NO! NOT SOROS! *GASP*
Posted on 11/14/2005 6:53:56 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 13F
Form 13F COVER PAGE
Report for the Calendar Year or Quarter Ended: September 30, 2005 ------------------
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Institutional Investment Manager Filing this Report:
Name: Soros Fund Management LLC Address: 888 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10106
Form 13F File Number: 028-06420
The institutional investment manager filing this report and the person by whom it is signed hereby represent that the person signing the report is authorized to submit it, that all information contained herein is true, correct and complete, and that it is understood that all required items, statements, schedules, lists, and tables, are considered integral parts of this form.
Person Signing this Report on Behalf of Reporting Manager:
Name: Jodye M. Anzalotta Title: Assistant General Counsel Phone: 212-320-5531
Signature, Place, and Date of Signing:
/s/ Jodye M. Anzalotta New York, New York November 14, 2005 ---------------------- ------------------ ----------------- [Signature] [City, State] [Date]
Report Type (Check only one.):
[X] 13F HOLDINGS REPORT. (Check here if all holdings of this reporting manager are reported in this report.)
HALLIBURTON CO 252,500 SH
INTEL CORP 1,065,000 SH
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 5,229,200 SH
Filed On / Filed As Of / Effective As Of 11/14/5
Noted on Bloomberg Television on "flash story info" under ticker this evening 11/14/5
NO! NOT SOROS! *GASP*
He sure has a lot of stock.
/DUmmie channeling
...in HALLIBURTON!!!! AAAAAACK!
As a banker FReeper, I love this. I really do.
HALLIBURTON CO 252,500 SH
Great find!
Note that he tends to hedge his bets. If Halliburton doesn't get a bid, he also owns 125,000 SH of Schlumberger Inc. - Halliburton's main competitor.
He also owns stock in both UPS and FedEx. Not necessarily political, just covering all the bases.
Halliburton remains intent on KBR sale or spinoff
Associated Press
Midland Reporter-Telegram
10/30/2005
HOUSTON (AP) -- Halliburton Co. remains intent on selling or spinning off KBR, its engineering and construction unit that is the largest U.S. contractor in Iraq, but executives at the oilfield-services conglomerate told analysts Tuesday no such action is imminent.
"No timeline has been set for the separation of KBR," Chief Financial Officer Cris Gaut said as executives discussed third-quarter earnings, which were released after financial markets closed Monday. "We will consider an initial public offering as well as private transactions."
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15480576&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=474112&rfi=6
I like to know what Soros' financial stake is in the Middle East.
Soros speculates in world financial markets through his secret offshore company, Quantum Fund N.V., a wholly private investment fond called a "hedge fund." ( Hedge funds have been identified by international police agencies as the fastest-growing outlet for illegal money laundering today.) ... Soros's Quantum Fund is registered in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, the Caribbean tax haven - so he avoids paying taxes, and also hides the nature of his investors, and what he does with their money. By moving his legal headquarters to Curacao. 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. The Netherland Antilles, a possession of the Kingdom of Holland, has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine and other drug traffic.
Soros has also taken care that none of the 99 individual investors who form his various funds, is an American national. By U.S. securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 investors of highly wealthy individuals, so-called "sophisticated investors." By structuring his investment company as an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny. Soros himself is not even on the board of Quantum Fund. Instead, for legal reasons, he serves as official "Investment Advisor" to Quantum Fund N.V. through his company, Soros Fund Management, of 888 Seventh Avenue, New York City. If any demand be made of Soros to reveal the details of Quantum Fund, he can claim he is "merely its investment adviser."
... According to knowledgeable U.S. and European investigators, Soros is part of a circle which includes Marc Rich of Zug, Switzerland and Tel Aviv, the indicted metals and commodity speculator and fugitive; Shaul Eisenberg, the secretive Israeli arms and commodities dealer; and "Dirty Rafi" Eytan - both linked to the financial side of the Israeli Mossad, and to the family of Jacob Lord Rothschild.
http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/soros.html
You forgot Bill and Hill...
oh...and "Progressive" Insurance starring Peter Lewis...
Soros creations....
Ping
Exactly.
Lucent Technologies, another large Soros holding, is under contract to restore and rebuild Iraqi infrastructure, and to develop communications within Iraq.
From: Listed below by industry segment are substantially ".... the investee companies in which the Company had ownership interests during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2002, the principal business of each and the percentage of equity owned, directly or indirectly, by AMPAL-AMERICAN ISRAEL CORPORATION .
One being : Arel Communications and Software Ltd.(presently Soros holding in Iraq)
http://www.ampal.com/pages/IR/windows/blank_win.php?CIK=731859&FID=1178913-03-151&SID=03-00
Searched under Jodye M. Anzalotta.
