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| Le pont romain (10 arches) sur l'Oronte à Muhradah [photographié en 2010] Ce pont, à 2 kms du cœur de la ville, marque l'une des multiples lignes de front contre les takfiris |
Ils n’avaient jamais porté d’armes mais, face aux attaques meurtrières des djihadistes, ils ont décidé de se battre chrétiennement au service du bien commun.
À Muhradah [ محردة ], malgré la guerre, la vie ne perd jamais ses droits…
Une île restée longtemps vierge. Colonisée par des populations venues de différentes régions d’Afrique et d’Asie qui gardent la mémoire de leurs origines et qui se détestent mutuellement…
Une réputation de “naufrageurs”
La lutte contre la corruption, volet essentiel de la promesse de changement du nouveau régime [à l'époque celui de Marc Ravalomanana, à présent piteusement débusqué !], sera un thème éditorial récurrent et un travail de longue haleine.
L’opinion attend, bien sûr, les premiers signaux forts et concrets que le combat est réellement engagé contre ce mal social qui gangrène certainement le développement mais sape, aussi et surtout, les meilleures bonnes volontés d’investissement et de faire des affaires normalement.Pour l’instant, les échos que l’on a des pratiques de l’administration et des usages commerciaux, ou judiciaires, sont très exactement identiques à ce qu’ils étaient avant la crise !Il y a même des localités, comme Nosy Be par exemple, où les dysfonctionnements de la justice, sous la forme d’un racket organisé au détriment des étrangers bien évidemment, s’étalent au grand jour et sont notoirement connus de toutes les autorités locales mais également centrales.D’un peu partout remontent des plaintes, des interrogations - sur tel tarif de visa qui a brusquement augmenté, par exemple - qui conduisent à penser que la bataille contre la corruption et les abus de pouvoir de quelques despotes locaux va constituer le plus gros handicap du nouveau régime et du gouvernement qui le sert.C’est sans doute, en définitive, un handicap énorme, une tare ancienne que d’être un pays attrayant ! On sait à quel point les “vahaza” succombent à ses attraits naturels pour les investissements, tout ce qu’il y a à y entreprendre, même quand il ne s’y ajoutent pas pour les “vahiny” les charmes tout aussi attachants et tentants de la population.
Que faire quand on est trop belle, pour se protéger des convoitises de l’étranger, pour repousser les avances, et qu’un savoir-faire ajouté, le plus souvent, à des capitaux en volume suffisants laissent à penser à des rêves de conquête, même dans les meilleures dispositions d’esprit possibles ?Il est clair que l’on se protège comme on peut, en usant de toutes les ruses et traquenards possibles pour dissuader le nouveau venu, et parfois l’ancien quand il s’agit de le spolier de ses biens, de “flasher” sur Madagascar.Aux discours officiels d’invitation permanente, et comme rituelle, aux investisseurs étrangers répondent sur les terrains administratif et judiciaire notamment, un arsenal de dispositions réglementaires et de décisions de justice, de nature à faire fuir le mieux disposé des “vahaza”.C’est si vrai que l’on finit par se demander si cette promotion permanente du pays ne constitue pas, finalement, un piège - comme celui des sirènes de la mythologie - dans lequel le voyageur imprudent est appelé à tomber ?Une chose est certaine : ce ne sont ni les salons internationaux de promotion des investissements, pas plus que les missions de “patrons” étrangers qui changeront la réputation de “naufrageurs” du pays et de sa population.
L’Express de Madagascar : EXPRESSions du lundi 27 janvier 2003
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| Nosy Boraha, l'île Sainte-Marie |
Paroles de rescapé…
Le fihavanana qui constituerait un principe d’harmonie sociale à Madagascar voudrait qu’aucune tête ne dépasse… En pratique ce fihavanana a pour corollaire une jalousie exacerbée… Voulez-vous froisser un Malgache ? Plus simplement éloigner un importun : dites lui du bien d’un autre Malgache… Ça lui sera insupportable… Si certes il ne vous ennuiera plus pendant un moment, jamais sa jalousie n’oubliera l’affront subi… De même, le fihavanana, ce principe de base, fera que tout succès d’autrui sera insupportable… A fortiori s’il s’agit d’étrangers… À partir de là, tous les coups seront seront permis… S’attaquer à celui qui a réussi, surtout si cette réussite est visible, s’inscrira dans la logique d’une culture, indélébilement ancrée dans les mentalités… Cela quelque soit le régime en place, sans espoir de rémission…
Les quelques ligne précédentes devraient suffire à expliquer tout le problème… Ajoutons à cela la pauvreté… le mépris de l’étranger… la conviction unanimement ancrée que Madagascar est le plus beau pays sur cette Terre, donc que l’étranger qui aura succombé à ses charmes ne saurait aller ailleurs… Souvenons nous qu’à partir du moment où l’on a cédé une fois à un chantage ou à un racket, on donnera encore, toujours plus, l’engrenage est fatal… d’autant plus que le racketté sera désormais coupable ne n’avoir pas dénoncé le délit… dès lors il risque de tomber sous l’emprise d’une police qui profitera de l’aubaine pour prendre le relai des premiers racketteurs… Et de bonnes âmes auront toujours l'obligeance de dénoncer le racket, sinon le racketté. Ajoutons que Madagascar reste une île, s’en échapper autrement que par la seule voie de sortie aisée, l’aéroport d’Ivato, reste hasardeux, dangereux, immédiatement suspect…
