Showing posts with label 2020 elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020 elections. Show all posts

Sunday, May 30, 2021

The "Big Lie" Used As An Excuse To Censor An Even Bigger Lie!



The Mass Media is currently exposing an incredibly obvious "Big Lie," about the election being stolen from Trump, while trying to collect brownie points to create a much Bigger Lie to convince people that our election system is fair and using this to justify censoring attempts to expose much bigger, and worse efforts to rig elections which are supported by evidence that is wide open, assuming you don't let MSM keep you distracted. The original meme posted above was labeled fake or misleading by Facebook, along with many others that were falsely smeared or completely censored, in a few cases some of my own social media posts. This is part of a blanket censorship purge that isn't even trying to sort out false claims by Trump supporters and legitimate claims of other election rigging from other people. In many cases, including my own posts, we pointed out massive favoritism that has been routine for decades, giving preferential treatment to candidates supported by Wall Street. This includes obsessive coverage given to Donald Trump And Hillary Clinton in 1016 while many honest candidates couldn't get any media coverage at all.

The mass media and political establishment are controlled by a fraction of one percent of the public, and if they want to ensure that those opposing their fiscal policies never get elected, all they have to do is decline to cover them, ensuring they never get the name recognition in order to be considered "viable," even if they support most of the policies wanted by the vast majority of the public. At the same time, the candidates that do support the agenda of Wall Street get obsession coverage. The media routinely provides a lot of coverage for billionaires even when they don't run, and they also cover candidates collecting an enormous amount of money from those billionaires, which they know will be spent on ads, but they ignore those gathering support at the grassroots level.

They routinely announce who at least one of the inevitable nominees are months if not years ahead of time. One of the most brazen examples was in early 1999, when they began providing obsession coverage for both George W. Bush and Al Gore Jr., even though George Bush hadn't even announced he was running. By the summer or early fall, they virtually announced that both of them would get the nomination, and, of course, both of them were obvious corporate puppets. They justified this by saying that responses to polls showed they were ahead; however they refused to cover many other honest candidates in the news or polls, nor did they report on many issues, showing that establishment candidates routinely oppose many fiscal issues supported by a large majority of the public.

Another incredibly obvious plan to rig the primary for the establishment candidate was Hillary Clinton who was virtually declared the inevitable nominee years ahead of time, even before the leaked E-mails disclosed some of the efforts to ensure she would win. Practically the entire Democratic Party cleared the way and endorsed Hillary Clinton for president months if not over a year before any voters had their say, even though she had incredibly high disapproval ratings and disagreed with the majority of the public on most issues, especially fiscal issues. This was all clear before the E-mail leaks, to those of us who thought it through instead of trusting media propaganda repeated over and over again.

But, of course, it became much more obvious after the leaks showed many of the details of how they rigged the primaries. Amazingly, the media and political establishment all universally agreed that they should have been allowed to rig the primaries in secret acting as if the only conspiracy was to expose how they were rigging the primaries. There was no effort to deny the accuracy of the E-mails which virtually confirmed them showing that the leaks exposed epidemic levels of cheating, which, of course, is part of the reason Trump won, although he was obviously just as corrupt.

Perhaps the most brazen and obvious claim came by Donna Brazile, who repeatedly said she "was a victim" on one news story after another. What made her a victim? She leaked questions for a CNN debate to Hillary Clinton so that she could have an unfair advantage, and someone exposed her part in cheating! This is a truly amazing claim; can you imagine a shoplifter that learned a new technique to switch price tags or some other way of stealing more effectively claim she "was a victim," because someone shared her tactics enabling the store to catch her and prosecute her?

If a working class person came up with such a lame excuse they would be laughed off; however when those representing the wealthy that control almost all major institutions, including the mass media they created an epidemic amount of deceptive propaganda, which they repeated over and over again. Most people almost certainly didn't believe it at first, but after it was repeated often enough and many people didn't hear alternative views, unless they checked alternative media they began to believe it.

At the time it was so incredibly obvious that at least three high profile people, Donna Brazile, Elizabeth Warren and Tom Perez, all came right out and admitted it was rigged; then amazingly, within a day or two each one of them tried to "walk it back," even though the rigging was undeniable. They didn't come right out and say, "Remember when I actually told the truth and confirmed what you already knew, well, I didn't mean it and I'm now adopting the same obvious lies as the rest of the Democratic establishment;" but they might as well have, it was so obvious. Most of the people exposed helping to rig the election in the E-mails weren't quite as brazen as Donna Brazile when she said she "was a victim," for being exposed and that she should be allowed to have gotten away with it except that her fraud was exposed, but it's still pretty clear they were all caught red-handed cheating and that instead of fixing it they went into total denial, or at least in media reports; however, they virtually admitted their guilt in the courts, which wasn't reported in traditional media.

In DNC to Court: We Are a Private Corporation With No Obligation to Follow Our Rules 05/02/2017 DNC attorney Bruce Spiva said, "and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right," instead they decided to used more sophisticated methods to manipulate the public and rig the nomination. They argued that they're a private corporation and not obliged to follow their own rules or respect the will of the public, and the judge accepted this argument. And, of course, the six corporations controlling over 95% of the national media, as well as a few more of the largest media outlets, controlled by the wealthy, were involved in the rigging of the primaries.

The Democratic establishment pretending to be victims is much more corrupt than the shoplifter that knows it will do no good to pretend to be victims, since they're involved in much larger fraud, enabling corrupt corporations to steal millions if not billions by rigging the economy in their favor, and in many cases they literally cost people thousands if not millions of lives, yet they're not prosecuted. When establishment politicians rig health care so middle men take a huge cut from private insurance it drives up the cost of health care, and according to studies cost thousands of lives; when they rig the regulatory system so energy companies can profit by polluting the working class and poor, especially minorities, that costs thousands if not billions of lives; both these and many more examples should be considered negligent mass homicide. When they start wars based on lies and arm dictators, this should be intentional mass homicide! All are far worse than petty shoplifters from the working class who are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, while politicians and their accomplices are above the law.

An enormous amount of the reporting on election fraud during primaries has often been reported while it's happening, with the best news from alternative media outlets, then gets forgotten after months without any reminders. I compiled a lot of these reports in a couple articles about election rigging in 2016, 2020 and an update which includes a review of some books about the history of election fraud and why it's unreasonable to believe that it will stop without major activism and education at the grassroots level. This includes an excerpt from Andrew Gumbel "Steal This Vote" 2005 where Jimmy Carter says "We wouldn't think of it," when asked if the Carter Center would monitor our own elections because "The American political system wouldn't measure up to any sort of international standards, for several reasons." Those concerns were never addressed, although it is now very difficult to find a report of his statements anywhere but Gumbel's book. Instead of fixing the problems with our system they're censoring the reports on them. There was also a Report of Recording released of Clinton suggesting rigging 2006 Palestinian election 10/29/2016, adding to the evidence indicating that rigging elections is still routine for the ruling elite, and this massive effort to label Trump's false claims as the "Big Lie" while ignoring legitimate reports of election rigging is a clear propaganda attempt to make our elections seem legitimate, when this isn't close to the truth.



