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George Soros Slams Putin, Warns Of "Existential Threat" From Russia, Demands $20 Billion From IMF In "Russia War Effort"
If even George Soros is getting concerned and writing Op-Eds, then Putin must be truly winning.

Here are the highlights from what the Open Society founder has to say about the "existential" Russian threat in a just released Op-Ed:
Europe is facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence. Neither the European leaders nor their citizens are fully aware of this challenge or know how best to deal with it. I attribute this mainly to the fact that the European Union in general and the eurozone in particular lost their way after the financial crisis of 2008.
Getting warmer:
[Europe] fails to recognize that the Russian attack on Ukraine is indirectly an attack on the European Union and its principles of governance. It ought to be evident that it is inappropriate for a country, or association of countries, at war to pursue a policy of fiscal austerity as the European Union continues to do.
Even warmer:
All available resources ought to be put to work in the war effort even if that involves running up budget deficits
And hot, hot, hot:
[IMF] should provide an immediate cash injection of at least $20 billion, with a promise of more when needed. Ukraine’s partners should provide additional financing conditional on implementation of the IMF-supported program, at their own risk, in line with standard practice.
And there it is: the Russian "existential" war threat is, to Soros, nothing but an excuse to end the whole (f)austerity experiment (just don't show Soros Europe's latest record high debt load), and to return to its drunken sailor spending ways.
Ironically, this is precisely what we said would happen, only the globalist neo-cons were hoping the Ukraine civil war would become an all out war between Russia and Ukraine, thus unleashing the "spend your way to prosperity" Soroses of the world. For now, this plan has failed which is why ISIS was brought into the picture.
But it never hurts to try, eh George. And the one thing that is not mentioned is that the people who would gain the most from this latest IMF spending spree would be, you guessed it, billionaires like George Soros of course
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From George Soros, first posted in the New York Reviews Of Books
Wake Up, Europe
Europe is facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence. Neither the European leaders nor their citizens are fully aware of this challenge or know how best to deal with it. I attribute this mainly to the fact that the European Union in general and the eurozone in particular lost their way after the financial crisis of 2008.
The fiscal rules that currently prevail in Europe have aroused a lot of popular resentment. Anti-Europe parties captured nearly 30 percent of the seats in the latest elections for the European Parliament but they had no realistic alternative to the EU to point to until recently. Now Russia is presenting an alternative that poses a fundamental challenge to the values and principles on which the European Union was originally founded. It is based on the use of force that manifests itself in repression at home and aggression abroad, as opposed to the rule of law. What is shocking is that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has proved to be in some ways superior to the European Union—more flexible and constantly springing surprises. That has given it a tactical advantage, at least in the near term.
Europe and the United States—each for its own reasons—are determined to avoid any direct military confrontation with Russia. Russia is taking advantage of their reluctance. Violating its treaty obligations, Russia has annexed Crimea and established separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine. In August, when the recently installed government in Kiev threatened to win the low-level war in eastern Ukraine against separatist forces backed by Russia, President Putin invaded Ukraine with regular armed forces in violation of the Russian law that exempts conscripts from foreign service without their consent.
In seventy-two hours these forces destroyed several hundred of Ukraine’s armored vehicles, a substantial portion of its fighting force. According to General Wesley Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, the Russians used multiple launch rocket systems armed with cluster munitions and thermobaric warheads (an even more inhumane weapon that ought to be outlawed) with devastating effect.* The local militia from the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk suffered the brunt of the losses because they were communicating by cell phones and could thus easily be located and targeted by the Russians. President Putin has, so far, abided by a cease-fire agreement he concluded with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on September 5, but Putin retains the choice to continue the cease-fire as long as he finds it advantageous or to resume a full-scale assault.
In September, President Poroshenko visited Washington where he received an enthusiastic welcome from a joint session of Congress. He asked for “both lethal and nonlethal” defensive weapons in his speech. However, President Obama refused his request for Javelin hand-held missiles that could be used against advancing tanks. Poroshenko was given radar, but what use is it without missiles? European countries are equally reluctant to provide military assistance to Ukraine, fearing Russian retaliation. The Washington visit gave President Poroshenko a façade of support with little substance behind it.
Equally disturbing has been the determination of official international leaders to withhold new financial commitments to Ukraine until after the October 26 election there (which will take place just after this issue goes to press). This has led to an avoidable pressure on Ukrainian currency reserves and raised the specter of a full-blown financial crisis in the country.
There is now pressure from donors, whether in Europe or the US, to “bail in” the bondholders of Ukrainian sovereign debt, i.e., for bondholders to take losses on their investments as a precondition for further official assistance to Ukraine that would put more taxpayers’ money at risk. That would be an egregious error. The Ukrainian government strenuously opposes the proposal because it would put Ukraine into a technical default that would make it practically impossible for the private sector to refinance its debt. Bailing in private creditors would save very little money and it would make Ukraine entirely dependent on the official donors.
