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Best of the Web: CIA, Obama and major media outlets trolled by 4chan fanfiction asserting Donald Trump was being blackmailed by Russian spies

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 06:08 UTC
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Defying all reason and journalistic duty, BuzzFeed may have now topped the Washington Post in the quickly burgeoning Fake News market, publishing accusations President-elect Donald Trump has "deep ties to Russia" — but the astoundingly baseless claim seems to have unraveled in the most hilarious way possible.

"A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors," the collaborative BuzzFeed article asserts.

Duly noting the dubious quality of the information presented, BuzzFeed chose to publish the threadbare 'dossier' sans any evidence of its legitimacy — and the rush to perhaps damn Trump before the upcoming inauguration has tentatively been discredited by one of the most unlikely sources: 4Chan.

First, ZeroHedge noted of the contents of the original dossier,

"For those pressed for time, here is the best - as in most laughable - part, discussing 'Trump's personal obsessions and sexual perversions', in which we learn that when staying at the Ritz Carlton Moscow hotel, in order to defile a bed in which Obama had stayed in previously, he employed 'a number of prostitutes to perform 'golden showers' show in front of him.' Good stuff."

Comment: For images of the 'evidence' surrounding these allegations: Trump Intelligence Allegations by zerohedge on Scribd

More details:
As a final point, the memos authored by the operative claim that the Trump campaign and the Kremlin had established an "exchange of information" of "mutual benefit," and that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, met secretly with Kremlin officials in Prague in August 2016.

However, Cohen quickly denied that he has ever been to Prague, promptly demolishing the entire argument.

"I have never been to Prague in my life. #fakenews," he tweeted, attaching a photo of his passport.
The Russians respond:
Peskov told Intefax...
"The information is not true and is nothing other than a total fabrication."

"It's a complete fake, it's a complete fabrication, it's total nonsense."
Trump tweets:





And WikiLeaks:

Russia Insider's Dean Parker blasts the Atlantic for essentially saying that all the networks who knew about the allegations, but who kept them private because they knew they were lies, but who decided to report on the secret allegations as if they were real news, did a very bad thing:
In other words, the CNN knew how laughable the "dirt" on Trump was, but kept that from the viewers, while opting to pretend this was a serious story. Whereas at least BuzzFeed gave the readers enough data to allow them to judge for themselves.

So a passing grade for BuzzFeed and an F minus for CNN?

Not according to The Atlantic. No, Obama's favorite paper has just slammed BuzzFeed, and only BuzzFeed. Apparently it's perfectly OK to talk about a supposed explosive secret Russian dossier on Trump like CNN did, as long as you don't reveal how incredulous the contents of such an alleged dossier must be like BuzzFeed did.
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The real problem for The Atlantic is that BuzzFeed inadvertently revealed just what lying shits and peddlers of fake news the mainstream media really are. It should have maintained the conspiracy of silence and sat on the document it had like CNN, Politico, Lawfare and many other according to The Atlantic did.

Instead it unintentionally helped kill a perfectly good Trump story the MSM could have kept on banging for days, or years.

The Atlantic hit piece ends with a lecture on why it is important for journalists to keep things away from the public.
The Daily Beast gave the soapbox to the man 4chan claims they trolled, and of course he denied their account:
Wilson dismissed all of r/The_Donald and 4chan's claims in a tweet Tuesday night. "You're wrong if you believe 1. What we had came from /pol 2. That I was Buzzfeed's source. Try again, boys," he wrote.

"The information was out there looooong before the 4chan posts," he replied to another user.

Reached by phone earlier in the evening, Wilson told The Daily Beast that the Russian allegations were "making the rounds before anyone talked about it publicly." He said that they were being discussed as early as a year and a half ago.

"Trump always knew it was out there," Wilson said. "He thought he could bullshit his way through it.

"This stuff is real and it's bad. It's going to be something that weighs on him," he added.
Real stuff? That right there says everything about Wilson you need to know.

Meanwhile ZeroHedge has published the chain of events that allegedly leads from 4chan's message boards all the way to McCain, CNN, and Buzzfeed. One priceless image includes:

4chan russian hacking Trump dossier evidence


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Vader

CIA analyst says Iraq's Saddam Hussein's death warrant was signed 'on day one' after 9/11

Samuel Osborne
Mint Press News
Sat, 07 Jan 2017 15:46 UTC
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© Jerome Delay/Associated PressU.S. soldiers cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Baghdad, Iraq, April 9, 2003
'We went to Iraq to do all of these things, to find the weapons of mass destruction, to help build a new Iraq, to establish rule of law, give the Iraqi people democracy, and one by one, all of those things just crumbled'

Last month, former CIA analyst John Nixon made headlines when he asserted that while he was interrogating Saddam Hussein after the 2003 invasion, the dictator warned him that the U.S. would fail in Iraq.

Now, Nixon has revealed yet another unsettling detail: the Bush administration knew they were going to take on Iraq on "day one" — before the 9/11 terror attacks even occurred. In fact, they viewed Iraq as "unfinished business," according to the former analyst.

