‘Call of
Duty: Modern Warfare’, een ‘videospel’ over oorlogsvoering heeft een nieuwe aflevering, waarin o.a ‘het heroïsche werk’ van de White Helmets wordt weergegeven, een
nieuwe poging om Assad en zijn regering te demoniseren, niet voor
niets ook dat GB onlangs poogde een gifgasaanval in de schoenen van
Assad te schuiven, de zoveelste poging wel te verstaan……*
De schrijver van dit spel, Taylor Kurosaki heeft zijn best gedaan om de White Helmets te portretteren
als een organisatie die goed werk verricht in Syrië en is bedoeld om nog meer
steun te genereren voor deze organisatie…..
De White Helmets, een organisatie die in werkelijkheid overduidelijk is gerelateerd aan terreurgroepen, groepen die het westen
afschildert als gematigde rebellen, terwijl
het moordende, verkrachtende en martelende psychopaten zijn, die bovendien met medeweten van het westen over gifgassen als chlorine en sarin beschikken…… Psychopaten die o.a. met Nederlands belastinggeld van jou en mij werden gesteund……
De White Helmets zijn meermaals betrapt in het bijstaan van de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen en het zelf uitoefenen van terreur……..
De White Helmets werd door een Britse ex-officier en particuliere
‘militaire aannemer’ op poten gezet. Deze figuur, James Le Mesurier,
wilde daarmee het debat over Syrië sturen in de richting van het
afzetten van Assad. ‘Missie geslaagd’, grootschalige terreur met als ‘offer’ meer dan 500.000 vermoorde Syriërs, echter het afzetten van
Assad wilde maar niet lukken…..
Lees het
volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone en zie de begeleidende
video’s. Het artikel werd door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
New
‘Call Of Duty’ Encourages Support for Syria’s White Helmets
(CJ Opinion) — The official
trailer for
the latest Call
of Duty was
released a few days ago, and it features the Syria narrative
management operation known as the White Helmets depicted in heroic
roles. Characters wearing the organization’s signature headgear are
seen clearing rubble in part
of the trailer for Call
of Duty: Modern Warfare.
To
give you an idea how popular the CoD franchise is, as of this writing
the official Youtube version of the trailer has 27 million views.
To
be clear, the characters in the game are most certainly intended to
resemble the White Helmets of Syria, and their presence there is most
certainly intended to increase support for and interest in that
group. How do I know? Its game writer has explicitly said so.
“Kurosaki
says he wants ‘Call of Duty’ to be spoken of as on par with the
best war films, and he hopes ‘Modern Warfare’ will inspire fans
to check out the harrowing and eye-opening documentaries ‘The White
Helmets’ or ‘Last Man in Aleppo,” the LA
Times reports.
The
White Helmets are what legendary journalist John Pilger describes as
“a
complete propaganda construct“,
an operation designed by former British army officer and private
military contractor James Le
Mesurier to
manipulate the narrative about what’s going on in Syria. This
excellent half-hour mini-documentary by
James Corbett clearly outlines the way the operation is used to
create footage implicating the Assad government in the slaughter of
civilians via chemical weapons attacks and other camera-friendly war
crimes, the mountain of evidence of their ties to literal terrorist
organizations in Syria, and the western funding and media
manipulations that have been pouring into elevating the outfit.
It’s
a brilliant invention, really. Have a purportedly neutral group
filming on the ground in “rebel”-held areas (where the White
Helmets exclusively operate), and you can ensure an endless supply of
footage which can be used to paint a longtime
western target for regime change as
a barbarian who needs to be ousted. And indeed, the extremist
jihadist factions which overran Syria with the
backingof the
US and its
allies nearly
succeeded in toppling Assad prior
to Russia’s intervention,
and we may be certain that the agenda to control who rules over the
geostrategically crucial region remains as intact as ever.
The
pro-White Helmets propaganda is not Call
of Duty‘s
first foray into US military narrative management. As noted
by journalist Max Blumenthal in
April, an earlier CoD game depicted the assassination of the leader
of Venezuela and, bizarrely, attacking Venezuela’s hydroelectric
dam and energy grid with the goal of causing power outages like the
ones the nation has been struggling with. Citing public information,
Blumenthal documents how such games have been “developed with
substantial input from America’s military intelligence apparatus”,
as well as the CoD designer’s involvement with the Pentagon and the
NATO narrative management firm the Atlantic Council.
People
playing these games, mostly impressionable young men, are manipulated
into desiring to accomplish the goals that are laid out for them in
order to win, all of which involve killing and many of which happen
to align with preexisting US military agendas. They are desensitized
to mass military violence, trained to support and identify with US
military campaigns, and taught that being a member of the military
might just be a fun and noble way to spend one’s future.
Propaganda
in video games doesn’t get the kind of pushback you see against
propaganda in news media and movies, largely because the content in
the games is generally only viewed individually by those who are
engrossed in playing them. It’s this whole closed-off world that is
manipulating minds with very little scrutiny compared to other forms
of media, which is troubling, because the video game industry is so
vast that for many years its earnings have
eclipsed those of the movie and music industries combined.
