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donderdag 12 september 2019

9/11: New Yorkse brandweercommandanten vragen een nieuw onderzoek naar de aanslagen op het het WTC in 2001

Goed nieuws beste bezoeker, een paar brandweercommandanten uit New York eisen een nieuw onderzoek naar de aanslag op het World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, gisteren 18 jaar geleden......

Er is intussen zo ongelofelijk veel meer bekend over wat er wel of niet is gebeurd op 11 september 2001, dat een onderzoek van het hoogste belang is, zeker daar een enorm aantal VS burgers (en andere wereldburgers) de officiële lezing al lang niet meer geloven......

Zo waren er eerst explosies te horen, voordat de vliegtuigen de Twin Towers invlogen..... Voorts is het onmogelijk voor mensen met weinig vliegervaring en al helemaal met zulke grote vliegtuigen zo de torens in te vliegen, als de beelden ons doen geloven...... De Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC kunnen onmogelijk zijn ingestort door het invliegen van de 2 vliegtuigen (voor gebouw 7 geldt dat des te meer........ 

En dan is het voorgaande maar een kleine greep uit ongelofelijk groot archief aan feitenmateriaal, voor een groot deel samengesteld uit verklaringen van echte deskundigen en dat is opgebouwd na 11 september 2001...... Een archief dat aangeeft dat de officiële lezing van de gebeurtenissen op 9/11 niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets met de waarheid te maken hebben!!

Vergeet niet dat voor deze 'aanslagen' waarbij 3.000 mensen om het leven zouden zijn gekomen, intussen meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen zijn vermoord door de VS met hulp van andere NAVO-lidstaten in het Midden-Oosten, Afrika en Afghanistan (o.a. door Nederland en dus met ons belastinggeld...)..... Door deze VS/NAVO terreur in illegaal begonnen oorlogen werd er 'islamterreur' op de straten van West-Europa gecreëerd en ontstonden er enorme vluchtelingenstromen richting datzelfde Europa..... 

Tot slot: deze 'aanslagen' hebben ertoe geleid dat we onze privacyrechten zo goed als kwijt zijn en de geheime diensten, die zoveel vuile spelletjes hebben gespeeld, kregen er een enorme bak geld bij en hebben nu bevoegdheden waar men daar eerder alleen van kon dromen......

Het volgende artikel geschreven door John Vibes komt van TruthTheory en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

New York Area Fire Commissioners Call for New 9/11 Investigation


September 10, 2019 at 9:23 pm
Written by Truth Theory

(TT) — September 11, 2001, was nearly 20 years ago, and after all this time, so many questions still remain about what exactly happened. It is not socially acceptable to question the official explanation that was given for the collapse of the towers and the other events of that day, but now these questions are being taken more seriously.

However, the rushed and poorly managed 9/11 commission report did not do an adequate job at investigating the crimes, which left experts in a variety of different fields with questions about the official story. Many of these professionals belong to an organization called Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, who have been pushing for a new investigation into the attacks for many years.

This July, they announced a major breakthrough in their fight for a proper investigation.
According to a press release published on the group’s website, New York Fire Commissioners who were closely involved with the events of that day, have called for a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

On July 24, the Franklin Square and Munson Fire Districts voted unanimously for a new investigation, citing “overwhelming evidence” that “pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.”

The resolution was written by Commissioner Christopher Gioia, and received overwhelming support from Commissioner Dennis Lyons.

We have a memorial — a piece of steel from the World Trade Center with 28 holes where the nuts and bolts used to go. Every year on the 11th, we put a rose in each hole for the 24 Nassau County firefighters and four Franklin Square residents who died on 9/11,” Commissioner Lyons said.

When the vote was passed, the families of 9/11 victims showed up in the audience to express their support for the cause and their gratitude to the departments for making this issue a priority.

Commissioner Gioia said that he expects support from other districts throughout the city, and hopes that they will be passing similar resolutions in solidarity.

We were the first fire district to pass this resolution. We won’t be the last,” Gioia said.


