Ojcowski Soros
--------------
Juz w 1997 roku dzialalo 29 fundacji Sorosa w panstwach
pokomunistycznych. W 1994 roku wydaly 300 milionow USD, a w 1998 roku
niemal dwa razy wiecej, 574 millionow USD. Na co?  Fundacje twierdza,
ze poswiecaja sie budowie i utrzymaniu  infrastruktury i instytucji
spoleczenstwa otwartego. Zamiast tlumaczyc neologizm, przyjrzyjmy sie
owocom ich dzialalnosci.

Zmniejszac zagrozenia
----------------------
W programach zdrowie kobiet  w Europie Srodkowej i Poludniowej, na
prozno szukac wykrywania raka piersi, opieki nad ciezarnymi i
noworodkami.

Soros wylozyl glowny cel uczciwie i jasno: ULEPSZYC JAKOSC USLUG
ABORCYJNYCH. Dlatego jego Program Zdrowia Publicznego poparl
wprowadzenie szpitalnego przerywania ciazy w Albanii, Slowacji i na
Litwie i Lotwie, a recznego usuwania plodu przez zassanie - w
Macedonii,
Moldawii i Rosji.

Sorosowski Instytut Spoleczenstwa Otwartego (Open Society Institute,
OSI) wspolpracowal rowniez z  miedzynarodowymi i lokalnymi
organizacjami
pozarzadowymi  w odpieraniu rosnacego na sile ruchu przeciw aborcjom.
Wplywajac na ministerstwa zdrowia i administracje szpitali, ruch ten
zdolal zmniejszyc ilosc usuniec ciazy. OSI deklaruje kontynuacje
ksztalcenia w jakosciowym usuwaniu ciazy oraz dzialan ku legalnej,
bezpiecznej i dostepnej aborcji dla wszystkich kobiet w regionie.

Czemu Soros bylby zainteresowany promocja aborcji w Europie Wschodniej,
skoro nie obchodzi go los zepchnietych w nedze i na margines spoleczny
przez jego "reformy gospodarcze"? Powodem nie moze byc przeludnienie.
Region doznaje ogromnego spadku demograficznego, majac jeden z
najnizszych wskaznikow plodnosci na swiecie.

Niedostepnosc aborcji tez nie moze byc powodem. Wedlug raportu z ONZ,
Federacja Rosyjska, Bulgaria, Bialorus, Rumunia i Ukraina mialy w roku
2000 wiecej aborcji niz zywych urodzen. Wskaznik aborcji jest znacznie
wyzszy w Europie Srodkowej i Wschodniej oraz w bylych republikach ZSRR
niz w Europie Zachodniej i Ameryce Polnocnej. Jedyna logiczna
odpowiedz:
SOROS PRAGNIE, BY BYLO JAK NAJMNIEJ URODZEN W TYM REGIONIE.

Sorosowskie programy zdrowia publicznego rowniez wspieraja inicjatywy
wokol specyficznych potrzeb kilku zmarginalizowanych spolecznosci oraz
szerza zmniejszanie zagrozen: zasadniczym celem jest umozliwic
narkomanom chronic wlasne zdrowie. Wymiana igiel i strzykawek oraz
terapie substytucyjne (np. methadon) sa w centrum interwencji
zdrowotnych w programie zmniejszania zagrozen. "Pomniejszacze zagrozen"
rozszerzyli dzialalnosc specjalnymi inicjatywami dla pracownikow
seksualnach i wiezniow oraz zainicjowali dzialalnosc, by represyjne
polityki narkotykowe nie przeszkadzaly w  rozszerzaniu dzialan
zmniejszania zagrozen.

LGBT
----
W ostatnich pieciu latach, siec Sorosa rozpoczela z powodzeniem
uprzednio nieistniejacy ruch gejow niemal we wszystkich panstwach
objetych jej dzialalnoscia. Kampania Praw LGBT (lesbijki, geje,
biseksualni i transwerstyci) dziala z Budapesztu, gdzie opublikowany
przez OSI referat Miriam Molnar w 1999 roku zdefiniowal "problem" jako
dyskryminacje i niska akceptowalnosc, widocznosc i reprezentacje
polityczna LGBT-owcow. Nalezalo przekonac spoleczenstwo, by
zaakceptowalo LGBT-owcow jako rownych i wywarlo presje (sic) na
politykach (przez srodki przekazu), by zmienili prawo, albo przekonac
politykow, ze LGBT-owcy sa rowni i potrzebuja pomocy w przekonaniu
reszty spoleczenstwa.

Ogolnymi celami bylo stworzenie dyskusji spolecznej o tozsamosci LGBT,
uwidocznienie ich oraz stworzenie pozytywnego wizerunku i
zapoczatkowanie regularnych dyskusji z innymi grupami regionu.
Specyficzne zadania objely opracowanie stron internetowych po angielsku
i w miejscowych jezykach, zalozenie grup dzialania, ktore mialy
reagowac
na wszelkie "homofobiczne" wybryki prasy zapisem w "Rozowej Ksiedze" i
zorganizowanie dwutygodniowych szkolek letnich dla nauczycieli, ktore
mialy szkolic o dyskryminacji (sic) LGBT-owcow, niesprawnych, otylych
itp.

