© December 5, 2018
If you are a Conservative, you probably have heard of George
Soros. He is a nefarious individual who actually has a past connected to the
Nazi regime of Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Judicial Watch has
put together an exposé of Soros showing that his voluminous Left-Wing Globalist
organizations are receiving taxpayer supported funding.
This man’s agenda is to destroy and transform America which
should sound familiar to Barack Hussein Obama’s 2008 election night promise to
his cadres:
Those Obama words is one reason Conservatives believed he
was a puppet of the /Soros agenda.
Let’s look at a little Soros history for context today:
George Soros was born to Tividar
and Erzebat Schwartz, non-practicing Jews, in Budapest, Hungary on August 12,
1930. Tivadar was an attorney by profession, but the consuming passion of his life
was the promotion of Esperanto—an artificial, “universal” language created
during the 1880s in hopes that people worldwide might be persuaded to drop
their native tongues and speak Esperanto instead—thereby, in theory at least,
minimizing their nationalist impulses while advancing intercultural harmony. In
1936, Tivadar changed his family surname to Soros—a future-tense Esperanto verb
meaning “will soar.”13
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in
1944, Tivadar decided to split up his family so as to minimize the chance that
all its members would be killed together. For each of them—his wife and two
sons he purchased forged papers identifying them
as Christians; paid
government officials to conceal his
family’s Jewish heritage from the German and Hungarian fascists; and bribed Gentile
families to take them into their homes. As for George in particular, the
father paid a
Hungarian government official named Baumbach to claim George as his Christian
godson, “Sandor Kiss,” and to let the boy
live with him in Budapest. One of Baumbach’s duties was to deliver deportation
notices to Hungary’s Jews, confiscating their property and turning it over to
Germany. Young George Soros sometimes accompanied the official on his rounds.14 …
Soros today recalls the German
occupation of Hungary as “probably the happiest year of my life.” “For me,” he
elaborates, “it was a very positive experience. …
In 1947 the Soros
family relocated from Hungary to England, where George attended the London
School of Economics (LSE). There, he was exposed to the works of the
Viennese-born philosopher Karl Popper, who taught at LSE and whom Soros would
later call his “spiritual mentor.”17 Though Soros never
studied directly under Popper, he read the latter’s works and
submitted some essays to him for review and comment. Most notably, Popper’s
1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies introduced Soros to
the concept of an “open society,” a theme that would play a central role in
Soros’s thought and activities for the rest of his life.18
… Popper readily embraced this
concept and expanded upon it. In his view, the open society was a place that
permitted its citizens the right to criticize and change its institutions as
they saw fit; he rejected the imposed intellectual conformity, central
planning, and historical determinism of Marxist doctrine.20 By Popper’s reckoning, a
society was “closed”—and thus undesirable—if it assumed that it was in any way
superior to other societies. Likewise, any belief system or individual claiming
to be in possession of “ultimate truth” was an “enemy” of the open society as
well. Popper viewed all knowledge as conjectural rather than certain, as
evolving rather than fixed.
Thus, by logical extension, Popper
did not share the American founders’ confident assertion that certain truths
were “self-evident,” and that certain rights—such as the right to “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” as referenced in the Declaration of
Independence—were “unalienable” and thus not subject to doubt, because they had
been granted to mankind by the ultimate authority, the “Creator.”21 We shall see that George Soros,
as he grew to maturity, would likewise reject the founders’ premise. Indeed
Soros would harbor great disdain for modern-day American political figures who
displayed unshakable confidence in their own culture’s nobility, and who
embraced the tenets of the Declaration and the U.S. Constitution as timeless,
immutable truths. To Soros, “Popper’s greatest contribution to philosophy” was
his teaching that “the ultimate truth remains permanently beyond our reach.”22
More history: Connoisseur
of Chaos: The dystopian vision of
George Soros, billionaire funder of the Left; By Stefan Kanfer;
City Journal; Winter 2017)
Conservapedia is correctly hostile toward Soros:
George Soros (born
August 12, 1930) is an anti-Semitic[2] atheist,[1] international
financier and con artist who bankrolled the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among other left-wing causes.[3] He
is officially the 190th richest person on the planet,[4] though
he transferred $18 billion of his wealth to his organizations, making his official
wealth appear smaller.[5] He
manages the funds of many other of the world's richest people. Soros'
organization, the Open Society Foundations, is
responsible for financing postmodernist, Neo-Marxist organizations for his
personal gain. As Snopes.com noted,[6] it
devotes $2.6 billion to advance left-wing SJW priorities which in reality
promote feminism, Islam, illegal drugs, prostitution,
and homosexuality.
