CNN en andere media met doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda tegen de Syrische regering

Caitlin
Johnstone heeft een artikel geschreven over de uiterst doorzichtige
propaganda gebracht door de reguliere (massa-) media. Hiervoor haalt
ze het voorbeeld aan van het 7 jarige meisje Bana Alabed dat werd ‘geïnterviewd’ door CNN ‘journalist’ Alisyn Camerota. Uit dit interview
blijkt duidelijk dat het meisje zaken noemde die te ingewikkeld zijn
voor een kind van haar leeftijd, bovendien was duidelijk te zien dat
Bana zaken voorlas van een ‘tele prompter’, niet alleen door de
beweging van haar ogen, maar ook door woorden in delen op te lezen,
waar duidelijk uit blijkt dat ze niet begreep waar ze het over
had…….

Zoals
altijd met propaganda is deze bedoeld om het volk achter een oorlog
of een aanval te krijgen, vandaar ook dat men keer op keer als er
over Assad wordt gesproken in die reguliere media, de superlatieven niet
van de lucht zijn, zo is hij o.a. al omschreven als duivels, een bloedige
dictator en vergasser van kinderen en de rest van zijn
bevolking…… Niet dat voor dat laatste, dus de vergassing van burgers, bewijzen zijn, echter door
het te blijven herhalen (terwijl al lang is bewezen dat Assad niet
achter die aanvallen met gifgas zat) wordt het volk dusdanig
gehersenspoeld dat ze de leugens gaan geloven en zelfs militair
ingrijpen eisen……… Zoals je begrijpt geldt dat al helemaal voor de andere gebruikte superlatieven.

Het
meest lullig is wel dat ook president Trump die leugens gelooft en
minstens twee keer actie heeft ondernomen tegen Syrië, op basis van (valse) anti-Assad propaganda op Fox…….

Lees
het uitgebreid op basis van feiten (via links) geschreven artikel van
Johnstone en geeft het ajb door! Het is tijd dat het volk, ook in
Nederland, eindelijk inziet dat het bijna dagelijks wordt voorgelogen
en niet zelden over meerdere onderwerpen…… Neem alleen al de steun voor financiering van ‘gematigde rebellen’, die terreurgroepen bleken te zijn*, of zie de berichtgeving voorafgaand aan en tijdens de oorlog tegen Irak in 2003……

That
Time CNN Staged a Fake Interview With a Syrian Child for War
Propaganda

September
10, 2018 at 7:54 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Imagine
if you and some friends wandered into a completely dark room together
for some reason. You’ve never been in this room before, and you
can’t see a thing.

Now
imagine one of your friends says he can see everything in the room
perfectly, and starts describing the different things that he sees in
a confident, assertive tone of voice. You know for a fact that
there’s no light in the room, so you are doubtful that your friend
is able to see any better than you are, but one by one your other
friends start talking about the objects in the room as though what he
is saying is true. After a while your group starts telling you you’re
crazy and evil because you remain skeptical of your first friend’s
ability to see the room in pitch darkness, despite his assertive tone
of voice and despite the fact that everyone else believes it.

Western
public discourse about Syria is very much the same. All the time I
get people coming up yelling at me about what a butcher Bashar
al-Assad is, how he loves gassing children because he’s an evil
monster, how he’s killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in his
own country out of sheer sadism, and all I can say to them is, you
don’t know that. You don’t know any of those things, you’re
just pretending you do because that’s what everyone else is doing.
I know you don’t know any of those things because you’re looking
at the same information landscape as I am, and it’s chock full of
war propaganda. The 
media
matrix
 is
too full of obvious psyops meant to manufacture public consent for
military interventionism in Syria for any westerner to have a clear
idea of what’s actually happening in that country.

And
we know this for a fact, as sure as you know when you’re in a dark
room. Take the time CNN knowingly staged a fake, scripted interview
with a seven year-old Syrian girl last year and passed it off to its
audience as a real interview.

I
point this out to my readers every few months, and I expect I will
continue to do so for as long as western war propaganda is a problem.
In April of last year, following a
 hotly disputed accusation
of chemical weapons use in Idlib province, a little girl named Bana
Alabed was paraded before the audience of CNN’s 
New
Day
 in an
interview with Alisyn Camerota
.
Bana was seven years old at the time, yet was seen in the interview
providing complex ideas and geopolitical analysis that she could not
possibly have understood. Her eyes moved back and forth as though
reading from a teleprompter, and she sounded out the words in English
(a language she 
doesn’t
appear to have understood at the time
)
syllable-by-syllable in a way you’ve never heard any child speak in
your life.

It
was a fake interview passed off as a real one, scripted and passed
off as spontaneous. It’s as clear as day for anyone to see. And
Alisyn Camerota necessarily had the other half of that script, since
she needed to know what questions to feed the child. It was a
coordinated deception of CNN’s audience, meant to sell the
unpopular idea of yet another military intervention in yet another
Middle Eastern country, aired on America’s most trusted and
well-known nationwide news network. It was as brazen a deception as
you could possibly imagine, on as mainstream a platform as you could
possibly get, advancing a narrative clearly intended to manufacture
support for an agenda which could potentially devastate an entire
region. That happened. They did that. If they’ll do that, there’s
nothing they won’t do.

And
now, as things are heating up in Idlib, we’ve got 
America’s
UN ambassador
 saying
that any sign of chemical weapons use will be immediately blamed on
the Assad government and retaliated against despite the known
presence of Al-Qaeda affiliates who’d have 
every
incentive to stage such an attack
,
and despite the complete absence of motive for Assad. We’ve got
State

Department
officials 
saying
the Trump administration has reversed its policy
 of
withdrawing from Syria and saying no campaign to liberate Idlib from
its terrorist occupiers will be tolerated. And we’ve got
Youtube 
suddenly
suspending Syrian government accounts
 to
better ensure total narrative control.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world.

H.K 🇸🇾

@Ibra_Joudeh

#Youtube shuts down all pro Syrian channels including, Sama TV, Syrian MoD, Sana news agency, Syrian presidency

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They
are lying to us about what is happening in Syria. We know that for a
fact, just like we now for a fact when we are in a dark room. And we
know for a fact that the US and its allies have been scheming to
effect regime change in that very nation, the nation immediately
adjacent to their previous regime change target Iraq, for many years.
We know that they have been planning to orchestrate a violent
uprising in Syria 
since
long before violence erupted in 2011
,
and we know that it erupted as they had planned. I posted the
evidence for this in a recent article, but here it is again just to
make sure more people see it:

  • Here
    is a 2006 WikiLeaks cable
     in
    which the US government is seen exploring possible factions which
    could be incentivized to rise up against Assad, and ways in which
    psyops could be used to ensure widespread violence.

  • Here
    is a declassified CIA memo
     from
    1986 in which the Central Intelligence Agency is seen exploring ways
    in which sectarian tensions can be inflamed to provoke a violent
    uprising in Syria. 
    Here
    is a useful article
    featuring
    excerpts from the memo showing some jarring parallels between what
    was being planned and what happened a quarter century later.

  • Here
    is a video clip
     of
    General Wesley Clark naming Syria among the countries scheduled by
    the Pentagon for regime change in the wake of 9/11.

  • Here
    is a video clip
     of
    the former Foreign Minister of France stating in plain language that
    he was informed by British government insiders in 2009 that a
    violent Syrian uprising was being planned, two years before the
    violence erupted.

  • Here
    is an article
     featuring
    a video of the former Qatari Prime Minister stating that the US and
    its allies were involved in the violence from the very beginning.

  • Here
    is an article
     from
    May of 2011 reporting on some of the extremely suspicious
    provocations that led to the outbreak of widespread violence. 
    Here’s
    another
     from
    March 2011. 
    Here’s
    another
     from
    December 2011.

So
don’t be fooled. Remember, the reason they work so hard to
manufacture our consent for these agendas is 
because
they need that consent in order to operate
.
If they try to operate without our consent, they will lose control of
the narrative, and thus lose their ability to propagandize us
effectively. So don’t give them your consent. Fight their lies on
all fronts, using truth, skepticism and critical thinking as your
weapon. Stand tall, shine bright, refuse to be ignored, don’t wait
for your turn to speak, 
use
unmitigated speech
,
say what needs to be said and say it like you’re right, because you
are.

Let
a giant “NO” to this manipulation roar through us all. Let the
Syrian people be free from imperialist agendas once and for all. Let
us all be free from imperialist agendas once and for all. End the
madness and begin moving into sanity.

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* Zie: ‘Gematigde’ terreurgroepen in Syrië kregen Nederlands belastinggeld om te moorden, verkrachten, martelen en om te roven…….‘ met vervolg: Arrestatie Rutte, Koenders, Zijlstra en Blok wegens hulp aan terreurgroepen in Syrië van hoogste belang

Zie ook:

BBC weer met anti-Syrische propaganda en veel aandacht voor de geweldige Turken en hun leider Erdogan

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan…….

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida

Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)

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

Massamedia VS vergeven van CIA ‘veteranen’, alsof die media nog niet genoeg ‘fake news’ ofwel leugens brengen……..

John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld

BBC World Service en BNR met ‘fake news’ over Ghouta……..

Syrische nonnen spreken zich uit tegen de oorlogspropaganda van westerse mogendheden en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media

Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

Ghouta: een gifgas false flag en VS chef Guterres eist staakt het vuren van pro-Syrische strijdgroepen op Oost-Ghouta……

Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘ 

Sophie in ‘t Veld (D66): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of  volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………


Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

Caitlin
Johnstone zal waarschijnlijk wel de persoon zijn die zich in de VS
het meest heeft geërgerd aan het eren van oorlogsmisdadiger John
McCaine. Niet vreemd dus dat ze woedend is over de hysterische
aandacht voor een paar seconden video van de begrafenis ceremonie,
waarin massamoordenaar George W. Bush snoep geeft aan Michelle Obama.

Lees
het artikel van Johnston en verbaas je over de smerige propaganda die
de begrafenis van oorlogsmisdadiger McCain omgaf. Overigens dit geldt
bepaald niet alleen voor de VS, ook in de EU en daarmee in Nederland doet men alsof een tweede Nelson Mandela is gestorven i.p.v. een doortrapte oorlogshitser en
oorlogsmisdadiger…….. (daarmee was McCain tevens een grootlobbyist voor het militair-industrieel complex dat veelvuldig politici financieel steunt, bijvoorbeeld voor het voeren van campagne voorafgaand aan verkiezingen in de VS……)

In het artikel gaat Johnstone o.a. in op het dagelijks hersenspoelen van de VS bevolking, een indoctrinatie die erop is gericht zoveel mogelijk oorlog te voeren en schoften als McCain op te hemelen als moreel hoogstaande vredestichters…… E.e.a. uiteraard mogelijk gemaakt door politici en vooral de reguliere (massa-) media*, die zo lopen te schreeuwen over ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), maar ondertussen ongegeneerd propaganda maken voor het terroristische buitenlandbeleid van de VS en letterlijk liegen dat het gedrukt staat over de illegale oorlogen die de VS (met de NAVO aan de hand) voert in landen waar het niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets heeft te zoeken…..

The
Internet Loses It Over Bush Sneaking a Piece of Candy to Michelle
Obama

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor The Internet Loses It Over Bush Sneaking a Piece of Candy to Michelle Obama

September
3, 2018 at 12:07 am

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — As
of this writing, a 
tweet by disgraced
Broadway fraud convict
 Roland
Scahill has 90 thousand shares and 362 thousand likes, which if
you’re not used to Twitter is a ridiculously high amount that
nobody generally hits. The tweet features nothing but four seconds of
video footage from the John McCain funeral, and the caption “George
W. Bush sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my
heart.”

Roland Scahill

@rolandscahill

George W. Bush sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my heart .

That’s
it. That’s all it took to win Twitter for the day. Those four
seconds of footage have been circulated around TV news stations to
‘ooh’s and ‘ahh’s of fawning establishment pundits yammering
incessantly about how the death of War Hero John McCain™ has let
everyone Put Aside Our Political Differences™ and Come Together As
Americans™ to celebrate the life of a man who 
dedicated
his entire political career
 to sowing
death, suffering and devastation
 at
every opportunity. A war criminal giving a piece of candy to the wife
of another war criminal at the funeral of a war criminal is all it
took to get mainstream American brains gushing with dopamine and
oxytocin.

Because
that’s how compartmentalized Americans are from the reality of what
war is and what it means. The explosions, the screams, the charred
and shredded human bodies, the chaos and displacement and all the
suffering, terrorism, slavery and rape that necessarily always comes
with it, the million Iraqis killed under Bush, the unfathomable
humanitarian disasters created in Libya and Syria under Obama, all
the devastation created in 
all
the military interventions
 McCain
helped push for, all of that is so peripheral and distant in American
consciousness that it can be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a
piece of fucking candy.

