Speakthetruth says: April 12, 2011 at 4:14 pm These ex Nazis living in the United States have continued to undermine the global economy via wall street. Soros in my view is a Nazi thug who might have taken part in the deliberate rounding up of the Jews prior to their imprisonment/holocaust. I don’t believe Soros was 14 years old then. He is lying and may have changed his age. He is much older than 80. America, please put a stop to this mad man. He has deliberately played with the European market and was fined recently. Soros Fund Fined $2.2Million by Hungarian Regulator for Attempting To Manipulate Hungarian Market Here’s the interesting event to ponder: Soros’s statements prompt the question of what exactly his “experiences” were and what he saw as a child. Below is an excerpt of a transcript of a Soros interview by Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes on December 20, 1998. The source is Nexis and the document is identified as “CBS News Transcripts.” The emphasis is mine. KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish. When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews. (Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging little boy in line) KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what happened to George Soros’ friends and neighbors. (Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their shoulders walking; crowd by a train) KROFT: (Voiceover) You’re a Hungarian Jew… Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. KROFT: (Voiceover) …who escaped the Holocaust… (Vintage footage of women walking by train) Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm. (Vintage footage of people getting on train) KROFT: (Voiceover) …by–by posing as a Christian. Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right. (Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; train door closing with people in boxcar) KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps. Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made. KROFT: In what way? Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should understand and–and anticipate events and when–when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a–a very personal experience of evil. KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson. Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes. KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews. Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes. KROFT: I mean, that’s–that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult? Mr. SOROS: Not–not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t–you don’t see the connection. But it was–it created no–no problem at all. KROFT: No feeling of guilt? Mr. SOROS: No. KROFT: For example that, ‘I’m Jewish and here I am, watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.’ None of that? Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c–I could be on the other side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was–well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets–that if I weren’t there–of course, I wasn’t doing it, but somebody else would–would–would be taking it away anyhow. And it was the–whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So the–I had no role in taking away that property. So I had no sense of guilt. KROFT: Are you religious? Mr. SOROS: No. KROFT: Do you believe in God? Mr. SOROS: No. Soros’ own words are subject to various interpretations. The most exculpatory thing that can be said is that he was only 14 years old. But it can be said with certainty that Soros was no Nazi victim, and that he should not imply that he was. He should stop accusing his political adversaries of Nazi tactics. One aspect of Sunday’s interview that I found curious was that Zakaria gave Soros the opportunity to deny that he helped “round up Jews,” but Soros never did. He instead launched his already-quoted attack on Fox News. Here’s Zakaria’s question, referencing Glenn Beck: ZAKARIA: But it’s very personal. I mean, he talks about you as a 14-year-old boy and he accuses you of — of essentially helping to round Jews up — you’re Jewish yourself. You’ve lost – SOROS: Yes. ZAKARIA: You lost many, many people in the holocaust. How did you feel when you heard that? I have had my own first-hand experience with Soros’ attempts to shade his past. Check this http:_nlpc.org/stories/2011/02/24/soros-should-stop-making-nazi-accusation Log in to Reply
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:16:38 -0700 Subject: Words have power to hurt, haunt From: [email protected] To: [email protected] ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Gaffar Peang-Meth <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 12:29:50 PM Subject: Words have power to hurt, haunt PACIFIC DAILY NEWS April 13, 2011 Words have power to hurt, haunt A. Gaffar Peang-Meth As you read this column today, Buddhists are celebrating the start of a new year, Year 2555 of the Buddhist Era. I wish each the blessings of a Happy Buddhist New Year. As one who frequently writes about the importance of informed, critical thinking, I am pleased at the opportunity this reminder of Buddha offers to acknowledge Buddha's teaching that thought makes man, and with his thoughts man makes the world: "We are what we think." Great teaching An action is an outcome of thoughts and dreams, which are conveyed through words, written or spoken. The words we use are revealing of who and what we are, and even of the values we hold. A Khmer saying goes, "Samdei sar jiat," or "Words reveal a man's worth." A Khmer scholar asked recently in his writing if Khmer Buddhist beliefs are only "skin deep." He appealed for "soul searching." Officially 96.4 percent Buddhist and 90 percent ethnic Khmer, Cambodians, like their Southeast Asian Buddhist neighbors, begin a three-day celebration of the Khmer New Year of the Rabbit on April 13. You don't have to be Buddhist to appreciate the truth of the sacred teaching 2,500 years ago of Gautama Buddha, a critical thinker and activist: "Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." Susan Smalley, a UCLA psychiatry professor, said: "Verbal insults, verbal abuse, and the power of words to affect your emotions and actions are well demonstrated in science. For example, scientists have found that just hearing sentences about elderly people led research subjects to walk more slowly. In other research, individuals read words of 'loving kindness' showed increases in self-compassion, improved mood, and reduced anxiety." Buddha's words, connected with what the great Chinese teacher Confucius preached, "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?" provide a powerful and invaluable lesson. Smalley again: "I once read that a word is like a living organism, capable of growing, changing, spreading, and influencing the world in many ways, directly and indirectly through others. I never thought about a word being 'alive' but then I thought of words spoken 3,000 years ago, written down and passed through many generations, and they seem quite alive when read or spoken today, having lived 3,000 years. As I ponder the power of the word to incite and divide, to calm and connect, or to create and effect change, I am ever more cautious in what I say and how I listen to the words around me." Permanent scars It is said words are alive; if you cut them they bleed. Many world cultures tell us that a knife wound may heal, but a wound caused by words doesn't. It can last generations. Words can never be recalled. Written words are perpetual in public; spoken words haunt and hurt as long as man's memory. The Japanese say, "The mouth is the door of evil" but "One kind word can warm three winter months." Sometime ago, I wrote about the spiritual story, "A Bag of Nails." A father who wanted to teach a lesson to his very bad-tempered, young son, gave the boy a bag of nails and told him to hammer a nail into the wooden fence each time the son lost his temper. On the first day alone, the angry boy hammered 37 nails into the fence. But over the next few weeks, the numbers decreased as he learned to control his bad temper, until one day, he didn't have to drive a nail into the fence at all. He was happy. His father was happy. But now the father told the boy to go pull out one nail for each day the boy could hold his temper. It took many weeks before the boy pulled out the last nail. He learned that a bad temper could be controlled more easily than driving nails into the fence and pulling them out. "You have done very well, my son," the father spoke happily as he walked his son to the fence, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still be there." For this New Year, I find it worthwhile to repeat Stephen Ventura's basic training in "RESPECT": "R" recognizes a human being's inherent worth; "E" eliminates derogatory words and phrases; "S" speaks with, not at or about, people; "P" practices empathy through walking in others' shoes; "E" earns respect through respect-worthy behaviors; "C" considers others' feelings before speaking and behaving; and "T" treats every person with dignity and courtesy. Humanity highway In the words of civil rights icon, Martin Luther King, Jr., "There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." Some years ago, I heard a presentation by New Zealander John Sax in Manila. Sax's topic: "Highway of Humanity." All people are travelers and free to choose to get off on one of the two exits. On Sax's exit named "Great," travelers can stop at stations called love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, humility, honesty, truth, generosity, forgiveness and self-control. On exit "Miserable," there are stations called hate, misery, conflict, cruelty, meanness, unfaithfulness, brutality, pride, dishonesty, falsehood, misery, unforgiving and no self-control. Sax asked, "Which exit and which stations do you choose?" Happy Buddhist New Year! A. Gaffar Peang-Meth, Ph.D., is retired from the University of Guam. Write him at [email protected]. http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201104130300/OPINION02/104130331 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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