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How truth is manufactured in the West

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
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SIGNYM

Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:18 PM

One of the ways that "truth" is made in the west is to use unreliable sources who helpfully stage convenient narratives for the media.., which dutifully passes on the disinformation. And sometimes, the media just makes shit up.

THE KUWAITI INCUBATOR BABY HOAX
An earlier, well-proven fake narrative was the tearful nurse who sobbed as she described how Iraq soldiers ripped little Kuwaiti babies from their hospital incubators and tossed them on the floor to die.

Damn, she looks convincing, doesn't she? If any testimony swayed votes towards the first Gulf War, this was it.

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The Nayirah testimony was the controversial testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a female who provided only her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized, and was cited numerous times by United States senators and the American president in their rationale to back Kuwait in the Gulf War. In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-?aba? and that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern wartime propaganda.

In her emotional testimony, Nayirah stated that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die.

Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International* and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country. An ABC report found that "patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait's nurses and doctors...fled" but Iraqi troops "almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die."

* Amnesty International is one of those NGOs that is heavily infiltrated by our State Department. They had to issue an embarrassing retraction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29
http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.htm

THE VENEZUELAN SHOOTING HOAX
In 2002, there were mass protests both for and against Hugo Chavez.

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The Venezuelan coup d'état attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d'état on 11 April 2002, that saw President Hugo Chávez ousted from office for 47 hours, before being restored by a combination of military loyalists and massive public support for his government... In Caracas, the coup led to a popular pro-Chávez uprising that the Metropolitan Police unsuccessfully tried to suppress.... The pro-Chávez Presidential Guard eventually retook the Miraflores presidential palace without firing a shot, leading to the collapse of the Carmona government and the re-installation of Chávez as president

But in the melee, shots were fired. It was easy to assume that untrained panicky troops might have fired on the crowd by mistake, but the shooting was presented as even worse than that...

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The opposition media immediately blamed these deaths on "Chavistas", whom they claimed to have actually filmed firing on unarmed marchers from a bridge. This narrative was largely accepted without question by the international news media.

The mainstream of Venezuelan media outlets are privately owned, [EVEN TODAY- SIGNY] and which side they were on was made abundantly clear in the way events were covered. It was ... Venevisión that claimed to have filmed "Chavistas" firing from the bridge. This footage was edited by Venevisión in a way that suggested a planned ambush of opposition marchers by pro-Chávez gunmen.... After Chávez supporters retook Miraflo

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AURAPTOR

Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:33 PM

Honestly, the 'baby incubator' story is pretty damn anecdotal. I mean, Iraq DID in fact use military force to invade Kuwait, and yes, there were war crimes a plenty committed.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 24, 2014 12:02 AM

Holy F.....

I go through life sometimes wondering if I'm slipping on the brink of insanity.

Thank you Signy, for posting this. Just like I'd never voluntarily watch a "Saw" movie or "The Hills Have Eyes" or the newer worse movies where people are the monsters, i am so glad I'm largely without news.

I don't envy you, or anyone who's keeping up with any of this at all.

I'm not burying my head in the sand. I'm pulling it out by not listening to all the same shit they throw on everyone's heads.

Once you watch it, you can't unwatch it.....

HAHA:

SIGNYM

Monday, March 24, 2014 12:08 AM

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Honestly, the 'baby incubator' story is pretty damn anecdotal. I mean, Iraq DID in fact use military force to invade Kuwait, and yes, there were war crimes a plenty committed.

And I bet you fell for it too, huh? Along with a bunch of "liberals" that you seem to hate, and you ended up being on the side of.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, March 24, 2014 12:19 AM

Honsestly Sigs... I'm saying that I didn't know anything about it before you posted, and I didn't learn much after you posted.

Maybe I'm missing out by not reading, but honestly by just skimming and hearing about baby's being tossed on the floor, hoax or not, i don't have time for that shit.

Maybe I should organize a Sea Shepherd party to go across the world and save babies that would have likely died because of the lack of medicine anyhow?

How is this any of my business? I'm not Superman. I found that out when I got my ass beat by 4 guys and stabbed in the back when I was 19.

I'm just one guy. I fight for me. I fight for my own. I've done all the things I've talked about here for myself. I've written legal-sounding letters to people for my parents knowing that my legit uncle would cover if I got in over my head (which I never had).

Would I be the person to go to in a Zombie Apocolypse? I'd like to think so, but those skills haven't been tested.

I don't know how to make money.

I know how to shelter it and protect it though, and I know how to build a budget from the ground up, based on your income, your debt and your DIY Ability.

Honestly, I'm just commenting on how what you're posting here, and a lot of the posts I see here are just so horrific that I'd have to imagine that one would have to be much less sane than I to always willingly say yes when asked "would you like to know more?"

Haha.... Doogie Howser before girls creamed after his gay ass.

SIGNYM

Monday, March 24, 2014 12:51 AM

6IX, I'm SO sorry!
I was responding to rappy, not to you! That wasn't clear at all!!!

YOUR post was a breath of fresh air. It was open and honest, and it lifted my spirits. Maybe you feel that you don't know or can't do a lot of things, but if you keep being honest and real, you'll help others just be being yourself, I know you will.

FWIW, not knowing how to "make money"... I don't either. All I know how to do, really, is work and save. I think the big "money-makers" like Soros and Diamon and Gates are dishonest sociopaths anyway, so not being in on the hustle is a good thing, in my book anyway.

BTW, if you affect 2 people each day, and they affect two people each day, you will have affected 2047 people in ten days. Hang in there.

REAVERFAN

Monday, March 24, 2014 3:53 AM

I was well aware of what you presented, and I'm always surprised by how many people don't know about it all these years later. I remember a military guy talking about the wholsale slaughter of retreating Iraqi conscripts, and that he told his men to get those "baby killers."

Did he know it was all a lie? Probably.

Bush II lied us into our current quagmire, and people still act like there was some merit to it. Astounding.

We've still got people believing Obamacare "horror stories" than don't check out when they're investigated. We've still got people who know no history before Jan. 2008, and blame Obama for things that aren't his fault, or are completely made up (birthers, anyone?).

AURAPTOR

Monday, March 24, 2014 4:02 AM

Bush didn't lie, and O-Care is 1000's x's worse than we're even being allowed to know.

I swear, the planet is getting dumber by the minute.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

REAVERFAN

Monday, March 24, 2014 4:09 AM

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Bush didn't lie, and O-Care is 1000's x's worse than we're even being allowed to know.

I swear, the planet is getting dumber by the minute.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

Not that facts ever phased you, but...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-lies-about-the-iraq-war/5327386

AURAPTOR

Monday, March 24, 2014 4:12 AM

Those aren't lies of the W administration, but red herrings and misinformation, by the Left.

Swing and miss.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall