"... Who are they to tell me or you what you are
allowed to read, digest and form your independent ideas about? This is a
21st Century reincarnation of the Spanish Inquisition, one by the real
fake newsmakers–Washington Post, AP, ABCNews, Snopes.com, FactCheck.org,
the CIA and friends."
He thinks he can tell you what you're allowed to read, a bonehead billionaire move
Originally appeared at New Eastern Outlook
The latest mantra of CIA-linked media since the
“Pizzagate” leaks of data alleging that Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager
John Podesta and other highly influential political persons in
Washington were connected to an unusual pizza place near the White House
run by a 41-year old James Achilles Alefantis called Comet Ping Pong,
is the need to crack down (i.e. censorship) on what is being called
“Fake News.”
The latest step in this internet censorship drive is a
decision by the murky social media organization called Facebook to hire
special organizations to determine if Facebook messages are pushing Fake
News or not. Now it comes out that the “fact check” private
organizations used by Facebook are tied to the CIA and CIA-related NGO’s
including George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
In the last weeks of the US Presidential campaign,
Wikileaks released a huge number of emails linked to Clinton Campaign
Manager, John Podesta. The contents of thousands of emails revealed
detailed exchanges between Podesta and the oddly-influential Comet Ping
Pong pizza place owner, Alefantis, as well as the Clinton campaign,
which held fundraisers at Comet Ping Pong.
The Pizzagate scandal exploded in the final weeks of
the US campaign as teams of private researchers documented and posted
Facebook, Instagram and other data suggesting that Alefantis and Comet
Ping Pong were at the heart of a pedophilia ring that implicated some of
the most prominent politicians in Washington and beyond.
The New York Times and Washington Post moved swiftly
to assert that the Pizzagate revelations were Fake News, quoting
“anonymous sources” who supposedly said the CIA “believed” Russia was
behind hackers who exposed emails and documents from the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta.
Former NSA senior intelligence expert William Binney
claimed the Podesta and Clinton campaign data were leaked, not hacked.
The NSA, he pointed out, would immediately identify a hack, especially a
foreign hack, and they have remained silent.
The uncovering and release to Wikileaks of the Podesta
emails were immediately blamed on Russian intelligence by the CIA, and
now by the US President, with not a shred of proof, and despite the fact
that NSA. Wikipedia, whose content is often manipulated by US
intelligence agencies, rapidly posted a page with the curious title,
“Pizzagate (Conspiracy Theory).”
To make certain the neutral interested reader gets the
message, the first line reads, “Pizzagate is a debunked conspiracy
theory which emerged during the 2016 United States presidential election
cycle, alleging that John Podesta’s emails, which were leaked by
WikiLeaks, contain coded messages referring to human trafficking, and
connecting a number of pizzerias in Washington, D.C. and members of the
Democratic Party to a child-sex ring.”
‘Fake News’ Mantra Begins
My purpose in mentioning Pizzagate details is not to
demonstrate the authenticity of the Pizzagate allegations. That others
are doing with far more resources. Rather, it is to point out the time
synchronicity of the explosive Pizzagate email releases by Julian
Assange’s Wikileaks web blog, with the launch of a massive mainstream
media and political campaign against what is now being called “Fake
News.”
The cited New York Times article that Wikipedia cites
as “debunking” the Pizzagate allegations states, “None of it was true.
While Mr. Alefantis has some prominent Democratic friends in Washington
and was a supporter of Mrs. Clinton, he has never met her, does not sell
or abuse children, and is not being investigated by law enforcement for
any of these claims. He and his 40 employees had unwittingly become
real people caught in the middle of a storm of fake news.” The article
contains not one concrete proof that the allegations are false, merely
quoting Alefantis as the poor victim of malicious Fake News.
That New York Times story was accompanied by a series
of articles such as “How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study.” Another
headline reads, “Obama, With Angela Merkel in Berlin, Assails Spread of
Fake News.”
Then on November 19, strong Clinton supporter, Facebook
billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is quoted in a prominent article titled,
“Facebook Considering Ways to Combat Fake News, Mark Zuckerberg Says.”
