One of the most notorious and toxic figures on the American political scene is advising the NZ government

One of the most notorious figures on the US political scene, John Podesta is in New Zealand stirring up trouble.

The liberals will be jumping for joy while I think this is BEYOND disgusting.

2020 New Zealand election a 'juicy target' for major hack - John Podesta

Newshub,

11 March, 2019

The victim of the world's most notorious political hack is warning New Zealand's election next year is at serious risk of a major cyber-attack by Russia and China.

In an exclusive television interview, Hillary Clinton's former presidential campaign manager, John Podesta, told Newshub that New Zealand is a big juicy target - and that hacked information could be weaponised as fake news.

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Having run the White House as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, and acting as counsellor to President Barack Obama, Mr Podesta is of the most powerful people in US democratic politics.

He was also the campaign manager of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton - although that didn't go well.

During the campaign, tens of thousands of Mr Podesta's emails were hacked by the Russia government.

The hack and release on WikiLeaks was believed to be a major factor in Ms Clinton's loss to current president Donald Trump.

"Vladimir Putin must be sitting in the Kremlin saying this is the best return on investment I ever got - I've got a pliant president of the United States," Mr Podesta says.

New Zealand's top spies warned Parliament last month that our election is also vulnerable to attack, and Mr Podesta agrees.

"I'd say very worried," he told Newshub. "I don't see why they couldn't do it. And there are other state actors as well."

At the top of that list is China.

"There are other actors in the region including China that may have a high degree of interest in being able to penetrate what the private conversations of people in NZ politics and NZ Government are looking at," Mr Podesta says.

New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes spy network, a powerful intelligence club made up of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and us.

He says we're a "juicier target", and should guard against hacked information being weaponised as fake news.

"What's new is this weaponisation - the use of social media to spread discord, lies, dissatisfaction - that's I think what you've got to look out for," he says.

Mr Podesta played a starring role in one of the great conspiracy theories of the election - his hacked emails included an exchange about a Washington DC pizza joint called Comet Ping Pong.

"[The rumours were] that HC and I were running a child porn ring, which had no basis in anything, but a guy showed up with a gun and ended up shooting up a pizza parlour," he says.

This is a cautionary tale from someone who understands too well the influence and damage hacking and fake news can do.

New Zealand is not exempt - and Newshub understands it's something the Prime Minister is seriously concerned about.

Mr Podesta is in New Zealand for a Global Progressives event. 

In view of that it behooves us to be reminded of certain facts.

All of this comes from Wikileaks, which has a solid reputation of never having got things wrong up to now.


To read Wikileaks' Podesta emails GO HERE

Abby Martin of Empire Files is hardly a representative of the alt-Right!

I found this pretty good analysis of the entire affair from a couple of years ago..

PizzaGate- DNC Pedophile Ring exposed by Podesta's Emails - Obama, Clintons,Andrew Kline

This is the start of an open source investigation into the Pizza Gate Pedophile Rings being run by Comet Ping Pong Pizza. This ring of Pedophiles is directly exposed by the emails from John Podesta and Tony Podesta. Also directly connected to this is DOJ Andrew Kline. The links I have compiled are below. I uploaded this video to the Steemit Block Chain so it will forever be on the internet, uncensorable in the block chain.

Links for Further Investigation.

DC Leaks Pizza Gate: https://dcpizzagate.wordpress.com/

Wikileaks Podesta Emails: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=comet&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult

Andrew Kline owns Besta Pizza: https://steemit.com/wikileaks/@ausbitbank/besta-pizza-is-owned-by-andrew-kline-of-the-human-trafficking-prosecution-unit-of-the-doj-pizza-parties-exposed

Beyond Borders: http://beyondborders.net/

Comet Ping Pong: http://www.cometpingpong.com/

Comet Ping Pong Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/comet-ping-pong-washington

Comet Ping Pong FB: https://www.facebook.com/cometpingpong/

Besta Pizza Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/besta-pizza-washington

FBI Known Pedophilia Symbolism: https://sli.mg/00qA8D

Jimmy Comet Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jimmycomet/?hl=en

Julian Treger Insta: https://www.instagram.com/juliantreger/

Charlotte Insta: https://www.instagram.com/charlottedicarcaci/

Brian Bakers Insta: https://www.instagram.com/brianbakers/

TransformerDC Insta: https://www.instagram.com/transformerdc/

CBoutlier Insta: https://www.instagram.com/cboutlier/

Victoria Reis Insta: https://www.instagram.com/victorialynnreis/

Comet Ping Pong Insta: https://www.instagram.com/cometpingpong/

Halien Witch Trials : https://www.instagram.com/witchtrials/

Wild Torus: https://www.instagram.com/wildtorus/

Quite apart from the facts if notorious "fact-checker" Snopes says it is false we KNOW it is true!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pizzagate-conspiracy/

Is the knife about to fall on the Clinton cabal?