Aucun étranger, tôt ou tard, ne sera à l’abri de tels comportements… Célibataires, ceux vivant avec une personne malgache, ceux déjà mariés à l’étranger… Chacun rencontrera des personnes de toute confiance… mais ces personnes de toute confiance, très souvent foncièrement sincères, ont une famille… et les relations familiales malgaches l’emporteront toujours sur des relations avec un étranger… Seuls seront plus ou moins protégés ceux qui dépendent étroitement d’une ambassade… Les touristes sont tout aussi exposés que ceux qui décident de s’installer dans le pays, avec une probabilité moindre du fait uniquement d’un séjour plus court… Une fatalité : aucun prétentieux ne s'avèrera plus malin que ceux qui ont déjà succombé… Comme ces phalènes magnétisés par l'éclat d'un feu, il sera irrémédiablement grillé… L'île des Naufrageurs hypnotisera encore et toujours de nouvelles proies tout aussi aimantes…
Les risques s'avèrent d'autant plus probables que parmi ces phalènes, certains en rajoutent en transgressant délibérément des règles de bienséance profondément ancrées chez les populations… Un drame parmi mes plus tragiques s'est déjà produit sur une plage… la plage d'Andaboy, près de Tuléar… La plage d'Andaboy vu sa réputation maléfique selon certaines croyances locales est donc désertée par les autochtones… Bravant de ridicules superstitions nombreux sont les étrangers européens qui en profitent pour venir s'y livrer au naturisme… Or le naturisme dépasse l'entendement de tout Malgache… Quiconque s'y adonne est considéré pour le moins comme un dérangé mental… sinon un profanateur… De notre point de vue, ce ne serait qu'un imbécile provocateur… Le danger est suffisamment grand pour quiconque se comporte loyalement sans qu'il soit besoin d'en rajouter…
Certes Madagascar est un beau pays… la nature y est unique… les gens y sont initialement extrêmement accueillants… mais il existe de par ce monde, d’autres pays tout aussi attrayants où il est possible de vivre en paix… sans l’angoisse d’une agression qui peut subvenir à tout moment… Des pays où il sera possible de complimenter vos hôtes… Des pays où vos hôtes se réjouiront sincèrement de vos succès… où votre générosité éventuelle sera appréciée, et infiniment récompensée.
Dimanche matin 21 août, deux jeunes bénévoles français qui travaillaient pour une association à Madagascar ont été retrouvés battus à mort sur une plage de l’île Sainte-Marie.
Une jeune femme de 22 ans et son compagnon de 25 ans ont été tués durant la nuit du samedi 20 au dimanche 21 août l’île de Sainte-Marie à Madagascar.Leurs corps ont été retrouvés hier matin à l’aube sur une plage, à 200 mètres de la discothèque où ils auraient été vus pour la dernière fois.Par voie de communiqué, le ministère français des Affaires Étrangères adresse ses condoléances aux familles des victimes. "Nous avons appris avec émotion le crime odieux qui a coûté la vie à deux ressortissants français" a écrit dimanche soir le ministère français des Affaires étrangères.Selon le communiqué des Affaires Étrangères : les autorités françaises sont en contact avec les familles des victimes et une enquête est en cours à Madagascar. Des renforts attendus aujourd’hui à Madagascar"Des gendarmes français sont attendus ce lundi en renfort pour assister leurs collègues de la police nationale et de la section criminelle de la gendarmerie malgaches". Le consul de France est également attendu. Pour l’heure, aucune interpellation n’a été effectuée. Cétamada, une association reconnueLes deux jeunes bénévoles étaient arrivés il y a quelques mois sur l’île de Sainte-Marie pour s’engager au sein de l’association malgache Cétamada qui œuvre pour la protection des mammifères marins et de l’environnement.Les deux Français étaient des éco-volontaires, des bénévoles qui travaillaient depuis quelques mois pour l’association malgache Cétamada."Les éco-volontaires, au nombre de 26, travaillent pour l’association pendant toute la saison de reproduction des baleines qui s’achève à la fin du mois de septembre". Un hommage rendu aux deux victimes aujourd’huiLe vice-président de l’association Cétamada dénonce un "acte barbare" mais il prétendrait insister aussi sur le caractère exceptionnel de l’événement sur cette île paisible. "Je vis à Sainte-Marie depuis plus de trente ans, cette petite boîte de nuit a très bonne réputation. C’est la première fois qu’il y a un acte aussi dramatique, aussi barbare. Il n’y a pas de connotations raciste ou sexuelle. C’est une chose complètement exceptionnelle qui s’est passé et ça c’est important de le dire". "Exceptionnel" ne veut pas dire unique… Si "exceptionnel" à Sainte-Marie, l'assassinat d'étrangers, le plus souvent Vazahas, est récurrent à Madagascar.La saison a été abrégée en raison du drame par les responsables de Cétamada et les jeunes volontaires doivent décider ce lundi s’ils restent sur l’île ou la quittent.Un hommage à leurs deux camarades est organisé par l’association Cétamada ce lundi 22 août.
