Avoid the news blackout! Read this!
Julian Assange's October surprise is here, but multiple corporate news outlets in the U.S. are refusing to report on the mass email dump during the latter-stage electoral cycle.WikiLeaks has released more than 2,000 emails belonging to Clinton campaign chair and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta. (The hacking collective says it is in possession of 50,000.) Among the facts revealed so far are that Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, signed over wholly one-fifth of all U.S.-owned uranium resources to Russia, and in return, received millions of dollars from individuals that benefited from the deal. (I gather this "pay-to-play" scheme will not be judged to justify ending the "Trump-loves-Putin-best" media narrative that we get from MSNBC and CNN.) A Clinton campaign spokesman is revealed to have lied when he told the New York Times that Clinton was not involved in the deal. Jose Fernandez, the man who connected the State Department to this transaction of weapons-grade uranium, was then given a position at the Center for American Progress, a think-tank run by Podesta.
Next, the text of Hillary Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs and other large Wall Street banking and investment firms were released. Clinton told their reps behind closed doors that she supports the KeystoneXL pipeline and the TPP trade agreement, even though she has said publicly throughout her campaign that she opposes both of those anti-environment initiatives. In secret, she told executives at both Goldman and Deutsch Bank that the blame for the 2008 global banking crisis fell solely on the banks purely for political reasons and to appease the public. She goes on to suggest to her audience that the banks should police themselves. As mentioned in the last blog post, she explained to bankers the need for her to have separate public and private positions on these and other issues.
Podesta himself turns out to be a Junior Trump in these electronic cables. He calls the German people "brainwashable." He offers his opinion that refugees from the Middle East and open immigration will destroy Germany. He calls Muslims, Blacks, and "Gypsies" "professional never-do-wells" that "fare badly almost irrespective of circumstances." The man's big on the Jews though. I concede that. He writes "Jewish stupendous superiority in so many spheres of life is one of many PC taboos just begging to be busted."
Because close examination of Hillary Clinton's past is considered pro-Trump behavior, the following news organizations, per their websites, are not covering any of this or have deeply buried the story, officially abdicating their journalistic responsibility on behalf of this year's voters and effectively declaring that they are essentially public relations operations for the Democratic National Committee: The New York Times, CNN, Time (that's still technically a thing), and NBC News. Several left-wing "alternative" sites are-- shockingly-- not covering this story either-- Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Alternet, Mother Jones, and The Nation. CBS News is covering it with two big stories near the top of their page, ABC has it, Politico-- front and center, and of course, I strongly rely on Glenn Greenwald's crew at The Intercept, as well as Anonymous, the latter from which much of the information at the top was culled. The Washington Post is taking a completely different tack with their approach. Rather than spiking the story, they're doubling down Donald-style in support of their preferred candidate's outrageous behavior, asking the question tonight, "Did WikiLeaks make Hillary Clinton look two-faced, or clear-eyed?" Ahh. Positive spin.
Podesta has responded to his public de-pantsing by releasing a statement contending that the leak "can only be aimed at boosting Donald Trump" and making the charge that the hack is "the work of the Russian government." Consistent with ongoing Hillary campaign policy, he offered no evidence for the latter claim.
posted by CM @ 8:02 PM
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