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Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Fri Jan 03, 2020 5:53 am

The Syrian conflict is awash with propaganda – chemical warfare bodies should not be caught up in it
By Robert Fisk

Peter Hitchens of the Mail on Sunday reported in detail on the Henderson document. No other mainstream media followed up this story. The BBC, for example, had reported in full on the OPCW’s final report on the use of chlorine gas, but never mentioned the subsequent Henderson story.

And here I might myself have abandoned the trail had I not received a call on my Beirut phone shortly after the Henderson paper, from the Nato officer who had tipped me off about the OPCW’s apparent censorship of its own documents. “I wasn’t talking about the Henderson report,” he said abruptly. And immediately terminated our conversation. But now I understand what he must have been talking about.

For in the past few weeks, there has emerged deeply disturbing new evidence that the OPCW went far further than merely excluding one dissenting voice from its conclusions on the 2018 Douma attack.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/sy ... 62336.html

Robert Fisk, Peter Hitchens, Wikileaks and more or canny's made up bollox to just troll...you decide...

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cannydc » Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:23 am

LordRaven wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
Fletch wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.


What are the odds on you documenting/linking to 300 chemical weapon attacks canny? :shell:


About the same as you linking to proof that even half of them didn't happen.


It is good of you to pander to the CT/Fake News hysterical twat Canny.

I can't be arsed to even look at the dross he posts let alone read it.


As mentioned, I have more time on my hands these days.

The one thing that makes me laugh is Fletch's indignance at the thought of anyone using a search engine to find what can easily be the true story as opposed to what has been horribly "Daily Mailed" - distorted to suit an anti-West agenda - by most if not all of his favourite sources.

Of course, the stuff he spews onto this forum is there too - ironic lol.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by LordRaven » Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:16 pm

Cannydc wrote:
Fletch wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.


What are the odds on you documenting/linking to 300 chemical weapon attacks canny? :shell:


About the same as you linking to proof that even half of them didn't happen.


It is good of you to pander to the CT/Fake News hysterical twat Canny.

I can't be arsed to even look at the dross he posts let alone read it.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cannydc » Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:32 pm

Fletch wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.


What are the odds on you documenting/linking to 300 chemical weapon attacks canny? :shell:


About the same as you linking to proof that even half of them didn't happen.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:06 pm

Cannydc wrote:
It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.


What are the odds on you documenting/linking to 300 chemical weapon attacks canny? :shell:

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cactus Jack » Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:54 pm

Cannydc wrote:
Fletch wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
There have been something like 300 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, and there can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of them have been carried out by the same forces that have been dropping barrel-bombs, cluster bombs, napalm, and plain old HE, on Syrian civilians for 8 years.


I think that would be my starter for ten, as far as the truth is concerned,

As for Ian Henderson and his note (his word) titled “Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed at the Douma incident” I think much caution should be placed on his 'conclusions'.

Much reading here;

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... d-his.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... on-or.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... erson.html


Wow canny, really? You really do just google for opposite views and post them on here as facts, don't you. A blog called Linux Beach and a bloke called Clay beach? :pmsl:

How did you come across that blog canny?

You ignore all the other links in this thread, including the emails themselves, and even Peter Hitchens who actually travelled to a foreign country and met with OPCW members to view actual documentation in favour of a blog from a guy named Clay beach? :thud:

As The OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting U.S. Propaganda Jumps To Its Help

An international organization published two false reports and got caught in the act. But as the false reports are in the U.S. interests a U.S. sponsored propaganda organization is send out to muddle the issue. As that effort comes under fire the New York Times jumps in to give the cover-up effort some extra help.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/12/a ... -help.html


It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.

So, next step is look at the 'note' author. And guess what ? Yep, he fits right in there with the rest of your CT lovin', Russian sympathising, Fake News spreadin' sites.

And in the end it seems eminently sensible to recommend caution regarding the outpourings of Mr Ian Henderson. At which point you chuck yet another wobbly.

That's how it works Fletch. Of course, it's just as easy to just chuck everything you post into File 13, but I have plenty of time on my hands.

I just stick with File 13.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cannydc » Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:08 pm

Fletch wrote:
Cannydc wrote:
There have been something like 300 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, and there can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of them have been carried out by the same forces that have been dropping barrel-bombs, cluster bombs, napalm, and plain old HE, on Syrian civilians for 8 years.


