So begins a
video released today by The Committee to Investigate
Russia, an organization founded by
When Harry Met
Sally director Rob Reiner and neoconservative
senior editor of
The Atlantic David Frum. The video, which stars
Morgan Freeman and is rife with patriotic images of
American flags, soldiers and bald eagles, continues
as follows:
Imagine
this movie script: A former KGB spy, angry at
the collapse of his motherland, plots a course
for revenge. Taking advantage of the chaos, he
works his way up through the ranks of a
post-Soviet Russia, and becomes president. He
establishes an authoritarian regime, then he
sets his sights on his sworn enemy: the United
States. And like the true KGB spy he is, he
secretly uses cyber warfare to attack
democracies around the world. Using social media
to spread propaganda and false information, he
convinces people in democratic societies to
distrust their media, their political processes,
even their neighbors. And he wins.
Vladimir
Putin is that spy, and this is no movie script.
We need
our president to speak directly to us and tell
us the truth. We need him to sit behind the desk
in the Oval Office and say, “My fellow
Americans. During this past election, we came
under attack by the Russian government. I’ve
called on Congress and our intelligence
community to use every resource available to
conduct a thorough investigation to determine
exactly how this happened.”
The free
world is counting on us for leadership. For 241
years, our democracy has been a shining example
to the world of what we can all aspire to. And
we owe it to the brave people who have fought
and died to protect this great nation and save
democracy. And we owe it to our future
generations to continue the fight.
Wow. There’s a
lot going on there.
Firstly,
the establishment narrative that Russia used cyber
warfare to hand the election to Donald Trump remains
wholly unsubstantiated
and
riddled with gaping plot holes
that the US intelligence community
has yet to address;
there is currently no publicly available evidence
whatsoever that the Russian government did what
Morgan Freeman tells us it did, let alone that
Donald Trump was involved in it. The Russian hacking
narrative is getting flimsier by the day, with the
assertion that WikiLeaks is a Kremlin proxy being
sorely weakened just today by a
new leak drop on
Russian surveillance activities, which itself comes
on the back of an
extensive amount of
critical Russia-related leaks that the transparency
organization had already published.
Establishment
loyalists only believe the Russian government hacked
the Democratic party and gave its emails to
WikiLeaks because pundits, politicians and
celebrities have been saying this happened in an
authoritative tone, not because there’s any publicly
available evidence for it. In a post-Iraq invasion
world, this is simply unacceptable.
David Frum,
author of
President George W. Bush’s infamous “Axis of
Evil” talking point, is a notorious
neoconservative who has been
pushing for war
at every opportunity for nearly two decades.
He is an unforgivable bloodthirsty
psychopath, and everything he touches is
cancer.
In addition to Reiner — a virulent
#Resistance Clintonist and Russiagate
conspiracy theorist — Frum’s
advisory board
for his new Committee to Start World War
Three includes
PNAC signatory
Max Boot, who has relentlessly pushed for
increased US military aggression throughout
his entire career, and who once called in
plain English for America to “unambiguously
to embrace its imperial role.”
There’s also former Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, who has
on more than one occasion
voiced blatantly racist opinions about the
nefarious genetic predispositions of the
entire population of Russia. This eugenicist
bigot’s
handful of hand-picked analysts
were behind the conclusions drawn in the
intelligence community’s official statements
regarding the alleged Russian election
interference, forming both (A) the basis for
the false narrative that there is unanimous
consensus within the intelligence community
about Russian hacking and (B) the foundation
for the entire Russiagate conspiracy theory.
Also on the advisory board are Norman
Ornstein of the
neocon think tank
American Enterprise Institute and
conservative never-Trump pundit Charlie
Sykes, who laughably just used the term
“strange bedfellows” in reference to the
idea of neoconservative Democrats working
with neoconservative Republicans to advance
their common goal of endless war.
Strange bedfellows, indeed.....
Rob Reiner, David Frum Help
Launch Committee to Investigate
Russia | Variety
https://t.co/I0Qv764IGn
As
viscerally disturbing as it is to
see the actor who played God
conducting a brazen psy-op on the
American people, it is already a
well-documented fact
that the CIA, the NSA and the
Pentagon have been balls deep in
Hollywood for decades. They’re just
being more blatant about that
collaboration now.
As Noam Chomsky puts it:
“Control of thought is more
important for governments that
are free and popular than for
despotic and military states.
The logic is straightforward: a
despotic state can control its
domestic enemies by force, but
as the state loses this weapon,
other devices are required to
prevent the ignorant masses from
interfering with public affairs,
which are none of their
business…the public are to be
observers, not participants,
consumers of ideology as well as
products.”
Don’t
let them control your mind.
Fight the propaganda machine,
disrupt their craven agendas, and
wake up the others.
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