W listopadzie 1999 roku rozpoczal sie pilotazowy projekt w Centrum
Rozwoju Publikacji (w siedzibie OSI w Budapeszcie) na temat ksiazek o
tresci homoseksulanej w Bulgarii, Republice Czech, Slowenii, Slowacji i
na Wegrzech. W tym samym roku Cemtrum Lesbijek i Gejow Nasz Mir (Nasz
Swiat) oglosil rejestracje jako organizacja pozarzadowa na Ukrainie. Od
tego momentu grupa miala wolna reke w realizacji swych zadeklarowanych
celow, wlacznie z walka przeciw dyskryminacji orientacji seksualnej i
homofobicznych sentymentow w swiadomosci spolecznej oraz pomocy w
wyniesieniu swiadomosci gejow i lesbijek jako wartosciowych czlonkow
spoleczenstwa. Za legalizacje na Ukrainie, grupa wyrazila wdziecznosc
ukrainskiemu oddzialowi Sieci Fundacji Sorosa (Fundacja Renaissance),
ktora wstawila sie w naszej kwestii w ministerstwie sprawiedliwosci i dala nam (sic) pomoc prawna.


Sponsorowana przez Sorosa, moskiewska organizacja pozarzadowa,
www.gay.ru, rozwinela sie w znane i uznawane centrum rosyjskich gejow i
lesbijek oraz ich centrale na caly kraj. Utrzymujemy kontakty ze
wszystkimi istniejacymi organizacjami gejow, lesbijek i AIDS w Rosji i prowadzimy biezaca korespondencje i raportowanie z mieedzynarodowymi
organizacjami gejow i lesbijek [...] Skompletowalismy najwieksza
biblioteke, w ktorej znalazlo sie ponad sto rosyjskich tytulow i okolo
50 angielskich klasykow z zakresu badan gejowskich. Zostala ona
znacznie
ulepszona Zasadniczym Zbiorem w Kwestiach Gejow i Lesbijek, podarowanym
przez Fundacje Sorosa w 2000 roku.


Znormalizowac zjawiska
----------------------
Monika Barcsy z oddzialu Sorosa w Bukareszcie ubolewala nad faktem, ze
w
Rumunii tozsamosc homoseksualna ulegla stygmatyzacji i jest jedna z
glownych przyczyn traktowania osob jako "inne" w nietolerancyjnych
postawach. Rodziny homoseksualistow staly sie ofiarami uprzedzen, tylko
dlatego, ze spoleczenstwo nie potrafi zaakceptowac slusznooci stosunkow
miedzy osobami tej samej plci jako 'normalnego' zjawiska.

Jako glownego winnego, autorka wytyka Rumunski Kosciol Prawoslawny.
Problem w tym, ze wiele organizacji studentow prawoslawnych i innych popiera swoj Kosciol. W 1994 roku, przypomina Barcsy, ponad stu
studentow teologii rozpoczelo serie manifestacji przed rumunskim
parlamentem przeciw propagandzie homoseksualnej w srodkach przekazu i
zebralo podpisy pod petycja domagajaca sie ustawodawstwa przeciw
stosunkom jednej plci.


Barcsy wnioskuje, powtarzajac standardowy sorosowski argument. Geje i
lesbijki potrzebuja prawa, ktore gwarantuje im publiczne wyrazanie swej
tozsamosci [...] status prawny gejow i lesbijek, ich zdolnosc
publicznego poruszania sie i zabierania glosu oraz wspolnego dzialania
powinny byc bardzo dobrym sprawdzianem otwartosci spolecznej [...] Nie
mozna tego rozwiazac nowymi ustawami wydawanymi po presja rozmaitych
organizacji praw czlowieka. Rumunia potrzebuje [...] zaradzic
negatywnym
reakcjom wiekszosci spoleczenstwa na homoseksualistow [...] Ogolnie
biorac, spoleczenstwo ma "problem", ktorego nie da sie szybko naprawic.

Demokratyzowac szkolnictwo
--------------------------
Waznym filarem sorosowskich dzialan jest nakaz, nikt nie ma monopolu na
prawde i ze obywatelskie szkolnictwo powinno zastapic stary model
apodyktycznego autorytetu. Nowe szkolnictwo nie musi ograniczac sie do
dialogu miedzy nauczycielem a uczniami, twierdzi Soros. Poza tym mamy
projekty takie, jak edukacja zdrowia, w ktorym uczestnicy stosuja nowe
sposoby dyskusji kwestii, jak higiena, odzywianie i seks.  Chociaz nie
brzmi to jak tradycyjna edukacja, twierdzi dalej Soros, jest to nowy
sposob zwracania sie nauczyciela do ucznia, podobnie jak obywatele
musza
zwracac sie w nowy sposob do rzadow i reprezentantow politycznych w
spoleczenstwach dazacych do wiekszej otwartosci i demokracji.

We wszystkich krajach pokomunistycznych Europy Wschodniej, Fundacja
Sorosa ma wiec przede wszystkim za zadanie demokratyzowac system
szkolnictwa poprzez wprowadzanie reform programow nauczania. Co to
znaczy praktyce, pokazal w ostatnich trzech latach minister edukacji
Serbii, Gaszo Knezewic, przyjaciel i powiernik Sorosa. Od pierwszego
dnia kadencji, Knezewic nalegal, by szkoly przeksztalcic z instytucji
apodyktycznej w pola cwiczebne sluzace ekspresji osobowosci uczniow bez
przeszkod, w procesie rownoprawnej wymiany z nauczycielstwem,
przezwyciezajac w ten sposob przestarzala koncepcje autorytetu i
dyscypliny, zakorzeniony w uciazliwym spadku patriarchalnej
przeszlosci.

