Oekraïne: analyse van twee professoren: coup van 2014 oorzaak huidige ellende

Augusto Zimmermann en Gabriël Moens, twee Australische professoren, hebben een analyse gemaakt van de situatie in Oekraïne en komen, als is te verwachten van echte deskundigen, tot een heel andere conclusie dan die ons dag in dag uit met een enorme berg propaganda door de strot wordt geduwd, propaganda waarin Rusland als de grote agressor wordt voorgesteld, zonder ook maar met één van de redenen rekening te houden die Rusland heeft aangezet tot militair ingrijpen in Oekraïne. Militair ingrijpen dat in het westen door de reguliere (afhankelijke) media en politici wordt voorgesteld als de oorlog van Putin…… Men gaat in het westen zelfs zover dat men de bevolking voorhoudt dat Putin erop uit is om de oude Sovjet-Unie nieuw leven in te blazen en daarbij zelfs andere Europese landen zou willen aanvallen….. (totaal belachelijk!!)

Putin wordt door die media en politici zelfs neergezet als een moorddadige dictator die het opneemt tegen een democratisch land* (Oekraïne), waarbij men durft te stellen dat het ingrijpen van Rusland niet werd veroorzaakt door acties van derden…… Alsof men niet weet dat Rusland al sinds ongeveer 2004 keer op keer heeft geprotesteerd tegen de uitbreiding van de NAVO richting Moskou en daarbij in elk toegevoegd land aan dit uiterst agressieve bondgenootschap (altijd onder militair opperbevel van de VS) NAVO troepen stationeert en daarbij militaire oefeningen houdt, oefeningen gericht tegen Rusland en sinds jaren al aan de westgrens van Rusland, waarbij men o.a. oefent op het binnenvallen van Russisch grondgebied…..

Deze militaire oefeningen van de NAVO zijn zelfs meermaals uitgevoerd op Oekraïens grondgebied en in haar territoriale wateren en ook daar een paar keer gericht op het binnenvallen van Russisch grondgebied, terwijl Oekraïne nog steeds geen lid is van de NAVO….. 

Waar het westen ook al geen belangstelling voor had en heeft is de al sinds 2014 bestaande oorlogsvoering van het Oekraïense leger (met neonazi-bataljons als Azov) tegen de burgers van de zich van Oekraïne afgescheiden staatjes Luhansk en Donetsk, waarbij al minstens 13.000 van die burgers om het leven zijn gekomen (inclusief kinderen…..)…..

Zimmerman en Moens halen John J. Mearsheimer aan, professor aan de universiteit van Chicago, die al jaren stelt dat de benadering door Rusland van Oekraïne volkomen is te danken aan westerse interventie. Ook stelt hij dat de wil van de VS de NAVO uit te breiden richting de grens van Rusland een conflict tussen nucleair bewapende staten mogelijk heeft gemaakt en de fundering heeft gelegd voor Ruslands ‘agressieve houding’ tegen Oekraïne…… 

Maersheimer stelt dat het westen uiteraard nooit zichzelf de schuld zal geven voor het gebeuren in Oekraïne, maar de schuld alleen bij Rusland legt, waarbij ook hij zegt dat men zover gaat om te stellen dat Rusland (Putin) streeft naar een groot-Rusland of zelfs het herintroduceren van de Sovjet Unie…… (nogmaals: te belachelijk voor woorden!!)

Het voorgaande terwijl een ieder die het interesseert kan weten dat de coup in 2014 tegen Viktor Janoekovytsj, de democratisch gekozen president van Oekraïne, werd georganiseerd, geregisseerd en betaald door de VS, te weten door de destijds zittende Obama administratie…… 

Zimmermann en Moens gaan verder in op de coup tegen Janoekovytsj en dat deze inderdaad onconstitutioneel was, ook volgens de grondwet van Oekraïne….. Janoekovytsj tekende in feite voor deze VS coup daar hij na zijn verkiezing tot president in 2010 stelde dat Oekraïne niet verder het lidmaatschap van de NAVO nastreefde……

Jonh McCain, een oorlogshitser van formaat hield Oekraïne al in 2013 voor dat het land zich moest richten op de EU en niet op Rusland, terwijl een bondgenootschap met Rusland alleen maar voordeel op zou leveren en een bondgenootschap met de EU het land aanvankelijk een fikse som geld zou kosten…..

Na de installatie van een pro-VS/westerse neonazi-regering in Oekraïne, probeerde het land de opstand in het oosten van het land neer te slaan, echter dat lukte niet, en dat niet in de laatste plaats daar een deel van het Oekraïense leger deserteerde en zich met meegenomen wapens als enkele tanks de verdediging van het oosten ging bezighouden. De VS stelde toen dat Rusland Oekraïne destabiliseerde en maakte zo (met succes) van Rusland een pariastaat…… Ook destijds met grote hulp van de reguliere afhankelijke westerse media en politiek….. 

Het neerhalen van MH17 werd volledig in de schoenen van Rusland geschoven, terwijl er zoveel zaken onbeantwoord zijn gebleven, om er een paar te noemen: hoe was het mogelijk dat Oekraïne op de dag dat de ramp met MH17 plaatsvond alle radarposten had uitgeschakeld?? (geen land zet voor onderhoud alle radarposten uit, dat is totaal onverantwoord en is vragen om ongelukken!!) Waarom week vlucht MH17 af van de normale koers en belandde zo boven oorlogsgebied?? Of hoe kan het dat men het rampgebied met een flink aantal mensen volledig had uitgekamd en een jaar later zet een journalist voet op datzelfde gebied en vindt vrijwel onmiddellijk een stuk van een Buk-raket??** Nogmaals dit zijn nog maar een paar van de zaken waarop nooit een antwoord is gegeven……. Eén ding is zeker: met het rapport over MH17 was de demonisering van Rusland compleet, een rapport waarin Bellingcat een belangrijke rol speelde, terwijl dat zogenaamde alternatieve journalisten collectief wordt betaald door de overheid van de VS, dezelfde overheid die vanaf het moment dat bekend werd dat MH17 was neergehaald, de schuld bij Rusland heeft gelegd…….

Ook in het hieronder opgenomen artikel volgt de conclusie dat men Rusland jarenlang heeft getart met de steeds verdergaande uitbreiding van de NAVO richting haar westgrens en dat Rusland eindelijk heeft gereageerd met een te verwachten actie (die uiteindelijk volledig is te danken aan de VS en haar agressieve militaire bondgenootschap t.w. de NAVO en wie nog steeds durft te zeggen dat de NAVO een verdedigingsorganisatie is, moet eindelijk eens tijd maken voor een afspraak met een goede psychiater)

Let wel: ik ben bepaald geen voorstander van oorlog, maar met de manier waarop het westen reageert op de door haarzelf veroorzaakte ellende, stevenen we af op een Derde Wereldoorlog en die is door niemand te winnen!! Het is de hoogste tijd voor het gezonde verstand en we ons niet langer laten leiden door een terreurentiteit als de VS, die waar het maar uitkomt oorlog voert en die landen kapotmaakt als ze niet braaf doen wat de deze terreurstaat voorschrijft……. (zo zijn door de illegale, niet met een VN-sanctie ondersteunde VS sancties sinds eind 90er jaren al bijna een miljoen mensen om het leven gekomen, waaronder een groot aantal kinderen, zo hebben de sancties van de regering Clinton tegen Irak de dood veroorzaakt van 500.000 kinderen…….) Vergeet voorts niet dat de VS alleen deze eeuw met haar illegale oorlogen al meer dan 5 miljoen mensen heeft vermoord en dan durven generaals van dat land zelfs openlijk te zeggen dat de VS een oorlog tegen Rusland en China kan winnen……. Verder heeft de VS al onder Obama laten weten het kernwapen niet langer als afschrikkingswapen te zien, maar als eerste aanvalswapen, zelfs in te zetten als het land met een grote cyberaanval te maken zou krijgen…….

Lees het artikel van Zimmermann en Moens en geeft het door >> nogmaals het is de hoogste tijd dat het gezonde verstand het overneemt van oorlogshitsers en voor overleg met Rusland en dat dit land eindelijk garanties krijgt dat men geen verdere uitbreiding van de NAVO zal nastreven of zelfs zal toestaan en dat men stopt met de burgers van de afgescheiden staatjes te bombarderen…… Van De Krim kan Rusland al helemaal geen afstand doen, immers daar liggen haar enige jaarrond ijsvrije marinehavens, alsof de VS dat niet wist toen het de opstand en coup in Oekraïne organiseerde en betaalde….. Voorts zou het westen eindelijk de wens van de bewoners van De Krim moeten accepteren: zij hebben zich massaal middels een door internationale waarnemers als eerlijk en goed beoordeeld referendum aangesloten bij Rusland.

 

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The Coup That Caused the Ukraine Conflict

March 15, 2022
Updated: March 15, 2022

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According to the prevailing narrative, the Russian invasion of Ukraine must be entirely blamed on President Vladimir Putin.

The narrative discloses that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was an
“unprovoked Russian aggression” against a democratic country, and Putin
is a “murderous dictator” who desires to resuscitate the defunct Soviet
empire and may even seek to subjugate other European countries to
achieve this objective.

To give an example, the British tabloid, The Sun, even compares Putin to Hitler. According to its editorial, “it is paramount, as in 1939, that the free peoples of the West defeat this hideous new evil, this Hitler for our times.”

However, careful consideration of the Ukrainian crisis reveals that
there are more sides to this story, only one of which is being told.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Professor of Political
Science at the University of Chicago. For years, he has claimed that
the Russian approach towards Ukraine was primarily caused by “Western
intervention.”

Mearsheimer argues
that the United States, in pushing to expand NATO eastward, “has
increased the likelihood of war between nuclear-armed powers and laid
the groundwork” for Russia’s aggressive position toward Ukraine.

With regards to Ukraine, he comments that up until 2014, no one
envisioned the NATO and EU expansion as policies aimed at containing
Russia and nobody seriously thought Russia was a threat before Feb. 22,
2014.

Mearsheimer continues, stating  “What happened is that this major
crisis broke out, and we had to assign blame, and of course we were
never going to blame ourselves. We were going to blame the Russians. So
we invented this story that Russia was bent on aggression in Eastern
Europe. Putin is interested in creating a greater Russia, or maybe even
re-creating the Soviet Union.”

It is therefore instructive to ascertain what happened to Ukraine in
2014—a coup supported by the American government, more specifically, by
the then Obama administration.

Epoch Times Photo

U.S.
President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Ukraine President Petro
Poroshenko in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on Sept.
18, 2014. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

With the victory of the pro-Russian candidate, Victor Yanukovych, in
the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010, its parliament voted in
that same year to abandon NATO membership aspirations (pdf).

However, President Yanukovych, a democratically elected leader, was
arbitrarily and unconstitutionally removed from office in February 2014.

Prior to that coup, in December 2013, the late Senator John McCain, then a leading Republican voice on U.S. foreign policy, told leaders
of the Ukrainian opposition camped on Kyiv’s main square that “Ukraine
will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better …. And the
destiny you seek lies in Europe.”

To understand why the removal of President Yanukovych was
unconstitutional, some facts about the Ukrainian Constitution must be
considered.

The Ukrainian Constitution lists four circumstances in which an
elected president may cease to exercise power before the end of their
term: retirement; inability to exercise their powers for reasons of
health; removal from office by the procedure of impeachment; and death.

The process of impeachment is laid down in Article 111, which
requires the Ukrainian Parliament to create a special temporary
investigation committee to formulate charges against the president, seek
evidence to justify the charges, and come to conclusions about the
president’s guilt.

Prior to a final vote of impeachment, this process also requires the
nation’s Constitutional Court to review the case and certify that the
procedure has been properly followed, and the Ukrainian Supreme Court to
certify that the acts of which the president is accused are worthy of
impeachment.

Finally, the removal of an elected president from power must be
approved by at least three-quarters of the members of Parliament.

On Feb. 22, 2014, this process of impeachment was not followed at
all. No investigation committee was formed, and no courts were involved
in the removal of the president. Instead, a bill was rushed through
Parliament to remove President Yanukovych from his office, although this
was not even supported by three-quarters of members of Parliament.

Epoch Times Photo

Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin (R) talks with Ukrainian President Viktor
Yanukovych during a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia,
on Dec. 17, 2013. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

On that occasion, Putin quibbled that this was an unconstitutional
overthrow of a democratically elected president. He labelled it a “coup”
and questioned the legitimacy of the process at his press conference on March 4, 2014.

“[Impeachment] has to involve the Constitutional Court, the Supreme
Court, and the Rada (the unicameral parliament of Ukraine). This is a
complicated and lengthy procedure. It was not carried out. Therefore,
from a legal perspective this is an undisputed fact,” Putin said.

When that “coup” of the Ukrainian Parliament succeeded in expelling
the country’s elected president, then American President, Barrack Obama,
misled the international community by hiding the imposition of a pro-Western government on “Russia’s most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour.”

Soon after a new government was established, it declared itself
unable to control the popular reaction to that coup in the country’s
east. The American government then conveniently accused Russia of
destabilising Ukraine, thus aiming to turn Russia into a “pariah state.”

Ukraine has never been able to have a functional government since.

Russia almost immediately retaliated by annexing the region of Crimea, in March 2014, but only after a popular referendum that was not recognized by the United States and its Western allies.

Crimeans, who mostly speak Russian, voted overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation.

Writing for the American Conservative, foreign policy expert Dominick Sansone explains:

“The move into Crimea came as a response, to secure Russia’s key
naval interests in the warm-water port at Sevastopol. The coinciding
uprisings in the Donbas were additionally a response to the situation in
Kyiv … The official position of the Kremlin has subsequently been that
these ethnically Russian citizens should not be forced to live under the
rule of an illegitimate rebel group that illegally came to power by
overthrowing the duly elected government.”

The reality is that the eastward expansion of NATO has triggered the
current Ukrainian crisis, primarily because of Washington’s attempt to
pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure by building
an explicitly anti-Moscow association and supporting a notoriously
corrupt government.

