tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646770221653668112024-03-05T22:46:41.617-08:00Where's The Change?Alternative political/cultural commentary from an historical New Left working-class counter-cultural perspective.b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.comBlogger1287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-84979405877815877792024-02-24T10:31:00.000-08:002024-02-24T10:31:50.021-08:00Excerpt From Upton Sinclair's 1933 Book, `The Way Out'<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuETA0DlSkLu9sZIgZwLTAXrtuwQXpb0rez6TcIj5WP-DBdQ0CKcZYuQiINTbC57Dw1r4x9DQJ5q7nLL9kFODZL_RYJrxuExGuLesMwbL5523i-nB5_kl5AxDa6vuZ14Qo-ntbWOtJm9d_HXswz3EEcA2qtvWeXLzJM-UakEbJ9VhNS_hBsddZHELlTI/s4032/31525120396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikuETA0DlSkLu9sZIgZwLTAXrtuwQXpb0rez6TcIj5WP-DBdQ0CKcZYuQiINTbC57Dw1r4x9DQJ5q7nLL9kFODZL_RYJrxuExGuLesMwbL5523i-nB5_kl5AxDa6vuZ14Qo-ntbWOtJm9d_HXswz3EEcA2qtvWeXLzJM-UakEbJ9VhNS_hBsddZHELlTI/w326-h640/31525120396.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In his 1933-published book, titled <b>The Way Out: What Lies Ahead For America</b>, 20th-century socialist journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair wrote the following:</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"There is no greater economic delusion in the world than that of benefit in the process of shipping goods all over the earth. It is sheer waste, justified only in cases where the country has not the raw materials to make that particular product...It appears that the purpose of international trade is to bring...people down to the coolie standard.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">"I say that the American workers have been perfectly right in their determination to prevent this. Let the consumer be required to pay for every product a price which will give living wages to the workers. But then, I add, let us see that the money goes to the workers, and not to speculators and parasites of one sort and another, collectors of interest, dividends, and profits. Very certainly this will not be achieved by letting foreign slave-drivers bring our wages down to their levels..."</span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-27394859848583300482024-02-14T09:20:00.000-08:002024-02-14T09:20:29.779-08:00Show Me Films<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Sy0hXgJplz8/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Sy0hXgJplz8?si=6vzbApZnJmT-GQIf" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-3946613666622589172023-12-19T09:21:00.000-08:002023-12-19T09:21:11.583-08:00Columbia University is Buying Up Harlem (How Can We Stop Them?)<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2kYrQZM_jX0?si=Gs4OgTrJ1KQmQxeE" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-72795619414451991742023-11-28T12:55:00.000-08:002023-11-28T12:55:07.281-08:00Columbia University Hates Harlem?<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ta-5-ArvYMU?si=UxNYBbcrMW0UpX_J" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-83656303432432950552023-09-02T21:32:00.004-07:002023-09-02T21:32:28.851-07:00Columbia U., Race, Class and the Gentrification of Harlem<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/aOy0UinEM-Y?si=DuNoUWGKLfI7s2te" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-62706942222720261002023-06-25T20:34:00.004-07:002023-06-25T20:34:34.544-07:00Die To Defend Chevron Update<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w3EN2win3_E/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/w3EN2win3_E" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-75984118616110672772023-03-31T22:02:00.009-07:002023-03-31T22:02:54.293-07:00Lover! Comrade!<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ajj9cQ1XGVM/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ajj9cQ1XGVM" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-58114010212647310452023-02-19T14:09:00.004-08:002023-02-19T14:09:24.509-08:00The People On The Hill<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/P-9oHq9Uofs" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-11480397372035270062023-01-10T21:26:00.002-08:002023-01-10T21:26:34.582-08:00The Same Old Faces<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/cC-5EAaYHwc" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-71748285516329650902022-11-09T20:23:00.002-08:002022-11-09T20:23:21.193-08:00Stop Luxury Construction!<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5xFHpR6szkE/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/5xFHpR6szkE" frameborder="0"></iframe>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-26882690360623234262022-10-17T19:22:00.000-07:002022-10-17T19:22:42.385-07:00Democratic Congressional Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's National Hispanic Institute [NHI] Connection<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Most U.S. anti-war movement supporters don't think that the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government since February 2022 has either decreased the danger of World War III breaking out or brought much peace to the people living in Ukraine.