De VS oorlog tegen ‘landelijk terrorisme’ is een definitieve stap naar een volledige politiestaat…….

De enorme hysterie in de VS na de
bestorming van Capitol Hill en het Capitol, gevoed met angst door
vooral de reguliere media, is het laatste instrument voor Joe Biden
en z’n psychopathische administratie om maatregelen door te voeren
die een eind zullen maken aan burgerrechten als:

  • vrijheid
    van meningsuiting

  • het
    recht om te demonstreren

  • het
    recht om fout overheidsbeleid te weerleggen

  • het
    recht om jezelf te verdedigen (een omkering van bewijslast, je bent
    zonder meer schuldig en probeer maar te bewijzen dat dit niet zo is,
    althans als je die kans al krijgt…..)

  • het
    recht op verantwoording en transparantie van de overheid

  • het
    recht op privacy (al is daar al praktisch niets van over)

  • het
    recht op een onafhankelijke pers (die is al lang ter grave
    gedragen en de reguliere [afhankelijke] media roepen zelfs om censuur op
    de sociale media en de rest van het net, censuur die zelfs al wordt
    toegepast, óók in ons land…..)

  • het
    recht op vereniging (wat hier zwaar geweld wordt aangedaan met de
    Coronamaatregelen…)

  • het
    recht op lichamelijke integriteit

  • het
    recht op een representatieve volksvertegenwoordiging

Al deze
zaken hadden in de VS al ‘aan glans verloren’ door het aannemen van de Patriot
Act na de aanslagen van 11 september 2001 (9/11), een wet die al in 1995 werd opgesteld door de huidige president
Joe Biden, onder de naam: ‘Omnibus Counterterrorism Act…..’
‘Patriot Act II’ ofwel de:
Domestic
Terrorism Prevention Act (DTPA),
die
de Biden administratie voorbereidt, is de definitieve
oorlogsverklaring, niet aan landelijke terreur, maar aan iedere VS
burger en aan het laatste restje democratie in dat middels een genocide gestolen land).

Het is
duidelijk dat deze nieuwe ‘War on Terror’ niet alleen een oorlog is
die iedere VS burger kan treffen, maar die zoals gezegd definitief een eind zal
maken aan de al meer dan waardeloze democratie is zoals de VS die nu
nog kent…..

Volgens Michael
McGarrity, opperhoofdsmeerpijp van de FBI afdeling van contraterrorisme, ziet
de FBI ‘huiselijk terrorisme’ in de volgende 4 zaken: 

  • raciaal
    gemotiveerd gewelddadig extremisme 

  • anti
    regerings/autoriteit extremisme

  • dierenrechten
    en milieu extremisme 

  • abortus extremisme

Ofwel als je gezichtspunten
onderschrijft die tegengesteld zijn aan wat de regering of andere
autoriteiten (als de FBI, NSA of andere geheime diensten >> de
VS heeft er meer dan 25) voorstaan, kan je worden aangemerkt als een
‘binnenlandse terrorist’ en als zodanig worden behandeld (dat geldt dan bijvoorbeeld voor Black Lives Matter [BLM] activisten….)…..
Moet je nagaan: dan is de VS de eerste die altijd met een
beschuldigende (vieze hypocriete) vinger wijst naar landen waar men
hetzelfde omgaat met deze zaken…..

De VS heeft al organisaties opgetuigd die
‘misdaden’ (‘misdaden’ als dierenactivisme) moeten voorkomen, dit
gebeurt middels 78 fusion centra, die zaken verbinden op federaal
niveau (FBI, justitie), regionaal en lokaal gebied, maar ook middels
centra die data verzamelen, met hulp van: -gedragswetenschappers, -bedrijven, -de sociale media (Facebook, Twitter enz.) en
-‘gemeenschapsorganisatoren’, dit alles ondersteund met de nieuwste
technieken, uiteraard ook op het gebied van kunstmatige
intelligentie, gezichtsherkenning, biometrie (identificatiemethoden
op basis van unieke lichaamskenmerken) en gedragsepigenetica (met wie
men kan zien welke ervaringen tijdens het leven het genetische beeld
verouderen)……. Met name die nieuwe technieken vromen een groot gevaar voor alle burgerrechten, daar controle van de massa’s tegenwoordig steeds makkelijker wordt, neem alle camera’s in steden en dorpen, het ‘live scannen’ van internetverkeer en ga nog maar een half uur door…….

De
Coronacrisis is als olie op het vuur van antidemocratische
maatregelen en ook de rest van het
westen moet oppassen niet als makke schapen achter de VS aan te lopen en maatregelen van de VS
over te nemen, maatregelen die ook hier de democratie volkomen zullen
uithollen (immers vergeet niet dat de andere westerse landen maar wat
graag antidemocratische maatregelen uit de VS overnemen, niet in de
laatste plaats daar deze het regeren [per decreet] vergemakkelijken en totale controle van het volk mogelijk maken, waarbij de reguliere media grote propagandisten zijn van
dergelijke maatregelen, zoals ze ook voor censuur zijn op de sociale
media en zelfs op het hele internet……

Lees het
volgende uitstekende artikel van John en Nisha Whitehead, met
bijdragen van o.a. Glenn Greenwald, een artikel dat ik overnam van
Information Clearing House (ICH):

The
Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap

 

By
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead

This is
an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians
should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t
have to guess about where this goes or how this ends. What
characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of
a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious
extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians,
what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? [The
proposed legislation could create] a very dangerous undermining of
our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution, and a
targeting of almost half of the country.
Tulsi
Gabbard
,
former Congresswoman

January 31, 2021
Information
Clearing House

– This is how it begins.

We are moving fast
down that slippery slope to an authoritarian society in which the
only opinions, ideas and speech expressed are the ones permitted by
the government and its corporate cohorts.

In the wake of the
Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol, “domestic terrorism” has become the
new poster child for expanding the government’s powers at the
expense of civil liberties.

Of course, “domestic
terrorist” is just the latest bull’s eye phrase, to be used
interchangeably
with “anti-government,” “extremist” and “terrorist,” to
describe anyone who might fall somewhere on a very broad spectrum of
viewpoints that could be considered “dangerous.”

Watch and see: we are
all about to become enemies of the state.

In a déjà vu
mirroring of the legislative fall-out from 9/11, and the ensuing
build-up of the security state, there is a growing
demand in certain sectors for the government to be given expanded
powers
to root out “domestic” terrorism, the Constitution be
damned.

If this is a test of
Joe Biden’s worthiness to head up the American police state, he
seems ready.

As part of his
inaugural address, President Biden pledged to confront and defeat “a
rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism.”
Biden has also asked the Director of National Intelligence to work
with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in carrying out
a “comprehensive
threat assessment” of domestic terrorism
. And then to keep the
parallels going, there is the proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention
Act of 2021, introduced after the Jan. 6 riots, which aims to equip
the government with “the
tools to identify, monitor and thwart
” those who could become
radicalized to violence.

Don’t blink or
you’ll miss the sleight of hand.

This is the tricky
part of the Deep State’s con game that keeps you focused on the
shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by
ruffians in your midst.

It follows the same
pattern as every other convenient “crisis” used by the government
as an excuse to expand its powers at the citizenry’s expense and at
the expense of our freedoms.

As investigative
journalist Glenn Greenwald warns:

The last
two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and
rhetoric in the name of fighting ‘terrorism’ that are carbon
copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that
began nearly twenty years ago. This New War on Terror—one that is
domestic in name from the start and carries the explicit purpose of
fighting ‘extremists’ and ‘domestic terrorists’ among
American citizens on U.S. soil—presents the whole slew of
historically familiar dangers when governments,
exploiting media-generated fear and dangers, arm themselves with the
power to control information, debate, opinion, activism and
protests
.”

Greenwald is referring
to the USA Patriot Act, passed almost 20 years ago, which paved the
way for the eradication of every vital safeguard against government
overreach, corruption and abuse.

Free speech, the right
to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due
process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense,
accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press,
sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government:
all of these and more have become casualties in the government’s
war on the American people, a war that has grown more pronounced
since Sept. 11, 2001.

Some members
of Congress get it.

In a letter opposing
expansion of national security powers, a handful congressional
representatives urged their colleagues not to repeat the mistakes of
the past:

While many
may find comfort in increased national security powers in the wake of
this attack, we must emphasize that we
have been here before and we have seen where that road leads
. Our
history is littered with examples of initiatives sold as being
necessary to fight extremism that quickly devolve into tools used for
the mass violation of the human and civil rights of the American
people… To expand the government’s national security powers once
again at the expense of the human and civil rights of the American
people would only serve to further undermine our democracy, not
protect it.”

Cue the Emergency
State, the government’s Machiavellian version of crisis management
that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name
of national security.

This is the power grab
hiding in plain sight, obscured by the political machinations of the
self-righteous elite. This is how the government continues to exploit
crises and use them as opportunities for power grabs under the guise
of national security. Indeed, this is exactly how the government
added red
flag gun laws, precrime surveillance, fusion centers, threat
assessments, mental health assessments, involuntary confinement

to its arsenal of weaponized powers.

The objective is not
to make America safe again. That has never been the government’s
aim.

Greenwald explains:

Why would
such new terrorism laws be needed in a country that already imprisons
more of its citizens than any other country in the world as the
result of a very aggressive set of criminal laws? What acts should be
criminalized by new ‘domestic terrorism’ laws that are not
already deemed criminal? They never say, almost certainly
because—just as was true of the first set of new War on Terror
laws—their
real aim is to criminalize that 
which
should not be criminalized
:
speech, association, protests, opposition to the new ruling
coalition
.”

So you see, the issue
is not whether Donald Trump or Roger Stone or MyPillow
CEO Mike Lindell
deserve to be banned from Twitter, even if
they’re believed to be spouting misinformation, hateful ideas, or
fomenting discontent.

Rather, we should be
asking whether any corporation or government agency or entity
representing a fusion of the two should have the power
to muzzle, silence, censor, regulate, control and altogether
eradicate so-called “dangerous” or “extremist” ideas
.

This unilateral power
to muzzle free speech represents a far greater danger than any
so-called right- or left-wing extremist might pose.

The ramifications are
so far-reaching as to render almost every American an extremist in
word, deed, thought or by association.

