Who was the first person Obama called stating he won the election?

I came across this video on YouTube only 530 people saw this so I am going to present this to the public and let everyone see how important the Constitution is to Ron Paul. Ron Paul does not have an educated staff or a group of interns working for him. Ron Paul had 3 years to speak up that Obama is an illegal sitting President yet he refused to do so. Why? If he is the only one who could defeat Obama then why put the Citizens of the USA through the trauma of  the past 3 years of not having an congressional investigation on the Birth Certificate! Why didn't he? Because Congress and the Senate are responsible for not investigating Obama in the first place. This would put Congress and the Senators just as guilty as Obama if Obama was found out to be a Fraud and his Handlers, His biggest money supporters, are the Saudi and the Muslim Brotherhood. After all who was the first person Obama called stating he won the election? It was the King of Saudi Arabia.



Even though we lost the first round in Georgia doesn't mean I am not going to stop there. I found a whole new group of US Supreme Court rulings that pertain to this case.

Here is what others are saying about Barack HUSSEIN Obama the Muslim Saudi plant in the White House:



Only 148 saw  this video when I first viewed it.

The main issue is to protect the Constitution of the USA. Without the Constitution we have no policies or agenda. We have no freedoms. We have a Dictator.

Ron Paul's anti Semitic followers

Ron Paul's anti Semitic followers and workers sent me hate mail and wrote comments to me defending Ron Paul.  I heard the same left extreme statements when Obama was running and I refused to help him or even vote for him and I am a Democrat.
His followers said Ron Paul does not hate Jews but in the past 3 years Ron Paul expressed his feeling about the Israel the Jewish Homeland. One of his comments was don't supply Israel any arms and let them sort it out. No Arms mean death to Israel. Ron Paul wants to see the land of Israel returned to the Muslims . Muslims wants to cleanse the land with Jewish Blood. If Ron Paul is so in need of giving away land then GIVE TEXAS BACK TO MEXICO! In fact give the USA back to England.
Ron Paul like Hitler wants to see the extermination of Jews. The only reason is that Ron Paul is back stroking is he needs the Jewish Vote. NO PAUL FOR PRESIDENT, PAUL IS BAD FOR JEWISH HEALTH! yet alone the health of the black man in the USA with his black racist remarks.
Paul was caught on tape saying anti Semitic statements and in writing. Now Paul is saying Yes I knew about some of them. Well Paul nothing gets passed my desk and nothing gets published unless I sign off on each article and you want to be PRESIDENT? You admitted you are incompetent by not reading what your staff wrote.
And speaking about staff Former aids to Paul came forth and stated Paul hate Blacks and Jews and tries to figure out a way to get them to vote. Paul I have read your book. I didn't buy them in the Book Stores but in Big Lots for $1.00 and it wasn't worth the $1.00. Maybe you should stick to being a GYN and discriminate against Jews who have Jewish names who make an appointment.

How Nazi of you Ron Paul

Ron Paul says today he would stand behind Israel. Which way Ron Paul to the left or to the right  Ron Paul lies as his real true colors comes out in this Video. No one coached him as he smiles as he says Israel should be left alone and they will bow to Islamic demands. How Nazi of you Ron Paul

Difference between Obama and Ron Paul is the skin color. both hate Jews and both hate Israel

'Ron Paul wishes Israel didn't exist'

Former senior aide to Republican presidential hopeful says that while Paul is not an anti-Semite, he believes Israel is 'more trouble than it's worth'

Yitzhak BenhorinPublished:12.26.11, 22:25 / Israel News 

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul negates Israel's right to exist, Eric Dondero, who served as a senior aide to the 76-year-old Texas congressman for over 12 years, said on Monday.


In a blog posted in Rightwing News, Dondero said that while Paul was, in his opinion, neither a racist nor an anti-Semite, he is very much anti-Israel.

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"I worked for the man for 12 years (and) I never heard a racist word expressed towards Blacks or Jews come out of his mouth… I can categorically say that I never heard anything out of his mouth, in hundreds of speeches I listened to over the years, that could be called, anti-Semite," he writes.




Misguided and extreme? Paul (Photo: AFP)

But according to Dondero, the elderly congressman "wishes the Israeli state did not exist at all."

The congressman's former aide insists in his blog that Paul expressed the controversial sentiment "numerous times in our private conversations."

Paul's view, he said, "is that Israel is more trouble than it is worth, specifically to the America taxpayer. He sides with the Palestinians, and supports their calls for the abolishment of the Jewish state, and the return of Israel, all of it, to the Arabs."

Following Dondero's statement, Executive Director of Republican Jewish Coalition Matthew Brooks said that the former senior aide's blog "simply confirmed what we already know – Paul is against the Jewish State of Israel." Brooks had previously called Paul's views on Israel "misguided and extreme." He was also excluded from a Republican presidential candidates' panel hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition in November.

Ron Paul's Tea Party Follower says no Israel Support

Before you can become a Professional Politician you need to learn the Art of Lying. That is why I am not a professional politician. Two to three weeks ago Ron Paul said he would support Israel I found his website of his TeaParty Followers and this was on this.

Please note on the Obama side which is also a lie Pro Aid to Israel and on the Ron Paul side NO FOREIGN AID. Now Ron Paul lied just like Obama for the Jewish Vote and the Christian supporters of Israel. Also it's in writing how Tea Party leaders who are for Ron Paul feels about Jews and the Jewish Homeland Israel. Like I said in my past articles DO NOT GIVE THE JEW HATING TEA PARTY ORGANIZATION  A  DIME OR TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN.

I will support Israel Put me on the ballet and give America a breath of fresh air from these dictators. One is a socialist, an admitted Communist, Muslim who is Obama and the other is a National Socialist Nazi former Libertarian Ron Paul.

Visit www.leahlax.com and donate. We need $21,000.00 to win this primary. Give as much as you can.It is not just my country this is yours also, I am an American are you?

How the Government is Wasting your Tax dollars and won't tell you

You want to know where your money is spent and why we are Trillions in Debt? These Senators and Congress people make is seem like all the money is spent on the American Public but it's wasted on China, on Pakistan etc, not on the starving people like they claim but on Muslim Sesame Street, a Stonehenge like Prayer Temple for a Pagan Air Force Cadets. All this wasted money on Obama and I also blame the your Congress people, Senators and the Governors, " the good Christians ", the Tea Party people's choice, who are running for President. Folks this is our money they are spending and they don't give a damn because they refuse to expose this.

I do care and I would not allow this to go on. Visit www.leahlax.com. I need to raise another $20,000 by the end of the year. Please donate so I can stop this. You don't like what I have to say, that's good because that shows you are not for the People of the USA but for the thieves who continue to steal and get rich off of your money. Lets stop hiding the facts and bring them out in the open. These are the issues.

This debit was made in the USA and the products we use are made in China.

Sesame Street for Pakistan, studying the effect of cocaine on birds' sex lives, and Stonehenge for Pagan Air Force Cadets: Billions of federal dollars 'wasted' as U.S. debt explodes

By Damien Gayle
Last updated at 2:02 PM on 23rd December 2011

Billions of federal tax dollars were wasted on apparently frivolous and unnecessary projects in 2011, even as the national debt ballooned to more than £15trillion.
For example, $10million was spent on a remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan featuring a hard-working donkey, called Baily, who longs to be a pop star.
More than £175,000 was spent on a study into the link between cocaine use and risky sexual practices - in Japanese quail.

Doing it for the kids: U.S. taxpayers spent $10million funding a remake of Sesame Street for Pakistan, called SimSim Humara

And, incredibly, a billion dollars was handing home improvement tax credits to people who don't own homes - including prisoners and children.
These are just some of the $6.9billion worth of apparently frivolous, publicly funded projects identified in a report published by Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
Dubbed the 'Wastebook Report', it identifies 100 taxpayer funded programmes it says the U.S. doesn't need and, worse, can't afford.

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In the report's opening statement, Senator Coburn writes: 'Over the past 12 months, Washington politicians argued, debated and lamented about how to reign in the federal government‘s out of control spending.
'All the while, Washington was on a shopping binge, spending money we do not have on things we do not need, like the $6.9 billion worth of examples provided in this report.
'The result: Instead of cutting wasteful spending, nearly $2.5billion was added each day in 2011 to our national debt, which now exceeds $15 trillion.'

Senator Tom Coburn, from Oklahoma, alongside his Wastebook report

Many of the most expensive projects outlined in the report actually benefit those in other countries - or are, at least supposed to.
The U.S. sent $18million in foreign aid to China, a country that has lent the U.S. government $1trillion and is its largest creditor.
Bajan businessmen did well out of the U.S. taxpayer, with USAID spending $1.35million to Barbados's Cave Hill School of Business to promote entrepreneurship.
Local politicians in India - the world's fifth largest economy - benefitted from a $425,642 study into how they can improve their PR.
And Indonesians were able to enjoy the best in U.S. dance, after $30,000 was spent sending a New York-based dance troupe to perform in the country.
The military-industrial complex was also a significant beneficiary.
In Iraq, nearly $4.4billion was frittered away in 2011 alone on wartime contracting waste and fraud, according to a congressional report.
And more than $200million was spent in 2011 (out of a total $3billion spend) building an alternative engine for the F-35 fighter plane which the Pentagon then decided it didn't need.

