The real story is the story I said in the beginning, or at least by 2016. It is all about the deep state perpetuating itself and the reason for itself--endless war. It shows this goal is far more important than any other, and cannot be left to chance of any kind. All sides can be presumed to be "controlled" in this regards. There is no alternative, and if an alternative seemed to be appearing even its premonition must be destroyed. (By the way, principal actors in the Deep State are intelligence officers and partners, bankers, politicos, lobbyists, currently in government or not. The Deep State has many sides, but all sides go back to one, the one that is endless war, and the endless riches for deep state actors it brings.)
So it should always have been a kind of joke that "Make America Great Again" Trump would pursue peace of any kind with anyone. Of course, the whole point would be "peace" on the terms of American Plutocracy/Oligarchy to which Trump--like all Presidents--aspires to, which is of course Total Dominance of Everything. For Russia, those terms of submission would be non-starters. The last US puppet was Yeltsin, the whole point of Putin (and the hatred towards him endlessly drummed up by western media) is that he is not another US puppet. But even that joke--that Peace might be possible--was enough to propel the mainstream of media and discourse in the Anglo world in an absolute frenzy of Russophobia, just to ensure it barely remained less than a joke. The noose was around Trumps neck, to be sure he never said the wrong thing in this regards only. Everything else, he could do as he wished, the perfect devils bargain. When have we seen this before? LBJ comes to mind, he could do anything, except lose the war. His predecessor didn't last long after challenging the inevitability of such wars. The Imperialists grip on executive power has not lessened since then.
There's another thread often lost here too. Not only did the Russiagate narrative ensure that no Peace would ever break out with Russia, it would ensure that everyone who did not see this as the number one issue above everything else, i.e., those damned leftists, would lose all their friends and social associations, as most would be swept up by the new McCarthyism, making proper allegance to the new cold war the number one litmus test of polite identification. Question the Daily Narrative and find yourself socially unaceptible. THAT was part of it too: rumors-of-Peace and peacniks-and-leftists in one blow. Sometimes, but not always, peaceniks and leftists are the same people. But for sure, every true leftist is committed to peace, and every politician will always say they are committed to peace also. Meanwhile, all real issues, what's actually going on in the world, with fracking, CO2 release, and other factors of overgrowth, combined with continued stronger and more painful chains for workers, further encroachment of monopoly capitalist control, continue to not need discussion, with Russiagate dominating the storyline week after week. The Mainstream Media is not only in on this--they are at the center, and win or lose, they never lose, though sometimes presumed owners mysteriously go crazy.
This was why the story broke out specifically when Wikileaks releases in July of 2016 showed how corrupt the DNC. With no evidence (and still no good evidence) Hillary blamed the Russians. In one day the narrative was changed--to favor Hillary again, at the expense of leftists. I got it then for sure. I couldn't talk about what should have remained the story, how the DNC worked against Bernie. This was already clear by then with endless sponsored derogatory stories that people like me were arguing against. Finally, vindication, and in one news cycle it was replaced with a newly renewed McCarthyite hysteria that left Bernie behind and even suspect.
It's clear that one of the features of the entire Russiagate parade was the key role of Intelligence officers. And one can see how this provides an additional media lockdown. If there were any errant paid reporters straying beyond the yellow tape, they would soon find that their stories were deemed too sensitive to publish by mainstream outlets. So why bother? Even if the media are forced to retract some outrageous claims, they did so as quietly as possible. But now, more than ever, not at all if possible.
Meanwhile, the gumshoe tradition continues at muckraking independent outlets like Consortium News and friends.
CIA actually began collecting intel on Republican candidates and Sanders...in the summer of 2015, presumably part of the CIA director's plan to grease the skids for his appointment by his presumed next president Hillary. As early as December 2015, Podesta is telling an associate we will slaughter Trump over Russia.
There was a broad attempt by Obama, US Intelligence agencies, and British Intelligence Agencies, to target Trump as a stooge of Russia. Each and every case ultimately cited by Mueller was a bungled entrapment attempt. The people involved had deep western intelligence connections.
