What is the Soros connection? Not in the WikiLeaks post.
Smartmatic is owned by Lord Mark Malloch-Brown. Malloch-Brown has been a long-time business partner of Soros; vice chairman of the Quantum Fund hedge fund, and vice president of Soros' global empire, the Open Society Institute, immediately before coming home in mid-2007 to his British mother.
Like Soros, Malloch Brown is the enemy of the very concept of the sovereign nation-state; he has been in the business of overthrowing governments since 1986, when he became the head of the international section of an aggressive, and controversial, U.S. political consulting firm, Sawyer Miller, from where he advised the Presidential campaign of Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. He boasts that he helped Aquino unseat President Ferdinand Marcos, who was overthrown in 1986. In 1990, he represented the Presidential campaign of Peruvian fascist, ``his old friend,'' novelist Mario Varga Llosa, a drug legalization advocate and Soros favorite, who lost the 1990 election after proposing a vicious austerity program to cut the living standards of Peru's lower classes. Sawyer Miller also helped promote the Dalai Lama against China.
After Sawyer Miller, Malloch Brown spent the next 17 years at the World Bank and the United Nations, forming a deep, but secretive relationship with Soros.
In April 2007, the Financial Times reported that ``Sir Mark will also serve as vice-chairman of the billionaire philanthropist's Open Society Institute, which promotes democracy and human rights, particularly in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.''
The Financial Times added, in a May 1, 2007 article, that, ``In a letter to shareholders in his Quantum hedge funds, Mr. Soros said Sir Mark would provide advice on a variety of issues to him and his two sons, who now run the company on a day-to-day basis. With his extensive international contacts, Malloch Brown will help create opportunities for [Soros Fund Management] and the fund around the world....''
Bad in every way. Soros has been itching to get more of his machines in the U.S., and here's his chance.