Donald Trump to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “Obama and his minions have co-opted you”

>Donald Trump to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “Obama and his minions have co-opted you”

>Obama administration lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News from interviewing its ‘pay czar’. Obama’s Treasury Department official claimed: “There was no plot to exclude Fox News…”

>FOIA documents revealed proof of an entrenched anti-Fox bias within the Obama administration

Obama’s White House: “We’ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude Fox News”
Obama ridiculed a Fox News reporter, “I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney” (2011)

FCC cracked down on religious broadcasters by removing exemptions for closed captioning

Valerie Jarrett blamed “one particular network” for the class warfare rhetoric (July 2012)

Obama suggested to a patron at Ziggy’s bar in Amherst, Ohio to turn off Fox News (July 2012)

Obama tried to threaten Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to compromise with him (January 2013)

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began monitoring U.S. citizens on what they say (2012)
Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) Media Monitoring Initiative included surveillance of journalists, politicians, private sector employees, and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest”

Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists (2012)

Obama White House has editorial control over what is said at NBC and other mainstream outlets

NBC/MSNBC is partially owned (49%) by General Electric (GE), which is run by CEO Jeffrey Immelt

Jeffrey Immelt was an Obama White House appointee and GE received $24.9 million in stimulus funds

NBC President Steve Capus claimed to be the “arbiter of issues involving ethics” at NBC News

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Steve Capus fostered an environment where it is okay to maliciously edit facts in order to falsely smear private citizens and the political opponents of President Obama as being racists
Steve Capus refused to name the NBC “senior” producer fired for portraying a citizen as a racist

NBC’s Contessa Brewer used deceptively edited video so that MSNBC viewers wouldn’t know that a man carrying firearms to a Tea Party rally was a black man (August 2009)

NBC edited another video to make it appear as if the father of a Sandy Hook victim was being heckled

Comcast’s executive vice president, David L. Cohen, hosted fundraiser(s) for Obama in 2011
Cohen, a Democratic operative, worked on the regulatory review of the Comcast-NBC merger
Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, was involved with Joe Biden’s gun violence task force

Comcast reportedly spent $28.1 million lobbying members of the 112th Congress
NBC Sports Network, a subsidiary of Comcast, sponsored the largest gun trade show in the U.S. (2013)

Google executive Marissa Mayer hosted a Democratic fundraiser featuring Obama in October 2011

Obama thinks that Fox News is “destructive,” but that MSNBC “provides an invaluable service”

MSNBC’s president Phil Griffin admitted that the network caters to the so-called ‘progressive left’

CNN president Jeff Zucker hired and fired six big names in his first two days on the job (2013)

CNN cut ties with veteran political analyst James Carville and his wife Mary Matalin (January 2013)
CNN’s managing editor Mark Whitaker resigned, citing Zucker’s “forceful ideas” (January 2013)
CNN chief national correspondent John King was pushed out in favor of Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper was poached from ABC to become CNN’s new chief Washington correspondent

President Obama criticized cable news during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington (2013)

Repeated polling shows that Americans think the media is unethical and reports with a liberal bias

Most Americans believe that ABC, CBS, and NBC deliver news with a liberal bias (2007)

Gallup Polling showed that a record number of Americans (57%) say they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly (September 2010)

Gallup: 60% of Americans, an all-time high, don’t trust mainstream media (September 2012)

Pew polling showed that the public opinion of the media has never been worse (September 2011)

The Hill poll showed most voters (68%) see the media as biased and unethical (July 2011)

Polling shows that Americans are more concerned about media bias than campaign contributions

Obama’s true past was intentionally obscured and deemed irrelevant by the state-run media

Nobody in the old establishment media wanted to cover Barack Obama’s Alinsky roots
State-media ignored the cause of the subprime meltdown that led to the deep recession in 2008

"“When you try to, let’s see, improve society, you affect different people and different interests differently and they are not actually commesurate. So you very often have all kinds of unintended adverse consequences. So I had to experiment, and it was a learning process. The first part was this subversive activity, disrupting the oppressive regimes. That was a lot of fun, and that’s actually what got me hooked on this whole enterprise. Seeing what works in one country, trying it in the other countries, so it was like a kind of, what developed a matrix in fact, if we have national foundations and then we had certain specialized activities.” ~ George Soros

