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Soros Has A Modest Proposal For How To Punish Russia

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Having warned of Putin's blind-spot (and Merkel's position of potential leadership) in the Europe-US-Russia debacle, billionaire investor George Soros has some ideas on how to punish Russia (and some warnings on the consequences)...

  • *SOROS SAYS PUTIN 'ACTING OUT OF WEAKNESS'
  • *SOROS SAYS UKRAINE CRISIS IS LEADERSHIP CHANCE FOR MERKEL
  • *SOROS SAYS MERKEL'S LEADERSHIP HAS GROWN IN UKRAINE CRISIS
  • *SOROS SAYS U.S. SELLING OIL RESERVES WOULD HURT RUSSIA
  • *SOROS SAYS U.S. HOLDS 'STRONGEST SANCTION' WITH OIL RESERVE

Via Bloomberg,

Russian President Putin sought to prop up flagging support at home in a move that “turned him adventurous abroad and repressive at home,” billionaire investor and Chairman of the Open Society Institute George Soros said today during a podium discussion in Berlin.

Soros also said:

Putin “acting out of weakness” following sag in domestic popularity since beginning second term as president

 

On Merkel: Ukraine crisis “an opportunity for the chancellor to emerge as the leader of a united Europe, not just a chancellor preoccupied with the national interests of Germany.”

And added that the US still holds the biggest bazooka...

“Strongest sanction” against Russia “is in the hands of the United States” because U.S. could sell crude from the Strategic Oil Reserve and depress prices, investor George Soros says during panel discussion in Berlin.

 

Says Russia needs oil at $100/bbl “to balance the budget”

The problem, Soros notes, is...

“Task is to help Ukraine rather than just punishing Russia because just punishing Russia will push Putin further into a corner and as a wounded animal he would strike back and it would be a lose-lose proposition.”

So will Obama shoot himself in the foot?

 

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Fri, 03/21/2014 - 08:53 | 4576394 ebear
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cue fonestar in 5, 4, 3, 2.......

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 18:14 | 4574600 just-my-opinion
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When you play a old time video game....at the end....it says

GAME OVER

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 18:37 | 4574676 venturen
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Now that USA is to the point of being able to export oil...a capital idea is to drive the price to $10 a barrel...JUST BRILLANT!

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 18:46 | 4574711 Its_the_economy...
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the problem is that all the US oil companies are bleeding. They are only payindividends by selling assets. Oil release isn't going to happen.

 

Otherwise, I wonder if Soros is trying to sell his book (short oil).

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 18:49 | 4574724 TheProcinctu
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How much money can Soros earn while raping another country?

"George Soros - through the International Renaissance Foundation, George Soros also gave money to Center UA. Yep, the same George Soros who profited back in 1992 off of Breaking the Bank of England."

http://procinctu.info/uncategorized/ukraine-101/

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:25 | 4575060 lakecity55
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"Blowfeldt with hair, Mr Bond."

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:03 | 4574765 Catullus
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I guess they need to be punished for all the democracy going on. Because, you know, fuck the EU

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:03 | 4574767 Perimetr
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Yeah, and once we use up our strategic reserves, we can go back to plan A and launch a preemptive nuclear first-strike.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:29 | 4574870 the grateful un...
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if the price of oil fell in half the entire US economy would collapse, since marginal producers would be taken off line, tax revenues would disappear, and retail outlets would close (since most of them are corporate). there would less supply at a higher price [please please throw away those old supply demand curvers, in the new misdirected federal reserve malinvested economy it simply doesn't work]

short of that we could buy some from Russia? which would translate into higher gasoline prices, and which one of those friendly countries like venezuela which refine oil into gasoline for the us would step up to help their pals (maybe at a price) releasing oil will increase the value of oil, because hedge funds are the only buyers of excess supply which in turn goes back into storage which adds value to the product. a couple a dollars a bbl, by standard metrics. 

release the SPR and we'll have 1970s stagflation faster than you can say $5000 an oz gold.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:34 | 4574879 Runs-With_Toast
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What an idiot sorus is. Lol. The US economy is on the edge already waiting for a collapse trigger, Russia is way solvent

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:37 | 4574890 loveyajimbo
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Soros the libroid bag of puke stays young by mating with his great-grandaughters friends... and shorting oil after advising the Wimp in Chief...

