Some Sloggers will balk at what follows. Others will simply nod, and recognise it as the syndrome they have long either known about, or strongly suspected.
Having posted yesterday about propaganda invention, I have been reassuringly inundated with hard evidence of widespread news falsification.
This piece from David Stockman shows just how flakey, amateurish and downright stupid the State Department’s accusation of Putin involvement in the MH17 tragedy really was.
Meanwhile, the following links give equally compelling evidence of a thriving industry in Palestinian home movies designed to make the Israelis look bad:
This Youtube clip purports to show the killing of two innocent Palestinians at Nakba, by the wicked Israelis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFIpmPqE_w.
It’s a fake. Before this ‘final’ version, there’d been a first attempt to create the ‘shooting video’, but a retake was required. This was what happened in the initial take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBAqzLNpgBT
Note in particular how the ambulance arrives on cue (that was quick) thinking it’s a take, but the director waves it away; in the final take, you can see the ambulance about to make another entrance.
Now, the Israelis and the Americans are allies. The Americans seem to me to be implicated in an attempt to frame the Russians for the MH17 shooting. The Arabs and the Russians are allies. The Arabs seem to me to be implicated in an attempt to frame the Israelis for the murder of young men and innocent children.
Both sides are I’m afraid engaged in the same pointless process of falsifying events in order to strengthen their case. But if they need to do that, then they don’t have a case in the first place.
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