This renewed interest in a proper investigation was sparked last year, when Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, filed a petition on behalf of the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry.

The petition highlighted a large body of evidence about the World Trade Center attacks, which was ultimately presented to a grand jury. Berman’s success through the courts gave many New York City firefighters hope that they could finally get to the bottom of what happened on that day, and find justice for the friends and loved ones who were lost.

PRESS CONFERENCE: (Starts at 54:50)


By John Vibes / Republished with permission / Truth Theory / Report a typo
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Zie ook:
'9/11 voorkennis verzwegen in officiële rapporten'

'9/11 en de voorkennis van de aanslagen in de VS'

'9/11 No Question, It Was Controlled Demolition'

'9/11: de teller voor het aantal door VS/NAVO gedode mensen staat intussen op meer dan 2,5 miljoen'

'SPECIAL REPORT - More Censored 9/11 History'

'First The Explosion And Then The "Planes"'

'9/11 "The Palestinians cheered" hoax'

'9/11 Wiring The Buildings'

Voor meer berichten over 9/11 klik op het label 911, direct onder dit bericht (het kan zijn dat je na een aantal berichten het laatste telkens herhaald ziet, dan even opnieuw onder het laatst gelezen bericht op hetzelfde label klikken).

dinsdag 16 juli 2019

Psychopathisch gewelddadige agent krijgt grote beloning vanwege PTSS na vermoorden van ongewapende man

Een gewelddadige psychopathische gek, in de vorm van een agent in de VS, schoot volkomen onterecht een ongewapende man neer en zegt als gevolg daarvan een posttraumatische stressstoornis te hebben opgelopen, daarvoor krijgt hij zijn leven lang $ 2,500,-- per maand aan vergoeding...... Het feit dat 99% van de agenten die (gekleurde) burgers vermoorden niet vervolgd worden, is al onverdraaglijk, vanaf nu wordt dat dus zelfs beloond door de rechter..........

Buiten dit akelige voorval, één van de duizenden per jaar, kent de VS ook nog het meer dan achterlijke plea bargain en het nog belachelijker verschijnsel van een kroongetuige (waarmee Nederland nu ook gaat 'kromspreken' en dat in het geval van Holleeder al heeft gedaan....*).....

Een eerlijk proces is in de VS alleen weggelegd voor degenen die aan de 'goede kant van de wet staan' (ha! ha! ha!), voor de welgestelden en ten slotte voor de bedrijven.........

Welk argument heb je als advocaat nog nodig om elke uitlevering van wie dan ook aan de VS aan te vechten.....??

Het is zelfs zo zot dat wanneer 3 burgers van de VS die in Nederland met vakantie zijn geweest en die bij de politie in de VS verklaren dat jij ze min of meer xtc hebt opgedrongen, de VS om jouw uitlevering zal vragen...... (en dan maakt het niets uit of je die mensen nu wel of niet gezien hebt.... Men zal je in de te volgen rechtszaak 'plea bargain' voorstellen, ofwel je bekend e.e.a. gedaan te hebben waardoor je strafvermindering krijgt, ondanks dat je onschuldig bent..... Als je blijft ontkennen loop je een heel grote kans tot een veel langere gevangenisstraf te worden veroordeeld....... 'Recht' in de VS anno 2019....)

Elke uitlevering van mensen aan de VS is een grove misdaad en een schending van de mensenrechten!! (tja en over zo'n uitlevering gaan dan ook nog eens 'rechters' als die van Holleeder.....)

Het volgende ontluisterende artikel over deze volledig gestoorde zaak komt van The Mind Unleashed en werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

Cop Gets $2,500 a Month for Life Because Killing an Unarmed Man Gave Him PTSD

Philip Brailsford

Philip Brailsford walked free even though body camera footage clearly showed that he committed murder.

July 15, 2019 at 9:13 am
Written by The Mind Unleashed

(TMU— Philip Brailsford is a former Arizona Police officer who was acquitted for the murder of an innocent man in 2017. Brailsford walked free even though body camera footage clearly showed that he had no reason to fire his weapon, ultimately murdering Daniel Shaver.

