Thread: Brave New World

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I don't know what the fuck you are wittering on about. Try and make sense or post it in your drivel thread.

Give him a break, translation from Mandarin to English isn't easy.

Don't you find it hilarious that the two biggest whiners claiming censorship on this thread both support the two biggest proponents of it on the planet?

Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left.

A former Trotskyist and BBC journeyman, journalist Paul Mason has made a career as the establishment’s favorite gatekeeper of the UK left. Since the Russian military incursion into Ukraine, he has cemented his position as one of Britain’s most vocal “left” cheerleaders for Western military intervention.

While leading a “U.K. left” delegation to Kiev and a demonstration through the streets of London in support of NATO military escalation against Russia, Mason has accordingly used his platform to assail journalists, academics, Labour party members and private citizens who oppose shipping piles of advanced weaponry to Ukraine.
In a series of recent columns, Mason called for the state-enforced suppression of facts and perspectives he considers overly sympathetic to the Kremlin, and demanded “state action” against members of the media that oppose the NATO line on Ukraine. He placed The Grayzone at the top of his fantasy censorship target list.

Mason has since announced a run for parliament on the Labour ticket to wage his crusade against “disinformation” from inside the House of Commons.

The Grayzone, meanwhile, has learned through anonymously leaked emails and documents that Mason has been engaged in a malicious secret campaign that aims to enlist the British state and “friendly” intelligence cut-outs to undermine, censor and even criminalize antiwar dissenters.

In one leaked email, Mason thundered for the “relentless deplatforming” of The Grayzone and the creation of “a kind of permanent rebuttal operation” to discredit it.
In another, the celebrity journalist declared that “the far left rogue academics is who I’m after,” then rants that he is motivated by fear of an emergent “left anti imperialist identity” which “will be attractive because liberalism doesn’t know how to counter it.”

Mason is joined in his covert crusade by Amil Khan, the founder of a shadowy intelligence contractor called Valent Projects. In the cache of leaked emails, Khan proposed to Mason the initiation of a “clever John Oliver style stunt that makes [The Grayzone] a laughing stock,” as well as a “full nuclear legal to squeeze them financially.”

The Grayzone has previously revealed Khan’s extensive involvement in the Syrian dirty war, during which he provided public relations guidance to jihadist groups, trained anti-government activists in communication strategies, and secretly oversaw supposed citizen journalist collectives backed by foreign governments. His goal was to flood international media with pro-opposition propaganda, destabilize the government of Bashar Assad, and ready the ground for Western regime change.

This ethically dubious work was conducted for a variety of intelligence-adjacent British Foreign Office contractors, such as ARK, a firm founded by probable MI6 operative Alistair Harris, and IncoStrat, which has been plausibly accused of producing propaganda for the blood-stained UK and Saudi-backed insurgents.

After leaving the Middle East, Khan reinvented himself as an expert in countering “disinformation”, and has since charged a number of blue chip clients a premium for his dubious services. As this outlet reported, the same techniques of manipulation and information warfare that Khan honed in Syria were turned against Western citizens when he oversaw a British quasi-state funded astroturf YouTube project designed to counter public skepticism of Covid-related restrictions.

Khan’s email communications with Mason illustrate the grudge he has harbored since The Grayzone exposed his devious exploits. In the missives, he descends into self-delusion, insisting this outlet’s factual reporting was, in fact, state-sponsored retaliation for his crusading work “opposing military dictators and kleptocrats.”

Together, Khan and Mason plotted to assemble a coalition of anti-Grayzone actors, including the US and UK government-funded “open source” outlet Bellingcat, which Mason revealingly described as a channel for “intel service input by proxy.” Khan proposed convening the de facto Victims of Grayzone Memorial Foundation at an in-person summit to “come up with a plan that addresses [The Grayzone’s] objectives and vulnerabilities.”

At one point, he even reached out across the Atlantic for advice from Nina Jankowicz, the disgraced former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board.

It is uncertain how Mason and Khan became acquainted, but their mutual coincidence of needs, motives and vendettas is obvious. The public interest in releasing the pair’s private communications is also abundantly clear. If their planned criminalization of The Grayzone for publishing facts and opinions they abhor is successful, it will have dire ramifications for any and all journalists and independent media institutions seeking to challenge the status quo.

When approached by The Grayzone, Paul Mason declined to comment on the incriminating correspondence with Khan, and claimed to have informed local police that “an attempt was made” to hack his email account. While dismissing the leaked content as “likely to be edited, distorted or fake,” he went on to pledge he would “not cease to identify and rebut Russian disinformation operations masquerading as journalism.”

In other words, Mason implied he plans to carry on with the very activity exposed in the leaked emails.

Khan and Mason collude to form anti-Grayzone coalition and shatter Corbynite left

On April 30 this year, Paul Mason emailed Amil Khan, making clear he was “keen to help” de-platform The Grayzone.

He attached a bizarrely constructed “dynamic map of the ‘left’ pro-Putin infosphere” that resembled a spider’s web, with a mess of arrows linking the names of members of parliament, media outlets, activists, causes, and British minority communities.

