Lord Jacob Rothschild … displays surprising consideration for the Occupy movements. “I have a lot of sympathy with people who protested about some of the excesses in the world of finance,” he told the Report. –Jerusalem Post (6/1/12)
George Soros did not fund Occupy Wall Street … [However] Soros has donated at least US$3.5-million to an organization called the Tides Center in recent years, earmarking the funds for specific purposes. Tides has given grants to Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada whose inventive marketing campaign sparked the first demonstrations [of Occupy Wall Street] last month … Tides declined to comment. – Reuters (10/13/11) Continue reading