by vivianleeposts | Oct 1, 2014 | Vivian Lee
BY
VIVIAN LEE
October 1, 2014
Western Foreign Policy Based on Sheer Propaganda
With a rash of “beheadings” sweeping the world, a horrified public is asked to see this depraved barbarity as The New Normal.
First we had the August “murder” on video of U.S. journalist James Foley, shown kneeling before a black-robed, masked figure brandishing a knife. Yes, even a rather small knife can do it (just as box-cutters can enable the hijacking of commercial airplanes). The perpetrator is identified as a member of the terrorist group ISIS (or IS or ISIL), which supposedly wants to install a new Islamic caliphate based in the region.
However, the video did not actually show the beheading, but faded to black at the appropriate moment. A subsequent frame purports to show Foley’s head propped up on his headless body. This video was staged, however, as proved by numerous researchers, and even admitted in the British press.[1] According to a report in The Telegraph:
…a study of the four-minute 40-second clip, carried out by an international forensic science company which has worked for police forces across Britain, suggested camera trickery and slick post-production techniques appear to have been used…no blood can be seen, even though the knife is drawn across the neck area at least six times.[2]
Nonetheless, the U.S. media continue to report this “beheading” as a real occurrence, over and over again, followed by another “beheading” of an American journalist, Steven J. Sotloff, in a video released in early September. This was supposedly a “second message to America” from ISIS: “Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.”[3] This video too is problematic, with no blood in evidence before the scene fades to black.[4]
Both Foley and Sotloff have intelligence connections, as does SITE, the media dissemination service behind the release of the videos. SITE [Search for International Terrorist Entities] is an offshoot of Intel Center, both of which have an uncanny ability to produce such material at the most opportune times in support of U.S. foreign policy.[5] A visit to the SITE website is instructive.[6]
The SITE Intelligence Group, founded in 2001 by Rita Katz, is an intelligence gathering operation that monitors jihadists online, often finding terrorist statements and videos as uploads “before they are published,” according to Katz. These are transmitted to U.S. intelligence services, which are curiously beholden to SITE for these sensitive materials, and they are then released to the U.S. media.[7]
All such information obtained by SITE and then broadcast is therefore suspect. Nonetheless, the Foley and Sotloff videos have reportedly gotten the U.S. public on board with the bombing of northern Iraq and Syria in an R-2-P operation (Responsibility To Protect), the real goal being to take out Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
As for the U.K., David Haines was shown in a third “beheading” video released by SITE in mid-September.[8] And the black-robed “killer” has a British accent, which surely indicates that British citizens have gone to Iraq-Syria to join ISIS – and that they could return to wreak havoc in the homeland.
Not to neglect France, which now has its own beheading – of Hervé Gourdel, a mountaineering guide from Nice who was kidnapped in Algeria, shown in a video released by SITE in late September.[9] And certainly Australia should have one as well, but a dastardly ISIS plot in Sydney was reportedly thwarted by the government.[10]
These western countries are instrumental to the U.S.-led coalition to protect the world against ISIS, since the coalition initially included only Middle Eastern client states such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Jordan. As of this writing, France, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, and England have now signed on, with Turkey lining up as well.[11]
Just to drive the point home (as it were) for any “war weary” Americans out there, we now have a home-grown beheading of an employee at a food processing plant in Moore, Oklahoma. The perpetrator, a black man named Alton Nolen, is said to have been fired from his job at Vaughan Foods. Nolen “recently started trying to convert some of his co-workers to the Muslim religion,” according to a police spokesperson.[12]
On “a Facebook page that appears to be his,” Nolen posted the following: “This is the last days… AMERICA AND ISRAEL ARE WICKED. WAKE UP MUSLIMS!!!” The FBI is assisting with the investigation after putting out “an alert to local law enforcement officials across the country to be on the watch for so-called lone wolves who might respond violently” in the wake of U.S. bombing in Syria. Now ask yourself: is this scenario credible?[13]
Nonetheless, the “beheadings”are getting major traction in the U.S. press. Magazines feature articles and editorials, television anchors report with great gravity, and radio hosts banter with listeners about these fake events. WAKE UP AMERICANS!!! As this war propaganda multiplies, with gullible members of the public accepting these psy-ops as fact, at stake are the destruction of the Middle East, continued massive “collateral damage” in Iraq and Syria – and the degrading of our own collective mentality.[14]
VIVIAN LEE is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at a US east coast university.
