Ja,
maffe kop boven dit bericht, echter daar komt het wel op neer. Avaaz is een
organisatie die al vele keren successen heeft geclaimd voor acties
die anderen middels petities voor elkaar kregen. Ach ja, een
beproefde methode: je roeptoetert 20 keer dat je succes hebt met een
bepaalde petitie en het grootste deel van het publiek gelooft je, zeg
maar zoals de westerse inhumane neoliberale politiek tegenwoordig haar destructieve werk verricht…..
Ongelofelijk
te lezen hoe Avaaz de reguliere media als betrouwbaar afschildert in
haar oproep tegen fake news en desinformatie…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dus
de reguliere media hadden volkomen gelijk om propagandaleugens
voorafgaand en tijdens de illegale oorlogen van de VS te steunen en
te herhalen…..?? Dossierkasten vol bewijs dat het om leugens gaat,
maar Avaaz raadt aan vooral de reguliere media te volgen, dezelfde
media die de Russiagate leugens hielpen te verspreiden en veelal nog
volhouden dat e.e.a. de waarheid is, ‘zeg maar’ zoals Avaaz dat ook
in de boodschap hieronder herhaalt……
Ook de Brexit zou het werk van fake news zijn, terwijl duidelijk is dat er geen campagne werd gevoerd tegen de Brexit, zodat men aangewezen was op o.a. leugens van figuren als Farage, echter ook deze fascist gebruikte niet alleen leugens, bovendien zijn er genoeg andere krachten die de EU terecht als een gevaar voor de EU bevolking zien en met geloofwaardige argumenten tegen de EU kwamen (en die argumenten zijn er meer dan voldoende!)
Onlangs
plaatste ik een bericht n.a.v. een artikel waarin Avaaz de bel wordt
aangebonden, je kan eerst dat bericht lezen*, of lees het nadat je de onzin van Avaaz hieronder hebt gelezen….
Mensen
geeft het door Avaaz is een volkomen onbetrouwbaar medium dat graag
ophitst tot oorlog en ondanks de kritiek op Trump ,vooral de VS
doctrine uitdraagt, de doctrine dat de VS belangen heeft die
wereldwijd liggen en zich het recht voorbehoud om massamoorden aan te
richten als daarmee de belangen van de VS (lees de winning van
grondstoffen) worden gediend….. Avaaz de grote promotors van het Al
Qaida onderdeel White Helmets…..
Avaaz dat de VS terreur en die van de zogenaamde gematigde oppositie (lees terreurgroepen) steunt, terreur tegen het
soevereine land Syrië en nu weer de economische oorlog van de VS tegen Venezuela steunt (waar de VS al meermaals wapens heeft geleverd aan de zogenaamde oppositie) en oproept
tot militair ingrijpen…… Wat betreft Syrië** steunt Avaaz daarbij de terreurgroepen in dat land, terreurgroepen die Nederland
steunde, maar waar men vorig jaar toegaf dat het niet om de (niet
bestaande) ‘gematigde oppositie’ ging, maar om groepen die vreselijke
terreur uitoefenden tegen de bevolking……
Let op:
de volgende boodschap van Avaaz staat bol van leugens en andere
desinformatie, neem de leugens over RT, dat wordt aangevallen zonder
dat Avaaz voorbeelden kan geven welke informatie dan fake dan
wel ‘desinformerend’ zou zijn geweest:
Briefing: The
urgent threat of disinformationand
how we can protect
ourselves
Dear
friends,
In
days, the far-right could hijack the EU elections, stuffing the
European Parliament with racists, bigots, and climate deniers.
It
feels like these parties have come from nowhere. Now in some EU
countries, they are leading the polls! So what’s their secret
weapon?
Disinformation.
Right
now, Europe is drowning in disinformation, like that gangs of
migrants are attacking the police, or that the Notre Dame cathedral
will be rebuilt with a minaret! For months, our team has been
investigating this tsunami of fake news in Europe and we’ve uncovered
a shocking truth — content
from disinformation networks has been viewed hundreds of millions of
times!
Study
after study shows no one is immune to these toxic lies, but the more
we know what to watch out for, the better we can protect ourselves.
Before the election, Avaaz
has prepared a briefing to help Europeans get smart on
disinformation.Read
it now then share it widely.
1.It
feeds off our fear and it travels fast.Humans
are hardwired to remember negative information over positive, it’s
how we learn. Peddlers of disinformation know this and play on
deep emotions,
which make us far more likely to share it on social media — and so
it spreads up to six
times fasterthan
factual news! 2.It
thrives on social media and reaches billions.The
more time we spend on social media, the more
money those companiesmake.
They know that extreme and shocking content hooks our attention, so
they programme their sites to promote
it.
And it reaches billions.The biggest newspapers sell a few million
copies, while news on Facebook reaches over a BILLION per day. 3.It
is being weaponized against us.Authoritarian
leaders from Brazil to China are weaponizing disinformation as the
newest move in the playbook for age-old divide and rule politics. But
it’s Russia that leads the pack — their huge ‘troll
farms’ employ
legions of people to set up millionsof
fake accounts to spread disinformation. And RT, Russia’s
propaganda outlet,
is one of YouTube’s most-viewed news channels with an estimated
2 billion views! 4.It’s
killing people and poisoning democracy.Disinformation
is driving vigilante violence in Indiaand Brazil,
and fueled brutal ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
It’s also poisoning our politics. Fake news helped give
us Brexit, Bolsonaro,
and Trump.
And it’s destroying
trustin
mainstream media, our democratic institutions, and political leaders,
creating the perfect breeding ground for anti-establishment strongmen
to rise to power. Because of disinformation, social media is now
a threat
to democracy. 5.No
one is immune.People
across the political spectrum are being micro-targeted as part of a
strategy to polarise
and erodeour
societies. In the US, Russia’s troll army created a
fake pagefor
American black activists that drew more followers than the official
Black Lives Matter movement pages! We think we’d never fall for
this stuff, but studies show that even
the most educated among
us tend to believe fake news, and people
over 65are
even more likely to spread it.
Disinformation
spreads distrust, fear, and lies. But the more we know about it, the
more we can stop it — share this briefing with friends and family to
educate them on the disinformation threat. And read on to see how to
protect yourself!
1.If
you see something, say something!Don’t
believe everything you read on the internet. Seen a random Facebook
post with shocking info about a political candidate? Don’t trust it!
Check the facts with reliable sources, and if you think you may have
found a piece of disinformation, let us know here. 2.Keep
supporting real journalism. Most
traditional media is covered by regulations and ethics that make it
far more trustworthy than a random dude on the internet. They’re
not perfect, but they check their facts and can be held responsible!
Subscribing to a high quality newspaper with real
journalismis
one of the most powerful acts a citizen can take today. 3.Join
the campaign to clean up social media.Avaaz
has a simple and effective plan to push the tech giants to cure the
disinformation epidemic on social media — by showing
independently-verified factual corrections to fake news. Join
the campaign. 4.Don’t
give up on democracy!The
goal of the troll armies is to create such a climate of distrust that
ordinary citizens walk away from democracy. When that happens,
fanatic extremists can dominate it. We must keep showing up and
voting, encouraging our friends and family to do the same, and
holding our elected officials to account. 5.Choose
hope in humanity.Disinformation
preys on our deepest fears, appealing to our natural negativity bias
and bringing out our more angry and cynical sides. But if we can
learn to engage with the arguments of people who don’t think like
us, with empathy, big ears, and wisdom, we can connect across our
differences. We have more in common than our fears make us believe.
If we trust that, amazing things can happen.
Our
civilisation is the most successful in human history, on so many
fronts, from human rights to democracy. We’re on track to end poverty
within a generation, and we’re close to putting every child in
school. It’s clear that democracy, and great journalists,
accountable political leaders, and fellow citizens got us here. But
the forces pushing disinformation are powerful and threaten to
destroy all of that. Let’s not let them win by giving up hope!
With
hope and trust,
Ricken,
with Iain, Nell, Risalat, Sarah, and the whole Avaaz team
P.S.
What does disinformation actually look like? Check out these 3
terrifying real-world examples!
When
disinformation is used to fuel a genocide
Hateful
lies about the Rohingya minority in Myanmar went viral online. Fake
claims of things like cannibalism (like above) were used by the
military and anti-muslim groups to justify ethnic cleansing.
Thousands of Rohingya families were slaughtered, women brutally
raped, and homes torched to the ground, leading UN officials to
declare a genocide.
When
fake news is used to attack entire groups, like migrants
Almost
10 million people saw this video of migrants destroying a police
car. The problem? It’s also entirely fake — it’s actually from a
movie, and was debunked years ago! That didn’t stop far-right groups
in Italy and across Europe from sharing it again, even just a few
weeks ago — and Facebook did nothing while it went viral, inflaming
suspicion, hostility, and even hatred of immigrant people.
When
disinformation is used to polarise and stoke fear and anger
In
France, people shared a letter by French actor Gérard Lanvin over
251,000 times, criticising President Macron and his government! The
only problem? It was completely fake, with the actor himself
claiming he had been a victim of identity theft. It’s a clear
example of how disinformation is used to sow distrust of the
government — and why it’s such a major threat to democracy.
==================================
En dan te bedenken dat AVAAZ zich aan dezelfde zaken schuldig maakt…….. (zie de link hieronder)
PS: in het schrijven van Avaaz, de volgende bewering: Our civilisation is the most successful in human history…..’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ja uiterst succesvol, een klimaatverandering die nog nooit zo snel is verlopen als die door toedoen van de mens, met als enige uitzondering de inslag van een enorme meteoriet 65 miljoen jaar geleden, die een eind maakte aan de heerschappij van de dinosauriërs….. De huidige klimaatverandering is niet meer terug te draaien, zal veel hoger uitvallen dan de beoogde 1,5 graad Celsius tegen het eind van deze eeuw en zal aan vele miljoenen mensen het leven kosten, een klimaatverandering die zelfs een eind kan maken aan mens en dier….. Daarover gesproken: onlangs werd bekend gemaakt dat één miljoen soorten dieren en planten zullen verdwijnen door toedoen van de mens, zoals de mens ook verantwoordelijk is voor het uitsterven van twee derde van de insecten….. En mensen zo kan ik nog wel even doorgaan……
VVD
hufter Blok liet eerder deze maand weten dat hij de zorgen van de VS
over de ‘dreiging van Iran’ deelt. Blok zou voorts hebben gezegd dat
het voor Europa (hij bedoelt de EU) van belang is dat het nucleaire
akkoord overeind blijft…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Oh, vandaar dat de EU
niets doet voor Iran n.a.v. de onmenselijke en illegale sancties die de VS als een
werelddictator het land heeft opgelegd, ondanks dat de EU Iran beloofde te
helpen tegen de sancties van terreurentiteit VS…..
Blok is als een loopjongen goed geïnstrueerd door de VS, daar hij aan het voorgaande toevoegde
dat de EU Iran aan zal blijven spreken op ‘onacceptabel gedrag’,
waarmee hij het ontwikkelen van raketten door Iranbedoelde
en de rol die Iran speelt in Syrië, Jemen en Libanon……….