To complicate matters, Russia is simultaneously dangling carrots and wielding sticks. It is offering—but failing to sign—a deal for gas supplies that would take care of Ukraine’s needs for the winter. At the same time Russia is trying to prevent the delivery of gas that Ukraine secured from the European market through Slovakia. Similarly, Russia is negotiating for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the borders while continuing to attack the Donetsk airport and the port city of Mariupol.
It is easy to foresee what lies ahead. Putin will await the results of the elections on October 26 and then offer Poroshenko the gas and other benefits he has been dangling on condition that he appoint a prime minister acceptable to Putin. That would exclude anybody associated with the victory of the forces that brought down the Viktor Yanukovych government by resisting it for months on the Maidan—Independence Square. I consider it highly unlikely that Poroshenko would accept such an offer. If he did, he would be disowned by the defenders of the Maidan; the resistance forces would then be revived.
Putin may then revert to the smaller victory that would still be within his reach: he could open by force a land route from Russia to Crimea and Transnistria before winter. Alternatively, he could simply sit back and await the economic and financial collapse of Ukraine. I suspect that he may be holding out the prospect of a grand bargain in which Russia would help the United States against ISIS—for instance by not supplying to Syria the S300 missiles it has promised, thus in effect preserving US air domination—and Russia would be allowed to have its way in the “near abroad,” as many of the nations adjoining Russia are called. What is worse, President Obama may accept such a deal.
That would be a tragic mistake, with far-reaching geopolitical consequences. Without underestimating the threat from ISIS, I would argue that preserving the independence of Ukraine should take precedence; without it, even the alliance against ISIS would fall apart. The collapse of Ukraine would be a tremendous loss for NATO, the European Union, and the United States. A victorious Russia would become much more influential within the EU and pose a potent threat to the Baltic states with their large ethnic Russian populations. Instead of supporting Ukraine, NATO would have to defend itself on its own soil. This would expose both the EU and the US to the danger they have been so eager to avoid: a direct military confrontation with Russia. The European Union would become even more divided and ungovernable. Why should the US and other NATO nations allow this to happen?
The argument that has prevailed in both Europe and the United States is that Putin is no Hitler; by giving him everything he can reasonably ask for, he can be prevented from resorting to further use of force. In the meantime, the sanctions against Russia—which include, for example, restrictions on business transactions, finance, and trade—will have their effect and in the long run Russia will have to retreat in order to earn some relief from them.
These are false hopes derived from a false argument with no factual evidence to support it. Putin has repeatedly resorted to force and he is liable to do so again unless he faces strong resistance. Even if it is possible that the hypothesis could turn out to be valid, it is extremely irresponsible not to prepare a Plan B.
There are two counterarguments that are less obvious but even more important. First, Western authorities have ignored the importance of what I call the “new Ukraine” that was born in the successful resistance on the Maidan. Many officials with a history of dealing with Ukraine have difficulty adjusting to the revolutionary change that has taken place there. The recently signed Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine was originally negotiated with the Yanukovych government. This detailed road map now needs adjustment to a totally different situation. For instance, the road map calls for the gradual replacement and retraining of the judiciary over five years whereas the public is clamoring for immediate and radical renewal. As the new mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, put it, “If you put fresh cucumbers into a barrel of pickles, they will soon turn into pickles.”
Contrary to some widely circulated accounts, the resistance on the Maidan was led by the cream of civil society: young people, many of whom had studied abroad and refused to join either government or business on their return because they found both of them repugnant. (Nationalists and anti-Semitic extremists made up only a minority of the anti-Yanukovych protesters.) They are the leaders of the new Ukraine and they are adamantly opposed to a return of the “old Ukraine,” with its endemic corruption and ineffective government.
The new Ukraine has to contend with Russian aggression, bureaucratic resistance both at home and abroad, and confusion in the general population. Surprisingly, it has the support of many oligarchs, President Poroshenko foremost among them, and the population at large. There are of course profound differences in history, language, and outlook between the eastern and western parts of the country, but Ukraine is more united and more European-minded than ever before. That unity, however, is extremely fragile.
The new Ukraine has remained largely unrecognized because it took time before it could make its influence felt. It had practically no security forces at its disposal when it was born. The security forces of the old Ukraine were actively engaged in suppressing the Maidan rebellion and they were disoriented this summer when they had to take orders from a government formed by the supporters of the rebellion. No wonder that the new government was at first unable to put up an effective resistance to the establishment of the separatist enclaves in eastern Ukraine. It is all the more remarkable that President Poroshenko was able, within a few months of his election, to mount an attack that threatened to reclaim those enclaves.
To appreciate the merits of the new Ukraine you need to have had some personal experience with it. I can speak from personal experience although I must also confess to a bias in its favor. I established a foundation in Ukraine in 1990 even before the country became independent. Its board and staff are composed entirely of Ukrainians and it has deep roots in civil society. I visited the country often, especially in the early years, but not between 2004 and early 2014, when I returned to witness the birth of the new Ukraine.
I was immediately impressed by the tremendous improvement in maturity and expertise during that time both in my foundation and in civil society at large. Currently, civic and political engagement is probably higher than anywhere else in Europe. People have proven their willingness to sacrifice their lives for their country. These are the hidden strengths of the new Ukraine that have been overlooked by the West.
The other deficiency of the current European attitude toward Ukraine is that it fails to recognize that the Russian attack on Ukraine is indirectly an attack on the European Union and its principles of governance. It ought to be evident that it is inappropriate for a country, or association of countries, at war to pursue a policy of fiscal austerity as the European Union continues to do. All available resources ought to be put to work in the war effort even if that involves running up budget deficits. The fragility of the new Ukraine makes the ambivalence of the West all the more perilous. Not only the survival of the new Ukraine but the future of NATO and the European Union itself is at risk. In the absence of unified resistance it is unrealistic to expect that Putin will stop pushing beyond Ukraine when the division of Europe and its domination by Russia is in sight.
Having identified some of the shortcomings of the current approach, I will try to spell out the course that Europe ought to follow. Sanctions against Russia are necessary but they are a necessary evil. They have a depressive effect not only on Russia but also on the European economies, including Germany. This aggravates the recessionary and deflationary forces that are already at work. By contrast, assisting Ukraine in defending itself against Russian aggression would have a stimulative effect not only on Ukraine but also on Europe. That is the principle that ought to guide European assistance to Ukraine.
Germany, as the main advocate of fiscal austerity, needs to understand the internal contradiction involved. Chancellor Angela Merkel has behaved as a true European with regard to the threat posed by Russia. She has been the foremost advocate of sanctions on Russia, and she has been more willing to defy German public opinion and business interests on this than on any other issue. Only after the Malaysian civilian airliner was shot down in July did German public opinion catch up with her. Yet on fiscal austerity she has recently reaffirmed her allegiance to the orthodoxy of the Bundesbank—probably in response to the electoral inroads made by the Alternative for Germany, the anti-euro party. She does not seem to realize how inconsistent that is. She ought to be even more committed to helping Ukraine than to imposing sanctions on Russia.
The new Ukraine has the political will both to defend Europe against Russian aggression and to engage in radical structural reforms. To preserve and reinforce that will, Ukraine needs to receive adequate assistance from its supporters. Without it, the results will be disappointing and hope will turn into despair. Disenchantment already started to set in after Ukraine suffered a military defeat and did not receive the weapons it needs to defend itself.
It is high time for the members of the European Union to wake up and behave as countries indirectly at war. They are better off helping Ukraine to defend itself than having to fight for themselves. One way or another, the internal contradiction between being at war and remaining committed to fiscal austerity has to be eliminated. Where there is a will, there is a way.
Let me be specific. In its last progress report, issued in early September, the IMF estimated that in a worst-case scenario Ukraine would need additional support of $19 billion. Conditions have deteriorated further since then. After the Ukrainian elections the IMF will need to reassess its baseline forecast in consultation with the Ukrainian government. It should provide an immediate cash injection of at least $20 billion, with a promise of more when needed. Ukraine’s partners should provide additional financing conditional on implementation of the IMF-supported program, at their own risk, in line with standard practice.
The spending of borrowed funds is controlled by the agreement between the IMF and the Ukrainian government. Four billion dollars would go to make up the shortfall in Ukrainian payments to date; $2 billion would be assigned to repairing the coal mines in eastern Ukraine that remain under the control of the central government; and $2 billion would be earmarked for the purchase of additional gas for the winter. The rest would replenish the currency reserves of the central bank.
The new assistance package would include a debt exchange that would transform Ukraine’s hard currency Eurobond debt (which totals almost $18 billion) into long-term, less risky bonds. This would lighten Ukraine’s debt burden and bring down its risk premium. By participating in the exchange, bondholders would agree to accept a lower interest rate and wait longer to get their money back. The exchange would be voluntary and market-based so that it could not be mischaracterized as a default. Bondholders would participate willingly because the new long-term bonds would be guaranteed—but only partially—by the US or Europe, much as the US helped Latin America emerge from its debt crisis in the 1980s with so-called Brady bonds (named for US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady).
Such an exchange would have a few important benefits. One is that, over the next two or three critical years, the government could use considerably less of its scarce hard currency reserves to pay off bondholders. The money could be used for other urgent needs.