I don't have a link for this yet, but it's amazingly ignorant to see Paul Manafort as some kind of pro-Russia operator. Mainly, he had no scruples at all, but to the degree he did, he was indeed operating in accordance with Western desitres to topple the pro-Russian Yanakovich government. He advised Yanakovich to fire on demonstrators, which is what the western backed coopsters wanted. Yanakovich ignored Manafort's advice, but the coupsters had another trick, they staged the first firings, as is now proven. You could see that was not their first choice. So to see Manafort as part of a Russian conspiracy is looney, he was am antagonist, not a hero, to Russia.
Consortium News' Record On Russiagate #7, Russiagate is no Watergate
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #6, Attempting to add state election systems to it's turf, DHS pumps fears about vulnerabilities to Russia, and when that falls flat, DHS spices it up with confused and conflated stories about actual hacking.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #5. The key Cold War Intelligence Paranoids at the center of it all, unmasked in July 2018: Dearlove, Steele, Halper, Hannigan, Downer, Wood, Mifsud, Clapper, and Brennan. Details about their operations only suspected at that time have later been confirmed.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #4, The DNC and Clinton money behind the two things that started it all, the Steele Dossier and the Crowdstrike server analysis.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #3, All the evidence refutes the Manchurian Candidate theory--only hitherto minor policy enterpreneurs [later shown to be Intelligence connected entrapment engineers] who got slapped down later by senior campaign officials, and the best evidence refutes the alleged Russian Hack, since download speeds exceeded what they could have done, it had to have been a domestic source, as confirmed by US experts, quite possibly a thumbdrive at the DNC, but the Media continues to ignore inconvenient facts like these.
[More to be added still.]
All and all it gets back to one thing, that I have not emphasized enough. WE must not have "Intelligence Agencies" at all. They do us no good, even in rare cases outside of War, and endless harm otherwise. We can run societies without knowing everything about everyone, or trying to prevent anything from learning about anything, let alone trying to trick anyone--that never works in the long run, though that has been the aim of much such called "Intelligence" work.
As far as War we should never ever be at War, especially not now. It's been proven counterproductive endlessly already. Counterproductive to everyone but the but the owners of the military media industrial complex. Benjamin Franklin said it best: have no enemies.
Even Privacy is a drummed up notion, created by security people, as a need to justify themselves, as only they can provide it, and Prohibitionists, who permit it as the last refuge of freedom for the wealthy alone. The only people who truly need security are banks, and their activities ought to be as sharply limited as laid out by the New Deal, if such activities as banking are to be tolerated at all.
As far as Media is concerned, there should be no censorship. This is one area where the buyer must beware. Limits on campaign spending on advertising is, however, appropriate, and advertising should not be considered as identical to speech in being unrestrictable. However, be it noted that modern advertising-supported media is never going to freely "speak" either--it's all really advertising.
In my view, Russians has as much right to buy not-strictly-partisan ads displayed in USA as anyone. Their $46,000 in "devisive but non-political-campaign" ads looks more like underfunded college research project into assessing non-mainstream views in the USA than master manipulation. All advertising is nefarious IMO, the best one can do is mostly ignore it. The best media will always be supported by individual (not corporate) contributions.Meanwhile, mainstream political parties spent billions and billions and billions are constantly being spent on corporate political advertising, and the entire media enterprise is supported by the imperial corporatocracy.
Nobody should believe at face value anything said about Putin, or any Official Enemy (who does not submit to our Total Dominance of Everything) auch as Assad, in the western media. Conveniently we only hear one side of every story involving Official Enemies. One quite well known Boston commentator opines that even Milosovec wasn't so bad, he was merely reacting to western and western financed aggression. He criticizes Chomsky for not defending Milosovec, but falling in line with the Imperial Consensus. I have not mastered the details here, but he sounds plausible to me. It has sometimes been correctly reported that much of the seperatist murders in Kosovo (there were also anti-seperatist murders) occurred After the NATO bombing started, but many people misremember this and the opposite was actually more often claimed or presumed in mainstream media reports. I don't know the answer, but I do know we've only heard one side. So believe nothing, especially about Official Enemies, it's best not to even care about them, they are getting enough mis-attention anyway, through Official Channels.