Knezewic zaczal reforme programem pilotazowym warsztatow edukacyjnych
dla dzieci szkol podstawowych, w wieku 7 do 12 lat. Odpowiedni
podrecznik, sfinansowany przez OSI, odrzuca osobliwa przeslanke, ze
celem nauczania jest zdobywanie wiedzy i twierdzi, iz nauczyciel ma byc
projektantem klasy, a jego stosunki z uczniami powinny oprzec sie na
partnerstwie.

W Rosji sorosowcy maja duzo do powiedzenia w wyborze podrecznikow do
szkol.  Wedlug notatki prasowej z Biblioteki Mlodziezy Gaidara, srodki
finansowe na jej komputery, kasety wideo i dyski komaktowe przyszly z
OSI, umozliwiajac specjalne szkolenie dla dzieci ludzi
dyskryminowanych:
Zorganizowalismy specjalne seminarium 'Obecne prawa dzieci' dla
wszystkich specjalistow bioracych udzial w naszym projekcie [...] Grupa
robocza programu 'Kolo przyjaciol' jest wdzieczna Instytutowi
Spoleczenstwa Otwartego (Fundacja Sorosa, Budapeszt) za mozliwosc
realizacji projektu w calym wymiarze.

Szyderczy smiech szatana
------------------------
Moskiewskie biuro OSI zaczelo w 1999 roku powazny projekt 5-letni
'Rozwoj nauczania w Rosji'. Jego celem jest przeedukowac wiejskich
nauczycieli kosztem 100 do 150 milionow USD (Niezawissimaja Gazieta,
19.9.1998). Wprowadza takze program 'Tolerancja' do szkol srednich
Rosji, ale jego mastermindy zrobily chyba pomylke jezykowa.

Zdaniem rosyjskiego krytyka tego programu, rosyjskie tlumaczenie slowa o
lacinskim pochodzeniu, 'tjerpimosc', ma drugie znaczenie  'prostytucja'
i moze byc pomylone z 'doma tjerpimosti', czyli domami publicznymi. Jak
to jest, ze ten manipulator finansowy probuje nas uczyc o tolerancji,
nas, ktorzy wyroslismy z Tolstoja, jednego z pierwszych filozofow ruchu
pokojowego? [...]  Ale pan Soros jest  tez okropnie wykrzywionym
lustrem, ktore ma nam pomoc zobaczyc nasz wlasny, aktualny wizerunek,
bez mrugniecia ani odwrocenia sie plecami. Bywaja czasy, gdy diabel
otwiera oczy, kiedy jego szyderczy smiech  jest w stanie nas obudzic i
pomoc odzyskac sily. Nie powinnismy przegapic tej okazji.

Pierwszy krok w tym kierunku zrobiono moze 7.11.2003 roku, kiedy
prywatna firma ochroniarska, najeta przez wlacciciela budynku, z ktorym
OSI w Moskwie prowadzilo dluga walke prawna, zdemolowala biuro
fundacji.
Zaledwie kilka tygodni wczesniej aresztowano Michaila Chodorkowskiego,
miliardera i dyrektora wykonawczego moskiewskiego oddzialu OSI,
jednoczesnie wlasciciela organizacji pozarzadowej Fundacja Otwartej
Rosji, z powodu unikania podatkow, kradziezy, falszowania dokumentow i
oszustw.

Soros potepil aresztowanie jako przesladowanie, czyn dyskwalifikujacy
Rosje z czlonkowstwa w G-8, grupie panstw uprzemyslowionych. Uwazam, ze
dzialal w ramach prawa. Robie to samo w Stanach Zjednoczonych - powiedzial Soros, nawiazujac do swych wielomiliardowych darowizn na
rzecz zmiany rezymu w Waszyngtonie w listopadzie br. Oburzona prasa
amerykanska donosila, ze oblawe wycelowano w filantropijna organizacje,
ktora wydala ponad miliard USD na projekty charytatywne w Rosji w
ostatnich 15 latach.


Zaakceptowac Romow
------------------
"Rasizm" jest codzienna obsesja Sorosa, lecz w jednolitych rasowo
krajach Europy Wschodniej, ma on trudnosci w znalezieniu rasizmu.
Rozwiazanie: wytypowac przesladowana grupe  - Romow! Niewiele
mniejszosci w Europie boryka sie z tak wieloma objawami dyskryminacji
spolecznej, gospodarczej i politycznej, co Romowie - twierdzi OSI. Byc
aktywista romowskim  stalo sie intratna funkcja spoleczna. 70
najbardziej obiecujacych z nich przybylo na konferencje 'Romowie w
powiekszajacej sie Europie: wyzwania na przyszlosc', zorganizowanej w
Budapeszcie latem 2003 roku.

Soros zainagurowal na niej Dekade akceptacji Romow. Konferencja zebrala
rekomendacje polityczne. Niektore z nich  brzmialy jak napisane przez
Jesse Jacksona [oredownik praw Afro-Amerykanow w USA]: (1) obowiazkowe,
darmowe nauczanie przedszkolne, w klasach mieszanych rasowo, (2)
romowscy asystenci nauczycieli w klasach, szczegolnie przedszkolnych,
(3) szkolenie przeciw stronniczosci nauczycieli i administratorow
szkol,
(4) wlaczenie historii i kultury Romow do podreczniksw na wszystkich
poziomach nauczania.

