May 9 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In April, financial magazine Worth, published a list of “the 100 most generous Americans.” Three of the top ten givers are familiar names to pro-lifers because of the money they have contributed to the international population control agenda. Topping the list is international financier George Soros, whose total recorded giving to date has reached $2.65 billion, $575 million of that in 1999 alone. The Worth article didn’t specify where the money went, noting that it is dispersed through “an elaborate complex of 29 foundations. LifeSite reported in March that Mr. Soros’ Open Society Institute gave $500,000 (US) to a pro-abortion TV ad campaign of the National Abortion Rights Action League. In February 1999, LifeSite reported that Soros had funded the movement to legalize assisted-suicide.
Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, took fourth position on the list, having donated to date $846 million. “The Gates’s are moving up fast on our list as more of the money they’ve set aside for charity has begun to leave their control,” says Worth, adding that “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private organization of its kind in the U.S., with $21.8 billion in assets.” Ted Turner finds himself tenth on the list, having given away upwards of $308 million thus far, $136 million last year. Worth doesn’t mention Mr. Turner’s population control activity, and describes the giving of his United Nations Foundation as “tens of millions of dollars to combat the leading causes of death among young children.”
Multi-millionaire investor Warren Buffet came in at number 27 with an accumulative giving record of $173 million. Worth reports that $133.5 million of that total was given away last year to “four undisclosed charities.” The magazine adds that he “has donated in the past to ‘population charities’.” Last March the Washington Times reported that the Buffett Foundation donated more than $7.5 million between 1994 and 1996 to population control efforts, and that it plans to “lavish the majority of its annual $100 million in grants on population programs” after Buffett’s death. Buffett has also contributed to research on the RU-486 abortion pill and to such organizations as the devious Catholics for a Free Choice, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy and Planned Parenthood.
Happily not all the big money is in the hands of population control advocates and globalists. Slotted into 29th position in the list is U.S. Reform Party leader Ross Perot with $165 million worth of giving. The Salvation Army is a regular recipient of some of this charity, notes Worth. Also in the list, in 50th place with $100 of giving, is Thomas S. Monaghan, the pro-life Catholic founder of Domino’s Pizza. He is “a longtime supporter of the anti-abortion movement, mainly through the activities of the Thomas More Center for Law and Justice,” reports Worth.
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