Putting America in it's Place

by 

      M. Richard Maxson



     In July of 1944, 730 financial leaders from 44 nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire for a conference in which they recreated the economic world: They established the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. They founded the International Monetary Fund. And they created the World Bank. They established themselves as de facto rulers of the western world. They are the invisible men behind the presidents and prime ministers that REALLY control everything on the planet.

     Now, 67 years later, another conference has just concluded that gives several observers flashbacks to Bretton Woods. A left-wing billionaire did fund two major conferences that start on the same day, in two different locations just a three hours apart by car. Two liberal events packed into one long weekend. The guest list is said to have included former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and former chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors, Joseph Stiglitz  to produce “a lot of high-quality, breakthrough thinking.”

     The conference organizer? None other than George Soros — the internationalist and mega-investor who, in his own words, sees a pressing need to “rearrange the entire financial order.” and no one seems to have noticed. More than 200 did attend, but only 79 speakers are listed on its site – and it already looks like a Soros convention. The rest of the list read like a "Who’s Who" of left-wing organizations and talking heads, including the president of PBS, a senior vice president with American Public Media, an Al Jazeera English executive, the president of the Newspaper Guild – CWA and Washington Post columnist Rob Pegoraro, two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for Soros.

      Twenty-two are on Soros-funded INET’s board and three more are INET grantees. Even Soros admits his ties to INET are a problem, saying, “there is a conflict there which I fully recognize.” He claims he stays out of operations. That’s impossible. The whole event is his operation. Nineteen are listed as contributors for another Soros operation – Project Syndicate, which calls itself “the world's pre-eminent source of original op-ed commentaries” reaching “456 leading newspapers in 150 countries.” That’s just the beginning. The emphasis of both conferences is a familiar one to American voters – change. In one conference Soros wanted to begin changing the global economy in one event. In the other, his flunkies want to “Change the world. Change the media.”

      The billionaire  told Australia 's national newspaper "The Australian." " America , as the  centre of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of  the world. This is now over. The game is out," he said, adding that the  time has come for "a very serious adjustment" in American's consumption  habits. He implied that he was the one with the power to bring this  about."  

     When the anti-American Soros spent $50 million creating the New York City-based Institute for New Economic Thinking(INET), he began a major move against the dollar. The billionaire openly declared his plans to “reform the currency system.” "The dollar needed to take a back seat and end its stint as the world reserve currency." “The big question is whether the U.S. dollar should be the reserve currency; and, in fact, it no longer is,” Soros told Bloomberg. The move against the dollar has gained momentum rapidly. Soros wrote that “the rising powers must be present at the creation of this new system to ensure that they will be active supporters.” “Reorganizing the world order will need to extend beyond the financial system and involve the United Nations, especially membership of the Security Council.” Soros emphasized that point, that this needs to be a global solution, making America one among many.  The Bush-hating billionaire says America is scary “because a declining superpower losing both political and economic dominance but still preserving military supremacy is a dangerous mix.”

     Sadly, those who actually report the news didn’t reporting on Soros or either event. And that’s even though staffers or even executives from Reuters, the Financial Times, NPR, PBS, The Washington Post and other major media outlets are speaking at one event or the other. The Soros empire is silent about these conferences because it isn’t just designed to change global economic rules it is, as Soros puts it, "to put America in its place"