Zolang
Iran wordt bedreigd door Israël, Saoedi-Arabië en de VS, is het niet
vreemd dat het land raketten ontwikkelt om zich te verdedigen,
bovendien heeft Iran satellieten in een baan rond de aarde gebracht,
blijkbaar is dat verboden voor staten die de VS niet welgevallig
zijn……
Niet Iran maar Israël en S-A zijn de meest agressieve
staten in het Midden-Oosten, waar de VS als buitenlandse mogendheid
in het Midden-Oosten, verreweg het grootste aantal burgers heeft
vermoord in dat deel van de wereld en Afghanistan (dat door velen
wordt gerekend tot het Midden-Oosten)……. Alleen in Irak vermoordde de
VS al meer dan 1,5 miljoen mensen., maar Blok deelt de zorgen
van deze verreweg grootste terreurentiteit op onze kleine aarde…….
Wat een wezenloze idioot!
Iran steunt het reguliere leger van Syrië in haar strijd tegen terreurgroepen, die NB met ons belastinggeld werden voorzien van wapens en ander oorlogstuig…. Ofwel Iran was en is niet illegaal aanwezig in Syrië, terwijl de VS en andere NAVO-lidstaten dat wel zijn…… De VS heeft de opstand in Syrië voorbereid en geregisseerd, daar was deze terreurentiteit al vanaf 2006 mee bezig…..*
De VS heeft terroristen van o.a. IS vervoerd vanuit Libië naar Irak, hen daarna over de grens met Syrië geleid en hen van wapens en rollend oorlogstuig voorzien…… Niet de troepen van Assad openden het vuur op de door de VS georganiseerde protesten, maar de door de VS aangevoerde terreurgroepen (‘gematigde oppositie’), dit met het doel om Assad aan de paal te nagelen, ofwel de zoveelste flase flag operatie van de VS……
De claim dat Iran de Houthi rebellen in Jemen zou steunen met wapens en raketten is een dikke vette leugen, waarvoor de VS geen flinter aan bewijs kon en kan leveren…. Terwijl de Houthi rebellen tegen de Saoedische terreurcoalitie vechten, een coalitie die bezig is een genocide uit te voeren in Jemen en dat met hulp van de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk en….. Nederlandse wapenonderdelen, die werden geleverd met de handtekening van Blok (voor de exportvergunning..)…. Kijk daar houdt Blok wijselijk de vuilbek over…….
Hetzelfde geldt voor de claim dat Iran in Libanon met de scepter zwaait, geen nanometer aan bewijs, maar je roept het een keer of tien en iedereen gelooft je…….. De fascistische apartheids- en terreurstaat Israël schendt het Libanese luchtruim bijna dagelijks met haar straaljagers, niet zelden om illegaal Syrische gebieden te bombarderen, ook over die oorlogsmisdaden hoor je hypocriet Blok niet….
Nogmaals
liet Blok weten dat de EU zich aan de P5+1 nucleaire deal met Iran houdt, lullig genoeg betekent dat voor Iran
helemaal niets, immers de EU komt niet met maatregelen om de ellende
in Iran te verzachten door zakendoen mogelijk te maken met bedrijven uit Iran…..
Nee, daarvoor onderneemt de EU helemaal niets en bedrijven uit de EU
kijken wel uit om zaken met Iran te doen, omdat ze daarvoor zullen
worden gestraft door terreurentiteit VS…. Ondanks dat durfde Blok
meermaals te zeggen dat de EU de nucleaire deal met Iran overeind zal
houden…….. Sterker nog Blok durfde keihard te stellen dat de EU het betalingsverkeer met Iran overeind houdt (buiten het SWIFT betalingssysteem), zodat EU bedrijven zaken
kunnen doen met Iran…… Een keiharde leugen…..
Om te
laten zien wat een enorme imbeciel hij is zei Blok dat Iran geen
ultimatum kan stellen, een ultimatum daar Iran heeft meegedeeld dat wanneer er verder niets gebeurd, het over een paar
maanden weer uranium zal verrijken…… Het water staat de Iraniërs aan de lippen, de EU doet geen flikker en Blok durft dat land de les
te lezen, deze belachelijke kwast is volkomen en hartstikke mesjogge!!
Uiteraard
had Blok de VS de bel moeten aanbinden, maar dat durft deze
achterlijke gladiool niet……
Het volgende artikel komt van Nieuws.nl, die het overnam van het ANP:
Blok
deelt zorgen Pompeo over Iran
Foto ANP
Minister
Stef Blok van Buitenlandse Zaken deelt de zorgen van de Verenigde
Staten over de dreiging van Iran. ,,Het verschil zit hem erin dat
voor Europa van belang is dat het nucleaire akkoord overeind blijft
en we Iran aanspreken op alle zaken die onacceptabel zijn, zoals het
ontwikkelen van raketten en zijn rol in Syrië, Jemen en Libanon.’’
Blok
zei dat in Brussel na een gesprek tussen zijn Amerikaanse ambtgenoot
Mike Pompeo en de Franse, Britse en Duitse ministers. Volgens de
Britse minister Jeremy Hunt kan er zomaar een onbedoeld conflict
ontstaan.
,,Ik
wil niet speculeren op wat er kan gebeuren in zo’n explosieve regio
als het Midden-Oosten. Samen met mijn EU-collega’s zet ik vol in op
het voorkomen van escalatie door het overeind houden van het
nucleaire akkoord, omdat het voorkomt dat Iran kernwapens
ontwikkelt”, aldus Blok. Volgens hem zijn ook de andere
EU-ministers erg bezorgd.
,,Daar
waar Iran echt schadelijk optreedt spreken wij ze aan, maar daar waar
Iran zich aan de afspraken houdt – zoals bij dat nucleaire akkoord
– daar houden wij ons ook aan afspraken”, vervolgde de
bewindsman. ,,Wij zorgen dat er betalingsverkeer kan plaatsvinden
tussen Iran en Europese bedrijven, dat deel van de deal komen wij ook
na.”
Daar
hoort geen ultimatum bij, zei de minister over de Iraanse dreiging om
over twee maanden meer verrijkt uranium te gaan produceren. ,,Het is
echt voor onze veiligheid van belang dat dat akkoord ook in de
toekomst overeind blijft.”
Pompeo
heeft later op de dag nog een gesprek met EU-buitenlandchef
Mogherini, die het door de Amerikanen opgezegde akkoord met ,,al onze
instrumenten en politieke wil” probeert te redden.
Voor meer berichten over Iran en of Jemen, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht. Let wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens herhaald, dan onder dat laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw het gekozen label klikken, enz. enz.
Op BNR vanmorgen aandacht voor een onderzoek i.h.k.v. de EU verkiezingen, waar één van de uitkomsten zou zijn dat 53% van de Nederlanders voor het redden van banken is….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Je kan wel raden op welke vragen ‘de Nederlander’ antwoordt, dat banken gered moeten worden: wilt u dat uw bank wordt gered, of dat deze failliet gaat in een volgende bankencrisis en u naar uw centen kan fluiten (een bankencrisis waarheen de banken al weer hard op weg zijn, met uitbreidingen in het buitenland >> ‘too big to fail’, het maken van ondoorzichtige financiële producten en met het opkopen van hele pakketten slechte leningen….)
Of wat dacht je van: wilt u dat de banken worden gered, of dat de Nederlandse economie geheel naar de knoppen gaat (het maakt niet uit wat je aan onzin vragen stelt, als je maar zorgt dat de uitkomst die je wilt hebben, in dit geval het redden van banken, veilig wordt gesteld…)… Voorts zou je kunnen stellen dat met het failliet gaan van banken er geen investeringen in het bedrijfsleven worden gedaan en daarmee de ‘heilige economische groei’ in het gedrang komt……
Het onderzoek werd gedaan door Jan Kleinnijenhuis van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en onderzoeksbureau Ipsos en werd ingegeven daar men in Nederland zo negatief zou zijn over de politiek en dan vooral die in de EU…… Ook in Trouw vandaag aandacht voor dit zoveelste gestoken onderzoek
Met belachelijke vragen mensen een antwoord ontfutselen en dan stellen dat de Nederlander lang niet zo anti-EU is, als vaak wordt gezegd…..
Een andere meer dan belachelijke uitkomst: 62% van de Nederlanders wil een sterke en daadkrachtige EU dat optreedt tegen Rusland….. Uiteraard heeft men in de vraag nog gerefereerd aan de zogenaamde annexatie van De Krim door Rusland en het vechten van Russische militairen in het oosten van Oekraïne, beiden keiharde leugens, waarmee men het volk bang maakt en waarmee de schreeuw om meer geld voor leger en geheime diensten ‘wordt gelegitimeerd….’ Terwijl tegelijkertijd Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk, Duitsland en Italië al meer dan 3 keer zoveel uitgeven aan defensie uh oorlogsvoering, dan Rusland, waar Frankrijk en GB ook nog eens staten zijn met kernwapens…..
Uit de woordkeuze in het voorgaande kon je al opmaken dat de EU landen in NAVO verband onevenredig veel agressiever zijn dan Rusland, daar deze NAVO-lidstaten de grootschalige terreur van de VS helpen uitoefenen, zoals de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan, Irak (meer dan 1,5 miljoen vermoorde Irakezen en nog is de oorlog daar niet over….), Libië en Syrië…… Overigens de opstand en coup in Oekraïne werden gekocht door Hillary Clinton, destijds minister van BuZa onder Obama…. Deze grap kostte de belastingbetaler in de VS maar liefst 4 miljard dollar….. Door ingrijpen van de VS is de economie van Oekraïne in het slop geraakt en heeft de Porosjenko junta het land leeggestolen en een groot aantal burgers vermoord……..
Met het belachelijke cliché dat de EU de reden is dat er na WOII geen oorlog in Europa werd en wordt gevoerd (destijds ging het niet eens om de EU, maar de EEG), maakt men de mensen in de EU met haat- en angstzaaierij klaar voor een vernietigende oorlog tegen Rusland…… Wat een ongelofelijke schoft moet je zijn als je dergelijke desinformatie in de vorm van een gestoken onderzoek over het volk uitstort…….
Als je dergelijke haat- en angstzaaierij, plus gestoken onderzoeken en alle andere leugens over de noodzaak van de EU zat bent, stem dan op de PvdD of op de SP, beiden partijen die tegen een verdere vergroting van de EU en de macht van de EU zijn, partijen die zelfs de macht van de EU willen inperken….
Voor meer berichten over de EU verkiezingen, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht.
Ook de
gifgasaanval op Douma, april vorig jaar, die aan het reguliere
Syrische leger werd toegeschreven, is ontmaskerd als een false flag
operatie* van de gematigde rebellen……
Oké
eigenlijk geen nieuws, daar dit van meet af aan wel duidelijk was,
alleen het feit al dat het Syrische leger de strijd al had gewonnen,
maakte deze bewering al totaal belachelijk, immers waarom zou je de
bevolking vergassen, terwijl je de slag al hebt gewonnen en de hele
westerse wereld je al meermaals valselijk heeft beschuldigd van het
gebruiken van gifgas….???