Religious sensitivity: The Air Force Academy spent more than $50,000 building this Stonehenge-like worship centre for pagan cadets

Artistic: The National Science Foundation spent £300,000 teaching the public about the origins of matter through the medium of modern dance

Politicians looked after themselves well too, of course. The report reveals that $35.38million of taxpayer cash was handed to the two main political parties for their own parties - despite Congress enjoying a dismal 9 per cent approval rating - the lowest ever.
Senator Coburn concludes: 'The year 2011 will be remembered as a period of unrest as outraged Americans of all political stripes — tea party patriots on the right and Occupy Wall Street activists on the left — took to the streets in anger and disgust with the direction of our nation.
'As you look at these examples, regardless of your personal political persuasion, ask yourself: Would you agree with Washington these represent national priorities or would you agree these reflect the wasteful spending habits that threaten to bankrupt the future of the American Dream?'
Click here to see the senator's report in full

AND HERE'S A FEW MORE TAXPAYER FUNDED FOLLIES

• The National Science Foundation spent £300,000 teaching the public about the origins of matter through the medium of modern dance.
• The foundation also spent $130,987 on a study into how dragon robots can help preschoolers develop language skills. It was just the first payment of a four-year $923,00 grant.
• And it also spent nearly $500,000 on a study looking at whether people trust what they read on Twitter.
• The Air Force Academy spent $51,474 on a Stonehenge-like worship centre for students there 'whose religions fall under the broad category of "Earth-based"'.
• 
  Nearly $1million was spent by the federal government creating an online soap opera called Diary Of A Single Mom starring, among others, Billy Dee Williams.
• Nearly $100,000 in federal stimulus funds was spent providing kindergarteners with iPad 2s (pictured right), despite widespread opposition from parents who worried it would undermine teachers.
• Researchers at Columbia university were handed $606,000 for a study into how online dating affects sexual behaviour.
• The Oregon Cheese Guild received $50,000 in taxpayer funding to promote the Oregon cheese industry by creating a statewide 'Cheese Trail'.
• Lecturers from Eastern Illinois and Kent State Universities went on an epic pilgrimage to England to trace the steps of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, costing taxpayers $136,555.
• Chinese drinkers have the federal government to thank after it paid $111,000 to fund a delegation of beer experts to give lessons to Chinese breweries.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077922/US-wastes-billions-Sesame-Street-Pakistan-effect-cocaine-birds-sex-lives.html#ixzz1hOXSfu4F

Gee that is very Christian as Ron Paul lies his way out of his past

Gee that is very Christian as Ron Paul lies his way out of his past. Now for the Jewish vote he'll do anything for Israel .. hummm before it was the hell with Israel, Were did we hear that before Oh Yes Barack Hussein Obama at a PLO dinner he was the toast master of. and at his side was Fat Michelle.
Do not vote for this Anti Semite Nazi Lover.
Leah Lax is for Israel , Always have always will be, visit www.leahlax.com donate to the campaign sign her petition and show Ron Paul he's a white Obama

Ron Paul Tells Newsmax: I Support Israel

Wednesday, 07 Dec 2011 01:02 PM

By Doug Wead

 In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul confirmed his support for Israel, but cautioned that while the United States should be a “friend” of the Jewish state, America should not be the “master” of Israel.

Paul also says the United States should not dictate Israel’s borders or try to “buy her allegiance” with massive amounts of foreign aid. He argued that foreign aid has actually hurt – not helped – the Jewish state.

The interview was conducted by Newsmax contributor Doug Wead, a presidential historian and New York Times best-selling author.

Paul has recently come under fire from some Jewish groups in America. The Republican Jewish Coalition banned Paul from a debate on Jewish issues in Washington this week because of his “misguided and extreme views,” according to the group’s executive director, Matt Brooks.

Newsmax chatted with Paul to get his side of the issue as the Texas Republican is surging in some presidential polls.

A new Washington Post-ABC News survey in Iowa shows him threatening Mitt Romney as the second-leading candidate behind Newt Gingrich. Paul is now tied with Romney in the early caucus state with 18 percent of the vote, behind Gingrich’s 33 percent.

Rep. Paul’s interview with Newsmax follows:

Newsmax: What should our relationship be with Israel?

Ron Paul: We should be their friend and their trading partner. They are a democracy and we share many values with them. But we should not be their master. We should not dictate where their borders will be nor should we have veto power over their foreign policy.

This is not just about Israel, by the way, this is about how we should conduct ourselves with other countries around the world.

Newsmax: But Israel is not like other countries. We have a large Jewish population in America. What do you say to those who criticize your policy toward Israel?

Ron Paul: I think that some not only misunderstand the American Constitution and the role we should have in the world, they also misunderstand Zionism. Part of the original idea of Zionism, as I understand it, was that there should be Jewish independence and Jewish self-reliance. Today, America doesn’t want anyone to be self-reliant. We want to rule the world and be the saviors of the world and we are going broke in the process.

Newsmax: Some object to your policy of cutting foreign aid to Israel.

Ron Paul: I have objected to all foreign aid. I define foreign aid as taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. We just can’t keep doing this. We don’t have the money anymore.

Stop and consider America’s policy: We give $3 billion a year to Israel in loans; and we give $12 billion or more in assistance to Israel’s self-declared enemies. Some of these are countries that say they will drive Israel into the sea.

Newsmax: What do you say to evangelical Christians who want that aid to continue?

Ron Paul: I say to them that our aid in the region is out of balance and it is wrong. Foreign aid does not help Israel. It is a net disadvantage. I say to them that “the borrower is servant to the lender” and America should never be the master of Israel and its fate. We should be her friend.

In October, 1981, most of the world and most of the Congress voiced outrage over Israel’s attack on Iraq and their nuclear development. I was one of the few who defended her right to make her own decisions on foreign policy and to act in her own self-interest.

Newsmax: What then, if anything, should we do for Israel?

Ron Paul: We should share intelligence for mutually agreed-upon goals. We should honor our pledge to refuse any arms sales that would undermine Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region.

But we should stop interfering with them. We should not announce bargaining positions even before she begins her negotiations. We should not dictate what she can and cannot do. We should stop trying to buy her allegiance. And Israel should stop sacrificing their sovereignty as an independent state to us or anybody else, no matter how well-intentioned.

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Ron Paul and His KKK, White Supremacist, and Neo-Nazi Supporters

This was written in 2007 People don't change because they are running for office. A Nazi is


 a Nazi. Old saying Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you who you are !



Ron Paul and His KKK, White Supremacist, and Neo-Nazi Supporters
 Author: SJ Reidhead — Published: Nov 27, 2007 at 1:17 am
 During the past month or so the conservative blogsphere and media has finally discovered the fact that GOP Presidential hopeful and Texas GOP Congressman Ron Paul has some very strange supporters. During the past months on Blogcritics, I have been exposing various and sundry rather tawdry aspects of the whole anti-immigration movement with profiles on John Tanton and Tom Tancredo.The Blogcritics piece I recently did about the white supremacist assault on Senator Lindsey Graham is garnering some interesting comments from the far right. But no series exposing the extreme and far right forces distorting the once-honorable conservative agenda could possibly be anywhere near complete without a commentary about some of the supporters of Ron Paul.
This isn’t the first time Ron Paul has run for President. In 1988 he did so as a libertarian candidate, attracting little attention. This time, though it is different as Paul and his supporters have mastered the art of the internet candidacy and almost defined a new and improved way to raise funds. Instead of going for a few high dollar supporters, they are going for large numbers of small dollar donors, and are rewriting the way fundraising is done.
Conservative bloggers are patting themselves on their ramrod straight backs for finally facing the fact that their movement is being hijacked by white supremacist forces from the far right. Unfortunately they are miles behind the curve, and just a little too little too late as far as I am concerned. Congressman Ron Paul has some very nasty white supremacist friends. If the problem dated only to this election cycle it would be one thing, but Paul has a past history of making some rather racially insensitive remarks, on a rather consistent basis.
In 2004 Paul made a short statement from the floor of the US House of Representatives about his refusal to vote for the renewal of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only violated the Constitution and reduced individual liberty; it also failed to achieve its stated goals of promoting racial harmony and a color-blind society. Federal bureaucrats and judges cannot read minds to see if actions are motivated by racism. Therefore, the only way the federal government could ensure an employer was not violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to ensure that the racial composition of a business's workforce matched the racial composition of a bureaucrat or judge's defined body of potential employees. Thus, bureaucrats began forcing employers to hire by racial quota. Racial quotas have not contributed to racial harmony or advanced the goal of a color-blind society. Instead, these quotas encouraged racial balkanization, and fostered racial strife….”

In 1996 in an article, in the Houston Chronicle, “…Paul, a Republican obstetrician from Surfside, said Wednesday he opposes racism and that his written commentaries about blacks came in the context of "current events and statistical reports of the time." ... Paul, writing in his independent political newsletter in 1992, reported about unspecified surveys of blacks. "Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action," Paul wrote. Paul continued that politically sensible blacks are outnumbered "as decent people." Citing reports that 85 percent of all black men in the District of Columbia are arrested, Paul wrote: "Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal," Paul said. Paul also wrote that although "we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”
The Stormfront (white supremacist, neo-Nazi leaning) website has a promotional page for Ron Paul. Paul’s campaign accepted $500 in campaign donations from Stormfront founder and known neo-Nazi Don Black, and until recently Paul refused to return the donation. While Paul’s campaign has a fascinating number of ties to Stormfront, they refused to return the calls of Daniel Siederaski of the Jewish Telegraph Agency. Siederaski wrote:

Any other candidate would unequivocally reject that money as soon as its donor’s identity was known. That Paul’s campaign needs time to think about it is shocking. Also of concern is the fact that Paul’s campaign has ignored my repeated attempts to interview the Congressman for JTA, the Jewish newswire service by which I am employed. I had intended to write a story about the Congressman, and to provide him with the opportunity to distance himself from his extremist supporters, to clarify his position on Israel, and to state his case to the Jewish community. Yet, after three weeks of repeated telephone calls, two chats with his Deputy Communications Director, and several left voicemail messages, I have yet to receive a callback to schedule an interview….

In Tennessee one of Ron Paul’s biggest internet organizers is neo-Nazi leader Will Williams, who is a southern point person for the National Alliance Party, the largest neo-Nazi organization in the US. According to Andrew Walden, author of the American Thinker piece, Williams is in part responsible for the extreme numbers of “meet-up” individuals who have registered for Paul. Some 61,000 Ron Paul supporters are registered, compared to 3,400 for Barack Obama, 1,000 for Hillary Clinton, and 1,800 for Dennis Kucinich. Williams may also be responsible for the enormous amount of spam and comments received by anyone who dares criticize Ron Paul.
Williams is not the only white supremacist, KKK, or neo-Nazi supporter Ron Paul has. He is supported by David Duke and Pat Buchanan. Ron Unz, editor of Buchanan’s American Conservative magazine is also a Ron Paul supporter. Strangely enough Barry Manilow is also a Paul supporter as is Cindy Sheehan. There are ties to the American Nationalist Union and several serious anti-Semitic sites and organizations. Also supporting Paul are long time “Christian” conservatives like Howard Phillips and Chuck Baldwin who is closely associated with the Constitution Party.

Dave Neiwert, quoting Chip Berlet, wrote “Those neo-Nazis have a First Amendment right to endorse Ron Paul, but Ron Paul has a moral obligation to disavow that donation." He added: "There's two issues: Why would anyone have to ask Ron Paul to disassociate himself from the endorsement of neo-Nazis? And the second is that when they did ask him, his silence spoke volumes about his values. You know, 'I don't enjoy the endorsement of neo-Nazis' — how hard is that to say? And why hasn't he refunded it? It's not like this is a gray area."
Currently Paul is polling about 7% in New Hampshire and 8% in South Carolina.

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/ron-paul-and-his-kkk-white/page-3/#ixzz1fmfHDu1G

Jewish Republicans: Ron Paul 'Extreme'

Sunday, 04 Dec 2011 10:07 PM

 Rep. Ron Paul is being banned from a major GOP debate on Jewish issues in Washington this week, according to the NY Sun, because of his “extreme views” on Israel and the Mideast.

Paul has stood out at GOP debates by advocating liberatarian foreign policy positions that would put him, in some cases, to the left of the Democratic Party. He has called for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, Afghanistan other countries, has suggested that an Iranian nuclear bomb would not be a threat, and has questions the billions of dollars in foreign aid given to Israel.