And
it isn’t really their fault. The more woke Americans who’ve grown
to resent their brainwashed countrymen hate it when I say this, but
it isn’t. It’s not a coincidence that the nation with the
most powerful military in the history of civilization and the most
billionaires in the history of civilization also happens to have the
most sophisticated propaganda system in the history of civilization,
and that propaganda system is pointed at them from a very early age
to normalize the war machine that is used to protect the empire of
the billionaires.

The
United States is the most important player in the imperial alliance
centralized around it, and therefore its citizenry are necessarily
the most propagandized people on earth. You can’t have the populace
of such an important nation suddenly demanding that troops be brought
home and the resources being spent on bombs be spent eliminating the
economic inequality 
on
which your empire depends
 instead,
so you’ve got to get into their minds 
early and aggressively to
manipulate the way they think about war. Everything from 
flag
worship
 to
the 
fetishization
of military personnel
 to Pentagon-controlled
Hollywood movies
 are
used from early childhood to install the assumption that their
nation’s bloated military budget is only ever going toward good and
never evil, and to prime their minds for the war propaganda they will
be fed by the plutocrat-owned news media.

Margaret Kimberley@freedomrideblog

McCain killed people in Vietnam and supported killing people elsewhere. GWBush killed 1 million Iraqis and Obama killed thousands and brought slavery to Libya. But Bush gives Michelle Obama a piece of candy so let’s just forget about all that.

Day
after day after day after day, from when they are small until their
dying breath, the American psyche is pummeled with this relentless
assault upon its natural sense of empathy and reason. So it’s
understandable that every now and then one of them snaps and shoots
up a building full of people, inflicting the same kind of mass murder
at home they’ve been trained to accept as normal abroad. And it’s
understandable that they’d be duped into thinking the monstrous
evils that have been inflicted upon our world by Bush, Obama and
McCain (and Henry Kissinger, who 
also
made an appearance
 at
the funeral) are innocent little oopsie-poopsies which pale in
comparison to something so monumentally heroic as correcting a woman
who called Obama an Arab once, or sharing a piece of candy.

But
if Americans are ever going to escape from the chains of oligarchy,
they’re necessarily going to have to cease consenting to
imperialism. Without their resources being funneled into hundreds of
bases and countless military and intelligence operations overseas,
there’d be a chance to fix America’s infrastructure and make sure
everyone gets what they need. Without the US economy being propped up
with the barrel of a gun to ensure the success of globalist agendas,
Americans would have a chance to create a real economy based on real
things that they themselves own and control. Without the ability to
use the US war machine to advance their agendas, the oligarchs who
control America’s economy, government and media will be unable to
rule over the increasingly wealthy and powerful masses. Without the
best technology and the brainpower of the brightest Americans being
sucked up into the war machine, the nation’s most creative minds
will lose their incentive to point their ingenuity at death and
destruction, and can point it at useful innovations instead.

And
then the propaganda machine 
which
holds the whole empire together
 will
be useless and impotent, and the shackles on American minds will
crumble. And the rest of the empire will follow.

David Sirota

@davidsirota

We live in a media culture that basically says that even if Henry Kissinger, George W. Bush & Dick Cheney show up to a nationally televised political event, it is uncouth to even gently mention the wars they initiated & the thousands of deaths their decisions are responsible for.

The
first step in this direction is to cease normalizing the monsters who
facilitate human butchery around the world. Stop believing they need
to be regarded as “heroes” just because they wore a uniform at
some point. Stop believing that it’s ever okay to push for needless
wars which butcher innocent men, women and children. Stop believing a
man can facilitate the slaughter of a million people and not have
that clearly be his single defining legacy. Stop believing that it’s
worse to criticize a warmonger than it is to be a warmonger.

Because
if it’s up to the bastards who rule us currently, they’ll happily
keep shushing us into polite silence while continuing to march us
along our current ecocidal, omnicidal trajectory until it gets us all
killed. They’ll make saints of warmongering empire loyalists and
uphold their murderous lives as exemplary and virtuous, and if we say
we want to move things in a different direction we’ll be shouted
down with buzzwords about heroism and decency until we shut up. If we
leave it up to these pricks, we’ll become the first species to go
extinct due to politeness.

Stop
letting them normalize and elevate people who embody the very essence
of the imperial oppression machine. Stop letting them humanize
psychopathic war whores. Stop letting them twist this into a
conversation about respecting those with different political opinions
and make it about what it is: the mass murder of innocents for power
and profit. Refuse to be reprimanded into polite silence. Refuse to
die of politeness. Seize control of the narrative and force sanity
into our imperiled world.

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* Al moet niet vergeten worden dat ook tv series en films, gemaakt in de VS, hard meewerken aan het hersenspoelen van de VS bevolking (en de bevolking van andere westerse landen)…….

Zie ook:

McCain terminaal ziek: vier als het zover is zijn dood luidruchtig, niets om je voor te schamen

McCain oorlogsmisdadiger >> massaal ten onrechte geëerd na z’n dood

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

Arabieren en Afghanen zijn bepaald niet bedroefd om de dood van McCain……

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

Ja,
kromme kop beste bezoeker, ik weet ‘t en voordat je denkt dat ik een paar jaar
geleden McCain als held zag, het tegendeel is waar, McCain was een
oorlogshitser van de eerste orde en bovendien een psychopathische
oorlogsmisdadiger!

De
kop heeft alles te maken met het hieronder opgenomen artikel van
Caitlin Johnstone. Het democratische congreslid Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez was een politieke held van Johnstone, met de nadruk op
was……

Ocasio-Cortez
twitterde lovende woorden over McCain na diens ‘verscheiden’, zo
durfde deze republikeinse hufter te stellen dat de erfenis van
McCain het toonbeeld is van menselijk fatsoen en ‘dienstbaarheid’ aan
de VS……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Beste bezoeker dat was het
nog niet, Ocasio-Cortez schreef voorts: als stagiair heeft ze van
McCain de kracht van menselijkheid in regeren geleerd, door zijn vriendschap
met senator Kennedy…….. Ja, ik kan wel blijven lachen, jezus,
waar haalt ze het vandaan??? Blijkbaar wil deze Ocasio-Cortez over
een paar jaar op voor het presidentschap in de VS, immers ze moet
weten wat een enorm bloedige erfenis deze McCain heeft
achtergelaten………

Overigens
de reguliere media hier kunnen er ook wat van, de ene superlatief na
de andere over deze misselijk psychopaat……. Het defecte BNR kompas voor het buitenland, zwetskont Hammelburg vond het vanmorgen nodig om in z’n column McCain een aantal veren in de reet te steken, ach ja, Hammelburg…… Laat ik ook één superlatief toevoegen: McCain was een enorme schoft en oorlogsmisdadiger die in
de gevangenis van Scheveningen dood had moeten gaan! (na een levenslange veroordeling door het Internationaal Strafhof)

Lees
het uitgebreide artikel van Johnstone, waarin ze beschrijft hoe de meeste veelbelovende politici je keer op keer weer weten teleur te stellen. Jammer dat Johnstone zegt dat ook socialistische regimes keer op keer mislukken (en er eigenlijk nooit echte socialistische regimes zijn geweest), echter dat heeft alles te maken met de grote vijand van het socialisme, de VS, die keer op keer succesvolle socialistische regimes probeert af te zetten (wat vaak genoeg is gelukt), waar de VS eerst zo’n land economisch onderuit haalt, door boycots en niet VS bedrijven (VS bedrijven lopen wat dat betreft braaf aan de leiband) te dreigen met sancties als men toch zaken doet met zo’n land, neem Cuba, Chili en nu weer Venezuela (waar Iran in feite een succesvolle socialistische politiek voert
, wordt dit land door de VS nu op andere valse gronden geïsoleerd van de wereld…). Jammer dat ene punt, geen reden om het verder uitstekende artikel van Johnstone te negeren:

AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
ARTICLE
AUGUST
27, 2018

Why
Do Our Heroes Always Let Us Down?

Democratic
congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is drawing fire from
the antiwar left, and not for the first, second or third time. The
same leftist contingent which has been energizing Ocasio-Cortez’s
campaign and elevating her to the public spotlight has been voicing
increasing concerns about her antiwar platform 
temporarily
vanishing
 from
her campaign website, about her 
walking
back from her position
 on
the Israeli government’s massacring of Palestinian protesters with
sniper fire, about her weirdly hawkish criticism of the GOP as being
weak
on national security
”,
and her deference to the 
establishment
Russia narrative
.

And
now, as 
multiple outlets have documented in
articles released in the last few hours, many of Ocasio-Cortez’s
supporters have been upset with a statement she made praising the
recently deceased warmongering psychopath John McCain and his
blood-soaked legacy.

John
McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency
and American service,” tweeted the candidate upon McCain’s death,
which, for anyone who cares about the late Arizona
senator’s 
relentless
push
 to
inflict 
military
violence
 around
the world at every opportunity, is incredibly offensive. McCain was
easily the single most virulent warmonger on Capitol Hill, so
praising him and his legacy as exemplary of human decency necessarily
clashes with the “Peace Economy” platform that 
has
had
 so
many of Ocasio-Cortez’s supporters 
so
excited
.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@Ocasio2018

US House candidate, NY-14

John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service.

As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.

He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.

Washington Post

@washingtonpost

From The Post’s Editorial Board: John McCain, the irreplaceable American https://wapo.st/2PBXuix 

What
remains of the American left (and for my right-wing readers I here
mean the actual anti-war, socialist left, not the Hillary Clinton
“Make sure we refer to everyone on our drone kill list by their
preferred gender pronouns” corporatist Left™ that Americans are
permitted to support) has become very suspicious of anyone who rises
to a position of leadership among their ranks, especially anyone who
appears to lend legitimacy to the profoundly corrupt Democratic
Party. And understandably so; being a DemEnter progressive is a
nonstop lesson in disappointment, heartache and betrayal. Door after
door after door gets slammed on all attempts to advance your
political agendas, and if you find someone who seems like he might
maybe be able to sneak some health in between the cracks, he turns
around and helps 
sell
America the new cold war
 with
Russia.

This
has been a set pattern for a long time now. I often 
share
this video clip
 from
eight years ago when the progressives who had hoped that the Obama
administration would oppose warmongering and fight for economic
justice were coming to the conclusion that they had been duped yet
again by the “hope and change” song and dance. The term
“three-dimensional chess”, a term you’ll always see supporters
of a given political figure start using when their hero begins
capitulating to establishment interests, is used scornfully in the
clip. It happens on either side of the political aisle; I see 
Trump
supporters do it too
 when
I point out the many ways in which he is continuing and expanding the
Orwellian neoconservative policies of his predecessors.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Replying to @Inverte30470345 and 2 others

Trump supporters claim his nonstop establishment capitulations are chess, too. And Obama’s supporters claimed his nonstop establishment capitulations were chess as well. Now you’re saying the exact same thing about @Ocasio2018. https://youtu.be/vVX8QihFhZA 

What’s
up with that? Why do our heroes always fail us? Why does everyone we
elevate to fight the oppression machine always end up becoming a cog
in that very machine? Is there a lesson here we’re meant to be
learning?

I
think there is. Out of the constant rise and fall of hope and then
disappointment, over and over the lesson is that we aren’t going to
get a savior. We can keep looking for one and crowdsurfing them to
the frontlines, but each pedestalling will inevitably fail. We will
be constantly disappointed by the choices of humans on an individual
basis. The second coming ain’t coming to save us unless it’s
coming from within, and within all of us.

Every
few days I get a comment from a reader who is deeply disappointed in
my choices. “I can’t believe you’ve gone and said such a
thing,” they say. “To think, I used to trust you! You were my
hero!” And I always want to shout back, “Well, that was a bit
dumb, who told you to do that?? Who told you I was interested in
being anyone’s hero?”

And
I’m truly not. I’ve got exactly zero interest in being anyone’s
hero or leader or guru or anything like that; I’m just some
potty-mouthed bogan with a few ideas and a Medium account, and I like
it that way. I don’t have any special powers and if you find my
thoughts resonate with yours, great, but I always want you to put
your own gut before my ramblings. All I’m ever really doing here is
pointing out again and again in different ways how your own best
guess as to what’s going on in the world is always going to be
superior to the information being spoon fed to you by the paid
deceivers and manipulators of the mass media. If people could simply
shift to trusting themselves and their own inner sense-maker more
than the voices of perceived authority in their lives and on their
digital screens, our species could very quickly move into health and
harmony, because we’d no longer be streamlined into supporting the
unwholesome agendas of an elite class of plutocrats.

