by Peter Myers
July 31, 2001
update April 23,
2004
from
NeitherAryanNorJew Website
recovered through
WayBackMachine Website
It would be foolish to
oppose a cause just because George Soros supports
it. He backs the right to voluntary euthanasia for the
terminally ill (which I support), and heroin injecting
rooms (which I oppose).
As a strong supporter of the Democratic Party, one would
expect that he backs the Kyoto Protocol, the World
Court, and Gay Marriage.
He opposes George W. Bush |
The US Is Now In The Hands of a
group of extremists
by George Soros
The Guardian
Soros likes to be seen as a
modern-day Robin Hood, donating money to "minority" causes, and
even running his own "Human Rights" NGOs. But Executive
Intelligence Review says that he is the public face of the
Rothschild bankers - item #1.
"If there was ever a man who would fit the stereotype of the
Judeo-plutocratic Bolshevik Zionist world conspirator, it is me"
- item #6 (Sydney Morning Herald interview, November 15, 1997,
Spectrum Features section, soon after the Asia Crisis).
George Soros chose Karl Popper as his guru; but Popper "blessed" Soros & his Open Society Foundation by accepting the first "Open
Society Prize" from him, and by delivering a lecture at his
Central European University in Prague - items #3, 4 and 5.
Contents
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The true story of Soros the Golem
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George Soros' International School of
Youth Corruption
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In June 1994, Popper gave a lecture at
Soros' Central European University in Prague
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Soros awarded Popper the first "Open
Society Prize"
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Sir
Karl Popper in Prague
- the "Open Society Prize" Awarding Ceremony
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George Soros as "Robin Hood"?
- SMH interview soon
after the Asia Crisis
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George Soros' "Alternative Journalism"
donations
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Soros is one of principal investors in
Carlyle Group
- A Defense Contractor
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Soros gave $ to Solidarity, Charter
77, Sakharov, & the anti-Milosevic opposition
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Soros link to Khodorkovsky's Open
Russia Foundation
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Soros says there is "an Orwellian Truth
Machine" in the US
(1) The true
story of Soros the Golem
Executive Intelligence Review SPECIAL
REPORT April 1997
George Soros is not only one of the
world's leading megaspeculators; throughout his entire life up to
this day, he has served as an "errand boy" for the Anglo-American
monetarist establishment, running looting operations against the
nations of Eastern Europe, as well as attacks against the
sovereignty of nations... in September 1992,
"in an eyeball-to-eyeball
confrontation with the Bank of England," Soros destroyed the
British pound and the Italian lira and made $12 billion in
profit from his speculation, as he later bragged in an
interview....
Using leveraged loans, Soros raised $40
billion to outspend the Germans. How he was able to do this, remains
a mystery:
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First, there was the fact that a speculator like Soros is
able to borrow on a margin of 5%, borrowing $1 billion for just $50
million.
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Second, Soros had ties to those very British oligarchic
circles (epitomized by the Rothschilds) which wanted to undermine
the Bundesbank, at the same time that they considered the pound
sterling to be overvalued.
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Third, Soros had extensive lines of
highly leveraged credit with banks like Citibank N.A., which is one
of two custodians of Quantum.
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Fourth, U.S. intelligence sources
charge that Soros has access to a "hot money" crowd in Israel,
politically associated with the Eretz Yisroel goals of Gen. Ariel
Sharon. These provide some leads as to how Soros was able to beat
the Bundesbank and destroy the ERM.
Soros the 'philanthropist' and his 'Open
Society Fund'
Soros is no Robin Hood.
He
has been using his largesse, especially since his $1-2-billion
profit from devaluing the pound and lira, to spread the sort of von
Hayek "free market" economics that has destroyed nations. The
Open
Society Fund, which was the first Soros Foundation created in 1979,
has, since December 1993, folded into the Open Society Institute-New
York.
This Institute, together with an Open
Society Institute-Budapest formed in the same year, and now an Open
Society Institute-Moscow, formed in 1995, are the sinews for 24 Soros national foundations in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as
South Africa and Haiti. All of these foundations, of which George Soros is chairman, are dedicated to his concept of the open society
and a "free market economy."
As he puts it:
"Open society does not preclude the
pursuit of self-interest. On the contrary, in the absence of
perfect knowledge, it is best left to the individual to define
what his interests are, and it is best left to the market
mechanism to reconcile those interests."
Total 1994 expenditures for all Soros
foundations were approximately $300 million. The OSI-New York is
primus inter pares among Soros's various foundations. In September
1993, Soros appointed Aryeh Neier to be president of the OSI-New
York.
(For 12 years, Neier had been executive
director of the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, and before that, he
worked for eight years as national director of the American Civil
Liberties Union, or ACLU.) ...
Spreading von Hayek's free market
economics
Through his Open Society Foundations, whose activities we detail
below, George Soros positioned himself, long before communism fell,
as the man who, on behalf of Anglo-American banking interests and
the IMF, tried to put into place the mechanism for the economic and
political "transition" to occur in the Eastern European countries.
He became a staunch advocate of the
policy of "shock therapy," which was approved by British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher and her close associate Sir George Bush,
after the Berlin Wall had fallen.
Along with former Federal Reserve
chairman Paul Volcker, who is today North American chairman of David
Rockefeller's
Trilateral Commission; Citibank vice-chairman H. Anno Ruding, who was formerly with the IMF; and Harvard Professor Jeffrey
Sachs, Soros had a big hand in creating the Polish model of "shock
therapy." (As previously mentioned, Sachs drew Soros's attention
through his work in implementing IMF-style "shock therapy" in
Bolivia.)
In his book, Underwriting Democracy,
Soros sums up his experience with the Polish shock therapy model:
"I
considered it essential to demonstrate that the political
transformation could result in economic improvement. Poland was the
place where this could be accomplished.
I prepared the broad outlines of a
comprehensive economic program, It had three ingredients:
monetary stabilization, structural changes. and debt
reorganization. I argued that the three objectives could he
accomplished better in combination than separately ... I
proposed a kind of macroeconomic debt for equity swap,...
I
showed the plan to Geremek and Professor Treziakowski, who
headed the economic roundtable in the talks that preceded the
transfer of power, and they were both enthusiastic. ... I joined
forces with Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University, who
was advocating a similar program, and sponsored his work in
Poland through the Stefan Batory Foundation ...
The IMF approved
and the program went into effect on Jan. 1, 1990. It was very
tough on the population, but people were willing to take a lot
of pain in order to see real change.... Inflation has been
reduced, but the outcome still hangs in the balance because
structural adjustment is slow in coming.
Production has fallen by 30%, but
employment has fallen by 3%. This means the entrenched management of
state enterprises is using the respite it gained from wage claims to
improve its profit margins and keep the workers employed, There is
an unholy alliance between management and labor that will be hard to
break."
Whether we look at Poland or at Hungary, Russia, or Ukraine - in
each of those cases, Soros argued in favor of radical free market
economy, privatization, and IMF conditionalities so as to impose
monetary discipline. ...
The Shatalin Plan: shock therapy
approach for the former Soviet Union
With the backing of Soviet
President Mikhail Gorbachov and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
Soros reached the height of his influence in the Soviet Union when
he was asked to assemble a team - including Jeffrey Sachs and Romano Prodi of Italy - to critique the
Shatalin Plan, which was based upon IMF-style "shock therapy."
"I was a great supporter of the
so-called Shatalin Plan," Soros writes in Soros on Soros.
"...If Gorbachov had accepted the plan, he
would have remained in power and the Soviet Union could have been
reformed, instead of disintegrating."
In Underwriting Democracy, Soros said of the Soviet Union's
heavy-industry sector:
"We may view the gigantic
hydroelectric dams, the steel plants, the marble halls of the
Moscow subway, and the skyscrapers of Stalinist architecture as
so many pyramids built by a modern pharaoh."
In a Jan. 4, 1993 commentary in the
Washington Post, Soros harped on this monetarist theme:
"... The social safety net would
also provide a powerful incentive to shut down loss-making
enterprises. Factories could be idled and the raw materials and
energy that go into production could be sold for more than the
output."
Thus, Soros proposed shutting down the
entire military-industrial base of the former Soviet Union in order
to sell its energy and raw material inputs cheaply abroad, in
exchange for a few crusts of bread. ...
Since his proposal that
Russia unload its raw materials and energy, through such Soros
allies as Marc Rich - fugitive financier in Switzerland - Russian
raw materials ranging from gold to aluminum have been looted, along
with energy resources.
In fact, Rich dumped so much Russian
aluminum on the London Metal Exchange at one point, that he halved
the price and still made a profit. This activity has fuelled the
growth of the Russian Mafia.
The human rights mafia
One of George Soros's earliest experiments in "human rights" is a
group known as Charter 77 (C77), which works closely with the
Helsinki Citizens Assembly (HCA)...
C77 is part of the
interconnected web of the "human rights" mafia, which in turn
overlaps the drug legalization lobby, as exemplified in the case of
Human Rights Watch, for which Soros is a prominent financier.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), and its close
ally, the British Foreign Office's Amnesty International, have
established themselves as a tightly coordinated international hit
squad against nations which oppose free trade and globalization;
they package their attacks as campaigns against "human rights"
violations.
Human Rights Watch World Report 1995
launched a violent attack on those individuals and governments who
share "a vision that equate[s] economic self-interest with the
common good," and it labels that outlook a "mercantilist threat" to
its concept of "human rights."
