© Business Inside/G.N.Miller/NYPost/KJNGeorge Soros • John Jay
The Dem donor's charities have funded research and financed programs and a workshop at CUNY's John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, according to public records reviewed by The Post.
Tom Anderson, director of the Government Integrity Project at the National Legal and Policy Center in Virginia, said Soros' team uses cash to throw money into institutions "and make a massive impact that no one realizes that they're making."
John Jay, a traditional training school for cops, is home to the Institute for Innovation in Prosecution, which pushes the controversial progressive ideas adhered to by Democratic District Attorneys such as Manhattan's Alvin Bragg, Chicago's Kim Foxx and Los Angeles' George Gascon, who have pushed for lighter sentences or the downgrading of serious criminal charges even as crime soars.
© Helayne SeidmanJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice is a hub for aspiring woke reformers.
There does not appear to be a direct link between Soros and the Institute, which is funded by four other groups — Arnold Ventures, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Schusterman Family Philanthropies and the Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative.
Soros' Open Society Institute shelled out $500,000 to John Jay's Center for Media, Crime and Justice in 2007 to help "promote a more comprehensive understanding of crime by journalists," according to a press release issued at the time. The money was earmarked to help foster connections between reporters and the criminal justice academic and activist community to "promote intelligent, rich, research-backed reporting."
The media center has, in turn, supported Soros by publicizing Open Society fellowships in its online "The Crime Report."
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group, said:
"The progressive left has an intense focus on spending charitable money to influence journalism in the United States to advance their progressive agenda."Soros and his groups have been funding progressive DA candidates across the country in the name of criminal justice reform. To promote and perpetuate his radical "soft on crime view," Soros targets institutions such as John Jay "by supporting DAs and through his grant making," Fitton said.
Soros foundations have given grants to John Jay instructors including Karen Terry, a criminal justice prof, whose resumé lists $707,959 in funding from Soros groups although some of the money may have been shared with researchers at other colleges. A chunk of the funding, $415,000 from 2010 to 2013, went to study the decline in crime in the Big Apple along with an analysis of the controversial NYPD stop and frisk policy.
Terry also listed a grant for $228,179 from 2011 to 2013 to look at "partnerships between John Jay College and institutions in China that are involved in public safety, policing, and criminal justice education." And in 2014, the Open Society Foundations co-sponsored a John Jay workshop called "Bridging the Divide: Can Police-Community Partnerships Reduce Crime and Strengthen Our Democracy?"
A college spokesman said he couldn't provide details on Soros-linked contributions. Richard Relkin said:
"John Jay College welcomes support from a variety of funders that enables researchers, students and thought leaders of diverse viewpoints to engage in compelling research and dialogue on important public safety and justice issues facing our communities."A spokesman for the Open Society Foundation said its grant money was not intended to move anyone to a particular point of view. But Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said that for years
"left-wing academics have been preaching 'police abolition' and 'prison abolition' in the universities. Now, left-wing political operatives have spent millions electing woke prosecutors who have pledged to put those theories into action. The results have been catastrophic. They promised social justice but have unleashed chaos into American cities."
They fell back on inguinal rights, linked to the intimate and sexual sphere. The poor, the weak, the former damned of the earth, make do.Here and there, they run to the center, the meeting place of interests where the principles are put up for auction. With a few exceptions, it is useless to talk about values with the right, the call to social justice on the left is in vain. Only reality, brutal reality can awaken consciences and especially stomachs.
Globalism brings wealth and domination above, submission, poverty, precariousness below. Facts have a nasty habit of coming back to the surface and contra factum non valet argumentum. We leave the left of the living room and the right of the market to their toys.Cosas veredes, amigo Sancho, que faran fablar las piedras, you will see things, friend Sancho, that will make the stones speak. It is an apocryphal quote from Don Quixote that we repeat, resigned to fighting against giants mistaken for windmills.There are six billion cell phones and more than two billion computers in the world.
The operating system of the vast majority is Microsoft's Windows (Bill Gates). The Google search engine is used by over eighty percent of users, Facebook has nearly three billion subscribers; the tech giants control over seventy percent of the digital advertising market, which now represents two thirds of the total. Together with Apple, they hold a monopoly on the Internet. Amazon destroys millions of businesses around the world, treats employees in ways our fathers wouldn't have tolerated. In addition to unprecedented riches, they exercise an iron power of surveillance and guidance. They have won the role of private censors of the ideas they disapprove of.