Soros spent $27 million in 2004 in an unsuccessful effort to defeat President George W. Bush
George Soros ‘bought’ the Democratic Party and has been replacing moderates with radicals
Soros spent more than $20 million on Democratic advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts for 2004
George Soros gave substantial money and support to the Obama campaign for the 2008 elections
Soros invested millions of dollars into super PACs focused on grassroots organizing, voter registration, and Democratic turnout in support of President Obama’s re-election (2012)
Soros gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action, Obama’s chief super PAC (September 2012)
Soros also gave $500,000 to two other super PACs backing Democrats for Congress
Announcement came at a luncheon headlined by former President Bill Clinton, and attended by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (September 2012)
Schumer released plans to investigate whether super PACs work with campaigns (February 2012)
Nancy Pelosi has pushed legislation in the House aimed at super PACs (February 2012)
George Soros gave $1 million to American Bridge, which does contracting work for super PACs
American Bridge is run by a Media Matters’ founder David Brock, a favorite of George Soros
While not yet as deep, Soros has tentacles spreading throughout the Republican Party as well
An anonymous investor or hedge fund made billions betting on the U.S. credit rating downgrade
Starting in 2006, Soros sank money into a project called the Secretary of State Project (SOSP)
The goal of the project was to elect Democrats into the offices of Secretary of State
Secretaries of State are responsible for adjudicating all of the vote-fraud cases within each state
The project is so far credited with helping elect (11) “reform-minded” progressive Democrats
In 2006, SOSP helped elect leftist secretaries in Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico and Minnesota

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In 2008, SOSP backed winning candidates in Montana, West Virginia, Missouri and Oregon
In 2010, just two of SOSP’s candidates won their elections, in Minnesota and California
The project is a 527 political group, therefore benefits from a soft-money loophole
Internal Revenue Code: 527 political groups have no upper limit on contributions and no restrictions on who may contribute in seeking to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office
Many of SOSP’s founders and supporters have long-standing ties to George Soros
George Soros helped craft the “stimulus” bill and then invested in companies that stood to benefit
Soros met with Obama’s top economist and officials 3 times as the “stimulus” was being crafted
George Soros later participated in discussions on financial reform
George Soros doubled his holdings in medical manufacturer Hologic, a “stimulus” recipient
Soros tripled his holdings in Emulus, a big recipient of taxpayer infrastructure spending
George Soros bought 210,000 shares of Cisco Systems, a taxpayer “stimulus” recipient
Soros bought shares of Extreme Networks, which became part of Obama’s “broadband strategy”

Soros bought 1.5 million shares of AEP, which Obama gave $1 billion to in June 2009
Soros bought shares in Ameren, which received a $540 million Energy Department taxpayer loan
Soros bought 250,000 shares of Public Service Enterprise Group, a recipient of a DOE loan
Soros bought 500,000 shares of NRG Energy, a recipient of an Energy Department taxpayer loan
Soros bought a million shares of Entergy, a recipient of an Energy Department taxpayer loan
Soros bought into BioFuel Energy, a company that benefited from EPA regulation of ethanol
Soros bought Powerspan in April 2009, a few weeks before it landed a $100 million DOE loan
Soros bought Blackboard, which became a large recipient of education “stimulus” money (2009)
Soros bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe & CSX, parts of Obama’s plan to revitalize railroads
Soros bought Cognizant Technology Solutions, a recipient of Obama’s “stimulus” plan
Soros bought 300,000 shares of Constellation Energy Group, a stimulus recipient of $200 million
Soros bought 4.6 million shares of Covanta, a recipient of taxpayer “stimulus” money from Obama
George Soros may also benefit from the White House’s natural gas proposal (2012)
Soros’ hedge funds owns 3,160,063 shares of Westport and stands to reap the predicted windfall
Democrats offered a transportation bill worth billions for companies owned by George Soros
Forbes 400 ranked George Soros as the second biggest financial gainer during the year 2010

