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Sep 3, 2010

Soros Makes The Kochs Look Like Political Skinflints

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2010/09/03/soros-makes-the-kochs-look-like-political-skinflints/#6e7865634d0c

Now look at billionaire George Soros.

This year, Soros and his children have given some $150,000 to political candidates, according to the Federal Election Commission. campaigns including Blanche Lincoln's in Arkansas).

But direct politics is just the tip of the iceberg.

According to the most recent reports available, Soros has donated some $2 billion to his Open Society Institute, which pursues a wide variety of political initiatives around the world. Much of the money went to support pro-democracy activists and the like battling corrupt and oppressive regimes.

Here in the U.S., the institution has backed a profusion of community organization, "education" and get-out-the-vote groups that seem to have concentrated their activities in important swing states like Michigan and Ohio in the 2008 election year. No reports are available for 2010 but it's a safe bet a similar amount flowed to organizations which, while not explicitly in favor of a specific candidate, support cherished causes of the Democratic Party and its financial supporters: non-judicial elections, municipal employee unions, universal healthcare. Among the top five U.S. recipients in 2008 were Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection ($5 million); the American Constitution Society, which is fighting the originalism and textual analysis of the Constitution advocated by conservative justices like Antonin Scalia ($3.7 million); and the Proteus Fund, a little-known Massachusetts foundation that establishes state-level think tanks for cultivating liberal candidates and supports vaguely defined concepts like "shared governance" and "harnessing elites’ self-interest for mass civic participation." Open Society also gave $5 million to the Tides Center and its foundation.

Below, a partial list of groups funded by Open Society and Tides in 2008:

Alliance for Climate Protection $5,000,000.00 Drug Policy Institute $4,000,000.00 Media Development and Loan Fund $3,900,000.00 American Constitution Society $3,650,000.00 Proteus Fund $3,200,000.00 Revenue Watch Institute $3,000,000.00 Tides Foundation $2,875,000.00 Third Way $2,250,000.00 Tides Center $2,100,000.00 Public Interest Projects $1,700,000.00 Rudolf Steiner Foundation $1,530,000.00 Center for Independent Media $1,500,000.00 Working America Education Fund $1,169,000.00 Project Vote $1,066,000.00 Center for NYC Neighborhoods $1,000,000.00 Center for American Progress $1,000,000.00 Link Media $1,000,000.00 Foundation to Promote Open Society $1,000,000.00 Center for Community Change $805,000.00 Catalist $801,000.00 Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education $775,000.00 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities $750,000.00 PowerPAC.org $750,000.00 Institute for America’s Future $700,000.00 National Security Archive Fund $695,000.00 William J Brennan Center $675,000.00 Media Matters $625,000.00 NRDC $620,000.00 The Advancement Project $600,000.00 Public Justice Center $575,000.00 Community Rights Center $500,000.00 People for the American Way $500,000.00 Living Cities $500,000.00 La Raza $500,000.00 Center for Progressive Leadership $500,000.00 Center for Investigative Reporting $476,000.00 Protex a network for progressive texas $473,000.00 NAACP $450,000.00 Free Press, Florence, Mass $450,000.00 Demos $450,000.00 ABA Fund for Justice $400,000.00 Project Vote $400,000.00 Focus Project $400,000.00 National Women’s Law Center $400,000.00 EFF $400,000.00 Civic Engagement Fund $400,000.00 Center for Progressive Reform $400,000.00 Tides Center $382,000.00 Center for Independent Media $350,000.00 Due Process of Law Foundation $315,000.00 Grassroots Leadership $305,000.00 Project on Government Oversight $300,000.00 Progressive States Foundation $300,000.00 League of Young Voters Education Fund $300,000.00 Justice Policy Center $300,000.00 Drum Major Institute $300,000.00 Center for Responsible lending $300,000.00 Center for Political Accountability $300,000.00 Center for Democracy and Technology $300,000.00 Center for Democracy and Freedom $300,000.00 ACORN $294,000.00 Consumer Federation of America $275,000.00 Natl Consumer Law Center $250,000.00 American Library Assoc. $250,000.00 Union of Concerned Scientists $250,000.00 Govt accountability project $250,000.00 Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Calif $250,000.00 EarthJustice $250,000.00 Amnesty Intl $250,000.00 American Assoc for Social Justice $250,000.00 Center for Progressive Leadership $250,000.00 George Washington U $240,000.00 Capital Litigation Communications Project $230,000.00 Public Interest Research Group $230,000.00 Foundation for National Progress $225,000.00 USAction Coalition $205,000.00 American Judicature Society $200,000.00 Human Rights Campaign Foundation $200,000.00 Alliance for Justice $200,000.00 Consumers Union $200,000.00 Critical Resistance $200,000.00 Center for Constitutional Rights $200,000.00 Movement Strategy Center Oakland $200,000.00 Center for Public Interest Research $200,000.00 Natl Institut Money in state politics $160,000.00 Center for Community Change $160,000.00 Wired on Wheels $150,000.00 Colorado Center Law and Policy $150,000.00 Ruckus Society $150,000.00 United for a Fair Economy $150,000.00 Progressive America Fund - center for working families $150,000.00 Oregon Center for Public Policy $150,000.00 Apollo Alliance $150,000.00 Drum Major Institute $150,000.00 Civic Justice $125,000.00 center for responsive politics $125,000.00 Center for Media Justice $125,000.00 Center for International Policy $120,000.00 Oregon Progress Forun $100,000.00 New Democracy Project $100,000.00 USAction Coalition $100,000.00 EarthRights International $100,000.00 Illinois Campaign for Judicial Reform $100,000.00 Democracy a Journal of Ideas $100,000.00 Center for public accountability $100,000.00 Progress Michigan $100,000.00 Political Research Assoc $100,000.00 Center for Public Interest Research $100,000.00 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities $100,000.00 Missouri Citizen Education Fund $90,000.00 ProgressOhio Education $90,000.00 PETA $81,000.00 Michigan Citizens Eduication Fund $80,000.00 Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts $75,000.00 Virginia Organizing Project $75,000.00 Institute for Policy Studies $60,000.00 Campaign for America’s Future $55,000.00 People for the American Way $54,000.00 George Mason U $49,000.00 Iowa Citzen Action Network Education Foundation $40,000.00 VoterPunch $40,000.00 DemocracyinAction $35,000.00 Ducks Unlimited $2,025.00

