#believes kremlin and ccp

[kasuaalipelitelevisio]

American leftist are so fucking stupid.

[taiwantalk]

ok, this was not an easy find. pretty much most of the maps out there on internet show soviet union map like the way that soviets officially stated until breakup.

i don't subscribe to that because like i said before, i believe soviet union was a russian empire. although russians did not go all the way to occupy much of china or southeast asian countries like vietnam or burma, russians pretty much bankrolled those countries' military for half a century and they were taking the marching orders from kremlin.

china liked to present themselves as if ccp was unrelated, but in reality, ccp was entirely supported by soviets immediately after ww2 to take over china (soviets in fact bankrolled & gave military training to the chinese nationalists, kmt, also, yeah, soviets hedged their bets).

although iran never was communistic, it's really debatable for also being armed by soviet union.

i did not include other countries outside of the land mass like cuba only because i didn't want the map to look too spread out.

and so this map to me is more accurate up to '70s until ccp decided to befriend united states with nixon, which in my opinion is the single biggest geopolitical blunder of american politics, 2nd would be trump (both gop, bicostal).

my next search is a better situation map of ukraine. i don't like any of the maps i see on the web right now. i hope i find one eventually.

i'll be looking for one that's showing railroads, more russian cities around the border, present frontlines, and some topographic info including rivers.

editorial addition: russians bankrolled other country's communist regime on the backs of the countries that soviet union occupied during ww2. think about it, those countries had no vested interest to arm north korea, ccp china, vietnam, afghanistan, and none of them did any good until they started to open up their countries.

none of those fringe communist countries ever thanked poland, hungary, ukraine, georgia, or czechoslovakia-and the reason is -> they knew it was always about getting russians to help them by squeezing the other soviet states.

[believe-you-me-you-believe-me]

Russian and Chinese Disinformation Manipulation Through Conservative Media

Russian Disinformation

Russian disinformation campaigns have been particularly effective in influencing conservative media and their audiences. The strategies employed by Russia aim to undermine Western support for Ukraine and sow discord within democratic societies. Key tactics include:

Narrative Propagation: Russian disinformation often spreads false narratives about the Russia-Ukraine war. For example, claims that Russia is defending itself from "Ukrainian Nazis" or that Ukraine and NATO initiated the conflict are prevalent. These narratives have found significant traction among conservative supporters in Canada, with a higher percentage of Conservative Party supporters believing or being unsure about these falsehoods compared to Liberal and NDP supporters[1][4].

Media Mistrust: Conservatives generally exhibit lower trust in mainstream media, making them more susceptible to alternative narratives that align with their pre-existing biases. This mistrust allows Russian disinformation to spread more easily through right-leaning media outlets and social media channels, which often do not challenge these narratives robustly[1][4].

Social Media Influence: Platforms like YouTube and Facebook are significant conduits for Russian disinformation. Conservative audiences who primarily consume news through these platforms are more likely to encounter and believe in Kremlin-directed narratives. This is exacerbated by the echo chamber effect, where users are repeatedly exposed to similar content, reinforcing their beliefs[1].

Chinese Disinformation

China's disinformation efforts are extensive and sophisticated, targeting various aspects of American and global society. The Chinese government's tactics include:

Online Harassment and Intimidation: China's disinformation campaigns often involve organized harassment of individuals critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This includes using fake social media accounts to spread malicious content and threats, aiming to silence dissent and create a climate of fear[2].

Influence Operations: Meta (Facebook's parent company) has identified multiple networks of fake accounts operated by China, targeting regions such as the United States, Europe, and Asia. These operations often pose as local residents or interest groups, engaging in discussions about domestic politics and U.S.-China relations to amplify partisan tensions and influence public opinion[5].

Discrediting Opponents: Chinese disinformation campaigns also focus on discrediting U.S. politicians and undermining American companies that conflict with Chinese interests. By spreading false information and engaging in smear campaigns, these efforts aim to weaken the credibility of China's critics and shift the narrative in favor of Beijing[2][5].

Impact on Conservative Media

Conservative media outlets and their audiences are particularly vulnerable to these disinformation campaigns due to several factors:

Echo Chambers: Conservative media often operate within echo chambers where disinformation can spread unchecked. This environment allows false narratives to gain traction and influence public opinion more effectively.

Financial Incentives: The rise of pseudonymous influencers on platforms like X (formerly Twitter) has shown that spreading sensational or false information can be financially lucrative. These influencers often share and amplify disinformation, further entrenching these narratives within conservative circles[3].

Partisan Polarization: The existing political polarization in conservative media makes it easier for disinformation to take root. Narratives that align with conservative viewpoints or criticize perceived opponents are more readily accepted and disseminated[3][5].

Conclusion

Russian and Chinese disinformation campaigns have successfully manipulated conservative media and their audiences by exploiting existing mistrust in mainstream media, leveraging social media platforms, and creating echo chambers that reinforce false narratives. These efforts aim to undermine democratic processes, weaken support for Ukraine, and shift public opinion in favor of authoritarian regimes. It is crucial for consumers of conservative media to critically evaluate the sources of their information and seek confirmation from credible news outlets to mitigate the impact of these disinformation campaigns.

Sources [1] Conservative supporters more susceptible to Russian false narratives https://globalnews.ca/news/10611001/conservative-supporters-russian-false-narratives-report/ [2] China is using the world's largest known online disinformation ... https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/13/us/china-online-disinformation-invs/index.html [3] Anonymous accounts use right-wing channels to spread ... - AP News https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-anonymous-accounts-social-media-2024-election-8a6b0f8d727734200902d96a59b84bf7 [4] Conservative supporters show higher susceptibility to Russian ... https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-conservatives-russian-disinformation-survey/ [5] China is stepping up online influence operations, Meta warns - NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/11/30/1215898523/meta-warns-china-online-social-media-influence-operations-facebook-elections

[brijeshtiwaripune]

