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When I wrote my previous post, I was mainly going by my impressions based on Carole Cadwalladr's Substack articles on Bilderberg that you had shared, especially her eulogisation of Anne Applebaum. I hadn't taken much notice of her other works, or looked for any pattern in them. However, recently, I came across this June 2022 post by Jonathan Cook, which establishes conclusively that Cadwalladr is part of what you call the "Vichy media". In addition to peddling the much-hyped but empty "Cambridge Analytica scoop" on Brexit in favour of NATO war-mongering, she has been part of the covert and overt operations to smear and character-assassinate Wikileaks in general and Julian Assange in particular. Cadwalladr was (is?) part of the "British Cluster" of the Integrity Initiative, the covert, British government-backed propaganda mill to wage online war on critics of imperialism.
Sharing just for your information.
It's interesting that even a journalist as deeply embedded in the Intelligence-Media nexus as Cadwalladr now finds herself out of a job. To me, it is yet more evidence that the imperial core now has no use for its liberal facade.
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You may be interested in the links I shared in this post, and in an earlier post in this thread.
#Bilderberg #Thiel #PeterThiel #Palantir #CaroleCadwalladr #Cadwalladr #TheGuardian #Guardian #Observer #Assange #JulianAssange #WikiLeaks #CambridgeAnalytica #Facebook #Russia #RussiaGate #Trump #Manafort #PaulManafort #Farage #NigelFarage -
“Nigel Farage Paid by Trump Crypto Adviser Who Worked With Russia Operative Paul Manafort”
by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times
“The pattern reveals how Farage has positioned himself as the British end of an American-led crypto-political network, one that sees digital money not merely as a technology, but as a key part of a new authoritarian political order”
#Press #UK #ReformUKLtd #Farage #Crypto #Bitcoin #Trump #Manafort #Bailey #FarRight #MAGA
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“That plan, in turn, rehashed almost entirely the plan #Russian operatives presented to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul #Manafort, in exchange for helping #Trump win the #WhiteHouse.” #Russia #Ukraine #Putin heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-8-2...
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Trump campaign architects are involved in Albania’s upcoming election
Chris LaCivita (co-ran Trump 2024), pollster Tony Fabrizio, Paul Manafort are working for Sali Berisha who is challenging PM Edi Rama
Meanwhile Edi Rama's cabinet recently approved a deal with Jared Kushner for development of a $1.6 billion resort
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #LaCivita #Fabrizio #Berisha #Rama #Kushner
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Albanian politician Sali Berisha is under US and UK travel sanctions due to allegations of corruption. His presidential campaign is getting a boost from Trump allies - including Trump 2024 campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita, Paul Manafort, Tony Fabrizio, Phil Griffin
#Albania #Trump #Manafort #SaliBerisha
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albania-election-donald-trump-allies_n_67f94af5e4b060848e3e5f57
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After the mass killing, Yanukovych was abandoned by the parliamentary deputies who had supported him and the policemen who had protected him. He fled his garish residence, leaving behind a trove of documents—including records of large cash payments to his advisor Paul Manafort, who two years later surfaced as the campaign manager of Donald Trump.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
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Good example of how to cover the news accurately, by Casey Michel:
Paul Manafort Is Back to Wreck the World
Trump’s one-time aide-de-camp and bagman for corrupt foreign regimes is returning to his old stomping grounds, rolling back precious progress against a world of kleptocrats.
"Instead of the broken, chastened man Manafort once claimed to be, he’s cannonballed back into the world of cementing authoritarian forces around the globe."
https://newrepublic.com/article/190164/paul-manafort-trump-foreign-agents
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Pardoned by Trump, Manafort Is Back and Looking for Foreign Work
Manafort is looking to advise campaigns for opposition and far-right political factions in Latin America and Europe
Manafort's team includes Trump's '24 campaign mgr Chris LaCivita and pollster Tony Fabrizio, Texan John Harkrider and digital advertising strategist Vincent Harris, who worked briefly for Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Manafort has also engaged with interests in Ukraine.
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The SEC has charged people/entities tied to Trump 2016 campaign mgr Paul Manafort (recently at UAE crypto event where Erik Trump spoke)
SEC charged Frederick Tayton Dencer, son Luke, Standard Holdings, Standard Huaxia Ltd. - with Fraud for misappropriating investor funds
https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26192
In May the Washington Post reported Manafort was involved in a Chinese media deal approved by Chinese govt involving the Dencers and Standard Huaxia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/paul-manafort-pardon-donald-trump-china/
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From Russia With No Love: Meet the Russian operatives helping MAGA
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/07/21/russian-operatives-helping-maga/
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On march 18, news broke that Donald Trump intended to restore the disgraced lobbyist #Paul #Manafort to the ranks of his campaign advisers.
In any other moral universe, this would have been an unimaginable rehabilitation.
Back in 2016, as revelations about Manafort’s work on behalf of #pro-#Kremlin politicians in Ukraine began appearing in the press, even Trump considered him a figure so toxic that he forced him to resign as chair of his campaign.
Two years later, Manafort was locked up in federal #prison on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, among other transgressions.
His was one of the most precipitous falls in the history of Washington.But at this stage in that history, it’s not remotely shocking to learn that the revolving door continues to turn.
By the end of Trump’s term, Manafort had already won a presidential pardon.
His unwillingness to cooperate with Special Counsel #Robert #Mueller’s investigation had earned him Trump’s unstinting admiration:
“Such respect for a brave man,” he tweeted.Now it seemed that Manafort’s loyalty would be rewarded with the lobbyist’s most valuable tool:
the perception of access, at an opportune moment.In early May, under growing media scrutiny for international consulting work that he’d reportedly been involved in after his pardon,
Manafort said that he would “stick to the sidelines,”
playing a less visible role in supporting Trump.(He’d recently been in Milwaukee, part of meetings about this summer’s Republican National Convention programming.)
