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VS ‘hack beschuldiging’ aan adres van Rusland ingegeven door terecht Russisch ingrijpen op illegale oorlogvoering VS…….

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

De pogingen om Rusland zonder enig bewijs te beschuldigen van het hacken en manipuleren van de verkiezingen in de VS, hebben alles te maken met het feit dat Rusland eindelijk obstakels wist op te werpen voor de VS en haar psychopathisch, moorddadig buitenlandbeleid!!

Zo is het artikel op Counterpunch van Mike Whitney samen te vatten, een artikel dat op 13 mei ook door Information Clearing House werd gebracht.

Nogmaals wijst Whitney, volkomen terecht op het feit, dat er voor deze beschuldigen gedaan door de VS, geen nanometer bewijs is. Ondanks dat houden de westerse zogenaamd onafhankelijke reguliere media vol (zoals het overgrote deel van de westerse politici) dat Rusland de verkiezingen in de VS middels hacken en het brengen van ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) heeft gemanipuleerd.

De hysterie daarover is alleen maar toegenomen en het ene na andere westerse land dat met verkiezingen te maken had of heeft, beschuldigen NB op basis van de VS leugens, Rusland van dezelfde zaak in deze verkiezingen…….. Zoals u al begrepen had: ook voor deze beweringen is geen greintje bewijs!!

Dit alles, terwijl wel bewezen is, dat de NSA bevriende EU landen hackte. Dat de VS op basis van grove leugens de ene na de andere illegale oorlog is begonnen en een deel van de westerse bondgenoten op basis van diezelfde leugens wist mee te krijgen. Waar alle westerse landen die leugens (‘fake news‘) overnamen en als bewezen kwalificeerden……… Nogmaals: dit nadat de VS deze eeuw al 4 keer bewezen heeft gelogen over zaken, waarop het een illegale oorlog begon (de 4de keer, middels de oorlog tegen Syrië. Deze oorlog wordt nog steeds als een binnenlandse aangelegenheid gezien, terwijl de VS zelfs al sinds Reagan bezig was met het plannen van een coup in Syrië*, zo bleek uit officiële CIA documenten op Wikileaks gepubliceerd (daarover zal ik op een later tijdstip berichten)

Jammer dat Whitney in zijn artikel Oekraïne noemt als land, waar Rusland de VS blokkeerde in haar pogingen een hen welwillende regering te installeren en de boel daarmee overnemend. Deze poging is wel degelijk geslaagd en het lullige is, dat Rusland daar niets tegen heeft kunnen doen. Sterker nog: ondanks alle leugens is er alweer totaal geen bewijs voor Russische militaire actie in het oosten van Oekraïne……. Alweer: deze leugen, ofwel ‘fake news’ over Russische acties in Oost-Oekraïne, werd en wordt door dezelfde reguliere westerse mediaorganen en politici volgehouden als waarheid……..

Wat betreft De Krim was het juist de bevolking, ook de oorspronkelijke, die in een door internationale waarnemers goedgekeurd referendum, besloot zich bij Rusland aan te sluiten! Dit is op zeker te danken aan het feit, dat de bevolking van De Krim goed pissig was over de VS geregisseerde opstand en staatsgreep (met 4 miljard dollar!!) tegen de ook door hen democratisch gekozen president Janoekovytsj….. Waar de klap op de spreekwoordelijke vuurpijl bestond uit de door de VS geparachuteerde neonazi-junta van Porosjenko, een junta waaronder de bevolking van De Krim terecht niet wenste te leven!!

Ook deze aansluiting van De Krim bij Rusland wordt door de reguliere westerse media, politici en oorlogshitsers in de NAVO voorgesteld als een agressieve Russische daad: De Krim zou zijn geannexeerd door Rusland……

Verder een prima artikel van Whitney (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’):

The
Russian Hacking Fiasco

By
Mike Whitney

May
13, 2017 “Information
Clearing House” -There’s no proof that Russia hacked the
US elections.

There’s
no proof that Russian officials or Russian agents colluded with
members of the Trump campaign.

There’s
no proof that Russia provided material support of any kind for the
Trump campaign or that Russian agents hacked Hillary Clinton’s
emails or that Russian officials provided Wikileaks with emails that
were intended to sabotage Hillary’s chances to win the
election.

So
far, no one in any of the 17 US intelligence agencies has
stepped forward and verified the claims of Russian meddling or
produced a scintilla of hard evidence that Russia was in anyway
involved in the 2016 elections.

No
proof means no proof.  It means that the people and
organizations that are making these uncorroborated claims have no
basis for legal action, no presumption of wrongdoing, and no grounds
for prosecution. They have nothing. Zilch.  Their claims,
charges and accusations are like the soap bubbles we give
to our children and grandchildren. The brightly-colored
bubbles wobble across the sky for a minute or two and then,
Poof, they vanish into the ether. The claims of Russia hacking are
like these bubbles. They are empty, unsubstantiated rumors
completely devoid of substance. Poof.

It
has been eight months since the inception of
this unprecedentedly-pathetic and
infinitely-irritating propaganda campaign, and in those eight
months neither the media nor the politicos nor the Intel agents who
claim to be certain that Russia meddled in US elections, have
produced anything that even remotely resembles evidence. Instead,
they have trotted out the same lie over and over again ad
nauseam from every newspaper, every tabloid and every televised
news program in the country. Over and over and over again. The
media’s persistence is nearly as impressive as its
cynicism, which is the one quality that they seem to have
mastered. The coverage has been relentless, ubiquitous,
pernicious and mendacious. The only problem is that there’s
not a grain of truth to any of it. It is all 100 percent, unalloyed
baloney.

So
it doesn’t matter how many Democratic senators and congressmen
disgrace themselves by lighting their hair on fire and
howling about “evil Putin” or the imaginary “threats to our
precious democracy”. Nor does it matter how many hyperbolic
articles appear in media alleging sinister activities and
espionage by diabolical Moscow Central.  It doesn’t
matter because there is have absolutely zero solid evidence to
support their ludicrous and entirely politically-based claims.

Whether
Russia was involved in the US elections or not, is a matter of
pure speculation. But speculation is not sufficient grounds for
appointing a special prosecutor, nor are the lies and misinformation
that appear daily in our leading newspapers, like the
dissembling New York Times, the dissemblingWashington Post and
the dissembling Wall Street Journal. The call for a special
prosecutor is not based on evidence, it is based on politics, the
politics of personal destruction. The Democrats and the media want
this tool so they can rummage through whatever private
information or paperwork anyone in the Trump administration
might possess. So while they might not dig up anything relevant to
the Russia hacking investigation, they will certainly gather
enough sordid or suspicious information to annihilate the
people in their crosshairs. And that’s precisely what
the special prosecutor provision is designed to do; it provides
the  administration’s rivals with the weapons they
need to conduct a massive fishing expedition aimed at character
assassination and, ultimately, impeachment.

