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De AIVD-Waarheden van Erik Akerboom 6

Erik Akerboom, Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that ‘the successor to politics will be propaganda’ has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the U.S. and Britain.

On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are nurtured. The model is corporate spin, the currency of the age,

aldus John Pilger, één van ’s werelds meest geprezen onderzoeksjournalisten, op donderdag 17 februari 2022, ‘more than a century since Edward Bernays, the father of spin, invented ‘public relations’ as a cover for war propaganda. What is new is the virtual elimination of dissent in the mainstream.’ Er is geen ruimte meer voor ‘independent journalists and whistle blowers, the honest mavericks to whom media organizations once gave space, often with pride. The space has been abolished.’ Naar aanleiding van de Russische inval in Oekraïne om de Russisch-talige Oekraïners te beschermen  tegen het alles verwoestende geweld van het regime in Kiev dat sinds 2014 de Donbass liet bombarderen, waarbij naar schatting ruim 14.000 mensen werden gedood, schreef Pilger over de westerse pers en politiek: ‘The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, “shaping the narrative,” much if not most of it is pure propaganda.’ 

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/18/western-democracies-have-mutated-into-propagandists-for-war-and-conflict/ 

Kenmerkend voor de hysterie is tevens de campagne van politici en inlichtingendiensten als de AIVD tegen Nederlanders die gebruik maken van het democratisch recht om dissidente opvattingen of zelfs feiten te verspreiden. Zo is de impliciete stelling van Erik Akerboom, de directeur-generaal van de Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, ‘dat complottheorieën over “een kwaadaardige elite” die in Nederland “de macht in handen heeft,” op lange termijn gevaarlijk kunnen zijn,’ daarbij voorbijgaand aan het feit dat reeële kritiek op een almaar autistischere elite niets te maken heeft met ‘complottheorieën.’ Maar nu in brede kringen van de westerse elite de corruptie steeds zichtbaarder wordt, en de geloofwaardigheid van deze kleine groep bevooorrechten almaar afneemt, ziet de staat zich genoodzaakt haar tegenstanders te criminaliseren. Kennelijk dient de burger de corruptie van de straat en zijn instituties kritiekloos te aanvaarden. Ook als die corruptie publiekelijk wordt toegegeven. Zo verklaarde in april 2019 de toenmalige Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, Mike Pompeo, tegenover een volle zaal:

I was the CIA director, we lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPt-zXn05ac   

De genodigden schaterden het uit, want in kringen van beleidsmakers, en de uitvoerders ervan, weet men maar al te goed hoe doortrapt de politiek en de top van de bureaucratie functioneert. Nog een voorbeeld van een insider, oud president Jimmy Carter, die in juli 2015 erop wees dat de VS geen democratie was, maar een: 

‘oligarchy’ in which ‘unlimited political bribery” has created ‘a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.’ Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, ‘look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.’ 

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/ 

Erik Akerboom, als inmiddels 62-jarige directeur-generaal van de AIVD die er niet voor schroomt talloze politieke stelligheden te verspreiden, zult u ongetwijfeld weten dat in 2019 de meest gezaghebbende Amerikaanse geopolitieke expert, Henry Kissinger, de elite in Washington en op Wall Street ervoor waarschuwde dat:

those countries that used to be exceptional and used to be unique, have to get used to the fact that they have a rival.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made prudent remarks recently when he said the United States is no longer a uni-power and that it must recognize the reality of China as an equal rival.

The furor over a new law passed by the US this week regarding Hong Kong and undermining Beijing’s authority underlines Kissinger’s warning.

If the US cannot find some modus vivendi with China, then the outcome could be a catastrophic conflict worst than any previous world war, he admonished.

Speaking publicly in New York on November 14, the veteran diplomat urged the US and China to resolve their ongoing economic tensions cooperatively and mutually, adding: ‘It is no longer possible to think that one side can dominate the other.’

In other words, he is negating (ontkent. svh) the erroneous consensus held in Washington which asserts that the US is somehow ‘exceptional,’ a ‘uni-power’ and the ‘indispensable nation.’ This consensus has grown since the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the US viewed itself as the sole super-power. That morphed into a more virulent ideology of ‘full-spectrum dominance.’ Thence, the past three decades of unrelenting US criminal wars and regime-change operations across the planet, throwing the whole world into chaos.

Kissinger’s frank assessment is a breath of fresh air amid the stale and impossibly arrogant self-regard held by too many American politicians who view their nation as an unparalleled power which brooks no other…

Aptly, Kissinger’s caution about the danger of conflict was reiterated separately by veteran journalist John Pilger, who warned in an exclusive interview for Strategic Culture Foundation this week that, presumed ‘American exceptionalism is driving the world to war.’