1 posted on 07/24/2019 3:17:06 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SunkenCiv; SJackson; Olog-hai

https://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/center_for_constitutional_rights_serial_abuse_of_international_law/

Center for Constitutional Rights: Serial Abuse of International Law

July 17, 2007

Summary: The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) claims to be a non-profit legal and educational organization which uses litigation “to advance the law in a positive direction and “strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.” In the past, CCR has been active in advancing civil rights in the United States, but its activities have become more radicalized. This organization contributes to the demonization of Israel and exploitation of international law primarily through its lawsuits against Israeli officials for alleged “war crimes, extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” In this process, CCR consistently disregards the context of terror, denies Israel’s right to self-defense, and accuses it of deliberately targeting civilians.


2 posted on 07/24/2019 3:27:16 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Evil comes in various forms........


3 posted on 07/24/2019 3:31:35 AM PDT by cranked
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To: MarvinStinson

“We are deeply dismayed that in this global climate of repression, lawmakers have chosen to silence dissent...”

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The dissent against Soros-ideology isn’t being silenced...it’s becoming law...democratically.


4 posted on 07/24/2019 3:37:43 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Wasted a lot of money. So happy to see these evil scum upset about our support of Israel. Boo hoo.


6 posted on 07/24/2019 3:41:21 AM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: MarvinStinson
Cue Julie Andrews:

"The hills are alive, with the sound of butthurt..."

8 posted on 07/24/2019 3:46:50 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: All

It’s nice to see Congress really working hard to help the American people


9 posted on 07/24/2019 4:00:50 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Assange)
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To: MarvinStinson

To Soros and other evil globalists, terrorists are “marginalized communities”.


10 posted on 07/24/2019 4:22:46 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: MarvinStinson
The constitutionally-protected right to boycott in pursuit of social justice

Hmmm, can't seem to find that one in my pocket Constitution. Must be between the right to an abortion and the right to gay marriage.

12 posted on 07/24/2019 5:21:58 AM PDT by apillar
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To: MarvinStinson

So, the clown who acknowledged in his 1999 60 Minutes interview that he collaborated with the N***s as a teenager STILL hates the Jews and Israel . . .


13 posted on 07/24/2019 5:23:20 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: MarvinStinson
As with most liberal groups, they use Orwellian language to hide their agenda:

The Center for Constitutional Rights is set to DESTROY the Constitution.

18 posted on 07/24/2019 6:27:30 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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