But,
why?

Because
Donald Trump had the audacity to win an election that was earmarked
for establishment favorite and globalist warmonger-in-chief,
Hillary Clinton. That’s what this witch hunt is all about, sour
grapes.

But
why has Russia been chosen as the target in this deep state-media
scam? What has Russia done to deserve all the negative press and
unsupported claims of criminal meddling?

That’s
easy. Just look at a map. For the last 16 years, the US has been
rampaging across North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Washington intends to control critical oil and natural gas reserves
in the ME, establish military bases across Central Asia, and remain
the dominant player in an area of that is set to become the most
populous and prosperous region of the world. It’s the Great Game
all over again, only this time-around, Uncle Sam is in the drivers
seat not the Queen of England.

But
one country has upset that plan, blocked that plan, derailed that
plan.


Russia.

Russia
has stopped Washington’s murderous marauding and genocidal
depredations in Ukraine and Syria, which is why the US foreign
policy establishment is so pissed-off.  US elites aren’t used
to obstacles.

For
the last quarter of a century– since the fall of the Berlin
Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union– the world had
been Washington’s oyster. If the president of the United
States  wanted to invade a country in the Middle East, kill a
million people, and leave the place in a smoldering pile of rubble,
then who could stop him? 

Nobody. Because Washington owns this fucking planet and everyone else
is just a visitor.

Capisce?

But
now all that’s changed. Now “evil Putin” has thrown up a
roadblock to US hegemony in Syria and Ukraine. Now Washington’s
landbridge to Central Asia has been split in two, and
its plan to control vital pipeline corridors from Qatar to the
EU is no longer viable. Russia has stopped Washington
dead-in-its tracks and Washington is furious.

The
anti-Russia hysteria in the western media is equal to the pain the US
foreign policy establishment is currently experiencing. And the
reason the foreign policy establishment is in so much pain, is
because they are not getting their way.  It’s that simple.
Their global strategy is in a shambles because Russia will not let
them topple the Syrian government, install their own puppet regime,
redraw the map of the Middle East, run roughshod over international
law, and tighten their grip on another battered war-torn part of
the world.


So
now Russia must pay. Putin must be demonized and derided. The
American people must be taught to hate Russia and all-things Russian.
And, most of all, Russia must be blamed for anything and everything
under the sun, including the firing of a completely worthless
sack of shit FBI Director, James Comey, who– at various times
in his career– “approved or defended some of the worst abuses of
the Bush administration….including  torture,
warrantless wiretapping, and indefinite detention.” (ACLU)

This
is the low-down, good-for-nothing scalawag that the Democrats
are now defending tooth in nail.

It’s
pathetic.

Russia
has become the all-purpose punching bag because
Washington’s plans for global domination have gone up in smoke.

The truth
is, Putin’s done us all a big favor.


Mike
Whitney lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK
Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle
edition. He
can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.


This
article was first published by Counterpunch

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* Zie: ‘US Plans to Topple Assad Family Go Back Six Presidents, CIA Doc Reveals‘

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Julian Assange maakt gehakt van VS oproep hem te arresteren

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

CIA topgraaier Pompeo, gaf in zijn eerste openbare toespraak Wikileaks (en daarmee Assange) onderuit de zak. Wikileaks zou een vijandige niet-staatsgebonden inlichtingenorganisatie zijn….. Dit terwijl Wikileaks tezelfdertijd de Vault 7 documenten betreffende de smerige zaken van de CIA naar buiten bracht, Documenten waaruit juist blijkt, dat de CIA een uiterst agressieve organisatie is, die onder en boven de wet staat en met haar arsenaal aan cyberoorlog middelen voor elk land (bedrijf of zelfs persoon) op aarde een gevaar is (zoals de geschiedenis van de CIA uit en te na heeft bewezen)……

CNN berichtte uit ‘betrouwbare bron’ dat procureur-generaal van het departement van justitie, Jeff Sessions, bezig is uit te zoeken, hoe Assange te arresteren……..

Wat betreft Pompeo en zijn CIA is het wel duidelijk dat ze de oorlog hebben verklaard aan klokkenluiders en sites als Wikileaks, dit is dan ook het uitgangspunt voor de reactie die Assange gaf op het e.e.a.

Volgens Assange heeft de bevolking van de VS het grondwettelijk recht op openheid en transparantie wat betreft het opereren van haar overheid, met zijn reactie hoopt Assange daarvoor de ogen te openen bij deze bevolking.

Terecht stelde Assange, dat Pompeo de VS vergelijkt met een dictatuur, doordat hij stelde dat Wikileaks wel de VS aanvalt, maar niet dictaturen waar de vrijheid van meningsuiting niet bestaat, terwijl Pompeo nu juist die vrijheid van meningsuiting wil aanpakken…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Nogmaals: de VS bevolking heeft zelfs het grondwettelijk recht te weten, hoe haar regering te werk gaat……. Assange zei bovendien dat Pompeo met een kulargument komt, daar Wikileaks wel degelijk hele dossiers heeft gepubliceerd over buitenlandse machthebbers…..

Assange spreekt over de ‘Pompeo doctrine’, waarmee hij de bedoeling van Pompeo en zijn CIA noemt: het aanpakken van onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalistiek en mensenrechtenorganisaties, die hij precies als Wikileaks het zwijgen wil opleggen…….

Lees hier het artikel van Webb dat Anti-Media gisteren publiceerde over deze zaak:

Julian
Assange Responds To U.S. Calls For Arrest

Julian Assange Responds To U.S. Calls For Arrest

April
27, 2017 at 11:02 am

Written
by Anti-Media
News Desk

(MPN) In
his first speech as CIA Director, Mike Pompeo delivered a strong
invective against the pro-transparency organization
WikiLeaks, accusing
the group of
acting as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.” The
aggressive rhetoric came amid Wikileaks’ latest
series of releases,
known as “Vault
7,”
which detail how the CIA has lost control of its cyber-warfare
arsenal, as well as outline the agency’s attempts to infect
consumer technology products with spyware.

While
Pompeo’s statements regarding WikiLeaks have made headlines since
he took the CIA position, much has happened in the two weeks since
his remarks. Within a week, CNN – citing anonymous “intelligence
community” sources – announced that the Justice Department, led
by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, was seeking
the arrest of
Wikileaks editor Julian Assange. According to the report, the
department had found a way to legally charge Assange for the
publishing of classified information.

Sessions
all but confirmed the CNN report soon after stating that arresting
Assange was a “priority.” Trump,
who only six months ago stated
his “love” for WikiLeaks during
a campaign speech, told
the Associated Press a
day later that arresting Assange is “OK with me.”

