Why Mainstream Media Is Failing

The Orwellian World Of Mainstream Media

By Dark Politricks

It truly is an Orwellian world we are living in when people who attack the Democrats from the left are being called Right Wing, and NAZI's by supposed left wing personalities like Sam Seder and Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks, someone who has been in an online war recently with Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, and Jimmy Dore, about the staged Douma Gas Attacks in Syria.

When real left wing journalists and personalities like Glenn Greenwald have to go to FOX News and the Tucker Carlson show to be heard then you know that we are now living in a world where black is white and the "liberal" establishment is censoring real progressive views, along with any news that attacks the Empire.

Here is a left wing comedian, who attacks the Democrats from the left. If people like Jimmy Dore have to go onto a right wing channel like FOX just to get their message across to millions of people, and actually manages to convince Tucker live on air, that Julian Assange should be pardoned. Then you know that the "left" wing channels like MSNBC no longer contain true left wing news shows.

Here is another left wing journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who is appearing on Tucker Carlson's show, to talk about how the defence budget is being spent 'spying on American citizens'. Tucker has just realised after NSA denials that he was a target of NSA spying due to his show trying to organise an interview with Russian Premier, Vladimir Putin. 

Although at first people claimed he was crazy to think that the NSA would be spying on an American citizen, despite everything we know they do from Edward Snowden and Thomas Drake, he has actually confirmed that the National Security Agency did indeed monitor his private communications. It was confirmed by the Fox News host from a whistle-blower.

“Tucker Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him,” sources told Axios.

Read more about that story here > NSA confirms Tucker Carlson was being spied on.

Of course these left wing commentators, get labelled as "Right Wing", due to appearing on Tucker Carlson's show. However it seems to be the only place that will actually accept left wing guests anymore. MSNBC won't have them on to discuss the failings of the Joe Biden presidency and the American Empires foreign policy. 

Therefore where are these people supposed to go to get their message over to a larger audience than those who watch their YouTube channels?

If supposed left wing channels won't have these people on to discuss left wing points of view because they are now all pro-Biden, pro-war, anti-Russia, and anti-free speech, then supposed "American Liberal's" are in trouble if they are being brainwashed by Rachel Maddow and her conspiracies about #Russiagate. 

Even in a court case recently her lawyer argued successfully that her audience knows she does not deliver "real news", but puts her own "slant" on it, and rants and raves about wild political conspiracy theories that Russia is under everyone's bed, because her watching viewers already "know" she is just being hyperbolic. However do they really know that she is not delivering real news but just her own political views that are slanted by her political beliefs like #Russiagate?

You can read the page from the Judges dismissal of a case where she called out someone for being a Russian spy here.

Please read the central part carefully where it states and I repeat:

"Thus Maddow's show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow's show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news. Therefore the Court finds that the medium of the alleged defamatory statement makes it more likely that a reasonable viewer would not conclude that the contested statement implies an assertion of objective fact."

Therefore people watching Rachel Maddow, who believe her every word, have no basis to do so, in this judges view. She is a story teller NOT a news anchor. No wonder people trying to tell the world some real news have trouble finding a prime time spot to do so.

One of the most important pieces of news since the lies that led us into a failed illegal war in Iraq, has been the debunking of Syrian involvement in a chemical weapons attack, that ensured that they were then bombed by the Axis of War. The USA, UK and France.

The OPCW -  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and their cover up of the supposed Syrian gas attack in Douma, which has seen 4 of the inspectors now claiming that the published report was doctored, and in fact, there was no evidence that the Syrian army had dropped chemical weapons in barrels from the air into the suburb of Damascus, an area controlled by anti-Assad, and Western Proxy backed jihadist's for a long time.

A leaked OPCW assessment challenges the claim that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in Douma in April 2018. The award winning scientist and MIT professor Emeritus Theodore Postol says the report shows the gas attack was "staged," and undermines the case for the US strikes that followed, in total 4 inspectors have now come forward to air serious concerns about the chemical watchdog’s Douma probe. 

However the OPCW Director General Fernando Arias has doggedly refused to address the extensive manipulation of the OPCW's probe into the alleged chemical attack in Douma. 

When it occurred in April 2018, the US, UK and France accused Syria of dropping chlorine gas cylinders that killed dozens, using staged white helmet, video footage with bodies moved and placed into certain positions for maximum effect. 

The Axis of War immediately used this an excuse to bomb the war torn country, in supposed retaliation and to help the starving war torn survivors of ISIS rule, which Syria, Iran and Russia were doing a good job at clearing out of the country, until Biden sent troops in to re-occupy the parts containing oil, and their wheat supply. 

