Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (366802)	1/14/2008 7:09:56 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571762

The enemy of their enemy is their friend. Osama wasn't that bad of guy according to osama mama. John is so independent, he'll support the left wing code pinks running his democrat party. Soros is only a means, just like the PRC. It's "only" money right?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (366802)	1/14/2008 11:41:41 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571762

George Soros is a great man who uses his fortune to support freedom all around the globe. Read and learn: en.wikipedia.org "Philanthropy Soros has been active as a philanthropist since the 1970s, when he began providing funds to help black students attend the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa, and began funding dissident movements behind the iron curtain. Soros' philanthropic funding in Central and Eastern Europe mostly occurs through the Open Society Institute (OSI) and national Soros Foundations, which sometimes go under other names, e.g., the Stefan Batory Foundation in Poland. As of 2003, PBS[16] estimated that he had given away a total of $4 billion. He has promoted non-violent efforts to increase democracy in many countries. The OSI says it has spent about $400 million annually in recent years. TIME Magazine in 2007 cited two specific projects - $100 million toward internet infrastructure for regional Russian universities; and $50 million for the Millennium Promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Africa - while noting that Soros has given $742 million to projects in the U.S., and given away a total of more than $6 billion.[17] Other notable projects have included aid to scientists and universities throughout Central and Eastern Europe, help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, worldwide efforts to repeal drug prohibition laws, and Transparency International. Soros also pledged an endowment of €420 million to the Central European University (CEU). The Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance bank Grameen Bank received support from the OSI. According to the National Review[18] the Open Society Institute gave $20,000 in September 2002 to the Defense Committee of Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who has defended alleged terrorists in court and was sentenced to 2? years in prison for "providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy" via a press conference for a client. An OSI spokeswoman said "it appeared to us at that time that there was a right-to-counsel issue worthy of our support." In September 2006, Soros departed from his characteristic sponsorship of democracy building programs, pledging $50 million to the Jeffrey Sachs-led Millennium Promise to help eradicate extreme poverty in Africa. Noting the connection between bad governance and poverty, he remarked on the humanitarian value of the project.[19] He received honorary doctoral degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York), the University of Oxford in 1980, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University in 1991. Soros also received the Yale International Center for Finance Award from the Yale School of Management in 2000 as well as the Laurea Honoris Causa, the highest honor of the University of Bologna in 1995."

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (366802)	1/14/2008 12:33:49 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571762

>Steve, seems like liberals these days are afraid to defend or associate themselves with Soros. They won't even admit accepting his donations when it comes to "scientific studies." You don't get that we don't really care about him? He's rich, but he's just one guy. How often do we bring up, say, Scaife? >Heck, even the liberals on this thread try to change the subject when I bring up Soros. What is it exactly you want us to say about him? -Z