Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): One of the noblest and most important things a western journalist can do these days is help expose the propagandistic manipulations of the mainstream western press institutions who have duped our civilization into consenting to a profoundly dysfunctional status quo which does not serve the interests of normal human beings. Unfortunately this rarely happens, because western journalists tend to view the mainstream press as allies and potential employers.
So-called 'Mainstream outlets' have been water carriers for the Zionists spanning decades. This is certainly 'more of the same' in one sense, but given the Appallingly Open & Vile nature of the so-called 'Jewish State's' Crimes this time around, this will be the sort of Death Blow from which MSM (having what little minuscular credibility it had remaining) truly can never recover.
The same is true with the CBC in Canada. As our state owned broadcaster it was once a revered institution now completely gone to hell! Additionally our corporate MSM receives government subsidies so the conspiracy of silence is replete.
We are an unconscious civilization incapable of addressing the momentous issues that destroy us.
It is laughable to hear the charge of malpractice when it has been going on for decades .
""If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." -- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787
Interesting. As Noam Chomsky pointed out to Andrew Marr, usually such heavy-handed measures are unnecessary. The stenographer in question doesn't need to be told what sort of propaganda will advance one's career at CNN.
Hamas's Oct 7th plan, Izrael had it in their possession for a year.
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"This item of intelligence reporting was disseminated to everybody. Nobody in the IDF or elsewhere, including the political policymakers, can claim that they were not familiar with it."
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Memorize these five:
1) The full Izraeli leadership, military, intelligence and political, were given Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan as much as a year in advance.
2) The decision up and down the military/intelligence chain of command was made to stop monitoring Hamas' tactical radio network months before Oct 7th.
3) The majority of IDF forces around the Gaza border were temporarily moved to the West Bank just prior to Oct 7th
4) Support troops did not arrive in force to repel Hamas for several hours.
5) The Hannibal Doctrine was implemented which accounted for many if not most of the casualties.
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"In 2022, Israel received an absolute gem of an intelligence report, a document written by Hamas entitled 'The Plan for Defeating the IDF Gaza Division.'
This intelligence reporting, brought by Unit 8200, was a genuine gold mine, it contained everything: the IDF's deployment (with a chilling level of detail)
and the methods of contending with it, how to breach the border obstacle and to carry out the attack, as well as the targets and objectives during the attack and thereafter.
This item of intelligence reporting was disseminated to everybody. Nobody in the IDF or elsewhere, including the political policymakers, can claim that they were not familiar with it.
And if they were not aware of it, then that too bears witness to negligence, as this was no ordinary gem but a real game-changer, which should have led to one of the following two courses of action:
a profound change of thought to cancel the underlying approach that Hamas is deterred and seeks peace and quiet, or a series of steps to refute the golden item of intelligence reporting so that it
would be possible to continue to adhere to the existing conception.
"The responsibility of Unit 8200 does not end here. In the months leading up to the attack, real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios was halted.
Had they been monitored, at the very least Israeli intelligence would have had time to deploy forces and mitigate the scale of the invasion."
The December 04 article (same author) repeats this with:
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"and above all failed to restore a number of sub-units that had been closed down during his tenure. These are sections within 8200 that could have provided an important input in the effort to provide what the intelligence community refers to as I&W (indications and warnings), such as the tactical communications (hand-held radios) section and the open source intelligence (OSINT) section."
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A foundation of Izrael's cover up is that they
are blaming Hamas for fooling them.
This cover up does not stand up to examination, which is key! Their cover up collapses.
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JPost:
"They and five IDF chiefs-of-staff, several defense ministers and IDF Intelligence chiefs, four Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) directors and many others, all held the same mistaken concept that Hamas could be contained, deterred, and kept in check by a mix of economic incentives and occasional rounds of airstrikes."
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But they knew differently, they had it spelled out in writing, it was a Hamas tactic to lull the Izraelis into complacency.
They knew. All of them. Up and down the political/military/intelligence chain of command they had the Hamas Oct 7th manual, their plan, for a year.
They knew.
JPost:
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"The manual also described a strategy to lull Israel into complacency by holding negotiations for some form of long-term arrangement with Hamas, while at the same time staging frequent drills and carrying out small security incidents on the border on Saturdays and Jewish holidays to lull the IDF into a false sense of security when Hamas forces turned up en masse at the border fence."
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So, to the five found at the top I would add a sixth to memorize.
1) The full Izraeli leadership, military, intelligence and political, were given Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan as much as a year in advance.
