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woensdag 2 september 2020

Democratische Conventie: niet één woord over Russiagate domweg omdat het een leugen is

Tijdens de gehele Democratische Conventie van 17 t/m 20 augustus, viel letterlijk niet één keer het woord 'Russiagate', terwijl de Democraten het de laatste 4 jaar wel 1.000 keer werd uitgespuugd door de hypocriete politici van die partij. Logisch dat men er nu maar mee is gestopt, immers het is bewezen flauwekul en alleen door de partij in stelling gebracht om Hillary Clinton uit de wind te houden, die op een smerige manier de voorverkiezingen van de Democraten in 2016 heeft gewonnen, ofwel: zij heeft destijds de voorverkiezingen gestolen ten koste van Bernie Sanders......

Een lid van Clintons verkiezingsteam, Seth Rich was zo pissig over de handelswijze van Clinton en de top van dat team, dat hij een enorme stapel mails van Clinton doorspeelde naar Wikileaks...... Een paar weken later werd Rich vermoord op straat gevonden, volgens de politie een roofmoord, hoe vreemd dan dat er werkelijk niets was gestolen van Rich, terwijl hij ook opzichtig dure sieraden droeg....... (bovendien waarom zou je iemand 2 maal in de rug schieten als je deze wilt ontdoen van diens kostbaarheden en geld??)

Nee, i.p.v. een Russische agent, bleek Trump de figuur die een enorme legermacht heeft samengetrokken langs delen van de Russische westgrens, waarbij hij nu ook nog de beschikking heeft over een raketschild 'tegen Iran' maar waarvan de raketten in een mum van tijd kunnen worden voorzien van meerdere kernkoppen en dat op raketten die tot 5.000 kilometer kunnen vliegen, waardoor steden als Moskou en Sint-Petersburg vanaf de voordeur van Rusland kunnen worden geraakt met kernraketten.... 

Met dat schild heeft de Trump administratie het INF-verdrag geschonden, iets waarvan de VS en haar oorlogshond NAVO Rusland volkomen ten onrechte beschuldigden....... (Rusland zou nieuwe raketten hebben die volgens de VS onder dat verdrag vallen, echter op meerdere uitnodigingen van het Kremlin om te komen inspecteren ging de VS niet in, daar de duivelse Trump administratie dondersgoed wist en weet dat Rusland de waarheid sprak......)

Lees het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone die dieper op deze zaak ingaat en onder andere de stelling van Max Blumenthal steunt dat Russiagate een manier was om Trump zo onder druk te zetten dat hij wapens leverde aan Oekraïne (ben het daar deels mee eens, zeker daar ook wordt gesteld dat Obama Oekraïne niet wilde bewapenen, terwijl zijn minister van BuZa Joe Biden dat land onder druk zette het strafrechtelijk onderzoek tegen zijn corrupte zoon te stoppen, daar men anders een levering van wapens uit de VS kon vergeten):   

Dem Convention Made No Mention Of Russiagate Or Impeachment, Because They Were Fake

Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply@wordpress.com>


The only interesting thing about either of the conventions held by America's two mainstream political parties this month was not anything that was said by the interminable parade of vapid speakers, but rather what those speakers did not say.

Despite their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word "impeachment" ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and the Russian government.
Politico reports:
Eight months after Democrats mounted a historic effort to remove Donald Trump from office, not a single speaker uttered the word “impeachment” during their four-day convention.
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For Democrats to completely omit impeachment from their convention was once unthinkable. Democrats had mounted a case that Trump had abused his power to blackmail Ukraine into investigating his political adversaries, including Biden. And they made an existential argument that without removing him from office, Trump’s behavior would get worse and democracy itself would be at risk.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia — which Democrats once thought could topple Trump for obstruction of justice — also went unmentioned, even as it was a defining feature of Trump’s nearly four years in office.
  
At DNC, "the word 'impeachment' [was] entirely left out over the course of the 4-night event. Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia... also went unmentioned, even as it was a defining feature of Trump’s nearly 4 years in office." https://t.co/Dgt9WQ3LeA pic.twitter.com/q8EvEthwZq
Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) August 28, 2020

"The fact that Democrats couldn't bring themselves to even mention Russiagate or Ukrainegate (the first-ever sequel to a flop?) at their convention should maybe hasten some reflection for those who made these issues the 'defining feature of Trump's nearly four years in office,'" quipped incisive Russiagate skeptic Aaron Maté of the omission on Twitter.