This article was published at MemoryHoleBlog.org.
NOTES
[1] “Media Damage Control on James Foley Video: Experts Now Conclude Video Is Fake” (Red Pill Revolution).
[2] “Foley Murder Video ‘May Have Been Staged’.” The Telegraph, August 25, 2014.
[3] “ISIS Video Shows Beheading of American Journalist Steven Sotloff.” CNN World, September 9, 2014.
[4] “James Foley Steven Sotloff ISIS Beheading Absolutely Fake Hoax” (TeamWakeEmUP).
[5] “Staged Foley, Sotloff Beheading Videos ‘Not Evidence,’ U.S. Determined to Wage War of Fear on Its Own People.” 21st Century Wire, September 9, 2014.
[6] http://ent.siteintelgroup.com/
[7] James Tracy, “Who Is Behind the Islamic State (ISIL) Beheadings? Probing the SITE Intelligence Group.” Global Research, September 15, 2014.
[8] “ISIS Video Shows British Hostage Being Beheaded.” New York Times, September 14, 2014.
[9] “French Hostage in Algeria Is Beheaded in Video Released by Militants.” New York Times, September 25, 2014.
[10] http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/australian-leader-warns-planned-random-attack-25585654.
[11] “Three More Countries Join the Coalition against ISIS.” Time.com, September 26, 2014.
[12] “Woman Is Beheaded in Attack at Oklahoma Food Plant.” New York Times, September 27, 2014.
[13] “Oklahoma Beheading Hoax Alton Nolen ISIS Lone Wolf” (TeamWakeEmUP).
[14] Michel Chossudovsky, “The Terrorists R Us: The Islamic State Big Lie.” Global Research, September 25, 2014.
by vivianleeposts | Oct 6, 2013 | Vivian Lee
BY
VIVIAN LEE
October 6, 2013
(Time Sensitive: The following article was submitted October 5, 2013. The contributor wishes to point out that specific features of the referenced Wikipedia articles assessed herein are subject to uncertain change without the author’s control or public notice.)
Let’s convict the son-of-a-bitch in the press. That’s the way it’s done.
-President Richard Nixon[1]
We are familiar with conviction in the press, one sub-category of the lying and propagandizing featured on a daily basis in the mainstream print and electronic media. But in this age of transparency and equal opportunity, we now find conviction on Wikipedia—and anyone can do it. Especially anyone with a huge government or military or corporate budget and hundreds of paid employees who use pen names to write their Wikipedia articles—and to vigilantly monitor them so that their views will stay posted. And we all use Wikipedia, although we know that we can’t trust it. But we use it anyway, and the things we read there, especially if well articulated and effectively illustrated, stick in our heads and become part of our reality. Most topically, we have wiki-convictions in two recent shootings in Washington, D.C.
The first, the “Washington Navy Yard shooting,” which occurred the morning of September 16, 2013, can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting complete with a head shot of Aaron Alexis (uploaded September 18), the supposed perpetrator, and another of Alexis roaming the halls of “Building 197” with his “Remington 870 shotgun” (uploaded September 25). Thirteen people allegedly died in the incident (including the shooter), and eight were injured, according to official accounts.
Aaron Alexis, alleged Washington Navy Yard shooter. Image: Wikipedia.
In addition we have a photo of Chuck Hagel and others laying a wreath at the Navy Memorial on September 17 in honor of the victims, as well as a video of a report on the event from the Pentagon Channel (uploaded September 17). On September 27, we have an upload of the supposed surveillance video of Alexis driving into the garage, entering the building, and roaming the halls with his Remington 870, but showing no mass murder whatsoever:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AVideo_Footage_of_Shooter_at_Washington_Navy_Yard_-_YouTube.theora.ogv
As of October 5, we have a plethora of information on “the perpetrator,” both before the shooting and during the immediate run-up, documented with 71 scholarly endnotes. Alexis, a defense contractor from Queens, New York, was cited for misconduct in the Navy, arrested in Fort Worth for discharging a weapon within the city limits, and also in Seattle for shooting out the tires of a vehicle. Wikipedia provides details on his visit to a sharpshooters range in Virginia, his testing (but not purchase) of an AR-15, his means of entering the Navy Yard, his assembly of a sawed-off shotgun in a bathroom, his theft of an officer’s Beretta 9mm semiautomatic pistol, and his rampage—in surprisingly close detail. We have data on his use of the antidepressant Trazodone for insomnia, his claim to be a victim of harassment from ELF electromagnetic waves, and his quote, “Ultra low frequency attack is what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months. And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this.” This statement is said to be “A message obtained by federal authorities from Alexis’s thumb drives, phones and computers.”
