Miriam, I keep hearing the term right of center to describe the wallstream
media. I don't even know where the middle is anymore.
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Yes, that's what I remember. And in the past, it has run some really terrible
articles. NPR may be objectionable, but not like Fox News!
Miriam
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This Washington Times is only 37 years old. And it's listed as Conservative.
Carl Jarvis
associated with the church until 2010, in which Moon and a group of former
executives purchased the paper.
On 9/26/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
More so. I can't remember who owns it, or who did in the past, but you
might look it up. I think it was that Korean charlatan, but I'm not sure.
Miriam
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Yup! I went back and browsed a few of the ON-LINE issues. It looks
about as Right of Center as most any other daily news paper.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/26/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I thought that theWashington Times was a right Wing paper.
Miriam
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It's long been my contention that the American Working Class would
have a clearer view of why the government behaves the way it does, if
we could agree, at least in a broad stroke, that this nation was an
Oligarchy from its inception, regardless of what we were taught in
school. The Oligarchy established a Republic, but remember, it
served a very narrow part of the total Colonial Population. Even as
the Constitution was ammended to include other people as First Class
Citizens, the Ruling Class...the Oligarchy, began to devise methods
of restricting the number of registered voters.
Carl Jarvis
Here's part of an article written back in 2014:
By
Cheryl K. Chumley
- The Washington Times - Monday, April 21, 2014
America is no longer a democracy — never mind the democratic republic
envisioned by Founding Fathers.
Rather, it has taken a turn down elitist lane and become a country
led by a small dominant class comprised of powerful members who exert
total control over the general population — an oligarchy, said a new
study jointly conducted by Princeton and Northwestern universities.
One finding in the study: The U.S. government now represents the rich
and powerful, not the average citizen, United Press International
reported.
In the study, “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites,
Interest Groups and Average Citizens,” researchers compared 1,800 different
U.S.
policies that were put in place by politicians between 1981 and 2002
to the type of policies preferred by the average and wealthy
American, or special interest groups.
Researchers then concluded that U.S. policies are formed more by
special interest groups than by politicians properly representing the
will of the general people, including the lower-income class.
“The central point that emerges from our research is that economic
elites and organized groups representing business interests have
substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while
mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no
independent influence,” the study found.
The study also found: “When a majority of citizens disagrees with
economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose.”
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An American Oligarch‘s Dirty Tale Of Corruption Flickr/ Charles
Hutchins F. William Engdahl, www.journal-neo.org September 21st,
2017 Above Photo: Charles Hutchins/ Flickr
Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of
Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance
their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following
comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now
naturalized American speculator, George Soros. The hacker group
CyberBerkut has published online letters allegedly written by Soros
that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine
regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government and
the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he
succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets.
All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of
EU taxpayers.
What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of
behind-the-scene manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev
regime by the New York billionaire.
In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked “Confidential”
Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime.
Titled, “A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new
Ukraine,” the memo from Soros calls for steps to “restore the
fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement.”
To do the restoring, Soros blithely notes that “General Wesley
Clark, Polish General Skrzypczak and a few specialists under the
auspices of the Atlantic Council[emphasis added—f.w.e.] will advise
President Poroshenko how to restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine
without violating the Minsk agreement.”
Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly
training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO
presence in Ukraine. The Atlantic Council is a leading Washington
pro-NATO think tank.
Notably, Wesley Clark is also a business associate of Soros in BNK
Petroleum which does business in Poland.
Clark, some might recall, was the mentally-unstable NATO General in
charge of the 1999 bombing of Serbia who ordered NATO soldiers to
fire on Russian soldiers guarding the Pristina International Airport.
The Russians were there as a part of an agreed joint NATO–Russia
peacekeeping operation supposed to police Kosovo. The British
Commander, General Mike Jackson refused Clark, retorting, “I’m not
going to start the Third World War for you.” Now Clark apparently
decided to come out of retirement for the chance to go at Russia
directly.
Naked asset grab
In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President
Poroshenko’s “first priority must be to regain control of financial
markets,” which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to
assist
in: “I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out
about the swap agreement.”
He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of €11
billion via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in
effect using the EU’s “AAA” top credit rating to provide a risk
insurance for investment into Ukraine.
Whose risk would the EU insure?
Soros details, “I am prepared to invest up to €1 billion in
Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the
investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an
attractive investment destination.” Not to leave any doubt, Soros
continues, “The investments will be for-profit but I will pledge to
contribute the profits to my foundations.
