White Helmets oprichter ‘vermoord door’ vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media

De
wereld weer eens geheel en al op de kop: James Le Mesurier,
ex-militair inlichtingen officier en de oprichter van White Helmets
benam zich het leven eerder dit jaar, de reden voor Public Broadcast
Service (PBS), een o.a. door de VS overheid bekostigde tv zender, om
te stellen dat de critici van Le Mesurier en zijn White Helmets hebben
geleid tot de dood van Le Mesurier…. Zelfs het kritisch zijn op hoe de reguliere westerse media en politiek met Syrië omgaan zou tot de dood van mensen leiden….. 

Hoe ongelofelijk psychopathisch moet je zijn om het voorgaande te stellen, dus de stelling dat kritiek op Le Mesurier tot zijn dood heeft geleid en dat kritiek op westerse bemoeienis met Syrië leidt tot de dood van mensen*, zeker als je ziet dat datzelfde westen onder aanvoering van de VS (met hulp van andere NAVO-partners) Syrië voor een deel hebben platgebombardeerd en een enorm aantal slachtoffers hebben gemaakt……**

Reden
Voor Caitlin Johnstone ‘om in de pen te klimmen’ en een artikel aan
deze waanzinnige leugen te wijden. De White Helmets is een schimmige
organisatie die vooral samenwerkt met en zelfs werkt voor terreurgroepen
in Syrië, zolang men maar tegen Assad vecht, kan er gerekend worden op westerse hulp voor het geweld dat deze zogenaamde mensenredders uitoefenen…..

Le
Mesurier was in feite een promotor en propagandist van de oorlog is
Syrië en het geweld van de verschillende terreurgroepen en precies
dat verwijt men nu de mensen die het lef hadden om tegen de stroom in
de werkelijke aard van de White Helmets bloot te leggen en te
openbaar te maken op het internet, een schande van jewelste……..
Men durft zelfs te stellen dat er voor Le Mesurier geen plek was om
zich te verstoppen op het internet….. (je zou je bijna doodlachen,
wat een kul!)

Le
Mesurier maakte gewoon deel uit van de VS oorlogsmachine die Assad zo
snel mogelijk weg wilde hebben en zijn zogenaamde humanitaire White
Helmets hebben zich aantoonbaar schuldig gemaakt aan een groot aantal
geweldplegingen, het fabriceren van valse video’s die het geweld van
het Syrische bewind en de Russen moesten aantonen (een aantal van
deze video’s werden zelfs in Egypte en Turkije in elkaar
gezet…..)…..

Jammer
genoeg is deze gang van zaken de gehele westerse reguliere media aan
te rekenen, met grote agressie in de berichtgeving lepelt men met
grote graagte de leugens op die de White Helmets, terreurgroepen en
het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR) naar buiten
brachten (SOHR is een organisatie van een gewezen ordinaire
misdadiger die op zogenaamd politieke gronden asiel kreeg in
Groot-Brittannië, deze schoft bericht vooral wat terreurgroepen in
Syrië hem voorschotelen….) In feite werken deze terreurgroepen, de
White Helmets en SOHR samen om het bewind van Syrië zo zwart
mogelijk te maken….. Zelfs Obama moest toegeven dat een Assad
gelinkte gifgasaanval, in feite werd uitgevoerd door terreurgroepen
in Syrië…. (een false flag operatie om de VS en de andere
deelnemende NAVO-lidstaten te verleiden een aanval op het reguliere
Syrische leger uit te voeren……

Nu is
men dus zover dat men zelfs een suïcide van een gevaarlijke man,
want dat was Le Mesurier wel degelijk, in de schoenen te schuiven van mensen die
leugens doorprikken en wel eerlijk berichtten en berichten over de
oorlog in Syrië….. 

Onlangs is een nieuwe westerse
propaganda-oorlog gestart tegen het Syrische bewind, daar dit bewind
terecht de provincie Idlib wil veiligstellen van de vele terroristen die zich daar ophouden en de aanval hebben
geopend op de terreurgroepen waar deze terroristen deel van uitmaken, terroristen die in de reguliere
westerse media ‘rebellen’ worden genoemd….. Zelfs de VN neemt deel
aan de beschuldigingen dat het Syrische bewind burgers in gevaar
brengt, terwijl een groot deel van de mensen in die provincie bestaan
uit IS leden en leden van andere terreurgroepen, plus de aanhang van
deze terroristen… Bovendien hoor je die westerse media niet over de
gruwelen die deze terroristen uitoefenen op de gewone bevolking van
Idlib, zoals ze dit vanaf het begin van de ellende daar niet hebben gedaan……

Lees het
volgende artikel van Johnstone waar ze dieper op de beschuldigingen
van PBS ingaat en zegt het voort, bijna dagelijks brengt zelfs de
zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde NOS leugens over de strijd
in Syrië, zoals deze zendgemachtigde dat vanaf het begin van de
ellende in Syrië heeft gedaan, ellende die werd georganiseerd en
geregisseerd door de CIA, zoals deze terreurorganisatie ook in Iran
de boel opstookt en dat laatste heeft de VS zelfs toegegeven!!  

Narrative
Managers Claim White Helmets Founder Was Driven To Suicide By
Syria Skeptics

by
Caitlin
Johnstone

Imperialist
spinmeisters are trial-ballooning a new Syria narrative that is so
breathtakingly stupid that it needs its own article solely for the
purpose of mockery.

On
Christmas Eve PBS
aired
a bizarre segment

on the death of James Le Mesurier, the
former
military intelligence officer

who founded the
extremely
shady propaganda construct

known as the White Helmets. The segment makes relentless, ham-fisted
appeals to emotion, even attempting to associate the White Helmets
with Armistice Day using wistful camera pans over poppy flowers and
misty war memorial art exhibits, but by far the most yogurt-brained
part is its repeated suggestions that Le Mesurier killed himself
because people had been accusing him of being a propagandist.

“And
now a story of a humanitarian trying to help Syria: the suspicious
death in Turkey last month of James Le Mesurier, the co-founder of
the White Helmets rescue organization in Syria,” opens 
PBS
News Hour
‘s
Judy Woodruff. “Friends and colleagues fear that he may have
been murdered or driven to suicide by a campaign of character
assassination.”

“Whatever
the cause, Le Mesurier was a victim of a very modern war,” the
special’s narrator solemnly intones. “There is no hiding place
in cyberspace. Le Mesurier was at the epicenter of a propaganda war,
and his friends are appalled at what they regard as a campaign of
character assassination.”

“The
amount of abuse, the amount of ill-placed propaganda, disinformation
that’s on social media and the Internet coming out of Russian bots
and Syria, Syrian regime, and others was unbearable,” Col.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon mourns.

This
ridiculous narrative was picked up and run with by Syria narrative
managers on Twitter.

“On
lethal disinformation— a thread,”
tweeted
virulent Syria narrative manager Idrees Ahmad. “This is a
disturbing report by Malcolm Brabant on the lethal consequences
of conspiracism. It shows how slander and disinformation may have
pushed James Le Mesurier, one of the finest humanitarians, to his
death. The report highlights the pernicious lies issuing from
the self-described ‘Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media’,
which is a small group of academics, none specialising in Syria or
the Middle East, in alliance with a group of pro-Kremlin trolls like
Vanessa Beeley et al.”

It
is true that both
Beeley
and the
Working
Group on Syria (WG), Propaganda and Media

have accused Le Mesurier of running a propaganda operation on behalf
of western governments using western government funding. But if Ahmad
truly believed that accusing people of conducting propaganda caused
them to kill themselves, he should turn himself in for attempted
murder, because he
accuses
people of being propagandists constantly
.

Here’s
a link

to Ahmad calling journalist Max Blumenthal a “propagandist for
Maduro”.
Here’s
a link

to Ahmad calling Beeley a “pro-regime propagandist”.
Here’s
a link

to Ahmad calling award-winning journalist Jonathan Steele “a
fabricator and a propagandist”.
Here’s
a link

to Ahmad calling CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou “a propagandist
for Putin”.

Talk
about “lethal disinformation”, Idrees.


Caitlin Johnstone ⏳


@caitoz

Alexander “I’m so far left I agree with Mike Pompeo on every foreign policy issue” Reid Ross also assures us that questioning establishment Syria narratives definitely kills people. https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1210627624592003075 


 

Alexander Reid Ross


@areidross

this is so incredibly sad. i can attest to the emotional toll the harassment takes, and would add that it’s not just the conspiracy theorists but the systems in which they thrive—namely this here site, twitter dot com, set up by a big Tulsi funder.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mysterious-death-of-white-helmets-co-founder-spotlights-toxic-propaganda 



169

But
of course, no one really believes that accusations of conducting
propaganda actually drive people to suicide. If they did, people like
me would have thrown ourselves off a building years ago.

I
am accused of being a propagandist nearly every day. At the height of
Russiagate hysteria it happened many times a day in my blog post
comments and social media notifications. Depending on what’s in the
news and how I’ve responded to it I’ve been accused of writing paid
propaganda for the Kremlin, Assad, the Iranian government,
Palestinians, Pyongyang, Beijing, Maduro, the alt-right, George
Soros, and WikiLeaks, just off the top of my head.

Every
anti-imperialist, anti-interventionist, and antiwar activist with any
kind of platform has had this experience. Ever since the new
McCarthyism of establishment-driven Russia hysteria took off,
accusing people who question imperialist narratives of conducting
psyops for foreign governments has become the norm in political
discourse. It’s created an extremely hostile and vitriolic
environment in which productive conversations are vanishingly rare.

Where’s
our PBS special? Does anyone care? Is there any compassion from these
hand-wringing establishment loyalists for the fact that Vanessa
Beeley and the members of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda
and Media are hounded day in and day out by establishment narrative
managers and their brainwashed followers with accusations of
spreading propaganda, supporting genocide, and embracing war crimes?
I know I’ve never had a garment-rending Idrees Ahmad thread written
about concerns for my psychological well being, and I’ve been
targeted by multiple online harassment campaigns over the years.

The
amount of hateful vitriol that gets leveled at people for simply
opposing imperialism, for
wanting
peace
,
is truly astonishing. Just for saying “Hey here are some reasons
we should maybe reconsider toppling yet another government in yet
another Middle Eastern nation” will bring in complete strangers
calling you all sorts of names, calling you disgusting, calling you
evil, calling you a monster. For supporting
peace.

There
are all kinds of people in the world who are very deserving of harsh
words. Powerful exploiters, oppressors and manipulators. People who
destroy the environment for profit. People who get rich selling
weapons of war while paying politicians and think tanks to advance
the cause of war. War criminals who’ve never faced justice. With all
those people in the world who we can all agree are terrible, you
wouldn’t think peace activists should feature anywhere near the top
of anyone’s list. But they do. Because war propaganda is just that
influential.

And,
of course, nobody cares. None of these narrative managers care about
what psychological burden they might be placing on people by assuring
their audiences that it’s perfectly sane and normal to hound and
harass anyone who questions imperialist propaganda. Their concern is
not and has never been about anyone’s psychological health. Their
concern is in managing narratives in a way that favors the
US-centralized empire that they serve.

I
do not know what caused Le Mesurier’s death; to be in any way
confident that a known spook committed suicide at all, or was
murdered by Russians, is absurd. Maybe he killed himself because he
failed to listen to the adage “Before you diagnose yourself
with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that
you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

What
I absolutely do know, with absolute certainty, is that only idiots
believe that skepticism about western regime change agendas in the
Middle East kills people.

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 *  Zeker als je bedenkt dat Le Mesurier dondersgoed wist wat een samerige organisatie hij op poten heeft gezet, met de opzet om propaganda tegen de regering Assad te maken in een poging om het westen tot ingrijpen te verleiden….. Het is zelfs heel goed denkbaar dat Le Mesurier heeft gezien waartoe zijn acties hebben geleid: false flag operaties waarbij een groot aantal burgers om zijn gekomen en hij zich daarom het leven heeft genomen………

** Dezelfde VS heeft de gewelddadige opstand in Syrië georganiseerd en geregisseerd, met de voorbereiding daarvan was deze terreurentiteit al bezig vanaf 2006….. Mede samenzweerders hierin zijn o.a. Groot-Brittannie, Egypte en Saoedi-Arabië……. Zie o.a.: VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan…….  

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Wat betreft de White Helmets zie: 

White Helmets oprichter overleden, het sein voor nog meer anti-Syrische propaganda

White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel

White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto’s van de W.H. leden

White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland………..‘ 

White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (met video over samenwerking tussen Al Qaida en de White Helmets, zie ook de andere links in dat bericht) 

White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie


Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!  

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld…. 

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

Zie verder:

Douma gifgasaanval: OPCW baas gaf opdracht een rapport te verwijderen uit dossier en alle sporen te wissen‘ 

Douma, OPCW lek wordt door massamedia toegeschreven aan Rusland, waarbij men blijft volhouden dat de gifgasaanval plaatsvond

OPCW-lek laat ten overvloede zien dat de berichtgeving over gifgasaanval Douma er volledig ‘naast zat’

OPCW valt door de mand, klokkenluider: Douma gifgasaanval werd niet uitgevoerd door Syrische leger

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

Dood al-Baghdadi: VS heeft haar eigen creatie vermoord….

Al-Baghdadi (top ISIS) vermoord, nu nog zijn bazen berechten

Syrische Koerden voor tweede keer verraden: VS blijft vanwege de olie

Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..*

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

Gifgasaanval
Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging
aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot
‘ (later gaf de OPCW Syrië alsnog de schuld….)

Avaaz valt met fake news en desinformatie ‘fake news en desinformatie’ aan…..

AVAAZ: een ‘petitie site’ met de vreselijke stank van lijken en oorlogshitserij………

Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!! 

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria
De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben
gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van ‘false flag’ operaties, ofwel men begaat
een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

‘Gematigde’ terreurgroepen in Syrië kregen Nederlands belastinggeld om te moorden, verkrachten, martelen en om te roven…….‘ 

Arrestatie Rutte, Koenders, Zijlstra en Blok wegens hulp aan terreurgroepen in Syrië van hoogste belang

Van
Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met
raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs
voor Syrische schuld…….

Sico
van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte
grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Rutte:
raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel,
ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

Haley
(VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval,
het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog
tegen Irak…….
‘  

‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

Voor
wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten
onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens
voorzag, neem de hysterie n.a.v. de moord op al-Baghdadi…..):

Rutte en Koenders verantwoordelijk voor wapenleveranties aan IS!!