Yet where many go
wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing something illegal or
challenging the government’s authority in order to be flagged as a
suspicious character, labeled an enemy of the state and locked up
like a dangerous criminal.

Eventually, all you
will really need to do is use certain trigger words, surf the
internet, communicate using a cell phone, drive a car, stay at a
hotel, purchase materials at a hardware store, take flying or boating
lessons, appear suspicious, question government authority, or
generally live in the United States.

The groundwork has
already been laid.

The trap is set.

All that is needed is
the right bait.

With the help of
automated eyes and ears, a growing arsenal of high-tech software,
hardware and techniques, government propaganda urging Americans to
turn into spies and snitches, as well as social media and behavior
sensing software
, government agents have been busily spinning a
sticky spider-web of threat
assessments
, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,”
and “suspicious” activity reports aimed at snaring
potential
enemies of the state.

It’s the American
police state’s take on the dystopian terrors foreshadowed by George
Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Phillip K. Dick all rolled up into one
oppressive pre-crime
and pre-thought
crime package.

What’s more, the
technocrats who run the surveillance state don’t even have to break
a sweat while monitoring what you say, what you read, what you write,
where you go, how much you spend, whom you support, and with whom you
communicate. Computers by way of AI (artificial intelligence) now do
the tedious work of trolling social media, the internet, text
messages and phone calls for potentially anti-government remarks, all
of which is carefully recorded, documented, and stored to be used
against you someday at a time and place of the government’s
choosing.

For instance, police
in major American cities have been using predictive policing
technology that allows them to identify individuals—or groups of
individuals—most likely to commit a crime
in a given community.
Those individuals are then put on notice that their movements and
activities will be closely monitored and any criminal activity (by
them or their associates) will result in harsh penalties. 

In other words, the
burden of proof is reversed: you are guilty before you are given any
chance to prove you are innocent.

Dig beneath the
surface of this kind of surveillance/police state, however, and you
will find that the real purpose of pre-crime is not safety but
control.

Red flag gun laws
merely push us that much closer towards a suspect society where
everyone is potentially guilty of some crime or another and must be
preemptively rendered harmless.

This is the same
government that has a growing list—shared with fusion centers and
law enforcement agencies—of ideologies, behaviors, affiliations and
other characteristics that could flag someone as suspicious and
result in their being labeled
potential
enemies of the state.

For instance, if you
believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely,
your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with
like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the
government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or
searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially
anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you could
be at
the top of the government’s terrorism watch list
.

Moreover, as a New
York Times

editorial warns, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a.
domestic
terrorist
) in the eyes of the police if you are afraid that the
government
is plotting to confiscate your firearms
, if you believe the
economy
is about to collapse
and the government
will soon declare martial law
, or if you display an unusual
number of political
and/or ideological bumper stickers
on your car.

According to one FBI
latest report, you might also be classified as a domestic terrorism
threat if you espouse conspiracy theories, especially if you “attempt
to explain events or circumstances as the result of a group of actors
working in secret to benefit themselves at the expense of others

and are “usually at odds with official or prevailing explanations
of events.”

Additionally,
according to Michael C. McGarrity, the FBI’s assistant director of
the counterterrorism division, the bureau now “classifies
domestic terrorism threats into four main categories: racially
motivated violent extremism, anti-government/anti-authority
extremism, animal rights/environmental extremism, and abortion
extremism
.”

In other words, if you
dare to subscribe to any views that are contrary to the government’s,
you may well be suspected of being a domestic terrorist and treated
accordingly.

Again, where many
Americans go wrong is in naively assuming that you have to be doing
something illegal or harmful in order to be flagged and targeted for
some form of intervention or detention.

In fact, U.S. police
agencies have been working to identify and manage potential extremist
“threats,” violent or otherwise, before they can become actual
threats for some time now.

In much the same way
that the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the
surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a
far-reaching domestic spying program that turned every American
citizen into a criminal suspect, the government’s anti-extremism
program renders otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as
potentially extremist.

In fact, all you need
to do these days to end up on a government watch list or be subjected
to heightened scrutiny is use
certain trigger words
(like cloud, pork and pirates), surf the
internet, communicate using a cell phone, limp
or stutter
, drive
a car
, stay at a hotel, attend a political rally, express
yourself on social media
, appear
mentally ill
, serve in the military,
disagree
with a law enforcement official
, call
in sick to work
, purchase materials at a hardware store, take
flying or boating lessons, appear
suspicious
, appear confused or nervous, fidget or whistle or
smell bad, be seen in public waving a toy gun or anything remotely
resembling a gun (such as a water nozzle or a remote control or a
walking cane), stare
at a police officer
, question government authority, or appear
to be pro-gun or pro-freedom
.

Be warned: once you
get on such a government watch list—whether it’s a terrorist
watch list, a mental health watch list, a dissident watch list, or a
red flag gun watch list—there’s no clear-cut way to get off,
whether or not you should actually be on there.

You will
be tracked wherever you go.

You will
be flagged as a potential threat and dealt with accordingly.

This is pre-crime on
an ideological scale and it’s been a long time coming.

The government has
been building its pre-crime, surveillance network in concert with
fusion
centers
(of which there are 78 nationwide, with partners in the
corporate sector and globally), data collection agencies, behavioral
scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and
by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial
recognition, predictive
policing
, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics
(in which life experiences alter one’s genetic makeup).

If you’re not scared
yet, you should be.

Connect the dots.

Start with the powers
amassed by the government under the USA Patriot Act, note the
government’s ever-broadening definition of what it considers to be
an “extremist,” then add in the government’s detention powers
under NDAA*, the National Security Agency’s far-reaching
surveillance networks, and fusion centers that collect and share
surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.

To that, add tens of
thousands of armed, surveillance drones and balloons that are
beginning to blanket American skies, facial recognition technology
that will identify and track you wherever you go and whatever you do.
And then to complete the picture, toss in the real-time crime centers
being deployed in cities across the country, which will be attempting
to “predict” crimes and identify so-called criminals before they
happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical
algorithms and prognostication programs.

Hopefully you’re
starting to understand how easy we’ve made it for the government to
identify, label, target, defuse and detain anyone it views as a
potential
threat for a variety of reasons that run the gamut from mental
illness to having a military background to challenging its authority
to just being on the government’s list of
persona
non grata
.

There’s always a
price to pay for standing up to the powers-that-be.

Yet as I make clear in
my book
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
you don’t even have to be a dissident to get flagged by the
government for surveillance, censorship and detention.

All you really need to
be is a citizen of the American police state.

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of 
The
Rutherford Institute
.
His new book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
 
is
available at
www.amazon.com.
Whitehead can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

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* NDAA: National Defense Authorization Act.

Zie
ook:
De
laatste beslissing van Trump t.a.v. Jemen gaat wat betreft schunnig
handelen mijlen verder dan de Capitol Hill rel en zal niet worden
teruggedraaid door Biden

A
Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead

(een ICH artikel geschreven door Philip Giraldi)

Trumpisme en fascisme eindig je niet met censuur en andere autoritaire maatregelen, maar door de condities te veranderen die e.e.a. mogelijk hebben gemaakt‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Joe Biden belazert het volk en de rel op Capitol Hill leidt tot Patriot Act II: totale controle op het volk, ofwel de vorming van een totale politiestaat

De roep om censuur na de stormloop op het Capitol zal ook links keihard treffen‘ 

Rellen op Capitol Hill: burgeroorlog in VS dichterbij dan de laatste 155 jaar en de roep om censuur klinkt harder dan ooit‘ 

Edward Snowden over Silicon Valley censuur en andere zaken die de persvrijheid en de vrijheid in het algemeen in gevaar brengen‘ 

Om ons thuis, de planeet, te redden moeten we de westerse oorlogsmachine stilleggen‘ 

En
terzijde: ‘
American
Psychosis

(een kort artikel en korte video op ICH met Chris Hedges)

VS vs. Black Lives Matter en links: de federale staatsgreep tegen afzonderlijke staten

De
federale agenten die willekeurig mensen van de straat plukken en die rondrijden in
‘anonieme auto’s’ zijn gekleed als commando’s waarop als enige
herkenbaar woord ‘Police’ is te zien…… Ik dacht eerder dom genoeg dat
het hier om agenten in burger ging, daar er gewag van werd gemaakt
dat ze niet te herkennen waren, bedoeld werd echter dat deze agenten
geen nummer of naam dragen, zodat je ze later niet ter verantwoording kan
roepen als ze zich te buiten gaan aan ‘ongefundeerd geweld’. (iets dat ‘nogal eens gebeurt’ in de VS als de overheid tekeergaat tegen haar burgers…..)

En dat
gaan deze anonieme federale troepen: tekeer tegen vreedzame demonstranten of gewoon mensen die hen op
straat verdacht voorkomen, daarvoor hoef je bijvoorbeeld alleen maar geheel in zwart gekleed te gaan…… Een veteraan die een
paar van die agenten aansprak daar hij verontrust was over het optreden van deze anonieme troepen, werd ‘behandeld’ met pepperspray
en wapenstok, waarna hij werd afgevoerd in zo’n anoniem voertuig…….. De opgepakte mensen worden naar plekken gebracht waar ze onder bewaking
staan en waar hen verder niets ten laste wordt gelegd en waar ze niet te woord worden gestaan……. En dan
durven de psychopathische oorlogsmisdadigers Trump, Pompeo en andere schoften van Trump’s administratie een
grote bek te hebben over China en Rusland, terwijl de VS hard op weg
is om de grootste politiestaat ter wereld te worden……

John
Whitehead van The Rutherford Institute waarschuwt dan ook dat Trump
en zijn legertje agenten, personeel van o.a. ICE, DEA en van
de grensbewaking, tegen het tiende amendement van de VS grondwet ingaan
en in feite een staatsgreep plegen tegen de staten waarin deze
‘federale agenten’ tekeergaan…….

