George Soros: The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn

22.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:20 PM PT

The Left: The smear ad published against Gen. Petraeus has drawn attention to its sponsor, MoveOn.org. But the fingerprints of the group’s chief financial backer, George Soros, were all over it. Who is this man and what is he up to?

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To read Soros’ own spun story, he’s a Jewish survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, studied economics in England, became a U.S. citizen in 1961 and made a multibillion-dollar fortune as a financier who pioneered hedge funds.Over the years, Soros has written books giving his philosophical take on global affairs and acquired a reputation as something of a “stateless statesman.” He calls himself a philanthropist and has given away $5 billion of his now $8.5 billion fortune through his principal vehicle, the Open Society Institute. The institute, in turn, has passed cash on to far more radical groups, such as MoveOn.org.

Financier George Soros, 77, with a fortune estimated at $8.5 billion, uses some of it to fund radical groups like MoveOn.org.

But Soros is no hands-off donor. According to the Open Society Institute’s Web site: “Despite the breadth of his endeavors, Soros is personally involved in planning and implementing many of the foundation network’s projects.”

Soros says he gives away about $400 million annually.

It’s an admirable picture, but “philanthropy” may be the wrong word. Unlike, say, Bill Gates, who really does put the bulk of his charity into helping the world’s poor through medical services, Soros tends to fund pressure groups and foundations he misleadingly characterizes as promoting “civil society” and “democracy.”

The image gives him moral cover to manipulate democracies whose voter verdicts he opposes.
Tearing Down America

The first groups Soros supported back in the 1980s did play a role in undercutting the rickety communist regimes of Eastern Europe. But his motives seemed less than idealistic. All Soros groups tend to tear down tyrannies rather than build up democracies.

And since 2003, tearing down what he views as the “fascist” tyranny of the United States, as he has put it, is “the central focus of my life.”

Through networks of nongovernmental organizations, Soros intends to ruin the presidency of George W. Bush “by any legal means necessary” and knock America off its global pedestal. “His view of America is so negative,” says Sen. Joe Lieberman, who, like Gen. David Petraeus, has been a target of Soros’ electoral “philanthropy.” “The places he’s put his money are . . . so destructive that it unsettles me.” Soros’ aim seems to be to make the U.S. just another client state easily controlled by the United Nations and other one-world groups where he has lots of friends.

Best known among these groups is MoveOn.org, a previously small fringe-left group to which Soros has given $5 million since 2004. Bulked up by cash, the group now uses professional public relations tactics to undercut the Iraq War effort, with its latest a full-page New York Times ad that branded Gen. Petraeus “General Betray Us.”

It ran Sept. 10 in the New York Times, the same day Petraeus delivered his progress report on the surge in Iraq.

MoveOn.org previously put out ads depicting Bush as a Nazi, something that certainly echoes Soros’ sentiment.

“We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process,” he told this year’s Davos conference in Switzerland.
Moving On To The Far Left

MoveOn.org was also pivotal in getting Howard Dean elected chairman of the Democratic Party in a bid to push the party to the far left.

Soros acolyte Arianna Huffington is on record as advocating that outcome. Berating Democrats for their electoral losses in 2004, she wrote: “Have these people learned nothing from 2000, 2002 and 2004? How many more concession speeches do they have to give — from ‘the center’ — before they realize it’s not a very fruitful place?”

Soros also has financed spin outfits such as Media Matters that specialize in providing distorted conservative political statements as grist for leftist politicians and media.

Media Matters (and MoveOn.org) succeeded last year in denying incumbent Lieberman the Democratic nomination for Senate in Connecticut and effectively drove the moderate out of his own party. Net result: Fewer Democrats, including today’s crop running for office, are willing to challenge any Soros-financed pressure group.
Money & Elections

Soros’ efforts go beyond spin. He has also bankrolled groups involved in the manipulation of elections, an activity that has increased since his money came into the picture. Two groups — Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — were sanctioned recently by the Federal Election Commission for fraud.

Soros pledged $10 million to ACT, which has since been fined $775,000 for illegally funneling $70 million set aside for voter registrations to Democratic candidates.

He also gave at least $150,000 to ACORN, the left-wing group best known for pushing minimum-wage hikes, marching for illegal-immigrant amnesty and harassing Wal-Mart. ACORN has been accused of voter fraud in 13 states since 2004 and was convicted of falsifying signatures in a voter registration drive last July, drawing a fine of $25,000 in Washington state.