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:21 | 4575042 lakecity55
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He stays young by consuming the Life Force of young girls, an occult knowledge he learned from Himmler as a reward for selling jooos.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 19:52 | 4574939 Lumberjack
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Did anyone see his wedding pix?

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-george-soros-wedding-2013-9

 

Since when do these freaks of nature get brides like that? My guess is that they are 'involuntarily' sent to special schools.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:01 | 4574973 d_taco
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“Strongest sanction” against Russia “is in the hands of the United States” because U.S. could sell crude from the Strategic Oil Reserve and depress prices, investor George Soros says during panel discussion in Berlin.

 

Says Russia needs oil at $100/bbl “to balance the budget”

 

And what price does North Dakota needs to produce?

 

It is the same advice Gartman on RT and promt 24 hours later..........


 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:06 | 4574987 resurger
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Just die....

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:07 | 4574991 q99x2
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How to free the world.

Arrest Soros and send him to Russia.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:38 | 4575274 mrmister
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Exactly.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:07 | 4574992 Quantum Nucleonics
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What a moron! The SPR?  Is he kidding?  If that's our biggest weapon (it's not) then we are screwed.  An SPR would briefly drop the price of oil a little, giving countries like China a discount on their oil purchases at US tax payers expense.  Because of shipping costs, it isn't clear there would actually be much of a price drop.  In any case, global producers would just adjust output to prevent a glut.

And can we please, please end the liberal-leftist talking point that Putin has made a mistake and is acting out of weakness, providng cover for our weak and incompetent Dear Leader and his merry band of Euro socialists?  Putin is wiping the floor with these clowns.  It's like playing chess with Garry Kasparov... you think you are doing great, all the while Garry already figured out how to crush you in 15 moves, 5 moves ago.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:17 | 4575029 lakecity55
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Yeaahhh, Bath House, just de thing. Yeaaaahhh... sell the Stategery of Oil.....Yeaahhhh, You'll have ole Putin where you want him, Bath House....Selll the Resoive.....Rusia will collapse in a week, it's a suurrre thing...

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:52 | 4575155 dexter_morgan
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Like a wise poster here said a week or so back, Russian kids grow up playing chess while 'merican kids grow up listening to crap music, playing mindless video games, and masturbating. Sad but true.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 02:47 | 4575888 walküre
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Russian kids climb whatever they can get on to after they inhale whatever they can find to sniff

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 06:09 | 4576063 overmedicatedun...
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with a wife and a girl friend, soros screws both but it seems the girl friend was promised much she never got. and she is mad..why do I post this, well in business I use this  to judge who to do business with, it is always good to see who the guy will screw, and for soros those most close to him get screwed, so guess what he will do to you a stranger?

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:11 | 4575008 Johnny Cocknballs
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Soros may have begun to believe the unequivocal lies his ngos promote.

Out of weakness? 

He's basically told NATO they don't call all the shots.  The NATO/EU/IMF coup in Ukraine has fuck all to do with anything but stealing from ukraine and surrounding and weakening russia. NATO's expansion has pushed Russia and China and perhaps India closer together, as they can see that the Global Banking Empire and their allies want MOAR resources, power, and control.

Soros acts like western Ukraine is all locked up. 

 

Give it time, Goerge.

 

I will ask the old gods, and the new, to take Soros, and Zbig, and Kissinger, and Adelson soon.

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:45 | 4575053 NuYawkFrankie
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A 'Modest Proposal' for 'Jabba The Hutt' Soros:

Hide - while you still have time.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:24 | 4575054 Jack Burton
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 Found this little tidbit on Obama's Dad. Hmmm! Makes you wonder eh?

