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Part 1: Recap
John and Tony Podesta are likely to be linked in the 2007 Madeleine McCann disappearance.
John and Tony Podesta, and John's Assistant Elizabeth Cooley, the Mainstream Media, and even Wikipedia have been deliberately silent on this.
Online search trends about Pizzagate are massive and increasing despite media suppression.
The mainstream media has labeled Pizzagate as "fake news" without actually bringing up the Podesta / McCann link.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
#PizzaGate is much more than an alleged child trafficking ring running at a Pizza Shop in Washington, DC.
It is a global phenomenon of extreme corruption which may involve many of the most powerful people and institutions.
This will become more clear in future parts of this #pizzagate series.
#PizzaGate Part 2:
In this part, the following will be covered:
- Current Pizzagate search trends
- ACORN
- ACORN Child Sex Trafficking Controversy
- Barack Obama's close ties to ACORN (moved to Part 3 due to time constraints)
Pizzagate Search Trends:
https://www.google.ca/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=pizzagate,fake%20news,isis
Pizzagate is increasing dramatically in terms of Google Search traffic.
The "Fake News" narrative has risen very closely with the rise of pizzagate.
- It appears after each rise in "fake news" a rise in pizzagate follows…
Pizzagate Wikipedia Update:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_(conspiracy_theory)
I just saw this update today just prior to filming this video.
There is still no mention of the resemblance of John and Tony Podesta to the McCann suspect(s)…
Wikileaks Speculative Thread: https://our.wikileaks.org/Category:Speculative_Threads
Wikileaks have recently created a Wikipedia styled user-generated article template for what they deem "speculative" investigations.
Their first and only thread is Pizzagate: https://our.wikileaks.org/Pizzagate
It is currently empty of any content…
This is pretty interesting, so stay tuned for more on it.
ACORN: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Community_Organizations_for_Reform_Now
- "The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was a collection of community-based organizations in the United States and internationally that advocated for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues. At its peak ACORN had over 500,000 members and more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S.,[3][4] as well as in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru.[5] ACORN was founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado."
ACORN Child Sex Trafficking Controversy
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos_controversy
"In 2009, workers at offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a non-profit organization that had been involved for nearly 40 years in voter registration, community organizing and advocacy for low- and moderate-income people, were secretly recorded by conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe - and the videos "heavily edited" to create a misleading impression of their activities.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]"
"The edited videos were released on Fox News and the website BigGovernment.com from September into November 2009, generating extensive, negative publicity for ACORN, and leading to the U.S. Census Bureau and the IRS ending their contracts with ACORN, the U.S. Congress suspending its funding[8] - and ACORN losing most of its private funding, despite several independent investigations that by December 2009 began to reveal no criminal activity by ACORN staff had taken place.[7][9][10][11][12][13][14]"
"ACORN filed for Chapter 7 liquidation on November 2, 2010, effectively closing the organization.[15][16][17][18][19]"
Project Veritas ACORN Investigation:
http://projectveritas.com/acorn/
I recommend you watch all of the videos.
James O'Keefe goes undercover as a law student looking to launder money for his future political career, with the help of Hannah Giles, who is undercover as his girlfriend and in the prostitution business.
The undercover videos show ACORN employees assisting in obtaining a housing loan, find tax loopholes, and lauder illicit money from a hypothetical international child sex trafficking ring, by smuggling in a dozen underage girls from El Salvador.
ACORN locations investigated include:
- Baltimore
- Washington D.C.
- New York City
- San Bernardino
- San Diego
- Los Angeles
- Philadelphia
Here is a sample of the first video, which shows ACORN employees telling James and Hannah to list their prostitution business as "Performing Arts" while filing their taxes:
Out of every undercover video, only 1 ACORN employee (in LA office) did not assist James and Hannah.
The "heavily edited" term do not mean the videos were "selectively edited".
For more info on the reliability of Project Veritas: http://projectveritas.com/fact-or-fiction/
The most common misconception is the $100,000 settlement James O'Keefe paid to ACORN.
This was over a lawsuit over invasion of privacy, and had nothing to do with lying or doctoring footage: http://projectveritas.com/2016/05/06/james-okeefe-acorn-settlement/
The actual settlement document can be viewed here: http://projectveritas.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/OKeefeVeraACORNSettlement.pdf
"It is fully understood and agreed by the Parties that this is a settlement of a disputed claim and it is in no way representative of any actual or implied admissions of liability regarding the to the recorded conversations among Vera, O’Keefe and Giles that took place on August 18, 2009 in or near the ACORN office in National City, California and the recordings’ subsequent dissemination, but is executed solely to avoid costs and risks of potential litigation."
Websites that have written about this misconception include:
"The lawsuit alleged that O'Keefe and his associate filmed Vera in the San Diego ACORN offices without his consent, a violation of California law, and portrayed him untruthfully."
"The video was later discovered to be heavily edited, and O’Keefe paid a six-figure settlement to an ACORN employee who was fired as a result of the video."
