Another State Department H**x?
Jul 27, 2014 19:50:44 #
Another State Department H**x? Paul Craig Roberts
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Another State Department H**x?
Paul Craig Roberts
I have an email that purports to be from the State Department Press Office. It is dated today, Sunday, July 27, 2014 at 8:45 AM EDT
It reads:
State Department Press Corps:
Sharing with you the attached document with DNI images evidence of Russia firing into Ukraine.
Regards,
State Department Press Office
There is a 1.1MB file attached with pictures and a few words saying that the pictures indicate Russian firing into Ukraine territory.
As one with news and government experience, I am confident that information as important as this purports to be would not be released in this way. For several days reporters have been asking State Department press office spokeswoman Marie Harf for evidence to back her claims that Russian military is attacking Ukrainian forces. Harf has told the reporters that she cannot provide evidence. In other words, Harfs evidence is like John Kerrys evidence that he could never provide that Assad had used chemical weapons.
Suddenly the evidence appears in an email and is spread via social media. This is not credible. Such evidence if it actually exists would be released in a Washington press conference by top government officials with experts present to explain the meaning of the photos to the journalists and to answer questions. No real journalists, if any are left, are going to believe that such hot information would be released in an email. Moreover, the photos are meaningless to the uninitiated, and there is no way to judge their authenticity.
Additionally, it is not credible that such important information would be released at a news dead time8:45 AM EDT on a Sunday morning when the West Coast is still asleep.
What are we to make of this?
One explanation is that kids, unaware of the seriousness of the matter, concocted a h**x for fun.
Another explanation is that unable to substantiate any of its charges against the Russian government, the State Department decided to use social media to spread disinformation in behalf of its propaganda assault on Russia.
As of 5:45PM EDT Sunday, no State Department official of which I am aware has verified that this is a State Department news release. Indeed, email on Sunday morning is such an unprofessional way to release important news that I do not believe even the incompetent Marie Harf could be responsible.
The import of the news release is to use social media to build the image of a dangerous Russia among an unsophisticated public independently of having to convince reporters. Once this image is created, Washington can use it to build public support for its purposes, such as more military spending or sending US troops to Ukraine.
In my opinion, it is reckless for Washington to convince Russia that Washington is going to continue to lie in order to discredit Russia in world opinion and to continue to dismiss out of hand Russias protests. Washington is conveying to Russia that Washington has launched a very aggressive propaganda campaign against Russia, a campaign that could easily push the world to war.
In my day, if Washington had such information as the email purports to be, Washington would have used the information to defuse the situation. The Russian ambassador would have been called in and asked to explain. The ambassador would understand that he needed to tell the Kremlin to back off or the information would be released in a news conference.
Today, with the Obama regime seeking confrontation with Russia, the regime would have released the information in a press conference with all the important bureau chiefs present. For journalists of my vintage, releasing it in an indiscriminate email targeted to social media would have completely discredited the information.
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Another State Department H**x?
Paul Craig Roberts
I have an email that purports to be from the State Department Press Office. It is dated today, Sunday, July 27, 2014 at 8:45 AM EDT
It reads:
State Department Press Corps:
Sharing with you the attached document with DNI images evidence of Russia firing into Ukraine.
Regards,
State Department Press Office
There is a 1.1MB file attached with pictures and a few words saying that the pictures indicate Russian firing into Ukraine territory.
As one with news and government experience, I am confident that information as important as this purports to be would not be released in this way. For several days reporters have been asking State Department press office spokeswoman Marie Harf for evidence to back her claims that Russian military is attacking Ukrainian forces. Harf has told the reporters that she cannot provide evidence. In other words, Harfs evidence is like John Kerrys evidence that he could never provide that Assad had used chemical weapons.
Suddenly the evidence appears in an email and is spread via social media. This is not credible. Such evidence if it actually exists would be released in a Washington press conference by top government officials with experts present to explain the meaning of the photos to the journalists and to answer questions. No real journalists, if any are left, are going to believe that such hot information would be released in an email. Moreover, the photos are meaningless to the uninitiated, and there is no way to judge their authenticity.
Additionally, it is not credible that such important information would be released at a news dead time8:45 AM EDT on a Sunday morning when the West Coast is still asleep.
What are we to make of this?
