Soros Enters the For-Profit College Fray
by Capitol ConfidentialAs the war against for-profit schools drags on, several organizations continue to cry wolf in the hopes of landing the final blow to the resilient colleges. One of the biggest players in recent battles has been the New American Foundation. A seemingly ‘nonpartisan public policy institute’, this group is layered with traces of political leanings and loaded assertions.
The most vocal arm of the New America Foundation has been their publication of ‘Higher Ed Watch.’ Editor Stephen Burd remains one of the strongest opponents of for-profit schools having slandered the industry at every turn. Articles such as, “For Profit Higher Education’s New Conspiracy Theory” and “Heads Will Roll At For-Profit Colleges — But Not The Right Ones,” have allowed Burd to preach from his soapbox and reveal the political tendencies of the foundations largest donors.
George Soros, one of the looming figures behind the war against for-profit schools, has managed to force his philosophies into the group by means of a quite sizeable contribution. New America Foundation received between $250-000 and $999,999 from short seller Soros’ Open Society Institute. Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation, receives a base compensation of $271,000. The former contributor at The New Yorker Magazine calls the shots at NAF amid a cloud of outsider influence. With staff salaries paid in part by the contribution of George Soros, NAF’s alleged ‘bi-partisan’ reputation becomes an ever harder pill to swallow.
Even the chairman of the New America Foundation’s board, Eric Schmidt, can be called into question. Schmidt, the Chairman and CEO of Google, not only campaigned for President Obama but is also rumored to be on the short list for Commerce Secretary. Given all the incestuous political ties, it remains difficult to ignore the administration’s ability to force the hand of various non-profits.
New America Foundation has even hosted an event with Obama Administration Official James Kvaal, titled “Reining In For-Profit Higher Education.” Hosted by Burd, the event served as a vehicle to further tarnish the reputation of for-profit schools. The Obama administrations relentless attacks through seemingly bi-partisan groups are a deceptive ploy. In the attempts to sway support away from student choice, the administration continues to use every tactic available. Just last week on it’s website, New America Foundation posted it’s own article, attacking the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities over its legal challenge to Obama’s outrageous actions.
Anyone who harbors doubts that Soros is not involved in nearly every action of the Obama Administration needs to take a closer look. Even here – in policy-making at the Department of Education – Soros’ fingerprints are everywhere. For an administration that claimed to pride itself on lack of influence from outside sources, they’re certainly having a difficult time shedding their donors, lobbyists, career leftistis and destructive liberal influences.
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Anything Soros is against, I'm for, I don't care what it is. The only goal this man has is to ruin our economy so he can walk away with billions more. The amazing part is he has the left dancing to his tune. I still find it hard to believe the libs will bed down with this guy. They must really hate this country.
Stop doing this to me! I open Big Gov and there's a huge photo of Spooky Dude. My kids freak and my dog dumps on the floor! Stop it I say!
This guy just oozes evil (and creepiness).
Agreed. It's almost like this guy exists just to ruin things on purpose just to watch it burn.
This guy has billions and he can't get himself some Botox?
George Soros is not even an American Citizen.
He needs to keep his nose out of American Issues.
Soros U.? Hell,sign me up!
I gots my tie-dye Che T-Shirt, my Mao is Wow Ball Cap and my Lenin is for Lovers gym bag.
Gee, I hope I get a trans-gendered, Kenyan/latino metrosexual male pole dancer for a roommate! Wouldn't that be diverse?
Let the Kumbaya's commence. I hear that our varsity co-ed soccer team is going for the "Nobody Loses" finals this year.
I'd print the picture, and use it to pick-up the dog barack….
then flush it down the holebama…..
Soros is starting to look like a Sith lord.
No doubt Soros U will get heavy funding from a broke America, and directly from King Rat himself.
Obama's Political Prisoner
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I think thats a little too late, he is already a Sith Lord. George "Darth Corruptous" Soros.
Actually unfortunately he is a citizen.
He is a naturalized American citizen. Since 1961.
This man is a menace. Look at what his money has brought the right from the left. http://yourdaddy.net/2010/10/25/fomenting-intoler...
Obama says the same damn thing about his own Citizenship from 1961….. I don't believe Obama either.
LOL! Except I'm afraid my septic would clog!