Now, to add insult to injury, the officer was temporarily rehired by the city in order to receive disability. Brailsford was approved for medical retirement after claiming that killing a man gave him PTSD. He will now receive over $2,500 per month for the rest of his life.

The city of Mesa has also agreed to spend up to $3 million defending him in court and paying lawsuit settlements resulting from the murder. Brailsford will likely have no problem securing another job in law enforcement after the department gave him a “neutral recommendation,” which will show on future employment references. Although thanks to medical retirement, he will never have to work another day in his life if he doesn’t want to.

Daniel Shaver was staying at a hotel while traveling for business and had a pellet gun with him that he showed to another guest at the hotel. The Mesa Police were called after someone saw him with the pellet gun, even though Arizona is an open-carry state where gun ownership is fairly commonplace. Furthermore, Shaver had a job as an exterminator and used the pellet gun for killing pests.

Officer Brailsford soon arrived on the scene to investigate the report. However, instead of investigating, Brailsford immediately escalated the situation and told Shaver to leave the hotel room and go into the hallway, on his knees. At that point, Shaver was not holding the pellet gun and Brailsford gave him a series of conflicting and confusing commands, essentially telling the man to crawl while keeping his hands up.

If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility you’re both going to get shot … if you move, we are going to consider that a threat, and we are going to deal with it, and you may not survive it,” the officer can be heard saying in the video.

Brailsford can be heard giving Shaver conflicting orders, such as “do not put your hands down for any reason,” followed by, “your hands go back in the small of your back or down, we are going to shoot you, do you understand me?”

As Shaver crawled toward the officer, he instinctively reached back to pull up his drooping pants. That’s when Brailsford opened fire, shooting him multiple times from a short distance away.

There was disturbing evidence in the case that the jury was not allowed to see before making their decision, including the fact that the officer had a very threatening message inscribed on the gun he used to take Shaver’s life.

Two words were written on the dust cover of the AR-15 rifle that was used in the murder, and those words were “You’re fucked.”

A statement from the city of Mesa obtained by ABC15 explained how Brailsford got the deal:
Philip ‘Mitch’ Brailsford was terminated by the Mesa Police Department on March 21, 2016. Mr. Brailsford, through his attorney, requested an appeal of his dismissal on March 22, 2016. The appeal was held in abeyance until the criminal case against Mr. Brailsford was concluded. On December 7, 2017, Mr. Brailsford was acquitted. On August 23, 2018, a settlement agreement between the City of Mesa and Mr. Brailsford allowed him to file for accidental disability and a medical retirement with the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System Local Board. This agreement eliminated the need for a Mesa Personnel Appeals Board hearing. During the time that Mr. Brailsford was making his application for medical retirement, he was not paid and was not assigned any police officer duties. The one-year timeframe to apply for an accidental disability pension began for Mr. Brailsford once the trial concluded. The PSPRS Local Board determined that Mr. Brailsford met the qualifications for medical retirement citing information provided by multiple independent medical professionals. Mr. Brailsford is now medically retired through PSPRS.”

By John Vibes / Republished with permission / The Mind Unleashed / Report a typo
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Voor meer berichten met de politie in de VS, klik op het label 'politie VS', direct onder dit bericht.

donderdag 25 oktober 2018

Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen

De neoconservatieve oorlogshitser en voorstander van censuur op het Internet, Jamie Fly, heeft gesteld dat de Facebook censuur van een groot aantal accounts nog maar het begin is van een grote zuivering die de alternatieve media te wachten staat.

Fly is o.a. directeur van het Asia programma van de neoconservatieve denktank German Marshall Fund (GMF), een organisatie die zowel door de VS overheid als haar oorlogshond de NAVO wordt betaald....... Ofwel de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, de VS, die in feite het opperbevel heeft over de NAVO troepen, subsidieert een denktank die de ene leugen na de andere produceert...... Deze denktank verzint verhalen om zo als tegenwicht te dienen tegen het echte nieuws, dat niet door de reguliere media wordt gebracht, maar door de alternatieve media op het internet.......

