Democratische Conventie: niet één woord over Russiagate domweg omdat het een leugen is

Posted on September 2, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Tijdens
de gehele Democratische Conventie van 17 t/m 20 augustus, viel
letterlijk niet één keer het woord ‘Russiagate’, terwijl de
Democraten het de laatste 4 jaar wel 1.000 keer werd uitgespuugd door
de hypocriete politici van die partij. Logisch dat men er nu maar mee
is gestopt, immers het is bewezen flauwekul en alleen door de partij
in stelling gebracht om Hillary Clinton uit de wind te houden, die op
een smerige manier de voorverkiezingen van de Democraten in 2016
heeft gewonnen, ofwel: zij heeft destijds de voorverkiezingen gestolen ten koste van Bernie Sanders……

Een lid
van Clintons verkiezingsteam, Seth Rich was zo pissig over de
handelswijze van Clinton en de top van dat team, dat hij een enorme
stapel mails van Clinton doorspeelde naar Wikileaks…… Een paar weken later
werd Rich vermoord op straat gevonden, volgens de politie een
roofmoord, hoe vreemd dan dat er werkelijk niets was gestolen van
Rich, terwijl hij ook opzichtig dure sieraden droeg……. (bovendien waarom zou je iemand 2 maal in de rug schieten als je deze wilt ontdoen van diens kostbaarheden en geld??)

Nee,
i.p.v. een Russische agent, bleek Trump de figuur die een enorme
legermacht heeft samengetrokken langs delen van de Russische
westgrens, waarbij hij nu ook nog de beschikking heeft over een
raketschild ‘tegen Iran’ maar waarvan de raketten in een mum van tijd
kunnen worden voorzien van meerdere kernkoppen en dat op raketten die
tot 5.000 kilometer kunnen vliegen, waardoor steden als Moskou en
Sint-Petersburg vanaf de voordeur van Rusland kunnen worden geraakt met kernraketten….

Met dat schild heeft de Trump administratie het INF-verdrag
geschonden, iets waarvan de VS en haar oorlogshond NAVO Rusland volkomen ten onrechte
beschuldigden……. (Rusland zou nieuwe raketten hebben die volgens
de VS onder dat verdrag vallen, echter op meerdere uitnodigingen van
het Kremlin om te komen inspecteren ging de VS niet in, daar de
duivelse Trump administratie dondersgoed wist en weet dat Rusland de waarheid
sprak……)

Lees het
volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone die dieper op deze zaak
ingaat en onder andere de stelling van Max Blumenthal steunt dat Russiagate een manier was om Trump zo onder druk te zetten dat hij wapens leverde aan Oekraïne (ben het daar deels mee eens, zeker daar ook wordt gesteld dat Obama Oekraïne niet wilde bewapenen, terwijl zijn minister van BuZa Joe Biden dat land onder druk zette het strafrechtelijk onderzoek tegen zijn corrupte zoon te stoppen, daar men anders een levering van wapens uit de VS kon vergeten):

Dem Convention Made No Mention Of Russiagate Or Impeachment, Because They Were Fake

Caitlin
Johnstone <donotreply@wordpress.com>

The
only interesting thing about either of the conventions held by
America’s two mainstream political parties this month was not
anything that was said by the interminable parade of vapid speakers,
but rather what those speakers did not say.

Despite
their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time
during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word
“impeachment” ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the
Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and
the Russian government.

Politicoreports:

Eight
months after Democrats mounted a historic effort to remove Donald
Trump from office, not a single speaker uttered the word
“impeachment” during their four-day convention.

…

For
Democrats to completely omit impeachment from their convention was
once unthinkable. Democrats had mounted a case that Trump had abused
his power to blackmail Ukraine into investigating his political
adversaries, including Biden. And they made an existential argument
that without removing him from office, Trump’s behavior would get
worse and democracy itself would be at risk.

…

Special
counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s
ties to Russia — which Democrats once thought could topple Trump
for obstruction of justice — also went unmentioned, even as it was
a defining feature of Trump’s nearly four years in office.

At
DNC, “the word ‘impeachment’ [was] entirely left out over the
course of the 4-night event. Mueller’s investigation of the Trump
campaign’s ties to Russia… also went unmentioned, even as it was
a defining feature of Trump’s nearly 4 years in office.”
https://t.co/Dgt9WQ3LeApic.twitter.com/q8EvEthwZq

— Aaron
Maté (@aaronjmate) August
28, 2020

“The
fact that Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to even mention
Russiagate or Ukrainegate (the first-ever sequel to a flop?) at their
convention should maybe hasten some reflection for those who made
these issues the ‘defining feature of Trump’s nearly four years in
office,'” quipped
incisive Russiagate skeptic Aaron Maté of the omission on Twitter.

“Next
on Unsolved Mysteries: Democrats and media allies accused Donald
Trump of being a Russian agent for four years,” Maté added.
“They chanted ‘All Roads Lead to Putin’ and ‘The Walls Are
Closing In.’ But at their political convention, they forgot all about
it. Did Russia give them amnesia?”

“I
personally feel like if the President of the US seeking re-election
is beholden to and controlled by an adversarial foreign power, the
opposition party should find a few seconds to squeeze in a mention of
it if, you know, it wasn’t utter bullshit,” tweetedThe
Intercept‘s
Glenn Greenwald.

And,
of course, it was utter bullshit. And that is indeed why the
Democrats saw no need to mention it at their own four-day convention
despite dominating news cycles with it for years. Russiagate and
Ukrainegate were never the cataclysmic scandals that the Democrats
and their allied media factions portrayed them as. They weren’t even
actually about getting rid of Trump.

Glenn Greenwald

✔

@ggreenwald

In an extremely strange and confounding development, the Democrats *never once* mentioned what this NYT columnist calls “the biggest lie in American politics” at their Convention.

In fairness, they only had 4 full nights so maybe they couldn’t squeeze in any mention of it. https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1295743070672162821 …

View image on Twitter

Michelle Goldberg

✔

@michelleinbklyn

The biggest lie in American politics, which you hear from parts of the left as well as the right, is that Russiagate hasn’t been borne out by investigators https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1295720689043939333 …

689

1:00 AM – Aug 29, 2020

Anyone
with an ear to the ground knew that Russiagate would fizzle, and
anyone capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment would fail
to remove Trump. The drivers of these attention-monopolizing
narratives knew this also.

If
there’d been any solid evidence to find that the Kremlin was
blackmailing Trump, or that his campaign had conspired with the
Russian government to steal the 2016 election, the US intelligence
community would have found some of it and leaked it to The
Washington Post
long before Trump took office. The Russiagate narrative has been
completely dismantled from the very beginning by journalists like the
late Robert Parry,
and then Maté after Parry’s death. There was never any real
evidence for it, and the people pushing Russiagate from the beginning
knew there was never any real evidence for it.

All
you really need to know about Russiagate was that it was started by
unsubstantiated claims by the US intelligence community, and in the
end it facilitated pre-existing plans by the US intelligence
community. Everything else in between those two points is just empty
narrative fluff.

In
2017 Parry
documented
how the original assessment that Russia meddled in the US election in
the first place was put forward without proof by just a couple dozen
officers from three intelligence agencies hand-picked by the
notoriously
Russophobic
then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Maté
has documented
that this allegation remains just as suspicious
and porous
as the day it was first made. Despite having sweeping investigative
powers Mueller indicted not one single American for conspiracy with
the Russian government. The recent evidence-free Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence report did
nothing to change the
flimsy nature of the entire Russiagate narrative.

So
the whole thing has been plainly bogus from the beginning, with the
foundation laid by secretive and unaccountable intelligence agencies
who have an
extensive history of lying
about exactly this sort of thing. And it just so happens to have
paved the way for operations against a longtime geostrategic foe that
were being unfolded well before Trump’s arrival in

the White House.

This
is an excerpt from an
article
by legendary Australian journalist John Pilger from March 2016:

In
the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces
since World War Two — led by the United States — is taking place
along Russia’s western frontier. Not since Hitler invaded the
Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat
to Russia.

Ukraine
– once part of the Soviet Union – has become a CIA theme park.
Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a
regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with
Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the
political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They
openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of
the Russian speaking minority.

This
is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.

In
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — next door to Russia – the US
military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This
extreme provocation of the world’s second nuclear power is met with
silence in the West.

This
was all happening during the Obama administration. But he was still
more doveish than the spooks and cold warriors who drive US foreign
policy would prefer, resisting for example loud calls from the
warmongers to arm
Ukraine against
Moscow and forcibly
install a no-fly zone
in Russia’s ally Syria.

The
heir apparent to Obama’s throne, Hillary Clinton, did not suffer from
such peacenik scruples. She’d already been making
people on both sides of the aisle nervous
with her anti-Russia hawkishness, and supported both arming
Ukraine
and installing
a no-fly zone
in Syria.

So
these escalations were already underway, and more were being prepared
for.

Then
what happened? Somehow a political neophyte who’d been talking
about making nice with Russia
got in instead.

We
suddenly found ourselves bombarded with narratives from the US
intelligence community and its mass media stenographers about Russian
election meddling and Trump playing some mysterious role in it. These
narratives were pushed with steadily increasing frequency and
shrillness, with the help of a humiliated Democratic Party that stood
everything to gain by participating, until those of us who expressed
any skepticism of them at all were being accused on a daily basis by
MSM-brainwashed dupes of running psyops for the Russian government.

We
were never at any time presented with any proof of these claims which
rose anywhere near the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world,
but we were hammered with them anyway, day in and day out, year after
year.

This
ended up putting a lot of political pressure on Trump to keep
existing sanctions and military tensions with Russia, and he ended
up adding dozens more new
cold war escalations including further sanctions, shredded nuclear
treaties, NATO expansionism and more. He even armed
Ukraine due
to these pressures, just like the anointed queen was scheduled to do.

Max Blumenthal

✔

@MaxBlumenthal

For years, neocons and arms industry darlings like @RepAdamSchiff have sought to re-arm Ukraine and escalate the conflict in Donbas. By stirring up Russiagate, they finally got their deadly deal. My latest: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/russiagate-helped-secure-dangerous-arms-deal/ …

How ‘Russiagate’ Helped Secure a Dangerous Arms Deal Both
Barack Obama and Donald Trump resisted sending weapons to Ukraine. Then
the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion was launched.

truthdig.com

341 9:51 PM – Jan 8, 2018

The
cold warriors wanted their escalations, and they got them. From
beginning to the end, that’s all this was ever about. They pushed the
narratives, the media joined in because it was great
for ratings,
and the Democrats joined in because it took the focus off their 2016
scandals
and gave them a kayfabe phantom to punch instead of pushing
for actual progressive changes.

And
now the slow
motion third world war
between the US-centralized power alliance and the loose collective of
unabsorbed governments is right on schedule, with Biden all set and
ready to carry the omnicidal torch forward. The 2016 scandals are
well enough forgotten, no progressive changes have been made, and
there is no need to talk about Russiagate or impeachment at the
Democratic National Convention.

Because
everyone already got what they wanted. Everyone except ordinary
people, of course.

