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

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

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
documentedhere.)

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 aphoto
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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Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Agee, M. Blumenthal en Kassab,

Nepnieuws gebracht door o.a. NRC, NOS en RTL Nieuws

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Gegarandeerd niet het eerste ‘nepnieuws’ dat in de eerste dagen van dit jaar werd gebracht, het bericht dat agenten in Den Haag, die een collega reanimeerden, werden belaagd met vuurwerk en stenen.

Buiten dat dit nieuws werd gebracht door de fascistensites GeenStijl en De Dagelijkse Standaard, werd dit bericht zonder controle overgenomen door: NRC, NOS, RTL Nieuws, BNR, AD, Blik op Nieuws, Beveiliging Nieuws en VL Nieuws……* Kortom nepnieuws van ‘hoog niveau!’ Ach ja, lekker sensationeel zo’n bericht, dus zo snel mogelijk plaatsen!!

Trouwens, nooit eerder de namen Beveiliging Nieuws of VL Nieuws tegen gekomen. Even gekeken waar deze nieuwsorganisaties mee bezig zijn. Je kan het al raden: het zijn ‘actuele nieuwssites’ over veiligheid en leefbaarheid…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Gezien voornoemd bericht, kan je op z’n zachtst concluderen, dat het nieuws wat ze brengen niet meehelpt aan het gevoel van veiligheid en leefbaarheid, althans niet bij een groot aantal Hagenaars……

* Er zullen gegarandeerd meer kranten en sites zijn, die dit bericht hebben gebracht, de getoonde namen waren binnen één minuut te vinden.

BBC: propaganda-orgaan voor het neoliberalistische beleid van de conservatieven

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Gisteren op het blog van Stan van Houcke een artikel van the Canary, dat op 6 mei vorig jaar werd gepubliceerd. Het handelt hier over wie macht uitoefent via de BBC, de publieke Britse omroep, die intussen gerust een gezwel kan worden genoemd, als je alle aftakkingen in het buitenland ziet, zoals die in Canada.

Op dit blog heeft u al vaak kunnen lezen, over de propaganda die de BBC dag in dag uitstort over het Britse publiek, neem de Brexit of de enorme hoeveelheid leugens over de strijd in Aleppo (en het weglaten van feiten, zoals de terreur die de ‘gematigde rebellen’ uitoefende op de bevolking in Oost-Aleppo….)……..

Helaas voor diegenen die het Engels niet kunnen lezen is het een Engelstalig artikel (al kan je e.e.a. via het besturingssysteem van Microsoft laten ‘vertalen’), hier het volledige artikel:

The
sorry facts which show the BBC has moved beyond bias, into pure
propaganda

The sorry facts which show the BBC has moved beyond bias, into pure propaganda

EDITORIAL

The
BBC and its political editor Laura Kuenssberg are under
fire this
week, following local election coverage which has been dismissed as
nothing short of propaganda by people across the country. But how did
we get here?

Who
runs the BBC?

624

Rona
Fairhead, Chair of the BBC Trust, and board member of HSBC (image
via BBC)

The
current abysmal state of BBC News and Politics makes much more sense
when you see who has been appointed to plot its editorial
course.

The BBC
Trust is
responsible for granting licenses to all BBC outlets and stations,
managing value for money on licence fee payments and ‘the
direction of BBC editorial and creative output’.
The Trust consists of 12 Trustees and is headed by Rona
Fairhead – who
also happens to have been a longtime board member of HSBC bank.

As The
Canary’s James
Wright reported earlier
this year:

Fairhead
has entrenched ties to the Tory government. In fact, she and
Osborne are
old friends.
Fairhead worked
for the
Conservative government as a cabinet office member, until being
appointed by the previous Conservative culture secretary – Sajid
Javid – as the new head of the BBC Trust. She is
still business
ambassador for David Cameron.

Fairhead
has also sat on the board of HSBC directors for a long time. And what
is even more shocking than her other Conservative links are claims
that she was actually appointed chairwoman of the BBC Trust to keep a
lid on Cameron’s involvement in covering up a
£1bn fraudulent HSBC scam on British shoppers.
Whistle-blower Nicholas
Wilson made
various freedom of information requests that confirmed that
Fairhead’s appointment did not follow proper procedure. She was
rushed to the position after the application date closed, with no
mention of her on any contemporary media shortlist.

Her
appointment does not coincide with the normal process, and many
questioned why
a business tycoon was right for the job. What
it did coincide with was
a string of interconnected visits from the BBC, HSBC, the Houses of
Parliament and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to Wilson’s
website where he details the scam and the FCA and Cameron’s
involvement in covering it up.

But
the conflicts of interest do not stop at Fairhead.

The
Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC, James Harding, is a
former employee of the Murdoch Press. While Editor of The Times
newspaper, he was responsible for exposing
the identity of police blogger NightJack by hacking
the blogger’s email accounts –
which his legal
team then covered up during
a court case against the action. Harding has also gone on the record
as ‘pro
Israel’.

This
is the calibre of the figures responsible for hiring the news teams,
presenters and journalists who will report on matters of hacking,
privacy, and the Middle East.

These
are not trivial conflicts of interests. The two individuals primarily
responsible for driving the News and Politics agenda for the BBC, are
instead driving forward their personal and professional causes –
and the licence fee payer is footing the bill.

What
is the impact on reporting?

BBC3

These
conflicts of interest affect the reporting of News and Politics at
the BBC in a very real way. In 2013, researchers at Cardiff
University undertook a major
content analysis of
BBC coverage – funded in part by the BBC Trust. They studied the
impartiality of BBC reporting across several areas,
including the Israel-Palestine conflict, the EU, business and
economics, and politics.

The findings revealed
that:

  • Whichever
    party is in power, the Conservative party is granted more air time.