He has attacked Jews, falsely claiming they cause anti-Semitism.[7]
Soros is a naturalized American citizen, born in Hungary where he worked for the Nazis as
a teenager, fingering and looting his compatriot Jews.[8] He
is a leftist and elitist whose current net worth is estimated to
be about $8 billion, not including the $18 billion of his wealth that he
transferred to his organizations in 2017.[5] He
is considered by many to be a modern robber baron.[9] Calls
for his arrest due to currency manipulation and other crimes have reverberated
around the world.[10]
In 1992, Soros earned the
title, "the man who broke the Bank of England",[11] for
shorting the British Pound. …
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Early life
Soros was born August 12, 1930, in
Budapest, Hungary.
His parents were Elizabeth and Tivadar Soros. Tivadar, who sometimes went by
Teodoro Ŝvarc,[15] was
an active Esperantist. George Soros grew up learning Esperanto from his father.[16][17]
George Soros' birth name was György
Schwartz, his family name was changed in 1936 from Schwartz to Soros to
avoid antisemitism.
The name "Soros" is itself derived from an esperanto word "Sori",
which means "To Soar".[18] George
Soros later said that he "grew up in a Jewish,
anti-semitic home," and that his parents were "uncomfortable with
their religious roots."[19] Soros
is an atheist.[20]
The Soros Leftist network is too extensive to share in this
intro. Discover The Networks breaks down this shadowy network of Leftists: GUIDE
TO THE GEORGE SOROS NETWORK.
Now to the Judicial Watch exposé on the Soros Left
getting your American taxpayer dollars which are being used to destroy the
America our Founding Fathers managed to put together and ratified by the People
of the original 13 States.
The Judicial
Watch document is a 30-page PDF. I am cross posting the JW email
alert, Intro and Background and Context subdivisions of the document. You
should really take the time to read the entire document.
JRH 12/4/18
So readers, I’ve been using a seven year old laptop to fulfill the
old blogging habit. My lovely wife sprang for an upgrade.
I’m a relatively small-time blogger but with a consistently
growing readership despite some token censorship from the
liberal-oriented blog and social platforms.
Still looking to defray Christmas costs.
Whatever my readers can
chip in will
be appreciated:
JW Special Report: Government
Funding of Soros Foundations
Email sent by Carter L. Clews, Director of Communications
Sent Dec 3, 2018, 1:47 PM
Via Judicial Watch
“Why are U.S. taxpayers funding billionaire
‘philanthropist’ George Soros and his highly politicized Open Society
Foundations?” – Judicial Watch Special Report
Dear
Editor/Broadcaster,
I urge you to take a few minutes to read the stunning Judicial Watch Special Report on the United States government funding of George Soros' radical leftist agenda worldwide.
As the Special Report, penned by JW Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell, painstakingly documents, Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and their affiliates are promoting and advancing:
I urge you to take a few minutes to read the stunning Judicial Watch Special Report on the United States government funding of George Soros' radical leftist agenda worldwide.
As the Special Report, penned by JW Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell, painstakingly documents, Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and their affiliates are promoting and advancing:
“… a radical, progressive agenda that seeks to destabilize legitimate
governments, erase national borders and identities, target conservative
politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of higher education,
and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain.”
The Special Report
fully documents the hundreds of millions of dollars Soros-affiliated
organizations have received from the United States government to implement
their radical agenda.
And, should anyone harbor any doubts as to the authenticity of the Report, I invite them to examine the 154 meticulous footnotes – most with clickable hyperlinks.
Please set aside the time to peruse this important document.
And then, please alert your readers and viewers as to how the U.S. government is spending their tax dollars to promote the Soros agenda.
Sincerely,
Carter L. Clews
Director of Communications
PS: Any who still doubt illegal alien caravan-related activities funded by the Open Society Foundations should direct their attention to pages 19 – 23.