Whitehead
waarschuwt tegen het gevaar dat dit de voorloper is van een
politiestaat….. Als Whitehead wat beter had opgelet had hij gezien
dat de fundamenten voor zo’n staat al onder George W. Bush werden
gelegd en dat na 9/11……. De VS is in feite allang een
politiestaat, zie de bevoegdheden van de geheime diensten die nu
zelfs VS burgers kunnen oppakken en vasthouden zonder vorm van
proces, inderdaad hetzelfde als de ‘federales’ (federaal personeel) van Trump nu
doen….. Voorts mogen deze diensten iedereen in de gaten houden
zonder daar toestemming voor te vragen, alsmede hun telefoon
afluisteren en de computer van afstand hacken om daar in
rond te pluizen…… Me dunkt, een fiks deel van George Orwells 1984 is
al in vervulling gegaan…… Vergeet daarbij niet dat de Trump administratie al weer teostemming heeft gegeven om verdachten te martelen…..

Zwaar
lullig dat Whitehead voor dit alles met de beschuldigende vinger
wijst naar de zwarten die winkels plunderden tijdens de demonstraties
waar de politie op inhakte….. Als je nagaat dat de gekleurde
bevolking 30% minder betaald krijgt voor dezelfde baan die een witte
vervult, is het niet vreemd dat de nieuwe werklozen hun kans hebben
gegrepen en voedsel en apparatuur hebben gestolen die ze nodig
hebben daar ze geen geld hebben om nieuw te kopen (dat percentage van
30% kan overigens nog hoger zijn, het is een raar gemiddelde waarvan
de ondergrens 30% is, ofwel hoogstwaarschijnlijk ligt het werkelijke
gemiddelde op dik meer dan 30%…) Voorts zou Whitehead moeten weten dat een flink deel van de plunderingen, zeker in aanvang van de demonstraties werden georganiseerd door infiltranten van politie en geheime diensten……..

Trump
was al lang voor de Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesten doende een
burgeroorlog op te stoken met zijn uitlatingen over zijn
tegenstanders: zwarten, latino’s, ‘linksen’ en anarchisten, mensen die hij bij zijn achterban aanduidt als vijanden van het Amerikaanse volk…. Daarbij heeft Trump die achterban, vooral de
plattelandsbevolking in zijn zak, mensen die hij beterschap
beloofde na zijn aantreden, maar waarvan een heel groot deel dat na
meer dan 3 jaar nog steeds niet ziet…… Ach het maakt die mensen
niets uit en als hij ze zou oproepen om de genoemde groepen aan te
vallen, zullen ze dat op zeker doen!! (bovendien: voor hun blijvende ellende wijzen Trump c.s. maar al te graag naar de Democraten als de schuldigen…..)

Lees het
artikel van Whitehead (dat ik overnam van het rechtse Zero Hedge) en zegt het voort, immers ook wij moeten
waakzaam zijn, zeker nu men steeds harder van de toren blaast dat het
aantal besmettingen toeneemt, terwijl dat logisch is gezien het
veel grotere aantal testen, waarvan de uitkomsten zelfs een wachttijd kennen van een paar dagen (testen die overigens waardeloos zouden zijn…..)…. Weer schreeuwen zogenaamde deskundigen om inperking van vrijheden, waarbij men ook
daadkrachtiger wil optreden tegen mensen die er wat betreft het
Coronavirus andere denkbeelden op na houden en die op de sociale
media forse kritiek leveren op het waardeloze hap snap beleid van
Rutte 3 en het meer dan disfunctionerende RIVM…..

Whitehead:
The Federal Coup To Overthrow The States And Nix The 10th Amendment
Is Underway

Authored
by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

I
don’t need invitations by the state, state mayors, or state
governors, to do our job. We’re going to do that, whether they like
us there or not.

– Acting
Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s defense of the Trump
Administration’s deployment of militarized federal police to
address civil unrest in the states

This
is a wake-up call.

What is unfolding before
our very eyes
with
police agencies defying local governments in order to tap into the
power of federal militarized troops in order to put down domestic
unrest
could
very quickly snowball into an act of aggression against the states, a
coup by armed, militarized agents of the federal government.

At a minimum, this is an attack on
the Tenth
Amendment
, which affirms the sovereignty of the states and the
citizenry, and the right of the states to stand as a bulwark
against overreach
and power grabs by the federal government
.

If you’re still deluding yourself
into believing that this thinly-veiled exercise in martial law is
anything other than an attempt to bulldoze what remains of the
Constitution and reinforce 

the iron-fisted rule of the police state,
you need to stop drinking the Kool-Aid.

This is no longer about
partisan politics or civil unrest or even authoritarian impulses.

This
is a turning point.

Unless we take back the reins—and
soon—looking back on this time years from now, historians may well
point to the events of 2020 as the death blow to America’s
short-lived experiment in self-government.  

The government’s recent
actions in Portland, Oregon
when
unidentified federal agents (believed to be border police, ICE and
DHS agents), wearing military fatigues with patches that just say
“Police” and sporting all kinds of weapons, descended
uninvited on the city in unmarked vehicles, snatching protesters off
the streets
 and detaining them without formally arresting
them or offering any explanation of why they’re being held
is
just a foretaste of what’s to come.

One of those detainees was a
53-year-old disabled Navy veteran who was in downtown Portland during
the protests but not a participant. Concerned about the tactics being
used by government agents who had taken an oath of office to protect
and defend the Constitution, Christopher David tried to speak the
“secret” police. Almost immediately, he was assaulted
by federal agents, beaten with batons and pepper sprayed

Another peaceful protester
was reportedly
shot in the head with an impact weapon
 by this federal goon
squad.

The Trump Administration has
already announced its plans to deploy
these border patrol agents to other cities across the
country
 (Chicago is supposedly next) in an apparent bid to
put down civil unrest. Yet the overriding
concerns by state and local government officials
 to Trump’s
plans suggest that weaponizing the DHS as an occupying army will only
provoke more violence and unrest.

We’ve
been set up.

Under the guise of protecting
federal properties against civil unrest, the Trump Administration has
formed a task
force of secret agents who look, dress and act like military
stormtroopers on a raid and have been empowered to roam cities in
unmarked vehicles
, snatching citizens off the streets, whether or
not they’ve been engaged in illegal activities.

As the Guardian reports,
The
incidents being described sound eerily reminiscent of the CIA’s
post-9/11 rendition program under George W Bush
, where
intelligence agents would roll up in unmarked vans in foreign
countries, blindfold terrorism suspects (many of whom turned to be
innocent) and kidnap them without explanation. Only instead of
occurring on the streets of Italy or the Middle East, it’s
happening in downtown Portland.”

The so-called racial
justice activists who have made looting, violence, vandalism and
intimidation tactics the hallmarks of their protests have played
right into the government’s hands

They have delivered all of us into
the police state’s hands.

There’s a reason Trump has tapped
the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border
Protection for this dirty business: these agencies are notorious for
their lawlessness, routinely sidestepping the Constitution and
trampling on the rights of anyone who gets in their way, including
legal citizens.

Indeed, it was only a matter of
time before these roving
bands of border patrol agents began flexing their muscles far beyond
the nation’s borders and exercising their right to disregard the
Constitution at every turn
.

Except these border patrol cops
aren’t just disregarding the Constitution.

They’re trampling
all over the Constitution
, especially the Fourth Amendment, which
prohibits the government from carrying out egregious warrantless
searches and seizures without probable cause.

As part of the government’s
so-called crackdown on illegal immigration, drugs and trafficking,
its border patrol cops have been expanding their reach, roaming
further afield
 and subjecting greater numbers of Americans
to warrantless searches, ID checkpoints, transportation checks, and
even surveillance on private property far beyond the boundaries of
the borderlands.

That so-called border, once a thin
borderline, has become an ever-thickening band spreading deeper and
deeper inside the country.

Now, with this latest salvo by the
Trump administration in its so-called crackdown on rioting and civil
unrest, America itself is about to become a Constitution-free zone
where freedom is off-limits and government agents have all the power
and “we the people” have none.

The Customs and Border Protection
(CBP), with its more than 60,000
employees
, supplemented by the National Guard and the U.S.
military, is an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, a
national police force imbued with all the brutality, ineptitude and
corruption such a role implies.

As journalist Todd Miller explains:

In these vast domains,
Homeland Security authorities can institute roving
patrols with broad, extra-constitutional powers backed by national
security, immigration enforcement and drug interdiction mandates
.
There, the Border Patrol can set up traffic checkpoints and fly
surveillance drones overhead with high-powered cameras and radar that
can track your movements. Within twenty-five miles of the
international boundary, CBP agents can enter a person’s private
property without a warrant.

Just about every nefarious
deed, tactic or thuggish policy advanced by the government today can
be traced back to the DHS, its police state mindset, and the billions
of dollars it distributes
 to local police agencies in the
form of grants to transform them into extensions of the military.

As Miller points out, the
government has turned the nation’s expanding border regions into “a
ripe place to experiment with tearing apart the Constitution
, a
place where not just undocumented border-crossers, but millions of
borderland residents have become the targets of continual
surveillance.”

In much the same way that
police across the country have been schooled in the art of
sidestepping the Constitution, border cops have also been drilled in
the art of “anything goes” in the name of national security.

In fact, according to FOIA
documents shared with 
The
Intercept
border
cops even have a checklist of “possible behaviors” that warrant
overriding the Constitution
 and subjecting
individuals—including American citizens—to stops, searches,
seizures, interrogations and even arrests.

For instance, if you’re driving
a vehicle that to a border cop looks unusual
 in some way,
you can be stopped. If your passengers
look dirty
 or unusual, you can be stopped. If you or
your passengers
avoid looking at a cop
, you can be stopped. If you or
your passengers
look too long at a cop
, you can be stopped.

If you’re anywhere
near a border
 (near being within 100 miles of a border, or
in a city, or on a bus, or at an airport), you can be stopped and
asked to prove you’re legally allowed to be in the country. If
you’re traveling
on a public road
 that smugglers and other criminals may have
traveled, you can be stopped.

If you’re not
driving in the same direction as other cars
, you can be stopped.
If you appear
to be avoiding a police checkpoint
, you can be stopped. If
your car
appears to be weighed down
, you can be stopped. If your vehicle
is from out of town
, wherever that might be, you can be stopped.
If you’re driving
a make of car that criminal-types have also driven
, you can be
stopped.

If your car
appears to have been altered or modified
, you can be stopped. If
the cargo
area in your vehicle is covered
, you can be stopped.

If you’re driving
during a time of day or night that border cops find suspicious
,
you can be stopped. If you’re driving
when border cops are changing shifts
, you can be stopped. If
you’re driving
in a motorcade
 or with another vehicle, you can be stopped.
If your car
appears dusty
, you can be stopped.

