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Soros On Putin's "Blind Spot" And Why "Europe May Not Survive"
"Europe faces 25 years of Japan-style stagnation," warns George Soros in this brief Bloomberg TV interview, adding that without deeper integration, "it’s an incomplete association of nations and it may not survive." While claiming that the financial crisis may be over they now "face a political crisis," with the voluntary association cracking due to the creditors (Germany) being in charge. However, he hopes "Ukraine is a wake-up call to Europe, because Russia has emerged as a rival to the European Union." Putin, Soros worries, "has a very different idea of what a society should be like... he has a blind spot - he believes people can be manipulated and cannot resist." That's not the case according to Soros, who exclaims "people do believe in freedom."
George Soros on what is facing Europe today:
"What is facing Europe, unless there is a more radical change is a long period of stagnation. Nations can survive in that way. Japan is just trying to break-out of 25 years of stagnation, where Europe is just entering. The European Union is not a nation. It’s an incomplete association of nations and it may not survive 25 years of stagnation.
"The financial crisis as such is over. But now we are facing a political crisis, because the Euro crisis has transformed what was meant to be a voluntary association of equal sovereign states that sacrificed part of their sovereignty for the common good into something radically different. It is now a relationship between creditors and debtors, where the debtors have difficulty in paying and servicing their debt and that puts the creditors in charge. And that divides the Eurozone into two classes – the creditors and debtors. The creditors are in charge and unfortunately the policy that Germany in particular is imposing on Europe is counter-productive and is making the condition of the debtor countries worse and worse. So, right now Europe is already growing a little bit, the Eurozone, but that’s only because Germany is forging ahead and more than let’s say Italy and Spain are falling behind. "
On Central Banks and whether he cares about the weakness we saw in the data and deflation:
"That’s going to be a very tough year for the banks. They are under pressure, because they have to meet the stress test. The banks have an interest in passing the stress test rather than reviving credit to the economy, so the banks have a transmission mechanism for the people’s savings channeling it into the real economy. They are not fulfilling their function."
On Ukraine's impact on Europe:
"Ukraine is a wake-up call to Europe, because Russia has emerged as a rival to the European Union. Putin has tried to reconstitute the Russian empire as a rival for the European Union and has been very successful politically. Not terribly unsuccessful financially and economically, because the Russian economy is not doing well at all, but Putin has outplayed, outmaneuvered the European Union, because Europe it [inaudible] to form, it demanded too much and offered too little. So, it wasn’t difficult for Putin to output it. But the Ukrainian people stood up and demonstrated by actually sacrificing their lives. Their commitment to be part of Europe, so this is a challenge for Europe and Europe needs to rediscover its own European identity instead of each country just pursuing its national interests and getting further and further into conflict with the others. There are certain core principles and this is a political thing – democracy, open society, freedom that Europe has believed in and ought to actually stand up and be united."
"Putin has a very different idea of what a society should be like. He believes that people can be manipulated. He actually has got a blind spot. It’s beyond his comprehension that people can spontaneously resist. He believes that if Ukraine resists that there is a conspiracy that people, that Americans, CIA, my foundation are conspiring to threaten him or to undermine is policies. And that’s not the case, people do believe in freedom. "
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"[Putin] believes people can be manipulated and cannot resist."
Americans, of course, believe otherwise. And clearly are resisting like hell the take over of all our instituions by the plutocrats, crooked politicians, and corporate oligarchs!
Great article here by Wayne Madsen from February 28, 2014 where he details the melding of NSA/GCHQ’s SIGINT, HUMINT and Tavistock psy-op tactics utilized in the Ukraine as outlined by Snowden’s latest revelations:
http://www.strategic-culture.org/pview/2014/02/28/massive-psyop-employed...
[snip-Wall of text warning...but a good wall of text]
The latest tranche of PowerPoint slides revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden shows the similarities between the GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG)'s Human Science Operations Cell (HSOC). The very name «Human Science Operations» appears yanked right from the operational charter of the Tavistock Institute, which includes the ability to engage in «full spectrum domination» by U.S. and U.K. intelligence services, in other words, the two core members of the FIVE EYES alliance...
