George Soros Says He Sympathizes With Occupy Wall Street Protesters

UNITED NATIONS -- Billionaire financier George Soros says he sympathizes with protesters speaking out against corporate greed in ongoing protests on Wall Street.

Soros answered a question about the protests During a Monday news conference at U.N. headquarters about his participation in a large-scale development project in rural Africa.

Soros says he understands the frustrations of small business owners, for instance those who have seen credit card charges soar during the current crisis.

Soros founded the Open Society Foundations. He and Earth Institute at Columbia University director Jeffrey Sachs are announcing the newest phase of the Millennium Villages Project, which works closely with several U.N. agencies.

 

Comments

[chipprrr]

03:49 PM on 11/04/2011

The occupation dwellers are a face value of certain powerful financiers to plot and overthrow our US government at a time when the citizens confidence is at its weakest point. The plot includes high ranking official payoffs, briber, & through deception, uprising, fingerpointing, faultfinding, accusing chaotically. All Americans and foreign peoples should re-evaluate their position concerning this occupy movement and research all information that identifies the movements origination starting with George Soros. Secondly, everyone who's interested should read about the Martin Luther King movement for equality and human rights and search for the simularities as well as critical differences. It would establish a better understanding for what you stand for as you decide what you are about.
Occupy DC, Freedom Plaza
Tom Cruz

[smburwick]

11:57 AM on 10/14/2011

This man is a chameleon. He changes and flip flops to benefit himself only. He admitted in an interview with Marty Kroft that a shrink called him insane.

[Matt Nappo]

10:54 PM on 10/12/2011

He supports it? How about HE FINANCED IT! Moveon.org which gets a huge part of it's financial support from Soros is the organizing entity behind the let's pretend it's the 60's and it we're hippies nonsense.

[Euphoria123]

12:07 PM on 10/09/2011

Evil incarnate.

I would respect the protestors a bit more if they held up his name on the signs instead of just Koch.

[smburwick]

11:59 AM on 10/14/2011

Your are demonizing Koch brothers because the liberals ridicule and bring them up. Just like they demonize conservatives, black conservatives, Republicans, banks, car companies. Cripes there are two pages of people or businesses or whatever that the left has villified. Will you liberals please wake up?

[Bali Boy]

04:23 AM on 10/08/2011

Small pebbles in a pond. Little wakes in the water grow bigger. Adbusters, I don't screw with Canada, don't screw with my country. First. Final. Last.

[castlemike]

02:59 AM on 10/08/2011

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-06/soros-loses-human-rights-appeal-against-insider-trading-case.html

Soros Loses Case Against French Insider-Trading Conviction

Billionaire investor George Soros lost a challenge to his 2002 insider trading conviction, with the European Court of Human Rights saying French market regulations were clear enough to hold him responsible.

France didn’t violate Soros’s rights in punishing him criminally for trading on inside information about Societe Generale SA in spite of the market regulator’s conclusion that its rules were unclear, the Strasbourg, France-based court said.

“Soros was a famous institutional investor, well-known to the business community and a participant in major financial projects,” the court said in a statement about its ruling. “As a result of his status and experience, he could not have been unaware that his decision to invest” risked violating insider- trading laws, and given “there had been no comparable precedent, he should have been particularly prudent.”

Soros, 81, was convicted in 2002 of insider trading and ordered to repay 2.2 million euros ($2.9 million) he’d made from the share purchase and subsequent sale after a Paris court found he’d acted with the knowledge that the bank might be a takeover target. While prosecutors filed criminal charges, French stock market regulators didn’t pursue Soros, saying insider-trading laws were too vague to determine whether he’d broken them.

[PRONESE]

06:38 PM on 10/06/2011

In other George Soros News:
Link: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/063501c2-f02e-11e0-977b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1a2mAngPn
R/ PRONESE

[1ConservativeTexasLady]

12:46 AM on 10/06/2011

What's up with all of these anti-semetic comments from the Occupy Wallstreet crowd?

[Loxinabox]

04:20 PM on 10/06/2011

They blame the Jews you know what they are! Kind of scary to think of that there are so many of that kind in America.