Assange
had yet to fully respond to the charges until just recently,
responding to the Trump administration’s stance on WikiLeaks only
in tweets. But on Tuesday, Assange gave voice to his position on the
increasing aggressiveness of the Trump administration in a
full-length op-ed for
the Washington
Post titled
“The CIA director is waging war on truth-tellers like WikiLeaks.”

With
his editorial, Assange seeks to remind American citizens that they
have a constitutional right to receive honest information about their
government – information that is provided by WikiLeaks and hidden
by government authorities. Assange notes that such attempts to keep
the public in the dark are similar to “attempts throughout history
by bureaucrats seeking, and failing, to criminalize speech that
reveals their own failings.”

Assange
paid particular attention to Pompeo’s assertions that WikiLeaks is
“hostile” for focusing on the “democratic” United States as
opposed to “autocratic regimes in this world that actually suppress
free speech and dissent.” Assange noted that this statement was
quite ironic, comparing the U.S. to autocratic regimes that stifle
free speech.

“In
fact, Pompeo finds himself in the unsavory company of Recep Tayyip
Erdogan of Turkey (257,934 documents published by WikiLeaks); Bashar
al-Assad of Syria (2.3 million documents); and the dictatorship in
Saudi Arabia (122,609 documents),” Assange wrote.

The
greatest warning within Assange’s editorial, however, focuses on
the “Pompeo doctrine” laid out in the CIA director’s speech, a
doctrine that “ensnares all serious news and investigative human
rights organizations,” as these groups, like WikiLeaks, seek to
expose government wrongdoing and incompetence. Assange concluded “the
world cannot afford, and the Constitution does not permit, a muzzle
placed on the work that transparency organizations do to inform the
American and global public.”

Assange’s
editorial largely focused on Pompeo’s speech, skimming over the
recent statements by Attorney General Sessions and President Trump.
But Session’s
comments reveal
that leaks of classified information in general are not necessarily
as problematic as leaks published specifically by WikiLeaks.

“We
are going to step up our effort and already are stepping up our
efforts on all leaks,” Sessions said at a news conference last
Thursday. “This is a matter that’s gone beyond anything I’m
aware of. We have professionals that have been in the security
business of the United States for many years that are shocked by the
number of leaks and some of them are quite serious,” he added.

However,
many of these “unprecedented” leaks that have taken place since
the Trump administration came to power were given not to WikiLeaks,
but to the Washington
Post and
the New
York Times,
organizations that have not been targeted for legal action by
Sessions.

The
leaks published
by the Post and
the Times resulted
in major controversy for the Trump administration and cost former
National Security advisor Michael Flynn his job while also putting
Sessions himself in the crosshairs. WikiLeaks’ “Vault 7”
releases, which have exposed negligence and wrong-doing on the part
of the CIA, are the only releases they’ve provided this year that
have explicitly targeted the U.S. government. But they are the only
organization that has come under threat.

Perhaps
what Sessions meant to say last Thursday was that the Justice
Department is stepping up its efforts to contain leaks published by
WikiLeaks. Leaks published by other media outlets, like the
CIA-connected Washington
Post,
are apparently not worth their time


By Whitney
Webb /
Republished with permission / MintPress
News / Report
a typo

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Kind van 4 getaserd en één van 3 onder dwang gekatheteriseerd……. Dagelijkse terreurpraktijk in politiestaat VS……

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Dat de VS de laatste decennia is veranderd in een politiestaat zal velen niet verbazen. Echter waar dit mee gepaard gaat, doet je de haren ten berge stijgen.

Het volgende artikel van Information Clearing House ontving ik afgelopen woensdag en hierin een aantal voorbeelden, van wat je als burger in de VS kan overkomen en hoe je daar tegen te verzetten (indien mogelijk). De leeftijden van de mensen in de voorbeelden, lopen uiteen van 3 jaar tot 95 jaar oud……..

Zo kan het kinderen van 4 jaar overkomen, dat ze door de politie of andere overheidsambtenaren worden geboeid (van handen en/of voeten) of getaserd (dat is een grove marteling!), ook kan het voorkomen, dat ze onder schot worden gehouden……… Dit omdat ze niet gehoorzamen en/of kinderachtig gedrag vertonen…….

Een 3 jarige jongen, die nog niet zindelijk was en dus niet in staat was een urine monster af te geven, werd door sociaal werkers tegen de grond gehouden, waarna een ‘verpleger’ hem schreeuwend van de pijn een katheter in de penis aangebracht………

Wat u ervan vindt weet ik niet, maar voor mij is dit alles een heel smerige vorm van overheidsterreur!!.

Zoals al vaak op deze plek gezegd: aan zo’n ‘land’ levert Nederland niet alleen haar burgers uit, maar ook burgers uit andere landen…….. Dezelfde VS waar men het ‘plea bargain’ hanteert: je kan in veel gevallen beter schuld bekennen, zelfs al heb je niet gedaan, waarvan je wordt verdacht, daar je anders grote kans loopt een fiks hogere straf te krijgen (nogmaals: ook al ben je onschuldig…)……

Lees en huiver (onder het artikel kan u voor een ‘Dutch vertaling’ klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

Run
for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You



By
John W. Whitehead



“We’ve
reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and
vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where
police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and
colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures
aren’t to nab kingpins or cartels, but people who at worst are
hiding an amount of drugs that can fit into a body cavity. In most of
these cases, they were suspected only of possession or ingestion.
Many of them were innocent… But these tactics aren’t about
getting drugs off the street… These
tactics are instead about degrading and humiliating a class of people
that politicians and law enforcement have deemed the enemy.” – Radley
Balko, The
Washington Post

April
19, 2017 “Information
Clearing House” –  Daily, all across America,
individuals who dare to resist—or even question—a police order
are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse
ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside
strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts
that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them bloodied and
bruised.

Americans
as young as 4 years old are being leg
shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held
at gun point for
not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e.,
not being compliant enough.

Government
social workers actually subjected
a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization after
he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand (the boy
still wasn’t potty trained). The boy was held down, screaming
in pain,
while nurses forcibly inserted a tube into his penis to drain his
bladder—all of this done because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend
had failed a urine analysis for drugs.

Americans
as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an
order, hesitating
in the face of a directive,
and mistaking
a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking
into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.

Consider
what happened to David Dao, the United Airlines passenger who was
accosted by three police, forcibly wrenched from his seat across the
armrest, bloodying his face in the process, and dragged down the
aisle by the arms merely
for refusing to relinquish his paid seat after
the airline chose him randomly to be bumped from the flight—after
being checked in and allowed to board—so that airline workers could
make a connecting flight.