In addition to rigging election for candidates supported by Wall Street the political establishment is also rigging the economic system so that fiscal policies with overwhelming support from a large majority of the public, yet opposed by campaign donors don't get fair media coverage and are rarely even brought up for a vote, let alone enacted. This was made obvious by a few memes from Bernie Sanders or the Green Party which listed popular polls that they campaigned on, with sources to confirm them. These Memes were popular on the internet and a handful of the issues were very popular in Bernie Sanders or the Green Parties speeches, but outside of the coverage of Bernie Sanders speeches, they were almost completely ignored by traditional media and they avoided even asking most candidates for office, or president, Congress, or any other office, so most establishment candidates avoided making clear statements on the subjects.
70% support Medicare for All & 89% of Democrats;
63% (another poll puts it at 67%) support a $15 minimum wage (these were old polls, so updated one might support a higher wage);
81% support a Green New Deal, with 61% supporting efforts to end Climate Change;
72% (another poll puts this at 76%) support expanding Social Security;
75% support immigration, with 81% supporting a pathway to citizenship, and presumably not so they can be exploited for virtual slave labor;
86% support only using the military as a last resort;
76% support higher taxes on the wealthy, with 59% supporting a 70% Top Marginal Rate and 67% support taxing corporations more;
77% support campaign finance reform;
83% (another poll puts this at 86%) support net neutrality;
57% support breaking up big banks;
65% support reforming racists incarceration system;
64% support guaranteed jobs program;
60% support tuition free college;
90% support universal childcare;
68% support capping interest rates;
63% support curbing wealth inequality;
58% support strict Wall Street Regulation;
70% of Americans say arms sales make us less safe
and 83% oppose outsourcing.

(Sources for these polls were listed here Polls With Citations: Americans Want Bernie's New Deal For All 07/26/2019 or on the bottom of this article, Bernie Sanders Has informed Grassroots Support; Others Have Media Propaganda! with one additional poll, Poll: 83% of Americans dislike work outsourcing 07/16/2012; with another poll showing that 69% of Americans believe that outsourcing hurts the country — and only 17% think it helps the economy. 58% of respondents in the ELA poll believe that companies outsourcing work that could be done by Americans to offshore contractors should be penalized by the US government. and 70% of Americans Say Arms Sales Make Us Less Safe. We’re the World’s Top Dealer.)

The clear implication is that, at least when it comes to fiscal issues, the vast majority of the public supports one side of many issues, which are opposed by campaign contributors, and on all of these issues the overwhelming majority of the political establishment supports the campaign donors, not the public. Since there are no votes on most if not all of these issues it may seem difficult if not impossible to tell which politicians, if any support any of the issues favored by the majority of the public. This is even true on the rare occasions when progressives, like the squad or Bernie Sanders, campaign on these issues, since, if you look closely, most if not all of them, have sent mixed messages, often supporting leaders that block the issues they campaign on.



As much as I like them, and support the issues they campaign on, they've repeatedly supported the establishment blocking those issue, often with money raised from progressives. In both 2016 and 2020 Bernie Sanders denied claims that the primaries were rigged, despite overwhelming evidence and endorsed candidates that opposed just about every issue he campaigned on, and even tried to help repair the image of the DNC despite overwhelming evidence they were corrupt as well. Most progressives also caved to reelect Nancy Pelosi without gaining anything for their progressive causes, often even when Pelosi literally insulted them and their views, which had overwhelming support from voters. AOC even went so far as to raise an enormous amount of money from progressives, then donated a large portion of it to corporate Democrats and those trained by the CIA even though they made it clear they would do what they could to suppress her progressive positions. If she didn't need this money for her own campaign she could have easily donated it to progressive challengers, who, as she previously pointed out, are much more likely to win general elections!

The methods Wall Street and the political establishment use to ensure that candidates supporting popular issues with the public rarely if ever have a chance to get nominated are incredibly simple; they simply refuse to provide media coverage unless a candidate collects an enormous amount of money from corporations, which they can't do unless they support the corporate agenda. In addition to that, they routinely provide an enormous amount of coverage for numerous billionaires every election cycle free of charge, often even when they're not running.

The media and political establishment also routinely manufacture false propaganda about most, if not all the fiscal issues where they oppose the will of the people, even when it means burying the best research that can save thousands if not millions of lives and billions of dollars for the general public. On occasion they might report on some of this, very briefly, and then bury it, in traditional media. One example of this is their distortions about Medicare For All, or other versions of Single Payer, which routinely works much better in all other wealthy developed countries.

One study, which was briefly reported in Yahoo News, says Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and 68,000 Lives per year 02/18/2020; however cable news and politicians never discuss this and they've made it clear that they refuse to even bring this up for a vote, even though all other wealthy countries have already implemented this solution and withholding it will literally cost thousands of people their lives, which should be considered negligent mass murder, especially since they're disregarding the wish of a large majority of the public so their campaign donors can make massive amount of money off the unnecessary deaths of innocent people.

There's also an enormous amount of research showing that tens of thousands, or more likely millions of lives can be saved by protecting the environment more, whether it's by using clean energy, like wind, solar, geothermal heat or other clean energy, or perhaps even more important, conservation, encouraging people to use less energy for any given reason, including not buying hyped up garbage being relentlessly advertised that serves little or no purpose. However, the reporting on this is much lower profile than reporting falsely claiming we need ti increase dirtier forms of energy, burning fossil fuels, including coal, fracking and many other things doing far more damage to the environment. Ironically, we're still subsidizing dirty energy far more than clean energy, and we're not taking into account the full cost of the pollution and health costs for dirty energy, which may at times make it seem like they're cheaper when they're not.

To make matters much worse, the oil companies spend a portion of their profits to buy up an enormous number of misleading propaganda ads to convince people they're part of the solution to pollution, instead of the cause. Since they make an enormous profit from the destruction of the environment they have a massive incentive to distort the truth, when they can get away with it. This has lead to a situation where the media is making a fortune selling propaganda ads to the oil companies, so they now have an incentive not to expose how fraudulent they are.

For all practical purposes the official truth has been turned into a commodity that can be sold to the highest bidder; and since real environmentalists can't afford to spend more than a small fraction of the money spent by oil companies, the oligarchs can dictate their version of the truth with the real truth relegated to alternative media! The result is our government encourages the destruction of the environment killing millions of people around the world, which is, for all practical purposes, negligent mass homicide, and ecocide in process. This would make the oil companies leading perpetrators, and media companies selling their propaganda and politicians taking campaign donations, which they don't officially call bribes, and passing laws to enable it, all accomplices!

I could probably go through each item listed on these polls and find studies for many of them showing that we can address social problems and solve them before they escalate and save money at the same time, as well as some not on the list, including prevention of violence, which I covered in Ten Ways To Reduce Violence, Backed Up By Research Since then I found several more studies, listed below, showing that spending money on preschool or day care can save at least seven dollars for every dollar spent, with one study saying we might save as much as sixteen dollars for every one spent on early childcare or education, assuming the programs are implemented well, of course.



