TheTownCrier: Who pulls the democrat strings? Who is Carlos Slim Helu? A name YOU should know!

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Many believe George Soros controls the Democrat party with his accumulated wealth of 8.6 billion USD.

Carlos Slim Helu has $52.8 billion according to CBS and Forbes. During the years he was richest man on earth, he had 71 Billion.

From 2010 through 2013, Carlos Slim was the richest man in the world. Born of Lebanese immigrants to Mexico, he became a telecommunication giant who, according to many, controls Mexico and more than a few US lawmakers and movers and shakers in our political landscape.

You can be sure Carlos Slim isn't supporting Trump.

President Trump knows the power of this man and who he influences. No, the media will never tell us, because he influences them as well. During the 2016 campaign, Slim strongly criticized Trump's rhetoric about Mexican Americans as well as his plans to renegotiate NAFTA and build the border wall. Slim said Trump's proposed tariff on imports would "destroy" the U.S. economy.

Trump in turn accused Slim of helping promote his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and cast him as part of a global conspiracy. At an Oct. 14 2016 rally, Trump attacked Slim personally and accused Times journalists of being "corporate lobbyists for Carlos Slim."

Trump is not good for the corrupt! This article explains: Mexico’s wealthiest man lost $5.1 billion in the wake of Donald Trump’s stunning upset over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Carlos Slim Helu ,who is fifth-richest in the world, shed 9.2 percent of his fortune after the peso dove as much as 12 percent on the news.

Slim led declines of $41 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was down 1.1 percent at 10 a.m. in New York. Stock markets across the globe wavered on news that the New York real estate mogul would become the 45th U.S. president.

The index decline almost reversed the $57 billion increase the world’s richest saw earlier in the week when markets rose on expectations that Clinton would prevail.

Carlos Slim Hulu and the New York Times.

Jan. 14, 2015 The Daily Mail reported: Carlos Slim More Than Doubles His Stake in Times Company. He will be among the largest single shareholders in the Times Company, owning up to 17 percent of the common shares outstanding.

It wasn't just the influence on the NY Times, from whence all news flows these days. Slim was everywhere with our 'royalty' influencing the 'news'

12 March 2012 we read that veteran talk show host Larry King, 78, will take a prime-time, nightly slot on start-up Internet news channel Ora.tv.

The network is the latest project of Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican billionaire who is believed to be worth $69 billion. King is co-founding the network with Slim and will interview political leaders and A-list celebrities in a similar format to his CNN show Slim's America Movil, one of the world's biggest telecommunications firms, will fund the station that is set to be led by Jon Housman, who was formerly the president of digital journalism at Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

And yes, Slim is most certainly a Globalist.

Carlos Slim and The Obama/Biden Administration

Slim was often guests of the Obamas and attentended State Dinners. At this one on May 19, 2010, Hillary Clinton, attended as Secretary of State. Other Attendees at that State Dinner that I found of interest:

The President & First Lady Michelle Obama The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Vice President of the United States Dr. Jill Biden, Mr. Carlos Slim, América Móvil, Inbursa, Grupo Carso, MexicoMs. Eva Longoria-Parker, Los Angeles, CA (this woman is everywhere with the dnc) Mr. George Lopez, Los Angeles, CA (fall down drunk in public Lopez - classy move Obama!) Ms. Whoopi Goldberg, Whoop Productions, New York, NY

From a news clip on May 6, 2013: President Barack Obama wrapped up a less than 24 hour trip to Mexico City last week by meeting privately with a group of top Mexican businessmen that included Carlos Slim Domit, Chairman of the Board of Grupo Carso and the eldest son of Carlos Slim Helú, the world's richest person. From the U.S. side, the binational dialogue will be led by Vice President Joe Biden. The goal is to strengthen economic integration beyond the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Another article says: " The people of North America should not be fooled by the embraces and praises that will be exchanged this week between Joe Biden and Enrique Peña Nieto. The solutions to our common problems will not come from such hypocritical political discourse, but from creative binational citizen action.

When Vice-President Joseph Biden travels to Mexico this week to meet with the country's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, he will not be speaking with an enlightened democratic leader but a representative of the nation's corrupt oligarchy."

How fitting. Looks like Biden always talked with the corrupt of nations. They speak his language.

OBAMAPHONES

Perhaps you noticed last week that one demand of Pelosi for Covid relief is renewing the free phone fiasco of Obama/Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her own emergency coronavirus stimulus bill on Monday, leading furious Republicans to argue that much of the proposal contained a progressive wishlist seemingly unrelated to the crisis -- including several provisions that amount to a resurrection of the notorious "Obamaphone" program, GOP officials said.

