(1) Soros poured money into Google & Macron to stop Le Pen(2) Soros' Central European University unable to award diplomas because registered in US(3) Hungary's Orban fights back after EU case over Soros university(4) Viktor Orban And The National Question In Hungary(5) NGOs partly funded by George Soros are engaged in People-Smuggling(6) Soros colleague Jim Rogers: Banks Ending Cash to Establish World Government(7) Central Banks' War on Cash a preparation for World Government(1) Soros poured money into Google & Macron to stop Le Penhttp://freewestmedia.com/2017/02/15/soros-pouring-money-into-google-macron-to-stop-le-pen/  Friday 24 February, 2017 FWM Logo     Manuel OchsenreiterSoros pouring money into Google, Macron to stop Le PenGeorge Soros is pouring money into Google and her opponent Emmanuel Macron to stop Marine Le Pen, leading contender in the French presidential election scheduled for April 23. 98 Share TweetPublished: February 15, 2017, 11:29 amIn 2012, Forbes reported that Soros had sold out, but Market Watch in 2016 reported that his hedge fund, Soros Fund Management LLC, has again invested in Alphabet, the parent company of Google.Last week Google News Lab announced CrossCheck, aimed at censorship of pro-Le Pen news to scupper her chances of winning the French presidential election, Infowars reported.In a press release form Paris, Google announced a partnership between Google News Lab and First Draft to help "the French electorate make sense of what and who to trust in their social media feeds, web searches and general news consumption in the coming months."First Draft is a technology company, in part funded by Google News Lab in June 2015, with a purpose to monitor online news "to raise awareness and address challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital news".CrossCheck together with Facebook’s Crowd Tangle want to monitor news that is does not conform to liberal interventionism during the French election. "With combined expertise from across media and technology, CrossCheck aims to ensure hoaxes, rumors and false claims are swiftly debunked, and misleading or confusing stories are accurately reported."Partners of Google News lab include AFP (Agence France-Presse), BuzzFeed News, France Médias Monde (via les Observateurs de France 24), France Télévisions, Global Voices, Libération, La Provence, Les Echos, La Voix du Nord, Le Monde (Les Décodeurs), Nice-Matin, Ouest-France, Rue89 Bordeaux, Rue89 Lyon, Rue89 Strasbourg, Storyful and StreetPress.The anti-Trump hard-left political activist David Brock, the founder of Media Matters who is fond of calling conservative news "fake", is working with Google and Facebook to implement the strategy.Meanwhile in France it is clear that Le Pen’s possible opposition is candidate Emmanuel Macron who has powerful supporters behind the scenes. A clue may lie in the fact that the name of his party is derived from a Soros organisation in the US.The logo of one of Soros’ agitator associations, entitled Move On, translates into French as En marche!, the name of Macron’s new party.Macron’s recently deceased financier Henry Hermand was close to Soros. Francois Asselineau has suggested that Macron is a Soros surrogate.(2) Soros' Central European University unable to award diplomas because registered in UShttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39549120Large protest in support of Hungary's Soros-backed universityApril 10, 2017Thousands of people have taken part in a protest in Hungary to demand the abolition of laws which could force the closure of one of the country's most prestigious universities.New rules introduced by the government mean the Central European University (CEU) would be unable to award diplomas because it is registered in the US.The university was founded by philanthropist George Soros.The legislation has already been rushed through parliament.Demonstrators in the capital on Sunday want President Janos Ader not to sign the controversial legislation backed by the governing right wing Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.Unlike last Sunday's protest, it was not just students who were out in the street - there were also lots of families, with some middle-aged and some elderly people in the crowd.They marched peacefully in the bright spring sunshine, crossing Budapest's historic Chain Bridge as they headed towards Parliament. The protesters chanted slogans urging President Janos Ader to ask the Constitutional Court to review the new law adopted by parliament last week that is likely to lead to the closure of the CEU.BBC Budapest correspondent Nick Thorpe says it was probably the biggest anti-government protest in Budapest since Mr Orban came to power seven years ago.The protesters took to the streets both to defend the CEU and protest against attempts by the government to pressure human rights and environmental groups which support refugees.At least 50,000 people - organisers say as many as 80,000 protesters - took part in the demonstration.The government passed amendments to the Higher Education Act last week which would make it impossible for the CEU to continue working in Budapest - 26 years after it was set up by Hungarian-born billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros.The government opposes the liberal outlook of both the university and many non-governmental organisations.The CEU has vowed to fight the legislation. The English-speaking university is ranked among the top 200 universities in the world in eight disciplines.Mr Soros has a strained relationship with Mr Orban - a keen supporter of US President Donald Trump - who has accused the financier of wanting a role in Hungarian politics and supporting the influx of migrants into Europe.Mr Orban recently claimed Hungary was "under siege" from asylum seekers.The prime minister won a scholarship sponsored by Mr Soros to study at Oxford university and the pair were allies in the days immediately following the fall of communism in 1989.The Central European UniversityFounded to "resuscitate and revive intellectual freedom" in parts of Europe that had endured the "horrific ideologies" of communism and fascismOccupies a building that began as an aristocrat's palace before becoming state-owned offices for a planned socialist economyHas 1,440 students - 335 from Hungary and the rest from 107 other countriesPresents itself as a champion of free speech, with links to universities in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Kazakhstan(3) Hungary's Orban fights back after EU case over Soros universityhttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-hungary-idUSKBN17S1DZBy Gabriela Baczynska  |  BRUSSELSWed Apr 26, 2017 | 12:52pm EDTThe European Union opened a legal case against Hungary on Wednesday over a threat to close a Budapest university founded by the liberal U.S. financier George Soros, an accusation the country's leader rejected as unfounded.The EU's executive Commission sent Budapest a formal notice, saying a new Hungarian higher education law violated academic freedom and democratic values, and gave it a month to respond.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gave an initial response shortly afterwards, rejecting accusations Budapest was threatening the Central European University (CEU) and dismissing the Hungarian-born Soros as a "financial speculator".At a European Parliament debate on Hungary, Orban clashed with deputy Commission head Frans Timmermans, who said Brussels was also worried with his stance on asylum-seekers, a draft law on non-governmental groups (NGOs) and the rights of the Roma."The single biggest miracle in my lifetime is the fall of the Berlin Wall ... and that Hungary became one of the democratic nations of Europe," Timmermans said."That is something that was done by the Hungarian people themselves, striving for freedom. Protecting their freedom, however, is now a common European task."The CEU case is the latest in a string of Orban policies in ex-communist Hungary that have left Brussels and many EU states exasperated by what they see as his authoritarian tendencies.Budapest has said the legal changes were needed to prevent foreign universities from issuing dubious diplomas.Orban, in power since 2010, has often bashed the EU and repeatedly clashed with non-governmental organizations sponsored by Soros, who promotes a liberal and internationalist worldview that the nationalist-minded Hungarian leader dislikes.He said he strongly opposed the philanthropist's support for opening Europe more to immigration, but said Hungary was committed to the EU."In many aspects, we are unhappy with how the EU works," he said. "When we criticize the EU, it's because we want to correct these mistakes and we want to reform the European Union."VALUESThe CEU, a respected graduate-level institution, has stood as a bulwark of liberal thinking in Hungary and across eastern Europe since it opened in 1991 after the fall of Soviet-backed communism in the region.Its president, Canadian Michael Ignatieff, appealed this week to Brussels for help.Orban's critics say the move against the school is part of his broader push to stifle dissenting voices and put independent institutions - including the judiciary, media and NGOs - under closer government control.Belgian liberal Guy Verhofstadt, a leading member of the European Parliament, told Orban his policies were protectionist, nationalist, illiberal and paranoid, and they reminded him of those in the communist-era Hungary."You see enemies everywhere in Hungary. In the media, in the energy sector, in NGOs, in the academic world," he said. "You signed up to the values of the Union. You have violated every single one of them."Manfred Weber, the head of the European People's Party, the largest parliamentary faction that includes Orban's own Fidesz party, called on Budapest to "take on board the Commission's request and implement them".The EU could impose sanctions on Hungary if it does not respond adequately to its notice, but its actual scope to punish Hungary is limited. Sanctions would require the unanimous backing of the other 27 states and Orban can count on his nationalist allies in Poland to oppose any harsh action.Brussels officials hope Orban can be persuaded to seek a compromise, a possibility highlighted by Timmermans' repeated expressions of gratitude for Orban's readiness for dialogue."I think the Hungarian government will try to find a deal. The style of the discussion may not be very elegant but there will be some sort of a compromise in the end most likely," said one diplomat.