Police arrest 600 at another opposition protest in Moscow (video)
RT
December 6, 2011
Both government supporters and protesters have been taking to the streets of Moscow all day Tuesday. About 600 people have been detained.
Western Hitlerian Madness Meets Russian Sense
Russia Supports Internal Dialogue in Syria, Rejects Ultimatums Language
Land Destroyer Report
December 14, 2011
MOSCOW/ NEW YORK, Dec 14, 2011 (SANA) – Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, renewed on Tuesday his country’s rejection of using the language of ultimatums in dealing with Syria by the Arab League (AL).
Lavrov stressed that dialogue is the only way to reach a solution to the situation in Syria.
At a press conference with his Algerian counterpart, Murad Medelci, in Moscow, Lavrov pointed out that the armed groups in Homs province are bombarding military units, government buildings and hospitals in the city to create a human catastrophe and make a pretext for foreign interference.
He stressed his country’s rejection of any sanctions against Syria, clarifying that sanctions would give opposite results.
Lavrov said that his country is ready to send observers to Syria, pointing out to the possibility of sending observers from the BRICS countries.
Canada Leaves Kyoto Protocol For The Wrong Reasons
by Amir Alwani
Potent News
December 19, 2011
Canada recently caused quite a stir when it withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol. Peter Kent, our environment minister said,
To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada.
When I was initially informed that Canada was pulling out I knew there had to be more to the story. It sounded too good to be true. From my extensive research I had long ago come to the conclusion that the threat of what was first called “global warming” and then “climate change” was in fact a non-threat for various reasons which were amply documented on many websites in great detail. Climategate and the recent Climategate 2.0 represent the tip of the iceberg when it comes these details. That iceberg, unlike the iceberg in climate-alarmists’ collectivist-fantasy-oven, will not melt anytime soon (as long as dictators don’t impede the free flow of information on this sacred internet).
Unfortunately, one of the major reasons for Canada exiting was that the protocol didn’t cover enough countries. The exit had absolutely nothing to do with this global warming hoax being shattered.
Maybe I was a fool to ever have a glimmer of hope that our politicians would take some time to seriously investigate something which the entire world has now been being guilt-tripped about for ages.
Toronto film-maker/reporter Dan Dicks’ captured my sentiments about Canada’s exit 100% and gives a great breakdown of the basic method by which totalitarian governments slowly creep into our daily existence. The key word is slowly:
Global problems cause people to want global solutions and if you can come up with some crazy scam of a problem to forge onto the consciousness of an innocently unsuspecting population then you have the ignorant public by the balls.
In reality the world loves us, clearly wants us to be able to grow pot almost anywhere, wants us to be able to extract DMT from almost any plant out there, wants to amaze us through dreams when we sleep at night, and wants us to enjoy the heck out all the different wonderful things life has to offer.
Elites seek to keep us separated from each other and from this divine truth but we are only troubled insofar as we neglect to update our definition of abundance (which means friends, food, shelter, family) and insofar as we allow ourselves to ignore our own experience. You get what you need, not what you want. Unfortunately, elites are desperately trying to trick us into believing that we live in an era that does not (or cannot) even get what it needs. There’s not enough to go around, they say.
Their solution? Look at the root cause of our problems to discover hidden masters pulling strings? No. Actually, their solution is Agenda 21.
If you’ve never heard of Agenda 21, watch this video now:
Sadly, our MP in Halifax either seems to have fallen for this CO2 hoax or has ulterior motives. Last week, The Huffington Post reported:
Megan Leslie, a member of Canada’s parliament and a Halifax-based member of the New Democratic Party, told The Huffington Post in an email that Kent and the conservative government of Stephen Harper were exaggerating the impacts of Canada’s participation in Kyoto — and the penalties associated with failing to meet targets. “He’s essentially created a Kyoto bogeyman who will come after your cars and bank accounts,” Leslie said. “His spin was reprehensible.”
Reprehensible? I can’t speak for Peter Kent, but I can say that his take on it seems to be rather tame compared the scenario depicted in a chilling infomercial titled “Planned-Opolis”, which Prison Planet cited was funded by, “Bank of America, the City of London Corporation, PepsiCo UK, Time Warner, and crucially Royal Dutch Shell – which of course is one of the biggest emitters of CO2 on the planet”:
Here’s The Truther Girls elaborating on how insane this infomercial is:
Remember, I’m not saying pollution doesn’t exist and I’m not saying Peter Kent loves us. I’m saying that everybody better get acquainted with an age-old trick that should have been taught to all of us in school – problem, reaction, solution. For activists, truth seekers and awake people this formula is old news.
