De
arrestatie van Julian Assange door de Britse politie, NB in de
ambassade van Ecuador in Londen, is een ernstige schending van
internationale regels en van de mensenrechten….. De rol van de
Britse regering is al helemaal een schande voor de internationale
politiek. Men wilde Assange niet laten gaan, ondanks dat de beschuldiging van verkrachting door het Zweedse OM, op valse gronden bleken te berusten, zo werd na langdurig justitieel onderzoek in Zweden beslist door de rechter…….
De
regering May stelde doodleuk dat Assange tijdens het
uitleveringsverzoek van Zweden, illegaal in de ambassade van Ecuador
verbleef en gehoor had moeten geven aan de eis zich over te geven aan de Britse justitie…. Nogmaals: op grond van de valse beschuldiging van verkrachting, daar Zweden op die basis om uitlevering van Assange had gevraagd…..
Het
laten vallen van de aanklacht door de Zweedse justitie gaf eens te
meer aan dat Assange volkomen terecht toevlucht had gezocht in de
Ecuadoraanse ambassade en het niet verlaten van die ambassade na de
beslissing van de Zweedse justitie. Eén en ander daar de stap van Groot-Brittannië hem als schuldig te blijven zien, duidelijk toonde dat GB van zins was hem uit te leveren aan de VS…….
Assange
is niets meer en minder dan een onafhankelijke journalist die zijn
werk voor meer dan 100% uitvoerde, immers het is de taak van elke
zich journalist noemende persoon om zaken die klokkenluiders volkomen
terecht lekken, te publiceren. Al vaker heb ik me dan ook op deze
plek afgevraagd waarom de collega’s van Assange, althans figuren die
zich eveneens journalist durven te noemen, niet massaal in protest
zijn gegaan, nadat Assange als gezochte misdadiger te boek stond en al
helemaal nadat de Zweedse justitie hem vrijsprak van
verkrachting……
Vanmorgen
op Radio1 in het Mediaforum op Spraakmakers o.a. ‘crisis en
veiligheidsmanager’ Marco Zannoni. Deze stelde dat hij Assange in
eerste instantie wel als journalist zag, maar daar later zware
bedenkingen bij kreeg, o.a. door de verkrachtingszaak in Zweden en
het gaat volgens Zannoni voorts om het naar buiten brengen van
staatsgeheimen (waar hij zwaar aan tilt)…… Ja Zannoni, ook het
vermoorden van burgers en journalisten door het uiterst psychopathisch
agressieve leger van de VS, was een staatsgeheim van deze terreurentiteit, enorme zakkenwasser!!
Ook
aanwezig in de studio, één van de grootste plorken van de
zogenaamde Nederlandse journalistiek, Frénk van der Linden,
deze zei dat hij een dubbelgevoel heeft bij Assange. Waar van der
Linden aan toevoegde: dat ‘we’ Trump te danken hebben aan
Assange…… Hé van der Linden: we hebben Trump één op één te
danken aan Hillary Clinton, die misdadig handelde tijdens de
voorverkiezingen van 2016 in de VS en waar ze de nominatie voor de
Democratische Partij t.b.v. de presidentsverkiezingen heeft gestolen van Bernie Sanders….. Seth Rich, een
gefrustreerde medewerker van Clintons team, luidde de
klok en gaf WikiLeaks de bewuste mails waar men van durfde te zeggen
dat deze van de Russen kwamen……. (die leugen herhaalde Zannoni overigens
nog eens en werd bevestigd door van der Linden)
Ook van der Linden stelde zoals gezegd doodleuk dat Assange de mails van Clinton
ontving van de Russen, waarna hij even later stelde dat hij ‘t ook
niet allemaal zeker weet….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Inderdaad van der
Linden, dat is de makke met jou! Van der Linden zei verder dat
Assange een openbaarheidsfundamentalist is…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Hoewel van der Linden niets zeker weet, stelt hij dat de manier
waarop Assange de waarheid wil brengen fundamentalistisch is en deze
figuur durft zich journalist te noemen!!!
Het
is de taak van echte journalisten om de waarheid te achterhalen en
wel zoveel mogelijk, hoe kan je dan als fundamentalistisch worden
weggezet??!!!
Nog
een zichzelf journalist noemde kwezel was aanwezig in het Mediafroum:
Stephan Okhuijsen. Deze figuur stelde dat Assange geen
vertegenwoordiger is van het vrije woord, er kleeft teveel aan
Assange, aldus de belachelijke wijsneus. ‘Er kleeft teveel aan Assange, zoals het eerder aangehaalde gelul dat
Assange 2 vrouwen zou hebben verkracht, iets dat door de Zweedse
justitie als onzin is beoordeeld…. Ockhuijsen beweerde voorts dat
‘wij’ wel fan zijn van WikiLeaks, maar (nogmaals) er kleeft teveel aan
Assange…….. Even later gevolgd door: “Wij (ik neem aan
journalisten, Ap) doen aan hoor en wederhoor” ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Oh, Ockhuijsen, vandaar dat je de roddels over Assange gelooft……
Nog
wat uitspraken door de 2 journalisten en de ‘crisis en veiligheidsmanager’:
Assange
is een narcist…..
Assange
voert een persoonlijkheidscultuur……
Assange
heeft (ook vanwege de vorige 2 punten) zijn baard laten staan……
Assange
had meer ‘ethisch te werk moeten gaan……’
Van
der Linden vergeleek Assange wat betreft de vorige punten met ‘de
onthullingen van Bellingcat’ over vlucht MH17, daar klopte zich
niemand persoonlijk op de borst….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Hoe durft
een zich journalist noemende figuur Bellingcat neer te zetten als een goed journalistiek collectief, het is een stel leken die de grootste onzin
als waarheid verkopen, ook in het MH17 dossier!!!
Presentator
de Zwart, hoewel ook negatief over Assange, noemde nog even de vele journalistieke
prijzen die Assange kreeg, maar dat maakte totaal geen indruk op de
aanwezige ‘journalisten….’
Het
is in de ons omringende landen niet anders: massaal laten
journalisten zich voor het karretje van de VS spannen en maken
Assange in feite in woord af, waar ze massaal protest aan hadden
moeten tekenen tegen de arrestatie van Assange…..
Ongelofelijk
ook: er staan zo ongelofelijk veel feiten over o.a. oorlogsmisdaden
in WikiLeaks, waar de westerse reguliere media totaal geen aandacht
aan besteden, blijkbaar zien ze WikiLeaks als een door de VS verboden
site……
In Trouw vergelijkt columnist Stevo Akkerman Assange en WikiLeaks met ‘vuilnisbak journalistiek’, te vergelijken met het uitpluizen van het vuilnis dat D66 oplichter en mislukte tweedehandsauto verkoper Pechtold, wat deze hufter durft te zeggen, tart elke regel van onafhankelijke journalistiek…. Ach ja, wat wil je, Akkerman is trouw lobbyist van het ijskoude, inhumane neoliberalisme en daarmee allesbehalve onafhankelijk…..
‘Journalistiek’
anno 2019, gadver!!!
Eén ding is zeker: een eerlijk proces zal Assange niet krijgen, hij is al schuldig bevonden nog voor één woord te hebben gezegd in het te volgen proces en dat zal in de VS nog sterker worden herhaald, daar de rechterlijke macht daar een lachertje is.
Het
volgende bericht over de arrestatie van Assange, werd door Jason Ditz
geschreven, eerder gepubliceerd op ANTIWAR en door mij overgenomen
van Anti-Media. Daarin beschrijft Ditz o.a. hoe Ecuador wordt beloond voor
het laten arresteren van Assange (werk dat journalisten als van der
Linden hadden moeten doen, althans als ze echte journalisten waren
geweest):
$4.2
Billion IMF Bailout for Ecuador Paved the Way for Assange’s Arrest
(ANTIWAR.COM) — WikiLeaks has
long reported that
the $4.2 billion IMF bailout [in
addition to another $6 billion from other U.S.-dominated financial
institutions like the World Bank] for
Ecuador was closely related to complying with US demands, in
particular on revoking the asylum of WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange. On Thursday, that appeared to come to pass.
Following recent days of Ecuador’s
leadership saying Assange’s asylum would not last forever, he was
arrested by British police within the London Embassy.
Ecuador has tried to present this as related to continuing WikiLeaks
operations, and in particular a January leak of Vatican documents.
Ecuador’s economy has been
struggling mightily in recent years, and the government has bet much
on their ability to secure a bailout. In the end, the US sway over
the IMF meant that Ecuador was
required to placate the US to get that money.
Ecuador’s recent attempts to stake
out a comparatively independent foreign policy, something which the
Assange asylum move was a product of, made them a lot of enemies,
particularly in the US. As the government now tries to get on the
good side of the US, Assange was the main thing the Americans wanted,
and Ecuador seems more than willing to try to facilitate that.
While official IMF statements make no
specific mentions of Assange, the clear link between the two is
likely to continue to loom large, particularly in any US attempts to
secure extradition for Assange after having bought his expulsion and
ultimate arrest by Britain.
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
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/
].
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
* 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.
‘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‘)
De
zoveelste valse beschuldiging dat Rusland zich bemoeit met VS
verkiezingen ‘is geboren’: de democratische kandidaat voor VS
presidentschap in 2020, Tulsi Gabbard (congreslid voor Hawaï), zou de gewenste kandidaat van
Rusland zijn……
Lullig
voor NBC, overigens een notoire fake news (nepnieuws) brenger, dat haar
bericht is gebaseerd op een claim van een firma die Russische data
fabriceert, ofwel alweer ‘een Russische troll farm’ die niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets met Rusland te maken heeft, integendeel….. Deze fabricaties, door ‘New Knowledge’ in de wereld
gebracht, werden door de New York Times (NYT) doorgeprikt….. (valt
me alles mee, gezien de enorme hoeveelheid nepnieuws en andere
desinformatie die de NYT zelf in het ook recente verleden heeft
gebracht…….)