Nobody,except for those who believe the “Make America Great Again” nonsense would believe now that Donald Trump is a good POTUS.

By the same token he is not what he is being portrayed across the entirety of the media.

I reject outright the dualistic “good vs evil” approach of the Libtards – Clinton must be good because Trump is....

For me the following broadcast is one of the clearest exposition of what to most is a highly -confusing situation with narratives competing to such a degree that one might be forgiven for thinking one was living in a parallel universe.

My sensitive nose tells me who's lying, and who's not.

It is so confusing because of Trump’s authoritarian streak, and that everything he is doing is against the public/human interest.

Never mind Trump bringing fascism to America. It was already there and Trump’s contribution in my mind is likely to be to bring the whole festering House of Cards down.

Another way of saying that Trump is likely to oversee the complete collapse of American power and the fall of the Republic as we have known it and perhaps a falling-way of the pretence of “democracy” in the United States.

In conclusion, we have to relinquish a goods VS evil attitude. They're ALL bad but this corruption right through the political class, the media and American institutions has to be revealed for what it is.

BREAKING! TRUMP GIVES 300 INDICTMENTS, PEDOGATE PIZZA GATE IS FAILING

I have been looking for "the other side" of the story but this is all I can find from propaganda channel CNN with its blanket statement that Pizzgate is "completely false."

This is all I found.

#Pizzagate and Alex Jones' apology

Was Info Wars' Alex Jones forced in to an apology to Alex Alefantis?

I have never gravitated towards Info Wars or Alex Jones due to a significant degree of bullshit that spewed out of his mouth.

I am not one to reject sources out of turn but try to look at the story and if there might be something in it.

Times change and my view of Jones has changed as, since the November US election, there has been sufficient there to listen to what he (or rather his guests) have to say.

Now we have what I believe may be the beginning of a move by the Deep State and its allies in the media to not only close down Jones and InfoWars but any dissidents on Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.


Hence I find myself in agreement with Christopher Green of AMTV (another person I struggle to like). Even if we don't like these people we have to unite to defend those individuals and organisations under attack by the fascist state.


Here is Alex Jones reading his legal statement

Today he made a statement clarifying his position.

Can James Alefantis Sue Alex Jones And Infowars Over Pizzagate?

In recent  days Info Wars have been removing the traces in the form of videos about #PizzaGate.



Jones explains why he stopped coveing #PizzaGate back in December last year

Alex Jones Explains Why He Stopped Covering #Pizzagate AND DIGS EVEN DEEPER! Responds to Megyn Kelly

Info Wars, 15 December, 2016

Alex Jones addressing the fake news Megan Kelly has been caught fabricating. This comes as Megyn Kelly calls for banning of "fake" news sites. He also touches on #Pizzagate again.

Alex Jones addressing the fake news Megan Kelly has been caught fabricating. This comes as Megyn Kelly calls for banning of "fake" news sites. He also touches on #Pizzagate again.

AMTV's Christopher Green makes a reasonable job of explaining the danger and why we should instead give him support. Who will be next?

CONFIRMED! PIZZAGATE WAS AND IS A TRAP

Cristopher Green mentions David Seaman who used to write for Huffington Post but has also been attacked in MSM

From the dreadful Buzzfeed, fake news site par excallence

How YouTube Serves As The Content Engine Of The Internet's Dark Side

Everyone knows that Twitter and Facebook spread bad information and hate speech. But YouTube, which pays for conspiracy theories seen by millions, may be even worse.

Originally posted on February 25, 2017, at 5:56 p.m.

David Seaman is the Pizzagate King of the Internet.

On Twitter, Seaman posts dozens of messages a day to his 66,000 followers, often about the secret cabal — including Rothschilds, Satanists, and the other nabobs of the New World Order — behind the nation’s best-known, super-duper-secret child sex ring under a DC pizza parlor.

