{"id":282801,"date":"2016-12-05T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-fake-news-media-attacks\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T23:25:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T22:25:25","slug":"the-fake-news-media-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/the-fake-news-media-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fake News Media Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Eric Zuesse has brought to our attention that US intelligence officials have placed a story in Buzzfeed, \u201ca Democratic party mouthpiece,\u201d that the Russian government used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2016\/12\/63755.html\">fake news<\/a> to get Donald Trump elected president. According to Buzzfeed:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUS intelligence officials believe Russia helped disseminate fake and propagandized news as part of a broader effort to influence and undermine the presidential election, two US intelligence sources told BuzzFeed News.\u2018They\u2019re doing this continuously, that\u2019s a known fact,\u2019 one US intelligence official said, requesting anonymity to discuss the sensitive national security issue.\u2018This is beyond propaganda, that\u2019s my understanding,\u2019 the second US intelligence official said. The official said they believed those efforts likely included the dissemination of completely fake news stories.\u00a0\u2026One intelligence official said, \u2018In the context, did Russia attempt to influence the US elections; the aperture is as wide as it can possibly be.\u2019\u201d \u2018The real unanswered question is, why did they do it?\u2019 the second US intelligence official said. \u2018Is it because they love Donald Trump? Because they hated Hillary Clinton? Or just because they like undermining Western democracies?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/silver-bullion-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=silverprices\">Current Prices on popular forms of Silver Bullion<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who are these US intelligence officials who are portraying the president-elect of the United States to be a \u201cPutin stooge, a tool of Russia\u201d? Once in office, Trump must investigate these hostile elements in US intelligence who are working to discredit the US president and the American people who voted him into office.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amazon-element-wrapper-custom align-right last-count\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-med-image\"><span class=\"amazon-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neoconservative-Threat-World-Order-Washingtons\/dp\/0986076996%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA%26tag%3Dlewrockwell%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0986076996\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ogf39LD2L._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"amazon-image amazon-image-medium\"\/><\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-title\"><span class=\"appip-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neoconservative-Threat-World-Order-Washingtons\/dp\/0986076996%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA%26tag%3Dlewrockwell%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0986076996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Neoconservative Th&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-author\">Dr. Paul Craig Roberts<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-lowest-used\"><span class=\"appip-label label-lowest-used\">Best Price: <\/span>$20.73<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-formatted-price\"><span class=\"appip-label label-formatted-price\">Buy New <\/span>$18.04<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"amazon-element-button\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lewrockwell&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&amp;ASIN.1=0986076996&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/amazon-ad-link-lr\/img\/buy-from-tan.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span>As one reader pointed out, those who debunk \u201cconspiracy theories,\u201d that is, explanations that they do not like, now have a conspiracy theory of their own: Vladimir Putin used independent American websites to elect Trump with fake news. Only voters living in a few large coastal cities were immune to the fake news.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the presstitute media has lost control over Americans\u2019 minds to Putin.<\/p>\n<p>With an opponent, this powerful, neoconservatives better think a dozen times before fomenting any more tension with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Open the link above to Zeusse\u2019s column and look at the cover of Time magazine. This cover delegitimizes the presidential election. Which US intelligence agency planted this cover on Time? President Trump must have the Secret Service investigate this attack from inside the US government on the US President. Congress, both House, and Senate, should immediately summon Time magazine to hearings under oath. This interference by US intelligence in American political life is illegal. Those responsible must be discovered, indicted, convicted, and sentenced. Otherwise, fake news will displace facts as Americans are wrapped in a Matrix inside a Matrix.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/assets\/2009\/10\/roberts2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Three hundred and ninety opponents of the US Constitution, who sit in the US House of Representatives, just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-12-02\/house-quietly-passes-bill-targeting-russian-propaganda-websites\">passed a bill<\/a> that voids the First Amendment to the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/bills\/114\/hr6393\/text\">Title V of the bill<\/a> establishes an interagency executive branch committee \u201cto counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence.\u201d Russian manipulation of US media (a routine practice of the US government) to spread disinformation (fake news) is one of the \u201cactive measures by Russia\u201d to be countered. In other words, websites that do not participate in the demonization of Russia and President Putin will be subjected to McCarthyite suspicions and accusations. Countering is an open-ended activity that easily extends to enforcement actions against suspected parties.<\/p>\n<p>If this bill becomes law, it can be used to discredit and destroy truthtellers as agents of foreign intelligence. In other words, the message is: if you dispute our lies you are a foreign agent and subject to arrest or elimination.<\/p>\n<p>This is the state of democracy in America today. More than any other country, the United States needs to be liberated. Can Trump do it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-author-archives-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/paul-craig-roberts\/\">The Best of Paul Craig Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2016\/12\/paul-craig-roberts\/fake-news-media-attacks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zuesse has brought to our attention that US intelligence officials have placed a story in Buzzfeed, \u201ca Democratic party mouthpiece,\u201d that the Russian government used fake news to get Donald Trump elected president. 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