Until now, no-one I know on the establishment side has explained why President Assad would carry out the one attack, that he knew, would cause the Axis to attack his own country after Obama stated his "red lines". 

Plus people forget that when John Kerry was asked what Assad could do to stop any attack, he replied "Give up your chemical weapons". Almost the next day, Assad handed over all his chemical weapons to Russia to be destroyed. Obama administration deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, suggested that all of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons had been surrendered under the 2013 deal. 

In a tweet he even said that the U.S. airstrikes launched against Syrian targets “could not have ended the violence in Syria or removed all of the chemical weapons, which were destroyed through diplomacy.”. Therefore it seems very illogical for Assad who did not want any US involvement in his countries fight against the CIA backed Jihadists and ISIS, would carry out the one crime that President Obama had publicly claimed would cross a red line for the US and force them to attack the country. 

It is much more likely that a CIA backed jihadist group like Jaysh al-Islam, a Saudi-backed extremist militia, who were occupying Douma, a suburb of Damascus for years, carried out any attack, and then staged it so that it looked like the Syrians carried it out and were then blamed for it.

Ian Henderson, a 12-year veteran of the organization and weapons expert, had led on-the-ground inspections in Douma, and conducted a detailed engineering study of gas cylinders found at the scene. 

He concluded that the cylinders were likely “manually placed” rather than being dropped by air. A finding that suggests the attack was staged on the ground by the Saudi backed militants who controlled Douma at the time. He stated in front of the UN that “We had serious misgivings that a chemical attack had occurred,” referring to the FFM team in Douma.

When news like this airs on par with the falsehoods and lies that led us to war in Iraq that killed and displaced millions and is just being ignored by the mainstream news, it has to make you think, what would it take for MSNBC, the BBC and CNN to actually report accurately on all the anti-establishment narratives and lies that abound, now that whole News Stations and their broadcasting is being  controlled by Intelligence agencies.

It is left to sites like The Grayzone and independent journalists like Aaron Mate and Abby Martin from Empire Files to tell the truth online without getting banned from the public speaking squares we have all come to know such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

This video is from the UN as Aaron Mate debunks OPCW’s Syria lies and confronts US, UK on their cover-up.

This news is REAL news. 

It does not deserve to be dismissed by fake news people like Rachel Maddow as irrelevant, now that Biden is President, any pro-war act he takes is okay by them. 

Whether it is caused by lies just like Iraq and seemingly Syria, it does not matter to them, for real journalists to get the word out, they have to appear on right wing news channels and risk being smeared, blackmailed and labelled NAZI's by other left wing personalities, all due to them doing all they can, to actually speak the truth, and get important information and REAL NEWS out to as many people as possible.

Please tell me what you think about the Douma attacks.  Would Assad be stupid enough to carry out the one attack that would rain hell fire down on him from the Axis of War or was it staged by CIA and their paid for Saudi backed jihadists?

By Dark Politricks

© 2021 Dark Politricks

Looks like I was right about front doors built into Skype for the NSA

Looks like I was right about front doors built into Skype for the NSA

By Dark Politricks

Whether you decide to follow every single one of my tips for staying secure on the Internet in my guide "Internet Censorship and surfing anonymously", it seems we are basically screwed if we expect to stay under any sort of national security radar anymore. 

If anyone thought that a global Stasi government couldn't exist in this day and age recent revelations have shown that to be a foolish notion indeed.

I can only think that living in a wood shack, deep in the forest, without any sort of telecommunications and speaking to your friends mouth to ear is the only way not to get caught in the huge fishing expedition being carried out by the US/UK axis of spying at the moment.

They are not doing anything illegal though. No of course not, it's all in our best interests that they hover up every single bit of data that is produced. It's to stop that nasty rag-tag bag of 12th century cave dwelling terrorists that they need all this high-tech snooping equipment. That and to stop the Chinese stealing "OUR" business and government secrets.

Yes they have perfectly legitimate reasons to be implementing all these back and front doors into the most widely used web applications in the world. 

It's only to stop al-Qaeda terrorists swapping bombing targets by paper that they are breaking the most sophisticated encryption methods ever known with super computers the size of cities under Utah.

Never would I expect our honest upstanding governments to mis-use or hand over any "interesting" data gathered "by accident" to law enforcement agencies or "favoured" government companies. No we should never believe our governments would scoop that low, except that they do it all the time and it's been proven over and over again.

Not only are legal cases being "back fitted" to hide the original source of the incriminating evidence that started the ball rolling in the first place, i.e hacked or captured data. But this is data that is totally taken illegally under the US constitution. One which reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed is supposed to exist first before a warrant to take such data can be issued. Of course the constitution and any form of human rights is an antiquated concept in this modern world.

