Monday, May 18, 2015

Dem's new agenda hauntingly similar to communism



Dem's new agenda hauntingly similar to communism
'Contract with America' resembles CPUSA manifesto
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a 13-point national “Progressive Agenda” that is being touted as the liberal “Contract with America.”

The aim is for the “Progressive Agenda” to become the basis for the Democratic Party’s main economic policies, including those of its 2016 presidential candidate.

De Blasio has compared his plan to the “Contract with America,” a document released by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election and drawn up by future House Speaker Newt Gingrich to serve as the GOP policy agenda.

Now WND documents that most of the 13 points in de Blasio’s “Progressive Agenda” can also be found in the manifestos and literature of the Communist Party USA and the Socialist Party USA.

The full progressive plan, entitled, “The Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality,” can be found on the agenda’s new website.

Here is a comparison of the Agenda’s plan with literature from the manifestos and writings of the Community Party USA, or CPUSA, and the Socialist Party USA, or SPUSA.

Progressive Agenda: “Raise the federal minimum wage, so that it reaches $15/hour, while indexing it to inflation.”

SPUSA: “We call for a minimum wage of $15 per hour, indexed to the cost of living.”

CPUSA: Calls for “struggles for peace, equality for the racially and nationally oppressed, equality for women job creation programs, increased minimum wage. … Even with ultra-right control of the Federal government, peoples legislative victories, such as increasing the minimum wage, can be won on an issue-by-issue basis locally, statewide, and even nationally.”

Progressive Agenda: “Reform the National Labor Relations Act, to enhance workers’ right to organize and rebuild the middle class.”

SPUSA: “The Socialist Party stands for the right of all workers to organize, for worker control of industry through the democratic organization of the workplace.”

CPUSA: “One of the most crucial ways of increasing the strength and unity of the working class as a whole is organizing the unorganized. Working-class unity depends on uniting all the diverse sectors of the multiracial, multinational working class in the U.S. … Speeding up the organization of unorganized workers is one of the most important challenges to labor and all progressive forces.”

Progressive Agenda: “Pass comprehensive immigration reform to grow the economy and protect against exploitation of low-wage workers.”

SPUSA: “We defend the rights of all immigrants to education, health care, and full civil and legal rights and call for an unconditional amnesty program for all undocumented people. We oppose the imposition of any fees on those receiving amnesty. We call for full citizenship rights upon demonstrating residency for six months.”

CPUSA: Declares the “struggle for immigrant rights is a key component of the struggle for working class unity in our country today.”

Progressive Agenda: Pass national paid sick leave. Pass national paid family leave.

CPUSA: In October 2014, hails that “women are fighting back to defend their jobs and their families against candidates who want to destroy women’s reproductive rights, health care, family leave and paid sick days. Women’s voices and votes can make the difference in this election in the U.S. Senate and House, for Governors and State Legislatures, and in the movement going forward for full equality.”

Progressive Agenda: “Make Pre-K, after-school programs and childcare universal.”

SPUSA: “We support public child care starting from infancy, and public education starting at age three, with caregivers and teachers of young children receiving training, wages, and benefits comparable to that of teachers at every other level of the educational system.”

Progressive Agenda: “Earned Income Tax Credit.” “Implement the ‘Buffett Rule’ so millionaires pay their fair share.”

SPUSA: “We call for a steeply graduated income tax and a steeply graduated estate tax. …”

CPUSA: “No taxes for workers and low and middle income people; progressive taxation of the wealthy and private corporations. …”

Dems hail ‘beginning of revolution’

De Blasio criticized Obama as “too conservative” to assert a progressive economic vision and “too afraid to take the bold kind of action that President Roosevelt took” during the Great Depression, reported the liberal news network.

Speaking at the “Progressive Agenda” launch event outside the Capitol building last Tuesday, de Blasio said “something is changing in America.”

“It’s time to take that energy and crystallize it into an agenda that will make a difference,” he said. “We’ll be calling on leaders and candidates to address these issues, to stiffen their backbones, to be clear and to champion these progressive policies.”

The Hill quoted Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., saying de Blasio’s plan “could be the beginning of a revolution.”

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., commented the mayor’s plan represents “the meat on the bones of a progressive agenda.”

Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said, “The cavalry has arrived.”

The Hill reported that at the event, some Democrats pushed back against rumors de Blasio was attempting to use the plan to nudge presidential candidate Hillary Clinton further to the left.