L'Info Réunion : Deux bénévoles français tués à Madagascar
La mort violente d’un amoureux de Madagascar, cette île des naufrageurs…
Madagascar, funeste île de Naufrageurs… nouvel épisode tragique d'une série sans fin…
Madagascar… île des Naufrageurs… Défense de s'échapper…
Suicide, mode d’emploi : allez "vivre" à Madagascar !
Madagascar, île de naufrageurs : encore un Français assassiné par des cambrioleurs
Madagascar, île de naufrageurs (suite sans fin) : Français assassiné et incinéré dans sa villa
Madagascar Mandritsara : meurtre odieux de Sœur Marie Emmanuel Helesbeux, 82 ans
Madagascar : Deux voleurs lynchés à mort par une foule en colère
Madagascar : Andohalo - Un voleur de voiture lynché par la foule
Farafangana : Quatre bandits lynchés à mort
86 voleurs de bœufs lynchés à mort à Madagascar
Nos gouvernants et élus municipaux actuels ont encore tellement à apprendre de leurs glorieux ancêtres…Savourons ensemble l'idiotie - on aurait tant aimé croire à de l'humour ! - des considérants de cet arrêté municipal… S'agissant de statuer sur les tenues vestimentaires des uns et des autres, plutôt des unes et des autres, nos maires d'aujourd'hui pourraient faire un effort pour nous amuser. Nous laisser rire à leurs dépens ou attirer notre complicité, peu importe… Nous ne souhaitons qu'un brin de gaieté…
La pseudo organisation humanitaire "Whites Helmets"(casques blancs) du groupe terroriste al-Nosra utilise de fausses photos d'enfants bombardés pour donner une justification à ce que les gouvernements occidentaux bombardent les positions de l'Armée Arabe Syrienne.
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| Comment les "Démocraties" choisissent les images pour servir leur propagande visant la destruction de la Syrie… Entre montage mensonger aussi grossier qu'odieux et occultation des crimes commis par les "rebelles modérés" soutenus et financés par l'Occident… Quand la décapitation d'un enfant de 13 ans c'est "du bon boulot" ! Et pourtant ces deux photos sont vraisemblablement du même photographe : Mahmoud Raslan |
Les deux photos ci-dessus associées sont en réalité vraisemblablement du même photographe, Mahmoud Raslan, œuvrant pour les "rebelles modérés" qui font du "bon boulot" :
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| La même équipe était là lors de l'enregistrement de chacune des deux scènes : la décapitation bien réelle du 18 juillet (en haut à droite) et la falsification récente. Les visages joyeux des "terroristes modérés" qui se préparent à une décapitation ne peuvent qu'ajouter à l'horreur de leur acte… et à l'abject des responsables occidentaux qui les cautionnent. |
Le 18 juillet, tôt le matin dans Handarat d'Alep les djihadistes de l'opposition syrienne "modérée qui fait du bon boulot" (Nour Al Din Zinki) ont capturé un enfant de 13 ans d'origine palestinienne. Les islamistes ont déclaré que l'enfant-victime était un combattant d'Assad. Ensuite ils ont procédé à la décapitation de l'enfant. Ce crime abominable d'ailleurs très fréquemment pratiqué par la prétentue opposition modérée que soutient la politique internationale, a eu lieu sur le plateau d'un véhicule type pick-up. L'enfant probablement appartenait à la communauté syro-palestinienne d'Alep qui soutient la République Arabe Syrienne. Il est à noter que dans la ville d'Alep une Unité palestinienne composée de volontaires se bat avec l΄Armée Arabe Syrienne contre la terreur sous le nom de la Brigade de Jérusalem (Al-Qods).
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| Omar Salkho et Mohammed Mayuf, les "Zinki child beheaders", et autres membres du groupe "Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki" qui ont décapité un enfant de 13 ans, Abdallah Issa |
WTF: Guy who taken pictures working for AFP is in same group from the beheaders who behead a Kid in Aleppo
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b0f_1471568490#fjisI5I0CzTALkSq.99
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/08/the-wounded-boy-in-orange-seat-another-staged-white-helmets-stunt.html
August 18, 2016
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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| Maquillage grossier d'un garçon apparemment blessé, trop tranquillement assis dans une ambulance toute neuve… Il ne saigne pas du tout. Une substance de couleur rouge a été appliquée sur son visage, mais pas de sang qui coule. Étonnant quand on sait combien saignent les personnes atteintes de blessures à la tête… "Autant que des porcs égorgés !" |
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.
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.
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| Comparez la photo diffusée par la propagande à cette image récente d'un garçon réellement blessé dans Alep-ouest. (Là pas de médias "occidentaux" pour montrer ce garçon et sa souffrance. Il n'est pas du «bon côté».) Le garçon a reçu une blessure à la tête provoquée par un missile artisanal d'al-Qaïda et ses complice lancé sur son quartier. Il a été pris en charge, le saignement a été arrêté. Mais la quantité de sang sur son corps et son vêtement trempé atteste de la réalité de la blessure telle que la connaissent les ambulanciers. De plus au sang sont également mêlées d'autres salissures sur son visage, lui, non maquillé. Cela est réel. L'environnement est effectivement celui d'un centre médical actif… et non comme dans le montage de propagande vide de toute activité de soin… |
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?
