Organizations Funded By George Soros’ Open Society Institute

[mick silver]

Organizations Funded By George Soros’ Open Society InstituteVia: Live Trading News (http://www.livetradingnews.com/organizations-funded-by-george-soros-open-society-institute-133394.htm)Organizations Funded By George Soros’ Open Society Institute
Below is a list of the organizations that have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977) and his Open Society Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181) (OSI) please Beware, as follows:
(Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the “Groups (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/summary.asp?object=Organization&category=)” section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp)):


Advancement Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7680): This organization works to organize “communities of color” into politically cohesive units while disseminating its leftist worldviews and values as broadly as possible by way of a sophisticated communications department.
Air America Radio (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6352): Now defunct, this was a self-identified “liberal” radio network.
All of Us or None (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7612): This organization seeks to change voting laws — which vary from state to state — so as to allow ex-inmates, parolees, and even current inmates to cast their ballots in political elections.
Alliance for Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6447): Best known for its activism vis a vis the appointment of federal judges, this group consistently depicts Republican judicial nominees as “extremists.”
America Coming Together (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6708): Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to coordinate and organize pro-Democrat voter-mobilization programs.
America Votes (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6527): Soros also played a major role in creating this group, whose get-out-the-vote campaigns targeted likely Democratic voters.
America’s Voice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7604): This open-borders group seeks to promote “comprehensive” immigration reform that includes a robust agenda in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens.
American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6511): This organization “opposes laws that require employers and persons providing education, health care, or other social services to verify citizenship or immigration status.”
American Bridge 21st Century (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7793): This Super PAC conducts opposition research designed to help Democratic political candidates defeat their Republican foes.
American Civil Liberties Union (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6145): This group opposes virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by the U.S. government. It supports open borders, has rushed to the defense of suspected terrorists and their abettors, and appointed former New Left terrorist Bernardine Dohrn (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190) to its Advisory Board.
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6707): This Washington, DC-based think tank seeks to move American jurisprudence to the left by recruiting, indoctrinating, and mobilizing young law students, helping them acquire positions of power. It also provides leftist Democrats with a bully pulpit from which to denounce their political adversaries.
American Family Voices (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7334): This group creates and coordinates media campaigns charging Republicans with wrongdoing.
American Federation of Teachers (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7513): After longtime AFT President Albert Shanker died in in 1997, he was succeeded by Sandra Feldman, who slowly “re-branded” the union, allying it with some of the most powerful left-wing elements of the New Labor Movement. When Feldman died in 2004, Edward McElroy took her place, followed by Randi Weingarten in 2008. All of them kept the union on the leftward course it had adopted in its post-Shanker period.
American Friends Service Committee (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6172): This group views the United States as the principal cause of human suffering around the world. As such, it favors America’s unilateral disarmament, the dissolution of American borders, amnesty for illegal aliens, the abolition of the death penalty, and the repeal of the Patriot Act.
American Immigration Council (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7529): This non-profit organization is a prominent member of the open-borders lobby. It advocates expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S.
American Immigration Law Foundation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6700): This group supports amnesty for illegal aliens, on whose behalf it litigates against the U.S. government.
American Independent News Network (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7832): This organization promotes “impact journalism” that advocates progressive change.
American Institute for Social Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7581): AISJ’s goal is to produce skilled community organizers who can “transform poor communities” by agitating for increased government spending on city services, drug interdiction, crime prevention, housing, public-sector jobs, access to healthcare, and public schools.
American Library Association (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6348): This group has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration’s War on Terror — most particularly, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=101&type=issue), which it calls “a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users.”
The American Prospect, Inc. (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7074): This corporation trains and mentors young leftwing journalists, and organizes strategy (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo) meetings for leftist leaders.
Amnesty International (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6185): This organization directs a grossly disproportionate share of its criticism for human rights violations at the United States and Israel.
Applied Research Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7696): Viewing the United States as a nation where “structural racism” is deeply “embedded in the fabric of society,” ARC seeks to “build a fair and equal society” by demanding “concrete change from our most powerful institutions.”
Arab American Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6174) Foundation: The Arab American Institute denounces the purportedly widespread civil liberties violations directed against Arab Americans in the post-9/11 period, and characterizes Israel as a brutal oppressor of the Palestinian people.
Aspen Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7681): This organization promotes radical environmentalism and views America as a nation plagued by deep-seated “structural racism.”
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968): This group conducts voter mobilization drives on behalf of leftist Democrats. These initiatives have been notoriously marred by fraud and corruption.
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7790): This organization seeks to advance “a national progressive strategy (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo)” by means of ballot measures—state-level legislative proposals that pass successfully through a petition (“initiative”) process and are then voted upon by the public.
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6756): This group provides a detailed blueprint for activists interested in getting their local towns, cities, and even college campuses to publicly declare their opposition to the Patriot Act, and to designate themselves “Civil Liberties Safe Zones.” The organization also came to the defense of self-described radical attorney Lynne Stewart (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=861), who was convicted in 2005 of providing material support for terrorism.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7658): This organization seeks to create a unified movement for “social and economic justice” centered on black racial identity.
Blueprint North Carolina (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7788): This group seeks to “influence state policy in North Carolina so that residents of the state benefit from more progressive policies such as better access to health care, higher wages, more affordable housing, a safer, cleaner environment, and access to reproductive health services.”
Brennan Center for Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6922): This think tank/legal activist group generates scholarly studies, mounts media campaigns, files amicus briefs, gives pro bono support to activists, and litigates test cases in pursuit of radical “change.”
Brookings Institution (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6890): This organization has been involved with a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs, including one that aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade (http://www.livetradingnews.com/?p=3873) and banking; the expansion of the Kyoto Protocol; and nationalized health insurance for children. Nine Brookings economists signed a petitionopposing President Bush’s tax cuts (http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:C94wM2vjkvsJ:www.epinet.org/stmt/2003/econlist_final_db.html+%22brookings+institution%22 +and+statements&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11) in 2003.
Campaign for America’s Future (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331): This group supports tax hikes, socialized medicine, and a dramatic expansion of social welfare programs.
Campaign for Better Health Care (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7503): This organization favors a single-payer, government-run, universal health care system.
Campaign for Youth Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7659): This organization contends that “transferring juveniles to the adult criminal-justice system leads to higher rates of recidivism, puts incarcerated and detained youth at unnecessary risk (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo), has little deterrence value, and does not increase public safety.”
Campus Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7122): A project of the Soros-bankrolled Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709), this group seeks to “strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders.”
Casa de Maryland (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7583): This organization aggressively lobbies legislators to vote in favor of policies that promote expanded rights, including amnesty, for illegal aliens currently residing in the United States.
Catalist (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7369): This is a for-profit political consultancy that seeks “to help progressive organizations realize measurable increases in civic participation and electoral success by building and operating a robust national voter database of every voting-age American.”
Catholics for Choice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6908): This nominally Catholic organization supports women’s right to abortion-on-demand.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7606): This political nonprofit group is dedicated to generating support from the Catholic community for leftwing candidates, causes, and legislation.
Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709): This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644) chief of staff John (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626)Podesta (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626), works closely with Hillary Clinton (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18), and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed to “developing a long-term vision of a progressive America” and “providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals.”
Center for Community Change (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6434): This group recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftist “political issue campaigns.” Promoting increased funding for social welfare programs by bringing “attention to major national issues related to poverty,” the Center bases its training programs on the techniques taught by the famed radical organizer Saul Alinsky.
Center for Constitutional Rights (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6148): This pro-Castro (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=912) organization is a core member of the open borders lobby (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf), has opposed virtually all post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures by the U.S. government, and alleges that American injustice provokes acts of international terrorism.
Center for Economic and Policy Research (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7226): This group opposed welfare reform, supports “living wage” laws, rejects tax cuts, and consistently lauds the professed achievements of socialist regimes, most notably Venezuela.
Center for Reproductive Rights (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7073): CRR’s mission is to guarantee safe, affordable contraception and abortion-on-demand for all women, including adolescents. The organization has filed state and federal lawsuits demanding access to taxpayer-funded abortions (through Medicaid) for low-income women.
Center for Responsible Lending (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7558): This organization was a major player in the subprime mortgage crisis. According to Phil Kerpen (vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity), CRL “sh[ook] down and harass[ed] banks into making bad loans to unqualified borrowers.” Moreover, CRL negotiated a contract enabling it to operate as a conduit of high-risk (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo) loans to Fannie Mae.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7336): Reasoning from the premise that tax cuts generally help only the wealthy, this organization advocates greater tax expenditures on social welfare programs (http://www.cbpp.org/info.html) for low earners.
Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7565): Aiming to redistribute wealth by way of higher taxes imposed on those whose incomes are above average, COWS contends that “it is important that state government be able to harness fair contribution from all parts of society – including corporations and the wealthy.”
Change America Now (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7333): Formed in December 2006, Change America Now describes itself as “an independent political organization created to educate citizens on the failed policies of the Republican Congress and to contrast that record of failure with the promise offered by a Democratic agenda.”
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7309): This group litigates and brings ethics charges against “government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests” and “betray the public trust.” Almost all of its targets are Republicans.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6984): This group seeks to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures to those of an international court.
Common Cause (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7610): This organization aims to bring about campaign-finance reform, pursue media reform resembling the Fairness Doctrine, and cut military budgets in favor of increased social-welfare and environmental spending.
Constitution Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7607): This organization seeks to challenge the legality of military commissions; end the detainment of “enemy combatants”; condemn government surveillance of terrorists; and limit the President’s executive privileges.
Defenders of Wildlife (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7052) Action Fund (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo): Defenders of Wildlife opposes oil exploration in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It condemns logging, ranching, mining, and even the use of recreational motorized vehicles as activities that are destructive to the environment.
Democracy Alliance (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7151): This self-described “liberal organization” aims to raise (http://www.livetradingnews.com/financing-and-going-public-60387.htm#.U8aSSLGxl68) $200 million to develop a funding clearinghouse for leftist groups. Soros is a major donor to this group.
Democracy 21 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7351): This group is a staunch supporter of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2082) Act.
Democracy Now! (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6891): Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman and four partners to provide “perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media,” i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism.
Democratic Justice Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6446): DJF opposes the Patriot Act and most efforts to restrict or regulate immigration into the United States — particularly from countries designated by the State Department as “terrorist nations.”
Democratic Party (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6214): Soros’ funding activities are devoted largely to helping the Democratic Party solidify its power base. In a November 2003 interview, Soros stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 “is the central focus of my life” … “a matter of life and death.” He pledged to raise (http://www.livetradingnews.com/financing-and-going-public-60387.htm#.U8aSSLGxl68) $75 million to defeat Bush, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush organizations. “America under Bush,” he said, “is a danger to the world, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is.”
Demos (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7690): This organization lobbies federal and state policymakers to “addres[s] the economic insecurity and inequality that characterize American society today”; promotes “ideas for reducing gaps in wealth, income and political influence”; and favors tax hikes for the wealthy.