Those
with ADHD, autism, hearing impairments, dementia or some other
disability that can hinder communication in the slightest way are in
even greater danger of having their actions misconstrued by police.
Police shot
a 73-year-old-man with dementia seven times after
he allegedly failed to respond to orders to stop approaching and
remove his hands from his jacket. The man was unarmed and had been
holding a crucifix.

Clearly,
it no longer matters where you live.

Big
city or small town: it’s the same scenario being played out over
and over again in which government agents, hyped up on their own
authority and the power of their uniform, ride roughshod over the
citizenry who—in the eyes of the government—are viewed as having
no rights.

Our
freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—continue to be torn
asunder by the prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they
have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat
down, taser, and arrest any individual
at any time
and for the slightest provocation.

Forced
cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced
breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans,
forced inclusion in biometric databases—these are just a few ways
in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control
over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government
officials.

For
instance, during a “routine” traffic stop for allegedly “rolling”
through a stop sign, Charnesia Corley was thrown to the ground,
stripped of her clothes, and forced to spread her legs while Texas
police officers subjected her to a roadside
cavity probe,
all because they claimed to have smelled marijuana in her car.

Angel
Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, were pulled over by a Texas
state trooper for allegedly flicking cigarette butts out of the car
window. Insisting that he smelled marijuana, the trooper proceeded to
interrogate them and search the car. Despite the fact that both women
denied smoking or possessing any marijuana, the police officer then
called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity
search, sticking
her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina,
then performing the same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the
same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found.

Leila
Tarantino was subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view
of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two
children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second
strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female
officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino.
Nothing illegal was found.

David
Eckert was forced to undergo an
anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy after
allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Cops justified the searches on the grounds that they suspected Eckert
was carrying drugs because his “posture [was] erect” and “he
kept his legs together.” No drugs were found.

Meanwhile,
four Milwaukee police officers were charged with carrying out rectal
searches of suspects on the street and in police district stations
over the course of several years. One of the officers was accused of
conducting searches of men’s anal and scrotal areas,
often inserting
his fingers into their rectums and
leaving some of his victims with bleeding rectums.

Incidents
like these—sanctioned by the courts and conveniently overlooked by
the legislatures—teach Americans of every age and skin color the
painful lesson that there are no limits to what the government can do
in its so-called “pursuit” of law and order.

If
this is a war, then “we the people” are the enemy.

As
Radley Balko notes in The
Washington Post,
“When you’re at war, it’s important to dehumanize your enemy.
And there’s nothing more dehumanizing than forcibly and painfully
invading someone’s body — all
the better if you can involve the sex organs.”

The
message being beaten, shot, tasered, probed and slammed into our
collective consciousness is simply this: it doesn’t matter if
you’re in the right, it doesn’t matter if a cop is in the wrong,
it doesn’t matter if you’re being treated with less than the
respect you deserve or the law demands.

The
only thing that matters to the American police state is that you
comply, submit, respect authority and generally obey without question
whatever a government official (anyone who wears a government
uniform, be it a police officer, social worker, petty bureaucrat or
zoning official) tells you to do.

This
is what happens when you allow the government to call the shots: it
becomes a bully.

As
history shows, this recipe for disaster works every time: take police
officers hyped up on their own authority and the power of the badge,
throw in a few court rulings suggesting that security takes
precedence over individual rights, set it against a backdrop of
endless wars and militarized law enforcement, and then add to the mix
a populace distracted by entertainment, out of touch with the
workings of their government, and more inclined to let a few sorry
souls suffer injustice than to challenge the status quo.

“It
is not only under Nazi rule that police
excesses are inimical to freedom,”
warned former Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter in a 1946
ruling in Davis
v. United States:
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for
the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the
unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such
disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at
first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”

In
other words, if it could happen in Nazi Germany, it can just as
easily happen here.

It is happening
here.

Unfortunately,
we’ve been marching in lockstep with the police state for so long
that we’ve forgotten how to march to the tune of our own
revolutionary drummer. In fact, we’ve even forgotten the words to
the tune.

We’ve
learned the lessons of compliance too well.

For
too long, “we the people” have allowed the government to ride
roughshod over the Constitution, equating patriotism with blind
obedience to the government’s dictates, no matter how
unconstitutional or immoral those actions might be.

As
historian Howard Zinn recognized:

Our
problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all
over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their
government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed
because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient
all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and
stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are
obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while
the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem…
people are obedient, all these herdlike people.

What
can you do?

It’s
simple but as I detail in my book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People,
the consequences may be deadly.

Stop
being so obedient. Stop being so compliant and herdlike. Stop
kowtowing to anyone and everyone in uniform. Stop perpetuating the
false notion that those who work for the government—the president,
Congress, the courts, the military, the police—are in any way
superior to the rest of the citizenry. Stop playing politics with
your principles. Stop making excuses for the government’s growing
list of human rights abuses and crimes. Stop turning a blind eye to
the government’s corruption and wrongdoing and theft and murder.
Stop tolerating ineptitude and incompetence by government workers.
Stop allowing the government to treat you like a second-class
citizen. Stop censoring what you say and do for fear that you might
be labeled an extremist or worse, unpatriotic. Stop sitting silently
on the sidelines while the police state kills, plunders and maims
your fellow citizens.

Stop
being a slave.

As
anti-war activist Rosa Luxemburg concluded, “Those who do not move,
do not notice their chains.”

You
may not realize it yet, but you are not free.

If
you believe otherwise, it is only because you have made no real
attempt to exercise your freedoms.

Had
you attempted to exercise your freedoms before now by questioning a
police officer’s authority, challenging an unjust tax or fine,
protesting the government’s endless wars, defending your right to
privacy against the intrusion of surveillance cameras, or any other
effort that challenges the government’s power grabs and the
generally lopsided status quo, you would have already learned the
hard way that the police state has no appetite for freedom and it
does not tolerate resistance.

This
is called authoritarianism, a.k.a. totalitarianism, a.k.a.
oppression.

As
Glenn Greenwald notes for
the Guardian:

Oppression
is designed to compel obedience and submission to authority. Those
who voluntarily put themselves in that state – by believing that
their institutions of authority are just and good and should be
followed rather than subverted – render oppression redundant,
unnecessary. Of course people who think and behave this way encounter
no oppression. That’s their reward for good, submissive behavior.
They are left alone by institutions of power because they comport
with the desired behavior of complacency and obedience without
further compulsion. But the fact that good, obedient citizens do not
themselves perceive oppression does not mean that oppression does not
exist.

Get
ready to stand your ground or run for your life, because the American
police state is coming to get you.

Constitutional
attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The
Rutherford Institute.
His new book Battlefield
America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks,
2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be
contacted at johnw@rutherford.org.

