Fake News Not From Russia

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Fake News Not From Russia

Out of Israel, you say?


Blacklocks: Fake News Manhunt Detailed

• Elections Canada investigators have waged a four-month manhunt for sponsors of a fake news item targeting New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh. Access To Information records indicate the hoax was traced to a company registered in Israel.
• “The identity of the purchaser of the electoral advertising is unknown,” wrote Nicholas Alexander, lead investigator for the Commissioner of Elections: “I believe it is necessary to determine the identity of the purchaser.”

He believes it's necessary? Gee, what if he didn't believe it was necessary? Well, I guess he'd be just plain crazy.

• The falsehood also appeared in ad banners at The History Channel and other websites.
• The content was removed February 6 after it was exposed by The Tyee.

Granted, there are former Russian citizens living in Israel; plenty of them, in fact.  But they appear to have troubles enough of their own, at the hands of their fellow Jews, to care about a Canadian election.

Exceptions could be certain Russian-Jewish oligarchs who own real estate in Israel and contribute generously to various Israeli causes. Like all oligarchs, who think they should (and can) rule the world, they don't appreciate no longer having carte blanche in Russia.

For me, the word "oligarch" always brings to mind George Soros -- not Russian but a dear, dear friend of Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland who is rabidly anti-Russian -- and he certainly would like to see Justin Trudeau re-elected because he's a Liberal and Soros claims to believe in "democracy", supporting candidates, like Hillary Clinton, who make similar claims.

It might also be wise to keep abreast of the activities of Soros' two sons, one of whom (Alexander) is heavily involved in promoting Jewish leadership in American politics, specifically through "Bend the Arc" which states:

• Bend the Arc is proud to be a founding member of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, a network of 52 Jewish organizations working to elevate social justice to the center of Jewish life and to advance an explicitly Jewish framework in the pursuit of social justice.

I don't dare question any of the foregoing for fear of immediately being unjustly labelled "antisemitic".  So I'll just ask: how can you bend an arc? Isn't an arc already bent?

Another Soros son, Jonathan, is CEO of a private investment firm, is also active in Jewish political movements that seek more leadership, the elimination of the electoral college, and getting around donation restrictions by the multiple matching of small donor donations.

That's cheating, isn't it?  Getting around the donation rules? How "just" is that? 

In other words, these kids follow in their father's footsteps, using his wealth as a force in American politics, and those of other nations around the world, including Canada.

Israel's PM Netanyahu claims not to like Soros but that may well be because Soros meddles most with his money in so-called "democratic" endeavours while Bibi is too visibly right wing.

According to YNet, Soros tried to get son Alex to make aliyah:

• While Alex did not make aliyah, he has visited Israel several times. He invested (and lost) money in Israeli companies and he founded his own philanthropic foundation, which grants millions of dollars to Jewish organizations, including J Street. (Soros Sr. has invested large sums of money in the Israeli high-tech industry, including in companies like Indigo, Teva and Allot Communications).

So, let's just say it's not within the realm of impossibility that the Israeli entity that produced the slam against MP Singh is Soros-affiliated, or else has similar aspirations -- that is to influence the futures of various countries, including Canada.

​More from Blacklocks:

• The ad was posted through a broker, Taboola Canada Inc. of Toronto, that was cleared of any wrongdoing. Taboola told the Commissioner of Elections it “did not produce any of the content”, but could not identify who did without a court order.

Here's what Taboola promised in June of 2017: "We guarantee brand safety".

Meaning, they promise to protect their customer's privacy; so yes, they would require a court order to reveal the source. They do not, apparently, guarantee "truth in advertising"; they obviously did not attempt to verify the information they helped to promulgate about Mr. Singh personally.

​More from Blacklocks:

• New Democrats expressed frustration with the pace and scope of the investigation. “It spread through Twitter and Facebook who themselves have no responsibilities,” MP Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley, B.C.) told a February 7 hearing of the House affairs committee. “What happens then?”
• “It’s a completely made up story to try to discredit the NDP leader in the byelection,” said Cullen. “It is utterly untrue.”

Obviously there's a reason why political campaign ads usually contain disclaimers as to who is behind the ad. Taboola needs to examine its own practices; the company had to have known the purpose of this particular ad, and in my opinion, they are not innocent of contributing to "fake" news.

Somehow I doubt, however, that the identities of the culprits will be revealed. After all, it took Canada one helluva long time even to officially pay lip service to thousands of missing Native girls and women, and it's shocking how little the RCMP claim to know about it and still draw their salaries.  Sadly, I can't help wondering if the acknowledgement would even have occurred had this not been an election year.

But at least they're not blaming it on the Russians -- yet.

Fake News has always been with us. It used to be called "propaganda".  Its partner is "revisionism".  None of us knows exactly what prompted the romanticized "Great Wars", nor the Nakba, nor even the holocaust, nor especially how the self-serving British uppers played Hitler like a fiddle until he got sick of it and struck out on his demented own.

As veteran news man and author Phillip Knightley tried so hard to tell us: "The First Casualty" in times of war is always the truth.

We are currently living in the never-ending wartime that George Orwell predicted, and don't imagine that the election of Soros' choice, Justin Trudeau, is not relevant to the war effort. Canada's integral role in the Venezuela coup alone is vital to the overall agenda.

The moral of the story is simple: ALWAYS READ THE FINE PRINT.

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