[mick silver]

Drum Major Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7679): This group describes itself as “a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement,” with the ultimate aim of persuading “policymakers and opinion-leaders” to take steps that advance its vision of “social and economic justice.”
Earthjustice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6970): This group seeks to place severe restrictions on how U.S. land and waterways may be used. It opposes most mining and logging initiatives, commercial fishing businesses, and the use of motorized vehicles in undeveloped areas.
Economic Policy Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7657): This organization believes that “government must play an active role in protecting the economically vulnerable, ensuring equal opportunity, and improving the well-being of all Americans.”
Electronic Privacy Information Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7346): This organization has been a harsh critic of the USA PATRIOT Act and has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in litigating two cases calling for the FBI “to publicly release or account for thousands of pages of information about the government’s use of PATRIOT Act powers.”
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7580): Co-founded by the revolutionary communist Van Jones, this anti-poverty organization claims that “decades of disinvestment in our cities” — compounded by “excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration” — have “led to despair and homelessness.”
EMILY’s List (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6344): This political network raises money for Democratic female political candidates who support unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded (http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040425-112025-9831r) abortion-on-demand.
Energy Action Coalition (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7571): Founded in 2004, this group describes itself as “a coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups working together to build the youth clean energy and climate movement.” For EAC, this means “dismantling oppression” according to its principles of environmental justice.
Equal Justice USA (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7662): This group claims that America’s criminal-justice system is plagued by “significant race and class biases,” and thus seeks to promote major reforms.
Fair Immigration Reform Movement (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7521): This is the open-borders arm of the Center for Community Change.
Faithful America (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7603): This organization promotes the redistribution of wealth, an end to enhanced interrogation procedures vis a vis prisoners-of-war, the enactment of policies to combat global warming, and the creation of a government-run heath care system.
Feminist Majority (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6971): Characterizing the United States as an inherently sexist nation, this group focuses on “advancing the legal, social and political equality of women with men, countering the backlash to women’s advancement, and recruiting and training young feminists to encourage future leadership for the feminist movement in the United States.”
Four Freedoms Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7557): This organization was designed to serve as a conduit through which large foundations could fund (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo) state-based open-borders organizations more flexibly and quickly.
Free Exchange on Campus (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7285): This organization was created solely to oppose the efforts of one individual, David Horowitz, and his campaign to have universities adopt an “Academic Bill of Rights (http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/abor.html),” as well as todenounce (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22018) Horowitz’s 2006 book The Professors. Member organizations of FEC include Campus Progress (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7122) (a project of the Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709)); the American Association of University Professors (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6526); theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6145); People For the American Way (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6400); the United States Student Association (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6716); theCenter for Campus Free Speech (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7286); the American Library Association (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6348); Free Press (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7103); and the National Association of State Public Interest Research Groups (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6782).
Free Press (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7103): This “media reform” organization has worked closely with many notable leftists and such organizations as Media Matters for America (http://webmail.mydirecway.com/attach/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7150), Air America Radio (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6352), Global Exchange (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6151), Code Pink (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6149), Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7092), the Revolutionary Communist Party (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197), Mother Jones (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6959) magazine, and Pacifica Radio (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6913).
Funding Exchange (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7289): Dedicated to the concept of philanthropy as a vehicle for social change, this organization pairs leftist donors and foundations with likeminded groups and activists who are dedicated to bringing about their own version of “progressive” change and social justice (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12384). Many of these grantees assume that American society is rife with racism, discrimination, exploitation, and inequity and needs to be overhauled via sustained education, activism, and social agitation.
Gamaliel Foundation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7004): Modeling its tactics on those of the radical Sixties activist Saul Alinsky, this group takes a strong stand against current homeland security measures and immigration restrictions.
Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7325): This anti-Israel organization seeks to help Palestinians “exercise their right to freedom of movement.”
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7645): This group contends that when a state proves either unable or unwilling to protect civilians from mass atrocities occurring within its borders, it is the responsibility of the international community to intervene — peacefully if possible, but with military force if necessary.
Global Exchange (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6151): Established in 1988 by pro-Castro radical Medea Benjamin (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=626), this group consistently condemns America’s foreign policy, business practices, and domestic life. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Global Exchange advised Americans to examine “the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world — from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel.”
Grantmakers Without Borders (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6491): GWB tends to be very supportive of leftist environmental, anti-war, and civil rights groups. It is also generally hostile to capitalism, which it deems one of the chief “political, economic, and social systems” that give rise to a host of “social ills.”
Green For All (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7554): This group was created by Van Jones (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406) to lobby for federal climate, energy, and economic policy initiatives.
Health Care for America Now (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7488): This group supports a “single payer” model where the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.
Human Rights Campaign (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7619): The largest “lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender” lobbying group in the United States, HRC supports political candidates and legislation that will advance the LGBT agenda. Historically, HRC has most vigorously championed HIV/AIDS-related legislation, “hate crime” laws, the abrogation of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and the legalization of gay marriage.
Human Rights First (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6806): This group supports open borders and the rights of illegal aliens; charges that the Patriot Act severely erodes Americans’ civil liberties; has filed amicus curiae briefs on behalf of terror suspect Jose Padilla (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=703); and deplores the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities.
Human Rights Watch (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258): This group directs a disproportionate share of its criticism at the United States and Israel. It opposes the death penalty in all cases, and supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
I’lam (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6566): This anti-Israel NGO seeks “to develop and empower the Arab media and to give voice to Palestinian issues.”
Immigrant Defense Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6499): To advance the cause of illegal immigrants, the IDP provides immigration law backup support and counseling to New York defense attorneys and others who represent or assist immigrants in criminal justice and immigration systems, as well as to immigrants themselves.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6501): This group claims to have helped gain amnesty for some three million illegal aliens in the U.S., and in the 1980s was part of the sanctuary movement which sought to grant asylum to refugees from the failed Communist states of Central America.
Immigrant Workers Citizenship Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6910): This open-borders organization advocates mass immigration to the U.S.
Immigration Advocates Network (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7796): This alliance of immigrant-rights groups seeks to “increase access to justice for low-income immigrants and strengthen the capacity of organizations serving them.”
Immigration Policy Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7530): IPC is an advocate of open borders and contends that the massive influx of illegal immigrants into America is due to U.S. government policy, since “the broken immigration system […] spurs unauthorized immigration in the first place.”
Independent Media Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6282): This Internet-based, news and events bulletin board represents an invariably leftist, anti-capitalist perspective and serves as a mouthpiece for anti-globalization/anti-America themes.
Independent Media Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7349): IMI administers the SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network), which provides leftist organizations with “accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools” to help them “achieve their social justice goals.”

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Institute for America’s Future (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7332): IAF supports socialized medicine, increased government funding for education, and the creation of an infrastructure “to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard.”
Institute for New Economic Thinking (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7646): Seeking to create a new worldwide “economic paradigm,” this organization is staffed by numerous individuals who favor government intervention in national economies, and who view capitalism as a flawed system.
Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6991): This think tank has long supported Communist and anti-American causes around the world. Viewing capitalism as a breeding ground for “unrestrained greed,” IPS seeks to provide a corrective to “unrestrained markets (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo) and individualism.” Professing an unquestioning faith in the righteousness of the United Nations, it aims to bring American foreign policy under UN control.
Institute for Public Accuracy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6465): This anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-Israel organization sponsored actor Sean Penn’s celebrated visit to Baghdad in 2002. It also sponsored visits to Iraq by Democratic Congressmen Nick Rahall and former Democrat Senator James Abourezk
Institute for Women’s Policy Research (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7053): This group views the U.S. as a nation rife with discrimination against women, and publishes research to draw attention to this alleged state of affairs. It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, stating that “access to abortion is essential to the economic well-being of women and girls.”
International Crisis Group (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6218): One of this organization’s leading figures is its Mideast Director, Robert Malley, who was President Bill Clinton’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs. His analysis (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo) of the Mideast conflict is markedly pro-Palestinian.
J Street (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7458): This anti-Israel group warns that Israel’s choice to take military action to stop Hamas’ terrorist attacks “will prove counter-productive and only deepen the cycle of violence in the region”
Jewish Funds for Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7584): This organization views government intervention and taxpayer funding as crucial components of enlightened social policy. It seeks to redistribute wealth from Jewish donors to low-income communities “to combat the root causes of domestic economic and social injustice.” By JFJ’s reckoning, chief among those root causes are the inherently negative by-products of capitalism – most notably racism and “gross economic inequality.”
Joint Victory Campaign 2004 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5342): Founded by George Soros and Harold Ickes (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624), this group was a major fundraising entity for Democrats during the 2004 election cycle. It collected contributions (including large amounts from Soros personally) and disbursed them to two other groups, America Coming Together (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6708) and the Media Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712), which also worked on behalf of Democrats.
Justice at Stake (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7661): This coalition calls for judges to be appointed by nonpartisan, independent commissions in a process known as “merit selection,” rather than elected by the voting public.
LatinoJustice PRLDF (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6807): This organization supports bilingual education, the racial gerrymandering of voting districts, and expanded rights for illegal aliens.
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6936): This group views America as an unremittingly racist nation; uses the courts to mandate race-based affirmative action preferences in business and academia; has filed briefs against the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to limit the wholesale granting of green cards and to identify potential terrorists; condemns the Patriot Act; and calls on Americans to “recognize the contribution” of illegal aliens.
League of United Latin American Citizens (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6189): This group views America as a nation plagued by “an alarming increase in xenophobia and anti-Hispanic sentiment”; favors racial preferences; supports the legalization of illegal Hispanic aliens; opposes military surveillance of U.S. borders; opposes making English America’s official language; favors open borders; and rejects anti-terrorism legislation like the Patriot Act.
League of Women Voters (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6974) Education Fund (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo): The League supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; supports “motor-voter” registration, which allows anyone with a driver’s license to become a voter, regardless of citizenship status; and supports tax hikes and socialized medicine.
League of Young Voters (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7767): This organization seeks to “empowe[r] young people nationwide” to “participate in the democratic process and create progressive political change on the local, state and national level[s].”
Lynne Stewart (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=861) Defense Committee: IRS records indicate that Soros’s Open Society Institute made a September 2002 grant of $20,000 to this organization. Stewart was the criminal-defense attorney who was later convicted for abetting her client, the “blind sheik” Omar Abdel Rahman (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1685), in terrorist activities connected with his Islamic Group (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6300).
Machsom Watch (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7108): This organization describes (http://www.machsomwatch.org/en/about-us) itself as “a movement of Israeli women, peace activists from all sectors of Israeli society, who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians’ rights to move freely in their land.”
MADRE (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6770): This international women’s organization deems America the world’s foremost violator of human rights. As such, it seeks to “communicat[e] (http://www.madre.org/mission.html) the real-life impact of U.S. policies on women and families confronting violence, poverty and repression around the world,” and to “demand alternatives to destructive U.S. policies.” It also advocates unrestricted access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7318): This group views the U.S. as a nation replete with racism and discrimination against blacks; seeks to establish an independent black nation in the southeastern United States; and demands reparations for slavery.
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7187): This group calls for the expansion of civil rights and liberties for illegal aliens; laments that illegal aliens in America are commonly subjected to “worker exploitation”; supports tuition-assistance programs for illegal aliens attending college; and characterizes the Patriot Act as a “very troubling” assault on civil liberties.
Media Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712): Soros played a major role in creating this group, whose purpose was to conceptualize, produce, and place political ads on television, radio, print, and the Internet.
Media Matters for America (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7150): This organization is a “web-based, not-for-profit … progressive research and information center” seeking to “systematically monitor a cross-section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation.” The group works closely with the Soros-backed Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709), and is heavily funded by Democracy Alliance (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7151), of which Soros is a major financier.
Mercy Corps (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7206): Vis a vis the Arab-Israeli conflict, Mercy Corps places all blame for Palestinian poverty and suffering directly on Israel.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6156): This group advocates open borders, free college tuition for illegal aliens, lowered educational standards to accommodate Hispanics, and voting rights for criminals. In MALDEF’s view, supporters of making English the official language of the United States are “motivated by racism and anti-immigrant sentiments,” while advocates of sanctions against employers reliant on illegal labor seek to discriminate against “brown-skinned people.”
Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6964): This influential defender of Big Labor is headed by Democrat operativeHarold Ickes (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644).
Midwest Academy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6725): This entity trains radical activists in the tactics of direct action, targeting, confrontation, and intimidation.
Migration Policy Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6502): This group seeks to create “a North America with gradually disappearing border controls … with permanent migration remaining at moderate levels.”
Military Families Speak Out (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7071): This group ascribes the U.S. invasion of Iraq to American imperialism and lust for oil.
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7855): This group is the rebranded Missouri branch of the now-defunct, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN.
MoveOn.org (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201): This Web-based organization supports Democratic political candidates through fundraising, advertising, and get-out-the-vote drives.
Ms. Foundation for Women (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5300): This group laments what it views as the widespread and enduring flaws of American society: racism, sexism, homophobia, and the violation of civil rights and liberties. It focuses its philanthropy on groups that promote affirmative action for women, unfettered access to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, amnesty for illegal aliens, and big government generally.
NARAL Pro-Choice America (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6929): This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand, and works to elect pro-abortion Democrats.
NAACP (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6160) Legal Defense and Education Fund (http://www.livetradingnews.com/contact-us#.VMlAmS6YGpo): The NAACP supports racial preferences in employment and education, as well as the racial gerrymandering of voting districts. Underpinning its support for race preferences is the fervent belief that white racism in the United States remains an intractable, largely undiminished, phenomenon.
The Nation Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6780): This nonprofit entity sponsors leftist conferences, fellowships, awards for radical activists, and journalism internships.
National Abortion Federation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6990): This group opposes any restrictions on abortion at either the state or federal levels, and champions the introduction of unrestricted abortion into developing regions of the world.
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7021): This group was established in 1976 as the first “fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment.”
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7007): This group depicts the United States as a nation in need of dramatic structural change financed by philanthropic organizations. It overwhelmingly promotes grant-makers and grantees with leftist agendas, while criticizing their conservative counterparts.
National Committee for Voting Integrity (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7365): This group opposes “the implementation of proof of citizenship and photo identification requirements for eligible electors in American elections as the means of assuring election integrity.”
National Council for Research on Women (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7023): This group supports big government, high taxes, military spending cuts, increased social welfare spending, and the unrestricted right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
National Council of La Raza (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=153): This group lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate-crime laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens.
National Council of Women’s Organizations (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7015): This group views the United States as a nation rife with injustice against girls and women. It advocates high levels of spending for social welfare programs, and supports race and gender preferences for minorities and women in business and academia.
National Immigration Forum (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6506): Opposing the enforcement of present immigration laws, this organization urges the American government to “legalize” en masse all illegal aliens currently in the United States who have no criminal records, and to dramatically increase the number of visas available for those wishing to migrate to the U.S. The Forum is particularly committed to opening the borders to unskilled, low-income workers, and immediately making them eligible for welfare and social service programs.
National Immigration Law Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6503): This group seeks to win unrestricted access to government-funded social welfare programs for illegal aliens.
National Lawyers Guild (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6162): This group promotes open borders; seeks to weaken America’s intelligence-gathering agencies; condemns the Patriot Act as an assault on civil liberties; rejects capitalism as an unviable economic system; has rushed to the defense of convicted terrorists and their abettors; and generally opposes all U.S. foreign policy positions, just as it did during the Cold War when it sided with the Soviets.
National Organization for Women (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6186): This group advocates the unfettered right to taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; seeks to “eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia” from American society; attacks Christianity and traditional religious values; and supports gender-based preferences for women.
National Partnership for Women and Families (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7181): This organization supports race- and sex-based preferences in employment and education. It also advocates for the universal “right” of women to undergo taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand at any stage of pregnancy and for any reason.
National Priorities Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7361): This group supports government-mandated redistribution of wealth — through higher taxes and greater expenditures on social welfare programs. NPP exhorts the government to redirect a significant portion of its military funding toward public education, universal health insurance, environmentalist projects, and welfare programs.
National Public Radio (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6914): Founded in 1970 with 90 public radio stations as charter members, NPR is today a loose network of more than 750 U.S. radio stations across the country, many of which are based on college and university campuses. (source (http://sroblog.com/2011/03/18/npr-muslim-brotherhood-investigation-part-iii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sroblog+%28Snow+Report+Blog%2 9))
National Security Archive Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6909): This group collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to a degree that compromises American national security and the safety of intelligence agents.
National Women’s Law Center (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6969): This group supports taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand; lobbies against conservative judicial appointees; advocates increased welfare spending to help low-income mothers; and favors higher taxes for the purpose of generating more funds for such government programs (http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/FTFA11-18-05SenateAndHouseTax.pdf) as Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, foster care, health care, child-support enforcement, and student loans.
Natural Resources Defense Council (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6898): One of the most influential environmentalist lobbying groups in the United States, the Council claims a membership of one million people.
New America Foundation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7616): This organization uses policy papers, media articles, books, and educational events to influence public opinion on such topics as healthcare, environmentalism, energy policy, the Mideast conflict, global governance, and much more.
New Israel Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6577): This organization gives support to NGOs that regularly produce reports accusing Israel of human-rights violations and religious persecution.
NewsCorpWatch (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7688): A project of Media Matters For America, NewsCorpWatch was established with the help of a $1 million George Soros grant to Media Matters.
Pacifica Foundation (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6913): This entity owns and operates Pacifica Radio (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6913), awash from its birth with the socialist-Marxist rhetoric of class warfare and hatred for capitalism.
Peace and Security Funders Group (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6519): This is an association of more than 60 foundations that give money to leftist anti-war and environmentalist causes. Its members tend to depict America as the world’s chief source of international conflict, environmental destruction, and economic inequalities.
Peace Development Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5343): In PDF’s calculus, the United States needs a massive overhaul of its social and economic institutions. “Recently,” explains PDF, “we have witnessed the negative effects of neo-liberalism and the globalization of capitalism, the de-industrialization of the U.S. and the growing gap between the rich and poor …”
People for the American Way (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6400): This group opposes the Patriot Act, anti-terrorism measures generally, and the allegedly growing influence of the “religious right.”
People Improving Communities Through Organizing (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7482): This group uses Alinsky-style organizing tactics to advance the doctrines of the religious left.
Physicians for Human Rights (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6582): This group is selectively and disproportionately critical of the United States and Israel in its condemnations of human rights violations.
Physicians for Social Responsibility (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6895): This is an anti-U.S.-military organization that also embraces the tenets of radical environmentalism.
Planned Parenthood (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7083): This group is the largest abortion provider in the United States and advocates taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
Ploughshares Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7156): This public grantmaking foundation opposes America’s development of a missile defense system, and contributes to many organizations (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7689) that are highly critical of U.S. foreign policies and military ventures.
Prepare New York (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7678): This group supported the proposed construction of a Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan – a project known as the Cordoba Initiative, headed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2462).
Presidential Climate Action Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7508): PCAP’s mission is to create a new 21st-century economy, completely carbon-free and based largely on renewable energy. A key advisor (http://www.livetradingnews.com/sign-up#.U8Mx8rEfvMI) to the
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DAM ........ it took three pages to put down what this mother fvcker funding ... never in a dream would I thought he had this many group under his control never . NOW I am left wondering what don't we SEE that he putting money into ?

