Soros, The Rolling Stone, and the Progressive Blob
The marketing juggernaut that takes down important voices.
In a recent essay, I wrote how the progressive blob, otherwise known as the liberal deep state, is taking down individuals and organizations to quell voices critical of Biden and the Democrat Party before the 2024 elections.
Those actions have included the multiple gag orders placed on Trump starting in the spring of 2024 - during the Presidential primary, putting first Peter Navarro and then Steve Bannon in jail for many months - just before the presidential election, indicting the Epoch Times VP of finance just months before the election, and expediting the shuttering of the studio and businesses of Alex Jones.
An article by the New York Post titled “Dem-majority FCC helping George Soros fast-track takeover of nationwide radio network: ‘This is scary’” lays out how Soros has now bought a 40% stake in the second largest radio network in the USA, which will give him majority control or close to it, and is working to fast track his influence upon the network:
billionaire George Soros is trying to recruit the Democrat-controlled Federal Communications Commission to help fast-track his takeover of the nation’s second-biggest radio network.
Soros, 93, pumped $400 million into Audacy in February, a network which reaches 165 million monthly listeners and includes a handful of conservative shows from hosts including Sean Hannity, Dana Loesch, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck and Erick Erickson.
But their influence is likely to be muted if the billionaire takes over and imposes his agenda, as has happened with other media acquisitions.
The fear is that the conservative radio stations in this network will soon be silenced and/or made to conform to the liberal requirements of their overlords.
Yes, another example of the progressive blob taking down voices critical of their agenda.
Moving on, this is nothing new - it has just been ramped up for this election. Billionaire George Soros has been at this game for decades.
More than 180 different media-related organizations receive money from George Soros.
Free Press is just one of the better funded Soros groups. They also include the Center for American Progress ($7.3 million), which operates the heavily staffed Think Progress blog. That blog ''now has 30 writers and researchers,'' according to Politico. Other well-funded operations include the investigative reporting operations at the Center for Public Integrity ($3.7 million) and Center for Investigative Reporting ($1.1 million), as well as Media Matters ($1.1 million) and the Sundance Institute ($1 million).
That's not all. ''Soros' foundations gave 34 grants from 1997 to 2010 to local NPR member stations and specific programs that have totaled nearly $3.4-million, said the foundations' [spokesperson Maria] Archuleta. Recipients included WNYC and Minnesota Public Radio,'' wrote now former NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard.
In fact, Soros funds nearly every major left-wing media source in the United States. Forty-five of those are financed through his support of the Media Consortium. That organization ''is a network of the country's leading, progressive, independent media outlets.'' The list is predictable - everything from Alternet to the Young Turks, who have since lost their MSNBC show.
A report by the Media Consortium detailed how progressives had created an ''echo chamber'' of outlets ''in which a message pushes the larger public or the mainstream media to acknowledge, respond, and give airtime to progressive ideas because it is repeated many times.'' According to the report called ''The Big Thaw,'' ''if done well, the message within the echo chamber can become the accepted meme, impact political dynamics, shift public opinion and change public policy.''
Using a network of outlets to simultaneously push out coordinated messaging is a form of psychological manipulation. This technique falls under the tactic of neurolinguistic programming. Progressives and the blob, including George Soros, are using this technique to flood the media with progressive ideas and take down conservatives and critical voices that they view as the enemy.
I know; it happened to me when eight of the largest print media organizations in the world almost simultaneously ran hit pieces on me. Which still dominate the Googlenet search results, while not a single one of my substack essays, some of which have much higher reader numbers than any of these media hit pieces, make it onto the front page of Google. Furthermore, these hit pieces, which are full of fact-checking lies, have never been corrected, this propaganda is what dominates my Wiki page, and there is literally not a dam thing I can do about it. This technique is also known as the “wrap-up smear.” The downstream consequences of these attacks last for years, if not decades.