The gathering, sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, will not include Paul because of of his “misguided and extreme views,” the group’s executive director, Matt Brooks, told the Washington Jewish Week.

Writing in The New York Sun, Seth Lipsky questioned the wisdom of banning a stalwart conservative because his views differ with the party’s mainstream.

“Whatever errors Dr. Paul may have made about bin Laden’s motives, it can’t be said that he would go easy on al Qaeda or has any sympathy with its crimes,” wrote Lipsky. “He would no doubt say — as he did at an  editorial dinner of The New York Sun in 2009 — that one thing he wanted as to avoid a trillion dollar expedition when there was a simpler, constitutional approach of bringing the war to our enemy.

“That may be outside the mainstream, but the whole idea of an organization of Jewish Republicans worrying  about the mainstream strikes me as a bit contradictory. Wouldn’t the debate, both within the Jewish community and without, be richer were these kinds of views at least brought up for discussion? There are today scores of Jewish leaders prepared to meet with, say, the leaders of the Palestinian Authority. What is the logic of excluding a libertarian who is, at least for the moment, polling as one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party?”


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America has a weak President obsessed by re-election.

United States of Paralysis

By Max Hastings
Last updated at 12:18 PM on 24th November 2011


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2065500/Barack-Obama-weak-President-United-States-Paralysis.html#ixzz1edQGksEz


With the world crying out for leadership, America has a weak President obsessed by re-election. But my bet is Obama will scrape back in because he’s opposed by buffoons and grotesques. The chilling alternative: one of the lunatics could win…

High hopes fading: Barack Obama is clinging to the White House amid collapsed poll ratings

President Bill Clinton once sighed: ‘I could have been a great President, if I’d lived in great times.’ Well, here we are today hardly living in ‘great times’ — but rather mightily troubled ones.
Markets tremble as the eurozone totters. The confrontation over Iran’s nuclear programme threatens to escalate. The United States has just signed a historic agreement about future force deployments in Australia, a reflection of mounting alarm about the strategic challenge from China.

Yet it is hard to suggest that Western nations are being governed by leaders remotely capable of matching the hour. The southern eurozone has been obliged to place itself in political receivership, abandoning government by elected representatives — a terrifying development for democracies.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France would be a laughing stock, if he did not occupy such a critical post. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel might be an adequate city mayor, but is visibly overwhelmed by her responsibility for saving the European financial system. Britain’s David Cameron is marginalised.
More important still, however, is the vacuum across the Atlantic.
President Barack Obama, who took office almost three years ago amid such high hopes, now clings to the White House amid collapsed poll ratings and a real threat that the American people will evict him at next autumn’s election.
The United States, as that great historian Sir Michael Howard has said, remains ‘the only nation able, and sometimes willing, to get things done in the world’. Yet this mighty country today finds its political system almost paralysed, its leader overwhelmingly concerned with his own re-election next year, rather than with leading the West out of its slough of despond.

President Bill Clinton once sighed: 'I could have been a great President, if I¿d lived in great times.'

A European central banker said to me a few weeks ago: ‘If you ring up Washington and try to discuss the financial crisis, the Administration people say: ‘Please do not bother us with this sort of stuff until after next November’.
We are still 50 weeks from polling day, yet already election fever is sweeping the nation. Every major American newspaper devotes a daily page or three to the campaign.
Obama’s rival Republican candidates are pouring millions of dollars into TV ads. Whereas in January 2009, just 20 per cent of voters disapproved of Obama as President, 51 per cent now do. Three-quarters of Americans say they think their country is headed the wrong way — with the economy being handled incompetently.

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An average of all polls suggests that around 45 per cent of voters plan to support a Republican — any Republican — in 2012, against 42 per cent still rooting for President Obama.
Yet it seems foolish to take this at face value, unless or until the opposition has a credible candidate. Disillusionment with Obama’s curiously frigid administration is a pervasive theme, but his rivals for the greatest office on earth look like competitors in a holiday camp freak show.
Almost all are overtly homophobic and messianic opponents of abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. Their battle-cry is ‘small government!’.

Tarnished reputation: Herman Cain has been almost blown out of the water by serial allegations of sexual harassment

The Texan congressman Ron Paul says that in his first year as President he would abolish the departments of energy, commerce, education, interior, housing and urban development.
The campaign of Georgia pizza mogul Herman Cain has been almost blown out of the water by serial allegations of sexual harassment from former employees, but he is not great on issues either.
He now says he was not serious when he suggested building a lethal electric fence along America’s entire border with Mexico, to keep out illegal immigrants. But he drove another nail into his own coffin by exposing abysmal ignorance of foreign policy at an interview with newspaper editors.
Asked about the President’s handling of Libya, he first stalled by muttering enigmatically: ‘OK. Libya.’ Then he said he disagreed with Obama’s approach, but struggled to explain why. ‘Nope, that’s a different one,’ the Presidential hopeful said enigmatically. ‘I’ve got to go back and see. I’ve got all this stuff twirling around in my head.’
That was as far as anybody got in discovering the would-be Republican nominee’s position. Cain’s problem is that, like almost all his rivals, he is dumb about almost everything off his own local patch.
Say what you like about British politics, no MP of any party would dare to offer themselves as town dog-catcher while knowing as little about the world as the Republican Presidential candidates.

'Fruitcake':Michelle Bachmann supports the 'waterboarding' of terrorist suspects to secure information

An American professor of international politics blogged contemptuously last week: ‘I can only pick on an ignoramus so many times before it feels sadistic.’
Both Cain and his Republican rival, fellow fruitcake and Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, assert support for the ‘waterboarding’ of terrorist suspects to secure information, while a spokeswoman for current Republican favourite and ex-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney denies that waterboarding is torture.
The New York Times recoiled in disgust, saying: ‘There are few issues that more clearly define a candidate’s national security policy than a position on torture.’
Meanwhile, Texas governor Rick Perry announced on TV that he would abolish three departments, named two, then admitted that he had forgotten what the third was, and hung there on live TV trying to remember what it might be.
We should not waste more words on most of the Republican candidates, whose unfitness for the greatest elective office is manifest, and concentrate on Mitt Romney, who today seems the most plausible party nominee.
The best thing most people can say of him is that he is not Obama. Beyond that, his most conspicuous attributes are first, that he is a committed Mormon — tax filings have shown that his charitable foundation has given $5 million to the Mormon church. Second, he and his wife Ann are pretty.

Gaffe: Rick Perry announced on TV that he would abolish three departments, named two, then admitted that he had forgotten what the third was

This is important: nobody seriously ugly can nowadays hope to win an American election — Ed Miliband would fare even worse in America than he does in Britain. The highly regarded Republican governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, had to abandon hopes of running for the presidency because everybody agreed that he is embarrassingly overweight.
Finally, Romney is rich, with a fortune estimated at £170 million, made during a career in which he founded a private equity investment firm. Opinion is divided about whether this will help him towards the White House. More Americans than ever before are in revolt about the degree to which their country’s riches are concentrated in the hands of the few — note the immense and unexpected public support for the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrators in New York.
‘We are the 99 per cent,’ proclaim the protesters — contrasting themselves with the 1 per cent of Americans who control 20 per cent of national wealth. Despite being evicted from their Manhattan park site by police, they have since been back on the streets in big numbers. Their muddled but impassioned message strikes an echo almost everywhere save in the lunatic, gun-toting badlands of America’s Hicksville, Tea Party country.
The average American household now has a lower real income than a decade ago, when it was around $35,000 (£22,300) a year. Unemployment is stubbornly stuck at more than 9 per cent (compared to 8.3 per cent in Britain) — a level at which many political analysts claim that a sitting President becomes unelectable, because so many voters blame him for their plight. Almost a quarter of residential mortgages are stuck in negative equity.
Economics will dominate this election campaign where the majority of voters, in a country which traditionally respects and even reveres wealth, favour higher taxes for the rich.
Obama agrees with them — knowing this is one of his strongest cards.
Many ordinary Americans look at Mitt Romney and say: how can such a gilded, handsome child of privilege ‘feel our pain’? They can live with his Mormonism, but cannot forget fellow-Republican Mike Huckabee’s jibe that Mitt ‘reminds every American of the boss who once fired them’.
One of Romney’s key advisers says: ‘From the very beginning, this race has been about who can best articulate the case against Barack Obama.’

Rich: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a fortune estimated at £170million

But when you hear Romney say: ‘This century must be an American century. We have a President right now who thinks America is just another nation. America is an exceptional nation,’ you wonder what such waffle means.
And so to Obama, still the man to beat.
Some of the disappointments of this Presidency have not been his fault. He inherited a vast fiscal deficit from George W. Bush, supposedly the great conservative. The problems of America’s diminishing industrial competitiveness are deep-rooted, with the falling value of the dollar leading to a huge trade deficit, given the import/export imbalance. The Republicans in Congress have behaved with reckless, manic irresponsibility in prevaricating over budgetary reform.
But none of these things is the point. Obama has been the man in charge. He is almost bereft of that indispensable political skill, the ability to make people feel good. He has not one iota of Ronald Reagan’s folksy, cosy charm.
Obama’s cleverness is indisputable: he is a man comfortable with authority and with his office. But he has failed to display the political skills to get things done since his healthcare reform bill scraped through Congress two years ago.
Americans talk a lot about how they miss Bill Clinton. Memories of his womanising have faded; they just remember that he seemed to have a heart as well as a brain. Many Democrats regret that his wife Hillary did not win their party’s nomination in 2008 instead of Obama, and thus probably the presidency.
Now Secretary of State, she must be sweating at the prospect of a Republican winning next year’s election, possibly blowing away her own hopes of a 2016 run at the White House.

Retrospect: Many Democrats regret that Hillary Clinton did not win their party's nomination in 2008

A friend of mine here in Washington, disappointed as are many Democrats by Obama’s performance, said to me gloomily: ‘In America’s present mood, the country might, just might, be mad enough to elect a fascist idiot.’
This is indeed a possibility. But it seems more likely that Obama will benefit from his opposition being so pathetic and will scrape back into office next November.
The only things about which Republican supporters can agree is their hatred of the Washington political establishment, and then yearning to dump Obama.
But to achieve that, they need a credible standard-bearer and policies which might win middle America, rather than merely the lunatic fringes. Today, they have neither.