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lots more info at link , take he time and look ...http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276 The Shared Agendas of George Soros and Barack Obama
By Discover The Networks
February 2011


While George Soros was busy bankrolling his battalion of established activist groups and launching a few new ones of his own, he quite naturally looked toward the upcoming presidential election of 2008 with great anticipation, eagerly awaiting the day when George W. Bush would finally leave office. The question was, who would replace him? In recent years, all indications had been that Soros favored Hillary Clinton (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18) above most, if not all, other potential Democratic (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214) candidates for President. But now there was a new face on the scene¯a young, charismatic U.S. senator from Illinois named Barack Obama (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511)¯who seemed not only to share virtually all of Soros's values and agendas, but also appeared to be a highly skilled politician who stood a good chance of getting elected to the nation's highest office.

In December of 2006, Soros, who had previously hosted a fundraiser for Obama during the latter's 2004 Senate campaign, met with Obama in Soros's New York office. Just a few weeks later¯on January 16, 2007¯Obama announced that he would form a presidential exploratory committee and was contemplating a run for the White House. Within hours, Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount allowable under campaign-finance laws. Later that week, the New York Daily News reported that Soros would support Obama rather than Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, though Soros pledged to back the New York senator (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_43/b4055047.htm) were she to emerge as the nominee.1 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote1sym) But it was clear that Soros considered Obama to be the more electable candidate of the two. Most importantly, Obama's economic and political prescriptions for America were wholly accordant with those of Soros.

Anti-Capitalism

Obama's anti-capitalist background and views are well documented: His father was a communist; his mother was a communist sympathizer;2 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote2sym) in his youth he was mentored by the communist Frank Marshall Davis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2323); he sought out Marxist friends and professors at Occidental College; he attended Socialist Scholars Conferences (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6532) in New York; he was trained in the community-organizing methods of Saul Alinsky (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2314), a communist fellow traveler; he developed close ties to the pro-socialist community organization ACORN (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968); he developed close personal and political ties to the infamous Marxists (and former domestic terrorists) Bill Ayers (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169) and Bernardine Dohrn (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190); he was hand-picked for his first political office by Alice Palmer (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2325), a pro-Soviet figure in Illinois; in the 1990s he became a member of the New Party (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7434), a socialist political coalition; he had close connections to the Midwest Academy (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6725), a radical training ground which author Stanley Kurtz has described as a “crypto-socialist organization”;3 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote3sym) and he spent twenty years attending the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2307), who preaches the Marxist doctrines of liberation theology. As President, Obama appointed Carol Browner (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2364), a former “commissioner” of the Socialist International as his “environment czar”;4 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote4sym) he employed a White House communications director (Anita Dunn (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2434)) who cited Mao Zedong (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2073) as one of her “favorite political philosophers”;5 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote5sym) he appointed a “science czar,” John Holdren (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2368), who views capitalism as a system that is inherently destructive of the environment;6 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote6sym) he appointed Van Jones (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406), a longtime revolutionary communist, as his “green jobs czar”;7 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote7sym) and he strongly favors the redistribution of wealth, both within the U.S. and across international borders. The list, of course, could go on and on.

George Soros, too, harbors many negative views about capitalism and free markets. “The entire edifice of global financial markets has been erected on the false premise that markets can be left to their own devices,” says Soros. “We must find a new paradigm and rebuild from the ground up.”8 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote8sym) According to Soros (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbF09-ZkII), the capitalist “belief that everybody pursuing his self-interest will maximize the common interest … is a false idea.”9 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote9sym) Calling the global capitalist system “deeply flawed,” Soros maintains that “as long as capitalism remains triumphant, the pursuit of money overrides all other social considerations.”10 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote10sym) As Soros sees things, capitalism “is today a greater threat than any totalitarian ideology.”11 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote11sym) Lamenting that “the richest 1 percent of the world's population receive as much as the poorest 57 percent,”12 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote12sym) Soros suggests that only by reining in “global capitalism” can that gap be narrowed. He further complains that global capitalism, by encouraging the free flow of money across international borders, reduces the vital “ability of the state to provide Social Security to its citizens.”13 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote13sym) “The globalization of financial markets has rendered the welfare state that came into existence after World War II obsolete,” Soros explains, “because the people who require a social safety net cannot leave the country, but the capital the welfare state used to tax can.”14 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote14sym)

Soros's proposed remedy for this problem is a worldwide war on poverty that would transform the entire planet into a global welfare state, a sort of open-society alliance where “a kind of international central bank” could redistribute wealth from rich populations to poor ones.15 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote15sym) Toward this end, Soros announced (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091300283.html) in September 2006 that he would donate $50 million to the United Nations Millennium Project (http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/press/07.htm), a massive redistributive scheme calling for the governments of wealthy countries to commit 0.7% of their GNP to promoting “the economic development and welfare of developing countries.”16 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote16sym) Heading this Project (from 2002-2006) was Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who had worked (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977) with Soros in Russia during the Bill Clinton (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644) administration. As evidenced by his participation in the Millennium Project,17 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote17sym) Sachs has radically altered (http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/12/confirmed-soros-associate-jeffrey-sachs.html) his former pro-capitalist positions. Indeed, in recent times he has praised socialists as “both the heirs and the leaders of the world's most important and most successful political path”; he has lauded their “strong commitment to universalist ethical principles and fiscal re-distribution”; and he has voiced regret that America's lack of “commitment to re-distribution” has “enabled a massive underclass to develop.”18 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote18sym)

Similarly, George Soros sees “the global capitalist system in its present form” as “a distortion of what ought to be a global open society.”19 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote19sym) He suggests (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/open-society-soros-explains-the-anti-capitalist-pro-marxist-tactics-he-uses-to-fundamentally-transform-countries/%20) that if the “market fundamentalism in America” were “eliminated,” then “the public interest would be better served” by way of “a more equal distribution of wealth.”20 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote20sym)

In a November 2008 interview (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592268,00.html), Soros was asked whether he supported programs falling under the rubric of “big-government” or “European-style 'socialism.'” He replied, “That is exactly what we need now. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful—but also very harmful to our society.”21 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote21sym)