The CIA's 1965 Indonesia coup was one of the biggest holocausts in history. According to Princeton history professor Bradley Simpson, as cited by the Jakarta Globe: "The US and British governments did everything in their power to ensure that the Indonesian army would carry out the mass killings" of more than one million people following the coup against Sukarno. Most of the victims were tortured before they were murdered. The list of names of people to be tortured and murdered was provided by the CIA to their hired Indonesian thugs."" While this was going on, five-year-old Barrack Obama was living in Indonesia with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro, who was working for the American mass murderers. ""

That's right: Obama's stepfather was a holocaust perpetrator.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:48 | 4575141 dexter_morgan
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Weren't his maternal grandparents involved with the CIA and shit like that too? Apparently TPTB had their eyes on him all along. Lived a charmed life so to speak.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:21 | 4575407 lakecity55
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Bath House is most likely a blackmailed creation of the cia.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:07 | 4575358 Chuck Knoblauch
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Where is Yamashita's gold? 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:19 | 4575400 lakecity55
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Right on.

Few serfs in Amerika are aware of the knee-deep river of blood in Indonesia.

 

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 05:49 | 4576044 resurger
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What!

 

Sat, 03/22/2014 - 09:38 | 4580021 matrix2012
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Following article at Veterans Today carries more info about the Obama’s CIA Pedigree.

 

"However, the State Department’s recent revelation in response to a Freedom of Information Act request that the pre-1965 passport files of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, were destroyed in the 1980s, has re-ignited suspicions that Obama’s mother worked for the CIA under non-official cover (NOC) cover in Indonesia while married to Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo, a retired colonel in General Suharto’s CIA-backed ranks. Soetoro and Dunham married in 1965 after meeting at the University of Hawaii. That same year, the CIA-backed Suharto launched an anti-Communist coup that saw leftist President Sukarno eventually ousted from power and up to one million suspected Communists, including many ethnic Chinese Indonesians, massacred by government troops. "

 

Read it here.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:43 | 4575127 justsayin2u
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Punish them with Bamy-care.  That'll f em up good.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:49 | 4575134 dexter_morgan
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Goerge Soros, you despicable face of evil incarnate, STFU - you anti-semite semite.

Seems like his advice would be very good, but not for the US?

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:47 | 4575138 22winmag
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Was Soros really a Nazi collaborator? I know for damn sure the Albanian were. The Albanians were the only foreign fighting force allowed to wear the SS patch during WWII.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 20:54 | 4575164 zionhead
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During the Holocaust SOROS was a 12 year old boy living in LONDON.

Some of the ZIONIST crowds have speculated he might have delivered newspapers as a paper-boy for pro-nazi newspapers at the time on the streets LONDON /sarc

Soros hates the fucking Zionists, Soros hate fucking ISRAEL.

Calling SOROS a Nazi is like callng BIBI a CHRISTIAN.

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:06 | 4575200 El Hosel
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What doe the US need to balance the budget? Moar higher stocks?

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:05 | 4575198 Johnny Cocknballs
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we're still not going to punish Israel for blatant, unequivocal war crimes and "annexation" though, is that right?

Because it's not wrong when they {or we} do it?

Is that right??

http://www.redressonline.com/2014/03/us-and-eu-hypocrisy-on-display-over...

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:10 | 4575369 ableman28
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Your exactly right dude, its not wrong when we do it.  When we got Colin Powell to lie himself blind at the UN to convince the coalition of the willing to invade a sovereign Iraq that was legal. When we drone the shit out of mud hut dwelling towel heads in sovereign Pakistan that was, well if not legal, who is going to stop us.  When we.....well the list goes on......its all just tribal dude.  Theres them and theres us.  The only thing that matters is where your stuck paying taxes.  Thats the side your supposed to be on.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:11 | 4575548 the grateful un...
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weird black american powell sell out to bush and ruins his career, while black american obama sells out to bush and gets the peace prize

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:07 | 4575203 Cornholiovanderbilt
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I think I'm going to get liquored

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:17 | 4575225 Billy Shears
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Greorge Soros; useless, unless he is lining his pockets.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:25 | 4575243 zionhead
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Soros say's to ACCELERATE the bankruptcy of the USA in order to control PUTIN.

