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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0088CC" vlink="#0088CC"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#DDDDDD'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Caitlin Johnstone posted: "The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in the last three days. A report seeded throughout the mainstream media by anonymous intelligence offici" <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;max-width: 1024px;min-width: 320px'><tr><td style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#43A4D0'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#EFEFEF;border:none;border-bottom:solid #DDDDDD 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.8pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.05in;margin-left:0in;font-size:16px!important;margin:20px!important'><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646;font-weight:normal'>New post on </span><strong><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646'>Caitlin Johnstone</span></strong><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#464646;font-weight:normal'> <o:p></o:p></span></h2></td><td style='border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0088CC;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img width=32 height=32 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D4A8BE.E547FD60" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0088CC'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white'><tr><td style='padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2"><span style='color:#2585B2;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=50 height=50 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D4A8BE.E547FD60" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#555555'><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/01/10/a-new-narrative-control-firm-works-to-destroy-alternative-media/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>A New Narrative Control Firm Works To Destroy Alternative Media</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#888888'>by <a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>Caitlin Johnstone</span></u></a> </span><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;max-width: 560px'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in the last three days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUU2vD5NFeU"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>report</span></u></a> seeded throughout the mainstream media by anonymous intelligence officials back in September claimed that US government workers in Cuba had suffered concussion-like brain damage after hearing strange noises in homes and hotels with the most likely culprit being "sophisticated microwaves or another type of electromagnetic weapon" from Russia. A recording of one such highly sophisticated attack was analyzed by scientists and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/01/07/nbc-and-msnbc-blamed-russia-for-using-sophisticated-microwaves-to-cause-brain-injuries-in-u-s-diplomats-in-cuba-the-culprits-were-likely-crickets/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>turned out to be the mating call of the male indies short-tailed cricket</span></u></a>. Neurologists and other brain specialists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/cuban-acoustic-attack-report-on-us-diplomats-flawed-say-neurologists"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>have challenged the claim</span></u></a> that any US government workers suffered any neurological damage of any kind, saying test results on the alleged victims were misinterpreted. The actual story, when stripped of hyperventilating Russia panic, is that some government workers heard some crickets in Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Another report which dominated news headlines all of yesterday claimed that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort (the same Paul Manafort who the <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Guardian</span></em> <a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/never-ever-forget-the-guardian-politico-psyop-against-wikileaks-a7b9c99b9c9"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>falsely claimed</span></u></a> met with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy) had shared polling data with a Russian associate and asked him to pass it along to Oleg Deripaska, who is often labeled a "Russian oligarch" by western media. The polling data was mostly public already, and the rest was just more polling information shared at the beginning of 2016, but Deripaska's involvement had Russiagaters burning the midnight oil with breathless excitement. <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Talking Points Memo</span></em>'s Josh Marshall went so far as to <a href="http://archive.is/FX4OK"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>publish an article</span></u></a> titled "The ‘Collusion’ Debate Ended Last Night", substantiating his click-generating headline with the claim that "What’s crystal clear is that the transfer to Kilimnik came with explicit instructions to give the information to Deripaska. And that’s enough."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Except Manafort didn't give any explicit instructions to share the polling data with Deripaska, but with two <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Ukrainian</span></em> oligarchs (who <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1083114989035098112"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>are denying it</span></u></a>). The <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>New York Times</span></em> was forced to <a href="https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1083070872754274305"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>print this embarrassing correction</span></u></a> to the story it broke, adding in the process that Manafort's motivation was likely not collusion, <a href="https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1083071142569693191"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>but money</span></u></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Aw, shucks. Well at least the new names are also complicated and Slavic, so readers can still draw their preferred sinister inferences <a href="https://t.co/1NPNC5EN4m"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>https://t.co/1NPNC5EN4m</span></u></a> <a href="https://t.co/P2dhAN8eQg"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>pic.twitter.com/P2dhAN8eQg</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1083094054450200581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>January 9, 2019</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>These are just the latest in a long, ongoing pattern of terrible mass media debacles as reporters eager to demonstrate their unquestioning fealty to the US-centralized empire fall all over themselves to report any story that makes Russia look bad without practicing due diligence. The only voices who have been questioning the establishment Russia narrative that is being fed to mass media outlets by secretive government agencies have been those which the mass media refuses to platform. Alternative media outlets are the only major platforms for dissent from the authorized narratives of the plutocrat-owned political/media class.