The latest tranche of slides points to a number of deception programs being carried out on the web. These include alias development and masquerading (which includes the employment of «sock puppet» personae already in use by the U.S. military to disrupt and influence the Internet), mass messaging (or spamming) and «call bombing,» propaganda, and «pushing stories».
These tactics have been refined since the CIA and its George Soros-financed non-governmental organization activist allies brought about the «Arab Spring» overthrow of governments in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen, as well as the bloody civil war in Syria. In Ukraine, the democratically-elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych fell more quickly than either Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi simply because the Western corporate media fully cooperated in FIVE EYES efforts to activate armies of sock puppets with aliases who disseminated anti-Yanukovych propaganda and, with the assistance of the global corporate news media, «pushed stories».
In the case of Ukraine, the «pushed stories» were products of CIA, NSA, GCHQ, British MI-6, and Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) propaganda mills working in close collaboration with such intelligence agency fronts as Soros's Open Society Institute, Freedom House, Hudson Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Heritage Foundation, and Demos of the UK.
Western intelligence agencies «pushed stories» through the use of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and Youtube. These applications are part and parcel of GCHQ and NSA Computer Network Information Operations (CNIO). Outside the realm of technological warfare, JTRIG admits that it employs «credential harvesting» against «foreign news agencies». In fact, spies and provocateurs masquerading as spies were not only discovered filing phony news reports from Ukraine but also from Venezuela during simultaneous anti-government rioting in that country. Fake journalists were also exposed in Egypt, Thailand, China, and Russia....
The Ukraine operation was also in many ways a set-piece operation. A set-piece is a predictable operation that has been successfully employed in the past. Certainly, the Maidan Square uprising was almost a carbon copy, but with much more violence, of the Western-engineered 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. The same template, developed by the CIA-financed OTPOR provocateurs against the government of Slobodon Milosevic in Serbia and refined by the Center for Applied Non-Violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), was used in «themed revolutions» in Georgia, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Venezuela, Burma, Maldives, Thailand, and other countries, as well as in the latest coup d'etat in Ukraine.
Disruption operations were also used at an early stage in Ukraine chiefly by the Soros- and Zionist-funded FEMEN movement, an anti-Christian and anti-Muslim group that works closely with Pussy Riot and Voina social order disruptors in Russia. Attacks by FEMEN on symbols of Christianity in Ukraine helped spark the social disorder that ultimately led to the rioting in central Kyiv. Neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing Ukrainian nationalists became agitated by the attacks on Christian crosses and churches in the country and cited the overt support that Zionist Jews like American Jed Sunden, an investor in Ukrainian media companies like the Kyiv Post, gave to FEMEN protesters.
Employing agents from neo-Nazi, Zionist, and nationalist factions is spelled out by one JTRIG slide, which calls for the «identification and exploitation of fracture points» in a targeted country, region, or other element. The intent of such exploitation is to create «tension» through the use of «pre-existing cleavages» and competing «ideological differences». These factors are coupled with «things that push a group together» like «shared opposition» and «common beliefs». These exploitation factors were of beneficial use in the type of successful intelligence operation that took place in Ukraine.
Fuck this motherfucking, fucking cocksucking, piece of fucking flaming fucking piece of motherfucking shit. Fuck off, as well you fuck.
Even the Obama clan says FU to the EU.
“Fuck The EU,” Says America’s Top Europe Diplomat
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/fuck-the-eu-says-americas-top-europe-di...
Soros doesn't have much time left to make comments or destroy people or governments. He looks like he's gone down in health.
Once he starts feeding on Ukraine he'll pick up.
You keep using that word [freedom]. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is why the world is insane.
Who is watching his money? He's senial.
You can start a lot of chaos with a fraction of what he's worth....and his mind is turning into jello.
Seriously...who's watching his money? And when I say "watching" I mean just that. This guy is going nuts.
Talk about the Kettle calling the pot black. George Soros is a leading member of the NWO, a group that according to Ted Turner wants to massacre 90% of the people on the planet. For him to be even talking about people wanting freedom while having spent all his life working to remove people's freedom is so shameless it makes one wonder if he has gone insane.
Dude got proportionately stupider with the more money he stole.