After the videos were released:
○ The IRS severed ties to ACORN
○ The Census Bureau severed ties to ACORN
○ Congress voted to defund ACORN
○ ACORN shut down all operations on November 2010.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow defending ACORN:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Article: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/context-lies-and-videotapes-the-real
Maddow argues that the videos were selectively edited, that one ACORN employee called the police, and that James O'Keefe's "claim" of wearing a pimp suit in the videos is false.
Breitbart's Larry O'Connor (9 Apr 2010): Debunking Rachel Maddow's Video: http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2010/04/09/in-exposing-acorn-lies-maddow-leaves-truth-on-the-cutting-room-floor/
"And Maddow’s misleading statement: “He calls the police and reports what they’ve told him is going to be a crime” is wishful thinking not based on the evidence in Attorney General Jerry Brown’s report. There is a phone record of Mr. Vera calling his cousin who works in the police department (a fact that Mr. Vera revealed to Hannah and James during the course of the video) but there is no evidence as to what was said in that phone call, only that he got his cousin’s voice mail. It wasn’t until nine days after the incident, when Vera finally gave a detailed account of what had happened to law enforcement officials, do we have any third party verification that Vera may have intended to report Giles and O’Keefe to the police."
This is in fact true, according to the Attorney General Report Attachments: https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/n1888_acorn_attachments.pdf
From the report, it is unclear whether Vera may or may not have intended to purposely mislead James and Hannah into giving them information, for which he could report to the police.
No report was actually filed, but from watching the actual video tape, it is pretty clear to me that Vera was trying to help James and Hannah in their theoretical child trafficking ring, which explains why Vera was fired the day of the release of the tape.
This is the only ACORN employee with a slight chance of arguing that he was purposely "playing along" with James and Hannah's story, which explains why Rachel Maddow, and most other mainstream media outlets, only focus on the Vera case.
"Ms. Maddow could write this off as a matter of semantics, but it goes deeper than semantics. Anyone who reads the full report from the Attorney General’s office will see that the way the videos were edited has no bearing on whether the AG office found evidence of any criminal behavior. The reason the ACORN employees were cleared of aiding and abetting criminal behavior was ultimately, that O’Keefe and Giles were only pretending to commit crimes. You can’t aid and abet criminal behavior if there is no actual criminal behavior. And the release of the unedited videos had nothing to do with that legal conclusion."
○ This also true, according to the Attorney General Report.
"I know O’Keefe has been faulted, with some justice, for failing to contradict a Fox News yakker who made that claim in his presence. I’m inclined to go easy on him for that, because I think it’s easy to criticize people for on-the-fly decisions (especially decisions not to act) made while facing a nationwide audience on TV. In any event, a failure to contradict is not a “claim.”
"Now, some yahoos like Maddow have tried to argue that O’Keefe tried to hide the fact that he was wearing normal clothes in ACORN offices. Here is a screenshot from the very seconds of the very first video O’Keefe ever released:"
This also true as can be seen here: https://youtu.be/LtTnizEnC1U
It is clear that Rachel Maddow deliberately selected clips to give the impression that ACORN was the victim in all of this.
I recommend watching the undercover videos, then watch Rachel Maddow's take on it because it shows just how good and believable the mainstream media is at spinning a pretty much black and white topic.
Echoing Rachel Maddow's take on this is Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/03/08/james-okeefe-pays-100000-to-acorn-employee-he-smeared-conservative-media-yawns/#17e2bd4b3a78
A similar example of Mainstream Media's extremely misleading spin, and a much more effective example, is John Oliver's video on Donald "Drumpf":
I recommend watching Stefan Molyneux's video going over nearly every sentence of John Oliver's video:
REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL ON THE ACTIVITIES OF ACORN IN CALIFORNIA (APRIL 1, 2010)
"On September 16, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger wrote to Attorney General Brown and requested that he investigate ACORN’s activities in California."
"The recordings establish ACORN employees across the country were willing to discuss with O’Keefe and Giles their plan to conduct a prostitution business, and a few even made suggestions for disguising profits and avoiding detection by law enforcement agencies. The most offensive conversations occurred outside California."
"On July 9, 2008, the New York Times reported that Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN's founder Wade Rathke, embezzled close to $1 million from ACORN in 1999-2000. ACORN executives handled it quietly and internally, and did not inform most board members or law enforcement. Instead, they signed an enforceable restitution agreement with the Rathke family to repay the money that was embezzled. Meanwhile, Dale Rathke continued to work at ACORN, and Wade Rathke continued to run it until 2008, when the embezzlement became public. Thereafter, Dale left ACORN and Wade stepped down as ACORN’s chief organizer."
○ New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html
"In October 2009, the Louisiana Attorney General issued a subpoena stating that ACORN’s board of directors found that a larger amount – $5 million – had been embezzled from the organization. Bertha Lewis, ACORN's CEO, has denied the allegation. On November 6, Louisiana Attorney General investigators served a search warrant at the ACORN headquarters in New Orleans. That investigation is ongoing."
