CIA Propaganda Operations: Washington Post Anti-Russia 'Hacker' Propaganda

ministry of tokyo 'RUSSIAN' HACKER - WASHINGTON POST PROPAGANDA extract —Yasha Levine https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-american-democracy http://archive.is/IVD3o extract WASHINGTON POST So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and none of the evidence has stuck  ... The paper offered no evidence to back up its shocking claims, but relied on secret claims made by a shady anonymous group called PropOrNot, which compiled a blacklist of American news outlets it considers to be Russian agents engaging in treason. PropOrNot's story is already unraveling. The group admitted to lying about its partnering organizations and refuses to disclose why its media blacklist of “Russian agents” contains some of the best journalists in recent history: Robert Parry (who helped break the Iran-Contra scandal), Robert Scheer (who helped expose CIA funding of student groups in the 1960s as editor at Ramparts) and Yves Smith (the fearless founder of an invaluable and respected financial blog, nakedcapitalism.com). It’s shocking and disturbing that WaPo would smear respected journalists as traitors with no evidence. It appears there's a chance that PropOrNot is connected to groups funded the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a CIA spinoff that manages the U.S. government's foreign propaganda division. If true, that would make PropOrNot's activities illegal — in violation of a federal law that prohibits the BBG from intentionally influencing or swaying public opinion inside the United States. Creating blacklists of American journalists, labelling them as traitors and then circulating this information to American newspapers would certainly fall into that category. Maybe Russia has the means to “hack” America’s elections, but it's hard to talk about it without real evidence. Sure, Russia’s been getting into the psyops game much more lately — with fake and biased news, comment trolls and Twitter bots. It’s cheap and effective, and good at exploiting people’s increasing lack trust in their country's institutions and political process.  [comment:  I disagree with this point - see below] It’s cheap and effective, and good at exploiting people’s increasing lack trust in their country's institutions and political process. But in reality it seems to have very little penetration of America's media landscape. Let's face it: life is miserable and getting more miserable by the day for most Americans — and no one in power seems to care one way or another. Americans don't need a Russian Twitter bot to undermine their trust in the Democratic Party. And anyway, this kind of propaganda psyops isn't anything that the United States isn’t doing at this very moment against Russia on a much bigger level — just look at Tor, Internet Freedom and Radio Free Europe. NSA and CIA and U.S. Naval intelligence and President Obama ... No one has said a thing. They’re all moving with the transition as normal. Whereas if it was really true, this info would not be coming from some anonymous outfit set up last week. The U.S. would be gearing up for real war with Russia. [comment:   I believe the US-Ango-EU-NATO capitalist military, political and propaganda media agents are actually gearing up for indoctrinating the Western the public for war with Russia.   But this is not war arising from to what amounts to anonymous - likely CIA-propaganda-machine connected - 'Russian hacking' allegations, made groundlessly throughout the Western capitalist oligarchy CIA-NATO-friendly propaganda media, in terms of cause.  Rather, the cause of 'Russian hacking', anti-Russian and anti Russian media propaganda,  is the Western capitalist plan for war with Russia. It is because the capitalist oligarchy has targeted Russia for capitalist exploitation (the path to which is war), just as a predator targets, stalks and takes down prey - and that the Western capitalist propaganda arises out of that agenda and is effectively a 'stalking' of prey behaviour, designed to influence and control public opinion. Look at the NATO bases inching towards Moscow; look at the long-range missiles trained on Russia by NATO; look at the CIA-coup in Ukraine and the US capitalist (EU-NATO) grip on former Soviet satellite states; look at the vicious sanctions placed on Russia and the US-Anglo-EU capitalist oligarchy attempt to destroy the Russian economy; look at the US-Anglo-EU oligarchy's aggression in Syria, Russia's ally and Middle Eastern base.   Look at the vicious anti-Putin and anti-Russia propaganda (see  an inappropriately vilified Putin, depicted as a demon, on the cover of The Economist, for example); see the incessant Western capitalist oligarchy media attack & that of their scoundrel hysteria and propaganda public spin-doctoring performances, politicians - eg. Boris Johnson (UK) and other Western capitalist oligarchy serving foreign ministers joining the propaganda performing chorus; and the constant lying stream of preposterous US-NATO capitalist oligarchy serving anti-Russia propaganda that streams from the Scandinavian and Baltic states - worst offenders, in my opinion:  Sweden and Lithuania.   ] —Yasha Levine UPDATE: Max Blumenthal debunked PropOrNot blacklist smears in Alternet. Mathew Ingram did the same in Fortune. https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/on-russia-hacking-american-democracy http://archive.is/IVD3o COMMENT Enjoyed looking at this article. The layout above isn't how it appears in the originally - and I've just lifted the bits I personally found of note. Full article is at the links provided. I would, however, disagree with the following statement: Sure, Russia’s been getting into the psyops game much more lately — with fake and biased news, comment trolls and Twitter bots. I find Russian news to be of a revelatory standard that is by far superior to Western capitalist controlled media. The two Russian targets that are in the Western propaganda and 'regulation' (ie censorship) sights of US-Anglo-NATO capitalists and their CIA (& associated agency) propaganda, smear, delegitimisation and distrust-sowing ops efforts - eg. Russia's RT News and Sputnik Western capitalist smear targets - are actually excellent, factual and unbiased, in my opinion.  Of course, standards between different Russian media outlets and private blogging enterprises (Russian or sympathetic to Russia ... or purporting to be 'Russian') - or simply media deliberately posing as 'Russian', but not necessarily Russian or from a Russophobic source  (eg.   from the disaffected, convicted, former 'Russian' oligarchs in exile and their brigade of sponsored intelligentsia 'trolls' etc) - would vary not only in terms of quality and standard, but also in terms of motivation and spin .  As for Russian 'bots' - everyone that can see things from a non-indoctrinated and non Western capitalist oligarchy serving, or ideologically compliant, perspective, can expect to be harassed by Western capitalism's media, social media and capitalist-sponsored 'grass-roots' trolls and other proxies, screaming:  'Kremlin troll!' ... which is rather hilarious. The propaganda, the indoctrination, the bias, the lies, with withholding of information, the spin-doctoring,  and the social media trolling (by the Western capitalist sponsored intelligentsia and virtually all of mainstream capitalist controlled media journalists, presenters, writers, plus the sports and entertainment industry (as well as CORPORATIONS and their representatives incessantly forcing ideology, propaganda and indoctrination on the unwary masses), is a 24/7 US-Anglo-EU-NATO capitalist oligarchy friendly propaganda operation that is at a disadvantage when foreign independent media reports as close to the truth as foreign independent media may do, without incurring Western capitalist censorship body penalties for being truthful. Such are spun as something entirely different when the foreign media is targeted and then smeared in the Western capitalist controlled media, while bullied by Western capitalist media censorship bodies.   Foreign media may not defend itself by publicly discussing 'charges' brought against it by these Western capitalist oligarchy censorship boards etc - eg. RT News. Not also, that the Western capitalist oligarchy funds its own social media trolls, by way of a vast network of sponsored 'progressive' (and other) NGOs, pursuing, reinforcing, enforcing and echoing capitalist serving ideology in the media, in 'alternate' (also capitalist sponsored) 'controlled opposition' media  and in social media, as well as in the community.  That is the suffocating extent of Western ideological, social and political propaganda, indoctrination and suppression activities, quietly deployed in the service of Western capitalist ruling oligarchy's interests and aim. The 'free' West is not free at all:  a man cannot be free if the information that he is provided with to make sense of his world and his decisions is censored, distorted or falsified, as it is in the Western capitalist oligarchy controlled propaganda and indoctrination media machine that's closely aligned with government, government agencies such as CIA, along with the military and entertainment propaganda complexes. Western capitalist society is entirely without substance:  what we see reflected as 'reality' or representation of our understood history, our daily news, our societies, our institutions, our politicians and our societal 'reality' is nothing but LIES. For an idea of how much harassment foreign news is up against, here's an article on the British media censorship, and thus US-Anglo-NATO capitalist propaganda, body's harassment of RT News: UK Media Regulator Again Threatens RT for “Bias”: This Time, Airing “Anti-Western Views” https://theintercept.com/2015/03/02/uk-media-regulator-threatens-rt-bias-airing-anti-western-views/ saved [excuse any typos ... finding it hard to focus]