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yet one of New York City's Democratic representatives in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has apparently not attempted to do very much in Washington, D.C. to oppose the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Although Rep. Ocasio-Cortez now represents some Bronx and Queens residents in the U.S. Congress, the Democratic Party congressional representative has, historically, been connected politically to an organization, not based in New York City, which operates under the name "National Hispanic Institute" [NHI]. As David Freedlander observed in his 2021 book, <b><i>The AOC Generation: How Millenials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics</i></b>:</span></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;">"If there was another guiding force in Ocasio-Cortez's life it was...the National Hispanic Institute [NHI]...Ocasio-Cortez participated in NHI programming before her junior year in high school when she, along with 150 or so of her peers, went to the group's Lorezo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session [LDZ]...</i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"At this summer institute, Ocasio-Cortez ran for every office available...Ocasio-Cortez was just one of two students from the East, and the only one from New York. She lost every election she ran for...It is easy to draw a straight line from 2018 to the teenager who went to the NHI summer program, where she learned the skills of a candidate...Ocasio-Cortez told [NHI Founder Ernesto] Nieto...`...I found that NHI helped me so much...because NHI helped me develop who I am...'</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The NHI wasn't just something that Ocasio-Cortez did a couple of summers while she was in high school. It's how she got connected to Boston University, which was actively recruiting among NHI students when Ocasio-Cortez was in high school. During college and after, she returned to work at the institute in various capacities, and when she refers to herself as `an educator' in her campaign materials, she is referring to her time leading students at NHI.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Ocasio-Cortez wrote the afterword to [NHI Founder Ernesto] Nieto's memoir, <b>Third Reality Revealed: Vision, Persistence, and Inventing a New Latino Identity</b> while she was still in college...After graduation, AOC returned to NHI as a social entrepreneurship fellow and then, a couple of years after that, as a...trainer. She worked several summers in a program called the Collegiate World Series and...in 2018...lead one of the institute's seminars.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"People who were with her at NHI remember her as...ambitious...As Ocasio-Cortez bounced around in her college years, she had what was essentially a standing offer to return to NHI and work full-time..."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8t3nlS0WN6r7e0hbXdW5PkQ2DFMVk79g9k8XCf-1JofCkgKzBrXt2i8jLPrjHLiih819iz1ABscgkbkNxIzFhCCbBYUvTuaLR4UoepoTqL4GwG-gR6VZaicK3LwqnHLqIQuIN-mu7tucuXBiOGdxqLnaLyF73kd8Yr1DF9Xo8_J-GjsyJoZgJBLXC/s293/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="191" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8t3nlS0WN6r7e0hbXdW5PkQ2DFMVk79g9k8XCf-1JofCkgKzBrXt2i8jLPrjHLiih819iz1ABscgkbkNxIzFhCCbBYUvTuaLR4UoepoTqL4GwG-gR6VZaicK3LwqnHLqIQuIN-mu7tucuXBiOGdxqLnaLyF73kd8Yr1DF9Xo8_J-GjsyJoZgJBLXC/w261-h400/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" width="261" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-17234144737981436592022-10-15T10:59:00.000-07:002022-10-15T10:59:11.968-07:00Democratic Congressional Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Historic Family And Westchester Co. Background<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Most U.S. anti-war movement supporters don't think that the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government since February 2022 has either decreased the danger of World War III breaking out or brought much peace to the people living in Ukraine.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yet one of New York City's Democratic representatives in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has apparently not attempted to do very much in Washington, D.C. to oppose the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Although Rep. Ocasio-Cortez now represents some Bronx and some Queens tenants in the U.S. Congress, her family apparently historically owned two apartments in the Bronx and a house in Westchester County; and the Bronx-Queens congressional representative historically attended a high school in Westchester County. As David Freedlander noted in his 2021 book, T<b><i>he AOC Generation: How Millenials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics</i></b>:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Sergio Ocasio...got into Brooklyn Tech...He met AOC's mother, Bianca Cortez, in Puerto Rico, where the two married before settling in the Bronx. They bought an apartment in the...middle-income Parkchester complex for $36,000 and later bought another similarly priced unit nearby, where Ocasio kept an office...His business, Kirschenbaum and Ocasio Roman Architects PC...were beneficiaries of...state contracts...Clients included the Parkchester complex, where the Ocasio-Cortez family owned an apartment...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Ocasio-Cortez...grew up not in the Bronx, but in Westchester County...Ocasio-Cortez was...explicit that the home in Yorktown Heights, a town of under 2,000 people in Westchester County, was purchased with the help of aunts, uncles, and other relatives...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...In Westchester she was often the lone Latino in her class...Yorktown was not diverse...Another friend said there were only a handful of Asian kids in their class of three hundred, and no African American students..."