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Most Eastern Europeans say to George Soros: You should win the Nobel Prize No one in my eyes has shown interest in social issues in the underdeveloped countries as George Soros. He has funneled massive sums into education, public health, science and non-governmental groups, mostly in the former communist bloc. It is hard to think of anyone who deserves to be Nobel laureate more than him ... especially if we decide to judge the depth and breadth of his character according to the idea developed by Franklin D. Roosevelt: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
George Soros, the billionaire investor, yesterday told a Paris appeal court that he was innocent of the charges that led to his conviction for insider trading in France.
The 74-year-old investment wizard, whose Quantum Fund is now worth US$8.3 billion (euro6.5 billion), indicated on Thursday that he was more concerned about clearing his name than avoiding the fine, calling the original guilty verdict a gift to my enemies.
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• · · You can send up the the wasted opportunities. It is in the rules of democracy! When Size Matters: I can't explain it. I had no role in it ;-) ; Naked Eye of Alex Mitchell and Kerry-Anne Walsh - Sun Herald - notes that State Libs are angling for a Howard favourite. David Elliott, who resigned last week as national affairs manager for the Australian Hotels Association, was responsible for reorganising and refocusing the national office in Canberra and opening many doors to powerful people....With federal, state and council elections all to be held in 2007, the recruitment of Elliott would send shudders through the cave-dwellers in Sussex Street, headquarters of NSW Labor Party; Naked Eye also notes that Next week Sydney Harbour Foreshore will be under spotlight in NSW Parliament; Also Frank Sartor the previous director of the Public Accounts Committee in NSW, former Mayor of Sydney, has a new minder in Ross Neilson. As a result, ethnic guru Aldo Pennini will be back working for the Canadian Indian Walter Secord of Premier Bob Carr fame Report from Africa: The case ruffled feathers of politicians in New South Wales state, leaving Premier Bob Carr pondering the mysteries of life ; I asked the scholar-premier what preoccupies him these days. He rolled his eyes. "Services. Just keeping health care and transit working." What dominates this fascinating man's career? Events. At least he was well-read enough to expect no better. Down Under Politics 101 ; One gun in the hands of a criminal was one gun too many ; NSW Operation Peregnine is a multi-phase operation targeting different political crime types, commencing with the more serious to the less serious leaks. ID Card - Bring Them On!
• · · · It is unlikely Don Bradman would ever have taken a banned substance. If he had, however, it is inconceivable that he would have blamed his mother. Balancing money and compassion ; Tax concessions designed to help small businesses are having the opposite effect Small end of town ;
North, south and west of the big smoke they shake their heads and ask: Why buy in Sydney when you get more bang for your buck here? You'd have to be bonkers to buy a house in Sydney
• · · · · Public fury at Carr over state of services Public satisfaction with the state's hospitals and public transport system has plummeted following well-publicised scandals and bungles ; The Royal remarriage is another installment in the survival tale that is the British monarchy and the NSW Legislative Council: What was it Shakespeare said: ‘The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables?” Dr Meredith Burgmann, the republican and Queen representative in the NSW Legislative Council of NSW observed “I think it’s time we swapped the British royals for Princess Mary of Denmark. That way we would get a shiny nice Australian woman as queen who looks good in a hat.” The Ernie Awards: A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse ; Sandra Lee writes: Some of the overworked (humour me!) members of the NSW Upper House are worried about changes to their leisurely lunches with the recent resignation of Michael Egan. Despite his political shortcomings and tax, tax-nad-more-tax mantra, the State’s former chief bean-counter was known for his gentlemanly ways in the legislative chamber. Among them was his occasional penchant for insisting on 90-minutes lunch breaks when the House was insession, ensuring that members returned well watered and better fed for postprandial debate. Upper Dismay
• · · · · · A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo Explicit Photos Fan U.N. Sex Scandal ; Sending in the political clowns by tell-tale e-mail - Stephen Loosley. E-mail is a permanent record of sin. Or perhaps to put it more accurately, a permanent record of perceived sin. Whatever it takes, but no email