Avoiding defeat: It seems more likely that Obama will benefit from his opposition being so pathetic, and manage to stay in office

If Americans are depressed by the awful aridity of their politics and politicians, the rest of us have cause to share their gloom. The leader of the United States is still overwhelmingly the most important politician on earth.
He cannot be expected to save the eurozone. But he can be a critical inspirational and stabilising force on Europe’s affairs.
Today, instead, the United States is putting up the shutters, and will be almost closed for serious international business through the desperate year ahead, as the nation becomes totally immersed in the Presidential campaign.
The American political system has seldom, if ever, looked so inadequate to the challenges the country faces.
My bet is that Barack Obama will be returned to the White House next year, because he is opposed by grotesques and buffoons.
But if you want to be kept awake at night between now and then, think of the alternative: one of the lunatics could win. Then the crisis of leadership across the Western world, facing its gravest challenges in generations, would become truly frightening.


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The Nazi Ron Paul’s Rabid Followers Hurt His Presidential Bid

Ron Paul’s Rabid Followers Hurt His Presidential Bid

October 16, 2011 | Filed under: Florida Review | Posted by: Javier Manjarres

By Javier Manjarres



Thus far in the Republican Presidential primary, we’ve seen 4 different “front-runners” occupy the top tier of candidates, and we’ve had one candidate emerge from the second-tier of candidates and move up to to the top tier, that being Herman Cain.  But probably the one candidate who has drawn the most consistent and vociferous support amongst his followers from the onset of the campaign is Congressman Ron Paul.
Paul ran for President in 2008 and has proven his ability to raise millions of dollars, but the highest he’s been able to reach in the field is fourth in most polls, and he’s yet to be able to breakthrough and surge as did Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Congresswoman Bachmann and Herman Cain.
So why hasn’t Ron Paul been able to reach that top tier of candidates? While many Americans believe in much of what Congressman Paul espouses, these same mainstream voters are not convinced about a Paul Presidency for two primary reasons.
Personally, I think Paul is a good candidate whose constitutional-based domestic policy positions are very solid, but it’s the other half of his platform- his irresponsible foreign policy positions- that make him unsuitable for leading the country.
Congressman Ron Paul is a staunch Pro-life advocate, a fiscal conservative, and is against Amnesty for illegal aliens that have broken U.S. immigration laws by residing her illegally.
But it’s his very misguided outlook on foreign affairs, the fact that he is nearly blind to the danger that Islamic Fundamentalism holds for this country, and his knee-jerk reaction to blame America first and justify the antipathy our strategic adversaries and enemies have for the United States- these are why he will never become President.

But aside from policy positions, another important reason why Congressman Paul is unable to gain traction with the electorate is unfortunately because of many within his ‘Ron Paul Nation’ who have managed to taint the Congressman as ‘crazy’ because of their over the top and needlessly provocative rhetoric.
The problem with many of these ‘Paulinistas’ or “Paulbots” is that they believe in their rants that Ron Paul is the only choice for President, and if you do not agree with them, you are simply a shill for the establishment or worse.  As many of us have witnessed, these same Paul supporters routinely engage in malicious attack tactics against the other Republican Presidential candidates and their supporters.
Here are but a few of the rants by Ron Paul supporters:

“Cain is yet another stooge for that proudly-bigoted, socialistic, criminally-oppressive totalitarian regime Israhell… George Washington would be ashamed of your mindless surrender of our national sovereignty to those BIGOTS… PLEASE FACE REALITY, AND SAY NO TO ZIONISTIC BIGOTRY!!!”
“Herman Cain is a Ron Paul wannabe unfortunately Cain doesnt have the qualifications: Knowledge of Economics sound money and he doesn’t know the Constitution hes just a flip-flopper thats going to go bad like Obama!”
“Anybody that doesn’t support Ron Paul is either one of the profiteers or is ignorant of the facts and too arrogant to realize it.”
“My name is Herman Cain and I am black and proud to not have any knowledge in government but hey, I did own a bomb ass pizza company and it was DELICIOUS and I made millions! So vote for me because I made millions owning a business like tens of millions of other people around the world, but I have a 999 ughm, 666 plan for all you vote! It will put a tax, on anotha tax, on anotha tax, on top of yo tax thats already taxed! I am obviously tha clear winna heera! Vote for me, I approve this message (Not Herman Cain, but some racist fool)”

So let’s make this very clear- I am sure Congressman Ron Paul is not in-line with these supporters of his, nor does he condone this type of behavior from his supporters- what candidate for President could and still remain viable?
These sorts of ‘Alinsky’ style attacks are straight out of the Liberal Democrat playbook, and they only discredit many of the valid points and issues that candidate Ron Paul raises – some might ask are some of these individuals really Democrat supporters that are trying to divide the Republican voting electorate and cause chaos from within?

Anti-Semitism at Occupy

Below is the same mentality that happens in the Tea Party. One particular member of the Tea Party goes on their radio show and says the same thing. I was friends with him until he began his Ron Paul Nazi Jew Hating Rothschild comments. He said I should look it up like this Jew Hater on the Tube and I did. Each one of the sites this fake information is on comes directly from Muslim Nazis and the American Nazi Association. Freedom of speech does not include Hate Crimes. These speakers whether on Tea Party Radio or on the streets of NYC are spewing Hate Crime. To prove my point about the Tea Party Member here is a the show. Not once was the person stopped, corrected or hung up on. But was allowed to continue.

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Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism

Panicked conservatives are labeling the Occupy protests as 'anti-Semitic' in an attempt to break up the movement.

MJ Rosenberg Last Modified: 16 Oct 2011 10:12

Some far-right conservatives are labelling the Occupy Wall Street protesters as 'anti-Semitic' based on an anti-Semitic assumption that Jews run Wall Street and the global banking system [GALLO/GETTY]

An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives in a state of near panic.

I don't know the first time the tactic was used, although it dates back almost to the beginning of the Jewish diaspora.

Perhaps its most famous use was by the viciously anti-Semitic Czar Nicholas, whose supporters concocted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion at the start of the 20th century to prevent Russians from joining socialist movements and other reform efforts that were fighting to get the czar to cede some power to an elected parliament.

The Protocols were a forged document purporting to show that a cabal of Jews met regularly to solidify their supposed control of the entire world. According to the Protocols, Jews were behind socialist and liberal movements but also ran the banks and Wall Street (A modern version of this ridiculous theme was a staple on Glenn Beck's television programme that ran on Fox News until being cancelled this summer).

from the daily Beast

Glenn Beck's Anti-Semitic Attacks

Nov 10, 2010 6:15 PM EST

The Fox host’s stunning two-day tirade against George Soros is a new low on American television. Michelle Goldberg on the roots of his hatred—and the Anti-Defamation League’s response.

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Anti-Semitism, like all ideologies, tells a story about the world. It’s a story about almost occult Jewish power, about cabals that manipulate world events for their own gain. In classic anti-Semitic narratives, Jews control both the elites and the masses; they’re responsible for the communist revolution and the speculative excesses of capitalism. Their goal is to undermine society so that they can take over. Through the lens of anti-Semitism, social division, runaway inflation, and moral breakdown all make sense because they all have the same cause. Nazi propaganda called Jews drahtzieher—wire-pullers. They constitute a power above and beyond ordinary government authority. “There is a super-government which is allied to no government, which is free from them all, and yet which has its hand in them all,” Henry Ford wrote in The International Jew.

Glenn Beck and George Soros. (AP Photos)

If you know this history, you’ll understand why Glenn Beck’s two-part “exposé” on George Soros, whom Beck calls “The Puppet Master,” was so shocking, even by Beck’s degraded standards. The program, which aired Tuesday and Wednesday, was a symphony of anti-Semitic dog-whistles. Nothing like it has ever been on American television before.

Soros, a billionaire financier and patron of liberal causes, has long been an object of hatred on the right. But Beck went beyond demonizing him; he cast him as the protagonist in an updated Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He described Soros as the most powerful man on earth, the creator of a “shadow government” that manipulates regimes and currencies for its own enrichment. Obama is his “puppet,” Beck says. Soros has even “infiltrated the churches.” He foments social unrest and economic distress so he can bring down governments, all for his own financial gain. “Four times before,” Beck warned. “We’ll be number five.”
Beck went beyond demonizing Soros; he cast him as the protagonist in an updated Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
It’s true, of course, that Soros has had a hand in bringing down governments—communist, authoritarian governments. Beck seems to be assuming a colossal level of ignorance on the part of his viewers when he informs them, “Along with currencies, Soros also collapses regimes. With his Open Society Fund… Soros has helped fund the Velvet Revolution in the Czech Republic, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, the Rose Revolution in Georgia. He also helped to engineer coups in Slovakia, Croatia, and Yugoslavia. So what is his target now? Us. America.”
Beck’s implication is that there was something sinister in Soros’ support for anti-communist civil society organizations in the former Soviet Union. Further, he sees such support as evidence that Soros will engineer a communist coup here in the United States. This kind of thinking only makes sense within the conspiratorial mind-set of classic anti-Semitism, in which Jews threaten all governments equally. And as a wealthy Jew with a distinct Eastern European accent, Soros is a perfect target for such theories.

To inoculate himself against charges of anti-Semitism, Beck hurled them at Soros, pointing out that he’s an atheist and a critic of Israel. He accused Soros of helping Nazis steal Jewish property as a teenager and of feeling no remorse about it. In fact, when Soros was 14 in Nazi-occupied Hungary, his father bribed an agriculture official to pretend that the boy was his Christian godson. Soros once had to accompany his protector to inventory a confiscated Jewish estate. Asked by 60 Minutes if he felt guilty about it, he said no, because he wasn’t at fault. The slander that he was a Nazi collaborator has proliferated on the right ever since.
It’s entirely possible that Beck has waded into anti-Semitic waters inadvertently, that he picked up toxic ideas from his right-wing demimonde without realizing their anti-Jewish provenance. Early on Wednesday’s show, Beck cited the “Prime Minister of Malaysia” on Soros’ villainy. As Media Matters pointed out, he was almost certainly talking about former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Maybe he doesn’t know that Mohamad also said, “We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally Soros is a Jew.”

 from Media Matters

"Puppet master": Beck's attacks on Soros are steeped in anti-Semitic stereotypes

November 09, 2010 4:52 pm ET — 

Glenn Beck has repeatedly attacked financier and philanthropist George Soros with anti-Semitic stereotypes, referring to Soros as a "puppet master" and accusing him of controlling the media, the political process, and the global economy.

