Posted on 01/14/2005 6:54:26 AM PST by Calpernia
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Buffett, Soros Increase Their Comcast, Time Warner Cable Stakes
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investors Warren Buffett and George Soros increased their holdings of U.S. cable television companies, taking advantage of declines in stock prices to buy shares of the industry's top two operators.
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. doubled its stake in Comcast Corp., the world's largest cable-television operator, to 10 million shares in the fourth quarter, the investment holding company said in a filing yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The stake was valued at $328.4 million as of Dec. 31, the filing said.
Soros Fund Management LLC purchased 2.6 million shares of Time Warner Inc., operator of the No. 2 U.S. cable business, according to a filing with the SEC. Those shares were valued at $50.5 million as of Dec. 31, according to the filing. New York- based Soros Fund Management reported no holdings of Time Warner during the third quarter.
``It certainly gives the appearance of smart money moving into the cable group,'' said Laura Martin, an analyst with Soleil Securities in Pasadena, California, who doesn't own shares of either company.
Buffett and Soros, who both turn 75 in August, were ranked second and 24th, respectively, on Forbes magazine's 2004 list of the richest Americans. The two investors bought their shares after Philadelphia-based Comcast and Time Warner, based in New York, fell to their lowest prices for 2004 in August.
Michael Vachon, a spokesman for Soros, didn't immediately return a phone message left after business hours at his office. Marc Hamburg, chief financial officer of Berkshire Hathaway, declined to comment.
August Lows
Cable shares fell amid heightened competition from satellite- TV companies. The cable industry isn't gaining subscribers as quickly as companies such as DirecTV Group Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp.
``The whole cable sector has been pretty well beat up,'' said Ron Rizzuto, a professor of finance at the University of Denver. ``Now people are starting to see the long-term value of the stock.''
Comcast Class A shares reached a 2004 low of $26.25 on Aug. 16. The stock closed at $31.31 yesterday, down 22 cents in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. Time Warner fell to $15.41 on Aug. 12, its lowest price last year. The stock fell 15 cents to $17.85 yesterday.
The shares have risen since August as Comcast and Time Warner Cable boosted profit by convincing customers to switch to higher-priced digital television packages that offer features including video-on-demand and digital video recorders.
Time Warner Cable's operating profit rose 11 percent to $887 million as revenue increased 10 percent to $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said Feb. 4. The company had 10.9 million basic subscribers at the end of December, about unchanged from the end of 2003.
Buffett
Comcast increased profit 10 percent to $423 million last quarter by selling more fast Internet access.
Comcast spokesman Tim Fitzpatrick declined to give immediate comment. Time Warner spokeswoman Mia Carbonell didn't immediately return a phone call to her office and an e-mail placed after business hours.
For the 12 months ended in June, the satellite companies boosted subscriber counts by 14 percent while cable companies' numbers were little changed.
Buffett purchased Berkshire's first 5 million shares of Comcast on April 30, two days after the cable company dropped a $54.1 billion bid for Walt Disney Co.
Berkshire, based in Omaha, Nebraska, yesterday also disclosed it no longer had a stake in HCA Inc., the largest U.S. hospital chain, after reporting 13.5 million shares in its third- quarter filing.
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Berkshire acquired 375,500 shares of Dean Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. milk processor, and increased its holding in retailer Gap Inc. The company reduced its stakes in sporting goods maker Nike Inc. and Iron Mountain Inc., the largest seller of records-management services.
Yesterday, Soros Fund Management said the firm sold its stakes in Anheuser-Busch Cos. and Baxter International Inc. and bought shares of Altria Group Inc., Applied Micro Circuits Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and DuPont Co., according to the company's filing.
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One of the Nazis who met Haj Amin el-Husseini in the years of Nazi triumphs was one Francois Genoud, an early admirer of Hitler and a founder and militant of the pre-war Swiss Nazi party, the National Front. He met
Husseini in 1936 in the Middle East and once again in Berlin in 1943, while he was an agent of the Abwehr (German intelligence agency) and while Husseini, the British-appointed Mufti of Jerusalem, was urging on the
Holocaust and recruiting Arabs and other Muslims into the Nazi service.
Genoud met him several times in Beirut after the war, until the Mufti died in 1974.