Salon

@Salon

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the next Barack Obama? https://ift.tt/2wvr1lo 


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the next Barack Obama?

Just like Barack Obama before her, upstart hotshot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

salon.com

And
the longer I look at this thing the more clear it becomes that that
really is our only shot. It sounds a bit kooky to say that the only
way out of the oppressive Orwellian status quo that is driving us
toward war and ecocide is a mass shift in human consciousness, but I
insist that it’s far less crazy than the idea that we can solve our
problems using political solutions while maintaining the relationship
with thought and narrative that our species currently has.

Whenever
you try to debate a devout free market capitalist by pointing to the
current system’s failures, they’ll invariably tell you that the
current system isn’t true capitalism, that due to corporatism and
the influences of corrupt governmental power, true capitalism hasn’t
yet been tried. When you try to debate a socialist by pointing to the
failures of nations which carry that label you get the same argument;
those were corrupt, top heavy perversions of the socialist ideology,
and true socialism hasn’t been tried yet.

And
both are correct: neither political solution to our society’s
dilemmas has ever been tried in its pure form. And why is that?
Ultimately, it’s because humanity remains a fearful species which
latches onto abstract mental narratives in order to maintain a sense
of control over the fate of the conceptual self they 
believe
themselves to be
,
and those narratives can then be 
manipulated
by more clever humans
.
Happens again and again; systems designed to help humanity give way
to the manipulations of the powerful for the benefit of the powerful,
because we are too easy to manipulate.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

How Humanity Could Become Impossible To Propagandize https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-humanity-could-become-impossible-to-propagandize-15f56dd1d072 


How Humanity Could Become Impossible To Propagandize

I’ve been writing a lot about how the ability to control public narratives is the only real power in this world, and how the need of the…

medium.com

So
in the cases of both true free market capitalism and true socialism,
the problem isn’t necessarily that those systems don’t work (who
knows, haven’t tried them yet), it’s that humanity hasn’t yet
moved into a sufficiently wholesome relationship with power and
narrative to be able to implement them. Complaining that your system
hasn’t been implemented correctly is therefore actually just
complaining that humanity has not yet experienced a global shift in
consciousness.

But
if we can make such a shift, will our old models even be useful in
the new paradigm? Isn’t it kind of like a two-dimensional character
trying to design city plans for a three-dimension civilization they
can’t even imagine? How much relevance would the manifesto of a
nineteenth century German philosopher or the ideas of long dead
Austrian economists have to a twenty-first century world in which
humans don’t move the way they used to and are not motivated by the
same things they once were?

This
is why I don’t make much of a fuss about one ideological model or
the other being the right and true one. A world in which everyone
gets what they need and we aren’t killing each other or our
ecosystem anymore is obviously something we all want, but I don’t
see any way to get there by picking heroes and sending them toward
the top of a power structure that has been deliberately designed to
funnel power upward and banish anyone who obstructs that movement.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Humanity Is Deciding If It Will Evolve Or Die

“Let’s see what’s on the other side of this thing. I’m pretty sure it’s more beautiful than we can possibly imagine. I want to know. Don’t you?”https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/humanity-is-deciding-if-it-will-evolve-or-die-1afb251fa15b 


Humanity Is Deciding If It Will Evolve Or Die – Caitlin Johnstone – Medium

I write a lot about consciousness, enlightenment and the potential humanity has to rise above its conditioned patterns, because if I only…

medium.com

I
no longer jump on bandwagons for the same reason I don’t go around
babbling about “sheep dogs” and aggressively trying to tear down
anti-establishment heroes who aren’t being anti-establishment
enough: if you put someone on a pedestal, eventually you’re going
to have to knock them off of it, because the solution isn’t in
them. It’s in each of us.

How
can we overthrow our oppressors if we haven’t overthrown our inner
oppressor as well? How can we shrug off the fear-soaked narratives of
the propaganda machine if we haven’t detached from the anxious
self-talk of our babbling inner narrator that seeks to dictate our
entire attention? We can turn off all the screens in our lives that
seek to take over our authority, but it’s the screen in our minds
which holds our attention that we have to turn off as well.

And
that will necessarily move us in a far more harmonious way. We will
look like a whole different species. From how I see it now, political
solutions are inherently top-down, competitive and divisive, and what
we are shooting for is a much more organically collaborative
crowd-sourced approach. As we get healthier, we’ll see solutions
come together in a distributed, improvisational way from collections
of people who aren’t interested in getting noticed, they just want
to get it done.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.

This is the clearest I’ve been able to sum it all up so far.https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing-this-is-awakening-from-the-matrix-787c7e2539ae 


Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.

In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What…

medium.com

And
there are plenty of people like that already. The Bernie campaign
brought together huge swathes of them. We are going to see that
across all sectors, in science, technology and the arts as people put
aside our weird egoic desire for the separating effects of fame and
fortune for the joy of making something beautiful, helpful or healthy
together, simply for the thrill of accomplishing something bigger
than ourselves. The old dinosaur notions of pinning down ideas with
patents and so on will be seen clearly for what they are — an
attempt by individual egos to colonize inspiration that ultimately
inhibits human thriving. Just as we learn to stop trusting the
individual ego in others to save us, we will stop trusting it in
ourselves, and increasingly we will hand over our internal control to
the greater part of our consciousness that does not seek to control,
define, claim and deflect, but rather draws from a wisdom that often
eludes narration but creates harmoniously.

We
are the helpers. We’ve always been here, but until now we’ve been
co-opted by manipulators into manufacturing consent for their sick
agendas. Very rarely has a helper found a helper to help. Very rarely
have two people who only want to work in the highest interest and not
self-interest come together to make something, let alone a group of
them. As we begin to really see how manipulators move and they start
to pop up on our screens like a fly on white paper, the helpers will
become obvious as well. We can start to trust our gut again about who
and where to put our energy, and out of those new collaborations,
beautiful inspired solutions will be born into the world.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Truth

“Everything I just said is self-evident and immediately verifiable in your own present experience here and now. Logically, if you want to have a relationship with reality that is informed by unshakeable truth, this is where you must take your stand” https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/truth-faaf4b37b105 


Truth – Caitlin Johnstone – Medium

What do you know for certain? For absolute certain?

medium.com

Put
to one side the anxiety-soaked stories your mind creates and deal
with what’s in the here and now, and keep gently bringing yourself
back to the reality of your feet on the floor and the air moving
through your lungs. Every reset back into peace with your
surroundings creates a space where inspiration can come in. This
simple internal act of rebellion from obedience to the
voice-that-is-me will have far-reaching consequences in the outer
world as we draw back subservience from the outer voices of
authority, and bring it back into ourselves.

I
know that’s not nearly as cool as storming the barracks with flags
and rebel songs and the image of our hero inked into our skin, but
we’ve tried that before, and we just got more of the same. Every
hero we elevate turns to smoke, and every door we’ve tried is
closed except this one. So let’s open it and see what happens.

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Zie ook:

McCain terminaal ziek: vier als het zover is zijn dood luidruchtig, niets om je voor te schamen

McCain oorlogsmisdadiger >> massaal ten onrechte geëerd na z’n dood

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

Arabieren en Afghanen zijn bepaald niet bedroefd om de dood van McCain……

PS: kan
me niet herinneren ooit een politieke ‘held’ te hebben gehad, al had
ik veel bewondering voor figuren als Che Guevara, Fidel
Castro, Hồ Chí Minh, Salvador Allende, om er een paar te noemen, gelukkig hebben
die me niet teleurgesteld.

 

Mijn excuus voor de verdwenen foto’s, al plaats ik ze er weer bij, telkens verdwijnen ze na verloop van tijd……..

McCain oorlogsmisdadiger >> massaal ten onrechte geëerd na z’n dood

De superlatieven na de dood van oorlogsmisdadiger en massamoordenaar McCain zijn niet van de lucht, zelfs VPRO’s OVT liet het ‘geweldige onderdeel de Vakantieman‘ gistermorgen vallen om een portret van deze schoft ‘te schilderen…….’

Hier de aankondiging van dit onderdeel op de site van Radio1:

De
invloedrijke en zeer gerespecteerde Amerikaanse senator John McCain
 is zaterdag op 81-jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van
hersenkanker. In de studio de amerikaniste Markha Valenta om over hem
te praten

Hier wat woorden die tijdens dit onderdeel werden gebruikt over McCain: presentator Mathijs Deen begon al goed toen hij in de aankondiging al stelde dat McCain krijgsgevangene is geweest, dat herhaalde hij tijdens dit praatje een paar keer gevolgd door: “daar praten we zo meteen over” (en dat zal ik hierna dan ook maar doen…..)

Valente stelde dat McCain een markante figuur was, “Zeg maar bigger than life….” Uiteraard werd zijn verzet tegen Trump genoemd en als je als senator tegen Trump bent, zit het wat betreft Valenta en de VPRO wel goed met je……

Volgens Valenta was McCain een politicus van karakter, die zijn karakter inzette, zijn integriteit (ha! ha! ha!), zijn moed, zijn gevoel voor eer (ha! ha! ha!), zijn vasthoudingsvermogen, zijn strijdbaarheid, die hem door zijn gevangenschap hielpen…….

Dan zijn gevangenisstraf: hij zat in een vliegtuig aldus Valenta, toen hij werd neergehaald door de Noord-Vietnamezen…… In een vliegtuig? McCain bestuurde één van de vele ‘vliegtuigen’ waarmee de VS Noord-Vietnamese steden en dorpen plat bombardeerde, waarmee napalmbommen op de bevolking van Noord-Vietnam werden afgeworpen, of waarmee dorpen en steden werden bestookt, die werden verdacht van sympathie en hulp voor de Noord-Vietnamezen……

Verder gebruikte de VS het ontbladeringsmiddel Agent Orange, een middel dat tot op de dag van vandaag slachtoffers eist onder de bevolking van Vietnam…….

Beste bezoeker, met geen woord werden deze oorlogsmisdaden genoemd, nee McCain, zoon van een VS admiraal mocht eerder naar huis, maar dat weigerde hij, wetend aldus Valente dat hij langer vastgehouden en gemarteld zou worden in wat toen nog Noord-Vietnam werd genoemd…… De VS had niets te zoeken in Vietnam en wat betreft dat martelen, de VS deed en doet niet anders dan mensen martelen, alleen het gijzelen van mensen op Guantanamo Bay is al een marteling van jewelste, waarnaast die mensen ook nog eens fysiek werden (en naar het schijnt nog steeds worden) gemarteld…..

Presentator Deen vatte het voorgaande samen met de woorden: hij was een oorlogsheld…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als je zo lult, zonder naar de feiten te kijken, kan je ook stellen dat soldaten van het Duitse nazi-bewind oorlogshelden waren als ze opkwamen voor hun collega’s, wat ze verder ook geflikt hadden…….

Valenta voegde nog toe dat McCain een hart voor benadeelden had en dat gebaseerd op z’n onwil om ObamaCare af te schieten……. Toch meldde Valente nog wel dat McCain een groot voorstander van de oorlog tegen Irak was, een oorlog waarin tot nu meer dan 1,5 miljoen benadeelden werden vermoord door ronduit VS terreur, die verdere uitleg over de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen Irak, kwam natuurlijk niet uit de mond van Valenta….. Laten we over de benadeelden in de VS maar helemaal niet spreken, hoewel? >> Meer dan 60 miljoen mensen in de VS die afhankelijk zijn van voedselbonnen, daar ze aan de grond zijn geraakt in de onmenselijke neoliberale VS prestatiemaatschappij, zaken waar McCain totaal geen moeite mee had…….

Vanmorgen was het overigens ook op de buitenlandse radiozenders bal en stak men McCain de ene na de andere veer in de vieze oorlogsreet…..

McCain is dood, een goede reden om een goed glas whiskey te drinken en een bong te roken van (uiteraard gevuld met softdrugs), iets waarvan McCain i.t.t. de harddrug alcohol, een zwaar tegenstander was…) Lees wat McCain betreft ook: ‘McCain terminaal ziek: vier als het zover is zijn dood luidruchtig, niets om je voor te schamen‘ (en zie wat Caitlin Johnstone volkomen terecht over McCain te zeggen heeft)

Zie ook:

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

Arabieren en Afghanen zijn bepaald niet bedroefd om de dood van McCain……

Genocide Jemen: ‘eindelijk ontdekt’ door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU

In
het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, o.a.
gepubliceerd op Medium(.com) en Anti-Media, stelt zij dat de
reguliere (massa-) media van de VS eindelijk wakker zijn geworden en
aandacht besteden aan de vreselijke oorlog van de Saoedische
coalitie (inclusief de steun en onmisbare hulp van de VS en GB) tegen
de sjiitische bevolking van Jemen….. Een bevolking die ‘godzijdank’ worden gesteund
door de de Houthi’s, een uiterst functionele strijdgroep, die ingreep
nadat IS en Al Qaida de sjiitische bevolking aanvielen, zelfs in
moskeeën……. Deze 2 extreme terreurgroepen kregen in Jemen van de
opgestapte president (onder druk van Saoedi-Arabië weer president)
al-Hadi onderdak aangeboden…….

