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THE TOPICS TODAY: NSA/Intercept lies • Redefining patriotism • The incurable virus of capitalism • "ISIS" attacks Iran
1. The NSA / Intercept lies
On the latest absurd claim that the Russkies were involved in highjacking US elections and other nefarious deeds. The "Reality Winner" psyop is pathetic, but with Big Media supports it contributes to the climate of Russian demonization and doubt, the old Big Lie technique, repeat a falsehood long enough and it will be believed—especially by a terribly ignorant, distracted and largely indifferent public. On YouTube, Sane Progressive has been doing terrific work sorting out this latest mess:
SANE PROGRESSIVE } Lee Burkett
Intercept Russia Election Interference Story and Alleged Source Reality Winner
Possible Coverup w Intercept Russia Election Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8RXSzy7uL8&spfreload=10
Note that while Sane Observer and genuine progressive analysts quickly see through the pathetic attempts by US intel operatives to continue the Russiagate false flag/scam operation, faux progressives like Young Turks (their ranks are apparently growing by the minute in what seems like an epidemic of sudden political myopia and "turncoatism" among liberaloids, not to mention willful imbecility) are broadcasting far and wide the NSA lies. As far as this outfit is concerned, the lesson should be obvious: dismiss The Young Turks as a source of credible information. This and other recent filings clearly show that TYT, once solidly left liberal and with occasional flashes of even radical insight, is now solidly in the establishment camp. (Keep in mind, though that some reporters associated with TYT, like Michael Tracey, appear to struggle to maintain an honest line while still associated with TYT). In any case, see below:
This story is..confusing, to say the least, almost diabolically calculated to fracture whatever
genuine "left" news sources might survive in the blogosphere.
LEE BURKETT
· Forest City, PA ·
Time to step back, take a deep breath and figure out what's really going on.
So Reality Leigh Winner, an employee of a privately owned security enhancement and analysis company, has been arrested for leaking a top secret document that alleges to prove Russian involvement in attempts to interfere with the 2016 election.
Just spit balling here.
The document itself contains no evidence, no raw data. It's 5 pages of analysis based on evidence none of us has seen.
Any hacker smart enough to crack into the DNC system is also smart enough to cover their tracks. They could certainly make it appear that the attack came from anywhere on Earth. And, if they wanted to make it appear that the hack was Russian in origin, then they would use Russian subprograms and techniques.
I don't think it's stretching things to say that if the evidence points to the Russian government, then it's almost guaranteed that it wasn't the Russian government.
Why The Intercept? Speculation here, but The Intercept has very much been the voice of the portion of left who have been challenging the Clinton/DNC narrative. Because there are real journalists at The Intercept, they felt a moral obligation to reveal what information they had received. And by revealing it, in one fell swoop, the naysayers have the rug pulled out from under them.
The Intercept claims to have verified the information. What does that mean? Have they seen the raw data? If so, why wasn't that printed?
I'm guessing, but I assume The Intercept verified that their source was employed by Pluribus International Corporation, not that the documents themselves are true.
Vetting your source is step one. Vetting the nature of what's revealed is a very different thing. I'm not trashing The Intercept, in this case verifying the authenticity of the data is beyond their ability, beyond the ability of any of us outside the highest levels of the intelligence apparatus.
The reaction from the vocal left would have been very different if HuffPo or The Washington Post had been the source. And how embarrassing for HuffPo and The Washington Post to have to acknowledge that The Intercept, on their list of fake news sites, is the source for breaking the story.
Now the "real news" people are quoting the "fake news" people. It only deepens the mystery of who we are to trust.
There's a complex, multi-leveled game being played out here. And once again, evidence is short while speculation is very long. At the end of the day we could be falling over the truth and not recognize it all.
And that's the purpose of the game, isn't it?