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Biden zal de VS hegemonie over de wereld ‘redden’, ofwel nog gewelddadiger optreden dan Obama en Trump samen….. ‘business as usual: US terror’

Posted on August 27, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

De
Democratische Conventie heeft eens te meer duidelijk gemaakt dat met
een Democraat in het Witte Huis de kans op een verlichting van de
ongebreidelde VS terreur in diverse buitenlanden geen sprake zal zijn….. Vorige week
dinsdagavond werd in de VS een van te voren opgenomen video
uitgezonden, waarin een groep van 7 militaire, geheime dienst en
diplomatieke beambten werden getoond, deze figuren stelden dat de
Trump administratie niet agressief genoeg optreedt in het
Midden-Oosten*, en tegen Rusland, China, Iran en Venezuela……

Ongelofelijk
dat ook Colin Powell deel uitmaakte van de 7, dat deze vreselijke
oorlogsmisdadiger zijn mond nog open durft te doen is een gotspe!! De
schoft stelde dat niemand zal durven opstaan tegen Biden daar ze
zullen weten wat ‘business’ is onder Biden, je weet wel dezelfde
‘business’ die met de leugens van Powell werd losgelaten op Irak en
die daar intussen aan meer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven heeft gekost, ofwel mensen die zijn vermoord door de VS en haar hielenlikkende NAVO partners
als Nederland…….

Final Nite 4 of the Dem Nat'l Tent Revival | café babylon

Zoals al
zo vaak gesteld (ook op deze plek) met Biden als president zal de
wereld er bepaald niet vreedzamer op worden en dat is een
beangstigend feit!! (vooral beangstigend voor de bevolkingen van
landen die zich weigeren te schikken naar de VS hegemonie…..)

Je kan onder het volgende artikel klikken voor een ‘Dutch vetaling, dat neemt wel enkele tientallen seconden tijd in beslag. Het onderstaand artikel werd eerder geplaatst op de World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org) en werd door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House:

The
Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony

By
Andre Damon

The Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony - World Socialist Web Site

August 23, 2020
“Information
Clearing House”
– Over the past week, the American public was subjected to an
eight-hour infomercial, officially termed by the Democratic Party a
“convention,” in which the long-time political reactionary Joe
Biden was packaged simultaneously as the great American everyman and
a miracle cure for America’s problems.

Amid celebrity cameos,
empty platitudes, and unconvincing “personal” anecdotes, the vast
majority of this week’s telethon was devoid of any actual
discussion of program and policies. Behind the hoopla, however, there
are significant conflicts within the ruling class, centered primarily
on issues of foreign policy.

These conflicts were
partially revealed on Tuesday night, when the convention aired a
pre-recorded segment featuring a group of seven military,
intelligence and diplomatic officials who claimed that the Trump
administration was not fighting the US wars in the Middle East and
pursuing its conflicts with Russia and China aggressively enough.

Commenting on Trump’s
Middle East policy, Brett McGurk, in charge of the US operations in
the Middle East under Obama, said, “Our military had a policy to
maintain our presence in Syria,” which Trump went on to “abandon.”
He concluded, “It’s shameful.”

Rose Gottemoeller,
former Deputy Secretary General of NATO, concluded that Trump “hasn’t
been standing up” to Russia and China “at all.” Another State
Department official added, “Thanks to Donald Trump, our adversaries
are stronger, and bolder.”

Following the segment,
General Colin Powell added that Biden “will make it his job to know
when anyone dares to threaten us, he will stand up to our adversaries
with strength and experience. They will know he means business.”
The “business” for which Powell is best known is the destruction
of Iraq and the death of one million of its inhabitants, based on
false claims about “weapons of mass destruction.”

These themes were
expanded upon in a letter published Friday by a group of 72
high-level intelligence and military officials—and war
criminals—headed by former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden,
declaring their support for Biden.

The first of the
letter’s ten bullet points states that Trump “has called NATO
‘obsolete,’ branded Europe a ‘foe,’ mocked the leaders of
America’s closest friends, and threatened to terminate longstanding
US alliances.” As a result, the letter concludes, “ Donald Trump
has gravely damaged America’s role as a world leader.”

In other words, the
present administration has undermined the fundamental geostrategic
aims that have led the United States into three decades of war: The
effort to control the Eurasian landmass, including the Middle East.

In the four years
since Trump became the Republican nominee, a ferocious conflict has
been raging within the ruling class, centered on differences over
foreign policy, and in particular the “hot war” being waged
between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian forces in its
Eastern regions after the US-backed coup in 2014.

Instead of focusing on
the conflict with Russia that has been the preeminent concern of much
of the foreign policy establishment, the Trump administration has
been preoccupied with stunting the economic growth of China while
building up US military capabilities to fight a war in the Pacific.

But here, too, the
military and intelligence figures aligned with the Biden campaign
feel that the White House has been ineffective. As two of the
letter’s signatories wrote in an article in Foreign
Policy
magazine, “Trump has confronted China by starting trade wars with
everyone else” rather than involving other imperialist states.
“Major democratic powers including Japan, France, and Canada are
desperate to work with the United States to blunt China’s predatory
technology policies.”

From the standpoint of
the ruling class, it is primarily these differences over foreign
policy, not domestic policy, that are being fought out in the
election. Facing the greatest social and economic crisis since the
Great Depression, domestic policy has been conducted on a largely
bipartisan basis. The CARES Act, which sanctioned the
multi-trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street while starving testing
and contact tracing, passed unanimously in the Senate and by an
unrecorded voice vote in the House.

The latest issue of
Foreign
Affairs,
one of the main journals of US geopolitics, lays out some of the
concerns of the dominant factions of the state. “After nearly four
years of turbulence,” the lead editorial states, “the country’s
enemies are stronger, its friends are weaker, and the United States
itself is increasingly isolated and prostrate.”

Its concern is that
Trump has proven an unreliable steward of the interests of the ruling
class abroad. “Dragging his party and the executive branch along,
the president has reshaped national policy in his own image: focused
on short-term advantage, obsessed with money, and uninterested in
everything else.”

The magazine’s lead
story declares that Trump’s unstable and erratic foreign policy has
resulted in a situation in which “China is wealthier and stronger,
North Korea has more nuclear weapons and better missiles… and
Nicolás Maduro is more entrenched in Venezuela, as is Bashar
al-Assad in Syria.”

From the standpoint of
the Biden campaign, the solution to all of these crises is to
reassert American dominance and “leadership” over its traditional
allies in Europe and Japan in order to pursue a more aggressive US
policy against Russia and China. The United States must again be the
world hegemon.

The central focus of
the new administration will be “reclaiming America’s place in the
world” through the reassertion of “American exceptionalism,”
stated Joe Biden adviser Jake Sullivan in the Atlantic
.

Earlier this year,
Biden published an article entitled “Rescuing U.S. Foreign Policy
After Trump” in the March/April issue of Foreign
Affairs.
In that article, he declares, that “to counter Russian aggression,
we must keep the alliance’s military capabilities sharp.” At the
same time, the United States needs to “get tough with China.” The
“most effective way to meet that challenge is to build a united
front of U.S. allies and partners to confront China.”

But while the latest
issue of Foreign
Affairs
may be titled “The World Trump Made,” the geopolitical debacle
facing the United States did not spring from Trump’s head. Trump
did not make the “world.” Rather, the “world”—and,
specifically, the crisis of American imperialism—made Trump.

The decline in the
hegemonic position of the United States extends over a period of
decades and was already evident prior to the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1990-91. The dissolution of American imperialism’s Cold
War adversary was seized on by the strategists of the American ruling
class to declare a “unipolar moment.” The United States could
utilize its unrivaled military power to counter its declining
economic position through force.

The endless series of
wars launched by the United States over the past three decades have
destroyed entire societies—in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya,
Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen, among others. But they have failed to
reverse US imperialism’s fortunes. Moreover, they have profoundly
distorted and brutalized American society itself: a process of which
the fascistic Trump administration is an expression.

Even prior to Trump’s
inauguration, there were growing tensions between the US and its
erstwhile allies in Europe. The coronavirus pandemic and the
disastrous response of the ruling class to it—a policy that has
been bipartisan—has further eroded the global position of American
capitalism.

American imperialism
confronts intractable problems, and first among them is the growth of
social opposition within the United States itself. Among the
considerations motivating support for the Biden campaign within the
ruling class is the hope that it can somehow establish a broader base
for imperialist aggression abroad. The promotion of identity politics
is aimed at further integrating privileged sections of the upper
middle class behind the project of global domination. This is what
Kamala Harris represents.

A Biden/Harris
administration will not inaugurate a new dawn of American hegemony.

Rather, the attempt to assert this hegemony will be through
unprecedented violence. If it is brought to power—with the support
of the assemblage of reactionaries responsible for the worst crimes
of the 21st century—it will be committed to a vast expansion of
war. Trump and Pompeo are barreling headlong toward a conflict with
China. Biden’s critique of this disastrous course is that the
United States needs to get “tough,” whether against Russia,
China, Afghanistan, Syria, or everywhere in between.

The American ruling
class, moreover, confronts in the growth of the class struggle the
most serious threat to its geopolitical ambitions.

Whichever course is
ultimately determined by the election, US imperialism has, as the
World
Socialist Web Site
warned in the run-up to the Iraq war, a “rendezvous with disaster.”
All factions of the US state are united on a course of action that
will lead to the deaths of countless millions. The struggle against
war will not go forward through the selection of either Trump or
Biden, but through the independent struggle of the working class.

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*
Waaronder Syrië, waar de Obama administratie een opstand
organiseerde met ‘leiders’ die veelal uit het buitenland kwamen en
daarbij scherpschutters inhuurden die op demonstranten schoten, om
dit zo in de schoenen van Assad te kunnen schuiven >> een
typische false flag operatie, waarin de VS de specialist is…….

Voor meer berichten over Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Powell, verkiezingen, illegale oorlog, Irak, Rusland, China, Iran en/of Venezuela, klik op het desbetreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

Donald ‘Darth Vader’ Trump: strijder voor het licht….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Posted on August 25, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Gisteren werd Donald ‘Darth Vader’ Trump tijdens de Republikeinse conventie voorgesteld als strijder voor het licht, strijder tegen de duisternis, anarchie en terreur van links…. Links: waarvan men o.a. de Democratische Partij ‘beschuldigt…’ Democraten links ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Trump: oorlogsmisdadiger, fascist, racist, aartsleugenaar, volksverlakker, corrupt, misdadiger en…… ‘strijder voor het licht!!’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Vooruit, nog één:

Zie ook:

‘Donald ‘Darth Vader’ Trump verklaart ruimte tot oorlogsgebied en laat Duitsland en haar bedrijven weten dat men zich heeft te schikken naar de VS wensen‘

De minste van 2 kwaden: een niet bestaand concept als het om de verkiezingen in de VS gaat

Posted on August 24, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Caitlin
Johnstone heeft in een kort en bondig artikel uitgelegd, dat ‘the
lesser of two evils’ (de minste van twee kwaden) een niet
bestaand concept is als het gaat om de presidentsverkiezingen van a.s. november in de VS, immers of een land nu wordt aangevallen door
een Republikeinse of Democratische administratie, maakt geen verschil
in de ellende waarin het ‘slachtoffervolk’ terechtkomt, ook al zeggen die administraties dat ze e.e.a doen voor het eigen bestwil van dat volk en ‘het brengen van democratie’ (en daarbij wordt maar al te vaak een land aangevallen dat een democratische gekozen regering heeft en waarbij die regering werd verkozen in verkiezingen die werden gecontroleerd door internationale waarnemers en door hen werden goedgekeurd…)…..

