Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Ben
het niet geheel eens met de kop van dit bericht, echter het hieronder opgenomen Engelse
artikel met de kop die zo ongeveer dezelfde strekking heeft, is een
uitstekend artikel waarin de macht van de media aan de kaak wordt
gesteld.

Het
artikel van Caitlin Johnstone begint met de rel die in de VS ontstond
rond de presentator van MSNBC Joy (-Ann) Reid. Deze presentator
fantaseert er af en toe graag op los en heeft in het verleden al heel
wat zeer foute uitspraken gedaan. Johnstone is daar verder niet zo in
geïnteresseerd, maar wel in het feit dat de top van MSNBC 
deze presentator keer op keer de handen boven het hoofd houdt…………

Het
is niet moeilijk teksten op te lezen voor tv, wel is het moeilijk om
dag in dag de boel te belazeren en te manipuleren ten gunste van een
kleine groep geprivilegieerden, aldus verwoordt Johnstone ‘het werk’ van Reid……. (al moet ik zeggen dat het niet zo moeilijk is om te liegen en bedriegen, zeker als je ziet hoeveel reguliere mediaorganen zich hier schuldig aan maken…) Dezelfde Reid maakt iedereen af
in de media die ter linkerzijde van Hillary Clinton staat en noemt
zichzelf desondanks ‘links…’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! (Reid zou zo bij de PvdA aan kunnen sluiten!)

Voorts
stelt Reid dat niemand heeft geprofiteerd van Wikileaks, behalve
Rusland dan….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja ik lach wel, maar dergelijke onzinverhalen vindt je overal in de reguliere westerse (massa-) media, ook in ons
land. De grootste kul wordt met een serieus gezicht keer op keer
opgelepeld en lullig genoeg heeft dit een grote invloed op de
westerse bevolkingen dat hoor je pas goed als je de reacties onder
krantenberichten leest of inbellers op een actualiteitenprogramma
hoort praten. Negen van de tien redeneren vanuit de valse
informatie die hen dag in dag uit wordt voorgeschoteld (op een manier die vergeleken kan worden met hersenspoelen)…….

Bovendien is het wel erg wrang om te stellen dat Rusland baat heeft bij Wikileaks, als je ziet hoe Rusland wordt gedemoniseerd vanwege vermeende manipulaties van o.a. de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS, waar Rusland zelfs werd beschuldigd van het lekken van VS overheidsdocumenten naar Wikileaks……. Wat een idioot moet je zijn om te denken dat Rusland profiteert van de hysterische anti-Russische propaganda in het westen, neem alleen al de sancties die op valse gronden zijn genomen tegen dit land……

In feite zou een groot deel van de wereld moeten profiteren van Wikileaks, immers in de documenten van Wikileaks valt te lezen hoe smerig de spelletjes van de VS op het wereldtoneel zijn. Jammer genoeg doet bijna niemand iets met deze documenten en blijft men de meer dan valse, fascistische en uiterst gewelddadige VS buitenlandpolitiek door dik en dun steunen……

Terug naar de claim dat wie het nieuws controleert, de wereld controleert: echter voor het controleren van de wereld is ‘iets’ meer nodig dan de reguliere (massa-) media, zoals het militair-industrieel complex, de geheime diensten (aan wie de hiervoor aangehaalde media lippendiensten bewijzen) en de financiële wereld (beter gezegd: financiële maffia), ofwel deep state…..

En
dan durft men in die reguliere media, bijna zonder uitzondering in
handen van miljonairs/multimiljonairs en investeringsgroepen, te
spreken over fake news (nepnieuws) en manipulatie door sociale media……. 


Dezelfde media die een enorm aantal fake news berichten de wereld in hebben gestuurd en sturen, neem alleen al de berichtgeving van die media in aanloop van en tijdens de illegale oorlogen die de VS deze eeuw is begonnen……..

Lees
het verhelderende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone (en vertelt het ajb
verder, het is de hoogste tijd dat de macht van de reguliere media
voorgoed wordt gebroken en het volk de waarheid wordt verteld!):

Whoever
Controls the Narrative, Controls the World


June
4, 2018 at 7:55 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — MSNBC
host Joy Reid still has a job. Despite blatantly 
lying
about time-traveling hackers
 bearing
responsibility for bigoted posts a decade ago in her
then-barely-known blog, despite her reportedly 
sparking
an FBI investigation 
on
false pretenses, despite her colleagues at MSNBC being 
completely
fed up 
with
how the network is handling the controversy surrounding her, her
career just keeps trundling forward like a bullet-riddled zombie.

To
be clear, I do not particularly care that Joy Reid has done any of
these things. I write about war, nuclear escalations and the
sociopathy of US government agencies which kill millions of people; I
don’t care that Joy Reid is or was a homophobe, and I don’t care
that she lied to cover it up. The war agendas that MSNBC
itself 
promotes
on a daily basis
 are
infinitely worse than either of these things, and if that isn’t
obvious to you it’s because military propaganda has caused you
to 
compartmentalize yourself
out of an intellectually honest understanding of what war is.

What
is interesting to me, however, is the fact that Reid’s bosses
are 
protecting
her career
 so
adamantly. Both by refusing to fire her, and by 
steering
the conversation
 into
being about her controversial blog posts rather than the fact that
she told a spectacular lie in an attempt to cover them up, Reid is
being propped up despite this story constantly re-emerging and making
new headlines with new embarrassing details, and despite her lack of
any discernible talent or redeeming personal characteristics. This
tells us something important about what is going on in the world.

Variety


@Variety

Joy Reid is dealing with a new controversy. MSNBC is backing her again. https://bit.ly/2LdeaK5 

It
is not difficult to find someone to read from a teleprompter for
large amounts of money.

What
absolutely 
is difficult
is finding someone who is willing to deceive and manipulate to
advance the agendas of the privileged few day after day. Who else
would be willing to spend all day on Twitter smearing everyone to the
left of Hillary Clinton while still claiming to stand on the
political left? Who else would advance the 
point-blank
lie
 about
“17 intelligence agencies” having declared Russia guilty in US
election meddling months after that claim had been famously and
virally 
debunked?
Who else 
would
publicly claim
 that
Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks did not benefit anyone besides Russia?
Who else could 
oligarchs
like Comcast CEO Brian L Roberts
,
whose company 
controls
MSNBC
,
count on to consistently advance his agendas?


While
it’s easy to find someone you can count on to advance one
particular lie at one particular time, it is difficult to find
someone you can be absolutely certain will lie for you day after day,
year after year, through election cycles and administration changes
and new war agendas and changing political climates. A lot of the
people who used to advance perspectives which ran against the grain
of the political orthodoxy at MSNBC like 
Phil
Donahue
Ed
Schultz
 and Dylan
Ratigan
 have
vanished from the airwaves never to return, while reporters who
consistently keep their heads down and toe the line for the
Democratic establishment like Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid
are richly rewarded and encouraged to remain.


The
disempowered want change; those in power want predictability and
consistency. The more you can guarantee predictability and
consistency to those in power, the more those in power will reward
you.


Those
who report the news and shape public narratives are of particular
interest to US oligarchs, who bought up the old media long ago and
are doing everything in their power to secure influence over the new
media as well. Pundits like Joy Reid are some of their most valuable
assets, and they protect those assets accordingly. Because whoever
controls the narrative controls the world.

(hier de link naar het origineel waar je deze afbeelding kan vergroten)

The Council on Foreign Relations is a massively influential think tank with members in the leadership of pretty much every significant media outlet in America. In late April it held a conference titled Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and Fake News in which a man named Richard Stengel told the audience that it is necessary for the US government to propagandize its citizens. Stengel is the former managing editor of Time Magazine, a position he vacated to go and work for the US State Department. Yes, really.


Basically,
every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old
job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the
‘chief propagandist’ job,” Stengel 
told
the CFR audience
.
“We haven’t talked about propaganda… I’m not against
propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their
own population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”  


You
can cringe all you like, but he’s right. Not about propaganda being
a legitimate weapon for an ostensibly free democracy to inflict upon
its citizens of course; manipulating the way your citizenry thinks is
manipulating the way they vote and organize and what they consent to,
and is plainly sociopathic. But he is right that all the shrieking
the US does about Russian propaganda applies fully to its own
behavior.


As
we’ve 
discussed
previously
,
the only real power in this world is the power to control the public
narrative about what is going on. The only reason governments operate
the way they operate, the only reason money works the way it works,
the only reason power exists where it exists, is that we’ve all
agreed to play along with some made-up mental stories about those
things and pretend that they are true and real. The only thing
stopping the populace from collectively deciding to change the way
money works, from deciding that the assholes on Capitol Hill aren’t
in charge anymore, or from deciding that every billionaire in America
should be butchered like a hog and turned into Slim Jims is the fact
that those ideas have not become the dominant narrative. If you can
control the stories that the masses tell themselves about what is in
their best interests, you control everything.

#FreeAssange! (tweets by campaign)⌛@JulianAssange

This is quite good: How To Fight The Establishment Propaganda Machine And Win https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-fight-the-establishment-propaganda-machine-and-win-449f94e1d40b 


How To Fight The Establishment Propaganda Machine And Win

I am going to keep hammering and hammering on this point until I see that it has taken root in American consciousness: the single best way…

medium.com

(klik op de bovenstaande tekst voor het volledige twitterbericht)


This
is why the alliance between Silicon Valley and US intelligence
agencies is becoming more and more brazen. This is why Facebook and
the NATO propaganda firm Atlantic Council 
announced
that they’ve formed a partnership
 weeks
after the Atlantic Council 
published
an article
 explaining
why westerners need to be propagandized for their own good. This is
why social media corporations are 
being
instructed on the Senate floor
 that
they need to take action to silence sources of rebellion. This is why
Julian Assange is 
being
aggressively silenced
 by
the western empire. And it is why Joy Reid still has a job.


The
good news about all this is that we know exactly where our shackles
are. Our shackles are made of narrative, and the oligarchs’ ability
to control it. A populist movement to disrupt establishment
narratives and wake people up to what’s going on is all it will
take to break our rulers’ ability to control the way the citizens
of the world think and vote. From there we can make our own
narratives and create a world which benefits us all and not just a
few ruling elites. Right now there is a mad rush by those same elites
to scale back our ability to network and share information via new
media, so one of the most revolutionary things we can do at this time
is prevent them from doing so and outpace them in that race.



It
isn’t the west versus Russia. It isn’t left versus right. At this
time the real conflict in our society is a few ruling elites and
their cronies versus humanity’s natural impulse to act in a way
that is beneficial to humanity. All we need to do is help that
impulse flourish, get out of our oligarchy-imposed brain boxes, and
build a new world.

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Caitlin’s work on 
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Zie ook:

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

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

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


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


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


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


Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

The US military’s vision for state censorship


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


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


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

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


AVG: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (geleid door Aleid Wolfsen PvdA) niet berekend op EU wetgeving…….


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


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


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


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


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


Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……


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


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


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

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

Ex-CIA
agent, Kevin Shipp, momenteel ‘herstellend’ (het is moeilijk om het standaard liegen binnen de CIA af te leren, aldus Shipp) heeft een boek opengedaan over hoe de
regering zaken verbergt en hoe men klokkenluiders tot zwijgen
brengt……..

Volgens Shipp wordt het vierde amendement van de VS grondwet al bijna 60 jaar geschonden……. De grondwet is de hoogste wetgeving binnen de VS en deze schending is dan ook een grote misdaad. Een systeem van onconstitutionele machten heeft volgens hem in feite de echte macht in de VS….. Zoals je begrijpt en zoals gezegd is dit een enorme misdaad, waar helaas weinig tegen te doen is…….

De schaduwregering bestaat uit de (vele) geheime diensten in de VS en het draait op de macht van geheimen, angst en intimidatie…….. De schaduwregering werkt innig samen met de deep state, die draait op geld, macht en hebzucht, maar bestaat uit bedrijven die behoren tot het militair-industrieel complex, plus natuurlijk het ministerie van defensie uh oorlogvoering en de militaire top. Beiden manipuleren (en sturen) de zittende regering. Als je dit systeem aan wilt klagen wordt je kapot gemaakt, desnoods letterlijk……

Het
was al lang geleden duidelijk dat de regering van de VS twee kanten
heeft, de kant die men laat zien aan het volk en de rest van de
wereld en de nog veel grotere smeerpijperij achter de schermen, die
veelal niet naar buitenkomt, al heeft Wikileaks daar voor een aardig
deel verandering in gebracht……..

Mooi
te horen van een eertijds medeplichtige CIA agent dat wat men zogenaamde
complottheorieën noemt als je spreekt over de deep state, wel degelijk blijkt te kloppen………. Grote Silicon Valley bedrijven worden benaderd door de CIA en de NSA voor miljoenen projecten, waarbij deze bedrijven toegang krijgen tot grote internet bedrijven, echter waar men wel eerst voor geheimhouding moet tekenen. Daarbij wordt aangegeven dat degenen die uit de school klappen gevangenisstraffen opgelegd zullen krijgen, het leven onmogelijk zal worden gemaakt en zelfs letterlijk vermoord kunnen worden…………

Shipp maakt in feite duidelijk dat de geheime diensten in de VS niet alleen de regering in de zak hebben, maar ook toegang hebben tot ieder account behorend tot een VS internetbedrijf……. (zoals Google en Facebook……)

Het gaat om een video van 55 minuten, maar meer dan de moeite waard! Kijken mensen, je weet niet wat je hoort (en ziet)……….. 

A
“recovering” CIA officer explains the reality
of the Shadow
Government

THE
FIRST VERSION OF THIS
VIDEO
HAD 2 MILLION VIEWS

GOVERNMENT
COVER UPS AND HOW 
WHISTLE BLOWERS ARE SILENCED

Kevin
Shipp, a “recovering” CIA officer, explains the reality of the
Shadow Government in the United States.

He
says recovery is a 24 – not a 12 – Step. The first 12 Steps
involve learning how to tell the truth, something not easy for a CIA
agent.

We’re
not just at the 11th Hour. We’re at 11:59. We’re living in a
Post-Constitutional government now.”

I
give this speech to any group that will take the risk to do it.”

