It's pretty amazing how politicians across the political spectrum blame problems of their own making on "Russia." They must think we are total idiots. Glenn Greenwald explains four incidents this week alone.
Matt Taibbi, writing at Racket News:
Open records investigations suggest the same academic researchers responsible for the infamous Alfa Server hoax were likely also the government's initial source that Russia did the "DNC Hack." The same Clinton-campaign-connected researchers who helped generate an infamous fake news story were likely the U.S. government’s source for the initial announcement that Russians hacked the Demcratic National Committee, according to documents produced across years of Open Records requests and congressional letters...
Dismissed, the Alfa fiasco added to a growing pile of elaborate media fakes, one that came to include the Steele dossier, the so-called “Project Birmingham” stunt in which a company called New Knowledge assigned fake Russian Twitter accounts to Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, and the “Hamilton 68” site funded by the German Marshall Fund which used a bogus tracking tool to make figures like Republican congressman Devin Nunes appear tied to “Russian bots.”
Thanks to years of those Freedom of Information filings, it seems clear now the government was relying upon many of the same people associated with these known fake news schemes when it identified Russia as the source of the DNC-DCCC “cyberattacks.”
I posted on this topic about a week ago but I'm posting again because the behavior of the Biden White House is despicable. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s father and uncle were assassinated. RFK, Jr. was almost murdered last week. Presidents have always granted Secret service protection to opposing candidate, who requested it, until now. I'm to the point where there is no innocent explanation for the behavior of the White House. Please watch this short video. Don't skip over the beginning where Gavin de Becker describes his noteworthy credentials.
I completely John Lefevre and Wilbert Reilly. The biggest story about this murder of a man riding a bicycle is not about this particular (horrific) crime. It's about the "news" media working nonstop overtime to find racism, but only in one direction. There is no corporate news coverage of this story. Reverse the "races" in this story, however, and this story would dominate the news cycle.
The "news" media are dividing us from each other in numerous ways, trying to make us suspicious of each other, to make a dollar. When a "racial" minority is the victim, they pursue a narrative that divides hundreds of millions of complex human beings into two--count 'em--two colors. As a race abolitionist, I oppose this practice. News stories about crime should point out dangerous people who should be removed from the street, regardless of their "color."
