Joe Biden zegt de illegale oorlog tegen Irak te hebben gestopt

Tijdens
het debat voor de democratische voorverkiezing van de kandidaat voor
de presidentsverkiezingen in 2020, stelde Joe Biden plompverloren dat
hij verantwoordelijk was voor de terugtrekking van de VS troepen uit
Irak in 2011 en dat hij daarmee een eind had gemaakt aan de illegale oorlog
die de VS in 2003 tegen dat land begon, een oorlog waar hij NB voor stemde………

Deze
terugtrekking van troepen, 150.000 militairen in totaal, was al
gepland door de Bush administratie en niet de Obama administratie,
waarvan Biden deel uitmaakte…..

Lees het
ontluisterende verhaal over Biden, in feite een oorlogsmisdadiger,
immers hij was als vicepresident van de VS mede verantwoordelijk voor
de illegale oorlogen die Obama begon, zoals die tegen Libië en Syrië,
voorts droeg hij mede verantwoordelijkheid voor de gewelddadige
opstand in Oekraïne en de daarop volgende oorlog tegen de burgers van
Oost-Oekraïne…….. Burgers die terecht boos waren dat de door hen
democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj werd afgezet en NB werd
vervangen door een neonazi-junta onder Porosjenko, de door de VS
geparachuteerde leider, die geen bondgenootschap wenste met Rusland,
maar met de EU en de VS……..

Een paar
kanttekeningen: van een daadwerkelijk einde aan de oorlog in Irak is
nog steeds geen sprake en voorts zijn er nog steeds VS militairen in
Irak….. Verder is de VS mede verantwoordelijk voor de vorming van
IS en de steun voor terreurgroepen die tekeergingen tegen sjiieten en aanhangers van andere geloven in
Irak en Syrië, waar deze terroristen (naast IS o.a. Al Qaida) in dat
laatste land m.n. streden en nog strijden tegen het democratisch
gekozen bewind Assad…… 

Overigens laat het hieronder opgenomen artikel nog eens zien, hoe belangrijk het klokkenluiden door Chelsea Manning was en is, en dat we blij mogen zijn met Wikileaks, zodat we een groot deel van de uiterst smerige machinaties door de VS hebben kunnen achterhalen, zoals de moord in 2006 op een aantal Irakezen, t.w, 5 kinderen en 4 vrouwen die in 2006 geboeid standrechtelijk werden geëxecuteerd door VS militairen en niet zoals de VS verklaarde waren omgekomen bij een (lucht-) bombardement……. De wereld heeft er totaal geen baat bij dergelijke zware oorlogsmisdaden van de VS onder de pet te houden, integendeel!! Yankee go home!!!

Het  hieronder weergegeven artikel werd geschreven door Kevin Gosztola, verscheen
eerder op Shadow Proof (SP) en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Joe
Biden Took Credit for Ending the Iraq War During the Debate

June
28, 2019 at 6:37 pm

Written
by 
Kevin
Gosztola

(SP) — Former
vice president Joe Biden took credit for withdrawing 150,000 United
States troops from Iraq during the Democratic presidential debate.
But the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq was part of a status of
forces agreement (SOFA) President George W. Bush established with the
Iraqi government.

As
the Washington Post reported in November 2008, “The Bush
administration agreed to a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
by the end of 2011.” The agreement also placed “additional
restrictions on how U.S. troops conducted missions,” and required a
“pullout from Iraqi urban areas by July 2009.”

In
fact, in early 2011, Obama and his advisers 
planned to
keep a residual force in Iraq, but they didn’t tell Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki or the American people.

According
to James F. Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Iraq,
“Washington had to determine the size of a residual force. That
dragged on, with the military pushing for a larger force, and the
White House for a small presence at or below 10,000, due to costs and
the president’s prior ‘all troops out’ position. In June, the
president decided on the force level (eventually 5,000) and obtained
Mr. Maliki’s assent to new SOFA talks.”

MSNBC
host Rachel Maddow said to Biden, “You made your decades of
experience in foreign policy a pillar of your campaign, but when the
time came to say yes or no on one of the most consequential foreign
policy decisions of the last century, you voted for the Iraq War.”

You
have since said you regret that vote. But why should voters trust
your judgment when it comes to making a decision about taking the
country to war the next time?” Maddow asked.

Once
Bush abused that power, what happened was, we got elected after that.
I made sure—the president turned to me and said, Joe, get our
combat troops out of Iraq. I was responsible for getting 150,000
combat troops out of Iraq, and my son was one of them,” Biden
declared.

Biden
was referring to this moment, which Antony Blinken, Biden’s
national security adviser, 
recounted for
The Atlantic. “We were sitting in the Oval Office one day and
talking about [the troop presence], and Obama looked at Biden and
said, ‘Joe, I think you should do this. We need sustained focus
from the White House. You know Iraq better than anyone.’”

But
what he oversaw was meetings and negotiations within the framework of
the SOFA from the Bush administration.

In
October 2011, it was 
reported the
Obama administration would stick to a December 31 withdrawal deadline
set in 2008. The administration would not leave thousands of U.S.
troops in Iraq.

The
reason U.S. troops did not stay in Iraq past the withdrawal deadline
had nothing to do with ending the war. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
and other top military officials 
demanded a
deal that included immunity for personnel from prosecution for war
crimes.

CNN
reported, “The Iraqis refused to agree to that, opening up the
prospect of Americans being tried in Iraqi courts and subjected to
Iraqi punishment.”

The
negotiations were strained following WikiLeaks’ release of a
diplomatic cable that alleged Iraqi civilians, including children,
were killed in a 2006 raid by American troops rather than in an
airstrike as the U.S. military initially reported,” CNN
additionally reported.

A
diplomatic cable 
disclosed by
Chelsea Manning and published by WikiLeaks revealed details of a U.S.
military raid that killed several women and children.

The
classified U.S. State Embassy communications log from Philip Alston,
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or
Arbitrary Executions, detailed how American troops approached an
Iraqi man’s home on March 15, 2006. They handcuffed residents and
executed all of them. An air raid was called in to destroy the house.

Iraqi
TV stations broadcast from the scene and showed bodies of the victims
(i.e. five children and four women) in the morgue of Tikrit.
Autopsies carried out at the Tikrit Hospital’s morgue revealed that
all corpses were shot in the head and handcuffed,” the cable
indicated.

The
Bush administration avoided responding to any communication related
to the matter, Alston told The Guardian, as the cable impacted
negotiations with Iraq.

Given
that, the credit for forcing the completion of the withdrawal of U.S.
troops should also go to Chelsea Manning, who is in jail for refusing
to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks, and WikiLeaks
and their founder Julian Assange, who faces extradition for
publishing classified information.

Manning
and WikiLeaks sparked a moment that led to the end of the Iraq War.
It is unclear what Biden did to ensure troops did not remain in Iraq
past the 2011 withdrawal deadline.

By Kevin Gosztola /
Republished with permission / 
Shadow
Proof
 / Report
a typo

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Voor meer berichten over de illegale VS oorlog tegen Irak, klik op het label ‘Irak’, direct onder dit bericht. Let
wel: het is mogelijk dat na een aantal berichten het laatst gelezen bericht telkens wordt herhaald, dan onder dat laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op het
label Irak klikken, enz. enz.

Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!

