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"The neo-con warmongers’ house journal"

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The Guardian on September 12, 2001, assisting the effort to promote 9/11 as a casus belli.
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Founder: John Edward Taylor

Owner: Scott Trust Ltd
Constitutes: Corporate media

The Guardian is a UK newspaper which, in some circles, has a reputation as "left wing" and perhaps even "anti-establishment"[citation needed], although it is a solid defender of a number of key official narratives 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."[1] In 2018 Craig Murray termed it "the neo-con warmongers’ house journal".[2]

Deep State control

More perhaps than most other elements of the commercially-controlled media, has reported on matters pertaining to the deep state, such as the heroin smuggling cartel of Hüseyin Baybaşin.[3] 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".[4] In 2017, Craig Murray wrote a short comment on the "Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardian".[5]

Billionaires pump their preferred agendas into the Guardian by paying for "journalism" and journalistic projects via the intermediary theguardian.org[6]

9-11

Full article: 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".[7]

The Guardians 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

Full article: Internet Censorship

Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the Guardian "has led the charge for internet censorship in the UK."[8]

Edward Snowden Affair

Full article: 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."[9]

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 commercially-controlled media to fundamentally challenge official narratives.[10]

In 2015, the Guardian published an article by Kevin McKenna on the Bilderberg group which minimizes their groups importance, beginning “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.” [11]

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

Full article: OffGuardian
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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.

#TrollingTheGuardian

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 TrollingTheGuardian.

COVID

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".[12]

Pro vaccine passport propaganda.[13]

COVID is the cause of everything; never government lockdowns.

"Any Omicron restrictions will deepen prejudice against unvaccinated people"[14]


 

Quotes by The Guardian

PageQuoteDate
Nepal“500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal.

The findings, compiled from government sources, mean an average of 12 migrant workers from these five south Asian nations have died each week since the night in December 2010 when the streets of Doha were filled with ecstatic crowds celebrating Qatar’s victory.

Data from India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka revealed there were 5,927 deaths of migrant workers in the period 2011–2020. Separately, data from Pakistan’s embassy in Qatar reported a further 824 deaths of Pakistani workers, between 2010 and 2020.”
2022
Russia/Encirclement“We have made it clear that Nato’s move to the east is unacceptable (...) The United States is standing with missiles on our doorstep. Is it an excessive requirement not to install shock systems at our house? How would the Americans react if missiles were placed at the border with Canada or Mexico”2021

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
James Ball20112015Later member of the Integrity Initiative
Jason BurkeCorrespondent2009
Ian CobainSenior Reporter2005August 2018
Luke HardingJournalist1996
David PallisterJournalist19742009

 

Sponsors

EventDescription
Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationVery influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.
Equation CampaignRockefeller family financed organization to further its climate change agenda, utilizing "young people,indigenous people,black and brown communities,and poor people" as photogenic fronts.
Google News InitiativeGoogle and the deep state buying domination over corporate media and creating tools to censor independent voices.
Open PhilanthropyGrant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201.
Open Society FoundationsA NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
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Document:George Monbiot’s excuses for not speaking out loudly in defence of Assange simply won’t washblog post6 October 2020Jonathan CookFaced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, The Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom.
Document:HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott TrustArticle3 March 2015Jonathan CookBritain, we are told, is privileged to have two “liberal” media outlets, the BBC and Guardian, that are seen either as neutral or as a leftwing counterbalance to the rightwing agenda of the rest of the media. Here are three illuminating articles and a short video that should help to dispel any such illusions.
Document:Index on DisgraceArticle22 April 2018Craig Murray"We thus have the extraordinary spectacle of a coordinated government and media onslaught on anybody who doubts their entirely fact free narratives. Public trust in the state and corporate media hits new lows, which is the happy part of this story."
Document:NYT and Guardian on Wikileaksarticle4 February 2011John Young
Document:No fair hearing for Assange at the Guardianarticle5 February 2016Jonathan CookDemonstrates the Establishment-friendly double standards of the UK's flagship 'Left-wing' newspaper - The Guardian - through analysis of its coverage of a UN decision on the political asylum of Julian Assange
Document:The Assange Arrest is a Warning From HistoryArticle12 April 2019John PilgerLeni Riefenstahl, close friend of Adolf Hitler, whose films helped cast the Nazi spell over Germany told me that the message in her films, the propaganda, was dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the public: "When people no longer ask serious questions, they are submissive and malleable. Anything can happen.”
Document:The Broader View Reveals the Ugliest of Prospectsblog post17 June 2019Craig MurrayI find it hard to believe that I live in times where Julian Assange suffers as he does for telling the truth, where a dedicated anti-racist like Jeremy Corbyn is subjected to daily false accusations of racism and to US and security service backed efforts to thwart his democratic prospects, where the most laughable false flag is paraded to move us towards war with Iran, and where there is no semblance of a genuinely independent media.
Document:The Dangerous Cult of The Guardianarticle28 September 2011Jonathan CookCriticism of The Guardian's policy on censorship of topics including "anti-semitism" and Wikileaks
Document:The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Guardiancomment31 October 2017Craig Murray
Document:The Paradise Papers and HSBC. WhoArticle14 November 2017Nicholas WilsonThe corruption surrounding Theresa May's seduction of Saudi Aramco to hold its stock market launch (IPO) at the London Stock Exchange next year has involved bribes, lobbying for HSBC and changing the rules by the FCA
Document:Whenever it truly matters, from Assange to Corbyn, George Monbiot cripples the leftArticle11 October 2022Jonathan CookGeorge Monbiot is treated by much of the left as a figurehead, one whose environmentalism earns him credibility and credit with the left on foreign policy issues, from Syria to Ukraine, in which he echoes the same talking points one hears from Keir Starmer to Liz Truss. While on matters at home, like Assange and Corbyn, he sucks the wind out of the left’s sails.