  • On
    BBC News at Six, business representatives outnumbered trade union
    spokespersons by more than five to one (11 vs 2) in 2007 and by 19
    to one in 2012.

  • When
    it comes to the Financial Crisis, BBC coverage was almost
    completely dominated by stockbrokers, investment bankers, hedge fund
    managers and other City voices.     Civil
    society voices     or commentators who
    questioned the benefits of having such a large finance sector were
    almost completely absent from coverage.

On
top of this, BBC reporting of Israel-Palestine has been woefully
partisan – and in 2013, we found out one reason why.

In
2013, a devastating report by Electronic
Intifada,
revealed that Raffi
Berg,
online editor for BBC News, was instructing journalists to skew
reports on Israel-Palestine in favour of Israel. While hundreds of
Palestinians were losing their lives during Israel’s eight day
assault on the Gaza strip in 2012, Berg was emailing
journalists with ‘guidance’ to maintain a pro-Israel tone in
their reports.
This from the report:

In
one, he asked BBC colleagues to word their stories in a way which
does not blame or “put undue emphasis” on Israel for starting the
prolonged attacks. Instead, he encouraged journalists to promote the
Israeli government line that the “offensive” was “aimed at
ending rocket fire from Gaza.”

This
was despite the fact that Israel broke a ceasefire when it attacked
Gaza on 14 November, a ceasefire which the Palestinians had been
observing — firing no rockets into Israel.

In
a second email, sent during the same period, Berg told BBC
journalists:

“Please
remember, Israel doesn’t maintain a blockade around Gaza. Egypt
controls the southern border.”

He
omitted to mention that the United Nations views Israel as the
occupying power in Gaza and has called on Israel to end its siege of
the Strip. Israel’s refusal to do so is a violation of UN Security
Council Resolution 1860.”

Berg
is still in his role.

All
that’s left is propaganda

Recently,
these two vested interests – pro-neoliberalism and pro-Israel –
converged on an area of common interest: opposition to Jeremy Corbyn.

This
united bitter Blairites, Conservatives and pro-Israel groups – who
ran perhaps the most
toxic smear campaign against
the Labour party and its leader in living memory. In the run up to
the local elections on May 5, the headlines across the BBC and wider
media’s flagship television and radio programs was not the 1
million people in
the UK reliant on food banks to eat, but the intrigue of the smear
campaign.

Prior
to the elections, the reporting by Kuenssberg was dominated almost
exclusively by claims of crisis within Labour, providing a platform
to a minority of bitter Blairites, and applying pressure on Corbyn to
stand aside – or at the very least prepare to.

On
Friday morning – when Corbyn’s vote had not collapsed, but
increased, compared to Miliband’s general election performance of
2015 – there was no apology for the wrongful prediction.
Instead, the narrative wheeled on regardless. While the SNP lost
their majority in Scotland, and Labour advanced in England and Wales
– this was the BBC website’s response.

The
situation brings to mind the moment when the BBC’s Andrew Marr
interviewed Noam Chomsky about the role of the mainstream media as a
propaganda service. Chomsky was discussing the role of
self-censorship by journalists, and Marr repudiated the claim,
asking:

“How
can you know if I am self-censoring?” Arguing he had never been
censored, or told what to think.

Chomsky
calmly responds, as if he were explaining the non-existence of Santa
Claus to a child:

“I’m
sure you believe everything you’re saying, but what I’m saying is
that if you believed something different, you wouldn’t be sitting
where you’re sitting.”

And
therein lies the rub with the role of the BBC, and the wider
mainstream media, as a vehicle by which to advance the causes of
those who own and run them. There is a monopoly of wealth and power
in our society which translates directly into a monopoly of the
media. The result is a staggering lack of diversity and pluralism of
voices and opinions in the mainstream space. The media has
become little more than a monotonous, relentless monologue – when
as a country, and a world, we need to be having a conversation.

Read
more in our recommended book:



Manufacturing
Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Paperback–
20
Apr 1995

by Edward
S Herman  (Author), Noam
Chomsky (Author)

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

Zie ook: ‘BBC World Service ontkent gekleurde informatie over Brexit te hebben verstrekt….. AUW!!‘

       en: ‘BBC World Service bol van EU propaganda……..‘

       en: ‘Why The British Said No To Europe‘

       en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!‘

       en: ‘BBC kan maar niet ophouden over de Brexit…….‘

       en: ‘BBC: propaganda-orgaan voor het neoliberalistische beleid van de conservatieven‘

       en: ‘BBC World Service met anti-Russische propaganda over het ‘bombardement aan fake news….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

       en:  ‘BBC heeft met angstzaaien en propaganda de Schotten hun onafhankelijkheid ontnomen………‘

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht aantreft, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Fairhead, Harding, HSBC, Javid, Kuenssberg, N. Wilson en R. Berg.

Nog toegevoegd: link naar originele bericht, dit vanwege onduidelijkheid getoonde statistieken (al is het daar niet veel duidelijker).

Aleppo, getuigenissen uit het bevrijde oostelijk deel van die stad

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Vanessa Beeley kwam op Facebook met een aantal video’s over de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo en getuigenissen van bewoners uit Oost-Aleppo, o.a. over de terreur waaraan zij waren overgeleverd, onder de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters)…….

Hier de begeleidende tekst:

Vanessa
Beeley: Video – East #Aleppo Liberation Testimonies: Please
watch, new information, and confirmation of previous testimonies.

East
#Aleppo Liberation Testimonies: Returning to Hanano 27/12/2016

Please
watch, new information, and confirmation of previous testimonies.

“The
[Nusra Front] terrorists had enough food for one year”

“If
you said anything they disagreed with, they would kill you”

“There
were no professional doctors”

Protestors
against Nusra Front-led starvation and brutality were executed.
Terrorists shot civilians trying to flee via the Syrian Government
and Russian humanitarian corridors.