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.Posted by b on August 18, 2016 at 01:16 PM | Permalink
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What a fucked up world.Posted by: Mattose | Aug 18, 2016 1:26:53 PM | 1Fascinating. When I saw the original photo, the soot across the right eye looked like it had been painted on as the lines were just too straight.
It should be remembered that the "photojournalists" of the "rebellion" got their training and equipment from the CIA. I do think that instead of the a Noble Peace, they should get an Oscar for Best Fake Reporting.
Posted by: Michael | Aug 18, 2016 1:35:05 PM | 2But think of all the effort they put into these photos, b. The casting alone is impressive. Military-age men without (or with neatly trimmed) beards. Soros demanded they stop publishing any White Helmet photos with guys that have long, scraggly head-chopper beards, and suddenly you didn't see any. And I mean zero. That was around the time the U.S. told the FSA to trim their head-chopper beards because the long ones scared Americans. No TOW-2As unless they shaved. The MSM started publishing photos with groups of head-choppers - all either clean-shaven or with equally-neatly trimmed beards. It was just weird. I don't think al Nusra liked that too much, so it sort of disappeared. The White Helmets have dutifully kept publicly-released photos of themselves restricted to rescuers clean-shaven or with short-trimmed beards. It makes them look less head-chopper-ish and - I guess - Nobel Prize worthy.
As an aside, I love how the kid in the impossibly-clean orange/white 'ambulance' is sitting next to a well-labeled First Aid kit. Because you want to be sure your medical supplies are labeled in English - the national language of Syria. It's also important to have a First Aid kit in an ambulance because you never know when you'll have a medical emergency, and where would you get any medical supplies then?
Posted by: PavewayIV | Aug 18, 2016 1:47:13 PM | 3As a scenic in Hollywood I work on many productions after the chippers (carpenters) do their thing. I am usually on set when they do the shoot for minor touch ups so I see a lot of this type of thing for tv and movie productions, where it may be appropriate. This is a piss poor production job if I have ever seen one.
Here's a link to something mentioning "East Aleppo media activist" Raslan. http://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2016/6-august-east-aleppo-media-activist-mahmoud-raslan-in-ramouseh
Posted by: Hrothgar | Aug 18, 2016 1:52:25 PM | 5And how come Soros isn't funding any White Helmets in Yemen, that racist pig!
Posted by: PavewayIV | Aug 18, 2016 2:00:25 PM | 6The boy is also quite fat. He is evidently not suffering from the shortages East Aleppo is supposed to be suffering from.
Posted by: Laguerre | Aug 18, 2016 2:06:39 PM | 7Another pr stunt pulled by the usual suspects.. Funny how the msm always come out in force to tell us how we should all be crying to "rebel held" (aka Al-Qaeda bases) Aleppo but never say a word when their lovely rebels rain gas canisters filled with explosives on Western Aleppo.
This is a classic "babies in incubators" moment.
I don't think the Syrian government must stop the offensive.. Sri-Lanka did it very effectively untl total vistory. The rats in the Eastern part of Aleppo have been given many chance to lay down their weapons but they choose to fight for their caliphate.. Why should anyone care????
Posted by: Zico | Aug 18, 2016 2:12:52 PM | 8Crikey, mate! I have been out of range of WiFi for almost 2 weeks. When I left home on Aug05 all of the pro-Assad Syrian bullspit dorks were saying SAA/Hizzbolah/Kurds were kicking jihadi ass in Aleppo: 1070 was under control, Ramouse was under control, Hikmah School was OK, liveuamap showed the jihadis surrounded and no way out. I get back online yesterday expecting to see Aleppo thriving once more under the gentle, democratic protection of Assad and the SAA.
But look at the map now!! A flood of green w/ wee patches of red about to be swamped. WTF happened to Putin and his air strikes that was putting al-Q on the run? WTF happened to the valiant SAA? WTF happened?
Only goes to show: you cannot believe a word these Syrian bloggers/tweeters print on either side. The people who are predicting don’t know squat about what the situation will look like in 24 hours – probably don’t know squat about what it looks like in real time. They are as bad or worse than Higgins.
b, to his eternal credit, had the cojones to say on Aug07, essentially, “I fucked that prediction up.” Lesson learned: nobody can make a valid prediction based on bullspit. Don’t even try. Even if you’re right now and then, it’s just dumb luck. Put your chips on black and spin the wheel, you’re odds are better.
But speaking of bullspit predictions, here’s mine, based on politics not piss-poor or faked “battleground intel”: If the jihadis can hold out in Aleppo until Jan20|17, Clinton will rescue them. Putin will either tuck-tail or fight WWIII. His choice. By mid-2017 Assad will either be dead or in exile in some Shia country and Israel will occupy Golan.
denis@9- haw haw haw..thanks for the piss poor prediction. You're always good for a laugh, if a bit long winded.
Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 2:24:47 PM | 10Denis@9 - "...and Israel will occupy Golan." Whaaaat? That's just crazy talk. Could they even do such a thing? The U.N. would never allow it! And I'll bet Syria wouldn't be the least bit happy about that, either.
Posted by: PavewayIV | Aug 18, 2016 2:30:46 PM | 11thanks b for continuing to shine a light on this bullshite..
Posted by: james | Aug 18, 2016 2:32:31 PM | 12@3 Pavewayiv - As an aside, I love how the kid in the impossibly-clean orange/white 'ambulance' is sitting next to a well-labeled First Aid kit. Because you want to be sure your medical supplies are labeled in English - the national language of Syria. It's also important to have a First Aid kit in an ambulance because you never know when you'll have a medical emergency, and where would you get any medical supplies then?
'impossibly-clean' just sums this whole charade up - does this look like an ambulance that has seen daily bloody casualties - no, not in the slightest - and that's before you look at the 'detail'.
The only strategy the USISUKNATO, and the rest, now has is total BS news, because the Syrian/Russian/Iran/Iraq/Lebanon and 'maybe' Turkey are covering what is happening on the ground.
The bombing base in Iran is a good move - it is out of earshot from the immediate arena - and the US cannot predict the trajectories!
Regards Fred
Posted by: fredjc | Aug 18, 2016 2:41:05 PM | 13I have learned a simple rule: if it comes from a western connected organization, immediately doubt it. The odds are your doubt will be right 99% of the time.
Lying and deception are at the core of the west: it must win while everyone else must loose.
No more cease fires in Syria.
Posted by: AriusArmenian | Aug 18, 2016 2:43:05 PM | 14@denis 9. Very frightening prediction. Hillary Clinton is ready for a world/humanity ending nuclear war with Russia to protect Al Queda in Aleppo. So when the nukes fall on New York City, Chicago, London, Paris, Berlin, we can all say with a sigh of relief "at least all the children in Aleppo are safe tonight. Protected by the family friendly first woman president of the United States."
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Posted by: Erelis | Aug 18, 2016 2:50:37 PM | 15Thanks b for shining the light on these despicable roaches.
Who provided the free ketch-up of a certain brand?
This prop will not fly in the Internet age. The "bloodied" kid sitting on the orange seat, with both hands poised on legs is unmoved; not a twitch and obviously not experiencing any pain or trauma whatsoever. Looks more like my kids rag-doll. Can we spell Staged?
Posted by: likklemore | Aug 18, 2016 2:58:42 PM | 16When Al Qaeda filmed themselves beheading a 12-year old boy they pretty much lost any chance at winning the PR war. But I'm glad you're revealing the U.S. (via White Helmet) lies.
Posted by: rcentros | Aug 18, 2016 3:01:43 PM | 17Obviously the little boy is not in pain. Every little child, in a stressful situation like this, away from the parents would start crying. And how do they explain, if a child has got head injuries that NOBODY is attending to the wound not to mention staying with a small child and comforting it???
They rather put him on the chair and make him look so mall and lonely and take photos. That is of course the natural thing to do when you have injured children rescued in a war zone. My argument being that it can not be that this boy has been injured and definitely this scene has been staged. Same as the scene with the little dead boy on the Turkish beach (the refugee welcome argument) if you remember.
I feel very sorry for this little boy though. His father is most probably al Qaeda and guilty of putting his son through this. These children go through stressful and terrible times, they are being abused for fake photo shoots and their parents that are not interested in using humanitarian corridors to get out of a war zone if only for the sake of their children. What kind of human beings are they?
Posted by: Demeter | Aug 18, 2016 3:01:52 PM | 18@15 Erelis - Very frightening indeed - more frightening is the range of candidates on offer - where is the candidate running under the 'sack all bankers' and 'stop all bankers wars' mandate?
Posted by: fredjc | Aug 18, 2016 3:02:35 PM | 19b, thanks as always for the exposure of those lies.
@all Remember this? BBC fake Syrian victims
Methinks the sponsors of that terror are really desperate for some safe corridor for their "ambulances" to get their "assets" (NATO/Israel/GCC military commanders) out of the siege.
Posted by: ProPeace | Aug 18, 2016 3:11:52 PM | 20Just went to look here http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/18/boy-ambulance-offers-glimpse-profound-horrors-syria to see if anyone caught onto the item's obvious propaganda and said as much in the comments--No, and since I'm now banned from there until 2153, I can't post the proper corrective and link to b's great article as I've done in the past. You'd think the use of English inside the ambulance would've caught someone's eye, or other clues as pointed out by b and PaveWayIV. The great irony is the website's trying to raise funds by emphasizing "lies of omission" for which it's quite guilty of itself, particularly when exiling truth tellers like myself and at least a dozen others over the last month. Anyway, thanks to b for again unmasking the garbage.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 18, 2016 3:14:01 PM | 21This is really revolting to see that child being (ab)used for NATO propaganda.
Don't those people ("White Helmet" et al scum) have any human conscious?
Or at least some instinct for self-preservation - are they that stupid to believe they won't be held accountable when the dust finally settles? What are they counting on?
Posted by: ProPeace | Aug 18, 2016 3:16:10 PM | 22From 0:53 to 0:56 the injured man is directed to the ambulance in English, "This way, this way, this way..."
Also of note is how localized the "rubble" they are handing people over is, a small patch of several meters squared. After that, the path to the ambulance, and the area around the ambulance, is completely clear. Those evil Syrians must have used a very smart barrel bomb this time to contain the damage to such a small localized area.
On a more serious note, as usual, there is nothing to identify this video as being filmed in Aleppo Syria, or even outdoors, and not in some movie studio in Qatar.