Intussen een cliché op deze plek: mensen lees het hieronder opgenomen duidelijke artikel van Max Blumenthal en Jeb Sprague over de manier waarop men het volk wil blijven belazeren met verhalen over Russische (en andere) inmenging in de VS politiek (en die van andere westerse landen). Een berg leugens waaraan overigens intussen ook China werd toegevoegd. Lees het artikel en geeft het ajb door, het hele Russiagate verhaal is onderuit gehaald als een hoax*, echter dat interesseert figuren als Fly en organisaties als The Atlantic Council (een lobbyorgaan van de NAVO), het eerder genoemd German Marshall Fund en de andere oplichters van dit soort 'denktanks', geen ene zier, de kracht zit in de herhaling door de reguliere (massa-) media en politici, gewoon volhouden dat Rusland en landen als China (ook Iran wordt genoemd) de politiek in het westen beïnvloeden met leugens en andere zaken die de 'publieke opinie' zouden sturen......

In feite is de grote schuldige voor al deze ellende Hillary Clinton, die het stelen van de democratische voorverkiezingen door haar en het team dat haar terzijde stond, wilde verbergen en daarom kwam met het verhaal dat de Russen zaken zouden hebben gelekt naar de pers, een flagrante leugen, die de media maar al te graag oppakten in hun strijd tegen de alternatieve media op het internet.....

De continue herhaling van leugens over Russische en andere bemoeienis met de VS politiek, zorgt ervoor dat de leugens bij de gebruikers van die media als het ware in het hoofd worden geprint (een vorm van hersenspoeling), dit ondanks alle bewijzen van het tegendeel, bewijzen als officiële documenten van de VS overheid, die onder meer in WikiLeaks terug zijn te vinden.....

Vandaar ook dat de hierboven aangehaalde rechtse denktanks, die niet alleen de NAVO en de VS dienen, maar ook het militair-industrieel complex, hameren op censuur van de sociale media en dan m.n. de sites die nieuws brengen, ofwel dat nieuws op de juiste manier analyseren..... Die alternatieve media tonen verder de leugens aan die de westerse bevolking dagelijks over zich heen gekieperd krijgen via de reguliere media en het grootste deel van de westerse liegende politici, plus natuurlijk de leugens van die rechtse denktanks zelf....

Vergeet voorts niet dat er kilometers bewijs zijn voor juist de VS die de politiek in andere landen manipuleert en probeert te sturen via: -hacken, -verspreiding van fake news, -economische oorlogsvoering, -staatsgrepen en mocht dat allemaal niet lukken, desnoods middels -een illegale oorlog, die het deze eeuw al 5 keer is begonnen (en dat zijn enorme oorlogsmisdaden, waarvoor dit land niet wordt vervolgd....)....... 5 illegale oorlogen die intussen aan ruim meer dan 2 miljoen mensen het leven hebben gekost.........

De wereld op z'n kop.....

Facebook Purge of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning”: Top Neocon Insider

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Facebook Purge of Alternative Media “Just the Beginning”: Top Neocon Insider
(foto rechts Jamie Fly

October 24, 2018 at 11:21 am
Written by Grayzone Project

(GP— This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like Rachel Blevins.

Facebook claimed that these pages had “broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” However, sites like The Free Thought Project were verified by Facebook and widely recognized as legitimate sources of news and opinion. John Vibes, an independent reporter who contributed to Free Thought,accused Facebook of “favoring mainstream sources and silencing alternative voices.”

In comments published here for the first time, a neoconservative Washington insider has apparently claimed a degree of credit for the recent purge — and promised more takedowns in the near future.

Russia, China, and other foreign states take advantage of our open political system,” remarked Jamie Fly, a senior fellow and director of the Asia program at the influential think tank the German Marshall Fund, which is funded by the U.S. government and NATO. “They can invent stories that get repeated and spread through different sites. So we are just starting to push back. Just this last week Facebook began starting to take down sites. So this is just the beginning.”

