Soros Open Soc

crc bizarroworld crypto so they need a left koch bro

promoted to primary 5/15 (2ndary before b/c his $ dwarfed by koch NETWORK, and prolly adelson et cetera

but now is mirror bogey man to give cover to billionaire funders of GOP

plus trump says he pays for all protestors

beck bogeyman? (went of fox right after obama inauguration?)

see also Tides

o'keefe fail

1119

invert yield curve; homewreckers book 8 mil foreclosures; big % llc shell corps; // CDO; R wolff says banks can't deal with hit 1/2 of Gt Recession , get loans to cover loans; mnuchin etc wilbur recalled gov't baillout after S&L; mnu sez put 1.x billion but pain nothing for indybank and then got subsidies to foreclose?! // get car for free, put some bucks in then pocket total profit 11/8/19

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steve mnu piad 0 for indy bank, and gov't guar lose no money, sold to buddy in same blg (bunch of pluto-crats ) soros, paulsen, wilbur

extensive interview: https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-october-23-2019/

https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-october-21-2019/

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Groups Linked to George Soros Behind Campaign to Repeal Trump Tax Cuts

Kevin Mooney / July 13, 2018

Left-wing financier George Soros figures prominently in a campaign by progressives to repeal the Trump tax cuts,according to a review of the campaign’s allied… Read More

left-wing financier George Soros figures prominently in a campaign by progressives to repeal the Trump tax cuts, according to a review of the campaign’s allied organizations and their tax records by The Daily Signal.

The campaign, called “Not One Penny,” first came together almost a year ago with what The Washington Post reported was “a seven-figure ad buy in eight Republican-held congressional districts.”

All of the districts, the Post reported, include “large numbers of white voters without college degrees, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but have not historically been passionate about tax cuts.”

The “direct action and activism” of the Not One Penny campaign, the Post reported, closely model the Tax March held April 15, 2017, and successful efforts to block repeal of Obamacare in the Senate.

The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution. Find out more >>

Several organizations listed as partners by Not One Penny have tangible ties to Soros, the Hungarian-American billionaire and hedge fund manager. Soros is the founder and chairman of Open Society Foundations, an international grant-making institution based in New York City and known for financing progressive political causes.

The Washington-based Capital Research Center, a nonprofit that examines how foundations, charities, and other nonprofits spend money and get involved in politics and advocacy, maintains:{a detailed profile:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"):}: of Soros, his activities, and the operations of his Open Society Foundations at its:{“Influence Watch”:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"):}:website.

“Among Not One Penny’s allies are plenty of groups funded by George Soros through his philanthropies,” MatthewVadum, a senior vice president at Capital Research Center, told The Daily Signal in an email. “Among them are Demos, MoveOn.org, People’s Action (formerly National People’s Action), People for the American Way, Public Citizen, [and] Working Families.”

Vadum described Not One Penny as a project of the:{Sixteen Thirty Fund:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"):}:, a left-leaning nonprofit that has received funding from labor unions and a Soros-funded organization called the Tides Foundation.

“The Sixteen Thirty Fund has ties to George Soros and paid $400,000 to his ultra-secretive Democracy Alliance group for consulting services, according to its:{2016 IRS filings:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"):}:,” Vadum said.

The Tides Foundation is among left-leaning U.S. political organizations receiving “multimillion dollar gifts” from Open Society Foundations, according to the Capital Research Center....

alt rt everything you love will burn wants to interview soros as he is nexus of all conspir theories

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/01/long-debunked-lie-george-soros-was-nazi-collaborator-resurfaces-thanks-dinesh-d-souza/217826

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Long-debunked lie that George Soros was a Nazi collaborator resurfaces thanks to Dinesh D’Souza

Research ››› September 1, 2017 4:38 PM EDT ››› ALEX KAPLAN

Discredited conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has revived the long-running and debunked claim that billionaire philanthropist George Soros collaborated with the Nazis as a child. The false claim comes as D’Souza has been trying to promote his latest book, which links Democrats to fascism and pushes the Soros lie. The smear, which has been invoked by other right-wing media figures in the past, has been repeatedly condemned by journalists. Nevertheless, other conservative media and GOP officials have run with D’Souza’s recycled and false charge.

Discredited author Dinesh D’Souza accuses George Soros of working with the Nazis

Dinesh D’Souza: George Soros was a “collection boy for Hitler” and is like Josef Mengele of Auschwitz. Author Dinesh D’Souza, speaking with C-SPAN at a FreedomFest event in July, claimed that his new book The Big Lie shows that billionaire philanthropist George Soros “was a kind of collection boy for Hitler” and that Soros admitted as much during an old interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes. D’Souza also claimed there was an “eerie parallel” between Soros and Josef Mengele, a physician at Auschwitz who selected victims for the gas chambers and performed deadly experiments on prisoners, because, D’Souza said, both defended their crimes by saying that if they hadn’t done them, someone else would have. Since the C-SPAN interview (and besides in his book), D’Souza has pushed the claim on Twitter, in The Daily Caller, and in an interview with far-right troll Stefan Molyneux. From C-SPAN’s coverage of FreedomFest on July 20, which aired on August 20:

PETER SLEN (HOST): In The Big Lie you also have a chapter on George Soros.

