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George Soros
George Soros at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2010
Born	August 12, 1930 (1930-08-12) (age 79) Budapest, Hungary
Alma mater	London School of Economics
Occupation	Entrepreneur, currency trader, investor, philosopher, philanthropist, political activist
Net worth	▲ $13.0 billion (Forbes)[1]
Religion	Judaism (formerly); Atheism.[2]
Spouse(s)	Twice divorced (Annaliese Witschak and Susan Weber Soros)
Children	Robert, Andrea, Jonathan, Alexander, Gregory
Website www.georgesoros.com

.George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game.^ George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game.

• George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
• George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker wrote in 2003 in the foreword of Soros' book The Alchemy of Finance: "George Soros has made his mark as an enormously successful speculator, wise enough to largely withdraw when still way ahead of the game.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

^ George Soros is an American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

.The bulk of his enormous winnings is now devoted to encouraging transitional and emerging nations to become 'open societies,' open not only in the sense of freedom of commerce but—more important—tolerant of new ideas and different modes of thinking and behavior.^ His “open society” is not about freedom; it is about license.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The only difference now is that for the first time in the history of the human race we are in possessing of precise information about the mind, about society, about the Family as a system, as in Family Systems Psychology.

• AMERICAN FUTURE - Marc Schulman on a world in turmoil » Who Is George Soros? 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC americanfuture.net [Source type: Original source]

Family

Early life

.The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices.^ Judenrat [a Jewish Council set up by the Nazis, which betrayed Jews in exchange for special privileges] recruited him [Soros] and other Jewish youngsters to hand out leaflets deceptively persuading unwitting Jews to turn themselves in for deportation to the death camps.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

I was told to go to the Jewish Council. .And there I was given these small slips of paper...It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 a.m....And I was given this list of names.^ Best known among these groups is MoveOn.org, a previously small fringe-left group to which Soros has given $5 million since 2004.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. .He said, "You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.^ Cohen, the so called “father of venture capitalism” told you that few people could do what they have done so they are entitled to their reward.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ Sometimes, you have to wonder whether reporters actually pay attention to people they cover in the media.

• Hot Air » Blog Archive » ABC News: George Soros a “free-market capitalist” 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC hotair.com [Source type: General]

^ Reply Report Abuse by solon ( April 14, 2007 6:06 pm ET ) NO THEY DONT. Do you work for a company?

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

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Emigration

Business

Currency speculation

Public predictions

I have a record of crying wolf.... .I did it first in The Alchemy of Finance (in 1987), then in The Crisis of Global Capitalism (in 1998) and now in this book.^ In his book, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), Soros expounded his suport of campaign finance reform--which was a reaction to the fact that Republicans had defeated Hillary Clinton's health plan simply by media.

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ You have been a skeptic or a critic of this new globalized world of finance, of the deregulation, of the enormous fluidity of capital markets - but you have massively benefited from it.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC edition.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Now, my question for you for this week is: What country do you think will emerge most unscathed from this global financial crisis?

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC edition.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

So it's three books predicting disaster. (After) the boy cried wolf three times . . . the wolf really came.^[23]

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...^ SACHS: You know, look, I'm the only one saying it, because everyone wants it, and everyone loves it.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC edition.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ If Mr. Soros says that the Chinese and United Nations way of government is the best for this world, because he backed Obama in the election then we know for a fact he cannot be wrong.

• George Soros Lauds Chinese Model Of Goverment – Wants Global Governance Under UN Security Council 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.prisonplanet.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes. .I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong.^ And in fact, if America uses its position to cooperate with other countries, it can reemerge as the leader, and the world very much needs that kind of leadership.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC edition.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.^[23]

.In February 2009, George Soros said the world financial system had effectively disintegrated, adding that there was no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis.^ SOROS: No, there's a technical reason.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC edition.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ The "Asia Crisis" was unleashed soon after ASEAN decided to admit Burma; George Soros and Madeline Albright had been trying to get ASEAN to reject Burma: asia-crisis.html .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The system can then decide which of the financial organizations become too large and require a division, there must also be new rules to control the movement of capital “, – said Soros.

• George Soros Lauds Chinese Model Of Goverment – Wants Global Governance Under UN Security Council 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.prisonplanet.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[24] ."We witnessed the collapse of the financial system[...]It was placed on life support, and it's still on life support.^ The conventional view, shared by many on the left, is that socialism collapsed in eastern Europe because of its systemic weaknesses and the political elite's failure to build popular support.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ They executed her' 5 Sep 2009: Lawrence McDonald explains how the collapse of the bank giant shook the global financial system to its core .

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

There's no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom."

Insider trading conviction

In 1988, he was asked to join a takeover attempt of the French bank Société Générale. He declined to participate in the bid but did later buy a number of shares in the company. .French authorities began an investigation in 1989, and in 2002 a French court ruled that it was insider trading, a felony conviction as defined under French securities laws and fined him $2.3 million, which was the amount that he made using the insider information.^ France has upheld an earlier conviction against Soros, for felony insider trading.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ How we get from “powerful capitalist” and “convicted of insider trading” to “Clinton’s policies led to Enron” I’m not really sure.

• AMERICAN FUTURE - Marc Schulman on a world in turmoil » Who Is George Soros? 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC americanfuture.net [Source type: Original source]

^ It's going to collect all sorts of information about us, which then is going to be used for purposes that go well beyond airline security.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

Punitive damages were not sought because of the delay in bringing the case to trial. Soros denied any wrongdoing and said news of the takeover was public knowledge.^[25]

.His insider trading conviction was upheld by the highest court in France on June 14, 2006.^[26] In December, 2006 he appealed to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that the 14-year delay in bringing the case to trial precluded a fair hearing.^ How we get from “powerful capitalist” and “convicted of insider trading” to “Clinton’s policies led to Enron” I’m not really sure.

• AMERICAN FUTURE - Marc Schulman on a world in turmoil » Who Is George Soros? 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC americanfuture.net [Source type: Original source]

^ The Supreme Court today refused to hear an appeal by civil liberties groups, which challenged the secret arrests on constitutional grounds.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ C77 is part of the interconnected web of the "human rights" mafia , which in turn overlaps the drug legalization lobby, as exemplified in the case of Human Rights Watch, for which Soros is a prominent financier.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[27]

Sports

.In 2005, Soros was a minority partner in a group that tried to buy the Washington Nationals of the National League.^ Who are Soros's business partners at the Carlyle Group---one of the world's largest private equity funds, which makes most of this profit from defense contracts ?

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros' aim seems to be to make the U.S. just another client state easily controlled by the United Nations and other one-world groups where he has lots of friends.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ Soros is a partner in the Carlyle Group where he has invested more than 100 million dollars.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.Some Republican lawmakers suggested that they might tamper with baseball's antitrust exemption if Soros had any interest in any baseball team.^ Soros may not, as some have suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[28] .In 2008, Soros' name was associated with AS Roma, an Italian football team but the club was not sold.^ By running backwards from an association with the Soros name gives the appearance of being ashamed of his ideas and causes.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

Soros was also a financial backer of Washington Soccer L.P., the group that owned the operating rights to Major League Soccer club D.C. United when the league was founded in 1995, but the group lost these rights in 2000.^[29]

Philanthropy

Main article: List of projects supported by George Soros

George Soros (left) and James H. Billington.

.Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain.^ Soros the 'philanthropist' and his Open Society Fund .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ In fact, Media Matters has never received funding from progressive philanthropist George Soros.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Soros' philanthropic funding includes efforts to promote non-violent democratization in the post-Soviet states.^ I cannot understand why the Democrats have to denigrate the war effort and the coalition (please spare me any attempts to state that thier current rhetoric is based on facts or principles).