Beck: Soros is "the puppet master"

Beck portrays Soros as "the puppet master" during ads for his Soros episode. On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck has repeatedly referred to Soros as a "puppet master" while promoting the November 9, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, which he claims will "expose" Soros. During one ad for the program that referred to Soros as a "puppet master," an on-screen image of the Star of David faded into an image of Soros:

Beck called Soros the "king" and President Obama a pawn. On the September 15, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck displayed a large chess board, which he claimed would illustrate "how far the establishment will go to protect the power that they have built up." Beck assigned various figures roles based on the pieces of the chess game. Beck said, "Now, who are the king and queen and the advisers and the knights, the protection of the castle?" Grabbing the king piece, Beck continued, "Well, if I may -- I think you've got Soros." Beck later said that Barack and Michelle Obama were "pawns."
Beck: "I'm going to introduce the puppet master, George Soros." Appearing on the November 5, 2010, edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Beck displayed a puppet that he said "isn't just any puppet" and that it "is George Soros." Beck went on to say, "On Tuesday, I'm going to introduce the puppet master, George Soros, and -- and all of the stuff the spooky dude does" (transcript from the Nexis database).
Beck: "A special hour on the puppet master, George Soros. ... [Y]our republic's at stake." In a November 6, 2010, ad on Fox News, Beck said, "One of the most important shows I've ever done. Tuesday night on the Glenn Beck program, a special hour on the puppet master, George Soros. It's something you won't hear on any other network. Your republic's at stake -- set your DVR now. Five p.m. Eastern."
Beck: "Will the George Soroses of the world control everything?" From the October 27, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: November 2nd will determine which road America will take. Will we start on the path to restoring honor and trust and common sense in Washington? Or will we continue down the road where anything goes, the ends justify the means and people can just look at you and lie to your face and there's no repercussions? Will we continue to live in a world where political games and the political allies and the George Soroses of the world control everything?
Have you noticed Nancy Pelosi and President Obama and his administration keep talking about the economy and how it's recovering, it's on the right track, and how they're saving jobs left and right? Watch.

Beck: Soros "is the head of the snake." During the October 15, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck claimed that "most everybody in the early progressive movement, their father or somebody involved, was a preacher. And they hated it." Guest David Barton then said, "The ACLU was headed by a preacher in the progressive movement; Americans for Democratic Action, headed by a preacher in the progressive movement -- it is amazing how many of these progressive organizations were headed by preachers." Beck then invoked Jim Wallis, who guest Calvin Beisner said "takes money from George Soros." Beck then said Soros "is the head of the snake."

Beck: Soros controls the economy

Beck cited anti-Semitic smear that Soros pursued a Jewish "agenda" to collapse Southeast Asian currencies. On the October 5, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck continued his smear campaign against George Soros, saying that "many, including the Malaysian prime minister, believe it was billionaire speculator George Soros who helped trigger the [Southeast Asian] economic meltdown" in 1997, a reference to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's false and anti-Semitic claim that Soros was part of a Jewish "agenda" to collapse Southeast Asian currencies. In an October 10, 1997, report from the Malaysian newspaper Berita Harian (excerpted by BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, accessed via Nexis), Mahathir was quoted as saying: "We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally Soros is a Jew. It is also a coincidence that the Malaysians are mostly Muslim." From the report:

Kuala Terengganu, 10th October: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the government suspects that the Jews have an agenda to destroy the economy of this country and other Muslim countries. Also Dr Mahathir did not reject the possibility that the attack on the local currency was to shut his mouth so that he would stop criticizing George Soros, a Jew who hailed from Hungary. "We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally Soros is a Jew. It is also a coincidence that the Malaysians are mostly Muslim."
"Indeed, the Jews are not happy to see Muslims. If it were Palestine, the Jews would rob Palestinians. Thus this is what they are doing to our country," he said when referring to Soros' involvement in the depreciation of the ringgit.

According to an October 11, 1997, Agence France-Presse article (from Nexis), Mahathir later denied that he was suggesting a Jewish agenda resulted in his country's economic crisis:

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Saturday said he did not accuse the Jews of undermining the economy of Malaysia and other Moslem countries.
"I merely stated that this person (American financier George Soros) is Jewish," Mahathir was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency in the Moslem dominated eastern coastal state of Terengganu.

As AFP reported in an October 15, 2006, article, Mahathir met with Soros and said of their meeting: "Mr Soros said he was not involved in the devaluation of the Malaysian currency and that other people were involved. And I have accepted that."
Beck: Soros is a "puppet master" looking to create a "new world order." During the November 3, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck said that Soros was the "puppet master" who was "on the other end of Barack's BlackBerry." Beck went on to suggest Soros was using the Federal Reserve to create a "new world order" (transcript from Nexis).
Beck: Soros and his "minion, Al Gore" have "been preparing this new world order for a long time. They helped create it." From the September 23, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: This is the way of the world. The elites have decided that the world is unsustainable. And so, we've got to have cute, little cooking stove with the Land Rover, and redistribute the wealth. And that way, we'll be able to have a global system and everything will be on the road to recovery -- not for Homer, but for these guys.
You notice I said that we -- we'll have global governance run by elites. I'm not an elite. Are you elite?
You don't really have a say. I don't have a say on this. I didn't know about the stupid cook stove idea. Did you get a shot of that one?
It's nice to think about, you know, all this global warming thing is about the planet and warm food for hungry Ugandans. But, unfortunately, no. No. No. Screw Ugandans, screw you.
This is about Land Rover and Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. That's what this is about. Those companies that are still in existence, they stand to make billions every year. The rich -- and I don't mean the rich guy, you know, who you work for at the factory that you see every day. Hey, Bill the rich millionaire. I don't mean that guy.
I mean these guys, George Soros, spooky dudes who are waiting over here to buy the cook stove. Yes, and I got my minion, Al Gore. And we are going to make cook stoves for everybody. Well, not everybody, but we will have plenty of food for our cook stoves.
People are writing our policy over cocktail parties, pushing the climate change, carbon trade garbage and getting richer and richer and richer on whose money? Your dollars. Yours. They are taking it through your tax dollars.
You have nothing to do with it. We are buying cook stoves!
The regular CEOs are freaking out right now. Most of them voted for these clowns, but they're freaking out now because they can't keep the doors open. They know we're in trouble.
But those are the regular CEOs. Not the Soros type players, the globalists. They have been preparing this new world order for a long time. They helped create it. Look at how Al Gore has positioned himself. He has profited on the hysteria he created, increasing his personal wealth 50 to 100 times or more.
Look, I got no problem anybody wants to be a capitalist. I got no problem on that. But while you're increasing the fortunes of the elites, they're also galvanizing their power and setting up global governance and he is living in a mansion that is using 10 times the amount of electricity that you and I are supposed to use.
Just don't be a hypocrite about it, Al.

Beck: Soros is "one of the guys looking to replace the capitalist system once it's been destroyed." On the June 21, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck said, "I don't know if [Soros] is a radical that's been trying to implement the Cloward and Piven strategy on collapsing the system." Beck went on to claim that Soros is "one of the guys looking to replace the capitalist system once it has been destroyed." This accusation is based on a distortion of a Soros quote. Soros said that the international currency system -- not the capitalist system -- is "broken and needs to be reconstituted."
Beck: Soros is orchestrating a collapse of American currency to enrich himself. On the October 5, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck claimed that Soros "thought the dollar needs to be devalued" and cited a Financial Times op-ed in which Soros argued for more stimulus spending. Beck said, "Spooky dude says spend more money." He added: "I don't know if this is the start of the latest, you know, Soros push to collapse a currency. I don't know if this is it; oh, but it's coming. Be prepared, because powerful people like George Soros would like that to happen. Because they're preparing. Have you?"
Beck: Soros "likes to crush the market," then "makes a financial move" at "the right time." On the October 18, 2010, edition of his radio show, Beck said:

Please, watchdogs, keep your eye on George Soros. George Soros' time is about to come. He is a guy who likes to crush the market and he waits and he positions, and then he makes a financial move. He waits for the right time, and his time is coming, where he's gonna say, "I don't know if I have confidence in this currency anymore," and it's over.
He's doing exactly the same thing now with the confidence in the Democratic Party. Here's George Soros, a guy who is funding to what, $400 million? Some of these organizations -- his Open Society shadow government -- and this guy has just come out and said he's not going to help the Democrats at all, because it's inevitable. George Soros' power is not in a star chamber, his power is -- you remember the E.F. Hutton commercials? "If E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen." That's George Soros. The guy's practically a damn country, and when he says something, others take notice. So he's been telegraphing, "I'm not going to spend any money." Why would you do that? "I'm not going to spend any money in this election for any of these Democrats." That freezes the money of others, they're like, "You know what, if George Soros ain't gonna do it -- if he doesn't think it's worth doing, I ain't gonna to do it."
That's exactly what he does on the economy, and I want you to watch, because it happens every time. He will come out between the election and the bond auction, which I think is in March, and he is gonna come out with a statement that says, "This government, now of the Republicans, is irresponsible because of x, y, or z. They're spending too much, they're not cutting enough, they're" -- whatever it is, I don't know what combination it'll be, but he'll say, "This -- I don't have confidence that this government is going to be able to pull through this economic crisis with these kinds of things, I'm looking at maybe the United States currency not being a good investment." And it will be over.
You think I'm wrong, Pat? I think this is what's coming. So watchdogs, please, watch everything you can on George Soros, and know that he is -- I don't know if he's the guy behind the BlackBerry, but -- I decided today I'm going to do a special on George Soros. We're going to do an hour long -- maybe a two-day special. But it's not going to just be a "hey we're doing a special show." We're going to do a documentary on him. And we've been researching him for quite some time. But I think we're going to -- we were just going to do a show. I think I'm going to do a special on him, because Americans need to know who the guy is in the shadow. Who is this guy? And what is he planning? Don't know what he's planning for the future, but I can show you his past. And boy, things aren't looking good.

Beck: Soros "won't care when our day of reckoning comes because he'll profit on that." From the August 25, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: Look, gang, this is all about power. Do you know who is taking money out of the stock market? Who's taking the off-ramp right now? George Soros. Wait a minute, you mean the guy who's -- yes, the guy who's issuing these statements on me? Yes! George Soros, the fund management, reduced his $25 billion in equity investments to $8.8 billion in March and then down to $5.1 billion at the end of June. Why? He's getting out of the market because he knows.
Experts are saying that they believe he is shifting his money towards government bonds. Gee, what do you think? Maybe to be liquid.
This guy doesn't care about people or countries, just money and power. He didn't care when he famously profited off of England's misery. He won't care when our day of reckoning comes because he'll profit on that as well. He and his family will be going to Singapore.
Well, can your family go to Singapore? Make no mistake. The day is coming and we must stick together and rely on the truth.