Xi Jinping Draws Lessons from Ukraine War for Taiwan Invasion: Report

As the Russia-Ukraine conflict drags on, analysts say China is closely monitoring the conflict for the past four months in order to draw lessons for a possible invasion of Taiwan. The latest phone call between Chinese President Xi Jinping as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 15 illustrates the two countries' growing ties in the aftermath of the Ukraine conflict. On his 69th birthday, Xi called Russian President Vladimir Putin to assure him that "bilateral relations have retained a proper development momentum in the face of global volatility and transformations." The Chinese President's pledge to Moscow for more "sovereignty and security" support amounts to the Chinese leader dismissing all previous Western warnings that China risked major reputational risk by not condemning the Kremlin. What worries Western leaders the most is that Xi went even further, promising to deepen systematic and organized way between the two countries. Jianli Yang and Yan Yu argued in Providence magazine that Xi must accelerate the internationalisation of the renminbi (RMB) and build an international commercial network on it that is not tied to the dollar (USD). They believe Xi should also put pressure on and assist CCP political families and oligarchs who are hesitant to transfer or shield overseas assets. Read the full article

[reasonsforhope]

This post is SUPER SUPER MISLEADING ACTUALLY.

I got super worked up about geopolitics and wrote a massive essay on why, but then tumblr ate it!!!!!

So this is just gonna be a summary of my main points following by a massive source dump

1. Almost nothing has even happened yet

China released a vague 2-page position paper advocating for peace, and Zelenskyy said he was interested in talking if they meant it in good faith and were going to propose a fair deal.

China's position paper had a lot of glaring omissions, like the part where IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT RUSSIAN TROOPS WITHDRAWING FROM UKRAINE

2. There is very, very good reason to believe that China is not acting in good faith

3. In fact, China is THE ONLY COUNTRY that might have the power to force Russia to stop the war!!!

But instead they literally won't even call it an invasion and have spent the whole past year being Russia's massive economic lifeline

4. Seriously, China is by far Putin's most important ally and may be selling them weapons to use in the war right now

5. China is standing by Russian in part because it is also an authoritarian power that is ALSO INTERESTED IN TAKING OVER SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES, mostly Taiwan (plus the complicated CCP takeover of Hong Kong). Some articles

6. For all these and more reasons, the West is INCREDIBLY CORRECT to be skeptical

7. The US, EU, and NATO would love an end to the war, actually--they just don't want it to be appeasement to Putin!

8. It's unlikely to matter because Zelenskyy won't accept any peace deal that doesn't return to Ukraine full sovereignty over its land. Which is extremely unlikely to be on offer anytime soon

China is trying to mediate for peace (which Zelensky himself is open to) and the US/EU are doing everything in their power to stiffle peace talks and keep the war going.

If that doesn't give you a hint as to whether China or the USA has the moral high ground I don't know what to tell you.

[opedguy]

Biden Poised to Make Big Mistake with China

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), March 12, 2021.--After burning bridges with 68-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, 78-year-old President Joe Biden looks to do the same with China when he sends 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken and 44-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to meet March 18 in Anchorage, Alaska with top Chinese officials.  Biden spent his first 50-days attacking Putin over nothing, an internal affair with 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny.  Biden joined 62-year-ool Brussels-based European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen slapping the Kremlin with sanctions for jailing Navalny for nearly three years.  Why Washington and Brussels are meddling in an internal Russian matter is anyone’s guess.  One thing’s for sure, it’s turned back the clock on U.S.-EU-Russian relations to Cold War lows.  Based on new reports, Biden looks to do the same thing with China. 

            Expected to meet with China’s senior diplomat Yang Jiechi and Chinese State Councilor Wang Li, Blinken and Sullivan think they’re going to lecture China about what they both call a “genocide” of Uighurs in Northwestern Xinjiang Province and the pro-democracy crackdown in Hong Kong, where 67-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered Hong Kong authorities to street demonstrations.  If you can believe it, the media says U.S. relations with 74-year-old President Donald Trump were contentious over his term in office. Xi and the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] don’t find tough trade deal negotiating grounds for contentious relations.  What Xi and CCP find objectionable, offensive and unacceptable is being accused by Washington of “genocide” in Xinjiang and repression in Hong Kong.  Whether Biden admits it or not, Trump had good relations with Xi.       

      Sullivan said at a daily press briefing today that the White House “believes that we are going to end up in a stiff competition with China, and we intend to prevail in that competition,” Sullivan said, stating the obvious, except for the fact that by anyone’s account, China’s winning the foot race.  Spurred on by the combative Washington press, Blinken and Sullivan think they’re going to get anywhere lecturing Beijing on the Uighurs and Hong Kong.  They’ve spent the last 50 days lecturing Putin on how he should release Navalny from prison when it’s not any of the U.S.’s business.  Blinken and Sullivan actually think that lecturing China about the Uighurs or Hong Kong is going to open doors to more dialogue.  Whatever happens in Xinjiang or Hong Kong, Xi regards, like Putin with Navalny, as an internal matter, not su

bject to outside pressure from Washington, Brussels or anyone else.             Blinken and Sullivan plan to talk about “how the U.S. intends to proceed at a strategic level,” whatever that means.  One things for sure, lecturing Xi on how to handle Uighurs and pro-democracy dissidents in Hong Kong won’t open any doors for the Biden administration.  Trump stuck to only business, refraining from criticizing Beijing for its human rights violations.  World leaders aren’t naïve about poverty, poor health care, unequal opportunity, homelessness, hunger, racism and other social problems that Biden, himself admitted, “systemic racism” exists in the U.S.  When the President of the United States admits to “systemic racism,” it makes it more difficult for Blinken and Sullivan to sit on high horses lecturing foreign leaders about human rights.  When Blinken and Sullivan talk about “avenues of cooperation,” they’re not talking about China’s treatment of Uighurs and Hong Kong protesters.     

          If Blinken wants to stop repeating the same mistakes with China that they’ve done with Putin, they need to table the discussion about Uighurs and Hong Kong.  Find common ground involves working with China’s Sinovac on making more Covid-19 vaccines available around the globe.  With the U.S. and EU facing vaccine shortages, working with China and Russia is essential for world health. Yet that’s not what Biden did antagonizing Putin from Day 1.  Putin has the world’s most popular vaccine, Sputnik V, that was approved in Russia Nov. 11, 2020, a month before Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.  But with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine losing approval due to blood clots, the world can’t afford a balkanized response during a global pandemic.  Putin’s Sputnk V is 92% effective and safe according to the British Medical Journal Lancet, independently verified, prompting orders from around the globe.     