So please don't tell me that you have "nothing to hide" and "nothing to worry about", that's bullshit. Everybody has secrets. No-body lives perfect lives, not even Jesus claimed that.

If you want nerds at GCHQ playing in their pants over photos your wife had sent to you under the expectation that no-one ele would be able to see them then you're a better man than most.

Yes most people probably don't care about the daily mundane lives of many but we all know how offices work and I doubt the NSA or GCHQ workforce is any different from most.

I can just see the NSA office when someone comes across a funny picture or two from an "accidental" data haul. Like most offices who laugh at funny crap it's probably shared amongst the workers with much glee just like the youtube video or funny email is at your own office. The only difference is that these videos and emails or texts are from real people and not "made for the internet" fun.

So, when I wrote some months back about why would Microsoft spend £5.2bn / $8.5bn buying out Skype, the VOIP service that allows people to talk to each other across the world for free. I wondered whether it was just a conspiracy theory to suggest that the well-known NSA front company Microsoft was only buying Skype so that they could use it to easily record and store people's phone and video calls. As I said at the time:

"Why bother going to all the hassle in creating back doors, asking companies for encryption keys and ISP's to keep log files for years when instead they can just use their massive front companies Google and Microsoft to just buy up the technology and install front doors instead."

"Why go through all the pain of trying to pass new bills through Congress, getting extensions to the hated PATRIOT Act and all that malarkey when you can just hook your new cool spyware / application  into your existing network of super computers that spend all day sifting through the trillions of bytes worth of data looking for patterns of behaviour or conversations of interest to investigate further." >> NSA front company hooks SKYPE into Big Brother computer network.

Now with all the revelations from Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden we know the reason why Microsoft bought Skype.

For the past decade at least the NSA and their partner GCHQ have been busy building backdoors into the encryption systems that keep the Internet safe for people to bank, shop and talk over.

With recent revelations that even the most secure encryption systems have been broken and that the big four computer companies, that include Microsoft, have been working close in hand with the government, it is perfectly clear why an NSA front company like Microsoft would buy Skype.

I was basically right all along and those silly people who criticised me on Reddit and the other sites who like to link to my articles must feel stupid now when even Microsoft comes out and admits it.

Recent articles on the Guardian show that:

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI’s Data Intercept Unit to “understand” potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• Skype, which was bought by Microsoft in October 2011, worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video of conversations as well as audio;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a “team sport”

“When we upgrade or update products we aren’t absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands,” Microsoft said in a statement.

So there we have it. My "conspiracy theory", that I just wanted to throw out onto the web at 5am to see if it caught on was basically right all along. I just wonder how many other gadgets and phones you have on you right now are just basic surveillance devices for the authorities to use at will?

Further Reading:

NSA front company hooks Skype into big brother computer network

Internet Censorship and Surfing Anonymously

We are sleep walking into a surveillance society by our own consent

iPhone caught ignoring YOUR privacy again and uploading full address books without permission

Do you have to be a dead journalist nowadays to be considered a real one?

Do you have to be a dead journalist nowadays to be considered a real one?

By Dark Politricks

It seems that 2013 has been the year that the Empire finally threw away any semblance of liberty and free speech and decided to go for broke in its attack on all those who dare speak truth to power. They sure have been cranking the screws on anyone who speaks out against them in the last few months.

Just this week we have had David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, held and robbed by UK authorities all under the guise of anti terrorism laws at Heathrow airport.

Once again this is another abuse of this law by the UK government. However this is to be expected as the UK government doesn't exactly have a good record on it's implentation.

If you can remember the Brown government mis-used the law when he froze Icelandic bank accounts during their banking crisis. Oh and of course there was the Blair governments arrest of the 82-year-old anti Iraq war protestor Walter Wolfgang who was dragged out of the Labour conference for heckling Jack Straw.

Plus our new anti terrorism acts (2000 and 2006) have been used to detain arrestees for up to 28 days without charge, restricted the right to protest and limited free speech in many areas all whilst giving our police new powers to stop and search people they think "could be" terrorists. These groups mainly consist of people who take photographs of policemen or London landmarks, or it seems the partners of journalists breaking stories on illegal surveillance by the state.

It seems the UK's implementation of anti terrorism laws has been used more to chill dissent and increase the polices power to abuse due process rather than to attack true terrorists. How hypocritical it is that we attack whistleblowers and journalists whilst fund and support al-Nusra Front jihadists and al-Qaeda linked LIFG rebels in our game of chess in the Middle East.

It shames me to be a Brit when we suck up to the USA in this way.

It seems we are so desperate for American money to keep the cogs running in our GCHQ super computers that we will bend over backwards anyway possible to help the US attack their own "domestic extremists".

