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he has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power....HISTORY IS BADLY REMEMBERED BY THE YOUNG NEW LEAVES THE CURLY BROWN ONES LITTER THE LONG BLOODY SHORE THE BANDS OF OLD SNEAKY POLITICAL THIEVES ARE LED BY OLD MEN WHO VOODOO REALITY INTO A LIE VIA THE MEDIA THAT BARK AT TRUTH AS IT WALKS BY
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“HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE WINNERS” IT IS OFTEN SAID… ROBERT URBANOSKI
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
TO A GUS LEONISKY, THIS LAST SENTENCE IS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING HISTORY, YET IT OFTEN BYPASSED BY THE SOCIOPATHS WE VOTE FOR AS LEADERS — AND DISTORTED BY THE BELIEF IN GOD. GOD DOES NOT EXIST. WHAT EXIST IS OUR DESIRE TO BE FOOLED, BECAUSE THE CANDID TRUTH OF THE WORLD, AS BEAUTIFUL AND AS EXTRAORDINARILY ACCIDENTAL AS IT IS, IS PAINFUL IF WE ARE NOT FED. AND WE DIE WITHOUT KNOWING WHY. SO THE REAL FACTS OF HISTORY ARE HIDDEN OR MANIPULATED TO ABSOLVE THE CRIMINAL PAST OF HUMANITY, AND THE ENTHUSIASM FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY IS NOT EXPLICITLY TAUGHT TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE… WE ONLY TEACH THEM (THE KIDS AND OURSELVES — IF WE MUST TEACH SOMETHING) THE ILLUSIONS OF HISTORY — THE RIPPLES ON THE SURFACE, NOT THE DARK DEPTHS BELOW WHERE THE MONSTERS OF OUR SERENITY LURK BELOW. WE DO THIS NOT BECAUSE THE YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND, BUT BECAUSE WE WOULD BE ASHAMED OF WHAT WAS DONE AND WHAT WILL BE DONE. WE WOULD ALSO LOOSE OUR MOTIVATIONS TO BLAME SOMEONE ELSE. OUR HUBRIS, A FAR MORE SERIOUS PROBLEM THAN THE EMPEROR'S, WOULD BE NAKED. IN SHORT, WE DON’T WANT TO KNOW, OR SHOW, EVEN IN EXTREME CASES SUCH AS THE ORIGIN OF THE UKRAINIAN CONFLICT AND WHY JULIAN ASSANGE IS STILL IN PRISON. WE NEED TO GET ASSANGE OUT OF THERE, BY WHATEVER MEANS — AND THIS MAY NEED TO STIR A GIANT POSSUM….
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE MURDER OF SETH RICH AND THE LEAKING OF DNC DOCUMENTS TO WIKILEAKS WERE COINCIDENTAL, BUT IT IS LIKELY THAT THE TWO EVENTS WERE RELATED. HAVE THE DEMOCRATS COMMITTED CRIMES BEFORE AND AFTER THIS EVENT? WELL, BLOWING UP THE NORD-SEA PIPELINES COMES TO MIND. AS WELL, BLINKEN INSTRUCTING MORELL TO FUDGE AN OPEN LETTER TO LIE TO THE PUBLIC IS DESPICABLE, IF NOT A CRIME, JUST TO MENTION A COUPLE OF BAD BEHAVIOUR… WE DESERVE THE TRUTH BEFORE WE DIE...
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Singer, civil rights leader and devoted activist Harry Belafonte has died at 96. Belafonte was a “real one,” as evidenced by a 2005 event where he spoke eloquently about his friendship with Martin Luther King jr. and the fear that Democrats would coopt the language of the civil rights movement while abandoning the cause itself — and who was right there wint him on stage but Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcRXYrMOqRo
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Last week we learned a new fact about the DNC email leak in 2016 and of the events that likely led to the killing of Seth Rich.
A quite aggressive Wikipedia page discusses the Murder of Seth Rich:
The murder of Seth Rich occurred on July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Rich died about an hour and a half after being shot twice in the back. The perpetrators were never apprehended; police suspected he had been the victim of an attempted robbery.The 27-year-old Rich was an employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and his murder spawned several right-wing conspiracy theories, including the false claim, contradicted by the law enforcement branches that investigated the murder, that Rich had been involved with the leaked DNC emails in 2016. It was also contradicted by the July 2018 indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence agents for hacking the e-mail accounts and networks of Democratic Party officials and by the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion the leaked DNC emails were part of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Fact-checking websites like PolitiFact, Snopes, and FactCheck.org stated that the theories were false and unfounded. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post wrote that the promotion of these conspiracy theories was an example of fake news.
Well, that is not what really had happened.
Yes, Seth Rich worked as IT administrator for the Democratic National Committee. He was a fan of Bernie Sanders. During the 2016 primaries DNC functionaries did their best to work against Bernie Sanders and for Hillary Clinton. To make that public Seth Rich collected an archive of all DNC emails, copied it onto an USB stick and looked for someone who would publish them.
