Demonisering van Rusland (en China) door de VS dient als doel een zo hoog mogelijk defensie, uh oorlogsbudget te verkrijgen

Ray
McGovern, eertijds CIA agent heeft een artikel gepubliceerd op
Information Celaring House, een artikel dat eerder op zijn eigen site
werd geplaatst.

In dit
artikel dat tevens een 13 minuten durend (audio) interview bevat met hem bevat, verklaart McGovern waarom MICIMATT
(Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank)
complex, inclusief Wal Street, Silicon Valley en de Democratische
Partij, Rusland (en China) demoniseren: het voor het volk
‘geloofwaardig’ maken van het blijvend opvoeren van het budget voor
oorlogsvoering, zoveel dat het zelfs meer dan de helft beslaat van
het totaal te besteden budget. Dat ‘geloofwaardig maken’ uiteraard
verklaard met de noodzaak tot verdediging van het land (alsof ook
maar iemand de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld, militair
de baas zou kunnen…….)

McGovern
vraagt zich af of het mogelijk zou zijn dat Biden tot een vergelijk
met Putin zou kunnen komen, echter hij weet in tegenstelling tot
Trump dat de oorlogsmachine hem levend zou opvreten…… Zou een VS
president het wenselijk achten om spanningen met Rusland (dan wel
China) te verminderen en daarmee de dreiging van oorlog weg te nemen
dan wel te doen afnemen, dan zou deze uiterst handig moeten kunnen opereren en dat stap voor stap, dit soms in het geheim, zoals
president Kennedy heeft gedaan en zie wat er met hem gebeurde, aldus
McGovern……. McGovern stelt dat geen geheim is dat de VS de opstand in Oekraïne heeft georganiseerd, daarover is zelfs een telefoongesprek van de NSA geopenbaard, een opstand in de hoop dat deze zou overslaan naar Rusland, zo concludeerde de Russische overheid (terecht)…….. (dat telefoongesprek wordt door McGovern woordelijk herhaald in het audiofragment)

McGovern
gebruikt voor de Security State (met als belangrijkste partijen: FBI, CIA en NSA) de ‘initialen’ SS en niet voor
niets…… Hij stelt dan ook dat de SS de handhaver en uitvoerder is
voor de MICIMATT. MICIMATT met als grote promotors Silicon Valley, Wall Straat (wapenverkoop) en de Democratische Partij……… Daarom moeten verbeterde relaties met Rusland ten koste van alles worden voorkomen, waarbij McGovern dat ten koste van alles
nog eens herhaalt…….. Over die kosten gesproken: de grote promotor van deze VS agressie is het militair industrieel complex…… Rusland (en China) moest wel worden aangemerkt als vijand, daar het bouwen van bijvoorbeeld vliegdekschepen en stealth bommenwerpers t.b.v. de oorlog tegen terreur niet meer nodig was daar de VS groepen als ISIS zou hebben verslagen. Daar wil ik bij opmerken dat de VS deze terreurgroepen nu in haar greep heeft, zo heeft de VS een belangrijk deel van de Syrische olievelden bezet, een gebied waar het ook de aanwezige terreurgroepen, inclusief een groot aantal ISIS strijders beschermt tegen het Syrische leger en de Russische luchtmacht…….

Dat
McGovern gelijk heeft is maar al te duidelijk en het is een schande
dat de reguliere westerse media willens en wetens de westerse
volkeren hersenspoelen met de leugens die e.e.a. mogelijk maken…..
Hoe kunnen die media keer op keer Rusland, China en Iran beschuldigen
van agressie, terwijl de VS en haar oorlogshond de NAVO alleen deze
eeuw al minstens 5 miljoen mensen hebben vermoord, iets wat ze niet
in de verste verte kunnen zeggen over Rusland, China en Iran, sterker
nog deze landen beginnen geen illegale oorlogen, die dan door de
reguliere westerse media als in het geval van de VS worden
voorgesteld als noodzakelijk en onoverkomelijk….. (voor hetzelfde
geldt kunnen die media door het westen gepleegde massamoorden als
noodzakelijk opvoeren, sterker nog met het steunen van de VS terreur doen ze dat in feite al …..) Niet voor niets dat een gelauwerde
onderzoeksjournalist als Julian Assange, die oorlogsmisdaden van de
VS openbaarde, door de reguliere westerse media als verrader en
gevaarlijke gek wordt voorgesteld……*

Lees
het artikel van McGovern en beluister het interview met Cohen en zegt
het voort! Terreurentiteit VS moet zo snel mogelijk worden gestopt en
het is van het grootste belang dat de westerse volkeren ontwaken uit
hun door de reguliere media opgewekte kunstmatige coma….(vergeet niet dat de oorlogshandelingen van de VS, met hulp van de NAVO, één van de grootste bedreigingen vormen voor het bereiken van bijvoorbeeld stabiliteit in het Midden-Oosten, het kruitvat van de wereld….)….. Onder het artikel kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’, dit neemt wel enkele tientallen seconden tijd in beslag.

Why
Russia Must Be Demonized

By
Ray McGovern

January 01, 2020
Information
Clearing House

–  I had a chance to devote the first 7 minutes of an interview
to explaining why the MICIMATT (including Wall St., Silicon Valley, &
the Democratic Party) have all joined together to portray Russia (and
now also China) as the enemies it desperately needs in order to
“justify” spending more than half of the discretionary budget on
“defense”. It is necessary, of course, to be able to “explain”
— defense against what?

(Hier de koppeling naar het audiofragment van 13 minuten)

Is there any hope that
Biden will extend an olive branch to President Putin? He could, but —
unlike Trump — he knows quite well that the war machine would eat
him alive.  Should a U.S. president wish to reduce tensions and
make war less likely, that president must be able to move adroitly,
step-by-step, sometimes in secret — as President Kennedy
demonstrated. And look what happened to him.

I believe all
successor presidents are quite aware of what happened to JFK, and
why.  (The best book on this is James Douglass’s “JFK and
the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters”.)

The Security State
(SS), with the FBI, CIA, & NSA in the lead, has just won big,
even as the danger of exposure seemed to loom large.  ( See:
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2020/12/04/barr-kicks-durham-can-down-the-street/ 
and
https://www.opednews.com/articles/1/FBI-Another-Fraud-on-the-by-Ray-McGovern-Assange_Fraud_Media_Russia-201230-938.html
.)

The SS functions as
enforcer for the MICIMATT
(Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank)
complex.  Improved ties with Russia are to be thwarted at all,
repeat all, costs.

If extending genuine
olive branches is out of the question, will Biden, during his
proverbial “honeymoon period”, at least be able to extend the New
START treaty limiting strategic arms?  Will even this small step
be thwarted, lest it lead to a step-by-step relaxation in U.S.-Russia
tensions?  The treaty expires on Feb. 5, 2021, so we’re likely
to know soon enough.

In the full (13 min)
interview I gave yesterday, I had time to do a short tutorial, citing
a number of not well known “flat facts” — very unlike those to
be found on the pages of the the
Washington
Post
.

Ray McGovern.
Former longtime CIA officer, who served as chief of the CIA’s
Soviet analysts division, chaired National Intelligence Estimates,
and prepared the President’s Daily Brief. He is also the co-founder
of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
https://raymcgovern.com/

See
also

Stephen
F. Cohen on Russia’s democratization and how US meddling undermines
it

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for

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* Zie o.a.: ‘Julian Assange (brekend nieuws) mag niet worden uitgeleverd aan de VS!!!

Zie ook: ‘JFK de moord: de macht van de geheime diensten gecombineerd met die van het militair-industrieel complex‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Professor Stephen Cohen prikt door de Putin – Trump hysterie heen, hysterie als gevolg van ‘vredesbesprekingen….’‘ (een bericht uit 2018 en zie de links in dat bericht)

VS belastingbetalers geven per dag $ 250 miljoen uit aan ‘oorlog tegen terreur…..’ Daarom moeten wij meer uitgeven aan defensie………..‘ De werkelijke terreur is die van de VS met haar illegale oorlogen tegen landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft!! (een bericht van november 2017, ofwel het genoemde bedrag is intussen flink gegroeid, juist ook door de demonisering van Rusland, China en Iran!!)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why
“Obamagate” Will Never Lead To Anything Of Significance

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

The
word “Obamagate” was 
thrust
into mainstream attention

by the concerted
efforts
of Trump

and his surrogates after new details on the early days of the
Trump-Russia collusion investigation emerged. These details
include 
Obama
officials (including Joe Biden)

requesting the
unmasking
of a conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey
Kislyak, the FBI’s then-counterintelligence director
discussing
trying to get Michael Flynn to lie

during his
interrogation
about the Kislyak call
,
and the revelation that there was
never
any concrete evidence

that Russia hacked the DNC.

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

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


Consortium News


@Consortiumnews

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

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

33

“By
any normal standard, former FBI Director Comey would now be in
serious legal trouble, as should [former Director of National
Intelligence James] Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, et
al,” Ray McGovern
wrote
for 
Consortium
News

the other day. “Additional evidence of FBI misconduct under
Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA,
misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading
everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney
general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport.
And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan.”

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

and manufacturing consent for
mountains
of cold war escalations

against Russia.

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

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


Aaron Maté



@aaronjmate

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


 

Mark Sawyer


@MarkSaw43180398

Replying to @aaronjmate and 2 others

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

668

That’s
why no serious attempt has ever been made to remove Trump from
office; he’s
been
playing nice with existing power structures

without challenging them in any meaningful way. Everyone who knew
anything was aware that the Mueller collusion would never go
anywhere, and anyone who could count Senate seats knew impeachment
would fizzle. It was all kayfabe conflict so that Trump’s
“opposition” could present the appearance of opposition
without interfering in agendas they themselves support or prosecuting
crimes of which they themselves are also guilty.

It’s
also why Obama
never
had any intention

of prosecuting Bush’s heinous war crimes, citing “a belief
that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards”.
In reality Obama always understood that in order to play the
“president” role (and enjoy its
massive
perks

for the rest of his life), he’d need to collaborate with
establishment power structures rather than upsetting them. He knew
that if he were to go after Bush he’d ensure his own destruction;
under “normal standards” prosecution is the only sane and
normal response to war crimes, but in the Mutually Assured
Destruction (MAD) environment of establishment corruption, there are no
normal standards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tirannie op de straten van Washington, een vergelijking met de start van nazi-Duitsland

De
volkomen belachelijke situatie waar de VS een interim-president heeft
aangewezen in het soevereine land Venezuela, leidt tot o.a. heftige situaties bij de
Venezolaanse ambassade in Washington. Deze interim-president, Juan Guaidó, is een fascist die voor deze handeling van de VS, gesteund door o.a. Canada
en de EU, niet eens bekend was bij meer dan 95% van de Venezolanen…… 

Deze Guaidó werd door de terreuradministratie Trump, in samenwerking met diensten als de CIA en NSA, plus de onvoorwaardelijke steun van de reguliere westerse media en politici, gebombardeerd tot
oppositieleider in Venezuela……. In werkelijkheid was Guaidó de voorzitter van een
onbetekenende oppositionele splinterpartij…. Niet voor niets ook dat hij voor zijn ultieme couppoging tegen het democratisch gekozen bewind van Maduro, slechts een paar honderd mensen op straat kreeg….

Met deze
terreurdaad* van de VS tegen een soeverein land, zijn ook de
ambassades van Venezuela in het buitenland niet veilig. Het
ambassadepersoneel in Washington mag niet meer worden voorzien van
voedsel, daarvoor zorgen politie, geheime dienst en gewelddadige
Venezolanen die in de VS wonen……. Met veel geweld worden mensen
belaagd en zelfs gearresteerd, mensen die het opnemen voor het zittende
ambassade personeel en hen voedsel proberen te geven…… Intussen heeft de VS de elektriciteit en het water voor de ambassade afgesloten; de terreur van de VS kent letterlijk geen grenzen……

Zo werd Gerry Condone (van Veterans for Peace >> VFP) met fiks geweld door meerdere agenten tegen de grond gewerkt, daar hij het ambassadepersoneel een komkommer toegooide…… Voor dit feit werd hij 24 uur vastgehouden in een politiecel……. Hoe is het gvd mogelijk??!!!