Het hele
Russiagate verhaal, al een paar jaar door de reguliere media gebruikt
als zijnde een voldongen feit, is als een kaartenhuis in elkaar
gestort, nadat Mueller zijn onderzoek had afgerond. Echter de
reguliere media geven niet toe dat ze een paar jaar lang fake news
hebben gebracht en gebruikt als zijnde de waarheid, nee men doet net of de neus
bloedt en stelt als de Democratische Partij en haar achterban dat er
nog steeds een ‘smoking gun’ verstopt zit in het rapport van
Mueller…..

Deze
figuren vergeten voor het gemak dat Mueller Trump maar al te graag
gepakt had voor vuil spel met de Russen…… Het feit dat Mueller
expres bewijzen van het tegendeel heeft achtergehouden, interesseert
die media niet eens, barbertje zal hangen…….

Waarom
dan, vraag je je wellicht af, wel simpel: de democraten moesten hun
zwaar misdadig gedrag verbergen, het stelen van de democratische
voorverkiezingen van Bernie Sanders in 2016 door Clinton en haar team, Sanders destijds de andere democratische kandidaat voor het VS
presidentschap……

Overigens
was er nog een netelige kwestie voor hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton,
die men liever uit de pers hield en dat was het telkens weer
opduikende feit dat ze haar privé mail heeft gebruikt voor
staatszaken, toen ze minister van BuZa was onder Obama, een periode
waarin ze tevens ‘opklom’ tot volwaardig oorlogsmisdadiger……..

Wat
beter om e.e.a te bereiken, dus misdaden uit de pers houden, dan de
Russen te beschuldigen van het hacken van de servers van het DNC, het
campagneteam van Clinton……. Uiteraard zou de reguliere media van
dit soort verhalen onmiddellijk in de alarmstand gaan staan en zou
dat weken, zo niet maandenlang de voorpagina’s van de kranten en de
talkshows op tv beheersen……

Lees het
volgende artikel van Kevin Gosztola, waarin hij verder ingaat op de
smerige spellen die het Clinton team, de FBI, de CIA en zelfs de NSA hebben
gespeeld. Verder noemt Gosztola de Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity (VIPS) die met een paar deskundigen e.e.a. hebben
onderzocht waar de tijdschaal van een aantal gegevens niet kloppen, wat
er op duit dat men (in de VS) heeft gerommeld met de computers…..

Uitermate
vreemd ook dat de FBI de servers niet in beslag heeft genomen voor
onderzoek, standaard in dergelijk onderzoek, maar zich op de hoogte heeft laten brengen door een door
de Democratische Partij ingehuurd onderzoeksbureau….. ha! ha! ha!
ha! ha! Ja mensen ik geloofde m’n ogen niet toen ik dat onder ogen
kreeg, ongelofelijk!!

Lees het
volgende uitstekende artikel van Gosztola, waarin hij de zaken veel
beter uit de doeken doet, dan ik hierboven heb getracht.
Veiligheidgordels vast?

On
WikiLeaks, Mueller Ignored Findings of Former US Intelligence
Officials

April
20, 2019 at 10:38 am

Written
by 
Kevin
Gosztola

(SP— Special
Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on an investigation into alleged
Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 presidential election does not
confirm, without a doubt, that Russian intelligence agents or
individuals tied to Russian intelligence agencies passed on emails
from Hillary Clinton’s campaign to WikiLeaks.

Mueller’s
team highlighted statements from WikiLeaks on Twitter about former
Democratic National Committee (DNC) staff member Seth Rich, which
seemed to relate to the alleged source of emails and documents the
organization published. Yet, more explicit claims from WikiLeaks
editor-in-chief Julian Assange on the source of emails from Clinton
campaign chairman John Podesta were not addressed in the report.

A
group of former military and intelligence officials, Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), conducted their own
forensic tests that received a bit of attention in the United States
press because they were some of the first people with prior
backgrounds in government to question the central allegations of
hacking into DNC servers. They asserted their examinations of the
files showed DNC emails published by WikiLeaks were leaked, not
hacked.

However,
the Mueller report makes no mention of the claims made by VIPS over
the past two to three years—not even to debunk them.

The
report stated, “Unit 26165 officers appear to have stolen thousands
of emails and attachments, which were later released by WikiLeaks in
July 2016.” But “appear to have” indicates the team did not
have incontrovertible proof. They could only speculate.

The
Office cannot rule out that stolen documents were transferred to
WikiLeaks through intermediaries, who visited during the summer of
2016,” the report acknowledged. “For example, public reporting
identified Andrew Müller-Maguhn as a WikiLeaks associate who may
have assisted with the transfer of these stolen documents to
WikiLeaks.”

Yet,
this is wildly misleading. The source for this example is a
2018 
profile of
Müller-Maguhn by journalist Ellen Nakashima that was published by
the Washington Post. Müller-Maguhn told Nakashima it “would be
insane” for him to hand deliver sensitive files, especially when
the CIA has labeled WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence
service.”

How
many of you wouldn’t be scared shitless by the head of the CIA
declaring you the next target?,” he said.

Müller-Maguhn,
who met Assange through the Chaos Computer Club in 2007 and sits on
the board of the Wau Holland foundation, characterized this
allegation as a “lame attempt” by U.S. intelligence agencies to
hurt the foundation so they cut off their tax-free donations to
WikiLeaks in Europe.

Assange
held a 
press
conference
 in
January 2017, where he responded to the intelligence community
assessment on alleged Russian hacking. The media organization urged
skepticism toward the assertion that publications of DNC and Hillary
Clinton campaign emails were connected to alleged hacking operations.

Even
if you accept that the Russian intelligence services hacked
Democratic Party institutions, as it is normal for the major
intelligence services to hack each others’ major political parties
on a constant basis to obtain intelligence,” you have to ask, “what
was the intent of those Russian hacks? And do they connect to our
publications? Or is it simply incidental?” Assange said.

Assange
accused U.S. intelligence agencies of deliberately obscuring the
timeline. He said they did not know when the DNC was hacked.

The
U.S. intelligence community is not aware of when WikiLeaks obtained
its material or when the sequencing of our material was done or how
we obtained our material directly. So there seems to be a great fog
in the connection to WikiLeaks,” Assange declared.

He
added, “As we have already stated, WikiLeaks sources in relation to
the Podesta emails and the DNC leak are not members of any
government. They are not state parties. They do not come from the
Russian government.”

The
[Clinton campaign] emails that we released during the election dated
up to March [2016]. U.S. intelligence services and consultants for
the DNC say Russian intelligence services started hacking DNC in
2015. Now, Trump is clearly not on the horizon in any substantial
manner in 2015,” Assange additionally concluded.

There
is a statement in the Mueller report that begins, “Although it is
clear that the stolen DNC and Podesta documents were transferred from
the GRU to WikiLeaks…” It cuts off there because the rest was
redacted to supposedly protect an “investigative technique.” The
formulation of the sentence definitely suggests the Mueller team made
a statement reflecting doubts around what happened with WikiLeaks.

In
early 2017, Assange was 
willing to
“provide technical evidence and discussion regarding who did not
engage in the DNC releases.” He also was willing—before the
release of “Vault 7” materials—to help U.S. agencies address
“clear flaws in security systems” that led the U.S. cyber weapons
program to be compromised.

When
Democratic Senator Mark Warner learned Justice Department official
Bruce Ohr was negotiating some kind of a deal for limited immunity
and a limited commitment from Assange, he urged Comey to intervene.

A
potential deal with Assange was killed, the “Vault 7” files were
eventually published, and no testimony was ever collected that would
have helped the Mueller team gain a better understanding of what
happened with the DNC and Clinton campaign email publications.

