Posted on 11/16/2010 7:21:36 PM PST by bronxville
Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute
LGI And Its Mission
July 19, 2010
One of the most challenging issues facing open society in the transition region of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as the new countries covered by Open Society Institute, is effective, democratic governance. Established in 1997, LGI supports the OSI mission by working to promote democratic and effective local government and public administration, and by advancing policy analysis as a tool for decision making in public affairs. LGI supports governmental reform, in collaboration with its civil society partners, by monitoring and benchmarking government performance on the one hand and providing analytical and technical support to government on the other.
While LGI works primarily in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, it has now EXPANDED (my emphasis) its area of activity. Currently we support projects in Latin America, South East Asia and West Africa. In Peru we work with subnational governments to identify and mitigate the effects of the resource curse through increased transparency and improved participatory and social development planning.
A similar project is under way in Indonesia's newest oil field in North East Java. We implement these projects in a strategic partnership with the Revenue Watch Institute which has experience with resource curse issues at the national level.
In West Africa we train 200 NGO activitst in policy advocacy while certifying a core group of trainers in a Training of Trainers scheme which will further serve the region's capacity building needs. This project is in collaboration with the Open Society Institute West Africa.
Policy issues addressed by LGI LGI's policy agenda was established by matching demand (from civil society actors, government agencies, professional associations, national foundations and regional networks) with LGI resources. Its agenda can be summarized in five broad themes, which in turn are divided into specific areas of intervention: 1. Democratization and Decentralization: monitoring and reporting on good governance at sub-national levels; modernizing the public policy-making processes; transparency of public accounts (sub-national budget watch); codes of ethics in public service; public consultation and participation in decision-making. 2. Fiscal Management, Transparency and Accountability: transparent and equitable collection and distribution of public revenues; efficiency in the use of public funds; audit systems; decentralization of responsibility and the problem of unfunded mandates. 3. Delivery of Public Services and Urban Management: regulatory framework and equitable (formula) funding of health, public education, public transport, housing, social services; vulnerable populations and access to services; modern service management practices; participatory strategic planning; land management and urban renewal. The "marketization" of public services. 4. Management of Multi-Ethnic Communities: government policy frameworks for ethnic minorities; conflict prevention and mediation; changing majority attitudes; forging stronger leadership amongst elected and appointed Roma officials; minorities' access to public services. 5. Local Economic Development: participatory strategic planning to promote improved business enabling environments.
Instruments of policy intervention
There are several ways in which LGI operates, all of them inspired by a commitment to capacity and institution building. LGI initiates comparative policy studies and disseminates the results to policy makers and academia, has initiated and gives support to several regional networks of institutions and professionals, uses its professional networks to provide technical assistance and consultancy for selected reform issues, and filters the accumulated knowledge into training and educational programs delivered with and through its networks. LGI's publications and websites are read globally, by a large number of users.
LGI provides professional advice and matching funds to some 15 Soros national foundations to assist them in implementing Public Administration, Local Government, European Integration, and increasingly Public Policy programs. LGI works to build the capacity of policy centers and has recently helped to establish the Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS), which now has 29 member institutions. Through a number of cooperative initiatives (like the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative) LGI influences the agenda of international donors.
2008/9 Strategic directions Our fiscal transparency work now includes a program to improve the governmental audit process as a tool towards better use and oversight of public funds across the region. Poverty, especially with regard to vulnerable population groups, takes on a bigger role this year, with projects aimed at removing legislative and regulatory barriers to poverty reduction. An extra-legality project in Albania supports the public debate of proposed policies to resolve property rights and service delivery. A continued partnership with the Council of Europe sees LGI at the forefront of monitoring and promoting the democratization and decentralization agenda in 10 SEE states. Our active promotion of minority rights and inclusion in governmental decisions is also increasing in prominence through the expansion of the Managing Multi-Ethnic Communities program to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Georgia. Our promotion of participatory strategic planning for economic development has shown quantifiable positive results in Albania and Kosovo, and has been extended to Mongolia. LGI continues its cooperation with the Department of Public Policy and the Center for Policy Studies at CEU to strengthen the research and teaching in decentralized governance. http://lgi.osi.hu/documents.php?m_id=191&bid=7
"LGI initiates comparative policy studies and disseminates the results to policy makers and academia...consultancy for selected reform issues...filters the accumulated knowledge into training and educational programs delivered with and through its networks."
"In West Africa we train 200 NGO activitst in policy advocacy while certifying a core group of trainers in a Training of Trainers scheme."
It appears to me that these Sorosites are cooking up new policies/procedures to reflect the elites "democracy"-"change" agenda, getting them signed off by Czars, signed by marxist obama and reeducating our populace into a global sameness. One wonders whose approving these changes paid by our tax-dollars.
