R. I. P. George Soros : The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall

George Soros used to be a mysterious and feared figure lurking in the shadows, with his billions of dollars poised to wreck conservatism and American constitutional government. That is changing because Soros has become a very public figure, attacked or ignored, but not feared. Here's how George Soros is faring today. • • • SOROS ACCUSED OF MEDDLING IN GERMAN POLITICS. Dialogue International reported in February about the anti-Soros positions of both far-rightwing and extreme left writers and groups in Germany, quoting a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report on an article published by Kopp Verlag, the "the anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi media company that is an important source of conspiracy theories and Fake News in Germany through its numerous books and Web site." The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung printed a long quote published by Kopp Verlag from anti-Semitic writer Peter Orzechowski. The quote opens a disturbing window into the depths of anti-Semitism still active in Germany (and other European countries). The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says : "A favorite target of the publisher [Kopp Verlag] and its cadre of writers is George Soros -- who acts as a proxy for the Weltjudentum (world Jewry). The [Kopp Verlag] article mentions the anti-Semitic writer Peter Orzechowski, who often writes about Soros : 'Peter Orzechowski lectures on the bogeyman of the anti-Semitic Right, the financier George Soros. NATO and the EU are 'evil organizations' that were created by the US. It is no coincidence that since refugees began streaming into Europe there has been no attempt to reach a peace settlement with the 'democratic head of state Assad' : the US wants global dominance while the Saudi sheiks seek the islamization of Europe. Orzechowski then speaks about the 'Volks-Replacement' that is behind the refugee crisis. The man responsible for this is George Soros and his foundations. 'We don't need to fantasize, we simply just have to watch what these overlords want.' Orzechowski doesn't mention that Soros comes from a Jewish family in Hungary [Note : we should note that the young Soros worked with Nazis to strip Jews of their gold and other valuables and today is an anti-Israel activist -- so Soros does not represent Jews in any sense], but in his [Orzechowski's] report Soros is the epitome of the evil, capitalist Jew, who secretly pulls the strings and whose mission is to weaken Europe -- bringing it to collapse -- by taking in the flood of immigrants. 'Our politicians are all bought, but we still think they are fighting on our behalf -- you can forget that,' says Orzechowski. Since Soros has a financial stake in a company that manufactures voting machines, [Orzechowski] implies that he is behind massive voter fraud. The state is controlled by big corporations and the secret service (CIA)." • The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung report presents an ugly picture of extreme rightwing anti-Semitism, but goes on to say that it is not only German rightwing anti-Semitics who detest and fear Soros : "It turns out that Soros is equally hated by left-wing groups in Germany, mainly because he is seen as an obstacle to Putin and Russian expansionism. The left-wing Web site NachDenkSeiten blames Soros for everything from the refugee crisis, to the 'fascist Putsch' in Kiev that expelled Putin's vassal Yanukovych to Hilary Clinton's candidacy in the US. Likewise, the Fake News impresario Ken Jebsen -- who once called the Holocaust a 'publicity stunt' -- blames Soros for most of the ills in Germany and the EU. The anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Paul Schreyer sees Soros acting in consort with the CIA to block Putin; the 'Open Society' promoted by Soros is nothing more that a giant conspiracy to achieve global dominance by the Jews 'Elite.' Schreyer has written extensively about the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks and promotes the theory that the planes were guided by 'remote control' -- rather than by the terrorists. Who was at the controls? Schreyer doesn't say, but presumably it was Soros himself -- or Mossad acting under Soros' commands." • • • ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-MERKEL AND SOROS. After reading just the above quotes from the highly respectable Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -- that is trying to make the point that anti-Semitism flourishes in both the extreme right and left in Germany and that George Soros takes the heat at both ends of the political spectrum -- it is easy to understand why there are strict laws in Germany and all over Europe that make extremist anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi remarks and acts illegal. Anpother example is given by the UK's Daily Mail report on an article by Gustav Gressel, a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, partly funded by the Soros Open Society. Gressel warns that refugees could