A comprehensive 2017 report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that that the "Obamaphone" program, which gave cell phones to poor people under the broadband benefit, stashed $9 billion in private bank accounts and was"rife with fraud," the Washington Times reported at the time. The GAO report found that about 10.6 million people have an Obamaphone, but 36 percent of them may not qualify. The audit also concluded that more than 5,500 people were found to be enrolled for two phones, while the program was paying for about 6,400 phones for persons the government has listed as dead, the paper reported.

Once the lucrative deal was sealed on Obamaphones, purchased from TracFone, fraud took over. It was never about helping the poor. It was about helping Obama/Biden and Carlos Slim. TracFone is owned by Mexican multibillionaire Carlos Slim Helu.

Looks to me like Nancy Pelosi is one of Slim's lackeys.

The 'Lifeline' free-cell-phone scheme cost $2.2 BILLION last year alone, all of it from fees added to the phone bills of paying customers. The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION to date. Obama Phones | Brahma News Just How Racist Is the 'Obama Phone' Video? - The Atlantic

Like industry leader TracFone, which has received more than $1.5 billion - including $440 million in 2012 alone - to provide phones to 3.9 million recipients, StandUp and Terracom behave more like corporate titans than good Samaritans.

For more see: Carlos Slim, World’s Richest Man, Profiting Off ‘Obamaphones’ Aimed At Helping The Poor 10/10/2012 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carlos-slim-obamaphones_n_1955929

Slim and the Clintons...MY, oh, MY

This is Carlos Slim receiving the Global Citizen Award from the Clinton Foundation. NEW YORK – Tonight, President Bill Clinton will honor recipients at the sixth annual Clinton Global Citizen Awards in New York City in a ceremony featuring performances by recording artists and appearances by heads of state and celebrity philanthropists. The Clinton Global Citizen Awards recognizes individuals from various sectors who demonstrate visionary leadership in addressing global challenges. Carlos Slim Helú, founder of Fundación Carlos Slim

Hundreds of Millions of dollars poured into the Clinton Foundation from Slim's foundations. Much of it while HRC was Secretary of State. She actually appeared at one gig with Slim while serving the Obama Administration

At least 10 top Mexican business groups and corporations, both public and private, paid millions of dollars for Bill Clinton to speak at their events between 2002 and 2012, according to a review of the family's federal financial disclosures published by The Washington Post in June. Over more than a decade, Clinton delivered 14 speeches to 11 different Mexican sponsors. He was paid $3.2 million.

With few exceptions, Clinton's speeches are closed to the news media. Yet according to press reports, in Toluca, the 42nd President addressed global warming, world financial instability and Mexico's war on drugs. Clinton often uses his trips to connect to Mexico's elite. In 2008 he dined with Slim in Mexico City. According to press reports, they talked about fighting poverty in the world in general and in Mexico in particular. The Carlos Slim Foundation and The Clinton Foundation have launched a number of joint philanthropic projects both in Mexico and Latin America. Clinton's frequent trips to Mexico since he left the Oval Office come as a sharp contrast to the scant two times he visited the country when he was in office.

Photo: Adam Schultz/Clinton Global Initiative

Actress Eva Longoria handed over the Clinton Global Citizen Award to Mr. Carlos Slim Helú because of his leadership in philanthropy.

NEW YORK –President Clinton to Honor Six Recipients at the Sixth Annual Clinton Global Citizen Awards September 24, 2012

Slim is tied to all the globalist ventures. 2008 - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Fundacion Carlos Slim announced an initial investment of $100 million dollars to support the conservation of biodiversity and promote sustainable development in Mexico.

June - President Bill Clinton, Carlos Slim and Frank Giustra, launch a 20 million Dollar Fund for Small and Medium-Size Firms (SMFs) in Haiti.

Report after report shows Slim giving money to the Clintons, such as this: Giustra, Slim donate $100-million each to Clinton Foundation....

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has teamed with a reclusive Vancouver mining financier and a Mexican billionaire to create a massive charitable effort that will see the mining industry channel funds to fight poverty in areas affected by the resource sector. Carlos Slim Helu, a Mexican billionaire who made his fortune in the telecom industry has also committed $100-million towards the effort, which will initially focus on alleviating poverty and fostering growth in Latin America.

One Mexican reporter is convinced that the Clintons interceded to stop prosecution of one of Mexico's elite.

MK10ART's splendid lampoon of the Clintons with Carlos Slim.

He states:

In that story, published in Sept. 2018, which Slim’s spokesman says is ‘fake news’, I reported that a source said, “Discussions are ongoing between the Carlos Slim Foundation and the Clinton Foundation about a multi-million dollar payment … a back-room deal to buy away the threatened indictment of Emiliano Salinas by U.S. DOJ prosecutors in the NXIVM criminal racketeering case”.
– if the donation is made to the Clinton Foundation by Slim – can the Clintons deliver enough influence peddling to guarantee the indictment will be withheld? It is unknown what $$ amount may be in play or may have already changed hands between the Slim Foundation and the Clinton Foundation regarding this matter.”
It is a matter of record that Emiliano Salinas has been named as a criminal coconspirator of Keith Raniere in the trial of Raniere, but Salinas was not indicted.