By trimming Ukraine debt payments in the next few years, the exchange would also reduce the chance of a sovereign default, discouraging capital flight and arresting the incipient run on the banks. This would make it easier to persuade owners of Ukraine’s banks (many of them foreign) to inject urgently needed new capital into them. The banks desperately need bigger capital cushions if Ukraine is to avoid a full-blown banking crisis, but shareholders know that a debt crisis could cause a banking crisis that wipes out their equity.
Finally, Ukraine would keep bondholders engaged rather than watch them cash out at 100 cents on the dollar as existing debt comes due in the next few years. This would make it easier for Ukraine to reenter the international bond markets once the crisis has passed. Under the current conditions it would be more practical and cost-efficient for the US and Europe not to use their own credit directly to guarantee part of Ukraine’s debt, but to employ intermediaries such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the World Bank and its subsidiaries.
The Ukrainian state-owned company Naftogaz is a black hole in the budget and a major source of corruption. Naftogaz currently sells gas to households for $47 per trillion cubic meters (TCM), for which it pays $380 per TCM. At present people cannot control the temperature in their apartments. A radical restructuring of Naftogaz’s entire system could reduce household consumption at least by half and totally eliminate Ukraine’s dependence on Russia for gas. That would involve charging households the market price for gas. The first step would be to install meters in apartments and the second to distribute a cash subsidy to needy households.
The will to make these reforms is strong both in the new management and in the incoming government but the task is extremely complicated (how do you define who is needy?) and the expertise is inadequate. The World Bank and its subsidiaries could sponsor a project development team that would bring together international and domestic experts to convert the existing political will into bankable projects. The initial cost would exceed $10 billion but it could be financed by project bonds issued by the European Investment Bank and it would produce very high returns.
It is also high time for the European Union to take a critical look at itself. There must be something wrong with the EU if Putin’s Russia can be so successful even in the short term. The bureaucracy of the EU no longer has a monopoly of power and it has little to be proud of. It should learn to be more united, flexible, and efficient. And Europeans themselves need to take a close look at the new Ukraine. That could help them recapture the original spirit that led to the creation of the European Union. The European Union would save itself by saving Ukraine.
—October 23, 2014
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I don't get it... I mean, do you think everyone other than you is mentally retarded?
Clearly your avatar picture contains a swastika or is swastika based, so why are you trying to persuade everyone that Putin is the fascist when you obviously sympathise with the Nazis, Hitler and the fascist movements in Ukraine?
You are not right in the head.
Post crazy
Sound like Kyiv Post
The consequences of destabilizing Russia will be? Any ideas on that?
Soros vs Putin? Ask the few remaining (alive) Russian Oligarchs how that worked out for them.
Damn Satanist.
Ex-Girlfriend Punches George Soros During NY Court Appearance
http://www.newsmax.com/US/girlfriend-punches-soros-court/2014/02/09/id/5...
George Soros was struck in the face by former mistress Adriana Ferreyr during a Manhattan court appearance on Friday, the New York Post reports.
According to court papers filed by Soros's attorney Martin Singer, the 83-year-old left-wing billionaire was struck in the head by Ferreyr, knocking off the earphones he was wearing to aid his hearing of the proceedings. As Ferreyr pulled back her arm to take a second jab at Soros, Singer grabbed her. She then struck the lawyer knocking off his eyeglasses.
http://www.newsmax.com/Outbrain/Billoinaires-Soros-Paulson-Gold/2012/08/...
Billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson increased their stakes in gold as prices are “on the cheap,” and rumors of a massive inflation storm are heating up.
Soros Fund Management more than doubled its investment in the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) to 884,400 shares, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing for the quarter holdings showed.
Paulson & Co. increased its holdings by 26 percent to 21.8 million shares.
Between these two funds alone, that’s a total of $3.5 billion secured in the yellow metal.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/john-paulson-makes-huge-bet-on-ipo-of-rus...
The temptation of Russia, it's just too great, regardless of how often folks get burned there.
John Paulson is reportedly a "cornerstone" investor in Rusal, the Russian aluminum giant that's set to IPO in Hong Kong next month.
Other investors include Malaysian Billionaire Robert Kuok and Nathaniel Rothschild, according to Bloomberg.
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska is trying to secure investors for the IPO, which will make Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum producer, the first Russian company to list in Hong Kong. Vnesheconombank may buy as much as a 3 percent stake, while other state-run lenders also may buy Rusal shares.
BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, has expressed interest in buying shares in the offering, though it wouldn’t invest as a cornerstone, one of the people said.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/john-paulson-bids-good-riddance-t...
But over all, this summer has not been kind to Mr. Paulson. In July, his $23 billion Paulson & Company suffered across-the-board losses. August was marginally better, according to the latest numbers, disclosed in a monthly update letter sent to investors on Friday.
