Soros Foundation Given $30 Million by US Government

CNSNews.com ^ | April 25, 2005 | Jeff Johnson

[stevio]

(CNSNews.com) - The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, in a failed attempt to block the re-election of President George W. Bush.

Tax records the Open Society Institute (OSI) is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service list "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" as "Contributors" of amounts between $4.6 million and $8.9 million over a six year period:

* 1998 - $4,611,617

* 2000 - $4,934,678

* 2001 - $5,869,809

* 2002 - $6,138,125

* 2003 - $8,889,802

The amounts total $30,454,031. Records from 1999 and 2004 were not immediately available.

Cybercast News Service asked OSI to provide a detailed list of its funding from U.S. government agencies, the records from 1999 and 2004 and an explanation of how the money has been spent. The foundation did not reply to multiple requests for the information.

In an online document entitled Building Donor Partnerships, OSI explains how its various subsidiaries, called "national foundations," can get funding and other support from the governments in their home nations:

* Public financing can be used to co-fund, expand or ensure sustainability of programs initiated by the national foundation.

* When a government cannot provide funds, it can allocate land, use of facilities, media time or staff to a donor partnership.

* Governments can waive or reduce taxes and duties for efforts of the Soros foundations.

* Governments can publicize the programs or requests of the national foundation through official channels, often at no charge.

OSI has apparently applied this strategy in the U.S., as well. The foundation received 1.4 to 4.4 percent of its annual contributions between 1998 and 2003 from American taxpayer funding. Various State Department documents indicate that OSI has been paid to run what the department describes as "democratization programs" in a number of countries.

"The Open Society Institute receives funding from the United States," a State Department press statement declared, "and has spent close to $22 million in Uzbekistan in order to help build a vibrant civil society."

Another report explained that "The United States also supports organizations, such as ... the Open Society Institute ... working inside and outside the (Burmese) region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities."

A State Department Fact Sheet also described "an HIV/AIDS prevention program carried out jointly with the Open Society Institute and Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation that targets high-risk populations" in Central Asia. The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development also lists numerous projects conducted in cooperation with OSI.

On the "About Us" page of its website, the Soros-controlled foundation explains that it exists "to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights and economic, legal and social reform."

Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), told Cybercast News Service that any seemingly positive activities Soros-controlled groups engage in should be kept in perspective.

"Congress should keep in mind that this is the same organization that supports numerous hard-left radical activities in the United States and abroad," Boehm said. "The Open Society Institute gave $20,000 to the defense fund for Lynne Stewart, (who was) accused of working with the terrorists who planned the original World Trade Center attack."

Boehm said the numerous left of center political activities supported by OSI include "drug legalization efforts, pro-abortion policies and numerous other controversial causes." OSI tax records show contributions of:

* $4.41 million to the American Civil Liberties Union and its state affiliates,

* $500,000 to the Pro-Choice Education Project to launch a (pro-abortion rights) "public education and media strategy,"

* $100,000 to the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization that works against capital punishment,

* $100,000 to Catholics for a Free Choice, a religious group that advocates for abortion rights,

* $100,000 to the Pennsylvania Coalition to Save Lives Now "to support needle exchange programs,"

* $80,000 over three years to the Gay Straight Alliance Network, to promote "a traveling photo documentary exhibit by lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and questioning youth,"

* $45,000 to the Democracy Matters Institute "to bring the campaign finance reform movement to college campuses,"

* $50,000 to the Coalition for an International Criminal Court "to promote education, awareness and acceptance of the International Criminal Court," and

* $35,000 to the Abortion Access Project.

Boehm also criticized taxpayer dollars going to the Soros-controlled entity, because of the overt, partisan political activities Soros supports.

"George Soros also has been the 'Daddy Warbucks' of numerous left-wing political campaigns in the past year," Boehm said.

As Cybercast News Service previously reported, Soros pledged millions of dollars from his own estimated $7 billion personal fortune to the failed efforts to derail President Bush's re-election bid through various tax-exempt political action committees such as MoveOn.org. Boehm described the expenditures as "the height of hypocrisy.

"Soros has bankrolled the groups that have lobbied for limits on political giving and for disclosure," Boehm said. "But he apparently believes that the law should only apply to other people, and not to himself."

Asked about the seemingly contradictory spending, Soros was unapologetic.

"I am not violating either the letter of the law or the spirit," he said before the 2004 election in an interview with Time magazine. "The letter, because the institutions that I'm supporting were there before I started supporting them, the spirit, because campaign-finance regulation has been designed to deny access to special interests, and by supporting these organizations, I gain no access."

On Jan. 18, 2005, NLPC filed a 41-page complaint against Soros with the Federal Election Commission. Boehm said at the time that Soros' multi-city, anti-Bush media tour was "possibly the largest off-the-books independent expenditure ever run."

"It's especially important that the FEC look at it, because it occurred the month before a very close election in key swing states," Boehm said. "Disclosure is the absolute heart of campaign finance law, and Soros' anti-Bush campaign could have potentially shifted the outcome of the presidential election."

Neither that allegation, nor any other formal complaint has accused Soros' Open Society Institute of using taxpayer funding to pay for anti-Bush political activities. Soros continues to deny any wrongdoing.

Regardless, Boehm believes the combination of Soros' left leaning ideology and partisan political involvement should make the federal government reconsider funding any organization he controls.

