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"Belgradesi, il cancro bussa anche alle vostre porte"

Ogni tanto l'ANSA segnala notizie relative all'inquinamento in
Serbia. Solo di rado, e generalmente solo nelle ultime righe dei
dispacci ed in forma "scettica", essa ricorda che "ulteriori effetti
negativi sulla salute pubblica sono stati attribuiti (sic) alle
conseguenze dei bombardamenti contro gli impianti cittadini compiuti
dalla Nato nel 1999 durante la guerra per il Kosovo". Qualche
giornalista ANSA, come il pessimo Logroscino, è poi particolarmente
zelante nel "riduzionismo" su quei fatti del 1999, ed anzi fa di
tutto per spostare le responsabilità, ex post e lavorando molto di
fantasia, sul solito "regime Milosevic" quando non addirittura sul
vecchio Stato jugoslavo.
Una più attenta analisi dei fatti dovrebbe però immediatamente
mettere in evidenza che anche le cronache attuali, di nuovi incidenti
e nuovi fenomeni acuti di inquinamento dell'ambiente, sono tra le
conseguenze di medio termine proprio del lungo lavoro di
disgregazione e di demolizione economica, industriale e sociale della
Jugoslavia, e di una "Guerra Umanitaria" i cui responsabili sono
tuttora impuniti.

Sugli effetti di quei bombardamenti - specialmente quelli sul
petrolchimico di Pancevo, di cui si parla anche più sotto -
ricordiamo la documentazione raccolta alla pagina: https://www.cnj.it/
24MARZO99/criminale.htm

(a cura di Orsola e Andrea)


1) Novembre 2006: PANCEVO: INQUINAMENTO, CHIUSURA TEMPORANEA IMPIANTO
PETROLCHIMICO

2) Octobre 2006: Marée noire sur le Danube

3) Luglio 2006: SERBIA: CANCRO, TORNA POLEMICA SU EFFETTI RAID NATO

4) June 2006: Seven years since end of NATO bombing, estimated total
damages to be about 29.6 billion dollars
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PANCEVO: INQUINAMENTO, CHIUSURA TEMPORANEA IMPIANTO PETROLCHIMICO

BELGRADO -Il ministro dell'ambiente della Serbia, Aleksandar Popovic,
ha annunciato la chiusura temporanea degli impianti petrolchimici
della "Petrohemija", nella città industriale di Pancevo, non lontano
da Belgrado (circa 20 km), teatro questa settimana di una ennesima
fuga di scorie inquinanti. La decisione, accompagnata dall'apertura
di una inchiesta giudiziaria, è stata resa nota dal ministro a
margine di un incontro con una rappresentanza dei circa mille
cittadini di Pancevo che oggi hanno protestato a Belgrado, dinanzi
alla sede del governo serbo, contro l'emergenza ambientale in cui
sono costretti a vivere da molti anni. Una emergenza che si traduce
in un tasso di incidenza di tumori, tra i 100.000 abitanti della
località, fra i più alti dell'intera ex Jugoslavia. La protesta,
guidata dal sindaco Srdjan Mikovic, s'è svolta pacificamente. I
dimostranti, preceduti da una croce su cui era affissa l'iscrizione
'Pancevo', avevano maschere protettive sulla bocca e mostravano
cartelli su cui si poteva leggere: ''Belgradesi, il cancro bussa
anche alle vostre porte''. Poi c'è stato l'incontro con il ministro,
il quale ha ricordato il recente stanziamento di 27 milioni di euro
per l'ammodernamento del petrolchimico, ammettendo tuttavia che
l'impianto - una vecchia struttura paleoindustriale jugoslava tuttora
di proprietà pubblica - resta in larga parte obsoleto. Popovic ha
promesso inoltre rigore nelle indagini avviate sul management della
fabbrica, sospettato di aver violato le norme minime di sicurezza,
mentre gli animatori della protesta hanno chiesto una immediata
riunione straordinaria del governo a Pancevo dedicata alla questione
ecologica.
Sede di diverse vecchie industrie inquinanti jugoslave, Pancevo è
tornata in questi giorni agli 'onori' della cronaca per una nuova
fuoriuscita di benzene e zolfo dal petrolchimico registrata alcuni
notti fa. Un incidente non insolito per la città e che questa volta
ha fatto aumentare il livello di contaminazione dell'aria fino a 12
volte oltre la soglia considerata di sicurezza dalla normativa
vigente. Il rischio di una catastrofe ambientale definitiva a Pancevo
è stato evocato a più riprese negli ultimi anni. Secondo gli esperti
serbi, l'inquinamento nella zona è ormai endemico, mentre ulteriori
effetti negativi sulla salute pubblica sono stati attribuiti alle
conseguenze dei bombardamenti contro gli impianti cittadini compiuti
dalla Nato nel 1999 durante la guerra per il Kosovo.
(ANSA).LR
17/11/2006 18:00

