Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk The Guardian 0 7174 263165 241218 2023-04-29T02:02:09Z Terje 655 guardian.org wikitext text/x-wiki {{Website |URL=http://www.TheGuardian.com |start= |description=The UK daily newspaper which published the first revelations concerning [[NSA]] documents from [[Edward Snowden]] |nndb=http://www.nndb.com/tv/331/000110001/ |image=The Guardian on 912.jpg |image_width=366px |image_caption=The Guardian on September 12, 2001, assisting the effort to promote 9/11 as a [[casus belli]]. |constitutes=Corporate media |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian |headquarters=Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU |logo=The_Guardian.svg |logo_width=600px |titular_logo=1 |owners=Scott Trust Ltd |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/The_Guardian |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/The_Guardian |founders=John Edward Taylor |historycommons=http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=the_guardian_1 |wikileaks=http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Guardian |keywiki=http://www.keywiki.org/The_Guardian |wikiquote=http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Guardian |description="The neo-con warmongers’ house journal" }} '''''The Guardian''''' is a UK [[newspaper]] which, in some circles, has a reputation as "left wing" and perhaps even "anti-establishment"{{cn}}, although it is a solid defender of a number of key {{on}}s and "perhaps just as beholden to corporatism and the interests of capital as the next newspaper, regularly espousing the neoliberal “party line” rather the actual views of its left-wing readership."<ref>https://mronline.org/2019/05/07/beholden-to-corporatism-how-the-guardian-sold-out-the-working-class/</ref> In 2018 [[Craig Murray]] termed it "the neo-con warmongers’ house journal".<ref>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/continued-american-occupation-of-the-middle-east-does-not-suppress-terrorism-it-causes-it/</ref> ==Deep State control== More perhaps than most other elements of the {{ccm}}, ''has'' reported on matters pertaining to the [[deep state]], such as the [[heroin]] smuggling cartel of [[Hüseyin Baybaşin]].<ref>''[http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/28/ukcrime.drugsandalcohol "Heroin dealer was secret informer for Customs and Excise"]''</ref> But the newspaper's owners [[Scott Trust Ltd]] became embedded into the corporate world in 2008, With board members including [[Catherine Howarth]] (a [[WEF/Young Global Leader 2014]]) and [[Vivian Schiller]] ([[CFR]]). [[Jonathan Cook]] wrote that ''The Guardian'' is "incapable of fulfilling its self-declared role as watchdog against abuses by the powerful".<ref>''[http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-sham-of-guardians-scott-trust/ "HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott Trust"]''</ref> In 2017, [[Craig Murray]] wrote a short comment on the "''Intellectual Dishonesty of the ''Guardian''".<ref>''[[Document:The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian]]''</ref> Billionaires pump their preferred agendas into the Guardian by paying for "journalism" and journalistic projects via the intermediary theguardian.org<ref>https://theguardian.org/</ref> ===9-11=== {{FA|9-11/Media Response}} ''The Guardian'' has not seriously challenged the [[9-11 Official narrative]]. In 2010 it did mention [[Francesco Cossiga]]'s claim that [[9/11]] was widely known to be a joint [[CIA]]/[[Mossad]] operation, but waited until his [[obituary]] to advance the claim that: "He was, of course, being ironic".<ref>''[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/18/francesco-cossiga-obituary "Francesco Cossiga obituary"]''</ref> [[image:The Guardian's 2015 cropping of Prince_Andrew_Virginia_Roberts_Ghislaine_Maxwell.jpg|600px|left|thumbnail|''The Guardian''s 2015 image cropping in its report on the 2015 [[legal case]], ''[[Virginia Roberts Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell]]'' is a classic [[limited hangout]], neatly hiding the position of [[Andrew Windsor]] and [[Virginia Roberts]]'s hands.]] ===Internet Censorship=== {{FA|Internet Censorship}} [[Craig Murray]] wrote in 2016 that the ''Guardian'' "has led the charge for internet censorship in the UK."