NBC
was op de hoogte van het feit dat New Knowledge fake Russische troll
accounts heeft geproduceerd op Facebook en Twitter en heeft dit feit
niet genoemd bij de beschuldiging aan het adres van Rusland en
Gabbard……
Zes weken geleden heeft Knew Knowledge deze ‘fake
accounts’, gebruikt om aan te tonen dat het Kremlin de
verkiezingen in Alabama heeft proberen te verzieken voor de democratische
kandidaat Doug Jones…… Dom genoeg kwam de NYT daarachter doordat
New Knowlegde zelf pochte over het opzetten van een botnet dat de
republikeinse kandidaat Roy Moore de wind in de rug had moeten geven….. Ofwel
ook hier was sprake van een false flag operatie, een operatie waarbij
een zelf gecreëerde misdaad in de schoenen van ‘de vijand’ wordt
geschoven……. Doug Jones die tijdens de campagne de valse beschuldigingen van New Knowledge misbruikte als was hij het slachtoffer van Russische manipulaties, stelde niet op de hoogte te zijn geweest van deze valse beschuldigingen…….
Deze
‘fraude’ werd door Jonathan Morgan van New Knowledge aan de kaak
gesteld, waar dezelfde Morgan de fake accounts gebruikte om aan te tonen
dat de Russen de verkiezingen in Alabama hadden gemanipuleerd…… Ongelofelijk…..
New
Knowledge bemoeide zich overigens ook al met de
presidentsverkiezingen van 2016. Een onderzoekscommissie van de
senaat gebruikte o.a. New Knowledge om aan de tonen dat de Russen
zich met deze verkiezingen hadden bemoeid…..
Intussen is bekend dat
die beschuldigingen volledig zijn verzonnen, juist om de smerige rol
van Hillary Clinton t.a.v. haar democratische concurrent voor het
presidentschap Bernie Sanders te verbergen….. Uit emails van
Clinton en haar campagne team bleek dat men de voorverkiezingen had
gestolen van Sanders, echter niet die misdaad werd uitgezocht en
eventueel strafrechtelijk vervolgd, nee men sprak alleen over de
gelekte emails en wie daarvoor de schuld draagt….. Waarmee het
kwaadaardige sprookje ‘Russiagate’ ‘een feit’ was……*
NBC
ging verder goed de fout in door uit eigen ‘gedegen’ onderzoek aan te
tonen dat RT, Sputnik enRussia
Insider twee keer meer aandacht aan Gabbard hadden geschonken dan aan
Bernie Sanders en Joe Biden….. Niet vreemd als je ziet dat Gubbard
haar kanidaatstelling voor de presidentsverkiezingen van 2020 bekend
maakte, terwijl zowel Biden als Sanders dat nog niet hebben gedaan
(maar waarschijnlijk wel zullen doen)…….
Ongelofelijk
dat men hier in de reguliere media en politiek nog dagelijks over
Russische manipulaties durft te spreken, die zoals gezegd al lang
zijn doorgeprikt, terwijl men tegelijkertijd de bek vol heeft van
fake news en andere desinformatie…….
Moet je nagaan, als gevolg van de enorme berg leugens, waar het bovenstaande aan kan worden toegevoegd, leugens die gepaard zijn gegaan met ‘Russiagate’, waarvoor zelfs na meer dan 2 jaar geen enkel bewijs is geleverd, omarmen democratieën de censuur die door platforms als Facebook en Twitter werden doorgevoerd…… In die democratieën wordt er zelfs voor gepleit een inperking van de vrijheid van meningsuiting door te voeren, samen met de hiervoor aangehaalde censuur, zaken die overduidelijk niet in een democratie, maar in een dictatuur thuishoren……..
Het volgende artikel van Glenn Greenwald werd eerder gepubliceerd op The Intercept:
NBC
News, to Claim Russia Supports Tulsi Gabbard, Relies on Firm Just
Caught Fabricating Russia Data for the Democratic Party
NBC
NEWS PUBLISHEDa
predictably viral story Friday,
claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked
to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for
Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.”
But
the whole story was a sham: the only “experts” cited by NBC in
support of its key claim was the firm, New Knowledge, that just
got caught by the New York Times fabricating
Russian troll accounts on behalf of the Democratic Party in the
Alabama Senate race to manufacture false accusations that the Kremlin
was interfering in that election.
To
justify its claim that Tulsi Gabbard is the Kremlin’s
candidate, NBC stated: “analysts at New Knowledge, the company the
Senate Intelligence Committee used to track Russian activities in the
2016 election, told NBC News they’ve spotted ‘chatter’ related
to Gabbard in anonymous online message boards, including those known
for fomenting right-wing troll campaigns.”
What
NBC – amazingly – concealed
is a fact that reveals its article to be a journalistic fraud: that
same firm, New Knowledge, was caughtjust
six weeks ago engaging
in a massive scam to create fictitious Russian troll accounts on
Facebook and Twitter in order to claim that the Kremlin was working
to defeat Democratic Senate nominee Doug Jones in Alabama. The New
York Times, when exposing the scam, quoted a New Knowledge report
that boasted of its fabrications: “We orchestrated an elaborate
‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the [Roy] Moore
campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet.’”
That
fraud was overseen by New Research’s CEO, Jonathon Morgan. At the
same time Morgan was fabricating Russian troll accounts and using
them to create a fraudulent appearance that Putin was trying to
defeat the Democratic Senate candidate, he was exploiting his social
media “expertise” to claim that Russians were interfering in the
Alabama Senate election. In other words, Morgan used his own
fake Russian accounts to lie to the public and deceive the national
media into believing that Kremlin-linked accounts were trying to
defeat the Democratic Senate candidate when, in fact, the accounts he
was citing were ones he himself had fabricated and controlled.
Even
worse, Morgan’s
firm is behind one
of the recent
Senate reports on
Russian social media election interference as well as the
creation of “Hamilton 68,” the pseudo-data-driven
dashboard constantly
used by U.S. media outlets to claim that its enemies are supported by
the Kremlin (that tool has
so been abused that
even some of its designers urged
the media to stop exaggerating its meaning).
During the Alabama race, Morgan – in a tweet he deleted once his
fraud was exposed – cited the #Hamilton68 data that he himself
manipulated with his fake Russian accounts to claim that Russia was
interfering in the Alabama Senate race:
In
response to this scam being revealed, Facebook closed the accounts of
five Americans who were responsible for this fraud, including Morgan
himself, the “prominent social media researcher” who is the
CEO of New Knowledge.
He also touts himself as a “State Dept. advisor, computational
propaganda researcher for DARPA, Brookings Institution.”
Beyond
Morgan’s Facebook suspension, the billionaire funder and LinkedIn
founder who provided the money for the New Knowledge project, Reid
Hoffman, apologized
and claimed he
had no knowledge of the fraud. The victorious Democratic Senate
candidate who won the Alabama Senate race and who repeatedly
cited New Knowledge’s fake Russian accounts during the
election to claim he was being attacked by Russian bots, Doug
Jones, insisted
he had no knowledge of
the scheme and has now called
for a federal investigation into New Knowledge.
This is
the group of “experts” on which NBC News principally relied
to spread its inflammatory, sensationalistic, McCarthyite storyline
that Gabbard’s candidacy is supported by the Kremlin.
While
NBC cited a slew of former FBI and other security state agents to
speculate about why the
Kremlin would like Gabbard, its claim that “experts” have
detected the “stirrings” of such support came from this
discredited, disgraced firm, one that just proved it specializes in
issuing fictitious accusations against enemies of the Democratic
Party that they are linked to Russia. Just marvel at how heavily NBC
News relies on the disgraced New Knowledge to smear Gabbard as a
favorite of Moscow:
Experts
who track inauthentic social media accounts, however, have already
found some extolling Gabbard’s positions since she declared.
Within
a few days of Gabbard announcing her presidential bid, DisInfo
2018,
part of the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge, found that three of the
top 15 URLs shared by the 800 social media accounts affiliated with
known and suspected
Russian propaganda operations directed
at U.S. citizens were about Gabbard.
Analysts
at New Knowledge, the company the Senate Intelligence Committee used
to track Russian activities in the 2016 election, told NBC News
they’ve spotted “chatter” related to Gabbard in anonymous
online message boards, including those known for fomenting right-wing
troll campaigns. The chatter discussed Gabbard’s usefulness.
“A
few of our analysts saw some chatter on 8chan saying she was a good
‘divider’ candidate to amplify,” said New Knowledge’s
director of research Renee DiResta, director of research at New
Knowledge.
What’s
particularly unethical about the NBC report is that it tries to
bolster the credentials of this group by touting it as “the company
the Senate Intelligence Committee used to track Russian activities in
the 2016 election,” while concealing from its audience the fraud
that this firm’s CEO just got caught perpetrating on the
public on behalf of the Democratic Party.
The
only other so-called “expert” cited by NBC in support of its
claim that Russian accounts are supporting Gabbard is someone named
“Josh Russell,” who NBC identified as “Josh Russel.” Russell,
or Russel, is touted by NBC as “a researcher and ‘troll hunter’
known for identifying fake accounts.” In reality, “Russel” is
someone CNN
last year touted as
an “Indiana dad” and “amateur troll hunter” with a full-time
job unrelated to Russia (he works as programmer at a
college) and whose “hobby” is tracing online Russian accounts.
So
beyond the firm that just got caught in a major fraudulent scam
fabricating Russian support to help the Democratic Party, that’s
NBC’s only other vaunted expert for its claim that the Kremlin is
promoting Gabbard: someone CNN just last year called an “amateur”
who traces Russian accounts as a “hobby.” And even there, NBC
could only cite Russel (sic) as saying that “he recently spotted a
few clusters of suspicious accounts that retweeted the same exact
text about Gabbard, mostly neutral or slightly positive headlines.”
