NP - Chemical Weapons Used in Syria... (or WERE they?)

[Mark Thibodeau]

As a lifelong horror movie buff and reader of such magazines as Fangoria,
Cinemagic and (best of the lot) Cinefex, I have spent far more time that is
probably healthy looking at the finest wound recreation Hollywood budgets
can buy.

As a lifelong aficionado (and occasional concocter) of conspiracy theories,
I am all too familiar with all the latest twists and turns when it comes to
belief in "crisis actors" and false flag operations, complete with fingers
pointed at outfits that provide wound simulation for state-of-the-art
Hospital and EMT training.

As EIC and sole content provider for The Daily Dirt, one of the Internet's
most widely-read proto-blogs (an audited 290K daily readership in February
2002), I amassed a pretty decent public track record for sniffing out
bullshit and batshit, and all points in between.

The blog you keep sending us to lies somewhere in the middle, edging more
slightly towards bullshit than batshit, but nonetheless, pretty
untrustworthy. It's clear to me that they begin with their conclusions
(FALSE FLAG!) and then do their best to validate those conclusions,
evidence to the contrary be damned. Tell me, how is the page you keep
sending us to any different than, say... this one?

https://nodisinfo.com/absolute-proof-boston-bombing-was-a-staged-hoax/

Is the BBC without sin? No. Did they make some mistakes in this specific
case? Obviously they did. Complete truth is difficult to come by at the
best of times, and this was the middle of a war zone.

And, finally, the real wounds look very much different to me than the fake
wounds to me.

J.


On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Glad you took the time to make up your own mind. Seriously.
>
> I am convinced that the scene is staged (although "if you believe this,
> you'll believe anything" was taking it a little too far). If this is indeed
> the case, it is of course designed to produce exactly the visceral reaction
> you show. To make you go blind with rage is the raison d'etre of atrocity
> propaganda. You may want to think about this.
>
> Two circumstantial items:
>
> 1) The allegations against the BBC are very serious and should be easy to
> disprove if they were false. Television and radio producer Victor Lewis
> Smith asked the BBC to show him the rushes of the incriminated "Panorama"
> broadcast. The BBC couldn't or wouldn't provide them.
>
> https://mobile.twitter.com/TVOFFAL/status/836618126322200576
>
> https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2017-03-08/is-the-bbc-sti
> ll-lying-over-syria-footage/
>
> 2) 'In a BBC Newsnight report of 11 August 2014 Dr Saleyha Ahsan, one of
> the two British doctors featured in ‘Saving Syria’s Children’, described
> “how British Army medical services prepare for deployment using HOSPEX”
> (Hospital Exercises), a “macro-simulation replicating exactly the
> conditions medics will face in the field”. Dr Ahsan states:
>
> “The principle behind ‘macro simulation’ is that it’s as close to reality
> as possible. Actors and make-up artists mimic even the most severe of
> injuries”.'
>
> (...)
>
> 'In the report Dr Ahsan states that the officer in charge of the operation
> [the simulation exercise, TE], Brigadier Kevin Beaton, was her squadron
> commander in Bosnia and inspired her to study medicine.'
>
> 'The company which provided the highly sophisticated injury simulations
> featured in the Newsnight report is Trauma FX, which proudly claims to be
> “UK’s leading provider of realistic casualty simulation”.'
>
> There are pictures of the HOSPEX exercise on Robert Stuart's site. They
> are hard to stomach because they look very real. These photos of fake
> victims are then compared to photos of supposedly authentic victims from
> the school which Dr. Ahsan had accidentally visited one year earlier with
> the Ian Pannell's BBC "Panorama" team -- only a few hours after the Syrian
> Army supposedly attacked it with incendiary bombs or CW. You may want to
> compare and contrast.
>
> https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/
> hospex-macro-simulation-techniques/
>
> P.S. The second British doctor on the scene is Dr. Rola Hallam, the
> daughter of a senior figure in the Syrian National Council – a major force
> in the campaign to remove Assad.
>