George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations
The gift, made quietly over the past several years but disclosed only on Tuesday, has transformed Open Society into the second-biggest philanthropic organization in the United States, behind the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It will also place Mr. Soros, a lightning rod for conservative critics, squarely in the middle of the social and political debates convulsing the country.
Founded by Mr. Soros more than 30 years ago, Open Society promotes democracy and human rights in more than 120 countries. In recent years, the organization has increased its attention on the United States, investing in programs to protect gays and lesbians and reduce abuses by the police.
The organization funded treatment centers during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, a center for Roma art and culture, and efforts to protect people in the United States from what it described as “a national wave of hate incidents” after the 2016 election. After that spike in hate crimes, Mr. Soros, 87, committed $10 million to preventing such violence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/business/george-soros-open-society-foundations.html
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1) Hillary Clinton
2) Benghazi
3) Obama Got Osama
4) George Soros
I never want to hear anyone bitch about the "Democratic donor class" again.
Profound thanks to Mr. Soros.
My concern is that corrupt people and organizations create corruption in government to serve them. Corrupt governments are the result of corrupt power bases getting control, not vice versa.
Just look at what's happening in our country. If nothing else, it should demonstrate how relatively clean and functional our government was over the last 80 years, even at its worst.
As for "globalism," that's really not the monster under the bed. It's the international web of agreements and cooperation that encourage and enable widespread prosperity and discourage war. Our problem is keeping nearly 200 nations and thousands of political/socioreligious/economic divisions from spinning apart, not that they'll unite as one monster.
Maybe think of globalism like salt? Salt is necessary for life and we'll die without it, the right amount helps keep us healthy, too much can damage our health, and way too much could kill us, but we'd probably throw it up first.
I strongly recommend taking a hard, careful look at the agenda of people who tell you salt or globalism is an evil poison out to get us and that it must be destroyed before it destroys us. Those pushing that notion want something destroyed, all right, and you need to know why, what would happen when it was gone, and where your bug-out camp would be.
I even was visualizing it as a little glowing "box" I'm holding in my hands. 
That sounds silly, I know. But we're used to thinking because we can't make final decisions with it that it isn't powerful.
Yet look at what all the people who voted Trump, and those who didn't vote, did. Our nation went from being a strong, healthy stable democracy and world leader to genuinely existentially endangered. Our government went from empowering and nurturing of citizens and freedoms under Obama to predatory, abusive and negligent under Trump. Literally from one day to the next. January 20.
Don't know about you, but I'm semi-retired now, he's retired, our kids grown and independent, even the last of our pets has died. Our choices don't make much difference to anyone except us. EXCEPT for our power of the vote and all the millions of huge and small events around the planet that our choices will absolutely, inevitably become part of, whatever they turn out to be.
