68/ here's a screengrab of police analyst supposedly pointing out comment at Climate Audit which contained the original link to the Climategate zipfile. Take a look, especially old-time blog readers.
69/ next, the analyst points to a picture of not-me and a woman who is not-my-wife and says, This is Steve McIntyre. The picture in my Twitter avatar (which is 16 years old now) also shows me in front of a tree.
70/ back to the screengrab of Climate Audit. It contains multiple forgeries and/or emulations, some of which say something about programmers. Some are poetic licence, some though are insulting. I'll distinguish. The header is similar to CA header, but deleted "by Steve McIntyre"
71/ when I go to Climate Audit, the head post comes up and one has to scroll down to comments. In their screengrab, the comments follow the header. They don't show and appear to have removed right sidebar showing New Statesman 50 People Who Mattered 2010 web.archive.org/web/2021082315…
72/ The left sidebar mostly copies the actual sidebar: they leave out the Tip Jar and truncate my name from Contact Steve Mc.
Don't worry that these are tiny: it gets more fun, but I like to begin at beginning.
73/ they mostly replicate articles but substitute some imaginary article for McIntyre/McKitrick 2003. They left MM05(GRL), not being aware, I guess, that this was a McMc article. Their blogroll is fictitious.
74/ now for the interesting bit: look at the comments themselves. I've highlighted the "A miracle has happened". They've redacted the names of the commenters to make it appear like this is a grab of the real page. But it's entirely forged and fabricated.
75/ here's a deception. The Trick shows url in comment to http://eastangliaemails[.]com. There was no hyperlink in body of original comment (which is why no one noticed) only underneath RC which actually went to www.realclimate[.]org/FOIA.zip - off-message to narrative.
76/ the screenshot purporting to show the comment page containing the "A miracle has happened" link was also fabricated.
77/ in June 2018, CA contributor RomanM climateaudit.org/2008/06/18/ear… published article sneering at CBS story claiming destructive ability of earthquakes increas[ing] alarmingly fast .. unless problem of global warming urgently addressed…global seismic activity increasing" h/t @TvOat
78/ RomanM's article continued with further lengthy quotes from the risible article that CBS News had credulously publicized as further global warming scare-the-masses
79/ @RyanMaue, an extremely able meteorologist, pointed out in a comment that this nonsense had been top Science article at both CBS and MSNBC and originated from AP climateaudit.org/2008/06/18/ear…
80/ In comment #4, Bill Drissel linked to webpage johnstonsarchive.net/other/quake1.h…
which showed "Relative annual energy release from earthquakes, magnitude 6 or greater, 1900-2008", noting that, "acc[ording] to this graph we’re below the 1900-1920 level".
81/ 1st comment in Trick screengrab begins "Ok Bill #4" as does comment #5 to blog. But Trick replaced Jim Arndt comment on TSI and gravitational pulls with fabrication that "concept of global warming was developed by powerful nations to halt the progress of developing nations"
82/ next Trick comment is also forged: "snow in winter? The world is upside down" with inline response "ryanm... Matt spiked the story to the trashcan..."
Real comment # 6: "it’s on Drudge Report too ...How long before our various elected officials start quoting this paper?"
83/ other 4 comments in Trick screengrab from same thread sneering at CBS nonsense. They deleted my comment "Another Jor-El wannabe" (harking back to previous controversy with James Hansen), replacing it with their forgery of "RC" comment that linked to realclimate[.]org/FOIZ.zip
84/ term "Jor-El wannabe" would be familiar to ClimateAudit readers from 2007 blog in which Hansen fulminated about "Destruction of Creation" while backhandedly conceding that GISS demotion of 1934 as warmest year arose from computer error that I spotted climateaudit.org/2007/08/20/com…
85/ in Hansen's Jor-El wannabe diatribe, he refused to cite my identification of the GISS error, later saying that refusal of credit was intentional, not accidental. I chaffed him in Say My Name post climateaudit.org/2008/09/22/say… citing Knowles 2007, Mathers et al and Jones et al 1996
85B/ I've collected the thoughts in this subthread on the strange BBC forgery into a blog post at Climate Audit climateaudit.org/2021/10/25/bbc… I'm working on a thrad and article on the fake premise underlying The Trick.
