thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-04-15--Bernie Sanders, the ultimate fake Socialist, now shows his true face

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made a surprising appearance on former Vice President joe Biden ’ s livestream to give the rival for the Democrat presidential nomination an enthusiastic endorsement against President Donald Trump .
Denouncing Trump as a “ racist , sexist , homophobe ” who “ lies all the time , ” Sanders announced he was now supporting Biden ’ s presidential bid .
The self-described democratic socialist had suspended his campaign last week , saying he would stay on the ballot to influence party policy at the convention – but apparently changed his mind on Monday .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ m asking every Democrat , I ’ m asking every independent , I ’ m asking a lot of Republicans — to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse , ” Sanders said .
Finally that SOB showed his true face , the face of an ultimate fake .
His appeal to identity politics ( “ racist , sexist , homophobe ” ) also shows were his REAL values are , and that sure ain ’ t Socialism !
In the past , Bernie already showed his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when he backed the Israeli murderous attack on Lebanon ( which , glory be to God , resulted in the “ Divine Victory ” of Hezbollah and arguably one of the worst defeats in modern military history for the Zionist entity ) .
I don ’ t like Trump any more than Bernie does , but I also realize that Trump is probably the main reason why we did not have a major war involving the USA ( yet ? )
, whereas Hillary and Biden are the ultimate pseudo-liberal war-mongers .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a real pro-peace candidate , but being anti-Trump and pro-Biden makes exactly *zero* sense .
Yet both Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders did exactly that .
This proves their total hypocrisy which is now simply undeniable .
This entire debacle just shows that what the USA needs is not a different , putatively better , president , but what the US State Department calls “ regime change ” .
I am not a Socialist , but I do know Socialism ( I took the time to actually *study* Marxism-Leninism ) and I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ referred to Bernie , or even Obama , as “ Socialists ” .
This is utterly ridiculous and has no connection to reality .
There are NO real Socialists ( of whatever variety ) amongst US politicians and only a terminally brainwashed population can mistake folks like Obama or Bernie for “ Socialists ” .
Heck , some US Americans even believe that government bailouts of major corporation are also evidence that the US government is “ Socialist ” !
The lack of political education of most US Americans is nothing short of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( nevermind Marxism or Dialectical Materialism ) is never taught in the USA , not even at a college level ( and when it is , it is mostly fake ; Michael Parenti would be a pretty good teacher , but he is one guy in a huge system , so nobody hears his voice ) .
Okay so now we know that the pseudo-liberal pseudo-Left has now fully endorsed Biden .
This just goes to prove that the entire Dem Party is , and has been for a very long time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Deep State .
I would like note that Trump succeeded in getting elected against the wishes of the folks who ran the Republican Party .
This would be impossible in the Democratic Party , which just goes to prove that while both parties are corrupt to the bone , there is still some real diversity in the GOP .
But the Dem Party truly walks in lockstep , probably towards its own demise .
For the time being , let us all rejoice in the fall of Bernie , the shyster and scumbag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Socialist while , in reality , being a safety valve for the Dem Party , a warmongering Zionist and a tool of the US Deep State .
Bernie will go down in history as the ultimate fake .

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made a surprising appearance on former Vice President joe Biden’s livestream to give the rival for the Democrat presidential nomination an enthusiastic endorsement against President Donald Trump. Denouncing Trump as a “racist, sexist, homophobe” who “lies all the time,” Sanders announced he was now supporting Biden’s presidential bid. The self-described democratic socialist had suspended his campaign last week, saying he would stay on the ballot to influence party policy at the convention – but apparently changed his mind on Monday. “I am asking all Americans — I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans — to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy which I endorse,” Sanders said.
Finally that SOB showed his true face, the face of an ultimate fake. His appeal to identity politics (“racist, sexist, homophobe”) also shows were his REAL values are, and that sure ain’t Socialism!
In the past, Bernie already showed his true face when he endorsed Hillary or when he backed the Israeli murderous attack on Lebanon (which, glory be to God, resulted in the “Divine Victory” of Hezbollah and arguably one of the worst defeats in modern military history for the Zionist entity).
I don’t like Trump any more than Bernie does, but I also realize that Trump is probably the main reason why we did not have a major war involving the USA (yet?), whereas Hillary and Biden are the ultimate pseudo-liberal war-mongers. I can understand somebody hating Trump and voting for a real pro-peace candidate, but being anti-Trump and pro-Biden makes exactly *zero* sense.
Yet both Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders did exactly that.
This proves their total hypocrisy which is now simply undeniable.
This entire debacle just shows that what the USA needs is not a different, putatively better, president, but what the US State Department calls “regime change”.
I am not a Socialist, but I do know Socialism (I took the time to actually *study* Marxism-Leninism) and I have always felt offended when US Americans referred to Bernie, or even Obama, as “Socialists”. This is utterly ridiculous and has no connection to reality. There are NO real Socialists (of whatever variety) amongst US politicians and only a terminally brainwashed population can mistake folks like Obama or Bernie for “Socialists”. Heck, some US Americans even believe that government bailouts of major corporation are also evidence that the US government is “Socialist”! The lack of political education of most US Americans is nothing short of amazing.
Now you know why Socialism (nevermind Marxism or Dialectical Materialism) is never taught in the USA, not even at a college level (and when it is, it is mostly fake; Michael Parenti would be a pretty good teacher, but he is one guy in a huge system, so nobody hears his voice).
Okay so now we know that the pseudo-liberal pseudo-Left has now fully endorsed Biden. This just goes to prove that the entire Dem Party is, and has been for a very long time, a tool in the hands of the Deep State.
I would like note that Trump succeeded in getting elected against the wishes of the folks who ran the Republican Party. This would be impossible in the Democratic Party, which just goes to prove that while both parties are corrupt to the bone, there is still some real diversity in the GOP. But the Dem Party truly walks in lockstep, probably towards its own demise.
For the time being, let us all rejoice in the fall of Bernie, the shyster and scumbag who tried to pretend that he was a Socialist while, in reality, being a safety valve for the Dem Party, a warmongering Zionist and a tool of the US Deep State. Bernie will go down in history as the ultimate fake.
—The Saker


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-04-15--Biden Has Sided With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup Effort in Venezuela

Despite progressive critics and anti-war voices speaking forcefully against the Trump administration ’ s overt backing of the attempted coup d ’ état by rightwing opposition forces in Venezuela on Tuesday , 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden aligned himself with the White House by throwing his support behind the overthrow effort .
“ The violence in Venezuela today against peaceful protesters is criminal , ” Biden tweeted on Tuesday .
“ Maduro ’ s regime is responsible for incredible suffering .
The U.S. must stand with the National Assembly & Guaidó in their efforts to restore democracy through legitimate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ embraced as an effort to “ restore democracy , ” many foreign policy experts—ones not willing to give the benefit of the doubt to people like national security advisor John Bolton , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , and President Donald Trump—called something else entirely : a violent effort by Venezuela ’ s rightwing elites , led by Juan Guaidó , to overthrow the elected government of President Nicols Maduro .
In subsequent comments during a campaign stop , Biden called for “ calm ” in Venezuela but also repeated the White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in last year ’ s contested elections which the opposition largely boycotted—the legitimate leader of Venezuela : Biden wasn ’ t alone among top Democrats .
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others also expressed support for the military uprising launched by Guaidó .