NBC
also purported to rely on its own highly sophisticated analysis
by counting the number of times Gabbard was mentioned by RT, Sputnik
and Russia Insider, and then noting what it seems to regard as the
highly incriminating fact that “Gabbard was mentioned on the three
sites about twice as often as two of the best known Democratic
possibilities for 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, each with 10
stories.”
But
in contrast to Gabbard, who announced
her intent to
run for President almost a month ago, neither Biden nor Sanders has
done so. Perhaps that fact, rather than – as one of the NBC
reporters adolescently
gushed:
“The Kremlin already has a crush on Tulsi Gabbard” – is what
explains the greater amount of coverage?
Russia’s propaganda machine discovers 2020 Dem contender Tulsi Gabbard
Experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.
nbcnews.com
In
any event, NBC News, to smear Gabbard as a Kremlin favorite, relied
on a group that it heralded as “experts” without telling
its audience about the major fraud which this firm just got
caught perpetrating in order – on behalf of the Democratic Party –
to fabricate claims of Kremlin interference in the Alabama Senate
race.
That’s
because the playbook used by the axis of the Democratic Party,
NBC/MSNBC, neocons and the intelligence community has been, is and
will continue to be a very simple one: to smear any adversary of the
establishment wing of the Democratic Party – whether on the left or
the right – as a stooge or asset of the Kremlin (a key target will
undoubtedly be, indeed
already is,
Bernie Sanders).
To
accomplish this McCarthyite goal, this Democratic Party coalition of
neocons, intelligence operatives and NBC stars will deceive,
smear and even engage in outright journalistic deception, as NBC
(once again) just proved with this report.
‘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‘)
Op
Common Cause werd gisteren een inzamelingsactie gepromoot, waarmee
men wil ingaan tegen het initiatief van de neoliberale rotschoften
die bekend staan als de Koch Brothers in samenwerking met de American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), die een verdrag wensen, genaamd Article V, dat een eind moet maken aan belangrijke onderdelen van de VS
grondwet…… Het gaat m.n. om invoering van censuur en inperking van de vrijheid van meningsuiting…….
Als
nog 6 staten dit initiatief steunen zal dat verdrag er komen,
waarna de stap naar verandering van onderdelen in de grondwet snel een feit zal zijn….. Gezien de huidige verhoudingen in de VS zal dit initiatief
worden omgezet in nieuwe grondwetgeving, immers de democraten schreeuwen
om het hardst voor censuur op de sociale media (en een inperking van de vrijheid van meningsuiting), daar Rusland met die sociale media (in dit geval o.a. middels Facebook en Twitter) de verkiezingen zou hebben gestolen van de democratische presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton……
Gelukkig is het Common Cause activisten gelukt om deze grondwetswijziging met succes aan te vechten in een paar staten, ik ben het echter niet met Common Cause eens dat deze wijziging nog tegen is te houden, zeker gezien het voorgaande en zaken die hieronder nog volgen…….
Je
zal begrijpen dat het verliezen van de presidentsverkiezingen juist de schuld is van Hillary
Clinton en haar team, die de voorverkiezingen op een zeer smerige
manier hebben gestolen van Bernie Sanders, de andere
presidentskandidaat voor de democraten……. De manier waarop e.e.a.
in elkaar stak, duidelijk gemaakt door emails van Clinton en haar team, werden hoogstwaarschijnlijk door Seth Rich gelekt naar WikiLeaks… Rich was lid van Clintons campagneteam en was volkomen terecht gefrustreerd door deze smerige gang
van zaken, waarop hij e.e.a. heeft gelekt naar WikiLeaks…… Rich werd kort daarop
vermoord op straat, volgens de politie was het een ‘roofoverval’,
vreemd genoeg droeg Rich nog steeds zijn duidelijk zichtbare sieraden en voorts was zijn geld niet gestolen,
toen de politie hem vond……
Uiteraard is het voorgaande alles bij elkaar een schandaal van formaat dat vreemd genoeg snel ondersneeuwde door
de leugen van Clinton en haar campagneteam, dat Rusland de Clinton mails heeft gelekt naar WikiLeaks, emails waarin zoals gezegd, de smerige handelingen van Clinton waren vervat….. Ongelofelijk dat Clinton en haar team wegkwamen
met die leugen zonder zelf te worden vervolgd voor ronduit misdadig
handelen, nee ‘Russiagate’ was geboren en het hele westen volgde volkomen blind de
leugens van de democraten…….
Onbegrijpelijk
dat men in de VS en het westen nog steeds gelooft in de Russische
manipulaties van de verkiezingen, terwijl er na meer dan 2 jaar lang
uitvoerig onderzoek nog geen schijn van bewijs is gevonden voor die claim……
Lees het volgende artikel en huiver:
Utter
Constitutional chaos
Stop
the Koch Brothers
Just
6 states.
That’s
all that stands between you and me and a disastrous Article V
constitutional convention. An event unprecedented in U.S. history —
that would put every constitutional right we cherish under attack.
We
have no choice but to immediately step
up our grassroots response to defeat this effort.
Many
constitutional experts believe this is the biggest
present threat to
our democracy — and it’s happening right now, behind
closed doors and out of the public eye.
The
Koch Brothers & the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
are spending big money to lobby state lawmakers, demanding they
support an Article V convention to radically reshape our nation. If
we let them succeed, there’ll be little to stop them from writing
their far right-wing agenda directly into our Constitution.
That
could mean changing our First Amendment rights, like the right to
free speech and assembly… gutting environmental regulations…
rolling back our right to vote… and putting Supreme Court decisions
about marriage equality and healthcare up for grabs.
That’s
what’s in store if just 6 more states sign on to an Article V
convention. That’s all the Koch Brothers, the Mercers, and their
extremist allies need to reach the two-thirds supermajority required
to convene the convention and start tearing apart our U.S.
Constitution.
Believe
me. This isn’t some plot out of a dystopian novel. This sinister
effort is actually underway as I write — perhaps even
in your state’s
legislature.
Even
more frightening: once it’s called, there are no rules our
guidelines in our Constitution or anywhere else that can constrain an
Article V convention. Name a constitutional right you care about:
press freedom, reproductive justice, privacy protections, a fair
trial. Any one of those could be placed on the chopping block.
The
odds may seem stacked against us, but I want you to know that
concentrated and organized grassroots action can STOP this right-wing
attack on our Constitution.
In
fact, we’ve already proven we can fight the extremists and
win. Common
Cause activists have successfully
rolled back calls for an Article V convention in
Delaware, New Mexico, Maryland, and Nevada.
We’ve
proven over and over that
our state-by-state grassroots organizing works —
and that as long as we keep fighting, we’ll keep winning.
The
U.S. Constitution guarantees many of our most important human rights.
There are without a doubt parts we would like to strengthen or
change. But we can do that through the same process we used for
women’s suffrage and lowering the voting age — specific amendments
carefully crafted for a specific problem, passed by Congress and
ratified by states.
But
with an Article V convention, there are no safeguards to protect us
— nothing to protect our fundamental rights like free speech, free
religion, and voting from going on the chopping block. AND… there’d
be nothing stopping politicians from appointing themselves or their
wealthy donors as delegates, or even auctioning seats off to the
highest bidder!
Let’s
be honest. The proposed constitutional convention is nothing more
than another
bald-faced attempt by the Koch Brothers and other special
interests to
rig the rules and seize even more power.
Common
Cause has the expertise, the nonpartisan standing, and the grassroots
power to successfully fight back. We’re building coalitions with
Democratic and Republican lawmakers in red, blue, and purple states
alike to defend all of us against the far right’s Article V power
grab.
We
must not — and will not — let these extremists rewrite our
Constitution. Please let me know we can count on you to stand with me
in this fight.
Thanks
for all you do,
Karen
Hobert Flynn, President
and the team at Common Cause
P.S.
To learn more about this threat to our Constitution and our rights,
visit defendourconstitution.orgto
see how you can get involved in your state.
==============================
Tot slot: je hoeft er niet van op te kijken als er straks binnen de EU-lidstaten ook zal worden geroepen om een aanpassing van de grondwet en binnen democratieën te pleiten voor censuur en de afschaffing van de vrijheid van meningsuiting, immers men volgt de VS maar al te graag in veel van haar strapatsen……
Er zijn overigens al voorbeelden te vinden in de EU, waar men de echte onafhankelijke pers aan de ketting heeft gelegd en waar men schijt heeft aan andere democratische regels, neem Hongarije, Polen en Roemenië……
Ofwel het fascisme blijft groeien en in de zogenaamde strijd van de andere politieke partijen tegen dit fascisme, neemt men zelfs maatregelen die beter zouden passen in een dictatuur….. Eén van de bewijzen daarvoor is het applaudisseren door westerse regeringen (en de reguliere westerse media) voor de censuur die Facebook en Twitter toepassen op hun platforms, in de ‘strijd tegen fake news (nepnieuws) en manipulaties’, terwijl men (zoals alweer eerder gezegd) geen bewijzen heeft, laat staan geeft voor die manipulatie en het brengen van fake news door Rusland…..
