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Unemployment rate drops to 8.6% (updated)

By Rick Moran

Update, Steve McCann writes:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released their November jobs report. The only headline the media will trumpet will be the unemployment rate dropping to 8.6%. However the BLS has arbitrarily dropped 315,000 from the civilian labor force in October claiming they simply ceased looking for work and dropped out of the labor force. (How they come up with this number is a mystery) If this had not been done the unemployment rate would have been 9.1%>

Further in 1994 the BLS, under the prodding of the Clinton administration, changed its method of calculating unemployment. The change: those considered discouraged or marginally attached to the labor force are no longer counted. In November that number stood at 2.6 million. If the unemployment rate were still calculated as it was prior to 1964 the unemployment rate would be 10.2%.

 The BLS has lost a major amount of credibility as it has become a tool of the politicians to make them look good and try and fool the American people.

 Read more:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/unemployment_rate_drops_to_86.html#ixzz1fOxLdVMz

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Evil never ends.

New Sex Abuse Suit Claims Sandusky Threatened Boy’s Family If He Told

By Colleen Curry


The latest person to accuse former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse also claims that Sandusky threatened to hurt the boy’s family if he ever told anyone about the abuse.

Sandusky’s newest accuser, who is now 29, had not told anyone about the abuse until he read about the grand jury presentment charging Sandusky with 40 counts of child molestation over 15 years, his lawyer Jeff Anderson said today. Until that time, he had thought he was the only victim.

The man, whose identity was not released, issued a statement that said, ”I don’t want other kids to be abused by Jerry Sandusky or anybody like Penn State to allow people like him to do it–rape kids!  I never told anybody what he did to me over 100 times at all kinds of places until the newspapers reported that he had abused other kids.”

“I am hurting and have been for a long time because of what happened, but feel now even more tormented that I have learned of so many other kids were abused after me,” he said.

Anderson said the boy met Sandusky through the Second Mile foundation when the alleged victim was 10, and was abused by Sandusky from 1992 to 1994.

He said that Sandusky threatened to harm the boy’s family if the boy told anyone about the abuse. Sandusky also paid for sports camps, plied the boy with gifts, and took him on trips, Anderson said.

The lawyer said during a press conference today that they had filed suit against Sandusky, Penn State and the Second Mile charity seeking reparations for over 100 acts of sexual abuse.

Anderson alleged that Sandusky had abused the boy at Penn State University, at Second Mile events, at his home, at a Penn State bowl game out of state, and in Philadelphia. The victim notified law enforcement authorities on Tuesday, Anderson said.

The lawsuit alleges child abuse, negligence, emotional distress, and conspiracy to endanger a child, among other charges.  It was filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common please and seeks a jury trial.

“How can it be that (Sandusky) was allowed to be such a peril to so many kids for so long?” Anderson asked. “It is because those among him, when they saw the signs or heard the signals, refused to see, hear or act because they thought more of the institution and trusted him blindly, in a way that made the kids suffer enormously.”

Anderson,  a Minnesota attorney who specializes in child sex abuse cases,  said he believed Sandusky had hundreds of victims, and blamed Penn State and Second Mile officials for looking the other way when clear signs of Sandusky’s abuse were evident, including a 1998 investigation into Sandusky showering with a boy on Penn State’s campus. The Second Mile said saying it would review the complaint and adhere to its legal responsibilities throughout the process. 

“As always, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families,” the statement said.

http://tinyurl.com/736o8xx

Hooly Schooling: This is what they do!

 I know you've had cats before, but this is a little reminder! LOL!

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It is what it is.

I wrote to Mrs. Cow today...

Among other things, I asked her to use her leadership to make the Connection better, and that she could at least talk to Sissy when she posts--that it was an unkindness not to as Sissy's never done anything to her, and that it would mean a lot to her. She mentioned she didn't take a stand in this mess and then proceeded to chide me for some of the mean comments that I'd made here about folks on the Connection (I  guess she doesn't like the Gertysnipe sign as she hasn't been here enough to see there isn't much else). I replied that I didn't post them at the Connection and that she'd never chided Gerty thusly. I said she may not feel she'd taken a stand, but that she had.

