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Say the name George Soros and liberals see dollar signs –
literally. The world’s 22nd richest man, according to Forbes, is now
worth $20 billion. But Soros isn’t just noteworthy for the money he has – he’s
notable for the money he has given away. Since launching his Open Society
Foundations in 1984, Soros has donated more than $8 billion to charities around
the world.
But instead of gaining a mighty reputation for his
philanthropy, or his investment prowess, Soros is reviled abroad and criticized
here in his adopted country. Most everywhere Soros, his foundations or his
investing have gone, trouble has followed. He’s helped foment revolutions,
undermined national currencies and funded radicals around the world. Soros has
been convicted of insider dealing in France
and fined $3 million, fined another $2 million in his native Hungary. His
“foundations have been accused of shielding spies and breaking currency laws”
and his investing strategy has been targeted for harming several national
currencies.
Even his support for higher education raises huge red flags.
Soros has contributed more than $400 million to colleges and universities,
including money to most prominent institutions in the United States. He also helped
establish Central
European University
which, in turn, uses its resources to promote his personal goal of an “open
society.”
Here in the United
States, Soros money provides the foundation
for liberal organizations promoting everything from gay marriage and drug
legalization to anti-death penalty strategies. While his charitable giving goes
to liberal organizations with close ties to the Democratic Party, his political
giving goes almost entirely to Democrats.
That’s not the story the broadcast networks have been
telling about Soros for the past five years. There were 29 mentions of Soros
during that time but only one gave any hint at trouble, and that was merely to
mention he was “still known as the man who broke the Bank of England.” But ABC
followed it up with: “That was all legal.” Only a sex scandal with a
28-year-old Brazilian actress gave Soros any negative publicity at all.
Soros Indoctrinates Students Around
the World
Left-wing donor George Soros spent more than $400 million
world-wide to indoctrinate students and teach them to promote liberal, and in
some cases extremist, causes. He has even funded his own university that
promotes his own unique philosophy of open society. His reach and influence far
surpasses that of the Koch brothers, who have been vilified by the left and the
media for their grants to universities.
While the left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brother’s
donations to universities, their beloved Soros gave more than 50 times as much.
Central European
University and Bard College
received the most from Soros. One professor at CEU praised the Occupy movement
combining environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice.
Grants to Bard College for “community service and
social action” included a Palestinian youth group and an initiative to educate
prisoners across the country. To top it off, all of the Ivy League
universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and
even religiously-affiliated institutions, were also funded by Soros.
Soros funded programs and classes at universities around the
world promote his radical ideology. Soros’s Open Society Foundations granted
$407,790,344 in gifts and commitments to higher education since the year 2000.
The Koch brothers were vilified by the American political left for donating
almost $7 million to universities while their beloved Soros gave more than 50
times that amount to the same type of groups. Alternet, funded by Soros
complained about a “shady deal” that helped the Kochs fund Florida State
University. Colorlines,
also funded by Soros, said of the same donation: “FSU Trades Academic Freedom
for Billionaire Charles Koch’s Money.”
Both Central European University
and Bard College received vastly more money from
Soros than every penny the Kochs donated to higher education. CEU has received
more than a quarter of a billion dollars from the Soros foundations. And Bard
has gotten $76 million from them.
Together, CEU and Bard received roughly 75 percent of
Soros’s total contributions. Central
European University
was founded and endowed by Soros, providing an outlet for his own personal
lecture series that was turned into a book for students to purchase. His
ex-wife’s pet project, Bard Collect, received a new department for her to lead
and supports Palestinian social programs.
Central European University
and Bard College received specific donations for
some of the most liberal courses and programs in the world. One course at CEU
incorporated lessons of the Occupy movement and the teacher proudly described
how the movement combined feminism, environmentalism, social justice, and the
labor movement all under one roof. Programs at Bard include a Palestinian youth
group, an initiative to educate prisoners across the country, and various other
groups for “community service and social action.”
Ivy League schools to include Harvard, Columbia, and Yale were also well funded
through the Soros foundations. A Harvard
documentary on the War on Terror received Soros-funds along with various
left-wing projects at other universities to include judicial and journalism
initiatives. Programs that teach and promote Soros’s ideology are heavily
funded across the board.