As Dan Dicks mentioned in the first video above, we should keep a close eye on this situation in the coming weeks. Don’t be fooled by the drama. The global warming hoax seems to be alive and well. We should remain aware that the community is composed of individuals and that giving up an individual’s rights for the benefit of the community simply does not make any sense at all. That has not made sense in the past, it doesn’t make sense now and it will never make sense. Collectivism amounts to nothing more than a scam.
Amir Alwani is a psychonaut who makes metal, electronic and hip-hop music. He is also the editor of the online independent media outlet known as Potent News.
Canada pulls out of Kyoto protocol
Potent News Editor’s note: I put this in the “victories” category of the Potent News website but it should be noted that while it is good that Canada is exiting Kyoto it appears to be doing so for the wrong reasons because one hoax still seems to be alive and well – people still believe CO2 (what you exhale) is that bad for the environment. It seems like Canada is exiting because they don’t feel the protocol covers enough countries. Our leaders want everybody to be punished, not just Canada, even though in reality nobody should be punished, clearly, since this is a hoax. For more info on that CO2 hoax visit Climate Depot.
Guardian
December 13, 2011
The Canadian environment minister, Peter Kent, said Canada was invoking its legal right to withdraw. Kyoto did not represent the way forward for Canada or the world, he said.
Canada, Japan and Russia said last year they would not accept new Kyoto commitments, but Canada is the only country to repudiate it altogether.
The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming. Canada’s previous Liberal government signed the accord but did little to implement it and current prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government never embraced it.
“The Kyoto protocol does not cover the world’s largest two emitters, the United States and China, and therefore cannot work,” Kent said. “It’s now clear that Kyoto is not the path forward to a global solution to climate change. If anything it’s an impediment.”
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US-Funded “Activist” Becomes President of Tunisia
From A-Z, the Arab Spring is Fake.
by Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer Report
December 13, 2011
The BBC hails Tunisia’s assembly and their election of a new president in their article, “Tunisian activist, Moncef Marzouki, named president.” What the BBC predictably fails to mention is that Marzouki’s organization, the Tunisian League for Human Rights, was a US National Endowment for Democracy and George Soros Open Society-funded International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) member organization.
Photo: Tunisia’s new “president,” Moncef Marzouki, a veteran Western collaborator whose last two decades of political activity have been supported and subsidized by the US government and US corporate-financier funded foundations.
It was earlier reported in “Soros Celebrates the Fall of Tunisia,” that Marzouki was named “interim-president” of Tunisia and that the myriad of NGOs and opposition organizations that worked with him to overthrow the government of Tunisia were fully subsidized and backed by the US government and US corporate-funded foundations.
Marzouki, who spent two decades in exile in Paris, France, was also founder and head of the Arab Commission for Human Rights, a collaborating institution with the US NED World Movement for Democracy (WMD) including for a “Conference on Human Rights Activists in Exile” and a participant in the WMD “third assembly” alongside Marzouki’s Tunisian League for Human Rights, sponsored by NED, Soros’ Open Society, and USAID.
Marzouki, along with his Libyan counterpart Abdurrahim el-Keib, formally of the Petroleum Institute, sponsored by British Petroleum (BP), Shell, France’s Total, the Japan Oil Development Company, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, makes for the second Western proxy installed into power either by covert sedition or overt military aggression, during the US-engineered “Arab Spring.” Western proxies in Egypt including Mohamed ElBaradei and Mamdouh Hamza are also vying for power in the wake of similar foreign-fomented unrest, while NATO backed militants harbored in Turkey are attempting to overthrow the government of Syria by force.
The Arab Spring is Fake
Gene Sharp of the Albert Einstein Institution penned the book “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” originally designated for the destabilization and recolonization of Myanmar, still called “Burma” throughout much of the West. Sharp’s book would be utilized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout Eastern Europe, throughout Asia, and eventually, in 2011, for the US-engineered “Arab Spring.”
According to Sharp’s own Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) 2000-2004 annual report, AEI had been sponsored by the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its funded subsidiary International Republican Institute (IRI) to train activists in Serbia (page 18) Zimbabwe (page 23) and Myanmar (page 26) to help overthrow their respective sovereign governments.
