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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 18, 2016 13:24:28 GMT
This post is about the present and blatant corruption that is occurring within the US election. I stress, I am not a Trump or Clinton supporter but I do feel sympathy for American voters who are faced with two of the most flawed Presidential candidates in the history of their country. One is a crooked and corrupt witch - the other a loose cannon who terrifies the establishment. Finally, a respected US journalist, James O'Keefe, has gone undercover and during the last month has been exposing this deepest slime via films showing the extraordinary corruption being carried out by the DNC. Yet, the mainstream US media are refusing to air these videos. In fact, CNN cancelled a planned interview with O'Keefe only yesterday whilst his Twitter account was temporarily suspended for daring to post the video below. It was only re-opened when he deleted the link. Is it no surprise that Trump has described this election "as rigged". Being a journalist, I am disgusted, ashamed and embarrassed by the lap dog mentality of the US mainstream media and the blatant sycophancy being shown towards Clinton and the DNC. As one renowned American blogger wrote this week, "There is a coup d'etat occurring in America right now led by the media." I was inspired to become a journalist by Bernstein and Woodward. I am re-inspired by the work being carried out by James O'Keefe. An example of one of O'Keefe's undercover videoswww.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3jjFuqguws
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Post by flashblade on Oct 18, 2016 14:56:29 GMT
This post is not about cricket - so I apologise - but everything about the present and blatant corruption that is occurring within the US election. I stress, I am not a Trump or Clinton supporter but I do feel sympathy for American voters who are faced with two of the most flawed Presidential candidates in the history of their country. One is a crooked and corrupt witch - the other a loose cannon who terrifies the establishment. Finally, a respected US journalist, James O'Keefe, has gone undercover and during the last month has been exposing this deepest slime via films showing the extraordinary corruption being carried out by the DNC. Yet, the mainstream US media are refusing to air these videos. In fact, CNN cancelled a planned interview with O'Keefe only yesterday whilst his Twitter account was temporarily suspended for daring to post the video below. It was only re-opened when he deleted the link. Is it no surprise that Trump has described this election "as rigged". Being a journalist, I am disgusted, ashamed and embarrassed by the lap dog mentality of the US mainstream media and the blatant sycophancy being shown towards Clinton and the DNC. As one renowned American blogger wrote this week, "There is a coup d'etat occurring in America right now led by the media." I was inspired to become a journalist by Bernstein and Woodward. I am re-inspired by the work being carried out by James O'Keefe. An example of one of O'Keefe's undercover videoswww.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3jjFuqguwsWow!!
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 18, 2016 15:24:50 GMT
Fb,
This is the first of a number of videos to be released between now and the election day. The next one comes out tomorrow. O'Keefe spent more than a year undercover compiling and recording these conversations. Allegedly, each video will offer stronger and stronger material. This one is just the soft ball.
There are rumours of one where Hillary is heard ranting and raving about black people. Wikileaks will also be releasing further damming information from the Clinton hacked emails between now and the election. Unfortunately, the mainstream media are refusing to air or cover any of this material. CNN even threatened their viewers by stating it was illegal to read Wikileaks online. A few days ago, the TV networks spent 23 minutes focussing on Trump's "groping" allegations and less than a minute on Wikileaks latest revelations. As O'Keefe's sources say, the US media are afraid of being targeted by Hillary and her Justice department if they show disloyalty to her.
Finally, there is a small but growing balance within the media and their coverage of the US election but interestingly that balance is emerging from Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and the Alternative Media - something which could never have been done so successfully even 6 years ago.