Is Soros' LGF/OSI a UN/NGO haven? Are we actually that close to implementing their Agenda 21?
Beyond Transition
THE NEWSLETTER ABOUT REFORMING ECONOMIES
The Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative/Open Society Institute (Soros)
The Local Government and Public Service Reform Inititive (LGI) is an international development and grant-giving organization within the Soros/Open Society network of foundations. Its mission is to promote democratic and effective government in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by supporting research and operational activities in the fields of decentralization, public policy formation, and the reform of public administration systems.
LGI seeks to fulfill its mission by developing sustainable regional networks of institutions and professionals, supporting comparative and regionally applicable policy studies tackling local government issues, and delivering technical assistance to implementing agencies. It also provides assistance to Soros foundations in countries throughout the region, develops curricula and organization of training programs, and publishes books, studies, and discussion papers on decentralization, public administration, and good governance. LGI has also begun to support policy centers and think tanks in the region. Since 1999 LGI has focused more of its efforts on in-house policy analysis and research projects, with the intention of becoming a full-fledged think tank in the next few years.
LGI develops and funds in-depth policy studies, particularly those that are regional and comparative in scope. Activities in this field fall into several policy areas:
· Public administration and legislative reform.
· Government and governance issues of ethnic and multicultural policies; corruption, transparency, and ethics in public administration; public participation in government; and development of civil society.
· Municipal fiscal issues assisting transition economies carrying out reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations; improved financial good governance and increased financial autonomy of subnational governmental units.
· Public service management in urban services and social policy.
· Local economic and regional development, urban development.
LGI works closely with other international organizations, including the Council of Europe, the Department for International Development, USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank.
Under these cooperation agreements, LGI co-funds larger regional initiatives aimed at supporting reforms at the subnational level. The Local Government Information Network (LOGIN) and Fiscal Decentralization Initiatives (FDI) are two examples of this cooperation.
We hope that LGI’s contribution to Transition will support the policy dialogue on decentralization and public administration reform in transition economies. http://www.worldbank.org/html/prddr/trans/nd00jan01/pg31.htm
"LGI works closely with other international organizations, including the Council of Europe, the Department for International Development, USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank."
A pretty powerful group. I believe the Czars are probably hooked up with them. Didn't get to check them out too much due to time restrictions.
"It also provides assistance to Soros foundations in countries throughout the region..."
Soros' LGT assists Soros foundations...
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY...
From the World Bank article -
“(LGI) is an international development and grant-giving organization within the Soros/Open Society network of foundations.”
“LGI co-funds larger regional initiatives...”
...........
Open Society Institute via Discover the Networks
Assets: $858,935,162 (2005)
Grants Received: $377,413,561 (2005)
Grants Awarded: $65,934,588 (2005)
Between 1998 and 2003, OSI received more than $30 million from U.S. government agencies. Various State Department documents indicate that OSI has been paid to run what the Department describes as “democratization programs” in a number of countries, including Uzbekistan, Burma, and regions of Central Asia.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5181
Along With NPR, Soros Groups Get Millions in Taxpayer Funds -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2622525/posts
Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (2003)
Jointly funded by USAID and the OECD, UNDP, Council of Europe, Soros Local Government Initiative, Danish Ministry of Interior, and Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) supports the development of task forces in CEE countries and implemented a wide range of capacity-building and policy-development programs in CEE and SEE to educate governments, think tanks, and academic leaders on the major issues of fiscal decentralization. [...]
http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rpt/37004.htm
Whose checking the money? I wonder where we could get info on how much and from whom this very spooky guy is getting?
Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute -
LGI And Its Mission
July 19, 2010
One of the most challenging issues facing open society in the transition region of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as the new countries covered by Open Society Institute, is effective, democratic governance. Established in 1997, LGI supports the OSI mission by working to promote democratic and effective local government and public administration, and by advancing policy analysis as a tool for decision making in public affairs. LGI supports governmental reform, in collaboration with its civil society partners, by monitoring and benchmarking government performance on the one hand and providing analytical and technical support to government on the other.
While LGI works primarily in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, it has now expanded its area of activity. Currently we support projects in Latin America, South East Asia and West Africa. In Peru we work with subnational governments to identify and mitigate the effects of the resource curse through increased transparency and improved participatory and social development planning. A similar project is under way in Indonesia’s newest oil field in North East Java. We implement these projects in a strategic partnership with the Revenue Watch Institute which has experience with resource curse issues at the national level. In West Africa we train 200 NGO activitst in policy advocacy while certifying a core group of trainers in a Training of Trainers scheme which will further serve the region’s capacity building needs. This project is in collaboration with the Open Society Institute West Africa.