And, should anyone harbor any doubts as to the authenticity of the Report, I invite them to examine the 154 meticulous footnotes – most with clickable hyperlinks.
Please set aside the time to peruse this important document.
And then, please alert your readers and viewers as to how the U.S. government is spending their tax dollars to promote the Soros agenda.
Sincerely,
Carter L. Clews
Director of Communications
PS: Any who still doubt illegal alien caravan-related activities funded by the Open Society Foundations should direct their attention to pages 19 – 23.
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The Financial and Staffing Nexus Between the Open Society Foundations
and the United States Government
Advancing a
Radical Leftist Agenda at U.S. Taxpayer Expense
November 30, 2018
Introduction
Judicial Watch promotes transparency, integrity and accountability in
government, politics and the law. We carry out our mission through
investigations, research, litigation and public education. As part of our
educational activities we produce Special Reports on important public policy
matters in order to illuminate the operations of government in a way that
informs the public and holds our trusted public servants accountable.
This Special Report describes the activities of billionaire
philanthropist George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF), which are
partially financed by U.S. taxpayers. Soros, his foundation and their
affiliates promote and advance a radical, progressive agenda that seeks to
destabilize legitimate governments, erase national borders and identities,
target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest, subvert institutions of
higher education, and orchestrate refugee crises for political gain. The Soros
network is engaged in an active and ongoing effort to affect politics,
economics, and societies in Europe (Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary),
Latin America (Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico), and across the globe. Judicial
Watch has successfully investigated and litigated to document the paper trail
left by the OSF network as it operates, at taxpayer expense, to subvert and
manipulate the sovereignty of constitutional republics and allies of the United
States.
The Soros operations are highly sophisticated and multi-faceted, working
across academia; the courts; labor and agriculture; “social justice”
organizations; religious associations; and, of course, political groups. OSF
operations also utilize U.S.-based non- profit organizations to further their
agenda. Key personnel in the Soros/OSF network (and their affiliates) are
former U.S. government officials capable of leveraging their government status
and access to benefit the OSF’s progressive goals.
Judicial Watch will continue to investigate and litigate to obtain
evidence that we will analyze as we pursue additional lines of inquiry
concerning Soros and the Open Society Foundations around the world and, in
particular, the United States.
Thomas Fitton President Washington, DC
Background and
Context
The Open Society Foundations’ mission is to: “… work to build vibrant and
tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the
participation of all people.”1
The OSF, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, are subsidized with U.S.
taxpayer money, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Senior U.S.
government officials have leveraged their positions for post-government
employment with OSF programs, sometimes seeking taxpayer funding for the very
same specialties, functions and regions that involved their government
employment.
It is important to contextualize the operations and financing of the Open
Society Foundations. A year ago, Soros took dramatic action to step up his
leftist political activities. As reported by the Wall Street Journal on October 17, 2017, Soros transferred $18
billion to his Open Society Foundation:
“The pioneer of hedge-fund investing has
transferred the bulk of his wealth to Open Society Foundations”
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“Open Society today has a broad mandate driven
largely by its founder’s values. It operates through a network of more than 40
foundations and offices in countries from Afghanistan to South Africa.
Mr. Soros has urged developed countries in
Europe and elsewhere to share the burden of increased migration from
conflict-ridden countries [conflict, it appears, Soros groups help foment].
Anti- Soros politicians in Macedonia, Poland and some other European countries
have attacked foreign-funded groups, including Open Society, for what they see
as outside interference in their affairs.”2
Three years before this massive transfer of wealth to the Open Society
Foundation, Inside Philanthropy reported:3
“The Open Society Foundations is bigger than
you think. In fact, it may be the largest philanthropic organization ever
built, with branches in 37 countries.
While the Gates Foundation spends more money, OSF has a larger footprint
worldwide thanks to its many local offices, including throughout Africa. OSF’s budget will be around $930 million this
year—which is substantially more than Ford’s [Foundation] total grantmaking.”
One might reasonably wonder why U.S. taxpayers would be asked to fund the
activities of such a wealthy, sophisticated, highly politicized,
“philanthropic” organization.
In 2018, OSF projected expending $537,000,000 in grants and program
funding throughout the world.4 The 2018 OSF budget exceeds $1 billion. While
the OSF’s self- professed goals of strengthening the rule of law, supporting
democratically elected governments, promoting fairness in political, legal, and
economic systems, and safeguarding fundamental rights may seem innocuous – or
even noble – the reality is far different. Soros promotes a radical left agenda.
