{"id":12778,"date":"2017-11-11T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.be\/Home\/?p=12778"},"modified":"2017-11-11T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T10:00:35","slug":"democratic-party-in-crisis-the-weinstein-case-and-the-private-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/democratic-party-in-crisis-the-weinstein-case-and-the-private-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party in Crisis &#8211; Weinstein&#039;s private contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft \" src=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/170930_DerekMonroe2_zrkl.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"169\" \/><br \/>\nIn June 2016 wikileaks revealed that the leadership of the Democratic National Congress (DNC) had r<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">igged the presidential election process<\/a> within the Democratic Party against Bernie Sanders and in favour of Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 DNC chairwomen Debby Wasserman Schultz, who played a key role in the electoral manipulation,\u00a0 stepped down and was replaced by Donna Brazile.\u00a0 Early November Brazile published &#8216;The Hack&#8217;, a book in which she confirms that the DNC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2017\/11\/3\/headlines\/donna_brazile_dnc_struck_unethical_deal_with_clinton_during_election_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conspired with the Clinton-campaign<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe talk to <strong>Derek Monroe<\/strong> about what happened last year prior to the elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Nothing will change in US politics unless the money is taken out&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Donna Brazile\/ 2016 Elections:<\/strong><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12778-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_1_Donna_Brazile_DNC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_1_Donna_Brazile_DNC.mp3\">http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_1_Donna_Brazile_DNC.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\nOn 7 November the Republiccans lost\u00a0 a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_elections,_2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of elections took that place in different US states<\/a>. Derek Monroe minimises the importance of the importance of the elections. He thinks that the frustration and anger of the\u00a0 people could translate into a call for a strong hand and therefore is a recipe for fascism.<br \/>\n<strong>7 November elections:<\/strong><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12778-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_3_Elections_Fascism.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_3_Elections_Fascism.mp3\">http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_3_Elections_Fascism.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe also talk about the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment case. One angle that has not receive much coverage is the use of private contractors by Weinstein to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> spy on, and\u00a0 intimidate his victims and journalists<\/a>. He did this through the lawfirm of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Boies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Boies<\/a> in order to be able keep the contacts with the contractors hidden, some of whom are former Mossad agents.<br \/>\n<strong>Weinstein\/ David Boies:<\/strong><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-12778-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_2_DavidBoies.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_2_DavidBoies.mp3\">http:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/2017\/171110_DerekMonroe_2_DavidBoies.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;It is interesting that power and state jurisdiction is migrating to corporations and people in power.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2016 wikileaks revealed that the leadership of the Democratic National Congress (DNC) had rigged the presidential election process within the Democratic Party against Bernie Sanders and in favour of Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 DNC chairwomen Debby Wasserman Schultz, who played a key role in the electoral manipulation,\u00a0 stepped down and was replaced by Donna Brazile.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/democratic-party-in-crisis-the-weinstein-case-and-the-private-contractors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democratic Party in Crisis &#8211; Weinstein&#039;s private contractors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[271,290,310,318,489],"class_list":["post-12778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noord-amerika","tag-david-boies","tag-derek-monroe","tag-dnc","tag-donna-brazile","tag-harvey-weinstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redactie.radiocentraal.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}