The barely coherent, racially-tinged chart connected the Russian government, Russian state broadcaster RT, the People’s Republic of China, and Beijing-based tech millionaire-financier Roy Singham to the “Muslim Community,” “Young Networked Left” and “Black Community” through a series of leftist outfits and UK Labour figures. No evidence was provided to support Mason’s linkages.

At the center of Mason’s chart (see below) is Jeremy Corbyn. When Corbyn served as Labour leader, Mason plotted against him in private while simultaneously posing as one of his most ardent public supporters. He also sought to influence Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell in a pro-war direction.

The implication behind Mason’s Nixonian enemies chart was clear: Russia and China have weaponized the British left to corrupt key Labour constituencies – therefore the left must be neutralized.





Mason suggested to Khan that he enlist the help of “pro traffic analysts to map” how these “different echo chambers interact, where their material begins – and work out who might [emphasis added] be pulling the strings.”

He nonetheless seemed certain about the dark forces animating The Grayzone, bombastically charging that its “attacks” on Khan and others are “fed by Russian and Chinese intel,” including hacking, “electronic warfare” and human intelligence.

Mason compared this process to Bellingcat receiving “a steady stream of intel from Western agencies.” The US and UK government-funded outlet Bellingcat has frequently been accused of laundering CIA and MI6 dirt, a charge which the operatives behind it aggressively repudiate. However, Khan – a long-time advocate and associate of the outlet – did not once challenge Mason’s repeated characterization of the supposed citizen journalist collective as a clearing house for friendly spy agencies.

Underlining the sensitivity of the pair’s malicious plans for The Grayzone, Mason stressed the need for their work to be conducted via “white label organisations operating with firm infosec – Signal/ProtonMail, clean phones.”




Khan was clearly amenable to his suggestions. Five days later, he outlined two options for taking down The Grayzone: “some sort of clever John Oliver style stunt that makes them a laughing stock” – referencing a sting operation targeting academic Paul McKeigue conducted by the dubious, intelligence-linked Commission for International Justice and Accountability back in 2021 – “or full nuclear legal to squeeze them financially.”

Mason was enthused by the latter prospect, submitting that it should be “combined with relentless deplatforming,” including cutting off The Grayzone from donation sources such as PayPal, in the manner of Consortium News and MintPress, and setting up “a kind of permanent rebuttal operation.”

FULL- https://thegrayzone.com/2022/06/07/p...ence-grayzone/


There is more, if you want to follow the Linky. A nice little Takedown of the Brave New World in action.

WTF is that shite.

Are you trying to bore everyone to death?

Bit above your head 'arry.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You definitely need your own drivel thread.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I have been saying so for some time.

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To be fair, that's what this thread is for...

Originally Posted by sabang

Bit above your head 'arry.

Nonsense blogs such as this one are around the window licking level you occupy:

It is known for its misleading reporting and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes

Gosh, just fancy that.

Richie Medhurst was put on some disinfo bullshit list from a Canadian university. He's pretty pissed

They should be banned. They are fucking lying Russian shills pushing falsehoods and propaganda. The same horseshit you swallow you fucking lemming.

The most amazing thing about this Brave New World, imo, is that some of these idiots actually want to be lied to. Then the same idiots berate other countries for not having a Free press. They clearly do not know what the term even means.

Sabang still having a "great time" in his "friend's villa".

Originally Posted by sabang

The most amazing thing about this Brave New World, imo, is that some of these idiots actually want to be lied to.

You are one of them, you blinkered buffoon, and a perfect example of it is how you were utterly convinced that Putin would never invade Ukraine. Your propaganda puppet masters had you believing that hook line and sinker. You swallowed the bait, only to be made a complete fool of.

I am literally on the floor rolling in laughter that you are too stupid to see that.

Putin still having his ass handed to him on a plate snubs? Them sanctions brought Putins Russia to its knees yet snubs? Talk about pissing.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

WTF is that shite.

Are you trying to bore everyone to death?

He can't even describe it.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Sabang still having a "great time" in his "friend's villa".

Purportedly in Thailand . . . he even posted a picture of 'his house'. Cute, really. Posting hundreds of times on a forum while . . . etc...

Originally Posted by sabang

Putin still having his ass handed to him on a plate snubs?

Nothing about his war has been a success, you buffoon. Did you read the post I made above, Mr. This war would never happen?

Sabang's posts are pretty much indistinguishable from OhOh's these days.

This last couple of weeks have seen him fall even deeper into the abyss.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

Sabang's posts are pretty much indistinguishable from OhOh's these days.

This last couple of weeks have seen him fall even deeper into the abyss.

A full stop loon who basically is rabid all the time and making a fool of himself constantly.

Diddums fellas, this war won't last forever. Lets just see what Putin wants.

Sabang still having a "great time" in his "friend's villa".

No, mine and my ex'es. More than one TDer has been there. Not you, unfortunately. We have WiFi you know.

Was the dude in the pic you posted the ex'es new squeeze?

Haha, no. That's another geezer, nice bloke actually.
That's my BF in the picture, luvvie.

Originally Posted by sabang

That's my BF in the picture, luvvie.

I knew you and Tomcat had things in common. All you homophobes love the boys.