- However, there may be one other reason that Soros was determined that Norm Coleman in particular lose his seat. This was personal.
Coleman was the leader in the Senate when it came to scrutinizing the operations of the United Nations; he appeared frequently in the media. The United Nations had never before come under such public criticism in the Senate. The mandarins and their fellow travelers were made very uncomfortable by the work of Senator Coleman. They do not forget their adversaries.
- This scandal involved not just negligence of the UN officials that set up and monitored the program (which immeasurably helped keep Saddam Hussein in power and, in a sense, helped create the conditions for the invasion of Iraq), but also involved
- corruption that reached the highest levels at the United Nations.
Coleman was dogged in his pursuit of the wrongdoers at the UN. The investigation tarnished the image of
bets on currency are made with many things in mind -- the state of the local economy, trade relations, political stability, etc.
- Mark Malloch Brown (UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's deputy and right-hand man at the UN)
- who was seen as spinning away any culpability of Annan and the UN itself in this travesty of a program. Coleman thereby clearly
- earned the wrath of George Soros,
- Soros provided an apartment of very advantageous rates for Brown;
- vice-president of the Quantum Fund run by his friend George Soros.
- Mark Malloch Brown, who had previously worked at the World Bank, had been in the running to succeed Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. That would be yet another friend in a high place --
- that Soros collects like so many cards in a deck. Since the World Bank often helps private businesses in their investments, this friend in a high place would have been particularly valuable to George Soros,
- Brown would be in a prime position to help
- Soros play the currency markets since currency traders'
- But the most valuable weapon in a currency trader's arsenal is
- inside information; finding out what a central bank or government is going to do with a currency before that decision is announced to the world.
- Where does one go for that kind of information? There are a lot of "clubs" within which powerful people met to discuss such things. Some are formal institutions, like the Council on Foreign Relations, or other such think tanks. But some meetings are far less formal, such as a luncheon at
- Compared to any international commercial bank, the World Bank's portfolio is miniscule. But there is practically no country on the planet that has not had some dealing with the World Bank. Central bank officers, those with
inside information about whether and by how much a currency might be revalued, are constantly visiting with World Bank officers....
Alas for Soros and Mr. Brown, the post went to Robert Zoellick. Don't count Brown and Soros out yet, though. A new President is coming to town and President- That's why when the Wall Street Journal suggested that George Soros was trying to help his friend Mark Malloch Brown get on the inside track as the new head of the World Bank it seemed
- to make sense.
- Obama will have a new chance to pick the head of the World Bank (though the World Bank is an international body, traditionally the United States chooses the person who leads the Bank).
George Soros and Barack Obama also have long-standing ties. Soros is very astute in his choice of "friends" who owe him favors. He knows good investments when he sees them and knows more about leverage than most hedge fund billionaires.
- Funding the campaigns of Barack Obama was not just another investment/political donation of George Soros. He started funding Barack Obama's campaigns at an early date and
used a loophole in federal campaign laws to exceed normal limits on donations. He then used his phalanx of 527 groups to campaign for Obama via, among other avenues, the powerful and furtive Democracy Alliance....
- Soros seemingly does not forget friends or enemies, and he thinks and plans far ahead. He paid particular attention to the race in Minnesota the past couple of years --
- funneling money to the Secretary of States project that helped elect Mark Ritchie (a Democrat) to the post of
- Secretary of State.
- Soros also funneled money to so-called 527 groups that worked to oust Coleman. Covering all the bases, Soros doubled down and hosted a fundraiser for Al Franken
- after the election.
- the fight is now between the lawyers; these contests are expensive, and the funds Franken has at his disposal from Soros and others have been crucial.
Perhaps, Soros was looking backward and wanted to "punish" Coleman for his tarnishing of the reputation of Brown. More likely is that
This aspect of the battle between George Soros and Norm Coleman (waged through proxies) came to mind when I read in the Wall Street Journal that the - Soros was looking forward: should Barack Obama nominate Mark Malloch Brown to be the head of the World Bank, wouldn't it be better to have Norm Coleman -- who knows more about corruption and disgrace at the United Nations than most Senators --
- out of the Senate?
- United Nations was closing down the anti-fraud unit that was established in the wake of a series of corruption scandals -- the oil-for-food scandal just being the most widely known.
- The anti-corruption unit had uncovered over 600 million dollars in alleged contract fraud and puts at risk 175 investigations currently being pursued.
- That is truly a shame: not only would such a unit help
- save American taxpayers a boatload of money (since we fund a large share of the UN budget) and help to ensure honesty and competency at the UN,
- but also would appear to have been one of the better investments of the past few years -
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The nation owes more than thanks to three unlikely modern day patriots: professional poker player, musician, and retired attorney, Leo Donofrio; life long Democrat and former Pennsylvania assistant attorney general, Phil Berg; and Soviet emigree and attorney, Dr. Orly Taitz (she’s also a dentist).
While Mr. Donofrio painstakingly established the airtight case that BHO could not be an Article II “natural born citizen” (at BHO’s birth, dad was British/Kenyan, not American, citizen) Leo’s Stay of the 12/15/08 electoral college vote was denied by SCOTUS as procedurally unripe.
Nevertheless, since no congressman and senator objected on 1/8/09 to Congress’ count and certification of the electoral vote which would have turned resolution of Obama’s eligibility issue over to Congress — rendering moot the Berg and Taitz (Lightfoot) cases — Berg finally does achieve standing on the issue of actual harm, to be addressed at the Friday 1/9/09 SCOTUS Conference on Writ of Certiorari. Obama’s failure to submit evidence of his constitutional qualification for the 1/9/09 conference will mean he cannot thereafter challenge Berg’s request to enjoin the 1/8/09 Congressional electoral count and certification, albeit retroactive, scheduled for SCOTUS conference Friday 1/16/09. Moreover, Chief Justice Roberts has scheduled a full Court conference on the Lightfoot case Friday 1/23/09 in the event there needs to be a Constitutionally mandated action, the Inauguration itself, to enjoin retroactively.
Now that BHO is in checkmate and cannot be POTUS, he can be a patriot as well. He need not subject the nation to the expense and trauma of requiring SCOTUS to overrule his ‘Presidency’. BHO can and should voluntarily step down with Biden becoming Acting POTUS under the 20th Amendment, and under the agreement all potential claims by the Government for itself and on behalf of others against BHO are released.
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