In October 2009, Soros told (http://www.theblaze.com/stories/open-society-soros-explains-the-anti-capitalist-pro-marxist-tactics-he-uses-to-fundamentally-transform-countries/%20) a Central European University audience that “there is a deep-seated conflict between capitalism and open society.” He observed, moreover, that “Karl Marx['s] proposition” of communist redistributionism “was a very attractive idea” that might well have succeeded if not for the unfortunate fact that “the communist rulers put their own interests ahead of the interests of the people.”22 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote22sym) “The failure of the central planning model did not prove the validity of the free enterprise model,” says Soros. “... There is a better way of looking at the world. It is based on the postulate of radical fallibility, according to which all our constructs are flawed in one way or another. Specifically, both models—Communism and free enterprise, or market fundamentalism, as I have rechristened it—are deficient; the deficiency in each one can be cured only by taking some elements from the other.”23 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote23sym)

The Call for Global Government

Soros's desire for a worldwide welfare structure is consistent with his general preference for some form of global government. In 1998 he wrote that “insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.” “The greatest opposition to this idea,” he added somberly, “is coming from the United States.”24 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote24sym)

Soros has continued to espouse this perspective ever since. At a 2003 event (http://www.apj.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3208&Itemid=2), a questioner asked Soros whether he and his foundations could “help to bring more foreign influence into the United States instead of relying on what is essentially a balance between Democrats and conservative Republicans, which hasn't worked and is not about to start working.” Soros replied:

“I think you put your finger on a very important flaw in the current world order. And that is that only Americans have a vote in Congress. And yet it is the United States that basically determines policy for the world. That is a flaw in the current setup. I don't think you can correct it by giving the Chinese government a vote in Congress. But it is a flaw, and I think this is where American leadership is needed, to take into account and respect the interests of others as well, in order to retain the dominant position we currently enjoy.”25 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote25sym)

This call for increased “foreign influence” in American political life is congruent with President Obama's position on the matter. In March 2009, for instance, Obama appointed Harold Koh (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2385), the dean of Yale Law School, as legal advisor to the U.S. State Department. Koh is an advocate of transnationalism (http://pcr.hudson.org/files/publications/2008_Bradley_Symposium_Fonte_Essay.pdf), a concept arguing in favor of “global governance” as opposed to the constitutional sovereignty of independent nation-states. This perspective holds that the world's most challenging problems are too complex and deep-rooted for any single country to address effectively on its own. The solution, says Koh, is for all members of the international community to recognize a set of supranational laws and institutions whose authority overrides those of any particular government.26 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote26sym)

In March 2007, Koh chastised (http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/110/koh032907.pdf) the U.S. for having “unwisely disengaged from various institutions that promote fundamental human rights, chief among them the International Criminal Court (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6984) [which would subordinate American criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to those of an international tribunal] and the newly established Human Rights Council (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7279)” of the United Nations¯a Council whose membership (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227209/obama-joins-human-rights-charade-anne-bayefsky) includes a number of nations known for their unrestrained anti-Semitism and human-rights abuses.27 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote27sym) President Obama ultimately announced (http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227209/obama-joins-human-rights-charade-anne-bayefsky), in 2009, that the U.S. would join the Council for the first time.28 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote28sym) In November 2010, this Council made headlines when it harshly berated (http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/04/united-nations-human-rights-council/) America for its alleged discrimination against Muslims, its barbaric police practices, its use of torture against enemies abroad, and its religious intolerance.29 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote29sym)

Another Obama official¯Eric P. Schwartz, the administration's assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration¯formerly served (http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=185013) as director of the U.S. Connect Fund, a Soros-financed organization that promotes global governance.30 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote30sym)

Fiscal Policy

Just a few days after Barack Obama was elected President, George Soros stated (http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,592268,00.html): “I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets¯because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost would be in the 300 to 600 billion-dollar range....”31 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote31sym)

Soon thereafter, as one of the first priorities of his presidency, Obama pressured Congress to pass a monumental $787 billion economic-stimulus bill whose text was 1,071 pages long­¯and which few, if any, legislators read before voting on it. Obama stressed the urgency of passing this bill at the earliest possible moment, so as to forestall any further harm to the U.S. economy. Notably, the legislation repealed (http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=f52c747b-298a-465b-9d26-bce95f296633&t=c) numerous essentials of the 1996 welfare-reform bill against which George Soros had so strongly rebelled.32 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote32sym) According to a Heritage Foundation report (http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33989), 32 percent of the new stimulus bill—or an average of $6,700 in “new means-tested welfare spending” for every poor person in the U.S.—was earmarked for social-welfare programs.33 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote33sym) Such unprecedented levels of spending did not at all trouble Soros, who said: “At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable.”34 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote34sym) In December 2009, Obama concurred again—outlining a set of new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals while explaining (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CF8SIO0&show_article=1) that America must continue to “spend our way out of this recession.”35 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote35sym)

Taxes

In a 2008 interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbF09-ZkII) with Bill Moyers, George Soros derided wealthy Americans who wished to have their tax burden lightened. According to Soros, such people were selfishly eager to “enjo[y] the fruits” of their affluence even as they viewed the act of “paying taxes” as “an absolute no-no”—indeed something veritably “unpatriotic.”36 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote36sym)

By Soros's telling, taxes are inherently desirable in good times and bad alike. In 2010, for instance, he stated that although the U.S. economy was in the midst of a prolonged downturn, it would be imprudent for lawmakers to extend the Bush-era tax cuts which were due to expire on January 1, 2011; such a course of action, he warned, would be “the wrong policy” and would cause the recession to deepen further.37 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote37sym) Soros proposed, instead, that the existing tax rates be permitted to return to their previous, higher levels, and that whatever extra revenue those elevated rates might generate should be used to finance yet another federal “stimulus” program.38 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote38sym) This suggestion was consistent with the funding priorities Soros has long pursued through his Open Society Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181). A substantial percentage of the organizations bankrolled by OSI favor high taxes to fill the coffers of an ever-expanding, government-run welfare state.

Likewise, Barack Obama's long track record in support of high income taxes, capital gains taxes, and estate taxes for “the wealthy” is well documented.39 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote39sym) Thus it was not surprising that Obama, through most of his early presidency, adamantly opposed any extension of the Bush tax cuts beyond their scheduled expiration date. But as the economy foundered and the President's popularity waned—to say nothing of the historic losses suffered by congressional Democrats in the midterm elections—Obama began to restrict his calls for a tax hike only to those in the highest income brackets.40 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote40sym) In the end, the President, recognizing that the electorate fiercely opposed higher taxes for anyone, pragmatically agreed to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two more years—a move that displeased George Soros greatly.41 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote41sym)

Soros's public stance in favor of higher tax rates for the wealthy is nothing short of remarkable, in light of the fact that he himself has taken some noteworthy measures to avoid paying taxes of his own. Consider, for instance, that his multi-billion-dollar Quantum Fund is actually incorporated on the tiny island of Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles, located in the Caribbean. As such, Soros avoids paying U.S. taxes on it. Americans who invest in his Fund likewise escape the tax man entirely. Their interest, dividends, and capital-gains earnings are taxed only if they are brought into the United States.42 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote42sym) And these investors are precisely the types of high earners who, according to Soros, should be willing to do their “patriotic” duty and pay the taxes that they can well afford; the minimum investment for the Quantum Fund is $100,000 (http://books.google.com/books?id=dcNMZTnEz6UC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=%22minimum+investment%22+in+the+%22quantum+fund %22+and+$100,000&source=bl&ots=ZY0-NiS9HO&sig=YUuvJD1TnbpQ-Lk3u5aTgqXqQxk&hl=en&ei=vhkrTZD-MMKt8Abs0f2MAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22minimum%20investment%22%20in%20the%20%22quant um%20fund%22%20and%20$100,000&f=false).43 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote43sym)

By no means has the Quantum Fund been Soros's only foray into tax-avoiding, offshore business enterprises. Indeed, Soros's real-estate company, Mapeley Steps, is headquartered in yet another tax haven, Bermuda. In 2001 this firm purchased more than 600 buildings from Inland Revenue (Britain's equivalent of the IRS) and then leased them to the British government for a princely sum—but paid no taxes, thanks to the Bermuda address.44 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote44sym)

Just as Soros has spoken out against calls to reduce income taxes, so has he consistently sided against proposals to lower or eliminate the estate tax (a.k.a. “death tax”), calling it “a valuable taxation” because it “does not interfere with wealth creation” and it “increases social equality.”45 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote45sym) In 2003, Soros and some fellow billionaires went so far as to sign a public letter stating that a repeal of the estate tax “would enrich the heirs of America's millionaires and billionaires while hurting families who struggle to make ends meet.”46 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote46sym) Yet Soros has creatively found a way for his own heirs to avoid paying any estate taxes, as he once explained:

“A charitable trust is a very interesting tax gimmick. The idea is that you commit your assets to a trust and you put a certain amount of money into charity every year. And then after you have given the money for however many years, the principal that remains can be left [to one's heirs] without estate or gift tax. So this is the way I set up the trust for my children.”47 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote47sym)

[mick silver]

NEW TARGET FOR "REGIME CHANGE": AMERICA

But right now, in 2003-04, Soros's primary focus was on the United States, whose government he considered to be at least as dangerous and oppressive as those of the aforementioned communist and authoritarian regimes. “I believe deeply in the values of an open society,” Soros said. “For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on fighting for these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States.”223 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote223sym) Asserting that he could “do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government than by pushing the issues,”224 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote224sym) Soros set out to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.”225 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote225sym) To accomplish this, he would create a political apparatus of extraordinary influence.

Soros had quietly laid the groundwork for this apparatus during the preceding eight years. Between 1994 and 2002, the billionaire had spent millions of dollars promoting the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform (http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11100)Act (http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11100)—better known as the McCain-Feingold Act (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=456) 226 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote226sym)— which was signed into law in November 2002 by President Bush. Soros began working on this issue shortly after the 1994 midterm elections, when for the first time in nearly half a century, Republicans won strong majorities in both houses of Congress. Political analysts at the time attributed the huge Republican gains in large part to the effectiveness of television advertising—most notably the “Harry and Louise (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/media/17adco.html)” series (which cost $14 million (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/business/media/17adco.html) to produce and air) where a fictional suburban couple exposed the many hidden, and distasteful, details of Hillary Clinton's proposals for a more socialized national health-care system. Indeed the 1994 election became, to a considerable degree, a referendum on this attempted government takeover of one-sixth of the U.S. economy—and on the Democratic President who had tacitly endorsed it. George Soros was angry that such advertisements were capable of overriding the influence of the major print and broadcast news media, which, because they were overwhelmingly sympathetic to Democrat agendas, had given Hillary's plan a great deal of free, positive publicity for months. Three weeks after the 1994 elections, Soros announced that he intended to “do something” about “the distortion of our electoral process by the excessive use of TV advertising.”227 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote227sym) That “something” would be campaign-finance reform.