Mr. Paulson’s Advantage and Advantage Plus funds were down 1.5 percent and 1.2 percent during August, bringing losses to 4.8 percent and 3.9 percent so far this year, according to the update. Among the worst-hit sectors for the firm were hotels, telecommunications and energy...
...Mr. Paulson made a name for himself after he reaped billions of dollars betting on the housing crash during the financial crisis. Since then, his firm has focused on placing bets on the mergers and acquisitions boom taking place on Wall Street.
The hedge fund has been the center of a flurry of activity this year, with holdings in companies on both sides of many of the year’s most prominent deals.
But two of the year’s biggest deals fell through in August. Sprint’s attempted takeover of T-Mobile and Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Time Warner were both abandoned in one torrid week. Since then, Mr. Paulson’s holdings in Sprint, T-Mobile and Time Warner have suffered losses.
Meanwhile, the momentum behind so-called inversion deals — in which United States companies acquire a foreign company and reincorporate overseas to pay lower taxes — is under threat amid a broader political backlash in Washington.
George Soros, The Man Who Kissed Off Norilsk Nickel, Novolipetsk Steel, Svyazinvest, And The Bank Of England, Announces Aid To Yet Another Economy Desperate To Be Loved
http://www.businessinsider.com/flash-george-soros-the-man-who-kissed-off...
CONAKRY – Guinea’s President Alpha Conde on Tuesday enlisted the help of billionaire investor George Soros to review the resource-rich West African nation’s mining code and fight corruption in the sector.
Conde told a press conference after meeting with Soros that the new mining code will punish companies caught bribing officials and would retroactively punish current license holders if it was established that they were involved in any bribery.
Newly elected Conde had said in January that he planned to revise the country’s mining code to give the state a 33% stake in mining projects, from 15% now.
“There will be a clause in the new code which would prohibit any company from giving bribes. Any company caught giving bribes would lose its license or be penalized, Conde said.
“This also means that for companies that have already signed, we will check if they signed against bribes. If this was the case, then we would either cancel the contract or inflict a penalty,” Conde told journalists.
Conde added that all current mining contracts would be renegotiated under the new code and future mining licenses would also be granted under the code.
He said the country was turning to Soros because Guinea could not afford to pay international consultants.
Soros for his part, said he had agreed to lend his support to Guinea, the world’s biggest supplier of the aluminum ore bauxite, following the holding of democratic elections and the transition to civilian rule last year.
Don't forget Sweden http://www.illuminati-news.com/swedish-model.htm
"Although her lawyer Bill Beslow tried to calm her, she screamed at Soros ‘You piece of s - - t!” Singer wrote. And to Soros’ attorney William D. Zabel, who brought in Singer as co-counsel,“You should go to prison and get beat up and f - - ked in your f - - king a - -.”
From the NY Post story about Soros ex-girlfriend; said after smacking him and his attorney.
Hat tip to you Adriana. Your knee in his crotch would have been better though.
You had the chance and took it. Many others would love to do the same.
Getting warmer:
Even warmer:
And hot, hot, hot:
An American, not US subject.
What Soros just got into the war business? He lies constantly and consistently for his owh self-interest ... believe the opposite, but act with Soros and you win.
Well here's a globalist pot calling the kettle black! Just feature that naughty old Russian nationalist Poot pitching a Baby Ruth into the elitist crony hot tub.
lol, since when a war between a nation and the occupants is called ¨civil¨? I assume those thousands of russian troops that are now ¨missing¨indeed suddenly ¨deserted¨the army.. anyone who had any deal with russians knows what kind of country it is. Just show me one more country in the world which is constant conflict with almost every neighbour it has ? Even Lukasenka is getting enough of those clowns
the world will be a better place when this fucking fossil finally croaks.
hopefully he takes buffet with him.
Crap. Can't post in Russian. You'd think Russian would have already become the lingua franca of ZH, there being so many Russkyphiles here.
Soros even looks demented in that 'selfie'.
I guess the 'Swiss Monkey Balls' treatment isn't working anymore.
Putin regime gets more fascist by every day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUbS0dtf7I
Who ever said Pravy Sektor and Svoboda were good for nothing?
They are excellent models for 'false charges' about Russians.
Latavian doofus:
Do you have any proof those so called Russians are Russian?
One of them looks just like your sister.
If the new Star Wars needs a "Sith Lord" at least make up wont be required.
Old George looks like a snake that's stayed out in the sun for too long.
Then again maybe that's what he is.
looks like Claude Rains
(maybe even how Claude looks now}
5000 Russian Leaders Oppose Zionist SupremacismI've noticed if you say Jewish Supremacy, that reallly ratles their cage.
What a loud indignant fart from an old git trying to doggystyle the europeans against a Russian stud half his age.