One explanation is that kids, unaware of the seriousness of the matter, concocted a h**x for fun.
Another explanation is that unable to substantiate any of its charges against the Russian government, the State Department decided to use social media to spread disinformation in behalf of its propaganda assault on Russia.
As of 5:45PM EDT Sunday, no State Department official of which I am aware has verified that this is a State Department news release. Indeed, email on Sunday morning is such an unprofessional way to release important news that I do not believe even the incompetent Marie Harf could be responsible.
The import of the news release is to use social media to build the image of a dangerous Russia among an unsophisticated public independently of having to convince reporters. Once this image is created, Washington can use it to build public support for its purposes, such as more military spending or sending US troops to Ukraine.
In my opinion, it is reckless for Washington to convince Russia that Washington is going to continue to lie in order to discredit Russia in world opinion and to continue to dismiss out of hand Russias protests. Washington is conveying to Russia that Washington has launched a very aggressive propaganda campaign against Russia, a campaign that could easily push the world to war.
In my day, if Washington had such information as the email purports to be, Washington would have used the information to defuse the situation. The Russian ambassador would have been called in and asked to explain. The ambassador would understand that he needed to tell the Kremlin to back off or the information would be released in a news conference.
Today, with the Obama regime seeking confrontation with Russia, the regime would have released the information in a press conference with all the important bureau chiefs present. For journalists of my vintage, releasing it in an indiscriminate email targeted to social media would have completely discredited the information.
Jul 27, 2014 20:21:54 #
Finally the deleted interviews are starting to come out from the eyewitnesses.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/deleted-bbc-report-ukrainian-fighter-jet-shot-down-mhi7-donetsk-eyewitnesses/5393631
Russia needs to stop these murders. They hit another orphanage today and a school and childrens hospital last week.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/deleted-bbc-report-ukrainian-fighter-jet-shot-down-mhi7-donetsk-eyewitnesses/5393631
Russia needs to stop these murders. They hit another orphanage today and a school and childrens hospital last week.
Jul 28, 2014 00:14:03 #
Jul 28, 2014 04:57:20 #
Pssst your comment is not proof fool.
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
jonhatfield wrote:
Another State Department H**x? No, another PCR and Putin Patty h**x.
Jul 28, 2014 05:54:44 #
Latest out of Ukie.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called a ceasefire within a 40km radius of where Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed. Russia has urged all parties in eastern Ukraine to lay down their arms while inspectors investigate what caused the tragedy.
Poroshenko forces resume shelling around crash site shortly after seize fire. Why does Poroshenko not want inspectors near crash site?
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/28/death-toll-mounts-as-clashes-intensify-in-ukraine/20937717/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D507694
Monday, July 28
08:09 GMT:
Some 1,129 people have been k**led and nearly 3,500 wounded in the Kievs operation in eastern Ukraine, according to UN estimates.
Sunday, July 27
23:28 GMT:
A Kiev official confirmed on Sunday that over 40 soldiers abandoned their military posts and crossed into Russian territory, local Ukrainian media reported.
Indeed, this took place, Ukrainian minister of defense, Valery Geletey, told Inter TV channel.
22:14 GMT:
US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russia to stop supplying arms to eastern Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The US State Department said that Kerry urged Russia "to stop the flow of heavy weapons and rocket and artillery fire from Russia into Ukraine, and to begin to contribute to deescalating the conflict.
Kerrys message was voiced despite Lavrovs denial that Russia is sending heavy weapons to eastern Ukraine, further igniting the conflict.
17:10 GMT:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a phone conversation on Sunday, agreed on the importance of ensuring a swift ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, a foreign ministry statement in Moscow said.
15:50 GMT:
Polish journalist Bianca Zalewska has been injured in eastern Ukraine in the area of anti-terrorist operations (ATO), the ATOs press-service said in a statement on Facebook. It claims the journalist was taken to the nearest hospital in the town of Starobilsk in the Lugansk region.
Given her critical state of health, the patient was immediately evacuated by helicopter to Kharkov for professional medical care, the statement reads.
11:58 GMT:
Self-defense forces report fighting in the town of Shakhtersk, Donetsk region, RIA Novosti news agency says. The m*****a claims having seen Ukrainian National Guard APCs entering the town before the fighting started, RIA Novosti reports.