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiktr0YQ-9PCdM-nz_YwhVg_jhulXWlyH90FNX9GjyJ3jrFHqDlDYg6ugY8fPPV8TgWbJfiony9KkuwHZ93BtX2vOBr3Y4au7QpxEX9IkabJpamnKgu7NDtt82QKmVXnfFIGreSxV_yW-EAWnbbxGiS4NrRh2n3LkYNPlgGrBxny_SoxLL0OmYpsvS/s293/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="191" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiktr0YQ-9PCdM-nz_YwhVg_jhulXWlyH90FNX9GjyJ3jrFHqDlDYg6ugY8fPPV8TgWbJfiony9KkuwHZ93BtX2vOBr3Y4au7QpxEX9IkabJpamnKgu7NDtt82QKmVXnfFIGreSxV_yW-EAWnbbxGiS4NrRh2n3LkYNPlgGrBxny_SoxLL0OmYpsvS/w261-h400/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" width="261" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-13718764800013994582022-10-14T11:36:00.000-07:002022-10-14T11:36:15.429-07:00Democratic Congressional Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Historic Boston U. Connection<p><span style="font-size: large;">Most U.S. anti-war movement supporters don't think that the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government since February 2022 has either decreased the danger of World War III breaking out or brought much peace to the people living in Ukraine.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Yet one of New York City's Democratic representatives in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has apparently not attempted to do very much in Washington, D.C. to oppose the U.S. Congress's support for shipping more munitions to the Ukrainian government.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Although Rep. Ocasio-Cortez now represents some Bronx and some Queens residents in the U.S. Congress, a private unversity in Boston, Massachusetts--Boston University--is the university that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez historically attended. As David Freedlander recalled in his 2021 book, <b><i>The AOC Generation: How Millenials are seizing power and rewriting the rules of American politics</i></b>:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2011, and...she was a college senior, and the lone student on the Boston University campus invited to speak at the university's annual remembrance ceremony...Ocasio-Cortez studied economics and international relations at Boston Universiity...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Friends say that she was animated in college by a lot of the same concerns that animated her early political career...Ocasio-Cortez would join [then Democratic U.S. Senator Ted] Kennedy's office as an intern...Ocasio-Cortez...worked for Kennedy's immigrant constituent office...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...If you were a Boston University student at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century--even if you weren't a regular at the Thruman Center or part of the regular Coffee and Conversation group or in the slam poetry group or in Alianza Latina, the school's Latin American student organization--you more than likely knew who Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"She was part of what was known as `The BU 500', those...students who...seem to have a close relationship with the administration...She gave a Ted Talk alongside other Boston-area college students in which her bio read: `A social entrepreneur...She has consulted non-profits, worked in government, and launched a media enterprise...'...She was quoted in a National Public Radio [NPR] story about how college students were reacting to the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces...AOC...said,`...This villain has been slayed...'"</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8lkPCIMpA6O06nV-mDkaeS9OC9kchDWsKBQl8liZmUslEf_RpK-rloPtidY0QvH5ANtGtcFIEARGRQ1jRMpYb9CZSa622JiA7pv9qXrMXDOoPr_Nf1IDrQQ6D3y7imG6jseMCnbPRREZtnWFk2O9__xWWq2TKzOLg4DFJ-TMxRps-XAIkPAmnNf4Z/s293/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="191" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8lkPCIMpA6O06nV-mDkaeS9OC9kchDWsKBQl8liZmUslEf_RpK-rloPtidY0QvH5ANtGtcFIEARGRQ1jRMpYb9CZSa622JiA7pv9qXrMXDOoPr_Nf1IDrQQ6D3y7imG6jseMCnbPRREZtnWFk2O9__xWWq2TKzOLg4DFJ-TMxRps-XAIkPAmnNf4Z/w261-h400/51xYDNM5ojL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.webp" width="261" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p> </p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-54900223132173933452022-10-12T20:42:00.000-07:002022-10-12T20:42:37.727-07:00`Fare-Free Transit'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyyxXwWaYLv5TdExyeL1aZDsl_lg_aQVhd7O4WSAWevIQnOOybE9RzojKddcClcO1gydBIoBCL4pS9-iQ_1WQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A folk song from 2022 explaining why MBTA should also establish a fare-free public transit system for riders in Boston, Massachusetts in 2022.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Kansas City</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Olympia</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Albuquerque</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Outbound trolleys were once fare-free inBoston</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And for Philly elders, the subway is fare-free</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>It's fare-free for all riders in Estonia</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>They have a billion dollars to spend</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>For new fare collection machines</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yet they claim the T can't afford to be fare-free</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>While paying T managers six-figure salaries.