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    P.O. Box 6157 Leesburg, Virginia 20178

    www.larouchepac.com

    On the cover: George Soros; Cover design: Chris Jadatz; Photo: EIRNS/Stuart Lewis.

    June 2008 LLPPA-2008-006

    Paid for by the Lyndon LaRouche PAC, P.O. Box 6157, Leesburg, VA 20178.www.larouchepac.com and Not Authorized by Any Candidate or Candidates Committee

    Your Enemy,George Soros

    George Soros: Hit-man for the BritishOligarchy 2

    Does Soros Have a Drug Problem? 6

    George Soros: The Forced-Open Society 9

    The Case of Malaysia 13

    George Soros Buys the Nomination,Obama Borrows It 16

    Lessons for Denver: FDRs 1932 VictoryOver Londons Wall Street Fascists 18

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    The British nancial Oligarchy is desperately commit-ted to completely annihilating all orms o sovereignnation states rom our planet, most importantly the Unit-

    ed States, and George Soros is their chosen hit-man to ac-

    complish the task. Directly, on behal o the city o Lon-

    don, George Soros, with the aid o his puppet, Democratic

    National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, bankrolled

    lthy operations against Hillary Clintons presidential pri-

    mary campaign, to guarantee that no policies which re-

    fect a revival o Franklin Roosevelts commitment to thelower 80% o amily income brackets take hold in the

    White House ater November 008. Soros is no new com-

    er to the world o criminal activity. According to ormer

    associates and published reports he was handed his start-

    up money by Baron Edmond de Rothschilds right-handman, George Karlweiss, who also launched the career o

    ugitive narcotics-tracker Robert Vesco. Since then, So-

    ros has been involved in various vicious operations, under

    the direction o the British Empire, such as nancial spec-

    ulative warare to destroy national currencies, pushing

    murderous, useless eater euthanasia policies, and mas-

    sively nancing international campaigns or the legaliza-

    tion o drugs. But o course, the disgraceul character o

    George Soros is not solely attributable to himsel, but

    rather, it was partially generated by his handlers during

    his ormative adolescent years: the Nazis.

    The Golem is bornThe pathetic creature known as George Soros made a

    willul decision early in lie to become the character that

    he is now: a Golem. A teenager during the Nazi Occupa-

    tion o his homeland, Hungary, Soros began his genocidal

    legacy by working or the killing machines that slaugh-

    tered 500,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.Young Soros was given a job looting the properties o Jews

    under the regime o SS Lt. Gen. Kurt Becher, head o the

    Waen SS section known euphemistically as The Eco-

    nomic Department o the SS Command.

    Introduction

    Back during Presidential campaign year 004, my associates and I were calling atten-tion to an important book on the subject o The Conessions o an Economic Hit-Man. That man had a conscience. In the ollowing report, LPAC is eaturing a much big-ger story, on the subject o George Soros as a political-economic hit-man. The GeorgeSoros we present in this report, has no conscience about what he has done, or what he

    does. This is a report written, in large part, by Soros own mouth.George Soros is not a top-ranking nancier, he is like the maa thug, without a real

    conscience, like a thug sent to kill a riend o yours, but only a hit-man or the really bignancial interests, hired out to rob your riends, and you, o about everything, includingtheir nation, and your personal reedom.

    George Soros does not actually own Senator Barack Obama; some other people do;but, Soros is a key controller, and seemingly the virtual owner o both Democratic PartyChairman Howard Scream Dean, that Party, perhaps your political party, and, in act,your nation, which are both what political-economic hit-man George Soros is aiming todestroy.

    Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.June 16, 2008

    George Soros: Hit-man forThe British Oligarchy

    by Hector A. Rivas, Jr.

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    Soros credits his ather or his own good ortune in

    avoiding the gruesome scenes o the concentration camps.

    In a broadcast on WNET/Thirteen TV on April 15, 199

    Soros recalled those experiences that ormed his beastly

    identity: When the Germans came in, he [the athered]

    said, This is a lawless occupation. The normal rules dont

    apply. You have to orget how you behave in a normal so-ciety. This is an abnormal situation. And he arranged or

    all o us to have alse papers, everybody had a dierent ar-

    rangement. I was adopted by an ocial o the minister o

    agriculture, whose job was to take over Jewish properties,

    so I actually went with him and we took possession o

    these large estates. That was my identity. So its a strange,

    very strange lie. I was 14 years old at the time. His Fa-

    ther, Tivadar Soros, proessed urther that, as pseudo-

    Christians, we had not quite reached that level o Christi-

    anity where we were willing to return bread or stones.

    The Soros amily indeed oered plenty o stones to the

    many poor Hungarian Jews who were shipped o to Aus-

    chwitz to meet their death.1

    The Soros amily was among the elite Hungarian

    Jews, which aorded them the ability to make arrange-

    ments to survive under the Nazi occupation. Prince Alexis

    Scherbato, ormer member o the U.S. Army Counterin-

    telligence Corps beore and ater WWII, alleged that Soros

    obtained his rst small ortune by selling his share o the

    loot seized with the Nazis. He reported that Soros rst ac-

    complice was another Hungarian Jew, who sold rubies

    and other Nazi plunder in Belgium ater World War II.

    Ben Hecht, author o the book Perdy, documents the

    activities o the Nazi Economic Department in Hungary,

    and the atrocities committed by the employers o young

    Soros. The Department was in charge o pillaging Jewish

    properties and removing the gold llings rom the mil-

    lions o teeth o the dead Jews; in cutting o the hair omillions o Jewesses beore killing them, and shipping

    bales o hair to Germanys mattress actories; in convert-

    ing the at o dead Jews into bath soap, and in guring out

    eective methods o torture to induce the Jews awaiting

    death to reveal where they had hidden their last posses-

    sions.

    George Soros was conronted with such images during

    an interview with Steve Krot on CBSs 60 Minutes on De-

    cember 0, 1998:

    Kroft: (Voiceover) These are pictures rom 1944 o

    what happened to George Soros riends and neighbors.

    (Vintage ootage o women and men with bags over their

    shoulders walking; crowd by a train)

    Kroft: (Voiceover) Youre a Hungarian Jew. . .

    Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

    Kroft: (Voiceover) . . .who escaped the Holocaust. . .

    (Vintage ootage o women walking by train)

    Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. (Vintage ootage o

    people getting on train)

    Kroft: (Voiceover) . . .byby posing as a Christian.

    Mr. Soros: (Voiceover) Right. (Vintage ootage o wom-

    en helping each other get on train; train door closing with

    people in boxcar)

    Kroft: (Voiceover) And you watched lots o people getshipped o to the death camps.

    Mr. Soros: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say

    that thats when my character was made.

    Kroft: In what way?

    Mr. Soros: That one should think ahead. One should

    understand andand anticipate events and whenwhen

    one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat o evil. I

    mean, it was aa very personal experience o evil.

    Kroft: My understanding is that you went out with this

    protector o yours who swore that you were his adopted

    godson.

    Mr. Soros: Yes. Yes.

    Kroft: Went out, in act, and helped in the conscation

    o property rom the Jews.

    Mr. Soros: Yes. Thats right. Yes.

    Kroft: I mean, thatsthat sounds like an experience

    EIRNS/Stuart Lewis

    George Soros

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    1. Masquerade, Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary, TivadorSoros, Arcade Publications, New York, 001.

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    that would send lots o people to the psychiatric couch or

    many, many years. Was it dicult?

    Mr. Soros: Notnot at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child

    you dontyou dont see the connection. But it wasit cre-

    ated nono problem at all.

    Kroft: No eeling o guilt?

    Mr. Soros: No.

    Kroft: For example that, Im Jewish and

    here I am, watching these people go. I could

    just as easily be there. I should be there.

    None o that?

    Mr. Soros: Well, o course I cI could be

    on the other side or I could be the one rom

    whom the thing is being taken away. But

    there was no sense that I shouldnt be there,

    because that waswell, actually, in a unny

    way, its just like in marketsthat i I werent

    thereo course, I wasnt doing it, but some-

    body else wouldwouldwould be taking it

    away anyhow. And it was thewhether I was

    there or not, I was only a spectator, the prop-erty was being taken away. So theI had no

    role in taking away that property. So I had no

    sense o guilt.

    Crafted and UnleashedNazi collaborator George Soros, set o to

    England in 1947 where he became the pro-

    tg o radical positivist Sir Karl Popper, who

    taught at the Fabian Society-initiated

    London School o Economics in the

    1950s. This is the same Karl Popper

    who blamed a large part o the crises

    o developing countries on the polit-

    ical stupidity o its leaders. Popper

    himsel states that, We [the Em-

    pireed] have liberated these states

    too early and in too primitive a way.

    These are no-law states yet. The same

    would happen i youd leave a kinder-

    garten to itsel. Soros mentor then

    argued that the civilized world has

    the right to launch wars against the

    Third World or the sake o peace.

    Soros bowed to his masters, and car-ried out that war.

    Soros used his Quantum Fund to

    conduct nancial warare through

    derivatives and currency speculation.

    On the European ront, in 199 So-

    ros won a key battle against the Euro-

    pean Rate Mechanism (ERM), which

    was Europes nancial structure to

    maintain stable exchange rates

    among the currencies o Europe. Soros created a nancial

    crisis so that the system could be replaced by the Maas-

    tricht Treaty, which established the Euro as the single Eu-

    ropean currency, and put nancial authority in the hands

    o one central bank, controlled by the Anglo-Dutch Oligar-

    chy. This plot began when representatives o Soros met on

    June , 199, with top British and Anglo-Dutch nancial

    Acrhives o Mechanical Documentation, courtesy o USHMM Photo Archives

    A member o the German SS supervises the boarding o Jews onto trains during adeportation action in the Krakow ghetto.

    Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May1944.

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    predators, on Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIs yacht Bri-

    tannia.

    Part o this operation can be understood by looking at

    his attacks against the Italian lira in the early 1990s, which

    earned him 400 billion lira within a matter o days, while

    the Bank o Italy was orced to spend $48 billion o its re-

    serves in a vain attempt to deend its currency. Within a

    ew years, Soros was under criminal investigation or

    these sinister attacks. Members o the Movimento Inter-

    nazionale per Diritti Civili Solidarieta rst submitted tes-timony on Soros to the Milan court in 1995, and by the

    next year, investigations were launched out o Rome and

    Naples, which were reported on in the Dec. 4, 1996 issue

    o Corriere della Sera: The investigation has just started,

    but the results could be explosive, and the name o the in-

    dividual being ocially investigated gives an idea o how

    delicate this investigation is: The name is George Soros. . .

    The crime is stock-jobbing. . . It concerns the attack on the

    lira.

    O course, not all o the money used in this operation

    can be attributed to Golem Soros, but was only money

    that was handed to him, by London. Ater all, a Golem

    doesnt make himsel, he is created and, true to orm, So-

    ros natural instinct is only to do what he is told in order to

    survive.

    His ather taught his boy how to ollow his masters

    very well under the Nazi occupation in Hungary: The

    most rational approach, in my view, was complete separa-

    tion, ollowed by a quiet eort to blend in with the general

    population. That is the way animals do it: when they sense

    danger, instead o presenting a clear target to their ene-

    mies, their natural mode o sel-preservation is to blend

    with the scenery and simply disappear. Naturalists call

    this phenomenon mimicry.

    Soros was raised to behave like a beast, and so he does.

    Upon the destruction o the ERM, which set the stage orMaastricht and, inevitably, the Lisbon Treaty, Soros had

    only this to say: Im sure speculative actions have had

    some negative consequences. But that does not enter my

    thinking at all. It cannot. I I abstained rom certain ac-

    tions because o moral doubts, then I would cease to be an

    eective speculator. I have not even a shadow o remorse

    or making a prot. He continues, I did it only to make

    money. 4

    Project DeathOn Nov. 0, 1994 Soros spoke beore an audience at the

    Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and announced

    his new oundation, Project on Death in America, to shit

    the training o hospitals, nurses and doctors away rom

    expensive lie-saving treatment, to the proper care o the

    dying. In pushing euthanasia legislation, Soros made the

    Nazi useless eater policy legal in the U.S.

    A Soros-sponsored assisted suicide (a.k.a. homicide)

    program to oer patients lethal prescriptions was the Ore-

    Project on Death in America website.

    Ofcial portrait taken at Buckingham Palace, by Terry ONeill

    Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness PrincePhilip, the Duke o Edinburgh

    __________

    . Masquerade, Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary, TivadorSoros, Arcade Publications, New York, 0014. London Guardian Dec. 19, 199.

    __________

    . This is the very same Queen Elizabeth which EIR discovered in the1990s was on the exclusive clients list o George Soros mega-million-dol-lar oshore Quantum Fund in which he is once again currently active.

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    The Hustler on theStreet Corner

    In 1985, in response to the chaos o

    the British Empires dope trade, LyndonLaRouche called on nations to cooperate

    in a war on drugs: What we are ght-

    ing, is not only the eects o the use o

    these drugs on their victims. The interna-

    tional drug trac has become an evil and

    powerul government in its own right. It

    represents today a nancial, political,and military power greater than that o

    entire nations within the Americas. It is a

    government which is making war against

    civilized nations, a government upon

    which we must declare war, a war which

    we must ght with the weapons o war,

    and a war which we must win in the same

    spirit the United States ought or the un-

    conditional deeat o Nazism between

    1941 and 1945.

    Since then, the British Empires hus-

    tler on the street corner, George Soros,has continued pushing drug legalization

    in the United States and has even strayed over to the oth-

    er side o the block and become a supporter o narco-ter-

    rorism in South America and Asia. Soros immorality and

    ruthless nature1 made him the perect hit man or enorc-ing the Empires drug operations. Provided with unding

    through speculative activities, Soros launched his own

    war against anyone opposing the looting policy o Lon-

    don. Since the dope trade is the corner stone or the phys-

    ical and economic looting o nations by the British Em-pire, Soros chose Lyndon LaRouches war on drugsas

    gon Death with Dignity Act, which subsequently passedin 1998: As the rst state in the United States to allowphysicians to help terminally ill patients end their lives,Oregons experience will be closely watched by otherstates.5

    Through the Open Society, the Death in America proj-ect and other organizations concerned with end-o-lie

    issues began collaboration on transorming the cultureo dying. Soros promoted on his website a one-day semi-nar coordinated by Balour Mount, M.D. o Royal VictoriaHospital in the mid-1990s entitled Searching or the Soulo Euthanasia. Soros oered his personal thoughts onthe matter: The use o technology to extend lie when liehas no meaning, does not make any sense. . . It may bemore negative than positive, because it causes unneces-

    sary pain and suering, not to mention the expense. (em-phasis added)

    Does Soros Have a DrugProblem?

    by Alexandra Perebikovsky

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    5. http://www.soros.org/initiatives/pdia

    Foto ANCOL. Fernando Ruiz

    President o the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Grasso, and negotiator or the FARC,

    Ral Reyes, during their 1999 meeting in the Colombian jungle.

    __________

    1. See George Soros: Hit Man or the British Oligarchy by Hector Rivas, inthis report.

    __________

    .Dope, Inc.: Britains Opium War Against the US, by a US Labor PartyInvestigating Team, The New Benjamin Franklin Publishing Company,Inc., New York, New York, 1978

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    his battleground. In deense o his drug hustling opera-

    tions, Soros wrote that, The war on drugs was doing

    more harm than the drugs themselves. . ..Drugs kill a ew

    people, incapacitate many more, and give parents sleep-

    less nights. . . but, as he summed up, that is nothing

    compared to the harm o nations intervening on the ree

    market.

    Through his Open Society Foundation, Soros consis-

    tently unneled money into his Drug Policy Foundation

    (DPF) and Lindesmith Center to aggressively pursue drug

    legalization in the United States. Soros claimed, When I

    decided to extend the operations o my Open Society

    Foundation to the United States, I chose drug policy as

    one o the rst elds o engagement. I elt that drug policywas the area in which the United States was in the great-

    est danger o violating the principles o open society.4

    Soros used the DPF to und the Marijuana Policy Project

    (MPP), an organization committed to reviving the Wood-

    stock pot-smoking days o 1968. The MPP has given sup-

    port to states across the nation in the ght to legalize

    marijuana and threw its support behind Barney Frank,

    who lost no time in bending over backwards and lighting

    up or the drug lobby by introducing HR 618, a bill or

    the medical use o marijuana. In 1996, Soros reached

    deeper into the Queens underpants and unded ballot ini-

    tiatives to legalize medical marijuana in Caliornia and

    Arizona through propositions 15 and 00, respectively.

    These propositions made it legal even or children to whip

    out the bong and receive doses o class one drugs. In 000,

    Soros took the legalization eorts even urther and und-

    ed a bill to set up the legal retail distribution o marijuana

    in Nevada, thereby taking the rst step towards more se-

    rious drug legalization.

    Meanwhile, in South America, his activities weremuch more disastrous. With his st in the British Em-

    pires laundered money bags, Soros threw his weight be-

    hind narco-terrorism in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. His

    group Human Rights Watch/Americas is a major part o

    the drug cartels drug production and terror apparatus,

    deploying millions o dollars annually or dope propa-

    ganda. In Colombia, he became the leading nancier in

    the ght to legalize cocaine and, through Human Rights

    Watch, attacked government orces deployed against

    drug cartel guerrillas, who were slaughtering people

    across the region. On November 8, 1990, the Medellin

    Coming rom the mouth o Dick Cheney and his ilk, theexpression War on Drugs has been used to justiylaunching unprovoked wars on sovereign nations, im-

    posing regime change on their governments, throwingmillions o penny-ante users and small-time dealers injail in the U.S., driving desperate peasants in drug pro-ducing countries over the cli into starvation, and coy-ly backing one cartel o drug runners against another,to keep the market under controlwhile religiouslytaking a hands-o attitude towards the big bankerswho actually run Dope, Inc. rom the very top.