08:33 GMT:
Clashes are raging in the Ukrainian territory near the Russian checkpoint Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, head of Russias Customs Service, Rayan Fakurshin, told RT. The fighting started near Dolzhanskiy [Ukraine's counterpart for Novoshakhtinsk - RT] at about 11:20 Moscow time [ 07:20 GMT]. Our employees have been evacuated. This is a routine for them now. This has been going on a month-and-a-half. If some shells hit our checkpoint, we can learn about it afterward, he added.
05:21 GMT:
An early morning Grad rocket attack of Ukrainian troops in Gorlovka, a city near Donetsk, left at least one civilian seriously injured, the m*****a reported. The two volleys fired by multiple rocket launchers have damaged several residential buildings in the city center and in the nearby village of Korolenko.
03:25 GMT:
Over 1,200 orphans are still located in the war zone in southeastern Ukraine, Russia's children's rights commissioner, Pavel Astakhov, said on his Instagram account.
Kiev authorities are prohibiting to evacuate and rescue the orphans and dont do it themselves, making the most vulnerable children hostages to their political ambitions, he wrote.
Saturday, July 26
23:07 GMT:
Sixty-one towns in Donetsk region have been left without electricity as a result of heavy fighting between the local m*****a and the Ukrainian army, local energy company Donetskoblenergo said on its website.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called a ceasefire within a 40km radius of where Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed. Russia has urged all parties in eastern Ukraine to lay down their arms while inspectors investigate what caused the tragedy.
Poroshenko forces resume shelling around crash site shortly after seize fire. Why does Poroshenko not want inspectors near crash site?
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/28/death-toll-mounts-as-clashes-intensify-in-ukraine/20937717/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D507694
Monday, July 28
08:09 GMT:
Some 1,129 people have been k**led and nearly 3,500 wounded in the Kievs operation in eastern Ukraine, according to UN estimates.
Sunday, July 27
23:28 GMT:
A Kiev official confirmed on Sunday that over 40 soldiers abandoned their military posts and crossed into Russian territory, local Ukrainian media reported.
Indeed, this took place, Ukrainian minister of defense, Valery Geletey, told Inter TV channel.
22:14 GMT:
US Secretary of State John Kerry called on Russia to stop supplying arms to eastern Ukraine during a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The US State Department said that Kerry urged Russia "to stop the flow of heavy weapons and rocket and artillery fire from Russia into Ukraine, and to begin to contribute to deescalating the conflict.
Kerrys message was voiced despite Lavrovs denial that Russia is sending heavy weapons to eastern Ukraine, further igniting the conflict.
17:10 GMT:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a phone conversation on Sunday, agreed on the importance of ensuring a swift ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, a foreign ministry statement in Moscow said.
15:50 GMT:
Polish journalist Bianca Zalewska has been injured in eastern Ukraine in the area of anti-terrorist operations (ATO), the ATOs press-service said in a statement on Facebook. It claims the journalist was taken to the nearest hospital in the town of Starobilsk in the Lugansk region.
Given her critical state of health, the patient was immediately evacuated by helicopter to Kharkov for professional medical care, the statement reads.
11:58 GMT:
Self-defense forces report fighting in the town of Shakhtersk, Donetsk region, RIA Novosti news agency says. The m*****a claims having seen Ukrainian National Guard APCs entering the town before the fighting started, RIA Novosti reports.
08:33 GMT:
Clashes are raging in the Ukrainian territory near the Russian checkpoint Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, head of Russias Customs Service, Rayan Fakurshin, told RT. The fighting started near Dolzhanskiy [Ukraine's counterpart for Novoshakhtinsk - RT] at about 11:20 Moscow time [ 07:20 GMT]. Our employees have been evacuated. This is a routine for them now. This has been going on a month-and-a-half. If some shells hit our checkpoint, we can learn about it afterward, he added.
05:21 GMT:
An early morning Grad rocket attack of Ukrainian troops in Gorlovka, a city near Donetsk, left at least one civilian seriously injured, the m*****a reported. The two volleys fired by multiple rocket launchers have damaged several residential buildings in the city center and in the nearby village of Korolenko.
03:25 GMT:
Over 1,200 orphans are still located in the war zone in southeastern Ukraine, Russia's children's rights commissioner, Pavel Astakhov, said on his Instagram account.