If people
with you are trying to avoid being seen
, or exhibiting “unusual”
behavior, you can be stopped. If you slow
down after seeing a cop
, you can be stopped.

In Portland, which is 400 miles
from the border, protesters didn’t even have to be near federal
buildings to be targeted. Some claimed to be targeted for
simply wearing black clothing
 in the area of the
demonstration.

Are
you starting to get the picture yet?

This was never about illegal aliens
and border crossings at all. It’s been a test to see how far “we
the people” will allow the government to push the limits of the
Constitution.

We’ve
been failing this particular test for
a long time
 now.

It was 1798
when Americans, their fears stoked by rumblings of a Quasi-War with
France, failed to protest the Alien
and Sedition Acts
, which criminalized anti-government speech,
empowered the government to deport “dangerous” non-citizens and
made it harder for immigrants to vote.

During the Civil
War,
Americans
went along when Abraham Lincoln suspended
the writ of habeas corpus
 (the right to a speedy trial) and
authorized government officials to spy on Americans’ mail.

During World
War I
, Americans
took it in stride when  President Woodrow Wilson and Congress
adopted the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which made it a crime to
interfere with the war effort and criminalized
any speech critical of war
.

By World
War II
, Americans
were marching in lockstep with the government’s expanding war
powers to imprison Japanese-American citizens in detainment camps,
censor mail, and lay
the groundwork for the future surveillance state
.

Fast-forward to the Cold
War’s Red Scares
,
the McCarthy era’s hearings on un-American activities, and the
government’s surveillance of Civil Rights activists
 such
as Martin Luther King Jr.—all done in the name of national
security.

By the time 9/11
rolled around, all George W. Bush had to do was claim the country was
being invaded by terrorists, and the government was given greater
powers to spy, search, detain and arrest
 American
citizens 
in order to
keep America safe
.

The terrorist invasion never really
happened, but the government kept its newly acquired police powers
made possible by the nefarious USA Patriot Act.

Barack Obama
continued Bush’s trend of undermining the Constitution, going so
far as to give the
military the power to strip Americans of their constitutional rights,
label them extremists, and detain them indefinitely without
trial
all in the
name of
 keeping
America safe
.

Despite the fact that the breadth
of the military’s power to detain American citizens violates not
only U.S. law and the Constitution but also international laws, the
government has refused to relinquish its detention powers made
possible by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

Then Donald
Trump
took office,
claiming the country was being invaded by dangerous immigrants and
insisting that the only way to keep America safe was to build an
expensive border wall, expand the reach of border patrol, and empower
the military to “assist” with border control
.

That so-called immigration crisis
has now morphed into multiple crises (domestic extremism, the
COVID-19 pandemic, race wars, civil unrest, etc.) that the government
is eager to use in order to expand its powers.

Yet as we’ve learned the hard
way, once the government acquires—and uses—additional powers (to
spy on its citizens, to carry out surveillance, to transform its
police forces into extensions of the police, to seize taxpayer funds,
to wage endless wars, to censor and silence dissidents, to identify
potential troublemakers, to detain citizens without due process), it
does not voluntarily relinquish them

This
is the slippery slope on which we’ve been traveling for far too
long.

As Yale historian Timothy Snyder
explains, “This is a classic way that violence happens in
authoritarian regimes, whether it’s Franco’s Spain or whether
it’s the Russian Empire. The
people who are getting used to committing violence on the border are
then brought in to commit violence against people in the interior.

Sure, it’s the Trump
Administration calling the shots 
right
now
, but it’s government
agents
 armed with
totalitarian powers and beholden to the bureaucratic Deep State who
are carrying out these orders in defiance of the U.S. Constitution
and all it represents.

Whether it’s Trump or
Biden or someone else altogether, this year or a dozen years from
now, the damage has been done:

as I make clear in my book 
Battlefield
America: The War on the American People
,
we have allowed the
president to acquire dictatorial powers that can be unleashed at any
moment.

There’s a reason the Trump
Administration is consulting
with John Yoo
, the Bush-era attorney notorious for justifying
waterboarding torture tactics against detainees. They’re not
looking to understand how to follow the law and abide by the
Constitution. Rather, they’re desperately seeking ways to thwart
the Constitution.

As Harvard constitutional law
professor Laurence Tribe recognizes,

The
dictatorial hunger for power is insatiable.

This is how it begins.

This is how it always begins.

Don’t
be fooled into thinking any of this will change when the next
election rolls around.

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

* DHS, ofwel Department of Homeland Security. 

Zie ook:

Cancel
culture is volgens Raisa Blommenstijn (docent/onderzoeker universiteit
Leiden) een hellend vlak en uitholling van de vrijheid van
meningsuiting…….

Slavernij in VS nog steeds toegestaan in de grondwet: inzet slaven bij bosbranden Californië‘ 

Rutte (VVD premier) maakt zich schuldig aan racistische leugens en bedrog‘(en deze hufter-figuur mag les geven aan het voorgezet onderwijs……)

De militarisering van de VS gaat ten koste van de eigen bevolking, van sociale rechtvaardigheid en van gelijkheid

#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme

Politieracisme en -geweld tegen oorspronkelijke volkeren van Canada‘ 

Black
Lives Matter in de VS: nog een politiemoord op een zwart gekleurde man
vanwege diens kleur, zonder dat de daders werden gestraft

New Jersey police shooting: Bodycam video released in killing of unarmed black man
(nog een zwarte man die werd vermoord door de politie en dan durft men
in de VS onder leiding van de psychopathische fascist Trump, de niet
centraal geleide organisatie Black Lives Matter, als een
terreurorganisatie neer te zetten…..) 

Black Lives Matter: toestemming vergroting van politiegeweld in Nederland moet worden gestopt

Black Lives Matter: 3 zwarte mannen gelyncht in de VS en de doodsbedreiging tegen coureur Bubba Wallace

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

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

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

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

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

Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt

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

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

Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!! 

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

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

Black Lives Matter: een cartoon

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

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

Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef

Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners‘ 

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

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

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

Zie wat betreft de ‘Coronachantage’ tijdens de BLM protesten van Curaçao, Aruba en Sint Maarten: ‘Black Lives Matter maar niet voor neokoloniaal Rutte 3: Coronahulp voor Antilliaanse slaveneilanden alleen na hervormingen‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Rellen op Curaçao, de verantwoordelijken: Raymond Knops (CDA staatssecretaris) en Kajsa Ollongren (D66 minister)

Nederland chanteert alweer Antilliaanse eilanden: nu voor hulp bij Coronacrisis

Trump wijst elke bezuiniging af op de hulp van de VS voor de genocide die Saoedi-Arabië uitvoert in Jemen

Het
beest Trump heeft op 13 augustus jl. de jaarlijkse budgettering voor
het militaire apparaat, de
National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) voor 2019 getekend. De NDAA waarmee
ook VS burgers ongelimiteerd zonder vorm van proces kunnen worden
opgesloten vanwege ‘banden met terrorisme….’ Met dergelijke
wetgeving kan een dictatuur elke kritiek als terreur aanmerken, neem
Saoedi-Arabië waar een 29 jarige sjiitische vrouw driegt te worden
onthoofd, alleen vanwege (geweldloze) kritiek op de psychopathisch
reli-fascistische dictatuur in dat land, zij wordt letterlijk van
terrorisme beschuldigd…..*

De
VS is in feite al een politiestaat en met dergelijke wetgeving wordt
de vrijheid van meningsuiting een begrip uit het verleden………
Zie ook de samenwerking van bedrijven als Facebook (plus Google in
haar geheel) en Apple met de VS overheid, waar kritische blogs en
sites meer en meer worden geweerd van het internet….** Ofwel censuur van de bovenste plank!

Terug
naar Trumps handtekening onder de NDAA: hij beloofde dat hij niet zal
ingaan op zaken die ‘bepaalde militaire missies’ in de weg zullen
staan, waarbij hij zelfs aangaf niet te willen bezuinigen op de hulp
aan de Saoedische terreurcoalitie die zo tekeergaat in Jemen……
Ofwel S-A kreeg een ‘carte blanche’ om verder te gaan met de
uitvoering van de genocide op sjiieten in Jemen…….

Voorts
gaf Trump nog aan dat het militaire terreurapparaat van de VS niet
hoeft aan te geven hoeveel burgerslachtoffers er vallen door (illegale) militaire acties van de VS in het buitenland…….

Het
volgende artikel geschreven door Derrick Broze, nam ik over van Anti-Media en werd eerder geplaatst op The Conscious Resistance:

Trump’s
Signing of the 2019 NDAA Will Lead to More Dead Children in Yemen

August
24, 2018 at 10:36 pm

Written
by 
Derrick
Broze

Donald
Trump recently made it clear he will not accept any limitations on
the U.S. military’s logistical support of the war in Yemen.

(CR) — On
August 13, Donald Trump did what every president does, every single
year, without question – he signed the annual military budget bill,
the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019. Some readers may
recall that since 2011, the NDAA has included a provision which
allows for indefinite detention of American citizens without a right
to trial. Many of you may remember that President Obama had no
problem signing the NDAA 2012 in 2011, which legalized the indefinite
detention of American citizens suspected of ties to terrorism. The
indefinite detention provision is still contained in the NDAA, and
has been approved by Congress every year since it first passed.

Donald
Trump continued this trend by signing the NDAA 2019. However, Trump
made it clear that there were certain provisions in this year’s
bill that he would not abide by. “In a 15-page
signing
statement
 issued
Monday night, President Trump revealed that he intends to ignore many
of the myriad provisions of the 2019 National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA), the $716 billion military spending bill,” 
Anti-War.com
reports.

Trump
explicitly says he will not follow provisions which he believes get
in the way of certain “military missions” or are not consistent
with his “constitutional authority as Commander in Chief.” Trump
also says he will not provide more information on civilian casualties
from overseas conflicts because, apparently, the military should not
have to share too much information with Congress. Trump also opposes
a ban on military cooperation with Russia and a call for the creation
of a White House position to investigate election meddling.

