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RICKAMAVEN Offline
#1 Posted:
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you might find this intresting

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97feb/capital/capital.htm
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That's a really brilliant article. Nice to see someone discussing this in mainstream press. Capitalism has never been good for workers, especially in a global context. Witness the WTO, an organization so utterly objectionable that I can't believe Americans sit idly and let it be. Perhaps these new penalties from the WTO will spark a discussion?
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Oh, and thanks for the link. I much appreciate it.
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Rick, I am curious to see if anyone responds to this article...quite compelling stuff, pretty much irrefutably presented.
Gene363 Offline
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It’s ironic a person when to use a free capitalistic system, amass a huge fortune then turn around and want to impose something else on everyone?

For example, this is from a Salon do com article:

Although he started pouring cash into Eastern Europe in the '80s, it was Soros' media stardom as an investor that really gave him an unprecedented visibility. "Until 1992, I had difficulty getting an Op-Ed piece on Eastern Europe published in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times," he said. From that point forward, Soros' cash and clout enabled him to hobnob with chiefs of state as if he were one of them. In 1993, after dining with the heads of Moldova and Bulgaria in the same day, he told journalist Michael Lewis: "You see, I have one president for breakfast and another for dinner."

Soros' greatest influence, however, came not from his shuttle diplomacy but, rather, from his donations to dissidents and grass-roots political movements, such as the Otpor student group and other organizations that agitated for the overthrow of Yugoslav tyrant Slobodan Milosevic. Soros shrewdly gave money and equipment to scores of tiny independent TV stations, which used the newer generations of scaled-down apparatus to elude the control of repressive regimes as they broadcast uncensored news. Evelyn Messinger, who worked as director of electronic media for Soros' foundation, recalls flying to Belgrade with a TV transmitter in her baggage to deliver to an operator.

If the article accused the CIA or GWB of doing the exact same thing; would you feel the same way?
RICKAMAVEN Offline
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i guess bill gates is a **** also, giving all that money away to help kids.
Gene363 Offline
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Rick,

I should have said:

Irony; amass a huge fortune in a capitalistic system, then turn around and impose a pluralistic system on everyone else. I do like the idea of distributing equipment that moves information, the TV transmitters. Information is what keeps people free.

The Gates are spending their money to fight disease, not change politics and impose ‘group think’. Notice the difference between the Gate’s web page and that of Mr. Soros:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm

http://www.soros.org/
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