Wonder what Soros is up to now - just purchased over $3 million worth of shares in the New York Times???
Are his motives to "turn up the heat" on Trump - to push him out of Office?
14.06.2018 - Empire Expansion: George Soros Buys Shares in New York Times Newspaper
Empire Expansion: George Soros Buys Shares in New York Times Newspaper
Billionaire globalist George Soros has often been accused of attempting to meddle in the internal affairs, including elections and other democratic processes, of sovereign nations to suit his own political agenda.
Soros’ investment firm, Soros Fund Management LLC, has purchased over $3 million worth of shares in the New York Times, according to recent filings to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center, described the move as a “big step” up from his previous endeavors in journalism and the media.
"Soros has long had influence or given direct funding to a wide range of journalism operations from NPR to ProPublica. This is still a big step to be buying a $3-million stake in the top liberal outlet in America,” he said in an interview.
In 2011, research by Mr. Gainor revealed that
Soros had invested at least $48 million in “investigative journalism” and other ventures in the media industry.
George Soros also provides funding to various pro-
EU and pro-migration groups via the Open Society Foundation, which he owns. Recent donations include a package of millions of dollars to the anti-Brexit Best for Britain group, to fund its campaign to launch a second referendum to keep the UK in the union.
In addition to giving money to campaigning groups and purchasing shares in media outlets to gain influence, Soros has been accused of attempting to directly meddle in
Hungary’s parliamentary elections earlier this year.
A Hungarian official claimed he had hired 2,000 people to do so and called on the electorate to resist Soros’ attempts to make Hungary a “migrant country.”
The government is pushing forward with the so-called “Stop Soros Act” to prevent his pro-migrant organizations from operating in the country.
13.06.2018 - Analyst Explains Why Time is Running Out for Soros
Analyst Explains Why Time is Running Out for Soros
US billionaire George Soros may soon lose his veneer of being more powerful than any national politician, according to Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel. Speaking to Sputnik, Ortel explains Soros' "unregulated globalism" and what's behind the magnate's fear of US President Donald Trump.
Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros is fretting and fuming over the recent changes in the global political landscape. However, it appears that time is running out for "the man who broke the Bank of England."
Speaking to Sputnik, Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel noted that Soros "began operating hedge funds well before promoting unregulated globalism in the 1988 to present period."
Indeed, the investor kicked off his first hedge fund in 1969, which in 1973 formed the basis for the Soros Fund. The would-be billionaire was rather successful, which apparently made him claim in his 1987 book "The Alchemy of Finance" that sometimes he had seen himself as "some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes, or, even better, like Einstein."
"European by birth, I suspect Soros fancies himself as a global citizen, rather than limiting himself to the (mere) US-EU plane of operations," Ortel opined. "What I believe happened since 1988 is that Soros and other proponents of unregulated (or lightly regulated) globalism have, in effect, waged a 'Thirty Years War' against workers across the world, while promoting sweet-sounding projects and causes that offer potential to score riches, either building out new global businesses, or profiting from adversity."
Thus, the dawn of an "unregulated" globalism coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the presidency of Bill Clinton (1993 — 2001).
According to the Wall Street analyst, the problem is that "so far, no global regulator (tax, legal, or otherwise) has emerged that can realistically police the activities of globalists, and few national regulators have the wherewithal to investigate and then prosecute complex transnational financial crimes."
"Until things change, wealthy globalists will easily tempt and even control national politicians, even (and especially) those in nations that have large economies or growth potential," Ortel warned.
Soros 'Harping' Against Conservatives Everywhere - The Wall Street analyst pointed out that "one of the pet peeves of George Soros is rising 'inequality,' while another practice is to harp against the US, and against economic conservatives everywhere."
That could be easily seen from the billionaire's latest statements, in which he subjected to harsh criticism all European right-wing conservative parties and accused US President Trump of "effectively destroy[ing] the transatlantic alliance."
For their part, conservative governments and movements in various countries, including Hungary, Poland, Italy and Israel, have repeatedly lambasted the billionaire for meddling in their domestic affairs through the network of his numerous NGOs and affiliated groups.
"[Soros'] approach, to date, has had a welcoming audience in the corporate media, in academia, in political parties such as the Democratic Party in the US (but also elsewhere), and with union leaders," Ortel remarked.
What Soros may miss is "the fact that technology, including social media, has reduced the relevance of all political parties, and now threatens, at last, to disrupt traditional governance practices," the investigative journalist highlighted.
According to Ortel, "the massive and expensive government bureaucracies stand out as places that must be reformed for many reasons."
Soros May Learn Soon That It's Unwise to Underestimate Trump - As for the US, "supporting Barack Obama, George Soros came very close to fundamentally weakening the rights of individuals, while almost cementing a perpetual Democratic majority," the analyst pointed out.
"Obamacare increased the vulnerabilities of all to [the] malign influence of a partisan health care 'super-bureaucracy.' Had Hillary Clinton won, Americans' gun-ownership rights likely may have been curtailed. And, Obama's reckless deficit-spending, borrowing, and campaigns against business-owners seriously eroded the relative standing of our economy (and nation)," he presumed.
It seems that Trump's rise to power might have eroded Soros' influence, which the latter enjoyed under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The billionaire's recent gloomy prognoses are increasingly ridiculed not only by right-wing politicians, but also financiers.
Meanwhile, Soros' attempt to cast a shadow on newly-appointed Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's victory in Italy has not brought about a desirable effect either.
