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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/04/02/daily30.html?jst=s_cn_hl
>>> The Washington Post reported Turner and an investor group that includes international financier George Soros signed a $225 million deal on Tuesday to buy out Gusinsky.<<<<
April 4, 2001
Ted Turner confirms Russian television network buy
Turner Ventures International, an investment vehicle formed by CNN Founder Ted Turner, confirmed it has reached an agreement with Vladimir Guzinsky, the owner of Russia's only independent television network, to buy a share of NTV.
Pending the successful negotiation of a similar contract with Gazprom and Gazprom-Media, which took over NTV on April 2, the agreement would ensure the future of the Russian television networks NTV, TNT and NTV+ as free and independent media companies, Turner Ventures said.
"While we are disappointed with the recent disruptive developments regarding NTV, we look forward with enthusiasm to finalizing an agreement with Gazprom and Gazprom-Media that will ensure the ongoing independence of NTV," Turner said in a written statement. "In earlier negotiations with Gazprom, we both agreed that no one party should have control of NTV and we are pursuing that course. Our goal is to secure the financial underpinnings of the company and establish a mechanism for growing the business in order to strengthen NTV's prominence and scope throughout Russia."
The Washington Post reported Turner and an investor group that includes international financier George Soros signed a $225 million deal on Tuesday to buy out Gusinsky.
Jim Rogers is co founder of Quantum Funds. George Soros international investment fund.
>>>Named one of the nation’s top 12 philanthropists by Time magazine in 2000, James Rogers has donated in excess of $200 million to schools, universities and other non-profits in recent years. Rogers owns Sunbelt Communications, which operates NBC and Fox affiliate TV stations in nine western U.S. communities, including KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas and KRNV Channel 4 in Reno.<<<
http://news.dri.edu/nr2003/may_rogers.html
Rogers donation is Desert Research Institute's largest ever
The Desert Research Institute has secured the largest private donation in its 44-year history from one of the nation’s leading philanthropists, James E. Rogers, CEO of Nevada-based Sunbelt Communications, DRI President Stephen G. Wells and Nevada Test Historical Foundation (NTSHF) President Troy E. Wade announced today.
Rogers has pledged $3 million to DRI for its new Las Vegas Science and Technology Building, which includes the Atomic Testing Museum operated by the NTSHF. As approved by the University and Community College System of Nevada Board of Regents in today's meeting, the facility will be named in honor of Rogers’ father, Frank H. Rogers, a central figure in the early development and operation of the Nevada Test Site.
Slated for completion this summer, the 66,000-square-foot $13.1 million addition to DRI’s campus at 755 E. Flamingo Road marked its groundbreaking last June. Funding for the project comes from state capital-improvement appropriations, state revenue bonds, and a capital campaign being conducted by DRI and the NTSHF.
Two-thirds of the Rogers donation is earmarked for construction of the new facility and build-out of the museum. With the remaining $1 million, DRI will create a new interdisciplinary center dedicated to environmental contaminant detection and clean up. Called the Center for Environmental Remediation and Monitoring, it will also be named in honor of the senior Rogers.
Frank Rogers played an early and important role in the establishment of the Nevada Test Site, and this naming will acknowledge his personal role at the Nevada Test Site,” Wells said. “It will also acknowledge him as a symbol for all the engineers, scientists, technicians, craftsmen, and support personnel who played significant roles in the establishment of the Nevada Test Site.”
Wade, who was a manager at NTS during the nation’s most active nuclear weapons testing periods, worked with Rogers. “Like so many others at the test site, Frank was a patriot,” Wade said. “He knew there was a job to be done in the defense of freedom, and he dedicated his life to that goal. This museum will be a fitting tribute to the men and women of Frank’s generation.”
Named one of the nation’s top 12 philanthropists by Time magazine in 2000, James Rogers has donated in excess of $200 million to schools, universities and other non-profits in recent years. Rogers owns Sunbelt Communications, which operates NBC and Fox affiliate TV stations in nine western U.S. communities, including KVBC Channel 3 in Las Vegas and KRNV Channel 4 in Reno.
This donation has deep, personal meaning for me. My father was a hard-working man of great integrity who was proud of the work he did at NTS. I know he would be profoundly pleased that this building and center will bear his name in memory of people who put duty to country at the top of the list during perilous times,” Rogers said.
The 8,000-square-foot Atomic Testing Museum will feature exhibits depicting the Cold War role of the Nevada Test Site in southern Nevada, placing it in context within American daily life and current affairs during that period. Another 2,000 square feet of museum space will be dedicated to traveling exhibits from the Smithsonian Institution, with which the museum is affiliated, and other entities.
A nonprofit, statewide division of the University and Community College System of Nevada, DRI pursues a full-time program of basic and applied environmental research on a local, national, and international scale. Nearly 500 full- and part-time scientists, technicians, and support staff conduct some 150 research projects at DRI annually. More than 85 percent of DRI's annual $33 million operating budget consists of research grants and contracts obtained by its scientists. The balance is received from the state of Nevada for administrative costs.
Did Soros just bank it? I know he couldn't have spent it--there were too few ads to justify all that money.
IRS needs to be all over that 527.
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.
Poor Russia, first Communism, now Liberalism.
This guy is good while Murdoch is evil. I don't get it.
Thanks for the articles. Bookmarking for later review.
Putin setup? hmmm...
Ping to reports that will ruin your sleep, about soros.
Thanks for the ping. I'm bookmarking this.
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Soros Political Contributions
http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/George_Soros.php
Bumpmark--please keep me on list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1356236/posts
Horowitz Exposes David Brock as Paid Hatchet Man for Soros
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New Challenges for Yugoslavian Online Media After Milosevic's Fall Online Journalism Review Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California 10-17-00
The Radical Left's "Cyber-Grapevine"
Arab Media Internet Network - (AMIN) AMIN stands for Arabic Media Internet Network, but its acronym also means "faithful" in Arabic. AMIN received startup funding from the Open Society Institute and is currently staffed on a volunteer basis.
The Independent Media Institute
AlterNet.org About AlterNet Search AlterNet Syndication Service Alternet User Survey Results - January 2002
A general support grant to Wiretap, an online youth magazine of Alternet.org. (OSI)
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George Soros Funds Report News Corp, Time Warner Stakes Dow Jones FR 2-16-05
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Soros bump
You had such a great FR Nick, I just had to ping you here to add your nick to the thread :)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429130/posts
Soros Backed Group Plans $30 Million on Defeating Blackwell, 2006 Races
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1429668/posts.
Annan Staffer Defends Soros Role in U.N. Housing Fuss
bump!