The Kennedy School of Grown-up Politics from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency.
Did the Washington Post and others underplay the story through fear of the News Corp chairman, or simply tin-eared judgment?
Carl Bernstein
The Guardian, Thursday 20 December 2012
So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch's ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America's democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic institutions of Great Britain through money, influence and wholesale abuse of the privileges of a free press.
In the American instance, Murdoch's goal seems to have been nothing less than using his media empire – notably Fox News – to stealthily recruit, bankroll and support the presidential candidacy of General David Petraeus in the 2012 election.
Thus in the spring of 2011 – less than 10 weeks before Murdoch's centrality to the hacking and politician-buying scandal enveloping his British newspapers was definitively revealed – Fox News' inventor and president, Roger Ailes, dispatched an emissary to Afghanistan to urge Petraeus to turn down President Obama's expected offer to become CIA director and, instead, run for the Republican nomination for president, with promises of being bankrolled by Murdoch. Ailes himself would resign as president of Fox News and run the campaign, according to the conversation between Petraeus and the emissary, K T McFarland, a Fox News on-air defense "analyst" and former spear carrier for national security principals in three Republican administrations.
All this was revealed in a tape recording of Petraeus's meeting with McFarland obtained by Bob Woodward, whose account of their discussion, accompanied online by audio of the tape, was published in the Washington Post – distressingly, in its style section, and not on page one, where it belonged – and, under the style logo, online on December 3.
Indeed, almost as dismaying as Ailes' and Murdoch's disdain for an independent and truly free and honest press, and as remarkable as the obsequious eagerness of their messenger to convey their extraordinary presidential draft and promise of on-air Fox support to Petraeus, has been the ho-hum response to the story by the American press and the country's political establishment, whether out of fear of Murdoch, Ailes and Fox – or, perhaps, lack of surprise at Murdoch's, Ailes' and Fox's contempt for decent journalistic values or a transparent electoral process.
(a) The Republican National Committee is
hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all
vacancies which may occur by reason of death,
declination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate
for President of the United States or the Republican
candidate for Vice President of the United States, as
nominated by the national convention, or the
Republican National Committee may reconvene the
national convention for the purpose of filling any such
vacancies.
(b) In voting under this rule, the Republican
National Committee members representing any state
shall be entitled to cast the same number of votes as
said state was entitled to cast at the national
convention.
Dick Gregory agrees with me and Webster Tarpley, based on his own (extensive) sources and street-knowledge.
"When he went off to Arizona, and that white woman, the Governor, shook her finger in his face...?
Well, if you're the head of this State, and there's a whole lottsa people who would die for you in the National Guard, then is there somebody up there on the roof...?
I'm takin' my lead from you, yo' the Governor, you're the Head of the National Guard...
And yo' leader she her fist in my face...?
An' the people around him let him keep going...?
Like it's Business as Usual...?
...or is it different protocol for a negro President...?
Huh?"
The Plot to Kill Mitt Romney - Dry Run from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Yeah, that can't happen - that "glitter" might just as easily have been Anthrax or Hydrochloric Acid.
The Petreaus Group tests out Javelin's Security Perimeter...
The Plot to Kill Mitt Romney - The Spin Zone from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
Coop the Spook steps up to the plate to take a swing and shill hard with those permanently concerned eyebrows of his...
Now, fact us 'til we fart, Coop.
Romney Exposed from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
One of the earliest (and BY FAR, one of the best) Benghazi documentaries, but so much more than that besides,
Raw, ready and totally straight to the heart of the matter, I think this one even predated the FIRST set of Issa Committee Government Oversight Star Chamber Hearings, which places in the last fortnight of September 2012.
Just a couple of corrections to the record that we didn't know then, but then subsequently have learnt
(and which the vast majority of people have now completely forgotten again)
Firstly, this predates the revelation of there in fact being TWO attacks that night, six hours apart, at two locations, around half a mile from one another, under very different circumstances.
Secondly, and far more crucially, Hankey's analysis leads him all the way to the brink of the paradigm leap he almost but never quite makes regarding the central question of his piece :
"Why DOES Mitt Romney want to be President so badly, what is he hiding and what does he really stand for,,,?"
The actual answer, we now know, was: "He doesn't".
Tagg Romney said his father "wanted to be president less than anyone I've met in my life," according to the Boston Globe.
“He had no desire,” the eldest Romney son said. “If he could have found someone else to take his place ... he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention."
The behaviour and actions of Elliot Cohen and other PNAC Veterans, Zionists and NeoLiberal Fascists make it plain - they were runninghim and stetting him up to get utterly screwed once his usefulness to them was once more at an end....
Oversight Hearing Day 1 - The Security "Failures" of Benghazi from Spike1138 on Vimeo.
The Mormon Mafia Star Chamber Day 1. It's from around 58:10 onwards that the truth comes out.
CIA Base in Benghazi, Libya
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-letting-us-in-on-a-secret/2012/10/10/ba3136ca-132b-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_story.html
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) was the first to unmask the spooks. “Point of order! Point of order!” he called out as a State Department security official, seated in front of an aerial photo of the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, described the chaotic night of the attack. “We’re getting into classified issues that deal with sources and methods that would be totally inappropriate in an open forum such as this.”
A State Department official assured him that the material was “entirely unclassified” and that the photo was from a commercial satellite. “I totally object to the use of that photo,” Chaffetz continued. He went on to say that “I was told specifically while I was in Libya I could not and should not ever talk about what you’re showing here today.”
Now that Chaffetz had alerted potential bad guys that something valuable was in the photo, the chairman, Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), attempted to lock the barn door through which the horse had just bolted. “I would direct that that chart be taken down,” he said, although it already had been on C-SPAN. “In this hearing room, we’re not going to point out details of what may still in fact be a facility of the United States government or more facilities.”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/20/world/africa/the-attack-on-the-american-mission-in-benghazi-libya.html?ref=middleeast
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