2024-04-24 20:56:15
The investigation referred to by “comedonchisciotte” in the article I relaunch below concerns i financing to some exponents of the Italian left by a non-profit called Agenda.
Here’s what we know:
- Agenda:
- Agenda it’s a non-profit company based in Rome.
- He says his goal is strengthen female political leadership and the role of women in the community.
- Recently, notable funding of more than that has emerged one million euros a Agendaas well as a some members of the Democratic Party (Pd) including the deputy Rachele Scarpa.
- This funding comes from Swedish foundation Democracy & Pluralismled by the entrepreneur Daniel Sachswhich is also vice chair della Open Societythe foundation of George Soros.
- The financing dates back to 2022 et al 2023but the relevant communications were transmitted to Parliament in March 2024.
- On the website of Agenda the objectives of the association are specified: strengthen women’s political power and develop communication and campaigning skills to support these goals.
- Jessica Shearerthe CEO of Social Changesis also the co-founder and chair of the board of directors of Agenda. Shearer worked on campaign communications Barack Obama In the 2008.
In summary, the investigation reveals that Agendafinanced by the Swedish foundation close to George Soros, supported several progressive exponents of the Italian left. This funding was made public and registered on the Parliament website.
This is the interesting comment from Like Don Quixote:
One might say that, for a change, the conspiracy theorists were right. This time too, the rumors from social media turn out to be true, at least according to the journalistic investigation by adnkronos.com. In fact, Soros would be behind the financing of some exponents of the Italian left, who would have benefited from the help of “Social Changes” (social-changes.com), the progressive US organization where experts in political communication work, whose CEO is the American environmentalist Jessica Shearer, already on Barack Obama’s staff during the victorious 2008 presidential campaign.
The same organization, on the reference site, proclaims:
JEssica led 290 staffers in all nine major states where Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign took place. These leaders…wrote campaign plans, targeted voters, recruited volunteers, and executed the largest knock-knock campaign at the gates in the history of the United States.
Among the strategic plans:
Bringing cutting-edge digital strategy to the European left.
We currently provide advice and training to leaders of progressive movements in Austria, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
And among the objectives:
Fighting fake news.
Social media manipulation is increasing hatred and racism on a scale and speed never seen before in the world. We are fighting a global campaign to cut off the far right’s sources of income, as well as waging corporate and legislative campaigns that return regulatory power to the people.
According to the investigation, among the beneficiaries who received ‘donations’ in 2022 there would be: Nicola Fratoianni, the Avs deputy Marco Grimaldi, the PD senator Michele Fina, the leader of the PD group in the municipality of La Spezia Martina Giannetti, the deputy of the Democratic Party Arturo Scotto, the dem deputy Nicola Stumpo, the former PD parliamentarian and constitutionalist Stefano Ceccanti, the dem secretary of Genoa Simone D’Angelo, the former governor of Tuscany Enrico Rossi.
“Agenda”, founded in 2022 by Shearer, based in Rome, would in turn have been financed with over one million euros between 2022 and 2023 by Democracy & Pluralisma Swedish foundation close to the Hungarian tycoon George Soros.
This is what Adnkronos reports:
Over one million euros. Sifting through the list of ‘contributions’ received by the parties between 2022 and 2023 and made public on the basis of the so-called corruption-sweeping law on the Parliament.it website, the record funding of 1 million and 75 thousand euros divided into two tranches stands out ( the first of 800 thousand euros, on 19 August two years ago, and the second of 275 thousand euros, on 6 October last) received from the ‘Agenda’ association based in Rome, founded by the American environmentalist Jessica Shearer – a past member of the staff by Barack Obama during the victorious presidential campaign of 2008 – and by some exponents of the Democratic Party, including Rachele Scarpa, the youngest deputy of the 19th legislature (to whom Elly Schlein entrusted delegations on two key sectors, youth and health) and Caterina Cerroni, national secretary of the Young Democrats. Papers in hand (i.e., the list of donations to political parties registered in the national register), it turns out that by writing the two checks in favor of this association created in 2022 (as certified by the articles of association signed before the notary of Civitavecchia Gianfranco Head of house on 13 July and registered five days later), was a Swedish foundation, the ‘Demokrati Pluralism Stiftelsen’ (Democracy & Pluralism in English), led by the entrepreneur Daniel Sachs, vice chair of the Open Society, a foundation headed by the tycoon George Soros. According to what is reported in the list of donations, the Swedish foundation financed the feminist association ‘Agenda’ in 2022 and 2023 with over one million euros, in fact.
The objective of Democracy & Pluralism, we read on its website, is “promote free and just societies and pluralistic democracies by supporting non-profit organizations in Europe working towards this common goal“.
Returning to the Italian reality, there are several names of left-wing Italian politicians financed by the Italian-American company: the name of Giuseppe Provenzano appears, who is part of secretary Schlein’s team as head of Foreign Affairs, to which are added: Ouidad Bakkali, deputy secretary of the PD in Emilia-Romagna, Valentina Ghio, former mayor of Sestri Levante, Marta Bonafoni, lieutenant of Schlein in Rome and coordinator of the national dem secretariat, Katia Piccardo, mayor of Rossiglione and deputy secretary of the Democratic Party of Genoa, the parliamentarian Marco Sarracino, responsible for cohesion, South and internal areas of the national secretariat of the Democratic Party.
As soon as the news spread, the governing majority parties went on the attack:
They talk about various conspiracies, but the numbers don’t lie. This is how Soros and various left-wing intelligentsia try to influence Italian politics with various financing”,
Giovanni Donzelli, deputy of Fratelli d’Italia and national organization manager of the Via della Scrofa party, writes on his blog, commenting on the Adnkronos.com investigation.
Very interesting are the revelations from Adnkronos which speak of funding arriving from Sweden from circles close to the well-known Soros to a foundation in the Italian left area, ‘Agenda’. Parliamentarians from the Democratic Party are present in this matter. Everything happens formally in compliance with the procedures, but allows for a political reading of the ties and conditioning of the Italian left in reference to Soros and his activities throughout the world”
declares the president of the Forza Italia senators, Maurizio Gasparri. “I wonder if the moralists in effective permanent service of the left have anything to say. I am thinking of some zealous colleagues also from the Senate to whom I will then have the opportunity to highlight these events in the Chamber. Soros is a character who plays a more than questionable role. And we would like to understand what activities this huge funding from Sweden is used for by ‘Agenda’, a reality that sees representatives of the democratic party active and present”, concludes the blue parliamentarian.
1 million donated by a foundation close to Soros”,
the League writes on its social channels.
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