{"id":34599,"date":"2016-03-29T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34599"},"modified":"2016-03-29T07:27:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T11:27:09","slug":"top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34599","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&#038;widgetId=1&#038;trackingGroup=69016&#038;siteSection=humanevents_nws_pol_sty_vmpp&#038;videoId=28366041\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" noresize marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Human Events<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/author\/Human+Events\">Human Events<\/a>\u2019 readers, in an online poll, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2011\/03\/28\/george-soros-demagoat\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently voted<\/a>billionaire financier George Soros \u201c<em>the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Here are the Top 10 Reasons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2011\/04\/02\/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous\/\">George Soros<\/a> Is Dangerous:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 Gives billions to left-wing causes:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes.\u00a0 Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who\u2019s who of left-wing groups.\u00a0 This partial list of recipients of Soros\u2019 money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2006\/04\/07\/emexclusive-emthe-truth-about-la-raza\/\">La Raza<\/a>, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2011\/07\/28\/isnt-the-southern-poverty-law-center-the-real-hate-group-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0 Influence on U.S. elections:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros once said that removing President George W. Bush from office in 2004 was the \u201ccentral focus of my life.\u201d\u00a0 He put his money where his mouth is, giving $23.58 million to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating Bush.\u00a0 His early financial support helped jump-start Barack Obama\u2019s political career.\u00a0 Soros hosted a 2004 fund-raiser for Obama when he was running for the Illinois Senate and gave the maximum-allowed contribution within hours of Obama\u2019s announcement that he was running for President.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0 Wants to curtail American sovereignty:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros would like nothing better than for America to become subservient to international bodies.\u00a0 He wants more power for groups such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, even while saying the U.S. role in the IMF should be \u201cdownsized.\u201d\u00a0 In 1998, he wrote:\u00a0 \u201cInsofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/humanevents.com\/2011\/04\/02\/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous\/www.redstate.com\/erick\/2012\/02\/13\/media-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that hyperventilates over any conservative view that makes it into the mainstream media.\u00a0 Now its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, telling<em>Politico<\/em> that the group was mounting \u201cguerrilla warfare and sabotage\u201d against the cable news channel, and would try to disrupt the commercial interests of owner Rupert Murdoch\u2014an odd mission for a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation that is barred from participating in partisan political activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0 MoveOn.org:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros has been a major funder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for liberal candidates.\u00a0 This is the group that had on its website an ad comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and ran the infamous \u201cGeneral Betray Us\u201d ad in the New York Times, disparaging the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/jeff_emanuel\/2011\/08\/26\/exacerbating-the-perception-problem-center-for-american-progress-chronicles-the-american-rights-decade-of-baseless-aggression-against-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for American Progress<\/a>:<\/strong>\u00a0 Headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Clinton, the Center for American Progress has been instrumental in providing progressive talking points and policy positions for the Obama administration.\u00a0 There has also been a revolving door between the White House and the Soros-funded think tank, with Obama staffing his administration with many CAP officials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.\u00a0 Environmental extremism:<\/strong>\u00a0 Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his leftist environmental ideas have been funded by Soros\u2019 money at these groups: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama\u2019s stimulus package.\u00a0 Soros also funds the Climate Policy Initiative to address global warming and gave Friends of the Earth money to \u201cintegrate a climate equity perspective in the presidential transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.\u00a0 America Coming Together:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros gave nearly $20 million to this 527 group with the express purpose of defeating President Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT\u2019s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters.\u00a0 ACT was fined $775,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of various federal campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.\u00a0 Currency manipulation:<\/strong>\u00a0 A large part of Soros\u2019 multibillion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies.\u00a0 During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation\u2019s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an \u201ceconomic war criminal.\u201d\u00a0 Known as \u201cThe Man who Broke the Bank of England,\u201d Soros initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.\u00a0 Delusions:<\/strong>\u00a0 Soros has repeatedly said that he sees himself as a messianic figure.\u00a0 Who but a megalomaniac would make these comments?\u00a0 \u201cI admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance\u2014to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god\u201d or \u201cI carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin.\u201d\u00a0 If only the loony bin were an option.\u00a0 As it is, one of the wealthiest men in the world is using his billions to impose a radical agenda on America.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/humanevents.com\/2011\/04\/02\/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous\/\">http:\/\/humanevents.com\/2011\/04\/02\/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}