Omgekeerd zijn er hele bergen met bewijs voor manipulatie en het brengen van fake news door de reguliere VS massamedia (en de rest van de westerse reguliere media), echter die worden niet geweerd van Facebook of Twitter…… Om nog maar te zwijgen over de manipulaties door de VS van verkiezingen in andere democratieën, waarvoor ook al vele bewijzen zijn te vinden………
‘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‘)
Ten
overvloede nog een bewijs dat de democraten nergens de hand voor
omdraaien als het gaat om het winnen van verkiezingen, dan wel om valse excuses te geven voor verloren verkiezingen, ofwel te
verklaren dat de Republikeinse partij en Rusland schuldig zijn aan
manipulaties voorafgaand aan verkiezingen……
Het
hele Russiagate verhaal is van a t/m z gelogen, niet Rusland hackte de
DNC (campagneteam van de democraten) computers, maar een terecht
gefrustreerde medewerker van het Clinton team, t.w. Seth Rich die zag hoe smerig Hillary Clinton de democratische voorverkiezingen heeft gestolen van Bernie
Sanders, besloot e.e.a. door te spelen aan WikiLeaks……..
De Russiagate leugen is dankzij een groot deel van de reguliere media blijven staan
en Rusland wordt nog steeds gezien als de boosdoener die Hillary Clinton
de verkiezing tot president heeft ontfutseld….
Het
Russiagate verhaal is ondanks alle feiten die aantonen dat het je reinste kul is, een groot succes (nogmaals met de enorme hulp van de reguliere
westerse media) en waarschijnlijk dacht men bij de democraten
dat wat eens lukte, voor herhaling vatbaar is……
Een groep computer experts kreeg een ton aan dollars om een ‘false flag’ desinformatie campagne op poten te zetten tijdens de midterm verkiezingen in 2017 en dan m.n. voor de strijd tussen de republikein Roy Moore en de democratische senator Doug Jones……..
De groep creëerde meer dan 1.000 ‘Russisch talige’ Twitter accounts die allen Moore volgden, daarmee werd de zaak zo gemanipuleerd dat er een verbintenis leek te bestaan tussen Moore en de Russen……..
Helaas voor dit ‘democratische’ geteisem ligt e.e.a. nu op
straat, al kan je er donder op zeggen dat de reguliere media ook dit
verhaal links zullen laten liggen, het past immers niet in de enorme berg
leugens die men al heeft verspreid, al heeft The New York Times het
verhaal al wel geplaatst, maar ja daar had men deze zaak dan ook boven tafel gebracht.
De
VS, niet het land van de ongekende mogelijkheden, maar de ongekende
smeerlapperij die voorhanden is om vuile doelen te
bereiken……
Democrats
Posing As Russians Executed “Elaborate ‘False Flag’
Operation” Against Roy Moore
A
group of tech experts working as Democratic operatives were paid
$100,000 to orchestrate an elaborate “false flag”
disinformation campaign during the hotly contested 2017 special
election between Roy Moore and Democratic Sen. Doug Jones.
The
group, funded by liberal billionaire Reid Hoffman, created
over 1,000 Russian-language Twitter accounts that followed Roy Moore
overnight in
order to link the embattled Republican candidate to Russian influence
campaigns, according to a Wednesday report in the New
York Times.
“We
orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the
idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a
Russian botnet,”
reads an internal report on the Alabama effort obtained by
the Times, which
aimed to experiment “with many of the tactics now understood to
have influenced the 2016 elections.”
The
project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as
conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and
even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Mr. Moore. It
involved a scheme to link the Moore campaign to thousands of Russian
accounts that suddenly began following the Republican candidate on
Twitter, a development that drew national media attention. –New
York Times
One
of the participants in the scheme, Jonathan Morgan, is the CEO of
cybersecurity firm New Knowledge. Morgan wrote a blistering account
of Russian social media operations during the 2016 election released
this week by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Another angle to this big @nytimes story… Guess who participated in using a Russian style disinformation campaign to influence the Alabama Senate election AND hoped to frame Russia for it? The CEO of the company that wrote the Senate Intel report on 2016 election meddling.
Morgan
denied knowledge of the Russian ruse in a recent interview, saying it
“does not ring a bell,” and that the project only sought to
“enrage and energize Democrats” and “depress”
Republican turnout by emphasizing accusations that Moore had pursued
teenage girls when he was a young prosecutor in his 30s.
“The
research project was intended to help us understand how these kind of
campaigns operated,” said Morgan. “We thought it was useful
to work in the context of a real election but design it to have
almost no impact.”
We’re
not so sure it had “almost no impact.” As the Daily
Caller‘s
Peter Hassan notes:
Media
outlets — both in Alabama and nationally — fell for the ploy and
amplified the false narrative in October 2017…
The
Montgomery Advertiser,
an Alabama affiliate of USA Today, was the
first to run with the story.
Brian Lyman, the reporter on that story, did not immediately return
The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. National
media outlets quickly seized upon Lyman’s story.
“Roy
Moore flooded with fake Russian Twitter followers,” read the
headline on a New
York Post story,
which cited the Advertiser.
Left-wing
publication Mother
Jones cited the same reportin
a story titled,
“Russian Propagandists Are Pushing for Roy Moore to Win.” That
report didn’t rely exclusively on the fake Twitter followers,
citing Russian media’s favorable coverage of Moore.
Democrats
involved in the scheme have likened it to fighting fire with fire.
“I
know there were people who believed the Democrats needed to fight
fire with fire,” said Renée DiResta, who would later join
New Knowledge and was lead author of the report on Russian social
media operations released this week, according to the Times.
“It
was absolutely chatter going around the party.“
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
Google
heeft in 2016 willens en wetens presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton
gepromoot en berichten over Trump en andere conservatieve
republikeinen die achter hem stonden, zo ver mogelijk weggestopt, ofwel dat je dat soort
berichten pas na heel lang zoeken kon vinden…..
Hetzelfde
wat Google nu doet met linkse of alternatieve berichtgeving, zelfs
berichten van jouw Azijnpisser kom je nog maar zelden tegen op een
eerste pagina als je zoekt naar een onderwerp of persoon op Google.
Hiermee
heeft Google zich opgesteld als de grote bestrijder van critici die
de reguliere (massa-) media aan de kaak stellen als brenger van fake
news (nepnieuws), ofwel Google censureert het internet…… Dit nog bovenop de geïnstitutionaliseerde geschiedvervalsing die Google hanteert met het verwijderen van berichten over bepaalde personen als zij vinden dat dit wel eens vergeten mag worden, te schunnig voor woorden! Je snapt waarschijnlijk wel dat het daar niet gaat om ‘pubervergissingen’ op het internet (die moeten vooral verwijderd worden), maar vooral over personen die op wat voor manier dan ook machtsmisbruik hebben gepleegd en daar op hun oude dag niet aan herinnerd wensen te worden (niet zelden politici en grote ondernemers)…… Naast geschiedvervalsing is dit pure censuur!
De vraag
blijft over of Google willens en wetens Hillary Clinton heeft
gepromoot tijdens de democratische voorverkiezing, ofwel heeft Google
ook de berichten over/met Bernie Sanders begraven? (Immers hij lag niet lekker bij de top van de democraten) Van belang voor
het hele gelogen verhaal over Russische manipulaties, genaamd
‘Russiagate’, daar juist de uiterst smerige machinaties van Clinton
en haar campagneteam uit het nieuws verdwenen……. Eén en ander door het bliksemsnel
ingevoerde sprookje dat de Russen ‘Clintons computers’ zouden hebben
gehackt en zo de uiterst belastende emails die Clintons ware gezicht
lieten zien, hebben toegespeeld aan WikiLeaks, terwijl dit door een
terecht gefrustreerde medewerker van Clinton werd gedaan…….
Het volgende bericht werd geschreven door Tyler Durden en verscheen eerder o.a. op Zero Hedge, ik nam het over van Activist Post:
Leaked
Google Emails Reveal Internal Discussion On Burying Articles From
Conservative Outlets
Google
– which was exposed trying to help
Hillary Clinton win
the 2016 election, and who were beside
themselves after
she lost – discussed whether to bury conservative media outlets in
the company’s search function after Donald Trump became president,
according to the Daily
Caller News Foundation’s
Peter Hasson.
Internal
communications obtained by the Caller reveal
that The Daily Caller and Breitbart were
specifically singled out for potential censorship.
Communications
obtained by TheDCNF show that internal Google discussions went beyond
expressing remorse over Clinton’s loss to actually discussing
ways Google could prevent
Trump from winning again.
“This
was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand
in it,”
Google engineer Scott Byer wrote in a Nov. 9, 2016, post reviewed by
TheDCNF (The Daily Caller News Foundation)..
Byer
falsely labeled The Daily Caller and Breitbart as “opinion blogs”
and urged his coworkers to reduce their visibility in search results.
“How
many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion
blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news
organizations? That’s
something that can and should be fixed,” Byer wrote.
“I
think we have a responsibility to expose the quality and truthfulness
of sources –
because not doing so hides real information under loud noises,” he
continued.
“Beyond
that, let’s concentrate on teaching critical thinking. A little bit
of that would go a long way. Let’s
make sure that we reverse things in four years – demographics will
be on our side.”
–DCNF
Not
all Google employees agreed with the notion of censoring conservative
outlets; engineer Uri Dekel – a self-described Clinton supporter,
argued that manipulating search results was the wrong approach.
Thinking
that Breitbart, Drudge, etc. are not ‘legitimate news sources’ is
contrary to the beliefs of a major portion of our user base is
partially what got us to this mess. MSNBC is not more legit than
Drudge just because Rachel Maddow may be more educated / less
deplorable / closer to our views, than, say Sean Hannity,” Dekel
wrote Byer in a reply, adding “I follow a lot of right wing folks
on social networks you could tell something was brewing. We laughed
off Drudge’s Instant Polls and all that stuff, but in
the end, people go to those sources because they believe that the
media doesn’t do it’s job.
I’m a Hillary supporter and let’s admit it, the media avoided
dealing with the hard questions and issues, which didn’t pay off.
By ranking ‘legitimacy’ you’ll just introduce more conspiracy
theories.
Another
engineer, Mike Brauwerman, suggested that the company could avoid
“accusations of conspiracy or bias” by using technology to “trace
information to its source, to link to critiques of these sources, and
let people decide what sources they believe.”