DNC Leak Democratic Deflection MO: Blame Putin!

WikiLeaks US 'evidence' alleging Russia behind DNC email hack is NOWHERE RT NEWS EXTRACTS [ ... ] Assange added that any evidence Russia was involved is merely circumstantial and could have been planted deliberately by “someone who wanted to make it look like a Russian” was behind the hack. Previously Assange said that he believes the accusations from the Democrats are an attempt to deflect attention from the contents of the leaked documents. Some 20,000 DNC emails were made public by WikiLeaks on July 22, revealing a close working relationship between the party and some mainstream media figures, as well as collusion with the Hillary Clinton campaign to sideline Bernie Sanders, her challenger for the presidential nomination. The Kremlin has dismissed the charges that Russia was behind the DNC hack as “quite absurd,” with presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointing out what he called the “American style” of casting blame first, then investigating afterwards. CONTINUED https://www.rt.com/uk/354503-wikileaks-dnc-evidence-preview/

KIRCHICKED! Western Media At Work

Western Media At Work KIRCHICKED:  LINK | Post ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Think I may have got a bit carried away with my post.

US Propaganda or US Military 'Backchannel' Communication?

ꕤ SYRIA Related Article below: Seymour Hersh Source:  Military Advised White House Against "Assad Must Go" Policy https://www.rt.com/op-edge/327017-hersh-interview-us-syria/ Seymour Hersh Investigative Reporter "There was an ambassador named Robert Ford who was a really I thought sort of crossed the line as an ambassador, because when  ...  he was the ambassador for the US to Syria in Damascus, and when the demonstrations began in early 2011, he actually would go to rallies where the opposition was and urged them to carry on ..." RT News Reporter "Well, we know that [the US] embassy had been working actively to support the opposition, thanks to WikiLeaks." Seymour Hersh Investigative Reporter "Yes, absolutely.  Although most Americans don't know that. I did write about it, but most Americans still don't know about it." ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I'm having trouble following what is going on (here and in some other article I looked at). The US wants to bring down Assad and has aimed to do so since 2006 or earlier, the US arms and supports Islamist terrorists, the US refuses to co-operate with the Assad government re the ISIS terrorists ... but the US military supposedly (in opposition to the Obama administration) sends word via third parties (Russia, Israel and someone else, I think it was), providing information in order to assist the Assad government in their fight against ISIS terrorists? Why do I have trouble believing any of this? Maybe I'm tired, but none of this computes.  ꕤ

Video - Assange & Philip Giraldi (ex-CIA) - Topic: RUSSIA, TURKEY & SYRIA

ꕤ ASSANGE VIDEO TOPIC:  RUSSIA, TURKEY & SYRIA SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOu520INXqA&feature=youtu.be ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Video posted on YouTube by Russia Today. Supporters of Russia and Syria aren't happy with Julian Assange's suggestion that Russian intelligence didn't anticipate the Turkish strike on their pilots in Syria. Assange refers to it as the "severe incompetence of the Russian intelligence services".  Ouch.   Assange goes on to say it was "... severe incompetence in relation to Ukraine, and severe incompetence in relation to Turkey because there were plenty of warning signals being given off by the Turks." Assange asks "Why weren't those warning signals properly understood?", before saying that this is not to justify what Turkey did. Assange says that in a realpolitik analysis, those messages should have been understood and that we should think about what will happen in about 6 months time, when the West, Russia and Iran are committed in various ways to the elimination of ISIS, because the establishments in those countries consider it a partial threat to their own interests. He goes on to say this wasn't always the case, and that ISIS was fed in various ways by Western interests and interests of Saudis and so on. Assange suggests that there will come a point in about 6 months time, where ISIS is almost completely debilitated, to the point where it will no longer have organised control of some portion of territory, and that ISIS will be back to being a guerilla group. Assange suggests out that in 6 months time when ISIS is practically eliminated as a significant force, Syria will have had hardware from about 10 or 12 different countries bombing Syria , and he asks:  what are all those forces going to do then, are they just going to go home?     Damascus is 70km away, and they can just steer 70km to Damascus if they want, so it's a very dangerous situation, Assange says. Assange also points out 'nationalistic imperatives' in Turkey and in Russia, and that the Syrian [government] is fighting for its life. Former counter-terrorism specialist and CIA military intelligence officer Philip Giraldi (what was basically said (not entirely word-for-word)): Erdogan has very skilfully (and sometimes clumsily) fear-mongered on a number of levels and on a number of issues to the Turkish people, and the fear-mongering has enabled Erdogan to aggrandise power, in both legal and illegal ways, in Turkey, and now Turkey has a head of state who is an autocrat, who essentially is not limited by any rules and feels himself free to do whatever he wants. Regarding the shoot-down, Giraldi disagrees with Assange to a certain extent: Shooting down a plane is an act of war, particularly when the plane was not threatening Turkey in any genuine way and the disturbing element for me is the fact that this was not a decision made by a colonel or a general on the border defending Turkey's airspace, this was a decision made at the highest levels of the Turkish government, and that means that Erdogan was setting up or provoking an act of war type situation with the Russians with two objectives: One is being to scuttle any plans for a grand alliance against ISIS, as he does not want that, for a number of reasons. The second reason would be to try to pull NATO in, in an attempt to support his view of Assad, his view of ISIS and, most particularly, his view of the Kurds.   The Kurds are essential to Turkish thinking -- strategic thinking.  The Kurds are the enemy.  ISIS is not the enemy.  Assad is only the enemy because, in a sense, they see him as a surrogate for the Kurds. Giraldi thinks Erdogan's created a global crisis by shooting down the Russian aircraft, as it could have escalated.  Giraldi says he thinks Erodogan is reckless and that this was a manifestation of his recklessness. And that's all folks. Lots of interesting points made. I've not watched multi-national conflicts in the Middle East for long enough to be able to weigh up any of this.  I think this is an edit from one of the videos I have banked up to watch.  I think I need to quit messing around with graphics editors and shuffling pictures around. Really enjoyed that. ---------------------- ꕤ The ex-CIA guy, Giraldi, comes across like he might be good natured and unassuming.  Nothing like I imagined CIA.  He seems nice. The Assange audio always seems to be muffled (but this wasn't as muffled as the last video I'd been watching). The last  (French) video I watched (some of) was a shocker.  Tried to transcribe but it was hard going ...  I'm also super tired, which doesn't help.  Kept drifting off to sleep in the bath.  lol  ꕤ

