I was advised to google “Syria hoax footage” and see what comes up. A lot comes up. For one thing, here’s video from November 2016 of Syrian “White Helmets” (a pro-rebel group; thus pro-Islamist) carefully STAGING a scene of man whose legs were supposedly crushed in a government attack.
They all scream on cue, at about 0:22. Afterward, the man – that is, the actor – looks cheerful and takes a photo with his fellow actors. Click here and scroll down to see.
CNN lately has been hitting the “Won’t somebody PLEEEZ think of the children??!” button extra hard, with its clips of Bana, an adorable, wide-eyed Syrian 7-year old who pleads for the freedom to play and go to school.
Here, CNN throws Bana into the face of a rather sensible Congressperson, starting around 1:50.
It turns out, of course, that each of Bana’s performances and Tweets are scripted and staged by her politically-motivated mother.
Note to CNN: A seven-year old isn’t a U.S. foreign policy expert. Her opinion, even if unscripted, would still be Fake News in the sense that it simply isn’t news. And oh yeah, if we did invade Syria (or bomb it further), it would become even harder for Bana to play or go to school. Tell her that.
The U.S. Intelligence and foreign policy bureaucrats (Deep State) wanted Hillary because, for some reason or other, they want a war in Syria at the least; if not a full-on war with Russia. Along with a few billionaires – like Carlos Slim (New York Times) and Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (Economist magazine) and some others (Time-Warner / CNN) – the Deep State controls the proverbial Controlled Media, which spews War propaganda on command.
That’s reality. That is the world we live in: A tyranny in which relatively non-accountable, secretive bureaucrats manipulate the media – and have the media, in turn, manipulate us with FAKE NEWS.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that the recent Syria chemical attack was a hoax or a false flag. But it means that we’re right to wonder. We’re right to ask our leaders for caution. We’re right to question “the narrative.”
Guess what else? We just got a little more information on how it could have been the murdered DNC-insider Seth Rich, and not the Russians, who hacked/leaked the DNC emails in the 2016 election.
“The consensus of 17 intelligence agencies is that the Russians did it!!1!” was always a shaky story. For one thing, the DNC didn’t even allow the FBI in to look at the alleged crime scene for a couple of weeks after it happened.
Its investigation hampered, the FBI then relied mostly on a report of Russian hacking from CrowdStrike, a Democrat-funded company. And CrowdStrike’s report/story has been more or less debunked. The other 16 agencies then relied on the FBI. I say, phooey. This isn’t the first time the proverbial “17 intelligence agencies!” have gotten it wrong – or even tried to deceive us.
UPDATE: On further reflection, the GatewayPundit link above (after “Guess what else?”) is a NothingBurger. As such, I apologize for having brought up that link.
Nonetheless, Julian Assange of Wikileaks has strongly denied Russian involvement in the DNC leaks (try here) and implied that Seth Rich was his source (try here). That continues to be my hypothesis.
UPDATE: On the other side of the spectrum, Cernovich goes on a limb, claims that McMaster has been lying to Trump in an effort to get 150,000 boots on the ground in Syria. If true: it’s a bad moment for America. And if false: it’s a bad moment for Cernovich – who has been shaky on some things, and astoundingly right on some other things.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that even though Democrats haughtily proclaim that “Russian interference with our holy and sacred democracy is tantamount to an act of WAR!” they haven’t actually proposed any action or sanctions against Russia.
Odd, that.
Not at all odd.
Seriously, the Democratic Party has becomes so used to a press they could manipulate like clay, they no longer care to carefully craft their hoaxes. They simply assume that the press will carry their water.
Meanwhile, other news agencies are saying, “The Emperor Has No Clothes!”
To be clear, I’m suggesting that “Trump is a Russian agent!” and “The consensus of 17 intelligence agencies is that the Russians did it!!1!” – was not only Democrat partisan propaganda. In retrospect, it was also Syria War propaganda. Because, until a few days ago, it seemed to the Syria War folks that Trump would not play along (and thus would have to be removed or at least weakened, somehow).