Armed
groups spread sectarian fear among civilians in order to maintain
control

Now
these civilians have their freedom back. They can say what they like.

#NoWhiteHelmets

Vertaling
bekijken

Na elke video kan u aan de rechterkant ‘swipen’ of doorklikken naar de volgende video, Hier de link naar de Facebook pagina met de video’s van Beeley.

Zie ook: ‘Aleppo: burgers dolblij met bevrijding door reguliere Syrische leger!!‘

       en: ‘Oost-Aleppo: de leugens van de reguliere media, Rutte 2, de Tweede Kamer en ‘deskundigen’ doorgeprikt middels een VN missie!!‘ (met Vanessa Beeley)

       en: ‘Extracting Aleppo from the Propaganda: Interviewwith Eva Bartlett, an independent western journalists covering the horrific conflict in Syria‘. (van Information Clearing House, inclusief mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

       en: ‘CIA Chief Admits the Agency’s Role in the Syrian War‘ (de bloedige rol wel te verstaan…..) (een artikel met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

       en: ‘Russische troepen hebben massagraven in Oost-Aleppo gevonden………‘

       en: ‘Former UK Ambassador to Syria Debunks Aleppo Propaganda‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling

       en: ‘Aleppo, de propagandaslag o.a. middels grove leugens in de reguliere westerse media en politiek………..‘

      en: ‘Ruslandfobie: anti-Russische propaganda, waarvoor Goebbels zich niet zou hebben geschaamd!‘

      en: ‘Nep-nieuws de norm bij NOS en Volkskrant‘

      en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!‘

      en:  ‘Russophobia: War Party Propaganda‘

      en: ‘Helga Salemon mag volk opzetten tegen Rusland bij ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS….. Liegen dat het gedrukt staat!!‘

      en: ‘Fallujah en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media………‘

      en: ‘Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson‘

      en: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2‘

      en: ‘‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……‘

       en: ‘Mosul, het verschil in berichtgeving vergeleken met de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo………..‘

Klik voor (nog) meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

IS (en andere terreurgroepen) gebruikten minstens 52 keer chemische wapens in Syrië en Irak……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Deutsche Welle (DW) bracht op 24 december jl. een bericht, waarin IHS Markit, stelt dat IS minstens 52 keer chemische wapens heeft gebruikt in Syrië en Irak….. (IHS Markit is een Londens bedrijf, dat o.a. analyses maakt van gebruikte chemische stoffen in oorlogsvoering)

Lullig dat IHS Markit, zoals het zich laat aanzien, niet bericht over chemische aanvallen van andere terreurgroepen, dan IS. De aanvallen met chemische wapens in Syrië werden zonder uitzondering onmiddellijk in de schoenen geschoven van het reguliere Syrische leger, groot gebracht door de massamedia in het westen…… Vreemd genoeg werd daar amper of niet een rectificatie op gemaakt, wanneer later keer op keer bleek, dat die wapens door de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische rebellen) waren gebruikt………

Echter het feit dat IHS Market spreekt over 52 aanvallen is wat mij betreft al tekenend. Ik kan me niet herinneren, dat wij in het westen over meer dan 12 aanvallen met chemische wapens hebben gehoord….. Bovendien was IS ook aanwezig in de stad Aleppo, dezelfde stad waar ook aanvallen werden uitgevoerd met chemische wapens. De westerse massamedia hebben voor zover ik weet, nooit bericht over IS aanwezigheid in de stad Aleppo.

Hier het bericht van DW:

Report:
‘Islamic State’ used chemical weapons in Iraq, Syria

The
“Islamic State” has used chemical weapons on at least 52
occasions in Iraq and Syria, says a London-based analytical firm. The
IHS Markit report comes as Iraqi forces seek to retake Mosul from the
militant group.

Irak Nimrud Zerstörung durch IS (picture-alliance/dpa)

IHS Markit, a
London-based intelligence analysis firm, said Tuesday the
“Islamic State” (IS) militant group has used chemical
weapons at
least 52 times in Iraq and Syria since 2014, when its fighters swept
across vast swathes of territories in the two Middle Eastern
countries.

With Iraqi forces
seeking to retake control of the northern city of Mosul in an ongoing
offensive, IHS said the jihadists could use their Chemical,
Biological and Radiological (CBR) capabilities in their defense.

“As the Islamic
State loses ground around Mosul, there is a high risk of the group
using chemical weapons to slow down and demoralize advancing enemy
forces, and to potentially make an example of – and take revenge on –
civilian dissidents within the city,” Columb Strack, senior
analyst and head of the IHS Conflict Monitor, said in the report.

Iraqi forces are
facing fierce resistance from IS fighters as they began their siege
of Mosul’s Zohour neighborhood on Sunday. The troops have
fortified their positions in Mosul’s eastern neighborhoods but they
are still far from liberating the city which fell to the militants in
2014.

“Mosul was at the
centre of the Islamic State’s chemical weapons production,”
Strack said. “But most of the equipment and experts were
probably evacuated to Syria in the weeks and months leading up to the
Mosul offensive, along with convoys of other senior members and their
families.”

Irak Mossul Irakische Truppen Kampf gegen den IS (Reuters/G. Tomasevic )

Iraqi
armed forces began their offensive to recapture Mosul on October 17 (en zich opmaken voor het laten vertrekken richting Syrië, van een groot deel van de psychopathische moordfenaars….)


Ongoing
offensive

In Budapest, visiting
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari told media that some 1,700
IS militants had been killed since the start of the Mosul
offensive. A third of the Ninevah province, of which Mosul is the
capital, has been retaken by government forces, however their
progress has been slowed by the militants’ use of human shields, the
minister added.

