RFK Jr. Says Operation Mockingbird Lives

[Benjamin Cole]

How exhilarating would it be to have a President who actually knows what is Operation Mockingbird, and wants to open up the JFK Records? 

It is like the US has been in a coma for 60 years, defined by opaque nightmares and dreadful global miscalculations...

[Karl Kinaski]

Swarms and swarms of mockingbirds.

At the moment RFK jr gets more MSM "attention" than Saddam in 2001 ... 17 months prior to the election "they" are trying to put Trump in jail and burry RFK jr under piles of horse ...s ... hit ... 

 

Starting 16min 13 sec of the video Anna Merlan "explains" what a conspiracy theorist is ... psychologically ... making crystal clear what me, you, we are ... 😉 

 

Edited June 23, 2023 by Karl Kinaski

[Benjamin Cole]

51 minutes ago, Karl Kinaski said:

Swarms and swarms of mockingbirds.

At the moment RFK jr gets more MSM "attention" than Saddam in 2001 ... 17 months prior to the election "they" are trying to put Trump in jail and burry RFK jr under piles of horse ...s ... hit ... 

 

Thanks for your note.

As Chuck Schumer and Rachel Maddow chortled on national TV, if any candidate or President challenges the national security state, they have "six ways to Sunday to get back at you." 

The intel-state wants the RFK Jr. campaign dead in its crib, or better yet, stillborn. 

 

 

[John Cotter]

The whole western world is infected by that same disease – the MSM’s abdication of its democratic duty to hold governments to account and instead disseminate pro-government propaganda.

Two notable examples are the MSM’s covid scaremongering and the Russophobic coverage of the Ukraine war.

Western “democracy” is a sick joke, and I wouldn’t be surprised if 2023 is the year in which the whole rotten edifice – the empire of lies, as Putin called it – comes crashing down, and the junta that grabbed power 60 years ago is swept away.

https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-democracy-by-leonard-cohen/

[Karl Kinaski]

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B. Cole said: The intel-state wants the RFK Jr. campaign dead in its crib, or better yet, stillborn. 

That's the way I see it ... 

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John Cotter said: Western “democracy” is a sick joke, and I wouldn’t be surprised if 2023 is the year in which the whole rotten edifice – the empire of lies, as Putin called it – comes crashing down, and the junta that grabbed power 60 years ago is swept away.

Maybe. But they will not give up without a fight.  The only way for them to hold their sick grip of power is to create another artificial world-crisis. As I understand it they are in a hurry to create a artificial energy-refugee-crisis. In the US as well as here in Europe. Maybe they have a third thing in petto. (They could pauperize us through a willfull hyperinflation.) 

[Benjamin Cole]

1 hour ago, John Cotter said:

The whole western world is infected by that same disease – the MSM’s abdication of its democratic duty to hold governments to account and instead disseminate pro-government propaganda.

Two notable examples are the MSM’s covid scaremongering and the Russophobic coverage of the Ukraine war.

Western “democracy” is a sick joke, and I wouldn’t be surprised if 2023 is the year in which the whole rotten edifice – the empire of lies, as Putin called it – comes crashing down, and the junta that grabbed power 60 years ago is swept away.

https://americansongwriter.com/behind-the-song-democracy-by-leonard-cohen/

Well, we disagree on some major perceptions, but thanks for posting. It is healthy to get all sides in a forum. 

[David Andrews]

Who runs the modern equivalent of Mockingbird at CIA?  Is it the National Resources division?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resources_Division

[Benjamin Cole]

24 minutes ago, David Andrews said:

Who runs the modern equivalent of Mockingbird at CIA?  Is it the National Resources division?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resources_Division

Great question. 

But there are so many links today among media and the intel-security state, and so much money sloshing around various neo-lib and neocon thinks tanks, that Operation Mockingbird today may be more like Operation Huge Blob. 

When a sitting president, facing reelection, can do a snuff job on the JFK Records Act without the slightest whimper from US media...well, what else needs to be said? 

GG more or less less it is the Deep State that wants RFK Jr. downed, and it has little to do with vaccines. 

[Michael Griffith]

3 hours ago, John Cotter said:

. . . the Russophobic coverage of the Ukraine war.

Really? In point of fact, most news outlets have pulled some punches in their coverage of Russia's brutal, unprovoked invasion.

I am disappointed with RFK Jr.'s rhetoric about Russia's invasion. He says the U.S. and NATO bear some of the blame because we broke our promise not to expand NATO eastward. He ignores the fact that when we made that verbal commitment, Russia was very different than it later became. For a time after the Wall fell, Russia was a semi-democratic state with emerging checks and balances and with regional leaders chosen by local elections, and Russia was taking no threatening actions. All of that changed when Putin began to consolidate his power in the mid-2000s and invaded the nation of Georgia in 2008.

Naturally, when Eastern European nations saw these things happening, they became concerned about their own security and sovereignty, and we and NATO were naturally more inclined to expand NATO eastward. 

So we had very good reasons for expanding NATO eastward. Only an aggressor worries about a neighbor joining a defensive alliance. 

These facts make it all the more obvious that Putin had no excuse for invading Ukraine, a peaceful and liberal democracy, in clear violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

[John Cotter]

11 hours ago, Michael Griffith said:

Really? In point of fact, most news outlets have pulled some punches in their coverage of Russia's brutal, unprovoked invasion.

I am disappointed with RFK Jr.'s rhetoric about Russia's invasion. He says the U.S. and NATO bear some of the blame because we broke our promise not to expand NATO eastward. He ignores the fact that when we made that verbal commitment, Russia was very different than it later became. For a time after the Wall fell, Russia was a semi-democratic state with emerging checks and balances and with regional leaders chosen by local elections, and Russia was taking no threatening actions. All of that changed when Putin began to consolidate his power in the mid-2000s and invaded the nation of Georgia in 2008.