“Give
people a comprehensive but effectively summarized view of the
information, not context-free rage-inducing sound-byte,” added
Brauwerman.
Other
Google employees also advocated for providing context to sources in
order to “help” users consume information. Unfortunately, the
search giant’s solution was to employ fact-checking organizations
with a liberal bias that “target conservative outlets almost
exclusively,” according to the Caller.
Google eventually pulled their fact-checkers in January, crediting
an investigation by the Daily
Caller in
their decision.
Google
claims that the email conversation did not lead to the manipulation
of search results for political purposes.
This
post shows that far from suppressing Breitbart and Daily Caller, we
surfaced these sites regularly in our products. Furthermore, it shows
that we value providing people with the full view on stories from a
variety of sources,” the spokeswoman told TheDCNF in an email.
Google
has never manipulated its search results or
modified any of its products to promote a particular political
ideology. Our processes and policies do
not allow for any manipulation of search results to promote political
ideologies.
–DCNF
Right
– then why does a Google search for “Idiot” return pictures
of the Trump family, while the same search in DuckDuckGo is
completely different:
This
isn’t the first time Google employees have sought to alter search
results either:
After
Trump announced his initial travel ban in January 2017, Google
employees discussed ways to manipulate search results in order to
push back against the president’s order.
A
group of employees brainstormed ways to counter “islamophobic,
algorithmically biased results from search terms ‘Islam’,
‘Muslim’, ‘Iran’, etc,” as well as “prejudiced,
algorithmically biased search results from search terms ‘Mexico’,
‘Hispanic’, ‘Latino’, etc.”
Meanwhile,
President Trump suggested to the Daily
Caller in
September that Google and Facebook are trying to manipulate election
outcomes.
“I
think they already have,” said Trump. “I mean the true
interference in the last election was that — if you look at all,
virtually all of those companies are super liberal companies in favor
of Hillary Clinton,” he added.
“Maybe
I did a better job because I’m good with the Twitter and I’m good
at social media, but the truth is they were all on Hillary Clinton’s
side, and if you look at what was going on with Facebook and with
Google and all of it, they
were very much on her side.”
Onlangs
kwam The Guardian met het verhaal dat Paul Manafort contact zou
hebben gehad met Julian Assange in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in
Londen. Een verhaal dat als onzin werd doorgeprikt met aantoonbare
leugens in The Guardian. Zelfs reguliere mediaorganen twijfelden aan
het artikel.
Blijkbaar
vond The Guardian het gebrachte artikel daarna zelf ook dubieus, daar
men de tekst heeft aangepast, zonder daar echter melding van te
maken. In de aangepaste tekst wordt nu gesproken over anonieme, niet
te controleren bronnen……. De schrijver van het Guardian
propagandistische artikel, Luke Harding, stelde in het artikel dat
Manafort meermaals werd gezien in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade en dat
één keer ‘zelfs met 2 Russen….’
Met het
Guardian artikel toonde Harding zogenaamd aan dat Assange contacten
had met de Russen en dat die na het hacken van de DNC server, de emails van Hillary Clinton zouden
hebben doen toekomen aan WikiLeaks, ofwel één van ‘de
smoking guns’ in het Russiagate sprookje….. Kortom de Russen en
Assange zouden hebben samengespannen om Clinton haar presidentschap
door de neus te boren…..
Uiteraard
gebruiken ook de democraten in de VS het fantasie verhaal van Harding om te
stellen dat Assange en Rusland de presidentsverkiezingen van hen
hebben gestolen, terwijl echte deskundigen en ingewijden uitvoerig
stellen, dat de emails werden gelekt vanuit het campagneteam van
Clinton, waar de naam Seth Rich telkens weer opduikt……
Seth Rich
was medewerker van het campagneteam, hij was zwaar gefrustreerd over
de smerige spelletjes van Clinton en de top van haar campagneteam, om de voorverkiezing in 2016 van Bernie Sanders te stelen…….. Sanders was
de tweede belangrijke democratische kandidaat voor het presidentschap
in de VS. Zelfs Obama gaf toe dat e.e.a door het campagneteam werd gelekt naar WikiLeaks….*
Rich
werd vermoord, kort nadat de mails waren gelekt naar WikiLeaks, volgens de politie ging het om een roofmoord, waarbij Rich vreemd genoeg niet werd beroofd
en zelfs dure sieraden niet werden gestolen…….. De poging om Sanders buiten
spel te zetten is gelukt, zoals we al en paar jaar weten.
Manafort
heeft ontkent dat hij zelfs maar één keer met Assange heeft
gesproken en Assange heeft The Guardian gedreigd met een proces
wegens laster…… De bedoeling in het hele Russiagate verhaal is
dan ook Assange als spion neer te zetten, ofwel hij heeft geen recht op bescherming zoals dit het geval zou moeten zijn met (onderzoeks-) journalisten, waarbij WikiLeaks wordt weggezet als een staatsvijandig
vehikel van de Russen…… Waarmee de democraten dan de schuld van het
verlies van de verkiezingen in de schoenen schuiven van WikiLeaks,
haar oprichter Assange en uiteraard de Russen…..**
Met
artikelen als die van Harding in The Guardian moet de publieke opinie
voorbereid worden op het uit de Ecuadoraanse ambassade zetten van
Assange en de arrestatie van deze journalist, die zich met niets anders dan
zijn werk bezighield, dit in sterke tegenstelling tot het overgrote deel van de
journalisten, die voor de reguliere westerse (massa-) media
werken…….
Deze
media hebben i.p.v. Assange te steunen, een taak van onafhankelijke mediaorganen en hun journalisten, hem zwart gemaakt in de publieke opinie,
waarbij zelfs werd gesteld dat Assange alleen de Ecuadoraanse
ambassade in vluchtte, om publiciteit te genereren…. Gelukkig voor
Assange werd ook die belachelijke claim doorgeprikt, toen per
ongeluk stukken werden gepubliceerd waaruit bleek dat de VS een
aanklacht heeft opgesteld voor Assange en op grond waarvan Assange
een lange gevangenisstraf te wachten staat…….
The
Guardian ging zelfs zover dat het een VN panel met experts
belachelijk probeerde te maken, die stelden dat het totaal
onwettelijk was dat Assange niet zonder gearresteerd te worden de
ambassade zou kunnen verlaten…..
De
schrijver van het artikel hieronder, Jonathan Cook, haalt ook Glenn
Greenwald aan, waar het om de claim gaat dat Manafort Assange zou
hebben bezocht. Deze stelt dat het onmogelijk is om ongezien de
Ecuadoraanse ambassade binnen te komen, daar Londen propvol camera’s
hangt en de Ecuadoraanse ambassade, sinds Assange daar binnen
vluchtte, van alle kanten in de gaten werd en wordt gehouden, niet alleen
door camera’s, de politie, maar ook door journalisten……
Als
Manafort inderdaad in de ambassade zou zijn geweest, volgens The
Guardian 3 keer, in 2013, 2015 en 2016, zouden daar zeker bewijzen
voor zijn…….
Intussen is The Guardian gekomen met een volgens deze fake news brenger nog betere fundering van de (ongefundeerde) beschuldigingen aan het adres van Assange (en WikiLeaks) en zijn zogenaamde verbintenis met Rusland, ook nu weer geen enkel bewijs……. Assange zal en moet hangen en in dit geval door een mediaorgaan dat stelt onafhankelijk te zijn en haar berichtgeving dubbel zou checken….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Lees het
artikel van Cook, eerder gepubliceerd op Creative Commons en door mij
overgenomen van Anti-Media, waarin Cook verder nog aandacht besteedt aan het nep-journalistenforum Bellincat (daaronder nog een kort artikel en video van een interview van Aby Martin met Randy Credico aangaande de zaak Assange):
The
Guardian Continues to Escalate Its Vilification of Julian Assange
The
Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred
of evidence. It did what it is designed to do.***
(CD) — It
is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including
from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running
vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.
Reporter
Luke Harding’s latest article, claiming that
Donald Trump’s disgraced former campaign manager Paul Manafort
secretly visited Assange in Ecuador’s embassy in London on three
occasions, is so full of holes that even hardened opponents of
Assange in the corporate media are struggling to stand by it.
Faced
with the backlash, the Guardian quickly – and very quietly – rowed
back its
initial certainty that its story was based on verified facts.
Instead, it amended the text, without acknowledging it had done so,
to attribute the claims to unnamed, and uncheckable, “sources”.
The
propaganda function of the piece is patent. It is intended to provide
evidence for long-standing allegations that Assange conspired with
Trump, and Trump’s supposed backers in the Kremlin, to damage
Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential race.
The
Guardian’s latest story provides a supposedly stronger foundation
for an existing narrative: that Assange and Wikileaks knowingly
published emails hacked by Russia from the Democratic party’s
servers. In truth, there is no
public evidence that
the emails were hacked, or that Russia was involved. Central actors
have suggested instead that the emails were leaked from within the
Democratic party.
Nonetheless,
this unverified allegation has been aggressively exploited by the
Democratic leadership because it shifts attention away both from its
failure to mount an effective electoral challenge to Trump and from
the damaging contents of the emails. These show that party
bureaucrats sought to rig
the primaries to
make sure Clinton’s challenger for the Democratic nomination,
Bernie Sanders, lost.
To
underscore the intended effect of the Guardian’s new claims,
Harding even throws in a casual and unsubstantiated reference to
“Russians” joining Manafort in supposedly meeting Assange.
Manafort
has denied the
Guardian’s claims, while Assange has threatened to sue the
Guardian for libel.
‘Responsible
for Trump’
The
emotional impact of the Guardian story is to suggest that Assange is
responsible for four years or more of Trump rule. But more
significantly, it bolsters the otherwise risible
claim that
Assange is not a publisher – and thereby entitled to the
protections of a free press, as enjoyed by the Guardian or the New
York Times – but the head of an organisation engaged in espionage
for a foreign power.