The secret financial network behind George
Soros by William Engdahl
The reality behind George Soros is something other than his carefully cultivated media image.... George Soros is merely
the visible face of a vast and very nasty
network of private financial interests, controlled by the leading
aristocratic and royal families of Europe. ...
Rather than use the direct powers of
state to achieve crucial geopolitical goals, a secret cross-linked
vast holding of private financial interests, tied to the old
aristocratic oligarchy of Western Europe, was developed. It was in
many ways modeled on the 17th-century British or Dutch East India
Company models.
According to knowledgeable sources, the
center of this Club of the Isles is the financial center of the old
British Empire, the City of London. George Soros is a member of what
were called in medieval days Hofjuden, or "Court Jews," who were and
are run by this powerful, secretive network of aristocratic old
families.
... Soros speculates in world financial markets through his secret
offshore company, Quantum Fund N.V., a wholly private investment
fond called a "hedge fund." ( Hedge funds have been identified by
international police agencies as the fastest-growing outlet for
illegal money laundering today.)
... Soros's Quantum Fund is
registered in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, the Caribbean tax haven
- so he avoids paying taxes, and also hides the nature of his
investors, and what he does with their money.
By moving his legal headquarters to
Curacao, Soros was able to avoid the kind of U.S.
government supervision of his financial activities, that any
U.S.- based investment fund must agree to, in order to operate.
The
Netherland Antilles, a possession of the Kingdom of Holland, has
repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money
Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers
for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American cocaine
and other drug traffic.
Soros has also taken care that none of the 99 individual investors
who form his various funds, is an American national. By U.S.
securities law, a hedge fund is limited to no more than 99 investors
of highly wealthy individuals, so-called "sophisticated investors."
By structuring his investment company as
an offshore hedge fund, Soros avoids public scrutiny. Soros himself
is not even on the board of Quantum Fund.
Instead, for legal
reasons, he serves as official "Investment Advisor" to Quantum Fund N.V. through his company,
Soros Fund Management, of 888 Seventh
Avenue, New York City.
If any demand be made of Soros to reveal the
details of Quantum Fund, he can claim he is "merely its investment
adviser."
... According to knowledgeable U.S. and European investigators,
Soros is part of a circle which includes Marc Rich of Zug,
Switzerland and Tel Aviv, the indicted metals and commodity
speculator and fugitive; Shaul Eisenberg, the secretive Israeli arms
and commodities dealer; and "Dirty Rafi" Eytan - both linked to the
financial side of the Israeli Mossad, and to the family of Jacob
Lord Rothschild.
Understandably, Soros and the Rothschild interests prefer to keep
their connection hidden far from public view, so as to obscure the
powerful friends Soros can claim in the City of London, the British
Foreign Office, Israel, and the U.S. financial establishment.
The myth has therefore been created that
Soros is a lone financial investment "genius" who, through sheer
personal brilliance in detecting shifts in markets, has become one
of the world' s most successful speculators.
According to those who
know him and have done business with him, Soros never makes a major
investment move, whether against the pound or the franc or gold,
without sensitive, high-level insider information. On the board of
directors of Soros's Quantum Fund N.V. is Richard Katz.
Katz is a Rothschild man who is also on
the board of the London N.M. Rothschild & Sons merchant bank, and
the head of Rothschild Italia S.p.A. of Milan. Another Rothschild
family link to Soros's Quantum Fund is Quantum board member Nils O.
Taube. Taube is the partner of the London investment group, St.
James Place Capital, whose major partner is Lord Rothschild.
The
London Times columnist, William Lord Rees-Mogg, is also on the board
of Rothschild's St. James Place Capital.
Another member of the board of Soros's Quantum Fund is the head of
one of the most controversial Swiss private banks, Edgar de Picciotto, who has been called "one of the cleverest bankers in
Geneva,"...
De Picciotto is a long-time friend and business
associate of Edmund Safra, another Lebanese-born banker who controls
the Republic Bank of New York.
Safra's Republic Bank today has been
identified in U.S. investigations into Russian organized crime, as
the bank involved in transferring billions of U.S. Federal Reserve
notes from New York to organized crime-controlled Moscow banks, on
behalf of Russian organized crime.
As well, Safra is under
investigation by U.S. and Swiss authorities for laundering Turkish
and Colombian drug money.
...George Soros's relation to the secretive international Rothschild
finance circle represents no ordinary or casual banking connection.
It goes a long way toward explaining the extraordinary success of a
mere private speculator, and Soros's uncanny ability to "gamble
right" so many times in such high-risk markets.
Soros has access to the "insider track"
in some of the most important government and private channels in the
world.
Since the Second World War, the legendary Rothschild finance
family, at the heart of the financial apparatus of the Club of the
Isles, has gone to great lengths to mislead, to create for itself a
public aura of insignificance, behind which stands one of the
world's most powerful and murkiest financial combinations.
The
family has spent significant sums cultivating a public image as a
family of wealthy but quiet "gentlemen," ...
Among other things, they have wished to become known, since 1948, as
being devoted to the cause of the new state of Israel, playing on
the world's outrage over the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews during
World War II.
Indeed, since British Foreign secretary Arthur Balfour
wrote his famous November 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild expressing
official British government backing for establishment in Palestine
of a national homeland for the Jews,
the Rothschilds have been
intimately involved in the creation of Israel.
It is no surprise,
therefore, to find that today Soros and Rothschild have ties to
Israeli intelligence, as well as to British and American.
But behind their public facade as a family donating money for useful
projects such as planting trees in the deserts of Israel, N.M.
Rothschild of London is at the center of various intelligence
operations ...
N.M. Rothschild is considered by City of London insiders to be one
of the most influential components of that part of the British
Intelligence establishment tied to the Thatcher "free market" wing
of the Tory Party. Rothschild & Sons made huge sums managing for
Thatcher the privatization of billions of dollars of British state
industry holdings during the 1980s, and today, for John Major's
government.
As well, Rothschilds is at the very
heart of the world gold trade, being the bank at which, twice daily,
the London Gold Fix is struck by a group of the five most
influential gold trade banks. Gold forms a major part of the economy
of drug dealings globally.
But N.M. Rothschild & Sons is also implicated in some of the
filthiest drugs-for-weapons secret intelligence operations. Because
it is well-connected to the highest levels of the British
Intelligence establishment, Rothschilds managed to evade prominent
mention of its complicity in one of the more sordid covert
intelligence networks, that of BCCI (Bank of Commerce and Credit
International).
Rothschilds was at the heart of the vast
international web of money-laundering banks used during the 1970s
and 1980s, by Britain's MI-6 and the network of Lt. Col. Oliver
North and Vice President George Bush, to finance such projects as
the Nicaraguan Contras.
On June 8, 1993, the chairman of the Banking Committee in the U.S.
House of Representatives, Henry Gonzalez of Texas, made an
extraordinary speech in which he charged that the U.S. government,
under the Bush and Reagan administrations, had systematically
refused to prosecute BCCI, and that the Department of Justice had
repeatedly refused to cooperate with Congressional investigations
into
the BCCI scandal, as well as what Gonzalez said was the
intimately related scandal of the Atlanta, Ga. branch of Banca
Nationale del Lavoro (BNL), which was alleged to have made billions
of dollars in loans from the Bush administration to Saddam Hussein,
just prior to the Gulf War of 1 990-91. ...
But, what has never been identified in a single major Western press
investigation, was that the Rothschild group tied to George Soros
was at the heart of the vast illegal web of BCCI.
... According to these reports, among Soros's silent investors are -
as mentioned above - the reclusive fugitive metals and oil trader.
Marc Rich, based in Zug, Switzerland, and Israeli arms merchant Shaul Eisenberg, who has been identified as a decades-long member of lsraeli Mossad intelligence, and who functions as a major arms
merchant throughout Asia and the Near East.
Central European University and the
intellectual subversion of Central and Eastern Europe
by Mark Burdman
George Soros -or what might be called the "George Soros spider web
of institutions" - is at the center of a vast cultural-political
operation of deconstruction in Central and Eastern Europe, and
throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union.
The focal point
of this endeavor is the Soros-created and Soros-patronized Central
European University, based primarily in Budapest, but with important
branches in Warsaw and Prague.
The CEU represents an effort to impose what might be called
"cultural determinism" throughout the formerly communist areas.
After having lived for decades under communism, the targeted
populations are being offered a completely irrational notion of
"freedom," the components of which include the following
"doctrines":
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that any attempt to affirm a scientifically grounded
intelligible truth is "totalitarian"
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that the sovereign
nation-state is evil, and is opposed to the "individual"
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that
economic liberalism is a good thing
Typical of the mentality involved, is a
series of annual conferences on "The Individual vs. the State,"
co-sponsored by Soros's New York City-based Open Society Institute
and the CEU. Equally relevant was the visiting professorship at CEU
of arch-deconstructionist theoretician Jacques Derrida.
At least one Soros conference was co-sponsored by the New York
Council on Foreign Relations, the American branch of the
Royal
Institute of International Affairs. During 1996, Soros himself
greatly upgraded his work with the CFR.
He headed a CFR task force,
on the theme of why the United States should increasingly
subordinate itself to the supranational
United Nations Organization.
He wrote a piece on the European
economic and political situation, for the CFR' s Foreign Affairs
Journal. Knowledgeable sources have told EIR that Soros has pumped
considerable sums of money into the CFR, although this has not been
independently confirmed.
Additionally, the nexus of foundations that turn up, at one point or
another ... include the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (most
prominently), the German Marshall Fund, the Mott Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Washington,
D.C.-based Eurasian Foundation.