Ook de schending van
mensenrechten wordt vaak als argument aangevoerd om een land aan te vallen, terwijl de VS de grootste schenders van mensenrechten steunt, zoals Saoedi-Arabië en Israël….. In alle gevallen blijven VS bommen en raketten dood en
verderf zaaien……

Overigens bleek tijdens de Democratische Conventie van vorige week dat Biden een veel agressievere buitenlandpolitiek voorstaat dan de Trump administratie heeft laten zien, doelen o.a. het Midden-Oosten, Rusland en China (en reken maar dat Biden onder het Midden-Oosten ook Iran rekent……) Kortom het feit dat de VS in feite het Vierde Rijks is en daarmee de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, zal niet veranderen met oorlogsmisdadiger Biden…… In een later bericht zal ik wat verder ingaan op die Democratische conventie.

Lees
dit korte schrijven van Johnstone, waarin ze ook nog even ingaat op
religies die in feite zijn bedacht om mensen koest te houden en
netjes in het gareel te laten lopen, ook al is dat gareel in het grootste deel van de gevallen dood en
vernietiging brengen, zo heeft de geschiedenis iets te vaak laten zien…… Vergeet bijvoorbeeld niet dat de genocide op de ‘indianen’ in de VS werd uitgevoerd met de bijbel in de hand!! (hetzelfde geldt voor de genocide in Latijns Amerika, als was de bijbel daar die van de rk kerk…..)

Johnstone
22 augustus ’20

A
Lesser Evil: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix

by Caitlin
Johnstone

I
really don’t mean to be a pest about this but we are still trapped on
a planet where people without functioning empathy centers are waving
literal armageddon weapons around in the name of a made-up concept
called unipolarism. We should probably put a stop to that.

If
you see two separate mainstream political parties, it looks like one
is the lesser evil. If you see two oligarchic sock puppets held by
the same oligarchy, it looks like they’re both being used to bully
you into consenting to an entire system which isn’t designed to serve
you.

If
you see the latter, what is the correct response? What is the correct
response to someone saying you must beg them to punch you with their
left hand or they’ll punch you a bit harder with their right? Is it
to beg for the left fist? Or is it to knock your abuser the fuck out?

When
the oligarchy tells you “Vote for my left party or my right
party will take away your civil rights”, the correct response is
not bowing to its demands, nor voting right-wing out of spite, nor
even merely voting third party. The only correct response is to tear
down the oligarchy.

Democrats:
Here’s a half-dead piece of beltway flotsam held together by nothing
but Aricept and crazy glue who’s been pushing for wars, austerity and
the erosion of civil liberties since before most of you were born.

Progressives:
I bet we can move him to the left.

Q:
What is the Republican Party?

A:
An organization which assures Americans of conservative sensibilities
that the status quo is working fine.

Q:
What is the Democratic Party?

A:
An organization which assures Americans of liberal sensibilities that
the status quo is working fine.

Establishment
liberalism is just a bunch of people reassuring each other that you
can change absolutely nothing and still feel self-righteous about it.

We’re
hurtling toward multiple armageddon-level events on multiple fronts
in the near term and people are still like “We can vote
strategically and begin organizing a gradual progressive takeover in
the Democratic Party beginning at the local level so that after 30-40
years…”

US
presidents who say the troops are coming home soon should be taken as
seriously as people who say Jesus is coming back any minute now.

Those
who say Russia can influence an election with a few tweets and
Facebook memes are implicitly admitting that the media-owning
plutocratic class necessarily has many orders of magnitude more
control over their political system.

When
you have monopolistic tech giants openly coordinating with their
government and censoring
countries
their government doesn’t like on behalf of their government, what you
have is called government censorship.

QAnoners
sometimes say to me “Why are you attacking us?? We’re on the
same side!” No we’re not. We’re on exact opposite sides. I
oppose the ruling power establishment, you support it. You’ve been
duped into backing one of the US establishment parties like any other
partisan hack.

Write
about the world’s problems in a way that ordinary people can
understand and you’ll open a lot of eyes, but you won’t get kudos
from elitist commentators. Write in a way that only elitist
commentators can understand and you’ll receive plenty of kudos, but
you won’t open any eyes.

Imperialists
who defend US warmongering with “But World War Two!” are
actually admitting that their worldview is garbage by the fact that
they have to reach back 75 years to find a US war they can actually
justify in their minds.

To
understand the world it’s not enough to be intelligent, you’ve also
got to be dedicated to learning what’s true. Most aren’t; they’re
dedicated to defending their own interests and worldviews. Smart
people will often just use clever arguments to defend their false
worldview.

The
way bombing creates extremism which is used to justify more bombing
is one of the most psychopathically brilliant scams ever devised.

Since
the dawn of history the true purpose of religion has been to shape
societies, dominate civilizations and build entire empires, whether
that religion is called “Christianity”, “Islam”,
or “economics”.

________________________

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| August 22, 2020 at 1:46 pm | Tags: democrats,
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Zie ook het volgend artikel van Caitlin Johnstone:

‘Why The ‘Lesser Evil’ Is An Illusion‘

Democraten keuren oorlogsbudget van 740 miljard dollar goed tegen de belofte dat militaire bases nieuwe namen krijgen

Posted on July 24, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Alsof
het een gunst is waardoor de Democraten akkoord zijn gegaan met een
totaal uit de hand gelopen oorlogsbudget (‘defensie budget’ >>
ha! ha! ha!) van 740 miljard dollar, in ruil voor de belofte dat
militaire bases met de naam van geconfedereerde officieren een andere
naam krijgen……..

Wat
heeft het voor zin om militaire bases een naam te geven van
officieren die weliswaar niet tot de ‘confederatie’ of beter gezegd de Geconfedereerde Staten behoorden en die verantwoordelijk waren voor misdaden tegen gekleurden en de oorspronkelijke bevolking van de VS,
maar die elders dood en verderf hebben gezaaid….. En namen genoeg,
neem alleen al de periode van 1945 tot nu: in die tijd werden onder
opperbevel van die ‘topofficieren’ van het VS leger ruim meer dan
22,5 miljoen mensen vermoord……

Let wel: het voorgaande is nog: buiten
de doden die zijn gevallen door geheime militaire acties onder
leiding van de CIA en buiten de door de VS geregisseerde bloedige
staatsgrepen en met medeneming van de intussen vele duizenden
moorden die de VS heeft gepleegd met drones, waarbij NB meer dan 90%
van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht van een
misdaad…… (bij die moorden gaat het om mensen die de VS verdenkt
van misdaden tegen haar militaire apparaat, dat godbetert meer dan
800 militaire bases telt over een groot deel van onze
planeet……)

Echter niet alleen de nieuwe naamgeving is voor de Democraten reden voor goedkeuring van dit meer dan belachelijk hoge oorlogsbudget, daar Democratische politici in de senaat en het
congres op financiële basis profiteren van het enorme
oorlogsbudget……. Eén en ander vanwege de giften die de wapenindustrie hen doet toekomen ten tijde van verkiezingen….. (en waarschijnlijk ook daarbuiten, corruptie en de VS gaan heel goed samen, al zegt men daar dat dit niet zo is…..)

Belachelijk dat de Democraten instemmen met dit oorlogsbudget, zeker op het moment dat de psychopathische fascist Trump legers met burgeragenten inzet die vreedzame demonstranten tegen racisme oppakken en in auto’s zonder kenteken afleveren bij de gevangenis of wat daar voor door moet gaan……

Caitlin
Johnstone schreef een artikel over het nieuwe budget en legt de vinger
op de zere, stinkende plek: het ontbreken van elk ethisch en moreel
besef bij het goedkeuren van dit budget, terwijl de Coronacrisis
heeft laten zien dat de medische zorg in de VS zwaar onder de maat
is……. Er gaat in vergelijking met het oorlogsbudget dan ook maar een
schijntje naar de gezondheidszorg en dat op een moment dat de VS een
record aantal Coronabesmettingen heeft en er zelfs al vele tientallen zorgmedewerkers zijn overleden aan het virus, puur en alleen
daar het hen aan beschermingmiddelen ontbrak……. Tekenend is dan ook de
foto van een zorgmedewerker gekleed in vuilniszakken als bescherming tegen COVID-19 en
aan de rechterkant een politieagent die als commando in een duur
militair uniform is gehesen en dat tot de tanden bewapend, klaar om burgers te lijf te gaan…… (kan deze foto helaas niet terugvinden en de tijd om lang te zoeken ontbreekt me)

De
psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger en oorlogshitser Pompeo moest
gisteren nog eens laten weten dat China aangepakt moet worden daar
anders: “Onze kinds kinderen zullen zuchten onder de Chinese
communistische partij….” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Alsof niet de VS
maar China meer dan 800 militaire bases over de wereld heeft en de
ene na de andere illegale oorlog start……… Wat een ongelofelijke
en totaal ongeloofwaardige, maar uiterst gevaarlijke gek!

Lees het
artikel van Johnstone en geeft het door, nog veel te veel mensen denken dat de Democraten onderscheidend anders zijn dan de
Republikeinen en die het sprookje geloven dat de VS de politieagent
van de wereld is, een politieagent die totaal corrupt is en de ene
zware oorlogsmisdaad en misdaad tegen de menselijkheid na de andere
begaat en daarbij miljoenen mensen vermoordt en nabestaanden in diepe ellende stort……. (en dat verschrikkelijk genoeg veelal met militaire steun van andere NAVO-lidstaten, waaronder Nederland, landen die als de VS vervolgd zouden moeten worden voor oorlogsmisdaden….)

A
Headline That Perfectly Encapsulates Mainstream Liberalism:

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

“JUST
IN: Senate Passes $740 Billion Defense Bill With Provision To Remove
Confederate Names Off Military Bases” reads
a headline
from the digital news site Mediaite,
which could also serve as a perfect diagnosis for everything that is
sick about mainstream liberal orthodoxy.

The
Democrat-led House and Republican-led Senate have
now both passed versions of this bill
authorizing three-quarters of a trillion dollars for a single year of
military spending, both by overwhelming bipartisan majorities, on the
condition that the names of Confederate Civil War leaders be removed
from military bases.

Unsurprisingly,
Security Policy Reform Institute’s (SPRI) Stephen Semler found
a direct relationship
between how much a House Democrat has been paid by the war industry
and how likely they were to have voted for the bloated military
budget which also obstructs
any attempts to scale down troop presence
in Afghanistan.

Stephen Semler

@stephensemler

I recorded how much each House Democrat took from the defense industry so far in the 2020 election cycle and compared it to how they voted on the #NDAA and @repmarkpocan‘s amendment.

