Oh what a wonderful world we had prior to November 8th
when the carefully crafted US government messaging controlled the
elections. When Twitter was created the
government found a valuable propaganda tool by which to shape and direct public
opinion. From The Guardian:
Excerpt:
US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded
research
Darpa, established in 1958, is
responsible for technological research for the US military… Unveiled in 2011, the SMISC program was
regarded as a bid by the US military to become better at both detecting and conducting propaganda
campaigns on social media…“Through the program, Darpa seeks to develop
tools to support the efforts of human operators to counter misinformation or
deception campaigns with truthful information…"
However, papers leaked by NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that US
and British intelligence agencies have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for
purposes of propaganda and deception.
Documents prepared by NSA and Britain's GCHQ (and previously published
by the Intercept as well as NBC News) revealed aspects of some of these
programs. They included a unit engaged
in “discrediting” the agency’s enemies
with false information spread online…
“Since
everyone is potentially an influencer on social media and is capable of
spreading information, our work aims to
identify and engage the right people at the right time on social media to
help propagate information when needed.”
So the U.S. Government’s aim was “to identify and engage the
right people at the right time, to help propagate information when needed.” Who would have thought they’d find those
people at Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post? On
C-Span’s popular call-in show Washington
Journal the discussion for the day often starts out with the moderator reading
a story from the Washington Post and has viewers call in with comments.
C-Span is funded by the cable companies and has 24-hour a
day programming controlled by Washington think tanks. In Twitter’s early days C-Span’s Washington
Journal became the medium by which government propaganda was promoted. C-Span has a policy that callers are limited
to one call every thirty days, in order to allow a greater number of commenters
to weigh in. However, C-Span reads an
unlimited amount of Tweets written by the same individuals during their program.
Tweeters like “Bored File Clerk” and “Fishin’ Sam” tweet
their comments six or seven times during the daily program, which the C-Span’s
host dutifully reads throughout the show.
By allowing a deluge of tweets from sources like “Phishing Sam” and
“Bored CIA Clerk” C-Span actually has become a conduit for government propaganda
via Twitter. From Free Thought Project:
Excerpt:
Secret CIA Assessment Story About Russia Helping Trump is the ‘Fake
News’ You’ve Been Warned About
Washington, D.C. – Acting once again as the de facto public
propaganda mouthpiece for U.S. intelligence/deep state interests within the
U.S. government, The Washington Post reported in a
scurrilous piece of yellow journalism yesterday that “the CIA concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the
2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to
undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system.”
Make no mistake that this is the ‘Fake News’ the mainstream media has
been warning the public about. Highly respected investigative journalist
Glenn Greenwald labeled the Washington Post story, in an article for the
Intercept, “classic American journalism of the worst sort,” highlighting that,
“the key claims are based exclusively on
the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are
disseminating their own claims about what the CIA purportedly believes, all based on evidence that remains
completely secret.”
The impetus behind the move is almost certainly to constrain Trump’s anticipated
rapprochement with Russia by further tainting
public perception of a U.S.-Russia reconciliation by intimating that Trump in some way won the U.S. presidency with the
assistance of Russia — a continuation of a common theme of the Clinton
campaign…
Furthermore, the claims that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that Russia was
behind hacking the DNC, which was forwarded by Hillary Clinton during a
presidential debate was unfounded and
untrue. This claim was parroted across the mainstream media echo chamber as
if it were fact. However, in reality, it was simply more anti-Russia propaganda
as a means of tainting Trump…
Sensing the attempts to paint Trump into a corner with this latest bit of ‘Fake
News’ from The Washington Post, the Trump transition team released a
statement calling out the forces at work behind this latest attempt to stifle
the planned de-escalation of U.S. hybrid warfare against Russia.
“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction,” a statement from the Trump transition team read.
This newest piece of neo-Red Scare propaganda, being pushed by
the Post, comes on the heels of them just last week publishing a
journalistically inept piece of likely state-produced propaganda.
As Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander
Cockburn wrote for Counter Punch in an article titled, The CIA and the Press: When the Washington Post Ran the
CIA’s Propaganda Network, which discusses the connections between The Washington
Post & Operation Mockingbird – a
CIA program to infiltrate journalism began in the 50’s and still in operation
today:
Looks like the U.S. Government has done a pretty good job of
“identifying and engaging the right
people at the right time at the Washington Post to help promote the fake
story” about Russia interfering in the U.S. election. As a matter of fact, the Washington Post’s
“explosive” article on the Russian hacking was tossed into the Sunday Morning talk show echo chamber
for the expressed purpose of disqualifying Rex Tillerson from becoming
Secretary of State under President Trump.
As was cited in the Free
Thought Project article, “The
impetus behind the move is almost certainly to constrain Trump’s anticipated rapprochement with Russia by
further tainting public perception of a U.S.-Russia reconciliation by intimating that Trump in some way won
the U.S. presidency with the assistance of Russia — a continuation of a
common theme of the Clinton campaign.” Thus
the vicious attacks on Rex Tillerson by the Sunday Morning cadre of high paid media
whores.