Posted by: name | Aug 18, 2016 4:01:31 PM | 23Watched the Vid. Watched the kid rub his head like he's tired - look at the 'blood' and try to wipe it off his hand. Words just flew out of my mouth.."ever seen a 5 year old see himself bleeding? They bawl and wail, and scream, and it's all you can do to convince them that they aren't going to die, while trying to calm them down, so they hold still, so you can stop the bleeding and pop a band-aid on the poor thing." Good spotting B.
Off topic, but per your "discussion" with Col. Lang, I went to one of Soros' Schools back in the early days - and the experience and my observations left me with very little doubt that it and he are a CIA op.
Posted by: skuppers | Aug 18, 2016 4:02:33 PM | 24Of course, the entire concept of the "White Hats" is ridiculous propaganda based on the unconscious identification of the viewer with old Hollywood Westerns where the "good guys" wear white hats.
In a real zero-sum conflict international proxy war, as Syria is, the idea that handsome able-bodied men would not be taking up arms for their side, but would specialize, not in Emergency Medicine per say, a recognized discipline, but merely in extracting bodies from rubble before cameras is risible.
It is lamentable that there were no White Hats around when the three buildings of the World trade Center were demolished after being hit by two planes. First responders were uniformly shocked that there was not a single whole body in the rubble to be extracted!
Posted by: name | Aug 18, 2016 4:13:24 PM | 25it's the John Bonet Ramsey of Unkie Shmuel's headchopper brigade! children as props & performers in adult fantasies, games and schemes. they need to throw in some wounded puppies & maternal-lactose deprived mewling kittens too. for the intended audience.
and i don't recall the NYT & co being at all concerned by incendiary devices in Fallujah et al. every word is a lie, a distortion, if only by omission.
Posted by: jason | Aug 18, 2016 4:15:24 PM | 26hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 2:24:47 PM | 10
“You're always good for a laugh, if a bit long winded.”
Ha! You should hear the long winded ones that come out the other end. Practice, practice, practice . . .
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PavewayIV | Aug 18, 2016 2:30:46 PM | 11
“That's just crazy talk. Could they even do such a thing? The U.N. would never allow it! And I'll bet Syria wouldn't be the least bit happy about that, either.”
My take is that you’re being facetious, which you do very well. When was the last time GoY (Govt. of Yisrael) cared about what the UN thought? Well . . . OK, when GoY pitches a bitch about Hamas, then they care.
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Erelis | Aug 18, 2016 2:50:37 PM | 15
That was perfectly said. I won’t follow-up because b (properly) likes to keep comments on US election politics separate.
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ProPeace | Aug 18, 2016 3:16:10 PM | 22
“This is really revolting to see that child being (ab)used for NATO propaganda.”
Speaking of exploiting kids for political purposes, you might agree with this piece on Dissident Voice about Khizr Khan exploiting the tragic death of his son:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/08/khizr-khan-really-needs-to-chill-and-contemplate-who-is-responsible-for-his-sons-death-it-aint-trump/
This is the latest heart tugging news story, out of Aleppo?
The child was rescued from rubble. So it is claimed?
Except we aren't shown him being removed from the rubble?
Though, the person who took this footage claims he filmed him being removed from the rubble.
'I filmed the Syrian boy pulled from the rubble - his wasn't a rare case'
Can anyone point me towards the footage that shows the removal from rubble occurring?
Of any of the children that were positioned in the ambulance?
etc
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/little-boy-rescued-from-rubble.html
Posted by: brian | Aug 18, 2016 4:17:12 PM | 28August 5 - Save Our Children on Russian-Syrian Proposal to establish 'humanitarian corridors' out of Aleppo - the original page is scrubbed so here's a link to the cache - http://tinyurl.com/z9k67wf (NOTE: the cached link was way long so shortened it using tinyurl)
"If Russia is serious about averting a humanitarian disaster in Aleppo it should strongly support the UN's call for an immediate weekly 48-hour humanitarian pause to ensure safe, unimpeded and immediate humanitarian access – both for aid to get into Aleppo and for civilians to leave voluntarily."
August 18 - RT: Russia ready to support weekly 48-hour humanitarian ceasefires in Aleppo – Defense Ministry -
" The Russian Ministry of Defense has backed a proposal from the UN Syria envoy to organize 48-hour weekly ceasefires to supply humanitarian relief to Aleppo citizens. The first truce could be organized as early as next week."
"The proposal – which was originally voiced last week by the UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, who called for 48-hour ceasefires instead of the three hours proposed by the Russian side – has been welcomed in Moscow."
Looks like the NGOs succeeded in getting their 48-hour ceasefires with a little nudging from the helmets...
Forgot to post link to RT's story - https://www.rt.com/news/356409-aleppo-humanitarian-truce-russia/
The mass media at least in the US is uncritically fully taking up the video and images. The clip looks to be very effective as it has been posted with little or no scrutiny on both liberal and neocon sites (have no TV so no idea how it is playing there). Yah, compelling images on the surface but when doing an analysis (which is not allowed), you do have to wonder why there is so much blood on the child's face but none on the his clothes from what I can tell. Why so many hurt children in pictures/videos do not cry. These are not complex, distorting semantic questions, but questions that come out of simple experiences, and which never get answered.
Posted by: Erelis | Aug 18, 2016 4:39:36 PM | 32Does anyone else find it strange that the kids don't look around at the ambulance? It's as though they've been in an ambulance before or they have been there for a while (which doesn't make sense if they've been rescued after an attack).
The little boy focuses on the camera. His lack of interest in the ambulance makes it seem as though he's in shock, but then he touches his hair and tries to wipe off the blood in a way that is very fidgety (he's bored?).
We only see the little girl in the ambulance briefly but it seems strange that she doesn't show interest in the big commotion at the entrance as another child is swiftly carried over. Wouldn't she be hoping that her parents/siblings may arrive? And would a young girl be wearing that dress in the evening? (I don't know the local customs.)
Others have pointed out the boys lack of a pain reaction and lack of distress but actually we see three different children (i>(I believe there are two different boys shown) that have just (supposedly) been through a frightening experience and (supposedly) injured and NONE OF THEM are crying or appear distressed.
And why are all these men huddled around the ambulance filming? Why aren't they helping to look for survivors?
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 18, 2016 5:39:30 PM | 33Generally when the media goes into a hypocritical frenzy about Syria it means the jihadis are getting pumped !!!
There have been a fair few Hezbollah funerals in Lebanon over the past few weeks, which generally means something massive is happening, and results will show sooner or later.
Also in regards to white helmets, im not too sure if anyone has seen this video and if it has been posted before my apologies, but its very good at exposing them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8_cPE30z-I
Enjoy
Posted by: Deebo | Aug 18, 2016 5:39:59 PM | 34b,
You can maybe add this to your famous 'last of' list for Syria, (though it may actually be true), but the rest of the article ticks all the hart string pulling techniques:
USA Toady via Antiwar.com: Last female OB-GYN in eastern Aleppo tells why she keeps working
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/08/17/last-female-ob-gyn-aleppo-syria/88888912/
...Dr. Farida is the only female OB-GYN left in rebel-held Aleppo. She has no intention of quitting. “I love my work, and I love my patients. And I love little babies.”
regs,
et Al
Posted by: et Al | Aug 18, 2016 5:46:09 PM | 35In the Guardian's story the photographer is named as Mustafa al-Sarout, who has provided more details to the reporter in Beirut (Karem Shaheen). He is apparently working for the Aleppo Media Centre.
The Guardian reported on 3 May that
Contractors hired by the Foreign Office but overseen by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) produce videos, photos, military reports, radio broadcasts, print products and social media posts branded with the logos of fighting groups, and effectively run a press office for opposition fighters.It's likely that the Aleppo Media Centre is one of the products of these contractors.
Posted by: pmr9 | Aug 18, 2016 5:47:28 PM | 36You've gone a bit far there, MoA. White Helmets HAVE pulled out old victims in the past, but this one's almost certainly current. Here's an article by Eva Bartlett, who's regularly visiting Syria, explaining how the White Helmets are embedded in terrorist-held quarters of Aleppo. That's how they were first on the scene... https://www.sott.net/article/325238-Western-corporate-media-disappears-over-1-5-million-Syrians-and-4000-doctors
Posted by: Niall | Aug 18, 2016 5:55:08 PM | 37The ground around the Ambulance seems remarkably level and free of debris (one might even say 'clean').
Posted by: Jackrabbit | Aug 18, 2016 6:02:02 PM | 38Watched the video last night (PST) Three key websites below link to the "boy" in the video, forgotten to bookmark. If you have time and patience read, click on all the weblink below: Pay particular attention to 21st Century Wire's Vanessa Beeley, she had documented extensively on the White Helmets.
1 - SYRIA: CNN Normalizes Suicide Bombers and Embeds Reporters with ISIS and Al Qaeda. August 4, 2016 by Vanessa Beeley
http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/08/04/syria-cnn-normalizes-suicide-bombers-and-embeds-reporters-with-isis-and-al-qaeda/
2 - What It's Like Being A Journalist In One Of The World's Most Dangerous Countries. Refinery29 Kaelyn Forde, March 18, 2016, 5:00 pm
http://www.refinery29.com/2016/03/106214/cnn-clarissa-ward-aleppo-syria-undercover-death-road
3 - CNN #UndercoverInSyria: Clarissa Ward March 14th, 2016. 10:03 am ET
http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/03/14/undercoverinsyria-clarissa-ward-reports-from-behind-rebel-lines/
Posted by: Jack Smith | Aug 18, 2016 6:04:32 PM | 39Have any of these White Helmet victims ever been filmed arriving at and being treated in a hospital?
Posted by: Yonatan | Aug 18, 2016 6:14:49 PM | 40Gotta thank CD member Uncle Po for posting a link to this item there. Unfortunately, no excerpt was provided as a hook to get people to click on the link to read the truth of the matter--only one had so far.