DINESH D’SOUZA: Yes. It’s not a chapter on Soros, but it’s a -- it’s a section on Soros because Soros claims to be the great anti-fascist. In fact, Soros funds a lot of the Antifa, anti-fascist parties. And what I do is I say, OK, well here’s some -- Soros will talk about, for example, the fact that he's inspired by libertarianism, by Karl Popper and the Open Society. In reality, as you look into Soros' past, his sort of secret history, if you will, you realize that Soros, along with a mentor of his, was a kind of collection boy for Hitler. This is seems harsh to say, but it’s true. It was discussed by Steve Kroft in an interview with Soros in which Kroft asked Soros --

SLEN: For 60 Minutes.

D’SOUZA: For 60 Minutes. He says, “You would go around confiscating the property of the Jews and turning it over to the Nazis, right? And how can you feel good about that?” And Soros goes, “I don't feel bad about that at all.” He goes, “Let's remember that if I didn't do it, somebody would do it,” right? Now this gets me thinking because, because I remember a very powerful scene. This actually involves Josef Mengele, the sort of killer of Auschwitz, the crazed doctor of Auschwitz. Mengele escaped after the war and went to Argentina, and one of his sons tracked him down and confronted his father and said, “Dad, how could you do the things you did in Auschwitz?” And guess what Mengele said? Mengele said, “If I didn’t do them, somebody else would have.” In other words, “Here were these captive people and I, as a scientist, simply saw the opportunity to make them into research specimens, so don't blame me because the bad stuff would have gone on anyway.” So here is an eerie parallel between what I would call the “Mengele defense” and George Soros, out of his own mouth, not as a young man. I don't blame anybody for what they did at the age of 15, but as a mature George Soros now reflecting upon his past, there's lots of dark secrets there. [C-SPAN, The Big Lie, 8/20/17; Twitter, 8/2/17, 8/14/17, 8/22/17, 8/24/17; The Daily Caller, 7/31/17; YouTube, 8/16/17; Media Matters, 4/26/17]

D’Souza has a history of making racist comments and pushing false claims and fringe conspiracy theories. D’Souza has repeatedly pushed false claims and conspiracy theories including that one of the main organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, VA, was some kind of liberal double agent, that the Clintons were behind the death of a former Haitian government official, that former President Barack Obama is “anti-American” and "embraced a Third World ideology,” and that Hitler took three "very destructive, genocidal ideas from the Democratic Party” -- a claim he made recently, while promoting his new book. He also shared a fake photo of Obama with Soros, and he has a history of racism, writing about Obama on Twitter, “YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO,” comparing Obama’s father to Ebola, and writing that African-Americans are “better off as a consequence” of slavery. [Media Matters, 8/18/17, 7/18/17, 9/28/12, 2/18/15, 10/6/14, 7/9/14; Snopes, 8/25/17; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/1/17]

D’Souza’s smear is an old right-wing lie that has been previously debunked

Soros did not admit to being a Nazi collaborator in a 60 Minutes interview. During his interview with 60 Minutes, Soros said yes specifically in response to Steve Kroft noting that “you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson … went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews,” not that he confiscated property himself. As Snopes noted, “Perhaps because of the way the 60 Minutes interview … was edited, or perhaps because Soros was blindsided by Steve Kroft’s accusatory line of questions, or both, his responses were contradictory and confusing. … Soros went on to clarify that he hadn’t actually participated in any confiscations.” Soros said, “I was only a spectator. I had no role in taking away that property, so I had no sense of guilt.” [Media Matters, 2/5/07, 11/10/10; Snopes, 11/28/16]

Soros biographer: Soros did not collaborate with the Nazis as a teenager. According to Michael Kaufman, the author of the biography Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Soros “collaborated with no one” during the Holocaust and was simply adopting a secret identity to protect himself while living with a Hungarian government official who was forced to confiscate property from a Jewish aristocrat. From Kaufman’s book:

While he was living with Baumbach as Sandor Kiss, an event occurred that more than a half a century later would become the basis of charges that George Soros, the international financier and billionaire, had somehow collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of his homeland and had exploited his fellow Jews. The issue was raised in a bizarre television profile and interview of Soros aired on the CBS television program 60 Minutes in December of 1998. In the segment, Steve Kroft, the interviewer, noted with prosecutorial gusto that George's father had "bribed a government official to swear that you were his godson," and added that this survival strategy "carried a heavy price tag." For, he continued, "as hundreds of thousands of Jews were being shipped off to the Nazi death camps, a thirteen-year-old George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his rounds, confiscating property from the Jews." Visibly dumbfounded by the line of questioning, Soros could only manage to say that he had no role in the seizure of property and was merely a spectator. To underscore Kroft's point, film footage showed masses of Hungarian Jews being led away at gunpoint.

