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Guest
02-19-2009, 09:16 AM
.... and who is this Soros character?

http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/02/12/who_attacked_our_economy_why_does_no_one_care?page =full&comments=true

Guest
02-19-2009, 09:31 AM
I heard this on Rush's show, last week. I haven't seen or heard anything about it in the main street media. I don't expect to either. Wasn't it convienent that the economy collapsed right before the election. Soro's is Hungarian. He was involved in manipulating Britain's economy, some years ago. He is believed to be behind moveon.org and other far left groups. Needless to say he is worth megabucks.

Guest
02-19-2009, 09:59 AM
I heard this on Rush's show, last week. I haven't seen or heard anything about it in the main street media. I don't expect to either. Wasn't it convienent that the economy collapsed right before the election. Soro's is Hungarian. He was involved in manipulating Britain's economy, some years ago. He is believed to be behind moveon.org and other far left groups. Needless to say he is worth megabucks.


I honestly try very hard not to get involved with conspiracy theories..you know, how Bush manipulated the computers in Florida and such.....thus I am prone to question all of this, HOWEVER......it is possible and the facts as presented are such that they demand an answer, but then again our main stream media is...well :)

Which reminds me...and on the conspiracy issues....anyone read how many JOURNALISTS who covered Obama are being hired by Obama ? Many...more than you would call "normal" !!!!

Came back to edit because sometimes folks think that items are made up....link below on the journalists being hired by Obama..and again..by itself it means nothing...just interesting !

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/yet-another-jou.html

Guest
02-19-2009, 10:51 AM
.... and who is this Soros character?

http://townhall.com/columnists/DianaWest/2009/02/12/who_attacked_our_economy_why_does_no_one_care?page =full&comments=true

RSHOFFER.....below is another link on this story a few days later. Maybe it is getting "legs"

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/williams/090216

And found this one also

http://www.forexhound.com/article.cfm?articleID=125182

Guest
02-19-2009, 01:07 PM
Soros is a fantastically successful financial speculator. He owns and runs a family of hedge funds for either extremely wealthy individuals or professional financial firms. Over the years he has expressed strongly-held and well thought-out opinions on a variety of subjects. As one of the wealthiest men in the world (estimated net worth of $11 billion, #28 on the Forbes 400) he has been an extremely generous philanthropist.

Soros was never active politically until about 2002, two years into George Bush's first term. In that election campaign he personally contributed over $24 million dollars to hundreds of Democratic organizations. In an interview with The Washington Post on November 11, 2003, Soros said that removing President George W. Bush from office was the "central focus of my life" and "a matter of life and death." He said he would sacrifice his entire fortune to defeat President Bush." While unsuccessful in the 2004 election, he was also a major contributor to candidate Barack Obama in the recent election.

While Soros is a major speculator thru his hedge funds and would be capable of "moving markets", the idea that he could be involved in a run on the U.S. Treasury doesn't make much sense to me. Any collapse of the U.S. economy would have major negative effects on his hedge funds and on Soros' investors. I wouldn't deny that Soros might manipulate narrow segments of the financial markets for his own benefit, although not illegally. But I can't imagine that he would take any action that would cause long-term damage to the U.S. economy and financial markets, where he has been so successful for such a long time.

Trying to figure out how a run on the Treasury might have an effect on the Presidential election campaign leaves me at a loss as to how that would effect either candidate, other than negatively. That doesn't alter the fact that some foreign governments might have gotten together to accomplish some unscrupulous objective. But even then, other than an act of "financial terrorism" -- it was only a couple of days after the anniversary of 9/11 -- I can't surmise a reason.

Guest
02-19-2009, 04:31 PM
I think I would side with VK on his thoughts on this one. Dont see this as a scheme to get a person elected or anything to do with the campaign.
I can see this as Tom Clancy thriller in the make. This would make a good movie, to have someone muster up a move like that. To me there would have to be alot more personnel involved to make a move like that.
Then again stanger things have happened. If Soros did make this happen, please put some back in now, he is president. SO make him look good and put the money back, NOW!!