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Post by flashblade on Oct 18, 2016 15:43:58 GMT
Fb, This is the first of a number of videos to be released between now and the election day. The next one comes out tomorrow. O'Keefe spent more than a year undercover compiling and recording these conversations. Allegedly, each video will offer stronger and stronger material. This one is just the soft ball. There are rumours of one where Hillary is heard ranting and raving about black people. Wikileaks will also be releasing further damming information from the Clinton hacked emails between now and the election. Unfortunately, the mainstream media are refusing to air or cover any of this material. CNN even threatened their viewers by stating it was illegal to read Wikileaks online. A few days ago, the TV networks spent 23 minutes focussing on Trump's "groping" allegations and less than a minute on Wikileaks latest revelations. As O'Keefe's sources say, the US media are afraid of being targeted by Hillary and her Justice department if they show disloyalty to her. Finally, there is a small but growing balance within the media and their coverage of the US election but interestingly that balance is emerging from Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and the Alternative Media - something which could never have been done so successfully even 6 years ago. Is this guy, O'Keefe trying to get Trump elected??!!
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 18, 2016 16:43:29 GMT
Beware of conspiracy theories, especially when they have been concocted to support a very suspect agenda . Who told you that O'Keefe is a "respected" journalist? He is a right-wing muckraker, a setter-up of phoney shakedowns of liberal enterprises, and appears to be financed by the rich corporations. Goodness knows Hilary Clinton is nobody's idea of a liberal but the O'Keefe agenda is a classic spoiler enterprise designed to bolster the Trump campaign. Trump is not a "loose cannon", he is a billionaire bully-boy with no morals, no principles and no credibility.
O'Keefe's previous media targets have included ACORN, an advocacy organisation for people of low income, National Public Radio, Planned Parenthood ( family planning and abortion) and Medicaid (limited free health insurance). Notice a connection there? His technique is very similar to Mazher Mahmood, the recently convicted fake sheikh, in that he sets up dubious meetings aimed at exposing supposed frauds or abuses of position by entrapment techniques, films the meetings and edits the output to frame the story that he and his backers wish to present. He then defends his entrapment as ".. posing as something you’re not, in order to capture candid conversations from your subject. But I wouldn't characterize it as, as lying." Most responsible journalists do regard it as lying, and the results have been pretty unsavoury, resulting in several right-wing witch hunts against publicly funded organisations acting in the public interest.
And, just a word of advice, all this claptrap about rotten pustules of democracy that must be lanced and healed is getting very close to:
"Thus we want to break with all the manifestations of a rotten democracy and place in its stead the everlasting realization that everything which is great can originate only in the power of the individual and that everything which is to be preserved must be entrusted once more to the ability of the individual. We will combat the manifestations of our parliamentary and democratic system......"
That is Trump, that is the right-wing Republican agenda, that was Hitler in 1933.
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Post by leedsgull on Oct 19, 2016 12:11:30 GMT
It is not just the US media that fails to report in an unbiased manner. Jeremy Paxman presented a 1 hour Panorama special on the election this week. Throughout he referred to Trump in derogatory terms rarely calling him by his actual name. Clinton was always referred to properly and featured in probably less than a third of the coverage. No balance there.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Oct 31, 2016 21:12:23 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Oct 31, 2016 21:36:27 GMT
From his Wikipedia entry: Alexander Emerick "Alex" Jones (born February 11, 1974)[3] is an American radio show host, documentary filmmaker, writer,[4] and conspiracy theorist.[5][6][7] He hosts The Alex Jones Show from Austin, Texas, which airs on the Genesis Communications Network[8] and shortwave station WWCR[9] across the United States and online.[10][11]
Jones has been the center of many controversies, including his statements about gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.[12] He has accused the U.S. government of being involved in the Oklahoma City bombing,[13] the September 11 attacks[14] and the filming of fake Moon landings to hide NASA's secret technology.[15][16][17] He says that government and big business have colluded to create a New World Order through "manufactured economic crises, sophisticated surveillance tech and—above all—inside-job terror attacks that fuel exploitable hysteria".[18] Jones has described himself as a libertarian, paleoconservative and an "aggressive constitutionalist".[19][20] Jones has been described by others as conservative, right-wing, alt-right,[21] a pro-Russian propagandist[22] and a conspiracy theorist.
New York magazine described Jones as "America's leading conspiracy theorist",[23] and the Southern Poverty Law Center describes him as "the most prolific conspiracy theorist in contemporary America".[24] When asked about these labels, Jones said that he is "proud to be listed as a thought criminal against Big Brother".[23]sandf, for the love of God: take more water with it!