Beck: Soros controls the Democratic Party and "the left"

Beck: Democrats "were eaten" by "the labor unions, the communists, the radicals, the globalists, George Soros." During the May 12, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck criticized Republican Sen. Bob Bennett (UT) for "working with Democrats." Beck said, "And again, let me give the hot news flash to the 'New York Times.' Bob Bennett and anyone else living under the illusion of a true Democratic Party -- what are you smoking? The Democrats don't exist anymore. They were eaten by the progressives -- the labor unions, the communists, the radicals, the globalists, George Soros -- yes" (from Nexis).
Beck: "You'll understand the role that George Soros plays" in the Democratic Party being "over," "gone." On the November 9, 2010, edition of his radio show, Glenn Beck said:
Tonight is the beginning of the revealing of the puppet master. It is kind of a -- there is so much to tell. There's a lifetime to tell about George Soros, and it is very complex. But we go into the beginnings of the puppets, the strings. I think you're gonna learn some things tonight that you had no idea -- if it makes it into the show tonight because we're still editing and everything else, if it makes it into the show tonight, if it doesn't it will be on tomorrow -- you'll understand campaign finance reform and McCain-Feingold. You'll understand why it happened. You will understand what I have been saying about how the Democratic Party is over. It is gone. You'll understand the role that George Soros plays. You'll understand the history.
This isn't conjecture. I'm not asking you tonight to say that George Soros is -- that you have to take my word that he is collapsing our dollar and that he is subverting the Constitution and planning for a collapse of this regime -- the American Constitution. He is collapsing us. And I'm not asking you to believe me. I'm going to show you all of the things he has in place, and then I'm going to show you his history. He's done it before. And it's clear. It's exact-- he does it the same way every time.
Beck: Many on the left "are paid and fully purchased by the Soros regime." From the November 8, 2010, edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: America, hello, by the way.
I want to talk to you a little bit and kind of give you a little preview and a prelude of what is happening this week. If you are a long- time fan of this program, you know what happens when you Facebook post or tweet a positive or a defense of me or something that we talk about on this program. Try it if you haven't done it before. Oh, you are in for a treat. The flood gates of progressive hell open up on you.
And there is a seemingly, seemingly endless barrage of comments that pour in from people from all over the world strangely enough. And they are all the left of the left. Many of them are paid and fully purchased by the Soros regime.
Most of the comments that you'll get back won't be directed at me. They will be directed at you. You will be demonized for defending or even stupid enough to buy anything on the program.
I've asked you before and I'll ask again -- this week especially -- do not believe anything I tell you, because I tell it to you. Make sure you do your own homework.
If this is the first time seeing this program -- well, I think you're in for an eye-opener, too, because you've heard me described as a guy who's just full of hate, a racist, a conspiracy theorist, just trying to get people to blow stuff up or create another Oklahoma City. That's the latest from the Soros clan. Well, if that were true, then America just isn't the place that I thought it was. Most likely not the place you thought it was. I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.

Beck: Soros controls the media

Beck: Soros has "purchased the system" of mass media. During the November 8, 2010, edition of his Fox News show, Beck said, "The press gets a lot of their money from George Soros. He has purchased the system." Beck went on to purportedly show "the media purchased by George Soros" and who are "in the bag for him." Beck also said that "the press has protected the puppet master for a very long time," but that his show was "the canary in the coal mine."
Beck: Soros is "buying journalists." On the October 20, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck said:

America, George Soros is buying up your whole damn town. Yesterday, we told you the Tides Foundation is funding the Huffington Post investigative arm. That's the arm that says, "Get him!"
Then, like Soros is funding now Media Matters, you have Soros basically announcing today, "Get him!" And then you have a new "Get him" department in NPR, $1.8 million to buy 100 journalists, again funded by George Soros.
So, really, this wanted poster, "Dead or Alive," is really only 3 or $4 million of his money. We don't know how much money Tides has given to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund. They like to keep their donors anonymous. Check their website.
That's weird, because nobody's saying that in the press when the president is saying about shadow organizations buying elections and stuff. They're not buying elections only. They're buying journalists -- NPR, Media Matters.

Beck lashes out at "George Soros media networks." From the July 21, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: How many times have you read in the media things like -- oh, here's one. Beck distorts Obama administration's language. You know, this is from George Soros media networks, but it's also -- it's also on "Think Progress," George Soros, and "Huffington Post," all the -- you know.
How about things like -- "Glenn Beck and fixed news launch another smear campaign? "Glenn Beck takes Fred Nugeberger (ph) out of context." "Glenn Beck baselessly distorts." Glenn Beck, crazy man, jumps to conclusions." Yes.
And most of these blogs and the media outlets weren't all owned by George Soros and paid as much attention to the administration and government as they did trying to attack me and faux news -- I love it, I've got a gem! "Faux news." F-A-U-X. Oh, that's brilliant!
If they would pay attention to the real news, the republic probably would be safer. But after seeing the news like we did from the "Daily Caller" and "Journo-List" that we showed you yesterday -- and there are more today, journalists showing their true colors. Let's show you that in a minute. It's easy to see why no one in the media bothers asking this administration questions.
Instead, the outlets say -- I'm the one jumping to conclusions. I'm the one smearing and lying. Oh, man!
[...]
BECK: See, context matters, but not to the people of the Soros company. They believe media matters. "Media Matters." No, no.
No, not so much anymore, my friends because we realize to you, context doesn't matter. You see, that's how, you know, call me old-fashioned, but when I was a kid, that's what we used to do.

Beck: Soros controls elections

Beck suggested Soros was behind purported scheme to steal MN Senate election. On the January 18, 2010, edition of Glenn Beck, Beck said of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, "He is the Katherine Harris. He was an ACORN-supported guy, handpicked by the George Soros-funded SOS Project. SOS is designed specifically to have control of the power in close elections -- lesson learned apparently." On October 13, Beck said of Soros, "the guy who spent the last few elections donating tens of millions of dollars, trying to elect progressive and push the progressive issues, started SOS, where you can control the secretary of state -- you know, the people who are in charge of the recounts in states like, oh, I don't know, Minnesota, Al Franken." (From Nexis.)
In fact, the suggestion that George Soros, Mark Ritchie, or anyone else stole the Minnesota Senate election is completely fabricated. In its decision rejecting Norm Coleman's appeal of the decision declaring Franken the winner, the Minnesota Supreme Court stated that "[n]o claim of fraud in the election or during the recount was made by either party" and that "Coleman's counsel confirmed at oral argument that Coleman makes no claim of fraud on the part of either voters or election officials."
Beck: Soros is bankrolling U.S. elections. From the January 28, 2010, edition of Beck's Fox News show, in which he discussed Obama's State of the Union remarks on the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (from Nexis):

BECK: Here's what the president said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
OBAMA: Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interest -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our election.
(APPLAUSE)
OBAMA: I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interest, or worse, by foreign entities.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BECK: Yes, maybe like George Soros.
This is the Supreme Court of the United States. Look what he's doing here. FDR did it. They rule on something, say it's unconstitutional. He says, "I don't really care. I'm going to fight you. I'm going to go around you. I'll do whatever I have to do."
Well, let me ask you this. Did you see what happened with Judge Sam Alito? He reacted by shaking his head and mouthing the words, "Not true." It's not true. And now, he's getting ripped apart.

Beck: "This is George Soros's money, hand-picking secretary of states so they have them in his pocket." From the October 31, 2010, edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck (from Nexis):

BECK: Remember, SEIU and the voting booth glitch in Harry Reid's home state of Nevada, where the machines were mysteriously pre-selecting Harry Reid. Don't worry, everything is A-OK. Secretary of state Ross Miller said there's no evidence of voter fraud. Wonderful news coming from SEIU- endorsed Ross Miller. Oh, one more endorsement for Secretary of State Miller, George Soros.
This is from his SOS (ph) project page. By the way, SOS, Support Secretaries of State who will protect the election, the Secretary of State project. This is George Soros's money, hand-picking secretary of states so they have them in his pocket.
Al Franken. Remember Al Franken? Here's the site. "Since we launched in the fall of 2006, we have engaged in 11 races and have backed the winning candidate in 9 states, including Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, Montana and Nevada." No fraud here. So says SEIU and George Soros. You can trust us. Move along. These aren't the droids you're looking for.
(LAUGHTER)
BECK: You have to go out and vote. You have to get everybody you know to go out and vote. Do not -- do not allow yourself to get involved with the George Soros cronies. If it is a close call on Tuesday, George Soros will be managing the recounts just to make sure it's fair. Don't let the intimidation of rocks (ph) and agitators suppress you.

Beck repeatedly cited anti-Semitic sources on his shows

Beck cited book from Nazi supporter Elizabeth Dilling on his radio show. On the June 4, 2010 edition of his radio program, Beck promoted The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling, which is a book that contains numerous passages espousing anti-Semitism and racism. At various points throughout the book, Dilling attacks "racial inter-mixture" as a communist plot, refers to "un-Christianized" "colored people" as "savages," called Hinduism and Islam "debasing and degrading," and blamed Nazi Germany's anti-Semitism on "revolutionary Russian Jews." Furthermore, Dilling was a Nazi sympathizer who visited Germany in the late 1930s, attended Nazi party meetings, and praised Adolf Hitler's leadership. Dilling also spoke at rallies hosted by the leading U.S. Nazi organization, the German-American Bund.
Dilling's history of anti-Semitism includes calling President Eisenhower "Ike the Kike" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier program the "Jew frontier." British professors Christopher Partridge and Ron Geaves wrote that Dilling was a "pro-Nazi antisemite" who disseminated the anti-Semitic hoax Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Furthermore, Dilling's work has been promoted by David Duke and the group Women for Aryan Unity.
Beck refused to apologize for promoting Dilling's work, saying on the June 7, 2010 edition of his radio show:

But I'm also getting some amazing mail from the left that now says I'm a Nazi anti-Semite because I quoted a book on Friday -- it was the Red Book, or something like that. It was a who's who, who's in the communist party in 1935. Apparently, I don't know, apparently written by a Nazi sympathizer here in America. Part of the, I'm sure -- I don't know because I didn't look it up -- but I'm sure part of the Father Coughlin, social justice crowd, because this is the choice that progressives give you -- you're either a Nazi or a communist. No, I'm neither. But now -- so now I'm kind of stuck between the place where the left says that I'm a Nazi sympathizer and a Jew lover. So I guess the left can have it all, that I'm a Jew-loving Nazi sympathizer. It's a really interesting place that I don't know if anybody's ever been.

Beck pushed book from "anti-Semitic" "one-man organization of hate" on Fox News. On the September 22, 2010 edition of his Fox News show, Beck cited Eustace Mullins' book Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Mullins was a 9-11 truther who has been described as an "anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist" and a "nationally known white supremacist"; the ADL called the book "a re-hash of Mullins' anti-Semitic theories about the origins of the Federal Reserve." In addition, in an obituary for Mullins, the Daily News Leader of Staunton, Virginia, described Mullins as a "[n]ationally known white supremacist and anti-Semite." The obituary noted that in 2000, the Southern Poverty Law Center described him as "a one-man organization of hate."
Beck cited anti-Semitic smear that Soros pursued a Jewish "agenda" to collapse Southeast Asian currencies. On the October 5, 2010 edition of his Fox News show, Beck continued his smear campaign against George Soros, saying that "many, including the Malaysian prime minister, believe it was billionaire speculator George Soros who helped trigger the [Southeast Asian] economic meltdown" in 1997, a reference to former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's false and anti-Semitic claim that Soros was part of a Jewish "agenda" to collapse Southeast Asian currencies. In an October 10, 1997, report from the Malaysian newspaper Berita Harian (excerpted by BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, accessed via Nexis), Mahathir was quoted as saying: "We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally Soros is a Jew. It is also a coincidence that the Malaysians are mostly Muslim." From the report:

Kuala Terengganu, 10th October: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the government suspects that the Jews have an agenda to destroy the economy of this country and other Muslim countries. Also Dr Mahathir did not reject the possibility that the attack on the local currency was to shut his mouth so that he would stop criticizing George Soros, a Jew who hailed from Hungary. "We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews, but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge, and coincidentally Soros is a Jew. It is also a coincidence that the Malaysians are mostly Muslim."
"Indeed, the Jews are not happy to see Muslims. If it were Palestine, the Jews would rob Palestinians. Thus this is what they are doing to our country," he said when referring to Soros' involvement in the depreciation of the ringgit.

