Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten

De hele
wereld kijkt mee naar wat er met Julian Assange gebeurt nu hij is
gevangengezet door GB, die hem tegen internationale regels in
ontvoerde uit de ambassade van Ecuador.

Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde het hieronder opgenomen artikel op haar site, een artikel waarin ze uitlegt dat de gijzeling van
Assange veel verder gaat dan de zaak waarvoor Assange vastzit. Deze
zaak gaat elke (echte) journalist* aan, waar deze ook
werkzaam is in onze wereld, hetzelfde geldt uiteraard voor
klokkenluiders als Chelsea Manning, die volkomen terecht zware
(oorlogs-) misdaden openbaarde en doorspeelde naar WikiLeaks…..

Met de
informatie die Manning naar buiten bracht werd ten overvloede nog
eens bewezen dat de VS zich gedraagt als een politiemacht van een
bloedige dictatuur en waar die macht niet werd aangewezen door de
wereldgemeenschap, maar door de opvolgende regeringen in de VS…..
‘Een politiemacht’ die niet opkomt voor mensenrechten en democratie
zoals de VS keer op keer laat weten, maar die de belangen van de VS behartigen,
zoals het veiligstellen (‘stelen…’) van grote olievoorraden voor eigen gebruik…..

Met het
klokkenluiden van Manning werd ten overvloede nog eens aangetoond dat de
reguliere westerse media aan de leiband lopen van de plutocratische
eigenaren die deze media bezitten en van de westerse regeringen….. Het laatste daar die media en regeringen Assange afschilderen als een nep-journalist en WikiLeaks beschrijven
als een site die een groot aantal mensen in gevaar heeft gebracht. ‘Natuurlijk’ wijzen deze media Manning aan als een landverrader…….

Dit
alles waar deze media* juist het werk van Assange
hadden moeten doen en hem uit en te na hadden moeten beschermen en
helpen tegen de neoliberale willekeur en zucht naar censuur…. Niet
vreemd dus dat de reguliere westerse media negatief commentaar gaven op Assange na diens ontvoering uit de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in Londen……. Assange wordt gegijzeld in
een gevangenis die het Britse Guantanamo Bay wordt genoemd…… 

Het gaat om HM Prison Belmarsh, een gevangenis waar Assange zelfs niet met zijn familie en
advocaten mag spreken, een schande van formaat en een gang van zaken
die in een dictatuur thuishoort, hetzelfde geldt voor de hernieuwde
gevangenschap van Manning in de VS, Manning die ook al geruime tijd in isolatiefolter wordt gehouden……..

Johnstone heeft het gelijk aan haar kant, waar ze stelt dat de ontvoering en gijzeling van Assange een waarschuwing is voor iedere klokkenluider die zaken naar buiten wil brengen en voor iedere journalist die van plan is deze gelekte documenten te publiceren, zoals Assange dit deed op WikiLeaks…… Jammer dat Johnstone stelt dergelijke zaken niet te zullen publiceren, daar ze te bang is voor gevangenschap en zij is daarin jammer genoeg bepaald niet alleen…….. 

The
Prosecution Of Julian Assange Is Infinitely Bigger Than Assange

by Caitlin
Johnstone

Julian
Assange’s mother 
reported
yesterday
 that
the WikiLeaks founder has not been permitted any visitors during his
detention in Belmarsh Prison, including from doctors and his lawyers.
Doctors who visited Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy 
have
attested
 that
he urgently needs medical care.

Belmarsh
is a maximum security prison sometimes referred to as “
the
UK’s Guantanamo Bay
“.

And
yet we’re asked to believe that this has something to do with an
alleged bail violation and a US extradition request for alleged
computer crimes carrying a maximum sentence of five years. If you
zoom out and listen to the less-informed chatter of the overt
propagandists and the brainwashed rank-and-file western mass media
consumers, you will also see that people believe this has something
to do with Russia and rape allegations as well.

Actually,
none of these things are true. Assange is being imprisoned under
draconian conditions for journalism, and 
for
journalism only
.
The Obama administration 
declined
to prosecute him
 after
WikiLeaks’ publication of the Manning leaks out of concern that doing
so would endanger press freedoms, and the Obama administration 
didn’t
have any more evidence
 at
its disposal than the Trump administration has now. The “crime”
Assange is accused of consists of nothing other than 
standard
journalistic practices
 that
investigative journalists 
engage
in all the time
,
including source protection and encouraging the source to obtain more
material. The only thing that has changed is an increased willingness
in the White House to prosecute journalists for practicing
journalism, and there are an 
abundance of reasons to
believe that he will be hit with 
far
more serious charges
 once
extradited to
 
US
soil. They’re not going to all this trouble for a bail violation and
a five-year maximum sentence.

But
if you zoom out even further, in the grand scheme of things this
barely even has anything to do with Assange. Sure, he has of course
been a thorn in the side of those who operate the transnational
western power alliance, and given the choice they would of course
prefer him to be locked up or dead than free and alive. But that’s
not what the corrupt influencers who are strangling our world are
shooting for here. They are making a grab for something much, much
bigger. Assange just happens to be a stepping stone along the way.

As
we’ve 
discussed
previously
,
the prosecution of Assange is really designed to set a legal
precedent which will enable the US government to imprison journalists
for trying to hold it to account using journalism. The reason you are
seeing the phrase “Assange is not a journalist” bleated
constantly by empire lackeys all around the world today is because
they need a counter-narrative for the indisputable fact that this
precedent poses a threat to journalists around the world, the
argument being that since Assange isn’t a journalist (
pure
bullshit
 by
the way), this isn’t setting a precedent for journalists. As though
their personal definition of what a “real journalist” is
will be the one used by the US government when determining whether or
not to prosecute other people for doing things similar to what
Assange did, instead of whatever definition happens to suit US
government agendas in that instance.

But
in order to get the really, really big picture perspective of what
these bastards are going for, we need to zoom out even further than
that.

In
the sci-fi novel 
Ender’s
Game
,
the young protagonist applies a vicious beating to one of his
bullies, killing him. When asked why he did this by his handlers, the
boy, who has been bred and raised to become a strategic savant,
explains that he did it not out of malice toward the bully, nor only
to win the fight, but to win all future fights as well. If the kids
at school see what savagery he’s capable of and know he’s not to be
trifled with, he won’t ever have to fight them.

If
this sounds a bit sociopathic to you, that’s because it is. And, with
the notable difference of the bully and victim roles being reversed,
this is exactly the principle we are seeing exercised with Assange.

The
entire world is watching what is being done to Assange currently. No
matter how propagandized you are, no matter how much you hate the man
personally, you’re watching that happen and learning a lesson from
it. And that lesson is, never do anything remotely like what that guy
did, or you’ll meet the same fate. This is the real goal of Assange’s
persecution, and it doesn’t impact merely one Australian publisher in
a UK jail cell, nor even merely the investigative journalists around
the world who are interested in practicing the lost art of holding
power to account using journalism, but everyone in the world who
consumes news media.

And
it works. I know it works because it works on me. I’ll say right here
and now, if you’ve got information that incriminates the most
powerful people in the world, keep it the hell away from me. Give it
to someone else, literally anyone else, because I myself am far too
cowardly and have far too much to lose by getting involved in
anything that could lead to me rotting in some overseas prison cell.
I’ve got kids. I’m in love. I cannot and will not go down that path.
And if this is true for me I know for certain that it’s true for
countless others as well. They’ve brutalized whistleblowers to the
point that it’s surely had a severe chilling effect on those who
would otherwise become key leak sources, and now they’re brutalizing
the journalists who publish those leaks as well.
The odds of someone
willing to blow the whistle on real power meeting a journalist who is
willing to help them are rapidly diminishing to zero.

They’re
winning this fight against Assange in brutal fashion to ensure that
they win all future fights as well.

Which
is why it’s absolutely stupid that this conversation so often gets
fixated on Assange the man, whether it’s smears or praise.

The
other day I published a 
massive
mega-article
 attacking
the major smears about Assange I’ve encountered. There are 27 of them
in total so far, and I’ll be adding more soon. This mountain of
smears exists because instead of paying attention to the
world-shaping dangers I just outlined which threaten to make it
impossible to oppose the leaders of the US-centralized empire who are
marching us towards 
either
extinction or dystopia
,
people are babbling about Assange’s personality, or whether or not he
cleaned up after his cat while at the embassy.

The
flip side of this is people who fixate on Assange as a hero, which
can of course help draw attention to his plight and therefore be of
some benefit, but ultimately that’s also missing the forest for the
trees.

This
is so very, very much bigger than Assange, and we need to oppose it
for reasons that are far, far more significant than the individual
characteristics of one man who, depending on what we’ve heard, we may
or may not believe is a nice person.

Never
lose sight of this: the intimidation of whistleblowers and leak
publishers threatens to stop truth from informing the behaviors of
our entire species, leaving only the whims of the most powerful to
decide our fate. The most powerful people are those most dedicated to
pursuing power, those sociopathic enough to step on anyone’s head and
do whatever it takes to secure as much control as possible over as
many humans as possible. That’s who we’re handing the steering wheel
of our world to if we allow truth to be intimidated into silence.

And
never lose sight of this, either: with the imprisonment and
prosecution of Julian Assange, these same sociopathic oppressors have
exposed themselves. They have ripped off the friendly Big Brother
mask and exposed the dark infernal entities which squirm and hiss
underneath. This sudden interest in the legal technicalities of bail
protocol and journalistic source protection protocol happen to look
exactly the same as prosecuting a journalist for publishing facts
because that is exactly what is happening. Don’t ever let anyone
gaslight you into believing otherwise, and don’t you dare miss this
rare opportunity to point out to your fellow humans how our
oppressors have revealed their true nature.

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*
Echte journalisten, dus niet die
van de reguliere media, van wie de journalisten braaf
herkauwen wat hun regering, grote bedrijven en de geheime diensten hen opdienen. Echte
journalisten die hun werk doen: het blootleggen van smerige misdaden,
of die nu worden begaan door bedrijven of door overheidsdienaren als
militairen, of zelfs het aangaan van illegale oorlogen door de VS…….. Zie wat dat laatste betreft eens wat de reguliere
media brachten in aanloop van en tijdens de illegale oorlogen die de
VS begon tegen landen als Afghanistan, Irak, Libië, Oekraïne en Syrië, als één blok stonden de reguliere westerse media achter deze
illegale oorlogen en inderdaad, men herkauwde braaf alle leugens gebracht door de VS
geheime diensten, de opvolgende VS regeringen, haar denktanks als Atlantic Council (denktanks waar
je zelfs het achterlijke HCSS toe kan rekenen) en haar NAVO partners….. Kortom deze reguliere media brachten op grote
schaal fake news (nepnieuws), desinformatie en manipuleerden daarmee
de westerse bevolkingen, waarbij zelfs het melden van massamoorden
begaan door de VS en haar NAVO partners, onder de pet werden (en
worden) gehouden……

Zie ook:

Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd

Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) veroordeeld tot 50 weken gevangenisstraf……

VS Navy SEALs werden gewaarschuwd geen oorlogsmisdaden te melden

Jan Kuitenbrouwer (‘journalist’): Assange is een charlatan en WikiLeaks heeft beelden van de moord op 2 journalisten gemanipuleerd

Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis

VN heeft eerder de ‘detentie’ van Assange al als onwettig verklaard

Julian Assange gearresteerd, een flagrante schending van de persvrijheid!

Arrestatie Julian Assange: een aanfluiting voor internationale regels en een enorme aanval op onafhankelijke journalistiek

Assange’s ‘Conspiracy’ to Expose War Crimes Has Already Been Punished

Assange Held at “Britain’s Guantanamo Bay” as UN Urges Fair Trial

The Arrest of Julian Assange is an Existential Threat to Journalism

Julian Assange, valse beschuldigingen, Big Brother en VS steun voor terrorisme

Westerse massamedia lopen aan de leiband van plutocraten, de neoliberale politiek en geheime diensten

Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt

The Guardian: ondanks een enorme misser (fake news) gaat men door met de valse beschuldigingen t.a.v. Assange……

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

Julian Assange gedemoniseerd door media die hem zouden moeten steunen, waren ze bevolkt geweest door echte journalisten……..

WikiLeaks toont aan dat VS en GB een gezamenlijke gewelddadige en bedrieglijke buitenlandpolitiek voeren

De prijs op het hoofd van Julian Assange: 1 miljard dollar…..

Assange kan niet voor spionage worden vervolgd, immers hij is journalist >> aldus Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) in een video

Westerse bevolkingen worden bespeeld door regeringen, massamedia, grote bedrijven, financiële instellingen en geheime diensten……

Media tonen ware gezicht door weigering Julian Assange te verdedigen

Assange is journalist en zou alleen daarom al niet mogen worden vervolgd, een artikel o.a. voor de huidige ‘journalisten’ van de reguliere media en de gebruikers van die media

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum‘ 

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!’

JulianAssange (Wikileaks) haalt hypocriete Britse regering onderuit voor wijzen op belang van vrije en onafhankelijke media

VS waarschuwde regering van Zweden voor Wikileaks in aanloop verkiezingen, Assange ‘moest en zou hangen’, ofwel de zoveelste VS manipulatie van verkiezingen elders……

Facebook Removes Page of Ecuador’s Former President on Same Day as Assange’s Arrest

While US Media Play Along, Critics Warn Assange Indictment an ‘Obvious’ Ploy With Deeper Dangers

De verregaande anti-Russische propaganda in de VS en de rest van het westen

De
kop van dit bericht is een heel andere dan die van het hieronder
opgenomen artikel, waar Caitlin Johnstone in feite een stelling
betrekt: ‘Yes Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So
What?’

In
haar artikel, geplaatst op haar eigen site stelt
Johnstone dat de VS precies hetzelfde doet, hoewel daar aan
toegevoegd moet worden dat de anti-Russische propaganda voor het
overgrote deel niet wordt ondersteund door feiten, terwijl de
anti-imperialistische berichtgeving voor het overgrote deel niet
eens moeite hoeft te doen om met feiten aan te tonen dat de VS de
internationale stabiliteit steeds verder ondermijnt, daar de bewijzen overweldigend zijn……

Het
lullige is dat elke kritiek bijvoorbeeld over de feiten aangaande de
VS terreur in het Midden-Oosten, in de VS en de rest van het westen
worden afgedaan als pro-Russische propaganda, zo worden de sociale
media die hier aandacht aan besteden, zoals RT (Russia Today) weggezet als Russische trollen…..

Johnstone
noemt het niet in haar artikel, maar The Voice of America is een
zender die vooral propaganda maakt voor het imperialisme waar de VS
intussen al vele jaren meer dan berucht door is geworden 
en waar men Rusland consequent als een kwaadaardige natie neerzet…….  Uiteraard wordt dit voorgesteld als het brengen van democratie en stabiliteit door de VS, waar dit gestolen land in werkelijkheid massamoord en vernietiging brengt, ter illustratie >> sinds 1945 heeft de VS meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen vermoord*

  • in diverse illegale oorlogen
  • bij door de VS georganiseerde opstanden waarvoor de VS o.a. economische oorlogsvoering gebruikt
  • bij door de VS georganiseerde staatsgrepen
  • bij geheime militaire missies van de VS
  • bij moordaanslagen van de CIA en bij standrechtelijke executies van verdachten middels drones, waarbij meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht

Overigens: de grootste manipulators van verkiezingen in de VS zijn grote bedrijven die met hun macht en enorme kapitaal in feite politici en verkiezingsuitslagen kopen, ofwel grootscheepse corruptie, waarmee de democratie met voeten wordt getreden…… (de VS democratie heeft in feite plaats gemaakt voor een politiestaat, waarop de grote bedrijven grote invloed uitoefenen, grote bedrijven waaronder de bankenmaffia, oliemaatschappijen en wapenfabrikanten….. Opvallend dat grote bedrijven het altijd goed kunnen vinden met dictaturen, althans zolang ze niet zogenaamd links zijn….)

Conclusie van Johnstone is dat Rusland in feite hetzelfde doet als de VS, ware het niet dat de sociale mediaorganen die worden beschuldigd de stem van het Kremlin te vertolken, i.t.t. tot de reguliere westerse media, wel echt nieuws brengen en durven in te gaan tegen de neoliberale status quo en de oorlogszuchtige stemming die zo wordt verdedigd en zelfs uitgedragen in die westerse media…….

FEBRUARY
16, 2019

AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Yes,
Moscow Boosts Western Anti-Imperialist Voices. So What?

In
an extremely weird article titled “
Russia
is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials
“,
CNN reports that Facebook has suspended popular dissident media
outlet 
In
The Now 
and
its allied pages for failing to publicly “disclose” its financial
ties to a subsidiary of RT. According to CNN, such disclosures are
not and have never been an actual part of Facebook’s official
policy, but Facebook has made the exceptional precondition of public
disclosure of financial ties in order for 
In
The Now
 to
return to its platform.

I
say the article is extremely weird for a number of reasons. Firstly,
according to 
In
The Now
 CEO
Anissa Naouai, CNN knew that Facebook was going to be suspending the
pages of her company Maffick Media before she did, suggesting a
creepy degree of coordination between the two massive outlets to
silence an alternative media platform.