Hmm I like it ...

PUTIN is ok, ... and so is SORO, both of these guys HATE ZIONISTS.

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Soros is saying the USA should give its SDR away from free, that means that should the US-MIL go to WAR, there will be no FUEL to feed their BULLSHIT, being the largest consumer of FUEL on earth.

So I agree with SOROS, lets sell all that SDR ( strategic petro reserve ), lets get rid of it all, then when the USA goes to war, they ain't got a leg to stand on, ... war will end quick and PUTIN controls the world.

 

I like it,

 

One last comment, why isn't the SDR seen like GOLD in the bank? I mean BLACK-GOLD is every bit as valuable as REAL-GOLD, why would SOROS want the USA to sell it all for cheap now, ... unless he was the buyer?

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:25 | 4575244 WoodMizer
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Warren Buffet would also get bent if WTI dropped so no action will come from Obama

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:36 | 4575268 mrmister
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Soros is a perfect example of New World Old folk who think they are brilliant. Here is the reality. US tries to manipulate oil markets on Russia, Russia invades Saudi or even begins sinking Tankers.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:46 | 4575289 studfinder
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NSA has been listening to Merkel since she was a school girl...  think of the blackmail material they have on this woman.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:58 | 4575669 tumblemore
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Yeah but would they won't to release video of her and Hillary :p

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:53 | 4575314 Cornholiovanderbilt
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If I looked in a mirror daily and saw what soros saw I'd probably be a Malthusian asshole too

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 21:55 | 4575321 surf0766
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So the communist russians are fighting the nazi national socialist americans except they are on the same team.. Just like WWII.

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:09 | 4575364 DOGGONE
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Show Russia how strong we are, voluntarily expose this!
The Public Be Suckered
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1230886

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:14 | 4575384 harleyjohn45
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Soros or Putin, Hmmmm

Bad choices, but I would go with Putin.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:26 | 4575418 chindit13
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Whenever a Soros article runs here, it’s like Ramy al-Jamarat at Mina during the Hajj.  All the faithful come out to throw stones at the devil in a public display of the passion and depth of their beliefs.

How bizarre that the same people whose blood boils at the mere mention of Soros’ name get a woody when they see shirtless photos of a short, thuggish murderer, an enemy to both press and speech freedom, ex-KGB, and a champion of the 1/100th of 1%.

 

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:11 | 4575545 zionhead
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Chindit, I don't think there is a LOVE for PUTIN here, its just  that Obama is hated, and the MSM is full of bullshit.

PUTIN in all appearance is like the last man on earth, and renassiance to boot.

Come on tell how can you not like this guy?

Also talk about MURDER you simply can't compare PUTIN to Obama and his handlers.

Funny on ASIA your usually 100% on target, which makes me think you got a 'heart', but then on PUTIN you see a devil, but let's be honest, PUTIN did retire, ... he was finished but pressure made him come back.

IHMO I think he'll be bought off like GORBY,... you know  in this business you with take the PACKAGE and RETIRE, or you DIE.

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Of course on SOROS I completely 100% agree with you, most of the LEMMING's on ZH are must following marching ORDERS and don't have a CLUE that SOROS is a 'good guy' and on the right side.

Shit I find it hard to understand how the LEMMINGS here love Jimmy Rogers but hate SOROS, yet ROGERS&SOROS are siamese twins and partners for life,...

All on ZH is  completely fucking ILLOGICAL.

That said CHINDIT, you are one logical guy in this wilderness.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:18 | 4575564 the grateful un...
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yeah really and Singapore isn't a police state? this russian occupation has been made without firing a shot (so far) and if the elections are fair and democratic what exactly is obamas point? the children of diebold have a lot to learn

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:42 | 4575643 steveo77
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Soros is really effen old and wants the New World Order....   done deal

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:52 | 4575662 Arkadaba
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Satoshi101 or 102 or 375?