Facebook uses CIA Censors
Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of the world-leading social
media site, Facebook.com, the world’s 5th wealthiest man at an
estimated $50 billion, has now established a network of “Third Party
Fact Checkers” whose job is to red flag any Facebook message of the
estimated one billion people using the site, with a prominent warning
that reads, “Disputed by Third-Party Fact Checkers.”
Facebook has announced that it is taking its censorship
ques from something called The International Fact-Checking Network
(IFCN). This IFCN, a new creation, has drafted a code of five principles
for news websites to accept, and Facebook will work with “third-party
fact checking organizations” that are signatories to that code of
principles.
If we search under the name International Fact-Checking Network, we find ourselves at the homepage of something called the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida.
OK. If we look a bit deeper we find that the Poynter
Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network in turn, as its website
states, gets money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google,
the National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, the Open
Society Foundations of George Soros.
Oh my, oh my! Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
who partners with Soros in numerous nasty projects such as convincing
African countries to accept Genetically Modified or GMO seeds? Google,
whose origins date back to funding by the CIA and NSA as what
intelligence researcher Nafeez Ahmed describes as a “plethora of private
sector start-ups co-opted by US intelligence to retain ‘information superiority‘ “?
The Omidyar Foundation is the foundation of eBay
founder and multi billionaire, Pierre Omidyar, which finances among
other projects the online digital publication, The Intercept, launched in 2014 by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill.
And the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US
Government-financed “private” NGO behind every Color Revolution CIA
regime change from the Ukraine Color Revolutions to the Arab Spring? The
NED was a CIA project created in the 1980’s during the Reagan
Administration as part of privatizing US intelligence dirty operations,
to do, as Allen Weinstein, who drafted the Congressional legislation to
establish the NED, noted in a candid 1991 Washington Post interview, “A
lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”
And if we dig even deeper we find, lo and behold, the name George Soros, convicted hedge fund insider trader,
tax-exempt philanthropist and giga-billionaire who seems to fund not
only Hillary Clinton and virtually every CIA and US State Department
Color Revolution from Russia to China to Iran through his network of
Open Society Foundations including the 1990’s Jeffrey Sachs Shock
Therapy plunder of Russia and most of former Communist East Europe.
Another one of the media working with Zuckerberg’s
Facebook censorship of Fake News is the Washington Post, today owned by
Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos. Bezos is a major media business
partner of….The US Central Intelligence Agency, a fact he omitted to
inform about after taking over ownership of the most important newspaper
in Washington.
Bezos’ Washington Post recently published a bizarre
list of 200 websites it claimed generated Fake News. It refused to
identify who gave them the list. Veteran Washington investigative
reporter, Wayne Madsen, exposed the source of the McCarthy-style taboo
list of so-called Fake News. It was a “website called PropOrNot.com that
has links to the CIA and George Soros.”
It’s not merely the Pizzagate revelations that have
triggered such a massive attack on independent Internet websites. It
seems that back in January 2014 at the Davos World Economic Forum
control of information on the Internet was a top item of discussion. At
the time, Madsen noted, “With the impending demise of World Wide Web
‘net neutrality,’ which has afforded equal access for website operators
to the Internet, the one percent of billionaire investors are busy
positioning themselves to take over total control of news reporting on
the Internet.”
It’s not even the foxes who are guarding the Internet
Henhouse. It’s the werewolves of CIA and US Government censorship.
Whether the explosive Pizzagate Podesta revelations merely triggered a
dramatic acceleration in the timetable for the CIA’s planned “Fake News”
operation as the successor to their 1980’s “Conspiracy Theory”
linguistic discrediting operation, it’s clear this is no unbiased,
objective, transparent public service to protect the Internet public
from harmful content.
And, besides, who are they to tell me or you what
you are allowed to read, digest and form your independent ideas about?
This is a 21st Century reincarnation of the Spanish Inquisition, one by
the real fake newsmakers–Washington Post, AP, ABCNews, Snopes.com,
FactCheck.org, the CIA and friends.
I would say it’s an alarming development of cyber
warfare, not by Russia, but by those CIA-run networks that are fomenting
Fake News to demonize any and everyone who opposes Washington
intelligence propaganda.