Secondly,
the article reports that CNN found out about Maffick’s financial
ties thanks to a tip-off from the German Marshall Fund, a narrative
control firm which receives funding from the US government. 
In
The Now
‘s
Rania Khalek 
has
described
 this
tactic as “a case where the US government has found a legal
loophole to suppress speech, in this case speech that is critical of
destructive US government policies around the world.”

Thirdly,
and in my opinion weirdest of all, the article goes to great lengths
to make the fact that a dissident media outlet supports the same
foreign policy positions as Russia look like something strange and
nefarious, instead of the normal and obvious thing that it is.

Anissa Naouai

@AnissaNow

Unprecedented. @CNN knew @IntheNow_tweet and other Maffick pages would be blocked on @Facebook before we did https://cnn.it/2DJubp5 


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The
article repeatedly mentions the fact that all the people working
for 
In
The Now
 “claim”
to be editorially independent as opposed to being told what to report
by Kremlin officials, a notion which 
Khalek
says
 was
met with extreme skepticism when she was interviewed for the piece by
CNN. As though the possibility of an American opposing US
warmongering and the political establishment which drives it without
being ordered to by a rubles-dispensing FSB officer was a completely
alien idea to them.

Check
out the following excerpt, for example of this bizarre attitude:

Ben
Nimmo, a senior fellow for information defense at the Atlantic
Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, told CNN that while
Russian state-backed outlets claim to be editorially independent,
‘they routinely boost Kremlin narratives, especially those which
portray the West negatively.’
 

Nimmo
said the tone of Maffick’s pages is ‘broadly anti-US and
anti-corporate. That’s strikingly similar to RT’s output. Maffick
may technically be independent, but their tone certainly matches the
broader Kremlin family.’”

This
is a truly obnoxious mind virus we’re seeing the imperial narrative
controllers pushing more and more aggressively into mainstream
consciousness today: that anyone who opposes the beltway consensus on
western interventionism is not simply an individual with a conscience
who is thinking critically for themselves, but is actually “boosting
the Kremlin narrative”. If you say it in an assertive and
authoritative tone like Mr Nimmo does, it can sound like a perfectly
reasonable position if you don’t think about it too hard. If you
really look at it directly, though, what these manipulators are
actually saying is “Russia opposes western interventionism,
therefore anyone who opposes western interventionism is basically
Russian.”

Which
is of course a total non-argument. You don’t get to just say
“Russia bad” for two years to get everyone riled up into a state
of xenophobic hysteria and then say “That’s Russian!” at
anything you don’t like. That’s not a thing. More to the point,
though, there is no causal relationship between the fact that Russia
opposes western interventionism and the fact that many westerners do.

As
we 
discussed
recently
,
there will necessarily be inadvertent agreement between Russia and
westerners who oppose western interventionism, because Russia, like
so many other sovereign nations, opposes western interventionism. If
you discover that an American who opposes US warmongering and
establishment politics is saying the same things as RT, that doesn’t
mean you’ve discovered a shocking conspiracy between western
dissidents and the Russian government, it means people who oppose the
same things oppose the same things.

HootHootBerns #RunBernieRun🌹
🐦
@HootHootBerns

Something appears fishy with conservative columnist running smears on behalf of a “Russian troll hunter” about an open pro-Bernie subreddit before the man even announces he’s running.

Someone REALLY wants Trump to get a second term! (Thread) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/14/prominent-pro-sanders-subreddit-wayofthebern-aims-/ 


115

5:11 AM – Feb 15, 2019

Prominent pro-Sanders subreddit WayOfTheBern aims to divide Democrats,

Something appears fishy with WayOfTheBern, a prominent Reddit page dedicated to advancing the prospects of Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, according to experts who track political social media.

washingtontimes.com






We’re
seeing this absurd gibberish spouted over and over again by the
mainstream media now. The other day the delightful pro-Sanders
subreddit 
WayOfTheBern was smeared
as a Russian operation
 by
the 
Washington
Times,
 not
because the 
Washington
Times
 had
any evidence anywhere supporting that claim, but because the
subreddit’s members are hostile to Democratic presidential hopefuls
other than Sanders, and because its posts “consistently support
positions that would be amenable to the Kremlin.” All this means is
that the subreddit is full of people who support Bernie Sanders and
oppose US government malfeasance, yet an entire article was published
in a mainstream outlet treating this as something dangerous and
suspicious.

If
you really listen to what the CNNs and Ben Nimmos and Washington
Timeses are actually trying to tell you, what they’re saying is
that it’s not okay for anyone to oppose any part of the unipolar
world order or the establishment which runs it. Never ever, under any
circumstances. Don’t work for a media outlet that’s funded by the
Russian government even though no mainstream outlets will ever
platform you. Don’t even subscribe to an anti-establishment
subreddit. Those things are all Russian. Listen to Big Brother
instead. Big Brother will protect you from their filthy Russian lies.

If
CNN would like to hire me to present facts against destructive US
wars and corporate ownership of our political system, I’ll gladly
accept,” Khalek told me when asked for comment. “But the
corporate media doesn’t allow antiwar voices a platform. 
In
The Now
 does.
I’ve worked for dozens of different outlets, from Vice to Al
Jazeera to RT, and my message has always the same: leftist, antiwar
and pro justice and equality. People should be asking why US
mainstream media outlets that claim to be free and independent refuse
to air critical and adversarial voices like mine.”

Why
indeed? Actually, if CNN is so worried about Russian media influence
in America, all they’d have to do is put on a few shows featuring
leftist, antiwar and pro-justice voices and that would be the end of
it. They could easily out-spend RT by a massive margin, buy up all
the talent like Khalek, Lee Camp and Chris Hedges, put on a sleek,
high-budget show and steal RT America’s audience, killing it dead
and drawing all anti-establishment energy to their material.

But
they don’t. They don’t, and they never will. Because Russian
media influence is not their actual target. Their actual target is
leftist, antiwar and anti-establishment voices. That’s what they’re
really trying to eliminate.

Mark Curtis


@markcurtis30

I did an interview with RT’s Going Underground yesterday on UK foreign policy since 1945, to broadcast Monday. Why? I’ve waited since 1989 when I was at Chatham House to be interviewed by BBC; the call has never come. So I gave my first interview to RT. (PS. I don’t love Putin).


833

10:14 AM – Dec 7, 2018

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So
yes, Moscow will of course elevate some western voices who oppose the
power establishment that is trying to undermine and subvert Russia.
Those voices will not require any instruction to speak out against
that establishment, since that’s what they’d be doing anyway and
they’re just grateful to finally have a platform upon which to
speak. And it is good that they’re getting a platform to speak. If
western power structures have a problem with it, they should stop
universally refusing to platform anyone who opposes the status quo
that is destroying nations abroad and squeezing the life out of
citizens at home.

It
doesn’t take any amount of sympathy for Russia to see that the
unipolar empire is toxic for humanity, and most westerners who oppose
that toxicity have no particular feelings about Russia any more than
they have about Turkey or the Philippines. Sometimes Russia will come
in and give them a platform in the void that has been left by the
mainstream outlets which are doing everything they can to silence
them. So what? The alternative is all dissident voices being
silenced. The fact that Russia prevents a few of them from being
silenced is not the problem. The problem is that they are being
silenced at all. 

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* Terreur door de VS uitgeoefend:

VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ (tot het jaar 2000, intussen zijn daar al meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden aan toegevoegd)

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

List of wars involving the United States

CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………

=============================

Zie ook:

Putin vraagt en Trump levert: een lijst met ‘alle goede zaken die Trump voor Rusland regelde’

Russiagate: VS en buitenlandse geheime diensten hebben de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 gemanipuleerd

Russiagate gelovigen krijgen nieuwe klap: WikiLeaks kreeg de DNC mails van een klokkenluider, niet van Rusland…..

Tulsi Gabbard (pres. kandidaat VS) krijgt volgens NBC Russische steun op claim van firma die ‘Russische data’ fabriceert voor Republikeinen

De VS dreigt de grondwet te wijzigen ten voordele van censuur en de afschaffing van de vrijheid op meningsuiting

WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news

Als Martin Luther King nog zou leven was hij onderwerp van censuur en was zijn Facebook pagina verwijderd

World Economic Forum: de plek waar men elkaar feliciteert met de censuur op de sociale media

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots

New York Times te kakken gezet met haar berichtgeving over Russische manipulatie voor midterm verkiezingen

VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

De VS heeft Syrië volgepropt met ‘jihadisten’ en wapens

Democraten deden zich voor als Russen in false flag operatie om Roy Moore (Republikein) zwart te maken tijdens verkiezing…..

Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’

‘Fake news’: alternatieve media en bloggers in het westen zouden onzin brengen, echter niet als dit soort groepen wat roepen in landen die het westen niet welgevallig zijn

Russiagate: de westerse massamedia gebruiken propaganda om het volk te manipuleren, precies waar ze Rusland van beschuldigen

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada……. 

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Russische inmenging VS presidentsverkiezingen? ha! ha! ha! ha! Sheldon Adelson en Netanyahu zal men bedoelen!

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..

WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Als Martin Luther King nog zou leven was hij onderwerp van censuur en was zijn Facebook pagina verwijderd

Ondanks
Martin Luther King Day op 21 januari in de VS, een officiële vrije
dag, is er verder maar weinig veranderd in de VS, sinds de moord op
MLK (waar maar één dader voor aangewezen kan  worden: de FBI).
Wat betreft de discriminatie van de gekleurde bevolking geldt hetzelfde: er is over het geheel gezien weinig veranderd, ondanks 
de acties van Martin Luther King en de officiële MLK dag, plus 2 termijnen Obama, de eerste gekleurde
president van de VS…… De VS regering en zelfs de FBI eert MLK wel schijnheilig,
maar zou hem haten als hij nog leefde (zie ook het neerschieten van
gekleurden door de VS politie, waarbij de meerderheid van de
slachtoffers niet eens bewapend was en is, immers dit gaat bijna
dagelijks door in de VS…).

King was
niet alleen een mensenrechtenactivist, maar ook een groot leider in
het verzet tegen de VS oorlog in Vietnam, daarmee verdubbelde hij de
inzet van de VS overheid en de FBI hem tot zwijgen te brengen……..

De FBI
begon overigens al met het onderzoeken en dwarsbomen van King in
1955, je kan dan ook niet anders concluderen dan dat King werd gezien als een
staatsvijand in de ogen van FBI en de opvolgende regeringen destijds…..
Vooral de corrupte psychopaat Hoover, hoofd van de FBI had het niet
op met King en dat heeft hij meermaals laten weten…. In de ogen van
Hoover was King een communist…..

De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel Matt Agorist, stelt
volkomen terecht dat King ook heden ten dage als een gevaarlijke en
invloedrijke staatsvijand zou zijn behandeld, dat zijn Facebook
pagina al lang verwijderd zou zijn geweest (plus zijn Twitteraccount,
Ap.) en hij te maken zou hebben met censuur en zeker zou zijn gedemoniseerd door de reguliere massamedia in de VS….

Lees het
artikel van Agorist en geeft het door, veel te veel mensen in
Nederland hebben de foute idee dat het allemaal wel goed zit in de VS
wat betreft de behandeling van gekleurden….. Bovendien zijn er hele volksstammen die
geloven dat de sociale media alleen maar kul en poezenfilmpjes laten
zien, terwijl juist daar het echte nieuws is te vinden en waar de betekenis van
dat nieuws wordt gebracht. Intussen lopen de reguliere massamedia braaf aan de
leiband van hun rijke meesters, grote bedrijven en regeringen,
waarbij men geen schroom heeft fake news en desinformatie te brengen,
om zo het volk achter de machthebbers en rustig te houden…… Zelfs
de illegale oorlogen van de VS (en haar terreurorganisatie NAVO) tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en
Syrië worden door de media verdedigd als was het motief
medemenselijkheid, waar het in werkelijkheid gaat om massamoorden en het veilig stellen van westerse belangen, zoals de olieproductie, waarbij alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5
miljoen mensen om het leven werden gebracht…….

Het volgende artikel komt van The Free Thought Porject en werd zoals gezegd geschreven door Matt Agorist (mijn excuus, bij plaatsing vergeten The Free Thought Project te noemen): 

If
Dr. King Was Alive Today, His Facebook Page Would Be Deleted, And
He’d Be Censored

Martin
Luther King Jr.’s pro-peace and antiwar stance would have made him an
enemy to today’s establishment and he would have been censored.


Afbeeldingsresultaat voor If Dr. King Was Alive Today, His Facebook Page Would Be Deleted, And He’d Be Censored

By Matt
Agorist
 January
21, 2019

When
most people think of the great man, born Michael King on January
15, 1929, they see an advocate for peace, who is celebrated by the US
government — honored every year in January, on the third Monday.

However,
what the government tells us and what this great man did are two
separate stories and had Dr. King been alive today, he would have
been an enemy to the establishment who would have made every move
they could to silence him.

Dr.
King’s position as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement began
after his election as spokesman for the Montgomery Improvement
Association in December of 1955. What also started in that 
December
of 1955 
was
the FBI’s investigation into him.

Like
all those who stand against government-sanctioned violence, Dr. King
was an enemy of the state. The fact that he’s celebrated today by
the same state that persecuted him is quite Orwellian.

According
to a report out of Stanford University titled, 
Martin
Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle
,
the FBI had it out for Dr. King as soon as he began making waves.

The
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began monitoring Martin
Luther King, Jr., in December 1955, during his involvement with
the 
Montgomery
bus boycott
,
and engaged in covert operations against him throughout the 1960s.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was personally hostile toward King,
believing that the civil rights leader was influenced by Communists.
This animosity increased after April 1964, when King called the FBI
‘‘completely ineffectual in resolving the continued mayhem and
brutality inflicted upon the Negro in the deep South’’ (King, 23
April 1964). Under the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence program
(COINTELPRO) King was subjected to various kinds of FBI surveillance
that produced alleged evidence of extramarital affairs, though no
evidence of Communist influence.

With
a state that owes its very existence to the monopoly it holds on the
use of violence, anyone who is pro-peace is a potential threat. This
was the case in the 20th century just as it is the case in
the 21st century. The fact that Americans take off of work one day in
January, does not negate the reality that this struggle continues.

In
fact, the government is still very engaged in fighting the antiwar
and pro-peace narrative King so eloquently espoused. And they have no
qualms talking about this in the open.

After deleting
the pages
 of
hundreds of antiwar and pro-peace media and activist outlets in
October, last week, Facebook
 made
another giant move to silence.
 This
time, they had no problem noting that they went after pages whose
specific missions were “anti-corruption” or “protest”
movements.

Some
of the Pages frequently posted about topics like 
anti-NATO
sentiment, protest movements, and anti-corruption
,”
Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher wrote
in the blog post. “We are 
constantly
working to detect and stop this type of activity
 because
we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people.”

Matt Agorist@MattAgorist

Facebook purged hundreds more pages today. This time, they claim it is folks who are “anti-corruption” and who “protest” who are the problem. To the ministry of truth, standing against criminal politicians is now deemed a crime. Shit is getting serious.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-shuts-hundreds-of-pages-linked-to-russias-sputnik/?fbclid=IwAR3Qzycn0Qw_cx0KSOFwOgma0Ok5x7_jvZ2ki5353n5cstZEh7vtXRApZ_s 


25

7:10 PM – Jan 17, 2019

Make
no mistake, because Dr. King broke through the divisive paradigm and
bridged the gap between different cultures so well, he would
undoubtedly been a target of these tech giant censors who aim to keep
you divided. The 
Atlantic
Council
 would
have likely had a special committee devoted to solely silencing his
“dangerous” talks of peace.

Like
Dr. King, however, many activists of today are unafraid of speaking
truth to power, even when faced with police action and censorship.

Like
the activists of today, Dr. King’s activism was often met with
brutal backlash from police. Just like the protesters of today, who
peacefully march in solidarity to end police violence and war, the
protesters of the 50s and 60s were met with violence from the police.

Attacks
against non-violent protesters are nothing new. In the 60s, as the
marches increased, so did the attacks against non-violent
demonstrators.

There
may be some tear gas ahead. But I say to you today, that I’d rather
die on the highways of Alabama, than make a butchery of my
conscience,”
 said
Dr. King in his famous speech just prior to the Selma-Montgomery
march in which protesters were met with such violence from police
that the day would be forever remembered as 
“Bloody
Sunday.”

The
first march took place on March 7, 1965, and it gained the
nickname “Bloody Sunday” after its 600 marchers were attacked at
the Edmund Pettus Bridge after leaving Selma; state troopers and
county posse attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear
gas.

Does
this type of police reaction to protests sound familiar?

Dr.
King was no stranger to police and being arrested, in fact, during
his 12-year run as the leader of the civil rights movement, 
he
was arrested 30 times.

Today,
there is a good chance Dr. King would be referred to as a ‘thug’
by a large portion of society — and police — for his activism. 

Dr.
King, like many of the protesters of today, stood against state
violence and war. Those who wage the wars and initiate the violence,
delegating a single day in January to honor a man who stood
against their very tactics, is defamatory to this struggle for peace,
to say the least.

So,
while you are out there today, enjoying the day off, remember that
this struggle is far from over. There are countless individuals
continuing to try to live in the way Dr. King advocated for and who
face constant bombardment from the establishment for doing so.