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^ What keeps these groups on cue, and Democrats in line, is the prospect that any funding from Soros can be stepped up to massive levels.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

.These efforts, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, occur primarily through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names (such as the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland).^ Poland through the Stefan Batory Foundation ...

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros' efforts go beyond spin.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ But there was not a murmur from the Open Society Institute or from Soros himself.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

As of 2003, PBS estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion.^[25] .The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years.^ That compares with about $US100 million in foreign aid to Russia from the US Government last year.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros can and does- about $US350 million ($500 million) worth every year.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Time magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects - $100 million toward Internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa — while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $6 billion.^ Soros has invested more than $100 million in Carlyle, Clark tells us.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ How he was able to do this, remains a mystery: first, there was the fact that a speculator like Soros is able to borrow on a margin of 5%, borrowing $1 billion for just $50 million.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The New York-based Soros Foundation has spent more than $US1 billion ($A1.4 billion) on charitable projects in Russia in the past 15 years.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[30]

.Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, and Transparency International.^ Central European University and the intellectual subversion of Central and Eastern Europe .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ University eductaion for students throughout central and eastern Europe.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ George Soros -or what might be called the "George Soros spider web of institutions" - is at the center of a vast cultural-political operation of deconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe, and throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Soros also pledged an endowment of €420 million to the Central European University (CEU).^ Soros pledged $10 million to ACT, which has since been fined $775,000 for illegally funneling $70 million set aside for voter registrations to Democratic candidates.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ Central European University and the intellectual subversion of Central and Eastern Europe .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The focal point of this endeavor is the Soros-created and Soros-patronized Central European University , based primarily in Budapest, but with important branches in Warsaw and Prague.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance bank Grameen Bank received support from the OSI.

.According to National Review^[31] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended alleged terrorists in court and was sentenced to 2⅓ years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client.^ He also supports those who support terror, specifically by contributing large amounts of money to Lynne Stewart, who received a relatively brief 28-month sentence for providing material support for terrorism.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ While he has criticized the United Nations occasionally, he favors U.N. dominance in world affairs, sees the European Union as a model for "open society" and has called for a global central bank.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $220,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists--on whose board sits NATION magazine co-owner and editorial director Victor Navasky.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support."^ Left- liberals, admiring his support for some of their favourite issues such as gay rights and the legalisation of soft drugs, let him off lightly.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ At the point that England starts supporting Security Council action, the canary in the mine will have died, and we'll know it is time for England and the US to put the Security Council to a test.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Washington people, who work for us, are sitting back and allowing the changes to our rights and freedoms happen.

• Mark Lloyd, Obama/Soros hitman at the FCC [Darleen Click] 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.In September 2006, Soros departed from his characteristic sponsorship of democracy building programs, pledging $50 million to the Jeffrey Sachs-led Millennium Promise to help eradicate extreme poverty in Africa.^ In late 2006, Soros bought about 2 million shares of Halliburton—Dick Cheney’s old stomping grounds.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ How he was able to do this, remains a mystery: first, there was the fact that a speculator like Soros is able to borrow on a margin of 5%, borrowing $1 billion for just $50 million.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros pledged $10 million to ACT, which has since been fined $775,000 for illegally funneling $70 million set aside for voter registrations to Democratic candidates.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

Noting the connection between bad governance and poverty, he remarked on the humanitarian value of the project.^[32]

He received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York), the University of Oxford in 1980, the Corvinus University of Budapest, and Yale University in 1991. Soros also received the Yale International Center for Finance Award from the Yale School of Management in 2000 as well as the Laurea Honoris Causa, the highest honor of the University of Bologna in 1995.

Political donations and activism

United States

In an interview with The Washington Post on November 11, 2003, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death." He said he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat President Bush, "if someone guaranteed it."^[33] .Soros gave $3 million to the Center for American Progress, $5 million to MoveOn, and $10 million to America Coming Together.^ He is also one of three initial funders of Center for American Progress, and is represented on the board.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

^ SOROS: I have committed $10 million to one organization, Americans Coming Together, that's a grassroots organization to bring out the vote and $2.5 million to Moveon.org to -- which is sort of (UNINTELLIGIBLE) organization.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Soros bankrolled MoveOn to the tune of $5 million over the last three years, a period in which the advocacy group saw its influence increase dramatically.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

.These groups worked to support Democrats in the 2004 election.^ As we enter the 2004 election year, there's been a lot of talk about President Bush's very successful fund-raising efforts but the Democrats have big financial supporters as well.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Best known among these groups is MoveOn.org, a previously small fringe-left group to which Soros has given $5 million since 2004.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ What keeps these groups on cue, and Democrats in line, is the prospect that any funding from Soros can be stepped up to massive levels.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

.On September 28, 2004 he dedicated more money to the campaign and kicked off his own multi-state tour with a speech: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush^[34] delivered at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The online transcript to this speech received many hits after Dick Cheney accidentally referred to FactCheck.org as "factcheck.com" in the Vice Presidential debate, causing the owner of that domain to redirect all traffic to Soros's site.^ Why are you so angry at President Bush?

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ So why all the denial about receiving Soros money...a liberal icon.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ George wrote in his second paragraph of the brochure entitled "Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush": .

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^[35]

.Soros was not a large donor to US political causes until the 2004 presidential election, but according to the Center for Responsive Politics, during the 2003-2004 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating President Bush.^ In the United States, he is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

^ Critics see the arrest as a Kremlin attempt to punish the billionaire for funding political opposition before parliamentary and presidential elections this year and next.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Best known among these groups is MoveOn.org, a previously small fringe-left group to which Soros has given $5 million since 2004.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

.A 527 group is a type of American tax-exempt organization named after a section of the United States tax code, 26 U.S.C. § 527. Despite Soros' efforts, Bush was reelected to a second term as president.^ In the United States, he is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

^ Therefore, in the Iranian incidents, the explosives and the guns, all came from the United States, and the "bandits" were trained in by Americans--in Pakistan!

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ About George Soros from Blue Star Chronicles I wonder will George Soros succeed in buying the United States.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

.After Bush's re-election, Soros and other donors backed a new political fundraising group called Democracy Alliance which supported the goals of the U.S. Democratic Party.^ This is a partial list of funders of the Democracy Alliance.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros calls Bush a Nazi.

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ In the United States, he is known for having donated large sums of money in a failed effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004.

• Mutual Fund Holdings | Soros Fund - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mutual-fund-holdings.com [Source type: Reference]

^[36] .Soros supported the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which many hoped would end "soft money" contributions to federal election campaigns.^ Reform election campaign financing.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros's support was not strictly a question of money.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ It would be foolish to oppose a cause just because George Soros supports it.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Soros has made soft money donations to 527 organizations that he says do not raise the same corruption issues as donations directly to the candidates or political parties.^ And, fourth, U.S. intelligence sources charge that Soros has access to a 'hot money" crowd in Israel, politically associated with the Eretz Yisroel goals of Gen.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ ACT has already disbanded, but one can be sure that Soros will put his money into similar organizations, and will get similar results.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ "Soros has made money in every country he has helped to prise 'open' .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.In August 2009, Soros donated $35 million to the state of New York to be ear-marked for under-privileged children and given to parents who had benefit cards at the rate of $200 per child aged 3 through 17, with no limit as to the number of children that qualified.^ The New York-based Soros Foundation has spent more than $US1 billion ($A1.4 billion) on charitable projects in Russia in the past 15 years.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ In September 1993, Soros appointed Aryeh Neier to be president of the OSI-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.An additional $140 million was put into the fund by the state of New York from money they had received from the 2009 federal recovery act.^ ACT has already disbanded, but one can be sure that Soros will put his money into similar organizations, and will get similar results.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ George Soros is facing new, possibly criminal investigations into his hostile hedge-fund-centered speculation against Asian currencies and stock markets .