This
needs more attention. The sane, healthy response to learning
that one’s government and its allies were arming and training
terrorist groups in Syria would have been screaming, earth-shaking
rage for months, accompanied by a demand for an unequivocal apology,
immediate repair of all damage done, and war crimes tribunals for
everyone who was involved. Instead, the news passed by with barely a
whisper, and now when you see Syria mentioned it’s generally to
condemn its president for fighting back against that unforgivably
depraved act of regime change interventionism. This has been
happening because people have been propagandized. Nothing will change
until we find a way to help human minds unplug from the narrative
control matrix and awaken
to what’s really going on.
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……
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.
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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…….
Op deze
plek heb ik al vaak over terreurorganisatie White Helmets geschreven,
maar niets was gruwelijker dan de zaken uit het hieronder opgenomen
artikel……
Zelfs in
de VN is men ervan overtuigd dat de White Helmets een
terreurorganisatie is (al zullen de VS, Saoedi-Arabië, andere
arabische staten en Israël dat ontkennen), in tegenstelling tot de
valse beelden van de White Helmets als hulpverleningsorganisatie, hier een relaas met beelden die
er bepaald niet om liegen, om het nog maar voorzichtig uit te
drukken…… Dan te bedenken dat Nederland ook deze
terreurorganisatie heeft gesteund (met ons belastinggeld…)…….
Lees het
volgende verhaal en geeft het door, het masker van de White Helmets
dient volledig vernietigd te worden, waarna deze organisatie in de hele westerse wereld eindelijk als de terreurorganisatie kan worden gezien, die het in werkelijkheid is!
Het
volgende artikel van Mark Taliano, werd eerder gepubliceerd op Global Research:
Video:
Who Are the White Helmets? Fake News and Staged Rescues
Canada’s
beloved “humanitarian heroes”, the White Helmets.
Maxim
Grigoriev of
the “Foundation for the Study of Democracy”, discussed this and
other findings gleaned from interviews with numerous individuals,
including former terrorists, in Syria, during a video-taped
presentation entitled, “Roundtable Discussion on the Middle East
Issues: Activities of the White Helmets Organization in Syria”
under UN auspices.
One
interview subject, Omar
Al-Mustafa —
who wanted to be a White Helmet but wasn’t accepted because he
wasn’t al Nusra Front (al Qaeda) — recounted the following:
“People
evacuated by the White Helmets often did not come back alive.
For example, a person receives a minor injury, is rescued, evacuated,
and then brought back with their stomach cut open and with their
internal organs missing. I heard that a little girl was
injured. They took her to Turkey and brought back in three
days, dead and with no internal organs. People were scared.
When someone got injured, they were afraid to call the White Helmets
and ask for help.”
Grigoriev’s
findings, presented at the U.N, are consistent with previous on-the
ground investigations, including those of pioneering investigative
journalist Vanessa
Beeley (also
featured in the Roundtable presentation), and Prof.
Tim Anderson.
In
October, 2017, locals told Prof.
Tim Andersonthat
the building pictured below had been used for organ trafficking.
Additionally,
the Director-General of Syria’s Coroner’s Office, Houssein
Noufel, reported in November, 2016, that body organs from 15,000
Syrians were sold over the course of six years. [1]
A
litany of crimes committed by the White Helmets is documented in the
video below.
Equally
disturbing, however, is that Western agencies, including Amnesty
International, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and Western
media, use the White Helmets as sources for their stories.
A
U.K document entitled, “Syria Resilience CSSF Programme Study”
states, in reference to the White Helmets, which it names Syrian
Civil Defence (SCD), amply documented, the “news” that the White
Helmets report to Amnesty, SOHR, and myriad government sources,
consists of fake news and staged rescues. Consider these screen grabs
from the above video on UNWeb TV:
“In
addition to service delivery, SCD provide an invaluable reporting and
advocacy role, being nominated again this year for the Nobel Peace
Prize. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have stated that
SCD are their most routinely reliable source for reporting.
Throughout the bombardment by Russia since September 2015, SCD has
provided essential corroboration that strikes were not targeting
Da’esh but moderate opposition entities. This has provided
confidence to statements made by UK and other international leaders
made in condemnation of Russian actions.”
Amply
documented, the “news” that the White Helmets report to Amnesty,
SOHR, and myriad government sources, consists of fake news and staged
rescues. Consider these screen grabs from the above video on UN Web
TV:
Colonial
media uses terrorist-embedded sources for their criminal
disinformation campaigns, and these campaigns amount to (criminal)
war propaganda.
Testimonies
such as those above provide evidence-based counter-narratives which
Western governments and their agencies have disappeared for years.
*
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Taliano is
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(CRG) and the author of Voices
from Syria,
Global Research Publishers, 2017.