Istanbul MP Eren Erdem - Facing Treason Charges ... Turkey ISIS Sarin Supplier

ꕤ Article SOURCE https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/ Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin Published time: 16 Dec, 2015 09:56 Edited time: 16 Dec, 2015 10:53 An investigation on treason charges has been opened against a Turkish MP who alleged in an exclusive interview to RT that Islamic State jihadists used Turkish territory as a transit route to deliver deadly sarin gas to Syria. Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor's Office opened the case against Istanbul MP Eren Erdem of Republican People's Party (CHP) after his interview about sarin was aired on RT on Monday. "Chemical weapons materials are being brought to Turkey and are being put together in Syria in ISIS camps, which was known as Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time." Erdem noted that the chemicals used for the production of weapons did not originate from Turkey. “All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria,” Erdem told RT. As Turkish media reported Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office is planning to send a summary of proceedings to the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. Following that, the summary could be forwarded to the Turkish parliament, which could vote to strip Erdem of his parliamentary immunity. Once Turkish mass-media reported the criminal investigation had been opened against Erdem, the hashtags #ErenErdemYalnızDeğildir - #ErenErdemYouAreNotAlone began to circulate in Turkish social networks. On Tuesday, MP Erdem issued a written statement in his defense, saying he had become the target of a smear campaign because of his statements made in parliament. As for his accusations about Turkish businessmen being involved in supplying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) with the poisonous gas sarin and other reactants needed for chemical warfare, Erdem maintained this statement was made based on the results of a Turkish court investigation in 2013. Erdem revealed that five Turkish citizens had been arrested by the Adana Chief Prosecutor's Office as a result of an investigation coded 2013/139. A Syrian national was prosecuted in Turkey for procuring chemical agents for Islamist groups in Syria. At the same time, Erdem noted all the persons arrested within the framework of the 2013/139 investigation were released a week later. In his statement Eren Erdem claimed he had received death threats over social media following the publication of his interview to RT. Eren Erdem said that the Turkish paramilitary organization Ottoman Hearths has published his home address on Twitter in an effort to enable at an attack on his house. “I am being targeted with death threats because I am patriotically opposed to something that tramples on my country's prestige,” MP Erdem said. In an interview to Turkey’s Kanal 24 on Tuesday, Cem Küçük, a columnist at the pro-government Star daily, said that Erdem's claims about sarin gas should be regarded as treason. Erdem should be stripped of his parliamentary immunity to “pay for his deeds,” Today’s Zaman cited Küçük as saying. The most widely-reported chemical attack in Syria took place in the early hours of August 21, 2013, in Ghouta, on the outer fringes of Damascus. Rockets containing sarin gas were reportedly fired, killing more than 1,400 people, including no fewer than 426 children. It was on the very day a UN team of inspectors arrived in the city to investigate the alleged March 19 chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria. https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT I think everyone knows about Turkey, ISIS and Sarin. Syria Under Attack - the Great Satan & the Little Imp, Turkey - Plus their al-Qaeda Proxies - Mayhem in the Middle East Post Link  |  here ꕤ

Video - US State Dept Are Go

ꕤ US State Dept Are Go Political Comment | Take on US State Dept ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. source |  @WikiLeaks US State Department Spokesman John Kirby " ... gets testy when RT’s Gayane Chichakyan asks if Iraq has a legitimate concern over “the situation where the US invites forces to Iraq and the US is leading this coalition … but when something goes wrong, the US says it’s none of our business -- like, what's happening?" ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT This is my non-PC take on the state of affairs at the US State Dept.  ...  lol Really enjoyed doing that. Only problem is, what takes seconds to think about takes forever (plus some PC crashes) to implement electronically.  Think I might be low on RAM or something.  Old PC.   And downloading takes forever.  I'm faster than the computer.  I'm ready to post.  Computer's still doing its thing, downloading adjusted GIF etc.   It's making me crazy-errrrrrrr.  lol The guy holding up the newspaper is Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and the guy asking 'What?' is Associated Press (AP) reporter, Matt Lee.  Now that it's done, it's not as hilarious as it first seemed.  lol [Could do with more tweaking, but I don't have patience for more right now.  ... lol] ꕤ