Zie ook:

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

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

Deep State stuurt VS presidenten bij >> uitleg van Edward Snowden

In het volgende artikel uitleg van
Edward Snowden over hoe de deep state werkt (in de VS). Zoals je wellicht al
bekend was, het gaat bepaald niet alleen om de geheime diensten, maar
bijvoorbeeld ook om de ambtenaren op sleutelposities, die na een
wisseling van presidenten niet hoeven te vertrekken. Jammer dat
Snowden niet de grote bedrijven en banken noemt, daar deze wel
degelijk deel uitmaken van deep state……

Gezien dat laatste, hebben ook de
miljardairs veel invloed, immers zij bezitten bedrijven of hebben de
meerderheid van aandelen van bedrijven in handen, zoals die van de grote
dagbladen >> niet voor niets dat de ‘journalistiek’ in die bladen
allesbehalve onafhankelijk is….

Snowden legt uit hoe presidenten worden
ingepakt door deep state, alle hervormingen die zij willen
doorvoeren, zoals hervorming, dan wel opheffen van geheime diensten,
stranden en zullen blijven stranden…… (althans zoals het er nu uitziet en er moet wel een enorme catastrofe passeren wil daar verandering in komen……)

Snowden
Explains How the Deep State Influences Presidents

March
24, 2018 at 11:36 am

Written
by 
Truth
In Media

(TIM— Famed
whistleblower Edward Snowden was recently interviewed by Italian
publication La Repubblic. The publication noted the 5-year mark of
Snowden’s historic act of blowing the whistle on the NSA’s
expansive surveillance programs and that “many thought he would end
up very badly, but when he connects via videolink for this interview
with la Repubblica, he seems to be doing very well: the frank smile
and peaceful face of someone who is easy in his mind.”

In
an excerpt from the exclusive 
interview, Snowden
explained how the presidencies of both Obama and Trump are shaped by
the Deep State following an illuminating question by journalist
Stefania Maurizi.

Stefania
Maurizi:
 We
saw that President Obama, who was an outsider to the US
military-intelligence complex, initially wanted to reign in the
abuses of agencies like the CIA and the NSA, but in the end he did
very little. Now we see a confrontation between president Trump and
so-called Deep State, which includes the CIA and the NSA. Can a US
president govern in opposition to such powerful entities?

Edward
Snowden:
 Obama
is certainly an instructive case. This is a president who campaigned
on a platform of ending warrantless wiretapping in the United States,
he said “that’s not who we are, that’s not what we do,” and
once he became the president, he expanded the program.  He said
he was going to close Guantanamo but he kept it open, he said he was
going to limit extrajudicial killings and drone strikes that has been
so routine in the Bush years. But Obama went on to authorize vastly
more drone strikes than Bush. It became an industry.

As
for this idea that there is a Deep State, now the Deep State is not
just the intelligence agencies, it is really a way of referring to
the career bureaucracy of government. These are officials who sit in
powerful positions, who don’t leave when presidents do, who watch
presidents come and go, they influence policy, they influence
presidents and say: this is what we have always done, this is what we
must do, and if you don’t do this, people will die.

It
is very easy to persuade a new president who comes in, who has never
had these powers, but has always wanted this job and wants very, very
badly to do that job well. A bureaucrat sitting there for the last
twenty years says: I understand what you said, I respect your
principles, but if you do what you promised, people will die. It is
very easy for a president to go: well, for now, I am going to set
this controversy to the side, I’m going to take your advice, let
you guys decide how these things should be done, and then I will
revisit it, when I have a little more experience, maybe in a few
months, maybe in a few years, but then they never do.

This
is what we saw quite clearly happen in the case of Barack Obama: when
this story [of Snowden exposing the NSA’s mass surveillance] came
forward in 2013, when Obama had been president for five years, one of
the defences for this from his aides and political allies was: oh,
Obama was just about to fix this problem!  And sure enough, he
eventually was forced from the wave of criticism to make some limited
reforms, but he did not go far enough to end all of the programs that
were in violation of the law or the constitution of the United
States. That too was an intentional choice: he could have certainly
used the scandal to advocate for all of the changes that he had
campaigned on, to deliver on all of his promises, but in those five
years he had become president, he discovered something else, which is
that there are benefits from having very powerful intelligence
agencies, there are benefits from having these career bureaucrats on
your side, using their spider web over government for your benefit.

Imagine
you are Barack Obama, and you realise – yes, when you were
campaigning you were saying: spying on people without a warrant is a
problem, but then you realise: you can read Angela Merkel’s 
text
messages
.
Why bother calling her and asking her opinion, when you can just read
her mind by breaking the law? It sounds like a joke, but it is a very
seductive thing. Secrecy is perhaps the most corrupting of all
government powers, because it takes public officials and divorces
them from accountability to the public.

When
we look at the case of Trump, who is perhaps the worst of
politicians, we see the same dynamic occurring. This is a president
who said the CIA is the enemy, it’s like Nazi Germany, they’re
listening to his phone calls, and all of these other things, some
claims which are true, some claims which are absolutely not.  A
few months later, he is authorizing major powers for these same
agencies that he has called his enemies.

And
this gets to the central crux of your question, which is: can any
president oppose this? The answer is certainly. The president has to
have some familiarity going in with the fact that this pitch is going
to be made, that they are going to try to scare him or her into
compliance. The president has to be willing to stand strongly on line
and say: ‘I was elected to represent the interests of the American
people, and if you’re not willing to respect the constitution and
our rights, I will disband your agency, and create a new one’. I
think they can definitely be forced into compliance, because these
officials fear prison, just like every one of us.

EXCLUSIVE: tells how the shapes presidents,whether 

he wants to see all his files published,how he looks at and at the increasingly close relationships ,, and the intel (English)

Edward Snowden: “Poisoning people who are long out of their service is contemptible”

In an exclusive interview, Edward Snowden tells La Repubblica what has changed in the five years since he blew the whistle on the NSA, how presidents Obama and

repubblica.it


By Jay
Syrmopoulos
 /
Republished with permission / 
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Mijn excuus voor de weergave van het Twitterbericht, krijg het niet op orde >> voor het origineel, klik op deze link.

Sleepwet: vrijgegeven documenten bewijzen dat de VS gewone burgers bespioneert >> zie ons voorland…….

Onlangs vrijgegeven documenten,
gepubliceerd door ‘The Electronic Border Foundation’ (EFF) en verkregen van
de in opspraak geraakte Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC), bewiijzen dat de VS wel degelijk gewone burgers bespioneert,
mensen die niets onwettigs hebben gedaan…..

Vooral de NSA en FBI maken zich
schuldig aan het afluisteren van gesprekken tussen mensen die op geen
manier een bedreiging vormen…… Ook aan het publiek in de VS is
meermaals voorgehouden dat met metadata verzameling hun privacy niet
geschonden zou worden, wel dus…….

Overigens bleek eerder al, dat de
geheime diensten in de VS (waartoe ik in deze ook de FBI reken) foto’s en
filmpjes uit internet bestanden van mensen plukken en bekijken……..

‘Onafhankelijke’ rechters besluiten achter gesloten deuren wat wel of niet is toegestaan en daarover is geen enkele openheid…… In Nederland wil de regering met de Sleepwet die stap zelfs achterwege laten bij het verzamelen van data en reken maar dat men wel degelijk telefoongesprekken zal beluisteren, ook al is daar geen enkele reden toe…… De toestemming mag met de Sleepwet in werking, ook achteraf worden gevraagd en gegeven >> de dood in de pot voor ons recht op privacy, onze privacy waar al niet teveel meer van over is……..

Zie in de VS waar wij naar toe gaan met de
nieuwe Sleepwet, die Rutte 3 van plan is erdoor te drukken…… Geloof maar niet dat het referendum, zelfs als de grote meerderheid tegen de Sleepwet stemt, daar enige verandering in zal brengen……. We hebben immers niet voor niets een ‘constitutionele democratie’, met een volksvertegenwoordiging, uh ik bedoel een bedrijven- en welgesteldenvertegenwoordiging…….

Newly
Released Documents Prove the US Gov’t Is Spying on Innocent
Americans

February
26, 2018 at 7:39 am

Written
by 
Derrick
Broze

(AP) — The
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has acquired formerly classified court
orders from the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
(FISC) which detail how the court violates the privacy of innocent
Americans caught in the crossfire of federal surveillance. The
documents are the result of Freedom of Information Act requests filed
by the EFF as part of an effort to shine light on the inner workings
of the secret court.

The
EFF
 writes:

These
documents raise larger questions about whether the government can
meaningfully protect people’s privacy and free expression rights
under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
(FISA), which permits officials to engage in warrantless mass
surveillance with far less court oversight than is required under the
“traditional” FISA warrant process.
[…]

Although
many of the 13 opinions are heavily redacted — and the government
withheld another 26 in full — the readable portions show several
instances of the court blocking government efforts to expand its
surveillance or ordering the destruction of information obtained
improperly as a result of its spying.

The
documents provided to the EFF detail several cases where
conversations of people not targeted by federal authorities were
swept up in the course of surveillance investigations. Specifically,
the documents show the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal
Bureau of Investigations (FBI) spying on innocent people and
attempting to conceal the practice. A 40-page court opinion from 2004
or 2005 details how FISC Judge Harold Baker declined a proposal from
FBI to save these conversations, often known as incidental
collection. “The opinion demonstrates both the risks of
over-collection as part of targeted surveillance as well as the
benefits of engaged, detailed court oversight,” The EFF notes.

Under
the standards set by section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA), the FISC approves digital surveillance for
federal agencies who are supposed to follow certain procedures to
prevent the accidental interception of innocent people’s
communications. The new documents highlight how the FBI used
incidental collection to capture the communications of a number of
innocent people.

The
FBI attempted to argue to Judge Baker that the practice has “minimal,
if any” impact on the Fourth Amendment protections against
invasions of privacy. The FISC apparently actually did their job by
attempting to prevent this practice from continuing and becoming
normalized. The surveillance court appeared to admonish the FBI for
expanding the use of incidental communications, rather than deleting
the communications of individuals unrelated to ongoing
investigations.

The
EFF notes that the court “faulted the FBI for failing to account
‘the possibility that overzealous or ill-intentioned personnel
might be inclined to misuse information, if given the opportunity.’
As the court put it, ‘the advantage of minimization at the
acquisition stage is clear. Information that is never acquired in the
first place cannot be misused.’”

The
surveillance court was originally created under the the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) in response to reports
produced by the 1975 Church Committee. The Senate panel was tasked
with investigating the foreign and domestic surveillance operations
by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), NSA, and FBI during the
1970s. The Church Committee also released detailed reports on the
governments Counter Intelligence Programs (COINTELPRO) that were used
against activists and influential voices of opposition during the
1950s and ’60s.

These
newly released documents offer the latest example of how the secret
surveillance court is ripe for abuse. Although this example shows one
judge working to maintain some level of accountability, the vast
majority of the documents were redacted so there is no way to see if
this case is the exception or the norm. Further, this court order is
thirteen to fourteen years old. Take a moment to consider the massive
growth of the U.S. surveillance state and the FISC specifically.
There is simply no way to trust that this single judges effort to
hold the federal government accountable represent the status quo.

Much
of the issues surrounding the secret surveillance court related to
Section 702 of the FISA bill. According the EFF, Section 702 “allows
the NSA to collect emails, browser history and chat logs of
Americans. Section 702 also allows other agencies, like the FBI, to
search through that data without a warrant. Those searches are called
‘backdoor searches.’” As revealed by whistleblower Edward
Snowden in 2013, Section 702 also authorizes two Internet
surveillance programs known as PRISM and Upstream.

PRISM
gathers messaging data sent via Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple,
and other tech companies, while Upstream taps into the so-called
backbone of the Internet to gather data on targets. The NSA began
collecting Americans’ international phone calls and emails without
a warrant immediately after the 9/11 attacks as part of the Stellar
Wind program. Once the public became aware of the program in 2008,
Congress codified the program into law by passing section 702 of
FISA.

The
FISA Court is a glaring example of The Deep State. A secret court run
by secret judges who interpret the law behind closed doors and who
refuse to publicly release their findings or their interpretation.

By Derrick
Broze
 / Republished
with permission / 
Activist
Post
 / Report
a typo

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

Via Artwave Art de volgende link: ‘Hoe zit het precies met die ‘sleepwet’? In deze vier podcasts leggen we het uit’ (door de Volkskrant, dus let op en geloof vooral niet alles wat je verteld wordt, zo zouden wij ook voordelen hebben van de sleepwet….. ha! ha! ha! ha! Alsof ze je had eraf hakken en dan stellen dat je nu veel beter gebruik van je andere hand zal gaan maken….)

Muellers onzinnige beschuldiging die Russiagate zou bewijzen……..

Muellers ‘troll farm’ verhaal ronduit waanzinnig………

Het is werkelijk om schijtziek van te
worden: de pogingen in de VS (en de rest van het westen) om Rusland te demoniseren en het verlies
van de presidentsverkiezingen door hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton te
wijten aan Russische manipulaties.

Voor al die claims is nul komma nada
bewijs, maar de VS en haar hielenlikkende oorlogshonden van de NAVO
houden deze leugens in de lucht, dit gesteund door de reguliere
media, die NB bijna dagelijks schrijven over ‘fake news’, terwijl
deze media verreweg de grootste leveranciers van dit nepnieuws
zijn…….

De vooralsnog laatste bladzijde in de
wrange komedie werd geschreven door oud-FBI directeur Robert
Mueller…….

Lees hoe David Stockman uitgebreid
gehakt maakt van het ‘troll farm verhaal’. (let op, sommige delen zijn dusdanig komisch dat je op moet passen er niet in te blijven):

Mueller’s
Comic Book Indictment: How to Prosecute A Great Big Nothingburger

By
David Stockman

February
21, 2018 “Information
Clearing House
” – We have always heard that a
determined government prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, and now
we know it’s true. After 38 years in the prosecution racket, Robert
Mueller just made his biggest score ever—that is, he nailed
a great big Nothingburger.