Finally,
Trump seemed to suggest he would not allow any limits on the Yemen
War and would oppose the idea of providing an assessment on possible
war crimes to congress. Despite the fact that most of the American
public and 
the
corporate media
 had
never heard of the “civil war” in Yemen until actor Jim
Carrey 
drew
a picture of a school bus full of children
 being
bombed, the conflict has raged since 2015. According to the corporate
media, the conflict is a traditional civil war between different
political factions in the nation, but deeper research indicates that
this is another attempt at regime change by Saudi Arabia and western
forces. However, that is a story for another day.

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Jim Carrey


@JimCarrey

40 innocent children killed on a bus in Yemen.

Our ally.

Our missile.

Our crime.

For
the moment let’s acknowledge that Saudi Arabia launched their own
military intervention in the form of drone attacks and airstrikes.
The campaign is supported with weapons and money from the U.S.
government. The aforementioned school bus full of children? On August
9th, the US-Saudi coalition dropped a 500-pound, laser guided MK-82
bomb manufactured by Lockheed Martin, on a bus full of kids driving
in Dahyan in Saada province of Yemen. The bomb killed 
51
people, including 40 children. 
Reportedly, the
US State Department
 and
the Saudi
 defended
the act as a
 legitimate
military operation”.

These
types of attacks are not unusual in this conflict. Recently, United
Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the war in Yemen was
now the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” with more than 22
million people in need of help. 
Guterres
told a conference
 that
there are millions of people without access to clean drinking water
and at risk of a cholera epidemic.

Of
course, this matter is only made worse by the fact that Republicans
rejected an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill which would
have put restrictions on U.S. financial support for the bombing
campaign. U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy 
said the
amendment “would cut off United States’ support for the Saudi
Arabia-led coalition’s war in Yemen until the Secretary of Defense
certified that the coalition’s air campaign is not violating
international law and U.S. policy related to the protection of
civilians”. Now we can’t have the politicians cut off the
lifeblood to the Military Industrial Complex, can we?

Of
course, we the people can cut off their source of revenue by finding
ways to avoid paying taxes. Otherwise, the cold hard reality is that
there will be more dead people. There will be more buses of dead
children; hospitals, schools, funerals, and weddings being bombed,
and more people who have a justifiable anger towards the U.S.
government and military.

By Derrick
Broze
 / Republished
with permission / 
Conscious
Resistance
 / Report
a typo

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

*  Zie:

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



** Zie:

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

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

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

Zie ook:

Saoedische terreurcoalitie geeft eindelijk toe dat de aanval op een schoolbus niet gerechtvaardigd was……

Saoedi-Arabië woedend over VN rapport waarin de waarheid wordt verteld over S-A en de oorlog in Jemen

Saoedische terreurcoalitie raakt alweer een bus met kinderen, dit keer tijdens een bombardement van een vluchtelingenkamp……..

Saoedische aanval op schoolbus in Jemen: 43 kinderen vermoord……

Aanval op schoolbus Jemen, door Saoedi-Arabië opzettelijk als doel gekozen, geen reden voor VS veroordeling……

Bom waarmee schoolbus in Jemen werd getroffen is van VS makelij

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus
Genocide Jemen: ‘eindelijk ontdekt’ door reguliere media VS, nu nog Nederland en de EU

8 miljoen Jemenieten, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen, dreigen te sterven van de honger……..

Democratisch congreslid eist antwoorden over de rol van de VS bij de massamoorden in Jemen, zoals de aanval op een schoolbus

Jemen, de gemartelde, vermoorde of ‘verdwenen’ Jemenieten, onder verantwoording van de Saoedische coalitie……

Door VS geregisseerd bombardement op ziekenhuis Hodeida >> 50 doden……

Jemen: de vergeten genocide en haar kinderslachtoffers………

Saoedi-Arabië geeft toe in Jemen gruwelijke oorlogsmisdaden te hebben begaan…. ‘ (en daarmee is ten overvloede nog eens duidelijk gemaakt dat ook de VS meewerkt aan oorlogsmisdaden en die genocide in Jemen…..)

Agressie vanwege een vermeende gifgasaanval op Douma, terwijl de tienduizenden kinderen die in Jemen worden vermoord middels een genocide blijkbaar niet meetellen……

Saoedische coalitie valt in Jemen de laatste haven voor humanitaire goederen aan…… Weer ziekenhuis met hulp van VS gebombardeerd………‘            

VS rol in Jemen gaat verder dan eerder gemeld, ofwel nog meer VS hulp bij Saoedische genocide op sjiieten…..

Congres VS geeft akkoord voor verdere steun aan de Saoedische genocide in Jemen……

VS versterkt militaire terreur t.b.v. genocide >> deelname aan aanval op Jemenitische havenstad Hodeida…….

VS en Groot-Brittannië weigeren een onmiddellijk staakt het vuren op haven t.b.v. door genocide geterroriseerd Jemen…..

VS vecht in Jemen, Pentagon loog weer eens >> Congres eindelijk ‘wakker’

Saoedi-Arabië vermoordde minstens 20 bruiloftsgangers in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’

VS doet planning van de Saoedische genocide in Jemen…..

Jemen: meer VS steun voor genocide op sjiieten met grote levering ‘slimme munitie’ aan Saoedi-Arabië……

Jemen: BBC propaganda voor genocide door Saoedische coalitie……..

Mike Pompeo (ex-CIA, VS min. van BuZa en ‘christen’) liegt openlijk over genocide in Jemen

Saoedi-Arabië heeft op verzoek van de VS intensief haar islam ideologie (en die van ISIS) verspreid…..

VS propaganda (en agressie) legt het af tegen feiten?

Agressieve VS propaganda en de wil te komen tot totale controle over de media >> er ligt een wetsvoorstel in het congres, waarmee blogs en websites kunnen worden aangevallen, dan wel van het internet worden gehaald, als die de ‘pr’ van de VS schaden…… M.a.w. als deze alternatieve media, niet zoals de reguliere media, blind het gevoerde neoliberale beleid en de illegale oorlogvoering in het buitenland steunen, kunnen ze ‘het vergeten…..’

Daar is alleen de stelling voor nodig dat e.e.a. wordt gemanipuleerd door de Russen, ook al is dat niet te bewijzen, de schijn wekken dat e.e.a. zo is en de leugens daarover van geheime diensten als de CIA, zijn voldoende………

Zoals totaal-idioot Bush in 2001 durfde te zeggen, na de door o.a. de CIA geregisseerde 911 aanvallen: ” Wie niet voor de VS is, is tegen ons (en daarmee een vijand). Een stelling die als ik me niet vergis uit de bijbel komt (dacht het oude testament van dit kwaadaardige sprookjesboek). Opvallend trouwens die uitspraak in de bijbel, jihadstrijders gebruiken dezelfde drogreden

Volgens Ronald Thomas West, hoeft Rusland niet keihard het volk voor te liegen, ze behoeven zich alleen aan de feiten te houden, en die liegen er wat betreft VS terreur niet om!! Alleen deze eeuw al 4 illegale oorlogen, waar je de oorlog in Oekraïne bij op kan tellen, immers die is ontstaan door de bemoeienissen van de VS met dat land.

Met 4 miljard dollar kocht de VS de opstand in Oekraïne, die van meet af aan bedoeld was om een coup tegen de democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj voor te bereiden. Alleen omdat Janoekovytsj zich niet schikte naar de wil van Washington en daarmee de wil van de NAVO en de EU…….

De wil van het volk op De Krim werd door het westen vertaald, als een inval door de Russen en wordt tot op de dag van vandaag verkocht als ‘annexatie…’

Terwijl internationale waarnemers het referendum in De Krim, tot aansluiting bij Rusland, beoordeelden als eerlijk en conform de internationale eisen…… (niet voor niets durft men nu in het westen voor te stellen, de rol van waarnemers bij verkiezingen en referenda fiks terug te schalen, zodat men nog makkelijker kan liegen, als het zo uitkomt….)….

Hetzelfde probeerde de VS in Syrië, de eerste besprekingen tot afzetting van Assad vonden al in 2006 plaats, onder de ‘bezielende leiding’ van….. de VS!! Deze actie mislukte, maar alsnog ontketende de VS een illegale oorlog, door o.a. bombardementen (ook op stellingen van het reguliere Syrische leger), het transporteren van jihadstrijders uit Libië en Tunesië richting Syrië, uiteraard aangevuld met wapenleveranties en militaire training voor diezelfde jihadstrijders (‘gematigde rebellen’, ofwel psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters)…….

Waar de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, heeft huisgehouden, blijft een kapotgebombardeerd land achter met een enorm aantal doden en een land dat in totale chaos is gedompeld, zoals: Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en als laatste Syrië. Deze eeuw heeft dit al aan meer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven gekost (bijvoorbeeld in Irak 1,5 miljoen!!)

Lees het volgende artikel van West, gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House (onder het artikel kan u voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling klikken, dat kost wel wat tijd):

When
It Comes to U.S. Foreign Policy, the Truth Hurts

A
bill before Congress could be used to target “any website, or blog,
that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as
the Public Relations arm of a given administration.“ All they have
to do is claim it is being “manipulated” by the Russians. But,
Moscow doesn’t have to lie to counter a lawless U.S. foreign
policy. “The Russians only need to stick to the facts (omitting the
pipeline) to ultimately win the propaganda war.”

By
Ronald Thomas West

The
USA governing elite is sowing ever deepening dissent in the psyche of
those Americans actually inclined to think, understand and know for
themselves what is actually going on.”

January
24, 2017 “
Information
Clearing House

– “
BAR” –  Why
is the USA media, intelligence agencies and Congress in hysteria over
“Russian propaganda”? Because the Russians have, for quite
some time, had the absolute upper hand in the growing field of
alternative media. How is that?


What
the Russians appear to have clearly recognized is how to take
advantage of the corrupt nature of the western “mainstream”
press, an institution which has been co-opted
by western intelligence
 agencies for a very long time.


The
Russian method? It could not be more simple; report the actual facts
in the geopolitical contest and when this is inconvenient, practice
lies by omission. Here is an example: Both NATO (an extension of the
USA) and Russia are contesting Syria over competing
energy pipelines
, primarily. One from Iran transiting Syria,
favored by Russia; the other from Qatar transiting Syria, favored by
NATO.

The
disadvantage NATO has faced in this competition is Syria controlled
by a Russian ally, that is, the government of Basher al-Assad.