Syria: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) - Fraud

ꕤ Video | Transcript BBC FRAUD - SYRIA ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ☢  ☢ Transcript [ Confirm Audio / Video For Quotation Purposes ] The Truth Seeker Daniel Bushell RT News Daniel Bushell RT News Stunning fakery in the alleged chemical weapons attack, according to a former UK ambassador. Coming up. Other narration: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is accused of staging chemical weapons attack. The CIA admits planting CNN reporters. And international lawyers call for journalists inciting violence to be expelled. Daniel Bushell RT News August 2013. NATO leaders can't get the public on side for the imminent bombing of Syria. Suddenly, BBC says it was filming a small rural hospital and a game-changing atrocity happens right there, the moment they were filming. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) BBC Narrator Ian Pannell "... we were filming the doctors working at this hospital when victims of an incendiary bomb attack on a school playground started pouring in." CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Syria Crisis', Ian Pannell, BBC (August, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of napalm." [At issue:  BBC footage August 2013 vs BBC Footage September 2013] Daniel Bushell RT News But a highly sceptical public stayed hostile to military intervention. Exactly one month later, the leaders are trying to pin a chemical weapons attack on Syria, without success. The BBC airs exactly the same footage, but digitally alters the word 'napalm' for 'chemical weapons', hoping no-one will notice. CUTS TO FILM CLIP:  'Saving Syria's Children', Ian Pannell, BBC (September, 2013) Female - [kitted up in dramatic face-mask] "Absolute chaos and carnage here. It must be some sort of chemical weapon." Daniel Bushell RT News Not only did folks notice, but it's unleashed a massive public investigation which made some extremely disturbing findings. Robert Stuart This is the total fabrication, from beginning to end, of an atrocity, with BBC 'reporter' Ian Pannell standing amidst a tableau of very bad actors.  This is completely beyond the pale'. Daniel Bushell RT News This audio analysis by media investigator Robyn Upton shows both versions [of BBC audio] are identical and from the same speech. The BBC then altered the words from 'napalm' to 'chemical weapon', the EXACT justification  NATO was finding difficult prove. That game-changing allegation was made by two doctors have travelled with the BBC, who claimed the number of sudden casualties is "overwhelming". What kind of doctor, notes media investigator Robert Stuart, gives interviews when she is surrounded by supposedly seriously burned and dying teenagers. Translated English overdub: "Get anyone who isn't a patient out out of here." Daniel Bushell RT News When a nurse does finally start to help, her order to "get anyone who isn't a patient out of here" doesn't apply to the cameramen. Even worse, notes Stuart [Roberts], is the bizarre acting which starts when the man in the centre gives the sign. 'Doctor Rola', on whose sole claim the BBC sends 'napalm chemical weapons' allegations around the world is actually the daughter of Syrian rebel Mousa al-Kardi. The parallel to the Gulf War and [the testimony of] Nurse Nayirah is stunning. Congressmen said the nurse's tearful testimony that Iraqis were killing children swung their vote in favour of war. [Cuts to footage of 'Nurse Nayirah' - 'Lies Pushed US to Bomb Iraq', Courtesy C-Span] 'Nurse Nayirah' tearful footage: " ... and left the children to die on the cold floor."  [sniff, sniff] Daniel Bushell RT News Nurse Nayirah became the mainstream's darling, but once the vote had safely passed, she admitted INVENTING the whole thing and was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington, lying to get the public to back war. UK Member of Parliament joins us. Thank you very much for coming on. Why do we get almost identical claims before each war, which then prove lies? George Galloway UK Member of Parliament: Well, the 'Bush and Blair Corporation' [ie the BBC], as it became in the run-up to the Iraq war, has almost entirely lost its reputation for journalistic integrity. A full inquiry must be lodged into why the BBC used a piece of material which was not just wrong, but was falsified and falsified with the purpose of propelling out country into war. That's not what the British public pays its BBC licence fee for, so that it can be tricked into a war. Daniel Bushell RT News In a statement, the British Broadcasting Corporation says it stands by its report. The Syrian opposition denies the allegations. Investigators such as Robert Stuart note there are many questions sent to the Corporation [BBC] remaining unanswered. There are also numerous such precedents both in this war and in previous invasions. 'Brilliant' is how a top Western called tricking the public through routine faking of atrocities, commonly aired on mainstream bulletins. Nightly news shows just a few cases of what happened next, after mainstream cameras ended their reports. Male Voice American 'Nightly News': "It shows people putting on, you know, fake wounds; it shows -- look, there some guys there, there's their head wounds, peace everybody -- you know, we're doing the right thing, we're creating fake propaganda.  I mean, it's not even real atrocities so they're lined up; there's another video showing a guy kicking his leg and with a fake blood wound.  Here's a guy who wakes up from his funeral. Watch this -- oh, he's awake.  He's not even really dead.  So, I mean, this is just crazy what goes on.  There's another video that was shot of a supposed massacre and it cuts -- you don't see the whole thing.  When you go to the Al Jazeera footage it shows real quick clips of a guy kicking his leg and he's got blood coming out.  