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There has always been news that is fake. Unfortunately for the fabricators, someone, somewhere always blabs. There has always been those whose agenda is to question what is. As if to taint reality. ..& then there are those who believe, initially, permanently everything thing they see ..& those seeing a pattern in coincidence.
It’s my preference withhold judgment but not to turn away. In one of my previous incarnations the rule of thumb was, never assume. At a certain point, it’s important to make a decision. Otherwise, the fecklessness of indecisiveness wins. Obama was such a weakness. Yet he’s admired by so many, despite the destructiveness of his indecisions. W. was a “decider” (his word) & he is reviled, the destruction he caused admired by villains.
I am undecided & it is not my place to make a decision. But I am unconvinced of false flags applied to every serious matter. Unless there’s something more than basic target practice on buildings with no occupants. To the West of our nation we, annually, fire ICBM’s at the Marshall Islands as a demonstration of our power.
The Seth Rich murder has too much coincidence surrounding it not to raise serious questions.
If his murder was a political assassination, then the FBI is up against one powerful lot of general persuasion “not to go there.” Which means, if the FBI is on the case, it is being investigated in the most clandestine manner they know how to employ. If he is “clean,” FBI Director James Comey has to give every appearance of dismissing any tie between the death of Seth Rich and political assassination until the Grand Jury decides.
Many of us who are worn down by how much the Clinton Organized Crime Association has gotten away with and we figure Comey to be too deep in the tall grass to do anything bold.
Mark Steyn, with whom I agree with on about 99.9 percent of issues, is saying that Trump’s action in Syria delivers the message “the last eight years are over” to the world.
In a tweet, I asked him is it’s possible that the message the world might be getting is that “the US can’t learn the lessons of the last 16 years”.
If I seen an answer, I’ll pass it on.
While on the subject of Steyn, he’s pondered, in the context of California’s Prop 8 being struck down by a judge, what the result of telling the electorate that “there are no lawful means of restraining its leaders”. I’d like to ask DJT that question.
I just added this:
Recently, Cernovich broke the story of Susan Rice’s role in the Obama administration’s 2016 spying on Trump. (To be precise: Cernovich knew that Bloomberg and Fox were sitting on the story and doing nothing, and he stampeded them into releasing it.)
The Arabs (Palestinians, Syrians, etc., etc., etc.) and Iranians are generally excellent at producing propaganda that survives first and second looks. Eventually, the truth will out, but that’s after the first round of reactions has already taken place.
However, sometimes it actually is as bad as they claim, so one can’t always assume they’re lying.
@ ILC: Cernovich reminds me of the “mad prophet” character: just because he spouts bullcrap doesn’t mean that there isn’t some truth sprinkled in among it.
I mean, this is the guy who swears up and down that PizzaGate is a thing because according to him, people in Congress never eat pizza (because there are no college-age interns working in Congress, apparently?), so any email referring to ordering pizza must actually be code for purchasing child prostitutes!
But he was right about Rice. So…
There’s an amateur body language analyst on YouTube that I find interesting. She tags McMaster as the prime mover behind the Syria strike, and as someone deeply interested in fighting Assad more than ISIS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u-CyBLjoEY
And McMaster has just kicked K.T. McFarland to Singapore. And Nikki Haley, now a McMaster ally, has been talking Syria regime change (“We don’t see a peaceful solution with Assad in there”). Are the tea leaves aligning?
KT is one of my favorites but she was a Flynn favorite. She was never going to keep her position. I’ll be sorry to see her go. Sorrier that Flynn ruined himself & so much else with his mistake.
A president that speaks from a position of power but isn’t necessarily a warmonger, yet needs to demonstrate US power needs a McMaster & a Haley. Every administration has many heads like a Hydra, but the final decision is always the president.
KT isn’t Intelligence but she understands it. Singapore is a CIA hub, China next door. Something to keep in mind. She’s valuable & I assume she’s going deep.
I clicked on the link to Mike Cernovich and read his plot outline.