<ref>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/twitter-facebook-censorship-mainstream-media-denial/</ref> ==Edward Snowden Affair== {{FA|Edward Snowden Affair}} The Guardian's [[Glenn Greenwald]] was reportedly contacted by [[Edward Snowden]] seeking to publish the documents he had obtained while working at the [[NSA]]. In testimony before the [[UK Parliament]], the editor [[Alan Rusbridger]] stated that of the 58,000 files obtained from [[Edward Snowden]] only "about 1 percent" had published. He added: "I would not expect us to be publishing a huge amount more."<ref>http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/03/248581912/guardian-editor-weve-published-1-percent-of-snowden-files</ref> ==Controlled Media== In 2014, the Guardian fired [[Nafeez Ahmed]], a widely respected critic of the "[[war on terror]]". This was interpreted by some as further indication that the paper is a form of [[controlled opposition]], that while it tolerates certain anti-[[establishment]] views, it is in fact no more free than other members of the {{ccm}} to fundamentally challenge {{on}}s.<ref>http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2014/12/518815.html?c=on#comments</ref> In 2015, the Guardian published an article by [[Kevin McKenna]] on the [[Bilderberg group]] which minimizes their groups importance, beginning {{SMWQ |format=inline |source_name=The Guardian |source_URL=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/14/bilderberberg-group-meeting-sinister |subjects=2015 Bilderberg |date=14 June 2015 |authors=Kevin McKenna |text=To unravel the numeric code embedded in the name Bilderberg is to find yourself standing at the gateway to hell. By adding together all of the letters according to their position in the alphabet the chilling number 82 reveals itself. Eight plus two equals 10 which was the Number of the Beast when he was a lad. Later this week in a forbidding schloss in the Austrian village of Telfs-Buchen the money-changers and the self-appointed masters of the universe who form the Bilderberg group will meet. }} ===COVID-19=== 6 days after ''[[The Telegraph]]'' published an article about [[Richard Dearlove]]'s skepticism about the natural [[origin of COVID-19]], ''The Guardian'' published an article by [[Peter Daszak]] entitled ''Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab''. This did not mention Daszak's support for gain-of-function research and initially failed to mention his close working relationship with [[Zhengli Shi]] and the [[WIV]]. ==OffGuardian== {{FA|OffGuardian}} [[image:Offgraunheader1.png|left|240px]] In 2015, a small group of readers tired of the [[censorship]] of the "Comment is Free" section, decided to found [[OffGuardian]], their own WWW platform for exchanging such ideas - one that would not be subject to the Guardian's censorship. ==#Trolling''TheGuardian''== [[image:shaniquaotoole guardian parody.jpg|right|300px|thumbnail|The image which kicked off #TrollingTheGuardian]] In December 2019 ''[[The Guardian]]'' used the DMCA to request takedown of a parody, resulting in [[Twitter]] closing an account. Through the [[Streisand Effect]] this lead to many similar pieces, unified by the hashtag {{t|TrollingTheGuardian}}. ==COVID== [[image:Guardian vax promotion.jpg|left|400px|thumbnail|''The Guardian'' on the "[[COVID-19 Vaccine]]" for ids, an "anonymous" article that could have been written by a lobbyist continued "[[Misinformation]] led to her being picked on. A clear government campaign aimed at 12 to 15-year-olds is vital".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/daughter-bullied-school-covid-jab-government-campaign</ref>]] Pro [[vaccine passport]] propaganda.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/15/vaccine-passports-are-less-a-threat-to-liberty-than-a-mark-of-solidarity</ref> [[COVID]] is the cause of everything; never government [[lockdowns]]. "Any [[Omicron]] restrictions will deepen prejudice against unvaccinated people"<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/omicron-restrictions-prejudice-against-unvaccinated-people-virus</ref> {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{Reflist}} 0gr4cek35mpb09izx9bvhvmc4ny6g66