Here's the thing:
Now we're arguing about The Intercept, the motivations and political leaning of it's owner, the integrity of Greenwald and Hedges, where the information came from, how The Intercept got it, how they handled the information, how they vetted both the source and the info, how the government responded, and why and how they responded exactly the way they did, how it relates to Trump, Clinton, the DNC and what their various motivations are, it's possible impact on the election results, arguing about Reality Leigh Winner, her motivations, whether she's a tool of the Trump camp or the Clinton camp, if she's a patsy or a sincere citizen, if the CIA or NSA concocted the whole thing, or whether it's a limited hang out or an actual leak ...
Meanwhile we have a five page document. It's an analysis of information that we haven't seen, and it's content and conclusions are only as valid as the raw data used.
It's worth pointing out that due to FOIA requests it's possible to go online and read detailed formerly top secret CIA and NSA analysis of how a Zombie outbreak could occur, how it might be contained, how the government should respond, and the impact such an event would have on continuity of government.
I wish I could say I made that up.
Intelligence analysis of the sort revealed in the five pages assume that all evidence has been authenticated. The approach applies to real world events and completely manufactured scenarios.
Can we get a grip? Nothing, at this point, has been proven.
We all knew the DNC had been hacked. We all knew that voting machines have been hacked.
Those are the only verifiable facts available right now.
I had posted this in a previous post:
"Any hacker smart enough to crack into the DNC system is also smart enough to cover their tracks. They could certainly make it appear that the attack came from anywhere on Earth. And, if they wanted to make it appear that the hack was Russian in origin, then they would use Russian subprograms and techniques.
I don't think it's stretching things to say that if the evidence points to the Russian government, then it's almost guaranteed that it wasn't the Russian government."
Someone wanted to know my level of expertise of IT. Saying I seemed to be making a lot assumptions.
Here's my response to that:
I'm not an IT expert. But I'm familiar with what experts have to say about the field. What I said is essentially a paraphrase of something John McAfee said in an interview with Larry King.
John McAfee was the founder of McAfee Security.
I submit if anyone knows what they're talking about when it comes to IT and IT security and hacking, it's Mr. McAfee.
There's still no evidence.
2. Capitalism / Imperialism
LUCIANA BOHNE
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What is imperialism?
Much like living species, capitalism aims to insure the reproduction of its species--and so it adapts. One of the forms of adaptation capitalism must adopt to insure its reproduction is imperialism--that is to say it has to expand at a certain stage of its development. This stage is determined by two main "crises"--the crisis of overproduction and the crisis of declining rate of profit. Overproduction means that the national state has to go international to acquire new markets. Declining rate of profit means that resources must be found outside the nation state that will enhance the rate of returns on capital investment. These resources are cheap armies of labor and cheap natural resources, which can only be secured by seizing lands that belong to other people--colonizing, for short.
Imperialism, therefore, is not just "greed," but the necessary condition for capitalist survival by any state with a crisis such as US capitalism was hit with in the 1970s: flat rate of profit, overproduction, demarcated markets, relatively empowered domestic armies of labor, limited access to staggering amounts of needed resources (predominantly oil, the juice of the capitalist machine). The seizing of oil resources need not only be for consumption; more importantly, the control of the oil tap means control of the world economy.
To solve the crisis of the 1970s capitalist economy, enter neo-liberal prescriptions, which freed US capitalism from the shackles of the domestic economy. It is a deceptive term, for neo-liberalism means the re-colonization of the world for the renewal of US (and groupees) capitalism.
Neoliberalism's real name is IMPERIALISM. It is the last stage of capitalism, because after imperialism, no further adaptation is possible--except the conquest of the galaxy. Returning to the analogy with Darwin's theory of evolution, the species "capitalism" has adopted a form of adaptation that leads to a dead end. It has become a "sport of nature"--the wrong path to saving the species in the long run. However, there was hardly any other choice. This species will perish.
This is probably the key "contradiction" of capitalism: suicide by adaptation.
