Posted on 01/24/2020 4:57:55 PM PST by spintreebob
George Soros, the financier and philanthropist, has pledged $1bn to support a global network of higher education to train students in civic engagement in response to resurgent nationalism around the world.
In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Soros lambasted rising populism internationally and picked out US president Donald Trump as well as China’s Xi Jinping, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi — and Brexit.
“I believe that as a long-term strategy our best hope lies in access to quality education, specifically an education that reinforces the autonomy of the individual by cultivating critical thinking and emphasising academic freedom,” he said.
In remarks directed at the US leader who had been at Davos this week, Mr Soros went on: “President Trump is a conman and the ultimate narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him.
When his fantasy of becoming president came true, his narcissism developed a pathological dimension.” He said that Mr Xi had abolished a carefully developed system of collective leadership in China and became a dictator
as soon as he gained sufficient strength to do so. Meanwhile, Mr Modi was creating a Hindu nationalist state in India, Mr Soros said. Not leaving western Europe untouched, he said:
“The fight to prevent Brexit — harmful both to Britain and to the EU — ended in a crushing defeat.” Mr Soros said “the tide turned against open societies after the crash of 2008 because it constituted a failure of international co-operation.
This in turn led to the rise of nationalism, the great enemy of open society.” He said some signs of a turnround last year towards greater international co-operation had been “dashed [as] the strongest powers,
the US, China and Russia remained in the hands of would-be or actual dictators and the ranks of authoritarian rulers continued to grow”.
His Open Society Foundations organisation will now develop partnerships between leading universities, think tanks and cultural institutions in the west and those in more remote, poorer and less stable countries.
The fledgling network, to be called the Open Society University Network, builds upon the $32bn he has donated over the years to education and social causes. This included the creation of the Central European University,
which has now moved to Vienna after coming under strong pressure from Hungarian authorities, including visa restrictions on students and personal criticism of Mr Soros himself from the regime of prime minister Viktor Orban.
Alexander Soros, his son and deputy chairman of the Open Society Foundations, said: “The position of the Hungarian government to be the first since the end of World World Two to ban a university . . . sped things along.
Seeing the different ebbs and flows of change in economics, politics and society . . . [my father] realised education is the best way to ensure that the values he believes in can be renewed with each generation.”
The initiative will work with Bard College, New York, which has pioneered a system of supporting high school education for disadvantaged children in inner cities, and educational work in prisons, while offering college credits
that can be transferred and recognised by other institutions. Institutions that have already received funding or worked with Open Society will co-operate more closely, offer dual degrees, and work with Arizona State University, which has developed online and remote learning. Others include Sciences Po in Paris, London University’s Birkbeck and SOAS, the University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan, Ashesi University in Ghana, BRAC University in Bangladesh
and Fulbright University of Vietnam. The move will also involve the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York, Chatham House in London, the Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York and Oxford,
the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, and the Rift Valley Institute in Kenya.
I’m all for launching George Soros.
It’s time to make George Soros sleep with the fishes!
I agree with you.
He’s a man that has been wanted by four nations for currency manipulation. There are sordid details about him as a youth. And then there’s what we can see him doing today.
I think he’s a prime candidate to prosecute for promoting his own foreign policy overseas.
We all know what he is. The good Lord will deal with him soon.
I have been thinking all day of certain enemies meeting that fate.
I believe it was the second episode of the Untouchables where the brave informant ex-moll Brandi LaFrance (Barbara Nichols) risked what Ness called death by slow torture for helping him against the Capone mob. So many bad guys deserve that today. Thought of that more today than most days. Just thoughts. Then the thoughts go away again.
He thinks his beliefs and choices are much better than the inferior ones of free people in a free society.
Soros, KMA.
Soros Global Propaganda Funding - bump for later....
Satan’s had a real good run with this one.
Financial Times is infested with gloBULL warming stuff, so how come they left out ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’?
23 Jan: Yahoo Finance: George Soros to Start $1 Billion School to Fight Nationalists, Climate Change
by Katherine Burton, Bloomberg; With assistance from Clea Simos
Billionaire George Soros said he will commit $1 billion to start a global university to fight authoritarian governments and climate change, calling them twin challenges that threaten the survival of our civilization.
The Open Society University Network will offer an international platform for teaching and research, the 89-year-old said Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The university will be launched through a partnership of the Soros-backed Central European University and Bard College...
...Soros covered a wide-range of issues, including the “overheated” U.S. economy, the dominance of Facebook Inc. and the autocratic rule of Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, who he called a “con man and the ultimate narcissist.”...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/george-soros-commits-1-billion-201818369.html
Marx was channeling Satan...so is Soros.
Why doesn’t Soros donate money to cure the China virus?
Oh, that’s right, the doctor who could have done it was aborted.
Some guys just have a need to wave around their penises.
Soros is one of those.
Hey Senore’ Soro’s, F you and ALL one worlder’s.
I am an American and you sir are not.
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