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Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your BrainWayne Madsen is an "investigative journalist", who breathlessly reveals the latest US government plot based on the flimsiest evidence on his website - and then gets very annoyed when most people don't take his predictions seriously. That he turns out to be wrong all the time doesn't seem to faze him, or a small band of devoted followers.
Now he's come up with something so stupid that you'd think it's satire. He claims the name of the element used to poison Alexander Litvinenko is a clue to who really did it. However, there's an undercurrent mixed in with the idiocy which shows (a) it's probably not satire; (b) Madsen is a nasty turd.
November 30, 2006 -- Was the use of polonium to kill Litvinenko a clue to the identity of the killer or killers?
There is increasing evidence that the radioactive poisoning assassination of ex-KGB and FSB agent and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko was the result of a plot by anti-Vladimir Putin criminal syndicates based in Britain, Israel, Ukraine, and Poland to embarrass the Russian government.
Suspicions about the role of the exiled Russian-Israeli criminal syndicates in the poisoning of Litvinenko, including that headed by Litvinenko's friend, wanted oligarch Boris Berezovsky, re-surfaced after former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar became violently ill after eating breakfast at a conference he was attending in Dublin, Ireland. Ireland's banking secrecy laws has made it a favorite location for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.
Gaidar's sudden illness occurred a day after Litvinenko died in a London hospital from poisoning from polonium-210, a deadly radioactive isotope when ingested. Radioactive traces were later discovered at sites around London, including Berezovsky's offices in the West End.
Gaidar was moved from a Dublin hospital to a Moscow hospital where he received a telephone call from Putin wishing him a speedy recovery. Putin's Mafiosi critics in Britain, Israel, Moscow, and other countries have accused the Russian leader of poisoning Litvinenko and attempting to kill Gaidar.
However, Russian officials are claiming that the attacks were carried out by Putin's criminal opponents who want to create tension between Moscow and the West.
Their arguments appear to have merit when the choice of radioactive isotope used to kill Litvinenko is considered. Intelligence experts point out that polonium was discovered by Marie Curie (nee Maria Sklodowska) in 1897 and named after her native homeland Poland (Polonia in Latin) to express her support for Polish independence against its partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Before Putin moved in to take over Yukos Oil from the Russian criminal syndicates, there were plans to build a Russian-German gas pipeline through Poland. After Poland was taken over by a neo-con team of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who serve as President and Prime Minister, respectively, Poland not only began to conduct a witch hunt against ex-Communists but also became a base of operations for the anti-Putin Russian-Israeli exiled gangsters and oligarchs. Named as Defense Minister was former American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Radek Sikorski, who also happens to be married to Washington Post editorial board member and leading neo-con journalist Anne Applebaum, also a leading critic of Putin (along with a number of so-called "liberals," including Clinton ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke).
After Putin decided, along with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, to bypass Poland and build the Russo-German pipeline under the Baltic Sea, Sikorski unleashed a barrage against Russia and Germany. He likened the pipeline deal to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement that carved up Eastern Europe, including Poland, between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Sikorski asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cancel the pipeline deal but she refused.
We now know that Litvinenko was working on unspecified "energy issues" in London. We also know he has been described as a Russian-Israeli "double agent" and was reported to have transferred classified Russian documents in Yukos to a Russian-Israeli exiled oligarch in Tel Aviv. Double agents are always in danger from the party they are working against. Litvinenko's killers' use of polonium, named by Marie Curie in support of Polish independence, may mean that the assassins are more likely found in Warsaw's Russian-Israeli mob infested intelligence apparatus than in the Kremlin.
I love "Intelligence experts point out that polonium was discovered ..." - as if someone from Jane's Defence Weekly said this, rather than Madsen looking it up on Google, followed by a "5 things you didn't know about Poland" exposition. It could almost be from The Onion.
However, while the link to Poland, via Marie Curie, is absurd, in a funny way, note the number of times Madsen says Israel is involved, without any justification. Somehow, a row between Poland, Russia and Germany about a gas pipeline involves "Russian-Israeli exiled gangsters and oligarchs", Madsen claims - though without evidence. When I see the phrase "Warsaw's Russian-Israeli mob infested intelligence apparatus", I think "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", but with the word "Israeli" substituted for "Jew" to give him a get-out clause.
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It's scary how so many people on the left take Madsen seriously. I've been meaning to write something about anti-semitism on the left via conspiracism for a long, long time but I just can't figure out how to say it without coming off like a David Horowitz (who as you may know is one of the key players trying to paint the entire left wing as inherently anti-semitic). Your post I think strikes a happy middle ground by pointing out the absurdity of the caricature conspiracist writers like Madsen paint.
because of the reference to Pitt. Some members there think Madsen is worth reading, but the board has actually banned using his site as a source - I'm not sure if that's because of his inherent unreliability, or that he may have a history of anti-semitic ramblings, or a bit of a combination of both.
If you haven't guessed, I am a member of DU (though I will acknowledge there's a few whackjobs there).
Ah - "both" would seem to be the answer:
Democratic Underground considers Wayne Madsen to be a highly unrealiable and/or bigoted web site. We prefer to give them no extra publicity here.
You are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy.
This comment by 'n' deleted for providing false contact information, being stupid and anti-semitic.
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If I read your tirade correctly, you point out that Mr. Madsen's commentary is wrong because he is (in your words) a "turd". This is of coarse code for "tough" "untiring" " relentless" and "direct" and I must say thank you for having so little else to say about the subject. At least he takes the time to research his comments rather than just spitting out garbage without direct sources. Save us your comments unless you do your research first.
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Indeed. Madsen worked for the National Security Agency, he has many credible sources within the intelligence communities. But as to what exactly makes the moderator of this blog an expert in "turd detection," I cannot fathom. Perhaps it takes one to know one.
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Hello, first time poster. Was wondering why the only opinions differing from consensus are "troll listed".
The second made a swipe at the mod, but the first spoke only reason. There is little fact and much defamation presented, and no attention whatsoever given to the facts and research on Madsen's website, aside from mentioning Madsen's aside on the element chosen as risible.
Oh, and lots of antisemitism innuendo.
An actual survey of the site will reveal no race considerations nor religious
considerations, only political, security, and organized crime considerations.
One-note criticisms pronounced in chorus and lacking in depth analysis
scare me.
I would suggest that if you don't find anything worrisome about implications that a "Russian-Israeli mob" is manipulating events then you might need a refresher course as to what exactly anti-semitism looks like. Start with the Protocols.
So it's ok to expose Russian crimes.... but not Israeli crimes.
Morons.
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