*Let's start with the fact (noted by George Ades on Facebook) that Petrov
and Boshirov arrived in **Salisbury at 11:40 a.m. on the day the Skripals
were "attacked"—two hours after the Skripals left their house at 9:45,
touching their (allegedly) poisoned door handle.*
*("Can you see a discrepancy there?" asks Ades. "Of course, the Russians
could have perfected time travel; I wouldn't put anything past them. They
have, after all, perfected the invisibility cloak for their submarines.")*
*And why did the British authorities announce that Petrov and Boshirov were
suspects while the two were back in Russia, rather than wait until the two
were back in Europe, where they could have been quickly nabbed, and
ultimately tried? The British obviously do not want them tried, because a
trial would blow their whole preposterous fantasy to smithereens.*
*Last March, NFU sent out a sober, thorough survey of the "evidence" in the
Skripal case, put together by the Working Group on Syria, Media and
Propaganda, an ad hoc association of British academics. The British having
now revived their lethal fiction of "another Russian poisoning," I'm
sending you that link again: *
http://syriapropagandamedia.org/doubts-about-novichoks
*Below are some sharp questions about Petrov and Boshirov's alleged role in
that alleged poisoning, from Joseph O. Boyd-Barrett, a member of the
Working Group. *
*Please send those urgent questions far and wide, so as to throw a monkey
wrench into the Western war machine.*
MCM
>From Joseph O. Boyd-Barrett
Why is it only now that we are hearing about Petrov and Boshirov? One of
> the first acts that the police and intelligence agencies would have
> undertaken early in March upon serious suspicion of an assassination
> attempt conducted by foreign operatives would have been to review all data
> of entrances and exits at British ports, perhaps paying particular scrutiny
> to arrivals from the FSU. If Petrov and Boshirov are suspects in September,
> then they were suspects in March. If they can be determined to be GRU
> agents in September, why was that not possible in March?
>
> What accounts for this gap? Did British intelligence need evidence of an
> actual, successful murder before proceeding with their narrative of Russian
> complicity? Did they need much firmer evidence of Novichok than they had
> previously been able to demonstrate, courtesy of a cosmetics box casually
> picked up by a heroin addict?
>
>
> Despite the apparent clumsiness of the two Russian men in their RT
> interview, Craig Murray points out that their narrative does indeed conform
> to known and established facts, that their arrival on March 4 was too late
> to have allowed them time to apply novichok to a door handle before the
> Skripals departed from their house that day (and if indeed the Russians had
> arrived on time, why would they have gone to the trouble of carrying
> novichoks in what I believe was a sealed cosmetics packet and then
> recklessly thrown it away in a public place?) and that much of the
> ridicule their account has attracted may be marked down to racism and the
> general silliness of State-and-Hollywood nurtured stereotypes about
> Russians.
>
>
> Murray also wonders whey CCTV footage of the Russians is so plentiful and
> yet so scarce or incomplete for the Skripals, and for Dawn Sturgess and
> Charlie Rowley. In the case of the Russians I suspect that sexual
> proclivity may be another element; if the two men are indeed gay theirs is
> a relationship that is illegal in Russia and subject to fierce and often
> violent retribution. It would provide additional motivation for their
> frequent trips abroad. They would be understandably nervous just on those
> grounds.
>
>
> It is difficult to imagine that an intelligence apparatus, its heritage
> from Soviet times, so often demonstrating its prowess in the crushing of US
> spy networks in the Soviet Union, should have sent two supposedly trained
> agents from Russia direct to London, using their real names, carrying
> supposedly one of the deadliest of known poisons on their persons, with a
> view to applying it to a door knob with reckless disregard for the many
> possibilities that the door knob might be touched by the wrong person, but
> arriving in Salisbury after the Skripals had left their house for the day,
> and then, having conducted their mission, spending unnecessary time loafing
> about in Salisbury. The narrative is manifestly stupid on practically every
> level.
>
>
> The great UNSPOKEN continues to be Pablo Miller, Christopher Steele,
> Orbis, the US Democratic Party and the reasonable likelihood of an MI6
> conspiracy with the FBI and CIA to take down Trump, not for any of the
> reasons that he should be taken down (contribution to the extinction of the
> human race, for example) but for a largely fabricated, grossly exaggerated,
> and irrelevant yarn about Russian meddling with US elections.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Syria, Propaganda and Media <[email protected]>
> on behalf of Piers G Robinson <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 8, 2018 2:10 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: New article on child mental health in Syria
>
> thanks Oliver, very useful. It will be interesting to see how long this
> official narrative holds together! look forward to the forthcoming chapter,
> best, Piers
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> On 6 September 2018 at 19:44, Joseph O. Boyd-Barrett <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
> The Skripal/Novichok propaganda claims seem to be taking a turn similar to
> that of the MH17 propaganda in that visual meta data are used to track the
> movements of individuals over a period of time and then used to produce
> bedazzling, highly specific charges against people who are most unlikely
> ever to appear in court. Bellingcat.com contributed rather more to this
> form of narrative than the Dutch JIT. It appears to be a relatively new
> form of propaganda that we have also seen applied as justification for
> economic sanctions against individuals within State apparatuses.
>
>
> If one knows in advance what the narrative is that must be told then it is
> not difficult to find or fabricate the "needles" in the haystack. My
> account of MH17 (a development from a chapter in my book on Western
> Mainstream Media and the Ukraine Crisis) appears in Coban's Media, Ideology
> and Hegemony, which is scheduled for publication this month. Just published
> is Kees Van Der Pijl's book, Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media <
> [email protected]> on behalf of Piers Robinson <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 3, 2018 6:41:17 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* New article on child mental health in Syria
>
> hi everyone,
>
> the below may be of interest for some of you:
>
> best,
>
> Piers
>
> Dear Professors,
>
> Please see our recently published work on mental health in Syrian
> children. This is data collected on the ground in Government controlled
> parts of the country and as far as we know, is the only epidemiological
> study of its kind anywhere in Syria.
>
>
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