But
he also did a lot more than that. Mueller’s 37-page comic book
indictment actually unmasks—inadvertently to be
sure—the 
distinctly
un-terrifying essence
 of
the whole Russian meddling narrative. In fact, the crude social media
emissions (ads and posts) of the so-called troll farm were
generally lame, often laughable and sometimes downright
ludicrous as per this gem cited by Mueller:

a.
On or about October 16, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators
used the ORGANIZATION-controlled Instagram account “Woke Blacks”
to post the following message: 
“[A]
particular hype and hatred for Trump is misleading the people and
forcing Blacks to vote Killary. We cannot resort to the lesser of two
devils. Then we’d surely be better off without voting AT ALL.”

Notwithstanding
the grave nomenclature of BLOCK CAPITALS, endless sinister “on
or about” events and 99 numbered paragraphs of
particulars, the true bill (charging document) is actually just a
random catalogue of social media trivia like the above “Woke
Blacks” post.

Most
of the cited gleanings amounted to crude word bombs, often in
broken English, that presumably even Kim Kardashian’s 59 million
Twitter followers could see through.

“Hillary
is a Satan, and her crimes and lies
 had proved
just how evil she is”

The
lion’s share of these postings and ads probably disappeared into
cyberspace like the sound of a falling tree in an empty
forest, anyway. According to Facebook itself, the seemingly
ubiquitous social media ad campaign despicted in the indictment
was nothing of the kind. It actually amounted to
just 
3,000 placements
at a cost of 
$100,000—more
than half of which were purchased after the election,
and 
25% of
which ended-up in its dead letter office (unread).

Likewise, the
handful of efforts to actually stimulate pro-Trump rallies in
Florida and elsewhere were abject failures. As we document
below, the Russians had absolutely no “ground game” in the
US and any third-rate campaign consultant will tell you that ads
alone do not produce crowds. In fact, there is virtually no evidence
that anyone showed up at the rallies cited by Mueller.

Besides,
the overwhelming share of the pro-Trump social media postings
uncovered by Mueller’s sleuths amounted to “copy and paste”
relays of current partisan talking points. Thus, the
indictment cites such slogans as:

           “Vote
Republican, vote Trump, and support the Second Amendment!”.

“Trump
is our only hope for a better future!”

“Donald
wants to defeat terrorism… Hillary wants to sponsor it”

Really?

It
took a clandestine nest of Russkie imposters and subversives to
pollute the social media with this kind of tripe?


In
fact, RNC, Fox News and the Trump campaign were
already saturating the internet with these messages,
anyway—-along with millions of pro-Trump social medi activists.  T
he 80 Russian operatives
cited by Mueller didn’t add one damn bit to the massive social media
messaging that was already out there.

So
here’s the joker in the whole deck. It seems that the
nefarious”troll farm” in St. Petersburg that comprises
nearly the totality of Mueller’s case is not a Russian
intelligence agency operation at all.


Instead,
it’s the relatively harmless Hobby Farm of a fanatical
Russian oligarch and ultra-nationalist, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who
has a great big beef against Imperial Washington’s demonization
of Russia and Vlad Putin. Apparently, the farm
 was (it’s
apparently being disbanded) the vehicle through which he gave
Washington the middle finger and buttered up his patron.

Prigozhin
is otherwise known as “Putin’s Cook” because he made his
fortune in St. Petersburg restaurants that Putin favored and via
state funded food service operations at Russian schools and military
installations. Like most Russian oligarchs not in jail, he
apparently tithes in gratitude to the Kremlin: In this
case, by bankrolling the rinky-dink operation at 55
Savushkina Street in St Petersburg that is the object of Mueller’s
pretentious foray into the flotsam and jetsam of social media
low life.

Prigozhin’s
trolling farm is grandly called the Internet Research Agency
(IRA), but what it actually does is hire (apparently) unemployed
20-somethings at $4-8 per hour to pound out
ham-handed political messaging on social media sites like
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube etc. They bang away twelve
hours at a shift on a quota-driven
paint-by-the-internet-numbers basis where their output is rated for
engagements, likes, retweets etc.


Whatever
these keyboard drones might be, they are not professional Russian
intel operators
. And
the collection of broken English postings strewn throughout the
indictment are not one bit scary.


Indeed,
the utterly stupid naiveté of the whole St.
Petersburg operation is crystalized by this episode when the
farm purportedly garnered some startling political insight from
an unwitting Trump campaign official in Texas:

80.
On or about August 19, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators
used the false U.S. persona “Matt Skiber” account to write
to the real U.S. person affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots
organization who previously had advised the false persona to focus
on 
“purple
states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida
.”
Defendants and their co-conspirators told that U.S. person, 
We
were thinking about your recommendation to focus on purple states and
this is what we’re organizing in FL.”

Jez
Louise and goodness gracious, too. Who coulda thunk as early
as August that Colorado, Virginia and Florida would be swing
states!


In
any event, even Mueller’s indictment proves that the farm was
strictly amateurville. None of the other 12 Russians charged
has an intelligence background, either.

Thus,
the CEO is a retired St. Petersburg police officer. The
executive director is a 31-year old website developer and
internet PR promoter who previously had garnered small beans
contracts ($4k-20k each) from St. Petersburg agencies to publish
municipal newspapers, make video reports about their activities or
promote local programs such as one on “tolerance and
prevention of drug addiction”.


Likewise,
two more of the operatives were graduates students in IT and
advertising at St. Petersburg universities.

Then
there is the husband/wife duo, Maria and Robert Bovda, who were
the original heads of the US focused “translator project”.
Both were recent graduates in psychology from local
universities, where Robert’s 2011 thesis had been on
“The Effects of Social-Support Conditions On
Loneliness As Experienced By the Elderly”.


We can’t
help but think they had not yet become hardened spies when
the joined IRA in November 2013 and apparently 
left
in October 2014
. Whatever
they did during their tenure at the farm, cooking up ways to
help Donald Trump’s not yet announced campaign was surely
not among them, but still apparently enough to help fill out
Mueller’s indictment roster.

             Maria Bovda was the 'head' of the translator project, the designated branch of the wider pro-Putin effort which focused on US audiences. She worked there between November 2013 and October 2014
Her husband Robert acted beneath her as the second in charge of the 'translator' project and worked at the company over the same dates. He too is accused of trying to enter the US under false pretenses to collect information but he did not obtain a visa and could not make the trip


Another
was Dzheykhun Aslanov, who was head of the “American department”
and had graduated in 2012 from the Russian State Hydrometeorological
University in St. Petersburg. He had studied economics
and 
wildlife
management!

Likewise,
nowhere in the entire 37 pages is there even a clause linking
Prigozhin’s Hobby Farm to the SVR (foreign intelligence service), the
FSB (counter-intelligence and anti-terrorism), the GRU (military
intelligence service), any other agency of the Russian State—-or
even some purported Kremlin back channel to Putin.

Yet
there is every reason to believe that the entire Russian meddling
narrative cooked up by the partisan hacks in Obama’s inner
circle—-John Brennan, Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes—-was based on the
amateurish machinations originating in the nondescript building
pictured below.

As
we will show, the Hobby Farm was no Russian state secret
or clandestine vehicle of its intelligence community. To the
contrary, it had been fully covered in the Russian press for
years as one of numerous such oligarch funded projects designed
to glorify the Putin regime and vilify the Russian opposition.


It
had also been the subject of a lengthy expose in 
The
Guardian
 
of
London, as well as other western media. Even Radio Free Europe
had done a lengthy profile.


All
of this had happened long before Prigozhin’s Hobby Farm
had turned its attentions to US politics. Indeed, the IRA’s
pivot to the US in April 2014 occurred well before Trump’s
candidacy was gleam in anyone’s eye except his own, but 
after a
seminal event had occurred which Mueller’s comic book
narrative completely ignores.


To
wit, what apparently riled up Prigozhin was Washington’s
heavy-handed meddling in the politics of Ukraine during the US
funded and enabled coup on the streets of Kiev in February 2014.

Never
mind that the incumbent pro-Russian government had come to power in
an honest election and had chosen to take a more
attractive economic deal from Moscow than was being offered
by the West. 

Also ignore that fact that Ukraine was Russia’s
next door neighbor and had been an essential element of Greater
Russia—sometimes a full fledged constituent state—for more
than 700 years.

Likewise,
when Crimea elected by 90% referendum vote to “rejoin”
Russia, it didn’t happen at gunpoint. Crimea is 85% Russian and
had been an integral part of the Russian state ever since it
was purchased from the Turks by Catherine the Great for
good money in 1783.

Thereafter,
its major port city of Sevastopol had functioned as the homeport
for Russia’s Black Sea fleet under Czars and Commissars alike.
The only real reason it needed to “rejoin” Russia in March
2014 was because the Ukrainian tyrant who ruled the Soviet Union in
the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev, had gifted it to his
Ukrainian compatriots during a drunken celebration of his
victory over two deadly rivals who also claimed Stalin’s succession.

Indeed,
when Obama’s neocon Assistant Secretary for European Affairs,
Victoria Nuland, was caught telling the American ambassador in Kiev
that “Yats is the guy” with respect to the new Washington
designated leader of the post-coup government and joined a
chorus of Washington-based vilification of Putin and the Russian
government, the die was cast.

Russian
nationalists like Prigozhin were not going to take it lying down. As
we document below, then and there he began to shift some of the
activities of his trolling farm toward the US.

It amounted
to a tit-for-tat response to the anti-Russian propaganda emanating
from the Washington funded NGOs in Kiev; and also from outright
government agencies like the National Endowment for Democracy
and Radio Free Europe, as well as the Deep State
subservient operations of CNN and its print media imitators.

That
shift was described as the “translator project” by
Mueller’s historically ignorant lawyers. The implication was that out
of sheer aggression the Kremlin had unilaterally decided to
attack America’s democratic process through the IRA.

In
fact, the overwhelming likelihood is that an arriviste
Russian billionaire got a bee in his bonnet after Washington’s
Ukrainian coup–and then went to town on America with his trolling
farm exactly as he and many others had been doing in internal
Russian politics for years.

From
the point of view of US/Russian relations and world peace, however,
the re-direction of activity at Prigozhin’s Hobby Farm could
not have come at a worse time. Its wholly open and widely known
operations permitted Obama’s hatchet-people to quickly seize
on the IRA’s new theatre of focus as evidence of a
massive Russian attack on America’s election process, thereby turning
a molehill into a mountain.

At
length, the partisan leaders of Obama’s national security team,
led by the detestable John Brennan at the
CIA, selectively coopted and abused the resources and
credibility of the vast US intelligence apparatus to put the
imprimatur of a national security threat upon what was in fact
a scary bedtime story of no real significance. That effort
culminated in the phony intelligence assessment published
by four US intel agencies in January 2017 based on the work
of Brennan’s “hand-picked” accomplices.

In
what is surely a fabulous irony, therefore, the Internet
Research Agency amounts to a reverse Potemkin Village. It wasn’t
much to look at and was nothing to worry about until Obama’s
national security posse falsely embellished it’s innocuous
façade into a mortal threat to American democracy and national
security.

And
then Robert Mueller brought in his gang of copywriters and
illustrators to turn this entire tall tale into CNN-ready “news”.

We
will demonstrate below that what happened in this building was a
complete farce and posed no threat to the security and liberty of the
American people whatsoever; nor did it even remotely impact the 2016
election process.


But
with his comic book indictment, Robert Mueller has actually made
himself a mortal threat to America’s democracy and national security
.
That’s because his indictment is unleashing a rabid
anti-Russian mania in the Democratic party and turning flaming
liberals and leftwing progressives, who used to form the backbone of
the peace party in America, into outright war-mongers.

The
Donald tweeted over the weekend about Moscow “laughing its ass
off”  about the Mueller indictment, but we think he
missed the mark. It is the Deep State on the banks of the Potomac
that is bursting with glee—literally licking its collective
chops— about the endless budget boondoggles now assured to be 

coming its way.


The
neocons and military/industrial complex had already
taken control of the GOP lock, stock and barrel. Then,
his campaign rhetoric about “America First”
notwithstanding, Trump abdicated to his empire-minded generals
in order to concentrate on his Twitter account. And now in the
wake of the RussiaGate hysteria being given a powerful new
boost from Mueller’s comic book, the Dems are lining up to say
we will see your 
$700
billion
 budget
and crank it up from there.


The
truth is, there is a screaming fiscal crisis coming hard upon
Imperial Washington. That’s owing to the 
$15
trillion
 of
new deficits that are now built-in for the next decade—at the very
time when the Fed has shut down is massive bond-buying
experiment and the Baby Boom is hitting the social security and
medicare rolls in droves.

Absent
the RussiaGate hoax and the Dems descent into mindless, anti-Putin
hysteria, there would have been a moment of maximum danger for
the Deep State’s hideously inflated military, intelligence and
surveillance operations. In the coming battle against fiscal
collapse, they surely would have been on the fiscal chopping
block like at no time since the aftermath of Vietnam in the 1970s.

But rescue
is now at hand. The Dems have been shell-shocked ever
since the evening of November 8, 2016, and have worked
themselves into deliriums about how it was all a big mistake
enabled by Russian meddling and collusion with the Trump
campaign.

To
a substantial degree, however, those narratives were on their last
legs until the Mueller indictment came along. For anyone who takes
the trouble to read it, of course, it’s just a potpourri of
nonsense, marginalia and irrelevance.

But
the Dems had already gone brain dead on the RussiaGate matter—so
they are now greeting it as a “blockbuster”, as
are the talking heads of CNN and the mainstream media. Consequently,
the drivel that came out of the building pictured below is being
taken as evidence of a far-reaching attack on America that
even rivals Pearl Harbor. As Pat Buchanan noted:

          This
Russian troll farm is “the equivalent (of) Pearl Harbor,”
says Cong. Jerrold Nadler, who would            head up the House Judiciary
Committee, handling any impeachment, if Democrats retake the                    House.

When
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes pressed, Nadler doubled down: The Russians “are
destroying our democratic process.” While the Russian trolling
may not equal Pearl Harbor in its violence, said Nadler, in its
“seriousness, it is very much on a par” with Japan’s
surprise attack.

That’s
right. But unlike the vast Japanese naval armada that stealthily
steamed toward Hawaii in early December 1941, the Facebook
cyber-missiles that allegedly hit America in 2016 came out of
this little joint hiding in plain sight:

55 Savushkina Street, St Petersburg, said to be the headquarters of Russia’s ‘troll army’

So
let’s return to the fact that Prigozhin’s troll farm
doesn’t really look much different than countless others that dot the
Russian internet landscape, and which mushroomed after 2011 in
support of the Putin-ified Russian state and the crony
capitalist economy it shepherds.