I think that would be my starter for ten, as far as the truth is concerned,

As for Ian Henderson and his note (his word) titled “Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed at the Douma incident” I think much caution should be placed on his 'conclusions'.

Much reading here;

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... d-his.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... on-or.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... erson.html


Wow canny, really? You really do just google for opposite views and post them on here as facts, don't you. A blog called Linux Beach and a bloke called Clay beach? :pmsl:

How did you come across that blog canny?

You ignore all the other links in this thread, including the emails themselves, and even Peter Hitchens who actually travelled to a foreign country and met with OPCW members to view actual documentation in favour of a blog from a guy named Clay beach? :thud:

As The OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting U.S. Propaganda Jumps To Its Help

An international organization published two false reports and got caught in the act. But as the false reports are in the U.S. interests a U.S. sponsored propaganda organization is send out to muddle the issue. As that effort comes under fire the New York Times jumps in to give the cover-up effort some extra help.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/12/a ... -help.html


It's a simple system, using Occam's Razor as a basis. If you have plausible deniability issues for ONE attack, fine. Three hundred is a tad more difficult.

So difficult in fact, that I suspect that the odds are very much against that one attack being deniable too. Therefore I play the odds.

So, next step is look at the 'note' author. And guess what ? Yep, he fits right in there with the rest of your CT lovin', Russian sympathising, Fake News spreadin' sites.

And in the end it seems eminently sensible to recommend caution regarding the outpourings of Mr Ian Henderson. At which point you chuck yet another wobbly.

That's how it works Fletch. Of course, it's just as easy to just chuck everything you post into File 13, but I have plenty of time on my hands.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:16 pm

In its defense of the OPCW report Bellingcat wrote:

[A] comparison of the points raised in the letter against the final Douma report makes it amply clear that the OPCW not only addressed these points, but even changed the conclusion of an earlier report to reflect the concerns of said employee.
Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens did not concur with that paragraph:

Apart from the words ‘a’, and ‘the’, everything in the above paragraph is, to put it politely, mistaken. Bellingcat have been so anxious to trash the leak from the OPCW that they have (as many did when the attack was first released) rushed to judgment without waiting for the facts. More is known by the whistleblowers of the OPCW than has yet been released ...

Bellingcat or Guard Dog for the Establishment?
Peter Hitchens

***My response to the ‘Bellingcat’ attempt to spin away the devastating implications of the OPCW Douma Leak.***

I have interleaved my comments (in black or red) with the ‘Bellingcat’ arguments (in green)

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk ... -have.html

Lots in there for you to read, including who funds state sponsored propaganda.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:13 pm

Cannydc wrote:
There have been something like 300 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, and there can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of them have been carried out by the same forces that have been dropping barrel-bombs, cluster bombs, napalm, and plain old HE, on Syrian civilians for 8 years.


I think that would be my starter for ten, as far as the truth is concerned,

As for Ian Henderson and his note (his word) titled “Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed at the Douma incident” I think much caution should be placed on his 'conclusions'.

Much reading here;

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... d-his.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... on-or.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... erson.html


Wow canny, really? You really do just google for opposite views and post them on here as facts, don't you. A blog called Linux Beach and a bloke called Clay beach? :pmsl:

How did you come across that blog canny?

You ignore all the other links in this thread, including the emails themselves, and even Peter Hitchens who actually travelled to a foreign country and met with OPCW members to view actual documentation in favour of a blog from a guy named Clay beach? :thud:

As The OPCW Is Accused Of False Reporting U.S. Propaganda Jumps To Its Help

An international organization published two false reports and got caught in the act. But as the false reports are in the U.S. interests a U.S. sponsored propaganda organization is send out to muddle the issue. As that effort comes under fire the New York Times jumps in to give the cover-up effort some extra help.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/12/a ... -help.html

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cannydc » Tue Dec 31, 2019 12:00 am

There have been something like 300 chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, and there can be no doubt that the overwhelming majority of them have been carried out by the same forces that have been dropping barrel-bombs, cluster bombs, napalm, and plain old HE, on Syrian civilians for 8 years.


I think that would be my starter for ten, as far as the truth is concerned,

As for Ian Henderson and his note (his word) titled “Engineering Assessment of two cylinders observed at the Douma incident” I think much caution should be placed on his 'conclusions'.