3. "ISIS" supposedly attacks Tehran—opening the door for US messing with Iran as it chases ISIS wherever it may be? How convenient.
LUCIANA BOHNE
Tehran parliament
Thinking . . . after Pepe Escobar wrote that Tehran attacks were carried out by that horrible group MEK (which fought with IRAQ in the war with Iran)
Regarding 6/7 terrorist attack in Tehran, CIA may have charged MEK to carry out attacks and then claimed it was Isis, to present to the public the idea that Isis is in Iran--and so US/EU "coalition" must go after Isis in Iran..
But Jaysus--who writes this stuff?
On the other hand, it would be hard for Isis to infiltrate Iran, so a ruse had to be invented.
BUT THE IMPORTANT POINT IS: IF MEK did it, Isis claimed it.
WHY?
The point is that whether Isis did it or not, it has claimed responsibility. If the media reports that it was Isis, that's what the imperialists wants us to believe. Now, that 's the question that should concern us--NOT who may have done it. Why has Isis--a Western paramilitary strumptroop--claimed responsibility in the media?
To focus: Trump said he would fight terrorism in Iran; Isis claims responsibilty for a terror attack in Tehran. . Trump's war is officially against Isis. Today we learn that Isis is in Iran. Ergo: we must go to Iran.
Public opinion is being prepared for attack on Iran (which, frankly, will never happen).
You see my point. Don't get distracted. There is no reason to give MEK the credit--stick to Trump's [the Deep State] objectives, and it will all make sense.
4. Patriotism needs to be redefined
Why is "treason" so narrowly understood that it leaves "corporate persons" free of any responsibility?
These questions—urgent in our time—are pondered by Lee Burkett.
LEE BURKETT / Patreon
The Democrats obsession with Trump, and lately the spurious "Russian hacking" distracts the masses from who the real enemy is, the system itself, which very much includes the supposedly friendly Democrats.
Here's the thing:
I've been waiting for something like this, but I didn't realize it until it happened. You know what I mean- an event happens and it suddenly makes a lot of random. disconnected thoughts coalesce into a neat logical package?
Trump and Russia ...
There's a big push to paint this whole thing as a treasonous act. I still haven't seen any evidence that convinces me there's a shred of truth to that accusation.
Election tampering? That's a laugh. Even if we accept that Russia leaked information about the Clinton campaign- no proof of that- in order to influence the election, at the end of the day we still have to accept that the information leaked was all true.
Truth is only treason when tyrants are in charge.
(ps: In over a decade not one single release of information from wikileaks has proven to be false. That's hundreds of thousands of pages. Now, if you want to argue that in this case, for the first time, that the info was false AND that the source was a Russian agent ... you're only making your attempt to defend Clinton even more laughable and even less defensible.)
Truth is only treason when tyrants are in charge.
What we do know, what's been evident all along, what was never hidden, is that the Trump Empire and the wealthy, new capitalists in Russia have been cozy for a long time.
A lot of deals have gone down. Investments of millions have been made. Shit loads of money has been made on both sides.
I'll guarantee you that whatever backroom, under the radar arrangements to be uncovered will have to do with the pursuit of profit, and will have nothing to do with political ideologies.
How can I be so certain?
Because Trump. like all transnational one-percenters, has no real political ideologies, no moral center, no loyalties, no allegiances.
Except to make a profit.
Now, if someone wants to uncover all of that, present it to us as treason, then I'm on board. I mean, a billionaire making deals with a billionaire from another country that damages the poor, the hungry, the homeless ...
Well, that's treason, isn't it?
I think we need to redefine the word treason, remove it from concepts of patriotism and nationalism. We need to understand that our enemies are no longer tied to political systems or contained within national borders. Our enemies are not governments. Transnational globalism that supports nothing more than profit at the expense of the global human community is the real enemy.
And to participate in that, to aid that, is treason to all of us.
