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The “Wounded Boy In Orange Seat” – Another Staged “White Helmets” Stunt
This pic is making the rounds in "western" media together with a tearful story from "activists" in a neighborhood in al-Qaeda occupied east-Aleppo.
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A boy, seemingly wounded, sits quietly in a brand new, very well equipped ambulance. At a point he touches what looks like a wound on his left temple. He shows no reaction to that touch.
The two minute video (also here), from which the pic is taken, shows the boy being handed from the dark above to some person in a rescue jacket and carried into the ambulance. There he sits quietly, unattended, while several people take videos and pictures of him. One other kids, not obviously wounded, is then carried to the ambulance.
As the story is told:
Mahmoud Raslan, a photojournalist who captured the image, told the Associated Press that emergency workers and journalists tried to help the child, identified as 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, along with his parents and his three siblings, who are 1, 6 and 11 years old.
"We were passing them from one balcony to the other," Raslan said, adding: "We sent the younger children immediately to the ambulance, but the 11-year-old girl waited for her mother to be rescued. Her ankle was pinned beneath the rubble."
An internet search for "Mahmoud Raslan", the claimed "photojournalist", finds no other pictures or videos attributed to that name.
There are about 15 men standing around the scene and doing nothing. (Next to a "just bombed" site in a warzone? No fear of a double-tap strike?) At least two more men, besides the videographer, are taking pictures or videos.
Another kid is carried into the ambulance. In the background there is someone with a white helmet wearing a shirt of the U.S./UK financed "White Helmets" propaganda group.
An animated wounded man is walked towards the ambulance.
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Like the boy, the man seems to have a wound at the upper head. But like the boy he is not bleeding at all. There is some red colored substance on his face but no blood is flowing. That is astonishing. When I rode ambulances as a first-responder, people with head wounds always bled like stuck pigs (they often messed up the car which I then had to clean). As WebMD notes:
Minor cuts on the head often bleed heavily because the face and scalp have many blood vessels close to the surface of the skin. Although this amount of bleeding may be alarming, many times the injury is not severe …
The amount of red colored substance on the boy and the man do not correspond to the amount one would expect from even a minor head wound. There are also no bandages applied or anything else that could have been used to stop an actual head wound from bleeding.
Compare the above to this recent picture from a boy in west-Aleppo. (No "western" media showed this boy and his suffering. He is not on "our side".) The boy suffered a head wound after an improvised missile from al-Qaeda and its associates hit his neighborhood. He is in care, the bleeding has been stopped. The amount of blood on his body and soaked into his cloth is a multiple of that seen in the above pictures. The blood is also mixed with the other dirt on his face, not painted over. This looks like those patients in my ambulance. This looks real.
All attributes of the "boy on orange seat" scene and of the video are the same that can be found in dozens of "White Helmets" videos. It is the same theme that occurs over and over again in our picture collection Dramatic Rescue! Man With Kid Runs Towards Camera!.
I am inclined to believe that the video above is just as staged as the other "White Helmets" videos and pictures. The look of the boy's wound is a bit more realistic than usual but the lack of bleeding, that no one attends to the boy, his non-reaction to touching the "wound" and the general setting of the video scene lets me believe that it is staged.
This new, widely distributed propaganda item comes again at a moment where al-Qaeda and its associates in Syria are in trouble. The Russian air force is hitting them in the rear area of their attack on west-Aleppo and it is hurting them badly. A "humanitarian ceasefire", which can then be used to reorganize and resupply, is urgently needed. The propaganda helps to increase the pressure for such a demand.
Some of its sponsors want the "White Helmets" nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The organization itself lobbies for it on its website. Has anyone else ever done such?
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Have they no shame asking themselves for the prize? This right above another version of their main corporate brand attribute, a "Dramatic Rescue! Man With Kid Runs Towards Camera!" picture. Asking for a Nobel right above another staged scene?
But why not? Obama was nothing more than a marketed product when was handed the Peace Nobel. He then bombed people in seven Muslim dominated countries to dust. There is no good reason then to not give that prize to yet another propaganda tool which also wants more war.
Then again, I find a nomination for the Academy Awards, maybe in the category of "Best Marketed Fakes", more appropriate.
Jackrabbit | Aug 20, 2016 1:48:47 PM | 204
The problem with the USians (I’m using that term because calling “Americans” only the residents of the USA, as it was pointed out to me, is insulting to other nations dwelling both Americas, who are indeed Americans too) is that their country is used as the biggest, strongest thug in the gang managed by the City of London Crown Corporation. At the same time USians seems quite arrogant (see recent scandal with the Olympic swimmers), dim (only in the US thousands believe that WWE “fights” are not staged, but real),
and belligerent.