Zoals
het voorgaande al aangaf, ook de eerdere gifgasaanvallen, zouden door
‘Assad zijn begaan’, waar deskundigen (ook van de VN) na onderzoek
keer op keer de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen aanwezen als de
daders…… Sterker nog: in het westen en zeker de landen die aan de
kant van de VS en de psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters
(‘gematigde rebellen’) meevochten, dan wel hen steun verleenden
(zoals Nederland), wisten dat deze terreurgroepen beschikten over
sarin en chlorine, terwijl wapeninspecteurs van de VN en anderen uit
en te na hebben bewezen dat Syrië niet langer beschikte over
gifgassen (een herhaling van de massavernietigingswapens van Irak,
die dat land niet had, zoals VN wapeninspecteur Blix de wereld tot
vervelens toe heeft voorgehouden, alvorens de VS in 2003 een illegale oorlog tegen dat land begon en inderdaad die wapens werden niet aangetroffen…)
De ‘gifgasbommen’ in Douma zou door de Syrische luchtmacht zijn afgeworpen, echter een onderafdeling van de OPCW (in tegenstelling tot OPCW zelf) en andere deskundigen stellen dat dit niet kan, gezien de staat van deze bommen die men als bewijs aanvoerde en gezien de schade in de directe omgeving van die bommen…….
Lees het
volgende uitstekende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone met
een ‘lekkere’ sarcastische opmerking aan het eind, en geeft het door,
de reguliere media en de westerse politiek blijven, ondanks alle
bewijzen van het tegendeel, beweren dat de democratisch gekozen
regering Assad verantwoordelijk is voor de gifgasaanvallen die in Syrië werden gepleegd….
Leaked
Document Pokes Major Holes in Establishment Syria Narrative
(CJ Opinion) — “It
is hard to overstate the significance of this
revelation,” tweets former
British MP George Galloway of a new
report by
the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media (WGSPM). “The
war-machine has now been caught red-handed in a staged chemical
weapons attack for the purposes of deceiving our democracies into
what could have turned into a full-scale war amongst the
great-powers.”
“An
important #Douma #Syria ‘Assad chemical weapon attack’
development and yet more evidence to suggest the ‘attack’ was
staged, as it’s now revealed that @OPCW suppressed expert engineers
report that found the cylinders were likely not dropped from the
air,” tweets former
Scotland Yard detective and counterterrorism intelligence officer
Charles Shoebridge.
“The
engineering assessment confirms our earlier conclusion,” the
excellent Moon
of Alabama blog writes.
“The whole scene as depicted by ‘rebels’ and propaganda organs
was staged. The more than 34 dead on the scene were murdered
elsewhere under unknown circumstances.”
Assessment by the engineering sub-team of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission investigating the alleged…
Paul McKeigue, David Miller, Piers Robinson Members of Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media 1 Introduction 2 Commentary on the Engineering Assessment 2.1 Methodology 2.2 Results: Location 2…
syriapropagandamedia.org
The
report has grabbed the attention of those who’ve expressed
skepticism of establishment Syria narratives because it casts serious
doubts on the official story we’ve been told to believe about an
alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April of last year. A
document titled “Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed
at the Douma incident” has been leaked to the WGSPM which reveals
that an engineering sub-team of the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) fact-finding mission in Douma came to
conclusions which differ wildly from the OPCW’s official findings
on the Douma incident, yet we the public were never permitted to see
this assessment.
The
assessment’s findings, which you can locate on pages five through
eight of the
document,
put forward multiple hypothetical scenarios in which two gas
cylinders could have wound up in the locations(Location 2 and
Location 4) that they were photographed and video recorded as having
been found after the alleged attack. The assessment concludes that
“The dimensions, characteristics and appearance of the cylinders,
and the surrounding scene of the incidents, were inconsistent with
what would have been expected in the case of either cylinder being
delivered from an aircraft. In each case the alternative hypothesis
produced the only plausible explanation for observations at the
scene.”
The
assessment says more thoroughly and technically what I argued
in an article last year,
that the physics of the air-dropped cylinder narrative make no sense
whatsoever. This is a problem, because the reason we were given for
the US, UK and France launching airstrikes on Syrian government
targets in April of 2018 was that two cylinders full of poison gas
had been dropped from aircraft by the Syrian air force and killed
dozens of civilians.
The
assessment is signed by Ian Henderson, who the WGSPM were able to
verify as a longtime OPCW-trained inspection team leader. The OPCW
reportedly denied that Henderson was involved in its Douma
fact-finding mission, but the WGSPM counters that “This statement
is false. The engineering sub-team could not have been carrying out
studies in Douma at Locations 2 and 4 unless they had been notified
by OPCW to the Syrian National Authority (the body that oversees
compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention) as FFM** inspectors:
it is unlikely that Henderson arrived on a tourist visa.”
So far this is the establishment narrative management machine’s only attempt at refuting the latest revelations indicating that the #Douma attack last year was staged. It basically boils down to “They’re conspiracy theorists and the official narrative disagrees with them.”
Just
as interesting as this new report has been the response of the usual
establishment Syria narrative managers to it, or rather the lack
thereof. NATO narrative management firm Bellingcat,
which normally jumps all over these kinds of revelations in an
attempt to discredit them, has been maintaining radio silence as of
this writing. Its founder, Eliot Higgins, has had nothing to say on
the matter other than to retweet a
pathetic rebuttal by his mini-me Scott Lucas and take a few childish
jabs at
me for highlighting this fact.
Scott
Lucas’ Facebook
post on
the WGSPM report remains as of this writing the only attempt from the
Syria narrative management machine to address it, and it boils down
to nothing more than assertions that the report contradicts the
official OPCW narrative (duh) and that the WGSPM are conspiracy
theorists. Lucas may have thought it a good idea to author this post
believing that he had a more substantial argument than he actually
had, but it was
pointed out shortly
after publication that his claim about Henderson refusing to consider
other possible scenarios in his assessment is directly contradicted
by the words that are in the assessment, and Lucas was forced
to make a hasty revision.
There
will be other counter-narratives released by the Syria narrative
management machine, to be sure, but the fact that this report has
been out for the better part of the day with nary a peep from that
lot reveals a great deal about the difficulties they’re having with
this one.
We
are being lied to about Syria.
Anyone who believes unproven assertions about governments targeted
for toppling by the US-centralized empire has failed to learn the
lessons of history. The Syrian government had literally nothing to
gain strategically from using chemical weapons in Douma, a battle it
had already won, and knew full well that doing so would provoke an
attack from the empire. Douma was occupied by the Al
Qaeda-linked Jaysh
Al-Islam, who had at that point nothing to lose and everything to
gain by staging a false flag attack in a last-ditch attempt to get
NATO powers to function as its air force.
If
you still believe at this point that the Syrian government dropped
poison gas on Douma last year, then I’ve got some Iraqi WMDs to
sell you.
Vannacht op BBC World Service (het radionieuws van 1.30 u. CET) het bericht dat het reguliere Syrische leger posities van oppositionele troepen aanvalt in de provincie Aleppo…. Gevolgd door de toevoeging dat vooral medische posten worden aangevallen……
Je had al begrepen dat met oppositionele troepen, terreurgroepen worden bedoeld, groepen die ondanks hun gruwelijke en bloedige daden eerder al werden neergezet als ‘gematigde rebellen’, ook Nederland heeft een aantal van deze groepen gesteund met ons belastinggeld, een zaak waarvoor geen kop is gerold in Rutte 3 (terwijl die terreurgroepen letterlijk mensen hebben onthoofd en nog onthoofden….)…..
De toevoeging dat vooral medische posten worden aangevallen door het Syrische leger, is een herhaling van zetten, men vertelde dezelfde leugens bij de bevrijding van de stad Aleppo, toen het Syrische leger en de Russen het oostelijk deel van die stad hebben ontzet van de vreselijke terreur van o.a. IS, al Nusra en nog een paar andere terreurgroepen…. Een actie die door het westen werd veroordeeld en als je de anti-Assad propaganda moest geloven, had het oostelijk deel van Aleppo minstens 100 ziekenhuizen, die op dagelijkse basis ‘werden aangevallen….’
Deze propaganda werd met grote verontwaardiging door de westerse massamedia gebracht, terwijl al snel bleek dat het om leugens ging (nepnieuws), leugens waarmee het Syrische leger en de Russen werden gedemoniseerd en die tot stopzetten van de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo moest leiden….. De bevolking van Oost-Aleppo was dolblij toen de terroristen werden verslagen door het Syrische leger en de Russen en ze onder het juk van dat terreurtuig uit was…..
De verschillende gelovigen uit Oost-Aleppo stonden hand in hand om hun bevrijders te begroeten, zoals men ook samenleefde voordat de VS begon met het zaaien van terreur in Syrië en het land in een oorlog dompelde……. Deze zaak bereidde de VS al vanaf 2006 voor, om zo Assad af te kunnen zetten*, daar hij pijpleidingen over Syrische grondgebied richting Europa weigerde……. Bovendien is Syrië door de VS te gebruiken als springplank richting Iran, een land dat de VS maar al te graag van een andere regime zou willen voorzien…..
De reguliere media hadden destijds geen (of een enkele ‘verdwaalde’) journalisten in Syrië en toch deed men alsof alle berichten uit eerste en onverdachte hand kwamen, zoals de berichten van het SOHR, het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten, een organisatie die is gevestigd in Engeland en die wordt geleid door een gewezen ordinaire misdadiger, die Syrië was ontvlucht om gevangenisstraf te voorkomen, een ploert die goede banden onderhoudt met de terreurgroepen in Syrië en vooral de valse berichten (‘fake news’ en propaganda) van deze terroristen bracht en nog brengt (o.a. op de BBC en NOS…)…..
* Eerst middels een opstand, die met onvrede over de economische gang van zaken werd gekweekt, een economische neergang die door toedoen van de VS werd veroorzaakt, een door de VS beproefde gang van zaken, die deze terreurentiteit ook heeft gebruikt en/of gebruikt tegen o.a. Libië, Venezuela en Iran…….
Eerder
doken folders van de VS op over hoe Nicaraguanen de boel in eigen
land kunnen saboteren*, om daarmee onvrede onder de rest van het volk
te kweken en een opstand te forceren en zo de zittende,
democratische gekozen regering ten val te brengen……
Nu heeft
de school voor special forces (commando’s die ook voor de CIA geheime
missies uitvoeren) een boek uitgebracht dat is geschreven aan de hand van militaire acties, o.a. gericht op het
omverwerpen van regeringen die de VS niet welgevallig waren…….
De
periode waarover in het boek wordt gesproken loopt van 1941 tot 2003,
waarin 47 zaken worden besproken, die wel of niet zijn gelukt. Vreemd
genoeg worden in het boek niet de vele staatsgrepen genoemd waarbij
de VS ‘rechtmatige verzetsbewegingen’ steunde…. ‘Rechtmatige
verzetsbewegingen’, die veelal door de CIA op poten werden gezet en
waarbij werd gezorgd voor militaire training en de levering van
wapens en ander oorlogstuig, een gang van zaken die zich o.a. in
Venezuela heeft voltrokken en nog steeds voltrekt……
In het
boek wordt ook de groeiende onrust in het Midden-Oosten genoemd, die
te wijten zouden zijn aan handelingen van de Sovjet-Unie…… ha!
ha! ha! ha! ha! De brutaliteit!! De VS heeft de lont in kruitvat
Midden-Oosten aangestoken en dat al in de 80er jaren** met leveringen
van onderdelen voor gifgas aan Saddam Hoessein en iets buiten dat gebied, de bewapening en training (door de CIA) van de Taliban in Afghanistan….. Intussen heeft de
VS in het Midden-Oosten, alleen deze eeuw al, meer dan 2 miljoen
moslims vermoord: kinderen, vrouwen, ouden van dagen en mannen…..
