From:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977
George Soros*was born on August 12, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Teodoro Schwartz, was an Orthodox Jew who,*in 1936, changed the family surname from Schwartz to Soros*in order to enable his family to conceal its Jewish identity and thus to survive the Nazi Holocaust. In 1947 Soros' family*relocated from Hungary to England.*Five years later, George graduated from the London School of Economics.*He*subsequently worked for a London stockbroker.
In 1956*Soros, with meager personal assets,*emigrated to the United States.*He would go on to become*one of the*world's leading hedge fund investors and currency traders. In 1969 he started his enormously successful Quantum Fund, which, over the ensuing three decades, yielded its long-term investors a four thousand-fold*gain on their initial 1969 investments.
In a $10 billion 1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of the British Pound,*Soros earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England." To date, he has amassed a personal fortune exceeding $7 billion. In addition,*his management company controls billions of dollars more in investor assets.
In 1979 Soros*established the Open Society Institute*(OSI),*which serves as the flagship of*a*network of Soros foundations that donate*tens of millions of dollars each year*to a wide array of individuals and organizations that share the founder's agendas. Those agendas*can be summarized as follows:
• promoting the view that America is*institutionally an oppressive nation
• promoting the election of leftist political candidates throughout the United States
• opposing virtually all post-9/11 national security measures enacted by U.S. government, particularly the Patriot Act
• depicting American military actions as unjust, unwarranted, and immoral
• promoting open borders, mass immigration, and a watering down of current immigration laws
• promoting a dramatic*expansion of social welfare programs funded by ever-escalating taxes
• promoting social welfare benefits and amnesty for illegal aliens
• defending the civil rights and liberties of suspected anti-American terrorists and their abetters
• financing the recruitment and training of future activist leaders of the political Left
• advocating America's unilateral disarmament and/or a steep reduction in*its military spending
• opposing the death penalty in all circumstances
• promoting socialized medicine in the United States
• promoting the tenets of radical environmentalism, whose ultimate goal, as writer Michael Berliner has*explained,*is*"not clean air and clean water, [but] rather ...*the demolition of technological/industrial civilization"
• bringing American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations
• promoting racial and ethnic preferences in academia and the business world alike
• promoting taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand
• advocating stricter gun-control measures
• advocating the legalization of marijuana
To view a list of many of the more important*Soros donees*that support the foregoing*agendas,*click*
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Organizations Funded Directly5.htm.
