The Associated Press received a lot of international scorn for reporting incorrectly that Russia fired missiles into Poland {Backstory}.
As soon as the AP attributed the missile attack to Russia almost immediately other media outlets began promoting calls for a NATO led war against Russia. Additionally, the G20 summit was taking place and various international leaders began discussing an article-5 convention against Russia.
However, the single source of the AP report was wrong, a senior U.S. intelligence official, if there actually was a source. It was the Ukraine military who fired the missile into Poland, not Russia.
The Daily Beast notes today that the Associated Press has fired James LaPorta, the journalist who made the claim of Russian origin.
(Via Daily Beast) – The Associated Press scared much of the world last Tuesday when it alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
That report, which was widely cited across the internet and on cable news, was taken offline the following day and replaced with an editor’s note admitting the single source was wrong and that “subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack.”
On Monday, the AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for that story, Confider has learned.
The piece, which was originally co-bylined with John Leicester (who is still working at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official,” despite the AP’s rule that it “routinely seeks and requires more than one source when sourcing is anonymous.” (read more)
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Sorry about the bad image. It was a quote on FTX-Ukraine-democrats by Madison Cawthorn. No wonder they drummed him out of CONgress.
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A big thank you nimrodman & Dandan.
For CTH readers, all too fathomable…
Biden really is intent on WWIII. But I’m sure he’s getting that dictate from WEF, in order to complete the gruesome reset.
Sad! Madison was an excellent Representative.
This is why we have never received an accounting of where the money and equipment actually went.
Fitting this might be the first known American casualty of this Western media-hyped proxy war
AP showed LaPorta the door 🙂
Nice
American mercs have already died in Ukraine. Probably more than well ever know.
Agree!
The American Mercenary group called Mozart has been over there awhile. The group is primarily American Veterans.
The largest Russian Mercenary group is the Wagner group. It is headed by a billionaire who was once known as Putins chef.
He made his money in food service industry. The Wagner Mercs are worldwide from what I understand.
The nickname for the Wagner group is–the musicians. Interesting.
The Mighty Wurlitzer can play any tune you want…
The Mighty Wurlitzer
amazon.com/Mighty-Wurlitzer-How-Played-America/dp/067403256X
Can you see why it all fits in to a theme”they” use a lot?
Wagner v Mozart — wow.
Is Wagner pronounced VOG-ner?
In German, yes, or Austrian if you are President BO
Not by Natalie. She pronounces it “bastard”.
VARG-NER
Mozart died early.
According to Russian sources, so take this with a grain of salt, there are at least 10 American led PMC’s operating in Ukraine, including the Mozart group. PMC=Private Military Contractors = plausible deniability that the American military is operating in Ukraine.
Wow the things you learn at treehouse!
“We are in the Donetsk region, in the areas of Donbass that are still controlled by Ukrainians,” writes Samuel Gratakap, author Le Monde, – The front line is at a short distance. Before us is the building in which the hotel is located. The door is open, there is only a curtain that gives an unexpected homeliness to this corner of the world where the war is raging. The sound of a shell exploding nearby forces the hotel guests to leave. It’s about midnight now. The “guests” are humanitarian volunteers, special envoys – whatever that means – and a few soldiers on leave. Among them is a small group rushing to offer help where it is needed after the explosion.
These are fighters from the Mozart Group, a private military company of American origin. We’re talking about 30 or so mercenaries. All 30 people are veterans who served in special forces units in their countries.
Andrew Milburn, founder of Mozart.
We’re doing the dirty work here that Washington can’t do. The Pentagon makes it clear that it has nothing to do with us, and distances itself from this war. It’s true”.
The above explanation is provided by Andrew Milburn, a Colonel in the US Army (despite his true English accent) who is now retired after 30 years in the US Marine Corps. He is the founder of the Mozart Group.
https://www.themozartgroup.com/2022/09/22/le-monde-mozart-against-wagner-american-mercenaries-perform-dirty-work-in-donbas/
In a recent interview with Jones(IW-infowars) or Willis(RSBN-right side broadcasting network), MTG said that they brought wounded Ukrainian soldiers from Kiev to congress.
MTG is Demanding an Audit for Every Penny Sent to Ukraine
https://rumble.com/v1uz4vq-mtg-is-demanding-an-audit-for-every-penny-sent-to-ukraine.html
MTG/Willis
rumble.com/v1ur79u-liz-willis-interviews-marjorie-taylor-greene-111522.html
MTG/Jones
assets.infowarsmedia.com/videos/3db1019c-0ab9-433a-9b86-6c73f676d2d7.mp4
How about this one:
We make Ukraine a US territory, purge the corruption and then they get to pay taxes. To US. And be subject to white collar crime type laws?