They've also fabricated a false image about foreign policy as I went into several times including United States Coups & Entrapment of Immigrants and Death Squads Can't Happen Here? Yet? which both explain how our foreign policy is almost entirely based on lies and provides much more reliable sources than the mainstream media, which often admits to many of their lies briefly, before letting the truth fall down the memory hole. They've been doing the same thing for decades when it comes to reporting on Israel, and many of their lies have been exposed again in their recent coverage of the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has been heavily censored.

Traditional media and most politicians routinely portray the Palestinians as "terrorists" often glossing over the fact that Israel typically kills at least ten ten times as many people, they have much more weapons, are imposing apartheid, and have been relentlessly stealing land from Palestinians for decades. In the most recent attack on Gaza according to Haaretz the UN Rights Chief Says Israeli Strikes on Gaza May Be War Crimes 07/2/2020 and that 270 Palestinians died mostly in Gaza, with some in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 68 children, during violence this month and Hamas rockets had killed 10 Israelis and residents, which is 27 to 1, with a large majority of them civilian non-combatants.



For decades the mainstream media has been censoring critics of Israel so that those relying on traditional media may have little or no idea what's going on there. For a long time, I was one of them, but even when I still relied on traditional media and Benjamin Netanyahu was in his first term as Prime Minister in 1996-1999, I was highly skeptical of him, but media bias about Israel has gotten much worse since then. The New York Times did report on the children killed in Gaza but Cable News, which gets far more attention and repeats things over and over again, giving them a major propaganda advantage, is relentlessly covering non-fatal Antisemitic attacks while ignoring the much larger number of fatal attacks against the Palestinians. Reasonable people may agree that the Antisemitic attacks are, of course, wrong; but the large number of murders are even worse and deserve as much if not much more attention.

A few years ago Marc Lamont Hill was fired for supporting Palestine after criticism by people that exaggerated and misrepresented what he said, and in the past few weeks Emily Wilder was fired from AP because of criticism from the right wing about her college beliefs, and this is only a small fraction of the attempts by Israel and their allies to censor their critics, while I haven't heard any attempts from the Palestinians to silence their critics, and even if they tried they don't have the political clout to succeed and they know they would be demonized for even trying. At least when Marc Lamont Hill was fired there was some media coverage of it in the traditional media, although there was far more in alternative media outlets, and virtually all of the coverage for Emily Wilder and the vast majority of other Israeli censorship is from alternative media.

People still relying on traditional media may not even know how much is being censored and might fall for Israeli propaganda without question, since it's never challenged in those outlets.

If there's any doubt about how reliable traditional news media is reporting on Israel a look at how much land Israel has been stealing from Palestine over the decades should show that it's not the Zionists that are fighting in self defense, it's the Palestinians. Furthermore, there are many well informed Jewish people that have known this for decades and have opposed it all along.



Most of the people reading this probably found me through social media and may already be more familiar with alternative media reporting on the truth in Palestine, but if there are some exceptions, I've included some related articles below, including ones about censorship or the recent attacks on Palestinians, and the news outlets that report on them are much more likely to keep up to date on additional stories than the traditional media. On one subject after another, including Israel, election rigging, the environment, health care, foreign policy, and many other issues, the mainstream media creates and extremely biased, if not outright false, image of reality that most people won't recognize unless they check more reliable alternative media and check their own facts.

The media may be right that the election wasn't stolen from Donald Trump; however, while they repeat the claim that this is "The Big Lie" over and over again they're clearly using a common propaganda tactic, to cover up many more even bigger lies. Amazingly, many media pundits are trying to demonize right wingers for enabling Donald Trump while forgetting what they also did to enable him to get elected in the first place. They've routinely given an enormous amount of coverage to billionaires for decades, enabling Trump to have all the name recognition he needed at the beginning of his first campaign, then once he began it they gave him the obsession coverage he needed to become the most popular GOP candidate. They also ignored the best interests of the public for decades, leading to an enormous amount of outrage from both the left and the right, and they knew the right was more susceptible to demagogues. By giving Trump obsession coverage they enabled him to appear to susceptible people to be the enemy of the establishment and the media, which many people were looking for.

They also refused to provide fair coverage for many honest candidates, including some that might have turned out to be better than Bernie Sanders, for all I know; and they participated in the primary rigging to ensure that Hillary Clinton, who was despised by a shocking percentage of the public, would get the nomination. Furthermore, I've gone into research into many social problems, including the leading causes of violence and found that the best research can be found in libraries, academic journals, and alternative media; however it's almost totally absent from the mainstream media and political discussions. Some of this research may show how ending early child abuse might mean that children are less likely to grow up into emotionally insecure adults that fall for obvious bigoted scams like the ones pushed by Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Amazingly there was one local newspaper where a relatively low profile actually admitted that the establishment rigged the election, but not for Trump according to Thomas L. Knapp in Yes, the election was rigged. No, not like that 12/10/2020, which says,
No, it wasn't rigged to ensure a Biden win, or a Trump loss.

It was rigged to ensure victory for the status quo and for our de facto one-party system.

It was rigged by party committees, by state legislatures, and by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

It was rigged with committee rules, state ballot access laws and debate requirements intentionally designed to keep both "major party" dissidents (e.g. Tulsi Gabbard) and third-party and independent candidates as far off of voters' radar as possible.

It wasn't rigged to benefit a particular person. It was rigged to preserve a system: The post-World War II, military-industrial complex-centered "consensus" system.

The rigging worked. If you don't believe me, ask any progressive eyeing Joe Biden's cabinet appointment announcements. He's staffing his administration with corporate lobbyists, party loyalists and longtime ladder-climbing sycophants.


Sources for these polls, or some almost identical, listed on the bottom of this article: Bernie Sanders Has informed Grassroots Support; Others Have Media Propaganda!



Polls With Citations: Americans Want Bernie's New Deal For All 07/26/2019

Bernie Sanders Is More Democratic Than Fake "Democrats!"



The following are some additional sources or related articles, including some where Facebook fact checkers are going too far, even when some of them are partially false, including some that are obviously satire and not intended to be taken seriously:

Report: Recording released of Clinton suggesting rigging 2006 Palestinian election 10/29/2016

Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion and 68,000 Lives: Study 02/18/2020

22 studies agree: 'Medicare for All' saves money 02/24/2020

A New Congressional Budget Office Study Shows That Medicare for All Would Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually 12/29/2020

Cutting Carbon Emissions Sooner Could Save 153 Million Lives 03/26/2018

Thousands of lives could be saved by lowering air pollution levels Sept. 2020 If the U.S. adopted global guidelines for air pollution, the lives of 143,000 older adults could be saved over one decade, a recent study finds.

30,000-plus U.S. lives could be saved by reducing air pollution levels below current standard 07/24/2019

New Study Finds California’s Zero-Emission Cars Standards Could Save Lives, Reduce Pollution, Save Californians Money 05/04/2021

How the oil industry pumped Americans full of fake news 02/07/2020

How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change 02/01/2021

How the oil industry has spent billions to control the climate change conversation 01/08/2020

The biggest benefit of pre-K might not be education 07/30/2014 One of the most common arguments in favor of universal pre-K is the argument that it will actually save money: $7 for every $1 invested, according to President Obama's proposal for expanding pre-K access. Some studies have found an even higher return — as high as $16 to $1 — on investment from sending 4-year-olds to school.