Fly went on to complain that “all you need is an email” to set up a Facebook or Twitter account, lamenting the sites’ accessibility to members of the general public. He predicted a long struggle on a global scale to fix the situation, and pointed out that to do so would require constant vigilance.

Fly made these stunning comments to Jeb Sprague, who is a visiting faculty in sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara and co-author of this article. The two spoke during a lunch break at a conference on Asian security organized by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, Germany.

In the tweet below, Fly is the third person from the left who appears seated at the table.
              
A rare opportunity to discuss Asian security in Berlin, with an excellent group of experts from the region @SWPBerlin


The remarks by Fly — “we are just starting to push back” — seemed to confirm the worst fears of the alternative online media community. If he was to be believed, the latest purge was motivated by politics, not spam prevention, and was driven by powerful interests hostile to dissident views, particularly where American state violence is concerned.

Jamie Fly, Rise of a Neocon Cadre

Jamie Fly is an influential foreign policy hardliner who has spent the last year lobbying for the censorship of “fringe views” on social media. Over the years, he has advocated for a military assault on Iran, a regime change war on Syria, and hiking military spending to unprecedented levels. He is the embodiment of a neoconservative cadre.

Like so many second-generation neocons, Fly entered government by burrowing into mid-level positions in George W. Bush’s National Security Council and Department of Defense.

In 2009, he was appointed director of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a rebranded version of Bill Kristol’s Project for a New American Century, or PNAC. The latter outfit was an umbrella group of neoconservative activists that first made the case for an invasion of Iraq as part of a wider project of regime change in countries that resisted Washington’s sphere of influence.

By 2011, Fly was advancing the next phase in PNAC’s blueprint by clamoring for military strikes on Iran. “More diplomacy is not an adequate response,” he argued. A year later, Fly urged the US to “expand its list of targets beyond the [Iranian] nuclear program to key command and control elements of the Republican Guard and the intelligence ministry, and facilities associated with other key government officials.”

Fly soon found his way into the senate office of Marco Rubio, a neoconservative pet project, assuming a role as his top foreign policy advisor. Amongst other interventionist initiatives, Rubio has taken the lead in promoting harsh economic sanctions targeting Venezuela, even advocating for a U.S. military assault on the country. When Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign floundered amid a mass revolt of the Republican Party’s middle American base against the party establishment, Fly was forced to cast about for new opportunities.

He found them in the paranoid atmosphere of Russiagate that formed soon after Donald Trump’s shock election victory.

PropOrNot Sparks the Alternative Media Panic

A journalistic insider’s account of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, Shattered, revealed that “in the days after the election, Hillary declined to take responsibility for her own loss.” Her top advisers were summoned the following day, according to the book, “to engineer the case that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up … Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument.”

Less than three weeks after Clinton’s defeat, the Washington Post’s Craig Timberg published a dubiously sourced report headlined, “Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news.’” The article hyped up a McCarthyite effort by a shadowy, anonymously run organization called PropOrNot to blacklist some 200 American media outlets as Russian “online propaganda.”

The alternative media outfits on the PropOrNot blacklist included some of those recently purged by Facebook and Twitter, such as The Free Thought Project and Anti-Media. Among the criteria PropOrNot identified as signs of Russian propaganda were “Support for policies like Brexit, and the breakup of the EU and Eurozone” and “Opposition to Ukrainian resistance to Russia and Syrian resistance to Assad.” PropOrNot called for “formal investigations by the U.S. government” into the outlets it had blacklisted.

According to Craig Timberg, the Washington Post correspondent who uncritically promoted the media suppression initiative, Propornot was established by “a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds.” Timberg quoted a figure associated with the George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, Andrew Weisburd, and cited a report he wrote with his colleague, Clint Watts, on Russian meddling.