Soros, Communitarianism, and the
Frankfurt School
One should see Soros's deconstructionist push eastward as parallel
to. and in symbiosis with, related deconstructionist movements in
the Western world.
What needs to be stressed, is the symbiosis or
mutual interaction between the Soros cultural-ideological offensive
in Eastern and Central Europe, and the evolution of the movement of
"Communitarianism" in the United States, Germany, Britain, and other
Western countries.
At the July 12-14, 1996 First
Communitarian Summit in Geneva. Communitarian founder-guru Amitai
Etzioni said:
"I am very close to George Soros, we
have been friends for 25 years."
He said that Soros was very supportive
of his efforts. and he insisted that Soros's support was not
strictly a question of money.
If one looks at the curriculum for the Political Science Department
of the CEU in Budapest, one finds a course given by Department head Janos Kic, a leading communist-era figure in Hungary's 'democracy
movement" and an important individual at the CEU. The course is
described thus:
"Theoretical models: utilitarianism,
contractarianism, hermeneutics, substantive conceptions:
liberalism, communitarianism, civic republicanism."
The section of the prospectus on
Political Science begins with a photograph of Professor Charles
Taylor of McGill University in Canada, constantly cited by the
"communitarians" in their literature as being one of their leading
philosophers. Similarly, a key Soros colleague, Lord Ralf Dahrendorf
of St. Antony' s College, Oxford, is a regular contributor to the
Communitarian house journal, The Responsive Community...
{end of EIR material}
Although Lyndon Larouche is branded an "AntiSemite" by the
Sharon-Netanyahu faction of Zionists, his organization is said to
include a number of Jews at a high level. Executive Intelligence
Review has regularly reported on Soros' activities, especially in
connection with the "Asia Crisis".
The following item is from Vol. 24, #44,
October 31, 1997:
Soros's financial warfare is under increasing
investigation
by Gail G. Billington and
Cynthia
Rush
George Soros is facing new, possibly criminal investigations into
his hostile hedge-fund-centered speculation against Asian currencies
and stock markets.
Despite the best efforts of the mouthpieces of
Wall Street and London to spiff up his public image, as the
contagion of Soros-style financial hit-and-run attacks spreads to
Taiwan and Hong Kong, and continues to devastate the weakened
nations of Southeast Asia, these nations are aggressively
organizing, bilaterally, regionally, and internationally, to put
this looting on the agenda of every major international meeting
through the end of 1997.
Nor are Soros's problems limited to Asia.
His name dogged President
Clinton throughout his tour of three Ibero-American nations on Oct.
12-18; and, thanks to EIR, public debate on Soros's sordid
activities erupted in Argentina, during a press conference with U.S.
White House drug policy adviser, Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret.).
The
President didn't mention Soros's name in public, but Argentine
figures who met with Clinton privately, said he expressed concern
that Asian-style monetary instability might erupt in Argentina and
throughout Ibero-America.
The attacks on Soros, launched by Malaysian Prime Minister Dr.
Mahathir Bin Mohamad at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) summit in late July, and, again, with renewed pungency, at
the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meeting in
Hong Kong in September, have served as a rallying cry that is now
being echoed among "emerging market" nations worldwide.
The
intensity of this momentum increases in tandem with the spread of
the financial hemorrhaging, and the view that the crisis is spinning
out of the control of the IMF.
Following the Oct. 20-23 hedge-fund assault that sank the Hong Kong
exchange 23%, and parallel attacks which forced Taiwanese
authorities to float their currency on Oct. 17, Denmark's
Jyllands-Posten headlined its report on Oct. 22,
"The Taiwanese Financial Oversight
Board Is Opening Up Investigations Against George Soros."
The lead article in the paper's two-page
coverage reported,
"Taiwan and South Korea have become
victims of the unpredictable market forces which to a large
extent are controlled by the computers of secret funds, hunting
paper-thin exchange margins and, again, the American
multi-speculator and political philanthropist George Soros is in
the focus...
The Futures and Securities Commission (FSC) of
Taiwan has now opened up an investigation into the transactions
of George Soros's multibillion-dollar fund on the Taiwanese
futures exchange and on the Singapore Monetary Exchange, SIMEX.
The FSC thinks that the speculations of Soros's fund was one of
the primary reasons for the panic sellings which Friday last
week and Monday this week, cost almost 15% on the stock exchange
index."
An FSC spokesman says,
"Mr. Soros has put our markets under
extraordinary pressure through his speculative trading on the
SIMEX. Our investigations have not been completed yet, and we
have not yet decided what actions to take."
The paper reported that on Dec. 2, the
finance and economics ministers of the Asian nations will meet in
Japan to draft the charter of the Asian Monetary Fund (AMF), the
$100 billion fund proposed by Japan at the IMF meeting in September,
with the support of China, South Korea, Taiwan, ASEAN, and with a
positive nod from U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
During bilateral talks in Tokyo between
Thai officials and their Japanese allies and creditors in early
October, Thai Finance Minister Thanong Bidaya told reporters,
"The purpose of the Asia fund is to
round up the funding requirements and the contributions of Asian
countries in case of a crisis, and it is a good idea.
But
somehow it has been delayed. Why not put it in the APEC forum?
Why just keep it in Asia? The IMF will not have enough to deal
with any crisis by itself, and [the AMI] is an effort to
prepare something solid."
Japan's Deputy Finance Minister Eisuke
Sakakibara toured Asian capitals during Oct. 14-22 to discuss the
AMF idea, which several leaders have said could be used to blunt the
effect of crises caused "by accident."
As Thanong Bidaya's comments
suggest, the AMF, which was the subject of discussions in 1995
between influential Japanese circles and ElR's Founding Editor Lyndon LaRouche, will not solve the crises hitting these countries
today.
It would, however, blunt the worst effects of IMF "conditionalities"
in the transition to complete overhaul of global monetary
arrangements.
Soros on the hot seat
There has been no letup in organizing on this theme since the IMF
Annual Meeting.
Malaysia's Dr. Mahathir continues to act as a
spokesman in this effort, taking up the subject during his Sept.
25-Oct. 5 tour of four Ibero-American nations (see EIR, Oct. 10 and
17, 1997), where, despite a delayed reaction of the press and
institutions, his message re-emerged in headline stories in
Venezuela and Brazil, which greeted President Clinton upon his
arrival in those nations.
The stories linked Dr. Mahathir's call
for reining in the speculators, to the AMF, and to LaRouche's Urgent
Appeal for a New Bretton Woods Monetary agreement....
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(2) George
Soros' International School of Youth Corruption
by Marek Glogoczowski
November 2001
(The slightly enlarged version
of speech delivered by Marek Glogoczowski during the EU(RO)-skeptic
Youth Camp held at Ljublana, Slovenia, Sept. 26-27, 2001.)
George Soros is a businessman-philanthropist, whose activities are
known to professionals worldwide. In USA he operates the Institute
of Open Society, in countries belonging to the former Soviet Block
he operates a number of similar foundations, which in case of Poland
holds the "royal" name of Bathory Foundation.
These "philanthropist" institutions have
? or had ? a substantial influence on composition of consecutive
post-communist governments in Eastern Europe, especially governments
of big countries - in Poland, with George Soros Fund are linked
three first "independent" Prime Ministers (Mazowiecki, Bielecki,
Suchocka); in Russia to Soros' "boys" belong such ardent reformers
as PM Gajdar, Kirylenko and Niemcov.
In his book "Underwriting Democracy" of
1993, George Soros claims to be ? together with his associate,
professor Jeffrey Sachs ? a true Funding Father (or rather a
Godfather) of all these "Protocols of Zion" styled reforms, which we
had to suffer in Eastern Europe.
Today, with Soros Fund is linked in Poland the most influential
journal "Gazeta Wyborcza" which journal already in 1989 paved the
way for the "Solidarity" electoral victory over PZPR, the declining
at that time Polish Communist Party.
In Slovakia with Soros'
Invisible Empire is linked the TV station "Markiza", which helped to
remove, during 1998 elections, the supposedly undemocratic Meciar's
government.
Inside Serbia the Soros Fund operated in
Kosovo, until 1999 NATO bombings, a Civil Center in Pristina, which
fought for the national independence of the local Albanian majority,
and in Belgrade it still operates the famous "Radio B-92", which
played a substantial role in anti-Milosevic's student riots in
1996/7.
(And than, in October 2000, it helped the "civilized" ? i.e.
bulldozer and Parliament fire assisted ? destruction of the last
socialist regime in Europe.)
At present many of Soros Fund linked
intellectuals are in key positions of institutions controlling
economies and cultures of former East Block countries, and in
Budapest this Foundation operates a whole International University
of Central Europe.
George Soros plays also an important role in USA
foreign politics, already in 1980 he organized, together with his
close associates, Secretaries of State Zbig Brzezinsky and
Madeleine Albright, a National Endowment for Democracy (NED) fund, which is a
kind of joint venture of CIA and private business, greed oriented,
activities.
The best summary of George Soros humanitarian activities in
South-East Europe gave Gilles d'Aymery in an article "Mapping the
Human Rights Crowd in the Balkans" published on July 23, 2001 in the
Jugoinfo vitrine:
"Behind the veil of legitimacy and humanitarian concerns can be
found the same powerful people and organizations such as the Open
Society Institute of the billionaire and - as always characterized -
philanthropist, George Soros, the Ford Foundation, the United States
Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy and many
more, financing and using a maze of well known NGO's such as Human
Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Crisis Group,
etc., as well as more obscure entities ...