 

Documents sourced from The Guardian

TitleTypeSubject(s)Publication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:British extremists are importing tactics from the US hard right. Their target? Family drag showsArticleInstitute for Strategic Dialogue
"Extremism"
"Anti-vaxxer"
"Far right"
Transgender
Patriotic Alternative
22 June 2023Tim SquirrellThe Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified a new terror threat in this article published by Tim Squirrell, its head of communications, in the Guardian.
Document:Dag Hammarskjöld's plane may have been shot down, ambassador warnedarticleDag Hammarskjöld4 April 2014Julian BorgerBorger describes a recently released diplomatic cable which casts fresh doubts on the theory that Dag Hammarskjöld died an accidental death.
Document:De Beers to abandon cartelArticleDe Beers
Ernest Oppenheimer
Central Selling Organisation
Gary Ralfe
John Collard
International Diamond Security Organisation
30 May 2000Dan AtkinsonDe Beers hit a high point in profit terms in the boom year 1989-90, but the following decade was to cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The break-up of the Soviet Union brought a flood of illicit diamonds on to the market, as did the civil war in Angola. In abandoning the CSO diamond cartel, Managing Director Gary Ralfe hopes to use De Beers' dominant position to persuade everyone in the industry to spend much more on marketing.
Document:Fleeced by Purveyors of FeararticleFear
Security industry
War on Terror/Purposes
1 October 2010Simon Jenkins
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Archie Norman
Oliver Letwin
Frank Lowy
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Jonathan Marland
Kate Rock
5 July 2017George MonbiotOn 14 June 2017, while the Grenfell Tower was smouldering, a meeting of the Red Tape Initiative panel decided that "on this occasion" they would not recommend the removal of the EU Construction Products Regulation, which seeks to protect people from fire, and restricts the kind of cladding that can be used.
Document:I will wear a poppy for the last timearticleWar
The Cenotaph
8 November 2013Harry SmithA WW2 veteran airs his disillusionment with the way in which the establishment's cynical use of remembrance day to promote the official narrative of all the US/UK/NATO military escapades as being purely altruistically motivated.
Document:I'm now a Muslim. Why all the shock and horror?articleIslam
Lauren Booth
3 November 2010Lauren Booth
Document:Israel simply has no right to existarticleIsrael3 January 2001Faisal BodiA brief historical overview of Israel's claimed and much vaunted "right to exist" as a "Jewish State". The article demonstrates that the validity of the claim rest upon a single Biblical Old Testament source and nothing else. So far as the UN and international law are concerned, the claim would not stand scrutiny and adjudication by a truly impartial court of qualified law practitioners and judges.
Document:It's not Russia that is destabilising Ukrainearticle2014 Ukraine coup7 April 2014Sergei LavrovRussian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov - a voice of calm reason in a world gone mad - condemns the West for its uncooperative and obstructionist behaviour over the developing situation in Ukraine and appeals for rational cooperation to prevent civil war.
Document:It's not Russia that's pushed Ukraine to the brink of wararticle2014 Ukraine coup30 April 2014Seumas MilneA rare note of sanity (and accuracy) on the 2014 Ukraine coup from a western corporate media
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Document:Labour left breaks with Jeremy Corbyn over sending weapons to UkraineArticleNATO
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Ukraine
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John McDonnell
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Nadia Whittome
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Iraq
Syria
US
Islamic State
Al-Nusra Front
Bherlin Gildo