In August 2008 from an announcement by Carlos Slim's foundation: [former] President William Clinton, Carlos Slim Announce New Investment Projects in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru for more than $50 Million dollars....This Foundation has already donated 100 million dollars.....will support Bill Clinton’s initiative, as well as his foundation in order to fight the poorness in Latin America.

The Bush years - JEB is owned by Mexico!

In 2008 Carlos Slim Helu was nominated member of the Executive Board of RAND Corporation (Research and Development), a nonprofit research organization in the United States, which offers assessment and solutions about commerce and politics, among other aspects, throughout the world.

In a Apr 7, 2015 Forbes article about Jeb Bush's ties to Mexico (AN eye opener!) it is noted: After leaving the Governor's mansion in 2007, Jeb continued to cultivate his connections to Mexico's powerful elite. In the summer of 2008, Jeb traveled to Mexico the same day Senator John McCain, the then presumptive Republican presidential nominee, paid a high-profile visit to Mexico City.

Together McCain and Jeb visited the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's blessed saint. Later McCain and Bush dined at the U.S. Embassy with some of Mexico's most powerful businessmen, including Carlos Slim Domit, telecom mogul Carlos Slim Helú's older son.

As the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression was unfolding in 2008, Jeb Bush had signed on as consultant to Lehman Brothers, where he was enlisted to reach out to Slim Helú in a plan code-named Project Verde (Green Project) aimed at bailing out Lehman, The New York Times reported. Slim wasn't dumb enough to waste his money. But don't you wonder what Bush offered him.

From: Jeb Bush <jeb@jeb.org>To: Casner, Matt Sent: Sat Jul 05 09:41:31 2008 Subject: Re: Project verde was unsuccessful. He did not express interest in jv or stock purchase. he did say he would be intersted in looking at assets for sale. [snip]

All the presidents and those who control them except Trump have been at Slim's biding. Just a few examples:

Mexico City, December 1st, 2011. América Móvil and Carlos Slim Foundation join World’s Forum Initiative (RED) to achieve a HIV/AIDS-Free generation by 2015. (Have you noticed NONE of these foundation plans and spending ever come to fruition? Sounds like $ laundering?

The event “The Beginning of the End of AIDS” carried out today in Washington, DC, was attended by President Barack Obama,former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Doctor Sanjay Gupta, Deborah Dugan, (RED) chairman, Alicia Keys, Bono, Bobby Shriver, and Mr. Carlos Slim .

Euromonitor International was pleased to contribute to the 15th Mexico Business Summit on October 22-24, 2017 in San Luis Potosi.

Speakers – including Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico; Carlos Slim Helú, Honorary Chairman of Grupo Carso.......Karl Rove, Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush –explored Mexico’s options for the future.....where they stated: " In dealing with Trump’s USA, Mexico needs to look beyond the White House and reach out to communities, business leaders, governors and other day-to-day stakeholders whom Washington DC will have to listen to. Mexico should also consider all aspects of its relationship with the USA "

In other words, just go around the president!

Charitable Slim? Not hardly

A Mexican journalist notes: Slim has made a habit of dismissing charity, but it may have something to do with the fact that he gives so little. In comparison to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, Slim has given very few cash grants to non-profits and other charitable organizations, preferring instead to offer programs (such as the one mentioned in this video) that help promote one of his many enterprises.

Experts cite Slim’s relatively small amount in charitable givings as the very reason he’s maintained his spot as the world’s richest man. For Mexicans, there’s nothing to be proud of with Carlos Slim. What he gives, he gets back plus. https://thinkmexican.tumblr.com/page/96

We could go on forever, but suffice to say, the movers and shakers of the democrat party and the socialist wing of the RNC from McCain to Jeb have Carlos around for everything! There are 10 Billionaires in Mexico, so you can be sure the others are wielding some influence in DC as well.

These Mexican billionaire’s net worth has been made through investments stretching media to drug trafficking.

This scratches the surface of the influence of Arab/Mexican Carlos Slim Helu on our 'leaders'. There is much talk in various circles about a relationship between Slim and Chapo Guzman and other cartel involvement.

This article puts it bluntly: "Latin Trade magazine pegged Slim as being worth $7.2 billion.(2000) In other words, after working hard for more than 40 years, Carlos Slim was worth a hefty sum.

Yet, according to news reports in 2009, when Slim made his big investment in the New York Times, he was now worth between $57 billion and $60 billion dollars.

Has anyone in history ever made $50 billion in just ten years? Did Carlos Slim? Not by doing anything legal. Do the math."

