Monday, May 22, 2023

The Girl Who Told the Truth

 https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/girl-told-truth/

The bottom line was, if you believed Gabby, Shelby, Hunter, and Carly, you thought justice had been done. If you didn’t believe them, you tended to agree with longtime local defense lawyer Bobby Mims. “In my thirty years of practice,” he told me nine years ago, “I’ve never seen anything like that—an absolute, honest-to-God frame-up.” (At the time, Smith County assistant DA Murphy denied this claim. “There was no type of frame-up in these cases,” he wrote me.)

So Glenn Beck Calls George Soros a Nazi Collaborator? Marty Peretz Said It First

 https://forward.com/opinion/133132/so-glenn-beck-calls-george-soros-a-nazi-collaborat/

Here’s some of the material that’s missing from the Fox-Beck transcript of the first show. Notice the scary music with the kettle drums and the screaming mobs as he takes us back history to the birth of George Soros. Note, too, that he provides a list of countries where Soros “collapsed” the regimes, without once mentioning that they were dictatorships in the former Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe. He makes the $600 billion that Soros spent over the last 30 years promoting democracy and human rights in the former communist world sound like a conspiracy to subvert democracy and establish himself as some sort of emperor. It would be almost funny if it weren’t so outrageous.

The Troubling Truth About The Obsession With George Soros

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethcohen/2020/09/12/the-troubling-truth-about-the-obsession-with-george-soros/?sh=47684aad4e2e

Without question, there is a place for disagreement with any one individual’s politics, and Soros should not be immune to criticism. But the animosity against Soros goes far beyond criticism of any other billionaire funder of political efforts, and perhaps beyond all of them put together. The truth is there is only one sordid reason for why attacks on George Soros are constantly trending, and it is not because of his money or his politics.

It is because he is Jewish.

'Dripping with poison of antisemitism': the demonization of George Soros

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/24/george-soros-antisemitism-bomb-attacks

“If you can take people’s anger at the people in power, take people’s sense of being beaten down and ripped off, take people’s sense that the economy is screwing them over, that their sense of entitlement is at risk, and blame it on the Jews or certain wealthy Jews, then that’s very helpful for deflecting people’s anger away from the actual systems of power.”

The Vilification of George Soros In Israel

 https://momentmag.com/the-vilification-of-george-soros-in-israel/

the accusation that a Hungarian-born Jew who escaped the Holocaust was a Nazi was beyond reason. Whether or not they knew it, the people who applauded were echoing a vicious lie likely invented in the 1990s by known anti-Semite and conspiracy-spinner Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.

Did George Soros Help Nazis Confiscate Jewish Property?

 https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-george-soros-help-nazis-confiscate-jewish-property-1801194

George Soros did not help Nazis confiscate Jewish property. During the World War II, he was given a false identity to avoid Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews. A man who was paid to pretend that he was Soros' godfather, and helped hide the then-14-year-old boy, was on one occasion ordered to take inventory of a Jewish aristocrat. Soros was brought along but was not involved in the confiscation.

Social media users falsely link George Soros and the Nazis

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/21/fact-check-false-claim-george-soros-collaborated-nazis/8306094001/

Soros and his family, who are Jewish, escaped persecution during the Holocaust by using false identity papers. There is no evidence Soros aided the Nazi regime, which ended when he was 14. 

False claims about George Soros

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-false-george-soros-claims-idUSKBN23P2XJ

SOROS IS NOT A FORMER NAZI
Reuters debunked a false claim that a photograph shows a young Soros in a Nazi uniform (here). During the time Nazis were active, Soros would not have met the age requirements to be in the Schutzstaffel. Soros and his family were Hungarian Jews who lived in Budapest during the war, disguising their identities for safety. In 1947 at the age of 17, Soros moved to London to attend university (more  here). 