The Russian authorities believe that this constitutes a “direct
threat” to their national security and have they have bitterly opposed
NATO engagement since the mid-1990s. Further, it is the Russians, not
the Americans and their allies, “who ultimately get to decide what
counts as a threat to them” (pdf).

Epoch Times Photo

Russian
troops in uniforms without insignia are seen atop of a tank with the
letter “Z” painted on its sides, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on
March 1, 2022. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)

Despite this important context, speaking to reporters
in Adelaide, on Feb. 24 the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison,
stated: “We should be taking every step we can to ensure Russia pays a
price in the international community for the violent and aggressive acts
of invasion against Ukraine.”

Asked what he thought of the Russian president, Morrison replied: “I call him a thug.”

This sort of language is unwise and belligerent with 46 million
people and a vast territory that is rich in natural resources, Ukraine
is by far the largest and most impressive of the states that had split
away from the Russian Federation, in 1991.

Above all, the Australian prime minister has denied that Putin’s actions might be “motivated by legitimate security concerns.”

According to Seumas Milne, a British journalist and former Labour Party’s Executive Director of Strategy and Communications:

“No Russian government could have acquiesced in such a threat from
territory that was at the heart of both Russia and the Soviet Union.
Putin’s absorption of Crimea and support for the rebellion in eastern
Ukraine is clearly defensive, and the red line is now drawn: the east of
Ukraine, at least, is not going to be swallowed up by NATO or the EU.”

Commenting on the present situation in Ukraine, Bill Roggio, a senior
colleague at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy and editor of its
Long War Journal, states that:

“Putin appears to want to take Ukraine intact …. The systematic
nature of the Russian assault is at odds with the speculation that Putin
has lost control of his senses. Nobody knows for sure, but Putin’s
actions appear to be that of a cold and calculating adversary.
Dismissing his decision to invade Ukraine as a form of madness is
effectively an excuse to ignore Putin’s likely motivations and future
actions.”

The Russians had already been seriously humiliated by NATO’s decision
to expand the Alliance to include former Warsaw Pact countries. And now
they sense that NATO is dangerously moving right up to their border by
turning one of their most formidable former states into a de facto
member of the American military alliance.

Clearly, the Russians have reached the limits of their willingness to tolerate NATO’s expansionist policies.

The consequences of the unconstitutional coup of 2014 should be
blamed, at least in part, for Russia’s disastrous military invasion of
Ukraine.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Augusto Zimmermann

Augusto Zimmermann is professor and head of law at
Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Perth. He is also president of
the Western Australian (WA) Legal Theory Association and served as a
member of WA’s law reform commission from 2012 to 2017. Zimmermann is an
adjunct professor of the University of Notre Dame Australia, and has
co-authored several books including COVID-19 Restrictions &
Mandatory Vaccination—A Rule-of-Law Perspective (Connor Court)

 

Gabriël Moens

Gabriël A. Moens AM is an emeritus professor of law
at the University of Queensland, and served as pro vice-chancellor and
dean at Murdoch University. In 2003, Moens was awarded the Australian
Centenary Medal by the prime minister for services to education. He has
taught extensively across Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United
States. Moens has recently published two novels “A Twisted Choice”
(Boolarong Press, 2020) and “The Coincidence” (Connor Court Publishing,
2021).

Website

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*  Oekraïne is in feite geen democratisch land, zeker als je bedenkt dat al onder Porosjenko bepaalde politieke partijen verboden waren, waar Janoekovytj er nog vier aan heeft toegevoegd….. Voorts zijn er sinds de coup van 2014 al een flink aantal journalisten vermoord in Oekraine….. Daarnaast oefenen neonazi-groeperingen controle uit op de ‘regering’ en media van Oekraïne….. Ook is het overduidelijk dat de VS in feite aan de touwen trekt in dat land.

** Zie o.a.: ‘MH17: JIT heeft plotseling bijna de hele BUK-raket………‘ En zie de links in dat bericht voor nog veel meer artikelen over rampvlucht MH17, klik op dat label direct onder dit bericht.

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Zie verder: ‘Oekraïense leger bombardeert eigen burgers en presentators tv programma verbijsterd over getuigenis aangaande Oekraïne

Oekraïne: kinderziekenhuis Marioepol was vanaf eind februari dit jaar in gebruik als legeronderkomen

Oekraïne: de nazistrijders van de VS

Oekraïne: Facebook en Instagram staan oproepen tot moord op Russen toe

Putin wast het westen nog eens de oren‘ (!!!!)

Victoria Nuland: ‘Oekraïne heeft biologische onderzoekslaboratoria’ die in handen van de Russen kunnen vallen‘ (!!!!)
Terwijl de VS staatssecretaris van BuZa dit toegeeft, stelt men in de
rest van het westen dat dit een complottheorie is….. ha! ha! ha! ha!
ha!

Oekraïense
democratie een schijnvertoning, plus het tegenhouden van gekleurde
vluchtelingen door de politie en douane van Oekraïne
‘ (!!!!)

Oekraïne: de strijd tegen de waarheid over de bloedige VS terreur plus de enorme westerse hypocrisie

Oekraïne en ‘het
truckers protest’ tegen COVID-maatregelen in Canada van
fundamentalistisch religieus rechts, racisten en ander tuig? Eén grote
leugen!!

‘Russische propaganda’: het laatste excuus voor nog meer ‘democratische censuur’ op de sociale media

Oekraïne: belangrijke punten die niet mogen worden vergeten, ondanks de propagandawals die over ons heen wordt gereden

Oekraïne: wie jarenlang een wereldmacht tart moet niet opkijken als deze uiteindelijk optreedt‘ (!!!!)

Oekraïne: Rusland erkent Luhansk en Donetsk, de westerse wereld alweer hypocriet op de kopEn zie de links in dat bericht!!

Westerse Oekraïne leugens

Oekraïne: Russische ‘propaganda’ is informatie die VS propaganda weerlegt

Oekraïne: waarom niet
de reguliere media direct laten leiden door de CIA en is de VS wellicht
bezig met de voorbereiding van een aanval op Rusland

De Krim het echte verhaal: geen annexatie maar de vrijwillige aansluiting bij Rusland, zelfs Oekraïners stemden voor‘ (!!!!)

Propaganda niet alleen voor oorlogsvoering maar levensbepalend zoals die voor het Verdrag van Maastricht

Generaal Stoss: VS ziet een ‘epische nucleaire dreiging’ van China en Rusland‘ (!!!!)

Oekraïne
crisis: het feit dat het westen dit sprookje in de wereld hielp ‘heeft
voorkomen’ dat een Russische inval plaatsvond…….
‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

BREKEND NIEUWS:
Oekraïne crisis: de CIA heeft Disney overgenomen: beweringen zonder enig
bewijs dat Rusland een ‘false flag video’ gebruikt zijn ‘waar….’
‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Nederlandse marine doet mee aan VS oorlogshitserij tegen China‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Oekraïne: het conflict berust puur op aannames die werden en worden gelanceerd door de VS en haar NAVO-partners(en zie de links in dat bericht!! Waarvan je de eerste hieronder vindt)

Oekraïne: westerse ‘stabilisatie van het conflict’: levering van wapens, straaljagers en troepen‘ 

VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!

Strijd opgelaaid in Oost-Oekraïne tussen het leger en ‘door Rusland gesteunde rebellen’, aldus BBC World Service‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Tony Blinken heeft de Oekraïense president Zelensky de wacht aangezegd: zijn land is officieel een VS kolonie‘ (!!!!)

Porosjenko (Oekraïne) roept de NAVO op tot oorlog tegen Rusland


Election ploy? Poroshenko declares martial law in Ukraine after Kerch standoff


VS senator Rand Paul stelt n.a.v. NAVO-top dat men de zaak moet bekijken vanuit het Russische perspectief


Putin en Trump halen spanning uit de lucht >> de westerse wereld schreeuwt moord en brand……


Afspraken met de VS maken? Voor je het weet heb je te maken met een ‘verspreking’ van de president….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Oekraïne, wat de reguliere (massa-) media, ‘deskundigen’ en politici u niet vertellen over dit door een junta geregeerd land (!!!!)


Oekraïne,
Georgië en Moldavië hebben oud bondgenootschap doen herleven, in
voorbereiding op NAVO lidmaatschap en verdere actie tegen
Rusland……..



De Krim, Georgië en Syrië >> de anti-Russische propaganda…..


Oekraïne en NAVO bezig met uitlokking WOIII………


VS levert neonazi-leger Oekraïne voor 250 miljoen dollar aan wapens

Ukraine is ready for NATO membershipFoto
van het neonazi-bataljon Azov in Oost-Oekraïne, bataljons als deze
hebben de laatste 8 jaar de steden en dorpen van de
zich van Oekraïne afgescheiden staatjes Luhansk en Donetsk
gebombardeerd, gelukkig zijn ze allesbehalve goed in dat bombarderen, al
hebben ze alsnog veel slachtoffers gemaakt onder burgers in die
staatjes…. Zie ook de NAVO vlag naast een neonazi vlag……. Voor de
omgekomen neonazi’s hebben onze zwaar disfunctionerende VVD premier en
aartsleugenaar Rutte en CDA kluns Hoekstra die minister van BuZa mag
spelen in het kabinet Rutte 4, een krans gelegd in Kiev, zie de foto die
hieronder is te vinden.

Oekraïne
het toneel van grootschalige luchtmachtoefeningen met VS en NAVO, naast
een enorme militaire VS/NAVO oefening in Noorwegen

Geert Jan Hahn en zijn ‘deskundige’ gekleurde kijk op Oekraïne…….. AAJAAAJAAAJ!!!
(26 februari 2015) Hahn was destijds de Oost-Europa deskundige van BNR
wat hij nu weer is, ondanks zijn enorme blunders die hij destijds en ook
nu weer maakt……

David Jan Godfroid bakt ze bruin vanuit Oekraïne…….‘ Godfroid was/is de Oost-Europa deskundige van de zogenaamd onafhankelijke NOS…….

NAVO beschuldigt Rusland alweer van meevechten met- en wapenleveranties aan opstandelingen Oost-Oekraïne‘ 

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Hier nog wat links naar berichten over de oneindige VS terreur: VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..
Dit tot het jaar 2000, wat betreft deze eeuw zijn er intussen meer dan 5
miljoen moorden aan toegevoegd, moorden begaan door de
VS en NAVO-lidstaten, inclusief Nederland (waar terreurorganisatie NAVO
altijd onder militair opperbevel
stond en staat van de VS…)…. Ongelofelijk dat men nooit zal beginnen
over het nemen van sancties tegen de VS, terwijl dat land oneindig veel
meer ellende en zwaar bloedvergieten over de aarde heeft gebracht en
brengt dan Rusland…..

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

List of wars involving the United States

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

9/11: de reden voor twintig jaar westerse terreur o.l.v. de VS waarbij meer dan vijf miljoen mensen werden vermoord‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

CIA rekruteert folteraars met een beroep op vrouwenemancipatie: een fikse rel in de VS

Michael Hayden (ex-CIA en generaal b.d.): niets mis met martelingen door Gina Haspel…..

US Airstrikes Killing Hundreds of Civilians in Syria’s Raqqa

VN waarschuwt de VS voor het maken van een onacceptabel aantal Syrische burgerslachtoffers met haar bombardementen…….‘ Waar de VS zich niets van heeft aangetrokken…

VS gaf sinds 2001 meer dan 5,9 biljoen dollar uit aan (illegale) oorlogen, ofwel: $ 5,933.000.000.000…….‘ (tot 2018…..)

VS is grootste producent van vluchtelingen, aldus VN rapport……….‘ (!!!!) (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

VS subsidiëring van neonazi’s in Oekraïne, neonazi’s die ook fascisten uit de VS trainen……
(!!!!) Lees dat bericht mensen, weet je meteen dat de EU en de NAVO neonazi’s
steunen met hun geldelijke en wapenhulp aan dat land!! (voor de NAVO
trouwens de normaalste zaak van de wereld: dat steunen van
fascisten…..) En dan te bedenken dat premier Rutte en minister van
Buitenlandse Zaken Hoekstra onlangs een
krans hebben gelegd bij een monument voor met name omgekomen
neonazi’s……
(op 8 februari 2022 heb ik de opmerking over de kranslegging door Rutte en Hoekstra aan deze link toegevoegd) Hier een foto van dit walgelijk gebeuren met aartsleugenaar Rutte ofwel Pinokkio 2.0:

 

VS verwijt Iran nucleaire chantage, chantage waar de VS zichzelf schuldig aan maakt‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

En
nogmaals:
het is de allerhoogste tijd dat journalist Julian Assange wordt
vrijgelaten uit de
smerige isolatiefolter waarin hij nu al bijna 3 jaar volkomen onterecht
vastzit voor het openbaren van zware oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS
(toegegeven in officiële gelekte documenten van de VS!!!)……. Het is
zelfs de taak van een ieder om zware misdaden aan te geven!!! Deze
documenten plus beeldmateriaal zijn te vinden in WikiLeaks!! Gisternacht
(15 maart 2022/////) maakte CBC Radio1 bekend dat de uitlevering van
Assange weer een stap dichterbij is gekomen >> de rechter heeft
gesteld dat Julian Assange mensenlevens in gevaar heeft gebracht en dat
dit een reden zou kunnen zijn tot uitlevering van Julian aan de grootste
terreurentiteit ter wereld: de VS, terwijl deze leugen al lang en breed
is doorgeprikt…….. SCHANDE!!!!