Mosul is Iraq’s
second-largest city, and its recapture would be a huge blow to IS, a
Sunni extremist group that aspires to create a “caliphate”
stretching across the Middle East.

Iraqi armed forces
began their offensive to recapture the city on October 17, fighting
alongside Kurdish peshmerga fighters, Sunni tribes and Iran-backed
Shiite paramilitary forces. Their campaign is being backed by air and
ground support from a US-led coalition.

On Monday, an
airstrike by the US-led coalition against IS destroyed a major bridge
over the Tigris River south of Mosul in an attempt to limit the
group’s capacity to reinforce its fighters on the river’s east bank,
where most of the fighting is taking place.

The United Nations
says more
than 68,000 civilians have
been forced from their homes since the operation to retake the city
began.

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

Zie ook: 

‘BBC World Service met geschiedvervalsing over strijd in Iraaks Fallujah‘

‘VS vermoordde met bombardementen in augustus 433 burgers in Raqqa………. Westerse media alweer stil…….‘

‘Raqqa >> BBC World Service en ‘onafhankelijke journalistiek’: ‘Er zijn veel burgers omgekomen bij de strijd in de straten in Raqqa……..’‘

‘Raqqa door VS platgebombardeerd >> reguliere (massa-) media in de VS zijn er trots op……‘

‘Groot Brittannie gooit meer dan 3.400 bommen af, die niet 1 slachtoffer zouden hebben gemaakt……‘

‘IS (en andere terreurgroepen) gebruikten minstens 52 keer chemische wapens in Syrië en Irak……‘

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

‘US Airstrikes Killing Hundreds of Civilians in Syria’s Raqqa‘

‘Mosul, stad van lijken: vele honderden doden onder het puin‘

‘VS bombardementen op Raqqa moorden hele families uit……….‘

‘VN waarschuwt de VS voor het maken van een onacceptabel aantal Syrische burgerslachtoffers met haar bombardementen…….‘
 

‘VS weigert op het VN verzoek in te gaan tot het stoppen met bombardementen op burgerdoelen in Raqqa……….‘

‘Raqqa, een strijd als om West-Mosul, echter met geheel andere media aandacht……….‘

‘Bombarderen was een probleem in Mosul, maar niet bij het nieuwe Iraakse/VS offensief…….‘

‘Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur…….‘

‘Mosul ‘zal met precisie ontdaan worden van de terroristen, inclusief een minimum aan burgerslachtoffers…….’‘ (een ongelofelijk en ongeloofwaardige belofte….)

‘Hennis-Plasschaert hoopte nog zo, dat IS de bevolking van Mosul niet als schild zou gebruiken……..‘


‘Honderden burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel grootschalige terreur……‘

‘Mass Media Siege: Comparing Coverage Of Mosul and Aleppo‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

‘After Mosul’s “Liberation,” Horror of US Siege Continues to Unfold‘ (met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)

‘Mosul (bijna) bevrijd: ‘een positief verslag’ van de BBC‘

‘Mosul ‘bevrijd’ en BBC anti-Assad propaganda……….‘

‘Mosul is ‘bevrijd’ zo stelt de VS, daar zijn echter wel wat aanmerkingen op te maken………‘

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden.

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

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

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.

===========

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: ministry of Truth, Murphy, NDAA, Portman, VOA en WaPo.

George Orwell standbeeld voor het BBC hoofdgebouw………. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

De BBC, de Britse nationale omroep en via BBC World Service, wat betreft de radio, een grote speler op de wereld ‘mediamarkt’, heeft een standbeeld van George Orwell (echte naam: Eric Blair) voor het hoofdgebouw geplaatst………. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor statue george orwell

Laat de BBC een flink aantal jaren geleden al zijn omgevormd, tot een staatsgetrouwe omroep, die niet alleen het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme als het nieuwe evangelie verkondigt, maar die ook in zake oorlog en oorlog (tja, vrede bestaat al lang niet meer) de kant van de westerse propaganda ‘heeft gekozen’. Ofwel het steunen van het uiterst agressieve, om niet te zeggen: zwaar terroristische karakter van het VS buitenlandbeleid, dat slaafs wordt gevolgd door de meeste andere westerse landen………..

George Orwell beschreef in zijn roman 1984 o.a. nu juist die propaganda berichtgeving over oorlogvoering, door de reguliere (massa) media, in het verhaal geheel in handen van de overheid, als een middel om de bevolking tot eenheid te dwingen, in de angst voor de ‘vijand….’

Die vijand is, zoals in 1984, heden ten dage (en dat al behoorlijk lang) nu juist het westen zelf, dat onder het mom van ‘democratie brengen’, onder leiding van de VS, enorme massamoorden aanricht in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft. Men deinst er niet voor terug een half miljoen kinderen te laten sterven, als een dictator, of een democratisch gekozen president ( en/of regering) niet precies doet wat de VS wil dat er gebeurt, zoals onder (Bill) Clinton door Albright voor elkaar gekregen in Irak……….. Een smerige zaak waarmee Albright desgevraagd, nog steeds geen probleem heeft, ‘het was het waard’, aldus hare kwaadaardigheid………

Alle westerse agressie wordt door de reguliere (massa) media uitgelegd als onoverkomelijk en nodig om andere volkeren ook ‘de heilige neoliberale democratie’ te brengen. Waarbij landen in soms een paar maanden tijd geheel naar de kloten worden geholpen, neem de uiterst misdadige en gewelddadige illegale oorlog tegen Libië in 2011. Dit land werd door het westen terug gebombardeerd van het meest welvarende land van Afrika, naar zo ongeveer het armste land van dat continent……. Dit onder groot applaus van de reguliere media……..