[FanciullaDiMiele]

06:36 AM on 10/15/2011

I'm the child of a Holocaust survivor. Anti-Semitic comments seriously scare me

These neo-Nazis should not be allowed freedom of speech or have the right to publicly assemble. I would place their words and actions as equivalent to screaming FIRE in a crowded theatre. I consider it a psychological brutalizing, with physical effects on the threatened groups, non-whites and Jews.

They are an abomination to Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, homosexuals and the disabled, that were targeted for extermination - murdered in the millions by the Nazis.

Those who make such remarks should be banned from posting here. When I come across such postings, it feels as if someone punched me very hard in the abdomin.

I thought this "Aryian super race" crap was put to death by the blood of American,
and Allied soldiers."

[chipprrr]

03:32 PM on 11/04/2011

From the Freedom Plaza Occupation at Washington DC,
Its sad that certain individuals of this movement who claim to be "occupiers" feel the need to distort and dis-credit our message to end corporate greed. We take great pains to inform newcomers into our occupation that racism is not tolerated!
Our message comes from the 99% of all races, kindred, and foreign peoples abroad. Please do not confuse the platform with that garbage of racial prejudice. We stand for racial and gender equality.
Tom Cruz

[Loxinabox]

11:57 AM on 10/05/2011

"says he sympathizes with protesters speaking out against corporate greed in ongoing protests on Wall Street."? Wow does he think anyone will believe that?

[smburwick]

03:09 PM on 10/07/2011

This is all out of Saul Alinksy. The way to radical change is to turn middle class against corporations. This is what BO taught in Ill.

[Eagleman]

11:43 AM on 10/05/2011

This is before or after you made your billions with Wall Street ?

[traceymarie]

01:08 PM on 10/05/2011

Buffett also made billions and both men are FOR higher taxes on themselves and spend BILLIONS helping the poor, disinfranchised all over the globe.

[Loxinabox]

03:30 PM on 10/05/2011

Buffett is under investigation for tax evasion. Kind of funny isn't it?

[techguy24]

02:43 PM on 10/12/2011

But both of them were able to make their billions from a deregulated financial system. If Occupy wall street had their way, soros would not be a billionaire today. What is so amazing about soros is that he made his money through means that are even seen by wall street as unethical.

[media4me2]

06:49 PM on 10/06/2011

After this?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/063501c2-f02e-11e0-977b-00144feab49a.html#axzz1a2o6MvkX

[SumaqCoya]

11:25 AM on 10/05/2011

You would think it would be the frugal Warren Buffet who sympathizes with the protestors and not Soros. He's just another Social Darwinist.The age of the Robber Baron is still upon us.

[Loxinabox]

11:58 AM on 10/05/2011

And his name is Sor os

[irishkids1234]

11:17 AM on 10/05/2011

SOROS is as big a culprit as annyone on Wall Street. This guy is hoping and working for the collapse of this country.

[media4me2]

06:50 PM on 10/06/2011

And a big Obama lover.

[1ConservativeTexasLady]

10:39 AM on 10/05/2011

Question to all of these Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Is it working? Are your efforts paying off?

[Loxinabox]

11:59 AM on 10/05/2011

Of course not why would they care? Wall st workers pay off the Gov not the other way around.

[traceymarie]

01:09 PM on 10/05/2011

YES! getting larger and more attention to make their voices heard. Notice unlike your bag rallies there are no misspelled racist signs.

[cherylhaass]

10:23 AM on 10/05/2011

Hey, think of the VENDORS! How will they make any money if all the protesters are arrested?

[whtwtr123]

10:15 AM on 10/05/2011

This man is creepy beyond belief. I guess I shouldn't say that since he controls POTUS.

[Czechster]

10:31 AM on 10/05/2011

Yea Murdock would like for you to join his team to start wire tapping those 99% who are against his control of the World markets. You will fit right in until they arrest you and Murdock will claim he doesn't know a thing about what you are doing.

[Loxinabox]

12:00 PM on 10/05/2011

So true what is really creepy is the people that support the POTUS.

[tleon12265]

02:33 AM on 10/09/2011

Someone who supports the President -- and therefore supports the United States of America -- is labeled by you as "creepy"? Plenty of other places you can live, Lox. I suggest you start looking immediately and get out.