Middels het uitoefenen van grootschalige terreur (in illegale oorlogen) hebben de VS en de NAVO (onder militair opperbevel van de VS)
zelfs terreur op de straten van de EU gecreëerd en hebben ze de
fascisten de wind in de zeilen gegeven door de enorme
vluchtelingenstromen die opgang kwamen en nog steeds komen door de
illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië………
Beste
bezoeker, moet zeggen dat ik blij ben met het nieuwe boek van de
special forces, daar het eens te meer een bewijs is voor de
grootschalige terreur die de VS in een groot deel van de wereld
uitoefent, een zaak die nooit wordt genoemd door de reguliere westerse (massa-) media……
In het
volgende artikel van Jason Ditz, eerder gepubliceerd op ANTIWAR en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media ook een link naar een
PDF voor het terreurboek van de special forces:
US
Special Forces School Publishes New Book on Overthrowing Governments
The
official study covers 47 distinct cases of US special forces trying
to intervene in various countries from 1941-2003. It did not include
some of the more famous US-backed coups, as the study said they did
not involve “legitimate
resistance movements.“
This
meant a few pages covering each incident, attempts to sort them into
various categories, and determinations if they were successful or
failures. Overwhelmingly, they determined their own interventions
were successful.
Apparently
anticipating the problems in years to come, the study also addressed
mounting unrest across the Middle East in its early portion, and
waved this away by arguing that it was generally the fault of the
Soviet Union, and would’ve happened no matter what the US did.
* Hier de link naar het PDFmet een CIA sabotage handleiding. Niet nodig te vermelden dat deze handleiding ook werd en wordt gebruikt voor andere terreuracties van de VS in Latijns-Amerika…. Neem wat dit betreft alleen al de sabotage eerder dit jaar van de Venezolaanse elektriciteitscentrale, al is die waarschijnlijk geregisseerd en uitgevoerd door de CIA zelf……
** In feite zelfs eerder dan de 80er jaren van de vorige eeuw, als je de enorme (m.n. militaire) steun van de VS voor de illegaal gestichte staat Israël in ogenschouw neemt, Israël dat zelf oorlogen uitlokte, dan wel gebruik maakte van false flag operaties om zo de enorme terreur van het Israëlische leger in het buitenland te kunnen legitimeren……
Het volgende artikel ligt al veel te lang op de spreekwoordelijke plank, terwijl het wel degelijk uitermate belangrijke informatie bevat: Avaaz is een smerige organisatie, die onder het mom van goede doelen petities de stank van lijken om zich heen heeft verzameld en zelfs aandringt op oorlogshandelingen……
Avaaz kan zonder meer gezien worden als een instrument van de VS terreurmachine, inclusief haar oorlogshond NAVO……
Zo heeft Avaaz aangedrongen een ‘no-fly zone’ in te stellen boven Libië, door politici, het publiek en de media continu te voeden met leugens over het bewind Khadaffi (al hadden die politici en media daar al geen moeite mee) en heeft zo meegewerkt aan de vernietiging van het eens rijkste land van Afrika…..
Libië, en land waar zo ongeveer alles gratis was en van goede kwaliteit, zoals onderwijs, medische zorg, huisvesting en de levering van energie. Wat betreft het onderwijs: jongens en meisjes mochten op kosten van de staat studeren in het buitenland, waar ook nog eens de huur en andere verblijfskosten werden betaald door de Libische staat……
Met behulp van Avaaz is Libië verworden tot zo ongeveer het armste land van Afrika, het ontbreekt de bevolking aan van alles en meisjes mogen niet meer naar school, laat staan studeren…… Tienduizenden Libiërs verloren het leven, niet alleen vanwege de NAVO bombardementen (Nederlandse F16s werden gebruikt om doelen aan te wijzen), maar ook door etnische zuiveringen….. Er worden nu zelfs openbare slavenmarkten gehouden in Libië, en de oorlog is nog steeds gaande…… Nogmaals: met dank aan Avaaz…..
De Avaaz topgraaiers hebben er voorts geen probleem mee om op de foto te gaan met oorlogsmisdadigers als Petraeus…..
Ook in Syrië heeft Avaaz een zeer kwalijke rol gespeeld en de VS agressie, beter gezegd: terreur, van A tot Z gesteund……..
Mensen het is even een zit het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Cory Morningstar, eerder gepubliceerd op The Art of Innihilation, maar de schellen vallen je van de ogen, wat een smerig zootje dat Avaaz en geeft het door, laat je niet langer foppen door deze verraderlijke organisatie!!
SYRIA:
AVAAZ, PURPOSE & THE ART OF SELLING HATE FOR EMPIRE
September
17, 2014
Date: 27
Jan 2015
By: admin
“The
Ivy League bourgeoisie who sit at the helm of the non-profit
industrial complex will one day be known simply as charismatic
architects of death. Funded by the ruling class oligarchy, the role
they serve for their funders is not unlike that of corporate media.
Yet, it appears that global society is paralyzed in a collective
hypnosis – rejecting universal social interests, thus rejecting
reason, to instead fall in line with the position of the powerful
minority that has seized control, a minority that systematically
favours corporate interests.” — From
the article Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the
Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
10, 2012
The
organization Avaaz was instrumentalin
building public approval for the No Fly Zone for the illegal invasion
of Libya in 2011. The NATO-led destabilization/illegal war in Libya
resulted in the annihilation of a formerly sovereign country that has
since descended into brutal chaos. Tens upon thousands of Libyans
died and the most savage ethnic cleansing that the mind can imagine
has been widespread. The destruction of Libya has been nothing less
than a full-scale bloodbath.
Above
image from the Avaazwebsite: “Libya
No-Fly Zone: As Libyan
government jets drop bombs on the civilian population,
the UN Security Council will decide in 48 hours whether to impose a
no-fly zone to keep Qaddafi’s warplanes on the ground.” [Emphasis
in original][Further
discussion of the flag within this Avaaz image can be read in
the epilogue.]
Above
image: Avaaz takes credit for the implementation of the Libya No Fly
Zone. [Further
Reading: “Did
Libya’s Citizens Demand Foreign Intervention?”A
ridiculous question, yet according to Avaaz, the answer is yes.]
When
Avaaz rolled out the same rinse, lather and repeat campaign for the
seizing of Syria, the public did not fall prey as easily. The
campaign failed. Below are three separate links to the Avaaz campaign
calling for a no-fly zone over Syria.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_the_last_straw_0/(June
14, 2013) (Avaaz alleges a “rape crisis” committed by soldiers of
the Syrian army – the same tactic used to incite hatred against
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi that was later discredited.)
Of
the Avaaz campaigns pressing for a no-fly zone (air strikes) over
Syria that flourished in June of 2013, at least two employed the use
of chemical weapons to incite fear and hatred toward the Assad
government. It does not take much stretch of the imagination to
consider Avaaz had inside knowledge of the upcoming chemical attack
that would take place in outer Damascus approximately 10 weeks later.
Considering Avaaz co-founder Tom Perriello’s connection to the
Obama administration and its well known war criminals, it is entirely
plausible that Avaaz was churning out propaganda that would lead up
to and sensationalize a false
flag attack.
Photo:
Avaaz co-founder and Congressman Tom Perriello with war
criminal,
General David Petraeus (far left). Under this Flickr photo the
caption reads: “Passing the Baton, United
States Institute of Peace” [2009]
[Photo: Jon-Phillip Sheridan | Source]
[In July, 2011, “General David Petraeus was approved as CIA
Director by both the Senate Intelligence Committee and then the full
Senate, whose vote was an astounding 94-0,
astounding because this is a man who was deeply implicated in war
crimes,
including torture.” Source]
[Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013]
The
August 30, 2013 article “On
the Eve of an Illegal Attack on Syria, Avaaz/350.org Board Members
Beat the Drums of War” documents Avaaz links imploring a
no-fly zone on Syria – both public links have since been removed.
The article also
featured 350.org board member Van Jones calling for air strikes on
Syria. (Adding twisted irony, Van Jones also serves as co-founder and
executive director of the Ella
Baker Center for Human Rights.
The co-opting of deceased civil rights revolutionaries to advance the
goals of hegemony has become common practice within these
foundation-financed projects.)
Screenshots
of an email from co-founder of Avaaz, Ricken Patel to Avaaz
subscribers dated August 27, 2014 can be found here (1)
and here(2).
The email from Patel represented a last-ditch effort to garner
support for a no-fly zone as the US prepared to launch an attack on
Syria.
One
year earlier, in 2012 Avaaz was allegedly sponsoring
fabricated videos of
civilian massacres, to back deeper foreign intervention in Syria.
Fact-checking and videos appear to collaborate these
claims.
Jump
forward to 2014.
In
the September 8, 2014 article Pentagon
Planning Points to Possible Anti-Syria US Military Campaign,
author Stephen Gowans observes:
“Now,
it appears that Washington is on the cusp of pressing ahead with its
planned campaign of military action. The New York Times has reported
that ‘Pentagon planners envision a military campaign’ to destroy
ISIS ‘in its sanctuary inside Syria’ that could last ‘at least
36 months.’ According to The Wall Street Journal, airstrikes would
support anti-Assad fighters unaligned with ISIS, who would be
bankrolled by $500 million in US funding, and backed by a global
coalition, including the UK and Australia, that would ‘provide a
range of assistance, including humanitarian aid and weapons.’ These
countries could also join the United States in an air-war over
Syria.”
It
should not be considered a coincidence that at the same time, a
polished, sophisticated and highly financed “Save Syria” campaign
is being created in the board rooms of the Empire’s favourite
Harvard boys.
Where,
under the organization Avaaz, the public hasn’t acquiesced to an
air strike on Syria, the New York public relations firm Purpose
Inc. has stepped in.
Purpose
is a for-profit enterprise that is marketed to appear like a
non-profit. Their area of expertise is behavioural change.
“[Purpose]
has a non-profit arm, which incubates protests and accepts donations.
This is cross-subsidised by its for-profit arm, which makes money in
a variety of ways. It sells consulting services to big companies such
as Google and Audi, and to charities such as the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.” – The
Economist
GetUp,
Avaaz and Purpose co-founder Jeremy Heimans, 2010.
Purpose
Inc.: The Crème de la Crème Agents of Behavioural Change
Purpose
| Avaaz Co-Founders
Vision:
“Purpose is a global initiative that draws on leading technologies,
political organizing and behavioral
economics to
build powerful, tech-savvy movements that can transform
culture and
influence policy.”