(Additional reporting by Jan Strupczewski and Waverly Colville; Editing by Tom Heneghan)(4) Viktor Orban And The National Question In HungaryPaul Gottfried February 14, 2012, 7:41 amhttp://www.vdare.com/articles/viktor-orban-and-the-national-question-in-hungaryViktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary and leader of Hungary’s largest parliamentary bloc Fidesz—an abbreviation for Flatal Demokraták Szövetsége, the Alliance of Young Democrats)—perhaps the most controversial political figure in the former Soviet bloc, is deeply interesting to students of the "National Question."A young hero of the resistance to Soviet rule and now the most popular political figure in Hungary, Orban has aroused violent passions among Western, and some Hungarian, intellectuals. His first premiership, from 1998 until 2002, was for the most part uneventful, but his second term, beginning in May 2010, has been turbulent.The Socialist-Liberal coalition that Orban replaced had expanded the civil service, trying to buy its loyalty with early retirement and fat pensions. It had also accepted as citizens a wandering gypsy population and offered asylum to non-Magyars, including a sizable group of apparent refugees from Tibet.Orban has significantly curtailed or abolished this. He has denied citizenship to gypsies who cannot show a long period of residence in Hungary. He has put refugee communities on notice that they can no longer expect to receive support from the Hungarian taxpayer.Since Orban now enjoys a supermajority in the Hungarian parliament, he has met minimal resistance in introducing his reforms. He has even reached out to the more rightwing nationalists in the Jobbik (= "movement") Party, the third-largest party in Hungary. And he has put members of this controversial, emphatically anti-gypsy party on cultural committees in the National Assembly, an act of defiance to the Hungarian LeftPerhaps Orban’s boldest measure: declaring Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries such as Romania and Slovakia to be citizens of Hungary. Hungary was one of the losers in the Great War and the 1920 Treaty of Trianon stripped her of two-thirds of her land and about one-third of her Magyar (ethnic Hungarian) population. Those ethnic Hungarians assigned to Romania were particularly badly treated; the ones who landed up in Yugoslavia were killed or expelled at the end of World War II. Orban has not encouraged Hungarians outside of Hungary to rebel, but his reclaiming them as Hungarian citizens and urging them to think of themselves as his compatriots, has generated a certain amount of regional tension.Orban has also changed the value of the Hungarian currency, the forint, without consulting the European Union, of which Hungary became a member in 2004, and has pointedly indicated that he will deal with monetary as well as human rights questions according to Hungarian national interest.Most infuriating for the European multicultural or residually Marxist Left: the new constitution for Hungary,[PDF] which Orban promulgated in January 2 while tens of thousands of Hungarians celebrated around his residence. It vests considerable power in the prime minister as executive and also makes clear distinctions between members of the Hungarian nation, to whom full legal protections are awarded, and individuals who are merely Hungarian residents.Perhaps most galling for intellectuals who served in the Communist regime: the passages in the Preamble, which refer to Hungary as an occupied country first under the Nazis, who took over Hungary in October 1944, and then later under the Soviets, until 1991.Hungarian artists and writers, and most notably Jewish ones, easily made their peace with the Soviets and their agents. It is not surprising that a very intelligent Hungarian Jewish Marxist of my acquaintance, Agnes Heller, has been livid with rage against the "Victator," as Orban is now contemptuously called by his opponents.One Green member of the European Parliament in particular, the famous lifetime leftist Daniel Cohn-Bendit, flies into rage when Orban’s name is mentioned. Describing the Hungarian head of state as an "authoritarian lunatic" may be the nicest thing that Cohn-Bendit has said about him.Cohn-Bendit’s anger is spreading. As the Austrian member of the European Parliament Andreas Mölzer notes in Junge Freiheit, every day the European Union is looking for new measures by which to "quarantine" what it regards as the incipiently fascist regime in Budapest. ." [Hetzjagd gegen Budapest,(Google Translate) January 15, 2012]This reminds Mölzer of the reaching for extremes that afflicted the same body in 2000, when it tried to punish Austria for allowing the supposedly extremist Freiheitliche Partei Östterreich and its leader Jörg Haider to participate in a coalition government.Then as now, opponents of "extremism" appealed to Article Seven of the EU Charter, allowing for joint action against a country "violating human rights." Then as now, the German Chancellor, wishing