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Given their f*ck up over Trump it can't be long now
Given their f*ck up over Trump it can't be long now
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FascinatingComment
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yes. i always assumed buzzfeed was garbage and never read anything of their's. that article was real journalism.
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It's left wing fiction.
The left and the right are creating incredible lies to try to wrest power. Both of their days are numbered.
Soros is a power hungry left wing elitist competing with right wing elitists.Comment
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soros has certainly contributed to various politicians and he has established or supported a variety of ngo's. tell me why you say he's "power hungry"? do you really know much about him? i've always thought his history of surviving the nazis motivated a lot of his charitable and political efforts.Originally posted by vt View Post
below are some snips from the wikipedia article about him and about the open society foundations, just to establish some common priors. i would like to note that soros' most potent governmental critics are putin, orban, erdogan, netanyahu, and trump, none of whom i count among my favorite politicians. in fact, i would say that i count their attacks on him as evidence for his doing good works in the world. perhaps you feel differently?
i understand that he has supported some politicians and political causes in the u.s. with which you disagree. i suspect i have supported some politicians and political causes in the u.s. with which you disagree. i don't have a problem with that; we are free to disagree. but i don't see the evidence that he "is a power hungry left wing elitist..."
his political activities have been, afaik, transparent. further, i don't see how he personally would benefit from the causes he supports. the same cannot be said about, e.g., the koch brothers.
so where's the problem?
As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion,[10] having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, Open Society Foundations.[11]
Open Society Foundations (OSF), formerly the Open Society Institute, is an international grantmaking network founded by business magnate George Soros.[2] Open Society Foundations financially support civil society groups around the world, with a stated aim of advancing justice, education, public health and independent media.[3][4] The group's name is inspired by Karl Popper's 1945 book The Open Society and Its Enemies.[5]
The OSF has branches in 37 countries,[6] encompassing a group of country and regional foundations, such as the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa; its headquarters are in New York City. In 2018, OSF announced it was closing its European office in Budapest and moving to Berlin, in response to legislation passed by the Hungarian Government targeting the foundation's activities.[7] Since its establishment in 1993, OSF has reported expenditures in excess of $11 billion mostly in grants towards NGOs, aligned with the organisation's mission.[8]
On May 28, 1984, Soros signed a contract between the Soros Foundation (New York) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the founding document of the Soros Foundation Budapest.[9] This was followed by several foundations in the region to help countries move away from communism.[10]
In 1991 the foundation merged with the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Européenne, an affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, created in 1966 to imbue 'non-conformist' Eastern European scientists with anti-totalitarian and capitalist ideas.[11]
The Open Society Foundations reported annual expenditures of $827 million in 2014.[19] Its $873 million budget in 2013, ranked as the second largest private philanthropy budget in the United States, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation budget of $3.9 billion.[20]
According to the foundations' website, 1993–2014 expenditures included:[19]
- $2.9 billion to defend human rights, especially the rights of women; ethnic, racial, and religious minorities; drug users; sex workers; and LGBTQ communities;
- $2.1 billion for education;
- $1.6 billion on developing democracy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union;
- $1.5 billion in the United States to promote reform in criminal justice, drug policy, palliative care, education, immigration, equal rights, and democratic governance;
- $737 million for public health issues such as HIV and AIDS, TB, palliative care, harm reduction, and patients' rights;
- $214 million to advance the rights of Roma communities in Europe.
Within these totals, OSF reported granting at least $33 million to civil rights and social justice organizations in the United States.[21] This funding included groups such as the Organization for Black Struggle and Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment that supported protests in the wake of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the death of Eric Garner, the shooting of Tamir Rice and the shooting of Michael Brown.[22][23][24] According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the OSF spends much of its resources on democratic causes around the world, and has also contributed to groups such as the Tides Foundation.[25]
OSF has been a major financial supporter of U.S. immigration reform, including a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.[26]
OSF projects have included the National Security and Human Rights Campaign and the Lindesmith Center, which conducted research on drug reform.[3]
The Library of Congress Soros Foundation Visiting Fellows Program was initiated in 1990.[27][28]
An OSF effort in 2008 in the African Great Lakes region aimed at spreading human rights awareness among prostitutes in Uganda and other nations in the area was not received well by the Ugandan authorities, who considered it an effort to legalize and legitimize prostitution.[30]
Open Society Foundation has been criticized in pro-Israel editorials, Tablet Magazine, Arutz Sheva and Jewish Press, for including funding for the activist groups Adalahand I'lam, which they say are anti-Israel and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Among the documents released by DCleaks, an OSF report reads "For a variety of reasons, we wanted to construct a diversified portfolio of grants dealing with Israel and Palestine, funding both Israeli Jewish and PCI (Palestinian Citizens of Israel) groups as well as building a portfolio of Palestinian grants and in all cases to maintain a low profile and relative distance—particularly on the advocacy front."[31][32][33]
NGO Monitor, an Israeli NGO, produced a report which says, "Soros has been a frequent critic of Israeli government policy, and does not consider himself a Zionist, but there is no evidence that he or his family holds any special hostility or opposition to the existence of the state of Israel. This report will show that their support, and that of the Open Society Foundation, has nevertheless gone to organizations with such agendas." The report says its objective is to inform OSF, claiming: "The evidence demonstrates that Open Society funding contributes significantly to anti-Israel campaigns in three important respects:
- Active in the Durban strategy;
- Funding aimed at weakening United States support for Israel by shifting public opinion regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran;
- Funding for Israeli political opposition groups on the fringes of Israeli society, which use the rhetoric of human rights to advocate for marginal political goals."
The report concludes, "Yet, to what degree Soros, his family, and the Open Society Foundation are aware of the cumulative impact on Israel and of the political warfare conducted by many of their beneficiaries is an open question."[34]
In 2015, Russia banned the activities of the Open Society Foundations on its territory, declaring "It was found that the activity of the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation represents a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state".[35]
In 2017, Open Society Foundations and other NGOs that promote open government and help refugees have been targeted for crackdowns by authoritarian governments who have been emboldened by encouraging signals from the Trump Administration
Stefania Kapronczay of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, which receives half of its funding from Soros-backed foundations, claims that Hungarian officials are "testing the waters" in an effort to see "what they can get away with."[36]
In May 2018, Open Society Foundations announced they will move its office from Budapest to Berlin, amid Hungarian government interference.[37][38][39]
In November 2018, Open Society Foundations announced they are ceasing operations in Turkey and closing their İstanbul and Ankara offices due to "false accusations and speculations beyond measure", amid pressure from Turkish government and governmental interference through detainment of Turkish intellectuals and liberal academics claimed to be associated with the foundation and related NGOs, associations and programmes.[40][41][42]Comment
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