(segnalato da Sergio Coronica)


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http://balkans.courriers.info/article7099.html

POLITIKA

Marée noire sur le Danube

TRADUIT PAR PERSA ALIGRUDIC
Publié dans la presse : 5 octobre 2006
Mise en ligne : vendredi 6 octobre 2006

Une nappe de pétrole, qui s’étend sur 140 km de long et 150 mètres de
large, descend le long du Danube. En cause : une avarie sur le site
serbe de Prahova. La compagnie Nafta Industrija de Serbie (NIS) doit
prendre des mesures immédiates afin d’empêcher la pollution du fleuve
et de procéder à l’assainissement. Mais la Roumanie est furieuse
contre la Serbie, qui ne l’a pas informée à temps de la pollution.

Par N.K.

Le ministère de l’Agriculture de Serbie a communiqué que l’écoulement
d’une nappe de pétrole dans le Danube était la conséquence d’une
avarie sur le site de NIS à Prahova. L’inspection agricole de la
République a constaté que la panne se situait au niveau « du
séparateur des installations de chargement où une certaine quantité
de pétrole et autres matières huileuses s’est écoulée dans le Danube
». La nappe de pétrole s’étend sur 140 kilomètres de long et 150
mètres de large et elle est déjà parvenue en Roumanie et en Bulgarie.

Les représentants et les experts de la Commission hydrotechnique
serbo-roumaine ont convenu de procéder conjointement à un constat sur
le territoire roumain, depuis la centrale « Djerdap I » jusqu’au
confluent du Timok et du Danube, car deux sortes de polluants ont été
observées : le mazout et le pétrole.

L’inspection des eaux, en commun avec les représentants de l’Institut
de météorologie de la République, continueront de suivre l’état du
courant du fleuve, en procédant à l’échantillonnage et au contrôle de
la qualité de l’eau.

Le directeur des Eaux de Serbie, Nikola Marjanovic a déclaré à B92
que « l’avarie de Prahova a été réparée, il n’y a plus de fuite
depuis lundi ». « Cependant, le problème réside dans le fait que des
dégâts ont été causés dans les installations, ce qui représente de
grosses sommes d’argent à débourser pour les réparations et un danger
écologique » a-t-il souligné.

Etant donné que la nappe de pétrole à tendance à s’étendre, elle est
arrivée mardi matin jusqu’à Vidin, et les autorités bulgares ont
adressé un avertissement à leurs citoyens de ne pas utiliser l’eau du
Danube.

La ministre roumaine de la Protection de l’environnement, Sulfina
Barbu, a adressé une lettre au ministre serbe de l’Agriculture, des
Eaux et des Forêts, Goran Zivkov, par laquelle elle accuse la Serbie
de ne pas avoir informé la Roumanie du problème de pollution du Danube.

Sur un ton corroucé, la Roumanie reproche à la Serbie de ne pas avoir
informé les autorités roumaines de la pollution, ainsi que le
prévoient les conventions internationales signées par ces deux pays,
ce qui aurait permis de prendre les mesures nécessaires en temps voulu.

Comme le communique le ministère roumain pour l’Environnement dans sa
lettre, la Serbie est aussi accusée « de ne pas être intervenue pour
remédier aux conséquences de pollution ». Le ministère souligne
également que « c’est la troisième fois que la partie roumaine n’est
pas informée de la pollution du Danube ».