Ongelofelijk
dat de VN niet al lang de VS heeft opgeroepen de Venezolaanse
soevereiniteit te respecteren en het ambassade personeel ongemoeid te
laten, zeker nu blijkt dat de bevolking van Venezuela voor het
overgrote deel nog steeds achter haar democratisch gekozen president Maduro staat……

De
schrijver van het volgende artikel, Ray McGovern, ziet voorts een
opvallende gelijkenis tussen het VS van de 21ste en het nazi-Duitse terreurbewind in de 20ste eeuw. Hiervoor citeert hij o.a. Raimond Pretzel, die schreef onder de naam Sebastian Haffner. Opvallend in dit deel van het artikel het feit dat de sociaal democratische top zich bijzonder snel aansloot bij de nazi’s, nog voordat deze partij, de SPD, werd verboden…… Maart 1933 zouden een paar miljoen Duitsers klaar zijn geweest voor de strijd tegen het nazisme, echter hun leiders lieten het afweten en collaboreerden met het nazi-geteisem, anderen ontvluchtten het land….

Beste bezoeker, lees het hieronder opgenomen artikel, een uitstekende analyse en
een aanklacht tegen de omgang van de VS met landen waar het niets te
vertellen zou moeten hebben, plus de zojuist geschetste situatie op
de straten van Washington, waar zoals gezegd neonazi’s, gesteund door de politie en
geheime dienst, terreur uitoefenen tegen goedwillende mensen…….

Het
volgende artikel werd gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House en verscheen eerder op Consortium News:

‘Turnkey
Tyranny’ on the Streets of Washington

We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
And on Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically.
Ray McGovern explains.

By
Ray McGovern

May
11, 2019 “Information
Clearing House
” – 
Gerry
Condon, President of Veterans For Peace, was bloodied and “taken to
ground,” on Wednesday night for trying to get food to people inside
the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. The activists inside, some of
whom have lived in the embassy for weeks with permission from the
Venezuelan government, are protecting the premises from protestors
who support the self-declared president Juan Guaido.  


With
the acquiescence of Washington police and the Secret Service, the
protestors have been able to block food from entering the embassy.
 On Wednesday night electricity was cut to the building.  One
activist tossing a loaf of bread to a window was arrested earlier
this week for using a “missile.”  Now Condon has been
manhandled and nabbed for throwing a cucumber.


We
are at the point Edward Snowden described as “turnkey tyranny.”
On Wednesday night the key was turned a bit more dramatically. Until
now it has been an almost imperceptibly gradual process, like the
proverbial frog in boiling water.

Photo
and video of Condon’s arrest (story continues below):

Anya Parampil


@anyaparampil

I am stunned. US @SecretService just slammed the head of the President of Veterans for Peace into the cement because he tried to deliver a cucumber to Embassy Protectors. They let him bleed on the ground and did not provide med. attention. @DrMFlowers had to call an ambulance.

Anya Parampil

@anyaparampil

LIVE from inside the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective, where terroristic pro-coup thugs are preparing a to hold a press conference falsely accusing protectors & peace activists of violence for trying to deliver food https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1RDxlvMbygVGL 

Anya Parampil


@anyaparampil

Follow my friend & colleague @RealAlexRubi for updates as well: https://twitter.com/RealAlexRubi/status/1126258040221634566 

Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

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(eerst iemand mishandelen en dan zogenaamd begaan met een medisch hulptasje op de rug, Jerry Condone hulp bieden, terwijl hij duidelijk zichtbaar pijnlijk is geboeid door dezelfde collega’s die hem mishandelden….

Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

Replying to @RealAlexRubi

Opposition already trying to blind me and hamstring my reporting with spotlights

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Alex Rubinstein

@RealAlexRubi

BREAKING: Police violently arrest the president of @VFPNational, Jerry Condone, for trying to get food into the embassy. He is left with lacerations on his face. @UrsulaRozum also arrested. Opposition walks away with stolen food. pic.twitter.com/KhPvSAtC05


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12:48 AM – May 9, 2019

Hier een paar video’s van YouTube, waaronder een tweede video die in het origineel is opgenomen”

Of
course, this has happened before. I 
quoted these
words in this 
article I
wrote for 
Consortium
News 
on
December 27, 2007:



There
are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I
and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in
Germany, as if from a box at the theater. … Perhaps the only
comparably odd thing is the way that now, years later….”


The
words are those of Sebastian Haffner (pen name for Raimund Pretzel),
who as a young lawyer in Berlin during the 1930s experienced the Nazi
takeover, and wrote a first-hand 
account.
His children found the manuscript when he died in 1999 and published
it the following year as “Geschichte eines Deutschen” (The Story
of a German).


The
book became an immediate bestseller and has been translated into 20
languages—in English as “Defying Hitler.”


I
recently learned from his daughter Sarah, an artist in Berlin,
that 
today is
the 100th 
anniversary of
Haffner’s birth. She had seen an earlier article in which I quoted
her father and e-mailed to ask me to “write some more about the
book and the comparison to Bush’s America. … This is almost
unbelievable.”


More
about Haffner below. Let’s set the stage first by recapping some of
what has been going on here in the U.S. that may have resonance for
readers familiar with the Nazi ascendancy, noting how “odd” it is
that the frontal attack on our Constitutional rights is met with such
“calm, superior indifference.”


After
suppressing for two and a half years the explosive story of the
Bush/Cheney surveillance of Americans in gross violation of the
Fourth Amendment, top New York Times officials decided to
let the rest of us in on the fact that the George W. Bush
administration had been eavesdropping on American citizens without
the court warrants required by the 
Foreign
Intelligence
 Surveillance
Act (FISA) of 1978. Not to mention the U.S. Constitution.


The Times had
learned of this well before the election in 2004 and acquiesced to
White House entreaties to suppress the damaging information.


In
late fall 2005 when Times correspondent James Risen’s
book, “State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush
Administration,” revealing the warrantless eavesdropping was being
printed, Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.,
recognized that he could procrastinate no longer.

It
would simply be too embarrassing to have Risen’s book on the
street, with Sulzberger and his associates pretending that this
explosive eavesdropping story did not fit Adolph Ochs’s trademark
criterion: All The News That’s Fit To Print.


(The Times’
own ombudsman, Public Editor Byron Calame, branded the newspaper’s
explanation for the long delay in publishing this story “woefully
inadequate.”)


When
Sulzberger told his friends in the White House that he could no
longer hold off on publishing in the newspaper, he was summoned to
the Oval Office for a counseling session with the president on Dec.
5, 2005. Bush tried in vain to talk him out of putting the story in
the Times.


The
truth would out; part of it, at least.


Unnamed
Program


What
followed struck me as bizarre. The day after the Dec.
16 Times feature article exposing the
Fourth-Amendment-trashing program, the president of the United States
publicly admitted to a demonstrably impeachable offense.


Authorizing
illegal electronic surveillance was a key provision of the second
article of impeachment against President Richard Nixon. On July 27,
1974, this and two other articles of impeachment were approved by
bipartisan votes in the House Judiciary Committee.


Bush
took a frontal approach, Far from expressing regret, he bragged about
having authorized the surveillance “more than 30 times since the
September the 11th attacks,” and said he would continue to do so.
The president also said:



Leaders
in Congress have been briefed more than a dozen times on this
authorization and the activities conducted under it.”


On
Dec. 19, 2005, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then-NSA
Director Michael Hayden held a press conference to answer questions
about the as yet unnamed surveillance program.


Gonzales
was asked why the White House decided to flout FISA rather than
attempt to amend it, choosing instead a “backdoor approach.” 
He answered:



We
have had discussions with Congress…as to whether or not FISA could
be amended to allow us to adequately deal with this kind of threat,
and we were advised that that would be difficult, if not impossible.”


It
Had to Do With Us


It
was not difficult 
to
infer that the surveillance program
 must
have been of such scope and intrusiveness that, even amid highly
stoked fear, it didn’t have a prayer for passage.

It
turns out we didn’t know the half of it.


Bear
in mind that when this illegal surveillance program began, it had
nothing to do with terrorism, an issue that did not really appear on
the new administration’s radar screen until a week before 9/11. …
So this until-recently-unknown pre-9/11 facet of the “Terrorist
Surveillance Program” was not related to Osama bin Laden or to
whomever he and his associates might be speaking. It had to do with
us.


We
know that the Democrats briefed on the “Terrorist Surveillance
Program” include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, (the one with
the longest tenure on the House Intelligence Committee), Rep. Jane
Harman, D-California, and former and current chairmen of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, D-FL, and Jay Rockefeller, D-WV,
respectively.


May
one interpret their lack of public comment on the news that the
snooping began well before 9/11 as a sign they were co-opted and then
sworn to secrecy?


It
is an important question. Were the appropriate leaders in Congress
informed that within days of George W. Bush’s first inauguration
the NSA electronic vacuum cleaner began to suck up information on you
and me, despite the FISA law and the Fourth Amendment?


Are
they all complicit? And are Democratic leaders about to cave in and
grant retroactive immunity to those telecommunications
corporations—AT&T and Verizon—which made millions by winking
at the law and the Constitution?


(Qwest,
to its credit, heeded the advice of its general counsel who said that
what NSA wanted done was clearly illegal.)


What’s
going on here? [December 2007] Have congressional leaders no
sense for what is at stake?


Lately
the adjective “spineless” has come into vogue in describing
congressional Democrats—no offense to invertebrates.



Nazis
and Their Enablers


You
don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep.


In
his journal, Sebastian Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish
submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like
event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27,
1933.


Haffner
finds it quite telling that none of his acquaintances “saw anything
out of the ordinary in the fact that, from then on, one’s telephone
would be tapped, one’s letters opened, and one’s desk might be
broken into.”


But
it is for the cowardly politicians that Haffner reserves his most
vehement condemnation. Do you see any contemporary parallels here?


In
the elections of March 4, 1933, shortly after the Reichstag fire, the
Nazi party garnered only 44 percent of the vote. Only the “cowardly
treachery” of the Social Democrats and other parties to whom 56
percent of the German people had entrusted their votes made it
possible for the Nazis to seize full power. Haffner adds:

It
is in the final analysis only that betrayal that explains the almost
inexplicable fact that a great nation, which cannot have consisted
entirely of cowards, fell into ignominy without a fight.”

The
Social Democratic leaders betrayed their followers—“for the most
part decent, unimportant individuals.” In May, the party leaders
sang the Nazi anthem; in June the Social Democratic party was
dissolved.


The
middle-class Catholic party Zentrum folded in less than a month, and
in the end supplied the votes necessary for the two-thirds majority
that “legalized” Hitler’s dictatorship.


As
for the right-wing conservatives and German nationalists: “Oh God,”
writes Haffner, “what an infinitely dishonorable and cowardly
spectacle their leaders made in 1933 and continued to make afterward.
… They went along with everything: the terror, the persecution of
Jews. … They were not even bothered when their own party was banned
and their own members arrested.”


In
sum: “There was not a single example of energetic defense, of
courage or principle. There was only panic, flight, and desertion. In
March 1933, millions were ready to fight the Nazis. Overnight they
found themselves without leaders. … At the moment of truth, when
other nations rise spontaneously to the occasion, the Germans
collectively and limply collapsed. They yielded and capitulated, and
suffered a nervous breakdown. … The result is today the nightmare
of the rest of the world.”


This
is what can happen when virtually all are intimidated.


Our
Founding Fathers were not oblivious to this; thus, James Madison
wrote:

I
believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by
violent and sudden usurpations. … The means of defense against
foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

We
cannot say we weren’t warned.


Ray
McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical
Church of the Saviour in inner city Washington. He was a CIA analyst
for 27 years and presidential briefer and is co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.


This
article was originally published by “
 Consortium
News 

–  

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

* De terreurdaad zich te mengen in de binnenlandpolitiek van een soeverein land, dit nog naast de eerst geheime economische oorlog tegen het Venezolaanse volk….. Een oorlog die intussen is veranderd in een officieel sanctiebeleid, waarmee de situatie voor de Venezolanen er nog beroerder uit is komen te zien….. Gelukkig krijgt het land veel steun, niet alleen van het Rode Kruis en de VN, maar ook van onder andere China, Rusland en Cuba…..