NO incredibly bad idea. First we would be comdeming the Ukraine to an endless extention of the USA deep state opperations. Second the Federal Burea of Instigation IS white collar crime. Third the current conflict is the result of a genocidal war against ethnic russians by the Ukraine. It is componded by the breaking of agreements with russia not to expand the specter of NATO.
How about the Russians annex Canada and Mexico. I am sure we would be cool with that that would settle everything down.
No, better to end all aid and subsidies foreign and domestic.
100% I want to know where trump stands on this. If he believes Ukraine needs our assistance that’s a game changer. Putin is reasonable negotiating peace would work.
Trump won’t show that card. He learnt his lesson from COVID. Once people back you into a corner based on emotions, you can’t get out. In your heart, you know where Trump stands, and with your eyes, you see how Trump feels.
Do you see it?
Do you see it?
“Trump Slams Biden Govt Over $40 Bn Military Assistance To Ukraine From US Taxpayers’ Money” https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/trump-slams-biden-govt-over-40-dollars-bn-military-assistance-to-ukraine-from-us-taxpayers-money-articleshow.html
No.
Look at what is happening in Haiti right now.
Seems every time we “help” ….it turns out really bad.
Seriously? Why the hell would you wish that on anyone!?
Even worse, someone in Congress brought Azov Regiment soldiers to visit the Capitol. There are pictures of them touring.
Few of the Ukrainian Nazis got intoxicated during the World Cup. Under arrest.
About 10 of the posters of the mascot…they vandalized by putting Hitler mustache and writing Seig Heil on them.
And yes, the welcoming Nazis to the Capitol….off the charts ignorance on display there.
And one of the wives is/was part of organization against LGBT in Ukraine.
I’m sickened at how much money has been shoveled over to Ukraine.
Especially since a lot of it was laundered and shoveled back mostly to the Dems and even some to the Gope.
Where’s your data to support this assertion? Actual data? That’s the problem with these sorts of claims.
Not attacking you Barb. You are right to demand answers.
Think of the process end to end. Congress appropriates or the President usurps Congressional authority. Money is made available for “stuff”. What “stuff”? Where does the “stuff” come from? Who originally produced the “stuff”? Who originally bought the “stuff” and why? How is it transported? Who transports? Are there intermediate shipping points? What are the final landing points? How much of the “stuff” actually gets to the Ukrainian border? How much actually gets to Ukrainians? Who facilitates all these transactions? How is contracting coordinated? What are the the profit margins? Who are the parties/countries involved? How are payments made? How is fraud policed? Are there consequences for weapons inventories that are politically driven?
The American people have been kept in complete darkness on all of this. The American media has been complicit in drawing the shades.
Are pols getting a cut? Anecdotal evidence suggests that is the case. Just saying there’s a lot more going on than a catch-phrase like laundering encompasses.
Is there any auditing going on? That would be an interesting thread for our elected officials to push or pull (as the case may be).
USA corrupt federal government politicians force citizens to pay for Ukrainian government and untold $$$Billions in “aid”.
Zelinski gives/donates/invests $$$Billions into FTX with heavy Democrat backers and Deep State actors including those tied to Enron’s bankruptcy.
FTX steals $$Billions from investors.
FTX “donates” $$$unknown totals to Democrats and $750,000 to McCarthy’s GOPe.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters on air states she does not think they should have to give back all that money FTX donated to them.
Pay for Play in action.
This is just one of the many examples so far.
[edit was changing % to $ for 750,00]
So….you have no clue or data vis what is going on with contracting in support of the Ukrainian debacle since its inception. C O N T R A C T I N G. W A R S U P P L I E S. Get it?
What you are speaking to is an entirely separate matter.
Has Congress declared a WAR as required by the Constitution?
No.
Does the government have LEGAL ability to tax citizens outside of what was stated, for War Time? No, they do not, and did not, have the ability or legal authority to change or alter the US Constitution which is a legal contract that is specific to the limited authorities allowed by the States that retain all other powers not specifically listed in the Constitution.
So what aid or subsidies are legal to begin with?
If you want to give over your monies and personal properties, do so, but leave mine.
Get back into the real world. The United States gov’t has been funding billions to Ukraine – legitimately or not. I already fenced that angle off with the President usurping phraseology. All a sideshow anyway.
The issue is everyone running off half-****ed without real hard evidence. The contracting that underlies how this money is being spent is the place to start looking. There’s too much inference going on that can lead in the wrong direction in respect to how the game is really being played and who the players happen to be. It’s possible to interpret my input as not denying the overall hypothesis that corruption is the rule of the day but rather hinting that no one has the details. Maybe contracted profit margins are upwards of 12.5%….maybe not. Maybe some of the “stuff” is coming from the Middle East….maybe not. Maybe there has already been some individuals cornered for embezzlement….maybe not. Maybe many supplies are being stockpiled in a EU nation (i.e., leading to downstream problems one day)…maybe not. Maybe there is a side agenda of depleting inventories of a certain nature in the US…maybe not. Maybe there are all kinds of front companies involved in these transactions…maybe not. Maybe the money is ultimately being funneled elsewhere…maybe not.