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for Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish, French,
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Nog één opmerking: mensen we moeten oppassen, dat we hier niet dezelfde kant opgaan….. Onder het mom van de strijd tegen terreur, worden onze rechten in groot tempo afgebroken en voor we het weten, zitten we hier ook in een politiestaat, één waarvan Hitler had kunnen dromen toen hij ons land binnenviel…….. Dit terwijl de geheime diensten en politie in binnen en buitenland hun werk niet doen. Neem de aanslag van gisteravond in Parijs, de dader was al een paar jaar in het vizier van de geheime dienst en de politie (voor de zoveelste keer)………. Reken maar dat men niet alleen in Frankrijk om nog meer antiterreurmaatregelen zal schreeuwen, maatregelen die een politiestaat in wording ten goede komen……….

Zie ook:

‘Taser pilot project mislukt en toch mag de politie dit dodelijke martelwapen blijven gebruiken……..‘

‘Demente bejaarde van 73 getaserd: politie en verplegend personeel wisten niet dat dit tegen de regels is…….‘

‘Taser martelwerktuig maakt zoveelste slachtoffer, politie NL werkt gewoon door met dit barbaarse onding…….‘

‘Hans Schoones (politievakbond) wil het stroomstootwapen, niet de verlengde wapenstok…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Taser wapen onschadelijk? Een enorme leugen!‘

‘Segers, god’s eigen rentmeester wil martelen met stroomstootwapens‘

‘Teeven tasert softdrugsgebruikers‘

‘Opstelten en Teeven bestrijden de door henzelf veroorzaakte ellende‘

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt (nog) niet voor de labels: Balko en Zinn. .

Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving, kreeg e.e.a. niet op orde.

Bedrijven maken veelal de dienst uit, ten koste van de democratie, op naar de nieuwe fascistische orde!!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Het volgende artikel van Chris Hedges (en Matt Taibbi in de bijgevoegde video) op Information Clearing House (overgenomen van ‘Truth Dig’) handelt over de neergang van de democratie en haar instituties t.b.v. grote bedrijven, banken en het militair-industrieel complex, noodzakelijk voor de uiteindelijk beoogde fascistisch machtsovername…… (Bedrijven functioneren uitstekend in een fascistische staat….)

De vakbonden zijn verworden tot grote instituties waar kapitalen worden verspild en die nog amper van enige betekenis zijn. De reguliere (massa-) media zijn in handen van enkele figuren en dienen als eerste het belang van die topgraaiers en vervolgens het belang van de zittende neoliberale regering (althans als die goed voor de bedrijven werkt….). Wat betreft de publieke zendgemachtigden, zoals de BBC (en de NOS in ons land), is het dienen van het belang van de zittende regering overduidelijk….. Ach ja, wiens brood men eet……….

Het is in ons land al zo zot, dat men het normaal vindt, dat de Eerste Kamer bestaat uit figuren die in het (grote) bedrijfsleven werkzaam zijn en uiteraard lobbyen voor die bedrijven (bedrijven inclusief de financiële maffia en het militair-industrieel complex….). Een zienswijze die wordt gedeeld door de reguliere massamedia……..

In de VS gaat men zover, dat kritische studenten worden weggezuiverd van de universiteiten……. Ook de rechterlijke macht fungeert, meer en meer als een klassen-justitieel systeem, waar de belangen van het neoliberalisme worden gediend…… Dat geldt overigens ook voor een groot deel voor Nederland, zo besloot vanmorgen de hoogste bestuursrechter in Nederland, de Raad van State, dat er naar gas mag worden geboord bij Terschelling……..* (klik ook op het label ‘klassenjustitie’, dat u onder dit bericht terugvindt).

Lees dit uitstekende artikel en zie de bijgevoegde video (onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The
Elites Won’t Save Us

By
Chris Hedges

February
13, 2017 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Truth
Dig” – The four-decade-long assault on our democratic
institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely
dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy
and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our
firewall. Instead, they are tottering under the onslaught. 

Labor
unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted.
Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars
who criticize neoliberalism and
decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties.
Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life
support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers
were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that
continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is
how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet
seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall
Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit
from a Trump debacle.

“The
biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic,
corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph
Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If
the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to
implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about
the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO.
They don’t control the train.”

The
loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country
into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts,
universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of
Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites.
These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a
society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling
ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly
betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press
as the “opposition
party,” threaten to cut off university
funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called
judge” and denounce
a court order as “outrageous.”

The
decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of
authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to
a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an
Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered
voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only
39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic
institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity
the White House issues.

Most
of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public
comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and
institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters,
rejected this political and cultural etiquette.

Hannah
Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that
when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept
patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become
pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about
our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical
dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote,
infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for
courage and a new style of life.”

“He
is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of
Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price.
He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women,
commercializing the White House, I am the law.”

Nader
said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump
or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its
chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the
Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a
serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous
protests that have been mounted in
the streets, at
town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points
such as Standing
Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within
the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate
with Trump’s authoritarianism.

“The
new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil
servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution,
not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the
co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes
in The Washington Post. (WaPo) “One of Trump’s first acts as
president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and
existing positions except those related to the military, national
security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure
1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of
individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving
in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing
of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the
president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the
bureaucracy.”

A
sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and
noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The
elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them
afraid we will fail.

The
four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by
corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These
institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to
serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Instead,
they are tottering under the onslaught. 

Labor
unions are a spent force. The press is corporatized and distrusted.
Universities have been purged of dissidents and independent scholars
who criticize neoliberalism and
decry the decay of democratic institutions and political parties.
Public broadcasting and the arts have been defunded and left on life
support. The courts have been stacked with judges whose legal careers
were spent serving corporate power, a trend in appointments that
continued under Barack Obama. Money has replaced the vote, which is
how someone as unqualified as Betsy DeVos can buy herself a Cabinet
seat. And the Democratic Party, rather than sever its ties to Wall
Street and corporations, is naively waiting in the wings to profit
from a Trump debacle.

“The
biggest asset Trump has is the decadent, clueless, narcissistic,
corporate-indentured, war-mongering Democratic Party,” Ralph
Nader said when I reached him by phone in Washington. “If
the Democratic strategy is waiting for Godot, waiting for Trump to
implode, we are in trouble. And just about everything you say about
the Democrats you can say about the AFL-CIO.
They don’t control the train.”

The
loss of credibility by democratic institutions has thrust the country
into an existential as well as economic crisis. The courts,
universities and press are no longer trusted by tens of millions of
Americans who correctly see them as organs of the corporate elites.
These institutions are traditionally the mechanisms by which a
society is able to unmask the lies of the powerful, critique ruling
ideologies and promote justice. Because Americans have been bitterly
betrayed by their institutions, the Trump regime can attack the press
as the “opposition
party,” threaten to cut off university
funding, taunt a federal jurist as a “so-called
judge” and denounce
a court order as “outrageous.”