How's that S&P short going for you you F'n financial pervert.
Arrest Soros and redistribute his stolen wealth.
The Russians are coming for Hungry. Don't miss your chance to send them the information necessary to arrest your cousins you scumbag.
"people do believe in freedom."
That's right prick. And the first chance they get you and your globalist buddy's are getting thrown into prison to await trial.
Soros - from Paulus to Saulus. That's enough written.
Mr Soros,
Putin is not blind. Fortunately he can also see through you and your ilk.
Freedom- the word- you talk about- The world needs Freedom from criminals like you. At the very least your type needs to be incarcerated for the rest of your lives.
And if Europe survives the bankster frauds and yours, it will be due to Putin.
If you omit the leaders in the EU ( all bought and paid for), the people will ensure peace and propsperity.
No more banksters controlling countries and the world.
So Putin is now the savior?
Putin is Soros in a political capacity.
Putin is the one standing in their way and preventing them form taking over. You will soon be thanking him for your freedom
Who went into Iraq and who started the Arab spring, went into Libya and created unrest in Syria and Ukraine now?
As Victoria FCK Nuland Kagan ( Asst Sec of State, US) confirmed the US has been funding all the subversion.
So who are the agressors? And Putin's role as Saviour has been brought about by them.
Of course maybe you would prefer to have a RFID inserted by Soros & Co and then let loose.
Or are you headhunter for Soros?
Your assumption that I agree with what our current communist in chief has done in the middle east is incorrect.
This is what communists do, steal peoples freedom under the guise of 'for the greater good' when it is really just about stuffing their pockets and imposing their tiny brains will, by force, on a population of people.
If Putin is the savior I am God almighty.
I don't know where to begin to criticise this interview with Soros. It is wrong at so many levels. Hypocrisy is a word that comes to mind.
Totally effin sociopathically evil springs to mind.
+1
Daddy whose side were you on during the war?
If you want your freedom, you can have your freedom. The American people are free, free to choose whether to have dinner at McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell, or Pizza Hut. Freedom to choose the brand of toothpaste, soap and detergent to use. Thus is the definition of freedom in the 21st century ruled by economic imperialism. When will the masses come out of their drug- or TV-induced coma? When will clarity of reason prevail over endless dogma and divisive propaganda oozing from the organs of state?
great comment! it comes down to too many people failing to understand that paying for goods and services you need to survide is not an actual "life skill"
Thanks for the kudos. "Paying for" forfeits meaning when the medium of exchange (money) is an illusion, conjured up from the dreams of lotto players by a secretive association of private bankers unfortunately misnamed "the Federal Reserve" (which is neither federal nor any kind of reserve; a more apt name would be "Feral Preserve"). I believe you meant "earning" rather than "paying for", where "earning" means the excess of production over consumption. So sad that it has been turned into overconsumption, but that is America's motto: anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Very uninsightful, just what you would expect from wallstreet PR.
There is one point though: "he believes people can be manipulated and cannot resist." Doesn't that describe banksters very well?
MEGA Pot Calling Kettle Black ALERT!!!
Soros - aka Jabba The Hut - referring to Putin: "...he believes people can be manipulated and cannot resist".
The bald-faced, unmitigated hypocrisy and gall of this buffoon is a story for the ages.
when Soros talks about freedom he means freedom to exploit
So, Soros' NWO paradigm is preferable? Live free or die!
He's wrong. EU won't "face 25 years of Japan-style stagnation"
Peak oil is here. Shale has the potentiel to maybe keep up with the decline in conventional oil production for a year or two and then it's all down hill. It won't be stagnation but a brutal power down. And not just EU, USA will be hit even harder.
Fcuk you Soros! Hurry up and die.
Soros is right about the current EU structure being incomplete and that it probably faces years of stagnation without full integration.
But who the hell wants the EU to become a fully integrated USE anyway??
Answer: only the likes of Tony Blair (aka The Antichrist) who sees himself as the 1st unelected fascist President of Europe and the unelected elites in Brussels (Barroso & Co) and some national leaders (who mostly keep the integration project a close secret inside their own countries for fear of revolt by their citizens. The UK is a perfect example of this, where Labour & Tory alike both fully support full integration but refuse to talk about it in public. If pressed, they create a diversion).