“There’s gossip in Washington that this is about trying to move a certain candidate in a certain direction,” said former Democratic Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. “If you look at that candidate’s record, you’ll find that she’s embraced a lot of this already.”

Last week’s de Blasio event was reportedly attended not only by politicians but also by union leaders and MSNBC host Al Sharpton.

The Atlantic reported the coalition supporting de Blasio’s plan includes Dan Cantor, executive director of the Working Families Party. Cantor also was a founder of the socialist-oriented New Party.

De Blasio once served as executive director of the New York branch of the New Party.

WND previously exposed that President Obama himself was listed in New Party literature as a member.

Soros economist behind Dem’s new ‘Contract with America’

As WND reported last week, a plan drawn up by a George Soros-funded professor seeking to “rewrite” the rules of the U.S. economy forms the foundation of de Blasio’s new progressive agenda.

De Blasio’s “Progressive Agenda” was informed by a 112-page policy report at the liberal Roosevelt Institute titled “Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy,” reported MSNBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald.

That 112-page plan was crafted by Nobel prize-winning Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, who previously conducted teach-ins at Occupy Wall Street.

Indeed, prior to last Tuesday’s launch of the “Progressive Agenda,” de Blasio attended an economic forum at the Roosevelt Institute co-hosted by Stiglitz, where he heaped praised on the economist’s “rewriting” plan.

Besides accepting funding from Soros, Stiglitz has engaged in numerous projects with the controversial billionaire and sits on the boards of Soros’ organizations, including one openly seeking to remake the world’s economy.

Stiglitz is a leading proponent of more government regulation of the economy.

He previously chaired the Commission on Global Financial Issues of Socialists International, the world’s largest socialist organization.

Stiglitz, the brains behind de Blasio’s new plan, has been an economic adviser to Obama, but he also criticized the president’s bank-rescue plan. Stiglitz said whoever designed that plan is “either in the pocket of the banks or they’re incompetent.”

Stiglitz won his Nobel for research on what became the theory of information asymmetry, which argues for more government intervention in failing economies than the traditional “market failure” school had previously advocated.

He has stated that “the real debate today is about finding the right balance between the market and government.”

“Both are needed. They can each complement each other. This balance will differ from time to time and place to place,” he has said.

Gavin Wright, chairman of Stanford’s economics department, summarized Stiglitz’s work.

“Broadly speaking, Joe’s theoretical work has had to do with the shortcomings and imperfections of market economy, not from the standpoint of a thorough-going rejection of the market economy but from the perspective that holds out hope for improvement through government regulation or use of the tax system,” Wright said.

Government, business as ‘partners’

Stiglitz was a member of President Bill Clinton’s administration, serving both in Clinton’s cabinet and as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Stiglitz’s most important contribution during his time in the Clinton administration was helping to define a new economic philosophy called a “third way,” which called for business and government to join hands as “partners,” while recognizing government intervention could not always correct the limitations of markets.

Third Way” is an ideology first promoted as an alternative to free markets by Mikhail Gorbachev after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The “Third Way” of governing would be neither capitalist nor communist, but something in between.

In his 1998 “State of the Union” address, President Clinton outlined the “Third Way”: “We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer. My fellow Americans, we have found a Third Way.”

The “Third Way” calls for business and government to join hands as “partners.”

Discover the Networks criticized the theory: “In short, Big Business would own the economy (as under capitalism), while Big Government would run it (as under socialism). Corporations would be persuaded to comply with government directives through subsidies, tax breaks, customized legislation, and other special privileges.”

Soros himself has been a vocal proponent of the “Third Way” economic policy.

Stiglitz, meanwhile, also became involved in “global warming” issues, including serving on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, helping to draft a new law for toxic wastes and serving on the boards of numerous environmental groups, such as the Alliance for Climate Protection.

‘No longer one superpower’

Stiglitz is a prolific speaker. On Sept. 17, 2010, he gave a speech to the Swiss and Global Asset Management group in which his Power Point presentation, available online, stated the U.S. is mired in Japanese-style malaise because of “greater inequality” and “weaker social protection.”

Stiglitz said the U.S. was failing to come to “terms with its standing in the New Global Order.”

His presentation called for a “New Global Economic Order” in which the world is “no longer dominated by one ‘superpower,’” although he predicted China’s income per capita will remain much below that of the U.S.