Because
NATO sponsored Salafist militants to effect “regime change” (the
preferred NATO model since 1980s Afghanistan), a large number had,
not surprisingly, gone out of control (e.g. Islamic State is a direct
result.) Paradoxically, NATO-aligned states have pitched the
anti-Assad endeavor in terms of a “war on terror,” and there are
so many NATO lies (and lies to cover lies) in the co-opted western
media, the Russians only need to stick to the facts (omitting the
pipeline) to ultimately win the propaganda war. What’s more is,
Russia further only need stand back and allow western dissident
journalists to dig up the real facts on the ground:

1.
NATO’s “moderate” rebels are aligned with al-Qaida……………..

2.
NATO policy created the conditions for the rise of IS……………

3.
Western ally Saudi Arabia bankrolls the Salafist extremists……. ✓

4.
NATO member Turkey has protected & supplied IS…………….. ✓

Depending
on the geopolitical reality of the day, for instance whether the
paranoid ego-maniac Sultan Erdogan of Turkey is behaving well or not,
the stories by western dissident journalists that will withstand
close scrutiny are run in Russian or Russia friendly media outlets.
The result? Odds are 100:1 you’ll get more reliable information
from Russian state TV or Russian sponsored websites than from ABC,
CBS, CNN or NBC.


Shoot
the messenger

 At
the end of the day, the only solution NATO’s main sponsor, the USA,
can come up with to protect it’s colossal efforts to deceive and
manipulate the western public is to silence dissident journalists by
cutting off access to alternative media. Zerohedge on the present
proposal
:

On
November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch
hunt against “Russian propaganda fake news”, with 390 votes for,
the House quietly passed “H.R.
6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
“,
sponsored by California Republican Devin Nunes (whose thirdlargest
donor in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc
), a bill which deals
with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian
propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda, and hints at a
potential crackdown on “offenders.”

A
quick skim of the bill reveals “Title V—Matters relating to
foreign countries,” whose Section 501 calls for the government
to “counter
active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out
in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or
the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the
Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”

The
section lists the following definitions of media manipulation:

*
Establishment or funding of a front group.

*
Covert broadcasting.

*
Media manipulation.

*
Disinformation and forgeries.

*
Funding agents of influence.

*
Incitement and offensive counterintelligence.

*
Assassinations.

*
Terrorist acts.

As ActivistPost
correctly notes
, it is easy to see how this law, if passed by the
Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target,
threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, 
a
list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog,
that does not share the mainstream media’s proclivity to serve as
the Public Relations arm of a given administration“


Russian
victory enhanced

The
reactionary moves by the NATO/USA propagandists to having been bested
in the game by Russia only sweetens the Russian victory. Similar to
Erdogan’s over-reaction in cracking down on anyone who doesn’t
follow the ruling party line in Turkey, the USA governing elite is
sowing ever deepening dissent in the psyche of those Americans
actually inclined to think, understand and know for themselves what
is actually going on. The sort of reactionary behavior embodied in
the color of law [anti-constitutional order represented in the
“national security state”] governing the United States and its
allies destabilizes any society.


Propaganda
budget


The
USA media mouthpieces are not going to broadcast the American
propaganda budget, so let’s
turn to Russia’s Sputnik to get the facts
:

Last
year, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the US federal
agency responsible for Voice of America and Radio Liberty/Radio Free
Europe, among others, requested a substantial budget increase.
Seeking a boost of $30 million, the BBG’s budget soared to $751.5
million.

That
was, evidently, not enough money. President Obama’s newly proposed
budget for fiscal year 2017 proposes another massive increase in
spending for the BBG. If granted, the agency will receive nearly $778
million, a roughly $27 million increase” [over the $30 million
boost]


The
Russians are willing to broadcast the 
factual news
the USA’s intelligence agency co-opted media mouth-pieces will not.
Point made?


Western
press propagandizing Americans


How
much of the USA’s propaganda budget is actually 
aimed
at Americans
?


The
newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
includes an amendment that would legalize
the use of propaganda on the American public
, reports Michael
Hastings of BuzzFeed.

The
amendment — proposed by Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) and Adam Smith
(D-Wash.) and passed in the House last Friday afternoon —
would effectively nullify the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948,
which explicitly forbids information and psychological
operations aimed at influencing U.S. public opinion

Huh.
And yeah, that was made into law.


Odd
bedfellows


Glenn
Greenwald’s related, and otherwise excellent piece ‘Washington
Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New,
Hidden, and Very Shady Group
‘ throws a bone to one of the very
worst propaganda prostitutes extant on the world-wide-web: Elliot
Higgins of Bellingcat. WTF.

Ronald
Thomas West can be contacted through his web
site, RonaldThomasWest.com.

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Lullig genoeg kan Rusland de feiten voor zich laten spreken, maar jammer genoeg komen die niet over bij de diverse westerse bevolkingen. M.a.w.: de VS kan alsnog een enorme berg ellende aanrichten over de wereld, met steun van andere westerse landen, zonder dat Rusland daar iets aan kan doen (hoe de feiten ook voor zich spreken….)……… Al moet ik toegeven, dat de hulp van Rusland aan Assad, hoop geeft voor de toekomst.

Bij het aanrichten van ellende kan de VS ook rekenen op de steun van het grootste deel van het westerse publiek, daar de reguliere (massa-) media, braaf het VS (en daarmee het NAVO) standpunt uitventen en verdedigen. E.e.a. met gebruikmaking van: -nepnieuws en onzinnieuws, -het niet vermelden van gebeurtenissen, of -correcties op eerder nepnieuws weglaten en -angst- en haatzaaien voor/tegen landen die de VS als vijandig ziet (en daar is niet veel voor nodig…..)……

Zie ook: ‘Obama maakt ministerie van Waarheid mogelijk en geeft ministerie van Oorlog $ 611 miljard……..

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dat geldt niet voor de labels: BBG en Nunes.

Aleppo, de wraak van de VS: oorlog aan de alternatieve media, leve de staatspropaganda….!!

Nadat de Obama regering Rusland heeft beschuldigd van het hacken van de verkiezingen, waar het overigens geen nanometer bewijs voor heeft, is het nu de beurt aan de alternatieve media…… De VS zag met lede ogen de val van Aleppo (wat betreft het verslaan van de door deze terreurentiteit gesteunde ‘gematigde’ terroristen) en geeft daarvoor nu ook de schuld aan de alternatieve media…….

De alternatieve media die niet braaf de door de VS aangeleverde leugenpropaganda herhaalden, maar met feiten aantoonden, dat de VS keer op keer heeft gelogen inzake Syrië!! Sterker nog, dat de VS de aanstichter is van de oorlog in Syrië, die intussen aan meer dan 700.000 mensen het leven heeft gekost…….

Het beschuldigen van de media, is een herhaling van zetten: toen het duidelijk werd, dat de VS de oorlog in Vietnam had verloren, waren het vooral de media ‘die voor het verlies hadden gezorgd……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Hier het artikel over de oorlog tegen de alternatieve media, zoals gisteren door Information Clearing House gebracht (u kan onder dit artikel klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The
War Against Alternative Information

By
Rick Sterling

The
U.S. government is creating a new $160 million bureaucracy to shut
down information that doesn’t conform to U.S. propaganda
narratives, building on the strategy that sold the bloody Syrian
“regime change”

January
02, 2017 “
Information
Clearing House

– “
Consortium
News

– The U.S. establishment is not content simply to have domination
over the media narratives on critical foreign policy issues, such as
Syria, Ukraine and Russia. It wants total domination. Thus we now
have the “Countering
Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act
” that President Obama
signed into law on Dec. 23 as part of theNational
Defense Authorization Act for 2017
 (NDAA), setting aside $160 million to
combat any “propaganda” that challenges Official Washington’s
version of reality.

The
new law mandates the U.S. Secretary of State to collaborate with the
Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence and other
federal agencies to create a Global Engagement Center “to lead,
synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to
recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and
non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining
United States national security interests.” The law directs the
Center to be formed in 180 days and to share expertise among agencies
and to “coordinate with allied nations.”

The
legislation was initiated in March 2016, as the demonization of
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia was already underway and
was enacted amid the allegations of “Russian hacking” around the
U.S. presidential election and the mainstream media’s furor over
supposedly “fake news.” Defeated Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton voiced strong support for the bill: “It’s
imperative that leaders in both the private sector and the public
sector step up to protect our democracy, and innocent lives.”

The
new law is remarkable for a number of reasons, not the least because
it merges 
a
new McCarthyism
 about purported dissemination of Russian
“propaganda” on the Internet with 
a
new Orwellianism
 by creating a kind of Ministry of Truth –
or Global Engagement Center – to protect the American people from
“foreign propaganda and disinformation.”

As
part of the effort to detect and defeat these unwanted narratives,
the law authorizes the Center to: “Facilitate the use of a wide
range of technologies and techniques by sharing expertise among
Federal departments and agencies, seeking expertise from external
sources, and implementing best practices.” (This section is an
apparent reference to proposals that Google, Facebook and other
technology companies find ways to block or brand certain Internet
sites as 
purveyors
of “Russian propaganda” or “fake news.”
)

Justifying
this new bureaucracy, the bill’s sponsors argued that the existing
agencies for “
strategic
communications
” and “public
diplomacy
” were not enough, that the information threat
required “a whole-of-government approach leveraging all elements of
national power.”

The
law also is rife with irony since the U.S. government and related
agencies are among the world’s biggest purveyors of propaganda and
disinformation – or what you might call evidence-free claims, such
as the recent accusations of Russia hacking into Democratic emails to
“influence” the U.S. election.

Despite
these accusations — leaked by the Obama administration and embraced
as true by the mainstream U.S. news media — there is 
little
or no public evidence
 to support the charges. There is also
a contradictory 
analysis by
veteran U.S. intelligence professionals as well as statements
by 
Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange
 and an associate, former
British Ambassador Craig Murray
, that the Russians were not the
source of the leaks. Yet, the mainstream U.S. media has virtually
ignored this counter-evidence, appearing eager to collaborate with
the new “Global Engagement Center” even before it is
officially formed.

Of
course, there is a long history of U.S. disinformation and
propaganda. Former CIA agents Philip Agee and John Stockwell
documented how it was done decades ago, secretly planting “black
propaganda” and covertly funding media outlets to influence events
around the world, with much of the fake news blowing back into the
American media.