Bill
Binney, former National Security Agency technical director for world
geopolitical and military analysis and co-founder of NSA’s Signals
Intelligence Automation Research

Center, conducted forensic
examinations of the files posted by the Guccifer 2.0 persona as well
as WikiLeaks. He was the principal author of multiple memos that
significantly undermined key allegations. But no one from Mueller’s
team ever contacted Binney or Ed Loomis, who also is a former
technical director at NSA, to interview them about their findings.

In
a published memo addressed to Attorney General Bill Barr, the
steering group for VIPS, which includes Binney and Loomis, declared,
“We have scrutinized publicly available physical data — the
‘trail’ that every cyber operation leaves behind. And we have had
support from highly experienced independent forensic investigators
who, like us, have no axes to grind. We can prove that the
conventional-wisdom story about
Russian-hacking-DNC-emails-for-WikiLeaks is false.”

Drawing
largely on the unique expertise of two VIPS scientists who worked for
a combined total of 70 years at the National Security Agency and
became Technical Directors there, we have regularly published our
findings. But we have been deprived of a hearing in mainstream media
— an experience painfully reminiscent of what we had to endure when
we exposed the corruption of intelligence before the attack on Iraq
16 years ago,” the group added.

The
DNC files published by WikiLeaks, according to a forensic examination
by VIPS, show data was “transferred to an external storage device,
such as a thumb drive, before WikiLeaks posted them.”

VIPS
drew this conclusion based on something called the File Allocation
Table (FAT) system property. This is a “method of organization.”
If the files were received as a hack, “the last modified times on
the files would be a random mixture of odd-and-even-ending numbers.”
However, the “last modified” time stamps for the WikiLeaks DNC
files each end in even numbers.

We
have examined 500 DNC email files stored on the Wikileaks site,”
the memo indicated. “All 500 files end in an even number—2, 4, 6,
8 or 0. If those files had been hacked over the Internet, there would
be an equal probability of the timestamp ending in an odd number. The
random probability that FAT was not used is one chance in two to the
500th power. Thus, these data show that the DNC emails posted by
WikiLeaks went through a storage device, like a thumb drive, and were
physically moved before Wikileaks posted the emails on the World Wide
Web.”

On
the Podesta emails, Binney said the FAT file format was not
introduced by WikiLeaks. The media organization did not have a
standard procedure. But it still means the files were put on a
removable storage device or CD-ROM, physically transported, and then
posted.

The
former officials additionally claim the Guccifer 2.0 persona
published a document that was “synthetically tainted with ‘Russian
fingerprints.’” Primarily, they assert this because the Guccifer
2.0 data was transferred with an Internet connection speed faster
than what is possible from remote online Internet connections. The
transfer rate was “as high as 49.1 megabytes per second,” which
coincided with “the rate that copying onto a thumb drive could
accommodate.”

As
part of the “Vault 7” materials published by WikiLeaks on March
31, 2017, the media organization 
revealedthe
Marble Framework. This was described as a tool for hampering
“forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing
viruses, trojans, and hacking attacks to the CIA.”

The
source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English
but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi,” WikiLeaks
described. “This would permit a forensic attribution double game,
for example, by pretending that the spoken language of the malware
creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing
attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic
investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion—but there
are other possibilities, such as hiding fake error messages.”

VIPS
contends that whoever engaged in the activity referred to as “Russian
hacking” actually used an obfuscator to make it seem like the
Russians were responsible.

The
timestamps we were getting from Guccifer internally in the data were
showing places like east coast in the U.S. and the central time in
the U.S. Also one in the west coast. So the time stamping isn’t
there for being anywhere outside the U.S.,” Binney told
Shadowproof.” “[But] once you have a fabricator, you have to find
some way of proving everything about him, and you know we can’t
really prove that that’s not also a fabrication.”

The
Mueller report, however, does not contemplate the possibility that
someone or a group potentially used a special tool, similar to what
the CIA employs, in order to obfuscate their acts.

Most
of the technical assertions around what happened with Democratic
Party computers or servers are not backed up so that a person could
research the claims and validate them. On the other hand, Binney
points out that is not the case with VIPS claims.

The
stuff we looked at is out there on the web for everybody to go look
and verify for themselves,” Binney said. “The stuff they’re
talking about we don’t even see. How can you have any confidence in
anything like that, especially when they don’t address the things
you can see and anybody can go look at it?”

Furthermore,
former FBI director James Comey 
said “multiple
requests” were made at “different levels” for access to
Democratic servers. Ultimately, these servers, or computers, that
were allegedly targeted were not taken by the FBI for their own
forensic examination. They relied on the conclusions of an in-house
cyber-response team working for the Democrats known as CrowdStrike.

Where
the Mueller report stated the FBI “later received images of DNC
servers and copies of relevant traffic logs,” they were most likely
referring to the material that CrowdStrike handed over for the
investigation.

Our
forensics folks would always prefer to get access to the original
device or server that’s involved, so it’s the best evidence,”
Comey admitted during a Senate intelligence committee hearing. And
yet, the FBI allowed the Democratic Party to rebuff their request for
access.

It’s
like you’re denying. You don’t want to get the firsthand evidence
because then you’ll have it, and you’ll have to address it,”
Binney suggested.

He
added, “You can’t say the words. You have to put down the raw
data that says this is why I’m saying that, and they’re not doing
that.”

***

There
is good reason to demand that the Mueller team show their work. Many
of these same intelligence agency officials that made claims, which
form the narrative for “Russiagate,” work for agencies that
fabricated intelligence around so-called weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq back in 2002.

Binney
and Loomis, along with Thomas Drake and Kirk Wiebe, were part of
the 
NSA
Four
.
They were falsely accused in 2007 of leaking. As journalist Timothy
Shorrock detailed, they “endured years of legal harassment for
exposing the waste and fraud behind a multibillion-dollar contract
for a system called Trailblazer, which was supposed to
‘revolutionize’ the way the NSA produced signals intelligence
(
SIGINT)
in the digital age.”

According
to Binney, the government backed away from targeting them because
they could show the government was engaged in a malicious
prosecution. Agency officials immediately tried to “confiscate
everything” on their computers and fabricated allegations for a
federal judge.

But
they had backed up all their data and could prove they were facing
retaliation for their work. (Drake was later the target of an
Espionage Act prosecution cooked up by the Justice Department.)

The
claims made by VIPS members are easy to reject because they do not
fit into the dominant narrative around what happened with the 2016
presidential election, but former U.S. Army infantry/intelligence
officer & CIA presidential briefer Ray McGovern believes Binney
and Loomis ought to be taken much more seriously because they helped
perfect the very systems that the government relies upon to draw
technical conclusions.

When
you have people like that, they deserve a modicum of trust,”
McGovern argued. “When you have these people, who have absolutely
no suspicion or no secret agenda, who are indisputably the best
experts in this area,” even if you don’t understand every detail,
you ought to seriously consider what they say.

Finally,
because of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, McGovern said the NSA
would have any evidence of hacking as a result of “dragnet
coverage.” If Russia hacked, “where’s the intercepts” they
should have?

Binney
conversely argued it cannot be NSA data that the Mueller team relied
upon to draw conclusions about Guccifer and WikiLeaks. “The NSA
data, once they collect data, it’s classified.

The
only person that can expose classified material in the public and
authorize that is the president. No one else is authorized to do
that. So, if [Rod] Rosenstein and Mueller are doing that from NSA
data, then they’re compromising classified information, which is a
felony.”