Soros’ economic partner, Bretton Woods

Stiglitz is deeply tied to Soros. Stiglitz serves on the international advisory board of Soros’ Open Society Foundation.

The economist is the co-founder and president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a globalist group which is funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute.

Along with numerous other Open Society Institute leaders, Stiglitz is a member of the Collegium International, a globalist group that proclaims in its official declaration “the Earth, home of humanity, constitutes a whole denoted by interdependence.”

Perhaps most significantly, Stignitz sits on the board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET, an organization literally seeking to reorganize the entire global economic system.

George Soros is INET’s founding sponsor, with the billionaire having provided a reported $25 million over five years to support INET activities.

In April 2011, Stiglitz spoke at INET’s annual meeting, which took place in the mountains of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

The gathering was held at Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. The initial conference’s goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. The April gathering had a similar stated goal – a global economic restructuring.

A Business Insider report on the event related, “George Soros has brought together a crack team of the world’s top economists and financial thinkers.”

“Its aim,” continued the business newspaper, “is to remake the world’s economy as they see fit.”

More than two-thirds of the speakers at the 2011 conference had direct ties to Soros.

The keynote speaker at the Bretton Woods conference was Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, a board member of INET who is tied to both Soros and Stiglitz.

Sachs is engineer of a “shock treatment” economic doctrine that he has applied to other countries, most notably Bolivia and Poland. In both countries, critics charge, Sach’s doctrine led to economic failure.

In 2009, Sachs narrated an audio book titled “George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz – America: How They See Us.”

Stiglitz, meanwhile, has other ties to Soros. When he chaired the U.N.’s Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, the commission included Soros-tied economists, such as Robert Johnson, former chief economist of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee who previously was the managing director at Soros Fund Management. Johnson also is on the board of the Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute and the Institute for America’s Future.

With research by Brenda J. Elliott.

Third Way
Ronald A. Klain is a trustee at the Third Way, a coordinator of government Ebola efforts for the Barack Obama administration, and was Albert A. Gore Jr’s chief of staff.