Syntax is remarkably similar.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:20 | 4575575 EconomicGenocide
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Get back to Israel!! The amount of damage the Z iionist have done to this country and the world in general is why every one with a functioning brain in a matter of sorts supports Putin. He is our only chance against parasites like yourself who THINK you live in a free country, yet only care about your assets. Time is your enemy!!

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:26 | 4575594 tumblemore
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The people funding all these color revolutions might think they're doing a good thing but what they're actually doing is spreading chaos.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:27 | 4575598 IridiumRebel
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Don't confuse a loathing of Obama for a love of Putin. Putin has his champions but I see all world leaders at about the same standing. Get get puppeteered by those behind the curtain. Soros is an Obama handler so the vitriol is unleashed. I just am sick of war. That's where I begin and end. I want Merica to quit sending people to graves and being maimed. I'm sick of meddling by all of these folks. They all are just rich cocksuckers playing chess with human lives.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 22:54 | 4575482 johngerard
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Russia and the EU are playing the exact same game with Ukraine. Both are in real decline, and both want to add taxpayers and natural resources to shore up the status quo, in an attempt to keep themselves alive.

The US, Russia and EU are all seriously fucked. The current generation of politicians will do anything to keep the same power structure alive - more income tax, wealth taxes, confiscation of assets, taking over other countries (effectively). 

The idea it has something to do with democracy, freedom and self determination is laughable.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:22 | 4575584 tumblemore
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I wonder what position would profit from the US following Soros' advice and I wonder if he is already there.

 

Anyway Soros' intervention actually speaks to what Russian counter-sanctions *ought* to be. There's no point putting sanctions on US politicians; it's not like they're in charge of this. The people running US foreign policy are the billionaires funding the "color" revolutions, the people funding Femen and Pussy Riot and all the NGOs. That's who the Russians should sanction. They're the ones risking a world war just so they can get looting rights to Russia.

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:27 | 4575596 sixbilliondollarman
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SOROS = WEAK...THIS FUCKER MAKES FAR TOO MUCH MONEY FOR HIS MISDEADS...PRETTY BOLD TOO.

THE SMALL MAN WILL FIGURE OUT HE IS "THEE" BANKSTER, EVENTUALLY.

HE IS A MARKET MANIPULATOR ALWAYS WAS & ROLLS OVER THE SMALL HONEST FOLK WITH TOTAL DISREGARD.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgI-IDpXeYs

Thu, 03/20/2014 - 23:42 | 4575639 Downtoolong
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U.S. could sell crude from the Strategic Oil Reserve and depress prices,

Such bullshit. Longer term, pipeline projects and, ultimately, the will of the Saudis to control production will have a much greater influence on world oil prices than a release from the the SPR ever could.

You suck Soros, for this shameless and pathetic plea for a scheme to create a short term trading opportunity. That's all this proposal is and you know it.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 00:02 | 4575671 Notsobadwlad
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Correct me if I am wrong, but Soros was/is a Nazi. I think that is in his history. That would align him with the Nazis who created the core of the higher echelons of the NSA, CIA and NASA, right?

Maybe the Nazi who undermines half the world through the actions of his NGOs is not the best person to listen to.... just saying.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 04:42 | 4576006 hookah
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Jew Nazi? He is Lizard man too....

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 00:20 | 4575711 DarthVaderMentor
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I guess you never get a set of clear, good choices for you to choose sides. We are left with either backing a narcissistic, corrupt and incompetent U.S. President who thinks he's gifted with the power of irresistible bullsh_t and supported by a bunch of self-serving politicians who use socialism as a cover for greed and corruption versus a brutal "Attila the Hun" kind of despot entranced and trapped by a glorious past in his mind of a new resurgence of imperial Russia and advised by a horde of incompetent Russian general officers who have a hard-on for the US Military-Industrial complex.