Dla szkol srednich i wyzszych, delegacje Rumunii i Serbii-Czarnogory
zaproponowaly prawnie wiazace programy akceptacji Romow. W sprawie
zatrudnienia, konferencja rekomendowala  zachety podatkowe dla
pracodawcow zatrudniajacych Romow oraz dostep do tanich kredytow dla
malych, rodzinnych biznesow romowskich. Delegacje z Czech i Slowacji
zaproponowaly odlozenie czesci rzadowych kontraktow budowlanych dla
firm
romowskich.

W dziedzinie mieszkaniowki przedstawiono specyficzne zadania w celu
zwalczania rasizmu i dyskryminacji, wlacznie z legalizacja tekturowych
osiedli Romow i rownym dostepem do mieszkan gminnych. Konferencja
wywnioskowala, ze zwalczanie dyskryminacji rasowej Romow musi nastapic
przez przyjecie daleko idacego ustawodawstwa zgodnie z dyrektywa UE o
rownosci ras.

Delegacja rumunska domagala sie, by rzad w Bukareszcie uznal romowski
Holocaust, przez publiczne przeprosiny wraz z pakietem zadoscuczynienia
materialnego. Poproszono Unie Europejska, by zapewnila szeroki udzial
Romow w projektowaniu, wdrazaniu i ocenie wszystkich wydatkow UE na
romowskie programy.

Zostan sorosowcem
-----------------
Jeszcze dziesiec lat temu, w docelowych krajach "programy" Sorosa
wydawalyby sie smieszne czy nie z tej Ziemii. Dzis nikomu na smiechy.
Dla tysiecy mlodych Wschodnich Europejczykow, zostac sorosowcem jest
tym, czym dla ich rodzicow bylo wstapienie do partii: obiecujaca
mozliwosc dosc dobrze platnej pracy, przynaleznosc do uprzywilejowanych
elit, a dla wielu, podroze zagraniczne. Wybrancy uczeszczaja na
sorosowski Uniwersytet Centralnej Europy w Budapeszcie, gdzie uczy sie
ich, ze obstawanie przy naukowo uzasadnionej prawdzie jest totalitarne,
a suwerenne panstwo narodowe - zle.


Na listach plac Sorosa nie ma jednego patrioty z Rosji, Chorwacji,
Litwy, Serbii, Rumunii, czy Wegier, ani jednego praktykujacego
chrzescijanina. We wszystkich panstwach pokomunistycznych, Soros
polega
na synach i corach starego komunistycznego establishmentu. Jest mniej
prawdopodobne, ze byliby zabarwieni atawistycznym przywiazaniem do swej
ziemii ojczystej, kultury i tradycji. Ci najbardziej udani i lojalni
calymi latami przewijaja sie od jednego "projektu" do nastepnego, a
niektorzy zyja tak juz ponad dziesiac lat. Soros wyjawil (w ksiazce "Underwriting Democracy"), ze jego fundacje Spoleczenstwa Otwartego
pomoga stworzyc miedzynarodowa siec, w sercu ktorej bedzie komputerowa
baza danych osobistych, dajaca zachodnim korporacjom spis kandydatow na
biezace korporacyjne potrzeby w regionie.


Ci neo-janisarze, tak jak ich poprzednicy w armii Cesarstwa
Otomanskiego, musza wykazac sie gorliwoscia wieksza niz ich dowodca.
Balkanskie przyslowie mowi: Nawrocony jest gorszy od Turka. Nie ma
silniejszych wybuchow od szalonych oszczerstw narodu serbskiego i jego
historii, religii, sztuce i cierpieniom, spod pior paczki
felietonistow,
urodzonych w Serbii, na liscie plac Sonji Licht, Gauleiterki Sorosa w
Belgradzie.

Agit-propagande OSI wpycha sie codziennie masom przez media Sorosa -
termin istniejacy juz w ponad dziesieciu jezykach, od "Gazety
Wyborczej"
w Warszawie, po "Danas" w Serbii, "Monitor" w Czarnogorze, kanal
telewizyjny"Markiza" w Bratyslawie i tygodnik "Vreme" oraz konglomerat
elektronicznych srodkow przekazu B-92 w Belgradzie. Niezmiennie
powtarzaja, jak papugi, poglady i ambicje Sorosa, odzwierciedlone w
programach jego miejscowych fundacji, a w sprawach miedzynarodowych -
przez Miedzynarodowa Grupe Kryzysowa (International Crisis Group, ICG),
finansowana przez Sorosa i prowadzona przez jego wybranych.

Cel Sorosa w sprawach miedzynarodowyach wynika z faktu, ze  wybrani
przez niego do ICG to: general Wesley Clark, ktory dowodzil silami NATO
w wojnie przeciw Serbii w 1999 roku; Louise Arbour, byla naczelna
prokurator w haskim trybunale zbrodni wojennych w Jugoslawii; byly
sekretarz stanu, Morton Abramowitz, entuzjastyczny popieracz muzulmanow
bosniackich i Albanczykow w wojnach secesyjnych w Jugoslawii, oraz;
byly
doradca bezpieczenstwa panstwowego, Zbigniew Brzezinski, ktorego
rusofobiczne wyjatrzenia pomogly w i obudzily powstanie zajwiska Osam
ibn Laden i jego dzihadowa kohorta.