This is what actually happened. Shortly after George went to live with Baumbach, the man was assigned to take inventory on the vast estate of Mor Kornfeld, an extremely wealthy aristocrat of Jewish origin. The Kornfeld family had the wealth, wisdom, and connections to be able to leave some of its belongings behind in exchange for permission to make their way to Lisbon. Baumbach was ordered to go to the Kornfeld estate and inventory the artworks, furnishings, and other property. Rather than leave his "godson" behind in Budapest for three days, he took the boy with him. As Baumbach itemized the material, George walked around the grounds and spent time with Kornfeld's staff. It was his first visit to such a mansion, and the first time he rode a horse. He collaborated with no one and he paid attention to what he understood to be his primary responsibility: making sure that no one doubted that he was Sandor Kiss. Among his practical concerns was to make sure that no one saw him pee. [Media Matters, 12/8/10]

Glenn Beck pushed the smear in 2010, and journalists roundly condemned him

Then-Fox News host Glenn Beck in November 2010 falsely claimed Soros took “property from the Jews as a teenager.” Glenn Beck in November 2010 falsely claimed that Soros “had to go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors,” and that he admitted as such in the 60 Minutes interview. From his Fox News show:

GLENN BECK (HOST): But when he had to go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors who were being sent to the gas chambers, I can't imagine what that would do to a teenager, or anybody, an adult. Well, what did it do to George Soros? In an interview with Steve Kroft, Soros was asked if he felt guilt at all about taking the property from the Jews as a teenager. He responded, no. [Media Matters, 11/10/10]

New Yorker: Beck’s Nazi smear of Soros is “blood variety” “libel.” The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg condemned Beck for using a 1995 New Yorker article to criticize Soros, adding that his claim about Soros and the Nazis was “no ordinary libel—it’s more akin to the blood variety.” From the November 29, 2010, article:

Call us oversensitive, but when our efforts are shanghaied like a nineteenth-century sailor and forced to work as a deckhand aboard a ship of lies, we can’t help getting our hackles up. You don’t have to be a professional semiotician to see that the Glenn Beck promo is intended to leave the impression that George Soros, the hedge-fund investor and funder of anti-totalitarian and liberal causes, is an anti-Semite; that he was somehow complicit in the Holocaust; and that he is an enemy of Israel. These are lies—lies told by innuendo, but lies all the same.

[...]

The ugliest single sentence Beck uttered that week came on his radio program, which supplements his TV show. “Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps,” he said, referring to Soros, age thirteen. That’s no ordinary libel—it’s more akin to the blood variety. It was Beck’s ruminations on the Jewish Question that exhausted the patience of some conservatives, but that is a relatively minor aspect of his malicious crusade against Soros. [The New Yorker, 11/29/10]

Former ABC News reporter Kari Marton: “Beck's smearing of George Soros echoes the anti-Semitic attacks of the Hungarian far right.” Former ABC News reporter Kati Marton wrote a piece in The Daily Beast about Beck’s attacks on Soros. The piece’s subhed said the “smearing ... echoes the anti-Semitic attacks of the Hungarian far right and is a perverse twisting of his experience with the Nazis.” Marton wrote that Soros “acted as a messenger of the Budapest Jewish Council” and was “sent to alert Jews to report to various collection points around the city” but that he “urged defiance” instead. From the November 13, 2010, article:

I, however, find it impossible not to speak up when I hear the likes of Beck from the comfort of his armchair charge Soros with anti-Semitism. Beck paints Soros as a Nazi tool for having had the supreme nerve to survive Europe’s most violent Holocaust: the one that swept through Hungary under SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann during the summer and fall of 1944. Eichmann’s was a well-oiled machine by then, and he had to make quick work of Europe’s last remaining intact Jewish community. Even the most deluded Nazis knew the war was over, their cause lost. But Eichmann was determined to finish the job in Hungary. Only the most resourceful and the luckiest survived.

It is well known that the 14-year-old George Soros acted as a messenger of the Budapest Jewish Council, a group of aged and terrified elders who thought if they kept the city’s Jews calm, and followed the Gestapo’s every command, they might survive. Sent to alert Jews to report to various collection points around the city, the young Soros, prompted by his canny father, urged defiance instead. “There was one man I shall not forget,” Soros recalled, “I told him what my father had said. And he answered, ‘Tell your father that I am a law-abiding citizen, that I have always been a law-abiding citizen and that I am not going to start breaking the law now.'" We know how few of those law-abiding citizens survived Eichmann’s barbaric campaign to make Hungary Judenrein. The fact is that only by assuming false identities, through bribery and deception, could people survive that Kafkaesque nightmare. Andy Grove, the legendary founder of Intel, another young Budapest Jew, survived thus, as did my own parents. Raoul Wallenberg, the great Swedish humanitarian, performed his miracles in Budapest partly by forging passports and bribing Nazis. [The Daily Beast, 11/3/10]

The Nation’s Jonathan Schell: Beck’s Nazi attack on Soros was “especially vile” and constitutes “libel.” The Nation’s late correspondent Jonathan Schell wrote that Beck’s Nazi “libel” of Soros was “especially vile,” noting that Soros “never took any lands or anything else from Holocaust victims or anyone else.” From the December 2, 2010, article:

