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Reuters Speculates George Soros May Have Ties to Occupy Wall Street

George Soros May Have Ties to Occupy Wall Street ProtestsMany questions still exist surrounding who, exactly, is behind the Occupy Wall Street protests. Sure, we know the basics.

But beyond the few organizational structures we’ve heard about and the public figures who have come out to express their solidarity with the frustrated bunch, who is actually funding this monumental movement?

While a new report from Reuters doesn’t definitively tie billionaire George Soros to the protesters, the news agency speculates that the Occupiers may have benefited indirectly from his generosity. Reuters reports:

There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda…

…Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.

While Soros has denied any connection, he has said that he can “understand [the protesters'] sentiment.” Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, though, doesn’t buy into this denial. Limbaugh recently said, “George Soros money is behind this.” Here’s more on the potential ties:

According to disclosure documents from 2007-2009, Soros’ Open Society gave grants of $3.5 million to the Tides Center, a San Francisco-based group that acts almost like a clearing house for other donors, directing their contributions to liberal non-profit groups. Among others the Tides Center has partnered with are the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation.

Disclosure documents also show Tides, which declined comment, gave Adbusters grants of $185,000 from 2001-2010, including nearly $26,000 between 2007-2009.

Soros has denied comment, claiming that he has never heard of Adbusters. Click here to read more from Reuters.

Comments (148)

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  • hauschild
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:29am

    I often wonder if guys like Soros – had they been born with a more appealing set of looks – would have chosen the same career path, which is gaining huge amounts of wealth built on the destruction of so many others?

    Put another way, if Soros were a handsome bugger, would we even know about him at this point? I’ll betcha dollars to donuts that we would not.

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  • ginger100
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:25am

    Reuters is old news.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:23am

    No **** sherlock!!

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  • KINGRUDDY
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:23am

    DoooooH!!!!!! (ala Homer Simpson) and I thought it was the tooth fairy sponsoring this treason!
    Wake UP AMERICA!!!

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  • JeffandHolly37
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:22am

    You know all that free food and pretty signs is not all donated right. Thanks Soros for your continued effort to overthrow the Capitalist system. I am sorry to inform you that the American Majority is beginning to wake up and will take over the 2012 Election.

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  • thehormonalhillbilly
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:21am

    Get out he is so not

    If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to slaughter – George Washington

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:21am

    I wonder if Spooky Dude will burst into flames if we shine enough sunlight on him?

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    • spookydude
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:35am

      Who little old me……Nothing to see here….Move Along….!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:19am

    Chickenshit Jounalism!

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:19am

    They are just beginning to see this now????

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    • jedwards26
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 8:04pm

      I agree. Certainly took them long enough to even suggest the relationship. Media is so clueless!!

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  • 1947
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:19am

    Sounds like he’s in there pocket now along with the “MUSLIM Brotherhood” or is that the “Islamic Society of North America”.

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    • godhead
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:47am

      EVERYBODY is conspired against YOU. Yes THEY are all coming for YOU. YOU are not PARANOID. THEY are really in league to destroy YOU.

      YOU are doomed. YOU are the target THEY are seeking.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Your hit and run posting style, with lack of further debate after you toss your written bombs, removes any credibility from your statements, Godhead.

      Just an FYI.

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    • godhead
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 7:32pm

      GofJ . . . Yeah, you got bent out of shape when I called you out for your startlingly disingenuous posts, dripping as they do with ill-conceived and uninformed judgment. But I didn’t think you were so weak and easily influenced as to reduce you to irrelevant sniping WITHOUT the cover of feigned civility.

      You really need to butch up there, G. Jefferson was a man’s man. I‘m not sure he’d take your request for a meeting. Though I’m sure he could use a good stable boy. Someone he could trust with Sally while he was away.

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  • truthb4fiction
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:18am

    YA THINK!…… Well I guess better late than never!

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  • SLARTIBARTFAST
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:17am

    “Doh!”

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  • InterestingStuff
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:16am

    Here’s something interesting I found that leads to Soros and his ties to the White House
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_CTNSAc_IU

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  • BB671
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:15am

    This DR Evil SOB needs to go. He makes Osama Bin Laden look like a fricken boy scout!! Seriously…Seal team 6 needs to take this bastard out.. Obama would never sign the order….Who do thing funded Obamas rise to dictatorship???

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  • Diablo4965
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:14am

    Duh! Glenn was telling us this 6 months ago, when this crap was in the planning stages by Aires!

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  • bandi9
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:13am

    speculating is all they do anyway. there is never any real journalism happen with reuters.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:13am

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    Reuters, now I know where all the sharp tacks work…………….

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    • 30mmgunpilot
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Well, at least their tacks are sharper than the ones at NBCBS. Interesting that it‘s a foreign outfit that’s the first of the “mainstream” to be reporting this though. Maybe because so many in the EU have already been through the Soros wringer?

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  • starman70
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:11am

    Glenn told the world that this was coming 2 years ago. Nobody listened. Reuters, you better start watching Glenn’s program, you might learn something!

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    • godhead
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:44am

      Glenn predicts everything once, then simply waits for whatever is going to happen to happen, then goes back to his prediction and says, “See!” I told you so!”

      Limbaugh has been doing this for years.

      Wake up, idiots! He’s a three-card monty conman.

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  • BlondeFrenzy
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    How do these people even consider themselves “reporters” All they are, are more Useful Idiots.

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  • HKS
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    Of course he’s there, was there every any doubt. Wherever there’s social unrest with anti business agendas, Soros in one of his many forms is probably behind it and he’s just waiting to make money from it. He didn’t get filthy rich being stupid (monetarily) , however,morally he’s totally bankrupt.

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  • ((GB)) FAN
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    just watch GBTV and they would know.

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    • kentuckypatriot
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:23am

      Makes me wonder how many “ journalists ” secretly watch GBTV, especially when they show clips from his program!

      Report Post » kentuckypatriot  
    • KickinBack
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:52am

      Closet Beck fans. And who could blame them, just mentioning his name might cost them their jobs.

      Report Post » KickinBack  
  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:10am

    Soros and obama are the cause of the ‘occupy’ movement. It is orchestrated.

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    • godhead
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:42am

      Your proof? Nothing. OK.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:11am

      Godhead

      The official OWS website announced that it “stands in solidarity” with MoveOn.org, a lobbying group for the Wall Street-backed Obama administration.

      I know reading comprehension escapes the liberal mind but try to do a little critical thinking here. MoveOn is Soros funded and supports Obama’s socialist policies. More than just speculated ties, they are one oin the same.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:45pm

      Let me see if I have this straight:

      Soros backs Moveon.org, which “stands in solidarity” with OWS, which “occupies” and protests Wall Street, which lobbies for the Obama administration, which is Wall Street-backed?

      Where again is the lack of “critical ”thinking?”

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  • drago
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:09am

    Reuters speculate? Like they will actually report that soros is directly connected……

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  • boogiedownboy
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:09am

    Cut his strings.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on October 13, 2011 at 10:04am

    “Speculates”?

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 11:04am

      Good one, huh? Such GREAT investigative reporting! They should thank Glenn!

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    • Delete the Elite
      Posted on October 13, 2011 at 1:10pm

      ” It shocks me that all I read from you is how much you want a revolution in this country, now, when a grassroots movement against the true masters of this country is starting you people want to label it as radical left just so you can sit at home and do nothing like usual. Get out there join the movement and keep it from being hijacked by the Dems. Now’s your chance to put up or shut up, armchair revolutionaries. Stop making left and right paradigm excuses.” -Jesse Ventura

       
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