Starting in 1994, Soros's Open Society Institute and a few other leftist foundations began bankrolling front groups and so-called “experts” whose aim was to persuade Congress to swallow the fiction that millions of Americans were clamoring for “campaign-finance reform.” This deceptive strategy was the brainchild of Sean Treglia, a former program officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5213).228 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote228sym) Between 1994 and 2004, some $140 million of foundation cash was used to promote campaign-finance reform. Nearly 90 percent of this amount derived from just eight foundations, one of which was the Open Society Institute, which contributed $12.6 million to the cause.229 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote229sym) Among the major recipients of these OSI funds were such pro-reform organizations as the Alliance For Better Campaigns ($650,000); the Brennan Center for Justice (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6922) (more than $3.3 million); the Center For Public Integrity ($1.7 million); the Center For Responsive Politics ($75,000); Common Cause (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7610) ($625,000); Democracy 21 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7351) ($300,000); Public Campaign ($1.3 million); and Public Citizen (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6430) ($275,000).230 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote230sym)

The "research" which these groups produced in order to make a case on behalf of campaign-finance reform was largely bogus and contrived. For instance (http://www.citizen.org/congress/article_redirect.cfm?ID=9776), Brennan Center political scientist Jonathan Krasno had clearly admitted in his February 19, 1999 grant proposal to the Pew Charitable Trusts that the purpose of the proposed study was political, not scholarly, and that the project would be axed if it failed to yield the desired results:
"The purpose of our acquiring the data set is not simply to advance knowledge for its own sake, but to fuel a continuous multi-faceted campaign to propel campaign reform forward. Whether we proceed to phase two will depend on the judgment of whether the data provide a sufficiently powerful boost to the reform movement."
The stated purpose of McCain-Feingold was to purge politics of corruption by: (a) putting restrictions on paid advertising during the weeks just prior to political elections, and (b) tightly regulating the amount of money that political parties and candidates could accept from donors. Vis à vis the former of those two provisions, the new legislation barred private organizations—including unions, corporations, and citizen activist groups—from advertising for or against any candidate for federal office on television or radio during the 60 days preceding an election, and during the 30 days preceding a primary. During these blackout periods, only official political parties would be permitted to engage in “express advocacy” advertising—i.e., political ads that expressly urged voters to “vote for” or “vote against” a specified candidate. Equally important, major media networks were exempted from McCain-Feingold's constraints; thus they were free to speak about candidates in any manner they wished during their regular programming and news broadcasts. This would inevitably be a positive development for Democrats, who enjoyed the near-universal support of America's leading media outlets.231 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote231sym)

In addition to its limits on pre-election political advertising, McCain-Feingold also placed onerous new restrictions on the types of donations which candidates, parties, and political action committees (PACs) could now accept. Previously, they had been permitted to take two types of contributions. One of these was “hard money (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=813),” which referred to funds earmarked for the purpose of express advocacy. Federal Election Commission (FEC) regulations stipulated (http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/bcra_overview.shtml) that in a single calendar year, no hard-money donor could give more than $1,000 to any particular candidate, no more than $5,000 to a PAC, and no more than $20,000 to any political party.232 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote232sym)

The other category of pre-McCain-Feingold donations was “soft-money (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theshadowpartypoe2004.html),” which donors were permitted to give directly to a political party in amounts unlimited by law. But to qualify for designation as “soft money,” a donation could not be used to fund “express advocacy” ads on behalf of any particular candidate. Rather, it had to be used to pay for such things as “voter-education” ads or “issue-oriented” ads—political messages that carefully refrained from making explicit calls to “vote for” or “vote against” any specific candidate. So long as an ad steered clear of uttering such forbidden instructions, there was no limit as to how much soft money could be spent on its production and dissemination.

McCain-Feingold raised the per-donor maximum for certain hard-money donations: A donor could now give up to $2,000 to a candidate, $5,000 to a PAC, and $25,000 to a political party.233 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote233sym) But the new law banned soft-money contributions to political parties altogether.

Historically, Republicans had enjoyed a 2-1 advantage over Democrats (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214) in raising hard money from individual donors. Democrats had relied much more heavily on soft money (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=813) from large institutions such as labor unions.234 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote234sym) Thus it seems counter-intuitive that Soros, who clearly favored Democrats over Republicans, would seek to push legislation whose net effect—the removal of soft money—would be unfavorable to Democratic Party fundraising efforts.

But Soros's motive becomes clear when we look at the types of organizations whose fundraising activities were left unaffected by McCain-Feingold. These were “527 committees (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=813)”—nonprofits named after Section 527 of the IRS code—which, unlike ordinary PACS, were not required to register with the FEC. Run mostly by special-interest groups, these 527s were technically supposed to be independent of, and unaffiliated with, any party or candidate. As such, they were permitted to raise soft money—in amounts unbound by any legal limits—for all manner of political activities other than express advocacy. That is, so long as a 527's soft money was not being used to pay for ads explicitly urging people to cast their ballots either for or against any particular candidate, the letter of the McCain-Feingold law technically was being followed. Practically speaking, of course, such things as “issue-oriented ads” and “voter-education” ads can easily be tailored to favor one party or candidate over another, while carefully steering clear of “express advocacy.”

Once McCain-Feingold was in place, Soros and his political allies collaborated to set up a network of “527 committees” ready to receive the soft money that individual donors and big labor unions normally would have given directly to the Democratic Party. These 527s could then use that money to fund issue-oriented ads, voter-education initiatives, get-out-the-vote drives, and other “party-building” activities—not only to help elect Democratic candidates in 2004, but more broadly to guide the Democratic Party ever-further leftward and to reject the “closed” society that Bush and the Republicans presumably favored. By helping to push McCain-Feingold through Congress, Soros had effectively cut off the Democrats' soft-money supply and diverted it to the coffers of an alternative network of beneficiaries—which he personally controlled.235 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote235sym) As Byron York observed, “[T]he new campaign finance rules had actually increased the influence of big money in politics. By giving directly to 'independent' groups rather than to the party itself, big-ticket donors could influence campaign strategy and tactics more directly than they ever had previously.... And the power was concentrated in very few hands”—most notably Soros's.236 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote236sym)


SOROS'S "SHADOW PARTY" TAKES SHAPE

While Soros's 527s were clearly devoted to Democratic Party agendas and values, they publicly professed to be independent of any party affiliations. Their partisanship was somewhat shrouded in proverbial shadows. Gradually, a number of journalists began to make reference to the emergence of certain pro-Democrat “shadow organizations” that seemed geared toward circumventing McCain-Feingold's soft-money ban. In time, the term “Shadow Party (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=842)” came into use.237 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote237sym)

George Soros set in motion the wheels of this Shadow Party when he gathered a team of political strategists, activists, and Democrat donors at his Long Island beach house on July 17, 2003, to discuss how President Bush could be defeated in the 2004 election. Attendees included such luminaries as OSI director Morton Halperin (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1682); EMILY's List (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6344) founder and abortion-rights activist Ellen Malcolm (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1073); former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626); Sierra Club (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6930) executive director Carl Pope (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1750); labor leader and former Clinton advisor Steve Rosenthal (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1627); former Clinton speechwriters Jeremy Rosner and Robert Boorstin; and major Democrat donors such as Lewis and Dorothy Cullman, Robert Glaser (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2494), Peter Lewis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003), and Robert McKay (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2495).238 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote238sym)

The consensus was that voter turnout—particularly in 17 “swing” or “battleground” states239 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote239sym)— would be the key to unseating President Bush. Steve Rosenthal and Ellen Malcolm—CEO and president, respectively, of a newly formed but poorly funded (http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party/) voter-registration group called America Coming Together (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6708) (ACT)240 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote240sym)— suggested that voters in those swing states should be recruited and mobilized as soon as possible. Agreeing, Soros told the pair that he personally would give ACT $10 million to help maximize its effectiveness. A few other attendees also pledged to give the fledgling group large sums of money: Soros's billionaire friend Peter Lewis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003), chairman of the Progressive Corporation, promised to give $10 million; Robert Glaser (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2494), founder and CEO of RealNetworks, promised $2 million; Rob McKay (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2495), president of the McKay Family Foundation, committed $1 million; and benefactors Lewis and Dorothy Cullman pledged $500,000.241 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote241sym)

By early 2004, the administrative core of George Soros's Shadow Party was in place. It consisted of seven ostensibly “independent” nonprofit groups—all but one of which were headquartered in Washington, DC. In a number of cases, these groups shared one another's finances, directors, and corporate officers; occasionally they even shared office space.242 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote242sym) The seven groups were:

1) America Coming Together (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6708) (ACT): Jump-started by Soros's $10 million grant, ACT in 2004 ran what it called (http://actforvictory.org/) “the largest voter-contact program in history,” with more than 1,400 full-time paid canvassers contacting potential voters door-to-door and by phone.243 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote243sym)

2) Center For American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709) (CAP): This entity was established to serve as a think tank promoting leftist ideas and policy initiatives. Soros, enthusiastic about the Center's potential, pledged in July 2003 to donate up to $3 million to help get the project off the ground.244 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote244sym) From the outset, CAP's leadership featured a host of former high-ranking officials from the Clinton administration.245 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote245sym) Hillary Clinton predicted that the organization would provide “some new intellectual capital” with which to “build the 21st-century policies that reflect the Democrat Party's values.”246 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote246sym) George Soros and Morton Halperin (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1682) together selected former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta to serve as president of CAP. Podesta said his goal was to develop CAP as a “think tank on steroids,” featuring “a message-oriented war room” that “will send out a daily briefing to refute the positions and arguments of the right.”247 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote247sym)

3) America Votes (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6527): This national coalition coordinated the efforts of many get-out-the-vote organizations and their thousands of contributing activists.248 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote248sym) Soros's support for America Votes would continue well past 2004. Indeed he would donate $2.15 million (http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?ein=204359961&cycle=2006%20) to this coalition in the 2006 election cycle,249 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote249sym) another $1.25 million (http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527cmtedetail_donors.php?cycle=2008&ein=204359961) in advance of the 2008 elections,250 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote250sym) and yet another $1.25 (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/us/politics/30dems.html) million in 2010.251 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote251sym)

4) Media Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712): Describing itself as “the largest media-buying organization supporting a progressive message” in the United States, this group produced and strategically placed political ads in the print, broadcast, and electronic media.252 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote252sym)

5) Joint Victory Campaign 2004 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5342&category=79) (JVC): This fundraising entity focused on collecting contributions and then disbursing them chiefly to America Coming Together and the Media Fund. In 2004 alone, JVC channeled $19.4 million to the former, and $38.4 million to the latter.253 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote253sym) Soros personally gave JVC more than $12 million (http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/lookup.php?cycle=2010&donor=george%20soros&page=1) that year.254 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote254sym)

6) Thunder Road Group (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6713) (TRG): This political consultancy coordinated strategy for the Media Fund, America Coming Together, and America Votes. Its duties included strategic planning, polling, opposition research, covert operations, and public relations.255 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote255sym)

7) MoveOn.org (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201): This California-based entity was the only one of the Shadow Party's core groups that was not a new startup operation. Launched in September 1998, MoveOn is a Web-based political network that organizes online activists around specific issues, raises money for Democratic candidates, generates political ads, and is very effective at recruiting young people to support Democrats.256 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote256sym) In November 2003, Soros pledged to give MoveOn $5 million to help its cause.257 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote257sym)

According to Ellen Malcolm of America Coming Together (ACT), the financial commitment which Soros made to these Shadow Party groups in 2003 “was a signal to potential donors that he had looked at what was going on and that this was pretty exciting, and that he was going to stand behind it, and it was the real deal.”258 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote258sym) As Byron York observed, “After Soros signed on, contributions started pouring in.” ACT and the Media Fund alone took in some $200 million—including $20 million from Soros alone. This type of money was unprecedented in American politics.259 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote259sym)

Harold Ickes (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624), who served as White House deputy chief of staff in the Clinton White House, had a hand in creating every Shadow Party core group except MoveOn. He was also entrusted with the vital task of making these organizations function as a cohesive entity. In 2004, Democratic strategist Harold Wolfson suggested that outside of the official campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry, Ickes “is the most important person in the Democratic Party today.”260 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote260sym)

In addition to its seven core members, the Shadow Party also came to include at least another 30 well-established leftwing activist groups and labor unions that participated in the America Votes coalition. Among the better-known of these were ACORN (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968); the AFL-CIO (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7507); the AFSCME (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7515); the American Federation of Teachers (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7513); the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7338); the Defenders of Wildlife (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7052) Action Fund; EMILY's List (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6344); the Human Rights Campaign (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7619); the League of Conservation Voters (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6907); the NAACP (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6160); NARAL Pro-Choice America; (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6929) the National Education Association (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7428); People for the American Way (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6400); Planned Parenthood (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7083); the Service Employees International Union (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535); and the Sierra Club (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6930).261 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote261sym)

New Mexico's then-governor, Democrat Bill Richardson (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2358), observed that “these groups” were “crucial” to the anti-Bush effort. “Now that campaign-finance reform is law,” he said, “organizations like these have become the replacement for the national Democratic Party.”262 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote262sym) And no donor was more heavily invested in these organizations—or in defeating President Bush—than George Soros, who contributed $27,080,105 to pro-Democrat 527s during the 2004 election cycle. The second leading donor was the billionaire insurance entrepreneur Peter Lewis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003) ($23,997,220), followed by Hollywood producer Stephen Bing (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2134) ($13,952,682) and Golden West Financial Corporation founders Herbert and Marion Sandler (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2484) ($13,007,959).263 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote263sym)
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[mick silver]

NEW TARGET FOR "REGIME CHANGE": AMERICA

But right now, in 2003-04, Soros's primary focus was on the United States, whose government he considered to be at least as dangerous and oppressive as those of the aforementioned communist and authoritarian regimes. “I believe deeply in the values of an open society,” Soros said. “For the past 15 years I have focused my energies on fighting for these values abroad. Now I am doing it in the United States.”223 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote223sym) Asserting that he could “do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government than by pushing the issues,”224 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote224sym) Soros set out to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.”225 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote225sym) To accomplish this, he would create a political apparatus of extraordinary influence.