It turned out to be fake blood." Daniel Bushell RT News The so-called activists behind the fakes are by far the most popular source of despite them never being verified and regularly disproved as fabrications to justify more NATO arms. The term 'activist' may sound like a well-meaning Western campaigner or charity, but the Foreign Policy Journal notes it's just newspeak for insurgents. The official source of Syria casualties, or what mainstream claims is official, is an impressive sounding organisation THE SYRIAN OBSERVATORY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. Reuters exposed the fact three (3) years ago it was not an organisation at all, or even working in Syria. It's a single pro-insurgent supporter living in Coventry, England. Here pictured at the Foreign Office after instructions from Britian's Foreign Minister himself. In leaked footage, ordinary Syrians told the BBC they're tired of its lies and the insurgents they're cheer-leading are a tiny minority led by foreign gangs. [Cuts to footage:  males challenging female American sounding journalist and asserting that Assad is widely supported by most of the 22-million Syrians and that very small minority, number in the thousands, are in opposition.] Daniel Bushell RT News Pro-war media is forced to resort to colossal lies since intelligence chiefs reveal to America's top investigative reporter Sy Hersh: "Obama's cronies are making it up.  All the evidence actually points to the jihadis staging the chemical attacks. SY HERSH Author:  'Whose Sarin?' The 'attack was not the result of the current regime', the high-level intelligence officer wrote in an email to a colleague. ‘The guys are throwing their hands in the air and saying, “How can we help this guy” – Obama – “when he and his cronies in the White House make up the intelligence as they go along?”, said a former intelligence official." Daniel Bushell RT News The distortion, he said, reminded him of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. [RT on film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] Daniel Bushell RT News The thought a US President would start a horrific foreign war by staging a pretty female front as a victim made people laugh. [Cuts to film footage] [Film:  'Wag the Dog', Barry Levinson, New Line Cinema (1997)] [Subsequently cuts to: [Film:  'I Am A Ukrainian', Appleseed Entertainment (2014)] Daniel Bushell RT News Meet 'Julia' (if that's her real name), the celebrated face the mass media called the creator of a viral video asking the US to help Ukraine. It was actually created by the [US] State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to mask the fact that Washington joined Ukraine thugs and murdered their way to power. A leaked phone call with EU Foreign [Catherine] Ashton revealed the opposite planned and executed the infamous sniper violence of Kiev, shooting both the police and their own supporters in the back. A study found a total of 250 mainstream sources lied that the snipers belonged to Yanukovych. Only seven (7) of the entire mass media even mentioned the bombshell leak, and those that did, framed the report to suggest it couldn't possibly be true. Former Wall Street Journal editor, Paul Criag Roberts, called the coverage in Ukraine a new low in the history of the mainstream, which is now simply what he described as a ministry of lies. Investigative reporter John Helmer's uncovered mainstream staging demonstrations and attempts to provoke disorder. He joins us. Great to speak to you. One US scholar notes the coverage has become Orwellian.  What's going on? John Helmer Investigative Reporter So the weaker your government, the more interested the leader might be in threatening Russia to look strong at home, when it's obvious he's not strong at home and couldn't get re-elected. That's particularly true of, let's say, the French president, or Prime Minister Cameron at the moment. Arguably President Obama is not only a lame duck, but having great difficulty in putting together a winning coalition for the Democratic Party's next candidate for president. When you've got weak political leaders, you need to look stronger than you are in public opinion in the media.  So there's this process of misleading and disinforming. Daniel Bushell RT News The Senate Committee enquiry revealed CIA running mainstream media in a vast operation known as Mockingbird. More than 400 journalists and media chiefs claiming to watchdog the government were the exact opposite:  joining to mask US government crime at home and abroad. The operation continues despite [CIA] agency denials. Counterpunch discovered CIA imposing agents on firms like CNN. Former CIA [officer] Michael Scheuer notes British media are even closer to intel targets. Scheuer adds that BBC now takes the lead in regime change operations that cause 'anarchy' and violence. Let's speak to Francis Boyle, professor of international law at Illinois University. Great to talk to you. How can nations stop war media that now perform the CIA's covert operations? FRANCIS BOYLE PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS Certainly, have their visas revoked and sent packing home, because I really don't understand why some of these countries keep, you know, European journalist, certainly in the United States, why they let them into the countries; because they're just using their cover to provoke war and military intervention at home. [Split Screen / Cut to footage: ABCNews #ABCWorldNews - Crisis in Ukraine, Blood in the Streets LiveCNN - Crisis in Ukraine - Breaking News - 'Putin Threatens More Military Action'  |  Anderson Cooper depicted] In addition, Bush junior administration lifted what was supposed to be the previous prohibition that intelligence agents were not supposed to infiltrate the media. You know, you have to be very careful, certainly dealing with US reporters, whether or not they're intelligence agents. Daniel Bushell RT News [???] active units of the military, also known as Wall Street media, show how serious the situation now is.  They're policies aren't popular with their own viewers. Mainstream audiences are in free-fall. CNN and MSNBC have shed half their entire viewership in the last year alone. The question is, how many more coups they will stage or help, before they lose the public's trust altogether. Seek truth from facts. This is the Truth Seeker. [end audio/video] Whose sarin? Seymour M. Hersh Vol. 35 No. 24 · 19 December 2013 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n24/seymour-m-hersh/whose-sarin ꕤ

