Any news from George Soros lately? Has he done anything specifically to

[patricia92243]

help the democrat party or any of the election -either presidentail or any other political races

[GURUving]

1. Found this recent article

not specifically related, but......

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/12/soros.htm

[pacifictiger]

2. thank you for posting.

I always enjoy reading what he say to say. Thank goodness there are some people with common sense willing to put their resources to good use, instead of just selfishness.

[jab105]

4. great article...

this is a summation of a stock market bubble applies so well to the US now, just hope the proverbial bubble bursts before November...

Exactly when the boom-bust process enters far-from-equilibrium territory can be established only in retrospect. During the self-reinforcing phase participants are under the spell of the prevailing bias. Events seem to confirm their beliefs, strengthening their misconceptions. This widens the gap and sets the stage for a moment of truth and an eventual reversal. When that reversal comes, it is liable to have devastating consequences. This course of events seems to have an inexorable quality, but a boom-bust process can be aborted at any stage, and the adverse effects can be reduced or avoided altogether. Few bubbles reach the extremes of the information-technology boom that ended in 2000. The sooner the process is aborted, the better.

The quest for American supremacy qualifies as a bubble. The dominant position the United States occupies in the world is the element of reality that is being distorted. The proposition that the United States will be better off if it uses its position to impose its values and interests everywhere is the misconception. It is exactly by not abusing its power that America attained its current position.

[jab105]

5. great article...

oops, double post...

[LifeDuringWartime]

3. he's probably laying low

and staying away from small airplanes

[IkeWarnedUs]

6. Here is some news about George Soros

This is from the 12/03 Atlantic Monthly. I love how they spin the good work Soros is doing to combat the FCC ownership rules (or lack thereof). They call the 4 groups Soros has given money to as the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" who are engaged in "anti-business crusades."

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Among his benficiaries in this case are four closely coordinated groups, the Media Access Project (MAP)($600,000 from 2000 to 2002), the Consumers Union ($90,000 in 2001-02), the Consumer Federation of America ($80,000 in 2000) and the Center for Media Education (which has morphed into the Center for Digital Democracy)($175,000 from 1999 to 2001).
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Moreover, the Four Horsemen fight not only to control the airwaves, the Journal reports that a few "also played roles in promoting the campaign finance laws that have given Mr. Soros and his cash such a big political advantage. Combine their funding with the $1.7 million that Mr. Soros gave the Center for Public Integrity, the $1.3 million he gave Public Campaign, the $300,000 to Democracy 21, the $625,000 to Common Cause, and the $275,000 to Public Citizen – and you can be forgiven for believing Mr. Soros got campaign finance passed all by himself."

All of these groups share Soros' view that public policy should be decided by self-appointed elites such as themselves. Their own political success gives the lie to their contention that somehow Big Media dominate our public policy debates. And with the new limits on what other Americans can donate to political campaigns, and even on when they can run TV advertising, the Soroses of the world will wield even more influence. Which is, of course, their point.

more (if you can stand it): http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/1/3/160210.shtml

[IkeWarnedUs]

7. What Soros is up to

Here is the link for the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Soros Foundations Network. Mr. Soros is the chairman of OSI and founder of a network of philanthropic organizations that are active in more than 50 countries. Working to overthrow Bush is only one of his passions. His M/O is to work on the root causes of a society's problems. After he made his fortune his first effort in the 1980's was to promote cultural projects in his homeland of Hungary. He did this because, as he said, "The struggle between different ideas is the stuff of democracy."

http://www.soros.org/