Vos commentaires :
> Marée noire sur le Danube (par Sandu le 9 octobre 2006)
Environnement : la Roumanie aidera au nettoyage du Danube

Une fuite accidentelle s’est produite lundi dernier au dépôt de
stockage de la compagnie pétrolière Jupoteprol, à Prahovo, une ville
située le long des côtes du Danube, près de la frontière de la Serbie
avec la Roumanie et la Bulgarie.

Des centaines de tonnes de pétrole ont été versées dans le Danube
suite à une fissure apparue à un conduit. La nappe de pétrole est
longue de 300 mètres et large de 50 mètres, ont précisé les autorités
serbes, Bucarest indiquant qu’elle s’était fractionnée en raison du
fort débit du fleuve. Le gouvernement roumain a décidé samedi de
fournir à la Bulgarie voisine du matériel pour l’aider à éliminer la
pollution due à la nappe de pétrole.

Dans le cadre d’un accord de donation signé par le ministre roumain
de l’Environnement et de la gestion des eaux, Sulfina Barbu, la
Roumanie fera don de 6,5 tonnes de matériel absorbant et d’une digue
flottante de 200 mètres d’une valeur totale de 50 000 euros (63 500
dollars américains).

Par ailleurs, la Roumanie reproche à la Serbie de ne pas avoir
informé les autorités roumaines de la pollution, ainsi que le
prévoient les conventions internationales signées par ces deux pays,
ce qui aurait permis de prendre les mesures nécessaires en temps voulu.



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SERBIA: CANCRO, TORNA POLEMICA SU EFFETTI RAID NATO /ANSA

(di Alessandro Logroscino) (ANSA) - BELGRADO, 13 LUG - Cento nuovi
casi di cancro in piu' ogni anno solo a Pancevo, cittadina
industriale di 120.000 abitanti non lontana da Belgrado. Lo rivela
una delle statistiche piu' recenti, ma non delle piu' allarmistiche,
sul deterioramento della salute dei serbi. Un fenomeno che riaccende
periodicamente le polemiche sulle possibili cause, messe in relazione
almeno in parte da specialisti e media locali con le conseguenze
inquinanti dei bombardamenti Nato del 1999. E magari con l'uranio
impoverito. A riprendere il tema e' oggi il Belgrade Times, neonato
settimanale in lingua inglese pubblicato in Serbia. A sette anni
dalla fine dei raid aerei decisi dall'Alleanza atlantica per
scacciare le forze di repressione dell'allora regime di Slobodan
Milosevic dalla provincia ribelle a maggioranza albanese del Kosovo,
la questione resta d'attualita', scrive il giornale. In particolare a
Pancevo, dove fra aprile e giugno del '99 gli 'ordigni intelligenti'
americani ed europei colpirono a piu' riprese i vecchi impianti
industriali jugoslavi e la grande raffineria della citta': con la
conseguente diffusione di migliaia di tonnellate di agenti chimici
nocivi nell'aria, ricorda la gente del posto, e l'incendio di 80.000
tonnellate di greggio, parzialmente riversatesi poi nel Danubio miste
a scorie di etilene, vinil-cloride, mercurio e altri veleni. Di
sostanze cancerogene diffuse dalle ciminiere bombardate nell'aria e
nell'acqua si continua a parlare anche nella zona di Kraguievac,
roccaforte operaista dell'era titina e tuttora sede di impianti
chimici oltre che della Zastava, storica industria metallurgica
balcanica: pure li' si denuncia un incremento esponenziale dei tumori
e di altre malattie che molti imputano all'inquinamento del fiume
locale, la Lepenica. Un corso d'acqua contaminato da decenni, ma le
cui condizioni - si dice - sono ulteriormente peggiorate per gli
effetti a medio termine dei residui di metalli pesanti, diossine e
altri agenti tossici fuoriusciti dalle fabbriche colpite nel 1999. La
lettura dei dati sanitari resta controversa, cosi' come il presunto
ruolo dei proiettili a uranio impoverito. Alcune commissioni
internazionali hanno provato a fare luce negli ultimi anni, ma senza
riuscire a raggiungere conclusioni unanimi. Mentre gli esperti della
Nato seguitano a negare che le bombe possano essere state il fattore
scatenante di disastri medico-ecologici (e che quindi spetti all'
Occidente far fronte finanziariamente alla bonifica). A loro
giudizio, quei raid erano pienamente giustificati sul piano etico-
legale e i danni provocati furono ''accettabilmente'' contenuti sotto
il profilo del diritto internazionale di guerra. Le colpe
dell'asserita contaminazione, si sostiene a Bruxelles, vanno
addebitate piuttosto allo scarso livello di attenzione all'impatto
ambientale dell'obsoleta struttura industriale ex jugoslava. Una
tesi, nota Belgrade Times, contestata da studiosi e giornalisti serbi
e dalle stesse autorita' sanitarie dei governi post-Milosevic di
Belgrado, ma anche da un rapporto dell' Institute for Energy and
Enviromental Research, un think tank ecologista statunitense secondo
cui le bombe sganciate nel '99 su diversi impianti sensibili
rappresentarono una ''violazione del diritto umanitario
internazionale'' ed esposero la popolazione civile a gravi rischi per
la salute attraverso ''l'inquinamento dell'aria, dell'acqua e del
cibo''. I responsabili della clinica oncologica di Pancevo confermano
da parte loro all'Ansa che dopo il 2000 il numero delle nuove
diagnosi di cancro e' cresciuto in citta' di circa ''100 casi
all'anno'': fino a sfiorare nel 2005 quota 500, con una prevalenza di
tumori ai polmoni e al seno. Un'accelerazione, ammettono i medici,
della quale e' difficile individuare con esattezza le cause ultime,
ma che in qualche misura sembra davvero correlabile con l'azione
militare di sette anni fa. Sulla medesima lunghezza d'onda e' la
giornalista Radmila Vulic, che ha condotto diverse inchieste
sull'argomento per conto del quotidiano locale Pancevac. ''L'aumento
dei casi di cancro e' un fatto'', osserva Vulic, dicendosi convinta
che si tratti ''dell'effetto combinato delle esalazioni prodotte
dalla raffineria, ma pure delle conseguenze dei raid Nato''. ''In
fondo, quei raid - conclude - sono stati l'unico elemento nuovo
recente comune a tutte le aree colpite dal fenomeno: e hanno generato
una contaminazione di fiumi, suolo e falde i cui contraccolpi nel
lungo periodo nessuno sa prevedere''. (ANSA). LR
13/07/2006 15:09


