It was recently observed that Ron Paul was to the left of Obama on national security and the best evidence for that statement can be found when one year ago Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank on a proposal to gut national defense via a panel of experts, quite a few of whom were tied to George Soros.
In July 2010, Barney Frank and Ron Paul co-authored a Huffington Post article rolling out their Sustainable Defense Task Force. The Task Force “consisting of experts on military expenditures that span the ideological spectrum” would recommend a trillion dollars in defense cuts. The experts, however, didn’t quite “span the ideological spectrum” — more like float under it.
The panel of experts who would decide how to best gut national defense featured such independent thinkers as William D. Hartung of the New America Foundation. Hartung’s main expertise was appearing in “Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire.”
Then there was Lawrence J. Kolb of the Center for American Progress and Miriam Pemberton of the Institute for Policy Studies. If you want to know what the Center, the Foundation and the Institute all have in common, it’s Hungarian and smells like stale cabbage and the death of nations.
The rather creepy Institute for Policy Studies issued a paper proposing that Obama act as king and rule through executive orders. The New American Foundation is not only backed by Soros but has his son on its leadership council. The Center for American Progress is run by the co-chair of Obama’s transition team and is, for all intents and purposes, the think tank of the White House. All three are Soros funded.
But it doesn’t end there. Also on the panel was Christopher Hellman of the National Priorities Project (NPP). If you are wondering what the NPP is, it’s a think tank whose objective is to “influence national spending priorities.” And if you’re in the mood for a double, Miriam Pemberton is also on the board of the NPP. The man behind the curtain at NPP? None other than our favorite Hungarian James Bond villain.
Going further down the list there’s Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information (CDI). The CDI’s goal is to strengthen “national and international security through international cooperation [and] reduced reliance on unilateral military power to resolve conflict.” CDI operates under the aegis of the World Security Institute, which is apparently the least creepy name they could think of. Wheeler is a Counterpunch contributor, a site which even Stalinists think goes a bit too far. CDI gets money from the Open Society Institute (OSI) where the stench of death and stale cabbage never goes away.
Then there’s Charles Knight and Carl Conetta of the Project for Defense Alternatives, which appears to be a subset of the Commonwealth Institute. Of its board of directors, S.M. Miller is also the founder of United for a Fair Economy which enjoys generous support from a certain philanthropic chap who occasionally destroys economies for sport. Another member, Guy Molyneux, has also worked with OSI. A third board member, Richard Healey, was formerly director of the Institute for Policy Studies and is on the advisory board of the Center for Social Inclusion, founded by two OSI veterans.
If you think this can’t get any worse, meet Paul Kawika Martin of Peace Action (PA). You might know PA better by its old name, the “Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy” or just “SANE,” a Communist front group investigated by none other than Senator Thomas Dodd. PA has the same attitude toward American defense that burglars have toward alarm systems in other people’s homes. They don’t like them very much. And they have a “five year strategic plan” for the job.
Paul Kawika Martin travels around fighting progress on board The Rainbow Warrior and is also involved with Physicians for Social Responsibility. Martin has also collaborated with the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), a front for the Iranian regime. I think you can guess by now who funds Physicians for Social Responsibility.
I once ate in a small restaurant where it just so happened Tom Hanks was eating dinner with his family– just because we chose to eat at the same restaurant, at the same time, does not mean that I ate dinner with Tom Hanks.
Alexander Hamilton was for BIG government and certainly not on the same page as Thomas Jefferson but there were however issues that they agreed upon. Just because Paul signed on to a military cut that Soros may have wanted to back too doesn't mean they are in cahoots. All the other history of Ron Paul's voting record should prove this.
Good example with Hamilton and Jefferson. They were both cabinet members under George Washington, and worked side-by-side, but definitely did NOT see eye to eye.
And you know what?
Even if it’s true Paul “worked with” Soros-funded people, I will still support him. I agree with 95% of Mr. Paul’s positions which is better than the ~20% agreement I have with Romney or Santorum or Gingrich. I will STILL vote for Paul when the time comes
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Mr. Paul also succeeded in auditing the private central bank called the Fed, which is the first time in histry that ever happened. I figure that cancels-out any negative comments about his “soros” connections – which is basically invalid (argument by association is never accepted in a formal debate).
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Ron Paul is a great American. Soros isn't. I think Soros' reasons are different than Ron Paul's. Soros is trying to do his bidding overseas, and he has his hands in the pots of Azerbaijan (secretly working with finance minister Samir Sharifov) and now Myanmar/Burma. The image is now that Soros is doing our bidding overseas, which is awful.
“slashed defense” is nonsense.
The 2nd largest budget after the U.S. is Russia at 90 billion. Our is ~550 billion. So even with the so-called cuts. we still have a military that is at least 6 times larger than anybody else.
We don’t need that. All we need is ~100 billion plus a couple aircraft carriers patrolling our Pacific and Atlantic coasts… ready to shoot down anybody who would be stupid enough to attack us. That is the plan Paul has published (except his budget says 300 billion).
Not finding the Huffington Post article.
FrontPage Mag: Yellow Journalism at it's finest.
Wow , its an ugly shame how STUPID AMERICA IS! This article proves Ron Paul is dealing with Communists!
George Soros!!???????
How does anything cancel that out ???????? Commit to some research for Gods sake. Do not let this man become president! Quit voting for the enemy!
Ron Paul is your enemy!
Ron Paul’s wife and daughter have had dealings with the Occult and freemasonry aka Luciferianism.(Eastern Star)
He has demon written all over him. He is TRICKING YOU!
WAKE UP!
First off Ron Paul is left…hes no conservative i call people like him marxists wrapped in the constitution.He has good friends like Ralph Nader a well known marxists and Soros a fabian marxists.And as far as rommney and santorum…..rember Reagen was thought of as Rhino……in california he raised taxes and went left on many issues.But over TIME and once elected he was one of our best republican presidents….who was very conservative and took on the fed…..one of only 2 presidents ever to do so.If you dont think Ron paul is left here= WTF is ron paul Co-authering anything with barney frank?? and here for Ralph nader a millionair socialists= http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/28/ralph-nader-hea… .Nader is a green party candidate…ohh yeah green party started in germany….there not very pro business and pro corporation,wonder were all the hitler youth went…hmmmm??????