In
more recent decades, the U.S. government has adopted an Internet-era
version of that formula with an emphasis on having the State
Department or the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy
supply, train and pay “activists” and “citizen journalists”
to create and distribute propaganda and false stories via “social
media” and via contacts with the mainstream media. The U.S.
government’s strategy also seeks to undermine and discredit
journalists who challenge this orthodoxy. The new legislation
escalates this information war by tossing another $160 million into
the pot.

Propaganda
and Disinformation on Syria

Syria
is a good case study in the modern application of information
warfare. In her memoir 
Hard
Choices
,
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote that the U.S.
provided “support for (Syrian) civilian opposition groups,
including satellite-linked computers, telephones, cameras, and
training for more than a thousand activists, students and independent
journalists.”

Indeed,
a huge amount of money has gone to “activists” and “civil
society” groups in Syria and other countries that have been
targeted for “regime change.” A lot of the money also goes to
parent organizations that are based in the United States and Europe,
so these efforts do not only support on-the-ground efforts to
undermine the targeted countries, but perhaps even more importantly,
the money influences and manipulates public opinion in the West.

In
North America, representatives from the Syrian 
“Local
Coordination Committees”
(LCC) were frequent guests on popular
media programs such as “DemocracyNow.” The message was clear:
there is a “revolution” in Syria against a “brutal regime”
personified in Bashar al-Assad. It was not mentioned that the “Local
Coordination Committees” have been primarily funded by the West,
specifically the Office for Syrian Opposition Support, which was
founded by the U.S. State Department and the U.K. Foreign and
Commonwealth Office.

More
recently, news and analysis about Syria has been conveyed through the
filter of the White Helmets, also known as Syrian Civil Defense. In
the Western news media, the White Helmets are described as neutral,
non-partisan, civilian volunteers courageously carrying out rescue
work in the war zone. In fact, the group is 
none
of the above.
 It was initiated by the U.S. and U.K. using a
British military contractor and Brooklyn-based marketing company.

While
they may have performed some genuine rescue operations, the White
Helmets are primarily a media organization with a political goal: to
promote NATO intervention in Syria. (The manipulation of public
opinion using the White Helmets and promoted by the New York Times
and Avaaz petition for a “No Fly Zone” in Syria is
documented
here.)

The
White Helmets hoax continues to be widely believed and receives
uncritical promotion though it has increasingly been exposed at
alternative media outlets as the creation of a 
“shady
PR firm
.” During critical times in the conflict in Aleppo,
White Helmet individuals have been used as the source for important
news stories despite a track record of 
deception.

Recent
Propaganda: Blatant Lies?

As
the armed groups in east Aleppo recently lost ground and then
collapsed, Western governments and allied media went into a frenzy of
accusations against Syria and Russia based on reports from sources
connected with the armed opposition. CNN host Wolf Blitzer described
Aleppo as “falling” in a “slaughter of these women and
children” while CNN host Jake Tapper referred to “genocide by
another name.”

The
Daily Beast published the claims of the Aleppo Siege Media Center
under the title
“Doomsday
is held in Aleppo” 
and amid accusations that the Syrian
army was executing civilians, burning them alive and “20 women
committed suicide in order not to be raped.” These sensational
claims were widely broadcast without verification. However, this
“news” on CNN and throughout Western media came from highly
biased sources and many of the claims – lacking anything
approaching independent corroboration – could be accurately
described as propaganda and disinformation.

Ironically,
some of the supposedly “Russian propaganda” sites, such as RT,
have provided first-hand on-the-ground reporting from the war zones
with verifiable information that contradicts the Western narrative
and thus has received almost no attention in the U.S. news media. For
instance, some of these non-Western outlets have shown videos of
popular celebrations over the “liberation of Aleppo.”

There
has been further corroboration of these realities from peace
activists, such as Jan Oberg of Transnational Foundation for Peace
and Future Research who published a
photo
essay 
of his eyewitness observations in Aleppo including the
happiness of civilians from east Aleppo reaching the
government-controlled areas of west Aleppo, finally freed from areas
that had been controlled by Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate and its
jihadist allies in Ahrar al-Sham.

Dr.
Nabil Antaki, a medical doctor from Aleppo, described the liberation
of Aleppo in an interview titled 
“Aleppo
is Celebrating, Free from Terrorists, the Western Media
Misinformed.”
 The first Christmas celebrations in Aleppo
in four years are shown 
here,replete
with marching band members in Santa Claus outfits. Journalist Vanessa
Beeley has published 
testimonies of
civilians from east Aleppo. The happiness of civilians at their
liberation is clear.

Whether
or not you wish to accept these depictions of the reality in Aleppo,
at a minimum, they reflect another side of the story that you have
been denied while being persistently force-fed the version favored by
the U.S. State Department. The goal of the new Global Engagement
Center to counter “foreign propaganda” is to ensure that you
never get to hear this alternative narrative to the Western
propaganda line.

Even
much earlier, contrary to the Western mythology of rebel “liberated
zones,” there was strong evidence that the armed groups were never
popular in Aleppo. American journalist James Foley described the
situation in 2012 like
 this:

Aleppo,
a city of about 3 million people, was once the financial heart of
Syria. As it continues to deteriorate, many civilians here are losing
patience with the increasingly violent and unrecognizable opposition
— one that is hampered by infighting and a lack of structure, and
deeply infiltrated by both foreign fighters and terrorist groups. The
rebels in Aleppo are predominantly from the countryside, further
alienating them from the urban crowd that once lived here peacefully,
in relative economic comfort and with little interference from the
authoritarian government of President Bashar al-Assad.”

On
Nov. 22, 2012, Foley was kidnapped in northwestern Syria and held by
Islamic State terrorists before his beheading in August 2014.



The
Overall Narrative on Syria

Analysis
of the Syrian conflict boils down to two competing narratives. One
narrative is that the conflict is a fight for freedom and democracy
against a brutal regime, a storyline promoted in the West and the
Gulf states, which have been 
fueling
the conflict from the start
. This narrative is also favored by
some self-styled “anti-imperialists” who want a “Syrian
revolution.”

The
other narrative is that the conflict is essentially a war of
aggression against a sovereign state, with the aggressors including
NATO countries, Gulf monarchies, Israel and Jordan. Domination of the
Western media by these powerful interests is so thorough that one
almost never gets access to this second narrative, which is
essentially banned from not only the mainstream but also much of the
liberal and progressive media.

For
example, listeners and viewers of the generally progressive TV and
radio program “DemocracyNow” have rarely if ever heard the second
narrative described in any detail. Instead, the program frequently
broadcasts the statements of Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Samantha Power and others associated with the U.S.
position. Rarely do you hear the viewpoint of the Syrian Ambassador
to the United Nations, the Syrian Foreign Minister or analysts inside
Syria and around the world who have written about and follow events
there closely.

DemocracyNow”
also has done repeated interviews with proponents of the “Syrian
revolution” while ignoring analysts who call the conflict a war of
aggression sponsored by the West and the Gulf monarchies. This
blackout of the second narrative continues despite the fact that many
prominent international figures see it as such. For example, the
former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua and former President of the UN
General Assembly, Father Miguel D’Escoto, has said, “What the
U.S. government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of
aggression, which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst
possible crime a State can commit against another State.”

In
many areas of politics, “DemocracyNow” is excellent and
challenges mainstream media. However in this area, coverage of the
Syrian conflict, the broadcast is biased, one-sided and echoes the
news and analysis of mainstream Western corporate media, showing the
extent of control over foreign policy news that already exists in the
United States and Europe.



Suppressing
and Censoring Challenges

Despite
the widespread censorship of alternative analyses on Syria and other
foreign hotspots that already exists in the West, the U.S.
government’s new “Global Engagement Center” will seek to ensure
that the censorship is even more complete with its goal to “counter
foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation.” We can
expect even more aggressive and better-financed assaults on the few
voices daring to challenge the West’s “group thinks” – smear
campaigns that are already quite extensive.

In
an article titled 
“Controlling
the Narrative on Syria”
, Louis Allday describes the criticisms
and attacks on journalists Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal for
straying from the “approved” Western narrative on Syria. Some of
the bullying and abuse has come from precisely those people, such as
Robin Yassin-Kassab, who have been frequent guests in liberal Western
media.

Reporters
who have returned from Syria with accounts that challenge the
propaganda themes that have permeated the Western media also have
come under attack. For instance, Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett
recently returned to North America after being in Syria and Aleppo,
conveying a very different image and critical of the West’s biased
media coverage. Bartlett appeared at a United Nations 
press
conference
 and then did numerous interviews across the
country during a speaking tour. During the course of her talks and
presentation, Bartlett criticized the White Helmets and questioned
whether it was true that Al Quds Hospital in opposition-held East
Aleppo was attacked and destroyed as claimed.

Bartlett’s
recounting of this information made her a target of Snopes, which has
been a mostly useful website exposing urban legends and false rumors
but has come under criticism itself for some internal 
challenges and
has been inconsistent in its investigations. In one report entitled
White
Helmet Hearsay,”
 Snopes’ writer Bethania Palmer says
claims the White Helmets are “linked to terrorists” is
“unproven,” but she overlooks numerous 
videos,
photos, and other reports showing White Helmet members celebrating a
Nusra/Al Qaeda battle victory, picking up the bodies of civilians
executed by a Nusra executioner, and having a member who
alternatively appears as a rebel/terrorist fighter with a weapon and
later wearing a White Helmet uniform. The “fact check” barely
scrapes the surface of public evidence.

The
same writer did another shallow “investigation” titled “victim
blaming”
 regarding Bartlett’s critique of White Helmet
videos and what happened at the Al Quds Hospital in Aleppo. Bartlett
suggests that some White Helmet videos may be fabricated and may
feature the same child at different times, i.e., photographs that
appear to show the same girl being rescued by White Helmet workers at
different places and times. While it is uncertain whether this
is the same girl, the similarity is clear.
 

The
Snopes writer goes on to criticize Bartlett for her comments about
the reported bombing of Al Quds Hospital in east Aleppo in April
2016. A statement at the 
websiteof
Doctors Without Borders says the building was “destroyed and
reduced to rubble,” but this was clearly false since photos show
the building with unclear damage. Five months later, the September
2016 
report by
Doctors Without Borders says the top two floors of the building were
destroyed and the ground floor Emergency Room damaged yet they
re-opened in two weeks.