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Lowell</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Lawrence</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Chapel Hill</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all transit free in Luxembourg</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And for Miami elders buses are fare-free</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Elders ride free in Lebanon, Pennsylvania</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>They have millions of dollars to spend</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>To pay off "The Big Dig" debt</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And they have 30 million dollars to spend</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>For new stations by BU's campus.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>All ride for free in Corvalis, Oregon</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And in campus towns like Ann Arbor</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And also in Boulder and Denver</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>In France, it's fare-free in Dunkirk</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And some transit is fare-free in Baltimore</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>All elderly ride fare-free in Scotland</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>They have a billion dollars to spend</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>On new fare collection machines</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yet they claim the T can't afford to be fare-free</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>While paying T managers six-figure salaries.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses fare-free in Malta</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>And in Wales it's free for elderly</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Hasselt, Belgium</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yes, you can ride all buses free in Kansas City</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Olympia</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>You can ride all buses free in Albuquerque</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>But in Boston, they still make you pay a fare.</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-12297298698688257602022-10-10T21:38:00.000-07:002022-10-10T21:38:08.272-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Conclusion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczn3bw9wMA97g0o79nPIaf97VHJdwJTrZJZHzsPNbezdaib4yCSyKA5bS2-lwDHB0hM7HDWWhRu-iBS45KruqE3-sY2XgBa5ZtAdCCMh6lN4dmBrlw8EzJSDu_i2n4fsCIsJkPBnjokv7rtp4ydZMxaQTCW1b6F6BAjcTU0392ZETNty2CHMOVn9I/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczn3bw9wMA97g0o79nPIaf97VHJdwJTrZJZHzsPNbezdaib4yCSyKA5bS2-lwDHB0hM7HDWWhRu-iBS45KruqE3-sY2XgBa5ZtAdCCMh6lN4dmBrlw8EzJSDu_i2n4fsCIsJkPBnjokv7rtp4ydZMxaQTCW1b6F6BAjcTU0392ZETNty2CHMOVn9I/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Getting...the White House, Soros said in 2003, became the `central focus' of his life. In July 2003, he convened Democratic activists and two political strategists, Mark Steitz and Tom Novick, at his summer estate in...Southampton, Long Island...The plan was about how Soros...could throw money--and a lot of it--into the political arena...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...The second key part of the plan highlighted that...donors...could give money to...groups...Pushed by Jane Mayer in her <b>New Yorker</b> interview about the perceived hypocrisy of his spending large amounts of money on politics, Soros said, `...The ends justify every legal means possible.'</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros donated $5 million to MoveOn.org...He pledged money to America Coming Together, a group intended to mobilize voters in 17 swing states...He gave to the Center for American Progress...Altogether, Soros spent $27 million to...elect...John Kerry...The aforementioned 2004 <b>New Yorker</b> article on his spending was titled `The Money Man.' Jane Mayer conducted an interview with Soros over lunch at his Southampton estate...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Soros...supported NATO's military intervention, which did not have U.N. approval, in the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s...Open Society had also been involved in Ukraine...Soros had been funding various civil society groups in Ukraine for a decade...George Soros...made money all over the world; he made...financial decisions that caused...average people to lose large amounts of money and private-equity funds he controlled used an offshore law firm Appleby...A 2017 article published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...quoted Brooke Harrington, a Copenhagen Business School professor, as saying that the offshore industry makes `the poor pporer' and excerbates wealth inequality...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Soros...wants to be one of the people dictating the future of politics...Soros, through Open Society, does support NGOs...Soros was never elected...The NGOs he supports...are not accountable to the general public. Soros does have far more power than the average person, and his...work isn't bound by borders, and he did make his money as a speculator. All of that is true..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-25584335825540671282022-10-06T21:08:00.000-07:002022-10-06T21:08:04.256-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 10<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxD7MAkBxwTeWPBWEQNNngUVHn1oWfhXcWmeaVmjc_q-F8Z1Xb1BnK6j4S9hJnQwt3uqz5c2pfJmN5Vij-WUNfL6aHEIRBc_oy-9OhSuLhTylxHPI15IcZGvXo6mhpiMYGaAmUnsOYq_nETapczPNpvOd5UgzwxZ2ixZ1iGNh0EFyRbKP5PDmr3uz2/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxD7MAkBxwTeWPBWEQNNngUVHn1oWfhXcWmeaVmjc_q-F8Z1Xb1BnK6j4S9hJnQwt3uqz5c2pfJmN5Vij-WUNfL6aHEIRBc_oy-9OhSuLhTylxHPI15IcZGvXo6mhpiMYGaAmUnsOYq_nETapczPNpvOd5UgzwxZ2ixZ1iGNh0EFyRbKP5PDmr3uz2/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"A billionaire with so much money, accountable to no one, unelected by any people to any government...It is Soros, with all his money and all his power, who is picking people--like Licht, like Finci, like Trbic'--who are then...empowered...They were given power to advance their personal agendas...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...It seemed wrong to me that one man from abroad could have such a large role in determining who in a society was able to have a voice and a platform and tremendous sums of money with which to execute an agenda...George Soros was not from Bosnia, or the former Yugoslavia, and yet had had power and influence in the society...And who is George Soros to decide that this is the issue on which...aid and attention should be spent? Why was George Soros essentially an actor in a civil war across the world? Who appointed him...?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...The Charter 77 Foundation, which funded...Czeck and Slovak dissidents...was launched in Stockholm in the late 1970s. Soros, working with Czechs and Slovaks in exile, was, by his own admission, their main source of support..."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-85698453450469373002022-10-03T19:16:00.000-07:002022-10-03T19:16:07.584-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 9<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOL07HHsMUyB4wpvbL8Wd4jVAfmQUzytBCqlVSnrxSalN5Jnc92uhf_q1K5NPCSc1RG2zN55Fbe1PyuTk7RGZyHm19XMkYX9b6PrCS6ir-9rFwd2XQNlGIMpYGvQ58CrZW93Gw5_0_uNDQj3k3xAThDseOJa0T3llMAbx_erF1XZ9uQl4sjKdK0nC5/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOL07HHsMUyB4wpvbL8Wd4jVAfmQUzytBCqlVSnrxSalN5Jnc92uhf_q1K5NPCSc1RG2zN55Fbe1PyuTk7RGZyHm19XMkYX9b6PrCS6ir-9rFwd2XQNlGIMpYGvQ58CrZW93Gw5_0_uNDQj3k3xAThDseOJa0T3llMAbx_erF1XZ9uQl4sjKdK0nC5/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros has justified speculation...The value of the baht plunged 32 percent against the dollar, and millions of Thai people lost their livelihoods. The Soros fund made $750 million...The Thai financial crisis sspread, becoming the Asia financial crisis, and Soros was blamed...At the 1997 World Bank and International Monetary Fund [IMF] meetings, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahather Mohamad called Soros a `criminal'...and claimed that he...caused the crash of the Malaysian ringgit...Soros...shorted the British pound...He and his employees helped trigger the Asian financial crisis..</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"`The industry in which he made his money is an industry whose norms and rules have generally served to disenfranchise regular people over the last thirty, forty years,' said Anand Giridharadas, author of <b>Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World</b>, a look at the way in which the very wealthy use philanthropy to protect the status quo and paper over problems they themselves have created, in a September 2019 phone interview...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros...was still participating in a system that actively disenfranchises people...Soros...worked in finance in such a way that it broke countries' currencies..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-634314254139769342022-09-30T22:04:00.000-07:002022-09-30T22:04:37.694-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 8<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEf4uW9TrOBkZ4lb8YPbKsVqkcSuAmumgLEVSGY4K2W0M4OZ1k3D1XQRQ5zfD5W6vr7mm-hIsb74SAXFZGoRw2mUxzTc2w97hZ_yP_EFir920eGZNBMMMBlOcgM76QctrDbHfr-ZyQyQGbCXaCxsPnIhutwktoNc9HMLrlx0dZ5oWYXlzKaZ7obelS/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEf4uW9TrOBkZ4lb8YPbKsVqkcSuAmumgLEVSGY4K2W0M4OZ1k3D1XQRQ5zfD5W6vr7mm-hIsb74SAXFZGoRw2mUxzTc2w97hZ_yP_EFir920eGZNBMMMBlOcgM76QctrDbHfr-ZyQyQGbCXaCxsPnIhutwktoNc9HMLrlx0dZ5oWYXlzKaZ7obelS/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"By the 1990s, there were enough foundations established that Soros's work evolved into a network. The staff in New York was growing...and Soros ended up opening an office space on Seventh Avenue...By 1994, when [Journalist Michael] Lewis traveled with Soros through Eastern Europe, Soros was dining with multiple presidents in one day and told his interlocutor, `Just write that the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire.'...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros said...`As a hedge fund manager I...tried to maximize my profits'...In October [1991],..The<b> Daily Mail</b> ran a photo of Soros with the headline, `I Made A Billion Crashing the Pound.'...Soros said that [Soros's] Quantum and its offshoots had bet...ten billion dollars against sterling, and that...speculation had gotten roughly two billion dollars in profits.