Yeah, BT, I was expecting the corporate-internet to drift in this direction. I’ve been kinda surprised it hasnt gotten worse much sooner than this.

The thing is, for hard-core political left-junkies like ‘us,’ it doesnt matter all that much that google buries lefty sites — cause we know where they are and we know how to find stuff like that.

But what hurts is the young people who are just beginning to explore politics — they wont be able to find lefty ideas as easily anymore.

And so it goes. Life in the corporotacracy…

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Monsanto

Zooey wrote:

wv wrote:

And after four years of Trump one would ‘guess’ that a lot of working-class voters wont be any better off and they might not be so prone to drink the Trump koolaid next time around.

But who knows.

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I dunno. We’ve seen Americans vote against their economic interests again and again. I think what we have here is a Culture War. And the feelings are pretty strong about what America is.

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Well it doesn’t matter to me what you Americans do, because
I’ve seceded from America.

I dont have a flag yet though. I’m working on some ideas though. Maybe two Ram horns coming out of a Chomsky-head, with two pieces of toast in the background.

Blue and white, of course.

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Ray McGovern’s view:

“veteran intelligence officials for sanity”

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Something to keep in mind about Wikileaks and Assange: They promise anonymity to all their sources. It’s pretty much the only reason they receive info in the first place. That ironclad promise of complete anonymity and confidentiality. They promise not to even look at who sends them X, Y and Z info. They promise absolute confidentiality.

So they’re lying when they divulge their sources. Either they’re lying that they know who sent them the info, that the Russians didn’t, that Seth Rich did, or they lie about confidentiality and anonymity of their sources.

They can’t be telling the truth throughout the process.

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Well if the source is Dead maybe Assange thinks he can go ahead and drop some hints about it:

“…Mainstream news outlets have mocked any linkage between Rich’s murder and the disclosure of the DNC emails as a “conspiracy theory,” but Hersh’s comments suggest another possibility – that the murder and the leak were unrelated while Rich may still have been the leaker.

In dismissing the possibility that Rich was the leaker, mainstream media outlets often ignore one of the key reason why some people believe that he was: Shortly after his murder, WikiLeaks, which has denied receiving the emails from the Russian government, posted a Tweet offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the solution of the mystery of who killed Rich.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder and publisher, brought up Rich’s murder out of context in an interview with Dutch TV last August. “Whistle-blowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks,” Assange said. “As a 27-year-old, works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington.”

Pressed by the interviewer to say whether Rich was the source of the DNC emails, Assange said WikiLeaks never reveals its sources. Yet, it appeared to be an indirect way of naming Rich, while formally maintaining WikiLeak’s policy. An alternative view would be to believe that Assange is cynically using Rich’s death to divert the trail from the real source.

But Assange is likely one of the few people who actually knows who the source is, so his professed interest in Rich’s murder presents a clue regarding the source of the leak that any responsible news organization would at least acknowledge although that has not been the case in many recent mainstream articles about the supposed Seth Rich “conspiracy theory.”….
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…..Until now, Hersh’s only public comment about the tape was to National Public Radio. “I hear gossip,” Hersh said. “[Butowsky] took two and two and made 45 out of it.”

I contacted Hersh on Friday via email. He confirmed to me that it was his voice on the tape by angrily condemning those who he said secretly recorded him, without identifying them. He did not respond when I asked him whether he thought the tape may have been altered. Hersh refused to comment further.

On June 2, in an exchange of emails between Hersh and Butowsky, Hersh denied any knowledge of the FBI report. That was two months before Hersh discovered that he had been secretly recorded when the tape was made public on Aug. 1 by Big League Politics. A screenshot of the Hersh-Butowsky email exchange was published by Big League Politics last week…..see link…..

…..Corporate media’s uniform reaction has been to treat the idea of Seth Rich being WikiLeak’s source as a “conspiracy theory” – while mostly ignoring Assange’s hints and now the Hersh tape. Major U.S. media outlets cover Russia-gate as if Russian interference in last November’s U.S. election is proven, rather than based on a shaky “assessment” by “hand-picked” analysts from three – not all 17 – U.S. intelligence agencies….

link:https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/08/a-new-twist-in-seth-rich-murder-case/

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Hersh:“Anyways, Wikileaks got access, and before he was killed- I can tell you right now Brennan is an asshole. Uh, I’ve known all these people for years. Clapper is sort of a better guy but not rocket scientist, the NSA guy’s a fucking moron, and they don’t- you know the trouble with all of those guys is that the only way they’re going to make it to a board or two and get hired by (?) and get some fat cat contracts is if Hillary stayed in. With Trump they’re gone, they’re done, they’re going to live on their pension, they’re not going to make it. And I gotta tell you guys, they don’t want to live on their pension, they want to be on boards,” Hersh says. A full transcript of the audio was posted to Reddit by a dedicated user.

Emails: Ed Butowsky Pleads With Sy Hersh to Go Public With What He Knows About Seth Rich