Much reading here;

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... d-his.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... on-or.html

http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2019/06/ ... erson.html

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Cactus Jack » Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:21 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:So the MSM is outed yet again but no apologies for Fletch.
Whenever it comes out that MSM is untrustworthy on everything except cat got stuck up tree stories it's just the edge being curled up a little.
Carry on wallowing in the bullshit folks especially Lordy with his Russia crap :pointlaugh:

Where to start on the host of fallacies in this short post.

Should we start with false dichotomy? Or maybe dealing with the idea that 'the MSM' is some kind of monolithic structure with a single purpose? Perhaps we could point out that Channel 4 news from ITN is 'the MSM' and so according to Fletch's logic we should treat this story as Fake News.

The fact is every day every journalist is faced with the same choice. As a journalist you will be given press releases and you have a choice to make. You can print the press release more or less verbatim and go down the pub for another G&T or you can interrogate the issues, check the sources and verify the facts before going to print. Both methods get you the same paycheck and with one you get an afternoon off to get shit-faced.

When it comes to being prepared to question a source or just cutting and pasting from questionable sources we know exactly where CTNuts stand. We've seen them on this forum repeating debunked theories every six months when they think they can get away with putting them out again.

Every media source has an agenda and every media sources should be questioned - apart from the Daily Express when it makes it's annual predictions of three month long blizzards in the winter, then you have permission to bypass questioning and go straight to ignoring.

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:29 pm

Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal

WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that nation from the US, UK and France.

This new WikiLeaks drop includes an email from the OPCW Chief of Cabinet Sebastien Braha (who is reportedly so detested by organisation inspectors that they code named him “Voldemort”) throwing a fit over the Ian Henderson Engineering Assessment which found that the Douma incident was likely a staged event. Braha is seen ordering OPCW staff to “remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever” from the organisation’s secure registry.

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https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/28 ... n-scandal/

Still the msm won't touch the truth. :shake head:

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:40 pm

PETER HITCHENS: My secret meeting with mole at the heart of The Great Poison Gas Scandal

My source calmly showed me various pieces of evidence that they were who they said they were, and knew what they claimed to know, making it clear that they worked for the OPCW and knew its inner workings. They then revealed a document to me.

This was the email of protest, sent to senior OPCW officials, saying that a report on the alleged Syrian poison gas attack in Douma, in April 2018, had been savagely censored so as to alter its meaning.

In decades of journalism I have received quite a few leaks: leaks over luxurious, expensive lunches with Cabinet Ministers, anonymous leaks that just turned up in envelopes, leaks from union officials and employers, diplomats and academics.

But I’ve never seen one like this. It scared me. If it was true, then something hugely dishonest and dangerous was going on, in a place where absolute integrity was vital.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... andal.html

Still the rest of the msm ignore the revelations about the OPCW :shake head:

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Fletch » Sun Dec 01, 2019 6:37 pm

OPCW Manipulation Of Its Douma Report Requires A Fresh Look At The Skripal 'Novichok' Case

With regards to the revelations about the OPCW management manipulation of its staff reports the former UN weapon inspector Scott Ritter makes a very valid point:

Thanks to an explosive internal memo, there is no reason to believe the claims put forward by the Syrian opposition that President Bashar al-Assad’s government used chemical weapons against innocent civilians in Douma back in April. This is a scenario I have questioned from the beginning. It also calls into question all the other conclusions and reports by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was assigned in 2014 “to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic.”

Besides its activities around dubious 'chemical' incident in Syria there is another rather famous case in which the OPCW got involved: The alleged 'Novichok' attack on Sergei and Julia Skripal in Salisbury, Britain.


https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/11/o ... l#comments

:wurms:

Re: Peter Oborne on Fake news

Post by Dinkydoobie » Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:36 pm

Fletch wrote:Well, Peter Hitchens covered it but the rest of the msm, well guess...

New sexed-up dossier furore: Explosive leaked email claims that UN watchdog's report into alleged poison gas attack by Assad was doctored - so was it to justify British and American missile strikes on Syria?


You mean the white helmets who were embedded with the Nusra Front (who received aid in the form of weapons and ammunition conveniently airdropped by western forces) that were trying to overthrow the Syrian government fabricated evidence of war crimes that led to air strikes against the Syrian armed forces?

Didn't the leader of the white helmets mysteriously commit suicide not long after Al-Baghdadi was killed by US special forces

:doomed:

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