This is the reply I got:

Bullshit.


You have no idea what I say to Gerty in e-mails. I just don’t care to make a giant pratt of myself on the Connection. Sick or not, there is absolutely no excuse to be mean and petty to others which is something you excel at then make the excuse that your medications make you do it. When you stop feeling sorry for your self you may have more friends, until then you’re on your own. Think of me what you will, for 53 years I had no idea you existed, I can go another 53 without you. Yes, Lori, I am a happy married woman with a nice house, a good husband, and an excellent retirement with children and grandchildren who give a shit unlike you. How’s that for petty and cruel? Fuck off.

Tammy

This speaks for itself and I'm going to let this stand and ask that everyone pray for her. I have plenty of friends--I belong to a prayer group, a private political group on Yahoo--we've known each other nearly 10 years! I blog here, and at several more places--and I've spoken with David Horowitz, emailed Bill Whittle and try to keep up with things. Phooey calls me every week--if not every day, Paget sends me things--and I need to send some things out to you folks, too. It's only my various illnesses that prevent me from going out and making friends outside--but I think that'll change.

Otherwise, I don't apologize for who I am in the slightest--and Mrs. Cow has slender grounds upon which to upbraid anyone--I thought she was queen of 'not taking a stand'? This is my house, and I'll say what I want to here.

I am constantly amazed that those who talk about religion the most often seem to practice less of it in their lives than those professing no religion at all. Sissy, who has more or less given up on religion, would've never not spoken to Mrs. Cow on the Klatch--and she certainly would've never written a letter to someone like Mrs. Cow did.

P.S. I have never blamed my medications for what I do, but for those of us educated in such things we know that they can easily lower impulse control, affect one moods, and make one unusually irritable.  They can stand in stead of the good sense you have. That doesn't make what I do 'their' fault--but it's certainly a part of the picture. Just ask Phoo... Mrs. Cow simply doesn't understand this and that's not her fault; until it happens to you, people often don't understand.

Otherwise, what she wrote was just one of the most meanspirited, and childish things I've ever heard. Some people just aren't what you think they are.

When one of my autistic boys would bite me over taking away his dinner plate, I never took it personally. I knew that that young adult was impaired and that he simply didn't know any better. He hadn't learned, had no capacity for understanding personal psychology, he didn't know the rules or care about why were they important--and he certainly had not a particle of an idea about religion and why we should treat people better than that.  He'd just want what he wanted when he wanted it--and he wanted to express himself in a way that brought the most personal satisfaction no matter who it hurt.

That's the file this one goes in--and it doesn't hurt me anymore than the acting out that that boy did... and for the same reasons.

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This was the reason behind the whole thing.

The Wall Street Occupiers as Mind Erasers

By James Lewis

Stage magicians work a lot by distraction.  A well-timed distraction makes people lose track of whatever they are thinking.  If I'm an in-your-face street hustler and you're beginning to get suspicious about me, all I have to do is tap your shirt and say, "Is that a van Heusen shirt?  That looks really cool!  I always wanted one of those!"  By that time, you've lost that little suspicious thought.  It's been erased from your mind by distraction.

Barack Obama may not be the kind of man you and I want as president, but he's a very slick stage magician.  That's how he's made it in politics, along with scandal bombs tossed by Axelrod.  The 2008 Obama campaign was an endless series of stage tricks, epitomized by the infamous Greek styrofoam temple columns in Denver.

In "The Music Man," Professor Harold Hill does it over and over again. So does Obama. The left has organized for ten years or more to do things like the Occupation of Wall Street.  Their real aim is to occupy something else: the media, and therefore the minds of Americans.  It's Occupy You!

Leftist street theater is a completely phony imitation of a genuine Civil Rights or Tea Party demonstration.  They poop on the American Flag -- but mainly for the cameras.  You and I can't stop paying attention to some trained sociopath who is trying to provoke us.  Their first goal is to get attention, like some two-year old who's discovered the power of yelling "No!" The Communists used to do it everywhere with "spontaneous mass demonstrations." The Occupoops use the same technique in cahoots with the media.

Our growing conservative media are the main weapon against them.  Like those vampires of Balkan legends, they can't tolerate sunshine. We need more and more sunshine.