But when it comes to the EU financial crises being over, Soros needs to get a grip. If he believes that, he's living in fantasyland.
The EU is on a very shaky foundation of a few good ideas (no barriers to trade, movement of goods, capital, labor) and a really bad one (common currency without fiscal integration). The bad idea was a mickey Germany slipped into the EU punchbowl and serves the interests of the German industrial complex at the expense of weaker trading partners and the periphery.
How long can a large bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussles dictate to an entire continent the proper way to grow cabbage (2,700+ pages of regulations) and virtually every other facet of production, trade and governance? These marionattes are suspended from the invisible hands of German controllers and move to the music emanating from the hallowed halls of Berlin, with an occasional wink thrown at France and Belgium.
The euro still has value only because compared to the hryvna, the forint, the lek, etc. it still looks precious.
Nice piece.
And we should note that the UK government and British people have never really accepted one of the key pillars of the Single Market Treaty: the free movement of people & labour.
Until one of the senior apparatchiks in Brussels got angry and corrected the UK Govt, we were still calling other EU people arriving in Britain as "immigrants". Now changed to "migrants" at the insistence of Brussels. And of course this whole subject of EU people movement is where Nigel Farage gets his support from. I can easily see the UK Govt finding a way of blocking migration which will fundamentally undermine the whole Single Market Treaty.
Just returned from a visit to Japan, including its three largest cities. If what I've seen is the result of two decades of stagnation, bring it on for Europe. In terms of quality of life, disposable incomes, innovation and societal harmony, Japan is way beyond most European countries.
Their economy only appears to be stagnating because their population is shrinking, as is natural in any developed country, and they are culturally disinclined to let immigration make up for it.
Japanese stagnation is a myth and a lie, and any agenda supported by it deeply suspect.
Japan has a very real and rare luxury of a having a very homogenous society. Their belief system are primarily the same and they still love their country.
As opposed to something like the US where a generation+ of useful idiots have been taught that America is a horrible and prejudice place and unless you become a high ranking executive right out of school it is only because of the 'social injustice' in America. We have bitterly opposed groups which fight each other everyday and try to implement their version of change in America, hardly conducive to a productive economy.
Basically, we are F'd.
Japan's illusory prosperity is brought to you by Abe-sama's freshly printed trillions of yen. It is as real as Potemkin's village or the Easter Bunny. Gomen nasai. Ungaro sumimasen.
An "open society" has as much to do with a free society as a Realtor's "open house" has to do with a free house.
The palindrome's reflexivity is a repackaging of the quantum deception previously offered by Rosénthal, Shaw, Marx, Hegel, Sartre, Schrodinger, Berlin, etc. Do you see a pattern? When Sunstein gets you opted-in for default organ donation in conjunction with your new MyRA account maybe you'll understand.
In the meantime, we'll measure "success" as being 80+ and having a jilted girlfriend who takes a swing at your lawyer and knocks his glasses off.
Soros is such a nice man. I rest well knowing that men such as these have my back and are structuring the world to preserve my inalienable personal sovereign freedoms.
That guy and his friends are the filth of the earth!!!
." It’s beyond his comprehension that people can spontaneously resist"
How can a former KGB officer not know this?
over and over this write up just repeats the same few points purely for the histrionics of it. do you put even an ounce of value, interity or crdeibility into anything this Rothschild goon says publicly?
dont even bother with the video.
Like any globalist believes in freedom for anyone but themselves.
"Putin, Soros worries, "has a very different idea of what a society should be like... he has a blind spot - he believes people can be manipulated and cannot resist."
It appears to me that Soros just does not like the competition, if anyone is going to manipulate he feels it should only be a Nazi sympathizer.
''people do believe in freedom. "
he means 'people' , NOT 'gentiles' ! in case you are delusional..
Obama/Buffet/McCain or Putin.... Let me think about that....
Okay, that was easy, Putin every day and twice on Sunday.....
Who has more freedoms, the US citizen or the Russian Citizen? Gap is closing quickly
Who is more socialistic. The US by a long shot.....