As Italian journalist Daniele Pozzati noted in
an interview with Sputnik, "virtually nobody in Italy" took the magnate's assumption that Salvini could have been funded by Moscow seriously.
"Soros' allegations sound like a broken record," Pozzati noted. "They are frankly boring."
At the same time, according to Ortel, the investor is seemingly losing his wits, too.
"Supporting Hillary Clinton so aggressively and leading the 'Resistance' against Donald Trump suggests that George Soros now is much less shrewd than he once may have been," the analyst remarked.
Recently, Soros has gone even farther by naming Trump an "ultimate narcissist" and claiming that the latter is going to "destroy the world."
However, it appears that Soros' concerns are justified, as Trump is really determined to destroy the magnate-advocated "world order," according to the analyst.
Donald Trump saw these problems, and has attracted a highly competent team to attempt redressing malaise under Obama, while reversing, to date, some of the negative consequences of unregulated globalism," Ortel said. "So, given the vast financial and logistical support Soros provided to Obama, to the Clintons, and to other globalists, he should fear what the Trump administration is already doing, and what President Trump and his team likely will do in future."
Once fancied being omnipotent and even "divine," Soros is apparently facing what is called "the Twilight of the Gods."
Perhaps Soros believes he is more powerful than any national politician," Ortel noted. "Soon, he may learn that [it] is unwise to underestimate President Donald J. Trump and forgotten men and women around the world who hardly believe they are 'deplorable' for cherishing what makes America, and many other nations, great in a variety of distinctive ways."
11.06.2018 - 'Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong' ... for Soros
'Everything That Could Go Wrong Has Gone Wrong'… for Soros
It seems that everything has gone wrong for US billionaire and investor George Soros: Donald Trump continues to govern in the Oval Office, while right-wing Eurosceptic parties are gaining ground across Europe. In one of his latest interviews, the magnate vowed to "redouble" his efforts to confront the threats.
George Soros, a Hungarian-American investor and magnate lashed out at US President Donald Trump in a recent interview with The Washington Post.
"I have built a kind of a mental picture of him [Trump], as the ultimate narcissist," the billionaire said. "I don't think that he was at all prepared to win the election."
When asked what he felt during the election night of November 9, 2016, Soros admitted that he was "surprised," adding that although Hillary Clinton was not a good campaigner, she "would make a very good president."
"There is a real danger that we are going to destroy ourselves and our civilization. And that's the real thing that I'm really afraid of and with Trump we have come very close to it, because as a narcissist he's perfectly willing to destroy the world in order to maintain his narcissism," Soros said, pledging to "redouble" his efforts to "confront" the "threat."
"When George #Soros thinks things are going wrong, things are assuredly going right," a user who calls himself Lost Owl noted.
"Billionaire and liberal donor George Soros blasts Trump's presidency. Blasts Trump for thinking he is all powerful. That's rich, coming from a man who once opined he feels like God," a user named Joe Bastardi wrote, referring to the billionaire's remark "I fancied myself as some kind of god" in his book The Alchemy of Finance, published in 1987.
Soros' pessimism regarding the outcome of the 2016 presidential election is quite understandable: The magnate placed his bets on Hillary Clinton and lost.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) non-profit, a nonpartisan research group, the billionaire reportedly provided Clinton's campaign with $10.5 million. In addition, he "lost nearly $1 billion as a result of the stock-market rally spurred by Donald Trump's surprise presidential election," The Wall Street Journal
reported on January 13, 2017.
It is believed that Soros was behind a series of mass protests which erupted after Trump's victory. It was documented that some Soros-linked organizations were involved in demonstrations against the US president's "anti-migration" executive order in 2017.
As Kenneth P. Vogel of Politico warned on November 14, 2016, the billionaire and "other rich liberals" kicked off "full-on trench warfare against Trump from Day One."
In Soros' eyes, "everything that could go wrong has gone wrong": Before accusing Donald Trump of being willing to destroy the world, the investor
criticized the EU for unbalanced austerity policies, the rise of right-wing parties and an apparent failure to cope with the refugee crisis.
Soros' prognosis for the EU was similarly gloomy: According to the magnate, the European block is heading to yet another financial crisis at full throttle.
While speaking at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Paris on May 29, 2018, the investor pinned the blame on Germany's right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD),
Italy's Five Star Movement party and Lega Nord Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban and, above all, US President Donald Trump, who did nothing short of "effectively destroy[ing] the transatlantic alliance."
However, Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman immediately rejected Soros' claim, calling it "ridiculous": "I don't think we [the EU] are facing an existential threat at all," Gorman told Bloomberg Television in Beijing on May 31.
Likewise, Soros' open discontent with the win of Italy's coalition consisting of the Five Star Movement Party and Lega Nord was ridiculed by Lega's chief economist Claudio Borghi, who
noted: "Soros worried by the Italian government? Then it means that we are going in the right direction…"
For his part, Italy's new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini lambasted the billionaire for the latter's hint that he, Salvini, could have been "funded" by Moscow: "I have never received a lira, a euro or a ruble from Russia… I consider Putin one of the best statesmen (in the world) and I consider it shameful that a speculator without scruples like Soros was invited to talk in Italy."
The billionaire has repeatedly been subjected to criticism from Hungary, Poland and Israel. It appears that things have definitely gone wrong — not for the world, but for George Soros, "the man who broke the Bank of England" in 1992 and fancied of being "some kind of god."
