Coincidence? Soros Apparently Sells Off All Shares of TSA Scanner Company
- Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:12pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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This week, Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examnier reported that George Soros owns over 11,000 shares of OSI Systems, the parent company of Rapiscan, which manufactures the controversial TSA scanners. But a search today reveals that Soros has divested himself of all those shares.
First, Hemingway’s report from Tuesday:
As for the company’s other political connections, it also appears that none other than George Soros, the billionaire funder of the country’s liberal political infrastructure, owns 11,300 shares of OSI Systems Inc., the company that owns Rapiscan. Not surprisingly, OSI’s stock has appreciated considerably over the course of the year. Soros certainly is a savvy investor.
Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog funded by Soros, quickly seized on Hemingway’s article and mocked him, saying that 11,3000 shares are only “six one-hundredths of one percent” of the company’s total stock. It included the following screen shot showing the investment:
But a funny thing happened between Tuesday and Wednesday: the site detailing Soros’s OSIS investments now shows that Soros owns zero shares of the company:
So what happened between yesterday and today? Did the website simply update its information? Did it have the information wrong? Did Soros start feeling the heat and sell off his shares? Hemingway, who first reported the stock holdings, weighs in:
It would be nice if he did this as a response to public pressure, but it seems equally likely that as an investor he simply realized the political tide was turning against the company and the stock may drop as a result.
Either way, it’s all very interesting.
UPDATE:
The Blaze spoke with a representative from gurufocus.com, the site referenced by Hemingway and Media Matters. According to the representative, Soros owned the OSIS stock at the end of the second quarter and sold it during the third quarter. That puts the sale sometime between July 1 and September 30. The representative said the site first updated the information yesterday, which explains the change in the amount of stock owned.
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Comments (148)
EP46
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:59pmIt is another way to increase union jobs. Get the public to turn on the scanners (rightfully so) then increase the number of union jobs at the airport.
Report Post »TheFormerlyInvisibleMan
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:57pmMaybe he wanted a bigger share of the company. Sell high, then have your [so-called] “news” organizations pump a bunch of stories about how bad the scanners are, stock then crashes, then buy low and have your buddies over in the gub’mint just MANDATE their use and voila! the stock rebounds and you’re freaking richer than rich.
http://www.CafePress.com/MerryCHRISTmass
Report Post »cripplecreek
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:53pmSunlight is a great disinfectant.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:02pmAin’t it the truth?
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:47pmI wonder if that Kenneth Fisher is the same as the one involved in Fisher House Foundation? Obama gave them $250,000 of his bogus peace prize money, if it is!
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:28pm@EqualJustice
Yep.
Biography – Ken Fisher, Chairman of Fisher House Foundation, Inc
Report Post »IcyNandina
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 4:13pmKen Fisher’s involvement with Rapiscan, or Rapescan, must be broadcast far and wide. The general public must learn that the fellow who thinks he is doing so much good with his contributions to Fisher House, is in effect, nothing more than robbing us of out 4th Amendment rights.
Report Post »Parkeralan
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:43pmHuh, looks like someone is tipping the ouija board.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:42pmActually it was an intelligent economic decision, and one I would have taken too if I had no morals and bought stocks in companies that made police state equipment. The public mood is clearly and loudly boiling about this and there‘s a fair gambler’s chance that the machines may go bye bye soon (not tomorrow, but soon). The stock is probably at the highest it will be, ever, ergo he’s selling at the high, presumably buying when it was much lower, and making a tidy profit from the transaction.
Seems that he is the ultimate example of the robber baron. Buys nothing companies with “promise” for police state purposes, manipulates public policy to push his stock prices up, sells just as the public sentiment turns against it, and walks away richer. Good work, if you’re amoral or evil.
Report Post »J.C. McGlynn
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:37pmNo wonder they used these machines. Ordered to use these things. The official US government socialist news media is already trying to distance their GOD from this.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:36pmI bet he caught a picture of his nude body scan and panicked……ugh I think I just made myself puke up a little in my mouth.