Soros-funded leftist media reaches more than 300 million people every month around the world
George Soros now has financial ties to over 30 major news organizations
Soros is tied to the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press (AP), NBC, ABC, etc.
Soros funds media’s infrastructure, such as journalism schools and investigative journalism projects
Soros funds both the Columbia School of Journalism and the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
Columbia is headed by President Lee Bollinger, a vocal supporter of government funded media
A 2009 study by Columbia’s journalism program also called for “a national fund for local news”
Bollinger sits on the Pulitzer Prize board and the board of directors of The Washington Post
Washington Post’s Vice President Len Downie serves on a board funded by George Soros
Len Downie sits on the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting, funded by George Soros
Soros funds The National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Soros funds The National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Soros funds the Committee to Protect Journalists
Soros funds Project Syndicate and Public News Service, both claiming to reach millions of readers
The Organization of News Ombudsmen is devoted to “monitoring accuracy, fairness and balance”
Organization of News Ombudsmen is funded and supported by Soros’ Open Society Institute
Organization’s members include those from the L.A. Times, USA Today, & the Washington Post
Organization of News Ombudsmen is directed by NPR’s Alicia Shepard & PBS’s Michael Getler
Soros’ Open Society Foundation gave $1.8 million to fund additional political “reporters” for NPR
George Soros’ Open Society Institute funds the Investigative News Network (INN)
INN: composed of 32 non-profit news organizations producing “non-partisan investigative news”
Obama’s FCC ordered NBC newsrooms to partner with the non-profit Voice of San Diego

Voice of San Diego is a member of INN news network funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute
INN includes the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the liberal web start-up MinnPost, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
INN had previously included the liberal Huffington Post investigative operation among its grants
Huffington Post investigations later merged with the Center for Public Integrity (CPI)
Center for Public Integrity’s (CPI) received $651,650 from Soros’ Open Society Institute in 2009
ABC’s Amanpour and Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post/AOL) sit on CPI’s board of directors
Amanpour: tax cuts are “giveaways,” the Tea Party is “extreme” yet Obama is “very Reaganesque”
Arianna Huffington: “Nobody believes that” the American military should be “so powerful that no one can challenge it” and argued that it was out of touch with the American people (February 2012)
NBC’s Paula Madison, NPR’s Matt Thompson, and ABC’s Ben Sherwood also sit on the board
CPI’s reporting features attacks on the coal industry, payday loans, and detailed investigations of conservative politicians and funders like David and Charles Koch and their “web of influence”
The James L. Knight Foundation, a well-known journalism foundation, also backs the INN
James L. Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibarguen is on the board of directors for ProPublica
ProPublica describes itself as an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest” and as championing the values of the “weak” against the “strong”
ProPublica won a second Pulitzer Prize for reporting a liberal agenda, including attacks on oil and gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools, and the evils of the foreclosure industry

ProPublica is just one of many Soros-funded organizations with members of the “neutral press”
ProPublica received donations from George Soros in 2010 and 2011 to push the leftwing agenda
ProPublica was given millions of dollars to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure”
ProPublica was founded with a $10 million yearly grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler
Herbert and Marion Sandler were former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corp.
Golden West Financial Corp. was one of the U.S. largest mortgage lenders and savings and loans
The Sandlers sold the business to Wachovia in 2008 for $26 billion right before the financial crisis
The Sandlers are major donors to the Democratic Party and top funders of ACORN, MoveOn.org, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch and other far-left groups
The Sandlers donate heavily to the Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank
In 2008, the Sandlers were behind two controversial PACs, Vote Hope and PowerPac.org
Vote Hope and PowerPac.org spent about $5 million in pro-Obama ads in California
Both of the PACs were run by Herbert and Marion Sandler’s son-in-law, Steve Phillips
Steve Phillips was a former president of the San Francisco School Board
Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a friend of Obama, sits on the board of ProPublica
14-person Journalism Advisory Board is stacked with leftwing mainstream media representatives
CNN’s David Gergen and representatives from top newspapers sit on the advisory board
Wall Street Journal’s former publisher & the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster sit on the board
Jill Abramson, a managing editor of the New York Times sits on the advisory board

Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News sits on the board
Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NBC-owned television stations in cities across the nation teamed up with ProPublica (2011)
ProPublica will contribute to the news operations of all NBC-owned-and-operated stations
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) received nearly $1 million from Soros from 2003-2008
Center for Investigative Reporting’s board of directors and the advisory board features names such as San Francisco Chronicle President Phil Bronstein, David Boardman of The Seattle Times, Washington Post V.P. Len Downie, and CBS News Producer George Osterkamp
CIR’s media partners include the Washington Post, Salon, CNN, and ABC News
CIR reports many stories on climate change, illegal immigration, and the evils of big companies
George Soros’s latest attempt in new media was creating the American Bridge 21st Century
American Bridge 21st Century is a super PAC that focuses on “election-oriented research”
The project aimed to follow GOP candidates and officials with videographers in 2011 and 2012
The hope is to capture gotcha moments to derail political ambitions and create advertisements
Soros donated another $1 million to American Bridge 21st Century to help re-elect Obama in 2012
PBS’ Mill Moyers described George Soros as a “victim” of Glenn Beck and Fox News “assassins”
Moyer: Soros is “deeply troubled by the Orwellian power of the right-wing in this country today
Bill Moyer was on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Institute prior to joining PBS