        Biden and Blinken have alienated Putin so much he’s on a war footing when it comes to the U.S. and EU.  What good did it do to slap the Kremlin with sanctions over Navalny, a known revolutionary seeking nothing short than topping the Russian government.  What would the U.S. government do if Putin backed an opposition figure that sought to overthrow the U.S. government?  Democrats accused Trump of trying to overthrow the U.S. government, something Putin said the Jan. 6 Capitol roil as a “stroll,” rejecting the idea it was a serious “insurrection” as Democrats contended.  Biden and Sullivan hailed the so-called “Quad,” U.S., Australia, Japan and India, as a new buffer against China’s aggression, especially in the South China Sea.  Whatever Blinken and Sullivan talk about with China March 18, they should refrain from accusing Beijing of “genocide” and a “crackdown” in Hong Kong. 

About the Author 

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.  

[khalilhumam]

A democracy assistance agenda for the Biden administration

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A democracy assistance agenda for the Biden administration

By Patrick W. Quirk, Daniel Twining The Biden administration will take office at a time when democracy is being tested across the world. Since COVID-19 began its global spread, 80 countries have experienced democratic backsliding as autocrats exploit the pandemic to expand their power and quash dissent. Democracy is facing an ideological insurgency, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes an alternative governance model based on centralized control and suppression of independent thought. The CCP also corrodes democracy by proffering opaque deals that fuel corruption and embolden authoritarians in countries where China seeks expanded influence. The Kremlin actively endeavors to destabilize the West by undermining legitimate electoral processes and exploiting fissures to divide democratic societies against themselves. But all is not bleak. Democracies have mounted the most effective responses to the pandemic without police-state coercion. People-power movements in every region are demanding more of their governments and striving to transform protest into responsive policies. Underlying these trends is the promise new technologies hold for democratic participation and accountability, albeit balanced against their use by authoritarians to repress and control citizens. The state of democracy globally is a priority for U.S. foreign policy — not only because supporting freedom and liberty has long been a guiding light of the American project, but because American citizens are more prosperous and secure when the world is free and open. America’s closest allies are democracies. Countries governed by rule of law and democratic institutions do not fight each other, host violent extremists, or produce uncontrolled mass migration. Great-power autocracies seeking expanded spheres of illiberal influence pose the greatest danger to American security; countervailing them demands a values-based approach that protects the United States and the free world. Supporting democracy abroad not only underwrites the safety and prosperity of the American public, it is a something our citizens strongly support — 71% of Americans favor the U.S. “taking steps to support democracy and human rights in other countries,” according to the University of Pennsylvania’s Democracy Project. The next administration should make strengthening democracy overseas a pillar of its foreign policy because doing so embodies our nation’s core ideals and is imperative to U.S. security and economic well-being. The fate of democracy abroad is tied to the health of our democracy at home: A world in which authoritarians control the balance of power would gravely endanger domestic freedoms. Instead of dusting off the same playbook, the Biden administration should craft a democracy agenda that is responsive to today’s context, rooted in evidence-based innovative approaches, and positions the United States for key struggles and opportunities over the horizon. Doing so will require strong bilateral partnerships — with governments and civil society — and reinforcing alliances capable of buoying liberal democracy and helping steel it against illiberal challenges from authoritarian regimes.

The state of democracy today

The first step toward crafting this agenda is having a clear-eyed view of threats and opportunities. Chinese and Russian malign influence is subverting democratic practice globally. The CCP is interfering in vulnerable democracies, exploiting governance gaps to achieve its strategic aims. Beijing’s influence efforts bolster illiberal actors, undermine civil society and independent media, and render countries economically dependent on China. At the same time, Beijing is exporting digital authoritarianism by sharing surveillance technologies that underpin the CCP’s approach to social control. Meanwhile, Russia’s assault on democratic institutions, including attacks on elections, the spread of corruption, and disinformation campaigns, aims to weaken open societies and diminish American leadership. Citizens across the globe believe democracy is not delivering for them. In a survey of 34 nations, more than half of citizens reported being dissatisfied with how democracy works. They are not wrong. From the Philippines to Turkey, governments are using media censorship, data control, and state security forces to close civic space. Elected strongmen have taken advantage of COVID-19 to expand executive power. Corruption and kleptocracy corrode democracy where authoritarians are on the march. But citizens are not standing by. Instead, they are mounting broad-based protest movements to demand change, as in Belarus, or root out endemic corruption, as in Iraq. Since 2017, roughly 100 significant protest movements have led to substantial reforms or the removal of 30 governments and leaders. The digital revolution has led to large-scale innovation in how technology is used for good and evil in governance. In some cases, like Zimbabwe, repressive regimes use tools like facial recognition to track and jail dissidents, relying as much on the chilling effect of potential surveillance as the reality of it. But the rise of digital authoritarianism is not the complete story. Citizens are embracing technology to demand accountability from their governments. In many countries, governments themselves are making their first forays into deploying technology to advance democratic principles. The capacity for democratic actors to deliver requires an open, secure, interoperable digital infrastructure — an underpinning aggressively contested by China, Russia, and others.

Five pillars of a democracy agenda

To position the United States to secure its interests, the administration should consider the following five recommendations as part of its plan for supporting democracy abroad. The overarching aim of these actions should be a world where democracy is the predominant form of governance — because it is the model with the best chance of delivering peace and prosperity for citizens. First, the agenda’s keystone should be to bolster core institutions of democracy in strategically important countries. This includes helping strengthen electoral institutions, political parties, civil society, independent media, legislative bodies, and judiciaries, particularly given the requirement to operate effectively in a digital environment. A small investment relative to defense spending, this support is proven to help governments deliver for citizens. Stronger and more responsive governmental institutions, political parties, media, and robust civil society also position countries to effectively detect, expose, and counter foreign malign influence. Sufficiently resourcing the National Endowment for Democracy, the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s democracy and governance programming will be central to this effort. (For disclosure, the International Republican Institute receives funding from all three entities.) Second, the administration should couple democracy strengthening with democracy protection. The CCP and Kremlin are executing separate but reinforcing global political interference campaigns designed to swell their influence and discredit democracy. Any democracy agenda must include sustained efforts to counter this danger head on. Beyond the healthy institutions and transparency that underpin democratic resilience, vulnerable nations require local expertise to identify and counter the tactics employed by authoritarian states, which are frequently covert or difficult to distinguish from benign soft power campaigns. In the case of China, Washington should formalize a partnership with fellow developed democracies, including those like Taiwan with significant experience managing CCP interference, to share with democratic actors best practices in countering China’s efforts and to support local Chinese language and academic programs not dependent on CCP support. Partnerships with Chinese diaspora groups can support independent Chinese-language media around the world, both traditional and digital, and counter CCP efforts to coopt and coerce these communities to serve its strategic ends. To back this effort, the U.S. should double funding for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund. The U.S. and democratic allies should also dedicate resources to countering Kremlin, CCP, and other malign actors’ information operations and cyberattacks that are seeding doubts about democracy in individual countries and amplifying false messaging globally about authoritarianism’s superiority in handling crises like the current pandemic. The State Department’s Global Engagement Center could do more in this regard. Third, the U.S. should support a positive vision for how technology can deliver on democratic principles and push back against digital authoritarianism. To date, most U.S. efforts to counter digital authoritarianism have been defensive. The U.S. should invest in, amplify, and scale efforts that harness technology to explicitly deliver democratic public goods. Open-source, participatory platforms with transparent data give citizens more oversight over government activity and involvement in areas of governance that directly impact their lives. Just as China and Russia have used technology strategically to advance authoritarian objectives, the United States must do more to strategically empower democrats, including in closed societies, to safely communicate and organize. The Open Technology Fund is one tool for advancing these frontline partnerships. Fourth, the United States must recommit to working with and through allies to shore up democracy abroad. This includes burden-sharing to strengthen democracy in countries of shared interest and linking arms in defense of shared liberal ideals. To operationalize the multilateral aspect, the United States should work with the U.K. to formalize the D-10 group of leading democracies and to develop a common, positive vision and approach to strengthening and protecting open societies. A new technology consortium among democracies to protect the free and open internet, including the data-driven infrastructure that underlies it, would be timely. Finally, the United States must back these initiatives with forceful and principled diplomacy.  This will involve calling out and holding autocrats accountable as well as standing with advocates advancing democratic rights in their societies. The U.S. can enhance preventive diplomacy to head off conflict, the closures of civic spaces, and other threats to democracy. Modest investments to seed responsive governance and citizen inclusion cost far less than managing the fallout from countries that descend into conflict. Democracy is the most just and highest-performing method for organizing societies. The stronger democracy is at home in the United States, the better able we will be to execute this ambitious agenda abroad. But democrats around the world will not wait for the United States to perfect our union — they seek our help and support now, because their struggle for rights and freedoms is about them, not us. The United States has been working to realize the vision of the Founders for nearly 250 years and there is always more work to do. In fact, the credibility of American democracy assistance overseas stems not only from our successes at home but from our system’s manifest ability to overcome shortcomings and self-correct. The transparency and resilience of the American system is a formidable strength that developing democracies can learn from as they confront similar challenges. Citizens, governments, and advocates abroad deserve our support and active efforts to make the United States a model for the world.

[rauthschild]

China Orders “Demographic Genocide” Of Minority Races, Then Slaps Sanctions On US Officials

By: Sorcha Faal

A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today discussing the greatest foreign policy shift in modern American history since the 1930’s, when the United States ended its global isolation to confront both the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany (Nazi Party) and the Empire of Japan, says that after last weeks stunning developments that saw US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressing the Copenhagen Democracy Summit to declare to European leaders that “your choice isn’t between Communist China and the United States, it’s between tyranny and freedom”, who was followed by US National Security Advisor Robert O’Brian addressing the world to openly accuse Communist China of being like the mass murdering regime of the former Soviet Union with his stating: “The Chinese Communist Party is Marxist-Leninist, and party General Secretary Xi Jinping sees himself as Josef Stalin’s successor”, the Communist Chinese regime has now viciously struck back—with its first ordering the “demographic genocide” of its Muslim Uighurs and other minority races as part of its sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, while it encourages its Han majority to have more children—and was followed a few hours ago by Communist China introducing measures to slap travel sanctions on US officials.  [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

According to this report, knowing the grave threat being posed to them President Trump, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has created an entity labeled the “United Front” that’s directed to ensure the leftist media in the United States is flattering towards China and its policies, which also supports socialist Democrat Party policies that benefit China and pushes the promotion of these policies—a “United Front” shockingly exposed this month by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) when it forced China Daily (the official publication of the CCP) to disclose its hidden ties to American media outlets—which exposed how Communist China has paid millions-of-dollars to these leftist media outlets to publish propaganda against both President Trump and America—and whose Communist China paid off American news outlets include the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Houston Chronicle and the Boston Globe—all of whom today are pushing the Communist China make believe fantasy story absurdly claiming that Russia paid bounties to Taliban forces in Afghanistan to kill US troops.

In President Trump’s battle against his own nation’s leftist mainstream media and political power structure to expose the genocidal crimes of Communist China, this report details, he stands nearly alone—as did British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 1930’s when he repeatedly tried to warn about the grave dangers posed to the world by Nazi Germany—the near exact historical comparisons of which have now been documented in the just released book titled Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization—that aside from noting the fact that both Trump and Churchill were hated and despised by their nation’s elites, and notes that “Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press…feared by the King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness…but unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn’t retreat”—shows how Prime Minister Churchill had to even “resort to begging” President Franklin Roosevelt to awaken to the Nazi Germany threat before the entire world was lost—and factually states the truth that:

Trump and Churchill both fought valiantly to protect Western Civilization, and while fighting different forms of tyranny, Trump could very well be to the twenty-first century what Churchill was to the twentieth.

Both leaders, with seemingly nothing in common, turned their day’s prevailing politics on its head.

In doing so, they both endured shockingly similar battles instigated by the political establishment seeking their destruction.

Trump and Churchill’s unorthodox approach to both domestic and international relations has rescued Western Civilization from the brink.

Knowing how “close to the brink” not only Western Civilization is, but the entire world, this report continues, is United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who this past week called for one “Supreme Body of Global Governance” to rule over the entire world “having teeth with an appetite to bite” all who oppose it—that’s now been followed by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas admitting a few hours ago that his nation’s relations with the United States are irretrievably broken with or without Trump being in power---a shocking admission that itself was preceded by German Chancellor Angela Merkel stating that “If Germany doesn’t show leadership in Europe, there won’t be a Europe”, that she followed by then issuing a dire warning that: “Europe should brace for a reality in which US is no longer a world power”.  

Fueling such dire warnings about the United States, like those being issued by Chancellor Merkel, this report explains, are socialist forces in America itself, best exampled by Obama’s former Secretary of State John Kerry—who at last weeks Copenhagen Democracy Summit warned that “there will be a revolution if Trump gets elected again”, and added “that America can only become a world leader again if former Vice President Joe Biden wins in the November election”—the same John Kerry whom President Trump has declared “should be prosecuted for meetings with Iranian officials”—and is the same John Kerry everyone knows egged Iran on to “maybe or maybe not” issue a silly arrest warrant story earlier today against President Trump for the killing of General Soleimani—the true and main purpose of which, like all socialist tactics, is intended to ignite outrage, hatred and anger against President Trump—which then feeds into the socialist narrative now being created by such leftist articles like “The Coming 2020 Train Wreck”—that begins with a solemn socialist pronouncement declaring: “If there is one thing everyone can now agree on, it’s our dubious ability to pull off a free and fair election”—and then terrifyingly warns:

There were protests in the streets after Trump won in 2016.

In the supercharged atmosphere of 2020, we shouldn’t be surprised by riots.

After once again believing he’d inevitably lose and facing another intolerable four years of President Trump, the left’s shock and despair would be unlike anything either side in our politics has experienced in memory.

As to what is going to happen in the 2020 election, though, this report concludes, these socialist forces in America arrayed against President Trump appear to remain mired in their made-up fantasies and delusions not facing such realities as the evidence showing that “Sleepy Joe is nowhere close to President Trump as the 2020 vote approaches”—a reality astonishingly buttressed by the “really horrible news for Democrats” that after a month of leftist rioting, looting and arson “Trump’s Approval with Black Voters Remains at 28%”—but whose best advice for these deranged socialists today is for them to look across the ocean at their comrades in Europe to see what has just taken place over the past 24-hours—and when viewing would see them looking at the radical socialist nation of France, whose vote yesterday caused President Emmanuel Macron to express his “concern for the low turnout” that hit an historical low of 41%, though when the final votes were tallied, it showed the participation rate was even lower at around 34.7%--and came at the same time of yesterdays vote in Russia, where its Christian conservative voter turnout at online voting on constitutional amendments reached 80%--as well as its coming at the same time as yesterday’s vote in Poland, which 62.9% of its eligible Christian conservative voters took part in—thus proving that when civilization itself is at stake, sane peoples will always flock to vote for whomever is going to save them from crazed godless socialists—exactly like the British people did just six short months ago when, in December-2019, they rose up in anger to destroy in an historic wipeout election their socialist Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, along with all of the insane polices these leftists had cooked up in their addled brains—and President Trump knows he will also do in an even shorter five months time—most particularly because of the headline that says everything one needs to know: “American Leftists Believed Corbyn’s Inevitable Victory Would Be Their Model”.

[englishchinesetranslations]

For much of the 20th century, a section of the western intelligentsia deluded itself that something worthwhile was taking place in the Soviet Union. There were of course those well-known, even notorious intellectuals such as Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Bernard Shaw and HG Wells, who travelled east to pay obsequious tribute to the “new civilisation” (the Webbs’s words). However, there was a wider array of apologists who filtered through into the Labour Party, the trade unions and academia.

The romantic penumbra that surrounds the dictatorship in Cuba to this day is a good example of the moral leeway still granted to projects that are nominally socialist, or which seek to transform humanity in some way. As Leszek Kołakowski put it, progressive hearts which are “bleeding to death when they hear about any, big or minor (and rightly condemnable) injustice in the US… suddenly become wise historiosophists or cool rationalists when told about worse horrors of the new alternative society”.

But the Soviet Union has been gone for almost 30 years, and today’s Cuba is mainly of kitsch value, its youthful revolutionary heroes preserved as a piece of sixties nostalgie; its diminishing achievements — education (Fidelista indoctrination) and internationalist healthcare (Cuban doctors sent overseas have been likened to indentured labour) — implausibly trotted out to justify over half a century of dictatorship.

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Red alert: the childish fad for socialism

BY JAMES BLOODWORTH

And so a new generation of political “seekers” have turned to China for their ideological sustenance.

Beyond the mere worship of money and power, there is not much to like about the government in Beijing. The programme of socialist modernisation launched four decades ago by Deng Xiaoping has produced an authoritarian state capitalism overseen by a dictatorship which censors the internet, bans independent trade unions and pursues an aggressively imperialist policy in the South China Sea.

What the Chinese regime shares with the Stalinist USSR is contempt for ethnic minorities and civil society. Over recent years China has arrested a million Uyghurs and Kazakhs and placed them in forced labour camps. As Nick Cohen writes for The Observer, evidence of their criminality includes “wearing a veil or headscarf” and the “avoidance of alcohol”.

The esteemed British historian Eric Hobsbawm was asked in an interview for Desert Island Discs in 1995 if communist utopia would have been worth the sacrifice of millions of lives. Yes, the historian replied. The most charitable interpretation of Hobsbawm’s remarks was that it was at least plausible in the 1930s to believe that Stalin’s USSR was the only alternative to a western capitalism which looked increasingly like the handmaiden of fascism. Of course even that is a stretch: there were plenty of individuals at the time who eschewed fascism without embracing Stalinist mass murder.