Policy issues addressed by LGI
LGI’s policy agenda was established by matching demand (from civil society actors, government agencies, professional associations, national foundations and regional networks) with LGI resources. Its agenda can be summarized in five broad themes, which in turn are divided into specific areas of intervention:
1. Democratization and Decentralization: monitoring and reporting on good governance at sub-national levels; modernizing the public policy-making processes; transparency of public accounts (sub-national budget watch); codes of ethics in public service; public consultation and participation in decision-making.
2. Fiscal Management, Transparency and Accountability: transparent and equitable collection and distribution of public revenues; efficiency in the use of public funds; audit systems; decentralization of responsibility and the problem of unfunded mandates.
3. Delivery of Public Services and Urban Management: regulatory framework and equitable (formula) funding of health, public education, public transport, housing, social services; vulnerable populations and access to services; modern service management practices; participatory strategic planning; land management and urban renewal. The “marketization” of public services.
4. Management of Multi-Ethnic Communities: government policy frameworks for ethnic minorities; conflict prevention and mediation; changing majority attitudes; forging stronger leadership amongst elected and appointed Roma officials; minorities’ access to public services.
5. Local Economic Development: participatory strategic planning to promote improved business enabling environments.
Instruments of policy intervention
There are several ways in which LGI operates, all of them inspired by a commitment to capacity and institution building. LGI initiates comparative policy studies and disseminates the results to policy makers and academia, has initiated and gives support to several regional networks of institutions and professionals, uses its professional networks to provide technical assistance and consultancy for selected reform issues, and filters the accumulated knowledge into training and educational programs delivered with and through its networks. LGI’s publications and websites are read globally, by a large number of users.
LGI provides professional advice and matching funds to some 15 Soros national foundations to assist them in implementing Public Administration, Local Government, European Integration, and increasingly Public Policy programs. LGI works to build the capacity of policy centers and has recently helped to establish the Policy Association for an Open Society (PASOS), which now has 29 member institutions. Through a number of cooperative initiatives (like the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative) LGI influences the agenda of international donors.
2008/9 Strategic directions
Our fiscal transparency work now includes a program to improve the governmental audit process as a tool towards better use and oversight of public funds across the region. Poverty, especially with regard to vulnerable population groups, takes on a bigger role this year, with projects aimed at removing legislative and regulatory barriers to poverty reduction. An extra-legality project in Albania supports the public debate of proposed policies to resolve property rights and service delivery. A continued partnership with the Council of Europe sees LGI at the forefront of monitoring and promoting the democratization and decentralization agenda in 10 SEE states. Our active promotion of minority rights and inclusion in governmental decisions is also increasing in prominence through the expansion of the Managing Multi-Ethnic Communities program to Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Georgia. Our promotion of participatory strategic planning for economic development has shown quantifiable positive results in Albania and Kosovo, and has been extended to Mongolia. LGI continues its cooperation with the Department of Public Policy and the Center for Policy Studies at CEU to strengthen the research and teaching in decentralized governance.
http://lgi.osi.hu/documents.php?m_id=191&bid=7
“2. Fiscal Management, Transparency and Accountability”?
I couldn’t find it on the site...doesn’t mean it’s not there...somewhere...
REVENUE WATCH
Promotes the responsible management of oil, gas and mineral resources for the PUBLIC GOOD (my emphasis). With effective revenue management, citizen engagement and increased...”
revenuewatch.org
REVENUE WATCH PARTNERS -
The Open Society Institute
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Open Society Initiative for West Africa
Open Society Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)
OSI Local Government Initiative
OSI-Assistance Foundation Azerbaijan
Open Society Georgia Foundation
Open Society Forum Mongolia
Oxfam
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Publish What You Pay Cote d’Ivoire
PWYP Africa Coalition
PWYP International Coalition
PWYP Canada Coalition
PWYP Ghana
PWYP US Coalition
RAND Corporation
Save the Children (UK)
Soros Foundation Kazakhstan
Soros Foundation Kyrgyzstan
Southern Africa Resource Watch
Tiri
Transparency International - Indonesia
Transparency International Secretariat
World Bank
more...
http://revenuewatch.org/About-RWI/Partners
Can anyone say ripoff? Does anyone know whose getting the Iraqi oil?