Australia’s Southern Cross University’s “Activating Human Rights & Peace (AHRP)” conference had put out a revealing account of their 2008 proceedings illustrating that all of Gene Sharp’s work, beyond what was even mentioned in his own institution’s annual report, had been fully funded and in support of the US government and its global domineering agenda. Beginning on page 26, Sharp’s affiliations, in particular with the National Endowment for Democracy, which is described as carrying out “a lot of work that was formerly undertaken by the CIA,” as well as the Ford Foundation, and billionaire Wall Street patriarch George Soros’ Open Society Institute are fleshed out in immense detail.
The “Arab Spring” itself was not spontaneous, nor was it indigenous. Rather it was a was a premeditated geopolitical plot engineered by US corporate-financier interests years in advance. The New York Times in its article, “U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” clearly stated as much when it reported, “a number of the groups and individuals directly involved in the revolts and reforms sweeping the region, including the April 6 Youth Movement in Egypt, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and grass-roots activists like Entsar Qadhi, a youth leader in Yemen, received training and financing from groups like the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute and Freedom House, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Washington.”
Further confirming this were public statements made by the US State Department-sponsored “Alliance for Youth Movements” (AYM) counting Egypt’s April 6 Youth Movement among its above mentioned inaugural AYM summit attendees in New York City as far back as 2008. Foreign Policy magazine admited that April 6 received further training from CANVAS in Serbia, before fomenting unrest in Egypt. FP magazine would also report that “CANVAS has worked with dissidents from almost every country in the Middle East; the region contains one of CANVAS’s biggest successes, Lebanon, and one of its most disappointing failures, Iran.”
The destabilization in Iran, of course, was drawn up by corporate-funded Brookings Institution, as articulated in its “Which Path to Persia?” report, with the actual mechanics of organizing the foreign-funded revolution subcontracted to organizations like US-funded CANVAS, NED and its subsidiaries.
In an April 2011 AFP report, Michael Posner, the assistant US Secretary of State for Human Rights and Labor, stated that the “US government has budgeted $50 million in the last two years to develop new technologies to help activists protect themselves from arrest and prosecution by authoritarian governments.” The report went on to explain that the US (emphasis added) “organized training sessions for 5,000 activists in different parts of the world. A session held in the Middle East about six weeks ago gathered activists from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon who returned to their countries with the aim of training their colleagues there.” Posner would add, “They went back and there’s a ripple effect.” The ripple effect Posner is talking about is of course the “spontaneous” “Arab Spring” and bears a striking resemblance to the campaign of destabilization Gene Sharp and AEI perpetuated throughout Eastern Europe as described in detail in the above mentioned AHRP report.
Conclusion
With a similar gambit now playing out in Russia, fueled by the exact same Western organizations and foundations, not only is it obvious that Tunisia was overthrown, not by spontaneous, indigenous protests, but rather premeditated foreign-funded sedition carried out by the likes of Moncef Marzouki and his US-funded opposition group, it is also obvious that Tunisia was just one of many nations destabilized in the largest concerted geopolitical reordering since World War II. With Russia now targeted by foreign-fomented color revolutions, the US’ declaration of a new “American Pacific Century” aiming to contain China, and Western proxies beginning to climb into positions of power throughout Northern Africa and the Middle East, it is clear that the campaign of encirclement and destabilization of both Russia and China by the forces of global corporate fascism described in February 2011’s “The Middle East & then the World” is indeed an unfolding reality.
It is a necessity to research the backgrounds and affiliations of all political groups and NGOs, and assess both their funding and their affiliations. The National Endowment for Democracy is indisputably disingenuous in both their stated cause and their actions. Their board of directors alone betrays their motto of “Supporting freedom around the world,” as it is almost entirely made up of corporate-fascists, Neo-Conservative warmongers, and corporate lobbyists. The organizations, opposition groups, media outlets, and NGOs, they support seek to destabilize and destroy the nations they infest.
Exposing and fighting this disingenuous enterprise is important. Equally important is to identify the corporate-financier interests driving its true agenda and the global elites’ overarching plan of achieving global hegemony. Boycott these interests entirely out of business, and replace them with business models, institutions, and bodies of governance that truly serve “we the people.”
Bahrain Revolution-News Analysis-12-11-2011 (video)
Press TV Global News
December 12, 2011
More people are dying, from the very young to the very old. The latest victim of the Bahraini revolution is an infant.
Many Bahrainis are asking: Is anyone spared in this Saudi led crackdown on the people of Bahrain?
What will it take for concrete actions to be taken by the international community to stop the violence in Bahrain and for its people to get their rights?