De FBI zoektocht naar de daders van de Antrax aanvallen in 2001 is belangrijk voor de vraag waar de COVID-19 uitbraak begon

Glenn Greenwald heeft een artikel geschreven waarin hij eerst aandacht besteedt aan de antrax aanvallen in de VS na de aanslagen van 9/11 (2001). Hij beschrijft hoe de FBI en anderen zochten naar de dader, waarbij men eerst de schuld in de schoenen van Saddam Hoessein probeerde te schuiven. Toen bleek dat de gevonden antrax, uit het VS militair laboratorium van Fort Detrick kwam, begon men een paar wetenschappers te beschuldigen, waarvan er één werkzaam was in dat laboratorium, met die beschuldiging werd de reputatie van deze mensen ernstig beschadigd, zoals die van dr. Steven Hatfill, een voormalig wetenschapper van de overheid, aan wie de VS overheid later 6 miljoen euro schadevergoeding moest betalen vanwege die valse beschuldiging…… 

Daarna werd microbioloog Bruce Ivins beschuldigd, deze wetenschapper was werkzaam in Fort Detrick, echter voor men hem kon aanklagen zou deze wetenschapper zich het leven hebben benomen…… Wat mij betreft discutabel, daar dit de FBI wel erg goed uitkwam: immers waarom zou Ivins zich het leven benemen als hij onschuldig was? Anders gezegd de kans is groot dat Ivins werd vermoord , waarbij men het op een suïcide liet lijken, dit om hem blijvend als schuldige aan te kunnen wijzen >> dergelijke ‘suïcides’ zijn een specialiteit van zowel de FBI als de CIA……. Overigens is het overgrote deel van de betrokkenen ervan overtuigd dat Ivins niets met de verspreiding van antrax te maken had: het zou zelfs onmogelijk zijn dat hij dit alleen zou hebben kunnen doen……..

De militaire laboratoria van Fort Detrick

Greenwald vindt e.e.a. belangrijk gezien de vraag waar het Coronavirus vandaan kwam, onlangs door Joe Biden nog eens aangewezen als belangrijk onderzoeksproject. Uit onderzoek naar de antrax uit 2001 bleek dat deze was aangepast in het militaire laboratorium in Fort Detrick, zogenaamd om uit te zoeken of er een vaccin tegen deze vorm van antrax was te fabriceren…… Geheel terecht merkt Greenwald op dat de VS weliswaar verdragen tegen het fabriceren van biologische wapens heeft getekend, maar in feite nog steeds bezig is met het fabriceren van dodelijke virussen en bacteriestammen in het bewuste militaire laboratorium……. 

Jammer dat Greenwald niet het met spoed sluiten noemt van Fort Detrick in de zomer van 2019, dit daar er een gevaarlijk virus was ontsnapt……. Het zou overigens zeker zijn dat ook het Coronavirus in dat laboratorium onderwerp van onderzoek was, niet zo vreemd als je bedenkt dat dit virus al lang rondwaart, echter zonder de ernstige gevolgen zoals we die het laatste jaar hebben gezien >> alleen dat laatste is al verdacht en zou kunnen aangeven dat er inderdaad is ‘gedokterd’ aan dit virus (hoewel het Coronavirus nog steeds géén dodelijk virus mag worden genoemd zoals bijvoorbeeld Ebola….)….. Eén theorie is dat het militaire laboratorium van Fort Detrick samenwerkte met een laboratorium in Wuhan, de stad die onterecht werd aangewezen als plek waar het virus voor het eerst zou zijn gevonden, immers uit nader onderzoek vorig voorjaar van stalen bloed, afgenomen in november 2019 in Frankrijk, blijkt dat twee mensen in die maand al waren besmet met het Coronavirus dat intussen zoveel ellende heeft veroorzaakt…. Nader onderzoek heeft overigens uitgewezen dat al voor de ontdekking van de eerste Coronabesmettingen in China er in de VS al mensen waren besmet met het virus*.

Vergeet bij dit alles niet dat gezonde mensen amper last hebben van het virus en militairen zijn over het algemeen in goede conditie, dus de kans dat die ernstig ziek worden van het virus is zeer klein….. Tel daarbij op dat in oktober 2019 de militaire wereldspelen plaatsvonden in Wuhan, waar ook militairen uit de VS aan deel hebben genomen, ofwel het is heel goed mogelijk dat één of meer militairen dit virus onbedoeld hebben overgebracht naar Wuhan……. 

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor world military gamesbesmettelijk

Het is zonder meer een schande dat er ondanks de Coronacrisis nog steeds biologische wapens worden gemaakt, die duidelijk worden gefabriceerd om als wapen in te zetten…. Vorig jaar werd Fort Detrick weer geopend en ging men daar ondanks de ‘pandemie’ door met onderzoek naar biologische wapens als virussen om die in te zetten tegen een toekomstig vijandig land……. (en de bevolking van zo’n land…..)

Lees het schrijven van Greenwald en vorm je eigen mening over deze zaak….

The FBI’s Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci’s Emails

Mainstream
institutions doubted the FBI had solved the 2001 anthrax case. Either
way, revelations that emerged about U.S. Government bio-labs have
newfound relevance.

Dr.
Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
hearing May 26, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by
Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
 

One of the most significant events
of the last two decades has been largely memory-holed: the October,
2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S. Beginning just one week after 9/11 and
extending for another three weeks, a highly weaponized and sophisticated
strain of anthrax had been sent around the country through the U.S.
Postal Service addressed to some of the country’s most prominent
political and media figures. As Americans were still reeling from the
devastation of 9/11, the anthrax killed five Americans and sickened
another seventeen.

As part of the extensive reporting I did on the subsequent FBI investigation to find the perpetrator(s), I documented how significant these attacks were in the public consciousness. ABC News,
led by investigative reporter Brian Ross, spent a full week claiming
that unnamed government sources told them that government tests
demonstrated a high likelihood that the anthrax came from Saddam
Hussein’s biological weapons program. The Washington Post, in November, 2001, also raised
“the possibility that [this weaponized strain of anthrax] may have
slipped through an informal network of scientists to Iraq.” Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) appeared on The David Letterman Show on October
18, 2001, and said: “There is some indication, and I don’t have the
conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have
come from Iraq.” Three days later, McCain appeared on Meet the Press
with Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and said of the anthrax perpetrators:
“perhaps this is an international organization and not one within the
United States of America,” while Lieberman said the anthrax was so
finely weaponized that “there’s either a significant amount of money
behind this, or this is state-sponsored, or this is stuff that was
stolen from the former Soviet program” (Lieberman added: “Dr. Fauci can
tell you more detail on that”).

In
many ways, the prospect of a lethal, engineered biological agent
randomly showing up in one’s mailbox or contaminating local communities
was more terrifying than the extraordinary 9/11 attack itself. All sorts
of oddities shrouded the anthrax mailings, including this bizarre admission in 2008 by long-time Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen: “I had been told soon after Sept. 11 to secure
Cipro, the antidote to anthrax. The tip had come in a roundabout way
from a high government official. I was carrying Cipro way before most
people had ever heard of it.” At the very least, those anthrax attacks
played a vital role in heightening fear levels and a foundational sense
of uncertainty that shaped U.S. discourse and politics for years to
come. It meant that not just Americans living near key power centers
such as Manhattan and Washington were endangered, but all Americans
everywhere were: even from their own mailboxes.

Letter sent to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, along with weaponized anthrax, in September, 2001

The
FBI first falsely cast suspicion on a former government scientist, Dr.
Steven Hatfill, who had conducted research on mailing deadly anthrax
strains. Following the FBI’s accusations, media outlets began dutifully
implying that Hatfill was the culprit. A January, 2002, New York Times column
by Nicholas Kristof began by declaring: “I think I know who sent out
the anthrax last fall,” then, without naming him, proceeded to perfectly
describe Hatfill in a way that made him easily identifiable to everyone
in that research community. Hatfill sued the U.S. Government, which
eventually ended up paying him close to $6 million in damages before
officially and explicitly exonerating him and apologizing. His lawsuit
against the NYT and Kristof were dismissed since he was never named by the paper, but the columnist also apologized to him six years later.

A
full eight years after the attack, the FBI once again claimed that it
had found the perpetrator: this time, it was the microbiologist Bruce
Ivins, a long-time “biodefense” researcher at the U.S. Army’s infectious
disease research lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Yet before he could be
indicted, Ivins died, apparently by suicide,
to avoid prosecution. As a result, the FBI was never required to prove
its case in court. The agency insisted, however, that there was no doubt
that Ivins was the anthrax killer, citing genetic analysis of the
anthrax strain that they said conclusively matched the anthrax found in
Ivins’ U.S. Army lab, along with circumstantial evidence pointing to
him.

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But virtually every mainstream institution other than the FBI harbored doubts. The New York Times quoted
Ivins’ co-workers as calling into question the FBI’s claims (“The
investigators looked around, they decided they had to find somebody”),
and the paper also cited “vocal skepticism from key members of
Congress.” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), one of the targets of the anthrax
letters, said explicitly
he did not believe Ivins could have carried out the attacks alone. Sen.
Charles Grassley (R-IA) and then-Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), a physicist,
said the same to me in interviews. The nation’s three largest newspapers
The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal
— all editorially called for independent investigations on the grounds
that the FBI’s evidence was inconclusive if not outright unconvincing.
One of the country’s most prestigious science journals, Nature, published an editorial under the headline “Case Not Closed,” arguing, about the FBI’s key claims, that “the jury is still out on those questions.”

When
an independent investigation was finally conducted in 2011 into the
FBI’s scientific claims against Ivins, much of that doubt converted into
full-blown skepticism. As The New York Times put it —
in a 2008 article headlined “Expert Panel Is Critical of F.B.I. Work in
Investigating Anthrax Letters” —  the review “concludes that the bureau overstated the strength of genetic analysis linking the mailed anthrax to a supply kept by Bruce E. Ivins.” A Washington Post article —
headlined: “Anthrax report casts doubt on scientific evidence in FBI
case against Bruce Ivins” — announced that “the report reignited a
debate that has simmered among some scientists and others who have
questioned the strength of the FBI’s evidence against Ivins.”

An in-depth joint investigation by ProPublica, PBS and McClatchy — published under the headline “New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI’s Case Against Anthrax Suspect”concluded
that “newly available documents and the accounts of Ivins’ former
colleagues shed fresh light on the evidence and, while they don’t
exonerate Ivins, are at odds with some of the science and circumstantial
evidence that the government said would have convicted him of capital
crimes.” It added: “even some of the government’s science consultants
wonder whether the real killer is still at large.” The report itself,
issued by the National Research Council, concluded that while the
components of the anthrax in Ivins’ lab were “consistent” with the
weaponized anthrax that had been sent, “the scientific link between the
letter material and flask number RMR-1029 [found in Ivins’ lab] is not
as conclusive as stated in the DOJ Investigative Summary.”

In
short, these were serious and widespread mainstream doubts about the
FBI’s case against Ivins, and those have never been resolved. U.S.
institutions seemingly agreed to simply move on without ever addressing
lingering scientific and other evidentiary questions regarding whether
Ivins was really involved in the anthrax attacks and, if so, how it was
possible that he could have carried out this sophisticated attack within
a top-secret U.S. Army lab acting alone. So whitewashed is this history
that doubts about whether the FBI found the real perpetrator are now
mocked by smug Smart People as a fringe conspiracy theory rather than
what they had been: the consensus of mainstream institutions.


But what we do know for certain
from this anthrax investigation is quite serious. And because it is
quite relevant to the current debates over the origins of COVID-19, it
is well-worth reviewing. A trove of emails
from Dr. Anthony Fauci — who was the government’s top infectious
disease specialist during the AIDS pandemic, the anthrax attacks, and
the COVID pandemic — was published on Monday by BuzzFeed after
they were produced pursuant to a FOIA request. Among other things, they
reveal that in February and March of last year — at the time that Fauci
and others were dismissing any real possibility that the coronavirus
inadvertently escaped from a lab, to the point that the Silicon Valley
monopolies Facebook and Google banned any discussion of that theory —
Fauci and his associates and colleagues were privately discussing the possibility that the virus had escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, possibly as part of a U.S.-funded joint program with the scientists at that lab.

Last week, BBC reported
that “in recent weeks the controversial claim that the pandemic might
have leaked from a Chinese laboratory — once dismissed by many as a
fringe conspiracy theory — has been gaining traction.” President Biden ordered
an investigation into this lab-leak possibility. And with Democrats now
open to this possibility, “Facebook reversed course Thursday and said
that it would no longer remove posts that claim the virus is man-made,” reported The Washington Post. Nobody can rationally claim to know the origins of COVID, and that is exactly why — as I explained in an interview on the Rising
program this morning — it should be so disturbing that Silicon Valley
monopolies and the WHO/Fauci-led scientific community spent a full year
pretending to have certainty about that “debunked” theory that they
plainly did not possess, to the point where discussions of it were prohibited on social media.

What
we know — but have largely forgotten — from the anthrax case is now
vital to recall. What made the anthrax attacks of 2001 particularly
frightening was how sophisticated and deadly the strain was. It was not
naturally occurring anthrax. Scientists quickly identified it as the
notorious Ames strain, which researchers at the U.S. Army lab in Fort
Detrick had essentially invented. As PBS’ Frontline program put it
in 2011: “in October 2001, Northern Arizona University microbiologist
Dr. Paul Keim identified that the anthrax used in the attack letters was
the Ames strain, a development he described as ‘chilling’ because that
particular strain was developed in U.S. government laboratories.” As Dr.
Keim recalled in that Frontline interview about his 2001 analysis of the anthrax strain:

We
were surprised it was the Ames strain. And it was chilling at the same
time, because the Ames strain is a laboratory strain that had been
developed by the U.S. Army as a vaccine-challenge strain. We knew that
it was highly virulent. In fact, that’s why the Army used it, because it
represented a more potent challenge to vaccines that were being
developed by the U.S. Army. It wasn’t just some random type of anthrax
that you find in nature; it was a laboratory strain, and that was very
significant to us, because that was the first hint that this might
really be a bioterrorism event.