To this day, I am permanently banned from Linked In and basically either banned or shadow-banned from all of the Metaverse and TikTok. Because I personally don’t “meet community standards” - not for any single post, image, or comment but because of the wrap-up smears against me. If Jill even mentions my name on Facebook, that post will be blocked from general distribution to her followers, and her ability to post anything on Facebook will be greatly diminished. Yet I don’t have a Facebook account. This is how the ecosystem works. They control the levers of power, what posts get amplified and which never see the light of day, and the process, as well as the results, are completely non-transparent.
This is why, when I recently read the extremely ugly hit piece by Rolling Stone on Nicole Shanahan, who is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.s running mate, that I knew exactly what was going on. This is an ongoing wrap-up smear attack - a directed, targeted attack aimed into the heart of the Kennedy Presidential campaign.
The June 26, 2024 Rolling Stone hit piece, titled: “Is Nicole Shanahan Flirting With QAnon and Christian Nationalism? RFK Jr.’s running mate is decrying “demonic” influence in government” by Tim Dickerson is downright disgusting. In this article, Rolling Stone asserts that:
Shanahan is a billionaire anti-vaxxer who, like RFK Jr., is no stranger to conspiracy theories. But Shanahan has recently embraced language common to the QAnon crowd, as well as to some Christian nationalists, to describe supernatural forces at play in our politics.
This is an image of the post from April, 2024 that the Rolling Stone asserts makes Shanahan an “anti-vaxxer.”
By that definition, who isn’t an anti-vaxxer?
The following quote is from Nicole Shannahan at a campaign rally, where she said:
“Bobby Kennedy can win this next election” because he “understands the deeply troubling, almost demonic forces that have overtaken our agencies, and our culture.”
From that, the Rolling Stone asserts that "Ms. Shanahan “decrying demonic influences” and that she has now “embraced language common to the QAnon crowd, as well as to some Christian nationalists, to describe supernatural forces at play in our politics.”
Obviously, the above quote makes a clear case for her embracing “QAnon” and “Christan Nationalism” ideology! [insert sarcasm emoji here].
Rolling Stone goes on to list some of Shanahan’s other significant sins:
She likes raw milk
She follows Tucker Carlson on X
She retweeted a video from Owen Shroyer.
She has been on podcasts with Naomi Wolf
She has been on a podcast with Dilbert creator Scott Adams.
She follows Congressman Thomas Massie on X
She has praised former congressman and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul for “carrying [the] voice of our founding fathers.”
That any of these “sins” would rise to importance of making it into a news article is laughable.
But there it is, when an advocacy journalist and progressive media organization can’t find dirt, it will just make stuff up! And that is precisely what this article does. This is yellow journalism at its most florid.
This article is then amplified through the mainstream media echo chamber.
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Afghan Sikh sponsors donated to Sajjan’s riding association during Kabul evacuations
Directors of a charity that reached an agreement with the Canadian government to bring Afghan Sikhs into Canada made political donations to former Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s riding association around the same time as Canadian special forces soldiers were trying to evacuate them.
The Globe and Mail reported Tuesday Elections Canada records reveal these directors gave thousands of dollars in donations to the Vancouver South Liberal Electoral District Association in 2021. At the time, Canada was having an election campaign, and Sajjan was seeking re-election in Vancouver South.
These records generate increased speculation about the affiliation between Sajjan and the charity aiming to bring a group of 225 Afghan Sikhs on final evacuation flights from Kabul as the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan.
Sajjan confirmed on Thursday he had asked Canadian special forces rescue about 225 Afghan Sikhs after the Taliban came to power in 2021 — a move three sources said to the Globe and Mail led to resources being diverted from assisting Canadian citizens and Afghans connected to Canada.
READ MORE: Sajjan requested special forces save Afghan Sikhs amid fall of Kabul
He brought forward the location and other details about the Afghan Sikhs to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) as special forces headed to meet up with them. This information was provided to him from a Canadian Sikh group that had spoken with them.
In Kabul, the sources said the situation was crazy, as evacuation flights were wrapping up and Canada and other Western countries scrambled to bring their citizens out of Afghanistan.