"Next on Unsolved Mysteries: Democrats and media allies accused Donald Trump of being a Russian agent for four years," Maté added. "They chanted 'All Roads Lead to Putin' and 'The Walls Are Closing In.' But at their political convention, they forgot all about it. Did Russia give them amnesia?"

"I personally feel like if the President of the US seeking re-election is beholden to and controlled by an adversarial foreign power, the opposition party should find a few seconds to squeeze in a mention of it if, you know, it wasn't utter bullshit," tweeted The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald.

And, of course, it was utter bullshit. And that is indeed why the Democrats saw no need to mention it at their own four-day convention despite dominating news cycles with it for years. Russiagate and Ukrainegate were never the cataclysmic scandals that the Democrats and their allied media factions portrayed them as. They weren't even actually about getting rid of Trump.




In an extremely strange and confounding development, the Democrats *never once* mentioned what this NYT columnist calls "the biggest lie in American politics" at their Convention.

In fairness, they only had 4 full nights so maybe they couldn't squeeze in any mention of it. https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/1295743070672162821 
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Anyone with an ear to the ground knew that Russiagate would fizzle, and anyone capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment would fail to remove Trump. The drivers of these attention-monopolizing narratives knew this also.

If there'd been any solid evidence to find that the Kremlin was blackmailing Trump, or that his campaign had conspired with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, the US intelligence community would have found some of it and leaked it to The Washington Post long before Trump took office. The Russiagate narrative has been completely dismantled from the very beginning by journalists like the late Robert Parry, and then Maté after Parry's death. There was never any real evidence for it, and the people pushing Russiagate from the beginning knew there was never any real evidence for it.

All you really need to know about Russiagate was that it was started by unsubstantiated claims by the US intelligence community, and in the end it facilitated pre-existing plans by the US intelligence community. Everything else in between those two points is just empty narrative fluff.

In 2017 Parry documented how the original assessment that Russia meddled in the US election in the first place was put forward without proof by just a couple dozen officers from three intelligence agencies hand-picked by the notoriously Russophobic then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Maté has documented that this allegation remains just as suspicious and porous as the day it was first made. Despite having sweeping investigative powers Mueller indicted not one single American for conspiracy with the Russian government. The recent evidence-free Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report did nothing to change the flimsy nature of the entire Russiagate narrative.


So the whole thing has been plainly bogus from the beginning, with the foundation laid by secretive and unaccountable intelligence agencies who have an extensive history of lying about exactly this sort of thing. And it just so happens to have paved the way for operations against a longtime geostrategic foe that were being unfolded well before Trump's arrival in 
the White House.

This is an excerpt from an article by legendary Australian journalist John Pilger from March 2016:
In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two -- led by the United States -- is taking place along Russia's western frontier.  Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia.
Ukraine - once part of the Soviet Union -  has become a CIA theme park. Having orchestrated a coup in Kiev, Washington effectively controls a regime that is next door and hostile to Russia: a regime rotten with Nazis, literally. Prominent parliamentary figures in Ukraine are the political descendants of the notorious OUN and UPA fascists. They openly praise Hitler and call for the persecution and expulsion of the Russian speaking minority.
This is seldom news in the West, or it is inverted to suppress the truth.
In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia -- next door to Russia - the US military is deploying combat troops, tanks, heavy weapons. This extreme provocation of the world's second nuclear power is met with silence in the West.

This was all happening during the Obama administration. But he was still more doveish than the spooks and cold warriors who drive US foreign policy would prefer, resisting for example loud calls from the warmongers to arm Ukraine against Moscow and forcibly install a no-fly zone in Russia's ally Syria.

The heir apparent to Obama's throne, Hillary Clinton, did not suffer from such peacenik scruples. She'd already been making people on both sides of the aisle nervous with her anti-Russia hawkishness, and supported both arming Ukraine and installing a no-fly zone in Syria.

So these escalations were already underway, and more were being prepared for.

Then what happened? Somehow a political neophyte who'd been talking about making nice with Russia got in instead.


We suddenly found ourselves bombarded with narratives from the US intelligence community and its mass media stenographers about Russian election meddling and Trump playing some mysterious role in it. These narratives were pushed with steadily increasing frequency and shrillness, with the help of a humiliated Democratic Party that stood everything to gain by participating, until those of us who expressed any skepticism of them at all were being accused on a daily basis by MSM-brainwashed dupes of running psyops for the Russian government.