Jammer
dat Johnstone het woord ‘genocide’ uit de weg gaat, immers daar is op
zeker sprake van, een genocide waar de wereld voor het overgrote deel
alweer geen aandacht aan schenkt, althans totdat de Saoedische
coalitie toegaf een bus met kinderen onder vuur te hebben genomen, om
wraak te nemen voor een Saoedische man die omkwam bij een raketaanval
van de Houthi’s……. Al spreken ook die media niet over een genocide, ondanks alle bombardementen, honger, cholera en difterie (allen oorzaak van de Saoedische terreur), die al aan duizenden het leven heeft gekost……

Nu
is de verontwaardiging groot, zelfs bij MSNBC, die zoals Johnstone in
haar vorig artikel stelde in 1 jaar tijd niet één keer aandacht
schonk aan de smerige, door de VS gesteunde en gefaciliteerde oorlog tegen het Jemenitische volk, maar wel
455 keer aan Stormy Daniels……* Zonder steun van de VS en GB zou
Saoedi-Arabië de oorlog tegen de Houthi’s niet kunnen voeren, zo doet
de VS de coördinatie van de bombardementen, tankt het de straaljagers en bommenwerpers van de Saoedische terreurcoalitie (inclusief Marokko**) in de lucht af, zodat
ze zo ‘efficiënt’ mogelijk kunnen bombarderen…..

Doelen
van deze moorddadige coalitie: huizenblokken, ziekenhuizen, scholen,
energiecentrales, waterbedrijven, huwelijks- en begrafenisceremonies
en de infrastructuur inclusief de riolering….. Door het laatst genoemde is er zelfs de eerdere genoemde grote cholera uitbraak ontstaan in Jemen, die nog maandelijks honderden
doden eist….. Zelfs
een ziekenhuis van Artsen Zonder Grenzen (MSF) speciaal voor cholerapatiënten werd door de Saoedische coalitie plat
gebombardeerd, voordat de eerste patiënten konden worden
behandeld………. (hoeveel bewijs wil je nog hebben dat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie, inclusief de VS en GB, bezig is met een genocide??)

Intussen
is er ook de al eerder genoemde difterie uitbraak in Jemen, dit nog naast de hongersnood die intussen al meer dan 2 jaar aanhoudt en waarvoor vorig jaar nog een actie
werd gevoerd in Nederland…….. 

Over Nederland gesproken, ik moet zeggen dat de media hier wel behoorlijk lauw hebben gereageerd op de
Saoedische aanval tegen een schoolbus en dat op een drukke
markt……. Als Assad iets dergelijks had gedaan had het land op z’n
kop gestaan en waren er al vragen gesteld in de Kamer……. Terwijl
de keren dat de hysterie toeslaat over het gedrag ‘van Assad’, die opwinding keer op keer onterecht blijkt te zijn, zoals zelfs bevestigd door VN onderzoek, echter dit verandert niets aan de hysterie, men blijft ‘gewoon’ volhouden dat
Assad zijn eigen volk afslacht, zonder ook maar een greintje aan
bewijs te leveren……..

In
de VS begint men wakker te worden nu nog Nederland en de EU!!

Mainstream
Media Finally Concedes Defeat on Yemen, Ends Blackout Of Coverage

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August
20, 2018 at 9:45 am

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Last
month, an 
article
by Fair.org
 went
viral in republications by popular alternative media outlets ranging
from 
Salon to Zero
Hedge
 to Alternet to Truthdig,
among many others. The article was initially titled “ACTION ALERT:
It’s Been Over a Year Since MSNBC Has Mentioned US War in Yemen”,
but many subsequent republications went with variations on the more
attention-grabbing headline, “MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels
segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen”.

The
centerpiece of the article was the following graphic, which I saw
shared on its own many times in my social media feeds:

                         

That’s
about as in your face as it gets, isn’t it?

Ever
since the Saudi-led assault on Yemen began in March of 2015,
alternative media outlets everywhere have
been 
repeatedly and aggressively decrying the
mainstream media
 in
the US 
and
UK
 for
their 
spectacular
failure
 to
adequately and 
accurately
cover the violence
 and humanitarian
disaster
 with appropriate
reporting on who is responsible for it
.
After the 2016 US election, journalist Michael Tracey 
wrote
an essay
 documenting
how throughout the entire year and a half that Americans were
pummeled with updates from the mass media about candidates and their
campaigns, not one single question about Yemen was ever asked by any
mainstream outlet of any candidate.

This
is of course outrageous, but because of how media coverage works,
mainstream attention was never drawn to the problem. It hasn’t been
total media
blackout, but because it only turns up in mainstream media reports
every once in a while with little if any emphasis being placed on who
is behind the devastation, it occupies a very peripheral place in
western consciousness. The average American would probably be able to
tell you that some parts of their government appear to be concerned
about Russia, Syria, Iran and North Korea, because those rival
nations have been the subject of intense mass media coverage, but if
you asked them about Yemen you’d likely be told something like “I
think there’s some kind of humanitarian crisis there?”, if
anything.

This
has all changed in the last few days. Suddenly, the atrocities being
inflicted upon the people of Yemen are being pushed into mainstream
attention by the mass media outlets which have been ignoring them for
more than three years. The 
Washington
Post
 (WaPo) editorial
board 
published
an op-ed
 titled
“End U.S. support for this misbegotten and unwinnable war”. CNN
did some actual, real journalism for a change with a 
viral
exclusive
 documenting
which American war profiteers were behind some of the more
devastating Saudi bombings. And yes, MSNBC finally did cover the
violence in Yemen, breaking its year-long silence to 
report
on a US-supplied bomb
 which
killed 40 children with such urgent condemnation of those responsible
you’d never know they’d been consistently ignoring such incidents
which have been going on for years.

Now politicians and celebrities everywhere
are shoving the horror of their government facilitating the slaughter
of innocents into mainstream attention.

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Mainstream Media Finally Concedes Defeat on Yemen, Ends Blackout Of Coverage

Tim Shorrock

@TimothyS

Astonishing graphic from @CNN, identifying civilian massacres in Yemen with the bomb makers – Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. This should be standard in war reporting. Searing images. https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/17/middleeast/us-saudi-yemen-bus-strike-intl/index.html 

Michael Tracey

@mtracey

You know the world has been turned upside down when the Washington Post editorial board opposes a US military intervention https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/end-us-support-for-this-misbegotten-and-unwinnable-war/2018/08/18/35a1f256-a249-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html 


Opinion | End U.S. support for this misbegotten and unwinnable war

Whether the United States enabled the killing of 40 Yemeni children makes a world of difference.

washingtonpost.com

What’s
interesting here is that nothing at all has changed except for the
coverage. US-supplied bombs have been dropping
on 
marketplaceshospitals and funerals and slaughtering
civilians
 in
far more deadly incidents for years, and the US has also
been 
providing
extensive assistance
 to
Saudi airstrikes, as well as 
attacking Yemeni
targets 
directly.
The only thing that has changed is that now it’s being reported
with an urgency and volume that is appropriate for such a horrific
incident instead of an occasional low-profile mention with little or
no mention of responsibility.

Nobody
with their eyes open believes that the mainstream media have just
suddenly developed a conscience and now deeply care about the mass
murder of Middle Eastern civilians. So why the change? If you ask
some of the Trump supporters I’ve seen responding to the shift,
it’s because their president can now be unfairly blamed for a
military campaign which began long before he took office. But that
doesn’t really hold water, does it? I mean, the aforementioned year
in which MSNBC didn’t cover Yemen took place entirely during this
administration, and every American with cable TV knows that MSNBC
markets itself as the anti-Trump network. If they’d wanted to use
Yemen as another angle from which to criticize this administration
they would have done so, instead of not doing so at all. The entirety
of mainstream media have been grossly neglecting this issue up until
the last week despite having every opportunity to condemn Trump for
it.

For
the record, while we’re on the subject, I personally don’t much
care if Trump gets all the blame for the Yemen catastrophe at this
point. I’ve spent 2017 and 2018 fighting the insane corporate
liberal notion that all American depravity began in January of last
year, but at this point I’m happy with literally anything that just
ends the death and devastation. A year into the war, the 30-year CIA
veteran Bruce Riedel 
said that
“if the United States of America and the United Kingdom tonight
told King Salman that this war has to end, it would end tomorrow,
because the Royal Saudi Air Force cannot operate without American and
British support.” If using this as an opportunity to attack Trump
creates the necessary political pressure to end the bombings,
blockades, starvation and disease that is killing untold thousands of
Yemeni civilians, then fine, whatever, I’m all for it.

But
again, from what I’m seeing right now I don’t believe that this
is about Trump. Not directly anyway. From what I can see right now, I
think what we are witnessing is a clear instance in which alternative
media successfully caused the establishment to lose control of the
narrative on an important issue.

In
the US, criticism of Saudi Arabia is nearly as taboo as criticism of
Israel. As we saw explained in a 
leaked
State Department memo
 last
year, it is standard US policy to use human rights abuses as a
bludgeon with which to attack rival governments, while sweeping the
atrocities committed by allies under the rug. Because of
its 
lucrative
petrodollar deal
 with
the US, and because its opaque and unaccountable monarchy makes it
capable of nefarious maneuvers to advance geopolitical agendas that
an ostensible democracy would have a hard time getting away with, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of America’s most important allies.
And the plutocrat-owned media, whose controllers have a vested
interest in protecting the establishment upon which their kingdoms
are built, consistently fall right in line with that same State
Department policy.

This,
and the fact that the 
control
of a key strategic region
 is
at stake, is why we’ve been seeing the Saudi war crimes in Yemen
and the US facilitation thereof downplayed for years by the mass
media. And they would surely remain downplayed indefinitely were it
possible.

But
it wasn’t possible. The story kept getting pushed toward mainstream
consciousness year after year, and eventually the fact that an outlet
which upholds itself as the flag bearer of Trump’s opposition has
been completely ignoring this administration’s facilitation of war
crimes was made viral. At a certain point a Dem-voting audience which
is being told day in and day out that Trump presents a unique and
unprecedented level of danger to the world will lose trust in the
outlets which market themselves to that demographic if they refuse to
make a big deal about the fact that this administration is helping
tyrants murder busloads of children.

Jim Carrey

@JimCarrey

40 innocent children killed on a bus in Yemen.

Our ally.

Our missile.

Our crime.

For
this reason, western mainstream media have been forced to finally
report on the cruelty being inflicted upon the people of Yemen by
Saudi Arabia and its allies in order to avoid losing credibility. The
story got out, and the story about their lack of coverage of that
story got out, and now they’re all reporting on it like they’ve
been doing so this entire time. Which, if it continues, will make it
very difficult for the US/UK/Saudi war machine to retain the consent
of the governed for its mass slaughter.

In
my opinion, we can safely call this a win for alternative media. The
voices who aren’t beholden to the empire and its geopolitical
agendas refused to let this story die, and eventually succeeded in
overtaking the dominant narrative. Not because media-controlling
oligarchs like Brian L Roberts and Jeff Bezos gave them permission
to, but because unauthorized truth was spoken and carried by many
ordinary people into mainstream consciousness via Facebook shares,
Twitter retweets and speaking out loud and proud wherever possible. A
people’s information battle was fought and won by the people.

If
things go as I am hoping they will go, we will see more and more such
populist hijackings of dominant narratives in the future, and
ultimately a failure of the oligarchs to continue manufacturing
consent for their omnicidal, ecocidal, Orwellian agendas. We will
have to be aggressive, we will have to be creative, and we will have
to be interesting enough to catch the eye of the casual citizenry,
but the fact that trust in the mass media is at an all-time low and
our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high
combines with the fact that we have truth on our side to create some
very exciting possibilities. I find this all very encouraging.


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*  Zie: ‘MSNBC (‘verzetszender’ tegen Trump), bracht in een jaar tijd niet één artikel over de VS steun aan de genocide in Jemen…..

** Marokko zou deel uitmaken van de coalitie, ook volgens de alternatieve
media, echter de laatste 6 maanden heb ik die bewering niet één keer teruggezien, tot Johnstone het weer noemde in haar artikel. Enig onderzoek toont aan dat dit inderdaad zo is. Verder bestaat de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uit de Verenigde
Arabische Emiraten, Egypte en uiteraard S-A. ‘Leuk’ voor de Marokkanen die straks weer met dienstplicht te maken krijgen, waarna ze mee mogen doen aan de genocide die in Jemen plaatsvindt……. (deze smerige oorlog zal voorlopig nog doorgaan…..)