My take is that Cernovich is just another in a Y-U-G-E number of pundits who believe Trump is a plastic nincompoop who is as easy to manipulate as was (in their highly self-esteemed minds) that amiable dunce, Ronald Reagan.
All those who don’t dare see things differently only have belittlement and betrayal to undergird their theories.
I still have no idea what Trump will do as President. Obama continually surprised me. GW Bush dragged me through ups and downs. Clintoon was a waste of Oval Office carpet. Bush 41 never got past giving out his autographed pictures. Reagan did an incredible amount but he didn’t bat 1000. Carter— oh, please! Ford was a decent enough doorstop and caretaker. Nixon did a great deal, both laudable and regrettable. Johnson fed Viet Nam and it ate him alive. Kennedy was Camelot for the silly set and did virtually nothing. Eisenhower was another dunce fringed with nimcompoopery who accomplished a great deal. Truman threw off the ghost of F.D.R. and was a great leader in national reorganization after the national dictatorship conditions of WWII. I only remember the day F.D.R. died — but the sun didn’t go out and the moon didn’t stop coming around.
In his 70 years, Trump has risen to the Pantheon of single names that evoke response: Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Edison, etc. Whether he will make it as President to the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or Roosevelt is for history to decide many decades from now.
Trump has won big and lost “bigly” and come back win again. He has learned how to keep his family together, to keep his personal empire together, to suffer storms and to wear achievement. He knows government at every level and he had played for keeps at every level of government. He knows the courts as a winner, a loser and a stalemate artist. He really, really knows unions. He knows the mob. He knows politicians and grifters. He knows trade. And yet, he is also practically untainted by partisan ideology. That makes him very difficult to read and understand by ideology-driven people, by partisans, by the establishment press, by bureaucrats, and by anyone who is trying to gauge him by some sort of mold.
Trump is subject to Y-U-G-E mistakes as are all Presidents. Just when you think he is on “your side” he may go off in a different direction. That is because he is assessing his options and looking for the path forward.
But to believe that McMasters and others are steering him into rocketing 150,000 troops into Syria is to expose how little Trump is trusted by some.
We have all learned that mysterious penumbras emanate from the “deep state” and through trickery and chicanery they may make Trump go all mercurial and erratic. He will be like Nixon wandering the halls of the White House and chatting with the portraits. He will be sitting there with the nuclear codes and his finger on the button and “poof” … Iowa is vaporized.
The establishment media and the DemonizingRats sell this taffy every minute of every day. Just this morning, Drudge links to how the Repugnants might lose the House in 2018. Trump Jitters. Keep demonizing Trump until anything is possible and whats possible is likely and whats likely is going to kill us.
It is hard to keep a perspective when so much flak is constantly surrounding us. Either Trump is up for the job or he isn’t. I have yet to see anything to shake my confidence in his ability to do the job. Does that mean I am 100% thrilled with him? I’m not 100% thrilled with myself.
Anther perspective on Cernovich
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446446/mike-cernovich-conspiracy-theories-fake-masculinity-donald-trump
For the record (and because this comes up in the National Review article that rusty linked), I agree with the idea that Hillary has some kind of serious health issue, that she has been hiding. Something with effects on the brain and nervous system.
But it could be a number of things. Cernovich went too far, in his headline last year along the lines of “Doctor confirms that Hillary has Parkinson’s”.
Because you can’t say “confirms” on any remote diagnosis. The doctor in question analyzed video of Hillary’s bizarre tics and problems, and did some reasonable speculation. But ONLY speculation, because the doctor couldn’t and didn’t examine Hillary. So yeah, that’s a legit example of Cernovich taking it too far.
The Controlled Media went equally too far – in the other direction. Scott Pelley of “60 minutes” tried to confront Cernovich on the Hillary thing. And Pelley stated to a certainty that Hillary’s problem was a bout of pneumonia. Pelley’s statement was equally invalid, because he didn’t examine Hillary either; all Pelley had was a statement from Hillary’s deceit-prone campaign. Cernovich nailed him on that.