Results are unsurprising and yes it’s about class (warfare): https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/a-one-party-system-house-democrats …

A one-party system: House Democrats and military spending

Speaking Security Newsletter | Advisory Note for Organizers and Candidates, n°28 | 22 July 2020 stephensemler.substack.com

This
is everything that is horrible about the Democratic Party and the
ideological position of mainstream liberals. Their leaders have
figured out a way to trade hard objects for empty narrative. To get
people to consent to almost limitless amounts of thievery, murder and
exploitation in exchange for words and stories.

They’ll
get rid of Confederate names on bases, but they won’t even slightly
reduce the vast fortunes they’re stealing from an impoverished
populace and pouring into global slaughter and oppression. They’ll
kneel
wearing Kente cloth,
but they even think about dismantling the US police state. They’ll
say “I hear you, and that’s something we’re looking at,”
but they’ll never intervene against plutocrats funnelling money away
from the needful to add to their unfathomably vast fortunes. They’ll
call you whatever gender pronoun you like, but they’ll never do
anything to inconvenience the oligarchs and warmongers.

They’ll
still make you fight tooth and claw for each empty concession,
because otherwise they’d be devaluing the empty, imaginary currency
they’re trading you in exchange for the concrete things they want.
But in the end there is no amount of narrative the powerful won’t
swap out for actual policy changes of substance, because narrative in
and of itself has no value. Manipulators understand this distinction
with crystal clear lucidity. Their victims do not.

In
reality it would be a lot more truthful and authentic for the bases
within the US war machine to continue to bear the names of racists,
killers and oppressors, since these embody the values of that war
machine far better than anything with a more pleasant ring to it. As
long as you’re robbing the American people to murder brown-skinned
foreigners for corporate interests and geostrategic resource control,
you might as well have names which reflect such values on your war
machinery.

So
I say keep the Confederate names on the bases. Hell, add more of
them. Add the names of Nazis, genocidal warlords and serial
killers too while you’re at it. It’d certainly be a lot more honest
and accurate to have a Fort Jeffrey Dahmer as part of America’s
murder machine than a Fort Colin Kaepernick.

Medea Benjamin

@medeabenjamin

Kind of weird that House passes obscene $740 billion Pentagon budget when we desperately need $ for healthcare, not warfare, and controversy just focuses on confederate names for military bases, not $ for permanent war economy. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/house-to-vote-ndaa-confederate-names-military-bases/index.html …

House to vote on annual defense bill

The
House is expected to vote Tuesday on a $740 billion national defense
authorization bill, which would grant a 3% pay raise for troops and
require the military to remove the names of Confederate… cnn.com

194 4:24 PM – Jul 22, 2020

War
is the single worst thing in the world. It is the most evil, insane,
counter-productive, wasteful, damaging, kleptocratic and
unsustainable thing that human beings do, by a very wide margin. If
Americans could viscerally experience all of the horrors that are
inflicted by the war machine their wealth and resources are being
funneled into, with their perception unfiltered by propaganda and
government secrecy, they would fall to their knees screaming with
abject rage. They would be in the streets immediately forcing an end
to this unforgivable savagery. Which is exactly why America has so
much government secrecy and propaganda.

If
Americans could see with their perceptions unmanipulated, their
response to the news that $740 billion is being stolen from the
American people by a sociopathic murder machine in exchange for
removing the names of Confederate leaders from its bases would not be

“Oh good, maybe we’ll get a Fort Harriet Tubman!” It would
be rage. Unmitigated, unforgiving rage. Which is all the status quo
deserves. Which is all the Democratic Party exists to prevent.

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| July 24, 2020 at 1:33 am | Tags: budget,
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Het label BLM, direct onder dit bericht, staat voor Black Lives Matter, ik heb dit label opgenomen daar het herbenoemen van militaire bases in de VS direct te maken heeft met de protesten tegen racisme gericht op gekleurden en de oorspronkelijke bevolking van de VS, immers deze bevolking werd met een enorme genocide bijna geheel uitgemoord, vooral door het leger van de VS…… Bovendien waren de Geconfedereerde Staten tegen de afschaffing van de slavernij, reden voor de burgeroorlog in de VS. Door op het label BLM te klikken krijg je een aantal berichten te zien die gaan over de protesten tegen racisme in de VS en elders.

Volwassenen zoals wij en domme kinderen

Posted on July 18, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

CaitlinJohnstone heeft weer eens een heerlijk
sarcastisch stuk geschreven, waarin ze afgeeft op kinderen en
volwassenen ophemelt, echter zoals je al begrepen had, ze bedoelt het tegenovergestelde.

Lezen
mensen!!

Grown-Ups
Like Us

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

Children
arrive in this world unthinking and empty-headed, like idiots. We
have to teach them how to be smart and knowledgeable thinkers like
us.

A
small child can run around and play happily with a stick or a leaf,
because children are stupid and they don’t yet know how to stare at
their phones tensely waiting for a stranger on social media to
respond to your clever comment telling them why their opinion is
wrong.

Children
are too naive to know anything about opinions and ideas. They need us
to teach them how to move their interest and attention away from the
things that are happening around them and focus instead upon the
thoughts in their heads, until the outer world loses its color and
they can live without distraction in the inner world of mental noise.

Grown-ups
are much better and smarter than children, because we know all the
different words for things, and we also know the opposites of those
words, and we also know how to make the words and their opposites
fight with each other in our heads while we push salty starchfat into
our mouths and watch talk shows.

Children
don’t even know anything about politics. They are too small and
simplistic to understand that we live in a country that is run by a
Good Party and a Bad Party, and the Bad Party does bad things and the
Good Party also does bad things but only because the Bad Party made
them do it.

We
have to teach children about the Good Party and the Bad Party, and
teach them how to hate the Bad Party because they don’t yet know that
there are different kinds of people and that you’re supposed to hate
some of them. Children don’t even know how to hate until we teach
them, that’s how stupid they are.

When
you try to teach children about war they always cry like little
bitches. Like pansies. They act like sending large groups of people
in our country to go kill other groups of people in another country
is crazy and disordered, when obviously it is they who are crazy and
disordered. We need to teach children how to be sane and normal by
any means necessary, including hitting them.

One
time my child wanted some food and I told him we don’t have enough
money for food, and he said we should just go to the “money
making machine” and get some money. He was talking about an ATM,
the imbecile. I laughed in his face. I laughed and laughed and
laughed because he didn’t understand how money works. I tried to
teach him how people don’t get to eat unless they have the right kind
of numbers in their bank accounts, but he kept looking at me like I
was saying something strange. Then we just laid around thinking about
how hungry we were until we fell asleep.

It’s
hard work being a parent. You get this weird little baby critter who
doesn’t know how to do anything, and then you have to spend years of
your life teaching them how to think, how to want, how to hate, how
to fight, how to take, and how to stop sitting around all blissed out
like a dumbass stoner all the time. You have to teach them and
shape them so that they can take part in this wonderful society that
we grown-ups built for them, and they don’t even understand what a
gift you’re giving them, they just cry about it like ungrateful
little jerks.

In
the end though it’s just what you’ve got to do in order to mold
children into smart and sensible grown-ups, like us.

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Rayshard Brooks: weer een gekleurde VS burger die om niets werd vermoord door de politie

Posted on June 16, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Afgelopen vrijdag werd Rayshard Brooks terwijl hij wegrende van
een politieagent, in de rug geschoten, hij zou een direct gevaar
vormen voor de 2 agenten die hem aan een ademtest wilden onderwerpen,
puur en alleen omdat hij ‘s morgens vroeg slapend werd
aangetroffen op een parkeerterrein van een Wendy’s filiaal…..

De
agenten beweerden dat hij een direct gevaar vormde daar hij een taser
van één van de agenten afnam en die tijdens zijn vlucht ‘op hen
richtte’. Weet niet hoe het met jou zit, maar als ik wegren en
probeer een wapen te richten op degenen die achter me loopt, terwijl
ik mijn ogen gericht moet houden op het vluchtpad en eventuele
obstakels, is het praktisch onmogelijk iemand te treffen, althans met
een pistool…. Een taser is bovendien een korte afstandswapen en anders dan bij
een pistool moet je dan dichtbij iemand zijn om deze te
kunnen raken, echter uit beelden blijkt dat Brooks te ver van de
agenten verwijderd was om van een echte bedreiging te kunnen
spreken….. Volgens de politie kon men Brooks niet laten lopen met een wapen (de taser) van de politie, terwijl je in de VS als particulier ook zo’n wapen kan en mag kopen……

Kortom
de agent die Brooks vermoordde heeft dat doelbewust gedaan en
heeft daarna geprobeerd om de taser als excuus te gebruiken voor het vermoorden
van een gekleurde burger……. Kortom alweer een gekleurde burger om niets vermoord
door de politie…….

Intussen
is ten overvloede gebleken dat tijdens recente verkiezingen in de VS het de
gekleurde burgers uitermate moeilijk werd gemaakt om te stemmen en velen daadwerkelijk hun stem niet konden uitbrengen….

Het hieronder opgenomen schrijven is een vraag om geld van Voter Suppression Alert, een onderdeel van
Demand Progress.org, waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe de laatste verkiezing
in Georgia is verlopen. Daarna een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over de moord op Rayshard Brooks, waarin ook zij wijst op andere staten waar men het gekleurde mensen moeilijk, zo niet onmogelijk maakt om te stemmen (vergeet wat het stemmen betreft niet dat Trump een paar maanden geleden heeft gesteld dat wanneer iedere burger in de VS die mag stemmen en dat zou doen, de Republikeinen nooit weer aan de macht zullen komen….):

This is how Trump wins

Voter
Suppression Alert <info@demandprogress.org>

Georgia’s primary election
on Tuesday was an absolute disaster.

Four-hour-long lines.
Malfunctioning voting machines. Tens of thousands of absentee ballots
“lost” in the mail.^1,2 It was so bad that there have
been calls for United Nations elections monitors to step in.³

And as usual, these
problems were worse in majority Black precincts.⁴

Georgia’s voting disaster is being
called a “giant warning siren” for what could happen in
November.⁵ If Congress doesn’t act now, millions of voters
could be disenfranchised or forced to choose between their health and
their civic duty.

Congress
must pass national vote-by-mail IMMEDIATELY. Will you donate $5 to
help Demand Progress rally grassroots pressure to pass a national
vote-by-mail law?

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Once
the coronavirus pandemic began, Georgia’s election officials asked
voters repeatedly to request absentee ballots in order to alleviate
pressure on understaffed polling places. The

voters complied with
more than 1.5 million requests for mail-in ballots.⁶

But the state didn’t hold up its
end of the bargain. More than 60,000 people hadn’t received their
ballots by the last days before the day of the primary, and those who
did were told to return the ballots in envelopes that didn’t exist,
along with other confusing instructions.^7,8

On the day of the election, the
state implemented new voting machines in some districts—machines
that experts said were not ready to be deployed—which immediately
malfunctioned.⁹Polling places in the
Atlanta metro area—a section of Georgia that is predominantly
people of color—were understaffed and unprepared for the people
needing to vote in person, while polling places in whiter, richer
areas had fewer problems.¹⁰
Social media was flooded with pictures of hours-long lines in the
Atlanta area, while other places had no lines at all.¹¹

As former gubernatorial candidate
Stacey Abrams said, “It is a disaster that was very preventable,
emblematic of the deeply systemic issues” Georgia has.¹²
But it’s clear that Georgia’s leadership has no interest in
preventing these failures.