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^[18]

.Soros is also thought to be connected to the self-described progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America.^ Media Matters for America is a "Soros operation."

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Drudge claims Media Matters is a "Soros operation".

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Media Matters is playing a word game because Soros' trust fund aka Center for American Progress is funding them, not a personal check.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Although Media Matters has denied having any funding directly or indirectly from Soros^[37], in April 2008, Soros hosted an event in his apartment that had guests such as Media Matters founder David Brock liberal commentator Paul Begala.^ Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters .

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Media Matters can clarify this by posting their funding.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Media Matters for America is a "Soros operation."

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Brock described that the plan intended to raise $40 million to run political attack advertisements against then presumptive Republican nominee for the 2008 US Presidential Election, Senator John McCain, through a group called The Fund for America and Progressive Media, whose key backer, according to politico.com, is Soros.^ Media Matters for America is a "Soros operation."

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ His efforts resulted in the McCain-Feingold act which barred any paid political advertising on TV or radio 60 days before a general election, and 30 days before a primary.

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ During the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions and other perks.

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^[38]

Eastern Europe

.According to Neil Clark in the New Statesman, Soros's role was crucial in the collapse of communism in eastern Europe.^ Neil Clark, New Statesman , June 2, 2003 .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ NEIL CLARK / New Statesman 2jun03 .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ George Soros profiled by Neil Clark .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Clark states that from 1979, Soros distributed $3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union; in 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media.^ Soros gave $ to Solidarity, Charter 77, Sakharov, & the anti-Milosevic opposition .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ Clark points out that "Soros' role was crucial: "From 1979, he distributed $3 million a year to dissidents including Poland's solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[39]

.Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros' funding has continued to play an important role in the former Soviet sphere.^ Media Matters is playing a word game because Soros' trust fund aka Center for American Progress is funding them, not a personal check.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Clark points out that "since the fall of Milosevic, Serbia, under the auspices of Soros- backed "reformers", has become less, not more, free.

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His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered crucial to its success by Russian and Western observers, although Soros has said that his role has been "greatly exaggerated."^[40] Alexander Lomaia, Secretary of the Georgian Security Council and former Minister of Education and Science, is a former Executive Director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation), overseeing a staff of 50 and a budget of $2,500,000.^[41]

.Former Georgian Foreign Minister Salomé Zourabichvili wrote that institutions like the Soros Foundation were the cradle of democratisation and that all the NGOs which gravitated around the Soros Foundation undeniably carried the revolution.^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The very fact that Soros is attempting to "purchase" the Democratic Party should be frightening to all; including SF Dude...

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ It's laughable to think that with all the millions that Soros throws around...poor little mmfa doesn't get a dime.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.She opines that after the revolution the Soros Foundation and the NGOs were integrated into power.^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[42]

.Soros' support of pro-democracy and pro-transparency NGOs has been decried in several semi-authoritarian countries: Some Soros-backed pro-democracy initiatives have been banned in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.^ Our country, also supported the efforts of the rebels in the 1980s who fought back against the USSR, right?

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ As for "pro-democracy" Soros is anything but.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^[43] .Ercis Kurtulus, head of the Social Transparency Movement Association (TSHD) in Turkey, said in an interview that "Soros carried out his will in Ukraine and Georgia by using these NGOs...Last year Russia passed a special law prohibiting NGOs from taking money from foreigners.^ Science education in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Will black players take Soros' money.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Soros bankrolled MoveOn to the tune of $5 million over the last three years, a period in which the advocacy group saw its influence increase dramatically.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

I think this should be banned in Turkey as well."^[44] .In 1997, Soros had to close his foundation in Belarus after it was fined $3 million by the government for "tax and currency violations". According to the New York Times, the Belarussian president Aleksandr Lukashenko has been widely criticized in the West and in Russia for his efforts to control the Belarus Soros Foundation and other independent NGOs and to suppress civil and human rights.^ Soros was fined 2.9 million dollars.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ In a recent article published in the New York Review of Books , Soros asserts that America should pressure Israel to negotiate with the Hamas-led unity government in the Palestinian territory regardless of its refusal to recognize the right of the Jewish state to exist.

• Herb London : The influence of George Soros - Townhall.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC townhall.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The New York-based Soros Foundation has spent more than $US1 billion ($A1.4 billion) on charitable projects in Russia in the past 15 years.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

Soros called the fines part of a campaign to "destroy independent society".^[45]

.In June 2009, Soros donated $100m to Central Europe and Eastern Europe to counter the impact of the economic crisis on the poor, voluntary groups and non-government organisations.^ More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soros is the uncrowned king of eastern Europe.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros now claims, with characteristic immodesty, that he was responsible for the "Americanisation" of eastern Europe.

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^ A reunited Germany becomes the strongest economic power and develops Eastern Europe as its habitata terrible witches brew.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^[46]

Africa

.The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa is a Soros-affiliated organization.^ In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $118,000, to the Internews Network.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.[1] Its director for Zimbabwe is Godfrey Kanyenze, who also directs the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), which was the main force behind the founding of the Movement for Democratic Change, the principal indigenous organization promoting Regime change in Zimbabwe.^ The Rockefeller empire is the main financing force behind the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and the Club of Rome.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^ During the Clinton administration, an administration you worked in, wasn't it the policy of the Clinton administration, backed by Congress, to support regime change?

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ At the end of 1989, Soros organized a secret meeting between the Communist regime of Rakowski with the leaders of the then illegal opposition union organization Solidarnosc.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

Drug policy reform

.Soros has funded worldwide efforts to promote drug policy reform.^ EIR, public debate on Soros's sordid activities erupted in Argentina, during a press conference with U.S. White House drug policy adviser, Gen.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The press release then quotes the Drug Policy Alliance Ethan Nadelmann is the Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, hand picked by George Soros.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ Ethan Nadelmann is widely regarded as the proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.In 2008, Soros donated $400,000 to help fund a successful ballot measure in the state of Massachusetts known as the Massachusetts Sensible Marijuana Policy Initiative which decriminalized possession of less than 1 oz (28g) of marijuana in the state.^ California has the opportunity to be the first state in the nation to enact a smart, responsible public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana.” .

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ With Hillary Clinton poised to run for the presidency of the United States in 2008, Soros' activities loom more significant than ever before.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ And Mr Soros, apart from being the trader who broke sterling in 1992, has been one of the most consistently successful hedge-fund superstars.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

.Soros has also funded similar measures in California, Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nevada and Maine.^ Fund My Mutual Fund: George Soros Interview with Financial Times - October 2009 skip to main .

• Fund My Mutual Fund: George Soros Interview with Financial Times - October 2009 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.fundmymutualfund.com [Source type: News]

^[47] .Among the drug decriminalization groups that have received funding from Soros are the Lindesmith Center and Drug Policy Foundation.^ Media Matters is playing a word game because Soros' trust fund aka Center for American Progress is funding them, not a personal check.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ George has billions, George could fund world-class drug treatment centers in perpetuity, but he chooses not to.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^[48]

.Soros donated $1.4 million to publicity efforts to support California's Proposition 5 in 2008, a failed ballot measure that would have expanded drug rehabilitation programs as alternatives to prison for persons convicted of non-violent drug-related offenses.^ George Soros' "Alternative Journalism" donations .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ He said that Soros was very supportive of his efforts.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ One can hope that if their efforts fail they will have the integrity to back harsh measures against Iran.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

[2] ^[49]

.According to an interview in October 2009 it is Soros opinion that marijuana is less addictive but not appropriate for use by children and students.^ October 15, 2009 5:04 PM The analogy of Soros with Rush is silly.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^ VoxVeritas says: October 15, 2009 12:57 PM "Soros is not a liberal, he is a fascist, world controlling guy."

