The liberal/left media can sell anything. It just takes money and lies.

T. Belman. They sold us the communist Muslim Obama who became president twice. They sold Americans Obamacare. They sold us the Muslim Brotherhood as a worthy partner. They sold us the non-existing Iran deal. They have rammed political correctness down our throats. They are pushing a genderless world, that Islam is a religion of peace, that ISIS has nothing to do with Islam, that Islamic terrorism does not exist, that the Syrian refugees, are refugees and are not a danger to our society, that the Arab/Israeli conflict is the cause of the ME turmoil, that it must be solved, that it is causing US soldiers to be killed etc. That settlements are an obstacle to peace. And now with the aid of our military and leftist leaders, that Israel is fascist. All with lies.

Soros-Backed Group that Helped Sell Iran Nuclear Deal Funds Media, DC Think Tanks

By Aaron Klien, BREITBART

A group that advocates a nuclear-free world and that was identified earlier this month by the White House as central in helping to market the Iran nuclear deal to the news media has funded National Public Radio since 2005, an Associated Press investigation has revealed.

Think tanks funded by the Ploughshares Fund include the Arms Control Association, Brookings Institution, and the Atlantic Council, the AP reported.

Unmentioned by the AP is that the Ploughshares Fund is financed by billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

The involvement of Ploughshares in selling the Iran agreement to the public was revealed in an extensive New York Times Magazine profile of Obama’s deputy national security advise Ben Rhodes titled, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.” The article contains interviews with Rhodes and scores of top Obama administration officials.

Robert Malley, senior director at the National Security Council, explained the genesis and execution of the marketing plan to sell the Iran deal.

Malley explained “experts” were utilized to create an “echo chamber” that disseminated administration claims about Iran to “hundreds of often-clueless reporters” in the news media.

In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

Rhodes told Times reporter David Samuels that the marketing strategy took advantage of the “absence of rational discourse” and utilized outside groups, including Ploughshares.

When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America’s future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. “In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this,” he said. “We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.” He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. “We drove them crazy,” he said of the deal’s opponents.

Now the AP has revealed the extent of Ploughshares funding to NPR and to influential foreign policy U.S. think tanks.

Besides $100,000 to NPR last year, the AP reports:

Ploughshares has funded NPR’s coverage of national security since 2005, the radio network said. Ploughshares reports show at least $700,000 in funding over that time. All grant descriptions since 2010 specifically mention Iran.

“It’s a valued partnership, without any conditions from Ploughshares on our specific reporting, beyond the broad issues of national and nuclear security, nuclear policy, and nonproliferation,” NPR said in an emailed statement. “As with all support received, we have a rigorous editorial firewall process in place to ensure our coverage is independent and is not influenced by funders or special interests.”

Ploughshare’s president was interviewed on NPR, the AP reports:

Another who appeared on NPR is Joseph Cirincione, Ploughshares’ president. He spoke about the negotiations on air at least twice last year. The station identified Ploughshares as an NPR funder one of those times; the other time, it didn’t.

Cirincione was an adviser on nuclear issues to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Ploughshares documents show funding last year to other groups to “advance its nonproliferation agenda,” according to the AP.

The Arms Control Association got $282,500; the Brookings Institution, $225,000; and the Atlantic Council, $182,500. They received money for Iran-related analysis, briefings and media outreach, and non-Iran nuclear work.

Other groups, less directly defined by their independent nuclear expertise, also secured grants.

J-Street, the liberal Jewish political action group, received $576,500 to advocate for the deal. More than $281,000 went to the National Iranian American Council.

Princeton University got $70,000 to support former Iranian ambassador and nuclear spokesman Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s “analysis, publications and policymaker engagement on the range of elements involved with the negotiated settlement of Iran’s nuclear program.”

Ploughshares says it has awarded hundreds of grants “whose aggregate value exceeded $60 million.”

A previous investigation by this reporter showed Ploughshares has partnered with a who’s who of the radical left, including Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Demo, a progressive economic advisory group where President Obama’s controversial former green jobs czar, Van Jones, has served on the board.

