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False News By Omission Misinforms – Pointing Such Out May Soon Be Censored
Some Israeli military official claim that Hizbullah is using Armored Personal Carriers in Syria, a correct claim, which it received from the Lebanese Armed Forces, a lie. The carriers in question are way out of date tracked vehicles and the LAF once received some upgraded ones from the United States. Israel makes these claims every once a while.
But as was reported when these claims were made on earlier occasions Hizbullah actually took such APCs from the Southern Lebanese Army which was an Israeli proxy force used during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon. When in 2000 Hizbullah finally kicked Israel out of Lebanon, the SLA dissolved and all the weapons Israel had delivered to it were taken into Hizbullah's stocks. They have since been used to fight Israel and various Gulf states proxy Jihadis in Lebanon and Syria.
But you would not learn that from the main Israeli news organization in the United States, the New York Times. Its report makes no mention of the original source of the APCs:
TEL AVIV — A senior Israeli military official said on Wednesday that Hezbollah militants fighting in Syria were using American-made armored personnel carriers that were originally supplied to the Lebanese Army.
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If the A.P.C.s passed to Hezbollah from the United States-assisted Lebanese Army, that might point to a broader leakage of weapons to hostile groups, and to cooperation between the Lebanese armed forces and Hezbollah.
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The Israeli military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under army rules, showed a photograph of a number of military vehicles, including what he said were the American-supplied A.P.C.s, during an intelligence briefing for reporters at military headquarters in Tel Aviv. He said that Israel had shared this information with American officials a few weeks ago.
The official did not say how many of the A.P.C.s might have fallen into Hezbollah’s hands or when or how it had happened, but he said he believed they might have been “part of a deal” between the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah.
This is obviously an Israeli smear attack against the LAF and the bits of material support with outdated weapons it gets from the U.S. It is a petty smear. Just last week Israel received two F-35 fighter planes from the U.S. and dozens more will come be delivered all paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. Meanwhile one Cessna crop duster with a minimum of military equipment was delivered to the badly equipped Lebanese Armed Forces. It is in no way a threat to Israel.
The U.S. pushed back a bit against the Israeli assertions:
John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said on Wednesday: “When this allegation was raised in November, the Department of Defense did a structural analysis of the armored personnel carriers in question at that time and concluded that these vehicles were not from the Lebanese armed forces. Our assessment remains the same now.”
That is quoted in the NYT but there is zero mention that Israel is the real source of the APCs. Now compare that to this paragraph from an AFP report which was published at about the same time:
[L]ast month some officials noted that Hezbollah is thought to have captured armored vehicles from the defunct South Lebanon Army, an Israeli-backed Christian militia that collapsed in 2000.
A later report repeats that point:
US officials privately told Defense News that the APCs now deployed by Hizbollah in Syria were very old and could very well have come from Israeli war stocks via their former ally in Lebanon, the South Lebanese Army (SLA). When Israel abruptly withdrew its forces from its security zone in southern Lebanon in 2000, Hizbollah seized a spectrum of vehicles and weaponry left behind by Israel and its SLA proxy force.
Israel blames the LAF for alleged weapon transfers when those weapons were actually coming from an Israeli proxy force after its failed occupation of Lebanon. That is classic chutzpah or rather petty malicious smearing.
But the so called prime newspaper with the motto "all the news that's fit to print" does not find it newsworthy that Israeli officials are making obviously false claims and sees no need to set the record straight. The "news" it prints is consciously false by omission. It is not "faked" news – none of the facts printed are outright wrong, but it is false news which misinforms the readers by leaving out relevant facts.
There is a lot of recent talk about "fake news". Most of what U.S. government proxies claim of its various "enemies" are such. Pretty much all of the NYT's reports about the war on Syria were and are if not "fake" then false news. But there are more sources in easy reach now for people to get informed.
The current attempts to smear such alternative sources as conspiracies or Russian propaganda peddlers is a last line fight to stop the flood of reality that will wash away the NYT, other such outlets and the "senior official" liars they serve. I expect that fight to become more vicious over the next year or two. Too much money is at risk, too much self esteem of people who love to feel important is threatened with deflation.
The question now is how these alternative and hopefully more truthful and realistic news sources will be able to protect themselves from the obviously coming attacks. Big Internet companies (which are all also Defense Department contractors) are starting to downgrade blogs and alternative news sources because they, allegedly, peddle "fake news". Outright (cyber-)attacks are coming up. What can be done to counter such moves?
Ideas are welcome.
@radiator | Dec 23, 2016 6:05:24 Should start discerning German media, from German-language media.
@chipnik Please stop the doom and gloom fear porn, keep searching for love.
@all Another example of the Orwellian 1984 being imposed progressively:
Google changes algorithms of hate
Search engine Google has changed its algorithms after discovering that users using search terms related to the Holocaust or ethnic minorities were being pointed to hate sites.
The new algorithms are said to prioritise high-quality information, bumping down sites associated with racial hate speech, and to remove anti-Semitic auto-fill queries…
Who are the judges to decide what’s “high quality” and what’s “hate site” ? Having said it one must realize that sites like Stormfront are traps set up by the AnloZio cabal employing tactics such as “poisoned well”, “kiss of death” and similar. The idea is to associate real news like “IDF soldiers who killed unarmed Palestinian sentenced to community service” with a xenophobia, white-supremacy, radicalism and so forth.
