PAGE 50: “more than 400 American cities to pledge noncompliance with the Patriot Act;” Bill of Rights Defense Committee “Resolutions Passed and Efforts Underway, By State,” bordc.com, accessed April12, 2012, http://www.bordc.org/list.php. • “supporters of communist causes” Matthew Vadum, “A Constitutional Right to Public Funds,” American Spectator, November 13, 2009, http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/13/a-constitutional-right-to-publ/1. • “four longtime supporters of communist causes” Center for Constitutional Rights, “Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo,” ccrjustice.org, accessed April 12, 2012, http://ccrjustice.org/illegal-detentions-and-guantanamo. • “‘so-called war on terror’” Center for Constitutional Rights, “Illegal Detentions and Guantanamo,” ccrjustice.org, accessed April 12, 2012, http://ccrjustice.org/illegal-detentions-and-guantanamo. • “such as the American Immigration Council” Immigration Policy Center, “Papers Please: Eliminating Birthright Citizenship Would Affect Everyone,”immigrationpolicy.org, January 4, 2011, http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/papers-please-eliminating-birthright-citizenship-would-affect-everyone. • “Immigrant Legal Resource Center” William Hawkins and Erin Anderson, The Open Borders Lobby and the Nation’s Security After 9/11 (Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2004), 54, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guides/Open%20Borders%20Lobby.pdf. • “the Sentencing Project, which attacks the American prison system as racist” Sentencing Project, “Racial Disparity,” sentencingproject.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=122. • “the Gamaliel foundation” Gamaliel, “About Gamaliel,” gamaliel.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.gamaliel.org/AboutUs/Mission.aspx. • “Midwest Academy. . .‘racial justice’” Midwest Academy “About Us,” midwestacademy.com, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.midwestacademy.com/about-us. • “‘actions speak louder than words’” Ruckus Society, “What We Do,” ruckus.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.ruckus.org/section.php?id=71. • “self-declared (former, if you listen to him) communist” Eliza Strickland, “The New Face of Environmentalism,” East Bay Express, November 2, 2005, http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-ofenvironmentalism/Content?oid=1079539. • “Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and ProPublica” Dan Gainor, “Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations,” mrc.org, May 18, 2011, http://www.mrc.org/commentary/soros-spends-over-48-million-funding-media-organizations. • “National Public Radio, the socialist American Prospect, Inc.” Dan Gainor, “Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations,” mrc.org, May 18, 2011, http://www.mrc.org/commentary/soros-spends-over-48-million-funding-media-organizations.
PAGE 51: “Independent Media Institute, and Media Matters For America” Dan Gainor, “Soros-Funded Lefty Media Reach More Than 300 Million Every Month,” mrc.org, May 25, 2011, http://www.mrc.org/commentary/soros-funded-lefty-media-reach-more-300-million-every-month. • “Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good” Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, “Mission and Vision, FAQ,” catholicsinalliance.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.catholicsinalliance.org/aboutus.html. • “‘safe and legal abortion services’” Catholics for Choice, “Abortion,” catholicsforchoice.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/abortion/default.asp. • “encouraging American troops to desert” Robert Patterson, War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007), 181. • “Global Exchange would be sending aid” Scott Swett and Roger Canfield, “Aid and Comfort – How Leading Democrats Enabled the Iraqi Insurgency in Fallujah,” americanthinker.com, March 27, 2012, http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/10/aid_and_comfort_how_leading_de.html. • “given more than $400 million to ‘progressive nonprofit organizations’” Tides, “History,” tides.org, accessed April 13, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web/20080626103456/http://www.tides.org/about-tides/history/index.html. • “‘the Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization’” Joseph A. Califano Jr., “Devious Efforts To Legalize Drugs,” The Washington Post, December 4, 1996. • “‘transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement’” Neil Harab, “George Soros’ Social Agenda for America,” Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, April, 2003, https://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/x3770435801.pdf. • “Open Society Institute gave $45 million to PDA” Open Society Institute, “Project on Death in America – Report of Activities: January 2001-December 2003” (report, Project on Death in America, New York, 2004), http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/report_20041122/a_complete.pdf. • “such as the United Nations Foundation” United Nations Foundation, “UN Foundation and UNA-USA Announce Alliance to Strengthen Support for the UN,” press release, November 18, 2010, http://www.unfoundation.org/news-and-media/press-releases/2010/un-foundation-and-una-usa-announce-alliance.html. • “American criminal-justice to an international prosecutor” Neil A. Lewis, “U.S. Rejects All Support for New Court on Atrocities,” New York Times, May 7, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/world/us-rejects-all-support-for-new-court-on-atrocities.html. • “‘The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions’” George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism (New York: PublicAffairs, 1998), xxix.
PAGE 52: “‘and I take great pride in having contributed to it’” David Holley, “Soros Invests in His Democratic Passion,” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2004, http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/05/world/fg-soros5. • “‘setting up a state within a state. . .’” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), 233. • “trying it in the other country” “‘Puppet Master’ Soros has ‘Fun’ Subversively & Adversely Affecting Societies; Lays Out His Plan for America,” theblaze.com, November 9, 2010, http://www.theblaze.com/stories/puppet-master-soros-has-fun-subversively-lays-out-his-plan-for-america.
