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Leader of Soros-Founded Think Tank: Rich Are Ready to Flee in Case of Uprising
News Busters ^ | January 28, 2015 | Mike Ciandella

Posted on 01/29/2015 12:15:18 PM PST by Mount Athos

Rich people are preparing to flee in case of social unrest, at least according to the head of one group founded and partly funded by George Soros.

Robert Johnson, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), argued that many wealthy people feared an uprising because of “growing inequality.”

Liberal billionaire George Soros had given $50 million to The Institute for New Economic Thinking, and used that group in 2011 to host a conference that focused on “new multilateral system” of economics. According to an INET press release from 2012, Soros “agreed to augment his foundation support of INET” with an additional $50 million.

In 2011, INET hosted the second Bretton Woods conference. More than two-thirds of the speakers at that conference had direct ties to Soros. Soros has said that "the main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat." Before he was head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Johnson was the Managing Director of Soros Fund Management.

According to the Mirror (UK) and the International Business Times, Johnson told attendees at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that “hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway.” Neither news outlet reported any names of these skittish millionaires. The World Economic Forum website hasn’t posted video of this exchange, so it may not have been during one of the scheduled sessions.

The Mirror added that Johnson had said “the economic situation could soon become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was increasing” and “I think the rich are worried and they should be worried.”

The 2011 Bretton Woods conference brought together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Before he convened the second Bretton Woods, Soros said he wanted a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America wasn’t so dominant.

The Soros had been planning this conference for years. On Nov. 4, 2009, Soros wrote an op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order." He added that his goal was to bring about "a new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the post-WWII international financial architecture." Only a week before that op-ed was published, Soros helped found INET – the very group that hosted the second Bretton Woods conference less than two years later.


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1 posted on 01/29/2015 12:15:18 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Something must be done about Soros. He is a threat to national security


2 posted on 01/29/2015 12:18:55 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Mount Athos

When the tide rises, when there’s a storm surge, many places of refuge get flooded. It wasn’t good to have above median income in revolutionary France.

Its human nature to want a bolt hole, but if SHTF in a major way, many of them won’t work as well as hoped.


3 posted on 01/29/2015 12:23:27 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BigEdLB

The last 5 presidents should have seen that.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 12:23:39 PM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed)
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To: BigEdLB

“Something must be done about Soros. He is a threat to national security”

Soros himself isn’t the real problem, anymore.
He is just the diaper-wearing front man.

The REAL problem is the Sors SONS, who run the outfit, and are VERY connected to the radicals in Today’s Dem Party, as wella s the Billionaire Oligarchs making up “The Soros Group”, like Petyr Omidyar, Igor Kolomoiski, etc...


5 posted on 01/29/2015 12:25:04 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Then include the demon seed as well.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 12:28:47 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Mount Athos

Where are they going to flee to that they haven’t sown their Agenda 21 chaos?


7 posted on 01/29/2015 12:29:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I have some wealthy friends who live in Costa Rica most of the time. If things go to hell they intend to flee to the USA because if things go to hell here, everywhere else will be worse.

They say the people are great in Costa Rica but they know that wealthy gringos will be target number 1.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 12:30:48 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Mount Athos
Johnson told attendees at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that “hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway.”

They will be unable to hide from God.

9 posted on 01/29/2015 12:32:16 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: cripplecreek

I briefly visited Costa Rica, and came to the same conclusion. Costa and Panama are great for retirees as long as the locals aren’t too hungry and your paper dollars still mean something. Otherwise, you’ll get eaten. After all, you have no roots or family there—you’ll become a resource to consume if times get really hard.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 12:34:05 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: BigEdLB
Soros said he wanted a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America wasn’t so dominant.

Soros wants to line his own pockets... he's a money grubber... We've held the jerk off for years... even with the billions he pours into trying to destroy the United States. Soros doesn't want American 'so dominant'... is that charming or what?

11 posted on 01/29/2015 12:34:47 PM PST by GOPJ (Democracy is getting people to agree with you. Communism is making people afraid to disagree.)
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To: BigEdLB
Soros said he wanted a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America wasn’t so dominant.

Soros wants to line his own pockets... he's a money grubber... We've held the jerk off for years... even with the billions he pours into trying to destroy the United States. Soros doesn't want American 'so dominant'... is that charming or what?

12 posted on 01/29/2015 12:35:57 PM PST by GOPJ (Democracy is getting people to agree with you. Communism is making people afraid to disagree.)
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To: Mount Athos
More of the left wing hate mongering about "inequality." *yawn.* If they were serious they would work to nourish upward mobility.
13 posted on 01/29/2015 12:41:31 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mount Athos

I want to honor his final resting place after consuming a six-pack. (One of many on that bucket list).


14 posted on 01/29/2015 12:43:02 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: cripplecreek
Makes a lot of sense. If the US goes down there will be nowhere to hide anyway.
15 posted on 01/29/2015 12:43:11 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mount Athos
Forgetting the absurdity of Soros statements for a second, there is a real fundamental problem with most of the mega rich SHTF plans.

They rely on other people who won't care to uphold their end of the contract when the time comes.

Let's say that Bob is home-sitting on a stocked bunker for some zillionaire. Now it is announced that an asteroid is hitting in 8 hrs or the zombie apocalypse just started. What is Bob going to do? Turn over the keys and head down the mountain to die with his family? Not likely. The zillionaire is going to be lucky to get to the bunker and when he arrives, he's going to find that Bob has already taken up residence with his family and bolted the vault doors from the inside.

16 posted on 01/29/2015 12:44:22 PM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: GOPJ

Soros is a con artist.

He’s not a real Leftist; if he was, wouldn’t he simply pass out his fortune to the “less fortunate”?

The money he spends is chickenfeed to him. It’s buy off money: keeps the shakedown class happy and focused elsewhere. Look! A Koch brother! Go get him! And leave me to count my billions...

It’s all an act with that twisted POS.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 12:47:08 PM PST by Regulator
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To: BigEdLB

“Soros has said that “the main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.”

Said the man who gave 50 million dollars to a communist organization.


18 posted on 01/29/2015 12:48:25 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: SampleMan

Bunkers need caretakers. Farms in New Zeland or high hill bunkers are developed for groups not just Mr and Mrs Big Bucks. Some of these people will field their own private armies. Welcome to the Middle Ages.


19 posted on 01/29/2015 12:49:22 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: GOPJ
We need to familliarize ourselves with the demon seed. Soros isn't Gollum or Bilbo who has a demonic ring which will keep him around forever.

Alexander Soros


Johnathan Soros


Robrert Soros(left)


Gregory Soros


daughter Andrea Soros


Old George had 5 kids, so there is a lot to keep track of.
20 posted on 01/29/2015 12:53:57 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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