NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign
From: _ellieomm@optonline.net_ (mailto:ellie...@optonline.net)
Dear Anti-War Advocates and activists wanting to curtail the
Militarization of the Globe, and protesting the U.S. Government and Congress
from using
the financial and human resources of the American people to assist in yet
another "regime change' scheme, this time in embattled Syria,
The article below is NOT being alarmist; once again the Western Corporate
Media, led by the mass media controlled by the major corporate networks, is
setting up the psychological conditions for yet another "intervention",
call it "humanitarian corridors", Right to Protect or "humanitarian
intervention" previously touted to justify NATO's intervention in Libya...The
reactionary and complicit Arab Sheikdoms of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait,
who
have been the HOMEBASE FOR THE U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND HEADQUARTERS SINCE 2010
are the ground forces, but make no mistake: it is American/French/British
who are spearheading these attacks on Syria, the prelude to attacks on
Iran!!!
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CENTCOM HQ deploys to Qatar By U.S. Central Command
_http://www.centcom.mil/press-releases/centcom-hq-deploys-to-qatar_
(http://www.centcom.mil/press-releases/centcom-hq-deploys-to-qatar) Related
News
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MACDILL AFB, Fla. (Feb. 21, 2010) — As part of the CENTCOM headquarters
training program, the United States Central Command is conducting a periodic
command and control shift exercise. Beginning this weekend, the first of
approximately 500 people will begin deployment from its Tampa headquarters to
its forward headquarters located in Doha, Qatar. This is a regularly
scheduled and long-planned training event.
The primary purpose of the deployment is to exercise the CENTCOM staff's
ability to seamlessly transition command and control and operate from its
forward headquarters in Qatar, and is not in response to any recent or
ongoing operations.
The CENTCOM staff last deployed to it forward headquarters in October 2009
when the staff exercised its continuity of operations plan.
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The article by Theirry Meyssan, who was IN SYRIA AND WAS A FRIEND OF THE
43 YEAR-OLD FRENCH JOURNALIST GILLES JACQUIRE KILLED JANUARY 12, 2012 BY
OPPOSITION SNIPERS IN SYRIA, HAS ISSUED THE BELOW CALL TO ALL PROGRESSIVE
MEDIA. Please spread the word....and voice your opposition to the CIA-M16-GCC
mercenaries operating inside Syria.
Washington's via Hillary Clinton's rebuff (June 8th, reported in the The
Telegraph) to Kofi Annan's latest proposal to create a GENUINE INTERNATIONAL
GROUP, INCLUDING RUSSIA, CHINA AND IRAN, to help stop the bloodshed in
Syria is THE SMOKING GUN REFERRED TO IN THIERRY MEYSSAN'S ARTICLE BELOW.
Raise our voices against U.S. ENGINEERING ANOTHER COUP IN THE MIDEAST!!!
Eleanor O.
Peace Through Justice!
Eleanor Ommani
_ellieomm@optonline.net_ (mailto:ellie...@optonline.net)
Co-Founder - American Iranian
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Date: June 11, 2012 10:59:08 PM EDT
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Subject: Fwd: NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign
Sectarian Genocide in Syria: US-NATO and the GCC Preparing a Coup d’état
NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign
_http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31373_
(http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31373)
by Thierry Meyssan
If you want to prevent these crimes, you should act now: circulate this
article on the Internet and alert your elected officials.
In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, Syrians
wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their
screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show
massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating,
ministers and generals resigning from their posts, President Al-Assad fleeing,
the
rebels gathering in the big city centers, and a new government installing
itself in the presidential palace.
This operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by Ben
Rhodes, the US deputy national security adviser for strategic
communication, aims at demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way for a
coup d’
etat. NATO, discontent about the double veto of Russia and China, will thus
succeed in conquering Syria without attacking the country illegally.
Whichever judgment you might have formed on the actual events in Syria, a coup
d’
etat will end all hopes of democratization.
The Arab League has officially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and
Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private (Syria
TV, Al-Ekbariya, Ad-Dounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already exists
because the Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order to keep the
leaders of the Jamahiriya from communicating with their people. There is no
Hertz network in Syria, where TV works exclusively with satellites. The cut,
however, will not leave the screens black.
Actually, this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg. According
to our information several international meetings were organized during the
past week to coordinate the disinformation campaign. The first two were
technical meetings, held in Doha (Qatar); the third was a political meeting
and took place in Riyad (Saudi Arabia).
The first meeting assembled PSYOP officers, embedded in the satellite TV
channels of Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and
MTV. It is known that since 1998, the officers of the US Army Psychological
Operations Unit (PSYOP) have been incorporated in CNN. Since then this
practice has been extended by NATO to other strategic media as well.
They fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a “
story-telling” script devised by Ben Rhodes’s team at the White House. A
procedure
of reciprocal validation was installed, with each media quoting the lies of
the other media to render them plausible for TV spectators. The
participants also decided not only to requisition the TV channels of the CIA
for
Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria
Alghad) but also about 40 religious Wahhabi TV channels to call for
confessional massacres to the cry of “Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into
the
grave!.”
The second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to fabricate
fictitious images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the other part with
computer generated images. During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia
have been set up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria
and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. Studios of this type
already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufficient.
The third meeting was held by General James B. Smith, the US ambassador, a
representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin Sultan (whom former U.S.
president George Bush named his adopted son so that the U.S. press called him “
Bandar Bush”). In this meeting the media actions were coordinated with
those of the Free "Syrian" Army, in which prince Bandar’s mercenaries play a
decisive role.
The operation had been in the making for several months, but the U.S.
National Security Council decided to accelerate the action after the Russian
President, Vladimir Putin, notified the White House that he would oppose by
all means, even by force, any illegal NATO military intervention in Syria.
The operation has a double intent: the first is to spread false
information, the second aims at censuring all possible responses.
The hampering of TV satellites for military purposes is not new. Under
pressure from Israel, the USA and the EU blocked Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi,
Libyan and Iranian TV channels, one after the other. However, no satellite
channels from other parts of the world were censured.
The broadcast of false news is also not new, but four significant steps
have been taken in the art of propaganda during the last decade. • In 1994, a
pop music station named “Free Radio of the Thousand Hills” (RTML) gave
the signal for genocide in Rwanda with the cry, “Kill the cockroaches!” • In
2001, NATO used the media to impose an interpretation of the 9/11 attacks
and to justify its own aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. At that
time already, it was Ben Rhodes who had been commissioned by the Bush
administration to concoct the Kean/Hamilton Commission report on the attacks.
• In
2002, the CIA used five TV channels (Televen, Globovision, ValeTV and CMT)
to make the public in Venezuela believe that phantom demonstrators had
captured the elected president, Hugo Chávez, forcing him to resign. In reality
he was the victim of a military coup d’etat. • In 2011, France 24 served
as information ministry for the Libyan CNT, according to a signed contract.
During the battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio films, then
transmitted them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom images of
Libyan
rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in reality they
were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli were
persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance.
Nowadays the media do not only support a war, they produce it themselves.
This procedure violates the principles of International Law, first of all
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the
fact of receiving and imparting information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.” Above all, the procedure violates the United
Nations General Assembly resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to
prevent further wars. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 forbid “to set obstacles
to free exchange of information and ideas” (like cutting off Syrian TV
channels) and “all propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace,
breaking peace, and all acts of aggression”. By law, war propaganda is a crime
against peace, the worst of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and
genocide.
Translated from French by Olivia Kroth.
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