New
Yorker
 piece
published by journalist Adrian Chen, no fan of Donald Trump, in
late July 2016 explains about as well as any where the Internet
Research Agency came from:

           The
(Internet Research Agency) has been widely reported in Russian
media to be the brainchild                of Evgeny Prigozhin, an oligarch and ally
of Vladimir Putin. At the time, it employed hundreds of                Russians in a
nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, where they produced
blog posts,                      comments, infographics, and viral videos that pushed the
Kremlin’s narrative on both the Russian              and English Internet.

The
agency is what is known in Russia as a “troll farm,” a nickname
given to outfits that operate armies of sock-puppet social-media
accounts, in order to create the illusion of a rabid grass-roots
movement. Trolling has become a key tool in a comprehensive effort by
Russian authorities to rein in a previously freewheeling Internet
culture, after huge anti-Putin protests in 2011 were organized
largely over social media. It is used by Kremlin apparatchiks at
every level of government in Russia; wherever politics are discussed
online, one can expect a flood of comments from paid trolls.

The
real effect, the Russian activists told me, was not to brainwash
readers but to overwhelm social media with a flood of fake
content, 
seeding
doubt and paranoia, and destroying the possibility of using the
Internet as a democratic space…..

…….toward
the end of last year (2015) I noticed something interesting:
many had begun to promote right-wing news outlets, portraying
themselves as conservative voters who were, increasingly, fans of
Donald Trump. Exposure to even small amounts of Russian politics can
induce severe bouts of paranoia and conspiracy-minded thinking, and
it seemed logical to me that this new pro-Trump bent might well be an
attempt by the agency to undermine the U.S. by helping to elect a
racist reality-show star as our Commander-in-Chief. At the time, I
found it funny. 
The
agency was a well-funded but often hapless operation—it created a
cartoon character that was a giant buttocks to spread anti-Obama
propaganda, for example—and this seemed like another of its
far-fetched schemes to poison the Internet.

In
fact, it was. How it became a fearsome Russian intel operation was
entirely due to what happened in Washington DC, not St. Petersburg
or the Kremlin, for that matter.

That
is, in the summer of 2016, when the Obama inner circle and the
Deep State national security establishment alike suddenly were
confronted with the theretofore unthinkable prospect that Donald
Trump might actually be elected US President, they literally
transformed the Hobby Farm of a second tier
Russian oligarch into monumental threat to American
democracy.

And
that took some doing because Prigozhin was essentially a nobody
in the great scheme of national security. Unlike Putin, who cut
his eyeteeth in the old Soviet era KGB, Prigozhin had fancied himself
a ski racer as a privileged young man in a Soviet boarding school.
Failing to make the grade on the slopes, however, he had
subsequently pursued various petty criminal schemes that
landed him nine years in a Soviet prison during the latter’s
dying days.

But
timing is everything—-so when he opened a hot dog stand from
his mother’s kitchen in newly liberated St. Petersburg in the
early 1990s his entprenurial talents in the culinary field
self-evidently flourished. Soon he branched into
convenience stores and then in 1996 into a swank restaurant
(Staraya Tamozhnya or “The Old Customs House”) that
catered to newly monied Russian who were looking for “more than
cutlets with Vodka”.

At
length, a strategic $400k investment in a rusting harbor boat
was turned into a floating hot spot called “The New Island
Restaurant”. From there flowed catering contracts
for lavish state banquets after he gained the
gastronomical favor of the post-Soviet St. Petersburg
political operative, who became prime minister of Russia.


Putin held lavish
state dinners on Prigozhin’s floating emporium, where
he played host to world leaders like George W. Bush and Jacques
Chirac. He also apparently heaped business into Prigozhin’s budding
empire with a $177 million catering contract with Moscow’s schools,
and then the real jackpot: A two year contract in 2012 worth
more than 
$1.6
billion
 to
supply 90% of all food orders to Russian soldiers.

Folks,
that’s where the troll factory came from. It opened the
next year in 2013 as the kind of token of appreciation expected
from oligarchs favored by the Russian state.

Still,
it wasn’t the KGB incarnate—just a tweet-by-the-numbers body
shop designed to flood Russian media and internet
forums with messages extolling Russian greatness, the iniquities and
hypocrisies of the morally corrupt West and the glorious
works of Vlad Putin.


At
this stage the troll farm was involved in strictly Russian
business—-the handiwork of an oligarch who had thrived on Russia’s
particular brand of crony capitalism and was more than happy to shill
for his patron in the Kremlin.


Here
is how the previously referenced 
Guardian
article from mid-2015 described the farm before some of its
modest resources were later shifted to the “American
Department” in 2016:

          Just
after 9pm each day, a long line of workers files out of 55 Savushkina
Street, a modern four-                storey office complex with a small sign outside
that reads “Business centre”. Having spent 12                    hours in the
building, the workers are replaced by another large group, who will
work through the              night.

They
painted a picture of a work environment that was humourless and
draconian, with fines for being a few minutes late or not reaching
the required number of posts each day. Trolls worked in rooms of
about 20 people, each controlled by three editors, who would check
posts and impose fines if they found the words had been cut and
pasted, or were ideologically deviant.

The
LiveJournal blogger, who spent two months working at the centre until
mid-March, said she was paid 45,000 roubles ($790) a month, to run a
number of accounts on the site.

We
had to write ‘ordinary posts’, about 
making
cakes or music tracks
 we
liked, but then every now and then throw in a
 political
post
 about
how the Kiev government is fascist, or that sort of thing,” she
said.

Scrolling
through one of the LiveJournal accounts she ran, the pattern is
clear. There are posts about “Europe’s 20 most beautiful castles”
and “signs that show you are dating the wrong girl”, interspersed
with political posts about 
Ukraine or
suggesting that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is
corrupt.

The
desired conclusion of one reads: “The majority of experts agree
that the US is deliberately trying to weaken Russia, and Ukraine is
being used only as a way to achieve this goal. If the Ukrainian
people had not panicked and backed a coup, the west would have found
another way to pressure Russia. But our country is not going to go
ahead with the US plans, and we will fight for our sovereignty on the
international stage.”

To
add colour to their posts, websites have been set up to aid the troll
army. One features 
thousands
of pasteable images
,
mainly of European leaders in humiliating photoshopped incidents or
with captions pointing out their weakness and stupidity, or showing
Putin making hilarious wisecracks and winning the day.

When
I got the job there in 2013 it was a small building, I was working in
the basement, and it was clear they didn’t have enough space,”
said Andrei Soshnikov, a St Petersburg journalist who infiltrated the
company two years ago and has continued to cover it. 
He
linked the move to a much bigger office with increased online
activity around the Ukraine crisis….

As
we explained above, it was only after Washington massively
intervened in the domestic politics of Ukraine in February 2104 that
Prigozhin’s Hobby Farm branched into external operations
focused on Russian adversaries like the new anti-Russian Ukrainian
government and the United States.


Even
then, however, the main stream media headline writers, who
have been intellectually lobotomized by a constant diet of
anti-Russian mania, cannot seem to grasp that their hyperbolic
headlines are in no way, shape or form supported by the actual
written words in Mueller’s indictment.


In
a word, 
eighty twenty-somethings
sitting cheek-by-jowl at banks of computer screens and banging out
social media tripe in English as a (third) language did not
impact anything in America, let alone the 2016 election outcome.


That
is to say, what in the world is so hard to understand about the fact
that the pathetic output of this group could not have amounted
to 
0.000001% of
the content that rumbled through these social media channels
during 2016?


Yet
here is Mueller—writing in indictment black and
white—admitting that the troll farm had deployed precious few
trolls to the American department:

“spread
(ing) distrust towards the candidates and the political
system in general…..By approximately July 2016, more
than 
eighty
ORGANIZATION employees
 were
assigned to the translator project”.

Besides
the infinitesimal volume and generally crude and unoriginal nature of
the troll farm’s output, this tiny 80-person contingent points to
another huge flaw in the entire Mueller narrative—especially
as it has been embellished and exaggerated by the main stream media
since last Friday afternoon. To wit, all of these posts were destined
to get lost in the vast sea of cyberspace without a 
ground
game
 in
the US.


Yet
the indictment is clear on that crucial point as well.
The Russian meddlers had “no ground game”
whatsoever aside from a 22 day visit in June 2014 by two
operatives who were not trained spies and who had apparently
never even been to America previously.


Yet
they visited nine states during that brief interval and
thereby “cased-out” the entirety of the American
electoral scene:

Only
KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA received visas, and from approximately June 4,
2014 through June 26, 2014, KRYLOVA and BOGACHEVA traveled in and
around the United States, including stops in Nevada, California, New
Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Louisiana, Texas, and New York
to gather intelligence. After the trip, KRYLOVA and BURCHIK exchanged
an intelligence report regarding the trip.

The
above paragraph is itself a smoking bratwurst!


Aside
from sleeping, passing through countless airports, checking into a
dozen or more hotels and 

perhaps visiting the chamber of Commerce in
Dallas or Denver, what possibly could these two travelers have done
to lay the groundwork for “influencing” 133
million voters two years hence?


Mueller
doesn’t say and the talking heads jabber on about this trip as
if it were some kind of invasion, not the
pointless needle-in-the-haystack type of undertaking that it
actually was.


And
that gets us to the ballyhooed efforts to organize and promote Trump
rallies in Florida, Washington DC, New York City and elsewhere. Once
again, however, Mueller spills large amounts of ink citing the emails
and social media posts that describe the aims of these long-distance
media trolls. But there is not a shred of evidence presented
about what actually happened on the ground.


We
would be so bold as to suggest that we know why Mueller didn’t
document this core element of the alleged meddling campaign.
Namely, because nobody came to the rallies and flash mob events
called for by the keyboard jockeys in St. Petersburg.


Take
the case of the “Florida Goes Trump” rallies on August 20,
which the indictment dwells on at length. So doing, it purports to
explain how real Trump supporters in the state were duped into
cooperating, how bloggers back in Russia used social media posts to
promote 13 rallies across the state of Florida and bought ads to the
same end on Facebook.


In
fact, compared to fleeting references with respect to similar rallies
allegedly staged in Washington DC and New York City, the Florida
rallies take up far more ink in the indictment and come across as
exhibit #1  on Russia ground game in the US election
process.


Indeed,
the liberal hatch-people at 
Politico made
the singular importance of the Florida meddling operation
abundantly clear:

But
the document makes clear that the operation in Florida, the nation’s
largest swing state, was in a class by itself. The indictment is
packed with details of how Russian nationals duped Donald Trump
campaign volunteers and grass-roots organizations in Florida into
holding rallies they organized and helped fund with foreign cash.

Here’s
the problem. There seems to be scant evidence that these rallies
actually happened or that anyone showed up to the ones that did
occur. For instance, here is a photo of one in St. Petersburg
(Florida) posted on social media at the time.


We
doubt whether Vlad got his money’s worth on this one:

ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Then
there’s the case of Jim Frishe of Clearwater, Florida. He was a
real estate development consultant and candidate for county
office, who organized a sign-waving event in response to the Russian
entreaties that attracted barely a dozen people:

           Frishe,
68, said he was called by someone identifying themselves as with a
group called                 “Florida for Trump” and asked to organize a
sign-waving rally. He said between 15 and 18               people showed up and
that he didn’t receive any signs or money or other support. He                     never heard from them again.

“I
was going to do what I was going to do anyway. I was a Trump
supporter, they didn’t convince me”.

Then
there is the case of the “Hillary in stripes” caper
allegedly promoted by the Russians. According to the indictment:

           For
example, defendants and their co-conspirators asked one U.S. person
to build a cage on on               a flatbed truck … and another U.S. person to
wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison                       uniform,”

The
thing is, the main evidence for that is that the “cage”
appeared about a month later as the handiwork of a Trump supporter,
Gary Howd, who did it all on his own–without any prompting,
encouragement or money from the Russians.


Even
the Politico account of the purported Florida invasion by the
Russians let that much slip out:

          The
caged Clinton stunt was a hit among Trump supporters. On Sept. 23,
for                                      instance,
 NBC2 reported
that a Cape Coral man erected a caged Clinton display in his front            yard.

“I
feel like I’m doing my little part at least in my little neck of the
woods,” homeowner Gary Howd said.

As
it happened, even the 
Washington
Post
 admits
that the “Florida Goes Trump” rallies didn’t amount to
much.

          The
efforts in Florida that August day did not turn out to be
particularly impressive. No people                    showed up to at least one of the
proposed rallies, and online photos of some of the other events                reveal ragtag groups with Trump signs staking out patches of grass or
traffic medians.

As
to the “Down With Hillary” demonstration on July 23, 2016,
to take another example, here is what you get from Google on this
particular element of the indictment:

          No
results found for 
“Down
with Hillary” rally in New York City on July 23, 2016
.

Finally,
and as long was we are on the topic, here is what a real troll farm
looks like. Yet this vast suite of offices in Fort
Meade, Maryland, where 20,000 SIGINT spies and technicians work
for the NSA, is only the tip of the iceberg.


The
US actually spends 
$75
billion
 per
year—more than Russia’s entire 
$69
billion 
defense
budget—spying on and meddling in the politics of virtually
every nation on earth. An outfit within NSA called Tailored Access
Operations (TAO) has a multi-billion annual budget and does
nothing put troll the global internet and does so
with highly educated, highly paid professionals, not $4 per
hour keyboard jockeys.


Indeed,
the cafeterias in the NSA buildings pictured below cost far
more per year to operate than did Prigozhin’s troll farm during it
entire short lived existence (its apparently now being closed down
with two of the 3.5 floors already dark).

NSA headquarters

In
that context, Charles Hugh Smith cogently reminds that the real
farce in the Mueller comic book is that it is the ultimate case of
the pot-calling-the-kettle black:

America’s
foreign policy is one of absolute entitlement to influence the
domestic affairs and politics of every nation of interest, which to a
truly global empire includes every nation on the planet to the degree
every nation is a market and/or a potential threat to U.S. interests.

Assassination
of elected leaders–no problem. Funding the emergence of new
U.S.-directed political parties–just another day at the office.
Inciting dissent and discord to destabilize regimes–it’s what we do,
folks. Funding outright propaganda–one of our enduring specialties
.