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Document:The Mystery of Dr Aafia SiddiquiarticleAafia Siddiqui24 November 2009Declan WalshA sympathetic retelling of the persecution of Aafia Siddiqui, up to 2009.
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Bad Nenndorf
UK/Torture
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Document:The scariest thing about Brussels is our reaction to itarticle"Terrorism"
2016 Brussels Bombing
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Document:The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military meansarticle"War on Terror"
Al-Qaeda
Osama bin Laden
2005 London bombings
8 July 2005Robin CookBin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.
Document:This war on terrorism is bogusarticleProject for the New American Century
War on Terror/Purposes
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Document:Tiny Rowland – portrait of the bastard as a rebelArticleMI6
Nicholas Elliott
Edward Heath
Tiny Rowland
Lonrho
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Alan Bond
Robert Holmes à Court
Harrods
Oswald Mosley
August 1990Nick DaviesAll big entrepreneurs have the stink of unpopularity around them. Whether it is through envy or sincere distaste, Donald Trump, James Goldsmith, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Richard Branson have all become popular figures of hate. The one characteristic that has marked out Tiny Rowland is his lack of respect for authority.
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Julian Assange
Nigel Farage
Donald Trump
Dana Rohrabacher
Steve Bannon
Cambridge Analytica
Alexander Nix
Strategic Communication Laboratories
29 October 2017Carole Cadwalladr(You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.)
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Rishi Sunak
Thérèse Coffey
COP27
28 October 2022Geneva AbdulKing Charles will not attend the COP27 summit, Downing Street has said, as it is not the “right occasion” for him to do so. The former Prime Minister Liz Truss had asked the king not to attend the summit, and her successor, Rishi Sunak, has left it in place, No 10 confirmed in the afternoon of 28 October 2022. Sunak had already decided not to attend COP27.
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Natasha Osben
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Sian Berry
Jo Bird
UK/General election/2024
Carla Denyer
Adrian Ramsay
Ellie Chowns
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Document:Why Tony is right to entertain AssadArticleTony Blair
Saddam Hussein
George W. Bush
Syria
Bashar al Assad
Elizabeth Windsor
Asma al-Assad
Hamid Karzai
Geoff Hoon
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Document:Why are government experts holding off vaccinating under-16s in the UK?ArticleCDC
COVID-19
"COVID-19/Vaccine"
Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
COVID-19/Variants
6 August 2021Deepti GurdasaniPro COVID-19/Vaccine propaganda from an epidemiologist with ties to Big Pharma. The JCVI does not recommend jabs for under-16s and the approval process has slowed down. The rushed vaccination process is not rushed enough apparently.
Document:Why the secret handshake between police and Freemasons should worry usArticleMetropolitan Police
Freemasonry
Brian Paddick
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Document:Xi Jinping says a dark shadow looms over the world after years of peaceArticleDonald Trump
Nuclear weapon
Xi Jinping
Kim Jong-un
3 September 2017Tom Phillips
Wang Zhen
Shen Dingli, an international relations expert from Shanghai, said Sunday’s nuclear test underlined the futility of both Washington and Beijing’s policies towards North Korea: "It's only a matter of time before Donald Trump realises he has no choice but to sit down with Kim Jong-un."
File:Carter-Ruck Syria Report.pdfreport2011 Syrian Insurgency20 January 2014Desmond de Silva
Geoffrey Nice
David Crane
A text-book example of the how and why of demonising one's enemies. A widely reported shock-horror document is 'leaked' just prior to a conference, the outcome of which is regarded as crucial to Western global policy interests.
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