The group says its mission is to support the “smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security.”

Ploughshares is in turn financed by Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Another Ploughshares donor is the Tides Foundation, which is one of the largest funders of the radical left. Tides is funded by Soros.

Ploughshares has donated to the Institute for Policy Studies, which calls for massive slashes in the U.S. defense budget.

It has also financed the International Crisis Group, a small organization that boasts Soros on its board.

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  1. terjeber Said:

    There is no Israel apart from zionism

    Superstitious nonsense. Proven false by reality

    LOL, as usual you make absurdly ignorant statements with no supporting arguments. Neither Israel nor zionism are superstitions…. but then you have no idea what is a Jew, Judaism, Israel or zionism…. I”ll bet you think that Israel is just a state created in 1948
    terjeber Said:

    I dont believe that they believe their own bullshite

    That’s stems from your own superstition, not from reality

    no, not at all, its just you writing rubbish as usual… I explained why and I wager that others here understood my explanation. Explain how it stems from my superstition.
    terjeber Said:

    no relationship or analogy between the Jews you described

    I didn’t describe any Jews, I described your political ideology

    still telling lies are you? You compared the muslim flood with the jews of the 1900’s… but you couched it in irrelevant generic rubbish.
    terjeber Said:

    even scientists are aware that they do not have a
    >> scientific explanation of all phenomena

    Seriously? Science is a process, not a set of people.

    you really need to deal with that anal retention problem you display. Scientists employ the scientific method… do you feel better now… like you said something meaningful as opposed to wasting time and energy with irrelevant distractions from your ignorance? Really you are pathetic.
    terjeber Said:

    Psychology doesn’t apply this process in their work, so by definition, psychology is not a science.

    no one said that it was
    terjeber Said:

    Knowledge can be gained by applying science as a method.

    scientific method is but one way of acquiring knowledge… I already explained that to you but I realize you only know one way.
    terjeber Said:

    but we can’t gain knowledge through the pursuit of superstitious nonsense.

    are you saying that everything we dont yet know through science is superstition?
    terjeber Said:

    And there you show that you don’t know what science even is. Outside of pure maths, science doesn’t prove things, so there are no “scientifically proven” anything. Again, outside of pure maths, science can’t prove anything at all. I thought you said you had an education. What? Primary school?

    there you go again on irrelevant tangents… are you saying that you dont know what I mean or are you saying that you are again trying to pretend to be “smart” by distracting again with irrelevant obfuscations? So much blah blah blah… that never goes anywhere… you have not rebutted anything I said… just offered your ludicrous ignorant opinions on subject about which you are CLUELESS!!!!
    try again… sooner or later you will get it.

  2. @ bernard ross:

    >> There is no Israel apart from zionism

    Superstitious nonsense. Proven false by reality.

    >> I dont believe that they believe their own bullshite

    That’s stems from your own superstition, not from reality. As I mentioned, the voices in your head are not real.

    >> no relationship or analogy between the Jews you described

    I didn’t describe any Jews, I described your political ideology, which is one that shares more features with Muslims, Communists and Nazis than it shares with the ideologies of people who value liberty and freedom. You are basically just a dirty little commie.

    >> semitic propaganda and lies always led in the past in
    >> europe to the pogrom and genocide of jews

    So why do you subscribe to similar ideas? Discrimination is discrimination, irrespective of where it comes from and towards whom it is directed. The difference between you attitudes and the European attitudes is only that they are directed at different people.

    >> even scientists are aware that they do not have a
    >> scientific explanation of all phenomena

    Seriously? Science is a process, not a set of people. Psychology doesn’t apply this process in their work, so by definition, psychology is not a science. Knowledge can be gained by applying science as a method. The other side is superstition. I am not claiming we know everything or even quite a lot, but we can’t gain knowledge through the pursuit of superstitious nonsense.

    >> using scientifically proven knowledge

    And there you show that you don’t know what science even is. Outside of pure maths, science doesn’t prove things, so there are no “scientifically proven” anything. Again, outside of pure maths, science can’t prove anything at all. I thought you said you had an education. What? Primary school?