Zie ook:

Pentagon: nieuwe geheime operatie voor steun aan Saoedische coalitie die genocide uitvoert in Jemen……

Jemen: genocide en oorlog hebben tot nu toe al rond de 200.000 mensenlevens geëist…..

Amal Hussain, het meisje van 7 dat voor het westen symbool stond voor humanitaire crisis (lees: genocide) in Jemen, is overleden…….

Jemen: VS politici roepen uiterst hypocriet om een onmiddellijk eind aan de ‘oorlog……’

Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was……

Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen

Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp……..

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus

Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……

Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling……

Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij

8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..

Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of ‘verdwenen’ Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie……

Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……

Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………

Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)

Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen……

Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan…… Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd………‘            

Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……

VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida…….

VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen…..

VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’

Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering ‘slimme munitie’ aan Saoedi-Arabië……

Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..

Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

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

In
een mooi artikel van Caitlin Johnstone gaat zijn in op de huidige
status quo, waarin de media gestuurd door hun steenrijke eigenaren
dan wel beursgenoteerde bedrijven, de belangen behartigen van
westerse regeringen* (al spreekt Johnstone over de VS, dit
verschijnsel zien we hier ook), het militair-industrieel complex,
oliemaatschappijen, financiële instellingen en geheime diensten…..

Dat
die status quo zo rot is als een mispel interesseert deze media niet, noch
dat de wereld naar de kloten gaat, of mensen moedwillig worden
geofferd voor belangen in de olie- en gasindustrie en dat in landen waar we niets, maar dan
ook helemaal niets te zoeken hebben……. Neem de illegale oorlog
tegen Irak, deze heeft intussen aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen het
leven gekost….. We werden niet alleen voorgelogen over de reden
voor die aanval (niet bestaande massavernietigingswapens), maar ook
over het werkelijke doel: niet democratie brengen, maar westerse
belangen veilig stellen, met als gevolg een groot meer gevuld met
menselijk bloed en tranen……… 

Om nog maar te zwijgen over de enorme stromen vluchtelingen, op gang gebracht door de VS en haar westerse hielenlikkers van andere NAVO lidstaten, terwijl nu juist dat westen stelt niet een zo groot aantal vluchtelingen op te kunnen nemen (in een arm land als Libanon is 1 op de 5 inwoners vluchteling….. Op het hoogtepunt was dit 1 op de 4 inwoners, er zijn intussen al veel vluchtelingen teruggekeerd naar door het reguliere Syrische leger bevrijde gebieden. Het westen heeft amper wat gedaan voor de echte vluchtelingencrisis, die niet in het westen bestaat, maar in Libanon en ander vergelijkbare landen…..)

Met
de opkomst van de sociale media kregen de reguliere (massa-) media
concurrentie en werden hun leugens voor het eerst echt goed
doorgeprikt, iets wat deze media natuurlijk niet konden en kunnen
laten gebeuren. Vandaar de uitvinding van het woord ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), NB
vooral door die reguliere media gebracht (neem de illegale oorlog tegen Irak), echter omgekeerd evenredig totaal onterecht door deze media
gebruikt om de sociale media van het brengen van ‘fake news’ te
beschuldigen……

Uiteraard
zijn er kul sites waar men van alles beweert, echter daar prikt de
grote meerderheid van de mens echt wel doorheen, nee het echte nieuws
moet tegen worden gehouden, daar hiermee de reguliere media, hun broodheren en overheden als
onbetrouwbaar te boek komen te staan (en gelukkig vinden velen dit
al).

Johnstone
stelt dat de reguliere media in feite altijd liegen, waar ze opmerkt
dat deze media uiteraard ook echt nieuws brengen (bijvoorbeeld een zwaar ongeluk kan je
niet verhullen, of een politicus die stelend door de mand
viel, zoals zoveel VVD’ers), echter een goede leugenaar is er één
die vooral ook de waarheid spreekt (en vooral als het in het straatje
van de machthebbers past), immers anders valt deze zo door de
mand…… Door deze manier van werken, stelt Johnstone liegen deze media
daarmee in feite altijd, ofwel ze zijn totaal onbetrouwbaar…….

Lees
het volgende artikel van Johnstone, geeft het ajb door en kom in
actie!!! (voor het te laat is, met alle vormen van toezicht die de overheid tegenwoordig voorhanden hebben, kan je straks nog geen scheet laten en de overheid weet het, ofwel een 1984
dat zelfs Orwell niet had voorzien…… (waar men ook nog eens bezig is met de ontwikkeling van kunstmatige insecten, uitgerust met camera’s…..) Intussen is onze internet geschiedenis en zijn onze computers/smartphone’s al toegankelijk voor de overheid…….. 

Als het zover komt, dus een totale controle van de burgers en daar twijfel ik niet aan, zal de roep van de machthebbers groot zijn om de democratie aan de kant te zetten, uiteraard met een beroep op de staatsveiligheid……. Vandaar ook dat we zo snel mogelijk uit de EU moeten stappen, immers de kans dat een zo grote vereniging van staten zal leiden tot één grote EU dictatuur is levensgroot, zeker als je ziet dat de fascistische partijen in de EU blijven groeien en in een paar EU landen zelfs al de grootste zijn….. Deze partijen zijn nu nog anti-EU, maar let op als ze straks de grootste fractie in het EU parlement zijn…..)

They
Work to Manufacture Consent Because They Need It. Don’t Give It to
Them.

August
3, 2018 at 9:41 am

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Plutocrat-owned
news media outlets lie constantly. When I say this I don’t mean
that everything they say is false; many of the events reported by
mass media are for the most part factual. Whenever it’s convenient
for the loose alliance of western plutocrats, the political
establishment those plutocrats own and operate, and the secretive
government agencies with which they are allied, the plutocratic media
tell the truth to the extent that it advances plutocratic agendas.
But only telling the truth when it suits one’s agendas is the same
as lying constantly.

A
good liar doesn’t simply say the opposite of what’s true all the
time; nobody does that. A good liar tells the truth enough of the
time to gain a reputation as an honest and trustworthy source of
information, and then, when the truth poses an obstacle to their
agendas, they put the slightest spin possible on it to nullify that
obstacle. They tell half-truths, they omit key pieces of information,
and, with really important maneuvers like manufacturing consent for a
strategic military destabilization in the Middle East or new cold war
escalations against a nuclear superpower, they shift accountability
for factual reporting from themselves onto secretive military and
intelligence agencies. In this way they keep full control of the
narrative and still ensure that the public supports agendas which do
not serve the public interest.

This
is evidenced by the fact that the public has continued collaborating
with a system which kills the ecosystem we depend on for survival and
allows people to die of poverty while spending trillions of dollars
in needless wars overseas and an ever-expanding Orwellian
surveillance network. Everyone besides the most powerful and their
lackeys is aware on some level that the current system is not working
for them, and yet the overwhelming majority of people keep playing
into it by supporting mainstream parties that are fully owned and
operated by wealthy oligarchs, and then shrugging and sighing when
things keep getting worse.

This
is because 
their
consent has been successfully manufactured
.
Due to the fact that the governed will always vastly outnumber their
government, any government necessarily depends upon the 
consent
of the governed
.
The entire American populace could theoretically wake up tomorrow
morning and decide they want to literally eat everyone on Capitol
Hill, and there’s not actually anything anyone could do to stop
them. The only thing holding existing power structures in place is
the fact that the public consents to it, and, in a system which does
not serve the interests of the public, the only thing holding that
consent in place is the ability of those in power to manufacture it.

So
if there’s ever any doubt that 
international
network of ruling elites
 would
pour billions of dollars into controlling public narratives, remember
that their power (and potentially their very lives) fully depends on
their ability to manufacture the consent of the governed. 
Whoever
controls the narrative controls the world
.
If they lose control of the narrative, they lose everything.

For
this reason it is absolutely essential that consent remains seamless
and unbroken throughout every step of the march toward greater and
greater oligarchic dominance. If they are unable to manufacture
consent for a new war or a new escalation in domestic surveillance or
what have you, then they don’t get to have it. This is why no
full-scale intervention has happened in Syria or Iran for example,
despite relentless mass media propaganda campaigns against the
governments of those nations. They work so hard to manufacture
consent because they absolutely require that consent, and they can’t
move forward with their agendas until they get it.

This
is not to suggest that an Iraq-style invasion of Syria or Iran would
likely cause a revolutionary war or anything like that; that would be
naive. If the US and its allies launched such an invasion the people
in those allied nations would be outraged, but they would not be
outraged enough to kill and die over it. What would happen, though,
is a total collapse in their ability to manufacture consent. And that
would be just as fatal to their rule as a full-scale violent
revolution.

The
invasion of Iraq had broad public support, but after it was
discovered to have been a catastrophic, immensely costly intervention
based on nothing but lies, it is now looked upon unfavorably. If they
tried to force another Iraq-style invasion through, the public would
not accept the narratives they were fed about it, and they would see
the MSM lie factory for what it is. This collapse of the public’s
trust in anything the talking heads on TV say would make everyone
impossible to propagandize, and thus impossible to rule over. The
people would begin telling their own stories about what’s going on,
in a way which better reflects reality and better serves themselves
instead of the alliance of sociopathic billionaires. If this
happened, the old power structures could be shrugged off like a heavy
coat on a warm day without anyone firing a shot, simply by the public
deciding to rewrite the rules in a way which benefits the public.

This
is absolutely essential to be aware of, because it means that we can
collectively prevent any agenda from being advanced as long as enough
of us refuse to consent to it. And all that needs to happen for that
consent to be withdrawn is the exposure of the lies that the mass
media is spinning to advance a given agenda.

We’ve
already seen this happen with Syria. 
There
was a stretch in April of this year
 where
the mass media machine was cranking out attack editorials on
alternative media voices who’d cast doubt upon the establishment
Syria narrative, because there was so much opposition to what we were
being told to believe about the Assad government that the alliance of
plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies were unable to
manufacture support for a large-scale invasion. All they got out of
their massive MSM propaganda blitz in April was a meaningless bombing
which accomplished essentially nothing, and now the Syrian government
is 
recapturing
its territory
 from
the violent jihadists who had seized it with western backing. Had the
“think of the children!” propaganda campaign succeeded in the
wake of the highly suspicious Douma incident, we would likely have
seen a very dangerous and costly western regime change intervention
in Syria by now.


We
can do this with literally anything. The people don’t need to
consent to another idiotic war. The people don’t need to consent to
a two-headed one-party system which pretends that domestic espionage
is acceptable or that wanting the US to stop facilitating the
slaughter of Yemeni civilians is some crazy, radical fringe position.
The people don’t need to consent to the persecution of Julian
Assange. The people don’t need to consent to the rule of the
oligarchs at all. By collectively withdrawing our consent for those
things in our own self-interest, we can make them unsustainable.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

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And
of course, our rulers are acutely aware of this possibility. This is
the reason for the current moral panic about “Russian bots”,
“Kremlin propaganda” and “fake news”. It’s the reason for
the smear campaign against WikiLeaks and the attempts to imprison
Julian Assange. It’s the reason for the tightening corporate
censorship we’re seeing with Google, Facebook and Twitter. Our
rulers are aware that any of their agendas can be thwarted simply by
their failing to manufacture consent for them, so any voices which
disrupt that consent-manufacturing machine are in the crosshairs for
attack and silencing.

But
they can’t be too ham fisted about their censorship attempts,
because the public would never consent to full-scale totalitarian
censorship out in the open. The illusion of freedom and democracy
would be shattered, trust in the propaganda machine would die, and
the oligarchs would completely lose control of the narrative. The
nice guy mask needs to remain firmly in place for any consent
manufacturing to take effect; as soon as they remove it they lose the
mechanism of manipulation and control that their entire system of
rule is built upon. This buys us some time. Not a lot of time, but
some.

So
the time to strike is now, while the iron is hot. Disrupt the
consent-manufacturing machine at every opportunity, because it’s
the only thing holding the bars of our cage in place. The new media
environment is still ripe for a grassroots campaign to expose the
lies of our rulers and shine light on the puppeteers of the kabuki
theater using facts, information and intelligent arguments.

So
let them have it with both barrels. Blog, tweet, make videos, make
memes, engage in debates; any day you can weaken the trust that even
one person has in any part of the deception machine is a gain in this
battle. Fight their lies with truth and their evil with good will.
When you are opposing a depraved power establishment which relies on
deceit to sustain its rule, you have truth and light on your side. So
fight with absolute certainty in yourself, and give them everything
you’ve got. This might be humanity’s last chance.