I don’t know. Just thinking out loud that the currents might run much deeper and that the conversation, to this point, remains in the shallows.
FTX type criminality has been going on forever. FTX is likely the proverbial tip of the iceberg vis woke (aka criminal) CEOs/CFOs siphoning off investor moneys. In the event, my focus is squarely on the billions moving to Ukraine with zero accountability and the contracting process that sits beneath all of it.
Those are questions that will never be answered. If legitimate contracts were issued, it’s a good bet the contract numbers were classified and no one will ever uncover the truth.
Phil are you pretending not to know things again?
FTX ?
T Bobulinsky?
He has all the documentation to prove Joe Biden, his brother, and Hunter Biden are heavily involved in some very shady deals in Ukraine. Nothing anecdotal about that.
Fired Ukrainian Prosecutor, at the insistence of Biden? Nothing anecdotal about that.
But as with Hunters laptop(also not anecdotal), the DOJ and FBI, are looking out for the Big Guy.
Are you pretending not to know how federal contracting/FMS/ lend lease works? PJs points are legitimate. (Discussion is the reason some of us are here.) No one doubts Dems are using Ukraine to launder $. We have mechanisms to preclude this- they are being subverted by our own “government”. Separate that from the question regarding the wisdom of supporting the Ukrainians wish not to be conquered by Russia. I’m supportive of an independent Ukraine. That is different from being supportive of the hot mess in DC.
There ya go! Love your comment on discussion…btw. Duty salute.
My intent is not to tangle with people – at least not in this context! It’s to suggest that the surface has barely been scratched on this. Caleb is insightful in recognizing that I’m not willing to walk out on the proverbial limb. So, others are free to call it a bluff. You have centered on a key construct. Contracting identifies the players, sources, destinations, transactional details. Who knows, it may even hold a certain “holy *hit” quality when viewed at the micro level.
The analytic can be used, one imagines, to expose a much broader awareness.
See my post above. If the contract numbers are classified, you will never see any of this information.
Caleb. You are sharp!
I’m not questioning the hypothesis. I’m narrowing the aperture, in some respects, to the contracting process itself (for the war; not the wider sphere of interactions with the Ukrainian kleptocracy since 2014) where the bulk of the war effort moneys (since feb 2022) have changed hands. Trying to suggest that there’s zero insight into this.
A voice of reason-finally
“House Republicans critical of U.S. assistance to Ukraine during its war with Russia introduced a privileged resolution on Thursday [11/17/2022] to audit the funds allocated by Congress.” (The Hill)
……. Has ALL the shoveled money ‘landed’ in Ukraine?
For 2021, the numbers for Military Spending were: USA, $801 billion. China, $293 billion. Russia $66 Billion. [Virtual-Capitalist with a nice pie chart and list of other countries too.]
Plus, a cursory look at the Internet, indicates the money sent to Ukraine by the USA/Biden, was approved by Congress as part of a ‘Foreign Aid’ expenditure.
Russia sure gets a lot more bang for their buck than we do.
Tell that to the mobniks. No training, no winter clothing, no life expectancy.
House is spot on demanding audit. Most $ never left our shores.
The Russian MOD budget appears to have been misappropriated if maintenance, training, and winter clothing is anything to go by. Think you know $ utility differs by nation. CCP is “outspending” us in real terms. Wonder if they include purchase of the Uni-party in their military budget?
The alimony and child support is fraudulent.
That’s OK [sic] as the “family courts” do not fall under jurisdiction of the USA or it’s Constitution (somehow) and legal precedent does not matter.
Disgusting isn’t it.
Some of the stolen taxpayer money is even financing the concrete wall that Zelensky is building on the border with Belarus.
They wouldn’t even pay a fraction of that to finish PDJTs wall and secure the southern border.
It’s the second American casualty.
The Truth was the first casualty, it fell when violently crushed to death by a division of some really nasty Lies.
Seems that you should check in with Admiral Vind-weasel first to get his assessment…
SHOCKING: Pat Buchanan Predicts NATO Expansion to Cause Russia/Ukraine/US War in 1999
Pat was right. NATO has been worse than useless since the early 1999s.
…again.
“Pioneers get the arrows” Now. more and more we understand why the enemy MSM and their bosses in the political class (swamp rats) hated Pat Buchanan so much.
Truth in the city of lies is unacceptable, especially when it goes against the cabals false narratives where the lie is their truth. It reveals itself over the decades when someone speaks against their evil intent.
They resort to murder see JFK assassinated 11/22/63, Reagan 1980 attempted assassination and character assassination by the enemy MSM, Ross Perot 1992 “That giant sucking sound”perfect description of NAFTA, Newt Gingrich Contract with America 1994, great special order speeches to the Grinch who stole Christmas…controlled opposition, Sarah Palin 2008 was a bright star that had to be destroyed, then the Tea Party 2010 midterms organic uprising the biggest political flip in 100 years.
