De AIVD vond het tijd nog even de angst voor en haat tegen moslims onder het volk aan te jagen, door 112 terreuraanslagen in westerse landen te onderzoeken.
In de periode van 2004 tot 2018 werden volgens de AIVD dus 112 aanslagen gepleegd door moslim terroristen, waarvan driekwart plaatsvonden in de afgelopen 5 jaar en dat heeft volgens de AIVD alles te maken met de opkomst van IS…….
De AIVD wil met deze cijfers bijdragen aan meer ‘objectieve kennis’ over in het westen gepleegde aanslagen…… Vandaar dat de AIVD stelt dat de aanslagen werden gepleegd vanuit een jihadistisch motief….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja, echt uiterst ‘objectief!!’
Alsof er in die 14 jaar tijd geen aanslagen werden gepleegd door ultra rechts, of beter gezegd door fascisten…… Blijkbaar horen die gegevens niet thuis in ‘een objectieve rapportage’ van de geldverslindende organisatie als de AIVD…….
Telkens weer wijst de AIVD naar IS als de grote promotor van terreuraanslagen, waar de AIVD stekeblind is voor de onder aanvoering van de VS gepleegde grootschalige westerse terreur in moslimlanden, waar het westen niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken heeft…….
Dick Schoof, de topgraaier van de AIVD kan het zich blijkbaar niet voorstellen dat terreur andere terreur oproept, ondanks dat de VS met behulp van een aantal NAVO-lidstaten, waaronder Nederland, vanaf 2001 meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen in massamoorden om het leven heeft gebracht in met name moslimlanden….. Vergelijk dat eens met het aantal doden dat door moslimaanslagen is gevallen, en stop maar met het noemen van 9/11, daar het meer dan duidelijk is dat de Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC werden neergehaald middels explosieven….*
Massamoorden gepleegd in de illegale oorlogen die de VS is aangegaan tegen meerdere moslimlanden, een grotere vorm van terreur is bijna niet te bedenken…… Ook vindt Schoof het normaal dat de VS middels drones al duizenden mensen heeft vermoord, waar meer dan 90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht, terwijl alleen het vermoorden van verdachten al zonder meer als een ernstige vorm van terreur moet worden gezien……
Blijkbaar vonden Schoof en zijn AIVD het niet nodig om uit te zoeken, hoeveel van de 112 aanslagen werden gepleegd door daders die zich al in het vizier van geheime diensten als de AIVD bevonden, je kan er donder op zeggen dat dit in alle 112 aanslagen het geval was…… Ondanks dat schreeuwen dit soort waardeloze diensten om meer geld……
Nogmaals: Schoof en zijn AIVD zorgen alleen voor meer haat tegen en angst voor moslims, waardoor moslimjongeren nog moeilijker aan een baan zullen komen en dan durft Schoof te stellen ‘objectief’ te zijn……
Kortom dat hele AIVD onderzoek rammelt aan alle kanten en is bovendien uitermate gekleurd…… Weg met de waardeloze geldverslindende flutorganisatie AIVD!!
* Je moet je bij dat soort aanslagen afvragen wie daar het meest belang bij had en dat is het militair-industrieel complex van de VS, dat door de politiek in de VS op haar wenken wordt bediend…. Het complex dat een nieuwe oorlog nodig had, na het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie begin 90er jaren van de vorige eeuw…… Bovendien zouden er servers hebben gestaan in de Twin Towers, die bij vernieling een fiks deel van de VS schulden deed ‘verdampen….’ Het is bepaald niet alleen daarom dat geheime diensten uit de VS, waaronder de de CIA en de NSA, verantwoordelijk waren voor de planning en (gedeeltelijke) uitvoering van deze aanslagen…..
Caitlin
Johnstone schreef een artikel op haar site waarin ze een
uitspraak van Bolton aanhaalde, waarin hij openlijk stelde dat het
goed is om te liegen over oorlog (en oorlogsmisdaden, iets dat
oorlogsmisdadiger Bolton er uiteraard niet bij vertelde)
Johnstone
kreeg van Whitney Webb een video uit 2010 waarin psychopaat Bolton deze en
andere ongelofelijke uitspraken durfde te doen. Alsof het zijn zaak
extra zou ondersteunen haalde Bolton een uitspraak aan van Winston
Churchill (die in de 20er jaren van de vorige eeuw nog mosterdgas
inzette tegen bedoeïenen in wat nu Irak is…..), de vertaling van deze uitspraak komt ongeveer neer op: de waarheid in een oorlog is zo belangrijk dat deze omringd
moet worden door leugen lijfwachten….. (de Engelse versie die Bolton gebruikte vind je in het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Johnstone)
Om zijn
uitspraak nog meer kracht bij te zetten stelde Bolton dat het
noodzakelijk was om te liegen over D-day….. Alsof dit ook maar
enigszins is te vergelijken met de illegale oorlogen die de VS sinds
WOII voert, dit wel of niet in combinatie met een geheime
economische oorlog, om zo een opstand te veroorzaken, waarmee een
regime verandering zou kunnen worden doorgedrukt…..
Als het voorgaande niet lukt staat uiteraard het scenario van een VS invasie nog ter
beschikking, ook al een beproefd recept van de VS. Naast geheime
militaire CIA acties en het vermoorden van verdachten middels drones (waar meer dan
90% van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht), heeft de VS sinds
het eind van WOII meer dan 22,5 miljoen mensen vermoord (waarbij de VS
deels ook de NAVO gebruikte, waarover dit land permanent het
opperbevel voert…)…..
Lees het
ontluisterend verhaal van Johnstone en zegt het voort, we zijn meer
dan overtijd als het gaat om het blind zijn bij het overgrote deel
van de westerse bevolking voor de grootschalige terreur die de VS
gebruikt tegen een fiks deel van de wereld…….. Terreur ook uit
onze naam, zo was Nederland betrokken bij de voorbereiding van de
oorlog tegen Irak, die ons land ook nog eens politiek en militair
steunde……. Terreur die mede met ons belastinggeld werd en wordt uitgeoefend…..
Om over de enorme kosten die oorlogsvoering met zich meebrengen maar te zwijgen, kosten
voor wederopbouw van het land dat door de VS in puin werd gelegd,
kosten voor behandeling van oorlogsslachtoffers en de kosten die
worden gemaakt voor vluchtelingen (waar de ellende voor deze mensen
niet eens in geld is uit te drukken…), vluchtelingen die met vele
duizenden al zijn verdronken in de Middellandse en Egeïsche Zee…..
Kosten als de 6 miljard euro die de EU aan Turkije gaf om
vluchtelingen af te schrikken, gevangen te zetten en tegen te houden als ze willen vluchten naar de EU, terwijl EU landen, zoals gezegd, mede hoofdverantwoordelijk zijn voor
de reden waarom deze mensen hun moederland ontvluchtten……
De brutaliteit die oorlogshitsers als de topman van Washington Institute Of Near East Policy (WINEP), Patrick Clawson, ten toon spreiden is ongekend, zo pleitte deze smerige oorlogshitser openlijk voor een false flag operatie om zo een reden te creëren waarmee de VS Iran (zogenaamd legitiem) aan kan vallen (de link naar dat gebeuren vind je in het artikel van Johnstone). Met die strijdbijl heeft de VS al veel vaker gehakt, neem de reden voor deelname van de VS aan de Eerste en Tweede Wereldoorlog, of de oorlog van de VS tegen Noord-Vietnam……
Het artikel van Johnstone nam ik over van Anti-Media:
That
Time John Bolton Said It’s Good to Lie About War
(CJ Opinion) — Journalist
Whitney Webb recently tweeted a
2010 video clip I’d never seen before featuring US National
Security Advisor John Bolton defending the use of deception in
advancing military agendas, which highlights something we should all
be paying attention to as Trump administration foreign policy becomes
increasingly Boltonized.
On
a December 2010 episode of Fox News’ Freedom
Watch,
Bolton and the show’s host Andrew Napolitano were debating
about recent WikiLeaks publications,
and naturally the subject of government secrecy came up.
“Now
I want to make the case for secrecy in government when it comes to
the conduct of national security affairs, and possibly for deception
where that’s appropriate,” Bolton
said.
“You know Winston Churchill said during World War Two that in
wartime truth is so important it should be surrounded by a bodyguard
of lies.”
“Do
you really believe that?” asked an incredulous Napolitano.
“Absolutely,”
Bolton replied.
“You
would lie in order to preserve the truth?”
“If
I had to say something I knew was false to protect American national
security, I would do it,” Bolton answered.
“I
don’t think we’re often faced with that difficulty, but would I
lie about where the D-Day invasion was going to take place to deceive
the Germans, you’d better believe it,” Bolton continued.
“Why
do people in the government think that the laws of society or the
rules don’t apply to
them?”
Napolitano asked.
“Because
they are not dealing in the civil society we live in under the
Constitution,” Bolton replied. “They are dealing in the anarchic
environment internationally where different rules apply.”
“But
you took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and the Constitution
mandates certain openness and certain fairness,” Napolitano
protested. “You’re willing to do away with that in order to
attain a temporary military goal?”
“I
think as Justice Jackson said in a famous decision, the Constitution
is not a suicide pact,” Bolton said. “And I think defending the
United States from foreign threats does require actions that in a
normal business environment in the United States we would find
unprofessional. I don’t make any apology for it.”
So
that’s a thing. And it’s important for us to know it’s a thing
because of the way things are heating up in Iran right now, since
Bolton’s fingerprints are
all over it.
This
is an environment that is ripe for deceptions of all sorts, and,
given what Bolton said on live television nearly a decade ago, we
would all do very well to remain very, very skeptical of any and all
news we hear about Iran going forward. If for example you hear that
within this environment of escalated tensions and military posturing
Iran or one of its “proxies” has attacked the United States in
some way, your immediate response should be one of intense skepticism
about what the mass media talking heads are telling you to believe.
“I
frankly think that crisis initiation is really tough, and it’s very
hard for me to see how the United States president can get us to war
with Iran,” Clawson
began.
(Can
I just pause here to note what a bizarre series of words that is?
“Get us to war with Iran?”
Get
us to the thing that every sane human being wants to avoid with every
fiber of their being? You want to “get us to” there? This is not
the kind of thing normal humans say. You only hear this kind of
insanity in the DC swamp where creatures like John Bolton have their
roots.)
“Which
leads me to conclude that if in fact compromise is not coming, that
the traditional way that America gets to war is what would be best
for US interests,” Clawson added. “Some people might think that
Mr. Roosevelt wanted to get us into the war… you may recall we had
to wait for Pearl Harbor. Some people might think that Mr. Wilson
wanted to get us into World War One; you may recall we had to wait
for the Lusitania episode. Some people might think that Mr. Johnson
wanted to get us into Vietnam; you may recall we had to wait for the
Gulf of Tonkin episode. We didn’t go to war with Spain until the
USS Maine exploded. And may I point out that Mr. Lincoln did not feel
that he could call out the Army until Fort Sumter was attacked, which
is why he ordered the commander at Fort Sumter to do exactly that
thing which the South Carolinians said would cause an attack.”
“So
if, in fact, the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be
best if somebody else started the war,” Clawson continued. “One
can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that
explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look
people, Iranian submarines periodically go down. Some day, one of
them might not come up. Who would know why? We can do a variety of
things, if we wish to increase the pressure (I’m not advocating
that) but I’m just suggesting that this is not an either/or
proposition — just sanctions have to succeed or other things.
We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians.
“We Know Where Your Kids Live”: How John Bolton Once Threatened an International Official
“John Bolton is a bully,” said José Bustani, a retired Brazilian diplomat. “I don’t know how people can work for him.”
theintercept.com
So
these are ideas that have been in circulation for many years. That
gun is loaded and ready to fire.
Bolton
trussed up his 2010 confession using an example that most people
would agree with: that it was reasonable for the Allied forces
to deliberately
deceive the Nazis about
the nature of the D-Day invasion. But we know John Bolton better than
that by now.
This PNAC
director and
architect of the Iraq war once
threatened to murder a foreign official’s children because
his successful diplomatic efforts were putting a damper on the
manufacturing of consent for the Iraq invasion. He wasn’t defending
the use of deception in crucial military options used to halt tyrants
trying to take over the world, he was defending the use of deception
in the senseless wars of aggression that he has built his political
career on advancing.