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Chris Fiorentino says: October 15, 2009 11:55 AM "Even if the reaction to Soros' involvement isn't as sharp and immediate," .

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

He himself has not used marijuana for years.^[50]

Death and dying

.The Project on Death in America, active from 2001–2003, was one of the Open Society Institute's projects, which sought to "understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement."^ In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $118,000, to the Internews Network.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The Open Society Fund, which was the first Soros foundation created in 1979, has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New York.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^[51] .In 1994, Soros delivered a speech in which he reported that he had offered to help his mother, a member of the Hemlock Society, commit suicide.^ In 2001, George Soros's Open Society Institute also gave grants to help subsidize the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice group, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement group, the Million Mom March group and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ In June 1994, Popper delivered a lecture at the Central European Univeristy in Prague, which Soros had established as a intellectual center to promote the ideals of open society in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Soros admitted on 60 Minutes to Steve Croft, that he delivered leaflets to Jews for them to report to centers with 2 days food and nothing else from which Nazis sent them to their extermination.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^[52] In the same speech, he also endorsed the Oregon Death with Dignity Act,^[53] the campaign for which he helped fund.^[54]

Philosophy

Education and beliefs

.Soros has a keen interest in philosophy, and has stated that he entered finance to be able to support himself as a philosopher.^ Soros likes to portray himself as an outsider, an independent-minded Hungarian emigre and philosopher-pundit who stands detached from the US military-industrial complex.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.His philosophical outlook is influenced by Karl Popper, under whom he studied at the London School of Economics (LSE).^ Sir Karl Popper, for whom the Karl Popper Debate Program is named, is well known for his important contributions to the philosophy of science, political theory, and sociology.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ He enrolled at the London School of Economics and in the mid-50s came to the U.S. There he was magically drawn to Wall Street, but his career until 1969 was rather unspectacular.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^ After WWII, Soros attended the London School of Economics, where he fell under the thrall of fellow atheist and Hungarian, Karl Popper, one of his professors.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.His Open Society Institute is named after Popper's two volume work, The Open Society and Its Enemies, and Soros's ongoing philosophical commitment to the principle of fallibilism (that anything he believes may in fact be wrong, and is therefore to be questioned and improved) stems from Popper's philosophy.^ Two of Popper’s most influential teachings concerned “the open society,” and Fallibilism.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ In his book, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000), Soros expounded his suport of campaign finance reform--which was a reaction to the fact that Republicans had defeated Hillary Clinton's health plan simply by media.

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ Fallibilism is the philosophical doctrine that all claims of knowledge could, in principle, be mistaken.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.In an interview with 60 Minutes, Soros stated that he did not believe in God.^ Soros admitted on 60 Minutes to Steve Croft, that he delivered leaflets to Jews for them to report to centers with 2 days food and nothing else from which Nazis sent them to their extermination.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^ During an interview with “Sixty Minute’s” Steve Kroft, Soros was asked about his “best year:” .

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ George Soros Interview On 60 Minutes: .

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^[55]

Reflexivity, financial markets, and economic theory

.Soros' writings focus heavily on the concept of reflexivity, where the biases of individuals enter into market transactions, potentially changing the perception of fundamentals of the economy.^ George Soros is facing new, possibly criminal investigations into his hostile hedge-fund-centered speculation against Asian currencies and stock markets .

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Soros argues that such transitions in the perceptions of fundamentals of the economy are typically marked by disequilibrium rather than equilibrium, and that the conventional economic theory of the market (the 'efficient market hypothesis') does not apply in these situations.^ Recently, his native Hungary fined Soros 2.2 million dollars for “illegal market manipulation.” Elizabeth Crum writes that “The Hungarian economy has been in a state of transition as the country seeks to become more financially stable and westernized.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ I'd rather let humanity as a whole and free market economies dictate which way we go.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

^ This kind of scenario will affect an ever greater proportion of the world's population and future economic crises will increasingly become a struggle for nutrition rather than a struggle for consumption.

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

Soros has popularized the concepts of dynamic disequilibrium, static disequilibrium, and near-equilibrium conditions.^[19]

Reflexivity is based on three main ideas:^[19]

1. Reflexivity is best observed under special conditions where investor bias grows and spreads throughout the investment arena. Examples of factors that may give rise to this bias include (a) equity leveraging or (b) the trend-following habits of speculators.
2. Reflexivity appears intermittently since it is most likely to be revealed under certain conditions; i.e., the equilibrium process's character is best considered in terms of probabilities.
3. Investors' observation of and participation in the capital markets may at times influence valuations AND fundamental conditions or outcomes.

A current example of reflexivity in modern financial markets is that of the debt and equity of housing markets. .Lenders began to make more money available to more people in the 1990s to buy houses.^ These people just want to work, make money, and go back and forth to Mexico.

• Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He does not appear to have any concerns regarding how he makes money or how people are harmed as a result.

• George Soros & President Barack Obama Still Working Together... - Care2 News Network 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.care2.com [Source type: General]

^ BLITZER: When people visit the White House, for example, they also have to make available their Social Security number.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

.More people bought houses with this larger amount of money, thus increasing the prices of these houses.^ Government has laid its hand on health, housing,farming,industry,commerce,education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people’s right to know.

• Mark Lloyd, Obama/Soros hitman at the FCC [Darleen Click] 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC proteinwisdom.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.Lenders looked at their balance sheets which not only showed that they had made more loans, but that their equity backing the loans—the value of the houses, had gone up (because more money was chasing the same amount of housing, relatively).^ Now tell your buddies because more people need to wake up and realise the shit we're in.

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ Only when this happens will the banks be in a position to start lending again, they are too afaid of the negitive equity thing, hense the huge deposits required.

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ And as a result, the banks are husbanding their resources because they’ve actually lost a lot of money...

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

.Thus they lent out more money because their balance sheets looked good, and prices went up more, and they lent more.^ Now tell your buddies because more people need to wake up and realise the shit we're in.

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

^ And as a result, the banks are husbanding their resources because they’ve actually lost a lot of money...

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ They are printing money to prop up faulty financial institutions and a fragile economy but all this is doing is delaying a process of hurt.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

This was further amplified by public policy. .Many governments see home ownership as a positive outcome and so first home owners grant and other financial subsidies — or influences to buy a home such as the exemption of a primary residence from capital gains taxation — mean that house purchases were seen as a good thing.^ Iraq exploited the power of wealth in the form of oil to buy influence in the Security Council and within governments throughout the World.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He also said "I'm not saying slavery is a good thing or to bring it back, but I can't say it wouldn't be lovely to see all the white people working under the thumb of a black man.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

Prices increased rapidly, and lending standards were relaxed. .The salient issue regarding reflexivity is that it explains why markets gyrate over time, and do not just stick to equilibrium—they tend to overshoot or undershoot.^ Why can't Soros take the position that they agree on the big points, but they disagree on the specifics this time, and that he believes Bush's actions will be counterproductive?

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^ They sytematically sent out polls, each time pushing the limits of what people actually want, just to see the reaction.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ He is a critic of what he calls market fundamentalists who believe that financial markets tend towards equilibrium.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

^[19]

View of potential problems in the free market system

Despite working as an investor and currency speculator, he argues that the current system of financial speculation undermines healthy economic development in many underdeveloped countries. .Soros blames many of the world's problems on the failures inherent in what he characterizes as market fundamentalism.^ These same people who deny mmfa's involvement with soros are the same people who blame Imus for the shape that black world is in today.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ You can blame the soros of this world for making a buck off misery.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ Soros told Australia’s national newspaper “The Australian” “America, as the centre of the globalised financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

His opposition to many aspects of globalization has made him a controversial figure.