Soros had quietly laid the groundwork for this apparatus during the preceding eight years. Between 1994 and 2002, the billionaire had spent millions of dollars promoting the passage of the Bipartisan (http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11100)

[mick silver]

GO AND READ THIS SHIT ... AND THIS MAN NOT IN JAIL ARE WORST ...http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977 .... RADICALIZING AMERICA, ONE STATE AT A TIME: “PLAN” AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE PROJECT

In August 2005, when the Democracy Alliance was just getting off the ground, George Soros's Open Society Institute helped establish yet another new organization—the Progressive Legislative Action Network, or PLAN. Furnishing state legislatures with prewritten “model” legislation reflecting leftist agendas, this group was part and parcel of Soros's methodical campaign to shift American politics and public attitudes toward the left—by gaining a foothold inside the corridors of power on a state-by-state basis.311 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote311sym)

Then, in July 2006, Democracy Alliance (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7151) partner Michael Kieschnick collaborated (http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf) with Becky Bond (who also had affiliations with the New Organizing Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7232) and Working Assets (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7218)) and James Rucker (who co-founded Color of Change (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7555) and formerly served as director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201) Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action) to launch a major new initiative called the Secretary of State Project (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7487) (SoSP). This “527 committee” was devoted to helping Democrats (http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf) win secretary-of-state elections in crucial “swing” states—i.e., states where the margin of victory in the 2004 presidential election had been 120,000 votes or less.312 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote312sym) One of the principal duties (http://www.azsos.gov/info/duties.htm) of the secretary of state is to serve as the chief election officer who certifies candidates as well as election results in his or her state.313 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote313sym) The holder of this office, then, can potentially play a key role in determining the winner of a close election. Numerous Democracy Alliance partners became funders of SoSP. Soros was one of them. In 2008, for instance, he personally gave $10,000 (http://forms.irs.gov/politicalOrgsSearch/search/Print.action?formId=32217&formType=E72) to the Project.314 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977#sdfootnote314sym)

[mick silver]

In 2008, Stern's SEIU spent approximately $60.7 million (http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-stern28-2009jun28,0,7762069.story) to help elect (http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1259611404.pdf) Barack Obama to the White House¯deploying some 100,000 pro-Obama volunteers during the campaign.143 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote143sym) Stern went on to become an immensely influential advisor (http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-stern28-2009jun28,0,7762069.story) to President Obama. As of October 30, 2009, the union magnate had visited the White House 22 times (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/30/seius-stern-tops-white-house-visitor-list/) since Obama's inauguration¯more than any other individual.144 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote144sym)
In February 2010, Obama appointed Stern to sit on a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-names-members-bipartisan-national-commission-fiscal-responsibility-).145 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote145sym)

David Axelrod (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2466) David Axelrod serves as a key strategist for Barck Obama. In 2004, Axelrod's political consulting firm received (http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/Axelrod_and_the_outside_groups.html) at least $229,000 from the Media Fund (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6712), a Soros-backed Shadow Party organization which ran some $53 million in pro-John Kerry (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1346) presidential campaign ads.146 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote146sym)

Carol Browner (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2364)

On January 22, 2009, President Obama named Carol Browner to serve as his “environment czar.” Browner previously had been a “commissioner (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=B733BA80-D8A2-42FD-8859-C15F36C5A6A1)” with the Socialist International, an umbrella group for scores of “social democratic, socialist and labor parties” in 55 countries. She is currently a board member of the Alliance for Climate Protection (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7562), the Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709), and the League of Conservation Voters (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6907)¯all of which are funded by George Soros.147 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote147sym)
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Anna Burger (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2445)

Called “the most powerful women in the labor movement” by Fortune magazine and nicknamed the “Queen of Labor,” Anna Burger is dedicated (http://www.seiu.org/a/ourunion/anna-burger.php) to building the progressive movement in the United States. She has had a long career with the SEIU, where she currently serves as international secretary-treasurer (http://www.seiu.org/a/ourunion/anna-burger.php).148 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote148sym) In February 2009, President Obama appointed (http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/08/out-commie-truther-green-jobs-czar-in-union-hack-manufacturing-czar/) her to his Economic Recovery Advisory (http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=flutemandy.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe_press_of fice%2FPresidentialExecutiveOrderEstablishingthePr esidentsEconomicRecoveryAdvisoryBoard%2F)Board (http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=flutemandy.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe_press_of fice%2FPresidentialExecutiveOrderEstablishingthePr esidentsEconomicRecoveryAdvisoryBoard%2F).
 Burger is also vice chair (http://www.democracyalliance.org/leadership.php#ab) of the Soros-affiliated Democracy Alliance (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7151).149 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote149sym)

Kevin Jennings (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2426)

In 1990 Kevin Jennings established (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-jennings) the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (http://www.glsen.org/) (GLSEN), a Boston-area organization that is funded, in part, by the Open Society Institute.150 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote150sym) In June 2009, President Obama appointed Jennings as assistant deputy secretary of education (http://www.cnsnews.com/news/print/49741)¯or “education czar.”

Mark Lloyd (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2411)
A great admirer (http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:dsqTFkp4WzgJ:newsbusters.org/blogs/seton-motley/2009/08/28/video-fcc-diversity-czar-chavezs-venezuela-incredible-democratic-revol+%22mark+lloyd%22+and+%22hugo+chavez%22&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) of Venezuela's Communist president Hugo Chavez (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2144), Mark Lloyd has served as a consultant (http://www.netcaucus.org/biography/mark-lloyd.shtml) to the Open Society Institute (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181) and as vice president of strategic initiatives at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a legislative advocacy group that receives financial backing from George Soros. In July 2009, Lloyd, a senior fellow at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709), was appointed as President Obama's diversity chief at the Federal Communications Commission.151 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote151sym)

Jim Wallis (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1833)
A former member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6723), this self-described activist preacher has long championed the cause of communism (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&type=issue). Unremittingly critical of the free-market system, Wallis has often impugned capitalism for its historical lack of success. “Our systems have failed the poor and they have failed the earth,” he says (http://www.reachingout.org/programs_5_text.html). “They have failed the creation.”152 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote152sym) In a January 2006 radio interview with Interfaith Voices, Wallis was asked to clarify whether he was in fact “calling for the redistribution of wealth in society.” He replied (http://www.examiner.com/political-transcripts-in-national/president-s-spiritual-advisor-obama-feels-he-hasn-t-had-a-chance-video), “Absolutely, without any hesitation. That's what the gospel is all about.”153 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote153sym) Today Wallis is a spiritual advisor to President Obama.
George Soros (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977)' Open Society Institute (http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5181&category=79) has made grants to Sojourners (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7018), the leftist publication that Wallis founded, in the amounts of $200,000 (http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/990.php?ein=137029285&yr=200412&rt=990PF&t9=B) in 2004,154 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote154sym) $25,000 (http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/990.php?ein=137029285&yr=200612&rt=990PF&t9=B) in 2006,155 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote155sym) and $100,000 (http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/990.php?ein=137029285&yr=200712&rt=990PF&t9=B) in 2007.156 (http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1276#sdfootnote156sym)

[mick silver]

The term "Shadow Party" refers to the network of non-profit activist groups organized by George Soros (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977), Hillary Clinton (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18), Harold Ickes (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624), and others to mobilize resources -- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising, and policy iniatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214) ever-further towards the left. For a comprehensive discussion of the Shadow Party, its constituent members, and its agendas and activities, click here (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706). ....



The Shadow Party (3-part series) (http://discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theshadowpartythreepartseries.html)
By David Horowitz and Richard Poe
October 2004The Shadow Party: History, Goals, and Activities (http://discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theshadowpartypoe2004.html)
By Richard Poe
2004
The Shadow Party (http://www.richardpoe.com/2006/08/29/interview-jamie-glazov-interviews-richard-poe/)
Jamie Glazov interviews Richard Poe
August 29, 2006

The Shadow Party and the Shadow Government: George Soros and the Effort to Radically Change America (http://discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/ShadowPartyandTheShadowGov.pdf) (pamphlet)
By David Horowitz and John Perazzo
2011

Profiles of Shadow Party Members (http://discoverthenetworks.org/ShadowParty.asp)
By Discover The Networks


Book:

The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595550445/sr=1-1/qid=1155353018/ref=sr_1_1/103-1210351-5208620?ie=UTF8&s=books)
By David Horowitz and Richard Poe






The “Shadow Party” is a term originally devised by journalists to describe "527" political committees (http://discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=813) promoting Democratic Party (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214) agendas. It is here used more specifically to refer to the network of non-profit activist groups organized by George Soros (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977) and others to mobilize resources -- money, get-out-the-vote drives, campaign advertising and policy iniatives -- to elect Democratic candidates and guide the Democratic Party towards the left. The Internet fund-raising operation MoveOn.org is a key component. The Shadow Party in this sense was conceived and organized principally by Soros, Hillary Clinton (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=18) and Harold Ickes (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1624). Its efforts are amplified by, and coordinated with, key government unions and the activist groups associated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6968). The key organizers of these groups are veterans of the Sixties left. The individuals and organizations listed on this page are some of the major players, past and present, in the Shadow Party. For a comprehensive discussion of the Shadow Party, its constituent members, and its agendas and activities, click here (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6706).

[mick silver]

Groups






21st Century Democrats (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7613)




Air America Radio (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6352)




America Coming Together (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6708)




America Votes (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6527)




American Association for Justice (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7338)




American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6707)




American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7507)




American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7515)




American Federation of Teachers (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7513)




Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6968)




Brennan Center for Justice (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6922)




Campaign for America's Future (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7331)




Campus Progress (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7122)




Catalist (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7369)




Center for American Progress (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6709)




Center for Progressive Leadership (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7368)




Change America Now (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7333)




Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7309)




Constitution Project (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7607)




Defenders of Wildlife (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7052)




Democracy 21 (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7351)




Democracy Alliance (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7151)




Democracy For America (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7337)




EMILY's List (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6344)




Human Rights Campaign (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7619)




Institute for Policy Studies (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6991)




League of Conservation Voters (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6907)




Media Fund (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6712)




Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein, PC (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6964)




Midwest Academy (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6725)




MoveOn (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6201)




Moving Ideas Network (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7322)




NARAL Pro-Choice America (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6929)




National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6160)




National Education Association (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7428)




NDN (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7472)




New Organizing Institute (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7232)




People for the American Way (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6400)




Planned Parenthood Federation of America (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7083)




Project Vote (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6966)




Secretary of State Project (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7487)




Service Employees International Union (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6535)




Shadow Party (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6706)




Sierra Club (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6930)




Think Progress (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7121)




Thunder Road Group (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6713)




USAction (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6729)




Vote For Change (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6698)




Working Families Party (http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=6965)

[mick silver]

Americas Most Dangerous Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYnHQPFMzlo ... Elitist Billionaire EXPOSED! George Soros confirmed as "America's most dangerous man" a label previously given Soros by Daniel Ellsburg in the Pentagon Papers. The stunning revelations are from a George Soros hacked E-mail with the title of "Non paper". The document acquired & released by Ukraine hacktivist group CyberBerkut reveals Soros offer to supply Ukraine with arms in a deal that would side step the Minsk agreement, then backs it up with a promise to invest 1 BILLION dollars of his own money. - LINKS - Download a pdf copy of the 7 page Soros document - http://d01.megashares.com/dl/IgdxFTe/. (http://d01.megashares.com/dl/IgdxFTe/).. View or download images from Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+CivilDistrib...

