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    The Much Needed Electoral College Targeted for Elimination by George Soros & the Nati

    The Much Needed Electoral College Targeted for Elimination by George Soros & the National Popular Vote

    Ed Wood 3 hours ago




    If it didn't have such a strange name, perhaps it would be easier for us to understand. Usually, we think of the word "college" as referencing an institution of higher learning, complete with classrooms, campuses, co-eds, and sometimes football teams. But that isn't the only use of the term "college." It can also be defined as: "An organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit." Such is the case with the "Electoral College."
    The concept of the Electoral College dates back to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1: For the election of the president and vice president, "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled." As an example, my home state of Tennessee is entitled to eleven electoral members. Each member is entitled to one vote.

    But aren't we are a Democracy, which means that every qualified citizen has one vote, and every vote counts? Well, basically, no. We are a Constitutional Republic. That definition comes from no less an authority than Benjamin Franklin, who was asked by a Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."
    So what's the difference? If we were a true democracy, then the president and vice president would be elected by popular vote. So, what's wrong with that? Well, the Founding Fathers firmly rejected a purely popular vote to elect the president, because they wanted to balance the power of the larger and smaller states. They realized that should our leaders be elected by popular vote, the major centers of population, such as we now have in New York, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles, would rule, and the rest of the country would have no say in presidential elections.
    There have only been four times out of 57 presidential elections when the president has been elected without a majority of the popular vote. The most recent was the year 2000 when Al Gore got the majority of the popular vote, but lost to George W. Bush, who got the majority of the electoral votes. Of course the Democrats claimed the election was stolen, but it was John F. Kennedy who expressed his support of the electoral college system with his statement, "Direct election would break down the federal system under which states entered the union, which provides a system of checks and balances to ensure that no area or group shall obtain too much power."

    The Electoral College system is coming under increasing assault by those who wish to attract and control the votes of minorities, and others, who are concentrated in the major population centers. Making its rounds among state legislative bodies is a concept termed the National Popular Vote (NPV) bill which encourages individual states to eliminate electoral college voting. Last month, New York governor Cuomo signed the agreement, and thus joined the heavily Democrat states of Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, Vermont, California, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia in pledging to implement the NPV provisions.
    As might be expected, Obama mentor George Soros, ever anxious to control everything he can get his hands on, is funding the NPV advocacy group, the Center for Voting and Democracy, and its Soros funded partner, Fair Vote. They were even able to get the Wall Street Journal to publish an article entitled "It's Time to Junk the Electoral College," written by Jonathan Soros, son of presidential buddy George.

    So how do Mr. Soros and the NPV plan to eliminate the Electoral College? Wouldn't that require an amendment to the Constitution, ratified by two-thirds of the states, etc.? Not if you can manipulate the wording of the Constitution in keeping with the Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals #4: "Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. "You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."
    The same Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution that gave us the Electoral College, also contained the seeds of its own destruction, when manipulated by ill-intending special interest groups, and their shyster lawyers.
    The Article states, "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. . ." And each of the eleven states signed up so far, will direct their 165 delegates not to vote for anybody. It takes 270 electoral votes to win. If the Soros-backed groups can get states with another 105 delegates to withhold their votes, then there would be an insufficient number to elect a candidate, and the whole procedure would collapse without the need for a Constitutional amendment. If this happens, voters in the majority of the states will be totally dis-enfranchised.
    That's why Dr. Franklin gave us a Republic, rather than a Democracy. And that's why he wondered how long we would be able to keep it.
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    George Soros and Democracy Alliance Billionaires are Plotting to Hijack the 2014 Election

    May 5, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield


    With polls showing a Republican landslide in 2014, the corrupt financial interests that invented the Obama era are plotting to undermine democracy with a group named, what else, the Democracy Alliance.

