George Soros and Charles Koch take on the 'endless wars'
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/george-soros-and-charles-koch-take-on-the-endless-wars-074737
What has raised the most eyebrows, though, are the grants from the Open Society Foundations, one of Soros' main conduits for shaping progressive policies, as well as the Charles Koch Foundation, which is part of the network of Koch family foundations that have provided millions to libertarian and Republican Party causes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/soros-cio-dawn-fitzpatrick-puts-conservative-stamp-on-fund
Soros CIO Puts Conservative Stamp on Fund Built With Bold Bets
In November, Dawn Fitzpatrick, chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management, was being interviewed on a finance podcast called Capital Allocators. At the top of the program, the host sent out an appeal: “Dawn contends that Soros has a uniquely attractive platform for the right type of leading investors to apply their trade,” he said before reciting an email address, twice, for interested managers to send their résumés.
It’s not unusual for a company to let the world know they’re hiring, but that kind of open call is surprising given the mystique the Soros name has in the investing world. George Soros is known for bold moves such as his 1992 bet against the British pound, which earned him the moniker “the man who broke the Bank of England.” In its heyday his hedge fund returned more than 30% a year.
>https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/federal-lawsuit-alleges-craigslist-and-several-south-sound-hotels-profited-from-child-sex-trafficking/
Washington woman accuses Craigslist, major hotel chains of profiting from child sex trafficking
A Western Washington woman who says she was forced into prostitution at age 12 and sex-trafficked for years before escaping at age 18 has sued San Francisco-based Craigslist and hotel chains Motel 6, Wyndham and Howard Johnson, alleging they knew their businesses were being used to promote, protect and profit from child rape and sexual exploitation.
In an 81-page complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, the woman — identified by the initials M.L. — alleges that Craigslist and much of the hospitality industry have known for years that their services have been used by sex traffickers of children, but have not acted quickly or with conviction to address the problem. While in recent years these industries have moved to educate workers and cooperate with authorities to combat sex trafficking, the lawsuit alleges the effort amounts to lip service and is too little, too late.
The Washington case is one of a growing number of lawsuits targeting hotels and others in the hospitality industry, where sexual exploitation and trafficking have traditionally occurred relatively unchallenged. Similar lawsuits have been filed elsewhere, including in Atlanta and California, and M.L.’s attorney expects additional litigation in the future.
M.L. is seeking damages for negligence, outrage, criminal profiteering, sexual exploitation of children, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy.
The lawsuit identifies four hotels in the SeaTac area and Kent where M.L. said she was kept by a pimp for weeks at a time and where staff knew or should have known she was a child sex slave. The lawsuit describes times where she says she was told by staff to “keep it down” after being raped, and instances where her room’s trash was filled with used condoms and empty bottles of sexual lubricant. Most of the events referenced in the lawsuit occurred around the late 2000s, when M.L. was between the ages of 12 and 17.
Her attorney said she is now in her mid-20s, but declined to be specific about her age or where in Western Washington she resides today.
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It was flattering to have George Soros and Viktor Pinchuk personally waiting for us at the airport last night in Kiev — with their entourage of human Dobermans in little black Mercedes