And, yes, we have reports of other suspects, but we find that “officials ruled out the possibility of other shooters besides Alexis, but were still seeking one person for possible involvement.” We have the reaction of Barack Obama, who “pledged to ensure the perpetrators would be held responsible”—the “perpetrators”? And in the very first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, we have the verdict: “Aaron Alexis, a lone gunman armed initially with a shotgun, fatally shot twelve people and injured three others,” after which “Alexis was killed by police around 9:20 am EDT.”
The article was created on Wikipedia at 4:03 pm (EDT) on the day of the shooting, posted by “Kennvido,” and since that time there has been a continuous succession of posts adding to and updating the article. What we don’t have is any comment on why the shooting supposedly proceeded for more than an hour (was anyone watching the supposed surveillance video?), why CERT law enforcement officers at the scene were asked to stand down during the shooting, or how and why the radios of police and firefighters failed as they went into the building.[2]
A more recent Washington shooting took place on October 3, 2013, in the early afternoon, and was of a different sort: the killing of Connecticut resident Miriam Carey by D.C. Capitol police in a hail of bullets. Carey, a licensed dental hygienist, was driving her car with her 18-month-old child in the back seat. The Wikipedia article, “2013 United States Capitol shooting incident,” was created at 6:36 pm (EDT) on the day of the shooting, and has been continuously updated. The page was created by GoldRingChip, with early contributions by Amazingdude89 and Kennvido.
As of October 5, the article states that Carey “attempted to drive through a White House security checkpoint…, struck a U.S. Secret Service officer, and was chased by the Secret Service to the United States Capitol where she was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.” Carey, the victim of unlawful lethal force but called “the perpetrator,” is said to have run into a Secret Service officer, and backed out of an attempt by police to box in her car, “nearly striking half a dozen uniformed Secret Service officers as she drove away.” She was eventually “forced off the road and fatally shot by police,” pronounced dead on arrival at MedStar Washington Hospital. “A young child, believed to be Carey’s, was found unharmed in the car after it was ultimately stopped.”
Miriam Carey. Image: Washington Post.
This incident created havoc in Washington, causing a “shelter in place order” to be instituted at the Capitol building; a “bomb squad robot was used to enter inside Carey’s house” in an attempt to determine “the possible motivation of her actions.” We learn that Carey “had previously been hospitalized for postpartum depression” and that the FBI found “two medications” in her apartment, “as well as a laptop, a flash drive, and three non-working cell phones.” Officials said “she may have suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and believed President Barack Obama was communicating with her.” We have no photos or videos yet on the Wikipedia page, but we can be sure that incriminating photo documentation will appear in the near future.
What we do not hear is that instead of trying to breach White House property, Carey apparently became frightened when she encountered a temporary checkpoint, which may have been part of a drill running at the time. As Paul Joseph Watson writes, “Perhaps cognizant of the fact that cops routinely shoot unarmed innocent people for no reason whatsoever, Carey panicked and tried to escape.”[3] Nor do we hear that Carey was “happy,” “stable,” and “a nice young lady,” as characterized by friends and two former employers. And we do not hear on Wikipedia that she was unarmed—or that Congress gave the Capitol police a standing ovation for gunning her down.
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, allegedly seen in surveillance footage. Image: MPR News.
These two convictions on Wikipedia are only the tip of the iceberg. There are many more, including the extensive and detailed page convicting “suspects” Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013 (“Boston Marathon bombings”). The two brothers are said to have been seen in photographs and surveillance video footage released by the FBI, although no photos or video footage actually show either of them engaging in anything related to the bombing.
Alleged Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza. Image: Washington Post.
In addition, we have the conviction of “Adam Lanza” who “fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School” (“Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting”), with an impressive amount of detail regarding Lanza’s appearance, weapons, trajectory, commands (“Put your hands up!”) and, basically, his every move—as well as the actions of the teachers and children. Photo documentation includes the clearly manipulated “yearbook photograph of Adam Lanza, the shooter in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.”