Meanwhile, unrepentant, veteran Nazi Genoud got a management position with
the Red Cross in Brussels4 and later (1958) opened a bank in
Geneva called the Banque Commerciale Arabe (backed by Syrian funds).
Through his connections in Cairo, a post-war sanctuary for sundry Nazi war
criminals, he met leaders of the Algerian FLN and was later invited to run a
bank in newly independent Algeria, the Banque Populaire Arabe. In another role,
he participated in organizing and/or financing the defense of Eichmann in
Israel, of Klaus Barbie in France, and of PLO terrorists in Europe. He counted
among his friends Wadi Haddad and Ali Hassan Salameh, PLO master terrorists
who accomplished airliner hijackings and other high-profile terrorist acts.
Genoud claimed in recent years that what Hitler did "was
proper and in support of peace."5 Carlos met Genoud in the 1970s through
mutual friends in the Habash gang, known as the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. This was a Marxist faction of the PLO, which Habash
built out of a pan-Arab outfit he led called the Arab Nationalist Movement.
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What do these clients have in common with their lawyer? The same characteristics as another Verges associate, the ex-Nazi, now Islamist sympathizer Francois Genoud—who, as owner of the Arab Commercial Bank in Switzerland, was the apparent paymaster in the Barbie and some Palestinian terrorist cases. They are ideologues and defenders (Garaudy), practitioners (Milosevic, Barbie, Saddam) or would-be practitioners (Bouhired, Kelkal).of mass murder or genocide. Their ideology is totalitarian at its core, and they share yet another common trait of 20th century European totalitarianism and present Islamism–hatred of Jews and Israel.
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Soros Funded Stewart Defense
Preston, David Lee. "Hitler's Swiss connection". Philadelphia Inquirer(January 5, 1997).
Note: One month after Swiss banking officials and Jewish leaders announced an agreement to set up an independent commission, chaired by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker, to search for the whereabouts of funds deposited in Switzerland by Holocaust victims, a Swiss citizen named Francois Genoud committed suicide. Author David Lee Preston suggests that Genoud's suicide may be linked to the new commission as well as to Senator D'Amato's investigations for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and class action lawsuits against Swiss banks filed by Holocaust survivors and victims' heirs. Genoud, a Nazi enthusiast and friend of Hitler's, worked with Swiss and German intelligence during WWII; he was then active in setting up the ODESSA network for the transfer of money from Germany and the evacuation of key Nazi leaders at the end of the war. Postwar, Genoud used his wartime contacts to become an advisor to Arab causes and anti-Israel activities.
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Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros
This site is a "Guide to the Political Left.
From David Horowitz's Blog.....
Eleven days into the new website www.discoverthenetwork.org we've had 11 million hits 3 million page views and 264,000 visitors in 50 countries. We had people go up to the site in Thailand, Taiwan, Portugal, Malayasia, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Turkey, Poland, Slovenia, India and many countries in Western Europe. We had 14,000 websites refer us to their traffickers. Neil Boortz's website in Atlanta was number one in terms of referrals. It looks like we've been noticed by 25,600 sites on the web. Thanks to all of you.
The not so independent media ANEM Radio and Television Stations
New Challenges for Yugoslavian Online Media After Milosevic's Fall Online Journalism Review Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California 10-17-00
The Radical Left's "Cyber-Grapevine"
Arab Media Internet Network - (AMIN) AMIN stands for Arabic Media Internet Network, but its acronym also means "faithful" in Arabic. AMIN received startup funding from the Open Society Institute and is currently staffed on a volunteer basis.
The Independent Media Institute
AlterNet.org About AlterNet Search AlterNet Syndication Service Alternet User Survey Results - January 2002
A general support grant to Wiretap, an online youth magazine of Alternet.org. (OSI)
Disinformation note logo
Economics & Society: Critiques of Neo-liberal Economics Soros begins Indymedia
Independent Media Center (Indymedia)
George Soros Funds Report News Corp, Time Warner Stakes Dow Jones FR 2-16-05
MECKLERMEDIA SELECTS EARTHLINK NETWORK FOR ISDEX, THE INTERNET STOCK INDEX 1997
New E-Commerce Incubator Has $130 Million NY Times 1999
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'Schindler's List' Co-Producer Sentenced
Soros bump
You had such a great FR Nick, I just had to ping you here to add your nick to the thread :)
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Soros Backed Group Plans $30 Million on Defeating Blackwell, 2006 Races
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Annan Staffer Defends Soros Role in U.N. Housing Fuss
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Annan Staffer Defends Soros Role in U.N. Housing Fuss
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Left Seeks More Media Control
By Roger Aronoff | September 1, 2005
What in fact they can't stand is that the left no longer has a near-monopoly on the flow of information to the public.