It’s not just Georgia whose
election suffered during the primary. In Pennsylvania, thousands of
voters were sent the wrong ballot. Maryland had outdated registration
lists. Washington, DC, wasn’t able to fulfill many absentee ballot
requests and had fewer than 15% of its polling places open due to the
coronavirus.¹³

Experts are predicting a second
wave of the coronavirus in the fall, right around the general
election.¹⁴ If we want every state to have the mandate and
the resources for a successful vote-by-mail program and give everyone
a chance to have their voices heard in November, Congress must pass a
nationwide vote-by-mail law with the next coronavirus bill. More than
100,000 Demand Progress members have emailed Congress asking for a
vote-by-mail law, and now we’re going to step up our campaign.

Will
you donate to help pass vote-by-mail legislation and protect our
civic rights in November?

Thanks for standing with us.

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Sources:

1. CNN, “‘A giant warning siren’: Concerns about November’s
election grow after Georgia’s disastrous primary,” June
11, 2020
2. 11 Alive, “What if you never got your
absentee ballot? You’ve got options,” June
8, 2020
3. Esquire,
“Georgia Is Screaming Out for U.N. Election Monitors,” June
9, 2020
4. NBC News, “Georgia election ‘catastrophe’ in
largely minority areas sparks investigation,” June
9, 2020
5. CNN, “‘A giant warning siren’: Concerns about
November’s election grow after Georgia’s disastrous primary,”
June
11, 2020
6. The New
York Times, “Beyond
Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand
Vote-by-Mail” June
11, 2020
7. Ibid.
8. Atlanta
Journal Constitution,
“Georgia absentee voting instructions to be corrected,”
April
28, 2020
9. The New
York Times, “‘I
Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown,”
June
11, 2020
10. Ibid.
11. Tweet by Brent Peabody, June
9, 2020
12. The New
York Times, “‘I
Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown,”
June
11, 2020
13. The New
York Times, “Beyond
Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand
Vote-by-Mail” June
11, 2020
14. CNN, “Another wave of coronavirus will
likely hit the US in the fall. Here’s why and what we can do to stop
it,” May
2, 2020

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Terug
naar de laatste politiemoord op Rayshard Brooks, een gekleurd VS burger (althans de laatste moord voor
zover nu bekend is, voor hetzelfde geld heeft er alweer zo’n moord
plaatsgevonden): één en ander geeft ook aan dat er opnieuw een reden
is om verder over tasergebruik te spreken, blijkbaar vinden een groot
aantal agenten in de VS dat de taser een dodelijk wapen is, dit
vanwege negatieve ervaringen bij gebruik door de politie van dit martelwerktuig,
alleen daarom al zou tasergebruik, ook in Nederland verboden moeten
worden!!! (de politietop van New York heeft de taser jaren geleden al verboden!!)

Het
volgende artikel werd geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone:

The
Killing Of Rayshard Brooks Shows How Police “Reform” Is A Joke

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

A
black man named Rayshard Brooks was recently killed by an Atlanta
police officer who shot
him in the back
while he was attempting to run away.

Video
footage from the
police bodycam
and a
nearby witness makes
it clear that Brooks resisted arrest after failing a breathalyzer
test when police approached him sleeping in his car at a Wendy’s
parking lot, punching an officer and taking a taser the police had
attempted to use on him before trying to flee the scene. Video
footage from the parking lot makes
it clear that Brooks was running away, and, without ceasing to run,
pointed the taser at police behind him, at which point he was shot
twice in the back by an officer named
Garrett Rolfe.

Courtney Bryant

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@CourtneyDBryant

New video released by the GBI shows the moment #Atlanta police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Police say Rayshard Brooks grabbed a taser and pointed it at police before an officer fired shots.

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11:19 PM – Jun 13, 2020

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There
is no rational defense of this shooting. If someone is running away
from you with a short-range weapon, it is literally impossible for
them to pose an imminent threat to you. Just allowing Brooks to run
out of the range of the taser, as he was already trying to do, would
have nullified any potential threat to either of the two officers on
the scene, because it would have been literally impossible for Brooks
to tase them while continuing to run in the direction he was running.

This
indisputable and self-evident fact hasn’t stopped people from
bleating moronic police apologia in my social media notifications
since the shooting occurred.

They
claim Brooks could have tased an officer and taken his gun (again,
let Brooks take himself out of taser range and there’s exactly zero
risk of this happening).
They
claim they couldn’t just let a “dangerous” criminal run
around with a police weapon (it’s a taser; you can buy them at
Walmart. What’s he going to do? Go on a mass tasing rampage?).
They
claim the cop had to execute Brooks because he posed a “danger
to society” (it is not a cop’s job to act as judge, jury and
executioner in determining whether someone poses a general threat to
society; that’s what the courts are for).
They
claim if you punch a cop you deserve whatever you get (believing,
because they are authority-worshipping bootlickers, that a cop being
punched is worse than a civilian being killed by gunfire).
They
claim if you don’t follow police instructions then of course you’re
at risk of being killed (yes, police doing inexcusably brutal things
is the problem that people are trying to address here).

Even
leaving aside any debate about policing as it exists in America
today, there was absolutely no excuse for Rolfe’s behavior. They had
all of Brooks’ information. They had his car. They knew where he
lives. They could have followed him in their car and called for
backup. They could have gone in with backup to arrest him later.

But
Rolfe decided to kill. After watching all these protests against
police brutality raging throughout his country since the murder of
George Floyd, after being confronted with with all the public outrage
about police killing black men day after day in news headline after
news headline, after his society forced him to contemplate police
violence and his role in it, Garrett Rolfe still decided to kill.
After all that, he watched a black man running away from him, posing
no threat to him whatsoever, and he decided to kill.

The
fact that cops are so thoroughly inoculated against public demand
that they change their behavior makes a complete farce of the decoy
police “reform” agenda that establishment narrative
managers have been actively trying to corral the current protest
movement into to kill their support for police abolishment.

Cenk Uygur

✔

@cenkuygur

Let me pick up on what @staceyabrams just said. #DefundThePolice slogan is being used to divide us. She called for transformation of police, that’s much stronger than just reform but not distracting like defunding. #TransformThePolice is appealing to most people & sounds strong.

4,527 9:43 PM – Jun 14, 2020

There’s
a feud going on in America’s new protest movement right now between
those who wish to abolish, defund, dismantle, and/or disarm the
police, and those who want to “reform” or “transform”
the police. The former are actually pushing for a revolutionary
change which actually pushes back against abusive power structures
and calls for the creation of a radically different social paradigm,
while the latter wants to keep policing institutions in their
irredeemably
corrupt state and
add more funding for “de-escalation” training seminars
where grown adults are told not to commit gratuitous acts of
violence.

Training
seminars which, it turns out, Officer Garrett Rolfe had just
completed.

“According
to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Rolfe
had recently received use of force training,” reports
Atlanta news outlet AJC. “On April 24, he took a nine-hour
course on de-escalation options, his record shows. And on Jan. 9,
Rolfe was trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County
police academy.”

And
yet you’ve got fauxgressive establishment narrative managers like
Cenk Uygur promoting
the reform agenda and
calling calls to defund the police “distracting”.

I
wrote
the other day
that “if these protests end it won’t be because tyrants in the
Republican Party like Donald Trump and Tom Cotton succeeded in making
the case for beating them into silence with the US military. It will
be because liberal manipulators succeeded in co-opting and stagnating
its momentum.” This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking
about.

Spectrum News NY1

✔

@NY1

.@NYGovCuomo
suggests protesters pack it up, in light of new reforms: “People are
still out protesting. You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. You
accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need
systemic reform.”

2,393 6:23 PM – Jun 13, 2020

People
who claim these protests are the result of some kind of psyop often
cite the fact that they’re being supported by establishment liberals,
mainstream media, and giant corporations, but this misses a very
important distinction in the dynamic that is at play here. While it
is true that these institutions have been expressing general support
for the demonstrations and the idea that black lives matter, what
absolutely none of them have been doing is supporting the defunding
or abolishment of America’s police force. None of the empire’s
ruling elites support this.

The
reason you are seeing manipulation and attempts at co-option in this
new movement is because that is exactly what’s happening. But it
isn’t what’s driving
the enthusiasm behind the demonstrations. Rather, you are seeing an
attempted hijacking of an actual revolutionary agenda that actually
challenges actual power institutions (including increasingly common
attempts to manipulate the narrative by claiming demands to defund
and abolish are actually just calls for reform).

The
widespread call to abolish America’s police state, an integral
part of the glue
which holds the US-centralized empire together, is revolutionary. It
is not an exaggeration to say it’s as interesting and exciting as
seeing a mainstream call to end US imperialism, and it is just as
threatening to establishment power structures. The call for “reform”,
in contrast, is just more milquetoast, Obamaesque fauxgressive
verbiage designed to stagnate a real revolutionary change movement.
It is as interesting and as threatening to establishment power
structures as saying the US should push regime change in
Syria rather than Iran.

Police
abolishment advocates are pushing for something which would require
the complete reconfiguration of power in society to accomplish, where
the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs are ended and what
we think of as policing can for example be mostly replaced by
something more akin to social work. Police “reform”
proponents are advancing a decoy agenda which people have
been distracted by for generations while
the police force has become increasingly militarized behind a veil of
meaningless verbiage about community outreach and training programs.

austin walker

✔

@austin_walker

It’s not just that Biden doesn’t want to defund the police, per his spox, its that he believes cops just don’t have enough resources for reform. Would be laughable if it wasn’t so dire. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1270041926373462016 …

View image on Twitter

The Hill

✔

@thehill

JUST IN: Biden campaign opposes calls to “defund the police” http://hill.cm/GwVh39n

View image on Twitter

4,366 7:48 PM – Jun 8, 2020

This
is where the real revolutionary energy is at in America right now, so
it’s no wonder establishment manipulators are doing everything they
can to co-opt it into something innocuous which won’t disturb actual
power structures in the slightest. Obama made a whole political
career out of telling leftwardly inclined Americans that they’re
getting what they want without actually giving it to them, and now
we’ve got Democratic Party princeling Andrew Cuomo telling New York
protesters “You don’t need to protest. You won. You won.

You
accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need
systemic reform.”

It’s
textbook liberal manipulation used to steer the revolutionary
zeitgeist into an impotent conceptual tar pit for another few years
while the prison bars are reinforced.

As
I explained a while back in my article “How
To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff“,
you can tell what’s really going on by watching where the money is
going, where the weapons are going, where the resources are going and
where the people are going. You can see in these demands for
dismantling the police state a bunch of people moving around
demanding to drastically change all four of these things, and you can
see from the liberal narrative managers an agenda to prevent any of
those four things from actually changing.

And if they win out, you
will be able to watch the people, police, weapons and resources
continue moving in more or less the exact same way they’ve been
moving.