Speaking of Official Channels, it has long been demonstrated that US Cable TV is under total imperial corporate lockdown, with the range of opinion from the passionately destructive of social improvement to liberal-MIC-captive, Fox News to MSNBC. Though LinkTV and Free Speech TV are quite good, as was, quite strangely, Al Jazeera.
So it should always have been a kind of joke that "Make America Great Again" Trump would pursue peace of any kind with anyone. Of course, the whole point would be "peace" on the terms of American Plutocracy/Oligarchy to which Trump--like all Presidents--aspires to, which is of course Total Dominance of Everything. For Russia, those terms of submission would be non-starters. The last US puppet was Yeltsin, the whole point of Putin (and the hatred towards him endlessly drummed up by western media) is that he is not another US puppet. But even that joke--that Peace might be possible--was enough to propel the mainstream of media and discourse in the Anglo world in an absolute frenzy of Russophobia, just to ensure it barely remained less than a joke. The noose was around Trumps neck, to be sure he never said the wrong thing in this regards only. Everything else, he could do as he wished, the perfect devils bargain. When have we seen this before? LBJ comes to mind, he could do anything, except lose the war. His predecessor didn't last long after challenging the inevitability of such wars. The Imperialists grip on executive power has not lessened since then.
There's another thread often lost here too. Not only did the Russiagate narrative ensure that no Peace would ever break out with Russia, it would ensure that everyone who did not see this as the number one issue above everything else, i.e., those damned leftists, would lose all their friends and social associations, as most would be swept up by the new McCarthyism, making proper allegance to the new cold war the number one litmus test of polite identification. Question the Daily Narrative and find yourself socially unaceptible. THAT was part of it too: rumors-of-Peace and peacniks-and-leftists in one blow. Sometimes, but not always, peaceniks and leftists are the same people. But for sure, every true leftist is committed to peace, and every politician will always say they are committed to peace also. Meanwhile, all real issues, what's actually going on in the world, with fracking, CO2 release, and other factors of overgrowth, combined with continued stronger and more painful chains for workers, further encroachment of monopoly capitalist control, continue to not need discussion, with Russiagate dominating the storyline week after week. The Mainstream Media is not only in on this--they are at the center, and win or lose, they never lose, though sometimes presumed owners mysteriously go crazy.
This was why the story broke out specifically when Wikileaks releases in July of 2016 showed how corrupt the DNC. With no evidence (and still no good evidence) Hillary blamed the Russians. In one day the narrative was changed--to favor Hillary again, at the expense of leftists. I got it then for sure. I couldn't talk about what should have remained the story, how the DNC worked against Bernie. This was already clear by then with endless sponsored derogatory stories that people like me were arguing against. Finally, vindication, and in one news cycle it was replaced with a newly renewed McCarthyite hysteria that left Bernie behind and even suspect.
It's clear that one of the features of the entire Russiagate parade was the key role of Intelligence officers. And one can see how this provides an additional media lockdown. If there were any errant paid reporters straying beyond the yellow tape, they would soon find that their stories were deemed too sensitive to publish by mainstream outlets. So why bother? Even if the media are forced to retract some outrageous claims, they did so as quietly as possible. But now, more than ever, not at all if possible.
Meanwhile, the gumshoe tradition continues at muckraking independent outlets like Consortium News and friends.
CIA actually began collecting intel on Republican candidates and Sanders...in the summer of 2015, presumably part of the CIA director's plan to grease the skids for his appointment by his presumed next president Hillary. As early as December 2015, Podesta is telling an associate we will slaughter Trump over Russia.
There was a broad attempt by Obama, US Intelligence agencies, and British Intelligence Agencies, to target Trump as a stooge of Russia. Each and every case ultimately cited by Mueller was a bungled entrapment attempt. The people involved had deep western intelligence connections.
I don't have a link for this yet, but it's amazingly ignorant to see Paul Manafort as some kind of pro-Russia operator. Mainly, he had no scruples at all, but to the degree he did, he was indeed operating in accordance with Western desitres to topple the pro-Russian Yanakovich government. He advised Yanakovich to fire on demonstrators, which is what the western backed coopsters wanted. Yanakovich ignored Manafort's advice, but the coupsters had another trick, they staged the first firings, as is now proven. You could see that was not their first choice. So to see Manafort as part of a Russian conspiracy is looney, he was am antagonist, not a hero, to Russia.