Those bags and wrinkles are just special effects. He's fit as a fiddle. Selling your soul to Satan does that. Same goes for the former First Lady, that poster girl for good wives across the country. Supposedly Hitlary has a brain tumor but that won't stop her from stealing the election from brother Jeb in a couple of years.
Once again the jews are trying to trick the goyim into doing their dirty work -- fighting and dying and spending their money -- so the Jews can establish a second homeland in Ukraine from which they can steal all its resources and further undermine Russia and its growing nationalism and anti-Zionism. Nationalism (other than Israel's) is anathama to the Zionists and the NWO. Tell you what Soros, spend your own money and spill your own blood.
http://www.texemarrs.com/082014/serpent_people_return.htm
"Europe is facing a challenge from the banking mafia to its very existence. Neither the European leaders nor their citizens are fully aware of this challenge or know how best to deal with it. I attribute this mainly to the fact that the leaders of the European Union in general and the eurozone in particular were bought by the banking mafia in the years leading to the financial crisis of 2008."
"[Europe] fails to recognize that the banking mafia's coup in Ukraine is a direct attack on the nations of Europe and their principles of governance. It ought to be evident that it is inappropriate for a country, or association of countries that ought to be at war with the banking mafia to pursue a policy of not putting them all in jail where they belong."
Drop dead you toxic waste heap!
Its official sorus has dementia
We should not do anything Soros wants.
george is talking his book....which is filled with short bets blowing up with ebola shit.
Soros is full of shit. It's not Russia making waves, it's the U.S./NATO, overthrowing elected governments (Ukraine), starting wars, and placing ABM's on Russia's border. I'm surprised Putin has been as cool-headed as he's been. The only diplomacy I've seen recently has been coming from Russia.
Holy Shit! and I thought Yellen was one ugly mofo.
Damn - this dude could walk right on the set of The Walking Dead and not require any make up.
Fuck me, I've came across some hideous mother fuckers, but this asshole takes the cake.
How the hell is this asshole still alive?
Party my pad when this diaper wearing geriatric pile of dinasaur shit dies!
I'm in! I'll bring the Home Made (Russian Style) Borcht and a case of Stoly! Nasdro'vy!
Sounds good.
I'll also send you an invite for my "Yellen The Pale Haired Gremlin Is Dead Celebration"
I'm having t-shirts made to commemorate the blessed occasion.
I have a better fucking idea. Send this walking, talking anus and his whole extended family to the front lines.
Nice name change there George, to hide who you are.
Are you calling him a Swartze?
Mr. Soros
You and your kind, are exactly why, our world has been at war, my entire life.
"By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War"
He certainly has the crepey look of the vulture that he is.
I always picture Soros's fat head when I think of The Head in NICE, from Lewis's That Hideous Strength.
Putin in a cage match against Soros, Netendafeckinyahoo and the rest of the zionists. I'd pay 10K to watch that.
Die Soros. Just fucking DIE.
Are you kidding? He's been dead for years.
Listen.
I'm rooting for Putin!
That picture just made me Hurl.Why do they all look so much alike?
So you can recognize the 'chosen' when they appear in public.
As General Patton said at the end of WW2, "we were fighting the wrong people".
LOL someone has his left ball in a vice for him to come out of his cave with his hair on fire..whilst he and a competing hedge have Argentina in a cluster fk and a finger inside the Brazils presidential green opponent ass , his ngos and funded labs in west Africa, and lets not get into Ukraine..he wants either a piece of the Brics or their destruction..who else wants that?
Who the Fk is the real existential threat to the planet?
Squeeze harder Putin!
The Wall Strret globalists are the real existential threat to the planet !!
Soros = kikeroach. 200 years from now he'll be around speaking thru a waterproof bluetooth mic from a large liquid filled jar.
Nazi collaborating, convicted FOREX manipulating, vampires like Herr Soros are the existential threats. After the sharp stake, burn his lair.
Which Russian city are you Zero Hedgers moving to?
Vladimir's polishing his shiny head at the moment, but he's glad to have all your citizenship applications. At least he'll have a propaganda victory, if nothing else. Vlad's spending billions trying to prop up the ruble's fall against the dollar and other currencies. Oil's far below the $110 Brent Vlad needs to run his regime.
Oh well, at least Putin's got his state-controlled media to fall back on....
You again AP? The same from MarketWatch?
Sorry dude, but your sarcasm comes out as slow and weak -
Have any of you Zero Hedgers ever lived or worked in Russia? What appealed to you the most? Was it the lack of rule of law? All the journalists that have been killed in Russia for telling the truth about the regime? The state-controlled media? The crappy roads and brutal weather? The government corruption and bribes that are a part of daily life?
