{"id":34480,"date":"2018-05-23T06:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T11:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34480"},"modified":"2018-05-23T06:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T11:21:19","slug":"more-about-wikipedias-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34480","title":{"rendered":"More About Wikipedia\u2019s Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<header><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" title=\"More About Wikipedia\u2019s Corruption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/images\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/or-40801.jpg\" alt=\"More About Wikipedia\u2019s Corruption\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2018\/05\/23\/more-about-wikipedia-corruption.html\">More About Wikipedia\u2019s Corruption<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>The latest report about\u00a0Wikipedia\u2019s\u00a0corruption\u00a0comes from the great investigative journalist Craig Murray, who had been in the UK\u2019s Foreign Service from 1984-2004 and who was forced out in 2004 because, having been since 2002 UK\u2019s Ambassador to Uzbekistan, he decided to whistleblow instead of to accept the\u00a0corruption\u00a0by his own and Uzbekistan\u2019s Governments.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Murray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia\u2019s article about him<\/a>\u00a0says that his immediately prior posting had involved participating in enforcement of the prior economic sanctions against Iraq, and \u201cHis group gave daily reports to Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In\u00a0<em>Murder in Samarkand<\/em>, he describes how this experience led him to disbelieve the claims of the UK and US governments in 2002 about Iraqi WMDs.\u201d So, his disenchantment with UK\u2019s foreign policies seems to have grown over the years, instead of suddenly to have appeared only during the two years in which he was an Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>On May 18<sup>th<\/sup>, he headlined at his much-followed blog,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craigmurray.org.uk\/archives\/2018\/05\/the-philip-cross-affair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Philip Cross Affair\u201d<\/a>, and reported: \u201c133,612 edits to\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0have been made in the name of \u2018Philip Cross&#8217; over 14 years. That\u2019s over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. And I do not use that figuratively:\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0edits are timed, and if you plot them, the timecard for &#8216;Philip Cross\u2019s&#8217;\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0activity is astonishing &#8230; if it is one individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He presents reasons to question that it\u2019s a one-person operation, then states that,<\/p>\n<p><em>the purpose of the \u201cPhilip Cross\u201d operation is systematically to attack and undermine the reputations of those who are prominent in challenging the dominant corporate and state media narrative. particularly in foreign affairs. \u201cPhilip Cross\u201d also systematically seeks to burnish the reputations of mainstream media journalists and other figures who are particularly prominent in pushing neo-con propaganda and in promoting the interests of Israel\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More About Wikipedia\u2019s Corruption The latest report about\u00a0Wikipedia\u2019s\u00a0corruption\u00a0comes from the great investigative journalist Craig Murray, who had been in the UK\u2019s Foreign Service from 1984-2004 and who was forced out in 2004 because, having been since 2002 UK\u2019s Ambassador to Uzbekistan, he decided to whistleblow instead of to accept the\u00a0corruption\u00a0by his own and Uzbekistan\u2019s Governments.\u00a0Wikipedia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14160,4394,442,20222,8203,2080,18056],"class_list":["post-34480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-craig-murray","tag-eric-zuesse","tag-iraq","tag-philip-cross","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wikipedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34481,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34480\/revisions\/34481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}