Finally,
as Pat Buchanan further observed in his post on the Mueller
indictment, political and election meddling is what Imperial
Washington does. And now we are surprised that others do the
same—-even that pathetic efforts of a Russian oligarch laid out in
Mueller’s ham sandwich indictment:

Are
the CIA and National Endowment for Democracy under orders not to try
to influence the outcome of elections in nations in whose ruling
regimes we believe we have a stake?

“Have
we ever tried to meddle in other countries’ elections?” Laura
Ingraham asked former CIA Director James Woolsey this weekend.

With
a grin, Woolsey replied, “Oh, probably.”

“We
don’t do that anymore though?” Ingraham interrupted. “We
don’t mess around in other people’s elections, Jim?”

“Well,”
Woolsey said with a smile. “Only for a very good cause.”

Indeed,
what is the National Endowment for Democracy all about, if not aiding
the pro-American side in foreign nations and their elections?

Did
America have no active role in the “color-coded revolutions”
that have changed regimes from Serbia to Ukraine to Georgia?

When
Republicans discuss Iran on Capitol Hill, the phrase “regime
change” is frequently heard. When the “Green Revolution”
took to the streets of Tehran to protest massively the re-election of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, Republicans denounced
President Obama for not intervening more energetically to alter the
outcome.

When
China, Russia and Egypt expel NGOs, are their suspicions that some
have been seeded with U.S. agents merely marks of paranoia?

David
Stockman’s Contra Corner is the only place where mainstream delusions
and cant about the Warfare State, the Bailout State, Bubble Finance
and Beltway Banditry are ripped, refuted and
rebuked.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com

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

Zie ook:

Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump‘ (artikel in Nederlands; zie ook de links in dat bericht)

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

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

De laatste jaren vinden ‘veteranen’ van de geheime diensten in de VS hun weg naar de reguliere (massa-) media, die toch al niet te klagen hebben over regeringsgetrouwe berichten brengen, om nog maar te zwijgen over het brengen van een enorme berg ‘fake news’ waarmee die media regeringsbeleid ondersteunen, zoals het illegaal oorlogvoeren in landen waar de VS niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken heeft……

Wat betreft het ‘regeringsgetrouwe karakter valt nog wel wat te zeggen: het grootste deel van die media, of beter gezegd de multimiljonairs of grote investeerders die deze media in het bezit hebben, lusten Trump niet, maar staan uiteraard pal achter zijn wanbeleid, of dat nu in het binnen- of buitenland wordt gevoerd…. Zo roert men in die media met grote graagte de verdoemde oorlogstrom en is men dolblij met de meer dan schunnige belastinghervormingen, die alleen de welgestelden en grote bedrijven ten goede komen………

Lees het volgende ontluisterende verhaal van Caitlin Johnstone:

Deep
State’ CIA Veterans Finding New Homes in the Mainstream Media

February
5, 2018 at 3:49 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CN Op-ed) — “Former
CIA director John Brennan has become the latest member of the NBC
News and MSNBC family, officially signing with the network as a
contributor,” chirps a 
recent
article
 by
The Wrap, as though that’s a perfectly normal thing to have to
write and not a ghastly symptom of an Orwellian dystopia.
NBC 
reports that
the former head of the 
depravedlying,
torturing
propagandizingdrug
trafficking
coup-stagingwarmongering Central
Intelligence Agency “is now a senior national security and
intelligence analyst.”

Brennan,
who 
played
a key role
 in
the construction of the establishment’s Russia narrative that has
been used to manufacture public consent for 
world-threatening
new cold war escalations
,
is just the latest addition in an 
ongoing
trend
 of
trusted mainstream media outlets being packed to the gills with
stalwarts from the U.S. intelligence community. Brennan joins CIA and
DoD* Chief of Staff 
Jeremy
Bash
 on
the NBC/MSNBC lineup, who is serving there as a national security
analyst, as well as NBC intelligence/national security reporter
and 
known
CIA collaborator
 Ken
Dilanian.

Former
Director of National Intelligence, 
Russiagate
architect, and known Russophobic racist
 James
Clapper 
was
welcomed to the CNN “family”
 last
year by Chris “
It’s
Illegal to Read WikiLeaks

Cuomo and now routinely appears as an expert analyst for the network.
Last year CNN also 
hired
a new national security analyst in Michael Hayden
**, who has served as CIA Director, NSA Director, Principal
Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and an Air Force
general.

Former
CIA analyst and 
now
paid CNN analyst
 Phil
Mudd, who last year caused Cuomo’s show to have to issue
retraction
and apology
 for
a completely baseless claim he 
made
on national television
 asserting
that WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is “a pedophile”, is once
again 
making
headlines
 for
suggesting that the FBI is entering into a showdown with the current
administration over Trump’s decision to declassify the
controversial Nunes memo***.

More
and more of the outlets from which Americans get their information
are being filled not just with garden variety establishment
loyalists, but with longstanding members of the U.S. intelligence
community. These men got to their positions of power within these
deeply sociopathic institutions based on their willingness to
facilitate any depravity in order to advance the secret agendas of
the U.S. power establishment, and now they’re being paraded in
front of mainstream Americans on cable news on a daily basis. The
words of these “experts” are consistently 
taken and reported
on
 by
smaller news outlets in print and online media in a way that seeds
their authoritative assertions throughout public consciousness.

The
term “deep state” does not refer to a conspiracy theory but to a
simple concept in political analysis which points to the undeniable
reality that (A) plutocrats, (B) intelligence agencies, (C) defense
agencies, and (D) the mainstream media hold large amounts of power in
America despite their not being part of its elected government. You
don’t need to look far to see how these separate groups overlap and
collaborate to advance their own agendas in various ways. Amazon’s
Jeff Bezos, for example, is deeply involved in 
all
of the aforementioned groups
:
(A) as arguably 
the
wealthiest person ever
 he
is clearly a plutocrat, with a company that is 
trying
to control the underlying infrastructure of the economy
; (B)
he 
is
a CIA contractor
;
(C) he is 
part
of a Pentagon advisory board
;
and (D) his 
purchase
of the Washington Post
 in
2013 gave him total control over a major mainstream media outlet.

Bezos
did not purchase the 
Washington
Post
 (WaPo) because
his avaricious brain predicted that newspapers were about to make a
profitable resurgence; he purchased it for the same reason he has
inserted himself so very deeply into America’s unelected power
infrastructure – he wants to ensure a solid foundation for the
empire he is building. He needs a potent propaganda outlet to
manufacture support for the power establishment that he is weaving
his plutocratic tentacles through. This is precisely the same reason
other 
mass
media-controlling plutocrats
 are
stocking their propaganda machines with intelligence community
insiders.

Time
and again you see connections between the plutocratic class which
effectively 
owns
America’s elected government
,
the intelligence and defense agencies which operate behind thick
veils of secrecy in the name of “national security” to advance
agendas which have nothing to do with the wishes of the electorate,
and the mass media machine which is used to 
manufacture
the consent
 of
the people to be governed by this exploitative power structure.

America
is ruled by an elite class which has slowly created a system where
money increasingly 
translates
directly into political power
,
and which is therefore motivated to maintain economic injustice in
order to rule over the masses more completely. The greater the
economic inequality, the greater their power.

Nobody
would willingly consent to such an oppressive system where wealth
inequality keeps growing as expensive bombs from expensive drones are
showered upon strangers on the other side of the planet, so a robust
propaganda machine is needed.

And
that’s where John Brennan’s new job comes in. Expect a consistent
fountain of lies to pour from his mouth on NBC, and expect them to
all prop up this exploitative power establishment and advance
its 
geopolitical
agendas
.
And expect clear-eyed rebels everywhere to keep calling it all what
it is.

Op-ed
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone
 /
Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

*          DoD >> Department of Defence, ofwel het ministerie van Defensie dat zowel in de VS als in de EU, omgedoopt zou moeten worden tot ministerie van Oorlog……

**  Zie: ‘Michael Hayden (ex-CIA en -NSA): ‘collateral damage’, ofwel burgerslachtoffers, moet je willen maken………



*** Zie: ‘Former CIA Analyst of 27 Years: ‘Nunes Memo’ Reveals Felony Crimes at FBI and DOJ

Zie ook: ‘CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

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

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

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

       en: ‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

       en: ‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

       en: ‘Fake News van CNN: ‘American Sniper gedood in Syrie….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Massamedium CBS (VS) tegen reality check. Logisch wel, gezien de hoeveelheid fake news op die zender…..

      en: ‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..

       en: ‘Vandalisme na Super Bowl door massamedia o.a. afgedaan als pure poëzie, waar protesten van gekleurden na zoveelste moord door politie worden afgedaan als terreur………

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

Er is al veel geschreven (althans in de alternatieve media) over de ware schuldigen achter Russiagate, met bewijzen werd en wordt aangetoond dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA de ware schuldigen zijn achter Russiagate, waar overigens het campagneteam van hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton, aanstichter en mededader is…….

Gisteren op het blog van Stan van Houcke een artikel geschreven door Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) en gepubliceerd op de site van schrijver/journalist Paul Craig Roberts, die het overnam van Consortium News (kan je het nog volgen?). McGovern legt op een gedegen manier uit dat de FBI de ware grote dader is achter Russiagate.

Niet voor niets zegt nu zelfs de Wall Street Journal dat er een punt moet worden gezegd achter het Russiagate verhaal……. ha! Ha! Ha! Eerst liepen de persen van de Wall Street Journal zo hard op deze leugen dat ze bij wijze van spreken bijna vastliepen…….. Waar nu blijkt dat het Clinton campagneteam en de geheime diensten samen hebben gewerkt om te voorkomen dat Trump in het Witte Huis zou komen, wil deze bijna grootste krant van de VS dus een punt achter het enorme leugenverhaal dat Russiagate is………

Nogmaals toont een massamediaorgaan aan ‘fake news’ (of: nepnieuws) te hebben gebracht en daar het volk maandenlang over te hebben voorgelogen……

Lezen mensen, een geweldig stuk over dombo’s Strzak en Page, die dachten in het geheim te kunnen communiceren, maar van wie onlangs een eerste deel van hun lange correspondentie werd vrijgegeven en waardoor ten overvloede de FBI nog eens kan worden aangewezen als spin in het Russiagate web…….

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

January 15, 2018 Paul Craig Roberts.

As I have reported from the beginning, Russiagate is an orchestrated hoax by the security agencies for the purpose of preventing Trump from normalizing relations with Russia and, if necessary, for removing him from office. Russiagate is an act of treason by the security agencies. Those responsible must be arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. — PCR


“After months of breathless searching for ‘evidence’ of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House.” — Ray McGovern



Special Report: In the Watergate era, liberals warned about U.S. intelligence agencies manipulating U.S. politics, but now Trump-hatred has blinded many of them to this danger becoming real, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. 



January 12, 2017, Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48572.htm

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. (Ten illustrative texts from their exchange appear at the end of this article.)

Despite his former job as chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence section, Strzok had the naive notion that texting on FBI phones could not be traced. Strzok must have slept through “Security 101.” Or perhaps he was busy texting during that class. Girlfriend Page cannot be happy at being misled by his assurance that using office phones would be a secure way to conduct their affair(s).

It would have been unfortunate enough for Strzok and Page to have their adolescent-sounding texts merely exposed, revealing the reckless abandon of star-crossed lovers hiding (they thought) secrets from cuckolded spouses, office colleagues, and the rest of us. However, for the never-Trump plotters in the FBI, the official release of just a fraction (375) of almost 10,000 messages does incalculably more damage than that.

We suddenly have documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the U.S. democratic process. And that puts in a new and dark context the year-long promotion of Russia-gate. It now appears that it was not the Russians trying to rig the outcome of the U.S. election, but leading officials of the U.S. intelligence community, shadowy characters sometimes called the Deep State.

More of the Strzok-Page texting dialogue is expected to be released. And the Department of Justice Inspector General reportedly has additional damaging texts from others on the team that Special Counsel Robert Mueller selected to help him investigate Russia-gate.

Besides forcing the removal of Strzok and Page, the text exposures also sounded the death knell for the career of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, in whose office some of the plotting took place and who has already announced his plans to retire soon.

But the main casualty is the FBI’s 18-month campaign to sabotage candidate-and-now-President Donald Trump by using the Obama administration’s Russia-gate intelligence “assessment,” electronic surveillance of dubious legality, and a salacious dossier that could never pass the smell test, while at the same time using equally dubious techniques to immunize Hillary Clinton and her closest advisers from crimes that include lying to the FBI and endangering secrets.

Ironically, the Strzok-Page texts provide something that the Russia-gate investigation has been sorely lacking: first-hand evidence of both corrupt intent and action. After months of breathless searching for “evidence” of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House – proof of what old-time gumshoes used to call “means, motive and opportunity.”

Even more unfortunately for Russia-gate enthusiasts, the FBI lovers’ correspondence provides factual evidence exposing much of the made-up “Resistance” narrative – the contrived storyline that The New York Times and much of the rest of the U.S. mainstream media deemed fit to print with little skepticism and few if any caveats, a scenario about brilliantly devious Russians that not only lacks actual evidence – relying on unverified hearsay and rumor – but doesn’t make sense on its face.

The Russia-gate narrative always hinged on the preposterous notion that Russian President Vladimir

Putin foresaw years ago what no American political analyst considered even possible, the political ascendancy of Donald Trump. According to the narrative, the fortune-telling Putin then risked creating even worse tensions with a nuclear-armed America that would – by all odds – have been led by a vengeful President Hillary Clinton.

Besides this wildly improbable storyline, there were flat denials from WikiLeaks, which distributed the supposedly “hacked” Democratic emails, that the information came from Russia – and there was the curious inability of the National Security Agency to use its immense powers to supply any technical evidence to support the Russia-hack scenario.

The Trump Shock

But the shock of Trump’s election and the decision of many never-Trumpers to cast their lot with the Resistance led to a situation in which any prudent skepticism or demand for evidence was swept aside.

So, on Jan. 6, 2017, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released an evidence-free report that he said was compiled by “hand-picked” analysts from the CIA, FBI and NSA, offering an “assessment” that Russia and President Putin were behind the release of the Democratic emails in a plot to help Trump win the presidency.