    Leading the effort is international economic terrorist George Soros. The former Nazi collaborator has grown quite wealthy under Obama’s reign and is determined to keep him in power for as long as possible.
    A group of wealthy liberal donors who helped bankroll the Center for American Progress and other major advocacy groups on the left is developing a new big-money strategy that could boost state-level Democratic candidates and mobilize core party voters.
    The plan, being crafted in private by a group of about 100 donors that includes billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros and San Francisco venture capitalist Rob McKay, seeks to give Democrats a stronger hand in the redrawing of district lines for state legislatures and the U.S. House.
    The effort reflects a sense among many top donors on the left that Democrats missed opportunities in 2010 to shape the redistricting process and contain the tea party wave that helped propel Republican victories around the country.
    Discussions about the new plan began last week in Chicago at a four-day conference of the Democracy Alliance, the invitation-only donor group founded in 2005 to build the kind of network of think tanks and activist groups that has long flourished on the right.
    While maintaining a low public profile, the alliance plays an influential role as the left’s central money hub, attracting political donors interested in more than simply making campaign contributions. Last week’s meeting at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago drewan array of Democratic powerbrokers eager to influence the donors’ thinking, including White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards.
    Many of the group’s top contributors come from the party’s liberal wing. That was evident last week in the conference’s theme — “A New Progressive Era?” — and the focus by speakers such as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on economic inequality.
    The Democracy Alliance does not make contributions itself. Instead, donors who join the alliance, known as “partners,” are required to contribute at least $200,000 a year to groups it recommends. Among the partners are some of the country’s largest labor unions.

    The system has pumped an estimated $500 million into an array of organizations on the left over the past nine years, according to the alliance.
    But alliance membership has been ticking up recently, group officials said. Well-known Democratic patrons such as San Francisco hedge fund manager Tom Steyer and Houston trial lawyers Steve and Amber Mostyn joined in the past few years. Eleven new donors have come aboard in the last several months alone, officials said.
    The Chicago conclave — which featured a wine party in the Ritz-Carlton’s sky-view presidential suite and a private tour of the Art Institute of Chicago — drew accusations of hypocrisy from Republican Party officials, who noted that the wealthy donors met privately even as Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) was railing about the behind-the-scenes influence of the conservative patrons Charles and David Koch.
    Democracy Alliance leaders rejected that, saying its members are seeking to reduce the influence of money on politics.
    What better way is there to reduce the influence of money on politics than with money on politics? It’s like the time Al Capone tried cleaning up the Chicago police department by bribing all the cops.
    “The people who are giving money into politics here are interested in changing the system. They’re not interested in getting return on investment,” said former Stride Ride president Arnold Hiatt, who donated $1.9 million to Democratic super PACs in 2012, not including gifts to nonprofits that aren’t required to disclose their donors. “You can focus on the irony, but it’s not hypocrisy because we’re not trying to get something for our donations.”
    Absolutely not. Why the very thought of it. Just look at Tom Steyer who is in no way getting anything back.
    Steyer has vowed to throw his considerable political fortune behind candidates who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which an ABC News poll found is “overwhelmingly favored by Americans,” was delayed once again last week by the administration of Barack Obama, for whom Steyer bundled campaign contributions in the 2012 election.
    Steyer’s Farallon Capital just happens to have major holdings in a competing pipeline company called Kinder Morgan, whose TransMountain pipe is carrying tar sands oil from a different part of Canada to Asian customers. And they’re looking to expand this operation until it’s bigger than Keystone XL would be!
    No untoward motives. Just like Texas hurricane lawyer Steve Mostyn. Or George Soros. These noble souls are philanthropists donating money out of the goodness of their shriveled maggoty hearts.
    In 2008, before a certain Chicago community organizer completed the left’s long march into the institutions of national power, a former Nazi collaborator named George Soros had a mere 11 billion dollars and was a mere 28th on the Forbes 400 list.
    Now after a few years of Obama, millions of Americans are out of work, the economy is toast, and George Soros has moved up to No. 15 on the Forbes 400 with a total of 19 billion dollars.
    How “natural” of an increase is that? Under Bush, in 2004, Soros was no. 54 on the Forbes 400 with a net worth of 7 billion. Four years later his net worth was up 4 billion. Four years after that it was up 8 billion.
    Soros made twice as much under Obama as he did under Bush. He made more money during one term of Obama than his entire net worth in 2004 under Bush.
    Philanthropists. Lovers of democracy. Now let’s talk some more about the Koch Brothers while Harry Reid figures out how to shove some more Chinese cash into the pockets of his idiot sons.

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgr...2014-election/

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    Critics: George Soros Using Political Connections to Benefit His Foreign Policy Goals

    Secretary of State John Kerry to introduce George Soros at State Department open forum Tuesday


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    BY: Daniel Wiser
    May 13, 2014 5:00 am


    UPDATE 8:30 P.M.:A previous version of this story said the George C. Marshall Center was a Germany-based security and defense studies institute jointly operated by the U.S. Department of Defense and German Defense Ministry. The George C. Marshall Center is located in Washington, D.C.
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    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will introduce liberal megadonor George Soros at an open forum on Tuesday, the latest evidence of the billionaire using his political connections to benefit his investments and foreign policy goals, critics say.