The Tea Party revealed the uniparty like no other event. The vitriol and hate of the American people was exposed. We The People became an existential threat. The swamp put up Romney/Ryan in 2012 to take the dive and with the enemy MSM carried the ball with racist, jingoist, homophobe, anti-immigrant, anti-American etc.
Then came our Great American President Donald J Trump and revealed “our flag was still there”. This is where we find ourselves today and the many things that Pat Buchanan predicted are reality.
Good catch.
Ty StanH.
Especially if the Russians were laundering money through the cartels but the Chinese and their fentanyl program got there first but it’s cool ‘cause their friends with The Big Guy.
Not True, only 10% friends, the rest is business.
NATO courted Yeltsin? Hunter(not the laptop one) interviews Armstrong, talks about his new book…
USSR, Khrushchev-Ukraine, Gorbachev, NATO/Yeltsin, Black October Anti-Coup(1993), Putin, Ukraine(East/West), Uniparty, Steele Dossier…ymmv.
@26:30 (election segment is ok, not complete)
rumble.com/v1rrxs8-there-may-not-be-a-2024-election-martin-armstrong.html
Pat Buchanan was right, even 23 years before NATO blitzkrieged the Swedish and Finnish steppes.
Those who would want to wage war or base foreign policy on some fake news report are the ones who should be fired and shamed out of the universe for their stupidity.
It isn’t stupidity, unfortunately. Washington and their fake MSM want a war with Russia.
Incubator babies?
The social pretenders, the social shamers, and the social cancellers(Social Police), announce themselves spectacularly, the only way they can. F.U.D.
The uniparty is afraid of wolves eating them, because they know nobody cares if they get eaten. Uniparty victims cry wolf a lot.
Make Americans Scared Again? Build Fear Better!
“Truths necessary for our own character must not be suppressed out of tenderness to its calumniators.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815
Excellent post.
The CIA burned one of its stenographers. So what. There are plenty more where he came from.
The AP reporter should burn his source. The US government employee almost started WW3. They should lose their head.
That would probably result in his untimely demise.
Spot on. Who told him Russia fired the missile into Ukraine? Where have all the good people gone? I do not believe you can find truth tellers in Washington, DC; even for the right $
In other words…Fake News Great Again.
“From forty years’ experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.”
–Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816
Where I live our only local newspaper uses everything from the AP. It is so slanted that they might as well have their headline read: Abandon Hope all Ye Who Enter Here!
Take them to task for it, for being both biased & lazy. Also, if they are one of the increasing number of smaller papers being consumed by Gannett Publishing (i.e., USAToday) then it’s completely expected.
The AP was NEVER mentioned in “The Protocols” … ever! You’re looking at a fake insertion of “AP” into the world’s most famous FAKE document.
As sickening anti Semitic as the 100% FAKE “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” are, your disgraceful post has “AP” inserted in it. Now the Jew hating morons here are praising your fake document with it’s own 100% FAKE addition of “AP”.
There are easily accessible copies of this filth all over the internet and you could see “AP” was never in the TPOTEOZ until when??? Last week??? .
The AP was founded in 1846 which will automatically convince low IQ posters that it must be true because they so very much want it to be true.
Any half wit can disprove “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” with minimal time and effort. Almost all of this tripe is plagiarized from sources, some that were in existence for HUNDREDS of years before this garbage saw the light of day. The authors used anti Semitic sources and also sources that had nothing to do with Jews. If you go to various sites online, they will tell you where different sentences and paragraphs originated and you can independently google them and prove it to yourself.
When I made my 12:27 PM post, 14 people here “Liked” the “Sun_Lizard” post. How nice for them that no one can see who they are!
People in the know say that the missile was intentionally fired at Poland as a false flag. For one, Ukraine has fired a lot of S300’s and none of them exploded when they hit the ground. The missile is a ground-air missile and they don’t explode when the hit the ground after a miss. Unless they are programmed to do so.
Exactly. An eighth grader would know that Zelinski is trying to get Nato into a war with Russia, and that the DC Cartel and their Fake News MSM want it too.
Well they have to berry the WTFX scandal some how!
And they must bury the ballot fraud and the SECRET new system Mayorkas is using to get more illegals into our country. He has worked out a deal with Mexico giving the illegals their papers in Mexico then transporting THEM though the US legal ports of entry . Coming in that way gives them carte blanche. They come in like that and are NOT considered “illegal” and they don’t have to pay the cartels for crossing over. GET IT?
What a scam. Mayorkas deserves to be in prison.
That is good news, I wish they would fire them all when they lie, then we wouldn’t have to deal w/any of them, and the truth might get told if there were consequences such as this.
