraid to
implicate the top Morgan bankers in such an obviously
treasonous scheme. Working with Philadelphia Record
journalist Paul Comley French, Butler substantiated every
detail of the scheme. In one meeting with French, at the
offices of Grayson M.P. Murphy and Company, MacGuire
openly declared, “We need a fascist government to save
the nation from the Communists.” He explicitly endorsed
Hitler’s forced labor camps as the “solution” to unemployment
in America.
When the American Liberty League formally announced
their founding, the press was called in to the office
of none other than Jouett Shouse, at the National
Press Building in Washington. Shouse, who had headed
Morgan’s Association Against the Prohibition Amendment,
had merely changed the masthead on the old AAPA.
At its heart, it was a London-allied bankers cabal, committed
to imposing corporatist fascism—over the political
corpse of FDR.
A closer approximation of what drove London bankers
and their Wall Street cronies wild was revealed by
FDR and Henry Morgenthau biographer John Morton
Blum. According to Blum, in the autumn of 1933 , Roosevelt
and his Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau,
launched a drive to push up the price of gold and
strengthen the value of the U.S. dollar. As Blum reported
in Roosevelt and Morgenthau (Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston, 1970), “To take charge of the foreign exchange
operation Roosevelt called upon the Governor of
the New York Federal Reserve Bank, George Harrison,
an urbane, experienced, conservative financier, who was
conscious and jealous of the traditional powers of his
office. Harrison insisted on having full authority over
the technical aspects of his job, to which Roosevelt
agreed, but the President hesitated to accept the banker’s
suggestion that the United States talk with the
British and the French before beginning to trade in
gold abroad. ‘Every time we have taken the British into
our confidence,’ he remarked, ‘they have given us a
trimming.’
“After further thought persuaded him to let Harrison
go ahead, the President thoroughly enjoyed the shocking
surprise of the Europeans. The French, Harrison reported,
had nearly jumped out of their skins. Governor Montagu
Norman of the Bank of England, a die-hard Tory
whom Roosevelt called ‘old pink whiskers,’ heard Harrison’s
news about American plans with incredulity. ‘This is
the most horrible thing that has happened,’ Norman
wailed into the transatlantic telephone. ‘The whole world
will be put into bankruptcy.’ Harrison’s instinct was to reassure
Norman, but Roosevelt and Morgenthau, picturing
foreign bankers with every one of their hairs standing on
end in horror, caught each other’s eye and began to roar
with laughter. Within 24 hours, Roosevelt told Morgenthau,
he expected to ‘see the whites of the eyes of the enemies,’
and he expected Harrison to shoot.”
It was Roosevelt’s open contempt for the British system
of usury and colonialism that drove London’s Wall Street
allies, led by Morgan, to plot outright treason, when they
failed to defeat FDR in Chicago at the convention.
Today, the financial disintegration has gone far beyond
the collapse that FDR faced, and today, once again, London’s
fascist agents, like Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz,
stand in horror at the remotest prospect of the Democratic
Party returning to the spirit and substance of FDR.
They know that the voice of FDR in today’s Democratic
Party is that of Lyndon LaRouche, and, while they know
that LaRouche is not running for President, they fear his
impact on the next Presidency, as much as they feared
FDR’s election in November 1932.
John Ascher, Richard Freeman, and Lonnie Wolfe contributed
research to this article.
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