    For Lyndon LaRouchewho coined the expressionWar on Drugs back in the 1970sit has always meantthe exact opposite. On March 9, 1985, LaRouche pre-sented a 15-point war plan at a Mexico City conerence

    which centered on cooperation among sovereign na-tion states, to identiy, attack, and destroy the British-centered [nancial] interests who actually run the drugtrade. These interests act as a powerul government-in-act, against which we must wage war. Treatiesshould be agreed upon among nations, to conductjoint military actions against the drug trade, to the e-ect that necessary orms o joint military and law en-orcement action do not subvert the national sover-eignty o any o the allied nations. . . Intelligence and

    technological aid should be supplied with assistanceo the United States, in order to eradicate all illegalplantations, processing centers, and laboratories, and

    all unlogged aircrat fying across borders, which ailto land according to instructions, should be shot down.And most signicantly, A system o total regulation onancial institutions, to the eect o detecting depos-its, outbound transers, and inbound transers ounds, which might be reasonably suspected o beingunds secured rom drug-tracking, must be estab-lished and maintained. . . . Special attention should beconcentrated on those banks, insurance enterprises,and other business institutions which are in act ele-ments o an international nancial cartel coordinatingthe fow o hundreds o billions annually o revenues

    rom the international drug trac. Those involvedare guilty o crimes against humanity, based on theNuremberg standard. Conscated drug unds, La-Rouche added, should be allotted to benecial pur-poses o economic development, in basic economic in-rastructure, agriculture, and goods-producingindustry.

    That is the essence o LaRouches War on Drugsand that is why George Soros, and his British masters,hate it.

    LaRouches War on Drugs

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    . The Bubble o American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse o AmericanPower, George Soros, pg. 7, Public Aairs, New York, 004

    4. Ibid. pg. 7

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    drug cartel, leading the violent murder and kidnapping

    operations in Colombia, sent out a letter demanding that

    the government publish a report by Soros Americas

    Watch, which denounced the governments anti-drug ac-

    tions as violations o human rights. One week later, Juan

    Mendez, the leader o the Colombian Americas Watch

    Report, called or the most total disarmament possible

    o the Colombian military in order to allow ree trade

    o drugs to resume.

    Using two groups in which he was a leading nancier,

    the Andean Council o Coca Lea Producers and the An-

    dean Commission o Jurists, Soros then established an in-

    ternational project called Coca 95, to support the dope

    trade in Bolivia and Peru. At a conerence on March 1-

    14, 1996, the Andean Commission o Jurists sponsored

    the International Meeting on Current Scientic Studieson the Eects o Coca Consumption on Humans, in

    which speakers attacked the anti-drug eorts o govern-

    ments as a threat to the environment! Calling or ree trade

    o all drugs, including cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and

    synthetics, the Andean Council o Coca Lea Producers or-

    ganized or an armed revolt in Bolivia. Soros even cut into

    the heart o Peru, unding the presidential campaign o

    Alejandro Toledo, thereby toppling the anti-drug govern-

    ment o Alberto Fujimori and once again plunging the na-

    tion into chaos.

    Sound pretty bad? Well, its not new. The British Em-

    pires drive or imperial control is what is truly behind

    these attacks on nations. Soros promotion o narco-ter-

    rorism is the equivalent o the gunboats employed by

    the Empire in their launching o the 19th century Opium

    Wars against China and India.

    British DiplomacyOne o the leading drug trackers

    o the British Empire wrote that as

    long as drug use continues to dominate

    a country, there is not the least reason

    to ear that she will become a military

    power o any importance, as the habit

    saps the energies and vitality o the na-

    tion.5 For the last two centuries, the

    British Empire, using this policy to

    maintain its imperial control over the

    world, has dominated the dope trade,

    using it to prop up its horric system o

    slavery. The British East India Compa-ny rst opened up the opium trade with

    China in 1715 but, it was not until Lord

    Shelburnes 176-178 melding o the

    bankrupt East India Company and

    near bankrupt British nation into a

    global empire, that Britain had a mo-

    nopoly in the dope and slave trade.

    Under the evil ree trade doctrine o

    Adam Smith, this British Empire used its might as a sea

    power to construct a system o controlled trade and drug

    tracking to economically and culturally suppress nations.

    The prime drug o choice was opium. With the deployment

    o East India Company merchants into India, the West In-

    dies, and the United States, populations were orced to

    grow opium and cotton on slave plantations. Banning any

    kind o manuacturing in the colonies, cotton was export-

    ed, loaded onto Royal British Ships, taken on a long trek all

    the way to the manuacturing house o England, spun

    into cloth, and dragged all the way back to India. Mean-

    while, Indian opium was exported to China, and the prots

    were used to pay or the entire shipping and manuacturing

    o the imported cloth! This system succeeded in enslaving

    the populations o India, the Americas, and China, destroy-

    ing their land, and rendering the nations incapable o im-proving their impoverished condition!

    The Chinese emperor, sick at the sight o his destroyed

    nation and attempting to resist this cultural enslavement

    and bombardment o the population, seized every particle

    o opium; put under bond every European engaged in the

    merchandise o it; and the papers o to-day (189) inorm

    us that he has cut o the China trade, root and branch.6

    Furious, the British demanded that their produce (a.k.a.

    Opium) be imported, or else. As one o the London Times

    editors puts it, We have everywhere obtained that our

    goods shall be imported into all these countries. . .. To attain

    www.heroin.org/images/babyopiate.html

    An opium den in Manila, the Philippines.

    __________

    5. Jack Beeching, The Chinese Opium Wars, pg. 58, New York: HarvestBooks, 1975

    6. George Thompson,Lectures on India inLectures, Letters, Debates, Pam-phlets, and Related Correspondence o George Thompson, Manchester Uni-versity, John Rylands Library, 184-1886.

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    those ends, we use all sorts o means, rom courteous invi-

    tation to bombardments. We preer to employ mere elo-

    quence, because it is cheap and easy; but i talking ails we

    ollow it up by gunboats, and, in that convincing way, we

    induce hesitating barbarians not only to accept our two

    unvarying conditions, but also to pay the cost o the expedi-

    tion by which their consent to these conditions was extort-

    ed rom them. China was so unwilling to listen to our ad-

    vice, so blind to the striking merits o our opium and our

    consuls, that we were obliged, with great regret, to resort to

    gentle orce with her.7 Any challenge to British imperial

    policy was immediately met with gunboats and, in the case

    o China, two opium wars between the years o 189-184

    and 1858-1860 were waged in order to complete the pro-cess o opening up all o China8 to British ree trade. This

    British imperial drive continued and, by the end o World

    War I, the extent o British imperialism was elt everywhere.

    Nations which had attempted to avert British imperial con-

    trol were destroyed economically and culturally and their

    countries were fooded with drugs.

    Revive the War on Drugs!The British Empire still exists as an active threat to the

    world today, though the name has since become taboo. I

    youve bought in to the media-ed cover stories that his-

    tory occurs only as isolated local events and are thinking,

    I dont believe in conspiracy theories, then you dont

    know history. In reality the same nancier and oligarchi-

    cal circles which were responsible or the launching o the

    China Opium wars throughout the 18th-19th centuries,

    typied by the ancient imperial models o Babylon, Per-

    sia, and Venice, are responsible or creating the current

    global nancial and economic collapse.

    George Soros is one o the main British instruments,

    careully chosen to be a ront man o the Empire, covering

    up or its disgusting looting policy, now known, euphe-

    mistically, as globalization. Through organizations such

    as Human Rights Watch and Open Society, Soros pushesdrugs and destroys nations. Soros says that now, The

    United States, like nineteenth-century Britain, also has an

    interest in keeping international markets and global com-

    mons, such as the oceans, open to all.9 Just like the Brit-

    ish East India Companys devastation o India and China

    through two opium wars and decades o ree trade, the

    same Empire calls on Soros as the assassin in the destruc-

    tion o the United States. It is only through the oblitera-

    tion o British hack George Soros and the British Empire

    which he represents, that we can hope to sober up the

    United States today.__________

    7. As quoted in Henry Carey,Reply to the London Times, Letter V, pg. .

    8. LaRouche in 004 Special Report, To Stop TerrorismShut Down Dope,Inc!, pg. 96, LaRouche in 004, December 001

    George Soros:The Forced-Open Society

    By Leandra Bernstein

    As the world nancial system hobbles on its last legs,the City o London has once again unleashed GeorgeSoros to open the gates o hell at the present strategic

    turning-point in world history. Soros has long been aront-man chosen to subjugate nations by unneling o-

    shore money into corruption conduits coyly masked as

    philanthropic and human rights organizations. His

    purpose is to eliminate the U.S. system o national sover-

    eignty, as he states himsel, Democracy and open society

    cannot be imposed rom the outside because the principle

    o sovereignty stands in the way o outside intererence. . .

    Admittedly it is dicult to interere with the internal a-

    airs o sovereign countries, but it is important to ace up

    to the problem.

    Not Philanthropy. MisanthropyDuring his rst criminal investigation or stock ma-

    nipulation in 1979, George Soros started The Open Soci-

    ety Fund. The Fund was used to create open societiesthrough philanthropic organizations now operating in

    9 countries. Asserting that states have interests but no

    principles, Soros explains that the ideal open society

    would suppress particular national interests, while an

    international political and nancial structure takes re-

    sponsibility or the good o the so-called common good.1

    __________

    1. In this respect, Soross gushing admiration or the UN (emphatically the5 member Security Council), WTO, World Bank, and IFTI (internationalnancial and trade institutions) is notable, as well as his past and presentcollaboration with these institutions and their ranking members.

    __________

    9. George Soros on Globalization, George Soros, pg. 61, Public Aairs,New York, 00

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    To serve that common good, Soros arms his philanthrop-

    ic organizations with cash, buying up key sectors within

    the population who are then let loose to overthrow a gov-

    ernment that tries to maintain a closed society. I a na-

    tion wishes to control its own natural resources, its a

    closed society. I a nation wants to develop its economy

    and power o labor through taris and regulations, its a

    closed society. Any nation that rejects globalization (i.e.