UPDATE 20:00 UTC
The former British ambassador Craig Murray said that he was given the USB stick by an intermediary of a disgusted Democratic whistleblower and brought it from Washington DC to Wikileaks which eventually published the emails. The data involved were not only from the DNC but also from Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta:
WikiLeaks made the DNC messages public in July and the incriminating emails from Podesta were published in October. The messages predominantly showed that DNC officials were bent on sabotaging the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton. Murray insisted that the information was leaked and not hacked by Russia.“Neither of the leaks came from the Russians. The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks…leakers were motivated by disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.”
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Craig Murray did not mention Seth Rich. Up to last week we did not know if Seth Rich really made contact with Wikileaks.
But we did know that the DNC was never 'hacked' by anything Russia. The date/timestamps of the leaked files were consistent with local copying and inconsistent with an internet transfer. The company Crowdstrike which was hired to protect the DNC's networks and which did an investigation into the case never observed an actual 'Russian' hack or any data exfiltration from the DNC network. As ITwire wrote in May 2020:
The controversial American security firm CrowdStrike, which was called in to investigate the alleged Russian hack of DNC servers in 2016, had no proof that any emails from the system had been exfiltrated despite public assertions that this had occurred, according to the transcript of an interview released by the US Government a few days ago.The transcript was from an interview conducted with CrowdStrike's president of services and chief security officer Shawn Henry by the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in December 2017, but only released to the US Special Counsel Robert Mueller who conducted a two-year inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential poll.
While the exfiltration of emails from the DNC server has been accepted as a proven fact, Henry's answers to queries from committee members make it clear that this was definitely not the case.
In one typical exchange, Henry was asked, "What about the emails that everyone is so, you know, knowledgeable of? Were there also indicators that they were prepared but not evidence that they actually were exfiltrated?" To this Henry responded, "There's not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There's circumstantial evidence - but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated."
PolitiFact, Snopes and FactCheck.org are, unsurprisingly, wrong with their assertions.
But how did the emails find their way to Julian Assange at Wikileaks. Assange has never explained that. But Wikileaks set out a $20,000 reward for finding the killer of Seth Rich. That made it obvious that there was a connection between them but no one gave further explanations of it.
It took until last week for the world to learn more about what really happened. On April 21 some rather pungent NAFO activist, Pekka Kallionniemi, launched a Twitter thread with an attack on a person well known in IT circles:
Pekka Kallioniemi @P_Kallioniemi - 10:09 UTC · Apr 21, 2023In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a German-Finnish entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist and propagandist, Kim Dotcom. He's best-known for his illegal online activities and projects, for his hate towards the US, and for his unwavering support for Putin's imperialism.
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In 2017, Dotcom claimed that he worked with Seth Rich, a US citizen and employee on the Democratic National Committee who was murdered during a suspected robbery.His death spawned..
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..several conspiracy theories stating that he was a whistleblower who had leaked documents damning Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta. The hack-and-leak operation was actually conducted by Russian intelligence service GRU's hacker group called Fancy Bear.
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Who is Kim Dotcom you might ask:
Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz; 21 January 1974), also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur and political activist who lives in Glenorchy, New Zealand....
Dotcom is the founder and former CEO of the defunct file hosting service Megaupload (2005–2012). In 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized its website and pressed charges against Dotcom, including criminal copyright infringement, money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud. Dotcom was residing in New Zealand at the time; at the request of US authorities, New Zealand police raided his home in 2012 and arrested him. Dotcom posted bail and has been going through legal proceedings ever since to avoid extradition to the United States.
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In 2017, Dotcom played a role in spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich.
In May 2017 the Washington Post wrote:
When Seth Rich’s Gmail account received an alert this week from Mega.com, attempting to start a new account on a website created by the New Zealand-based Internet businessman and convicted hacker Kim Dotcom, his family knew that something was off.Over seven frenzied days, Dotcom had become a leading purveyor of the theory that Rich, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee who was shot dead near his home in Northeast Washington last summer, had supplied DNC documents to WikiLeaks and was killed as a result. Multiple security analysts and an FBI investigation have tied the release to hackers with ties to Russia. D.C. police have said repeatedly that they think Rich was slain in a random robbery attempt.
According to experts and Rich’s family, the emailed invitation from [email protected] appeared to be an attempt to gain access to Rich’s email. Joel Rich, who monitors his late son’s Gmail account when new emails come in, did not click the link. Dotcom had not worked at Mega itself for years, but he was promising on Twitter to prove that the younger Rich had been in contact with WikiLeaks — and Fox News host Sean Hannity was telling his 2.37 million Twitter followers to be ready for a revelation.
Hannity had invited Dotcom to appear on his show for what he said on Twitter would be a “#GameChanger” interview. The implication: that Dotcom would finally offer evidence of his claim that Rich had sent internal DNC documents to WikiLeaks before his death.