I'm pretty sure all colleges and universities are for-profit. The belief that to profit it must go to those who are outside the school structure is semantics. They probably feel these schools are beneath them and inferior to 'their way'. Ironically, John Sperling and George Soros are bed buddies. This is an issue of self-importance, and NOTHING MUST GET IN THE WAY!!!
then just toss it in your (Dick) turdbin…..
Look on the bright side, Fusion: Citizenship qualifies $oro$ for the treason conviction – and commensurate penalty – he so richly deserves.
Soros is so evil and has taken down regimes. He is working hard to destroy America as we know it. Financially and being he is an atheist by trying to get rid of God out of our country, off our money out of our courts ext. He is so powerful financially there are not many ways to fight this man except for a few things we can do. Get rid of Obama and expose Soros every chance we can , on facebook, twitter, fox news discussions , blogs!!
Target Soros…
I am sure progressives will not like this. Fed's Bullard Calls for Review of QE2 Strategy Sunday, 27 Mar 2011 02:12 PM
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"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
the plan is multi-layered– crashing the dollar and removing it as the worlds reserve currency is just a means to an end. An end where our shadow government steps into the light to run a ONe world government, NEW WORLD ORDER.
Close down private schools and preach a government approved curriculum through public schools……what could be communist about that?
I have been mining through the news, and found an interesting article. Donald Trump's Birth Certificate
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"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
Spooky dude and the current WH administration don't wany anyone making a profit, unless it benefits them and their cronies! Can we put a curse on these folks, please!!!
That's why they call him Dr. Evil.
I just think that colleges are marxist enough now.
This is just a little bit of overkill.
Your religion is showing, mac. No theocracies.
There ain't enough in the world for the Emperor Palpatine…
We need someone to toss him over the railing of the reactor core…
"Look"…????
"Darth $oros…"
Atheist…?
He's not denying God…he's playing on the other team…
Down, Lucifer…!!
Don't just target this demon…target all that he has touched…
The roots run very, very deep…and the evil corrupts all…
Issa needs to investigate HIM…
Send out a team, bag him up, and dump him in front of a tame Federal Judge…
Or drop him off at New Scotland Yard…the Brits want some of his hide for currency manipulation already…then when we get the charges just right, extradite him here…
This guy is MORE DANGEROUS than Obama…we can get rid of "his nibs" in 2012…but THIS effer is gonna need a swan dive from 10,000ft. into the Pacific without O2 and a 'chute to make sure…
Unless you believe in a garlic-filled coffin, a wooden staked heart, (if there is one), beheading, and burning the body to ash…
Even then, you have to look for the vampire minions…
Father time will claim his scummy ass soon enough.
Note to all Priests Training in Detection of Evil Spirits for the Purpose of Exorcism: The above photo is a classic look of the facial expressions of someone possessed with a very powerful demon. Use extreme caution and do not attempt to communicate with it as it is very cunning and deceitful. This one is a destroyer and a liar and is angry with God and a friend to the Godless and his followers are legion.
That must have been one heavy skillet he went face to face with.
I pissed holes in the snow that looked better.
You'd think that someone this close to death would re-evaluate the situation cause this basturd is playin' with fire literally.
God has that one covered for ya.In the space of eternity their trading one minute of power and wealth for all eternity and their egos won't let em back off such a crummy deal
I am sure you know that Soros is an admitted atheist and in some of his interviews has refered to himself as God! What I meant about trying to get God out of our country is that I suspect and would not doubt that he has been aiding , through funds, the atheists, in,our country who have been busy for a long time, trying to remove such things as In God We Trust on our money and getting ten commandments out of our courts, and stopping prayers in our schools etc.. You got it right on with Down Lucifer but at least Lucifer believes there is a God lol ty for the reply Like I said before, we need to get as many as we can to expose this Soros everywhere we can!
Wow you have accomplished more than half the intellectuals on the left and have outperformed Dan Rather on this one. KUDOS to You
It would be so refreshing to live in a country where the 4th Estate held politicians and political parties feet to the fire at least once in awhile. But alas…
Obama/Soros only get away with their corrupt ways because we have a silent MSM.
You know, the MSM the ill-informed listen to..