Zie ook:

Max Blumenthal (journalist van The Grayzone) in feite gearresteerd voor berichtgeving over belagen Venezolaanse ambassade in VS

Venezolaanse ambassade Washington gewelddadig ontruimd

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

VS gaat door met uithongeren Venezolaanse volk >> de westerse wereld negeert deze afschuwelijke oorlogsmisdaad

Venezuela: partij van Guaidó corrupt, zelfs al voor deze enige regeringsverantwoordelijkheid draagt

Reuters houdt rapport tegen over 40.000 Venezolaanse doden door VS sancties

Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence

Guaidó wil 4 miljoen Venezolaanse paspoorten om o.a. een grote achterban voor hem te vormen

Venezuela: overleg in Noorwegen eindigde met telefoongesprek tussen Guaidó en Pence

Venezuela
– A Risk to Dollar Hegemony – Key Purpose Behind “Regime Change”

Venezuela: Edwin Koopmans (o.a. ‘deskundige’ van VPRO) met anti-Maduro propaganda

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

Venezuela: vicepresident van de VS, Mike Pence, belooft militairen extra’s als ze overlopen naar kamp Guaidó

Pence to offer ‘carrots’ to Venezuela military, warnings to judges

Venezuela: VS zal desnoods militair geweld gebruiken om een vreedzame overgang van regime te bewerkstelligen…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Venezuela: ultieme couppoging van Guaidó mislukt‘ (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht, anders dan de al hier weergegeven links)

Trump vermoordde al 40.000 Venezolaanse burgers

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

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

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

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

VS legt nog meer sancties op aan de bevolking van Venezuela, Cuba en Nicaragua

Venezuela is nog lang niet verslagen door de VS

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

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

Venezuela: 15 doden door sabotage elektriciteitsnet

Venezuela: bijt de VS in haar eigen staart?’

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

Venezuela Aid Live >> Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) terecht tegen benefietconcert

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

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

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

Venezuela: 4 belangrijke zaken aangaande humanitaire hulp waarover de reguliere media niet berichten

Venezuela zou humanitaire hulp weigeren, het echte verhaal ziet er ‘iets anders’ uit‘ (180 graden anders, wel te verstaan)

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

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

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

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

Venezolaanse verandering van regime bekokstoofd door VS en massamedia

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

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

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

Russiagate: nog overtuigd van bestaan daarvan? Lees dit!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On
WikiLeaks, Mueller Ignored Findings of Former US Intelligence
Officials

April
20, 2019 at 10:38 am

Written
by 
Kevin
Gosztola

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

***

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Zie ook:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

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

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

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

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

Russiagate gelovigen krijgen nieuwe klap: WikiLeaks kreeg de DNC mails van een klokkenluider, niet van Rusland…..

De kop
dekt zo ongeveer wel het hieronder opgenomen artikel van
InformationClearing House, geschreven door Ray McGovern. Niets nieuws in
feite anders dan het bestaande nieuws van de afgelopen jaren dat er
geen bewijzen kunnen worden geleverd voor de leugens die ons dag in
dag uit over Russische manipulaties door de reguliere westerse
massamedia en politiek door de strot worden geduwd…….

Michael
Cohen die waarschijnlijk voor vele jaren achter het gaas moet, durfde
vorige week te stellen dat hij weliswaar geen directe bewijzen heeft
van het samenspannen van Trump met de Russen, maar dat hij dit kon
opmaken uit de houding van Trump en de manier waarop deze keek als
hij iets vroeg of stelde……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Let wel
beste bezoeker: Cohen zou een jurist zijn…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Trump en
zijn oorlogszuchtige roverskliek zouden moeten worden afgezet, maar
niet op de belachelijke grond dat hij zou hebben samengespannen met
de Russen, zijn andere strapatsen zijn zwaar genoeg om hem af te
zetten! Echter daar willen de democraten niet over lullen, daar hen
dat niet goed uitkomt en ze ondanks alles achter het buitenland
(terreur-) beleid van de VS staan……. Ook in dat beleid is al genoeg te vinden
voor het afzetten van psychopaat Trump……

Ongelofelijk
dat de reguliere westerse massamedia die zo’n grote bek hebben over
fake nieuws en Russische manipulaties, niet het fatsoen hebben om het
hele Russiagate verhaal, waar zoals gezegd geen millimeter aan bewijs
voor is, eens echt goed te ontleden….. Immers er is meer dan
voldoende bewijs voor misdadig handelen door het campagneteam* van
oorlogsmisdadiger Hillary Clinton, die onderzoek wist af te wentelen, middels het spuien van valse anti-Russische propaganda en hen de schuld van het lekken van de mails in de schoenen te schuiven….. 

De Russen, zouden deze mails,
waaruit misdadig handelen van Clinton en haar team blijkt, hebben
doorgezonden naar WikiLeaks, een leugen van formaat…… Niet voor niets is er na meer dan 2 jaar tijd geen flinter aan bewijs geleverd voor deze leugen (nogmaals het gaat in werkelijkheid om mails
die aantoonden dat Clinton de voorverkiezingen van de Democratische
partij voor het presidentschap in 2016 op een heel smerige manier heeft gestolen van Bernie
Sanders en niet om het manipuleren van de verkiezingen door de Russen…….)

Zoals gezegd geen nieuws, zo was al veel eerder bekend dat Seth Rich, een medewerker van het Clinton campagneteam de mails lekte naar WikiLeaks, dit uit frustratie over het stelen van de voorverkiezingen door Clinton….** 

Sorry,
Russia-gaters; WikiLeaks Got the DNC Emails From Insider, not Russia

By
Ray McGovern

VIPSers
Binney & Johnson
*** use the forensics that the FBI avoided doing.
http://theduran.com/why-the-dnc-was-not-hacked-by-the-russians/?mc_cid=ed71b42640&mc_eid=913e2dde99

March
02, 2019 “Information
Clearing House
” – Thinking back, President Barack
Obama dropped a huge hint two days before he left office, using his
last press conference to point out that the “conclusions of the
intelligence community” regarding how WikiLeaks received the DNC
emails were “inconclusive.”  The nerve!  Daring to say
that just 13 days after the U.S. intelligence Gang of Four briefed
Obama up and down on their evidence-free “assessment” that
WikiLeaks got the DNC emails via a Russian hack.


This
was one time Obama summoned the courage to face down James
(the-Russians-are-almost-genetically-driven-to-deceive) Clapper and
other intelligence chiefs.  After all, Obama is a lawyer. 
He “does evidence.”  In contrast, ex-CIA Director John
Brennan, told Congress that he does not “do evidence.”


Back
in the day, the intelligence community “did evidence.”  As
soon as the evidence-impoverished “Intelligence Community
Assessment” was published on January 6, 2017, members of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) smelled a rat. 
That same day, former NSA Technical Director William Binney and Ray
published “The Dubious Case on Russian Hacking,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/01/06/the-dubious-case-on-russian-hacking/ 
].

Then
came “The Gaping Holes of
Russia-gate,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/20/the-gaping-holes-of-russia-gate/ 
], and in July 2017 VIPS published their key forensic-based study
“Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russian Hack’
Evidence,”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/ ],
followed by “More Holes in the Russia-gate
Narrative.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/20/more-holes-in-russia-gate-narrative/ ],
by Binney and Ray.


Even
Michael Cohen admitted yesterday that he had no “direct evidence
that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia.” But, he
added, “I have my suspicions.”  We intelligence analysts,
back in the day, did not “do suspicions.”


There
are 1,001 other reasons to impeach President Donald Trump, if Nancy
Pelosi had the courage.  But politics, not the Constitution,
reigns supreme in the people’s House to which Founders bestowed an
orderly political process to get rid of such a president.  Shame
on them all.


Ray
came to Washington from his native Bronx in the early Sixties as an
Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst
for 27 years, from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of
George H. W. Bush. Ray’s duties included chairing National
Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President’s Daily
Brief, which he briefed one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s
five most senior national security advisers from 1981 to
1985. 
http://raymcgovern.com

This
article was originally published by “
Information
Clearing House

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

*   Het campagneteam waar het DNC een dikke vinger in de pap heeft. Het Democratic National Committee, ofwel DNC, gaat over o.a. de verkiezingscampagnes van de ‘Democratische’ Partij.

**  Zie: Clinton te kakken gezet: Brazile (Democratische Partij VS) draagt haar boek op aan Seth Rich, het vermoorde lid van DNC die belastende documenten lekte‘ en: ‘WikiLeaks: Seth Rich Leaked Clinton Emails, Not Russia

*** William Edward (Bill) Binney is ex-top NSA en Larry Johnson ex-top CIA. Hier de link naar een eerder artikel dat je echt moet lezen als je geïnteresseerd bent in deze materie: ‘Bill Binney and Larry Johnson Shred Robert Mueller’s Russian Hack Fable

Zie ook:

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

De verregaande anti-Russische propaganda in de VS en de rest van het westen

Tulsi Gabbard (pres. kandidaat VS) krijgt volgens NBC Russische steun op claim van firma die ‘Russische data’ fabriceert voor Republikeinen

De VS dreigt de grondwet te wijzigen ten voordele van censuur en de afschaffing van de vrijheid op meningsuiting

WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news

Als Martin Luther King nog zou leven was hij onderwerp van censuur en was zijn Facebook pagina verwijderd

World Economic Forum: de plek waar men elkaar feliciteert met de censuur op de sociale media

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens….

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

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

New York Times te kakken gezet met haar berichtgeving over Russische manipulatie voor midterm verkiezingen

VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….

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

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

De VS heeft Syrië volgepropt met ‘jihadisten’ en wapens

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

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

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

Russiagate: de westerse massamedia gebruiken propaganda om het volk te manipuleren, precies waar ze Rusland van beschuldigen

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada……. 

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht)

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

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)

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

‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

Russische inmenging VS presidentsverkiezingen? ha! ha! ha! ha! Sheldon Adelson en Netanyahu zal men bedoelen!

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

‘Russiagate’: Intel-raport over Russische bemoeienis met verkiezingen opgebouwd met leugens en is politiek gemotiveerd, aldus Matlock, voormalig VS ambassadeur in Moskou

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

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

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

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

‘Fake News’ misbruikt door dictaturen en de reguliere (massa-) media

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

Trump (Republikeinen) wint de midterm verkiezingen, alsook de Democraten, het verschil voor mensen elders in de wereld, die onder VS terreur moeten leven, is nul komma nada…….

De Israëlische manipulatie van de VS presidentsverkiezingen, gaat veel verder dan wat men Rusland in de schoenen schuift…..

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

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

The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media

The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media “Fake News” Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Mocking Trump Doesn’t Prove Russia’s Guilt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FBI Director Comey Leaked Trump Memos Containing Classified Information

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

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

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

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

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

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

Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)

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

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

Alarm Code Geel: Lara Rense (NOS) voedt Rusland-haat

Mediaorgaan Sinclair dwingt ‘TV ankers’ propaganda op te lezen (Sinclair bedient rond de 70% van de VS bevolking van ‘lokaal nieuws’)

Ex-CIA agent legt uit hoe de VS schaduwregering en deep state werken, ofwel de machinaties achter de schermen……

‘Russiagate’ een nieuwe ongelooflijke aanklacht van de Democraten…….

VS demoniseert Russiagate critici als Jill Stein…..

De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

Britse en VS manipulaties van verkiezingen en stimulatie van conflicten middels psychologische oorlogsvoering‘ (voor VS manipulaties van verkiezingen elders, liggen er ‘metersdikke’ dossiers, o.a. in te zien op WikeLeaks)

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Lichtgelovige ‘atheïst’ gelooft Russiagate leugens…..

Ongelofelijk
maar waar: Sam Harris, volgens de schrijver van het hieronder
opgenomen artikel, Caitlin Johnstone, een goeroe van de atheïsten,
heeft laten weten dat hij het verhaal gelooft dat Rusland de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, ondanks dat daar
totaal geen bewijs voor is gegeven en dat na 2 jaar lang leugens over deze zaak (zonder dat men in die tijd met bewijzen kwam…)….

Harris
liet als atheïst o.a. weten het niet te begrijpen dat mensen een
geloof omarmen, een geloof bijvoorbeeld in een god, waarvoor elk
bewijs ontbreekt…….. Nu doet deze Harris precies hetzelfde als
christenen doen, geloven in een zaak die niet te bewijzen is, daar
deze nooit heeft plaatsgevonden….