For critics , however , one of the salient dynamics about Biden ’ s announced support for the U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela in 2019 is what it suggests the former vice president has learned—or rather has not learned—about U.S. intervention ( aka “ meddling ” ) in the affairs of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 .
Interviewed by Democracy Now !
early on Wednesday , economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs , who directs the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University , and Professor Miguel Tinker Salas of Pomona College discussed what they both agree is the dangerous and counterproductive agenda that leaders like Trump , Bolten , Biden , and Pelosi are now pushing in Venezuela .
“ What ’ s so stupid about these American policies , these neocon policies , ” said Sachs , “ is they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t achieve even the political goals of these nasty people like Bolton .
It ’ s not as if they ’ re effective and nasty ; they ’ re completely ineffective and totally nasty at the same time.
” While acknowledging that Maduro has certainly made mistakes and legitimate criticisms of his government exist , Tinker Salas said the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America—not to mention elsewhere in the world— shows overthrowing governments in this manner “ doesn ’ t produce the change that most people want .
And what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the majority of the population.
” Sachs—who last week released a detailed study along with economist Mark Weisbrot on the devastating impact that U.S.-imposed sanctions have had on the Venezuelan economy—added that people backing Guaidó and the coup effort are really just embracing “ normal U.S. right-wing foreign policy , nothing different.
” “ This is the same foreign policy that we saw throughout Latin America in the 20th century , ” Sachs added .
“ It ’ s the same foreign policy that we saw catastrophically in the Middle East .
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bolton ’ s idea of diplomacy .
This is Trump ’ s idea of diplomacy .
You punch someone in the face .
You crush your opponent .
You try whatever way you can to get your way .
It ’ s very simpleminded .
It ’ s very crude.
” “ And , ” concluded Sachs , “ it never works .
It just leads to catastrophe .
”

Despite progressive critics and anti-war voices speaking forcefully against the Trump administration's overt backing of the attempted coup d'état by rightwing opposition forces in Venezuela on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden aligned himself with the White House by throwing his support behind the overthrow effort.
"The violence in Venezuela today against peaceful protesters is criminal," Biden tweeted on Tuesday. "Maduro's regime is responsible for incredible suffering. The U.S. must stand with the National Assembly & Guaidó in their efforts to restore democracy through legitimate, internationally monitored elections."
But what Biden embraced as an effort to "restore democracy," many foreign policy experts—ones not willing to give the benefit of the doubt to people like national security advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and President Donald Trump—called something else entirely: a violent effort by Venezuela's rightwing elites, led by Juan Guaidó, to overthrow the elected government of President Nicols Maduro.
In subsequent comments during a campaign stop, Biden called for "calm" in Venezuela but also repeated the White House position that Maduro is not—despite his win in last year's contested elections which the opposition largely boycotted—the legitimate leader of Venezuela:
Biden wasn't alone among top Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others also expressed support for the military uprising launched by Guaidó.
For critics, however, one of the salient dynamics about Biden's announced support for the U.S.-backed coup in Venezuela in 2019 is what it suggests the former vice president has learned—or rather has not learned—about U.S. intervention (aka "meddling") in the affairs of foreign nations since his support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Interviewed by Democracy Now! early on Wednesday, economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, who directs the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, and Professor Miguel Tinker Salas of Pomona College discussed what they both agree is the dangerous and counterproductive agenda that leaders like Trump, Bolten, Biden, and Pelosi are now pushing in Venezuela.
"What's so stupid about these American policies, these neocon policies," said Sachs, "is they do create disaster, but they don't achieve even the political goals of these nasty people like Bolton. It's not as if they're effective and nasty; they're completely ineffective and totally nasty at the same time."
While acknowledging that Maduro has certainly made mistakes and legitimate criticisms of his government exist, Tinker Salas said the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America—not to mention elsewhere in the world— shows overthrowing governments in this manner "doesn't produce the change that most people want. And what it does is it aggravates conditions for the majority of the population."
Sachs—who last week released a detailed study along with economist Mark Weisbrot on the devastating impact that U.S.-imposed sanctions have had on the Venezuelan economy—added that people backing Guaidó and the coup effort are really just embracing "normal U.S. right-wing foreign policy, nothing different."
"This is the same foreign policy that we saw throughout Latin America in the 20th century," Sachs added. "It's the same foreign policy that we saw catastrophically in the Middle East. This is Mr. Bolton. This is Mr. Bolton's idea of diplomacy. This is Trump's idea of diplomacy. You punch someone in the face. You crush your opponent. You try whatever way you can to get your way. It's very simpleminded. It's very crude."
"And," concluded Sachs, "it never works. It just leads to catastrophe."


Contrasting Health Systems

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In the catalog of health provision and financing systems , we find a wide range , from the most private to the public and free of charge .
There are systems whose provision and financing are completely privatized , such as the United States , Chile and Colombia , where the facilities that provide health services are private and in order to enter and be served , people have two options : either they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own pockets or they take out an insurance policy so that when a contingency arises , they pay the bill .
This type of health system based on the intermediation of insurance companies in which a “ third party ” pays , in addition to being extremely costly ( the insurance company keeps a hefty margin of the business ’ profit ) is the most exclusive : 1 ) if you do not have how to take out a policy , the safest thing , worth the redundancy , is to be left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in which 1 % of the world ’ s population appropriates 82 % of the wealth , it is many , many people who do not have sufficient resources to take out health insurance .
2 ) This insurance system is so perverse that exclusion is not only for economic reasons but also for age : the issue becomes more and more complex if you are over 50 , 60 , 70 and 80 years old , if you want health insurance you must pay more , that ’ s for sure .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the classic neo-liberal discourse that the state is inefficient , that it should not meddle in the economy or in the affairs of the market , which makes the mercantilist conception of health clear .
However , when it comes to insurance companies , one must always read the small print : “ those who are unable to pay for an insurance policy or do not have sufficient resources may turn to the State which will pay for them , and in the event of a contingency in which their insurance coverage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the State to resolve the problem ” .
It is around business , the insurance companies , sister premiums to the banking system , never lose .
Trials of this type of health system began showing up in the Americas in the mid-1970s .
Chile under the dictator Pinochet , in the visible hand of the monetarist and neoliberal Milton Friedman , first signed up for the experiments and in 1981 created the Provisional Health Institutions ( Isapres ) which are private health insurance companies , that by the way , made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ year .
They also created the National Health Fund ( FONASA ) , a public fund for those cases that were redirected by the ISAPREs .
As for the provision of health services , it began to be private and to keep everything in the family , the owners of the clinics are the same owners of the ISAPREs .
Colombia is another good example .
In 1993 , then-Senator Alvaro Uribe proposed , and it was approved , the privatization of health care in that country .
Following the format , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , the private insurance companies .
In Venezuela , during the government of Rafael Caldera in 1996 and as part of the same Plan for the entire Region , the Organic Law on Social Security was approved , which consisted of the privatization of health and the pension system .
In Chile , Colombia and the United States , with the discourse of the inefficiency of the public sector ( after having defunded and dismantled it ) they approved the creation of the Health Fund Administrators and the Private Health Service Providers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Revolution and the approval of Articles 83 , 84 , 85 and 86 of the 1999 Constitution , which clearly establish that health is a fundamental social right and will be guaranteed by the creation of a single , public health system , Caldera ’ s law slipped down into history .
From that moment on , the public health system in Venezuela was strengthened .
The network of public facilities increased by 397 % and the ratio of physicians per 1000 inhabitants rose from 0.8 to 3 between 1999 and 2018 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is served by the public system , the immunization plan is completely free , as are the high-cost drugs and these are just a few examples with much more remaining to be done .
