Researcher’s note:
Are the medical stations that you see in this video for the caravan Doctors
Without Borders? Funded by Soros? Looks like the U.N. might be helping out as
well!
Ami
Horowitz: The Truth Behind the Caravan
Mária Schmidt on
George Soros, the grave digger of the left, part 1
Hungarian Spectrum
April 16, 2017
Tag Archives: Doctors Without Borders
The Orbán regime must consider Mária Schmidt’s essay “The Grave
Digger of the Left,” which appeared on her government-sponsored blog Látószög
(viewing angle), a critically important piece of writing. It was
promoted on MTV1, the state propaganda television network, even before it
was published.
The essay is, as you might have guessed from its
title, about George
Soros. Schmidt contends that Soros is singlehandedly orchestrating
world events to bring about a world he has been cunningly building for decades.
He is a puppeteer, a “wizard/double agent,” as a Russian source called him.
Schmidt’s piece is the result of shockingly bad
research. Admittedly, a blog post is not an academic treatise, but one would
expect a historian to check her facts. At the very least, one would hope that a
historian doesn’t blindly take the conclusions of highly questionable
sources at face value. Schmidt’s one-sided interpretation of events
with which George
Soros has been connected over the
years leads me to believe that she first has a theory and then
looks for anything that could possibly pass as evidence. It doesn’t seem
to bother her that her stories make no sense or that they sound more like
fantasy than fact.
Here is one example. At the very beginning of the article
Schmidt mentions two organizations in connection with the closing of the Trepca
(Kosovo) lead mines: the International Crisis Group (ICG) and Doctors Without
Borders. She claims that both are “generously” supported by George Soros.
Schmidt is correct in pointing out that both George Soros and his son Alexander are on the board of
ICG. What she neglects to say is that the board has 43 members from
33 countries and that ICG’s budget comes largely from governments and
corporations and to a smaller extent from foundations and individuals. Her
other claim is that Doctors Without Borders, which is also
“financed” (Soros pénzel) by Soros, was responsible for closing the Trepca
mines, which did unspeakable harm to the people of the area. A quick look at
the list of organizations
funded by George
Soros and his Open Society
Foundations would have revealed that Doctors Without Borders is not a recipient of Soros money. And this is a serious
problem because, as a result, the whole conspiracy story of Soros’s involvement
with the mines collapses.
As Mária Schmidt sees Soros and the world
If there is a problem with the Trepca story, there
is also something very wrong with the conclusion of the blog post. Because that
story from 2000 is supposed to be the prototype of George Soros’s predatory remaking of the world bit by bit.
First, this shrewd and unscrupulous financier finds a project that makes good
business sense. Then, he sends his civilians there to destabilize a region.
Subsequently, he pays off the media, creates chaos and once the whole area is
physically destroyed he offers assistance for the reconstruction. Meanwhile
he cherry-picks the best business opportunities. Soon after that comes breaking
down borders, abolishing national sovereignty, paying off the experts with
scholarships, prizes, fame, calling them independent and democrats. This is
what happened in Kosovo, where the “Soros-financed Doctors Without Borders” were
called in to do the dirty work for him. They convinced the UN forces that the mines were
having a deadly effect on the people working and living there. If, of
course, Doctors
Without Borders were not the
henchmen of Soros, Schmidt’s prototypical example collapses.
This is a pretty embarrassing beginning, and I’m afraid
the rest is no better. For instance, Mária Schmidt claims that George Soros was solely responsible for the 1998 Russian
financial crisis. It is worth quoting her summary of what happened. “George Soros talked the ruble down, something which also
caused significant hardship for Hungary, when he published an op-ed piece in The
Financial Times in which he called for the devaluation of the ruble by
15-20%. As a result of this [article] the ruble collapsed and lost 60% of its
value. The salaries, pensions, and of course savings of people were gone, just
as five years later were those of the Brits.”
I don’t think one has to know much about economics
to be suspicious of Schmidt’s interpretation of the 1998 Russian financial
crisis. An op-ed piece in The Financial Times cannot be responsible
for such a financial calamity. So, let’s see what an associate of the CFA Institute
had to say about it.
“The Russian crisis of 1998 was really an extension of the Asian Currency
Crisis of 1997 (the ‘Asian flu’). The combination of declining economic output,
falling oil prices, enormous budget deficits, and a currency pegged to the
rising US dollar overwhelmed the fledgling Russian government. To maintain its
peg to the dollar, Russia used its foreign exchange reserves to buy rubles. But
as the country gradually depleted its foreign exchange reserves, it became
clear that Russia would soon run out of reserves. At that point, the Russian
government would no longer be able to maintain the ruble’s peg to the US
dollar. Upon exhausting its reserves, Russia defaulted on its debt and revalued
the ruble on foreign exchange markets.” Not a word about George Soros.
These two examples will suffice to demonstrate that
Schmidt is offering up “alternative historical facts.” We can therefore
move on to her other charge: Soros’s “capture of the left not just in the
United States but also in Europe, including Hungary.” In her reading, by now
Soros and the left are one and the same. People who are inclined to support
social democratic, green, or liberal parties in reality “unscrupulously serve
the interests of large global corporations and global financial actors.” How
does Schmidt know this? Simple. She noticed that heading leftist parties are
“businessmen, bankers, corporate managers, or politicians who will become
sooner or later lobbyists for big business.” For example, Clinton, Schröder,
Blair, Kern, Macron, Schulz, Gyurcsány, and Bajnai.
For Soros to buy the left and liberalism, he first had to
buy the Democratic Party. Her evidence: Saturday Night Live. No, this is not a
joke. But what follows is outright breathtaking. Somehow Soros managed to
get the McCain-Feingold Reform Act of 2002 enacted, which, according to
Schmidt’s interpretation, financially ruined the Democratic Party. The party
subsequently became entirely dependent on Soros’s financial support. After
that, everything went smoothly, Schmidt concludes.
Schmidt next turns to a dissection of
Soros’s influence on current Hungarian society, especially on the youth. But
this deserves another post tomorrow.
