BoJo - a turd spewed to the top by a geyser of sewage

That’s a quote from former British diplomat Craig Murray, writing at Consortium News. That’s one of the non-MSM news sites I like to check out on a daily basis, and I suggest you do too. It’ll expand your horizons if you’re accustomed to a steady diet of CBC or CNN, or, Lord have mercy, CBCNN. Yes, there really is such an aberation. Murray pins the demise of the UK, and “western civilization” generally, on the triumph of neocon ideology since the Thatcher-Reagan era. I largely agree with him. The only value that matters anymore is the size of your bank account. The plumper your finances, the more you are held in esteem in polite MSM-curated society. Those with no finances are left with no voice. That’s why across “Western civilization” we celebrate billionaires while children starve. And that’s also why former insiders like Craig Murray are excomunicated from mainstream media and smeared as pro-Putin propagandists. Which, to my way of thinking, makes it even more important to add a sprinkle of Consortium News to your daily diet of MSNBCFOXCBCNN…

BE AFRAID, CANADA!!!

Another day, another scary story. Logged on to CBC News this morning only to find out that Canada has enemies, and they're trying to subvert our democracy!

But we should consider ourselves lucky; not only do we have CSIS, the CSE, and the RCMP looking out for our freedoms, Catherine Tunney informs us that "fact-checking and traditional journalism have been helpful so far in debunking and correcting misinformation."

I would expect that when Ms. Tunney was doing fact-checking for her own story she must have seen this nugget. Seems the very CSE standing on guard for our democracy is being sued for libel by one of those "Moscow disinformation outlets" they never tire of smearing.

Consortium News is a bunch of folks who used to work in mainstream media and still would had they not suffered random bouts of integrity. Consortium News was started by folks exiled by Fake News.

Wouldn't you think that's relevant to the story?

Wonder why the traditional journalists at the CBC chose to leave it out?

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.

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.