United Kingdom International –
USAID/APC, UK-DFID, WTO, WEF, World Bank, WIPO, etc -
http://www.cto-ict.org/index.php?dir=07&sd=40&org=int
http://www.cto-ict.org/index.php?dir=07&sd=20&org=glo&oid=1102
UK - Resources -
http://www.cto-ict.org/index.php?dir=09&sd=10
UK - Commonwealth “Industry Partners” -
http://www.cto-ict.org/index.php?dir=08&sd=10
UK – Information and Communication Technology
The development of ICT Development Agenda forms part of the CTO’s ‘Building Digital Opportunities’ programme, which is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Within this programme, it is part of a study on the impact that developing countries have on international decision-making in ICTs.
http://www.ictdevagenda.org/frame.php?dir=04&sd=10
“USAID/APC” - Association for Progressive Communication
APC = Soros
Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
(Open Society Institute & Soros Foundation Network)
OSI’s initial support for APC’s work was focused in Central and Eastern Europe with an emphasis on strengthening the capacity of APC members and partners in the region. OSI provided substantial support to the APC Toolkit project, which produced the APC ActionApps. OSI also provided support for APC’s internet rights work in Europe.
Throughout our relationship, OSI has played a key networking role by linking APC to related initiatives, and providing us with valuable critical input.
In 2001 OSI continued to support internet rights work in Europe, as well as the Learning and Practitioners’ Network project.
In 2002 it again funded the Learning and Practitioners’ Network project (Phase I), in addition to the ItrainOnline/TechSoup partners’ meeting and the Secure Online Communications training and materials.
In 2003, it supported the ICT Policy for Civil Society training in Colombia.
In 2004, 2005 and 2006 the foundation funded: Capacity building for community wireless connectivity in Africa and Secure Online Communications. In 2006 it also funded: Ensuring affordable and open access to EASSy: Consultation for key stakeholders, and the Africa wireless capacity-phase II planning meeting.
http://www.apc.org/en/funder/open-society-institute-soros-foundation-network
Compliments of USAID.
UK/US/EU... All working together toward a one world sameness ruled by oligarchi betters.
Anyone asked if we wanted this style of government? They’re close, very close...it’s why they’re being so brazen!
USAID Contractors (there are prime/subcontractors)
Directory of Contractors – (many more) -
Abt Associates Inc. (Prime)
Chemonics International (Prime)
Futures Group International (Prime)
RTI International (Prime)
The Abt HPI Team includes: Abt Associates, Academy for Educational Development, Save the Children Federation, Bitran y Asociados, Forum One Communications, O’Hanlon Health Consulting, the Population Reference Bureau, and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. We are dedicated to supporting USAID Missions and Bureaus as they improve the enabling environment for health, especially family planning/reproductive health, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. In order to meet this objective we will apply a comprehensive, multisectoral and integrated approach to ensure that interventions
http://ghiqc.usaid.gov/hpi/contractor/index.htm
EXAMPLE -
Abt - Subcontractors
Academy for Educational Development - www.aed.org
Bitran y Associados - www.bya.cl/english/index.html
Forum One Communications- www.forumone.com
O’Hanlon Health Consulting LLC
Population Reference Bureau - www.prb.org
Save the Children - www.savethechildren.org
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine - www.sph.tulane.edu
http://ghiqc.usaid.gov/hpi/contractor/index.html
Abt Mission -
“We are dedicated to supporting USAID Missions and Bureaus as they improve the enabling environment for health, ESPECIALLY family planning/reproductive health, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. In order to meet this objective we will apply a comprehensive, multisectoral and integrated approach to ensure that interventions”
http://ghiqc.usaid.gov/hpi/contractor/abt_associates.html
They list family planning/reproductive health aka Population Control as their first objective.
It’s within these smaller contractors where one finds the BIG names.
Population Control -
Support of forced sterilization
In Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) pressured 200,000 indigenous people in rural areas (mainly Quechuas and Aymaras) into being sterilized.[29]
In July 2002, a final report from the Health minister proved that between 1995 and 2000, 331,600 women and 25,590 men had been sterilized.
The program was mainly financed by the USAID (36,000,000 dollars) and the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). [30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAID
Population Research Institute -
USAID Supported Fujimori Sterilization (coverup)
http://www.pop.org/content/usaid-supported-fujimori-sterilization-campaign-seeks-to-cover-up-involvement-576
Research on what USAID pedals -
http://www.pop.org/research
What great marxist representation we have abroad. No wonder we’re so hated.
DDT banning was up front and in our face...yet nothing...just a few million souls dead and dying...
Population Control -
Support of forced sterilization
In Peru, former president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) pressured 200,000 indigenous people in rural areas (mainly Quechuas and Aymaras) into being sterilized.[29]
In July 2002, a final report from the Health minister proved that between 1995 and 2000, 331,600 women and 25,590 men had been sterilized.