"It's hard to believe the State Department couldn't find a more credible organization to carry out these projects. There usually is not a shortage of non-governmental institutions seeking taxpayer money," Boehm concluded. "Selecting a group led by someone with such a strong political agenda, and which funds so many controversial ideological activities, is, well, short sighted."

Multiple calls to the State Department and United States Agency for International Development, which have both funded OSI, were not returned.

[stevio]

Thank God for a conservative media outlet.

[nw_arizona_granny]

If this was being allowed to continue under Powell, does that explain why Condi Rice is now head of the State Dept?

Condi will have a big job to do, if she wants to clean up the State Department.

As the saying goes "The enemy is within, we will be over
over run, by the people we elected".

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[Eastbound]

"How do you call it voluntary? We aren't writing our congressmen enough?"

That's about it, johnb838. Tacit consent. If we don't complain, they'll bend your bones to the point of fracture, immobilizing you with no will to rebel, leaving you with just enough awareness to beg 'them' for a stronger anesthesia.

[Calpernia]

ping

[dhs12345]

Very good point.

[Calpernia]

In case anyone feels MORE writing should be done.

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[Calpernia]

>>>The solution to this problem, and it won't happen overnight, is to help elect as many fiscal AND social conservatives as possible..........it is going to take years and years to weed these anti-american forces out of government, etc.

How is this done in states held hostage by voter fraud?

What are our options then?

[Liz]

Soros had to have Congressional help to get all this money. We demand to know who it was.

Moreover, we need to demand that Congress make public anybody who meets with Congress to get federal money.

We want details on who is meeting with Congress, the purpose of the meeting, and what they are going to use our taxes for.


No more plotting behind our backs to suckup our tax dollars without our knowledge or consent. This must end.

[TChris]

"Soros has bankrolled the groups that have lobbied for limits on political giving and for disclosure," Boehm said. "But he apparently believes that the law should only apply to other people, and not to himself."

Isn't this a fitting definition of a liberal?

[hedgetrimmer]

To do this effectively you need to eliminate public/private partnerships. They are not only unconstitutional, but they water down the indvidual citizens rights, and as you have observed, they keep the citizen from knowing what is going on in their government because no one can possibly go to all the meetings that are held with these groups. Government must be forced back into a constitutional structure, that is local-municipal, county, state, then federal. The regional governments and council this and council that are to dilute the power of the sovereign citizen and give it over to private corporations and NGOs.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!! How do we FIGHT this??? Any Freeper ideas??

[stevio]

Call congress. 1-877-762-8762

[Liz]

Excellent deconstruciton. I say let's go for it.

[MeekOneGOP]

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[jer33 3]

This makes me wonder what is really happening in the state department as well. Apparently there is a great need to clean house.

[jer33 3]

This makes me wonder what is really happening in the state department as well. Apparently there is a great need to clean house.

[AwesomePossum]

Thanks for your questions........ >>>The solution to this problem, and it won't happen overnight, is to help elect as many fiscal AND social conservatives as possible..........it is going to take years and years to weed these anti-american forces out of government, etc. How is this done in states held hostage by voter fraud? What are our options then?

If it were not for the massive voter fraud, and the huss from the MSM, the Demonrats would win very few elections...................but, we are winning many battles and must hold the course.

There is nothing wrong with expecting proper actions from our elected officials, and letting them know this.............but, to replace them with someone worse is suuuuueeeside...............we must replace them, if it comes to that, with someone better. We must seek honest, good persons for elected office. Any one who says abortion on demand is ok, that sodomy is normal, that guns should be outlawed, that traditional religion is full of bigots, that the courts should have the power to make or strike down laws in a constitutional republic, that openly anti-American organizations should receive public funds.............well, these folks are not being honest with you or themselves.

The reason this is the greatest, strongest, richest, most giving, most free nation in the entire history of this earth is certainly not by chance....................it is because the overwhelming majority believes there is a God and the majority of those believe there is a Christ.............it is because we have a U.S. Constitution that upholds our God given freedoms..................it is because there are sufficent numbers of citizens who will go into harm's way again and again to keep this country free and strong...............it is because of the sacrifices of good parents who teach their children to be good, also...........it is because of citizens like yourself, who believe in being active concerning government.

Show me any country or state having serious problems and I will show you where religion, or the lack of it, is the problem.............in Haiti it is VooDoo, in North Korea the religion is communism, in Afganistan it was a religious dictatorship, in Cuba, the dictator is deity, in Iraq the dictator WAS deity, in much of Europe the religion is socialism...........look at China, protests against the government there have increased so much that the commies had to find a way to divert the protests to and against the Japanese,(once the people in China realize they have it in their power to take control of their destiny and uphold their freedoms, the commie government is toast). In our own country, states that stray into humanism and socialism have serious problems that require massive taxes as band-aids, when the easy solution is just an understanding that our Creator knows best.

We have 230 years of proof, statistics, history............whatever you want to call it, that says that blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

With these things in mind, my answer to your question is this............expose the corruption, draw attention to it, as this post does very well, contact leaders about your concerns, talk to those around you and enlighten them about good government and bad government (sometimes you will never know just how a few, humble, well spoken words can influence others).............and, make sure that you work to get good, honest people elected. Vote for fiscal and social conservatives. Most importantly, pray for this country, the leaders, our military, your family and yourself.........it can do wonders.

[Ann Archy]

Thank you!!

What's a 1911?

[stevio]