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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?
yyyy=2006&mm=06&dd=09&nav_category=91&nav_id=35250

B92/Beta (Serbia and Montenegro) - June 9, 2006

Seven years since end of NATO bombing


BELGRADE - The NATO-led bombing of Yugoslavia came to
an end on this day seven years ago.
The Yugoslav Army and NATO signed the Kumanovski
Agreement which ended the campaign of air attacks.
This was immediately followed by Slobodan Milosevic
proclaiming victory over the allied forces.
The agreement was signed in Macedonia by NATO General
Michael Jackson and deputy chief of the Yugoslav
Military’s Supreme Command, Svetozar Marjanoviæ.
“A peace agreement was signed. The war has ended. The
politics of peace which Yugoslavia leads have
prevailed, as has its president Slobodan Milosevic.”
Marjanoviæ said then.
The Yugoslav Army pulled out of Kosovo after the
signing of a UN resolution and the first international
forces enter the territory of Kosovo from Macedonia on
June 12, 1999.
The troops of KFOR numbered about 37,200, with
soldiers from 36 nations, 30,000 of which were from
NATO member countries.
The attacks lasted eleven weeks and, according to
various estimates, in between 1,200 and 2,500 people
were killed.
Many buildings, businesses, schools, health centres,
media headquarters and cultural monuments were
severely damaged or destroyed. A group of economists
from the G17 Plus party has estimated the total
damages to be about 29.6 billion dollars.

POLIZIA ED ESERCITO CROATI IN PELLEGRINAGGIO A LOURDES


Najvece hodocasce HV-a i policije u Lourdes

Vise od 1300 pripadnika Hrvatske vojske i policije, Ministrastva branitelja, predstavnika udruga proizaslih iz Domovinskog rata i hrvatskogvatrogastva poslo je jucer na 14. hrvatsko vojno-redarstveno hodocasce u francusko svetiste Lourdes. Uoci polaska na hodocasce, kako bi prisustvovali 48. medjunardnom vojnom hodocascu u tom poznatom marijanskom svetistu...