Report Post »nephewofdboone
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:35pmWe have to get rid of these machines. If we can, it will be a stick in the eye of the government, and I would enjoy watching it very much. After they’re all gone, we can go after those stupid windmills, and tear them all down for the recycling heap. If you want energy, it’s in the hydrogen. All you have to do is take it. The whole galaxy knows this, so why are we earthers acting so stupidly?
Report Post »TRUTHLADY
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:34pmIt seems that Mr Soros has a hand in every underhanded thing going on in this Country, and everywhere else for that matter. I think it might be time to get him and his family one-way tickets on that Mars flight. Just to see if he can harass the aliens instead. A world order is coming, but I know it‘s not the one he’s looking for.
Report Post »May God bless this Country.
JohnnyJT
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:31pmWell here’s Looking at You.
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:31pmNo such thing a coincidence when spooky dude is involved.
Report Post »Barry probably called and gave him a heads up that his scheme was not working too well and Sis was going to have to quit buying those machines.
tbb
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:29pmI don’t know what it means but WOW!
Report Post »Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:28pmhe really is one spoooooky dude!
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:28pmGyorgy Schwartz does nothing without purpose, what is Soros’s purpose in selling these stocks? In fact he has sold most of his total stock holdings at large, is he about to crash the system?
Report Post »Well there is not alot we can do about that, his minions will blindly folow his lead right off a cliff if told too. Too many financial IDIOTS take his word as gospel, and act on it failing to realize he’s manipulating them all into doing what he wants so he can increase his fortune and sieze control.
This man Soros is a seriors danger to the sovernty of our nation, and it is not like people within our governments both state and federal don’t know about him now thanks to Glenn and the millions of consevitive voices telling on Soros. So why hasn’t one, just ONE attorney for a state of fedearal government filed charges against him? Because we are being PLAYED still people, why is there NO integrity to be found, why are we sitting waiting for someone to do what is obviously the right thing to do (try Soros for treason), why ISN”T anyone doing anything, because they are all in on it together.
mdlwoods
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:26pmSooooo, Soros has talked the government into buying millions of dollars of these scanners, gets the stock up and then sells his shares, making probably billions in the deal. Once again, Soros sticks it to the US! Maybe someday his friends in Washington will realize he doesn’t give a rip about them, humanity, the world, etc, only himself.
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:24pmOSI has been selling scanners to the government for a long time. They sold the most under Bush, not Obama. Soros has nothing to do with the company’s marketing efforts, and the stock is such a tiny share of his assets that it wouldn’t be worth his time to even pick up the phone to lobby for such special treatment, as if that were even possible. You clearly know very little about Soros, OSI or the financial markets. It would be better if you refrained from blogging until you actually found yourself an education on these matters.
Report Post »fatpatriot
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:07pm@ABC
Report Post »You seem to spend an inordinate amount of time defending George and his tactics. Your information seems to be from “inside sources”. Does George or any of his tentacle organizations pay your salary? You are obviously far left. You seem to feel the need to end your posts with some “dig” at the commenters intelligence, knowledge or education level. Are you an elitist as well? Here’s an intelligent offer for you. Spend your time somewhere else where you aren’t recognized as the troll you are. If that doesn’t suit you then Kiss my ass….
Jabber
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:22pmABC said-
“OSI has been selling scanners to the government for a long time. They sold the most under Bush, not Obama.“ ”It would be better if you refrained from blogging until you actually found yourself an education on these matters.”
Here’s some edu-ma-cation on these here matters that I done found….
The FIRST full body scanner purchased by the TSA that was used in the United States was used in Tulsa OK in February of 2009 as part of an “experimental program” (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2009-02-17-detectors_N.htm)
CNN Money reported in January of 2010-
“The U.S. government is using $25 million in stimulus money to buy and install full body scanners in airports this year, in an effort to ramp up security and create jobs.”
“The Transportation Security Administration is using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to purchase 150 of the full body scanners, according to TSA spokeswoman Sarah Horowitz.”
