Once again, let me repeat: you can’t spell “useful idiots” without “idiots.” And “useful,” for that matter. Reuters:
Anti-Wall Street protesters say the rich are getting richer while average Americans suffer, but the group that started it all may have benefited indirectly from the largesse of one of the world’s richest men.
There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda.
Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.
“I can understand their sentiment,” Soros told reporters last week at the United Nations about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which are expected to spur solidarity marches globally on Saturday.
Pressed further for his views on the movement and the protesters, Soros refused to be drawn in. But conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh summed up the speculation when he told his listeners last week, “George Soros money is behind this.”
I don’t think anyone is surprised that Soros money has “indirectly” found its way to leftwing causes — Soros relies on armies of the ill-informed or the ideologically imprinted to create the upheavals that benefit him financially and help him orchestrate political movements and solidify political power arrangements helpful to the goal of transnational progressivism.
But what is important in this story is the mention of Adbusters, who registered an occupywallstreet.org domain name months in advance of these “spontaneous” protests.
Shockingly, Adbusters has a history of (thinly-veiled) anti-Semitism — and today’s protests against “Wall Street” and “bankers” is merely an extension of its earlier protests against the controlling cabal of “neocons.”
Adbusters sees filthy, sneaky Jews everywhere — and everywhere this stealthy cabal of neocons, bankers, and Zionists, is controlling the world, robbing The People, and hoarding The Wealth.
Of course, we’ve heard such things before in history. But what’s new is that the mainstream Democrat Party — which is no longer the party of JFK or Scoop Jackson, or even Walter Mondale, but is rather the product of a New Left, led by Marxists, racial demagogues, and “progressives” — have openly embraced and defended this movement.
The Republican establishment’s response — to force on an energized GOP base a liberal, big government Republican as its anointed nominee — shows just how content they are with the status quo, and just how much they themselves are happy to resist the kind of reforms conservatives and TEA Party activists are demanding.
The GOP doesn’t want to shrink the size of government. They just want to run things. And they’re willing to lower your taxes if you let them.
Beyond that? They are just the more “pragmatic” side of the contemporary ruling class. And I for one am done supporting them should they once again succeed in forcing us to back a candidate who represents them, and not those of us who’ve worked so hard to keep Obama from a complete and “fundamental transformation” of this country.
Take a look at Jesse Jackass, Jr.’s latest statement — by not rubber stamping every whim of The Wan, Congress is “in rebellion”. Obama should just take emergency measures…
Can we just start it and end the suspense?
Man, that Glenn Beck is completely nuts! Soros + anti-capitalism makes perfect sense!
Even ABC can’t ignore the bloodlust.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201010270046
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/as-seen-on-beck-tv-soros-explains-flaw-in-the-current-world-order/
Meet the OWSers.
Bonus, “L” word defined by the left and where they see the center as being also.
I don’t think they’re useful so much as they’re just idiots.
Via Glenn Reynolds, George Will, almost useful for once, on the anti-tea-party movement squatting on Wall Street.
That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, Ernst. Even cannon fodder has its uses.
“President Obama, this is your army!”
Best source for the .Soros statement I’ve found. All others, including the UN’s own press release, seem to just cover what is in paragraphs 4&5.
Adbusters sees filthy, sneaky Jews everywhere — and everywhere this stealthy cabal of neocons, bankers, and Zionists, is controlling the world, robbing The People, and hoarding The Wealth.
I remember reading about this when I was a kid, in None Dare Call It Conspiracy, the definitive John Birch tract about How The World Works. Scared the piss out of me until my mom talked me down out of the scary tree.
OTOH, when Glenn Beck rolls out his chalkboard and shows all of the known financial links between Soros’s Open Society Institute (how do you say that in Esperanto?) and his offshoot political organizations—all of them focused on left-wing political agitation—and then plays videos of Soros saying how toppling nations and their currencies is like sport to him, Glenn’s a spittle-flecked madman hell-bent on destroying the country.
I’d just like to make explicit the difference between Glenn Beck’s chalkboard and the Birchers (and others like them): the Birchers posit a Secret Cabal of international bankers (Jooos!) who are so secret and so cabal that their names are not known, they being powerful enough to erase themselves from the grid. This Secret Cabal is already in place and has been for centuries; they’re the ones pulling the levers for everything from wars to the moon launch.
So when bad, unexpected things happen, such as the assassination of JFK, Birchers know that the Secret Cabal planned it all ahead of time, and that the official story of what happened is a clever lie that’s been concocted to hide the truth about the Secret Cabal’s existence. Birchers revel in being able to see the TRVTH that the rest of us suckers refuse to believe. These are the tin-foil hat brigade that calls Coast-to-Coast AM and rants about how THEY do this and THEY do that. They’re the true Conspiracy Theorists.
All of whom rant in front of God an everyone without being hauled off by the Men in Black.
In contrast, Glenn Beck identifies people by name, plays videos of them stating their goals and methods, exposes the publicly known, financial connections between organizations, and declares that these people are up to something and that they mean what they say. He reads their playbooks (Rules for Radicals, The Coming Insurrection, Dreams from MY Father), studies their foundational philosophical assumptions (progressivism, etc.), and hopes only to warn people of the trouble to come. “Brace for impact,” he says. “Get your own house in order, then let God fight the actual battles. These people will end up destroying themselves (cf. Anthony Wiener). You need your soul intact to rebuild after it all comes crashing down.”
Glenn has to spend upwards of $1 million per year for his security detail, not just for him but his family and his staff and their families. Soros’s people have threatened Glenn directly with destruction, Obama tasked five WH staffers with boycotting his sponsors, and the FBI regularly instructs him to wear a flak jacket for public appearances because of the credible threats against his life.