Avaaz
and GetUp co-founders Jeremy
Heimans (CEO)
and David Madden [2] are also founders of the New York consulting
firm, Purpose Inc.
Avaaz
was created in part by MoveOn,
a Democratic Party associated Political Action Committee (or PAC),
formed in response to the impeachment of President Clinton. Avaaz and
MoveOn are funded in part by convicted inside-trader and billionaire
hedge fund mogul, George Soros.
Avaaz
affiliate James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of
Purpose at its inception in 2009.
The
secret behind the success of both Avaaz and Purpose is their reliance
upon and expertise in behavioural
change.
While
the behavioural change tactics used by Avaaz are on public display,
double-breasted, for-profit Purpose, with its non-profit arm, sells
their expertise behind the scenes to further the interest of hegemony
and capital. Whether it be a glossy campaign to
help facilitate yet another illegal “humanitarian intervention”
led by aggressive U.S. militarism (an oxymoron if there ever was
one), or the creation of a new global “green” economy, Purpose is
the consulting firm that the wolves of Wall Street and oligarchs
alike depend upon to make it happen.
Make
no mistake, the Yale (for example, Avaaz co-founder and former U.S.
Representative*Tom
Perriello)
and Harvard graduates that comprise the “Avaaz boys” (many having
been groomed by McKinsey
and Company)
are considered “the dream team” by the globe’s most powerful
capitalists, including those at the United Nations and the World
Bank. Avaaz co-founder Andrea Madden works for the World Bank in
Burma [Myanmar]. Her husband is Avaaz co-founder David Madden who has
taken up residence in Burma. [March
23, 2013: Western
Media Celebrates Faux Progress in Myanmar] Madden has co-founded a
marketing firm, Parami
Road in
Myanmar: “Our clients are mostly international companies entering
Myanmar and they demand an international standard of work.”
“After
years of isolation, Myanmar is opening up. Opportunities abound.
However international companies have little experience here and local
firms have little experience working with them. Parami Road meets
this need.” – Parami
website
Another
key co-founder of Avaaz is none other than pro-war, pro-Israel, U.S.
Democrat Tom Perriello, former U.S. Representative (represented the
5th District of Virginia from 2008 to 2010) and founding member of
the House Majority Leader’s National Security Working Group.
As demonstrated in
the 2012 investigative report on Avaaz, Perriello’s curriculum
vitae, built upon privilege within elite circles, is quite
extensive.
[*Full
profile on Avaaz co-founder Tom
Perriello: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I [Link]
The
former Managing Director of Partnerships for “Purpose” is Marilia
Bezerra. From 2006 to 2011 Bezerra held an integral position within
the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) executive leadership. As Clinton
Global Initiative director of commitments, Bezerra led the redesign
of member engagement and commitments services into a
year-round operation. From 2007 to 2008, Bezerra held the
position of sponsorship manager of the Clinton Global Initiative
where she directly managed five major sponsorship accounts, including
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Procter & Gamble, valued at
over $2 million dollars. From 2006 to 2008, Bezerra held the position
of Commitment Development Senior Manager for the Clinton Global
Initiative. In 2009, Bezerra was Deputy Director of Commitments for
the Clinton Global Initiative.
One
should note that in the case of many NGOs, on 990 tax forms it
appears as though those at the helm are paid minimally, if at all.
Rather than salaries, many founders of institutions make immense fees
via consulting services where their names are not identified on 990
forms. In the case of Avaaz, co-founder Ricken Patel does take a
salary (approx. $190,000.00 per year) plus consulting fees.
Consulting fees must be considered the bread and butter of many
“progressives” whose incomes rival CEOs of multinational
corporations. The salaries and incomes are incredible when one
accounts for the fact that many NGOs, such as Avaaz, rake in millions
of dollars in donations from well-intentioned and hard-working
citizens who are at or below the poverty line.
[Full
profile of Ricken Patel: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors
of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I
[Link]
Purpose
Inc. (with its co-founders) is a favourite of high-finance websites
such as The Economist and Forbes and sells its consulting services
and branding/marketing campaigns to Google, Audi, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
many others that comprise the world’s most powerful corporations
and institutions. In 2012, it raised $3m from investors. “Ford
Foundation, which has given Purpose’s non-profit arm a grant,
reckons it is shaping up to be “one of the blue-chip social
organisations of the future.” [Source] Purpose,
like many other foundations, such as Rockefeller (who initially
incubated 1Sky which merged with 350.org in 2011), also serves as an
“incubator of social movements.” [Further
reading on Purpose]
Heimans,
the Avaaz front man of Purpose, is a darling of
the high-finance corporate world. “In 2011, Jeremy received the
Ford Foundation’s 75th anniversary Visionaries Award. The World
Economic Forum at Davos has named him a Young Global Leader, and the
World e-Government Forum has named Jeremy and Purpose co-founder
David Madden among the “Top 10 People Who Are Changing the World of
the Internet and Politics.” [Source]
“Who
are we? Three
years after the peaceful uprising in Syria, politicians and the media
have largely forgotten what the UN calls ‘the greatest humanitarian
tragedy of our time.’ But we haven’t.” — Front
page of “The Syria Campaign” and the “White Helmets / Syrian
Civil Defence” website
The
March Campaign #withSyria | Over 130 Partners
Purpose’s March
campaign #withSyria website(which doubles
as a hash tagfor
Twitter) partners
include:
Open Society Foundation (George Soros), Amnesty International,
Christian Aid, Care, Friends of the Earth, Oxfamand
many more of the largest “humanitarian” NGOs within the
non-profit industrial complex which makes up a billion dollar
industry. [Full list of
partners: http://marchcampaign.withsyria.com/partners0].
Utilizing the consumer culture’s celebrity fetish to sell war (and
the illusory “green economy“)
is a vital marketing strategy of Purpose. In the case of #withSyria,
famed street artist Banksyhas
reworked his “Young Girl” famed graffiti stencil in
support of the campaign.
On the main page of this website the behavioural change strategists
at Purpose promote a slick, emotive video of a white child (in
America) slowly becoming traumatized by the violence in Syria. No
doubt, Purpose’s marketing executives have taken this avenue
because they know that the majority of Euro-Americans with privilege
simply are not moved by images of suffering children that are
non-Caucasian. Non-White children being slaughtered by imperial
states became normalized for most Euro-American citizens long ago.
And
of course corporate
media is
not far away to promote the
cries for war peace.
Consider today, on September 17, 2014, ABC “reports“:
“What
if we could reverse the explosion of a bomb? A group of 130
organizations from around the world,
known collectively as the ‘With Syria’ campaign, released a video
Wednesday that shows just what that would look like. The campaign
hopes to bring attention to the violence in Syria. (video) Warning:
Contains disturbing imagery. In the video, the act of a bomb
exploding near children playing is reversed: The blood returns to
their heads, the children stand back up, run in reverse and continue
the game they were playing. A message says, ‘We can’t reverse
what’s happened in Syria, but we can change how the story ends.’”
Indeed
Purpose is being paid to bring about the ending that the elites have
hired them to ensure.
“Even
more impressive than her military, America has built the most
sophisticated propaganda machinery the planet has ever seen.” –
Garikai Chengu
Free
Syrian Voices partners
include Amnesty International, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights
Network, FIDH, Front Line Defenders, Human Rights Watch, Reporters
Without Borders and “other international, regional and Syrian
organizations” – which conveniently go unnamed.
Such
emotionally charged campaigns are critical tools for empire. They
have become critical (and successful) in building the acquiescence
required for “humanitarian
interventions”
(aka regime change with extensive “collateral damage” thrown in
for good measure).
“In
the IC
Magazine publication Communications
in Conflict,
is noted a new form of psychological warfare termed ‘false
hope.’
False hope, as a tool for subverting social movements, is
unparalleled in its effectiveness. What once was crudely accomplished
through political repression, censorship, educational indoctrination
and misleading propaganda, is now supplemented, if not surpassed,
through vertical integration of the non-profit industrial complex.
Where Wall Street once had to rely on threats and bribery to
intimidate or corrupt social movements, it now has a vast army of
neoliberal foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and
social media at its disposal.” —
Jay Taber, False
Hope,
September 6, 2014
It
is important to note that Purpose is a for-profit business
strategically presented as though it is a non-profit (similar to the
Change.org petition site). This begs the question of who is financing
the Syrian campaigns. The fact that a group of wealthy elites from
Harvard living privileged lifestyles in New York City (and abroad)
decide, via glossy marketing campaigns, who will live or die on the
other side of the world is the ultimate representation of whitism and
racism – an egregious affront to people everywhere. [Further
reading on Purpose]
“If
there is any doubt concerning the nefarious undertones of
subversiveness in these NGO dealings, [National Endowment for
Democracy] NED founder reportedly said the following in the 1990s: ‘A
lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’
What was once done at night under the cloak of ‘imperialism’ is
now done during the day under the guise of ‘humanitarianism.’” —WKOG
30-point Primer
The
many facets of Purpose:
1) Purpose (tax
identification number 68-0607622) is a for-profit certified
B-corporation “that uses an innovative model to pool some of the
world’s leading experts and practitioners in order to fund, launch
and accelerate the growth of new social movement organizations.”
2) Purpose
Action (tax
identification number 45-2451509), the non-profit
arm of
Purpose, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization “focused on
changing policy.” Purpose Action Board of Directors includes Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp! [5]
3) Purpose
Foundation (tax
identification number 27-3106760) is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization “focused on education and changing culture.” [6]
4) Purpose
Campaign (tax
identification number 68-0607622) “Develops social and consumer
movements.”
US
Military Utilize NGOs to Induce Pacification & Advance Western
Ideologies on Iraqi Citizens
The
video below captures highlights from the 2004 Princeton Colloquium on
Public and International Affairs and should that be at the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs – The Role of
NGOs in Global Governance and Society. Attention to the title is key:
“NON-governmental
organizations in global GOVERNANCE.”
[Note the use of the term “guerrilla” (4:13)
in describing any citizen/person resisting the occupation/assault by
US military on Iraq soil.] Since the filming of this video,
accelerating regime change operations are being conducted by Western
militaries, hand in hand with Western NGOs throughout the globe.
[See
more: http://www.interventionism.info/en/Re…].
In essence, NGOs have become an indispensable instrument of
destabilization and regime change for imperial states and hegemonic
interests. NGOs also serve as the primary agents to implant
neoliberal policies and western ideologies in targeted states to
advance and protect the interests of the NGOs’ funders.
The
June, 2012, Avaaz “Good Versus Evil” campaign
for the Rio Summit.
Above: A downloadable poster as found on the Avaaz
Press Centre published
in the Financial Times. Vilification: Note the dark cast/ugly sky
behind the leaders Avaaz would wish you to believe are “evil,”
versus the light and sun shining through over the Imperialist,
obstructionist “leaders” that Avaaz is attempting to convince you
are “good.”
“‘You
have to investigate the supply of hatred,’ Glaeser continues. ‘Who
has the incentive and the ability to induce group hatred? This pushes
us toward the crux of the model: politicians or anyone else will
supply hatred when hatred is a complement to their policies.’”
— The
Behavioural Economics of Hatred
Heiman’s
work been recognized in publications like The New York Times and The
Economist.