But, among all of them, shining as the
Southern star, is George Soros who, like an immense Jules Verne
octopus, extends his tentacles all over Eastern Europe,
South-Eastern Europe, the Caucasus as well as the republics of the
former Soviet Union.
With the help of these various groups (it is
possible) not only to shape but to create the news, the agenda and
public opinion to further aims which are, in short, the control of
the world, its natural resources and the furtherance of the uniform
ideal of a perfect world polity made in America."
Despite such richness of this philanthropist activities, the general
public hardly knows his name.
During our meeting at Ljublana, young,
20 ? 25 years old, EU skeptics from several countries virtually
ignored the name of Soros, my equal age, 59 years old Swiss German
friend from Zurich wrote me that in his well informed country
perhaps 2 percent of people knows about this billionaire.
And in Poland surely no more than 10
percent of adult population knows who was the true author of widely
despised "Balcerowicz's reforms". Despite this "educated" public
ignorance, Soros' "missionary" role is perceptible at the planetary
scale: according to Schiller's Institute data, the "man of Soros" in
the European Commission is professor Romano Prodi, in Malaysia our
philanthropist is officially searched for enormous financial frauds,
and in Italy he is officially considered persona non grata
for similar reasons.
We can take for granted that these last
facts are only summits of a whole "iceberg" of fraudulent affairs in
which our billionaire-philanthropist-politician is ? or was ?
engaged in.
The mystery of his success in world-wide speculation
George Soros explained in a surprisingly honest statement, during an
interview he gave to the Swiss weekly "L"hebdo" of May 1993.
He said,
"I SPECULATE ON DISCREPANCY BETWEEN
THE REALITY AND THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THIS REALITY, UNTIL A
CORRECTIONAL MECHANISM OCCURS, WHICH APPROACHES THESE TWO."
It is evident that a skillful speculator
is not used to wait passively until such discrepancy occurs.
To the
contrary, with his "creativity of an investor" he purposefully
enlarges the gap between the 'real reality' and its public image.
(To put this statement into a plain language, a good speculator,
knowing principles of the stock exchange, is feeding the public with
the fake information ? or, in more polite words, with DISINFORMATION
? in order to gather personal profits.)
The "liberal' idea of a purposeful
construction of a fake image of the world ? in order to get the
political power ? is also expressed in Soros' book "Underwriting
democracy" (in French version "Sauver la démocratie a l'Est")
published in 1993.
He writes there for example:
"In a normal state of affairs it is
necessary that a movement (a political one, but also commercial,
scientific and religious ones ? M.G.) is pushed sufficiently
far, before forces occur, which are able to correct the
deformation (of image of reality) which was at its base."
Putting this statement once again into a
plain language, it means that the more aggressively a person? or a
group, a coterie or a Mafia? is able to lie-up the image of
reality, the longer this group is expected to remain in power. (The
same maintained Goebbels 70 years ago: the bigger the lie is, the
better it holds.)
George Soros even explains in detail how the elaborated by him
program of "Americanization" of Eastern Europe works.
He informs in
"Underwriting Democracy" that behind his philanthropic idea of
creation of Open Society Foundations was,
"the creation of an
international web (...) at the heart of which will be the
computerized base of (personal) data, which enable the Western
Multinational Societies to find candidates, which they are searching for."
In short, all these Soros-Fundation
educated and kept in computer memories young men and women are
prepared to fulfill functions of so-called "influence agents', which
behave in a way similar to that of Japanese geishas.
These Young
Urban Professionals, thanks to their fluent knowledge of languages
and multiple, delicate social contacts with bureaucracy in target
countries, facilitate the implementation in their homelands not only
of Western Multinationals, but also of Western sub-cultures and
Western habits of consumption of appropriate, personality enriching,
commercial goods.
For the first time I heard that Soros
Fundation corrupts young people, from the mouth of Piotr Ikonowicz,
about twenty years younger than me leader of the Polish Socialist
Party. How does this corruption is organized in detail?
In general
it takes the form of an ordinary training very similar to the one
practiced while teaching young dogs to bark at a "stranger'. In case
of 'education' of "Soros youth" (SorosJugend) the "food" necessary
for such training consists of all these computers, lavish
scholarships, luxury cars and invitations for dinners and seminars
in four stars hotels.
In general this was/is sufficient to
bribe not only the young but also adult "intellectuals" in a target
country.
An example of this gave few years ago the former finance
minister of Poland, Grzegorz Kolodko, in a Warsaw satirical "Nie"
weekly. He reported there the story how a "well known investor' (his
name he dared not to disclose) was able to buy, only at the cost of
few dozens of millions of dollars spent for Warsaw's "elite", the
Polish Bank Handlowy having the value of 1,5 billion of dollars.
The specific task of all these Bathory Foundation trained
'watchdogs' of Open Society consist of "barking" (in tune with Their
Master's Voice), against all individuals which may endanger the
Private Property of 'feeding' their Lord.
Observing the behavior of
journalists linked with this 'watchdog' formation, one finds easily
that all their vigor and sense of humor is exploited for the task of
continuous, monotonous defamation of national leaders, which have an
authentic, popular support.
(This was the case, for example, of
Soros/NED sponsored Students in Market Theology "Otpor" movement in
Serbia; the similar baiting of Lukashenko we witness today in
Belorussia.)
Once competent people are removed from key posts of a target
country, its pillage, by the gang of "Global Investors", can proceed
at full speed, thanks to utter cretins (like Walesa or Buzek in
Poland), or opportunists (like Djindzic in Serbia), which get
installed at commands of the state. It is evident that in order to
obtain the public (i.e. media) consent for such 'reforms', all more
observant and honest people have to disappear from the public life.
Usually it is sufficient to associate
them with despised (by "Soros' Family", of course) 'communists,
fascists, reactionaries and populists'; but in particular cases it
becomes necessary to kidnap them to the Hague's ICTY.
(Or simply, to
murder them by the 'invisible death squads" ? inside Serbia, after
Milosevic was ousted from power, about 20 personalities were
liquidated in this way.)
The best, and at the same the shortest
description of the general direction of all "reforms" we have in
Eastern Europe was given to me, in May 1999, by an old professor of
Slavic literature, Vladimir Bozkov from Skopie, Macedonia.
At that time he witnessed nearly every
day how B-52 bombers fly towards his former homeland. Impressed by
this techno-spectacle he told me, during our meeting at Moscow, "Oni
chotiat' ubit' vsiech umnych ljudi": (THEY WANT TO KILL ALL THINKING
PEOPLE).
I think that this is the essential goal, which our beloved
"Global Investors" are aiming at.
The very ethics of "misinformation as a tool of survival and
conquest" belongs to the "aristocratic" pattern of behavior, which
spontaneously developed among Stock Exchange players. It is already
in 1813 brothers Johannes and Nathan Rotschild, by a skillful,
gossiped at London's & Paris Stock Exchanges, lie about the outcome
of the Waterloo battle, were able to earn in one "scoop" 40 million
francs, making out of their family the richest Banking Group in
Europe.
(By the way, according to Schiller's Institute, George Soros
is associated with this famous Rotschild Banking Group.)
Here I come to the point, which I want to stress in the conclusion.
Already in the Antiquity the Greek philosopher Socrates argued that
people
are not evil by their nature, but they are becoming evildoers out of
their ignorance.
The Global Stock Exchange is by its very
nature the place where the MISINFORMATION (or the production of ignorances) has become the principal source of personal enrichment
of 'Investors'.
By an imitation of Stock Exchange 'Super Stars' like George Soros, every day more and more numerous 'young wolves of
interest' are polluting the Planet with lies supposed to bring them
their selfish, pecuniary happiness. It is precisely from Stock
Exchanges radiates in all directions the Lie ? and thus
automatically also the Evil and Ugliness ? which has become the ever
more visible symbol of Our Civilization.
(By the way, these B-52 bombers, which
2,5 years ago impressed so much professor Bozkov from Skopie, I can
see at present over Tatra Mountains, during their return to Germany
from antiterrorist missions in Afghanistan.)
Stock Exchanges and bourgeois Banks were permitted to operate only
in 16 century Europe by our religious reformers, dreaming about 'New
Jerusalem'. We can trace thus the origin of these modern 'Temples of
Lie', back to the Old Jerusalem's Temple of Merchants two thousand
years ago.
At that time Jewish dissidents
considered their Temple of Hypocrites as "brigands cavern".
Considering this last expression as an 'approaching the reality'
description, we can take for sure that nothing will turn for a
better in our Brave (observe the military stout of Americans!) World
until we kick Global Investors out of our homelands.
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(3) In June
1994, Popper gave a lecture at Soros' Central European University in
Prague
by
Sir Karl Popper
Sir Karl Popper, for whom the Karl Popper Debate Program is named,
is well known for his important contributions to the philosophy of
science, political theory, and sociology.
With his 1945 book The
Open Society and Its Enemies, Popper is responsible for popularizing
the notion of "open society" a concept which would come to have a
significant influence on the philosophy that underpins George Soros's philanthropic activities.
Simply stated, an open society is a form of social organization
based on the recognition that nobody has a monopoly on the truth,
that different people have different views and interests, and that
there is a need for institutions to protect the rights of all people
to allow them to live together in peace. As becomes apparent from
this definition, debate is an integral component of an open society.