The Ruckus Society has been training "anarchists" for ten years. Even Wikipedia writes that [t]The Ruckus Society has been described by many reliable sources as an anarchist organization that played a major role in inciting property damage and vandalism during the Seattle WTO protests in 1999."

 A scholarly source writes:

The Ruckus Society and Anarchist Black Cross Federation even specialize in providing training in activism and varying forms of civil disobedience. There are many resources freely available to teach interested anarchists how to conduct surveillance, prepare for protests, climb and descend, build shields, and craft weapons. The legality of the proposed actions is secondary to their perceived effectiveness.

 Look at what those Occupy morons on Wall Street have achieved in just a month of ruckus-making. Those kids can't string a coherent sentence together.  They were stoned a lot of the time.  What they did was pure street theater, a publicity con, and the media loved it.  It was easy for all the mediots in Manhattan to hop a cab from Midtown to check on the slow-motion riot, write their stories, and go home early.  The "hate Capitalism" schtick got headlines -- while the Occubums were tweeting up a storm on their shiny new iPods, iPads, and iPhones, all exquisite products of capitalist creativity.

Those bums controlled the headlines for weeks and weeks.  The really frightening moms and pops of the Tea Party never got this kind of flattering attention.  They are too normal. Ignore the Occupy chatter from these characters, which doesn't make any sense anyway.  Just look at the distraction they created. 

Do you remember anything else happening during the "Occupy" news cycles? Those "anarchists" were not Occupying anything but your mind.  That was their purpose: to Occupy our minds for 24 hours at a time.  The organizers were probably checking out their Google hits from hour to hour, and dropping another publicity bomb in the news whenever the Google traffic died down.

It worked like a charm.

While America's minds were Occupied, we were not paying attention to Iran's rush to nuclear weapons, for one little thing.  Or to the crisis of Euro-socialism now roiling the stock markets.  Or the rolling disaster of the "Arab Spring."  We were just angered by the misbehavior of the Occupuppies, pooping on our national carpet.

Distraction occupies your mind.  It's just old-fashioned stage magic.

This stunt was run by Obama, Soros, ACORN (or whatever they call themselves this week), and all the other suspects.  The Demagogue Machine publicly recognized the "grievances" of the Occu-poopsters, but their biggest grievance is having to pay more money for good Mary Jane.  Why doesn't the government give it to them free?  Marijuana is a medicine!  And who stole my new iPad?  And where did that cute hippie chick run off to now?

This was pure stagecraft, and the only question is "why?"

Why did Soros fronts pay $3.6 million to keep this farce going, day after day? Why did the media take the bait when there was real news to cover? Why? I can't read really devious minds like Axelrod and the Bamster, but we know what their biggest goal: to cling to power.  It's not the roiling civil wars in Egypt, Syria, and maybe Iraq and Afghanistan.  It's not unemployment.

The left is preparing the 2012 battlefield for Obama.  That's why the Media Machine trashed the Republican candidates they fear most: against Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt, and soon, against Mitt Romney.  Just like 2008, the New York Times and the Crony Corporate Media are destroying the most attractive conservatives first, because they fear another Ronald Reagan more than anything in life.  Reagan brought down the Soviet Empire and they still hate him for that, just like the BBC still loves to hate Maggie Thatcher.

This year, conservatives are again being picked off one by one, and most people are blind to it.  (Well, maybe Herman Cain does have a woman problem.  Not even a fraction of one percent of Bill Clinton's...)

Obama is playing Chicago Dirtball and we are playing Marquess of Queensbury. Guess who's going to have the edge in next years's hardball fight.  It's the most important election of our lifetimes -- maybe in American history, period. Obama will pick Hillary or another woman for his veep, and then he figures he's got the women, the blacks, and the libs for close to 50%. What about the Wall Street Rucksters?  They will be the mind-eraser for the election.  Any time Obama drops the ball, the Rucksters can kick up a fuss, and the media will kill the Obama story.

Suppose some foreign policy disaster happens -- the mullahs explode their first nuke. 