George Orwell voor het BBC gebouw, de beste man zou zich omdraaien in z’n graf als hij dit zou horen, schande!!

Zie ook: ‘Libië, het echte motief voor de illegale oorlog tegen dat land, met in de hoofdrol Hillary Clinton…..‘

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

       en: ‘BBC publieksmanipulatie via het nieuws: Rusland steunt de slechteriken……‘ (met daaronder meerdere links naar BBC propaganda berichten, dan wel berichten over die propaganda)

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden. .

Berlijn, de kerstmarkt aanslag: wie trok er aan de touwen…..??

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Eergisteren publiceerde Information Clearing House, het volgende artikel van Peter Koenig. Hij zet (wat mij betreft) terecht grote vraagtekens bij de aanslag op de kerstmarkt in Berlijn. Zoals u zo kan lezen, er zijn teveel vreemde ‘toevalligheden’, zoals we die bij eerdere aanslagen ook hebben gezien.

‘Vreemd genoeg’ overleeft geen van de daders de arrestatie na de aanslag. De grote reguliere media draaien braaf het verhaal af, dat de autoriteiten hen voorhoudt, daarvoor worden deze media dan ook betaald, door het relatief lage aantal eigenaren van deze grote reguliere: kranten, tijdschriften, tv en radiostations. Wat betreft de nationale radio en tv zenders is de link al helemaal simpel, wil men de baan behouden, zal men mee moeten doen, en zoveel mogelijk herkauwen, wat hen door de neoliberale overheid en het grote bedrijfsleven wordt voorgeschoteld….. Waar deze mediaorganen (ook de commerciële) zich niet alleen bezondigen aan het brengen van pure propaganda leugens (neem Aleppo), maar zich zelfs schuldig maken aan zelfcensuur……….

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Berlin
– Another False Flag?

By
Peter Koenig 


December
28, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– 12
dead, about 40 injured, is the result of the latest terror attack in
Berlin, when on 19 December, a truck plouged into a Christmas market
at Berlin’s Bretscheideplatz, near the lush Kurfuerstendamm.

Is
it not a ‘déjà-vu’ of not even half a year ago, when in Nice,
France, on 14th July
a truck mowed down hordes of people celebrating Bastille Day?

In
Berlin, the first ‘culprit’ was a Pakistani who apparently
‘escaped’. When later he turned up and explained with proof his
innocence, they had to let him go. In the cabin of the truck they
also found a dead man of Polish origin. He couldn’t be accused,
since he was dead.

Then
the chase was stalled, until miraculously, about a day later, they
found in the truck identity papers of a Mr. Anis Amri (24) of
Tunisian citizenship beneath the driver’s seat.  As is usual
with these terrorists, they like to leave their ID cards behind. It
seems to be part of their strategy to be caught and killed.

Then,
once more there was a ‘suspect’, who could be chased, throughout
Europe.

At
three in the morning of December 23, again miraculously, Anis
Amri turned
up on a plaza in Milan, got allegedly into a confrontation with two
policemen, who claimed he pulled a gun, when one of them shot and
killed him. No witness, no proof.

Two
Italian policemen killed a young man, whom – they say – they
didn’t even have a clue who he might be. They became heroes,
literally overnight. Italy’s new PM, Paolo Gentiloni, thanked and
congratulated them; and so did Mme. Merkel and her Interior Minister,
Thomas de Maizière.

The
same pattern all over again.


DEAD
MAN CAN’T TALK.
It’s Paris (Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan); Nice; Brussels; Munich;
Orlando, Florida; San Bernardino, California …… all over again-
and again – and again.

The
‘plowing-through-a-celebrating-crowd’ is in many regards “a
carbon copy” of  the 14th July massacre in
Nice (see image below). At the end, the designated ‘Muslim’
terrorist was  killed. No witness. No testimony.

Questions
to be fully investigated: Were
the secret services, the core of which are the CIA, Mossad and MI6,
with the collaboration of Germany’s BND involved. Was it a false
flag?

Don’t
believe one minute that your respective governments didn’t and
don’t know what’s going on.

Who
are the real perpetrators?

The
real perpetrators are not Muslims. They are your own spineless puppet
governments, all of which (covertly) support the ISIS and al Qaeda.
They obey orders to demonize the Muslim faith and society.

That’s
what the west knows best – denigrating and discriminating, accusing
the innocent, to serve their purpose, sanctions for those who do not
submit.

In
reality, no change for the last 800-some years, colonizing,
exploiting, murdering the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Today’s
‘leaders’ are the descendants of the colonial era killers of
times past.  They form the core of our “western killer
civilization”.

These
western ‘leaders’ are mere puppets, because they have been put in
‘power’ by the the elusive elite, also called the “Deep State”
– the Deep State gone global.

Democracy
is dead. It’s become a useless defunct slogan. No so-called
election over the past decade or so, in the western world has been
democratic. They were all scams and manipulations of peoples’ minds
and wills.

And
if they didn’t conform to what the Washington masters and their
supreme masters needed, Plan B of ‘regime change’ kicked in.

They
have become experts of semi-clandestine ‘regime change’ through
parliamentary coups – i.e. Paraguay, Ukraine, Brazil, Greece,
Portugal, Spain and many others.

If
these eventually ‘elected’ western leaders (sic-sic), from Obama,
to Merkel, Hollande, May, Gentiloni – and the entire EU / OECD
clan, don’t behave, they are ‘cooked’, the target of political
destabilizaion. That’s the extent of impunity which drives this
hegemonic and criminal process towards the New World Order, or the
One World Order, led by the global finance and war industry.