In The Economist, Heiman states he chose his career path when “in
2001, a college student named Eli Pariser created an online
petition calling
for a multilateral response to the ‘9/11 terrorist attacks.’” Over
a decade on, with civilian deaths that amount to millions, I’m sure
the Iraqis are most grateful. It must be noted that Eli Pariser, too,
is a co-founder of Avaaz and Co-Founder and Executive Director of
MoveOn.org (Avaaz founder) PAC.
Above:
The Syria Campaign, Non-profit Organization, created by Purpose,
launched March 7, 2014.
“We
were afraid the
regime would
fire another rocket, as
they always come back to the area of attack when people come to
rescue to bomb them,
so we started evacuating people in a hurry so no more lives would be
lost. This picture was taken then! That boy holding my neck like that
was one of the moments in which I knew why I
am a civil defender!”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Purpose
Inc. strategically employs images, carefully worded text and slick
video that provoke intense emotion. Key language includes children,
refugees, regime, and their work “in the most dangerous place in
the world.”
“A
year ago today, the
Syrian government used Sarin gas against its own people killing over
a thousand, many of them children.The
world was outraged and demanded Assad destroy his stockpile of
chemical weapons. Today chlorine gas is still being used on civilian
neighbourhoods, rolled out the back of helicopters in rusty ‘barrel
bombs.’”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm, Image
by Designer : FaDi zyada whose
work is also featured on the Heinrich
Von Arabien Foundation website.
This same website features an
absurd photo of
Syrians holding up a poster that features a “thumbs up”
illustration for USA and the UN.
Exploiting
the death of Syrian children to provoke air strikes and military
aggression demonstrates that such agencies go to any extreme to
further American foreign policy. Note that the very carnage described
above: “killing
over a thousand, many of them children” is
par for the course for the U.S. military, which carries out such
atrocities on innocent civilians, including children, on a daily
basis, all over the world. But don’t expect an Avaaz or Purpose
campaign against the Obama Regime any time soon. They will be too
busy under the guise of their NGO MoveOn, working on his re-election.
The
following quote represents the real purpose of Purpose:
“The
media may have turned away from
what’s unfolding daily in Syria but today we all have the tools to
tell the world the truth. Please share widely and remember the
children of Syria in your thoughts today.”
The
lapdog media have not turned away, but much of the public has. It’s
the job of Purpose to employ netwar methods (“a form of low
intensity conflict, crime, and activism waged by actors using social
networking services”
according to Wikipedia) on the public (targeting Euro-Americans) that
will instill hatred toward the
democratically elected Bashar
al-Assad.
“It’s
past time for President Obama to present a plan for dealing with the
humanitarian crisis in Syria.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Today
we remember the more than 1,300 who lost their lives in the Ghouta
chemical weapons attacks. Let’s also remember those +150,000 who
face torture and death while being detained.” — Purpose Inc.
Marketing Firm
Let’s
not mention Guantanamo Bay, AbuGhraib
and a mile long list of the Obama administration’s involvement in
torture, shall we? Syria certainly demonstrates that the first
casualty of war (in this case a destabilization effort) is truth. The
following excerpt is from the articleFoley
& Sotloff’s Reporting Show Why the US Should Stop Its
Proxy War on Syria, which
lays bare that “both journalists documented the reality
of Free Syria Army”:
“While
in Turkey Sotloff broadcast news of Syrian rebels being found and
arrested with chemical weapon Sarin gas. He used Twitter to
send out the Turkish news report. That was in May, three months
before the August 21 2013 chemical weapons deaths in outer Damascus.
The Syrian rebels were arrested by Turkish police but quickly
released, giving evidence to claims of Turkish government support for
Nusra. Sotloff was puzzled why the mainstream media was not giving
this event coverage.”
“This
Thursday marks the one year anniversary of the chemical weapons
attack that took the lives of over 1,000 Syrians. Since then tens of
thousands more have been killed by different methods. Starvation is
one. But the
international media and world leaders still haven’t come together
to put an end to it.”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Above
image: Another call for “world
leaders” to “come together to put an end to it.” Yet
while Purpose may cry crocodile tears over the starvation of Syrians,
Avaaz has asked for tough
sanctions against
Syria. Purpose and Avaaz want to “have their cake and eat it too”
– while Syrian lives are destroyed by the oligarchs that both
Purpose and Avaaz serve.
The
following video highlights human rights investigator and
award-winning journalist, Keith Harmon Snow, detailing the corrupt
NGOs and their portrayal of Africa in order to illicit funds. Snow
must be considered one of our finest Western reporters for obtaining
true independent, grassroots news from the continent of Africa.
Within the lecture, Snow discusses the psyops/propaganda
strategically orchestrated behind the “Save Darfur”
campaigns/movements which, in 2004, began to saturate the populace.
At the helm of this “movement” was “The Center for American
Progress.”
The
Center for American Progress is closely connected with the same
players that founded and financed Avaaz. Today, with Avaaz at the
forefront, the non-profit industrial complex has been appointed
trusted messenger of a grotesque and disturbing ideology; nothing
less than a complete reflection and validation of the U.S.
administration’s rhetoric intended to justify the annihilation and
occupation of sovereign states under the false pretense of
“humanitarian intervention” and “responsibility to protect.”
[7]
“The
Syrian government has been dropping ‘barrel bombs’ on civilian
areas despite
a UN order to stop, targeting
schools and hospitals. Those
too poor to flee their homes can only hope that if the bomb drops,
the White Helmets will be there to help get them out.…
Let’s tell the world about the White Helmets and help get them the
support they need.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Know
multiple languages? We
need you! Help us get as many eyeballs on the Miracle Baby video by
translating the subtitles into as many languages
possible here: http://bit.ly/1tKSmrz”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
Firms
and agencies such as Purpose write and develop the scripts and design
the sets. They bring the stories to life, strategically exploit and
manipulate our emotions, ultimately ensuring we come to accept and
partake in their politically acceptable means of discourse –
discourse sanctioned (and financed) by the empire.
“Syrians
welcome Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into their country with warm meals,
giving them their clothes and in some cases opening up their homes.”
– Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
above quote is representative of perhaps one too many spin doctors,
for who is allowing Iraq’s Yazidi refugees into Syria, if not the
Assad government? Indeed, Assad’s government has accepted more
refugees per capita than any other country in the Middle East.
“In
the wake of Robin Williams’ death, the people of Idlib remember the
actor/comedian with a quote on freedom.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing
Firm
This
image takes absurdity to a new level. Recap: In the midst of being
bombed, starved, and rained on by chemical weapons, Syrians take time
to pay homage to an American actor/comedian (because the love of the
America that is destroying the Middle East is so great), by quoting a
line from a genie in a bottle from a scene in an animated Disney
movie and creating a banner in the English language.
“Understand what
this infographic says,
and you’ll understand why The Syria Campaign exists. And why you
and your friends need to join. http://bit.ly/VlYOsi”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
In
the infographic above, Purpose deliberately keeps the stats limited
to 2014. Otherwise they would have to visualize the millions of Iraqi
citizens who have been murdered due to the U.S. illegal war and
occupation in Iraq. Further, Purpose gives no attention to the deaths
in Ukraine, Honduras, Libya, Haiti, Congo (millions) and all of the
other countries being decimated by Imperialism and foreign
interference.
“Tell
Obama we need a
plan set forth to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in
Syria. bit.ly/1nITTtO”
— Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
The
message is clear. Purpose wants the green light for military
intervention in Syria, well-cloaked under the guise of
humanitarianism – an oxymoron if there ever was one.
“How
were you to know you were approving posts from one of the world’s
most violent dictators? A man who’s ordered the dropping of bombs
on hospitals and primary schools?” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“Syrian
dictator Bashar Assad has been re-elected and he can thank Facebook
for being a propaganda platform.” — Purpose Inc. Marketing Firm
“It
is critical to note that the imperialist powers (inclusive of the UN)
do not criticize or demonize or withdraw their support from such
leaders on any ethical or moral ground. Denunciation of state leaders
and emotive language is merely theatre. Rather, the imperialist
states strategically set out to destroy any state leader that is
unwilling to be controlled by US interests and foreign policy. A case
in point is unwavering support of the Saudi royal family responsible
for atrocious human rights violations to which the imperialist
countries turn a blind eye.” (from Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part
I, Section I)
The
Behavioural Change Dream Team:
·
Full profile of Jeremy Heimans: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
·
Full profile of David Madden: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section II [link]
·
Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism,
Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II,
Section III [link]
Further
reading on behavioural change: Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of
Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War
| Part II, Section II [link]
Consider
that the colour of the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya (from
1977 to 2011; The Great
Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
was pure green in colour. Unlike the one featured in the Avaaz
campaign. The green colour traditionally symbolizes Islam. In Libya,
green was also a colour traditionally used to represent
the Tripolitania region
(commonly referred to as Tripoli) that NATO forces fought to seize.
The iconic green flag was chosen by Libyan leader/brother Muammar
Gaddafi to symbolize his political philosophy (after his
revolutionary Green
Book).
On 10 March 2011, France was the first state to recognize the council
as the official government of Libya, as well as the first to allow
the Libyan embassy staff to raise the red, black, green and white
flag that would replace the green flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya. On
21 March, the “new” flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of
Libya to the United Nations and appeared on their official website …
this flag, which reigned prior to the Libyan Jamahiriya, is now the
only flag used by the United Nations to represent Libya. According to
the following UN statement: “Following the adoption by the General
Assembly of resolution 66/1, the Permanent Mission of Libya to the
United Nations formally notified the United Nations of a Declaration
by the National Transitional Council of 3 August 2011 changing the
official name of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya to “Libya” as well as
a decision to change Libya’s national flag to the original.”
[Wikipedia]
On
August 24, 2011 it is reported by
yet another mouthpiece for empire that:
“As
Libyan rebels take over, embassies worldwide have been replacing the
old Libyan flag with a new one…. But
starting in February, a new flag – red, black, and green with a
white star and crescent in the center – has been hoisted at Libyan
embassies around the world, from
Switzerland to Bangladesh.
It is the same flag being flown by the jubilant rebels themselves as
they descend on Tripoli.”
In
the article, the words “U.S. funded mercenaries” have been
replaced with “the jubilant rebels.” It would be well worth
investigating who ordered, manufactured and paid for thousands of
these new flags (prior to or commencing in February of 2011) and
ensured they would replace the national flag of the Libyan Jamahiriya
that flourished from 1977 to 2011.