Swiatu - prezydenta
--------------------
Gilles d'Aymery zauwazyl przed dwoma laty, ze Soros nie jest jedynie
motorem w Instytucie Spoleczenstwa Otwartego, Instytucie Pokoju USA,
Narodowej Fundacji  dla Demokracji, Czuwaniu nad Prawami Czlowieka,
Amnestii Miedzynarodowej, i ICG: Jak ogromna osmiornica Julesa Verne,
[Soros] wyciaga czulki na cala Europe Wschodnia i Poludniowowschodnia,
Kaukaz oraz byle republiki ZSRR. Z pomoca tych wszystkich grup, [jest
mozliwe] nie tylko ksztaltowanie przekazow prasowych, oficjalnych
programow i opinii publicznej dla promocji celow, ktore krotko mowiac
narzucaja wladze nad swiatem i zasobami naturalnymi oraz szerza
jednolity ideal perfekcyjnego ustroju swiatowego'made in America'.

Ustroj ten nie bedzie jednak "amerykanski" w zadnym tego slowa
znaczeniu, jesli Sorosowi sie powiedzie. U nas w USA popiera on bowiem
zwiekszenie wydatkow rzadu i podatkow, legalizacje narkotykow,
eutanazje, otwarcie granic i imigracje, feminizm, nieograniczone
przerywanie ciazy na zadanie, bezkrytyczna akceptacje odszczepiencow
oraz prawa "gejow".  Jest przeciwny karze smierci w jakichkolwiek
okolicznosciach.

Jednym z powiernikow OSI jest Lani Guinier, profesor prawa, ktora Bill
Clinton probowal posadzic na szefowa wydzialu praw czlowieka w
departamencie sprawiedliwosci. Zmienil zdanie, gdy okazalo sie, ze
popiera ona prawo mniejszosci do wetowania ustawodawstwa. Prezydentem
OSI jest Aryeh Neier, ktory przez 12 lat byl dyrektorem wykonawczym
organizacji Human Rights Watch (Czuwanie nad Prawami Czlowieka),
sponsorowanej przez Sorosa, a przedtem - dyrektorem Zwiazku
Amerykanskich Swobod Obywatelskich, na cale USA, przez 8 lat.

To, ze jest przeciw Bushowi, jest niegodne uwagi, ale wypowiedz Sorosa
w
grudniu 2003 roku, ze pokonanie Prezydenta jest sprawa zycia i smierci,
byla niemadra. Jego szczodrosc dla przeciwnikow Busha, choc duza, nie
odzwierciedla wspomianej wagi chwili: 15 milionow USD dla America
Coming
Together (Ameryka zbiera sie), 3 miliony dla nowego think-tanku Johna
Podesty oraz 2,5 miliona USD dla organizacji MoveOn.org - to sa skromne
sumy w porownaniu nawet z miesiecznym kosztem utrzymania sieci jego
fundacji na calym swiecie.

Soros pozostaje wierny nadrzednemu celowi zniszczenia pozostalych
bastionow rodziny, suwerennej panstwowosci i wiary chrzescijanskiej na
wschod od linii Triest-Stettin. Wyczuwa, ze nie jest potrzebna jego
pelna interwencja w Ameryce, poniewaz  bez tego sprawy i tak poruszaja
sie w jego kierunku. Bez wzgledu na to, kogo w jego faworyzowanej
partii
namaszcza w listopadzie br. na kandydata na prezydenta USA, rzeczywisty
wybor bedzie miedzy George Bushem a Gyorgy Sorosem, a to nie jest zaden
wybor.

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George Soros, Postmodern Villain
by Srdja Trifkovic

NGO's, Behold Your God.

George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930 but, today, spends most of his time in New York City. Not much 
is known about his early years. He is the only eminent "holocaust survivor" who has been accused 
of collaboration with the Nazis. In 1947, he managed to sneak through the Iron Curtain, and, the official 
story goes, "he landed penniless in London, but by hard work and sheer genius, he rose to become one 
of the planet's most successful investors and richest men."

Mr. Soros' peculiar moral values, political views, and ideological preferences would be 
immaterial without the money that he can spend promoting and imposing them. The bulk of that 
money-currently estimated at not less than seven billion dollars-was earned in the minus-sum 
game of currency and stock speculation, contributing nothing to the creation of wealth and 
making millions of ordinary people poorer in the process. His offshore Quantum Fund-legally 
headquartered in Curacao, beyond U.S.-government supervision-specializes in speculative 
investments to take advantage of deliberately induced political and economic weaknesses of 
different countries and regions. In an interview with the Swiss weekly L'hebdo (May 1993), Soros 
outlined his strategy: "I speculate on discrepancy between the reality and the public image 
of this reality, until a correctional mechanism occurs, which approaches these two."

His profits are staggering. On September 16, 1992, he famously made a billion dollars 
in one day by betting against the Bank of England and the pound sterling. In July 
1997, he contributed to the Southeast Asian financial crisis by shorting the Thai 
bath. In early 2000, he supposedly suffered losses on tech stocks, but some analysts 
now suggest that the burn of the NASDAQ was controlled and that Soros helped to start 
the fire. By last November, he was betting the U.S. dollar would plummet. As the 
London Independent reported (November 28, 2003), his activities were contributing to a 
growing belief on Wall Street that the dollar would slide even further.

There is nothing new in Soros' approach to making money or in the ability of such a person to 
make an impact, invariably detrimental, on his host society's morals and culture. What is new 
with Mr. Soros-in addition to the implausible claim that a private speculator could get as far 
as he has unaided by any established financial interests-is his systematic, concerted effort to 
use a large part of his fortune to promote his peculiar social and political views. He does so 
through a global network of "nongovernmental organizations" named after himself and 
active primarily in Eastern Europe but also in Africa, Latin America, and the United States. At 
age 75, money is not his object but his tool. He has used it to develop a well-coordinated 
global operation centered on the Open Society Institute (OSI) in New York, which funds a network 
of subsidiaries in over 50 countries.