The Link between Early Childhood Education and Crime and Violence Reduction 05/2/2021 It is saving taxpayers, victims, and participants over $7 for every $1 invested, without counting pain and suffering from crimes. A study released by Vanderbilt University estimates that the potential benefits in saving a high-risk youth from becoming a typical career criminal are between $1 and $1.3 million.7 ..... Nearly 9 out of 10 police chiefs said that America could greatly reduce crime by expanding quality child care programs.

An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel 05/20/2021

I Will Not Yield My Values: Fired AP Journalist Emily Wilder Speaks Out After Right-Wing Smears 05/25/2021

100+ AP Staffers Condemn News Agency for 'Sacrifice' of Emily Wilder After Right-Wing Smear Campaign 05/25/2021

Marc Lamont Hill Speaks Out After CNN Fires Him for Pro-Palestine Speech at U.N. 12/18/2018

Marc Lamont Hill fired from CNN after his speech on Israel draws outrage 11/30/2018

Free speech, politics and anti-Semitism: Marc Lamont Hill tells his story 03/25/2019

Americans are increasingly critical of Israel 12/12/2018

Temple University must take action against Marc Lamont Hill 05/2/2021 by Melissa Landa Author expresses outrage about Marc Lamont Hill ignoring aspects of history she prioritizes, while she ignores aspects that don't support her views. Instead of inviting peer review she is demanding further censorship, and has a history of opposing activities for anyone expressing opposing views about Palestinians.

Leaked Emails From Pro-Clinton Group Reveal Censorship of Staff on Israel, AIPAC Pandering, Warped Militarism 11/05/2015

Facebook might censor criticism of Zionists. That’s dangerous 11/02/2021

IIPAC Tries to Censor Jamil Dakwar’s Lecture at Indiana University 12/17/2018

Israel, social media groups cooperating against Palestinians: NGO 05/21/2021

Social networks accused of censoring Palestinian content 05/19/2021

Social media platforms are complicit in censoring Palestinian voices 05/24/2020

Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel 05/14/2020

The Latest Attack on Free Speech in the Israel-Palestine Debate 06/05/2018

Israel is shutting down its critics on social media. It happened to me 10/08/2018 Richard Silverstein

47 Advocacy Groups Urge Facebook to Explain, Cease Censorship of Israel Critics 07/26/2020

Pro-Israel censorship takes a hit - pro-Palestine voices won't be silenced 02/27/2020

UN Rights Chief Says Israeli Strikes on Gaza May Be War Crimes 07/2/2020 Bachelet said her office had verified the deaths of 270 Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 68 children, during violence this month. Most were killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza, where Israel fought militants for 11 days, ending in a cease-fire. Hamas rockets had killed 10 Israelis and residents.

UN Rights Council Votes for Probe Into 'Crimes' Committed in Israel-Gaza Fighting 05/27/2021

Israeli Police Attacked Palestinians at Al Aqsa Mosque, Hours After Ceasefire 05/21/2021

To distract from Gaza slaughter, Israel lobby manufactures antisemitism freakout 05/24/2021

Netanyahu’s police launch mass arrests of Palestinian Israeli citizens 05/25/2021

Israeli Police Launch Detention Campaign against Palestinian Citizens of Israel 07/25/2020

Jewish Voices for Peace

The Electronic Intifada

Court Ruling Eliminates Media Ownership Rules Allowing For MORE Mega Mergers 04/11/2021 https://www.facebook.com/groups/401629623862289/?multi_permalinks=746123922746189

U.S. Supreme Court permits FCC to loosen media ownership rules 04/01/2021



What did Margaret Thatcher mean when she said, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money?" 2015 She didn't say "The problem with Capitalism is that you eventually run out of other countries resources?" However, this satirical remark is more honest than her deceptive claim ignoring an enormous amount of fraud by Capitalists to rig the economy in their own favor. The real ones taking other peoples money are the Capitalists on Wall Street.



Fact check: Joe Biden legally won presidential election, despite persistent contrary claims 12/15/2020 Ministry Of Truth Lies About Rigged Election https://www.facebook.com/mike.bernieeagle.3/posts/174016007917851?comment_id=174220231230762&notif_id=1619555285327559&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

Apostle Paul is the Antichrist 05/0/2021 Ministry of Truth not censored https://www.armageddonis.com/

Says Time magazine cover features President Donald Trump with the text "Worst. President. Ever." 12/20/2018 Ministry of Truth strikes again! Yes it's true this wasn't a Time Cover, but it was easily recognized satire and many people agree with it anyway.



Ministry of Truth real photo of Hands on Trump 03/02/2021

Ministry of Truth Hands on Trump Idol 03/01/2021

Tweet attributed to Black Lives Matter is fabricated 01/25/2021 Ministry of truth The Associated Press reached out to Black Lives Matter for comment and had not received a response at the time of publication. Black Lives Matter is a diverse grassroots organization and there's little doubt that even if all members don't agree with the claim that the DNC used them, it's virtually guaranteed that many others do agree with this claim; this means it's premature for fact checkers to claim it's false, especially without a reply from anyone from the Black Lives Matter organization.

Black Lives Matter posted on its official Twitter account: “i’m starting to get a feelin that the Democratic Party used us...” 01/25/2021 Ministry of truth

‘False information’? Instagram censors claim that Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill led to ‘mass incarceration’ of black Americans 12/17/2020 Ministry of Truth. Once again, there is some evidence to indicate that it did lead to mass incarceration, indicating this fact check is misleading, at best, if not outright false.

It's called Election Fraud. This happened in 2016. There was an attempt made by Dr. Jill Stein to request an investigation and recount. 11/05/2020 Alleged clerical error Ministry of Truth



Fact Check: GoFundMe CEO Did NOT Say 'I Run A Website That Hosts Popularity Contests Where If You Lose, You Die' 12/09/2020 Ministry of Truth; He may not have used those words, but this is satire, and it's actually an accurate description of the way our health care system works. This adds to the evidence that the so-called fact checkers are biased in favor of corporate profits and well connected elites.

