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Syrian Activists Caught Lying, Syrian Rebels Caught Committing Atrocities
March 6, 2012 – Why should the West intervene in Syria when it turns out “activists” giving daily body counts, the sole source of “evidence” for the UN’s ever climbing grand total, are caught not only lying, but staging entire interviews complete with fake gunfire directed “off stage? ” Why should the US, UK, EU, or the West’s stable of Arab proxy-regimes be allowed to arm Syrian rebels admittedly carrying out their own horrific atrocities? Clearly Syria’s opposition have turned out, just as they have in Libya, to be craven, murderous, and ultimately deceitful extremists – making any further contact with them by the West a direct violation of their own national and international laws.
BBC Interview: A Syrian British Hero, Danny Abdel Dayem 9-9-2011
The omnipresent “Danny” from Syria has been recently exposed in a video showing him relaxed, joking, and preparing off-camera staged-gunfire, before getting into character for a hysterical “casualty report” given to CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Danny” isn’t the first fraud caught being used by a duplicitous Western media to sell military intervention in Syria.
Video: Classic war propaganda – complete with staged-gunfire off camera and the intrepid actor “Danny” relaxed and joking before getting into character to give a hysterical “casualty report” to his co-star, CNN’s Anderson Cooper – just one of many he regularly gives to Western media networks.
Danny Abdel Dayem full interview on CNN March 1st 2012
Anderson Cooper: You are getting funds from Syrian Americans for Democracy and Syrian Emergency Task Force.
There was also “A Gay Girl in Damascus” who turned out to be a 40 year-old American man based in the UK. It is exactly “activist-based” reports like this, that the UN and corporate media have used shamelessly to advocate Wall Street and London’s mandates.
Image: Pictured is “Gay Girl in Damascus.” Far from an editorial oversight, “Gay Girl in Damascus” was in reality a 40 year-old American man living in the UK. The Western media shamelessly exploited his narrative until it unraveled, and simply moved on to other actors, like “Danny” who directs fake gunfire off-camera while giving casualty reports to CNN.
Links to the unraveling of “Amina Arraf” A Gay Girl in Damascus:
- Electronic Intifada – New evidence about Amina, the “Gay Girl in Damascus” hoax
- “Amina Arraf”, Britta Froelicher & the University of St. Andrews [see update]
- Tom MacMaster, Britta Froelicher, The Guardian, Academia, And the Much Wider Web Of Deceit Behind Gay Girl In Damascus
The West has lost all moral authority – authority that only billions of dollars in manipulative media and military supremacy can buy – but is easily lost as the facade begins to crumble. How many more Syrian “Danny’s” or “Gay Girls in Damascus” are there, staging interviews, fabricating body-counts, and attempting to manipulate the good intentions of millions around the world? How long will the West attempt to convince the world that the Syrian rebels, admittedly armed, admittedly carrying out their own growing list of atrocities, and clearly infiltrated by Al Qaeda terrorists, are worthy of US diplomatic support, funding, training, weapons, and even US airpower?
Most importantly, how long are people going to allow themselves to be lied to, their intelligence insulted, before they decide to speak out, and commit to sanctioning with boycotts the corporations driving this agenda?
There was no widespread killing in Syria before the US State Department, John McCain’s International Republican Institute, and the National Endowment for Democracy trained, funded, and directed the unrest back in early 2011. Along every step of the way, instability, chaos and death in Syria has been the result of the West propping up these terrorists and perpetuating the deadly conflict as Syria’s government attempts to restore order.
With lies, atrocities, and open acts of war the West seeks to complete their predetermined regime change before turning their deceitful war-machine toward Tehran. But as the facade crumbles, they do so as a naked act of military aggression, as Hitlerian invaders, not hallowed liberators – their crimes, committed before the eyes of an awakening world, will echo through history.
- Leaked Email: Pentagon Admits Plan To Direct Terror Attacks Inside Syria
- How Avaaz Foundation [George Soros] Is Sponsoring Fake War Propaganda From Syria
See my earlier diaries –
Obama In Bed with Israel and Neocons [Breaking News Update] and A Call for Diplomacy, Not Military Intervention in Syria
ASSAD REGIME OF SYRIA AND THEIR FAKE PROPAGANDA VIDEOS
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."There is a movement in Syria of peaceful protest that is imitative of the movement in Egypt.
There are various countries trying to play the protests and the government response for their national interests – and not just the West.
And there definitely is Western propaganda from a variety of sources with a variety of axes to grind. Even propaganda against the Western governments that originates in the West.
The game is not over for any of these. The propaganda war continues until the dust settles in Syria.
It’s what happens when governments suppress the inflow and outflow of information in order to preserve themselves. There is no way to vet stories in real time.
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Insurgency led by Libyan fighters, arms and training with arms support through Turkey and the GCC countries, most vocal Qatar and Saudi (funds). Some responses by Russia’s Lavrov are just plain … true, contrary to Susan Rice’s UN tirade of Russia’s blunt veto on two UNSC resolutions. Susan Rice and the Jewish Service Award, how I’m not surprised.