The
finance clan, the lords of money, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers,
Morgans, et
al,
the FED, BIS (Bank for International Settlements, the secretive
central bank of all central banks) and Goldman Sachs, have to act
fast; otherwise they might lose the key instrument of their power –
the sham dollar pyramid economy – may fall apart, before they have
actually reached their goal – a world under constant chaos,
never-ending conflicts and wars.

A
world under which a small elite, enslaves the 99.99% of ‘Us, the
People’ — under ever worsening life conditions, unemployment,
misery, disease, privatized social services, all contributing to a
steady decline in life expectancy.

Among
their instruments is permanent chaos. Economic dislocation and social
crises.

Open
borders forced by trade lobbies and
WTO (World Trade Organization) will wipe out small farmers and
manufacturers in developing countries, thus eventually handing
monopolies to large, mostly US corporations, to the detriment of
already impoverished nations, whose vulnerability will be further
abused to extract their natural resources for a pittance, so they may
repay their IMF / World Bank imposed and leveraged debt.

Floods
of refugees from war zones to
industrialized wealthy countries, currently happening from the
war-torn Middle East to Europe, will disrupt the labor market, push
down wages, create massive unemployment. These are all tools towards
enslavement of populations. People who have to fend and fight for
daily food and often for sheer survival, have no energy or time to
take to the streets and protest. That’s the plan; already being
enacted. Just look at Greece.

What
does all that have to do with the Berlin massacre? –

Everything.
Berlin, like Paris, Brussels, Munich, Orlando… is just a cog in the
wheel of the monster’s drive towards full world hegemony.

Unexpected,
haphazard carnage and terror acts are spreading misery, poverty and
fear.

People
who are afraid will call for more police and military protection.

They
will voluntarily give up their human and civil rights for what they
hope will be more ‘protection’, being totally oblivious to the
fact that the very governments from whom they are seeking more
protection are those that commit these acts of treason and terror,
those who are behind the killings. The Anglo-american  controlled
presstitute mainstream media is in permanent brainwashing mode.
Unless you search the news and information for yourself on
alternative media, they will never tell you the truth, but their
lies, after lies, after more of the same lies will fabricate
the public
truth.

Peoples’
fear and absence of civil rights are easy steps towards increased
militarization of the west, already happening – look at France –
President (sic) Hollande was just able to extend the State of
Emergency through July 2017. [The Paris November 2015 terror attacks
played a key role in justifying the State of Emergency.]

The
goal is to include it into the French Constitution, basically putting
the French people under permanent actual or threat of Martial Law.
Others might follow – Germany, Italy – all those whose
constituents are ever warier of the EU and their ‘monopoly money’,
the euro, and who may seek EUREXIT. This would break the camel’s
back, so to speak, or at least put a wrench in the boundless
onslaught of the hegemon.

Peoples’
fear may also re-strengthen the faltering justification of NATO. The
fall of NATO must be halted. NATO is the Deep State’s warrior
flagship, the military fear- and war monger vis-à-vis Russia and
eventually China – the last vestiges to be conquered by the
self-styled almighty empire, the invisible elite that pretends to
rule the globe. Fortunately, they cannot stand up to the Russia-China
chess duo which is gradually outsmarting the west’s ostentatious
killer exploits.

Imagine,
your own spineless governments, following orders of the globalized
Deep State – in Berlin, Munich, Nice, Paris, Brussels, Orlando, and
an almost endless list of false flags.

How
can we respect our so-called leaders? They have zero esteem for us,
who are their bread-earners. They kill us, no hesitation, if it
pleases them and serves their purpose – and their greed.

In
the case of Berlin, is the German government complicit? Blaming
Muslims, finding a pre-identified victim, Mr. Anis Amri, who most
likely had no clue that he was framed.

In
Italy, the police catches him (or somebody who has been given the
pre-identified Tunisian victim’s name), they kill him – and,
bingo – case closed. Another fear-inflicting false flag was born
and concluded, advancing the bulldozer of empire’s destruction a
notch closer to Full
Spectrum Dominance.

The
MSM will do the rest – until the next fake exploit. Be prepared.
But this can happen only if we let our governments get away with it,
if we close our eyes to reality; if we keep believing the presstitute
media.

People
wake up! – Boycott the MSM. Take the time to seek the truth
elsewhere, for example, on RT, TeleSur, Global Research, ICH, New
Eastern Outlook (NEO), CounterPunch, The Saker, Voltairenet — and
many more. The Deep State cannot win without your participation.

Peter
Koenig is
an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank
staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of
environment and water resources. He is the author of Implosion
– An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and
Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years
of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author
of The
World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance. 


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Merkel en Hollande op oorlogspad tegen Rusland………

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Op bevel van de Obama regering hebben de Duitse premier Merkel en de Franse president Hollande gepleit voor de uitbreiding van sancties tegen Rusland……..

Volgens deze twee oorlogshitsers, is uitbreiding van de sancties nodig i.v.m. de bemoeienissen van Rusland met Oekraïne……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als het om onterechte bemoeienissen met dat land gaat, kan de EU beter sancties nemen tegen de VS, immers dat ‘land’ heeft een opstand op poten gezet in Oekraïne, met maar één doel: de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj moest en zou verdwijnen, daar hij o.a. tegeneen associatieverdrag was met de EU……….*

De VS trok voor deze coup maar liefst 4 miljard dollar uit de staatskas……. Met die coup hoopte de VS, dat Rusland De Krim zou annexeren, daar op dat schiereiland nu eenmaal de belangrijkste marinehavens van Rusland zijn te vinden, havens die bovendien het jaarrond ijsvrij zijn. Als Rusland inderdaad De Krim had geannexeerd, had men ‘overtuigend bewijs’ voor het publiek in het westen, om zelfs een oorlog tegen Rusland te beginnen. Helaas voor de VS, daar stak de bevolking van De Krim een dikke stok voor: men wilde niet worden geregeerd door de neonazi-junta Porosjenko, die de VS in Oekraïne parachuteerde.