As
long as innocence is lost to those who claim to protect it, the
conflict remains. As long as people of all races are harassed,
kidnapped, locked in cages or killed over victimless crimes, our
strife will persist.

Not
until the corruptions ceases, not until all the troops are
brought home, not until a person can do with their own body as they
see fit, not until the brute force changes to compassion, will the
perpetual struggle of Dr. King and all those before and after him, be
complete.

Peace
is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we
arrive at that goal.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Matt
Agorist

Matt
Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former
intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior
experience gives him unique insight into the world of government
corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an
independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on
mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at
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Hier nog een korte video waarin het geweld tegen gekleurden wordt weergegeven:

Zie ook:

NAVO, het grootste militaire verbond maakt zich schuldig aan grootschalige terreur i.p.v. de vrede te bewaren‘ (o.a. geluidsfragmenten met het protest van King tegen de oorlog in Vietnam)

Thomas Merton >> een kritische rk geestelijke vermoord in hetzelfde jaar als Robert F. Kennedy en Martin Luther King

Fred Hampton 30 augustus 1948 – 4 december 1969 >> mensenrechtenactivist vermoord door FBI en Chicago politie

Martin Luther King: de moord van 50 jaar geleden door de VS overheid uiterst beperkt herdacht

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 8 wijze lessen!

Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..

De langzame moord op de ideeën van Martin Luther King…………….. Ofwel: Dr. Martin Luther Kings lessen willens en wetens verzwegen….

De oorlog tegen het arme deel van de VS bevolking

Martin Luther King misbruikt door Radio1

 ‘Paul Scheffer, het media-orakel met een ‘vlijmscherpe analyse’ over het racistische optreden van de politie in de VS……… AUW!!!

Willem Post over de zegeningen van het zero tolerance beleid in de VS en ach, het is misschien ietsje doorgeschoten…….

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten

Max
Blumenthal en Mark Ames hebben op Gray Zone een uitgebreid artikel
geschreven over de gelekte documenten waaruit blijkt dat de Britse
militaire geheime dienst zich bedient van moddergooien en andere
manieren om het publieke debat te beïnvloeden…… Ja, je las het
goed, zaken waarvoor de Britse geheime diensten, de Britse politiek
en de Britse massamedia nu al weer een paar jaar lang met de
vieze vingers naar Rusland wijzen……. 

Het ‘leukst’ van al is wel dat men dit het ‘Integrity Initiative’ noemt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het
zoveelste bewijs dat de westerse bevolkingen keihard worden
voorgelogen met fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie door de hiervoor aangehaalde instanties (met hulp van de reguliere media)…. Voorgelogen?
Zeg maar gerust gehersenspoeld! Zo gaat er werkelijk geen dag voorbij
of de BBC demoniseert Rusland (en intussen ook alweer een aantal maanden
lang China)…… Zaken als Russiagate, waar zelfs na twee jaar niet één
bewijs voor kon worden geleverd, worden gepresenteerd als een feit…..
(overigens daaraan maken ook andere reguliere westerse massamedia zich
schuldig, bij ons zelfs de NOS, een ‘onafhankelijke
zendgemachtigde’, al even ‘onafhankelijk’ als de BBC…….)

Nogmaals
waar men Rusland van beschuldigt doet men zelf op grote schaal (of zo de waard is….)…….
Het gaat dan ook al lang niet meer over de waarheid maar om het
aantal mensen dat men weet te overtuigen van pertinente
leugens……..

Beste bezoeker ik moet eerlijk toegeven dat na het lezen van artikelen zoals hieronder is opgenomen, me het gevoel bekruipt dat hier niets tegen te doen is, zeker als je ziet dat men dergelijke schandalige zaken in feite openlijk toegeeft (zo wordt in dit artikel o.a. gesteld dat men in westerse overheden en dan m.n. in de afzonderlijke geheime diensten en rechtse denktanks niets tegen propaganda heeft, zolang het volk maar blijft geloven in alle leugens en manipulaties…..)…. Alsof we al in één grote dictatuur leven…… Vergeet hierbij nogmaals niet dat de brengers van echt nieuws en oprechte journalisten die uitgebreide onderzoeken publiceren, onderzoeken die aangeven hoe de vork werkelijk in de smerige westerse steel steekt, worden afgedaan als brengers van nepnieuws en onzin, waarbij deze journalisten en alternatieve opiniemakers worden aangemerkt als Russische trollen……… (elke kritiek op westerse manipulaties en andere smerige spelletjes, wordt neergezet als anti-westers en pro-Russische propaganda, wat uiteraard een smerige leugen is, een leugen die in de eind 40er en begin 50er jaren van de vorige eeuw thuishoort, waar opperschoft McCarthy in de VS tekeerging tegen iedereen die links en/of tegen VS oorlogsvoering was…..)

Het volgende uitstekende artikel komt zoals gezegd van Gray Zone (Original journalism and analyses). Voor vergroting van afbeeldingen, zie de instellingen op je browser, te vinden rechtsboven in die browser:

New
Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine
Meddling In American Politics

INFORMATION
WARS
January
8, 2019

The
Integrity Initiative has mobilized an international disinformation
campaign across Europe. Now, with government and right-wing
foundation money, this massive “political smear unit” is
infiltrating the US.

By
Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames

A
bombshell 
domestic
spy scandal
 has
been unfolding in Britain, after hacked internal communications
exposed a covert UK state military-intelligence psychological warfare
operation targeting its own citizens and political figures in allied
NATO countries under the cover of fighting “Russian
disinformation.”

The
leaked documents revealed a secret network of spies, prominent
journalists and think-tanks colluding under the umbrella of a group
called “Integrity Initiative” to shape domestic opinion—and to
smear political opponents of the right-wing Tory government,
including the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.

Until
now, this Integrity Initiative domestic spy scandal has been ignored
in the American media, perhaps because it has mostly involved British
names. But it is clear that the influence operation has already been
activated in the US. Hacked documents reveal that the Integrity
Initiative is cultivating powerful allies inside the State
Department, top DC think tanks, the FBI and the DHS, where it has
gained access to 
Katharine
Gorka
 and
her husband, the 
fascist-linked cable
news pundit 
Sebastian
Gorka
.

The
Integrity Initiative has spelled out plans to expand its network
across the US, meddling in American politics and recruiting “a new
generation of Russia watchers” behind the false guise of a
non-partisan charity. Moreover, the group has hired one of the most
notorious American “perception management” specialists, John
Rendon, to train its clusters of pundits and cultivate relationships
with the media.

Back
in the UK, Member of Parliament Chris Williamson has clamored for an
investigation into the Integrity Initiative’s abuse of public
money.

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In
recent
editorial
,
Williamson drew a direct parallel between the group’s collaboration
with journalists and surreptitious payments the CIA made to reporters
during the Cold War.

These
tactics resemble those deployed by the CIA in Operation Mockingbird
that was launched at the height of the cold war in the early 1950s.
Its aims included using the mainstream news media as a propaganda
tool,” Williamson wrote.

They
manipulated the news agenda by recruiting leading journalists to
write stories with the express purpose of influencing public opinion
in a particular way,” the Labour parliamentarian continued. “Now
it seems the British Establishment have dusted off the CIA’s old
playbook and is intent on giving it another outing on this side of
the Atlantic.”

Unmasking
a British military-intelligence smear machine

The
existence of the Integrity Initiative was virtually unknown until
this November, when the email servers of a previously obscure British
think tank called the Institute for Statecraft were hacked, prompting
allegations of Russian intrusion. When the group’s internal
documents appeared at a website hosted by Anonymous Europe, the
public learned of a covert propaganda network seed-funded to the tune
of over $2 million dollars by the Tory-controlled UK Foreign Office,
and run largely by military-intelligence officers.

Through
a series of cash inducements, off the record briefings and all-day
conferences, the Integrity Initiative has sought to organize
journalists across the West into an international echo chamber hyping
up the supposed threat of Russian disinformation—and to defame
politicians and journalists critical of this new Cold War campaign. 

bid
for funding submitted
 by
the Integrity Initiative in 2017 to the British Ministry of Defense
promised to deliver a “tougher stance on Russia” by arranging for
“more information published in the media on the threat of Russian
active measures.”

The
Integrity Initiative has also worked through its fronts in the media
to smear political figures perceived as a threat to its militaristic
agenda. Its targets have included a Spanish Department of Homeland
Security appointee, Pedro Banos, whose nomination was scuttled thanks
a media blitz it secretly orchestrated; Jeremy Corbyn, whom the
outfit and its 
media
cutouts painted
 as
a useful idiot of Russia; and a Scottish member of parliament, Neil
Findlay, whom one of its closest media allies 
accused of
adopting “Kremlin messaging” for daring to protest the official
visit of the far-right Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy — the
founder of two neo-Nazi parties and author of a white nationalist
memoir, 
“View
From The Right.”

These
smear campaigns and many more surreptitiously orchestrated by the
Integrity Initiative offer a disturbing preview of the reactionary
politics it plans to inject into an already toxic American political
environment.

Lessons
from “the man who sold the war”

A
newly released Integrity Initiative document reveals that the outfit
plans an aggressive expansion across the US.

The
Integrity Initiative claims to have already established a “simple
office” in Washington DC, though it does not say where. It also
boasts of partnerships with top DC think tanks like the Atlantic
Council, the Center for European Policy Analysis, CNA, and close
relationships with US officials.

A
major hub of Integrity Initiative influence is the State Department’s
Global Engagement Center (GEC), a 
de
facto US government propaganda operation
 that
was established by President Barack Obama to battle online ISIS
recruitment, but which was rapidly repurposed to counter Russian
disinformation following the election of Trump.

The
Integrity Initiative has also 
recruited
one of the most infamous American PR men
 to
organize its clusters of journalists and political figures.

He
is John Rendon, best known as 
“The
Man Who Sold The War”
 —
several wars, in fact, but most notoriously the Iraq invasion. Rendon
was the self-described “information warrior” who planted fake
news in the major US-UK media about non-existent WMD threats. With
deep ties to the CIA and other military-intelligence agencies, his PR
firm was paid $100 million to organize and sell Ahmed Chalabi’s
Iraqi National Congress. In 2002, the New York Times 
exposed a
Pentagon program using Rendon to plant “disinformation” —
including “false stories” and “the blackest of black PR” —
in media outlets around the world, in order to shape public opinion
and sell the Iraq invasion.

John
Rendon (left) with Maj. Gen. Michael Snodgrass, US Africa Command
Chief of Staff (photo by US Africom Public Affairs)

Journalist James
Bamford
 outlined
a catalogue of disinformation feats Rendon performed for the
Pentagon, such as identifying “the biases of specific journalists
and potentially obtain an understanding of their allegiances,
including the possibility of specific relationships and
sponsorships.” Bamford also found proposals and programs Rendon was
involved in that aimed to “’coerce’ foreign journalists and
plant false information overseas… [and] find ways to ‘punish’
those who convey the ‘wrong message.’”

These
tactics seem particularly relevant to his work with the Integrity
Initiative, especially considering the internal documents that
reveal further Rendon-style plans to produce reports and studies to
be 
“fed
anonymously into local media.”
 (Among
the outlets listed as friendly hosts in Integrity Initiative internal
memos are Buzzfeed and El Pais, the center-left Spanish daily.)

Keeping
up with the Gorkas

Internal
documents also refer to interactions between Integrity Initiative
Director Chris Donnelly and top Trump officials like 
Katharine
Gorka
,
a vehemently anti-Muslim Department of Homeland Security official, as
well as her husband, Sebastian, who earned right-wing fame during his
brief tenure in Trump’s White House.

The
latter Gorka is an 
open
supporter
 of
the Hungarian Vitezi Rend, a proto-fascist order that collaborated
with Nazi Germany during its occupation of Hungary. Following Trump’s
election victory in 2016, Gorka appeared for televised interviews in
a black Vitezi Rend uniform.

Sebastian
Gorka, in Vitezi Rend garb, with his wife, Katharine, on Election
Night

Gorka
was among the first figures listed on an itinerary for Donnelly to
Washington this September

18
to 22. The itinerary indicates that the two had breakfast before
Donnelly delivered a presentation on “Mapping Russian Influence
Activities” at the federally funded military research center, 
CNA.

According
to the itinerary, Donnelly was granted access to Pentagon officials
like 
Mara
Karlin
,
an 
up-and-coming
neoconservative cadre
,
and John McCain Institute executive director 
Kurt
Volker
,
another neoconservative operative who also serves as the US Special
Representative for Ukraine. Numerous meetings with staffers inside
the State Department’s Office of Global Engagement were also
detailed.

A
foreign agent in the State Department?

Of
all the State Department officials named in Integrity Initiative
documents, the one who appeared most frequently was Todd Leventhal.
Leventhal has been a staffer at the State Department’s Global
Engagement Center, boasting of “20 years of countering
disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and urban
legends.” In an April 2018 Integrity Initiative memo, he is listed
as a current team member:

Funded
to the tune of $160 million this year to beat back Russian
disinformation with “counter-propaganda,” the State Department’s
Global Engagement Center 
has
refused to deny
 targeting
American citizens with information warfare of its own. “My old job
at the State Department was as chief propagandist,” 
confessed former
Global Engagement Center Director Richard Stengel. “I’m not
against propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to
their own population and I don’t necessarily think it’s that
awful.”

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Like
so many of the media and political figures involved in the Integrity
Initiative’s international network, the Global Engagement Center’s
Leventhal has a penchant for deploying smear tactics against
prominent voices that defy the foreign policy consensus.
Leventhal 
appeared
in an outtake
 of
a recent NBC documentary on Russian disinformation smugly explaining
how he would take down a 15-year-old book critical of American
imperialism in the developing world. Rather than challenge the book’s
substance and allegations, Leventhal boasted how he would marshall
his resources to wage an ad hominem smear campaign to destroy the
author’s reputation. His strategic vision was clear: when
confronting a critic, ignore the message and destroy the messenger.

Integrity
Initiative documents reveal that Leventhal has been paid $76,608
dollars (60,000 British pounds) for a 50% contract.

While
those same documents claim he has retired from the State Department,
Leventhal’s own 
Linkedin
page
 lists
him as a current “Senior Disinformation Advisor” to the State
Department. If that were true, it would mean that the State
Department was employing a de facto foreign agent.

As
a cut-out of the British Foreign Office and Defense Ministry, the
Integrity Initiative’s work with current and former US officials
and members of the media raises certain legal questions. For one,
there is no indication that the group has registered under the
Justice Department’s Foreign Agent Registration Act, as most
foreign agents of influence are required to do.

Grants
from the neocons’ favorite foundation

An
Integrity Initiative memo states that the right-wing Smith Richardson
Foundation (SRF) has also committed to ponying up funding for its US
network as soon as the group receives 501 c-3 non-profit status. The
foundation has already provided it with about $56,000 for covert
propaganda activities across Europe.

The
Smith Richardson Foundation has old ties to the US intelligence
community and controversial cold war influence operations. According
to reporter 
Russ
Bellant
,
the foundation was secretly bankrolling radical right-wing
“indoctrination campaigns for the American public on cold war and
foreign policy issues”— programs that got the attention of
Senator William Fulbright, who warned then-President Kennedy of their
dangers. At one of these indoctrination seminars, a Smith Richardson
Foundation director “told attendees that ‘it is within the
capacity of the people in this room to literally turn the State of
Georgia into a civil war college,’ in order to overcome their
opponents.”

Smith
Richardson has funded a who’s who of the neoconservative movement,
from hyper-militaristic think tanks like the American Enterprise
Institute and the Institute for the Study of War. “To say the
[Smith Richardson] foundation was involved at every level in the
lobbying for and crafting of the so-called global war on terror after
9/11 would be an understatement,” 
wrote journalist
Kelley Vlahos.

Besides
Smith Richardson, the Integrity Initiative has stated its intention
to apply for grants from the State Department “to expand the
Integrity Initiative activities both within and outside of the USA.”
This is yet another indicator that the US government is paying for
propaganda targeting its own citizens.

Main
Event” in Seattle

An
Integrity Initiative internal 
document argues
that because “DC is well served by existing US institutions, such
as those with which the Institute [for Statecraft] already
collaborates,” the organization should “concentrate on extending
the work of the Integrity Initiative into major cities and key State
capitals [sic] across the USA.”

This
December 10, the Integrity Initiative organized what it called its
“main event” in the US. It was a conference on disinformation
held in Seattle, Washington 
under
the auspices
 of
a data firm called Adventium Labs. Together with the Technical
Leadership Institute at the University of Minnesota, the Integrity
Initiative listed Adventium Labs as one of its “first partners
outside DC.”

Adventium
is Minneapolis-based research and development firm that has reaped
contracts from the US military, including a 
recent
$5.4 million cyber-security grant
 from
the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.

Inside
a modest-sized hotel conference room, the Adventium/Integrity
event 
began
with a speech
 by
the Integrity Initiative’s Simon Bracey-Lane. Two years prior,
Bracey-Lane appeared on the American political scene as a field
worker for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential primary run, earning
media write-ups as the 
“Brit
for Bernie.”
 Now,
the young operator was back in the US as the advance man for a
military-intelligence cut-out that specialized in smearing left-wing
political figures like Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader widely
regarded as the British version of Sanders.