But it’s on YouTube where he really goes to work. Since Nov. 4, four days before the election, Seaman has uploaded 136 videos, more than one a day. Of those, at least 42 are about Pizzagate. The videos, which tend to run about eight to fifteen minutes, typically consist of Seaman, a young, brown-haired man with glasses and a short beard, speaking directly into a camera in front of a white wall. He doesn’t equivocate: Recent videos are titled “Pizzagate Will Dominate 2017, Because It Is Real” and “#PizzaGate New Info 12/6/16: Link To Pagan God of Pedophilia/Rape.”

Seaman has more than 150,000 subscribers. His videos, usually preceded by preroll ads for major brands like Quaker Oats and Uber, have been watched almost 18 million times, which is roughly the number of people who tuned in to last year’s season finale of NCIS, the most popular show on television.

His biography reads, in part, “I report the truth.”

In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, the major social platforms, most notably Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, have been forced to undergo painful, often public reckonings with the role they play in spreading bad information. How do services that have become windows onto the world for hundreds of millions of people square their desire to grow with the damage that viral false information, “alternative facts,” and filter bubbles do to a democracy?

And yet there is a mammoth social platform, a cornerstone of the modern internet with more than a billion active users every month, which hosts and even pays for a fathomless stock of bad information, including viral fake news, conspiracy theories, and hate speech of every kind — and it’s been held up to virtually no scrutiny: YouTube.

The entire contemporary conspiracy-industrial complex of internet investigation and social media promulgation, which has become a defining feature of media and politics in the Trump era, would be a very small fraction of itself without YouTube. Yes, the site most people associate with “Gangnam Style,” pirated music, and compilations of dachshunds sneezing is also the central content engine of the unruliest segments of the ascendant right-wing internet, and sometimes its enabler.

To wit, the conspiracy-news internet’s biggest stars, some of whom now enjoy New Yorkerprofiles and presidential influence, largely live on YouTube — some of them on the site's news channel. Infowars — whose founder and host, Alex Jones, claims Sandy Hook didn’t happen, Michelle Obama is a man, and 9/11 was an inside job — broadcasts to 2 million subscribers on YouTube. So does Michael “Gorilla Mindset” Cernovich. So too do a whole genre of lesser-known but still wildly popular YouTubers, people like Seaman and Stefan Molyneux (an Irishman closely associated with the popular “Truth About” format). 

As do a related breed of prolific political-correctness watchdogs like Paul Joseph Watson and Sargon of Akkad (real name: Carl Benjamin), whose videos focus on the supposed hypocrisies of modern liberal culture and the ways they leave Western democracy open to a hostile Islamic takeover. As do a related group of conspiratorial white-identity vloggers like Red Ice TV, which regularly hosts neo-Nazis in its videos.

“The internet provides people with access to more points of view than ever before," YouTube wrote in a statement. "When it comes to news, we have thousands of news publishers that present a variety of viewpoints available on our news house channel,www.youtube.com/news. The videos here are featured using criteria informed by, among other things, Google News. We're always taking feedback so we can continue to improve and present as many perspectives at a given moment in time as possible.”

All this is a far cry from the platform’s halcyon days of 2006 and George Allen’s infamous “Macaca” gaffe. Back then, it felt reasonable to hope the site would change politics by bypassing a rose-tinted broadcast media filter to hold politicians accountable. As recently as 2012, Mother Jones posted to YouTube hidden footage of Mitt Romney discussing the “47%” of the electorate who would never vote for him, a video that may have swung the election. But by the time the 2016 campaign hit its stride, and a series of widely broadcast, ugly comments by then-candidate Trump didn’t keep him out of office, YouTube’s relationship to politics had changed.

Today, it fills the enormous trough of right-leaning conspiracy and revisionist historical content into which the vast, ravening right-wing social internet lowers its jaws to drink. Shared widely everywhere from white supremacist message boards to chans to Facebook groups, these videos constitute a kind of crowdsourced, predigested ideological education, offering the “Truth” about everything from Michelle Obama’s real biological sex (760,000 views!) to why medieval Islamic civilization wasn’t actually advanced.

Frequently, the videos consist of little more than screenshots of a Reddit “investigation” laid out chronologically, set to ominous music. Other times, they’re very simple, featuring a man in a sparse room speaking directly into his webcam, or a very fast monotone narration over a series of photographs with effects straight out of iMovie. There’s a financial incentive for vloggers to make as many videos as cheaply they can; the more videos you make, the more likely one is to go viral. David Seaman’s videos typically garner more than 50,000 views and often exceed 100,000. Many of Seaman’s videos adjoin ads for major brands. A preroll ad for Asana, the productivity software, precedes a video entitled “WIKILEAKS: Illuminati Rothschild Influence & Simulation Theory”; before “Pizzagate: Do We Know the Full Scope Yet?!” it’s an ad for Uber, and before “HILLARY CLINTON'S HORROR SHOW,” one for a new Fox comedy. (Most YouTubers have no direct control over which brands' ads run next to their videos, and vice versa.)