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Invisible investors like Soros, owing no allegiance as citizens, could place bets big enough to change economic outcomes for entire nations,' Martin Vander Weyer, business editor of <b>The Spectato</b>r, wrote for <b>The Telegraph</b> in 2012...A country was thrown into economic chaos...And this happened at least in part because Soros saw an opportunity to make a lot of money...Soros...wanted his empire to be grand and global..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-37597737484708745622022-09-28T21:22:00.000-07:002022-09-28T21:22:45.567-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 7<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WHzjuOqcDceDzf5OvQFDluGae_oNgomf_EvIzrOZr6Tzz16uhDE6wVJF3YpHocDblbdMJtUDgYeTckPWXsCEJeMNoUr0oi8qa820MxKBD52SUmX-w3lzTSC37PC0OzRj_ML8A5qJrWqiIgNdRacwhvRGPBvPOXZrZqGw8S0NMuiwG7seGPyk_8rD/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WHzjuOqcDceDzf5OvQFDluGae_oNgomf_EvIzrOZr6Tzz16uhDE6wVJF3YpHocDblbdMJtUDgYeTckPWXsCEJeMNoUr0oi8qa820MxKBD52SUmX-w3lzTSC37PC0OzRj_ML8A5qJrWqiIgNdRacwhvRGPBvPOXZrZqGw8S0NMuiwG7seGPyk_8rD/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-size: x-large;">In her 2020 book, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">, a U.S. senior editor of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>New Statesman</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Geza Jeszenskzky, who was minister of foreign affairs for Jozsef Antall...prime minister of Hungary, told me over email that Soros offered to settle Hungary's national debt in echange for stake in Hungary's state-owned companies. Jeszenskzky remembers the meeting as being in the fall of 1989 `at what was then called Hotel Novotel near the Southern Railway Terminal'...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"In addition to giving out scholarships, one of the Hungarian Soros Foundation's first projects was to offer photocopiers to institutions...Soros provided...many photocopiers...It was subversive--Soros was, in effect, funding underground...information...It was their first real, successful foray into philanthropy as subversion...Gabor Horn...in the late 1980s and early 1990s, received support from Soros as a representative of an independent labor union...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"The Soros Foundation was not the only institution to support...opposition movements, as Timothy Garton Ash...a professor of European studies at Oxford, told...over the phone from the United Kingdom...He got to know Soros `fairly quickly' because he was traveling around...Eastern Europe in the 1980s writing for the <b>New York Review of Books</b>. He described Soros as a `very important supporter of...opposition movements'...There were others involved, like the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. It was not just Soros.<br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"But Soros was indeed there supporting these opposition groups, including that group...Fidesz...Fidesz transformed from a youth organization to a political party..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-88328028484816122222022-09-23T13:45:00.001-07:002022-09-23T13:45:21.680-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 6 `<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3EJU9sM71P7Pmqin2CXAsnXDdGUijJMLiAMrRtF2c0c5bOQ__A0UWcvmXQmpHY6AVOOeQECfWGu4mcPI2qa9Kk_Hb0E7GDgDUBgSqlWRh-NCSa_JOcDoPtJmW3KCDfzx8cRidGto0Uz-HbWtBwTeBtADmjL08gbfvSla44z4DnUhByiSrkbLDRKN/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx3EJU9sM71P7Pmqin2CXAsnXDdGUijJMLiAMrRtF2c0c5bOQ__A0UWcvmXQmpHY6AVOOeQECfWGu4mcPI2qa9Kk_Hb0E7GDgDUBgSqlWRh-NCSa_JOcDoPtJmW3KCDfzx8cRidGto0Uz-HbWtBwTeBtADmjL08gbfvSla44z4DnUhByiSrkbLDRKN/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Philanthropy...is effectively a legal form of tax evasion, and Soros is one of many wealthy people who have set up charitable trusts or philanthropic organizations...toward these ends. Those with enough money can use it...to hold on to their money for themselves and their heirs...Soros...by his own admission...first set up a charitable...trust to keep money in the family and hand less of it over to the state for redistribution...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...In 1980, he turned to...awarding scholarships to dissidents in Eastern Europe...He also began directly financially supporting dissident movement like Solidarity in Poland.., Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia (a group led by intellectuals), and Andrei Sakharov's...movement in Soviet Russia. The idea that Soros has...funded groups that worked against the ruling government or parties is not...untrue...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...The Soros Foundation in Hungary, once established, continued to operate on a somewhat slective and secretive basis...From its earliest days, there was--by design--comething secretive about how George Soros gave the money away..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-53842391738003957882022-09-21T12:09:00.000-07:002022-09-21T12:09:19.477-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 5<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnDh9swn5zCMWS_MpsXN2teVhVFqdUe-o5v60Vf86ZSF4Ncmfe2_IDJDZu-zYFkdx3EsZeO7Rir4P1I04nEmaVM7Ulhogc5lHVNuxQWL1ov143yEFeDLcPJndOIVT8iB2QX4SIEgsY3xDp-YSpuy4euErdCCacLpNubDtY0Pa39WbGCY7YKTwKSES/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnDh9swn5zCMWS_MpsXN2teVhVFqdUe-o5v60Vf86ZSF4Ncmfe2_IDJDZu-zYFkdx3EsZeO7Rir4P1I04nEmaVM7Ulhogc5lHVNuxQWL1ov143yEFeDLcPJndOIVT8iB2QX4SIEgsY3xDp-YSpuy4euErdCCacLpNubDtY0Pa39WbGCY7YKTwKSES/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Soros...set up his own hedge fund in 1973. His fund was called the Soros Fund. He brought along Jim Rogers...They opened an office on Columbus Circle, not far from Soros's home at the time at 25 Central Park West. In 1978, the fund changed its name to Quantum Fund...