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FT Person of the Year: George Soros
Financial Times ^ | December 19, 2018 | Roula Khalaf

Posted on 12/19/2018 4:37:50 AM PST by Trump20162020

For a man facing daily attacks for his activism and liberal vision of the world, George Soros was in a curiously buoyant mood on a sunswept afternoon in Marrakesh. He had just visited South Africa, home to his first philanthropic foray in the late 1970s, when he funded black students under apartheid. This time he learnt that Soros-backed investigative media and civil society groups had helped thwart an allegedly corrupt nuclear power plant contract with Russia.

“It was a tremendous boost to reinforce my belief that we are doing something right,” says Mr Soros. “We haven’t stopped having a beneficial influence.”

Influence has come at a painfully high cost for the 88-year-old father of the hedge fund industry and one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists. From his native Hungary to his adopted America, the forces of nationalism and populism are battering the liberal democratic order he has tirelessly supported. The man once described as the only individual with a foreign policy must contend with the rise of strongmen across the globe — and a vicious backlash designed to delegitimise him.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: 2018; antifa; barfalert; blm; dnctalkingpoints; financialadvice; financialtimesbias; ftpersonoftheyear; georgesoros; globalism; manoftheyear; nazisympathizer; personoftheyear; roulakhalaf; soros
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1 posted on 12/19/2018 4:37:50 AM PST by Trump20162020
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Nazi scum.

Hurry up and die.

2 posted on 12/19/2018 4:39:56 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Trump20162020

Nazi sympathizer......


3 posted on 12/19/2018 4:41:34 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Trump20162020

Nikkei bought the FT from Pearson in 2015....


4 posted on 12/19/2018 4:45:04 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America eng its prisons?)
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To: Trump20162020

A wet sloppy kiss from Roula Khalaf.

Get a room.


5 posted on 12/19/2018 4:45:06 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: Trump20162020

Why, he just a big ol’ teddy bear, he is!


6 posted on 12/19/2018 4:46:17 AM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Trump20162020

Conservatives oppose the Nazi sympathizer’s globalist/socialist agenda, so he must be sainted by the Left.


7 posted on 12/19/2018 4:47:03 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Trump20162020

>>Influence has come at a painfully high cost for the 88-year-old father of the hedge fund industry and one of the world’s most prominent philanthropists.

Queer way to describe a man who has tried to destroy nations’ economies and funds rent-a-mobsters to cause disruption in the streets.


8 posted on 12/19/2018 4:47:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Trump20162020

I wish the Mossad wou1d do something.


9 posted on 12/19/2018 4:50:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder how much he paid for that award


10 posted on 12/19/2018 4:51:43 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Trump20162020

He and his evil spawn need to achieve room temperature.


11 posted on 12/19/2018 4:51:52 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Trump20162020

Hoping that the next Man of the Year Soros cover has the additional line: “1930 - 2018”.


12 posted on 12/19/2018 4:51:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: I want the USA back

those who can’t access this can read it via outline.com - it’s unbelievable. some more excerpts:

The Financial Times’s choice of Person of the Year is usually a reflection of their achievements. In the case of Mr Soros this year, his selection is also about the values he represents…
He is the standard bearer of liberal democracy and open society…

He calls himself, rather too modestly, a “failed philosopher”…

One of the largest donors to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 US presidential campaign, Mr Soros was stung by the election of Mr Trump (he also wrongly bet the stock market would fall in the wake of a Trump win). He had long disapproved of Mr Trump and once refused an offer for office space in a Trump building, but contends that he will be a passing phenomenon: “He [Trump] is his own worst enemy, a narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.”…
In the 2020 presidential vote Mr Soros plans to stay out of the primaries and back whoever emerges as the Democratic opponent to Mr Trump…

The world, according to Mr Soros, is in a state of revolutionary ferment. But he is not losing hope, even for Britain, where he is encouraged by the prospects for a second Brexit referendum…


13 posted on 12/19/2018 5:02:54 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He doesn’t mess with Israel. He probably contributes mighty to the Mossad retirement fund!


14 posted on 12/19/2018 5:09:09 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Trump20162020

My suspicions that South Africa was/is a dress rehearsal for what is planned for the USA are confirmed.


15 posted on 12/19/2018 5:11:37 AM PST by Oratam
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To: MAGAthon

The Soviet Union and NAZI Germany are history....but the global socialist movement lives on in the hearts of a handful that manipulate governments.

Frankly, they have been winning. The EU, UN and other corrupt socialist organizations are as strong as ever.

Liberty-minded people are pushing back. Brexit, the election of Trump, some of the yellow-vests in France, anti-open borders Visegrad nations, etc.

But they are all losing as well. These are temporary slowdowns on the march to global socialism.


16 posted on 12/19/2018 5:24:56 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-mob)
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To: bagster

They’re making this guy sound like some kind of freedom fighter - He’s like a virus that has no cure.


17 posted on 12/19/2018 5:25:41 AM PST by ProudDeplorable
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To: Trump20162020

There was one article that he had died of a heart attack and another was that he had a cage at GITMO. Where is he anyway?


18 posted on 12/19/2018 5:34:43 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Trump20162020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times
Financial Times
Wikipedia
...
“Headquarters

One Southwark Bridge, London, UK
Country United Kingdom

Political alignment

Globalism
Economic liberalism”


19 posted on 12/19/2018 5:34:51 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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>>In the 2020 presidential vote Mr Soros plans to stay out of the primaries and back whoever emerges as the Democratic opponent to Mr Trump…

BULLSTALIN

George Soros has been focusing his campaign efforts on local and regional elections. He’s been buying District Attorneys.

Stay out of ALL primaries? I seriously doubt it.


20 posted on 12/19/2018 5:40:21 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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