Soros says he has ended funding to voter-drive organizations, but he still heads a secretive rich-man’s club called “Democracy Alliance” that has doled out $20 million to activist groups like ACORN.

It’s also noteworthy that the Soros-funded MoveOn.org advocates “paper-trail” electronic voting in the U.S., the same kind used in Venezuela, where allegations of electronic fraud and ballot secrecy violations have ended confidence in the system and sealed Chavez’s dictatorship.
Terrorist-Friendly Groups

Soros additionally finances groups best described as helpful to terrorists. Since 1998, he has given the American Civil Liberties Union $5 million to empower criminals, including lawsuits on behalf of terrorists’ “civil rights.”

Soros’ Open Society Institute gave $20,000 for the legal defense of radical attorney Lynne Stewart. She was convicted in 2002 of abetting jailed terrorists after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Soros is also involved in the financing of a 9/11 memorial at ground zero, the World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex — which critics say blames the U.S. for 9/11.

“Bush says (the terrorists) hate us for what we are, not what we do, and I think that’s false,” Soros told an audience at UC Berkeley last year.

He has handed $3.1 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation, which funds organizations, such as the Sea Shepherds, Earth First! and the Ruckus Society, that have condoned or engaged in eco-terrorism.

On the international front, Soros-backed groups have undercut important U.S. allies, including Israel and Colombia, which have aligned with the U.S. rather than the U.N.

Both see their sovereignty as non-negotiable, view victory over their enemies as an absolute good and refuse to become failed states — all anathema to the thinking of Soros. His Human Rights Watch repeatedly attempts to portray both nations as pariah states.
One World Government

Soros additionally finances groups supporting the interests of one-world government. While he has criticized the United Nations occasionally, he favors U.N. dominance in world affairs, sees the European Union as a model for “open society” and has called for a global central bank…………………………

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275181103776079

And this is the drug and terrorist lady-puppet from Soros

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Pro-entity politicians stall BiH - EU progress

22.9.2007 by admin.

Pro-entity politicians stall Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU progress

17/09/2007

Calls for strengthening state institutions have run into opposition from Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, who advocates a federal solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

By Antonio Prlenda for Southeast European Times in Sarajevo – 17/09/07

RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has embraced populist rhetoric, including calls for an independence referendum in the Bosnian Serb entity. [Getty Images]

A country with an outstandingly complicated government structure, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been facing particularly slow progress in recent months. The election campaign last year was marked by a return to inflammatory, ethno-nationalist rhetoric, and the political climate has continued to deteriorate.

The EU has made it clear that the country’s chances of moving ahead in its accession bid depend on substantial reforms, aimed at strengthening state institutions. The current state composition — with three constituent peoples and two entities — is a product of the Dayton Agreement, which ended the four-year conflict in 1995……

http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2007/09/17/reportage-01 

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Die durchdachte Strategie der Macht hungrigen Staats Eliten, wollten den Zerfall Jugoslawiens

22.9.2007 by Lupo.

Mutig gegen den Strom
Intellektuelle aus Südosteuropa gegen das ethnische Konzept
Einführung in die komplexen Probleme des Balkans, vertiefte Einblicke in Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft dieser krisengeschüttelten Region, Porträts von Menschen, die sich teils unter grossen Risiken gegen den Ethnisierungswahn in ihrer Heimat gestellt haben

Über die Ära Tito sind sich die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner des Balkans nach wie vor nicht einig. / adi

Dies alles bietet das Buch «Dieses Schicksal unterschreibe ich nicht – Gespräche im Balkan» von René Holenstein. Der Autor ist Historiker und hat vier Jahre lang die schweizerische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Bosnien-Herzegowina geleitet.

Gegen ethnische Homogenität

Holenstein hat mit 19 Intellektuellen (Journalisten, Ärztinnen, Rechtsanwälten, Philosophen, Theologen, Soziologinnen, Dichterinnen) aus Bosnien-Herzegowina, Kosovo, Serbien und Kroatien ausführliche Gespräche geführt und sie erzählen lassen, was sie über den Krieg, über den Zerfall des jugoslawischen Vielvölkerstaates, über die Zukunft und mögliche Alternativen denken. Die Themenpalette ist umfassend: Es geht um Menschenrechte und Demokratie, Aufarbeitung der Geschichte, Lage der Frauen, Kultur, Religion, nationale Identität – und immer wieder die Rolle der internationalen Organisationen (siehe Haupttext).