According to an October 11, 1997, Agence France-Presse article (from Nexis), Mahathir later denied that he was suggesting a Jewish agenda resulted in his country's economic crisis:

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Saturday said he did not accuse the Jews of undermining the economy of Malaysia and other Moslem countries.
"I merely stated that this person (American financier George Soros) is Jewish," Mahathir was quoted as saying by Bernama news agency in the Moslem dominated eastern coastal state of Terengganu.

As AFP reported in an October 15, 2006, article, Mahathir met with Soros and said of their meeting: "Mr Soros said he was not involved in the devaluation of the Malaysian currency and that other people were involved. And I have accepted that." 

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The Protocols have had a long life, used by the czar, the Nazis, and even today by extremist and fringe Muslim groups opposed to the existence of Israel.
Dangerous goals

But they were primarily used not so much against the Jews as against reform and revolution. Linking a progressive movement to the Jews would destroy progressive movements and preserve the power of those in control.

Perhaps not surprisingly, a bizarre variant of this phenomenon is now being deployed against Occupy Wall Street.

"... A lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. " - Rush Limbaugh

Because utilising anti-Semitism directly would not succeed in this country today, the reactionary defenders of the economic status quo are using the flip side of the coin: The fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. They are accusing Occupy Wall Street of anti-Semitism, relying on the old myth that Wall Street is Jewish and hence that opposition to Wall Street's agenda is just opposition to Jews.

Not surprisingly, the first right-wing commentator to use this formulation in the Obama era was Rush Limbaugh. In 2010, Limbaugh told his radio audience that Jews might be having "buyer's remorse" about having voted for President Barack Obama because "[h]e's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish."

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) condemned those remarks, labelling them a "new low" for Limbaugh. ADL National Director Abe Foxman explained that Limbaugh's references to "Jews and money" were "offensive and inappropriate".

ADL: Rush Limbaugh Reaches New Low With 'Borderline Anti-Semitic' Remarks About Jews

New York, NY, January 21, 2010 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with "borderline anti-Semitic comments" on his radio show, in which he raised the possibility that liberal Jews were having "buyer's remorse" with President Obama in light of the outcome of the Senate election in Massachusetts.

Limbaugh told his listeners: "To some people, banker is a code word for Jewish; and guess who Obama is assaulting?  He's assaulting bankers.  He's assaulting money people.  And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's – if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there."

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: 

Rush Limbaugh reached a new low with his borderline anti-Semitic comments about Jews as bankers, their supposed influence on Wall Street, and how they vote.

Limbaugh's references to Jews and money in a discussion of Massachusetts politics were offensive and inappropriate.  While the age-old stereotype about Jews and money has a long and sordid history, it also remains one of the main pillars of anti-Semitism and is widely accepted by many Americans.  His notion that Jews vote based on their religion, rather than on their interests as Americans, plays into the hands of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.

           

When he comes to understand why his words were so offensive and unacceptable, Limbaugh should apologize.

Foxman continued: "While the age-old stereotype about Jews and money has a long and sordid history, it also remains one of the main pillars of anti-Semitism and is widely accepted by many Americans."
Age-old stereotypes

And now the "age-old stereotype" is back, flipped on its head by right-wingers who seek to discredit Occupy Wall Street by accusing it of anti-Semitism, an accusation based on the idea, as Foxman said, "widely accepted by many Americans", that Wall Street is Jewish.

One of the first conservatives after Limbaugh to use this tactic was the usually quite proper Ivy League conservative, New York Times columnist David Brooks. In an October 10 column dismissing the Wall Street protests as "trivial sideshows", Brooks wrote:

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"Take the Occupy Wall Street movement. This uprising was sparked by the magazine Adbusters, previously best known for the 2004 essay, 'Why Won't Anyone Say They Are Jewish?' - an investigative report that identified some of the most influential Jews in America and their nefarious grip on policy."
Interesting. Brooks essentially is charging that a magazine few have heard of "sparked" the movement and, even worse, smearing the movement as anti-Semitic by bringing up an article that magazine published seven years ago about the Jewish "grip" on policy. Quite a reach.

And then yesterday the Emergency Committee For Israel, a far-right Republican group run by Bill Kristol, issued a video flat-out accusing Occupy Wall Street of anti-Semitism, with side swipes at leading Democrats (what a coincidence!) like President Obama and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who have sympathised with the movement and are therefore, by implication, probably anti-Semitic themselves.

The Emergency Committee's evidence is presented in the video, which shows three anti-Semites and two anti-Semitic signs among the protesters. That's it, out of a crowd of thousands. (Far be it from me to guess at the number of anti-Semites who might be at a Tea Party event, but they don't define that movement either. Mass movements attract all kinds of people, some invariably unsavoury.)



In any case, the Emergency Committee for Israel is not concerned about anti-Semitism or Israel. It is, rather, dedicated to defeating Democrats and promoting its billionaire donors' economic interests. During the 2010 congressional campaigns, it produced videos almost as deceitful as the Wall Street video that lied about Democratic candidates. It used Israel and Jews as devices to direct money and votes toward the Republicans.

In attacking Occupy Wall Street, the Emergency Committee's goal is simply to smear Democrats. If, in the process, it reinforces the stereotype that Jews and Wall Street are interchangeable, so what? How different is that from its usual practice of suggesting strongly that American Jews should vote only based on Israel's supposed interests, not America's? To put it not-so-mildly, the Emergency Committee for Israel does not care about fuelling anti-Semitism in America.

Because that last video of a couple of anti-Semites may have left a bad taste in your mouth, here's another one. It was shot at the Wall Street demonstration on Yom Kippur Eve and it features not a few anti-Semites but thousands of Jews celebrating the holiest day of the Jewish year, a day dedicated to the same ideals as Occupy Wall Street: Repentance for putting our desires before the needs of the poor, the homeless, and the exploited.

In this video, Occupy Wall Street is repenting for greed. Wall Street itself is silent.

April 14, 2010, - 12:53 pm

Tea Parties Host Open Anti-Semite, Nazi Defender, Israel Hater

By Debbie Schlussel
I’ve told you about anti-Semitic Michigan Tea Party speaker Emily Zanotti, a lunatic stalker who praised Muslim Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic death, rape, and torture threats.  And yesterday, I told you about Michigan Tea Party Express speaker Mike Cox, sleazebag and Islamo-panderer extraordinaire.  He was featured at every Michigan Tea Party event over the weekend, and is wasting hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to aid extremist Muslims. And then there was the Tea Party event at the conservative CPAC conference, of which Islamofascist Grover Norquist was an embraced sponsor.

Jew-Hating, Nazi-Praising Tea Party Star Jim Traficant

Tomorrow, open anti-Semite, Nazi defender, and Israel hater Jim Traficant (ne Traficante) is a featured, invited speaker at the Tea Party events throughout Ohio, this week–including events in Canfield,  Springboro, and Warren, among others.   (Ironically, Traficant dropped out of the Springboro event because the organizer called Hispanics “Spicks” on Twitter–he approves bigotry against Jews, but not Hispanics).  And he’s been a Tea Party speaker before, in 2009.
Tiny detail:  he’s also a convicted felon.  As an elected official, Traficant accepted bribes and illegally forced his tax-paid Congressional staff to do work on his house, his farm, and his boat.  Moreover, Traficant has spent years defending and enabling Nazi war criminals living in our midst.  Yup, that’s exactly what you want as a featured speaker at Tea Parties . . . a convicted felon who criminally wasted taxpayer dollars on himself, for his own personal benefit.  And bonus:  he hates Jews and say “THE JOOOOS” are to blame for his criminal conviction.  But no worries, Traficant was cheered and welcomed at a 912 Tea Party event in Ohio in September 2009.
On TV and radio appearances, Traficant has repeatedly blamed “the Jews” and Israel for his conviction and sentence in federal prison.  That’s an interesting conspiracy theory.  Uh-huh, THE JOOOOS forced him to accept bribes from non-Jews.  Yeah, THE JOOOS forced him to force his tax-paid Congressional staff to spend their time as his own personal “Extreme Makeover:  Home Edition” crew.  Oh, and by the way, a completely gentile jury convicted this scumbag.  But THE JOOOOS hypnotized them into it, right?
Since the Tea Parties in Ohio openly embrace this known anti-Semite, Israel-hater, bribe-taker, and tax-defrauding criminal, I must come to the conclusion that this is what the Tea Parties stand for.  If they did not, they would reject Traficant and boo him.  Instead, he’s a warmly embraced repeat headliner at their events.
When Tea Partiers claim they are unfairly libeled and slandered for being anti-Semitic, they might try looking at who their speakers are and ask themselves why they continue not just to allow this . . . but to enthusiastically cheer Jew-haters and Islamo-panderers.
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By the way, the following people are scheduled to appear on stage with Traficant.  Apparently, they think Jew-hatred is okay, or they’d have nothing to do with him:

Dan Rivers, a talk-show host for 570 AM WKBN radio, will emcee and speak.
Others scheduled to speak at the event: Donald K. Allen and Bill Johnson, both Republican candidates for the 6th Congressional District; Dan Moadus, a Democratic candidate for the 17th Congressional District; ex-U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr.; grocery store owner Henry Nemenz; Columbiana County Republican Chairman Dave Johnson; and Larry Everly, a tanning-salon owner.

And these people shared the stage with the Jew-hater and convicted felon on Saturday:

Some of the speakers were Judge Colleen Mary O’Toole; Sandra O’Brien who is campaigning for Ohio secretary of state; Jim Graham, who is hoping to run against Rep. Tim Ryan for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 17th District; and ex-U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant.

Tea Party activists and conservatives claim you “can’t define the Tea Parties.” I’m not so sure about that. I think the Tea Parties are easily defined: masses of people with zero backbone, who openly cheer anti-Semites, Israel-haters, and Islamo-panderers.
And that’s damn frightening.