At the other end of the catalog are the public health systems within the framework of a socialist system .
In these cases , they do not ask for credit cards or the insurance key to enter the hospital .
It is completely free .
An emblematic example in our Region is the Cuban model .
Despite 60 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States , Cuba has the best health indicators in the Americas and the world .
According to data from the Pan American Health Organization , the infant mortality rate on this Caribbean island is 4 per 1000 live births , far below the Latin American and Caribbean average of 13.04 ( the infant mortality rate is the number of children under 12 months who die each year for every 1000 registered live births ) .
Despite being or seeming to be the “ greatest economic and military power ” , the United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid-19 indicators : not only is it the current epicenter of the pandemic with 30 % of the people infected worldwide ( 489,646 cases ) , but also the prevalence rate due to the coronavirus in that country ( 140.9 people infected per 100 .
000 inhabitants ) is 30 times higher than Cuba ’ s ( 4.97 infected persons per 100,000 inhabitants ) and the mortality rate in the United States ( 5.51 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants ) is 42 times higher than the island ’ s ( 0.13 deaths per 100,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the prevalence rate of Covid-19 in the US is 25 times that of the Asian giant and the mortality rate is 23 times higher .
Despite the criminal blockade , the unconventional war against the Venezuelan people and the recent onslaught of U.S. imperialism including threats of invasion , the prevalence rate of the coronavirus in Venezuela ( 0.57 people infected per 100,000 inhabitants ) is 267 times lower than that of the U.S. and the mortality rate ( 0.03 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants ) is 184 times lower than that of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the alleged humanitarian crisis in Venezuela ( yet another US invention to justify the invasion of our country ) , we wonder who really needs humanitarian aid as a matter of urgency .
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By Pasqualina Curcio Curcio on April 12, 2020
RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the catalog of health provision and financing systems, we find a wide range, from the most private to the public and free of charge. There are systems whose provision and financing are completely privatized, such as the United States, Chile and Colombia, where the facilities that provide health services are private and in order to enter and be served, people have two options: either they pay for the service out of their own pockets or they take out an insurance policy so that when a contingency arises, they pay the bill.
This type of health system based on the intermediation of insurance companies in which a “third party” pays, in addition to being extremely costly (the insurance company keeps a hefty margin of the business’ profit) is the most exclusive: 1) if you do not have how to take out a policy, the safest thing, worth the redundancy, is to be left out, and in this unequal world in which 1% of the world’s population appropriates 82% of the wealth, it is many, many people who do not have sufficient resources to take out health insurance. 2) This insurance system is so perverse that exclusion is not only for economic reasons but also for age: the issue becomes more and more complex if you are over 50, 60, 70 and 80 years old, if you want health insurance you must pay more, that’s for sure.
The justification for this type of system is the classic neo-liberal discourse that the state is inefficient, that it should not meddle in the economy or in the affairs of the market, which makes the mercantilist conception of health clear.
However, when it comes to insurance companies, one must always read the small print: “those who are unable to pay for an insurance policy or do not have sufficient resources may turn to the State which will pay for them, and in the event of a contingency in which their insurance coverage runs out, they must also turn to the State to resolve the problem”. It is around business, the insurance companies, sister premiums to the banking system, never lose.
Privatization Plan
Trials of this type of health system began showing up in the Americas in the mid-1970s. Chile under the dictator Pinochet, in the visible hand of the monetarist and neoliberal Milton Friedman, first signed up for the experiments and in 1981 created the Provisional Health Institutions (Isapres) which are private health insurance companies, that by the way, made around 80 million dollars in profits last year. They also created the National Health Fund (FONASA), a public fund for those cases that were redirected by the ISAPREs. As for the provision of health services, it began to be private and to keep everything in the family, the owners of the clinics are the same owners of the ISAPREs.
Colombia is another good example. In 1993, then-Senator Alvaro Uribe proposed, and it was approved, the privatization of health care in that country. Following the format, the Health Promotion Entities were created, that is, the private insurance companies.
In Venezuela, during the government of Rafael Caldera in 1996 and as part of the same Plan for the entire Region, the Organic Law on Social Security was approved, which consisted of the privatization of health and the pension system. In Chile, Colombia and the United States, with the discourse of the inefficiency of the public sector (after having defunded and dismantled it) they approved the creation of the Health Fund Administrators and the Private Health Service Providers.
With the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution and the approval of Articles 83, 84, 85 and 86 of the 1999 Constitution, which clearly establish that health is a fundamental social right and will be guaranteed by the creation of a single, public health system, Caldera’s law slipped down into history. From that moment on, the public health system in Venezuela was strengthened. The network of public facilities increased by 397% and the ratio of physicians per 1000 inhabitants rose from 0.8 to 3 between 1999 and 2018. More than 80% of the population is served by the public system, the immunization plan is completely free, as are the high-cost drugs and these are just a few examples with much more remaining to be done.
In Socialism
At the other end of the catalog are the public health systems within the framework of a socialist system. In these cases, they do not ask for credit cards or the insurance key to enter the hospital. It is completely free. An emblematic example in our Region is the Cuban model. Despite 60 years of the criminal blockade imposed by the United States, Cuba has the best health indicators in the Americas and the world. According to data from the Pan American Health Organization, the infant mortality rate on this Caribbean island is 4 per 1000 live births, far below the Latin American and Caribbean average of 13.04 (the infant mortality rate is the number of children under 12 months who die each year for every 1000 registered live births).
In Times on Pandemic
Despite being or seeming to be the “greatest economic and military power”, the United States is the country with the worst Covid-19 indicators: not only is it the current epicenter of the pandemic with 30% of the people infected worldwide (489,646 cases), but also the prevalence rate due to the coronavirus in that country (140.9 people infected per 100. 000 inhabitants) is 30 times higher than Cuba’s (4.97 infected persons per 100,000 inhabitants) and the mortality rate in the United States (5.51 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) is 42 times higher than the island’s (0.13 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants).
Compared to China, the prevalence rate of Covid-19 in the US is 25 times that of the Asian giant and the mortality rate is 23 times higher.
Despite the criminal blockade, the unconventional war against the Venezuelan people and the recent onslaught of U.S. imperialism including threats of invasion, the prevalence rate of the coronavirus in Venezuela (0.57 people infected per 100,000 inhabitants) is 267 times lower than that of the U.S. and the mortality rate (0.03 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) is 184 times lower than that of the northern country.
After so much hype about the alleged humanitarian crisis in Venezuela (yet another US invention to justify the invasion of our country), we wonder who really needs humanitarian aid as a matter of urgency.
Source: Ultimas Noticias, translation Resumen Latinoamericano, North America bureau
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pasqualina Curcio is Professor in the Department of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela. In her recent book “The Visible Hand of the Market: Economic War in Venezuela”, with a foreword by the prominent intellectual Luis Britto García. Here she explains the causes of the complex situation of the Venezuelan economy using solid econometric and statistical foundations that do not usually appear in the media. She shows that the “invisible hand” of Adam Smith does not guarantee the efficiency of the markets and much less the social welfare, even more so in countries subjected to an external economic war aiming to disrupt an alternative social-economic model.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-14--PROVEN: Biden Won the Democratic Nomination by Cheating.