Timberg’s piece on was PropOrNot was promoted widely by former top Clinton staffers and celebrated by ex-Obama White House aide Dan Pfeiffer as “the biggest story in the world.” But after a wave of stinging criticism, including in the pages of the New Yorker, the article was amended with an editor’s note stating, “The [Washington] Post… does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet.”

PropOrNot had been seemingly exposed as a McCarthyite sham, but the concept behind it — exposing online American media outlets as vehicles for Kremlin “active measures” — continued to flourish.

The Birth of the Russian Bot Tracker — with U.S. Government Money

By August, a new, and seemingly related initiative appeared out of the blue, this time with backing from a bipartisan coalition of Democratic foreign policy hands and neocon Never
Trumpers in Washington. Called the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), the outfit aimed to expose how supposed Russian Twitter bots were infecting American political discourse with divisive narratives. It featured a daily “Hamilton 68” online dashboard that highlighted the supposed bot activity with easily digestible charts. Conveniently, the site avoided naming any of the digital Kremlin influence accounts it claimed to be tracking.

The initiative was immediately endorsed by John Podesta, the founder of the Democratic Party think tank the Center for American Progress, and former chief of staff of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Julia Ioffe, the Atlantic’s chief Russiagate correspondent, promoted the bot tracker as “a very cool tool.”

Unlike PropOrNot, the ASD was sponsored by one of the most respected think tanks in Washington, the German Marshall Fund, which had been founded in 1972 to nurture the special relationship between the US and what was then West Germany.

The German Marshall Fund is substantially funded by Western governments, and largely reflects their foreign-policy interests. Its top two financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the U.S. government’s soft-power arm the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the German Foreign Office (known in German as the Auswärtiges Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of Sweden and Norway. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a million dollars per year from NATO.

The US government and NATO are top donors to the German Marshall Fund.

Though the German Marshall Fund did not name the donors that specifically sponsored its Alliance for Securing Democracy initiative, it hosts a who’s who of bipartisan national-security hardliners on the ASD’s advisory council, providing the endeavor with the patina of credibility. They range from neocon movement icon Bill Kristol to former Clinton foreign policy advisor Jake Sullivan and ex-CIA director Michael Morell.


Jamie Fly, a German Marshall Fund fellow and Asia specialist, emerged as one of the most prolific promoters of the new Russian bot tracker in the media. Together with Laura Rosenberger, a former foreign policy aide to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, Fly appeared in a series of interviews and co-authored several op-eds emphasizing the need for a massive social media crackdown.


During a March 2018 interview on C-Span, Fly complained that “Russian accounts” were “trying to promote certain messages, amplify certain content, raise fringe views, pit Americans against each other, and we need to deal with this ongoing problem and find ways through the government, through tech companies, through broader society to tackle this issue.”

Yet few of the sites on PropOrNot’s blacklist, and none of the alternative sites that were erased in the recent Facebook purge that Fly and his colleagues take apparent credit for, were Russian accounts. Perhaps the only infraction they could have been accused of was publishing views that Fly and his cohorts saw as “fringe.”

What’s more, the ASD has been forced to admit that the mass of Twitter accounts it initially identified as “Russian bots” were not necessarily bots — and may not have been Russian either.

I’m Not Convinced on This Bot Thing”

A November 2017 investigation by Max Blumenthal, a co-author of this article, found that the ASD’s Hamilton 68 dashboard was the creation of “a collection of cranks, counterterror retreads, online harassers and paranoiacs operating with support from some of the most prominent figures operating within the American national security apparatus.”

These figures included the same George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security fellows — Andrew Weisburd and Clint Watts — that were cited as experts in the Washington Post’s article promoting PropOrNot.

Weisburd, who has been described as one of the brains behind the Hamilton 68 dashboard, once maintained a one-man, anti-Palestinian web monitoring initiative that specialized in doxxing left-wing activists, Muslims and anyone he considered “anti-American.” More recently, he has taken to Twitter to spout off murderous and homophobic fantasies about Glenn Greenwald, the editor of the Intercept — a publication the ASD flagged without explanation as a vehicle for Russian influence operations.