"Mexico’s richest man is dirty."

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More!! Carlos and Illegal Immigration

Volume 24, Number 4 (Summer 2014) Issue theme: "Billionaires for Open Borders"[Snip] For perspective, Slim’s holdings equate to a full 6 percent of Mexico’s GDP; in comparison, Bill Gates’ share of American GDP is around 0.04 percent. Considering the power and influence he has in his country, along with the fact that Mexico is home to over half of America’s illegal immigrants, Carlos Slim should be one of the central figures in the ongoing immigration debate.

As critics point out, it is the predatory monopolies Slim has managed to acquire in areas such as banking, tobacco, retailing, insurance, and construction that explain the pace of his massive wealth accumulation. Through his largest holding, America Movil, a telecom behemoth he acquired during Mexico’s privatization period in the early nineties, it is estimated that Slim controls a full 75 percent of the landline, broadband, and mobile markets in Mexico.

According to an OECD study from 2009, such control has allowed Slim to overcharge his customers, especially the poor, a total of $13.4 billion every year. Steve Sailer, in an article on Slim, cites a Forbes report, which estimated that the average monthly phone bill for a small business in Mexico is $132, compared to $60 in the U.S. From the same article, Guillermo Ortiz, head of the Bank of Mexico, estimates that due to Slim’s telecom monopoly and others like it in Mexico, “[e]conomic growth is one percentage point less than it could be with real competition. There are not enough jobs to keep workers from migrating to the United States and investment is being driven to countries like Brazil and China.”

By gouging the already impoverished Mexican lower class, Slim’s monopolies push them northward. In addition to this being a vocal proponent of open borders for the U.S., Slim’s unparalleled control over his nation’s economy also makes him a passive force behind Mexican immigration into the U.S. This sets him apart from other names on this list, who in their lobbying efforts, Super PAC-spending, and campaign contributions, are “merely” proactive in their push for open borders. They cannot match the pushing effect on Mexican emigration that comes from Slim’s single-handed undercutting of the Mexican economy.

Slim benefits directly from mass immigration by profiting from phone calls made between Mexico and the swelling Mexican population in the U.S. Meanwhile, he indirectly benefits from the $22 billion in remittances Mexico receives from U.S.-based Mexican émigrés every year. Because of Mexico’s dependence on remitted dollars (it’s the biggest GDP contributor next to oil) and because of Slim’s large piece of the Mexican economy, it shouldn’t surprise that Slim supports the sweeping of more and more of Mexico’s poor into the U.S. At a conference in 2007, Slim called the prospect of a stronger border fence “illegal and absurd.” Further, he said immigration into the U.S. should not just be for “highly qualified people.”

Slim’s outsized profits from America Movil and his highly astute investments in general are the reverse image of his 2009 investment in the New York Times, a deal which has continued to underperform for him. Likely more important for Slim is the dominance the Times still has among America’s elite classes. Although the Times hasn’t covered immigration fairly for years, it’s received little criticism for being aligned with Slim. As Steve Sailer again observes,

[The New York Times] has vociferously promoted more immigration from Mexico. Slim profits exorbitantly on calls between the two countries, but the New York Times’s obvious conflict of interest in promoting Mexican settlement in America, which promotes its second largest stockholder`s wealth, is almost never remarked upon (or noticed).”

Interestingly, when Slim’s investment in the Times recently rose to 17 percent, like his initial investment, it was met with little coverage, let alone outcry. By contrast, when it was alleged that the Koch brothers were in talks to purchase the Los Angeles Times, a far smaller and more or less regional paper, coverage across the mainstream media was deafening.

Whether it’s fair to assume Slim can steer the Times’s editorial board, former Times contributor Andreas Martinez writes:

Slim doesn't have to interfere at all. I know from experience that publishers do intervene in the editorial process, as is their prerogative. And I can assure you that Slim’s investment will be a factor, even if unspoken, in editorial decision-making henceforth at the Times.

When the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill was introduced in 2013, next to nothing was reported on about Slim’s involvement. Tucked away in the 856-page bill was a provision giving free mobile phones to illegal aliens. The item was brief, lacked detail, and had all the trappings of an earmark, a practice that was supposed to be banned in the Senate in 2011 following years of public outrage for its association with cronyism. Most to benefit from the program would have been Slim’s Miami-based TracFone Wireless Inc., the biggest maker of pre-paid mobile phones for which Senator Rubio’s Chief of Staff, Cesar Conda,**** was once a top lobbyist. Conda had also been a lobbyist for Slim’s group during Obama’s expansion of the “Lifeline” program, which provided free mobile phones (“Obama Phones”) to welfare recipients.

**** MUST SEE! This ties Conda and Slim together...Slim is the $ behind Conda....and Rubio, Ryan, Romney and all of them on the left.