Vandaar dat men in De Krim besloot een referendum te houden over aansluiting bij Rusland. Een door internationale waarnemers als goed en eerlijk beoordeeld referendum. Het mislukken van het VS plan, Rusland aan te zetten De Krim te annexeren, liet de VS niet over haar kant gaan en na wat influisteringen van de VS, spreken sinds die tijd zowel de westerse politici, als de reguliere westerse media, keer op keer over de annexatie van De Krim door Rusland…… Terwijl (alweer zoals gezegd) internationale waarnemers het referendum op De Krim goedkeurden!! Over het brengen van nepnieuws en het oneigenlijk beïnvloeden van het volk gesproken…….. Anders gezegd: volksverlakkerij van de bovenste plank!

De junta in Kiev moest ‘gelegitimeerd’ worden, wat men deed met het uitschrijven van verkiezingen, verkiezingen waar de helft van het volk al niet aan deel kon nemen en waar een paar politieke partijen zelfs waren uitgesloten van de verkiezingen, daar ze pro-Russisch zouden zijn……. Dat een groot deel van het volk niet kon deelnemen aan die verkiezingen, was ook alweer aan de VS te danken, immers net als de bevolking van De Krim, waar men massaal (democratisch) voor Rusland had gekozen. wenste men in Oost-Oekraïne niet te leven onder door de VS geparachuteerde neonazi-junta van de uiterst corrupte misdadiger Porosjenko…….. In tegenstelling tot De Krim besloot men in Oost-Oekraïne zelfstandig door te gaan en op die manier vaarwel te zeggen tegen Kiev.

Een groot aantal Oekraïense militairen en officieren kozen voor de zelfstandigheid van Oost-Oekraïne, zij namen wapens, munitie en militaire hardware mee uit de kazernes, dit om zich te verweren tegen de neonazi-bataljons, onder het bewind van Kiev. Het westen (als eerste de VS) ging ervan uit, dat Porosjenko in een poep en een scheet Oost-Oekraïne zou veroveren, maar helaas speculaas, dat gebeurde niet, integendeel! Daarop fabriceerden de VS en de rest van het volgzame westen het verhaal, dat Rusland meevocht met het afgescheiden deel van Oekraïne……. Tja, en daar zijn geen andere bewijzen voor, dan gefabriceerde!!

Zoals gezegd: voor de bemoeienissen van Rusland met de (burger-) oorlog in Oost-Oekraïne zijn totaal geen bewijzen, behalve gefabriceerde bewijzen dan, bewijzen die voor geen stuiver kloppen, zoals al meerdere deskundigen hebben aangegeven. Datzelfde gebeurde overigens ook met het onderzoek naar rampvlucht MH17…………

Als het Russische leger daadwerkelijk in Oost-Oekraïne zou vechten, waren de neonazi-bataljons van Porosjenko allang uitgeschakeld…….. Sterker nog, dan was Oekraïne allang bevrijd van de corrupte, fascistische beestenbende, die nu de macht heeft in Kiev……..

Het is dan ook overduidelijk: na de val van Aleppo zet de VS weer vol in op de Russische grens in Europa en daar heeft het steun nodig van de twee sterkste EU lidstaten, Duitsland en Frankrijk en daar komen Merkel en Hollande weer in het zicht, met hun laatste uitlatingen over sancties tegen Rusland……… ‘VS-braaf’ roepen Merkel en Hollande op, de sancties tegen Rusland uit te breiden, onder druk van diezelfde VS en dat gebaseerd op vette leugens……….

Zonder dat daar het Nederlandse volk over is geraadpleegd, stalt de VS tanks en ander militair tuig in Nederland en worden er tactische kernwapens opgeslagen in Limburg. Datzelfde gebeurt in een aantal andere EU landen, waaronder Duitsland en België………. We zijn klaar voor WOIII………

* Natuurlijk moest Janoekovytsj ook verdwijnen, daar hij goede banden onderhield met Rusland. Dat feit zette een streep door het streven van de VS, de NAVO langs de gehele westgrens van Rusland te stationeren. Wat betreft de onwil om tot een associatieverdrag met de EU te komen: ook dat was de opzet om Oekraïne onder westerse invloedssfeer te krijgen, waarna een lidmaatschap met de NAVO ‘de logische vervolgstap’ was……. Zie wat dat betreft: ‘New York Times admits Ukraine’s Yanukovich was right not to sign EU deal‘ (o.a. gisteren gepubliceerd op het blog van Stan van Houcke)

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Willem Alexander: ‘het extreme dat het nieuwe normaal lijkt te worden……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja, dat kan je wel stellen!

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‘Ons’ nationale waterhoofd W.A. durfde het aan om in zijn kersttoespraak te zeggen dat het extreme, het nieuwe normaal lijkt te worden. Lullig genoeg is dat waar, echter niet op de manier, zoals hij dit bedoelde en het ‘extreme dat ik bedoel, wordt al als normaal gezien…..