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But does anyone truly believe that contemporary China is forging an egalitarian new civilisation? Income inequality in China exceeds that of the United States. Moreover, when it is not herding Uighurs into the Gulag, the Chinese Communist Party is busy suppressing young Chinese Marxists who have noticed the gap between official rhetoric and the corrupt and unequal reality.

Yet much like during the Cold War, a roll-call of useful idiots have faithfully stepped forward from deep within the cosseted bosom of western liberal democracy to defend China from criticism. Some, undoubtedly chasing clout on social media, have decided that “Muslims are treated better in Russia/China than in the United States”. This is concerning — the “journalist” in question has sixty six thousand followers — but easy to dismiss as inane online prattle. Still, behind the hot air merchants stand “progressive” organisations that have taken the decision to align themselves with the Chinese state while one of the biggest crimes of the 21st century unfolds.

The Morning Star, long an uncritical mouthpiece for authoritarian communism, describes evidence of Chinese persecution of the Uighurs as “laughably weak”, despite mountains of material from independent human rights organisations demonstrating the veracity of the claims. (The paper has history here: The Morning Star’s predecessor The Daily Worker faithfully toed the Soviet line, defending the pact with Hitler and the murderous show trials in Eastern Europe, while of course never mentioning the millions of people being worked to death in the Gulag). It is shameful that the British Left treat The Morning Star with reverence as an alternative to the capitalist press.

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But The Morning Star is not the only culprit; new organisations are springing up to do Beijing’s dirty work. Today we have the “Progressive International”, launched in 2020 by prominent leftist luminaries including the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, as well as Noam Chomsky and Naomi Klein (among others). The Progressive International says it wants to “defeat a rising authoritarian nationalism”, yet it has aligned itself uncritically with the Qiao Collective, a vehicle for the promotion of Chinese imperialism combined with the sort of authoritarian nationalist groups that the Progressive International were ostensibly founded to oppose. The Qiao Collective brooks no criticism of the CCP and either denies the persecution of Uighur Muslims, or portrays their oppression as a function of legitimate “anti-terrorism” policy by Beijing.

Together with denial and obfuscation when it comes to the projection of Chinese power, the Qiao Collective pushes Chinese state media which depicts western nations as in the grip of strife and malfeasance. The Russian television station RT has long deployed a similar tactic. Western audiences are urged to scrutinise their own governments and to “Question More” — until RT turns its attention to Russia, when this critical approach is replaced by the party line from the Kremlin.

This glaring double standard is evident to anyone who isn’t trying to make a name for themselves as an anti-American talking head. Just as the Soviet Union accused the West of “warmongering” (sometimes justifiably, as in Vietnam) while it sent armies to Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa to prop up bloody dictators, the Chinese State and its obsequious mouthpieces extol the virtues of racial justice in the US, while incarcerating a million Muslims in concentration camps.

It is perhaps understandable, although no less egregious for it, that the Chinese state should seek to downplay its misdeeds and calumnies. Stranger is the spectacle of progressive-minded commentators credulously lining up to offer the Chinese state their support.

Depressingly, a permanent feature of politics seems to be a stubborn rump of ideologues whose criticism of their own government co-exists with a need to develop a corresponding loyalty to another unit. Orwell called this phenomenon “transferred nationalism”. For Orwell, transference has an important political function: “It makes it possible for [the transferer] to be much more nationalistic — more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest — than he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge.”

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Authoritarian, rapaciously capitalist China is merely the latest “camp” that stands ready to be embraced by those who are temperamentally inclined to transference. “We examined the source data on the claims of millions of Uyghurs in so-called concentration camps,” said Max Blumenthal, the American left-winger and son of a former aide to Bill Clinton, on RT earlier this year. “We haven’t seen the evidence for these massive claims,” he added.

Blumenthal is the founder and editor of the far-Left news site The Grayzone. In the past, The Grayzone has supported grisly dictatorships in Syria and Venezuela for no reason other than the latter’s opposition to western liberal democracy. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespeople Hua Chunying and Lijian Zhao have both approvingly tweeted a Grayzone article which sought to rubbish claims that China is persecuting its Uighur population.

The Max Blumenthals of the world may be base and cynical (Blumenthal’s politics took a 180 turn following a 2015 trip to the Kremlin), but in this postmodern age, it’s apparent that people still yearn to be part of something bigger than the self. Materialism and solipsistic self-betterment are not enough though. They have limited appeal next to the desire — felt in the days when Wells visited the USSR, and even more strongly felt today — to be part of a world historical struggle between good and evil. Whether or not this quasi-religious impulse is transposed onto an atheistic communist tyranny is largely beside the point. The search for a tyrannical fatherland, a steady ideological pole to cling onto in tumultuous times, continues unabated.

With the emergence of the contemporary pro-China useful idiot in mind, it is worth paraphrasing the dissident Russian revolutionary Victor Serge, himself a believer at one time in the big idea of communism, who noticed: “when there are no more worthwhile banners, people start to march behind worthless ones”.

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U.S. Press Spews CCP Propaganda

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.om), June 9, 2021.--From the origin of the novel coronavirus, the U.S. press has spewed tChinese Communist Party [CCP] propaganda that the deadly pathogen came from a Wuhan, China seafood or wet market. U.S. bureaucrats like 80-year-old National Inst 80-year-old National Institutes of Health [NIH] Chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed CCP propaganda.  All evidence points to the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV] where chief microbiologists Shi Shengli experimented with bat coronaviruses with University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, researcher Dr. Ralph Baric.  Yet Fauci repeats CCP propaganda that the virus was not made in  a Wuhan lab but instead evolved naturally, jumping species to humans just like 2002-2004 SARS outbreak.  Over month after the World Health Organization [WHO] declared a global pandemic March 11, 2020, former President Donald Trump spoke out.

           Trump tweeted April 30, 2020 that U.S. intel proved that the virus originated and leaked from a WIV lab.  After Trump’s announcement, Democrats and the U.S. press doubled down to discredit Trump’s lab-leak theory.  In the middle of a brutal reelection campaign, the U.S. media took sides, backing 80-year-old Democrat candidate President Joe Biden.  Democrats and the press concluded that the best campaign strategy was discrediting Trump’s response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Trump realized that Dr. Anthony Fauci had become Democrats and the Press chief political weapon in defeating Trump in the November election.  Before sidelined by Trump July 11, 2020, replaced by Stanford University Hoover Institution Scholar Dr. Scott Atlas. Fauci was everywhere.  Democrats and the press were outraged, defending Fauci while he discredited Trump one interview at a time.

