Russia disinformation against White Helmets has been ongoing, even before December 2018.
William Blum hopefully distinguished propaganda from truth. William told me he liked RT for their objective interviews. I have to believe he knew RT is the Russian State Media.
RT tried to tell the world the White Hats in Syria were fake.
"The White Helmets, alleged organ traders & child kidnappers, should be condemned not condoned"
Vanessa Beeley
is an independent investigative journalist and photographer. She is associate editor at 21st Century Wire.
22 Jan, 2019 16:14 / Updated 11 months ago
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/449431-syria-white-helmets-organ-traders/
I will not copy and paste the lies from RT here. That is how lies become truth. That is how the American media helps Tweety Trump make lies into "truthful hyperbole," and / or "alt facts."
It is a natural part of war where Russia wants to win so propaganda against the victims and the aid.
"Breaking Aleppo - Disinformation"
By the Atlantic Council
https://www.publications.atlanticcouncil.org/breakingaleppo/disinformation/
The truth always comes out, my friend says.
"Coda: The Battle Against The Evidence
Aleppo was not broken in the darkness. Numerous witnesses provided evidence, some of it conflicting but much of it consistent, to substantiate claims of chemical attacks, barrel bombs, air strikes on hospitals and schools, and the deaths of thousands of civilians.
Throughout the siege, the Syrian and Russian governments waged a battle against the evidence, denying the facts, misrepresenting the victims, and attacking the witnesses.
These attacks were consistent across so many platforms that they took on the appearance of a separate disinformation campaign, aimed at distracting attention from events on the ground by focusing on discrediting, and silencing, the ones who were reporting them.
Denying The Deeds
The simplest response to allegations of civilian casualties and indiscriminate strikes was to deny them. Throughout the conflict, and in defiance of the evidence, both the Syrian and Russian governments rejected such allegations outright."
Deny, deny, deny. Tweety Trump uses a technique with an acronym "DARVO." Google it.
"Attacking The Witnesses
Increasingly during the siege, however, eyewitness evidence discredited these claims: airstrikes were hitting civilian buildings, and civilians were dying. In response, Syrian and Russian officials began to attack the credibility of those witnesses.
One of the most important witnesses to the suffering was the aid organization initially called Syria Civil Defense, and later dubbed the “White Helmets” after their trademark headgear.
In Aleppo, the White Helmets began as a rescue organization in early 2013. As the conflict intensified and independent journalists no longer had access to the front lines, they increasingly became a main source of evidence of the true nature of the bombings, posting GoPro footage of airstrikes and their aftermath. This put them on a collision course with the government and its allies:
Q. We have eyewitnesses that were relatives, we have the White Helmets, we have many people saying that they witnessed helicopters in the air. Now, only the Syrians and the Russians have helicopters. Are you saying this is just invented?
A. Those witnesses only appear when there’s an accusation against the Syrian Army or the Russian, but when the terrorists commit a crime or massacre or anything, you don’t see any witnesses, and you don’t hear about those White Helmets. So, what a coincidence.
The attacks came from the highest levels of government in both Syria and Russia, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accusing the group of faking its evidence:
In a number of cases, these attempts have already been exposed. There is that organization called the White Helmets. The BBC went as far as nominate it for the Nobel peace prize. What these White Helmets do is pretend to save people from under the rubble left after Russian air strikes. The BBC even showed footage of this kind, but later the full video appeared on YouTube in which not only do we see how a man is extracted from the rubble, but also how he gets into it so that he can be saved. They did a few takes. The BBC was even forced to offer excuses, and later came out with a statement that these White Helmets were just kidding. What an innocent statement. There was also this story about an eight-year old girl Aya who, if the reports are to be believed, was saved from certain death three times on the same day by different people in different Syrian cities. She also appeared in a fake video.
Lavrov’s statement combined two stories. The accusation of a staged rescue can be traced back to a “Mannequin Challenge” video, posted by White Helmet volunteers on YouTube, for which the organization was widely criticized, and apologized. The video originated as a misguided attempt to bring attention to the conflict, in the same way a Pokemon Go launch had been used to draw attention to the situation in Douma. It was a serious error of judgement, as the organization itself admitted, but to present it as proof that the White Helmets systematically fake evidence was disingenuous.