“Peter Kant, vice president of global government affairs for Rapiscan…said ‘the U.S. government has given the TSA the green light to spend $173 million on scanners, which includes the initial $25 million contract.’ ”
Can ya remind us which President done signed that darned ARRA? I coulda swored that it was proposed by and voted through by the Dem-o-crats…..
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:27pmFatPatriot, I do not despise conservatives or liberals. I despise people who are too lazy or stupid to get the correct facts and who rely on a buffoon like Beck or Olbermann to do it for them. I am not tied to Soros, but I am embarassed as an American by the stupidity on display here. I have no inside information. You can go to edgar.gov and read the publicly available inforamtion on OSIS to learn what I know. That you don’t do it means that you are a fool interested in being led on a string by Beck. You call me a troll, but what I represent is a threat that reality and its factual basis crashes down on the mythology that you prefer to live in and by.
Jabber, you do understand that OSIS was selling a lot of other scanners before they released that full body scanner, and that the Bush administration after 9/11 caused the biggest increase in orders that the company has ever seen, right? So if you are going to make up stories about Soros moving the gov’t to by full body scanners from them, although it is a rounding error of a position in his hedge fun, then, in the interest of intellectual honesty and poltical fairness, you MUST admit that one could construct the same garbage theory about conservative businessmen who are either investing in OSIS or work there as an executive during the Bush years (’01-’08). My point is that this story, which has no empirical basis and logically makes little sense, has currency because the people carrying it do not think for themselves and do not demand factual and logical rigor from the PT Barnums (e.g., Beck) that create these silly shows of drama.
Report Post »Nicole in Boston
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:26pmGlenn’s got Soros so scared right now….
Report Post »FToth84
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:25pmHmmmmmm…… Creepy Dude you can run but you can’t hide!
Report Post »snapcount
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:25pmI think we should let capitalism speak, and go back to driving. It would increase economic activity in the smaller towns of the US and thus boost the employment rate here at home. I wanted everyone to see me naked, then I would not have gotten dressed this morning!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:25pmIs it possible that GS got the Oblame-a administration to buy his scanners in exchange for same contributions? Could it be??
At any rate it‘s clear that Glenn Beck is inside Soros’s head.
Report Post »ron the veteran
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:37pmglenn is damn sure a burr under soros saddle. its up to us to go after his orgs. after all we can play his game too. its time we put a lot of sunlite on old soros and his groups.
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 6:20pmNickderinger said-
“At any rate it‘s clear that Glenn Beck is inside Soros’s head.”
Now THAT is one place I wouldn’t want to be…whatdoya think is in there? Large ornate statues of himself being worshiped by peasants? Flying monkeys in purple shirts? A lifesize voodoo doll of Glenn Beck with really large pins stuck in it?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:39pmChernoff former secretary of DHS and co-author of the patriot act is the one making money off these scanners?
Report Post »http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread534803/pg1
CatB
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:22pmFunny how Soros is always the “first” … almost like he was controlling the market .. isn’t it?
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:28pmBINGO! But, shhhh, he doesn’t want us to know……
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:51pmWe don’t call him “spooky dude” for nothing …
Report Post »starman70
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:14pmHe only sold when his spies told him that Glenn Beck was looking into his finances. He got caught anyway.
Report Post »EgoBrain
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:20pmMaking a difference.
Report Post »OkiePatriot
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:19pmSpooky dude got out while the getting was good…he aint rich cause he’s a dummy! I do hope they get rid of those scanners…they just go too far!
Report Post »warkittens
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:32pmAs a former TSA screener, I know the scanners do not go far enough. In training, we are asked to hide things on people and in luggage. If lowly TSA screeners can do it, so can the terrorists. Personally, I would rather be screened and have a modicum of safety than not be screened at all. Since we cannot profile, screen em all.
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:05pmWar – what exactly were you asked to hide on a person’s body? Were these people participating in security testing, or was this just randomly planting things on passenger’s bodies without their knowledge? That also makes me curious as to what exactly TSA agents are hiding in your stuff when the bosses are not watching! Please elaborate.
