[IMC-Tech] would The McClatchy Company

[maxigas]

hi!

in Hungary the best university (Central European University) is run by Soros.  there are people
who are supporting indymedia there, not with money -- IMC Hungary does not accept money, this is
our official policy -- but with resources like meeting spaces, projector, lecturers for
trainings, etc.

my personal impression from the Hungarian activist scene (if there is one) is that in the
beginning of the 90s Soros came in with a lot of money.  there were many people who wanted to
criticise the system, but they were not sure how to do that in a so-called democracy.  Soros
taught them how, and financed the process.  first, trainings about ideology of open society: just
to show that it is the intelligent critique of the system and how cool.  second, trainings and
programmes to make NGOs (or even university departments like Anthropology at the University of
Budapest).  third, financing mechanism to keep these afloat until the 00s.  from a historical
perspective this was a pretty efficient strategy to pacifise most of the potential militants, dry
the grassroots and involve all the people who would now do grassroots horizontalist activism into
NGOs who are continued to be controlled through targeted grants and also by now a steady flow of
government money.

paradoxically, CEU is really a good place for activist research in Budapest, but all these Soros
things going on are one important cause of why nothing else (and better!) exists...

maxigas
IMC Hungary

From: ryan <ryan at linefeed.org>
Subject: Re: [IMC-Tech] would The McClatchy Company
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:47:17 -0700

> boud wrote:
> > application are linked with indymedia, or maybe none of them has any
> > idea how dangerous indymedia has been, is and will continue to be to
> > the interests of how they see capitalism coping with the internet?
> 
> Briefly, George Soros historically gave money to anarchist groups and
> other "softline" anti-capitalists -- especially in Eastern Europe --
> because they provided the leftist credibility needed when right-wing
> paramilitaries massacred the families of Communist Party members and set
> the stage for the "obscured coup" which handed over public and civic
> institutions/soviets/factories/etc to CIA-affiliated "businessmen" who
> have now become known in the former Soviet Union as The Oligarchs. Soros
> specifically funded anarchists because, even to this day, it is very
> difficult for leftists to wrap their head around the fact that
> anarchists played a key propaganda role in a CIA operation of terrorism
> (whether they knew it or not). As an example:
> 
> 'The Yugoslavs remained stubbornly resistant and repeatedly returned
> Slobodan Milosevic’s reformed Socialist Party to government. Soros was
> equal to the challenge. From 1991, his Open Society Institute channeled
> more than $100 million 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 other custodians of
> human rights, Time Warner Corporation and Disney.'
> - July 4, 2003, A review by Karen Talbot, Centre for Research on
> Globalization on "George Soros: The billionare trader has become Eastern
> Europe's uncrowned king and the prophet of 'the open society.' But open
> to what?" by Neil Clark, New Statesman (June 2, 2003)
> 
> I don't think it is a stretch to suggest that Indymedia, in the minds of
> people like George Soros, represent a form of independent media similar
> to B92.
> 
> For instance, an anarchist group who received training and money from
> the CIA gave a presentation at the A Space in Philadelphia, a part of
> the local activist community that includes Indymedia.
> 
> -ryan
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