    Kerry will introduce Soros at the 1:30 p.m. forum on May 13 at the George C. Marshall Center in Washington, D.C., according to a State Department event notice.

    Soros will discuss “strengthening civil society, democracy and the world economy” with Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Douglas Frantz following Kerry’s introduction.

    Soros, a New York City hedge fund manager who amassed great wealth through his company Soros Fund Management, has used his foundation network—known as the Open Society Foundations (OSF)—to dispense more than $11 billion to groups abroad as well as numerous left-leaning U.S. groups in the last three decades.

    He is perhaps the Democratic Party’s most famous donor, contributing almost $24 million to advocacy groups that supported Kerry’s failed presidential bid in 2004, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. He also donated $1 million to the Priorities USA Action Super PAC that helped reelect President Barack Obama in 2012.

    Critics say Soros leverages his political connections to increase the returns on his investments.

    While Soros has increased his multi-million dollar investments in both U.S. and foreign companies that extract shale oil and gas, the Obama administration has championed natural gas as a less carbon-intensive bridge fuel toward a “clean-energy future.” The administration’s proposal to offer incentives to companies that use trucks powered by natural gas would benefit Westport Innovations, a company that converts diesel engines for natural gas use and is partially owned by Soros’ hedge fund.

    Soros’ political advocacy also tends to blend with his investments. He proposed in 2009 that developed countries create a “green fund” to combat climate change in developing countries by directing billions from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) toward forestry, land-use, and agricultural projects. Soros’ fund controls more than a $200 million stake in Adecoagro, a Luxembourg-based company that owns hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland in South America and would benefit from the IMF cash infusion.

    Soros told the New Yorker in a 2004 interview that “there are occasionally symbiotic moments between political and business interests” that occur during his efforts to influence American policy.

    Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and former Pentagon adviser in the George W. Bush administration, said in an email that he hopes “Kerry will take a long shower after the event” because hosting Soros is the “diplomatic equivalent of prostitution.”

    Rubin said the optics of the event are “horrible” given Soros’ longstanding ties to the administration and his past record of marrying policy advocacy with business.

    “If Kerry wants to sponsor a well-deserving guest at a State Department ‘open forum,’ why not someone like Malala Yousefzai, the young school girl whom the Taliban tried to murder?” he said. “Our diplomats could learn a thing or two about moral clarity from her; they certainly won’t from Soros.”

    State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told the Washington Free Beacon that criticisms of Soros’ appearance at the event are “wholly ridiculous and have no basis in fact whatsoever.”

    “This is a regular secretary’s open forum event intended to inform and educate department employees,” Harf said in an email. “George Soros was invited to discuss his views on support of civil society.”

    Harf noted that the forum has hosted “guests from diverse points of view” in the past, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, and Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson.

    Soros’ actions abroad have also conflicted with traditional U.S. foreign policy stances, raising questions about his appearance at a State Department-sponsored forum.

    The OSF have financially supported groups that support boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israel and called it an “apartheid state,” according to a report last May by NGO Monitor.

    The OSF network finances groups such as the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a Gaza-based organization that regularly accuses Israel of being an “apartheid state” and refers to terror attacks on Israeli civilians as “resistance.”

    Kerry was widely criticized last month after warning that Israel could become “an apartheid state” if it failed to reach a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

    Additionally, Soros has financed opposition groups and media in countries such as Azerbaijan and Armenia, two countries that are still locked in a violent and decades-old territorial dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Soros’ involvement there prompted leaders to express concerns that he could further stoke tensions and contribute to another outbreak of war.

    “He pursues his own vision, undisturbed by his effect on other nations or the interests of his own,” wrote Richard Miniter, a contributor to Forbes, in 2011. “It is hard for foreign governments to hold him accountable, and his goals and methods are usually kept secret.”

    Soros wrote in his 2006 book, The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terror, that “the main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.”

    Soros has an estimated net worth of $20 billion—much of it made through his controversial investment philosophy of making massive, highly leveraged bets on the direction of global financial markets. His involvement in the East Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s drew sharp rebukes from leaders in the region.

    He is a major donor to the liberal Center for American Progress and an architect of the Democracy Alliance, a shadowy organization that disburses millions to left-leaning groups but does not disclose its donors.

    Additionally, Soros has staked out controversial positions on social issues, calling in 2010 for the full legalization of marijuana in the United States.

    Soros’ office did not respond to a request for comment.

    http://freebeacon.com/politics/criti...-policy-goals/
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