Consortium News' Record On Russiagate #7, Russiagate is no Watergate
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #6, Attempting to add state election systems to it's turf, DHS pumps fears about vulnerabilities to Russia, and when that falls flat, DHS spices it up with confused and conflated stories about actual hacking.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #5. The key Cold War Intelligence Paranoids at the center of it all, unmasked in July 2018: Dearlove, Steele, Halper, Hannigan, Downer, Wood, Mifsud, Clapper, and Brennan. Details about their operations only suspected at that time have later been confirmed.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #4, The DNC and Clinton money behind the two things that started it all, the Steele Dossier and the Crowdstrike server analysis.
Consortium News' Record on Russiagate #3, All the evidence refutes the Manchurian Candidate theory--only hitherto minor policy enterpreneurs [later shown to be Intelligence connected entrapment engineers] who got slapped down later by senior campaign officials, and the best evidence refutes the alleged Russian Hack, since download speeds exceeded what they could have done, it had to have been a domestic source, as confirmed by US experts, quite possibly a thumbdrive at the DNC, but the Media continues to ignore inconvenient facts like these.
[More to be added still.]
All and all it gets back to one thing, that I have not emphasized enough. WE must not have "Intelligence Agencies" at all. They do us no good, even in rare cases outside of War, and endless harm otherwise. We can run societies without knowing everything about everyone, or trying to prevent anything from learning about anything, let alone trying to trick anyone--that never works in the long run, though that has been the aim of much such called "Intelligence" work.
As far as War we should never ever be at War, especially not now. It's been proven counterproductive endlessly already. Counterproductive to everyone but the but the owners of the military media industrial complex. Benjamin Franklin said it best: have no enemies.
Even Privacy is a drummed up notion, created by security people, as a need to justify themselves, as only they can provide it, and Prohibitionists, who permit it as the last refuge of freedom for the wealthy alone. The only people who truly need security are banks, and their activities ought to be as sharply limited as laid out by the New Deal, if such activities as banking are to be tolerated at all.
As far as Media is concerned, there should be no censorship. This is one area where the buyer must beware. Limits on campaign spending on advertising is, however, appropriate, and advertising should not be considered as identical to speech in being unrestrictable. However, be it noted that modern advertising-supported media is never going to freely "speak" either--it's all really advertising.
In my view, Russians has as much right to buy not-strictly-partisan ads displayed in USA as anyone. Their $46,000 in "devisive but non-political-campaign" ads looks more like underfunded college research project into assessing non-mainstream views in the USA than master manipulation. All advertising is nefarious IMO, the best one can do is mostly ignore it. The best media will always be supported by individual (not corporate) contributions.Meanwhile, mainstream political parties spent billions and billions and billions are constantly being spent on corporate political advertising, and the entire media enterprise is supported by the imperial corporatocracy.
Nobody should believe at face value anything said about Putin, or any Official Enemy (who does not submit to our Total Dominance of Everything) auch as Assad, in the western media. Conveniently we only hear one side of every story involving Official Enemies. One quite well known Boston commentator opines that even Milosovec wasn't so bad, he was merely reacting to western and western financed aggression. He criticizes Chomsky for not defending Milosovec, but falling in line with the Imperial Consensus. I have not mastered the details here, but he sounds plausible to me. It has sometimes been correctly reported that much of the seperatist murders in Kosovo (there were also anti-seperatist murders) occurred After the NATO bombing started, but many people misremember this and the opposite was actually more often claimed or presumed in mainstream media reports. I don't know the answer, but I do know we've only heard one side. So believe nothing, especially about Official Enemies, it's best not to even care about them, they are getting enough mis-attention anyway, through Official Channels.
Speaking of Official Channels, it has long been demonstrated that US Cable TV is under total imperial corporate lockdown, with the range of opinion from the passionately destructive of social improvement to liberal-MIC-captive, Fox News to MSNBC. Though LinkTV and Free Speech TV are quite good, as was, quite strangely, Al Jazeera.
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