In a novel and especially vile (and also false) twist, Beck, while heaping the classic anti-Semitic slurs on Soros, insinuates that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, is himself anti-Semitic. Beck, who denies that he is an anti-Semite, accuses Soros of having had to “go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors, who were being sent to the gas chambers” when he was a boy in Hungary during World War II. (In reality, as Michael Kaufman reveals in his book Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Soros’s Christian protector was ordered to inventory the estate of a Jewish aristocrat who had escaped Hungary. He brought Soros, 13 at the time, with him. Soros wandered the estate and rode a horse. He never took any lands or anything else from Holocaust victims or anyone else.) In a perverse way, the libel is a perfect complement to the history of anti-Semitism: now the Jew is found to be guilty of, on top of all of history’s other evils, his own people’s persecution. [The Nation, 12/2/10]

The debunked smear has been around since at least 2006 and has been pushed by others besides Beck

Right-wing authors David Horowitz and Richard Poe claimed in 2006 that Soros survived the Holocaust by “assimilating to Nazism.” In a 2006 book, right-wing authors David Horowitz and Richard Poe claimed that Soros was a Nazi "collaborator in fascist Hungary" and "survived [the Holocaust] by assimilating to Nazism" as a 14-year-old boy. [Media Matters, 8/2/06]

Right-wing radio host Lee Rodgers in February 2007: Soros “apparently very cheerfully and willingly went to work for the Nazis.” Radio station KSFO was forced to apologize in February 2007 after conservative radio host Lee Rodgers claimed that Soros “apparently very cheerfully and willingly went to work for the Nazis," which another co-host claimed Soros did to “further his own career." [Media Matters, 2/27/07]

Ann Coulter in March 2009: Democrats have "a Nazi collaborator, literally -- international financier George Soros -- funding their phony grass-roots organizations." Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter claimed that Democrats “have a Nazi collaborator, literally, international financier George Soros funding their phony grass-roots organizations.” From the March 2, 2009, edition of Fox News’ Glenn Beck:

ANN COULTER: And the other thing I wanted to say about what you were saying -- this obsession with is Russia our leader? Is Russia our leader? I finally figured out why that bugs me so much. Power -- right-wing and conservative power has always bubbled up from the bottom. You -- Rush Limbaugh came out of a very strong legal family. He goes on radio. He gets fired. He gets fired. He gets fired. Free Republic. Just some guy out in California. Joe the Plumber -- it's always been bottom up.

GLENN BECK (HOST): Sure.

COULTER: Not with the Democrats. Oh, no. They have a Nazi collaborator, literally, international financier George Soros funding their phony grass-roots organizations. So they look at Rush and say, "Who’s funding you?" Well, Rush Limbaugh’s funding Rush Limbaugh. [Fox News, Glenn Beck, 3/2/09; Media Matters, 9/20/10]

Human Events: Soros is “also a Nazi collaborator.” An online piece from the conservative Human Events claimed Soros was “a Nazi collaborator” who “helped cart off the possessions of Hungarian Jews after they were sent to concentration camps.” From the March 10, 2009, article:

Soros is a behind-the-scenes despot. He is an evil man who has used his wealth to further all the causes the Democrat Party holds dear.

He was also a Nazi collaborator. In his autobiography, entitled "Soros on Soros," he blithely describes how as a teenager he helped cart off the possessions of Hungarian Jews after they were sent to concentration camps. Soros wrote that this never bothered him, even though his father was Jewish and he grew up in a Jewish home. He says he has no regrets for his actions. "Somebody would have done it," he wrote. [Human Events, 3/10/09]

Investor's Business Daily: Soros is a "former Nazi sympathizer." A March 11, 2009, Investor's Business Daily editorial accused Soros of being a “former Nazi sympathizer.” From the editorial:

If, as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says, Rush Limbaugh "is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party," it is only fair to ask: Who is his Democratic counterpart?

Our nominee is George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire and former Nazi sympathizer who helped fund MoveOn.org, the radical group that smeared Gen. David Petraeus with its "General Betray Us" ad last fall.

Through his Open Society Initiative and personal contributions Soros has funded many liberal causes and many Democratic candidates with the intent of undermining democracy and capitalism. His ultimate goal is to create a global socialist collective where we hand over our money and/or freedom and sing "Kumbaya."

For our part, we'll take Rush over Soros. [Media Matters, 9/20/10]

Coulter: Soros "did well under the Nazis." Coulter claimed that Soros “collaborated with the Nazis in Hungary, as he admitted.” From the March 26, 2009, edition of Fox News’ Hannity:

ANN COULTER: I don't think George Soros' name should come out without pointing out that this is not the first crisis he's done well in. He collaborated with the Nazis in Hungary, as he admitted, so he did well under -- under the Nazis. [Fox News, Hannity, 3/26/09; Media Matters, 9/20/10]

Founder of right-wing outlet The Rebel in Toronto Sun column: Soros "collaborated with the Nazis" to survive the Holocaust. Ezra Levant, now the head of Canadian right-wing outlet Rebel Media, wrote in a September 5, 2010, Toronto Sun column that Soros “collaborated with the Nazis” and “turned on other Jews to spare himself.” The Sun was subsequently forced to issue a retraction and apology. From the column:

When the Nazis took total control of Hungary in 1944, the Holocaust followed. In two months, 440,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to death camps.

To survive, George, then a teenager, collaborated with the Nazis.