{What about the Nazi Holocaust as dogma, i.e. beyond debate; is this
consistent with "open-ness"? Not only is debate a jailable offense,
but the archaeological excavation of human remains, which might
resolve the issue, is rejected}
... It was while pursuing a Masters degree at LSE that
George Soros
first came into close contact with Popper and his ideas. While he
did not study directly under the philosopher, Soros submitted
several essays to Popper for his consideration and review.
In 1962,
well after he had finished his studies, Soros wrote a philosophical
treatise entitled, "The Burden of Consciousness." Soros sent this
work to Popper, who was extremely supportive and encouraging of
Soros's ideas.
Their association continued, growing closer over the
years. In June 1994, Popper delivered a lecture at the Central
European University in Prague, which Soros had established as a
intellectual center to promote the ideals of open society in Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union...
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(4) Soros
awarded Popper the first "Open Society Prize"
(4.1) (What Soros Really
Wants)
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19657825
... The "Open Society Prize" Awarding Ceremony: The first winner
of the Prize, Sir Karl Popper is decorated by George Soros who
delivers a short address on the occasion. Sir Karl was by the 92
years of age and would die several months later.
(4.2)
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Karl-Popper
Article last updated: 2:56pm, December 23, 2003 Database last
updated: 3:20pm, January 09, 2004
Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an
Austrian-born, British philosopher of science. ...
Born in Vienna in 1902 to
middle-class parents of Jewish origins, Karl Popper was educated
at the University of Vienna. He took a Ph.D. in philosophy in
1928, and taught in secondary school from 1930 to 1936. In 1937,
concerns about the growth of Nazism led him to emigrate to New
Zealand, where he became lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury
University College, Christchurch.
In 1946, he moved to England to
become reader in logic and scientific method at the London
School of Economics, where he was appointed professor in 1949.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965, and was elected
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1976. He retired from academic
life in 1969, though he remained intellectually active until his
death in 1994.
He was invested with the Insignia of a Companion
of Honour in 1982.
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(5) SIR KARL POPPER
IN PRAGUE
the "Open Society Prize" Awarding
Ceremony
http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/aff/p1_e.html
Autumn 1992 Professor Hoeschl invites Sir Karl Popper to Prague. Sir Karl
postpones the visit till Spring 1993 explaining that at the
original date he is engaged in Kyoto where he should be awarded
a prestigious prize.
Spring 1993 Sir Karl Popper's assistant, Melitta Mew, excuses Sir Karl for
not coming to Prague due to possible health hazards.
Winter 1993-94
Professor Ernest Gellner, Central European University, Prague
College, invites Sir Karl to give a seminar to staff and
students at the Prague College. Sir Karl was delighted to
accept. After coordinating his intentions with the
Organizational Division of Charles University Rectorate,
Professor Hoeschl renewed the invitation which Sir Karl was
delighted to be in a position to accept.
26.4.1994
Professor Hoeschl invites American financier, George Soros,
together with Sir Karl, for a private dinner given by the 3rd
Faculty of Medicine, and for a ceremony in Carolinum.
Monday, 23. 5.1994,
13.50 Arrival to Prague on a British Airways Flight, No. 856. Sir Karl
Popper and his companions are welcomed by Prof. Hoeschl Dean of
the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Professor Jiri Musil, Academic
Director of the Central European University in Prague, and
Professor Richard Rokyta, Deputy Dean for Foreign Relations, the
3rd Faculty of Medicine.
16.00 In the Palace Hotel, Sir Karl receives Marie Heligandova,
Documentary Film Company Director.
Tuesday, 24. 5.1994, 10.00
Cars of the Prague Psychiatric Centre provide a sightseeing tour
around Prague. Participants: Sir Karl, Melitta Mew, Mr. Mew, Dr.
Libiger. Sir Karl expresses the wish to visit the grave of Tycho
Brahe and the house in which Johann Kepler had once lived. He
then visited the Tynsky Church and Charles Bridge. The Johann
Kepler dwelling was unpresentable.
14.00 President Havel receives Sir Karl for an almost 40-minute talk
at the Prague Castle.
Wednesday, 25. 5.1994, 9.50 George Soros arrives at Ruzyne Airport on a private jet.
11.00 Sir Karl Popper and Professor Leopold Pospisil are awarded
Honorary Doctorates in the Carolinum.
12.00 Sir Karl meets the Rector of Charles University; Prince Karl
Schwarzenberg; George Soros; and other distinguished
personalities. Wednesday Afternoon Sir Karl gives several
interviews to newspapers and the Documentary Film Company.
19.00 Red Wheel Restaurant A dinner served for an intimate circle that
included Sir Karl Popper, Mr. George Soros, Melitta Mew, Mr.
Mew, Professor Hoschl, Professor Musil, Professor Rokyta, Dr.
Libiger. What Sir Karl appreciated most were sweet pancakes. Mr.
Soros ordered roast duck.
Thursday, 26.5.1994, 10.30
A panel discussion (seminar) held by Sir Karl Popper at the
Prague College of the CEU.
11.00 The "Open Society Prize" Awarding Ceremony: The first winner of
the Prize, Sir Karl Popper is decorated by George Soros who
delivers a short address on the occasion.
Friday, 27.5.1994, 14.50
Departure of Sir Karl on the British Airways Flight, No.857.
31.5.1994 Extract from Melitta Mew's fax message addressed to prof.
Hoeschl: "Our minds are still aglow with the most& wonderful
memories of our trip to Prague. The reception you and your
colleagues gave Sir Karl, my husband and myself was truly
heart-warming and will never be forgotten."
Thursday, June 2, 1994
Lidove Noviny, No.129, page 1: "American financier, George Soros,
acquires archives of Radio Free Europe: George Soros has
instructed his companies to start investing in Central and
Eastern Europe. Federal Radio Television Administration accepted
his offer that he would take over and fund the archives of Radio
Free Europe. G. Soros intends to move the archives to Prague; he
plans to spend U.S.$ 15 million on their maintenance and
modernizing scheme."
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(6) George Soros as
"Robin Hood"?
SMH interview soon after the Asia
Crisis - THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD... AND THEN GAVE AWAY THE PROFITS
by Jennifer Hewett,
Sydney Morning Herald
November 15, 1997
Spectrum Features section
GEORGE Soros admits he always had exaggerated expectations of
himself, even an imperiled Jewish kid in wartime Hungary. "It's only
recently that reality has caught up with my expectations," he says.
And then some. Reality to Soros turns out to be the rest of the
world's idea of fantasy. Imagine giving $1 million to a worthy
cause. Or perhaps $10 million, $100 million? Soros can and does -
about $US350 million ($500 million) worth every year.
Imagine taking on the Bank of England by betting against the value
of the pound and winning. Soros could and did in 1992 - making $USl
billion in the process.
Imagine using the global free market to make billions several times
over by speculating and then warning darkly that capitalism and free
markets are increasing threats to democratic society. Soros does
just that whenever he gets a chance.
He is 67 now, with a shock of often tousled grey hair, a mobile,
lined face and a still strong Hungarian accent in which he speaks
with great firmness and certainty.
Modesty is not at issue. He is not really joking when he speaks
about his early "messianic tendencies". He was too vain, he once
said, to be just rich.
The result allows one unlikely individual to have an impact on
people all around the world. The twin foundations of that impact are
to be found in two offices in central Manhattan.
One is Soros Fund
Management, which operates hedge funds with $US 18 billion in
assets. The basic rationale of the hedge funds is to make huge and
highly leveraged bets on movements in stocks, currencies bonds and
commodities - often going against the trend.
A few blocks away is the headquarters of the Soros philanthropic
network, operating under the name of
the Open Society Institute.
Until recently the money making and spending operations were located
in rather shopworn floors of the same building. But it is the Open
Society staff who have just moved into new offices.
The reach of the philanthropic and market networks is so vast and so
radically different that it is hard to grasp they both come from the
brain of one man.
Consider Soros's most recent big donation. He is planning to give
$US300 million to $US500 million - count it - to Russia over three
years. He wants it to go health care, particularly for mothers and
babies, education, cultural institutions and job training for those
laid off by the now decrepit Soviet military. That compares with
about $US100 million in foreign aid to Russia from the US Government
last year.
But the Soros causes are remarkable in diversity as well as size.
They range from $US50 million in humanitarian aid for Bosnia to
$US20 million to educate doctors and improve the experience of dying
in the US to $US 1million to provide scholarships for Burmese
dissidents and broadcast radio programs into Burma.
There are now Soros foundations operating as a network of autonomous
organizations with local independent boards of directors in 30
countries. Not to mention any number of programs that fund
universities and scientific and cultural programs across regions.
...
In a cover story in The Atlantic Monthly last January, he said the
spread of market values into all areas of life was endangering
democratic society.
"The main enemy of the open society, I believe,
is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat," he said.
Mahathir was not the first to accuse him of being involved in some
form of grand Jewish plot.
He has become a target for the paranoias
of extremists, an example, he says, of the truth that no good deed
goes unpunished.
"If there was ever a man who would
fit the stereotype of the Judeo-plutocratic Bolshevik Zionist
world conspirator, it is me," he says with irony - and well
before Mahathir had even thought about the topic.
In fact, he is noticeably neutral on the
subject of Israel and says has no interest in Zionism.
His mother,
he says, was ashamed of being Jewish and quite anti-Semitic herself.
Soros does not give to Jewish or Israeli causes and, although he
supports the Middle East peace process, he says Israel should be
dealing with Hamas rather than the PLO because Arafat has lost the
support of the Palestinians. ...
