Posted on 10/28/2006 4:19:35 PM PDT by shrinkermd
George Soros told a carefully vetted gathering of 70 likeminded millionaires and billionaires last weekend that they must be patient if they want to realize long-term political and ideological yields from an expected massive investment in “startup” progressive think tanks.
The Scottsdale, Ariz., meeting, called to start the process of building an ideas production line for liberal politicians, began what organizers hope will be a long dialogue with the “partners,” many from the high-tech industry. Participants have begun to refer to themselves as the Phoenix Group.
Rob Stein, a veteran of President Bill Clinton’s Commerce Department and of New York investment banking, convened the meeting of venture capitalists, left-leaning moneymen and a select few D.C. strategists on how to seed pro-Democratic think tanks, media outlets and leadership schools to compete with such entrenched conservative institutions as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Leadership Institute
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He took little interest in politics until about the time he ditched his first wife and three children. He then married a woman about 30 (he was in his fifties) and took up liberal causes including feminism.
He hated President Bush enough to spend 23 million at the very least on 527s in the last election.
His second wife (two children) apparently either separated or divorced him in 2004.
The observation is that here is a man who attempts to control events in Europe and the US to his liking yet he cannot maintain consistent family relationships.
They've never had a "new idea" nor should any ever be expected.
How this guy Soros ever made money is a very good question ~ all I've ever seen him do is throw it away on foolish quests.
Soros, Soros all the time. From Newsweak:
June 28, 2006 - George Soros has assigned himself a daunting mission. "Changing the attitude and policies of the United States remains my top priority," he writes in the introduction to his latest book, "The Age of Fallibility" (PublicAffairs). The billionaire investor is set on convincing Americans to renounce the idea of a "war on terror" because he believes that an "endless" war against an invisible enemy is counterproductive and dangerous. He argues that since the attacks of September 11, the Bush administration has suffered from a kind of infallibility complex which impedes progress and obscures reality.
While Soros has promoted political change around the world—particularly in the former Soviet Union—he hasn't yet succeeded in his quest to crack the conservative hold on American politics. He spent more than $25 million trying to unseat president Bush in 2004. Despite that defeat, the Hungarian-born philanthropist is encouraged that American public opinion has turned against the administration's policies in Iraq and says he will throw his support behind the Democrats in this fall's midterm elections. NEWSWEEK's Susanna Schrobsdorff spoke to Soros about American foreign policy, oil and the American economy. Excerpts:
REMAINDER Here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13581728/site/newsweek/
Soros is but another mad man seeking ultimate power.
In the end , he will wind up like all of the loonies.
Yes indeed. For starters, his parents were Self hating Hungarian Jews. During WWII, Soros travelled around fascist Hungary posing as the Godson of a nazi whose job was to confiscate the property of murdered Jews and write deportation notices for soon to be murdered Jews.
Soros described this time he spent with the nazi travelling about the Hungarian countryside looting the property of murdered wealthy Jews as the happiest in his life.
I assume they're hoping to use "progressive think tanks" as a means of funneling money into their own pockets. No matter how much money they have, it's never enough for these guys. Soros reminds me of Armand Hammer, who parlayed his Soviet and U.S. connections into a sizable fortune,and bought and sold politicians. And like Hammer, Soros doesn't have any scruples.
I think that most of us are “patiently” waiting for him to pass on to the neither regions.
He worries me. Actually, he is a sociopath who is willing to harm everyone in a nation and has been kicked out of three countries. I sure hope our officials are paying attention.
Wesley Clarke says he's a great philosopher. I guess Wesley is on the payroll.
It might be interesting to ask George if he thinks it is possible that he is wrong about anything.
He worries me, too. He has done destructive things in some of the smaller former Iron Curtain countries. He made his money on currency speculation and manipulation, and could care less if he disrupted economies, wrecked businesses, and caused bankruptcies.
He can easily afford to blow 25 or 50 or a 100 million, but at some point he may succeed in doing real damage to our country. If nothing else, he has built up what amount to nests of dissent and treason. Ideas have consequences--sometimes delayed consequences, and he has funded a lot of bad ideas. Some of the fallout may not be evident until after he is dead and gone.
I would like the names of all the people at the meeting. Just for my memory bank.
There was a three-billionaire meeting before the last election, I believe. Unfortunately I now forget who the other two were, but they leaked out. The very fact that these meetings are taking place is kept pretty quiet, because it doesn't fit terribly well with their image of being the "party of the people."
The meeting’s organizer was Peter B. Lewis, the seventy-year-old reclusive chairman of the Progressive Corporation, an insurance company based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Flying in from Arizona was John Sperling, an octogenarian businessman who in 1976 created the for-profit University of Phoenix.
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Herb and Marion Sandler, a California couple in their seventies, came to Aspen looking for ways to give back to a country that had allowed them to prosper. The founders of Golden West Financial Corporation, a savings-and-loan company worth seventeen billion dollars...
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The wealthiest participant at this meeting of hard-core partisans—and the one whose presence was the most surprising—was George Soros...
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/041018fa_fact3?041018fa_fact3
Thanks. Peter B. Lewis was one of the three at the billionaire's meeting earlier. He is said to be just as bad as Soros, but with a lower profile. I was racking my brain trying to remember his name, which I'll probably forget, it's so ordinary.
"...No one was supposed to know about this,” an assistant to one participant told me, declining to be named. “We don’t want people thinking it’s a cabal, or some sort of Masonic plot!” His concern was understandable: the prospect of rich men concentrating their wealth in order to sway an American election was an inflammatory one, particularly given the Democratic Party’s populist rhetoric. This private meeting of plutocrats was an unintended consequence of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law of 2002. Previously, wealthy donors had contributed “soft money” to the political parties, which controlled how the funds were spent. The reform legislation had banned such gifts, forcing donors to find new ways of influencing the political process.
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