    British Imperialism), is a closed society and subject to

    attacks rom Soros and his shadow government o na-

    tionals.

    The Open Society Institute (OSI), Human Rights

    Watch, the Soros Foundation, the Extractive Industries

    Transparency Institute, are all British-style intelligence

    outts under the supervision o Soros. In 00, Soros ad-

    mitted to personally spending over $.1 billion in 5 years

    on his philanthropic ventures. O his organizations, hewrites, They work with the government when they can

    and independently o the government when they cannot;

    sometimes they are in outright opposition. When oun-

    dations can cooperate with the government, they can be

    more eective; when they cannot, their work is more

    needed and more appreciated because they oer an al-

    ternative source o unding or civil society. As a general

    rule, the worse the government, the better the ounda-

    tion because it enjoys the commitment and support o

    civil society.

    That same year, George Soros and Liberal Imperialist

    (limp) Tony Blair launched the Extractive Industries

    Transparency Institute (EITI), to create an international

    standard by which nations rich in

    oil, natural gas, and strategic metals

    would report government-to-com-

    pany revenues. The international

    organization (EITI) lobbies the gov-

    ernments to adopt a standard or

    revenue reporting which allows

    them to peer into government-com-

    pany revenues in strategic indus-

    tries. Whatever they view as closed

    society behavior is brought beore

    the tribunal o the paid-or demos;

    or, i the behavior seriously threat-

    ens imperial interests, the UN,World Bank, IMF, WTO, etc can be

    mobilized to implement sanctions.

    This process o subjecting a sover-

    eign nation to a xed international

    standard o behavior is called,

    transparency. The xed relation-

    ship among those subject nations is

    called Empire.

    Blair explicitly stated his vision or such international

    institutions in a speech beore the UN World Summit in

    September 005: For the rst time at this Summit we are

    agreed that states do not have the right to do what they

    will within their own borders, but that we, in the name o

    humanity, have a common duty to protect people where

    their own governments will not. Already the EITI has

    countries lined up to be swallowed into the Common-

    wealth and looted. These nations are primarily through-

    out Arica, but include crucial states bordering Russia and

    China.

    Yet, many well-meaning people inside the U.S. and

    elsewhere have thrown their support behind Soros or his

    human rights advocacy, rallying to the call o ending

    authoritarian regimes, and increasing transparency.

    The Fight for EurasiaIn his historic 198 economic orecast, Lyndon La-

    Rouche warned that i the Soviet Union were to reject his

    Strategic Deense Initiative, adopted by President Rea-

    gan, then the strains on the Comecon economy would

    lead to a collapse o that economic system in about ve

    years. At his 1988 address at the Kempinski Hotel in Ber-

    lin, LaRouche repeated that warning: All o us who are

    members o that stratum called world-class politicians,

    know that the world has now entered what most agree is

    the end o the postwar era. . . What governments do during

    __________

    . To better understand this process, see Euripides Greek tragedy, TheBacchae, on the cult o Dionysus.

    __________

    . Earlier, in 1999, Blair demanded the NATO bombing o Serbia/Yugo-slavia, under the humanitarian guise o protecting Kosovo and Albaniaagainst the Serbs. Blairs rejection o the principles o the 1648 Treaty oWestphalia have pioneered the modern era o pre-emptive war, and mucho the mess o our war-torn planet today.

    Chris Jadatz

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    the coming two years will decide the ate o all humanity

    or a century or more to come. . .The time has come or a

    bold decision on U.S. policy toward Central Europe. At

    that time, the LaRouche Movement was recruiting rom

    the infuential circles throughout Eurasia around the

    prospect o building the Productive Triangle and later the

    Eurasian Land Bridge to transorm the region into a pros-

    perous community o nation-states.

    LaRouche was the rst to identiy and act on the com-

    ing turning point in world history, but the British estab-

    lishment, also thinking in terms o long historical waves,

    saw the crisis in Germany and the Soviet Union as an

    opening or a drastic turn to their system.

    Soros was their point-man, deployed into the ght to

    build his oundations throughout the contested Eastern

    European bloc. The Stean Batory Foundation in Poland

    was ground-zero or the European test-run o Je-

    rey Sachs shock therapy model, later used

    throughout the region to implement ree-market

    looting, and monetary austerity. Soros wrote o the

    Polish implementation, The IMF approved and

    the program went into eect on Jan. 1, 1990. It was

    very tough on the population, but people were will-

    ing to take a lot o pain in order to see real

    change. . .Infation has been reduced, but the out-

    come still hangs in the balance because structural

    adjustment is slow in coming. Production has all-

    en 0%, but employment has allen by %. This

    means the entrenched management o state enter-

    prises is using the respite it gained rom wageclaims to improve its prot margins and keep the

    workers employed. There is an unholy alliance be-

    tween management and labor that will be hard to

    break. In other words, Shachtian monetary aus-

    terity, slave labor, and wrecking guarantees to state

    workers.

    This was the same model used to cripple Russia, where

    Soros pushed the Shatalin Plan to shut down the Soviet

    military-industrial economy and impose budgetary dis-

    cipline. Soros program was a disaster: the privatization

    o state industry, rotten deals to sell o Soviet military in-

    dustrial stockpiles, smuggling raw materials, weapons,

    and drugs. In only ve years, the labor orce had largely

    shited rom production to criminal activity, and Russia

    saw the largest expansion o drug trade and drug use in

    that region. 4

    In the years ollowing the Soviet break-up, Soros set up

    Foundations in countries. On the launching o the 1991

    Balkans War, Soros dumped millions into the region, ear-

    marking $15 million in unds or political subversion in

    Croatia alone. In December 1996, Croatian president,

    Franjo Tudjman, launched a useul attack, saying, With

    the help o Soros, [the organizations] have entirely inl-

    trated society. . . They have involved in their project 90dierent institutions, as well as hundreds o people. . .

    [T]hrough nancial support, they roped in members o all

    ages and classes, rom high school students to journalists,

    university proessors, and academicians, rom all circles

    o culture, economy, science, health, law, and literature. . .

    They openly say: Their duty is to change the property and

    government structures through donations. . . To create a-

    vorable circumstances or the subversion o the present

    authority and situation in Croatia, to gain control over all

    spheres o lie, they intend to ocus their energies and in-

    fuence on the media and the world o culture.

    __________

    4. The spread o drug use coincided with an epidemic o HIV/AIDS largelyalong the drug trade route into Aghanistan. Today, the Soros Foundationprides itsel in treatment, advocacy, and harm reduction services to dealwith HIV/AIDS and TB, the results o Soros ree-market reorms.

    Russian peasants. Ogonyok..

    Soviet women show ration cards to buy ood. Ogonyok 1991.

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    During the same time, Soros set up the International

    Science Foundation, oering sizable grants to Russian

    scientists. People were poor and looking or a living; Soros

    stepped in with projects and money. Many conded that

    they knew it was wrong, but they needed the money to

    survive. Though he was able to pay the scientists, Soros

    R&D investments were not nearly enough to accomplish

    breakthrough work. U.S. intelligence sources were con-

    vinced that Soros was just picking their brains. The ISF

    initially oered large grants, but as Soros steadily with-

    drew unds, he drew young scientists out o the country,

    taking rom Russia its most vital natural resource.

    In 00, Soros announced that he was ocially with-

    drawing support to Russia in order to ocus more on theUnited States, ater becoming preoccupied with prob-

    lems o globalization and, since September 11, with the

    role that the United States plays in the world. On June 1

    o this year, the OSI announced an initiative to spend

    $800 million over the next 10 years to advance democ-

    racy and progressive reorm in the United States. Grant-

    ees will be unded to study how institutions like the EU

    and the UN can be used to infuence or constrain illib-

    eral behavior, and how stability and order can be main-

    tained ater an authoritarian regime has been collapsed.

    The shock troop attacks rom Soros hordes in the East

    should be air warning to those in the U.S. who continue

    to be sot on Soros democratic reorms and open soci-

    ety projects.

    There Is No Transparency Off-ShoreContrary to the romantic view o super-nancier,

    George Soros, he has never acted alone in any o his op-

    erations, and his primary sel-interest has been saving his

    sorry neck rom his sponsors.

    A decade beore launching The Open Society Fund, So-

    ros let his post at Arnhold and S. Blechroeder Inc.5 with

    sponsorship to launch the o-shore Quantum Fund N.V.,

    which was reportedly managing $11-14 billion in 001.Both the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management,

    operate as crucial sources or the money going to the in-

    ternational projects cited above. By setting up in the Neth-

    erlands Antilles, a British Protectorate, and excluding

    American citizens rom investing in the und or sitting on

    the board o directors, Soros eludes U.S. law enorcement

    scrutiny, U.S. taxes, and other regulations, while demand-

    ing transparency rom everyone else.

    Soros has gone so ar out o his way to avoid U.S. laws

    that he is not even on the board o his own und, but serves

    as ocial Investment Advisor through the New York

    based Soros Fund Management. Instead, the list o inves-

    tors and the board o the Quantum Fund is stacked with

    British, Italian, and Swiss nanciers, with Queen Eliza-

    beth II holding a special position on the list o exclusive

    clients. Quantum board member Richard Katz is also on

    the board o the London N.M. Rothschild & Sons mer-

    chant bank, and is the head o Rothschild Italia S.p.A.;

    Nils O. Taube, is the head o the London investment group,

    St. James Palace, a major partner with Lord Rothschild;

    and George Karlweiss, o Edmond de Rothschilds Swiss

    Banca Privata. According to interviews and published

    sources, Karlweiss played a key role in giving Soros the

    initial start-up capital or Quantum. The Rothschilds

    banking apparatus, with its international branches, has

    been, and remains at the center o British sponsored dirtymoney and nancial warare operations, rom money

    laundering, to raw materials grabs, drugs-or-weapons

    deals, sponsorship o international crime networks, and

    signicant control over the gold tradewhich is essential

    or the global drug trade.