The left is preparing to up the ante in what they see as their bid to take control of Congress and the White House. They announced their plans in a Washington Post story on August 7, describing how at least 80 wealthy Democratic Party supporters each pledged to put up at least $200,000 a year for five years, with an overall goal of raising $200 million dollars to invest in "a network of think tanks and advocacy groups."
This follows the intervention of billionaire George Soros in the 2004 presidential election, using a loophole in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law which was supposed to keep the evil influence of money out of politics.
The seeds were planted last April in Scottsdale, Arizona, when Soros, who spent $23 million of his own money trying to defeat George Bush, assembled a gathering of 70 liberal millionaires and billionaires to plan what amounts to a political takeover of the U.S. government. In order to reach this goal, conservative voices, especially in the media, must be silenced.
Ironically, the Post says the group is called the Democracy Alliance. The paper reports the Alliance is the "brainchild of longtime Democratic strategist Rob Stein, who spent years studying conservative groups-in particular their success in sustaining GOP politicians and achieving many of their policy goals." He is working with Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, who said that liberals and Democrats now face a conservative "information age Tammany Hall, a 21st century political machine, that is simply better than what we have on our side."
What in fact they can't stand is that the left no longer has a near-monopoly on the flow of information to the public.
One aspect of the strategy involves using media "watchdog" groups like David Brock's Media Matters for America and various liberal and left-wing blogs. Their side demonstrated its strategy and tactics during last year's campaign when it protested Sinclair Broadcasting's plan to air a documentary viewed by the left as scurrilous and full of lies about John Kerry. The film simply recounted the testimony of former U.S. POWs during the Vietnam War who said that Kerry's Senate testimony accusing American soldiers of war crimes was used to torture them. The Sinclair network, which is in fact a station group and not a network, has as its largest market, Minneapolis-St. Paul, the 14th largest market in the country, and reaches a total of 24 percent of the country. But the intimidation campaign forced Sinclair to only air a few minutes of the Kerry documentary.
Another one of their targets is Fox News Channel, which averages about two-million viewers for each of its prime-time shows, and has lately been preoccupied with tabloid TV topics such as the Holloway case.
It's important to see through the left's rhetoric. The left is making the argument that the mainstream media are lapdogs for the Bush administration and its corporate masters. But they utilize media properties such as the Sundance Channel, which endlessly ran and reran the TV version of the Al Franken Bush-bashing radio show from the scandal-plagued Air America radio network, and on the last night before the election ran back-to-back-to-back anti-Bush "documentaries." As soon as the election was over, it stopped carrying Franken's show, though it's now back with its multiple reruns every night. Sundance Channel is partly owned by Viacom, which also owns CBS.
Other "corporate media" such as NBC's Law and Order program sometimes carry story lines designed to show the Republicans and the Bush administration in a negative light. And Bill Maher, the comedian/political commentator, spews his Bush hatred weekly on HBO, a division of Time Warner. Plus, the left has Hollywood at its disposal. But that's not enough. They want it all. They intend to drown out any and all dissenting voices. And they've got the millions-no, the billions-that could make it possible.
Soros speculates in world financial markets through his secret offshore company, Quantum Fund N.V., a wholly private investment fund 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."
(Supposedly no Americans of birth, I might add, are in this fund. I always wondered about Teresa F. Heinz -who has dropped the Kerry- as Soros in 1999, through his Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $393,000, to the Tides Foundation). ... 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.
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Examples: George Soros owns: [Includes] HALLIBURTON CO 252,500 SH (Iraq) LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES 5,229,200 SH (Iraq) Arel Communications and Software Ltd (Iraq)
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Buying Fox News
Thanks for the ping Calpernia.
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