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

US weapons supplied to Syrian rebels ended up with Islamic State: report

Tracing ISIS’ Weapons Supply Chain—Back to the US

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ 

VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland deoorlog………

U.S Caught Red Handed Selling Arms to ISIS/AL-Qaeda (Part 1 of 2)

US TRAINED REBELS GIVE WEAPONS TO TERROR GROUP

Made in America: US-Trained ‘Moderate’ Rebels, With Blessing Of Americans, Seling US Weapons to ISIS

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida 

* Wat betreft de Nederlandse steun voor terreur met ons belastinggeld, zie ook:

Blok
(VVD minister BuZa) loog alweer: Nederland wist dondersgoed dat de hulp
voor ‘gematigde rebellen’ werd gebruikt voor grootschalige terreur

Blok
(VVD ‘minister’ BuZa) Nederland heeft zich met het leveren van hulp aan
terreurgroepen niet schuldig gemaakt aan het stimuleren van
terreur…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Stef Blok (VVD ‘minister’) probeert z’n handen met het bloed van Syriërs schoon te wassen >> steun aan terreurgroepen

Arrestatie Rutte, Koenders, Zijlstra en Blok wegens hulp aan terreurgroepen in Syrië van hoogste belang

White Helmets oprichter overleden, het sein voor nog meer anti-Syrische propaganda

James Le
Mesurier, ex-legerofficier en oprichter van de White Helmets
is overleden, deze figuur kampte al langer met psychische klachten en
zou daar ook voor zijn opgenomen. Le Mesurier zou zich in Istanbul het leven
hebben benomen door over het balkonhek te stappen……

De
suïcide van Le Mesurier wordt betwijfeld door degenen die Assad weg
willen hebben en daar een trouwe VS vazal willen parachuteren, zij
maken er liever moord van, ofwel gepleegd door de Russen dan wel door
de Syrische geheime dienst…..* Mark Urban verslaggever van de BBC,
stelde dat hij uit anonieme bron had vernomen dat het onmogelijk was
om van het balkon van Le Mesurier naar beneden te stappen, een
uitspraak die hij later terugnam (maar wel gezegd en voor velen
blijft dit de ‘waarheid’) Voorts wordt zijn dood door de
anti-Assad coalitie gebruikt om een paar flinke scheppen extra
anti-Assad propaganda te brengen, waarvan het ontkennen van de suïcide die Le Mesurier uitvoerde natuurlijk het begin was……

De
voormalige Britse ambassadeur voor Oezbekistan en latere politieke activist Craig Murray heeft zich laten horen in de nasleep van Le Mesuriers
dood, volgens hem maakt Philip Cross overuren na de dood van Le
Mesurier, met de ene aanpassing na de andere van diens pagina op
Wikipedia. Cross heeft er zijn levenstaak van gemaakt om de Wikipedia
pagina’s aan te passen aan de huidige westerse status quo (o.a.
anti-Assad) en propaganda te maken voor de terreurgroepen in Syrië,
‘zeg maar’ zoals het Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) dat doet. 

Het SOHR wordt geleid door een gewezen misdadiger die vanuit GB bericht over de oorlog in Syrië
en die aanwijsbaar ‘nieuws’ brengt dat uit de koker van Al Qaida
(al-Nusra) en andere terreurgroepen komt…. Zoals bij het SOHR,
nemen een aantal vips en de reguliere (massa-) media in GB de berichten
van Cross serieus en zien hem als een betrouwbare bron…..

Lees het
uitstekende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, zie de links in haar artikel en
zie de video van een half uur over een vermeende gifgasaanval van het
Syrische bewind. Zegt het voort beste bezoeker, zoals Johnstone
terecht opmerkt, het is de hoogste tijd dat de hele leugenberg over
Syrië wordt doorgeprikt en dat het westen zich terugtrekt uit het hele
Midden-Oosten….. ‘Wij’ (het terreur brengende westen) hebben daar met illegale
oorlogsvoering IS (ISIS) gecreëerd (met actieve hulp van de VS),
daarmee hebben de VS en andere NAVO-lidstaten (waaronder Nederland) ook terreur op de Europese straten georganiseerd en
hebben we miljoenen mensen op de vlucht doen slaan……. Om over het
enorme aantal doden daar nog maar te ‘zwijgen’: meer dan 2,5 miljoen doden sinds 2001, in feite vermoord door de VS en andere NAVO-partners, nogmaals: ook door Nederland en dat met behulp van ons belastinggeld, waarvan men later ook nog eens terreurgroepen in Syrië van wapens, munitie en rollend oorlogstuig voorzag…..

Eerst volgt het artikel van Johnstone en daarna een propaganda artikel uit het Parool, daaronder meer over de White Helmets, niets meer en minder dan een terreurgroep…….

Narrative
Managers In Overdrive After Death Of White Helmets Founder

by Caitlin
Johnstone

James
Le Mesurier, the founder of the White Helmets, has died. He 
was
found to have plummeted
 from
a height to the street outside his home, and authorities are
reportedly calling it a suicide.

Le
Mesurier 
has
a history with British military intelligence
 and
was fundamentally involved with an 
extremely
shady narrative management operation
 geared
toward manufacturing support for yet another imperialist military
intervention in yet another Middle Eastern nation, so obviously any
claims of suicide should be taken with a grain of salt no smaller
than a Buick. But it is worth noting that 
according
to 
Middle
East Eye
,
Le Mesurier’s wife told police that he’d been struggling with
psychological issues for which he was taking medications and had
previously been hospitalized. Le Mesurier’s home was reportedly only
accessible by fingerprint and no video footage of anyone besides Le
Mesurier and his wife entering or leaving has been found.

Establishment
narrative managers, for their part, have been floating the
possibility that the White Helmets founder was murdered by the
Russian government. 
The
Washington Examiner
 has published
an article
 titled
“Did Russia kill White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier?”,
calling to mind 
Betteridge’s
law of headlines
 which
states that “Any headline that ends in a question mark can
be answered by the word 
no.
The BBC’s Mark Urban tweeted out and then 
deleted a
thread (
screenshots
here
)
in which he cites an anonymous source who claims to have known Le
Mesurier’s flat well enough to be sure that it’s not possible to
“fall” from his balcony, then meaningfully pointing to a
“black propaganda campaign by Russia and Assad media”
against Le Mesurier. He apparently didn’t consider the possibility of
suicide until later, 
saying he
deleted his thread due to “new information”.

For
more info on Le Mesurier and his White Helmet mates, I highly
recommend watching 
this
excellent half-hour video
 by
James Corbett. It’s full of primary-source video footage indisputably
confirming the organization’s ties to western governments and to
violent extremist factions in Syria, and explaining how an allegedly
“neutral” organization on the ground has been used to
control the narrative about what’s been happening in Syria.

Pundits
who’ve built their name on Syria narrative management have
been 
expressing
grief over Le Mesurier’s death
,
including Eliot Higgins, Charles Lister, Julian Röpke and Oz
Katerji. Katerji, an 
especially
aggressive
 imperialism
proponent, was particularly stricken, acknowledging that this
pervasively corrupt operative was actually a dear friend of his.

“It
is with a deeply heavy heart that I do this, but I can confirm my
friend James Le Mesurier, founder of Mayday Rescue of White Helmets
fame, died at his home in Istanbul last night,” Katerji 
tweeted.
“I am profoundly saddened by this, Jakes was a brave and decent
man who saved countless lives. I will miss him. I am at a loss
for words.”

Janine
di Giovanni, who in 2016 
authored
a fawning puff piece
 on
Le Mesurier and the White Helmets for 
Newsweektweeted,
“Terrible news. James was funny, smart, brave,committed. He
stood up to bullies. On the right side of history. Believed in the
White Helmets, their mission, their drive for good. A loss to
humanity.”

Journalist
Jonathan Cook criticized di Giovanni’s gushing hagiography, 
tweeting,
“This is what access journalism looks like: prize-winning war
correspondents like Janine di Giovanni hanging out with ‘funny’
spooks like James Le Mesurier who’ve been responsible for stoking the
very wars they report on – wars that have destroyed whole
societies.”

On
the death of James Le Mesurier, western governments’ organiser of
logistics support and propaganda for the fanatical jihadists in
Syria, it is no surprise that today “Philip Cross” makes 48
edits to his Wikipedia page.
https://t.co/qei9MnbgRC

Craig
Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) 
November
11, 2019

Former
UK ambassador Craig Murray 
has
flagged
 the
fact that Wikipedia’s imperialist narrative manager “Philip
Cross” has 
made
dozens of edits
 to
Le Mesurier’s Wiki page since his death. Cross, who 
I’ve
reported on previously
,
has made a more-than-full-time job of constantly managing the
Wikipedia pages of both pro-establishment and anti-establishment
media figures in a 
very
pro-establishment slant
;
an article by Five Filters which you can read by 
clicking
here
 documents
how the “Philip Cross” account has been working morning to
night with precisely zero days off toward this endeavor.

An article
published by Murray last year
 documents
the curious fact that although the serial Wikipedia editor had only
about 200 followers on Twitter, he was followed by many high-profile
narrative managers from huge British news media outlets like 
The
Guardian
The
Times
 and
the BBC, as well as none other than James Le Mesurier himself.

Murray
wrote at the time:

“Why
then does James LeMesurier, founder of the ‘White Helmets’, follow
Philip Cross on twitter? Why does ex-minister Tristram Hunt follow
Philip Cross on Twitter? Why does Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon, follow
Philip Cross on twitter? Why then do so the following corporate and
state journalists follow ‘Philip Cross’ on twitter?”

To
these questions I would add, why was Le Mesurier seen 
defending
“Philip Cross”
 from
someone 
voicing
suspicion of him
 on
Twitter after George Galloway offered a reward for information about
the account? These questions have never been satisfactorily answered.
And now this same account is frantically editing the Wikipedia page
of his late fan James Le Mesurier. Some excerpts from the 
editing
notes Cross has made
 to
the page (note: 
according
to Wikipedia
,
“RS” is short for Reliable Source):

  • not
    WH alone: “Unfounded conspiracy theories latched onto the White
    Helmets’ foreign funding and ties to Mr. Le Mesurier” and
    (earlier in the article) “who has been the target of repeated
    online disinformation campaigns”

  • Alternet
    is not considered RS, the article is by Max Blumenthal

  • this
    is the Assadist line which has no usable sources & should not be
    given undue credibility

  • rumour/conspiracy
    theory spread by non-RS

The
article also has an 
editorial
discussion section
 about
whether or not it’s appropriate to have a “criticisms”
section on the page, and how much any criticisms should be limited.

Cross
is of course intimately involved in this discussion as well.

There
is an 
immense
narrative management campaign
 dedicated
to controlling what people think about what’s happening in Syria,
aimed not solely at advancing the 
longstanding
regime change agenda
 of
the US-centralized empire but at protecting the credibility of the
warmongering government and media institutions who the public is
growing increasingly skeptical of in a post-Iraq invasion information
age. If people become doubtful in the propaganda machine which
greases the gears of war, then warmongering itself will become
impossible to carry out without waking the masses up from
the 
narrative
control matrix
 they’ve
worked so hard to lull us into. Without endless war, the empire will
crumble.

Whoever
controls the narrative controls the world. Narrative control comes
before any other priority the empire might have; before resources,
before land, before even war itself. Our rulers and their goons will
protect their ability to control the story of what’s happening tooth
and claw. It’s up to us to see through their lies and 
bring
an end to the lie factory
.

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Hier nog de zwaar gekleurde berichtgeving over de dood van Le Mesurier door David van Unen van het Parool:

Oprichter
Witte Helmen dood op straat gevonden in Istanboel

De
oprichter van hulporganisatie Mayday Rescue, James Le Mesurier (48),
die hevig werd bekritiseerd door de Syrische president Bashir
al-Assad en diens bondgenoten, is maandag dood aangetroffen op de
stoep voor zijn huis in de wijk Beyoglu in Istanboel. Dat roept
vragen op.

David
van Unen
 12 november
2019, 13:24

Le
Mesurier op een still uit een Witte Helmenvideo uit 2015.
 BEELD
AP

De
suggestie van een zelfmoord wordt in twijfel getrokken. Zo zegt een
collega tegen de BBC dat het balkon ‘zich niet leende’ voor een
val. Op sociale media spreken meerdere activisten van betrokkenheid
van de Russische geheime dienst.

Nobelprijs
voor de Vrede

Zo
faciliteerde de oorlogsveteraan trainingen voor de door hem
opgerichte Syrian Civil Defense – ook bekend als de Witte Helmen.
Die burgerbeweging, twee jaar geleden genomineerd voor de Nobelprijs
voor de Vrede, duikt tijdens de burgeroorlog in Syrië op op plekken
waar even daarvoor een bombardement is geweest, om zo veel mogelijk
burgerslachtoffers te redden of te bergen.    

Vrienden vertellen de Britse krant The Guardian hoe Le Mesurier met stress en persoonlijke aanvallen op zijn reputatie kampte. De Syrische president Assad en diens bondgenoten beschuldigen de Witte Helmen ervan in opdracht van buitenlandse mogendheden te werken.   

Vrijdag nog verzond het Russische ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken een negatieve tweet: ‘Voormalig MI6-agent James Le Mesurier duikt over de hele wereld op. Zijn banden met terroristengroepen zijn algemeen bekend.    

====================================

Opvallend deze berichtgeving van van Unen. Werkelijk geen zin waarin geen onwaarheden staan, neem de eerste onder de kop, waarin van Unen het nodig vindt om te zeggen dat Le Mesurier werd bekritiseerd door de Syrische president Assad (overigens democratisch gekozen) en diens bondgenoten (lees Rusland en Iran, beiden pispaal van de Nederlandse reguliere pers). Waarom dat in die zin is verwerkt is mij een raadsel, alsof van Unen alvast de daders wil aanwijzen, bovendien is het niet vreemd dat Le Mesurier commentaar uit die hoek kreeg, immers het Syrische leger, de Russen en Iraniërs die meevochten tegen terreurgroepen in  Syrië zijn meermaals geconfronteerd met de terreur van de White Helmets……

Vervolgens zegt van Unen dat de White Helmets 2 keer werden genomineerd voor de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede, van Unen zegt vervolgens niet waarom deze niet werd toegekend, immers dan had het Nobelcomité echt alle geloofwaardigheid verloren, nadat dit comité meerdere oorlogsmisdadigers de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede heeft toegekend….. Het Nobelcomité is uit en te na gewaarschuwd de White Helmets de prijs niet toe te kennen daar deze organisatie nauwe banden onderhield en onderhoudt met terreurgroepen als Al Qaida (al-Nusra), plus andere terreurgroepen in Syrië…… Bovendien zijn deze white Helmets betrapt bij het helpen uitoefenen van terreur en het maken van ‘nepvideo’s’ die o.a. moesten aantonen dat ‘Assad zijn volk vergast zou hebben’. Van Unen spreekt over een burgeroorlog in Syrië, terwijl het aantoonbaar een oorlog tegen het Syrische volk en haar regering was en is…… 

Van Unen zou kunnen weten (als hij zijn werk serieus nam) dat de VS al vanaf 2006 bezig was met de voorbereiding van een grote opstand in Syrië, die moest eindigen met het afzetten van Assad, toen dat niet lukte heeft de VS grote aantallen terroristen het land in geleid (waaronder een groot aantal IS leden), inclusief wapens, munitie en rollend oorlogstuig, waarmee de oorlog in Syrië begon, ofwel de VS is verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog in Syrië en daarvoor zijn meer dan voldoende bewijzen te vinden (en nogmaals dat zou van Unen moeten weten)…….

