The Post (Truth) World: Reviving the “Propaganda Model Of News” For Our Digital Age
February 16, 2018“New York Times” Readers: 27% Vote YES on STATE SECESSION (FEB 2018 POLL)
February 19, 2018So, now, according to “US Special Counsel Robert Mueller,” the 2016 US presidential campaigns of insurgent Democrat/Vermonter Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein are both tarred with the brush of “Russian meddling.”
#MemeMutation = rinse, wash, repeat, and “seed” all the US “news” journals – New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and the TeeVee networks.
Never mind that Hillary Clinton outspent the “Russians” 53-1, and lost.
Or that the Clintonista campaign encouraged Trump to run in the first place.
A “Pied Piper” campaign, they called it.
Or that Hillary Clinton “ran” the DNC as if she owned it in 2016, and had the DNC throw the Sanders campaign under the bus, over and over again, in the Democratic primary.
#ElectionFraud on a massive scale.
So. Reality check. Let’s run some numbers.
In November 2017, Tech Crunch stated:
1)Russia-supported “Internet Research Agency” allegedly spent $46,000 on Facebook adverts and “influence.”
2)By contrast, the Clinton and Trump campaigns spent a combined total of $81 million (low ball number).
$46,000 versus $81,000,000.
Total Russia spending on a 2016 “campaign of influence” on Trump’s behalf is alleged to be approximately $300,000 – much of it spent after the 2016 election itself.
Big picture.
After helping to “collapse” the Soviet Union more than two decades ago and then bragging about in TIME magazine, the US Empire has surrounded Putin’s Russia with NATO bases, tanks, and troops.
The US meddles in elections around the world, and has for decades.
Here’s a partial list:
2016: UK (verbal intervention against Brexit)
2014: Afghanistan (effectively re-writing Afghan constitution)
2014: UK (verbal intervention against Scottish independence)
2011: Libya (providing support to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi)
2009: Honduras (ousting President Zelaya)
2006: Palestine (providing support to oust Prime Minister Haniyeh)
2005: Syria (providing support against President al-Assad)
2003: Iran (providing support against President Khatami)-
2003: Iraq (ousting of President Hussein)
2002: Venezuela (providing support to attempt an overthrow of President Chavez)
1999: Yugoslavia (removing Yugoslav forces from Kosovo)
1994: Iraq (attempted overthrow of President Hussein)
1991: Haiti (ousting President Aristide)
1991: Kuwait (removing Iraqi forces from Kuwait)
1989: Panama (ousting General Noriega)
1983: Grenada (ousting General Austin’s Marxist forces)
1982: Nicaragua (providing support
1971: Chile (ousting President Allende)
1967: Indonesia (ousting President Sukarno)
1964: Brazil (ousting President Goulart)
1964: Chile (providing support against Salvador Allende)
1961: Congo (assassination of leader Lumumba)
1958: Lebanon (providing support to Christian political parties)
1954: Guatemala (ousting President Arbenz)
1953: Iran (ousting Prime Minister Mossadegh)
1953: Philippines (providing support to the President Magsaysay campaign)
1948: Italy (providing support to the Christian Democrats campaign)
Back to the present.
The 2016 Clinton campaign engaged in widespread voting fraud, election theft and beyond.
The 2016 Trump campaign collaborated with UK based corporation Cambridge Analytica to engage in a multi-million dollar 2016 presidential election campaign of “behavioral microtargeting,” as well as “voter fraud” – see Greg Palast’s work.
Meanwhile, Google/YouTube and Facebook openly admit to “tweaking their algorithms” to divert US news-seeking audiences away from independently-minded news sites (since April 2016), sharpening partisan divides through algorithmic aggregation techniques, and demonetizing US news and information videos deemed “inappropriate” by their own evolving proprietary guidelines.
Yep, let’s blame the Russians.
Can it be any more clear?
US imperial “deep state” disinformation is a dramatic threat to democracy at home, and peace abroad.
US citizens are being systematically “gaslighted” til the yaks come home. 24/7/365.
Time for Vermont to peaceably “absent” itself from the US of Empire, and take our town meetings, direct democracy, and pen and paper voting ballots with us.
Free Vermont!
