George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Tiberius Comments: 10320, member since Tue Feb 11, 2003
On Tue Jan 24, 2012 05:46 PM
I'm suprised this hasn't been posted before. Soros has issued the marching orders to his Astroturf armies....this summer is going to be quite 'interesting'.
'The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've experienced in my career.'
by John Arlidge | January 23, 2012 12:00 AM EST
You know George Soros. He’s the investor’s investor—the man who still holds the record for making more money in a single day’s trading than anyone. He pocketed $1 billion betting against the British pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, when sterling lost 20 percent of its value in less than 24 hours and crashed out of the European exchange-rate mechanism. No wonder Brits call him, with a mix of awe and annoyance, “the man who broke the Bank of England.”
Soros doesn’t make small bets on anything. Beyond the markets, he has plowed billions of dollars of his own money into promoting political freedom in Eastern Europe and other causes. He bet against the Bush White House, becoming a hate magnet for the right that persists to this day. So, as Soros and the world’s movers once again converge on Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum this week, what is one of the world’s highest-stakes economic gamblers betting on now?
He’s not. For the first time in his 60-year career, Soros, now 81, admits he is not sure what to do. “It’s very hard to know how you can be right, given the damage that was done during the boom years,” Soros says. He won’t discuss his portfolio, lest anyone think he’s talking things down to make a buck. But people who know him well say he advocates making long-term stock picks with solid companies, avoiding gold—“the ultimate bubble”—and, mainly, holding cash.
He’s not even doing the one thing that you would expect from a man who knows a crippled currency when he sees one: shorting the euro, and perhaps even the U.S. dollar, to hell. Quite the reverse. He backs the beleaguered euro, publicly urging European leaders to do whatever it takes to ensure its survival. “The euro must survive because the alternative—a breakup—would cause a meltdown that Europe, the world, can’t afford.” He has bought about $2 billion in European bonds, mainly Italian, from MF Global Holdings Ltd., the securities firm run by former Goldman Sachs head Jon Corzine that filed for bankruptcy protection last October.
Has the great short seller gone soft? Well, yes. Sitting in his 33rd-floor corner office high above Seventh Avenue in New York, preparing for his trip to Davos, he is more concerned with surviving than staying rich. “At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” he says, peering through his owlish glasses and brushing wisps of gray hair off his forehead. He doesn’t just mean it’s time to protect your assets. He means it’s time to stave off disaster. As he sees it, the world faces one of the most dangerous periods of modern history—a period of “evil.” Europe is confronting a descent into chaos and conflict. In America he predicts riots on the streets that will lead to a brutal clampdown that will dramatically curtail civil liberties.
14 Replies to George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War
re: George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War (karma: 5)en>frfr>en By jukinj3 Comments: 15061, member since Tue Apr 08, 2003
On Tue Jan 24, 2012 05:51 PM
That's why I regularly buy ammo.
Look it won't be the lily white OWemeS that riot it will be the negros in the urban centers that do when Heussein is not only not reelected but goes down in a landslide. They will loot and destroy their own neighborhoods and be felled at 500 yards when they come our way. This will be the final gift to the USA from an Alinsky affirmative action historic black president.
Last question, how much stuff will they steal before they leave the white house?
re: George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Tiberius Comments: 10320, member since Tue Feb 11, 2003
On Tue Jan 24, 2012 05:58 PM
I'm sure there will be plenty of flash-mobbing, but he's got plans for the Fleabaggers....my guess he plans on creating a artificial '68 with the Flea-Baggers he has on the payroll in the hopes they'll provoke a reaction Barry can use to go after "Right Wing Extremists".
Occupy Wall Street “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest,” but it will grow. It has “put on the agenda issues that the institutional left has failed to put on the agenda for a quarter of a century.” He reaches for analysis, produced by the political blog ThinkProgress.org, that shows how the Occupy movement has pushed issues of unemployment up the agenda of major news organizations, including MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News. It reveals that in one week in July of last year the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000 times on major U.S. TV news networks. By October, mentions of the word “debt” had dropped to 398 over the course of a week, while “occupy” was mentioned 1,278 times, “Wall Street” 2,378 times, and “jobs” 2,738 times. You can’t keep a financier away from his metrics.
As anger rises, riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable. “Yes, yes, yes,” he says, almost gleefully. The response to the unrest could be more damaging than the violence itself. “It will be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”
Last question, how much stuff will they steal before they leave the white house?
Ya gotta ask if the U.S. gov kills anyone in "RIOTS" if it will be seen as the same type of conduct as Ghadaffi, Assad, Pinochet, Mubarak and others...
Will there be repercussions?
Good luck back there.
P.S.
I would guess that HEAVILY subsidised bread would satisfy many of the appitites of families before rioting begins this year.
re: George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War (karma: 4)en>frfr>en By OldLyme Comments: 35746, member since Fri Jun 04, 2004
On Tue Jan 24, 2012 07:34 PM
Here is a OWS Dude. He's the guy on the street with the nose rings, the dreadlocks and the lice. He's the guy in Starbucks making coffee because it's the only job he can get with his degree in Art History. He doesn't always have money for rent or food but he always has money for weed. He rents a dingy studio apartment with a window on the sidewalk level. Bums sleep on his steps and pee on his sidewalk window. He doesn't seem to care. He doesn't even notice the smell. He's the guy that rides a bicycle everywhere he goes because he can't afford a car. He has to keep replacing the bicycle because people like him keep stealing it. He has no mechanical skills. He has no administrative skills. He has no trade. He is a vegan, too weak from malnutrition to work at any kind of physical labor job; not that he would take one anyway as that kind of work is beneath him. He despises the military and law enforcement. He has an upside down American flag taped to his sidewalk window... right next to his marijuana flag. He hangs out with other leftwing losers who blame their innumerable failures in life on people they've never met and know nothing about. He's always borrowing money from someone but never pays them back. He gives them some weed instead. He's never contributed time or money to any civic project yet he constantly criticizes his community. He fully immerses himself in anything leftwing. The more these leftwing organizations bash America, the more rabid he becomes. Despite his leftist fervor, he is always on the outside looking in. He's a loser and even the leftwing losers that tolerate him think he's a loser. He's never been able to become part of their leftist clique, no matter how much he bashes America. When he gets old and is unable to support himself he will turn to welfare. He is a parasite. When his life is over he will have contributed nothing but hatred and bigotry to the world. He will be buried in a state owned lot at the taxpayers expense. Maybe one or two of his dealers or customers will stop by for the funeral service. So long OWS bum.
Ya gotta ask if the U.S. gov kills anyone in "RIOTS" if it will be seen as the same type of conduct as Ghadaffi, Assad, Pinochet, Mubarak and others...
"gentlemen get things straight. the policemen isn't there to create disorder. the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
re: George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class Waren>frfr>en By PopsFrost Comments: 10101, member since Mon Jan 21, 2008
On Wed Jan 25, 2012 05:44 AM
Tiberius wrote:
Occupy Wall Street “is an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest
That's one of the biggest lies. I was receiving emails from "Rebuild the American Dream", a Van Jones organization, months before the protests started. It is supposed to appear as a grass roots response that dwarfs the tea party. Of course it doesn't, but it's not presented that way by the media.
You'd be amazed at how thin the veneer of 'civilization' is.
If Obozo goes quietly I will chalk it up as a miracle to the Framers.
1. I`m guessing everyone at this site knows how thin their own veneer of civilisation can be when rubbed up the wrong way at the wrong time.
2. When Obongo goes there will be black suicides across the states.
I'm in.