Soros Gave More than
50 Times as much as Koch Brothers to Universities, Liberals Still Scream Foul
The left shrivels at the thought of the Koch brothers
donating to universities even though their beloved Soros gave more than 50
times as much. With more than $400 million given and pledged to higher
education around the worlds, the American political left is still terrified
that they aren’t indoctrinating enough.
ThinkProgress detailed the Koch contributions to higher
education on May 11 2011, with Koch brothers’ contributions totaling nearly $7
million. That’s not even as much as the Center for American Progress, which
operates ThinkProgress, has received from Soros.
ThinkProgress went on to criticize the Kochs, even saying
that Charles Koch went on a “spending spree” to “buy academic freedom.” Soros,
on the other hand, has spent more than $400 million on universities around the
world. He’s not only managed to buy academic freedom, but win the hearts and
minds of students around the world and train them to become left-wing
activists.
David and Charles Koch are the libertarian businessmen in
charge of Koch Industries. They have donated to libertarian and conservative
groups along with medical research, the arts, and various other causes. Even
with billions of dollars in funding from Soros, the left feels the need to
criticize many of the Kochs much smaller endeavors.
Even major media organizations have gone after the Kochs for
their contributions. The Kochs were described as everything from “the
ubiquitous Koch brothers: the Zeligs of questionable funding” by The New York
Times to the “implacable ideological foes of organized labor” by the Los
Angeles Times.
Soros’s Center for American Progress, which received $7.3
million from his foundations, posted a report on their Think Progress blog titled
“Koch
Fueling Far Right Academic Centers at Universities across the Country.” In the article, the Koch-hating leftist Lee
Fang lists universities that received money from the Kochs to include George
Mason University, Utah
State, and Brown.
Totaling nearly $7 million, grants as small as $100,000 were criticized. A
donation of $1.5 million to Florida
State University
supposedly gave the Kochs “a free hand in selecting professors and approving
publications.”
While Charles Koch is referred to as “a dominant player when
it comes to meddling with academic integrity,” Soros’s name appears nowhere in
the article. Giving 50 times the amount cited by the Center for American
Progress is ignored by liberal bloggers that are funded by Soros.
AlterNet, the unhinged liberal blog, reposted Fang’s report.
They are part of the “Echo-Chamber” of liberal blogs created by the Media
Consortium, which received $425,000. An additional $495,000 went to the Independent Media Institute,
which is the parent-group of Alternet. They went on to describe the Kochs as “megalomaniacal
mega-billionaires” and even were scandalized by Charles Koch, claiming that
he went on “shopping spree for an invaluable bauble that most of us didn’t even
know was for sale: academic freedom.”
Soros-Founded Central
European University Rakes in the Cash
2011 marked the 20th anniversary of the Soros-founded Central European
University. Since its
inception, the Open Society Foundations have given more than $250 million in
gifts and commitments to this European venture. The anniversary
website lays out the mission since CEU’s founding in 1991, “The idea was
that a multinational university could be a place to study the principles of
open society.”
CEU is the prime example of liberal extremism funded at the
university level. One professor even praised the Occupy movement combining
environmentalism, feminism, the labor movement, and social justice. Soros has
used CEU for everything from promoting his books to hosting an economic
conference group (that he of course funds) out to change the global economy.
The Soros Lectures is one of Soros’s books, which was created from the lectures
he gave at CEU. The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) hosted their
2011 conference at the university.
Praise for the extreme views of the Occupy movement came
from one program director.
Tamara Steger, the Doctoral Program Director for the
Environmental Sciences and Policy, visited Zuccotti Park
herself to learn about the movement. A video on the CEU YouTube channel showed
Steger in front of a class with a slide behind her that said “How to OCCUPY
peoples’ heads with your message…” Earlier in the video, she praised the Occupy
movement for combining the environmental, social justice, feminist, and labor
movements to talk about issues that “really mattered.”
CEU is dedicated to promoting Soros’s idea of an open
society and “that professors and students could be recruited internationally to
build a new and unique institution, one that would train future generations of
scholars, professionals, politicians and civil society leaders to contribute to
building open societies and democracies throughout the region and beyond.”
One of the schools “intellectual themes” for 2011 was
“social
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