First he worked for the Judenrat. That was the Jewish council set up by the Nazis to do their dirty work for them. Instead of the Nazis rounding up Jews every day for the trains, they delegated that murderous task to Jews who were willing to do it to survive another day at the expense of their neighbours.

Theodore hatched a better plan for his son. He bribed a non-Jewish official at the agriculture ministry to let George live with him. George helped the official confiscate property from Jews.

By collaborating with the Nazis, George survived the Holocaust. He turned on other Jews to spare himself. [Media Matters, 9/20/10; BuzzFeed, 5/29/17]

WND columnist: Soros has a "pro-Nazi past.” A WorldNetDaily (WND) columnist on December 7, 2010, wrote that Soros has a "pro-Nazi past," and falsely claimed that Glenn Beck had been criticized by "liberal Jewish leaders" for merely "quoting from the Soros interview." [WND, 12/7/10]

Infowars’ Alex Jones: “Soros Helped Nazis During WWII.” Infowars’ Alex Jones published a January 2012 video titled “Soros Helped Nazis During WWII: Infowars Nightly News” that claimed Soros in the 60 Minutes interview said that “he would go around to the different Jewish homes helping catalogue their property and land, which the Nazis then took.” Infowars has also published videos in recent years with the titles, “Insane Nazi Collaborator Soros Calls Trump Hitler,” “Soros: The Nazi Collaborator Who Sold Out Jews To Survive,” and, “George Soros: Freak Nazi Collaborator.” [YouTube, 1/25/12; YouTube, accessed 9/1/17]

Other right-wing media figures and Republican officials and candidates pushed the debunked smear thanks to D’Souza

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Soros – Estimated worth: $25.2 billion. Contributions since 1989: $61 million

The founder of Soros Fund Management shelled out $21 million last cycle, placing him twelfth on the biggest donor list. About $9.5 million went to Priorities USA Action, which focused on boosting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in her White House bid, as well as other liberal groups like House Majority PAC, Planned Parenthood Votes and the anti-Rubio United for Progress. Soros spent more in 2016 than he had in any of the three previous election cycles.

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/glenn-beck-thinks-the-womens-march-was-george-sorosradical-islam-astroturf

Glenn Beck opened his radio show today by attacking the media for failing to report that last weekend’s massive Women’s March on Washington was nothing more than an “astroturf” rally orchestrated by George Soros and radical Islamic groups.[trms hi % trump ppl believe]

Beck heaped praise on a piece on the New York Times website by Asra Nomani, a self-described liberal Muslim who has previously said that she voted for Donald Trump because she believes that “the liberals and the left have really betrayed America” when it comes to fighting Islamic extremism, who claimed that “Soros has funded, or has close relationships” with dozens of organization that participated in or supported the march. **Update**: The piece was not actually posted on the Times’ website, but rather, as the NYT’s public editor [explained, it was posted “on a site affiliated with The Times — but completely distinct from the paper — called Women in the World … The Times is a business investor in Women in the World and provides the website’s digital platform, but the two have separate editorial operations.”]

“I’m afraid tomorrow I have to go back to my chalkboard,” Beck said. “We’ve been working on it this weekend. We’re going to give you some of the connections, we’re going to talk to the woman who wrote that article for The New York Times about the connections to George Soros and to radical Islam and have a talk with her. Tomorrow I’m bringing the chalkboard in because the connections are there and if you want to call me a conspiracy theorist again, you can; I’m not going to accuse anybody of anything, I’m just going to point out the facts because somebody has to and perhaps someone in the media will listen.”

2016

http://www.alternet.org/media/how-misinformed-tweet-was-manufactured-major-right-wing-news

Buzzfeed News analysis found that the top 20 fake political news stories in circulation during the election got more clicks, views, shares and reactions on Facebook than the top 20 real news stories. The vast majority of those fake stories—all but three—were “overtly pro-Donald Trump or anti-Hillary Clinton,” meaning they pinged around the conservative webosphere, where they were accepted without question by millions and then passed to the next gullible consumer.

Paul Horner, among the most prolific and successful fake news writers, recently told the Washington Post that Trump voters and other “right-wing Republicans” were almost single-handedly responsible for the $10,000 he pulls in every month, because they “post everything, believe anything,” and continue to share fake news even when they find out it isn't true. That might explain why so many fake news stories seem specially tailored for the conservative news reader.

One of Horner’s most popular stories was a fabricated interview with a made-up person who said he’d been paid to protest Trump ahead of the election. During the campaign, multiple members of Trump’s team retweeted the story, even though many sources pointed out it wasn't true. The ludicrous idea that anti-Trump demonstrators are each paid thousands of dollars by billionaire George Soros—who plays a starring role in pretty much every right-wing conspiracy—has now become conservative gospel.

Eric Tucker, a marketer in Austin, Texas, was probably very familiar with this rumor when he recently sent an erroneous tweet that launched a viral right-wing story.The New York Times decided to examine how Tucker's tweet became a major topic of conservative discussion, following its online travels step by step. On the evening of November 9, just as protests against President-elect Trump were erupting all over the country, Tucker tweeted the photo and message below to his tiny group of 40followers.