The triple rescue of the “eight-year-old girl called Aya,” meanwhile, was originally launched in a meme online, repeated by Canadian activist Eva Bartlett at a press conference at the United Nations on December 9, and widely amplified by the Kremlin media."
Mistakes like the "Mannequin Challenge" can tarnish the entire effort, sadly, but stealing organs goes a bit far even for RT, I think.
"The White Helmets, alleged organ traders & child kidnappers, should be condemned not condoned" Come on man! RT exposes itself as BS by reaching way too far on this propaganda against the White Helmets. The author thinks we're dumb.
"How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine"
The Russia-backed campaign to link the volunteer rescuers with al-Qaida exposes how conspiracy theories take root: ‘It’s like a factory’
by Olivia Solon 18 Dec 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/syria-white-helmets-conspiracy-theories
"The Syrian volunteer rescue workers known as the White Helmets have become the target of an extraordinary disinformation campaign that positions them as an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organisation.
The Guardian has uncovered how this counter-narrative is propagated online by a network of anti-imperialist activists, conspiracy theorists and trolls with the support of the Russian government (which provides military support to the Syrian regime).
The White Helmets, officially known as the Syria Civil Defence, is a humanitarian organisation made up of 3,400 volunteers – former teachers, engineers, tailors and firefighters – who rush to pull people from the rubble when bombs rain down on Syrian civilians. They’ve been credited with saving thousands of civilians during the country’s continuing civil war.
They have also exposed, through first-hand video footage, war crimes including a chemical attack in April. Their work was the subject of an Oscar-winning Netflix documentary and the recipient of two Nobel peace prize nominations."
We can Google more of RT's propaganda any time. Here's a few bits.
Tweety has to love this one from Russia (Putin, a Stasi propaganda expert, placed this story I am sure.)
"By impeaching Trump, Democrats have made him more powerful than they could ever imagine" [Soooo strong! More than the Dems could ever, ever, ever imagine? lol!]
Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT.
19 Dec, 2019 [Serbians hate America as we worked with NATO to bomb Serbia.]
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476236-democrats-impeachment-empowered-trump/
"America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia"
by James Bovard July 1, 2019
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/americas-benevolent-bombing-of-serbia/
"Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. "
Here's a great piece of propaganda! RT has no shame trying BS on a 16yo! lol!
"Surprise! Greta Thunberg BIOPIC reveals cameras were rolling from day one of her ‘viral’ rise"
By Helen Buyniski, RT 17 Dec, 2019 [Ironically, Tweety doesn't like Thunberg either, and he tweet-bullied her after Time names her 2019 Person of the Rear, a role Tweety felt more qualified for. lol!]
https://www.rt.com/news/476133-greta-documentary-rise-to-fame/
I do not, try not to repeat BS by copy and paste, sometimes failing, so you have to read the story if you think you will find anything objective or truthful. Repeated lies take on a life of their own, however, so read at your own risk.
This time it appears the Putin-Trump Team via RT-Tweety Tweets Team (Who knows who writes all Trump tweets? Maybe he doesn't write them all? Stephen Miller helps?) chose to chnage timing of who goes first, so Tweety came out first.
"We should all be appalled by Donald Trump's tweet about Greta Thunberg"
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 12:54 AM ET, Fri December 13, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/politics/greta-thunberg-donald-trump/index.html
"(CNN)On Thursday morning, the President of the United States sent a tweet to his 60+ million followers blasting a 16-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome who has rallied efforts at fighting climate change around the globe.
"Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!" Trump wrote of teenage climate crisis activist Greta Thunberg. "Chill Greta, Chill!""
Tweety Trump is a coward, many, many times over. It is so easy to punch down isn't it.
RT back Tulsi G.
"Tulsi Gabbard votes ‘present’ on both impeachment articles, stoking liberal ire on Twitter"
19 Dec, 2019 02:36 / Updated 8 days ago
https://www.rt.com/usa/476241-tulsi-votes-present-impeachment/
Thank goodness for Rt defending poor, weak, timid, indecisive Tulsi. Is she really a war Vet?