American NGOs under legal attack in Egypt
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."“It’s what happens when governments suppress the inflow and outflow of information in order to preserve themselves. There is no way to vet stories in real time.“
I do find it unsurprisingly hypocritical that the Syrian government is being so harshly criticized for keeping out the press and, as you said, “suppressing the inflow and outflow of information” when that is precisely what the Americans and the Israelis do on a routine basis. In fact, the Americans have at times clearly targeted journalists and journalistic organizations, and not very accidentally killed journalists.
My point stands for the case of American suppression of information as well.
I figured it would. Of course, I was not arguing with you, merely piggy-backing on your comment to get in a related comment of my own.
Yes, there is a way to vet stories in real time.
Don’t watch them.
Duh.
If almost all media content is disinformation…and it is, Tarheel, it is all just advertising on other levels…then why pay any attention to it at all? The only way to get even a glimpse of what is really going on…be it in Syria, Washington DC, Oshkosh, WI or around the corner and up the block…is to scan all of the disinfo available on a very quick level. This minimizes the hypnotrancing effect of media, an habitual hypnotic syndrome that has been more or less well established in the brain of almost every human being on the planet. Approach disinfo this way and the charges and countercharges, lies and counter-lies eventually cancel each other out and one is left with “the truth.” The truth being that there is no truth, only competing self-interests. At that point one can zoom in on one’s own most pressing needs and actually get something done.
“The news?”
It’s all fake.
All of it.
Some parts of the news are more fake than are other parts. How to predict the fakery level? Ask yourself how much money and power is in the balance? More money, more fakery…better, more effective fakery, anyway.
There it is.
Step away from the news with your brains in the air.
You be bettah off.
Bet on it.
AG
Well, I looked at most of the material presented or referred to here, and this is part of my reaction so far:
I admit I have not followed events in Syria in close detail. I am reluctant to bring it up with friends who are there for obvious reasons. I do have other sources, including a close friend who has been back and forth several times since just before the troubles began in Dar`a where she is from. Drawing from various sources it is clear that this is not a simple matter of the regime slaughtering innocent people who are making reasonable demands for reasonable reforms. I see, among other things, that the conduct of the “rebels” is making it more difficult for the government to make reforms, and that in some ways the rebels are refusing to accept reforms that were offered and accomplished.
I do agree with the blog author that the interference of the United States against the regime is making matters worse, not better.
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Interesting Blog from Lebanon
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I’m not very impressed with this blogger’s take on things. For one thing, he is citing as his only sources on the Muslim Brotherhood Hasan Al Banna, who died in the late ’40’s and Sayyid Qutb who died in the ’60’s as if that organization has not evolved one iota in the last six decades or so. Guess what? It has. For another, he is trying to put all Muslims and all Muslim thinking into one box, which does not remotely fit with reality. Second, he assumes that Shari`a is inherently undemocratic, which it is not. In fact Shari`a, like all forms of law, is not immutable, but is a living, evolving thing, and is subject to differing opinions and heavy debate. Third, he makes some factual errors in the post.
I greatly prefer a secular government in all cases, but I do think it is critical to approach these questions in a rational, reality-based way.
Small addendum:
I DO find it amusing and annoying that we keep hearing calls for Bashshar Al Asad to stop the violence without regard for the fact that the rebels have from the beginning and continue to commit their own significant share of violence (and are endangering, and from what I hear in some cases harming civilians themselves), and have not shown any inclination to stop in response to any action or inaction on the part of the regime.
It is interesting to contrast the bias on Syria, in which the situation is reported as the brutal government slaughtering “their own” innocent people with the bias on Israel in which the occupying power and the occupied population are presented as two equal parties involved in a “conflict”. Each is not quite the exact opposite of reality, but pretty close to it.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I pretty much agree with the blog you quoted. I find the inconcistencies in some of Danny’s stories a bit troubling, but the videos, as I said, are unconvincing.
One can only pray that this happens on every level of “news.”
Every level.
Commercial broadcasting…and I include in that classification so-called “independent” sources like NPR and also YouTube/Facebook/Twitter etc., because they are all one way or another bound by big money interests…is nothing but advertising. It is built on the lie. The more money, the bigger…and better-produced…the lie. The best produced (and most effectively disseminated) lie wins.
I got yer “democracy”…your “information age”…right there.
Bet on it.
“This shoe is better than that shoe.”
“This cereal is better than that cereal”
“This car…country, revolution, whatever…is better than that car/country/revolution.”
There are, of course, “true” lies. That is, some lies are about things that indeed are better than the the things being lied about by competing lie-producers. But that’s just a coincidence. The spirit, the purpose of the information is to win by any means necessary and thus none of it can be trusted.
None of it.
The only idea in the sentence that I quote above with which I might have an argument is the concept of “cynicism.”
I’d like it better this way, myself:
Get real, folks.
Turn off the lies.
All of them.
Only then will the truth begin to reveal itself.
Bet on that as well.
AG
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