Thread: Soros media group reaches deep into taxpayers' pockets

WE need to be stopping these "grants". I an fed up with tax payer money going to these enterprises and our Veterans getting cheated.

Soros media group reaches deep into taxpayers' pockets

Russ Jones (OneNewsNow.com)
Thursday, January 09, 2014

A media watchdog group has discovered an international media group backed by billionaire George Soros has received millions in taxpayer funds – and those funds often are used to support efforts in regions hostile to the United States.

The Media Research Center reports that Internews, a global non-profit media organization founded in 1982 by self-described Marxist and anti-war protester Soros, has received more than $364 million from the State Department and USAID since 2002 (see breakdown below). That accounts for 80 percent of the organization's funding, primarily in the form of federal grants.

See related data from USASpending.gov

Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture for MRC, asks: "How is it that a man who spends a lot of his time undermining America's global position – and that's George Soros – is so influential in a group that's getting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars?"

According to Gainor, the leftist group – with former board members like Susan Rice and Soros – is using taxpayer dollars to promote issues like global warming and even working with governmental agencies to issue foreign relations propaganda.

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"This group is in something like 70 countries," he notes. "It just recently was advertising for new people in Syria. Now Syria's in the midst of a civil war – [and] it's advertising for people with journals and credentials?"

Gainor says to put the problem into perspective, Internews has received an average of more than $83,000/day from American taxpayers over the past 12 years.

Federal grants and contracts to Internews (since 2002)

2013: ~$52.00 million
2012: ~$63.00 million
2011: $52.35 million (92.4% of total revenue)
2010: $30.10 million (71.6% of total revenue)
2009: $30.75 million (92.9% of total revenue)
2008: $28.00 million (90.5% of total revenue)
2007: $25.24 million (94.2% of total revenue)
2006: $23.04 million (91.2% of total revenue)
2005: $21.33 million (86.2% of total revenue)
2004: $25.07 million (93.8% of total revenue)
2003: $19.67 million (86.7% of total revenue)
2002: $15.02 million (75.0% of total revenue)
(2012-2013 data source: USASpending.gov)
(2002-2011 data source: Internews 990 tax forms)

Other Internews donors (since 2000)

Knight Foundation: $2.60 million
MacArthur Foundation: $1.98 million
Open Society Institute (founded by George Soros): $1.77 million
Tides Foundation: $37,500
http://www.onenewsnow.com/media/2014...s#.UtAGG_bFZGR

George Soros and his minions must be stopped!

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Soros has his dirty fingers in everything......