Putin & WikiLeaks Call Out “Fake News” Hack
A brief commentary by Ralph Ely | TLB Editor-at-large
Same drum, same beat… “The Russians did it.” It is right out of the ‘disinformation playbook’… Repeat the same lie over and over and it becomes truth.
More from that playbook… The MS Media prints/airs the story. Government officials cite the story as proof. MS Media then cites the Government officials as a “creditable source” for the story. And so it goes, a nice little circle of information that is repeated over and over until the “sheeple” believe it. (Classic Gate-Keeper operation.)
Now however there is a ‘fly in the ointment,’ that being the “sheeple” are relying less and less on MS Media and more and more on Alt-News pages like TLB and the other Top 100 web sites that do their best to get to the Truth on a daily basis.
Part of ferreting out the truth comes from looking at statements from those affected and what those that do not have a ‘dog in the fight’ are saying and/or willing to do about a particular situation, as in the case of the article below . (RE)
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Putin Lashes Out At Obama: “Show Some Proof Or Shut Up”
by Tyler Durden
Putin has had enough of the relentless barrage of US accusations that he, personally, “hacked the US presidential election.”
The Russian president’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on Friday that the US must either stop accusing Russia of meddling in its elections or prove it. Peskov said it was “indecent” of the United States to “groundlessly” accuse Russia of intervention in its elections.
“You need to either stop talking about it, or finally show some kind of proof. Otherwise it just looks very indecent”, Peskov told Reporters in Tokyo where Putin is meeting with Japan PM Abe, responding to the latest accusations that Russia was responsible for hacker attacks.
Peskov also warned that Obama’s threat to “retaliate” to the alleged Russian hack is “against both American and international law”, hinting at open-ended escalation should Obama take the podium today at 2:15pm to officially launch cyberwar against Russia.
Previously, on Thursday, Peskov told the AP the report was “laughable nonsense“, while Russian foreign ministry spox Maria Zakharova accused “Western media” of being a “shill” and a “mouthpiece of various power groups”, and added that “it’s not the general public who’s being manipulated,” Zakharova said. “the general public nowadays can distinguish the truth. It’s the mass media that is manipulating themselves.”
Meanwhile, on Friday Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister told state television network, Russia 24, he was “dumbstruck” by the NBC report which alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in an election hack.
The report cited U.S. intelligence officials that now believe with a “high level of confidence” that Putin became personally involved in a secret campaign to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. “I think this is just silly, and the futility of the attempt to convince somebody of this is absolutely obvious,” Lavrov added, according to the news outlet.
As a reminder, last night Obama vowed retaliatory action against Russia for its meddling in the US presidential election last month. “I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action and we will at a time and place of our own choosing,” Obama told National Public Radio.
US intelligence agencies in October pinned blame on Russia for election-related hacking. At the time, the White House vowed a “proportional response” to the cyberactivity, though declined to preview what that response might entail. Meanwhile, both President-elect Donald Trump, the FBI, and the ODNI have dismissed the CIA’s intelligence community’s assessment, for the the same reason Putin finally lashed out at Obama: there is no proof.
That, however, has never stopped the US from escalating a geopolitical conflict to the point of war, or beyond, so pay close attention to what Obama says this afternoon.
According to an NBC report, a team of analysts at Eurasia Group said in a note on Friday that they believe the outgoing administration is likely to take action which could result in a significant barrier for Trump’s team once he takes office in January.
“It is unlikely that U.S. intelligence reports will change Trump’s intention to initiate a rapprochement with Moscow, but the congressional response following its own investigations could obstruct the new administration’s effort,” Eurasia Group analysts added.
At the same time, Wikileaks offered its “validation” services, tweeting that “Obama should submit any Putin documents to WikiLeaks to be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.”
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Obama should submit any Putin documents to WikiLeaks to be authenticated to our standards if he wants them to be seen as credible.
We doubt Obama will take the whistleblower organization up on its offer, even if he did have any Putin documents to authenticate.
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About the writer Tyler Durden
Fake news is the main stream dying media. They are bitter because their government sponsored bilge pump is dead. This is an attack on your constitutional rights. Freedom of speech freedom of press.
Zuckerberg is a Rockefeller FYI.