(...around the time that Rogers left the fund.).</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"By 1981, the fund had...assets worth $381 million. Soros had a personal fortune of $100 million...Soros said that his financial strategy was informed by his philosphy...When he believed there was opportunity ahead, he went in for the kill. In 1973, for example, the Arab-Israeli War had shifted tectonic plates in the defense industry...Soros...bought defense stocks and made money...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...Soros met Susan Weber, twenty-five years his junior...in 1978, the same year he left Witschak, the two married in 1983...the same year of his first divorce...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"In 1979, Soros established The Open Society Fund as a charitable lead trust. His motives were not entirely altruistic. `A charitable lead trust is a very interesting tax gimmick.'.., he explained in the early 2000s...'...The principal that remains can be left [to one's heirs] without estate or gift tax. So this was the way I set up the trust for my children.'..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-17693481771502581352022-09-16T11:21:00.001-07:002022-09-16T11:21:39.449-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXivQJyyAnwx376UwT2kD7piU8lyQFGbzqIcZn-ziwHIP_5nQr8lhLb1QDchs6dgWL4hr4uLjTjldG5yo5rr5cQ45h-SYkKqTtV1TK--Acwxdi-9dZgeuMVzOnQQ0e02TqNU8un_MCz3U3iT_zS05q1NIg7_zi5ZBKdw0GtTyOck0XAjCRmHQlPtk/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzXivQJyyAnwx376UwT2kD7piU8lyQFGbzqIcZn-ziwHIP_5nQr8lhLb1QDchs6dgWL4hr4uLjTjldG5yo5rr5cQ45h-SYkKqTtV1TK--Acwxdi-9dZgeuMVzOnQQ0e02TqNU8un_MCz3U3iT_zS05q1NIg7_zi5ZBKdw0GtTyOck0XAjCRmHQlPtk/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In her 2020 book, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">, a U.S. senior editor of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>New Statesman</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"After graduating from LSE, Soros...wrote to all the merchant banks in London...At Singer & Friedlander...one of the managing directors was Hungarian.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"He got a job there in 1953 and worked in arbitrage and the stock exchange...George followed his brother and moved to America to work at a small brokerage firm on Wall Street owned by the father of one of his co-workers at Singer & Friedlander...George Soros moved to New York City to work in international arbitage...He lived...in a two-bedroom apartment on Riverside Drive...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros stayed at the brokerage firm, F.M. Mayer, for three years, but then, in 1959, moved to Wertheim & Co., an investment firm...In 1960, he married...Annaliese Witschak...with whom he moved to an apartment on Sheridan Square and built a house in Southampton...Another firm, Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder came calling. Soros began there in 1963...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...In 1966, at Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder, he set-up a model account with $100,000 of the firm's money...In 1969, he used $4 million to set up a hedge fund...named Double Eagle Fund...The Double Eagle Fund was successful...Soros was recommending stocks to clients that he was also potentially buying for his own account and so could have been accused of recommending stocks to make his own stocks perform better..." </i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-56490713792787207412022-09-14T21:57:00.002-07:002022-09-16T10:50:51.565-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 3<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NsOrPtB3RwaRv78RgHxIpY25SVXrt4r4bibvdh6juJ1lZbJzhnCtyVJJ-sbR2EfvwSIgb7mpCdP4Lcd87FNNhbZChOroLQ3rajhp_sSXC4bSo9bMYCxk-C4ouE_AXz-gy4FQlKjHIzHXWxq0apNG9jU2j7GBZQJod0i1scKnsCVhdBs0r_t7zLvL/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NsOrPtB3RwaRv78RgHxIpY25SVXrt4r4bibvdh6juJ1lZbJzhnCtyVJJ-sbR2EfvwSIgb7mpCdP4Lcd87FNNhbZChOroLQ3rajhp_sSXC4bSo9bMYCxk-C4ouE_AXz-gy4FQlKjHIzHXWxq0apNG9jU2j7GBZQJod0i1scKnsCVhdBs0r_t7zLvL/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book, <b><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b>, a U.S. senior editor of <b><i>New Statesman</i></b> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"It is...an understatement to say that George Soros is influential in politics. In 2004, he threw his financial weight behind then-Senator John Kerry in the hope of defeating the incumbent president...Soros is still, to this day, a political backer...In July 2019, he created a PAC for the 2020 election called Democracy PAC and promptly put $5.1 million into it..</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"Gyorgy Schwartz...was born in 1930 in Budapest...It was not until 1936 that Gyorgy Schwartz became a Soros...George Soros's father, Tivadar Soros (born Tivadar Schwartz), was a lawyer...Tivadar would not have his family use an obviously Jewish name. In 1936, Schwartz became Soros...</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"Tivadar Soros...was of a certain socioeconomic class and had the means to save himself...His...plan was to obtain documents from Christians...He did for..his younger son, who hid out as Sandor Kiss...