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various ^ | January 14, 2005 | various

Posted on 01/14/2005 6:54:26 AM PST by Calpernia

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The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism - Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin al-Husseini.

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He funneled monies form the sonderfund, money looted from Jews as they were sent to the concentration camps, sending the funds to the Middle East to be used to promote Nazi and anti-Jewish propaganda.

After the war, al-Husseini escaped to Cairo ahead of indictment at Nuremburg where he spent the rest of his life agitating against Israel. He died in Beirut in 1974.

(snip)

Morse: Emir Faisal, later King of Syria and Iraq and recognized as political leader of the Arab world, who signed an agreement with Chiam Weizmann, recognized head of the Zionist organization, known as the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement in January, 1919.

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61 posted on 03/16/2006 5:29:22 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Viacom Sells DreamWorks Library to Soros, Dune

Anthony Crupi

MARCH 17, 2006 -

Viacom’s Paramount Pictures unit has sold its recently-acquired DreamWorks film library to Soros Strategic Partners and Dune Entertainment II for $900 million.

Paramount, which scooped up the DreamWorks archive of 59 film titles in December as part of its $1.6 billion purchase of DreamWorks SKG, had indicated at the time of the buy that it would sell off the library quickly in order to finance the studio acquisition.

Among the films included in the deal are American Beauty, Minority Report and Old School. The deal is limited to DreamWorks’ live-action titles.

Viacom will retain certain derivative rights associated with the library, including sequel and merchandising rights. The conglomerate also has the right to reaquire the library from Soros and Dune after five years.

The deal is expected to close in April.


62 posted on 04/08/2006 7:03:34 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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George Soros' "Parallel Anti-War Media/Movement"

by bob feldman

Perhaps Amy Goodman should finally make full disclosure of all foundation grants that either the Pacifica Foundation, WBAI, Democracy Now, WBAI, KPFA, the Indymedia Centers, Free Speech TV, Deep Dish TV, the Pacifica Campaign or the Downtown studio from which she broadcasted in 2000 and/or in 2001 have received since 1992?

Regarding George Soros's U.S. alternative media gatekeeping/censorship network, the following recap might be of use to U.S. grassroots anti-war activists whose political work is not being subsidized by Establishment Foundations such as Billionaire Global Speculator George Soros' Open Society Institute:

1. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to the Nation Institute "to support project to improve performance and reach of Radio Nation, weekly public radio news and commentary program." George Soros' personal advisor for politics, Hamilton Fish III, is also a top executive at The Nation Institute.

2. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, which used to be headed by former Pacifica Foundation Executive Director Lynn Chadwick.

3. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute apparently gave a $125,000 grant to the Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting [CIPB} group (on whose board sits FAIR/CounterSpin co-host Janine Jackson) "to cover administrative and start-up costs for launching national campaign entitled Citizens for Independent Broadcasting."

4. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $78,660 grant to Don Hazen's Institute for Alternative Journalism/IMI/Alternet in San Francisco "to fund start-up of Youth Source, a youth Web site which will be part of a larger web poral, Independent Source."

5. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $126,000 grant to the International Center for Global Communications Foundation "toward launch of Media Channel, first global media and democracy supersite on the Internet."

6. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $118,000, to the Internews Network.

7. In 1999 George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $12,000 grant to Downtown Community Television Center. (There's a possibility that this was the group which provided studio facilities for Democracy Now after the 1999 WBAI Christmas coup).

8. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $150,000 grant to the Fund for Investigative Journalism. (Is this the same media group which provided some funding for KPFA's Dennis Bernstein during the 1990s?)

9. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $35,000 grant to American Prospect magazine.

10. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $30,000 grant to the Center for Defense Information.

11. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $75,000 grant to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

12. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants, totalling $220,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists--on whose board sits NATION magazine co-owner and editorial director Victor Navasky.

13. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."

14. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $100,000 grant to the Public Media Center in San Francisco.

15. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $73,730 grant to the dance company of a Pacifica Network News staffperson's domestic partner.

16. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to Youth Radio in Berkeley.

17. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 2 grants, totalling $393,000, to the Tides Foundation.