More Anti-Semitism at Occupy Los Angeles

While there have been intense arguments in the media recently about hints of anti-Semitism which have erupted at New York’s Occupy Wall Street protest, very little attention has been paid to similar problems cropping up at other “Occupy” events around the country.
Below you will find some photographs and a video taken at the Occupy Los Angeles encampment which reveal how there is a growing encroachment of anti-Semitic “Jewish bankers” conspiracy theories becoming more and more evident at these events. Obviously not everyone at the “Occupy” protests is an anti-Semite, but the fact that these statements and views fit so neatly into the whole anti-banker milieu, and often go completely unchallenged by fellow protesters, should give everyone cause for concern about where this whole movement is heading.
The first four pictures show the signs close up. The second four pictures show the same signs in context as they appeared at the Occupy Los Angeles protest, to prove beyond any doubt that these are authentic. Below them is a video of an Occupy Los Angeles speaker spinning more conspiracy theories.
All Los Angeles photos and video here were taken by Ringo, and will appear in future reports at Ringo’s Pictures. This is the first time any of them have been shown online.
(Below the Los Angeles images there is a gallery of videos [many already well-known] of anti-Semitic protesters at the New York Occupation, along with transcriptions.)
First, at Occupy Los Angeles:

“End the Fed. Turn off the spigot!!!”, with an illustration showing Stars of David (containing the word “Zion”), missiles, and dollar signs, implying either that Jewish influence in the Federal government is what causes war funding, or that Jews pressure the government to send military aid to Israel, or both.

“Bizarre and incredible as it sounds, humanity has been colonized by a satanic cult called the ILLUMINATI…This cult represents Masonic and Jewish bankers who finagled a monopoly over government credit which allows them to charge interest on funds they create out of nothing. Thus, the people who control our purse strings are conspiring against us…They have orchestrated TWO WORLD WARS and are planning a THIRD.”
This ancient stereotype of the evil and greedy “Jewish bankers” is the precursor to the “greedy Wall Street bankers” so hated by the Occupiers.

“It’s Yom Kippur: Banks should atone!” Hmmmm…why would the banks and bankers engage in a Jewish ritual practice (atonement on Yom Kippur) if they weren’t Jewish? Again, we return to the “Jewish bankers” theme.

“Humanity vs. the Rothschlds” [sic -- he means "Rothschilds.]
In earlier centuries up through WWII, anti-Semitic “Jewish banker” conspiracy theories frequently focused on the Rothschilds, a prominent European Jewish family which owned many financial institutions.
Speaking of the Rothschilds conspiracy theories, and the belief that the Jews “funded WWII,” this video by Ringo of a speaker at the Occupy L.A. protest shows that the anti-Semitism is creeping into standard anti-capitalist speeches


Here’s a transcript of what she said starting at 0:39 into the video:

Occupy L.A. speaker: “How many people know that the wars, in WWII, both sides, were funded by the Rothschilds? Those are the bankers. So banking and war is very intertwined.”

And in case anyone wants proof that these signs were indeed at the Occupy Los Angeles protest, here are photos of them in context, with the Occupation encampment around them:

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Just to be complete, here is a gallery of videos taken at the New York Occupy Wall Street protest.
First up is the now-infamous “Lotion Man,” arguing with a Jewish passerby

Lotion Man: “I got a job, Mo. I do have a job. You’re a bum, Jew. Man, I’m a Jew. Why are you fighting with us? You got the money, that’s why you’re fighting, you Jewish man. My father worked 40 years, and we have a foreclosed house, my mother’s dead, she had a heart attack from stress. You tell the corporations to stop calling my mother.”
Jewish passerby: “What?”
Lotion Man: “What? [Mocking] Uh? Uh? Duhduhduhduhduh. You can’t even speak English? Are you Israeli? Go back to Israel. Israel. Go back to Shalom Israel. … I have a job. I’m a college graduate. I’m in the Local 1 Plumbers’ Union. Who are you to tell me I need a job? Look at you, you short little man. Go away. I don’t wanna argue. Bye! Keep it moving. Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street.”

Also note that the person who took the video said (about Lotion Man’s statement that he too is Jewish) “By the way, during the course of his performance, he told me that he was white, Puerto Rican, Jewish, and African-American.”
Next up is a guy who’s been standing at the protest for weeks, holding up blatantly anti-Semitic signs and ranting about Jews, to the consternation of Jews in the vicinity:

“Blame the Jews.”
That’s the message one Wall Street protester was trying to spread in Lower Manhattan to anyone that would listen.
A new video posted to YouTube shows the protester loudly and aggressively proclaiming “the Jews control Wall Street.”
In the nearly 6-minute video, the man is seen standing in Zuccotti Park ranting against Israel and Jews while holding a sign reading “Hitler’s Bankers – Wall St.”
The protestor, who would not give his name to those gathered around him, is also seen arguing with members of the public who took offense to his choice of words.
A number of others also ask the protester if Fox News had paid him to stand and display his sign to which he responded: “[expletive] Fox News, that’s [expletive]. [Expletive] Jew made that up.”

Here’s the video:




The Occupiers, completely unable to accept that their arguments have attracted kooks with similar and overlapping beliefs, begin to formulate their own ridiculous conspiracy theory that he is an agent hired by Fox News — as you will see in this transcript, starting at 1:30:

Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “The Jews control Wall Street! These are the Jews! The Jews control Wall Street. Google it! Google Wall Street Jews. Wall Street Jews! Their names are Jewish — do the homework, do the research. The Jews control Wall Street!”
Bystander: “Hey, didn’t I see you getting out of that Fox News truck parked over there by the corner?”
[Later, starting at 3:24]
Blogger: “Tell me something: Know what? People are saying that Fox News gave you $50. Did you get paid $50 to hold that sign?”
Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “Fuck Fox News and that bullshit.”
Blogger: “Did anyone pay you to hold that sign?”
Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “No! A fucking Jew made that up.”
Blogger: “No one paid you to hold that sign?”
Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “No.”

Here’s another video of the same guy, with a transcript starting at 1:14:

 

Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “Google ‘Jews control Wall Street.’ Google “Jewish billionaires.’ Google ‘Jews and the Federal Reserve Bank.’ The small ethnic Jewish population in the country, they have a firm grip on America’s media, finances, and other areas of production.”
Interviewer: “So what would you say to people who say you’re anti-Semitic or don’t like Jews?”
Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “I would tell them that Jesus in the Gospel according to St. John, Jesus referred to certain elements in the Jewish community as ‘children of the devil,’ Chapter 8 I believe. But, having said that, the fact of the matter is that there is clear, the fingerprints of these Jewish billionaires and hedge fund managers and bankers is clear and convincing.”
Interviewer: “So are you against all Jews, or just…?”
Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “I’m against the Jews who are robbing America, or who are silent about their brethren robbing America. Google ‘Jewish billionaires.’ Half the billionaires in this country are Jewish. Jews represent 2% of the population, but they are that 1% that seems to control America. And you can also Google ‘Jews control America.’ There’s a lot of research that’s been done to prove that there appears to be some kind of ethnic grip on the American economy.”

…etc.
The interviewer wrote an article on The Blaze to accompany these videos, in which he also includes an interview with a “non-leader” of the Occupy Wall Street group saying the the anti-Semite doesn’t represent the rest of the protesters.
Here is yet another video of the same guy, with a transcript starting at 0:33:
 Anti-Semitic Occupy Wall Street protester: “I have to say that Jews have usurped the authority of the majority of the people of this country. And they’re doing it in a conspiratorial manner. And everyone is afraid, everyone is shaking in their boots to admit that one ethnic group is dominating America.”
This article in the Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters News discusses how some observant Jews at the New York Occupy Wall Street protest are becoming increasingly upset at the incipient anti-Semitism in the protest messages, and are trying to counter it:

Daniel Sieradski, a new media activist and participant in the protests, says he is reaching out to Jewish participants at the protest.
Sieradski has also found a small, fringe element that has “chosen to co-opt the protests as an opportunity” to spread hatred and anti-Semitic rhetoric, among participants, and hopes to dispel negative Jewish stereotypes and to “fight those using Jew-hatred,” by his presence there.

Leftists at the protest are hyper-senstitive to accusations of anti-Semitism, and have struck back with counterattacks.
This article in New Voices, the National Jewish Student Magazine, downplays the sign-holder as “the entire anti-Semite community of the Occupy Wall Street protest,” claiming there are no other anti-Semites there.
And the left-leaning pro-Occupy PoliticsUSA site published articles entitled Nazi Obsessed Fox News Attacks Occupy Wall Street As Anti-Semitic and A Terrified Rush Limbaugh Mines the Gutter Of Anti-Semitism To Attack the 99% which go to great lengths to dismiss the charges of anti-Semitism.
But with the emergence of the new evidence from Los Angeles presented above, the charges are getting harder to ignore.

Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American and Conservatives Need To Wash Their Hands of Him

by David Horowitz
Posted on February 17 2011 1:25 pm

David Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of NewsReal Blog and FrontPage Magazine. He is the President and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His most recent book is Reforming Our Universities

Long ago Bill Buckley drummed the anti-Semites out of the conservative movement, and the movement thrived as a result. But the Jew-haters have returned. For years the Texas crackpot, Ron Paul, has been attacking America and Israel as imperialist powers — the Great Satan and the Little Satan, and calling for America’s retreat from the battle against our totalitarian enemies. At the recent CPAC conference Paul’s Jew-hating storm-troopers swarmed the Freedom Center’s table to vent their spleen against Israel as a Nazi state. Now Paul is making a priority of withdrawing aid for Israel  — the only democracy in the Middle East and the only reliable ally of the United States. Here is an alert from Gary Bauer about the amendment Ron Paul is proposing which may be voted on today.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Special Alert
Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) has just introduced an amendment to end all U.S. aid to Israel.  The amendment could be voted on before the day is over.  I need your help right now to stop this ill-conceived proposal!
Please click here to quickly and easily send a message to your elected representative urging them to stand with Israel.
Don’t be deceived.  This Ron Paul proposal would not lower our budget deficit.  By abandoning Israel while its enemies are gaining strength, the risk of a major war in the Middle East would increase. A major war would cost the U.S. billions and billions of dollars as we have already seen in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The U.S. gives billions of dollars a year to foreign countries that hate us and regularly vote against us at the United Nations.  But, Israel votes with the U.S. 97% of the time.  They are a loyal ally that shares our values.  The aid they receive is used to buy military equipment from U.S. companies so the money comes back to us. Ron Paul’s proposal makes no sense.
Please right now go to www.cwfpac.com to tell your congressman to stand with Israel.
You may also call the Capitol Hill Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your representative’s office.  If you don’t know his or her name, give the operator your zip code and they will transfer you.  Tell them to stand with our most reliable ally Israel by opposing the Paul amendment to end all foreign aid.  Please take action now!