In the United States, this has included:
·
Promoting an open border with Mexico and fighting immigration enforcement
efforts;5
·
Fomenting racial disharmony by funding anti-capitalist racialist
organizations;6
·
Financing the Black Lives Matter movement and other organizations
involved in the riots in Ferguson, Missouri;7
·
Weakening the integrity of our electoral systems;8
·
Promoting taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand;9
·
Advocating a government-run health care system;10
·
Opposing U.S. counterterrorism efforts;11
·
Promoting dubious transnational climate change agreements that threaten
American sovereignty;12 and,
·
Working to promote gun control and erode Second Amendment protections.13
The Soros foundations funded the liberal think tank Center for American
Progress (CAP) (founded by former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta, who remains on the CAP Board of Directors14), and the related 501c(4)
CAP Action Fund to the sum of $1.835 million dollars in 2016 and 2017.15 OSF
program strategy documents describe CAP as an “anchor” grantee of the
organization.16 The current President of CAP, Neera Tanden, was Policy Director
of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and domestic policy director
for the Obama campaign. Additional CAP Board members include Tom Steyer and
Sen. Tom Daschle.17
Soros foundations also funded the Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now (ACORN) and its related entities, and Democratic voter turnout
initiatives. In 2003, Soros described defeating President George W. Bush as,
“the central focus of my life,” and donated more than $15 million to anti-Bush
organizations and efforts.18 At the January 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, Soros attacked President Trump and described him as a “danger to
the world.”19
Similarly, in Europe, Soros and his foundations have sought to erase
national borders and identities,20 targeted conservative politicians,21
financed civil unrest,22 infiltrated institutions of higher education,23 and
orchestrated a massive refugee crisis24 that will leave the continent forever
changed.25
Judicial Watch has filed four lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia directly related to uncovering the facts about the global
Soros-funded network of left-wing activist groups – what Hungarian Prime
Minister Viktor Orban calls Soros’ “Mercenary Army”26 – organized in
part through the Soros Open Society Foundation and his East West Management
Institute. The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch through a series of
lawsuits reveal that the Obama administration turned over key State Department
activities to George Soros’ OSF. Judicial Watch reporting suggests the Deep
State continues to be aligned with Soros as career and holdover State
Department officials in countries such as Albania, Colombia, Guatemala,
Macedonia and Romania help OSF push its radical agenda.
What U.S.
Taxpayers Fund
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Notes (to this
point):
1 The Open Society
Foundations Internet website mission statement, https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/.
2 “George Soros
Transfers $18 Billion to His Foundation, Creating an Instant Giant,” Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2017 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soros-transfers-18-billion-to-his-foundation-creating-an-instant-giant-1508252926).
3 “Philanthropy vs.
Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet,” Inside Philanthropy, September 14, 2015
(https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2015/9/14/philanthropy-vs-tyranny-inside-the-open-society-foundations.html)
4 “Open Society
Foundations: About Us: Expenditures.” (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/expenditures-budget).
OSF 2018 budget overview: (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/open-society-foundations-2018-budget-overview-20181107.pdf,
p. 4). The organization’s “migration budget” nearly doubling between 2017 and
2018 (from $34.4 million to $63.3 million) and its spending on U.S. programs
increasing by 21 percent (from $100.4 million to $121.1 million).
5 “Open Society
U.S. Programs Board Meeting,” DC Leaks. September 3-4, 2013. (https://fdik.org/soros.dcleaks.com/download/index.html%3Ff=%252Ffinal%2520book.pdf&t=us);
and, WND, “Border Caravan? Call It
The George Soros Express,” April 29, 2018. (https://www.wnd.com/2018/04/border-caravan-call-it-the-george-soros-express/).
6 “Open Society
Foundations’ 2015-2018 U.S. Programs plan lists a number of redistributionist
policy goals and sets out the organizations that will function as either
“anchor” or “core” grantees for that specific set of goals. Included among
these grantees are a number of hot-button left-wing contemporary organizations
such as the Black Lives Matter aligned group Color of Change, Unidos US (formerly the National Council
of La Raza), and the NAACP.” Influence
Watch, (https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-foundations/);
and, Meza, Summer, “ Black Lives Matter Wants to Bring Down White Capitalism
with Black Christmas, Newsweek,
November 28, 2017. (https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-black-christmas-capitalism-724309).