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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse t ’ s not just that he sold out to billionaires in order to be able to compete with Bernie Sanders who refused to do that and didn ’ t need to , but it ’ s the case also because Biden lied shamelessly in order to win overwhelmingly the black vote in South Carolina where most of the Democrats are Blacks — he had to misrepresent to black voters not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to achieve his first-ever ( and crushing ) win of a state primary in his long career of three campaigns for the U.S. Presidency .
And , so , that ’ s what he did , and he won his first-ever state primary outside of his own state of Delaware — he played South Carolina ’ s Blacks for suckers , and they swallowed his bait in one huge gulp , and the billionaires ( virtually all of them white ) then created for him the campaign that suddenly turned everything around in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ based upon lies .
t ’ s not just that he sold out to billionaires in order to be able to compete with Bernie Sanders who refused to do that and didn ’ t need to , but it ’ s the case also because Biden lied shamelessly in order to win overwhelmingly the black vote in South Carolina where most of the Democrats are Blacks — he had toin order to achieve his first-ever ( and crushing ) win of a state primary in his long career of three campaigns for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s what he did , and he won his first-ever state primary outside of his own state of Delaware — he played South Carolina ’ s Blacks for suckers , and they swallowed his bait in one huge gulp , and the billionaires ( virtually all of them ) then created for him the campaign that suddenly turned everything around in his favor — all of this being based upon lies .
Biden won the nomination by lying rampantly and by treating black voters as if their race is their entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than their race .
For white voters , that ’ s called “ racism , ” and Biden treated black voters that way , as being racists themselves .
The ploy , contemptuous of Black voters , worked , and the extent to which it worked shocked political professionals of both Parties .
It destroyed the campaign of Bernie Sanders , who was arrested in Chicago during the early 1960s for his participation in an anti-segregation demonstration against the City ’ s government , and who has consistently advocated for the poor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden ’ s exploitation of Blacks for their votes was even worse than I ( or perhaps , anyone ) ever knew .
I had said in that article on March 7th : That asterisk ( * ) connected to this : The new development is that , on March 13th , I was finally able to see and examine the reference which was cited in that footnote # 21 in the 26 September 2019 Wikipedia article on Joe Biden : I looked at the 1987 Current Biography Yearbook ( almost all copies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from large libraries ) .
And I went to page 43 there , which is the footnote-referred-to page .
Here is what I found , and it clearly proves that whomever inserted that statement in the Wikipedia article about Biden was lying : Furthermore , far more evidence exists that this allegation was inserted by Biden or by his team — that the lie comes from Biden himself : As Joe Biden campaigns in South Carolina , ahead of a primary contest later this month he must win to revive his hopes of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the former vice president is facing questions over claims that he took part in the civil rights movement as a student in the 1960s .
As King noted in his newsletter , during Biden ’ s first run for the presidency , in 1987 , the then-senator frequently described himself as a teenage civil rights activist , only to withdraw those claims later .
More than three decades later , having served under the first black president , Biden seems to have reversed himself again , and now describes himself as a participant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The accompanying video there shows Biden at various stages in his career lying about this .
And here is the transcript of it ( so that you can absorb it faster — and also I add here some links to document some of his misrepresentations in what he said there ) : He knows he ’ s not “ worthy of it , ” but he obviously doesn ’ t care ; he cares only about winning , no matter how much he needs to play for suckers the people who vote for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This is clear .
That ’ s the mark of a psychopath , in politics or any other field .
He was quoting dead civil-rights activists as having worked alongside him — dead ones so as to protect himself from being immediately recognized as having lied in these statements about his ‘ civil rights friends ’ .
His whole life he has succeeded on , basically , charm alone .
That , too , is typical of psychopaths , and especially of upper-class ones , such as he and his probably all-White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democratic Party ’ s Presidential nomination because he refused to pander to suckers .
His only concern was to appeal to the voters ’ better parts , without lying about himself or his policies or the dire condition of the country , which is an increasingly dire condition that is actually a two-party failure , not merely a Republican one .
It ’ s in this condition because of people like Biden and Trump and Obama and Bush .
“ Embarrassing .
This is the kind of humiliation that would make normal people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they may have left .
But Joe has zero .
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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
misrepresent to black voters not only his policies but himself in order to achieve his first-ever (and crushing) win of a state primary in his long career of three campaigns for the U.S. Presidency. And, so, that’s what he did, and he won his first-ever state primary outside of his own state of Delaware — he played South Carolina’s Blacks for suckers, and they swallowed his bait in one huge gulp, and the billionaires (virtually all of them white) then created for him the campaign that suddenly turned everything around in his favor — all of this being based upon lies. [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s not just that he sold out to billionaires in order to be able to compete with Bernie Sanders who refused to do that and didn’t need to, but it’s the case also because Biden lied shamelessly in order to win overwhelmingly the black vote in South Carolina where most of the Democrats are Blacks — he had toin order to achieve his first-ever (and crushing) win of a state primary in his long career of three campaigns for the U.S. Presidency. And, so, that’s what he did, and he won his first-ever state primary outside of his own state of Delaware — he played South Carolina’s Blacks for suckers, and they swallowed his bait in one huge gulp, and the billionaires (virtually all of them) then created for him the campaign that suddenly turned everything around in his favor — all of this being based upon lies.
Biden won the nomination by lying rampantly and by treating black voters as if their race is their entire identity — as if they are nothing more than their race. For white voters, that’s called “racism,” and Biden treated black voters that way, as being racists themselves. The ploy, contemptuous of Black voters, worked, and the extent to which it worked shocked political professionals of both Parties. It destroyed the campaign of Bernie Sanders, who was arrested in Chicago during the early 1960s for his participation in an anti-segregation demonstration against the City’s government, and who has consistently advocated for the poor.
On March 7th, I opened an article about the unprecedentedly sudden turn-around in the Democratic Party’s Presidential contest : “Without the support of Blacks in the recent Democratic Party primaries, Joe Biden would still be the political failure in U.S. Presidential campaigning that he had always been.” And I closed by comparing the honesty of Sanders’s pitch to Blacks versus the rabid dishonesty of Biden’s pitch to them.
But now I have found that Biden’s exploitation of Blacks for their votes was even worse than I (or perhaps, anyone) ever knew.
I had said in that article on March 7th:
That asterisk (*) connected to this:
* The Wikipedia article on Biden asserts that, “During these years, he participated in an anti-segregation sit-in at a Wilmington theatre.[21]” but if one clicks onto the footnote there, no evidence comes up, and the reader becomes trapped in a circular dead end, which is what one might reasonably expect to happen if Biden’s team had inserted this otherwise-incongruous assertion in order to counter the clear and published proof that Sanders was an anti-segregation activist while he was at college. The asserted ‘source’ for that ‘anti-segregation sit-in’ is the annual reference-series, Current Biography. … Whatever is written there is basically an edited version of what the individual had written about himself in a questionnaire. And Biden has been exposed as having perpetrated numerous lies about his past; so, this would not be at all unlike him to do. Other than that one incongruous assertion in the Wikipedia article, nothing indicates that, back in the 1960s, Biden was anything other than an ambitious slickster, even then when he was in college, motivated solely by status-seeking, not by serving anyone except his friends and mega-donors. In fact, that same Wikipedia article also notes: “Biden was one of the Senate's leading opponents of desegregation busing. In his Senate campaign, Biden expressed support for the 1971 Swann decision of the Supreme Court, which supported busing programs to integrate school districts to remedy de jure segregation, but opposed it to remedy de facto segregation, as in Delaware.” Biden supported segregation, so long as it happened ‘naturally’ (such as it did in Delaware), instead of by an explicit law being passed. This was the same viewpoint that the megabanks put forth to ‘justify’ red-lining: whatever is ‘natural’ is good. Progressivism is not ‘natural’. Of course, the mega-banks loved him, and he loved them back. Yet he calls himself “progressive.” Corrupt politicians think that the strong and the smart have a right to exploit the weak and the stupid, but the big problem is that whenever this happens, the public — including many who are even stronger and brighter than the exploiters, but less psychopathic — suffer; not only the weak and stupid that they are currently exploiting do.