The good works of George Soros
Foundations or Institutes in:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Guatemala,
Haiti, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia,
Slovenia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Ukaine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia.
In the US, Soros supports efforts to:
-
Assist victims of crime and find
alternatives to high jail populations.
-
Help legal immigrants obtain
full citizenship and rights.
-
Broaden debate on drug policy
and suggest alternatives.
-
Improve maths and algebra
education in inner-city schools.
-
Ease the experience of dying and
educate doctors on the needs of the terminally ill and their
families.
-
Solve problems of poverty,
crime, drug-abuse and poor education in inner-city
Baltimore.
-
Reform election campaign
financing.
Overseas, projects supported include:
-
English language schools, mainly
in central and eastern Europe.
-
Expansion of Internet use, from
public centers in Mongolia to an independent Palestinian web
site to computer equipment for Burmese dissidents in
Thailand.
-
Promotion of contemporary
artistic culture.
-
Training Courses for publishers
and booksellers, and better Libraries and training for
librarians.
-
Special education for children
with disabilities or from underprivileged backgrounds.
-
Education for Burmese refugees
and radio broadcasts into Burma in support of the democratic
movement of An Suu Kyi
-
Provision of early warning of
forced migrations and response to refugee emergencies.
-
Science education in Russia,
Ukraine and Georgia.
-
Raising public awareness of
landmines and introduction of an international ban.
-
Production of films and videos
on contemporary human rights issues.
-
Development of independent
media, particularly radio, in Southern Africa.
-
Various human rights and civic
and cultural groups.
-
Aid to Russia for improved
health of mothers and babies, education, culture and job
training for ex-military.
-
University education for
students throughout central and eastern Europe.
-
Study of political, economic and
social transition and privatization policies in eastern
Europe.
-
Training and intern programs in
the US for eastern European professionals.
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(7) George
Soros' "Alternative Journalism" donations
21 Jan 2004
from "makichris" <chrispaul@netpci.com>
George Soros' "Parallel Anti-War
Media/Movement"
by Bob Feldman
Perhaps Amy Goodman should finally make full disclosure of all
foundation grants that either the Pacifica Foundation, WBAI,
Democracy Now, WBAI, KPFA, the Indymedia Centers, Free Speech TV,
Deep Dish TV, the Pacifica Campaign or the Downtown studio from
which she broadcasted in 2000 and/or in 2001 have received since
1992?
Regarding George Soros' U.S. alternative media gatekeeping/censorship
network, the following recap might be of use to U.S. grassroots
anti-war activists whose political work is not being subsidized by
Establishment Foundations such as Billionaire Global Speculator
George Soros' Open Society Institute:
1. In 1999, George Soros's Open
Society Institute gave a $50,000 grant to the Nation Institute
"to support project to improve performance and reach of Radio
Nation, weekly public radio news and commentary program." George
Soros' personal advisor for politics, Hamilton Fish III, is also
a top executive at The Nation Institute.
2. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $50,000
grant to the National Federation of Community Broadcasters,
which used to be headed by former Pacifica Foundation Executive
Director Lynn Chadwick.
3. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute apparently
gave a $125,000 grant to the Citizens for Independent Public
Broadcasting [CIPB} group (on whose board sits FAIR/CounterSpin
co-host Janine Jackson) "to cover administrative and start-up
costs for launching national campaign entitled Citizens for
Independent Broadcasting."
4. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $78,660
grant to Don Hazen's Institute for Alternative Journalism/IMI/Alternet
in San Francisco "to fund start-up of Youth Source, a youth Web
site which will be part of a larger web poral, Independent
Source."
5. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$126,000 grant to the International Center for Global
Communications Foundation "toward launch of Media Channel, first
global media and democracy supersite on the Internet."
6. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4 grants,
totaling $118,000, to the Internews Network.
7. In 1999 George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a $12,000
grant to Downtown Community Television Center. (There's a
possibility that this was the group which provided studio
facilities for Democracy Now after the 1999 WBAI Christmas
coup).
8. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$150,000 grant to the Fund for Investigative Journalism. (Is
this the same media group which provided some funding for KPFA's
Dennis Bernstein during the 1990s?) 9. In 1999, George Soros'
Open Society Institute gave a $35,000 grant to American Prospect
magazine.
10. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$30,000 grant to the Center for Defense Information.
11. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$75,000 grant to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
12. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 4
grants, totaling $220,000 to the Committee to Protect
Journalists--on whose board sits NATION magazine co-owner and
editorial director Victor Navasky.
13. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave 2 grants,
totaling $272,000, to the "Project on Media Ownership."
14. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a
$100,000 grant to the Public Media Center in San Francisco.
15. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$73,730 grant to the dance company of a Pacifica Network News
staff person's domestic partner.
16. In 1999, George Soros' Open Society Institute gave a $50,000
grant to Youth Radio in Berkeley.
17. In 1999, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave 2
grants, totaling $393,000, to the Tides Foundation.
18. George Soros's Open Society Institute recent gave a $102,025
grant to Radio Bilingue.
19. George Soros's Open Society Institute has also apparently
been providing funds to subsidize a "parallel left" section of
the prisoner solidarity movement. Critical Resistance, the
Prison Moratorium Project, the Ella Baker Center for Human
Rights and The Sentencing Project are all being funded by George
Soros's Open Society Institute.
20. In 2001, George Soros's Open Society Institute also gave
grants to help subsidize the Jews for Racial and Economic
Justice group, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement group, the
Million Mom March group and the Center for Investigative
Reporting.
21. After 9/11, George Soros's Open Society Institute gave a
$75,000 grant to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Research Institute, a $250,000 grant to the ACLU and a grant to
the LCEF group on whose board Mary Frances Berry used to sit.
Billionaire Soros's War Stock
Investments
Like the former Corporation for Public Broadcasting Chairperson who
owns a major chunk of the Columbia University-linked Nation
magazine, Clinton-Gore Campaign Fundraiser Alan Sagner, the global
speculator whose Open Society Institute gave KPFA a $40,000 grant in
1995 has some interesting special economic interests.
In his 1990 book The New Money Masters, John Train has a chapter
entitled "George Soros: Global Speculator" in which he indicated how
Soros obtained his surplus wealth:
"Soros...has always had partners on
the management side, such as Jim Rogers... In 1969, aged 39, he [Soros]
...joined with Jim Rogers to found Quantum Fund...
"It is not registered with the
SEC... so the shareholders are foreigners, mostly
Europeans...
It engages in multidirectional international
speculation in commodities, stock, and bonds... Thanks to
Rogers, the fund was one of the first to recognize the
investment merits of defense stocks."
According to The New Money Masters
book, Soros's business partner in the 1970s and early 1980s, Jim
Rogers, "became the largest outside shareholder of Lockheed in
1974."
As of 1989, the portfolio of Soros Fund
Management Equity Holdings included $27 million worth of Boeing
stock, $106 million worth of RJR Nabisco tobacco company stock, $3.5
million worth of Lockheed stock, $2.2 million worth of CBS stock,
$2.3 million of Time Inc. stock, $12.8 million worth of Warner
Communications stock and $6.5 million worth of Wal-Mart stock.
A Senior Fellow at the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute who
is a former president/ceo of Twin Cities Public Television in St.
Paul, Minnesota "is aiding the Open Society Institute in considering
issues of professionalism in media and related public policy
questions," according to the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute
website.
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(8) Soros is
one of principal investors in Carlyle Group, a defense contractor
George Soros
NS Profile
Neil Clark
New Statesman 2jun03
The billionaire trader has become eastern Europe's uncrowned king
and the prophet of "the open society".
But open to what?
George Soros profiled by Neil Clark
George Soros is angry. In common with 90 per cent of the world's
population, the Man Who Broke the Bank of England has had enough of
President Bush and his foreign policy. In a recent article in the
Financial Times, Soros condemned the Bush administration's policies
on Iraq as "fundamentally wrong" - based as they were on a "false
ideology that US might gave it the right to impose its will on the
world".
Wow! Has one of the world's richest men - the archetypal amoral
capitalist who made billions out of the Far Eastern currency crash
of 1997 and who last year was fined $2m for insider trading by a
court in France - seen the light in his old age? (He is 72.) Should
we pop the champagne corks and toast his conversion?
Not before asking what really motivates him. Soros likes to portray
himself as an outsider, an independent-minded Hungarian émigré and
philosopher-pundit who stands detached from the US
military-industrial complex. But take a look at the board members of
the NGOs he organizes and finances.
At Human Rights Watch, for example,
there is Morton Abramowitz, US assistant secretary of state for
intelligence and research from 1985-89, and now a fellow at the
interventionist Council on Foreign Relations; ex-ambassador Warren
Zimmerman (whose spell in Yugoslavia coincided with the break-up of
that country); and Paul Goble, director of communications at the
CIA-created Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (which Soros also
funds).
Soros's International Crisis Group
boasts such "independent" luminaries as the former national security
advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Richard Allen, as well as General
Wesley Clark, once Nato supreme allied commander for Europe. The
group's vice-chairman is the former congressman Stephen Solarz
Take a look also at Soros's business partners. At the
Carlyle Group,
where he has invested more than $100m, they include the former
secretary of state James Baker and the erstwhile defense secretary
Frank Carlucci, George Bush Sr and, until recently, the estranged
relatives of Osama Bin Laden. Carlyle, one of the world's largest
private equity funds, makes most of its money from its work as a
defense contractor.