 

Il più grande pellegrinaggio dell'esercito e polizia croata a Lourdes 

 

Più di 1.300 appartenenti all'Esercito croato e alla polizia, al Ministero dei difensori (sic, ndCNJ), rappresentanti delle varie organizzazioni derivate dalla guerra (cosiddetta, ndCNJ) Patriottica e pompieri, sono andati a Lourdes per il 14-esimo pellegrinaggio militare croato e per partecipare al 48-esimo pelegrinaggio militare internazionale in questo rinomato santuario mariano...
Il vicario militare, Juraj Jezerinac, ha condotto la celebrazione di partenza nella chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Zagabria. "Se la religione cristiana (leggi cattolica, ndCNJ), che è senz'altro la  forza morale più grande, fosse estirpata dal mondo, sarebbe difficile immaginare lo sviluppo del mondo ed anche l'esistenza stessa di esso", ha detto, tra l'altro, salutando i soldati ed i poliziotti croati, l'ordinario militare Juraj Jezerinac...

(Fonte: "Metro express - Istra" della scorsa estate; segnalato da Ivan)



(english / italiano)

George Soros non ha ancora finito di fare danni

Il sollievo per la sconfitta elettorale di Bush alle recenti elezioni parlamentari USA è durato poco. Infatti, subito ci è giunta la notizia della ventilata candidatura del criminale di guerra Wesley Clark per i Democratici alle presidenziali 2008. Clark, che diresse la aggressione della NATO contro la RF di Jugoslavia, ha ricevuto 75mila dollari di... sottoscrizione dal magnate George Soros, finanziatore della disinformazione strategica su scala globale e regista della destabilizzazione in tanti paesi invisi al regime statunitense.
Speriamo di poter credere a Soros quando dice che "per il futuro" non intende più occuparsi di politica. Magari però continuerà ad occuparsene ed a fare danni, anche semplicemente canalizzando i suoi investimenti miliardari verso media ed intellettuali al servizio dei pre-potenti.  (a cura di Italo Slavo)

1) October 2006: George Soros Backs Wesley Clark for President
OTTOBRE 2006: 75 MILIONI DI DOLLARI DA SOROS A W. CLARK

2) April 2005: Soros Foundation Given $30 Million by US Government
APRILE 2005: 30 MILIONI DAL GOVERNO USA A GEORGE SOROS

3) February 2003: Georgia, Labor Party against ‘Sorosization’ of Supreme Court
FEBBRAIO 2005: SOROS SI COMPRA LA GEORGIA (QUELLA DEL CAUCASO...)

4) 2003: A profile of George Soros, by Neil Clark 
RETROSPETTIVA SU GEORGE SOROS

ALTRI LINK:

George Soros, Ted Turner Pay for Journalism Prizes (by Cliff Kincaid)

Soros To 'Democratize' Moldova

Tajik Administration Complains about Soros (by Cihan Dushanbe)

Preemptive Anti-Coup Moves: Central Asian Nations Thwart Soros Foundation

Central Asia Speaks: SOROS Falls from Grace in Central Asia

Kyrgyzstan Prepares for Elections: Soros Tells Kyrgyz President To Step Down

NUMEROSI ARTICOLI SU SOROS SONO STATI FATTI CIRCOLARE SU JUGOINFO NEGLI SCORSI ANNI: PROVATE CON UNA RICERCA TESTUALE NEL NOSTRO ARCHIVIO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/messages


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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/10/16/95749.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2714-1

Monday, Oct. 16, 2006 9:55 a.m. EDT


George Soros Backs Wesley Clark for President


In late September billionaire investor George Soros – who spent more than $25 million in an attempt to defeat President Bush in 2004 – said he was resolved to stay out of politics in the future.

But before declaring that he was leaving the political stage, Soros contributed $75,000 to former four-star general Wesley Clark, who is poised to mount a bid for the White House in 2008.

The donation came to light in a report filed with the Internal Revenue Service on Oct. 15. The gift, given to a political group led by Clark, is the largest known gift from Soros this year to a political organization affiliated with a contender for the presidency, according to the New York Sun.

"In the future, I’d very much like to get disengaged from politics,” Soros said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting in New York in September.