The new development is that, on March 13th, I was finally able to see and examine the reference which was cited in that footnote #21 in the 26 September 2019 Wikipedia article on Joe Biden: I looked at the 1987 Current Biography Yearbook (almost all copies of which are gone now, even from large libraries). And I went to page 43 there, which is the footnote-referred-to page. Here is what I found, and it clearly proves that whomever inserted that statement in the Wikipedia article about Biden was lying:
1987 Current Biography Yearbook. Though page 43 was, indeed, one of that volume’s four pages which were devoted to Biden, the allegation is simply not there. Furthermore, on 1987 Current Biography Yearbook says no such thing. At some time between Neither this assertion, to the effect that Biden in college had participated in anti-segregation sit-ins, nor anything like it, was made in the. Though page 43 was, indeed, one of that volume’s four pages which were devoted to Biden, the allegation is simply. Furthermore, on 12 January 2008 , when Biden was starting a run against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson in the 2008 Presidential primaries, Wikipedia’s article on Biden included no such allegation, at all. That article said “On January 3, 2008 during the Iowa caucuses, Biden announced that he would be dropping out of the presidential race when over half of the precincts were tallied in which he only carried 1% of the vote behind Bill Richardson Governor of New Mexico.” However, by the time of 6 November 2008, just three days after his failure in that Presidential run, the allegation was there . And it has been there ever since, though it is wholly false — it asserts a lie. Thesays no such thing. At some time between October 29th and November 6th of 2008, it was inserted, and it has been there ever since.
Furthermore, far more evidence exists that this allegation was inserted by Biden or by his team — that the lie comes from Biden himself:
As Joe Biden campaigns in South Carolina, ahead of a primary contest later this month he must win to revive his hopes of becoming the Democratic nominee for president, the former vice president is facing questions over claims that he took part in the civil rights movement as a student in the 1960s.
Shaun King, a prominent surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders (and former Intercept columnist), drew attention to Biden’s often confusing and at times contradictory statements about what role he played as a young man in the struggle for racial equality in his home state of Delaware.
As King noted in his newsletter, during Biden’s first run for the presidency, in 1987, the then-senator frequently described himself as a teenage civil rights activist, only to withdraw those claims later. More than three decades later, having served under the first black president, Biden seems to have reversed himself again, and now describes himself as a participant in desegregation protests in his youth.
The accompanying video there shows Biden at various stages in his career lying about this. And here is the transcript of it (so that you can absorb it faster — and also I add here some links to document some of his misrepresentations in what he said there):
When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program; I marched with tens of thousands of others to change attitudes, and we changed attitudes. [In 1987, Joe Biden claimed he marched in the civil rights movement.] When I was 17 years old, like many of you, I participated in sit-ins to desegregate the restaurants and movie houses of Wilmington, Delaware. … I came out of the civil rights movement. I was one of the guys that sat in and marched and all that stuff. [A few months later, Biden disavowed the claim, right before dropping out of the presidential race.] … During the ’60s, I was in fact very concerned about the civil rights movement. I was not an activist. I worked at an all-black swimming pool, in the east side of Wilmington Delaware. I was involved. I was involved in what they were thinking, what they were feeling. I was involved, but I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma. I was not anywhere else. I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city. [Decades later, during the Obama era, and more recently on the campaign trail, he started making the same claims again.] You know, when I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement. We have the eighth-largest black population in America. [That’s misleading. Though among all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Delaware has the 8th-largest percentage of its total population being Blacks — 21.56% (and all of the top 7 except DC were in the Southern Confederacy) — its not a percentage.] … I got my education, Reverend Doc, in the black church — not a joke. Because when we used to get organized on Sundays [Biden’s , to go out and desegregate movie theaters and things like that, we’d do it through the black church. … I was no big shakes, Reverend, in the civil rights movement. I was just a kid, but I got involved in desegregating movie theaters and helping, you may remember, Rev. Moyer in Delaware [ and Herman Holloway [deceased in 1994] organize voter registration drives, coming out of black churches on Sunday, figuring out how we were going to move. … In October, I was invited to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis to receive the Freedom Award [, a thing, when I sat in black churches, in the east side of Wilmington getting ready to — and by the way, next to two Jewish rabbis — getting ready to go out and desegregate movie theaters in Delaware, I never ever thought in my life I would be worthy of, and I’m still not sure I’m worthy of it. [In 1987, Joe Biden claimed he marched in the civil rights movement.][A few months later, Biden disavowed the claim, right before dropping out of the presidential race.] …. [Decades later, during the Obama era, and more recently on the campaign trail, he started making the same claims again.][That’s misleading. Though among all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Delaware has the 8th-largest percentage of its total population being Blacks — 21.56% (and all of the top 7 except DC were in the Southern Confederacy) — its 949,495 Blacks are the 7th-lowest number of Blacks that are in all of the 50 states and DC — and Biden didn’t say “percentage,” but “eighth-largest population,” which is a number,a percentage.][Biden’s high school alma mater, and where his children also graduated, Archmere Academy , is a virtually all-White Catholic prep school, and I have not been able to find any indication that he was ever a member of any ‘black church’. He and his children, though living in a high-percentage Black state, didn’t mix with many if any Blacks.] deceased in 2012 and thus not around to disconfirm Biden’s lie] in 2018 , as part of his incipient latest Presidential campaign]
He knows he’s not “worthy of it,” but he obviously doesn’t care; he cares only about winning, no matter how much he needs to play for suckers the people who vote for him, in order to do so. This is clear. That’s the mark of a psychopath, in politics or any other field. He was quoting dead civil-rights activists as having worked alongside him — dead ones so as to protect himself from being immediately recognized as having lied in these statements about his ‘civil rights friends’. His whole life he has succeeded on, basically, charm alone. That, too, is typical of psychopaths, and especially of upper-class ones, such as he and his probably all-White private prep-school buddies.
Sanders lost the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination because he refused to pander to suckers. His only concern was to appeal to the voters’ better parts, without lying about himself or his policies or the dire condition of the country, which is an increasingly dire condition that is actually a two-party failure, not merely a Republican one. It’s in this condition because of people like Biden and Trump and Obama and Bush.
Here are typical viewer-comments following that video at youtube
“He’s a ‘lying dog-faced pony soldier.’”
“‘Vote for someone else’ — Joe Biden.”
“Embarrassing. This is the kind of humiliation that would make normal people drop out and preserve what little integrity they may have left. But Joe has zero.”
Biden’s career is loaded with instances of his cheating his way through to get what he wants, and of his lying and contradicting himself right and left in order to semi-deny what he had been forced by circumstances to acknowledge, so as to retain the following of his supporters — his dupes — and then to go on to his next scam. This is the standard pattern for psychopaths. He just uses different techniques of doing it than Trump does.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-14--A 70-Year ‘Propaganda’ War Built by the CIA

“ Hell is empty and all the devils are here ” – William Shakespeare ( The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2 ) ar has always depended on a reliable system to spread its propaganda .
