tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-949421001644904537.post9045607647312264864..comments2024-01-24T18:56:58.635-08:00Comments on EXPLORING CULTURES: A Global Blog (all languages): Publishers Weekly news item:Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-949421001644904537.post-24185579033668408252010-01-14T19:30:52.242-08:002010-01-14T19:30:52.242-08:00GEORGE SOROS who is backing this book financially ...GEORGE SOROS who is backing this book financially is <br /><br /><br />a Billionaire businessman and donor <br /><br />The 78-year-old Hungarian-born speculator who helped bring down communism in Poland and Czechoslovakia and the Bank of England – on Black Wednesday in 1992 - failed to do the same to George W Bush in 2004 after stating the previous year that this was the "central focus of my life". <br /><br />In 2008, he was determined that Hillary Clinton would win back the White House for Democrats but had to settle for an Obama win instead. Thanks to his substantial donations to Democratic-supporting organisations, such as MoveOn.org and the Centre for American Progress, he remains a bogeyman for the Right, with bloggers deriding him as Obama’s puppetmaster. But he has criticised the Obama administration for falling short in its efforts to overhaul the financial system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com