18. George Soros's Open Society Institute recent gave a $102,025 grant to Radio Bilingue.

19. George Soros's Open Society Institute has also apparently been providing funds to subsidize a "parallel left" section of the prisoner solidarity movement. Critical Resistance, the Prison Moratorium Project, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and The Sentencing Project are all being funded by George Soros's Open Society Institute.

20. In 2001, George Soros's Open Society Institute also gave grants to help subsidize the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice group, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement group, the Million Mom March group and the Center for Investigative Reporting.

21. After 9/11, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $75,000 grant to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Research Institute, a $250,000 grant to the ACLU and a grant to the LCEF group on whose board Mary Frances Berry used to sit.

Billionaire Soros's War Stock Investments

Like the former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairperson who owns a major chunk of the Columbia University-linked Nation magazine, Clinton-Gore Campaign Fundraiser Alan Sagner, the global speculator whose Open Society Institute gave KPFA a $40,000 grant in 1995 has some interesting special economic interests.

In his 1990 book The New Money Masters, John Train has a chapter entitled "George Soros: Global Speculator" in which he indicated how Soros obtained his surplus wealth:

"Soros...has always had partners on the management side, such as Jim Rogers...In 1969, aged 39, he [Soros] ...joined with Jim Rogers to found Quantum Fund... "It is not registered with the SEC...so the shareholders are foreigners, mostly Europeans...It engages in multidirectional international speculation in commodities, stock, and bonds...Thanks to Rogers, the fund was one of the first to recognize the investment merits of defense stocks."

According to The New Money Masters book, Soros's business partner in the 1970s and early 1980s, Jim Rogers, "became the largest outside shareholder of Lockheed in 1974."

As of 1989, the portfolio of Soros Fund Management Equity Holdings included $27 million worth of Boeing stock, $106 million worth of RJR Nabisco tobacco company stock, $3.5 million worth of Lockheed stock, $2.2 million worth of CBS stock, $2.3 million of Time Inc. stock, $12.8 million worth of Warner Communications stock and $6.5 million worth of Wal-Mart stock.

A Senior Fellow at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute who is a former president/ceo of Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minnesota "is aiding the Open Society Institute in considering issues of professionalism in media and related public policy questions," according to the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute website.


63 posted on 04/08/2006 7:05:18 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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From Soros' biography on the website of his Open Society Institute: he was born in Budapest in 1930. It notes that he ''survived the Nazi occupation'' and left there in 1947. Curiously, it neglects the fact that he also survived the Communist takeover of Hungary.

It also neglects to mention that he worked for the Arrow Cross--the Hungarian Nazi Party--for the 10 months that they controlled the country before the Russians came in in 1944.

His father Tivadar wrote a book Masquerade in which he described farming George out to a friendly Christian family so that he wouldn't be persecuted as a Jew. The father also said that George was upset at his job of notifying other Jews where and when to report for deportation--which, in fairness, he may have had no choice but to do.

OTOH there is a lot of interesting background at www.jewishpress.com/page.do/448/Review:__Masquerad... including this:

As part of his father`s scheme of survival, George Soros went into hiding at the age of 14 in the home of a Mr. Baufluss, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture, whom he joined on his expeditions taking inventory of confiscated Jewish estates in the Hungarian countryside. Tivadar, to be sure, had slipped Baufluss, a man of German origin married to a Jew, several thousand pengos and so George was able to spent part of the war assuming a new identity and dining at such model estates (by then expropriated) as that of Baron Moritz Kornfeld, a Jewish aristocrat.

And this: ...How he [Tivadar] survived this ordeal — crossing the frozen Amur River, traveling on foot through mountains and rafting down rivers that drain into the Arctic — is the subject of his first book, Crusoes in Siberia, which originally appeared in the Esperanto magazine, Literatura Mondo, which he launched in the Soviet Union in 1922 with his friends Kalman Kalocsay and Gyula Baghy.

Maybe it's not so curious that the website doesn't mention how he survived the Communist takeover of Hungary.

64 posted on 04/22/2006 11:20:51 AM PDT by Sal (Silent Dog media do NOT bark when the perp is their master. Rabid Dog media attack the innocent.)
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To: Mamzelle; windchime; Certified Horticulturist; Velveeta; Alamo-Girl; backhoe; Sal

ping to updates


65 posted on 04/22/2006 1:51:00 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Velveeta; Grinder; freepatriot32; prairiebreeze; tiamat; Ladysmith; Alas Babylon!; Malacoda; ...
As part of his father`s scheme of survival, George Soros went into hiding at the age of 14 in the home of a Mr. Baufluss, an official at the Ministry of Agriculture, whom he joined on his expeditions taking inventory of confiscated Jewish estates in the Hungarian countryside.