The Arthashastra written by Chankya ( 350-283 BCE ) who was chief advisor to the Emperor Chandragupta ( the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire ) discusses propaganda and how to disperse and apply it in warfare .
It is one of the oldest accounts of the essentialism of propaganda in warfare .
Propaganda is vital in times of war because it is absolutely imperative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to make the greatest sacrifices and suffer the most , believe that such a war is justified and that such a war will provide them security .
To the degree that they believe this to be true , the greater the degree of sacrifice and suffering they are willing to submit themselves for said “ promised security ” .
It is crucial that when the people look at the “ enemy ” they see something sub-human , for if they recognise that said “ enemy ” has in fact humanity , the jig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thus we are bombarded day after day , hour after hour of reminders as to why the “ enemy ” is not human like us , not compassionate like us , not patient , just and wise like us .
No doubt , war has been a necessary response when tyranny has formed an army to fight for its cause , but I would put forth that most wars have been rather unnecessary and downright manipulated for the design of a small group of people .
During WWI , on Dec 25th 1914 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front took place between the French/British soldiers and the German soldiers .
Some even ventured into “ no man ’ s land ” , given its name since none left it alive , to mingle with the “ enemy ” and exchange food and souvenirs .
There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps .
A game of football took place as well .
It is said that these truces were not unique to the Christmas period but that they were much more widespread during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understandably make it quite difficult to return to combat against one another…for no apparently good reason .
Some units needed to be relocated since they had developed friendships with the opposing side and now refused to fight them .
The lesson was quickly learned and propaganda was heavily pumped down the throats of the Allied countries , and by the course of just a few years , they no longer viewed the Germans as human .
For us to understand the implications of modern propaganda and how it is used in warfare today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s announcement of the “ Iron Curtain ” which launched the Cold War and has kept the East and West divided to this day .
Quickly after the Cold War was announced by Churchill , it was necessary to create a fervor of fear and paranoia amongst the American people in order to have them quickly forget the fact that the Russians were their greatest allies during both WWI and WWII , and to replace it with the image of a ghoulish race of boogeymen .
If Americans were to remember that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and had paid by far the largest sacrifice to the cause , that they had in fact been their comrades in arms against the brutality of fascism , if this were remembered then the Cold War division could never occur , and that was something that could not be tolerated by Churchill and the Empire .
Thus terror was unleashed on the American people and McCarthyism was given precedence over the people ’ s right to question and form conclusions for themselves .
That sort of thing could not be tolerated when the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they could be your neighbour , your child ’ s teacher , your co-worker…your partner .
In order to combat the “ threat ” of Soviet “ propaganda ” entering the U.S. and seducing Americans , Operation Mockingbird was created as a form of “ control ” over information dissemination during the period of McCarthyism .
Operation Mockingbird was an “ alleged ” CIA program that was started in the early 1950s in order to control the narrative of the news .
Though this role has never been confirmed entirely , in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mid-1970s , it is confirmed that Project Mockingbird did exist as a CIA operation and that it was guilty of wire-tapping journalists in Washington .
At the helm of this project was none other than CIA Director Allen Dulles , an enemy of JFK , who by the early 1950s “ allegedly ” oversaw the media network and had major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies .
Its function was to have the CIA write reports that would be used by a network of cooperating “ credible ” reporters .
By these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dictated narrative , it would be parroted by unwitting reporters ( mockingbirds ) and a successful echo chamber would be created across the world .
The Office of Policy Coordination ( OPC ) , originally named Office of Special Projects but that was thought to conspicuous , was a covert operation wing of the CIA and was created by the United States National Security Council ( NSC ) .
For those who are unfamiliar with the origins of the NSC and its close relationship with the CIA , who was born on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the subject .
According to Deborah Davis ’ biography of Katherine Graham ( the owner of Washington Post ) , the OPC created Operation Mockingbird in response to addressing Soviet propaganda and included as part of its CIA contingency respected members from Washington Post , The New York Times , Newsweek , CBS and others .
The Family Jewels report was an investigation made by the CIA to investigate…the CIA , spurred in response to the Watergate Scandal and the CIA ’ s unconstitutional role in the whole affair .
The investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actions that were deemed illegal or inappropriate spanning from the 1950s-mid 1970s .
We are told “ most ” of the report was declassified on June 25 , 2007 ( 30 years later ) hoping that people would have lost interest in the whole brouhaha .
Along with the release of the redacted report was included a six-page summary with the following introduction : “ The Central Intelligence Agency until revelations of illegal wiretapping , domestic surveillance , assassination plots , and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA relations with news media was conducted by the Church Committee , a U.S. Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated the abuses committed by the CIA , NSA , FBI , and IRS .
The Church Committee report confirmed abundant CIA ties in both foreign and domestic news media .
It is very useful that there exists an official recognition that false news was not only being encouraged by the CIA under the overseeing of the NSC during the Cold War period , but that the CIA was complicit in actually detailing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and often going so far as to write the narrative and have a “ credible ” reporter ’ s name stamped on it .
But the question begs , “ Did the Cold War ever end ?
” and if not , why should we believe that the CIA ’ s involvement in such activities is buried in its past and that it has “ reformed ” its old ways ?
Western Journalists for Hire : How the CIA Buys News In order to answer this question , let us visit the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ulfkotte is a well-known German journalist and author of numerous books .
He worked for 25 years as a journalist , 17 of which were for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAZ ) , including his role as editor .
In his 2014 book “ Journalists for Hire : How the CIA Buys News ” Ulfkotte goes over how the CIA along with German Intelligence ( BND ) were guilty of bribing journalists to write articles that either spun the truth or were completely fictitious in order to promote a pro-western , pro-NATO bent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those bought journalists .
In an interview , Ulfkotte describes how he finally built up the nerve to publish the book , after years of it collecting dust , in response to the erupting crisis in Ukraine stating “ I felt that the right time had come to finish it and publish it , because I am deeply worried about the Ukrainian crisis and the possible devastating consequences for all of Europe and all of us…I am not at all pro-Russia , but it is clear that many journalists blindly follow and publish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And this type of information and reports are completely one-sided ” .
In another interview Ulfkotte stated : “ it is clear as daylight that the agents of various Services were in the central offices of the FAZ , the place where I worked for 17 years .
The articles appeared under my name several times , but they were not my intellectual product .
I was once approached by someone from German Intelligence and the CIA , who told me that I should write about Gaddafi and report how he was trying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Libya .
I had no information on any of this , but they showed me various documents , I just had to put my name on the article .
Do you think this can be called journalism ?
I don ’ t think so.
” Ulfkotte has publicly stated : “ I am ashamed of it .
The people I worked for knew from the get-go everything I did .
And the truth must come out .
It ’ s not just about FAZ , this is the whole system that ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ulfkotte has since passed away .
He died January 2017 , found dead in his home , it is said by a hear t attack .
His body was quickly after cremated and thus prevented any possibility of an autopsy occurring .
You Can ’ t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act is a bipartisan bill that was passed into law in December 2016 , it was initially called Countering Information Warfare Act .
It was included together with the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effect just weeks before Trump was to enter office….hmmm , foreshadowing much ?
Soon after the 2016 U.S. election , the Washington Post led the charge asserting that it was due to Russian propaganda that the U.S. elections turned out the way it did , that is , that Hillary had somehow , inconceivably , lost to Donald Trump and that the American people had been turned against her like a child caught in the middle of a messy divorce case .