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is funded by George Soros
Analysis of CREW’s “watchdog” activities reveals a systematic effort to disproportionately target Republicans and conservative-leaning groups with frivolous lawsuits, ethics complaints, and petitions for investigations by law enforcement agencies
CREW called on Julius Genachowski and the FCC to revoke Fox News’ broadcast licenses
POLITICO’s ex-Soros employee, Kenneth Vogel, attacked GOP super PACs (June 2012)


Soros has spent over $400 million on ‘Open Society’ education at colleges and universities
All of the Ivy League universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and even religiously-affiliated institutions, were also funded by George Soros
Koch brothers were vilified by the political left for donating almost $7 million to universities
Soros has given over 50 times more money to universities than the despised Koch brothers
Center for American Progress (CAP) was founded in 2003 by John Podesta and funded by Soros
John Podesta was co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project in 2008
Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF)
The CAPAF is a sister advocacy organization of John Podesta’s Center for American Progress
Think Progress bills itself as a “nonpartisan organization” advancing progressive ideas & policies
Think Progress’ political blog boasted about being named the “Best Liberal Blog” in 2006

Think Progress has a track record of generating reams of dubious & fabricated Leftist propaganda
George Soros, Theresa Heinz Kerry and The New World Foundation fund the Tides Foundation
1970’s Anti-war protester Drummond Pike founded the Tides Foundation in 1976
Tides Foundation gives funds to thousands of far-left charities, lobby organizations, & “projects”
Tides’ “projects” include People for the American Way, Social Venture Network, Women Donors Network, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and many other liberal non-profit groups
Tides Center has partnered with the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation
Tides Foundation funded ACORN and other leftist groups in exchange for federal grant money
Tides Foundation also funds Media Matters for America and the Center for Constitutional Rights
Tides Foundation has given 14,246 grants totaling $630.6 million between 1999 through 2008
Tides’ new CEO, Melissa Bradley, previously founded the far-left group New Capitalist
Melissa Bradley was selected as a ‘Soros Justice Fellow’ for her innovation in criminal justice
America Coming Together (ACT) was founded in 2003 and funded by SEIU and George Soros
In 2004, George Soros was the largest individual donor to America Coming Together (ACT)
Soros and Taco Bell heir Rob McKay created ACT to help defeat George W. Bush in 2004
McKay, now chairman of Democracy Alliance, gave $245,000 to ACT and $35,000 to SOSP
Democracy Alliance was founded in 2005 with major financial backing from George Soros

Democracy Alliance is billed as a network of leftist think-tanks and advocacy groups
Democracy Alliance’s membership includes some of the country’s wealthiest Democrats
Democracy Alliance funds political infrastructure aimed at pushing America to the left
Democracy Alliance has helped direct nearly $150 million to progressive organizations
Robert McKay, chairman of Democracy Alliance, also sits on the board of Priorities USA
Priorities USA (P-USA) was co-founded by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney
Bill Burton was President Obama’s first deputy press secretary in the White House
Sean Sweeney served as senior adviser to Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff
Priorities USA’s sister organization was also founded, Priorities USA Action (P-USAA)
Both organizations’ stated goal was to raise $100 million to help re-elect President Obama in 2012
Priorities USA (P-USA) is registered as a 501(c)(4) organization and therefore permitted to accept donations of any amount from corporations, labor unions, and individual contributors
IRS rules state that 501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose the identity of its donors
Priorities USA Action is run by Bill Burton, former White House deputy press secretary
Priorities USA Action is also run by Democrat strategist Paul Begala
Priorities USA consistently echoes Democratic Party talking points in its ads and communiques
America Votes 2006 was another Soros-backed liberal group that sought to elect Democrats
Soros gave an additional $1 million to America Votes to help re-election President Obama in 2012
Soros was the largest donor, giving $3.5 million, to the Fund for America in late 2007