Please, let's hear some idylic stories about the Russian utopia! :-)
Main is we don't have to put up with the like of you.
and all the exceptional bullshit...
Russia is more free
better worry about your own country.
Bob, I'm the only dose of reality and reason an idiot like you gets on a given day.
Suck it up!
You are not an American. Stop slandering the American people with your Zionist beliefs.
It is the tall, blond vodka and fur models we're cravin'! Other than that, you can keep it all on ice. Sorry...
yes-they really need to get rid of the Jewish mafia and the rest of the Oligarchs -There's room for them in Israel. They keep stealing Palestinian land for more settlements.
Are you an anti-semite turning green with envy over Jewish success? I bet you secretly wish you were (a) Jewish, and (b) brighter than a 60 watt bulb.
Jewish success - all gained by theft, usury, deception and murder. The parasites of the earth.
Always fun to watch the Okhrana crawl out of their dens on any Russian-themed thread and then slither back into the darkness to await the next summons from their master.
While I am not a big fan of Mr. Soros, I prefer to look at arguments on their own internal merits as opposed to the shrill ad hominem screeds which emanate from Putin's B-team nazi crew. In this particular case, Soros' proposal seems both wise and practicable and I congratulate him for daring to call the Europeans to arms while it is still a Rhineland moment and not a "konserven" moment.
Not that I expect them to rally to the call. I used to wonder how Hitler managed to take the world into a universal conflagration but, after reading the cacophony here at ZH in support of the new Fuhrer, I wonder no longer. The "useful idiots", as the Soviets used to refer to their Western Glee Club, remain a tool (note that word: tool) which they use to deceive and confuse their enemies-- of which I am happy to count myself as one.
As for you in the happy totalitarian fan club, I genuinely hope you get your wish to live in a country ruled by good old freedom fighter tor Putin. Yes, he fights freedom wherever he finds it.
You wrote a lot of words.... But those words meant nothing.
Try again bro!
Okay. Try this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/11181297/Oil-slump-leaves-Russia-even-weaker-than-decaying-Soviet-Union.html
The Telegraph, I'll get right on it.
C'mon Okhrana, you guys can do better than that measly amount of downvotes. I just called your master a lying thief and a nazi.
And put your names on it like men who aren't afraid to let your opinions stand in the light of day rather than skulking around in the darkness like the Kremlin parvenu you grovel at the feet of.
Oh, that's right, I forgot-- You're the Tsar's SECRET POLICE. Got to keep your identities confidential and pretend you're just a normal, everyday schmoe of a guy who happens to think that, you know, totalitarianism is really groovy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtQj8O92eI
Fuck off you Trotsky taint licker.
I down arrowed your ass - and would go "full Comanche" on your pilgrim ass if the Tyler's allowed it.
I expected to have the red arrows jump and give me 3 or more credits, as your asinine, partisan, fucked up post deserves that - and to be pissed on, farted on and shat on.
EVERYONE'S being watched fuck-o. You too.
So please.....Mom's calling...the Mac & Cheese is ready - so is "Sucking Black Cock with the Kraptrashians"...now go...go on boy....fill your maw and watch the cows.
So you do this for "credits"? Had no idea. I tend to write things that I really believe and not worry about what sort of payoff may ensue. Since this seems important to you for some reason, allow me to be the first to give you one of those green arrow thingys. Hope it helps you in your quest to attain whatever these "credits" can get you.
Let me explain how Hitler took the world into a "universal conflagration". He got his bully boys to march down in the streets under symbols like the Wolfsangel calling for ethnic purity through genecide, beating up government politicians, administrator, reporters, and anyone that did not have the "right" look, shooting his own people and law enforcement blaming it on the others, and performing as many acts of terror against the populace as he could. Then he took them to war.
20 billion to fund wars.......gee, maybe some of that could go to research on things like Ebola, cancer, heart disease, or something humanitarian?
Natural catastophes aside, it's hard to imagine a greater threat to the planet than this scrotum-faced fuckwit and all the similarly parasitical money changers. And their profound contempt for Russia and Slavs reveals their obvious desire to enslave them.
They must be behind schedule too, 'cause these warmongering NGO-breeders are going all-out with the anti-Russian propaganda.
soros thinks he is untouchable..perhaps putin can change that idea for him.
They have the west enslaved. Time to move to the east.
George Sore-ass can effectively be ignored as the doddering old fool that he is.
Do you reckon that Putin will expose these seldom seen USA track records?
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928
While I am normally not a fan of the Jew-hating conspiracy theorists....for Mr. Soros I will make an exception and say this paper-hanging, money lending bastard has to be the second biggest threat to the Middle Class America and Europe than the Radical Islamic Zombie Invasion (RIZI).
Soros is going to be surprised as heck to close his eyes in life and open them in hell.