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Mark Taliano’s Book “Voices
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Mark
Taliano combines
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informed and well-documented analysis that refutes the
mainstream media narratives on Syria
Als je ondanks alle bewijzen nog steeds niet overtuigd was dat de White Helmets een
terreurorganisatie is, zal
het hieronder opgenomen artikel je hopelijk op andere gedachten brengen, vooral de foto’s van de
Facebook accounts van een dozijn leden van die organisatie zijn tekenend……
Hoe is
het mogelijk dat westerse regeringen waaronder Nederland deze
overduidelijke terreurgroep steunt? Wel simpel: men wil Assad
weghebben en daarvoor is alles geoorloofd, zelfs oorlogvoeren in dat
land zonder een resolutie daartoe…… Gevolg van de illegale oorlog
tegen het Syrische volk: meer dan 500.000 doden, een land
dat voor een groot deel in puin ligt, Syrië een land waar voorheen de
verschillende geloven vreedzaam naast elkaar leefden…… Het is maar de
vraag of dat laatste, het in vrede naast elkaar leven van diverse religies, in de toekomst weer mogelijk zal zijn, al ziet het er
wat dat betreft gunstig uit, bijvoorbeeld in steden als Aleppo, die door het reguliere Syrische leger en de Russen werden bevrijd.
Gezien
het voorgaande is er dan ook maar één conclusie te trekken: de VS
met behulp van haar oorlogshond de NAVO hebben illegaal een land
verwoest, een vreselijke massamoord aangericht en de kiem gelegd voor
ellende in de toekomst……..
De VS is
alweer de grote schuldige, al vanaf 2006 was dit gestolen land bezig
met de voorbereiding van een opstand, die tot een staatsgreep tegen
Assad moest leiden, maar gelukkig is het de VS in dit geval niet
gelukt! (al heeft e.e.a. een vreselijke tol geëist….)
Bijzonder in deze: de foto’s die bewijzen dat de White Helmets een terreurgroep is, werden en worden op Facebook geplaatst, hetzelfde Facebook dat mensen censureert die o.a. de waarheid vertellen over Syrië, waar Facebook dat wegzet als ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws), terwijl propaganda voor een terreurgroep als White Helmets geen probleem is voor datzelfde Facebook, propaganda ofwel leugens……
Hier een artikel van Clarity of Signal (Exposing Geopolitical Madness) met een groot aantal foto’s die het ware gezicht tonen van de White Helmets:
“Now
You See Me” – Over 100 White Helmet Self-Posted Facebook Images
Expose Fake Humanitarian Group as FSA Terrorists Linked with Al-Qaeda
This
post will present over 100 screen-captured Facebook images that have
been cached from the Facebook accounts of one dozen White Helmet
members and will highlight the fact that these White Helmets post
images to their own Facebook accounts that are in support of the FSA
and various designated terrorist groups, including al-Nusra Front,
Nour al -Zinki (child beheaders), al-Qaeda, and others.
Methodology
This
gathering of images was conducted by utilizing the Facebook “Friends”
feature directly from the account of Majd Khalaf who is one of the
lead propaganda disseminators for the White Helmet group on Twitter.
Each of his Facebook White Helmet ‘friends’ leads to another
‘friend’, and so forth, thus making it quite easy to utilize his
Facebook page as a reference point (hub) and branch out from there
going through hundreds of White Helmets Facebook pages. In this case,
I decided to highlight a dozen accounts to provide an example of
White Helmet terrorist connections. I encourage other researchers to
do the same so that an even larger body of evidence can be
ascertained for future reference. Each image includes the name of the
White Helmet poster in the right hand corner and thus each subsequent
image utilizing the same name shows what that particular White
Helmet/FSA terrorist decided to post up on their page. Thus,
establishing their likes, links, proclivities and admiration for
terrorist related activities. The online addresses of the Facebook
accounts which were examined are included at the bottom of this post
for further reference.
Note
also: Facebook appears to not monitor these terrorist accounts and I
have personally noticed that many atrocities are being uploaded to
these accounts, including beheadings. Proof of such is at the
following CoS link:
Ironically,
people in the US and Europe are being censored by Facebook for
posting news articles that are being designated by Facebook and its
associated ‘fact-checkers’ as ‘fake news’. This blatant
hypocrisy on the part of Facebook is absolutely pathetic, immoral and
disgusting.
These
are the images Facebook and western governments seem to approve of,
and choose not to even investigate…….one has to wonder why.
White
Helmet Exhibit 1 – Madj Khalif – Lead White Helmet propaganda
disseminator on Twitter – his account acted as the hub for this
entire post.
He
is also featured in the Tapestry of Terror White Helmets Exposed
video alongside Saudi cleric leader of al-Nusra Front Abdullah
al-Muhaysini. Video link below: >> althans dat was de bedoeling, YouTube heeft de video verwijderd………. (de waarheid mag immers niet gezien worden door het grote publiek……)
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Dan te bedenken dat een nep-documentaire over de White Helmets een Oscar kreeg………
Vandaag is een delegatie van terreurorganisatie White Helmets in ons land om te bedelen voor nog meer geld…… Onlangs werd al bekend gemaakt dat Nederland meerdere terreurgroepen (zogenaamde gematigde rebellen….) in Syrië van ons belastinggeld voorziet….*
Vanmorgen in Radio1 Journaal (van ‘onafhankelijk zendgemachtigde’ NOS) een propaganda praatje voor de White Helmets, die intussen al 100 keer door de mand zijn gevallen als hulp van terreurgroepen en zelfs meevechten aan de kant van die groepen, dit in aanloop van het bezoek van deze terreurgroep aan ons land……..