I thought this was an interesting theory, he admits it is rumor, but no doubt there are people out there looking it up. Thanks to the potato farmer the world was saved this time around.
Musk should restore Gonzalo Lira’s Twitter account. He always had some interesting and thought-provking tweets.
AP has been caught too many times lying to the public, including reporting this weekend a whopper of a claim that there is no evidence even suggesting that President Joe Biden ever spoke to his son about his foreign dealings.
AP is the enemy of the people.
AP doesn’t regret lying, only getting exposed when doing so.
But they’re so smart….and they know stuff….and they are the ones to tell us what to think…and what to do….and how to feel…..and what shots to get…..and what to believe….and stuff……
Ah, the bitter disappointment of realizing that they actually are that stupid and ignorant and careless,
unable to understand cause and effect of their own hubris,
unable to get honest work (which is why they are “journalists”)….
probably don’t know how to change a tire
or operate a chain saw
or load a gun
or split firewood
or grow potatoes
or anything else useful.
So I say Ha!~
He almost gained the fame of one Gavrilo Princip who fired the shot that started World War I when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
“A coalition of sentiments is not for the interest of printers…They live by the schisms they can create.
“So the printers can never leave us in a state of perfect rest and union of opinion. They would be no longer useful and would have to go to the plough.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1801
Defensive missiles fly west to east in that war, the missile that hit pohlandia, flew east to west. So it must have been an intentionally fire to pohlandia
So when is the us deep state gonna fire zelinsky for going out after this was known but ignoring it while calling for ww3 with Russia?
At some point they will be tired of him and see him for a liability. His 15 minutes are probabaly about up. I’m sure putin will get the blame for his untimely demise.
Whenever the Kiev Lobby stops paying? Just guessing.
Zelensky isn’t just in danger from the US and western powers. He’s also got the Nazi regiments at his back. He can’t make peace by agreeing to Russia taking over the 4 states that voted to leave Ukraine. He would be in danger of being killed by his own troops.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
If relying on a “single anonymous source” were actually prohibited at the Associated Press, they wouldn’t have been able publish anything on the Russian collusion hoax, Kavanaugh, Ukraine impeachment, etc.
What’s the real reason he was fired?
So who is this senior US intel official?
Someone who was offered…”one million for the fake dossier”? (PT)
Wray Eppes? Danchenko? Steele? Clinesmith? Easy money.
it could be disinformation or malinformation that there is an untold nickname, spook?
( there may be more than 1 – and they are protected because of national $ecurity? …dripping with irony … obfuscation$…due to corrupt miss motivation / distraction.)
…and someone innocent died ( again) from…uhhh..corrupt…(un) friendly fire?
[ guess whom funded the armament$ and for those people setting them off?]
How is that “inve$tigation’ of the nord pipeline $abotage coming along?
( burying the uncomfortable truths…?)
I do not know.
People do know.
You decide….
Vindman
Again, with the Russia, Russia, Russia.
It’s getting to the point that when Russia is blamed for something, everyone now automatically assumes “False Flag” and looks for some deep state/intel backstory to find the truth.
You’ve gone to the Russian well too many times!
It’s like a Seinfeld episode…We’ve got a show about nothing. Why don’t you shake things up and try something new, like the reverse swirl. Just don’t write the instructions on your hand ahead of time.
Overuse of a propaganda theme diminishes it’s effectiveness.
It gets played out. Fear becomes laughter.
Zelensky is a comedian, star of a sitcom.
…because they can’t blame China — and they can’t blame Trump (unless they can figure out a way to do that!) Period.
And never let a crisis go to waste…….
I believe Poland is getting more Air Defense Weapons, courtesy of NATO.
Lithuania was going to send some….good sense prevailed and they are now only going to send the ammo. It all changes on a daily basis ‐who is or isn’t supplying what.
It’s a total cluster over there. Quite a few people have started to realize that Zelensky is a nutcase and have been making statements about it. About time!
He still has not acknowledged it was Ukraine missile…no formal statement or apology to Poland.
Watch closely the situation with the Zaphrohsys nuclear plant. It has been shut down but Zelensky has been shelling it……
If Ukraine gets a missile at the right spot and hits the nuclear waste at the plant…..it is going to be UGLY! Nuclear committee is worthless…..
That is the biggest concern in my opinion…because Zelensky has shown he is–just insane.
I doubt Zelensky is any more in charge than xiden.
If you could dig deep enough you might find the Red Shield…
“AP is terrible-Fake News all the way!” – Donald J. Trump, Oct. 6, 2022
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109123191504137322
small blessings
it’s good to see a so-called ‘journalist’ get taken to account, at least
‘single source’ ‘senior official’ my a$$
and not a glimmer of concern that a false report could start thermonuclear war
I don’t believe for one minute that the AP fired James LaPorta because they have all of a sudden found a new interest in sincerity, and truth.
They fired him because he was not a successful propagandist, as all AP reporters are expected to be.
