The Russian Hacking Flynn Flam
At first this whole Russian hacking thing looked like it was created to divide and distract we the people. You know, give the spoiled, entitlement-minded Hillary supporters something to hitch their wagon to (rather than face the fact that the Democratic Party leadership is owned and operated by the same big-bank, corporate cronies that own the Republican Party). While at the same time, implicate Donald Trump as some Russian-controlled asset to discredit those who wanted to reject the establishment candidates. I’m no fan of Donald Trump, but the fact that the whole Russian hacking narrative is a red herring has been evident at least since the post-2016 election transition period when the U.S. intelligence apparatus issued its Russian hacking report. If you’ve read it you know that report was just a bunch of hot air they obviously expected nobody would actually read.
Michael Flynn’s Bid for Immunity
Michael Flynn, the first casualty of the fabricated Russian hacking scandal, is back in the news with his bid to seek immunity if he testifies before the congressional kangaroo committee looking into the hollow Russian hacking allegations. This serves as even more divisive fodder as Clinton supporters, still smarting from not getting the most corrupt female politician into the White House, will likely interpret the move as Flynn having something to cover up. On the other side, Trump supporters will see it as more evidence of a witch-hunt by the Washington establishment and mainstream press bent on stopping Trump from “making America great again.”
The Washington Post, the award-winning staple of American investigative journalism, or I should say former staple of American investigative journalism, keeps pushing the Russian hacking narrative with stories like this one from March 31st, “Trump’s White House struggles to get out from under Russia controversy“. As a matter of fact, The Washington Post has been at the forefront of pushing the Russian hacking narrative.
Mainstream Media Ignores Proof of Faulty Russian Hacking Evidence
But while The Washington Post was busy hyping the Russian hacking narrative last week, Voice of America, hardly an “alternative media” outlet, has been running stories on the fudged data that started the whole Russian-hacking narrative in the first place. The Washington Post and the other mainstream media outlets, as well as their new world order counterparts in the Democratic and Republican wings of the American monoparty, have completely ignored this explosive story.
Something else that these peddlers of fear and war are not talking about is the implications of the recent WikiLeaks exposure of the CIA’s “Marble Framework“. According to The Register, the technology is designed to make the CIA’s malware harder to analyze, and thus determine the malware’s origin. This story says the Marble Framework gives the CIA the capability to make malware it has created to look as though it was created by a “speaker of a range of foreign languages”. Those languages are Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. If you didn’t notice, those are the languages of nations the U.S. seems to have a beef with. Most notably for this discussion is Russian being on that list.
Also have a look at this GlobalResearch.ca article that has a brief rundown of how the Voice of America stories just add to a list of other problems with claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers or was otherwise involved in manipulating the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. They also make a comparison of the Russian hacking narrative with the Gulf of Tonkin incident reported by the American press in 1964. Back then the American people were told by the mainstream media, as well as by then President Lyndon Johnson, that the North Vietnamese had attacked an American naval destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
In 1964,President Johnson used this story to push Congress to pass what became known as the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to escalate the Vietnam War. Decades later it was revealed that no such attack ever took place. I think that’s the kind of thing we have going on here. Democrats and non-Trump aligned Republicans alike keep pushing the Russian hacking narrative, despite the increasingly shaky evidence.
But they’re also increasingly calling it an act of war. This is a two-for-one, Hegelian Dialectic/problem-reaction-solution special. The Russian hacking narrative serves to not only divide people on a non-issue, but it also can be used to get the American people to call for their government to take retaliatory action against Russia. If that happens, the best we can hope for in such a turn of events is just a new cold war with Russia. But the prospects of war are ever greater. Especially if you have politicians on both sides of the aisle calling for for it like we have calling the unproven hacking “an act of war”.
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