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According to the Times, Tucker heard about anti-Trump demonstrations in Austin hours after he saw the buses in the photo, and for reasons that aren’t entirely clear (except that if you look for boogeymen everywhere you will find them), assumed a connection between the two. The Times confirmed that Tucker’s photo actually features buses booked for employees of Tableau Software, which was having a conference in the city. (Tucker told the Times he did a search for nearby conferences but didn’t find anything.) Roughly four hours after the original tweet went out, it ended up :{on :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{Reddit:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:. “BREAKING: They found the buses!” the header reads. “Dozens lined up just blocks away from the Austin protests.” The thread of comments that follow indicate subreddits full of Trump supporters who, riding high on an election victory, are ecstatic to have a new conspiracy they can hang on the left.

“Alex Jones is based in Austin,” one commenter declares. “Let him know, and his crew can check it out.”

That’s followed by a lot of wishing the worst on Soros, complaints about “cucks,” suggestions thatJames O’Keefe get involved, and a lot of assumptions rooted in racism and paranoia. “Busing in violent mobs? Please tell me how this isn't inciting treason,” one person demands. This inexplicably devolves into a conversation about Obamaphones.

By the morning of November 10, the story appeared on right-wing message board Free Republic, where a user linked back to the original tweet. Here’s the point at which things quickly build momentum, picking up the pace across right-wing echo chambers. According to the Times, that same day, “Facebook pages like Robertson Family Values, which is named for but not affiliated with the stars of ‘Duck Dynasty,’ and Donald Trump Commander in Chief 2020, linked to the Free Republic discussion.” A Times screengrab of aFree Republican Facebook post repeating the Reddit message shows 307,616 shares. The paper also cites 5,000 shares of each of the aforementioned blog posts.

By now, the story had trickled upward to local news outlets. When the Austin-based affiliate for Fox called Coach USA North America bus companyto get more information, they were told by spokesperson Sean Hughes that the company wasn’t involved in any protests. Hughes even sent the station a statement clarifying that buses were in town "for a conference” and that “at no point were Coach USA buses involved in the Austin protests." The television station’s website, now empty of most of the content that appeared there, still features photos of the buses taken by Tucker, with a caption that poses thisleading question: “Were tens of thousands of protesters across the U.S. paid to walk the streets, hold signs, and chant anti-Trump sayings?”

That evening, Gateway Pundit, a major conservative blog, posted a story with the headline, “Figures. Anti-Trump Protesters Were Bussed in to Austin #FakeProtests.” They used Tucker’s original pictures, and according to the Times, linked the nonexistent busloads of fake protesters to “Soros money.” Three hours later, President-elect Trump or someone on his team took to social media to tweet about the fake story to his 16 million followers.

“Just had a very open and successful presidential election,” the message reads. “Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!”

As of this writing, the tweet has more than 71,000 retweets and 240,000 likes.img

On November 11, a spokesperson for Tableau, the tech company that rented the buses for its conference attendees, sent a statement to the Austin American-Statesman. The newspaper, in turn, published an article debunking Tucker’s original tweet and all of the stories that followed. Included was an interview withEric Tucker, who praised Alex Jones and stated, “I think that it is necessary for us to risk sometimes being wrong to help develop moving the dialogue forward.”

Later in the day, according to the Times, Tucker sent a tweet that acknowledged the possibility his first suggestion may have been “flat wrong.” There was also a Snopes article declaring the rumor false. Instead of stopping the fake news dead in its tracks, the case essentially turned into proof that "a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," as the old saying goes. Also, the internet loves a lie that supports its political agenda. According to the Times, “Mr. Tucker’s initial tweet continued to generate thousands of shares on Facebook through Free Republic and pages like Right Wing News and Joe the Plumber.”

On the night of November 11, Tucker put up the tweet below, which shows his original message updated to carry a bright red “FALSE” across it. The corrected tweet, as of this writing, has a paltry 60 retweets and 66 likes. He told the Times that moving forward, "I can assure you I’m going to try my best to be balanced with the facts and be very clear about what is opinion and what is not." He also said that knowing what he knows now, he “might have still tweeted it but very differently. I think it goes without saying I would have tried to make a more objective statement.”

The same night, Tucker finally trashed the tweet that started it all. While that’s been scrubbed from social media, its impact isn’t going anywhere. Neither, coincidentally, is President-elect Donald Trump.

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George Soros (Hungarian: Soros György) (pronounced /ˈsɔroʊs/ or /ˈsɔrəs/,;^{[^^3]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-2) Hungarian IPA: [ˈʃoroʃ]; born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and liberal political activist.^{[^^4]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-3) He became known as "the Man Who Broke the Bank of England" after he made a reported $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crises.^{[^^5]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-4)^{[^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-Atlantic-5)^{6]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-Atlantic-5)

Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Instituteand a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from Communism to Capitalism in Hungary (1984–89),^{[^^6]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-Atlantic-5) and provided Europe's largest ever higher education endowment to Central European University in Budapest.^{[^^7]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-6) Later, his funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered by Russian and Western observers to have been crucial to its success. In the United States, he is known for donating large sums of money in an effort to defeat President George W. Bush's bid for re-election in 2004. He helped found the Center for American Progress.