=== 2 ===


Soros Foundation Given $30 Million by US Government

By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
April 25, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - The Open Society Institute, a private foundation controlled by liberal billionaire and political activist George Soros, received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies between 1998 and 2003. Last year, Soros donated at least $20 million of his own money to such liberal groups as Moveon.org, in a failed attempt to block the re-election of President George W. Bush.

Tax records the Open Society Institute (OSI) is required to file with the Internal Revenue Service list "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES" as "Contributors" of amounts between $4.6 million and $8.9 million over a six year period:

    * 1998 - $4,611,617

    * 2000 - $4,934,678

    * 2001 - $5,869,809

    * 2002 - $6,138,125

    * 2003 - $8,889,802

The amounts total $30,454,031. Records from 1999 and 2004 were not immediately available.

Cybercast News Service asked OSI to provide a detailed list of its funding from U.S. government agencies, the records from 1999 and 2004 and an explanation of how the money has been spent. The foundation did not reply to multiple requests for the information.

In an online document entitled Building Donor Partnerships [http://www.osi.hu/partnerships/2_4.html], OSI explains how its various subsidiaries, called "national foundations," can get funding and other support from the governments in their home nations:

    * Public financing can be used to co-fund, expand or ensure sustainability of programs initiated by the national foundation.

    * When a government cannot provide funds, it can allocate land, use of facilities, media time or staff to a donor partnership.

    * Governments can waive or reduce taxes and duties for efforts of the Soros foundations.

    * Governments can publicize the programs or requests of the national foundation through official channels, often at no charge.

OSI has apparently applied this strategy in the U.S., as well. The foundation received 1.4 to 4.4 percent of its annual contributions between 1998 and 2003 from American taxpayer funding. Various State Department documents indicate that OSI has been paid to run what the department describes as "democratization programs" in a number of countries.

"The Open Society Institute receives funding from the United States," a State Department press statement [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/31765.htm] declared, "and has spent close to $22 million in Uzbekistan in order to help build a vibrant civil society."

Another report [http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rpt/burma/26017.htm] explained that "The United States also supports organizations, such as ... the Open Society Institute ... working inside and outside the (Burmese) region on a broad range of democracy promotion activities."

A State Department Fact Sheet [http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/15560.htm] also described "an HIV/AIDS prevention program carried out jointly with the Open Society Institute and Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation that targets high-risk populations" in Central Asia. The website of the U.S. Agency for International Development also lists numerous projects conducted in cooperation with OSI.

On the "About Us" page of its website, the Soros-controlled foundation explains that it exists "to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights and economic, legal and social reform."

Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), told Cybercast News Service that any seemingly positive activities Soros-controlled groups engage in should be kept in perspective.

"Congress should keep in mind that this is the same organization that supports numerous hard-left radical activities in the United States and abroad," Boehm said. "The Open Society Institute gave $20,000 to the defense fund for Lynne Stewart, (who was) accused of working with the terrorists who planned the original World Trade Center attack."

Boehm said the numerous left of center political activities supported by OSI include "drug legalization efforts, pro-abortion policies and numerous other controversial causes." OSI tax records show contributions of:

    * $4.41 million to the American Civil Liberties Union and its state affiliates,

    * $500,000 to the Pro-Choice Education Project to launch a (pro-abortion rights) "public education and media strategy,"
    * $100,000 to the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization that works against capital punishment,

    * $100,000 to Catholics for a Free Choice, a religious group that advocates for abortion rights,

    * $100,000 to the Pennsylvania Coalition to Save Lives Now "to support needle exchange programs,"

    * $80,000 over three years to the Gay Straight Alliance Network, to promote "a traveling photo documentary exhibit by lesbian, gay, transgender, queer and questioning youth,"

    * $45,000 to the Democracy Matters Institute "to bring the campaign finance reform movement to college campuses,"
    * $50,000 to the Coalition for an International Criminal Court "to promote education, awareness and acceptance of the International Criminal Court," and

    * $35,000 to the Abortion Access Project.

Boehm also criticized taxpayer dollars going to the Soros-controlled entity, because of the overt, partisan political activities Soros supports.

"George Soros also has been the 'Daddy Warbucks' of numerous left-wing political campaigns in the past year," Boehm said.