I'll take the ugly Nazi Prime Minister as EU leader without balls any day as the out of the box answer.

 

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 01:32 | 4575825 HastaLaVista
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US strategic oil inventory is around 700 million barrels. Russian oil production is 10.4 million barrels PER DAY. Good luck Mr. Soros and thanks for helping us in flushing into your pockets whole US strategic oil reserves. You can even get an award "Hero of the Russian Federation" directly from Putin's hands. :)

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 02:52 | 4575891 damicol
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What moronic bollox

 How about Putin double the price of gas to germany,

 tomorrow

 then doubles it again next week .

And  cuts the amount they can have in half to start with .

 

How long before the nazi fat unfuckable witch starts screaming at  barmy obummer .

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 03:55 | 4575943 firestarter_916
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Let me guess, Soros is going short the Russian Ruble, or probably as of Jan 1 he is. I'd love to see this go public because we know who will win this fight.  And I won't post it here otherwise I'll have a knock on my front door by 2 pricks in suits in the morning.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 04:47 | 4576010 el-greco
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Ukraine crisis “an opportunity for the chancellor to emerge as the leader of a united Europe,

 

United Europe? how does he know we are united? We never had a referendum. Why doesnt Soros ask for a Europe-wide referendum and let the result stick? If he was not just preparing for his next speculation and had European citizens interests in mind, he would be willing to have Merkel test European citizens' resolve for a united Europe first, before assuming everyone here likes the direction this "Union" is going in, particularly with regard to our enforced adaptation to US geo strategic ambitions.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 07:25 | 4576140 smacker
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And the much-ignored thing about Europe -- like so many other regions of the world which are divided into arbitrary 'countries' by past/present politicians -- is that most Europeans get along with each other at economic & social levels. WW II was not really fought between 'the people' of Europe, but between the criminal political elites of each country. Ordinary people were just the cannon fodder.

It doesn't need and never has needed a 'politically united' United States of Europe for people to get along.

That exposes the EU for exactly what it is: a giant political project.

Remove many powers from the political elites, enforce proper constitutional government. Peace and co-operation will break out soon after.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 05:43 | 4576040 BlackVoid
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If Russia answers with shutting down oil and gas exports to the West, good luck with that strategy.

Selling from the strategic reserve of the US is something that Putin would love to see. IMHO it is a very stupid idea, but I hope they will do it.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 07:22 | 4576136 The Wedge
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Us oil reserves? Really? What kind of mickey mouse non-sense is this? Can't take anything Soros says at face value. Long freelance special operators.

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 07:31 | 4576149 esum
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since when does Schwartz put ussa interests above his own.... huh

seems to me crimea held an "election" whereas ukraine was a coup... and exactly when are they going to hold an "election"...

again the white house shits in its pants, leading with his rear from the rear... IMPEACH the pos before he causes ww3... please go play with yourself or golf or bb or something ..... remain in the vineyard.. everything this clown touches turns to shit

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 08:25 | 4576259 Fíréan
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Soros is a palindrome.

There, nothing abusive, insulting, anti semitic, racist  sexist, derogatory, defamatory, denigrating, libellous, slanderous, disparaging, calumniatory, vilifying nor reviling in saying so.

And equally, stating that he is a friend and/or associate of Victor Pinchuk as a fact, as per Pinchuk's website, is neither abusive, insulting, anti semitic, racist,  sexist, derogatory, defamatory, denigrating, libellous, slanderous, disparaging, calumniatory, vilifying nor reviling in saying so.

http://pinchukfund.org/en/about_pinchuk/biography/

And the views expressed in website link below  are those of the author and facts as ascertianed by the author through research.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2014/03/05/geopolitics-and-oligarchy-at-work-in-ukraine-crisis/

Fri, 03/21/2014 - 10:37 | 4576827 libertysghost
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I figured he would say we need to collectivize everything and go "COMMIE" on their ass "to show him"!  Being a big fat uber crony, Soros would make even more of "a killing" if we did, right?

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