His failure as a propagandist became too embarrassing for the AP, and so to take their propaganda to the next level, they fired him hoping to get a wee bit of successful propaganda out of a very big propaganda failure.
It’s called “…trying to make it look….”
The DEEP STATE has no patience with incompetent lying .
NOTE THIS GIVEAWAY – “The piece, which was originally co-bylined with John Leicester (who is still working at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official” ….
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-000101801.html
AP is faking that they have credibility by pretending to defend it by firing this guy. In reality they don’t have any credibility, and noone believed their story anyway. The dangerous part is, that a malintented entity could pretend to believe the story and act on it. That’s how stupid this world has become.
I’ll tell you how lazy, stupid and non discerning the world has become . Someone posts a paragraph from the most famous FAKE document in history, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and inserts “AP” into it and people are actually believing it was in “The Protocols” originally. Even if you accept “The Protocols” as being real, you could check a hundred sites, both anti and pro “The Protocols” and see “AP” was never in them.
Sadly, Putin seems to be one of the FEW voices of SANITY in the WORLD.
Beyond our favorite POTUS, the REAL POTUS Donald J. Trump.
Best President in American HISTORY, BY FAR.
As it turns out the REAL REASON RUSSIA invaded Ukraine was the “U.S.A. Weapons BIOLABS” endangering Putin’s HOMELAND and the WORLD at large.
Uh oh… you have just made Mark Levin’s “Putin Lovers” list with that comment.
Meanwhile at the frontline, in Germany, the word “Putinversteher” is the latest knell for social death. Understand Putin (or try to) and get cancelled. You don’t even have to love him.
Watch several of Putin’s speeches and interviews and it is quite clear Putin is the hero in this debacle.
SMH
Agree! Same here in US.
If everyone would take a deep breath and pause….
Then do some research.
Find out for themselves. Do
research. The internet is even being scrubbed. But the information is there.
The transcripts of Putin speeches is good starting point.
History of Russian Federation since the fall of the USSR is good place to start also.
If Levin was even half as smart -as he thinks he is.
That is a saying my Father would frequently use to describe a bullsh!!ter.
I have Putin on my list of “Greatest American President, ahead of Carter, Biden, Obama, and Wilson.
The fired reporter should name his source so THAT person – the unaccountable government employee – can ALSO be fired. Along with whoever told that anonymous government employee to talk to the AP.
A guess would be that a standard miss protocol / tactic of massive innocence by disassociate has been underway for over a week to cover for the sources or nonsource
to support the over $pending
and keep up the distraction from green miss deal$, wef jabs, border invasion etc. ?
( the miss protocol kicks in when an uncomfortable truth gets illuminated. It is the opposite of the protocol, tactic of guilt by association )?
The attempts of mass psychosis formations are a convoluted me$s…of their own making.
So then, to ‘fix’ them, they try another narrative…?
( playing pretend…while wa$ting resources…?)
I do not know
There are clues. You decide…
People know…
Imho
Are CNN and MSNBC both offering that inept reporter a job, with a pay raise and signing bonus? There kind of guy!
Hiring him to report on Trump investigations? Promising him Pulitzers? Instructing him to make sure his anonymous source leaks to others, so when separate reporters relay the same lie it will be confirmed as true?
I can only dream that the propagandists would all be fired for publishing anonymous lies told about Trump that proved to be false!
If the AP can’t control its lousy reporters, then the market should control the AP. Wishful thinking, of course.
Associated Propoganda, working hand in hand with Third Reich Rueters to destroy Western Civilization as we know it …
Dick Russell:
In “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy exposes Pharma’s alarming entanglements with the CIA, bioweapons developers, medical technocrats and the Silicon Valley robber barons. My own research has revealed that military and intelligence agencies enjoy disturbing links to the leading editors of Daily Kos, The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone that may explain why these journals have lately devolved into ideological commissars for the pharmaceutical cartel’s official orthodoxies, champions of the biosecurity paradigm and censors against critics of the biosecurity state. …….
Operation Mockingbird
In 1948, the year after its founding, the CIA created a top-secret program — Operation Mockingbird — to wield influence over the American media. From its inception, this clandestine project was yet another of the CIA’s outlaw enterprises.
The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act had illegalized the use of CIA funding to broadcast propaganda to Americans. When a congressional investigation in the mid-1970s first revealed Operation Mockingbird’s existence, shocked Americans learned that the agency’s key CIA collaborators included Washington Post owner Philip Graham; CBS owner William Paley; Time-Life publisher Henry Luce; top editors at the New York Times, and Joseph Alsop, whose influential column appeared in more than 300 newspapers.
CIA Director Allen Dulles oversaw Mockingbird’s illegal network until RFK Jr.’s uncle, President John Kennedy, fired him at the end of 1961. By then, Mockingbird was employing “some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees… engaged in propaganda efforts.”