US seen as bigger threat to democracy than Russia or China, global poll finds 05/05/2021

On World Press Freedom Day, US Report Reveals 'Startling Extent of Police Violence Against Journalists' 05/03/2021

Prof. Richard Wolff, Censored on Facebook: Here's the Story 02/12/2021

There Were No Calls for Censorship Against Democrats for Their False Claims About the 2016 Election 03/01/2021

Meet the Censored: Status Coup 01/26/2021 Censorship

Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor 10/15/2020

The Pendulum Of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again 01/25/2021 by Caitlin Johnstone

Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald tells Tucker Carlson 'the left is in bed with a CIA set on destroying Trump' after he resigned from website he co-founded claiming editors 'censored' an article he wrote criticizing Joe Biden 10/30/2020 https://www.facebook.com/groups/742690419677984/?multi_permalinks=754292678517758&comment_id=754399605173732&notif_id=1604103350137829&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif

DNC Lawyer Admits They Weren’t Required to be Impartial Between Clinton, Sanders 04/29/2017

DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms 05/01/2017

Voting machine company behind so many surprise wins this year raises some questions 12/30/2020

‘Dark money’ topped $1 billion in 2020, largely boosting Democrats 03/17/2021

Leaked Video Reveals Dark Money Group Behind Voter Suppression Laws 05/21/2021

Un-Democratic Party: DNC chair says superdelegates ensure elites don't have to run "against grassroots activists" 02/13/2016









Saturday, January 30, 2021

Was Insurrection Intentionally allowed? Incredible Incompetence? Or Staged?



There's no doubt that the police could have prevented the "capitol insurrection," after all, they routinely provide much more security for many other protests and never let them get that far! Some of the most obvious recent examples include the Black Lives Matter protests that have been going on for years, including the protest at the Lincoln Memorial where the National Guard was called in last June, pictured above.

For some reason, even though the police seized at least a dozen fire arms, and suspected there were more, two pipe bombs Molotov cocktails, a crossbow, and several other weapons, few if any of the protesters were brandishing guns and the only shots fired, that I know of, were fired by the police, which killed Ashli Babbit, an unarmed protester. The police were incredibly incompetent at stopping them from raiding the Capitol with few if any firearms;yet, they were incredibly effective at seizing large amounts of weapons with little or no violence. They claim there were almost certainly many more weapons they never found, yet no one brandished them or attempted to kill anyone, even though the media tells us that's exactly what they intended to do.

There were also a large percentage of veterans involved in the insurrection, including at least one or two from military intelligence organizations, which should be called espionage organizations, and at least thirty-nine cops, from at least eighteen states among the protesters or rioters, and at least one Capitol police officer that seemed sympathetic to the rioters, even posing for a selfie with them. At least two Capitol police officers were suspended, including the one that took a selfie with a protester, and ten others investigated.

Not surprisingly this has led some people to believe that this may have been an inside job, with some justification, including the following article, although there is a possibility that, if there was a conspiracy to allow the raiding of the Capitol, it could actually be much larger:

The unprotected Capitol was an inside job| COMMENTARY by Robert Benjamin 01/11/2021

Almost 50 years ago, in May 1971, Vietnam War protest leaders called for “May Day” protests in Washington, D.C. If the federal government would not stop the war, then the nation’s capital would be brought to a standstill — by non-violently clogging its major intersections with thousands of sitting protesters. That seemed like a grand idea to some college buddies and me. We didn’t think twice about driving to the district to join in.

It didn’t seem like a good idea, however, to the federal government under President Nixon. At least 10,000 military troops (including 4,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Battalion) and an almost like number of federal agents and police from the District and surrounding jurisdictions were waiting for us and the estimated 40,000 other protesters that initially amassed.

I saw no unruly acts by protesters, but on the first big day of protests — Monday, May 3 — tear gas was widely deployed and security forces drove motorcycles at those of us sitting in the streets, forcing many of us to jump to our feet. Many were chased and detained while just walking on the District’s sidewalks.

We then were quickly herded into smaller groups to board dozens of yellow school buses waiting nearby, to be driven to and corralled in the Washington Coliseum and a large, fenced football field next to RFK Stadium. In all, more than 12,600 people were arrested that day and over the next two days — distressingly swiftly and efficiently, albeit illegally in most cases. I and many others were charged with disorderly conduct, charges that largely were dismissed.

My point is this: When it comes to dealing with even just potentially unruly protesters in the District — let alone insurrectionists, such as we saw Wednesday at the Capitol — federal authorities have firmly had a playbook for a half century or more. (Their actions in 1971 were outlined in a federal plan, dubbed “Operation Garden Plot,” developed in the 1960s to combat potential civil disorders.)

There now are widespread calls for a much a needed investigation into how the domestic terrorists could so easily have entered the Capitol to cause mayhem. And there are repeated comparisons to the overwhelming responses of authorities to much more recent and peaceful protests than the “May Day” actions, such as those by Black Lives Matter and climate activists.

We need an investigation, of course, but there’s likely little mystery here. The head of the Capitol police force and the sergeants of arms of both the Senate and the House have resigned. Indeed, these men appear to have failed in their duties, but the failure to secure the Capitol likely rests at the doorstep of the Defense Department — led by a recently appointed, unqualified toady of President Donald Trump, Christopher Miller — if not the White House.

Not only did the Pentagon not have troops or National Guard units on standby, evidence has emerged that the DOD stalled in responding to urgent requests to send in forces. President Trump claimed Thursday that he called in the National Guard, but reports indicate he didn’t lift a finger in that direction; Vice President Mike Pence eventually had to do it.

And in a news conference Thursday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan recounted how he tried in vain to get the top level of the DOD to authorize sending in the Maryland National Guard to counter the insurrection, but they did not even answer his phone calls. Finally, after a long wait, the secretary of the Army gave him authorization, Mr. Hogan said.

The lack of preparation and the delayed response were not mere bureaucratic miscues. They were intentional. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the “Pentagon placed tight limits on the D.C. National Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests this week, trying to ensure the use of military force remained constrained,” citing DOD memos issued Monday and Tuesday in advance of the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. Complete article


Robert Benjamin wasn't the only one making a case that this insurrection was an inside job; Glynn Wilson cites the same evidence and more in, Inside Job: Were the U.S. Military and Capitol Police Ordered to ‘Stand Down’ to Allow Trump’s Mob to Storm the Capitol? 01/11/2021, to make the case that this was a serious attempt to overthrow the government, although it's hard to imagine they could have possibly believed that it could succeed, even though they did manage to withhold the police or troops necessary to prevent them from getting in. Inevitably within a few hours there were massive amounts of troops capable of repelling the protesters, with little incident; and it should have been considered inevitable that this would happen.

The Oregon Republican Party went even further and called Capitol riot a 'false flag' operation to discredit GOP, silence Trump supporters. 01/26/2021 This claim hardly seems to pass the laugh test; if this was a "false flag" carried out by Democrats or their allies, how could they get Trump to make his speech virtually calling for the insurrection; and how could the Democrats manage to get all these right wingers to invade the Capital? If this was a "false flag" operation they would have had to get the cooperation of the Republicans to help set themselves up.

Most of these theories almost certainly need work if they're close to the truth; however, one absurd thing after another keep happening and the media jumps from one obsession du jour to another, even though they have enough research to show how to prevent many disasters, even if the evidence for a "false flag" is inadequate. So there is enough evidence to show something seriously wrong is going on, either an incredible amount of corruption and incompetence, or perhaps even a real conspiracy, although the details haven't all been exposed.