Take
everything you hear about Iran with a planet-sized grain of salt,
dear reader, and everything you hear about Venezuela too while we’re
on the subject. There are skillful manipulators who are hell bent on
toppling the governments of those nations, and they have absolutely
no problem whatsoever with deceiving you in order to facilitate that.
And they don’t believe the rules apply to them.
De Volkskrant ‘journalist’ Huib Modderkolk (‘what’s in a name?’) kwam met het bericht in zijn krant dat de AIVD onderzoek doet naar ‘een verborgen achterdeur’ (ja ja) die het Chinese bedrijf Huawei toegang zou geven tot de klantgegevens van één van de drie grote telecomproviders in ons land.
Niet is bekend om welke provider het gaat, noch de aard van de achterdeur en of deze eigenlijk ooit werd gebruikt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe kan je als ‘journalist’ dergelijke nonsens publiceren…..
Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dus ‘journalist’ Modderkolk kan in feite helemaal niets vertellen en verschuilt zich ook nog eens achter een gaande zijnd onderzoek, alsof hij zelf deel uitmaakt van de AIVD!! Zo ‘journalistiek zout’ heb ik het zelden gegeten!!
Een echte journalist zou dergelijk nieuws nooit brengen, immers niets is zeker, waarbij Modderkolk ook nog eens een bron aanhaalt, die hij niet met naam noemt…. Dat laatste hoeft geen probleem te zijn, maar dan moeten er wel degelijk echte bewijzen op tafel liggen dat e.e.a. is gebeurd en zelfs dat weet Modderkolk niet, of hij wil niet aangeven hoe of wat (of in dit geval beter: Hua en wei)…….
Totaal belachelijk en dan durft men nog te zeggen dat steeds meer landen grote moeite hebben om zaken te doen met Huawei, alsof men daar zelf opkwam en niet onder druk is gezet door de VS, die deze volkomen belachelijke onzin in de wereld bracht….. (en dat nog in een eerder door westerse politiek als gevaarlijk afgeschilderde handelsoorlog, die Trump begon tegen o.a. China en Rusland…..)
Modderkolk kan beter onderzoek instellen naar spionage door de VS, daarvoor zijn hele stapels aan bewijs te vinden, neem alleen al de CIA Vault 7 en Vault 8 documenten op WikiLeaks, waar men aangeeft op welke manieren er digitaal gespioneerd kan worden en hoe dit in de schoenen van een ander te schuiven……… Het is zeker dat de VS haar bevriende naties bespioneert, zelfs de telefoon van de Duitse premier Merkel was en is niet veilig, daarbij worden ook nog eens bepaalde achterhaalde gegevens die van belang zijn voor het bedrijfsleven in de VS, doorgegeven aan de grote bedrijven daar (bedrijfsspionage)…..
De AIVD gaat zelfs zover dat ze op verzoek van de VS gegevens die het middels computerinbraak heeft verkregen doorspeelt aan de VS, sterker nog ook de door de AIVD vergaarde metagegevens, beter verwoord als meta-informatie, wordt doorgespeeld aan de VS…… Daartussen zitten ook jouw en mijn computerdata, inclusief de mails die we versturen en ontvangen……
In Groot-Brittannië gaat men ‘ook lekker ver’: conservatieven (neoliberalen) stellen daar dat de uitlating van Huawei dat het niet spioneert, uiterst dubieus is……. In plaats van het aanvallen van Huawei gaat men daar dus in op de verdediging van een bedrijf en zonder dat er ook maar één bewijs is dat Huawei spioneert, stelt men doodleuk dat de verdediging van Huawei niet klopt, ofwel dat het bedrijf liegt (nogmaals: zonder een flinter aan bewijs daarvoor…)…. Te zot voor woorden!!
Belachelijk dat de westerse wereld, die Trump ziet als een imbeciel, toch alles navolgt wat deze psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger en zijn terreuradministratie te berde brengen…….
Vanmorgen werd bekendgemaakt dat Intel processors al zo’n 10 jaar lang lekken. Een onderzoek gedaan door de Vrije Universiteit, onder leiding van Herbert Bos van de VU, toonde dit lek aan (intussen zijn vergelijkbare onderzoeken elders tot dezelfde conclusie gekomen…). September vorig jaar gaf de onderzoeksgroep van de VU haar bevindingen door aan Intel, ‘logisch’ immers door de staat betaalde universiteiten, werken in eerste instantie voor overheden en bedrijven en na een aantal stations wil men nog wel eens wat voor het plebs doen……
Intel gaf aan dat het op de hoogte was van de bevindingen, dus al voor september 2018……. Intel stelde dat het zelf gegevens zou publiceren en de tekortkomingen via updates zou herstellen (het is maar zeer de vraag of hardware veilig is te maken middels software……). De onderzoeksgroep heeft Intel gvd tot mei dit jaar de tijd te geven haar klanten te waarschuwen, anders zou het zelf naar buiten komen met de gegevens over de lekke Intel processors en zo gebeurde dus vandaag….
Beste bezoeker, weet niet hoe jij denkt over deze zaak, maar wat mij betreft is het een zware misdaad om mensen niet te waarschuwen voor dit lek, een lek waarmee wachtwoorden en zelfs betalingen kunnen worden achterhaald, zodanig dat kwaadwillenden hier misbruik van konden en kunnen maken.
Intussen is het niet duidelijk op welke termijn er updates zullen komen waarmee de lekken gedicht kunnen worden (zoals gezegd: als dat al mogelijk is)…….
Op WikiLeaks werd met de Vault 7 en Vault 8 documenten al aangetoond dat de CIA (en andere geheime diensten van de VS) methoden hebben ontwikkeld waarmee men kon en kan hacken en dus spioneren, plus het laten voorkomen dat deze hack door een andere land dan de VS werd gedaan…….
Voorts bleek dat de VS ook bevriende naties bespioneert, zelfs de smartphone van de Duitse premier Merkel werd gehackt, iets waar amper drukte over werd gemaakt….. Nu ook nog eens lekken op een enorm aantal servers, computers en laptops wereldwijd, een lek gemaakt door een VS bedrijf………
Je moet er wel van uitgaan dat dit lek niet expres is gecreëerd, echter als morgen blijkt dat Intel dit lek met opzet heeft gemaakt onder druk van de CIA en/of de NSA, zou me dat weer eens niet verbazen……..
En over welke landen maken westerse politici met de VS voorop, gesteund door de westerse reguliere media zich druk als het om de besproken zaken gaat? Juist, Rusland en China, zonder ook maar een flinter aan bewijs voor de beschuldigingen, zoals het leugengeval Russiagate………
Hier belachelijke tekst over de veiligheid van haar producten die Intel in een PDF heeft vervat:
We
recognize that innovation, growth, and the continued success of our
business and the high-tech industry depend on individuals’ trustin
their use of technology and in the responsible, protected collection
and processing of their data. Intel helps improve cybersecurity both
as a consumer and a developer of technology. For more detail, see
“Respecting Human Rights” later in this section of the report.
Product
Security
The
security of our products is one of our most important priorities. We
build security into our products,1 and we encourage our customers and
others in the technology industry to do the same. We strive to
design, manufacture, and sell the world’s most secure technology
products, and we are continuously innovating and enhancing security
capabilities for our products. (ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)
The
security of our products is an ongoing priority, not a one-time
event. It begins with our Security Development Lifecycle, where
security is engineered into our products from the outset. Once
products are released, we continue to actively support them and
address vulnerabilities. Beyond that, we are committed to working
with the industry to share hardware and software innovations that
will accelerate industry-level progress in security. We also are
committed to funding academic and independent research into the
prevention and mitigation of potential security threats. Read more
about Product Security at Intel here.
In
early 2018, a team of security researchers disclosed several software
analysis methods that, when used for malicious purposes, have the
potential to improperly infer data values from many types of
computing devices with many different vendors’ processors and
operating systems. We have worked closely with many other technology
companies to develop an industry-wide approach to mitigate these
issues promptly and constructively.(ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!) For more, read these facts about
the security research and our Security-First Pledge.
Eerder
doken folders van de VS op over hoe Nicaraguanen de boel in eigen
land kunnen saboteren*, om daarmee onvrede onder de rest van het volk
te kweken en een opstand te forceren en zo de zittende,
democratische gekozen regering ten val te brengen……
Nu heeft
de school voor special forces (commando’s die ook voor de CIA geheime
missies uitvoeren) een boek uitgebracht dat is geschreven aan de hand van militaire acties, o.a. gericht op het
omverwerpen van regeringen die de VS niet welgevallig waren…….
De
periode waarover in het boek wordt gesproken loopt van 1941 tot 2003,
waarin 47 zaken worden besproken, die wel of niet zijn gelukt. Vreemd
genoeg worden in het boek niet de vele staatsgrepen genoemd waarbij
de VS ‘rechtmatige verzetsbewegingen’ steunde…. ‘Rechtmatige
verzetsbewegingen’, die veelal door de CIA op poten werden gezet en
waarbij werd gezorgd voor militaire training en de levering van
wapens en ander oorlogstuig, een gang van zaken die zich o.a. in
Venezuela heeft voltrokken en nog steeds voltrekt……
In het
boek wordt ook de groeiende onrust in het Midden-Oosten genoemd, die
te wijten zouden zijn aan handelingen van de Sovjet-Unie…… ha!
ha! ha! ha! ha! De brutaliteit!! De VS heeft de lont in kruitvat
Midden-Oosten aangestoken en dat al in de 80er jaren** met leveringen
van onderdelen voor gifgas aan Saddam Hoessein en iets buiten dat gebied, de bewapening en training (door de CIA) van de Taliban in Afghanistan….. Intussen heeft de
VS in het Midden-Oosten, alleen deze eeuw al, meer dan 2 miljoen
moslims vermoord: kinderen, vrouwen, ouden van dagen en mannen…..
Middels het uitoefenen van grootschalige terreur (in illegale oorlogen) hebben de VS en de NAVO (onder militair opperbevel van de VS)
zelfs terreur op de straten van de EU gecreëerd en hebben ze de
fascisten de wind in de zeilen gegeven door de enorme
vluchtelingenstromen die opgang kwamen en nog steeds komen door de
illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië………
Beste
bezoeker, moet zeggen dat ik blij ben met het nieuwe boek van de
special forces, daar het eens te meer een bewijs is voor de
grootschalige terreur die de VS in een groot deel van de wereld
uitoefent, een zaak die nooit wordt genoemd door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media……
In het
volgende artikel van Jason Ditz, eerder gepubliceerd op ANTIWAR en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media ook een link naar een
PDF voor het terreurboek van de special forces:
US
Special Forces School Publishes New Book on Overthrowing Governments
The
official study covers 47 distinct cases of US special forces trying
to intervene in various countries from 1941-2003. It did not include
some of the more famous US-backed coups, as the study said they did
not involve “legitimate
resistance movements.“
This
meant a few pages covering each incident, attempts to sort them into
various categories, and determinations if they were successful or
failures. Overwhelmingly, they determined their own interventions
were successful.
Apparently
anticipating the problems in years to come, the study also addressed
mounting unrest across the Middle East in its early portion, and
waved this away by arguing that it was generally the fault of the
Soviet Union, and would’ve happened no matter what the US did.
* Hier de link naar het PDFmet een CIA sabotage handleiding. Niet nodig te vermelden dat deze handleiding ook werd en wordt gebruikt voor andere terreuracties van de VS in Latijns-Amerika…. Neem wat dit betreft alleen al de sabotage eerder dit jaar van de Venezolaanse elektriciteitscentrale, al is die waarschijnlijk geregisseerd en uitgevoerd door de CIA zelf……
** In feite zelfs eerder dan de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, als je de enorme (m.n. militaire) steun van de VS voor de illegaal gestichte staat Israël in ogenschouw neemt, Israël dat zelf oorlogen uitlokte, dan wel gebruik maakte van false flag operaties om zo de enorme terreur van het Israëlische leger in het buitenland te kunnen legitimeren……
De
volkomen belachelijke situatie waar de VS een interim-president heeft
aangewezen in het soevereine land Venezuela, leidt tot o.a. heftige situaties bij de
Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington. Deze interim-president, Juan Guaidó, is een fascist die voor deze handeling van de VS, gesteund door o.a. Canada
en de EU, niet eens bekend was bij meer dan 95% van de Venezolanen……
Deze Guaidó werd door de terreuradministratie Trump, in samenwerking met diensten als de CIA en NSA, plus de onvoorwaardelijke steun van de reguliere westerse media en politici, gebombardeerd tot
oppositieleider in Venezuela……. In werkelijkheid was Guaidó de voorzitter van een
onbetekenende oppositionele splinterpartij…. Niet voor niets ook dat hij voor zijn ultieme couppoging tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Maduro, slechts een paar honderd mensen op straat kreeg….