Soros may not, as some have suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent.
But that his companies and NGOs are closely wrapped up in US
expansionism cannot seriously be doubted.
So why is he so upset with Bush? The answer is simple. Soros is
angry not with Bush's aims - of extending Pax Americana and making
the world safe for global capitalists like himself - but with the
crass and blundering way Bush is going about it.
By making US
ambitions so clear, the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of
giving the game away. For years, Soros and his NGOs have gone about
their work extending the boundaries of the "free world" so
skillfully that hardly anyone noticed.
Now a Texan redneck and a
gang of overzealous neo-cons have blown it.
As a cultivated and educated man (a degree in philosophy from the
London School of Economics, honorary degrees from the Universities
of Oxford, Yale, Bologna and Budapest), Soros knows too well that
empires perish when they overstep the mark and provoke the formation
of counter-alliances.
He understands that the Clintonian
approach of multilateralism - whereby the US cajoles or bribes but
never does anything so crude as to threaten - is the only one that
will allow the empire to endure. Bush's policies have led to a
divided Europe, Nato in disarray, the genesis of a new
Franco-German-Russian alliance and the first meaningful steps
towards Arab unity since Nasser.
Soros knows a better way - armed with a few billion dollars, a
handful of NGOs and a nod and a wink from the US State Department,
it is perfectly possible to topple foreign governments that are bad
for business, seize a country's assets, and even to get thanked for
your benevolence afterwards. Soros has done it.
The conventional view, shared by many on the left, is that socialism
collapsed in eastern Europe because of its systemic weaknesses and
the political elite's failure to build popular support. That may be
partly true, but Soros's role was crucial. From 1979, he distributed
$3m a year to dissidents including Poland's Solidarity movement,
Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet
Union.
In 1984, he founded his first Open
Society Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into
opposition movements and independent media. Ostensibly aimed at
building up a "civil society", these initiatives were designed to
weaken the existing political structures and pave the way for
eastern Europe's eventual colonization by global capital. Soros now
claims, with characteristic immodesty, that he was responsible for
the "Americanization" of eastern Europe.
The Yugoslavs remained stubbornly resistant and repeatedly returned
Slobodan Milosevic's unreformed Socialist Party to government. Soros
was equal to the challenge.
From 1991, his Open Society Institute channelled more than $100m to the coffers of the anti-Milosevic
opposition, funding political parties, publishing houses and
"independent" media such as Radio B92, the plucky little student
radio station of western mythology which was in reality bankrolled
by one of the world's richest men on behalf of the world's most
powerful nation.
With Slobo finally toppled in 2000 in a coup d'etat financed, planned and executed in Washington, all
that was left was to cart the ex- Yugoslav leader to the Hague
tribunal, co-financed by Soros along with those other custodians of
human rights, Time Warner Corporation and Disney. He faced charges of
crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, based in the main
on the largely anecdotal evidence of (you've guessed it) Human
Rights Watch.
Soros stresses his belief in the "open society" propounded by the
philosopher Karl Popper, who taught him at the LSE in the early
1950s. Soros's definition of an "open society" - "an imperfect
society that holds itself open to improvement" - sounds reasonable
enough; few lovers of genuine liberty would take issue with its
central tenet that "the open society is a more sophisticated form of
social organization than a totalitarian one". But Soros's "open
societies" don't tend to be all that open in practice.
Since the fall of Milosevic, Serbia, under the auspices of Soros-backed
"reformers", has become less, not more, free. The recently lifted
state of emergency saw more than 4,000 people arrested, many of them
without charge, political parties threatened with bans, and critical
newspapers closed down. It was condemned by the UN Commission on
Human Rights and the British Helsinki Group.
But there was not a murmur from the Open
Society Institute or from Soros himself. In fairness, Soros has been
far more critical of his former protégée Leonid Kuchma, president
of the Ukraine, a country described by the former intelligence
officer Mykola Melnychenko as "one big protection racket", and now
possibly the most repressive police state in Europe.
But generally the sad conclusion is that for all his liberal quoting
of Popper, Soros deems a society "open" not if it respects human
rights and basic freedoms, but if it is "open" for him and his
associates to make money.
And, indeed, Soros has made money in every
country he has helped to prise "open". In Kosovo, for example, he
has invested $50m in an attempt to gain control of the Trepca mine
complex, where there are vast reserves of gold, silver, lead and
other minerals estimated to be worth in the region of $5bn.
He thus copied a pattern he has deployed
to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe: of advocating
"shock therapy" and "economic reform", then swooping in with his
associates to buy valuable state assets at knock-down prices.
More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soros is the
uncrowned king of eastern Europe. His Central European University,
with campuses in Budapest, Warsaw and Prague and exchange programs
in the US, unashamedly propagates the ethos of neoliberal capitalism
and clones the next pro-American generation of political leaders in
the region.
With his financial stranglehold over political parties,
business, educational institutions and the arts, criticism of Soros
in mainstream eastern European media is hard to find. Hagiography is
not.
The Budapest Sun reported in February
how he had been made an honorary citizen of Budapest by the mayor,
Gabor Demszky.
"Few people have done to Budapest what George Soros
has," gushed Demszky, saying that the billionaire had contributed to
"structural and mental changes in the capital city and Hungary
itself".
The mayor failed to add that Soros is also a benefactor of
Demszky's own party, the Free Democrats, which, governing with
"reform" communists, has pursued the c
The Soros strategy for extending Pax Americana differs from the
Bush
model, particularly in its subtlety. But it is just as ambitious and
just as deadly. Left-liberals, admiring his support for some of
their favourite issues such as gay rights and the legalization of
soft drugs, let him off lightly.
Asked about the havoc his currency speculation caused to Far Eastern
economies in the crash of 1997, Soros replied:
"As a market
participant, I don't need to be concerned with the consequences of
my actions."
Strange words from a man who likes to be regarded as
the saviour of civil society and who rails in print against "market
fundamentalism".
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(9) Soros gave
$ to Solidarity, Charter 77, Sakharov, & the anti-Milosevic
opposition
George Soros: - The billionaire
trader has become eastern Europe's uncrowned king and the prophet of
"the open society". But open to what?
by Neil Clark
New Statesman
June 2, 2003
A review by Karen Talbot
Centre for Research on Globalisation 4jul03
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/TAL307A.html
George Soros, is known as a Hungarian emigrate philanthropist, a
proponent of human rights and the "open society," and, just
incidentally, a financier - one of the richest men in the world.
Soros recently criticized George W. Bush saying in an article in the
Financial Times of London that his administration's Iraq policies
were "fundamentally wrong" and that they are premised on the "false
ideology that U.S. might gave it the right to impose its will on the
world."
Many of us in the peace movement would
say:
"he got that right!"
We might be inclined to praise him and to
believe that this confirms that he really is a "do-gooder" - an
image, by the way, that he carefully cultivates, especially through
various NGOs. In fact numerous non-profit organizations have
received funds from his foundation because they have bought into
that perception.
But let's take a closer look to see what is motivating Soros. Neil
Clark, writing in an incisive article
the New Statesman (June 2,
2003), points out that Soros "made billions out of the Eastern
currency crash of 1997," and that he was fined last year "for
insider trading by a court in France." In fact currency speculation
is his modus operandi and if this contradicts his pronouncements
against "market fundamentalism" and in favor of "civil society," well, so be it.
In fact, Clark reported that when
queried about the turmoil his speculation caused to Far Eastern
economies in 1997, Soros replied:
"As a market participant, I don't
need to be concerned with the consequences of my actions."
But all of this is just the tip of the
iceberg. What of the NGOs Soros established and finances? Who are
the other leaders of these groups?
Clark informs us that at Human
Rights Watch, for example, there is Morton Abramowitz, U.S.
assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research from
1985-1989 and now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations;
Warren Zimmerman former ambassador "whose spell in Yugoslavia
coincided with the break up of that country"; and Paul Goble,
director of communications "at the CIA-created Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty (which Soros also funds)."
According to Clark, Soros' International Crisis Group "boasts such
'independent' luminaries as the former national security advisers
Zbigniew Brzezinki and Richard Allen, as well as General Wesley
Clark, once NATO supreme allied commander for Europe.
The group's vice-chairman is the former
congressman Stephen Solarz, once described as 'the Israel lobby's
chief legislative tactician on Capitol Hill' and a signatory, along
with the likes of Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, to a notorious
letter to President Clinton in 1998 calling for a 'comprehensive
political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his
regime'."
So much for Soros' opposition to Bush's Iraq policies.
There's more!
Who are Soros's business partners at the
Carlyle Group
- one of the world's largest private equity funds, which makes
most of this profit from defense contracts?
They include the former
secretary of state James Baker and Frank Carlucci, former defense
secretary, George Bush, Sr, and "until recently, the estranged
relatives of Osama Bin Laden."
Soros has invested more than $100
million in Carlyle, Clark tells us.
He also points out that,
"Soros may not, as sometimes
suggested, be a fully paid-up CIA agent. But that his
corporations and NGOS are closely wrapped up in U.S.
expansionism cannot seriously be doubted."
This brings us back to the question;
"why has Soros lambasted Bush?"
The answer lies in understanding
that, more than ever, within the Wall Street power elite there may
be differences in tactics but seldom are there significant
differences in the end goal - opening the way for the maximization
of corporate profits everywhere around the world.
Today, there is
basically a oneness of purpose in promoting U.S. imperial dominance,
and in the process, attempting to solve a deepening global economic
crisis by controlling diminishing petroleum and energy resources.