Watts, for his part, has testified before Congress on several occasions to call on the government to “quell information rebellions” with censorious measures including “nutritional labels” for online media. He has received fawning publicity from corporate media and been rewarded with a contributor role for NBC on the basis of his supposed expertise in ferreting out Russian disinformation.

However, under questioning during a public event by Grayzone contributor Ilias Stathatos, Watts admitted that substantial parts of his testimony were false, and refused to provide evidence to support some of his most colorful claims about malicious Russian bot activity.

In a separate interview with Buzzfeed, Watts appeared to completely disown the Hamilton 68 bot tracker as a legitimate tool. “I’m not convinced on this bot thing,” Watts confessed. He even called the narrative that he helped manufacture “overdone,” and admitted that the accounts Hamilton 68 tracked were not necessarily directed by Russian intelligence actors.

We don’t even think they’re all commanded in Russia — at all. We think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just really into promoting Russia,” Watts conceded.
But these stunning admissions did little to slow the momentum of the coming purge.

Enter the Atlantic Council

In his conversation with Sprague, the German Marshall Fund’s Fly stated that he was working with the Atlantic Council in the campaign to purge alternative media from social media platforms like Facebook.

The Atlantic Council is another Washington-based think tank that serves as a gathering point for neoconservatives and liberal interventionists pushing military aggression around the globe. It is funded by NATO and repressive, US-allied governments including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Turkey, as well as by Ukrainian oligarchs like Victor Pynchuk.

This May, Facebook announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) to “identify, expose, and explain disinformation during elections around the world.”

The Atlantic Council’s DFRLab is notorious for its zealous conflation of legitimate online dissent with illicit Russian activity, embracing the same tactics as PropOrNot and the ASD.

Ben Nimmo, a DFRLab fellow who has built his reputation on flushing out online Kremlin influence networks, embarked on an embarrassing witch hunt this year that saw him misidentify several living, breathing individuals as Russian bots or Kremlin “influence accounts.” Nimmo’s victims included Mariam Susli, a well-known Syrian-Australian social media personality, the famed Ukrainian concert pianist Valentina Lisitsa, and a British pensioner named Ian Shilling.

In an interview with Sky News, Shilling delivered a memorable tirade against his accusers. “I have no Kremlin contacts whatsoever; I do not know any Russians, I have no contact with the Russian government or anything to do with them,” he exclaimed. “I am an ordinary British citizen who happens to do research on the current neocon wars which are going on in Syria at this very moment.”

With the latest Facebook and Twitter purges, ordinary citizens like Shilling are being targeted in the open, and without apology. The mass deletions of alternative media accounts illustrate how national security hardliners from the German Marshall Fund and Atlantic Council (and whoever was behind PropOrNot) have instrumentalized the manufactured panic around Russian interference to generate public support for a wider campaign of media censorship.

In his conversation in Berlin with Sprague, Fly noted with apparent approval that, “Trump is now pointing to Chinese interference in the 2018 election.” As the mantra of foreign interference expands to a new adversarial power, the clampdown on voices of dissent in online media is almost certain to intensify.

As Fly promised, “This is just the beginning.”

Jeb Sprague is a visiting faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of “Globalizing the Caribbean: Political economy, social change, and the transnational capitalist class” (Temple University Press, 2019), “Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti” (Monthly Review Press, 2012), and is the editor of “Globalization and transnational capitalism in Asia and Oceania” (Routledge, 2016). He is a co-founder of the Network for the Critical Studies of Global Capitalism.

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of books including best-selling Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the PartyGoliath: Life and Loathing in Greater IsraelThe Fifty One Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza, and The Management of Savagery, which will be published later this year by Verso. He has also produced numerous print articles for an array of publications, many video reports and several documentaries including Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie and the forthcoming Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded the Grayzone Project in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.


By Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague Republished with permission / Grayzone Project / Report a typo
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* Zie o.a.: 'Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax'

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