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/29/henry-kissinger-gets-it-us-exceptionalism-is-over/    

Vier jaar eerder, zomer 2015 waarschuwde Kissinger dat onder de regering Obama/Biden ‘breaking Russia has become an objective; the long-range purpose should be to integrate it.’ De Russische autoriteiten namen, in tegenstelling tot de westerse politici en mainstream-pers, deze waarschuwing onmiddellijk uiterst serieus, vooral omdat de NAVO-leden en hun militair-industrieel complex destijds inmiddels al 17 keer meer spendeerde aan oorlogsvoorbereidingen dan de Russische Federatie. Kissinger trachtte de Amerikaanse elite ervan te overtuigen dat ‘If we treat Russia seriously as a great people, we need at an early stage to determine whether their concerns can be reconciled with our necessities.’ Vergeefs allemaal, aangezien het Amerikaans ‘exceptionalisme’ het ware elite-geloof is, zoals ondermeer blijkt uit het feit dat de VS 93 procent van zijn bestaan in oorlog is geweest. 

Erik Akerboom, ik ga dieper in op de VS als leider van de NAVO, die na het Midden Oosten in chaos te hebben achterlaten, een oorlog tegen heel Azië voorbereidt, en het Europa van ‘Geen Jorwerd zonder Brussel’ hierin heeft meegesleept, terwijl toch onze gecorrumpeerde ‘elite’ net als ik weet dat de VS sinds 1945 geen enkele oorlog heeft gewonnen. Een oorlog met het grondstoffenrijke Rusland en China, dat de markten beheerst, is, in een tijd van massavernietigingswapens, per definitie een oorlogsmisdaad zoals die nooit eerder heeft plaatsgevonden. Onze elite, die u probeert te beschermen door critici te criminaliseren, is een ‘criminele organisatie’ die in een ware democratie allang  uitgeschakeld zou zijn. Het opmerkelijke doet zich nu voor dat u zich als topambtenaar van de AIVD tot woordvoerder heeft opgeworpen van deze onbezonnen en zelfs misdadige ‘elite.’ Als journalist probeer ik u al enkele dagen uit te dagen tot een tweegesprek. Ik daag u uit om serieus in te gaan op mijn kritiek. Ik daag u uit de feiten die ik aanvoer te weerleggen. Ik daag u uit met concrete voorbeelden te komen waarom u van mening bent dat critici zoals ik bijdragen aan een sfeer waarbij ‘complottheorieën over “een kwaadaardige elite” die in Nederland “de macht in handen heeft,” op lange termijn gevaarlijk kunnen zijn.’

Nu ook de Nederlandse elite de kant van het oorlogszuchtige Washington en Langley heeft gekozen, en daarmee de belangen van de Nederlandse bevolking ernstig schaden, ga ik even in op wat deskundigen hebben geschreven over het ‘Amerikaanse Exceptionalisme.’ Al op 5 februari 2013 bekritiseerde Mugambi Jouet dit begrip. Als internationaal georiënteerde Franse intellectueel, zoals we die in het kleine Nederland niet kennen,  is hij:

Associate Professor at the USC Gould School of Law. An author and human rights lawyer, he writes in both English and French about legal, political, and social issues with a focus on American exceptionalism and criminal justice. He has been interviewed on radio and television about how American society compares to France, Canada, and other countries.

Jouet grew up in Paris and moved to the United States for university. He was a history major at Rice University before studying public policy at NYU and law at Northwestern. He subsequently worked as a public defender in Manhattan. After living 11 years in America, he returned to Europe to practice international criminal law at a tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

He joined the McGill University Faculty of Law in 2019 as Assistant Professor, after teaching at Stanford Law School. In 2022, he became Associate Professor at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mugambi_Jouet 

Jouet’s werk is gefocust op ‘American political and social issues,’ en op het geloof in het ‘exceptionalisme.’ Onder de kop ‘Does American Exceptionalism Foster American Decline?’ schreef hij tien jaar geleden op de website van Truthout, de gerenommeerde ‘nonprofit news organization dedicated to providing independent reporting and commentary on a diverse range of social justice issues:

what is ‘American exceptionalism?’ The concept can actually refer to two distinct ideas. The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians. It equates American exceptionalism with American superiority. In this view, ‘exceptional’ means ‘better’ or ‘outstanding.’ This idea is often tied to the notion that America is fulfilling a special destiny chosen by God…

Notwithstanding the conflation of ‘American exceptionalism’ with chauvinism, the 2012 election raised fundamental questions about the nation's unique character. America's economic dominance is fading. It has additionally become a ‘winner-takes-all’ economy where wealth inequality is acute by Western standards. The United States could eventually lose its status as the world's only superpower due to the rise of China. However, America is currently unable to pass reforms needed to make great strides into the future, modernize its social and economic model, and improve the lives of its citizens.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14252-does-american-exceptionalism-foster-american-decline 

En juist dit imperium in verval is sinds 2022 door de Europese elite gekozen om het Westen met ultiem geweld door de 21ste eeuw te loodsen. En u, Erik Akerboom, heeft zich uit ambitie vrijwillig opgeworpen als spreekbuis van deze elite. Waarom?