to show how antifascist Germany had become, assured the world that this rogue rightwing neighbor has been placed "under surveillanceNeedless to say, such "surveillance" does not occur when former East German Stasi informers become major political actors in German affairs; or when the German Party of the Left, composed largely of recycled Communist officials, is allowed to muscle its way into provincial governments. Conservative nationalists and Communists (Christian Democratic Chancellor Angela Merkel was a member of the Communist youth movement in East Germany) are not to be seen as morally equivalent—at least, not by the Western intelligentsia.And this may be the main lesson to be derived from this exercise in orchestrated anger. Western Europe is vastly different from the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Paradoxically, the Iron Curtain was an unintended protective blanket. Hungarians, Poles, Balts, Slovaks, etc. never underwent the kind of multicult indoctrination that has succeeded so well in "Western democracies." They remain what the German philosopher Herder referred to as "historic, cultural nations." They do not even pretend to, let alone actually, embrace the politics of guilt toward national or civilizational victims or  the human rights ideology that have stifled national awareness in Western Europe—above all in a "reeducated" and arrogantly masochistic Germany.Orban exemplifies this post-Communist, nationalist leadership. The only evil he experienced is the longtime Communist dictatorship, the memory of which Western PC politicians try to ignore in favor of crusades against a largely declawed or mythical Right.Not surprisingly, Orban was raised as a Reformed Protestant—that is, as a member of what Hungarian patriots even in a predominantly Catholic country, view as "the national church." Most of the great Hungarian nationalists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—and even earlier, like Ferenc Rákóczy in the early eighteenth century—were Protestants and, moreover, usually Calvinists. Catholics were seen as too closely allied to the Habsburgs and therefore as members of the religion of an occupying power.And, not insignificantly, Orban was born and grew up in Székesfehérvár in Western Hungary, about midway between the Austrian border and Budapest. When I last visited Hungary in 1965, that fortress town (vár is the Hungarian word for a fort) housed the largest contingent of Soviet troops in the country. They had been left there after the Soviets put down the Hungarian uprising in 1956—as a reminder of who was in charge and as a means of dealing with future unrest in the Hungarian capital.One can only imagine the impression this had on the young Orban.But among those protesting Orban’s vision of a resurrected Hungarian nation, beside the inflamed multiculturalists and open-borders enthusiasts, is another group on the left.They are the older, predominantly Jewish population—numbering now perhaps 100,000 out of a total  population of 9.5 million—whose families had been persecuted and sometimes murdered during the Nazi occupation and sometimes by Hitler’s Hungarian collaborators. Hungarian Jews often viewed Stalin’s armies and the Soviet victory as a godsend.Indeed, Jews, including family members of mine, were heavily involved in two brutal communist dictatorships in Hungary, the first under Bela Kun (Kohn) 1919-1920 and the second under the Stalinist dictatorship of Matyas Rakosi (né Rosenfeld) 1945-1956. Wikipedia refers to these murderers as "atheists," but they were ethnically Jewish. In Hungary the involvement of Jews in Communist regimes has inevitably generated anti-Semitism, which was already apparent in the uprising in 1956. Although the Israeli historian Jacob Talmon and Richard Pipes discuss this problem in their books, Wikipedia tries to ignore it and dwells on Christian and fascist anti-Semitism among the MagyarsPersonally, I believe these overzealous critics of Orban are living with the ghosts of the past. And it must be said that, unfortunately, some of these critics compromised themselves by serving a brutal foreign dictatorship.Nonetheless, their fears are real and to some extent understandable. These opponents of Orban would likely be content with a Hungarian government of the deracinated sort being urged by the EU.But that is not likely to happen in Hungary, or in most places liberated from Soviet control. There the national spirit is still strong and thriving. From the perspective of a Western world that has moved too fast and too far in the opposite direction, it is gratifying to see the Hungarians are not imitating our example too closely.Paul Gottfried [ email him ]  recently retired as Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, PA. He is the author of After Liberalism, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt and The Strange Death of Marxism His most recent book is Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America(5) NGOs partly funded by George Soros are engaged in People-Smugglinghttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-06/soros-linked-undesirable-ngos-fund-isis-linked-refugee-boats-euSoros-Linked "Undesirable