I’d also be curious to know how often the TSA finds dangerous items on a “randomly selected” person during one of these invasive pat-downs. You mention the TSA not being allowed to profile, and while I think this is the most efficeint way to screen, I think what they are doing now is reverse-profiling. I have yet to see any stories or complaints from arab travelers or anyone who is clearly of a minority ethnicity. Every story I have seen covered by the media thus far is of white people being groped.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:11pmGreat logic, Warkittens! A “modicum” of safety for our lose of freedom? No thanks. Scr*w Obama’s half-attempts at keeping us safe.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:16pmoops, meant “loss of freedom”
Report Post »Republic Under God
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:15pmWarkittens, let me get this straight… you guys are instructed to STASH things on people in training?
You judge that screening gives a modicum of safety… So we trade huge chunk of privacy rights and dignity for.. a MODICUM of safety. When the alternative is the INTELLIGENT PROFILING similar to that of Israel is WAY MORE EFFECTIVE. Just compare the airline issues in Israel vs. US. Then consider that Israel is IN THE SNAKE PIT. Mr. Franklin would call you, who so easily yields his liberty for safety’s sake, a fool who deserves neither.
Let’s expose a double standard in profiling:
Can anyone tell me the typical race and age of someone who is a serial killer?
Report Post »jingo455
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 4:59pmWarkitten, that’s why we need to profile. Stop blowing air up granny’s dress (those weird air puff machines) and scanning her naked body. Seriously?
And you all say China is bad? I gotta tell you, I feel much more free in China‘s airports than the US’. China profiles too, they just don’t admit it. Gives officers their “discretion”, which usually means whitey gets waved thru, and osama lookalikes get pounced on.
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:19pmLooks like Soros is sleeping with the TSA.
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:37pmThey hear our footsteps, comming to restore freedom.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:50pmJust in case you were wondering how these machines got there to start with, Ole George has friends in high places to get your money.
Report Post »jingo455
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 4:37pmAs an American conservative who moved to Capitalist China away from Communist USA, it seems every day that goes by proves it was the right choice (aside from the massive profits of running a small business in China with cheaper, smarter labor) . Over here, the airport staff and attendants are 10x more courteous and you don’t get “rapescan inc” (rapiscan, lol that name is certainly an intended irony) trying to take pictures of your privates, and the one time I got patted down was by a dang cute girl so the heck if I could get upset (only cuz a bubble gum wrapper had set off the alarm – ridiculous).
Don’t believe me that US is more communist?
(Glenn Beck needs to cite these stats sometime so someone forward it and verify.)
First, if we assume government spending is the only verifiable measure of government planning, then the USA is 250% MORE communist than China. The US’ GDP was 50% government spending, whereas China was 20%. So the US has 250% more government planning if spending is used as the measurement.
And for those of you deriding the People’s *REPUBLIC* of China for human rights abuses
(99% of governments are democracies or republics, even Iran and North Korea are republics), just remember, if the US wants to abuse your rights, NO ONE WILL KNOW ABOUT IT (rendition, assasination, etc.).
Just ask Congressman Larry McDonald [the first Glenn Beck], or JFK, RFK, JFK jr., MLK, Malcolm X, Vince Foster, Pat Tillman, Paul Wellstone, Lee Harvey Oswald, or any other significant social figure causing real change — oh wait, you can‘t cuz they’re all dead.
The problem is China sucks at covert assasinations and instead of buying the media thru proxy corporations as the US government does, they have “state media” and openly admit their government form. China is just more frank and honest than the US is. Democracy has a knack of putting the best liar in power.
They don’t bother having rigged elections like the US does. It’s funny how you all will admit Harry Reid rigged his machines (like anyone backed by the Casinos couldn’t do that? lol, that’s the job of a casino, to rig machines) but then go and claim to be some great “democracy” as if the rest of the world are the only people with rigged elections and human rights abuses (and what the hell are human rights anyways, some made up materialist crap to get people to unite under world government on “equality” basis).
So in summation China is state capitalist (as beck sometimes mentions) and the USA is communist.