We will do anything from detaining and robbing the partners of reporters who break stories on massive NSA surveillance or manning a 24 siege of the building in which another whistleblower is hiding out.

I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up tomorrow and heard on the news that David Cameron had authorised a drone strike on the Ecuadorian embassy and killed Julian Assange.

It sure would make the COINTELPRO littered US "press" happy to hear of his death. A certain Michael Grunwald would certainly love to write that particular obituary.

Again the Terrorism Act from 2000 was used to detain Glenn Greenwalds partner, a dubious use of the law at the very least and one which Glenn promises revenge on the UK government. I don't doubt he has many more secrets about the cosy affair between GCHQ and the NSA to reveal but he surely must be worried about the climate which now surrounds any journalist willing to go head to head with the beast.

Would the USA stoop to such levels as to actually dispatch with pesky journalists who reveal state secrets from whistleblowers?

Some people already believe this has been the case for years.

Recently we had the mysterious death of Michael Hastings who died in a mysterious car crash after going on the run due to fears he had about a story he was working on.

Apparently top US Army officials told the Rolling Stone journalist that he would be hunted down and killed over his story that lead to General McChrystal’s downfall and he was apparently working on a massive story concerning the CIA. This was all before he warned friends he had to go off the radar due to worries about his safety and then surprisingly his car exploded in an unusual accident.

With recent revelations that DARPA or anyone else with the skills can hack into computers on board cars nowadays it doesn't seem so far-fetched to believe he was taken out by some agency annoyed with his work. With computers controlling everything from dishwashers to cars and with NSA/GCHQ super computers able to pinpoint phones and GPS co-ordinates in real-time it wouldn't take a genius in this day and age with the right software to do some damage with a few keystrokes.

Got a webcam on your PC? Well just hope it's just your friends watching your pretty face from afar and not an NSA nerd or even your local school!

Then there was the case of Gary Webb who was found dead in an apparent suicide in 2000 apparently from "multiple gun shots to the head", an common way to kill yourself it seems for journalists and whistleblowers.

Gary Webb was the reporter who had famously broke the story about the CIA running guns to the Contra's and drugs back to the states. It was the CIA's coke that started the Los Angeles crack wars in the 80's and made a certain CIA owned drug dealer Ricky “Freeway Ricky” Ross very rich. It was his story that led to the black community and the NAACP trying to get congressional hearings held into the allegations.

Bary Seal, one of the CIA's drug running pilots was also famously found pumped full of bullets after threatening to expose the same CIA drug running scam that had the Bush families finger prints all over it. Even after his car had been sweeped "clean" by the personal phone number of a certain then Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush was found in his possession!

The Colombian drug dealers convicted of the crime believed they working for a certain Oliver North and the fingerprints that led to the Iran Contra scandal and Mena drug operation that link nearly everyone in the Bush family to Bill Clinton were all over the hit.

So it wouldn't be a total shock after the history of covert assassinations to hear on the news one day that Glenn Greenwald had been found dead along with his partner David. Probably after a heated argument overhead by an anonymous caller to the police. The official story would be that Glenn was found dead, supposedly having committed suicide after first killing his partner. Of course he would have shot himself three or four times in the head just to make sure of course.

Therefore if I was Glenn I would be slightly wary about waging all out war on the US/US axis of war. Of course he is well within his rights to do so and I wish he brings the whole house down if he possibly can, however it is clear he has been marked by the powers that be.

Co-opted and "owned" mainstream personalities have attacked him and even suggested he be arrested for his work with Edward Snowden.  David Gregory from Meet the Press asked why Glenn shouldn't be charged with a crime for aiding his source Snowden in revealing NSA secrets and CNBC host Andrew Ross Rokin also suggested that Greenwald should be arrested.

And those are just a few of the debates Glenn is having online with numerous, and obvious, Government paid spokesmen. All these propagandists for the Empire who read from scripts handed to them by the NSA/CIA are not real journalists and their attacks on Glenn just prove that the US media can no longer be trusted to hold anything to account, let alone the Government.

It seems a sad state of affairs when you cannot be considered a real journalist unless you are running in fear from the Government and their partners across the globe.

Is it really a choice between breaking a really major story such as the CIA drug smuggling, NSA spying, or US war crimes and then ending up dead, looking for asylum or locked up in a military prison for years?

All the while talking heads get paid millions just to parrot official stories and take the Governments word on everything. It must be hard to look in the mirror when you call yourself a journalist but don't dare put your head above the parapet.

"Everything's ok, just keep shopping", they say as the world burns and the constitution continues to be shredded piece by piece.

What a choice it has become. To be paid millions for toeing the line and having no moral fibre at all, or dare speak truth to power and risk two in the head or a life on the run.

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