Dan komt van Unen met een BBC collega die benaderd zou zijn door iemand die in twijfel zou hebben getrokken dat Le Mesurier zich het leven zou hebben benomen, daar dit balkon zich niet zou lenen voor suïcide….. Het was, zoals boven al gemeld, NB een BBC journalist die e.e.a. opperde en deze persoon heeft zijn woorden teruggenomen, ‘fijn dat van Unen dit niet meldt……’ Dan zegt hij nog dat meerdere activisten op de sociale media spreken over betrokkenheid van de Russische geheime dienst…. Welke activisten van Unen, dezelfde die Nederland steunde met geld en wapens, ofwel zogenaamde ‘gematigde rebellen?’ Uitermate betrouwbaar van Unen, voorts is het tegenwoordig al zo zot dat je het woord Rusland maar hoeft te laten vallen of men duidt dit land aan als het kwaad van de wereld, terwijl de Russen voor een groot deel verantwoordelijk zijn voor het in de pan hakken van IS (ISIS) en andere terreurgroepen……

Jezus wat een fantast die van Unen!! Van Unen noemt gelukkig nog wel het feit dat Le Mesurier kampte met psychische klachten, al noemde hij dat stress, echter niets over het feit dat hij daarvoor al eens werd opgenomen….. (valt me nog mee dat van Unen niet één keer Iran noemde als mogelijke dader…..)



* Johnstone zegt niets over de Syrische geheime dienst, echter die suggestie heb ik al een paar keer voorbij horen komen op meerdere radiostations, waaronder de totaal afhankelijke BBC….

Zie ook:

Douma gifgasaanval: OPCW baas gaf opdracht een rapport te verwijderen uit dossier en alle sporen te wissen

Douma, OPCW lek wordt door massamedia toegeschreven aan Rusland, waarbij men blijft volhouden dat de gifgasaanval plaatsvond

White Helmets oprichter ‘vermoord door’ vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media‘ 

Dood al-Baghdadi: VS heeft haar eigen creatie vermoord….

Al-Baghdadi (top ISIS) vermoord, nu nog zijn bazen berechten

Syrische Koerden voor tweede keer verraden: VS blijft vanwege de olie‘ 

OPCW valt door de mand, klokkenluider: Douma gifgasaanval werd niet uitgevoerd door Syrische leger

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria
De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben
gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van ‘false flag’ operaties, ofwel men begaat
een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘ 

VS terreuraanslag in Syrië op 3 tankwagens: 4 doden

Gifgasaanval
Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging
aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot
‘ (later gaf de OPCW Syrië alsnog de schuld….)

VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan…….

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

‘Gematigde’ terreurgroepen in Syrië kregen Nederlands belastinggeld om te moorden, verkrachten, martelen en om te roven…….‘ 

Arrestatie Rutte, Koenders, Zijlstra en Blok wegens hulp aan terreurgroepen in Syrië van hoogste belang

Van
Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met
raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs
voor Syrische schuld…….

Sico
van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte
grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Rutte:
raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel,
ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

Haley
(VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval,
het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog
tegen Irak…….
‘  

‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Voor
wapenleveranties e.d. aan terreurgroepen in Syrië, zie de berichten
onder de volgende links (opvallend nogmaals dat de VS ISIS van wapens
voorzag……):

Rutte en Koenders verantwoordelijk voor wapenleveranties aan IS!!

CIA valt nogmaals door de mand als wapenleverancier van IS…….

US weapons supplied to Syrian rebels ended up with Islamic State: report

Tracing ISIS’ Weapons Supply Chain—Back to the US

ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia

Al Qaida de bondgenoot van de VS in de strijd tegen…… terrorisme! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘ 

VS centraal commando werkt in Syrië samen met IS en verklaarde Rusland de oorlog………

U.S Caught Red Handed Selling Arms to ISIS/AL-Qaeda (Part 1 of 2)

US TRAINED REBELS GIVE WEAPONS TO TERROR GROUP

Made in America: US-Trained ‘Moderate’ Rebels, With Blessing Of Americans, Seling US Weapons to ISIS

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Lt. General McInerney says Obama helped build ISIS with Weapons from Benghazi

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida

a

White Helmets worden als helden afgeschilderd in propaganda spel

‘Call of
Duty: Modern Warfare’, een ‘videospel’ over oorlogsvoering heeft een nieuwe aflevering, waarin o.a ‘het heroïsche werk’ van de White Helmets wordt weergegeven, een
nieuwe poging om Assad en zijn regering te demoniseren, niet voor
niets ook dat GB onlangs poogde een gifgasaanval in de schoenen van
Assad te schuiven, de zoveelste poging wel te verstaan……

De schrijver van dit spel, Taylor Kurosaki heeft zijn best gedaan om de White Helmets te portretteren
als een organisatie die goed werk verricht in Syrië en is bedoeld om nog meer
steun te genereren voor deze organisatie….. 

De White Helmets, een organisatie die in werkelijkheid overduidelijk is gerelateerd aan terreurgroepen, groepen die het westen
afschildert als gematigde rebellen, terwijl
het moordende, verkrachtende en martelende psychopaten zijn, die bovendien met medeweten van het westen over gifgassen als chlorine en sarin beschikken…… Psychopaten die o.a. met Nederlands belastinggeld van jou en mij werden gesteund……

De White Helmets zijn meermaals betrapt in het bijstaan van de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen en het zelf uitoefenen van terreur……..

De White Helmets werd door een Britse ex-officier en particuliere
‘militaire aannemer’ op poten gezet. Deze figuur, James Le Mesurier,
wilde daarmee het debat over Syrië sturen in de richting van het
afzetten van Assad. ‘Missie geslaagd’, grootschalige terreur met als ‘offer’ meer dan 500.000 vermoorde Syriërs, echter het afzetten van
Assad wilde maar niet lukken…..

Lees het
volgende artikel van
Caitlin Johnstone en zie de begeleidende
video’s. Het artikel werd door mij overgenomen van
Anti-Media:

New
‘Call Of Duty’ Encourages Support for Syria’s White Helmets

June
5, 2019 at 8:49 pm

Written
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — The official
trailer
 for
the latest 
Call
of Duty
 was
released a few days ago, and it features the Syria narrative
management operation known as the White Helmets depicted in heroic
roles. Characters wearing the organization’s signature headgear are
seen clearing rubble in 
part
of the trailer
 for Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare
.

To
give you an idea how popular the CoD franchise is, as of this writing
the official Youtube version of the trailer has 27 million views.

To
be clear, the characters in the game are most certainly intended to
resemble the White Helmets of Syria, and their presence there is most
certainly intended to increase support for and interest in that
group. How do I know? Its game writer has explicitly said so.

Kurosaki
says he wants ‘Call of Duty’ to be spoken of as on par with the
best war films, and he hopes ‘Modern Warfare’ will inspire fans
to check out the harrowing and eye-opening documentaries ‘The White
Helmets’ or ‘Last Man in Aleppo,” the 
LA
Times
 reports.

The
White Helmets are what legendary journalist John Pilger describes as
a
complete propaganda construct
“,
an operation designed by former British army officer and private
military contractor 
James Le
Mesurier
 to
manipulate the narrative about what’s going on in Syria. 
This
excellent half-hour mini-documentary
 by
James Corbett clearly outlines the way the operation is used to
create footage implicating the Assad government in the slaughter of
civilians via chemical weapons attacks and other camera-friendly war
crimes, the mountain of evidence of their ties to literal terrorist
organizations in Syria, and the western funding and media
manipulations that have been pouring into elevating the outfit.

It’s
a brilliant invention, really. Have a purportedly neutral group
filming on the ground in “rebel”-held areas (where the White
Helmets exclusively operate), and you can ensure an endless supply of
footage which can be used to paint a 
longtime
western target for regime change
 as
a barbarian who needs to be ousted. And indeed, the extremist
jihadist factions which overran Syria with 
the
backing
of the
US
 and its
allies
 nearly
succeeded in toppling Assad 
prior
to Russia’s intervention
,
and we may be certain that the agenda to control who rules over the
geostrategically crucial region remains as intact as ever.

The
pro-White Helmets propaganda is not 
Call
of Duty
‘s
first foray into US military narrative management. As 
noted
by journalist Max Blumenthal
 in
April, an earlier CoD game depicted the assassination of the leader
of Venezuela and, bizarrely, attacking Venezuela’s hydroelectric
dam and energy grid with the goal of causing power outages like the
ones the nation has been struggling with. Citing public information,
Blumenthal documents how such games have been “developed with
substantial input from America’s military intelligence apparatus”,
as well as the CoD designer’s involvement with the Pentagon and the
NATO narrative management firm the Atlantic Council.

People
playing these games, mostly impressionable young men, are manipulated
into desiring to accomplish the goals that are laid out for them in
order to win, all of which involve killing and many of which happen
to align with preexisting US military agendas. They are desensitized
to mass military violence, trained to support and identify with US
military campaigns, and taught that being a member of the military
might just be a fun and noble way to spend one’s future.

Propaganda
in video games doesn’t get the kind of pushback you see against
propaganda in news media and movies, largely because the content in
the games is generally only viewed individually by those who are
engrossed in playing them. It’s this whole closed-off world that is
manipulating minds with very little scrutiny compared to other forms
of media, which is troubling, because the video game industry is so
vast that for many years its earnings 
have
eclipsed those of the movie and music industries combined
.

This
needs more attention. The sane, healthy response to learning
that one’s government and its allies were arming and training
terrorist groups in Syria would have been screaming, earth-shaking
rage for months, accompanied by a demand for an unequivocal apology,
immediate repair of all damage done, and war crimes tribunals for
everyone who was involved. Instead, the news passed by with barely a
whisper, and now when you see Syria mentioned it’s generally to
condemn its president for fighting back against that unforgivably
depraved act of regime change interventionism. This has been
happening because people have been propagandized. Nothing will change
until we find a way to help human minds unplug from the 
narrative
control matrix
 and awaken
to what’s really going on
.

Opinion
by 
Caitlin
Johnstone
 /
Republished with permission / 
Medium / Report
a typo

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* Zie o.a.: ‘MP Chris Williamson confronts UK government with apparent evidence of ‘staged’ chemical attack in Syria

De gifgasaanvallen die het reguliere Syrische leger zou hebben gepleegd, zijn onderdeel van ‘false flag’ operaties, ofwel men begaat een oorlogsmisdaad en schuift die de vijand in de schoenen, zie o.a.: ‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

Zie ook:

White Helmets oprichter ‘vermoord door’ vredesactivisten en kritische alternatieve media‘ (voor meer berichten over de White Helemets, klik op de betreffende links in dat bericht)

Massamedia treuren over de dood van een door de CIA gesteunde terrorist

VS terreuraanslag in Syrië op 3 tankwagens: 4 doden

Gifgasaanval Douma in elkaar gezet door ‘gematigde rebellen’

Gifgasaanval Douma: OPCW rapport maakt korte metten met de westerse beschuldiging aan adres Syrië, waar de NOS een meer dan levensgrote bok schoot‘ (de OPCW heeft trouwens later een smerig spel gespeeld in de documentatie over deze zogenaamde gifgasaanval van Assad, dit door zaken weg te laten….)

VS heeft opstand en daarmee de oorlog in Syrië georganiseerd, zo toont WikiLeaks ten overvloede nog eens aan…….

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

Vlaamse pater roept op niet langer de westerse anti-Syrië propaganda te geloven!

Syrische nonnen spreken zich uit tegen de oorlogspropaganda van westerse mogendheden en de reguliere westerse (massa-) media

CNN en andere media met doorzichtige oorlogspropaganda tegen de Syrische regering

VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!

Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)

John Bolton geeft terreurgroepen in Syrië de opdracht een false flag gifgasaanval uit te voeren

Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

Oost-Ghouta, wat je niet wordt verteld

BBC World Service en BNR met ‘fake news’ over Ghouta……..

Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

Ghouta: een gifgas false flag en VS chef Guterres eist staakt het vuren van pro-Syrische strijdgroepen op Oost-Ghouta……

Van Kappen (VVD) noemt ‘stapelaanwijzingen’ het bewijs en is blij met raketaanval VS op Syrische basis,  een aanval zonder enig echt bewijs voor Syrische schuld…….

Sico van der Meer (‘deskundige’ Clingendael) weet niet, dat Israël en Egypte grote hoeveelheden gifgas maken en op voorraad hebben……….

Koenders en SOHR melden gifgasaanval, reguliere media als NOS nemen bericht van SOHR (propaganda en ‘fake news’ orgaan) over

Rutte: raketaanval VS tegen Syrische basis was begrijpelijk en proportioneel, ook al is er geen bewijs voor Syrische schuld……..

Haley (VS ambassadeur bij VN) herhaalde in VN, voorafgaand aan raketaanval, het smerige spel van Powell in 2002, aanleiding tot illegale oorlog tegen Irak…….‘  

‘Koenders (PvdA BuZa): Assad is schuldig aan gifgasaanval en is een ‘criminele recidivist……’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Esther de Lange (CDA): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

VS bereid tot militair ingrijpen tegen de regering Assad >> aanleiding: gifgas leugens van o.a. de VS zelf…….‘ (zie de links in dat bericht over de levering van wapens door o.a.de VS (en Nederland) aan terreurgroepen als IS en al-Nusra)

Bernard Hammelburg (BNR): Assad is een monster waar we mee moeten samenwerken………

Van Baalen (VVD) het is moeilijk te zien wie je moet steunen: Al Qaida, Al Qaida of Al Qaida……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Sophie in ‘t Veld (D66): het afschieten door de VS van raketten op een Syrische basis ‘was even nodig………..’

Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of  volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………

Exactly how the US trained and armed ISIS

Tulsi Gabbard (VS congres Hawaï): Trump is de beschermende Big Brother van Al Qaida

Westerse media vallen critici van de White Helmets aan

Rick Sterling schreef een artikel op ‘Oriental Review‘ over de aanvallen van de reguliere (massa-) media op critici van de White Helmets, kritiek die de wel nadenkende alternatieve media ook in Nederland voor de kiezen kreeg…..

Sterling wijst op een artikel van Janine di Giovani op de NY Reviews of Books getiteld: ‘Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets’. Het artikel is een voorbeeld van hoe de westerse media propaganda maken voor de White Helmets en degenen aanvallen die de o.a. door die media geplugde mythe van de White Helmets bekritiseren………

Zo heeft di Giovanni een grote bek over de echte oorlogscorrespondent Vanessa Beeley, één van de weinigen die wel regelmatig in het strijdgebied van Syrië te vinden was en die uitentreuren heeft geschreven over wat er werkelijk gebeurde in Syrië en zich niet verliet op de rapporten van het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR), geleid door een gewezen misdadiger die zijn terechte straf ontliep door te vluchten en te stellen dat hij een politieke vluchteling was. De informatie van het SOHR kwam en komt voor het overgrote deel van de ‘gematigde rebellen’, die o.a. door Nederland werden gesteund…..

‘Gematigde rebellen’ ofwel moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen, die bovendien met medeweten van de westerse landen in het bezit zijn van de gifgassen die door hen werden gebruikt om vervolgens de schuld in de schoenen van het reguliere Syrische leger werden geschoven……

Je snapt werkelijk niet waar di Giovanni het gore lef vandaan haalt om een uitstekend journalist als Beeley aan te vallen…… (hoewel, dat is onzin, immers di Giovanni huilt gewoon mee in het koor van de ‘massamedia-terreurwolven…’)

Een andere uitstekende journalist moet het ook al ontgelden bij di Giovanni, t.w.: Eva Bartlett, die zelf jaren in het Midden-Oosten heeft gewoond en goed is ingevoerd over de situatie in o.a. Syrië (en niet op grond van leugens die terreurgroepen verspreiden)…..

Niet één keer gaat di Giovanni in op artikelen die deze twee journalisten schreven, nee zonder enige steekhoudende kritiek op geschreven artikelen, stelt di Giovanni domweg dat de 2 desinformatie verspreiden, waar ze Beeley zelfs durft af te schilderen als ‘hogepriesters van Syrische propaganda’, ofwel di Giovani draait de zaak volkomen om, immer zij maakt met dergelijke uitlatingen propaganda voor terreurgroepen, die voor het overgrote deel bestaan uit ‘mannen’ die niet eens Syriërs zijn……

Lees het uitstekende artikel van Sterling en geeft het door!

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OF TERRORISMSYRIAUNITED KINGDOMUNITED STATES 

Western
Media Attacks Critics of the White Helmets

Written
by 
Rick
STERLING
 on 24/10/2018

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor Western Media Attacks Critics of the White Helmets

The
October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di
Giovanni titled 
Why
Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”
.
The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets
uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.

Crude
& Disingenuous Attack

Giovanni’s
article attacks several journalists by name. She singles out Vanessa
Beeley and echoes the Guardian’s characterization of Beeley as the
“high priestess of Syria propaganda”. She does this without
challenging a single article or claim by the journalist. She might
have acknowledged that Vanessa Beeley has some familiarity with the
Middle East; she is the daughter of one of the foremost British
Arabists and diplomats including British Ambassador to Egypt.
Giovanni might have explored Beeley’s 
research in
Syria that revealed the White Helmets founder (British military
contractor James Le Mesurier) assigned the name Syria Civil Defence
despite the fact there is a real Syrian organization by that name
that has existed since the 1950’s. For the past several years,
Beeley has done many on-the-ground reports and investigations in
Syria. None of these are challenged by Giovanni. Just days ago Beeley
published a 
report on
her visit to the White Helmets headquarters in Deraa.

white-helmet-infographic-2


Giovanni
similarly dismisses another alternative journalist, Eva Bartlett.
Again, Giovanni ignores the fact that Bartlett has substantial Middle
East experience including having lived in Gaza for years. Instead of
objectively evaluating the journalistic work of these independent
journalists, Giovanni smears their work as “disinformation”.
Presumably that is because their work is published at alternative
sites such as 21st Century Wire and Russian media such as RT and
Sputnik. Beeley and Bartlett surely would have been happy to have
their reports published at the New York Review of Books, Newsweek or
other mainstream outlets. But it’s evident that such reporting is
not welcome there. Even Seymour Hersh had to go abroad to have his
investigations on Syria published.

The
New McCarthyism

Max
Blumenthal is another journalist singled out by Giovanni. Blumenthal
is the author of three books, including a NY Times bestseller and the
highly acclaimed “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”.
Giovanni describes his transition from “anti-Assad” to
“pro-Assad” and suggests his change of perspective was due to
Russian influence. She says, “Blumenthal went to Moscow on a junket
to celebrate RT’s tenth anniversary. We don’t know what happened
during that visit, but afterwards, Blumenthal’s views completely
flipped.” Instead of examining the facts presented by Blumenthal in
articles such as 
Inside
the Shadowy PR Firm that’s Lobyying for Regime Change in Syria”
,
Giovanni engages in fact-free McCarthyism. Blumenthal explained the
transition in his thinking in a public interview. He also described
the 
threats he
experienced when he started to criticize the White Helmets and their
public relations firm, but this is ignored by Giovanni.

Contrary
to Giovanni’s assumptions, some western journalists and activists
were exposing the White Helmets long before the story was publicized
on Russian media. In spring 2015 the basic facts about the White
Helmets including their origins, funding and role in the information
war on Syria were exposed in my article 
Seven
Steps of Highly Effective Manipulators”
.
The article showed how the White Helmets were a key component in a
campaign pushing for a “No Fly Zone” in Syria. It confirmed that
the White Helmets is a political lobby force.

In
spring 2016, Vanessa Beeley launched a petition 
Do
NOT give the Nobel Peace Prize to the White Helmets”
.
That petition garnered more support than a contrary petition urging
the Nobel Prize committee to give the award to the White Helmets.
Perhaps because of that, the petition was abruptly removed without
explanation from the Change.org website. It was only at this time,
with publicity around the heavily promoted nomination of the White
Helmets for a Nobel Peace Prize that RT and other Russian media
started to publicize and expose the White Helmets. That is one and a
half years after they were first exposed in western alternative
media.

White
Helmets and Chemical Weapons Accusations
 

Giovanni
ignores the investigations and conclusions of some of the most
esteemed American journalists regarding the White Helmets and
chemical weapons incidents in Syria.

The
late Robert Parry published many articles exposing the White Helmets,
for example 
The
White Helmets Controversy
 and Syria
War Propaganda at the Oscars
.
Parry wrote and published numerous investigations of the August 2013
chemical weapons attack and concluded the attacks were carried out by
an opposition faction with the goal of pressuring the US to intervene
militarily. Parry also challenged western conclusions regarding
incidents such as April 4, 2017 at Khan Shaykhun. Giovanni
breathlessly opens her article with this story while
Parry 
revealed the
impossibility of it being as described.

Buried
deep inside a new U.N. report is evidence that could exonerate the
Syrian government in the April 4 sarin atrocity and make President
Trump look like an Al-Qaeda dupe.”

Legendary
American journalist, Seymour Hersh, researched and refuted the
assumptions of Giovanni and the media establishment regarding the
August 2013 chemical weapons attacks near Damascus. Hersh’s
investigation, titled 
The
Red Line and Rat Line
,
provided evidence the atrocity was carried out by an armed opposition
group with active support from Turkey. A Turkish member of parliament
provided 
additional
evidence
.
The fact that Hersh had to go across the Atlantic to have his
investigation published suggests American not Russian disinformation
and censorship.

In
addition to ignoring the findings of widely esteemed journalists with
proven track records, Giovanni plays loose with the truth. In her
article she implies that a UN investigation blamed the Syrian
government for the August 2013 attack. On the contrary, the head of
the UN investigation team, Ake Sellstrom, 
said they
did not determine who was responsible. 
“We
do not have the evidence to say who did what ….The conflict in
Syria is surrounded by a lot of rumors and a lot of propaganda,
particularly when comes to the sensitive issue of chemical weapons.”

First
Responders or Western Funded Propagandists?

Giovanni
says, “But the White Helmets’ financial backing is not the real
reason why the pro-Assad camp is so bent on defaming them. Since
2015, the year the Russians began fighting in Syria, the White
Helmets have been filming attacks on opposition-held areas with GoPro
cameras affixed to their helmets.”

In
reality, the ‘White Helmets” have a sophisticated media
production and distribution operation. They have much more than GoPro
cameras. In many of their movie segments one can see numerous people
with video and still cameras. Sometimes the same incident will be
shown with one segment with an Al-Qaeda logo blending into the same
scene with a White Helmets logo.


US cut funding of WH


Giovanni
claims “The Assad regime and the Russians are trying to neutralize
the White Helmets because they   are potential witnesses to
war crimes.” However the claims of White Helmet “witnesses”
have little credibility. The White Helmet “volunteers” are paid
three times as much as Syrian soldiers. They are trained, supplied
and promoted by the same western states which have sought to regime
change in Syria since 2011. An example of misleading and false claims
by a White Helmets leader is exposed in Gareth Porter’s
investigation titled “
How
a Syrian White Helmets Leader Played Western Media”
 .
His conclusion could be directed to Giovanni and the NYReview of
Books:


The
uncritical reliance on claims by the White Helmets without any effort
to investigate their credibility is yet another telling example of
journalistic malpractice by media outlets with a long record of
skewing coverage of conflicts toward an interventionist narrative.”

When
the militants (mostly Nusra / Al-Qaeda) were expelled from East
Aleppo, civilians reported that the White Helmets were mostly
concerned with saving their own and performing publicity stunts. For
example the photo of the little boy in east Aleppo looking dazed and
confused in the back of a brand new White Helmet ambulance was
essentially a White Helmet media stunt eagerly promoted in the West.
It was later revealed the boy was not injured, he was grabbed without
his parent’s consent. Eva Bartlett interviewed and photographed the
father and family for her story 
Mintpress
Meets the Father of Iconic Aleppo Boy and says Media Lied About his
Son”
.

A
Brilliant Marketing Success

The
media and political impact of the White Helmets shows what money and
marketing can do. An organization that was founded by a military
contractor with funding from a western governments was awarded the
Rights Livelihood Award. The organization was seriously considered to
received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize just three years after its
formation.

The
Netflix infomercial “The White Helmets” is an example of the
propaganda. The scripted propaganda piece, where the producers did
not set foot in Syria, won the Oscar award for best short
documentary. It’s clear that lots of money and professional
marketing can fool a lot of people. At $30 million per year, the
White Helmets budget for one year is more than a decade of funding
for the real Syrian Civil Defence which covers all of Syria not just
pockets controlled by armed insurgents.

Unsurprisingly,
it has been announced that White Helmets will receive the 2019 “Elie
Wiesel” award from the heavily politicized and pro-Israel Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington. This, plus the recent 
rescue” of
White Helmets by the Israeli government, is more proof of the true
colors of the White Helmets. Vanessa Beeley’s recent interview with
a White Helmet leader in Deraa revealed that ISIS and Nusra
terrorists were part of the group “rescued” through Israel.

The
Collapsing White Helmets Fraud

Giovanni
is outraged that some journalists have successfully challenged and
put a big dent in the White Helmets  aura. She complains, “The
damage the bloggers do is immense.”

Giovanni
and western propagandists are upset because the myth is deflating.
Increasing numbers of people – from a famous rock musician to a
former UK Ambassador – see and acknowledge the reality.

As
described in Blumenthal’s article, 
How
the White Helmets Tried to Recruit Roger Waters with Saudi Money”
,
rock legend Roger Waters says, 
“If
we were to listen to the propaganda of the White
Helmets and others, we would encourage our governments to start
dropping bombs on people in Syria. This would be a mistake
of monumental proportions…”

Peter
Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, 
sums
it up
 like
this: 
“The
White Helmets are jihadi auxiliaries… They are not, as claimed by
themselves and by their supporters… simple rescuers. They are not
volunteers. They are paid professionals of disinformation.”

Giovanni
claims her article is a “forensic take down of the Russian
disinformation campaign to distort the truth in Syria.” In reality,
Giovanni’s article is an example of western disinformation using
subjective attacks on critics and evidence-free assertions aligned
with the regime change goals of the West.

Reposts
are welcomed with the reference to ORIENTAL REVIEW.

Zie ook:

White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto’s van de W.H. leden

White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..

Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..

EXPOSED: Syria’s White Helmets are Al Qaeda’s ‘Civil Defence’

WHO ARE THE ‘WHITE HELMETS?’ DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN SYRIA?

 ‘SYRIA: The White Helmet Propaganda Heist – Vanessa Beeley Speaks to Rhymes Media Group

EXPOSED: The White Helmets – Al Qaeda with US funding

Westerse media vallen critici van de White Helmets aan

Gifgasaanval Idlib: de komende ‘kindslachtoffers’ worden getraind door terreurgroep White Helmets………

Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Gifgasaanval vooropgezet spel om VS actie te rechtvaardigen, waarbij GB de spelers opdracht gaf dit toneelspel snel uit te voeren…….. ‘False flag gelukt’: Syrië gebombardeerd zonder enig bewijs voor schuld…..

Van Helvert (CDA Tweede Kamer): wil dat er een tribunaal komt voor Syriëgangers, terwijl hij de terroristen in Ghouta wil beschermen…….

White Helmets nogmaals ontmaskert als terreurorganisatie: de oprichter is een Britse ex-huurling…….

White Helmets oorlogsporno geweerd van Oscarceremonie

White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland………..

Voor meer berichten over/met de White Helmets, Vanessa Beeley of Eva Bartlett, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

Roger Waters gebruikte een concert
in Barcelona om zijn gehoor uit te leggen hoe terreurgroep White
Helmets, bij het publiek bekende mensen probeert te
rekruteren, zoals hem overkwam……

Sinds dat concert heeft Waters onder
andere een e-mailwisseling tussen vertegenwoordigers van de White
Helmets en zijn team openbaar gemaakt.