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Imagine, then, how disastrous it would be if these last strongholds of skepticism and holding power to account were removed from the media landscape. Well, that's exactly what a shady organization called NewsGuard is trying to do, with some success already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>A <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsguardneocon-backed-fact-checker-plans-to-wage-war-on-independent-media/253687/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>new report</span></u></a> by journalist Whitney Webb for <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>MintPress News</span></em> details how NewsGuard is working to hide and demonetize alternative media outlets like <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>MintPress</span></em>, marketing itself directly to tech companies, social media platforms, libraries and schools. NewsGuard is staffed with some of the most virulently pro-imperialist individuals in America, and its agenda to shore up narrative control for the ruling power establishment is clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>EXCLUSIVE: As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the United States. <a href="https://twitter.com/_whitneywebb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>@_whitneywebb</span></u></a><a href="https://t.co/ftH6QnVlDn"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>https://t.co/ftH6QnVlDn</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1083127525952442368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>January 9, 2019</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>The product which NewsGuard markets to the general public is a browser plugin which advises online media consumers whether a news media outlet is trustworthy or untrustworthy based on a formula with a very pro-establishment bias which sees outlets like Fox News and the US propaganda outlet Voice of America getting trustworthy ratings while outlets like RT get very low ratings for trustworthiness. This plugin dominates the bulk of what comes up when you start researching NewsGuard, but circulating a plugin which individual internet users can voluntarily download to help their rulers control their minds is not one of the more nefarious agendas being pursued by this company. The <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsguardneocon-backed-fact-checker-plans-to-wage-war-on-independent-media/253687/"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>full <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>MintPress</span></em> article</span></u></a> gives a thorough breakdown of the yucky things NewsGuard has its fingers in, but here's a summary of six of its more disturbing revelations:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>1. The company has created a service called BrandGuard, billed as a “brand safety tool aimed at helping advertisers keep their brands off of unreliable news and information sites while giving them the assurance they need to support thousands of Green-rated [i.e., Newsguard-approved] news and information sites, big and small.” Popularizing the use of this service will attack the advertising revenue of unapproved alternative media outlets which run ads. NewsGuard is aggressively marketing this service to "ad tech firms, leading agencies, and major advertisers”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>2. NewsGuard's advisory board reads like the fellowships list of a neocon think tank, and indeed one of its CEOs, Louis Gordon Crovitz, is a Council on Foreign Relations member who has worked with the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation. Members of the advisory board include George W Bush's Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, deep intelligence community insider Michael Hayden, and the Obama administration's Richard Stengel, who once publicly supported the need for domestic propaganda in the US. All of these men have appeared in influential think tanks geared toward putting a public smiley face on sociopathic warmongering agendas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>At a Council on Foreign Relations forum about "fake news," former Editor at Time Magazine Richard Stengel directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens - then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world <a href="https://t.co/ClAT5POv7G"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>pic.twitter.com/ClAT5POv7G</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— William Craddick (@williamcraddick) <a href="https://twitter.com/williamcraddick/status/995026256214179840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>May 11, 2018</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>3. Despite one of its criteria for trustworthy sources being whether or not they are transparent about their funding, the specifics of NewsGuard's financing is kept secret.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>4. The company has created a service called BrandGuard, billed as a “brand safety tool aimed at helping advertisers keep their brands off of unreliable news and information sites while giving them the assurance they need to support thousands of Green-rated [i.e., Newsguard-approved] news and information sites, big and small.” Popularizing the use of this service will attack the advertising revenue of unapproved alternative media outlets which run ads. NewsGuard is aggressively marketing this service to "ad tech firms, leading agencies, and major advertisers”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>5. NewsGuard is also planning to get its news-ranking system integrated into social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter, pursuing a partnership which will make pro-establishment media consumption a part of your experience of those sites regardless of whether you download a NewsGuard app or plugin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>6. NewsGuard markets itself to state governments in order to get its plugin installed in all of that state's public schools and libraries to keep internet users from consuming unauthorized narratives. It has already succeeded in accomplishing this in the state of Hawaii, with all of its branches now running the NewsGuard plugin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 12.0pt;margin-left:24.0pt;margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Really excited to see NewsGuard now built into the latest beta of Edge on iOS <span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. 👍"><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender. 👍"></span>. Smart service. There's also an extension for Edge on Windows 10. <a href="https://t.co/Pqq9diNR8F"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>pic.twitter.com/Pqq9diNR8F</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>— Daniel Rubino (@Daniel_Rubino) <a href="https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rubino/status/1081271640925921280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><u><span style='color:#2585B2'>January 4, 2019</span></u></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></blockquote></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>We may be absolutely certain that NewsGuard will continue giving a positive, trustworthy ranking to the <em><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>New York Times</span></em> no matter how many spectacular flubs it makes in its coverage of the establishment Russia narrative, because the agenda to push popularize anti-Russia narratives lines up perfectly with the neoconservative, government agency-serving agendas of the powers behind NewsGuard. Any attempt to advance the hegemony of the US-centralized power establishment will be rewarded by its lackeys, and any skepticism of it will be punished.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:16.8pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#444444'>Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Ruling power's desire to regulate people's access to information is so desperate that it has become as clumsy and ham-fisted as a teenager pawing at his date in the back seat of a car, and it feels about as enjoyable. They're barely even concealing their desire to control our minds anymore, so it shouldn't be too difficult to wake everyone up to their manipulations. 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