Why
was the U.S. government creating exotic and extraordinarily deadly
infectious bacterial strains and viruses that, even in small quantities,
could kill large numbers of people? The official position of the U.S.
Government is that it does not engage in offensive bioweapons
research: meaning research designed to create weaponized viruses as
weapons of war. The U.S. has signed treaties barring such research. But
in the wake of the anthrax attacks — especially once the FBI’s own
theory was that the anthrax was sent by a U.S. Army scientist from his
stash at Fort Detrick — U.S. officials were forced to acknowledge that
they do engage in defensive bioweapons research: meaning
research designed to allow the development of vaccines and other
defenses in the event that another country unleashes a biological
attack.

But
ultimately, that distinction barely matters. For both offensive and
defensive bioweapons research, scientists must create, cultivate,
manipulate and store non-natural viruses in their labs, whether to study
them for weaponization or for vaccines. A fascinating-in-retrospect New Yorker article
from March, 2002, featured the suspicions of molecular biologist
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, who had “strongly implied that the F.B.I. was
moving much more slowly in its anthrax investigation than it had any
reason to.” Like The New York Times, the magazine (without
naming him) detailed her speculation that Dr. Hatfill was the
perpetrator (though her theory about his motive — that he wanted to
scare people about anthrax in order to increase funding for research —
was virtually identical to the FBI’s ultimate accusations about Dr.
Ivins’ motives).

But
the key point that is particularly relevant now is what all of this
said about the kind of very dangerous research the U.S. Government,
along with other large governments, conducts in bioweapons research
labs. Namely, they manufacture and store extremely lethal biological
agents that, if they escape from the lab either deliberately or
inadvertently, can jeopardize the human species. As the article put it:

The
United States officially forswore biological-weapons development in
1969, and signed the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, along with many
other nations. But Rosenberg believes that the American bioweapons
program, which won’t allow itself to be monitored, may not be in strict
compliance with the convention. If the perpetrator of the anthrax
attacks is who she thinks it is, that would put the American program in a
bad light, and it would prove that she was right to demand that the
program be monitored.

If
the government is saying that the perpetrator was probably an American,
it’s hard to imagine how it couldn’t have been an American who worked
in a government-supported bioweapons lab. Think back to the panicky
month of October [2001]: would knowing that have made you less nervous,
or more?

Having
extensively reported on the FBI’s investigation into the anthrax case
and ultimate claim to have solved it, I continue to share all the doubts
that were so widely expressed at the time about whether any of that was
true. But what we know for certain is that the U.S. government and
other governments do conduct research which requires the manufacture of
deadly viruses. Dr. Fauci has acknowledged that the U.S. government indirectly funded
research by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into coronaviruses, though
he denies that this was for so-called “gain of function” research, whereby naturally occurring viruses are manipulated to make them more transmissible and/or more harmful to humans.

We
do not know for sure if the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab,
another lab, or jumped from animals to humans. But what we do know for
certain — from the anthrax investigation — is that governments most
definitely conduct the sort of research that could produce novel
coronaviruses. Dr. Rosenberg, the subject of the 2002 New Yorker article,
was suggesting that the F.B.I. was purposely impeding its own
investigation because they knew that the anthrax actually came from the
U.S. government’s own lab and wanted to prevent exposure of the real
bio-research that is done there. We should again ponder why the
pervasive mainstream doubts about the F.B.I.’s case against Ivins have
been memory-holed. We should also reflect on what we learned about
government research into highly lethal viruses from that still-strange
episode.


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* Zie : Study Suggests Covid-19 Was In The U.S. Weeks Earlier Than
Thought, Before First Public Cases In China
‘ (dit artikel van 1
december 2020 stelt wel dat het virus al weken eerder in de VS werd
gevonden, vóór de eerste melding in China, eind december 2020….)

Zie ook: ‘VS universiteiten stellen na onderzoek dat het Coronavirus al 2 maanden vóór december 2019 rondging

Coronavirus: China door het slijk halen

Coronavirus: alles wijst erop dat dit virus uit een militair laboratorium van de VS komt

Coronavirus hysterie: de nieuwe anti-Chinese campagne in de VS bestaat (alweer) uit leugens

Coronavirus: hysterische en belachelijke beschuldigingen aan adres China‘ 

Coronavirus: militaire laboratoria werken aan biologische wapens als virussen >> waarom heeft niemand daar commentaar op?‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

VS
loopt achter de ‘Coronafeiten’ aan en geeft nu zelfs Rusland de schuld
van het manipuleren van de verkiezingen door haar humanitaire hulp

(humanitaire hulp aan de VS wel te verstaan, een beschuldiging van
uiterst onbeschofte proporties., maar ja het gaat dan ook om de VS, de
grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld……)


Coronavirus tragedie misbruikt voor racisme en het zaaien van haat

Coronavirus? De intensieve veehouderij is een bron van gevaarlijke besmettelijke ziekten en antibioticaresistentie

Antrax ‘aanvallen’ na 911, de antrax kwam uit VS overheidsvoorraad, verspreid door………

Belangrijk account voor de verdediging Julian Assange geblokkeerd door Twitter

Een
belangrijk Twitteraccount, 
@Unity4J, waar men zaken publiceert ter
verdediging van journalist en WikiLeaks oprichter Julian Assange is geblokkeerd door
Twitter…… De beheerders van het account hebben van Twitter geen reden voor de
blokkade ontvangen……

Het is
dan ook steeds duidelijker dat de VS overheid, of beter gezegd de
Trump administratie en de geheime diensten (de belangrijkste: CIA, NSA en FBI) in de VS plus rechtse denktanks als de Atlantic Council (lobbyorgaan voor de NAVO en de rest van het militair-industrieel complex) en zelfs het Pentagon, een wel heel
dikke vinger in de pap hebben als het gaat om platforms als Twitter en
Facebook, waar Google in feite ook wordt gecontroleerd door organen als de al genoemde geheime diensten in de
VS……..

Politieke
zaken mogen blijkbaar alleen gepubliceerd worden op Twitter als dit door
zwaargewichten als Trump gebeurt en als het van de (uiterst) rechterkant van de politiek komt…. Daarover gesproken: ieder ander
met veel volgers, die woorden zou gebruiken en haat zou zaaien als
Trump, zou al lang van Twitter en Facebook zijn gegooid……. (althans dat mag je hopen….)

Laat Twitter weten dat je het account terug wil zien op Twitter, kopieer het volgende en post het ajb op Twitter: @TwitterSupport @Jackpleasere-instate@Unity4J
asap!

Lees het
volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone en geeft het door mensen,
het internet is van ons allen en Julian Assange zit vast omdat
hij zijn werk als journalist wel serieus nam en de waarheid naar
buiten bracht, hij dient dan ook onmiddellijk te worden vrijgelaten!!

Top
Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter

by Caitlin
Johnstone

One of the biggest
Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy
for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely
removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they
have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have
received no response to their appeals.

Any
Assange supporter active on Twitter will be familiar with the Unity4J
account, which originated to help boost the wildly successful 
Unity4J
online vigils
 in
which well-known Assange defenders would appear to speak out against
his persecution. As of this writing, the account has been gone
for a day and a half.

“About 8:45am CST on
Thursday July 11, one of our Unity4J Twitter team members went to
retweet on the account and noticed that the account was no longer
accessible,” reports pro-Assange activist Christy Dopf, one of
the operators of the account. “When each of us also attempted to
access the account we all received the same message ‘Account
Suspended’. Twitter did not send us a reason or violation for the
suspension. So an appeal was submitted. We did receive correspondence
that Twitter got our request and the case is currently open.
Unfortunately we do not have a timeline on how long this could take.”

I’m back on Twitter after the outage but @unity4J is still suspended – we did not receive an email or a reason for the suspension. Appeal process started. #FreeAssange #Unity4J pic.twitter.com/a14DqZaoGt

— ⏳ Christy Dopf ⏳ ✨
🌓
✨ (@ChristyMKD84) July 11, 2019

Speaking for myself as a
vocal Assange supporter on Twitter, I can say that I’ve been
following the @Unity4J account closely since its earliest days and
I’ve never once seen it post anything other than highly
professional-looking advocacy for Julian Assange. I’ve certainly
never seen it post anything that could be construed as abusive,
misleading, or otherwise in violation of any of Twitter’s posted
rules.

This
account’s deletion is just the latest in a long string of apparently
biased actions against WikiLeaks and Assange by the immensely
influential social media platform. That bias was made abundantly
clear with Twitter’s ridiculous
 refusal
to verify Assange
 while
he was posting from his own account despite his undeniably being a
significant public figure, and despite the fact that Twitter 
was
well aware that the account was authentic
.
The platform has been receiving 
consistent
complaints
 among
Assange supporters of using shadow bans to marginalize their voices,
as well as unfair 
posting
locks
 and restrictions.

“It seems that
Assange supporters have been targeted for suspension over the last
few days and weeks, including the suspension of individuals (Yon
Solitary, Monique Jolie) as well as accounts like Unity4J,”
Unity4J co-founder Elizabeth Lea Vos told me today. “All of
these suspensions are unacceptable, but I find the Unity4J suspension
especially egregious because it was an amplifier of events across the
board, not only actions run by Unity4J. It never broke the
twitter rules and it was an activist account supporting a journalist
who’s been silenced or ‘disappeared,’ so this suspension is an
extension of that suppression. Assange asked us to become his voice,
and platforms like Twitter appear to be actively working against the
possibility of that effort.”

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

The main Twitter account defending Julian Assange, and therefore press freedom & freedom of speech, has been suspended.@Unity4J – suspended for defending a hero.


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6:42 PM – Jul 12, 2019

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Pro-Assange activists
have been speaking out against @Unity4J’s removal.

“The
main Twitter account defending Julian Assange, and therefore press
freedom and freedom of speech, has been suspended,” 
tweeted comedian
and 
Redacted
Tonight
 host
Lee Camp. “@Unity4J – suspended for defending a hero.”

“HELP!!
Twitter suspended @Unity4J The global #FreeAssange supporters
account!” 
tweeted Assange’s
mother Christine Assange. “Its a central point for updates,
interviews and actions re my son politically persecuted journalist
JULIAN ASSANGE! Please demand @TwitterSupport and @Jack
re-instate it. Many thanks #Unity4J”

“I
have no doubt that @Unity4J’s twitter account was suspended because
it was a hub of useful information on solidarity events and actions
in support of Assange, WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning and more.
Horrendous censorship to suspend the account,
@TwitterSupport,” 
tweeted Elizabeth
Lea Vos.

“If
@Unity4J is not restored, it is proof that Twitter would have sided
against the Free Mandela movement, and every other mass liberation
movement of a ‘terrorist’ turned Nobel nominee,” 
tweeted Unity4J
co-founder Suzie Dawson.

Many
other Assange supporters have been 
flagging
the attention
 of
the Twitter Support account and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey objecting to
the unjust silencing of a perfectly legitimate activist account, to
no avail thus far.

Mrs Christine Assange@AssangeMrs

HELP!! @Twitter suspended @Unity4J

The global supporters account!

Its a central point for updates, interviews & actions re my son politically persecuted journalist JULIAN ASSANGE!

Please demand @TwitterSupport & @Jack re-instate it.

Many thanks


697

10:31 PM – Jul 11, 2019

The
censorship of political speech on online media platforms is a large
and growing problem. 

Twitter has been better about this than the far
more sycophantic Facebook and Google, but the discrimination against
anti-establishment political speech is undeniable at this point. I
myself was 
removed
from the platform last year
 just
for saying the world would be better off without warmongering US
Senator John McCain in it, and was only restored after protests from
high-profile Twitter users.

In
a corporatist system of government, in which there is no meaningful
separation of corporate power and state power, corporate censorship
is state censorship. With giant Silicon Valley corporations 
aligning
themselves with shady state-funded propagandistic think tanks
 like
the Atlantic Council, being 
admonished
on the Senate floor
 that
they must help quash political rebellion, and being 
targeted
for narrative control influence
 by
the US military, there’s vanishingly little difference between what’s
happening more and more to political speech with these tech giants
and what happens in overtly totalitarian governments. The only
difference is the stories people choose to tell themselves about it.

The time to speak up
about this silencing is now. Your voice is next.

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Zie ook:

Assange: geen uitlevering maar directe invrijheidstelling!‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht voor meer recente berichten over Julian Assange)

Julian Assange moet onmiddellijk vrijgelaten worden!

Assange in de gevangenis: Zweden laat voor de derde keer de aanklacht wegens verkrachting vallen 

Twitter verwijdert accounts vanwege ‘propaganda’, maar werkt zelf met een militair propagandist

CNN met nog smeriger lastercampagne tegen Julian Assange

Het westen vervolgt journalist Assange, Rusland laat journalist vrij na onrust over diens gevangenschap‘ (en nog hadden de reguliere media een grote bek over Rusland, media die niet anders hebben gedaan dan collega Assange besmeuren…..)

Julian Assange: Speciaal VN rapporteur martelen heeft grote twijfels bij onafhankelijkheid rechter

VN rapport: Assange is gedemoniseerd en psychisch gemarteld

Media wakker geschrokken en ontwaken in Assange nachtmerrie

Julian Assange weer vervolgd wegens ‘verkrachting’, waarvoor het Zweedse OM eerder geen bewijs kon vinden……

Dag van Persvrijheid: Assange wordt zoveel mogelijk uitermate hypocriet gemeden door de pers

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

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

Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Chelsea Manning blijft voor onbepaalde tijd in de gevangenis

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

Julian Assange gedemoniseerd door media die hem zouden moeten steunen, waren ze bevolkt geweest door echte journalisten……..

WikiLeaks toont aan dat VS en GB een gezamenlijke gewelddadige en bedrieglijke buitenlandpolitiek voeren

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum

De prijs op het hoofd van Julian Assange: 1 miljard dollar…..

Assange kan niet voor spionage worden vervolgd, immers hij is journalist >> aldus Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) in een video

Assange is journalist en zou alleen daarom al niet mogen worden vervolgd, een artikel o.a. voor de huidige ‘journalisten’ van de reguliere media en de gebruikers van die media

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum‘ 

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!’

