Re: Get your retaliation in first
The link below provides a clear, simple example of what is going on. It could be multiplied hundreds of times; a Western government (usually the USA) or NATO makes a claim, which is "stenographically transcribed" by all the media. Nobody in the West asks any questions or does any checking. But the claim is subsequently found to be utterly untrue. Remember Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" - much of it copied without acknowledgement from someone's thesis on the Web? Remember the WMD that could be ready to fire within 45 minutes? Remember how Colonel Qadafi was preparing to "slaughter" thousands of civilians in Beghazi? (Some of those "civilians" later killed the US Ambassador - they were Al-Qaeda terrorists). The Russian "invasion" of Crimea? (No Russian soldiers entered Crimea - they were already there under the terms of the agreement with Ukraine). The photos of Russian tanks "crossing the border into Ukraine"? (They were actually photographed in Georgia in 2008, and were even copyright by an Israeli photographer). The poison gas allegedly used by the Syrian armed forces (a year after UN experts had formally certified that all Syria's chemical weapons had been destroyed)? The hospital in Kunduz that was destroyed "by mistake" in an attack that went on for two hours? The 100-plus Syrian soldiers who were "accidentally" killed by NATO bombing, immediately after which ISIS terrorists swarmed forward to complete the job? And on and on and on...
https://www.rt.com/usa/376275-pentagon-video-yemen-10-years-old/
"The Pentagon’s website no longer shows an “important intelligence” video obtained in a fatal Yemeni raid, since officials realized the footage has been available online for a decade.
"On Friday, the Pentagon posted a video to the Defense Video Imagery Distribution System (DVIDS) website they said justified the operation in Yemen which cost the life of one US Navy SEAL and several Yemeni civilians...
"The video released by the Pentagon depicted a man in a white robe and black mask demonstrating how to make Triacetone Triperoxide, an explosive used in the attempted “shoe-bomber” attack in 2001 and the London attacks in 2005.
"Only problem is, the video clips, titled, "Lessons in How to Destroy the Cross," were first posted to the Site Intelligence group website in 2007.
"Several hours after its posting, the material was removed from the DVIDS site".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