Met deze
terreurdaad* van de VS tegen een soeverein land, zijn ook de
ambassades van Venezuela in het buitenland niet veilig. Het
ambassadepersoneel in Washington mag niet meer worden voorzien van
voedsel, daarvoor zorgen politie, geheime dienst en gewelddadige
Venezolanen die in de VS wonen……. Met veel geweld worden mensen
belaagd en zelfs gearresteerd, mensen die het opnemen voor het zittende
ambassade personeel en hen voedsel proberen te geven…… Intussen heeft de VS de elektriciteit en het water voor de ambassade afgesloten; de terreur van de VS kent letterlijk geen grenzen……
Zo werd Gerry Condone (van Veterans for Peace >> VFP) met fiks geweld door meerdere agenten tegen de grond gewerkt, daar hij het ambassadepersoneel een komkommer toegooide…… Voor dit feit werd hij 24 uur vastgehouden in een politiecel……. Hoe is het gvd mogelijk??!!!
Ongelofelijk
dat de VN niet al lang de VS heeft opgeroepen de Venezolaanse
soevereiniteit te respecteren en het ambassade personeel ongemoeid te
laten, zeker nu blijkt dat de bevolking van Venezuela voor het
overgrote deel nog steeds achter haar democratisch gekozen president Maduro staat……
De
schrijver van het volgende artikel, Ray McGovern, ziet voorts een
opvallende gelijkenis tussen het VS van de 21ste en het nazi-Duitse terreurbewind in de 20ste eeuw. Hiervoor citeert hij o.a. Raimond Pretzel, die schreef onder de naam Sebastian Haffner. Opvallend in dit deel van het artikel het feit dat de sociaal democratische top zich bijzonder snel aansloot bij de nazi’s, nog voordat deze partij, de SPD, werd verboden…… Maart 1933 zouden een paar miljoen Duitsers klaar zijn geweest voor de strijd tegen het nazisme, echter hun leiders lieten het afweten en collaboreerden met het nazi-geteisem, anderen ontvluchtten het land….
Beste bezoeker, lees het hieronder opgenomen artikel, een uitstekende analyse en
een aanklacht tegen de omgang van de VS met landen waar het niets te
vertellen zou moeten hebben, plus de zojuist geschetste situatie op
de straten van Washington, waar zoals gezegd neonazi’s, gesteund door de politie en
geheime dienst, terreur uitoefenen tegen goedwillende mensen…….
We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
And on Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically.
Ray McGovern explains.
By
Ray McGovern
May
11, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – Gerry
Condon, President of Veterans For Peace, was bloodied and “taken to
ground,” on Wednesday night for trying to get food to people inside
the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. The activists inside, some of
whom have lived in the embassy for weeks with permission from the
Venezuelan government, are protecting the premises from protestors
who support the self-declared president Juan Guaido.
With
the acquiescence of Washington police and the Secret Service, the
protestors have been able to block food from entering the embassy.
On Wednesday night electricity was cut to the building. One
activist tossing a loaf of bread to a window was arrested earlier
this week for using a “missile.” Now Condon has been
manhandled and nabbed for throwing a cucumber.
We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
On Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically. Until
now it has been an almost imperceptibly gradual process, like the
proverbial frog in boiling water.
Photo
and video of Condon’s arrest (story continues below):
I am stunned. US @SecretService just slammed the head of the President of Veterans for Peace into the cement because he tried to deliver a cucumber to Embassy Protectors. They let him bleed on the ground and did not provide med. attention. @DrMFlowers had to call an ambulance.
(eerst iemand mishandelen en dan zogenaamd begaan met een medisch hulptasje op de rug, Jerry Condone hulp bieden, terwijl hij duidelijk zichtbaar pijnlijk is geboeid door dezelfde collega’s die hem mishandelden….)
BREAKING: Police violently arrest the president of @VFPNational, Jerry Condone, for trying to get food into the embassy. He is left with lacerations on his face. @UrsulaRozum also arrested. Opposition walks away with stolen food. pic.twitter.com/KhPvSAtC05
Hier een paar video’s van YouTube, waaronder een tweede video die in het origineel is opgenomen”
Of
course, this has happened before. I quoted these
words in this article I
wrote for Consortium
News on
December 27, 2007:
“There
are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I
and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in
Germany, as if from a box at the theater. … Perhaps the only
comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later….”
The
words are those of Sebastian Haffner (pen name for Raimund Pretzel),
who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi
takeover, and wrote a first-hand account.
His children found the manuscript when he died in 1999 and published
it the following year as “Geschichte eines Deutschen” (The Story
of a German).
The
book became an immediate bestseller and has been translated into 20
languages—in English as “Defying Hitler.”
I
recently learned from his daughter Sarah, an artist in Berlin,
that today is
the 100th anniversary of
Haffner’s birth. She had seen an earlier article in which I quoted
her father and e-mailed to ask me to “write some more about the
book and the comparison to Bush’s America. … This is almost
unbelievable.”
More
about Haffner below. Let’s set the stage first by recapping some of
what has been going on here in the U.S. that may have resonance for
readers familiar with the Nazi ascendancy, noting how “odd” it is
that the frontal attack on our Constitutional rights is met with such
“calm, superior indifference.”
After
suppressing for two and a half years the explosive story of the
Bush/Cheney surveillance of Americans in gross violation of the
Fourth Amendment, top New York Times officials decided to
let the rest of us in on the fact that the George W. Bush
administration had been eavesdropping on American citizens without
the court warrants required by the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance
Act (FISA) of 1978. Not to mention the U.S. Constitution.
The Times had
learned of this well before the election in 2004 and acquiesced to
White House entreaties to suppress the damaging information.
In
late fall 2005 when Times correspondent James Risen’s
book, “State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush
Administration,” revealing the warrantless eavesdropping was being
printed, Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.,
recognized that he could procrastinate no longer.
It
would simply be too embarrassing to have Risen’s book on the
street, with Sulzberger and his associates pretending that this
explosive eavesdropping story did not fit Adolph Ochs’s trademark
criterion: All The News That’s Fit To Print.
(The Times’
own ombudsman, Public Editor Byron Calame, branded the newspaper’s
explanation for the long delay in publishing this story “woefully
inadequate.”)
When
Sulzberger told his friends in the White House that he could no
longer hold off on publishing in the newspaper, he was summoned to
the Oval Office for a counseling session with the president on Dec.
5, 2005. Bush tried in vain to talk him out of putting the story in
the Times.
The
truth would out; part of it, at least.
Unnamed
Program
What
followed struck me as bizarre. The day after the Dec.
16 Times feature article exposing the
Fourth-Amendment-trashing program, the president of the United States
publicly admitted to a demonstrably impeachable offense.
Authorizing
illegal electronic surveillance was a key provision of the second
article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. On July 27,
1974, this and two other articles of impeachment were approved by
bipartisan votes in the House Judiciary Committee.
Bush
took a frontal approach, Far from expressing regret, he bragged about
having authorized the surveillance “more than 30 times since the
September the 11th attacks,” and said he would continue to do so.
The president also said:
“Leaders
in Congress have been briefed more than a dozen times on this
authorization and the activities conducted under it.”
On
Dec. 19, 2005, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-NSA
Director Michael Hayden held a press conference to answer questions
about the as yet unnamed surveillance program.
Gonzales
was asked why the White House decided to flout FISA rather than
attempt to amend it, choosing instead a “backdoor approach.”
He answered:
“We
have had discussions with Congress…as to whether or not FISA could
be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat,
and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”
It
Had to Do With Us
It
was not difficult to
infer that the surveillance program must
have been of such scope and intrusiveness that, even amid highly
stoked fear, it didn’t have a prayer for passage.
It
turns out we didn’t know the half of it.
Bear
in mind that when this illegal surveillance program began, it had
nothing to do with terrorism, an issue that did not really appear on
the new administration’s radar screen until a week before 9/11. …
So this until-recently-unknown pre-9/11 facet of the “Terrorist
Surveillance Program” was not related to Osama bin Laden or to
whomever he and his associates might be speaking. It had to do with
us.
We
know that the Democrats briefed on the “Terrorist Surveillance
Program” include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, (the one with
the longest tenure on the House Intelligence Committee), Rep. Jane
Harman, D-California, and former and current chairmen of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, D-FL, and Jay Rockefeller, D-WV,
respectively.
May
one interpret their lack of public comment on the news that the
snooping began well before 9/11 as a sign they were co-opted and then
sworn to secrecy?
It
is an important question. Were the appropriate leaders in Congress
informed that within days of George W. Bush’s first inauguration
the NSA electronic vacuum cleaner began to suck up information on you
and me, despite the FISA law and the Fourth Amendment?
Are
they all complicit? And are Democratic leaders about to cave in and
grant retroactive immunity to those telecommunications
corporations—AT&T and Verizon—which made millions by winking
at the law and the Constitution?
(Qwest,
to its credit, heeded the advice of its general counsel who said that
what NSA wanted done was clearly illegal.)
What’s
going on here? [December 2007] Have congressional leaders no
sense for what is at stake?
Lately
the adjective “spineless” has come into vogue in describing
congressional Democrats—no offense to invertebrates.
Nazis
and Their Enablers
You
don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep.
In
his journal, Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish
submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like
event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27,
1933.
Haffner
finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything
out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone
would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be
broken into.”
But
it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most
vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?
In
the elections of March 4, 1933, shortly after the Reichstag fire, the
Nazi party garnered only 44 percent of the vote. Only the “cowardly
treachery” of the Social Democrats and other parties to whom 56
percent of the German people had entrusted their votes made it
possible for the Nazis to seize full power. Haffner adds:
“It
is in the final analysis only that betrayal that explains the almost
inexplicable fact that a great nation, which cannot have consisted
entirely of cowards, fell into ignominy without a fight.”
The
Social Democratic leaders betrayed their followers—“for the most
part decent, unimportant individuals.” In May, the party leaders
sang the Nazi anthem; in June the Social Democratic party was
dissolved.
The
middle-class Catholic party Zentrum folded in less than a month, and
in the end supplied the votes necessary for the two-thirds majority
that “legalized” Hitler’s dictatorship.
As
for the right-wing conservatives and German nationalists: “Oh God,”
writes Haffner, “what an infinitely dishonorable and cowardly
spectacle their leaders made in 1933 and continued to make afterward.
… They went along with everything: the terror, the persecution of
Jews. … They were not even bothered when their own party was banned
and their own members arrested.”
In
sum: “There was not a single example of energetic defense, of
courage or principle. There was only panic, flight, and desertion. In
March 1933, millions were ready to fight the Nazis. Overnight they
found themselves without leaders. … At the moment of truth, when
other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans
collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and
suffered a nervous breakdown. … The result is today the nightmare
of the rest of the world.”
This
is what can happen when virtually all are intimidated.
Our
Founding Fathers were not oblivious to this; thus, James Madison
wrote:
“I
believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations. … The means of defense against
foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at
home.”
We
cannot say we weren’t warned.
Ray
McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical
Church of the Saviour in inner city Washington. He was a CIA analyst
for 27 years and presidential briefer and is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
* De terreurdaad zich te mengen in de binnenlandpolitiek van een soeverein land, dit nog naast de eerst geheime economische oorlog tegen het Venezolaanse volk….. Een oorlog die intussen is veranderd in een officieel sanctiebeleid, waarmee de situatie voor de Venezolanen er nog beroerder uit is komen te zien….. Gelukkig krijgt het land veel steun, niet alleen van het Rode Kruis en de VN, maar ook van onder andere China, Rusland en Cuba…..
Het volgende artikel ligt al veel te lang op de spreekwoordelijke plank, terwijl het wel degelijk uitermate belangrijke informatie bevat: Avaaz is een smerige organisatie, die onder het mom van goede doelen petities de stank van lijken om zich heen heeft verzameld en zelfs aandringt op oorlogshandelingen……
Avaaz kan zonder meer gezien worden als een instrument van de VS terreurmachine, inclusief haar oorlogshond NAVO……
Zo heeft Avaaz aangedrongen een ‘no-fly zone’ in te stellen boven Libië, door politici, het publiek en de media continu te voeden met leugens over het bewind Khadaffi (al hadden die politici en media daar al geen moeite mee) en heeft zo meegewerkt aan de vernietiging van het eens rijkste land van Afrika…..
Libië, en land waar zo ongeveer alles gratis was en van goede kwaliteit, zoals onderwijs, medische zorg, huisvesting en de levering van energie. Wat betreft het onderwijs: jongens en meisjes mochten op kosten van de staat studeren in het buitenland, waar ook nog eens de huur en andere verblijfskosten werden betaald door de Libische staat……
Met behulp van Avaaz is Libië verworden tot zo ongeveer het armste land van Afrika, het ontbreekt de bevolking aan van alles en meisjes mogen niet meer naar school, laat staan studeren…… Tienduizenden Libiërs verloren het leven, niet alleen vanwege de NAVO bombardementen (Nederlandse F16s werden gebruikt om doelen aan te wijzen), maar ook door etnische zuiveringen….. Er worden nu zelfs openbare slavenmarkten gehouden in Libië, en de oorlog is nog steeds gaande…… Nogmaals: met dank aan Avaaz…..
De Avaaz topgraaiers hebben er voorts geen probleem mee om op de foto te gaan met oorlogsmisdadigers als Petraeus…..
Ook in Syrië heeft Avaaz een zeer kwalijke rol gespeeld en de VS agressie, beter gezegd: terreur, van A tot Z gesteund……..
Mensen het is even een zit het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Cory Morningstar, eerder gepubliceerd op The Art of Innihilation, maar de schellen vallen je van de ogen, wat een smerig zootje dat Avaaz en geeft het door, laat je niet langer foppen door deze verraderlijke organisatie!!
SYRIA:
AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE
September
17, 2014
Date: 27
Jan 2015
By: admin
“The
Ivy League bourgeoisie who sit at the helm of the non-profit
industrial complex will one day be known simply as charismatic
architects of death. Funded by the ruling class oligarchy, the role
they serve for their funders is not unlike that of corporate media.
Yet, it appears that global society is paralyzed in a collective
hypnosis – rejecting universal social interests, thus rejecting
reason, to instead fall in line with the position of the powerful
minority that has seized control, a minority that systematically
favours corporate interests.” — From
the article Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the
Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
10, 2012
The
organization Avaaz was instrumentalin
building public approval for the No Fly Zone for the illegal invasion
of Libya in 2011. The NATO-led destabilization/illegal war in Libya
resulted in the annihilation of a formerly sovereign country that has
since descended into brutal chaos. Tens upon thousands of Libyans
died and the most savage ethnic cleansing that the mind can imagine
has been widespread. The destruction of Libya has been nothing less
than a full-scale bloodbath.
Above
image from the Avaazwebsite: “Libya
No-Fly Zone: As Libyan
government jets drop bombs on the civilian population,
the UN Security Council will decide in 48 hours whether to impose a
no-fly zone to keep Qaddafi’s warplanes on the ground.” [Emphasis
in original][Further
discussion of the flag within this Avaaz image can be read in
the epilogue.]
Above
image: Avaaz takes credit for the implementation of the Libya No Fly
Zone. [Further
Reading: “Did
Libya’s Citizens Demand Foreign Intervention?”A
ridiculous question, yet according to Avaaz, the answer is yes.]
When
Avaaz rolled out the same rinse, lather and repeat campaign for the
seizing of Syria, the public did not fall prey as easily. The
campaign failed. Below are three separate links to the Avaaz campaign
calling for a no-fly zone over Syria.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_the_last_straw_0/(June
14, 2013) (Avaaz alleges a “rape crisis” committed by soldiers of
the Syrian army – the same tactic used to incite hatred against
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that was later discredited.)
Of
the Avaaz campaigns pressing for a no-fly zone (air strikes) over
Syria that flourished in June of 2013, at least two employed the use
of chemical weapons to incite fear and hatred toward the Assad
government. It does not take much stretch of the imagination to
consider Avaaz had inside knowledge of the upcoming chemical attack
that would take place in outer Damascus approximately 10 weeks later.
Considering Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello’s connection to the
Obama administration and its well known war criminals, it is entirely
plausible that Avaaz was churning out propaganda that would lead up
to and sensationalize a false
flag attack.
Photo:
Avaaz co-founder and Congressman Tom Perriello with war
criminal,
General David Petraeus (far left). Under this Flickr photo the
caption reads: “Passing the Baton, United
States Institute of Peace” [2009]
[Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan | Source]
[In July, 2011, “General David Petraeus was approved as CIA
Director by both the Senate Intelligence Committee and then the full
Senate, whose vote was an astounding 94-0,
astounding because this is a man who was deeply implicated in war
crimes,
including torture.” Source]
[Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013]
The
August 30, 2013 article “On
the Eve of an Illegal Attack on Syria, Avaaz/350.org Board Members
Beat the Drums of War” documents Avaaz links imploring a
no-fly zone on Syria – both public links have since been removed.
The article also
featured 350.org board member Van Jones calling for air strikes on
Syria. (Adding twisted irony, Van Jones also serves as co-founder and
executive director of the Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights.
The co-opting of deceased civil rights revolutionaries to advance the
goals of hegemony has become common practice within these
foundation-financed projects.)
Screenshots
of an email from co-founder of Avaaz, Ricken Patel to Avaaz
subscribers dated August 27, 2014 can be found here (1)
and here(2).
The email from Patel represented a last-ditch effort to garner
support for a no-fly zone as the US prepared to launch an attack on
Syria.
One
year earlier, in 2012 Avaaz was allegedly sponsoring
fabricated videos of
civilian massacres, to back deeper foreign intervention in Syria.
Fact-checking and videos appear to collaborate these
claims.
Jump
forward to 2014.
In
the September 8, 2014 article Pentagon
Planning Points to Possible Anti-Syria US Military Campaign,
author Stephen Gowans observes:
“Now,
it appears that Washington is on the cusp of pressing ahead with its
planned campaign of military action. The New York Times has reported
that ‘Pentagon planners envision a military campaign’ to destroy
ISIS ‘in its sanctuary inside Syria’ that could last ‘at least
36 months.’ According to The Wall Street Journal, airstrikes would
support anti-Assad fighters unaligned with ISIS, who would be
bankrolled by $500 million in US funding, and backed by a global
coalition, including the UK and Australia, that would ‘provide a
range of assistance, including humanitarian aid and weapons.’ These
countries could also join the United States in an air-war over
Syria.”
It
should not be considered a coincidence that at the same time, a
polished, sophisticated and highly financed “Save Syria” campaign
is being created in the board rooms of the Empire’s favourite
Harvard boys.
Where,
under the organization Avaaz, the public hasn’t acquiesced to an
air strike on Syria, the New York public relations firm Purpose
Inc. has stepped in.
Purpose
is a for-profit enterprise that is marketed to appear like a
non-profit. Their area of expertise is behavioural change.
“[Purpose]
has a non-profit arm, which incubates protests and accepts donations.
This is cross-subsidised by its for-profit arm, which makes money in
a variety of ways. It sells consulting services to big companies such
as Google and Audi, and to charities such as the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.” – The
Economist
GetUp,
Avaaz and Purpose co-founder Jeremy Heimans, 2010.
Purpose
Inc.: The Crème de la Crème Agents of Behavioural Change
Purpose
| Avaaz Co-Founders
Vision:
“Purpose is a global initiative that draws on leading technologies,
political organizing and behavioral
economics to
build powerful, tech-savvy movements that can transform
culture and
influence policy.”
Avaaz
and GetUp co-founders Jeremy
Heimans (CEO)
and David Madden [2] are also founders of the New York consulting
firm, Purpose Inc.
Avaaz
was created in part by MoveOn,
a Democratic Party associated Political Action Committee (or PAC),
formed in response to the impeachment of President Clinton. Avaaz and
MoveOn are funded in part by convicted inside-trader and billionaire
hedge fund mogul, George Soros.
Avaaz
affiliate James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of
Purpose at its inception in 2009.
The
secret behind the success of both Avaaz and Purpose is their reliance
upon and expertise in behavioural
change.
While
the behavioural change tactics used by Avaaz are on public display,
double-breasted, for-profit Purpose, with its non-profit arm, sells
their expertise behind the scenes to further the interest of hegemony
and capital. Whether it be a glossy campaign to
help facilitate yet another illegal “humanitarian intervention”
led by aggressive U.S. militarism (an oxymoron if there ever was
one), or the creation of a new global “green” economy, Purpose is
the consulting firm that the wolves of Wall Street and oligarchs
alike depend upon to make it happen.
Make
no mistake, the Yale (for example, Avaaz co-founder and former U.S.
Representative*Tom
Perriello)
and Harvard graduates that comprise the “Avaaz boys” (many having
been groomed by McKinsey
and Company)
are considered “the dream team” by the globe’s most powerful
capitalists, including those at the United Nations and the World
Bank. Avaaz co-founder Andrea Madden works for the World Bank in
Burma [Myanmar]. Her husband is Avaaz co-founder David Madden who has
taken up residence in Burma. [March
23, 2013: Western
Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar] Madden has co-founded a
marketing firm, Parami
Road in
Myanmar: “Our clients are mostly international companies entering
Myanmar and they demand an international standard of work.”
“After
years of isolation, Myanmar is opening up. Opportunities abound.
However international companies have little experience here and local
firms have little experience working with them. Parami Road meets
this need.” – Parami
website
Another
key co-founder of Avaaz is none other than pro-war, pro-Israel, U.S.
Democrat Tom Perriello, former U.S. Representative (represented the
5th District of Virginia from 2008 to 2010) and founding member of
the House Majority Leader’s National Security Working Group.
As demonstrated in
the 2012 investigative report on Avaaz, Perriello’s curriculum
vitae, built upon privilege within elite circles, is quite
extensive.
[*Full
profile on Avaaz co-founder Tom
Perriello: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I [Link]
The
former Managing Director of Partnerships for “Purpose” is Marilia
Bezerra. From 2006 to 2011 Bezerra held an integral position within
the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) executive leadership. As Clinton
Global Initiative director of commitments, Bezerra led the redesign
of member engagement and commitments services into a
year-round operation. From 2007 to 2008, Bezerra held the
position of sponsorship manager of the Clinton Global Initiative
where she directly managed five major sponsorship accounts, including
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Procter & Gamble, valued at
over $2 million dollars. From 2006 to 2008, Bezerra held the position
of Commitment Development Senior Manager for the Clinton Global
Initiative. In 2009, Bezerra was Deputy Director of Commitments for
the Clinton Global Initiative.
One
should note that in the case of many NGOs, on 990 tax forms it
appears as though those at the helm are paid minimally, if at all.
Rather than salaries, many founders of institutions make immense fees
via consulting services where their names are not identified on 990
forms. In the case of Avaaz, co-founder Ricken Patel does take a
salary (approx. $190,000.00 per year) plus consulting fees.
Consulting fees must be considered the bread and butter of many
“progressives” whose incomes rival CEOs of multinational
corporations. The salaries and incomes are incredible when one
accounts for the fact that many NGOs, such as Avaaz, rake in millions
of dollars in donations from well-intentioned and hard-working
citizens who are at or below the poverty line.
[Full
profile of Ricken Patel: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors
of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I
[Link]
Purpose
Inc. (with its co-founders) is a favourite of high-finance websites
such as The Economist and Forbes and sells its consulting services
and branding/marketing campaigns to Google, Audi, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
many others that comprise the world’s most powerful corporations
and institutions. In 2012, it raised $3m from investors. “Ford
Foundation, which has given Purpose’s non-profit arm a grant,
reckons it is shaping up to be “one of the blue-chip social
organisations of the future.” [Source] Purpose,
like many other foundations, such as Rockefeller (who initially
incubated 1Sky which merged with 350.org in 2011), also serves as an
“incubator of social movements.” [Further
reading on Purpose]
Heimans,
the Avaaz front man of Purpose, is a darling of
the high-finance corporate world. “In 2011, Jeremy received the
Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary Visionaries Award. The World
Economic Forum at Davos has named him a Young Global Leader, and the
World e-Government Forum has named Jeremy and Purpose co-founder
David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of
the Internet and Politics.” [Source]
“Who
are we? Three
years after the peaceful uprising in Syria, politicians and the media
have largely forgotten what the UN calls ‘the greatest humanitarian
tragedy of our time.’ But we haven’t.” — Front
page of “The Syria Campaign” and the “White Helmets / Syrian
Civil Defence” website
The
March Campaign #withSyria | Over 130 Partners
Purpose’s March
campaign #withSyria website(which doubles
as a hash tagfor
Twitter) partners
include:
Open Society Foundation (George Soros), Amnesty International,
Christian Aid, Care, Friends of the Earth, Oxfamand
many more of the largest “humanitarian” NGOs within the
non-profit industrial complex which makes up a billion dollar
industry. [Full list of
partners: http://marchcampaign.withsyria.com/partners0].
