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Sunday, September 06, 2015
CNN and the NYT mis-report the Syrian refugee crisis. (Added note: And here comes The Guardian...!)
While dining at a fast food restaurant yesterday, I caught a bit of a CNN report on Syrian refugees in Europe. CNN's hideously slanted reporting was almost as horrifying as the plight of the refugees.
Basically, CNN intercut footage of the bedraggled refugees with shots of "central casting" protestors holding up anti-Assad signs. Since all of the signs were in English, we may safely presume that the central casting protestors were filmed in America, not in Hungary.
This was not a news report. This was a scene from Wag the Dog...
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2015/09/ ... risis.html
In the case of the You Stink! Movement, those connections are becoming increasingly visible.
Assadd Thebian is represented as one of the leaders of the You Stink! Movement by a number of Western press outlets and, in the Lebanese Press outlet, the Daily Star, he is described as being the “co-founder” of You Stink! Yet, far from being a truly organic Lebanese revolutionary, Thebian is closely connected to the United States Department of State.
Thebian is a participant in the Middle East Partnership Initiative, a program directed by the US State Department for the purposes of directing NGOs in foreign countries in order to facilitate US foreign policy. In other words the MEPI is yet another program and initiative in the color revolution apparatus.
MEPI was created in December 2002 by the State Department. Its creation was announced in a speech by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. Powell stated that MEPI was an initiative that was to bear fruit over the long-term, not merely 3-5 years. It was created to help pick up the slack in areas where USAID was not able to fully service. Although it was initially dependent upon USAID for support, MEPI has taken off on its own as a formidable color revolution organization.
The same year as its creation, Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney, was appointed as supervisor of MEPI per her position as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary For Near Eastern Affairs. Under Cheney’s direction, MEPI engaged in teaching methods designed to “train Arab journalists” and “teach children,” presumably in the benefits of US Foreign Policy as well as encourage nations within MEPI’s sphere of influence to sign various Free Trade agreements with the United States and move toward a Middle Eastern Free Trade Zone.
Sunday, September 06, 2015
CNN and the NYT mis-report the Syrian refugee crisis. (Added note: And here comes The Guardian...!)
While dining at a fast food restaurant yesterday, I caught a bit of a CNN report on Syrian refugees in Europe. CNN's hideously slanted reporting was almost as horrifying as the plight of the refugees.
Basically, CNN intercut footage of the bedraggled refugees with shots of "central casting" protestors holding up anti-Assad signs. Since all of the signs were in English, we may safely presume that the central casting protestors were filmed in America, not in Hungary.
divideandconquer » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:10 am wrote:Five agenda-driven monopoly-conglomerate own the entire mainstream media with the technology to create reality from nothing. Add to that a gullible, indoctrinated public, and the absence of law obligating the news media to tell the truth, or to prevent them from deliberately falsifying news reports ( In 2003, the Florida Second District Court of Appeals reversed the ruling against Fox News, approving falsehoods by news sources) and and it's fairly certain that these psychopathic entities take full advantage...they've already been caught green-screen reporting several times. So, why is it so hard to believe that they would use actors?
Collapsing the threshold between reality and fiction in order to transform public sentiment and conversation is the mainstream media's purpose. It's nothing new as rhetoric and imagery have always been the most powerful weapons in the political elite arsenal. Nothing bypasses the rational mind and appeals to the emotions like murder live on TV Talk about investing emotions in presented images....
brainpanhandler » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:57 pm wrote:If the powerful CAN do it, then they WILL do it. This is a rule of thumb that will seldom steer you wrong.
That's one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen you make.
Nordic » Mon Sep 07, 2015 6:07 pm wrote:divideandconquer » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:10 am wrote:Five agenda-driven monopoly-conglomerate own the entire mainstream media with the technology to create reality from nothing. Add to that a gullible, indoctrinated public, and the absence of law obligating the news media to tell the truth, or to prevent them from deliberately falsifying news reports ( In 2003, the Florida Second District Court of Appeals reversed the ruling against Fox News, approving falsehoods by news sources) and and it's fairly certain that these psychopathic entities take full advantage...they've already been caught green-screen reporting several times. So, why is it so hard to believe that they would use actors?
Collapsing the threshold between reality and fiction in order to transform public sentiment and conversation is the mainstream media's purpose. It's nothing new as rhetoric and imagery have always been the most powerful weapons in the political elite arsenal. Nothing bypasses the rational mind and appeals to the emotions like murder live on TV Talk about investing emotions in presented images....
I agree with you completely. And as I've mentioned in previously on similar threads (that haven't gone particularly well) there are ample cases where the use of actors is obvious. But they're usually people being interviewed, the "eyewitnesses" or "man on the street" types of things.
The trouble is, with the "crisis actor" crowd, is that every dead body is an actor, every tragic incident is a false flag.
(Just like with the Chem trail people, every fucking contrail is a "CHEMTRAIL")
The crisis actor crowd are, I feel, muddying the waters and, either advertently or inadvertently, creating disinfo and making "conspiracy theory" a laughingstock.
Which maybe is their true purpose. In fact, that was my impression of the Sandy Hook mess, where this whole "crisis actor" hysteria seemed to really begin.
Which maybe was the entire purpose of Sandy Hook. Ha!
If you can label those who have figured shit out as "conspiracy theorists" and make damn sure that "conspiracy theorists" are seen as HMW-level paranoid-monomaniacal nuts, then you have really accomplished something.
BrandonD » Tue Sep 08, 2015 4:05 am wrote:brainpanhandler » Sat Sep 05, 2015 11:57 pm wrote:If the powerful CAN do it, then they WILL do it. This is a rule of thumb that will seldom steer you wrong.
That's one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen you make.
I was being succinct and hyperbolic because I was trying to rephrase a common observation in a more entertaining way.
Of course you knew this, but because you tend to be the defender of the status quo in this merry band you pretend not to grasp subtext.
The powerful are not going to do *everything* they are able, just because they can. They aren't going to populate the earth with ducks, for example.
Power tends to be exploited. This is what I was stating, it is a very easily observable fact in every facet of human social interaction.
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