The
intention is to deeply discredit Assange, and by extension the
Wikileaks organisation, in the eyes of right-thinking liberals. That,
in turn, will make it much easier to silence Assange and the vital
cause he represents: the use of new media to hold to account the old,
corporate media and political elites through the imposition of far
greater transparency.
The
Guardian story will prepare public opinion for the moment when
Ecuador’s rightwing government under President Lenin Moreno forces
Assange out of the embassy, having already withdrawn most of his
rights to use digital media.
It
will soften opposition when the UK moves to arrest Assange
on self-serving
bail violation charges and
extradites him to the US. And it will pave the way for the US legal
system to lock Assange up for a very long time.
For
the best part of a decade, any claims by Assange’s supporters that
avoiding this fate was the reason Assange originally sought asylum in
the embassy was ridiculed by corporate journalists, not least at the
Guardian.
Even
when a United Nations panel of experts in international law ruled in
2016 that Assange was being arbitrarily – and unlawfully –
detained by the UK, Guardian writers led efforts to discredit the UN
report. See here and here.
Now
Assange and his supporters have been proved right once again. An
administrative error this month revealed that the US justice
department had secretly
filed criminal charges against
Assange.
Heavy
surveillance
The
problem for the Guardian, which should have been obvious to its
editors from the outset, is that any visits by Manafort would be
easily verifiable without relying on unnamed “sources”.
Glenn
Greenwald is far from alone in noting that
London is possibly the most surveilled city in the world, with CCTV
cameras everywhere. The environs of the Ecuadorian embassy are
monitored especially heavily, with continuous filming by the UK and
Ecuadorian authorities and most likely by the US and other actors
with an interest in Assange’s fate.
The
idea that Manafort or “Russians” could have wandered into the
embassy to meet Assange even once without their trail, entry and
meeting being intimately scrutinised and recorded is simply
preposterous.
According
to Greenwald: “If Paul Manafort … visited Assange at the Embassy,
there would be ample amounts of video and other photographic proof
demonstrating that this happened. The Guardian provides none of
that.”
Former
British ambassador Craig Murray also points
out the
extensive security checks insisted on by the embassy to which any
visitor to Assange must submit. Any visits by Manafort would have
been logged.
In
fact, the Guardian obtained the
embassy’s logs in May, and has never made any mention of either
Manafort or “Russians” being identified in them. It did not refer
to the logs in its latest story.
Murray:
The
problem with this latest fabrication is that [Ecuador’s President]
Moreno had already released the visitor logs to the Mueller inquiry.
Neither Manafort nor these ‘Russians’ are in the visitor logs …
What possible motive would the Ecuadorean government have for
facilitating secret unrecorded visits by Paul Manafort?Furthermore
it is impossible that the intelligence agency – who were in charge
of the security – would not know the identity of these alleged
‘Russians’.
No
fact-checking
It
is worth noting it should be vitally important for a serious
publication like the Guardian to ensure its claims are unassailably
true – both because Assange’s personal fate rests on their
veracity, and because, even more importantly, a fundamental right,
the freedom of the press, is at stake.
Given
this, one would have expected the Guardian’s editors to have
insisted on the most stringent checks imaginable before going to
press with Harding’s story. At a very minimum, they should have
sought out a response from Assange and Manafort before publication.
Neither precaution was taken.
I
worked for the Guardian for a number of years, and know well the
layers of checks that any highly sensitive story has to go through
before publication. In that lengthy process, a variety of
commissioning editors, lawyers, backbench editors and the editor
herself, Kath Viner, would normally insist on cuts to anything that
could not be rigorously defended and corroborated.
And
yet this piece seems to have been casually waved through, given a
green light even though its profound shortcomings were evident to a
range of well-placed analysts and journalists from the outset.
That
at the very least hints that the Guardian thought they had
“insurance” on this story. And the only people who could have
promised that kind of insurance are the security and intelligence
services – presumably of Britain, the United States and / or
Ecuador.
It
appears the Guardian has simply taken this story, provided by spooks,
at face value. Even if it later turns out that Manafort did visit
Assange, the Guardian clearly had no compelling evidence for its
claims when it published them. That is profoundly irresponsible
journalism – fake news – that should be of the gravest concern to
readers.
A
pattern, not an aberration
Despite
all this, even analysts critical of the Guardian’s behaviour have
shown a glaring failure to understand that its latest coverage
represents not an aberration by the paper but decisively fits with a
pattern.
Glenn
Greenwald, who once had an influential column in the Guardian until
an apparent, though unacknowledged, falling out with his employer
over the Edward Snowden revelations, wrote a series of baffling
observations about the Guardian’s latest story.
First,
he suggested it
was simply evidence of the Guardian’s long-standing (and
well-documented) hostility towards Assange.
“The
Guardian, an otherwise solid and reliable paper, has such a pervasive
and unprofessionally personal hatred for Julian Assange that it has
frequently dispensed with all journalistic standards in order to
malign him.”
It
was also apparently evidence of the paper’s clickbait tendencies:
“They
[Guardian editors] knew that publishing this story would cause
partisan warriors to excitedly spread the story, and that cable news
outlets would hyperventilate over it, and that they’d reap the
rewards regardless of whether the story turned out to be true or
false.”
And
finally, in a bizarre tweet, Greenwald opined, “I hope the story
[maligning Assange] turns out true” – apparently because
maintenance of the Guardian’s reputation is more important than
Assange’s fate and the right of journalists to dig up embarrassing
secrets without fear of being imprisoned.
The reason it will be so devastating to the Guardian if this story turns out false is because the Guardian has an institutional hatred for Assange. They’ve proven they’ll dispense with journalistic standards for it. And factions within Ecuador’s government know they can use them.
What
this misses is that the Guardian’s attacks on Assange are not
exceptional or motivated solely by personal animosity. They are
entirely predictable and systematic. Rather than being the reason for
the Guardian violating basic journalistic standards and ethics, the
paper’s hatred of Assange is a symptom of a deeper malaise in the
Guardian and the wider corporate media.
Even
aside from its decade-long campaign against Assange, the Guardian is
far from “solid and reliable”, as Greenwald claims. It has been
at the forefront of the relentless, and unhinged, attacks on Labour
leader Jeremy Corbyn for prioritising the rights of Palestinians over
Israel’s right to continue its belligerent occupation. Over the
past three years, the Guardian has injected credibility into the
Israel lobby’s desperate efforts to tar Corbyn as an anti-semite.
See here, here and here.
Similarly,
the Guardian worked tirelessly to promote Clinton and undermine
Sanders in the 2016 Democratic nomination process – another reason
the paper has been so assiduous in promoting the idea that Assange,
aided by Russia, was determined to promote Trump over Clinton for the
presidency.
The
Guardian’s coverage of Latin America, especially of populist
leftwing governments that have rebelled against traditional and
oppressive US hegemony in the region, has long grated with analysts
and experts. Its especial venom has been reserved for leftwing
figures like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, democratically elected but
official enemies of the US, rather than the region’s rightwing
authoritarians beloved of Washington.
The
Guardian has been vocal in the so-called “fake news” hysteria,
decrying the influence of social media, the only place where leftwing
dissidents have managed to find a small foothold to promote their
politics and counter the corporate media narrative.
The
Guardian has painted social media chiefly as a platform overrun by
Russian trolls, arguing that this should justify ever-tighter
restrictions that have so far curbed critical voices of the dissident
left more than the right.
Heroes
of the neoliberal order
Equally,
the Guardian has made clear who its true heroes are. Certainly not
Corbyn or Assange, who threaten to disrupt the entrenched neoliberal
order that is hurtling us towards climate breakdown and economic
collapse.
Its
pages, however, are readily available to the latest effort to prop up
the status quo from Tony Blair, the man who led Britain, on false
pretences, into the largest crime against humanity in living memory –
the attack on Iraq.
That
“humanitarian intervention” cost the lives of many hundreds of
thousands of Iraqis and created a vacuum that destabilised much of
the Middle East, sucked in Islamic jihadists like al-Qaeda and ISIS,
and contributed to the migrant crisis in Europe that has fuelled the
resurgence of the far-right. None of that is discussed in the
Guardian or considered grounds for disqualifying Blair as an arbiter
of what is good for Britain and the world’s future.
The
Guardian also has an especial soft spot for blogger Elliot Higgins,
who, aided by the Guardian, has shot to unlikely prominence as a
self-styled “weapons expert”. Like Luke Harding, Higgins
invariably seems ready to echo whatever the British and American
security services need verifying “independently”.
Higgins
and his well-staffed website Bellingcat have taken on for themselves
the role of arbiters of truth on many foreign affairs issues, taking
a prominent role in advocating for narratives that promote US and
NATO hegemony while demonising Russia, especially in highly contested
arenas such as Syria.
That
clear partisanship should be no surprise, given that Higgins now
enjoys an “academic” position at, and funding from, the Atlantic
Council, a high-level, Washington-based think-tank founded to drum up
support for NATO and justify its imperialist agenda.
Improbably,
the Guardian has adopted Higgins as the poster-boy for a supposed
citizen journalism it has sought to undermine as “fake news”
whenever it occurs on social media without the endorsement of
state-backed organisations.
The
truth is that the Guardian has not erred in this latest story
attacking Assange, or in its much longer-running campaign to vilify
him. With this story, it has done what it regularly does when
supposedly vital western foreign policy interests are at stake – it
simply regurgitates an elite-serving, western narrative.