As Robert Slater, Soros' biographer, rightly pointed out: "Soros wants that respect; he didn't get it from Gorbachev, he would have loved to have become a kind of economic advisor to an American President, or to a Secretary of State, and I think it's always bothered him that a lot of the attention that he's gotten has been from the fact that he made so much money." As the story goes with most famous philosophers and prophets, if they aren't already predestined for greatness (usually signified by a miraculous birth or beginning of some sort), then they are either outcasts or successful members of society who undergo a psychological experience, or awakening, the result of which is a fundamental shift in their values. This culminates in a fortuitous and blessed change in their life and, in turn, that of the rest of humanity. In other words, they "see the light". Soros appears, or makes himself appear, to be following in this same tradition among philosophers and prophets. As Morton relates, "in his autobiography, Soros says that he underwent a psychological crisis in the early '80s. For a long time, he simply couldn't accept that he was a success, and the more money he made, the more insecure he felt. He separated from his wife and his business partner, and decided that he needed a new orientation in life." According to Soros himself, "after a great deal of thinking, I came to the conclusion that what really mattered to me was the concept of an open society." Many more examples of this ostentatious personality can be found in a full six-hour audio tape version of his autobiography.
Hidden Meanings
Along with the Soros paradox (a successful capitalist disseminating anti-capitalist views), what makes people wary of him and his activities is the vague concept of the Open Society itself. People can't help but feel suspicious when a successful businessman throws money around - and a lot of it - for not very clearly defined reasons. In Central and South America, people have already had a comparable negative experience of this when Rockefeller, under the guise of philanthropy, successfully displaced farmers from their land which, in turn, served the business needs of Standard Oil. The fact that Soros has been busy in the region with not only his philanthropic activities, but also is very much involved in media and communications infrastructure, has been worrying some that history may be.
Apart from his business interests, questions are raised as to what exactly Soros means by the Open Society. Ralf Dahrendorf, an economist and close friend of Soros, affirms that most of Soros' philanthropy is attributable to his mentor, Karl Popper. Popper's book, "The Open Society and its Enemies", does not define properly what the Open Society is, but merely points out what it is not and what it seeks to do. Along with facilitating non-violent change, "institutions" would be responsible for "piecemeal" social engineering as opposed to holistic social engineering, i.e., changing society all at once or in a big way. Aside from not properly defining the Open Society, Popper's concept has been criticized in a number of ways. The non-violence aspect to the Open Society comes under stress when put to the test, especially when confronted with the issue of nationalism. At the 1996 "Geist und Natur" (Mind and Nature) world conference in Hannover, for example, Popper observed that the outbreak of the Second World War was due in large part to the effort to avoid war in the first place. Does this cryptic observation, then, sanctify the use of violence? What is perhaps most troubling is Popper's notion of piecemeal social engineering. There are certain similarities between this and the social engineering values of Nazism and Communism, albeit the threat to personal safety is not the same.
Common to all is social engineering and population control serve as a primary focus, in which popular discontent can be suppressed or channeled so that it doesn't forcefully or violently confront the controlling mechanisms of society -- be it the State, the Party, or "institutions". Hence, wherein Nazism, Communism, and Popper/Sorosism differ is the level in which social engineering takes place: Nazism bases it values on a national level; Communism on an international level; and Popper/Sorosism on an individual level. The Open Society, therefore, appears to take on the form of a society run by a benevolent oligarchy, and in which a small-scale private life is combined with large-scale constraints that are controlled and monitored by various institutions. With the doctrine of control-throughempowerment as its focus, people would become more concerned about their own immediate environments rather than worry about the big picture, which instead would be the reserve of a technocratic elite. Reform would replace revolution, and the State would ultimately fade into insignificance. Since the State in a democratic society is theoretically made up of its citizens - in other words, we are the State - the decline of State power in favour of certain institutions (of which we are not a part) means that a citizen, in theory, loses a degree of political power. Although we may still have the right to hold dissident views, the fact that these dissident views can't be acted upon by ourselves and in our own way renders such a right almost meaningless. It may be good for the individual psychologically (to say what they have on their minds) but that is about all.
In the end, what would appear as the hallmarks of an Open Society - a general dissatisfaction and apathy toward the political process and state apparatus, coupled with an ensuing lack of social responsibility - poses as a direct threat to democracy. Whether this is how it will all operate remains yet to be seen. Still, in the absence of a properly defined concept, when Soros talks about the Open Society it invariably comes to mean both everything and nothing at the same time.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=19657825
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