This trough isn’t just wide, it’s deep. A YouTube search for the term “The Truth About the Holocaust” returns half a million results. The top 10 are all Holocaust-denying or Holocaust-skeptical. (Sample titles: “The Greatest Lie Ever Told,” which has 500,000 views; “The Great Jewish Lie”; “The Sick Lies of a Holocaust™ 'Survivor.'”) Say the half million videos average about 10 minutes. That works out to 5 million minutes, or about 10 years, of “Truth About the Holocaust.”

Meanwhile, “The Truth About Pizzagate” returns a quarter of a million results, including “PizzaGate Definitive Factcheck: Oh My God” (620,000 views and counting) and “The Men Who Knew Too Much About PizzaGate” (who, per a teaser image, include retired Gen. Michael Flynn and Andrew Breitbart).

Sometimes, these videos go hugely viral. “With Open Gates: The Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations” — an alarming 20-minute video about Muslim immigration to Europefeaturing deceptive editing and debunked footage — received some 4 million views in late 2015 before being taken down by YouTube over a copyright claim. (Infowars: “YouTube Scrambles to Censor Viral Video Exposing Migrant Invasion.”) That’s roughly as many people as watched the Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere. It’s since been scrubbed of the copyrighted music and reuploaded dozens of times.

First circulated by white supremacist blogs and chans, “With Gates Wide Open” gained social steam until it was picked up by Breitbart, at which point it exploded, blazing the viral trail by which conspiracy-right “Truth” videos now travel. Last week, President Trump incensed the nation of Sweden by falsely implying that it had recently suffered a terrorist attack. Later, he clarified in a tweet that he was referring to a Fox News segment. That segment featured footage from a viral YouTube documentary, Stockholm Syndrome, about the dangers of Muslim immigration into Europe. Sources featured in the documentary have since accused its director, Ami Horowitz, of “bad journalism” for taking their answers out of context.

So what responsibility, if any, does YouTube bear for the universe of often conspiratorial, sometimes bigoted, frequently incorrect information that it pays its creators to host, and that is now being filtered up to the most powerful person in the world? Legally, per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which absolves service providers of liability for content they host, none. But morally and ethically, shouldn’t YouTube be asking itself the same hard questions as Facebook and Twitter about the role it plays in a representative democracy? How do those questions change because YouTube is literally paying people to upload bad information?

And practically, if YouTube decided to crack down, could it really do anything?

YouTube does “demonitize” videos that it deems “not advertiser-friendly,” and last week, following a report in the Wall Street Journal that Disney had nixed a sponsorship deal with the YouTube superstar PewDiePie over anti-Semitic content in his videos, YouTube pulled his channel from its premium ad network. 

But such steps have tended to follow public pressure and have only affected extremely famous YouTubers. And it’s not like PewDiePie will go hungry; he can still run ads on his videos, which regularly do millions of views.

Ultimately, the platform may be so huge as to be ungovernable: Users upload 400 hours of video to YouTube every minute. One possibility is drawing a firmer line between content the company officially designates as news and everything else; YouTube has a dedicated News vertical that pulls in videos from publishers approved by Google News.

Even there, though, YouTube has its work cut out for it. On a recent evening, the first result I saw under the “Live Now - News” subsection of youtube.com/news was the Infowars “Defense of Liberty 13 Hour Special Broadcast.” Alex Jones was staring into the camera.

From WeAreChange

PIZZAGATE RESEARCHER DAVID SEAMAN’S VIDEOS VANISH FROM YOUTUBE AFTER BUZZFEED HIT PIECE

Asking questions about #Pizzagate

Ben Swann is going dark on his social media channels on 02/01/2017

Via Facebook -

“Hey guys, everyone is asking if things are OK. They are. I will be heading back to CBS46 on Monday but there are going to be some changes. The biggest one will be that this social page will go dark f/n on Tuesday, Feb 1. We've been building this project for 6 years and those who have come to know me.. I hope you have also come to trust me.”

Ben Swann on #Pizzagate