The
decay of democratic institutions is the prerequisite for the rise of
authoritarian or fascist regimes. This decay has given credibility to
a pathological liar. The Trump administration, according to an
Emerson College poll, is considered by 49 percent of registered
voters to be truthful while the media are considered truthful by only
39 percent of registered voters. Once American democratic
institutions no longer function, reality becomes whatever absurdity
the White House issues.

Most
of the rules of democracy are unwritten. These rules determine public
comportment and ensure respect for democratic norms, procedures and
institutions. President Trump has, to the delight of his supporters,
rejected this political and cultural etiquette.

Hannah
Arendt in “The Origins of Totalitarianism” noted that
when democratic institutions collapse it is “easier to accept
patently absurd propositions than the old truths which have become
pious banalities.” The chatter of the liberal ruling elites about
our democracy is itself an absurdity. “Vulgarity with its cynical
dismissal of respected standards and accepted theories,” she wrote,
infects political discourse. This vulgarity is “mistaken for
courage and a new style of life.”

“He
is destroying one code of behavior after another,” Nader said of
Trump. “He is so far getting away with it and not paying a price.
He is breaking standards of behavior—what he says about women,
commercializing the White House, I am the law.”

Nader
said he does not think the Republican Party will turn against Trump
or consider impeachment unless his presidency appears to threaten its
chances of retaining power in the 2018 elections. Nader sees the
Democratic Party as too “decadent and incompetent” to mount a
serious challenge to Trump. Hope, he said, comes from the numerous
protests that have been mounted in
the streets, at
town halls held by members of Congress and at flash points
such as Standing
Rock. It may also come from the 2.5 million civil servants within
the federal government if a significant number refuse to cooperate
with Trump’s authoritarianism.

“The
new president is clearly aware of the power wielded by civil
servants, who swear an oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution,
not to any president or administration,” Maria J. Stephan, the
co-author of “Why Civil Resistance Works,” writes
in The Washington Post. “One of Trump’s first acts as
president was a sweeping federal hiring freeze affecting all new and
existing positions except those related to the military, national
security and public safety. Even before Trump’s inauguration, the
Republican-controlled House of Representatives reinstated an obscure
1876 rule that would allow Congress to slash the salaries of
individual federal workers. This was a clear warning to those serving
in government to keep their heads down. Trump’s high-profile firing
of acting attorney general Sally Yates, who refused to follow the
president’s immigration ban, sent shock waves through the
bureaucracy.”

A
sustained, nationwide popular uprising of nonviolent obstruction and
noncooperation is the only weapon left to save the republic. The
elites will respond once they become afraid. If we do not make them
afraid we will fail.

Chris
Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in
Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has
reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian
Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and
The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15
years.

The
views expressed in this article are solely those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information
Clearing House.

“Insane
Clown President”

Chris
Hedges and Matt Taibbi

Video

How a reality TV
star became our president.

Chris Hedges examines the spectacle
of the 2016 presidential election and the system that created
President Donald Trump with Matt Taibbi, author of “Insane Clown
President”.

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* Lees en teken a.u.b. de petitie tegen gasboringen bij Terschelling!

Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Arendt, Nader, M.J. Stephan en Taibbi.

Facebook gaat ‘nepnieuws’ (of: ‘fake news’) censureren………..

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Vorige week al gemeld, maar toch nog maar even aandacht voor het volgende beste lezer: Facebook gaat nieuws laten checken door een aantal grote dagbladen* en als volgens minstens twee van deze dagbladen wordt gesteld dat e.e.a. niet op feiten berust, wordt er een aantekening bij het bericht gezet, dat het bericht ‘niet op feiten berust……’ Ook zullen deze berichten heel laag, of helemaal niet in de zoekresultaten terug te vinden zijn……….

Facebook is nu bezig de boel voor Frankrijk op poten te zetten, waar o.a. Le Monde als ‘fact checker’ is aangewezen, in Duitsland schijnt deze censuur volgens BNR (gistermiddag rond 16.37 u.) al te ‘werken….’ 

In de VS gaan onder andere de Washington Post (WaPo) en de New York Times berichten op feiten controleren……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Terwijl dit groot-leveranciers zijn van nepnieuws!!! Neem de berichten over Russische hacks en beïnvloeding van de verkiezingen, geen snipper bewijs en toch houdt men deze leugen overeind…… 

Een vergelijkbare situatie wat betreft alle leugens (middels nepnieuws) die tot de grootste terreurdaad van deze eeuw heeft geleid: de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, begonnen door de VS (ook met Nederlandse steun en voorbereiding) die tot nu toe al meer dan 1,5 miljoen Irakezen het leven heeft gekost, inclusief een groot aantal kinderen en vrouwen!!! 

Overigens, BNR wist niet te melden, dat Google met hetzelfde bezig is*.

U begrijpt uiteraard dat alle nepnieuws, dat door de reguliere media wordt gebracht, niet gecensureerd zal worden……. RT (Russia Today) wordt keer op keer aangewezen als brenger van nepnieuws, terwijl men werkelijk niet één voorbeeld kan geven, dat dit bewijst……….. 

* Zie:

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

Zie ook:

‘Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht over Facebook en Google)

‘Facebook en Google stellen Washington Post aan als ‘fact checker….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Facebook stelt ‘het geheel onafhankelijke en uiterst professionele’ NU.nl aan als ‘feitenchecker’, ofwel censuurorgaan… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Kees Boonman ‘geheel onafhankelijk’: laten we even kijken naar het feit dat de Russen afluisteren, uh inbreken bij Het Torentje……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

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

Facebook en Google stellen Washington Post aan als ‘fact checker….’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

BBC World Service radio, meldde afgelopen zaterdag na het nieuws van 10.00 u. (CET) dat Facebook en Google in de VS de strijd aanbinden met ‘nepnieuws’ (of ‘fake news’, wat u wilt). Daarvoor gaan deze internet bedrijven samenwerken met de Washington Post (WaPo) en ABC News…….. Deze 2 afhankelijke berichtgevers, die vooral veel nepnieuws brengen*, gaan de ‘nieuwsfeiten’ controleren voor Google en Facebook……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Voor Frankrijk is ook al een ‘fact checker’ gevonden: Le Monde…….

Kijkt u maar eens wat een ‘feitenbrij’ de Washington Post weet te produceren, klik daarvoor op het label ‘WaPo’ onder dit bericht.

* Neem de aanloop van- en de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, hetzelfde geldt voor Libië en Syrië; dan zijn dit nog maar 3 voorbeelden……..