Voor nog meer berichten over Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, censuur, Twitter, Facebook of Google, klik op één van de labels, direct onder dit bericht.

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

Abdul Basset
al-Sarout, is een bekende terrorist, die door o.a. Associated Press
(AP), The New York Times (NYT), The Guardian, PBS en Bloomberg wordt
bejubeld als was hij een groot mensenrechtenactivist en voetbalster, sterker nog, deze psychopaat was i.d.d. ook voetballer…… Zoals het voorgaande al aangeeft was al-Sarout daarnaast een terrorist, die was gelinkt aan Al Qaida en ISIS en daarmee was hij gelinkt aan ongebreidelde terreur……. 

Lees
het volgende artikel van
Caitlin Johnstone waarin ze uitgebreid
ingaat op deze zaak en de totaal zieke manier waarop de reguliere
massamedia terroristen (‘gematigde rebellen’) ophemelen als helden…. De ‘held’ in deze, al-Sarout, hield zich onder meer bezig met het onderwerpen van de bevolking aan
terreur die niet met een pen is te beschrijven….. En geeft het
door mensen, er is al veel teveel gelogen over de oorlog die de VS
heeft ontketend in Syrië…….

MSM
Mourns Death Of CIA-Backed Syrian Al-Qaeda/ISIS Ally

by Caitlin
Johnstone

On
Wednesday the alternative media outlet 
Southfront published
an article
 titled
“New Video Throws Light On Jaysh Al-Izza High-Tolerance
To Al-Qaeda Ideology” about newly discovered footage showing the
leader of a “rebel” faction in Syria cozying up with a
militant who was wearing a badge of the official flag of ISIS.

“The
video shows Jaysh al-Izza
* General Commander Major Jamil al-Saleh
congratulating a group of his fighters on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr
in a underground bunker,”
Southfrontreports.
“One of the fighters greeted by Saleh was wearing a batch of the
Islamic Black Standard with the Seal of Muhammad. This is a
well-known symbol of al-Qaeda and the official flag of ISIS.”

Today,
mass media outlets are mourning the death of a well-known Jaysh
al-Izza fighter named Abdel-Basset al-Sarout with grief-stricken
beatifications not seen since the death of war criminal John McCain.
An 
Associated
Press
 report
 which
has been published by major news outlets like 
The
New York Times
,
The
Guardian
,
PBSand
Bloomberg commemorates
Sarout as a “Syrian soccer goalkeeper” who “won
international titles representing his country”, as “the
singer of the revolution”, and as “an icon among Syria’s
opposition”.

Remember Major
Jamil al-Saleh from two paragraphs ago? AP features his glowing
eulogy in its write-up on Sarout’s death:

He
was both a popular figure, guiding the rebellion, and a military
commander,” said Maj. Jamil al-Saleh, leader of Jaish al-Izza rebel
group, in which Sarout was a commander. “His martyrdom will give us
a push to continue down the path he chose and to which he offered his
soul and blood as sacrifice.”

 

 (via de link van het hieronder weergegeven Twitterbericht, kan je de bedoelde video zien)


New Video Throws Light On Jaysh Al-Izza High-Tolerance To Al-Qaeda Ideology

On June 4, supporters of Jaysh al-Izza released a short video throwing light on the group’s high-tolerance to al-Qaeda ideology….

southfront.org

Other
mainstream outlets like 
BBCThe
Daily Beast 
and Al
Jazeera
 have
contributed their own fawning hagiographies of the late Jaish
al-Izza fighter.

New
Video Throws Light On Jaysh Al-Izza High-Tolerance To Al-Qaeda
Ideology 
https://t.co/2P2LdcGP0S

SouthFront
(@southfronteng) 
June
5, 2019

“Formed
in 2013, Jaysh al-Izza was one of the first Free Syrian Army (FSA)
groups in northern Syria to benefit from U.S. support through the
CIA’s ‘Timber Sycamore’ train and equip program, which had been
approved by then U.S. President Barack Obama,” 
Southfront reports
in the aforementioned 
article.
“The group received loads of weapons from the U.S. including
Grad rockets, as well as Fagot and TOW anti-tank guided missiles
(ATGMs).”

“Jaysh
al-Izza received this support under the pretension of being a
‘moderate group’ led by a known Syrian Arab Army (SAA) defector,
al-Saleh,” 
Southfront adds.
“However, the group’s acts were not in line with these claims.
Since its formation, Jaysh al-Izza has been deeply linked to
al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the al-Nusra Front. The group became
one of the main allies of al-Nusra when its changed its name to
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in 2017.”

“Western
thought leaders are lionizing Abdel Baset al-Sarout who was killed
fighting the Syrian army,” 
tweeted journalist
Dan Cohen of the mass media response to Sarout’s death. “They
conveniently omit that he fought in a militia allied with al-Qaeda
and pledged allegiance to ISIS.”

Cohen
linked to an excerpt from his mini-documentary 
The
Syria Deception
 featuring
footage of Sarout holding an ISIS flag, leading chants calling for
the extermination of the Alawite minority in Syria, and announcing
his allegiance to ISIS.

Western
thought leaders are lionizing Abdel Baset al-Sarout who was killed
fighting the Syrian army. They conveniently omit that he fought in a
militia allied with al-Qaeda and pledged allegiance to ISIS. From my
mini-documentary: The Syria
Deception 
https://t.co/MpdkUbJkP7 pic.twitter.com/vLThkIMZFB

Dan
Cohen (@dancohen3000) 
June
8, 2019

Other
publicly available video footage includes 
a
speech by Sarout
 urging
cooperation between his own faction, ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra
(Al-Qaeda’s Syrian franchise), saying “we know that these two
groups are not politicized and have the same goals as us, and are
working for God.”

“God
willing we will work with them shoulder-to-shoulder when we leave
here,” Sarout 
has
been translated
 as
saying in the speech. “And we are not Christians or Shiaa to be
scared of suicide belts and car bombs. We consider these things as
strengths of ours, and God willing they will be just that.

This
message is to the Islamic State and our brothers in Jabhat al-Nusra,
that when we come out of here we will all be one hand to fight
Christians and not to have internal fights among ourselves. We want
to take back all the lands that have been filthied by the regime,
that were entered and taken over by Shiaas and apostates.”

This
bloodthirsty terrorist warmongering was taken by the aforementioned
AP hagiography and twisted into the single sentence, “He
repeatedly denounced rebel infighting and called on Syrians to unite
against government forces.”

The
Atlantic
‘s
Hassan Hassan framed Sarout’s unconscionable agendas as mere “flaws”
which actually add to his inspiring and heroic story, 
tweeting,
“Some individuals celebrated as heroes make you doubt all
stories of heroes in history books. Others, like Abdulbasit Sarout,
not inspire of but despite his flaws, make those stories highly
plausible. He’s a true legend & his story is well documented.
May his soul rest in peace.”

Yeah,
come on, everybody’s got flaws. Some people suck at parallel parking,
some people team up with ISIS and Al-Qaeda on genocidal extermination
campaigns. We’ve all got our quirky little foibles.

Hassan Hassan

@hxhassan

Some individuals celebrated as heroes make you doubt all stories of heroes in history books. Others, like Abdulbasit Sarout, not inspire of but despite his flaws, make those stories highly plausible. He’s a true legend & his story is well documented. May his soul rest in peace:


313

6:11 PM – Jun 8, 2019

We
can expect more and more of these mass media distortions as Syria and
its allies draw closer to recapturing Syrian land from the extremist
forces which 
nearly
succeeded in toppling Damascus
 just
a few short years ago.

As
these distortions pour in, keep this in mind: all of the violence
that is still happening in Syria is the fault of the US and its
allies, who helped extremist jihadist factions like Jaysh
al-Izza overrun the nation to advance 
the
preexisting goal
 of
effecting regime change. The blame for all the death, suffering and
chaos which ensues from a sovereign nation fighting to reclaim its
land from these bloodthirsty factions rests solely on the government
bodies which inflicted their dominance over the region in the first
place.

You
will see continuing melodramatic garment-rending from the US State
Department and its mass media stenographers about “war crimes”
and “human rights violations” as though the responsibility
for this violence rests somewhere other than on the US-centralized
power alliance, but they will be lying.

What
these warmongering propagandists are doing is exactly the same as
paying a bunch of violent thugs to break into a home and murder its
owner, then standing by and sounding the alarm about the way the
homeowner chooses to fight off their assailants.

After
it was discovered that the US and its allies armed actual, literal
terrorist factions in Syria with the goal of effecting regime change,
the only sane response would have been for the public to loudly and
aggressively demand that all governments involved to take immediate
action to completely rectify all damage done by this unforgivable war
crime at any cost, and for there to be war crimes tribunals for every
decision maker who was a part of it. Instead, because of propaganda
circulated by the same mass media narrative management firms who are
sanctifying the memory of Abdel-Basset al-Sarout today, the
public remains asleep to the depravity of its rulers. This dynamic
must change if we are to survive and thrive as a species.

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* Jaysh al-Izza, volgens Wikipedia een ‘rebellengroep…..’

Zie ook:

Douma gifgasaanval: OPCW baas gaf opdracht een rapport te verwijderen uit dossier en alle sporen te wissen

Douma, OPCW lek wordt door massamedia toegeschreven aan Rusland, waarbij men blijft volhouden dat de gifgasaanval plaatsvond

White Helmets oprichter ‘vermoord door’ vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media‘ 

White Helmets oprichter overleden, het sein voor nog meer anti-Syrische propaganda

VS terreuraanslag in Syrië op 3 tankwagens: 4 doden

MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria
De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben
gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van ‘false flag’ operaties, ofwel men begaat
een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘ 

White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

Gifgasaanval
Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging
aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot

(de OPCW heeft trouwens later een smerig spel gespeeld in de
documentatie over deze zogenaamde gifgasaanval van Assad, dit door zaken
weg te laten….)

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

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

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

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

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

CNN en andere media met doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda tegen de Syrische regering

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

Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)

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

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….‘ (zie de links in dat bericht over de levering van wapens door o.a.de VS (en Nederland) aan terreurgroepen als IS en al-Nusra)

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

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

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

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

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

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

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

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

Caitlin
Johnstone publiceerde afgelopen zaterdag een artikel waarin ze verder
ingaat op de zuivering van het internet door Facebook en Twitter.
Waar aanvankelijk naar de inhoud van berichten werd gekeken zijn nu
de accounts van o.a. Anti-Media, WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) en
PoliceThePolice volledig verwijderd van deze 2 platforms……..

Ofwel
Facebook en Twitter fungeren als censuuragenten voor de
overheid…… Terecht stelt Johnstone dat de overheid in de VS (en
elders in het westen) nog maar weinig geloofwaardigheid over heeft, het is dan ook zaak dat organisaties als Facebook en Twitter de
functie van censuuragent op zich nemen, immers als de overheid dit
openlijk had gedaan, waren de rapen gaar geweest…….

Het
is echter vrijwel zeker dat de VS overheid platforms als Facebook en
Twitter aanstuurt wat betreft de keus voor te censureren accounts,
ook gezien een conferentie eerder dit jaar, waar WSWS over berichtte
op 5 oktober jl. Het gaat hier om een conferentie van de United
States Special Operations Command, een sectie van het ministerie van
‘Defensie’ (zou het ministerie van Oorlog genoemd moeten worden), die
supervisie heeft over de US Special Forces. De conferentie droeg de
naam ‘Sovereignty in the Information Age’ en ondanks de vage titel,
ging het er tijdens die conferentie over hoe alternatieve nieuws- en
opiniesites te censureren…… Mensen lees ook dat artikel en de
haren zullen je ten berge rijzen….
*


Internet
Censorship Just Took An Unprecedented Leap Forward, And Hardly
Anyone Noticed

by Caitlin
Johnstone


While
most indie media was focused on debating the way people talk about
Kanye West and the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
an unprecedented escalation in internet censorship took place which
threatens everything we all care about. It received frighteningly
little attention.

After
massive
purge
 of
hundreds of politically oriented pages and personal accounts for
“inauthentic behavior”, Facebook rightly received a fair
amount of criticism for the nebulous and hotly disputed basis for
that action. What received relatively little attention was the far
more ominous step which was taken next: within hours of being purged
from Facebook, multiple anti-establishment alternative media sites
had their accounts completely removed from Twitter as well.

As
of this writing I am aware of three large alternative media outlets
which were 
expelled
from both platforms
 at
almost the same time: Anti-Media, the Free Thought Project, and
Police the Police, all of whom had millions of followers on Facebook.
Both the 
Editor-in-Chief of
Anti-Media and its 
Chief
Creative Officer
 were
also banned by Twitter, and are being kept from having any new
accounts on that site as well.

“I
unfortunately always felt the day would come when alternative media
would be scrubbed from major social media sites,” Anti-Media’s
Chief Creative Officer S.M. Gibson said in a statement to me.
“Because of that I prepared by having backup accounts years ago.
The fact that those accounts, as well as 3 accounts from individuals
associated with Anti-Media were banned without warning and without
any reason offered by either platform makes me believe this purge was
certainly orchestrated by someone. Who that is I have no idea, but
this attack on information was much more concise and methodical in
silencing truth than most realize or is being reported.”

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

UPDATE on the massive Purge of 800 dissident voices happening in the U.S.

Banned from Facebook yesterday:

-Antimedia

-FreeThoughtProject

-PoliceThePolice

-Minds social media

Suspended from Twitter:

-Antimedia + editors

-FreeThoughtProject + editors

-PoliceThePolice + editors

It
is now clear that there is either (A) some degree of
communication/coordination between Twitter and Facebook about their
respective censorship practices, or (B) information being given to
both Twitter and Facebook by another party regarding targets for
censorship. Either way, it means that there is now some some
mechanism in place linking the censorship of dissident voices across
multiple platforms. We are beginning to see smaller
anti-establishment alternative media outlets cut off from their
audiences by the same sort of coordinated cross-platform silencing
we 
first
witnessed with Alex Jones
 in
August.