Hier een video gebracht door Brasscheck TV over de White Helmets, die een heel ander ‘plaatje’ laat zien van deze zogenaamde humanitaire hulpverleners:
Rick Sterling schreef een artikel op ‘Oriental Review‘ over de aanvallen van de reguliere (massa-) media op critici van de White Helmets, kritiek die de wel nadenkende alternatieve media ook in Nederland voor de kiezen kreeg…..
Sterling wijst op een artikel van Janine di Giovani op de NY Reviews of Books getiteld: ‘Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets’. Het artikel is een voorbeeld van hoe de westerse media propaganda maken voor de White Helmets en degenen aanvallen die de o.a. door die media geplugde mythe van de White Helmets bekritiseren………
Zo heeft di Giovanni een grote bek over de echte oorlogscorrespondent Vanessa Beeley, één van de weinigen die wel regelmatig in het strijdgebied van Syrië te vinden was en die uitentreuren heeft geschreven over wat er werkelijk gebeurde in Syrië en zich niet verliet op de rapporten van het Syrische Observatorium voor Mensenrechten (SOHR), geleid door een gewezen misdadiger die zijn terechte straf ontliep door te vluchten en te stellen dat hij een politieke vluchteling was. De informatie van het SOHR kwam en komt voor het overgrote deel van de ‘gematigde rebellen’, die o.a. door Nederland werden gesteund…..
‘Gematigde rebellen’ ofwel moordenaars, verkrachters en martelbeulen, die bovendien met medeweten van de westerse landen in het bezit zijn van de gifgassen die door hen werden gebruikt om vervolgens de schuld in de schoenen van het reguliere Syrische leger werden geschoven……
Je snapt werkelijk niet waar di Giovanni het gore lef vandaan haalt om een uitstekend journalist als Beeley aan te vallen…… (hoewel, dat is onzin, immers di Giovanni huilt gewoon mee in het koor van de ‘massamedia-terreurwolven…’)
Een andere uitstekende journalist moet het ook al ontgelden bij di Giovanni, t.w.: Eva Bartlett, die zelf jaren in het Midden-Oosten heeft gewoond en goed is ingevoerd over de situatie in o.a. Syrië (en niet op grond van leugens die terreurgroepen verspreiden)…..
Niet één keer gaat di Giovanni in op artikelen die deze twee journalisten schreven, nee zonder enige steekhoudende kritiek op geschreven artikelen, stelt di Giovanni domweg dat de 2 desinformatie verspreiden, waar ze Beeley zelfs durft af te schilderen als ‘hogepriesters van Syrische propaganda’, ofwel di Giovani draait de zaak volkomen om, immer zij maakt met dergelijke uitlatingen propaganda voor terreurgroepen, die voor het overgrote deel bestaan uit ‘mannen’ die niet eens Syriërs zijn……
Lees het uitstekende artikel van Sterling en geeft het door!
The
October 16 issue of NY Review of Books has an article by Janine di
Giovannititled “Why
Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets”.
The article exemplifies how western media promotes the White Helmets
uncritically and attacks those who challenge the myth.
Crude
& Disingenuous Attack
Giovanni’s
article attacks several journalists by name. She singles out Vanessa
Beeley and echoes the Guardian’s characterization of Beeley as the
“high priestess of Syria propaganda”. She does this without
challenging a single article or claim by the journalist. She might
have acknowledged that Vanessa Beeley has some familiarity with the
Middle East; she is the daughter of one of the foremost British
Arabists and diplomats including British Ambassador to Egypt.
Giovanni might have explored Beeley’s research in
Syria that revealed the White Helmets founder (British military
contractor James Le Mesurier) assigned the name Syria Civil Defence
despite the fact there is a real Syrian organization by that name
that has existed since the 1950’s. For the past several years,
Beeley has done many on-the-ground reports and investigations in
Syria. None of these are challenged by Giovanni. Just days ago Beeley
published a report on
her visit to the White Helmets headquarters in Deraa.
Giovanni
similarly dismisses another alternative journalist, Eva Bartlett.
Again, Giovanni ignores the fact that Bartlett has substantial Middle
East experience including having lived in Gaza for years. Instead of
objectively evaluating the journalistic work of these independent
journalists, Giovanni smears their work as “disinformation”.
Presumably that is because their work is published at alternative
sites such as 21st Century Wire and Russian media such as RT and
Sputnik. Beeley and Bartlett surely would have been happy to have
their reports published at the New York Review of Books, Newsweek or
other mainstream outlets. But it’s evident that such reporting is
not welcome there. Even Seymour Hersh had to go abroad to have his
investigations on Syria published.
The
New McCarthyism
Max
Blumenthal is another journalist singled out by Giovanni. Blumenthal
is the author of three books, including a NY Times bestseller and the
highly acclaimed “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel”.
Giovanni describes his transition from “anti-Assad” to
“pro-Assad” and suggests his change of perspective was due to
Russian influence. She says, “Blumenthal went to Moscow on a junket
to celebrate RT’s tenth anniversary. We don’t know what happened
during that visit, but afterwards, Blumenthal’s views completely
flipped.” Instead of examining the facts presented by Blumenthal in
articles such as “Inside
the Shadowy PR Firm that’s Lobyying for Regime Change in Syria”,
Giovanni engages in fact-free McCarthyism. Blumenthal explained the
transition in his thinking in a public interview. He also described
the threats he
experienced when he started to criticize the White Helmets and their
public relations firm, but this is ignored by Giovanni.