PAGE 53: “‘We actually work together as a team’” George Soros, interview by Charlie Rose, Charlie Rose Show, PBS, November 30, 1995. • “serve as a key advisor on the project” Connie Bruck, “The World According to Soros,” New Yorker, January 23, 1995. • “previously funded through one of his foundations” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006) 93-94. • “‘Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire’” Kyle-Anne Shiver, “George Soros and the Alchemy of ‘Regime Change’” americanthinker.com, February 27, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html. • “the diversion of $100 billion out of the country” Kyle-Anne Shiver, “George Soros and the Alchemy of ‘Regime Change,’” americanthinker.com, February 27, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html. • “resign as director of the Harvard Institute in May 1999” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006) 93-94. • “deal to acquire a large portion of Sidanko Oil” Kyle-Anne Shiver, “George Soros and the Alchemy of ‘Regime Change,’” americanthinker.com, February 27, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/george_soros_and_the_alchemy_o.html. • “‘was part of the crony stuff that was going on’” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), 96. • “‘one of the greatest social robberies in human history’” Richard Poe, “Remembering Russiagate: Never Have So Few Stolen So Much from So Many,” richardpoe.com, May 11, 2005, http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/05/11/remembering-russiagate.
PAGE 54: “recruiting other philanthropies, like the Pew Charitable Trust” Ryan Sager, “Buying ‘Reform’: Media Missed Millionaires’ Scam,” New York Post, March 17, 2005. • “paid off in 2002 with the passage
of McCain-Feingold Act” Ed Morrissey, “Inside McCain’s Reform Institute,” captainsquartersblog.com, March 9, 2005. • “‘both within countries and among countries’” George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush’s War in Iraq (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004). • “‘requires affirmative action on a global scale’” George Soros, “America’s Global Role: Why the Fight for a Worldwide Open Society Begins at Home,” soros.org, May 27, 2003, http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/articles/americanprospect_20030527.
PAGE 55: “‘willing to put my money where my mouth is’” Laura Blumenfeld, “Billionaire Soros Takes on Bush,” Washington Post, November 11, 2003. • “than would have been possible prior to September 11” George Soros, Soros on Globalization (New York: Public Affairs, 2002). • “along with billionaires like Progressive Insurance mogul Peter B. Lewis” David Horowitz and Richard Lawrence Poe, “The Shadow Party: A Three Part Investigative Report,” October 6-11, 2005, http://www.richardpoe.com/2005/10/06/part-1-the-shadow-party. • “group created by West Coast billionaire Wes Boyd” David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), 93-94. • “contributed $23,700,000 of his personal funds” Open Secrets, “Top Individual Contributors to Federally Focused 527 Organizations, 2004 Election Cycle,” opensecrets.org, March 12, 2012, http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527indivs.php?cycle=2004.
PAGE 56: “most exclusive of all the Shadow Party institutions” Democracy Alliance, “Membership,” democracyalliance.org, accessed April 16, 2012, http://www.democracyalliance.org/membership. • “donate at least $200,000 annually” Matthew Vadum and James Dellinger, “The Democracy Alliance Does America: The Soros-Founded Plutocrats’ Club Forms State Chapters,” Capital Research Center Foundation Watch, December, 2008, https://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/v1228145204.pdf. • “‘the netroots and progressive organizations’” Working for Us, “About Us,” workingforuspac.org, accessed April 16, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web/20071023221553/http://www.workingforuspac.org/pages/about.
PAGE 57: “names of what it called the ‘top offenders’” Working for Us, “Frequently Asked Questions,” workingforuspac.org, accessed April 16, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web/20081122061556/http://www.workingforuspac.org/pages/faq. • “Mark Ritchie, an activist supported by ACORN” Matthew Vadum, “SOS in Minnesota,” The American Spectator, November 7, 2008, http://spectator.org/archives/2008/11/07/sos-in-minnesota. • “at least 393 convicted felons voted illegally” John Fund, “Felons for Franken: Illegal Felon Voters May have Handed Democrats 60-Vote Majority,” Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365063352229680.html. • “‘tallies were updated or corrected, Franken benefited’” Matthew Vadum, “Fighting Frankenstein,” The American Spectator, April 14, 2009, http://spectator.org/archives/2009/04/14/fighting-frankenstein. • “announced that he would support Obama” Maria Bartiromo, “George Soros: Chairman Soros Fund,” Business Week, October 22, 2007, www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_43/b4055047.htm.
PAGE 58: “Self-defined revolutionary ‘communist’ Van Jones” Eliza Strickland, “The New Face of Environmentalism,” East Bay Express, November 2, 2005, http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the-new-face-ofenvironmentalism/Content?oid=1079539. • “at the Soros-funded Center for American Progress” Juliet Eilperin, “Former White House Adviser Van Jones Lands New D.C. Gig at Liberal Think Tank,” Washington Post, February 24, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022304889.html.