As Cybercast News Service previously reported [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/Archive/200402/POL20040224b.html], Soros pledged millions of dollars from his own estimated $7 billion personal fortune to the failed efforts to derail President Bush's re-election bid through various tax-exempt political action committees such as MoveOn.org. Boehm described the expenditures as "the height of hypocrisy.

"Soros has bankrolled the groups that have lobbied for limits on political giving and for disclosure," Boehm said [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/Archive/200501/POL20050119a.html]. "But he apparently believes that the law should only apply to other people, and not to himself."

Asked about the seemingly contradictory spending, Soros was unapologetic.

"I am not violating either the letter of the law or the spirit," he said before the 2004 election in an interview with Time magazine. "The letter, because the institutions that I'm supporting were there before I started supporting them, the spirit, because campaign-finance regulation has been designed to deny access to special interests, and by supporting these organizations, I gain no access."

On Jan. 18, 2005, NLPC filed a 41-page complaint against Soros with the Federal Election Commission. Boehm said at the time that Soros' multi-city, anti-Bush media tour was "possibly the largest off-the-books independent expenditure ever run."

"It's especially important that the FEC look at it, because it occurred the month before a very close election in key swing states," Boehm said. "Disclosure is the absolute heart of campaign finance law, and Soros' anti-Bush campaign could have potentially shifted the outcome of the presidential election."

Neither that allegation, nor any other formal complaint has accused Soros' Open Society Institute of using taxpayer funding to pay for anti-Bush political activities. Soros continues to deny any wrongdoing.

Regardless, Boehm believes the combination of Soros' left leaning ideology and partisan political involvement should make the federal government reconsider funding any organization he controls.

"It's hard to believe the State Department couldn't find a more credible organization to carry out these projects. There usually is not a shortage of non-governmental institutions seeking taxpayer money," Boehm concluded. "Selecting a group led by someone with such a strong political agenda, and which funds so many controversial ideological activities, is, well, short sighted."

Multiple calls to the State Department and United States Agency for International Development, which have both funded OSI, were not returned.


=== 3 ===


Daily Georgian Times - February 21, 2005

Labor Party against ‘Sorosization’ of Supreme Court

Georgian Labor Party protests against appointment of
Kote Kublashvili as Chairman of Georgian Supreme Court
and speaks about ‘Soros-ization’ of the Court.
Party activists held a protest rally in front of the
Supreme Court building on Monday showing Party’s
negative attitude towards Kublashvili.
Labor party leader Giorgi Gugava stated that by
appointing Kote Kublashvili as Chairman of Georgian
Supreme Court, Mr. George Soros has actually become
the Court’s Chairman. They say that Kublashvili is a
longstanding Soros affiliate and he was a person
distributing Soros’s money among Georgian authorities.


=== 4 ===

New Statesman (London)

www.newstatesman.co.uk

Monday, June 02, 2003

Profile - George Soros

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 emigre and
philosopher-pundit who stands detached from the US military-industrial
complex. But take a look at the board members of the NGOs he organises
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,  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".

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 defence 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
defence 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 skilfully 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  colonisation by global capital.
Soros   now   claims,  with  characteristic  immodesty,  that  he  was
responsible for the "Americanisation" 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 organisation
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
protege  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 programmes
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 classic
Soros agenda of privatisation and economic liberalisation - leading to
a widening gap between rich and poor.

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 legalisation 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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CUDNI  OSLOBODIOCI

Militarizam, razaranje i profitiranje

Fort Loderdejl, 2006: Veoma je uznemirujuće ono sto Gregori Ilić iznosi u knjizi "Čudni oslobodioci", počev od ratova i sankcija pa sve do pljačke od strane korporacija i do preteće klimatske promene. Ova knjiga je neophodan izvor za  razumevanje današnjeg sveta. Tu je prikazana spoljna politika SAD kako je vide oni koji snose njene posledice.

Sa uvodom Majkla Parenti i pogovorom od Mikija Z.