2) They knew Hamas Oct 7th jail break plan included the strategy of lulling Izrael into a false sense of security. Izrael had Hamas' strategy in black and white a year ahead of time.
3) The decision up and down the military/intelligence chain of command was made to stop monitoring Hamas' tactical radio network months before Oct 7th.
4) The majority of IDF forces around the Gaza border were temporarily moved to the West Bank just prior to Oct 7th
5) Support troops did not arrive in force to repel Hamas for several hours.
6) The Hannibal Doctrine was implemented which accounted for many if not most of the casualties.
I had a job writing for a small newspaper many years ago. I was not allowed to write about the oppression of women that was happening there because the advertisers would not like it. That attitude only seems to have gotten worse and now covers more topics that are not acceptable. We have been manipulated by this kind of writing for a long long time.
Sometime in the 1996 timeframe, I was teaching a class in Aarhus and went to Copenhagen for the weekend. After dinner, walking back to the hotel, passed a very small - maybe eight? - people group protesting what I think was an EU membership-related vote. They were surrounded by at least twice as many CNN folks, jostling them, right in their faces, vans with dishes standing by. Back in the room, turned on CNN International and saw a clip of what I just passed by, cut so as to look like a very large crowd. "Huge demonstration". BS. Never believed a word from CNN again.
Glenn Greenwald had a recent podcast about how muddy stream media are laying off staff and generally going down the crapper. It was such a joy to read. Just maybe the western Pravda is on its last legs.
Nice article. While it is nice to see someone in mainstream calling this out, coming from the Guardian this is clearly a limited hangout tactic, merely managing the dissent and fostering the illusion that *some* of the mainstream media seeks to check itself. It is all lies designed to taste good going down.
Let’s tell it like it is—CNN is owned by Warner and the President of Warner Bros is David Zaslov. He’s Jewish. So is the pres of the NYT. A Lithuanian Jew. Calling these characters “plutocrats” is so tepid it borders on malpractice. They are much more likely Zionists and need to be so named.
So-called 'Mainstream outlets' have been water carriers for the Zionists spanning decades. This is certainly 'more of the same' in one sense, but given the Appallingly Open & Vile nature of the so-called 'Jewish State's' Crimes this time around, this will be the sort of Death Blow from which MSM (having what little minuscular credibility it had remaining) truly can never recover.
The same is true with the CBC in Canada. As our state owned broadcaster it was once a revered institution now completely gone to hell! Additionally our corporate MSM receives government subsidies so the conspiracy of silence is replete.
We are an unconscious civilization incapable of addressing the momentous issues that destroy us.
It is laughable to hear the charge of malpractice when it has been going on for decades .
""If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." -- Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787
Interesting. As Noam Chomsky pointed out to Andrew Marr, usually such heavy-handed measures are unnecessary. The stenographer in question doesn't need to be told what sort of propaganda will advance one's career at CNN.
Hamas's Oct 7th plan, Izrael had it in their possession for a year.
---
"This item of intelligence reporting was disseminated to everybody. Nobody in the IDF or elsewhere, including the political policymakers, can claim that they were not familiar with it."
---
Memorize these five:
1) The full Izraeli leadership, military, intelligence and political, were given Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan as much as a year in advance.
2) The decision up and down the military/intelligence chain of command was made to stop monitoring Hamas' tactical radio network months before Oct 7th.
3) The majority of IDF forces around the Gaza border were temporarily moved to the West Bank just prior to Oct 7th
4) Support troops did not arrive in force to repel Hamas for several hours.
5) The Hannibal Doctrine was implemented which accounted for many if not most of the casualties.
---
"In 2022, Israel received an absolute gem of an intelligence report, a document written by Hamas entitled 'The Plan for Defeating the IDF Gaza Division.'
This intelligence reporting, brought by Unit 8200, was a genuine gold mine, it contained everything: the IDF's deployment (with a chilling level of detail)
and the methods of contending with it, how to breach the border obstacle and to carry out the attack, as well as the targets and objectives during the attack and thereafter.
This item of intelligence reporting was disseminated to everybody. Nobody in the IDF or elsewhere, including the political policymakers, can claim that they were not familiar with it.
And if they were not aware of it, then that too bears witness to negligence, as this was no ordinary gem but a real game-changer, which should have led to one of the following two courses of action:
a profound change of thought to cancel the underlying approach that Hamas is deterred and seeks peace and quiet, or a series of steps to refute the golden item of intelligence reporting so that it
would be possible to continue to adhere to the existing conception.
