4 Years Later, NYT Says Steele Dossier ‘Turned Out to Be Democratic-Funded Opposition Research’

“Federal authorities on Thursday arrested an analyst who in 2016 gathered leads about possible links between Donald J. Trump and Russia for what turned out to be Democratic-funded opposition research, according to people familiar with the matter.”

The key phrase is “turned out to be”, as the Times has belatedly come to understand that the Steele Dossier, which became the focal point of manic Democratic-slanted reporting, was nothing more than opposition research, a mix of some fact and mostly fiction, which both parties routinely serve up in campaigns to sling mud at their opponents.

[consortiumnews.com]

{But the Steele Dossier was fervently believed by Democratic partisans, at times fanatically, as if it were solid intelligence, in the face of the facts. Robert Parry, the late founder of this website, was in the forefront of questioning and debunking the bogus story that was widely and profoundly believed, to the point of U.S. sanctions being imposed on Russia, spiking tensions between the nuclear-armed powers.}

{After the article appeared at Consortium News, I tried to penetrate the mainstream by then publishing a version of the article on the HuffPost, which was rebranded from the Huffington Post in April this year by new management. As a contributor to the site since February 2006, I was trusted by HuffPost editors to post my stories directly online. However, within 24 hours of publication on Nov. 4, HuffPost editors retracted the article without any explanation.}

The truth will not be tolerated.

{But Huffington stepped down as editor in August 2016 and has nothing to do with the site now. It is run by Lydia Polgreen, a former New York Times reporter and editor, who evidently has very different ideas. In April, she completely redesigned the site and renamed it HuffPost.}

I found them questionable before with multiple writers and journalist. Those who have been here a while know my opinion on news sites like this. SO if you're someone who follows this source today still, I highly suggest you question everything!

{However, because of the oft-repeated “17 intelligence agencies” canard and the mainstream media’s careless reporting, the public impression has built up that the accusations against Russia are indisputable. If you ask a Russia-gate believer today what their faith is based on, they will invariably point to the Jan. 6 assessment and mock anyone who still expresses any doubt.}

How bad is it? Last year we had a new member, younger lady, join the group from Youngstown Ohio. I'm not sure if she is still listed as a member. As an Ohioan I was finally glad to see a fellow state member join the group. I don't have many here and those who are don't participate. I can actually think of only one other. On a post the issue of WMD in Iraq came up where she obviously became incited over my acknowledgment they were absent. Quite frankly I was in shock that anyone still believes that there were WMD in Iraq based on the false narratives that were presented to us! How long will it take for people to come to terms with this 5 year campaign that's still going to understand they've been stuffed down the largest rabbit hole of all of history?

{Part of this Russia-gate groupthink stems from the outrage – and even shame – that many Americans feel about Trump’s election. They want to find an explanation that doesn’t lay the blame on the U.S. citizenry or America’s current dysfunctional political/media process. It’s much more reassuring, in a way, to blame some foreign adversary while also discrediting Trump’s legitimacy as the elected president. That leaves open some hope that his election might somehow be negated.}

In other words. Rather than confront the glaring indications provided by various unbiased sources that we have in regards of both establishment parties, and our election process, of being criminal and fraudulent, working against society, a majority of our citizenry allow themselves to be drawn into a delusional reality, purposefully created for them.

{And, so many important people and organizations seem to be verifying the Russia-gate suspicions that the theory must be true. Which is an important point. When belief in a story becomes faith-based or is driven by an intense self-interest, honest skeptics are pushed aside and trampled. That is the way groupthink works, as we saw in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq when any doubts about Iraq possessing WMD made you a “Saddam apologist.”

They won’t waste time making a painstaking examination of the facts or engage in a detailed debate even on something as important and dangerous as a new Cold War with Russia.}

We know how that works here. We get a dose of the same repetitive rhetoric that comes from perception management. Even when we provide substantial information to address, rhetoric with no substance is the only response, often followed by personal attacks when you call them out.

Why Critical News is Suppressed

{But the HuffPost’s action is hardly isolated. It is part of a rapidly growing landscape of censorship of news critical of American corporate and political leaders who are trying to defend themselves from an increasingly angry population. It’s a story as old as civilization: a wealthy and powerful elite fending off popular unrest by trying to contain knowledge of how the insiders gain at the others’ expense, at home and abroad.

A lesson of the 2016 campaign was that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with three decades of neoliberal policies that have fabulously enriched the top tier of Americans and debased a huge majority of the citizenry. The population has likewise grown tired of the elite’s senseless wars to expand their own interests, which these insiders try to conflate with the entire country’s interests.