    Quantum board member and top Swiss nancier, Ed-

    gar de Picciotto, was involved in launching attacks against

    LaRouches European organization through the mid-late

    1980s when he pushed money through the Swiss think-

    tank, Geo-Pol, to und the corrupt Laurent Murawiec,

    presently residing at the neo-con Hudson Institute.6 De

    Picciotto is presently the chair o the Union Bancaire Pri-

    vee, the ospring o a shady merger with Edmund Saras

    Trade Development Bank, notably involved in the Iran-

    Contra aair. Sara, who became too dirty or even the

    British to use, was amously murdered in 1999 when un-

    der investigation by Swiss and US authorities or using his

    Republic Bank o New York to transer billions o Federal

    Reserve notes to Maa-controlled banks in Moscow in the

    early 1990s. He was also under investigation or launder-

    ing money through the Turkish and Colombian drug

    trade.

    According to ormer U.S. State Department intelli-

    gence ocers, amiliar with the Soros case, Soros Quan-tum Fund amassed its billions rom silent investors, like

    Marc Richas well as Mossad agents Shaul Eisenberg

    and Ra Eytan. During Soviet break-up, Quantum Fund

    investor, Marc Rich,7 was crucial in the raw materials

    smuggling. He did the ground work o coercing desperate

    and corrupt Russian and Soviet leaders to sell the nations

    raw material wealth to the global markets. That money

    __________

    5. Arnhold and S. Blechroeder Inc. represented Rothschild banking inter-ests in Germany during the period o Chancellor Bismarck. As o 199 itwas the principal custodian o the Quantum und, along with Citibank.

    __________

    6. In his 001 Strategic Memorandum: Look What Happened in Brazil, Lyn-don LaRouche describes Laurent Murawiec as a real-lie Beetlebaumo the legendary mythical horse-race, and a hand-me-down political car-cass, currently in the possession o institutions o a peculiar odor.

    7. Beore running $.5 billion in natural resources trade with Russia,Marc Rich got his start in the triangular trade o weapons, oil, and drugs,around the Aghan and Iran-Iraq Wars. EIR Special Report, To Stop Ter-

    rorismShut Down Dope Inc. (001), and EIR Special Report, The TrueStory o Soros the Golem (1997).

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    was then taken out o the country and invested in oshore

    accounts. Rich, a U.S. ugitive since 1984, organized the

    looting rom his oce in London, where he helped his

    Russian contacts sell those materials normally used or

    domestic consumption.

    For 17 years, Rich was a ugitive in London rom charg-

    es o tax evasion, raud, and trading with the enemy (Iran).

    Rich hired Lewis Libby as his personal attorney. In 001,

    Al stinking possum Gore helped get a Presidential par-

    don or Rich in the nal hours o Bill Clintons term. Later,

    in testimony beore Congress, Libby admitted that he se-

    cured the pardon or Rich by working through Gores or-

    mer chie o sta, Jack Quinn (as well as two ormer Moss-

    ad agents employed by Rich).

    A Piece of Advice:The global economy is presently undergoing a hyperinfa-

    tionary blow-out. The international institutions and nancier

    networks outlined above, whose activities are illegal under

    the United States Federal Constitution, have been position-

    ing themselves or decades to seize control now. It is now pos-

    sible or the government o the United States to immediately

    shut down Soros lthy operations and launch the recovery

    prescribed in LaRouches Three Steps to Survival.

    It were wise or all those who are presently deending

    George Soros by accepting his money to take pause: What-

    ever happens otherwise, i the United Kingdom continues

    its present course Britains imperial design (176-008) is

    now soon doomed to a very early and ugly end. All that re-

    mains in doubt on this account, is, whether or not the dis-

    integration o the British empire will carry the rest o Eu-

    ropean civilization down with it, down into a prolonged,

    planetary-wide dark age, down orever rom the Britain o

    Lord Shelburne which aspired to become a permanentsuccessor to the ailed Roman Empire. Is the money really

    worth it?8

    The Case of Malaysiaby Alexandra Perebikovsky

    __________

    8. Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., That Doomed & Brutish Empire, EIR Vol-ume 5, Number 11, March 14, 008.

    Technically, Malaysia gained its independence rom theBritish Empire in 1957. Since then however, the Brit-ish intention has been to continue using the nation as itsvery own playground or its ree trade chaos and looting

    operations. In 1997 Lyndon LaRouche stated, ree trade,

    practiced against the nations o Southeast Asia, is simply

    a new orm o colonialism, whose ruit is mass murder. In

    that sense, there is no dierence, in eect on people, be-

    tween ree trade and Nazism.

    Up until the mid 90s currency crisis, Malaysia was a

    staunch ollower o globalization, albeit taking signicant

    steps toward development in the years ollowing their in-

    dependence. Since the British deployment o George So-

    ros into Southeast Asia to loot the currencies o these na-

    tions, Malaysia has changed its view. In the mid-1990s,Lyndon LaRouche orecast that the so-called Tigers o

    Southeast Asia,1 ater years o globalization, hot money

    fows, and destructive speculative activity would suer

    the same ate as Mexico ater 1995utter collapse. In-

    deed, in the months leading up to July 1997, Soros worked

    tirelessly to carry out Londons currency warare, with the

    intent to collapse the Southeast Asian economies. The Ti-

    ger economies had succumbed to the food o hot money

    in the 1990s, which created bubble economies based on

    infated stock values and nancial services. The govern-

    ment guarantees on oreign investments, imposed by

    the western speculators, ultimately bankrupted the South-east Asian national economies.

    Soros nanced a large portion o this hot money. He

    began his attack on the Thai and Malaysian currencies in

    February o 1997 with a zeal I havent seen since the suc-

    cessul assault on several European currencies around

    three years ago according to one analyst. Through spec-

    ulation in utures markets, Soros Quantum Fund lever-

    aged $1. trillion. He took short positions against the

    Thai baht, the Philippine peso, the Indonesian rupiah,

    and the Malaysian ringgit, sending these currencies all-

    ing by 40-70%, collapsing stock markets, and wiping out

    currency reserves. The breaking point was in July o 1997when the Thai baht was orced to foat, with greater than

    0% devaluation, ater the government had unsuccessul-

    ly spent over $15 billion trying to deend the currency.

    The IMF austerity conditions imposed on these nations

    ollowing the collapse drove their economies back 15-0

    years in their potential or development and their stan-

    dard o living.

    On September 0, 1997, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr.

    Mahathir Bin Mohammed stood beore the IMF and de-

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    antly spoke out against the loot-

    ing policies o the British Em-

    pire: We in Malaysia laughed at

    the suggestion that our country

    would ollow the ate o Mexi-

    co. . . . But now we know better.

    We know why it was suggested

    that Malaysia would go the way

    o Mexico. We know now that

    even as Mexicos economic crash

    was manipulated and made to

    crash, the economies o other

    developing countries, too, can

    be suddenly manipulated andorced to bow to the great und

    managers who have now come

    to be the people to decide who

    should prosper and who

    shouldnt.

    Prior to the attack on the

    Southeast Asian markets, Ma-

    hathir had been an outspoken

    ollower o globalization. How-

    ever, ollowing the British Em-

    pires organized takedown o

    the Malaysian economy, the an-

    tasy o ree trade was broken.

    Refecting the proposals o

    economist Lyndon LaRouche,

    Dr. Mahathir launched his own attack against speculator

    George Soros, calling him a moron. EIRs special report

    The true story o Soros the Golem; A prole o mega

    speculator George Soros, circulated widely in Malaysias

    leading circles. London, surprised by Mahathirs sudden

    backlash, unleashed a string o slanders, including an ar-

    ticle published in the Asian Wall Street Journal on Sep-

    tember 19, 1997, titled: Malaysias Mahathir Finds

    Strange Source or Soros Campaign; Asian Countrys Me-dia Tap U.S. Conspiracy theorist Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.

    In an attempt to destroy any infuence or connection Ma-

    laysia had to LaRouche, London deployed Soros once

    more to clean up the mess. Soros was given a chance to

    deend himsel against Prime Minister Mahathirs accu-

    sations and attempted to deny the chargeshe was not

    successul:

    Ted Koppel: Youre talking here about the Malaysian

    Prime Minister.

    George Soros: Thats right.

    Ted Koppel: And he, I mean

    his charge is that you, in eect,

    systematically set out to destroy

    Malaysias currency.

    George Soros: And that is

    absolute nonsense. Now, you

    know, what more can I say? Its

    just absolutely no oundation at

    all.

    Ted Koppel: BecauseI

    mean put it in easily understand-

    able terms. I mean i you could

    have proted by destroying Ma-

    laysias currency, would you haveshrunk rom that?

    George Soros: Not neces-

    sarily, because that would have

    been an unintended conse-

    quence o my action. And its not

    my job as a participant to calcu-

    late the consequences. This is

    what a market is. Thats the na-

    ture o a market. So Im a par-

    ticipant in the market.