Utilizing the consumer culture’s celebrity fetish to sell war (and
the illusory “green economy“)
is a vital marketing strategy of Purpose. In the case of #withSyria,
famed street artist Banksyhas
reworked his “Young Girl” famed graffiti stencil in
support of the campaign.
On the main page of this website the behavioural change strategists
at Purpose promote a slick, emotive video of a white child (in
America) slowly becoming traumatized by the violence in Syria. No
doubt, Purpose’s marketing executives have taken this avenue
because they know that the majority of Euro-Americans with privilege
simply are not moved by images of suffering children that are
non-Caucasian. Non-White children being slaughtered by imperial
states became normalized for most Euro-American citizens long ago.
And
of course corporate
media is
not far away to promote the
cries for war peace.
Consider today, on September 17, 2014, ABC “reports“:
“What
if we could reverse the explosion of a bomb? A group of 130
organizations from around the world,
known collectively as the ‘With Syria’ campaign, released a video
Wednesday that shows just what that would look like. The campaign
hopes to bring attention to the violence in Syria. (video) Warning:
Contains disturbing imagery. In the video, the act of a bomb
exploding near children playing is reversed: The blood returns to
their heads, the children stand back up, run in reverse and continue
the game they were playing. A message says, ‘We can’t reverse
what’s happened in Syria, but we can change how the story ends.’”
Indeed
Purpose is being paid to bring about the ending that the elites have
hired them to ensure.
“Even
more impressive than her military, America has built the most
sophisticated propaganda machinery the planet has ever seen.” –
Garikai Chengu
Free
Syrian Voices partners
include Amnesty International, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Network, FIDH, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, Reporters
Without Borders and “other international, regional and Syrian
organizations” – which conveniently go unnamed.
Such
emotionally charged campaigns are critical tools for empire. They
have become critical (and successful) in building the acquiescence
required for “humanitarian
interventions”
(aka regime change with extensive “collateral damage” thrown in
for good measure).
“In
the IC
Magazine publication Communications
in Conflict,
is noted a new form of psychological warfare termed ‘false
hope.’
False hope, as a tool for subverting social movements, is
unparalleled in its effectiveness. What once was crudely accomplished
through political repression, censorship, educational indoctrination
and misleading propaganda, is now supplemented, if not surpassed,
through vertical integration of the non-profit industrial complex.
Where Wall Street once had to rely on threats and bribery to
intimidate or corrupt social movements, it now has a vast army of
neoliberal foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
social media at its disposal.” —
Jay Taber, False
Hope,
September 6, 2014
It
is important to note that Purpose is a for-profit business
strategically presented as though it is a non-profit (similar to the
Change.org petition site). This begs the question of who is financing
the Syrian campaigns. The fact that a group of wealthy elites from
Harvard living privileged lifestyles in New York City (and abroad)
decide, via glossy marketing campaigns, who will live or die on the
other side of the world is the ultimate representation of whitism and
racism – an egregious affront to people everywhere. [Further
reading on Purpose]
“If
there is any doubt concerning the nefarious undertones of
subversiveness in these NGO dealings, [National Endowment for
Democracy] NED founder reportedly said the following in the 1990s: ‘A
lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’
What was once done at night under the cloak of ‘imperialism’ is
now done during the day under the guise of ‘humanitarianism.’” —WKOG
30-point Primer
The
many facets of Purpose:
1) Purpose (tax
identification number 68-0607622) is a for-profit certified
B-corporation “that uses an innovative model to pool some of the
world’s leading experts and practitioners in order to fund, launch
and accelerate the growth of new social movement organizations.”
2) Purpose
Action (tax
identification number 45-2451509), the non-profit
arm of
Purpose, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization “focused on
changing policy.” Purpose Action Board of Directors includes Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp! [5]
3) Purpose
Foundation (tax
identification number 27-3106760) is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization “focused on education and changing culture.” [6]
4) Purpose
Campaign (tax
identification number 68-0607622) “Develops social and consumer
movements.”
US
Military Utilize NGOs to Induce Pacification & Advance Western
Ideologies on Iraqi Citizens
The
video below captures highlights from the 2004 Princeton Colloquium on
Public and International Affairs and should that be at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs – The Role of
NGOs in Global Governance and Society. Attention to the title is key:
“NON-governmental
organizations in global GOVERNANCE.”
[Note the use of the term “guerrilla” (4:13)
in describing any citizen/person resisting the occupation/assault by
US military on Iraq soil.] Since the filming of this video,
accelerating regime change operations are being conducted by Western
militaries, hand in hand with Western NGOs throughout the globe.
[See
more: http://www.interventionism.info/en/Re…].
In essence, NGOs have become an indispensable instrument of
destabilization and regime change for imperial states and hegemonic
interests. NGOs also serve as the primary agents to implant
neoliberal policies and western ideologies in targeted states to
advance and protect the interests of the NGOs’ funders.
The
June, 2012, Avaaz “Good Versus Evil” campaign
for the Rio Summit.
Above: A downloadable poster as found on the Avaaz
Press Centre published
in the Financial Times. Vilification: Note the dark cast/ugly sky
behind the leaders Avaaz would wish you to believe are “evil,”
versus the light and sun shining through over the Imperialist,
obstructionist “leaders” that Avaaz is attempting to convince you
are “good.”
“‘You
have to investigate the supply of hatred,’ Glaeser continues. ‘Who
has the incentive and the ability to induce group hatred? This pushes
us toward the crux of the model: politicians or anyone else will
supply hatred when hatred is a complement to their policies.’”
— The
Behavioural Economics of Hatred
Heiman’s
work been recognized in publications like The New York Times and The
Economist.
In The Economist, Heiman states he chose his career path when “in
2001, a college student named Eli Pariser created an online
petition calling
for a multilateral response to the ‘9/11 terrorist attacks.’” Over
a decade on, with civilian deaths that amount to millions, I’m sure
the Iraqis are most grateful. It must be noted that Eli Pariser, too,
is a co-founder of Avaaz and Co-Founder and Executive Director of
MoveOn.org (Avaaz founder) PAC.
Above:
The Syria Campaign, Non-profit Organization, created by Purpose,
launched March 7, 2014.
“We
were afraid the
regime would
fire another rocket, as
they always come back to the area of attack when people come to
rescue to bomb them,
so we started evacuating people in a hurry so no more lives would be
lost. This picture was taken then! That boy holding my neck like that
was one of the moments in which I knew why I
am a civil defender!”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Purpose
Inc. strategically employs images, carefully worded text and slick
video that provoke intense emotion. Key language includes children,
refugees, regime, and their work “in the most dangerous place in
the world.”
“A
year ago today, the
Syrian government used Sarin gas against its own people killing over
a thousand, many of them children.The
world was outraged and demanded Assad destroy his stockpile of
chemical weapons. Today chlorine gas is still being used on civilian
neighbourhoods, rolled out the back of helicopters in rusty ‘barrel
bombs.’”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm, Image
by Designer : FaDi zyada whose
work is also featured on the Heinrich
Von Arabien Foundation website.
This same website features an
absurd photo of
Syrians holding up a poster that features a “thumbs up”
illustration for USA and the UN.
Exploiting
the death of Syrian children to provoke air strikes and military
aggression demonstrates that such agencies go to any extreme to
further American foreign policy. Note that the very carnage described
above: “killing
over a thousand, many of them children” is
par for the course for the U.S. military, which carries out such
atrocities on innocent civilians, including children, on a daily
basis, all over the world. But don’t expect an Avaaz or Purpose
campaign against the Obama Regime any time soon. They will be too
busy under the guise of their NGO MoveOn, working on his re-election.
The
following quote represents the real purpose of Purpose:
“The
media may have turned away from
what’s unfolding daily in Syria but today we all have the tools to
tell the world the truth. Please share widely and remember the
children of Syria in your thoughts today.”
The
lapdog media have not turned away, but much of the public has. It’s
the job of Purpose to employ netwar methods (“a form of low
intensity conflict, crime, and activism waged by actors using social
networking services”
according to Wikipedia) on the public (targeting Euro-Americans) that
will instill hatred toward the
democratically elected Bashar
al-Assad.
“It’s
past time for President Obama to present a plan for dealing with the
humanitarian crisis in Syria.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Today
we remember the more than 1,300 who lost their lives in the Ghouta
chemical weapons attacks. Let’s also remember those +150,000 who
face torture and death while being detained.” — Purpose Inc.
Marketing Firm
Let’s
not mention Guantanamo Bay, AbuGhraib
and a mile long list of the Obama administration’s involvement in
torture, shall we? Syria certainly demonstrates that the first
casualty of war (in this case a destabilization effort) is truth. The
following excerpt is from the articleFoley
& Sotloff’s Reporting Show Why the US Should Stop Its
Proxy War on Syria, which
lays bare that “both journalists documented the reality
of Free Syria Army”:
“While
in Turkey Sotloff broadcast news of Syrian rebels being found and
arrested with chemical weapon Sarin gas. He used Twitter to
send out the Turkish news report. That was in May, three months
before the August 21 2013 chemical weapons deaths in outer Damascus.
The Syrian rebels were arrested by Turkish police but quickly
released, giving evidence to claims of Turkish government support for
Nusra. Sotloff was puzzled why the mainstream media was not giving
this event coverage.”
“This
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the chemical weapons
attack that took the lives of over 1,000 Syrians. Since then tens of
thousands more have been killed by different methods. Starvation is
one. But the
international media and world leaders still haven’t come together
to put an end to it.”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Above
image: Another call for “world
leaders” to “come together to put an end to it.” Yet
while Purpose may cry crocodile tears over the starvation of Syrians,
Avaaz has asked for tough
sanctions against
Syria. Purpose and Avaaz want to “have their cake and eat it too”
– while Syrian lives are destroyed by the oligarchs that both
Purpose and Avaaz serve.
The
following video highlights human rights investigator and
award-winning journalist, Keith Harmon Snow, detailing the corrupt
NGOs and their portrayal of Africa in order to illicit funds. Snow
must be considered one of our finest Western reporters for obtaining
true independent, grassroots news from the continent of Africa.
Within the lecture, Snow discusses the psyops/propaganda
strategically orchestrated behind the “Save Darfur”
campaigns/movements which, in 2004, began to saturate the populace.
At the helm of this “movement” was “The Center for American
Progress.”
The
Center for American Progress is closely connected with the same
players that founded and financed Avaaz. Today, with Avaaz at the
forefront, the non-profit industrial complex has been appointed
trusted messenger of a grotesque and disturbing ideology; nothing
less than a complete reflection and validation of the U.S.
administration’s rhetoric intended to justify the annihilation and
occupation of sovereign states under the false pretense of
“humanitarian intervention” and “responsibility to protect.”
[7]
“The
Syrian government has been dropping ‘barrel bombs’ on civilian
areas despite
a UN order to stop, targeting
schools and hospitals. Those
too poor to flee their homes can only hope that if the bomb drops,
the White Helmets will be there to help get them out.…
Let’s tell the world about the White Helmets and help get them the
support they need.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Know
multiple languages? We
need you! Help us get as many eyeballs on the Miracle Baby video by
translating the subtitles into as many languages
possible here: http://bit.ly/1tKSmrz”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Firms
and agencies such as Purpose write and develop the scripts and design
the sets. They bring the stories to life, strategically exploit and
manipulate our emotions, ultimately ensuring we come to accept and
partake in their politically acceptable means of discourse –
discourse sanctioned (and financed) by the empire.
“Syrians
welcome Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into their country with warm meals,
giving them their clothes and in some cases opening up their homes.”
– Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
above quote is representative of perhaps one too many spin doctors,
for who is allowing Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into Syria, if not the
Assad government? Indeed, Assad’s government has accepted more
refugees per capita than any other country in the Middle East.
“In
the wake of Robin Williams’ death, the people of Idlib remember the
actor/comedian with a quote on freedom.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing
Firm
This
image takes absurdity to a new level. Recap: In the midst of being
bombed, starved, and rained on by chemical weapons, Syrians take time
to pay homage to an American actor/comedian (because the love of the
America that is destroying the Middle East is so great), by quoting a
line from a genie in a bottle from a scene in an animated Disney
movie and creating a banner in the English language.
