Putin & Trump and Journalists

[David Morris]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/27/1625826/-Rachel-
Maddow-just-nailed-it-Russia-is-guilty?detail=facebook

Rachel Maddow, "journalist" paid millions to sandbag Putin:

 Rachel’s point was simple and concise. Russia has denied involvement all
along. OK, fine. That’s your story, and you’re sticking with it. But, if
you’re innocent, then as a nation, you don’t need to *do* anything, there
is no fire there, you didn’t do anything, and nobody can prove a negative.
But when you have police storm into a routine meeting, bag and wrestle out
a senior cyber official, and then cashier a senior counter intelligence
official in charge of making sure nobody blabs, you have just waved a giant
red flag. It means that Putin has looked at the information in the
“dossier” that the ex MI6 intelligence officer compiled on information
compromising Trump, and has looked at the information in at least the
public release of the combined intelligence assessment of Russian
interference in the election, and he has realized that there is actually
fire behind that smoke. And Putin is taking aggressive steps to stamp out
that fire so that it doesn’t occur again.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com');>> wrote:

> Show me evidence that the White Helmets have "produced hundreds of
> fake photographs" of children being pulled from the rubble, please.
>
> J
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de');>> wrote:
> >> 'The real reason that reporting of the Syrian conflict
> >> has been so inadequate is that Western news organisations have almost
> >> entirely outsourced their coverage to the rebel side.'
> >
> >
> > This is certainly true but does not go far enough. The "activists",
> > "civilian defense workers" and "citizen journalists" who provide
> information
> > to the Western media are not only embedded with the rebels but have been
> > prepared for this job and are paid enormous sums by the West to perform
> it.
> >
> > The Western mainstream media duly report everything these embedded
> citizen
> > journalists or first responders tell them as fact. The White Helmets have
> > produced hundreds of fake photographs of children "pulled from the
> rubble".
> > Even if it isn't explicitly mentioned, through their publication by
> > supposedly respectable newspapers like the NYT, the Guardian or Die Zeit
> > these fake photographs have become documents of Russian and Syrian
> barbarism
> > in the public perception. Politicians then quote from the newspapers and
> add
> > some buzzwords: Guernica, Ruanda, Srebrenica. A German talkshow host even
> > managed to mention the Holocaust...
> >
> > This is war propaganda of the highest order, provided as a public
> service by
> > an enormously sophisticated and well-oiled propaganda machine. It is
> Frank
> > Wisner's "mighty Wurlitzer" on steroids.
> >
> > http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/how-white-helmets-
> became-international-heroes-while-pushing-us-military
> >
> > http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aleppo-f
> ake-footage-children-five-peopele-arrested-egyptian-police-a7486541.html
> >
> > http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/24/middleeast/mannequin-chall
> enge-white-helmets-syria/
> >
> > http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/20/exclusive-aleppo-media
> -centre-funded-by-french-foreign-office-eu-and-us/
> >
> > (Beeley is partisan, so take that last link with a grain of salt as far
> > as her take on the actions of the Syrian government are concerned. Her
> > research on the sources of funding for the White Helmets and the Aleppo
> > Media Center is solid. Please note also that, while many of the
> photographs
> > taken by the White Helmets are certainly fakes, some are not. Nobody
> denies
> > that many children have actually been wounded and killed during the
> bombing
> > of East Aleppo.)
> >
> >
> >
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