"We never really understood at that point what unfinished business meant, but we knew that they wanted to do something," Nixon said in an interview with BBC Radio 4′s Today Programme this week.

"You know, they had their minds made up from day one. And then after 9/11, that's when the death warrant for Saddam Hussein was signed," he explained.

He added that Hussein's execution was "the final straw in terms of pulling out the justifications for the war in Iraq."

He described it as "a mob justice" and said "Saddam was the most dignified person in the room."

Comment: Not just Shrub's puerile reasoning led to Iraq's destruction:

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Attention

Hungary plans to crackdown on all Soros-funded NGOs

Zoltan Simon
Bloomberg
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 02:12 UTC
George Soros
George Soros
Hungary plans to crack down on non-governmental organizations linked to billionaire George Soros now that Donald Trump will occupy the White House, according to the deputy head of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's party.

The European Union member will use "all the tools at its disposal" to "sweep out" NGOs funded by the Hungarian-born financier, which "serve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments," Szilard Nemeth, a vice president of the ruling Fidesz party, told reporters on Tuesday. No one answered the phone at the Open Society Institute in Budapest when Bloomberg News called outside business hours.

"I feel that there is an opportunity for this, internationally," because of Trump's election, state news service MTI reported Nemeth as saying. Lawmakers will start debating a bill to let authorities audit NGO executives, according to parliament's legislative agenda.
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Holding her feet to the fire: House Oversight chair vows to continue investigation into Hillary's use of private server


RT
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:32 UTC
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© Gary Cameron / Reuters "Just because there was a political election doesn’t mean it goes away."
Hillary Clinton's problems aren't going away, according to House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz, who has vowed to continue the investigation into her use of a private email server.

The Republican congressman told CNN: "Just because there was a political election doesn't mean it goes away."

Chaffetz described Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state as "the largest breach of security in the history of the State Department."

"It cannot, and should not be repeated ever again," said Chaffetz, whose committee possesses subpoena power. After reopening the investigation weeks before the presidential election in November, FBI Director James Comey told Congress that they had failed to unearth any new information that would warrant bringing charges against Clinton.

Comment: As Americans freak out over Russian fake news, FBI quietly released new Clinton investigation docs

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Chess

Beginning of the end of the US Deep State? Soft coup collapsing as CIA produces no evidence of Russian hacking

Robert David Steele
Global Research
Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:44 UTC
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© Reuters
CIA was bluffing, produced no evidence - Russians did not "hack" the election. Is this the beginning of the end of the Deep State in the USA? Can Trump clean house & wage peace?

Aided by enormous restraint on the part of Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, the soft coup in the USA has collapsed. Not only has the US Intelligence Community (US IC) lost all semblance of credibility with incoming President Donald Trump, but the blackmail by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham has been revealed by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen.

Credit for the defeat of the soft coup has been earned by two persons and one group. Donald Trump earns the most credit - bringing to the matter his deep business experience and common sense, he understood that the narrative against Russia was exaggerated, fabricated, and out of context. With that foundation he was willing to listen to the second person, Michael Flynn, whose deep personal experience in the nether world of black special operations and green clandestine and covert action operations informs him in a manner few can claim.

Comment:

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Bad Guys

Monument to Polish WWII massacre victims blown up and desecrated with fascist symbols in Ukraine


RT
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:33 UTC
Polish WWII memorial in Ukraine
© Stako / Wikipedia
Warsaw has sent a note of protest to Kiev after a monument to Poles killed in a massacre by a Ukrainian Nazi division during World War II was vandalized in western Ukraine.

A cross made of stone was blown up, while two tablets with the names of the Poles killed in the 1944 massacre were damaged. Investigators have been working at the site, Regnum news agency reported, saying that the authorities were trying to establish the type of explosives used to destroy the monument.

A video of the damaged historic site has emerged online.

Comment: This incident surely won't help with the Western Ukraine situation: Boiling point: Transcarpathia threatens Kiev with 'Donbass scenario'

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Vader

Children killed in Saudi-led airstrike on school in Yemen


RT
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:30 UTC
Yemen
© Hani Ali / Global Look Press via ZUMA Press
At least 8 children lost their lives and 15 others were critically injured in an airstrike from Saudi-led forces that hit an elementary school to the northeast of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a state Yemeni news agency has said.

The school in the Nehm district was reportedly completely destroyed, and the search for survivors in the rubble continues, SABA reported on Tuesday.

Conflicting reports put the death toll at five, AFP said, citing medics.

Government military officials told AFP that two missiles targeting Shiite Houthi rebels in armored vehicles had hit the nearby school by mistake.
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CIA and MI5 vets express opinions on ODNI report, insider leaks not Russian hacking, evidence?


RT
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:49 UTC
panel ODNI
© RTInterview with James Woolsey, Larry Johnson and Annie Machon
Former CIA chief James Woolsey, former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, and former MI5 officer Annie Machon spoke to RT about what the ODNI report on alleged Russian hacking reveals about the nature of their claims and the current state of the US intelligence. In live debates hosted by RT on Monday night, Woolsey, Johnson, and Machon took turns providing their expert opinions on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) reported entitled Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections, which was released on January 6.