Waters werd eerder al in 2016 door een
Saoedisch-Britse miljonair, Hani Farsi benaderd om mee te werken aan
een fondsenwerving voor een aan de White Helmets gelieerde groep ‘The
Syria Campaign’, van wie de leden hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook tot de
leden van de White Helmets behoren…..

The Syrian Campaign is een
dochtermaatschappij voor public relations organisatie ‘Purpose’ in de
VS, een organisatie die stelt onafhankelijk te zijn, maar dat
allesbehalve is, sterker nog: Purpose is bezig met een missie om
westerse interventie in Syrië te uit te lokken en pleitte eerder al
voor een ‘no-fly zone’ boven Syrisch grondgebied…….. Gelukkig dat
er nog veel mensen zijn, die het deze organisatie onmogelijk maken om
in het openbaar campagne te voeren (in de VS, een voorbeeld video in het hieronder opgenomen bericht).

De schrijver van dat artikel, geplaatst op Activist Post, John Vibes legt nog eens uit wat
er mankeert aan de White Helmets, zoals het feestvieren met
terreurgroepen na een overwinning, of het helpen met executies…..
Ook zijn White Helmets leden in het verleden al betrapt met
wapens in de hand, als waren deze terroristen op dat moment niet als White Helmets waren uitgedost……

Verder komt het op poten zetten van de White Helmets nog eens voorbij, de organisatie werd door een Britse officier in Turkije op poten
gezet, met geld van Turkije, de VS en Groot-Brittannië…….

Goed dat er nog veel echte
hippies als Waters zijn, mensen die zich inzetten tegen onrecht,
mensenrechtenschendingen, valse propaganda om illegale oorlogen goed
te lullen en die daadwerkelijk actie ondernemen tegen zaken die hier
toe bijdragen (dit geldt overigens gelukkig ook voor punkers en
alternativo’s die niet verzakelijkt zijn, maar hun oude idealen trouw
zijn gebleven!

Pink
Floyd Frontman Leaks Email Exposing How White Helmets Recruit Celebs
With Saudi Money

By John
Vibes

APRIL
21, 2018

Earlier
this week, 
The
Free Thought Project
 reported that
Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters stopped a concert in Barcelona to
warn the crowd about pro-war propaganda that is coming from a group
in Syria known as the White Helmets.

In
the days since Waters has taken several interviews to further explain
his views, the most interesting of which was with a group called the
Grayzone Project, where 
exclusive
Emails
 were
featured, showing conversations between Waters’ team and
representatives of the White Helmets.

Waters’
first encounter with the White Helmets was actually long before his
April 13 concert, back in October 2016 when Saudi-British billionaire
Hani Farsi invited him to a lavish fundraiser that he was holding on
behalf of the White Helmet affiliated group “The Syria Campaign.”

The
Syria Campaign is a subsidiary of the New York-based PR
agency, 
Purpose, which
claims to be impartial in the Syrian civil war. But
as 
Alternet reported,
they are on a mission to provoke western intervention in the region
and have even 
openly
called
 for
a no-fly zone. The Syria Campaign works very closely with the White
Helmets and likely has many of the same members.

Last
year, the Syria Campaign paid actors up to $600 each to
participate in a pro-White Helmet flash mob and orchestral
performance at New York City’s Grand Central Station.

Max Blumenthal


@MaxBlumenthal

This astroturfed interventionist extravaganza cost ~$30-50k to pull off https://twitter.com/alexr_dc/status/837722249977348096 

Max Blumenthal


@MaxBlumenthal

Participants in astroturfed White Helmets concert & flashmob were paid up to $600 each by a public relations firm, Ubers were paid for too pic.twitter.com/5KTkIUEv4g

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Despite
the firm’s best efforts to fill the crowd with people at least
pretending to be in favor of their message, anti-war activists
still 
showed
up to protest
 the
event, holding up signs that read “
Hands
off Syria!

This
is U.S. war propaganda,

and
No
U.S. bases in Syria.

The
White Helmets were founded in Turkey by a former British MI5 officer
named James Le Mesurier. The group has received at least 
$55
million
 from
the UK government and an additional 
$23
million
 from
the U.S. government, both of whom have regime change interests in the
region. According to data agency 
Gov
Tribe
,
the U.S. government has given at least $339.6 million in foreign aid
to groups attempting to bring about a “transition” in Syria.

The
“transition” that the White Helmets and affiliated groups are
hoping to bring in Syria is far from peaceful and well-intentioned.
Members of the WH have been filmed and photographed standing and
celebrating with 
Al-Qaeda-affiliated
terrorists
 after
battles, helping to conduct 
public
executions
,
and they were even caught carrying around 
headless
bodies.

The
Syria Campaign has attempted to cover up these atrocities
by
 dismissing video
evidence as “Russian propaganda,” a familiar excuse that has been
parroted by government representatives in the U.S. and the UK.

The
event that Waters was invited to in 2016 was officially sponsored by
one of Farsi’s holding companies, called the 
Corniche
Group
.

According
to the company’s website,

For
the past fifty years, the Farsi family has been active in Europe and
the Middle East in urban planning, real estate, property development,
the arts, and philanthropy. Led by Hani Farsi, the son of visionary
civic leader and philanthropist Mohammed Said Farsi who is credited
with shaping modern Saudi Arabia into a global business power player.

The
invitation that Waters received said:

I
am writing to invite you and a guest to join Hani at a fundraising
dinner that he is hosting on Monday 21st November on behalf of The
Syria Campaign…The Asfari Foundation provided the start-up funds
for The Syria Campaign and we will be joined on the evening by Sawsan
Asfari…Their work with 
The
White Helmets has helped these rescue workers attract more than $15
million in government funding
 and
turned them into household names – narrowly missing out on the
Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Waters
said he did his research and was suspicious of the motives that these
interests had, so he never responded and avoided getting involved in
those efforts. Instead, Waters did his own research on what was going
on in Syria and used his platform to speak out against U.S.
intervention.

Unfortunately,
a handful of other celebrities did take the bait and signed on to
publicly support the White Helmets and the Syria Campaign. These
names 
include George
Clooney, Ben Affleck, Daniel Craig, Justin Timberlake, Aziz Ansari
and Zoe Saldana.

I
was quite suspicious after I was invited to that [White Helmets]
dinner. And now my worst suspicions have been confirmed,” Waters
told the Grayzone Project. “I would encourage the celebrities
who’ve signed to endorse the White Helmets to stop supporting them
because we know what they are. I don’t blame them for having bought
into it. On the face of it, it felt plausible that the White Helmets
were just good people doing good things.

But
now we know they’re trying to encourage the West to drops bombs and
missiles illegally in Syria.”

Then
just last week before his recent concert, Waters was approached yet
again through e-mail, this time by a French photojournalist named
Pascal Hanrion who described himself as a “militant with the Syrian
White Helmets.”

The
Email read:

Good
afternoon, my name is Pascal Hanrion, I’m photo reporter and
climber. I’m a militant with the Syrian White Helmets to denounce
crimes against humanity in Syria, especially against children. Last
Sunday, I made an important happening in Paris, climbing to the top
of center Georges Pompidou museum. I am in Barcelona to do the same,
in relation with a very powerful Syrian network. Please, could I meet
Roger Water to ask to invite me few seconds on the stage tomorrow
during the concert to send a message with him to the children of
Syria ‘you are not forgotten!’

As
I reported earlier this week, Waters did not give this man his
requested time onstage but instead addressed the audience himself
with a message of peace and non-intervention.

These
Emails give a behind the scenes look at how pro-war PR firms attempt
to harness the power of celebrity to promote political ideas that
these celebrities often know very little about. These agencies are
depending on busy artists or musicians to take them at their word in
regards to life-and-death political issues, but luckily at least a
few of them seem to be doing their research.

(White
Helmets Emails to Roger Waters
 by Max
Blumenthal
 on
Scribd)

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Propaganda
Saudi
Arabia
Syria
White
Helmets

Zie ook:

White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie

Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere links in dat bericht)

Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..

White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland…………

Genocidale aanval op sjiitische vluchtelingen uit Foua en Kefraya wordt door massamedia afgedaan als ‘een ongelukje’, of volgens CNN zelfs als een ‘hiccup………’

Al Jazeera filmde een onderdeel van de ‘gifgasshow’ in Kahn Sheikhoun………..

The Fraud of the White Helmets >> De propaganda leugen nog eens doorgeprikt……

White Helmets nogmaals ontmaskert als terreurorganisatie: de oprichter is een Britse ex-huurling…….

EXPOSED: Syria’s White Helmets are Al Qaeda’s ‘Civil Defence’

WHO ARE THE ‘WHITE HELMETS?’ DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN SYRIA?

SYRIA: The White Helmet Propaganda Heist – Vanessa Beeley Speaks to Rhymes Media Group

EXPOSED: The White Helmets – Al Qaeda with US funding

Rusland beschuldigd GB van het regisseren gifgasaanval Douma en zegt daar bewijzen voor te hebben

Dagelijks
worden we in Nederland (en de rest van het westen) met fikse superlatieven voorgelogen dat Syrië verantwoordelijk is
voor de gifgasaanval in Douma, terwijl daar nog steeds geen bewijs
voor is geleverd, sterker nog: de illegale aanval tegen Syrische doelen door de VS, GB en Frankrijk van 
afgelopen
vrijdag op zaterdagnacht, een wraakactie voor die gifgasaanval, werd NB uitgevoerd op de dag voordat de
internationale onderzoekscommissie van de OPCW haar werk zou starten
in Syrië……..

Volgens
wapeninspecteurs van de VN beschikt Syrië al jaren niet meer over
chemische wapens, noch zou het land beschikken over faciliteiten
om chemische wapens te ontwikkelen of te produceren…….. Toch zou volgens de misdadige coalitie o.l.v. de VS, een opslagplaats voor chemische wapens zijn getroffen en zou een
wetenschappelijk onderzoekscentrum plat zijn gegooid, een centrum waar men chemische
wapens zou produceren……

Wat
betreft het laatste doel: werknemers van dit onderzoekscentrum stellen dat
het gaat om een farmaceutisch bedrijf dat medicijnen produceert…….. Dat is toch
echt iets anders dan chemische wapens ontwikkelen…… Ook het andere doel was geen opslagplaats voor chemische wapens, maar voor ‘normale wapens…’

De
schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Whitney Webb haalt
voorts ‘de getuigen’ van de gifgasaanval aan: de White Helmets, een
in feite door GB opgetuigde groep (betaald door GB, de VS, Japan en… Nederland!) die zogenaamd hulp verleent, maar
intussen al een aantal keren door de mand is gevallen. Zo is
aangetoond dat deze W.H. Hebben meegewerkt aan executies door
‘gematigde rebellen’ en heeft de organisatie meerdere keren
beeldmateriaal gebruikt, die niet eens in Syrië werd opgenomen…… Zoals je hiervoor al kon lezen: het is bekend dat deze White Helmets samenwerken met Al Qaida Syrië en nog een paar terreurgroepen, waaronder Jaysh al-Islam…….

Voorts
is meermaals aangetoond dat de vermeende gifgasaanvallen, die door de
White Helmets aan het Syrische leger werden toegeschreven, in werkelijkheid zijn gepleegd door
deze zogenaamde gematigde rebellen……. Je kan daarvoor zelfs de White Helmets schuld aanrekenen, immers zij waren op de hoogte van aanstaande
gifgasaanvallen, 
maar hebben de bevolking nooit gewaarschuwd……. ‘Bijzonder vreemd ook’, dat nooit 1 lid van deze organisatie is omgekomen door
gifgas, terwijl men wel altijd ter plaatse was…………

De
White Helmets worden overigens gefinancierd door de VS, Groot-Brittannië,
Japan en…… Nederland! (dat laatste staat niet in het artikel van
Webb, maar is wel een feit!)

In maart onderschepte het reguliere Syrische leger een wapenleverantie voor terreurgroep Jaysh al-Islam, die het gebied in Oost-Ghouta in handen had, onder de wapens vond men ook gifgas……..

Zoals eerder gemeld op deze plek (wat niet in het artikel van Webb terugkomt): waarom zou
het Syrische leger een gifgasaanval uitvoeren, terwijl het de strijd in feite al had gewonnen…??? Daarnaast is het zoals gezegd
bekend dat het Syrische leger niet over gifgas beschikt, terwijl het
een feit is dat de ‘gematigde rebellen’ wel beschikken over voorraden
gifgas…….. (waarmee het westen geen probleem heeft…..)

Russia
Accuses UK of Masterminding Gas Attack in Syria and Claims to Have
Proof

April
16, 2018 at 12:53 pm

Written
by 
Truth
In Media

(TIM— Hours
before the United States, the UK, and France carried out “limited”
strikes last Saturday morning, the Russian military 
presented what
it claimed to be proof that the chemical weapons attack used as the
pretext for those strikes was staged at the behest of the UK
government.

                                           De Russische generaal Gerasimov

During a Friday briefing, the Russian Defense Ministry showed interviews with medical professionals reported to work in the only functional hospital in Douma – the suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus where the attacks are said to have taken place. In their testimony, the two men asserted that the footage of the alleged chemical attack was taken after a Syrian air strike occurred and that the affected people shown in the video were suffering from smoke poisoning. They stated that a false claim of chemical weapons use was then circulated, leading concerned family members to douse those affected with water.


The
Russian military then asserted that the White Helmets, the
foreign-funded “humanitarian” group active in Syria, were
pressured by the UK government to “speed up” a provocation that
they had been preparing in order to push for Western intervention.     

British
UN Ambassador Karen Pierce called the allegations “grotesque,” “a
blatant lie” and “the worst piece of fake news we’ve yet seen
from the Russian propaganda machine.”

The
main group that has provided footage and evidence purporting to show
the chemical weapons attack in Douma are the White Helmets. Syria’s
White Helmets, while they have largely been portrayed in Western
media as a humanitarian first responder group, were actually founded
in Turkey in 2013 by a British mercenary named James Le Mesurier. 
Le
Mesurier
 is
a former officer in the British military and also formerly worked for
British intelligence. He eventually left his work with the British
government to join with the Olive Group before it merged with
Blackwater-Academi to become Constellis Holdings. He then worked in
Abu Dhabi before moving to Turkey and founding the White Helmets.

