Special Reports & Tweets - 20140502_SpecialReport-4_Alex
Aired: 2014-05-02
Duration: 05:15


=== Bbc's False Evidence Scandal (03:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Thanks for watching.
[00:00:18]  Buried deep on page A9, the newspaper admits the authenticity of the photos has come under scrutiny.
[00:00:24]  The establishment media and the State Department pawned these photos off as evidence, despite the fact the authenticity of the photographs couldn't be independently verified.
[00:00:34]  Freelance photographer Maxim Dondiuk, who worked for a Russian news magazine, told the New York Times he had taken the group photograph in Slavyansk and posted it on his Instagram account.
[00:00:44]  He told the newspaper that nobody asked his permission to use the photograph.
[00:00:48]  This isn't the first time the war machine media have churned out false evidence in an effort to gear the country up for war.
[00:00:55]  Last year, the BBC appeared to use stunning fakery in an effort to launch a war with Syria.
[00:01:01]  This report was first released on August 29, 2013, just days before an attack on Syria seemed inevitable.
[00:01:08]  The BBC claims it just so happened to be filming at a small hospital when victims of a napalm-style attack poured into that very spot.
[00:01:18]  Among the medics here was a British doctor, visiting for the charity Hand in Hand.
[00:01:25]  I need a pause because it's just absolute chaos and carnage here.
[00:01:29]  We've had a massive influx of what looks like serious burns.
[00:01:34]  It seems like it must be some sort of, I'm not really sure, maybe napalm, something similar to that.
[00:01:41]  Exactly one month later, Obama and crew were trying to pin the chemical weapons attack on Assad without success.
[00:01:48]  So, BBC airs the exact same clip, this time artificially dubbing the doctor's voice to suit the establishment's need for the chemical weapons tagline.
[00:01:59]  We've had a massive influx of what look like serious burns.
[00:02:04]  It seems like it must be some sort of...
[00:02:09]  In a subsequent BBC interview, Dr. Rola Halam complained about the UK Parliament's refusal to authorize a military strike on Syria.
[00:02:18]  Interestingly, Halam's father is also on the Syrian National Council, the political body which represents opposition militants.
[00:02:27]  And if this all seems familiar, well it should.
[00:02:29]  A similar disinfo tactic was used to bolster support for the war with Iraq.
[00:02:34]  They took the babies out of incubators.
[00:02:36]  Took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor.
[00:02:42]  That was Nurse Nayira, whose tearful testimony swung the pendulum in favor of war.
[00:02:49]  After the vote was safely passed, Nayyirah, the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington, admitted to making the whole story up.
[00:02:58]  Nurse Nayyirah and those faulty claims of weapons of mass destruction weren't the only lies told to convince America a war with Iraq was necessary.
[00:03:06]  CNN also did their part to play up the drama.
[00:03:10]  CNN's Carl Rochelle is here with me, just came up.
[00:03:13]  Carl, I know we can't be very specific given these restrictions, but within those parameters, what did you see?
[00:03:18]  Well, what I saw, I didn't see anything hit.
[00:03:21]  I looked very, almost straight above us.
[00:03:23]  There is a vapor trail coming from my right to my left, and there's a cloud of something.

=== Furnish the Pictures, Furnish the War (01:48) ===

[00:03:28]  It looks like it might have been an explosion of cloud, uh, or what say you?
[00:03:32]  Yeah.
[00:03:34]  What do you see?
[00:03:39]  What do you see?
[00:03:42]  I don't know.
[00:03:43]  I felt, I felt energy.
[00:03:45]  It's a good one.
[00:03:46]  It's a good one.
[00:03:47]  You take it.
[00:03:48]  Okay.
[00:03:49]  Alright.
[00:03:50]  Hehehe.
[00:03:51]  Hehehe.
[00:03:52]  Oh, I love this country so much.
[00:03:56]  These false flag mass media war campaigns are so typical, in fact, there's even a movie about it.
[00:04:02]  Okay, good.
[00:04:03]  Put the village behind her.
[00:04:08]  Give me some flames.
[00:04:11]  Some sound of screaming?
[00:04:17]  That's good, we can link that to the press.
[00:04:18]  They can downlink it on Telstar 401, transporter 21.
[00:04:23]  And this just in, a news break special report from the Albanian front.
[00:04:27]  We've just received information that the young Albanian national fleeing in this video is attempting to escape terrorist reprisals in her village.
[00:04:36]  Even before television was invented, mainstream media was still lined to go to war.
[00:04:43]  In 1895, William Randolph Hearst of the New York Journal sent his employees to cover the Cuban revolt against Spain.
[00:04:50]  Lacking anything newsworthy to report, Hearst told his employee, famed illustrator Frederick Remington, you furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war.
[00:04:59]  The establishment media continues to serve as the propaganda arm of the war machine.
[00:05:04]  It is their job to file dubious reports as part of a campaign to build public consensus for ongoing interventions from Iraq and Libya to Syria and eventually Ukraine.