Contrary
to Giovanni’s assumptions, some western journalists and activists
were exposing the White Helmets long before the story was publicized
on Russian media. In spring 2015 the basic facts about the White
Helmets including their origins, funding and role in the information
war on Syria were exposed in my article “Seven
Steps of Highly Effective Manipulators”.
The article showed how the White Helmets were a key component in a
campaign pushing for a “No Fly Zone” in Syria. It confirmed that
the White Helmets is a political lobby force.
In
spring 2016, Vanessa Beeley launched a petition “Do
NOT give the Nobel Peace Prize to the White Helmets”.
That petition garnered more support than a contrary petition urging
the Nobel Prize committee to give the award to the White Helmets.
Perhaps because of that, the petition was abruptly removed without
explanation from the Change.org website. It was only at this time,
with publicity around the heavily promoted nomination of the White
Helmets for a Nobel Peace Prize that RT and other Russian media
started to publicize and expose the White Helmets. That is one and a
half years after they were first exposed in western alternative
media.
White
Helmets and Chemical Weapons Accusations
Giovanni
ignores the investigations and conclusions of some of the most
esteemed American journalists regarding the White Helmets and
chemical weapons incidents in Syria.
The
late Robert Parry published many articles exposing the White Helmets,
for example The
White Helmets Controversy andSyria
War Propaganda at the Oscars.
Parry wrote and published numerous investigations of the August 2013
chemical weapons attack and concluded the attacks were carried out by
an opposition faction with the goal of pressuring the US to intervene
militarily. Parry also challenged western conclusions regarding
incidents such as April 4, 2017 at Khan Shaykhun. Giovanni
breathlessly opens her article with this story while
Parry revealed the
impossibility of it being as described.
“Buried
deep inside a new U.N. report is evidence that could exonerate the
Syrian government in the April 4 sarin atrocity and make President
Trump look like an Al-Qaeda dupe.”
Legendary
American journalist, Seymour Hersh, researched and refuted the
assumptions of Giovanni and the media establishment regarding the
August 2013 chemical weapons attacks near Damascus. Hersh’s
investigation, titled The
Red Line and Rat Line,
provided evidence the atrocity was carried out by an armed opposition
group with active support from Turkey. A Turkish member of parliament
provided additional
evidence.
The fact that Hersh had to go across the Atlantic to have his
investigation published suggests American not Russian disinformation
and censorship.
In
addition to ignoring the findings of widely esteemed journalists with
proven track records, Giovanni plays loose with the truth. In her
article she implies that a UN investigation blamed the Syrian
government for the August 2013 attack. On the contrary, the head of
the UN investigation team, Ake Sellstrom, said they
did not determine who was responsible. “We
do not have the evidence to say who did what ….The conflict in
Syria is surrounded by a lot of rumors and a lot of propaganda,
particularly when comes to the sensitive issue of chemical weapons.”
First
Responders or Western Funded Propagandists?
Giovanni
says, “But the White Helmets’ financial backing is not the real
reason why the pro-Assad camp is so bent on defaming them. Since
2015, the year the Russians began fighting in Syria, the White
Helmets have been filming attacks on opposition-held areas with GoPro
cameras affixed to their helmets.”
In
reality, the ‘White Helmets” have a sophisticated media
production and distribution operation. They have much more than GoPro
cameras. In many of their movie segments one can see numerous people
with video and still cameras. Sometimes the same incident will be
shown with one segment with an Al-Qaeda logo blending into the same
scene with a White Helmets logo.
Giovanni
claims “The Assad regime and the Russians are trying to neutralize
the White Helmets because they are potential witnesses to
war crimes.” However the claims of White Helmet “witnesses”
have little credibility. The White Helmet “volunteers” are paid
three times as much as Syrian soldiers. They are trained, supplied
and promoted by the same western states which have sought to regime
change in Syria since 2011. An example of misleading and false claims
by a White Helmets leader is exposed in Gareth Porter’s
investigation titled “How
a Syrian White Helmets Leader Played Western Media” .
His conclusion could be directed to Giovanni and the NYReview of
Books:
“The
uncritical reliance on claims by the White Helmets without any effort
to investigate their credibility is yet another telling example of
journalistic malpractice by media outlets with a long record of
skewing coverage of conflicts toward an interventionist narrative.”
When
the militants (mostly Nusra / Al-Qaeda) were expelled from East
Aleppo, civilians reported that the White Helmets were mostly
concerned with saving their own and performing publicity stunts. For
example the photo of the little boy in east Aleppo looking dazed and
confused in the back of a brand new White Helmet ambulance was
essentially a White Helmet media stunt eagerly promoted in the West.
It was later revealed the boy was not injured, he was grabbed without
his parent’s consent. Eva Bartlett interviewed and photographed the
father and family for her story “Mintpress
Meets the Father of Iconic Aleppo Boy and says Media Lied About his
Son”.
A
Brilliant Marketing Success
The
media and political impact of the White Helmets shows what money and
marketing can do. An organization that was founded by a military
contractor with funding from a western governments was awarded the
Rights Livelihood Award. The organization was seriously considered to
received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize just three years after its
formation.
The
Netflix infomercial “The White Helmets” is an example of the
propaganda. The scripted propaganda piece, where the producers did
not set foot in Syria, won the Oscar award for best short
documentary. It’s clear that lots of money and professional
marketing can fool a lot of people. At $30 million per year, the
White Helmets budget for one year is more than a decade of funding
for the real Syrian Civil Defence which covers all of Syria not just
pockets controlled by armed insurgents.
Unsurprisingly,
it has been announced that White Helmets will receive the 2019 “Elie
Wiesel” award from the heavily politicized and pro-Israel Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington. This, plus the recent “rescue” of
White Helmets by the Israeli government, is more proof of the true
colors of the White Helmets. Vanessa Beeley’s recent interview with
a White Helmet leader in Deraa revealed that ISIS and Nusra
terrorists were part of the group “rescued” through Israel.
The
Collapsing White Helmets Fraud
Giovanni
is outraged that some journalists have successfully challenged and
put a big dent in the White Helmets aura. She complains, “The
damage the bloggers do is immense.”
Giovanni
and western propagandists are upset because the myth is deflating.
Increasing numbers of people – from a famous rock musician to a
former UK Ambassador – see and acknowledge the reality.
As
described in Blumenthal’s article, “How
the White Helmets Tried to Recruit Roger Waters with Saudi Money”,
rock legend Roger Waters says, “If
we were to listen to the propaganda of the White
Helmets and others, we would encourage our governments to start
dropping bombs on people in Syria. This would be a mistake
of monumental proportions…”
Peter
Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, sums
it up like
this: “The
White Helmets are jihadi auxiliaries… They are not, as claimed by
themselves and by their supporters… simple rescuers. They are not
volunteers. They are paid professionals of disinformation.”
Giovanni
claims her article is a “forensic take down of the Russian
disinformation campaign to distort the truth in Syria.” In reality,
Giovanni’s article is an example of western disinformation using
subjective attacks on critics and evidence-free assertions aligned
with the regime change goals of the West.
Reposts
are welcomed with the reference to ORIENTAL REVIEW.
ANP
en RT berichtten gisteren dat terreurgroepen in Syrië een aantal
wezen uit een opvangkamp hebben ontvoerd, gevangengezet in Idlib en hen misbruiken
voor het maken van gifgasvideo’s, zodat bijvoorbeeld imbeciel Trump
(en overigens een heel groot deel van de westerse media, en daarmee de westerse bevolkingen*,
inclusief een fiks deel van de ‘intelligentsia’ in die landen) de schuld bij Assad
zal leggen en daarop het Syrische leger ‘legitiem’ kan aanvallen…….
De
VS en hare kwaadaardigheid Haley in de VN, smeken nu al een maand
lang om een gifgasaanval, niet van het Syrische leger, maar van de
terreurgroepen, waarvan iedereen kan weten dat ze de beschikking
hebben over gifgas…….
In
de kop van het hieronder opgenomen artikel wordt gesproken over
‘Syrische jihadisten’, echter die zijn er amper, de terreurgroepen in Syrië zitten ‘bomvol’ arabieren uit andere landen, voor een groot
deel aangevoerd door de VS en Saoedi-Arabië………
De
White Helmets, een terreurgroep die de propaganda doet voor meerdere
terreurgroepen in Syrië, houdt zich bezig met de training van de
kinderen die als slachtoffer worden neergezet, het moet er tenslotte wel echt uitzien….. Intussen hebben de White Helmets al minstens 9 korte video’s gemaakt…..
De
vraag is niet of er een gifgasaanval zal worden gepleegd, maar
wanneer……… Voor de arme Syrische bevolking is er één troost,
de kans dat dit een echte gifgasaanval zal zijn, is maar heel klein,
zoals ook het artikel hieronder weer laat zien……..
Jihadisten
hebben in het noordwesten van Syrië onder anderen een groepje wezen
uit een opvangkamp ontvoerd om die te gebruiken in propagandafilmjes
over aanvallen met chemische wapens, mogelijk met dodelijke afloop.
Ze
zijn opgesloten in een gevangenis in de provincie Idlib waar de
terreurgroep al-Nusra Front de dienst uitmaakt, volgens meldingen van
het Russische ministerie van Defensie.
Omstreden
hulpverleners
Er
zijn al zeker negen opnames gemaakt voor het al-Nusra Front dat zich
tegenwoordig ook Jabhat Fateh al-Sham noemt.
Ze
werden opgenomen volgens meldingen van het Russische persbureau Tass
in Jisr al-Shughur (of: Jisr ash-Shughur) en met medewerking van de omstreden hulpverleners
die zich Witte Helmen noemen.
Jonge
slachtoffers
Net
als in eerdere filmpjes schieten ‘Witte Helmen’ jonge
slachtoffers te hulp na aanvallen met chemische wapens die zouden
zijn ingezet door de Syrische strijdkrachten.
De
Russische gezant bij de OPCW (Organisatie voor het Verbod van
Chemische Wapens) Aleksander Sjoelgin heeft woensdag in Den Haag
gezegd dat de OPCW zich veel meer zou moeten bezighouden met
beweringen over chemische aanvallen in Syrië.