Je
vraagt je wellicht af waarom Harris gelooft dat Rusland de
verkiezingen manipuleerde, wel dat is héééél simpel: de geheime
diensten van de VS zeggen dat het zo is……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Als er nu één ding duidelijk is, is het wel het feit dat de geheime
diensten in de VS vooral goed zijn in liegen, zelfs als het tegendeel
meer dan bewezen is, neem de leugens die hebben geleid tot de
illegale oorlog in 2003 van de VS en haar NAVO partners tegen Irak.
De claim dat Irak massavernietigingswapens had, was al 10 keer naar
de prullenbak verwezen door het VN team van wapeninspecteurs o.l.v.
Blix…….

Credulous
Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative

by Caitlin
Johnstone

The
other day RT reporter Dan Cohen 
flagged how
New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator
on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian
hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the
fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than
there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both
fascinating and hilarious.

Listen
to New Atheist guru 
@SamHarrisOrg faithfully
accept 
@NewKnowledgeAI disinformation
warrior 
@noUpside‘s
claim that there’s no doubt Russia meddled in the 2016 election
because “the intelligence agencies know it
happened” 
https://t.co/GHf94ZAEtB HT @Whtaplpic.twitter.com/Hgf4PQzTA9

Dan
Cohen (@dancohen3000) 
January
16, 2019

(uiteraard is dit niet de ‘video’ die bij het Twitterbericht hoort, echter in deze gesproken tekst gaat Harris uitvoerig in op de leugen die men ‘Russiagate’ is gaan noemen, voor het origineel klik hier)


Harris,
author of 
The
End of Faith
 and
commonly mentioned in the same breath as atheistic thought leaders
like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, once wrote the
following:

“While
believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness
or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds
immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our
discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about
things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling
that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still
have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at
sea, will be thought insane.”

Belief
in the establishment Russia narrative is very much the same. As Ray
McGovern of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity recently
documented in 
an
excellent article
 for Consortium
News
 titled
“A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on
Russia-gate”, the entire election meddling narrative was built
upon an ODNI* assessment by two dozen analysts hand-picked and
overseen by James Clapper. McGovern notes how Clapper, then the
Director of National Intelligence, is notorious for having helped
sell the lies that led to the Iraq invasion, for lying to congress
about NSA surveillance, and for 
multiple
instances
 of
claiming that Russians are 
genetically
predisposed
 to
nefarious behavior.

We
the public have never seen the evidence that led to this extremely
shady assessment’s findings, yet those findings have gradually been
integrated into mass media reports as infallible fact upon which the
rest of the establishment Russia narrative has been built. Like
belief in mainstream religions, the only reason its lack of evidence
fails to come into question is because it has been made popular by
mainstream politicians and credulous media talking heads who have
been reporting it as fact day in and day out for two years, without
adding any solid, tangible evidence to the equation beyond the
unsubstantiated say-so of intelligence agencies with an extensive
record of lying to the public to manufacture support for preexisting
geopolitical agendas. It’s an entirely faith-based narrative, only
instead of placing faith in the words of priests and books authored
by long-dead men, faith is placed in the authoritative say-so of the
imperial intelligence community.

Sam Harris

@SamHarrisOrg

I really enjoyed speaking with Renee DiResta about information warfare. We live in interesting times…@noUpside https://samharris.org/podcasts/145-information-war/ 


1,084

8:31 PM – Jan 2, 2019

Waking Up Podcast #145 – The Information War | Sam Harris

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about Russia’s “Internet Research Agency” and its efforts to amplify conspiracy thinking and partisan conflict in the United…

samharris.org






It’s
funny then, given the aforementioned quote, that Harris escalated
his 
already
highly credulous
 relationship
with the CIA Russia narrative in a podcast earlier this month titled
The
Information War

in which he nodded faithfully along with a guest whose organization
was recently exposed as having manufactured the appearance of Russian
election meddling in an Alabama Senate race. His guest, Renee
DiResta, is named in a December 
New
York Times
 report
 for
her involvement in a project by narrative control firm New Knowledge,
which claims in an internal document to have “orchestrated an
elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the
[Alabama Senate candidate Roy] Moore campaign was amplified on social
media by a Russian botnet.” This same narrative control firm which
manufactured the bogus story that Moore was being amplified by
Russian bots also authored two reports on Russian social media
meddling for the US Congress in December which 
set
off a week’s worth of hysterical shrieking headlines
.

At
no time in Harris’ interview with DiResta does he question any of her
cold war rhetoric or baseless assertions, and indeed he eggs her
along with agreeable questions along the lines of the CIA/CNN Russia
narrative.

“Many
people, certainly most Trump supporters, continue to doubt whether
Russia interfered in anything in 2016,” Harris said, as though
skepticism of the unproven claims of shady intelligence agencies is a
bad thing, then asked point-blank, “Is there any basis for doubt
about that at this point?”

“Nope,”
DiResta replied.

“This
is just crystal clear as a matter of what our intelligence services
tell us, and a matter of what people like you can ascertain by just
studying online behavior?” Harris helpfully added.

“It
happened,” DiResta replied. “There’s really nothing else to
say about it. The intelligence agencies know it happened, foreign
governments know it happened, the platforms acknowledge it happened.

There
may be some small group of people that continues to live like
ostriches, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.”

Intelligence
agencies know something happened, therefore it happened. The Pope
knows bread and wine transubstantiates into the literal body and
blood of Jesus Christ, therefore it happens. Sam Harris went right
along with this, completely unquestioning like a good little cult
member.

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

Silly Republican, as if a $100k social media campaign “could have affected the closely fought Senate race” in 2017.

Oh wait, that’s also the prevailing liberal supposition about a ~$100k Russian social media campaign in a 2016 presidential race. Never mind!

Dan Cohen

@dancohen3000

Replying to @dancohen3000

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is “exploring” whether the @NewKnowledgeAI disinformation operation violated state campaign laws and is “worried that the operation could have affected the closely fought Senate race.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/27/disinformation-campaign-targeting-roy-moores-senate-bid-may-have-violated-law-alabama-attorney-general-says/ 


230

8:05 PM – Dec 27, 2018

In an
article for 
The
Nation
,
journalist Aaron Maté breaks down how the data within the
establishment Russia narrative itself shows that Russia’s social
media involvement in US politics was “small, amateurish, and
mostly unrelated to the 2016 election,” with only a tiny
fraction of the Russia-based Internet Research Agency’s US content
having anything to do with the election at all, a very small amount
of funds allocated to the total project, and making up an
infinitesimally small percentage of total social media content viewed
by Americans. Maté 
has
also noted
 that
the total expenditure on IRA posts for the entire US election is
actually comparable to what New Knowledge spent on its “false
flag operation” in the Alabama Senate race alone, which New
Knowledge claims was too small to have impacted the election.

If
that’s not enough reason for you to be skeptical, Maté and 
the Moon
of Alabama
 blog
 point
out that there is no evidence that the Internet Research Agency had
any intent to influence the election, nor indeed that it is anything
other than a for-profit clickbait operation. Looking at the content
of the posts we’ve been shown and the statistics we’ve been told
about them, this is very difficult to argue against, which is
probably why nobody ever tries to.

Sam
Harris the credulous atheist never brings any of this up,
uncritically letting his guest spout faith-based doctrine about both
Kremlin social media interference and Russian hacking.

“Let’s
talk about the WikiLeaks data dump,” DiResta said later in
the podcast. “So as you mentioned at the start, the GRU** had this
hack, they had these emails and they laundered these emails through
WikiLeaks. They gave them to WikiLeaks.”

There
is no more publicly available evidence that this happened than there
is that the Qur’an is the actual, literal word of actual, literal
Allah, yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist never asked her for
evidence of her claims. He uncritically let her advance not just
establishment narratives but establishment agendas as well, nodding
agreeably along as she called for social media platforms to
collaborate with intelligence agencies and grieved about America
being legally unable to respond with propaganda of its own to Russian
online manipulations.

Support
for establishment cold war narratives against Russia is not the only
front along which Sam Harris finds himself in alignment with
neoconservatism, whose push for a more aggressive posture toward the
USSR was one of the early tenets of the movement. Harris’ extensive
history of I
slamophobic
comments
 and
his 
sympathetic
attitude
 toward
the so-called “war on terror” and US military
interventionism in Muslim-majority nations play right into the hands
of neoconservative agendas in the Middle East, and he’s been 
accused
of being a closet neocon
 so
much he’s 
had
to publicly address it
.
Neoconservatives have been consistently wrong about literally
everything to do with foreign policy for decades, yet Sam Harris the
credulous atheist finds theirs a sufficiently rational ideology to
ride alongside. There is no more evidence that US interventionism in
the Middle East is helpful than there is for the existence of Vishnu,
yet Sam Harris the credulous atheist uncritically endorses it.

Establishment-fueled
Russia hysteria is a religion. It is an entirely faith-based belief
system which has 
toxic
effects on the people who subscribe to it
,
and toxic effects on the world as it manufactures support for insane
escalations between two nuclear superpowers. As we 
discussed
yesterday
,
if you don’t have a functioning radar for detecting malignant
narratives, you might get lucky and find yourself in opposition to
some pernicious belief systems, yet also find yourself selling CIA
narratives to your very large online audience as well.

Credulous
atheist Sam Harris doesn’t oppose all religions. He is critical of
some of them, and he is a zealous bishop of others.

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Hier nog een gesprek tussen Harris en Renée DiResta, ‘Waking Up Podcast #145’ waarvan zoals je ziet de afbeelding al te zien was in het op één na laatste Twitterbericht:

*  ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

** GRU = GROe (Nederland)

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Zie ook:

Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd

Jacht in VS op alternatief (echt) nieuws in volgend stadium: journalist wordt vastgehouden zonder aanklacht

NewsGuard, het nieuwste wapen van Big Brother VS tegen de alternatieve media

Netflix censureert aflevering van humoristisch programma, ‘na een geldig verzoek’ op grond van Saoedische wetgeving….

New York Times te kakken gezet met haar berichtgeving over Russische manipulatie voor midterm verkiezingen

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


VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….

Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen

Facebook: uit gelekte documenten worden de steeds veranderende regels voor censuur op dit platform openbaar gemaakt: Facebook als geheime tak van de VS overheid

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

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

Facebook censureert foto’s van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als ‘sexual content’

Google manipuleerde VS presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 en censureert niet alleen linkse/alternatieve sociale media

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

Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart

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

Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp

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

Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)

The US military’s vision for state censorship

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

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

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

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

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

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

Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………

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

Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)

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

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

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

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

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

Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……

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

Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘ 

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

Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….

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

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

Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”

Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’

Top Trump – Putin: ‘toevallig’ komt VS nu opnieuw met ‘bewijzen’ over Russische inmenging in de verkiezingen van 2016….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Naar aanleiding van een eerder artikel van Caitlin Johnstone*, waarin ze op de nieuwe beschuldigingen aan het adres van Rusland ingaat en terecht wijst op het feit dat deze beschuldigingen wel heel toevallig net voor de top tussen Putin en Trump werden gepubliceerd, heeft ze het hieronder opgenomen artikel geschreven.

Men kan er maar geen genoeg van krijgen in de VS (en de rest van het westen): Rusland demoniseren op basis van… Ja, waarvan? ‘Simpel’: op basis van bewijzen die helaas voor iedereen geheim moeten blijven……** ha! ha! ha! ha! Nu zouden 12 Russische officieren de computers van Clinton (of eigenlijk van haar rechterhand Podesta) hebben gehackt en documenten hebben doorgespeeld aan Wikileaks……. Zoals de ‘overtuigende bewijsvoering’ bij de eerdere beschuldigingen aan het adres van Rusland, ook daar mochten we niet weten wat die ‘bewijzen’ zijn en waaruit de ‘overtuigende bewijsvoering’ is opgebouwd……

Caitlin Johnstone geeft in het hierna opgenomen artikel aan welke 5 feiten voor haar voldoende zouden zijn om op de ‘Russische-hysterie trein’ van de VS te springen…….