The agency commissioned its journalists to write articles promoting the expansion of the military-industrial complex and the national security state and rewarded them with classified information to spice up their “scoops.”
The CIA also established formal journalism training for its spies, embedding them in key journals and nurturing their careers. The agency promoted propaganda narratives, including portraying murdered Salvadoran farmers as Communists under Soviet control, and discouraged newspapers from delving into CIA atrocities such as the agency’s mass murders of tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants, Buddhist leaders and intellectuals (Operation Phoenix); its orchestration of the butchering of a million Indonesian civilians; its political assassination, torture training and regime-change projects across Latin America (Operation Condor), Africa, and Asia; its crack dealing and drug smuggling operations; and its role in the overthrow of the Democratic governments in Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq and elsewhere.
CIA-affiliated journalists were instrumental in suppressing questions about the CIA’s role in the Kennedy assassination — even as the agency’s former chief, Allen Dulles (who remarked with satisfaction of JFK’s murder: “That little Kennedy … He thought he was a god”), crafted and defended the official “lone shooter” narrative from his chair running the Warren Commission. …
Ulfkotte quotes a CIA agent who told the Washington Post, “You can get a journalist for less than a good whore, for a few hundred dollars.”
While on assignment in the Middle East, Ulfkotte regularly reported to the local CIA and BND outposts. While working abroad as a foreign correspondent, he discovered that “every foreign reporter for the American and British press was also active for their intelligence services.”
He describes how the CIA houses its captured journalists in sinecures at U.S. and German think tanks that have close ties to the CIA and NATO, where they manufacture pro-U.S. opinion and push for war with Russia. The State Department, Ulfkotte says, provides grant money to think tanks that house journalists/spies and that promote CIA propaganda.
Like Kennedy’s new book, Ulfkotte’s “Presstitutes” was a bestseller in Germany (for a full 18 months) when it was first published in 2013, despite a wall-to-wall boycott by mainstream media.
Today, leading liberal press organs routinely print unvetted CIA disinformation as verified news stories.
In April 2021, Glenn Greenwald revealed that the blockbuster New York Times story “Bountygate” was actually a CIA-generated propaganda fiction. The Times reported that the Russian government tried to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The Times reporters got this tall tale from the CIA and neither verified or fact-checked it. The Times reporters did not disclose that the CIA had provided the unverified story. …
In an April 2021 article, “The CIA Used to Infiltrate the Media. Now the CIA Is the Media,” Caitlin Johnstone writes:
“They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story. …This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting AS the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretense of separation, has been dropped.”
Rest in the Vine: “Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets”
and “Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA” by Dick Russell
Remember when Popular Mechanics shilled for 9/11? So many examples if you know where and how to look.
This is par for the course for the AP. Business as usual
Why did he get fired? AP’s entire business model seems to by lying and creating panic to help 0’Bama’s Democrat Party and the DC Swamp’s D33p Stat3…
He won’t stay “fired” is all a shell game.
Yeah, he’ll get hired at an Ivy League journalism department as a professor…
Good. Riddance.
So…what about the editorial and production staff, who let the story go public in violation of AP Editorial Standards?? The reporter was the fall guy, not that I shed a tear for this slug.
There are 4 major “sources” of “news” used by the majority of news outlets worldwide, on blind faith agreements and becuase the same reporters dump the same stories into all 4.
AP (Associated Press)
UPI (United Press International)
Reuters
BBC (British Broadcasting Company)
With the exception of the “Publicly” Owned BBC, the others are owned by major media and financial holding companies with allot of common names as the major investor owners and allot of names in common with US MSM Outlets as technical “media” managers from among the media holding companies.
One can be assured this slug reporter will be hired by another media outlet and will have had a few Ukraine Aid dollars stuffed into his pockets.
Any reason you don’t include Truth Social in your share options? Yes, copy and paste works but if you don’t want the link, why should I bother? Just wondering. You have Tumblr and 50 others but not Truth?
btw, everyone, don’t try to share any of the images from Hunter’s laptop in any social media post. You will be punished, banished, banned. The crooked, fascist government and its Mockingbird media shills continue to foist lies upon us while covering up the truth. It’s despicable. Hunter can engage in these behaviors, film them, distribute them, do illicit drugs on camera, spend the public’s money on drugs and sex and NOTHING happens to him, or his Dad who facilitates it all. But don’t dare try to talk about it or post about it. YOU will be destroyed. What a filthy cabal of devils and rats we’re up against.
You are correct about the censoring.
The interesting part is that the majority of the censoring is being done 1-step before your post hits the actual media site where you are posting. The majority use intermediate level editors such as disquis to handle the technical and formatting aspects of comment and/or article editing.
The US Government, major media outlet owners and social media owners have gotten smart by taking control of the editor services so articles can be censored no matter the 1st Amendment Stance of the ACTUAL Web Site where one posts.