Victor Niederhoffer said of Soros: "Most of all, George believed even then in a mixed economy, one with a strong central international government to correct for the excesses of self-interest."

Soros claims to draw a distinction between being a participant in the market and working to change the rules that market participants must follow. .According to Mahathir bin Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia from July 1981 to October 2003, Soros — as the hedge fund chief of Quantum — may have been partially responsible for the economic crash in 1997 of East Asian markets when the Thai currency relinquished its peg to the US dollar.^ He specialized in hedge funds and currency speculation.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

^ The attacks on Soros , launched by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in late July , and, again, with renewed pungency, at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meeting in Hongkong in September, have served as a rallying cry that is now being echoed among "emerging market" nations worldwide.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ At the time, Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, called Soros “a villain, and a moron.” Thai activist Weng Tojirakarn said, “We regard George Soros as a kind of Dracula.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.According to Mahathir, in the three years leading to the crash, Soros invested in short-term speculative investment in East Asian stock markets and real estate, then divested with "indecent haste" at the first signs of currency devaluation.^ I had heard that soros was actually exiled from the UK because it was his finical doings that crashed their markets.

• George Soros & President Barack Obama Still Working Together... - Care2 News Network 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.care2.com [Source type: General]

^ He is among those circles who three years ago started a malicious Fourth Reich campaign against the reunited Germany; Soros is very anti-German.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^ Soros speculates on the worlds financial markets via his secret off-shore company Quantum Fund NV, a private Investment fund that handles a portfolio of four to seven billion US$ for several clients.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^[56] Soros replied, saying that Mahathir was using him "as a scapegoat for his own mistakes", that Mahathir's promises to ban currency trading (which Malaysian finance officials hastily retracted) were "a recipe for disaster" and that Mahathir "is a menace to his own country".^[57]

.In an interview regarding the economic crisis of 2008, Soros referred to it as the most serious crisis since the 1930s.^ Soros won't be forced to quit especially since most players probably don't even know who he is.

• Report: George Soros part of Checketts group, too | ProFootballTalk.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC profootballtalk.nbcsports.com [Source type: Original source]

.According to Soros, market fundamentalism with its assumption that markets will correct themselves with no need for government intervention in financial affairs has been “some kind of an ideological excess”.^ Simply telling the truth and correcting Drudge is no evidence of some liberal stigma of Soros.

• Drudge falsely claimed Soros funds Media Matters | Media Matters for America 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC mediamatters.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ The extraordinary success Soros has on the high-risk financial markets cannot simply be explained with gamblers luck.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^ Soros was able to avoid the kind of U.S. government supervision of his financial activities, that any U.S.-based investment fund must agree to, in order to operate.

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

.In Soros´ view, the markets´ moods — a “mood” of the markets being a prevailing bias or optimism/pessimism with which the markets look at reality — “actually can reinforce themselves so that there are these initially self-reinforcing but eventually unsustainable and self-defeating boom/bust sequences or bubbles”.^ All of these foundations, of which George Soros is chairman, are dedicated to his concept of the open society and a "free market economy."

• Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC mailstar.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

^ Whether we look at Poland or at Hungary, Russia, or Ukraine - in each of those cases, Soros argued in favor of radical free market economy, privatization.

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^[58]

Views on antisemitism

At a Jewish forum in New York City, November 5, 2003, Soros partially attributed a recent resurgence of antisemitism to the policies of Israel and the United States, and to successful Jews such as himself:

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. .The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that.^ GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ He sees the Wolfowitz Doctrine/Current Bush Administration Policy of Pre-emptive, unilateral action as an excuse for empire.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well. I'm critical of those policies... If we change that direction, then anti-Semitism also will diminish. .I can't see how one could confront it directly...^ It is easy to see how the situation that existed between the wars could come up again.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

.I'm also very concerned about my own role because the new anti-Semitism holds that the Jews rule the world...^ I am very, very confident about the momentum of my campaign.

• CNN.com - Transcripts 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.cnn.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I stand to lose everything I have worked hard to get because some rich spoilt people who play games and write their own rules have designed a game that does not work.

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

^ Calling himself a philanthropist, Soros’ role is to tighten the ideological stranglehold of globalization and the New World Order while promoting his own financial gain.

• George Soros, is literally public enemy #1. | The Hive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thehive.modbee.com [Source type: General]

.As an unintended consequence of my actions...^ At 09:34 PM on 01 Apr 2008, keith pirelli wrote: "As a market participant, I do not need to be concerned about the consequences of my actions."

• BBC - Peston's Picks: Soros and Schwarzman speak 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: General]

I also contribute to that image.^[59]

In a subsequent article for The New York Review of Books, Soros emphasized that

I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. .At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.^ At the same time, they would impose Trotskyist social policies in the West, including the destruction of the family: engagement.html .

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Wealth

.Forbes lists Soros as the 29th-richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at US$13.0 billion.^ Soros should not only read his own books, but also what one of the main persons in second World War has said: Winston Churchill.

• Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]

^ His net personal worth was estimated at $800 million by Forbes magazine, which would make Richard the 38th richest person in the United States.

• Captain's Quarters 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.captainsquartersblog.com [Source type: General]

^ Why don't we just Nationalise the Billions that Soro's has stolen from us over the years?

• George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]

Soros has given away $7 billion to various causes since 1979.^[1]

Relation to Hungarian Politics

.In the 1980s Viktor Orbán -Chairman of Fidesz (1994–2000, 2000-) and Prime Minister (1998–2002) - and László Kövér - Chairman of Fidesz (2000) and Secret Service Minister (1998–2002) - were Soros scholarship recipients.^ His U.S. contacts put Soros very close to the financial and secret service circles around George Bush.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

^ A third partner of Soros is Rafi Eytan who before was the Mossad connection to the British secret service in London.

• Secret Societies and Their Power in The 20th Century - 10 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.bibliotecapleyades.net [Source type: Original source]

Furthermore the Orban cabinet's Deputy Prime Minister István Stumpf was a member of the Soros Foundation's Board of Trustees between 1994 and 2002. As an aside, Bibó College, where Viktor Orbán was a student and István Stumpf was the manager was founded the same year as the Soros Foundation: 1983

Books

Authored or co-authored

• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What it Means (PublicAffairs, 2008). ISBN 1586486837
• The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror (PublicAffairs, 2006) ISBN 1586483595
• With MoveOn.org, MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change Inner Ocean Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1-930722-29-X
• The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power (PublicAffairs, 2003) ISBN 1586482173 (paperback; PublicAffairs, 2004; ISBN 1-58648-292-0)
• George Soros on Globalization (PublicAffairs, 2002) ISBN 1-58648-125-8 (paperback; PublicAffairs, 2005; ISBN 1-52648-278-5)
• Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (PublicAffairs, 2001) ISBN 1-58648-039-7
• With Mark Amadeus Notturno, Science and the Open Society: The Future of Karl Popper's Philosophy (Central European University Press, 2000) ISBN 963-9116-69-6 (paperback: Central European University Press, 2000; ISBN 943-9116-70-X)
• The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered (PublicAffairs, 1998) ISBN 1-891220-27-4
• Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (John Wiley, 1995) ISBN 0-471-12014-6 (paperback; Wiley, 1995; ISBN 0-371-11977-6)
• Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterprise and Democratic Reform Among the Soviets and in Eastern Europe (Free Press, 1991) ISBN 0-02-930285-4 (paperback; PublicAffairs, 2004; ISBN 1-58948-227-0)
• Opening the Soviet System (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990) ISBN 0-297-82155-9 (paperback: Perseus Books, 1996; ISBN 0-8133-1205-1)
• The Alchemy of Finance (Simon & Schuster, 1988) ISBN 0-671-66338-4 (paperback: Wiley, 2003; ISBN 0-471-44549-5)