Auffallend ist dabei, dass sich praktisch alle Gesprächspartner sehr kritisch mit jenen tonangebenden Eliten auseinander setzen, die in ethnisch homogenen Kleinstaaten die Lösung der Probleme sehen. Nicht der plötzliche Ausbruch von Hass auf andere Ethnien habe zum Zerfall Jugoslawiens geführt, sondern eine wohldurchdachte Strategie machthungriger Staatsführungen. Gefördert wurden die Konflikte durch das Fehlen einer demokratischen Tradition.

Eindrückliche Dokumentation

Interessante Nuancen finden sich in der Beurteilung des Tito-Staates: Während die einen bereits im kommunistischen Staat die Wurzel der unseligen späteren Entwicklung sehen, schildern andere Jugoslawien als gut funktionierenden multiethnischen Staat. Wieder andere machen darauf aufmerksam, dass der Balkan über die Jahrhunderte hinweg immer von teils rasch wechselnden fremden Mächten beherrscht wurde und nie die Chance hatte, selbst über seine Zukunft zu bestimmen……….

Espace

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War and Terror Inc.: Secret arm business from Bosnia to North Afghanistan

22.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

Consider a July report from the Government Accountability Office that tens of thousands of weapons purchased by the U.S. military and destined for delivery to Iraq remain unaccounted for. Actually, they’re not just “unaccounted for.” Bout may have swiped some of them. According to a 2006 Amnesty International report, Aerocom, a Moldovan-registered company linked to Bout, obtained a U.S. military contract in 2004 to fly 200,000 AK-47 assault rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition from Bosnia to Iraq. The day before the first Aerocom flight that August, the Moldovan government canceled its air-operations certificate, making any flights illegal. Bout was already on a U.N. and Treasury Department blacklist and was wanted by Interpol; Aerocom had been publicly cited in U.N. reports for illicit weapons trafficking. The flights took off nonetheless, but there are no records showing that they ever actually landed in Iraq. In other words: An international outlaw using unlicensed aircraft took control of U.S. government-purchased weapons — which then disappeared.

Bout has many companions in the rogues’ gallery of arms merchants, such as Monzer al-Kassar, who was arrested in June in Spain and indicted on charges of seeking to sell weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a notorious drug-dealing militia. But two things make Bout unique: his airlift capacity and his easy access to stores of weapons that include the ubiquitous AK-47, attack helicopters and surface-to-air missiles. By the mid-1990s, this former Soviet air force officer had amassed more than 60 aircraft — a fleet larger than the air forces of many NATO nations. Most of the airplanes were plucked from the former Soviet air fleet; scores of aircraft, from biplanes to super cargo carriers, had been left to rust on airstrips for lack of fuel and maintenance.

This combination of access and mobility lets Bout offer door-to-door service to his well-paying customers. He spreads death and destruction with impunity, aiding and abetting our enemies, including radical Islamic terrorists.

Peter Hain, a senior British cabinet minister, dubbed Bout “Africa’s merchant of death” because of his exploits in arming dictators, including Charles Taylor in Liberia and Sam “Mosquito” Bockarie in Sierra Leone, as well as most sides of the bloody conflicts in Angola and Congo. In the late 1990s, when he was allegedly arming the Taliban, other Islamist groups, the FARC and Libya’s Moammar Gaddafi, Bout joined Osama bin Laden as one of the Western intelligence services’ top-tier targets. Interpol has issued a “red notice” for his arrest, but he lives openly in Moscow, seemingly under the protection of the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was not on the agenda in the July summit between Bush and Putin.

Amazingly, Bout’s activities have been painstakingly documented in a series of public reports issued by the United Nations over the past seven years. The CIA and the National Security Agency, in collaboration with British and Belgian intelligence, have listened to his telephone conversations, charted his movements and gotten satellite photographs of his aircraft sitting on remote African airstrips or lined up wing-to-wing at his headquarters in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

But 9/11 changed Bout from an international pariah into a potential asset for U.S. intelligence services, and he quickly sensed the shift in his fortunes. Through an associate, he secretly contacted the CIA numerous times about providing weapons, helicopters, trucks and communications to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, according to U.S. documents and officials. Another associate bragged to reporters that Bout’s planes had flown in Special Forces and CIA operatives early in the war, a credible story because Bout’s pilots were among the only ones who knew Afghanistan’s terrain and had maps of abandoned airstrips they had secretly used for years. Bout was also apparently providing weapons to the Taliban — buttering his toast on both sides.

