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.
MTG’s New Hurricane Helene Conspiracy: ‘They Can Control the Weather’
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.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Now Adding Lasers to Her Hurricane Helene Conspiracy
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]
This fruitcake female pastor says “Jesus would take women to clinics for abortions. He would be a clinic escort.”
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) September 18, 2024
Is this the church of Satan? Sure sounds like it!! Geeze.
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HOLY SH*T!
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) September 18, 2024
Footage of then-San Francisco DA Kamala Harris vowing to AGGRESSIVELY enter homes to inspect how private gun owners are storing their firearms.
Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn't mean that we're not going to… pic.twitter.com/C4LN6mYtRr
HOLY SH*T 🚨 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Exposes the Deep State in under 2 minutes. LET’S GO 🔥 👏
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) September 16, 2024
THIS IS HUGE pic.twitter.com/mJAuj6W2T8
This is absolutely the way to deal with the FBI. These agents are “thugs with badges,” and they do not have your welfare at heart. They’re looking for ways to trap you, to frame you, to destroy your life. And for what? A year-end bonus, a pat on the back pic.twitter.com/CjgCSJl0KI
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 17, 2024
By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com
Several bombshell claims were made last week in an unverified document circulating online purporting to prove close collaboration between ABC News and Kamala Harris's team before her debate with former president Donald Trump.
The document is claimed to be a sworn statement penned by a staffer at ABC News. It was first published Sunday by an X account with the name 'Black Insurrectionist.'
The document, said to be a sworn affidavit signed by a notary public the day before the debate, says the network gave Harris questions ahead of time while agreeing to a series of other preconditions to give the vice president an advantage over Trump.
Also prohibited at the debate were inquiries about Harris' stint as California Attorney General, as well as those involving her brother-in-law, Tony West, the document shows. It includes several other stipulations, as well as redactions obscuring the supposed staffer's identity.
A statement from ABC did not address the specific claims, instead saying: 'ABC News followed the debate rules that both campaigns agreed on... No topics or questions will be shared in advance with campaigns or candidates.'
The document, which describes containing a seal from the notary public that is not actually visible, says it was written by a New York resident.
'I have worked for ABC news for over 10 years in various technical and administrative positions,' it reads, before stating that the staffer 'observed significant transformations in the nature of news reporting at the organization' within that span, as well as a 'shift from unbiased reporting to a model influenced by external factors.'
The purported staffer, who says they are not a supporter of Donald Trump, states that the intent of the affidavit is solely to 'address concerns regarding perceived biases within news reporting within my employer's debate.'
The document goes on to cite 'promises made [that] the candidates would be held to firm discussions regarding their proposed policy stances and that the debate would not deteriorate into an ad campaign,' where 'candidates would simply make blanket statements without specific policy or explanation as to...'
The end of that sentence is redacted, along with several others.
The next section offers some purported insight into the political landscape of the ABC office, where the writer claimed employees were 'looking for a fair and honest debate' while questioning 'the clear biased [sic] that is well known throughout the company.'
It specifically mentions ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, as well as C-suite staffers at the station and its connected companies.
'It is common knowledge that Debate Moderators as well as Chief Executive Officers of my employer are well known not to support Donald Trump,' the section reads.
'This led to several employees speaking up in regards to how fair the debate was going to be.'
That same section includes 'specific instances related to the debate' that 'raise concerns about procedural fairness.'
The first was that the Harris campaign supposedly 'received particular accommodations, including, but not limited to, the providing of a podium significantly smaller than that used by Donald Trump, and assurances regarding split-screen television views that would favorably impact [Harris's] appearance.'
The next stipulation was that Trump 'would be subjected to fact-checking during the debate, while Kamala Harris would not face comparable scrutiny.'
It adds how Harris' team supposedly 'required assurances that Donald Trump would be fact checked,' allegedly 'via multiple communications with the Harris campaign.
'The Trump campaign was not included in the negotiations,' it goes on to state.
It then claims that 'the Harris campaign was provided with sample questions that, while not the exact questions, covered similar topics that would appear during the debate.'
The document then gets into 'Harris campaign-imposed restrictions on the scope of questioning,' including: 'No questions regarding the perceived health of President Joe Biden', 'No inquiries related to her tenure as Attorney General in San Francisco,' and lastly, 'No questions concerning her brother-in-law, Tony West.'
West, a prominent attorney who once worked as the general counsel for Uber, 'faces allegations of embezzling billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,' according to alleged affidavit.
Those claims are also unproven and have never been reported.
The document claims that West, who is married to Harris's sister, Maya, 'may be involved in [her] administration if she's elected.'
The New York Times recently reported that West is 'a major force behind Ms. Harris's campaign and its record-setting fund-raising,' and serves as a 'critical point of contact for business leaders and major donors.'
The document then claims ABC 'employees expressing favorable views toward [Trump] experience significant concerns about potential retribution.'
The assertion is made before several lines of redacted text.
The purported staffer further claimed to have sent the document to House Speaker Mike Johnson.
'I have also dispatched a Federal Express package containing this affidavit, sent on September 9th, 2024, and delivered to my residence on September 10th, 2024, which will remain unopened for potential investigative purposes,' the document states.
The staffer then claims to have 'secretly recorded several conversations that will prove that the Harris Campaign insisted upon not only the Fact Checking of Donald Trump, but also insisted on what questions were not to be asked under any circumstances.'
'I make these statement under the penalty of perjury and without coercion of any kind,' it concludes.
Despite being unproven, the document has picked up steam on social media, being shared by several high-profile figures.
They include Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, billionaire hedge-funder Bill Ackman, and Elon Musk, with the latter reposting statements expressing belief in the claims made by Ackman.
Days earlier, before the documents were shared, Trump himself reposted an account claiming an 'ABC whistleblower allegedly will release an affidavit' showing that 'the Harris campaign was given sample questions.'
Such claims first surfaced on the account of right-wing influencer and January 6 participant Philip Anderson last week, two days after the debate.
Despite being unproven, the document has picked up steam on social media, being shared by several high-profile figures. They include Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, billionaire hedge-funder Bill Ackman, and Elon Musk, with the latter reposting statements expressing belief in the claims made by Ackman, and Greene sharing an erroneous report about the person who penned the article dying in a car crash - before walking it back
That same day, a verified account with the name 'Black Insurrectionist' claimed it would release 'an affidavit from an ABC whistleblower' by the end of the weekend. On Sunday, the account posted the document.
A review by the left-wing Media Matters of recent activity on the account mentioned a post last month calling Harris and Tim Walz as 'disgusting creatures' and their supporters 'the delightful cesspool of humanity we are fighting here today.'
The account - which joined X in November 2023 - adds that the pair may be 'just plain flat out disgusting pedophiles.'
Another post called for '70 million people to do mass civil disobedience that will halt this country' to avoid a Harris win.
'The government just does what we want,' it added. The poster did not reveal how they came in contact with the supposed writer of the document.
ABC News has denied all of the allegations aired in it. [SOURCE]