There's also no doubt that Trump at least partly incited the riot, by denying that he lost for weeks, even though his denials were obvious lies to anyone with a minimal amount of critical thinking, which doesn't include many of his cult followers. If that isn't enough evidence, then his speech on the morning of the riot, Transcript of Trump's Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot 01/13/2021 where he says "Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down. ....... Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

But that doesn't explain why anyone in their right mind would believe anything Donald Trump says, including his claims that he would "drain the swamp," when he did the exact opposite while in office, and his record of massive amounts of scandals before being elected, including "Trump University," where he admitted in court that it was a fraud. Many of them supposedly believed that building a wall between Mexico and the United States would actually solve problems, which was absurd enough, but they also believed that "Mexico is going to pay for it," which of course they didn't. He also claimed during his Jan. 6 speech that, "You know, the wall is built," which was false; most of the wall built happened before he took office, and the majority of construction while he was in office was building replacement walls for sections that needed repair with only about forty-seven miles of new walls.

The truth of the matter is that sociologists have been studying demagogues and how to manipulate the masses for decades, if not thousands of years going back to the days of ancient Rome, Greece and perhaps even Egypt. Modern academic research dates back at least to the fifties or sixties when Irving Janis began studying groupthink and two of his students Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo began studying under him and eventually carried out the "Obedience to Authority" and "Stanford Prison Experiment." I went into these research projects in a couple previous articles including Eli Roth’s Milgram/Obedience experiment much more extensive than most people realize and Philip Zimbardo, Lucifer Effect, Stanford Prison Experiment which explains that they studied why people blindly obeyed authorities and how to prevent it; although they also studied methods to indoctrinate people to ensure they would obey instead of questioning authority. These articles explain that this research was supported by the military and possibly the CIA; however, the military isn't in the practice of teaching cadets to question authority, they're in the practice of teaching blind obedience, and there are clear parallels with this research and boot camp indoctrination tactics, indicating they've been using it for all the wrong reasons.

There may be more of this in Irving Janis "Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes" 1982. This research isn't what I would consider adequate to prove that they could carry out a sophisticated "false flag" operation using indoctrination methods; however, if they had done a much better job teaching the general public, not just people in the academic world, how these indoctrination tactics work, they could have made this far less likely and taught people how not to fall for manipulative efforts to teach blind obedience or fall for political demagogues.

There's good reason to believe that the political establishment has learned to create propaganda ensuring that only candidates supported by oligarchs get media coverage and to manipulate crowds and if that doesn't work, rig elections at the polls as I explained previously in Psst, Elections Were Rigged By Oligarchy not Russia & Evidence Was Reported Before It Happened! This article explains that rigging media coverage and elections at the polls is routine, even if I seriously doubt there could be anything to Trump's claims that Biden stole the election from him. The most important way they rig elections is by giving obsession coverage to candidates supported by the establishment years before the election presenting Hillary Clinton as the inevitable nominee, even though she was extremely unpopular, in 2016, and they were in the process or repeating this with Joe Biden at the time of that article, even though he was also extremely unpopular.

This article also explains how Trump used "section leaders" including Mike Pence’s nephew, John Pence to help control and lead the crowds at his rallies. This practice could have been developed with the help of the sociology research by Milgram, Zimbardo, Janis and more from other academics, even if they didn't directly participate in it. Once they do the research, they make it available to others in the academic world so they can do what they want with it to develop indoctrination tactics. There was public evidence indicating the Trump campaign were using this tactic, but it's almost guaranteed that other political campaigns, including Democrats like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden have also used these tactics. Even though this may make a "false flag" conspiracy theory a little more likely, most rational skeptics wouldn't consider it adequate evidence, and I wouldn't blame them.

Whether your a skeptic, conspiracy theorist, or a little of both, you should focus on the best research that doesn't rely on possibly unreliable theories to come to conclusions. A good conspiracy theorist should also be a rational skeptic, as I've said in the past, and start with things that can be explained from reliable sources, and perhaps only resorting to conspiracy theories when that isn't adequate to explain unsolved mysteries, which may happen at times. One Trump supporter that has been covered in the traditional media came close to the point when he complained about how the traditional political establishment wasn't helping them going on to say "the only one helping us is us," which may have sounded good to him, although I can't imagine how he came to the conclusion that Trump was helping the working class, since he did as much, if not more as traditional candidates to rig the economy for the wealthy at the expense of the working class. But, when the working class fell for one political scam after another they were looking for someone to help them and fell for Trump's demagoguery. If the traditional political establishment did far more to address legitimate social concerns Trump's supporters wouldn't have been driven to desperate measures.

If you go to the library or check academic journals or alternative media, you can find some of the best research to solve many social problems; however if you check traditional commercial media or the discussion by the political establishment, it may become clear that they're not paying attention to the best research, instead relying on ideological beliefs to make their decisions and pushing policies that rig the economy for wealthy campaign donors, while ignoring good research. This isn't an irrational conspiracy theory, since the information leading to this conclusion isn't secret and can be confirmed independently. In many cases we can compare our policies to the policies of other countries which have done a much better job addressing social problems and they have far less problems with crime, poverty, homelessness, extremists like the ones that stormed the Capitol, and many other social problems. They also have a higher quality of life, including access to better education, child care, health care and other social programs that have been very effective, yet our media doesn't report on it.

I've gone into may of these social problems in several previous articles, which often show that we have good research that shows how to solve them, and often evidence to show that programs to solve them are far less expensive than ignoring social problems including Ten Ways To Reduce Violence, Backed Up By Research which explains how reducing child abuse leads to much less violence later in life, improving education, child care reducing poverty & income inequality all help reduce violence. This is all backed up by good research from many academic sources and European countries that base their policies on good science have far less violence than we do. Another article, Must We Hate? Must We Beat Children? explains how early child abuse leads to increased amount of racism, and the same argument can be made that if we reduce child abuse extremists like those that stormed the Capitol would be far less likely, yet this research isn't in the mainstream media or used to make political decisions.

In Machiavellian Ideology Ignores Real Science; I explained how Portugal has shown that it's far less expensive to treat drug addiction than it is to criminalize it and Finland has shown it's far less expensive to house the homeless than to deal with the social consequences afterwards, and there's additional research from within the United States to show these policies are more effective, yet, once again this research isn't covered by mainstream media and policies aren't based on it. In Epidemic of abandoned babies & possibly mothers I explained how we have the research available to reduce abandoned children or desperate parents that go to even worse extremes and kill their own child, which is also ignored by the media and politicians. In United States Coups & Entrapment of Immigrants I explained how our foreign policy is almost entirely based on lies, and that the traditional media often admits it for brief periods of times, although they do so for one incident at a time as if it's isolated before going back to deceptive propaganda presenting our country as the leader of the free world. The traditional media practically never reports on the fact that many of these "illegal aliens" are forced into desperation by coups and wars inspired by our own government, which means they're victims of our politicians, not criminals as the media often portrays them, which also contributes to problems with crime or prejudices by right wing extremists.

There's also overwhelming evidence to show that the political establishment has been far easier on white supremicists, even when they're much more violent, than they are on Balack Lives Matter, envirnmentalists, Occuppy Wall Street, and many other progressive protesters. And this is bipartisan enforcement, which included many protests during the Obama administration. Amazingly, even President Biden agreed with this, although he declined to remind people of how the police cracked down on many protesters while he was vice president. This wasn't limited to the response to the Capitol riots; white supremicists also faced much less resistance in several protests at State Capitols, including one at the Michigan State Capitol a few months ago.