Zie ook:

‘Facebooks departement voor censuur: een hoognodige uitleg over een maatregel die alleen in een dictatuur thuishoort‘ (zie ook de andere links over Facebook [en Google] in dat bericht’)

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

‘Facebook gaat ‘nepnieuws’ (of: ‘fake news’) censureren………..‘

‘Facebook stelt ‘het geheel onafhankelijke en uiterst professionele’ NU.nl aan als ‘feitenchecker’, ofwel censuurorgaan… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Kees Boonman ‘geheel onafhankelijk’: laten we even kijken naar het feit dat de Russen afluisteren, uh inbreken bij Het Torentje……… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

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

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

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

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

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

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

by Tyler
Durden

Dec
26, 2016

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

In
a statement, Obama
said that:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* *
*

Fast
forward to December
8, when
the “Countering
Disinformation and Propaganda Act”
passed in the Senate, quietly
inserted inside the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
Conference Report.

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

* *
*

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

President
Signs Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill into Law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* *
*

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

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

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Nepnieuws en nep media? Hoe de VS echte journalistiek het zwijgen oplegt……….

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Niet alleen door nep berichten via de reguliere media, bespelen deze mediaorganen de publieke opinie, maar deze organen proberen ook de alternatieve echte journalistiek het zwijgen op te leggen, zoals met de zwarte lijst, die de Washington Post (WP) publiceerde……. Daarnaast legt de overheid van de VS, als het even kan, met geweld de VS onwelgevallige echte journalisten het zwijgen op, niet alleen in het buitenland, maar ook binnen de eigen grenzen……

Op 10 december 2004 werd onderzoeksjournalist Gary Webb vermoord teruggevonden, dat wil zeggen, de overheid van de VS verklaarde het als suïcide…….. Webb zou zich het leven hebben benomen, door zich tweemaal door het hoofd te schieten…… Uiteraard werd Webb vermoord en wel in opdracht van de CIA, die hoogstwaarschijnlijk zelf de opdracht uitvoerde, dan wel door bendes waarmee de CIA samenwerkte……..

Na zijn dood ontstond er grote commotie, daar niemand het suïcide verhaal geloofde, op alle mogelijke manieren probeerde de overheid aan te tonen, dat het hier wel degelijk over suïcide ging….. Zelfs de vrouw van Webb werd zo onder druk gezet door de autoriteiten, ‘dat ze het met deze belachelijke conclusie eens was………’

Webb publiceerde over de cocaïne golf die de VS en m.n. Los Angelos overspoelde in de 80er jaren, het begin van de ‘crack epidemie’ in de VS. Webb toonde aan dat de CIA met de ‘Drug Ring’ zorgde dat grote hoeveelheden cocaïne L.A. bereikten…. Dit gebeurde middels een door de CIA opgezette leveringsroute tussen de drugskartels in Colombia en bepaalde wijken van Los Angelos (waar ook the Cribs en the Bloods hielpen met de verspreiding….)…..

Webb schreef een boek over deze zaak ‘Dark Allience’, aan de hand waarvan later ook een film zou worden gemaakt.

Overigens speelde ook de Washington Post in deze zaak een smerige rol, u weet wel dezelfde Washington Post, die met een zwarte lijst kwam van ‘nepnieuws verspreiders………….’

Met de cocaïne opbrengst bekostigde de CIA o.a. de contra’s in Nicaragua, die in dat land enorme oorlogsmisdaden begingen………….. De VS was later het eerste en enige land dat in de VN werd aangeklaagd voor staatsterreur, daar het mijnen liet leggen in de havens van Nicaragua

Op zaterdag 10 december jl. bracht Brasscheck TV het volgende bericht (herhaling uit 2014) met begeleidende video:

Silencing
real journalism

Today
is the anniversary of the day that investigative journalist Gary Webb
shot himself in the head TWICE.

Webb
is the man who documented the fact that the CIA was involved in
bringing tons of cocaine into the US that ended up on the streets of
America fueling the 1980s crack epidemic.

The
story you never heard…

Video:

Connecting
the dots: Crack, Contras, and the CIA

Gary
Webb before they blew him up


Zie ook: ‘CIA is de ‘legale’ drugsmaffia van de VS!!‘

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

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Op 7 november jl. werd het volgende artikel op Information Clearing House geplaatst. Hierin een vrij korte en uiterst scherpe analyse van de leugens die ons dagelijks door de strot worden geduwd, onder verantwoording van de westerse politiek en de westerse reguliere (afhankelijke) media.

Leugens die er zo dik bovenop liggen, dat je je werkelijk afvraagt, wie dat nog gelooft……. Neem ook de keuze voor de tweede keer, Saoedi-Arabië te benoemen tot voorzitter van de VN mensenrechtenorganisatie UNHRC…..* Saoedi-Arabië, de dictatuur waar de ‘Oranjes’ mee bevriend zijn……** S-A u weet wel de totaal losgeslagen reli-psychopaten, die van onthoofdingen ‘een openbaar feest’ maken, een regime dat schijt heeft aan alle mensenrechten, waar arbeiders uit arme landen op een vreselijke manier worden misbruikt en uitgenomen (waarvoor maar één woord past: slavernij), het land dat in buurland Jemen, de ene grote oorlogsmisdaad na de andere begaat……..

Zoals op deze plek al vaker aangehaald, ook de leugens over ‘de enorme agressie van Rusland’, waarvoor u dagelijks wordt gewaarschuwd door politiek en reguliere media, wordt in dit artikel besproken en vergeleken met het: ‘vredelievende’ VS….. De VS dat de ene illegale oorlog na de andere begint en het niet laten kan VS niet welgevallige (democratisch geregeerde) regimes als Venezuela omver te werpen, eerst met economische maatregelen als boycots en als dat niet lukt middels het organiseren van een opstand, alweer zoals in het geval van Venezuela, maar ook Oekraïne en een land als Honduras…… Als dat niet lukt, gaat men over tot totale oorlogsvoering tegen zo’n land…….

Hier het artikel:

Russophobia:
War Party Propaganda

The
world’s most reactionary regime, the head-chopping,
terror-sponsoring Saudi Arabian kleptocracy, was awarded the chair of
the UN Human Rights Council, while Russia has been kicked out. The
travesty was engineered by the Superpower of Lies to punish Moscow
for resisting the U.S.-led war of sectarian massacre and regime
change in Syria. The War Party is on the march, to the cheers of
corporate media – and Hillary hasn’t even been elected yet.

By
Margaret Kimberley

“All
attempts to stop the fighting were rejected by the U.S. and NATO and
sealed the fate of the Syrian people.”