Obama is vulnerable because he hasn't done one single solitary thing to stop them.  On the contrary, he's given them special consideration because they are leftist victims, you see. As soon as Iran explodes a nuke -- Shazzam!  Presto!  Change-o! -- there will be a big distraction in the media.  It could be Hillary's announcement that she's on the ticket -- but you really want a distraction you can fire off any time you feel like it.

The Rucksters are it.  They will stage a convenient riot, burn a store in Oakland, or put on a noisy flash mob against McDonald's.

The left has so many phony grievances right now -- Michelle Obama just hates the fact that the poor eat too much food she disapproves of -- that they can just throw a dart at the grievance list and use that to swing the headlines.  People are suckers.  Liberals are even bigger suckers.  Liberals who want government help are practically lost souls.

Conservatives are handicapped by their own decency. That is an Alinsky rule, right in the handbook.  They take advantage of our decency, and we don't want to give up our values because we would become like them.

The only way to fight them is with free speech -- what remains of it -- to expose the militant left over and over again. Now that they have the White House, the hour is late.  This is a time of crisis and decision.  If you tell your friends nothing else, please get them to understand that.

This one will be pure citizen power against the radical left, which never plays fair. Where do you stand?  How about your friends?  Don't waste time on the terminally brainwashed.  They don't think for themselves.  Spend time connecting with people who understand what's going on.

And then please act peacefully, democratically, and with a clear sense of purpose.

Your personal computer is the biggest free speech weapon you have.  Use it wisely, with common sense and courtesy, to reflect your real values.  We don't need to resort of leftist totalitarian methods.  We just need to tell the truth, over and over again.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_wall_street_occupiers_as_mind_erasers.html

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You want HER for your president??? Just remember.

In Discussing Hillary...

 

By Bill Miller Sr.

 

There really isn’t much being said or written at this point about Hillary Clinton replacing President Barack Obama on the Democratic ticket in 2012 as the candidate for the White House. We don’t think it will happen, but this idea is gaining some strength among some Democrats. The reason is because they don’t think Obama can be re-elected and that Clinton would be a stronger candidate.

 

This brought to mind an item about Hillary that was in “The Secrets of the FBI” book authored by Ronald Kessler, who also wrote “In the President’s Secret Service.” Because of his research, he qualifies as an expert on the two agencies. “The Secrets of the FBI” was published this year and is one of many books he has written. We would agree with what the publisher had to say about Kessler: “When it comes to developing access to top players, uncovering secrets, and writing a vivid tale, Ronald Kessler is without peer.”

 

We all remember Vince Foster, a member of President Bill Clinton’s inner circle who committed suicide in July 1993. The deputy White House counsel was found dead from a gunshot wound to his head. There was wide speculation that he may have been shot elsewhere and his body placed in a wooded area in a park along the Potomac River in northern Virginia. He was Hillary’s mentor at a law firm in Arkansas.

 

There is no question the man was depressed and was on the verge of resigning, which he had advised some of his close associates. There was a special independent counsel who looked into Foster’s death. He was Kenneth W. Starr who also was involved in the investigation of the Clintons’ investment in the much-publicized Whitewater real estate development. Starr found that Foster was a perfectionist who was very troubled about critical Wall Street Journal editorials, and the upcoming congressional hearings on the firing of White House travel office personnel. Starr’s investigation found that Foster committed suicide.

 

But what was revealed by Kessler was that Hillary and Foster held a meeting with aides to go over her health care legislation not long before his death.

 

“Those who were present told FBI agents working for Starr that Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and humiliated Foster in front of aides,” former FBI agent Coy Copeland says. “Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-sized meeting,” Copeland says. “She told him he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little-hick-town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time,” Kessler wrote.

 

Others close to the scene said Hillary “pushed him over the edge.” Kessler wrote that after that meeting Foster’s behavior changed dramatically.” He broke down and cried on occasions. “He talked of being trapped.” Because the White House objected on the grounds of executive privilege, Starr’s investigators never interviewed Hillary.

 

Another item in his book was that Hillary instructed that no one was to speak to her as she went from one location to another. An FBI agent who was not informed of the rule, said good morning to her and Hillary jumped all over him. She even said: “Where do you buy your suits? Penney’s?”