“Understand what
this infographic says,
and you’ll understand why The Syria Campaign exists. And why you
and your friends need to join. http://bit.ly/VlYOsi”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
In
the infographic above, Purpose deliberately keeps the stats limited
to 2014. Otherwise they would have to visualize the millions of Iraqi
citizens who have been murdered due to the U.S. illegal war and
occupation in Iraq. Further, Purpose gives no attention to the deaths
in Ukraine, Honduras, Libya, Haiti, Congo (millions) and all of the
other countries being decimated by Imperialism and foreign
interference.
“Tell
Obama we need a
plan set forth to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in
Syria. bit.ly/1nITTtO”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
message is clear. Purpose wants the green light for military
intervention in Syria, well-cloaked under the guise of
humanitarianism – an oxymoron if there ever was one.
“How
were you to know you were approving posts from one of the world’s
most violent dictators? A man who’s ordered the dropping of bombs
on hospitals and primary schools?” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad has been re-elected and he can thank Facebook
for being a propaganda platform.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“It
is critical to note that the imperialist powers (inclusive of the UN)
do not criticize or demonize or withdraw their support from such
leaders on any ethical or moral ground. Denunciation of state leaders
and emotive language is merely theatre. Rather, the imperialist
states strategically set out to destroy any state leader that is
unwilling to be controlled by US interests and foreign policy. A case
in point is unwavering support of the Saudi royal family responsible
for atrocious human rights violations to which the imperialist
countries turn a blind eye.” (from Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part
I, Section I)
The
Behavioural Change Dream Team:
·
Full profile of Jeremy Heimans: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
·
Full profile of David Madden: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section II [link]
·
Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section III [link]
Further
reading on behavioural change: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
Consider
that the colour of the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya (from
1977 to 2011; The Great
Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
was pure green in colour. Unlike the one featured in the Avaaz
campaign. The green colour traditionally symbolizes Islam. In Libya,
green was also a colour traditionally used to represent
the Tripolitania region
(commonly referred to as Tripoli) that NATO forces fought to seize.
The iconic green flag was chosen by Libyan leader/brother Muammar
Gaddafi to symbolize his political philosophy (after his
revolutionary Green
Book).
On 10 March 2011, France was the first state to recognize the council
as the official government of Libya, as well as the first to allow
the Libyan embassy staff to raise the red, black, green and white
flag that would replace the green flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya. On
21 March, the “new” flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of
Libya to the United Nations and appeared on their official website …
this flag, which reigned prior to the Libyan Jamahiriya, is now the
only flag used by the United Nations to represent Libya. According to
the following UN statement: “Following the adoption by the General
Assembly of resolution 66/1, the Permanent Mission of Libya to the
United Nations formally notified the United Nations of a Declaration
by the National Transitional Council of 3 August 2011 changing the
official name of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to “Libya” as well as
a decision to change Libya’s national flag to the original.”
[Wikipedia]
On
August 24, 2011 it is reported by
yet another mouthpiece for empire that:
“As
Libyan rebels take over, embassies worldwide have been replacing the
old Libyan flag with a new one…. But
starting in February, a new flag – red, black, and green with a
white star and crescent in the center – has been hoisted at Libyan
embassies around the world, from
Switzerland to Bangladesh.
It is the same flag being flown by the jubilant rebels themselves as
they descend on Tripoli.”
In
the article, the words “U.S. funded mercenaries” have been
replaced with “the jubilant rebels.” It would be well worth
investigating who ordered, manufactured and paid for thousands of
these new flags (prior to or commencing in February of 2011) and
ensured they would replace the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya
that flourished from 1977 to 2011.
Further
Reading:
·
The Grotesque and Disturbing Ideology at the Helm of Avaaz, March
7, 2012
·
Sostenere il governo USA senza saperlo: il grave esempio di
“Avaaz,” March
8, 2012
·
SPEAKING TRUTH: A Profound Message to Avaaz from Poet Gabriel
Impaglione of Argentina, March
12, 2012
·
Argentine Journalist Stella Calloni Denounces Avaaz | Latin American
Unions Follow Her Lead, March
12, 2012
·
Avaaz: Empire Propaganda Mill Masquerading as Grassroots
Activism, June
9, 2012
·
Avaaz’s War on Syria: Soros Sponsored Sorrow Pleads for Foreign
Intervention, June
14, 2012
·
Rio Summit “Good Versus Evil” Advert Displays Blatant Racism and
Imperialism at Core of Avaaz, June
22, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section II, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section III, Sept
24, 2012
·
Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I, Sept 24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section II, Nov
1, 2012
·
Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013
[5]
Purpose Action Board of Directors: Jon
Huggett,
founding chair of Social Innovation Exchange, former partner at The
Bridgespan Group and Bain & Company; Rashad
Robinson,
executive director of ColorOfChange.org and former senior director of
media programs at GLAAD; Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp!; Douglas
Atkin,
director of community at Airbnb, former chief community officer of
Meetup, author of The Culting of Brands; Andre
Banks,
executive director of Purpose Foundation, former strategy director at
Purpose and former deputy director of ColorOfChange.org; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp! [Source]
[6]
Purpose Foundation Board of Directors: Carla
Sutherland,
research scholar at Columbia University’s Gender and Sexuality Law
Center’s Engaging Tradition Project, former program officer at Ford
Foundation and Arcus Foundation; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp!; Michael
Evans,
president of Moynihan Station Development Corporation and former
chief of staff to the Lieutenant Governor of New York State.
[Source]|
Purpose Foundation’s organizational documents and annual reports on
Form 990 can be found here.
[7]
December 29, 2004: “Over two days in early December approximately
three-dozen religious activists met at the Washington office of the
Center for American Progress, a recently formed think tank headed by
former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. The Res Publica-driven
agenda for the closed-door gathering included sessions on “building
the movement infrastructure” and “objectives, strategies and core
issues.” Res Publica was founded by Tom Perriello, Ricken Patel and
Tom Pravda. Avaaz was founded by Res Publica, MoveOn.org, Executive
Director Ricken Patel, Tom Perriello, Tom Pravda, Eli Pariser (MoveOn
Executive Director), Andrea Woodhouse (consultant to the World Bank)
Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of GetUp! and Purpose), and Australian
entrepreneur David Madden (co-founder of GetUp and Purpose). Avaaz
co-founder Tom Perriello is now President and CEO of Center for
American Progress. Perriello and Patel also co-founded and
co-directed DarfurGenocide.org which officially launched in 2004.
“DarfurGenocide.org is a project of Res Publica, a group of public
sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance and
virtuous civic cultures.” Today, this organization is now known as
“Darfurian Voices”: “Darfurian Voices is a project of 24 Hours
for Darfur.” The U.S. Department of State and the Open Society
Institute were just two of the organizations funders and
collaborating partners. Other Darfurian Voices partners include
Avaaz, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International
Centre for Transitional Justice, Darfur Rehabilitation Project,
Humanity United, Darfur People’s Association of New York, Genocide
Intervention, Witness, Yale Law School, The Sigrid Rausing Trust and
the Bridgeway Foundation. Despite the carefully crafted language and
images that tug at your emotions, such NGOs were created for and
exist for one primary purpose — to protect and further American
policy and interests, under the guise of philanthropy and
humanitarianism. Of all the listed partners of DarfurGenocide.org,
with exception of one located in London England, all of the entities
involved are American and based on US soil.
CLARIFICATION (August
10, 2018): In an earlier version of this article, a sentence reads
“Avaaz co-founder James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder
and CEO of Purpose at its inception in 2009.” This was intended to
read as it reads now: “Avaaz affiliate James
Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of Purpose at its
inception in 2009.” The article references the original researched
bio of Slezak: “Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section III [link]”.
The original research does not list Slezak as an Avaaz co-founder. We
regret the error was not caught in the editing process. Further
clarification Slezak co-foundered “Win Back Respect” with Avaaz
co-founders Andrea Woodhouse (World Bank), spouse, David Madden
(World Bank) and Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of MoveOn and GetUp!).
Win Back Respect was supported/funded by MoveOn (co-founder of Avaaz)
and Soros Fund Management. Soros Open Society Institute provided
the original seed money for Avaaz. The fifth co-founder of Win Back
Respect was Brian Vogt, Senior Advisor to the Partnership for a
Secure America.
About
the Author
Cory
Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and
environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and
political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides
in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green,
The Art of Annihilation, Political Context, Counterpunch, Canadians
for Action on Climate Change and Countercurrents.
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Opvallend de gelijkenis met Pax Christie, of zoals het tegenwoordig wordt genoemd: ‘PAX’. Ook deze organisatie die zogenaamd de wereldvrede wil bevorderen, heeft meermaals opgeroepen tot oorlog, dit nam een aanvang onder voorzitterschap van oorlogshitser Mient Jan Faber…….
Deze maand is het 48 jaar geleden dat VS president en oorlogsmisdadiger Nixon de oorlog verklaarde aan drugs.
(Tricky Dicky, foto van BBC site)
BBC World Service radio had dit onderwerp gistermorgen in het onderdeel ‘Witness’ en ook dat was weer de opmaat naar een aantal leugens…… Moet zeggen dat het me meeviel dat er maar één keer werd gehakt op het gebruik van marihuana, de harddrug heroïne vormde de hoofdmoot van dit programmaonderdeel.
Heroïne was dan ook de drug waarmee de regering Nixon en de maffia de gekleurde jongeren rustig wilde houden, na de vele rellen van die jongeren in de 60er jaren tegen de discriminatie van zwarten in de VS….. De opzet destijds is wonderwel geslaagd, echter ‘een beetje te goed’ daar de verslaafde jongeren massaal de misdaad ingingen om hun verslaving te kunnen betalen (de heroïne werd uiteraard verkocht door de maffia…..)….
Een ander negatief effect (al was dat wel het plan) was het grote aantal doden, dit leidde echter tot nieuw verzet onder de zwarte bevolking, waarbij velen zich bekeerden tot de islam…….
De volgende stap was de introductie van methadon, een middel waarvan de ‘high’ veel langer duurt dan die van heroïne, terwijl de high of roes vergelijkbaar is met die van heroïne…. Zo kon men de heroïne verslaafden een goedkoper alternatief bieden en was de tijd beperkt die verslaafden hadden om middels inbraak e.d. aan geld te komen…… Eén groot nadeel: methadon is meer verslavend dan heroïne en richt zo mogelijk nog meer schade aan in het lichaam…
Veel van de heroïne die verspreid werd in de VS werd ingevoerd middels militaire vliegtuigen die uit Vietnam naar de VS vlogen, ofwel de heroïne kwam uit de zogenaamde Gouden Driehoek in Zuidoost-Azië, een gebied dat was verdeeld over Vietnam, Laos en Birma……
Vervelend voor de VS autoriteiten die de heroïne invoerden voor de opstandige zwarte jongeren, ook de VS militairen in Vietnam begonnen heroïne te gebruiken….. Daarvoor vond men een snelle detectiemethode uit, waarmee men uit de urine kon opmaken of de bewuste militair onlangs heroïne had gebruikt…… De militairen werd dan ook te verstaan gegeven dat ze langer moesten blijven in Vietnam als ze heroïne hadden gebruikt, waar zo’n 90% van de VS militairen maar al te graag zo snel mogelijk weg wilden uit Vietnam……
Tekenend weer in Witness: de claim dat de VS overheid zelf de zwarte bevolking overspoelde met heroïne werd afgedaan als onzin……. Tja, de BBC is er niet alleen om het waanzinnige regeringsbeleid van May te steunen, maar ook om dat van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, goed te lullen, zelfs als dit over het verleden gaat……
Overigens hebben VS organisaties als de DEA en de CIA vanaf het eind van de 70er jaren zelf vele tonnen cocaïne geïmporteerd uit Zuid- en Midden Amerika……… Zo werd o.a. geld verzameld voor geheime acties van de CIA…..