 


 

Dobro obavešteni Amerikanci znaju o intervencijama sopstvene države u Vijetnamu,na Kubi,u Afganistanu,Iraku i drugde. Znaju za povrede medjunarodnog prava,za nepravde,za laži i za štetu prouzrokovanu ovim akcijama. Ali o slučaju Jugoslavije obično ne znaju šta da misle. Ili, što je još gore, u tom slučaju podržavaju "humanitarnu intervenciju". Ova velika zabluda i iskrivljavanje istorije su ispravljeni u ovoj knjizi. To je jedan medju mnogim razlozima zbog kojih valja pročitati ovu knjigu.

Vilijam Blum, pisac- "Ubiti svaku nadu" i Razbojnička država".


Gregori Ilić je uzoran novinar-istraživač, koji pripada anti-imperijalističkoj levici. On je uporan, temeljan, pronicljiv, precizan i, iznad svega, beskompromisan. O Jugoslaviji, Severnoj Koreji, Zimbabve-u, i Iraku niko nije kopao dublje od njega, ni otkrio više.

Stiven Gauans, politički komentator


Koristeći obilje istoriskih podataka i prodornu analizu, temeljno istraživanje i ispitivanje svedoka, Gregori Ilić tretira "teške slučajeve": Jugoslaviju, Hrvatsku, Zimbabve, severnu Koreju, i izvesna nedodirnuta pitanja o Iraku, upravo teme koje su u najpotunijem stepenu iskrivljeno predstavljene od strane medija, pa čak i od strane političkih komentatora i aktivista koji tvrde da su levičari. Ilić nijednom rečju ne odaje poštu dominantnoj ideologiji. Umesto toga on se drži strašnih činjenica i jarkih, zaslepljujućih istina koje pretstavljaju suštinu američke globalne imperije. On povezuje svoje studije temeljno istraženih pojedinačnih slučajeva sa širim pitanjima američke spoljne politike, sa pitanjima rata i mira,  i sa opštom krizom sa kojom se suočava celo čovečanstvo i ekologija same planete. Time je Ilić učinio vrlo značajnu uslugu ljudima svih političkih orientacija.

Majkl Parenti, pisac- "Borba na kulturnom polju", "Ubistvo Julija Cezara",
"Uništavanje jedne nacije".


Gregori Ilić daje vrlo jasnu i važnu analizu ciljeva privatnih interesa i njihove tajne sprege sa Bušovom administracijom u prikrivanju niza raznih opasnosti, od rata do globalnog zagrevanja. Naučnici, istraživači i široka publika zainteresovana za spoljnu politiku SAD naći će da je ova knjiga vrlo značajna i da rasvetljava savremena zbivanja.

Lenora Ferstel, potpretsednica udruženja  "Žene za uzajamnu bezbednost" i autor- "Suočavanje sa nasledjem Margaret Mid"


Gregori Ilić se posvetio veštom otkrivanju i širenju onih informacija koje obično ostaju neizrečene. On nam pruža dobro ispitane fundamentalne činjenice koje ne treba da očekujemo da ćemo naći u novinama ili na televiziji. Drugim rečima, Ilić nas uči da identifikujemo ona ključna mesta gde se ograničava naša sloboda mišljenja.

Miki Z., pisac- "Sedam glavnih propagandnih trikova" i "50 američkih revolucija o kojima nisu hteli da vam govore".


Godinama se Gregori Ilić ističe kao novinar-istoričar koji spaja književni dar sa talentom za otkrivanje tekućih, dobro čuvanih obaveštajnih tajni. U ovom krajnje zlokobnom vremenu moderne istorije strašno je malo savremenih pisaca koji ne prave nikakve kompromise sa istinom. Ova se knjiga u tom pogledu ističe, i njen pisac pripada izuzetnoj vrsti.

Luis Vulf, izdavač časopisa "Tajne aktivnosti"


O autoru:
Gregori Ilić je član upravnog odbora Istraživačkog Instituta o Jasenovcu i Savetodavnog odbora Komisije za istinu o Koreji. Njegovi su se članci pojavili u novinama i časopisima širom sveta, uključujući SAD, Kanadu, Jugoslaviju, Južnu Koreju, Veliku Britaniju, Francusku, Zimbabve, Rusiju, Dansku i Australiju.

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Militarism, Mayhem and the Pursuit of Profit
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Militarism, Mayhem, and the Pursuit of Profit

By Gregory Elich
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