Lenin and environmentalists. Lenin once said that, "It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed." Environmentalists second this wholeheartedly when they restrict the ownership and control of private property through the guise of saving the environment.

HOW AGRIBUSINESS HAS HIJACKED THE USDA

Hillary Clinton's cattle deal was not just a political favor from Tyson Food, the same firm that would later pay a $6 million penalty for bribing an official of the Department of Agriculture.

[bin Laden] claimed to have lost $150 million on farming and construction projects while in the Sudan. Nevertheless, there is evidence of a world-wide empire: ostrich farms and shrimp boats in Kenya, forests in Turkey, diamond mining in Africa, agriculture in Tajikistan. The minor enterprises were themselves used as cover for terrorist operations. All enterprises in Sudan were supposedly liquidated when he left [expelled] in 1996. (snip) UCLAF, the fraud investigation unit of the European Commission, has alleged that the IRA is also involved in the movement of cattle across the northern-southern Irish border and back again in order to attract import subsidies and evade various forms of duty. (snip) The Sunday Times also has the IRA smuggling £2million a year in stolen antiques to dealers in the British Midlands, selling illegal growth promoters for cattle to farmers, selling counterfeit designer jeans, computer games and videos and engaging in major building -site fraud. (snip) At first sight bin Laden has a complex track record. Honey traders, internet providers, hawala banking, cattle breeding, shrimp boats, construction....

It is certainly interesting how agriculture is so embedded with terrorism. There even was a 2 year missile sting near me where the missiles were imported under a rice business.

66 posted on 04/22/2006 4:28:32 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the ping!


67 posted on 04/22/2006 10:02:38 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Calpernia
If your university or municipality has a filmmaker's society or a filmmaking curriculum, chances are there's Soros money involved.

He buys the "documentarians" young--and we won't notice for a few years.

68 posted on 04/23/2006 2:06:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Grant monies for films?


69 posted on 04/23/2006 2:35:47 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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I was looking at this PDF yesterday: http://market.ifp.org/market25/images/catalogue.pdf

It is 175 pages long; but it does mention some Soros Foundation monies he issues to media students.

I found it when I was looking up that Urban Box Office record label that recorded the Spanish Star Spangled Banner.


70 posted on 04/23/2006 2:41:07 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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He supplies a lot of seed money to get the film societies up and running--and those festivals don't make much money, but you have to have festivals or nobody sees your great work of art. For instance, there is a little Hollywood in Austin, Texas, and the creative director of their film society made an anti-Bush commercial. The Soros Open Society provides lots of money for hopeful and generally deluded "filmmakers."

What's also enraging--these way-left film groups also manage to lobby local, state and feds for money to support this "industry" which is supposed to provide all these creative jobs. We're paying for leftist agitprop.

I say, let Soros foot the whole bill.

71 posted on 04/23/2006 2:41:52 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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Welfare the artsy way!

;)

I wonder if that is one of the programs on the chopping block Bush mentioned when he said some programs would be cut permanently.
72 posted on 04/23/2006 3:46:08 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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CNN related businesses

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1630672/posts?page=12#12


73 posted on 05/11/2006 1:55:58 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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bump


74 posted on 05/13/2006 9:05:20 AM PDT by jmcenanly
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676343/posts
How the Media Enable Terrorism


75 posted on 08/02/2006 7:16:58 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

76 posted on 08/11/2006 6:46:36 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Now Gefinor Ventures can be linked to here:

http://www.gefinorventures.com/team/brinman.html

I have linked to this page because this is the main man over there. He may or may not known anything about Softec(but you would think he did because he invested in it). He serves on several liberal foundations that get money from none other than George Soros's Open Society Institute. His bio says:

77 posted on 10/14/2006 8:34:07 PM PDT by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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To: sauropod

review


78 posted on 12/31/2006 6:44:06 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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The Madness of King George


79 posted on 02/07/2007 6:52:28 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Soros background
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381895/posts?page=36#36


80 posted on 02/07/2007 5:46:20 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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