I thought he was a good guy, thank you for keep me honest. I was not aware of this guys history beyond that my thinking that he pushed democracy in the former Soviet Republic. I was ill-informed, nothing more.
That's one great thing about the internet..I learn something new every day and Google is like having a huge reference library.
"pro-democracy" is wide label used by most oligarchs, of which he close friend.
Soros calls for 'regime change' in US 30 September, 2003
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for an end to the Bush administration ahead of next year's presidential elections.
Mr Soros - whose Foundations Network has given $1bn around the world to various causes to help tackle poverty and disease - told BBC Radio 4's United Nations Or Not? programme that the US would only stop pursuing "extremist" policies if there was a change at the White House. "It is only possible if you have a regime change in the United States - in other words if President Bush is voted out of power.
"I am very hopeful that people will wake up and realise that they have been led down the garden path, that actually 11 September has been hijacked by a bunch of extremists to put into effect policies that they were advocating before such as the invasion of Iraq."
Imposing power
Mr Soros added that there was a "false ideology" behind the policies of the Bush administration.
"There is a group of - I would call them extremists - who have the following belief: that international relations are relations of power, not of law, that international law will always follow what power has achieved," he said. "And therefore [they believe] the United States being the most powerful nation on earth should impose its power, impose its will and its interests on the world and it should do it looking after itself.
"I think this is a very dangerous ideology. It is very dangerous because America is in fact very powerful."
He added that he felt US actions in the build-up to the war on Iraq was evidence of an extremist element in the Bush administration.
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Pledging At Least $15.5 Million In Soft Money To Defeat Bush, Soros
Is Single Largest Political Contributor In American History
After getting this from the RNC, then I wanted to know more about
Soros...
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. He emigrated to
England in 1947 and graduated from the London School of Economics in
1952. In 1956, he moved to the United States. His real family name is
Schwartz instead of Soros. Soros is Jewish.
George Soros, a non-Jewish Jew, is quiet. He does not want to visit
Israel. Recently, Michael T. Kaufman published a great pioneer
biography of George Soros, Soros, the Life and Times of a Messianic
Billionaire (Alfred A. Knops publishers, New York, 2002). He
explained that "Soros had developed a contempt for tribal
sectarianism of all kinds and found much of the zeal of pro-Israel
Zionists to be unappealingly chauvinistic.
(
http://www.jewishpost.com/jp0807/jpn0807e.htm )
Soros, who amassed a fortune currently worth $6.9 billion by
speculating in financial markets, has since turned his sights to
philanthropy. His Open Society Institute and network of foundations
around the world spend about $500 million yearly, much of it
dedicated to encouraging democracy and economic growth in developing
countries.
Soros, 71, earned both admiration and scorn through his hedge fund,
the Quantum Fund, which earned 31 percent a year over its 32 years.
He achieved the stunning gains mostly through speculating in foreign
currencies - a risky game that can wreak economic havoc. In 1992, he
earned $1 billion in a single day by betting - correctly - that the
British pound would fall in value.
His critics say he profited unfairly because his predictions that
currencies were overvalued led others to sell them, allowing him to
reap big gains as well.
Remember the 1997 Asian economic crisis?
Some world leaders thought Soros' bets against the Thai baht caused
it, though he does not agree.
(
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/personal_finance/3026933.h tm )
His investments are not going too well now...according to And then it
all went to hell. Soros lost $2 billion in Russia's default in 1998.
The following year he made a big bet that Internet stocks would fall.
The basic idea was right, but he was about a year too early, and he
quickly lost $700 million. Then he rushed to buy up a bunch of tech
stocks, which sank. His embarrassing losses mounted to almost $3
billion when the NASDAQ ultimately did crash in the spring of 2000.
That's when Soros announced that he was withdrawing from an active
role at Quantum, which he would transform from a high-risk
speculative fund into a conservative institution -- a move like Babe
Ruth pledging that he would only try to hit singles from now on.
Salon :
http://dir.salon.com/people/bc/2001/03/27/soros/index.html According to this site, Soros is for legalization of Drugs:
http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/gsoros.html George Soros, who has donated more than $1 billion to promote
democracy in Russia , Soros has urged President Bush to let Valdmir
Putin, know he is taking Russia in the wrong direction.
Soros is distubed by "persecution" of oil baron Mikhail
Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, resigned last week
as chief executive of OAO Yukos , the country's largest oil producer,
after just over a week in pre-trial detention. He was refused bail at
a closed hearing Tuesday and may now stay in jail at least another
two months, according to deputy prosecutor general Vladimir
Kolesnikov.
It would seem Soros donations to Russia were to promote oil ventures
within Russia ...for profit?
Anyway...we are getting to the bottom of who Soros Or Scwartz is.....