To
found the group, Le Mesurier 
raised $300,000
in seed funding provided by the UK, the U.S. and Japan, according to
journalist Vanessa Beeley. Since its founding, the White Helmets have
received 
over
$123 million
 from
2013 to 2016 from the U.S. and UK governments, as well as Western
NGOs and Gulf state monarchies. In addition, during the past five
years, the White Helmets have been instrumental in blaming the Syrian
government for any and all chemical weapons attacks in Syria, acting
as both witnesses and responders to events that were 
later
reported
 to
be the work of the armed opposition in Syria 
or
staged
.

In
Mid-March, the Syrian Arab Army 
intercepted a
truck containing weapons and ammunition destined for the militant
rebel groups in the area where the chemical weapons attack is said to
have occurred. Among the items found were canisters apparently
containing smoke grenades made in Salisbury, England – where the UK
government has a 
chemical
weapons laboratory
.

Regardless
of what information emerges from Douma regarding the alleged chemical
weapons attack, the UK and its allies have already unilaterally
attacked Syria even though they have admitted that they have 
no
evidence
 that
the attack even took place, beyond social media posts and YouTube
videos created by controversial groups with ties to U.K.
intelligence.

By Whitney
Webb
 /
Republished with permission / 
TruthInMedia.com / Report
a typo

=====================================

Zie ook: Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..

        en: ‘VS bezig met voorbereiding van een ‘door Syrië’ gepleegde gifgasaanval, ofwel de volgende VS false flag operatie
        en: VS, GB en Frankrijk begaan enorme oorlogsmisdaad met aanval op Syrische doelen……

        en: ‘Aanval op Syrische doelen door VS, GB en Frankrijk op moment dat de beurs 2 dagen is gesloten….

        en: ‘De Hoop Scheffer (CDA en ex-NAVO) heeft geen spijt voor de steun aan de illegale Irakoorlog >> 1,5 miljoen vermoorde Irakezen verder……

        en: ‘Russische volk wordt geadviseerd zich voor te bereiden op een nucleaire oorlog……


        en: ‘Gifgasaanval vooropgezet spel om VS actie te rechtvaardigen, waarbij GB de spelers opdracht gaf dit toneelspel snel uit te voeren…….. ‘False flag gelukt’: Syrië gebombardeerd zonder enig bewijs voor schuld…..

        en: ‘Rusland voorspelde ‘de gifgasaanval’ in Oost-Ghouta en de reactie daarop van de VS…..

        en: ‘In Douma vond geen gifgasaanval plaats aldus gelauwerd journalist Robert Fisk…..

        en: ‘De OPCW inspecteurs en hun werk in Douma n.a.v. ‘gifgasaanval…’

        en: ‘Wapenfabrikanten die de illegale raketbeschietingen op Syrië mogelijk maakten, zagen hun aandelen met 10 miljard stijgen………

        en: ‘OPCW team in Douma stelt dat Syrië en Rusland niets hebben veranderd dan wel verwijderd op de plaats van de ‘gisfgasaanval’

        en: ‘‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….

        en: ‘Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!

        en: ‘Syrië: verslaggever Bartlett prikt leugens reguliere media door

        en: ‘Syrië wacht andermaal een geplande gasaanval van ‘gematigde rebellen……..’

White Helmets nogmaals ontmaskert als terreurorganisatie: de oprichter is een Britse ex-huurling…….

Whitney Webb publiceerde gisteren op MintPress News een artikel over de White Helmets, ik kreeg het artikel via Anti-Media.

James Le Mesurier, een ex-huurling (huurlingen zijn bijna zonder uitzondering psychopaten), heeft de White Helmets in 2013 opgericht, zoals al eens eerder op deze plek gesteld*.

Niet vreemd dus dat de White Helmets i.p.v. een hulporganisatie te zijn, een organisatie is die ten dienste staat van terreurorganisaties in Syrië, terreurgroepen die de democratisch gekozen regering Assad bevechten, middels een ongehoorde terreur op de burgerbevolking. Overigens begon e.e.a. met een door de VS opgezette en gefinancierde opstand, waarvoor de VS in 2006 de eerste stappen zette….. De VS heeft voorts terroristen van Al Qaida en IS, na de geslaagde VS coup tegen het bewind van Khadaffi, uit Libië vervoerd richting Syrië en hen van wapens en training voorzien…. Waarom vraagt u? Simpel, de vader van Assad en later Assad zelf, weigerden een gaspijpleiding over hun grondgebied richting (West-) Europa………**

Het slimme aan de zaak is de opzet van de White Helmets als hulporganisatie, die de beschikking heeft over professionele apparatuur waarmee ze video’s maken en deze naar het westen doorspelen. Artsen die video’s van deze W.H. zagen, stellen dat de leden van deze terreurorganisatie niet eens begrijpen wat ze moeten doen, als ze bijvoorbeeld zogenaamd een kind willen redden, de getoonde handelingen zijn contraproductief, handelingen waarvoor men ook overduidelijk al gedode kinderen gebruike…….. Met andere woorden: als die handelingen op een gewond kind zouden worden uitgeoefend, is het bijna zeker dat zo’n kind zal overlijden!!

Ook dat is niet vreemd, daar de White Helmets een militaire training onder supervisie van Le Mesurier hebben ondergaan……. Waar de White Helmets, naast het maken van bedrieglijke video’s, wel goed in zijn, is bijvoorbeeld het assisteren bij executies van burgers, door de door het westen als zogenaamde ‘gematigde rebellen’ aangeduide terreurgroepen, die op IS na, allen gelieerd zijn aan Al Qaida (of al-Nusra, zoals men deze terreurgroep in Syrië noemt)…… Terreurgroepen die zonder uitzondering door Saoedi-Arabië worden voorzien van geld en wapens (die op hun beurt uit o.a. de VS en Groot-Brittannië komen……)

Le Mesurier richtte de White Helemts op in Turkije en kreeg daar in eerste instantie $ 300,000 .– voor van de VS, Groot-Brittannie en Japan (plus Nederland*) , een bedrag dat hij in korte tijd wist op te pompen tot 123 miljoen dollar!!

Lees dit uitvoerige verslag van Whitney, met o.a. een bijdrage van de geweldige journalist Vanessa Beeley:

James
Le Mesurier: The Former British Mercenary Who Founded The White
Helmets

August
1, 2017 at 9:43
 am

Written
by 
Whitney
Webb


(MPN)
– 
Over
the past two years, enlightening information has been revealed that
thoroughly and unequivocally debunks the “humanitarianism” of the
White Helmets in Syria, sometimes referred to as the Syrian Civil
Defense.

Since
they were founded in 2013, much of Western media has sought to
elevate the White Helmets as the “bravest” and most heroic of
Syrians. They have been the subject of a 
Netflix
documentary
,
which won an Oscar, and has consistently been plastered across TV
screens in surprisingly well-produced videos showing them removing
children from rubble in war-torn areas claimed by Syria’s “rebels.”

However,
missing from this unambiguously positive coverage has been the
group’s ties to terrorist groups 
like
al-Qaeda
,
their 
doctoring
of footage
,
their role 
in
executing civilians
 and
their use of children – both dead and alive – 
as
props
 for
producing 
pro-intervention
propaganda
.
Also absent is how the White Helmets have received 
over
$123 million
 from
2013 to 2016 from the U.S. and UK governments, as well as Western
NGOs and Gulf state monarchies.

While
numerous articles have been devoted to dispelling the propaganda that
surrounds the group and detailing their shady ties to known terrorist
organizations like Syria’s al-Qaeda branch Al-Nusra Front,
significantly less attention has been focused on how the group was
created, particularly on the man who founded them – James Le
Mesurier, a British private security specialist, and former British
military intelligence officer.

Le
Mesurier’s role in founding the White Helmets and propagating its
mythology to a Western audience

was
exposed in 2015 thanks to the work of independent journalist Vanessa
Beeley.

Beeley,
who spoke to MintPress News at length for this report, notes that it
was Le Mesurier’s “‘realization that humanitarian aid was more
effective at maintaining war than an army” that
spurred his creation of the organization in order “to maintain
public support for another costly war in a country that is, in
reality, posing little to no threat to mainland America” or its
allies.

James
Le Mesurier: from mercenary to “humanitarian”

Though
mainstream narratives
 have
suggested
 that
the White Helmets were trained by the Red Cross, the White Helmets
were
 actually
founded
 in
March 2013 by Le Mesurier. He, like many officers in the British
military, attended the Royal Military Academy, where he graduated at
the top of his class, receiving the Queen’s Medal.


He later
served
 in
the British Army and operated in a variety of theaters. Most notably,
Le Mesurier served as intelligence coordinator for Pristina City in
Kosovo soon after the NATO intervention that led to NATO 
being
accused
 of
war crimes for its targeting of thousands of civilians and media.

By
2000, Le Mesurier left the army and went to work for the United
Nations as he had “
realized
humanitarian aid was more effective

than an army in theaters of war during his time with the British
military. He, again, served in a variety of locations, 
focusing
on
 “delivering
stabilization activities through security sector and democratization
programs.” According to Le Mesurier, “stabilization activities”
refers to the “framework for engagement in ‘fragile’ states”
or, in other words, destabilized nations.

Prior
to his founding of the White Helmets, Le Mesurier
 served
as
 Vice
President for Special Projects at
 the
Olive Group
,
a private mercenary organization that has since merged with
Blackwater-Academi into what is now known as Constellis Holdings.
Then, in 2008, Le Mesurier left the Olive Group after he was
appointed to the position of Principal at Good Harbor Consulting,
chaired by
 Richard
A. Clarke
 –
a veteran of the U.S. national security establishment and the
counter-terrorism “czar” under the Bush and Clinton
administrations.

After
joining Good Harbor, Le Mesurier
 became
based
 in
Abu Dhabi, where he specialized in risk management, emergency
planning, and critical infrastructure protection. He trained a UAE
gas field protection force and “ensured the safety” of the 2010
Gulf Cup in Yemen, a regional soccer tournament. But following this
work, Le Mesurier claims to have become dissatisfied, wanting to have
a more direct impact on the communities he worked in.

He told Men’s
Journal
 in
2014 that it was the idea of using his military training to benefit
civilians that truly enthused him: “the idea of being a civilian
carrying a weapon and guiding a convoy in a conflict zone — that
leaves me cold.”

White
Helmets founded through Western funding

When
it came to time to found the White Helmets in March 2013, Le Mesurier
seemed to have simply been in the right place at the right time.
According to his own account, he founded the group in Turkey 
after
being “compelled”
 by
Syrians’ wartime stories.

Despite
founding the White Helmets in Turkey, he raised $300,000 in seed
funding provided by the UK, the U.S. and Japan, which Le Mesurier
apparently had no trouble scrounging up. The $123 million dollars
that was funneled soon after to the organization by the U.S. and UK
governments, along with

Western
NGOs and Qatar, dispels all notion of the organization’s alleged
“impartiality” and “non-partisan” stance on the Syrian
conflict 
stated
on their website.

He
then used it to train 25 “vetted” Syrians “to deal with the
chaos erupting around them.” By September of that year, more than
700 “vetted” individuals were believed to have undergone training
under Le Mesurier’s supervision.

However,
Le Mesurier’s ties to British military intelligence, mercenary
groups and involvement in “stabilization activities” and
“democratization programs” suggest that his convenient appearance
in Istanbul, Turkey is perhaps not too coincidental. As Beeley noted
in an interview with MintPress: “there are very few coincidences in
the multi-spectrum, hybrid war that has been waged against Syria by
the U.S. coalition since 2011.”

Indeed,
the White Helmets were founded when the West was losing on both the
propaganda and military front regarding the push for regime change
and foreign intervention in Syria. More specifically, as Beeley told
MintPress, the group’s founding took place just after “the Syrian
government had raised concerns about a terrorist chemical weapon
attack in Khan Al Asal against the SAA [Syrian Arab Army].”

It
should come as no surprise then that, since their founding, the White
Helmets have been instrumental in blaming the Syrian government for
any and all subsequent chemical weapons attacks in Syria, acting as
both witnesses and responders to events that 
were
later proven
 to
be the work of the armed opposition in Syria 
or
staged
.
As a result, Beeley argued that it’s well within reason to
speculate that the White Helmets were explicitly founded with this
purpose in mind.

However,
it is Le Mesurier himself who shed light on why the White Helmets
were formed at such a crucial point for the foreign-funded
opposition. As Le Mesurier
 noted
in a speech
delivered
on June 2015, in “fragile” (i.e. destabilized) states, security
actors – such as mercenaries or foreign armies – have the lowest
level of public trust. However, Le Mesurier states that in contrast,
those professions with the highest level of public trust in such
situations are firefighters, paramedics, rescue workers and other
similar types of first responders.

Le
Mesurier discusses the White Helmets in June 2015:

Le
Mesurier, however, is not the only figure linked to the British
military to take such a perspective. UK Admiral Sir Philip Jones,
Chief of Naval Staff, 
stated
last year
 that
“the hard punch of military power is often delivered inside the kid
glove of humanitarian relief.” It is for this reason that military
actions sponsored by the United States and its allies for the past
few decades have often been framed as “
humanitarian
interventions
.”

Thus,
the White Helmets were seen as a chance to reclaim the trust that the
Syrian opposition fighters had lost, as news of their affiliation
with terrorist groups began to spread.

In
reclaiming that trust in Western audiences, the White Helmets have
done nothing to ease the burden of war in Syria, but have fomented it
by underpinning the very propaganda that has kept the conflict raging
on for over six years, as well as undermined the ability of the
Syrian and Russian governments to secure diplomatic alternatives to
continued fighting.

Indeed,
despite their claim of “impartiality,” the White Helmets 
were
instrumental
 in
Western attempts to bolster international support for Western
intervention and a “no-fly zone” in Syria. However, such
intervention will bring much more devastation to Syria, something the
White Helmets profess to want to end.

Training
the White Helmets

While
the White Helmets have successfully been framed as a
professionally-trained first responder group active in Syria, there
is plenty of evidence suggesting that their training was entirely
different. First responders and doctors in other countries have been
skeptical about the “aid” the White Helmets have delivered.

For
instance, Dr. Leif Elinder, a Swedish pediatrician,
 told
the Indicter
 that
“after examination of the video material [of the White Helmets], I
found that the measures inflicted upon those children, some of them
lifeless, are bizarre, non-medical, non-lifesaving, and even
counterproductive in terms of life-saving purposes of children.”

Other
medical doctors have stated that other procedures conducted by the
White Helmets as seen in the previously mentioned Netflix documentary
were performed so poorly they would have killed the children, who
were already deceased when the footage was taken.

In
addition, first responder groups
 have
also found flaws
 with
the White Helmet’s trained rescues.

