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).