China will wup America’s ass because they are Capitalists (perhaps National Socialists) who can pretend to be Commis. And National Socialism works better than capitalism, sadly. Communism doesn‘t work because it tries to redistribute and can’t set a proper price on things, China does neither. Nazism is scarily efficient. (Beijing Olympics anyone?)
Who will succeed economically? American-idol-watching, fast food eating, food-stamp using, 15% with degrees, multicultural, multireligion, Americans? Or the hardworking, no safety net, 100% get 4 year degrees, disciplined as hell, ethnically unified Chinese? Didn’t you all see the Beijing Olympics? I’d like to see America try to even have 100 people synchronized rather than thousands.
China has 80% of the world’s construction cranes, despite being 20% of the population.
Report Post »The Chinese ACTUALLY work and make stuff. Whereas half of America just wants “hobby jobs” like to be an actor/director/musician. THOSE ARE HOBBIES, NOT JOBS. Art doesn’t put food on the table, clothes on your back, or a roof over your head. Better yet, the Chinese have wisely decided to not approve of US copyright laws. So they can have their cake and eat it too. America churns out all the art for their consumption, and they don’t have to waste economic resources on art.
abc
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:22pmYou guys are so ignorant. First, OSIS has nearly quadrupled in the last two years and trades at a relatively rich multiple. Second, there have been some concerns over their forward orders from the US government, so several investors in the stock have reduced holdings. Third, the ownership reports come from 11-F reports filed with the SEC over Edgar, and these come out on a quarterly basis. They would not be updated on a weekly basis; therefore, the sales likely occurred at a different time than the anti-Soros crowd is, without any factual evidence, assuming. Fourth, the OSIS shares are a tiny percentage of Soros‘ total fund’s asset value (less than .04%). Fifth, Soros has a lot of equity analysts working for him and the old man does not approve all buys and sells, so the timing has to do with what some 30-something year old financial analyst thinks about the stock, not how the ownership would look to conspiracy-theory accolytes of Beck. Honestly, how can one have an intelligent debate when people’s understanding is so challenged and so far from reality.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:28pmJingo, you are an apologist for communist China. Oh, you ARE right about one thing: The commies didn’t have to bother driving China’s economy off the cliff. They decided the barrel of a gun was a faster, more efficient means of effecting change. Go visit the labor camps. Better yet, tour the mass graves of the millions of innocent civilians killed during the Cultural Revolution. Too risky even for you? Perhaps you can set up an interview with Liu Xiaobo? Oops, you can’t; he’s in prison. Try then to picture Tiananmen Square, where thousands of protesters were shot/crushed by the Red soldiers/tanks. You can always (re)visit occupied Tibet, the killing fields of Cambodia and why not, the Dear Leader in North Korea. Please don’t bother traveling to Vietnam, though. The blood of our heroes was shed there for naught. NOW, tell me China is not commie-red to its putrid core. State capitalism, my @ss. That’s just the new respectable label for commies, like calling terrorists “freedom fighters”.
I’m sure that from the Chinese perspective, they now have the best of both worlds. Personally I hope their blood-stained economy crashes, if we go down. And I am relieved you moved to Utopia, where female airport officers send commie tingles up your leg. Lucky you – not.
“…Mao‘s Great Famine is a masterpiece of historical investigation into one of the world’s greatest crimes. …Limiting himself to describing and analysing the famine, [the author] devotes only a few lines to what may be one of its eeriest aspects: that it provoked so little reaction in the west. It is not that the fact of the famine was unknown. Reports surfaced repeatedly, only to be discounted by a host of prominent visitors. …
The famine Mao made was different, … because it was created by a regime that claimed to be creating a society without scarcity. … In the minds of its western admirers, Mao’s China was a fantasy land, not a real country. …China has never aroused more enthusiasm in the west than during the Cultural Revolution… only a few years after the Great Leap Forward, which destroyed millions more lives.”
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/09/mao-china-famine-western
Nah, we’ll ALWAYS have Western enthusiasts willing to spread the commie propaganda du jour.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:19pmHe’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!
