{"id":106530,"date":"2018-02-12T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=106530"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T09:55:24","slug":"soros-the-400k-question-what-constitutes-foreign-interference-in-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/02\/soros-the-400k-question-what-constitutes-foreign-interference-in-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros & the \u00a3400K Question: What Constitutes \u2018Foreign Interference\u2019 in Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Soros – \u00a9 Wiktor Dabkowski \/ Global Look Press<\/p><\/div>\n

9 Feb 2018 – <\/em>You\u2019d have to have a real sense of humor failure not to laugh. The news that US billionaire Soros donated \u00a3400k to an anti-Brexit group came on the day that YouTube said they found no evidence of Russian interference in Brexit.<\/p>\n

Repeat after me (with robotic arm movements):<\/p>\n

\u201cUnproven Russian involvement in Brexit \u2013 terrible! Impose more sanctions on Moscow! A \u00a3400k check from an American billionaire for an anti-Brexit campaigning group \u2013 that\u2019s no problem; it\u2019s helping our democracy!\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You don\u2019t have to own a brand new \u00a3999 state-of-the art Hypocrisy Detector from Harrods, to pick up on the double standards. Just having a few functioning brain cells and thinking for yourself will do. For months in the UK we\u2019ve been bombarded with Establishment-approved conspiracy theories \u2013 peddled in all the \u2019best\u2019 newspapers \u2013 that Russia somehow \u2018fixed\u2019 Brexit. Getting Britain to leave the EU was all part of a cunning plot by Vladimir Putin, aka Dr. Evil, to weaken Europe and the \u2018free world.\u2019<\/p>\n

Even West End musical composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, who knows quite a bit about phantoms, seemed taken in by it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy quitting Europe, I fear that we are hastening Putin\u2019s dream of the break-up of the EU \u2013 and with it, potentially, western civilisation,\u201d<\/em> the noble Lord declared<\/a> in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never mind that we don\u2019t have a single statement from Putin or other senior Kremlin figures saying that they actually supported Brexit. These Establishment Russia-bashers know exactly what The Vlad is thinking.<\/p>\n

And never mind that RT and Sputnik, which we are repeatedly told are \u201cpropaganda arms of the Russian government,\u201d<\/em> ran articles by pro- and anti-Brexit writers. The same people who told us Iraq had WMDs in 2003 were absolutely sure it was those dastardly Russkies who had got Britain to vote \u2018leave.\u2019 The irony is of course that there was significant foreign interference in Brexit. But it didn\u2019t come from Moscow.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanremny\/status\/961531704019210240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fop-ed%2F418353-george-soros-russia-brexit%2F<\/p>\n

The US has always wanted Britain to stay in the EU. In April 2016, two months before the Referendum, President Obama made it clear what he wanted when he visited the UK. He warned that if Britain exited the EU it would be \u201cat the back of the queue\u201d<\/em> for trade deals with the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just imagine if Putin had said that. The Russophobes would have spontaneously combusted.<\/p>\n

Then of course there was the backing the Remain camp had from the giants of US capital. Goldman Sachs<\/a> and JP Morgan donated \u00a3500,000 each to the \u2018Britain Stronger in Europe\u2019 group, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley \u2013 \u00a3250,000 each.<\/p>\n

Again, repeat after me (with robotic arm movements):<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not foreign interference\u2026 This is not foreign interference!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve got to see the funny side of this: all that hysterical fake news about \u2018Russian interference\u2019 in Brexit & here we have one side receiving \u00a3400K from a US billionaire who is part of the US political establishment. Is that not \u2018interference\u2019 ?!! https:\/\/t.co\/URzrB3ciLd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Neil Clark (@NeilClark66) February 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n