 

More books undoubtedly will be coming about Hillary’s days as secretary of state.

Although experienced and hardened in government, and in the White House as first lady, Hillary’s persona is hard to digest. Since we don’t believe she will be the Democratic candidate, why speculate on what kind of a president she would be.

If she did return to the White House, the best advice to aides is to get out of her way, wear armor, never question her actions, be a yes person, see her big picture, and, above all, don’t be hick-townish.

http://www.emissourian.com/opinion/columns/article_cc34bb36-9d1f-5489-93b7-5672bf557b64.html

Another lie for personal/political gain; does any Dem tell the truth?

Stop Peddling the Lie that Palin Led to Giffords’ Shooting

By Don Sturber

I have great respect for retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly’s service to this nation. I also admire the courage of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. See Thursday’s post, “God bless you, Gabrielle Giffords.” But I find Captain Kelly’s tactics for selling his new book to be insulting , misleading and plain out wrong. More than that it is disturbingly dishonorable.

From the London Daily Mail:

But it was the lack of any contact from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin that was ‘surprising’ said Mr Kelly.

Citing the book, Mr Morgan said that it revealed some ‘interesting insights’ into ‘political colleagues and people that [Gabby Giffords] had worked for and against.’

Speaking about a map for which Palin was responsible, with crosshairs over certain states including Arizona, Mr Morgan said that the Alaskan ‘doesn’t come out of this very well, I don’t think, because there was a woman who at the time had been putting these crosshair things on her website and stuff, including Gabby,’ he said.

Sarah Palin’s map had nothing to do with the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords. The man who shot her knew nothing of the map and had stalked the captain’s wife for 3 years prior to the shooting that left 6 people dead.

What a disgusting thing to do — and Piers Morgan’s failure to challenge Captain Kelly on this misinformation is appalling but not surprising.

One more day. One more lie. Captain Kelly should apologize privately and publicly to Missus Palin for perpetuating this fallacy.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/46876

(Ribbet!)

This man mentioned HE might, one day run for office... gad, they'll say anything!

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Um... they don't call it a 'whirlybird'...

The "dibs' theory; 'I got here fiiiirst!' as a personal philosophy:

Upon What Basis Can an Occupy Protest Ask Someone to Leave?

By Natalie Solent

... because "This is private property" or any other version of "You have no right to be here" are open to some fairly obvious ripostes.

"We were here first" - "Er, not quite first. The actual owners of the space were there before you."
"We are the 99%" - "We're poorer than you, you middle class ****-ers"
"We represent the 99%" - "Who voted for you, then?"
"We are the official accredited Occupiers" - "We refuse to be defined by your oppressive structures, and hereby declare ourselves to be Occupying this Occupation!"

I have been reading the minutes of the General Assembly of the Occupy protesters who have taken over the empty UBS bank building in Sun Street, Hackney. One area of concern does seem to be people "abusing the space".

If people want to stay over night (sleep-overs) they need (1) to be part of a working group (2) They need to have an on-going task that warrants their stay. There will be ‘monitors’ to make sure sleep-overs are not abusing the space. Individuals that stay over and are found to not be working will be given one warning before being asked to leave.

And if they say no, what then? When a warning is given, it must be a warning of something. Presumably it is a warning that the bigger group of Occupiers will eject the smaller group of Occupiers - because they can.

Unless, of course, they can't. If a fight develops, what then? Call the cops? Problem with that.

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2011/11/upon_what_basis_1.html

Ponder this!

Now, I feel better...

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It's really all leftists vs. the rest of us...

Who's behind '99 percenters'?

By Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott

A company hired to lead marketing campaigns for such corporate giants as Pepsi, Starbucks, IBM and Toyota now is promoting Occupy Wall Street while complaining about the top "1 percent" ultra-wealthy allegedly hoarding the country's wealth.

GOOD Worldwide LLC describes itself as a media platform that promotes, connects, and reports on the individuals, businesses, and non-profits "moving the world forward." It maintains a central website, quarterly magazine, and online video content all dedicated to promoting so-called progressive values.

A division of the company, GOOD/Corps., seeks a "shared value revolution" by working with some of the world's biggest companies to "helps brands and organizations align business strategy with social impact, and win through highly participatory and profitable relationships with their audiences."