It’s
obvious that that’s not NSA data. It is data from a third-party.
It’d very likely be CrowdStrike or somebody like that,” Binney
added. “Any rate, it is tainted material. They’ve never had
continuous control of that information.”

The
vast majority of the press throughout the world will dismiss the work
of VIPS. It is quite easy because it clashes terribly with the
convenient narrative that intelligence agencies and powerful elites
deployed. It undermines the claims that WikiLeaks is a media
organization that was compromised during the 2016 election by Russian
intelligence. It fuels the notion that the Mueller team suffered from
confirmation bias and then sought to find details that confirmed what
intelligence agencies concluded in 2017. Anything conflicting was to
be dismissed or discarded.

Yet,
a review of the “Russian Hacking and Dumping Operations” does not
contain much more than circumstantial evidence and speculation about
WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0., leaving many valid questions about the
timeline of events unanswered.

One
small concession for Assange may be Attorney General Bill Barr’s
statement that can apply to WikiLeaks as much as individuals who
worked for the Trump campaign. “Under applicable law, publication
of these types of materials would not be criminal unless the
publisher also participated in the underlying hacking conspiracy.”

While
Democrats push for the Justice Department to add further charges
against Assange and extradite him to the United States for publishing
Clinton campaign and DNC emails, this points to the reality that the
Justice Department would have to prove WikiLeaks was involved in
stealing or hacking the materials.

With
the national security apparatus so invested in this “Russiagate”
narrative, they probably do not want to graft on additional charges
relating to the election that would allow Assange to make discovery
requests that would potentially poke additional holes in their
preferred theory of events.

By Kevin Gosztola /
Republished with permission / 
Shadow
Proof
 / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

WaPo waarschuwt voor Russische digitale controle over de hersenen van VS burgers

Federale rechter stelt ten overvloede dat DNC geen grond heeft voor zaak te tegen Trumps verkiezingsteam

Geheime diensten in westen geven toe dat spioneren via het G5 netwerk praktisch onmogelijk is……..

Britse regering weigert RT en Sputnik voor conferentie over persvrijheid….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

1984 het boek van George Orwell: niet langer fictie…….

Het westen vervolgt journalist Assange, Rusland laat journalist vrij na onrust over diens gevangenschap‘ (zie daarin ook de links naar andere berichten over Assange)

De sterkste beïnvloeding van de VS presidentsverkiezingen wordt als volkomen ‘legaal’ en normaal gezien

Avaaz valt met fake news en desinformatie ‘fake news en desinformatie‘ aan……’ (zie in dat bericht ook de link naar een ander artikel met een smerige rol van Avaaz)

Rob Jetten (D66 fractievoorzitter) liegt een fikse slag in de rondte in EU verkiezingspraatje

EU verkiezingen: manipulatie ook door lobbyisme is misdadig, zelfs Bas Eickhout (GroenLinks) doet hieraan mee

‘Intel processors al 10 jaar zo lek als een mandje, Intel niet een bedrijf uit Rusland of China, maar uit….. de VS!

Robert Mueller lijdt aan dementie en maakt van Russiagate een nog belachelijker verhaal

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

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

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

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

Julian Assanges vervolging is de genadeklap voor klokkenluiders en (echte) journalisten‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Russiagate haat- en angstcampagne samenzweerders als FBI en Clinton moeten strafrechtelijk worden vervolgd

BBC verslaggever is beschaamd over de 25 jaar die hij voor deze zendgemachtigde heeft gewerkt

BNR ‘denkt’ als één van de vele mediaorganen nog steeds dat Russiagate werkelijk plaats vond

BBC topman waarschuwt dat de BBC haar geloofwaardigheid en reputatie kwijtraakt…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Geen rectificaties voor meer dan 2 jaar brengen van fake news over het kwaadaardig sprookje Russiagate

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

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

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

Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands‘ Ofwel: het zoveelste ‘gevalletje fake news’, gebracht door de reguliere massamedia……..

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

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

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

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

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

Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit

De
westerse reguliere media gingen in een nog hogere hysterie
versnelling toen vorige week werd gemeld dat Maduro humanitaire hulp
uit de VS zou hebben geblokkeerd voor invoer in het land. Maduro zou
dit hebben gedaan om aan het bewind te kunnen blijven en deze ‘paranoïde tiran’ zou liever z’n bevolking uithongeren dan voedsel uit
de VS het land binnen te laten…..

Uiteraard
ziet de werkelijkheid er zoals gewoonlijk totaal anders uit, zo hebben de VN en het Rode
Kruis laten weten dat het hier om een PR stunt van de VS gaat……. Zo is
de veel getoonde geblokkeerde brug, een foto deel uitmakend van het opgeklopte verhaal van de Trump
administratie, de brug waar de hulpgoederen zouden worden tegengehouden, is een brug van weinig betekenis in deze, sterker nog: deze brug is al jaren gesloten……. Nog sterker, volgens een opiniestuk in de La Opinion is deze in 2015 afgebouwde brug nooit in gebruik genomen……

Bovendien, de persoon die verantwoordelijk is voor
dergelijke transporten uit de VS, is in het verleden meermaals door de mand
gevallen als wapenhandelaar, dus onder het mom van het brengen van humanitaire noodhulp werden er met deze transporten vooral wapens geleverd……

Echter
het belangrijkst is wel het feit dat het Rode Kruis en de VN beiden
de VS hebben gewaarschuwd niet door te gaan met deze (belachelijke)
PR stunt. Niet voor niets, daar de VN en het Rode Kruis veelal
zendingen van humanitaire goederen verzorgen en op deze manier
politiek bedrijven zal het werk van deze hulporganisaties in de
toekomst alleen maar verder bemoeilijken… Bovendien hebben (internationale) hulporganisaties niet gevraagd om aanvullende hulp van de VS….

Om de werkelijkheid nog verder te benadrukken: de Venezolaanse autoriteiten helpen hulporganisaties met de verspreiding van hulpgoederen, goederen waarvoor het Rode Kruis het hulpbudget onlangs verdubbelde en tevreden is over de medewerking van het Maduro regime…….

Hoe
is het mogelijk dat de reguliere media zover meegaan in het
verdraaien van feiten? Is men er zo van overtuigd de meerderheid van
de bevolking te kunnen overtuigen van leugens en halve waarheden, dat
men de smerige buitenlandpolitiek van de VS helpt uitdragen…??? Een cliché op deze plek intussen, maar de
vraag stellen is haar beantwoorden: inderdaad!! Je liegt, verzwijgt zaken en draait met
je collega’s de waarheid op zo’n manier dat het volk de leugens en andere desinformatie gelooft…….. Elke kritiek op die valse berichtgeving, ook al wordt dit gedaan middels feitenmateriaal, wordt door die media (gesteund door
politici) afgedaan als ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) en
desinformatie…….

Lees
het volgende artikel van Adam Johnson, eerder gepubliceerd op
FAIR.org, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media en geeft het door,
schudt de wereld wakker voordat een volgend land volkomen naar god
wordt geholpen door de VS (met de steun van NAVO troepen [dus ook met misbruik van ons belastinggeld] in Colombia,
waar deze terreurorganisatie 2 militaire bases heeft):

Western
Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt

February
10, 2019 at 3:26 pm

Written
by 
Adam
Johnson

(FAIR— The
Trump administration’s now completely overt effort to overthrow
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had a very successful public
relations effort this week, as major Western media outlets uniformly
echoed its simplistic, pre-packaged claim that the Venezuelan
government was heartlessly withholding foreign aid:

(voor de video zie de betreffende lik hierboven)

CNN (2/7/19)

All
of the above articles—and 
scores
more like it
—repeated
the same script: Maduro was blocking aid from the US “out of
refusal to relinquish power,” preferring to starve “his own
people” rather than feed them. It’s a simple case of good and
evil—of a tyrannical, paranoid dictator not letting in aid to feed
a starving population.