Interview With Assange Legal Team Attorney: Carey Shenkman | UK Wants To Arrest Assange No Matter What

TRANSCRIPT [For quotation purposes, confirm audio] VIDEO - RT News SOURCE https://youtu.be/ieTjNJGW0Yo  ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- ACCOMPANYING ARTICLE Published time: 13 Aug, 2015 17:05 Edited time: 13 Aug, 2015 17:52 Assange can’t leave embassy as UK wants to arrest him, no matter what – attorney to RT http://www.rt.com/news/312385-assange-attorney-uk-arrest/  ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Interview With Assange Legal Team Attorney:  Carey Shenkman Reporter For some insight now, the implications of one of our top stories here:  that of Julian Assange. I'm now joined by a member of the Assange legal team, Carey Shenkman. Thanks so much Carey for joining us here on RT International to discuss this. So, first off, tell us how much of a relief for your client is this expiration of some of the allegations against him. Carey Shenkman Attorney: Assange Legal Team The results of today are ambiguous because after five (5) years of doing nothing in Julian Assange's case, Swedish prosecutors decided today to drop most of the allegations against him. But it's been almost five (5) years that Assange has been detained without charge, which has been absolutely unacceptable for his health, for his family, and for his reputation. Reporter Well,  the allegation of 'rape' will not expire until 2020, so does Assange believe he'll have to stay in the embassy until then? Carey Shenkman Attorney: Assange Legal Team Assange won't be able to leave the embassy no matter what Sweden does, because the United Kingdom has said it would extradite - sorry, the United Kingdom will arrest Assange, no matter what - and the UK will make no promise that it won't extradite Assange to the United State.  And, after all these years that Assange has been detained, you have to ask yourself:  what is this case really about?  And, well, it's about the United States where, for all this time, the United States has been building a national security case against WikiLeaks. A federal court in the United States confirmed in March that there's an active and ongoing national security case against Assange and WikiLeaks and, in fact, over fifty (50) free speech organisations around the world have condemned the US Justice Department because of the effects this precedent could have on freedom of the press and the news gathering process. In fact, just yesterday, alleged WikiLeaks source, Chelsea Manning, was threatened with INDEFINITE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Now let's wait just a second.  Solitary confinement's a practice that's widely recognised by the United Nations, and the international community, as TORTURE. And here the United States is threatening the alleged WikiLeaks source with this torture. So Assange has every right to fear similar, or even worse treatment, if he ever risks extradition to the United States. Reporter Now, is it possible that the allegations which have expired today, be renewed? Carey Shenkman Attorney: Assange Legal Team There would be no precedent in Swedish law for that and our view is that this case simply needs to be dropped. For years now, the United Kingdom, Ecuador, the Swedish courts, our legal team, and Assange, have been asking the Swedish prosecutor to come to London. In fact, nearly nine (9) months ago, a Swedish court said that the prosecutor wasn't doing her duty with the investigation.  That was nine months ago when there were four (4) allegations.  Well, today, there's just one, and he's still stuck in the embassy. This is unacceptable.  And she has failed - the prosecutor - has failed to move this case forward. So the case really needs to be dropped; it's about time. Reporter Well, Carey Shenkman, thanks so much for talking to us. And that was attorney representing Julian Assange. Carey Shenkman Attorney: Assange Legal Team Thank you.  ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Oops ... I need not have transcribed audio for this post.  It's in article.  US | Assange 120-man Pentagon task force in operation FAQ & Support Justice4Assange https://justice4assange.com/   ꕤ