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Eastern Europe

According to Neil Clark in the *New Statesman*, Soros's role was crucial in the collapse of communism in eastern Europe. Clark states that from 1979, Soros distributed $3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union; in 1984, he founded his first Open Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into opposition movements and independent media.^{[^^40]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-39)

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Soros' funding has continued to play an important role in the former Soviet sphere. His funding and organization of Georgia's Rose Revolution was considered crucial to its success by Russian and Western observers, although Soros has said that his role has been "greatly exaggerated."^{[^^41]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-40) Alexander Lomaia, Secretary of the Georgian Security Council and former Minister of Education and Science, is a former Executive Director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation), overseeing a staff of 50 and a budget of $2,500,000.^{[^^42]^}(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#cite_note-41)

The fundamental motivation that drove Soros to establish his first foundation in 1979 has been to help people voice their opinions, organize, and promote tolerance, democratic governance, human rights, and the rule of law. Soros's efforts over the last three decades have resulted in a family of foundations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States that can quickly respond to an earthquake in Haiti as well as launch sustained campaigns to promote freedom of information and reform regressive criminal justice policies.

Much of Soros's dedication to these activities is rooted in his personal experience and education. Born in Budapest in 1930, he survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1952. His experiences with Nazi racism as a teenager helped prompt Soros in 1979 to support black students at the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa. While living and studying in England, Soros watched his country become shrouded in communism's repressive dogma, an experience that fueled his desire to challenge totalitarianism. In 1984, Soros created an education and culture foundation in Hungary that also funded underground solidarity movements in Eastern Europe. As communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe, Soros expanded his commitment to critical thinking and democratic political development by establishing Central European University in 1991 and the Open Society Institutein 1993. Throughout the 1990s, Soros used much of the earnings from his success as a financier to establish foundations throughout the world. To date, Soros has given away over $7 billion to support human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education in 70 countries.

Philosophy and Finance

At the London School of Economics, Soros discovered the work of philosopher Karl Popper, whose ideas on open society had a profound influence on his thinking. He was attracted to Popper's critique of totalitarianism, The Open Society and Its Enemies, which maintained that societies can only flourish when they allow democratic governance, freedom of expression, a diverse range of opinion, and respect for individual rights. Later, working as a trader and analyst, he adapted Popper to develop his own "theory of reflexivity," a set of ideas that seeks to explain the relationship between thought and reality, which he used to predict, among other things, the emergence of financial bubbles. Soros began to apply his theory to investing and concluded that he had more talent for trading than for philosophy. In 1967 he helped establish an offshore investment fund; and in 1973 he set up a private investment firm that eventually evolved into the Quantum Fund, one of the first hedge funds.

Publications

Soros's most recent book is The Soros Lectures: At the Central European University(2010). His other books include The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Finance Markets(2009); The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of The War on Terror(2006); The Bubble of American Supremacy (2005); George Soros on Globalization (2002); Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (2000); The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered (1998); Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995); Underwriting Democracy(1991); Opening the Soviet System(1990); and The Alchemy of Finance(1987). His essays on politics, society, and economics appear frequently in major periodicals around the world.

George Soros's political activities are wholly separate from the Open Society Institute. Read an official OSI statement on this subject.

For more information about George Soros's activities that are separate from the Open Society Institute, visit http://www.georgesoros.com.

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George Soros has funded many political projects in recent years. They are listed below.

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Political organizations

Founded or helped to found

Supported

Studies

Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties^[7]

References

^ Open Society - Georgia Foundation | George Soros
^ Baltimore Algebra Project, Inc
^ NGO Monitor
^ Rondi Adamson (29 October 2007). "Soros-Funded Media Matters Attacks Conservatives". Human Events. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
^ ACLU http://www.aclu.org/2008/06/10/george-soros-war-on-drugs-is-one-of-the-most-repressive-aspects-in-american-life.
^ "The Soros agenda". Wall Street Journal. January 3, 2004. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008.
^ Montague, Brendan (2008-01-13). "Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2011-04-11.

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Democracy Alliance was founded by former Clinton Treasury official Rob Stein, Erica Payne and various donors in 2005. The Muckety website maintains a relationship map on some of the major financial donors to the Democracy Alliance.

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Website

http://www.democracyalliance.org/index.php

Background

"At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades," The Washington Post reported in August, 2005. [1]

Rob Stein's PowerPoint presentation on how the Right built a strong infrastructure of think tanks, non-profits, non-profit groups, scholarship recipients, academics, lobbyists, right wing activists and the media led to the founding of the Democracy Alliance, and also a separate organization, the New Progressive Coalition founded by entrepreneurs Andy and Deborah Rappaport.

The Democracy Alliance tries to keep a low profile and its wealthy donors prefer anonymity. According to published reports, organizations funded by Democracy Alliance are asked not to reveal the funding.

In 2006 a San Francisco, CA, office was established by the Democracy Alliance at the Presidio in the Tides Center, where Alliance member Drummond Pike has his offce.

