Whatever happened to Guevara?

Guevara was one of the first pop culture heroes who popped out of the so-called "Syrian civil war." She came out of nowhere to dominate pro-"rebel" propaganda for a few months.

Check out here and here. There's dozens of mainstream fluff pieces just like that to choose from.

That was such a compelling story. Too compelling. I caught the whiff of bullshit right away.

Then Guevara faded away... only to be replaced by the White Helmets fairy-tale, and Little Bana after that.

So why/how did she fade away?

Was her head blown off by a Russian sniper? If so, you'd think we'd have heard about it, because that's something that would have had immense propaganda value.

Maybe she found out her kids were still alive, and she didn't need to take revenge?

Or maybe, and I don't want to go all conspiracy here, but maybe, the narrative managers on her file realized the Sniper-Babe fable was so silly it was bound to be a liability in the long run. Once word got out that Guevara was entirely imaginary, the Clinton crowd feared their Syrian war-mongering could lose a lot of cred.

Those first responders, on the other hand, are the real thing. They actually exist. We know that because we've been funding them to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Just ask Le Mesurier.

Oh, I forgot... he did an Epstein to prevent the shit from hitting the fan.


Anyway, that's speculation. I'm only wondering what happened to Guevara.

Pot-addled hillbilly ripped off again

Here's a story by Craig Murray at Consortium News on 14 November, about the ever-so-timely demise of James Le Mesurier. Murray had the same story on his own blog on the 12th.

Here's what I posted 11 November. Looks like the same story to me!

So, did Craig rip me off?

Not at all. That's a story that pretty much anyone who follows things could piece together themselves.

Le Mesurier was the critical link between UK and US security agencies and the Islamist radicals we were lavishly funding throughout our sham "war on terror."


Once our Syria regime-change gambit floundered, it was beyond obvious that he had to go.

Black hands in motion

I see where James Le Mesurier, mastermind of the White Helmets propaganda triumph, leapt to his doom from the balcony of his Istanbul apartment. They say he was depressed.

You'd be depressed too if spooks from half a dozen countries, including your own, were highly motivated to see you as an "inconvenient fact."

We know what happens to inconvenient facts.

And how to read Morales heading to Mexico for asylum? Just last week Donny J offered to invade Mexico to save Mormons from drug cartels. Now he's got an added incentive!

I fear AMLO has tipped his hand. He's now on the official enemies list.


Oh shit, now we gotta restore democracy to Mexico too!?

When is a volunteer not a volunteer?

There's another dose of White Helmets propaganda on view at the Globe and Mail today, courtesy of Mark MacKinnon.

Seems that a few of those brave White Helmet volunteers that Israel allowed transit to Jordan last year remain stuck in Jordan, instead of finding their way to a warm welcome in Canada. Apparently there are "security concerns," and our Foreign Minister sounds like she's trying to fob them off on some other Western country, one that doesn't vet their young Muslim immigrants of fighting age, coming from combat zones, as thoroughly as Canada does.

Call me skeptical, but the White Helmets saga has smelled mighty fishy from the get-go. The official story, that these are local volunteers saving their neighbours from the vile Assad's relentless attacks, sounds good on the face of it.

So why does that bit of local altruism require an ex-SAS guy from the British Army by the name of James Le Mesurier to organize it? And how can a "volunteer" group soak up well over $100 million in Western financing over four short years? That's well over $25,000 per "volunteer." To put that into context, $25k is about 20 years salary for a conscript in Assad's Syrian Arab Army.

Either these are the best paid volunteers in the Middle East, or James and his Mayday Rescue outfit are siphoning off one hell of a management fee.

MacKinnon recycles the stale tale of the White Helmets expose of Assad's use of chemical weapons:

Videos made by the White Helmets also provided the initial evidence-later substantiated by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-that the regime had used chemical weapons against its opponents.

Mark is being disingenuous with that claim. Google "OPCW news" and see what comes up. The integrity of the OPCW has taken a huge hit in recent weeks, and Mark is surely aware of that fact. Why not mention it in his story?

Instead, he quotes Chystia Freeland blaming Russian smears.


Not sure exactly what it is you're doing, Mark, but it isn't journalism. Propaganda, perhaps?

True fakery, fake truthiness, fake news, true fake news, and fake news that might be true...

I see where the White Helmets are in the news again. Well, obliquely, anyway.

As regular readers will know, I'm more than a little skeptical of the official story. You know, those plucky volunteers who work exclusively in areas of Syria held by the "rebels," meaning ISIS/al Qaeda, and their affiliates.

Ya, I'm fully aware Assad is a bad dude and all that, but...

That plucky band of Syrian volunteers was originally organized by James Le Mesurier, a non-Syrian, non-Arab, non-Muslim white guy with deep connections to the UK military. And, for "volunteers," they've managed to hoover up an incredible amount of money from the same constellation of foreign state actors who have been behind the Syrian "civil war" from even before the get-go.

So here's the latest story.  Some version of it has been on virtually every "fake" news channel on the internet (although I believe it's absent from Glenn Greenwald's "The Intercept"). This of course is where things get dodgy. How do we know what's fake news on the internet? That original Propornot disinformation piece at the WaPo, advising us what was fake and what was not, turned out to be more fake than true itself.

Our official media, on the other hand, has not even acknowledged the existence of this story.

Anyway, this alleged report from the OPCW (the folks who are charged with investigating alleged chemical weapons attacks) was allegedly deep-sixed by the OPCW itself. If that is the case, and if that allegedly quashed report is indeed the real deal, then the entire "White Helmets are heroes" narrative goes down the shitter, as does the credibility of the OPCW itself.

That would be a huge story.

The allegedly quashed OPCW report was leaked to an outfit called the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, a bunch of mainly Brit academics who you'd think would know enough to put a comma after Propaganda. I'm not sure what their fakery rating might be, but they've done some yeoman work on the faker-than-fake Integrity Initiative (lots of initiative, a little light on integrity).

So, who/what to believe? Let me know if you figure it out.

Canada rolls out red carpet for White Helmets

According to this story at CBC, Canada is poised to accept 250 White Helmet civil volunteers from Syria, plus their (no-doubt very extended) families.

Depending on how closely you follow current events, you may or may not be familiar with the rather dodgy history of this bold brotherhood of "civil defence volunteers."

They are routinely portrayed as heroes in our mainstream media. They worked exclusively in areas of Syria under the control of the most virulent Islamic radicals. That so many young fighting-age males would be allowed to operate in such areas without pledging allegiance to the ISIS head-choppers or picking up a gun is but the first of many mysteries.

They even won an Oscar for their heroics!

Another mystery concerns their status as "volunteers." My understanding of the word "volunteer" is that a volunteer is someone who gives freely of their time to further some cause that is worthwhile, at least in their own mind.

If these White Helmet guys were volunteers, why did they get tens of millions of dollars per year in funding from the very cabal of nations committed to over-throwing the Assad administration?

The CBC story mentions that the White Helmets were founded by a "retired" British SAS operative by the name of James Le Mesurier. Google that name and see what comes up.

Here's a story from Scott Ritter, the former US weapons inspector, that includes a lengthy discussion of the White Helmets.

Here's a Robert Fisk story that raises a few questions about the heroic White Helmets. Fisk is one of the most respected Middle-East reporters published in mainstream media.

I'm a guy who tries to keep an open mind. I'm an immigrant. I come from a family that once had refugee status.

Maybe Scott Ritter is full of shit.

Maybe Robert Fisk is full of shit.

I want to welcome refugees.

But maybe, just maybe, we're opening the door to 250 hard-core ISIS militants.


Something to think about...