So it looks like IOC knew that Russian athletes were clean, but concealed evidence of their innocence, destroying careers

No worries, we can always just pivot into linking the Skripal poisoning to the Steele dossier. Western are so zoned-out about "RUSSIA" that they'll believe any dots.

More from the well-placed sources: "By creating this link, they are suggesting that MI6 are involved with the dossier or Skripal or both. It adds to the confusion and acts as a wedge between the White House and Downing Street. It is exactly the kind of operation the Russians would order to sow confusion."

Or the sort of operation that Westerners would do, and then shunt onto Russian psy-ops (cf. Alabama USA elections).

Plus more: An internet hyperlink to the LinkedIn page appeared in an obscure blog posting in January 2017 - more than a year before the Salisbury attack - but the actual LinkedIn page itself has never been visible.

In other words, The Telegraph wrote an entire story in March of last year based on nothing more than "an internet hyperlink to the LinkedIn page" without actually having viewed the profile now blamed on a Russian black op.

Fortunately, comparatively USA people are more sane and are just demanding JFK/RFK/MalcolmX/King all be re-investigated 50+ years the trails are dry. At least they doubt their official narratives.

Yes, just another "off-duty nurse who had worked on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone" as reported by UK MSM... who would have guessed she was a colonel with the UK military?

Meanwhile, McLaren is already trial-ballooning "finding" 300-600 so-called positives from Russia, without seeing any evidence in the first place. So much unconscious bias, it's become a derangement syndrome.

Media/counterintel in a pas de deux wrote:

No worries, we can always just pivot into linking the Skripal poisoning to the Steele dossier.

Western are so zoned-out about "RUSSIA" that they'll believe any dots.

Remind me again of those "security sources" who tell that Steele "once worked with Litvinenko" ... even if he did, why blab this, except to propaganda the gullible public?

Doesn't take much to bring a Kremlin-load of Russian trolls to this site, trying to prove Putin's ugly regime are really the champions of decency and fair play, and are being treated so unfairly by a non State-controlled Western media.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Doesn't take much to bring a Kremlin-load of Russian trolls to this site, trying to prove Putin's ugly regime are really the champions of decency and fair play, and are being treated so unfairly by a non State-controlled Western media.

I'm not for the Russians, and also I won't get into the more general question of soft influence.

But even if we just count directly, an estimate is that 3-5% of Western reporters have compromising CIA/MI6 etc connections, some of these being direct assets.

Additionally, many legacy Western media outlets have "signed up" to their programs (either covert or overt) in one form or another (Integrity Initiative is one of the exposed examples the Foreign Offices have run), presumably so they can get be in-the-know for scoops.

Knowing your source is not always easy. wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Doesn't take much to bring a Kremlin-load of Russian trolls to this site, trying to prove Putin's ugly regime are really the champions of decency and fair play, and are being treated so unfairly by a non State-controlled Western media.

I'm not for the Russians, and also I won't get into the more general question of soft influence.

But even if we just count directly, an estimate is that 3-5% of Western reporters have compromising CIA/MI6 etc connections, some of these being direct assets.

Additionally, many legacy Western media outlets have "signed up" to their programs (either covert or overt) in one form or another (Integrity Initiative is one of the exposed examples the Foreign Offices have run), presumably so they can get be in-the-know for scoops.

More vodka again. A Kremlin "estimate" no doubt of Western reporters having compromising security connections - since no reporters publicly list - or would list - such affiliations. 3% can only be speculation. But even if true - unsubstantiated as it is - it's nothing compared to the Russian media, where everyone either works for the Kremlin or toes the party line - or risks winding up dead.

Russian sport ministry officials now compared apparent behavior of Olympics Commision International (IOC) to "unsportsmanlike behavior" after said dastardly organization reacted for a negative, to final decision from Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), to clear clean Russian skier Alexander Legkov from all doping allegations. I think we all should turn the page and build up new cooperation with international sports bodies, Russian Skiing Federation head Elena Vyalbe. This doping story was launched just by one man (Rodchenkov) and others simply revealed it. I just want the doping scandal to be forgotten with both sides apologizing to each other and starting working from scratch. Sport should stay beyond politics and remain unbiased and fair. Being a sports figure, I don’t want my athletes to suffer from some unclear accusations, added Russian Federation for Skiing headmistress Elena Vyalbe.

Russia Luge Federation's Stanislav Tyurin General Manager also described the Swiss tribunal court’s decision as fair, adding too Russian victories from 2014 Olympics were certinaly not achieved with any help of doping methods.

Finally, see Olympic silver medalist and coach too of Russian luge team, namely Albert Demchenko, who confided satisfication with Swiss court’s ultimate and complete verdict for Legkov, adding moreover that he couldn’t have expected international IOC to continue belligerently in such an “unsportsmanlike” way when its Swiss federal case was completely lost against Legkov.

Of course I’m pleased with Swiss Federal Court’s decision to turn down the IOC’s appeal. Honestly, I didn’t expect the IOC to display such an unsportsmanlike behavior, The entire legal process initiated by the IOC was unfair. They simply swallowed baseless allegations against Russia,

Comprising now facts across multiple layers from testimony above, IOC drops 27 other malicious cases already decided from CAS from litigating indefinitely with federal Swiss. Outside Russia sparse indeed, few voices determined to raise in support against apparent final action, preferring more propaganda of parallel sort.

oopsy wrote:

http://americanfreepress.net/perpetual-war-and-the-global-media-psyop/

Right. Someone says it so it must be true. "American Free Press" - another nutcase propaganda outlet, which benefits from the fact that in the Western media, and the internet in particular, any old load of bollocks can be freely published. Unlike Mother Russia, and the great majority of other authoritarian regimes worldwide.

The google translation from Russian kind of gives the game away. Vladimir will not be pleased.

Lol. What are you some kind of retard shill for MSM?

Cookoo wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

The google translation from Russian kind of gives the game away. Vladimir will not be pleased.

Lol. What are you some kind of retard shill for MSM?

Whaddya know, the voice of "Free America Press". Propaganda is clearly your thing - whether Russian or just plain nutjob.

The most famous example is Bob Woodward, and his intel community connections.

Water-gate fame wrote:

The most famous example is Bob Woodward, and his intel community connections.

The most modern example is Khashoggi.

It's just bs to be drawn into an argument about media bias when the subject of the thread is a fake news claim about the IOC and Russian doping, which is state organised, systemic and the worst in the modern era by any international measure. And it isn't getting any better, with persistent non-compliance. Anything else is an irrelevant distraction.

Knowing your source is not always easy. wrote:

(Integrity Initiative is one of the exposed examples the Foreign Offices have run).

Well, it's a business.

Next step: play the cyber-victim.