All of this is backed up by credible evidence which the media practically never covers. There should be plenty that progressives and skeptics can agree on that needs to be reformed; yet, there's little or no help from the political establishment which is constantly ignoring, or worse suppressing the best research showing how to solve social problems and make these riots and political instability far less common. Not surprisingly many conspiracy theorists have concluded that the political establishment is intentionally encouraging instability as an excuse to clamp down on our civil rights.

This doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't a real far-fetched conspiracy, of some sort, though; perhaps, considering the non-stop insanity from the political establishment, when many of them must know how to avoid many of these disasters indicates that there really is one. Furthermore, there's no doubt that all the most powerful institutions controlling our society are controlled by a fraction of one percent of the public, and they routinely rig the economy in their own favor, while the working class often fights among themselves.

Another major issue to consider is that rigging the economy to such a bizarre extreme in their own favor does little or nothing to improve their own quality of life. It's as if they're only interested in "power for the sake of power" as George Orwell said in 1984, even if it inevitably destroys the entire society, including the rich, which is it will with the epidemic amount of environmental destruction they're profiting from and many other social problems that will even help destroy the wealthy eventually.

Are those controlling our society suicidal? They have to know that they have to reverse Climate Change and repair the environment in at least a large enough part of the world to save themselves, yet tehy're not doing this. Biden recently sounded like he was going to act despite a long record of doing the opposite, but, not surprisingly he already began approving more oil drilling raising doubts about this.

What ever their motive might be, it must be huge. What could be so important that the oligarchs would allow this much insanity?

One theory I came up with is based on the possibility that they may being influenced by aliens who according to Philip Corso, author of "The Day After Roswell," have been provided technology which he allegedly helped reverse engineer by sharing with many large corporations. If this is the case then that is having a major impact on every aspect of our society and it's giving an enormous amount of political power to those that control the technology which is being used to corrupt our government. It also means that these people know how to avoid all this insanity and much more, yet choose not to. This would of course lead to many other questions, which may require inside information to answer, but it might be a start to explain what's going on.

Furthermore, if these aliens do exist, and if they've been here for thousands of years, which some evidence shows is a possibility, then there might be a possibility they've influenced our early development, including religion and some of the alleged prophecies including Revelations. Most theories about this are seriously flawed, however, after going into some more rational conspiracy theories in Yes Virginia There Is A Trump And Clinton Conspiracy I acknowledged that there were a surprising number of similarities in 2016 between the presidential elections, which were insane and some of the things in the book of revelations, although there were also many flaws. If you Google "Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?" you'll find that many other people raised the same questions, although they came up with different theories with many more flaws of their own. Yet, what ever is going on, the Trump presidency has been even more insane since then, often with more similarities to biblical prophecy instead of exposing this theory for the fraud that it should be; therefore, even though there are still serious flaws with it, I can't completely rule out the possibility that some of it might be close to the truth.

In another article, Is Trump A Massive CIA PsyOp?, I followed up on this theory with some additional details, including some speculation by Caitlin Johnstone that QAnon might actually be a CIA PsyOp. If this is the case then it increases the possibility that this really was a stage "false flag" conspiracy of some sort, for some bizarre reason, which would have to be enormous. If that enormous reason does exist, and it's not related to sharing of alien technology, then I can't imagine what it could be; the ones other conspiracy theorist have come up with don't stand up to scrutiny.

If there is something to this bizarre conspiracy theory, then one of the possibilities that I've considered in previous articles is the possibility that they've been conducting an enormous amount of research on many things, including developing computer technology, propulsion to travel through space, medical research, possibly even including manipulating DNA and weather control research. If that's the case, and if they're intentionally allowing Climate Change as a result of this, then there's a possibility they may want to reverse it when, and only when, it suits their own purposes. If this is the case they're playing an insane game of chicken with the survival of this planet.

With or without this bizarre conspiracy theory there should be no doubt that we have to do far more to protect the environment and reverse the damage being done by Climate Change and other forms of environmental destruction. For a couple days it seemed as if Biden might be planning on doing far more to protect the environment than his past record indicated we could expect. But instead of backing up his words with action he already indicated he would continue expanding drilling.

Focusing on the best available science on any given subject should be considered a good idea, whether you're a skeptic or open minded enough to consider some conspiracy theories; however, the best science on any given subject is almost completely absent from traditional media and the political discussion. This is why more people need to look to other sources, including libraries, academic journals and alternative media. It's also why, even skeptics shouldn't rush to dismiss the more rational conspiracy theories, since there has to be a good reason why the media isn't covering good science and politicians aren't basing decisions on it.







The following are some additional sources or related articles:

Should we call Donald Trump “antichrist”? 06/09/2020

The false prophet in the White House 08/22/2019

Here’s How We’d Really Know That Trump Is the Antichrist 08/21/2019

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The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media. 01/06/2021

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Off-duty Virginia police officers arrested, accused of storming US Capitol 01/14/2021

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Investigators pursuing signs US Capitol riot was planned 01/14/2021

Off-Duty Police Officers Investigated, Charged With Participating In Capitol Riot 01/15/2021

2 National Guard Members Removed From Inauguration Duty After Militia Links Found 01/19/2021

12 Army National Guard members removed from inauguration duty 01/19/2021

Militia group suspects and Army Reservist charged in Capitol riot 01/18/2021

FBI: Texas man threatened to shoot family if they reported him going in U.S. Capitol 01/18/2021 One of them, Air Force veteran Larry Brock Jr. of Grapevine, told The New Yorker that President Donald Trump's loss in the presidential election in November was fraudulent, a position that is not supported by evidence.

Texas man in Capitol riot allegedly threatened to kill his kids if they turned him in: ‘Traitors get shot’ 01/1/2021 Jessica Watkins, a 38-year-old bartender and Army veteran who was arrested on Saturday, founded the “Ohio State Regular Militia,” a unit of the Oath Keepers, the FBI said.

Here are the North Texans accused of taking part in the riot at the US Capitol 01/18/2021 One video posted by that account featured a man in a Veterans for Trump hat saying, “Why don’t all of us veterans get together and have our own protest?” Larry Brock, a former lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, entered the Capitol building wearing a green helmet, green tactical vest with patches, and a black and camo jacket, according to FBI agents. They believe he was holding white flex cuffs, which are used by law enforcement to restrain and/or detain people.

Nearly 1 In 5 Defendants In Capitol Riot Cases Served In The Military 01/21/2021

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Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was an FBI informant 01/27/2021

Transcript of Trump's Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot 01/13/2021 Now, it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you, we’re going to walk down, we’re going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women, and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them. Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. ....... And think of what you’re doing. Let’s say you don’t do it. Somebody says, “Well, we have to obey the Constitution." And you are, because you’re protecting our country and you’re protecting the Constitution. So you are. ........ You know, the wall is built. ...... So we’re going to, we’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we’re going to the Capitol, and we’re going to try and give.