GOOD recently led rebranding campaigns for a litany of corporate giants. It developed Pepsi's "Refresh" campaign, a "Harmony" project for Toyota, IBM's "smarter cities" drive and Starbucks' "community" project. Other major companies listed as having "partnered" with GOOD include Apple, Aveda, BP, Ford, Gap , GE , IBM, Jet Blue Airways, Levi's, Lexus, Kashi, Microsoft, MINI, NBC Universal, Ralph Lauren , Skyy Vodka, Virgin Mobile and Whole Foods.

While GOOD/Corps clearly aims to infuse specific values to corporate marketing campaigns, the companies themselves have praised those very campaigns for increasing revenues. Robert MacDonald, CEO of P&G, reportedly changed the strategy of the company to "Touching and improving more lives, in more parts of the world, more completely." "It's more than a noble idea, it's a game-changing growth strategy and a powerful source of competitive advantage," MacDonald said of the rebranded strategy.

Michael E. Porter of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, commenting on the progressive marketing campaigns, said, "Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success." While GOOD/Corps is partnered with some of the biggest names on Wall Street, it has been supporting the Occupy movement in recent weeks, even complaining about the "top 1 percent" allegedly hoarding the country's wealth.

A visit to GOOD's websites on any given day finds an abundance of pro-Occupy content, including articles supporting the movement. Just yesterday, the main site's rotator featured an article by GOOD's managing editor, Megan Greenwald, complaining, "No plan that included raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans had a chance of earning Republican support."

The article contained a photo of protesters demanding, "Tax the rich." Another article yesterday publicized, "Rooftops: Occupied! Communities Turn Out for Solar Power." GOOD featured a series of "anti-1-percenter" articles. On October 24, it was "The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters – But Lots of Them Are Bosses," followed on October 26 by "The 1 Percent Has Nearly Tripled Its Share of America's Income." On October 12, deemed by Occupy Wall Street as Bank Transfer Day, GOOD posted "A Step-by-Step Guide to Leaving Your Big Predatory Bank."

GOOD writer Curtis Walker's web page instructed readers to "Protest Big Banks with Their Own Junk Mail. "Not everyone who supports Occupy Wall Street movement can camp out in solidarity. So there's a simple and cheap way to get back at big banks and make your voice heard. All you need to get started is your daily pile of junk mail," he wrote.

GOOD's writers are concerned about OWS's political future. One recent post stated "Occupy Wall Street Needs Democratic Friends in Congress." A few weeks after came the claim "Occupy Wall Streeters Aren't Republicans – Or Democrats." Concern later shifted to "How Will the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Vote?"

Soros Connections:

GOOD, meanwhile, was founded as a magazine by Benjamin Goldhirsh, who "decided to create a magazine dedicated to social causes." Goldhirsh co-founded GOOD with Max Schorr and Casey Caplowe, reportedly using $2.5 million from his own trust fund after becoming wealthy from an inheritance left by his father.

Goldhirsh serves on the board of directors of  The Goldhirsh Foundation, which supports "social programs, environmental initiatives, innovative medical research and leading cultural institutions." He also serves on the boards of "Be the Change," which launched the United Nations Millenium Promise, an organization founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Millenium has worked with GOOD in multiple initiatives.

Other Millenium Promise board members include Sachs and Stewart Paperin, executive vice president of the Open Society Institute and president of the Soros Economic Development Fund. Partners in the Millenium Promise — an organization "guided by the UN's Millenium Development goals to end global poverty by 2025" — include Soros' Open Society Foundations, the Soros Economic Development Fund, Soros Foundations Network, and The Goldhirsh Foundation.

Sachs has been in the news recently after he penned a New York Times oped deeming the Occupy movement a "new era in America" that will realize the dawn of corporate and government cooperation. He further called for "a third-party movement to break the hammerlock of the financial elites." Sachs is a key member of Soros' Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET.

The group holds an annual gathering of economic giants in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H., at the Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. That conference's goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. Soros' gathering openly has a similar goal – a global economic restructuring.

With additional research by Chris Elliott .

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=370261