Feilloos geeft Johnstone aan waar de schoen wringt, al moet ik zeggen dat er nog wel meer redenen zijn waarom deze door de geheime diensten van de VS, met hulp van de democraten en de reguliere media gefabriceerde Rusland-hysterie totaal ongeloofwaardig is. (zelfs Nederland is aangestoken…. ha! ha! ha! ha! Als je gelooft dat Rusland zelfs maar moeite zou doen om de boel hier te beïnvloeden, ben je echt voor eeuwig de weg kwijt! Vanmorgen werd toevallig gemeld dat 900 retweets van een ‘Russische trollenfabriek’ [ha! ha! ha!] met racistisch commentaar hier de boel negatief zou hebben beïnvloed…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Knettergek!!)

Terecht wijst Johnstone overigens op het feit dat uit overheidsdata blijkt dat de VS zelf van 1946 tot het jaar 2000 in 81 landen de verkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd, zelfs in Rusland, een publiek feit….. Zo bezien kan de VS als wraak van die landen nog wel een 70 tal verkiezingsmanipulaties verzinnen………

Bovendien, als er nu één ding is waar de geheime diensten van de VS (en intussen ook de massamedia) goed in zijn, is het wel in glashard liegen, zo merkt Johnstone alweer volkomen terecht op.

July 14, 2018 AUTHOR: CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable

As we just discussed, some major news stories have recently dropped about what a horrible horrifying menace the Russian Federation is to the world, and as always I have nothing to offer the breathless pundits on CNN and MSNBC but my completely unsatisfied skepticism. My skepticism of the official Russia narrative remains so completely unsatisfied that if mainstream media were my husband I would already be cheating on it with my yoga instructor.

I do not believe the establishment Russia narrative. I do not believe that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 election. I do not believe the Russian government did any election rigging for Trump to collude with. This is not because I believe Vladimir Putin is some kind of blueberry-picking girl scout, and it certainly isn’t because I think the Russian government is unwilling or incapable of meddling in the affairs of other nations to some extent when it suits them. It is simply because I am aware that the US intelligence community lies constantly as a matter of policy, and because I understand how the burden of proof works.

At this time, I see no reason to espouse any belief system which embraces as true the assertion that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections in any meaningful way, or that it presents a unique and urgent threat to the world which must be aggressively dealt with. But all the establishment mouthpieces tell me that I must necessarily embrace these assertions as known, irrefutable fact. Here are five things that would have to change in order for that to happen:

1. Proof of a hacking conspiracy to elect Trump.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

In most cases, it’s so basic that unproven allegations by a prosecutor in an indictment shouldn’t be accepted as true one need not even point it out. In this case, pointing it out will be seen as blasphemy. Everyone should want to see the evidence on which the claims are based:

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

Based on quick read (maybe I missed something?). Mueller alleges GRU hacked DNC & covered it up. A lot of claims about what Russian officers did online. But I didn’t catch any reference to what evidence Mueller has to make him believe it was them. How does he know they did it?

The first step to getting a heretic like myself aboard the Russia hysteria train would be the existence of publicly available evidence of the claims made about election meddling in 2016, which rises to the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world. So far, that burden of proof for Russian hacking allegations has not come anywhere remotely close to being met.

How much proof would I need to lend my voice to the escalation of tensions between two nuclear superpowers? Mountains. I personally would settle for nothing less than hard proof which can be independently verified by trusted experts like the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

Is that a big ask? Yes. Yes it is. That’s what happens when government institutions completely discredit themselves as they did with the false narratives advanced in the manufacturing of support for the Iraq invasion. You don’t get to butcher a million Iraqis in a war based on lies, turn around a few years later and say “We need new cold war escalations with a nuclear superpower but we can’t prove it because the evidence is secret.” That’s not a thing. Copious amounts of hard, verifiable proof or GTFO***. So far we have no evidence besides the confident-sounding assertions of government insiders and their mass media mouthpieces, which is the same as no evidence.

2. Proof that election meddling actually influenced the election in a meaningful way.

Even if Russian hackers did exfiltrate Democratic party emails and give them to WikiLeaks, if it didn’t affect the election, who cares? That’s a single-day, second-page story at best, meriting nothing beyond a “Hmm, interesting, turns out Russia tried and failed to influence the US election,” followed by a shrug and moving on to something that actually matters.

After it has been thoroughly proven that Russia meddled in the elections in a meaningful way, it must then be established that that meddling had an actual impact on the election results.

3. Some reason to believe Russian election meddling was unwarranted and unacceptable.

Consortium News@Consortiumnews

Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other countries’ elections is not , but rather a highly germane point to understanding the context for allegations of Russian meddling in Election 2016, Caitlin Johnstone observes. https://consortiumnews.com/2018/02/20/americas-election-meddling-would-indeed-justify-other-countries-retaliating-in-kind/  @caitoz

America’s Election Meddling Would

Indeed Justify Other Countries 

Retaliating In Kind

Highlighting the U.S.’s long history in meddling in other 

countries’ elections is not “whataboutism,” but rather a 

highly germane point to understanding the context for 

he allegations of Russian…

consortiumnews.com

The US government, by a very wide margin, interferes in the elections of other countries far, far more than any other government on earth does. The US government’s own data shows that it has deliberately meddled in the elections of 81 foreign governments between 1946 and 2000, including Russia in the nineties. This is public knowledge. A former CIA Director cracked jokes about it on Fox News earlier this year.

If I’m going to abandon my skepticism and accept the Gospel According to Maddow****, after meaningful, concrete election interference has been clearly established I’m going to need a very convincing reason to believe that it is somehow wrong or improper for a government to attempt to respond in kind to the undisputed single worst offender of this exact offense. It makes no sense for the United States to actively create an environment in which election interference is something that governments do to one another, and then cry like a spanked child when its election is interfered with by one of the very governments whose elections the US recently meddled in.

This is nonsense. America being far and away the worst election meddler on the planet makes it a fair target for election meddling by not just Russia, but every country in the world. It is very obviously moral and acceptable for any government on earth to interfere in America’s elections as long as it remains the world’s worst offender in that area. In order for Russia to be in the wrong if it interfered in America’s elections, some very convincing argument I’ve not yet heard will have to be made to support that case.

4. Proof that the election meddling went beyond simply giving Americans access to information about their government.

Michael Tracey

@mtracey

In case anyone forgot: the “hacked emails” contained multitudes of revelatory information about powerful political actors that otherwise would have been concealed from voters https://medium.com/mtracey/russian-hackers-provided-vital-information-to-american-voters-d7fb0f9ec50b 

Russian “Hackers” Provided Vital Information To American Voters

Let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that it’s all true: the Russian government really did “hack the election,” which is to say they…

medium.com

If all the Russians did was simply show Americans emails of Democratic Party officials talking to one another and circulate some MSM articles as claimed in the ridiculous Russian troll farm allegations, that’s nothing to get upset about. If anything, Americans should be upset that they had to hear about Democratic Party corruption through the grapevine instead of having light shed on it by the American officials whose job it is to do so. Complaints about election meddling is only valid if that election meddling isn’t comprised of truth and facts.

5. A valid reason to believe escalated tensions between two nuclear superpowers are worthwhile.

Caitlin Johnstone@caitoz

The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should Straighten Out All Our Priorities | Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-05/increasing-likelihood-nuclear-war-should-straighten-out-all-our-priorities 

The Increasing Likelihood Of Nuclear War Should 

Straighten Out All Our Priorities

“The Russiagate psyop exists because the western power 

establishment is trying to cripple the Russia-China tandem in 

order to ensure US hegemony, and if they tried to thrust us all 

into a new cold…

zerohedge.com

After it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia did indeed meddle in the US elections in a meaningful way, and after it has then been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia actually influenced election results in a significant way, and after the case has been clearly made that it was bad and wrong for Russia to do this instead of fair and reasonable, and after it has been clearly proven that the election meddling went beyond simply telling Americans the truth about their government, the question then becomes what, if anything, should be done about it?

If you look at the actions that this administration has taken over the last year and a half, the answer to that question appears to be harsh sanctions, NATO expansionism, selling arms to Ukraine, throwing out diplomats, increasing military presence along Russia’s border, a Nuclear Posture Review which is much more aggressive toward Russia, repeatedly bombing Syria, and just generally creating more and more opportunities for something to go catastrophically wrong with one of the two nations’ aging, outdated nuclear arsenals, setting off a chain of events from which there is no turning back and no surviving.

And the pundits and politicians keep pushing for more and more escalations, at this very moment braying with one voice that Trump must aggressively confront Putin about Mueller’s indictments or withdraw from the peace talks. But is it worth it? Is it worth risking the life of every terrestrial organism to, what? What specifically would be gained that makes increasing the risk of nuclear catastrophe worthwhile? Making sure nobody interferes in America’s fake elections? I’d need to see a very clear and specific case made, with a ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ list and “THE POTENTIAL DEATH OF LITERALLY EVERYTHING” written in big red letters at the top of the ‘cons’ column.

Rallying the world to cut off Russia from the world stage and cripple its economy has been been a goal of the US power establishment since the collapse of the Soviet Union, so there’s no reason to believe that even the people who are making the claims against Russia actually believe them. The goal is crippling Russia to handicap China, and ultimately to shore up global hegemony for the US-centralized empire by preventing the rise of any rival superpowers. The sociopathic alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies who control that empire are willing to threaten nuclear confrontation in order to ensure their continued dominance. All of their actions against Russia since 2016 have had everything to do with establishing long-term planetary dominance and nothing whatsoever to do with election meddling.

Those five things would need to happen before I’d be willing to jump aboard the “Russia! Russia!” train. Until then I’ll just keep pointing to the total lack of evidence and how very, very far the CIA/CNN Russia narrative is from credibility.

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*     Zie: ‘Two Big “Russia! Russia!” Stories Released Days Before Trump-Putin Summit

**    Vanmorgen op Radio1 bij de ‘onafhankelijke’ zendgemachtigde NOS, VS correspondent Wouter Zwart. Deze enorme leugenaar durfde keihard te zeggen dat er bergen bewijs zijn voor de aanklachten tegen 12 Russische officieren, die de computers van de democraten zouden hebben gekraakt….. ‘Bergen bewijs‘ die niemand mag inzien…… Later zal ik hier nog een bericht over opstellen. Hier nog een artikel van Blik op NOS Journaal over deze Zwart met commentaar op de top tussen Putin en Trump: ‘Wouter Zwart (NOS) desinformeert over Putin-Trump Top‘ (klik ook op het label Wouter Zwart, direct onder dit bericht)

***  GTFO: Get The Fuck Out

**** Rachel Maddow, een radio en tv presentator MSNBC

Zie ook:

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Putin Summit‘ (van Ray McGovern, ex-CIA en William Binney, ex-NSA medewerker)

 ‘De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

en voor het tegenovergestelde (ofwel zoals de waard is, vertrouwt hij zijn gasten): CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………‘ (overigens ook Johnstone wijst hierop in haar artikel)

Russische hack DNC: na 2 jaar nog geen flinter van bewijs……

Ray
McGovern, een ex-CIA agent, die zoals je gerust kan stellen tot
inkeer kwam, schreef een artikel op Consortium News over het
‘Russische hack’ verhaal.

Volkomen
terecht stelt McGovern dat er na 2 jaar nog steeds geen schijn van
bewijs is voor Russische hack van het DNC, het comité dat zwaar op de
hand van Hillary Clinton was en dat er voor zorgde dat haar tegenkandidaat
Bernie Sanders de voorverkiezingen verloor…… Het DNC wist van
Julian Assange dat hij zou komen met uitgelekte documenten waaruit
e.e.a. zou blijken. Om Assange voor te zijn werd rap naar de Russen
gewezen als de dader die deze documenten middels een hack zou hebben
bemachtigd en deze Wikileaks zou hebben doen toekomen……..

Intussen
is uit en te na bewezen dat deze documenten door een lid van het DNC
zijn gelekt, waarschijnlijk uit frustratie over het meer dan smerige
spel van het DNC tijdens de democratische voorverkiezingen. Deze klokkenluider is naar grote waarschijnlijkheid
Seth Rich, die niet lang nadat de ellende begon werd vermoord tijdens
een ‘straatroof’ terwijl er niets van hem werd gestolen zelfs zijn
geld niet……..