They’re
trying to replace a real revolutionary impulse with useless narrative
fluff. They have learned that it is much easier to neuter such
impulses with empty agreement and a bunch of insubstantial words than
to tell them no and stomp them down. Hopefully, the people have
learned this too.

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Zie ook:

‘#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme‘

‘BLM:
Politie VS schiet, vermoordt en zet meer mensen gevangen dan andere
ontwikkelde landen: ‘de cijfers’ van CNN, vooral schrikbarend als het om
gekleurde mensen gaat‘

‘Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup‘ (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)

‘Black Lives Matter, maar niet voor BBC First: Midsomer Murders met racist John Nettles wordt gewoon uitgezonden‘

‘Leopold
II en wit geweld in Congo: Geert Jan Hahn (BNR) weer eens uit de bocht:
een beeld van 150 jaar geleden is het oudste beeld in België‘

‘Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt‘

‘Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog‘

‘Obama en ‘change’ n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord‘

‘Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!!‘ (minder brekend dan het aanvankelijk leek te zijn)

‘Donald Trump geeft gekleurde burgers een schop na, mensen die al extra worden getroffen door COVID-19‘

‘VS politiegeweld tegen demonstranten is illegaal volgens internationale wetten: VN veroordeel dit geweld!!‘

‘Black Lives Matter: een cartoon‘

‘Trump
poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof
geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen‘

‘Politiemoord
op George Floyd: de druppel die de emmer deed overlopen, waar tevens
sociale achterstand een motivering is, zoals in Frankrijk, Chili en
andere landen‘

‘Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef‘

‘Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘

‘Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld‘

‘George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden…..‘

‘Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger‘

Het label BLM (direct onder dit bericht) staat voor Black Lives Matter.

Duitsland roept Russische ambassadeur op ‘het matje’ vanwege vermeend hacken van Duits parlement

Posted on May 30, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Al even onderwerp van gesprek in Duitsland: het bespioneren van het Duitse parlement door de Russische geheime dienst 5 jaar geleden…..

Duitsland heeft afgelopen donderdag de Russische ambassadeur op het matje geroepen om de sancties te bespreken die Duitsland wil nemen n.a.v. dit hacken ‘door de Russische geheime dienst’ in de persoon van Dmitri Badin…… Badin zou een Russische inlichtingenofficier en tevens hacker zijn. Merkel heeft intussen flink pissig laten weten dat ook zij en andere politici doel van deze spionage zijn geweest….. Het land wil dan ook sancties zoals die in de EU zijn afgesproken in geval van een cyberaanval……

Grof genoeg vervolgt ook de FBI Badin vanwege het hacken van de Democratische Partij in 2016….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ze kunnen het niet laten in de VS, telkens weer de leugen oppoetsen dat Rusland de verkiezingen in de VS heeft gemanipuleerd, waarvoor geen andere bewijzen zijn te vinden dan wat advertenties op Facebook voor borsjt en wodka…… Overigens geeft dit wel aan dat de FBI in deze op zeker samenwerkt met de Duitse geheime diensten…….

Opvallend hoe lang men dit verhaal gaande houdt in de Duitse media en politiek, opvallend daar het eerder hacken van de Duitse overheid door de VS en dat tot en met de smartphone van premier Merkel, heel even verontwaardiging uitlokte, maar als door een zuchtje wind doofde deze vlam….. Er werd amper met een kwaad woord over de VS gesproken, terwijl men nu net doet of het hele Duitse parlement wel naar huis kan door deze ‘Russiche spionage…..’ En nee, toen geen sancties tegen de VS…… Sterker nog: men weet in Duitsland dat de CIA en NSA gewoon doorgaan met het bespioneren van met de VS bevriende staten en zelfs dat laat men zonder verder protest gewoon doorgaan…….

Bij het voorgaande moet niet vergeten worden dat de aanbrenger van het bericht over Russische spionage, één van de Duitse geheime diensten is, diensten die ‘niet echt bekendstaan’ voor het brengen van de waarheid…… (en tel dat op bij de eerdere vaststelling dat de FBI, een gewiekste terreurorganisatie, waar men oneindig veel vaker liegt dan de waarheid spreekt, in deze samenwerkt met Duitse geheime diensten….)

Stelletje mafketels, beter had men dit onder het tapijt gehouden daar hiermee nog eens wordt aangetoond dat de servers van de Duitse overheid zo lek zijn als een mandje, bepaald geen reclame anno 2020 en al helemaal niet als je beseft dat het hacken door de VS van voor de Russische hack was (als die Russische hack inderdaad heeft plaatsgevonden……). Kortom de Duitse overheid schiet volkomen tekort als het om internet veiligheid gaat en wijst als afleiding voor dat feit naar de Russen, totaal belachelijk!!!!! (ach ja, de aanval is de beste verdediging zal men ook daar denken….)

Eén ding is bijna zeker: Duitsland zal als sanctie wellicht afzien van de verdere aanleg van Nord Stream 2 (NS2), een gaspijpleiding van Rusland door de Oostzee naar Duitsland, waarvoor de VS Duitsland al heeft gedreigd met sancties, mocht de aanleg van deze gaspijpleiding worden afgemaakt…… De meeste medewerkende bedrijven hebben van verdere samenwerking afgezien, uit angst gestraft te worden door de VS…….. Zo wordt de kans groter dat de VS straks haar zwaar gesubsidieerde en peperdure schaliegas in de vorm van LNG aan EU-lidstaten kan verkopen…..

Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger

Posted on May 29, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

De
enorme ploert Zuckerberg had het vorig jaar goed gezien, toen hij
stelde dat Facebook in aanloop van de verkiezingen leugens van
politici zal tolereren, terwijl hij daarvoor maar niet op kon
houden te beloven dat Facebook elke bemoeienis met de verkiezingen op
haar platform zou verwijderen. Sterker nog: hij ging zelfs zover om toe te geven
dat Facebook door de Russen werd gebruikt om de verkiezingen van 2016 in de VS
te manipuleren, dit middels zielige advertenties die wat betreft de financiële waarde totaal
in het niet vielen bij de enorme bedragen waarmee bedrijven en de
superwelgestelden hun presidentskandidaat ‘pluggen…..’

Alsof
een aantal advertenties voor borsjt en wodka de VS burgers zover hebben kunnen krijgen dat ze op Trump stemden, terwijl ze dagelijks
een hele berg stront geserveerd kregen waarmee de één dan wal de
ander werd besmeurd als totaal onkundig voor het ambt van
president…… En zie wat daarvan is gekomen: een psychopathische
seksist en moordenaar met ronduit fascistische uitingen als president
van het machtigste land op aarde, de VS….

Deze
president die vooral regeert via Twitter was de klos toen men zijn
Twitterberichten op waarheid ging controleren en concludeerde dat er
geen barst van een paar van zijn berichten klopten en daarbij een waarschuwing plaatsten met links naar berichten uit de media…… Trump beweerde dat stemmen per post fruade in de hand werkt, terwijl daar nooit enig bewijs voor werd geleverd….. Nee, Trump
heeft geen zin om alsnog zijn achterlijke uitlatingen te verdedigen
als wel waarheidsgetrouw (wat hij niet kan, maar hij had minstens een
poging kunnen doen…) Trump kiest ‘de strategie’ die bekend staat
als: ‘de aanval is de beste verdediging…..’ Als hij wel had
geprobeerd zichzelf te verdedigen was hij uiteraard zwaar door de
mand gevallen, immers wat krom is kan je niet recht lullen, zelfs
Trump niet en dat nog niet met duizend liter ontsmettingsmiddel, al dan
niet geïnjecteerd……..

De
Republikeinen die al lang stellen dat de sociale media vooral door
‘links’ worden misbruikt om hun partij onderuit te
halen, wilden al langer nieuwe regels voor die media…. Weet niet
hoe het hier zit, maar in de VS worden platforms als Twitter en
Facebook niet gezien als publicisten, maar als een platform waar
anderen berichten en andere zaken publiceren. Aan dat laatste wil
Trump nu een eind maken, zodat deze platforms zich moeten gedragen
als de eerste beste nieuwszender of krant en verantwoordelijk zijn
voor wat er wordt gepubliceerd…. Wellicht denk je: wat is daarop
tegen? Welnu meer dan genoeg, zo zullen deze platforms worden
gedwongen om berichten van hun platform te halen als deze in strijd
zijn met de belangen van de Republikeinse Partij*, of als zij
schadelijk zijn voor (grote) bedrijven……

Natuurlijk
hebben platforms als Twitter niet de kans om berichten dusdanig te
brengen dat ze geen bewijs zijn voor een partij als die van de
Republikeinen voor het herroepen wat men heeft geschreven, immers
Twitter maakt die berichten niet….. Met andere woorden, gebruikers van platforms als Facebook en Twitter kunnen een grote golf censuur verwachten, daar de enige
mogelijkheid die overblijft om vervolging te voorkomen zal bestaan uit het eenvoudigweg verwijderen van berichten…….

Het is
nu al zo dat Twitter haar gebruikers waarschuwt voor berichten die
aangeven waar het aan ontbreekt in de politiek, dan wel berichten
waar politici aan de paal worden genageld voor onbeschofte
voorstellen en bijvoorbeeld voor het zaaien van haat….. Zag
gisteren op Twitter een waarschuwing voor een
account van ‘Lieve Linkse’: ‘Caution:
This profile may include potentially sensitive content. You’re
seeing this warning because they Tweet potentially sensitive images
or language. Do you still want to view it?’
Ongelofelijk, zeker als je ziet wat Lieve
Linkse @LieveLinkse op Twitter zet, wat mij betreft redelijk
gematigde kritiek, maar wel volkomen terechte kritiek!!

Je
kan er de klok op gelijkzetten dat men ook in andere westerse landen
naar mogelijkheden zal gaan zoeken, om niet welgevallige informatie
in het geheel te blokkeren op platforms als Facebook en Twitter,
terwijl men regelrechte geschiedvervalsing als een normaal gegeven ziet,
als het maar in het voordeel is van de gevestigde neoliberale
orde….. Over geschiedvervalsing gesproken: hoe is het mogelijk dat Facebook op verzoek berichten over mensen verwijdert, mensen die of e.e.a op hun kerfstok hebben, dan wel politici of anderen die ‘met pensioen zijn’, te gek voor woorden!!

Overigens hebben zowel Twitter als Facebook accounts op hun platform gesloten vanwege het brengen van zogenaamd nepnieuws, ofwel nieuws dat ingaat tegen wat de reguliere (massa-) media brengen…… Dit terwijl juist deze media een enorme berg nepnieuws en zonder meer leugens hebben mogen publiceren op deze platforms, neem de leugens in aanloop van- en tijdens de illegale oorlogen die de VS alleen deze eeuw al is begonnen….