The
many inconsistencies and contradictions in the statements of Doctors
Without Borders resulted in an 
open
letter
 to them. In their last report, Doctors Without
Borders (known by its French initials, MSF) acknowledges that “MSF
staff did not directly witness the attack and has not visited Al Quds
Hospital since 2014.”

Bartlett
referenced satellite images taken before and after the reported
attack on the hospital. The images do not show severe damage and it
is unclear whether or not there is any damage to the roof, the basis
for Bartlett’s statement. In the past week, independent journalists
have visited the scene of Al Quds Hospital and report that that the
top floors of the building are still there and damage is unclear.

The
Snopes’ investigation criticizing Bartlett was superficial and
ignored the broader issues of accuracy and integrity in the Western
media’s depiction of the Syrian conflict. Instead the article
appeared to be an effort to discredit the eyewitness observations and
analysis of a journalist who dared challenge the mainstream
narrative.

U.S.
propaganda and disinformation on Syria has been extremely effective
in misleading much of the American population. Thus, most Americans
are unaware how many billions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on
yet another “regime change” project. The propaganda campaign –
having learned from the successful demonizations of Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and other targeted leaders – has
been so masterful regarding

Syria
that many liberal and progressive news outlets were pulled in. It has
been left to RT and some Internet outlets to challenge the U.S.
government and the mainstream media.

But
the U.S. government’s near total control of the message doesn’t
appear to be enough. Apparently even a few voices of dissent are a
few voices too many.

The
enactment of HR5181, “Countering Foreign Propaganda and
Disinformation,” suggests that the ruling powers seek to escalate
suppression of news and analyses that run counter to the official
narrative. Backed by a new infusion of $160 million, the plan is to
further squelch skeptical voices with operation for “countering”
and “refuting” what the U.S. government deems to be propaganda
and disinformation.

As
part of the $160 million package, funds can be used to hire or reward
“civil society groups, media content providers, nongovernmental
organizations, federally funded research and development centers,
private companies, or academic institutions.”

Among
the tasks that these private entities can be hired to perform is to
identify and investigate both print and online sources of news that
are deemed to be distributing “disinformation, misinformation, and
propaganda directed at the United States and its allies and
partners.”

In
other words, we are about to see an escalation of the information
war.

Rick
Sterling is an independent investigative journalist. He lives in the
San Francisco Bay Area and can be reached at rsterling1@gmail.com

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Obama maakt ministerie van Waarheid mogelijk en geeft ministerie van Oorlog $ 611 miljard……..

Nobelprijs voor de Vrede winnaar Obama (ha! ha! ha!) heeft een wet getekend, waarmee een Ministerie van Waarheid (ministry of Truth) zoals door Orwell beschreven in het boek 1984) is gecreëerd……… Niet alleen dat, maar deze wet geeft het Ministerie van Oorlog in 2017 een slordige $ 611 miljard te verbrassen, zodat de onwettige, zwaar terroristische VS houdgreep op de wereld, kan worden versterkt……….

‘Uiteraard’ zal e.e.a. gepaard gaan met het tegenwerken, of uit de lucht halen, dan wel van het internet verwijderen, van VS onwelgevallige media (lees: media die kritiek durven te leveren op terreurentiteit VS….)………

Laat ook uw haren te berge rijzen en lees het volgen de artikel van Tyler Durden, zoals eerder geplaatst op ZeroHedge:

Obama
Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act”
Into Law

by Tyler
Durden

Dec
26, 2016

Late
on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and
oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, 
Obama
quietly signed into law the 2017 
National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for
the military in 2017.

In
a statement, 
Obama
said that
:

Today,
I have signed into law S. 2943, the “National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017.” This Act authorizes fiscal year 2017
appropriations principally for the Department of Defense and for
Department of Energy national security programs, provides vital
benefits for military personnel and their families, and includes
authorities to facilitate ongoing operations around the globe. It
continues many critical authorizations necessary to ensure that we
are able to sustain our momentum in countering the threat posed by
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and to reassure our European
allies, as well as many new authorizations that, among other things,
provide the Departments of Defense and Energy more flexibility in
countering cyber-attacks and our adversaries’ use of unmanned
aerial vehicles.”

Much
of the balance of Obama’s statement blamed the GOP for Guantanamo’s
continued operation and warned that “unless the Congress changes
course, it will be judged harshly by history,” Obama said. Obama
also said Congress failed to use the bill to reduce wasteful overhead
(like perhaps massive F-35 cost overruns?) or modernize military
health care, which he said would exacerbate budget pressures facing
the military in the years ahead.

But
while the passage of the NDAA – and the funding of the US military –
was hardly a surprise, the biggest news is what was buried deep
inside the provisions of the Defense Authortization Act.

Recall
that as 
we
reported in early June
“a
bill to implement the U.S.’ very own 
de
facto 
Ministry
of Truth had been quietly introduced in Congress
.
As with any legislation attempting to dodge the public spotlight the
Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016 marks a
further curtailment of press freedom and another avenue to stultify
avenues of accurate information. Introduced by Congressmen Adam
Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government
approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign
disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the
world’s “security and stability.”

Also
called the Countering Information Warfare Act of 2016 (S. 2692), when
introduced in March by Sen. Rob Portman, the legislation represents a
dramatic return to Cold War-era government propaganda battles. 
“These
countries spend vast sums of money on advanced broadcast and digital
media capabilities, targeted campaigns, funding of foreign political
movements, and other efforts to influence key audiences and
populations,” Portman explained, adding that while the U.S. spends
a relatively small amount on its Voice of America (VOA), the Kremlin
provides enormous funding for its news organization, RT.

Surprisingly,”
Portman continued, “there is currently no single U.S. governmental
agency or department charged with the national level development,
integration and synchronization of whole-of-government strategies to
counter foreign propaganda and disinformation.”  

Long
before the “fake news” meme became a daily topic of
extensive conversation on such discredited mainstream portals as CNN
and WaPo (Washington Post), H.R. 5181 would task the Secretary of State with
coordinating the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National
Intelligence, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors to “establish
a Center for Information Analysis and Response,” which will
pinpoint sources of disinformation, analyze data, and — in true
dystopic manner — ‘develop and disseminate’ “
fact-based
narratives

to counter effrontery propaganda.

In
short, long before “fake news” became a major media topic,
the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown
on anything it would eventually label “fake news.”

* *
*

Fast
forward to 
December
8, 
when
the “
Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act

passed in the Senate, 
quietly
inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Conference Report.

And
now, following Friday’s Obama signing of the NDAA on Friday
evening, 
the
Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act 
is
now law.

* *
*

Here
is the 
full
statement 
issued
by the 
generously
funded
 Senator
Rob Portman (R- Ohio) on the singing into law of a bill that further
chips away at press liberties in the US, and which sets the stage for
future which hunts and website shutdowns, purely as a result of an
accusation that any one media outlet or site is considered as a
source of “disinformation and propaganda” and is shut down
by the government.

President
Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law

Portman-Murphy
Bill Promotes Coordinated Strategy to Defend America, Allies Against
Propaganda and Disinformation from Russia, China & Others

U.S.
Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced
that
their Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act – 
legislation
designed to help American allies counter foreign government
propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations 
– has
been signed into law as part of the FY 2017 National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Report. The bipartisan bill,
which was 
introduced by
Senators Portman and Murphy in March, will improve the ability of the
United States to counter foreign propaganda and disinformation from
our enemies by establishing an interagency center housed at the State
Department to coordinate and synchronize counter-propaganda efforts
throughout the U.S. government. To support these efforts, the bill
also creates a grant program for NGOs, think tanks, civil society and
other experts outside government who are engaged in
counter-propaganda related work. This will better leverage existing
expertise and empower our allies overseas to defend themselves from
foreign manipulation. It will also help foster a free and vibrant
press and civil society overseas, which is critical to ensuring our
allies have access to truthful information and inoculating people
against foreign propaganda campaigns.

Our
enemies are using foreign propaganda and
disinformation against us and our allies, and so far the U.S.
government has been asleep at the wheel,” Portman said. “But
today, the United States has taken a critical step towards
confronting the extensive, and destabilizing, foreign propaganda and
disinformation operations being waged against us by our enemies
overseas. 
With
this bill now law, we are finally signaling that enough is enough;
the United States will no longer sit on the sidelines. We are going
to confront this threat head-on. I am confident that, with the help
of this bipartisan bill, the disinformation and propaganda used
against us, our allies, and our interests will fail.”

The
use of propaganda to undermine democracy has hit a new low. 
But
now we are finally in a position to confront this threat head on and
get out the truth. By building up independent, objective journalism
in places like eastern Europe, we can start to fight back by exposing
these fake narratives and empowering local communities to protect
themselves,” said Murphy. “I’m proud that our bill was signed
into law, and I look forward to working with Senator Portman to make
sure these tools and new resources are effectively used to get out
the truth.”

NOTE: The
bipartisan 
Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act 
is
organized around two main priorities to help achieve the goal of
combatting the constantly evolving threat of foreign disinformation
from our enemies:

  • The
    first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for
    countering THE foreign propaganda and disinformation being wages
    against us and our allies by our enemies
    .
    The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the
    Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and
    China as well as non-state actors. The Center will be led by the
    State Department, but with the active senior level participation of
    the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of
    Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies.
    The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize
    whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign
    disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance
    fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.

  • Second, the legislation
    seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more
    adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation
    establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide
    grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think
    tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other
    experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying
    and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation
    techniques. This fund will complement and support the Center’s
    role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the
    U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also
    empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and
    integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.

* *
*

And
so, with the 
likes
of WaPo having already primed the general public 
to
equate “Russian Propaganda” with “fake news”
(despite admitting 
after
the fact their own report was essentially “fake
“),
while the US media has indoctrinated the public to assume that any
information which is not in compliance with the official government
narrative, or dares to criticize the establishment, is also “fake
news” and thus falls under the “Russian propaganda”
umbrella, the scene is now set for the US government to 
legally crack
down on every media outlet that the government deems to be “foreign
propaganda.”

Just
like that, the US 
Ministry
of Truth 
is
officially born.

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