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01/01/05 9:32 PM

#2985 RE: Amaunet #2984

Soros Group Warns over Kazakh Row

It is well documented that the "chain of Europe's velvet revolutions" are franchised revolutions financed and backed by the same groups. Soros is acknowledged to be behind the Yugoslavia and Ukraine charades and is implicated by different countries and a plethora of authors citing facts and figures as to his involvement in the Georgia ‘elections’.
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Many times the autocratic leaders of these countries, for all their faults, are the only means by which to save these countries from a wave of oligarchs whose purpose is to steal the assets of the people under the pretext of ‘democracy’ and privatization. The cure becomes worse than the disease as we find the autocratic officials taking on defensive measures and the ‘democratically’ elected Saakashvili of Georgia overseeing the disappearance of viable parliamentary opposition.

"The assembly notes its concern about the current reshaping of Georgian political life and the risk of a disappearance of all parliamentary opposition after the forthcoming elections and, in consequence, of any true institutional counterweight," reads a resolution adopted at the end of a one-hour debate. – PACE delegation
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union, which had been sealed by Kuchma’s predecessor Kravchuk together with the Russian president Boris Yeltsin and Belarus’s Stanislav Shushkevic at the end of 1991, created the conditions for the concentration of social wealth in the hands of a few clans of oligarchs. This policy of “unrestrained privatisation” swept through Ukraine and Russia during the 1990s and was unreservedly supported by the Great Powers.
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Russia's grim experience of energy privatization shows how a new class of oil magnates quickly send their profits to offshore banks.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0331-08.htm

In these bogus democratic elections and velvet revolutions we see a melding of the oligarchs of the West with those of the East.

I do not understand why the Open Society Institute (OSI), financed by billionaire George Soros denies having any role in toppling Georgia’s former president. This does not seem true.

The following texts tell of a tremendous backlash against Soros and his ilk.

-Am


The Open Society Institute (OSI), financed by
billionaire George Soros, has accused Kazakhstan
officials of trying to close down its local office.

A demand for unpaid taxes and fines of $600,000
(£425,000) is politically motivated, the OSI claimed, adding that it paid the money in October.

The organisation has found itself in trouble after being accused of helping to topple Georgia's former president.

It denies having any role, but offices have had to close across the region.

Not wanted?

The OSI shut its office in Moscow last year and has withdrawn from Uzbekistan and Belarus.

In the Ukraine earlier this year, Mr Soros - who took on the Bank of England in the 1990s - and won, was pelted by protestors.

"This legal prosecution can be considered an attempt by the government to force Soros Foundation-Kazakhstan to cease its activities in Kazakhstan and shut its doors for Kazakh citizens and organisations," the OSI said.

The OSI aims to promote democratic and open,
market-based societies.

Since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991,
Kazakhstan has been dominated by its president
Nursultan Abish-uly Nazarbayev.

He has powers for life, while insulting the president and officials has been made a criminal offence.

The government controls the printing presses and most radio and TV transmission facilities. It operates the country's national radio and TV networks.

Recent elections were criticised as flawed and the opposition claimed there was widespread vote rigging.

Supporters, however, say he brings much needed
stability to a region where Islamic militancy is on the rise.

They also credit him with promoting inter-ethnic
accord and pushing through harsh reforms.

Wednesday, 29 December, 2004

BBC
2005-01-01 13:10:33

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=1304




Tajik Administration Complains about Soros

The name of Jewish speculator George Soros was brought to the agenda with his activities in Yugoslavia, Georgia and the Ukraine and now echoes in the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. Tajik President, Imamali Rahmanov yesterday accused some international institutions, and especially the Soros Foundation, of acting with the aim to destroy Tajikistan's unity.

Rahmanov raised the issue at the Tajikistan Democrat People's Party convention, which was closed to the press. The text of the President's speech was published in Minbari People's Paper, and it claimed that the Soros Foundation supported subversive radio stations and newspapers such as "Varorud", "Odamu
Olam" and "Ruzi Nav". He went on to say, "The aim of these mass circulation media is to destroy the Tajikistan administration".

The Soros Foundation has also run into trouble in
other Central Asian countries. In Kazakhistan, where it has been active since 1993, the foundation has accused the government of trying to interrupt its activities after investigations into alleged tax violations. In Uzbekistan, the foundation had its activities stopped in early 2004 on grounds of intervening with governmental policies, and its activities have also been blocked in Belarus. The New York-based Soros Foundation, which is active in 50 countries, supports the development of non-governmental organizations, democracy and better administration through education and other projects.

12.30.2004
Cihan News Agency
Dushanbe

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=1305


Reference:
Promotion of democracy around the world is a bipartisan US effort; the Democratic Party's National Democratic Institute (NDI), the Republican Party's International Republican Institute, the US State Department and USAID (US Agency for International Development) are the main agencies. They are all involved in these campaigns and are further helped by the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George SOROS' Open Society Institute. US pollsters and professional consultants are hired to organize focus groups and use psephological data to plot strategies.

One of the most active "pro-democracy" groups in Ukraine's democratic opposition is Pora, which means "it's time". The student activists of Pora received personal tutorials in non-violent resistance from Serbian students of the Otpor ("resistance") group, which was in the forefront of toppling Milosevich in Belgrade. Then the Serbs helped the Georgian vanguard movement Kmara ("enough is enough"). So a Georgian flag was also being waved in Kiev's Independence Square. In Tbilisi, the rose-revolutionary Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili interrupted his first anniversary address to offer a few words of encouragement in Ukrainian to his "sisters and brothers" in Kiev. The reawakened cold warriors link the "chain of Europe's velvet revolutions" in this peaceful march of democracy to what the crowds first chanted on Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1989. So a jaded pro-democracy Lech Walesa was there too in Kiev, just as he had been in Prague.
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Late last fall, Saakashvili led thousands of "spontaneous" demonstrators, bused in from around Tbilisi, brandishing flowers as they invaded the president's palace. This was during the freezing Georgian winter when any roses not black and brittle had to be flown or trucked in, courtesy of the same bankroll that funded the fleet of rented buses for demonstrators: that of George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire and egotist. A former member of the Georgian Parliament said that in the three months before the "Rose Revolution," "from August through October, Soros spent $42 million ramping-up for the overthrow of Shevardnadze."
Soros has publicly committed himself to funding the "democratic" presidency of Mikhail Saakashvili, just as he has publicly committed himself and his money to the destruction of the presidency of George W. Bush, whom he has compared to Yasser Arafat and Hitler. Soros and the United Nations are paying the wages of all of Saakashvili's top government officials--ministers, deputies, the road police, and others--on the grounds that this will keep them from stealing. As if bribery and corruption were simply a problem of immediate financial need, not greed.http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:n3mqVxQk2i4J:www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_....

Georgia revolt carried mark of Soros
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:n1OkL6u3geYJ:www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/GeorgiaRevoltCarr....