Eén ding is zeker: de oorlog tegen drugs is één grote mislukking geworden, waar honderdduizenden (als niet een paar miljoen) mensen het slachtoffer van zijn geworden en waar hele gebieden in Latijns-Amerika met gif werden bespoten door de VS, gebieden die voor jaren niet meer te gebruiken zijn ten behoeve van landbouw……
Het is
inmiddels 8 jaar geleden dat Osama bin Laden werd vermoord (2 mei 2011) door VS
commando’s. Seymour Hersh legt in zijn nieuwe boek ‘The Killing of Osama Bin Laden’, uit dat bin Laden,
niet n.a.v. inlichtingen verzamelende VS geheime diensten werd
gevonden, maar dat een tip van een Pakistaanse officier de VS aan de verblijfplaats van bin Laden hielp……
Daarna
werd Pakistan te verstaan gegeven dat ze hadden mee te werken aan de
ontvoering of moord op bin Laden, anders….. En meehelpen deden de Pakistaanse autoriteiten,
er werd zelfs een commandopost van de VS ingericht in de buurt van
het huis waar bin Laden verbleef…..
De radar
van Pakistan zou de eerste 3 VS helikopters met commando’s niet
hebben kunnen ontdekken, terwijl deze apparatuur van hoge kwaliteit door de VS aan Pakistan geschonken, deze helikopters wel moet hebben
gezien, ofwel men heeft in Pakistan de radarbeelden met opzet
genegeerd (onder druk van de VS)….. Nadat één van de helikopters
in brand vloog, werd er een nieuwe en grotere helikopter ingevlogen,
ook die ‘werd niet ontdekt’ door de Pakistaanse autoriteiten…..
Het
moorddadig werk van de VS militairen duurde veel langer dan voorzien,
mede door de helikopter die in brand vloog, ‘toch was de duur van
e.e.a. te kort’ voor de Pakistaanse politie en leger om de woning van
bin Landen te bereiken….
Er
werden eerder al leugens ontdekt over de dood van bin Laden, leugens
door de VS verspreidt, leugens die dan ook een paar keer werden aangepast…… Zo zou bin Laden in eerste instantie bewapend zijn
geweest en had men hem daardoor wel moeten vermoorden, later zou de
reden daarvoor de aanwezigheid zijn geweest van 2 gewapende vrouwen,
een verhaal dat ook maar kort standhield, uiteindelijk moet
geconcludeerd worden dat Osama bin Laden moedwillig en met een enorm
aantal schoten werd vermoord….. (niet voor niets dat men geen foto’s van het lijk toonde, daar dit wel eens tot zware publieke verontwaardiging had kunnen leiden…)
Het is dan ook zonder meer duidelijk dat bin Laden niet gevangen mocht worden genomen, Obama en zijn minister van BuZa, destijds Hillary Clinton, hadden van meet af aan de opzet bin Laden te vermoorden…… Veronderstel dat bin Laden tijdens een proces een boekje open had gedaan over wat de VS wat betreft 9/11 op haar kerfstok had staan…..
De hierna volgende tekst en video komen van Brasscheck TV, verbaas
je mee tijdens het volgende gesprek met Seymour Hersh, de video duurt 1 uur, maar dat is de tijd meer dan waard! (zijdelings komt ook het meer dan kromme VS beleid t.a.v. Syrië ter sprake):
THE
KILLING OSAMA FRAUD
SEYMOUR
HERSH EXPLAINS WHAT TOTAL BS
THE OFFICIAL STORY IS
“ALL
THE OFFICIAL STORIES DISINTEGRATED”
May
2 is the anniversary of the reported killing of Osama bin Laden.
Seymour
Hersh explains what total BS the official story is.
“All
the official stories disintegrated.”
Brasscheck
pointed this out the week that it happened, but it’s good to have
confirmation from a veteran investigative reporter confirm our early
analysis.
Lots
of good background on how the US got in bed with the ISI (the
Pakistani intelligence agency.)
=====================================
PS: bin Laden zou de grote bedenker van 9/11 zijn geweest, echter intussen is meer dan duidelijk dat m.n. geheime diensten uit de VS (met hulp van de Israëlische geheime dienst Mossad) de grote bedenkers waren en dat zij de regie voerden over het opblazen van de Twin Towers en een ander deel van het WTC…….. Nogmaals: het is onmogelijk deze schade aan te richten met 2 vliegtuigen, zo hebben meerdere echte deskundigen geconcludeerd……. Uiteraard had men een aantal arabieren met de pest aan de VS de idee gegeven dat zij de werkelijke daders waren…… In dit soort zaken moet je altijd kijken naar wie het meeste baat heeft bij een dergelijke aanslag en dat was de VS!! Zo was dit ‘ten voordele van de enorme schuld’ van de VS, op 11 september 2001 verdwenen een fiks aantal documenten over deze enorme schuld, documenten die in één van de torens werden bewaard. Daarnaast werken de opvolgende VS regeringen altijd nauw samen met het militair-industrieel complex en dat complex had een nieuwe vijand nodig nadat de Sovjet-Unie was verdwenen……. Verder hebben de geheime diensten fiks garen gesponnen bij de aanslagen, hun bevoegdheden werden uitgebreid naar een onzalig niveau dat alleen bij een dictatuur past, natuurlijk aangevuld met een veel groter budget…… Om een achterlijk gezegde te gebruiken: een win win situatie…….. (en ach, de naar schatting 3.000 slachtoffers in de Twin Towers zijn alweer vergeten en zijn al bijna duizendvoudig gewroken in de illegale oorlogen die de VS na 9/11 begon, waarbij ruim meer dan 2,5 miljoen voornamelijk moslims werden vermoord…..)
Geheime diensten van de VS en Groot-Brittannië hebben de
presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 zonder succes gemanipuleerd….. Larry
C. Johnson, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel stelt
dat er overtuigend bewijs is dat de Obama administratie de coördinatie deed voor de afschildering van Trump als een stroman van de Russen….. Die administratie werkte daarvoor samen met andere westerse regeringen en geheime diensten uit binnen- en buitenland
(met medeweten van de belangrijkste van die regeringen in het buitenland, t.w. die van GB….)……..
Het
rapport van Mueller n.a.v. het onderzoek naar een verbintenis van
Trump en de Russen, heeft duidelijk gemaakt dat deze beschuldiging is
gefabriceerd door geheime diensten, politiediensten (zoals de FBI),
de Obama administratie en als voornaamste buitenlandse regering zoals gezegd die van GB, dit nog plus organisaties die
gelieerd waren aan het Clinton campagne team en dat team zelf…..
Johnson
noemt in zijn artikel 8 punten waarop het Mueller onderzoek was
gericht en ontleedt deze punten stuk voor stuk, waarna de conclusie
van Johnson, zoals hiervoor deels verwoord, een terechte beschuldiging
is aan het adres van geheime diensten (waaronder de CIA), de Britse regering, de FBI, de Obama
administratie en het campagne team van Clinton, plus de organisaties
die gelieerd waren aan dat campagneteam.
Lees
het volgende artikel en geeft het door, immers de reguliere westerse
(massa-) media doen net of de neus bloedt, hetzelfde geldt voor het
grootste deel van de westerse politici…… Ondanks dat men weet
meer dan 2 jaar lang leugens en nepnieuws (fake news) te hebben
gebracht, blijft men doen alsof het Russiagate sprookje nog steeds
overeind staat, laat staan dat men daar rectificaties voor plaatst en
wat betreft de politici het maken van excuses naar de bevolking….
Het
kan nog sterker mensen, alle maatregelen gebaseerd op de Russiagate
leugens, zoals censuur door accounts van mensen te blokkeren of zelfs
op te heffen, blijven gehandhaafd en men is al druk bezig om de
volgende ronde van ‘Russische inmenging’, de EU verkiezingen, te
beveiligen tegen Russische bemoeienis…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Intussen stuurt de VS de EU meer en meer en het is zeker dat de VS al bezig is met de manipulatie van de EU verkiezingen later deze maand…..*
In
Nederland hebben we hare D66 leeghoofdigheid Ollongren, die als
minister maatregelen heeft genomen tegen Russische bemoeienis met de
Provinciale verkiezingen en de EU verkiezingen….. ha! ha! ha! ha!
ha!
Alle
maatregelen die men neemt tegen bemoeienissen met verkiezingen door
Rusland, zouden met een naamsverandering alsnog kunnen worden
gebruikt, althans als men de naam Rusland wil inwisselen voor de
Verenigde Staten, immers voor het feit dat de VS zich bemoeit met
verkiezingen elders zijn hele bergen bewijs, niet alleen dat: als de
VS niet blij is met een verkiezingsuitslag elders, is de kans groot
dat dezelfde VS dat land zal destabiliseren, een opstand organiseert
en als dat niet leidt tot de afzetting van de gekozen regering, heeft
de VS nog altijd militair ingrijpen tot haar beschikking, ook
daarvoor bewijzen te over….
De
VS bespioneert en hackt zelfs de regenringen van haar bevriende
landen, ook dat is bewezen……
Het hieronder opgenomen artikel komt van Consortium News, de schrijver, Larry Johnson is een ex-CIA analist en voormalig anti-terreur specialist verbonden aan het VS ministerie van buitenlandse zaken (mijn excuus voor de lay-out van het overgenomen artikel, krijg het niet op orde)
How
US and Foreign Intel Agencies Interfered in a US Election
May
7, 2019
The
evidence is plain—there was a broad, coordinated effort by the
Obama Administration, with the help of foreign governments, to target
Donald Trump and paint him as a Russian stooge, writes Larry Johnson
The
preponderance of evidence makes this very simple–there was a broad,
coordinated effort by the Obama Administration, with the help of
foreign governments, to target Donald Trump and paint him as a stooge
of Russia.
The
Mueller Report provides irrefutable evidence that the so-called
Russian collusion case against Donald Trump was a deliberate
fabrication by intelligence and law enforcement organizations in the
United States and the United Kingdom and organizations aligned with
the Clinton Campaign.
The
New York Timesreported
that a man with a long history of working with the CIA, and a female
FBI informant, traveled to London in September of 2016 and tried
unsuccessfully to entrap George Papadopolous. The biggest curiosity
is that U.S. intelligence or law enforcement officials fully briefed
British intelligence on what they were up to. Quite understandable
given what we now know about British spying on the Trump Campaign.
The
Mueller investigation of Trump “collusion” with Russia prior to
the 2016 Presidential election focused on eight cases:
Proposed
Trump Tower Project in Moscow
George
Papadopolous
Carter
Page
Dimitri
Simes
Veselnetskya
Meeting at Trump Tower (June 16, 2016)
Events
at Republican Convention
Post-Convention
Contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak
Paul
Manafort
One
simple fact emerges–of the eight cases or incidents of alleged
Trump Campaign interaction with the Russians investigated by the
Mueller team, the proposals to interact with the Russian Government
or with Putin originated with FBI informants, MI-6 assets or people
paid by Fusion GPS, and not Trump or his people.
There
is not a single instance where Donald Trump or any member of his
campaign team initiated contact with the Russians for the purpose of
gaining derogatory information on Hillary or obtaining support to
boost the Trump campaign. Not one.
Simply
put, Trump and his campaign were the target of an elaborate, wide
ranging covert action designed to entrap him and members of his team
as an agent of Russia.
Let’s
look in detail at each of the cases.
THE
PROPOSED TRUMP TOWER PROJECT IN MOSCOW,according
to Mueller’s report, originated with an FBI Informant–Felix
Sater. Here’s what the Mueller Report states:
“In
the late summer of 2015, the Trump Organization received a new
inquiry about pursuing a Trump Tower project in Moscow. In
approximately September 2015, Felix Sater . . . contacted Cohen
(i.e., Michael Cohen) on behalf of I.C. Expert Investment Company
(I.C. Expert), a Russian real-estate development corporation
controlled by Andrei Vladimirovich Rozov. Sater
had known Rozov since approximately 2007 and, in 2014, had served as
an agent on behalf of Rozov during Rozov’s purchase of a building
in New York City. Sater later contacted Rozov and proposed that
I.C. Expert pursue a Trump Tower Moscow project in which I.C. Expert
would license the name and brand from the Trump Organization but
construct the building on its own. Sater worked on the deal with
Rozov and another employee of I.C. Expert.” (see page 69 of the
Mueller Report).
Sater, FBI Informant
Mueller, as
noted previously, is
downright dishonest in failing to identify Sater as an FBI informant.
Sater was not just a private entrepreneur looking to make some coin.
He was a fully signed up FBI informant. Sater’s status as an FBI
snitch was first exposed in 2012. Sater also was a boyhood chum of
Michael Cohen, the target being baited in this operation. Another
inconvenient fact excluded from the Mueller report is that one of
Mueller’s Chief Prosecutors, Andrew
Weissman, signed the deal with Felix Sater in December 1998 that put
Sater into the FBI Informant business.