Fund for America was created to do voter outreach and finance attack ads for the 2008 elections
Four of the fund’s nine donors who gave $200,000 or more also contributed to the SOSP
ActBlue was founded in 2004 as a committee that helps elect liberal Democratic candidates
ActBlue founders seek to “nationalize local races” with a national grassroots donor base
SOSP used ActBlue to help raise funds for itself and its candidates from Democrats nationwide
ActBlue said it raised more than $190 million online for Democratic candidates since 2004
ActBlue funneled money into campaigns of six Democratic state Senate candidates in Wisconsin
Media Matters for America is a Democrat party front group that spreads false propaganda
Media Matters is funded by Soros as the activist arm for the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Media Matters is breaking the law by lying and participating in partisan political activity
Media Matters was founded by chairman David Brock as a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt foundation
501(C)(3) tax-exempt organizations must obey IRS laws restricting political and lobbying activity
David Brock revealed his campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at Fox News
Media Matters attempted to coordinate Democratic opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline
Media Matters offered their purported “analysis” to provide “leverage” to “allies” in Congress
Media Matters is closely connected to Hillary Clinton and funded by the Democracy Alliance
Media Matters is a George Soros-backed legion of liberal activist shock troops based in D.C.
George Soros donated an another $1 million to Media Matters just prior to the 2010 elections
Media Matters hired an executive from MoveOn.org to develop campaigns against News Corp.
Emails revealed that the Justice Department regularly enlists Media Matters to spin the press (2012)

Soros used propaganda to promote treaties that give the U.N. control over gun ownership (2012)
Haydn Price-Morris, a staffer at Media Matters, committed numerous felonies in Washington, D.C. and across the country by carrying a firearm to defend Media Matters’ founder, David Brock
Brock became increasingly concerned by late 2010 that he was being targeted by right-wing assassins
David Brock reportedly struggles with mental health problems and has been hospitalized in the past
Media Matters commissioned hundreds of pieces supportive of gun control and restrictions on firearms
“George Soros and a lot of groups connected to gun control are funding this group, and they wouldn’t be too happy that an employee of Media Matters was carrying a gun, especially when it was illegal in D.C.” ~Anonymous source within Media Matters

MoveOn.org received early funding in the tune of millions of dollars from George Soros
MoveOn.org founded by liberal elites in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton
MoveOn.org challenged the personal integrity of American military and the civilian leadership
The New York Times gave MoveOn.org a sweetheart advertising deal prior to 2004 elections
Drummond Pike serves as a board member and treasurer of the Democracy Alliance
Pike is also a chairman of the board of the Environmental Working Group, a green activist group
George Soros’ new ‘green energy’ investment fund hired Cathy Zoi, a top Obama energy aide
Cathy Zoi, an Al Gore acolyte, was Obama’s point-woman on subsidizing the green tech industry
Cathy Zoi’s husband, Robin Roy, is a top executive at a private green-tech firm, Serious Materials
Serious Materials pocketed federal stimulus money and was being regulated by Cathy Zoi
The White House regularly held up Serious Materials as a “poster child of green industry”
Defense policy advisor Rosa Brooks is a George-Soros trained ideologue and is anti-military
Obama Technology advisor Lawrence Lessig founded a group that spreads Al Jazeera propaganda
Lessig works with a Marxist activist who argued for the dismantling of the U.S. capitalist system
Lessig works with a George Soros group that petitions for more government control of the media
George Soros’ International Crisis Group is seeking hard-line Islamic states in the Middle East
Soros’ team told Algerian officials that those supporting Islamic caliphate should be ‘empowered’
Soros’ Open Society Institute funds opposition groups across the Middle East and North Africa
International Crisis Group (ICG) petitioned the Algerian government supporting Islamists
ICG was tied to uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa
Soros’ ICG petitioned the Libyan government to normalize ties with the Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood want the theocracy of Shariah law, not the democracy of Thomas Jefferson
George Soros wrote that Israel is the “main stumbling block” to democratic progress in Egypt
The Soros-funded organization Free Press founded by avowed Marxist Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney advocates dismantling capitalism & replacing with socialism (2009)
Robert W. McChesney advocating a government-run U.S. media system to spew propaganda
Susan P. Crawford the “Internet Czar” spoke at Free Press “Change Media” summit (2009)
Susan P. Crawford’s project OneWebNow lists Free Press & ACORN as participating groups
Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott named a policy adviser for innovation at the State Dept.
Soros-funded group Public Knowledge has Obama transition team members on advisory board
Public Knowledge advisory board member Timothy Wu is chairman of the board for Free Press
Soros is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Bilderberg Society, G8, G20, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral meet regularly
Bilderberg Club meets secretively and is composed of hundreds of the world’s financial elite
Obama and Progressive Democrats are supporting global governance of the financial industries
Obama was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which seeks global governance
Barack H. Obama and Hillary R. Clinton had both secretly attended a Bilderberg meeting in 2008
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke attended the meeting in 2008 and possibly again secretly in 2010
Agenda 21: abolition of private property, global citizenship education, & control of human actions
Agenda 21’s “sustainable development” concepts incorporated into the Obama administration
Obama signed Executive Order #13575 in order to control rural populations and development