Onterecht
merkt McGovern op dat dit hele hackverhaal niet meer terug komt in de
media, echter dat is onzin, zoals de al evenzeer niet bewezen
manipulaties door de Russen van de presidentsverkiezing regelmatig in de media worden genoemd, het enige verschil is dat men niet verder
spreekt over deze belachelijke beschuldiging, maar deze eenvoudig
aanhaalt als bewijs voor de smerige rol die Rusland zou hebben gespeeld en speelt…..
Ofwel: het demoniseren van Rusland op grond van leugens, terwijl de ware demon de VS zelf
is, de grootste terreurentiteit op onze aarde……… 

De NSA en de andere geheime diensten van de VS hebben een enorm scala aan mogelijkheden om de schuld voor bepaalde door de VS begane zaken op het internet, in de schoenen van een ander land kan schuiven en dat ook daadwerkelijk heeft gedaan, zie de Vault 7 en 8 documenten op Wikileaks……..

McGovern
heeft de zaak nog eens netjes op een rij gezet en dat werkt uiterst
verhelderend na een paar jaar middels leugens haat en angstzaaien tegen/voor de
Russen.

Still
Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack

June
7, 2018 at 8:14 pm

Written
by 
Ray
McGovern

More
than two years after the allegation of a Russian hack of the 2016
U.S. presidential election was first made, conclusive proof is still
lacking and may never be produced.

(CN Op-ed) — If
you are wondering why so little is heard these days of accusations
that Russia hacked into the U.S. election in 2016, it could be
because those charges could not 
withstand close scrutiny.
It could also be because special counsel Robert Mueller appears to
have never bothered to investigate what was once the central alleged
crime in Russia-gate as no one associated with WikiLeaks has ever
been questioned by his team.

Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity — including two “alumni”
who were former National Security Agency (NSA) technical directors — have
long since concluded that Julian Assange did not acquire what he
called the “emails related to Hillary Clinton” via a “hack”
by the Russians or anyone else. They found, rather, that he got them
from someone with physical access to Democratic National Committee (DNC) computers who copied the material onto an external storage device —
probably a thumb drive. In December 2016 VIPS 
explained this
in some detail in an open Memorandum to President Barack Obama.

On
January 18, 2017 President Obama 
admitted that
the “conclusions” of U.S. intelligence regarding how the alleged
Russian hacking got to WikiLeaks were “inconclusive.” Even the
vapid FBI/CIA/NSA “Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian
Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections” of January 6,
2017, which tried to blame Russian

President
Vladimir Putin for election interference, 
contained no
direct evidence of Russian involvement.  That did not prevent
the “handpicked” authors of that poor excuse for intelligence
analysis from expressing “high confidence” that Russian
intelligence “relayed material it acquired from the Democratic
National Committee … to WikiLeaks.” 

Handpicked
analysts, of course, say what they are handpicked to say.

Never
mind. The FBI/CIA/NSA “assessment” became bible truth for
partisans like Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking member of the House
Intelligence Committee, who was among the first off the blocks to
blame Russia for interfering to help Trump.  It simply could not
have been that Hillary Clinton was quite capable of snatching defeat
out of victory all by herself.  No, it had to have been the
Russians.

Five
days into the Trump presidency, I had a chance to 
challenge Schiff
personally on the gaping disconnect between the Russians and
WikiLeaks. Schiff still “can’t share the evidence” with me …
or with anyone else, because it does not exist.

WikiLeaks

It
was on June 12, 2016, just six weeks before the Democratic National
Convention, that Assange announced the pending publication of “emails
related to Hillary Clinton,” throwing the Clinton campaign into
panic mode, since the emails would document strong bias in favor of
Clinton and successful attempts to sabotage the campaign of Bernie
Sanders. 

When
the emails were published on July 22, just three days before the
convention began, the campaign decided to create what I call a
Magnificent Diversion, drawing attention away from the substance of
the emails by blaming Russia for their release.

Clinton’s
PR chief Jennifer Palmieri later 
admitted that
she golf-carted around to various media outlets at the convention
with instructions “to get the press to focus on something even we
found difficult to process: the prospect that Russia had not only
hacked and stolen emails from the DNC, but that it had done so to
help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.”  The diversion
worked like a charm.  Mainstream media kept shouting “The
Russians did it,” and gave little, if any, play to the DNC
skullduggery revealed in the emails themselves. And like Brer’ Fox,
Bernie didn’t say nothin’.

Meanwhile,
highly sophisticated technical experts, were hard at work fabricating
“forensic facts” to “prove” the Russians did it.  Here’s
how it played out:

June
12, 2016:
 Assange announces that WikiLeaks is about to
publish “emails related to Hillary Clinton.”

June
14, 2016:
 DNC contractor CrowdStrike, (with a dubious
professional record and multiple conflicts of interest) announces
that malware has been found on the DNC server and claims there is
evidence it was injected by Russians.

June
15, 2016:
 “Guccifer 2.0” affirms the DNC statement;
claims responsibility for the “hack;” claims to be a WikiLeaks
source; and posts a document that the forensics show was
synthetically tainted with “Russian fingerprints.”

The
June 12, 14, & 15 timing was hardly coincidence. Rather, it was
the start of a pre-emptive move to associate Russia with anything
WikiLeaks might have been about to publish and to “show” that it
came from a Russian hack.

Enter
Independent Investigators

A
year ago independent cyber-investigators completed the kind of
forensic work that, for reasons best known to then-FBI Director James
Comey, neither he nor the “handpicked analysts” who wrote the
Jan. 6, 2017 assessment bothered to do.  The independent
investigators found verifiable evidence from metadata found in the
record of an alleged Russian hack of July 5, 2016 showing that the
“hack” that day of the DNC by Guccifer 2.0 was not a hack, by
Russia or anyone else.

Rather
it originated with a copy (onto an external storage device – a
thumb drive, for example) by an insider — the same 
process used
by the DNC insider/leaker before June 12, 2016 for an altogether
different purpose. (Once the metadata was found and the “fluid
dynamics” principle of physics applied, this was not difficult
to 
disprove the
validity of the claim that Russia was responsible.)

One
of these independent investigators publishing under the name of The
Forensicator on May 31 
published new evidence that
the Guccifer 2.0 persona uploaded a document from the West Coast of
the United States, and not from Russia.

In
our July 24, 2017 Memorandum to President Donald Trump we 
stated,
“We do not know who or what the murky Guccifer 2.0 is. You may wish
to ask the FBI.”

Our July
24 Memorandum continued: “Mr. President, the disclosure
described below may be related. Even if it is not, it is
something we think you should be made aware of in this general
connection. On March 7, 2017, WikiLeaks began to publish a trove
of original CIA documents that WikiLeaks labeled ‘Vault
7.’ WikiLeaks said it got the trove from a current or former
CIA contractor and described it as comparable in scale and
significance to the information Edward Snowden gave to reporters in
2013.

No
one has challenged the authenticity of the original documents of
Vault 7, which disclosed a vast array of cyber warfare tools
developed, probably with help from NSA, by CIA’s Engineering
Development Group. That Group was part of the sprawling CIA
Directorate of Digital Innovation – a growth industry established
by John Brennan in 2015. [ (VIPS
warned President
Obama of some of the dangers of that basic CIA reorganization at the
time.]

Marbled

Scarcely
imaginable digital tools – that can take control of your car and
make it race over 100 mph, for example, or can enable remote spying
through a TV – were described and duly reported in the New York
Times and other media throughout March. But the Vault 7, part 3
release on March 31 that exposed the “Marble Framework”
program apparently was judged too delicate to qualify as ‘news fit
to print’ and was kept out of the 
Times at
the time, and has never been mentioned 
since.

The
Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima, it seems, ‘did not get the
memo’ in time. Her March 31 
article bore
the catching (and accurate) headline: ‘WikiLeaks’ latest release
of CIA cyber-tools could blow the cover on agency hacking
operations.’

The
WikiLeaks release indicated that Marble was designed for flexible and
easy-to-use ‘obfuscation,’ and that Marble source code includes a
“de-obfuscator” to reverse CIA text obfuscation.

More
important, the CIA reportedly used Marble during 2016. In
her 
Washington
Post 
report,
Nakashima left that out, but did include another significant point
made by WikiLeaks; namely, that the obfuscation tool could be used to
conduct a ‘forensic attribution double game’ or false-flag
operation because it included test samples in Chinese, Russian,
Korean, Arabic and Farsi.”

A
few weeks later William Binney, a former NSA technical director,
and I 
commented on
Vault 7 Marble, and were able to get a shortened op-ed
version 
published in The
Baltimore Sun
.

The
CIA’s reaction to the WikiLeaks disclosure of the Marble Framework
tool was neuralgic.

Then
Director Mike Pompeo lashed out two weeks later, calling Assange
and his associates “demons,” and insisting; “It’s time to
call out WikiLeaks for what it really is, a non-state hostile
intelligence service, often abetted by state actors like Russia.”

Our July
24 Memorandum continued:  “Mr. President, we do not know
if CIA’s Marble Framework, or tools like it, played some kind of
role in the campaign to blame Russia for hacking the DNC. Nor do
we know how candid the denizens of CIA’s Digital Innovation
Directorate have been with you and with Director Pompeo. These
are areas that might profit from early White House review.  [
President Trump then directed Pompeo to invite Binney, one of the
authors of the July 24, 2017 VIPS Memorandum to the President, to
discuss all this.  Binney and Pompeo spent an hour together at
CIA Headquarters on October 24, 2017, during which Binney briefed
Pompeo with his customary straightforwardness. ]

We
also do not know if you have discussed cyber issues in any detail
with President Putin. In his interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly
he seemed quite willing – perhaps even eager – to address issues
related to the kind of cyber tools revealed in the Vault 7
disclosures, if only to indicate he has been briefed on them. Putin
pointed out that today’s technology enables hacking to be ‘masked
and camouflaged to an extent that no one
can understand the origin’ [of the hack] … And, vice
versa, it is possible to set up any entity or any
individual that everyone will think that they are the exact
source of that attack.

“‘Hackers
may be anywhere,’ he said. ‘There may be hackers, by the way,
in the United
 
States
who very craftily and professionally passed the buck
to Russia. Can’t you imagine such a scenario? … I can.’

New
attention has been drawn to these issues after I discussed them in a
widely published 16-minute 
interview last
Friday.

In
view of the highly politicized environment surrounding these issues,
I believe I must append here the same notice that VIPS felt compelled
to add to our key Memorandum of July 24, 2017:

Full
Disclosure: Over recent decades the ethos of our intelligence
profession has eroded in the public mind to the point that
agenda-free analysis is deemed well nigh impossible. Thus, we
add this disclaimer, which applies to everything we in VIPS say and
do: We have no political agenda; our sole purpose is to spread truth
around and, when necessary, hold to account our former intelligence
colleagues.

We
speak and write without fear or favor. Consequently, any resemblance
between what we say and what presidents, politicians and pundits say
is purely coincidental.” The fact we find it is necessary to
include that reminder speaks volumes about these highly politicized
times.

Ray
McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years and co-founded Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Op-ed
by 
Ray
McGovern
 /
Republished with permission / 
Consortium
News
 / Report
a typo

Stop de isolatie van Julian Assange!

Afgelopen
maandag hebben Naom Chomsky, Chris Hedges, John Pilger e.a. Ecuador
opgeroepen om de isolatie van Julian Assange op te heffen. Middels
zogenaamde jammers heeft Ecuador het Assange onmogelijk gemaakt nog
te communiceren met de buitenwereld……

Uiteraard
is dit onder druk van de VS gebeurd, die Assange het liefst fiks wil
straffen. Met deze isolatie is het verblijf van Assange in de Engelse Ecuadoraanse ambassade veranderd in een volledige gevangenschap……

Lullig
dat de ondertekenaars van dit pleidooi niet ook Groot-Brittannië
hebben opgeroepen de waanzinnige bewaking van de ambassade in Londen en de
dreiging van Assanges arrestatie in te trekken (arrestatie als Assange één been buiten de ambassade
zet). Assange is een klokkenluider die met het door hem opgerichte Wikileaks juist de wereldbevolking dient….

