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by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
April 04,
2018
from
GlobalResearch Website
While the
independent and alternative media (including Global
Research) are accused of publishing "fake news", the
routine publication of "fake news" by the corporate
media is invariably overlooked.
While those who criticize the mainstream media are
tagged as "conspiracy theorists", the evidence amply
confirms that the corporate media is involved in the
publication of "fake images" and "fake video footage."
In this article we will focus on the news coverage
pertaining to a selection of important events including
the March 2016 Brussels terror attacks in which fake
videos and/or fake images were used with a view to
misleading public opinion.
1. The
Brussels Terrorist Attacks, March 2016
The First Fake Surveillance Video Footage at Brussels Airport
The evidence amply confirms that the Belgian Media Used fake video
footage with regard to both the morning terrorist bomb attack at
Brussels airport as well as at the afternoon attack at the metro
station
Brussels News media Dernière Heure at
dhnet.be as well as La Libre
reported on the terror attacks by providing a CC Camera Airport
Surveillance Video of the terror attacks.
The published video footage was fake as documented by a
blog posting on Media Part.
The video pertains to a terror attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport
on 24 January 2011 (posted on YouTube in November 2013).
The report of DHnet.be on the Brussels airport attack used the video
of the Moscow 2011 attack with the date of the Brussels attack -
22/03/2016, pasted onto the Russian video.
Below is the screenshot of DH's report.
And the screenshot of La Libre at
http://lalibre.be,
And here is a screenshot of the January 2011 terror attack at
Moscow's Domodedova International Airport published on YouTube in
November 2013 followed by the full YouTube video of the Moscow
attack:
Our apologies says the VRT TV network (Dutch language) which
broadcast the Moscow airport terror attack:
" Surveillance images
circulating of attack Zaventem are old pictures. Our apologies."
(author's Translation)
According to
the BBC (January 24, 2011) report
(which includes the video), the Moscow 2011 airport attack resulted
in 35 dead.
The Second Fake Surveillance Video at Brussels Maelbeek Metro
Station
The terror attack in the afternoon of March 22 at Brussels Maelbeek
Metro station was reported by mainstream media including CNN.
In these reports, video footage from a 2011 terror attack in Minsk,
Belarus was used by network TV and online media to describe what was
happening in the metro station at the time of the attacks.
Comparisons: Brussels, 22 March 2016 versus Minsk, 11 April 2011 -
Same video footage
Here is a screenshot of video footage broadcast on network TV and on
the internet depicting the explosion in the Metro in Brussels, March
22, 2016
Here is the alleged video footage of the CCTV surveillance camera,
Brussel Maelbeek Metro Station. The CC surveillance camera is under
control of the Metro security authorities.
Now Compare the above to the screenshot of the Minsk April 2011
attacks followed by full-length video.
Full video of the Minsk Attack:
The Mainstream media's response
According to the Independent:
CCTV footage that was
shared after the Brussels attacks, believed to show video from
inside Maelbeek Metro station, has been proven fake.
As news emerged of the third explosion in the Belgian capital,
which targeted the station situated near EU offices, many began
sharing what they believed to be footage of the bombing.
However it was soon discovered that the video in fact came from
the Minsk Metro bombing of 2011 that killed 15 and injured over
200 people.
The Independent's report
is based on a fallacy.
The more fundamental
question:
Read Complete article on
Brussels
Fake Videos.
2. Coverage of Syria
War: BBC Switches Images
According to
Sifty News,
"The British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been slammed for mistakenly
using a photo taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the Syria 2012
massacre, in which over 100 people, including 32 children, were
brutally killed.
The picture, taken on March 27, 2003, showed a young Iraqi child
jumping over dozens of white body bags containing skeletons
found in a desert south of Baghdad.
It was posted on the BBC news website under the heading "Syria
massacre in Houla condemned as outrage grows".
According to The Telegraph, the caption stated the photograph
was provided by an activist and cannot be independently
verified, but said it is "believed to show the bodies of
children in Houla awaiting burial".
Screenshot from the Telegraph
May 27,
2012
We're Sorry Says the BBC (this is one among many cases of
switched images and media manipulation - not to mention the white
helmets) pertaining to the war in Syria.
A BBC spokesman said the image has now been removed from the
website.
"We were aware of
this image being widely circulated on the internet in the early
hours of this morning following the most recent atrocities in
Syria. We used it with a clear disclaimer saying it could not be
independently verified," the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, a professional
photographer, Marco di Lauro, said he nearly "fell off his
chair" when he saw the image being used, and said he was
"astonished" at the failure of the corporation to check their
sources.
"What I am really
astonished by is that a news organization like the BBC doesn't
check the sources and it's willing to publish any picture sent
it by anyone activist, citizen journalist or whatever.
That's all," the
paper quoted him, as saying.
(Sifty
News)
3. NATO's
"Liberation" of Tripoli, September 2011
September 2011:
The international
community, we are told, is waging a "humanitarian war". And the
people of Libya are rejoicing. "NATO has liberated Libya from
the tyranny of Muammar Ghadaffi"
At Green Square Tripoli,
Libyans are seen celebrating the victory of rebel forces (affiliated
to Al Qaeda) over Ghadaffi in this BBC News Report (see below)
Examine the footage:.
It's not Green Square and it's not the King Idris Flag (red, black
green) of the Rebels. Its the Indian flag (orange, white and green)
and the people at the rally are Indians.