Rob McKay of the McKay Foundation and Anna Burger of SEIU are the elected chair and vice chair of the board of directors of the Democracy Alliance. [2]

"Members of the Democracy Alliance include billionaires like George Soros and his son Jonathan Soros, former Rockefeller Family Fund president Anne Bartley, San Francisco Bay Area donors Susie Tompkins Buell and Mark Buell, Hollywood director Rob Reiner, Taco Bell heir Rob McKay ... as well as New York financiers like Steven Gluckstern." [3]

In October 2006, an article in The Nation magazine reported "the Alliance's 100 donors have distributed more than $50 million to center-left organizations and activists--a lot of money, yet still largely symbolic given the deep pockets of its members. Even as the donors pour millions into a new political infrastructure, however, problems have emerged that mirror many of the problems of the Democratic Party today and the progressive movement in general. The first is determining what, exactly, the group stands for and wants to accomplish. ... Rob Johnson, an early board member, says the tension in the Alliance is between 'party subsidizers' and 'climate changers'--those who want to fund organizations that work toward more effectively electing candidates versus those who aspire to change the fundamental nature of political debate with a stronger set of governing principles. ... Since its inception, the Alliance has been unabashedly elitist, while also poorly run. ... To stabilize the organization internally after almost a year of early stumbles, the partners chose as its managing director Judy Wade, a member of the elite firm McKinsey & Company, consultants to multinational corporations." [4]

Board of Directors and Members

The Board of Directors identified on the Democracy Alliance website (September, 2007) are:

Members of the Democracy Alliance self-identified or identified in published articles include:

Staff of Democracy Alliance

The following staff are listed on the Democracy Alliance website (September, 2007):

Funding Recipients

Organizations self-identified or identified in published reports as receiving financial support from the Democracy Alliance include the following:

Related SourceWatch Resources

Articles

2013

John Stauber, The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats, March 15, 2013, CounterPunch.

2005

Don Hazen, The Right-Wing Express, AlterNet, February 7, 2005.
Chris Suellentrop, "Follow the Money," Boston.com, (Boston Globe on line), June 26, 2005.
Thomas B. Edsall, "Rich Liberals Vow to Fund Think Tanks: Aim Is to Compete With Conservatives", Washington Post, 7 August 2005.
David Teather, "Liberals Pledge Millions to Revive US Left," Guardian (UK), August 8, 2005.
Michael Scherer, "Can Democrats get smart?", Salon, 22 August 2005.
Amanda B. Carpenter, New Liberal Alliance Hopes to Replicate Conservatives' Success, Human Events Online, August 26, 2005

2006

Marc AmbiWhither The Democracy Alliance?, National Journal Online, December 7, 2005.
Christopher Hayes, "The New Funding Heresies", In These Times, June 26, 2006.
Jim VandeHei and Chris Cillizza, A New Alliance of Democrats Spreads Funding, Washington Post, July 17, 2006.
O'Reilly smeared Media Matters, Democracy Alliance, Media Matters for America, July 19, 2006.
Judith Siers-Poisson, Funding The Left, PRWatch.org, July 27, 2006.
Ari Berman, Big $$ for Progressive Politics, The Nation, October 16, 2006.
Matthew Vadum and James Dellinger, Leftists in Search of Permanent Democrat Majority, Human Events, December, 2006.

2007

Jason Horowitz, Obama Nabs New York Bundler, New York Observer, February 15, 2007.
Mike Lux, Money, Money, Money (part 3), Huffington Post, March 26, 2007.
Silla Brush, In the Tanks for the Democrats, US News & World Report, April 1, 2007.
Jon Wiener, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, a review of the book by Matt Bai, August 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times.
John Stauber, Iraq: The "Gift" That Keeps on Bleeding, PRWatch.org, August 20, 2007.
Matt Bai, Democrats, Look West, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2007.
Dan Morain, "Campaigns raise stakes on nonprofits: Untraditional donation channels are expected to gain ground in 2008. They assure anonymity and do not impose caps," Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2007.
Nicholas Tatsis, Going Nowhere Fast: The Democrats struggle to leave the doldrums, Harvard Political Review, November 16, 2007.

2008

Matthew Vadum and James Dellinger, Capital Research Center, Democracy Alliance: Billionaires for Big Government What’s Next for George Soros’s Democracy Alliance? A January, 2008 Update of a 2006 issue of Foundation Watch.
As Clinton and Obama struggle, so do the unions behind each, LA Times Blogs, March 6, 2008.
Sean Collins, The hole at the heart of the Democratic Party, Spiked On-Line.com, March 11, 2008.
Michael Abramowitz, Jewish Liberals to Launch A Counterpoint to AIPAC Political Funds, Lobbying to Promote Arab-Israeli Peace Deal, Washington Post, April 15, 2008.
Drummond Pike, Live, from the DA…., Drummond Pike's Blog, May 1, 2008.
Daisy Maxey, Democratic Booster Blue Fund Group Has Been Singing the Blues Lately, Wall Street Journal, May 5, 2008.
John Fund, Obama's Liberal Shock Troops, Wall Street Journal opinion page, July 12, 2008.
Michael Barker, The Soros Media "Empire" The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent, Swans.com, July 14, 2008.
Peter Overby Union Operative Advocates And Gains Power, National Public Radio, August 6, 2008.
Julian Brookes, An Interview with Erica Payne, Author of The Practical Progressive, Huffington Post, October 23, 2008

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