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Former SC Robert Mueller
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is Russiagate. What has caused the electorate to turn on the political elite, to defeat Hillary and to rush to Brexit? Why, the evil Russians, of course, are behind it all.
It was the Russians who hacked the DNC and published Hillary's emails, thus causing her to lose the election because... the Russians, dammit, who cares what was in the emails? It was the Russians. It is the Russians who are behind Wikileaks, and Julian Assange is a Putin agent (as is that evil Craig Murray). It was the Russians who swayed the 1,300,000,000 dollar Presidential election campaign result with 100,000 dollars worth of Facebook advertising. It was the evil Russians who once did a dodgy trade deal with Aaron Banks then did something improbable with Cambridge Analytica that hypnotised people en masse via Facebook into supporting Brexit.
All of this is known to be true by every Blairite, every Clintonite, by the BBC, by CNN, by the
Guardian, the
New York Times and the
Washington Post. "The Russians did it" is the article of faith for the political elite who cannot understand why the electorate rejected the triangulated "consensus" the elite constructed and sold to us, where the filthy rich get ever richer and the rest of us have falling incomes, low employment rights and scanty welfare benefits. You don't like that system? You have been hypnotised and misled by evil Russian trolls and hackers.
[Whether Trump and/or Brexit were worthy beneficiaries of the popular desire to express discontent is an entirely different argument and not one I address here].
Comment: This is the same plea the social media platforms made during Russiagate: 'Please, US (world) govt, regulate us! We don't know what you want! Just tell us!'
And they did. They're working diligently with the spooks behind the scenes to bleach the internet of all dissent. The 'intelligence community' aka deep state does not want to explicitly mandate rules and laws because then they would have to be held by them. It's so much more effective to outsource to ostensibly 'independent private corporations' the job of intelligence-gathering and the arbitrary extra-legal 'management' of who gets paid how much and who gets to say what where and when.
It's all completely subject to the whims of those who rule from the shadows. 8chan will in the meantime be coerced into some form of compromise and will remain a favorite spot for Feds and informants seeking to 'shape dynamic narratives' (spread lies and hysteria):
Warrant reveals FBI agent's 8chan posts attempting to redirect white supremacist rage against Russia
Judging by our search results across all platforms for content concerning the El Paso massacre, which overwhelmingly reflects the official mainstream narrative, they're enjoying spectacular success at 'locking down' the information sphere.