           Fauci became Democrats’ not-so-covert political operative to defeat Trump.  Trump was once praised by Fauci as doing everything possible, including shutting down the country, to slow the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus. Trump launched Operation Warp Speed  May 15, 2020 pushing U.S. vaccine makers to produce a vaccine in record time.  While Trump’s Covid-19 task force pushed drug makers to produce a safe-and-effective vaccine in record time, the Biden campaign was slamming Trump’s efforts, saying you couldn’t trust any vaccine developed under Trump or, for that matter, it wouldn’t be out until sometime in late 2021. Biden’s campaign was rattled when Trump identified the Wuhan lab as the likely origin of the virus.  All U.S. press did everything possible to discredit Trump’s lab- inleak theory, instead insisting that the virus occurred naturally in Wuhan.

           Fauci became the Biden campaign’s spokesman about the deadly novel coronavirus emerging naturally from Wuhan seafood or wet market.  “It is more likely” that—much like SARS, Ebola, influenza and HIV—Covid-19 “originated from an animal reservoir  and jumped species to human,” Fauci said June 4.  .”There’s the possibility that it came for the lab, but I believe that that’s a much less likely possibility,” Fauci said, repeating the same CCP propaganda as the WHO.  Recently released emails indicate that Fauci deliberately validated the natural theory, thanked profusely by EcoHelath Alliance CEO Peter Daszak who received $3.4 million from Fauci to study coronaviruses.  Daszak gave the WIV hundreds-of-thousands of dollars to study “gain-of-function” with harmless bat-coronaviruses.  Fauci knew about WIV virologists Shi Shengli and Dr. Robert Baric injecting viruses with ACE-2.

           Today’s press opposition to accepting that the deadly novel coronavirus emerged from a WIV lab relates to the 2020 political campaign. Democrats and the press did everything possible to defeat Trump especially on his handling of the Covid-19 crisis. Democrats decided early on attacking Trump’s handling of Covid-19 was the path to the White House.  Whatever reluctance remains in the press to accept the obvious that the virus came from a Wuhan lab, it stems from the overwhelming press attacks on Trump;.  When it’s finally determined that Trump was right about the origin of the virus, the U.S press will look bad again. Four years of the Russian hoax about Trump’s alleged ties to the Kremlin turned out false.  Now the U.S. press will have to deal with the embarrassment of repeating CCP propaganda about the origin of the virus because they opposed Trump politically.

           Battle over the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus is about exposing the U.S. press as a political entity, not a bastion of ethical journalism.  When 78-year-old former Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward accused Trump of knowing everything about the deadly virus in Jan. 28, 2020, he, like Fauci, was a Democrat operative.  Woodward set Trump up for a fall, accusing him of not doing enough early on.  Woodward and he media never criticized the WHO for defending China and preventing the public for knowing about the deadly outbreak in Wuhan for over three months.  Only Trump took the hit by Woodward, who sacrificed the truth to help defeat Trump’s 2020 reelection.  Fauci and Woodward have proved to be clever con artists, using every ounce of their past credibility to destroy Trump politically  during a fiercely contested White House battle.

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U.S. Accuses Russia of Black PR

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), June 6, 2021.--French science blogger Leo Grasset said that possibly Russian-based Fazze agency offered to pay the Frenchman untold sums of cash if he agreed to publish lies about the Western vaccines, like Pfizer and Moderna, saying they caused over 1,000 deaths. Part of the deal to Grasset was that he not reveal the source, making no reference to the sponsoring entity linked to the fake information about the Western vaccines.  At the time, Russian President Vladimr Putin was trying to compete on the world vaccine market with Gamayeya Institute’s  Sputnik V vaccine.  Fazza, who may have ties to Russia, tried to contact other bloggers to disseminate fake news about Western vaccines.  U.S. intel officials see plenty of Russian propaganda disseminated into U.S. social networks attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, drawing attention to Russian meddling in U.S. elections and democracy.

U.S. intel agencies believe that Russia has been taking advantage of social networks, attempting to influence public opinion.  French counterintelligence thinks that Fazze attempts to disseminate disinformation in U.S. social networks.  French officials believe the former KGB continued disinformation campaigns in the 1980s trying blame the HIV virus on U.S. bio-weapons activity.  Most scientists think that HIV or AIDS was an African virus that spread through the African Continent to Europe and then to the U.S. and South America.  Russia exploits U.S. ubiquitous social networks with which disseminate disinformation.  “The big difference is that in the last 10 to 15 years, [Russia’s disinformation efforts] have bled into mainstream life—political life, new, media, particularly social media,” said Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent who concocted former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s dossier.

Hillary’s fake dossier, all fabricated by Steele, was used by the U.S. government and press to brainwash the public into believing that former President Donald Trump was a Russian asset, compromised by the Kremlin.  Steele likes to talk about organizations like Fazze trying to pay popular bloggers wild sums of money to disseminate fake news.  But the real purveyor of fake news is not the Russian government but the U.S. press that spreads propaganda like peanut butter, reporting four years of fake news all with the intent to destroy former President Donald Trump’s approval ratings and eventual re-election.  U.S. intel officials like to blame Russia for spreading propaganda on social networks like Google, Facebook and Twitter but they refuse to acknowledge the unending streams of fake news in U.S. newspapers and broadcast outlets.  Russian disinformation pales in comparison to the U.S. press.

Can you imagine Christopher Steele of all people is quoted about pernicious propaganda?  Steele provided the FBI and Hillary campaign with the most propaganda ever seen in presidential politics.  Steele’s nonsense was taken as gospel in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and every other anti-Trump broadcast and print outlet.   Quoting Steele shows that the U.S. press has no shame when it comes to spreading pernicious propaganda.  Blaming Russia is the best distraction for the U.S. press as they continue to brainwash the American public not with facts but politically driven narratives bearing no resemblance to reality.  Facebook reported last week that Russia’s the biggest peddler of disinformation on their social network. How convenient that the U.S. press talks about Russian disinformation campaign without mentioning their own fake news narratives.