This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies in search
of personal gain. “
For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society
Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late
1980’s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic
“democracy-building” projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the
1990’s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former
communist countries using Harvard University’s “shock therapy”
messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the
post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a “free market” at
once, rather than gradually.
The example of Soros in Liberia is instructive for understanding the
seemingly seamless interplay between Soros the shrewd businessman
and Soros the philanthropist. In West Africa George Soros backed a
former Open Society employee of his, Liberian President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, giving her international publicity and through his
influence, even arranging a Nobel Peace Prize for her in 2011,
insuring her election as president. Before her presidency she had
been well-indoctrinated into the Western free market game, studying
economics at Harvard and working for the US-controlled World Bank in
Washington and the Rockefeller Citibank in Nairobi. Before becoming
Liberia’s President, she worked for Soros directly as chair of his
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Once in office, President Sirleaf opened the doors for Soros to take
over major Liberian gold and base metals assets along with his
partner, Nathaniel Rothschild. One of her first acts as President
was to also invite the Pentagon’s new Africa Command, AFRICOM, into
Liberia whose purpose as a Liberian investigation revealed, was to
“protect George Soros and Rothschild mining operations in West
Africa rather than champion stability and human rights.”
Naftogaz the target
The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state
gas and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, “The centerpiece of
economic reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the
introduction of market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing
hidden subsidies…”
In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President
Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his
Shock
Therapy: “I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in
your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical,
‘big bang’ type of approach. That is to say, administrative controls
would be removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly
rather than gradually…Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big
bang replacing the hidden subsidies…”
Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take
control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its
profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US
consulting company, McKinsey, to advise Naftogaz on the
privatization “big bang.”
The Puppet-Master?
The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show
that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the
strings in Kiev.
Soros Foundation’s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance
Foundation
(IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled out
more than
$100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the
Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine’s independence
from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014
Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.
Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange
Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko
into power with his American wife who had been in the US State
Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros’ International
Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as
President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post.
McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later
became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed:
Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The
American agents of influence would prefer different language to
describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy
promotion, civil society support, etc. — but their work, however
labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S.
Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for
Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S.
organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican
Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Solidarity Center,
the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide
small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society.
The European Union, individual European countries and the
Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same.
Soros shapes ‘New Ukraine’
Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros’ IRF money is
behind creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by
presidential decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian
president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature. Soros writes,
“The framework for bringing the various branches of government
together has also emerged. The National Reform Council (NRC) brings
together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers,
the Rada and its committees and civil society. The International
Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros
Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until now…”
Soros’ NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to
override parliamentary debate to push through “reforms,” with the
declared first priority being privatization of Naftogaz and raising
gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households,
something the bankrupt country can hardly afford.
In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that he
played a key role in selection of three key non-Ukrainian
ministers—Natalia Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official
as Finance Minister; Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics
Minister, and a health minister from Georgia. Soros in his December
2014 letter, referring to his proposal for a “big bank”
privatization of Naftogaz and price rise, states, “You are fortunate
to have appointed three ‘new Ukrainian’ ministers and several
natives (sic) who are committed to this approach.”
Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto creating the impression within
the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally cleaning
out the notorious corruption that has dominated every Kiev regime
since 1991.
Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince
the EU to cough up the €11 billion annual investment insurance fund.
His March 2015 paper says that, “It is essential for the government
to produce a visible demonstration (sic) during the next three
months in order to change the widely prevailing image of Ukraine as
an utterly corrupt country.” That he states will open the EU to make
the
€11 billion insurance guarantee investment fund.
While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that
is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when
transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about
his proposals to reform Ukraine’s constitution to enable
privatizations and other Soros-friendly moves, he complains, “The
process has been slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected
Rada on proper procedures and total transparency.”
Soros suggests that he intends to create this “visible demonstration”
through his initiatives, such as using the Soros-funded National
Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree which allows
the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine’s legislature.
George Soros is also using his new European Council on Foreign
Relations think-tank to lobby his Ukraine strategy, with his council
members such as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff or Joschka Fischer or
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, not to mention former ECB head,
Jean-Claude Trichet no doubt laying a subtle role.
George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz.
Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as
a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to
seize property of other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the
Nazi death camps. Soros told the TV moderator, “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.”
This is the same morality apparently behind Soros’ activities in
Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the
Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US
coup d’etat is riddled with explicit anti-semites and
self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor.
George Soros is clearly a devotee of “public-private-partnership.”
Only here the public gets fleeced to enrich private investors like Mr.
Soros and friends.
Cynically, Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, “George Soros–A
self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.”
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