Its
job is to shore up a consensus on the left for attacks on leading
threats to the existing, neoliberal order: whether they are a
platform like Wikileaks promoting whistle-blowing against a corrupt
western elite; or a politician like Jeremy Corbyn seeking to break
apart the status quo on the rapacious financial industries or
Israel-Palestine; or a radical leader like Hugo Chavez who threatened
to overturn a damaging and exploitative US dominance of “America’s
backyard”; or social media dissidents who have started to chip away
at the elite-friendly narratives of corporate media, including the
Guardian.
The
Guardian did not make a mistake in vilifying Assange without a shred
of evidence. It did what it is designed to do.
Zie ook het volgende artikel plus begeleidende video, waarin ook al onterecht beschuldigingen over contacten met Assange en de aanklachten tegen het Trump team, WikiLeaks en Rusland aangaande ‘Russiagate’, een beschuldiging die speciaal aanklager Mueller nooit rond gaat krijgen.
Het gaat hier om Randy
Credico (politiek- en mensenrechtenactivist, programmamaker en komiek), hij wordt door Mueller beschuldigd van banden met WikiLeaks….. (zien beste bezoeker!)
In
this exclusive interview, Abby Martin speaks with Randy Credico
on his role in the Russia investigation, his upcoming interview with
Robert Mueller, and his relationship with Trump campaign advisor
Roger Stone.
With
never before revealed details about Stone and the Mueller
investigation, Credico details his long-standing ties to the
political operative and answers the hard questions about his alleged
coordination with Wikileaks.
The
interview highlights the larger context of the multi-front assault on
Julian Assange, Wikileaks and the future of press freedom.
**
Vergeet niet dat de Obama administratie al lang bezig was om de
Russen te demoniseren, dit onder andere t.b.v. het militair-industrieel complex en waarmee de VS en haar oorlogshond de NAVO ook in Oekraïne aan de grens met Rusland zou komen te staan……..
Zo hebben Hillary Clinton en de CIA de opstand in Oekraïne op poten
gezet, een opstand waarvan de opzet was een staatsgreep te ontketenen
tegen de democratisch gekozen regering Janoekovytsj…… Deze ‘grap’
(een specialiteit van de VS) heeft de VS maar ‘liefst’ 4 miljard
dollar gekost…….
*** Deze toegevoegde tekst later overgenomen van Common Dreams, daar deze niet op Anti-Media werd genoemd en de extra vermelding terecht is (m.i.).
PS: geeft door mensen, er kan niet genoeg feiten worden weergegeven tegenover de enorme berg leugens (met heel veel ‘fake news, of anders gezegd: ‘nepnieuws’) waaruit het kwaadaardige sprookje Russiagate bestaat.
Zie wat betreft het Steele dossier, een spil in de leugens die men ‘Russiagate’ is gaan noemen, de volgende berichten:
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
The
Guardian durft te beweren dat Paul Manafort meermaals contact had met
Julian Assange in de Ecuadoraanse ambassade in Londen, dit voorafgaand aan
de verkiezingen in 2016, bovendien zou Manafort Assange eerder hebben
bezocht in 2013 en 2015……..
Blijkbaar
werkt de speciaal aanklager Robert Mueller samen met
The Guardian in het promoten van het sprookje dat men ‘Russia Gate’ noemt, daar hij ‘geheel toevallig’ afgelopen maandag het
bericht naar buiten bracht dat Manafort de voorwaarden voor een plea
bargain had gebroken en meermaals heeft gelogen tegen de FBI
(Manafort zit een gevangenisstraf uit)……. Sterker nog: Manafort
zou volgens Mueller naast te hebben gelogen ook misdaden hebben
begaan in een groot aantal zaken…….
The
Guardian weet te melden dat de Ecuadoraanse inlichtingendienst bewijzen zou hebben van het bezoek dat Manafort bracht
aan de Ecuadoraanse ambassade, dit nog naast dezelfde claim van een
persoon die niet bekend is bij de FBI, ofwel een anonieme ‘bron….’
Volgens
The Guardian heeft Manafort in de lente van 2016 een bezoek van 40
minuten gebracht aan Assange, waar men zelfs weet te vertellen welke
kleding hij droeg (om twijfelaars te overtuigen…)…. Vreemd genoeg
moeten bezoekers aan de Ecuadoraanse ambassade zich registreren,
echter volgens medewerkers van de ambassade staat de naam Manafort niet één
keer genoteerd in het betreffende register……..
Voorts
weet The Guardian te melden dat de de Russiche militaire geheime dienst GROe de Democraten zou hebben
gehackt, een claim waarvan we weten dat die totaal zonder enig bewijs
keer op keer wordt herhaald…… Men wil zelfs niet uitgaan van de
mogelijkheid dat de documenten lokaal, dus in de VS zijn gekopieerd
en aan WikiLeaks zijn verzonden…..
Seth Rich, een medewerker van
het DNC, het democratische campagneteam dat Hillary Clinton bijstond
tijdens de voorverkiezingen, heeft uit frustratie over de smerige
campagne van Clinton tegen de andere democratische kandidaat Bernie
Sanders, een enorm aantal documenten gelekt naar WikiLeaks……
Enige tijd later zou Rich zijn vermoord tijdens een beroving, aldus
de politie, waarbij vreemd genoeg niets van hem werd gestolen……..
Lees
het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge
(door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media), in de niet eindigende soap die
men ‘Russiagate’ noemt, terwijl intussen duidelijk is geworden dat
m.n. Groot-Brittannië de Democratische Partij heeft geholpen bij het
manipuleren van de presidentsverkiezingen in de VS, ofwel: we moeten spreken
van Britaingate!!! Mensen geeft het door: nog dagelijks hoor je
leugenaars in en op de reguliere media beweren dat Rusland de VS
verkiezingen heeft gemanipuleerd…… Hoe eerder een eind komt aan
deze leugens hoe beter, immers de VS zoekt oorlog met Rusland
(geholpen door de rest van het westers terreurgeteisem en waaronder
ik ook Rutte 2 en 3 versta) en juist dit soort leugens maakt de argeloze
lezer klaar voor een oorlog tegen Rusland, ofwel WOIII……
Nogmaals
laat The Guardian zien dat het een trouwe lobbyist is van het
neoliberalisme, het militair-industrieel complex en de ongebreidelde terreur van de VS…… Verder heeft The Guardian geen moeite om voor deze zaken fake news (nepnieuws) te
verspreiden, zelfs niet als daar meer dan 2 miljoen mensen door omkomen, zoals de valse berichtgeving van The Guardian over de illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië…… Die 1 miljoen dollar kan The Guardian dan ook
vergeten!!
WikiLeaks
Bets the Guardian $1,000,000 That Assange Never Met Paul Manafort
(ZHE) — Update: WikiLeaks
has fired back at the Guardian,
tweeting: “Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial
fabricator to totally destroy the paper’s reputation. @WikiLeaks is
willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head
that Manafort never met Assange.”
Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper’s reputation. @WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor’s head that Manafort never met Assange. https://archive.fo/pUjrj
The
Guardian‘s
report was written by Luke Harding and Dan Collyns, and was based
exclusively on unnamed sources.
Paul
Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, held secret
talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London,
right around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, according to The
Guardian, which
as is now the norm in reports of this kind refers to unnamed
“sources.”
***
Sources
have said Manafort
went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 –
during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for
the White House.
It
is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed.
But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could
interest Robert
Mueller,
the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between
the Trump campaign and Russia.
A
well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see
Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaks released
a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.
– The
Guardian
The
69-year-old Manafort has denied any involvement in the release of the
emails, and has said that the claim is “100%
false.”
While
Manafort was jailed this year under a plea agreement with special
counsel Robert Mueller, on Monday, Mueller said that Manafort
had repeatedly
lied to the FBI,
breaching his deal. According to documents filed in court, Manafort
committed “crimes and lies” covering a “variety of subject
matters.”
According
to The
Guardian,
Manafort’s first visit to the Ecuadorian embassy occurred one year
after Assange was granted asylum inside, according to two sources.
To add icing to the cake, “a separate internal document written by
Ecuador’s Senian Intelligence agency and
seen by The
Guardian lists
“Paul Manaford [sic]” as one of Assange’s several well-known
guests, along
with… “Russians.”
According
to two sources, Manafort returned to the embassy in 2015. He paid
another visit in spring 2016, turning up alone, around the time Trump
named him as his convention manager. The visit is tentatively dated
to March.
Manafort’s
2016 visit to Assange lasted about 40 minutes, one source said,
adding that the
American was casually dressed when he exited the embassy, wearing
sandy-coloured chinos, a cardigan and a light-coloured shirt.
Visitors
normally register with embassy security guards and show their
passports. Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not
logged. – The
Guardian
So
we have Manafort allegedly visiting Assange, in
sandy-coloured chinos, and
that Russians also visited the WikiLeaks founder. And none of this
was known until today.
The
Guardian goes
on to suggest that “The revelation could shed new light on the
sequence of events in the run-up to summer 2016, when WikiLeaks
published tens of thousands of emails hacked by the GRU*,
Russia’s military intelligence agency. Hillary
Clinton has said the hack contributed to her defeat.”
Note
that The
Guardian has
considered the “hack” settled, which agrees with Western
intelligence assessments (the same Western intelligence that
conducted espionage on Donald Trump’s campaign). Nowhere to be
found is the possibility that the emails were copied
locally –
a theory recently bolstered by a fresh
analysis that
flies in the face of a report commissioned by cybersecurity
firm Crowdstrike
– which
was caught fabricating a report on Russia hacking Ukrainian
munitions, and was forced to retract portions of their analysis after
the government of Ukraine admonished them.
The
Guardian goes
on to link Manafort to “black operations” against the political
rival of Ukraine’s former “Moscow-friendly president, Viktor
Yanukovych,” and that Manafort “flew frequently from the US to
Ukraine’s capital, Kiev – usually
via Frankfurt but sometimes through London.”