Further
Reading:
·
The Grotesque and Disturbing Ideology at the Helm of Avaaz, March
7, 2012
·
Sostenere il governo USA senza saperlo: il grave esempio di
“Avaaz,” March
8, 2012
·
SPEAKING TRUTH: A Profound Message to Avaaz from Poet Gabriel
Impaglione of Argentina, March
12, 2012
·
Argentine Journalist Stella Calloni Denounces Avaaz | Latin American
Unions Follow Her Lead, March
12, 2012
·
Avaaz: Empire Propaganda Mill Masquerading as Grassroots
Activism, June
9, 2012
·
Avaaz’s War on Syria: Soros Sponsored Sorrow Pleads for Foreign
Intervention, June
14, 2012
·
Rio Summit “Good Versus Evil” Advert Displays Blatant Racism and
Imperialism at Core of Avaaz, June
22, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section I, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section II, Sept
24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part I, Section III, Sept
24, 2012
·
Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I, Sept 24, 2012
·
Avaaz: Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy,
Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section II, Nov
1, 2012
·
Welcome to the Brave New World – Brought to You by Avaaz, Sept
13, 2013
[5]
Purpose Action Board of Directors: Jon
Huggett,
founding chair of Social Innovation Exchange, former partner at The
Bridgespan Group and Bain & Company; Rashad
Robinson,
executive director of ColorOfChange.org and former senior director of
media programs at GLAAD; Brett
Solomon,
executive director of Access, former campaigns director at Avaaz,
former executive director of GetUp!; Douglas
Atkin,
director of community at Airbnb, former chief community officer of
Meetup, author of The Culting of Brands; Andre
Banks,
executive director of Purpose Foundation, former strategy director at
Purpose and former deputy director of ColorOfChange.org; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp! [Source]
[6]
Purpose Foundation Board of Directors: Carla
Sutherland,
research scholar at Columbia University’s Gender and Sexuality Law
Center’s Engaging Tradition Project, former program officer at Ford
Foundation and Arcus Foundation; Jeremy
Heimans,
co-founder & CEO of Purpose, co-founder of Avaaz and co-founder
of GetUp!; Michael
Evans,
president of Moynihan Station Development Corporation and former
chief of staff to the Lieutenant Governor of New York State.
[Source]|
Purpose Foundation’s organizational documents and annual reports on
Form 990 can be found here.
[7]
December 29, 2004: “Over two days in early December approximately
three-dozen religious activists met at the Washington office of the
Center for American Progress, a recently formed think tank headed by
former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta. The Res Publica-driven
agenda for the closed-door gathering included sessions on “building
the movement infrastructure” and “objectives, strategies and core
issues.” Res Publica was founded by Tom Perriello, Ricken Patel and
Tom Pravda. Avaaz was founded by Res Publica, MoveOn.org, Executive
Director Ricken Patel, Tom Perriello, Tom Pravda, Eli Pariser (MoveOn
Executive Director), Andrea Woodhouse (consultant to the World Bank)
Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of GetUp! and Purpose), and Australian
entrepreneur David Madden (co-founder of GetUp and Purpose). Avaaz
co-founder Tom Perriello is now President and CEO of Center for
American Progress. Perriello and Patel also co-founded and
co-directed DarfurGenocide.org which officially launched in 2004.
“DarfurGenocide.org is a project of Res Publica, a group of public
sector professionals dedicated to promoting good governance and
virtuous civic cultures.” Today, this organization is now known as
“Darfurian Voices”: “Darfurian Voices is a project of 24 Hours
for Darfur.” The U.S. Department of State and the Open Society
Institute were just two of the organizations funders and
collaborating partners. Other Darfurian Voices partners include
Avaaz, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International
Centre for Transitional Justice, Darfur Rehabilitation Project,
Humanity United, Darfur People’s Association of New York, Genocide
Intervention, Witness, Yale Law School, The Sigrid Rausing Trust and
the Bridgeway Foundation. Despite the carefully crafted language and
images that tug at your emotions, such NGOs were created for and
exist for one primary purpose — to protect and further American
policy and interests, under the guise of philanthropy and
humanitarianism. Of all the listed partners of DarfurGenocide.org,
with exception of one located in London England, all of the entities
involved are American and based on US soil.
CLARIFICATION (August
10, 2018): In an earlier version of this article, a sentence reads
“Avaaz co-founder James Slezak is also identified as a co-founder
and CEO of Purpose at its inception in 2009.” This was intended to
read as it reads now: “Avaaz affiliate James
Slezak is also identified as a co-founder and CEO of Purpose at its
inception in 2009.” The article references the original researched
bio of Slezak: “Full profile of James Slezak: Avaaz: Imperialist
Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted
Facilitators of War | Part II, Section III [link]”.
The original research does not list Slezak as an Avaaz co-founder. We
regret the error was not caught in the editing process. Further
clarification Slezak co-foundered “Win Back Respect” with Avaaz
co-founders Andrea Woodhouse (World Bank), spouse, David Madden
(World Bank) and Jeremy Heimans (co-founder of MoveOn and GetUp!).
Win Back Respect was supported/funded by MoveOn (co-founder of Avaaz)
and Soros Fund Management. Soros Open Society Institute provided
the original seed money for Avaaz. The fifth co-founder of Win Back
Respect was Brian Vogt, Senior Advisor to the Partnership for a
Secure America.
About
the Author
Cory
Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and
environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and
political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides
in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green,
The Art of Annihilation, Political Context, Counterpunch, Canadians
for Action on Climate Change and Countercurrents.
====================================
Opvallend de gelijkenis met Pax Christie, of zoals het tegenwoordig wordt genoemd: ‘PAX’. Ook deze organisatie die zogenaamd de wereldvrede wil bevorderen, heeft meermaals opgeroepen tot oorlog, dit nam een aanvang onder voorzitterschap van oorlogshitser Mient Jan Faber…….
Gisteren kreeg de vrouw van Erdogan een mensenrechtenprijs, Erdogan, je weet wel de
Turkse autocratische president, tevens oorlogsmisdadiger en grootschender van
mensenrechten…… Erdogan is vervolgens ook nog eens verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog die het Turkse leger in eigen land voert tegen de Koerdische bevolking……
Emine Erdogan kreeg de prijs voor de opvang door Turkije van 3,5 miljoen Syriërs…… Een deal die het bewind Erdogan met de EU sloot en waarvoor Turkije 6 miljard dollar kreeg….. In een paar modelkampen worden EU politici, mensenrechtenorganisaties en ‘journalisten’ rondgeleid, terwijl het gros van de vluchtelingen, inclusief hun kinderen worden opgesloten in provisorische gevangenissen waar het aan van alles ontbreekt…… Een overduidelijke schending van het VN vluchtelingenverdrag…….
Voorts heeft Turkije tienduizenden vluchtelingen teruggestuurd, rechtstreeks het oorlogsgebied in….. Verder schieten Turkse grenswachten en militairen op vluchtelingen die de grens met Turkije naderen, dit om ze af te schrikken nog verder te gaan……
Daarnaast heeft de bloedige agressie van Turkije tegen Koerden in Syrië en Irak, ervoor gezorgd dat deze mensen dat geweld ontvluchtten, ofwel Turkije heeft zelf ook vluchtelingenstromen opgang gebracht…….
Het lijkt gvd wel een herhaling van het schandaal waarbij het bloedige reli-fascistische Saoedi-Arabië tot voorzitter werd benoemd van de VN Mensenrechtenorganisatie UNHRC, terwijl het al bezig was met een genocide op de sjiitische bevolking in buurland Jemen…….. (een genocide die nog steeds voortduurt en waar de wereld niets aan wenst te doen….)
De
prijs werd toegekend door het ‘World Human Forum’ (WHF), en bij de
uitreiking van de prijs was één van de sprekers Tony Blair, gewezen oorlogsmisdadiger en
mensenrechtenschender….. Het panel van
WHF dat de prijs toekende, werd geleid door Jack Straw, de voormalig
minister van BuZa onder Blair en als zodanig ook aan te merken als
oorlogsmisdadiger en schender van mensenrechten…….
Je
zou bijna denken dat WHF werd opgericht door Blair en Straw…….
De
ophef over de toekenning van de prijs onder o.a. de ‘Turkse’ Koerden
is groot. In het hieronder opgenomen artikel van Emily Apple, eerder
gepubliceerd op The Canary, reacties uit Turkije op de
toekenning van de prijs.
These
were the scenes in Turkey as Erdoğan’s wife got a ‘humanitarian’
award in London
Emine
Erdoğan was given the
award for her “key role in helping women and refugees, especially
offering shelter to over 3.5 million who had to flee Syria”. And
while her work must be seen separately from whatever her husband
does, she apparently accepted
the award:
on
behalf of the generous Turkish people, whose hearts ache with a
crying child, who see strangers as guests from God.
So
it’s a shame her heart wasn’t aching when Turkish police fired
water cannon and tear gas at elected politicians in Amed (Diyarbakır)
on the same day.
WHF:
not so humanitarian
To
be fair, it seems the WHF itself is not so humanitarian.
Because alleged war
criminal Tony
Blair is one of
the speakers.
And former foreign secretary Jack Straw reportedly led
the awards panel:
First lady selected as ‘Changemaker’ for inspiring humanitarian work
First lady Emine Erdoğan was chosen as a ‘Changemaker’ by the World Humanitarian Forum for her inspiring work and humanitarian efforts. She will join the forum in London today for a speech, along…
Is there anything more corrupted in this world than Jack Straw – who took the UK into the Iraq War and lied about knowing about extraordinary rendition – giving an award to the wife of Turkish dictator Erdogan, and lecturing us about “humanitarianism”?!
First lady selected as ‘Changemaker’ for inspiring humanitarian work
First lady Emine Erdoğan was chosen as a ‘Changemaker’ by the World Humanitarian Forum for her inspiring work and humanitarian efforts. She will join the forum in London today for a speech, along…
The “World Humanitarian Forum” (@WHForumLondon) founded by Tony and Cherie Blair is giving an award to the wife of Turkey’s authoritarian President, who invaded Afrin last year killing thousands of Kurds and Yazidi refugees, and has destroyed Kurdish towns in southern Turkey pic.twitter.com/E5mWOJoUAU
The “World Humanitarian Forum” (@WHForumLondon) founded by Tony and Cherie Blair is giving an award to the wife of Turkey’s authoritarian President, who invaded Afrin last year killing thousands of Kurds and Yazidi refugees, and has destroyed Kurdish towns in southern Turkey
Jack Straw, Tony and Cherie Blair give a “humanitarian” award to the wife of a fascist leader who has politically repressed @UKLabour‘s sister party HDP, locked up dozens of their elected MPs & mayors and thousands of activists, and colluded in the murder of their supporters pic.twitter.com/1mFncs3DSR
Despite winning the
local elections in many Kurdish-majority areas in southeastern
Turkey, some left-wing HDP (Peoples’
Democratic Party) mayors have not been allowed to
take office. People gathered in Amed to protest this decision. And
they were met with tear gas and water canons:
Today in #Amed: Turkish police attacked with tear gas and water cannons a group of Kurds who were protesting against the YSK decision that not allows mayors to take office who were fired due to an emergency decree
HDP press conference in Koşuyolu Park, Bağlar in protest at isolation of Abdullah Öcalan & YSK preventing HDP from taking office in places they won on March 31 local elections. Police blocked the park with armored vehicles & attacked them. Remziye Tosun was injured & hospitalised
Even
if Emine Erdoğan had undertaken the most amazing humanitarian work
the world had ever seen, the reality is that this award legitimises
the actions of the Turkish state. And there is nothing humanitarian
about the way the Turkish state treats its Kurdish communities.
But
then again, humanitarian is hardly a word any of us would associate
with Blair and Straw in the first place.