Breaking: Global Research is reporting Trump has named
Rex Tillerson as his choice for Secretary of State
Excerpt:
Trump Picks Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
As Secretary Of State. He’s a Friend of Putin
In a move that is certain to infuriate those who see Trump as nothing
more than a puppet of the Kremlin, moments ago NBC reported that Rex Tillerson,
CEO of Exxon Mobil and late entrant into the SecState race after his first
meeting with the president elect this past Tuesday at the Trump Tower, has been
picked by Trump to serve as his next Secretary of State…
“He has had more interactive time
with Vladimir Putin than probably any other American with the exception of
Henry Kissinger,” said John Hamre, a former deputy defense secretary during the
Clinton administration and president of the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, a Washington think tank where Mr. Tillerson is a board
member…
In 2011, Mr. Tillerson struck a
deal giving Exxon access to prized Arctic resources in Russia as well as
allowing Russia’s state oil company, OAO Rosneft, to invest in Exxon
concessions all over the world… But it
was subsequently blocked by sanctions on
Russia that the U.S. and its allies imposed two years ago after the country’s invasion of Crimea and
conflicts with Ukraine. Tillerson spoke against the sanctions at the
company’s annual meeting in 2014.
Part of the reason the U.S. and their allies like Saudi
Arabia and Turkey have put sanctions in place against Russia is because the
Pentagon is funding terrorists to overthrow Assad in Syria and Russia is
interfering with that. Breaking News Israel is reporting that one
brave congresswoman is trying to end that madness.
Excerpt:
Congresswoman Introduces ‘Stop
Arming Terrorists Act’
Hawaii Democratic Congresswoman
Tulsi Gabbard last week introduced the
“Stop Arming Terrorists Act” after visiting New York’s Trump Tower and meeting
President-elect Donald Trump. Gabbard, an Army veteran and a member of the
House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Armed Services, wrote: “If you or I
gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail.
Why does our government get a free pass on this?”
She told NPR on Friday that the US government has been “quietly
supporting allies, partners, individuals and groups who are working directly
with al-Qaida, ISIS, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and other terrorist groups by
providing them with money, weapons and intelligence support in their fight to
overthrow the Syrian government.”
As a result, Gabbard said, “we will
end up with a situation where not only will the Syrian people be under greater
human suffering and an even more dire situation. We will end up with al-Qaida now having far greater military
capability, far greater strength and posing a greater threat not only to
the region but to the United States and the rest of the world...”
“If those who are calling for the
removal of this regime are, in essence, accepting
the fact that al-Qaida would take over that country, whether it’s al-Qaida or
ISIS or other terrorist groups – and for people to think that that would
somehow improve the lives of the people there in Syria or that it would somehow
better secure the American people – I
think that’s a crazy notion.”
President Trump is against removing Assad from power and
opening a power vacuum to be filled by ISIS and al-Qaida. The Pentagon is infested with neocon
holdovers from George W. Bush that are making a killing financially. One article in the Washington Post that isn’t
“fake news” that Trump would be wise to read is this.
Excerpt:
Pentagon buries evidence of $125
billion in bureaucratic waste
The Pentagon has buried an internal
study that exposed $125 billion in
administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense
budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The
Washington Post…
The report, issued in January 2015,
identified “a clear path” for the
Defense Department to save $125 billion over five years. The plan would not
have required layoffs of civil servants or reductions in military personnel.
Instead, it would have streamlined the bureaucracy through attrition and early
retirements, curtailed high-priced
contractors…
The data showed that the Defense
Department was paying a staggering number of people — 1,014,000
contractors, civilians and uniformed personnel — to fill back-office jobs
far from the front lines. That workforce supports 1.3 million troops on active
duty, the fewest since 1940…
The Defense Business Board was
ordered to conduct the study by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work, the
Pentagon’s second-highest-ranking official…
Some Defense Business Board members warned that exposing the extent of
the problem could have unforeseen consequences.
“You are about to turn on the light in a very dark room,” Kenneth
Klepper, the former chief executive of Medco Health Solutions, told Work in the
summer of 2014, according to two people familiar with the exchange. “All the crap is going to float to the
surface and stink the place up…”
In an aside, he (Work) revealed
that early findings had determined the AVERAGE
administrative job at the Pentagon was costing taxpayers MORE THAN
$200,000, including salary and benefits.
Every budget that congress passes includes almost another
trillion for the Pentagon based on the “fake news” of the “fake threat” posed
by Russia as reported by the Washington Post and New York Times. The Sunday morning talk shows echoed those fake
news stories using their platform to try to poison the minds of the American
people about Russia. The time for change
is here, and change will come with President Trump.
Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride but fear
not, our “tweeting” President has already reported for duty. Donald Trump has launched a shot across the
bow warning Democrats and Republicans that a new sheriff is in town. The days of lyin’ media filling the airwaves
and internet with “fake news” is over. The days of the White House
Correspondence Dinners, rewarding the high paid whores for a job well done, are
gone. Don’t believe me, check out Donald
Trump’s tweets.
By Patricia Baeten
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