THE 2004 CAMPAIGN – THE PHILANTHROPIST – And for His Next Feat, a Billionaire Sets Sights on Bush

THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: THE PHILANTHROPIST; And for His Next Feat, a Billionaire Sets Sights on Bush

Mr. Soros says his motive is not power or position, but the decades and $4 billion he has spent to promote civil liberties in former authoritarian regimes. As a child, he survived the Holocaust in his native Hungary by adopting an assumed identity and, later, he slipped away from the Communists. Those experiences shaped his world view, both as a financier betting on uncertainty and as a philanthropist.

Starting from scratch, Mr. Soros became a billionaire by watching global economic and political trends and then placing huge bets in securities markets. The $1 billion he won in 1992 by betting against the Bank of England that the pound would fall made him a tabloid fixture in London and earned him the title ”The man who broke the Bank of England.”

Deborah Birx reportedly tells task force she can trust “nothing from the CDC”

Deborah Birx reportedly tells task force she can trust “nothing from the CDC”

Dr. Deborah Birx reportedly made the comments during a Wednesday meeting.

“During a task force meeting Wednesday, a heated discussion broke out between Deborah Birx, the physician who oversees the administration’s coronavirus response, and Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Birx and others were frustrated with the CDC’s antiquated system for tracking virus data, which they worried was inflating some statistics — such as mortality rate and case count — by as much as 25 percent, according to four people present for the discussion or later briefed on it.