Even before the Open Society network came into being, Soros' blueprint for postcommunist 
"shock therapy" reform had been put to the test. First came Poland, where the first 
postcommunist prime minister, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was close to Soros and subsequently remained 
associated with his local subsidiary, the Stefan Batory Foundation. In his book Underwriting 
Democracy, Soros says that he personally prepared the broad outlines of Poland's comprehensive 
economic reform:

    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.

Poland was only a start, however; far more important to his goals was his association in 1991-92 with Russia's "reformist" leaders Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar and their Harvard guru Sachs. Within a year of their "shock therapy," hyperinflation had wiped out Russians' savings and the long-suffering middle class with it. Pensioners were literally starving. The parallel "privatization" of Russia's huge resources-timber, oil, gas, chemicals, media-created the robber oligarchs and contributed to Russia's effective deindustrialization. The country was lowered into neocolonial dependence: a supplier of energy and raw materials and an importer of high technology and manufactured goods. Nevertheless, in early 1993, Soros felt that Russia had not gone far enough: "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 out
put."

George Soros is out to deconstruct nations and states as Europe has known them for centuries, with Russia always the main prize. In an interview with the Moscow daily Komersant (August 8, 1997), he declared that "a strong central government in Russia cannot be democratic." "The rescue of a free Russian economy depends on the attraction of Western investments," he added, and, to that end, "Russia's general public must accept the ideology of an open society."

By that time, a total of 29 "Soros Foundations" were active in every postcommunist 
country. In 1994, his foundations spent a total of $300 million; by 1998, that figure had risen 
to $574 million. These are enormous sums in an impoverished and vulnerable Eastern Europe.

Those foundations say that they are "dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions 
of an open society." What this means in practice is clear from their many fruits. Regarding "women's 
health" programs in Central and Southeastern Europe, for instance, one will look in vain for breast-cancer 
detection or prenatal or postnatal care. Soros' main goal is clear and frankly stated: "to improve the quality 
of abortion services." Accordingly, his Public Health Program has supported the introduction of medical 
abortion in Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia and the introduction of manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) abortion 
in Macedonia, Moldova, and Russia. In addition,

    OSI has also worked with international and local NGOs to respond to the growing 
strength of the antiabortion movement. Through its influence on ministries of health 
and hospital administrators, that movement has made strides in reducing access to 
abortion . . . OSI will continue to support training in quality of care and efforts to 
keep abortion legal, safe, and accessible for all women in the region.

Why is Soros so interested in promoting more abortions in Eastern Europe? Overpopulation cannot 
be the reason: The region is experiencing a colossal demographic collapse and has some of the 
lowest fertility rates in the world. Unavailability of abortion cannot be the answer either: 
According to a recent U.N. report, five European countries had more abortions than live births 
in 2000-the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Belarus, Rumania, and Ukraine. Overall, the report 
said, abortion rates are "substantially higher in central and eastern Europe and the CIS 
countries than in western Europe and North America." The only logical answer is that Soros 
wants as few Russians and others born into this world as possible.

Soros' public-health programs also "support initiatives focusing on the specific health needs of several marginalized communities" and 
promote "harm reduction": "Its primary goal is to empower drug users to protect their health. Needle/syringe exchange and 
substitution therapies (e.g., methadone) are at the center of harm reduction health interventions." His "harm reducers" have 
expanded their work with special initiatives on "sex workers" and prisoners and launched a policy initiative that attempts to ensure 
that "repressive drug policies do not impede the expansion of harm reduction efforts."

Over the past five years, the Soros network has given a successful start to previously nonexistent "gay" activism in almost all of its areas of operation. The campaign for "LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] Rights" is directed from Budapest, where Miriam Molnar's 1999 policy paper published by OSI defined the "problem" as discrimination and the low level of acceptance, visibility, and political representation of LGBT's. It was necessary either "to convince the society to accept LGBT people as equal and let the society make pressure [sic] to the politicians (through media) to change laws" or "to convince the politicians that LGBT people are equal and that they need help in convincing the rest of the society." The overall goals were to generate discussion about LGBT identity within the community, to make them visible and "create a positive image," and to establish regular forums of discussion with other groups in the region. Specific tasks included the development o
f websites in English with subsites in local languages, the establishment of task forces that would react to all "homophobic" media outbursts in one "Pink Book," and the organization of two-week summer schools for teachers that would "provide training about discrimination of [sic] LGBT people, disabled people, overweight people etc."

In November 1999, a pilot project began at the Center for Publishing Development (OSI Budapest) on homosexual books in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, and Slovakia. That same year, Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Center announced that it had been registered as an NGO in the Ukraine. From that moment, the group was free to pursue its stated goals, including "fight against sexual-orientation discrimination" and "homophobic sentiments in societal consciousness" and "assistance to upbringing of gays' and lesbians' self-consciousness as equal and valuable members of society." The group expressed gratitude for its legalization to the "Ukrainian branch of Soros Foundation Network (Renaissance Foundation) which lobbied our question in the Ministry of Justice and render [sic] legal assistance to us."

Gay.ru is a Soros-funded Moscow NGO that has developed "into an established and recognized Russian 
gay and lesbian center" and "the clearing house for lesbian and gay groups scattered across the 
country":

    We keep contacts with all existing gay, lesbian, and AIDS organizations in Russia 
and maintain on-going correspondence and reporting to international gay and lesbian 
organizations . . . We have collected the biggest off-line library that features over 
a hundred Russian titles and some fifty English classic books on gay studies. It was 
greatly enhanced by the Core Collection on Gay and Lesbian Issues awarded to us by the 
Soros Foundation in 2000.