America’s bipartisan rulers are threatened by popular discontent from both left and right. They were alarmed by the Bernie Sanders insurgency and by Donald Trump’s victory, even if Trump is now betraying the discontented masses who voted for him by advancing tax and health insurance plans designed to further crush them and benefit the wealthy.

Trump’s false campaign promises will only make the rulers’ problem of a restless population worse. Americans are subjected to economic inequality greater than in the first Gilded Age. They are also subjected today to more war than in the first Gilded Age. American rulers today are engaged in multiple conflicts following decades of post-World War II invasions and coups to expand their global interests.

People with wealth and power always seem to be nervous about losing both. So plutocrats use the concentrated media they own to suppress news critical of their wars and domestic repression. For example, almost nothing was reported about militarized police forces until the story broke out into the open in the Ferguson protests and much of that discontent has been brushed aside more recently.}

Suppressed from the public was the betrayal of Sanders of his supporters. Most from the republican party and some independents of which went back to the republican party to vote for Trump. All the court cases across the nation that exposed fraudulent caucuses and voter tampering, both in registering list and uncounted ballots. The court case against the DNC and Clinton when it became public that Sanders donations went to the Clinton campaign. When it was exposed that the DNC can virtually ignore the voting process and pick the candidate of their choice. Which is essentially what happened when Sanders broke his promise to fight at the convention. Stood silent as caucuses were being systematically taken from him, and uncounted ballots were being reported by numerous places. None of which the media, or government, followed through on. Russiagate was a designed agenda to make all the corruption of both parties disappear. It was also what ultimately gave us the insurrection exposing the nation of turning towards the acceptance of fascism from both parties. This should be a major indication to all citizens of any related party that we need to unite before it goes much further. That's what the ruling class fear!

{Careerist journalists readily acquiesce in this suppression of news to maintain their jobs, their status and their lifestyles. Meanwhile, a growing body of poorly paid freelancers compete for the few remaining decent-paying gigs for which they must report from the viewpoint of the mainstream news organizations and their wealthy owners.

To operate in this media structure, most journalists know to excise out the historical context of America’s wars of domination. They know to uncritically accept American officials’ bromides about spreading democracy, while hiding the real war aims.}

There's that word I pound into my post to use. !HISTORY! You know who they are. Quit giving them the ratings!

{Examples abound: America’s role in the Ukraine coup was denied or downplayed; a British parliamentary report exposing American lies that led to the destruction of Libya was suppressed; and most infamously, the media promoted the WMD hoax and the fable of “bringing democracy” to Iraq, leading to the illegal invasion and devastation of that country. A November 2017 60 Minutes report on the Saudi destruction of Yemen, conspicuously failed to mention America’s crucial role in the carnage.}

When you don't know about it, you can't make an intellectual vote on it. I was covering the Ukraine issue in this group 2 or 3 years before it was finally beginning to get any sense of relative mention in the media. Same as Yemen, Syria. And we still have the same issues going on in these places today that aren't being genuinely addressed. Large regions of Africa are currently now on a projective course to go as Libya went. All under the radar of the public within a deceptive narrative.

{“Remember what Libya or Iraq looked like before these countries and their organizations were destroyed as states by our Western partners’ forces?” Putin said. “These states showed no signs of terrorism. They were not a threat for Paris, for the Cote d’Azur, for Belgium, for Russia, or for the United States. Now, they are the source of terrorist threats. Our goal is to prevent the same from happening in Syria.”}

Why Russia Is Targeted

Well, if you wouldn't take my word for it. Here's another.

{So, where are independent-minded Western journalists to turn if their stories critical of the U.S. government and corporations are suppressed?

The imperative is to get these stories out – and Russian media has provided an opening for some. This has presented a new problem for the plutocracy. The suppression of critical news in their corporate-owned media is no longer working if it’s seeping out in Russian media (and through some dissident Western news sites on the Internet).

The solution has been to brand the content of the Russian television network, RT, as “propaganda” since it presents facts and viewpoints that most Americans have been kept from hearing. But just because these views – many coming from Americans and other Westerners – are not what you commonly hear on the U.S. mainstream media doesn’t make them “propaganda” that must be stigmatized and silenced.}

While I find RT a relief from the delusional reality of MSCM, I must warn it also is currently under new management from about a year ago. It provides a few great shows of political opinions and a news cast of prime time viewing more informative than our MSCM. But you have to pick the right shows and news cast carefully. I'll post those I find to be the best with reasoning tomorrow, with hints on those I don't trust on others.