Biographies

• Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire by Michael T. Kaufman (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) ISBN 0-375-40585-2
• Soros: The World's Most Influential Investor by Robert Slater (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2009) ISBN 978-0-07-160844-2

Journalism

Authored

• George Soros, "On Israel, America and AIPAC", The New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007.
• George Soros, "The Bubble of American Supremacy", The Korea Herald, March 12, 2003.
• George Soros, "The Bubble of American Supremacy", The Atlantic, December 2003.
• George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy, audio recording of The Atlantic article via Assistive Media, read by Grover Gardner, 18 minutes.
• George Soros, "Soros on Brazil", Financial Times, August 13, 2002.
• George Soros, "Bitter Thoughts with Faith in Russia", Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News), translated from the Russian by Olga Kryazheva, February 27, 2000.
• George Soros, "The Capitalist Threat", The Atlantic Monthly, February 1997.
• George Soros, "Paulson Cannot be Allowed a Blank Cheque", Financial Times, September 24, 2008

About

.

• Stephen Adams "Furious George" on Citizen — Family Issues in Policy and Culture
• John Authers, Book Review, "A successful prophet of the markets," Financial Times, May 19, 2008.
• Laura Blumenfeld, Billionaire Soros Takes On Bush, MSNBC, November 11, 2003
• Connie Bruck, Abstract of New Yorker profile of Soros "The World According to Soros", The New Yorker, January 23, 1995
• Neil Clark Analysis of Soros' role in Eastern Europe from "New Statesman"
• Malcolm Gladwell, "Blowing Up," New Yorker Magazine, April 22 & 29, 2002, at gladwell.com.
• John Horvath The Soros Effect on Central and Eastern Europe
• Matt Welch, Open Season on 'Open Society': Why an anti-communist Holocaust survivor is being demonized as a Socialist, Self-hating Jew Reason magazine, December 8, 2003
• Martin Peretz, "Tyran-a-Soros: The Madness of King George," The New Republic, February 12, 2007.
• TIME's 25 Most Influential Americans, TIME Magazine April 21, 1997.^ Neil Clark, New Statesman , June 2, 2003 .
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  ^ NEIL CLARK / New Statesman 2jun03 .
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  ^ The billionaire trader has become eastern Europe's uncrowned king and the prophet of "the open society".
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  Accessed May 21, 2007.
• The TIME 100, The Power Givers, George Soros, TIME Magazine May 14, 2007 accessed May 21, 2007.

Scholarly perspectives

• Bryant, C. G. A. (2002). ."George Soros's theory of reflexivity: a comparison with the theories of Giddens and Beck and a consideration of its practical value". Economy and Society 31 (1): 112–131. doi:10.1080/03085140120109277. 
• Cross, R.; Strachan, D. (1997).^ In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $118,000, to the Internews Network.
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  ^ In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."
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  ^ All of these foundations, of which George Soros is chairman, are dedicated to his concept of the open society and a "free market economy."
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  ."On George Soros and economic analysis". Kyklos 50: 561–574. doi:10.1111/1467-6435.00030. 
• Kwong, C.P. (2008).^ In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to Youth Radio in Berkeley.
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  "Mathematical analysis of Soros's theory of reflexivity". arXiv: 0901.4447. http://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.4447. 
• Pettis, Michael (2001). The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195143302. 
• Stone, Diane (2007). "Market Principles, Philanthropic Ideals and Public Service Values: The Public Policy Program at the Central European University". PS: Political Science and Politics: 545–551. 

Speeches

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• Testimony of George Soros to a congressional sub-committee, Sept.^ George Soros, foreigner, sub- verter, and enemy of American values.
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  .15, 1998
• The Theory of Reflexivity Delivered April 26, 1994 to the MIT Department of Economics World Economy
• "The Differences Between Natural and Social Science: Implications of Fallibility" at IISc Bangalore, January 5, 2007
• George Soros introduced by Lajos Bokros.^ Comments (11) February 01, 2007 Soros, Hitler, and the Messianic Complex George Soros' vision for the world has striking similarities to that of Adolf Hitler's.
  • Journal Weblog: February 2007 Archives 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.badeagle.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ I have a different question for Soros: I'd like to know when UN diplomacy, as opposed to military might, ever introduced democracy?
  • Davids Medienkritik: Battle of the Blogs: Medienkritik vs. George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC medienkritik.typepad.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ György Schwartz, better known to the world as George Soros, was born August 12, 1930 in Hungary.
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  (November 11, 2008). .George Soros Lecture on the Global Financial Crisis On November 11, 1 hour 16 minutes.^ The "Asia Crisis" was unleashed soon after ASEAN decided to admit Burma; George Soros and Madeline Albright had been trying to get ASEAN to reject Burma: asia-crisis.html .
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  ^ Comments (11) February 01, 2007 Soros, Hitler, and the Messianic Complex George Soros' vision for the world has striking similarities to that of Adolf Hitler's.
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  ^ Professor Hoeschl invites American financier, George Soros, together with Sir Karl, for a private dinner given by the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, and for a ceremony in Carolinum.
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  Budapest, Hungary: CEU Business School. 
• Testimony before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Oversight Hearing on FTC Advanced Rulemaking and Oil Market Manipulation^[61]

Commentaries

• George Soros' op/ed commentaries for Project Syndicate

Interviews

.

• Fareed Zakaria discussing economic crisis with George Soros on GPS
• The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC) - Audio Archive: "George Soros on Freedom"
• frontline: the crash: interviews: george soros
• Wall $treet Week with FORTUNE .^ The "Asia Crisis" was unleashed soon after ASEAN decided to admit Burma; George Soros and Madeline Albright had been trying to get ASEAN to reject Burma: asia-crisis.html .
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  ^ Soros' role in Capitalism, destruction of the USSR, Asia Crisis George Soros as Rothschild Agent .
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  ^ US economy · Financial crisis · Banking · Investing · Global recession · Recession · George Soros Money .
  • George Soros warns 'zombie' banks could suck lifeblood out of economy | Business | guardian.co.uk 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: News]
  
  TV Program | PBS
• Challenge: The international financial crisis - International ...
• NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. David Brancaccio interviews ...
• Booknotes with Brian Lamb. Transcript and streaming video.
• Rocketboom: The Age of Fallibility (Video, 2006)
• Google Video: Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google interviews George Soros (Video, 2006)
• Fox News Interview with Neil Cavuto, October 11, 2006 Video and text, accessed May 25, 2007.
• Interview with George Soros, September 5, 2000