VIDEO - Sweden a voluntary vassal state of US

From Assange to NATO, Sweden a voluntary vassal state of US SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085JbHikPyk [ Uploaded on 13 Feb 2011 ]  RT's Anissa Naouai interviews: Dr Brian Palmer "Dr Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist from Uppsala University, believes that Julian Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden.  RT has asked him about why Sweden wants the WikiLeaks founder so badly and his fate if he were to be extradited." [ ... Introduction ... see particulars above ] Reporter Sweden has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately, with the WikiLeaks scandal and the spy and sex probes into Julian Assange.  Why does Sweden want Julian Assange to be extradited?  Is it just for - to be questioned, rather, for the sex crimes alleged against him? Dr Brian Palmer It's hard to say.  Certainly, sexual misconduct is taken seriously in Sweden, but few cases get anywhere near the kind of judicial energy behind them as this had.  So there seems to also be other factors at play.  It may be partly the prosecutors and lawyers involved, and issues of their careers.  It may also be that there's some pressure from the foreign policy establishment in Sweden and even from the United States that's played a role. Reporter Do you think that eventually Assange will, in fact, be extradited to Sweden? Dr Brian Palmer It wouldn't surprise me if he is in the end, but I would say that he and his lawyers have a fighting chance of keeping him there and suggesting that whatever questioning of him the Swedish prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link. Reporter Many critics say that once, and if, Assange is extradited to Sweden that it would be very easy for the US to get him into custody.  Do you agree with that? Dr Brian Palmer I think that's quite right; that it would be easier to get him to the US from Sweden than from Britain.  The Swedish government has shown itself to be more pliant than the British, surprisingly, given the so-called special relationship of trust between Britain and the USA, and the Swedish press has been - and Swedish public intellectuals - have been less vocal in defending WikiLeaks than many people and many papers in Britain, so I think he's safer there. Reporter Why do you think that the media has been reluctant to - am I understanding correctly - openly cover WikiLeaks or cover it in a way that looks like Assange has a fair chance? Dr Brian Palmer There's been a lot of coverage of WikiLeaks and Assange in Sweden, but he doesn't have that many high profile champions.  It's partly because allegations of sexual misconduct weigh so heavily here, that it is a country where feminist ideals are maybe stronger than anywhere else on Earth and, one wishes that no-one would be judged in a case until they had been tried, but there's some hesitation to come to his defence on those grounds; and then, so much of our media in Sweden is owned by a few conservative leaning media houses, particularly Bonniers, a media group that's right leaning and has every interest in not raising these questions, and they're the largest player in the media market in Sweden. Reporter You wrote a biography of the Swedish Prime Minister [Fredrik Reinfeldt] and it's no secret you wrote about this:  that the Prime Minister has been - or is being advised - by US republican strategist Karl Rove.  Why one of America's most notorious neocons and the man, of course, most credited with getting Bush into the White House? Dr Brian Palmer It's an interesting question, because the conservative party (called the Moderates) have plenty of Machiavellian strategists of their own - plenty of Karl Roves of their own - but Rove has a long-term relationship with the Moderates.  Already in the 1980s he came to Sweden to advise them and then he's been back before the election in 2006 and even more recently.  He himself has some Swedish roots, and I think it may be partly initiative from his side that he wants to be involved in politics here.  And then what the Moderates accomplished before the 2006 election had something in common with Bush's electoral victory in 2000.  The problem for both George Bush and Fredrik Reinfeldt was to win the votes of groups who wouldn't necessarily benefit from having a right-wing, tax cutting regime in power.  Bush succeeded so well in wooing working-class votes that in the ... 2004 election, Bush won the white working-class by a 23% margin.  So working-class voters were really the backbone of his victory.  Reinfeldt acknowledged that he was impressed by Bush's campaign and his struggle was also to get working-class voters to support his party (which they hadn't done in the past), and so it's logical that he would have wanted to bring in some of the people from Bush's campaign to help with that - and, not least, Karl Rove. Reporter You've said that the method is linguistic innovations, media manipulation and the art of bringing smear campaigns.  Is that what Sweden wants to take from a strategist like Karl Rove? Dr Brian Palmer The Moderates won the past two elections very much because of the negative image of Fredrik Reinfeldt's opponent in both elections.  It was very much the weakness of the opponent the people were voting against, rather than attraction to Reinfeldt.  And how to accomplish that through different kinds of negative campaigning, in the broad meaning of campaigning that focuses on the deficits of the other candidate, was something that Rove has been very good at, so he would be a relevant adviser there.  Another thing that Rove has been something of a genius at is finding peripheral issues that will mobilise the right voter groups to support the Republicans, and that strategy has also been somewhat effective in Sweden. Reporter Is it normal for Karl Rove to be doing this kind of international advising? Dr Brian Palmer No.  On his own website he notes that Sweden is his only international assignment.  The Moderate party in Sweden is the only foreign party that he's worked for; so, as far a I know, he's a pretty US-focused person.  But then again, as mentioned, he himself has Swedish roots and he may feel a particular obligation to be involved here - or interest to be involved here. Reporter How much influence do you think the US, on a whole - from Assange to NATO to asylum seekers being taken into custody - have on Sweden? Dr Brian Palmer Enormous influence and, in a way, almost puzzlingly so at this historical moment that Sweden should be so eager to host NATO military exercises in the north, to share intelligence information at a very high level with the US and NATO that Fredrik Reinfeldt was so very eager to visit Bush, it was one of his first major international visits after he became Prime Minister in 2006.  All of that is a bit puzzling when the US is no longer so central to Sweden's exports, for example, as it has been at certain periods, when European relations ought to be more central to Sweden in certain ways, and all of this is a far cry from the Sweden of the 1970s and early 80s when Olof Palme was Prime Minister and when the most important relations were often with developing nations - with the South African freedom movement; with India, with the Non-Aligned Movement - the once very progressive Sweden has become something of a voluntary apprentice state, some would say vassal state, of the USA. Reporter And why do you think Sweden took those kind of policy moves Dr Brian Palmer I think a lot of it is admiration for the United States among the foreign policy elite in Sweden,  many of whose members have studied at top universities in the US and had spent time there, and have a good network of personal friendships in the US, and now with the conservative governments in 2006 those ties have become even stronger.  The motto of one of the young people's divisions of the conservative party over many years was we would like things to be like in the USA - vi vill har du som USA, in Swedish - so an open wish to see a more Americanised Sweden, which is exactly what we're seeing. Reporter Thank you very much for being with us. Dr Brian Palmer My pleasure. COMMENT NOTE I don't speak Swedish, so 'Vi vill har du som USA' (referred to above) is just a best guess at what Palmer has said in Swedish. The transcription could do with one more check of audio against text, but I need to switch tasks because my brain's just about crawled to a stop.  LOL Will have to come back to check and comment. Before I split, I'll link an article that I also found interesting. Bush, Rove Tied to Effort to Dismantle Sweden’s Social Welfare Program Tuesday, December 9, 2008 http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/9/bush_rove_tied_to_effort_to And one more ...      Partner At Firm Counseling Assange’s Accusers Helped In CIA Torture Rendition January 12, 2011 By Andrew Kreig http://ctwatchdog.com/govt/how-much-did-lawyer-for-wikileaks-accusers-help-cia-in-torture-rendition That's it.  I'm done for now.