November
06, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– “BAR”
– Did Russia invade Iraq and kill one million people? Does
Russia have a greater percentage of its population behind bars than
any other country in the world? Did Russia occupy Haiti after
kidnapping its president? Are Russian police allowed to shoot
children to death without fear of repercussion? Is Russia entering
its 20th year of a terror war against the people of Somalia? All of
these crimes take place in or at the direction of the United States.
Yet the full force of propaganda and influence on world opinion is
directed against Russia, which whatever its shortcomings cannot hold
a candle to America in violating human rights.

The
dangers presented by a Hillary Clinton presidency cannot be
overstated. She and the war party have been steadily working towards
a goal that defies logic and risks all life on earth. Regime
change is once again their modus operandi and they hope to
make it a reality against Russia.

Nearly
every claim of Russian evil doing is a lie, a ruse meant to put
Americans in a fighting mood and lose their fear of nuclear
conflagration. It isn’t clear if Clinton and the rest of the
would-be warriors actually realize they are risking mushroom clouds.
Perhaps they believe that Vladimir Putin will be easily pushed around
when all evidence points to the contrary.

The
unproven allegations of interference in the presidential election and
casting blame on Russia as the sole cause of suffering in Syria are
meant to desensitize the public. It is an age old ploy which makes
war not just acceptable but deemed a necessity. The usual suspects
are helping out eagerly. The corporate media, led by newspapers like
the New
York Times and Washington
Post (WP),
are front and center in pushing tales of Russian villainy. Human
Rights Watch and other organizations who care nothing about abuses
committed by the United States and its allies are also playing their
usual role of choosing the next regime change victim.

Russia
lost its seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in part
because of American pressure and public relations assistance from the
human rights industrial complex. The UNHRC is now chaired by Saudi
Arabia. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that funds the jihadist
terrorist groups who caused 500,000 Syrian deaths. The Saudis are
causing dislocation, death and starvation in Yemen, too, but they are
American allies, so there is little opposition to their misdeeds.

The
openly bigoted Donald Trump has been the perfect foil for Hillary
Clinton. That is why she and the rest of the Democratic Party
leadership preferred him as their rival. He made the case for the
discredited lesser evilism argument and his sensible statements about
avoiding enmity with Russia made him even more useful.

The
United States and its allies are the cause of Syria’s destruction.
Their effort to overthrow president Assad created a humanitarian
disaster complete with ISIS and al Nusra fighters who love to chop
off heads for entertainment. Far from being the cause of the
catastrophe Russia left its ally to fight alone for four years. They
even made overtures to negotiate Assad’s
fate with the United States. All attempts to stop the fighting were
rejected by the U.S. and NATO and sealed the fate of the Syrian
people. The people of east Aleppo are being shelled by American
allies but one wouldn’t know that by reading what passes for
journalism in newspapers and on television. The American role in the
slaughter is barely mentioned or is excused as an effort to protect
the civilian population. The bloodshed was made in the U.S. and could
end if this government wanted it to.

The
anti-Russian propaganda effort has worked to perfection. NATO is
massing troops on Russia’s borders in a clear provocation yet Putin
is labeled the bad guy. He is said to be menacing the countries that
join in threatening his nation. The United States makes phony claims
of Russian war crimes despite having blood on its hands. The latest
Human Rights Watch canards about prosecuting Assad come straight from
the White House and State Department and have nothing to do with
concern for Syrians living in their fifth year of hell.

There
is no lesser evil between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. She is
fully supported by the war party in her desire for a more “muscular”
foreign policy. That bizarre term means death and starvation for
millions more people if Clinton wins in a landslide. She must be
denied a victory of that magnitude and any opportunity to claim a
mandate. Peace loving people must give their votes to the Green Party
ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka. They are alone in rejecting
the premise of an imperialist country and its endless wars.

The
United States is the most dangerous country in the world. If it has a
reckless and war loving president the threat becomes existential.
That is the prospect we face with a Hillary Clinton presidency. If
the role of villain is cast on the world stage she is the star of the
show.

Margaret
Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely
reprinted elsewhere. She maintains a frequently updated blog as well
as athttp://freedomrider.blogspot.com. Ms.
Kimberley lives in New York City, and can be reached via e-Mail at
Margaret.Kimberley(at)BlackAgendaReport.com.

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* Zie: ‘VN ethisch en moreel totaal failliet…….. Saoedi-Arabië alweer verkozen tot voorzitter UNHRC….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘


** Zoals bij de dood van de oude koning van S-A, waarvoor niet alleen Rutte afreisde, maar ook Willem Alexander…..


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

       en: ‘Aleppo: Sander van Hoorn met ongezouten anti-Russische propaganda, gebaseerd op ‘van horen en zeggen…….’‘

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

       en: ‘De Hoop Scheffer (ex-NAVO): de defensie begrotingen zijn totaal scheefgetrokken…….. ha ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Zeg dat wel, zeg dat wel!!!‘

       en: ‘NAVO gaat door met voorbereiding op oorlog tegen Rusland……. Grootste troepenopbouw sinds Koude Oorlog…… Gaat u gerust slapen!’

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Rutte en het Oekraïne-referendum, de tekst van het associatieverdrag moet ‘gewoon’ worden aangepast!!

Posted on by Willem Wachtmeester

Rutte heeft lak aan het Oekraïne-referendum, dat is geen nieuws, wel het bericht dat ik vanmorgen op Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten las. Rutte stelt in het buitenland, dat Nederland het associatieverdrag met Oekraïne niet zal ratificeren, als er geen juridische garanties komen, die de belangen van Nederland bewaken…….. Ik kan me toch niet herinneren, dat dit was opgenomen in het referendum……..

Het kan nog gekker mensen: hoe die Nederlandse belangen gewaarborgd moeten worden, weet Rutte niet. ‘Misschien moet de tekst (van het verdrag) veranderd worden…‘, ‘of er moet een oplossing gevonden worden, zonder de tekst te veranderen….‘, aldus de Washington Post, die Rutte citeerde (DWN nam het artikel over van de WaPo.).

Beste mensen, dat was het nog niet: Rutte wil wel met andere EU-lidstaten veranderingen doorvoeren, die tegemoetkomen aan de EU-sceptici in Nederland……... Excuseer: GODGLOEIENDEGODVERDOMME!!!

Rutte heeft de opdracht van het Nederlandse volk gekregen, het associatieverdrag niet te ratificeren, dat is toch echt iets anders, dan de tekst veranderen, of onveranderd door onze strot te duwen…….

Zoals verwacht en o.a hier voorspeld, wordt ons, precies als onder CDA oplichter Balkenende met het EU grondwet-referendum, een enorm oor aangenaaid, dit keer door de grijnzende VVD opperschoft Rutte en zijn misdadigersbende, die zich voor durven te doen als ‘democratische regering…….’

Zie ook: ‘Rutte sprak spijt uit tegen Porosjenko over resultaat Oekraïne-referendum…….‘ (Klik ook op de ‘links’ in dat bericht).

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