This
is about as acute a threat to our ability to network and share
information with each other as anything you could possibly imagine.
If new media outlets are beginning to silence dissident voices
together in unison, that means we can see entire alternative media
outlets not just partially silenced but thoroughly silenced, their
ability to grow their audiences and get information out to heavily
populated parts of the internet completely crippled.

This
is huge, this is dangerous, and this is being under-reported. When I
was 
removed
from Twitter
 in
August for 
“abusing”
John McCain
,
there was a 
large
and outraged uproar
on
Twitter, and my account was quickly 
restored
with an apology
.
The phenomenon of multiple high-profile alternative media outlets
suddenly being silenced in unison by the two biggest social media
platforms should be generating 
more outrage
than some ornery Australian blogger losing her Twitter account, not
less. People should be legitimately freaked out by this, because it
affects us all.

Daniel McAdams@DanielLMcAdams

Replying to @caitoz @InmanAlex

The entity that is making censorship decisions for Facebook, as publicly announced, is the Atlantic Council, a partly US government-funded entity. At what point will the extremely tight ties between these companies and the US government end the “they are private” argument?

Daniel McAdams@DanielLMcAdams

Is this a private entity? pic.twitter.com/5oGABYjMqz

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Any
time you try to talk about how internet censorship threatens our
ability to get the jackboot of oligarchy off our necks you’ll always
get some guy in your face who’s read one Ayn Rand book and thinks he
knows everything, saying things like “Facebook is a private
company! It can do whatever it wants!” Is it now? Has not
Facebook been 
inviting
US government-funded groups
 to
help regulate its operations, 
vowing on
the 
Senate
floor
 to do
more
 to
facilitate the interests of the US government, deleting accounts 
at
the direction of the US and Israeli governments
,
and 
handing
the guidance
 of
its censorship behavior over to the Atlantic Council, 
which
receives funding
 from
the US government, the EU, NATO and Gulf states? How “private”
is that? Facebook is a deeply government-entrenched corporation, and
Facebook censorship is just what government censorship looks like in
a corporatist system of government.

Speaking
of the Atlantic Council, it recently published a very
interesting 
21-page
document
 about
a US military conference detailing, in present tense, how Silicon
Valley tech giants are being used to nullify the threat that the new
media landscape poses to the US power establishment.

Of
this document, 
World
Socialist Website
 writes
the following
:

Enter
the social media companies. The best mechanism for suppressing
oppositional viewpoints and promoting pro-government narratives is
the private sector, in particular “technology giants, including
Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Twitter,” which can “determine
what people see and do not see.”
 

Watts
adds, “Fortunately, shifts in the policies of social media
platforms such as Facebook have had significant impact on the type
and quality of the content that is broadcast.”
 

The
private sector, therefore, must do the dirty work of the government,
because government propaganda is viewed with suspicion by the
population. “Business and the private sector may not naturally
understand the role they play in combating disinformation, but theirs
is one of the most important…. In the West at least, they have been
thrust into a central role due to the general public’s increased
trust in them as institutions.”

#FreeAssange! (tweets by campaign)⌛@JulianAssange

A securocrat’s vision for state censorship (as channeled through the Atlantic Council)https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/05/pers-o05.html 


The US military’s vision for state censorship

The Atlantic Council, a key partner in social media companies’ drive to censor the internet, has published a summary of a US special forces conference outlining a plan for systematically gutting the…

wsws.org

The
best way to deal with a manipulative sociopath is to point and make a
lot of noise every time they do something weird and creepy. The more
you let them abuse you in private, the more they can rope you in and
get you playing along with their sick agendas. If you notice them
doing something weird, the best way to nullify all the tools in their
wicked little toolbox is to point and yell “Hey! What are you
doing?? Why are you doing that? That’s weird!” Get people
looking, because such beasts can’t advance their manipulations with a
lot of critical eyes on them.

Propaganda
and censorship operates very much the same way. If you are unfamiliar
with the concept of 
the
Streisand effect
,
I encourage you to begin to acquaint yourself with it. Named for an
incident in which Barbara Streisand attempted to suppress online
photographs of her Malibu residence and thereby inadvertently drew
far more attention to them, the Streisand effect describes the way
attempts to hide and censor information can be used to draw more
attention to it if the coverup attracts the interest of the public
eye. Every censor needs to prevent this from happening in order to do
their job effectively; if it looks like removing something from
public view would draw more attention to it, then they cannot
practice censorship in that case.

So
let’s Streisand this thing up, hey? Let’s make a big angry noise
about this new cross-platform escalation in internet censorship, and
let’s make a big angry noise any time anyone makes a move to silence
dissident political speech in the new media environment. Manipulators
can only function in darkness, so let’s never give them any. Anything
they try, we need to make a ton of noise about it. That by itself
would be throwing an enormous stumbling block in their path while we
find new ways to clear a path for more and more networking and
information sharing. These bastards have controlled the narrative for
too long.

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The US military’s vision for state censorship

Zie ook:

Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort

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

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

Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen

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

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

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

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

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

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

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

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

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

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

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

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

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

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

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

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

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

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

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

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

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

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

Trump volgt het scenario van deep state: oorlog met Iran ‘is onvermijdelijk….’

John
C. O’Day publiceerde vorige week vrijdag een artikel op Fair.org dat ik
overnam van Anti-Media (en dat je onder mijn schrijven terug kan
vinden). Hierin vestigt O’Day de aandacht op de Iran-deal van een paar
jaar geleden, deze deal of:
the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), werd destijds
bediscussieerd in de reguliere (massa-) media, waar men stelde dat
Iran ofwel deze deal moest slikken, daar anders alleen oorlog met
Iran zou overblijven als alternatief………

De
voorspelling dat oorlog het enige alternatief zou zijn, werd door de
Trump administratie gevolgd, door de deal alsnog af te blazen en met enorme anti-Iran propaganda te beweren dat Iran zich niet aan de deal houdt, ook al zeggen alle VN wapeninspecties dat Iran inderdaad is gestopt met de verrijking van uranium en is begonnen met het ontmantelen van de daarvoor benodigde centrifuges. 


Bolton, de oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger (die voor
het leven gevangen zou moeten zitten in Scheveningen) beweerde dat
wanneer Iran de boel zou belazeren, het land te maken zou krijgen
met ‘de woede van de VS’, ofwel met grootscheepse terreur in de vorm
van één van de zwaarste oorlogsmisdaden, het beginnen van alweer
een illegale oorlog door deze grootste terreurentiteit op aarde………… 


Een belachelijke uitlating van Bolton daar de VS zonder enig bewijs en in tegenspraak met officiële VN rapporten toch al stelt dat Iran vals speelt, m.a.w.: de reden voor de VS om een (illegale) oorlog tegen Iran te beginnen, is door de VS zelf gecreëerd…….. (iets waar de VS ‘goed in is’, neem alle false flag operaties van deze terreurenteit)

O’Day
stelt dat de woorden van figuren als Bolton en Trump nog amper op
kritiek kunnen rekenen in de VS, wat volgens hem het gevolg is van de berichtgeving
in de reguliere media……. O’Day noemt een groot aantal voorbeelden
en stelt dan ook dat de Trump administratie die media volgt, echter
daar ben ik het niet mee eens. O’Day vergeet het begrip Deep State,
de werkelijke machthebbers, die al helemaal niet blij waren met de
Iran-deal. Deze Deep State beheerst ook de massamedia en zijn
derhalve verantwoordelijk voor wat die media brengen aan (nep-)
nieuws, leugens en pure propaganda (waarbij Goebbels z’n gore vingers
zou aflikken….) 


Ondanks dat een groot deel van die media in onmin
leven met Trump, staan ze volkomen achter de terreur die de VS
verspreidt over het Midden-Oosten, Latijns-Amerika en Afrika……. Vergeet daarnaast niet dat het in feite niet uitmaakt wie er regeert in de VS, al helemaal niet wat betreft de buitenlandpolitiek, neem ‘vredesduif’ Obama die als eerste VS president de volle 2 termijnen in (illegale) oorlogen was verwikkeld met meerdere landen en er zelf (officieel) 2 begon….

Echter
lees het artikel van O’Day en oordeel zelf; wat hij schrijft over de
media is zonder meer feitenmateriaal (zoals je onder de links kan
lezen):

Trump
Administration Follows Corporate Media Playbook for War With Iran

October
5, 2018 at 8:03 am

Written
by 
John
C. O’Day

(FAIR.org— Three
years ago, as Americans debated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA) agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran—popularly
known as “the Iran deal”—I highlighted a troubling media trend
on 
FAIR.org (8/20/15):
“For nearly all commentators, regardless of their position, war is
the only alternative to that position.”

In
the months since US President Donald Trump tore up the JCPOA
agreement, his administration has been trying to make good on
corporate media’s collective prediction. Last week, John Bolton
(
BBC9/26/18),
Trump’s national security advisor and chief warmonger, told Iran’s
leaders and the world that there would be “hell to pay” if they
dare to “cross us.”

John
Bolton (
BBC9/26/18):
“Let my message today be clear: We are watching, and we will come
after you.”

That
Bolton’s bellicose statements do not send shockwaves of pure horror
across a 
debt-strapped and war-weary United
States is thanks in large part to incessant priming for war,
facilitated by corporate media across the entire political spectrum,
with a particular focus on Iran.

Back
in 2015, while current “resistance” stalwarts like the 
Washington
Post 
(4/2/15)

and Politico (8/11/15)
warned us that war with Iran was the most likely alternative to the
JCPOA, conservative standard-bearers such as 
Fox
News 
(7/14/15)
and the 
Washington
Times
 
(
8/10/15)
foretold that war with Iran was the agreement’s most likely
outcome. Three years hence, this dynamic has not changed.

Cartoonist
Patrick Chappatte (
New
York Times
5/10/18)
presents Trump and Bolton’s “deal” for Iran.

To
experience the full menu of US media’s single-mindedness about
Iran, one need only buy a subscription to the 
New
York Times
.
After Trump withdrew from the JCPOA, the 
Times
editorial board (
5/8/18)
wrote that his move would “lay conditions for a possible wider war
in the Middle East.” Susan Rice (
New
York Times
5/8/18),
President Barack Obama’s national security advisor, agreed: “We
could face the choice of going to war or acquiescing to a
nuclear-armed Iran,” she warned. Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte (
New
York Times
5/10/18)
was characteristically more direct, penning an image of Trump
alongside Bolton, holding a fictitious new agreement featuring the
singular, ultimate word: “WAR.”

On
the other hand, calling Trump’s turn against JCPOA a “courageous
decision,” 
Times columnist
Bret Stephens (
5/8/18)
explained that the move was meant to force the Iranian government to
make a choice: Either accede to US demands or “pursue their nuclear
ambitions at the cost of economic ruin and possible war.” (Hardly
courageous, when we all know there is no chance that Trump or
Stephens would enlist should war materialize.)

Trump’s latest
antics
 at
the United Nations have spurred a wave of similar reaction across
corporate media. Describing his threat to “totally destroy North
Korea” at the UN General Assembly last year as “pointed and
sharp,” 
Fox
News 
anchor
Eric Shawn (
9/23/18)
asked Bill Richardson, an Obama ally and President Bill Clinton’s
ambassador to the UN, whether Trump would take the same approach
toward Iran. “That aggressive policy we have with Iran is going to
continue,” Richardson reassured the audience, “and I don’t
think Iran is helping themselves.” In other words, if the United
States starts a war with Iran, it’s totally Iran’s fault.

Politico (9/23/18),
meanwhile, reported that Trump “is risking a potential war with
Iran unless he engages the Islamist-led country using diplomacy.”
In other words, if the United States starts a war with Iran, it’s
totally Trump’s fault. Rice (
New
York Times
9/26/18)
reiterated her view that Trump’s rhetoric “presages the prospect
of war in the Persian Gulf.” Whoever would be the responsible party
is up for debate, but that war is in our future is apparently all but
certain.

Politico’s
article cited a 
statement signed
by such esteemed US experts on war-making as Madeleine Albright, who
presided over Clinton’s 
inhuman
sanctions
 against
Iraq in the ’90s, and Ryan Crocker, former ambassador for
presidents George W. Bush and Obama to some of America’s favorite
killing fields: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.  James
Clapper, Obama’s National Intelligence Director, who also signed
the letter, played an 
important
role
 in
trumping up WMD evidence against Saddam Hussein before the United
States invaded Iraq in 2003. When it comes to US aggression, they’re
the experts.

Vanity
Fair
 (9/26/18)
interviewed John Glaser of the Cato Institute, who called Trump’s
strategy “pathetic,” and also warned that it forebodes war. In an
effort to “one-up Obama,” Glaser explained, Trump’s plan is “to
apply extreme economic pressure and explicit threats of war in order
to get Iran to capitulate.” Sound familiar? As Glaser implies, this
was 
exactly
Obama’s strategy
,
only then it wasn’t seen as “pathetic,” but rather reasonable,
and the sole means for preventing the war that every US pundit and
politician saw around the corner (
The
Hill
8/9/15).

When
everyone decides that war is the only other possibility, it starts to
look like an inevitability. But even when they aren’t overtly
stoking war fever against Iran, corporate media prime the
militaristic pump in more subtle yet equally disturbing ways.

Benjamin
Netanyahu speaks for the Iranian people on 
CNN (9/29/18).

First
among these is the near-complete erasure of Iranian voices from US
airwaves (
FAIR.org7/24/15).
Rather than ask Iranians directly, national outlets
like 
CNN (9/29/18)
prefer to invite the prime minister of Israel, 
serial
Iran alarmist
 and
regional pariah Benjamin Netanyahu, to speak for them. During a
jovial discussion this weekend over whether regime change and/or
economic collapse is Iran’s most likely fate, Netanyahu explained
to the audience that, either way,

The
ones who will be happiest if that happens are the people of Iran.”
No people of Iran were on hand to confirm or deny this assessment.