carry out orchestrated sex attacks, prompted by Russia, that would destabilize Angela Merkel ahead of September's election. Merkel has already warned about Russian interference in the German election. The Daily Mail says : "The extraordinary assertion was made by an expert from the European Council on Foreign Relations, who said the foreign powers could collude to destabilise Germany ahead of next year's election. Gustav Gressel, a Russian expert at the think-tank, said small numbers of refugees with links to the Kremlin and Syrian security services could be mobilised to sway public opinion against the Chancellor." Citing a series of sex assaults in the city of Cologne during New Year's Eve celebrations at the start of 2016, Gressel said : 'What would happen, for example, if a similar event were repeated at a summer festival before the election as in the Silvesternacht [New Wear's Eve] in Cologne? How would Merkel stand then? What would be the consequence for the Bundestag election? Of course, this is an extreme example, but it is within the range of possibility.' " • Hundreds of sexual assaults and 29 rapes have been reported across Germany, centered mainly in Cologne. Last year's attacks sparked an anti-migrant backlash, including a march in January by far-right group Pegida. Gressel says similar attacks could provoke Germans to turn on Merkel at next September's election. • Why would Russia want to get rid of Merkel? Because Chancellor Merkel is widely viewed as hostile to Russia, and last December recommended extending EU sanctions against Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. The Chancellor has also warned that Russia is already trying to influence the German electoral process : "We are already, even now, having to deal with information out of Russia or with internet attacks that are of Russian origin or with news which sows false information." She said dealing with this is already a "daily task," adding : "So it may be that this could also play a role during the election campaign." • Hans-Georg Massen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, said a Russian disinformation campaign was likely, citing the high-profile case last year of a young Russian woman from Berlin, who Russian media said was kidnapped and raped by migrants, a claim later refuted by the German government. Massen told Reuters : "This could happen again next year and we are alarmed. We have the impression that this is part of a hybrid threat that seeks to influence public opinion and decision-making processes." And, Putin's government has faced widespread allegations that it used hackers to try and influence the US Presidential election this year, with leaks of DNC files linked to Russian cyber groups, although no evidence of actual voting influence has been found. • • • It is important to know that the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is a pan- European think tank with offices in seven European capitals. It conducts research and aims to promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European values based foreign policy. The Soros Open Society helped establish the ECFR with funding. ECFR's Council currently has over 170 members, including former prime ministers, presidents, European commissioners, current and former parliamentarians and ministers, public intellectuals, business leaders, activists and cultural figures from the EU member states and candidate countries. The ECFR takes the Soros globalist side of EU issues, supporting pan-EU solutions that over-arch individual EU country interests. In 2011, the academic Dr James G. McGann wrote in a book on global think tanks : “The fact that ECFR attempts to pursue policy advice and research through a pan-European focus means that it is free from the national restrictions of operating with one particular state framework in mind. In this sense, it is able to prescribe solutions and recommendations that benefit Europe as a whole and perhaps to a much greater extent than if they had done so with only, for example, the interests of Germany or France in mind.” • That is a textbook definition of globalism s preached by George Soros. • • • SOROS ATTRACTS MEDIA ATTENTION AND A LAWSUIT. With the many European reports and attacks on Soros initiatives in the EU, it is little wonder his profile has become very public and he has become a lightning rod for media and interest group attention. Soros has been accused of using his Open Society Foundation and US diplomatic connections to interfere with the government of Macedonia, according to Senator Mike Lee. In 2002, Soros was convicted in France of insider trading for buying stakes in companies previously owned by the government, including the bank Société Générale, based on confidential information. • But, Soros is a billionaire investor and sometimes his deals create news, too. Bloomberg and several other media outlets reported in April that Soros, the founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, was being sued by companies controlled by Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz, claiming