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* Regeringen die voor het grootste deel lobbyisten van alle genoemde bedrijvigheid zijn, hoewel deze regeringen volksvertegenwoordigers zouden moeten zijn……

Zie wat betreft Assange: ‘Julian Assange, valse beschuldigingen, Big Brother en VS steun voor terrorisme‘ (en zie daarvoor ook de links in dat bericht)

Media tonen ware gezicht door weigering Julian Assange te verdedigen

Door de weigering Assange te
verdedigen, tonen de reguliere media hun ware gezicht, aldus de kop
van een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone op Media.com en hieronder
overgenomen van Anti-Media. Een top advocaat van de New York Times
(NYT), David McCraw waarschuwde een zaal vol rechters dat de
vervolging van WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange een gevaarlijk
precedent zal scheppen en zou kunnen eindigen met het beschadigen van de reguliere (massa-) media….. (ha! ha! ha! Wat er nog te beschadigen is aan de reguliere media is me een raadsel, gezien het enorme gehalte aan nepnieuws [‘fake news] en de leugens die daar dag in dag uit ten toon worden gespreid…..)

Volgens McCraw zullen wetshandhavers
uiteindelijk weinig verschil kunnen zien tussen een internetplatform
als WikiLeaks en mediaorganen als de New York Times en de Washington
Post (WaPo)….. Lullig werden de woorden van McCraw niet
gepubliceerd in ‘zijn eigen’ NYT….. (!!) Echter zolang de reguliere media de leugens van politiek en geheime diensten maar blijven herhalen, zal er geen vuiltje aan de lucht zijn…..

Het publiceren van o.a. uitgelekte gegevens die geheim
werden gehouden voor het volk, is in feite de taak van de echte
journalistiek, immers het is de taak van de journalistiek om de
machthebbers te controleren, het volk daarover in te lichten* en het publiek tevens te leren kritisch naar de machthebbers te kijken…..

Daar wringt dan ook de schoen aldus Johnstone, de reguliere media hebben deze taken al lang bij het
grofvuil gezet en schikken zich naar de eisen van overheid en degenen
die deze media in handen hebben, miljardairs en beursgenoteerde
bedrijven……… Niet voor niets dat de journalisten van de reguliere media Assange keer op keer demoniseren en de leugens van de politiek en geheime diensten als CIA en FBI (notoire leugenaars) over bijvoorbeeld de zogenaamde bemoeienis van Rusland met de VS verkiezingen blijven herhalen, ook al is er geen nanometer bewijs voor……

Daarover gesproken: hoorde onlangs een Belgische ‘journalist’ die het gore lef had te zeggen dat hij de ‘stapel aan bewijzen’ voor die Russische inmenging met de VS presidentsverkiezingen had gelezen, een keiharde leugen, daar die bewijzen (nog steeds) niet bestaan…..

Lees deze korte mooie analyse van
Caitlin Johnstone:

In
Refusing to Defend Assange, Mainstream Media Exposes Its True Nature

July
29, 2018 at 10:24 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — Last
Tuesday a top lawyer for the 
New
York Times
 named
David McCraw 
warned
a room full of judges
 that
the prosecution of Julian Assange for WikiLeaks publications would
set a very dangerous precedent which would end up hurting mainstream
news media outlets like NYT, the 
Washington
Post
,
and other outlets which publish secret government documents.

I
think the prosecution of him would be a very, very bad precedent for
publishers,” McCraw said. “From that incident, from everything I
know, he’s sort of in a classic publisher’s position and I think
the law would have a very hard time drawing a distinction between The
New York Times and WikiLeaks.”

Do
you know where I read about this? Not in the 
New
York Times
.

Curiously,
as of this writing, McCraw’s words have found no mention in
the 
Times itself,”
activist Ray McGovern 
wrote for
the alternative media outlet 
Consortium
News
.
“In recent years, the newspaper has shown a marked proclivity to
avoid printing anything that might risk its front row seat at the
government trough.”

Consortium News@Consortiumnews

Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it’s No. 2 lawyer told a group of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange could have dire consequences for the Times itself, explains Ray McGovern.https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/25/the-gray-lady-thinks-twice-about-assanges-prosecution/ 


The Gray Lady Thinks Twice About Assange’s Prosecution

Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it’s No. 2 lawyer told a group of West Coast judges that prosecution of Julian Assange by the U.S. government could have dire consequences for…

consortiumnews.com

So
let’s unpack that a bit. It is now public knowledge that the
Ecuadorian government is actively seeking to turn Assange over to be
arrested by the British government. This was initially 
reported
by RT
,
then independently 
confirmed
by 
The
Intercept
,
and is today full mainstream public knowledge being reported by
mainstream outlets like 
CNN.
It is also public knowledge that Assange’s asylum was granted by
the Ecuadorian government 
due
to a feared attempt to extradite him
 to
the United States and 
prosecute
him for WikiLeaks publications
.
Everyone from President 
Donald
Trump
 to
Attorney General 
Jeff
Sessions
 to
now-Secretary of State 
Mike
Pompeo
 to
ranking House Intelligence Committee member 
Adam
Schiff
 to
Democratic 
members
of the US Senate
 have
made public statements clearly indicating that there is a US
government interest in getting Assange out of the shelter of
political asylum and into prison.

The New
York Times
 is
aware of this, and as evidenced by McCraw’s comments it is also
aware of the dangerous precedent that such a prosecution would set
for all news media publications. The 
New
York Times
 editorial
staff are aware that the US government prosecuting a publisher for
publishing important documents that had been hidden from the public
would make it impossible for the 
Times to
publish the same kind of material without fear of the same legal
repercussions. It is aware that the maneuvers being taken against
Assange present a very real existential threat to the possibility of
real journalism and holding power to account.

You
might think, therefore, that we’d be seeing a flood of analyses and
op-eds from the 
New
York Times
 aggressively
condemning any movement toward the prosecution of Julian Assange. You
might expect all media outlets in America to be constantly sounding
the alarm about this, especially since the threat is coming from the
Trump administration, which outlets like the 
New
York Times
are
always eager to circulate dire warnings about. You might expect every
talking head on CNN and NBC to be ominously citing Assange as the
clearest and most egregious case yet of Trump’s infamous “war on
the free press”. Leaving aside the issues of morality, compassion
and human rights that come with Assange’s case, you might think
that if for no other reason than sheer unenlightened self interest
they’d be loudly and aggressively defending him.

And
yet, they don’t. And the fact that they don’t shows us what they
really are.

Belinda Noakes@belindanoakes

A fine piece of work. I see a handful of international journalists brave enough to write about this. Where are the others? Can they not see that if Assange is persecuted to death, they’re next?

stefania maurizi@SMaurizi

Dear Readers, our op-ed on Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks published in @consortiumnews https://consortiumnews.com/2018/07/19/inside-wikileaks-working-with-the-publisher-that-changed-the-world/ … has been shared by more than 10,000 readers, as for now we have 100 comments: THANK YOU! Without you, our work would be completely useless

WikiLeaks

@wikileaks

Replying to @belindanoakes

They’re not next. Very few will ever publish anything substantive enough to generate serious blowback.

Theoretically,
journalism is meant to help create an informed populace and hold
power to account. That’s why it’s the only profession explicitly
named in the United States Constitution, and why freedom of the press
has enjoyed such constitutional protections throughout US
history. The press today is failing to protect Julian Assange
because it has no intention of creating an informed populace or
holding power to account.

This
is not to suggest the existence of some grand, secret conspiracy
among US journalists. It’s just a simple fact that plutocrats own
most of the US news media and hire the people who run it, which has
naturally created an environment where the best way to advance one’s
career is to remain perpetually inoffensive to the establishment upon
which plutocrats have built their respective empires. This is why you
see ambitious reporters on Twitter falling all over themselves to be
the first with a pithy line that advances establishment agendas
whenever breaking news presents an opportunity to do so; they are
aware that their social media presence is being assessed by potential
employers and allies for establishment loyalism. This also why so
many of those aspiring journalists attack Assange and WikiLeaks
whenever possible.

Everyone
hoping to gain admission to the cultural elite must now strenuously
cultivate their social media so as to avoid controversy,”
journalist Michael Tracey 
observed recently.
“Eventually they will internalize controversy-avoidance as a
virtue, not a societal imposition. Result: a more boring, conformist
elite culture.”

A
great way for an aspiring journalist to avoid controversy is to
never, ever defend Assange or WikiLeaks on social media or in any
media outlet, and certainly under no circumstances allow yourself to
look like the sort of journo who might someday publish the sorts of
materials that WikiLeaks publishes. An excellent way to prove
yourself is to become yet another author of yet another one of the
many, many smear pieces that have been written about Assange and
WikiLeaks.

Common Dreams@commondreams

Why Americans Need to Defend Julian Assange’s Freedom http://ow.ly/qUJ130l9O1G 

"It is time for us all to put aside ideological differences and unite in solidarity with people around the world who are engaging in non-violent resistance against this assault on WikiLeaks and our right to free speech." (Photo: newsonline/flickr/cc)


Why Americans Need to Defend Julian Assange’s Freedom

Criminalizing the act of publishing through the Espionage Act destroys the First Amendment as the guardian of democracy.. Over 50 years ago, in his letter from the Birmingham Jail, addressing a…

commondreams.org

Mainstream
media outlets and those who thrive within them have no intention of
rocking the boat and losing their hard-earned privilege and access.
Conservative mass media will continue to defend the US president, and
liberal media will continue to defend the CIA and the FBI. Both will
help advance war, ecocide, military expansionism, surveillance and
police militarization, and none will leak anything that is damaging
to the power structures that they have learned to serve. They will
remain innocuous, uncontroversial defenders of the rich and powerful
at all times.

Meanwhile,
alternative media outlets are defending Assange ferociously. Just
today I’ve seen articles from 
Consortium
News
World
Socialist Website
Disobedient
Media
Antiwar and Common
Dreams
 decrying
the persecution of the most important government transparency
advocate living today. Alternative media outlets and independent
writers aren’t bound by establishment servitude, so the value of
WikiLeaks is clear as day. One’s eyes are only blinded to the
pernicious behaviors of power when power is signing one’s paycheck.

Mass
media outlets in America and around the world have fully discredited
themselves with their failure to defend a publisher who actually
holds power to account and brings facts into the light of truth to
create an informed populace. Every day that goes by where they don’t
unequivocally condemn any attempt to prosecute Assange is another day
in the pile of evidence that corporate media outlets serve power and
not truth. Their silence is a tacit admission that they are nothing
other than stenographers and propagandists for the most powerful
forces on earth.

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by 
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* In Nederland durfde de zwaar over een keeshondendrol getilde zakkenwasser Max van Weezel, die zich godbetert journalist durft te noemen, te zeggen ‘dat hij zich voor kan stellen bepaalde zaken niet te publiceren…….’ Ondanks deze uitspraak en een onnoemelijk aantal andere ‘journalistieke’ uitglijders, wordt deze kwezel geëerd door het grootste deel van de andere Nederlandse ‘journalisten…’ Wat dan weer genoeg zegt over ‘de kwaliteit’ van de Nederlandse reguliere journalistiek…… Voor berichten met blunders van van Weezel, klik op het label met zijn naam, direct onder dit bericht. (als na een aantal berichten het laatste telkens wordt herhaald, even opnieuw op dat label klikken en wel die onder het laatst gelezen bericht)

PS: het is vrijwel zeker dat Ecuador Assange op de Londense straat (hij zit al jaren in de ambassade van Ecuador in Londen) zal zetten en hij na zijn arrestatie zal worden uitgeleverd aan VS……

Zie ook:

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……

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 voorwijzen op belang van vrije en onafhankelijke media

Volkskrant en Nieuwsuur Fake News over ‘Russische hacks…..’

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

Russiagate hysterie na bezoek Trump aan Putin blijft groeien, zonder dat daarvoor een nanometer aan bewijs is geleverd…..

Zelfs
in de rest van het westen dragen media en politiek hun steen bij,
maar de hysterie in de VS na het bezoek van Trump aan Putin slaat
alles. Men vergelijkt deze ontmoeting en het hele Russiagate gebeuren nu zelfs met de aanslagen van 911 en de aanval van Japan op Pearl Harbor tijdens WOII….. Terwijl dit hele Russiagate is gefundeerd op los zand, ofwel Russiagate is niet
gefundeerd op werkelijke feiten en gebeurtenissen…… Voorts is het natuurlijk een gotspe om te stellen dat het inzetten op vreedzame banden met Rusland, is te vergelijken met grote aanslagen of zelfs zaken die in WOII plaatsvonden..!!