    Ted Koppel: Apolitical,

    amoral?

    George Soros: Thats exact-

    ly right.

    The BacklashIn September 1998, Dr. Mahathir shocked the world by

    declaring sovereign currency controls on the Malaysian

    ringgit, pegging their currency to a xed exchange rate

    against the dollar, and thereby eectively ending the spec-

    ulators ability to loot the country through currency spec-

    ulation. Soros, and the entire western nancial oligarchy,

    went berserk, claiming that Dr. Mahathirs actions against

    IMF orthodoxy would bring damnation down upon hiscountry. In act, as was later obvious to all, his deense o

    the nations sovereignty saved the population rom the

    devastation suered by every other nation that had been

    subjected to Soros butcher knie.

    Following Malaysias break with globalization, London

    launched an even nastier operation to create an internal

    crisis in Malaysia. Anwar Ibrahim was the deputy prime

    minister and chosen heir to Mahathir; he became the tar-

    get to carry out the Empires brutal operation.

    Anwar was later kicked out o his post as deputy prime

    minister because he lacked the moral standards re-

    quired to lead the nation. Financed by Soros and his cro-

    nies through the Open Society Foundation, Anwar pro-

    Swiss-image.ch/Remy Steinegger

    Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohammedin 2002.

    __________

    . Pre-recorded interview with Ted Koppel,ABC News Nightline, Wednes-day, October 7, 1998

    __________

    1. It turns out that the Southeast Asian Tigers were no better than thosetigers o inamous magicians Siegried and Royall doped up.

    . As described by Dawai Institute o Research Director Peter Scheiel-bein days ater the meeting o Myanmars SLORC (State Law and OrderRestoration Council)

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    ceeded to launch a campaign to bring down the

    government o Malaysia. He portrayed himsel as a

    reedom ghter and champion o ree market soci-

    ety, denouncing the new governments protectionist

    economic policies and accused them o carrying

    out a conspiracy to destroy him. Meanwhile, Soros

    Human Rights and Open Society organizations

    played their part in labeling Mahathir as the last o

    the old-line Asian authoritarians and showed An-

    war as the reormer trying to ree the people o

    Malaysia. The western media, including the Wall

    Street Journal, continued to uel the turmoil in Ma-

    laysia, saying: The sacking Wednesday night o

    Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahimsignaled the end o a battle or the soul o an impor-

    tant nation. . . . At home and abroad, Mr. Anwar had

    come to symbolize the democratic aspirations and

    open-mindedness o a new generation, more at ease

    in the world and less burdened with the pain o old

    sleights and rustrations than the man he was ex-

    pected to succeed. 4

    Even Soros buddy, Al Gore, threw his weight be-

    hind the speculators.5 On November 1, 1998, Presi-

    dent Clinton had been invited to speak at the Asia

    Pacic Economic Cooperation Forum, hosted by

    Malaysia. Due to the severity o the Iraq crisis, Clin-

    ton was orced to stay back and dispatched Al Gore

    in his place. The resulting catastrophe occurred on

    November 16 when Gore delivered a speech to the

    APEC business advisory council where he called or

    short term recovery by allowing ree markets to

    work their magic and, though not naming him, en-

    dorsed Anwar Ibrahim over Mahathir to lead the nation. 6

    Sprinkling salt in the wound, Gore echoed Anwars cries

    or a new government: People will accept sacrice in a de-

    mocracy, not only because they have had a role in choosing

    it, but because they rightly believe they are likely to benet

    rom it. . . . The message this year rom Indonesia is unmis-takable: People are willing to take responsibility or their

    uturei they have the power to determine that uture. . . .

    Democracy coners a stamp o legitimacy that reorms

    must have in order to be eective. And so, among nations

    suering economic crises, we continue to hear calls or de-

    mocracy and reorm in many languagespeoples power,

    doi moi, reormasi. We hear them todayright here,

    right nowamong the brave people o Malaysia. With the

    Malaysian government incensed and the Malaysian people

    riled up, Gore promptly let the venue. A ew days later,

    then oreign minister Abdullah Badawi, sent the US a heat-

    ed letter o protest, warning that the United States would

    be held accountable or inciting instability.

    Malaysia TodayThe escapades o Soros, Gore, and other London cro-

    nies in Malaysia can only be seen in one lightthe British

    Empires continued aims at destabilization in Southeast

    Asia. Today, Abdullah Badawi has taken over the post o

    prime minister and Anwar, with one hand permanently

    glued to Soros gluttonous money bags, is still running op-

    erations aimed at destabilizing the government, including

    his intended buy-o o parliamentarians in the opposition

    party, the United Malays Political Organization. The ate

    o Malaysia remains to be seen. However, in the context o

    the current global nancial collapse, its uture lies in the

    implementation o Lyndon H. LaRouches our powers

    agreement7 and in the destruction o the British Empire

    and its crony, George Soros.

    World Economic Forum/swiss-image.ch

    Al Gore at the Davos meeting in January 2008.

    __________

    4. The Wall Street Journal, September , 1998 issue

    5. In the intervening decade, with weight to spare, Al Gore threw it behindhis own speculative venture in the cap and trade carbon market.6. At that time, Anwar had been under arrest and on trial or charges ocorruption and sodomy.

    __________

    7. See Lyndon H. LaRouches, Three Steps to Survival

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    George Soros Buys the

    Nomination, Obama Borrows ItBy Ed Hamler

    The ongoing 008 Presidential election representsSoros importation o the techniques he has utilizedor popular subversion in oreign lands to the U.S. politi-cal process. MoveOn.Org, an organization hugely undedby George Soros, played a central role in Barack Obamascapture o the Democratic nomination, despite HillaryClintons clear superiority in the popular vote. Althoughpositioned as a pro-Obama instrument long beore, as o

    February o 008, MoveOn ocially backed Obamas cam-paign, sending him an army o volunteers and an estab-lished money machine and undraising base. As LyndonLaRouche has repeatedly warned, Obama himsel is athrowaway in the nancial oligarchys plan to capture thePresidency o the United States under conditions o eco-nomic collapse. He was promoted to destroy the Clintoncandidacy and its potential or a Rooseveltian solution tothe nancial collapse.

    MoveOn.OrgMoveOn.org got its start in 1998, receiving major sup-

    port rom the most ascist Democrats in the party, Joe

    Lieberman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to censure Presi-

    dent Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Faced in

    1998 with a worldwide economic collapse, President Clin-

    ton called or a new nancial architecture, echoing Lyn-

    don LaRouches call or a New Bretton Woods nancial sys-

    tem. Soros, at the same time, engaged in currency warare,

    which intentionally collapsed the Thai baht, the ringgit o

    Malaysia, and the lira in Italy. In short order ater the Presi-

    dent called or a new nancial architecture, the Lewinsky

    scandal blew-up. The Newt Gingrich-led Congress, along

    with Al Gores treasonous action inside the Democratic

    Party ed the ensuing media renzy, eectively destroying

    the Clinton Administrations economic program in its re-maining years. In its drive to censure President Clinton,

    MoveOn demonstrated a proclivity or political prostitu-

    tion, appreciated by Soros controllers. Soros moved to buy

    up MoveOn. By 004, MoveOn, the so-called grassroots

    organization, was practically owned by George Soros.

    According to a Michelle Goldberg article in Salon.com,1

    this process began in 00. Soros and his associates had

    decided to pour tons o money into the MoveOn coers.

    The total contributed rom 00-04 was about $6. mil-

    lion dollars, the largest sot money contribution ever.

    During 00-004, Soros and MoveOn heavily backed

    Wall Street suckling Howard Scream Dean or Presi-

    dent. They later mobilized to ensure him a comortable

    seat as Chairman o the Democratic Party to do what he

    does best: lose! As chairman, Deans mission has been to

    demoralize the lower 80% o income brackets (the truebase o the Democratic party) while recruiting white col-

    lar and afuent proessionals, myspace addicted youth,

    and as many minorities and trade unionists who will sell

    their souls as a new Democratic majority. Despite Deans

    sabotage, the American population gave the Democrats a

    resounding victory in the 006 mid-term election, turning

    out in record numbers to vote on the basis o ending the

    war and xing the economy. But by October o the next

    year, Congress support rom the population ell, rom

    80% to below that o President Bush, due to Dean and

    Pelosis roles in blocking any initiative to reverse the dam-

    age wreaked by Bush and Cheney. Mission accomplished.

    MoveOn also played an active and signicant role in

    the pressure campaign to make sure Senator Clinton

    dropped out o the race or President, thus acting as a

    ront organization or Soros and his masters. MoveOn.org

    sent out a sophistry-ridden email petition, ironically at-

    tacking Clinton or putting pressure on the superdelegates

    or support. It called on the superdelegates to let the vot-

    ers decide who the Democratic nominee will be:

    Stand up or Democracy in the Democratic Party.

    A group o millionaire Democratic donors are threat-

    ening to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because

    Nancy Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates,should decide the Presidential nomination.

    Theyre Clinton supporters and theyre trying to use their

    high-roller status to strong arm the Democratic leaders.

    So lets tell Nancy Pelosi that i she keeps standing up

    or regular Americans, thousands o us will have her back.