Soros cost them at least $10 billion through a defamation campaign that stripped them of rights to an iron ore deposit in Guinea and other business opportunities around the world. Soros allegedly funded law firms, transparency groups, investigators and government officials in Guinea in a coordinated effort to ensure BSG Resources Ltd. lost the rights to the Simandou deposit in April 2014, BSGR said in a complaint filed in April in Manhattan federal court. Bloomberg states : "After years of BSGR accusing Soros of propagating corruption allegations which resulted in its loss of Simandou, this is the first time it took direct legal action against him. In the complaint, BSGR alleges that Soros was driven by a grudge dating back to 1998 around a business in Russia and his alleged hostility towards Israel." The BSRG complaint alleges : “To Soros, Steinmetz’s success, as well as his active, passionate promotion of Israeli life, business and culture are anathema. Soros is also well known for his long-standing animus toward the state of Israel.” Bloomberg said Soros’s spokesman Michael Vachon didn’t respond to a Bloomberg email or messages left on his work and mobile phone. • Simandou, hailed by mining companies as the richest untapped iron ore site in the world, has also been the subject of numerous court fights. Rio Tinto Group sued Steinmetz, accusing him and BSGR of conspiring with Vale SA to steal the rights to the deposit. That lawsuit was thrown out in 2015 by a federal judge in New York. BSGR lawyers demanded billions of dollars in damages from Rio Tinto in December after Rio announced that it had informed law enforcement agencies of a $10.5 million consultancy payment to a friend of Guinea’s president. BSGR’s former public relations advisor FTI Consulting LLP in 2013 settled a London lawsuit that claimed it was part of Soros’s campaign against the mining company. FTI said it didn’t admit any wrongdoing. • And, Steinmetz has also been investigated and questioned by Swiss and Israeli law enforcement officials on suspicions that he paid bribes to help his company win a stake in Simandou. Steinmetz and BSGR originally lost their rights to Simandou because the Guinean government found that they obtained the permits after paying millions in bribes, including to Mamadie Toure, the fourth wife of Guinea’s former president. But, BSGR says in the complaint that the Guinea government’s decision to strip BSGR of its rights was based on fabricated reports by Soros-funded companies. Toure, who implicated BSGR and Steinmetz, "received $50,000 from an advisor to President Alpha Conde and $80,000 from an "agent or affiliate of Soros," according to the complaint. BSGR said its case is supported by an email from a senior Soros investment executive in New York relating to Guinea’s interactions with BSGR around their mining contract and information from witnesses that Soros had personally demanded BSGR be pushed off Simandou. BSGR said in the complaint : “Soros’s financial clout gave him power over Guinea’s processes of government, which he then thoroughly abused.” Soros was "motivated solely by malice, as there was no economic interest he had in Guinea," the company said. • Fox News reported about the BSGR lawsuit on May 5 : "The 86-year-old investor, who controls a web of international nonprofits in addition to his vast financial empire, used his sway with the government of Guinea to freeze Israeli company BSG Resources out of the West African nation’s lucrative iron ore mining contracts, according to the suit filed last month in New York Federal Court by BSG Resources." • • • SOROS IN THE US. Fox quotes J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ attorney, on Soros : “Americans do not understand the extent to which Soros fuels this anti-constitutional, anti-American agenda.” A spokesman for Soros, who regularly has ties with newly democratic governments in Eastern Europe and Africa, said the philanthropist has "a lifelong interest in helping impoverished nations," and only backed a probe of BSG out of corruption concerns. Fox takes a different view : "Critics around the world, including in the US and in Soros’ homeland of Hungary, say the liberal financier often masquerades as a humanitarian while manipulating the political landscape. In the US, Soros has spent heavily on politics from local district attorney races to presidential campaigns. While his stated goals have included reshaping the justice system, achieving income equality, battling climate change and fighting racism, critics say he has used his money to buy massive influence within the Democratic Party." Breaking Israel News published in January an article titled 'How Soros Destroyed the Democratic Party' by Daniel Greenfield, who compares the grip the Democrat Party had on US politics in 2000 -- Republicans and Democrats had total control of both chambers of legislatures in 16 states -- with that in 2016, when Republicans control both legislative chambers in 32 states. Greenfield says that what happened was "the Democrats decided to sell their base and their soul to a very bad