Bracey-Lane
opened his address by explaining that Integrity Initiative director
Chris Donnelly had been unable to appear at the event, possibly
because he was bogged down in the scandal back home.


He
proceeded to read remarks prepared by Donnelly that offered a window
into the frighteningly militaristic mindset the Integrity Initiative
aims to impose on the public through their media and political
allies.

According
to Donnelly’s comments, the West was no longer in a “peace time,
rules based environment.” From the halls of government to corporate
boardrooms to even the UK’s National Health System, “the
conclusion is that we have to look for people who suit a wartime
environment rather than peacetime.”

During
Q&A, Bracey-Lane remarked that “we have to change the
definition of war to encompass everything that war now encompasses,”
referring vaguely to various forms of “hybrid warfare.”

There
is a great deal to be done in communicating that to young people,”
he continued. “When we mean being at war we don’t mean sending
our boys off to fight. It’s right here in our homes.”

The
emphasis on restructuring society along martial lines mirrored the
disturbing thinking also on display in 
notes
of a private meeting
 between
Donnelly and Gen. Richard Barrons in 2016. During that chat, the two
officers decided that the British military should be removed from
democratic supervision and be able to operate as “an independent
body outside politics.”

While
Bracey-Lane’s presentation perfectly captured the military mindset
of the Integrity Initiative, the speakers that followed him offered a
diverse array of perspectives on the concept of disinformation, some
more nuanced than others. But one talk stood out from the rest —
not because of its quality, but because of its complete lack thereof.

Reanimating
the “red-brown” grifter

Alexander
Reid Ross (left) and Emmi Bevensee at the Integrity Initiative’s
“main event” in Seattle

The
presentation was delivered by Alexander Reid Ross, a half-baked
political researcher who peddles computer-generated spiderweb
relationship charts to prove the existence of a vast hidden network
of “red-brown” alliances and “syncretic media” conspiracies
controlled by puppeteers in Moscow.

Ross
is a lecturer on geography at Portland State University with no
scholarly or journalistic credentials on Russia. His students
have 
given
him dismal marks
 at
Rate My Professors, complaining about his “terrible monotone
lectures” and his penchant for “insert[ing] his own ideologies
into our class.” But with a book, “Against the Fascist Creep,”
distributed by the well-known anarchist publishing house, AK Press,
the middling academic has tried to make his name as a maverick
analyst.

Before
the Integrity Initiative was exposed as a military-intelligence front
operation, Ross was among a small coterie of pundits and self-styled
disinformation experts that 
followed the
group’s Twitter account. The Integrity Initiative even retweeted
his smear of War Nerd podcast co-host John Dolan.

Ben Norton


@BenjaminNorton

Replying to @BenjaminNorton

So this means both the Alliance for Securing Democracy and the Integrity Initiative are bankrolled by Western governments.

What other prominent groups monitoring “disinformation” and “protecting democracy” (by blaming all our problems on Russia) are also funded by Western govs?

Ben Norton


@BenjaminNorton

UK government-funded fake “monitoring group” the Integrity Initiative is retweeting some of the most prominent Syria regime-change trolls, anarcho-neocons, and pro-imperialist pseudo-“socialists,” as they attack anti-war journalists

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In
a series of articles for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) last year,
Ross attempted to bring his warmed-over Cold War theories to the
broader public. He wound up trashing everyone from the co-author of
this piece, Max Blumenthal, to Nation magazine publisher Katrina
Vanden Heuvel to Harvard University professor of international
relations Stephen Walt as hidden shadow-fascists secretly controlled
by the Kremlin.

The
articles ultimately 
generated
an embarrassing scandal
 and
a series of public 
retractions by
the editor-in-chief of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Richard
Cohen. And then, like some Dr. Frankenstein for discredited and
buried journalism careers, the British Ministry of Defense-backed
Integrity Initiative moved in to reanimate Ross as a sought-after
public intellectual.

Before
the Integrity Initiative-organized crowd, Ross offered a rambling
recitation of his theory of a syncretic fascist alliance puppeteered
by Russians: “The alt right takes from both this ‘red-brown,’
it’s called, or like left-right syncretic highly international
national of nationalisms, and from the United States’ own
paleoconservative movement, and it’s sort of percolated down
through college organizing, um, and anti-interventionism meets
anti-imperialism. Right?”

In
a strange twist, Ross appeared on stage at the Integrity Initiative’s
Seattle event alongside 
Emmi
Bevensee
,
a contributor to the left-libertarian Center for a Stateless Society
(C4SS) think tank, whose tagline, “a left market anarchist
think-tank” expresses its core aim of uniting far-left anarchists
with free-market right-libertarians.

Bevensee,
a PhD candidate at the University of Arizona and self-described
“Borderlands anarcho into tech and crypto,” concluded her
presentation by asserting a linkage between the alternative news
site, Zero Hedge, and the “physical militarized presence in the
borderlands” of anti-immigrant vigilantes. Like Bevensee, Ross
has 
written
for
 C4SS
in the past.

The
irony of contributors to an anarchist group called the “Center for
a Stateless Society” auditioning before The State – the most
jackbooted element of it, in fact – for more opportunities to
attack anti-war politicians and journalists, can hardly be
overstated.

But
closer examination of the history of C4SS veers from irony into
something much darker and more unsettling.

Pedophile
co-founder, white nationalist associates

C4SS
was co-founded in 2006 by a confessed 
child
rapist
 and
libertarian activist, Brad Spangler, who set the group up to promote
“Market anarchism” to 
“replace
Marxism on the left.”

When
Spangler’s child rape confessions emerged in 2015, the Center for
Stateless Society founder was 
finally
drummed out
 by
his colleagues.

There’s
more: Spangler’s 
understudy and deputy in
the C4SS, Kevin Carson — currently listed as the group’s 
“Karl
Hess Chair in Social Theory”
 —
turned out to be a longtime friend and 
defender of
white nationalist Keith Preston. Preston’s name is prominently
plastered on the back of Kevin Carson’s book, hailing the C4SS man
as 
“the
Proudhon of our time”
 —
a loaded compliment, given Proudhon’s unhinged 
anti-Semitism.
Carson only 
disownedPreston
in 2009, shortly before Preston helped white nationalist leader
Richard Spencer launch his alt-right webzine, Alternative Right.

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The
C4SS group currently 
participates in
the annual Koch-backed International Students For Liberty conference
in Washington DC, 
LibertyCon, a
who’s who of libertarian think-tank hacks and Republican Party
semi-celebrities like Steve Forbes, FCC chairman Ajit Pai, and Alan
Dershowitz.

In
2013, C4SS’s Kevin Carson tweeted out his dream fantasy that four
Jewish leftists — Mark Ames, Yasha Levine, Corey Robin, and Mark
Potok — would die in a plane crash while struggling over a single
parachute. Potok was an executive editor at the Southern Poverty Law
Center, which last year retracted every one of the crank articles
that Alexander Reid Ross published with them and 
formally
apologized
 for
having run them.

For
some reason, the super-sleuth Ross conveniently failed to investigate
the libertarian group, C4SS, that he has chosen to partner with and
publish in. That ability to shamelessly smear and denounce leftists
over the most crudely manufactured links to the far-right —  while
cozying up to groups as sleazy as C4SS and authoritarian as the
Integrity Initiative — is the sort of adaptive trait that MI6 spies
and the Rendon Group would find useful in a covert domestic influence
operation.

Ross
did not respond to our request for comment on his involvement with
the Integrity Initiative and C4SS.

Disinformation
for democracy

As
it spans out across the US, the Integrity Initiative has 
stated
its desire
 to
“build a younger generation of Russia watchers.” Toward this
goal, it is supplementing its coterie of elite journalists, think
tank hacks, spooks and State Department info-warriors with
certifiable cranks like Ross.

Less
than 24 hours after Ross’s appearance at the Integrity Initiative
event in Seattle, he 
sent
a menacing email
 to
the co-author of this article, Ames, announcing his intention to
recycle an old and discredited smear against him and publish it in
the Daily Beast — a publication that appears to enjoy a 
special
relationship

with Integrity Initiative personnel.

Despite
the threat of investigation in the UK, the Integrity Initiative’s
“network of networks” appears to be escalating its covert,
government-funded influence operation, trashing the political left
and assailing anyone that gets in its way —  all in the name
of fighting foreign disinformation.

We
have to win this one,” Integrity Initiative founder Col. Chris
Donnelly 
said,
“because if we don’t, democracy will be undermined.”

Mark
Ames is the co-host of the 
Radio
War Nerd podcast
.
Subscribe to Radio War Nerd on 
Patreon.

Max
Blumenthal
  

Max
Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of books
including best-selling 
Republican
Gomorrah
GoliathThe
Fifty One Day War
,
and 
The
Management of Savagery
,
which will be published in March 2019 by Verso. He has also produced
numerous print articles for an array of publications, many video
reports and several documentaries including 
Killing
Gaza
 and Je
Ne Suis Pas Charlie
.
Blumenthal founded the Grayzone Project in 2015 to shine a
journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its
dangerous domestic repercussions.

http://grayzoneproject.com

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Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump

Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)

BBC: Rusland ‘misbruikt humor’ om Russiagate te ontkrachten….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde gisteren een artikel
met de titel ‘Don’t Laugh: It’s giving Putin What He Wants’.

In haar
artikel schenkt Johnstone aandacht aan wat Olga Robinson van het
Britse propaganda apparaat BBC heeft gesteld: Rusland gebruikt (ze bedoelt: misbruikt) humor
om wat westerse regeringen haar ten laste leggen, te ridiculiseren >> ofwel humor om de ten laste leggingen die zijn gemaakt in het Russiagate sprookje……
Robinson noemt dit een vorm van ‘trolling…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! (het zal haar bedoeling niet zijn, maar de leugens van Robinson en die van de BBC in het algemeen,
 zijn regelmatig uiterst humoristisch, zoals deze stompzinnige insinuatie!)

In feite
beschuldigt Robinson Rusland van het gebruiken van humor tegen de
enorme berg aan leugens over zaken als Russiagate, het Brexit
referendum en het onafhankelijkheidsreferendum van de Catalanen, waarin Rusland ‘met haar manipulaties’ de beslissende factor was, die tot de gewenste winst leidde…… Ofwel Rusland heeft Trump het presidentschap gegeven en heeft de boel
zo gemanipuleerd dat de voorstanders van de Brexit het referendum
wonnen en het Catalaanse referendum positief uitviel voor de
onafhankelijkheidswens van de bevolking in die ‘Spaanse provincie’.

Robinson
heeft het gore lef e.e.a. te stellen terwijl er voor al deze zaken
niet één steekhoudend bewijs is gevonden en dat na 2 jaar lang
Rusland demoniseren door o.a. de BBC en de rest van de westerse reguliere media in
het groot (uiteraard gesteund door het grootste deel van de westerse
politici die de leugens keer op keer blijven herhalen…..)

Inderdaad
Robinson als je in acht neemt wat jij en de BBC al hebben durven zeggen en
schrijven over Russiagate, kan je veelal niet anders
dan lachen, keihard lachen!!!

Don’t
Laugh : It’s Giving Putin What He Wants

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
BBC has 
published
an article
 titled
“How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon” about the
Kremlin’s latest addition to its horrifying deadly hybrid warfare
arsenal: comedy.

The
article is authored by Olga Robinson, whom the BBC, unhindered by any
trace of self-awareness, 
has
titled
 “Senior
Journalist (Disinformation)”. Robinson demonstrates the
qualifications and acumen which earned her that title by warning the
BBC’s audience that the Kremlin has been using humor to dismiss and
ridicule accusations that have been leveled against it by western
governments, a “form of trolling” that she reports is
designed to “deliberately lower the level of discussion”.

Mark Ames

@MarkAmesExiled

Turns out jokes are a Russian disinformation conspiracy.

Is nothing safe? What will those barbarian Others think of next? Weaponizing our tears? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46567364 


581

5:45 PM – Dec 15, 2018

 Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during his meeting with athletes at the Russia in October 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during his meeting with athletes at the Russia in October 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during his meeting with athletes at the Russia in October 2018

How Putin’s Russia turned humour into a weapon

Russia’s government wants people to have a laugh – as long as it’s at its opponents’ expense, and not Mr Putin’s.

bbc.co.uk

“Russia’s
move towards using humour to influence its campaigns is a relatively
recent phenomenon,” Robinson explains, without speculating as to
why Russians might have suddenly begun laughing at their western
accusers. She gives no consideration to the possibility that the
tightly knit alliance of western nations who suddenly began
hysterically shrieking about Russia two years ago have simply gotten
much more ridiculous and easier to make fun of during that time.

Couldn’t
possibly have anything to do with the emergence of a demented media
environment wherein everything around the world from French protests
to American culture wars to British discontent with the European
Union gets blamed on Russia without any facts or evidence. Wherein
BBC reporters 
now
correct guests and caution them
against
voicing skepticism of anti-Russia narratives because the UK is in “an
information war” with that nation. Wherein the same cable news
Russiagate pundit can claim that both 
Rex
Tillerson’s hiring
 and his
later firing
 were
the result of a Russian conspiracy to benefit the Kremlin.
Wherein 
mainstream
outlets
 can
circulate blatantly false information about Julian Assange and
unnamed “Russians” and then blame the falseness of that
reporting on Russian disinformation.

Wherein Pokemon
Go
,
cutesy Facebook memes and 
$4,700
in Google ads
 are
sincerely cited as methods by which Hillary Clinton’s $1.2 billion
presidential campaign was outdone. Wherein conspiracy theories that
Putin has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government have
been 
blaring
on mainstream headline news
for
two years with 
absolutely
nothing
 to
show for it 
to
this day
.

Nope,
the only possibility is that the Kremlin suddenly figured out that
humor is a thing.

The
fact of the matter is that humorous lampooning of western
establishment Russia narratives writes itself. The hypocrisy is so
cartoonish, the emotions are so breathlessly over-the-top, the
stories so riddled with plot holes and the agendas underlying them so
glaringly obvious that they translate very easily into laughs. I
myself 
recently
authored a satire piece
 that
a lot of people loved and which got picked up by numerous alternative
media outlets, and all I did was write down all the various
escalations this administration has made against Russia as though
they were commands being given to Trump by Putin. It was extremely
easy to write, and it was pretty damn funny if I do say so myself.
And it didn’t take any Kremlin rubles or dezinformatsiya from St
Petersburg to figure out how to write it.

“Ben
Nimmo, an Atlantic Council researcher on Russian disinformation, told
the BBC that attempts to create funny memes were part of the strategy
as ‘disinformation for the information age’,” the article warns.
Nimmo, ironically, 
is
himself
 intimately involved
with
the
British domestic disinformation firm Integrity Initiative, whose
shady 
government-sponsored
psyops
 against the
Labour Party
 have
sparked a national scandal that is likely 
far
from reaching peak intensity
.

“Most
comedy programmes on Russian state television these days are anodyne
affairs which either do not touch on political topics, or direct
humour at the Kremlin’s perceived enemies abroad,” Robinson
writes, which I found funny since I’d just recently read 
an
excellent essay
 by
Michael Tracey titled “Why has late night swapped laughs for
lusting after Mueller?”

“If
the late night ‘comedy’ of the Trump era has something resembling
a ‘message,’ it’s that large segments of the nation’s liberal
TV viewership are nervously tracking every Russia development with a
passion that cannot be conducive to mental health – or for that
matter, political efficacy,” Tracey writes, documenting numerous
examples of the ways late night comedy now has audiences cheering for
a US intelligence insider and Bush appointee instead of challenging
power-serving media orthodoxies as programs like 
The
Daily Show
 once
did.

If
you wanted the opposite of “anodyne affairs”, it would be
comedians ridiculing the way all the establishment talking heads are
manipulating their audiences into supporting the US intelligence
community and FBI insiders. It would be excoriating the media
environment in which unfathomably powerful world-dominating
government agencies are subject to less scrutiny and criticism than a
man trapped in an embassy who published inconvenient facts about
those agencies. It certainly wouldn’t be the cast of Saturday Night
Live singing “All I Want for Christmas Is You” to a framed
portrait if Robert Mueller wearing a Santa hat. It doesn’t get much
more anodyne than that.


Russia
makes fun of western establishment narratives about it because those
narratives are so incredibly easy to make fun of that they are
essentially asking for it, and the nerdy way empire loyalists are
suddenly crying victim about it is itself more comedy.
When 
Guardian writer Carole
Cadwalladr 
began
insinuating
 that
RT covering standard newsworthy people like Julian Assange and Nigel
Farage was a conspiracy to “boost” those people for the
advancement of Russian agendas instead of a news outlet doing the
thing that news reporting is, RT rightly 
made
fun of her for it
. Cadwalladr
reacted to RT’s mockery with a 
claim
that she was a victim of “attacks”
,
instead of the recipient of perfectly justified ridicule for
circulating an intensely moronic conspiracy theory.

Ah
well. People are nuts and we’re 
hurtling
toward a direct confrontation
 with
nuclear
superpower
.
Sometimes there’s nothing else to do but laugh. As Wavy Gravy said,
“Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you
don’t have a sense of humor it just
isn’t funny anymore.”

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Zie ook:

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….

Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten

Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots

‘Fake news’: alternatieve media en bloggers in het westen zouden onzin brengen, echter niet als dit soort groepen wat roepen in landen die het westen niet welgevallig zijn

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

Democraten deden zich voor als Russen in false flag operatie om Roy Moore (Republikein) zwart te maken tijdens verkiezing…..

Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’

Russiagate: de westerse massamedia gebruiken propaganda om het volk te manipuleren, precies waar ze Rusland van beschuldigen

Uitgelekte telefoongesprekken tussen Trump en Putin bewijzen dat ‘Russiagaters gelijk hebben……’

Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt

The Guardian: ondanks een enorme misser (fake news) gaat men door met de valse beschuldigingen t.a.v. Assange……

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

‘Banden van Trump met Rusland’ gebaseerd op FBI operatie om VS ‘burger’ (CIA) in Iran vrij te krijgen……

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikiLeaks)

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..

WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

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En terzijde:

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

The Guardian: ondanks een enorme misser (fake news) gaat men door met de valse beschuldigingen t.a.v. Assange……

Onlangs
kwam The Guardian met het verhaal dat Paul Manafort contact zou
hebben gehad met Julian Assange in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in
Londen. Een verhaal dat als onzin werd doorgeprikt met aantoonbare
leugens in The Guardian. Zelfs reguliere mediaorganen twijfelden aan
het artikel.

Blijkbaar
vond The Guardian het gebrachte artikel daarna zelf ook dubieus, daar
men de tekst heeft aangepast, zonder daar echter melding van te
maken. In de aangepaste tekst wordt nu gesproken over anonieme, niet
te controleren bronnen……. De schrijver van het Guardian
propagandistische artikel, Luke Harding, stelde in het artikel dat
Manafort meermaals werd gezien in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade en dat
één keer ‘zelfs met 2 Russen….’

Met het
Guardian artikel toonde Harding zogenaamd aan dat Assange contacten
had met de Russen en dat die na het hacken van de DNC server, de emails van Hillary Clinton zouden
hebben doen toekomen aan WikiLeaks, ofwel één van ‘de
smoking guns’ in het Russiagate sprookje….. Kortom de Russen en
Assange zouden hebben samengespannen om Clinton haar presidentschap
door de neus te boren…..

Uiteraard
gebruiken ook de democraten in de VS het fantasie verhaal van Harding om te
stellen dat Assange en Rusland de presidentsverkiezingen van hen
hebben gestolen, terwijl echte deskundigen en ingewijden uitvoerig
stellen, dat de emails werden gelekt vanuit het campagneteam van
Clinton, waar de naam Seth Rich telkens weer opduikt…… 

Seth Rich
was medewerker van het campagneteam, hij was zwaar gefrustreerd over
de smerige spelletjes van Clinton en de top van haar campagneteam, om de voorverkiezing in 2016 van Bernie Sanders te stelen…….. Sanders was
de tweede belangrijke democratische kandidaat voor het presidentschap
in de VS. Zelfs Obama gaf toe dat e.e.a door het campagneteam werd gelekt naar WikiLeaks….
* 

Rich
werd vermoord, kort nadat de mails waren gelekt naar WikiLeaks, volgens de politie ging het om een roofmoord, waarbij Rich vreemd genoeg niet werd beroofd
en zelfs dure sieraden niet werden gestolen…….. De poging om Sanders buiten
spel te zetten is gelukt, zoals we al en paar jaar weten.

Manafort
heeft ontkent dat hij zelfs maar één keer met Assange heeft
gesproken en Assange heeft The Guardian gedreigd met een proces
wegens laster…… De bedoeling in het hele Russiagate verhaal is
dan ook Assange als spion neer te zetten, ofwel hij heeft geen recht op bescherming zoals dit het geval zou moeten zijn met (onderzoeks-) journalisten, waarbij WikiLeaks wordt weggezet als een staatsvijandig
vehikel van de Russen…… Waarmee de democraten dan de schuld van het
verlies van de verkiezingen in de schoenen schuiven van WikiLeaks,
haar oprichter Assange en uiteraard de Russen…..**

Met
artikelen als die van Harding in The Guardian moet de publieke opinie
voorbereid worden op het uit de Ecuadoraanse ambassade zetten van
Assange en de arrestatie van deze journalist, die zich met niets anders dan
zijn werk bezighield, dit in sterke tegenstelling tot het overgrote deel van de
journalisten, die voor de reguliere westerse (massa-) media
werken…….

Deze
media hebben i.p.v. Assange te steunen, een taak van onafhankelijke mediaorganen en hun journalisten, hem zwart gemaakt in de publieke opinie,
waarbij zelfs werd gesteld dat Assange alleen de Ecuadoraanse
ambassade in vluchtte, om publiciteit te genereren…. Gelukkig voor
Assange werd ook die belachelijke claim doorgeprikt, toen per
ongeluk stukken werden gepubliceerd waaruit bleek dat de VS een
aanklacht heeft opgesteld voor Assange en op grond waarvan Assange
een lange gevangenisstraf te wachten staat…….

The
Guardian ging zelfs zover dat het een VN panel met experts
belachelijk probeerde te maken, die stelden dat het totaal
onwettelijk was dat Assange niet zonder gearresteerd te worden de
ambassade zou kunnen verlaten…..

De
schrijver van het artikel hieronder, Jonathan Cook, haalt ook Glenn
Greenwald aan, waar het om de claim gaat dat Manafort Assange zou
hebben bezocht. Deze stelt dat het onmogelijk is om ongezien de
Ecuadoraanse ambassade binnen te komen, daar Londen propvol camera’s
hangt en de Ecuadoraanse ambassade, sinds Assange daar binnen
vluchtte, van alle kanten in de gaten werd en wordt gehouden, niet alleen
door camera’s, de politie, maar ook door journalisten…… 

Als
Manafort inderdaad in de ambassade zou zijn geweest, volgens The
Guardian 3 keer, in 2013, 2015 en 2016, zouden daar zeker bewijzen
voor zijn…….

Intussen is The Guardian gekomen met een volgens deze fake news brenger nog betere fundering van de (ongefundeerde) beschuldigingen aan het adres van Assange (en WikiLeaks) en zijn zogenaamde verbintenis met Rusland, ook nu weer geen enkel bewijs……. Assange zal en moet hangen en in dit geval door een mediaorgaan dat stelt onafhankelijk te zijn en haar berichtgeving dubbel zou checken….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Lees het
artikel van Cook, eerder gepubliceerd op Creative Commons en door mij
overgenomen van Anti-Media, waarin Cook verder nog aandacht besteedt aan het nep-journalistenforum Bellincat (daaronder nog een kort artikel en video van een interview van Aby Martin met Randy Credico aangaande de zaak Assange):

The
Guardian Continues to Escalate Its Vilification of Julian Assange

The
Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred
of evidence. It did what it is designed to do.***

November
29, 2018 at 2:11 pm

Written
by 
Common
Dreams

(CD— It
is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including
from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running
vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.

Reporter
Luke Harding’s latest article, 
claiming that
Donald Trump’s disgraced former campaign manager Paul Manafort
secretly visited Assange in Ecuador’s embassy in London on three
occasions, is so full of holes that even hardened opponents of
Assange in the corporate media are struggling to stand by it.

Faced
with the backlash, the Guardian quickly – and very quietly – 
rowed
back
 its
initial certainty that its story was based on verified facts.
Instead, it amended the text, without acknowledging it had done so,
to attribute the claims to unnamed, and uncheckable, “sources”.

The
propaganda function of the piece is patent. It is intended to provide
evidence for long-standing allegations that Assange conspired with
Trump, and Trump’s supposed backers in the Kremlin, to damage
Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.

The
Guardian’s latest story provides a supposedly stronger foundation
for an existing narrative: that Assange and Wikileaks knowingly
published emails hacked by Russia from the Democratic party’s
servers. In truth, there is 
no
public evidence
 that
the emails were hacked, or that Russia was involved. Central actors
have suggested instead that the emails were leaked from within the
Democratic party.

Nonetheless,
this unverified allegation has been aggressively exploited by the
Democratic leadership because it shifts attention away both from its
failure to mount an effective electoral challenge to Trump and from
the damaging contents of the emails. These show that party
bureaucrats sought to 
rig
the primaries
 to
make sure Clinton’s challenger for the Democratic nomination,
Bernie Sanders, lost.

To
underscore the intended effect of the Guardian’s new claims,
Harding even throws in a casual and unsubstantiated reference to
“Russians” joining Manafort in supposedly meeting Assange.

Manafort
has 
denied the
Guardian’s claims, while Assange has threatened to 
sue the
Guardian for libel.

Responsible
for Trump’

The
emotional impact of the Guardian story is to suggest that Assange is
responsible for four years or more of Trump rule. But more
significantly, it bolsters the otherwise 
risible
claim
 that
Assange is not a publisher – and thereby entitled to the
protections of a free press, as enjoyed by the Guardian or the New
York Times – but the head of an organisation engaged in espionage
for a foreign power.

The
intention is to deeply discredit Assange, and by extension the
Wikileaks organisation, in the eyes of right-thinking liberals. That,
in turn, will make it much easier to silence Assange and the vital
cause he represents: the use of new media to hold to account the old,
corporate media and political elites through the imposition of far
greater transparency.

The
Guardian story will prepare public opinion for the moment when
Ecuador’s rightwing government under President Lenin Moreno forces
Assange out of the embassy, having already withdrawn most of his
rights to use digital media.

It
will soften opposition when the UK moves to arrest Assange
on 
self-serving
bail violation charges
 and
extradites him to the US. And it will pave the way for the US legal
system to lock Assange up for a very long time.

For
the best part of a decade, any claims by Assange’s supporters that
avoiding this fate was the reason Assange originally sought asylum in
the embassy was ridiculed by corporate journalists, not least at the
Guardian.

Even
when a United Nations panel of experts in international law ruled in
2016 that Assange was being arbitrarily – and unlawfully –
detained by the UK, Guardian writers led efforts to discredit the UN
report. See 
here and here.

Now
Assange and his supporters have been proved right once again. An
administrative error this month revealed that the US justice
department had 
secretly
filed criminal charges
 against
Assange.

Heavy
surveillance

The
problem for the Guardian, which should have been obvious to its
editors from the outset, is that any visits by Manafort would be
easily verifiable without relying on unnamed “sources”.

Glenn
Greenwald is far from alone in 
noting that
London is possibly the most surveilled city in the world, with CCTV
cameras everywhere. The environs of the Ecuadorian embassy are
monitored especially heavily, with continuous filming by the UK and
Ecuadorian authorities and most likely by the US and other actors
with an interest in Assange’s fate.

The
idea that Manafort or “Russians” could have wandered into the
embassy to meet Assange even once without their trail, entry and
meeting being intimately scrutinised and recorded is simply
preposterous.

According
to Greenwald: “If Paul Manafort … visited Assange at the Embassy,
there would be ample amounts of video and other photographic proof
demonstrating that this happened. The Guardian provides none of
that.”

Former
British ambassador Craig Murray also 
points
out
 the
extensive security checks insisted on by the embassy to which any
visitor to Assange must submit. Any visits by Manafort would have
been logged.

In
fact, the Guardian 
obtained the
embassy’s logs in May, and has never made any mention of either
Manafort or “Russians” being identified in them. It did not refer
to the logs in its latest story.

Murray:

The
problem with this latest fabrication is that [Ecuador’s President]
Moreno had already released the visitor logs to the Mueller inquiry.
Neither Manafort nor these ‘Russians’ are in the visitor logs …
What possible motive would the Ecuadorean government have for
facilitating secret unrecorded visits by Paul Manafort?
Furthermore
it is impossible that the intelligence agency – who were in charge
of the security – would not know the identity of these alleged
‘Russians’.

No
fact-checking

It
is worth noting it should be vitally important for a serious
publication like the Guardian to ensure its claims are unassailably
true – both because Assange’s personal fate rests on their
veracity, and because, even more importantly, a fundamental right,
the freedom of the press, is at stake.

Given
this, one would have expected the Guardian’s editors to have
insisted on the most stringent checks imaginable before going to
press with Harding’s story. At a very minimum, they should have
sought out a response from Assange and Manafort before publication.
Neither precaution was taken.

I
worked for the Guardian for a number of years, and know well the
layers of checks that any highly sensitive story has to go through
before publication. In that lengthy process, a variety of
commissioning editors, lawyers, backbench editors and the editor
herself, Kath Viner, would normally insist on cuts to anything that
could not be rigorously defended and corroborated.

And
yet this piece seems to have been casually waved through, given a
green light even though its profound shortcomings were evident to a
range of well-placed analysts and journalists from the outset.

That
at the very least hints that the Guardian thought they had
“insurance” on this story. And the only people who could have
promised that kind of insurance are the security and intelligence
services – presumably of Britain, the United States and / or
Ecuador.

It
appears the Guardian has simply taken this story, provided by spooks,
at face value. Even if it later turns out that Manafort did visit
Assange, the Guardian clearly had no compelling evidence for its
claims when it published them. That is profoundly irresponsible
journalism – fake news – that should be of the gravest concern to
readers.

A
pattern, not an aberration

Despite
all this, even analysts critical of the Guardian’s behaviour have
shown a glaring failure to understand that its latest coverage
represents not an aberration by the paper but decisively fits with a
pattern.

Glenn
Greenwald, who once had an influential column in the Guardian until
an apparent, though unacknowledged, falling out with his employer
over the Edward Snowden revelations, wrote a series of baffling
observations about the Guardian’s latest story.

First,
he 
suggested it
was simply evidence of the Guardian’s long-standing (and
well-documented) hostility towards Assange.

The
Guardian, an otherwise solid and reliable paper, has such a pervasive
and unprofessionally personal hatred for Julian Assange that it has
frequently dispensed with all journalistic standards in order to
malign him.”

It
was also apparently evidence of the paper’s clickbait tendencies:

They
[Guardian editors] knew that publishing this story would cause
partisan warriors to excitedly spread the story, and that cable news
outlets would hyperventilate over it, and that they’d reap the
rewards regardless of whether the story turned out to be true or
false.”

And
finally, in a bizarre tweet, Greenwald opined, “I hope the story
[maligning Assange] turns out true” – apparently because
maintenance of the Guardian’s reputation is more important than
Assange’s fate and the right of journalists to dig up embarrassing
secrets without fear of being imprisoned.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

The reason it will be so devastating to the Guardian if this story turns out false is because the Guardian has an institutional hatred for Assange. They’ve proven they’ll dispense with journalistic standards for it. And factions within Ecuador’s government know they can use them.

Jimmy Wales

@jimmy_wales

I love the Guardian. And this needs to be resolved. Did Assange meet Manafort? Who are the sources? If you can’t say then doubt. Anonymous sourcing is dangerous at best. https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1067476487392174081 


547

12:59 AM – Nov 28, 2018

Deeper
malaise

What
this misses is that the Guardian’s attacks on Assange are not
exceptional or motivated solely by personal animosity. They are
entirely predictable and systematic. Rather than being the reason for
the Guardian violating basic journalistic standards and ethics, the
paper’s hatred of Assange is a symptom of a deeper malaise in the
Guardian and the wider corporate media.

Even
aside from its decade-long campaign against Assange, the Guardian is
far from “solid and reliable”, as Greenwald claims. It has been
at the forefront of the relentless, and unhinged, attacks on Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn for prioritising the rights of Palestinians over
Israel’s right to continue its belligerent occupation. Over the
past three years, the Guardian has injected credibility into the
Israel lobby’s desperate efforts to tar Corbyn as an anti-semite.
See 
herehere and here.

Similarly,
the Guardian worked tirelessly to promote Clinton and undermine
Sanders in the 2016 Democratic nomination process – another reason
the paper has been so assiduous in promoting the idea that Assange,
aided by Russia, was determined to promote Trump over Clinton for the
presidency.

The
Guardian’s coverage of Latin America, especially of populist
leftwing governments that have rebelled against traditional and
oppressive US hegemony in the region, has long grated with analysts
and experts. Its especial venom has been reserved for leftwing
figures like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, democratically elected but
official enemies of the US, rather than the region’s rightwing
authoritarians beloved of Washington.

The
Guardian has been vocal in the so-called “fake news” hysteria,
decrying the influence of social media, the only place where leftwing
dissidents have managed to find a small foothold to promote their
politics and counter the corporate media narrative.

The
Guardian has painted social media chiefly as a platform overrun by
Russian trolls, arguing that this should justify ever-tighter
restrictions that have so far curbed critical voices of the dissident
left more than the right.

Heroes
of the neoliberal order

Equally,
the Guardian has made clear who its true heroes are. Certainly not
Corbyn or Assange, who threaten to disrupt the entrenched neoliberal
order that is hurtling us towards climate breakdown and economic
collapse.

Its
pages, however, are readily available to the latest effort to prop up
the status quo from Tony Blair, the man who led Britain, on false
pretences, into the largest crime against humanity in living memory –
the attack on Iraq.

That
“humanitarian intervention” cost the lives of many hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis and created a vacuum that destabilised much of
the Middle East, sucked in Islamic jihadists like al-Qaeda and ISIS,
and contributed to the migrant crisis in Europe that has fuelled the
resurgence of the far-right. None of that is discussed in the
Guardian or considered grounds for disqualifying Blair as an arbiter
of what is good for Britain and the world’s future.