Bloomberg (9/30/18)
similarly wanted to know, “What’s not to like about Trump’s
Iran oil sanctions?” Julian Lee gleefully reported that “they are
crippling exports from the Islamic Republic, at minimal cost to the
US.” One might think the 
toll
sanctions take
 on
innocent Iranians would be something not to like,
but 
Bloomberg merely
worried that, notwithstanding the windfall for US refineries, “oil
at $100 a barrel would be bad news for drivers everywhere—including
those in the US.”

Another
prized tactic is to 
whitewash
Saudi Arabia
,
Iran’s chief geopolitical rival, whose genocidal destruction of
Yemen is made possible by the United States, about which corporate
media remain overwhelmingly silent (
FAIR.org, 7/23/18).
Iran’s involvement in Yemen, which both Trump and the 
New
York Times 
(9/12/18)
describe as “malign behavior,” is a principal justification for
US support of Saudi Arabia, including the
 US-supplied
bombs
 that
recently ended the brief lives of over 40 Yemeni schoolchildren.
Lockheed Martin’s stock is 
up
34 percent
from
Trump’s inauguration day.

Corporate
media go beyond a simple coverup of Saudi crimes to evangelize their
leadership as the liberal antidote to Iran’s “theocracy.” Who
can forget Thomas Friedman’s revolting puff piece for the Saudi
crown prince Mohammad bin Salman? Extensively quoting Salman (
New
York Times
11/23/17),
who refers to Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “the new Hitler of
the Middle East,” Friedman nevertheless remains pessimistic about
whether “MBS and his team” can see their stand against Iran
through, as “dysfunction and rivalries within the Sunni Arab world
generally have prevented forming a unified front.” Oh well, every
team needs cheerleaders, and Friedman isn’t just a fair-weather
fan.

While
Friedman (
New
York Times
5/15/18)
believes that Trump has drawn “some needed attention to Iran’s
bad behavior,” for him pivotal questions remain unanswered, such as
“who is going to take over in Tehran if the current Islamic regime
collapses?” One immediate fix he proposed was to censure Iran’s
metaphorical “occupation” of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. Isn’t
this ironic coming from an unapologetic propagandist for Washington’s
decades-long, non-metaphorical occupation of the two countries to the
east and west of Iran (
FAIR.org12/9/15)?

In
a surprising break from corporate media convention, 
USA
Today
 (9/26/18)
published a column on US/Iran relations written by an actual Iranian.
Reflecting on the 
CIA-orchestrated
coup
 against
Iran’s elected government in 1953, Azadeh Shahshahani, who was born
four days after the 1979 revolution there, wrote:

I
often wonder what would have happened if that coup had not worked, if
[Prime Minister] Mosaddeq had been allowed to govern, if democracy
had been allowed to flourish.”

It
is time for the US government to stop intervening in Iran and let the
Iranian people determine their own destiny,” she beseeched readers.

Code
Pink’s Medea Benjamin confronts the head of Trump’s “Iran
Action Group” (
Real
News
9/21/18).

Shahshahani’s
call is supported by some who have rejected corporate media’s war
propaganda and have gone to extreme lengths to have their
perspectives heard. Anti-war activist and Code Pink  founder
Medea Benjamin was recently forcibly removed after she upstaged Brian
Hook, leader of Trump’s Iran Action Group, on live TV, calling his
press conference “the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen”
(
Real
News
9/21/18).
Benjamin implored the audience: “Let’s talk about Saudi Arabia.
Is that who our allies are?”

How
dare you bring up the issue of Yemen,” admonished Benjamin as she
was dragged from the room. “It’s the Saudi bombing that is
killing most people in Yemen. So let’s get real. No more war! Peace
with Iran!” Code Pink is 
currently
petitioning
 the New
York Times
 and Washington
Post
 to
stop propagandizing war.

Sadly,
no matter whom you ask in corporate media, be they spokespeople for
“Trump’s America” or “the resistance,” peace remains an
elusive choice in the US political imagination. And while the public
was focused last week on Supreme Court nominee 
Brett
Kavanaugh’s 
perjurious
testimony
,
the Senate finalized a
$674
billion “defense” budget
.
Every single Democrat in the chamber voted in favor of the
bill, 
explicitly
naming Iran
 as
persona non grata in the United States’
world-leading
arms supply network
,
which has seen a 25 percent increase in exports since Obama took
office in 2009.

The
US government’s imperial ambitions are perhaps its only truly
bipartisan project—what the 
New
York Times
 euphemistically
refers to as “globalism.” Nowhere was this on fuller display than
at the funeral for Republican Sen. John McCain (
FAIR.org, 9/11/18),
where politicians of all stripes were tripping over themselves to
produce the best accolades for a man who 
infamously
sang
“bomb
bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” to the tune of a Beach Boys song.

McCain’s
bloodlust was nothing new. Nearly a hundred years ago, after the
West’s imperial competition culminated in the most destructive war
the world had ever seen, the brilliant American sociologist and
anti-colonial author WEB Du Bois 
wrote,
“This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity;
this 
is Europe.”

Iranian
leaders have repeatedly said they do not want war with the US
(
AP9/27/18),
but US corporate media, despite frequently characterizing Trump as a
“mad king” (
FAIR.org6/13/18),
continue to play an instrumental role in rationalizing a future war
with Iran. Should such an intentional catastrophe come to pass, we
can hardly say that this would be America gone mad; war is not
aberration, it is always presented as the next sane choice.
This 
is America.

By John
C. O’Day
 / Republished
with permission / 
FAIR.org / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

KLM vliegt na ‘risicoanalyse’ niet meer in luchtruim van Iran en Irak‘ 

Oorlog tegen Iran: VS heeft lak aan democratie >> Irak wordt gedreigd met sancties en ‘herstelbetaling’

VS moord op Qasem Soleimani is een oorlogsverklaring aan adres van Iran…….

Iraakse regering pissig over VS beschuldiging dat Iraanse bewind corrupt is

VS-anti-Iran conferentie in EU lidstaat Polen, ondanks EU verzet tegen VS sancties…..


Bolton ‘feliciteert’ Iran vanwege het 40 jarige revolutie jubileum met een oorlogsdreiging……

Trump gelooft zijn geheime diensten inzake Iran niet meer‘ 


Trump Warns Europeans Not to Defy US Sanctions Against Iran

Trump administratie chanteert en bedreigt de EU over ‘schending’ onterechte VS-sancties tegen Iran

Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie

SWIFT betalingssysteem raakt monopolie (gelukkig) kwijt

VS, Saoedi-Arabië en Israël willen Iraanse bewind verdrijven met terreur, moord, sabotage en manipulatie van het nieuws…

Frankrijk beschermt Iran tegen de ‘politieagent’ van de wereld, de VS

The New Tyranny of the Dollar

VS vermoordt Iraniërs met sancties, EU doodstil…….

Rudy Giuliani viert het sterven van Iraniërs en stelt desondanks dat het Iraanse bewind door de VS geweldloos zal ondergaan…….

Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent) vindt Iran een gevaar voor het Midden-Oosten

Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………

Iraanse protesten gezien door de propaganda bril van de VS en de rest van het westen……..

Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….


Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

Warmonger Called Out on Live TV After Pretending to Care About Iranian Protesters

With Veiled Regime Change Threats, Trump and NeoCons Blasted for Exploiting Iran Protests

US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria

VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..



Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen……


Israelische officier met de koperen fluit waarschuwt voor Iraanse expansie…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…’


Reagan middels manipulaties tot president gekozen; waarom de gijzelaars in Iran moesten wachten op hun vrijheid….

Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………

en zie:

Warmonger Called Out on Live TV After Pretending to Care About Iranian Protesters

Wat betreft de grootschalige terreur van de VS zie:

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

List of wars involving the United States‘ 

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….    

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

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

Facebook
maakte onlangs bekend dat het de strijd verder aangaat met ‘fake
news’ (‘nepnieuws’) door samen te werken met 2 propaganda organen van
de overheid, het National Democratic Institute (NDI) en het
International Republican Institute (IRI). Eerder werd al
bekendgemaakt dat Facebook samenwerkt met de rechtse, door de NAVO
gesteunde Atlantic Council (dat lobbyt voor de buitenlandse terreur van de VS en haar oorlogshond de NAVO, plus uiteraard het
militair-industrieel complex)……

Met name
‘linkse’ alternatieve mediaorganen die op internet werkzaam zijn
zoals Common Dreams, worden al aangepakt door Facebook, waardoor de zichtbaarheid van deze sites op het platform zwaar is teruggebracht……..

Het is
dan ook meer dan duidelijk dat de VS steeds verder verandert in een
politiestaat, inclusief de daarbij horende censuur……

Bovendien
is Facebook met deze samenwerking verworden tot het zoveelste
propaganda orgaan van de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op onze
kleine aarde…….. Ofwel het sociale netwerk wordt opgescheept met
censuur en dat voor het zogenaamd brengen van ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) en propaganda, terwijl de ‘normale’ reguliere (massa-) media voortdurend fake news en propaganda brengen (en zichzelf daarbij censureren, althans als het gaat om artikelen van de
journalisten die werken voor die media, maar die hun werk nog wel serieus nemen…..)

De meeste nieuws en actualiteiten sites en blogs op het internet danken hun ontstaan juist aan de smerige berichtgeving in/op de reguliere (massa-) media, berichtgeving die zoals gezegd bol staat van nepnieuws en propaganda voor de huidige inhumane neoliberale maatschappij en waar de illegale oorlogen van de VS op basis van doorzichtige leugens worden voorgesteld als absoluut noodzakelijk, zelfs als dat meer dan 1,5 miljoen doden kost, zoals in het geval van de illegale oorlog die de VS en NAVO partners in 2003 tegen Irak begonnen……. 

Facebook heeft in samenspraak met de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, besloten een groot aantal accounts van Palestijnen te verwijderen van haar platform…….. Alsof de Palestijnen zionisten onderdrukken……. 

Lees het
volgende artikel van Alan MacLeod, eerder gepubliceerd op FAIR.org,
door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media, en geeft het door, ook in
Nederland gaat men dezelfde kant op, bovendien is de censuur op
Facebook ook van toepassing op Nederlandse accounts…..

Meet
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners

September
26, 2018 at 2:46 pm

Written
by 
Alan
Macleod

(FAIR) — Media
giant 
Facebook recently
announced (
Reuters9/19/18)
it would combat “fake news” by partnering with two propaganda
organizations founded and funded by the US government: the National
Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute
(IRI). The social media platform was already working closely with the
NATO-sponsored Atlantic Council think tank (
FAIR.org5/21/18).

                    

Reuters
(
9/19/18)
described two branches of the National Endowment for Democracy, set
up by the Reagan administration during the Cold War to promote US
foreign policy objectives, as “two US nonprofits.”

In
a previous FAIR article (
8/22/18),
I noted that the “fake news” issue was being used as a pretext to
attack the left and progressive news sites. Changes to 
Facebook’s
algorithm have reduced traffic significantly for progressive outlets
like 
Common
Dreams
 (5/3/18),
while the pages of Venezuelan government–backed 
TeleSur
English 
and
the independent 
Venezuelanalysis were
shut down without warning, and only reinstated after a public outcry.

The
Washington, DC–based NDI and IRI are staffed with senior Democratic
and Republican politicians; the NDI is chaired by former Secretary of
State 
Madeleine
Albright
,
while the late Sen. 
John
McCain
 was
the longtime IRI chair. Both groups were created in 1983 as arms of
the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a Cold War enterprise
backed by then–CIA director William Casey (
Jacobin3/7/18).
That these two US government creations, along with a 
NATO
offshoot
 like
the Atlantic Council, are used by 
Facebook to
distinguish real from fake news is effectively state censorship.

Facebook’s
collaboration with the NED organizations is particularly troubling,
as both have aggressively pursued regime change against leftist
governments overseas. The NDI undermined the Sandinista government of
Nicaragua in the 1980s, and
 continues
to do so to this day
,
while the IRI claimed a key role in the 2002 coup against leftist
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, 
announcing that
it had

served
as a bridge between the nation’s political parties and all civil
society groups to help Venezuelans forge a new democratic future….
We stand ready to continue our partnership with the courageous
Venezuelan people.”

The Reuters report
(
9/19/18)
mentioned that 
Facebook was
anxious to better curate what Brazilians saw on their feeds in the
run-up to their presidential elections, which pits far-right Jair
Bolsonaro against leftist Fernando Haddad. The US government has a
long history of undermining democracy in Brazil, from 
supporting
a coup
 in
1964 against the progressive Goulart administration to continually
spying on leftist President Dilma Rousseff (
BBC, 7/4/15)
in the run-up to the parliamentary coup against her in 2016
(
CounterSpin6/2/17).

           

Glenn
Greenwald (Intercept, 12/30/17) reported that “Facebook has been on
a censorship rampage against Palestinian activists who protest the
decades-long, illegal Israeli occupation, all directed and determined
by Israeli officials.”

Soon
after it partnered with the Atlantic Council, 
Facebook moved
to delete accounts and pages connected with Iranian broadcasting
channels (
CNBC, 8/23/18),
while 
The
Intercept
 (12/30/17)
reported that in 2017 the social media platform met with Israeli
government officials to discuss which Palestinian voices it should
censor. Ninety-five percent of Israeli government requests for
deletion were granted. Thus the US government and its allies are
effectively using the platform to silence dissenting opinion, both at
home and on the world stage, controlling what 
Facebook‘s
2 billion users see and do not see.

Progressives
should be deeply skeptical that these moves have anything to do with
their stated objective of promoting democracy. 
Bloomberg
Businessweek
 (9/29/17)
reported that the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party
went to 
Facebook headquarters
for discussions with US companies about how it could use the platform
for recruitment and micro-targeting in the 2017 elections. AfD
tripled its previous vote share, becoming the third-largest party in
Germany, the far right’s best showing since World War II.