They litter any hint of competition: they plunder it, buy it, destroy it or tear it to pieces. They call this the free market, the ocean of sharks.They also represent a danger to innovation, since nothing can grow outside of the all-powerful battleships. Multinationals, investment funds, investment banks, handle financial means higher than the GDP of large national states, determine politics, blackmail the people with debt deception. Plus, they pay no taxes. The deterritorialized system allows them to decide the ridiculous amount of their taxes. Or they choose where to pay them, tax havens or states they own, Ireland, Luxembourg or Cyprus in the European Union, where they set up convenient tax domiciles. To the enormous profits of the monopoly, they add fiscal doping. Big Tech feeds an impressive self-censorship out of the general fear of being expelled from the digital world.
Those in power do not want to alarm society and generate hostile reactions, economists explain that new jobs will be born. It has happened in the past, but in previous industrial revolutions the technology remained auxiliary. Today it is self-sufficient and has little need for human control. Man is antiquated, a useless tool. The moral judgment matters little, it matters what it can be done, therefore it will be done. The masses will be expelled from the system. It is illusory to hope for the virtuous driving force of consumption: it takes money and most will not have it. Why should Blackrock be interested in starting the production process? Productive capitalism is in a coma and the super bosses already own everything that interests them.
The conclusion is terrible: we are too many and we are useless, indeed harmful.We are sources of potential conflict; at some point we will rise as this is human nature. What will happen when workers realize that unemployment is not temporary but permanent? When will they know they will have nothing left and will not be happy? What will the professionals say, if half of them have no future and the army of teachers and employees will understand that there is no more room? They urge us to become entrepreneurs of ourselves, but to whom will we sell goods and services if there are no buyers, expelled from the system?
Nor will there be the prospect of a parallel economy, since the digitization of money will reduce it to simple bartering.It is useless to deny the truth of the jobless society. The ideologies promoted by the "corporate" power through its agencies, the media, the entertainment, the cultural world, the networks, all converge in the same direction, the reduction of the population. Abortion, eugenics, sterile couples, solitary life, destruction of the family, penalties for the carbon footprint. The decision of who controls the investment funds that own everything is clear. There is no talk of superior races or living space, only of individual rights that aim to atomise society into multiple, contradictory and irrelevant claims.For those who do not believe in it, trapped in the contemplation of the present, a look at the bills and the price level is enough. Inflation is back, driven by various factors, including massive injections of liquidity created out of thin air, central bank medicine to bring down the real value of out-of-control debt.
The bill is paid by the middle and lower middle class, savers, holders of fixed income, small and medium-sized VAT numbers. The heaviest increases concern natural gas, with the winds of war in Eastern Europe. Oil, fuels, metals, industrial components, food products, raw materials are rising. Sea freights are splashing after the collapse of the first pandemic phase. Double-digit increases in the cost of gas and electricity, with obvious effects on the shopping cart and on the "energy-intensive" economic sectors. In the US, inflation at 7 percent, in the eurozone, including Italy, at 4.8 percent, the level of 1996.
The pandemic is massacring the leading sectors of the Italian economy in the absence of an energy policy and an industrial project. Inflation is 14 percent in energy, almost 10 percent in transport.The birth rate endangers the persistence of the European peoples and, immediately, the sustainability of social security and health care models. We are not faced with adverse, unpredictable and inevitable natural events, nor with speculative bubbles. They are consequences of wrong choices. One is the ecological catastrophism, fueled by the elites, dramatic for Europe and in particular for Italy, which has renounced nuclear power and does not dare to engage in the search for energy sources in the area, a prisoner of a rumored environmentalism. The ecological transition, encouraged by the UN 2030 Agenda, will cost five trillion dollars annually to a global economy that is worth eighty thousand.We will pay, for this they bombard us with apocalyptic information.
The usual Gates assures that "every year millions of people will die from climate change and there will be no vaccine available.
What is the right, what is the left, in the face of reality and lies? The liberal and falsely libertarian ideology fascinates the right and blinds the left fed by the myth of progress. We need to get rid of the dominant narrative, privilege widespread private initiative, restore dignity and social prestige to work by rebuilding a world on a human scale. Left or right ideas?
It matters little, both straitjackets, mental cages, two of the infinite ways that man can choose to be an imbecile, according to Ortega y Gasset. We need a truth bath: the real Great Reset is the fight against lies. The peoples will understand.