Note: William M. Daley is a trustee at the Third Way, a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Albert A. Gore Jr.’s chief of staff was Ronald A. Klain, is the chairman for the Climate Reality Project, and a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Joseph E. Stiglitz was a director at the Climate Reality Project, and is a Nobel Foundation Nobel Prize winner (economics, 2001).
Climate Reality Project is a merged organization with the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Climate Reality Project, the Aspen Institute (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, the Economic Policy Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Roosevelt Institute, the Sundance Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the New America Foundation, and Amnesty International.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and Jonathan Soros’s father.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Economic Policy Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and Amnesty International.
David A. Coulter is member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and a trustee at the Third Way.
William D. Budinger is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee at the Third Way.
Michael K. Powell is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is Colin L. Powell’s son.
Colin L. Powell is Michael K. Powell’s father, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, a strategic adviser for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
Reynold Levy was an advisory board member for the Aspen Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Third Way, and is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
Georgette F. Bennett is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and a trustee at the Third Way.
Clifford S. Asness is a director at the International Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex marriage in New York.
Daniel S. Loeb supported same-sex marriage in New York, and a trustee at the Third Way.
Rhonda Weingarten is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a director at the Economic Policy Institute, a director at the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and was the president of the United Federation of Teachers.   
Wilma B. Liebman is a director at the Economic Policy Institute, was counsel for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, counsel for the International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers, and the chairman for the National Labor Relations Board.
Harold E. Ford Jr. was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, is a political commentator at MSNBC, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
PoliticsNation is an MSNBC program.
Al Sharpton is the host of PoliticsNation.
Morning Joe is an MSNBC program.
Howard Dean is a frequent guest on Morning Joe, and was the Vermont state government governor.
International Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE Campaign.
Susan McCue was the founding president & CEO for the ONE Campaign, Harry Reid’s chief of staff, and is a trustee at the Third Way.
Michael R. Bloomberg is an advocate for the ONE Campaign, Diana L. Taylor’s companion, and was the New York (NY) mayor.
Diana L. Taylor is Michael R. Bloomberg’s companion, and was a director at the Brookfield Office Properties.
Brookfield Office Properties was the owner of Zuccotti Park.
Zuccotti Park is the Occupy Wall Street staging area for 2011 NYC protests.
Bill de Blasio is the New York (NY) mayor.
Michelle Obama is an advocate for the ONE Campaign, and was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.           
Newton N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S. Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
William D. Budinger is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a trustee at the Third Way.
L. John Doerr is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a director at the ONE Campaign, and a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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Newt Gingrich is a friend of John Vincent Weber, the architect for Contract with America, and was the speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Frederic V. Malek is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), the founder & board member for the American Action Network, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Hispanic Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
Jeb Bush is an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, a member of the Alfalfa Club, a potential presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Jonathan Soros is George Soros’s son, the vice chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Sundance Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the New America Foundation, and Amnesty International.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is the chair for the Roosevelt Institute, and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Mikhail Gorbachev is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, the founder of Green Cross International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph Stalin was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and attended the Yalta Conference.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended the Yalta Conference with Alger Hiss, and a member of the Burning Tree Club.
George H.W. Bush is a member of the Burning Tree Club, a member of the Alfalfa Club, and Jeb Bush’s father.
Jeb Bush is George H.W. Bush’s son, a member of the Alfalfa Club, an advisory committee member for the Hispanic Leadership Network, and a potential presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
Hispanic Leadership Network is an offshoot of the American Action Network.
John A. Boehner is a member of the Burning Tree Club, and the speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Alger Hiss attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and Whittaker Chambers accused him of espionage.
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Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank). 
Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, a member of Kappa Sigma, and an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA).
Robert Redford is a member of Kappa Sigma, the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA), and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Patricia E. Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute, an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA), and a board member for Global Green USA.
Green Cross International
Mikhail Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International, an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Global Green USA is the US affiliate for Green Cross International.
Leonardo DiCaprio was a board member for Global Green USA, and is a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Natural Resources Defense Council is a member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.
Wendy Schmidt is a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and married to Eric E. Schmidt.
Bullitt Foundation was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Frank Greer is a trustee at the Bullitt Foundation, and was a co-founder for Amnesty International USA.
Amnesty International USA is an affiliate of Amnesty International.
Eric E. Schmidt is married to Wendy Schmidt, the chairman for Google Inc., the chairman of the New America Foundation, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Google Inc. was a funder for Amnesty International.
Google's Eric Schmidt talks about how to run the world (not that he wants to)
Bernard L. Schwartz was a funder & director for the New America Foundation, is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and a trustee at the Third Way.
Jonathan Soros is a director at the New America Foundation, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, the vice chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Sundance Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the New America Foundation, the Roosevelt Institute, and Amnesty International.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt is the chair for the Roosevelt Institute, and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Mikhail Gorbachev is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, the founder of Green Cross International, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Robert S. Strauss was a U.S. ambassador for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a friend of George H.W. Bush, a senior adviser for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget was housed at the New America Foundation.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, Antoinette Cook Bush’s stepfather, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Antoinette Cook Bush is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s stepdaughter, and was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Joseph H. Flom was a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and a trustee at the Third Way.
James F. Collins was a senior advisor at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank). 
Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the founder of CNN, a member of Kappa Sigma, and an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA).
Robert Redford is a member of Kappa Sigma, the founder & president for the Sundance Institute, an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA), and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Patricia E. Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute, an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA), and a board member for Global Green USA.
Green Cross International
Mikhail Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International, an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Global Green USA is the US affiliate for Green Cross International.
Lee H. Hamilton is a board member for Global Green USA, a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Kenneth Canterbury is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the president for the Fraternal Order of Police.
Martin O'Malley was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Baltimore (MD) mayor, and is the Maryland state government governor.
Ex-Mayor Martin O'Malley Heckled During Baltimore Riot Tour (Past Research on the Homeland Security Advisory Council)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
William J. Bratton is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, the commissioner for the New York City Police Department, was the police commissioner for Boston (MA), a superintendent for the Boston Metropolitan Police, and the chief for the Los Angeles (CA) Police Department.
Elliott B. Broidy was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and a commissioner for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System.
Frances Fragos Townsend was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a counsel to the attorney general, assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is a commentator for CNN.
Clark Kent Ervin  is an analyst for CNN, was a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, and the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Ted Turner is the founder of CNN, a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), a member of Kappa Sigma, and an honorary board member at Green Cross International (USA).
Mikhail Gorbachev is the founder of Green Cross International, an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation, a Nobel Foundation Nobel peace prize winner, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Global Green USA is the US affiliate for Green Cross International.















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