Public
trust in government is at 18 percent—an all-time low
(
Pew12/14/17).
There is similar mistrust of 
Facebook,
with only
 20
percent of Americans
 agreeing
social media sites do a good job separating fact from fiction. And
yet, worldwide, 
Facebook is
a crucial news source. Fifty-two percent of Brazilians, 61 percent of
Mexicans, and 51 percent of Italians and Turks 
use
the platform
 for
news; 
39
percent
 of
the US gets their news from the site.

This
means that, despite the fact that even its own public mistrusts it,
the US government has effectively become the arbiter of what the
world sees and hears, with the ability to marginalize or simply
delete news from organizations or countries that do not share its
opinions. This power could be used at sensitive times, like
elections. This is not an idle threat. The US created an entire fake
social network for Cubans that aimed to stir unrest and overthrow the
Cuban government, according to the 
Guardian (4/3/14).

That
a single corporation has such a monopoly over the flow of worldwide
news is already problematic, but the increasing meshing of corporate
and US government control over the means of communication is
particularly worrying. All those who believe in free and open
exchange of information should oppose Facebook becoming
a tool of US foreign policy.

By Alan
Macleod
 / Republished
with permission / 
FAIR.org / Report
a typo

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

Zie ook:

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

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

The US military’s vision for state censorship

Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)

First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)

9/11 forum geblokkeerd, de waarheid mag niet gezegd worden……..

Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..

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

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

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

Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……

Facebook helpt Saoedi-Arabië: doodstraf door onthoofding van vrouw die het waagde kritiek te uiten…..

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

ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

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

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

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

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

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

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

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

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

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

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

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

Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….

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

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”


Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Hier nog wat links over de ongebreidelde agressie, beter gezegd terreur van de VS:

VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….

List of wars involving the United States

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

VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië……

NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………

VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………

De VS, een duivels imperium, dat achter haar psychopathisch moordende troepen staat??

De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht

Terreuraanslag in Iran moet acties uitlokken die de VS tot een oorlog met Iran ‘dwingen’

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

In
een opiniestuk van
As’ad
AbuKhalil in Consortium News (door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media),
beschrijft hij hoe anders arabieren en een volk als de Afghanen
kijken naar de dood van oorlogsmisdadiger, oorlogshitser en
grootlobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex McCain.

In
een voorbeeld geeft hij aan hoe verschillend alleen al een uitspraak
van McCain wordt geïnterpreteerd door westerlingen of arabieren. Een
vrouw in een zaal waar hij vanwege z’n presidentscampagne van 2008
sprak, kreeg van McCain als reactie op haar uitlating dat Obama een
arabier is, dat Obama geen arabier is, hij is een nette familieman.
Westerse media jubelden ‘t uit, wat een fantastische man die McCain,
immers hij zou als republikein Obama hebben verdedigd…… 


Deze ontkenning van McCain zal iemand die goed geïnformeerd is over WOII, doen denken
aan ontkenningen in en na de oorlog, de ontkenning dat iemand geen fanatieke nazi
kan/kon zijn, daar hij een ‘nette familieman’ was…… Zoals men na de oorlog maar al te
vaak ontdekte van fanatieke psychopathische nazi’s die in concentratiekampen
tekeergingen, zoals kampcommandanten, die thuis de brave huisvader uithingen…. 


Hoe een arabier over deze uitspraak zal oordelen is wel
duidelijk, hij of zij ziet in de uitspraak van McCain een bevooroordeelde
westerse klootzak, die stelt dat een arabier geen nette persoon kan
zijn……..

Uiteraard
zien arabieren McCain zoals hij was, een smerige oorlogsmisdadiger
door wie tienduizenden mensen om het leven zijn gekomen, zo stond de
schoft ook achter de illegale oorlog tegen Irak (intussen meer dan 1,5 miljoen doden…), sterker nog, daar
was hij al meteen na 9/11 voorstander van, zoals hij ook voorstander
was van de illegale oorlog tegen Syrië (al vanaf 2006 voorbereid door
de VS, natuurlijk met hulp van McCain….), verder was hij voor een oorlog
tegen Iran….. 


Waarbij dit alles nog opgeteld moet worden, dat hij terreurstaat Israël
zwaar steunde en alle bloedvergieten door die fascistische
apartheidsstaat niet eens bekritiseerde, neem het grote aantal
moorden begaan door Israëlische scherpschutters, die sinds maart dit
jaar aan de grens met de Gazastrook een groot aantal ongewapende, vreedzaam
demonstrerende Palestijnen hebben doodgeschoten*, terwijl ze zich NB op
‘Palestijns grondgebied’ bevonden…… Daarbij vermoordden deze
psychopaten zelfs kinderen, invaliden, duidelijk herkenbare
journalisten en als zodanig herkenbare medisch hulpverleners…… McCain was veel eerder zelfs tegen de onderhandelingen van Israël met Yasser Arafat (PLO)……..

Lees
het uitstekende stuk van AbuKhalil voor veel meer duidelijkheid (zo vertelt hij dat de directeur van Human Rights Watch een lovend stuk over McCain schreef….), voorts zie de berichten over McCain onder de links, die weer onderaan in dit bericht terug zijn te vinden:

Being
on the deadly end of his policies, many Arabs view John McCain in a
very different way than the U.S. mass media has presented him.

The
destruction of Mosul. (Wikimedia Commons)

(CN Op-ed) — It
is not unusual that Arabs and Americans look at the same event from
divergent lenses. Take, for instance, a scene from John McCain’s
2008 presidential campaign when he told  a woman in the audience
who had called Obama an Arab: “No, Ma`am. He is not an Arab. He’s
a decent family man.”

That
brief exchange has been tweeted and retweeted thousands of time in
the last few days following McCain’s death. It has been promoted by
people in mainstream media (and think tanks and academia) as evidence
of the civility, “classiness”, and lack of prejudice of McCain. 
Yet, Arabs saw something entirely different in that exchange. 
They saw bigotry from McCain, who was denying that Obama was Arab
in the same way one denies that someone is a Nazi.  He
clearly implied that an Arab can’t be a decent family man.  In
fact, Gen. Colin Powell was the only U.S. politician who pointed this
out at the time.  But a new image of McCain is being formulated
before our eyes.

For
Arabs in the Middle East and in the U.S., the view of McCain does not
conform to the hagiography of U.S. media.  People in the region
remember well that McCain supported every U.S. and Israeli war,
invasion, or attack against any Arab target. They remember that he
was a major proponent of invading Iraq and argued for the expansion
of U.S. wars into Iran, Libya and Syria in the wake of Sep. 11.

While
the Washington director of Human Rights Watch was writing tributes to
McCain
,
Arabs were remembering him as a champion of Middle East dictators
(except those on bad terms with the U.S. and Israel.) It was not a
coincidence that both the official Saudi regime lobby in DC and AIPAC
promptly released emotional eulogies for McCain. The
English-language, 
Arab
Times
 (a
mouthpiece of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman) dedicated a
special issue to him.

McCain
never wavered in his conformity with AIPAC’s agenda.  He never
had disagreements with the Israeli government except in outbidding
them in his hostility to Palestinian rights and the usefulness of
negotiations with Arabs.

Yet in
the context of Washington politics, McCain was not regarded as the
anti-Arab/anti-Muslim that he was, perhaps because there were Arabs
and Muslims that he approved of. He championed, for instance, Iraqi
opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi (a key fabricator in the buildup to
the U.S. invasion of Iraq) and the Afghan Muhajedeen. He was very
close to Arab despots and approved arms sales to their repressive
armies and intelligence apparatuses. He spoke of democracy but in the
way that invading and colonizing states glorify “freedom” to
justify conquest.

McCain
was a champion of Syrian rebels and pictures of him with Jihadi
extremists (in Libya and in Syria) were circulated by Arabs on social
media in the last week. while the Washington press corps and Human
Rights Watch were paying tribute him as “a defender of democracy.”

Schooled
by Scoop

McCain
was 
mentored on
the Middle East, according to his biographies, by Henry “Scoop”
Jackson, who for years was the dean of ardent Zionists in the U.S.
Congress. Those were in the days when a few members—mostly
Republicans—dared to challenge AIPAC. McCain’s first trip to
Israel was a member of a delegation led by Jackson when McCain was
the Navy’s liaison to the Senate.  Typically, like all
U.S. politicians who visit Israel, McCain became convinced by 
the view from Israeli military helicopters of the vulnerability of
“little Israel” and that Israel needed to continue to occupy,
invade, attack and assassinate.

Self-propelled
howitzers of the Gaddafi forces, destroyed by French Rafale airplanes
at the west-southern outskirts of Benghazi, Libya, in March 2011 in
another war backed by McCain. (Wikimedia Commons)

In
Congress, McCain managed to become associated with AIPAC’s agenda
more than his colleagues. He always argued for more support for
Israel. And when Israel and the U.S. both accepted negotiations with
Yasser Arafat, he remained skeptical, raising doubts about the
intentions of the Palestinians.

After
his election to Congress, McCain quickly set himself up as an expert
on defense and foreign policy. His first foreign policy posture in
Congress was in 1983, when he opposed U.S. intervention in Lebanon,
but not on humanitarian grounds. Instead he basically argued that far
more force was needed against Syria and its allies in Lebanon. This
became a pattern for the Vietnam veteran: that more force is always
needed wherever U.S. troops are deployed. Some attribute the “surge”
to him, as if the surge really salvaged American fortunes in Iraq.

In
an 
article written
during his 2008 presidential campaign, 
The
New York Times
 talked
about the McCain Doctrine and referred to his reaction to Sep. 11,
when he argued for war on Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan.  For
McCain, war was the only recourse for dealing with foes of the U.S.
and Israel. And war was not effective for McCain without massive
force and heavy troop deployments.

The
Senator and the 
Ikhwan

McCain
was a champion of the Muslim Brotherhood (
Jam’iyat
al-Ikhwan
 al-Muslimin),
even if that put him at odds with Gulf rulers who he also supported.
 This position may seem uncharacteristic given his longstanding
fealty to AIPAC and its agenda, and his general unfriendliness to
Arabs and Muslims. But McCain may have undertaken this role at the
behest of AIPAC.

Homs,
Syria

In
the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, McCain negotiated with leaders
of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. 
It was after a series of visits from leaders of those movements to
Washington that they basically reversed their traditional position on
Israel. Leaders of 
An-Nahda rescinded
their plan to criminalize normalization with Israel, while leaders of
the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood pledged commitment to the
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. 

Similarly,
the stance of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood abandoned any hostility
toward Israel and even toward its occupation of the Golan heights. 
McCain’s confidence in the ability of the 
Ikhwan to
deliver the interests of Israel and U.S., led him to oppose Sisi’s
coup as he trusted that Mohammed Morsi would be able to guard U.S.
interests and the interests of the Egyptian-Israeli
military-intelligence alliance.

McCain
became, in this manner, an unabashed champion of what is called in
the West (and in the Gulf regimes’ media) the “Syrian
revolution”.  He also trusted the Islamists in the
“revolution” and hoped that Israeli interests would be served by
a change of regime that would be aligned with the U.S. and Israel. The risk of promoting Jihadi Islamist rebels was, for McCain and the
Israeli lobby, worth the effort.  For that, McCain’s death was
mourned by leaders of the “liberal” exile opposition and by
Jihadis of the Syrian rebels, including Huthaifah `Azzam, the son of
`Abdullah `Azzam (the mentor of Usamah bin Laden). (Huthaifah `Azzam
later deleted his post after I drew attention to it).

The
career of McCain intersected with the rise of AIPAC on Capitol Hill. 
He also benefited from the Reagan and Bush Doctrines, both of which
relied on the use of massive force against the enemies of U.S. and
Israel.

The
assessment of McCain can’t hope to achieve a measure of balance
given the adulation by mainstream media for a man whose political
sins were always instantly forgotten.  His reference to
Vietnamese by a pejorative term was seen as an example of his frank
talk—not of his prejudice. His involvement with Charles Keating was
seen as an example of a minor error and not of the corruption of an
influential senator.  His endorsement of war, the Israeli
occupation, and his embrace of tyrants (especially in the Gulf and
North Africa) have not been perceived as inconsistent with the
media’s image of a champion of human rights.

In
the end, John McCain was a major face of American empire, just as
were two people who attended his funeral–Obama and Bush –and one
who did not, Trump.

By
As’ad AbuKhalil / Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

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

* Het totale aantal doden sinds maart dit jaar, Palestijnse mensen die door ‘heldhaftige scherpschutters werden vermoord) lag op 13 augustus jl. op 168 waaronder 23 kinderen….. Het aantal gewonden (van licht- tot zwaargewond) lag op meer dan 20.000….. (waarbij 68 Palestijnen een amputatie moesten ondergaan…)

Zie
ook:

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

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

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

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

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

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

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

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

September
3, 2018 at 12:07 am

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

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

Roland Scahill

@rolandscahill

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

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

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

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

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

Margaret Kimberley@freedomrideblog

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

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

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

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

David Sirota

@davidsirota

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

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

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

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

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

Zie ook:

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

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

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

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

John McCaine: politieke helden zijn op den duur meestal teleurstellend

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

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

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

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

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

AUTHOR:
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
ARTICLE
AUGUST
27, 2018

Why
Do Our Heroes Always Let Us Down?

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

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

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@Ocasio2018

US House candidate, NY-14

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

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

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

Washington Post

@washingtonpost

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

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Replying to @Inverte30470345 and 2 others

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

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

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

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

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

Salon

@Salon

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


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the next Barack Obama?

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

salon.com

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

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

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


How Humanity Could Become Impossible To Propagandize

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

medium.com

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

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Humanity Is Deciding If It Will Evolve Or Die

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


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

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

medium.com

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

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

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

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


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

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

medium.com

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

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

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

Truth

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


Truth – Caitlin Johnstone – Medium

What do you know for certain? For absolute certain?

medium.com

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

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

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Zie ook:

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

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

Begrafenis McCain: onbeschaamde verering van een massamoordenaar en oorlogshitser

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

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

 

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