He may not know he is in Hell
Keith Richards - good
Cockroaches - BAD
George Soros - THE MOTHERFUCKER WILL NOT GOD DAMN DIE!
DIE SOROS..DIE!
solution to all problems :
Press 'Print' button on the money printing machine
To summarize and paraphrase GS. "Europe, Cont+P, Cont+P, Cont+P, bcs Putin bad and all, and what's good for me is good for you, trickle down and all, and you pay the bill". Yep, sounds almost like Goldman S to me.
You know, I suddenly had this thought. Everybody here seems to hate George Soros with a purple passion. They also seem to hate jews with a similar fervor and obviously have a real problem with Central Bankers. But these things don't really add up to a single equation so far as I can tell.
As I understand it, Soros was a young Hungarian jew who ended up working in a small capacity for the Nazis in order to survive-- and the way he survived was by turning in other jews to the authorities. Shouldn't this be pleasing rather than objectionable to the many jew haters here at ZH?
Next, of course, Soros made a huge amount of money by shoving a purple shaft up the north end of a southbound Bank of England and allegedly nearly bankrupted it. Shouldn't this be pleasing rather than objectionable to the many Central Bank haters here at ZH?
I can hardly grasp the idea that this man isn't their hero rather than their vision of Mephistopheles incarnate, unless of course there is a lot of fake lithium on the market.
Anyhow, just a random thought while I take a break.
Here's another one for you.
Religion is a tool used to separate one group of people from another group. It's designed to divide.
Most Jews today have nothing culturally or genetically in common with the jews who lived in the middle east centuries ago. They are jews in name only. The same is true of christians by the way. The way they live, their actual religious beliefs, their cultures bear little resemblance to the past. Genetically there has been so much mixing that there is no genetic relationship either.
So religion today is just a word. It's a tag to divide one person from another. This is useful for those in power or especially those who want power because you can demonise one group of people and identify them as "other". Outsiders to blame the world's ills on.
Divide and conquer.
Palpatine is right. Putin is dangerous. Dangerous to the American empire - that's why the mainstream media constantly demonizes him.
"Fuck You Georgy"
You Jewish Bastard!
"Fuck You Georgy"
You Jewish Bastard!
Carl Sagan, Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman were Jewish. Don't compare them to a twat like George Soros.
Soros: what a pooftie
Do you notice how long all these evil people live for?
Like how old are Soris, Rockefeller, Bush Sr, Cheney, Rumsfield etc.
George Soros step-father of cultural relativism, keynesianism, cultural Marxism, and progressivism.
Just hours earlier, De Margerie had met Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at his country residence outside Moscow to discuss foreign investment in Russia. In his speech hours before the plane crash that took his life, de Margerie said U.S. and European Union sanctions on the country were “unfair and unproductive,” and that he opposed efforts to render it “isolated from the major global economic and political process.”
De Margerie was a keynote speaker last spring at Putin’s annual economic summit in St. Petersburg—an event that many Western executives decided to skip—where he signed a deal with Russian oil group Lukoil (LUKOY) to develop shale oil in Western Siberia. De Margerie also pressed ahead with major Russian investment, including the $27 billion Yamal natural gas venture in the Arctic led by Russian gas group Novatek (NVTK:LI), even as sanctions against Novatek and one of its owners, Gennady Timchenko, have complicated financing.
De Margerie told Bloomberg News recently that he was “doing everything” to move the Yamal project forward, in keeping with his belief that politics and business should be kept separate. Total, the world’s No. 4 non-state-owned energy group, has said that Russia could become its largest supplier of oil and gas by the end of this decade, up from its fourth-biggest supplier in 2013.
De Margerie’s death removes from the scene a businessman who rarely shied away from geopolitical debates and became one of Russia’s most outspoken allies in its efforts to avoid economic quarantine, willing to say what others only dared think. Although European corporate giants from Siemens AG to Renault SA (RNO) have built close relationships with Russia, most business leaders have preferred to keep their lobbying private to avoid offending governments committed to punishing Putin.
PetroDollar War – French Energy Giant Total CEO AssassinatedSoros some years ago a solution to a problem now just the same problem he once fought against. It's terrible to see someone turning form Paulus back to Saulus. Soros did and even worse he enjoys it....
He's late for an appointment with the Grim Reaper.
The ONLY "Existential Threat" is to Scumbag Soros's bank account.
And Scumbag Soros knows it - and is hoping that you don't.
Soros and the tribe that spawned him is an existential threat to me and every individual on this planet who aspires to be free.
What a crony douche.
Getting ready for war? We drove past Ft. Carson, Colorado yesterday and were amazed to see a railyard full of flat cars with tanks on them. We have driven by there from time to time for 3 years and never seen so many tanks.
What an ugly piece of shit.