But there is no need here to set the record straight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done suffice damage to any illusion of credibility she once had .
That ultimately not even Hillary could hide the fact that her closet full of skeletons turned out to be the size of a catacomb .
But we are told that citizens do not know what is best for one ’ s self .
That they can not be trusted with “ sensitive ” information and in accordance act in a “ responsible ” manner , that is , to have a strong enough stomach to do what is “ best ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear not subjects of the land , for the Global Engagement Center ( GEC ) is here to make those hard decisions for you .
Don ’ t know what to think about a complicated subject ?
GEC will tell you the right way !
The National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) would allow for the Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense , and other Federal agencies in the year 2017 to create the Global Engagement Center ( GEC ) .
The GEC ’ s purpose in life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and publicize the nature of ongoing foreign propaganda and disinformation operations against the U.S. and other countries .
Let us all take a moment to thank the GEC for such a massive task in the cause for justice all around the world .
The GEC had a very slow start in its first year , however , it has been gaining momentum in the last year under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , who seems especially excited over the hiring of Lea Gabrielle as special envoy and coordinator of GEC .
Mike Pompeo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On April 15 , 2019 , Pompeo participated in a discussion at the Texas A & M University where he voluntarily offered the admission that though West Points ’ cadet motto is “ You will not lie , cheat , or steal , or tolerate those who do.
” , his training under the CIA was the very opposite , stating “ I was the CIA Director .
We lied , we cheated , we stole .
It was like we had entire training courses .
( long pause ) It reminds you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” .
This is apparently the man for the job of dealing with matters of “ truth ” and “ justice ” .
Lea Gabrielle was approved for her position by Mike Pompeo , what are her “ qualifications ” ?
Well , Gabrielle is also CIA trained , and while assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency ( DIA ) , she “ directed and conducted global clandestine strategic intelligence collection operations.
” Gabrielle also “ deployed in tactical anti-terrorist operations in hostile environments ” .
After 12 years of active duty service @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalist , who worked at NBC and FOX News .
The CIA really does not have the best track record for their role in “ managing ” foreign wars and counter-insurgency activities .
In fact , they have been caught rather red handed in fueling such crisis situations .
And these are the people who are deciding what information is fit for the American public , and western public in general , and what is not fit for their ears .
Hear No Evil , Speak No Evil , See No Evil On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testified on the role of GEC in countering state-sponsored and non-state propaganda and disinformation .
Gabrielle states : “ We have the full support of Secretary Pompeo who is committed to deploying a broad suite of tools to stop America ’ s adversaries from using disinformation , malign propaganda , and other tools to undermine free societies.
” She goes on to acknowledge that the hearing is focused on countering Russian government and CCP disinformation and propaganda .
She then goes on to outline her criticisms of both governments with no factual detail @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criticisms , obviously pulling from her experience as a news journalist for NBC .
Following this , Gabrielle proceeds to outline her “ rules of engagement ” in countering this offensive with what seems to be the beginnings of McCarthyism 2.0 , amounting to a threat to anyone who dares not take a hard stance against Russia and China , that such a person will be considered complicit in essentially committing treason .
Hell , if Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard ( who was unconstitutionally prohibited from participating in the final democratic presidential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of being a Russian agent , what can we expect for the average Joe ?
Gabrielle concludes , “ Both the Russian government and the CCP view censorship , media manipulation , and propaganda as appropriate tools to control public opinion .
Both exploit open , democratic societies to further their own ends while tightening controls around their own countries.
” Don ’ t worry , the CIA will eventually admit that they are elbow deep in all of the above , it just won ’ t be released until 30 years from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t believe everything you read in the newspaper to stoke the fires for another war .

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
– William Shakespeare (The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2)
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ar has always depended on a reliable system to spread its propaganda. The Arthashastra written by Chankya (350-283 BCE) who was chief advisor to the Emperor Chandragupta (the first ruler of the Mauryan Empire) discusses propaganda and how to disperse and apply it in warfare. It is one of the oldest accounts of the essentialism of propaganda in warfare.
Propaganda is vital in times of war because it is absolutely imperative that the people, who often need to make the greatest sacrifices and suffer the most, believe that such a war is justified and that such a war will provide them security. To the degree that they believe this to be true, the greater the degree of sacrifice and suffering they are willing to submit themselves for said “promised security”.
It is crucial that when the people look at the “enemy” they see something sub-human, for if they recognise that said “enemy” has in fact humanity, the jig is up so to speak.
And thus we are bombarded day after day, hour after hour of reminders as to why the “enemy” is not human like us, not compassionate like us, not patient, just and wise like us.
No doubt, war has been a necessary response when tyranny has formed an army to fight for its cause, but I would put forth that most wars have been rather unnecessary and downright manipulated for the design of a small group of people.
During WWI, on Dec 25th 1914, something rather unexpected occurred and a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front took place between the French/British soldiers and the German soldiers. Some even ventured into “no man’s land”, given its name since none left it alive, to mingle with the “enemy” and exchange food and souvenirs. There were joint burial ceremonies and prisoner swaps. A game of football took place as well. It is said that these truces were not unique to the Christmas period but that they were much more widespread during the holiday season.
These fraternisations would understandably make it quite difficult to return to combat against one another…for no apparently good reason. Some units needed to be relocated since they had developed friendships with the opposing side and now refused to fight them.
The lesson was quickly learned and propaganda was heavily pumped down the throats of the Allied countries, and by the course of just a few years, they no longer viewed the Germans as human.
The CIA’s Family Jewels and Operation Mockingbird
For us to understand the implications of modern propaganda and how it is used in warfare today, our story starts post-WWII with Churchill’s announcement of the “Iron Curtain” which launched the Cold War and has kept the East and West divided to this day.
Quickly after the Cold War was announced by Churchill, it was necessary to create a fervor of fear and paranoia amongst the American people in order to have them quickly forget the fact that the Russians were their greatest allies during both WWI and WWII, and to replace it with the image of a ghoulish race of boogeymen.
If Americans were to remember that the Russians had fought valiantly during WWII and had paid by far the largest sacrifice to the cause, that they had in fact been their comrades in arms against the brutality of fascism, if this were remembered then the Cold War division could never occur, and that was something that could not be tolerated by Churchill and the Empire. Thus terror was unleashed on the American people and McCarthyism was given precedence over the people’s right to question and form conclusions for themselves. That sort of thing could not be tolerated when the “enemy” could be anywhere; they could be your neighbour, your child’s teacher, your co-worker…your partner.
In order to combat the “threat” of Soviet “propaganda” entering the U.S. and seducing Americans, Operation Mockingbird was created as a form of “control” over information dissemination during the period of McCarthyism. Operation Mockingbird was an “alleged” CIA program that was started in the early 1950s in order to control the narrative of the news. Though this role has never been confirmed entirely, in the CIA Family Jewels report compiled in the mid-1970s, it is confirmed that Project Mockingbird did exist as a CIA operation and that it was guilty of wire-tapping journalists in Washington.
At the helm of this project was none other than CIA Director Allen Dulles, an enemy of JFK, who by the early 1950s “allegedly” oversaw the media network and had major influence over 25 newspapers and wire agencies. Its function was to have the CIA write reports that would be used by a network of cooperating “credible” reporters. By these “credible” reporters spreading the CIA dictated narrative, it would be parroted by unwitting reporters (mockingbirds) and a successful echo chamber would be created across the world.
The Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), originally named Office of Special Projects but that was thought to conspicuous, was a covert operation wing of the CIA and was created by the United States National Security Council (NSC). For those who are unfamiliar with the origins of the NSC and its close relationship with the CIA, who was born on the same day, refer to my paper on the subject.
According to Deborah Davis’ biography of Katherine Graham (the owner of Washington Post), the OPC created Operation Mockingbird in response to addressing Soviet propaganda and included as part of its CIA contingency respected members from Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and others.
The Family Jewels report was an investigation made by the CIA to investigate…the CIA, spurred in response to the Watergate Scandal and the CIA’s unconstitutional role in the whole affair. The investigation of the CIA would include any other actions that were deemed illegal or inappropriate spanning from the 1950s-mid 1970s.
We are told “most” of the report was declassified on June 25, 2007 (30 years later) hoping that people would have lost interest in the whole brouhaha. Along with the release of the redacted report was included a six-page summary with the following introduction:
“The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s.”
The most extensive investigation of the CIA relations with news media was conducted by the Church Committee, a U.S. Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated the abuses committed by the CIA, NSA, FBI, and IRS. The Church Committee report confirmed abundant CIA ties in both foreign and domestic news media.
It is very useful that there exists an official recognition that false news was not only being encouraged by the CIA under the overseeing of the NSC during the Cold War period, but that the CIA was complicit in actually detailing the specific narrative that they wanted disseminated, and often going so far as to write the narrative and have a “credible” reporter’s name stamped on it.
But the question begs, “Did the Cold War ever end?” and if not, why should we believe that the CIA’s involvement in such activities is buried in its past and that it has “reformed” its old ways?
Western Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys News
In order to answer this question, let us visit the sad case of Udo Ulfkotte. Udo Ulfkotte is a well-known German journalist and author of numerous books. He worked for 25 years as a journalist, 17 of which were for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), including his role as editor. In his 2014 book “Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys News” Ulfkotte goes over how the CIA along with German Intelligence (BND) were guilty of bribing journalists to write articles that either spun the truth or were completely fictitious in order to promote a pro-western, pro-NATO bent, and that he was one of those bought journalists.
In an interview, Ulfkotte describes how he finally built up the nerve to publish the book, after years of it collecting dust, in response to the erupting crisis in Ukraine stating “I felt that the right time had come to finish it and publish it, because I am deeply worried about the Ukrainian crisis and the possible devastating consequences for all of Europe and all of us…I am not at all pro-Russia, but it is clear that many journalists blindly follow and publish whatever the NATO press office provides. And this type of information and reports are completely one-sided”.
In another interview Ulfkotte stated: “it is clear as daylight that the agents of various Services were in the central offices of the FAZ, the place where I worked for 17 years. The articles appeared under my name several times, but they were not my intellectual product. I was once approached by someone from German Intelligence and the CIA, who told me that I should write about Gaddafi and report how he was trying to secretly build a chemical weapons factory in Libya. I had no information on any of this, but they showed me various documents, I just had to put my name on the article. Do you think this can be called journalism? I don’t think so.”
Ulfkotte has publicly stated: “I am ashamed of it. The people I worked for knew from the get-go everything I did. And the truth must come out. It’s not just about FAZ, this is the whole system that’s corrupt all the way.”
Udo Ulfkotte has since passed away. He died January 2017, found dead in his home, it is said by a hear t attack. His body was quickly after cremated and thus prevented any possibility of an autopsy occurring.
You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act is a bipartisan bill that was passed into law in December 2016, it was initially called Countering Information Warfare Act. It was included together with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This bill was brought into effect just weeks before Trump was to enter office….hmmm, foreshadowing much?
Soon after the 2016 U.S. election, the Washington Post led the charge asserting that it was due to Russian propaganda that the U.S. elections turned out the way it did, that is, that Hillary had somehow, inconceivably, lost to Donald Trump and that the American people had been turned against her like a child caught in the middle of a messy divorce case. But there is no need here to set the record straight on Hillary, when Hillary herself has done suffice damage to any illusion of credibility she once had. That ultimately not even Hillary could hide the fact that her closet full of skeletons turned out to be the size of a catacomb.
But we are told that citizens do not know what is best for one’s self. That they cannot be trusted with “sensitive” information and in accordance act in a “responsible” manner, that is, to have a strong enough stomach to do what is “best” for their country.
And therefore, fear not subjects of the land, for the Global Engagement Center (GEC) is here to make those hard decisions for you. Don’t know what to think about a complicated subject? GEC will tell you the right way!
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would allow for the Secretary of State to collaborate with the Secretary of Defense, and other Federal agencies in the year 2017 to create the Global Engagement Center (GEC). The GEC’s purpose in life is to fight propaganda from foreign governments and publicize the nature of ongoing foreign propaganda and disinformation operations against the U.S. and other countries.
Let us all take a moment to thank the GEC for such a massive task in the cause for justice all around the world.
The GEC had a very slow start in its first year, however, it has been gaining momentum in the last year under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who seems especially excited over the hiring of Lea Gabrielle as special envoy and coordinator of GEC.
Mike Pompeo was the CIA Director from 2017-2018. On April 15, 2019, Pompeo participated in a discussion at the Texas A&M University where he voluntarily offered the admission that though West Points’ cadet motto is “You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.”, his training under the CIA was the very opposite, stating “I was the CIA Director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses. (long pause) It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment”.
This is apparently the man for the job of dealing with matters of “truth” and “justice”.
Lea Gabrielle was approved for her position by Mike Pompeo, what are her “qualifications”? Well, Gabrielle is also CIA trained, and while assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), she “directed and conducted global clandestine strategic intelligence collection operations.” Gabrielle also “deployed in tactical anti-terrorist operations in hostile environments”. After 12 years of active duty service, Lea Gabrielle became a television news journalist, who worked at NBC and FOX News.
Noticing a pattern?
The CIA really does not have the best track record for their role in “managing” foreign wars and counter-insurgency activities. In fact, they have been caught rather red handed in fueling such crisis situations. And these are the people who are deciding what information is fit for the American public, and western public in general, and what is not fit for their ears.
Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil
On March 5, 2020, Lea Gabrielle testified on the role of GEC in countering state-sponsored and non-state propaganda and disinformation. Gabrielle states: “We have the full support of Secretary Pompeo who is committed to deploying a broad suite of tools to stop America’s adversaries from using disinformation, malign propaganda, and other tools to undermine free societies.” She goes on to acknowledge that the hearing is focused on countering Russian government and CCP disinformation and propaganda. She then goes on to outline her criticisms of both governments with no factual detail or evidence but rather generalised accusations and criticisms, obviously pulling from her experience as a news journalist for NBC.
Following this, Gabrielle proceeds to outline her “rules of engagement” in countering this offensive with what seems to be the beginnings of McCarthyism 2.0, amounting to a threat to anyone who dares not take a hard stance against Russia and China, that such a person will be considered complicit in essentially committing treason. Hell, if Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard (who was unconstitutionally prohibited from participating in the final democratic presidential debates) have both already been accused of being a Russian agent, what can we expect for the average Joe?
Gabrielle concludes, “Both the Russian government and the CCP view censorship, media manipulation, and propaganda as appropriate tools to control public opinion. Both exploit open, democratic societies to further their own ends while tightening controls around their own countries.”
Don’t worry, the CIA will eventually admit that they are elbow deep in all of the above, it just won’t be released until 30 years from now…In the meantime, I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the newspaper to stoke the fires for another war.