He quit Fox so that he could “spit himself out of the system,” to be beholden to no man, to have full control of his message.
Out. Law.
Yup, Glenn’s crazy all right, but not for the reasons his enemies say.
May we all be exactly as crazy.
I think it was either Ludwig von Mises or Murray Rothbard that said another word for “pragmatic” is “unprincipled”. Or maybe someone else, who knows, but it’s the truth.
[…] Reuters: Soros money behind “Occupy” movement? Once again, let me repeat: you can’t spell “useful idiots” without “idiots.” […]
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[…] Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom notices another distinguishing characteristic of Adbusters: Shockingly, Adbusters has a history of (thinly-veiled) anti-Semitism — and today’s protests against “Wall Street” and “bankers” is merely an extension of its earlier protests against the controlling cabal of “neocons.” […]
Di I’m with Beck 90% of the way. But then he says “Get your own house in order, then let God fight the actual battles”. He correctly diagnoses the problems, but then IMO proposes an incorrect approach to creating a solution. Breitbart and Beck had this same divergence last summer/fall. We need to focus on the immediate political situation until we can take the Federal government away from the Establishment. Then we can worry about our own long counter-march through the institutions, and, if I understand Beck’s prescription correctly, the re-development of a religious ethic within our society.
If Mr. Soros knowingly spent his money on the Occupy Wherever crowd, then I want to thank him.
“Adbusters sees filthy, sneaky Jews everywhere…”
I beleive there are modern, pyschotropic drugs that can treat that problem.
Mikey – I’m with you – may he spend millions more. I always wonder when that old Nazi collaborator croaks, will his money get doled out to all these Leftie foundations or his family?
I used to read Adbusters a lot but outgrew it by the time I finished college… with and advertising degree. (bwahaha)
We need to focus on the immediate political situation until we can take the Federal government away from the Establishment.
How are you going to improve the government if the populace hasn’t improved? How much of the current problem resides in OUR acceptance of bad behavior from our gubmint, not to mention our acceptance of gubmint handouts, including Social Security and Medicaid, farm subsidies, and other New Deal relics. Allegedly conservative CEOs still go rent-seeking and accepting gubmint subsidies. The public sector cannot be more moral than the private sector, which is why personal morality has to come first, the way the foundation has to be poured before you can start on the framing.
You also seem to be assuming that we can just vote the bums out and get things fixed that way, but I’m not even sure that that the federal gubmint will still be standing in five years. Both Steyn and Beck foresee a fragmentation in which sections of the country secede from Washington and decide to govern themselves.
Or have to, because the central gubmint is essentally gone or impotent.
Glenn is right: the solution will not and cannot come from Washington. It would take several election cycles to replace enough Critters to make a difference, and we don’t have that kind of time. Besides, the first in will become the establishment and will end up with the same bad habits as the current crew. It’s human nature.
It sounds like a chicken-and-egg argument to me, di. One side says we need to push hard reform in Washington right now, and follow it up with re-educating Americans with what it means to be American. The other side says we need to push hard reform in hearts and homes right now, and follow it up with sending decent people to Washington (assuming Washington matters at that point).
I disagree with you and Glenn, in that I believe that a 2012 crop of reformers on top of the 2010 crop will make a real difference. I believe that 200 reformers with Paul Ryan at their head just might pull us back from the brink. I’m not betting the farm on it, but I’m certainly working to make it happen. The alternative is a lot of decent people trying to stave off anarchy in their communities, as the corrupt governments collapses under the weight of its dysfunction.
Glenn is right: the solution will not and cannot come from Washington.
This I can get behind. The solution is heading to Washington, not coming from it.
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Sounds like the astroturf is showing.
“refused to be drawn in”
Have our dirty socialist propaganda whore friends at Reuters ever reported that the Brothers Koch had “refused to be drawn in”?
It’s Axelturf, mojo.
;^)
They need to go occupy themselves with cleaning up, remove a few piercings, brush the teeth and then looking for a job or a business so they can go buy themselves all the stuff they want.
I yell “go occupy yourself with something other than putting your hand out like a baby” at them.
“Occupy Santa Barbara”?
Really?
It’s 95 degrees here today and I think I am going to take some of my hard earned dollars over and buy some chips, guacamole, and a half dozen margaritas. Leave a big tip.
There will be no sharing…. well maybe if the armadillo will go occupy the Mayor’s pandering ass then I’ll give a couple up.
I believe that 200 reformers with Paul Ryan at their head just might pull us back from the brink.
(a) Good luck finding those 200, Diogenes.
(b) Just when are they going to be elected? 2012 AND 2014 AND 2016?
The alternative is a lot of decent people trying to stave off anarchy in their communities, as the corrupt governments collapses under the weight of its dysfunction.
I think we’re at the point where this is unavoidable. Two, four, six years ago we (maybe) had the chance to turn the ship around, but we’ve already hit the iceberg and the front compartment is taking on water.
You don’t feel the actual sinking until the water starts pouring from one compartment to the other. Hell, that might have already started. Glenn certainly thinks it has.
Glenn always being so behind the curve on how bad things are, that is. Remember, he started in with the gloom and doom in 2006, when the DOW was at 14,000 and the housing market was booming. Not even Steyn or VDH were tuned in to the impending disaster back then.
[…] George Soros has indirectly funded Adbusters, the organization that created the #Occupy Movement. He then points out: But what is important in this story is the mention of Adbusters, who registered an […]