Zoals gesteld in het volgende artikel: zelfs de VN vindt de
dreiging van arrestatie voor Assange onaanvaardbaar. Assange is in feite een
klokkenluider die het opneemt voor de gewone mens tegen de willekeur
van overheden en dan m.n. die van de grootste terreurentiteit op
aarde, de VS……

Assange
wordt het spreken onmogelijk gemaakt, niet in China of Saoedi-Arabië,
maar midden in het westen dat boogt op de vrijheid van meningsuiting
en waar men keer op keer beweerd klokkenluiders te willen beschermen,
terwijl de praktijk het tegenovergestelde laat zien, een praktijk
waarvan Assange wel het meest sprekende voorbeeld is……..

Vreemd
ook dat men hier niet een internationale petitie van heeft gemaakt,
een paar miljoen handtekeningen maken ‘net iets meer indruk…’

Maar
geen gezeur, deze oproep is alvast een geweldig begin:

APRIL
2, 2018

The
Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop

Photo
by thierry ehrmann | 
CC
BY 2.0

by NOAM
CHOMSKY, CHRIS HEDGES, JOHN PILGER, ET AL
* 

We
call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right
of freedom of speech.

If
it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a
legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights,
it is now.

Citing
his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president
Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US,
Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed
an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the
outside world via the internet and phone. As if ensuring his
total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow
him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his
detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release, Assange
has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in
isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010. He has
never been charged with a crime. 

The Swedish case against him
collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up
efforts to prosecute him. His only “crime” is that of a true
journalist — telling the world the truths that people have a right
to know.

Under
its previous president, the Ecuadorian government bravely stood
against the bullying might of the United States and granted Assange
political asylum as a political refugee. International law and the
morality of human rights was on its side.

Today,
under extreme pressure from Washington and its collaborators, another
government in Ecuador justifies its gagging of Assange by stating
that “Assange’s behaviour, through his messages on social
media, put at risk good relations which this country has with the UK,
the rest of the EU and other nations.”

This
censorious attack on free speech is not happening in Turkey, Saudi
Arabia or China; it is right in the heart of London. If the
Ecuadorian government does not cease its unworthy action, it, too,
will become an agent of persecution rather than the valiant nation
that stood up for freedom and for free speech. If the EU and the UK
continue to participate in the scandalous silencing of a true
dissident in their midst, it will mean that free speech is indeed
dying in Europe.

This
is not just a matter of showing support and solidarity. We are
appealing to all who care about basic human rights to call on the
government of Ecuador to continue defending the rights of a
courageous free speech activist, journalist and whistleblower.

We
ask that his basic human rights be respected as an Ecuadorian citizen
and internationally protected person and that he not be silenced or
expelled.

If
there is no freedom of speech for Julian Assange, there is no freedom
of speech for any of us — regardless of the disparate opinions we
hold.

We
call on President Moreno to end the isolation of Julian Assange now.

List
of signatories (in alphabetic order):

Pamela
Anderson
,
actress and activist

Jacob
Appelbaum
,
freelance journalist

Renata
Avila
,
International Human Rights Lawyer

Sally
Burch
,
British/Ecuadorian journalist

Alicia
Castro
,
Argentina’s ambassador to the United Kingdom 2012-16

Naomi
Colvin
Courage
Foundation

Noam
Chomsky
,
linguist and political theorist

Brian
Eno
,
musician

Joseph
Farrell
,
WikiLeaks Ambassador and board member of The Centre for Investigative
Journalism

Teresa
Forcades
,
Benedictine nun, Montserrat Monastery

Charles
Glass
,
American-British author, journalist, broadcaster

Chris
Hedges
,
journalist

Srećko
Horvat
,
philosopher, Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25)

Jean
Michel Jarre
,
musician

John
Kiriakou,
 former
CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator, U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Lauri
Love
,
computer scientist and activist

Ray
McGovern
,
former CIA analyst, Presidential advisor

John
Pilger,
 journalist
and film-maker

Angela
Richter
,
theater director, Germany

Saskia
Sassen
,
sociologist, Columbia University

Jeffrey
St. Clair
,
journalist

Oliver
Stone
,
film-maker

Vaughan
Smith
,
English journalist

Yanis
Varoufakis
,
economist, former Greek finance minister

Natalia
Viana,
 investigative
journalist and co-director of Agencia publica, Brazil

Ai
Weiwei
,
artist

Vivienne
Westwood
,
fashion designer and activist

Slavoj Žižek,
philosopher, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities

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CHOMSKY, CHRIS HEDGES, JOHN PILGER, ET AL

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* ET AL: en anderen (of: e.a.).

Bron: CounterPunch.

Zie ook:

Julian Assange moet onmiddellijk vrijgelaten worden!‘ 

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

Sweden drops investigation into bogus sexual misconduct allegations against Julian Assange‘ 

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

VN rapport: Assange is gedemoniseerd en psychisch gemarteld

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

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

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


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

WhiteHouse: US, Ecuador Coordinating About Future Of Assange Asylum

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

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

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

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

JulianAssange (Wikileaks) haalt hypocriete Britse regering onderuit voorwijzen op belang van vrije en onafhankelijke media

FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..

Er is al veel geschreven (althans in de alternatieve media) over de ware schuldigen achter Russiagate, met bewijzen werd en wordt aangetoond dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA de ware schuldigen zijn achter Russiagate, waar overigens het campagneteam van hare kwaadaardigheid Clinton, aanstichter en mededader is…….

Gisteren op het blog van Stan van Houcke een artikel geschreven door Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) en gepubliceerd op de site van schrijver/journalist Paul Craig Roberts, die het overnam van Consortium News (kan je het nog volgen?). McGovern legt op een gedegen manier uit dat de FBI de ware grote dader is achter Russiagate.

Niet voor niets zegt nu zelfs de Wall Street Journal dat er een punt moet worden gezegd achter het Russiagate verhaal……. ha! Ha! Ha! Eerst liepen de persen van de Wall Street Journal zo hard op deze leugen dat ze bij wijze van spreken bijna vastliepen…….. Waar nu blijkt dat het Clinton campagneteam en de geheime diensten samen hebben gewerkt om te voorkomen dat Trump in het Witte Huis zou komen, wil deze bijna grootste krant van de VS dus een punt achter het enorme leugenverhaal dat Russiagate is………

Nogmaals toont een massamediaorgaan aan ‘fake news’ (of: nepnieuws) te hebben gebracht en daar het volk maandenlang over te hebben voorgelogen……

Lezen mensen, een geweldig stuk over dombo’s Strzak en Page, die dachten in het geheim te kunnen communiceren, maar van wie onlangs een eerste deel van hun lange correspondentie werd vrijgegeven en waardoor ten overvloede de FBI nog eens kan worden aangewezen als spin in het Russiagate web…….

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

January 15, 2018 Paul Craig Roberts.

As I have reported from the beginning, Russiagate is an orchestrated hoax by the security agencies for the purpose of preventing Trump from normalizing relations with Russia and, if necessary, for removing him from office. Russiagate is an act of treason by the security agencies. Those responsible must be arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. — PCR


“After months of breathless searching for ‘evidence’ of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House.” — Ray McGovern



Special Report: In the Watergate era, liberals warned about U.S. intelligence agencies manipulating U.S. politics, but now Trump-hatred has blinded many of them to this danger becoming real, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern notes. 



January 12, 2017, Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48572.htm

The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate


By Ray McGovern

Russia-gate is becoming FBI-gate, thanks to the official release of unguarded text messages between loose-lipped FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and his garrulous girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. (Ten illustrative texts from their exchange appear at the end of this article.)

Despite his former job as chief of the FBI’s counterintelligence section, Strzok had the naive notion that texting on FBI phones could not be traced. Strzok must have slept through “Security 101.” Or perhaps he was busy texting during that class. Girlfriend Page cannot be happy at being misled by his assurance that using office phones would be a secure way to conduct their affair(s).

It would have been unfortunate enough for Strzok and Page to have their adolescent-sounding texts merely exposed, revealing the reckless abandon of star-crossed lovers hiding (they thought) secrets from cuckolded spouses, office colleagues, and the rest of us. However, for the never-Trump plotters in the FBI, the official release of just a fraction (375) of almost 10,000 messages does incalculably more damage than that.

We suddenly have documentary proof that key elements of the U.S. intelligence community were trying to short-circuit the U.S. democratic process. And that puts in a new and dark context the year-long promotion of Russia-gate. It now appears that it was not the Russians trying to rig the outcome of the U.S. election, but leading officials of the U.S. intelligence community, shadowy characters sometimes called the Deep State.

More of the Strzok-Page texting dialogue is expected to be released. And the Department of Justice Inspector General reportedly has additional damaging texts from others on the team that Special Counsel Robert Mueller selected to help him investigate Russia-gate.

Besides forcing the removal of Strzok and Page, the text exposures also sounded the death knell for the career of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, in whose office some of the plotting took place and who has already announced his plans to retire soon.

But the main casualty is the FBI’s 18-month campaign to sabotage candidate-and-now-President Donald Trump by using the Obama administration’s Russia-gate intelligence “assessment,” electronic surveillance of dubious legality, and a salacious dossier that could never pass the smell test, while at the same time using equally dubious techniques to immunize Hillary Clinton and her closest advisers from crimes that include lying to the FBI and endangering secrets.

Ironically, the Strzok-Page texts provide something that the Russia-gate investigation has been sorely lacking: first-hand evidence of both corrupt intent and action. After months of breathless searching for “evidence” of Russian-Trump collusion designed to put Trump in the White House, what now exists is actual evidence that senior officials of the Obama administration colluded to keep Trump out of the White House – proof of what old-time gumshoes used to call “means, motive and opportunity.”

Even more unfortunately for Russia-gate enthusiasts, the FBI lovers’ correspondence provides factual evidence exposing much of the made-up “Resistance” narrative – the contrived storyline that The New York Times and much of the rest of the U.S. mainstream media deemed fit to print with little skepticism and few if any caveats, a scenario about brilliantly devious Russians that not only lacks actual evidence – relying on unverified hearsay and rumor – but doesn’t make sense on its face.

The Russia-gate narrative always hinged on the preposterous notion that Russian President Vladimir

Putin foresaw years ago what no American political analyst considered even possible, the political ascendancy of Donald Trump. According to the narrative, the fortune-telling Putin then risked creating even worse tensions with a nuclear-armed America that would – by all odds – have been led by a vengeful President Hillary Clinton.

Besides this wildly improbable storyline, there were flat denials from WikiLeaks, which distributed the supposedly “hacked” Democratic emails, that the information came from Russia – and there was the curious inability of the National Security Agency to use its immense powers to supply any technical evidence to support the Russia-hack scenario.

The Trump Shock

But the shock of Trump’s election and the decision of many never-Trumpers to cast their lot with the Resistance led to a situation in which any prudent skepticism or demand for evidence was swept aside.

So, on Jan. 6, 2017, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released an evidence-free report that he said was compiled by “hand-picked” analysts from the CIA, FBI and NSA, offering an “assessment” that Russia and President Putin were behind the release of the Democratic emails in a plot to help Trump win the presidency.

Despite the extraordinary gravity of the charge, even New York Times correspondent Scott Shane noted that proof was lacking. He wrote at the time: “What is missing from the [the Jan. 6] public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies’ claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. … Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to ‘trust us.’”

But the “assessment” served a useful purpose for the never-Trumpers: it applied an official imprimatur on the case for delegitimizing Trump’s election and even raised the long-shot hope that the Electoral College might reverse the outcome and possibly install a compromise candidate, such as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, in the White House. Though the Powell ploy fizzled, the hope of somehow removing Trump from office continued to bubble, fueled by the growing hysteria around Russia-gate.

Virtually all skepticism about the evidence-free “assessment” was banned. For months, the Times and other newspapers of record repeated the lie that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies had concurred in the conclusion about the Russian “hack.” Even when that falsehood was belatedly acknowledged, the major news outlets just shifted the phrasing slightly to say that U.S. intelligence agencies had reached the Russian “hack” conclusion. Shane’s blunt initial recognition about the lack of proof disappeared from the mainstream media’s approved narrative of Russia-gate.

Doubts about the Russian “hack” or dissident suggestions that what we were witnessing was a “soft coup” were scoffed at by leading media commentators. Other warnings from veteran U.S. intelligence professionals about the weaknesses of the Russia-gate narrative and the danger of letting politicized intelligence overturn a constitutional election were also brushed aside in pursuit of the goal of removing Trump from the White House.