Questions
have been raised such as: how did the White Helmets know the bodies
would be exactly where they found them?; Why are no attacks heard or
seen in White Helmet videos – only the “aftermath”?; and why
have the White Helmets chosen to
 “recycle”
footage
 of
the people they are allegedly helping?

Thus,
if the White Helmets were not actually trained in first aid – as
the above suggests – what did Le Mesurier and his team actually
train them to do?

According
to Beeley, Le Mesurier trained the White Helmets as a military group,
as they have been found “working side by side with the Nusra Front
and other extremist groups such as Nour Al Din Zinki in East Aleppo,
where their ‘humanitarian’ centers were invariably alongside
Nusra Front or even in the same building.”

Noting
the White Helmet’s lack of paramedic expertise and the numerous
photographs showing them carrying weapons, she added that this
“confirms that their role has been as military and logistical
support for their Nusra Front colleagues.”

However,
the training received by the White Helmets likely did not stop there.

Beeley
strongly believes that they were given extensive training in the
production of propaganda – specifically, trained in camerawork and
video production in order to produce videos for the media. She noted
that “the sheer number of cameras on site at any one of their
rescue productions demonstrates that they are well versed in
publicity craft.”

Furthermore,
Beeley suggested that the White Helmet’s footage used in their
documentary also proves this point:

The
Oscar-winning Netflix documentary that recorded their exploits was
based entirely on footage taken by the White Helmets themselves and
supplied to the producers of the movie who did not leave Turkey and
were therefore unable to verify the authenticity of the footage. The
quality of video supplied suggests that the White Helmets were using
sophisticated equipment and had been well trained in its use.

Thus,
this training has enabled the White Helmets to accomplish two major
goals for the governments and organizations that have orchestrated
its rise to prominence.

First,
as Beeley pointed out, it has facilitated “further proxy military
intervention and to incite pseudo-humanitarian outrage from the
International community and western public.”

Second,
it has allowed the atrocities of the extremist factions that work
with the White Helmets to be camouflaged by the “humanitarianism”
of the group, which has been instrumental in allowing foreign
governments to continue arming and funding these extremist, terrorist
organizations with complete impunity.

Le
Mesurier, for his part, has apparently become tired of the limelight
– perhaps as a result of the thorough debunking of the
terrorist-linked organization he fostered. Though still listed as an
employee of Good Harbor, Le Mesurier 
has
removed himself
 from
the site of MayDay Rescue, a White Helmets-linked organization he
founded, and all mention of him 
has
been erased
 from
the White Helmets website.

By Whitney
Webb
 /
Republished with permission / 
MintPress
News
 / Report
a typo

Bij dit bericht horen 2 video’s die ik niet weet over te nemen, zie daarvoor het origineel. (zet wel de Google adblocker aan [werkt goed], de pagina zit bomvol reclames)

*  Zie: ‘White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland………..

** De VS wil dat de EU alle banden met Rusland doorsnijdt en ook de gasleveringen uit dit land stopzet. Niet voor niets nam de VS onlangs nieuwe sancties tegen Rusland, waarbij vooral de EU de klos is en zal moeten afzien van gas uit Rusland. Zo kan de VS haar zwaar gesubsidieerde schaliegas peperduur aan EU landen leveren…….

Zie ook:

White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere links over de White Helmets in dat bericht)

EXPOSED: Syria’s White Helmets are Al Qaeda’s ‘Civil Defence’

WHO ARE THE ‘WHITE HELMETS?’ DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN SYRIA?

SYRIA: The White Helmet Propaganda Heist – Vanessa Beeley Speaks to Rhymes Media Group

EXPOSED: The White Helmets – Al Qaeda with US funding

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

White Helmets >> terreurorganisatie, opgezet door Brits ex-officier en o.a. betaald door Nederland…………

De anti-Russische / Assad propaganda i.z. Syrië en Aleppo in het bijzonder, kent intussen geen grenzen meer, een zaak waar ik al veel over heb geschreven en waarover ik berichten overnam. De ‘White Helmets’ duiken telkens weer op in voornoemde propaganda als de grote helden en bron van betrouwbare informatie.

De volgende berichtgeving, o.a. van Counterpunch, gaat uitvoerig in op deze organisatie en na het lezen van nog veel meer stukken, kan ik echt geen andere conclusie trekken, dan dat deze organisatie in feite een terreurorganisatie is. Een organisatie die werd opgezet door een ex-officier van het Britse leger en o.a. betaald door de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Nederland en Denemarken…….. Overigens moet ik hier wel bij vermelden, dat ik door eerdere berichtgeving die ik tegenkwam, al tot dezelfde conclusie was gekomen, vandaar de woorden: ‘echt geen andere conclusie’.

Vanessa Beeley (journalist en mensenrechtenactivist) over de Witte Helmen:

The
White Helmets is not a charity, and neither are they ‘the good
guys’ despite their white helmets. The White Helmets is the
military propaganda arm of the Allies attempt at regime change by
destabilising Syria – and this is exactly what is causing the
refugee component of Europe’s migrant crisis in the first place.


The White Helmets was formed by a British military veteran, not Syrians, o
ne James Le Mesurie. Vanessa Beeley describes as:

A
British “security” specialist and ex-British military
intelligence officer, with an impressive track record in some of the
most dubious NATO intervention theatres including Bosnia and Kosovo,
as well as Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine.

Vanessa Beeley
identifies Farouq Al Habib as one of them:

At
least three other members of the team were a part of the Syrian
“revolution” including Farouq al Habib, one of the 3 most
prominent White Helmet leaders who was also a leader of the Homs
uprising against the Syrian government and according to his
testimony, was tortured by the Syrian “regime” security forces in
2012 for smuggling a journalist into Syria to “cover” the
“peaceful protests”. Habib was a founder member of the ‘Homs
Revolutionary Council’ (the CIA have been linked to nearly all
‘Revolutionary Councils in Syria) before fleeing to Turkey in 2013


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Hier een artikel dat op 4 november jl. werd geplaatst op Counterpunch, het is geschreven door JAN
OBERG
:


Just
How Gray Are the White Helmets of Syria?

While
thousands of humanitarian organisations around the world are
struggling fiercely with diminishing support from governments and the
public, one has achieved a surprising amount of support from Western
governments in a surprisingly short period of time and gained a
surprising attention from mainstream media and ditto political
elites: The Syrian Civil Defence or White Helmets.

Their
name of course makes you think of the UN’s Blue Helmet and white is
the colour of those who should be protected in harm’s way – and
the colour of innocence. However, for many years there has been an
Argentinian relief organisation with the same name.

The
SCD or White Helmets counts nearly 3.000 rescue workers who operate
in very dangerous areas in rebel-held territories in Syria and claims
that it has, in three years, rescued about 70.000 lives according to
its Twitter account (or 65 per day).

Contrary
to what you might think, it isn’t a Syrian organisation because
Syria has its own organisation, incidentally also called Syria Civil
Defence, which was established in 1953 and is registered with ICDO,
the 
International
Civil Defence Organisation
,
since 1972.

The
White Helmets seems to have an annual budget of US$ 30 million and
has raised a total support of well over US$ 100 million. And it seems
that they operate exclusively in war zones in which the fighting
against the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab Army takes place,
i.e. in ‘liberated’ areas where hundreds of groups and some 80
countries, mainly NATO members, Gulf states and Saudi-Arabia,
operate.

On
the White Helmets’
 briefing
page
 it
is stated that “funding for their humanitarian relief work is
received from the aid budgets of Japan, Denmark, the Netherlands, the
United Kingdom and the United States.”

Here
is how the 
Foreign
Ministry in Copenhagen explains
 the
roughly US$ 9 million to the White helmets from Denmark, a country
that bombs in both Iraq and Syria.

Other
civil society and humanitarian organisations inside Syria have not
been so fortunate. You’ve probably not heard that much about
the 
Syrian
Arab Red Crescent and its work
?
How much/little support have they received from Western
humanitarian-concerned governments? And in general, civil society
organisations in Syria – women, peace, human rights, culture, etc.
– have received nothing like US$ 100 million in a few years and no
one has such a flashy media appearance as the White Helmets.

The
White Helmets was started in 2013 by 
James
Le Mesurier
 who
seems to have tried a little of everything everywhere, including the
grey zones of special forces and intelligence in virtually all NATO
wars, Yugoslavia in particular. He later set up a foundation in
Holland to gather the funds. Here is 
a
recent account by Scott Ritter
,
former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and weapons inspector in
Iraq with tremendous knowledge of things Middle East:

The
organizational underpinnings of the White Helmets can be sourced to a
March 2013 meeting in Istanbul between a retired British military
officer, James Le Mesurier—who had experience in the murky world of
private security companies and the shadowy confluence between
national security and intelligence operations and international
organizations—and representatives of the Syrian National Council
(SNC) and the Qatari Red Crescent Society. Earlier that month, the
SNC was given Syria’s seat in the Arab League at a meeting of the
league held in Qatar.

At
that meeting, the SNC assumed Syria’s seat, and the Arab League
authorized member states to actively provide support, including arms
and ammunition, to the Syrian rebels. The Qataris, working through
the SNC, helped assemble for Le Mesurier $300,000 in seed money from
Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom for a seven-day
course designed to train and equip a 25-person rescue team, recruited
by the SNC, for duty in so-called “liberated areas” of Syria. The
SNC made available a pair of Syrian activists—Raed Saleh and Farouq
Habib—to assist Le Mesurier in this work.

The
group is – as will be seen below – treated as uncontroversial in
virtually all Western mainstream media. However, there is enough
material with documentation to merit caution.

If
you read media reports about the White Helmets and do not see the
author mention that this group’s real identity is disputed and
functions controversial you can be sure that you are wasting your
time with somebody who is politically incredibly naive, or gullible;
someone who has not done his or her research or is knowingly part of
a deceptive effort serving a one-sided political agenda.

The
White Helmets definitely is an controversial NGO – at the same time
as it is (made) difficult to understand clearly what it really is.

And
until the whole picture has been developed, anyone ought to be
cautious with taking information about them at face value. So much
must be clear given the links below.

Dual
purpose?

That
said, this author has not been on the ground but has studied both the
pro- et contra links provided below.

Some
observers draw the conclusion that the White Helmets – Syrian Civil
Defence – is purely good guys rescuing lots of people, children in
particular. The opposite advocacy claims that, all told, they are
part of the terrorist groups, serve Western governments with
intelligence and that their backers run political propaganda in their
name and that they are simply executioners – murderers with a human
face.

But
does it have to be either/or?

An
alternative hypothesis could be that the White Helmets is a
dual-purpose organisation. They claim to be ordinary Syrian
volunteers who came together around the idea of saving lives and are
truly altruistic “bakers, tailors, engineers, pharmacists,
painters, carpenters, students and many more, the White Helmets are
volunteers from all walks of life.” It could well be that some of
them actually are, even a majority.

That
doesn’t preclude that other elements – not the least those
operating outside Syria such as foundations, PR and marketing firms,
change organisations, NATO government and NGOs are in it with less
noble, war-promoting purposes.

Link
collection pro et contra

Find
below a link collection – long but fascinating in its wealth of
information. We bring it as a help to those seriously interested in
Syria’s fate and in studying how opinions are being built by means
of connected actors in a rather opaque networking structure, in how
NGOs have increasingly become Near-governmental organisations and for
those who do not want to sound foolish when they discuss these
matters.

First
some links to how the the White Helmets presents themselves. Second,
some mainstream media articles in their favour of and praising it –
including some that argue that the White Helmets ought to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize (which happens to be nonsense, since they don’t
even remotely qualify according to the criteria in Alfred Nobel’s
very clear will and the prize is not a general do-good-prize. In
addition, it must be doubted that the Nobel Committee will get more
persuaded by the White Helmets’ – quite immodest – campaign in
favour of their own candidacy).

Third
some links to the comprehensive network of organisations, including
governments, that the White Helmets seem to be part of – and it is
quite a confusing lot with absolutely no transparency – but quite a
few investigations have been carried out.

And
fourth and final – the main links to investigative reports and
other stuff that are sceptical in various degrees to the first three.

The
White Helmets present themselves:

The
Syrian Civil Defence – The White Helmets

The
White Helmet Homepage

On
the front page you are asked to sign an appeal for establishing a
No-Fly Zone (which would be a violation of international law).

Wikipedia’s
entry about the White Helmets

The
White Helmets’ media FAQs

Syria
Civil Defence on Facebook

The
White Helmets on Twitter

Netflix

Official
Trailer about White Helmets

The
Atlantic

The
makers of the Netflix movie give their background

Mayday
Rescue

Dutch
foundation supporting the White Helmets

According
to its website it channels government funds to the White Helmets:
“Syria Civil Defence receives funding (through Mayday Rescue and
Chemonics) from the governments of the UK, Holland, Denmark, Germany,
Japan, and the USA.”

Chemonics

A
US global development corporation through which government funds for
the White Helmets are channelled (according to Mayday Rescue).

White
Helmets themselves campaigning for the 2016 or 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

Sources
that promote the White Helmets without questioning

Time

How
the White Helmets are being hunted in a devastated Aleppo

Time

The
White Helmets of Syria

The
Economist

The
rise of Syria’s White Helmets

Syria’s
White Helmets

A
film by Danish journalist Nagieb Khaja shown on Al-Jazeera (30 secs
into the film one learns that they have saved more than 56.000 lives
“since the war began in 2011″ although the White Helmets were
formed in 2013).

Nominated
for an Oscar

The
Nobel Peace Prize must go to the White Helmets

The
Guardian view on the Nobel peace prize: give it to Syria’s White
Helmets – Editorial

Syria’s
White Helmets nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

The
White Helmets get the Right Livelihood Award

The
Right Livelihood’s motivation – almost a copy of the White
Helmets’ own story

Organisations
in the network around the White Helmets

Purpose

A
social movement creation and PR company that allegedly wants to
change the world, co-founded by Jeremy Heimans – whose mainstream,
politically correct background you see 
here.
Jeremy – of course – began his career with the strategy
consultants McKinsey & Company. He also happens to be a
co-founder of

Avaaz

Avaaz
means voice or song in several languages and the organisation is
known by millions as a petition platform for many good/progressive
causes. Avaaz has some 43 million members around the world and is
thus easily the largest NGO in the world.

Avaaz
has also created Purpose.com. Here Jeremy Heimans, co-founder of
Avaaz too, speaks to 
Forbes about
his background and what the two companies do.

