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Sunday, November 30, 2003

Alan Forrester of Elegance Against Ignorance fame has a satisfying and lengthy fisking of George Soros well worth some attention. (Via Setting the World to Rights)

George Soros is a great financier who has made billions by audacious speculation on the stock markets of the world and praises Karl Popper. However, sadly there is another side to George Soros. A side that indulges in conspiracy theories, anticapitalism and astonishingly crude moral relativism.

His article in the Atlantic The Bubble of American Supremacy latest example of his moral failings...

Update: Eduard Shevardnadze is blaming Soros for his downfall.

Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze accused multibillionaire philanthropist George Soros of donating millions of dollars to an uprising earlier this month that forced him to resign.

Shevardnadze said in a newspaper interview that he could not point to specific countries that had backed the uprising. Instead, international groups, such as the Soros Foundation, had financed the opposition, he said...

"I am shocked how international organizations can get involved in the internal issues of a country in such a brash manner and to such a great extent," Shevardnadze told Yediot Ahronot. "I can't give you exact numbers, but one ambassador told me that we are talking about $2.5 million to $3 million."

Soros opened an Open Society branch in Moscow in 1987 with the aim of helping the Soviet Union make the transition to democracy. The group has been active in trying to bolster civil society and the rule of law in the former Soviet Union...



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