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Belarus, Pulling Bridges, MI6 And Russiagate
When the summer gets too hot German schools release their students early. It is called hitzefrei. It is 33° centigrade (90°F) here today. That may not seem hot for many of you but consider that hardly anyone here has air-conditioners. I will take today off and leave you with the three issues I had considered to write about.
The predicted color revolution attempt in Belarus proceeds as expected:
Tsikhanouskaya, who drew tens of thousands of people to her campaign rallies, refused to recognize the preliminary official results announced by the TsVK on August 10.
"I consider myself the winner in the presidential election," she said in Minsk.
Tsikhanouskaya said her opinion was based on what she called "real protocols" collected at the majority of polling stations, which, according to her, prove that she won the election. She also charged that the official results announced by the TsVK were rigged.
Meanwhile, Tsikhanouskaya's supporters announced they would stage a mass demonstration against the official election tally on August 10 at 7 p.m. (1600 GMT/UTC) in central Minsk.
The opposition in Belarus also has called for a nationwide protest strike starting at noon local time on August 11.
President Lukashenko will not have any of that. The protests that followed yesterday's exit polls announcements were relatively small. Unless the security forces fall apart, which I do not expect to happen, the attempt to overthrow Lukashenko will be defeated.
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Is the U.S. turning into a third world country? I don't know. But when Chicago has to literally pull up the bridges something is definitely wrong:
The looting seemed to be centered in Streeterville and North Michigan Avenue, but some looting was reported on State Street in the Loop and on the Near North Side. By 4 a.m. police appeared to be getting things under control.
But some vandalism continued into the daylight hours, and the CTA suspended train and bus service into downtown during the morning rush, while the Illinois state police blocked off ramps from expressways. Bridges across the Chicago River were raised, except for the one on LaSalle Street for emergency vehicles.
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Russiagate, the deep state campaign to disenfranchise President Donald Trump, is further unraveling. The Spies Who Hijacked America is a first-person account that convincingly documents an MI6-linked conspiracy by former director Richard Dearlove, former agent Christopher Steele and FBI informant Stefan Halper to frame Carter Page that led to the FBI launching of "Crossfire Hurricane".
The long read is very interesting but it still does not account for who or what instigated the British spies into launching their campaign against Trump. My hunch is that then CIA director John Brennan was the central person behind it.
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From the document: “Binney is quoted as being convinced by Campbell’s analysis and now believes the DNC data was hacked.”
This person gets it wrong. What Binney concluded was that the data was *manipulated” and therefore can not be used to establish much of anything. However, the point that the data could not be transmitted at the speed estimated in 2016 is still basically valid and that the data was loaded onto removable storage is also still likely. *However*, that fact has always been mostly irrelevant, since no one knows how many times it was moved and by what means. Almost certainly it was moved by an external storage device at some point before ending up in Wikileaks. Craig Murray pretty much said as much.
How I would have done it is sit outside the DNC server location with a decent high-speed WiFi connection to their wireless network (I presume they have one, everyone does these days), and after doing whatever was necessary, either as an employee or a spy, to connect to the network, I would have downloaded the data to my wireless device (laptop, presumably). The NSA would be oblivious to this transfer, although depending on my anti-forensics skill, it might still have been detected internally by a computer forensics expert. CrowdStrike never found the actual leaker or the exfiltration method AFAIK; all they found was some malware – which means whoever took it was either authorized to do so (or used the credentials of someone else authorized to do so – standard operating procedure for either external or internal spies) or was very good at anti-forensics. Or CrowdStrike was simply incompetent. Or all three.
What the data analysis *does* do is disprove the US allegation that Russians extracted the data *over the Internet* *directly* to Wikileaks. Nothing in the Mueller report suggests the data was moved by external storage media. Binney’s statement that if it was moved over the Internet, the NSA would know it and could prove it remains true. That they never have is one huge red flag about the Mueller claims.
The rest of the conspiracy analysis in the linked document is only minimally interesting. The 5G stuff just shows the writer to be a non-scientist, as they fully admit, while still suggesting that 5G is some sort of health threat. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is to some degree. The problem is that no one outside the non-ionizing radiation scientific community has any real clue to *what* degree. If the international organizations have concluded it is not, it takes, as they say, “extraordinary evidence” to prove them wrong. None of that has been forthcoming, in particular nothing by Snake here. So it’s a waste of time to take it seriously. I’ve asked Snake for *one* single experiment done by *anyone* with real credentials that uses the actual level of radiation from either a 5G phone or a tower to cause subjects to get the virus. AFAIK there is no such experiment done anywhere by anyone. So there is no evidence it happens – or for that matter, no evidence it doesn’t except current recognized science. Which, as I say, has been dismissed by the real experts. Everything else is speculation – and conspiracy theory.
In general, I like conspiracy theories. They provide a fertile field for investigation – if someone has the means to do so. Most conspiracy theorists don’t have the means. They just regurgitate the available reports – which, by definition, are unreliable – and engage in “analysis”, which really means speculation. Only on the ground investigation can begin to get at the truth.
Back in 1968 or 1969, I forget which, I actually went to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to talk to people about the legendary “Mothman” that journalist John Keel had written about. I talked to the cops involved, a stringer reporter who had accompanied Keel in his investigations, and some of the UFO witnesses in the area. I couldn’t establish what actually happened from this, but it *did* confirm what Keel had written was what he was told.
Keel was an “old-school” journalist who believed in “ground truth”. The problem with most conspiracy theorists is that most of them don’t have either the technical expertise or the resources to get “ground truth”. Keel himself told me once that he would go to a location, do some investigation, deliver a talk of some sort, and write off his expenses as tax write-offs, which he said the IRS was not happy about. And he was by no means rich, his books never sold that much. Without a significant income, it’s next to impossible to determine the truth of 99% of the events in any given conspiracy theory.
Or for that matter, the truth in 99% of the main stream news. But it’s not 100%. The other problem conspiracy theorists have – and we see it here daily – is that just because a report comes from the MSM, it *has* to be false in its *entirety*. Which is ridiculous. Most of the MSM news is valid reporting. It’s just how much is left out and how the spin is applied from the wording or who the source was that is the problem. A few things might be completely made up, but most things aren’t. But if the reporter hasn’t himself done the leg-work to verify the statements of the sources, then it has to be considered unreliable or at least incomplete.
Anyway, that’s for the link. It was interesting.
Posted by: Richard Steven Hack | Aug 12 2020 2:09 utc | 114
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