Despite the extraordinary gravity of the charge, even New York Times correspondent Scott Shane noted that proof was lacking. He wrote at the time: “What is missing from the [the Jan. 6] public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. … Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’”

But the “assessment” served a useful purpose for the never-Trumpers: it applied an official imprimatur on the case for delegitimizing Trump’s election and even raised the long-shot hope that the Electoral College might reverse the outcome and possibly install a compromise candidate, such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, in the White House. Though the Powell ploy fizzled, the hope of somehow removing Trump from office continued to bubble, fueled by the growing hysteria around Russia-gate.

Virtually all skepticism about the evidence-free “assessment” was banned. For months, the Times and other newspapers of record repeated the lie that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies had concurred in the conclusion about the Russian “hack.” Even when that falsehood was belatedly acknowledged, the major news outlets just shifted the phrasing slightly to say that U.S. intelligence agencies had reached the Russian “hack” conclusion. Shane’s blunt initial recognition about the lack of proof disappeared from the mainstream media’s approved narrative of Russia-gate.

Doubts about the Russian “hack” or dissident suggestions that what we were witnessing was a “soft coup” were scoffed at by leading media commentators. Other warnings from veteran U.S. intelligence professionals about the weaknesses of the Russia-gate narrative and the danger of letting politicized intelligence overturn a constitutional election were also brushed aside in pursuit of the goal of removing Trump from the White House.

It didn’t even seem to matter when new Russia-gate disclosures conflicted with the original narrative that Putin had somehow set Trump up as a Manchurian candidate. All normal journalistic skepticism was jettisoned. It was as if the Russia-gate advocates started with the conclusion that Trump must go and then made the facts fit into that mold, but anyone who noted the violations of normal investigative procedures was dismissed as a “Trump enabler” or a “Moscow stooge.”

The Text Evidence

But then came the FBI text messages, providing documentary evivdence that key FBI officials involved in the Russia-gate investigation were indeed deeply biased and out to get Trump, adding hard proof to Trump’s longstanding lament that he was the subject of a “witch hunt.”

Justified or not, Trump’s feeling of vindication could hardly be more dangerous — particularly at a time when the most urgent need is to drain some testosterone from the self-styled Stable-Genius-in-Chief and his martinet generals.

On the home front, Trump, his wealthy friends, and like-thinkers in Congress may now feel they have an even wider carte blanche to visit untold misery on the poor, the widow, the stranger and other vulnerable humans. That was always an underlying danger of the Resistance’s strategy to seize on whatever weapons were available – no matter how reckless or unfair – to “get Trump.”

Beyond that, Russia-gate has become so central to the Washington establishment’s storyline that there appears to be no room for second-thoughts or turning back. The momentum is such that some Democrats and the media never-Trumpers can’t stop stoking the smoke of Russia-gate and holding out hope against hope that it will somehow justify Trump’s impeachment.

Yet, the sordid process of using legal/investigative means to settle political scores further compromises the principle of the “rule of law” and integrity of journalism in the eyes of many Americans. After a year of Russia-gate, the “rule of law” and “pursuit of truth” appear to have been reduced to high-falutin’ phrases for political score-setttling, a process besmirched by Republicans in earlier pursuits of Democrats and now appearing to be a bipartisan method for punishing political rivals regardless of the lack of evidence.

Strzok and Page

Peter Strzok (pronounced “struck”) has an interesting pedigree with multiple tasks regarding both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump. As the FBI’s chief of counterespionage during the investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized use of a personal email server for classified information, Strzok reportedly changed the words “grossly negligent” (which could have triggered legal prosecution) to the far less serious “extremely careless” in FBI Director James Comey’s depiction of Clinton’s actions. This semantic shift cleared the way for Comey to conclude just 20 days before the Democratic National Convention began in July 2016, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against Mrs. Clinton.

Then, as Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, Strzok led the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election of 2016. It is a safe bet that he took a strong hand in hand-picking the FBI contingent of analysts that joined “hand-picked” counterparts from CIA and NSA in preparing the evidence-free, Jan. 6, 2017 assessment accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of interfering in the election of 2016. (Although accepted in Establishment groupthink as revealed truth, that poor excuse for analysis reflected the apogee of intelligence politicization — rivaled only by the fraudulent intelligence on “weapons of mass destruction“ in Iraq 15 years ago.)

In June and July 2017 Strzok was the top FBI official working on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but was taken off that job when the Justice Department IG learned of the Strzok-Page text-message exchange and told Mueller.

There is no little irony in the fact that what did in the FBI sweathearts was their visceral disdain for Mr. Trump, their cheerleading-cum-kid-gloves treatment of Mrs. Clinton and her associates, their 1950-ish, James Clapperesque attitude toward Russians as “almost genetically driven” to evil, and their (Strzok/Page) elitist conviction that they know far better what is good for the country than regular American citizens, including those “deplorables” whom Clinton said made up half of Trump’s supporters.

But Strzok/Page had no idea that their hubris, elitism and scheming would be revealed in so tangible a way. Worst of all for them, the very thing that Strzok, in particular, worked so hard to achieve — the sabotaging of Trump and immunization of Mrs. Clinton and her closest advisers is now coming apart at the seams.

Congress: Oversee? or Overlook?

At this point, the $64 question is whether the various congressional oversight committees will remain ensconced in their customarily cozy role as “overlook” committees, or whether they will have the courage to attempt to carry out their Constitutional duty. The latter course would mean confronting a powerful Deep State and its large toolbox of well-practiced retaliatory techniques, including J. Edgar Hoover-style blackmail on steroids, enabled by electronic surveillance of just about everything and everyone. Yes, today’s technology permits blanket collection, and “Collect Everything” has become the motto.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, with almost four decades of membership in the House and Senate, openly warned incoming President Trump in January 2017 against criticizing the U.S. intelligence community because U.S. intelligence officials have “six ways from Sunday to get back at you” if you are “dumb” enough to take them on.

Thanks to the almost 10,000 text messages between Strzok and Page, only a small fraction of which were given to Congress four weeks ago, there is now real evidentiary meat on the bones of the suspicions that there indeed was a “deep-state coup” to “correct” the outcome of the 2016 election. We now know that the supposedly apolitical FBI officials had huge political axes to grind. The Strzok-Page exchanges drip with disdain for Trump and those deemed his smelly deplorable supporters. In one text message, Strzok expressed visceral contempt for those working-class Trump voters, writing on Aug. 26, 2016, “Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support. … it’s scary real down here.”

The texts even show Strzok warning of the need for an “insurance policy” to thwart Trump on the off-chance that his poll numbers closed in on those of Mrs. Clinton.

An Aug. 6, 2016 text message, for example, shows Page giving her knight in shining armor strong affirmation: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace [Trump].” That text to Strzok includes a link to a David Brooks column in The New York Times, in which Brooks concludes with the clarion call: “There comes a time when neutrality and laying low become dishonorable. If you’re not in revolt, you’re in cahoots. When this period and your name are mentioned, decades hence, your grandkids will look away in shame.”

Another text message shows that other senior government officials – alarmed at the possibility of a Trump presidency – joined the discussion. In an apparent reference to an August 2016 meeting with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok wrote to Page on Aug. 15, 2016, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”  Strzok added, “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die before you’re 40.”

Insurance Policy?

Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says he will ask Strzok to explain the “insurance policy” when he calls him to testify. What seems already clear is that the celebrated “Steele Dossier” was part of the “insurance,” as was the evidence-less legend that Russia hacked the DNC’s and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails and gave them to WikiLeaks.

If congressional investigators have been paying attention, they already know what former weapons inspector Scott Ritter shared with Veteran intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) colleagues this week; namely, that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, who commissioned the Russia dossier using Democratic Party money, said he reached out to Steele after June 17, just three days before Steele’s first report was published, drawing on seven sources.

“There is a snowball’s chance in hell that this is raw intelligence gathered by Steele; rather he seems to have drawn on a single ‘trusted intermediary’ to gather unsubstantiated rumor already in existence.”

Another VIPS colleague, Phil Giraldi, writing out of his own experience in private sector consulting, added: “The fact that you do not control your sources frequently means that they will feed you what they think you want to hear. Since they are only doing it for money, the more lurid the details the better, as it increases the apparent value of the information. The private security firm in turn, which is also doing it for the money, will pass on the stories and even embroider them to keep the client happy and to encourage him to come back for more. When I read the Steele dossier it looked awfully familiar to me, like the scores of similar reports I had seen which combined bullshit with enough credible information to make the whole product look respectable.”

It is now widely known that the Democrats ponied up the “insurance premiums,” so to speak, for former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s “dossier” of lurid — but largely unproven — “intelligence” on Trump and the Russians. If, as many have concluded, the   dossier was used to help justify a FISA warrant to snoop on the Trump campaign, those involved will be in deep kimchi, if congressional overseers do their job.

How, you might ask, could Strzok and associates undertake these extra-legal steps with such blithe disregard for the possible consequences should they be caught? The answer is easy; Mrs. Clinton was a shoo-in, remember? This was just extra insurance with no expectation of any “death benefit” ever coming into play — save for Trump’s electoral demise in November 2016. The attitude seemed to be that, if abuse of the FISA law should eventually be discovered — there would be little interest in a serious investigation by the editors of The New York Times and other anti-Trump publications and whatever troubles remained could be handled by President Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee of Judiciary on Crime and Terrorism, joined Sen. Grassley in signing the letter referring Christopher Steele to the Justice Department to investigate what appear to be false statements about the dossier. In signing, Graham noted the “many stop signs the Department of Justice ignored in its use of the dossier.” The signature of committee ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, however, was missing — an early sign that a highly partisan battle royale is in the offing.  On Tuesday, Feinstein unilaterally released a voluminous transcript of Glenn Simpson’s earlier testimony and, as though on cue, Establishment pundits portrayed Steele as a good source and Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson as a victim.

The Donnybrook is now underway; the outcome uncertain.

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.  He was an Army and CIA intelligence analyst for 30 years; prepared and briefed the President’s Daily Brief for Nixon, Ford, and Reagan; and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Sample text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, released to Congress and the media on December 13, 2016

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03/04/2016

Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.

Page – I know

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04/02/2016

Page – So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now.

++++++++++

07/08/2016

Strzok – And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protestors, right now, chanting “no justice no peace” around DoJ and the White House…

Page – That’s awful.

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07/14/2016

Page – Have you read this? It’s really frightening. For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance http://NYTI/ms/29WCu5!

Strzok – I have not. But I think it’s clear he’s capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$

Page – Yeah, it’s not good.

Strzok – Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/29RV5gf

Page – It is

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07/26/2016

Strzok – And hey. Congrats on a woman nominated for President in a major party! About damn time! Many many more returns of the day!!

Page – That’s cute. Thanks

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08/06/2016

Page – Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHulE0

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

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08/06/2016

Page – And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end comma, read this:

Page – Trump Enablers Will Finally Have to Take A Stand http://nyti.ms/2aFakry

Strzok – Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps

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08/09/2016

Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!

Strzok – OMG did you hear what Trump just said?

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08/26/2016

Strzok – Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support…

Page – Yep. Out to lunch with (redacted) We both hate everyone and everything.

Page – Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country.

Strzok – Yeah…it’s scary real down here

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10/20/2016

Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer.

Strzok – I CAN’T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?!

Page– I don’t know. But we’ll get it back. We’re America. We rock.

Strzok– Donald just said “bad hombres”

Strzok– Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.

This article was originally published by Consortium News –

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Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?

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* Zie: ‘Wall Street Journal wil punt achter Russiagate

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

        en: ‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

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

        en ‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

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

       en: ‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

       en: ‘Google, de volgende ‘die advertentieruimte verkocht aan Putin zelf……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

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

       en: ‘Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!‘ (ja ook deze D66 plork gaat plat op de bek!)

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

       en: ‘Rusland heeft niets van doen met manipulaties van de VS presidentsverkiezingen via Facebook, wel maakt Facebook meer kapot dan je lief is…….

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

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

       en: ‘CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………

       en: ‘Pompeo (CIA opperhoofd met koperen fluit): heeft alle aanwijzingen dat Rusland de midterm verkiezingen zal manipuleren……

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


       en: De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

       en: ‘‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..

Georganiseerde misdaad en overheid, wat is het verschil tussen die twee? Een uiterst hilarische lezing van Michael Parenti over de moord op JFK!

Brasscheck
TV kwam afgelopen zaterdag met een lezing van Michael Parenti, waarin de
vraag wordt beantwoord of er een verschil bestaat tussen
georganiseerde misdaad en de politiek in de meeste landen.

Het zal
je waarschijnlijk niet verbazen dat er amper of geen verschil is.

De staat is er vooral om de belangen van de welgestelden te beschermen en verdeeldheid te zaaien als minderheden of groepen die zich verzetten tegen onrecht of afbraak van het milieu, zich organiseren….. (verdeel en heers…) Waarnaast de gekleurde bevolking van de VS vanaf eind 60er jaren willens en wetens door de overheid werd volgepropt met drugs, dezelfde overheid die sinds begin 70er jaren zogenaamd een oorlog tegen drugs voert…………….

Dezelfde VS die er niet mee zit vooraanstaande leiders van minderheden te vermoorden, of zelfs een president te vermoorden, waar Parenti vooral spreekt over de moord op J.F. Kennedy. Parenti noemde de film JFK van Oliver Stone, de enige film die 6 maanden voordat deze werd uitgebracht al kritiek kreeg, o.a. van de reguliere (massa-) media in de VS, die de staat steunt waar het maar kan…… Diezelfde staat was van meet af bang aan voor deze film (gezien de kritiek die Stone keer op keer gaf op het ‘land’ dat zich de United States of America durft te noemen……. 

Of neem de houding van die massamedia (overigens ook in de rest van wat men het westen noemt), voorafgaand en tijdens de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië (wat betreft de laatste: de reden voor de VS een opstand te organiseren in Syrië en het land vol te proppen met terroristen en wapens, was Assad, die moest hoe dan ook weg…… De VS was al in 2006 bezig met de voorbereidingen daartoe……. Deze zaken moesten tijdens de lezing van Parenti nog plaatsvinden, de lezing dateert uit 1993.

Voorts gaat Parenti nog in op het begrip ‘Deep State’.