 

Germany is admitting Russia has won the war...On German TV

 sonja van den ende

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It's out in the open. Germany is admitting Russia has won the war...On German TV....Deutschland gibt zu, dass Russland den Krieg gewonnen hat ... Im deutschen Fernsehen ...

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Blinken Calling Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinfo

CORRUPTION

Ex-CIA Official: Blinken Prompted Infamous Intel Statement Calling Hunter Biden Laptop Russian Disinfo

BY: SHAWN FLEETWOOD

APRIL 21, 2023

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Antony Blinken participates in press conference in Brussels

According to Michael Morell, Antony Blinken ‘set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement’ that baselessly asserted Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

Author Shawn Fleetwood profile

A former CIA official testified that then-Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken played a role in the creation of a debunked letter from 51 former intelligence officials that falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.

On Thursday, Ohio Reps. Jim Jordan and Michael Turner, chairmen of the Judiciary and Intel Committees, respectively, sent a letter to Blinken informing him that their committees are “conducting oversight of federal law-enforcement and intelligence matters within [their] respective jurisdictions.”

“We are examining that public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials that falsely discredited a New York Post story regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop as supposed Russian disinformation,” they wrote. “As part of our oversight, we have learned that you played a role in the inception of this statement while serving as a Biden campaign advisor, and we therefore request your assistance with our oversight.”

During his recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Michael Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA who signed onto the letter, revealed that “on or around October 17, 2020, [Blinken] reached out to him to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop story,” which had been published in the New York Post on Oct. 14. According to Morell, Blinken’s outreach “set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement” that baselessly asserted the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

When asked if he had any intent to write the statement prior to Blinken’s call, Morell said he “did not,” confirming the call “absolutely” pushed him to write it. Blinken would later email Morell an article from USA Today that same day “alleging that the FBI was examining whether the Hunter Biden laptop was part of a ‘disinformation campaign.'”

Blinken wasn’t the only Biden campaign official Morell was in contact with regarding the statement, however. Morell also claimed that following the Oct. 22, 2020, presidential debate, Steve Ricchetti, Biden’s campaign chairman, reached out to him to personally thank him “for putting the statement out.”

He further said the Biden campaign was involved in strategically disseminating the statement to the public. According to the Jordan-Turner letter, Morell testified that “he sent an email telling Nick Shapiro, former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director of the CIA John Brennan, that the Biden campaign wanted the statement to go to a particular reporter at the Washington Post first and that he should send the statement to the campaign when he sent the letter to the reporter.”

Brennan, along with former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director Leon Panetta, was among the former intel officials who signed the phony statement.

Morell later claimed in his testimony that there were two intents behind releasing the statement, one being for former intel officials to share their alleged “concern[s] with the American people that the Russians were playing on this issue.” The other was to “help Vice President Biden.”

“You wanted to help the vice president, why?” asked Jordan, to which Morell replied, “Because I wanted him to win the election.”

The debunked letter signed by Morell and dozens of other former intel officials wasn’t just used by corporate media to dismiss a major story implicating the Biden family. It was used by Joe Biden in his Oct. 22 debate with then-President Donald Trump to dispell Trump’s criticisms of the Bidens’ shady business dealings.

“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, [President Trump’s] accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Biden said. “They have said this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”

Shortly after the Post’s publication of the laptop story, Big Tech outlets collectively launched a vicious censorship campaign aimed at preventing its circulation. As revealed in the “Twitter Files,” Twitter “took extraordinary steps to suppress the story,” which included “removing links,” “posting warnings that it may be ‘unsafe,'” and blocking “its transmission via direct message, a tool hitherto reserved for extreme cases, e.g. child pornography.”

Meanwhile, during an August interview with podcast host Joe Rogan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook algorithmically suppressed stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the 2020 election after being primed to do so by the FBI. According to Zuckerberg, the FBI warned Facebook about forthcoming “Russian propaganda” just before reports of the laptop dropped.

“This concerted effort to minimize and suppress public dissemination of the serious allegations about the Biden family was a grave disservice to all American citizens’ informed participation in our democracy,” Jordan and Turner wrote.

In concluding their letter to Blinken, the Republican congressmen asked the secretary of state to “produce all documents and communications” and “identify all people with whom [he] communicated” regarding the October 2020 statement decrying the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation by May 4. 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/21/ex-cia-official-blinken-prompted-infamous-intel-statement-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo/