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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“economic liberalism”
where is the liberty in their globalist economic system?
Slavery to the unaccountable “State” (no sovereignty for member nations) isn’t classically liberal.
“Classical liberalism is a political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism in which primary emphasis is placed on securing the freedom of the individual by limiting the power of the government.”
But it’s owned by Nikkei.
Yep.
He should have drank some Russian Tea along time ago. Let the world be outraged.
He has a son, who shares his dreams.
In South Africa? Must be there to stop the white purge by the black fascists. /s
Now the Left has some official propaganda to defend their source of funds.
How much did the author get paid by Soros to write this glowing tribute to the vile, ghoulish pos?
SMH
Are there photo’s of him receiving this award?
ARE THERE ANY CURRENT PHOTO’S OF HIM?
Just wondering, I haven’t seen any and in fact haven’t seen anything for several years, he is going on 89 yrs. old...where are the son’s hiding him?
Maybe he is already dead or at least brain dead...
JUST WONDERING...Nothing would surprise me about him...
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