Het
volgende bericht komt van Zero Hedge, dat overigens in rap tempo
verandert in een rechts medium, waar men zelfs ronduit fascistische
en racistische kritiek toestaat, zoals onder het bericht over de
rellen in Minneapolis n.a.v. van de zoveelste politiemoord op
de gekleurde George Floyd, overigens een bericht dat vol stond met alles wat de zwaar gefrustreerde gekleurde burgers aan schade hebben aangericht in Minneapolis, zonder de reden daarvoor te noemen: alle politiemoorden op gekleurde burgers in de laatste 20 jaar, zoveel dat bij elke moord op een gekleurde de vlam in de pan slaat (dat was en is te verwachten na elke politiemoord op een gekleurd mens….)…..

Trump
To Sign Social Media Executive Order On Thursday After ‘Fact-Check’,
Political Bias Exposed

by Tyler
Durden

Thu, 05/28/2020 – 05:36

Update (1830ET):
Following up on earlier threats, a White House spokesperson has
confirmed that President Trump will sign an executive order on Social
Media tomorrow.

Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany
made the remark to reporters aboard Air Force One, traveling with
Trump to Washington from Florida.

There are no details of
what the order will contain,
however, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said today that he is working with
Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee to craft
legislation that would strip social media giants of their Section 230
legal immunity if they fact check content on their platforms,
according
to a copy of his podcast which Breitbart News exclusively obtained.

(psychopaat Trump aan het woord)

Gaetz said:

A lot of people don’t
see that Facebook and Twitter … you see Twitter disadvantaging the
president, they enjoy liability protections that are not enjoyed by
your local newspaper or your local TV station, or Fox News, or CNN,
or MSNBC. They have
special benefits under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
as digital platforms because they’re not creating content for which
they should be liable. They’re
not making decisions about content, they’re simply saying come one,
come all with your content. And as a consequence of that, they’re
getting a bunch of protections.

And
as Breitbart concludes, noting
that the social media companies have become increasingly biased
against conservatives, Gaetz questioned whether social media
companies deserve to keep their Section 230 immunity.

All of which raises a serious
question about the future of these social media giants under a more
“media-esque” regulatory framework and points to an obvious
line of attack in any executive order that President Trump could be
considering.

Don
Bongino tweeted a quasi-confirmation of this angle for the
executive order:

“Twitter
made a HUGE mistake.
They have now injected themselves into a US election and decided to
become editorialists, rather than a platform. ALL
platform protections should be immediately revoked and Twitter should
be treated as a publisher.
They did this to themselves.”

* * *

Update (1025ET):
That did not take long. As more and more information is exposed about
Twitter’s bias, President Trump has tweeted an ominous warning to
“Jack” and his crew of social justice warriors…

Donald J. Trump

✔

@realDonaldTrump

Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!

268K

4:22 PM – May 27, 2020 135K people are talking about this

And Kellyanne follows up with
devastating blows…

The Hill

✔

@thehill

Kellyanne Conway: “Twitter cannot suppress voices and others can’t suppress votes.”

670 5:34 PM – May 27, 2020

(De video in dit Twitterbericht werkt niet, hierboven praktisch dezelfde video via YouTube)

* * *

Update (0845ET):
Last night, President Trump slammed Twitter for tagging several of
his tweets touting the alleged risks of mail-in ballots as
‘misinformation’, with the president accusing the social media giant
of interfering
in the 2020 election.

(deze uiterst agressieve totaal idioot kan met de atoomknop spelen…..)

On Wednesday morning, Trump issued
a couple more tweets claiming the federal government will “strongly
regulate, or close them down” – referring to social media
companies who suppress conservative voices in the name of protecting
“the truth” (ie the progressive narrative that Silicon
Valley tech giants have promised to perpetuate).

He also linked his accusations of
bias with his opposition to mail-in ballots.

“We saw what they attempted to
do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of
that happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In ballots
take root in our Country,” Trump said in a series of tweets.

Donald J. Trump

✔

@realDonaldTrump

Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that….

133K 1:11 PM – May 27, 2020

Donald J. Trump

✔

@realDonaldTrump

Replying to @realDonaldTrump

….happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!

87.5K 1:11 PM – May 27, 2020

Weeks ago, anonymously sourced
reports claimed
that the White House was considering a panel to investigate
anti-conservative bias on popular social media platforms and across
Silicon Valley, an issue that has been explored in a series of
Congressional hearings involving top officials at the biggest tech
firms.

* * *

Shortly after Twitter announced it
would start “fact-checking” President Trump’s tweets, yet
more evidence has been exposed of the blatant
anti-Trump bias at the most senior levels of the social media giant.

In the past we have seen
Project Veritas expose the ‘fact’ behind the so-called
‘conspiracy theory’ of shadow-banning
for conservative voices on Twitter.

A former Twitter software
engineer who explains how/why Twitter “shadow bans”
certain users:

Abhinav
Vadrevu:
“One strategy is
to shadow ban so you have ultimate control. The idea of a shadow ban
is that you ban someone but they don’t know they’ve been banned,
because they keep posting but no one sees their content.”

“So they just think
that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one
is seeing it. I don’t know if Twitter does this anymore.”

Meanwhile, Olinda
Hassan, a Policy Manager for Twitter’s Trust and Safety team
explains on
December 15th, 2017 at a Twitter holiday party that the development
of a system of “down ranking” “shitty people” is in the
works:

“Yeah. That’s
something we’re working on. It’s something we’re working on.
We’re trying to get
the shitty people to not show up. It’s a product thing we’re
working on right now.”

Then there is the company’s
associate General Counsel,
Jeff Rich (his LinkedIn
page is here) who in January urged his 1,500 followers to “cull”
and “excise” the “cancerous” president Trump from
the herd.

Jeff Rich

@jeffrich

YES!! Again, this Excise the Trump cancer, then deliberate over policy differences. He is the single most destructive force against our system of government, way of life and American values EVER! He must be culled from the herd. ASAP! https://twitter.com/DevinCow/status/1223469280471265280 …

Devin Nunes’ cow

@DevinCow

I’d like to avoid another four years of Trump, for starters. We have 276 days. We need to get people registered, choose two candidates who can beat Trump, and get them elected on Nov. 3rd. Come Thanksgiving we can fight with each other. Not now. https://twitter.com/Whispers_Doom/status/1223468340506779649 …

9 7:13 AM – Feb 1, 2020 ·
Palo Alto, CA

One wonders, Rich, does
this violate Twitter’s “Abuse and harassment” rules?

And more recently expressed his
biased opinion:

Jeff Rich

@jeffrich

BAHAHAHA!! I love how this perfectly accurate ad has gotten under his thin, orange skin. What a small, pathetic, weak person he is. Such a sad, neglected child. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1257532101966036993 …

Donald J. Trump

✔

@realDonaldTrump

A group of RINO Republicans who failed badly 12 years ago, then again 8 years ago, and then got BADLY beaten by me, a political first timer, 4 years ago, have copied (no imagination) the concept of an ad from Ronald Reagan, “Morning in America”, doing everything possible to….

5 7:15 AM – May 5, 2020 ·
California, USA

And now, as
Jonathan Turley details below, the
latest controversy concerns the person who has said that he is in
charge of “developing and enforcing Twitter’s rules,” Twitter’s
“Head of Site Integrity” Yoel Roth.
Critics have highlighted fairly extreme postings from Roth
calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. I do not agree that the
problem is Roth’s personal views or postings. The problem is his
role and the rules at Twitter.

The problem is anyone
exercising this power of speech regulation.
Indeed, as this controversy grew around Roth, Kathy Griffin
is the latest poster to face calls for removal for effectively
calling for Trump to kill himself. Again, Griffin should be
allowed to post such hateful thoughts and the rest of the world
should be allowed to denounce her, again, for her unhinged humor.

Roth has attacked Bernie
Sanders supporters and proclaimed how he is working against Trump.
He compared senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to Nazi
propagandist Joseph Goebbels. He has referred to
Trump and his team as “ACTUAL NAZIS” and called Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a “personality-free bag of
farts.” As
Fox noted, “last August, Twitter suspended McConnell’s
Twitter account, prompting the GOP to threaten to
cut off advertising on the site until Twitter relented.”

Jon Levine

✔

@LevineJonathan

This person is the “head of site integrity” at Twitter

51.5K 3:39 AM – May 27, 2020

The attacks are numerous,
raw, and offensive. However,
conservatives calling for him to be fired or his tweets censored are
reaching the wrong conclusion.

The problem is not Roth but
his role. He has a right to express himself.
I have no problem with Twitter hiring people with such political
views and I believe it is a good thing for people to express
themselves on social media. Indeed, we have discussed the free
speech concerns as private and public employers punish workers for
their statements or actions in their private lives. We have
addressed an array of such incidents, including social
media controversies involving academics. In some cases, racially
charged comments have been treated
as free speech while in others they have resulted in
discipline or termination. It is that lack of a consistent standard
that has magnified free speech concerns. We have previously
discussed the issue of when it is appropriate to punishment
people for conduct outside of the work place. We have followed cases
where people have been fired after boorish or insulting conduct once
their names and employers are made known.
(here and here and here and here and here and here).

Roth’s comments highlight
how bias is always a concern for those who take it upon themselves to
decide who can speak or who must be “corrected” in communications
with others. Twitter
is notorious for a lack of consistency and coherence in the
enforcement of its rules. However, regardless of such
enforcement, there remains a core free speech issue in the regulation
of speech. I recently
criticized the calls of Democratic leaders like House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for greater censorship of the
Internet and social media. Such calls have been growing for years but
leaders like Schiff are citing the pandemic as a basis for speech
monitoring and censorship. Roth
is merely the personification of the problem of such speech
regulation. Again, the real problem is his role and Twitter’s
rules.

Jon Levine

✔

@LevineJonathan

Replying to @LevineJonathan

“He leads the teams responsible for developing and enforcing Twitter’s rules”

8,603 4:19 AM – May 27, 2020

As Summit
News’ Paul Joseph Watson notes, Roth has been head of site
integrity at Twitter since July 2018 and is responsible for “election
security” and “misinformation,”meaning he
almost certainly played a key role in the decision to ‘fact-check’
Trump’s tweets.

In the meantime, We await Twitter
‘fact-checking’ false claims about ‘Russian collusion’ or any
other of the erroneous issues pushed by the blue check mark brigade
that have proven to be spectacularly wrong.

Don’t hold your
breath….

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

* De Democraten hebben nu nog een grote bek over de maatregel die Trump wil doordrukken, echter het is maar zeer de vraag (als Trump dit inderdaad voor elkaar krijgt), of zij deze zullen terugdraaien, mocht Biden de verkiezingen winnen. Neem de moorden met drones onder Bush, daarover schreeuwden een aantal Democratische politici moord en brand (en terecht!), echter nadat Obama werd gekozen, heeft hij dit terreurprogramma verder uitgebreid, waarna het stil bleef bij de eerdere critici van deze terreur (terreur waarbij meer dan 90 % van de slachtoffers niet eens werd verdacht….)…. In het artikel hierboven wordt overigens al gewezen op de roep om censuur door Democraat Adam Schiff…….