The
Guardian also has an especial soft spot for blogger Elliot Higgins,
who, aided by the Guardian, has shot to unlikely prominence as a
self-styled “weapons expert”. Like Luke Harding, Higgins
invariably seems ready to echo whatever the British and American
security services need verifying “independently”.

Higgins
and his well-staffed website Bellingcat have taken on for themselves
the role of arbiters of truth on many foreign affairs issues, taking
a prominent role in advocating for narratives that promote US and
NATO hegemony while demonising Russia, especially in highly contested
arenas such as Syria.

That
clear partisanship should be no surprise, given that Higgins now
enjoys an “academic” position at, and funding from, the Atlantic
Council, a high-level, Washington-based think-tank founded to drum up
support for NATO and justify its imperialist agenda.

Improbably,
the Guardian has adopted Higgins as the poster-boy for a supposed
citizen journalism it has sought to undermine as “fake news”
whenever it occurs on social media without the endorsement of
state-backed organisations.

The
truth is that the Guardian has not erred in this latest story
attacking Assange, or in its much longer-running campaign to vilify
him. With this story, it has done what it regularly does when
supposedly vital western foreign policy interests are at stake – it
simply regurgitates an elite-serving, western narrative.

Its
job is to shore up a consensus on the left for attacks on leading
threats to the existing, neoliberal order: whether they are a
platform like Wikileaks promoting whistle-blowing against a corrupt
western elite; or a politician like Jeremy Corbyn seeking to break
apart the status quo on the rapacious financial industries or
Israel-Palestine; or a radical leader like Hugo Chavez who threatened
to overturn a damaging and exploitative US dominance of “America’s
backyard”; or social media dissidents who have started to chip away
at the elite-friendly narratives of corporate media, including the
Guardian.

The
Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred
of evidence. It did what it is designed to do.

By Jonathan
Cook
 / Creative
Commons
 / Common
Dreams
 / Report
a typo

=============================

Zie ook het volgende artikel plus begeleidende video, waarin ook al onterecht beschuldigingen over contacten met Assange en de aanklachten tegen het Trump team, WikiLeaks en Rusland aangaande ‘Russiagate’, een beschuldiging die speciaal aanklager Mueller nooit rond gaat krijgen.

Het gaat hier om Randy
Credico (politiek- en mensenrechtenactivist, programmamaker en komiek), hij wordt door Mueller beschuldigd van banden met WikiLeaks….. (zien beste bezoeker!)

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on his role in the Russia investigation, his upcoming interview with
Robert Mueller, and his relationship with Trump campaign advisor
Roger Stone.

With
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investigation, Credico details his long-standing ties to the
political operative and answers the hard questions about his alleged
coordination with Wikileaks.

The
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Julian Assange, Wikileaks and the future of press freedom.

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*  Zie: Obama gaf toe dat de DNC e-mails expres door de DNC werden gelekt naar Wikileaks….!!!!

**
Vergeet niet dat de Obama administratie al lang bezig was om de
Russen te demoniseren, dit onder andere t.b.v. het militair-industrieel complex en waarmee de VS en haar oorlogshond de NAVO ook in Oekraïne aan de grens met Rusland zou komen te staan……..
Zo hebben Hillary Clinton en de CIA de opstand in Oekraïne op poten
gezet, een opstand waarvan de opzet was een staatsgreep te ontketenen
tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj…… Deze ‘grap’
(een specialiteit van de VS) heeft de VS maar ‘liefst’ 4 miljard
dollar gekost…….

*** Deze toegevoegde tekst later overgenomen van Common Dreams, daar deze niet op Anti-Media werd genoemd en de extra vermelding terecht is (m.i.).

PS: geeft door mensen, er kan niet genoeg feiten worden weergegeven tegenover de enorme berg leugens (met heel veel ‘fake news, of anders gezegd: ‘nepnieuws’) waaruit het kwaadaardige sprookje Russiagate bestaat.

Zie wat betreft het Steele dossier, een spil in de leugens die men ‘Russiagate’ is gaan noemen, de volgende berichten:

Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘ en: Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..

Zie ook:

Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten‘ 

Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis

VN heeft eerder de ‘detentie’ van Assange al als onwettig verklaard

Julian Assange gearresteerd, een flagrante schending van de persvrijheid!

Arrestatie Julian Assange: een aanfluiting voor internationale regels en een enorme aanval op onafhankelijke journalistiek

Julian Assange, valse beschuldigingen, Big Brother en VS steun voor terrorisme

Democraten deden zich voor als Russen in false flag operatie om Roy Moore (Republikein) zwart te maken tijdens verkiezing…..

Der Spiegel, groot bestrijder van ‘fake news’ bracht zelf jarenlang dit soort ‘nieuws’

Russiagate: de westerse massamedia gebruiken propaganda om het volk te manipuleren, precies waar ze Rusland van beschuldigen

BBC: Rusland ‘misbruikt humor’ om Russiagate te ontkrachten….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Uitgelekte telefoongesprekken tussen Trump en Putin bewijzen dat ‘Russiagaters gelijk hebben……’

Russiagate en Assange: The Guardian wordt nu zelfs door collega’s voor zot uitgemaakt

WikiLeaks belooft The Guardian 1 miljoen dollar als het haar leugens i.z. Assange en Russiagate kan bewijzen…….

‘Banden van Trump met Rusland’ gebaseerd op FBI operatie om VS ‘burger’ (CIA) in Iran vrij te krijgen……

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

New York Times ‘bewijzen’ voor Russiagate vallen door de mand……

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

‘Russiagate’ een complot van CIA, FBI, Hillary Clinton en het DNC………..

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikiLeaks)

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election

Murray, ex-ambassadeur van GB: de Russen hebben de VS verkiezingen niet gemanipuleerd

‘Russische manipulaties uitgevoerd’ door later vermoord staflid Clintons campagneteam Seth Rich……… AIVD en MIVD moeten hiervan weten!!

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..

WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

Hillary Clinton en haar oorlog tegen de waarheid…….. Ofwel een potje Rusland en Assange schoppen!

CIA chef Pompeo waarschuwt voor complot van WikiLeaks om de VS op alle mogelijke manieren neer te halen……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS ‘democratie’ aan het werk, een onthutsende en uitermate humoristische video!

Flashback: Clinton Allies Met With Ukrainian Govt Officials to Dig up Dirt on Trump During 2016 Election

Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media

Russische ‘hacks’ door deskundigen nogmaals als fake news doorgeprikt >> Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russiagate, of: hoe de media u belazeren met verhalen over Russische bemoeienis met de VS presidentsverkiezingen……..

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte

Kajsa Ollongren (D66 vicepremier): Nederland staat in het vizier van Russische inlichtingendiensten……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!

RT America één van de eerste slachtoffers in een heksenjacht op westerse alternatieve media en nadenkend links……

Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

=========================================

En terzijde:

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

De neoconservatieve oorlogshitser en voorstander van censuur op het Internet, Jamie Fly, heeft gesteld dat de Facebook censuur van een groot aantal accounts nog maar het begin is van een grote zuivering die de alternatieve media te wachten staat.

Fly is o.a. directeur van het Asia programma van de neoconservatieve denktank German Marshall Fund (GMF), een organisatie die zowel door de VS overheid als haar oorlogshond de NAVO wordt betaald……. Ofwel de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, die in feite het opperbevel heeft over de NAVO troepen, subsidieert een denktank die de ene leugen na de andere produceert…… Deze denktank verzint verhalen om zo als tegenwicht te dienen tegen het echte nieuws, dat niet door de reguliere media wordt gebracht, maar door de alternatieve media op het internet…….

Intussen een cliché op deze plek: mensen lees het hieronder opgenomen duidelijke artikel van Max Blumenthal en Jeb Sprague over de manier waarop men het volk wil blijven belazeren met verhalen over Russische (en andere) inmenging in de VS politiek (en die van andere westerse landen). Een berg leugens waaraan overigens intussen ook China werd toegevoegd. Lees het artikel en geeft het ajb door, het hele Russiagate verhaal is onderuit gehaald als een hoax*, echter dat interesseert figuren als Fly en organisaties als The Atlantic Council (een lobbyorgaan van de NAVO), het eerder genoemd German Marshall Fund en de andere oplichters van dit soort ‘denktanks’, geen ene zier, de kracht zit in de herhaling door de reguliere (massa-) media en politici, gewoon volhouden dat Rusland en landen als China (ook Iran wordt genoemd) de politiek in het westen beïnvloeden met leugens en andere zaken die de ‘publieke opinie’ zouden sturen……

In feite is de grote schuldige voor al deze ellende Hillary Clinton, die het stelen van de democratische voorverkiezingen door haar en het team dat haar terzijde stond, wilde verbergen en daarom kwam met het verhaal dat de Russen zaken zouden hebben gelekt naar de pers, een flagrante leugen, die de media maar al te graag oppakten in hun strijd tegen de alternatieve media op het internet…..

De continue herhaling van leugens over Russische en andere bemoeienis met de VS politiek, zorgt ervoor dat de leugens bij de gebruikers van die media als het ware in het hoofd worden geprint (een vorm van hersenspoeling), dit ondanks alle bewijzen van het tegendeel, bewijzen als officiële documenten van de VS overheid, die onder meer in WikiLeaks terug zijn te vinden…..

Vandaar ook dat de hierboven aangehaalde rechtse denktanks, die niet alleen de NAVO en de VS dienen, maar ook het militair-industrieel complex, hameren op censuur van de sociale media en dan m.n. de sites die nieuws brengen, ofwel dat nieuws op de juiste manier analyseren….. Die alternatieve media tonen verder de leugens aan die de westerse bevolking dagelijks over zich heen gekieperd krijgen via de reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse liegende politici, plus natuurlijk de leugens van die rechtse denktanks zelf….

Vergeet voorts niet dat er kilometers bewijs zijn voor juist de VS die de politiek in andere landen manipuleert en probeert te sturen via: -hacken, -verspreiding van fake news, -economische oorlogsvoering, -staatsgrepen en mocht dat allemaal niet lukken, desnoods middels -een illegale oorlog, die het deze eeuw al 5 keer is begonnen (en dat zijn enorme oorlogsmisdaden, waarvoor dit land niet wordt vervolgd….)……. 5 illegale oorlogen die intussen aan ruim meer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven hebben gekost………

De wereld op z’n kop…..

Facebook
Purge of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning”: Top Neocon
Insider

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Facebook Purge of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning”: Top Neocon Insider
(foto rechts Jamie Fly
October 24, 2018 at 11:21 am

Written
by 
Grayzone
Project

(GP— This
October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of
users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by
American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were
popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S.
interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop
Block, along with the pages of journalists like 
Rachel
Blevins
.

Facebook claimed that
these pages had “broken our rules against spam and coordinated
inauthentic behavior.” However, sites like The Free Thought Project
were verified by Facebook and widely recognized as legitimate sources
of news and opinion. John Vibes, an independent reporter who
contributed to Free Thought,
accused Facebook
of “favoring mainstream sources and silencing alternative voices.”

In
comments published here for the first time, a neoconservative
Washington insider has apparently claimed a degree of credit for the
recent purge — and promised more takedowns in the near future.

Russia,
China, and other foreign states take advantage of our open political
system,” remarked Jamie Fly, a senior fellow and director of the
Asia program at the influential think tank the German Marshall Fund,
which is 
funded
by the U.S. government and NATO
.
“They can invent stories that get repeated and spread through
different sites. So we are just starting to push back. Just this last
week Facebook began starting to take down sites. So this is just the
beginning.”

Fly
went on to complain that “all you need is an email” to set up a
Facebook or Twitter account, lamenting the sites’ accessibility to
members of the general public. He predicted a long struggle on a
global scale to fix the situation, and pointed out that to do so
would require constant vigilance.

Fly
made these stunning comments to Jeb Sprague, who is a visiting
faculty in sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara
and co-author of this article. The two spoke during a lunch break at
conference
on Asian security
 organized
by the 
Stiftung
Wissenschaft und Politik
 (SWP) in
Berlin, Germany.

In
the tweet below, Fly is the third person from the left who appears
seated at the table.

              

Garima Mohan@GarimaMo

A rare opportunity to discuss Asian security in Berlin, with an excellent group of experts from the region @SWPBerlin

The
remarks by Fly — “we are just starting to push back” — seemed
to confirm the worst fears of the alternative online media community.
If he was to be believed, the latest purge was motivated by politics,
not spam prevention, and was driven by powerful interests hostile to
dissident views, particularly where American state violence is
concerned.

Jamie
Fly, Rise of a Neocon Cadre

Jamie
Fly is an influential foreign policy hardliner who has spent the last
year lobbying for the censorship of “fringe views” on social
media. Over the years, he has advocated for a military assault on
Iran, a 
regime
change war
 on
Syria, and hiking military spending to unprecedented levels. He is
the embodiment of a neoconservative cadre.

Like
so many second-generation neocons, Fly 
entered
government

by burrowing into mid-level positions in George W. Bush’s National
Security Council and Department of Defense.

In
2009, he was appointed director of the 
Foreign
Policy Initiative

(FPI), a rebranded version of Bill Kristol’s Project for a New
American Century, or PNAC. The latter outfit was an umbrella group of
neoconservative activists that first made the case for an invasion of
Iraq as part of a wider project of regime change in countries that
resisted Washington’s sphere of influence.

By
2011, Fly was advancing the next phase in PNAC’s blueprint
by 
clamoring for
military strikes on Iran. “More diplomacy is not an adequate
response,” he argued. A year later, Fly 
urged the
US to “expand its list of targets beyond the [Iranian] nuclear
program to key command and control elements of the Republican Guard
and the intelligence ministry, and facilities associated with other
key government officials.”

Fly
soon found his way into the senate office of Marco Rubio, a
neoconservative pet project, assuming a role as his top foreign
policy advisor. Amongst other interventionist initiatives, Rubio has
taken the lead in promoting harsh economic sanctions 
targeting
Venezuela
,
even advocating for a U.S. 
military
assault
 on
the country. When Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign floundered
amid a mass revolt of the Republican Party’s middle American base
against the party establishment, Fly was forced to cast about for new
opportunities.

He
found them in the paranoid atmosphere of 
Russiagate that
formed soon after Donald Trump’s shock election victory.

PropOrNot
Sparks the Alternative Media Panic

A
journalistic insider’s account of the Hillary Clinton presidential
campaign, Shattered, revealed that “in the days after
the election, Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own
loss.” Her top advisers were summoned the following day, according
to the book, “to engineer the case that the election wasn’t
entirely on the up-and-up … Already, Russian hacking was the
centerpiece of the argument.”

Less
than three weeks after Clinton’s defeat, the Washington Post’s
Craig Timberg published a 
dubiously
sourced report
 headlined,
“Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news.’” The
article hyped up a McCarthyite effort by a shadowy, anonymously run
organization called PropOrNot to blacklist some 200 American media
outlets as Russian “online propaganda.”

The
alternative media outfits on the 
PropOrNot
blacklist
 included
some of those recently purged by Facebook and Twitter, such as The
Free Thought Project and Anti-Media. Among the 
criteria
PropOrNot identified as signs of Russian propaganda were “Support
for policies like Brexit, and the breakup of the EU and Eurozone”
and “Opposition to Ukrainian resistance to Russia and Syrian
resistance to Assad.” PropOrNot called for “formal investigations
by the U.S. government” into the outlets it had blacklisted.

According
to Craig Timberg, the Washington Post correspondent who uncritically
promoted the media suppression initiative, Propornot was established
by “a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy,
military and technology backgrounds.” Timberg quoted a figure
associated with the George Washington University Center for Cyber and
Homeland Security, Andrew Weisburd, and cited a report he wrote with
his colleague, Clint Watts, on Russian meddling.

Timberg’s
piece on was PropOrNot was promoted widely by 
former
top Clinton staffers
 and celebrated by
ex-Obama White House aide Dan Pfeiffer as “the biggest story in the
world.” But after a wave of stinging criticism, including in the
pages of the 
New
Yorker
,
the article was amended with an editor’s note stating, “The
[Washington] Post… does not itself vouch for the validity of
PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet.”

PropOrNot
had been seemingly exposed as a McCarthyite sham, but the concept
behind it — exposing online American media outlets as vehicles for
Kremlin “active measures” — continued to flourish.

The
Birth of the Russian Bot Tracker — with U.S. Government Money

By
August, a new, and seemingly related initiative appeared out of the
blue, this time with backing from a bipartisan coalition of
Democratic foreign policy hands and neocon Never

Trumpers
in Washington. Called the 
Alliance
for Securing Democracy
 (ASD),
the outfit aimed to expose how supposed Russian Twitter bots were
infecting American political discourse with divisive narratives. It
featured a daily “
Hamilton
68

online dashboard that highlighted the supposed bot activity with
easily digestible charts. Conveniently, the site avoided naming any
of the digital Kremlin influence accounts it claimed to be tracking.

The
initiative was immediately 
endorsed
by John Podesta
,
the founder of the Democratic Party think tank the Center for
American Progress, and former chief of staff of Hillary Clinton’s
2016 presidential campaign. Julia Ioffe, the Atlantic’s chief
Russiagate correspondent, 
promoted the
bot tracker as “a very cool tool.”

Unlike
PropOrNot, the ASD was sponsored by one of the most respected think
tanks in Washington, the 
German
Marshall Fund
,
which had been founded in 1972 to nurture the special relationship
between the US and what was then West Germany.