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Post by leedsgull on Nov 1, 2016 8:15:52 GMT
sandf I am not all convinced that our paper elections are so secure. Why in the 21st century do we still use a pencil? I queried this at the voting station last time and was laughed at. Each ballot paper carries a unique serial number so the idea that it is secret is also derisory. How else do they produce statistics soon after showing a breakdown of voting figures in minute detail?
By the way the BBC last night in their "Unbelievable Truth" panel game on R4 had a section ridiculing Trump. Nothing on Clinton of course. Later they had a programme on Trump's supporters which I have yet to listen to but am expecting the usual vitriol.
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Nov 1, 2016 9:09:30 GMT
Lg,
I understand what you are saying. When I voted at my local polling station for the EU Referendum, there was a young woman offering biros to people outside the Church Hall. Some sniggered at her conspiracy attitude but she had a fair point. We keep being told that in the West we live in a democracy; but as one gets older, I seriously question this platitude.
As to the BBC, the Corporation infuriates me. I pay them a licence fee every year, yet they have become one of the most bias, unbalanced media outlets in the West. Whatever happened to their balance? Not only are they the ultimate establishment lapdogs but are creating a new extreme form of blatant intolerance to those who may hold differing views to the status quo. Their attitude during the US election has been extraordinary to watch as have nearly all the British Press. Only 'The Daily Mail' are showing a fair balance but even this stance only began a few weeks ago.
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Post by flashblade on Nov 1, 2016 10:15:17 GMT
Lg, I understand what you are saying. When I voted at my local polling station for the EU Referendum, there was a young woman offering biros to people outside the Church Hall. Some sniggered at her conspiracy attitude but she had a fair point. We keep being told that in the West we live in a democracy; but as get older, I seriously question this platitude. As to the BBC, the Corporation infuriates me. I pay them a licence fee every year, yet they have become one of the most bias, unbalanced media outlets in the West. Whatever happened to their balance? Not only are they the ultimate establishment lapdogs but are creating a new extreme form of blatant intolerance to those who may hold differing views to the status quo. Their attitude during the US election has been extraordinary to watch as have nearly all the British Press. Only 'The Daily Mail' are showing a fair balance but even this stance only began a few weeks ago. . . as in everything they report. Yes, folks - this is the newspaper to read if you want a balanced view!! [sceptical emoji]
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Post by Wicked Cricket on Nov 1, 2016 15:36:03 GMT
Further information from Bev Harris about US Election Fraud. She suggests the fraud began from around 2001 and has been going on for the last 15 years. The key are the electronic voting machines, which suggests past US Presidential election results have been fraudulent, corrupt and manipulated. Am I surprised? Absolutely not! Meanwhile, Infowars page view traffic has more than doubled from around 25m hits a month to 60m since the US election began. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1n-aghgxoM&feature=youtu.be
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Post by flashblade on Nov 1, 2016 16:23:34 GMT
Further information from Bev Harris about US Election Fraud. She suggests the fraud began from around 2001 and has been going on for the last 15 years. The key are the electronic voting machines, which suggests past US Presidential election results have been fraudulent, corrupt and manipulated. Am I surprised? Absolutely not! Meanwhile, Infowars page view traffic has more than doubled from around 25m hits a month to 60m since the US election began.www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1n-aghgxoM&feature=youtu.be Some might question whether this figure has been fraudulently manipulated.
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Post by leedsgull on Nov 3, 2016 11:58:10 GMT
It is my understanding that one candidate can gain the majority of the popular vote but still not get elected owing to the peculiarities of the electoral college system. I guess no system is perfect as UKIP got millions of votes in our last election and only one seat whereas the SNP got many less votes and over 40 seats. Odd.
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Post by flashblade on Nov 3, 2016 12:14:18 GMT
Thanks, leedsgull - I think that draws this thread to a conclusion rather neatly.
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