{Then last week, Reporters Without Borders, an organization supposedly devoted to press freedom, tried to kick journalist Vanessa Beeley off a panel in Geneva to prevent her from presenting evidence that the White Helmets, a group that sells itself as a rescue organization inside rebel-controlled territory in Syria, has ties to Al Qaeda. The Swiss Press Club, which hosted the event, resisted the pressure and let Beeley speak.}

Beeley, who's work I posted here before Syria became covered by MSCM is the most influential investigative reporter who exposed the false narrative of the White Helmets and chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Our film industry gave them rewards. Even after she tied them to fake rescue videos and a relationship to the terrorist groups in Syria. In some instances taking pictures with them in celebrations and in accompanying in beheadings and public assassinations. Remnants of their clothing and identical wear found in schools and hospitals from which they helped terrorist built bombs. Along with the fake rescue scenes were fake hospital scenes designed to implicate chemical weapon use that never happened. Many citizens reported their wounded love one's were carted off to come back dead with their organs missing.

'One of the dirtiest tricks' of the 2020 election exposed in FBI raid

And apparently, that slanted reporting isn't over yet, after 5 years, for Rachel Maddow anyways. Who was probably the biggest leader of that repetitive spread of that fake news during the entire duration. Notice the hyperbole animated introduction right out of the gate. That's to create a collective capturing of her audience. This is an action traced back as far back as Hitler to captivate the mass audiences who would join at his speeches. It's a vastly common trait for politicians today who give a speech or interviews on TV. The Clinton's are perfectionist with it. AOC had it mastered before becoming the fraud she is. Anytime you see the flailing of hands and overactive body language, you're most likely being fed bullshit towards a managed perception. I seen reports about this story a while back. If you seriously are conned into her statement that she got this completely out of the blue, from a newspaper from another planet, I have a bridge to sell you. What ever you as a collective can muster up, I'll sell it to you. You can send the money to ....... to get its location and ownership tittle.

Clues it is highly questionable, separated from the above, which should be the first clue. It's from the NYT's! It has been released from another source and been under investigation. If you think a matter of such a high ranking person as the current candidate for president, former vice president, involving his daughter, isn't on the MSNBC list of highly relative issues to follow, please see bridge note above. She keeps referring to Biden as president before he was the president. She admits its release was a week and a half before the 2020 election. I guarantee you every MSCM has had all eyes and ears on this story for their journalist who cover this aspect of government from the moment it hit the Internet.

Then she sells it as outlandish an unbelievable. Stating if it was a movie you'd walk out of it.

The Hunter Biden lap top issue is brought up by her guest, NYT's Michael Schmidt. Clearly a proven concerning issue involving criminal activity by the Biden's in Ukraine that has exposed unethical practices, which neither sides of the MSCM has professionally addressed as the forth estate. Who also admits the time line of release. The NYT's? Often found having a long history of retracting stories, as the initial post is on, after seemingly working with and or for the intelligence agencies agendas time after time? Please see the bridge note above. The he admits it came up during the lap top issue. Quite frankly, that pretty much just blew the entire, never knew about it, so far out of the window it's as a bomb blew it out.

When you only spread false propaganda of election tricks of the other side, you're covering up your own sides.

Maddow doubles down on new stating the public hasn't heard about it. Her public, didn't know about it because they chose not to report on it. Why now? Preceding the coming of a new cover up to benefit Biden as information comes out. Managing perceptions before this information comes out as they did with the lap top issue would again quell public opinion from discovery of the crimes and demanding a congressional investigation. She's essentially mocking what could become a real issue as the lap top issue was in efforts to diminish any public concern. This is the same collective narrative used to get Biden past his crimes in Ukraine, and Hunter's lap top that exposed those and more of his in other countries in regards of millions he was receiving in gifts and unethical practices of riding his dads coat tail. Which ultimately were based on a pay to play bases. Maddow is still using deception on the 2020 election cycle to keep her viewers entrapped in a delusional reality she created then, needs to justify it now and keep it going. Rather than being a genuine reporter, !she's not a journalist! she works outside of sincere issues that would benefit society for the agenda of the ruling class.

At one time many moons ago I seen her as someone who covered issues apart from the other prime time shows on MSNBC. But she has obviously been redirected towards the head of the table for journalist deception for the left partisan division group there.

[msn.com]