George Soros and the Drug Cartels

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[Tailgunner Joe]

FROM WNYC-FM's The Brian Lehrer Show.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2106176/

Brian Lehrer: What do you think of the Swift Boat veterans ads, and John Kerry's calls for the president to denounce them?

Dennis Hastert: Well, you find out that if you look into the record, I was against the Campaign Finance Reform Act because that's what I felt that would happen, that you would push into guys like George Soros, who's dumping in $16 or $20 million. We don't know where that money comes from. We don't know where it comes from, from the left, and you don't know where it comes in the right. You know, Soros' money, some of that is coming from overseas. It could be drug money. We don't know where it comes from.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Soros%20Hastert

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has asked the House ethics committee to investigate House Speaker Dennis Hastert over comments suggesting that Soros could be receiving money from illegal drug groups.

"This kind of insinuation - that a private United States citizen was in league with drug cartels and may be receiving funds derived from criminal activity - has no place in public discourse," Soros wrote Tuesday to the chair and top Democrat on the panel, Reps. Joel Hefley, R-Col., and Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va.

During an Aug. 29 interview on "Fox News Sunday," Hastert, R-Ill., questioned the source of the 73-year-old financier's wealth: "I don't know where George Soros gets his money. I don't know where - if it comes from overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from." He made similar comments in an Aug. 23 radio interview...

After Hastert made his comments, 11 House Democrats led by Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, wrote Soros inviting him to speak on Capitol Hill.

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Frank's office explains:

"In response to recent right-wing attacks against billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros, a group of House Democrats today wrote to Mr. Soros inviting him to meet with them on Capitol Hill to discuss several relevant, important public policy issues.

"The letter was organized by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) who was joined by 10 other House Democrats to express admiration for Mr. Soros and his 'dedication to the ideals of an open and fair society.'

"In their letter, the House Democrats also express concern over 'the McCarthyite attacks that have been made on you by some American politicians, including colleagues of ours, who have gone far beyond the reasonable bounds of civil discourse in their efforts to discredit you.'"

To view the letter, click here: http://www.house.gov/frank/sorosletter.pdf

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George Soros: Chairman of Soros Fund Management LCC, a private investment management firm that serves as principal advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds, based in the Netherlands Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven. "George Soros is known as the wealthiest speculator of all time. His trading all took place in the Netherlands Antilles, where his earnings compounded tax free," reports turtletrader.com http://www.turtletrader.com/oig.html. The Netherlands Antilles is described by the CIA as a "transshipment point for South American drugs bound for the US and Europe" and "money-laundering center."

TIMELINE: SOROS AND THE LAW

1979: Soros signs a consent decree in United States District Court, in a Securities and Exchange Commission case involving stock manipulation. Source: Connie Bruck, "The World According to Soros," The New Yorker, January 23, 1995.

1986: Soros fined $75,000 by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission "for having held positions in excess of speculative limits." Source: Connie Bruck, "The World According to Soros," The New Yorker, January 23, 1995.

1990: Colombia initiates "Apertura" program, enabling drug kingpins to buy Colombian banks and more easily launder their drug money.

1990, August: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents claim Banco de Colombia and other banks are conduits for drug money (source: Reuters

1992: Soros breaks the Bank of England. "He is widely known as the man who broke the pound, after helping force sterling out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism in 1992," the BBC notes.

1994, January: With backing from Britain's Barclay and Holland's ING and Morgan Greenfield (a subsidiary of Germany's Deutsche Bank), the Cali-based Galinski Group purchases Banco de Colombia.

1994, August: George Soros takes a 9 percent interest in Banco de Colombia. Source: Reuters, August 19, 1994.

1994, September: The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issues report, "Colombian Economic Reform: The Impact on Drug Money Laundering within the Colombia Economy," warning of "the purchase of financial institutions by Colombia drug organizations."

In an apparent reference to Banco de Colombia the report said that, "Recently, suspicions were raised when a major Colombian bank was sold to a wealthy Colombian family for a price 15 percent above government expectations. The bank maintains branch offices in Panama and the Cayman Islands and is the parent company of another bank in Miami, Florida. A source reported that the family was associated with a major Colombian drug cartel."

1997: Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accuses Soros of bringing down the Malaysian currency.

2002, December: Soros found guilty of insider trading in France. "A Paris court found Mr. Soros guilty of profiting from inside knowledge of a 1988 takeover bid for Societe Generale, a French bank," BBC notes. see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2594273.stm

[Solamente]

How can a guy like this not get whacked, given his activities?

[pipecorp]

The scum floats to the surface.

[hipaatwo]

So this means a vote for Kerry is really a vote for President Soros.

[Rockpile]

Soros is kind of like a non-fictional Goldfinger.

[newfarm4000n]

How can a guy like this not get whacked, given his activities?


The Italian Mafia are like babies in nappies compared to this guy.

[fight_truth_decay]

Soros has a home in Sun Valley near the Kerry home - a ski/vacation home located near the banks of the Big Wood River fashioned from a reassembled barn originally built in England in 1485 and brought to Idaho by Teresa Heinz Kerry's late husband. It was purchased for $4.9 million in 1988.

[genefromjersey]

Tailgunner, it gets even better: The Ukranians say they think Soros was a low-grade collaborator with the Nazis in Hungary: handling currency/valuables exchanges;that he fled just ahead of the Russians....and emerged a "pious,freedom-loving Jew"- which his is apparently considered by large parts of the Jewish "community".

I've also read anti-Semitic accounts which have him acting as an evil agent of "International Jewry".

Hardcore,oldline Commies insist he is a tool of the CIA.

I don't know if any of these versions is true,but I do know (from published reports) he has a substantial monetary interest in de-valuing US currency -and stands to reap billions in profits if he succeeds.His taking of a "short position" on the US dollar corresponds almost exactly with his funding of MoveOn and the other anti-Bush groups he founded and funded.

That particular juxtaposition of facts has met with nearly ZERO RESPONSE in any segment of the Media....and needs to be broadcast like a fire alarm !!

[motexva]

Well, I don't know much about Soros except he is against my president. But the idea that someone who supports drug cartels would support drug legalization is ludicrous. As soon as drugs are legal, the profit streams for the cartels will dry up. So this line of attack on Soros is pretty useless really.

[Grut]

This was already worked over by the blogs last week. The consensus is that Hastert made an ass of himself.

[truecons]

THAT'S why Soros is pumping more money into the anti-Bush movement. He's up to his keester short the dollar. If Bush wins and the dollar strengthens, he stands to lose millions. It this point, more money into MoveOn.org is "covering his bet".

The funny part is if Bush wins (as it looks like he will) and the dollar goes up (which it probably will), it will be poetic justice after all the economic damage Soros has done to other countries in his currency manipulation schemes.

Another one of a long list of events indicating the existence of God. Ironic, given Soros' antagonism to religion.

[nicollo]

This m-f's busy cutting his losses...

George Soros says dollar likely stable near-term
Wed Sep 29, 2004 04:58 PM ET
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Billionaire philanthropist and speculator George Soros said on Wednesday he expected the dollar to remain stable because foreign investors remain willing to keep buying the currency despite record U.S. current account deficits.

"There's a fundamental imbalance in our payments and now in our budget, but there are people on the other side who are very happy to hold dollars. So again I don't see any immediate, major moves in that," he said on an interview to business cable channel CNBC.

"We currency speculators are more likely to die of boredom," Soros said.

For more than a year Soros has at times admitted to short-selling the dollar in currency markets, but when asked whether he still had a short position, Soros declined to comment.

So much for the Master of the Universe, eh, Georgie-boy? There is too much satisfaction for me in all this... far more than any coin could ever provide.

Either that, or he's trying to con another market move.

[Bogolyubski]

It would have been Soros' father who dealt with the Nazis. He explicitly renounced Judaism and changed the family name to Soros. Why large parts of the Jewish community would consider him a pious Jew is beyond me (I don't know if they do, honestly - though he has given sppeches to Jewish groups). He's an atheist who seeks the destruction of all religion, including tradtional Judaism.

Soros is a genuinely evil individual. He is likely a greater threat to the survival of this nation than Osama Bin Laden is.

[WashingtonSource]

In other words,sh!t floats.

[Bogolyubski]

Actually, that is not as ludicrous as it may seem. If drugs are legalized, who would be the ones with the production and distribution infastructure already in place? The cartels would have a distinct advantage over Bristol-Meyers-Squibb.

[eleni121]

Nothing that Hastert says about Soros is untrue...the 527's must go.

The only one making a sorry ass of himself is Soros.

[radicalamericannationalist]

Hastert's comment was obviously inelegantly referring to drug legalization groups, i.e. NORMAL, not the drug cartels.

[ozzymandus]

Absoloutely. Soros is like a real-life James Bond villain.

[bear11]

Where's the little black helicopter when you need one?

[reformed_democrat]

Nothing that Hastert says about Soros is untrue

You're absolutely right.

If there was even the slightest chance that Soros could survive the discovery process, he would have brought suit against the Speaker for slander.

Funny how this, after much bluster and bother, has died on the vine. If Hastert has really "made an ass of himself," the MSM would be all over it. It seems everyone knows where Soros gets his money from, and they don't want to call attention to it.