Except
three pieces of key context are missing. Context that, when presented
to a neutral observer, would severely undermine the cartoonish
narrative being advanced by US media.

  1. Both
    the Red Cross and UN warned the US not to engage in this aid PR
    stunt.

  2. The
    bridge in question is a visual metaphor contrived by the Trump
    administration of little practical relevance.

  3. The
    person in charge of US operations in Venezuela has a history of
    using aid as a cover to deliver weapons to right-wing mercenaries.

    (1) Not
    only has the international aid community not asked for the “aid,”
    earlier this week, both the International Red Cross and United
    Nations warned the US to explicitly 
    not engage
    in these types of PR stunts. As 
    Washington
    Post 
    contributor
    Vincent Bevins 
    pointed
    out
    ,
    the transparent cynicism of these efforts was preemptively warned
    about by the groups actually charged with keeping starving people
    fed:

Red
Cross Warns US About Risks of Sending Aid to Venezuela
 (PBS
NewsHour
,
2/1/19):

The
International Committee of the Red Cross has warned the United States
about the risks of delivering humanitarian aid to Venezuela without
the approval of security forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.

***

UN
Warns Against Politicizing Humanitarian Aid in Venezuela
(Reuters,
2/6/19):

UNITED
NATIONS — The United Nations warned on Wednesday against using aid
as a pawn in Venezuela after the United States sent food and medicine
to the country’s border and accused President Nicolas Maduro of
blocking its delivery with trucks and shipping containers.

Indeed,
as Bevins also 
noted,
the Red Cross has long been working with local authorities inside
Venezuela to deliver relief, and just last week 
doubled
its budget
 to
do so. We have ample evidence the Maduro government is more than
willing to work with international aid when it’s offered in good
faith, not when it’s a thinly veiled mechanism to spur civil war
and contrive PR victories for those seeking to overthrow the
government. It’s not just Maduro—as the Western media are
presenting it—who opposes the US aid convoy; it’s the UN and Red
Cross. Why do none of the above reports note this rather key piece of
information, instead giving the reader the impression it’s only the
stance of a sadistic, power-hungry madman?

NPR (2/8/19)

 (2) Despite dozens of media outlets giving the impression (and sometimes explicitly saying) that the Venezuelan government shut down an otherwise functioning pathway into the country, the bridge in question hasn’t been open for years.

It’s
true the Venezuelan government appears to have placed an oil tanker
and cargo containers on the bridge to prevent incursion from the
Colombian side, but the other barriers, as writer and software
developer Jason Emery 
noted,
have been in place since at least 2016. According to 
La
Opinion
 (2/5/16), after
its initial construction in 2015, the bridge has never been open to
traffic. How can Maduro, as the 
BBC suggested,
“reopen” a bridge that was never open?     

The
reality is BBC and other Western media were just
going along with the narrative pushed by Sen. Marco Rubio and Trump
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not bothering to check if their
primary visual narrative was based on a bad faith, context-free PR
stunt.

This
point is a relatively superficial one, but in a long term PR battle
to win over Western liberals for further military escalation, the
superficial matters a lot. Rubio and the Trump administration cooked
up a gimmicky visual metaphor, and almost every outlet uncritically
passed it along, often making factually inaccurate assumptions along
the way—assumptions the Trump State Department and CIA coordinating
the effort knew very well they would make.

(3)
The Venezuelan government has an entirely rational reason to suspect
the US would use humanitarian aid as a cover to smuggle in weapons to
foment armed conflict: The person 
running
quarterback
 for
Trump on the current Venezuela operation, 
Elliot
Abrams
,
literally did just that 30 years ago.

From
the first two paragraphs (emphasis added) of a 1987 
AP/New
York Times
 article
on Elliott Abrams, “Abrams Denies Wrongdoing in Shipping Arms to
Contras” (
8/17/87—h/t Kevin
Gosztola
):

Assistant
Secretary of State Elliott Abrams has defended his role
in authorizing the shipment of weapons on a humanitarian aid
flight to Nicaraguan rebels,
 saying the operation was
”strictly by the book.”

Mr.
Abrams spoke at a news conference Saturday in response to statements
by Robert Duemling, former head of the State Department’s
Nicaraguan humanitarian assistance office, who said he had twice
ordered planes to shuttle weapons for the Contras on aid planes at
Mr. Abrams’ direction
 in early 1986.

It’s
literally the same person. It’s not that Maduro is vaguely paranoid
the US, in general, would dust off its 1980s’ Contra-backing Cold
War playbook, or some unspecified assumption about a higher-up or two
at State. It’s literally the exact same person in charge of the
operation who we know—with 100 percent certainty, because he
admitted to it—has a history of using aid convoys as a cover to
smuggle in arms to right-wing militias.

It’s
all playing out right now, in real time. The same actors, the same
tricks, the same patently disingenuous concern for the starving poor.
And the US media is stripping it of all this essential context,
presenting these radical regime-change operators as bleeding heart
humanitarians.

The
same US media outlets that have expressly fundraised and run ad
campaigns on their image as anti-Trump truth-tellers have
mysteriously taken at face value everything the Trump White House and
its neoconservative allies have said in their campaign to overthrow
the government of Venezuela. The self-aggrandizing “
factchecking
brigade that emerged to confront the Trump administration is suddenly
nonexistent as it rolls out a transparent, cynical PR strategy to
delegitimize a Latin American government it’s trying to overthrow.

By Adam
Johnson
 / Republished
with permission / 
FAIR.org / Report
a typo

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

Zie ook:

Venezuela: VS ministerie van BuZa publiceert per ongeluk een lijst met sadistische terreurdaden tegen het Venezolaanse volk

Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington belaagd, er mag zelfs geen voedsel worden gebracht….

Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt

VS dreigt Rusland, China en Iran met geweld vanwege hulp aan Venezolaanse volk……

The Monroe Doctrine is Back, and as the Latest US Attack on Cuba Shows, Its Purpose is to Serve the Neoliberal Order‘ (een artikel van CounterPunch)

Venezuela: in geheime zitting in Washington is gesproken over een militaire inval

Venezolaanse regering treft nieuwe regeling voor hulpgoederen van het Rode Kruis, ‘onafhankelijk NOS’ brengt alweer fake news

VS heeft beslag gelegd op 5 miljard dollar van Venezuela voor medicijnaankopen

Venezuela: onafhankelijke journalisten ontmaskeren leugens over dit land bij presentatie voor de VN

Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet

Venezuela: het VS volk wordt weer een oorlog in gelogen, zoals eerder in Irak, Libië en Syrië

Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’

Venezuela: humanitaire hulp stunt van de VS ingegeven om de kruistocht tegen Maduro een versnelling te geven

Jill Stein (US Green Party): de VS maakt zich druk over armoede in Venezuela terwijl de armen thuis kunnen doodvallen….