White House Rural Council was created in 2011 to establish control over 16% of the population
Obama’s EPA is seeking new regulatory power in the name of “sustainable development” (2011)
Maurice Strong proposed intentionally collapsing rich countries of the world to save the planet
John Bryson co-founded the activist group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1970
NRDC was founded with a $400,000 seed grant from the Ford Foundation
NRDC is also funded by George Soros and the Tides Foundation
NRDC is a major proponent of stopping global warming and endorsed the Earth Charter
Earth Charter blames capitalism for the world’s environmental, social, and economic problems
“The dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species. The benefits of development are not shared equitably and the gap between rich and poor is widening.” ~The Earth Charter

Natural Resources Defense Council is a member and funder of the controversial Apollo Alliance
NRDC’s president, Frances Beinecke, is on the Apollo Alliance’s board
Jeff Jones, founder if a domestic terrorist group, boasted of doing work with John Bryson’s group
Jeff Jones, Mark Rudd, and Bill Ayers signed an infamous statement calling for a revolution against the American government inside and outside of the country to defeat U.S. imperialism
Jeff Jones: Apollo’s mission is a “sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes”
Jeff Jones boasted on his website that he has done consulting work for the NRDC
John Bryson was the former chairman, CEO, and president of Edison International
Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison
Bryson serves on the U.N. secretary-general’s advisory group on energy and climate change
Bryson was co-chair of the globalist organization Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP)
PCIP was founded in 1995 in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Members of globalist organizations PCIP & CRF are found throughout the Obama administration
Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) is funded by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
President Obama’s ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, is a member of the PCIP
Charles Rivkin invited a 29-member delegation from the PCIP to a conference in France (2010)
Rivkin proposed that the U.S. “engage” and help to “empower France’s Muslim minorities”
Deputy secretary of state James B. Steinberg serves on the PCIP board of directors
Steinberg serves on the science and security board of the journal Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Journal argued for the U.S. to hand over its nuclear weapons to an international organization

Journal was founded by scientists accused of spying for the Soviets during the Cold War
U.S. ambassador to Argentina Vilma S. Martinez is chairman of the PCIP’s Mexico Study Group
Obama’s former ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (R), is a PCIP founding director
Obama’s U.S. ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey L. Bleich, is a PCIP member
Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council, is a member of the PCIP
Farrell is also a member of the CFR and the Bretton Woods Committee
Byron Auguste, a member of the W.H. Council for Community Solutions, is on the PCIP board
Auguste also serves on the board of trustees of the Center for American Progress (CAP)
Center for American Progress (CAP) is funded by George Soros and led by John Podesta
John Podesta served as co-chairman of Obama’s transition team
Steven Myers is a Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) member
Myers joined the State Department’s advisory committee on international economic policy (2010)
John B. Emerson is a member of both the PCIP and the CFR
Emerson was an appointee for Obama’s advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations
Obama nominated PCIP member Janet Yellen to serve as vice chair of the Federal Reserve
PCIP member Alan D. Bersin was appointed commissioner of U.S. Customs & Border Protection
Obama appointed PCIP member Michael Camunez to assistant secretary for market access and compliance in the Department of Commerce (2011)

Ernest James Wilson was elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (2009)
E.J. Wilson is a member of the PCIP board and was a policy advisor on Obama’s transition team
Jonathan Greenblat is chairman of the PCIP’s energy and environment committee
Jonathan Greenblat was also on Obama’s presidential transition team
Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and writer and a consultant for Human Rights Watch
Rashid, a PCIP fellow, is a member of the advisory board of Eurasia Net of the Soros Foundation
Rashid is also a scholar of the Davos World Economic Forum
Rashid became the first journalist to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York (2002)
Rashid was also the first journalist to address NATO ambassadors in Brussels (2003)
Professor Kent Wong of UCLA is the director of the Center for Labor Research & Education
Center for Labor Research & Education received funding from Soros’ Open Society Institute
Center for Labor Research & Education also received funds from Tides and the Ford Foundation
Wong spoke at a pro-illegal immigration rally where he endorsed the DREAM Act in racist terms
Wong called on future DREAM Act beneficiaries to replace the “old white men” in Congress
Professor Wong served as a staff attorney for the SEIU in Los Angeles prior to joining UCLA
Wong was the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO

Wong served as the president of the union organization United Association of Labor Education
Campaign for America’s Future was co-founded in 1996 primarily by Robert Borosage
Robert Borosage previously worked as director of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies
Campaign for America’s Future is funded by Marxist billionaire George Soros
Roger Hickey is a co-founder and co-director of Campaign for America’s Future (CAF)
Roger Hickey also co-founded the George Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
“We think Obama should go ahead and take the opportunity to appoint a number of NLRB people and Cordray as well and it would be a disappointment if he did not.” ~Roger Hickey calling on President Obama to break precedent on recess appointments (which he did) despite a 1993 Justice Department finding cited by Obama’s solicitor general in 2011 arguing that a recess must be longer than three days
(January 2012)

Center for Community Change (CCC) has its board filled with radicals and socialist activists
Center for Community Change is funded by Marxist billionaire George Soros
Jewish Fund for Justice (JFSJ) is a social justice charity funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute
JFSJ promotes social justice, “green” jobs, immigration reform, & was a champion of Obamacare
JFSJ runs a Selah Leadership Program which provides local community organizing training
Selah Leadership Program grads included Heather Booth, founder of radical Midwest Academy
As of mid-2007, more than 200 leaders from 165 organizations had completed the program
JFSJ was listed as an endorsing organization for the D.C. One Nation rally in October 2010
JFSJ has a “proud” working association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Extremist and self-described Saul Alinsky disciple Heather Booth founded Midwest Academy
Midwest Academy’s methods were adopted by the AFL-CIO’s “Union Summer” training camp

Booth stated building a “progressive majority” would help for a “fair distribution of wealth”
Booth’s husband, Paul Booth, founded Students for a Democrat Society (SDS) in the 1960s
SDS was a radical 1960s anti-war movement spun-off from Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground
The Woods Fund provided capital to the Midwest Academy while Obama served as director
Jackie Kendall was an executive director of the Midwest Academy founded in the 1970s
Jackie Kendall helped train volunteers to aid Obama’s campaign prior to the 2008 Iowa primary
Citizen Action of Illinois spun off from the Midwest Academy to perform work in Chicago
In late 2006, George Soros bought 2 million shares of Halliburton stock for $62 million
George Soros sponsored the founding of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
INET allows George Soros to bring together the “world’s top economists and financial thinkers”
The goal of George Soros and INET is “to remake the world’s economy as they see fit”
More than two-thirds of the slated speakers for the 2011 event have direct ties to George Soros
Jeffrey Sachs is founder and co-president of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance
Millennium Promise Alliance promotes a global economy and a new international tax structure
Sachs sits on INET’s advisory council and is a special adviser to U.N. Sec.-General Ban Ki-moon
Jeffrey Sachs directs Columbia’s Earth Institute promoting the theory of global warming
Sachs is the engineer of a “shock treatment” economic doctrine that leads to economic failure
George Soros funds the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Marxist-oriented think-tank
IPS “serves as an intellectual nerve center” for issues including “support for Marxist insurgencies”
IPS undermined our national security and was closely linked to the Soviet’s KGB spy agency
FBI called IPS a “think factory” that helps to “train extremists who incite violence in U.S. cities”

FBI said that IPS’s “educational research serves as cover for intrigue, and political agitation”
IPS was accused of serving as a propaganda arm of the USSR and a place where Soviet agents met
Congressman Leon Panetta was on IPS’s official 20th Anniversary Committee on April 5, 1983
Panetta’s voting record in Congress from 1977-1993 showed an affinity for IPS’s agenda
Panetta supported IPS’s “Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Line” in 1983
Panetta commissioned the IPS to produce an ‘alternative’ budget during the 1980s
IPS’s budget drastically cut defense spending while increasing the spending for social welfare
Panetta voted against the reaffirmation of the Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan
Panetta voted in favor of continuing foreign aid to the Sandinistas of communist Nicaragua
Panetta supported extending most-favored nation status to the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Panetta voted to cede control of the Panama Canal to the pro-Soviet Panamanian government
Panetta endorsed the IPS-supported bill to terminate our efforts to resist communism in Nicaragua
Panetta slammed President Reagan’s “illegal and extraordinary vicious wars” in Latin America
Panetta supported Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and opposed Chile’s anti-communist government
Panetta issued a Congressional statement of praise for anti-war activist Lucy Haessler in 1984
CIA Director Leon Panetta was later nominated by Obama to serve as secretary of defense in 2011
CIA Director Panetta was tied to the IPS, a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity
Other members of the IPS committee included Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) largest political donor stands to benefit from a bill he sponsored
Harkin took at least $137,916.00 from a company called Herbalife International since 1989