    A compiled petition with your individual comment

    will be presented to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic

    leadership.__________

    1. Michelle Goldberg, MoveOn Moves Up, Salon.com, Dec. 1, 00.

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    Full petition text:

    The Democratic nomination should be decided by the

    votersnot by superdelegates or party high-rollers. Weve

    given moneyand timeto progressive candidates and

    causes, and well support Speaker Pelosi and others who

    stand up or Democracy in the Democratic Party.

    O course, when Senator Clinton won the popular vote

    and the real high-rollers o the world and the party estab-

    lishment united behind Obama, MoveOn stood ully ex-

    posed as the expendable creation o these same orces.

    Since Senator Clinton actually won the popular vote, will

    MoveOn stand by its original statement?

    Never one to miss an opportunity Soros also person-ally proted rom one o MoveOns biggest political cam-

    paigns. In 006, MoveOn and Center or American Prog-

    ress waged a campaign against Cheneys Halliburton.

    Halliburtons stock dropped rom $40 to $6 a share.

    While MoveOn railed against Halliburton, Soros gradual-

    ly bought 1,999,450 shares. By December 006, these

    shares comprised more than % o his total portolio,

    making Halliburton the Soros Fund Managements big-

    gest investment that year. Then, the attacks on Hallibur-

    ton stopped, and the stock value began climbing, climbing

    all the way up to todays $50/share.

    Democracy AllianceOne urther maneuver in Soros eort to take over the

    Democratic Party was his ormation o the Democracy

    Alliance. In 005 George Soros and 70 millionaires and

    billionaires got together to discuss urther prospects or

    buying up the Democratic Party. On July 7, 006 the

    Washington Post reported that there was a requirementthat every member o the Democratic Alliance give

    $00,000 to the organization, but most members gave

    more, and Soros was one o the top three contributors.

    Democratic Alliance unds were thrown into organiza-

    tions like the Center or American Progress (CAP) and

    the Association o Community Organizations or Reorm

    Now (ACORN). These organizations also played a role

    in operations against Senator Clinton in the primary

    campaign.

    For example, on May 1, the day o the West Virginia

    primary, John Edwards publicly stated his neutral posi-tion concerning which candidate he would back or Presi-

    dent until the nominating convention in August. A day lat-

    er he came out to endorse Obama, ollowing Obamas

    deeat by Senator Clinton by huge margins in the West

    Virginia primary. Edwards thus participated in a public

    spectacle meant to take the sting away rom the millions

    o votes Clinton received rom the poorest state in the na-

    tion. Edwards had just launched an anti-poverty cam-

    paign called Hal-In-Ten, which proposes to cut poverty

    in hal in the next ten years. Edwards anti-poverty cam-

    paign received signicant unding rom the Soros con-

    trolled CAP and ACORN organizations. In addition to

    threats and other pressure tactics known to have been uti-

    lized against super-delegates, one wonders what might

    have been brought against Edwards concerning the und-

    ing o the programs dearest to him?

    Barack ObamaObama himsel has been blessed with Soros sot mon-

    ey since he was an Illinois State Senator. Obamas career in

    national politics was catapulted by George Soros pool o

    dough during his run or U.S. Senate in 004. Throughout

    that campaign year Soros kept tabs on Obama. On July 4,

    004, one month beore the Democratic Nominating Con-vention in Boston, Obama was the only candidate Soros per-

    sonally met with that year in Soros New York home. This

    same year, Soros and his amily raised $60,000 or Obama.

    In 006 Obama, as U.S. Senator or the state o Illinois,

    had his sights set on bigger things. He met with Soros

    again in his Manhattan oce. That meeting lasted about

    an hour. Immediately aterward Soros introduced Obama

    to a dozen o the biggest money bags in politics, including

    nancier and hedge und manager Orin Kramer and

    Union Bank o Switzerland U.S. Chie Robert Wol. A

    week later Wol had dinner with Obama in Washington

    D.C. to crat his campaign strategy, one month beore

    Obama ocially launched his Presidential bid.

    Obama announced his candidacy or President in Jan-

    uary 007. In just our months, Soros and Wol raised

    $500,000 or Obama. From April until the closing months

    Photo: John Pettitt / DeanForAmerica.com

    Howard Scream Dean

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    o the primary campaign season, Soros and his associates

    held a series o undraisers and practically guaranteed a

    steady fow o money into his campaign. In act, Soros

    played a major role in changing how political campaigns

    are run in the United States, through his support or the

    McCain-Feingold campaign reorm legislation in 00.

    Soros Open Society claims that it provided the key logisti-

    cal support or the legislation by mobilizing itsel and oth-

    er oundations to lobby or the legislation and to raise the

    money needed to deend it against subsequent court chal-

    lenges. As a result o the McCain-Feingold act and subse-

    quent developments, PACs with wealthy sponsors, like

    MoveOn, internet based movements, and wealthy bund-

    ler, like those who predominate in Obamas campaign,

    have taken the place o constituency organizations, and

    have thus become the central ocus o all political activity.

    So, ater the vast sums o cash that were thrown around,

    ater key Clinton support was simply bought o, should

    there be any mystery as to how Obamaapparently got thenomination?

    LESSONS FOR DENVER

    FDRs 1932 Victory Over

    Londons Wall Street Fascistsby Jeffrey SteinbergOn July 1, 19, New York Gov. Frank-

    lin Delano Roosevelt won the Demo-

    cratic Party Presidential nomination

    by a landslide vote o 945-190, over his

    nearest rival and avowed political ene-

    my, the ormer New York governor and

    J.P. Morgan tool, Alred E. Smith. On

    Nov. 8, 19, Roosevelt won a second

    landslide victory, this time over incum-bent Republican President Herbert

    Hoover. Roosevelt won 57% o the pop-

    ular vote, and swept the Electoral Col-

    lege by 47-59. It was the greatest man-

    date or change in memory, and FDRimmediately set out to return the U.

    S.A. to the tradition o the American

    System o political-economy, and, in so

    doing, brought the country out o the

    depths o the Great Depression, and

    prepared the nation or the great bat-

    tles to come, against Nazism and Fas-cismand an expected post-war battle

    to end the scourge o Anglo-Dutch co-

    lonialism.

    Most Americans, with even a slight

    degree o historical literacy, know these

    basic acts about the election o 19. Few, however, know

    how close the nation came to a disaster at the Democratic

    nominating convention in Chicago; how close FDR came

    to being deprived o the Presidential nomination, despite

    a groundswell o popular support; and how ruthlessly his

    Wall Street and City o London enemies sought to over-

    turn the outcome o the 19 election, through attempted

    assassination and coup dtat.

    Franklin D. Roosevelts nomination as the Democratic candidate or President was ar romassured when the 1932 convention met in Chicago; it took our ballots, and a knock-downdrag-out political fght against the London-Wall Street interests who backed FDRs opponents.He is shown here campaigning in Kansas in 1932.

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    It is that story, rarely told, that oers a vital lesson to-

    day to the Democratic Party, and to the American people,

    as the nation aces another monumental Presidential elec-

    tionan election, like 19, that once again may deter-

    mine whether the United States survives or another gen-

    eration, as the sovereign republic established by the

    Founding Fathers.

    A Challenge to Wall StreetFrom the time that Franklin Roosevelt was reelected

    governor o New York in November 190, by a sweeping

    majority, he emerged as the clear rontrunner or the

    Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 19. He

    had already staked out a new direction or the nation,through his published writings and speeches, and some o

    the emergency measures he had taken as governor, to deal

    with the crushing impact o the 199 Wall Street stock

    market crash, and the ensuing collapse o the U.S. econo-

    my.

    In 191, he pushed legislation through the Republican-

    majority New York State Legislature, which created the

    Temporary Emergency Relie Administration (TERA),

    with Harry Hopkins as the executive director. The $0 mil-

    lion program created jobs or the construction o hospi-

    tals, schools, and other vital inrastructure in the state,

    and provided other relie or the growing legions o unem-

    ployed. But Roosevelt made it clear that his eorts in New

    York were being countered, at every turn, by the Hoover

    Administration in Washington, that was more committed

    to bailing out the bankrupt nancial institutions, than it

    was to providing or the welare o an increasingly desper-

    ate American people.

    In July 198, FDR had penned an article or Foreign A-airs, the journal o the Council on Foreign Relations,which presented a Democratic View o Our Foreign

    Policy, in which he boldly spelled out a radical overhaul

    o American oreign policy, in the tradition o John Quin-

    cy Adams and the Treaty o Westphalia. Beore being strik-en with polio in 191, FDR had been Assistant Secretary

    o the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson, and had

    been the unsuccessul Democratic Party Vice Presidential

    candidate in 190.

    FDR wrote in Foreign Aairs, The time has come whenwe must accept not only certain acts but many new prin-

    ciples o a higher law, a newer and better standard in in-

    ternational relations. We are exceedingly jealous o our

    own sovereignty, and it is only right that we should respect

    a similar eeling among other nations. The peoples o the

    other Republics o this Western world are just as patriotic,

    just as proud o their sovereignty. Many o these nations

    are large, wealthy and highly civilized. The peace, the se-

    curity, the integrity, the independence o every one o the

    American Republics is o interest to all the others, not to

    the United States alone. . . . Single-handed intervention by

    us in the internal aairs o other nations must end; with

    the cooperation o others we shall have more order in this

    hemisphere and less dislike. . . . The time is ripe to start an-

    other chapter. On that new page there is much that should

    be written in the spirit o our orebears. I the leadership

    is rightor, more truly, i the spirit behind it is greatthe

    United States can regain the worlds trust and riendship

    and become again o service. We can point the way once

    more to the reducing o armaments; we can cooperate o-

    cially and whole-heartedly with every agency that stud-

    ies and works to relieve the common ills o mankind; and

    we can or all time renounce the practice o arbitrary in-

    tervention in the home aairs o our neighbors.

