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<\/a><\/p>\nBillionaire currency speculator George Soros<\/a><\/strong><\/span> says he plans to spend $1 billion to found a global university to combat climate change and burgeoning nationalism in the world, two things he claims in a recent speech<\/a><\/strong><\/span> are \u201cthreatening the survival of our civilization.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The preeminent funder of the activist left in the United States and a major contributor to the Democratic Party, the 89-year-old, Hungarian-born financier announced his ambitious new plan Jan. 23 at the annual globalist gathering of elite business leaders known as the World Economic Forum in Davos<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Switzerland. Soros is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n According to<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Soros\u2019s philanthropic organization, Open Society Foundations (OSF), the project, called the Open Society University Network (OSUN), will \u201cintegrate teaching and research across higher education institutions worldwide,\u201d while offering courses and joint degree programs and bringing students and faculty from different countries together by way of in-person and online discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n Soros is hoping that others will also donate to the endeavor.<\/span><\/p>\n OSF\u2019s president is Patrick Gaspard, who was then-President Barack Obama\u2019s White House political director. Before that, he was executive vice president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199 in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n OSUN is to provide an international platform for teaching and research and will be launched by a partnership of the Soros-founded Central European University (CEU) and Bard College of Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. CEU and Bard will, in turn, work with distance learning-focused Arizona State University, and other schools such as American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan and BRAC University in Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, will become the chancellor of OSUN.<\/span><\/p>\n As of press time, OSF spokeswoman Laura Silber hadn\u2019t responded to requests by\u00a0The Epoch Times for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n Conservative activist and scholar Tina Trent, a former candidate for the Georgia General Assembly, told The Epoch Times that Soros\u2019s announcement is part of his long-term plan to advance his radical politics.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSoros\u2019s strategy has always been to enlist universities as Trojan horses in his worldwide crusade to undermine the rights of citizens to define and defend their own national interests,\u201d Trent said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIn Europe, he founded CEU as his base of operations, funding the school, its scholars, faculty, and students in order to blanket the continent with his pet ambitions: one world government, run by unelected bureaucrats drawn from his stables of select academics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Soros said at Davos, \u201cOur best hope lies in access to quality education, specifically an education that reinforces the autonomy of the individual by cultivating critical thinking and emphasizing academic freedom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI consider the Open Society University Network to be the most important and enduring project of my life, and I should like to see it implemented while I am still around.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to OSF, Soros has donated more than $32 billion over the past 30 years \u201cto education and social justice causes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In his Swiss speech, Soros outlined<\/a><\/strong><\/span> a litany of concerns that OSUN could be used to address, and offered caustic criticism of Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n Nationalism, \u201cthe great enemy of the open society,\u201d is ascendant, he said. This has led, among other things, to Brexit, which he described as \u201charmful both to Britain and to the EU,\u201d as well as to Hindu nationalism in India, and to the rise of Italian politician Matteo Salvini, whom he called \u201cthe would-be dictator of Italy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Soros described Trump as \u201ca con man and the ultimate narcissist who wants the world to revolve around him.\u201d He also attacked the president\u2019s supporters in the United States, accusing them of buying into \u201chis alternative reality,\u201d which \u201chas turned his narcissism into a malignant disease.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Soros\u2019s views on the People\u2019s Republic of China have been evolving in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n