Naturally, when Eastern European nations saw these things happening, they became concerned about their own security and sovereignty, and we and NATO were naturally more inclined to expand NATO eastward. 

So we had very good reasons for expanding NATO eastward. Only an aggressor worries about a neighbor joining a defensive alliance. 

These facts make it all the more obvious that Putin had no excuse for invading Ukraine, a peaceful and liberal democracy, in clear violation of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

How can the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) be a “defensive” alliance when it’s an instrument of the US foreign policy of global domination which, by definition, is aggressive rather than defensive? This is illustrated, for instance, by NATO being involved in the war in Afghanistan, since Afghanistan is 3,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

How can the US or its cat’s paw NATO be a defender or exporter of democracy, given the US’s appalling record of “regime change” – not to mention the fact that the US and its NATO vassal states are plutocracies not democracies?  

US foreign relations are thus based on the “might is right” principle, in other words, Realpolitik. Accordingly, the claim that the US is morally superior to any other state, including Russia, is baseless. The US’s dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its carpet bombing of peasant societies in south east Asia, among other atrocities, reflects the US’s moral bankruptcy in its foreign relations.

In view of these Machiavellian realities, the outcome will be decided by force of arms in the killing fields of Ukraine. As the proverb goes, “There has not been found, nor will there be found, a fairer judge than the field of battle.”

When has the USA or its NATO flunkies last won a peer-to-peer war?

Edited June 24, 2023 by John Cotter

[Benjamin Cole]

16 minutes ago, John Cotter said:

How can the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) be a “defensive” alliance when it’s an instrument of the US foreign policy of global domination which, by definition, is aggressive rather than defensive? This is illustrated, for instance, by NATO being involved in the war in Afghanistan, since Afghanistan is 3,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

How can the US or its cat’s paw NATO be a defender or exporter of democracy, given the US’s appalling record of “regime change” – not to mention the fact that the US and its NATO vassal states are plutocracies not democracies?  

US foreign relations are thus based on the “might is right” principle, in other words, Realpolitik. Accordingly, the claim that the US is morally superior to any other state, including Russia, is baseless. The US’s dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and its carpet bombing of peasant societies in south east Asia, among other atrocities, reflects the US’s moral bankruptcy in its foreign relations.

In view of these Machiavellian realities, the outcome will be decided by force of arms in the killing fields of Ukraine. As the proverb goes, “There has not been found, nor will there be found, a juster judge than the field of battle.”

When has the USA or its NATO flunkies last won a peer-to-peer war?

JC/MG:

You both make excellent arguments...but my post is about Operation Mockingbird (today's version) and RFK Jr.'s campaign.

From your vantage points, is there an Operation Mockingbird in effect against RFK Jr.? 

Is a modern-day Operation Mockingbird even necessary, given the modern predilections of media?

Or, has Operation Mockingbird become institutionalized and permanent? 

What should readers/viewers be on the look out for? 

 

 

[James DiEugenio]

Mockingbird is being run by the CIA's Public Affairs agency.

Back in the nineties there was a partly declassified CIA document that said they have excellent connections with every major news agency.

Then followed some examples, that part was classified.

[W. Niederhut]

Folks,

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[James DiEugenio]

Just now, James DiEugenio said:

Mockingbird is being run by the CIA's Public Affairs agency.

Back in the nineties there was a partly declassified CIA document that said they have excellent connections with every major news agency.

Then followed some examples, that part was classified.

I really wonder about this document.

IMO, the ARRB should have declassified it.

Does anyone know if they did?

[John Cotter]

1 hour ago, Benjamin Cole said:

JC/MG:

You both make excellent arguments...but my post is about Operation Mockingbird (today's version) and RFK Jr.'s campaign.

From your vantage points, is there an Operation Mockingbird in effect against RFK Jr.? 

Is a modern-day Operation Mockingbird even necessary, given the modern predilections of media?

Or, has Operation Mockingbird become institutionalized and permanent? 

What should readers/viewers be on the look out for? 

 

 

Benjamin,

It’s hard to know for sure if there a Mockingbird or Mockingbird-type operation in being, but there certainly may as well be.

The RFK Jr tweet quoted in your first post above strongly indicates the existence of such an operation. So does the MSM’s lock-step pro-government propagandising in its covid and Ukraine war coverage.

I have a subscription for the Irish Times and I can see a similarity in its treatment of RFK Jr to that described in your opening post. So far, the Irish Times has published only one article on RFK Jr, the subtitle of which is, “We’re [the Irish are] not ready to claim Robert F Kennedy Jr, whose stance on vaccines makes him part of a growing cohort of prominent reactionary Irish-Americans”

The subtitle encapsulates the deviously vacuous manner of the article as a whole, because the article is a smear job on RFK Jr, notwithstanding that the only specific (?) “criticism” of him is that he is an “anti-vaxxer” (whatever that means) and a “reactionary” (whatever that means).

It’s also worth noting that a photo of RFK Jnr is inserted in the article, the caption beneath which reads:

“Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy jnr, a member of a storied US political dynasty, has announced he will be a Democratic US presidential candidate.”

The first two words of this caption, “Anti-vaccine activist”, are the same two words with which the Independent, Yahoo News and Washington Post headlines quoted in the RFK Jnr tweet begin.

This strongly suggests the existence of a coordinated hatchet job on RFK Jr, such as might be instigated by a Mockingbird-type operation.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/04/22/jennifer-oconnell-its-unlikely-a-robert-f-kennedy-jnr-plaza-will-be-built-in-new-ross/