We were never at any time presented with any proof of these claims which rose anywhere near the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world, but we were hammered with them anyway, day in and day out, year after year.

This ended up putting a lot of political pressure on Trump to keep existing sanctions and military tensions with Russia, and he ended up adding dozens more new cold war escalations including further sanctions, shredded nuclear treaties, NATO expansionism and more. He even armed Ukraine due to these pressures, just like the anointed queen was scheduled to do.




For years, neocons and arms industry darlings like @RepAdamSchiff have sought to re-arm Ukraine and escalate the conflict in Donbas. By stirring up Russiagate, they finally got their deadly deal. My latest: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/russiagate-helped-secure-dangerous-arms-deal/ 
The cold warriors wanted their escalations, and they got them. From beginning to the end, that's all this was ever about. They pushed the narratives, the media joined in because it was great for ratings, and the Democrats joined in because it took the focus off their 2016 scandals and gave them a kayfabe phantom to punch instead of pushing for actual progressive changes.

And now the slow motion third world war between the US-centralized power alliance and the loose collective of unabsorbed governments is right on schedule, with Biden all set and ready to carry the omnicidal torch forward. The 2016 scandals are well enough forgotten, no progressive changes have been made, and there is no need to talk about Russiagate or impeachment at the Democratic National Convention.

Because everyone already got what they wanted. Everyone except ordinary people, of course.
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maandag 18 mei 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why “Obamagate” Will Never Lead To Anything Of Significance

by Caitlin Johnstone


The word "Obamagate" was thrust into mainstream attention by the concerted efforts of Trump and his surrogates after new details on the early days of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation emerged. These details include Obama officials (including Joe Biden) requesting the unmasking of a conversation between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the FBI's then-counterintelligence director discussing trying to get Michael Flynn to lie during his interrogation about the Kislyak call, and the revelation that there was never any concrete evidence that Russia hacked the DNC.

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

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


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




"By any normal standard, former FBI Director Comey would now be in serious legal trouble, as should [former Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, et al," Ray McGovern wrote for Consortium News the other day. "Additional evidence of FBI misconduct under Comey seems to surface every week — whether the abuses of FISA, misconduct in the case against Gen. Michael Flynn, or misleading everyone about Russian hacking of the DNC. If I were attorney general, I would declare Comey a flight risk and take his passport. And I would do the same with Clapper and Brennan."

Indeed, this would be the "normal standard", yet it hasn't happened. Neither Comey nor Clapper nor Brennan are in any legal trouble at all, nor will they be, nor will any other major player responsible for leading America on a crazy collusion wild goose chase which accomplished nothing but distracting from real issues and manufacturing consent for mountains of cold war escalations against Russia.

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

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


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

That's why no serious attempt has ever been made to remove Trump from office; he's been playing nice with existing power structures without challenging them in any meaningful way. Everyone who knew anything was aware that the Mueller collusion would never go anywhere, and anyone who could count Senate seats knew impeachment would fizzle. It was all kayfabe conflict so that Trump's "opposition" could present the appearance of opposition without interfering in agendas they themselves support or prosecuting crimes of which they themselves are also guilty.

It's also why Obama never had any intention of prosecuting Bush's heinous war crimes, citing "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards". In reality Obama always understood that in order to play the "president" role (and enjoy its massive perks for the rest of his life), he'd need to collaborate with establishment power structures rather than upsetting them. He knew that if he were to go after Bush he'd ensure his own destruction; under "normal standards" prosecution is the only sane and normal response to war crimes, but in the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) environment of establishment corruption, there are no normal standards.

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

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

This is a lot less pleasant than believing some magical hero in a white hat is going to ride in and do all our work for us and all we need to do is relax and "trust the plan". It's a lot less comfortable than expunging the fake two-party worldview from our minds which vast fortunes and years of conditioning have gone into manufacturing. But it is reality.
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*     Obamagate is m.i. niets anders dan een andere benaming voor Russiagate, een term die Trump eerder gebruikte nadat de Democraten hem beschuldigden van samenwerking met Rusland, waarvoor men geen steekhoudend bewijs kon leveren. Onlangs werd dit woord geherintroduceerd door Trump nadat Obama zich in het openbaar met zijn Coronabeleid bemoeide.

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

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

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

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