Do we really want to consider Tulsi as a viable candidate if she cannot take a stand one way or the other on impeachment?
"Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard broke ranks with her party and voted “present” on two articles of impeachment, slamming the process as “partisan.” The vote drew swift condemnation from Twitter’s more progressive quarters.
Voting “present” instead of “yes” or “no” in Wednesday’s full House vote for two impeachment articles passed in committee last week, Gabbard became one of only a tiny minority of Democrats to swim against the current in her own party.
“I could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan process, fueled by tribal animosities that have so gravely divided our country,” Gabbard said in a lengthy statement after the vote."
Now look at what Tweety has to say. ; < ) Five days after RT's article.
"Trump has ‘respect’ for Tulsi Gabbard voting ‘present’ on impeachment"
NY POst via Fox News [I guess Fox is channeling the Post?] 23 or 24 Dec 2019
"President Trump lauded Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for voting “present” on the two articles of impeachment approved last week in the Democratic-controlled House.
“I give her respect. She didn’t vote the other day. I give her a lot of respect. Because she knew it was wrong. She took a pass,” Trump said during a speech Saturday to the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla."
Five days after RT article, so maybe RT, and probably others convinced Tweety to toss a faint praise Tulsi's way to keep her vote?
I say this because look at this - Tweety did not miss this! I suppose his usual vendetta, his revenge will come later.
This is Tulsi gaming the Dems, for sure!
My sense is that Tulsi wanted to look strong against Tweety, then she votes "Present" in the impeachment. What? In one case she's the strong woman, in the next she says BS about voting "Present?" I see a little political opportunism gong on here!
"Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to Trump: Being Saudi Arabia’s B*tch Is Not ‘America First.’"
BURN
Updated Nov. 21, 2018 2:07PM ET / Published Nov. 21, 2018
Now for more on RT propaganda, this time suggesting there is so much animus in American Tribalism, party loyalty, and the Tweety Trump Cult that we are at war. Putin would like to see Americnas at war with itself. Putin would like America to deterioriate to Russia's level, a country in decline and chaos.
"Democrats’ push to impeach Trump is just the latest chapter of US Civil War 2.0"
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of the book, 'Midnight in the American Empire,' released in 2013.
18 Dec, 2019 13:08 / Updated 8 days ago
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/476183-impeachment-vote-trump-democrats/
Of course RT recruits Americans to write these type articles. It is obvious why, right? It's not surprise this author writes for RT, and that he wrote about the decline of the American "Empire." These sorts of rants are fun to read as they mix facts with BS and conspiracy, and generally have not substantive rationale worth trusting.
I agree with Robert on this point:
"Lindsey Graham Prophesies ‘Iraq on Steroids’ Syria Scenario. Israel Obliges with Attack on Damascus"
Graham apparently fails to appreciate the fact, or is not paid enough to admit it, that had Washington never launched an unprovoked attack against Saddam Hussein in 2003 there would never be an Islamic State in Syria today.
by Robert Bridge 22 Jan 2019
As with propaganda, extremists materials, writers who portray conspiracies at every turn, writers who have topical headers that say "Uh oh! We're all doomed," are read at your own risk.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I admit I dally in such writings myself at times when I get hot under the collar, overly passionate, like how religion abuses their ideals for cruel purposes. Robert, however, seems to be 100% in the crazy zone.
Here is some of his absolutely, incredibly stupid and disingenuous misleading crap he writes about transgenders, and I will say, it's ugly! Bruce Jenner can say none of this happens, and so can anyone who is now a transgender! Robert has gone totally off the rails on transgenders. Robert obviously hates and fears trans people. Robert, YOU and your kind are the problem, not transgenders.
"Puberty-blocking drugs, mastectomies, vaginal surgery and fake penises – all with zero chance of reversal – these are just some of the radical experimental methods being used on children. The madness must stop."
Robert Bridge writes spooky-fun stuff. He makes me laugh, and that is good for me.
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