Venezuela: Abrams vindt een meerderheid in de VN Veiligheidsraad genoeg voor een gedwongen regeringswisseling

Trump en Bolton bedreigen openlijk de familie van Venezolaanse militairen

Venezuela: VS bedrijf dat wapens smokkelde is gelinkt aan CIA ‘Black Site’ centra

Congreslid Ilhan Omar fileert het monster Elliot Abrams, de speciale gezant van de VS voor Venezuela

Venezuela >> de media willen het socialisme definitief de nek omdraaien

Joel Voordewind (CU 2de Kamer) bakt de ‘Venezolaanse vluchtelingencrisis’ op Curaçao wel erg bruin en van Ojik (GL 2de Kamer) schiet een Venezolaanse bok

BBC World Service radio >> fake news and other lies about Venezuela‘ (van Ap blog)

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

Guaidó is een ordinaire couppleger van de VS, e.e.a. gaat volledig in tegen de Venezolaanse constitutie

Venezuela >> VS economische oorlogsvoering met gebruikmaking van o.a. IMF en Wereldbank

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen

Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela

(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)

Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela

VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..

Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela

Venezuela’s Military Chief, Foreign Allies Back Maduro

Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……

VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….

Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……

Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….

Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare

Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt

Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………

Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

Rex Tillerson waarschuwt Venezuela voor een coup en beschuldigt China van imperialisme…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..

EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………

Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..

VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………

Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote

10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela

Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly

What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………

Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………

Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media

Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!

Anti-Russische propaganda, waarin Rusland verantwoordelijk wordt gesteld voor de protesten tegen VS pijpleiding projecten, ook al als onzin doorgeprikt

Niets
weerhoudt een groot deel van de VS ervan Rusland verantwoordelijk te
houden voor alles wat niet lukt, dan wel volkomen fout gaat en voor protesten in de VS tegen
pijpleidingen en het fracken voor schalie-olie- en schaliegaswinning….. Dat laatste: protesten tegen smerige projecten, is de laatste zaak die toegevoegd wordt aan de algemene westerse anti-Russische propaganda leugencarrousel….. 

Het wachten is op een volgend onderwerp dat wordt toegevoegd aan deze propaganda, te denken valt aan protesten tegen de algehele vernieuwde kernwapendoctrine, de inzet van het kernwapen als eerste aanvalswapen, althans als je daar nog mensen voor op straat krijgt…… (waar de VS zelfs een cyberaanval als reden voor die inzet ziet….)  De situatie nu is veel ernstiger dan die in de 70er en 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, terwijl er toen miljoenen mensen de straat op gingen tegen kernwapens, is er nu zelfs geen aanzet tot het organiseren van (wereldwijde) demonstraties…..

Nu
worden dus ook de anti-pijpleiding protesten van de laatste paar jaar in de VS toegeschreven aan Rusland……… Zelfs hare kwaadaardigheid Hillary
Clinton, die het gore lef heeft zich af te schilderen als
milieubewust, durfde Rusland als verantwoordelijke voor de protesten
aan te wijzen……..

Lees het
volgende hoofdstuk van de Russiagate soap en zie hoe door en door
verrot de VS politiek is:

No,
Russia Didn’t Use Propaganda on Social Media to Incite US Pipeline
Protests

March
6, 2018 at 6:21 am

Written
by 
Kevin
Gosztola

(SP Op-ed) — A
“staff report” from Republicans on the United States House
Science, Space, and Technology Committee offers little evidence to
prove allegations of Russian efforts to influence U.S. energy markets
through “social media propaganda” to incite pipeline protests.

Nonetheless, the
report
,
pushed by Republican chairman Representative Lamar Smith, went
virtually unquestioned when it was covered by U.S. media.

What
the report reveals are several Twitter and Instagram posts that
Republicans claim were posted by “Russian agents” linked to the
Internet Research Agency (IRA), the troll farm which has become a
focus of narratives that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential
election.

The
report recycles unsubstantiated news reporting that strongly
suggested the Russian government was behind anti-fracking activism in
the U.S. It contends these posts and tweets demonstrate the “broad
nature of Russia’s meddling and to reveal Russia’s attempts to
deceive and influence the American public, especially as related to
domestic energy issues.”

Between
2015 and 2017, there were an estimated 9,097 Russian posts or tweets
regarding U.S. energy policy or a current energy event on Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram,” according to the report. “Between 2015
and 2017, there were an estimated 4,334 IRA accounts across Twitter,
Facebook and Instagram.”

To
understand how these numbers are incredibly minuscule, there are
about 95 million posts to Instagram per day and 800 million or more
users, as of September 2017. About 500,000 comments, 293,000 status
updates, and 136,000 photos are posted to Facebook daily. There are
over 2 billion active users on Facebook. On Twitter, about 500
million or more tweets are posted each day. There are 330 million
active monthly users.

House
Republicans did not break down the number of IRA accounts by
platform. But if the 4,334 accounts were all Twitter accounts, it
would mean the number of active Russian accounts represented less
than 0.0013 percent of Twitter users. That percentage would be much
smaller for Facebook and Instagram.

As
for reported posts and tweets, because Republicans are pulling from
contents that appeared between 2015 and 2017, they are essentially
revealing an average of 3,000 or so posts and tweets appeared each
year.

What
is 3,000 out of the 95 million posts to Instagram? What is 3,000 out
of the hundreds of thousands of comments and updates to Facebook?
What is 3,000 out of 500 million or more tweets?

These
are smaller than microscopic numbers. They barely can be said to
represent a broad influence campaign by Russia to undermine U.S.
fossil fuel industries and incite opposition to American “energy
independence.”

The
“Russian tweets” are not even disinformation. They mostly appear
to be messages containing advocacy from Senator Bernie Sanders,
presidential candidate in the 2016 election, and his supporters. For
example:

These
tweets reference the health impact of natural gas fracking. They
mention the link between earthquakes and fracking. They note
political efforts to ban fracking through state ballot initiatives.
What they do not do is promote disinformation, such as falsehoods
about the fossil fuel industry.

The
report continues a blatant agenda by Republicans to discredit climate
activism against oil and gas pipelines. It even argues Russians are
trying to make “useful idiots” of “unwitting
environmental groups and activists in furtherance of its energy
influence operations.”

In
July 2017, Smith and Republican Representative Randy
Weber 
urged Treasury
Secretary Steven Mnuchin to “investigate whether the Kremlin [was]
bankrolling green campaigns against the fracking technology that
helped the U.S. overtake Russia in gas production.”

But
as POLITICO noted, “Allegations have circulated for years that
Moscow has sought to discourage European countries from developing
their own natural gas supplies as an alternative to Russian fuel. And
conservatives have sought to extend those concerns to the U.S.—though
there’s little but innuendo to base them on.”

A
surge in activism against pipeline projects, especially as the
impacts of climate change intensify, has brought pressure to fossil
fuel industry interests. Smith is one of the industry’s most ardent
defenders. He even publicly contends climate change is still subject
to debate when it is settled science.

An
Inside Climate News report 
details how
the fossil fuel industry is a major contributor to science committee
members. It donated $8 million from 2006 to 2016, making it the
leading source of “industry political action committee money.”
The oil and gas industry  is one of Smith’s biggest
contributors, “with $764,000 in donations over the course of his
career in Congress.”

Smith
frequently alleges charges of “secret science” against government
agencies that seek to regulate coal-fired power plants, oil
refineries, and energy pollution in general. He engages in the very
kind of efforts to provoke discord and disruption that the House
science committee report condemns. It is all to manufacture doubt in
order to tie up policy deliberations in debate so they do not affect
companies’ profits.

While
this report is clearly rubbish, Democrats have not said anything to
challenge the allegations. Perhaps, this is because they are fully
invested in the narrative that Russia is meddling in all parts of
American discourse on social media.