But if Trump wins the election, Manafort won’t need 2024 campaign work officially on his résumé to convince corporations and foreign regimes that he can bend U.S. policy on their behalf
—and he and his ilk will be able to follow through on such pledges with unimpeded ease.A second Trump term would mark the culmination of the story chronicled by the brothers Luke and Brody Mullins in their new book
"The Wolves of K Street"https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/09/wolves-k-street-lobbyists-luke-brody-mullins-review/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/07/wolves-of-k-street-book-review-lobbying/678523/
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Convicted criminals take Republican stage despite focus on ‘law and order’
#Trump and Peter #Navarro
– fresh out of Florida jail
– both addressed convention with Paul #Manafort in attendance
“I went to prison so you won’t have to,” declared #Navarro
– who was convicted for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the House January 6 committee
– to a jubilant crowd that responded with a standing ovation. (I'm sure many were reassured by that promise)Another former Trump aide turned convicted criminal in attendance was Paul #Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager in 2016.
Three years later he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on charges including
bank fraud,
tax fraud,
money laundering and
witness tampering, arising from the investigation of Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.In 2020 Trump pardoned Manafort, who later wrote a memoir called Political Prisoner. At the convention, Manafort was briefly linked with an organising role before backing off, though he was still in Milwaukee to tell Fox News: “I’ve done 10 conventions. This is the best.”
Roger #Stone, who like Manafort is a longtime operative convicted on charges arising from the Russia investigation, was also at the convention in Milwaukee.
Stone was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted of criminal charges including witness tampering and obstructing Congress. He never set foot in jail, as Trump commuted his sentence.Rod #Blagojevich attended as well. In July 2011, the former Democratic governor of Illinois was convicted on 17 criminal charges, including bribery, fraud and extortion, arising from an attempt to sell Barack Obama’s US Senate seat.
Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years. In 2020, Trump commuted his sentence. This week, Blagojevich told NBC: “I think President Trump is the most demonised political figure in American history, and I know something about being demonised.”Another former Trump aide jailed for criminal contempt of Congress over January 6 did not make it to the convention hall, but Steve #Bannon was getting updates via phone from his daughter in Wisconsin to his federal prison in Connecticut.
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"He is running with Russian help on a plan to give Russia what it wants, starting, but not ending, with Ukraine on a silver platter.
Trump, and the guy Trump pardoned for lying about what happened with Russia in 2016, are simply picking up where things left off."
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Marcy Wheeler comments on Manafort returning to the Republican stage now:
"Trump is running not just as someone who explicitly wants to be a Dictator from Day One, someone who supports all the same policies as a Project that targets divorce and birth control along with the very idea of civil service."
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"The United States is on a rightward trajectory. Within that paradigm, our media and political class have not only normalized the extremism of Trump, the Republican Party, and the authoritarian movement, but have capitulated and forwarded the reactionary agenda themselves."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
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"Paul Manafort walking onto the floor of the Republican National Convention yesterday illustrated that the Republican Party under Trump has become thoroughly corrupted into an authoritarian party aligned with foreign dictators."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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"It wasn’t all normal. A former Trump aide came directly from prison to address the convention to raucous applause. Paul Manafort, another Trump aide who went to prison, was seen making the rounds on the convention floor. Hulk Hogan addressed the convention."
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#MichaelCohen reads aloud the tweets #Trump put out when Cohen pleaded guilty, saying that he felt “very badly for #PaulManafort & his wonderful family” & praising #Manafort for refusing to “break“
“Such respect for a brave man.”A sitting president was tweeting these things.
Also shown: Trump's tweets attacking Cohen saying if anyone wants a good lawyer, he doesn’t recommend Cohen. He contrasts Cohen & Manafort, a #loyal ally, & criticizes Cohen for “breaking.”
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That adds up! Also the thought that Putin is through with trump is comforting.
It WAS a serious question, so thanks for sharing your opinion.
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I had just read about the trump- Manafort Reunion Tour, when I saw that the group broke up again.
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Heeeee's back....
Paul Manafort, poised to rejoin Trump world, aided Chinese media deal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/10/paul-manafort-pardon-donald-trump-china/
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Emails, documents & interviews fill in details of Manafort’s life & work between 2020, when he swapped #prison for home confinement owing to the COVID pandemic & then landed a #pardon from #Trump, & this #election cycle, as he prepares to reenter Trump’s orbit. Advisers say Trump is determined to hire #Manafort, likely handing him a substantial role at the #RNC in Milwaukee, #Wisconsin because he appreciates that his onetime campaign chairman has remained #loyal to him even while… in prison.
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#Manafort, now 75, also sought to advise #political figures in #Japan & #SouthKorea …. Manafort has roamed widely, traveling to #Guatemala last year on the invitation of a migrant advocacy group called Proyecto Guatemala Migrante. The group’s leader, Verónica Pimentel, said she & a colleague discussed Latin American politics & the #Latino #vote w/ Manafort & introduced him to a Guatemalan presidential candidate, Ricardo Sagastume, who confirmed the meeting.
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#Manafort has been assisting an effort to launch a #Netflix-like mobile streaming & entertainment platform in #China that, acc/to corporate docs, has the endorsement of the Chinese government. In an email to The Post, Manafort said he was “not involved w/China” & has “had nothing to do w/China, including Chinese businesses, government, individuals, or anything else,” but acknowledged that he “was asked to make introductions to #US studios & potential US partners in the venture.”