Elections Canada said Manmeet Singh Bhullar Foundation (MSBF) Director Tarjinder Bhullar gave a $510 donation to the Vancouver South Liberal EDA. Tarjinder’s donation was noted on Aug. 19, 2021.
It pointed out MSBF Directors Baljinder and Apharnarayan Bhullar made a $1,000 donation each to the EDA. Baljinder’s and Apharnarayan’s donations were received on Aug. 22, 2021.
While these donations were sizeable, another one valued at $1,650 from MSBF Director Namrita Rattan was documented on Aug. 27, 2021. Rattan was the wife of former Alberta cabinet minister Manmeet Bhullar.
A few days later, Canada ended its evacuations in Afghanistan, failing to rescue the Sikhs after they became worried and left the area they were supposed to wait to obtain assistance. However, they were able to go to India.
The sources said the Afghan Sikhs were not treated as a priority for the CAF, as they were unconnected to Canada. Because Sajjan intervened, they said he impacted the rescue of Canadians and other Afghans on the CAF’s priority list.
He denied his comments about the Afghan Sikhs were orders and said he did not want them to be a top priority. He said Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had granted them permission to come to the country.
“I provided direction to the Canadian Armed Forces, through the appropriate chain of command, to assist the group of Afghan Sikhs who had been determined eligible for evacuation from Kabul through the process under way at IRCC,” he said to the Globe and Mail.
While Sajjan has denied being demanding, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre said the CAF was following orders from him when it attempted to assist them.
Elections Canada’s records go back 10 years to 2014, but there is no record of Tarjinder, Apharnarayan, or Rattan making any other donations.
Meanwhile, Baljinder made a $400 donation in 2019 to Conservative deputy leader Tim Uppal.
Ethics commissioner to reveal slush fund breach
in July, regardless of MP’s summer recess
Ethics investigators will make public conflict of interest breaches found in the Department of Environment's $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator program by the end of July, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
The Office of the Ethics Commissioner will release its report on the “green slush fund” regardless of parliament’s current 13-week summer recess, said Michael Wrobel, spokesman for Conflict Of Interest Act investigators.
The investigation follows complaints against Liberal-appointed directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). Parliament in 2001 created the agency to subsidize green ventures. The agency was handed a total $856 million in subsidies under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration, in the period from 2017 to 2023.
“The (ethics) office is still working towards the August 1 deadline,” said Wrobel.
“Once completed, investigation reports prepared under the Act are provided to the prime minister, to the senator or MP who requested the examination and to the public office holder or former public office holder who was the subject of the examination,” said Wrobel.
“These steps can take place while the House is in summer recess,” he added.
Cabinet on June 4 collapsed the agency and transferred its work to the National Research Council. The abrupt wrap-up came hours after auditors released a report on SDTC that documented 186 conflicts by the board worth $319 million.
“A person should not be seen to benefit from public funds,” Auditor General Karen Hogan testified June 20 at the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
“There is a requirement in the Sustainable Development Technology Act that says no one should personally benefit from government money.”
Conservative MP Rick Perkins called misconduct at the agency “a conspiracy of corruption.”
They are “defrauding the taxpayer and nobody in the government seems to care,” he told the committee.
“Almost half of all transactions from 2017 to 2023 were conflicted transactions out of 420,” said Perkins.
“It is quite an amazing thing. I don’t believe those directors represented half of the green technology sector yet somehow they managed to get almost half the funding.”
Former Minister of Industry, Navdeep Bains, who appointed directors implicated in conflicts, testified June 6 he could not recall multiple warnings against appointing friends of the Liberal Party to the board.
“I stand by the process,” said Bains.
Deputy Industry Minister Simon Kennedy testified June 13 that taxpayers rightly deserved a refund of subsidies paid to friends of board members.
“There are going to be cases where potentially funding was provided and it needs to be recovered,” said Kennedy.
“No members should have personally benefited,” said Hogan.
“It is a concern which is why we flagged it in our report, about failures the board had.”
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