NGOs" Fund ISIS-linked Refugee Boats To EUApr 6, 2017 8:50 PMAuthored by William Engdahl,Investigations by Italian authorities and others have found that NGOs funded by among others George Soros, are actively financing private ships to smuggle tens of thousands of illegal North African refugees into the EU via Southern Italy. The human trafficking is reportedly linked to ISIS smuggling networks. If confirmed by authorities, it could potentially open the NGOs to criminal charges .Carmelo Zuccaro, the Chief Prosecutor of Catania, Sicily, has testified to a committee of the Italian Parliament in March that an official investigation into the funding of a fleet of modern refugee boats in the Mediterranean by private NGOs is warranted. He cited evidence that the human traffic smugglers in Libya and other North African coastal states, often reportedly linked to ISIS or other criminal bands, were coordinating the traffic into Italy of tens of thousands of illegal refugees. Zuccaro reported evidence that the human traffickers either on land, or on board smaller migrant boats, call the larger NGO-financed rescue vessels directly to arrange transfer of refugees. That implies a very close level of coordination between the human smuggler bands and the NGO-funded fleet of ships.Zuccaro announced that his office is investigating what he called the "abnormal" amount of funds that allows even small agencies to hire ships. Italian authorities have so far uncovered at least ten private Non-Governmental Organizations involved, among them several NGOs financed by US hedge fund speculator George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.Zuccaro also told Italian press that, "the facilitation of illegal immigration is a punishable offense regardless of the intention." He said that Italy was also investigating Islamic radicalization occurring in prisons and camps where immigrants are hired, illegally or off the books. European Immigration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos stated that some 80% of the North African migrants arriving in Italy had no legal right to asylum. Many were reportedly from criminal gangs that sprang up after the 2011 US-backed bombing of Libya and killing of Gaddafi that threw the country into anarchy.Over the course of the past year as the refugee human trafficking route through Greece has been all but closed down, the route into the EU from North Africa has shifted to southern Italy and to use of modern chartered vessels to carry the thousands of refugees to Sicily and other parts of Southern Italy. In the first two months of 2017 illegal refugee inflows from Libya into southern Italy have risen by as much as 40% over the same period a year earlier.NGO Human TraffickingThe official EU European Border and Coast Guard Agency, FRONTEX, in its 2017 Risk Analysis report, states that "the Central Mediterranean has become the main route for African migrants to the EU and it is very likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Specifically, 89% of migrants arrived from Libya."The FRONTEX report went on to note a dramatic shift in 2016 from 2015. Earlier the major migration flow went from Turkey into Greece and the Balkan states on to Germany and other EU states: "NGO rescue operations (into southern Italy-w.e.) rose significantly to more than 40% of all incidents. Since June 2016, a significant number of boats were intercepted or rescued by NGO vessels without any prior distress call and without official information as to the rescue location."Frontex raised the possibility that traffickers were putting migrants out to sea in a prearranged collusion with the private NGO ships that recover them and then bring them to Italy "like taxis." What the EU agency described is a human smuggling operation, in effect, operations of international criminal organizations including ISIS, being run by ships chartered or owned by various Non-Governmental Organizations among them Soros-financed NGOs.Italian admiral Enrico Credendino, commander of the EU’s anti-trafficking Operation Sophia, said the NGOs’ ships come close to the Libyan shore to attract migrant boats in the dark. "At night they use large floodlights; the traffickers see them and send the dinghies (carrying migrants) towards the lights," he stated. Then they are taken aboard the larger NGO ships for the journey to Italy.Soros NGOs working with ISIS?If the Italian investigations into the NGO funding of the fleet of charter ships are confirmed, this would suggest that the NGOs, several of them linked to foundations or organizations financied or controlled by George Soros, are colluding illegally with human trafficker bands, in many cases bands controlled by ISIS in Libya.A 2017 report by Quilliam, a private UK think-tank, claims that ISIS or the Islamic State (IS) is involved in the human trafficking operations into Italy. Their report states: "While some refugees may have to pay smugglers up to $560 for passage towards the Mediterranean coast, IS, capitalising on this route, offer free passage to those willing to join IS…To those reaching the Mediterranean coast, IS offer potential recruits up to $1,000 to join the organisation. " Not exactly