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here is a thread from 2023 in which Eric Ciaramella's "yikes" is placed in a more detailed context.
In this thread, I suggested that the linkage was connected to Jan 21, 2016 meeting of Ukrainian prosecutors with State Dept officials, noting that Jamie Gusack (reporting to Bridget Brink) had distributing the first demand for Shokin's head (Nov 22 TPs)
as pointed out in that thread, Gusack (State Dept) had been coordinating with Ciaramella (NSC) prior to arrival of Ukr prosecutors in Jan 2016, referring to Shokin replacement.
State Dept cited "diamond prosecutors case" as big deal. But what happened to it next? A long story.
Bridget Brink, Jamie Gusack's boss, reported to Victoria Nuland. Brink was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine in April 2022. Unanimous approval by Senate in early days of war at the exact time that US and UK were sabotaging the peace deal negotiated in Istanbul
as observed yesterday, , after 2014 US coup, the tsunami of billion dollar US/IMF loans was associated with unprecedented embezzlement by Ukr oligarchs thru corrupt Ukr banking system. Rescues of failed banks (mostly unnoticed in west) were markers
in today's thread, I'll provide a short bibliography of articles (mostly Ukrainian language via google translate) on the Ukr banking corruption crisis that began and exploded after the 2014 US coup, while Biden, Blinken, Nuland et al were running Ukraine
once one searches specifically for the topic, there are interesting references, but the topic has received essentially next to zero coverage in the west. I'll take myself as an example. Despite following Ukr affairs quite closely, my prior knowledge was three vignettes.
May 25, 2021: US DOJ announced indictment & arrest of Austrian banker Peter Weinzierl
Mar 13, 2024: we learn that Alexander Smirnov was an FBI informant against Weinzierl and had lured Weinzierl to UK on behalf of FBI for arrest justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/t… archive.is/zO1rt
the DOJ charges against Austrian banker Weinzierl, filed during first six months of Biden admin, pertained to allegations that payments made via Meinl Bank in Austria by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht were connected to evasion of taxes in Brazil.
if the concern of US DOJ and FBI with administration of Brazilian tax collection seems somewhat quirky, there may be an ulterior motive: Meinl Bank had a central role in the looting of Ukrainian banks during the 2014-2016 Biden administration of Ukraine.
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, named by NYT as architect of 2014 post-Maidan takeover of Ukrainian intelligence by CIA, is former head of Ukrainian SBU. His comments on Biden corruption deserve attention, but have been ignored.archive.is/zXXQV
on October 10, 2019, early in the Trump impeachment saga, Nalyvaichenko published an op ed in Wall St Journal saying "alliance with US depends on answering questions about Bidens and election interference" [by Ukraine] archive.is/wsrjP
in that editorial, Naluvaichenko, the former SBU hear, stated that Ukraine had responsibility to investigate allegations that Ukraine interfered in 2016 election (a separate issue from Russian interference) and whether Burisma hired Hunter Biden for "cynical purposes".
as Svetlana @RealSLokhova explained to us, intelligence fabricators (like Halper) begin by juxtaposing two targets in the same room and using that juxtaposition for their smear.
Smirnov had multiple Burisma contacts in 2017-Jan 2018, that are provable by email and travel records. See diagram below.
But, according to Weiss, instead of attaching narrative to provable meetings, Smirnov attached his narrative to non-existent contacts in 2015-16 and 2019.
Obvious question: why would Smirnov attach his narrative to fabricated meetings/telecons, when he had multiple real meetings/telecons to which he could have attached the narrative just as easily?
NYT () has major article on how CIA constructed "a network of spy bases [in Ukraine that] includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border", which @aaronjmate has drawn attention to. A couple of interesting chronology points in today's thread.archive.is/zXXQV
first NYT "hero" is Valentyn Nalyvaichenko who, despite Ukraine's constitutional neutrality, on Feb 24, 2014, on first evening of Maidan coup that had overthrown the democratically elected president of Ukraine, as incoming "spy chief", colluded with CIA and MI6 station chiefs
later in the article, NYT laconically stated that, in summer 2015, Ukr president Poroshenko "shook up the domestic service" and "installed an ally to replace Nalyvaichenko, the CIA's trusted partner".