The stage is set, the puppets are in place

With powerful billionaires like Sheldon Adelson and George Soros buying politicians left and right ... I don't see any sanity in the foreign policies of  America.  As both these individuals are hell bent on destroying Muslim countries in order to safeguard Israel ... the world will keep seeing wars initiated by the USA, on the slightest possible pretext, against Muslim countries who dare to so much as breathe an insult towards Israel.  Loss of multitudes of innocent people and the growth of hatred towards America and Israel is something we need to come to terms with .... because that's in our future and in the future of our descendants.

I hope Canada does not go the way of America.... although Stephen Harper and many of his Cons are placing Israel's well-being in equal proportions to Canada's well-being.  You can't keep your feet in two boats and expect to keep your balance ... and that's another reason why so many Canadians are against dual citizenship.... and IMO, if the Conservatives lose the next election it will be because they have been paying far too much attention to Israel's well-being.

Although, the writer below is throwing dirt at only the GOP candidates,  that is only half the story.  There have been several rumors of Hillary Clinton and her associates having met with both Adelson and Soros at frequent intervals in the not too distant past.

Dana Milbank writing at WashingtonPost:
....GOP candidates kiss up to billionaire Sheldon Adelson.    

Who wants to marry a billionaire?
John Kasich does. So do Scott Walker, Chris Christie and Jeb Bush.

When Sheldon Adelson, the world’s eighth-richest person, according to Forbes, let it be known that he was looking for a Republican candidate to back in the 2016 presidential race, these four men rushed to Las Vegas over the weekend to see if they could arrange a quickie marriage in Sin City between their political ambitions and Adelson’s $39.9 billion fortune.

Adelson was hosting the Republican Jewish Coalition at his Venetian hotel and gambling complex, and the would-be candidates paraded themselves before the group, hoping to catch the 80-year-old casino mogul’s eye. Everybody knows that, behind closed doors, politicians often sell themselves to the highest bidder; this time, they were doing it in public, as if vending their wares at a live auction.

As The Post’s Philip Rucker reported, Kasich, the Ohio governor, kept addressing his speech to “Sheldon,” as if he were having a private tete-a-tete with the mega-donor (Adelson and his wife spent more than $93 million on the 2012 elections) and not speaking to a roomful of people.

Walker, the Wisconsin governor, pandered unabashedly by giving the Hebrew meaning of his son Matthew’s name and by mentioning that he displays a menorah at home along with the Christmas tree. And Christie, the New Jersey governor, gushed about his trip to Israel and the “occupied territories.”

That was a gaffe. Pro-Israel hawks consider the term pejorative and, at any rate, the more relevant occupied territory at the moment is the Republican Party — wholly occupied by billionaires.

In addition to Adelson, two of the world’s other top-10 billionaires, David and Charles Koch (combined net worth: $81 billion) are pouring tens of millions into the 2014 midterm elections in an effort to swing the Senate to Republican control. These and other wealthy people, their political contributions unleashed by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, are buying the U.S. political system in much the same way Russian oligarchs have acquired theirs. (Super-rich liberals such as Tom Steyer are spending some of their fortunes to help Democrats, but they are pikers by comparison.) Spending by super PACs, a preferred vehicle of billionaires, will surpass spending by all candidates combined this year, predicts Kantar Media, which tracks political advertising.

This pay-to-play culture is, at best, unseemly. What makes it ugly is when it becomes obvious just how much the wealthy corporate interests get in return. As it happens, two such instances were on display Tuesday on Capitol Hill, as one congressional committee examined how Caterpillar Inc. avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes while another panel probed how General Motors was allowed to produce cars with a lethal safety defect for more than a decade...........