PAGE 59: “and the League of Conservation Voters” “Carol M. Browner,” topics.nytimes.com, January 24, 2011, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/carol_m_browner/index.html. • “appointed to the Obama Economic Recovery Advisory Board” Chris Cillizza, “Anna Burger to Leave SEIU, Change to Win,” The Fix blog at washingtonpost.com, http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/democratic-party/anna-burger-to-leave-seiu-chan.html. • “named ‘safe school czar’” Maxim Lott, “Critics Assail Obama’s ‘Safe Schools’ Czar, Say He’s Wrong Man for the Job,” foxnews.com, September 23, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/23/critics-assail-obamas-safe-schools-czar-say-hes-wrong-man-job. • “among the most frequent visitors to the White House” Susan Davis, “SEIU’s Stern Tops White House Visitor List,” Washington Wire blog at wsj.com, October 30, 2009, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/30/seius-stern-tops-white-house-visitor-list. • “‘need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars’” Kerry Picket, “New Book Shows How Soros Set Up and Financially Benefited from ’09 Stimulus,” Water Cooler blog at washingtontimes.com, November 14, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/nov/14/picket-new-book-shows-how-soros-set-and-financiall. • “from several hundred to several thousand more dollars each year” Dangelo Gore, “Cap-and-Trade Cost Inflation,” factcheck.org, May 28, 2009, http://www.factcheck.org/2009/05/cap-and-trade-cost-inflation. • “admitting that it ‘will be painful’” Robert Mackey and Tom Zeller, Jr. “George Soros on the Clean-Energy Economy,” Green blog at nytimes.com, October 14, 2008, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/george-soros-on-the-green-energy-economy. • “he replied simply, ‘Yes’” Robert Mackey and Tom Zeller, Jr. “George Soros on the Clean-Energy Economy,” Green blog at nytimes.com, October 14, 2008, http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/george-soros-on-the-green-energy-economy. • “‘they would have to retrofit their operations’” Kerry Picket, “EPA Imposes Obama’s Cap and Trade Regs – Energy Prices ‘Skyrocket’” Water Cooler blog at washingtontimes.com, August 20, 2011, http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/20/picket-obama-08-energy-prices-will-skyrocket-under. • “a favorite of Obama’s ‘regulatory czar’” Jonathan Weisman and Jess Bravin, “Obama’s Regulatory Czar Likely to Set a New Tone,” Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123138051682263203.html. • “proponent of ‘distributive justice’” Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein, “Climate Change Justice” (working paper, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, August 2007).
PAGE 60: “‘through climate policy than through direct foreign aid’” Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein, “Climate Change Justice” (working paper, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, August 2007), 19.
PAGE 61: “‘It’s just right there. I’m telling you’” morgenr, “The Public Plan Deception – It’s Not About Choice,” youtube.com, May 20, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E. • “‘victims turning persecutors’” George Soros, The Bubble of American Supremacy: The Costs of Bush’s War in Iraq (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004). • “‘bringing Hamas into the peace process’” George Soros, “On Israel, America, and Aipac,” The New York Review of Books, April 12, 2007, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/apr/12/on-israel-america-and-aipac. • “‘organization overwhelmingly made up of Democrats’” Jennifer Rubin, “AIPAC’s Chief: Obama Is Wrong about a Bunch of Stuff,” Right Turn blog at washingtonpost.com, March 5, 2012, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/aipacs-chief-obama-is-wrong-about-a-bunch-of-stuff/2012/03/05/gIQAUlfmsR_blog.html. • “‘new direction for American policy in the Middle East’” Jstreet.org, “Privacy Policy,” accessed April 17, 2012, http://jstreet.org/privacy_policy.
PAGE 62: “‘been an obstacle to peace’” JStreet.org, “Settlements,” jstreet.org, accessed April 17, 2012, http://jstreet.org/page/settlements. • “objected to Jewish settlements in Jerusalem” Mark Landler and Ethan Bronner, “In Curt Exchange, U.S. Faults Israel on Housing,” New York Times, November 9, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/world/middleeast/10jerusalem.html. • “given a total of $750,000 to J Street” Eli Lake, Soros Revealed as Funder of Liberal Jewish American Lobby,” Washington Times, September 24, 2010, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-liberal-jewish-american-lobby. • “‘change is too sudden and carr
ies too many risks’” George Soros, “Why Obama has to get Egypt Right,” georgesoros.com, February 3, 2011, http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right.
PAGE 63: “‘at the hand of the believers [i.e., Muslims]’” Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, “Allah Willing, the Next Time Will Be at the Hand of the Believers,” memritv.org, January 30, 2009, http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2005.htm. • “‘or the sole representative of the Jewish community’” George Soros, “Why Obama has to get Egypt Right,” georgesoros.com, February 3, 2011, http://www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right. • “statement from the group Faith in Public Life” Marcus Feldman, “Fox Still Won’t Acknowledge that Americans Support Insurance Coverage for Contraception,” mediamatters.org, March 1, 2012, http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203010025. • “co-founded by Jim Wallis” Faith in Public Life, “Background,” faithinpubliclife.org, accessed April 17, 2012, http://web.archive.org/web/20070106034458/http://www.faithinpubliclife.org/about/background.html.