How does this play out where Soros is concerned?
As Clark points
out,
"Soros is angry not at Bush's
aims - of expanding Pax Americana and making the world safe for
global capitalists like himself - but with the crass and
blundering way Bush is going about it.
By making U.S. ambitions
so clear, the Bush gang has committed the cardinal sin of giving
the game away.
For years, Soros and his NGOs have gone about
their work extending the boundaries of the 'free world' so
skillfully that hardly anyone noticed. Now a Texan redneck and a
gang of overzealous neo-cons have blown it"
Soros' way is to use a few billion
dollars, some NGOs and a "nod and wink from the U.S. State
department" to bring down foreign governments that are "bad for
business" to seize a nation's assets, and even get thanked for your
'benevolence,' according to Clark.
This method has worked for Soros
and his cohorts.
Take the collapse of the Soviet Union, for example.
Clark points out
that "Soros' role was crucial:
"From 1979, he distributed $3
million a year to dissidents including Poland's solidarity
movement, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia and Andrei Sakharov in
the Soviet Union.
In 1984, he founded his first Open Society
Institute in Hungary and pumped millions of dollars into
opposition movements and independent media.
Ostensibly aimed at building up a
'civil society", these initiatives were designed to weaken the
existing political structures and pave the way for eastern
Europe's eventual exploitation by global capital.
Soros now
claims with characteristic immodesty, that he was responsible
for the "Americanization" of eastern Europe."
More recently, there is the case of
Yugoslavia.
As Clark puts it:
"The Yugoslavs remained stubbornly
resistant and repeatedly returned Slobodan Milosevic's reformed
Socialist Party to government. Soros was equal to the challenge.
From 1991, his Open Society Institute channeled more than $100
million to the coffers of the anti-Milosevic opposition, funding
political parties, publishing houses and "independent" media
such as Radio B92, the plucky little student radio station of
western mythology, which was in reality bankrolled b one of the
world's richest men on behalf of the world's most powerful
nation.
With Slobo finally toppled in 2000
in a coup d'etat financed, planned and executed in Washington
all that was left was to cart the ex Yugoslav leader to the
Hague tribunal, co-financed by Soros along with other custodians
of human rights, Time Warner Corporation and Disney.
He faced
charges of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide,
based in the main on the largely anecdotal evidence of (you
guessed it) Human Rights Watch."
Clark points out that,
"since the fall of Milosevic,
Serbia, under the auspices of Soros- backed "reformers", has
become less, not more, free.
The recently lifted state of
emergency saw more than 4,000 people arrested, many of them
without charge, political parties threatened with bans, and
critical newspapers closed down"
This has been so blatant that it was
condemned by the UN Commission on Human Rights and the British
Helsinki Group
"Soros has made money in every
country he has helped to prise 'open'. In Kosovo, for example,
he has invested $50 million in an attempt to gain control of the
Trepca mine complex, where there are vast reserves of gold,
silver, lead and other minerals estimated to be worth in the
region of $5 billion.
He thus copied a pattern he has deployed
to great effect over the whole of eastern Europe of advocating
'shocking therapy' and 'economic reform', then swooping in with
his associate to buy valuable state assets at knock-down
prices," according to Clark.*
In Hungary, Soros is the benefactor of
the Free Democrats party,
"which has pursued the classic Soros
agenda of privatization and economic liberalization - leading to
a widening gap between rich and poor," says Clark.
"The Soros strategy for extending Pax Americana differs from the
Bush model, particularly in its subtlety. But it is just as
ambitious and just as deadly," Clark concludes.
Of course, in the case of Yugoslavia,
ultimately the Soros approach was not enough so the overwhelming
might of the U.S. military was brought into play.*
For background information on the former Yugoslavia, see "The
Real Reasons for the War in Yugoslavia: Backing up Globalization
with Military Might," by Karen Talbot.
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(10) Soros
link to Khodorkovsky's Open Russia Foundation
(10.1) Putin warns Russia's business elite
by Ron Popeski
The Age, Melbourne, November 8 2003
Rome
President Vladimir Putin, grilled by Western leaders over a
legal assault on Russia's top oil firm, has issued a blunt
warning to his country's business elite.
Speaking after a Russia-European Union summit, Mr Putin said
authorities were watching all those who came into billions of
dollars in the chaotic privatizations of the 1990s.
EU officials said Mr Putin had assured them Russian law had been
upheld in the arrest of Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the
freezing by prosecutors of a large stake in the oil giant.
Mr Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, is in jail facing charges
of fraud and tax evasion.
Critics see the arrest as a Kremlin attempt to punish the
billionaire for funding political opposition before
parliamentary and presidential elections this year and next.
Mr Putin, standing alongside the summit's host, Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and other top EU officials, said:
"Our aim is not to go after
specific individuals but to establish order in our country.
And we will do so in a consistent and tough fashion without
regard to whatever attempts these people may make to defend
themselves or even resort to blackmail."
Mr Khodorkovsky's arrest has raised
fears that Russian justice could call to account other
"oligarchs" who acquired state industries in 1990s sell-offs.
Mr Putin said authorities were monitoring the "oligarchs".
"People earned billions, I
repeat billions, of dollars in the space of five to six
years. This would not have been possible in any West
European country," he said.
Mr Putin said those reaping
fortunes,
"will spend tens, hundreds of
millions to safeguard their billions. We know how the money
is being spent - on lawyers, PR agencies, politicians." ...
Mr Khodorkovsky was plucked from an
aircraft by security forces on October 25.
- Reuters
(10.2) Moscow 'thugs' raid Soros
office
by Kim Murphy
The Age, Melbourne, November 8 2003
Moscow
The Moscow offices of the Soros Foundation were raided early
yesterday by dozens of men in camouflage gear and wielding stun
guns. They hauled away documents and computer data covering 15
years.
The seizure followed public support by US financier George Soros
for jailed Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The operation, which began just after midnight, was carried out
by private security forces ostensibly hired by a businessman
with whom the foundation had been having a legal dispute.
But Soros Foundation officials said they could not rule out a
connection to the Yukos Oil case, in which Moscow offices have
been raided in recent months by authorities seeking evidence
against the oil tycoon.
"I cannot rule out that it is some kind of revenge on the part
of some agencies who resort to the use of bandits and thugs for
Mr Soros's position and his attitude toward Mr Khodorkovsky,"
said Yekaterina Geniyeva, director of the Open Society
Institute-Soros Foundation in Russia.
Mr Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest oligarch, is under arrest,
charged with tax evasion, forgery and fraud in a case that has
erupted into the most serious crisis of President Vladimir
Putin's administration.
The New York-based Soros Foundation has spent more than $US1
billion ($A1.4 billion) on charitable projects in Russia in the
past 15 years. Mr Khodorkovsky had based his own charitable
organization, the Open Russia Foundation, on Mr Soros's
institute, and had close links to the US foundation's work in
supporting libraries, internet education, community development
and the promotion of civil society.
Mr Soros spoke out this week against the arrest, saying:
"The
crackdown by Mr Putin sends an unmistakable message that
independence of action will not be tolerated."
Pressure from the
West against a trend toward "state capitalism" could result in
"Russia being forced out" of the Group of 8 industrialized
nations, he said.
- Los Angeles Times
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(11) Soros
says there "an Orwellian Truth Machine" in the US
Mar 03 04 © 2004
Commonwealth
Club of California
GEORGE SOROS
War, the Press & U.S. Power: Diplomacy and Conflict in the Post-9/11
World
George Soros, Orville Schell
The audio of Orville Schell's conversation with George Soros is
available in RealAudio format.
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/04/04-03soros-audio.html.
Soros, in the following interview with Charlie Rose, seems to
identify with Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is mentioned by Rose, then, a
little further on, Soros uses a Chomsky-like expression,
"manufacture truth". Chomsky wrote a book named The Manufacture of
Consent.
(11.2) Soros likens Bush to Hitler;
yet the "Orwellian Truth Machine" is the Jewish-owned or managed
media, a fact which neither Soros nor Chomsky ever mention. Further,
Bush does the bidding of the Zionists.
CFR Publications:
The Bubble of American Supremacy
... Speaker: George Soros, chairman,
Soros Fund Management; author, "The Bubble of American
Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power" Moderator:
Charlie Rose, executive producer and host, "The Charlie Rose
Show"
Council on Foreign Relations
New York, New York
Wednesday,
February 18, 2004
... ROSE: But there was a lot of debate about it, a lot of--I
had a lot of people like you on my program who were fiercely
opposed to the war--I mean, everybody from you over to
[Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor] Noam Chomsky.
SOROS: Yeah, but when you followed the war reporting in Iraq on
Fox Television and Sky News in England--
ROSE: Both owned by the same person.
SOROS: -- and how different their coverage was--it really quite
remarkable. So actually this -- I mean, there is an Orwellian
truth machine operating now, and I find it perplexing that when
[George] Orwell in "1984" described the Ministry of Truth, the
Ministry of Truth controlled all the media, and this was based
on the experience in Nazi Germany and communist Soviet Union. So
it's not the same situation. It's not comparable. But there is
still this ability to manufacture truth. And I find it puzzling,
and don't have the answer to it.
ROSE: That's in fact how you got in trouble, because some people
said that you were trying to compare the Bush administration to
Hitler when you made that point.
SOROS: That's correct, yes. But of course that's exactly the
differences that we do have, that democracy and pluralistic
media. And yet it's possible to manufacture truth.
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