As to the rest of the National Review article: Naturally, I condemn date rape and misogyny, and Cernovich if he’s really into that. I said “if”, because the article does smell to me like a hit piece. (Agenda-driven gossip and exaggeration)
ILC,
I will “see” your “does smell like a hit piece” and raise you to “is a hit piece.”
That whole National Review article was larded with innuendo and modifiers sprinkled about in a way to invite misunderstanding.
If you parse it, there is not single sentence left to publish. So, that makes it a hit piece, because it is too big to be a space filler.
I particularly noted that the author found some way to associate Rush Limbaugh with some aspect of some emanation of some penumbra which was either the cure for cancer or the return of bubonic plague or both or maybe, just maybe, something related to Hitler’s horoscope with vital clues to be found in Mayan calendar.
God bless Rusty for outfoxing us all and bringing such high powered, complicated rhetoric to our meagre minds. I sit, yea, wallow, in stunned bewilderment.
Ah, another ‘hit piece’ complete with twitter posts from
Cernovich
http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-cernovich-kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-jr-2017-4
Have not yet read the NR article so I can’t comment on any allegations therein, but—from Cernovich’s Twitter feed and blog posts he’s made in the past he certainly seems like a pig. He tweets about coming back from the gym and enjoying the smell of sweat and sex from the previous night’s escapade all mixed together. Who publicly posts carp like that?? (Outside of cretins like Dan Savage, that is.) He blogged a couple of years ago about enjoying Asian women because they usually fellate him with no questions asked but then he was on a date with an Asian chick and she at first balked about going all the way, then about fellating him and apparently it was like pulling hair for her to just do him until he had an orgasm.
I now see his avatar with him and his wife (Asian) and infant and wonder how he will screw up that situation in the future.
Ah, Dear Dear heliotrope . . .
‘ I sit, yea, wallow, in stunned bewilderment. ‘
Sorry that your morning constitutional is
so rewarding. But I guess those are are you daily aha moments
RSG: I’ve viewed some of Cernovich’s recent videos, and he seems pretty nice to his wife (who didn’t strike me as Asian) and baby. They’re always around as he works at home, and he sometimes interacts or brings them into frame.
Heliotrope – indeed. Tuttle’s piece opens with adjectives (telling us what to think) and closes with this:
Trying to imply that Cernovich thinks it. Cernovich is not perfect but…I highly doubt that he does. (Which would sort of make Tuttle the liar or cheater, here. But still not the alpha male.)
Cernovich married his first wife as a law student in 2003. Cernovich has stated that his “first marriage was ruined by feminist indoctrination.” His wife became an attorney in Silicon Valley and “earned millions of dollars in stock from an I.P.O.” She filed for divorce in 2011, and Cernovich received a seven-figure sum in the divorce settlement. Cernovich met his second wife shortly thereafter. She comes from a Persian, secular Muslim background. Cernovich lives outside of Los Angeles, California.
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rusty, just read your second link. Note this passage:
The odd – or you could say, interesting – mix of “ego” and self-awareness.
I noticed it also when I watched a couple of his youtube vids. He’s constantly going on about how great he is and, at the same time, how it’s fair for people to slag him, how he only wants to spread truth and stop war and it’s not about him and he doesn’t even like the limelight and he makes no money off anything except his book, etc. As he gives snatches of real attention and joy to the pet dog or the baby daughter in his lap. It’s weird.
Nice to see you posting again ILC.
Cernovich is just a baby Glen Beck. . .stuck in the limelight,
Quick to regurgitate conspiracy theories, wave his hands from the corner — Over here! Over here.
He admits that the Rice info came to him. . .
but, anyway, hope to see you stick around a bit longer ILC.
Ciao
Great post, great comments. All I can ad is when anything Rothschild is mentioned, that sums up 99% of it. Not a conspiracy theorist at all, no tin hats 😉 — but did you ever watch “The Rothschilds Explained in 4 Minutes” on you tube? It’s stunning. If we have an “exchange” with North Korea, you can bet the Rothschilds will be setting up a bank in the country.