The
German Marshall Fund is substantially 
funded
by Western governments
,
and largely reflects their foreign-policy interests. Its top two
financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the
U.S. government’s soft-power arm the U.S. Agency for International
Development (
USAID)
and the German Foreign Office (known in German as the Auswärtiges
Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a
million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic
Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of
Sweden and Norway. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a
million dollars per year from NATO.


The
US government and NATO are top donors to the German Marshall Fund.

Though
the German Marshall Fund did not name the donors that specifically
sponsored its Alliance for Securing Democracy initiative, it hosts a
who’s who of bipartisan national-security hardliners on the
ASD’s 
advisory
council
,
providing the endeavor with the patina of credibility. They range
from neocon movement icon Bill Kristol to former Clinton foreign
policy advisor Jake Sullivan and ex-CIA director Michael Morell.

Jamie
Fly, a German Marshall Fund fellow and Asia specialist, emerged as
one of the most prolific promoters of the new Russian bot tracker in
the media. Together with Laura Rosenberger, a former foreign policy
aide to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Fly appeared in a series
of 
interviews and
co-authored several 
op-eds emphasizing
the need for a massive social media crackdown.

During
a March 2018
 interview
on C-Span
,
Fly complained that “Russian accounts” were “trying to promote
certain messages, amplify certain content, raise fringe views, pit
Americans against each other, and we need to deal with this ongoing
problem and find ways through the government, through tech companies,
through broader society to tackle this issue.”

Yet
few of the sites on PropOrNot’s blacklist, and none of the
alternative sites that were erased in the recent Facebook purge that
Fly and his colleagues take apparent credit for, were Russian
accounts. Perhaps the only infraction they could have been accused of
was publishing views that Fly and his cohorts saw as “fringe.”

What’s
more, the ASD has been forced to admit that the mass of Twitter
accounts it initially identified as “Russian bots” were not
necessarily bots — and may not have been Russian either.

I’m
Not Convinced on This Bot Thing”

A
November 2017
 investigation by
Max Blumenthal, a co-author of this article, found that the ASD’s
Hamilton 68 dashboard was the creation of “a collection of cranks,
counterterror retreads, online harassers and paranoiacs operating
with support from some of the most prominent figures operating within
the American national security apparatus.”

These
figures included the same George Washington University Center for
Cyber and Homeland Security fellows — Andrew Weisburd and Clint
Watts — that were cited as experts in the Washington Post’s
article promoting PropOrNot.

Weisburd,
who has been described as one of the brains behind the Hamilton 68
dashboard, once maintained a one-man, anti-Palestinian web monitoring
initiative that specialized in doxxing left-wing activists, Muslims
and anyone he considered “anti-American.” More recently, he has
taken to Twitter to spout off murderous and homophobic fantasies
about Glenn Greenwald, the editor of the Intercept — a publication
the ASD flagged without explanation as a vehicle for Russian
influence operations.

Watts,
for his part, has testified before Congress on several occasions
to 
call on
the government to “quell information rebellions” with censorious
measures including “nutritional labels” for online media. He has
received fawning publicity from corporate media and been rewarded
with a contributor role for NBC on the basis of his supposed
expertise in ferreting out Russian disinformation.

However, under
questioning
 during
a public event by Grayzone contributor Ilias Stathatos, Watts
admitted that substantial parts of his testimony were false, and
refused to provide evidence to support some of his most colorful
claims about malicious Russian bot activity.

In
a separate interview with 
Buzzfeed,
Watts appeared to completely disown the Hamilton 68 bot tracker as a
legitimate tool. “I’m not convinced on this bot thing,” Watts
confessed. He even called the narrative that he helped manufacture
“overdone,” and admitted that the accounts Hamilton 68 tracked
were not necessarily directed by Russian intelligence actors.

We
don’t even think they’re all commanded in Russia — at all. We
think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just
really into promoting Russia,” Watts conceded.

But
these stunning admissions did little to slow the momentum of the
coming purge.

Enter
the Atlantic Council

In
his conversation with Sprague, the German Marshall Fund’s Fly
stated that he was working with the Atlantic Council in the campaign
to purge alternative media from social media platforms like Facebook.

The
Atlantic Council is another Washington-based think tank that serves
as a gathering point for neoconservatives and liberal
interventionists pushing military aggression around the globe. It
is 
funded by
NATO and 
repressive,
US-allied governments
 including
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Turkey, as well as by Ukrainian oligarchs
like Victor Pynchuk.

This
May, Facebook
 announced a
partnership with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research
Lab (DFRLab) to “identify, expose, and explain disinformation
during elections around the world.”

The
Atlantic Council’s DFRLab is notorious for its zealous
conflation of legitimate online dissent with illicit Russian
activity, embracing the same tactics as PropOrNot and the ASD.

Ben
Nimmo, a DFRLab fellow who has built his reputation on flushing out
online Kremlin influence networks, 
embarked on
an embarrassing witch hunt this year that saw him misidentify several
living, breathing individuals as Russian bots or Kremlin “influence
accounts.” Nimmo’s victims included 
Mariam
Susli
,
a well-known Syrian-Australian social media personality, the famed
Ukrainian concert pianist 
Valentina
Lisitsa
,
and a British pensioner named Ian Shilling.

In
an interview with Sky News, Shilling delivered a 
memorable
tirade
 against
his accusers. “I have no Kremlin contacts whatsoever; I do not know
any Russians, I have no contact with the Russian government or
anything to do with them,” he exclaimed. “I am an ordinary
British citizen who happens to do research on the current neocon wars
which are going on in Syria at this very moment.”

With
the latest Facebook and Twitter purges, ordinary citizens like
Shilling are being targeted in the open, and without apology. The
mass deletions of alternative media accounts illustrate how national
security hardliners from the German Marshall Fund and Atlantic
Council (and whoever was behind PropOrNot) have instrumentalized the
manufactured panic around Russian interference to generate public
support for a wider campaign of media censorship.

In
his conversation in Berlin with Sprague, Fly noted with apparent
approval that, “Trump is now pointing to Chinese interference in
the 2018 election.” As the mantra of foreign interference expands
to a new adversarial power, the clampdown on voices of dissent in
online media is almost certain to intensify.

As
Fly promised, “This is just the beginning.”


Jeb
Sprague
 is
a visiting faculty at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. He is the author of “Globalizing the Caribbean: Political
economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class”
(Temple University Press, 2019), “Paramilitarism and the assault on
democracy in Haiti” (Monthly Review Press, 2012), and is the editor
of “Globalization and transnational capitalism in Asia and Oceania”
(Routledge, 2016). He is a co-founder of the Network for the Critical
Studies of Global Capitalism.

Max
Blumenthal
 is
an award-winning journalist and the author of books including
best-selling 
Republican
Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party
Goliath:
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
The
Fifty One Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza
,
and The Management of Savagery, which will be published later this
year by Verso. He has also produced numerous print articles for an
array of publications, many video reports and several documentaries
including 
Je
Ne Suis Pas Charlie
 and
the forthcoming 
Killing
Gaza
.
Blumenthal founded the Grayzone Project in 2015 to shine a
journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its
dangerous domestic repercussions.

By Max
Blumenthal
 and Jeb
Sprague 
Republished
with permission / 
Grayzone
Project
 / Report
a typo

=============================

* Zie o.a.: ‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

Zie ook:

Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

The US military’s vision for state censorship

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….

Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder……….

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

Facebook verlaat ‘tranding news’ voor ‘brekend nieuws’ van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer ‘fake news…..’

Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama…….

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici…..

Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Okkupert een Noorse serie die de angst voor de Russen moet aanwakkeren en de grootste anti-Russische NAVO oefening in decennia………

Okkupert (in Engels Occupied, ofwel Bezet) is een Noorse serie waarin Rusland ingrijpt als Noorwegen besluit haar olie- en gaswinning op zee stil te leggen. Dit vanwege een ‘revolutionaire’ Noorse energieopwekking in Thorium centrales, die veel veiliger zouden zijn dan conventionele kerncentrales, pure nonsens.

Een belachelijk scenario waarin de EU Rusland zou hebben gevraagd in te grijpen om zo de winning van olie en gas veilig te stellen…… Rusland wint zelf meer dan voldoende gas en olie om de hele EU van deze fossiele brandstoffen te voorzien, waarom zouden die in godsnaam een land als Noorwegen voor het blok zetten..????

Zoals je al begrepen had, heeft in dit scenario ook de NAVO geen behoefte om Noorwegen te helpen….. Terwijl de NAVO (onder aanvoering van de VS) zelf anti-Russische propaganda verspreidt , o.a. via The Atlantic Council…… Sterker nog het is al een paar jaar duidelijk dat de VS en daarmee de NAVO oorlog zoeken met Rusland, laat staan dat Rusland een land als Noorwegen zou binnenvallen, de kurken zouden ploppen in het Pentagon en het NAVO hoofdkwartier in Brussel en men zou onmiddellijk een oorlog beginnen tegen Rusland……

De Noorse premier in de serie vlucht in het VS consulaat, nadat Rusland, dat militair eerst niet zozeer zichtbaar op de straten te zien was, haar aanwezigheid opvoert tot een volledige bezetting van Noorwegen….. In dat consulaat wordt de premier vergiftigd met vloeibare nicotine……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Vloeibare nicotine is ontzettend smerig en zou de maaltijd of de drank waaraan het zou worden toegevoegd, oneetbaar of ondrinkbaar maken…… (Bovendien heb je een fikse hoeveelheid nodig hebben om iemand daadwerkelijk ziek te laten worden)

Opvallend ook dat de serie gebruik mocht maken van het CNN en BBC World Service logo in de respectievelijke tv studio’s van deze organisaties, die beide zogenaamd onafhankelijke zendgemachtigden laten geen dag voorbijgaan zonder Rusland te demoniseren…….. De serie werd gemaakt door TV2 (Noorwegen) en TV France en is de duurste Noorse productie ooit.

De serie komt uit 2015 en het is dan ook de bedoeling geweest om de Noorse bevolking bang te maken voor de Russen en haat te zaaien tegen het Russische volk……. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet toevallig dat de NAVO (onder leiding van de VS) al 2,5 jaar bezig is geweest met het voorbereiden van de grootste militaire oefening sinds het eind van de Koude oorlog…

Deze militaire oefening heeft de naam ‘Trident Juncture’ en vindt plaats aan de grens met Rusland, zogenaamd tegen een inval van de Russen, terwijl met deze peperdure oefening in feite een inval op Russische grondgebied wordt gesimuleerd…… Daar de Russen al hebben geprotesteerd durft men nu te stellen dat de oefening niets van doen heeft met de spanningen tussen Rusland en de NAVO lidstaten….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Smerige oplichters!

In een artikel op Noventas wordt NB gewezen op de spanningen in Oost-Oekraïne, alsof het Russische leger daar vecht tegen de neonazi-bataljons uit Kiev, bataljons van de neonazi-junta in Oekraïne…… Ondanks dat er geen flinter aan bewijs is voor de aanwezigheid van het Russische leger in Oost-Oekraïne, houden de reguliere westerse media en het grootste deel van de politiek, aangevuld met de baas van terreurorganisatie NAVO, de VS en haar lobbyisten, deze leugen in de lucht……

Het operationele deel van Trident Juncture gaat morgen van start…….. Tegelijkertijd wordt er een grote luchtmachtoefening gehouden in Oekraïne, waar oh wonder, ook Polen en Roemenië aan meedoen, de 2 landen die een raketbasis van de VS op hun grondgebied hebben….. Deze bases maken zogenaamd deel uit van een raketschild tegen raketten uit Iran, maar de raketten op die bases kunnen in een mum van tijd worden uitgerust met meerdere kernkoppen en staan relatief dicht op Moskou……

Zie ook:

CDA wil Nederlands ‘space force’ in de ruimte……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Russische diplomaat Belousov bevestigt: Rusland bereidt zich voor op WOIII

Luchtmacht VS bezig met voorbereiding van oorlog tegen Rusland en China

VS en Japan stoken samen de ‘oorlogsboel’ op over de Oost-Chinese Zee‘ 

Oekraïne het toneel van grootschalige luchtmachtoefeningen met VS en NAVO, naast een enorme militaire VS/NAVO oefening in Noorwegen

Duitsland doet mee in het koor van de wolven: Russische cyberterreur!

VS heeft drone aanval van terreurgroep Jabhat Fateh al-Sham op Russische doel in Syrië gecoördineerd…….

VS dreigt INF verdrag op de zeggen >> Trump verwijt de Russische ketel dat die nucleair zwart ziet

Pentagon Report Points To US Preparations For Total War

VS heeft Rusland al 3 keer met oorlog gedreigd, de laatste 2 keer in de afgelopen 1,5 week……

VS heeft drone aanval van terreurgroep Jabhat Fateh al-Sham op Russische doel in Syrië gecoördineerd…….

MIVD en media schoten 4 Russische bokken met de claim van spionage op de OPCW…..

Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder……….

Derrick
Broze betoogt in het artikel dat hieronder is opgenomen, dat
Facebooks censuur wordt 

gestuurd door het westers
militair-industrieel complex. Zo is de zogenaamd wetenschappelijke
site ‘PropOr Not’, dat zich in de praktijk bezighoudt met het brengen
van anti-Russische propaganda, onderdeel van The Interpreter en dat
is op haar beurt onderdeel van Broadcasting Board of Governors,
een organisatie die VS propaganda over de wereld verspreid met een
stuk of zes mediaorganen zoals ‘Voice of America’ (VOA).


Ook
de Atlantic Council is een lobbyorgaan van het militair-industrieel
complex, waar de NAVO een dikke vinger in de smerige pap heeft…….

Het artikel van Broze komt van zijn website The Conscious Resistance, ik nam het over van Anti-Media:


The
Facebook Purge of Independent Media: What You’re Not Being Told


Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Facebook Purge of Independent Media: What You’re Not Being Told

October
15, 2018 at 11:26 am

Written
by 
Derrick
Broze

Victims
of Facebook’s most recent purge should not forget the connections
between the social media giant and the Western Military-Industrial
Complex.

(CR— On
Thursday, Facebook announced they were unpublishing, or purging, over
500 pages and 200 accounts who are accused of spreading political
spam. Several of these pages and writers were also removed from
Twitter on the same day.

Today,
we’re removing 559 Pages and 251 accounts that have consistently
broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic
behavior,” 
Facebook
stated in a blog post
. Facebook
states that the people behind this alleged spam “create networks of
Pages using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names”
and “post the same clickbait posts in dozens of Facebook Groups”.

Essentially,
Facebook is accusing these pages of writing articles related to
politics and then using the social media platform to…. post the
articles in as many places as possible to reach as many people as
possible. Hardly dangerous or scary stuff. However, these actions are
in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Service. Facebook also accused
the pages and accounts of using their fake accounts to generate fake
likes and shares which may artificially inflate their reach and
mislead people about their popularity. According to Facebook, “This
activity goes against what people expect on Facebook, and it violates
our policies against spam.”

Facebook
also stated that “sensational political content” from across the
political spectrum is being used to “build an audience and drive
traffic to their websites, earning money for every visitor to the
site”. Again, this does not qualify as dangerous or threatening
activity. This is a standard practice for most media outlets who are
trying to earn revenue to pay writers, editors, social media
managers, etc. It is true that some of the pages on this list (see
below for a current list) have indeed used clickbait headlines or
even posts that are likely untrue. However, the list also includes
legitimate independent news outlets such as The Anti Media, The Free
Thought Project, Cop Block, and Police the Police, which focused on
countering mainstream and establishment narratives related to
politics and police.

Facebook’s
statement that the pages and accounts were “often indistinguishable
from legitimate political debate” begs the question – which pages
and accounts are “legitimate political debate”? And by which
metric does Facebook decide what counts as legitimate? These
questions are yet to be answered. Perhaps with time Facebook will
come clean about their process, but in the meantime it’s important
to reflect on Facebook’s recent partnership with the Atlantic
Council and attempts to stifle the flow of information in the name of
fighting “fake news”.

The
fight against Fake News started immediately following the election of
Donald Trump. In November 2016, Merrimack College associate professor
Melissa Zimdars posted a public Google document titled, “False,
Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical ‘News’ Sources” which
went viral after being reported on by most corporate mainstream
outlets. This list lumped in some of the same outlets which fell
victim to Facebook’s most recent purge with actual fake news
websites which are well known among the indie and alt media industry.
Within a matter of weeks, a new list appeared online from an
organization calling itself PropOrNot, an allegedly independent group
of researchers trying to find the truth about the dissemination of
Russian propaganda and fake news. This list also contained names of
prominent independent media outlets like Anti-Media, The Corbett
Report, MintPress News, and many others.

It
was this combination of the Zimdars list and the PropOrNot list which
had the immediate effect of placing a target on the vast majority of
independent journalists and outlets who were now being accused of
directly or indirectly conspiring with the Russians. Websites and
social media pages for these outlets began suffering a drastic
reduction in reach and interaction with their audiences and many
websites lost access to Google advertising money due to these false
associations.

The
problem is that the majority of the mainstream media unquestionably
reported on and repeated the claims made by these two lists without
any attempt at investigative work. For example, PropOrNot claims they
are “completely independent” and “nonpartisan” because they
are not funded by anyone and have no formal institutional
affiliations or political connections.