There is a large percentage of very good, honest, awake and aware people in the US who fight the world empire, some of them sacrificing their freedom (Susan Lindauer, Bradley Manning, Snowden), or life (Rachel Corie, sen. Paul Wellstone, Bill Cooper, Pat Tillman, Michael Hastings, JFK Junior, Beverly Eckert, Michaell Connell,…). The 9/11 truth movement, alternative media, many book authors (William Blum, John Judge, …), third party and Sanders electorate are what makes that country great and admired.
But there is also significant portion of the society that are sell outs, bribed by the scrapes off the masters’ tables, like their “American way of life” lived off the war-based economy. Some are psychopaths, some cynical opportunist, many just failed human beings. Nevertheless they are a clear and present danger not only to the rest of the world, but to other people in the US as well.
They are your neighbors, the parents at the PTA meetings, soccer mums, your golf buddies, casual church goers, “regular” people you meet and greet every day, you dine, chat and relax with. Yet their lives are drenched in blood because they are Private Military Contractors, or work for them, or are connected in other ways. They are fine with going abroad and murdering population of Yemen, Syria, Libya, Haiti, Novorussia because it pays for their loans, bills, house projects and allows them to maintain their nice standard of living.
They have to be stopped at all cost. Appeal to their conscience, to their shame – a concept almost non existent in modern society. Confront them on the street, face to face, make bumper stickers, banners, signs. Discuss in public their existence, their shameful “jobs” – what the fuck are they doing in Yemen, or Syria ? Who invited them there ? How possibly can they be doing there anything good? They have to be socially ostracized and boycotted. Their employers too.
At this point word is still mightier than sword, but if you fail to act, soon you my find yourself with your family in a private prison managed by thugs from G4S, DynCorp, Monsanto, KBR, CACI,…
Posted by: ProPeace | Aug 20 2016 19:38 utc | 206
RT counters Western war propaganda in Aleppo and Yemen …
‘I was playing with friends when it hit me’: Aleppo kids injured in rebel fire tell their stories
“My arms, feet, knees, and face are injured,” 11-year-old Alaa said quietly, lying on the hospital bed, covered in bandages, while she added that it is her knee that hurts the most.
“We were just talking, and the next moment it was just like in a dream. Then, I started shouting and heard my parents shouting, too. And I realized that a missile had hit our home. Earlier, we had heard the missile flying overhead from an area near us. But this time it landed right in our house,” she added.
“I’m afraid. I don’t want to return home,” she told RT.
Alaa now says she wants to be a doctor to be able to help those suffering, just like her. She shares that dream with another girl in this same hospital, 12-year-old Faten, who was also wounded in the shelling.
“I was sitting on a balcony with my friends when I heard the sound of a missile coming,” Faten recalls. “The next thing I knew, my arm was broken, and there are still pieces of shrapnel in the other one. I was just playing with my friends when I heard something hit me, and then I realized soldiers were carrying me.”
Saudi jets strike Yemen’s capital during 100,000 strong rally in support of Houthis (VIDEO)
Fighter jets from the Saudi-led coalition hit the Yemeni capital of Sanaa during a massive rally that attracted some 100,000 pro-Houthi rebels and sympathizers of ex-President Abdullah Saleh.
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Sanaa’s central square on Saturday in a powerful display of support for the Shiite Houthi rebels and Saleh. Demonstrators cheered a recently established Supreme Political Council that includes representatives of the Houthi movement, as well as supporters of Saleh.
During the demonstration, fighter jets bombed Yemen’s capital, including the area around the Presidential palace, according to AP. The bombardment resulted in an “unknown number of casualties,” the agency reports, quoting local officials. People on Twitter said that at least three civilians were killed and a number were wounded.
“Suddenly, they started bombing and the crowd started running. I basically bolted out of the area. People started screaming… Because everybody’s very well armed, they started shooting their AK-47s and their machine guns into the sky,” Hisham al-Omeisy said, as quoted by the BBC.
It seems to me that people all over the world are waking up to just who are the bad guys, the ones who’ve started all this death, devastation and destruction, the ones who are feeding the furious fires beneath it, keeping alive these endless wars.
Russian MP says China’s upgrading ties with Syria can form non-NATO anti-terror coalition
Chairman of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) Defense Committee, Admiral Vladimir Komoedov, has noted that the Chinese military’s desire to upgrade ties with Syria could be the first step towards forming a military and political coalition of non-NATO countries.