It didn’t even seem to matter when new Russia-gate disclosures conflicted with the original narrative that Putin had somehow set Trump up as a Manchurian candidate. All normal journalistic skepticism was jettisoned. It was as if the Russia-gate advocates started with the conclusion that Trump must go and then made the facts fit into that mold, but anyone who noted the violations of normal investigative procedures was dismissed as a “Trump enabler” or a “Moscow stooge.”

The Text Evidence

But then came the FBI text messages, providing documentary evivdence that key FBI officials involved in the Russia-gate investigation were indeed deeply biased and out to get Trump, adding hard proof to Trump’s longstanding lament that he was the subject of a “witch hunt.”

Justified or not, Trump’s feeling of vindication could hardly be more dangerous — particularly at a time when the most urgent need is to drain some testosterone from the self-styled Stable-Genius-in-Chief and his martinet generals.

On the home front, Trump, his wealthy friends, and like-thinkers in Congress may now feel they have an even wider carte blanche to visit untold misery on the poor, the widow, the stranger and other vulnerable humans. That was always an underlying danger of the Resistance’s strategy to seize on whatever weapons were available – no matter how reckless or unfair – to “get Trump.”

Beyond that, Russia-gate has become so central to the Washington establishment’s storyline that there appears to be no room for second-thoughts or turning back. The momentum is such that some Democrats and the media never-Trumpers can’t stop stoking the smoke of Russia-gate and holding out hope against hope that it will somehow justify Trump’s impeachment.

Yet, the sordid process of using legal/investigative means to settle political scores further compromises the principle of the “rule of law” and integrity of journalism in the eyes of many Americans. After a year of Russia-gate, the “rule of law” and “pursuit of truth” appear to have been reduced to high-falutin’ phrases for political score-setttling, a process besmirched by Republicans in earlier pursuits of Democrats and now appearing to be a bipartisan method for punishing political rivals regardless of the lack of evidence.

Strzok and Page

Peter Strzok (pronounced “struck”) has an interesting pedigree with multiple tasks regarding both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump. As the FBI’s chief of counterespionage during the investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized use of a personal email server for classified information, Strzok reportedly changed the words “grossly negligent” (which could have triggered legal prosecution) to the far less serious “extremely careless” in FBI Director James Comey’s depiction of Clinton’s actions. This semantic shift cleared the way for Comey to conclude just 20 days before the Democratic National Convention began in July 2016, that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against Mrs. Clinton.

Then, as Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, Strzok led the FBI’s investigation into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election of 2016. It is a safe bet that he took a strong hand in hand-picking the FBI contingent of analysts that joined “hand-picked” counterparts from CIA and NSA in preparing the evidence-free, Jan. 6, 2017 assessment accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of interfering in the election of 2016. (Although accepted in Establishment groupthink as revealed truth, that poor excuse for analysis reflected the apogee of intelligence politicization — rivaled only by the fraudulent intelligence on “weapons of mass destruction“ in Iraq 15 years ago.)

In June and July 2017 Strzok was the top FBI official working on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but was taken off that job when the Justice Department IG learned of the Strzok-Page text-message exchange and told Mueller.

There is no little irony in the fact that what did in the FBI sweathearts was their visceral disdain for Mr. Trump, their cheerleading-cum-kid-gloves treatment of Mrs. Clinton and her associates, their 1950-ish, James Clapperesque attitude toward Russians as “almost genetically driven” to evil, and their (Strzok/Page) elitist conviction that they know far better what is good for the country than regular American citizens, including those “deplorables” whom Clinton said made up half of Trump’s supporters.

But Strzok/Page had no idea that their hubris, elitism and scheming would be revealed in so tangible a way. Worst of all for them, the very thing that Strzok, in particular, worked so hard to achieve — the sabotaging of Trump and immunization of Mrs. Clinton and her closest advisers is now coming apart at the seams.

Congress: Oversee? or Overlook?

At this point, the $64 question is whether the various congressional oversight committees will remain ensconced in their customarily cozy role as “overlook” committees, or whether they will have the courage to attempt to carry out their Constitutional duty. The latter course would mean confronting a powerful Deep State and its large toolbox of well-practiced retaliatory techniques, including J. Edgar Hoover-style blackmail on steroids, enabled by electronic surveillance of just about everything and everyone. Yes, today’s technology permits blanket collection, and “Collect Everything” has become the motto.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, with almost four decades of membership in the House and Senate, openly warned incoming President Trump in January 2017 against criticizing the U.S. intelligence community because U.S. intelligence officials have “six ways from Sunday to get back at you” if you are “dumb” enough to take them on.

Thanks to the almost 10,000 text messages between Strzok and Page, only a small fraction of which were given to Congress four weeks ago, there is now real evidentiary meat on the bones of the suspicions that there indeed was a “deep-state coup” to “correct” the outcome of the 2016 election. We now know that the supposedly apolitical FBI officials had huge political axes to grind. The Strzok-Page exchanges drip with disdain for Trump and those deemed his smelly deplorable supporters. In one text message, Strzok expressed visceral contempt for those working-class Trump voters, writing on Aug. 26, 2016, “Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support. … it’s scary real down here.”

The texts even show Strzok warning of the need for an “insurance policy” to thwart Trump on the off-chance that his poll numbers closed in on those of Mrs. Clinton.

An Aug. 6, 2016 text message, for example, shows Page giving her knight in shining armor strong affirmation: “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace [Trump].” That text to Strzok includes a link to a David Brooks column in The New York Times, in which Brooks concludes with the clarion call: “There comes a time when neutrality and laying low become dishonorable. If you’re not in revolt, you’re in cahoots. When this period and your name are mentioned, decades hence, your grandkids will look away in shame.”

Another text message shows that other senior government officials – alarmed at the possibility of a Trump presidency – joined the discussion. In an apparent reference to an August 2016 meeting with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Strzok wrote to Page on Aug. 15, 2016, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office — that there’s no way he [Trump] gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk.”  Strzok added, “It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die before you’re 40.”

Insurance Policy?

Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says he will ask Strzok to explain the “insurance policy” when he calls him to testify. What seems already clear is that the celebrated “Steele Dossier” was part of the “insurance,” as was the evidence-less legend that Russia hacked the DNC’s and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails and gave them to WikiLeaks.

If congressional investigators have been paying attention, they already know what former weapons inspector Scott Ritter shared with Veteran intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) colleagues this week; namely, that Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, who commissioned the Russia dossier using Democratic Party money, said he reached out to Steele after June 17, just three days before Steele’s first report was published, drawing on seven sources.

“There is a snowball’s chance in hell that this is raw intelligence gathered by Steele; rather he seems to have drawn on a single ‘trusted intermediary’ to gather unsubstantiated rumor already in existence.”

Another VIPS colleague, Phil Giraldi, writing out of his own experience in private sector consulting, added: “The fact that you do not control your sources frequently means that they will feed you what they think you want to hear. Since they are only doing it for money, the more lurid the details the better, as it increases the apparent value of the information. The private security firm in turn, which is also doing it for the money, will pass on the stories and even embroider them to keep the client happy and to encourage him to come back for more. When I read the Steele dossier it looked awfully familiar to me, like the scores of similar reports I had seen which combined bullshit with enough credible information to make the whole product look respectable.”

It is now widely known that the Democrats ponied up the “insurance premiums,” so to speak, for former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele’s “dossier” of lurid — but largely unproven — “intelligence” on Trump and the Russians. If, as many have concluded, the   dossier was used to help justify a FISA warrant to snoop on the Trump campaign, those involved will be in deep kimchi, if congressional overseers do their job.

How, you might ask, could Strzok and associates undertake these extra-legal steps with such blithe disregard for the possible consequences should they be caught? The answer is easy; Mrs. Clinton was a shoo-in, remember? This was just extra insurance with no expectation of any “death benefit” ever coming into play — save for Trump’s electoral demise in November 2016. The attitude seemed to be that, if abuse of the FISA law should eventually be discovered — there would be little interest in a serious investigation by the editors of The New York Times and other anti-Trump publications and whatever troubles remained could be handled by President Hillary Clinton.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee of Judiciary on Crime and Terrorism, joined Sen. Grassley in signing the letter referring Christopher Steele to the Justice Department to investigate what appear to be false statements about the dossier. In signing, Graham noted the “many stop signs the Department of Justice ignored in its use of the dossier.” The signature of committee ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, however, was missing — an early sign that a highly partisan battle royale is in the offing.  On Tuesday, Feinstein unilaterally released a voluminous transcript of Glenn Simpson’s earlier testimony and, as though on cue, Establishment pundits portrayed Steele as a good source and Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson as a victim.

The Donnybrook is now underway; the outcome uncertain.

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.  He was an Army and CIA intelligence analyst for 30 years; prepared and briefed the President’s Daily Brief for Nixon, Ford, and Reagan; and is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

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Sample text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, released to Congress and the media on December 13, 2016

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03/04/2016

Strzok – God Hillary should win. 100,000,000-0.

Page – I know

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04/02/2016

Page – So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about Hillary because it can’t be traced, you were just venting, bc you feel bad that you’re gone so much but that can’t be helped right now.

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07/08/2016

Strzok – And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protestors, right now, chanting “no justice no peace” around DoJ and the White House…

Page – That’s awful.

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07/14/2016

Page – Have you read this? It’s really frightening. For Whites Sensing Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance http://NYTI/ms/29WCu5!

Strzok – I have not. But I think it’s clear he’s capturing all the white, poor voters who the mainstream republicans abandoned in all but name in the quest for the almighty $$$

Page – Yeah, it’s not good.

Strzok – Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/29RV5gf

Page – It is

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07/26/2016

Strzok – And hey. Congrats on a woman nominated for President in a major party! About damn time! Many many more returns of the day!!

Page – That’s cute. Thanks

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08/06/2016

Page – Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHulE0

Strzok – God that’s a great article. Thanks for sharing. And F TRUMP.

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08/06/2016

Page – And maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end comma, read this:

Page – Trump Enablers Will Finally Have to Take A Stand http://nyti.ms/2aFakry

Strzok – Thanks. It’s absolutely true that we’re both very fortunate. And of course I’ll try and approach it that way. I just know it will be tough at times. I can protect our country at many levels, not sure if that helps

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08/09/2016

Page – He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!

Strzok – OMG did you hear what Trump just said?

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08/26/2016

Strzok – Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support…

Page – Yep. Out to lunch with (redacted) We both hate everyone and everything.

Page – Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country.

Strzok – Yeah…it’s scary real down here

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10/20/2016

Strzok: I am riled up. Trump is a f***ing idiot, is unable to provide a coherent answer.

Strzok – I CAN’T PULL AWAY, WHAT THE F**K HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY (redacted)??!?!

Page– I don’t know. But we’ll get it back. We’re America. We rock.

Strzok– Donald just said “bad hombres”

Strzok– Trump just said what the FBI did is disgraceful.

This article was originally published by Consortium News –

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Was the DNC/Clinton campaign-funded dossier used to obtain warrants on Trump team from the secret court?

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* Zie: ‘Wall Street Journal wil punt achter Russiagate

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

        en: ‘Russiagate? Britaingate zal je bedoelen!

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

        en ‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax

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

       en: ‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen

       en: ‘Google, de volgende ‘die advertentieruimte verkocht aan Putin zelf……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

       en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’

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

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

       en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)

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

       en: ‘Ollongren gesteund door Thomas Boesgaard (AD), ‘Rusland verpakt het nepnieuws gekoppeld aan echt nieuws…..’ Oei!!‘ (ja ook deze D66 plork gaat plat op de bek!)

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

       en: ‘Rusland heeft niets van doen met manipulaties van de VS presidentsverkiezingen via Facebook, wel maakt Facebook meer kapot dan je lief is…….

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

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

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

       en: ‘Pompeo (CIA opperhoofd met koperen fluit): heeft alle aanwijzingen dat Rusland de midterm verkiezingen zal manipuleren……

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


       en: De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers………

       en: ‘‘Fake News’ hysterie willens en wetens gelanceerd om sociale media tot zwijgen te brengen, Rusland te demoniseren en daarmee de waarheid te verbergen……..