The program was mainly financed by the USAID (36,000,000 dollars) and the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). [30]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAID
Population Research Institute -
USAID Supported Fujimori Sterilization (coverup)
http://www.pop.org/content/usaid-supported-fujimori-sterilization-campaign-seeks-to-cover-up-involvement-576
Research on what USAID pedals -
http://www.pop.org/research
What great marxist representation we have abroad. No wonder we’re so hated.
DDT banning was up front and in our face...yet nothing...just a few million souls dead and dying...
Excellent article -
[...]An example of the bad Wall Street would be
someone like George Soros. These people are the financial hedge fund short selling operators who make money by betting on company collapse, economic calamities and catastrophes.
Soros and his collaborators have an anti-capitalism agenda, an anti-industrialized nation agenda, and a far-left liberal, Marxist radical agenda. Most hedge fund short sellers are not capitalist. They are anti-capitalist and they are not investors. They are anti-investors. They succeed when companies (or countries) fail.
For the good Wall Street to make money, prices have to go up. In this way, everybody makes money, the companies and their shareholders make money, jobs are safe and secure, the economy grows, and the economy expands. This is capitalism in action. The action of the good Wall Street grows and expands the economy.
For the bad Wall Street to make money, prices have to go down, which means that companies and their investors have to lose money or even go broke and collapse.
The bad Wall Street is the hedge fund short sellers. They destroy companies, take away liquidity, destroys investor capital and slows down the economy.
The bad Wall Street, in the form of the hedge fund short sellers, engineered the economic collapse, looted every portfolio that had exposure to the stock market, and blamed George Bush and the Republicans, enabling Barack Obama and his backers, including Soros, to take power.
The hedge fund short sellers, who are members of the Managed Funds Association, are running our government today. They are the ones who authored the Dodd bill. The Dodd bill is punishing the victims of the Hedge Fund short sellers. The Dodd bill is punishing the good Wall Street.
Unless the truth about the role of the MFA in our government policies and regulations is revealed, and some courageous lawmakers free our economic system from their grip, the United States is in for a long time of hurt and possible bankruptcy.
George Soros is the leading member of the MFA. He is also the most influential and the most politically active member. He was behind Barack Obama’s election as president, he led the Managed Funds Association engineering of the economic collapse, as I covered in my book “Wizards of Wall Street”
The Dodd bill does not mention anything about regulating the hedge fund short sellers. The Dodd financial reform bill punishes the victims and rewards the looting bandits and basically sets up the publicly traded companies, the shareholders and the American families to be victimized again. The Dodd bill doesn’t offer any protection for the invested capital and assets of the shareholders, but instead allows their wealth to be seized and confiscated by the Treasury Secretary and distributed to MFA members, the hedge fund short sellers.
This Dodd “financial reform” bill is just round two, of the scam to defraud the publicly traded companies and their shareholders, all over again.
This Dodd bill represents the biggest effort so far by the hedge fund short sellers to have the government seal of approval, to cover their role in engineering the economic collapse which has ravaged the American economy.
As I document in my book, The Wizards of Wall Street, the problem, in essence, is that safeguard regulations which had been in place since 1938 to prevent a repeat of the stock market crash were repealed.
The measures I recommend address the root cause of the economic crisis. They are absolutely necessary to protect investors, the invested capital and the publicly traded companies who are at the heart of American capitalism. They are based on my own experiences in the financial markets and my historical analysis of what has worked in the past to prevent economic and financial catastrophes. They have worked and served us well for 72 years, until then-Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox removed them due to the lobbying influence of the Managed Funds Association, the hedge fund short sellers.
Some say the answer is some kind of financial transactions tax, perhaps on a global basis. But I say no. That will only hurt the common investors, retirement portfolios, ordinary Americans with investments in Mutual Funds and IRAs and their pensions and savings. The transaction tax is too exorbitant and is designed to further punish the victims of the crisis, the common investors, and the American families, and traps them for looting down the road. The financial transaction tax is designed as a major source of income redistribution for the Obama administration. This is not good for capitalism.
The socialists believe that to effectively control the people, you have to take away their money and control their wealth. This Dodd financial reform bill is filled with land mines and traps that will do just that.
All freedom lovers, all capitalists, and all patriotic Americans must say no to the Dodd bill. It does not address the cause of the financial crisis.
The Dodd bill will suppress business freedom and economic growth. It will work against the interests of Americans and their liberty.
The only financial reform needed today is to regulate and monitor the hedge funds and the hedge fund short sellers, some of them which are registered off-shore to avoid scrutiny. These global operators, with investors who remain mostly anonymous, must be compelled to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), publicly disclose their positions in the markets, and maintain accounting and trading records for a period of 10 years so their activities can be monitored and scrutinized. Just like mutual funds, they must be prohibited from engaging in day trading activities.
Many people do not realize that the hedge funds are responsible for 75-90 percent of all trading activities on Wall Street. They are responsible for the extreme market volatility. They are responsible for everything that is bad on Wall Street.
Other measures — and the most important measures which must be taken — include:
Reinstate and restore the short sale price test regulation known as the uptick rule (to its original condition and not modified.)
End mark to market accounting and replace it with book value, historic cost accounting.
Reinstate the “circuit breakers” and the trading curbs to kick in whenever the Dow Jones industrial average drops 150 points to reduce market volatility and massive panic sell-off in order to allow investors time to think before they act.
To fix the economic crisis, our lawmakers need to put everything back the way it was in 2006 before Christopher Cox became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and started “fixing things” that were not broken. In short, every regulation that was repealed or watered down through the influence of the Managed Funds Association should be reversed to what it was before, with no exception.
By removing the rules and regulations that protected the capitalists and their shareholders over the years, the SEC left all of us vulnerable and susceptible to looting through unrestricted short selling by the hedge fund short sellers. That is how millions of ordinary Americans lost trillions of dollars in wealth.
The hedge fund short sellers looted $11 trillion from the U.S. economy. They walk away with all our invested capital and they walk away with the intrinsic profit from devalued home mortgages (our homes) through short selling. Yet, no one goes to jail. Why? Answer: they are too chummy with the Obama administration. The looters have been given a seat at the table in the White House. They are being protected by our government.
If they are left unchecked, the worst will be left to come. We will be witnessing the complete collapse of the capitalist system. And that means more profits for the hedge fund short sellers.
The collapse of the U.S. economy began in 2008 and is, as I state in my book Wizards of Wall Street, just the first phase of the plot to destroy capitalism and impose socialism on the American people.
The subsequent phases of the plot are now upon us, and are being implemented, beginning with the health care reform bill. The financial reform bill, the cap and trade bill, the card check bill, and the immigration reform bill are now on the agenda.
All of these “reform” bills are part of an orchestrated attack on freedom, liberty and justice. They have been written in order to transform America from capitalism to socialism - to dilute and change the political and economic structure of America.
All capitalists, all freedom lovers, all patriotic Americans must reject and say no to all the above listed reform bills, regardless of party affiliation. We do not want the tyranny of socialism.
As an immigrant who came to America to achieve success, I understand the stakes, perhaps more than most. This is a fight to save America, to save capitalism and protect us from the disaster of socialism.
I know that the liberals, who say they want to help the poor, think that the solution is socialism. But socialism never helps the poor; it only traps them indefinitely in poverty. You will never have a rags-to-riches story in a socialist economy. Liberation from poverty is only possible through capitalism.
The economic success of China did not come from socialism, but rather from capitalism.
The Chinese Communists authorize capitalist ventures to sustain socialism in their country. Without capitalism, socialism cannot survive.
It is the wealth generated from capitalism that sustains socialism. Socialism does not produce wealth, only capitalism does.
The only wealth associated with socialism is the wealth the socialists have stolen from the capitalists, through seizure, confiscation and redistribution of the capitalists’ wealth.
Once there is no more wealth left to seize, confiscate, or redistribute, socialism dies.
Socialism has a perfect record of failure.
The author of The Wizards of Wall Street, Zubi Diamond can be contacted through his web site www.zubidiamond.com
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck4.01.10.html
[...]He assumed leadership of the international effort to more closely integrate U.S. and overseas regulation in an era of global capital markets and international securities exchanges.
He also championed transforming the SEC’s system of mandated disclosure from a static, form-based approach to one that taps the power of interactive data to give investors qualitatively better information about companies, mutual funds, and investments of all kinds.[...]
http://www.sec.gov/about/commissioner/cox.htm
IOW, he sold us out to the Financial Terrorists!
USAID - Rajiv Shah -
[...]Prior to his appointment at USAID, Shah worked in a range of leadership roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation including Director of Agricultural Development, Director of Financial Services, leader of the Strategic Opportunities initiative and manager of the Foundations $1.5 billion commitment to the Vaccine Fund. He also came up with the idea for the International Finance Facility for Immunization to transform the global system of vaccine financing, and worked to secure donor commitments of more than $5 billion for this facility. Before joining the Gates Foundation, Shah was a health care policy advisor on the Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 and a member of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell transition committee on health....
Offshoring Grants Controversy
In 2010 USAID established a post-conflict recovery program in Sri Lanka[6] as part of a larger effort to mobilize private sector investments by Sri Lankan companies in horticulture, construction, computer programming certification, business process outsourcing, aquaculture, logistics, and garment manufacture [7].