Niall @37--
Eva Bartlett herself says the White Helmets are fakes and Propaganda System Tools, a judgment she made almost a year ago, https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/08/25/note-on-credibility-and-lack-of-impartiality-of-those-making-anti-syria-allegations/ So, I would say you need to retract your accusation of b since you're the one who's been duped.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 18, 2016 6:15:06 PM | 41White Helmets do their job. But the media has a lot of images too choose, including quite shaggy jihadists cheerfully beheading a juvenile victim with a kitchen knife. You have to save ammo, plus, a simple shot of mercy is soon boring. And victims in the 'regime Aleppo" have their images too. Do not tell me that the main reason to prefer White Helmets' images is that they are most cute of them all.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Aug 18, 2016 6:31:43 PM | 42Niall @18 The White Helmets were created by the British MI6/Military as a propaganda organisation. Some of them are terrorists. Here is a video of them mixing with the ISIS and FSA buddies. There are other videos of them celebrating ISIS victories and bragging about dumping the bodies of non-takfiris in the trash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwkhPlG5DU
Posted by: Yonatan | Aug 18, 2016 6:41:16 PM | 43I've always assumed that the White Helmets were jihadis who swapped their AK's for a plastic hat as and when required. There was a piece in the Guardian a few days ago from a guy in Aleppo who seemed to be a legit educated revolutionary of the type that were active at the start. Interestingly, he'd only arrived just before the SAA closed the Castello road and crucially didn't own a white hat.
As for the boy, I feel that it's a mistake to cry fake. Injuries like that and worse are constantly happening on both sides and as such the image is representative regardless of provenance. As such, the wiser course of action is to give it the benefit of the doubt. People will believe it's true regardless and it's best to keep one's powder dry than enrage them by stating otherwise.
Posted by: Mr Toad | Aug 18, 2016 6:56:19 PM | 44et Al @ 35:
I read that USA Today story on "Dr Farida" you linked to and after I read this:
"... Once a patient was hit in the neck by broken glass during an airstrike, she recalls. “So every woman who comes to the hospital knows there’s a danger to her life. So they just give birth and go home, as they know our hospital is always being targeted by the Assad regime.”..."
I couldn't read much further, I was starting to laugh too hard. The entire article is a terrible cut-n-paste mish-mash. So Dr Farida just pops the babies and sends the kiddies home with their mothers, with broken glass still sticking out of their necks or their legs still missing?
Posted by: Jen | Aug 18, 2016 6:58:37 PM | 45About the authenticity of the top photo, which was reproduced in The Guardian etc. Indeed, even after a small kitchen cut the blood gets splattered. If the head was bleeding, the shirt would be dirty. Additionally, the place where the victims are aided is always a mess, especially in a war zone, blood get splattered, packages of dressing material are hastily torn, there is a lot of dust from explosions (this is why their exposed skin is white, but the ambulance should be a bit dusty too, etc.
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Aug 18, 2016 7:01:04 PM | 46The organization itself lobbies for it on its website. Has anyone else ever done such?
Probably Eli Wiesel.
Posted by: MRW | Aug 18, 2016 7:12:31 PM | 47So why RT is buying white helmet lies?
#Aleppo Boy: Ash-covered child brings home horror of Syrian war to the world (GRAPHIC VIDEO, PHOTOS)
https://www.rt.com/news/356370-aleppo-boy-syria-airstrike/
Posted by: Kalen | Aug 18, 2016 7:34:17 PM | 48This is VERY good reporting. Thank you SO much for helping us know how to fight against this horrific drive to war with Syria.
Posted by: American Antiwar Activist | Aug 18, 2016 7:37:19 PM | 49@48, good question. I put my oar in and left a link to here. "Under approval"
Posted by: ruralito | Aug 18, 2016 8:06:01 PM | 50My question. If this is in Syria why is the stuff in the ambulance written if freaking english
Posted by: Jennifer Franchina | Aug 18, 2016 8:13:36 PM | 51b, so was the thalassemia thing an MSM lie, or not? It seems against self-interest for Western elite media to claim so.
Posted by: Jonathan | Aug 18, 2016 8:15:08 PM | 52This kid (in the top photo), Aleppo boy -is, if I'm not mistaken, is the child of one of the Zinki child be headers (the short fat one)
Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 8:50:08 PM | 53@hejiminy cricket
This twitter feed (https://twitter.com/LinaArabii) shows pictures of Mahmoud Rslan posing with people asserted to be the Zinki beheaders. Think the identification is correct?
You can see the same picture right there on Rslan's FB page.
Posted by: catb | Aug 18, 2016 8:55:16 PM | 54@53- whatever the case the photographer of Aleppo boy, Mahmoud Raslan, looks like an insane baby killer with a flair for makeup artistry.
Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 8:57:28 PM | 55catb@54- I think the photo I linked to was taken just before/during the Aleppo boy photo shoot.
Posted by: hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 8:59:39 PM | 56Anything associated with the UK is presumed guilty until proven innocent. That country is even more diabolical than the USA.
Posted by: telescope | Aug 18, 2016 9:00:39 PM | 57via twitterer RedKahina https://twitter.com/walid970721 Note makeup artists simulating gruesome wounds.
Posted by: ruralito | Aug 18, 2016 9:02:54 PM | 58
@ hejiminy cricket | Aug 18, 2016 8:50:08 PM | 53
Well knock me over, if genuine, the photo you linked to shows Mahmoud Raslan, the guy who apparently took the picture of the boy in the ambulance, snapping a selfie with the al-Zenki crew that beheaded the young kid a month or so ago, weeks after the event and therefore in full knowledge of what demonic monsters he was showing off with.
Just how stupid are the people running the West's propaganda effort, that is dickheadry of the highest order.
Posted by: Juan Moment | Aug 18, 2016 9:05:51 PM | 59
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