Report Post »john seven eighteen
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:27pmLike the E*Trade commercial, “This is my shocked face”!!! This guy is the devil encarnate!!
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:53pmI guess this explains the rush to get these machines implimented in the screening process ASAP. I’m sure George made some mention of these fantastic new screening methods when he visited the White House.
I hope Soros didn’t shift this investement directly over to a company marketing body cavity search equipment.
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:56pmWell maybe the Republicans will call him up to the hill and grill him. Frankly he should be in jail, he’s done some very questionable things. The REAL issue here is that NONE of this would be going on if we weren’t so damn politically correct. It’s insanity to not profile those groups that perpetrate terror. If they don’t like it, then they should clean their own house. I haven’t seen any real house cleaning going on in the Muslim community. Plus as it turns out, Big Sis and this administration have out and out lied to the American people. It turns outs not only are the images are MUCH more graphic than we have been lead to believe, but they can indeed be stored and transmitted! Can you say IMPEACHMENT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CsEgIfUX0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1CKYjz9Fj0
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:04pmDid you Mr. Soros also sell the airline industry short just before this body scan fiasco started? Just an interesting speculation. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:41pmRun George run, but you can’t hide.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:49pmThis activity by Soros sugests to me that he bought in during the time when that company was selling the units and at highest point of profit. Then got out when sales started to peak and start to drop, he had to know this ahead of time .
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:58pmAnother questionable position held by Spooky Dude regarding the BP Oil Spill (we all know about the Petrobras investments)…
Weeks prior to BP Oil Spill…
George Soros added to his holdings in Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. by 233.33%. His purchase prices were between $4.29 and $6.99, with an estimated average price of $5.53. The impact to his portfolio due to this purchase was 0.03%. His holdings were 500,000 shares as of 03/31/2010.
Who is Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp.? The dredging company subcontracted by stimulus shill company Shaw Group to build the berms protecting Louisiana’s barrier islands during the oil spill.
Hmmmmmm? Just sayin’.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:01pmHeyjim55
This is why he is rich and you are not. All of those evil rich folks the commies are crying about, this is him. I haven’t heard them talk about or denounce Soros, wierd.
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:03pmAh yes…and Soros’ latest investments…
Major buys in private water, private prison management, and rail.
“Spooky Dude” may not be a creepy enough nickname for this piece of work.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:31pmYou know everyone, we have been missing the one largest weakspot in the defenses of Soros. Any of us able to needs to organize against whatever businesses he has invested in, and singly or as a series of groups start turning the economic tables upon him. Hurt him in the pocket book, as that is the one true place he can be vulnerable; and give him so many attacks from so many directions he will not be able to deal with each and every one of them.
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Sam I am
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:33pmI am more disturbed that Former DHS head Michael Chertoff is selling the machines.
To me, that’s like Janet Napolitano selling fence to Arizona.
Create a need, then fill it.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:59pmSpooky Dude has his hands in everything the government does that we don’t like.
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 3:26pmThe former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, represents Rapiscan, the company which is selling these scanners to his former department.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 3:44pmHe sells this and buys Monsanto(Soros also purchased 897,813 shares of Monsanto–his second-largest holding on a dollar basis–during the quarter. The position is now valued at $312.6 million.)
Report Post », and today the senate pass the “food safety bill” which some say greatly helps monsanto control our food supply. I read the Bill yesterday and I didn’t see where Monsanto could do any such thing, but I am not fluent in “legaleze”.
StMichelob
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 4:53pm@ Journalist… Epic work! But that makes me scratch my head… Why would BP insiders (I think on 60 minutes, not sure) tell that inspection reports of the platform were fudged or ignored, and that this accident was INEVIDABLE because safety was ignored? hrmmm…
OH WAIT! MAYBE they were paid like say, twice the salary they would have made in their lives in one lump sum by…I dunno…“some heavily invested” guy, to LIE about those safety inspection reports, and CBS, ever the complient servent to that “heavily invested spooky dood” ran the story as fact!
I‘m just talkin’ out loud here, folks, ha haha…. that would NEVER happen…
Get stocked up, people. if you NEVER believed any word that ever came out of Beck’s mouth, believe that. Not only food, but ammo. Gonna be a bumpy ride…
Get duct tape too…you never know…
Semper Fi and thanks again for that story, Journalist…you are epic and a great American!
Report Post »jingo455
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:15pmIs Rapiscan pronounced “Rape Scan”?
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:29pmBetterdays, you have the wrong guy. The real money was made in Monsanto when that company hired a bunch of former Bush Sr. folks to lobby on behalf of it to force farmers to use its product under threat of lawsuits. It also relied upon its former corporate lawyer, a certain conservative justice Clarence Thomas to speak up on behalf of changing IP laws to allow Monsanto to collect annuities of cash on naturally-occuring genetic code. Now, Justice Thomas typically goes not weeks or months, but years, without every asking a single question during SCOTUS hearings, but he apparently spoke for several minutes on behalf of the case that made Monsanto shareholders very rich. Your relentless attacks on the Dems lead you to characterize even companies that are so obviously Republican that there is no doubt of their allegience as suckers for liberal leaders and causes. This conclusively proves that you do not know what you are talking about, and that you blame liberals irrationally for everything, from a weak economy to rain on your wedding day. Only fools would parade such ignorance proudly in public.
Report Post »be heard
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:32pmSoros has invested in the xray screening systems. He need the government to buy them. He sets up a willing terrorist with a faulty underwear bomb. The man get’s arrested and read his rights before our military can question him. Janet N. comes on the news and says something like the system worked the way it was supposed to. We now need to have xray equipment to prevent this from happening again or we will have to fill you up (sexually assault) before getting on the plane. Now TSA can buy all the equipment they need and Soros gets rich.
But how can we get the sheep to use this equipment. Lets have a news story stating that Muslim woman won’t have to go through the security system for religious reasons. Now the debate isn’t our rights are being taken away and we will not except this new system to… if I have to be screened everyone has to be screened.
This is just a thought.
Report Post »Jabber
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 6:09pmRogue said-
“I hope Soros didn’t shift this investement directly over to a company marketing body cavity search equipment.”
Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *inhale* hahahahahahahahaha!!!! Wait. O crap. That’s not funny……..:-)
Report Post »Journalist Stunt Double
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 7:08pm@ABC
Confucius say, “Man who go to bed with itchy butt, wake up with smelly finger.”
Translation: You parade your own ignorance by barking up the wrong tree. Progressives (both Liberal and Republican) sold this country down the river a long time ago. It matters not who is in power politically; the almighty dollar rules. Monsanto is dirty as sin no matter what side of the aisle they’re currently manipulating. And yes, Soros is making all kinds of cheddar stacks off of them and all of us while you’re still concerned with whose end-zone dance is the silliest.
It’s no longer an “us vs. them” ideological battle…it’s us vs. the progressive elites, and the progressive elites are closing and locking the door behind them, kicking the ladder over, and greasing every rung. You’re either part of the solution, or part of the useful idiots helping them grab more power. I hope you enjoy the 50 cent patch on your Members Only jacket they’ve bestowed upon you while you help carry their water, because that‘s all you’re going to get out of the deal.
Donald Rumsfeld helped get cancer causing aspartame past the FDA, but guess whose in power still allowing it to run its course. Catch my drift?
Whose currently in power giving hundreds of millions of tax dollars to Monsanto for genetically modified algae research geared towards risk-free energy investment on YOUR dime? Whose currently in power, not stopping Monsanto from suing farmers whose plants naturally cross-pollinate with Monsanto patented GM crops, but instead giving them a greater seat at the table by selling our sovereignty away to UN Codex schemes and grand biofuel plans?
Who made billions off of oil, and the Oil-for-Food Scandal and is now allowed to hang tight in China while promoting “environmental justice” and shaking a finger at the rest of us, while pushing carbon credit schemes and investing in Chinese automobiles with Soros?