Extremen als een beleid voeren waarbij 4 miljoen mensen in armoede werden gedreven (waaronder 600.000 kinderen), mensen die tegen-, op-, of onder de armoedegrens moeten leven en dat in ons puissant rijke land……….. Extremen als mensen die meerdere huizen hebben, terwijl bijstandsgezinnen, niet eens een waardeloos, niet geïsoleerd huurhuis kunnen betalen…. Extremen als de ene huurverhoging na de andere doorvoeren, waardoor koophuizen veelal zelfs goedkoper zijn dan huurhuizen, terwijl het onderhoud van die huurhuizen flut met peren is en de bewoners nog amper rechten hebben………

Extremen als welgestelden die voor bijna 20 miljard op jaarbasis de belastingontduiken…… Extremen als grote bedrijven, die hier de belasting in eigen land ontduiken, tegen tarieven waar de laagstbetaalden alleen van kunnen dromen, terwijl zij 37% belasting moeten betalen, betaalt een aantal bedrijven, na afspraken met de belastingdienst, vaak niet eens 15% belasting………

Extremen als topfiguren die strafvermindering krijgen, daar ze ‘in de media al genoeg zijn gestraft’, terwijl deze figuren wel een voorbeeldfunctie hadden, waardoor ze juist zwaardere straffen opgelegd zouden moeten krijgen…….. Neem ook de bestraffing van een bijstandsgerechtigde, als die een keer een meevaller van 50 euro had, vergeleken met het jaar in jaar uit gunstige beleid voor belastingontduikers……..

Extremen als de pogingen vanuit de regering, de rechtbank onbereikbaar te maken voor het klootjesvolk, daar de eigen bijdragen niet te betalen zijn en men de rechtsgang op andere manieren probeert te frustreren………..

Extremen als de barbaarse omgang met dieren in de intensieve veehouderij, waar alleen al in ons land, jaarlijks 500 miljoen (een ½ miljard!!!) dieren groot en door worden gemarteld……..

Extremen als het afbreken van de rechten die arbeiders met bloed, zweet en tranen hebben bevochten, loonslavernij is het nieuwe normaal, om met W.A. te spreken…….

Extremen als de reguliere mediaorganen, die i.p.v. onafhankelijke journalistiek bedrijven, het onmenselijke, neoliberale regeringsbeleid voor het merendeel onvoorwaardelijk steunen. Extremen door dezelfde media, waarbij men de leugens van de VS, de NAVO en andere oorlogshitsers blindelings overneemt en met het grootste gemak enorme leugens ophangt, neem de zwaar leugenachtige berichtgeving over Aleppo….

Extremen als nog steeds geen verbod op het maken van reclame voor de harddrug alcohol, een harddrug waar gemiddeld 12 mensen per dag aan overlijden….. Extremen als het verbod op paddo’s en het steeds verder aanpakken van het cannabisgebruik, terwijl daar nooit iemand aan is overleden, sterker de medische wetenschap komt er steeds meer achter, dat in voornoemde softdrugs, uitermate geschikte geneesmiddelen gevonden kunnen worden…….. Of de extreme hysterie als er een paar mensen aan XTC overlijden, gemiddeld 1 per jaar, terwijl er (nogmaals) 12 mensen per dag overlijden aan het gebruik van de harddrug alcohol………

Of wat dacht u van het extreme feit, dat men troep mag verkopen, zo slecht van kwaliteit, dat het product zelfs al na een paar keer gebruiken de geest geeft, maar waar geld terug niet tot de mogelijkheid hoort…….

Extremen als (gigantische) verhogingen van de uitkering voor het koningshuis sinds 2008, terwijl de armsten er in diezelfde tijd amper of niets bijkregen of krijgen, sterker nog velen uit de armste groepen in onze maatschappij, zijn er ondanks toeslagen vele euro’s op achteruit gegaan……. Extremen als dat voornoemde koningshuis, die ondanks dat het stinkend rijke uitkeringstrekkers zijn, het normaal vonden dat ze er nog meer bijkregen en zelfs het fatsoen niet hadden, deze verhogingen te weigeren…… Extremen als datzelfde koningshuis, dat de laatste 20 jaar de mond vol had over de bescherming van het milieu, maar ondertussen grootaandeelhouder was en is van (‘koninklijke’) Shell………..

Daarover gesproken: het extreme van klimaatakkoorden, die te laat en te weinig maatregelen bevatten, om nog iets tegen de klimaatverandering te doen, maar dan wel extreem mooie berichten over die peperdure, milieuvervuilende klimaatconferenties. Neem het klimaatakkoord van Parijs: de temperatuur mag deze eeuw niet verder stijgen, dan met 2 graden Celsius, daarover roept men al bijna een jaar hosanna….. Terwijl echte deskundigen al hebben berekend, dat zelfs als we alle maatregelen vandaag nog zouden nemen, die stijging van de temperatuur minstens 3 graden zal zijn tegen het eind van deze eeuw………. Maar dan wel vreemd opkijken, dat echt bezorgde burgers gaan rellen, als men weer zo’n leugenconferentie houdt………

Extremen als de enorme luchtvervuiling door auto’s in ons land, waar zo’n 18.000 mensen vroegtijdig, na een akelig ziekbed aan overlijden en waarmee een groot aantal kinderen jaarlijks long- en.of luchtwegklachten oploopt…….. Het is zelfs zo extreem, dat VVD kwaadaardigheid Schultz van Haegen, ondanks voornoemde feiten en Nederland in de EU onderaan bungelt wat betreft de luchtkwaliteit, de maximumsnelheid in ons land heeft verhoogd…….

Extreem ook, dat het OV alles behalve een alternatief voor de auto is……… Zo mocht ik afgelopen maandag bemerken, dat ik voor een treinreis van 80 kilometer op de heenweg 1 uur en 15 minuten nodig had en op de terugweg iets meer dan 3 kwartier, beiden per intercity, al was de heenweg zonder overstap…… Let wel: geen werkzaamheden op dat traject, leve de NS!!

Extremen als de enorme aantasting van de privacy, zogenaamd voor de veiligheid van de burgers, terwijl geheime diensten en politie, al staan ze er bovenop, nog geen aanslag kunnen voorkomen…….

Mensen er zijn nog veel meer extremen te bedenken die het grootste deel van het volk moedeloos of woedend maken. Zoals al vaker opgemerkt op deze plek: het is een wonder dat er niet allang een enorme opstand is uitgebroken……..

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