[Cebu_4_2]

Mic we know, posting 7 or 8 walls of text dont help. Probably be better to just post links and have others format it and post back. I can't read the shit at all. Might just be my old pc but not sure.

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Damn. Bill O'reilly just went after Soros.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KegE285GQuc

[EE_]

I wish the US would do the same as Putin and call Soros a terrorist to the US. Make it illegal for anyone in the US to do business with this terrorist and seize all US bank accounts of Soros and Rothschild.

Russia Issues International ARREST WARRANT For ROTHSCHILD & SOROS!
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Vladimir Putin, now in full control of Russia as Prime Minister (then) NOW President , wishes to build a strong Christian nation. In a televised Christmas message on January 7 2008 Putin said:

“The Russian Orthodox Church contributes to the promotion of moral values in society. One should not completely draw a line between the culture and the church. Of course by law in our country the church is separate from the state. But in the soul and the history of our people it’s all together. It always has been and always will be.”



Russia will make The United States reflect upon what they allowed Rothschild to do to their own country.

So when you see protests against Vladimir now, keep in mind it is probably staged by The Rothschild’s trying to control Russia once again.

Putin Issues Arrest Warrant for Financial Terrorist George Soros!!

Financial terrorist and Hungarian banker, Convicted Felon George Soros…

Russian Intelligence has fingered Soros for using cross-collateralized compounded Swedish and Danish foreign currency derivatives for the purpose of an attack on the Russian stock market.

Soros’ use of these cross-collateralized compounded derivatives utilizing Luxembourg banks violates the terms of the Basil II European Union banking agreement.

The thing that should give pause to the Heads of State Western is like Putin did in freeing Russia from those who wanted to bring the total economic and social collapse and beat up in jail all those who have tried.

Are they influencing Lubawitschern Putin? The fact is that Putin is loyal to Russia and its people, and never allow anyone, even when he is in command in that nation, to sell out and to let his country into the clutches of the NWO. For this he ordered to issue an international arrest warrant against George Soros, who has been caught red-handed as he prepared to send financial aid to what is called opposition in Russia, which recently made the streets in dozens of thousands of people telling lies and misinformation-cheating during the elections.

Now Mr. Soros has little room to continue his dirty games with the speculation that has devastated the entire global financial system, in collaboration Rothschild / Rockefeller and other jackals.

Putin’s speech, which was officially issued by the Russian authorities.

Today it is made public the following statement by the Russian Federation and its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been asked for an arrest warrant against the International Terrorist Finance, the Hungarian currency-Mogul George Soros, the Russian secret services have found that Soros was using foreign currency derivatives with other Danes to start an attack against the Russian Currency Shares in the market.

It should be noted that Soros was using these derivatives with the help of Luxembourg banks, which is forbidden after the contract was made by the EU called Basel II.

Both the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and European Union have issued an Interpol “Red Notice” which is not only against the immediate arrest of Soros, but also against the Sharks on Finance, Bush, Clinton, criminal organization, Marc Rich and his firm, which is located in Switzerland, the Commodities Broker-Richfield, which is why the Russian Premier Putin has recently met the Chef of the Federal Reserve making clear that the Russian Federation will not accept that such use is made of people like Soros and Rich to commit criminal acts of the derivatives market and Finance, which led to social destabilization across the globe.

Putin will be done and start the hunt for these criminals and their accomplices Bankers Rothschild, Rockefeller…
http://csglobe.com/russia-issues-international-arrest-warrant-for-rothschild-soros/

[mick silver]

you still cant click on the links ,,,,, dam . this way the text lives on . point if you look you will see just how many places he funds here ...
Mic we know, posting 7 or 8 walls of text dont help. Probably be better to just post links and have others format it and post back. I can't read the shit at all. Might just be my old pc but not sure.

[StreetsOfGold]

Did not see ONE Christian organization (or Jewish one either)
I DID SEE Roman Catholic ones though, naturally

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d2Eq97_kmk

[monty]

Did not see ONE Christian organization (or Jewish one either)
I DID SEE Roman Catholic ones though, naturally
The first link I clicked, Constitution Project: http://discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7607

George Soros (http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977)'s Open Society Institute (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5181&category=79) has awarded grants annually to CP since at least 2000. CP has also received funding from such entities as the Educational Foundation of America (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5375&category=79), the Ford Foundation (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5176), the Nathan Cummings Foundation (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5311&category=79), the Public Welfare Foundation (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5198&category=79), the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5322&category=79), the Tides Foundation (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5184), and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (http://discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5337&category=79).


http://discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1786 Peter Edleman


Board member of the Center for Community Change, Americans for Peace Now, the New Israel Fund, the Center for Law and Social Policy, the Public Welfare Foundation, and the American Constitution Society

[mick silver]

next WHO is he not giving funds too to change the USA to what he want

[mick silver]

How Billionaires Use Nonprofits to Bypass Governments and Force Their Agendas on Humanity Sunday, 13 March 2016 00:00 By Sarah Lazare (http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45584), AlterNet (http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-billionaires-use-non-profits-bypass-governments-push-their-agendas?akid=14024.271274.xfCJKx&rd=1&src=newsletter1051739&t=7) | Report



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The charitable sector is a multibillion-dollar industry, and business is booming. In No Such Thing as a Free Gift, sociologist Linsey McGoey exposes how "philanthrocapitalism" enables a small group of wealthy individuals to play an outsized role in global policy making, and how government social services are being usurped by foundations with corporate interests. To order your copy of this book, make a donation to Truthout today! (https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6694/t/17304/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=661&t=&store_item_KEY=3179)
As wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the billionaire class is increasingly turning to foundations and non-profits to enact the change they would like to see in the world. Amid the rise of philanthrocapitalism (http://www.thenation.com/article/philanthrocapitalism-a-self-love-story/), growing numbers of critics are raising serious questions about whether this outsized influence is doing more harm than good.
In the January issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran journalist Michael Massing noted (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/01/14/how-to-cover-the-one-percent/) that, in the past 15 years alone, "the number of foundations with a billion dollars or more in assets has doubled, to more than eighty." The philanthropic sector in the United States is far more significant than in Europe, fueled in part by generous tax write-offs, which the US public subsidizes to the tune of $40 billion a year.
As Massing observes, billionaires are not just handing over their money, they have ideas about how it should be used, and their vision often aligns with their own economic interests. For this reason, the philanthropy industry deserves rigorous scrutiny, not a free pass because it is in the service of good.
Massing's argument followed a study (https://www.globalpolicy.org/images/pdfs/GPFEurope/Philanthropic_Power_online.pdf) released in January by the watchdog organization Global Policy Forum, which found that philanthropic foundations are so powerful they are allowing wealthy individuals to bypass governments and international bodies like the United Nations in pursuit of their own agendas. What's more, this outsized influence is concentrated in the United States, where 19 out of the top 27 largest foundations are based. These 27 foundations together possess $360 billion, write authors Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz.
Such dramatic wealth accumulation has disturbing implications. "What is the impact of framing the problems and defining development solutions by applying the business logic of profit-making institutions to philanthropic activities, for instance by results-based management or the focus on technological quick-win solutions in the sectors of health and agriculture?" the report asks.
These questions are not new, as social movements have long raised the alarm about the global impact of the ever-expanding philanthropy sector. In 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina blasted (http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26/stop-transnational-corporations-mainmenu-76/917-la-via-campesina-denounces-gates-foundation-purchase-of-monsanto-company-shares) the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's acquisition of Monsanto shares as proof that its role in privatizing the global food supply and exporting big agribusiness, from Africa to North America, should be viewed through a commercial rather than humanitarian lens.
"It is really shocking for the peasant organizations and social movements in Haiti to learn about the decision of the [Gates] Foundation to buy Monsanto shares while it is giving money for agricultural projects in Haiti that promote the company's seed and agrochemicals," said Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Haitian Peasant Movement of Papaye and Caribbean coordinator of La Via Campesina at the time. "The peasant organizations in Haiti want to denounce this policy which is against the interests of 80 percent of the Haitian population, and is against peasant agriculture -- the base of Haiti's food production."
The Gates Foundation more recently fell under scrutiny from the advocacy organization Global Justice Now, which released a report (http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/resources/gated-development-global-justice-now.pdf) in January raising concerns about the institution's track record on education, food and health care policies.
"The Gates Foundation has rapidly become the most influential actor in the world of global health and agricultural policies, but there's no oversight or accountability in how that influence is managed," said (http://www.accuracy.org/release/gates-foundation-pushing-values-of-corporate-america/) Polly Jones of Global Justice Now. "This concentration of power and influence is even more problematic when you consider that the philanthropic vision of the Gates Foundation seems to be largely based on the values of corporate America. The foundation is relentlessly promoting big business-based initiatives such as industrial agriculture, private health care and education. But these are all potentially exacerbating the problems of poverty and lack of access to basic resources that the foundation is supposed to be alleviating."
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, raised eyebrows (http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/12/03/zuckerbergs-facebook-giveaway-charity-or-tax-dodging-scheme) in December when they announced they would give away 99 percent of their wealth. As it turned out, this was not a giveaway at all, but a shifting of funds into their own limited liability company (LLC). Just weeks later, Zuckerberg lashed out (http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/free-basics-protects-net-neutrality/) at Indian media justice advocates who raised concerns about his company's efforts to undermine net neutrality protections in their country.
Like many others, Massing is calling for greater transparency, not only for foundations but for think tanks, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and universities. Pointing to the website Inside Philanthropy, whose stated purpose is to "pull back the curtain on one of the most powerful and dynamic forces shaping society," Massing argues that far greater and better-resourced scrutiny is needed. "There remains the question of how to pay for all this," writes Massing, posing: "Is there perhaps a consortium of donors out there willing to fund an operation that would part the curtains on its own world?"
But some argue that we already have all the information we need to be concerned. In December, Vandana Shiva, an ecofeminist and activist, wrote (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/29/free-basics-will-take-away-more-our-right-internet) in response to Zuckerberg's move in India that a "collective corporate assault is underway globally. Having lined up all their ducks, veterans of corporate America such as Bill Gates are being joined by the next wave of philanthro-corporate Imperialists, including Mark Zuckerberg."
"It is an enclosure of the commons," she continued, "which are 'commons' because they guarantee access to the commoner, whether it be seed, water, information or internet."

This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.

Sarah Lazare (http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45584)Sarah Lazare is a writer and organizer in the US antiwar veteran and GI resistance movement, as a steering committee member of the Civilian-Soldier Alliance and an ally to Iraq Veterans Against the War. She is also an active union member and a graduate student at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where she is studying Arabic and learning about social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. Sarah is interested in connecting local struggles for racial, social and economic justice with international movements for justice, peace and liberation.


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Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous

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http://www.bloggernews.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/g_soros.jpgHuman Events (http://www.humanevents.com/author/Human+Events)’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted (http://www.humanevents.com/2011/03/28/george-soros-demagoat/) billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros (http://www.humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/) Is Dangerous:
1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza (http://www.humanevents.com/2006/04/07/emexclusive-emthe-truth-about-la-raza/), Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.humanevents.com/2011/07/28/isnt-the-southern-poverty-law-center-the-real-hate-group-2/), Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.