Smith
invokes the bipartisan consensus on “Russian manipulation.”
Democratic Senator Ben Cardin recently published a report that
stated, “According to NATO officials, Russian intelligence agencies
also reportedly provide covert support to European environmental
groups to campaign against fracking for natural gas,
thereby keeping the EU more dependent on Russian supplies. A study by
the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies reports that the
Russian government has invested $95 million in NGOs that seek to
persuade EU governments to end shale gas exploration.”

During
a tinePublic 
speech in
2014, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton accused
“phony environmental groups” that she believes are funded by the
Russians of being responsible for the opposition to oil pipelines and
natural gas fracking. “I’m a big environmentalist, but these were
funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline,
that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of
the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.”

Much
of the notion among conservatives that U.S. climate activism is
funded by Russia stems from a report by a front group, the
Environmental Policy Alliance, operated by Berman & Co., which is
run by Rick Berman.

Berman
is known for 
attacks against
Mothers Against Drunk Driving. He also has defended Big Tobacco from
anti-smoking campaigns. He previously 
boasted,
“If the oil and gas industry wants to prevent its opponents from
slowing its efforts to drill in more places, it must be prepared to
employ tactics like digging up embarrassing tidbits about
environmentalists and liberal celebrities” and urged industry
executives “to exploit emotions like fear, greed and anger and turn
them against the environmental groups.”

Part
of Berman’s efforts to exploit emotions involved accusing U.S.
environmental organization of accepting money from the Sea Change
Foundation, which allegedly accepted funds from a Bermuda-based
company called Klein Limited with executives tied to Russian oil and
gas companies.

We
double-check confirmed that the origin of the funds we’re getting
from Sea Change is through a donor, not from Russia,” Melinda
Pierce, Sierra Club’s legislative director, 
declared.
“It’s a private U.S. citizen who cares about climate change and
has invested in the kind of work that the Sierra Club does to move us
off dirty energy to clean energy.”

This
campaign to smear U.S. environmental organizations as agents of the
Russian oil and gas industry was picked up by Republicans. It
influenced a 2014 
report,
“The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and
Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s
EPA.”

Back
then, it was innuendo and unsubstantiated claims intended to help the
industry defend itself against pipeline activists. It remains
industry-driven propaganda.

The
only difference now is that the current political climate embraces a
bipartisan consensus that Russians will stop at nothing to sow
discord. Democrats do not see conservative political action
committees and right-wing industry front groups as responsible for
political turmoil over issues mired in contentious debate. They see
Russians, and even if they do not deny the reality of climate change,
that leaves U.S. policy vulnerable to actions that are aimed at
protecting fossil fuel companies and drowning out protest from
citizens concerned about climate change.

Op-ed Kevin Gosztola /
Republished with permission / 
Shadow
Proof
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Zie voor de hiervoor genoemde corruptie van Lamar Smith: ‘Exxon lobbyist (politicus) dagvaardt milieugroepen voor kennis bij Exxon over klimaatverandering…….

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………

Naar nu blijkt heeft Hillary Clinton de macht over het Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2015 in feite overgenomen, nadat ze dit comité redde met een financiële injectie uit het Hillary Victory Fund……

Het DNC had die tekorten te danken aan voormalig wanpresterend voorzitter Wasserman Schultz en het gebrek aan toezicht op dit comité door Obama.

Dat hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton de voorverkiezingen ten koste van de andere Democratische kandidaat Sanders op een heel smerige manier heeft gewonnen, was geen geheim, echter met deze nieuwe feiten wordt nog eens bewezen dat niet de Russen, maar juist het DNC en dan m.n. Clinton een wel heel smerig spel heeft gespeeld……… Niet vreemd dus, dat figuren als Seth Rich, die deel uitmaakte van het Clinton team, uit pure frustratie zaken hebben gelekt naar de pers…….

Donna
Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against
Bernie

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie

November
2, 2017 at 10:18 am

Written
by 
Jake
Johnson

(COMMONDREAMS) — In
an explosive and “
deeply
disturbing

piece
for 
Politico Magazine on
Thursday, former interim chair of the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) Donna Brazile drew upon her brief experience at the
organization’s helm to reveal the extent to which the 2016
nomination process was “rigged” in favor of former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton.

In
her account, Brazile details the deep “internal corruption” of
the DNC, the role the ostensibly neutral governing body played as a
“fundraising clearing house” for the Clinton team, and how those
dynamics unfairly handicapped primary challenger Bernie Sanders.

Many
of the DNC’s most deeply embedded issues, Brazile notes, spring
both from former chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s poor management
and former President Barack Obama’s neglect, which left the
committee deeply in debt.

In
August 2015, the Clinton campaign—along with the joint fundraising
vehicle with the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund—came to an agreement
with the committee to begin to pay off this debt, which had soared to
$24 million. In exchange, the DNC’s finances were placed “fully
under the control” of the Clinton team, “which seemed to confirm
the suspicions of the Bernie camp,” Brazile writes.

When
the party chooses the nominee, the custom is that the candidate’s
team starts to exercise more control over the party,” Brazile
observed. “This victory fund agreement, however, had been
signed…just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and
nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.”

Brazile
goes on to describe the terms of the agreement, which she describes
as “unethical”:

The
agreement…specified that in exchange for raising money and
investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances,
strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of
refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it
would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was
required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing,
budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

Brazile
concludes the piece, which is an adapted excerpt from her forthcoming
book, by detailing a conversation she had with Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) shortly after she found the “cancer” at the heart of the
DNC—this so-called “Joint Fundraising Agreement.”

How
much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had
been trying to uncover for the last few weeks. By September 7, the
day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart,”
Brazile writes. “I explained that the cancer was that she had
exerted this control of the party long before she became its
nominee….Bernie took this stoically. He did not yell or express
outrage. Instead he asked me what I thought Hillary’s chances
were.”

Unsurprisingly,
Brazile’s account immediately caught fire on social media,
provoking a mixture of outrage and vindication—particularly given
that it comes from a “
stalwart
establishment insider who 
admitted
to
 passing
debate topics to the Clinton team during her time as
CNN contributor.

Shame
on the DNC, on Hillary Clinton, and every Democratic operative
responsible for this bullshit. What a mess,” 
The
Intercept
‘s
Shaun King wrote on Twitter.

Shaun King 

@ShaunKing

If you ask ANYONE who is close to operations of the DNC today they will tell you that things are still a complete mess there financially. https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/926044671029268480 

Since
the election, it is not clear that the DNC has dealt with these
problems yet,” 
writes Clio
Chang of 
Splinter
News
,
building on King’s point. “Tom Perez was installed as DNC chair
over Keith Ellison, a move that was 
largely
seen
 as
giving Democratic elites more control over the party….The DNC is
not doomed to repeat the problems of the past, but from Brazile’s
account, it’s clear that the organization requires a major
reckoning.”

Nina Turner 

@ninaturner

Oooooweeee! “You can put truth in the river 5 days after lie, truth gone catch.” -Grandma

Thank you @donnabrazile https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774 


Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.

politico.com

By Jake
Johnson
 / Creative
Commons
 / Common
Dreams
 / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

Twitter Admits It Censored Tweets About the #DNCLeak Ahead of

Het volgende artikel werd gisteren door Anti-Media gepubliceerd:

Democrats
in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary

November
3, 2017 at 1:42 pm

Written
by 
Kevin
Gosztola

(SHADOWPROOFEvidence
that the Democratic National Committee rigged the 2016 presidential
primary in favor of Hillary Clinton has been known for well over a
year. But the leadership of the Democratic Party has refused to
address evidence, preferring to “move forward” by coercing
Democrats who supported Bernie Sanders into uniting with the very
elements of the party responsible for losing to President Donald
Trump.

