a Bond villain in Muckraker
Posted on 10/10/2004 1:56:26 PM PDT by freespirited
''Frankly, I don't think I'll need to do a lot more," Democratic philanthropist George Soros bragged to USA Today just a few months ago. "I now take the defeat of Bush more or less for granted."
Unfortunately for him, that defeat no longer seems so certain, so the billionaire, who had spent more than $15 million in an attempt to get John F. Kerry elected, is now trying to protect his earlier investments by throwing in an additional $3 million.
"America, under Bush, is a danger to the world," says Soros. To save the world and prevent the re-election of George W. Bush, Soros has dedicated extraordinary amounts of time and money because defeating Bush, he says, is his "central focus." His motto, "If I spend enough, I will make it right," is the essence of his articulated ideas about changing society.
It seems that Soros believes he was anointed by God. "I fancied myself as some kind of god ... ," he once wrote. "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble."
When asked by Britain's Independent newspaper to elaborate on that passage, Soros said, "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."
Since I began to live it out. Those unfamiliar with Soros would probably dismiss the statement out of hand. But for those who have followed his career and sociopolitical endeavors, it cannot be taken quite so lightly.
Soros has proved that with the vast resources of money at his command he has the ability to make the once unthinkable acceptable. His work as a self-professed "amoral" financial speculator has left millions in poverty when their national currencies were devaluated, and he pumped so much cash into shaping former Soviet republics to his liking that he has bragged that the former Soviet empire is now the "Soros Empire."
Now he's turned his eye on the internal affairs of the United States. Today's United States, he writes in his latest book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, is a "threat to the world," run by a Republican Party that is the devil child of an unholy alliance between "market fundamentalists" and "religious fundamentalists." We have become a "supremacist" nation.
During a speech at Columbia University's commencement ceremonies, Soros said, "If President Bush is re-elected, we must ask the question, 'What is wrong with us?' " He has written that he always "felt that modern society in general and America in particular suffer from a deficiency of values."
Bush's aggressive waging of the war on terrorism has only increased these feelings. "When President Bush says, as he does frequently, that freedom will prevail, in fact he means that America will prevail," Soros writes. Who would Soros prefer to see "prevail"? Saddam Hussein? Osama bin Laden?
Despite his reputation as an international philanthropist, Soros remains candid about his true charitable tendencies. "I am sort of a deus ex machina, " Soros told The New York Times in 1994. "I am something unnatural. I'm very comfortable with my public persona because it is one I have created for myself. It represents what I like to be as distinct from what I really am. You know, in my personal capacity I'm not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I've very much self-centered."
Soros was more succinct when he explained his life philosophy to biographer Michael Kaufman. "I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact," he said.
But the speculator's visions don't end there.
"Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad," Soros once confided on British television. "In fact, my grandfather was actually paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it."
In his book, Soros on Soros, he says: "I do not accept the rules imposed by others. ... And in periods of regime change, the normal rules don't apply."
Clearly, Soros considers himself to be someone who is able to determine when the "normal rules" should and shouldn't apply.
Someone needs to issue a "fatwa" on this SOB's head.
He is certainly not a 'god".
Soros is quite a character... a Capitalist that hates Capitalism.
makes me scowl.
He'll be just another sniveling coward when he's about to shuffle off his "mortal coil"
WTF!
"It seems that Soros believes he was anointed by God."
If I recall, one of the main reasons Soros is so anti-Bush is because he knows Bush is a godly man...and Soros is violently anti-god now.
Soros found guilty of insider trading
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2594273.stmFriday, 20 December, 2002, 20:01 GMT
Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has been fined 2.2m euros (£1.4m; $2.3m) for insider trading.
A Paris court found Mr Soros guilty of profiting from inside knowledge of a 1988 takeover bid for Societe Generale, a French bank.
The man who broke the Bank of England
Sunday, 6 December, 1998, 20:38 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/the_economy/229012.stm
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But he is part of a group of international private investors with an estimated $100bn in assets who can significantly affect global markets.
In September, another hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, had to be rescued by the world's major banks for $3bn - at the behest of the US Federal Reserve - because of the risk to the whole world's financial system if that fund were to fail.
Soros wouldn't be spending this kind of money unless he stands to make a significant return in the future if sKerry wins.
Ping to Soros who thinks he is God.
"I now take the defeat of Bush more or less for granted."
We need to do all we can to make this piece of filth eat those words!
a Bond villain in Muckraker
A fool and his money are soon parted.
If he doesn't like this country he certainly has the money to buy himeself a one way ticket out of it! BTW does anyone know if he is a U.S. Citizen?
--Fox smelling his own hole?
Does someone have a good link to some good anti-Soros info.
I rarely hear mentioned the "collateral damage" his destruction of some of the smaller asian econmies 15 or so years ago. In poor countries the loss of jobs and devaluing of meager assets must have cause 10s of millions great hardship, I would think poverty, hunger and infant mortality must have gone up.
Search FR for the title Shadow Government I and Shadow Government II.
Then tell me he isn't evil personified.
Search FR for the title Shadow Government I and Shadow Government II.
Then tell me he isn't evil personified.
Kerry is his puppet.
Hatch wants to change the Constitution for foreign-borns, and the libs are pushing elimination of electorcal college - a perfect storm for Soros or his son to buy the next Presidential election.
a god or a madman billionaire?........h-m-m-m-m.
The letters fit but the words are all garbled ant reversed. How about: Maddog billionaire?
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