Controversy arose with reports about this economic support program [8][9], as well as one in Armenia[10].[...] wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv Shah
Under director Rajiv Shah, appt by Obama in Jan, USAID (our tax dollars) partnered with Asia and Europe with jobs in advanced IT training, Enterprise Java(Java EE) programming, and other business processes and skills giving both countries hundreds of Hi-Tech jobs. Both countries got multi-millions and the government workers remained employed.
IOW, they were rewarded for some kind of deal.
It would appear Shah and Obama are acting like we’re actually in a NWO rather than a Sovereign country. Shah for president...
It’s obvious that the State/USAID agree as they’ve been working hard at implementing all aspects of our lives, in collaboration with foreign entities, into a Global sameness. See above USAID universal contractors and Soros’ NGO’s from Finance, Business, Religion, Media, Politics... All without the consent of the people.
Fr Malachi Martin (RIP) was right in everything he wrote along with being in the NWO already and that was twenty years ago. There’s still a few more things to come but as he said in one of his interviews - God will not desert us! We were promised!
Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (USAID/DoS - Soros collaboration)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625184/posts
George Soros – The Puppet Master -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2628398/posts?page=1
Who’s Really Behind the Financial Crisis?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2626810/posts
The NGO Army of George Soros & Maurice Strong
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625586/posts
Council on Foreign Relations (indepth)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2626807/posts
Soros: China has better functioning government than U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2628156/posts
George Soros increased gold positions in third quarter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627930/posts
Soros’s Next Target: Your State
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627857/posts
Obama & Soros America’s Clearest and Present Danger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2627045/posts
Soro’s Celebrates Terrorist Plot to Bomb GOP 2008 Convention
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2626301/posts
Soros’s Role in Kenya Chaos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625777/posts
Bill Gates: Capitalism Has ‘Systemic’ Problems Government Should Address
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625016/posts
Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Emerging One World Economy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624901/posts
Soros group wants Obama to rule by executive order
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624470/posts
Soros Bets on U.S. Financial Collapse
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2623844/posts
George Soros gives $100M to Human Rights Watch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2623807/posts
OCTOBER 2010 - Sierra Leone (again)
Pillage Litigation
...However, few corporations or corporate officials have been tried for pillage since just after the Second World War when several Nazi business leaders were prosecuted for seizing goods from occupied countries. Yet, the circumstances of those cases are often strikingly similar to corporate practices in modern resource wars.
The Open Society Justice Initiative is working to revive the use of pillage charges to combat corporate involvement in resource wars. Winning a case on these grounds could create a powerful deterrent for corporations profiting from ongoing conflicts.
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus/anticorruption/projects/pillage
Sorosites are now busy trying to protect their boss’ precious resources or something they would have done anyway...
What gives Soros the right to interfere willy nilly with another country? Under whose protection? The USAID umbrella? Someone needs to have a talk with the State/DoD/USAID about this crook (unless they already know the whole set-up).
ON the website of -
USAID/US U.S. Agency for International Development
Partners:
Open Society Institute Budapest
Geographic Targets:
FDI: All countries in SEE, Caucuses,
Central Asia and Moldova
LOGIN: Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine
Project Duration:
2003 – 2006
Activity Background
A stable, predictable stream of revenues is a prerequisite for strong local government that can be responsive to the needs of businesses and citizens. Open Society Institute, Budapest, implements a two-pronged program to facilitate this: the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) and the Local Government Information Network (LOGIN). Multi-donor initiatives, FDI and LOGIN are supported by the World Bank Institute, UNDP, Open Society Institute and Council of Europe.
Core Interventions
FDI’s regional forums and publications:
Transfer regional experience and best practices in SEE and beyond.
Build a dialogue between national and local governments and NGOs.
Increase awareness and consensus for fiscal decentralization in Caucuses and Central Asia.
Masters in Public Policy (fiscal policy):
FDI fellowships students from the target region build capacity.
LOGIN serves as an internet-based clearinghouse for local government information. Partnering with a local anchor organization in each country, LOGIN collects and disseminates information in 33 topics and nine languages.
Activity Results
Successful FDI forums were held in SEE on property taxation and valuation, fiscal equalization, financing public education. The forums spawned continuing relationships, and a study trip between countries.
A request for follow-on in-depth technical assistance from the Government of Moldova was met.
LOGIN expanded to Central Asia– adding Kyrgyzstan, with Armenia and Georgia from the Caucuses imminent! Visits to the LOGIN site increased over 60% in a single year – to more than 300,000. The database has expanded from 5000 to 8000 documents.
LOGIN software management has been transferred to a local provider, a key step in future sustainability.
http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACG377.pdf
No doubt glowing reports resulted from the Soros bought and paid for NGO’s at - Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute (LGI).