After the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bout’s air-freight services were used by the U.S. military and by Halliburton, its subsidiary KBR, Federal Express and other contractors, according to flight records and U.S. military and civilian officials who monitored the flights. In the process,……

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092101544.html

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Serbian’s economic news

22.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

All articles

Serbia: Average take-home salary in August RSD 28,143

Over 1,130 applications submitted for start-up loans

Serbia to receive €1.5 billion from EU by 2013

FCC Construction company is not pulling out from concession for construction of Horgos-Pozega highway

Budget unaffected by tax breaks for purchasing first flat

State and financial institutions must work jointly to promote exports

Serbian food companies exhibit in Moscow fair

Serbia: ComTrade Shop Internet Store

13th General Assembly of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges Held in Belgrade

Bids opened for Novi Sad cable factory

Serbia: Prices of products and services up 2.5% in August

Serbia: CBM, CBBH and NBS Sign Agreement on the Clearing of International Payments

Serbia: Faster and Cheaper Money Transfer from Abroad

Ana Ivanovic proclaimed UNICEF ambassador in Serbia

Fair of Novi Sad: Rich Autumn Season

Bulgaria’s Piccadilly Sells Majority Stake to Delta Maxi

Unemployment rate in Serbia 21.6%

Energetika 2007, EcoFair opened

Significant results achieved in reconstruction of road infrastructure

Contact on sale of Sumadijalek from Cacak signed

M:TEL Telekom Srpske to expand GSM/EDGE network for €30 mln

Serbia: All citizens should have affordable basic telecommunication services

Serbia could become leader in attracting foreign investments in South East Europe

Rothschild wins at tender for Jat Airways advisor

Serbia: New plant of Knauf Insulation factory opened in Surdulica

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Balkan country’s to receive € 3.5 billion from EU in the period from 2007-2009

22.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said to participants of the seminar from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and representatives of Kosovo-Metohija in the UNMIK delegation, as well as officials from Croatia and Turkey, that the IPA programme will allow countries in the region to prepare for entry into the EU.

Rehn said that the ability of public administration in these countries to take responsibility to regulate the use of funds received is of crucial importance in the process of joining the EU.

Serbia and other potential candidates for EU membership will receive funds from the IPA programme for transition and building of institutions, as well as cross border cooperation, and after acquiring candidate status, Serbia will be able to use IPA programme funds for projects in environment, rural development and capacity building of experts and personnel.

The European Commission published its first multi-year plan for financing projects from the IPA programme in July, which is worth €3.961 billion.

According to the plan, in the period from 2007-2009, Serbia will receive a total of €572.4 million, Montenegro €97.3 million, Kosovo-Metohija (on the basis of the UN SC Resolution 1244) €199.1 million, Macedonia € 210.4, Albania € 212.9 million, Croatia € 438.5 and Turkey € 1,602,003. (Economy, September 20.)

economy

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2 der Spinner von Mjaft wurden festgenommen in Tirana

22.9.2007 by CrniLabudovi.

Kurz gesagt wurden da zwei Spinner festgenommen von mjaft, weil sie eine Demonstration nicht angemeldet hatten!

Die Spinner froderten den Rücktritt des Wirtschafts Ministers, obwohl der innerhalb 2 Jarhen keinrlei Strom herbei zaubern kann. Die Fehler liegen einfach 10 Jahre zurück und vor allem bei den Vorgänger Regierungen, welche keine Kraftwerke bauten und die kleinen Verbesserungen wie von Siemens gingen halt im Korruptions Sumpf unter, der mit hIlfe von ausl. Consults inzeniert wurde. Mjaft ist keine NGO, sondern wie fast alle angeblichen NGO’s von der ausl. Politik gesteuert. In diesem Falle von USAID sprich CIA.

Two Members of MJAFT Movement Detained
Mjaft
17 September 2007
The Mjaft (Enough) nongovernmental organization continues its daily protests over the current situation with energy supply in the country, in front of the Ministry of Economy and Energy.

At the latest protest, as well as on previous days, they demanded resignation of Minister of Energy Genc Ruli.

The protests of last Friday also offered a little performance. In front of the Ministry, Mjaft’s activists posted symbolic drawings with depictions of prayers for rain.

Also on Friday, the Police acted for the first time since the start of the protests and detained two members of the NGO movement. According to Balkan Web Agency, the two detained persons were Leart Kola, Mjaft Leader and Elton Kacidhja, an activist, under official explanation that they didn’t announce the protests and apply for proper permits.

They were released from custody several hours later.

http://see.oneworldsee.org/article/view/150104/1/

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Zagreb – City on Underground Garages

22.9.2007 by admin.

Zagreb – City on Underground Garages

Zelena akcija