Herbalife is a global nutrition & supplement company that specializes in “healthy” weight loss
Harkin sponsored the Federal Response to Eliminating Eating Disorders, or F.R.E.E.D. Act
F.R.E.E.D. continues to re-write The Social Security Act of 1935 and Obamacare passed in 2010
Removes exclusion of payments for “agents when used for anorexia, weight loss, or weight gain”
Herbalife sells a wide range of products tied to weight gain, weight loss, and eating disorders
The bill authorizes our federal government to pay for the Herbalife International’s products
Authorizes Medicare and Medicaid to pay for OTC drugs used in the “treatment” of eating disorders
Herbalife International has been Tom Harkin’s biggest political contributor over the last 22 years
Harkin has been the loudest advocate for alternative medicine and prevention for the last 20 years
Lucy Haessler co-founded the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)
WILPF was named by the U.S. State Department as a “Soviet front” group
Karen Dolan, director of Cities for Progress & Cities for Peace, is a fellow at Soros’ IPS
Dolan: “Progressives won in the 2010 mid-term elections” and “our work is now finally beginning”
Dolan urged progressives to “throw our support unabashedly behind the Progressive Caucus”
Dolan wants “to do the right thing through as many Exec. Orders as we can present to [Obama]”
George Soros held two concurrent conferences in March 2011, nicknamed Bretton Woods 2.0
The first four-day conference, billed as “a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order”
The second Soros four-day conference aimed at remaking the world by changing the media
New Economic Thinking (INET), an organization with Soros ties, sponsored the events

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) headlined the George Soros’ ‘Change The World’ event in April 2011
Pelosi skipped all votes and negotiations over the potential 2011 shutdown to attend the events
George Soros dumped his investors in order to avoid new financial regulations of his hedge fund
Soros terminated his hedge fund to avoid reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank reform act
George Soros promotes an “Open Society,” except for when it comes to his own shady dealings
Washington Post cited the so-called “nonpartisan” Tax Policy Center in a tax policy piece
Tax Policy Center is an arm of the Brookings Institute and supported by the Urban Institute (UI)
In 2001, Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution began collaboration on a Tax Policy Center (TPC) to discredit President George W. Bush’s tax cut plans, which they argued was for ‘the wealthy’
Brookings has been involved in a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs
Brookings Institute has been involved with the Global Governance Initiative (GCI)
GCI aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government
Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade and banking, an expansion of the Kyoto Protocol, and nationalized health insurance for children
Nine Brookings economists signed a petition opposing President Bush’s tax cuts in 2003
Brookings Institution’s President since 2002 has been Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott previously served as President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State
Brookings Institute’s Board of Trustees features Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of John Kerry (D-MA)
Brookings’ Board of Trustees includes Zoe Baird, Clinton’s failed appointee for Attorney General
In 1980, the Urban Institute called for socialized health care in the United States
Urban Institute critiqued the Reagan administration with research paid for by the Ford Foundation

Urban Institute similarly critiqued the George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1990
Urban Institute became a leading policy center apologist for urban black violence following the Los Angeles riots in 1992, focusing on societal and economic factors, rather than moral and criminal
Ford Foundation is funding Van Jones’ attacks on free speech and intimidation of ALEC
Ford Foundation gave Color of Change at least $1.8 million to fund its campaign against ALEC
ALEC is a membership association of state legislators, including both Democrats and Republicans, and various businesses and associations that provide their perspective on policy issues
ALEC conducts research and promotes free-market economic policies and individual liberty
Since members of ALEC have a long history of supporting Second Amendment rights, Color of Change ran paid radio ads essentially blaming ALEC for the death of Trayvon Martin (June 2012)
ALEC is under attack from a loose coalition of 7 organizations: Color of Change, Common Cause, Center for Media and Democracy, Progressive States Network, People for the American Way, Brave New Foundation, and States Voices
Ford Foundation gave these seven organizations almost $6 million in grants in 2010 and 2011

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