We also have the conviction of James Eagan Holmes, “the sole suspect” in the mass shooting in the Aurora, Colorado, theater on July 20, 2012, during a midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.” His photo, too, is the one we always see elsewhere—the deranged “suspect” with dyed hair and a glassy expression.
James Eagan Holmes, alleged Aurora shooter. Image: Wikipedia.
As with the other wiki-convictions, this article (“2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting”) boasts an amazing amount of detail regarding everything about Holmes—from his gas mask, ballistic helmet, and bullet-proof leggings to his 12-gauge Remington 870 Express Tactical shotgun, his Smith & Wesson M&P15 semiautomatic rifle with 100-round drum magazine, and his Glock 22 handgun. The Wikipedia pages on these events are all the more impressive when one realizes that much or most of the information contained therein appears to be fabricated—or at least has not been proven to be true by the endnotes, photos, videos, or anything else contained in the articles. And the joy of this wiki-type of conviction-in-the-press is that anyone with enough time and resources can be a reporter.
To take a wider view, we not only have convictions of supposed mass shooters and patently innocent mothers on Wikipedia, we have a great deal of other fictitious information cooked up in the same manner. Try typing “chemtrails” into the Wikipedia search bar and you will be “redirected” to the article “Chemtrail conspiracy theory,” the most incredible compendium of detailed disinformation imaginable regarding the poisonous trails of heavy metals, nano-machines, and blood pathogens that are sprayed over America (and most of the rest of the world) daily. The first reference to this article in the revision history is March 14, 2004, with early contributions by Dpbsmith, Vodex, Godzig, FirstPrinciples, and others. This page has changed significantly over the last decade, with more recent versions reflecting the need of the Air Force, their contractors, and others complicit in the aerosol spraying to counter the obvious fact that we are being bombarded on a massive level—and that more and more people are taking notice.
Whereas the article was once a discursus on “contrails vs chemtrails,” we now have a more detailed acknowledgment of “the chemtrail conspiracy theory” that “posits that some trails left by aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for purposes undisclosed to the general public and directed by various government officials.” We are assured, however, that “this theory is not accepted by the scientific community, which states that they are just normal contrails, as there is no scientific evidence supporting the chemtrail theory.”
Wow—great! And all in the first paragraph. We also have an acknowledgment of the Air Force strategy paper, “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025,” as well as a nod to “accounts” of some of the substances we are all breathing: barium, aluminum, polymer fibers, and thorium, although no mention of strontium, freeze-dried erythrocytes, or Morgellons. And there is extensive photo documentation to put our minds at rest, such as the images below, labeled “A high-flying jet leaving a condensation trail (contrail)” and “Multiple persistent contrails.”
“Contrails.” Images: Wikipedia.
Those of us who can weather (as it were) the depredations of the US mass media still use Wikipedia. In many instances, one can correct inaccuracies in a Wikipedia page, if one has the time and inclination. But what about these big, important topics, with their detailed and extensive Wikipedia pages pushed as scholarly articles? One informed colleague who is an expert on the chemtrail phenomenon has refrained from correcting “Chemtrail conspiracy theory” on Wikipedia, saying, “They know who I am—they will come and get me.”
Yes indeed, they will know who we are, as editors must provide e-mail contacts. Retaliation might be expected in the form of change to an editor’s posts on other Wikipedia articles, or even the hacking of one’s own private websites. So while we assume that we can all contribute to the people’s encyclopedia, and do so anonymously, in fact we cannot—or at least we cannot hope to have our contributions stick. Those who wish to purvey disinformation, if they have the staff and requisite assets, can prevail completely and without exception. As Nixon said, “Leak it out!”—and that is what they are doing.[4]
Vivian Lee is the nom de plume of a tenured professor at an east coast university.
This article was published at MemoryHoleBlog.org.
NOTES
[1] Richard Nixon on Daniel Ellsberg, audiotape recording from the documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, dirs., 2009.
[2] Adan Salazar, “First Responders: Radios Failed During Navy Yard Shooting,” Infowars.com, September 21, 2013.
[3] Paul Joseph Watson, “Congress Gives Standing Ovation to DC Cops For Executing Unarmed Mother,” Infowars.com, October 4, 2013.
[4] Richard Nixon to John Mitchell, Conversation 532-23, 30 June 1971, 2:31 pm – 3:07 pm, Oval Office. http://whitehousetapes.net/exhibit/rough-guide-richard-nixons-conspiracy-theories