These shady, massive, non-government agencies seem as if they're Europe's version of Soros and lefty American tech billionaires, only they're cloaked in an aura of goodness and light, whereas Soros et al. are as dark as money gets.
It also helps that where Soros's money is his own, these NGOs derive their income from?
The European Union coffers.
Neat little circle of self-interest there, no?
EU-funded NGOs are behind attempts to rally the European Parliament against the so-called “far-right”, it has been revealed.
A Brussels Signal investigation has uncovered evidence that advertising campaigns asking centrist and left-wing politicians to fight against hard-right political groups have the backing of state-funded organisations.
In one ad campaign run in Politico’s Brussels Playbook several times in June, an open letter was promoted that attacked the Sweden Democrats (SD), Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), labelling all three as “far-right”.
It went on to order new MEPs arriving in Brussels for the first time to refuse to work with these politicians.
Other adverts run as part of the campaign included cartoon versions of various EU leaders being manipulated by Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, RN parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
So what the EU has been doing is surreptitiously undermining the duly elected populist members who were elected to the new parliament in spite of all their anti-ring-wing hysteria machinations beforehand.
This is pretty dirty pool.
They have farmed money out like crazy to demonize the conservative parties, their new MEPs (member of the European Parliament) and to stymie their effectiveness working together in the Parliament against Von der Leyen's agenda
...A number of the NGOs behind a recent advertising campaign castigating the “far-right” are recipients of public funding from state and superstate bodies.
Two are listed by the EU transparency index as being on the receiving end of EU funds.
The Good Lobby — an NGO which aims to “shift public policies through a combination of strategic advocacy advice, training and unconventional alliances” — received over €67,000 in public funds from the bloc as part of the ‘Phoenix Horizon’ project it is included in.
Friends of the Earth Europe meanwhile say that 30 per cent of their annual income in 2022 — the equivalent of over €1 million — came from the European Union, while a further 15 per cent came from other governments or institutions.
The EU is also not picky about who their dance partners are as long as they're on message.
The European Union has again been accused of handing cash to an NGO linked to the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. https://t.co/MAeK9QWHky
— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) September 29, 2023
The gains made by the right-wing candidates all over Europe must really sting that they're stooping to this chicanery and interference.
You know it had to gall German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to death to be asked if he was thinking of Doing a Biden and stepping aside before the upcoming elections.
Scholz thanked the reporter for the "friendly" question before insisting he was in it to win it.
Reporter: "Do you possibly want to follow Mr. Biden's example?"
— DW Politics (@dw_politics) July 24, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz: 🙄 pic.twitter.com/DXiT9QRbb1
That could also be POTATUS-Corn-Pop-like bravado because, honestly, Scholz isn't in any position to win anything. He'll be lucky enough to be standing after the thrashing his coalition took in the last election rounds.
Scholz says he won’t do a Biden.
— Michaela Kuefner (@MKuefner) July 24, 2024
German Chancellor says he will run again in September 2025 elections.
2 factors set against Scholz’ 2nd term:
- his SPD party only in 3rd place in current polls
- his own Defence Minister Boris Pistorius way more popular than Scholz pic.twitter.com/uIdJPykmvQ
Maybe Scholz could swing some of that schweet NGO publicity money his way. While he waits, the German government is busy shutting down conservative (aka 'right-wing") media outlets and basically stripping them of everything they own.
Paybacks are continuing for that election awkwardness and clearing the deck for September of next year. Making sure the message gets across.
...Germany’s Interior Ministry has now banned a right-wing media outlet that criticises its left-leaning government, in what some are calling the most aggressive move against press freedom since the Second World War. Suppressing opposition has long been a tactic employed by the Left, albeit usually with a certain amount of plausible deniability. The striking thing about this is how forcefully — how tyrannically — it was conducted.
Officers, some of whom were wearing balaclavas, raided the home and workplace of Compact magazine founder and chief editor Jürgen Elsässer in scenes reminiscent of Stalin’s purges. His assets, including his property and hard drive, were seized. The magazine website was taken down, and social media platforms as well as the official YouTube account were temporarily disabled.
Elsässer was not the only one targeted. All across Germany, employees’ private homes were raided. The outlets financial backers also had their assets seized and their homes raided. Was the presence of the mainstream media was a pure coincidence? It hardly seemed the fortuitous result of a happy chance.
Since the mainstream media arrived first, they were able to capture the crucial ‘perp walk’ images of Elsässer being led away by police in his dressing gown. In a partisan and fast-paced news cycle, the spectacle of a ritualised public relations humiliation is crucial.
But the newly elected conservative MEPs across Europe are fighting back where and when they can against an entrenched leftist and Green juggernaut.
"Tools of Putin" isn't going to fly.
The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has filed a civil suit for defamation against Manfred Weber, President of the European People’s Party (EPP).
That came after Weber publicly alleged the FPÖ – a member of the newly formed Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament – was “financed out of Russia”. The party has already won two similar cases in Austria.
On June 12, Weber appeared on the talk show “Markus Lanz” on German state television to discuss the results of the European Parliament elections. When asked whether the FPÖ could be a partner to help get Ursula von der Leyen re-elected as President of the European Commission, a smiling Weber responded: “Of course not the FPÖ because it is financed out of Russia and clearly says ‘we need to let Ukraine fall.’”
He similarly excluded Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch hard-right Party for Freedom, as a potential partner due to what he claimed was Wilders’ “Islamophobia”.
...It claimed Weber’s insinuations amounted to defamation as he purported that the party did not base its political actions on its convictions and the interests of its voters but on Russian payments. The FPÖ demanded Weber retract his statement publicly on the German TV show and desist from making similar claims.
Punch back twice as hard, as Professor Reynolds says.
Or at least as hard as you can.
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