Er zijn zelfs 'journalisten' die beweren dat ze alle bewijzen hebben gezien, die zouden aantonen dat Rusland de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, terwijl degenen die over deze zogenaamde bewijzen gaan, keer op keer stellen deze niet openbaar te kunnen maken vanwege de 'nationale veiligheid...' ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Bewijzen kunnen niet geheim zijn als je een ander land beschuldigt van dergelijke manipulaties, de inwoners van de VS (en de rest van de wereld) hebben alle recht dergelijke bewijzen te zien, bewijzen die allesbehalve een gevaar voor de staatsveiligheid zijn, daar ze niet bestaan.
Echter, als bekend wordt dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA alweer hebben gelogen, zou dat de geloofwaardigheid van deze leugen-instituties nog verder onderuit halen, uiteraard is dat een gevaar voor de topgraaiers van die diensten, graaiers en machtswellustelingen die deze leugens tot in het oneindige blijven herhalen......
Lees
het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, mooier kan je het niet
brengen (en geeft het door, tijd dat de reguliere media hun
lezers/kijkers verliezen, zolang ze hun onafhankelijkheid hebben
ingeleverd voor geldgewin en lobbyisme t.b.v. het ijskoude
neoliberalisme en het militair-industrieel complex):
Russiagate Is Like 9/11, Except It’s Made of Pure Narrative
July
18, 2018 at 10:38 pm
Written
by Caitlin
Johnstone
(CJ Opinion) — The
last few days have been truly amazing. I didn’t even write an
article yesterday; I’ve just been staring transfixed by my social
media feeds watching liberal Americans completely lose their minds. I
can’t look away. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck,
and everyone on the train is being
really homophobic.
I’ve
been writing about Russiagate since it started, and I can honestly
say this is the worst it’s ever been, by far. The most hysterical,
the most shrill, the most emotional, the most cartoonishly
over-the-top and hyperbolic. The fact that Trump met with Putin in
private and then publicly expressed doubt about the establishment
Russia narrative has sent some political factions of America into an
emotional state that is indistinguishable from what you’d expect if
Russia had bombed New York City. This despite the fact that the
establishment Russia narrative consists of no actual, visible events
whatsoever. It is made of pure narrative.
I don’t think the US media has ever been nuttier than they are right now. It would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous. They are harming the national psyche in a profound way
I
don’t even know where to start. Everyone has been completely mad
across the entire spectrum of what passes for America’s political
“left” today, from the usual suspects like Chuck Schumer and
Nancy Pelosi and their indistinguishable Never-Trump Republican
allies, all the way to supposedly progressive commentators like Cenk
Uygur and Shaun King. Comparing this pure narrative non-event to
Pearl Harbor is now commonplace and mainstream. I just watched a
United States Senator named Richard Blumenthal stare right into the
camera refer to the hypothetical possibility of future Russian cyber
intrusions as “this 9/11 moment.”
“We
are in a 9/11 national emergency because our country is under attack,
literally,” Blumenthal told
CNN while
demanding a record of Trump’s meeting with Putin at the Helsinki
summit. “That attack is ongoing and pervasive, verified by
objective and verifiable evidence. Those words are, again, from the
director of National Security. And this 9/11 moment demands that we
do come together.”
Nothing
about the establishment Russia narrative is in any way verifiable,
and the only thing it has in common with 9/11 is the media coverage
and widespread emotional response.
September
11 had actual video footage of falling towers. You could go visit New
York City, look at the spot where those towers used to be, and see
them not being there anymore. You could learn the names of the people
who died and visit their graves and talk to their family members.
Exactly how it
happened is a matter of some debate in many circles, but there is no
question that it happened. There was an actual event that did happen
in the real world, completely independent of any stories people tell
about that event.
Russiagate
is like 9/11, but with none of those things. It’s like if 9/11 had
all the same widespread emotional responses, all the same nonstop
mass media coverage, all the same punditry screaming war, war, war,
except no actual event occurred. The towers were still there,
everyone was still alive, and nothing actually happened apart from
the narrative and the emotional responses to that narrative.
This
is what I’m talking about when I say that whoever
controls the narrative controls the world.
Whoever controls the stories that westerners are telling each other
has the power to advance concrete agendas which reshape global
geopolitics without any actual thing even happening. Simply by
getting a
few hand-picked intelligence agents to
say something happened in a relatively confident way, you can get the
entire media and political body advancing that narrative as
unquestionable fact, and from there advance sanctions, new military
operations, a far more aggressive Nuclear Posture Review, the casting
out of diplomats, the arming of Ukraine, and ultimately shove Russia
further and further off the world stage.
As we
discussed last time,
the current administration has actually been far more aggressive
against Russia than the previous administration was, and has worked
against Russian interests to a far greater extent. If they wanted to,
the international alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense
agencies could just as easily use their near-total control of the
narrative to advance the story that Trump is a dangerous Russia hawk
who is imperiling the entire world by inflicting insane escalations
against a nuclear superpower. They could elicit the exact same
panicked emotional response that they are eliciting right now using
the exact same media and the exact same factual situation. They
wouldn’t have to change a single thing except where they place
their emphasis in telling the story. The known facts would all remain
exactly as they are; all that would have to change is the narrative.
Public
support for Russiagate depends on the fact that most people don’t
recognize how pervasively their day-to-day experience is dominated by
narrative. If you are intellectually honest with yourself, you will
acknowledge that you think about Russia a lot more now than you did
in 2015. Russia hasn’t changed any since 2015; all that has changed
is the narrative that is being told about it. And yet now the mass
media and a huge chunk of rank-and-file America now view it as a
major threat and think about it constantly. All they had to do was
talk about Russia constantly in a fearful and urgent way, and now US
liberals are convinced that Vladimir Putin is an omnipotent
world-dominating supervillain who has infiltrated the highest levels
of the US government.
If
humanity is to pull up and away from its current path toward either
ecological disaster, nuclear armageddon or Orwellian dystopia, we are
necessarily going to have to change our relationship with narrative.
As long as the way we think, vote and organize can be controlled by
the mere verbiage of the servants of power, our species will never be
able to begin operating in a sane and wholesome way. If all it
takes to make us act against our own interest is a few establishment
lackeys speaking a few words in a confident tone of voice, if mere
authoritative language can hypnotize us like a sorcerer casting
spells, we are doomed to slavery and destruction.
So
stop staring transfixed by the narratives, and begin looking at the
behavior and motives of the people advancing them instead. Stop
staring at the movie screen they’re constantly drawing your
attention to, turn around in your theater seat, and look at the
people who are running the projector. The way out of this mess is to
begin ignoring the stories we’re being hypnotized with and start
critically examining the people who are conducting the hypnosis.
Ignore the stories and stare with piercing eyes at the storytellers.
The difference between the official narrative and the actual reality
of this world is the difference between fiction and fact. Evolve
beyond.
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Zie ook: 'De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers.........' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