2. Influence on U.S. elections: Soros once said that removing President George W. Bush from office in 2004 was the “central focus of my life.” He put his money where his mouth is, giving $23.58 million to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating Bush. His early financial support helped jump-start Barack Obama’s political career. Soros hosted a 2004 fund-raiser for Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and gave the maximum-allowed contribution within hours of Obama’s announcement that he was running for President.
3. Wants to curtail American sovereignty: Soros would like nothing better than for America to become subservient to international bodies. He wants more power for groups such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, even while saying the U.S. role in the IMF should be “downsized.” In 1998, he wrote: “Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”
4. Media Matters (http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/www.redstate.com/erick/2012/02/13/media-matters/): Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that hyperventilates over any conservative view that makes it into the mainstream media. Now its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, telling Politico that the group was mounting “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against the cable news channel, and would try to disrupt the commercial interests of owner Rupert Murdoch—an odd mission for a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation that is barred from participating in partisan political activity.
5. MoveOn.org: Soros has been a major funder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for liberal candidates. This is the group that had on its website an ad comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and ran the infamous “General Betray Us” ad in the New York Times, disparaging the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus.
6. Center for American Progress (http://www.redstate.com/jeff_emanuel/2011/08/26/exacerbating-the-perception-problem-center-for-american-progress-chronicles-the-american-rights-decade-of-baseless-aggression-against-islam/): Headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Clinton, the Center for American Progress has been instrumental in providing progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obama administration. There has also been a revolving door between the White House and the Soros-funded think tank, with Obama staffing his administration with many CAP officials.
7. Environmental extremism: Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his leftist environmental ideas have been funded by Soros’ money at these groups: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama’s stimulus package. Soros also funds the Climate Policy Initiative to address global warming and gave Friends of the Earth money to “integrate a climate equity perspective in the presidential transition.”
8. America Coming Together: Soros gave nearly $20 million to this 527 group with the express purpose of defeating President Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT’s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters. ACT was fined $775,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of various federal campaign finance laws.
9. Currency manipulation: A large part of Soros’ multibillion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an “economic war criminal.” Known as “The Man who Broke the Bank of England,” Soros initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit.
10. Delusions: Soros has repeatedly said that he sees himself as a messianic figure. Who but a megalomaniac would make these comments? “I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance—to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god” or “I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.” If only the loony bin were an option. As it is, one of the wealthiest men in the world is using his billions to impose a radical agenda on America.

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Tax Records Show George Soros Funded the Ferguson Riots With 33 Million


Steven H Ahle (http://dailyheadlines.net/author/sahle/) — March 13, 2016 (http://dailyheadlines.net/2016/03/tax-records-show-george-soros-funded-the-ferguson-riots-with-33-million/)


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You have to wonder how much he is spending this riot season.
Tax records of the Soros funded group, Open Society, shows that Soros gave 33 million dollars in funding that kept the Ferguson riots going among other civil disobedience the group has funded. Soros has used Open Society much as he has MoveOn.org to try to manipulate the discussions in order to push forward his plans for a socialist United States.
Kenneth Zimmerman, director of the Soros owned Open Society explains why they funded the Ferguson riots:
Watch: Jeb Bush releasing 33 years of tax records in show of transparency



“Our DNA includes a belief that having people participate in government is indispensable to living in a more just, inclusive, democratic society. Helping groups combine policy, research [and] data collection with community organizing feels very much the way our society becomes more accountable.”
Zimmerman says that the money was given with no strings attached. Right. If you believe that I’ll tell you about the time in 1945 when I broke into a bunker and killed a man with a funny little mustache and made it look like a suicide or how I struck oil one day while shooting at a rabbit.
“The incidents, whether in Staten Island, Cleveland or Ferguson, were spontaneous protests — we don’t have the ability to control or dictate what others say or choose to say. But these circumstances focused people’s attention — and it became increasingly evident to the social justice groups involved that what a particular incident like Ferguson represents is a lack of accountability and a lack of democratic participation.”
Soros then used his other groups to fund scholarly works blaming conservatives for the actions as well as decimating that same information through his bought and paid for media campaigns of MoveOn.org and Think Progress. He also feeds that information to like minded news organizations like PMSDNC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and the New York Times.
During the Ferguson riots, Soros hired buses to take activists from his various organizations into Ferguson to try to keep and expand the ongoing riots. Soros funded groups making the trip include but not limited to Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference in Chicago; from the Drug Policy Alliance, Make the Road New York and Equal Justice USA from New York; from Sojourners, the Advancement Project and Center for Community Change in Washington; and networks from the Gamaliel Foundation.
I wonder when the IRS will investigate these organizations that fund riots with tax exempt money. Just kidding.

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SOROS PLOTTING ANTI-TRUMP RALLY AT GOP CONVENTION?


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Working America, a group funded by the AFL-CIO and by billionaire George Soros, is now using Craigslist as a vehicle to advertise for organizers in Cleveland.
It’s important to note that George Soros is no fan of GOP candidate Donald Trump. Sorros recently told Bloomberg news, “Trump is doing the work of ISIS.” Furthermore, Soros is pouring millions into various PACs supporting Hillary Clinton.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-13-at-5.34.23-PM-300x147.pngThe Craigslist ad (http://cleveland.craigslist.org/npo/5469737201.html) is the first sign indicating Soros and team are planning ahead to disrupt the GOP Convention this summer, especially if Trump is the nominee. Soros has a history of funding groups that encourage mob violence in order to gain attention.
In the video below, Soros comments on Trump and ISIS.

[mick silver]

and yet one more person that needs to be put away in a rubber suit and left to never be seen again but we all know it will never happen . and the ones taking his money also need to be in a prison but again never going to happen , I don't have a answer on how were going to stop people like this but we need something fast before there nothing left

[EE_]

and yet one more person that needs to be put away in a rubber suit and left to never be seen again but we all know it will never happen . and the ones taking his money also need to be in a prison but again never going to happen , I don't have a answer on how were going to stop people like this but we need something fast before there nothing left


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emP5D9Klssg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSaLfh3rQF8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xrnIs9iKQY

[mick silver]

back up for more on lookers

[mick silver]

Soros, Alarmed by Trump, Pours Money into 2016 RaceThe billionaire has already spent or pledged $13 million to help Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this year Zachary Mider | Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-15/soros-alarmed-by-trump-pours-money-into-2016-race) - March 15, 2016 59 Comments (http://www.infowars.com/soros-alarmed-by-trump-pours-money-into-2016-race/#disqus_thread)

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The liberal New York financier George Soros, whose effort to unseat President George W. Bush in 2004 shattered political spending records, is returning to big-ticket giving after an 11-year hiatus.
Soros has spent or committed more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this election cycle, already more than his total disclosed spending in the last two presidential elections combined.
Soros has expressed alarm (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/28/terrorists-demagogues-scared-charlie-hebdo) over the past few months at the candidacies of Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. In a statement last week about a new group he’s funding to increase voting by Latinos and immigrants in the election, he again mentioned the two candidates by name.
“The intense anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has been fueled by the Republican primary is deeply offensive,” Soros said in the statement. “There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we’ve regularly heard from candidates Trump and Cruz.”
Read more (http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-03-15/soros-alarmed-by-trump-pours-money-into-2016-race)

[mick silver]

back up for more on lookers maybe they can learn something and become a pissed off member after they see what this ass hat done and doing to the usa

[Neuro]

back up for more on lookers maybe they can learn something and become a pissed off member after they see what this ass hat done and doing to the usa

He is the key to a lot of what is going on in the world

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Soros is now trying to pressure networks into giving Trump less coverage, through his Media Matters organization.



Rivals, Activists Very Angry that Donald Trump Does Phone Interviews on TV

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NEW YORK (AP) — In television news, a telephone interview is typically frowned upon. Donald Trump’s fondness for them is changing habits and causing consternation in newsrooms, while challenging political traditions.

Two organizations are circulating petitions to encourage Sunday morning political shows to hang up on Trump. Some prominent holdouts, like Fox’s Chris Wallace, refuse to do on-air phoners. Others argue that a phone interview is better than no interview at all.

Except in news emergencies, producers usually avoid phoners because television is a visual medium – a face-to-face discussion between a newsmaker and questioner is preferable to a picture of an anchor listening to a disembodied voice.

It’s easy to see why Trump likes them. There’s no travel or TV makeup involved; if he wishes to, Trump can talk to Matt Lauer without changing out of his pajamas. They often put an interviewer at a disadvantage, since it’s harder to interrupt or ask follow-up questions, and impossible to tell if a subject is being coached.

Face-to-face interviews let viewers see a candidate physically react to a tough question and think on his feet, said Chris Licht, executive producer of “CBS This Morning.” Sometimes that’s as important as what is being said.

Trump tends to take over phone interviews and can get his message out with little challenge, Wallace said.

“The Sunday show, in the broadcast landscape, I feel is a gold standard for probing interviews,” said Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday.” ”The idea that you would do a phone interview, not face-to-face or not by satellite, with a presidential candidate – I’d never seen it before, and I was quite frankly shocked that my competitors were doing it.”

Since Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, Wallace has conducted three in-person interviews with him on “Fox News Sunday,” and four via satellite.
Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” has done phoners with Trump but now said he’s decided to stick to in-person interviews on his Sunday show. He’s no absolutist, though.

“It’s a much better viewer experience when it’s in person,” Todd said. “Satellite and phoners are a little harder, there’s no doubt about it. But at the end of the day, you’ll take something over nothing.”

Morning news shows do phoners most frequently. At the outset of the campaign, Trump was ratings catnip. The ratings impact of a Trump interview has since settled down, but it’s still hard to turn him down. He’s the leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination. He’s news.

There appear to be no network policies; different shows on the same network have different philosophies. Licht has turned Trump down for phoners on CBS but concedes there may be exceptions for breaking news. “CBS This Morning,” in fact, aired Trump commenting by phone following Tuesday’s attack in Belgium.

Since the campaign began, Trump has appeared for 29 phone interviews on the five Sunday political panel shows, according to the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America. Through last Sunday, ABC’s “This Week” has done it 10 times, CBS’ “Face the Nation” seven and six times each on “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “State of the Union.”

On Sunday, Trump phoned in an 11th time to “This Week,” calling from Florida. The program repeatedly flashed a stock Trump photo while the candidate demanded an overhaul of NATO, blamed rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)for the bitter feud targeting each other’s wife and complained about the Republican Party’s delegate selection process. None of the news shows have done phoners with Cruz, John Kasich, Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), said Media Matters, which is urging that the practice be discontinued. Cruz and Clinton declined ABC’s invitation to speak by phone or in person for the network’s most recent Sunday program. The activist group MomsRising said the disparity “sends the message that some candidates can play by different rules, without consequences, and that’s just un-American.” A study by mediaQuant and The New York Times estimated that Trump has received the equivalent of $1.9 billion in free advertising given the media attention paid to his campaign.

A Trump spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment.

What’s unclear is whether other candidates were denied opportunities given to Trump.

CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker said Trump opponents frequently turn down interview requests. During an appearance on CNN last week, former GOP candidate Carly Fiorina complained about media attention paid to Trump, leading Anderson Cooper to shoot back: “Donald Trump returned phone calls and was willing to do interviews, which was something your campaign, frankly, was unwilling to do.”

Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier tweeted last week that she saw Trump being interviewed via phone on “Fox & Friends” a day after Cruz was told that he couldn’t do a phone interview with the show.

Fox said that since then, “Fox & Friends” has offered to conduct a phone interview with Cruz five times and has been turned down each time. Cruz did appear in the studio Wednesday. Frazier did not return requests for comment.

NBC’s Todd believes that complaints about phoners are a surrogate for people who want to blame the media for Trump’s success.

“You’re shooting the messenger while you’re ignoring what he is tapping into,” he said. “It becomes a little silly when you look at the bigger picture here. The media is getting criticized for interviewing Donald Trump. If we weren’t questioning him, we’d be criticized for not questioning him.”

For years, cautious candidates have tended to be stingy with press access. Trump is the complete opposite. In a fast-moving information age, he may be changing the expectations for how often a candidate submits to interviews.

Todd doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence that he’s had more access to Clinton during the past six weeks than he had during the six years she was in the Obama administration. Both Clinton and Cruz appeared in phone interviews following the Belgium attacks.

“Trump’s opponents fall into two camps: Those who complain and continue to get crushed by the media wave, or those who grab a surfboard and try to ride it,” said Mark McKinnon, veteran Republican political operative and co-host of Showtime’s political road show, “The Circus.”