All that began to unravel Tuesday afternoon when Fox News retracted a story that had claimed the same Rich-WikiLeaks connection, telling readers that the article was “not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.” Fox News did not respond to a request for comment, but Dotcom wrote on his website that he would not speak further about his allegations.
Since then little on the issue was heard from Kim Dotcom. There was no explanation why he was involved in the Seth Rich issue in the first place.
But after Pekka Kallionniemi's attack was widely retweeted Kim Dotcom contested it:
Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom - 0:41 UTC · Apr 22, 2023NAFO bullying exposed
I’m responding to an attempted character assassination by NAFO troll @P_Kallioniemi who prides himself with having attacked over 150 “pro-Russian actors and propagandists.”
His problem is that he picked the wrong guy for his cyber bullying.
Who is Pekka? A research fellow at Tampere University in Finland and a self-proclaimed disinformation expert. Ironic because most of the claims in his attack against me are false. I’m tagging the Dean of Tampere University @SaariJuho to make him aware of Pekka’s NAFO bullying.
First of all I’m in good company because some of the people Pekka has bullied on Twitter are @ggreenwald, @mtaibbi, @rustyrockets & @jimmy_dore. None are “Russian propagandists” or “grifters looking to make some easy money” as Pekka claims. They are truth-tellers, like myself.
False claim 1: Kim was deported from Thailand to Germany.<
Truth: I was never deported from Thailand. I left voluntarily.
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False claim 6: Dotcom claimed that he worked with Seth Rich.
Truth: Seth Rich contacted me and offered information about the DNC. I rejected receiving the data personally and forwarded him to someone close to Wikileaks. That’s how Wikileaks got the DNC and Hillary Clinton leaks.
False claim 7: The (DNC) hack and leak operation was conducted by Russian intelligence.
Truth: A forensic analysis of the leaked DNC data by former US intelligence officials proved that it wasn’t remotely transferred. The meta data shows that the files were transferred locally.
The bold part is significant as it is first time that we learn:
You may say that the first claim is not new because many had presumed that. But no one involved had ever actually publicly made the claim. Dotcom's assertion of this connection through him is new.
After contacting Kim Dotcom Seth Rich was pointed to someone else near to Wikileaks. Eventually Wikileaks asked Craig Murray to fly to DC and to bring the files to Wikileaks. The Clinton server emails were published by Wikileaks in March 2016. The DNC emails were published in June and July 2016. The Podesta emails were published in October 2016.
I hope that Kim Dotcom will one day write down the complete sequence of events that are related to Seth Rich and the publishing of the Clinton, Podesta and DNC leaks by Wikileaks.
Posted by b on April 24, 2023 at 17:51 UTC | Permalink
READ MORE:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/why-kim-dotcom-connects-the-dnc-email-leak-to-the-murder-of-seth-rich.html
WE KNOW THAT THE UKRAINE CONFLICT WAS STARTERD BY THE AMERICAN EMPIRE...
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a dirty word.....
THE DIRTIEST WORD IN THE NEWS MEDIA HAS BEEN:
"UNPROVOKED"....
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old or drunk.....
Age isn’t just a number in 2024 — it’s also proving to be a major campaign weapon wielded by Republicans trying to recapture the White House.
The main target is President Biden, who at 80 years old is the oldest president in history running for reelection. But he’s not the only Democrat drawing attacks.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), 89, has been absent due to illnesses, prompting calls by younger Democrats to step down, while giving GOP candidate Nikki Haley, 51, an opportunity to buttress her campaign call for political mental competency tests.
The attacks illustrate how the GOP sees age as a way to defeat Biden in 2024, even as its party is led by a 76-year-old in former President Trump and an 81-year-old in Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.).
Haley’s call for mandatory mental competency tests for politicians older than 75 was seen as a clear jab at Trump and Biden. The former South Carolina governor has specifically called on politicians to take the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which is defined as “a brief, 30-question test that helps health care professionals detect cognitive impairments very early on.”
On Monday, Haley called on Feinstein to resign in a Fox News op-ed as her team also released a video on the issue.
“What’s incredible is how the Washington establishment continues to cover for those who likely lack the mental acuity to do their job,” Haley wrote in the op-ed.
Haley last week said that Biden would not make it to 86 years old — his age at the end of a second full term. It’s a way of telling voters that if they vote for Biden, they’re really casting a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, 58.
READ MORE:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3982184-gop-uses-age-as-a-weapon-against-democrats/
BEING AN OLD KOOK MYSELF, AND A PART-TIME DRUNK, I CAN SEE WHY PEOPLE (MANY) WOULD SAY THAT JOE BIDEN IS TOO OLD (I THINK HE'S TOO SENILE WHEN HE USED TO BE SNEAKY AND CORRUPT BEFORE) AND THAT KAMALA SLURS HER WORDS IN A POSSIBLE DRUNKEN STATE (SEE ahahahaha....) ...
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