Zie ook:

‘Een
vaccin tegen COVID-19 voor iedere VS burger zou onhaalbaar zijn en het
vaccineren van de hele wereldbevolking zou minstens 3 jaar tijd in
beslag nemen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

‘Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zetten aan tot geweld‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over de politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS)

‘George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden…..‘

Obamagate zal als Russiagate nooit tot een bevredigende conclusie leiden: Washington is één grote stinkende politieke put

Posted on May 18, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Caitlin Johnstone heeft een artikel geschreven over Obamagate* en concludeert dat dit nooit tot iets van enig
belang zal leiden. Sinds 2016 beroepen beide partijen, de Democraten
zowel als de Republikeinen, die samen met het bedrijfsleven, de
financiële sector en de geheime diensten het land besturen, zich
erop dat de andere partij ieder moment kan vallen door een enorm
schandaal, terwijl beide partijen de beschuldigingen van de ander
afdoen als nonsens…..

Volgens de Democraten gebruikt Trump ‘Obamagate’ om daarmee de aandacht af te leiden van de enorme blunders van de Trump administraite op het Coronadossier…… Johnstone gelooft daar duidelijk niet in, terwijl er wel degelijk een vorm van waarheid inzit.

Voor de
claim van de Democraten dat de Russen de servers van het Democratic National Committee (DNC) zouden hebben gehackt (een onderdeel van Russiagate), is
geen schijn aan bewijs geleverd en toch blijft men daar volhouden dat
dit wel het geval was, e.e.a. gesteund door de reguliere westerse (massa-)
media, die in deze op de hand van de Democraten zijn……(en media van wie de spuugrijke eigenaren Rusland het liefst zoveel mogelijk gedemoniseerd willen zien…..)

Je zou
denken dat dit allemaal van weinig of geen belang is, echter het gaat
hier wel om de VS, het machtigste land ter wereld, met meer dan 800
militaire bases over de wereld, een land dat desgewenst morgen weer
een illegale oorlog kan beginnen op basis van leugens en false flag
operaties……**

Als je
ziet hoe smerig men in de VS bezig is om elkaar de loef af te steken
en dat geheel in het openbaar, voedt dit de vrees dat de VS tot alles in
staat is***, zelfs het voeren van een zogenaamde beperkte kernoorlog (een contradictio in terminis, immers ieder gebruik van
kernwapens zal tot een wereldwijde kernoorlog leiden waarbij men elkaar
zal proberen te vernietigen en zal men de aarde
voor de mens en een enorm aantal diersoorten onbewoonbaar maken, althans als een aantal van deze mensen en dieren zo’n oorlog al kunnen overleven….)….

De ruzie tussen de Democraten en de
Republikeinen toont m.i. nog eens aan dat men zelfs lak heeft aan de
eigen bevolking, men liegt er keihard op los en hoopt zo de burgers
over te halen om in november op de kandidaat van hun keus te
stemmen…… Ofwel men heeft schijt aan de kiezer, liegt die 4 jaar
lang voor en doet er nog een schep bovenop als de verkiezingen in
aantocht zijn……

En toch
doet men alles om nog enigszins aan te tonen dat men ethisch en
moreel zuiver handelt, waarden die men ook gebruikt om aan te tonen
dat de VS weer een massamoord moet plegen om ‘democratie te brengen
en corruptie uit te bannen’ in het land van keuze (dat ofwel een
strategische ligging heeft, dan wel bodemschatten heeft die de VS
voor zich wil houden, neem Venezuela dat voor beide zaken
opgaat…..)

Why
“Obamagate” Will Never Lead To Anything Of Significance

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

The
word “Obamagate” was thrust
into mainstream attention
by the concerted efforts
of Trump
and his surrogates after new details on the early days of the
Trump-Russia collusion investigation emerged. These details
include Obama
officials (including Joe Biden)
requesting the unmasking
of a conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, the FBI’s then-counterintelligence director discussing
trying to get Michael Flynn to lie
during his interrogation
about the Kislyak call,
and the revelation that there was never
any concrete evidence
that Russia hacked the DNC.

These
are important revelations that are worthy of mainstream attention,
but like basically everything else in this stupid, stupid timeline
this issue has instead been reduced to the stagnation of vapid
partisan squabbling. Democrats and their allied media are finger
wagging at Trump for using “conspiracy theories” to
distract from his coronavirus failures, and “MAGA”****
pundits once again beating the tired old drum that this scandal
is going to bring down major Deep State players and drain the swamp
once and for all.

Ever
since 2016 both of America’s mainstream political parties have been
taking turns screaming at the top of their lungs that
earth-shattering revelations are right around the corner which are
about to obliterate the other party any minute now, and if you’re
still buying into this show I highly recommend you also take up
watching WWE*****, because you’ll definitely love it.

Consortium News

@Consortiumnews

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/09/ray-mcgovern-new-house-documents-sow-further-doubt-that-russia-hacked-the-dnc/ …

RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC For
two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike
didn’t have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too. Twin Pillars
of Russiagate Crumble By Ray McGovern Special to… consortiumnews.com

33 1:26 AM – May 12, 2020

“By
any normal standard, former FBI Director Comey would now be in
serious legal trouble, as should [former Director of National
Intelligence James] Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, et
al,” Ray McGovern wrote
for Consortium
News
the other day. “Additional evidence of FBI misconduct under
Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA,
misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading
everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney
general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport.
And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan.”

Indeed,
this would be the “normal standard”, yet it hasn’t
happened. Neither Comey nor Clapper nor Brennan are in any legal
trouble at all, nor will they be, nor will any other major player
responsible for leading America on a crazy collusion wild goose chase
which accomplished nothing but distracting
from real issues
and manufacturing consent for mountains
of cold war escalations
against Russia.

You
will never see Obama or his administration officials brought down by
“Obamagate” for the same reason Trump wasn’t brought down
by the Mueller investigation: the
swamp protects its own.
Both Obama and Trump administrations are packed full of crooks and
mass murderers who could and should be imprisoned for any number of
offenses, but they won’t be, because that would require a
prosecutorial body that is separate from the swamp of corruption with
which both of America’s mainstream parties are inexorably interwoven.
You cannot use the swamp to drain the swamp.

Do
you know why Trump never made good on his campaign platform of
locking up Hillary Clinton? Besides the fact that their entire
conflict has always been fake, I mean? The Trump administration could
easily have found grounds upon which to prosecute Clinton if they
wanted to, but going after a loyal establishment swamp monster would
have brought the wrath of the entire swamp down upon him. As soon as
he had a political opponent in office, if not before, Trump would
himself be facing criminal prosecution. By collaborating with the
swamp you ensure your own protection, and by attacking it you ensure
your destruction.

Aaron Maté

✔

@aaronjmate

A fundamental point that many Russiagate-peddling left pundits — including fake “adversarial” voices like @mehdirhasan — cannot process in their minds, because doing so would threaten their club membership. Russiagate helps clarify where priorities really lie. https://twitter.com/MarkSaw43180398/status/1260285597173735424 …

Mark Sawyer

@MarkSaw43180398

Replying to @aaronjmate and 2 others

Russiagate was obviously the way for the DNC to cosmetically attack Trump without pushing back against Trump policies. Russiagate sidelined pushbacks against the Trump tax cut, and a litany of other substantive issues… issues that DNC elites actually agreed with Trump about…

668 11:53 PM – May 13, 2020

That’s
why no serious attempt has ever been made to remove Trump from
office; he’s been
playing nice with existing power structures
without challenging them in any meaningful way. Everyone who knew
anything was aware that the Mueller collusion would never go
anywhere, and anyone who could count Senate seats knew impeachment
would fizzle. It was all kayfabe conflict so that Trump’s
“opposition” could present the appearance of opposition
without interfering in agendas they themselves support or prosecuting
crimes of which they themselves are also guilty.

It’s
also why Obama never
had any intention
of prosecuting Bush’s heinous war crimes, citing “a belief
that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards”.
In reality Obama always understood that in order to play the
“president” role (and enjoy its massive
perks
for the rest of his life), he’d need to collaborate with
establishment power structures rather than upsetting them. He knew
that if he were to go after Bush he’d ensure his own destruction;
under “normal standards” prosecution is the only sane and
normal response to war crimes, but in the Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD) environment of establishment corruption, there are no
normal standards.

I
point this out because it’s painful to watch people on both sides
continually getting their hopes up that the big KABOOM is right
around the corner which will finally vindicate their worldview and
punish their partisan rivals. It will not happen. Trump will not
drain the swamp, and neither will Biden or whatever soulless swamp
monster inhabits the White House next. You were lied to. It’s good to
be aware of surveillance abuses, mass-scale psyops and media
malpractice, but definitely abandon hope that any of this will lead
to any major changes in the establishment itself.

If
we want real change, it cannot and will not come from either of the
two mainstream political factions whose primary job is preventing
real change. It’s going to have to come from the people; we’re going
to have to find a way to punch through the propaganda brainwashing,
wake up to reality, and use the power of our numbers to force the
changes which will benefit us past all the oligarchic safeguards that
have been placed in front of us to prevent us from doing so.

This
is a lot less pleasant than believing some magical hero in a white
hat is going to ride in and do all our work for us and all we need to
do is relax and “trust the plan”. It’s a lot less
comfortable than expunging the fake two-party worldview from our
minds which vast fortunes and years of conditioning have gone into
manufacturing. But it is reality.

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* Obamagate is m.i. niets anders dan een andere
benaming voor Russiagate, een term die Trump eerder gebruikte nadat de Democraten hem beschuldigden van samenwerking met Rusland, waarvoor men geen steekhoudend bewijs kon leveren. Onlangs werd dit woord geherintroduceerd door Trump nadat Obama zich in het openbaar met zijn Coronabeleid bemoeide.

** Een false flag operatie is het begaan van een zware misdaad en de schuld daarvoor in de
schoenen schuiven van een ander (veelal democratisch gekozen) bewind,
een bewind dat
men in de VS wil vervangen voor desnoods een dictator, zolang deze
maar doet wat de VS wil dat er gebeurt in dat land en die voorts
fungeert als een lakei die de belangen van de VS behartigt (bijvoorbeeld
grote VS bedrijven vrijbaan geven…)….

*** Dezelfde VS dat alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen is begonnen, waarbij tot nu toe meer dan 2,5 mensen zijn omgekomen, ofwel die zijn in feite vermoord door de VS en haar hielenlikkende andere NAVO-lidstaten, zoals Nederland, dat in Hawija 70 mensen vermoordde middels een bombardement, waar volgens deskundigen het werkelijke aantal doden veel hoger moet liggen…… Schande dat hare CDA hufterigheid Bijleveld al stumperend een moetie van wantrouwen overleefde, terwijl zij alleen op basis van deze aanval de eer aan zichzelf had moeten houden, maar ja, het woord ‘eer’ komt in de meeste woordenboeken van politici al lang niet meer voor…..

**** WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, je weet wel van die belachelijke worstel vertoningen, waarvan velen denken dat de aanvallen op elkaar echt gebeuren…..

***** MAGA: Make America Great Again.

Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply@wordpress.com>

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Trump To Sign Social Media Executive Order On Thursday After ‘Fact-Check’, Political Bias Exposed

Caitlin
Johnstone <donotreply@wordpress.com>

Voter
Suppression Alert <info@demandprogress.org>

Trump
To Sign Social Media Executive Order On Thursday After ‘Fact-Check’,
Political Bias Exposed