Re: the main point of the post – I’ve predicted this and I’ve been warning vocally about the coming censorship for some time already, including on this site, and urged everybody, as I’m doing right now, to abandon altogether the big corporate Matrix of lies implemented by Facebook (project “Ksharim” by Mossad), Google (an InQTel investment), Youtube, Twitter, Microsoft (just took over LinkedIn, now banned in Russia – for a reason I guess ?), Apple, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, and switch to viable alternatives as DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Yandex, VK, also start looking for new companies outside the imperial real that could replace those tools. Stop supporting the Evil Empire, and start helping the alternative media, including the news aggregators like WhatReallyHappened, BlackListedNews, Sott.net, InformationLiberation, MoA which free us from that disgusting duty of monitoring sewers like NYT, CNN, WaPo to catch their lies, transgressions, manipulations, perfidy so we do not touch that shit ourselves.
Fröhliche Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2017
Posted by: ProPeace | Dec 24 2016 7:01 utc | 51
FAKE NEWS! NEW OLD. A PICTURE TELLS THOUSANDS LIES. YES,PICTURES ARE USED AS NO 1 PROLIFERATE “FAKE NEWS” as Bana fairy tale of Ottoman princess and White Helmets Hollywood productions in Aleppo proved. It is the context and comment or caption of the picture that may or may not make the story true or fake.
In fact banning pictures/video from MSM would render them completely ineffective, unable to stir emotions, unable to shutting down rational inquiry of a viewer. Instead relying on abstract symbolic language, a human language requires a rational thought and references to individual physical experience to formulate moral judgments about information presented.
Pictures, obviously easily manipulated for almost 200 years of their history, play role of fake simulation of the physical reality we cannot experience in given story context.
What in individual interactions would have been called manipulative
deception, conning, misleading for benefit or pandering, pleasing
drawing emotional state of mental arousal also sexual to distract from
certain action or reality or to deny knowledge of events, in impersonal mass media world of MSM it is called news, the “real” news.
In this context, term “fake news” seems to stem directly from a CIA Psychological Warfare Manual and is one of those master keywords of indirect denial that are used to respond when a false narrative is discovered for what it is, a lie or misrepresentation of reality, and fact of this discovery cannot be ignored.
In other words, “fake news” term is used to discredit any news that are not consistent with “facts” and “ideas” peddled by given MSM medial organization run for profit and ruling elite propaganda purposes.
The keyword “fake news” would also be used to attack a messenger arbitrarily deemed as uninformed, gullible, mentally retarded incapable to understand the truth, unreliable, having access only to incomplete partial picture, peddling a hidden agenda even by disclosing true facts that cannot be denied.
When big media business had a near monopoly such a “fake news” appearing on fringes of society were utterly dismissed and ignored, it was easy, now Internet reach made suppression more problematic and becomes especially acute when massive economic collapse and social disintegration is ignored or peddled narratives blaming or explaining such a state of people’s reality fail to fulfill its designated function to peddle manipulative deception or drawing emotional state of mental arousal to distract from undeniable reality of viewers or listeners.
Now in the realm of concentrated digital media power similarity or more concentrated as in the past, US cyber-intelligence outcrops like FB or Google “social media” controlling of information flow in the Internet are creating phony world of astro-turf communities click farms and troll armies and using this “false news” “mantra” as a tool to discredit independent information flows, to ignore sources of information deemed contradictory to their own agenda, truly Orwellian agenda of Digital Ministry of Truth as much as SV corporate oligarchs trying to vehemently deny it. It is exactly what they do.
In fact that’s is exactly what they are heavily invested for and specifically designed to do. Everything else is secondary corporate perk,
FB now has implemented Digital Ministry of Truth run by a robot name Zuker and an army of fact-denying/ignoring trolls and it is just an initial attempt to familiarize us with the Orwellian future that awaits us when we will be afraid of “fake news” and we will choose anti-intellectualism, lack of intellectual curiosity or abandonment of rational thought process as a manifestation of our freedoms.
“The propaganda of “fake news” is all about new McCarthyism, new campaign of terror and blank, baseless grave accusations against anyone who dares to question supposedly official, MSM spewed stories, viscous campaign of alienation of journalists from their readership under cloud of criminality, spying and FBI investigation against those who do not peddle official narratives who are not buying utter nonsense and who do not draw absurd conclusions based on lies and innuendos without any shred of evidence.
The basic goal of provocateurs is that we accept evidence-free McCarthyite slanderous construct of “Enemy of America”. Only because they say so in very emotional way calling for exigent circumstances as to circumvent the rational thought process and hard evidences.
Once we accept their lies and their arbitrary determination of who are “American Enemies” we give them credibility and accusatory power. The power to accuse anyone of anything since in our own mind anyone behavior or opinions could be consistent with what treachery of our enemy, releasing us from a rigor of rational analysis and necessity of evidence based conclusion that is a foundation of any moral judgment.
Pushed into hysteria, siege mentality, we become immoral bastards driven by primal fear of imminent enemy, we can’t see or even name in, our midst aiming to harm us, a “clear” and “present” danger to our very survival or well being.
That’s the real danger of this new McCarthyism, a danger capable of tearing fabric of our society apart and a direct threat to fundamental social order.
Posted by: Kalen | Dec 24 2016 15:58 utc | 68
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