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Contributors
Cliff Kincaid- Contributor
Cliff Kincaid, serves as editor of the Accuracy
in Media (AIM)
Report. A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff has
appeared on the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes and
The O'Reilly Factor, where he debated O'Reilly on global
warming, the death penalty,
and the homosexual agenda. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire
(filling in for Pat Buchanan) in the 1980s, where he confronted
the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with evidence of Libyan
involvement in international terrorism. Through his America's
Survival, Inc., organization (www.usasurvival.org), he has been
an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism
and has published reports and held conferences critical of the
United Nations. His articles have appeared in the Washington
Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events, Insight, and
other publications. He served on the staff of Human Events for
several years and was an editorial writer and newsletter editor
for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North at
his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or
co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign
policy issues. Cliff is married and has three sons.[go to
Kincaid index]
 Exposing
and Opposing George Soros
Hiding behind the media…
[Cliff Kincaid] 10/26/04
How
many times have we heard or read stories about Vice President
Cheney’s old firm, Halliburton? A public company with more
than 100,000 employees, Halliburton had revenues of $13
billion in 2001. George
Soros is a human Halliburton who will be in a position
if John Kerry is elected president to pull the strings. He
is reportedly worth $7.2 billion. But his role in buying
the White House for John Kerry has received gentle coverage.
Soros, we’re told, is a “philanthropist” committed to “democracy.” The
Republican Party, by contrast, is run by fat cats and Big
Business, such as those at Halliburton.
The
shocking truth is something else. Convicted in France of
insider trading, Soros specializes in weakening or collapsing
the currencies of entire nations for his own selfish interests.
Other people suffer so he can get rich. But journalists
don’t want to examine the
questionable means by which he achieved his wealth because
they share his goal of electing Kerry and the Democrats.
The
charge we read in the press is that Halliburton gets government
contracts and makes money from the Iraq war. Far less attention
is paid to the fact that the company has lost 54 employees
as a result of that war. Nobody in the press mentions that
Soros profits from the Kosovo war, which he supported as a
preemptive strike against Yugoslavia, because he now runs an
investment fund that does business there.
Despite
his vision of an “open society,” he operates an unregulated “hedge
fund,” open only to the super-rich, and is currently fighting
a proposal from the Bush-appointed chairman of the Securities
and Exchange Commission to regulate and monitor these off-shore
entities. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was right—no one really
knows where his money comes from. But we do know that Soros
invested in a drug-money-infested Colombian bank.
All
of this will be presented in our new report, The Hidden
Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Politics, which will be released at a Capitol Hill news conference
on Thursday, October 28. Current and former officials, anti-drug
activists, and other concerned Americans will come together
for the purpose of exposing and opposing George Soros. His
complex web of financial interests, companies and foundations
makes Halliburton look like a Mom & Pop operation. On the
same day, coincidentally, Soros will be giving a speech at
the National Press Club.
Soros
has benefited from an enormous amount of favorable publicity.
Even though he pays big bucks to advertise his opposition to
the Bush policy of democracy-building in Iraq, reporters still
describe him as someone with a reputation for building democracy
abroad. In a recent article about his growing financial and
political clout, the Washington Post sanitized him by claiming that Soros “funded efforts
to reform campaign laws, decriminalize marijuana and change
[the] criminal justice system.” All of that is misleading,
if not false. His “reform” of campaign laws left a loophole
that will enable him to set a record “for the most money donated
by an individual in an election cycle,” to quote the Post itself.
So where are the investigative stories into Soros, his money
and his agenda?
A key part of the Soros agenda his “retreat
and defeat” strategy in the war on drugs has been carefully concealed from the
American people during this campaign. The war on terrorism
is front and center, to be sure, but the war on drugs
is still of major concern to millions of Americans,
especially
parents fearful of the influence of Hollywood and the
drug culture. A way
from the scrutiny or even the notice of the establishment
press, Soros has emerged as a counter-culture hero,
having been labeled by the drug culture magazine “Heads” as
the “Daddy
Weedbucks” who will manipulate the policy of a Kerry
administration to open the door to legalization of
dangerous drugs. Bush
has to be defeated, according to another drug-culture
magazine, “High
Times,” because legalization of marijuana won’t occur
under his administration.
We
are never given the details about how the Soros desire
to “change” the criminal-justice system entails letting
criminals out of prison and letting people use and distribute
drugs without fear of law enforcement.
Soros
has escaped scrutiny by making financial contributions to press
groups, media watchdog organizations, and even groups supposedly
dedicated to exposing election abuses. A large part of the
liberal-left movement in this country is on the Soros payroll.
The story is there to be told, much of it through an analysis
of public records about the spending by Soros and his organizations
and foundations. CRO
copyright
2004 Accuracy in Media
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