humanitarian.US human rights investigator and lawyer William Craddick has discovered that several of the NGOs chartering the human smuggling boats ware linked to financial patronage of George Soros and his Open Society Foundations including avaaz.org of the Soros-funded Moveon.org; Save the Children, and Médicins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) which charters a Mediterranean ship called Aquarius.International Migration InitiativeSoros’ Open Society Foundations, which also has been reported to receive money from the US Government through the CIA-linked USAID, also funds something it calls the International Migration Initiative, an NGO Soros’ Open Society Foundations set up in 2010. Clearly the idea behind creation of Soros’ IMI was done with an eye to what would soon unfold in Europe as well as the USA refugee crises. The website of the Soros International Migration Initiative openly states that it has a "strategic corridor approach, facilitating coordinated action in countries of origin, transit, and destination." The same website identifies what it terms three strategic migration corridors: Asia/Middle East, Central America/Mexico, and Eurasia, which centers on Central Asia into Russia. That almost sounds like a geopolitical grand design of someone.In September 2016 the same George Soros announced he was "donating" $500 million to the European and US refugee cause. He declined to say where and how the money would be used. Was part of that earmarked for financing the fleet of modern NGO ships that bring tens of thousands of refugees from Libya? A relevant question to be sure for the Italian and other investigations.In August, 2016 DCLeaks, a US website similar to Wikileaks, released 2,576 files predominately related to George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. One memo by the Soros foundation dated May 10, 2016, argued that Europe’s refugee crisis should be accepted as a "new normal," and that the crisis means, "new opportunities" for Soros’ foundations to influence immigration policies on a global scale.Soros and the ‘Merkel Plan’The pawprints of Soros’ foundations are all over the EU refugee crisis that is upending social and economic stability across Europe since August 2015 when German Chancellor Angela Merkel surprised many even in her own party by declaring in a comment since become infamous, "we can do it," followed by her decision on September 5, 2015 to accept thousands of refugees who had set out to walk from Keleti Station in Budapest to Germany, announcing that all refugees were welcome with open arms, no questions asked, no limit set. More than one million refugees, not only from Syria, flooded into Germany and other EU countries. As domestic opposition mounted against Merkel, in late 2015 Merkel went on a popular German TV talk show where she announced, "I have a plan."Indeed she did. It was even named by its architects, "The Merkel Plan."The plan was drawn up by a think tank with offices in Berlin, Brussels and Istanbul by the name The European Stability Initiative (ESI). Under that Merkel Plan, in addition to the over 1 million refugees of 2015, in 2016 Germany should, "agree to grant asylum to 500,000 Syrian refugees registered in Turkey over the coming 12 months."The Merkel Plan for accepting hundreds of thousands of refugees without question into Germany and other EU states with no number limit, "the new normal," the term used by Soros’ International Migration Initiative website, was a product of the Soros networks as well. The author of the Merkel Plan and head of the ESI is an Austrian sociologist, Gerald Knaus. Knaus is a member of the George Soros-financed European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and an Soros’ Open Society Fellow. Knaus’ European Stability Initiative was financed, according to the German Die Zeit, by among others the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Washington-based German Marshall Fund, as well as Soros’ Open Society Foundations.Rome on brink of WarThe recent explosion of illegal refugees into Southern Italy, aided by a fleet of ships chartered by NGOs linked to Soros and others, is no innocent humanitarian good samaritan deed. In December 2016 Virginia Raggi, the Mayor of Rome, said that the city was on the verge of a "war" between migrants and poor Italians. In southern Italy, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra had declared a "war on migrants" in 2016 amid reports that the Italian mafia had begun fighting with North African crime gangs who entered the EU among migrant populations.The allegations of Soros NGO financing of a fleet of boats to illegally smuggle refugees or other migrants from North Africa into the EU suggested at the very least that the Washington-tied Soros networks were doing more than charity. It suggested that his NGOs were at least indirectly complicit in projects that were destroying the social stability of the EU much as Soros’ NGOs did in Ukraine in 2014 and before.The impression is difficult to avoid that the entire current mass refugee phenomenon, together with the NATO wars that trigger them in places like Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, is part of a far larger and far more sinister design and that the money of George Soros, the character behind virtually every US State Department and CIA-backed Color Revolution since the 2000 toppling of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade, is right in the middle of it.Little wonder that the foundations and operations of "philanthropist" Soros are increasingly under attack around the world, including in Viktor Orban’s Hungary, Soros’ country of birth.