BBC: terreuraanslag Aleppo werk van anti-regeringsrebellen
Vannacht op BBC World Service radionieuws van 1.30 u. het bericht dat er in Aleppo een aanslag werd gepleegd, die aan meerdere mensen het leven heeft gekost.
De presentator stelde dat de Syrische regering spreekt van een aanslag gepleegd door terroristen, waaraan ze toe durfde te voegen: “Meaning anti government rebels…”
Ondanks dat er al sprake was van meerdere doden, stelt de nieuwsredactie van de BBC ‘doodleuk’ dat de terroristen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor een aanslag, ‘rebellen’ zijn en geen terroristen……..
Hoeveel bewijs wil je nog dat de BBC berichtgeving totaal afhankelijk is en dat het dodelijke buitenlandbeleid van Groot-Brittannië (zie het Midden-Oosten) met grote graagte wordt uitgedragen als heilzaam, waarbij men terroristen zelfs aanduidt als rebellen…….
Intussen zijn gisteren in Aleppo bij meerdere raketaanvallen van zogenaamde gematigde rebellen, 11 mensen om het leven gekomen en zijn er nog eens 11 burgers (zwaar) gewond geraakt…… Onder andere een markt werd geraakt door een raket (gegarandeerd van VS makelij)…… Kon tot dit moment, 14.45 u., niets vinden over deze aanslag in de Nederlandse media…..
Ook dat laatste kan je zien als een vorm van manipulatie, immers bij het wel melden van deze vreselijke misdaden zou men de schuld moeten geven aan anti-Assad terreurgroepen, die in het verleden ook door Nederland werden gesteund (als ‘gematigde rebellen), zoals vorig jaar middels onderzoek werd aangetoond…… Zoals je wellicht wel weet, is er voor de reguliere westerse media maar één schuldige partij in Syrië en dat is de democratisch gekozen regering Assad…….
Kijk als het reguliere Syrische leger een raket had afgeschoten waardoor 2 burgers waren omgekomen, was het internationaal weer groot nieuws geweest waarover men moord en brand had geschreeuwd, zelfs als er voor die claim geen flinter aan bewijs werd geleverd……
Voor meer berichten over Aleppo en de strijd die daar werd gevoerd, klik op het label met die naam. Let
wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens
herhaald, dan onder dat laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op dat label klikken, enz. enz.
De Israëlische brigadegeneraal Aryeh Eldad heeft laten weten
dat Israël de regie voerde over de staatsgreep van 2013 in Egypte….. Een staatsgreep tegen
de Egyptische president Mohammed Morsi, de kandidaat van de Moslim Broederschap, Morsi de eerste
democratisch gekozen president van Egypte…… Voor hem in de plaats werd oud-generaal al-Sisi met hulp van de VS en Israël gelanceerd als nieuwe ‘president’ (dictator), al-Sisis is een oud-aanhanger van de na de ‘Arabische Lente’ afgezette dictator Mubarak……
Eldad is
er verdomd nog trots op ook, hij vertelde e.e.a. in dagblad Maariv…. Israël was zogenaamd bang dat Morsi het vredesverdrag met Israël zou
opzeggen en troepen zou sturen naar de grens met Israël…… ha! ha!
ha! ha! ha! Alsof het Israëlische leger ook maar iets te vrezen heeft
van de Egyptische legermacht…….
Het gaat
Israël dan ook alleen maar om de macht in het Midden-Oosten, niet
voor niets dat Israël Syrië wil opsplitsen, een idee dat zelfs wortel
heeft geschoten in Washington…… Al is het plantje niet echt sterk, echter
één grote false flag operatie die de VS in de schoenen van Assad
schuift en je hebt de poppen weer aan het dansen in Syrië……
De aanloop naar de coup in Egypte: in augustus 2012 stuurde de regering Morsi extra troepen
naar de Sinaï, dit vanwege terroristische aanslagen. Daarop bracht
Israël de ontzettend smerige leugen dat Morsi en daarmee Egypte het
vredesverdrag met Israël zou hebben geschonden, juist door die extra
troepen die zogezegd naar de Sinaï gingen…….
Deze gang van zaken lijkt sterk op een false flag operatie, daar ging ook de regering Morsi vanuit en beschuldigde Israël (de Mossad) daadwerkelijk van de terroristische
aanslagen in de Sinaï…… Je zou denken een false flag operatie uit de koker van de VS, daar die dit middel
veelvuldig gebruikt, alvorens bijvoorbeeld een land aan te vallen,
echter ook Israël heeft ervaring met dit soort operaties en dat gaat
behoorlijk lang terug……. (neem de Zesdaagse Oorlog van Israël tegen haar buurlanden)
De
psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Eldad had zelfs het lef te zeggen
dat Israël een heilige oorlog voert tegen Palestijnen en tegen de arabische
landen…. Wat is er heilig aan bloedbaden aanrichten onder een
bevolkingsgroep als de Palestijnen, die qua bewapening niet eens in
de schaduw kunnen staan van het moderne Israëlische leger….??
Beste bezoeker nog even dit: kritiek leveren op het bloedige fascistische Israëlische regime heeft niets maar dan ook helemaal niets met antisemitisme te maken!! (zie wat dat betreft ook de antisemitische heksenjacht op Labourleider Corbyn en veel van zijn partijleden…..)
Lees in
het hieronder opgenomen artikel nog meer smerige praktijken en leugens van de
(nu officieel) fascistische apartheidsstaat Israël, geschreven door
Whitney Webb, eerder gepubliceerd op MintPress News en door mij
overgenomen van Anti-Media:
IDF
General: Israel Behind Coup That Installed Al-Sisi Dictatorship in
Egypt
Al-Sisi’s
government, widely considered a military dictatorship despite a pale
sheen of democracy, has forged increasingly close ties with Israel
ever since he came to power in the 2013 coup.
(MPN) — Brigadier
General Aryeh Eldad of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has claimed
that Israel was behind the 2013 military coup that ousted Mohammed
Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president. Eldad made
the claim in an article published in
the Israeli newspaper Maariv.
In
the article, Eldad asserted:
“The
outbreak of the January revolution coincided with the Israeli
security assessment that President-elect Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim
Brotherhood man, intended to cancel the peace agreement with Israel
and send more Egyptian military forces to the Sinai Peninsula.”
(foto van MintPress News)
Just
a few months into Morsi’s presidency, in August 2012, Israel had
publicly accused Morsi
of violating the peace treaty with Israel after Egypt responded to
terrorist attacks in the Sinai by sending an increased number of
troops. Morsi’s government accused Israel’s
Mossad of having been behind the attacks in order to destabilize his
government amid efforts to improve Egypt’s relations with Gaza.
Hamas, which has governed the Gaza Strip since 2007, as well as
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, also blamed Mossad for the attacks, a charge
Israel denied.
Eldad
then claimed that at this stage:
“Israel
was quick and willing to activate its diplomatic tools, and perhaps
even greater means, to bring Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power in Egypt,
and convince the then-U.S. administration under President Barack
Obama not to oppose this move.”
Events
at the time support Eldad’s claim as, shortly after the coup,
Israel quickly launched diplomatic missions in the U.S. and several
European countries to push for support of Egypt’s new political
reality and to prevent a diplomatic blockade on Cairo following the
military coup.
Many
analysts have
noted that
under Al-Sisi, Egypt-Israel relations have grown to unprecedented
levels through policies often driven by Al-Sisi himself.
Why Israel
Wanted Morsi Out
While
Eldad cited concerns over a rupture of the Israel-Egypt peace
agreement as having motivated Israel’s role in the 2013 coup, a
more likely reason was related to Morsi’s relationship with Hamas
and efforts to normalize relations with Gaza.
Notably,
after Al-Sisi came to power, the Rafah crossing between Gaza and
Egypt and tunnels between Gaza and Egypt were abruptly
closed.
In addition, soon after the coup, “army-instigated anti-Palestinian
propaganda” was “rampant” throughout Cairo and Palestinians
that had flown into the Cairo airport were quickly deported back to
the countries they had recently arrived from, according to The
Guardian. In
contrast, while Morsi did not end the blockade of Gaza — in force
since 2007 — he had
improved conditions
for Palestinians living in the embattled enclave compared to those
under his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Former
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, wearing a red jumpsuit that
designates he has been sentenced to death, raises his hands inside a
defendants cage in a makeshift courtroom at the national police
academy, in an eastern suburb of Cairo, Egypt, June 18, 2016. Amr
Nabil | AP
Eldad,
in his article, hinted that the coup was related to a “religious
war” that Israel was and still is fighting against Palestine and
Arab majority nations, stating:
“Contrary
to all Israeli expectations, the Camp David agreement, which was made
40 years ago, has lasted for many decades despite the lack of real
peace between us and the Egyptians, and despite the failure to
resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, because this conflict is
not just geopolitical. We are rather having a religious war with the
Palestinians and Arabs.”
Though
Eldad’s recent statements make the connection between Morsi’s
relationship with Hamas and Israeli involvement in the 2013 coup more
clear, it had long been suspected. An Egyptian army
general told BBC soon
after the coup that Morsi’s alleged “collaboration” and good
relations with Hamas were a driving factor behind the coup.
In
a telling incident, Morsi was later
charged with
terrorism for allegedly conspiring with Hamas, Hezbollah, and
elements of the Iranian military to “destabilize” Egypt.
Morsi has
been imprisoned for
years, many of them spent in solitary confinement, and a U.K. panel
of legal experts asserted last year that harsh prison conditions will
likely lead to his “premature death.” Prior
to being charged for “collaborating” with Hamas, Morsi had
publicly praised Palestinian
“resistance” in Gaza. Another likely factor for Israel’s
decision to place Al-Sisi in power was Morsi’s efforts to normalize
relations with
Iran.
The
accusations against Morsi regarding alleged collaboration with
Hezbollah and Iran, both adversaries of Israel, seemed unusual to
some, given that Morsi had, during his time in office and during the
alleged “conspiracy,” cut
ties with
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and supported Assad’s overthrow by
opposition forces. Hezbollah and Iran, in contrast, supported Assad
and fought alongside the Syrian Army. Notably, Israel served as one
of the “masterminds” behind
the Syrian conflict, which Morsi supported. Hamas, like Morsi’s
government, had
also backed efforts
to oust Assad at the time, albeit less publicly.
Notably,
Al-Sisi’s government, widely considered a military dictatorship
despite a pale
sheen of
democracy, has forged increasingly close ties with Israel ever since
he came to power in the 2013 coup. This is unsurprising given Eldad’s
recent claim that Israel had orchestrated the coup in order to put
Al-Sisi in power. During his time in control of the country, Israel
and Egypt began “secretly”
coordinating military
actions in Egypt, a covert alliance that Al-Sisi had denied until
this January, when he admitted far-reaching
coordination between the IDF and the Egyptian military.
Al-Sisi’s
efforts to bring Egypt closer to Israel lack popular support, as most
trade unions and political parties oppose normalizing relations with
Israel. However, Al-Sisi — known for his brutal
repression of
protests, journalism and any form of dissent — has continued to
push forward in his efforts to forge
closer ties with
Israel, in apparent service to the country largely responsible for
his rise to power.