Which former Vice President whose family made bundles from Occidental Petroleum is on a world tour in his private jet promoting global warming and carbon credit schemes, demanding the rest of us to live with less?
Which administration demonized Wall Street while employing half of their highest executives on their “economic recovery team” and monetary policy councils?
Your talking points and finger are much like your lower intestine…stinky. Enjoy your low hanging fruit.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:35pmDoes Rothschild own any shares ?
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I guess indirectly by owning the Federal reserve they a piece of everything.
StMichelob
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:52pm@ JOURNALIST now i gave you major kudos on the BP post you gave, but stand down against ABC. he is telling the truth here. The GOP that was in control, at least before all the republican primaries effed the GOP was just as bad, and in the same boat, as the Soros Libs and that is a “fact” that came be constude from the way they were acting since just before the ‘06 elections. ABC speaks truth, although I would LOVE if he gave blame to the left as well. I have a post on here on the ‘guess who shoed up” commie gathering vid on here a few hours ago that agreed with ABC then as well. ABC, can I get you to admit that BOTH sides are pooping in their pants and wrong about power-hunger? Or am I defending your words at my own peril?
Semper Fi, and God please show us the truth!
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:02pmOn the other hand, JOURNALIST, Which former Vice Pez invested millions, returning billions, into the “green” industry just before releasing a movie that rhymes with “An Inconvenient Ruth’, is controlling, and influencing our nation weather service people to “comply or be fired” on the global warming stance, even though (I know for a fact, have an ex girlfriend there in the national weather service) the data PROVING global warming is a myth was surpressed by a mysterious government agent….and Gore and friends still bank on that bullstuff. How both that?
Report Post »FFPanama
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 9:05amSoros is not stupid, misguided maybe, but not stupid. With all of the outrage over these scanners, the stock price will fall because the purchase contracts may be voided as TSA does not need these any more since all of the insiders have made their millions. Just a good investment strategy. Buy just before the Gov starts buying and sell before the Gov has to abandon the things due to public outcry. Buy low sell high, make Billions so that you can fund communists organizations.
Report Post »abc
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 1:21pmJournalist, first Confucius never said that. Second, it is not us vs. progressive elites, but the common man versus the corrupt elite, and there are corrupt elites that are progress and that are conservative (e.g., Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc.). Third, my point about Monsanto highlights that conservatives are neck-deep into Monsanto, which has undertaken questionable practices and with impunity because of powerful GOP connections. Finally, that you insist on making it a left (dirty) vs. right (clean) polemic, means that you do not see reality clearly. That I highlighted a conservative example, while highlighting that elites of the left and the right are equally corrupt, puts me in a different and more accurate category than you. Heck, you cannot even get your Confucius quotes right…
Report Post »jamesctheman
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 4:08pmIt’s interesting that the company making these scanners is OSI. As in Open Society Institute. I probably am reading to much into this. Wouldn‘t an open society as Soros wants include intrusive sceenings for what’s under your clothes. Maybe this will bring to light the injustice of people being born different from each other with different skin color & body parts. I think we need a Bodily Injustice Society to make sure there aren‘t people out there who have been blessed bodily more than other’s. That mean God, I mean magic man in the sky the sheeple pray too, making us all our own individuals instead of us all being the same. Shame on him giving us uniqueness.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 7:14pmOk,ok,ok…than that means that soros sold his shares at the latest september. Yet media matters said he owns less than 1 percent. Is it just me or is media matters the sh**ttiest reporting org that you’ve ever seen. thats your boss, yet you didnt know he’d already sold the stock? These people are without a doubt the most ignorant creatures to ever crawl out from under the bridge. With intellect like this, we will kick your ass up and down the street. Thanks for the reassurance.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 18, 2010 at 8:21pmRon Paul for president
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ohru12
Posted on November 19, 2010 at 5:57pmI go to huffpo to irritate them. I need some help tho, I refer to George as George Sorrows and most are so stupid that they think I can not spell? Help me send this around the internet. It ****** them off. Thanks
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