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"George Soros as Sandor Kiss hid out with...a Ministry of Agriculture employee. Tivadar Soros paid the man to take...George in and pretend he was his godson..</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"...In 1998, Steve Kroft, interviewing George Soros on <b>60 Minutes</b>, noted that Tivadar Soros had `bribed a government official to swear that you were his godson,' adding `as hundreds of thousands of Jews were being shipped off to the Nazi death camps...George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.'..For some people...Lajos Ozme...for example--Tivadar Soros charged quite a lot to obtain false documents...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"...George Soros found life in socialist Hungary constricting...By 1947, Soros...decided to go to England...He got on the train without his permit..." </i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-51038093036355976272022-09-10T15:59:00.007-07:002022-09-10T16:01:52.012-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's `The Influence Of Soros' 2020 Book: Pt. 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Egy8NtC4D7kM8VvLI6dAzN7PyxAcJsdfbNuS_cpsqGAPbetE4mhdqlRHNAaht1mF_GhulQvsspTz70yZWiL39h57vr56D70rGO-g4JGTK2njJUKlTqBmpLPGJ3AnLVrCMskMn7lH1JR95cm_HuDnV16t1fZ9wsPx_sZjYG0omDxrXqJcLBHI88RX/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Egy8NtC4D7kM8VvLI6dAzN7PyxAcJsdfbNuS_cpsqGAPbetE4mhdqlRHNAaht1mF_GhulQvsspTz70yZWiL39h57vr56D70rGO-g4JGTK2njJUKlTqBmpLPGJ3AnLVrCMskMn7lH1JR95cm_HuDnV16t1fZ9wsPx_sZjYG0omDxrXqJcLBHI88RX/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">In her 2020 book, </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The Influence Of Soros</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;">, a U.S. senior editor of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>New Statesman</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;">"...Soros was never elected...The NGOs he supports...are not accountable to the general public. Soros does have far more power than the average person, and his...work isn't bound by borders, and he did make his money as a speculator. All of that is true...</i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"This is...the problem with billionaire philanthropists: at the end of the day, they're still the ones with the money, and the power to decide what to do with it..</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"...`My defense is that I operate within the rules,' Soros said in 1995. `...I have absolutely no moral qualms in being branded a speculator...I am the classic limousine liberal...' He also noted that he...didn't start giving his money away...until he had made millions...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"One could argue...that it's easy to criticize a system that allows people to amass great sums of money through speculation after one has done exactly that...After one has used it to become rich, live in luxury, and exert great influence..." </i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-864677022165366811.post-45676300152934493322022-09-09T10:48:00.000-07:002022-09-09T10:48:01.597-07:00Revisiting Emily Tamkin's "The Influence Of Soros" 2020 Book: Pt. 1<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoAORkej9KnHmygL27XmUaJQguWvme_kYmF5iVgTjJabWDUmBmDisUxNHevtKG_BtGqlUPhAVqO91XAjJ2wCQK3TJvI_2xYUjz5rqq6eGll9R7lC38nva5O3Hhimkm7JmOcx5tZQ2mbHYz0DxZH8Ok6o-3jduDxGRf0IYNHnPP_Xqq-O7L5WZNLKtK/s595/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="390" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoAORkej9KnHmygL27XmUaJQguWvme_kYmF5iVgTjJabWDUmBmDisUxNHevtKG_BtGqlUPhAVqO91XAjJ2wCQK3TJvI_2xYUjz5rqq6eGll9R7lC38nva5O3Hhimkm7JmOcx5tZQ2mbHYz0DxZH8Ok6o-3jduDxGRf0IYNHnPP_Xqq-O7L5WZNLKtK/w263-h400/9780062972637_p0_v2_s600x595.jpg" width="263" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In her 2020 book,<b style="font-style: italic;"> The Influence Of Soros, </b>a U.S. senior editor<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>New Statesman</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> magazine, Emily Tamkin, noted:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;">"...In 2015...<b>Jacobin</b> ran an article titled `Counting on Billionaires,' which argued that `Philanthrocapitalists like George Soros want us to believe they can remedy the economic misery that they themselves create.'...</i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;">"...George Soros has wielded and continues to have tremendous influence...It may be an understatement to say that George Soros is influential in finance...He became one of the fathers of the modern-day hedge fund, establishing his own fund, Quantum (advised through the firm retaining his name, Soros Fund Management). He is perhaps the most famous currency speculator in history, credited with...`breaking the Bank of England'...</i></p><p><i style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></i></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Soros...survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary...by pretending to be a Christian...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>"It is...an understatement to say that Soros is influential in philanthropy. In the late 1970s...he began a foundation called `Open Society.'..."</i></span></p>b.f.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00907592761685745016noreply@blogger.com0