“The Chinese military in Syria is the first step towards putting together a serious military-political coalition dominated by countries that are not aligned with the aggressive NATO bloc. The time has come to form such a coalition,” the lawmaker told journalists on Friday … Komoedov added that if Russia, China, India and Iran pooled efforts in the Middle East, the problem of liquidating the illegal Islamic state and the terrorism it produces would be resolved … “other countries could join the coalition that we are discussing. I am glad that at last there is an understanding on the issue at the highest international level.”
… the aggressive NATO block … the Europeans are just like us Americans/USians … they don’t wanna know nothin’. Wake ’em up when it’s all over and their ‘way of life’ has successfully been ‘defended’, and happy days are here again.
Posted by: jfl | Aug 20 2016 23:37 utc | 211
Gerald Horne, *The Counter Revolution of 1776, Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, Chapter 3 Revolt! Africans Conspire with the French and Spanish
Early in the morning of a moonlit day on 6 April 1712, fires also illuminated the sky in lower Manhattan. What had happened was that a few dozen determined Africans armed with guns, hatchets, knives, and other purloined weapons gathered in an orchard at the rear of a house in the city’s East Ward, burst into an outhouse, set ablaze that building, and then ambushed the settlers who rushed to extinguish the fire. Preferring death to capture, a number of the rebels fled to the countryside and committed suicide before they could be detained, while others were arrested (approximately seventy) — about twenty-one were executed subsequently. Nine settlers had been murdered, but this did not arrest the continuing plotting of Africans against the authorities, at times in league with the French and Spanish and the indigenous. Since the total population of this future metropolis was reportedly a mere 6,307 at the time, of whom no fewer than 945 were Negroes, disrupting the status quo violently was not as difficult as it was to become. [1]
Understandably, Governor Robert Hunter of New York — who happened to be Scottish — was irate about the tumult of April 1712, denouncing this “bloody conspiracy” designed to “destroy as many of the inhabitants as they could.” To be fair, the chief executive had wondered if brutalizing Africans had a downside. He knew that it was undefined “hard usage” of these slave laborers — “I can find no other cause,” he confessed — which sparked this revolt, though he underlined that some of the conspirators were
“prisoners taken in a Spanish prize” and “by reason of their color which is swarthy, they were said to be slaves and as such were sold.”
But this rough racist injustice, which came to characterize these colonies and their successor states, probably swept within its ambit those who did not carry the disfavored status that was slavery, and they revolted accordingly. [2] Such crude practices could only further inflame men of color under Madrid’s rule — who played a key role in the military in this empire — to despise London and its colonies even more. Governor Hunter was not remorseful, though he had received
“petitions from several of these Spanish Indians as they are called, representing to [him] that they were free men, subjects to ye King of Spain but sold here as slaves.”
He did not apologize for the fact that among the disreputably handled detainees was “a woman with child,” nor did it ruffle his sangfroid that “some were burnt, others were hanged and broke on ye wheele.” [3]
[1] Thelma Wills Foote, Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 132: the author maintains that eighteen were executed, but see Governor Robert Hunter to Council of Trade and Plantations, 23 June 1712, in Cecil Headlam, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies, July 1711–June 1712, London: HM Stationery Office, 1925, 301–306: here it is said that twenty-one were executed. See also “Minutes of Council in Assembly … ,” New York, 1695–1713, Folder 157, Daniel Parish Slavery Transcripts, New-York Historical Society, Manhattan. Moreover, though Africans are given credit for this revolt, as suggested later in this chapter, they may have been — at least partially — of indigenous ancestry.
[2] Governor Robert Hunter to the Lords of Trade and Plantations, 23 June 1712, “Miscellaneous Papers,” Daniel Parish Slavery Transcripts. See also Kenneth Scott, “The Slave Insurrection of 1712,” New-York Historical Society Quarterly (January 1961), Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis: “all told, 39 slaves were indicted for murder or as accessories … and of those 23 were convicted and 16 acquitted. … the 25 slaves who were convicted were sentenced to death.”
[3] Governor Robert Hunter to Lords of Trade and Plantations, 23 June 1712.
Terrorists! Not us, them! Africans, Morenos, Spaniards alike. Stories of the “white” victims, none of the “negroes” … no “woman and child”.
One mechanism works: lamenting an individual case assuages guilt. If you pray for that small boy (or the raped little girl, and want to stop all that), killing millions is swept under the blood-weave carpet of the Church / Gvmt / etc.. Propagandists and advertising types know this.
How would Andy Cuomo ‘sell’ this, three hundred years later? Just the same, but more fiercely! … no “finding of” any “cause that sparked the revolt.”
Posted by: jfl | Aug 21 2016 2:44 utc | 216
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