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    "I don't think you hear me. I don't think you understand. Glenn Beck is hurting Mr. Soros and his business,"  was the message delivered to Beck via a front man for George Soros.Though certainly a silkier  warning compared to crudeness of Mexican drug cartels with their  fondness for  special delivery of a human head delivered in a suitcase, in George Soros' world, the inference is equally chilling.If Glenn Beck was frightened, troubled or disturbed by the ominous message, it didn't show.  Beck used the warning, told as a personal story,as a mere post script to his first segment...

(Reuters) - G20 officials are unlikely to reach an accord rejecting currency devaluations and capping current account balances, an informed source said on Thursday, after U.S. proposals ran into stiff opposition. The swift rebuff of a U.S. call for numerical targets for "sustainable" trade surpluses and deficits underscored difficulties facing Group of 20 finance ministers gathering in South Korea to try to defuse tensions over currencies and economic imbalances. The G20 source, who has direct knowledge of deliberations at the meeting, said the proposals had not found favor with India, China and other emerging economies, or even the likes of...

FOR 25 years, while Zimbabwe sank into its present mess, the true nature of Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party was ignored. Gross human rights abuses in the party began even before Independence in 1980, and since then Zanu PF has used the rhetoric of socialism and black empowerment to gain control, for the party, of the entire economy. The aim is simple - to make it impossible for an independent-minded person to hold any job from street sweeper to chief justice. It was not until 1998 that the Western diplomatic world was forced to face the fact that, in Zanu...