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Forbes 400 -#15 George Soros, Forbes, September 30, 2009
2. ^ Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002, 133.
3. ^ Authors@Google: George Soros
4. ^ William Shawcross, "Turning Dollars into Change," Time Magazine, September 1, 1997
5. ^ Open University
6. ^ ^{a b} The Atlantic
7. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-79165556.html
8. ^ ^{a b} Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002
9. ^ Soros, George (2008). The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means. PublicAffairs. p. 13. ISBN 1586486837. http://books.google.com/books?id=F_aBKX4AnLUC&q=Tivadar#search_anchor. 
10. ^ Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002, p. 24.
11. ^ Slater, R.: Soros: The Unauthorized Biography, page 30.
12. ^ "Background and History". Paul and Dora Soros Fellowships for Young Americans. http://www.pdsoros.org/overview/. Retrieved March 22, 2009. 
13. ^ Elisabeth Bumiller (June 17, 1998). "Public Lives: An Overshadowed Altruist Sees the Light". New York Times (New York Times Company). http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/17/nyregion/public-lives-an-overshadowed-altruist-sees-the-light.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved March 22, 2009. 
14. ^ "Peter Soros and Flora Fraser". New York Times (New York Times Company). February 2, 1997. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/02/style/peter-soros-and-flora-fraser.html. Retrieved March 22, 2009. 
15. ^ "Holocaust Encyclopedia". Ushmm.org. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005458. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
16. ^ Michael Lewis, "The Speculator: What on earth is multibillionaire George Soros doing throwing wads of money around in Eastern Europe?", The New Republic, January 10, 1994. See also Kaufman, Michael T., Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Alfred A. Knopf: 2002, p. 32-33
17. ^ O'Brien, Timothy L (December 6, 1998). "He's Seen The Enemy. It Looks Like Him.". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E3DA1E3BF935A35751C1A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved July 28, 2008. 
18. ^ ^{a b} All Things Considered (August 11, 2009). "Soros Uses Leverage To Aid New York Children". Npr.org. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111786652. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
19. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Soros, George (2008). The New Paradigm for Financial Markets. Public Affairs, New York. ISBN 978-1-58648-683-9. 
20. ^ Anderson, Jenny (April 16, 2008). "Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/business/16wall.html?ex=1366084800&en=1eee7351824a31ce&ei=5124. Retrieved July 28, 2008. 
21. ^ Steven Drobny, "Inside the House of Money", John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, 2006.
22. ^ Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (John Wiley, 1995) ISBN 0-471-12014-6
23. ^ ^{a b} "Soros, the Man Who Cries Wolf, Now Is Warning of a 'Superbubble'" by Greg Ip, B1, June 21–22, 2008 The Wall Street Journal.
24. ^ Soros sees no bottom for world financial "collapse", Reuters, February 21, 2009, Retrieved on August 17, 2009.
25. ^ ^{a b} David Brancaccio interviews George Soros, Now, PBS, September 12, 2003, accessed Feb. 8, 2007.
26. ^ Insider trading conviction of Soros is upheld (International Herald Tribune)
27. ^ Soros appeals conviction for insider trading, Billionaire takes French conviction to European court (International Herald Tribune)December 14, 2006
28. ^ "Soros's Nats Bid Irks Republicans". Washingtonpost.com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701447.html. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
29. ^ "United's Ownership Uncertain; After Sale Fell Through, MLS Might Take Over Operation". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/62439758.html?dids=62439758:62439758&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Oct+12%2C+2000&author=Steven+Goff&desc=United%27s+Ownership+Uncertain%3B+After+Sale+Fell+Through%2C+MLS+Might+Take+Over+Operation. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
30. ^ TIME 100, The Power Givers, George Soros, TIME Magazine, May 14, 2007 accessed May 21, 2007
31. ^ York, Byron, Soros Funded Stewart Defense, National Review Online. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
32. ^ Dugger, Celia W. (September 13, 2006). "Philanthropist Gives $50 Million to Help Aid the Poor in Africa". Africa: Travel2.nytimes.com. http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/us/13soros.html. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
33. ^ Laura Blumenfeld, Deep Pockets vs. Bush, Financier Contributes $5 Million More in Effort to Oust President, Washington Post, November 11, 2003; Page A03
34. ^ "Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush". Commondreams.org. September 28, 2004. http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0928-16.htm. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
35. ^ Suellentrop, Chris (October 6, 2004). "Cheney Drops the Ball". Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/id/2107809/. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
36. ^ "New Alliance Of Democrats Spreads Funding". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600882_pf.html. Retrieved July 17, 2006. 
37. ^ Media Matters - O'Reilly purported to chart an intricate web leading to "vile propaganda outfit" Media Matters
38. ^ Ben Smith (April 10, 2008). "David Brock, Dems plan $40M hit on McCain". politico.com. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9514.html. 
39. ^ Clark, Neil. "Soros Profile". the New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/200306020019. Retrieved June 6, 2007. 
40. ^ "Soros Downplays Role in Georgia Revolution". Archive.newsmax.com. June 1, 2005. http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/5/31/164945.shtml. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
41. ^ "Alexander Lomaia — Minister of Education and Science (Georgia)". Oecd.org. http://www.oecd.org/document/49/0,2340,en_21571361_36507471_37001521_1_1_1_1,00.html. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
42. ^ Salomé Zourabichvili, Herodote (magazine of the French Institute for Geopolitics, April, 2008
43. ^ Fred Weir: Democracy rising in ex-Soviet states, Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 2005
44. ^ "Does Foreign Funding Make NGOs into Puppets?". Globalpolicy.org. October 11, 2006. http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/fund/2006/1011puppets.htm. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
45. ^ Miller, Judith (September 4, 1997). "Soros Closes Foundation In Belarus — The". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E0D91530F937A3575AC0A961958260. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
46. ^ Soros donates $100 million to Europe, UNIAN (June 19, 2009)
47. ^ LeBlanc, Steve, Soros behind Mass. effort to decriminalize pot, Associated Press, August 27, 2008
48. ^ Norml.org, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
49. ^ "Wealthy Californians put their agendas to a vote — Los Angeles Times". Latimes.com. November 1, 2008. http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-billionaires1-2008nov01,0,3904554.story. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
50. ^ Gorge Soros. Ekots lördagsintevju Swedish Radio, Oktober 10 2009. 12:55
51. ^ Project on Death in America
52. ^ "George Soros: Reflections on Death in America | Project on Death in America". Web.archive.org. June 22, 2001. http://web.archive.org/web/20010622072255/http://www.soros.org/death/george_soros.htm. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
53. ^ "George Soros: Reflections on Death in America contd. 2 | Project on Death in America". Web.archive.org. March 25, 2002. http://web.archive.org/web/20020325032428/www.soros.org/death/george_soros3.htm. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
54. ^ "Fatal prescription — re-enactment of the Oregon Death With Dignity Act on physician-assisted suicide | Commonweal | Find Articles at BNET". Findarticles.com. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n20_v124/ai_20520550. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
55. ^ Steve Kroft: Are you a religious man? Soros: No. Kroft: Do you believe in God? Soros: No. 60 Minutes, broadcast December 20, 1998.
56. ^ chapter 10 "The Developmental States of East Asia." Hoogvelt, Ankie. 2001. in Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development. Balimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
57. ^ Maggie Farley: Malaysian Leader, Soros Trade Barbs, Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1997
58. ^ Bill Moyers Journal, George Soros on the financial crisis, published October 10, 2008, at http://odeo.com, full transcript and podcast
59. ^ Kampeas, Ron (October 12, 2009). "jta.org". jta.org. http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13428. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 
60. ^ Soros, George. "On Israel, America and AIPAC." New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007.
61. ^ "The Perilous Price of Oil — The New York Review of Books". Nybooks.com. September 25, 2008. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21792. Retrieved October 16, 2009. 

External links

• George Soros official site and blog
• Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network
• List of articles and speeches by and about George Soros
• George Soros' Political Campaign Contributions
• Forbes.com: Forbes 400 Richest in America
• George Soros in SEC Filings
• The Money Man - New Yorker
• In depth review of The New Paradigm
• Soros archive from The New York Review of Books

Persondata
NAME	Soros, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schwartz, György
SHORT DESCRIPTION	speculator, investor, philanthropist, political activist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Budapest, Hungary
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

Categories: 1930 births | Alumni of the London School of Economics | American anti-Iraq War activists | American atheists | American Jews | Jewish atheists | Hungarian immigrants to the United States | American billionaires | American money managers | American philanthropists | Hedge fund managers | Hungarian Jews | American people of Hungarian descent | Hungarian atheists | Living people | People from Budapest | Stock traders | Native Esperanto speakers | People convicted of insider trading

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From Wikiquote

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I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations.^ George Soros I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations.

