Story by Jared Harris
George Soros' bid to acquire hundreds of radio stations has not only been allowed to go ahead, but is being fast-tracked by the government agency regulating the airwaves.
The move appears to be driven by a Democratic majority sitting on an agency panel.
The Federal Communications Commission last week adopted an order allowing Soros, through his firm Soros Fund Management, to purchase Audacy, the nation's second-largest radio network.
Audacy operates radio stations in more than 46 U.S. markets and includes shows by Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin and others. There is a valid concern that Soros may try to silence these voices ahead of the elections in November.
Rep. Chip Roy originally sounded the alarm about the FCC's suspicious treatment of Soros in April of this year.
However, according to the New York Post, by the time Roy made the shocking discovery and went public with it, Soros had already dumped some $400 million into Audacy months earlier.
Roy pointed to a communications law that bars corporations with over 25 percent foreign ownership from legally holding a radio license, a major hurdle to Soros' acquisition of the radio network.
"But instead of going through the usual petition for declaratory ruling process, which would enable the FCC to review and assess those foreign ownership interests as part of its transaction review, the Soros group has asked the FCC to waive that process and put it off until sometime down the road," Roy wrote in a letter to the FCC, "indicating that those foreign stakeholders will be given 'special warrants' in the meantime."
"The Soros group says that skipping the foreign ownership review at this time will enable the FCC to expedite its approval of the Soros applications and thus allow them to more quickly realize their ownership interests in, and take the reins at, these hundreds of local radio stations across the country," Roy continued.
He added: "While this may be true, the Soros group's interest in expediency does not obviate the FCC's obligation to follow the law and protect the American people."
As the New York Post reports, on September 18 the FCC decided to allow Soros to go ahead with his takeover of American airwaves.
The FCC panel's vote was split down partisan lines, with three Democrats supporting a fast-track for Soros and two Republicans voting against the measure.
According to the Post, this is the first time in modern history such a move has been allowed without a national security review.
Speaking of our national integrity, the timing of Soros' attempted acquisition could not be more suspect. The move comes only weeks ahead of the November general election and gives Soros wide-reaching power to silence conservative voices.
The Post cites an unnamed source that said it's "not credible" to think Soros would gain power over major conservative names and not use it to crush discussion and free debate ahead of the elections.
Soros is no stranger to kindling unrest and discord in the United States.
The violent wave of anti-Israel protesters that rocked campuses and cities earlier this year were funded with money that was, unsurprisingly, traced back to Soros.[SOURCE]
Government officials were forced to flee a North Carolina county amid reported threats of armed civilians out “hunting” for hurricane relief workers.
On Saturday afternoon, the Washington Post reports a U.S. Forest Service official sent an email to several different federal agencies warning “National Guard troops had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying [they] were out hunting FEMA,” the government body responsible for overseeing emergency response management.
The message, which has been confirmed as authentic, added that incident management teams “have been notified and are coordinating the evacuation of all assigned personnel” in Rutherford County.
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While it’s understood that officials had been given the all-clear to return to the area by Sunday afternoon, similar threats were reported in Ashe County on Sunday, such that the local Sheriff’s office warned FEMA had again been forced to “pause their process” while an assessment of the risk was carried out, Axios reports.
These incidents offer the starkest evidence yet of the havoc caused by the rampant spread of misinformation as to the origin of Hurricanes Helene and Milton and the nature efforts to contain the damage caused.
Many of the conspiracy theories surrounding the storms and the government’s response have been spearheaded by Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who in a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, last week blamed nefarious (albeit unidentified) electoral forces for “controlling the weather” by means of extra-terrestrial laser technology.
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Other tinfoil-hatted pundits have suggested the weather was somehow engineered as part of a conspiracy to provide political cover to megacorporations engaged in lithium mining, as well as spreading fake reports of citizens being deliberately abandoned in the rubble.
Donald Trump has also fanned the flames, pushing unfounded allegations that the Democratic Party is deliberately withholding disaster relief from Republican voters, and that emergency funds have been diverted to undocumented migrants.
With FEMA already having been forced to set up a “rumor response” page on its website, the recent reports of militias roaming the hills in North Carolina is sadly not the only evidence of ways in which these disinformation narratives are adversely affecting the emergency relief efforts.
“It’s terrible because a lot of these folks who need assistance are refusing it because they believe the stuff people are saying about FEMA and the government,” Riva Duncan, a former Forest Service official based in Asheville, North Carolina, told the Washington Post.
“And it’s sad because they are probably the ones who need the help the most.” [SOURCE]