billionaire and they got a very bad deal for both." • In 2004, Soros went to war against the will of the American people, with his own “Soros Doctrine” -- "It is the central focus of my life, a matter of life and death.” He vowed that he would become poor if it meant defeating the President of the United States, George W. Bush. Instead of going broke, Soros spent at least $15 million to beat President Bush. Money poured into fringe organizations of the left like MoveOn, which had moved on from a petition site to a PAC. In 2004, Soros was its biggest donor. He didn’t bring down Bush, but he helped buy the Democrat Party for his leftwing activists. • Soros hasn’t had a great track record at buying presidential elections. Greenfield says : "But his money did transform the Democrat Party. And killed it." Soros funded Democracy Alliance and Podesta’s Center for American Progress. Greenfield says : "The Democrats became a radical left-wing organization and unviable as a national political party. The Party of Jefferson had become the Party of Soros....Obama’s wins concealed the scale and scope of the disaster. Then the party woke up after Obama to realize that it had lost its old bases in the South and the Rust Belt. The left had hollowed it out and transformed it into a party of coastal urban elites, angry college cry-bullies and minority coalitions." That is why Republicans control twice as many state legislatures as the Democrats -- and in 25 states, the GOP controls both legislative chambers and the governor’s mansion. The Democrats have a solid lock on the West Coast and a narrow corridor of the Northeast, and not much else, says Greenfield. The Democrat Governor’s Association has a membership in the teens. In former strongholds like Arkansas, Dems are becoming extinct. The party has gone from holding national legislative majorities to being a marginal movement. • What is downright amazing about all this is that the Democrats don’t intend to change -- Pelosi still oversees the disaster in the House, and Obama remains the party’s highest profile national figure. The Progressive left recreated the Democrat Party and marginalized it -- a disaster funded with Soros money. Greenfield sums it up : "Had Soros aided the Democrats without trying to control them, he would have gained a seat at the table in a national party. Instead he spent a fortune destroying the very thing he was trying to control. George Soros saw America in terms of its centers of economic and political power. He didn’t care about the vast stretches of small towns and villages, of the more modest cities that he might fly over in his jet but never visit, and the people who lived in them. Like so many globalists who believe that borders shouldn’t exist because the luxury hotels and airports they pass through are interchangeable, the parts of America that mattered to him were in the glittering left-wing bubble inhabited by his fellow elitists." • But, then along came Donald Trump. Trump’s victory was created by the white working class that the Soros Democrats had abandoned. Progressives used Soros and his money to focus on their own political obsessions -- the Ivy and urban leftists who made up the Progressive core exist in a narrow world that belittles and rejects everything and everybody not like them. In effect, George Soros turned over the Democrats to political fanatics. His protégés, says Greenfield, "repeated the great self-destruction of the Soviet Union on a more limited scale....He wanted to control a country he did not understand. And, as the left so often does, he achieved his goals and in doing so destroyed them." • • • DEAR READERS, think about it. The old aphorism applies : the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same result. That is Soros. He is still on the move. He just gave $36 million to groups organizing the People's Climate March that featured tens of thousands of demonstrators happy to use another Soros-funded opportunity to oppose President Trump. Of the 55 groups that helped organize the march, the Media Research Center says 18 received $36 million from George Soros over the last decade. The Washington Times says six of the groups received during that time more than $1 million each -- the Center for Community Change, the NAACP, the Natural Resources Defense Council, People’s Action, Public Citizen and the Union of Concerned Scientists. In a recent Gallup poll, just 4% of Americans identified environmental problems as the "Most Important" issue facing the country. While the turnout for the march was impressive, it is legitimate to ask whether this sort of push by liberal donors has any effect on the ordinary voter. As in Europe, Soros sees in America a climate change push as an opportunity to increase his influence and power internationally. That's why he funds so many of these groups that are ignorant about how he and a few of his billionaire friends pony up millions to gain support for their agenda by artificially creating a fake groundswell of grassroots politics. The Washington Times says : "Their efforts rarely, if ever, pay off