Missing evidence?

The unclassified ODNI report was expected to shed light on the scope of Russian involvement in the DNC leaks and provide evidence supporting the claims made by the US intelligence community. Instead, the report has proven to be quite a disappointment, with WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange slamming it as having "zero evidentiary weight."

Former CIA agent Larry Johnson told RT that what had struck him about the report the most is that it contained "not one shred of evidence" to back up the sprawling accusations against the Russian government.

"At some point in that process, we should have seen either an electronic or human source that said Vladimir Putin or someone in his government had directed the cyber command in Russia to start a program or a plan... There is not one source of information in that report," he said, arguing that such negligence in failing to provide a single source indicates that the so-called "hacks" were instead the result of internal leaks.

"The fact that WikiLeaks puts out emails, I think there is a plausible case to be made that they were in fact leaked to WikiLeaks," Johnson pointed out, adding that "what we found out was not disinformation but actual truthful information."


Comment: What is scary is thinking about how many of these piecemeal reports may have missed even this caliber of scrutiny with decisions made on false or misleading content. We may never know. At least the adults in this room have come to consensus that there is no evidence stated in the ODNI, nor any forthcoming from intel organization investigations.

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Trump appoints noted vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. to chair a commission to investigate vaccine safety

Ben Kasimar
The Hill
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:34 UTC
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© Getty
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, has accepted President-elect Donald Trump's offer to chair a commission to investigate vaccine safety, Kennedy told reporters Tuesday.

Kennedy told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan about the forthcoming position after a meeting with the president-elect. "He asked me to chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity ... I said I would," he said. "President-elect Trump has some doubts about the current vaccine policies and he has questions about it. His opinion doesn't matter, but the science does matter and we ought to be reading the science and we ought to be debating the science."

He added that Trump called him to request the meeting and that he wants to ensure that vaccines are "as safe as they possibly can be."

Kennedy, son of the famous attorney general and nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, is a vocal critic of vaccines and regularly expresses concerns that certain preservatives in vaccines could cause developmental disorders or other negative side effects. He told a Sacramento audience in 2015 that drug companies can "put anything they want in that vaccine and they have no accountability for it."

Comment: Hopefully this is the beginning of reducing the wholly unnecessary number of vaccines given to children, and changing to toxic cocktail included in all the vaccines, which despite the CDC's protests, are incredibly harmful to children:

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Footprints

Mosul: Iraqi army wins important battle against ISIS, reached Tigris River

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
Iraqi army
© Press TVIraq army reaches the Tigres River, battle for Mosul
The Iraqi army's offensive to liberate Mosul from ISIS has achieved its first important success, with confirmation that after 12 weeks of gruelling fighting Iraqi troops have finally reached the Tigris river. The Iraqis also claim that their troops are present in 35 of the 47 residences of Mosul which lie east of the Tigris river.

ISIS however remains in control of the heavily populated areas of western Mosul beyond the Tigris, and it is clear that despite repeated claims to the contrary the city is not yet surrounded and ISIS's troops are not trapped there. It seems that an entirely separate operation will be needed to capture the western districts of Mosul beyond the Tigris, which in turn means that months of heavy fighting lie ahed.

Moreover it seems that in the fighting in Mosul in November alone the Iraqi army suffered at least 2,000 dead, a rate of loss which the US is supposedly concerned that it cannot sustain. If so then once Mosul east of the Tigris is finally liberated, the Iraqi army may have to pause its offensive to liberate the city in order to reinforce and regroup.

It is clear that early hopes that ISIS would abandon Mosul were misplaced, and that the will of ISIS's leader, Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi ("the Caliph Ibrahim") has prevailed, and that as predicted ISIS is defending itself in the city skilfully and fanatically.

On the subject of Al-Baghdadi, there continues to be uncertainty as to his whereabouts. However reports have recently appeared that he has appointed three successors, and that he regularly sleeps with a suicide belt.

If these reports are true (and it is possible that they are true, and that their source is radio intercepts) then they are a very strong sign that he expects to die soon, in which case earlier reports that he is actually in Mosul - the city where he declared himself Caliph - may be true after all, in which case he appears to be personally leading ISIS's resistance in the city.

Al-Baghdadi's motives would in that case be similar to Hitler's when he chose to remain in Berlin in the last weeks of the war. Just as Hitler felt that his prestige and authority as Nazi Germany's Führer was bound up with his staying in Berlin (the "Reichshauptstadt") so Al-Baghdadi presumably feels that his prestige and authority as "Caliph" is bound up with his remaining in Mosul.

In that case then just as Hitler's presence in Berlin undoubtedly stiffened German resistance in the city against the Red Army - prolonging the battle of Berlin by several weeks - so Al-Baghdadi's presence in Mosul will almost certainly make ISIS's resistance in Mosul more determined and fanatical, prolonging the siege further and causing still more death and destruction.
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