In Bucharest, Monika Barcsy of the local Soros branch bewailed the fact that, in Rumania, "the homosexual identity is 
stigmatized" and is one of the main bases for treating individuals as "the others" in an attitude of 
intolerance. Their families became the victims of prejudice "just because the society is unable to accept the legitimacy 
of same-sex relations as a 'normal' manifestation." The author singles out the Rumanian Orthodox Church as a prime 
culprit: "The problem is that many Christian Orthodox students' organizations and other student groups support the 
church." In 1994, she points out, more than 100 theology students began a series of demonstrations in front of Rumania's 
parliament against homosexual propaganda in the media and collected signatures demanding legislation to criminalize same-sex 
relations. Barcsy concludes by reiterating the standard Soros line:

    Gay men and lesbians need rights that guarantee them the expression of their identity in the 
public sphere . . . [T]he legal status of gays and lesbians, their ability to move and appear in 
public, to speak out and act together should be considered a very good test of the civic 
openness. [It] can't be resolved with the new laws made under the pressure of different human 
rights organizations. Romania needs . . . to ameliorate the negative responses towards the 
homosexuals from the majority population . . . There are "problems" with the society 
as a whole, and the society's mentality can't be changed overnight.

A key pillar of Soros' activities is his dictum that "no-one has a monopoly on the truth" and that "civic education" should replace the 
old "authoritarian" model. Civic education does not have to be "just a dialogue" between a teacher and students, he says; in addition, 
"we have projects like health education, where people use new ways to discuss issues like hygiene, diet, and sex." While "this does not sound 
like traditional civic education," he continues, it is "a new way for teachers to relate to their pupils," just as citizens must relate in 
new ways to governments and elected officials in societies trying to become more open and democratic.

Accordingly, throughout postcommunist Eastern Europe, the Soros Foundation's primary stated goal is to "democratize the education system" by "instituting curriculum reforms." What this means in practice has been demonstrated over the past three years by Serbia's education minister Gaso Knezevic, a friend and confidante of Soros. Since the first day of his tenure, Mr. Knezevic has insisted that schools must be transformed from "authoritarian" institutions into "exercise grounds" for the "unhindered expression of students' personalities in the process of equal-footed interaction with the teaching staff, thus overcoming the obsolete concept of authority and discipline rooted in the oppressive legacy of patriarchal past." Mr. Knezevic started his reform with primary schools, with a pilot program of "educational workshops" for children ages 7 to 12. The accompanying manual, financed by the Open Society, rejects the quaint notion that the purpose of education is the "acquisition
of knowledge" and insists that the teacher has to become the class "designer" and that his relationship with students should be based on "partnership."

In Russia, Soros' associates exercise great control over the selection of textbooks for Russian schools. According to a press release by the Gaidar Youth Library, financial support from the Open Society Institute provided it with computers, videocassettes, and CD's, all of which made "special training" for the children of "underprivileged people" possible in the library:

    We organized a special seminar "Children's rights nowadays" for all specialists who took part in our 
project . . . The working group of the program "The Circle of Friends" is grateful to the "Open 
Society" Institute (Soros Fund, Budapest) for the opportunity to realize this project in a full volume.

In 1999, the Moscow Open Society office started a major five-year project, "The Development of Education in 
Russia." Its goal is to "reeducate rural teachers at a cost of US $100-150 million" (Nezavisimaya 
Gazeta, September 19, 1998). It is also applying a program called "Tolerance" in Russian secondary 
schools, but its masterminds may have made a linguistic blunder. According to a Russian critic of the program,

    The Russian translation of this Latin word-tyerpimost-has the dual meaning of 
prostitution and could be confused with doma tyerpimosti, houses of ill fame . . . How 
come this financial manipulator tries to teach us about tolerance, us who grew up with 
Leo Tolstoy, one of the first philosophers of non-violence? . . . But Mr. Soros is 
also a horribly distorted mirror, which should make us see our own, present image, 
without blinking or turning away. There are times when evil can become an eye-opener, 
when its derisive laughter can waken us up and help regaining our strength. We should 
not miss this opportunity.

A first step in that direction may have been taken last November 7, when the OSI Moscow office was raided by a private security company hired by the owner of the building with whom the foundation was engaged in a protracted legal battle. Only weeks before, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the billionaire oligarch and OSI Moscow executive director who has his own NGO called the Open Russia Foundation, was arrested and charged with tax evasion, theft, forgery, and fraud. Soros denounced the arrest as an act of "persecution" that should disqualify Russia from belonging to the G-8 group of industrialized countries. "I believe that he acted within the constraints of the law. I am doing the same in the United States," said Soros, alluding to his multimillion-dollar donations toward "regime change" in Washington next November. The American press indignantly reported that the raid was directed against a philanthropic organization that had spent "more than $US 1 billion on charitable projects
in Russia in the past 15 years."

"Racism" is Soros' regular obsession, but he faced the potential problem of finding it in racially nondiverse Eastern European countries. This has been resolved by identifying a designated victim group-Gypsies! "Few minority groups in Europe face as much social, economic, and political discrimination as do Romani people," says OSI. Being a "Roma activist" has become a lucrative designation within the community. Seventy of the most promising ones came to the conference "Roma in Expanding Europe: Challenges for the Future," held in Budapest last summer, at which Soros inaugurated a "Decade of Roma Inclusion." The conference offered policy recommendations, some of which could have been written by Jesse Jackson: first, obligatory and free preschool education in desegregated classrooms; second, Romani assistants in the classroom, especially in preschool; third, antibias training for teachers and school administrators; and fourth, integration of Romani history and culture in tex
tbooks at all levels.