Avaaz
is very active in promoting a No-Fly Zone in Syria
 which
it explains in a petition text with these words: “Let’s build a
resounding global call to Obama and other leaders to stand up to
Putin and Assad’s terror. This might be our last, best chance to
help end this mass murder of defenceless children. Add your name.”

The
sad thing is that it has learnt nothing from its own campaign for a
No-Fly Zone in Libya. John Hanrahan is a former executive director of
The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for The Washington
Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organisations has
made 
this
extremely interesting analysis
 about
how odd it is that Avaaz maintains an interventionist war-agenda in
spite of earlier experiences and resistance even by high-ranking
militaries.

Hanrahan
quotes Avaaz’s campaign director, former State Department official
John Tye, “that Avaaz shows 54,000 members in Syria in a population
of 23 million – which means that even if every Avaaz member
supported a no-fly zone, this would still mean that only one of every
426 Syrians had “voted” for one.

Avaaz
spearheads – at least in this matter – an extreme militarist
policy while “Avaaz is a global web movement to bring
people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere”. Which
people want a No-Fly Zone in Syria? Do they know it’s a violation
of a sovereign state’s airspace, of international law? That it
would embolden every terrorist on Syrian soil because they would get
rid of the Syrian Airforce as their enemy? That it continued into
regime change in both Iraq and Libya?

Many
questions unanswered by this peculiar “people power”
organisation, more militarist than governments!

But
back to Purpose.com and one of its important clients: 
The
Syria Campaign – home

They
maintain on 
their
website
 that
“The Syria Campaign is fiercely independent and has accepted no
money from governments, corporations or anyone directly involved in
the Syrian conflict. This allows us full autonomy to advocate for
whatever is needed to save lives.” But they also say that they have
accepted funds from the Asfari Foundation and the Rockefeller
Brothers Foundation and other anonymous donors.

The
Syria Campaign also states that it is only pro-human rights and
pro-freedom and takes no side. But they explain the conflict in these
words:

The
regime of Bashar al-Assad is responsible for crushing a peaceful
uprising that has led to the deaths of over 450,000 people, the
displacement of over 12 million – half the country – and the
emergence of violent, extremist groups like Isis.

Today
the fighting in Syria has given way to a world war with more than
eighty countries involved on all sides.

The
majority of Syrians want neither Assad nor Isis. They want an end to
the violence and a democratic Syria.

What
is happening in Syria could be happening to any of us. No one is free
until we’re all free.”

I
would characterise such a presentation as side-taking wrapped in
substance-free marketing jargon; a very politicised statement wearing
only black-and-white.

About
the Syria Campaign

What
the Syria Campaign is proud of: Impact page

The
Syria Campaign seeks all-stars senior campaigner and “You don’t
need to know anything about Syria”

The
Syria Campaign on Facebook

The
Syria Campaign on Twitter

Analysis,
Research and Knowledge (Ark)

A
private company, headquartered in Dubai, that describes itself as “a
research, conflict transformation and stabilisation consultancy”.

In
Syria “Ark has been at the forefront of the response to the
conflict … for the past five years”. 
One
of its two team members, Alistair Harris is described here
 advocating
two years ago that “moderates” should be armed to fight ISIS and
not only in Iraq but also in Syria.

The
British-based 
Asfari
Foundation
 for
change

White
Helmets, according to their website, received seed funding came from
the Asfari Foundation – 
trustees
of which
 are
heavily related to the oil industry and corporate finance. The Asfari
Foundation’s bonds with the Syria Campaign is dealt with 
here.

Sources
raising investigation-based questions about the White Helmets

Vanessa
Beeley

Syria’s
White Helmets: War by Way of Deception – Part I

Scott
Ritter at TruthDig

The
‘White Helmets’ and the Inherent Contradiction of America’s
Syria Policy

Hands
off Syria

The
White Helmets – al-Qaeda with a facelift (video)

Rick
Sterling

The
“White Helmets” Controversy

Vanessa
Beeley

Who
are Syria’s White Helmets?

Vanessa
Beeley

The
real Syrian Civil Defence

Christina
Lin, Asia Times

White
Helmets: Instrument of regime change in Syria?

Jonathan
Gornell

Newsmaker:
The White Helmets

Syria
Solidarity Movement

Its
list of humanitarian/human rights organisation that are pushing for
war on Syria and its government

Open
Letter from The Hamilton Coalition To Stop War

White
Helmets should NOT be Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Max
Blumenthal

Inside
the shadowy public relation firm that is lobbying for regime change
in Syria (I)

Max
Blumenthal

How
the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S.
Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria (II)

Rick
Sterling

Seven
steps of highly effective manipulators

21st
Century Wire

CrossTalk:
‘White Helmets, Really?’ with Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett &
Patrick Henningsen (video)

Russia
Today

Multi-million
funded – can’t be independent

General
reasons for concern about the real identity of the White Helmets

Here
are some of the reasons – numbers not indicative of priority:

+
Huge funding by NATO/EU countries which are militarily involved.

+ A
degree of political lobbying – a very specific explanation of the
conflict and how it started which points to a no-fly zone,
weaponization of human rights issues and speaks strongly against the
Syrian government and Russia and very critically of the UN – that
is extremely unusual for a purely humanitarian organisation.

+
Incredibly advanced public relation in terms of very professional
websites, videos and PR strategy dropping the right stories and
images at the right time – quite unique for a group of “bakers,
tailors and students” etc..

+
Too professional wordings and images, too much playing to
(exploitation of) emotions, too catchy smart formulations again and
again; in short, lacking every sense of genuine local quality. Too
many children – and 
cats –
in the images speaking to an audience with little politically
consciousness but surely a good heart. In short, populist marketing
also in the sense of conveying the message: Look how good we are and
how evil everybody else are.

+
Guilt by association: If the White Helmets is a 100% humanitarian
first responder organisation it must be extremely naive in ignoring
that its integrity, credibility and noble purposes is put at risk
with the specific network of organisations and governments that it
has chosen to seek support from.

+
Substance versus public relation: how does a humanitarian
organisation justify that millions of dollars are spent on
self-promoting public relation rather than on saving more lives in
such a horrific war? And taking so many photos and shoot films of its
own work in the midst of massacres and bombing raids?

+
It’s very difficult to discern who actually manages the White
Helmets in general and in terms of day-to-day operations. One looks
in vain for something like an organisational chart secretary-general,
board, executive director (although one is mentioned, Raed Saleh,
whom the US has on one occasion actually denied entry into the US).

+
How come that such an innovative organisation seems to have been
started in circles that have to do with oil interests, British
intelligence, mercenary/military operations and
interventionist/bombing countries?

+
How come it works only in rebel/terrorist/liberated areas? Could it
do that without co-operation or co-ordination with some of these
groups? It has been stated – naively – by the Right Livelihood
Award Foundation that their vision is to operate also on
government-controlled territory and later be a leader in re-building
a new democratic post-war Syria. However, why should the sovereign
state of Syria’s legitimate government accept a foreign-based and
-financed civil defence territory there when it has had its own since
1953?

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor white helmets with guns

Perhaps
we should not be that surprised?

Should
we be surprised that humanitarian workers are involved in “something
else” and are not exclusively devoted to doing no harm and doing
good for humanity?

Not
really. I’ve met that sort of people and organisations during the
dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, among other places at the US
Embassy in Zagreb where the humanitarian section people, most likely
CIA operatives, after some talk with me about helping the people
switched to talk about how good it would be if president Milosevic
was killed.

Are
humanitarian organisations – like most other NGOs today – highly
or completely dependent on governments? Yes, most are. And they
should therefore always be checked for possible moral corruption and
co-optation. Many are no longer Non- but Near-governmental and
behave, at minimum, politically correct or serve/promote the
interests of their governments one way or the other.

Wasn’t Doctors
Without Borders
 started
by Bernard Kouchner who advocated military humanitarian intervention
as an idea, did the dirty job for NATO in Kosovo and
morally 
advocated the
bombing of Libya as a “peace guarantee”? Here an
interesting 
video
debate
 with
him at Oxford by Mehdi Hasan.

Should
it be so surprising that – even liberal, democratic – governments
propagandise, construct concrete stories to appeal to the human heart
in us all (for a good cause) and that they regularly lie, do
fear-mongering, use stereotyping and demonisation, present
black-and-white narratives – all of which serve their elites’
interests and may not always be that noble in reality?

Think
of the 
ugly
shadow world of the global arms trade
 in
which virtually all governments take part in?

Of
course not. No wars would be possible without one of more of these
ingredients.

Think
of the – invented – story about the Iraqi soldiers who kicked out
babies of incubators in Kuwait city – 
all
invented as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations
campaign which was run by American Hill & Knowlton for the
Kuwaiti government.

Or,
remember 
James
Harf of the US public relations firm, Ruder and Finn
,
who in 1991 was hired by the Croatian and Bosnian governments as well
as by the Kosovo-Albanians to create and promote an anti-Serb
attitude in the Western media?

Says
Harf “We were able to equate Serbs to Nazis in public opinion…”
Some kind of balance or truth didn’t interest him: “We are
professionals. We have got a job to do and we do it.”

If
there is anything new in this field since the early 1990s it is the
spectrum, the depth, the money and the intensity with which public
opinion is being deceived about war and peace – that war today is
peace and peace is preserved by violence. And the de facto
replacement of knowledge and texts by purpose-driven, mediatized and
emotionalised “narratives” and images and films – right down on
you phone and into your mind.

In
summary: Illusions about our goodness that feed social narcissism and
the MIMAC

I
do not believe that I know exactly what the whole story and the truth
is about the White Helmets. But I know that quite a few things don’t
feel right.

As
a sociologist and peace researcher with four decades of academic and
practical experience of global affairs and work in conflict zones,
the word spoken by the guard Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at
Kronborg Castle in my native Denmark come to mind: “There is
something rotten in the state…” not only in the bombing state of
Denmark (that supports the White Helmets) but also in the state of
the – free – media coverage of conflicts and wars.

If,
thus, you are generally sceptical of Western media coverage of wars
fought by the West and specifically of the story of the White Helmets
as a purely brave humanitarian organisation – are you then
automatically pro-Assad, pro-Russia or pro-bombing? If you are
critical to A, must you automatically endorse everything B or C does?

Given
the “Zeitgeist” of these times, my hunch is that the
anti-intellectual’s, the propagandist’s and the blamegamer’s
answer is a roaring “Yes!” Personally, I couldn’t care less but
there is reason to worry about the fact that our media are not free
to take up the issues dealt with here.

Pulitzer
prize winner, Chris Hedges, talks about 
“the
incessant manufacturing of illusions that feed social
narcissism.”
 The
– unwinnable – wars the West fights with the illusory ideology of
spreading goodness, democracy, freedom and peace as well as the
alleged good role of the White Helmets in it is little else but an
expression of such an incessant manufacturing of illusions that feed
social narcissism of the many while filling the pockets of the few in
the Military-Industrial-Media-Academic Complex (MIMAC).

It’s
time to give reality show politics and media a reality check. But who
can and who will? And who dares now everything will get worse after
November 8?

Join
the debate on Facebook

Jan
Oberg 
is
director of the 
Transnational
Foundation for Peace & Future Research
 in
Lund, Sweden.

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Hier een ‘reclame Tweet’ van de Witte Helmen:

Al-Nusra en White Helmets werken samen: Muawiya Hassan Agha, die bovenop een Al Nusra tank staat met een wapen in z’n hand:

screenshot-429

Rick Sterling, a member of the steering committee of the Syrian Solidarity Movement, posted in 2015 five articles to CounterPunch on the White Helmets.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/31/humanitarians-for-war-on-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/03/about-those-chlorine-gas-attacks-in-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/04/20/biased-reporting-on-syria-in-the-service-of-war/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/14/eight-problems-with-amnestys-report-on-aleppo-syria/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/18/what-has-changed-since-aylan-kurdis-death/

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Eén van de manieren waarop u wordt besodemieterd over de situatie in Aleppo, kwam ik vandaag tegen op Information Clearing House: 5 Arrested After Egyptian Police Bust Staged Photo Shoot Of “Wounded Aleppo Children”: Police arrested five people for making staged “wounded children” photos, which they were planning to use to misrepresent on social media as photos of destruction and injured people in Syria’s Aleppo >> lees verder

Zie ook: White Helmets: naast gebruik van terreur ook schuldig aan orgaanhandel, vernietigende VN video presentatie

        en: Syria: The White Helmets Are Terrorist Auxiliaries

        en: ‘VS vermoordt 40 burgers in de Syrische provincie Deir ez-Zor

        en: ‘White Helmets is een terreurorganisatie, zie de bewijzen op Facebook: foto’s van de W.H. leden

        en: ‘White Helmets terreurgroep wordt vandaag met open armen ontvangen in Tweede Kamer…..‘ (zie ook de andere links over de White Helmets in dat bericht)

        en: ‘White Helmets oorlogsporno geweerd van Oscarceremonie

        en:  ‘Nederland financiert terrorisme in Syrië……..

        en: Extracting
Aleppo from the Propaganda:
Interviewwith Eva Bartlett, an independent western journalists covering thehorrific conflict in Syria‘. (van Information Clearing House, met mogelijkheid tot vertaling)


        en: ‘Russische troepen hebben massagraven in Oost-Aleppo gevonden………

        en: ‘Oost-Aleppo: de leugens van de reguliere media, Rutte 2, de Tweede Kamer en ‘deskundigen’ doorgeprikt middels een VN missie!!


       en: ‘Ruslandfobie: anti-Russische propaganda, waarvoor Goebbels zich niet zou hebben geschaamd!


       en: Nep-nieuws de norm bij NOS en Volkskrant

       en: ‘Aleppo, de BBC krijgt de deksel op de propaganda neus!!

       en:  ‘Russophobia: War Party Propaganda

       en: ‘Helga Salemon mag volk opzetten tegen Rusland bij ‘onafhankelijke’ NOS….. Liegen dat het gedrukt staat!!

       en: ‘Avaaz haalt 1 miljoen op voor terreurorganisatie Witte Helmen…. ha! ha! ha! Nu nog een inzameling voor ISIS!!!

       en: ‘Fallujah en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media………

       en: ‘Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson

       en: ‘Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld….. Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en…….. deel 2

       en: ‘‘Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen’, althans volgens de westerse media en politici……

      en: ‘White Helmets nogmaals ontmaskert als terreurorganisatie: de oprichter is een Britse ex-huurling…….

       en: ‘Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) laat weten hoe White Helmets vips rekruteren met Saoedisch geld….

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