So come on DNC- reveal how transnational corporations make their deals, and why, and how THAT alone is treason, and I'll be right with ya.
5. Mental Fragmentation
PATRICE GREANVILLE
The advanced rot we see everywhere in imperial culture, the almost ubiquitous confusion, causes bizarre manifestations. A correspondent recently sent me the following material, which deserves your attention, if only as an excellent example of how someone can seem to be perfectly spot on, even brilliant in diagnosing the systemic disease affecting us all, and then suddenly goes off the rails, regurgitating absurd memes from the very Matrix he's trying to denounce. At that point you see the fellow's strange cognitive implosion may be due to his being a rabid anti-statist libertarian who, like many right-wingers, sees the world upside down and has no problem calling a 100% capitalist specimen like Hillary Clinton, "the embodiment of Communist Chinese totalitarianism."
That said, he does say things which, as I warned you already, make a great deal of sense, which only deepens the mystery: How can a mind have the lucidity to zero in on some important truths and miss the mark completely in other areas? Is it a question of simple information? A matter of temperament, as I have often argued? You be the judge. Below a sample of what we could call the sane exposition by this source. The intransigent absolutist tone should have tipped us off soon enough, but that is sometimes a matter of style, the emphasis used to wake up the reader to a major TRUTH. Still, as you get deeper into the essay the author's myopias and political leanings begin to emerge, delineating a far less admirable witness to reality than previously suggested. Well, I'd best let you examine the whole piece by yourselves here. Let me know how you plead.
Everything Is Rigged: Medicine, Elections, Food, The Media…You Are Living In A Fabricated Fairy Tale
This article by Mike Adams was originally published by Natural News.
http://asheepnomore.net/2017/06/05/everything-is-rigged-medicine-elections-food-the-mediayou-are-living-in-a-fabricated-fairy-tale/#disqus_thread
EVERYTHING IS RIGGED.
Every institution in America is sold out, corrupted and politically rigged to favor Big Government and Big Business. “America is a lost country,” explains Paul Craig Roberts. “The total corruption of every public and the private institution is complete. Nothing remains but tyranny. And lies. Endless lies.”
CNN, Reuters and the Associated Press are all now shameless promoters of every big lie across every sector of society, from vaccines and GMOs to elections and politics. The federal government itself is incapable of doing anything other than lying, and it has totally corrupted the entire realm of science by pulling the strings of funding via the National Institutes of Health and the NSF.
The FDA is entirely corrupt, as is the USDA. Both function now as little more than marketing propaganda pushers for Big Pharma and Big Biotech. Similarly, Google, Facebook and Twitter are all rigged, too, censoring the voices they don’t want anyone to hear while highlighting the establishment lies they wish to promote.
HERE’S WHAT “RIGGED” REALLY MEANS… THE TOOLS OF TYRANNY
When I say “everything is rigged,” what does that mean, exactly?
• All “official sources” are ordered to constantly lie about everything, weaving illusions to push a chosen narrative rooted in fiction (from “there are no Islamic terrorists” to “carbon dioxide is poison to the planet”).
• All voices of reason and sanity are silenced. Only the most insane, irrational voices are allowed to be magnified through any media (including social media). This is also true across the sciences, where real science has been all but snuffed out by political agendas (biosludge, GMOs, glyphosate, mercury in dentistry, etc.).
• All facts are obliterated by propaganda. Facts have no place in any debate, and those who invoke facts are shamed and silenced (or even fired from their jobs, expelled from their schools or bullied into a state of suicide on social media). Anyone who invokes facts on things like the actual statistics of police shootings is told they are “part of the problem” because they have the “wrong attitude” about social justice.
• Every branch of government is weaponized against the people and used as an assault tool against political enemies who threaten the status quo. (IRS, FDA, FTC, DEA, EPA, USDA, etc.)
