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Soros and Philanthropy:
Sugar and Spice and
Everything Nice
Remember the Reese Committee -
the 1953 congressional
investigation into the Ford, Rockefeller and Carnegie tax
exempt "philanthropic" foundations for their efforts
to gain control over American education? (1). The problem
persists today. And a (relative) newcomer is of particular
interest; George Soros. Isn't it amazing how much infamy Rupert
Murdock's media empire has received (rightly so) yet how little
negative publicity Soros receives? In fact, Soros, a former
director of the Council on Foreign Relations, is often viewed as
"progressive" or even "radical" by a few. Soros is also a former
member of the Carlyle Group, and was convicted of insider trading in
France in 2002 (2). So, so progressive.
In the end, the
big foundations, both right and
left, promote the same thing: acquiescence to big
corporate agendas, including tax avoidance and gaining access to
resources in developing nations by coaxing and wooing leadership
there and driving select governments into
debt. I wonder why Soros, Ford and Rockefeller
all contributed so much money to "Polish dissidents" in
1996? (3). What could they be up to here?
Hmmm...
Speaking of foundations, the senate has
just confirmed Timothy
Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Geithner and Obama
first met several decades ago in Indonesia, where
Geithner's father oversaw Ford
Foundation "microfinance programs"
which were being developed by none other than Ann Dunham-Soetoro
- Barack Obama's mother (4). Wow. Such a small
world.