Some things you just don't have the luxury of waiting for…the $oros dropping from "natural causes" is one of them…
Like the old meme says…"Your typical Jihadist is looking forward to joining Allah…the U.S. Marine Corps job is to arrange the meeting…"
And even then, brace for that dead hand to reach out from the grave and still cause chaos…he's had plenty of time to prepare for it…
Settle for a .300 WinMag through an eye socket…
Like to see "old Scratch" power that up afterwards…
Riley made a $oros just today…and I went with the "double plastic bag" method…
Is the Left's defense of the higher education status quo nothing more than an admission that academia is "theirs"? They rightly conclude that anything dimishing Academia's power (like for-profit schools and eliminating federal subsidies for student loans) is an outright assault on their system of intellectual regimentation. We would do well to engage them on this matter.
When is spooky dude going to be put in prison for LIFE?
Me likey, me likey berry much
better hide in his bunker…
Actually I'm atheist, so "preach" was meant as a perjorative.
You are a retard, plain and simple. Either you don't understand sarcasm or you truly believe that the government runs on christianity despite having a secular constitution which bans the mixing of church and state in 2 places.
"no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
-The Constitution
Education is big area to take some giant hits very soon.
States are going have the a lot of this apart – why pay tuition and get job?
Not clear why Soros keeps hitting on this group – this seems like very small fish in a big sea – these students are not the enemy.
Looks like the unions playing with citizens – again -
Ernst Stavro Soros or Lex Luther's twin brother? Dealers choice.
Funny how rich liberals are against other people's profits. Don't like competition huh?
One question, is this old F*CKSTICK even a citizen? If not then he needs to have a nice warm glass of STFU.
Or prohibiting the free exercise thereof!
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"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington
"The Kochs openly support things they believe in – especially free markets and limited government. To media types, those beliefs are suspect or even audacious. To the left, they’re criminal or anti-American. Both groups claim to question everything.
Everything, that is, except who funds the left. When that gets mentioned, there is either complete silence or cries of conspiracy at the mere mention of the name George Soros. Yet Soros has given billions around the globe for decades to push his own beliefs. His impact on liberal politics here in the U.S. is unparalleled." from: http://americannation.info/archives/why-does-main...
I don't give him that much credit. I think he's just a fat greasy bastard that wants to ruin our economy for his profit. Either way he's a useless POS that should be stopped. But he's a knight in shining armor to the libs, they apparently don't care what his goal is as long as he keeps pumping money into their idiotic idea factories. They'll bed down with anybody.
he is just a cog in their machine. He successfully broke the British pound in the nineties. He has similar plans for the dollar. The socialist radicals that support the globalist agenda here is the states are pawns. They have their own agendas that they believe they are furthering but if the NWO succeeds they will ultimately be in the FEMA camps with the rest of us.RON PAUL–HERMAN CAIN 2012
"free exercise", not forced exercise. And even this has legal prohibitions. For instance, some religions believe in ritual sacrifices, including human sacrifices, others believe in polygamy. Free exercise is basically your right to swing your fist without hitting any else's nose. I would imagine you'd be pretty pissed off if all of a sudden sharia law were hanging in the courthouses instead of bible verses, or the word "allah" was substituted for "god" in the pledge or on our currency. These are just a few blatant examples of how one religion is forced on the rest of us, and this is blatantly unconstitutional. But, since you will probably still hold the belief that your religion is superior to all others and thus should be an exception, I suggest we hang these handy dandy bible quotes in the courthouses and see how much support they get:
“Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.” (1 Peter 2:18)
“I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” (1 Timothy 2:12)
“In the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.” (Romans 1:27)
Try to "freely exercise" those parts of your religion and see where that gets you!
I'm just sure Uncle Georgie didn't mean to destroy the economies of three countries before he got ours. As for his recent 'investments', I mean, really. Give the old man a break! He's got to ruin the education system, buy the souls of hundreds of poitcians, keep paying the 'union' thugs and Communists to keep them out there…in two hundred and sixty countries, meet with Imams, meet with Presidents, meet with dictators, try to draw a map of his 'new world', and hire a gazillion people to get Fox and Glenn Beck, among others off the air. Now I don't know how much you know about turning the greatest nation in the world into a Communist/Islamic (I wonder who will win this one) country, but I'm sure it's really hard work on an old, wrinkly guy like uncle Georgie.
Have you ever wondred if anyone will show up at his funeral when the time comes. I'm thinking…no.
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