Thursday, August 25, 2016

Pantheon of the miserable Tricksters

There was a time, a number of years ago, when the Jewish engineered blacklisting of me was so effective, and my vision (before the cataract operations) was so “tired,” I wrote sporadically and wrote very little. This gave me time to play the stock market; a hobby I have delved into on-and-off for half a century.

Playing the market and tracking the related news, I became acquainted with the names of a number of people in the investment business – one of them being the legendary George Soros. To be honest, I did not like the way he played the game, and said it on a number of occasions. When he wrote a book, which came under the title: “The Age of Fallibility,” I read it, and did not think much of it. In fact I found it to be so unmemorable, I don't remember a word of it ten years later … except for the title.

Now comes this guy, Clifford D. May, and writes an article under the title: “The Soros smear effect” and the subtitle: “Rather than debate his opponents, the billionaire arbiter defames all of them,” published on August 23, 2016 in The Washington Times. Believing that I'll find information in this work to justify my negative view of Soros, I discovered instead that he is a better human being when he wears the philanthropist's hat than he is when he wears the investor's hat.

Clifford May attacks George Soros bitterly because he says he just discovered that Open Society Foundations (OSF), which is financed by Soros, was behind the effort to expose his [May's] Islamophobic hatred, racism and bigotry, as well as those of other individuals and groups. Among the latter were such tricksters as Daniel Pipes and Liz Cheney who were focused on exposing what May calls the “toxic ideologies” of the Muslim world.

Knowing how trashy was the work of Clifford May, Daniel Pipes, Liz Cheney and all those of their ilk, I was curious to see how much worse the work of OSF had to be for May to attack it the way that he did. It turns out that the work was not trashy at all but that May was harboring hatred for the fact that:

“Those who run OSF for Mr. Soros were distressed that groups on the left lacked 'high quality opposition research' to combat 'anti-Muslim xenophobia.' So OSF decided to provide dollars to launch an 'Examining Anti-Muslim Bigotry Project.' Its mission would be to 'track' the activities of yours truly [Clifford May], Daniel Pipes, Liz Cheney and others.”

What is so bad about that, I exclaimed! And why would OSF want to do something like this? May tells why the organization was interested in such a project; and makes it clear he doesn't like it one bit. Here is how he expresses his disappointment:

“To engage journalists, researchers, academics and leaders in the anti-hate movement who are researching and writing on Islamophobia and to develop a clearer understanding of how a well financed system is able to introduce false narratives and flawed research into the media cycle to manipulate public opinion and thwart counterterrorism policies”.

For a weird reason that no one who is a normal person can accept or explain, Clifford May, Daniel Pipes and Liz Cheney thought it was a bad idea for the OSF to be interested in such matters as Islamophobia, in the way that false narratives are introduced into the media cycle, and in the way that public opinion is manipulated. For this reason, Clifford May who felt deeply hurt, went looking for consolation anywhere he could find it.

He found it on a Fox News television show where, he says, he had the opportunity to speak of the magnificent ideas he had developed. They consisted of ripping the Soros broader agenda, which included (1) pushing Europe and America to open their borders to suffering refugees, (2) promoting a non-nuclear Iran, and (3) investing in groups that sought liberation for a Palestinian people suffering atrociously under the rule of an American financed and equipped Israeli army of bloodthirsty land robbers.

Alas – from the looks of it – it appears that by now, the author had discovered he did not have an argument solid enough to convince the readers of anything. So he did what the weaklings, who wish to appear more important than they are, always do. He called on Soros to debate him in a public forum.

This is unlikely to happen because George Soros would rather give to and take from the market players of the world than give-and-take with the miserable tricksters of America.