The EU isn't going to survive - certainly not in its current form. By the end of this decade/start of next, I expect it to be 'dramatically different', so to speak. And the continuing decline of the EU is going to spark US stock markets to ridiculous new highs, the oft fabled "Dow 30,000" etc., and a commensurate level for the S&P.
You watch those capital flows out of Europe (and sovereign bonds) and into US stocks and commodities.
I'm sorry for Zerohedgers who plan to be short the US stock market long term - you will be seriously fucked. It's just not going to work out for you...
Good Gaud ya,all, don't you know that Soros took down the USSR single handedly when he crushed the ruble??
I doubt Putin gives a fly shit what Soro has to say, he is looking forward to a rematch with Soros and intends to kick his ass this time!
BTW, where is Gorbechov and what does he have to say about the Ukraine??
I heard Hillary's snatch is the size of a mouse's ear.
have to ask Janet Reno about that one
Phfffft. I would bet that she can make a 2 liter bottle vanish effortlessly.
A little background on Ukraine problem:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/03/04-0#.UyGmCx-vK6w.reddit
I recall hearing about the overturning of that language law in Ukraine.
But it doesn't suit western MSM to acknowledge it may have sparked unrest in Crimea & East Ukraine. Nor that it may have played a decisive role in bringing Putin into the game to protect ethnic Russians.
One only has to look back to the 1930s to see what happens when people are persecuted simply for being of a certain ethnicity.
Soros is either unaware of the teachings of Bernays or is (like Goebbels) one of his disciples. Soros' claim that people cannot be manipulated and that they "love freedom" is either extraordinarily naive or extraordinarily deceptive. Which seems more likely?
When people like Soros make such nonsense statements, IME it's not because they know it to be true or even believe it to be true. Just that they want it to be true.
Agreed, being hooked on heroin, or watching the Knicks, or over shopping, is the freedom being pushed by Soros. Funny thing is sheeple want that type of freedom, they have no will to power and aspire to be impotent in both senses. Unable to have babies/ powerless.
Its been said so many times already but - why why why does anyone listen to anything Goonfuck Soros or Buffoon -oracle my ass same goes for any of those self rightgeous assholes thieving pricks;
Ok a thought experiment if you will - Soros/Buffet suposedly make all these genius moves in the financial markets and that other fuckwit GreenLantern with his cryptic bullshit code that alll bullshit economists used to mess themselves over - fuck me liver cancer for all those asswipes is too good but i digress - ok so think about this - how well do you think you could do in the financial markets if you were laundering billions of dollars in drug and flesh trade money - don't forget the P/E multiples so how well do you think you could do?? Of course none of these fucktards could pull this off without a lot of help - enter the secret society/bankster cartel/CIA. Would it be too much to dream for to have Putin send these assholes an early birthday demise er surprise i mean.
Anyway it's been said before and it'll no doubt be said again but die you thieving fuckers die......
Sorry.
When I hear Soros talking, it comes out in Gollum's voice:
"Putin nasty mans trying to steal MY PRECIOUSSSSS."
that's good, as like that character, he's delusional in thinking the ring is his to enjoy. He fails to realize that he is merely a tool for those who made it.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothin' don't mean nothin', honey, if it ain't free.
Yeah, feeling good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues,
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
When the fuck is America going to start worrying about America.
That's hysterical. Soros is lecturing on individual freedom? He's just pissed because it's not his group of One World Govt boyz that are in charge there. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
George Soros and Maurice Strong are strong advocates of Agenda 21 and Neo-Feudalism. It's time to cull the herd and depopulate. It's a death cult for old white guys.
Soros? Wasn't it his company working with our oligarchs under the Yelstin regime in rewriting the Russian children's textbooks to be more Western friendly and blame everything on others? Seems the final curtain call is approaching rather soon and all the NWO/GPS friendly worker bees like Mr. S is busy doing their bit in spreading our lies, as well as spreading our corporate corruption. Too bad he can't take it to the grave, what with all those grave robbers and such. Enjoy it while it lasts George, and if 'they' pomised you 'protection' underground, don't be too surprised to later find out that your services are no longe required, thus your seat has been given away to another. Goodbye George, see you in the next cycle.... or not.