The same words, acronyms, names and even IP Addresses activate the censorship functions within these editorial services no matter which web site you want use.
The hoaxers Vovan and Lexus pretended to be Macron on a phone call to the president of Poland, Duda. During the phone call, Duda said, “Emmanuel, believe me, I’m extremely careful. I don’t blame the Russians. Do you think I need a war with Russia? No. I don’t want that.”
Actually, that is a little reassuring because Poland has been quite belligerent and seemingly ready to fight.
This story is exactly why I NEVER BELIEVE ‘breaking news.’ Some people fell for the breaking news about a MAGA supporter attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband. I remember News Anchor Frank Reynolds going ballistic on National TV when someone told him that James Brady was DEAD but it wasn’t true. Brady was shot during the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan. Brady had NOT died but he was severely injured. He died in 2014 at age of 74.
What were the missiles really aiming at?
“Prior to journalism, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a infantry rifleman. From 2006 until 2014, Mr. LaPorta worked in multiple leadership billets, serving as a infantry squad leader, a combat marksmanship instructor and an intelligence cell chief. He deployed multiple times to Afghanistan.
He is a graduate of several military schools, including the Combat Marksmanship Instructor Trainers Course and Non-Lethal Weapons and Tactics Course through II Special Operations Training Group. Mr. LaPorta holds a Black Belt, First Degree through the Marine Corps Marital Arts Program and is a qualified rifle expert in precision shooting.”
https://muckrack.com/james-laporta/bio
Is Poland going to retaliate on Ukraine?
And how many media sites are reporting on the unveiling of the Fidel Castro monument in Moscow this week?
The Cuban President is there. He gave a speech.
You would think our media would be reporting extensively on it.
Ukraine is a proxy of the US. A lot of people had no problem with NATO (US) putting missiles on the border of Russia.
So….guess there will be No problem with Russia if they have Cuba as a Proxy and putting missiles in Cuba? /s
The President of Cuba in his speech did refer to US as a common enemy…..
Once upon a time…USA put missiles in Turkey and Italy. USSR did not like that.
So…during the 60’s and JFK we had what was called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
USSR put missiles in Cuba.
Sanity prevailed….
US took their missiles out. USSR took their missiles out.
My thought and question now is…..
Does Sanity exist any longer?
Do I trust the kiddos in the Biden regime?
Nope.
Let’s pray fake news journalist do not start WW3.
Note too, why after pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter to “continue to monitor the situation”. Really? Hunter laptop – CBS – Copy of Hunter Biden laptop data appears genuine independent experts find?
It took only close to 3 years of looking the other way to finally admit the laptop is real.
Since when does the AP care about truth?
There is almost no chance the AP ran the story knowing it was not following procedure, and absolutely no chance the AP was unaware of the consequences of doing so. That implicates the entire government/media propaganda complex in something that was not accidental, or solely to the reporters.
The Polish villager who took the photos may have delayed, possibly saved the world from, a third world war.
A bit like that Soviet submarine XO that refused to launch his missiles during the Cuban missile crisis. All it takes is one guy and a bit of Providence to save humanity.
After all, AP alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
The former AP reporter will be promoted to Analyst at either MSNPC or CNN.
This “could have started WW3” stuff is just stupid hype. NATO isn’t going to go to war based on a media claim.
There is some truth to that, but there are also indications NATO is frenetically attempting to escalate the conflict. At the very least NATO is desperate to change the direction of the narrative war, which it is losing outside of the NATO bloc.
Allowing the AP to run wild with this story could have been such attempt at both, and one that could have easily gotten out of control.
North Carolina congressman Dan Bishop is vowing to work to uncover the identity of a nameless U.S. official that fed an erroneous Associated Press story regarding a purported Russian missile strike last week. After all, alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.” Adam Schiff and AP connections? Past and present?
https://apnews.com/article/d29a9c0369fd4a949341b68731e28e64
OR, FBI agents posing as members of the media?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/settlement-reached-suits-fbi-posing-associated-press-reporter-rcna55889
Insertion : After all, (Associated Press) alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
North Carolina congressman Dan Bishop is vowing to work to uncover the identity of a nameless U.S. official that fed an erroneous Associated Press story regarding a purported Russian missile strike last week. After all, alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.” Adam Schiff and AP connections? Past and present?
https://apnews.com/article/d29a9c0369fd4a949341b68731e28e64
and here : GOP turns fury on Schiff over Russian collusion claimshttps://apnews.com/article/c3e03438a8034ca19bcd1d2fd273b1df
OR, FBI agents posing as members of the media?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/settlement-reached-suits-fbi-posing-associated-press-reporter-rcna55889
This time (Associated Press) alerted readers that “a senior U.S. intelligence official” said “Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.”
“The piece, which was originally co-bylined with John Leicester (who is still working at the AP), attributed the information to a single “senior U.S. intelligence official,” …..
(SOURCE link)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-000101801.html