at the polls. Far left liberal groups represented in the March yesterday are, after all, far left liberal groups with a radical agenda that is mostly rejected by ordinary Americans. In that sense, Soros is wasting his time and money." • And, perhaps Soros is finally coming to that realization. But, you have to read RT, the Kremlin-supported media outlet to discover it. On January 7, RT wrote : "George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire who has meddled in politics across Europe and North America for decades, is angry. The world he campaigned for is falling apart, and now he's busy looking for leaders to indict. According to Soros, liberal democracy is failing all across the western world. Apparently, this is because what he calls the 'open society' is in crisis. Now, he may very well be right about this, but pinning it on Angela Merkel seems somewhat bizarre. Especially when she is painted as being inadvertently in league with Vladimir Putin. But, nevertheless, it’s the German chancellor he regards as most culpable for why voters have become disenchanted with modern democracy. riting in a widely published New Year op-ed, Soros traces the current European crisis back to the crash of 2008. He laments how 'Germany emerged as the hegemonic power in Europe, but it failed to live up to the obligations that successful hegemons must fulfill, namely looking beyond their narrow self-interest to the interests of the people who depend on them.' Then he harks back to the 1940’s. 'Compare the behavior of the US after WWII with Germany’s behavior after the Crash of 2008,' he observes. 'The US launched the Marshall Plan, which led to the development of the EU; Germany imposed an austerity program that served its narrow self-interest.' Soros’ attack on Germany is probably borne out of personal frustration over Merkel’s lack of willingness to push for further European integration. Yet, this policy is merely a reflection of what her electorate wants. Miserly Germans are unable to countenance financially supporting profligate southern Europeans. As a result, the Euro currency project, which Merkel’s predecessor Helmut Kohl was basically forced into by France, has always had a questionable long-term future." • There we have the Russian view of Germany's insistence on austerity as the medicine for Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy (coming soon). And RT goes on : "Let’s remember how he chucked millions of dollars into pro-western movements in Ukraine. A man born and raised in neighboring Hungary should have been well aware of how divided the country was, and known that his actions could lead to turmoil. Especially given that his homeland has a stake in the southwestern part, where Hungarian is often the spoken language. Yet, he ploughed ahead, and his actions helped to destroy the country. The billionaire now says 'the only explanation I can find (for the electorate's rejection of globalization / liberalism is that elected leaders failed to meet voters’ legitimate expectations and aspirations and that this failure led electorates to become disenchanted with the prevailing versions of democracy and capitalism. Quite simply, many people felt that the elites had stolen their democracy.' But Soros...goes on to predict the demise of the EU itself. 'With economic growth lagging and the refugee crisis out of control, the EU is on the verge of breakdown and is set to undergo an experience similar to that of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s....I am particularly worried about the fate of the EU, which is in danger of coming under the influence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose concept of government is irreconcilable with that of open society'....And he goes on to make another ridiculous statement : 'In a brilliant move, he [Putin] exploited social media companies’ business model to spread misinformation and fake news, disorienting electorates and destabilizing democracies. That is how he helped Trump get elected.' ” • There you have it. George Soros is looking for scapegoats, for reasons to explain why his worldview has failed. Although we know that RT's aim is to tout Putin at the expense of Soros, RT puts it nicely : "In other words, Soros thinks Putin manipulated Facebook and Twitter to win the US election for Trump. This argument is ridiculous and makes Soros look stupid. It also suggests that he’s throwing his rattle out of the pram because a few democratic decisions have gone against him. And he needs to denigrate Merkel and use Putin as a bogeyman in order to deflect any mud from himself. For his own part, Soros, ironically at Davos, predicted that Trump had no chance of being elected President. And he was wrong. Now it appears he can’t deal with the outcome. Perhaps because he feels his life’s work is slipping away." • Putting a R.I.P. sign over George Soros may be a bit premature, but it is coming. And, remember what Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon, welterweight champion of the world from 1901-1904, said : "The bigger they are the harder they fall."