All
suggestions for meeting with the Russian Government, including Putin,
originated with Felix Sater. The use of Sater on this particular
project started in September 2015.
Papadopolous
was targeted by British and U.S. intelligence starting in late
December 2015, when he is offered out of the blue a job with
the London
Centre of International Law and Practice Limited (LCILP)?.
The LCILP has all of the hallmarks of an intelligence front company.
LCILP began as an offshoot from another company?—?EN Education
Group Limited?—?which describes itself as “a global education
consultancy, facilitating links between students, education providers
and organisations with an interest in education worldwide”.
Papadopolous
EN
Education and LCILP are owned and run by Nagi Khalid Idris, a
48-year-old British citizen of Sudanese origin. For no apparent
reason Idris offers Papadopolous a job as the Director of the
LCILP’s International Energy and Natural Resources Division. Then
in March of 2016, Idris and Arvinder Sambei (who acted as an attorney
for the FBI on a 9-11 extradition case in the UK), insist on
introducing Joseph Mifsud to Papadopolous.
It
is Joseph Mifsud who introduces the idea of meeting Putin following a
lunch in London (from Papadopolous’s book “Deep State Target: How
I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President
Trump”):
“The
lunch is booked for March 24 at the Grange Holborn Hotel,. . . .
“When I get there, Mifsud is waiting for me in the lobby with an
attractive, fashionably dressed young woman with dirty blonde hair at
his side. He introduces her as Olga Vinogradova.” (p. 76)
“Mifsud
sells her hard. “Olga is going to be your inside woman to Moscow.
She knows everyone.” He tells me she was a former official at the
Russian Ministry of Trade. Then he waxes on about introducing me to
the Russian ambassador in London.” (p. 77)
“On
April 12, “Olga” writes: “I have already alerted my personal
links to our conversation and your request. The embassy in London is
very much aware of this. As mentioned, we are all very excited by the
possibility of a good relationship with Mr. Trump. The Russian
Federation would love to welcome him once his candidature would be
officially announced.”
And
it is Mifsud who raises the possibility of getting dirt on Hillary:
“Then
Mifsud returns from the Valdai conference. On April 26 we meet for
breakfast at the Andaz Hotel, near Liverpool Street Station, one of
the busiest train stations in London. He’s in an excellent mood and
claims he met with high-level Russian government officials. But once
again, he’s very short on specifics. This is becoming a real
pattern with Mifsud. He hasn’t offered any names besides Timofeev.
Then, he leans across the table in a conspiratorial manner. The
Russians have “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, he tells me. “Emails
of Clinton,” he says. “They have thousands of emails.”
Here
again we encounter the lying and obfuscation of the Mueller team.
They falsely characterize Mifsud as an agent of Russia. In fact, he
has close and longstanding ties to both British and U.S.
intelligence (Disobedient
Media lays
out the Mifsud mystery in detail).
Mifsud: Ties to UK intelligence. (Flickr)
Mifsud
was not alone. The FBI and the CIA also were in the game of trying to
entrap Papadopolous. In September of 2016, Papadopolous was being
wined and dined by Halper (who has longstandingties to
the U.S. intelligence community) and Azra Turk, an FBI
Informant/researcher (see New
York Times).
The
FBI disingenuously claims they ran Azra Turk at Papadopolous because
they were alarmed ostensibly by Russia’s attempts to disrupt the
2016 election. But Papadopolous was not seeking out Russian contacts.
He was being baited. It was Mifsud and others tied to British and
U.S. intelligence who were bringing up the “opportunity” to work
with the Russians.
CARTER
PAGE
The
section of the Mueller report that deals with Carter Page is a total
travesty. Mueller and his team, for example, initially misrepresent
Page’s status with the Trump campaign—he is described as
“working” for the campaign, which implies a paid position, when
he was in fact only a volunteer foreign policy advisor. Mueller also
paints Page’s prior experience and work in Russia as evidence that
Page was being used by Russian intelligence, but says nothing about
the fact that Page was being regularly debriefed by the CIA and the
FBI during the same period. In other words, Page was cooperating with
U.S. intelligence and law enforcement. But this fact is omitted in
the Mueller report.
Mueller
eventually accurately describes Page’s role in the Trump campaign
as follows:
“In
January 2016, Page began volunteering on an informal,
unpaid basis for
the Trump Campaign after Ed Cox, a state Republican Party official,
introduced Page to Trump Campaign officials. Page told the Office
that his goal in working on the Campaign was to help candidate Trump
improve relations with Russia. To that end, Page emailed Campaign
officials offering his thoughts on U.S.-Russia relations, prepared
talking points and briefing memos on Russia, and proposed that
candidate Trump meet with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
Page: Cooperated with US intel.
“In
communications with Campaign officials, Page also repeatedly touted
his high-level contacts in Russia and his ability to forge
connections between candidate Trump and senior Russian governmental
officials. For example, on January 30, 2016, Page sent an email to
senior Campaign officials stating that he had “spent the past week
in Europe and had been in discussions with some individuals with
close ties to the Kremlin” who recognized that Trump could have a
“game-changing effect . .. in bringing the end of the new Cold War.
The email stated that ” [t]hrough [his] discussions with these high
level contacts,” Page believed that “a direct meeting in Moscow
between Mr. Trump and Putin could be arranged.”
The
Mueller presentation portrays Carter Page in a nefarious, negative
light. His contacts with Russia are characterized as inappropriate
and unjustified. Longstanding business experience in a particular
country is not proof of wrong doing. No consideration is given at all
to Page’s legitimate concerns raising about the dismal state of
U.S./Russia relations following the U.S. backed coup in the Ukraine
and the subsequent annexation of Crimea by Russia.
Page’s
association with the Trump campaign was quite brief—he lasted seven
months, being removed as a foreign policy advisor on Sept. 24. Page
was not identified publicly as a Trump foreign policy advisor until
March of 2016, but the evidence presented in the Mueller report
clearly indicates that Page was already a target of intelligence
agencies, in the U.S. and abroad, long before the FISA warrant of
Oct. 2016.
While
serving on the foreign policy team Page continued his business and
social contacts in Russia, but was never tasked by the Trump team to
pursue or promote contacts with Putin and his team. In fact, Page’s
proposals, suggestions and recommendations were either ignored or
directly rebuffed.
The
timeline reported in the Mueller report regarding Page’s trip to
Russia in early July raises questions about the intel collected on
that trip and the so-called “intel” revealed in the Steele
Dossier with respect to Page. Carter admits to meeting with
individuals, such as Dmitry Peskov and Igor Sechin, who appear in the
Steele Dossier. Page’s meetings in Moscow turned out to be
innocuous and uneventful. Nothing he did resembled clandestine
activity. Yet, the Steele report on that visit suggested just the
opposite and used the tactic of guilt by association to imply that
Page was up to something dirty.
The
bottomline for Mueller is that Page did not do anything wrong and no
one in the Trump Campaign embraced his proposals for closer ties with
Russia.
DMITRI
SIMES
The
targeting and investigation of Dmitri Simes is disgusting and an
abuse of law enforcement authority. Full disclosure. I know Dmitri.
For awhile, in the 2002-2003 time period, I was a regular participant
at Nixon Center events. For example, I was at a round table in
December 2002 on the imminent invasion of Iraq. Colonel Pat Lang sat
on one side of me and Ambassador Joe Wilson on the other. Directly
across the table was Charles Krauthammer. Dmitri ran an honest
seminar.
Dmitri Simes
The
entire section on Dmitri Simes, under other circumstances, could be
viewed as something bizarre and amusing. But the mere idea that Simes
was somehow an agent of Putin and a vehicle for helping Trump work
with the Russians to steal the 2016 election is crazy and idiotic.
Those in the FBI who were so stupid as to buy into this nonsense
should have their badges and guns taken away. They are too dumb to
work in law enforcement.
Dmitri’s
only sin was to speak calmly, intelligently and rationally about
foreign policy dealings with Russia. We now know that in this new
hysteria of the 21st Century Russian scare that qualities such as
reason and rationality are proof of one’s willingness to act as a
puppet of Vladimir Putin.
TRUMP
TOWER MEETING (JUNE 9, 2016)
This
is the clearest example of a plant designed to entrap the Trump team.
Mueller, once again, presents a very disingenuous account:
“On
June 9, 2016, senior representatives of the Trump Campaign met in
Trump Tower with a Russian attorney expecting to receive derogatory
information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. The
meeting was proposed to Donald Trump Jr. in an email from Robert
Goldstone, at the request of his then-client Emin Agalarov, the son
of Russian real-estate developer Aras Agalarov. Goldstone relayed to
Trump Jr. that the “Crown prosecutor of Russia … offered to
provide the Trump Campaign with some official documents and
information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with
Russia” as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr.
Trump.” Trump Jr. immediately responded that “if it’s what you
say I love it,” and arranged the meeting through a series of emails
and telephone calls.” …
The
Russian attorney who spoke at the meeting, Natalia Veselnitskaya, had
previously worked for the Russian government and maintained a
relationship with that government throughout this period oftime. She
claimed that funds derived from illegal activities in Russia were
provided to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. Trump Jr. requested
evidence to support those claims, but Veselnitskaya did not provide
such information.”
Natalia Veselnitskaya (Wikimedia)
Ignore
for a moment that no information on Hillary was passed or provided
(and doing such a thing is not illegal). The real problem is with
what Mueller does not say and did not investigate. Mueller
conveniently declines to mention the fact that Veselnitskaya was
working closely with the firm Hillary Clinton hired to produce the
Steele Dossier. NBC News reported on Veselnitskaya:
“The
information that a Russian lawyer brought with her when she met
Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016 stemmed from research conducted by
Fusion GPS, the same firm that compiled the infamous Trump dossier,
according to the lawyer and a source familiar with the matter.
In
an interview with NBC News, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
says she
first received the supposedly incriminating information she brought
to Trump Tower — describing alleged tax evasion and donations to
Democrats — from Glenn Simpson,
the Fusion GPS owner, who had been hired to conduct research in a New
York federal court case.”
Even
a mediocre investigator would recognize the problem of the
relationship between the lawyer claiming to have dirty, damning info
on Hillary with the firm Hillary hired to dig up dirt on Donald
Trump. This was another botched set up and the Trump folks did not
take the bait.
EVENTS
AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
This
portion of the Mueller report is a complete farce. Foreign
ambassdors, including the Russian (and the Chinese) attend Republican
and Democrat Conventions. Presidential candidates and their advisors
speak to those ambassadors. So, where is the beef? Answer. There
isn’t any. That this “event” was considered something worthy of
a counter intelligence investigation is just one more piece of
evidence that law enforcement and intelligence were weaponized
against the Trump campaign.
POST-CONVENTION
CONTACTS WITH RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR KISLYAK
Ditto.
As noted in the previous paragraph, trying to criminalize normal
diplomatic contacts, especially with a country where we share
important, vital national security interests, is but further evidence
of the crazy anti-Russian hysteria that has infected the
anti-Trumpers. Pathetic.
MANAFORT
If
Paul Manafort had rebuffed Trump’s offer to run his campaign, he
would be walking free today and still buying expensive suits and
evading taxes along with his Clinton buddy, Greg Craig. Instead, he
became another target for DOJ, the intel community and the DNC, which
were desperate to portray Trump as a tool of the Kremlin. Thanks to
John Solomon of The
Hill,
we now know the impetus to targetManafort
came from the DNC:
Manafort at 2016 RNC Convention. (Wikimedia Commons)
The
boomerang from the Democratic Party’s failed attempt to
connect Donald
Trump to
Russia’s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight
path crosses right through Moscow’s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That
is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in
some cases tried, to help Hillary
Clinton.
In
its most detailed account yet, Ukraine’s embassy in Washington says
a Democratic National Committee insider during the 2016
election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and
even tried to enlist the country’s president to help.
In
written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly’s office
says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the
Ukrainian government on Paul
Manafort’s dealings
inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.
Manafort
was not colluding, but the Clinton campaign and the Obama
Administration most certainly were.
Take
these eight events as a whole a very clear picture emerges—U.S. and
foreign intelligence (especially the UK) and U.S. law enforcement
collaborated in a broad effort to bait the Trump team with ostensible
Russian entreaties in order to paint Trump as a tool of the Kremlin.
That effort is now being exposed and those culpable will hopefully
face justice. This should sicken and alarm every American regardless
of political party. Will justice be served?
Larry
C. Johnson is a former CIA analyst and counterterrorism official at
the State Department. This article first
appeared on Sic
Semper Tyrannis.