Now,
former interim DNC chair Donna Brazile has given credence to claims
that the DNC rigged the primary, which is what members of the Sanders
campaign and supporters have repeatedly asserted—even though most
DNC officials or Clinton supporters treat such claims as the product
of sexism or downright foolishness.

Brazile found
a copy
 of
the joint fundraising agreement between the DNC, Hillary Victory
Fund, and Hillary For America. It was signed by former CEO of the DNC
Amy Dacey and Robby Mook, who was Clinton’s campaign manager. The
Clinton campaign’s legal counsel, Marc Elias, was copied.

It
specified that Clinton would “control the party’s finances,
strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of
refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it
would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was
required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing,
budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.” Now, former interim
DNC chair Donna Brazile has given credence to claims that the DNC
rigged the primary, which is what members of the Sanders campaign and
supporters have repeatedly asserted—even though most DNC officials
or Clinton supporters treat such claims as the product of sexism or
downright foolishness.

The
agreement was inked in August 2015, which was months before the first
votes were ever cast in the primary.

As
Brazile put it, “The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory
fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the
fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party
before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was
not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s
integrity.”

A
story from Politico in May 2016 
revealed how
the Clinton campaign setup a fundraising operation through state
party apparatuses that was essentially money laundering. States only
kept less than a half percent of $82 million raised. This was a
method to circumvent campaign finance limits. It also put Sanders at
a disadvantage, as the state parties weren’t fairly making these
funds available to his campaign.

DNC
chair Tom Perez appeared on CNBC and was asked about what Brazile
wrote. “Well, hey, we’re moving forward. We’re building, you
know, I’ve been asked that question a number of times since I
started.”

Perez
suggested he would ensure plans for the nomination process in 2020
were fair and transparent. The primary debate schedule would be set
in advance before any officially declared candidates are known. But
what if DNC officials already have a candidate for 2020 in mind, like
they did with Clinton?

In
October, as 
widely
reported
,
Perez “stripped a number of longtime party officials of their
‘at-large’ delegate status or leadership positions, while
appointing a slate of 75 new members that include[d] Clinton campaign
veterans, lobbyists, and neophytes.” Many of those demoted were
progressives who backed Sanders or Minnesota Representative Keith
Ellison when he ran against Perez for DNC chair.

Some
of the people tied to corporate interests, who were granted
superdelegate votes, included Joanne Dowdell, who was a registered
lobbyist for News Corp (which owns Fox News) and Manuel Ortiz, a
lobbyist for CITGO Petroleum Corporation and Citigroup. And ten
other 
newly
appointed
 superdelegates
had previously registered as federal lobbyists.

Indiana
Democratic Representative Andre Carson also was on CNN and asked what
he thought of Brazile’s allegations. Initially, Carson refused to
address them and said he knew Brazile and would probably read her
forthcoming book. Wolf Blitzer pressed him, and Carson deflected. He
maintained he had no knowledge of any fundraising deal between the
Clinton campaign and DNC.

If
what Donna Brazile is saying in this new book is true, I assume you’d
be pretty upset that there was this formal arrangement to use the
DNC, the assets of DNC, which are considerable, to help this one
presidential candidate and in the process hurt others who may want to
challenge her for the nomination,” Blitzer added.

It
did not visibly bother Carson at all. Addressing Clinton and Sanders
supporters, Carson answered, “Going forward, we need to come
together. Though we may have our differences and different approaches
in terms of methodology. We have to come together and use our numbers
to make sure we don’t re-elect Donald Trump or see another Donald
Trump rise.”

This
strategy for unity, which involves forcing conformity among Sanders
supporters, 
failed at
the Democratic National Convention, and it failed to ensure Clinton
had the turnout among working class people of color and young people
that was necessary to defeat Trump, especially in swing states. It
has, however, helped officials obstruct accountability, transparency,
or any transformation away from the very centrist agenda that has
ensured the party remains weak.

One
of the few Democrats to recognize reality was Democratic Senator
Elizabeth Warren. She 
appeared on
CNN and emphatically answered, “Yes,” when asked if she thought
the DNC rigged the primary. She said the Democratic Party needed to
be “held accountable.”

Warren
was hounded throughout the 2016 Democratic primary by Sanders
supporters for remaining silent about who she supported. Her silence
was regarded as a favor to the Clinton campaign that was intended to
help the campaign ensure the scales did not tip against them in key
New England states.

What
Warren said flustered several Democrats, including Joy Ann Reid, a
Democrat and MSNBC host with quite the following on Twitter.

Reid
contended, “The question is: what does the DNC actually do, and can
it, even if it wanted to, rig 50+ primaries for any given candidate?”
She added, “Even if one objects to the [joint fundraising
agreement], as Donna did, it didn’t hurt Sanders financially. By
April, he’d raised as much as [Clinton].” She insisted Clinton
won the nomination because she received more votes than Sanders.

However,
what those in denial refuse to confront is that Clinton may have
received more votes because citizens believed it was impossible for
Sanders to win, since the news media kept reporting Clinton had so
many more superdelegates than him. Plus, whether Sanders was able to
overcome the impact of an unethical fundraising agreement does not
change the reality that it made the primary unfair.

Hillary
Rosen, a prominent Democratic Party strategist who regularly appears
on CNN, insisted Democrats could not reckon with Brazile’s
allegations when attention must be paid to the GOP’s tax proposals.
She also misleadingly argued Brazile could not find any evidence that
the system was rigged against Sanders, which is not what Brazile
wrote. Brazile said she could not find any evidence to support
widespread claims until she came across the joint fundraising
agreement.

The
voters chose Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders, and it had nothing
to do with any staff person at the DNC,” Rosen asserted.

In
May 2016, Rosen said, “Bernie Sanders is losing this race, and
instead of taking it like a man, he’s working the ref. He’s
encouraging his people to think that the system is rigged. The system
he signed up for as an independent to run in a Democratic primary.
This constant sort of whining and complaining about the process is
just really the most harmful thing, in some ways, he could do because
he’s encouraging his supporters to think that the process actually
is cheating them, and they’re not.” So, Rosen has an interest in
maintaining her denial of reality.

The
reality is hundreds of superdelegates pledged their allegiance to
Clinton before votes were cast in Iowa, a limited number of debates
were scheduled to ensure voters had the least amount of exposure to
Clinton opponents, the DNC and Clinton campaign falsely accused the
Sanders campaign of “stealing” voter file data, and Democratic
women supporting Sanders faced 
forms
of retaliation
 for
not supporting Clinton.

By Kevin Gosztola /
Republished with permission / 
Shadow
Proof
 / Report
a typo

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

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

        en: ‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

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

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

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

       en: ‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘CIA de ware hacker en manipulator van verkiezingen, ofwel de laatste Wikileaks documenten……...’

       en: ‘CIA speelt zoals gewoonlijk vuil spel: uit Wikileaks documenten blijkt dat CIA zelf de verkiezingen manipuleerde, waar het Rusland van beschuldigde……..

      en: ‘CIA malware voor manipulaties en spionage >> vervolg Wikileaks Vault 7

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘WannaCry niet door Noord-Korea ‘gelanceerd!’

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zie vervolgens ook:

Was Democratic Primary Rigged Against Bernie Sanders? Elizabeth Warren Says ‘Yes’