U.S. media blames Russia for undermining faith in democratic institutions, not admitting the endless profusion of fake news that winds up in U.S. broadcast and print outlets.  As long as the U.S. press targets Russia, they can use it as a smokescreen, diverting attention to the most ubiquitous source of disinformation in America:  The U.S. broadcast and print outlets.  Run by the Democrat Party, Trump didn’t have a chance in the last election, because every broadcast and print outlet disseminated the same lies about Trump’s ties to Russia.  Now the same disinformation kings in broadcast and print media switch their focus to regurgitating Chinese Communist Party propaganda about the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus.  Exploiting 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, the goal of the CCP and World Health Organization [WHO] is to prevent the truth about how the deadly virus originated.

U.S. intel agencies would have the public believe that Russia undermines the U.S. faith in democracy or free elections.  “What it does is undermine people’s faith in democracy and people’s faith in democracy which, as I’ve said before, should be the apogee of our democracy, not the weak point of it,” Steele said.  Citing Steele proves beyond any doubt that the U.S. press must continue its outrageous lies about Russia to cover-up its ubiquitous role in disseminating propaganda in the U.S.  Steele is a hardened con artist that has zero credibility, but, to the U.S. press, he’s their hero because no one tortured the truth more that Steele.  He’s the perfect one to quote for a corrupt U.S. media that likes pointing fingers at Russia without acknowledging its role in ubiquitous fake news to advance a Democrat agenda.  Citing Steele proves that the U.S. media is only interested in disinformationy.

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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. 

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Fake News Blames Russian Disinformation

lLOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), June 6, 2021.--French science blogger Leo Grasset said that possibly Russian-based Fazze agency offered to pay the Frenchman untold sums of cash if he agreed to publish lies about the Western vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna, saying they caused over 1,000 deaths. Part of the deal to Grasset was that he not reveal the source, making no reference to the sponsoring entity linked to the fake information about the Western vaccines.  At the time, Russian President Vladimr Putin was trying to compete on the world vaccine market with Gamayeya Institute’s  Sputnik V vaccine.  Fazza, who may have ties to Russia, tried to contact other bloggers to disseminate fake news about Western vaccines.  U.S. intel officials see plenty of Russian propaganda disseminated into U.S. social networks attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, drawing attention to Russian meddling in U.S. elections and democracy.   

          U.S. intel agencies believe that Russia has been taking advantage of social networks, attempting to influence public opinion.  French counterintelligence thinks that Fazze attempts to disseminate disinformation in U.S. social networks.  French officials believe the former KGB continued disinformation campaigns in the 1980s trying blame the HIV virus on U.S. bio-weapons activity.  Most scientists think that HIV or AIDS was an African virus that spread through the African Continent to Europe and then to the U.S. and South America.  Russia exploits U.S. ubiquitous social networks with which disseminate disinformation.  “The big difference is that in the last 10 to 15 years, [Russia’s disinformation efforts] have bled into mainstream life—political life, new, media, particularly social media,” said Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agents who concocted former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s dossier.   

          Hillary’s fake dossier, all fabricated by Steele, was used by the U.S. government and press to brainwash the public into believing that former President Donald Trump was a Russian asset, compromised by the Kremlin.  Steele likes to talk about organizations like Fazze trying to pay popular bloggers wild sums of money to disseminate fake news.  But the real purveyor of fake news was is the Russian government but the U.S. press that spreads propaganda like peanut butter, reporting four years of fake news all with the intent to destroy former President Donald Trump’s approval ratings and eventual re-election.  U.S. intel officials like to blame Russian for spreading propaganda on social networks like Google, Facebook and Twitter but they refuse to acknowledge the unending streams of fake news in U.S. newspapers and broadcast outlets.  Russian disinformation pales in comparison to the U.S. press.     

        Can you imagine Christopher Steele of all people is quoted about pernicious propaganda?  Steele provided the FBI and Hillary campaign with the most propaganda ever seen in presidential politics.  Steele’s nonsense was taken as gospel in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and every other anti-Trump broadcast and print outlet.   Quoting Steele shows that the U.S. press has no shame when it comes to spreading pernicious propaganda.  Blaming Russia is the best distraction for the U.S. press as they continue to brainwash the American public not with facts but politically driven narratives bearing no resemblance to reality.  Facebook reported last week that Russia’s the biggest peddler of disinformation on their social network. How convenient that the U.S. press talks about Russian disinformation campaign without mentioning their own fake news narratives.      

       U.S. media blames Russia for undermining faith in democratic institutions, not admitting the endless profusion of fake news that winds up in U.S. broadcast and print outlets.  As long as the U.S. press targets Russia, they can use it as a smokescreen, diverting attention to the most ubiquitous source of disinformation in Americ:  The U.S. broadcast and print outlets.  Run by the Democrat Party, Trump didn’t have a chance in the last election, because every broadcast and print outlet disseminated the same lies about Trump’s ties to Russia.  Now the same disinformation kings in broadcast and print media switch their focus to regurgitating Chinese Communist Party propaganda about the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus.  Exploiting 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, the goal of the CCP and World Health Organization [WHO] is to prevent the truth about how the deadly virus originated.     

        U.S. intel agencies would have the public believe that Russia undermines the U.S. faith in democracy or free elections.  “What it does is undermine people’s faith in democracy and people’s faith in democracy which, as I’ve said before, should be the apogee of our democracy, not the weak point of it,” Steele said.  Citing Steele proves beyond any doubt that the U.S. press must continue its outrageous lies about Russia to cover-up its ubiquitous role in disseminating propaganda in the U.S.  Steele is a hardened con artist that has zero credibility, but, to the U.S. press, he’s there hero because no one tortured the truth more that Steele.  He’s the perfect one to quote for a corrupt U.S. media that likes pointing fingers at Russia without acknowledging its role in ubiquitous fake news to advance a Democrat agenda.  Citing Steele proves that the U.S. media is only interested in disinformation.

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