"In early 2009, a few GOP officials and conservative commentators charged that the Democratic Congress intended to funnel billions in economic stimulus funds to ACORN. In July 2009, Representative Darrell Issa, ranking minority Republican member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a report entitled “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?” which catalogued allegations made against ACORN during the campaign and in the years before. Representative Issa’s report claimed that ACORN was engaged in criminal money laundering to manipulate the American electorate. Representative Issa claimed that ACORN received $53 million in federal funds in fifteen years."
○ Oversight Report: https://oversight.house.gov/release/report-is-acorn-intentionally-structured-as-a-criminal-enterprise/
"On September 10, 2009, conservative commentator and publisher Andrew Breitbart launched a website called BigGovernment.com. The website premiered with a piece featuring covert video recordings made by 25 year old James O’Keefe and 20 year old Hannah Giles. O’Keefe had received some notoriety a few years earlier by posing as a racist donor to a Planned Parenthood office who supported abortions for African Americans. Those recordings led to Planned Parenthood grants and employees being terminated or suspended."
"The complete and unedited recordings made by O’Keefe and Giles establish that the four California ACORN employees discussed with the couple their plan to conduct a prostitution business, which they described to three of the employees as using captive underage girls who were illegal immigrants. Despite the criminality of the hypothetical conduct discussed, none of the California ACORN employees committed, solicited or conspired to commit any criminal acts. Based on all the evidence now known, none of these employees said or did anything that was, in light of all the circumstances, illegal. Because O’Keefe and Giles’s criminal plans were themselves a ruse, one cannot be criminally complicit in those plans. In order to be liable as an aider and abettor, the perpetrators (in this case, O’Keefe and Giles) must have actually committed the planned or underlying crime. (See CALCRIM No. 401; People v. Perez (2005) 35 Cal.4th 1219, 1225.) Similarly, conspiracy culpability would require a finding that not only the ACORN employee, but also O’Keefe and Giles (the coconspirators), intended to enter into an agreement and intended to commit the target crime of that agreement. (CALCRIM No. 415; People v. Vargas (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 506, 551.)"
Thus, aiding and abetting a hypothetical criminal plot is not technically illegal…
Further Reading into Federal Funding into ACORN:
Report by Rep. Darrell Issa (CA), the Ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (JUL 23, 2009): https://oversight.house.gov/release/report-is-acorn-intentionally-structured-as-a-criminal-enterprise/
"ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of the $948.607.50 embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke."
"ACORN has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services, and engaged in a racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce."
"ACORN has committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan political activities."
"At least $53 million in federal funds have gone to ACORN activists since 1994, and the controversial group could get up to $8.5 billion more tax dollars despite being under investigation for voter registration fraud in a dozen states."
PolitiFact "Fact Check": http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/21/michele-bachmann/bachmann-claims-acorn-has-access-85-billion-federa/
"And then there's the matter of trying to make a splash by throwing out the massive $8.5 billion number, suggesting ACORN "could get" it, as in all of it. That's absurd. We rule Bachmann's statement False."
This "fact check" is very misleading.
Bachmann's referenced the Washington Examiner article and stated "could get up to..", but PolitiFact "fact checks" whether ACORN was going to get "all of it", which no one ever claimed.
PolitiFact Rebuttal: http://subloviate.blogspot.ca/2009/05/grading-politifact-michelle-bachmann-on.html
PolitiFact Rebuttal #2: https://web.archive.org/web/20090531051524/http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/28/polifacts-fixers
Government Accountability Report on ACORN: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-484
Wikipedia suggests PolitiFact as a "Fake News" checker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news_website
"Fact-checking websites play a role as debunkers to fraudulent news reports.[132][133][134]"
"FactCheck.org,[c] PolitiFact.com,[d] Snopes.com,[e] and "The Fact Checker" section of The Washington Post,[f] are prominent fact-checking websites that played an important role in debunking fraud.[123][132][134][140]"
"The New Yorker writer Nicholas Lemann wrote on how to address fake news, and called for increasing the roles of FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, and Snopes.com, in the age of post-truth politics.[141]"
In other words, only believe what these specific sites say to believe…
As suggested in Part 1, this "fake news" phenomenon is simply a way to label, ridicule, and censor opposing views.
I will do a video later on how to read "fake news", so stay tuned for that.
Summary of #PizzaGate Part 2:
Google Search Trends show pizzagate is increasing in search traffic and coincides with the media's push for "fake news".
ACORN lost its federal funding, and eventually shut down operations, after James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles went undercover to expose, at the very least, just how easy it is to get housing, tax help, money laundering help, and ways to cover up an illegal international child sex trafficking ring, all through an organization partially funded by the federal government.
- Also, why is a partisan organization such as ACORN receiving any federal funding at all??
Stay tuned for #PizzaGate Part 3…
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