They
say the must remain anonymous for now because they are a “are
civilian Davids taking on a state-backed adversary Goliath”.
However, a report by Russian news outlet Sputnik (yes, I am aware
many readers will automatically scream, “Fake news!”, but I
encourage you to read on.) challenges the alleged unbiased nature of
PropOrNot.


Sputnik
reports
 that
George Eliason, a Ukraine-based investigative journalist, authored an
expose of PropOrNot in which he argued the organization was
a “deep-state hitjob on alternative news outlets”.

So
when you’re looking at PropOrNot, it’s just basic
investigative techniques. Who are they — that’s the first
thing you need to know,” Eliason told Sputnik. “So you look
them up on the web and you find nothing. I went to their
website and did a basic scan, and 
the
funny thing about PropOrNot is that to get into their
website, you need to be logged into the dashboard of The
Interpreter magazine.”


So
who runs The Interpreter?

Eliason
states that “The Interpreter is also overseen by the the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, who run Voice of America
and half a dozen other US propaganda projects across the globe”.

In
addition, “The Interpreter is a product of the Atlantic
Council committee, who is basically setting our foreign policy right
now in Eastern Europe and Russia,” Eliason stated. “They’re
an NGO, they work outside the government, and they work with the
Ukrainian diaspora. They actually have a signed contract with the
diaspora — you can view them signing it.”


The
important takeaway from this report is that only 4 months later, in
May 2018, Facebook 
announced
a new partnership with the Atlantic Council –
 the
same think tank tied to PropOrNot – which officially claims to
provide a forum for international political, business, and
intellectual leaders. Facebook said the partnership is aimed at
preventing  the social media tool from “being abused during
elections.” 
The
press release
 promoted
Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial
intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and
governments.

The
Atlantic Council of the United States was established in 1961 to
bolster support for international relations. Although not officially
connected to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Atlantic
Council has spent decades promoting causes and issues which are
beneficial to NATO member states. In addition, The Atlantic Council
is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Organization, an umbrella
organization which “acts as a network facilitator in the
Euro-Atlantic and beyond.” The ATA* works similarly to the Atlantic
Council, bringing together political leaders, academics, military
officials, journalists and diplomats to promote values that are
favorable to the NATO member states. Officially, ATA is independent
of NATO, but the line between the two is razor thin.

Essentially,
the Atlantic Council is a think tank which can offer companies or
nation states access to military officials, politicians, journalists,
diplomats, etc. to help them develop a plan to implement their
strategy or vision. These strategies often involve getting NATO
governments or industry insiders to make decisions they might not
have made without a visit from the Atlantic Council team. This allows
individuals or nations to push forth their ideas under the cover of
hiring what appears to be a public relations agency but is actually
selling access to high-profile individuals with power to affect
public policy. Indeed, everyone from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton
to the family of international agent of disorder Zbigniew Brzezinski
have spoken at or attended council events.

The
list of financial supporters reads like a who’s-who of think tanks
and Non-Governmental Organizations. The Atlantic Council receives
funding from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Cato
Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Rand Corporation, to
name a few. In addition, various members of the Military-Industrial
Complex are benefactors of the Atlantic Council, including Huntington
Ingalls, the United States’ sole maker of aircraft carriers;
Airbus, the plane manufacturer; Lockheed Martin, the shipbuilder and
aviation company; and Raytheon, which makes missile systems. All of
the companies have contracts with the U.S.

Department
of Defense and offer financial support to the Atlantic Council. The
Council also receives support from Chevron and the Thomson Reuters
Foundation. Finally, the Atlantic Council receives direct financial
support from the U.S. Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy and
Energy and from the U.S. Mission to NATO.

Is
it possible Facebook is acting under the direction of their partners
at the Atlantic Council to suppress anti-war, anti-establishment
voices three weeks before the U.S. midterm elections? It is
absolutely possible and likely.

We
should also remember this is not the first time Facebook has deleted
accounts which operate outside the mainstream corporate media. In
August, 
Facebook
deleted accounts 
containing
“fringe or holistic medicine”, including Just Natural Medicine (1
million followers), Natural Cures Not Medicine (2.3 million
followers), and People’s Awakening (3.6 million followers). The
same month Facebook and Twitter deleted pages they claimed
were 
connected
to Iran and Russia
.

This
entire ongoing attack of independent media and free thought stemmed
from the establishment media’s nonstop coverage of what has become
known as fake news. Anyone and everyone who has countered the
establishment narrative of endless war, a growing surveillance and
police state, and an allegedly growing divide in American politics,
has been labeled a Russian bot, accomplice, or useful idiot. One way
or another, the message is clear: stand against the establishment and
you will be labeled an enemy of the state.

By
spreading the fake news meme the elitists behind the American power
centers are able to attack  growing independent media icons by
painting them as propagators of false Russian propaganda. The media
is also using this fake news meme and Russian prop to accuse Trump of
being an illegitimate president, further playing into the “Trump is
an outsider” narrative. All of this is being done with the goal of
keeping the domestic front as divided as possible while selling the
brainwashed masses into another war. Coincidentally, all of this
non-sense is taking place while the corporate media spreads lies
about Syria and Russia.

It’s
more important than ever to remain level headed and use critical
thinking. It’s never been more important to follow the pages that
were purged directly from their websites. See the full list below and
decide which outlets you want to continue to support in the
information war.


Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Facebook Purge of Independent Media: What You’re Not Being Told

List
of pages taken down on Thursday October 11, 2018:

The
Free Thought Project – 3.1 million fans
The Anti-Media – 2.1
million fans
Police the Police – 1.9 million fans
Cop Block –
1.7 million fans
Filming Cops – 1.4 million fans
Rachel
Blevins – 69,000 fans
V is For Voluntary – 160,000 fans
End
the War on Drugs – 460,000 fans
Mass Report – 500,000 fans
Get
Involved, You Live Here – 360,000 fans
Press for Truth –
350,000 fans
Political Junkie News Media – 300,000 fans
Murica
Today – 180,000 fans
Choice & Truth – 2.9 million fans
You
won’t see this on TV – 172,000 fans
Modern Slavery Hilarious
Vines – 129,000 fans
Fuck the Government – 168,000 fans
Punk
Rock Libertarians – 190,000 fans
Reverb Press – 700,000
fans
Nation In Distress – 3.2 million fans
Free Your Mind
Conference – 75,000 fans
Right Wing News – 3.6 million
fans
Reasonable People United
Psychologic Anarchist
Policing
the Police
Cop Logic
Legalizing Cannabis
Hemp
End the
Drug War
Anonymous News

By Derrick
Broze
 / Republished
with permission / 
Conscious
Resistance
 / Report
a typo

* ATA zou in dit geval moeten staan voor Atlantic Treaty Association, vrees dat hier een spelfout werd gemaakt, ATA werkt vanuit Roemenië en is een organisatie die VS propaganda steunt, echter gezien niet één verdere verwijzing, vraag ik me af of deze organisatie wordt bedoeld.

Zie ook:

Robert Epstein: Google en Facebook corrumperen de politiek en manipuleren de presidentsverkiezingen‘ 

Facebook staat valse informatie toe tijdens de (voor-) verkiezingen van het presidentschap in de VS

Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden

New York Times: eerste Israëlische inval in Gazastrook sinds 2014 >> fake news!

Noord-Koreaans ‘bedrog met nucleaire deal’ is fake news o.a. gebracht door de New York Times

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

The US military’s vision for state censorship

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………


9/11 forum geblokkeerd, de waarheid mag niet gezegd worden……..


CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’


Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

Facebook verlaat ‘tranding news’ voor ‘brekend nieuws’ van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer ‘fake news…..’

Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama…….

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici…..

Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde afgelopen zaterdag een artikel waarin ze verder
ingaat op de zuivering van het internet door Facebook en Twitter.
Waar aanvankelijk naar de inhoud van berichten werd gekeken zijn nu
de accounts van o.a. Anti-Media, WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) en
PoliceThePolice volledig verwijderd van deze 2 platforms……..

Ofwel
Facebook en Twitter fungeren als censuuragenten voor de
overheid…… Terecht stelt Johnstone dat de overheid in de VS (en
elders in het westen) nog maar weinig geloofwaardigheid over heeft, het is dan ook zaak dat organisaties als Facebook en Twitter de
functie van censuuragent op zich nemen, immers als de overheid dit
openlijk had gedaan, waren de rapen gaar geweest…….

Het
is echter vrijwel zeker dat de VS overheid platforms als Facebook en
Twitter aanstuurt wat betreft de keus voor te censureren accounts,
ook gezien een conferentie eerder dit jaar, waar WSWS over berichtte
op 5 oktober jl. Het gaat hier om een conferentie van de United
States Special Operations Command, een sectie van het ministerie van
‘Defensie’ (zou het ministerie van Oorlog genoemd moeten worden), die
supervisie heeft over de US Special Forces. De conferentie droeg de
naam ‘Sovereignty in the Information Age’ en ondanks de vage titel,
ging het er tijdens die conferentie over hoe alternatieve nieuws- en
opiniesites te censureren…… Mensen lees ook dat artikel en de
haren zullen je ten berge rijzen….
*


Internet
Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly
Anyone Noticed

by Caitlin
Johnstone


While
most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about
Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which
threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly
little attention.

After
massive
purge
 of
hundreds of politically oriented pages and personal accounts for
“inauthentic behavior”, Facebook rightly received a fair
amount of criticism for the nebulous and hotly disputed basis for
that action. What received relatively little attention was the far
more ominous step which was taken next: within hours of being purged
from Facebook, multiple anti-establishment alternative media sites
had their accounts completely removed from Twitter as well.

As
of this writing I am aware of three large alternative media outlets
which were 
expelled
from both platforms
 at
almost the same time: Anti-Media, the Free Thought Project, and
Police the Police, all of whom had millions of followers on Facebook.
Both the 
Editor-in-Chief of
Anti-Media and its 
Chief
Creative Officer
 were
also banned by Twitter, and are being kept from having any new
accounts on that site as well.

“I
unfortunately always felt the day would come when alternative media
would be scrubbed from major social media sites,” Anti-Media’s
Chief Creative Officer S.M. Gibson said in a statement to me.
“Because of that I prepared by having backup accounts years ago.
The fact that those accounts, as well as 3 accounts from individuals
associated with Anti-Media were banned without warning and without
any reason offered by either platform makes me believe this purge was
certainly orchestrated by someone. Who that is I have no idea, but
this attack on information was much more concise and methodical in
silencing truth than most realize or is being reported.”

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

UPDATE on the massive Purge of 800 dissident voices happening in the U.S.

Banned from Facebook yesterday:

-Antimedia

-FreeThoughtProject

-PoliceThePolice

-Minds social media

Suspended from Twitter:

-Antimedia + editors

-FreeThoughtProject + editors

-PoliceThePolice + editors

It
is now clear that there is either (A) some degree of
communication/coordination between Twitter and Facebook about their
respective censorship practices, or (B) information being given to
both Twitter and Facebook by another party regarding targets for
censorship. Either way, it means that there is now some some
mechanism in place linking the censorship of dissident voices across
multiple platforms. We are beginning to see smaller
anti-establishment alternative media outlets cut off from their
audiences by the same sort of coordinated cross-platform silencing
we 
first
witnessed with Alex Jones
 in
August.

This
is about as acute a threat to our ability to network and share
information with each other as anything you could possibly imagine.
If new media outlets are beginning to silence dissident voices
together in unison, that means we can see entire alternative media
outlets not just partially silenced but thoroughly silenced, their
ability to grow their audiences and get information out to heavily
populated parts of the internet completely crippled.

This
is huge, this is dangerous, and this is being under-reported. When I
was 
removed
from Twitter
 in
August for 
“abusing”
John McCain
,
there was a 
large
and outraged uproar
on
Twitter, and my account was quickly 
restored
with an apology
.
The phenomenon of multiple high-profile alternative media outlets
suddenly being silenced in unison by the two biggest social media
platforms should be generating 
more outrage
than some ornery Australian blogger losing her Twitter account, not
less. People should be legitimately freaked out by this, because it
affects us all.

Daniel McAdams@DanielLMcAdams

Replying to @caitoz @InmanAlex

The entity that is making censorship decisions for Facebook, as publicly announced, is the Atlantic Council, a partly US government-funded entity. At what point will the extremely tight ties between these companies and the US government end the “they are private” argument?

Daniel McAdams@DanielLMcAdams

Is this a private entity? pic.twitter.com/5oGABYjMqz

 View image on Twitter

Any
time you try to talk about how internet censorship threatens our
ability to get the jackboot of oligarchy off our necks you’ll always
get some guy in your face who’s read one Ayn Rand book and thinks he
knows everything, saying things like “Facebook is a private
company! It can do whatever it wants!” Is it now? Has not
Facebook been 
inviting
US government-funded groups
 to
help regulate its operations, 
vowing on
the 
Senate
floor
 to do
more
 to
facilitate the interests of the US government, deleting accounts 
at
the direction of the US and Israeli governments
,
and 
handing
the guidance
 of
its censorship behavior over to the Atlantic Council, 
which
receives funding
 from
the US government, the EU, NATO and Gulf states? How “private”
is that? Facebook is a deeply government-entrenched corporation, and
Facebook censorship is just what government censorship looks like in
a corporatist system of government.

Speaking
of the Atlantic Council, it recently published a very
interesting 
21-page
document
 about
a US military conference detailing, in present tense, how Silicon
Valley tech giants are being used to nullify the threat that the new
media landscape poses to the US power establishment.

Of
this document, 
World
Socialist Website
 writes
the following
:

Enter
the social media companies. The best mechanism for suppressing
oppositional viewpoints and promoting pro-government narratives is
the private sector, in particular “technology giants, including
Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter,” which can “determine
what people see and do not see.”
 

Watts
adds, “Fortunately, shifts in the policies of social media
platforms such as Facebook have had significant impact on the type
and quality of the content that is broadcast.”
 

The
private sector, therefore, must do the dirty work of the government,
because government propaganda is viewed with suspicion by the
population. “Business and the private sector may not naturally
understand the role they play in combating disinformation, but theirs
is one of the most important…. In the West at least, they have been
thrust into a central role due to the general public’s increased
trust in them as institutions.”

#FreeAssange! (tweets by campaign)⌛@JulianAssange

A securocrat’s vision for state censorship (as channeled through the Atlantic Council)https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/05/pers-o05.html 


The US military’s vision for state censorship

The Atlantic Council, a key partner in social media companies’ drive to censor the internet, has published a summary of a US special forces conference outlining a plan for systematically gutting the…

wsws.org

The
best way to deal with a manipulative sociopath is to point and make a
lot of noise every time they do something weird and creepy. The more
you let them abuse you in private, the more they can rope you in and
get you playing along with their sick agendas. If you notice them
doing something weird, the best way to nullify all the tools in their
wicked little toolbox is to point and yell “Hey! What are you
doing?? Why are you doing that? That’s weird!” Get people
looking, because such beasts can’t advance their manipulations with a
lot of critical eyes on them.

Propaganda
and censorship operates very much the same way. If you are unfamiliar
with the concept of 
the
Streisand effect
,
I encourage you to begin to acquaint yourself with it. Named for an
incident in which Barbara Streisand attempted to suppress online
photographs of her Malibu residence and thereby inadvertently drew
far more attention to them, the Streisand effect describes the way
attempts to hide and censor information can be used to draw more
attention to it if the coverup attracts the interest of the public
eye. Every censor needs to prevent this from happening in order to do
their job effectively; if it looks like removing something from
public view would draw more attention to it, then they cannot
practice censorship in that case.

So
let’s Streisand this thing up, hey? Let’s make a big angry noise
about this new cross-platform escalation in internet censorship, and
let’s make a big angry noise any time anyone makes a move to silence
dissident political speech in the new media environment. Manipulators
can only function in darkness, so let’s never give them any. Anything
they try, we need to make a ton of noise about it. That by itself
would be throwing an enormous stumbling block in their path while we
find new ways to clear a path for more and more networking and
information sharing. These bastards have controlled the narrative for
too long.

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The US military’s vision for state censorship

Zie ook:

Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort

Twitter weert waarheid: Paul Craig Roberts in de ban, Roberts >> de grote criticus van de illegale oorlogen die de VS voert

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….

Facebook censuur gestuurd door het westers militair-industrieel complex en de NAVO in het bijzonder……….

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

Facebook verlaat ‘tranding news’ voor ‘brekend nieuws’ van 80 reguliere mediaorganen, ofwel nog meer ‘fake news…..’

Facebook komt met nieuwsshows van betrouwbare media als CNN en Fox News…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook stelt perstituee van New York Times aan als censuur-agent…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Het echte Facebook schandaal: manipulatie van de gebruikers en gratis diensten voor eertijds presidentskandidaat Obama…….

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook doneerde aan de politici die hem in de VS aan de tand voelden >> in het EU parlement maakte hij gebruik van megalomane EU politici…..

Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

VS gebruikt sociale media om ‘fake comment’ te verspreiden en de bevolking te hersenspoelen met leugens, ofwel ‘fake news….’

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

Rusland krijgt alweer de schuld van hacken, nu van oplichters Symantec en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!