Legally mandated affirmative-action programs for Roma in high schools and universities were recommended by the delegations of Rumania and Serbia-Montenegro. On employment, the conference recommended tax incentives for those who employ Roma and access to low-interest credit for small Roma-owned family businesses. The Czech and Slovak delegations also proposed setting aside a percentage of government contracts for Roma construction firms. In the area of housing, specific demands were made to combat "racism and discrimination," including the "legalization" of shantytowns and "equal access" to municipal housing. The conference concluded that combating racial discrimination against Roma must be pursued through the adoption of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation complying with the requirements of the E.U. Race Equality Directive.

The Rumanian delegation demanded that the Bucharest government recognize the Roma 
holocaust by issuing a public apology along with urgent adoption of a reparations 
package. The European Union was asked to make sure that Roma are broadly involved in 
the design, implementation, and evaluation of all E.U. spending on Roma projects.

Soros' "programs" would have been deemed laughable or outrageous in their target countries only a decade 
ago. No one is laughing today, however. For thousands of young Eastern Europeans, to become a "Soroshite" 
represents today what joining the Party represented to their parents: an alluring opportunity to have a reasonably 
paid job, to belong to a privileged elite, and, for many, to travel abroad. The chosen few go to Soros's own Central 
European University in Budapest, where they are taught that affirming a scientifically grounded truth is 
"totalitarian" and that the sovereign nation-state is evil.

There is not one patriot (Russian, Croat, Latvian, Serb, Rumanian, Hungarian) or one practicing 
Christian on Soros' payroll. In all postcommunist countries, Soros relies on the sons and 
daughters of the old communist establishment, who are less likely to be tainted by any atavistic 
attachments to their native soil, culture, and traditions. The more successful among them-and 
the most loyal-may spend years drifting from one "project" to another, and some have 
been living that way for more than a decade. Soros has revealed (in Underwriting Democracy) that 
his Open Society foundations will help create an international web, at the heart of which will 
be the computerized base of personal data that will enable Western multinationals to find the 
local candidates they need.

These new janissaries, just like those of the Ottoman army of old, have to prove their 
credentials by being more zealous than the master himself; as the Balkan proverb has it, "a 
convert is worse than a Turk." Nobody is more insanely vehement in his insults against the 
Serbian people and their history, religion, art, and suffering than a dozen Serb-born columnists 
who are on the payroll of Sonja Licht, Soros' Gauleiter in Belgrade.

Hoi polloi are force-fed the daily fare of OSI agitprop by "the Soros media"-the term 
now exists in over a dozen languages-from the Gazeta Wyborcza in Warsaw to Danas (Today) in 
Serbia, the Monitor in Montenegro, the Markiza TV channel in Bratislava, and Vreme weekly and 
the B-92 electronic media conglomerate in Belgrade. They invariably parrot Soros' views and 
ambitions, reflected by the agenda of the local Soros foundation at home and, in world affairs, 
by the International Crisis Group (ICG), largely financed by Soros and run by his appointees.

Soros' agenda in world affairs is clear from the fact that his appointees include Gen. 
Wesley Clark, who commanded NATO forces in the war against Serbia in 1999; Louise 
Arbour, the former chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal at The Hague; 
former assistant secretary of state Morton Abramowitz, an enthusiastic supporter of 
Bosnian Muslims and Albanians in the wars of Yugoslav succession; and former national 
security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, whose visceral Russophobia aided and abetted the 
rise of Osama bin Laden and his jihadist cohorts.

As Gilles d'Aymery noted two years ago, Soros is not just the power behind the Open 
Society Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the National Endowment for Democracy, 
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Crisis Group:

    [L]ike an immense Jules Verne octopus, [he] 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.

That polity will not be "American" in any recognizable sense if Soros has his way, however. 
Here, he supports increased government spending and tax increases, drug legalization, euthanasia, open 
borders and immigration, immigrant entitlements, feminism, free abortion on demand, affirmative action, 
and "gay" rights. He opposes the death penalty in any circumstance. One of the trustees of OSI 
is Lani Guinier, the law professor whom Bill Clinton tried to nominate as head of the civil-rights 
division of the Department of Justice but changed his mind when she was found to favor minority veto power 
over legislation. Its president is Aryeh Neier, who had for 12 years been executive director of the 
Soros-funded Human Rights Watch and, before that, national director of the American Civil Liberties Union 
for eight years.

That he is anti-Bush is unremarkable, but Soros' statement last December that the defeat of the 
President is "a matter of life and death" was silly. His largesse to Bush's 
foes-although substantial-does not reflect the stated urgency of the moment: $15 million for 
America Coming Together; $3 million for John Podesta's new think tank; and $2.5 million for 
MoveOn.org falls far short of a month's cost of running his many foundations around the world.

Soros remains primarily committed to destroying the remaining bastions of the family, 
sovereign nationhood, and Christian Faith east of the Trieste-Stettin line. He senses 
that his full-throttle intervention in America is not necessary, because things are 
gradually going his way anyway. No matter who is his party's anointed candidate come 
next November, the real choice will be between George and Gyorgy, and that is not much 
of a choice.

Chronicles' foreign-affairs editor Srdja Trifkovic is the author of The Sword of the Prophet: Islam-History, Theology, Impact on the World.




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