(6) Soros colleague Jim Rogers: Banks Ending Cash to Establish World Governmenthttps://www.infowars.com/soros-insider-banks-ending-cash-to-establish-world-government/Soros Insider: Banks Ending Cash to Establish World Government Technocracy: Cashless society to forge deep surveillance stateClifford Cunningham | Infowars.com - February 14, 2017Investment guru Jim Rogers, a former colleague of George Soros, has warned governments are seeking to end the use of cash to implement a surveillance state where your every expense is monitored.Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Group with globalist billionaire George Soros in 1973, noted that many governments around the world are cutting back on the amount of paper currency in circulation."Governments are always looking out for themselves first, and it’s the same old thing that has been going on for hundreds of years," he said during an interview with the MacroVoices Podcast. "The Indians recently did the same thing. They withdrew 86 percent of the currency in circulation, and they have now made it illegal to spend more than, I think it’s about $4,000 in any cash transaction.""In France you cannot use more than, I think it’s a €1,000."Following the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in 2015, the French government prohibited cash payments of more than €1,000, with then-Finance Minister Michel Sapin arguing it was necessary to "fight against the use of cash and anonymity in the French economy."Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdrew 500- and 1,000-rupee bills as legal tender, removing 86 percent of the country’s currency bills from circulation.The European Commission recently issued a "road map" to implement severe restrictions and reporting requirements on the use of cash across the European Union, with the final goal of eliminating the use of cash all together.Rogers warned the trend by governments to eliminate the use of cash for economic transactions is part of a larger effort by those governments to implement a surveillance state by directly monitoring the spending habits of its citizens."Many countries are already doing this," he said. "Some states in the US you cannot make cash transactions above a certain amount. Governments love it.""Then they can control you.""If you want to go and buy a cup of coffee, they know how many you drink, where you buy them, etc., if they can all put it into electronic formats and they will," he added. "The world is all going electronic."Despite assurances made by governments that the replacement of cash with a digital currency will make economic transactions easier, Rogers warned they are a distraction to cover-up the elimination of basic freedoms."When it’s done, the governments are going to be very, very happy they are going to say they’re doing it for our own good, this is not them, this is for our good," Rogers added. "That they’re doing this, but it’s coming, and it’s going to be a whole different world in which we live.""Probably we are not going to have as many freedoms as we have now even though we are already losing our freedoms at a significant pace."(7) Central Banks' War on Cash a preparation for World Governmenthttp://www.activistpost.com/2015/11/the-worlds-first-cashless-society-is-here-a-totalitarians-dream-come-true.htmlThe World’s First Cashless Society Is Here – A Totalitarian’s Dream Come TrueNovember 19, 2015By Nick GiambrunoCentral planners around the world are waging a War on Cash. In just the last few years:Italy made cash transactions over €1,000 illegal; Switzerland proposed banning cash payments in excess of 100,000 francs; Russia banned cash transactions over $10,000; Spain banned cash transactions over €2,500; Mexico made cash payments of more than 200,000 pesos illegal; Uruguay banned cash transactions over $5,000; and France made cash transactions over €1,000 illegal, down from the previous limit of €3,000.The War on Cash is a favorite pet project of the economic central planners. They want to eliminate hand-to-hand currency so that governments can document, control, and tax everything.This is why they’re lowering the threshold for mandatory reporting of cash transactions and, in some instances, simply making it illegal to pay cash.In the U.S., central planners ratchet up the War on Cash every time the government declares a made-up war on something else…a war on crime, a war on drugs, a war on poverty, a war on terror…They all end with more government intrusion into your financial affairs.Thanks to these made-up wars, the U.S. government is imposing an increasing number of regulations on cash transactions. Try withdrawing more than $10,000 in cash from your bank. They’ll treat you like a criminal or terrorist.The