• George Soros Quotes 17 September 2009 1:36 UTC www.brainyquote.com [Source type: Original source]

^ I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations.

• George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
• George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]

^ Good reporting needs to bring this to the public.

• Herb London : The influence of George Soros - Townhall.com 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC townhall.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

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Our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

• Economic theory is devoted to the study of equilibrium positions. The concept of equilibrium is very useful.^ Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Re-engage! America and the World After Bush: George Soros on the financial crisis, military spending, and more 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.re-engage.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ I think the global economic system is very close to collapse.
  • POLITIKA.LV :: Interview with George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.politika.lv [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it.^ It allows us to focus on the final outcome rather than the process that leads up to it.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Rather than concentrate on leads to protect the country from terrorism, the "best and brightest" in law enforcement should be recruited to work on community outreach initiatives.
  • George Soros Teaches the FBI Tolerance :: Daniel Pipes 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.danielpipes.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ And rather than being unemployed, let's keep employment up.
  • Bill Moyers Journal . George Soros | PBS 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.pbs.org [Source type: News]
  
  .But the concept is also very deceptive.^ But the concept is also very deceptive.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .It has the aura of something empirical: since the adjustment process is supposed to lead to an equilibrium, an equilibrium position seems somehow implicit in our observations.^ It has the aura of something empirical: since the adjustment process is supposed to lead to an equilibrium, an equilibrium position seems somehow implicit in our observations.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ They are supposed to move like a pendulum: they may be dislocated by external forces, so-called exogenous shocks, but they will seek to return to the equilibrium position.
  • testimony of george soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.nettime.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Soros begins buying stocks or bonds in the local market, leading others to naively suppose that he knows something they do not.
  • The Secret Financial Network Behind "Wizard" George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.questionsquestions.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  • HiddenMysteries Conspiracy Archive 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.hiddenmysteries.org [Source type: News]
  
  That is not true. .Equilibrium itself has rarely been observed in real life — market prices have a notorious habit of fluctuating.
  • The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (1987)

• The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.^ Equilibrium itself has rarely been observed in real life — market prices have a notorious habit of fluctuating.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market (1987) The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The Alchemy of Finance , Simon & Schuster (May 1, 1987) ISBN 0671634550 ; John Wiley & Sons; Reprint edition (April, 1994) ISBN 0471042064 .
  • George Soros - SourceWatch 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.sourcewatch.org [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  
  • "Can Europe Work? A Plan to Rescue the Union" in Foreign Affairs (September/October 1996)

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Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

• How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us?^ And how was it that Soros made his money?
  • George Soros: Barack Obama’s Money Man and Agenda Puppeter « Pronk Palisades 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC raymondpronk.wordpress.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.” .
  • George Soros quotes 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC thinkexist.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ How can we escape from the trap that the terrorists have set us?
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war.^ The war on terrorism as pursued by the Bush Administration cannot be won.
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ "Only by recognizing that the war on terrorism cannot be won by waging war.
  • George Soros is Pure Evil -- Opinion Central -- GOPUSA 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.gopusa.com [Source type: News]
  
  .We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds.^ We must, of course, protect our security; but we must also correct the grievances on which terrorism feeds.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But the war being waged has little to do with ending terrorism or enhancing homeland security; on the contrary, it endangers our security by engendering a vicious circle of escalating violence.
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Terrorists do pose a threat to our national and personal security, and we must protect ourselves.
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  Crime requires police work, not military action.
  • Address at the University of Pennsylvania (2002); quoted in "White House playing into Soros' hands?" by J. Michael Waller, in WorldNetDaily (1 December 2003)

• The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration stands in opposition to the principles of an open society, which recognize that people have different views and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. .The supremacist ideology postulates that just because we are stronger than others, we know better and have right on our side.^ Soros knows currencies better than any other public figure.
  • Soros on Main Street and Wall Street by Gary North 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.lewrockwell.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ The supremacist ideology postulates that just because we are stronger than others, we know better and have right on our side.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Re-engage! America and the World After Bush: George Soros on the financial crisis, military spending, and more 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.re-engage.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ This distorted view postulates that because we are stronger than others, we must know better and we must have right on our side.
  • The US is Now in the Hands of a Group of Extremists 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads, "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise."^ First, there is no single sustainable model for national success.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Re-engage! America and the World After Bush: George Soros on the financial crisis, military spending, and more 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.re-engage.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads, "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise."
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Talk of spreading democracy looms large in the National Security Strategy.
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  
  .The assumptions behind this statement are false on two counts.^ The e-mail is false on two counts.
  • Bogus Brazilian Oil Claims | FactCheck.org 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC factcheck.org [Source type: News]
  
  ^ The assumptions behind this statement are false on two counts.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Re-engage! America and the World After Bush: George Soros on the financial crisis, military spending, and more 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.re-engage.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  .First, there is no single sustainable model for national success.^ First, there is no single sustainable model for national success.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Re-engage! America and the World After Bush: George Soros on the financial crisis, military spending, and more 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.re-engage.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
  
  ^ There is no way to escape from a far-from-equilibrium situation–global deflation and depression–except by first inducing its opposite and then reducing it.
  • George Soros: A Plan for Economic Recovery 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.shtfplan.com [Source type: General]
  
  ^ The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads, "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise."
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.
  • "The Bubble of American Supremacy" in The Atlantic Monthly (December 2003), p.^ December 2003 Atlantic .
    • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
    
    ^ We must puncture the bubble of American supremacy.” .
    • OBAMA IS OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS « Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC bsimmons.wordpress.com [Source type: General]
    
    ^ The quest for American supremacy qualifies as a bubble.
    • The Bubble of American Supremacy - The Atlantic(December 2003) 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.theatlantic.com [Source type: Original source]
    
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The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

• Americans, sadly, are now victims who have turned into perpetrators.^ The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ So the foundation is not the money – what makes it powerful is a set of ideas and people who make use of these ideas.
  • POLITIKA.LV :: Interview with George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.politika.lv [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Americans, sadly, are now victims who have turned into perpetrators.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .Indeed, since September 2001, the war on terror has claimed more innocent victims than those terrorist attacks.^ Since war by its nature claims innocent victims—it always does—we must avoid war!
  • George Soros Interviewed on Indonesian Radio | Open Society Institute 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www2.soros.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ War and occupation create innocent victims.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros: Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.crosswalk.com [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Indeed, since September 2001, the war on terror has claimed more innocent victims than those terrorist attacks.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .This fact is unrecognized at home because the victims of the war on terror are not Americans.^ This fact is unrecognized at home because the victims of the war on terror are not Americans.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ This fact is not recognized at home because the victims of the war on terror are not Americans.
  • Victims Turning Perpetrators - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.arabworldbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ Reconsidering the war on terror - International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security You're Here: Home > Reconsidering the war on terror Español Under the High Patronage of His Majesty the King of Spain .
  • Reconsidering the war on terror - International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC english.safe-democracy.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  .But the rest of the world does not draw the same distinction, and world opinion has turned against America.^ But the rest of the world does not draw the same distinction and world opinion has turned against us.
  • Victims Turning Perpetrators - George Soros 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.arabworldbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ But the rest of the world does not draw the same distinction, and world opinion has turned against America.
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  • George Soros - Wikiquote 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
  
  ^ As America goes, so does the world.
  • Soros Sees No Bottom for World Financial "Collapse" | CommonDreams.org 6 January 2010 19:51 UTC www.commondreams.org [Source type: General]
  
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  • "How Terrorism's Victims Became Perpetrators" (April 2004)