Er zijn zelfs ‘journalisten’ die beweren dat ze alle bewijzen hebben gezien, die zouden aantonen dat Rusland de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, terwijl degenen die over deze zogenaamde bewijzen gaan, keer op keer stellen deze niet openbaar te kunnen maken vanwege de ‘nationale veiligheid…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Bewijzen kunnen niet geheim zijn als je een ander land beschuldigt van dergelijke manipulaties, de inwoners van de VS (en de rest van de wereld) hebben alle recht dergelijke bewijzen te zien, bewijzen die allesbehalve een gevaar voor de staatsveiligheid zijn, daar ze niet bestaan. 

Echter, als bekend wordt dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA alweer hebben gelogen, zou dat de geloofwaardigheid van deze leugen-instituties nog verder onderuit halen, uiteraard is dat een gevaar voor de topgraaiers van die diensten, graaiers en machtswellustelingen die deze leugens tot in het oneindige blijven herhalen……

Lees
het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, mooier kan je het niet
brengen (en geeft het door, tijd dat de reguliere media hun
lezers/kijkers verliezen, zolang ze hun onafhankelijkheid hebben
ingeleverd voor geldgewin en lobbyisme t.b.v. het ijskoude
neoliberalisme en het militair-industrieel complex):

Russiagate
Is Like 9/11, Except It’s Made of Pure Narrative

July
18, 2018 at 10:38 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — The
last few days have been truly amazing. I didn’t even write an
article yesterday; I’ve just been staring transfixed by my social
media feeds watching liberal Americans completely lose their minds. I
can’t look away. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck,
and everyone on the train is 
being
really homophobic
.

I’ve
been writing about Russiagate since it started, and I can honestly
say this is the worst it’s ever been, by far. The most hysterical,
the most shrill, the most emotional, the most cartoonishly
over-the-top and hyperbolic. The fact that Trump met with Putin in
private and then publicly expressed doubt about the establishment
Russia narrative has sent some political factions of America into an
emotional state that is indistinguishable from what you’d expect if
Russia had bombed New York City. This despite the fact that the
establishment Russia narrative consists of no actual, visible events
whatsoever. It is made of pure narrative.

Michael Tracey

@mtracey

I don’t think the US media has ever been nuttier than they are right now. It would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous. They are harming the national psyche in a profound way

I
don’t even know where to start. Everyone has been completely mad
across the entire spectrum of what passes for America’s political
“left” today, from the usual suspects like Chuck Schumer and
Nancy Pelosi and their indistinguishable Never-Trump Republican
allies, all the way to supposedly progressive commentators like Cenk
Uygur and Shaun King. Comparing this pure narrative non-event to
Pearl Harbor is now commonplace and mainstream. I just watched a
United States Senator named Richard Blumenthal stare right into the
camera refer to the hypothetical possibility of future Russian cyber
intrusions as “this 9/11 moment.”

We
are in a 9/11 national emergency because our country is under attack,
literally,” Blumenthal 
told
CNN
 while
demanding a record of Trump’s meeting with Putin at the Helsinki
summit. “That attack is ongoing and pervasive, verified by
objective and verifiable evidence. Those words are, again, from the
director of National Security. And this 9/11 moment demands that we
do come together.”

Nothing
about the establishment Russia narrative is in any way verifiable,
and the only thing it has in common with 9/11 is the media coverage
and widespread emotional response.

September
11 had actual video footage of falling towers. You could go visit New
York City, look at the spot where those towers used to be, and see
them not being there anymore. You could learn the names of the people
who died and visit their graves and talk to their family members.

Exactly how it
happened is a matter of some debate in many circles, but there is no
question that it happened. There was an actual event that did happen
in the real world, completely independent of any stories people tell
about that event.

Russiagate
is like 9/11, but with none of those things. It’s like if 9/11 had
all the same widespread emotional responses, all the same nonstop
mass media coverage, all the same punditry screaming war, war, war,
except no actual event occurred. The towers were still there,
everyone was still alive, and nothing actually happened apart from
the narrative and the emotional responses to that narrative.

Russiagate
is 9/11 minus 9/11.

This
is what I’m talking about when I say that 
whoever
controls the narrative controls the world
.
Whoever controls the stories that westerners are telling each other
has the power to advance concrete agendas which reshape global
geopolitics without any actual thing even happening. Simply by
getting 
a
few hand-picked intelligence agents
 to
say something happened in a relatively confident way, you can get the
entire media and political body advancing that narrative as
unquestionable fact, and from there advance sanctions, new military
operations, a far more aggressive Nuclear Posture Review, the casting
out of diplomats, the arming of Ukraine, and ultimately shove Russia
further and further off the world stage.

As we
discussed last time
,
the current administration has actually been far more aggressive
against Russia than the previous administration was, and has worked
against Russian interests to a far greater extent. If they wanted to,
the international alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense
agencies could just as easily use their near-total control of the
narrative to advance the story that Trump is a dangerous Russia hawk
who is imperiling the entire world by inflicting insane escalations
against a nuclear superpower. They could elicit the exact same
panicked emotional response that they are eliciting right now using
the exact same media and the exact same factual situation. They
wouldn’t have to change a single thing except where they place
their emphasis in telling the story. The known facts would all remain
exactly as they are; all that would have to change is the narrative.

Public
support for Russiagate depends on the fact that most people don’t
recognize how pervasively their day-to-day experience is dominated by
narrative. If you are intellectually honest with yourself, you will
acknowledge that you think about Russia a lot more now than you did
in 2015. Russia hasn’t changed any since 2015; all that has changed
is the narrative that is being told about it. And yet now the mass
media and a huge chunk of rank-and-file America now view it as a
major threat and think about it constantly. All they had to do was
talk about Russia constantly in a fearful and urgent way, and now US
liberals are convinced that Vladimir Putin is an omnipotent
world-dominating supervillain who has infiltrated the highest levels
of the US government.

If
humanity is to pull up and away from its current path toward either
ecological disaster, nuclear armageddon or Orwellian dystopia, we are
necessarily going to have to change our relationship with narrative.
As long as the way we think, vote and organize can be controlled by
the mere verbiage of the servants of power, our species will never be
able to begin operating in a sane and wholesome way. If all it
takes to make us act against our own interest is a few establishment
lackeys speaking a few words in a confident tone of voice, if mere
authoritative language can hypnotize us like a sorcerer casting
spells, we are doomed to slavery and destruction.

So
stop staring transfixed by the narratives, and begin looking at the
behavior and motives of the people advancing them instead. Stop
staring at the movie screen they’re constantly drawing your
attention to, turn around in your theater seat, and look at the
people who are running the projector. The way out of this mess is to
begin ignoring the stories we’re being hypnotized with and start
critically examining the people who are conducting the hypnosis.
Ignore the stories and stare with piercing eyes at the storytellers.
The difference between the official narrative and the actual reality
of this world is the difference between fiction and fact. Evolve
beyond.

Support
Caitlin’s work on 
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Zie ook: ‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

‘Amerika’ en de werking van politiek en kapitalisme

Kwam
op de site van Caitlin Johnstone een kort maar krachtig artikel tegen
over de werking van het kapitalisme in de VS (en elders), of beter gezegd hoe de samenwerking van politiek
en kapitalisme (of neoliberalisme, de nieuwste inhumane vorm van
kapitalisme) de status quo bewaart en waar in de VS tientallen miljoenen hun invloed op de
politiek (stemrecht) werd afgepakt ten behoeve van de welgestelden, de grote
bedrijven, banken en vooral niet te vergeten het militair-industrieel
complex……. Uiteraard wordt e.e.a. gesteund door de reguliere (massa-) media, die zogenaamd onafhankelijk zou opereren…….

Zoals
gezegd een kort maar krachtig artikel waar weinig of niets tegen in
te brengen is*:

AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

July 13, 2018

America

In
America they build flying war robots, but you can’t drink the
water. America is where the empire keeps its billionaires and bombs.

Giant
wars left Europe a mess many years ago, so America rose to the top.
Now it’s where many rich and powerful influencers centralize their
operations. America is the cattle prod** used to compel the world to
march along with the interests of western aristocrats. Governments
which comply are rewarded with military “protection”, while
noncompliant governments are sanctioned and bombed. The Mafia does
this also.

Americans
are kept poor by the aristocracy, because money equals power and
power is relative. The poorer ordinary Americans are kept, the more
powerful the aristocrats are. Agencies like the FBI were invented so
that there will be someone to help shoot and kill ordinary Americans
if they ever decide to start eating the aristocrats for food.

It
is very important that the aristocrats be able to control America,
because they need to be able to protect their assets while directing
its military firepower. This means keeping ordinary Americans poor
and politically impotent while conducting trillion-dollar military
operations overseas, which is a hard sell. The aristocrats engage
that hard sell on a daily basis using the mass media corporations
which they own. And they do so successfully.

Americans
are surrounded by screens which promote capitalism and consumerism
for eight-minute stretches between commercial breaks promoting
capitalism and consumerism. If you ever get a bit uncomfortable about
the expensive planes dropping expensive bombs on people who make less
money in their lifetimes than the military explosives used to kill
them, just turn on any of the screens you own and there will be a
talking head ready to explain to you why you’re just imagining
silly things in that ditzy little head of yours. Relax. Don’t
worry. Uncle Sam has got everything under control. Uncle Sam loves
you. Uncle Sam knows what’s best.

America
is too important to be left in the hands of the Americans. If you
ever wonder why America is behaving in a strange way, that is always
the explanation: America is too important to be left in the
hands of the Americans. The intelligence agencies, military firepower
and massive economic influence that is wielded by anyone who exerts
control over the US government are such valuable tools that there’s
no limit to the horrible things that aristocratic manipulators will
do to secure it. This includes pummeling ordinary Americans with mass
media psyops day in and day out to manufacture their consent for
agendas which do not benefit them. While this is an effective way to
control how Americans think and vote, it also makes them more than a
little crazy.

This
is why there is an opiate epidemic in America. This is why white
supremacy is becoming more brazen. This is why every few weeks an
American grabs a gun and kills as many of his countrymen as possible.
Because of their nation’s strategic significance, Americans are the
most aggressively propagandized people in the tight alliance of
nations that comprises the western empire. But there’s only so far
you can twist a mind away from truth before it snaps. There’s only
so much you can do to convince a populace that mass murder is
perfectly fine overseas before someone gets the idea that it’s
perfectly fine at home, too.

Americans
are in their nature as compassionate and generous a people as you
will ever meet anywhere else on earth; they’ve just got
manipulative sociopaths elbows-deep in their minds conducting psyops
all the time, and it makes them a bit weird. But their
good-naturedness is evident in the fact that even the propaganda used
to manipulate them into consenting to depraved war agendas is always
meant to exploit their caring and compassion: it’s always about
saving children from a monstrous dictator, or spreading freedom and
democracy. Americans are blasted in the face with so many hero
narratives from Hollywood and television that this makes perfect
sense to them, and of course they want their military to do something
heroic and save those poor kids. Even the sick things they consent to
are rooted in basic good intentions. America is a country full of
decent people with propaganda boxes around their brains.

Propaganda
is what makes America America. Without the endless aristocratic
influence campaigns convincing Americans that economic injustice is
economic justice, that war is humanitarian, that insanity is sanity,
and that their government is acting with their best interests at
heart, the nation would be unrecognizable. America is a psyop wearing
a cowboy hat.

Vast,
sprawling aristocratic kingdoms have been built upon the manipulation
of the American psyche. If those brain boxes ever get shucked off,
those kingdoms will necessarily collapse, and a new world will
emerge. Because those brain boxes are made of lies and manipulation,
the new world which emerges will necessarily be better and healthier.
Health and harmony are born of truth.

It
is not okay that the aristocracy keeps warping and brutalizing the
American psyche. It is not okay that they use their power and
influence to advance inequality and war. Americans need only to turn
around and face their manipulators and tormenters for this all to
end. Once you’ve seen the puppeteer, the puppet show is ruined.

Keep
pointing at those strings, oh clear-eyed rebels. This fight is very
winnable. The spells holding the deception together can be broken.
America belongs in the hands of the Americans. Americans can take
America.