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international association of local governments as well as national and regional local government organizations who have made a commitment to sustainable development.
Founded in 1990 ICLEI was founded in 1990 as the ‘International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’. The Council was established when more than 200 local governments from 43 countries convened at our inaugural conference, the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future, at the United Nations in New York - (Agenda 21 meeting).
OLD NAME - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’ became
NEW NAME (2003) Local Governments for Sustainability’ with a broader mandate to address sustainability issues.
Soros NGO Headquarters is called -
Local Government and Public Service Reform Institute
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=about
Marxists are so picky about their labels esp. logos. NGO’s from his LGT have already rewritten most of their Agenda 21 policies in many of our states - all power to the oligarch.
OSI [and USAID]Funds Establishment of Endowment for American University of Central Asia
April 13, 2005
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Open Society Institute have awarded Indiana University $15 million to establish an endowment fund for the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The endowment’s financial assets will be managed by the Indiana University Foundation and will help to underwrite AUCA’s operational costs.
Founded in 1997, AUCA enrolls some 1,100 students. Available fields of study include business administration, economics, journalism, and Western legal and political systems. AUCA courses are taught in English by professors who have studied in the United States or who have benefited from exchange visits by American educators. Over the past five years, more than 35 AUCA faculty and administrators have visited IU’s Bloomington campus or other higher education institutions in the state. Nearly 40 faculty members from IU and other institutions have spent time with their counterparts in Bishkek.
In 2002, USAID approached IU with a request to manage an endowment for AUCA. Having made substantial investments in AUCA, USAID and OSI wanted to institutionalize their commitments through the endowment. The new agreement will establish the legal, administrative, and financial components of the endowment for a period of five years, with the possibility of a renewal for an additional five years.
AUCA expects to establish its own foundation in the United States and assume responsibility for management of funds from the newly established endowment. Until then, an advisory board will guide the distribution of funds. The board includes John O’Keefe, former U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan; William Newton-Smith, chair of the OSI subcommittee on education; Cliff Brown, USAID country representative to Kyrgyzstan; AUCA president Ellen Hurwitz; two at-large members; and representatives from IU.
http://www.soros.org/newsroom/news/auca_20050415went to leftie elections...
They appear to be using the David Fenton template from their so-called Apple Scare...
Foreign Religious Education and Central Asia’s Islamic Revival
Audio:
Location: OSI-New York
Event Date: October 13, 2010
Speakers: David Abramson , Michael Hall
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, interest in Islam and religious observance has grown rapidly throughout former Soviet Central Asia. Thousands of young Central Asian Muslims have traveled abroad for religious education that is remarkably different from the mostly state-controlled and restrictive opportunities in their home countries. The individuals shaped by these experiences are influencing domestic politics in the context of Central Asia’s Islamic revival after their return home.
Based on research conducted during 2008-09, David Abramson will discuss who is going to which countries to study Islam, why, and how education acquired abroad influences returnees’ attitudes about religion and Islamic practice. This presentation assesses how foreign religious education influences the face of Islam in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and the distinct strategies each of these countries’ governments is using to manage the Islamic revival.
Growing interest in Islam itself is not a threat to stability, but poorly managed social change can contribute to political destabilization. Ultimately those who have a foreign Islamic education will play a role in redefining the relationship between Islam and state and Islam and society. What role they play depends in part on state efforts to control and accommodate religious activity.
Speakers
•David Abramson, Analyst, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research
•Michael Hall, Regional Director for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Open Society Foundations (Moderator)
http://www.soros.org/initiatives/cep/events/foreign-education-centralasia-20101013
I thought they’d brought “democracy” to those areas already meanwhile millions of dollars later...
China and the East - Green and the Red are diverging as planned. Who does that leave out? Their greatest enemy the Christians. They’ve just about finished cleasing the ME of Christians and no one cares...for shame on me. Makes one wonder about Serbia. General Wes Clark...
Ifound BMG - Romney-Wahid Hamid/Tellus Institute/20-20 project where I only saw some Bretton Woods II white papers... It was Rothschild’s lawyer who found Maurice Strong...it was Soros’ divorce lawyer who led me to -
The New World Order Cartel -
At least I know why Soros can do whatever he wants...
http://www.brettonwoods.org/index.php/179/Leadership_Staff
http://www.brettonwoods.org/index.php/196/Podcast_Multimedia
http://www.brettonwoods.org/members/
http://www.brettonwoods.org/index.php/180/Bretton_Woods_Institutions
http://www.brettonwoods.org/members/#International_Council_Members
...and much more. I wonder why they leave it so open? They don’t seem to care who sees it - makes one think they own us already.
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