Perhaps you did not even notice it. And if you did notice,
"it was probably a
mistake".
Sloppy journalism at the
BBC or outright Lies and Fabrications? Recognize the flags?
Indian Flag
Libya's Rebel Flag (King Idris)
This is not the first time images have been manipulated or switched.
In fact it seems to be a routine practice of the mainstream media...
Terrorists "celebrating" in Green Square
There is no celebration.
It is a NATO sponsored
massacre which has resulted in several thousand deaths. But the
truth cannot be shown on network television. The impacts of NATO
bombings have been obfuscated.
The rebels are heralded as "liberators"...
Screenshot of the above video
NATO bombing is intended to save civilian lives under The Alliance's
R2P mandate.
But the realities are
otherwise:
the civilian
population is being terrorized by the NATO sponsored rebels.
The images must be
switched to conform to the "NATO consensus".
Death and destruction is replaced by fabricated images of
celebration and liberation.
4. The Lhasa
Riots, Tibet. March 14, 2008
On the day of the Lhasa Riots (March 14, 2008), the videotape
presented
by CNN
in its News Report on the 14th of March (1.00pm
EST) was manipulated.
The message to be conveyed is that Chinese cops were involved in
brutally repressing a civilian protest movement including Budhist
monks in Tibet's capital city: Lhasa.
The video footage, which accompanied CNN's John Vause's
report, had nothing to do with China.
The police were not Chinese, but Indian cops in khaki uniforms from
the North-eastern State of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Viewers were led to believe that demonstrations inside China were
peaceful and that people were being arrested and brutalised by
Chinese cops.
Chinese Cops in Khaki Uniforms
1′.27-1′.44″ video footage of "Chinese cops" and demonstrators
including Buddhist monks. Chinese cops are shown next to Tibetan
monks.
Are these Chinese Cops from Gansu Province or Lhasa, the Tibetan
capital, as suggested by CNN's John Vause's Report?
REPORT ON CHINA, MARCH 14
Alleged Chinese cops repressing Tibet demonstrators in China , CNN,
March 14, 2008 1′.36"
Alleged Chinese cops in
khaki uniforms repressing Tibet demonstrators in China, CNN, March
14, 2008 1'40"
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Their khaki
uniforms with berets seem to bear the imprint of the British
colonial period.
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Khaki colored
uniforms were first introduced in the British cavalry in
India in 1846.
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Khaki means
"dust" in Hindi and Persian.
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Moreover, the
cops with khaki uniforms and mustache do not look Chinese.
Look carefully. They are
Indian cops...
The videotape shown on March 14 by CNN is not from China (Gansu
Province or Lhasa, Tibet's Capital).
The video was taken in
the State of Himachal Pradesh, India. The videotape of the Tibet
protest movement in India was used in the CNN report on the Tibet
protest movement within China.
In a March 13 Report by CNN, demonstrators are being arrested by
Indian police in khaki uniforms during a protest march at Dehra,
about 50 km from Dharamsala in the northern state of Himachal
Pradesh.
VIDEO -
Tibet Protest movement in India, CNN, March
13, 2008
"Indian police
arrested around 100 Tibetans on Thursday, dragging them into
waiting police vans, as they tried to march to the Chinese
border to press claims for independence and protest the Beijing
Olympics." (REUTERS/Abhishek Madhukar - INDIA)
Below are images from the
CNN's report on March 13, on the protest movement in Himachal
Pradesh, India:
Compare these images to those in the March 14 CNN report. Same cops,
same uniforms, same Indian style moustache...
CNN MARCH 13 REPORT ON INDIA
Indian cops repressing Tibetan demonstrators
in
Himachal Pradesh, India
CNN,
March 13, 2008 0′.53″
Indian cops repressing Tibet demonstrators
in
Himachal Pradesh, India
CNN, March 13, 2008 1′.02″
Indian cops repressing Tibet demonstrators
in
Himachal Pradesh, India
CNN, March 13, 2008, 1′.18″
Indian cops repressing Tibetan demonstrators
in
Himachal Pradesh, India
CNN, March 13, 2008 2.04″
The CNN's March 14 report on the Tibet Protest movement in China
shows Chinese cops in khaki uniforms, yellow lapels and berets.
While the videotape is not identical to that of March 13 in India,
CNN's coverage of the events in China on March 14 used a videotape
taken from the coverage of the Tibet Protest movement in India on
March 13, with Indian cops in khaki uniforms.
The protest movement in India on March 13 was "peaceful". It was
organized by the Dalai Lama's "government in exile". It took place
within 50 km of the headquarters of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala.
The Western media was invited in to film the event, and take
pictures of Buddhist monks involved in a peaceful, nonviolent march.
These are the pictures which circled the World.
So what has occurred is that
CNN has copied and pasted its own
videotape of the Tibet Protest movement in India and has fabricated
a Gansu Province/Lhasa, China "peaceful" protest movement with
Chinese cops in khaki British colonial style uniforms.
The Chinese never adopted the British style khaki uniform and beret.
The uniforms of the alleged (fake) Chinese cops displayed in the CNN
report do not correspond to those used by the police in China. (See
photograph below, real Chinese cops)
No khaki uniforms in China.
These are the uniforms of China's "Armed Police".
The foregoing are selected illustrations of "fake news", which we
have been able to corroborate.
They are but the tip of the iceberg in the barrage of daily
media disinformation, distortion and omission...
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