* De westerse media en politiek doen braaf mee aan de leugens, ook al kunnen ze op hun vingers natellen dat het niet om de waarheid gaat……. De media en politiek hersenspoelen vervolgens het volk met die leugens, waarmee tevens het oorlogvoeren ‘wordt gelegitimeerd’ in landen waar het westen niets, maar dan ook helemaal niets te zoeken heeft…….. (en dat lukt lullig genoeg maar al te goed……)
De
republikeinse senator Richard (‘Dick’) Black heeft op het arabisch tv
station Al Mayadeen gemeld dat MI6 bezig is met de voorbereiding van een
chemische aanval in Idlib. Black zei verder dat e.e.a. al een maand
bekend is….. Volgens Black kan het gaan om een echte aanval met
gifgas, of een gespeelde, ofwel een ‘false flag’ operatie, waar de
schuld in beide gevallen bij Assad zal worden gelegd…. Black
beweert dat er al met ‘acteurs’ wordt geoefend hoe ze slachtoffer moeten spelen en wordt met hen getraind op de symptomen van een gifgasaanval (die ze
moeten tonen)……
Daarover
gesproken: volgens Black zijn meerdere gifgasaanvallen, die de
laatste jaren werden gepleegd, ‘false flag’ operaties, deze werden met hulp van de White Helmets uitgevoerd…. Dit was
overigens al bekend*, zoals ook bekend is dat men bezig is een gifgasaanval voor te bereiden in Idlib, dit door de herhaaldelijke waarschuwingen
aan het adres van Assad geen gifgasaanval uit te voeren, waarschuwingen van psychopaten
als Bolton….**
Dergelijke waarschuwingen van de VS werden eerder gedaan in aanloop van gifgasaanvallen, aanvallen waar het Syrische leger niets mee te winnen had, alleen al door het simpele feit dat dit leger aan de winnende hand was (zonder gifgas gebruik)…….
Het volgende bericht komt van de
Independant en werd door mij overgenomen van 9 for News:
MI6
plant chemische nepaanval in Syrië. Amerikaanse senator doet
opvallende uitspraken op tv
De
Amerikaanse staatssenator Richard Black heeft opvallende uitspraken
gedaan op de Arabisch tv over een nauwe bondgenoot van de Verenigde
Staten. Black zei dat MI6, de Britse inlichtingendienst, een
chemische aanval voorbereidt op Syrische burgers die vervolgens in de
schoenen van Assad zal worden geschoven.
“Vier
weken geleden wisten we al dat het Britse inlichtingenapparaat
toewerkte naar een chemische aanval waar de Syrische overheid
vervolgens de schuld van zou krijgen,” zei Black op de Arabische
nieuwszender Al Mayadeen.
Acteurs
Hij
zei later dat de Britten de aanval niet zelf zullen uitvoeren, maar
dat laten doen door rebellen.
Een
andere mogelijkheid is dat ze de aanval in scène zetten en acteurs
gebruiken, aldus Black.
Hij
zei ook dat eerdere gifgasaanvallen in Syrië nep waren. Die waren
volgens hem uitgevoerd door Groot-Brittannië, met hulp van de
Syrische Witte Helmen.
Nepaanval
“Ze
bereiden een nepaanval voor, geen echte,” zei hij. “Ze hebben
mensen getraind om te doen alsof ze slachtoffer van een gasaanval
zijn.”
“Het
plan is om de Witte Helmen, die steeds betrokken zijn geweest bij
deze misleidingen, de aanval te laten uitvoeren,” vervolgde hij.
Het
Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken noemde de
beschuldigingen van Black ‘schandalig’.
Buffer
Hij
had onlangs voor de tweede keer een ontmoeting met de Syrische
president Bashar al-Assad.
Black,
een Vietnamveteraan en voormalige Pentagon-advocaat, zegt hem te zien
als beschermer van Syrische christenen en buffer tegen islamitisch
extremisme.
* Deze false flag operaties werden of niet gemeld in de reguliere westerse media, dan wel werden ze afgedaan als complottheorie……. (en derhalve als ‘fake news’ of nepnieuws neergezet….)
PS: nu loopt de hysterie weer op rond de aanstaande aanval van het Syrische leger op Idlib, terwijl niemand kijkt naar de terreur die de daar aanwezige terreurgroepen (‘gematigde rebellen’) uitoefenen op de oorspronkelijke bevolking…. Waar al helemaal niet naar wordt gekeken is het vasthouden van vluchtelingen door de terreurgroepen in Idlib, zoals ze dit keer op keer in het verleden hebben gedaan, mensen die wilden vluchten door corridors van het Syrische leger, werden doodgeschoten door sluipschutters van die ‘gematigde rebellen…’
Het aantal vluchtelingen in Idlib wordt zwaar overdreven en men vergeet voor het gemak dat onder die vluchtelingen zich vooral de gezinnen van terroristen bevinden…….
Vandaag of morgen zal er gegarandeerd een gifgasaanval plaatsvinden in Idlib, daar heeft de VS bij wijze al om gesmeekt bij deze terreurgroepen (die zoals gezegd beschikken over gifgas, met medeweten van de westerse regeringen)…….. Deze gifgasaanval zou wel eens het begin van een oorlog tussen de VS en Rusland kunnen inluiden, daar Putin al te vaak over z’n hart heeft gestreken, zelfs bij de moedwillige moord op zo’n 100 Russische vrijwilligers door terreurentiteit VS, of het neerhalen van een Russische jager door terreurstaat Turkije…… (ofwel als Putin niet volledig zijn gezicht wil verliezen zal Rusland moeten ingrijpen als de VS weer onterecht Syrische bases aanvalt, na de zoveelste false flag gifgasaanval…….)
Vanmiddag rond 12.15 u. (CET) op de zogenaamde onafhankelijke zendgemachtigde BBC World Service, correspondent Mike Thomson die volgens de studio in Idlib zit (maar volgens mij in Beiroet verblijft) over de aanval die het Syrische leger daar samen met de Russen voorbereidt.
Thomson vertelde dat hij o.a. al een kind op de arm van een White Helmet terrorist had gezien, hoewel de strijd nog moet losbarsten….. Uiteraard duidde Thomson deze figuur niet aan als terrorist, immers deze mede door GB en Nederland betaalde organisatie White Helmets, die de propaganda voor terreurgroepen als Al Qaida voor haar rekening neemt en bovendien helpt bij het terreur uitoefenen op de burgerbevolking, wordt door het westen, tegen alle feiten in gezien als hulporganisatie (met zulke hulpverleners heb je geen vijand ‘nodig’)…….
Volgens Thomson dreigt er een humanitaire ramp in Idlib en zullen er miljoenen mensen op de vlucht slaan….. Echter de provincie Idlib heeft geen miljoenen maar rond de 1,5 miljoen inwoners…… Van die anderhalf miljoen zijn al minstens 300.000 mensen op de vlucht geslagen voor de terreur die wordt uitgeoefend middels de door het westen liefkozend ‘gematigde rebellen’ genoemde islamitische terreurgroepen……
Het volgende onderwerp op BBC World Service (Newshour) na dit onderwerp betrof ‘fake news en manipulatie van de bevolking……..’ ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!
Bij het nazoeken van gegevens voor dit bericht stuitte ik op een bericht van het AD,daarin de volgende woorden:
‘Humanitaire
ramp’
Achter
de schermen onderhandelen Rusland, Amerika en ook de EU nog over het
voorkomen van een bloedbad. Washington heeft Moskou gewaarschuwd dat
het de Russen verantwoordelijk stelt voor eventuele aanvallen met
gifgas. Daarbij zijn in het verleden al honderden burgers omgekomen.
De
Verenigde Naties vrezen een ‘humanitaire ramp’ als de herovering
het scenario volgt van de belegering van rebellenbastions als Aleppo,
de buitenwijken van Damascus en de zuidelijke provincies. Daarbij
werden bombardementen op woonwijken niet geschuwd en werd ook gifgas
ingezet. In de provincie Idlib wonen zo’n drie miljoen mensen.
Ten eerste: als de VS Syrië en Moskou waarschuwt geen gifgasaanval uit te voeren (wat betreft Rusland is er al nooit beweert dat dit land een gifgasaanval uitvoerde), bedoelt de VS dat terreurgroepen, die zoals bekend in het westen beschikken over gifgas als chlorine en sarin, een gifgasaanval moeten uitvoeren, dan wel simuleren zodat de VS de democratisch gekozen regering Assad als schuldige kan aanwijzen, om daarna een aanval uit te voeren….. Tot nu toe is er van alle vermeende Syrische gifgasaanvallen er niet één bewezen gepleegd door die regering……… Wel werd keer op keer vastgesteld dat terreurgroepen de aanvallen hadden uitgevoerd, dan wel gesimuleerd en dat werd geconstateerd door o.a. de VN!
Ten Tweede: ook bij de bevrijding van Aleppo heeft het reguliere Syrische leger geen gifgas gebruikt….. Wel besloten dit leger en de Russen twee maanden voor de uiteindelijke bevrijding (nogmaals:) van Aleppo, te stoppen met bombardementen, juist om zoveel mogelijk burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen….. (dit feit is niet één keer gepubliceerd in de reguliere westerse media, noch werd het genoemd door politici die zich alleen druk maken als het Syrische leger, Rusland of Assad worden genoemd…….)
Zet het voorgaande maar eens af tegen de bevrijding van het Iraakse West-Mosul of het Syrische Raqqa, daar werd de VS meermaals tevergeefs opgeroepen te stoppen met bombarderen, dit (zoals je begrijpt) om zoveel mogelijk burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen….. Het aantal doden onder de burgerbevolking die in West-Mosul vielen zal nooit bekend worden, daar Irak na de bevrijding hele huizenblokken heeft gebulldozerd, zonder eerst de lijken te bergen, maar het aantal moet boven de 30.000 liggen……..
Ten derde: ook het AD liegt er keihard op los wat betreft het inwoneraantal van de provincie Idlib….. Hetzelfde AD dat als de BBC een grote bek heeft over ‘fake news’ (nepnieuws) en manipulatie…….
Ongelofelijk, schandalig en onverdraaglijk zoals men in de reguliere westerse media de verschillende westerse bevolkingen dag in dag uit voorliegt middels smerige propaganda, fake news en haatzaaierij……..