• All science is distorted into absurd, politically-motivated conclusions about everything the government wants to use to control the masses: Vaccines, climate change, GMOs, fluoride, flu shots, chemical agriculture, carbon dioxide and so on.
• Every branch of medicine is hijacked by globalist agendas to make sure medicine never makes anyone healthier, more alert or more cognitively capable of thinking for themselves.
• Every “news item” that’s reported from any official source is deliberately distorted to the point of insanity, turning many facts on their heads while attacking anyone who might offer something truly constructive to the world. (Such as reporting that Clinton was “cleared” by the FBI when, in fact, she was indicted by the very facts the FBI presented!)
• All voices of truth are silenced, then replaced by meaningless, distracting babble (Kardashians) or meaningless, tribal sports competitions (the Rio Olympics). The point is to dumb down the entire population to the point of cultural lunacy.
• Any true reports that contradict any official narrative are immediately censored. For example, radio host Michael Savage just got blocked by Facebook for posting a true story about an illegal alien who committed murder in America.
• Emotions are used as weapons to manipulate the masses. For example, when the mom of a Benghazi victim shares her grief with the world, she is ridiculed and shamed. But when a radical Muslim father who’s trying to bring Sharia Law to America attacks Trump by expressing his loss of his soldier son, the media turns him into an instant celebrity, praising his “courageous voice” for daring to speak out. The media hypocrisy is enough to make you vomit…
WHAT EXACTLY IS RIGGED?
• The entire mainstream media
• Google search engine and Google News
• Facebook and Twitter
• The DNC and the RNC (both 100% rigged by globalists)
• Every federal agency (EPA, FDA, etc.)
• The entire justice system (makes a total farce of real justice)
• Interest rates and the value of the money supply (central banksters)
• Academia (all public universities)
• EPA’s “safe” limits on pesticides (all rigged by Big Biotech)
• Food and food labeling (all run by corrupt food companies)
• Public education (rigged into Common Core anti-knowledge idiocy)
• Banking and finance (all controlled by globalists)
• Government economics figures and statistics
• Medicine and pharmaceuticals (rigged to maximize profits)
• Big Science (totally rigged by government agenda pushers)
• The music industry (most top singers can’t sing at all)
• Weapons manufacturers and war corporations
• The illegal drug trade (it’s run by the government)
• Political elections (all 100% rigged at the federal level)
• Political polls (now rigged by Reuters, too)
• The health insurance industry (rigged by Obamacare)
• College admissions (legally discriminates against Whites and Asians)
• 9/11 and domestic terrorism (all rigged “official stories”)
• Oil and energy industries
• The rule of law (rigged in favor of the rich and powerful)
• Infectious disease and the CDC (a constant stream of lies)
• Hollywood (all run by globalists)
• Climate change science (all a grand science hoax)
• Press release services (they only allow official narratives)
• History (what you are taught is mostly a lie)
• Government grants (only given out to those who further the agenda)
• Government bids (only awarded to those who kick back funds to corrupt officials)
• Consciousness and free will (we are all taught consciousness doesn’t exist)
• Ethnobotany (medicinal and spiritual use of healing plants)
• Life on other plants (the obvious truth is kept from us all)
• The origin of the universe (the official narrative is a laughable fairy tale)
I'll stop quoting here. Use the links I provided above to read the whole argument. Now some of us may duly comprehend the wisdom of Victorian reactionaries' cry: "Confusion to the enemies of the Crown!"
—PG
What we do know, what’s been evident all along, what was never hidden, is that the Trump Empire and the wealthy, new capitalists in Russia have been cozy for a long time…A lot of deals have gone down. Investments of millions have been made. Shit loads of money has been made on both sides…I’ll guarantee you that whatever backroom, under the radar arrangements to be uncovered will have to do with the pursuit of profit, and will have nothing to do with political ideologies…How can I be so certain? Because Trump. like all transnational one-percenters, has no real political ideologies, no moral center, no loyalties, no allegiances. Except to make a profit.
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