Kiev authorities are prohibiting to evacuate and rescue the orphans and dont do it themselves, making the most vulnerable children hostages to their political ambitions, he wrote.
Saturday, July 26
23:07 GMT:
Sixty-one towns in Donetsk region have been left without electricity as a result of heavy fighting between the local m*****a and the Ukrainian army, local energy company Donetskoblenergo said on its website.
Jul 28, 2014 09:55:24 #
jonhatfield
Loc: Green Bay, WI
Patty wrote:
Pssst your comment is not proof fool.
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
Pssst your comments and Ruskie f*****m propaganda quotes are not proof either, fool yourself. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Jul 28, 2014 10:00:33 #
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
jonhatfield wrote:
Pssst your comments and Ruskie f*****m propaganda quotes are not proof either, fool yourself. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Jul 28, 2014 10:57:40 #
jonhatfield
Loc: Green Bay, WI
Patty wrote:
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
Pssst, your quoting Putin internet propaganda sources is not thinking...you yourself are saying nothing. That's what everyone on OPP thinks. :P :P :P
Jul 28, 2014 11:00:50 #
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
jonhatfield wrote:
Pssst, your quoting Putin internet propaganda sources is not thinking...you yourself are saying nothing. That's what everyone on OPP thinks. :P :P :P
Jul 28, 2014 11:16:45 #
jonhatfield
Loc: Green Bay, WI
Patty wrote:
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
Patty claims she "thought." I think she repeated.
Jul 28, 2014 11:17:19 #
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
jonhatfield wrote:
Patty claims she "thought." I think she repeated.
Jul 28, 2014 11:55:02 #
jonhatfield
Loc: Green Bay, WI
Patty wrote:
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
Another Patty repetition. It's called PR and is intended to enhance her Patty Pattiness brand. However, everyone thinks of it as the Patty "Pettiness" brand.
Jul 28, 2014 11:55:39 #
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
jonhatfield wrote:
Another Patty repetition. It's called PR and is intended to enhance her Patty Pattiness brand. However, everyone thinks of it as the Patty "Pettiness" brand.
Jul 28, 2014 12:12:53 #
jonhatfield
Loc: Green Bay, WI
Patty wrote:
So what you are saying is you have nothing. I see. That's what I thought.
PR
Jul 28, 2014 12:14:53 #
Ut Ohhhhhh
"US Admits Ukraines Missile Systems Present near Donetsk when MH17 Crashed
"In his statement, the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest implicitly acknowledged that Ukraines air defense systems had been present in the Donetsk area, although he claimed they had not been operating," the source said, commenting on Earnests words that the missile that hit the flight MH17 was launched from the area controlled by the m*****a.
The source stressed that the United States thus confirmed the authenticity of the data, provided by the images from Russian satellites at a special briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on July 21. It was stated during that briefing that Ukraines air defense forces had four Buk-M1 missile systems near the city of Donetsk.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 k*****g all 298 people on board.
Kiev authorities accuse independence supporters of downing the plane whereas local m*****a leaders insist they do not have the necessary technology to shoot down a target flying at an altitude of 32,000 feet.
On Friday, a source from one of the Ukrainian defense departments told RIA Novosti that a system mix up during a Ukrainian air defense units rocket launch exercise could be the cause of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash.
"US Admits Ukraines Missile Systems Present near Donetsk when MH17 Crashed
"In his statement, the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest implicitly acknowledged that Ukraines air defense systems had been present in the Donetsk area, although he claimed they had not been operating," the source said, commenting on Earnests words that the missile that hit the flight MH17 was launched from the area controlled by the m*****a.
The source stressed that the United States thus confirmed the authenticity of the data, provided by the images from Russian satellites at a special briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on July 21. It was stated during that briefing that Ukraines air defense forces had four Buk-M1 missile systems near the city of Donetsk.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 k*****g all 298 people on board.
Kiev authorities accuse independence supporters of downing the plane whereas local m*****a leaders insist they do not have the necessary technology to shoot down a target flying at an altitude of 32,000 feet.
On Friday, a source from one of the Ukrainian defense departments told RIA Novosti that a system mix up during a Ukrainian air defense units rocket launch exercise could be the cause of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash.
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