    The policies and ideas presented by FDR were not onlyanathema to his Republican rivals. They were at unda-

    mental odds with the London-allied Wall Street interests

    that held a vise-grip control over the Democratic Party,

    rom the top down.

    Following his 198 deeat by Hoover, the Democratic

    Party Presidential candidate, Alred Smith, FDRs earlier

    sponsor, turned bitterly against Roosevelt. Smith was uri-

    ous that FDR had won the 198 New York gubernatorial

    election, while he had been overwhelmingly deeated in

    New York State by Hoover. FDR had also reused to give

    Smith hands-on control over his top Albany appoint-

    ments.

    Even more to the point, Smith had already been coopt-

    ed by the powerul J.P. Morgan banking interests, which

    were among the City o Londons fagship assets inside

    Wall Street. Smith was installed as a top executive o the

    Morgan-nanced Empire State Corp., which built the Em-

    pire State Building, and became a witting tool o the Mor-

    gan interests, who had other, equally powerul hooks into

    the Democratic Party.

    Following the disastrous 198 Hoover victory over

    Smith, the Democratic Party had allen deep into debt.

    The party owed an estimated $1,600,000a considerable

    sum o money in those days. To bail out the party, Morganasset John Jakob Raskob stepped in to loan the party over

    $70,000. In return, Raskob, who had managed Smiths

    ailed Presidential campaign, was named chairman o the

    Democratic Party. He, in turn, appointed another Morgan

    man, ormer Democratic Congressman Jouett Shouse, as

    the partys executive director. Just months beore taking

    over the party, Raskob had lamented that he was not able

    to vote or his avorite politician, Calvin Coolidge, or

    President in 198. Raskob had been a lie-long Republican

    up until that point.

    Born in 1879, Raskob went to work or Pierre du Pont

    in 1900, and rose rapidly through the ranks o the Mor-

    gan-nanced chemical and arms combine. By 1914, Ras-

    kob was treasurer o the DuPont Corporation. Four years

    later, ater DuPont took control o 4% o the stock in Gen-

    eral Motors, Raskob was named vice president or nance

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    o both GM and DuPont. By the early 190s, Morgan had

    bought a $5 million stake in GM, making it a joint Du-

    Pont-Morgan venture. Raskob remained vice president o

    GM until 198, when he took over Al Smiths Presidential

    campaign, steering the New York Governor hard-right,

    into the Morgan camp. Raskob remained at DuPont or

    another decade, amassing a very large personal ortune.

    Throughout the 190s, Raskob was on Morgans list o

    preerred customers, who were beneciaries o insider

    trading, and privileged stock purchases.

    Fascism for AllDuring the 190s, Morgan and allied London and Wall

    Street banks had nanced Italys Fascist leader BenitoMussolini. In 195, or example, Morgan partner Thom-

    as Lamont arranged a $100 million loan to the Mussolini

    regime, at a point that the regime was in deep political

    trouble.

    At the same time that Morgan was bailing out Musso-

    lini, the DuPont and Morgan interests were launching a

    proto-ascist movement in the United Statesostensibly

    in opposition to Prohibition, which had been enacted

    with the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, rati-

    ed in January 1919. The Association Against the Prohi-

    bition Amendment (AAPA) was headed by Capt. William

    H. Stayton, but was run by a tightly knit group o Wall

    Streeters, including Pierre du Pont, Irne du Pont, Lam-

    mot du Pont, John Raskob, and Charles Sabin. Sabin

    was the chairman o the Morgan-owned New York Guar-

    anty Company. According to a Senate investigation into

    the AAPA, by 198, o the 8 directors o GM, 15 were

    listed as members o the group, which promoted the re-

    peal o Prohibition, and the replacement o corporate

    taxes with a tax on beer and liquor, based on the British

    model.

    The 1932 Democratic ConventionOn Jan. , 19, Roosevelt announced his candidacy

    or the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. The

    convention was scheduled or late June in Chicago. From

    the very outset, FDR was by ar the avorite to win the

    nomination and the Presidency. However, the top-down

    Morgan interests that literally owned the Democratic Par-

    ty, through Raskob and Shouse, had other plans. They

    launched a Stop Roosevelt operation, employing a num-

    ber o Morgan assets, and drawing upon party actions,

    which had their own dierences with FDR.

    Morgan man Al Smith announced his candidacy on

    Feb. 6, immediately creating a serious split in the New

    York Democratic Party. A number o avorite son candi-

    dates also entered the race, most with the understanding

    that they would ultimately throw their supportat a

    pricebehind either FDR or some rival, in the event that

    the convention was deadlocked. The Raskov-Shouse-Mor-

    gan strategy was to deny Roosevelt the nomination on the

    rst series o ballots, and then draw support away rom

    the New York governor, and behind their chosen compro-

    mise candidate, Newton D. Baker, Woodrow Wilsons

    Secretary o War (1916-191), and later a lawyer or the

    Morgan interests in Cleveland, Ohio.

    Although FDR competed in the Democratic primary

    elections, winning over hal the delegates, he suered

    several setbacks, orchestrated by the Morgan crowd and

    others. The biggest upset came in Caliornia, where Tex-

    an John Nance Garner, the Speaker o the House, won

    41% o the vote, to Roosevelts % and Al Smiths 6%.

    Garner had campaigned against Roosevelt and Smith as

    Tammany Hall politicians, and had the backing o Wil-liam Gibbs McAdoo, the Caliornia lawyer, who had been

    Wilsons Secretary o the Treasury (191-1918), and a

    two-time contender or the Democratic Presidential

    nomination, in 190 and 194. McAdoo was the son-in-

    law o President Wilson, and, appropriately, had the

    strong backing o the Ku Klux Klan in his 194 bid or

    the nomination (Wilson had shamelessly boosted the re-

    vival o the KKK rom the White House, through his pro-

    motion o the Hollywood lm,Birth o a Nation, whichlionized the racist organization). In 194, McAdoo had

    gotten into a pitched battle with Smith over the nomina-

    tion, deadlocking the convention or days, and leading,

    ultimately, to the selection o a compromise candidate,

    John W. Davisyet, another lawyer or the Morgan in-

    terests.

    McAdoo also had a very close relationship with the

    countrys leading publisher, William Randolph Hearst,

    who, at one time, had also sought the Democratic Presi-

    dential nomination.

    Going into the Chicago convention, Roosevelt had

    well-over hal o the 1,154 delegate votes needed to clinch

    the nomination. However, the rules o the party required

    a two-thirds majority, which meant that 770 votes were

    needed to win. As long as the Morgan orces could blockany large crossovers, FDR could be deeated, despite the

    act that he had won 11 o the 1 primaries in which he

    competed, and had won 44.5% o the total votes cast.

    Memories o the disastrous 194 nominating conven-

    tion, which took 10 ballots to break the deadlock be-

    tween Smith and McAdoo, added to the political cli-

    mate, avoring a Morgan-led anti-FDR compromise

    nominee.

    Adding to the political mineeld acing FDR, was the

    act that Chicagos Democratic mayor, Anton Cermak, was

    allied with the Stop Roosevelt orces, and was a leading

    proponent o the repeal o the 18th Amendment (he cov-

    eted control over liquor licensing and taxation, which

    would greatly enhance his nancial and political power),

    and he would control who would be allowed into the gal-

    leries at the convention center, an important psychologi-

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    cal intimidation actor. Cermak had gone East on the eve

    o the convention, to meet with Raskob and Shouse, os-tensibly to push an anti-Prohibition plank or the party

    platorm.

    The Backdrop to the ConventionCermak also hoped that the revenues generated by

    hosting both the Democratic and Republican nominating

    conventions would bail Chicago out o a desperate nan-

    cial crisis. 750,000 Chicagoans had lost their jobs since

    the 199 Crash; over 100,000 amilies were on some kind

    o public welare; hal o the banks in Chicago had gone

    under; city workers, including police and teachers, were

    being paid in IOUs; and almost every luxury hotel in the

    citys amous downtown Loop was in bankruptcy receiver-

    ship. On the eve o the convention, 759 teachers had lost

    their homes, because they had not been paid in ve

    months, according to the authoritative account o the

    19 convention, Happy Days Are Here Again, by SteveNeal (HarperCollins, New York, 004). And garbage col-

    lectors had also gone on strike, ater missing months o

    pay, resulting in a pile-up o garbage everywhere.

    Arriving delegates were greeted by Hoovervilles all

    over the city. Writing or The New Republic, John DosPassos described the scene on Michigan Avenue: Down

    here the air, drenched with the exhaust rom the grind-

    ing motors o trucks, is ull o dust and the roar o the

    heavy trac that hauls the citys reight. They lie in rows

    along the edges above the roadway, huddled in grimed

    newspapers, men who have nothing let but their sti,

    hungry, grimy bodies, men who have lost the power to

    want.Weeks beore the convention opened, Samuel Insull,

    the leading industrialist in Chicago, had lost his entire

    $170 million personal ortune, when debts were called

    in on his utility companies, which suered huge losses

    through the collapse o industry and the all-o in elec-

    tricity consumption. The Morgan interests were widely

    accused o be