Of course, none of these options materialized."
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https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/12/04/israel-had-a-slum-dunk-intelligence-on-the-oct-7-attack-what-went-wrong/
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"The responsibility of Unit 8200 does not end here. In the months leading up to the attack, real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios was halted.
Had they been monitored, at the very least Israeli intelligence would have had time to deploy forces and mitigate the scale of the invasion."
---
https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/23/unit-8200-could-have-save-israel-from-oct-7-why-hasnt-it-owned-up-to-its-failure/
The December 04 article (same author) repeats this with:
---
"and above all failed to restore a number of sub-units that had been closed down during his tenure. These are sections within 8200 that could have provided an important input in the effort to provide what the intelligence community refers to as I&W (indications and warnings), such as the tactical communications (hand-held radios) section and the open source intelligence (OSINT) section."
---
A foundation of Izrael's cover up is that they
are blaming Hamas for fooling them.
This cover up does not stand up to examination, which is key! Their cover up collapses.
---
JPost:
"They and five IDF chiefs-of-staff, several defense ministers and IDF Intelligence chiefs, four Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) directors and many others, all held the same mistaken concept that Hamas could be contained, deterred, and kept in check by a mix of economic incentives and occasional rounds of airstrikes."
---
But they knew differently, they had it spelled out in writing, it was a Hamas tactic to lull the Izraelis into complacency.
They knew. All of them. Up and down the political/military/intelligence chain of command they had the Hamas Oct 7th manual, their plan, for a year.
They knew.
JPost:
---
"The manual also described a strategy to lull Israel into complacency by holding negotiations for some form of long-term arrangement with Hamas, while at the same time staging frequent drills and carrying out small security incidents on the border on Saturdays and Jewish holidays to lull the IDF into a false sense of security when Hamas forces turned up en masse at the border fence."
---
So, to the five found at the top I would add a sixth to memorize.
1) The full Izraeli leadership, military, intelligence and political, were given Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan as much as a year in advance.
2) They knew Hamas Oct 7th jail break plan included the strategy of lulling Izrael into a false sense of security. Izrael had Hamas' strategy in black and white a year ahead of time.
3) The decision up and down the military/intelligence chain of command was made to stop monitoring Hamas' tactical radio network months before Oct 7th.
4) The majority of IDF forces around the Gaza border were temporarily moved to the West Bank just prior to Oct 7th
5) Support troops did not arrive in force to repel Hamas for several hours.
6) The Hannibal Doctrine was implemented which accounted for many if not most of the casualties.
I had a job writing for a small newspaper many years ago. I was not allowed to write about the oppression of women that was happening there because the advertisers would not like it. That attitude only seems to have gotten worse and now covers more topics that are not acceptable. We have been manipulated by this kind of writing for a long long time.
wonderful that some journalists are fighting the corporate forces arrayed against journalism!
Sometime in the 1996 timeframe, I was teaching a class in Aarhus and went to Copenhagen for the weekend. After dinner, walking back to the hotel, passed a very small - maybe eight? - people group protesting what I think was an EU membership-related vote. They were surrounded by at least twice as many CNN folks, jostling them, right in their faces, vans with dishes standing by. Back in the room, turned on CNN International and saw a clip of what I just passed by, cut so as to look like a very large crowd. "Huge demonstration". BS. Never believed a word from CNN again.
CNN staff should quit en mass
Hats off to Chris McGreal and CNN staff who are revolting against the biased reportage they're being requested to do by their CEO Mark Thompson.
Glenn Greenwald had a recent podcast about how muddy stream media are laying off staff and generally going down the crapper. It was such a joy to read. Just maybe the western Pravda is on its last legs.
Nice article. While it is nice to see someone in mainstream calling this out, coming from the Guardian this is clearly a limited hangout tactic, merely managing the dissent and fostering the illusion that *some* of the mainstream media seeks to check itself. It is all lies designed to taste good going down.
Let’s tell it like it is—CNN is owned by Warner and the President of Warner Bros is David Zaslov. He’s Jewish. So is the pres of the NYT. A Lithuanian Jew. Calling these characters “plutocrats” is so tepid it borders on malpractice. They are much more likely Zionists and need to be so named.
A civilization that runs on propaganda is a dead civilization
They’ve been churning out Israel propaganda for as long as I can remember.
AI will solve the problem for the propagandists in the MSM. At least, that's their hope.
I have said this before. The reason for me to stay on WAPO is mainly to direct others to alternative news. If others do the same it will help.