Beluister deze geweldige en uiterst hilarische lezing waar Perenti, die zoals gezegd, vooral spreekt over de moord op J.F. Kennedy en de grote en belachelijke leugens die daar over werden verteld. Luister en oordeel zelf, althans als je nog niet overtuigd was
van het feit dat de overheid achter de moord op JFK zat. Dit keer geen video, maar audio van Brasscheck:

The
Gangster Nature of the State

MICHAEL
PARENTI (1993)

Can
someone tell me the difference between organized crime and most
States including our own?

One
analyst Michael Parenti examined the question and could not find any
real difference. 

One
of the best talks on this subject you’ll ever hear. 

Assassination
studies
Government
corruption

TOUGH,
HILARIOUS, RIGHT-ON MIX OF SCHOLAR AND STREET”

Can
someone tell me the difference between organized crime and most
States including our own?

One
analyst Michael Parenti examined the question and could not find any
real difference.

This
tough, hilarious, right-on mix of scholar and street.” –
KPFA-Pacifica, 1994

Michael
Parenti was born and raised in an Italian-American working class
family in New York City. After high school he worked for a number of
years then returned to school, eventually earning a B.A. from City
College of New York, an M.A. from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in
political science from Yale University. His many books include The
Face of Imperialism (2011); God and His Demons (2010); The
Assassination of Julius Caesar (2003); and Democracy for the Few, 9th
edition (2010). He recently published a warmly received “ethnic
memoir” entitled Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s
Life.

Portions
of his writings have been translated into some twenty languages.
Books and articles of his have been used extensively in college
courses and also by lay readers. Over 550 articles of his have
appeared in scholarly journals, political periodicals, various
magazines, newspapers, books of collected readings, and online
publications.

More
about Parenti here: 
http://www.michaelparenti.org

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Zie ook: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..

       en: ‘JFK de moord: de macht van de geheime diensten gecombineerd met die van het militair-industrieel complex

       en: ‘J.F. Kennedy vermoord door Lyndon Johnson en z’n maten in misdaad, geheime diensten en politiek…..

       en: ‘Kabinet ‘wil kunnen hacken’, zonder daar melding van te maken………. Hoe bedoelt u, ‘politiestaat??’

PS: het begrip ‘conspiracy Theory’ (samenzweringstheorie) is door de CIA geïntroduceerd na de moord op JFK, om zo het volk juist weg te houden van de smerige, stinkende waarheid…..

JFK de moord: de macht van de geheime diensten gecombineerd met die van het militair-industrieel complex

Het volgende artikel geschreven door Ray McGovern was nog niet gepubliceerd of Trump beloofde ook de rest van de JFK documenten vrij te geven, terwijl hij eerder onder druk van de CIA en NSA 300 pagina’s achterhield.

Daarmee was de kop van het McGovern artikel achterhaald, al moeten we eerst nog zien, of Trump kan leveren, immers de geheime diensten hebben hem bijna volledig in hun macht gekregen met de Russia-gate leugens*.

Verder een artikel met alweer toch een aantal nieuwe feiten, waaruit de conclusie bijna niet is te vermijden dat de CIA heeft meegewerkt aan de moord op J.F. Kennedy, uiteraard in opdracht en samenwerking met het militair-industrieel complex. Kennedy was van plan de aanwezige troepen uit Zuid-Vietnam terug te trekken, dat zou deze industrie een paar miljard dollar aan winst kosten…… Uiteraard was de mislukte invasie op Cuba een stevige plank aan de doodskist van Kennedy, men heeft hem nooit vergeven dat hij geen troepen stuurde naar Cuba om de gevangen genomen militairen te bevrijden, sterker nog: Kennedy ontsloeg de verantwoordelijken voor het Bay of Pigs incident…..

Truman, de ex-president plaatste een maand na de moord op Kennedy een artikel in de Washington Post, waarin hij pleitte de macht van de CIA aan banden te leggen, dit werd niet herhaald in de late editie van deze krant en werd gemeden door de rest van de reguliere media in de VS, terwijl Truman NB de CIA had opgezet in 1947……….

Lees het volgende (verder) prima artikel:

The
Deep State’s JFK Triumph Over Trump

October
30, 2017 at 9:27 am

Written
by 
Ray
McGovern

Fifty-four
years after President Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA and FBI
demanded more time to decide what secrets to keep hiding – and a
chastened President Trump bowed to their power, observes ex-CIA
analyst Ray McGovern.

(CN— It
was summer 1963 when a senior official of CIA’s operations
directorate treated our Junior Officer Trainee (JOT) class to an
unbridled rant against President John F. Kennedy. He accused
JFK, among other things, of rank cowardice in refusing to send U.S.
armed forces to bail out Cuban rebels pinned down during the
CIA-launched invasion at the Bay of Pigs, blowing the chance to drive
Cuba’s Communist leader Fidel Castro from power.

It
seemed beyond odd that a CIA official would voice such scathing
criticism of a sitting President at a training course for those
selected to be CIA’s future leaders. I remember thinking to
myself, “This guy is unhinged; he would kill Kennedy, given the
chance.”

Our
special guest lecturer looked a lot like E. Howard Hunt, but more
than a half-century later, I cannot be sure it was he. Our notes
from such training/indoctrination were classified and kept under lock
and key.

At
the end of our JOT orientation, we budding Agency leaders had to make
a basic choice between joining the directorate for substantive
analysis or the operations directorate where case officers run spies
and organize regime changes (in those days, we just called the
process overthrowing governments).

I
chose the analysis directorate and, once ensconced in the brand new
headquarters building in Langley, Virginia, I found it strange that
subway-style turnstiles prevented analysts from going to the
“operations side of the house,” and vice versa. Truth be told, we
were never one happy family.

I
cannot speak for my fellow analysts in the early 1960s, but it never
entered my mind that operatives on the other side of the turnstiles
might be capable of assassinating a President – the very President
whose challenge to do something for our country had brought many of
us to Washington in the first place. But, barring the emergence of a
courageous whistleblower-patriot like Daniel Ellsberg, Chelsea
Manning or Edward Snowden, I do not expect to live long enough to
learn precisely who orchestrated and carried out the assassination of
JFK.

And
yet, in a sense, those particulars seem less important than two main
lessons learned: (1) If a President can face down intense domestic
pressure from the power elite and turn toward peace with perceived
foreign enemies, then anything is possible. The darkness of
Kennedy’s murder should not obscure the light of that basic truth;
and (2) There is ample evidence pointing to a state execution of a
President willing to take huge risks for peace. While no
post-Kennedy president can ignore that harsh reality, it remains
possible that a future President with the vision and courage of JFK
might beat the odds – particularly as the American Empire
disintegrates and domestic discontent grows.

I
do hope to be around next April after the 180-day extension for
release of the remaining JFK documents. But – absent a gutsy
whistleblower – I wouldn’t be surprised to see in April,
Washington
Post
 banner
headline much like the one that appeared Saturday: 
JFK
files: The promise of revelations derailed by CIA, FBI.”

The
New Delay Is the Story

You
might have thought that almost 54 years after Kennedy was murdered in
the streets of Dallas – and after knowing for a quarter century the
supposedly final deadline for releasing the JFK files – the CIA and
FBI would not have needed a six-month extension to decide what
secrets that they still must hide.

Journalist
Caitlin Johnstone 
hits
the nail on the head
 in
pointing out that the biggest revelation from last week’s limited
release of the JFK files is “the fact that the FBI and CIA still
desperately need to keep secrets about something that happened 54
years ago.”

What
was released on Oct. 26, was a tiny fraction of what had remained
undisclosed in the National Archives. To find out why, one needs
to have some appreciation of a 70-year-old American political
tradition that might be called “fear of the spooks.”

That
the CIA and FBI are still choosing what we should be allowed to see
concerning who murdered John Kennedy may seem unusual, but there is
hoary precedent for it.  After JFK’s assassination on Nov. 22,
1963, the well-connected Allen Dulles, whom Kennedy had fired as CIA
director after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, got himself appointed to the
Warren Commission and took the lead in shaping the investigation of
JFK’s murder.

By
becoming 
de
facto
 head
of the Commission, Dulles was perfectly placed to protect himself and
his associates, if any commissioners or investigators were tempted to
question whether Dulles and the CIA played any role in killing
Kennedy. When a few independent-minded journalists did succumb to
that temptation, they were immediately branded – you guessed it –
“conspiracy theorists.”

And
so, the big question remains: Did Allen Dulles and other
“cloak-and-dagger” CIA operatives have a hand in John Kennedy’s
assassination and subsequent cover-up? In my view and the view of
many more knowledgeable investigators, the best dissection of the
evidence on the murder appears in James Douglass’s 2008 book, 
JFK
and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.

After
updating and arraying the abundant evidence, and conducting still
more interviews, Douglass concludes that the answer to the big
question is Yes. Reading Douglass’s book today may help
explain why so many records are still withheld from release, even in
redacted form, and why, indeed, we may never see them in their
entirety.

Truman:
CIA a Frankenstein?

When
Kennedy was assassinated, it must have occurred to former President
Harry Truman, as it did to many others, that the disgraced Allen
Dulles and his associates might have conspired to get rid of a
President they felt was soft on Communism – and dismissive of the
Deep State of that time. Not to mention their vengeful desire to
retaliate for Kennedy’s response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. (Firing
Allen Dulles and other CIA paragons of the Deep State for that fiasco
simply was not done.)

Exactly
one month after John Kennedy was killed, the 
Washington
Post
 published
an op-ed by Harry Truman titled “Limit CIA Role to Intelligence.”
The first sentence read, “I think it has become necessary to take
another look at the purpose and operations of our Central
Intelligence Agency.”

Strangely,
the op-ed appeared only in the 
Post’s early
edition on Dec. 22, 1963. It was excised from that day’s later
editions and, despite being authored by the President who was
responsible for setting up the CIA in 1947, the all-too-relevant
op-ed was ignored in all other major media.

Truman
clearly believed that the spy agency had lurched off in what Truman
thought were troubling directions. He began his op-ed by
underscoring “the original reason why I thought it necessary to
organize this Agency … and what I expected it to do.” It would be
“charged with the collection of all intelligence reports from every
available source, and to have those reports reach me as President
without Department ‘treatment’ or interpretations.”

Truman
then moved quickly to one of the main things clearly bothering
him. He wrote “the most important thing was to guard against
the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the
President into unwise decisions.”

It
was not difficult to see this as a reference to how one of the
agency’s early directors, Allen Dulles, tried to trick President
Kennedy into sending U.S. forces to rescue the group of invaders who
had landed on the beach at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961 with no
chance of success, absent the speedy commitment of U.S. air and
ground support. The planned mouse-trapping of the then-novice
President Kennedy had been underpinned by a rosy “analysis”
showing how this pin-prick on the beach would lead to a popular
uprising against Fidel Castro.

Wallowing
in the Bay of Pigs

Arch-Establishment
figure Allen Dulles was offended when young President Kennedy, on
entering office, had the temerity to question the CIA’s Bay of Pigs
plans, which had been set in motion under President Dwight
Eisenhower. When Kennedy made it clear he would 
not approve
the use of U.S. combat forces, Dulles set out, with supreme
confidence, to give the President no choice except to send U.S.
troops to the rescue.

Coffee-stained
notes handwritten by Allen Dulles were discovered after his death and
reported by historian Lucien S. Vandenbroucke. In his notes, Dulles
explained that, “when the chips were down,” Kennedy would be
forced by “the realities of the situation” to give whatever
military support was necessary “rather than permit the enterprise
to fail.”

The
“enterprise” which Dulles said could not fail was, of course, the
overthrow of Fidel Castro. After mounting several failed operations
to assassinate Castro, this time Dulles meant to get his man, with
little or no attention to how Castro’s patrons in Moscow might
react eventually. (The next year, the Soviets agreed to install
nuclear missiles in Cuba as a deterrent to future U.S. aggression,
leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis).

In
1961, the reckless Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom then-Deputy Secretary
of State George Ball later described as a “sewer of deceit,”
relished any chance to confront the Soviet Union and give it, at
least, a black eye. (One can still smell the odor from that
sewer in many of the documents released last week.)

But
Kennedy stuck to his guns, so to speak. A few months after the
abortive invasion of Cuba — and his refusal to send the U.S.
military to the rescue — Kennedy fired Dulles and his
co-conspirators and told a friend that he wanted to “splinter the
CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” Clearly,
the outrage was mutual.

When JFK
and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
 came
out, the mainstream media had an allergic reaction and gave it almost
no reviews. It is a safe bet, though, that Barack Obama was given a
copy and that this might account in some degree for his continual
deference – timorousness even – toward the CIA.

Could
fear of the Deep State be largely why President Obama felt he had to
leave the Cheney/Bush-anointed CIA torturers, kidnappers and
black-prison wardens in place, instructing his first CIA chief, Leon
Panetta, to become, in effect, the agency’s lawyer rather than take
charge? Is this why Obama felt he could not fire his clumsily
devious Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who had to
apologize to Congress for giving “clearly erroneous” testimony
under oath in March 2013? Does Obama’s fear account for his
allowing then-National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander and
counterparts in the FBI to continue to mislead the American people,
even though the documents released by Edward Snowden showed them –
as well as Clapper – to be lying about the government’s
surveillance activities?

Is
this why Obama fought tooth and nail to protect CIA Director John
Brennan by trying to thwart publication of the comprehensive Senate
Intelligence Committee investigation of CIA torture, which was

based
on original Agency cables, emails, and headquarters memos?
[See 
here and here.]

The
Deep State Today

Many
Americans cling to a comforting conviction that the Deep State is a
fiction, at least in a “democracy” like the United States.
References to the enduring powers of the security agencies and other
key bureaucracies have been essentially banned by the mainstream
media, which many other suspicious Americans have come to see as just
one more appendage of the Deep State.

But
occasionally the reality of how power works pokes through in some
unguarded remark by a Washington insider, someone like Sen. Chuck
Schumer, D-New York, the Senate Minority Leader with 36 years of
experience in Congress. As Senate Minority Leader, he also is an 
ex
officio
 member
of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is supposed to oversee
the intelligence agencies.

During
a Jan. 3, 2017 interview with MSNBC’S Rachel Maddow, Schumer told
Maddow nonchalantly about the dangers awaiting President-elect Donald
Trump if he kept on “taking on the intelligence community.” She
and Schumer were discussing Trump’s sharp tweeting regarding U.S.
intelligence and evidence of “Russian hacking” (which both
Schumer and Maddow treat as flat fact).

Schumer said:
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have
six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.  So even for a
practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really
dumb to do this.”

Three
days after that interview, President Obama’s intelligence chiefs
released a nearly evidence-free “assessment” claiming that the
Kremlin engaged in a covert operation to put Trump into office,
fueling a “scandal” that has hobbled Trump’s presidency. On
Monday, Russia-gate special prosecutor Robert Mueller indicted
Trump’s one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort on unrelated money
laundering, tax and foreign lobbying charges, apparently in the hope
that Manafort will provide incriminating evidence against Trump.

So,
President Trump has been in office long enough to have learned how
the game is played and the “six ways from Sunday” that the
intelligence community has for “getting back at you.” He appears
to be as intimidated as was President Obama.

Trump’s
awkward acquiescence in the Deep State’s last-minute foot-dragging
regarding release of the JFK files is simply the most recent sign
that he, too, is under the thumb of what the Soviets used to call
“the organs of state security.”

Ray
McGovern works with the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in
inner-city Washington.  During his 27-year career at CIA, he
prepared the 
President’s
Daily Brief
 for
Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and conducted the one-on-one morning
briefings from 1981 to 1985.  He is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

By Ray
McGovern
 /
Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

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

* Zie o.a.: ‘Walls Closing in on Russiagate Conspiracy Theorists: Evidence Mounts That DNC Emails Provided to WikiLeaks By Inside Source‘ en: ‘WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Drops Russiagate Shell!!!‘ (video).

Zie ook: ‘Martin Luther King jr. vermoord door de overheid, aldus rechter……..

       en: ‘J.F. Kennedy vermoord door Lyndon Johnson en z’n maten in misdaad, geheime diensten en politiek…..

       en: ‘Georganiseerde misdaad en overheid, wat is het verschil tussen die twee? Een uiterst hilarische lezing van Michael Parenti over de moord op JFK!‘     

       en: ‘Newsweek erkent ‘false flag’ operatie van de VS tegen de Sovjet Unie……

       en: ‘Kabinet ‘wil kunnen hacken’, zonder daar melding van te maken………. Hoe bedoelt u, ‘politiestaat??’

Zie ook de volgende links, die weliswaar niets met Kennedy te maken hebben maar die wel aangeven hoe groot de macht de reguliere VS media en vooral de geheime diensten hebben, iets dat weer eens goed duidelijk werd door de leugens over ‘Russiagate’ (alleen dat woord is al een leugen op zich en werd voor het eerst gebruikt voor de Russische oligarchen die eind 90er jaren hun geld witwasten in het westen):

             ‘Hillary Clinton moet op de hoogte zijn geweest van aankoop Steele dossier over Trump……..‘ (een vervolg op het bovenstaande bericht)

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

       en: ‘FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘New York Times met schaamteloze anti-Russische propaganda en ‘fake news….’

       en: ‘BBC World Service: Rusland heeft VS verkiezingen gemanipuleerd……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

       en: ‘Hoe Clinton en haar team de wereld op scherp hebben gezet >> Did Hillary Scapegoat Russia to Save Her Campaign?

       en: ‘Brekend nieuws: door Rusland betaalde reclames van Shell, Calvé pindakaas, AH boerenkool en Hema worst >> doel Rutte 3 ten val te brengen!!!

PS: Kennedy en dan met name zijn broer Robert gingen ook behoorlijk tekeer tegen de maffia en volgens een aantal deskundigen zou de maffia hebben samengewerkt met de geheime dienst. Lee Harvey Oswald, die Kennedy als zou hebben vermoord, werd door Jack Ruby doodgeschoten, deze zou lid van de maffia zijn geweest of daar hechte banden mee hebben gehad………

Mueller, de FBI oplichter, gaat onderzoek naar ‘Trump-Rusland connectie’ uitvoeren…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

In de VS (en daarbuiten) spreken de reguliere mediaorganen hosanna over de aanstelling van sjoemelaar en oplichter Mueller, de ex-FBI chef, als hoofdonderzoeker naar ‘de Trump – Rusland connectie’.

Dezelfde Mueller deed onderzoek naar de antrax aanvallen in de VS na de 911 terreuraanvallen in 2001. Hoewel hij niet verantwoordelijk was, voor de bewering, dat het Irak van Saddam Hoessein achter die antrax aanvallen zat, heeft hij de 6 jaar daarna flink z’n best gedaan om zoveel mogelijk te verdoezelen, de zaak te vertroebelen voor het volk en de zaak zolang mogelijk te rekken….. Immers de VS besloot mede op basis van die antrax aanvallen en de massavernietigingswapens door/van Irak, dat land aan te vallen…….. Overigens bleek na onderzoek, dat de gebruikte antrax uit een legerlaboratorium van de VS kwam…….

Gisteren bracht Anti-Media een artikel over deze zaak, een artikel dat eerder op MintPress News verscheen, geschreven door Robbie Martin. Hij concludeert dat er grote overeenkomsten zijn, met de eerdere aanklachten tegen Saddam Hoessein en die nu tegen Rusland worden gebruikt.

Mensen, je weet niet wat je leest en ik zelf kan (alweer) maar één conclusie trekken: de VS wordt geregeerd door een stel psychopathische gekken, waar de echte macht voor een groot deel niet eens bij de regering ligt, maar bij de ‘Deep-State’*

Anthrax
And “Russiagate”: Mueller’s Special Counsel Appointment Should
Raise Concern

May
31, 2017 at 10:30 am

Written
by 
Anti-Media
News Desk

(MPNAmidst
the overwhelming 
bipartisan
praise given to former FBI Director Robert Mueller
 for
his appointment as special counsel in the Trump-Russia investigation,
few media outlets have voiced concern over his credentials.
Mueller’s 
unforgivably
poor performance
 during
an investigation into the 2001 anthrax scare should give pause to
those who hope to find out the truth about Russia’s alleged
involvement in U.S. politics.


In
October 2001 – less than a month after the 9/11 terror attacks –
weaponized anthrax spores 
were
sent through the U.S. mail system
 to
prominent politicians and journalists. The anthrax attacks generated
hysteria and panic, as well as created the perception that terrorism
was going to remain a major threat, with 9/11 representing just the
first wave.

The
anthrax attacks also provided the George W. Bush administration with
the opportunity to create a three-way connection in the public
consciousness between the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks, and
Saddam Hussein. The “WMD lies” that would lead the U.S. into war
in Iraq were hatched from one initial lie: that the anthrax mailings
had fingerprints that could be 
traced
back to
 the
Iraqi government’s biological weapons program and that they
represented a second wave of terrorism.

Major
players in the U.S. government 
made
strong efforts to link the anthrax attacks to the Iraqi government
 –
efforts that Mueller played no part in. But in the following six
years, Mueller did participate in a public disinformation campaign
that muddied the waters regarding the 2001 anthrax attacks.

He
and his bureau were in a position to unravel the underlying rationale
for mounting an illegal invasion that left over a million Iraqi
civilians dead. Instead, they worked to bury that rationale and stoke
fears that would help to prop up public support for the invasion.
Looking back at the way in which the case was handled, it is clear
that Mueller may not be the most suitable candidate for heading the
ongoing investigation into “Russiagate.”

Flimsy
evidence and false accusations

As
early as Nov. 9, 2001 – less than one month after the anthrax
attacks began – the FBI had 
identified
anthrax in the letters as being of the “Ames strain,”
 a
strain of anthrax that was isolated by U.S. researchers in 1981. Due
to its domestic origins, the FBI concluded that the attacks were
likely perpetrated by someone working within the U.S. and not by a
foreign actor.

Despite
having this knowledge, the Bush administration sent then-Secretary of
State Colin Powell to the UN 
with
a prop vial of anthrax
 in
order to obtain support for the Iraq War. Mueller could’ve turned
the course of events at the time by making sure the press was aware
that the most likely culprit was inside the U.S., but instead chose
not to interfere with Bush’s neoconservative agenda. Powell’s
presentation of “evidence” of Iraq’s alleged possession of
chemical and biological weapons formed a major part of the U.S.
effort to build a case for war in Iraq – although the country’s
possession of these weapons would eventually prove to be a falsehood.

In
another pivotal moment in the case, Mueller privately briefed Senator
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and former Senator Tom Daschle – both of
whom were targeted with anthrax letters – regarding the FBI’s
prime suspect, a 
retired
bioweapons scientist named Steven Hatfil
.

Mueller’s
best evidence came from bloodhounds, who had evidently 
traced
the scent from the anthrax letters to Hatfil’s apartment
.
What Mueller neglected to mention is that bloodhound scent evidence
is 
often
inaccurate and has even led to wrongful convictions
.
But it was too late for Hatfil, as the press had already begun to
crucify him after the FBI came forward with its “evidence.” Some
agents even used the bloodhounds as props in press conferences that
could be better described as publicity stunts.

Hatfil’s
life was turned upside-down by the accusations. He was hounded by the
FBI and other authorities, facing 
deliberate
harassment tactics often referred to as “bumper locking.”
 He
tearfully denied the FBI’s accusations during two news conferences
held in August 2002, but by that time his life and career had already
been shredded to pieces due to his naming as a “person of interest”
in the investigation. Hatfil would later receive
$4.6-million-dollar
settlement from the FBI in 2008
 after
filing a lawsuit against the Bureau, but only after five years of
litigation and the destruction of his personal and professional
reputation.

But
Mueller and the FBI weren’t done yet. That same year, they ended
up 
pinning
the attacks on a man named Bruce Ivins
,
a senior biodefense researcher at Maryland’s Fort Detrick military
installation. Their accusation would lead Ivins to 
commit
suicide by overdosing
 on
a combination of Tylenol and codeine, a method of suicide that some
thought to be an unlikely choice for someone with Ivins’ level of
biological expertise.

Even
after claiming to have solved the case, the FBI 
faced
skepticism regarding its conclusions
.
Leahy spoke to Mueller at a three-hour public hearing, stating that
he did not believe that Ivins was the only culprit:

I
believe there were others involved either before or after the fact
who were complicit…I believe there are others involved who could be
charged with murder.”

Leahy’s
Republican counterpart, former Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania,
also questioned the FBI’s findings:

I’ve
looked over a good bit of the evidence on the anthrax case just to
contrast prosecutors’ opinions…and I have grave doubts about
sufficiency of evidence for proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”

When
the FBI decided to give a press conference on the final conclusion of
their investigation, Mueller declined to attend, eating dinner at a
restaurant about a block away. He instead allowed two lower-ranking
investigators to sweat their way through the surprisingly adversarial
questions that were lobbed at them by attending journalists.

Video
of this press conference
 shows
an almost unanimously incredulous press pool, some even visibly angry
over the series of non-answers given to them by FBI officials. They
offered only one piece of physical evidence to the public: a flask
they said contained spores that they claimed Ivins used to grow a
colony of the “Ames strain” during his off-hours at Ft. Detrick.
But there was one major problem with their “smoking gun”
evidence.

The
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) was asked by the FBI to verify the
evidence 
but
concluded
 that
anthrax found in the flask could not be traced back to anthrax
contained in the letters. But instead of waiting for the NAS to
release these findings, Mueller allowed the FBI to pre-empt the NAS
with their own press conference. A 2011 report from the National
Research Council 
also
called the FBI’s findings into question
.

Russiagate:
why the anthrax case matters

In
light of his poor handling of the anthrax case, one has to wonder:
why is the media now celebrating Mueller’s appointment as special
counsel for the Russia-Trump investigation? One doesn’t need to
look far to find multiple parallels between the false WMD claims made
by the Bush administration – which had their origins in the anthrax
scare – and the media’s current obsession with finding evidence
of Russian meddling in last year’s election. In both cases, the
media fixated on questionable evidence and the creation of an
artificial “bogeyman” to advance a deeper, more sinister agenda.

Both
the false WMD claims that led the U.S. into the Iraq War and the
ongoing Russia scaremongering campaign have relied on a vague
three-way connection between unrelated parties in order to shoehorn
in a larger national security and foreign policy scheme. Under Bush,
this was done by artificially connecting 9/11 to the anthrax attacks,
and then to Saddam Hussein, creating a climate of fear. That same
climate is being recreated now – only this time, the specter is
Russia.

Democrats
and their allies are using a similar psychological warfare campaign
to create a fictitious three-way connection between Trump, Russia and
WikiLeaks in the public consciousness during a time of emotional
trauma for Democratic voters. The larger theory posits that all three
parties were colluding with each other to take down Hillary Clinton —
even if no proof has been offered that 
Russia
was WikiLeaks’ source
.

This
narrative has been bolstered by the use of weaponized mainstream
media terms like “fake news” and an increasingly prevalent
McCarthy-esque mindset among Clinton voters who are quick to accuse
their opponents of being Putin apologists. Even supporters of Bernie
Sanders, who was running on the Democratic ticket just as Clinton
was, have faced such accusations.

Americans
should not want a man who knew the Bush administration was trying to
create a fictional connection between Hussein, anthrax and 9/11 to
have the final verdict on another new three-way fiction: the
conspiratorial web being woven between WikiLeaks, Trump and Russia.

By Robbie
Martin
 /
Republished with permission / 
MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo
 

Robbie
Martin is a writer and documentary filmmaker behind  “
A
Very Heavy Agenda
,
American
Anthrax
.
 He also co-hosts Media Roots Radio with Abby Martin.

Follow
Robbie on Twitter at 
@FluorescentGrey

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

* Deep State: een samenwerkingsverband van de geheime diensten, politici die als lobbyist grote bedrijven dienen (waaronder oliemaatschappijen en de wapenindustrie), hoge invloedrijke ambtenaren (als Mueller), het militair-industrieel complex en de financiële maffia (banken e.d.), waar ik zelf nog de reguliere media aan toe zou willen voegen. Dit daar de reguliere VS mediaorganen in handen zijn van een kleine groep welgestelden, al dan niet in de vorm van grote aandeelhouders. (dat laatste gaat op voor de rest van de reguliere westerse media, ook die in Nederland)

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