By the time Soros was 17, the fall of Nazi Germany had already happened. Soros could not possibly have been involved in the Nazi party which was active between 1920-1945. He is also a Hungarian Jew, further disproving this theory. In a 1998 60 Minutes interview (youtu.be/AiqHiQYuoOs) Soros says his father forged his family’s identity to protect them. Soros, as a teenager, was placed under custody of a government official with the premise of being his godson. During this time, Soros witnessed (but did not actively participate in) the confiscation of Jewish property (here). In the interview, Soros says he doesn’t feel guilt looking back at these events, mentioning that he was a child at the time and that he was a “spectator” to something that would have happened regardless of his presence.

The Sex Scandal That Shook a Texas Town Was All a Big Lie

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-to-create-a-sex-scandal-inside-the-made-up-texas-pedophile-sex-ring?ref=home?ref=home

If that weren’t disheartening enough, though, How to Create a Sex Scandal then addresses the question why Margie went through all this trouble in the first place with the most depressing answer imaginable: money. Which just serves as a reminder: When greed and God get together, look out.


Sunday, May 21, 2023

Turns Out New York Post Story of ‘Vets Kicked Out for Migrants’ That Fox News Pushed Is False

 https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/turns-york-post-story-vets-022951665.html

A New York Post story claiming that 20 homeless veterans had been kicked out of hotels in upstate New York to make room for migrants and was later spotlit on Fox News turned out was a lie.

Without fact-checking the story or reaching out to the accused hotels for comment, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham highlighted it with a chyron that read “New York City Puts Illegals Ahead of Veterans,” while Republicans raged at Biden, with Nikki Haley calling it “liberal insanity at work.”

Longtime advocate lied about vets getting kicked out of NY hotels for migrants: pol

 https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/advocate-lied-about-vets-getting-kicked-out-of-ny-hotels-for-migrants-pol/

An upstate New York lawmaker is calling for an investigation into a well-known veterans advocate — accusing her of lying when she claimed ex-military members were getting booted from hotels to make way for the flood of migrants up north.

New York lawmaker connected to nonprofit accused of lying about homeless vets being pushed out of hotel for migrants says he’s no longer affiliated with foundation

 https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/20/us/new-york-assemblyman-nonprofit-veterans/index.html

On Friday, CNN reported two homeless men said they were part of a group of 15 who were offered money to pose as veterans and say they were asked to leave the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, New York. They claimed Sharon Toney-Finch, a nonprofit leader who houses the homeless, was the person who allegedly offered the money and never paid up.

Laura Ingraham Has ‘No Clue’ Why Vets Group Made Up Story Fox Ran Wild With- fake news from Fox

https://news.yahoo.com/laura-ingraham-no-clue-why-152355395.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFllGMRPea1Xvfv-cMu16v5vxjsFhbX6onI6hCcX7cnUCM9c5NQIeEQtjDCXPus-4SLexcAVdWHCZtN2HPc7ZzleJUFWyHi_u5si-xZJI7feI-PYjNkLo9Zr4kJ6jgAUpwaLq_ZLt2Hw28Q7xFt5qBIrWLhFFzMi4Okm0OuNmNEA 

Offering up a “little update” on Friday night, Fox News host Laura Ingraham admitted that the story of homeless vets being displaced by migrants was a hoax, adding that she had “no clue” why a group would make up a story her network stoked days of outrage over.

This time, every Jew is with George Soros

 https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-743544

Soros, for his part, could indeed be tactless. As this column argued last decade (“By George,” 14 July 2017), promoting Muslim immigration into Hungary without living there was both unfair and unwise, and such was also Soros’s claim the previous decade that antisemitism “is the result of the policies of Israel and the United States” (“The sorrows of George Soros,” 21 November 2003).

However, such criticism cannot license denying Soros’s philanthropic greatness, as maverick carmaker Elon Musk just did in a tweet that claimed Soros “hates humanity” and that his endeavors are designed “to erode the very fabric of civilization.”