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

* Als Azijnpisser heb ik natuurlijk wel wat te zeiken: bijvoorbeeld commentaar op de eerste alinea waarin de stelling dat het (Vierde) rijk, de VS, niet alleen haar miljardairs, maar ook haar bommen op eigen grondgebied herbergt…… Helaas, de VS heeft meer dan 800 militaire bases over de wereld waar naast militairen, wapens, militaire hardware en munitie liggen opgeslagen (en nee die militairen liggen niet opgeslagen, dat kan pas met warbots die op de grond kunnen ‘werken……’)… Ook in Nederland liggen VS bommen, sterker nog hier liggen zelfs ‘atoombommen’ van de VS, daarnaast zal de VS in Limburg militair materieel als tanks opslaan in de opbouw naar een mogelijke VS aanval op Rusland, ofwel het echte begin van WOIII (met hulp van de NAVO, de oorlogshond van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dezelfde VS…)…. Moet je nagaan: dan is Nederland nog maar één van de landen in de EU waar VS wapens, munitie en militaire hardware heeft opgeslagen…….

** Cattle prod: ‘vee prikker’ (….)

Zie ook:

VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..

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………

Top Trump – Putin: ‘toevallig’ komt VS nu opnieuw met ‘bewijzen’ over Russische inmenging in de verkiezingen van 2016….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Naar aanleiding van een eerder artikel van Caitlin Johnstone*, waarin ze op de nieuwe beschuldigingen aan het adres van Rusland ingaat en terecht wijst op het feit dat deze beschuldigingen wel heel toevallig net voor de top tussen Putin en Trump werden gepubliceerd, heeft ze het hieronder opgenomen artikel geschreven.

Men kan er maar geen genoeg van krijgen in de VS (en de rest van het westen): Rusland demoniseren op basis van… Ja, waarvan? ‘Simpel’: op basis van bewijzen die helaas voor iedereen geheim moeten blijven……** ha! ha! ha! ha! Nu zouden 12 Russische officieren de computers van Clinton (of eigenlijk van haar rechterhand Podesta) hebben gehackt en documenten hebben doorgespeeld aan Wikileaks……. Zoals de ‘overtuigende bewijsvoering’ bij de eerdere beschuldigingen aan het adres van Rusland, ook daar mochten we niet weten wat die ‘bewijzen’ zijn en waaruit de ‘overtuigende bewijsvoering’ is opgebouwd……

Caitlin Johnstone geeft in het hierna opgenomen artikel aan welke 5 feiten voor haar voldoende zouden zijn om op de ‘Russische-hysterie trein’ van de VS te springen…….

Feilloos geeft Johnstone aan waar de schoen wringt, al moet ik zeggen dat er nog wel meer redenen zijn waarom deze door de geheime diensten van de VS, met hulp van de democraten en de reguliere media gefabriceerde Rusland-hysterie totaal ongeloofwaardig is. (zelfs Nederland is aangestoken…. ha! ha! ha! ha! Als je gelooft dat Rusland zelfs maar moeite zou doen om de boel hier te beïnvloeden, ben je echt voor eeuwig de weg kwijt! Vanmorgen werd toevallig gemeld dat 900 retweets van een ‘Russische trollenfabriek’ [ha! ha! ha!] met racistisch commentaar hier de boel negatief zou hebben beïnvloed…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Knettergek!!)

Terecht wijst Johnstone overigens op het feit dat uit overheidsdata blijkt dat de VS zelf van 1946 tot het jaar 2000 in 81 landen de verkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd, zelfs in Rusland, een publiek feit….. Zo bezien kan de VS als wraak van die landen nog wel een 70 tal verkiezingsmanipulaties verzinnen………

Bovendien, als er nu één ding is waar de geheime diensten van de VS (en intussen ook de massamedia) goed in zijn, is het wel in glashard liegen, zo merkt Johnstone alweer volkomen terecht op.

July 14, 2018 AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable

As we just discussed, some major news stories have recently dropped about what a horrible horrifying menace the Russian Federation is to the world, and as always I have nothing to offer the breathless pundits on CNN and MSNBC but my completely unsatisfied skepticism. My skepticism of the official Russia narrative remains so completely unsatisfied that if mainstream media were my husband I would already be cheating on it with my yoga instructor.

I do not believe the establishment Russia narrative. I do not believe that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election. I do not believe the Russian government did any election rigging for Trump to collude with. This is not because I believe Vladimir Putin is some kind of blueberry-picking girl scout, and it certainly isn’t because I think the Russian government is unwilling or incapable of meddling in the affairs of other nations to some extent when it suits them. It is simply because I am aware that the US intelligence community lies constantly as a matter of policy, and because I understand how the burden of proof works.

At this time, I see no reason to espouse any belief system which embraces as true the assertion that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections in any meaningful way, or that it presents a unique and urgent threat to the world which must be aggressively dealt with. But all the establishment mouthpieces tell me that I must necessarily embrace these assertions as known, irrefutable fact. Here are five things that would have to change in order for that to happen:

1. Proof of a hacking conspiracy to elect Trump.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

In most cases, it’s so basic that unproven allegations by a prosecutor in an indictment shouldn’t be accepted as true one need not even point it out. In this case, pointing it out will be seen as blasphemy. Everyone should want to see the evidence on which the claims are based:

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

Based on quick read (maybe I missed something?). Mueller alleges GRU hacked DNC & covered it up. A lot of claims about what Russian officers did online. But I didn’t catch any reference to what evidence Mueller has to make him believe it was them. How does he know they did it?

The first step to getting a heretic like myself aboard the Russia hysteria train would be the existence of publicly available evidence of the claims made about election meddling in 2016, which rises to the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world. So far, that burden of proof for Russian hacking allegations has not come anywhere remotely close to being met.

How much proof would I need to lend my voice to the escalation of tensions between two nuclear superpowers? Mountains. I personally would settle for nothing less than hard proof which can be independently verified by trusted experts like the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Is that a big ask? Yes. Yes it is. That’s what happens when government institutions completely discredit themselves as they did with the false narratives advanced in the manufacturing of support for the Iraq invasion. You don’t get to butcher a million Iraqis in a war based on lies, turn around a few years later and say “We need new cold war escalations with a nuclear superpower but we can’t prove it because the evidence is secret.” That’s not a thing. Copious amounts of hard, verifiable proof or GTFO***. So far we have no evidence besides the confident-sounding assertions of government insiders and their mass media mouthpieces, which is the same as no evidence.

2. Proof that election meddling actually influenced the election in a meaningful way.

Even if Russian hackers did exfiltrate Democratic party emails and give them to WikiLeaks, if it didn’t affect the election, who cares? That’s a single-day, second-page story at best, meriting nothing beyond a “Hmm, interesting, turns out Russia tried and failed to influence the US election,” followed by a shrug and moving on to something that actually matters.

After it has been thoroughly proven that Russia meddled in the elections in a meaningful way, it must then be established that that meddling had an actual impact on the election results.

3. Some reason to believe Russian election meddling was unwarranted and unacceptable.

Consortium News@Consortiumnews

Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other countries’ elections is not , but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes. https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/20/americas-election-meddling-would-indeed-justify-other-countries-retaliating-in-kind/  @caitoz

America’s Election Meddling Would

Indeed Justify Other Countries 

Retaliating In Kind

Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other 

countries’ elections is not “whataboutism,” but rather a 

highly germane point to understanding the context for 

he allegations of Russian…

consortiumnews.com

The US government, by a very wide margin, interferes in the elections of other countries far, far more than any other government on earth does. The US government’s own data shows that it has deliberately meddled in the elections of 81 foreign governments between 1946 and 2000, including Russia in the nineties. This is public knowledge. A former CIA Director cracked jokes about it on Fox News earlier this year.

If I’m going to abandon my skepticism and accept the Gospel According to Maddow****, after meaningful, concrete election interference has been clearly established I’m going to need a very convincing reason to believe that it is somehow wrong or improper for a government to attempt to respond in kind to the undisputed single worst offender of this exact offense. It makes no sense for the United States to actively create an environment in which election interference is something that governments do to one another, and then cry like a spanked child when its election is interfered with by one of the very governments whose elections the US recently meddled in.

This is nonsense. America being far and away the worst election meddler on the planet makes it a fair target for election meddling by not just Russia, but every country in the world. It is very obviously moral and acceptable for any government on earth to interfere in America’s elections as long as it remains the world’s worst offender in that area. In order for Russia to be in the wrong if it interfered in America’s elections, some very convincing argument I’ve not yet heard will have to be made to support that case.

4. Proof that the election meddling went beyond simply giving Americans access to information about their government.

Michael Tracey

@mtracey

In case anyone forgot: the “hacked emails” contained multitudes of revelatory information about powerful political actors that otherwise would have been concealed from voters https://medium.com/mtracey/russian-hackers-provided-vital-information-to-american-voters-d7fb0f9ec50b 

Russian “Hackers” Provided Vital Information To American Voters

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that it’s all true: the Russian government really did “hack the election,” which is to say they…

medium.com

If all the Russians did was simply show Americans emails of Democratic Party officials talking to one another and circulate some MSM articles as claimed in the ridiculous Russian troll farm allegations, that’s nothing to get upset about. If anything, Americans should be upset that they had to hear about Democratic Party corruption through the grapevine instead of having light shed on it by the American officials whose job it is to do so. Complaints about election meddling is only valid if that election meddling isn’t comprised of truth and facts.

5. A valid reason to believe escalated tensions between two nuclear superpowers are worthwhile.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should Straighten Out All Our Priorities | Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-05/increasing-likelihood-nuclear-war-should-straighten-out-all-our-priorities 

The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should 

Straighten Out All Our Priorities

“The Russiagate psyop exists because the western power 

establishment is trying to cripple the Russia-China tandem in 

order to ensure US hegemony, and if they tried to thrust us all 

into a new cold…

zerohedge.com

After it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia did indeed meddle in the US elections in a meaningful way, and after it has then been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia actually influenced election results in a significant way, and after the case has been clearly made that it was bad and wrong for Russia to do this instead of fair and reasonable, and after it has been clearly proven that the election meddling went beyond simply telling Americans the truth about their government, the question then becomes what, if anything, should be done about it?

If you look at the actions that this administration has taken over the last year and a half, the answer to that question appears to be harsh sanctions, NATO expansionism, selling arms to Ukraine, throwing out diplomats, increasing military presence along Russia’s border, a Nuclear Posture Review which is much more aggressive toward Russia, repeatedly bombing Syria, and just generally creating more and more opportunities for something to go catastrophically wrong with one of the two nations’ aging, outdated nuclear arsenals, setting off a chain of events from which there is no turning back and no surviving.

And the pundits and politicians keep pushing for more and more escalations, at this very moment braying with one voice that Trump must aggressively confront Putin about Mueller’s indictments or withdraw from the peace talks. But is it worth it? Is it worth risking the life of every terrestrial organism to, what? What specifically would be gained that makes increasing the risk of nuclear catastrophe worthwhile? Making sure nobody interferes in America’s fake elections? I’d need to see a very clear and specific case made, with a ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ list and “THE POTENTIAL DEATH OF LITERALLY EVERYTHING” written in big red letters at the top of the ‘cons’ column.

Rallying the world to cut off Russia from the world stage and cripple its economy has been been a goal of the US power establishment since the collapse of the Soviet Union, so there’s no reason to believe that even the people who are making the claims against Russia actually believe them. The goal is crippling Russia to handicap China, and ultimately to shore up global hegemony for the US-centralized empire by preventing the rise of any rival superpowers. The sociopathic alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies who control that empire are willing to threaten nuclear confrontation in order to ensure their continued dominance. All of their actions against Russia since 2016 have had everything to do with establishing long-term planetary dominance and nothing whatsoever to do with election meddling.

Those five things would need to happen before I’d be willing to jump aboard the “Russia! Russia!” train. Until then I’ll just keep pointing to the total lack of evidence and how very, very far the CIA/CNN Russia narrative is from credibility.

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*     Zie: ‘Two Big “Russia! Russia!” Stories Released Days Before Trump-Putin Summit

**    Vanmorgen op Radio1 bij de ‘onafhankelijke’ zendgemachtigde NOS, VS correspondent Wouter Zwart. Deze enorme leugenaar durfde keihard te zeggen dat er bergen bewijs zijn voor de aanklachten tegen 12 Russische officieren, die de computers van de democraten zouden hebben gekraakt….. ‘Bergen bewijs‘ die niemand mag inzien…… Later zal ik hier nog een bericht over opstellen. Hier nog een artikel van Blik op NOS Journaal over deze Zwart met commentaar op de top tussen Putin en Trump: ‘Wouter Zwart (NOS) desinformeert over Putin-Trump Top‘ (klik ook op het label Wouter Zwart, direct onder dit bericht)

***  GTFO: Get The Fuck Out

**** Rachel Maddow, een radio en tv presentator MSNBC

Zie ook:

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Putin Summit‘ (van Ray McGovern, ex-CIA en William Binney, ex-NSA medewerker)

 ‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

en voor het tegenovergestelde (ofwel zoals de waard is, vertrouwt hij zijn gasten): CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………‘ (overigens ook Johnstone wijst hierop in haar artikel)