7 Richardson,
Valerie. “Black Lives Matter cashes in with $100 million from liberal
foundations.” Washington Times. August
16,2016. (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-matter-cashes-100-million-liberal-foun/);
and, Riddell, Kelly, “George Soros funds Ferguson protests, hopes to spur civil
action,” Washington Times, January
14, 2015. (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/14/george-soros-funds-ferguson-protests-hopes-to-spur/).
8 Higgins, Sean,
“Soros' $5 million bankrolls suits to stop voter ID laws,” Washington Times, June 6, 2015. (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-5-million-bankrolls-suits-to-stop-voter-id-laws).
9 Open Society Foundation,
Women’s Rights Program. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/women-s-rights-program).
10 VanBooven,
Valerie, “Billionaire Soros Funding Effort to Put Universal Home Care on Ballot
in Maine,” Home Care Daily, February
14, 2018. (https://www.homecaredaily.com/2018/02/14/billionaire-soros-funding-effort-to-put-universal-home-care-on-ballot-in-maine/).
11 Open Society
Foundation, National Security and Counterterrorism Program. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/topics/national-security-counterterrorism).
12 George Soros was
a member of the U.N.’s High-Level Advisory Group on Mobilizing Climate Change
Resources, https://www.un.org/press/en/2010/sga1223.doc.htm,
and the Open Society Foundation was a founding funder of the Climate Policy
Initiative (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/open-society-foundations-2018-budget-overview-20181107.pdf,
p. 8; https://climatepolicyinitiative.org/us/)
13 NRA Institute
for Legislative Action, “Anti-Gun Billionaire George Soros Pumps $18 Billion
into His Political Apparatus,” October 20, 2017. (https://www.nraila.org/articles/20171020/anti-gun-billionaire-george-soros-pumps-18-billion-into-his-political-apparatus).
14 Lorber, Jamie,
“CAP Faces Challenges as Podesta Steps Back,” Roll Call, October 25, 2011. (https://www.americanprogress.org/c3-board/,
https://www.rollcall.com/news/Center-for-American-Progress-Faces-Challenges-as-John-Podesta-Steps-Back-209775-1.html).
15 Open Society
Foundation Grants Database. (https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants-database/?filter_keyword=center%20for%20american%20progress).
16 Open Society
Foundation, “U.S. Programs 2015 - 2018 Strategy.” (https://web.archive.org/web/20170227181554/http:/dcleaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/soros/strategies/usp-2015-2018-proposed-strategy.pdf).
17 Center for
American Progress, Board of Directors. (https://www.americanprogress.org/about/c3-board/).
18 Borger, Julian. Financier Soros Puts Millions into Ousting
Bush. The Guardian (UK), November 12, 2003 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/nov/12/uselections2004.usa)
19 Edwards,
Valerie. They are a Danger to the World:
Billionaire Clinton Supporter George Soros Says the Trump Administration Wants
to Create a Mafia State. Daily Mail (UK), January 25, 2018 (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5314897/George-Soros-calls-Trump-blistering-Davos-speech.html)
20 Gorondi, Pablo,
“Hungary’s leader: EU and Soros seek to “Muslimize” Europe,” Seattle Times, July 22, 2017. (https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/hungarys-leader-eu-and-soros-seek-to-muslimize-europe/)
21 Adam,
Christopher, “Hungary Explains Why ‘Persecuted’ Former Macedonian PM Deserves
Asylum,” Hungarian Free Press,
November 14, 2018. (http://hungarianfreepress.com/2018/11/14/hungary-explains-why-persecuted-former-macedonian-pm-deserves-asylum/).
22 CRC Staff,
“Video: ‘George Soros’s European Uprisings,” Capital Research Center, April 18, 2018. (https://capitalresearch.org/article/featured-video-george-soross-european-uprisings/).
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Intro to JW, Soros & U.S.
Taxpayers
John R.
Houk
© December
5, 2018
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JW Special Report: Government
Funding of Soros Foundations
And
The Financial and Staffing Nexus
Between the Open Society Foundations and the United States Government
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