January 6th. Mr. President, Here We Come! 12/19/2020 https://www.facebook.com/groups/169820826815643/permalink/1134665566997826/?comment_id=1134739543657095 Dubhthaigh Mehen Zachery I know that i personally reported it to the FBI who said they were very well aware of this particular board & would be monitoring closely...But from the sound of it someone high up in DC made sure they had little to no opposition...coupled with the video of cops helping “protesters” around the barricades & the stark contrast between the BLM rally some years back in the exact same place where 14,000 arrests were made vs just 13 during the events yesterday & a total of only 52 by the end of the day & I think it’s pretty obvious that the police are absolutely complicit & partially to blame for what took place...they no longer protect us & I now know that they would’ve allowed us to become a banana republic had trump gotten even just four more years! It’s way last time to defund the police nation wide!!!

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West Virginia Delegate Derrick Evans Films Self Breaking Into Capitol With Rioters 01/06/2021

Authorities Identify Woman, Ashli E. Babbitt, Killed By Police During U.S. Capitol Rioting 01/07/2021

Was it worth your jobs? Insurance firm fires lawyer who stormed the Capitol while marketing company sacks MAGA fan who walked through the chambers with his work LANYARD around his neck 01/07/2021 Goosehead Insurance later said Texas lawyer Paul Davis, who livestreamed his actions outside the building, was no longer employed by the company.

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FBI raids the homes and offices of several Tennessee Republicans: report 01/08/2021

Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt 01/08/2021

Fascinatingly, the Defense Department is referring to Wednesday’s pro-Trump riot as “the January 6, 2021 1st Amendment Protests.” 01/09/2021 https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/08/2002562063/-1/-1/1/PLANNING-AND-EXECUTION-TIMELINE-FOR-THE-NATIONAL-GUARDS-INVOLVEMENT-IN-THE-JANUARY-6-2021-FIRST-AMENDMENT-PROTESTS-IN-WASHINGTON-DC.pdf

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Pentagon War Game Included Scenario of Gen Z Protests 06/05/2020

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she feared GOP lawmakers would lead rioters to her: ‘I thought I was going to die’ 01/13/2021

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Panic buttons in Ayanna Pressley's office were 'torn out' ahead of Capitol riot, chief of staff says 01/13/2021

Chaos agent: Right-wing blames US Capitol riot on notorious instigator banished by Black Lives Matter 01/12/2021

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FBI charges Florida veteran with plotting armed confrontation of state Capitol protesters 01/15/2021

Communications director for Rep. Boebert resigns following Capitol siege 01/16/2021

Seattle police union leader blames the Capitol riot on Black Lives Matter. He needs to go - NOW 01/12/2021

US Capitol riot: police have long history of aiding neo-Nazis and extremists 01/16/2021

'I feel wronged': US Capitol rioter asks Donald Trump for pardon after arrest – video 01/16/2021

'I’m facing a prison sentence': US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons 01/16/2021

Researchers: More Than a Dozen Extremist Groups Took Part in Capitol Riots 01/16/2021

Among the many things lost in the Capitol Hill riot of January 6th was a clear message from the protestors. 01/16/2021 Video with CC

Capitol rioter plotted to sell stolen Pelosi laptop to Russian intelligence 01/18/2021

‘I Am Such an Instigator’: Oath Keeper Leader Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Riots 01/19/2021

Mounting evidence of GOP reps aiding Capitol invasion 01/14/2021

Justice Department open to pursuing charges against Trump in inciting riot 01/07/2021

Don't expect charges against Trump or allies for inciting Capitol siege, say DOJ officials 01/08/2021

Hours After Biden’s Inauguration, Gun-Toting Trump Backer with Extremist Website Charged and Kept in Jail for Capitol Siege 01/20/2021

Army now acknowledges the brother of Michael Flynn was a part of Army response to Capitol riot 01/21/2021

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert gave Capitol tour to ‘large’ group before the riots, Democratic lawmaker says 01/19/2021

Now Even the QAnon Shaman Disowns Trump: I Was Duped 01/22/2021

'Stop the Steal' organizer Ali Alexander says 3 GOP congressmen helped him plan the rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol 01/14/2021

Why veterans of the military and law enforcement joined the Capitol insurrection 01/15/2021

Watchdog Says Organizer of Capitol Protest Turned Riot 'Received Explicit Support' from 2 GOP Reps. 01/22/2021

Trump Campaign Paid $2.7 Million To People, Firms That Planned Rally Sparking Capitol Riot 01/22/2021

Trump and Justice Dept. Lawyer Said to Have Plotted to Oust Acting Attorney General 01/22/2021

“Unprecedented” Anti-Protest Push in State Legislatures 01/21/2021 “We expected to see some bills this month, as state legislatures reconvened, but the number of bills and their severity is still shocking.”

Rioters breached US Capitol security on Wednesday. This was the police response when it was Black protesters on DC streets last year 01/10/2021

DOJ Reportedly Considers Not Charging All Capitol Rioters, Sparking Outrage 01/23/2021 Federal officials are privately considering whether it's feasible to charge all the rioters who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, according to a report in The Washington Post that prompted outrage online from critics wondering if those charged are being coddled because of their race.

Corrections Officer Charged In Riot Texted From Capitol: ‘We’re Inside Hahaha’ 01/23/2021

After Capitol riot, police chiefs work to root out officers with ties to extremist groups 01/24/2021

Police seized alarming number of weapons on Capitol rioters, court documents show 01/16/2021

Feds say police found a pickup truck full of bombs and guns near Capitol insurrection as wide-ranging investigation unfurls 01/09/2021

Where Was Security When A Pro-Trump Mob Stormed The Capitol? 01/07/2021

Stun guns, 'stinger whips' and a crossbow: What police found on the Capitol protesters 01/13/2021 Snell, a private security guard himself, had a handgun in his backpack in the back seat. .... Richard Barnett, who went viral after he was photographed lounging at the desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was carrying a stun gun on his belt, according to federal prosecutors.

52 arrested, 6 weapons recovered at U.S. Capitol riot 01/06/2021

4 dead, explosive devices seized: All you need to know about US Capitol chaos 01/07/2021

The FBI can't investigate white extremism until it first investigates itself 01/26/2021

Fact check: Did Capitol Police let mob of Trump supporters in? 01/08/2021

Did police let the Capitol mob into the building? 01/07/2021

Multiple States Will Be Filing Criminal Charges Against Trump Now That He’s No Longer President: Report 01/19/2021

Full text of "The Lucifer Effect Understanding How Good People Turn Evil" 2007 by Philip Zimbardo

Full text of Stanley Milgram "Obedience to Authority"

Biden Admin Issues 30+ Drilling Permits 01/27/2021

Republican ties to extremist groups under scrutiny 01/29/2021 Rep. Paul Gosar & Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama,

Horned Viking ‘Shaman’ Who Stormed Capitol Now Willing To Testify Against Trump 01/29/2021

Key arrests so far from the Capitol riot 01/15/2021



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