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By Sputnik news staff
Sputniknews
Sunday, Apr 17, 2016
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American political
scientist Phil Butler digs into the details of how George Soros' Open
Society Foundations have permeated, or as he puts it, 'infected', the
nations of the former Soviet Union from the Baltics to the Caucasus.
Studying
the machinations of 'democracy promotion' activist billionaire magnate
George Soros in a pair of articles for New Eastern Outlook, Butler
offers a detailed account of how Soros' "American brand of Lebensraum"
has worked to conquer the hearts and minds of political and intellectual
elites, and those of ordinary people, across the former Soviet space.
Latvia: An Experiment in Social Manipulation
The small Baltic nation of Latvia, the analyst recalls,
was one of the first nations in Eastern Europe to become entangled
in the web spun by Soros and his allies, becoming "a sort of
'conversion' template, a kind of Soros new world order experiment."
Established in 1992, immediately after the collapse of the USSR, Soros
Foundation Latvia soon came to have enormous reach in virtually every
sphere of education, law, and society.
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"It was at this time [that] George Soros began funding academia down to
the grade school level. Then in 1994 Soros initiatives engaged students
at Latvian universities with enticements like study abroad, and later
the grant system of 'encouragements' for students." Other initiatives
included the publication of philosophical works and textbooks, and even
funding for the arts, via the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts.
"In 1995, Soros' money was injected to influence Latvia's judicial
system, through the creation of the Latvian Judicial Training Center.
This was a crucial bit of strategy, [with] Soros linking the American
Bar Association with a fledgling nation's academic progress toward the
rule of law. At the same time Soros funding helped establish an NGO
Center, where government employees could receive language training
for free." In 1998, Soros stood behind the creation of the Riga Graduate
School of Law.
Ultimately, Butler argues, the implications of Soros' injection
of cash to influence thought, language and law of the young country and
its fledgling elites would prove staggering, even if it was (and is)
coolly written off as "philanthropy."
"From 1990 to 2002, Soros [would endeavor]
to engage in every sphere of Latvian society, from law and ethics,
to the disabled and the arts. Then, in 2003, the Soros Foundation
co-create[d] the Center for Public Policy PROVIDUS."
"This initiative," the political scientist explained, like "many
others undertaken by Soros, is now supported by the European Commission,
Latvia's Ministry of Education and Science, and corporate altruism such
as that we see from the Robert Bosch Stiftung foundation."
The importance of the PROVIDUS effort," Butler
notes, lies in its creation of "a transformative path, one where
hundreds of NGOs, corporate and government agencies now tread"
to influence the affected country's educational, legal, and social
institutions.
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Ultimately, Butler notes, "the pattern set here went forward, the
successes in transformative societal manipulation have now been cloned,
and this is why we see Soros and other NWO elites so transparently."
In 2005, the Soros Foundation would launch the 'Wider Europe'
program, "where Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia were targeted as
'partners' to the greater EU community." Essentially, Butler suggests,
the educational, legal, political and other initiatives which this
program spawned actually ended up mirroring, and even facilitating,
Washington's foreign policy toward Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet space.
Georgia: Innovations in Social Control Masked by Democratic Ideals
In the case of the Caucasian nation of Georgia, Butler writes,
similar processes can be observed. In fact, he suggests, "in Georgia,
as in Latvia, the effort to bring Soros' brand of democracy to Georgians
reaches the level of being diabolical," with Soros' initiatives
actively involved in what is called a "dynamic conversion of key
individuals, using the same strategies that make hedge funds
profitable."
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"In
short, Open Society Foundations 'invests' money and other resources
in order to achieve a desired gain. This gain is often seen in mid
to short term revenues, but it is also visible in broad strokes, where
NATO, CIA, US State Department and White House interests coincide."
Open Society Georgia, Butler points out, has gone above and beyond,
thinking up new innovations in the field of manipulation. "A new call
for think tanks to take part in something called the 'Think Tank Young
Professional Development Program for MA and PhD Graduates' is but one
of many advertisements for Soros advocates. Make no mistake, this most
recent call is one of the [boldest] initiatives Soros and the NWO have
undertaken."
This program, Butler explains, factually serves as little more than
"a recruitment advertisement to form new battalions of centurions
for policy-making. As was the case in Latvia, Open Society Foundations
disseminates the ideals, strategies and initiatives of new societies
via investments at every level."
"The strategy is brilliant, if simple. Soros
invests a few million, other NGOs, governments and corporations join in,
and the end product – the return, is a nation of Soros-citizens [who
are] ready to be served some democracy." This particular graduate grant,
"like most others, pays academics to study the 'agenda', and in the end
to profess the 'findings' to policymakers and the public, not
to mention future students."
At the same time, in Georgia and elsewhere, Open Society Foundations
have engaged in funding intra-national IMF, World Bank and EU policy-influencing mechanisms, factually (and dangerously) giving them the
power to "forge the economic policies of Georgia and other former soviet
republics."
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In
Georgia specifically, Butler recalled, Soros Foundations and Soros
himself have made no attempt to shy away from the 2003 Rose Revolution
(a color revolution which resulted in the coming to power of now
disgraced former president Mikheil Saakashvili). Soros and allied
forces, including USAID, the Eurasia Foundation, and the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation actively funded the Kmara student movement (which received
training in Serbia following the successful 'Buldozer Revolution'
there), Saakashvili's National Movement Party, and other opposition
groups, as well as the television station Rustavi-2, which would become
crucial to overthrowing the old government.
Following their victory, the political scientist notes, these same
Western institutions have only strengthened and expanded their influence
on policy elites and policy-making in the country, even
after Saakashvili's own resignation.
Eastern Europe: Staggering Levels of Influence for Shady 'Pro-Democracy' Institutions
Ultimately, Butler writes, the breadth of Western foundations,
corporations and Western governments' influence on Eastern European
governments and societies is nothing short of staggering. Using 32
'independent policy centers' in 21 countries, "Soros seed money has
[now] metastasized into a cancerous mechanism supported by everyone
from mayors to lawyers to whole parliaments."
"The new world order," he warns, "is not some
mythical apparition that conspiracy theorists harp about; it is a
reality that has supplanted democracy. Soros and his associates have
removed the public's capacity to understand reality, and replaced it
with another truth."
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Worst
of all, Butler says, the young people, citizens and policymakers who
are influenced and manipulated by Soros and others serving to facilitate
American and European crypto-imperial policy usually do not even
realize what is being done to them. Ultimately, hiding
behind philosopher Karl Popper's concept of the 'open society', Soros
and his allies actually have nothing in common with Popper's beautiful
ideal.
"Soros and his comrades, wherever they are, are less interested
in any new world, than with the fortification and growth of the old one,
the elitist one. They use humanity's tribal nature on the one hand,
while professing true liberal democracy on the other."
"The Open Society Foundations, created
by George Soros, are supposedly inspired in name and purpose by Popper's
book. But in reality the new world order only mystifies us with sleight
of hand and magic, while stealing humanity's birthright. In this
crucible of power," places like Latvia and Georgia "become the
ideological Lebensraum, necessary for the survival of tyrannical ideas"
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