Manafort
is currently in jail in Alexandria, Virginia. In August a jury
convicted him of crimes arising from his decade-long activities in
Ukraine. They include large-scale money laundering and failure to pay
US tax. Manafort pleaded guilty to further charges in order to avoid
a second trial in Washington.
As
well as accusing him of lying on Monday, the special counsel moved to
set a date for Manafort to be sentenced.
One
person familiar with WikiLeaks said Assange was motivated to damage
the Democrats campaign because he believed a future Trump
administration would be less likely to seek his extradition on
possible charges of espionage. This fate had hung over Assange since
2010, when he released
confidential US state department cables.
It contributed to his decision to take refuge in the embassy. – The
Guardian
And
in perhaps the most shocking part of The
Guardian‘s
reporting, they
refer to the highly salacious and largely discredited “Steele
Dossier,”**saying
that according to the document, Manafort was at the center of a
“well-developed conspiracy of cooperation” between the Trump
campaign and the Kremlin, and that both sides had a mutual interest
in defeating Clinton, wrote former MI6 spy Christopher Steele.
In
a memo written soon after the DNC emails were published, Steele said:
“The [hacking] operation had been conducted with the full knowledge
and support of Trump and senior members of his campaign team.” – The
Guardian
You
know things are desperate when the Steele Dossier makes a guest
appearance to once again bolster unsupported reporting.
‘Campagne Clinton, smeriger dan gedacht…………‘ (met daarin daarin opgenomen de volgende twee artikelen: ‘Donna Brazile Bombshell: ‘Proof’ Hillary ‘Rigged’ Primary Against Bernie‘ en ‘Democrats in Denial After Donna Brazile Says Primary Was Rigged for Hillary‘)
Zoals
eerder o.a. op deze plek betoogd, concludeert ook Noam Chomsky dat de Israëlische bemoeienis met de VS verkiezingen veel verder gaat dan
wat men Rusland in de schoenen probeert te schuiven en dat laatste zonder maar één flinter aan
bewijs…..
Met
veel ophef sprak de Palestijnenslachter Netanyahu in 2015 het Congres
toe, zelfs zonder eerst te overleggen met de president, destijds ‘vredesduif’ Obama…… Dan zijn er nog de reguliere (massa-) media in de
VS, die fungeren als lobbyisten voor de fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël en knippen na elke klapscheet van een Israëlische politicus……
Chomsky
wijst op het zogenaamde democratische proces in de VS en stelt
volkomen terecht dat er geen sprake is van een functionerende democratie in de VS
(overigens geldt dit ook meer en meer voor landen in de EU, zelfs voor Nederland…), volgens Chomsky moeten we in de VS spreken van een
‘billionaire
corporatocracy’, niet het volk maar de 1 procent (van welgestelden, waar veel zionisten tussen zitten) en grote bedrijven worden door
de politiek in de VS bediend…… (oh ja en niet te vergeten de belangenbehartiging voor Israël en wat andere
‘fijne fascistische landen’ als Saoedi-Arabië ‘natuurlijk’)
Zelfs
als zou Rusland hebben geprobeerd de verkiezingen te manipuleren,
hebben ze dat op een manier gedaan die totaal geen zoden aan de dijk
zet, althans als je alleen al het bedrag aan reclames door ‘Rusland’
geplaatst op sociale media in ogenschouw neemt, kunnen die niet eens
in de schaduw staan van de bedragen die worden misbruikt voor deze
presidentsverkiezingen……
Voorts
is daar de zogenaamde manipulatie door hacks en door het lekken van
documenten van de democraten naar WikiLeaks, alweer geen flinter aan
bewijs. Bovendien komt deze claim uit de smerige koker van Clinton en
haar aanhangers, om zo de aandacht af te leiden van het smerige spel
waarmee zij tot presidentskandidaat van de democraten werd verkozen, een smerig
spel tegen de enige kandidaat die er toe deed, Bernie Sanders…… Ofwel: je speelt een smerig spel, waarvan de bewijzen op straat komen
te liggen, maar je doet verder geen onderzoek naar dat smerige spel……. Sterker nog: je beschuldigt de klokkenluider en stelt plompverloren dat deze buiten het democratisch comité te vinden moet zijn, vervolgens ga je op zoek naar die klokkenluider* en schuift Rusland de schuld in de schoenen, de aanzet tot het nieuwe ‘McCartyisme’ in de VS en een verdere aanjager voor de herintroductie van de Koude Oorlog..!!! (‘natuurlijk’ worden daarmee ook nog eens de belangen van het militair-industrieel complex gediend……)
Ongelofelijk!!
Lees
het volgende artikel met de zienswijze van Chomsky en oordeel zelf:
Noam
Chomsky: “Israeli Intervention in US Elections Overwhelms Anything
Russia Has Done”
(ZHE) — Well,
this is going to make the weekend’s political conversations a
little more awkward around America.
As
the mainstream media (and even the leftist politicians) begin to back
quietly away from the “collusion” narrative, they remain
increasingly focused on Russia’s “evil” efforts at “meddling”
in the US election and “interfering with our democracy,” or some
such hysterical phrase.
And
that is what makes the comments by mainstay of world-renowned
political dissident and liberal-thinking hero Noam Chomsky’s
comments in the following interview with Democracy Now so ‘awkward’
for the Trump-hating members of society.
(Let wel: dit is niet de video van Democracy Now, met o.a. Chomsky en gepresenteerd door Amy Goodman uit het originele artikel, klik daarvoor op deze link)
…so,
take, say, the huge issue of interference in our pristine
elections. Did
the Russians interfere in our elections? An
issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the
world, that’s almost
a joke.
First
of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our
elections, whatever
the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as
compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with
enormous support.
Israeli
intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the
Russians may have done…
I
mean, even to the point where the
prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress,
without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with
overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies
– what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015….
Did
Putin come to give an address to the joint sessions of Congress
trying to – calling on them to reverse U.S. policy, without even
informing the president? And
that’s just a tiny bit of this overwhelming influence.
So
if you happen to be interested in influence of – foreign influence
on elections, there are places to look. But even that is a joke.
I
mean, one
of the most elementary principles of a functioning democracy is that
elected representatives should be responsive to those who elected
them. There’s nothing more elementary than that. But we know very
well that that is simply not the case in the United States.
There’s
ample literature in mainstream academic political science simply
comparing voters’ attitudes with the policies pursued by their
representatives, and it shows that for a large majority of the
population, they’re basically disenfranchised. Their own
representatives pay no attention to their voices. They
listen to the voices of the famous 1 percent – the rich and the
powerful, the corporate sector.
The
elections—Tom Ferguson’s stellar work has demonstrated, very
conclusively, that for a long period, way back, U.S. elections have
been pretty much bought. You can predict the outcome of a
presidential or congressional election with remarkable precision by
simply looking at campaign spending. That’s only one part of it.
Lobbyists
practically write legislation in congressional offices.In
massive ways, the concentrated private capital, corporate sector,
super wealth, intervene in our elections, massively, overwhelmingly,
to the extent that the most elementary principles of democracy are
undermined. Now,
of course, all that is technically legal, but that tells you
something about the way the society functions.
So, if
you’re concerned with our elections and how they operate and how
they relate to what would happen in a democratic society, taking a
look at Russian hacking is absolutely the wrong place to look. Well,
you see occasionally some attention to these matters in the media,
but very minor as compared with the extremely
marginal question of Russian hacking.
And
I think we find this on issue after issue, also on issues on which
what Trump says, for whatever reason, is not unreasonable. So, he’s
perfectly right when he says we should have better relations with
Russia.
Being
dragged through the mud for that is outlandish, makes – Russia
shouldn’t refuse to deal with the United States because the
U.S. carried out the worst crime of the century in the invasion of
Iraq, much worse than anything Russia has done.
But
they shouldn’t refuse to deal with us for that reason, and we
shouldn’t refuse to deal with them for whatever infractions they
may have carried out, which certainly exist. This is just absurd. We
have to move towards better – right
at the Russian border, there are very extreme tensions, that could
blow up anytime and lead to what would in fact be a terminal nuclear
war, terminal for the species and life on Earth. We’re
very close to that.
Now,
we could ask why. First of all, we should do things to ameliorate it.
Secondly, we should ask why. Well, it’s because NATO expanded
after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in violation
of verbal promises to Mikhail Gorbachev, mostly under Clinton, partly
under first Bush, then Clinton expanded right to the Russian border,
expanded further under Obama.
The
U.S. has offered to bring Ukraine into NATO. That’s the kind
of a heartland of Russian geostrategic concerns.
So,
yes, there’s
tensions at the Russian border – and not, notice, at the Mexican
border. Well,
those are all issues that should be of primary concern.
The
fate of – the
fate of organized human society, even of the survival of the species,
depends on this. How
much attention is given to these things as compared with, you know,
whether Trump lied about something? I think those seem to me the
fundamental criticisms of the media.
So
to sum up – Trump’s
right about better relations with Russia – the fate of the world
depends on it, Russia did nothing of note, Russian hacking is
extremely marginal, Israel is the real meddler, US democracy no
longer exists, the billionaire corporatocracy runs America.
Is
Noam Chomsky a “puppet of Putin”? Did the veteran political
dissident just become a “useful
idiot”?
Well he must be an anti-semite, right? We look forward to Adam
Schiff’s response to this crushing blow to the left’s
‘russia-russia-russia’ narrative.
* Onder andere Seth Rich, een ontevreden DNC medewerker, lekte documenten naar WikiLeaks, daar hij pissig was over deze gang van zaken. Deze Rich werd, oh wonder, kort daarna vermoord op straat, volgens de politie een roofoverval, terwijl er niets van waarde werd gestolen en waardevolle spullen had Rich tijdens die ‘roofoverval’ voldoende ‘op zak…’
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.
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. [ (VIPSwarned 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 UnitedStates
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).