Federal Reserve is at the center of the War on Cash. Its weapons are inflation and control over the currency denominations.Take the $100 note, for example. It’s the largest bill in circulation today. This was not always the case. At one point, the U.S. had $500, $1,000, $5,000, and even $10,000 notes. But the government eliminated these large notes in 1969 under the pretext of fighting the War on Some Drugs.Since then, the $100 note has been the largest. But it has far less purchasing power than it did in 1969. Decades of rampant money printing have inflated the dollar. Today, a $100 note buys less than a $20 note did in 1969.Even though the Federal Reserve has devalued the dollar over 80% since 1969, it still refuses to issue notes larger than $100. This makes it inconvenient to use cash for large transactions, which forces people to use electronic payment methods.This, of course, is what the U.S. government wants.It’s exactly like Ron Paul said: "The cashless society is the IRS’s dream: total knowledge of, and control over, the finances of every single American."Policymakers or Central Planners?On stories related to the War on Cash, you may have noticed that the mainstream media often uses the word "policymakers," as in "policymakers have decided to keep interest rates at record low levels."When the media uses "policymakers," they are often referring to central bank officials. It’s a curious word choice. As far as I can tell, there is no difference between a policymaker and central planner.Most people who want to live in a free society agree that central planning is not a good idea. So the media uses a different word to put a more neutral spin on things.To help you think more clearly, I suggest substituting "central planners" every time you see "policymakers."The World’s First Cashless SocietyIn 1661, Sweden became the first country in Europe to issue paper money. Now it’s probably going to be the first in the world to eliminate it.Sweden has already phased out most cash transactions. According to Credit Suisse, 80% of all purchases in Sweden are electronic and don’t involve cash. And that figure is rising.If the trend continues – and there is nothing to suggest it won’t – Sweden could soon be the world’s first cashless society.Sweden’s supply of physical currency has dropped over 50% in the last six years. A couple of major Swedish banks no longer carry cash. Virtually all Swedes pay for candy bars and coffee electronically. Even homeless street vendors use mobile card readers.Plus, an increasing number of government restrictions are encouraging Swedes to dump cash. The pretexts are familiar…fighting terrorism, money laundering, etc. In effect, these restrictions make it inconvenient to use cash, so people don’t.So far, Swedes have passively accepted the government and banks’ drive to eliminate cash. The push to destroy their financial privacy doesn’t seem to bother them. This is likely because the average Swede places an unreasonable amount of trust in government and financial institutions.Their trust is certainly misplaced. On top of the obvious privacy concerns, eliminating cash enables the central planners’ latest gimmick to goose the economy: Negative interest rates.Making The Negative Interest Rate Scam PossibleSweden, Denmark, and Switzerland all have negative interest rates.Negative interest rates mean the lender literally pays the borrower for the privilege of lending him money. It’s a bizarre, upside-down concept.But negative rates are not some European anomaly. The Federal Reserve discussed the possibility of using negative interest rates in the U.S. at its last meeting.Negative rates could not exist in a free market. They destroy the impetus to save and build capital, which is the basis of prosperity.When you deposit money in a bank, you are lending money to the bank. However, with negative rates you don’t earn interest. Instead, you pay the bank.If you don’t like that plan, you can certainly stash your cash under the mattress. As a practical matter, this limits how far governments and central banks can go with negative interest rates. The more it costs to store money at the bank, the less inclined people are to do it.Of course, central planners don’t want you to withdraw money from the bank. This is a big reason why they want to eliminate cash…so you can’t. As long as your money stays in the bank, it’s vulnerable to the sting of negative interest rates and also helps to prop up the unsound fractional reserve banking system.If you can’t withdraw your money as cash, you have two choices: You can deal with negative interest rates…or you can spend your money. Ultimately, that’s what our Keynesian central planners want. They are using negative interest rates and the War on Cash to force you to spend and "stimulate" the economy.If you ask me, these radical and insane measures are a sign of desperation.The War on Cash and negative interest rates are huge threats to your financial security. Central planners are playing with fire and inviting a currency catastrophe.Most people have no idea what really happens when a currency collapses, let alone how to prepare…-- Peter Myerswebsite: http://mailstar.net/index.html