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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Happy Anniversary to @lukeharding1968, @KathViner, and the Guardian. The day you decided to confirm to the world that you have zero journalism standards.
To save face as Steele implodes, @lukeharding1968 now claims that Mueller "noted that there were multiple contacts in 2016 between Russian spies and Trump aides."

Mueller never said this. I’ve written The Guardian twice to correct. No response. mate.substack.com/p/russiagate-h…
In July, Luke claimed to have obtained “secret Kremlin papers” showing Putin personally authorizing a campaign to install Trump. It was such a transparent scam — likely tracing back to Christopher Steele — that even MSNBC ignored it. mate.substack.com/p/luke-harding…

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24 Nov
New: The US media's Russiagate reckoning goes far beyond the Steele dossier. Here's a list of five Pulitzer winners from the New York Times & Washington Post that also relied on dubious sources and falsehoods to push the Trump-Russia conspiracy narrative:
realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…
1) A Feb. 9, 2017 Washington Post article claimed that Michael Flynn had held "explicit" discussions with Russia's UN Ambassador about US sanctions.

Transcripts of the calls, released in May 2020, showed this was false. Sanctions were in fact only mentioned once, in passing.
The Flynn transcripts did show that there was a more extensive discussion about a separate action, *expulsions*.

But the Post's sources said the references to sanctions were "explicit", and that Flynn even made a "potentially illegal signal" of a future "reprieve."
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24 Nov
A new example of how clueless NATO troll farm Bellingcat is: they don't even understand their own claims (probably because they don't write them, as I've exposed before: thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/aut…)

Let's look at what @N_Waters says here:
I said that no recognized CW experts have stated "that the Douma victims' rapid, and in some reported cases immediate onset, of *profuse frothing* is consistent with chlorine gas."

Blanc doesn't challenge that re: frothing. He invokes a straw man: onset of pulmonary edema.
Blanc, I'm sure, understands the difference between pulmonary edema (a condition) and profuse, immediate frothing (a symptom seen in the Douma victims, staged by their sectarian death squad killers). So he's just being disingenuous. @N_Waters89 I'd bet, just doesn't understand.
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22 Nov
New: Early in the OPCW’s Douma probe, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the victims' cause of death. Leaks expose how OPCW officials censored this explosive finding — and then targeted the inspector who raised the alarm. thegrayzone.com/2021/11/22/cor… via @TheGrayzoneNews
Early in the OPCW's probe of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death. Instead of publishing this finding, OPCW officials concealed it, and then investigated a veteran inspector who questioned the censorship.
The suppression of toxicology is among a series of deceptions by the OPCW brass to corrupt the Douma probe's scientific process, as detailed in this new multi-part investigation by @TheGrayzoneNews. More than 3 years later, the high-level censorship has mired the OPCW in scandal.
Read 9 tweets
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20 Nov
Biden ordering a review of US military exercises in Europe, amid fears US moves "risk crossing the line into provoking Russia." Study finds that NATO-Russia incidents spiked post-2016 -- when Russiagate cultists wailed that US was led by "Putin's Puppet." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
"Despite Trump’s perceived affinity for Russia, he surrounded himself with hard-liners... who stepped up military activities designed to send a message to Moscow. At times, the result has been envelope-pushing missions."

Like w/ Steele, reality is finally sinking in.
"A study cataloguing nearly 3,000 incidents between NATO and Russian forces from 2013 to 2020... found significantly increased activity after 2016."

Wait, why didn't Putin just use the pee tape or his financial blackmail over Trump to get him to stand down?
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16 Nov
.@BGrueskin chides US media for embracing the Steele dossier, but in the process he does what he's criticizing: accepting partisan-tied, evidence-free Russiagate claims as fact. nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opi…
The claim of Russian "hacking into Democrats' emails" is full of evidentiary holes, heavily caveated in Mueller's report, & was generated by another Clinton contractor, Crowdstrike, which later admitted that it had no evidence.
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/…)
The claim that a Russian troll farm used "Facebook and other social media companies to foment dissent and unrest" is a joke. The posts were juvenile, barely seen, barely about the election, and mostly came *after* the election.
(thenation.com/article/archiv…)
(realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…)
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13 Nov
Just recently, Congress defeated @JamaalBowmanNY’s measure to have a *debate* on whether to authorize US military operations in Syria. I wonder if this news that the US massacred civilians in Syria and then extensively covered it up for two years will change that:
As I wrote in September, the US is occupying Syria to steal its oil/agricultural resources and effectively prolong the 10-year dirty war, all while lying to the US public. Perhaps news of this massacre will finally spark some discussion about that. mate.substack.com/p/to-keep-troo…
US airstrikes killed a reported 64 civilians in Syria on March 18, 2019. Central Command spent 2+ years hiding evidence. A whistleblower who challenged the cover-up, DoD IG official Gene Tate, was forced out of his job in October 2020. A major scandal. nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/…
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