Facebook Page Removed After Uploading Video Exposing Obviously Skewed Barbara Walters Interview With Assad
By Madison Ruppert
The Intel Hub
December 12, 2011
In a clear act of censorship, after a video was uploaded to the official Facebook page for the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) which exposed the highly manipulated ABC interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the page was removed by Facebook.
The video was of a press conference held by the spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry, Jihad Makdessi, showing how the ABC interview was deceitfully edited.
“The conference showed how the US TV channel ABC manipulated the content of their interview with President Bashar al-Assad and distorted it through editing and omission,” writes SANA.
Syrians on Facebook have apparently already created a new page dedicated to the Syrian TV station, but this instance of Facebook controlling the narrative is hardly something which can be ignored.
The entire interview, conducted by Barbara Walters, is an exercise in Western propaganda which is completely divorced from objective reality and instead based solely on pulling the heart strings of viewers in hopes that they will not go through the effort of verifying any of the claims.
In this article we will also explore just how Walters goes about misrepresenting the truth and misleading the viewer during the interview.
Why you shouldn’t trust the Western media’s picture of Syria
First off, as Tony Cartalucci aptly points out, the United Nations Human Rights Council report on Syria was based on no independently verified information whatsoever.
The report was solely based on so-called evidence gathered from “victims and witnesses of events” who were found via “A public call … to all interested persons and organizations to submit relevant information and documentation that would help the commission implement its mandate.”
In total, “223 victims and/or witnesses, including personnel who defected from the military and the security forces, were interviewed.”
Clearly, they were seeking out “relevant information and documentation that would help the commission implement its mandate,” showing that they were only looking for information that would further their narrative and justify foreign military intervention in Syria.
To make matters even worse for those who would like to point to the report as a legitimate investigation, the three so-called experts who were assigned to the commission: Paulo Pinheiro (the Chairperson), Yakin Ertürk and Karen Koning AbuZayd, all had clear conflicts of interest.
Paulo Pinheiro has prime globalist credentials, including heavy involvement with the corrupt, unaccountable United Nations and membership in several so-called “civil society organizations” as you can see in his 2004 curriculum vitae.
Yakin Ertürk sits on the board of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) which is “an official partner of several online knowledge portals, including the South-South Learning Gateway and OpenDemocracy,” which is not only funded by George Soros’ Open Society Institute but has also featured writings of Soros as well.
Karen Koning AbuZayd is on the board of directors of the Washington-based “think tank” Middle East Policy Council, where she serves alongside former CIA agents; the former commander of U.S. Central Command; the former chairman of ExxonMobil, Saudi Arabia, Inc.; a former senior fellow of the National Defense University; the President of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council; former Defense Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia; a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress; and more.
This clearly makes AbuZayd as compromised as the rest of the team as her association with the Middle East Policy Council makes her anything but objective.
The Center for American Progress shills for the Obama administration, as I have previously shown, and the U.S.-Qatar Business Council includes corporations that greatly benefit from the type of unrest we are seeing throughout the Middle East, while all of the other members also have conflicts of interest themselves.
The United Nations and the Western establishment media rely on people not actually looking into who is behind these reports and how they are compiled, and many people don’t go that far.
Thankfully there are independent researchers who can connect the dots and prove that these reports are just as fraudulent as all of the manufactured reasons we are brought to war.
The report perfectly served exactly what Western nations like the United States have been pushing for, which is wholly unsurprising when one investigates the providence of the report.
The Walters interview is based on a wealth of false pretenses on top of the UN report, including the demonstrably false assertion that the protesters are peaceful.
As I have exposed in the past, there are many heavily armed and violent elements of the uprising which have been murdering Syrian security forces and attacking government compounds and vehicles.
I always must point out that if any protest were to turn violent in the United States, those involved would be slaughtered without hesitation.
Yet, for some reason, people in the West seem to think that when it happens in Syria it is some kind of special case that is completely different from the rest of reality.
It is also worth noting that Abdulhakim Belhadj, the head of the Tripoli Military Council and former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, met with senior members of the Free Syrian Army last month.
He was dispatched to meet with them on the border with Turkey and in Istanbul at the request of the interim Libyan president Mustafa Abdul Jalil.
Clearly the NATO-backed Libyan rebels are attempting to help yet another Middle Eastern country overthrow their leader in order to install more globalist-friendly regimes.
The Western-backed assault on Syria is far from a new plan. As General Wesley Clark revealed in 2007, the scheme to attack Syria has been in the works for some time now.
This was emphasized once again in 2002 when Syria was added to the so-called “Axis of Evil” along with Libya, which has already been taken over by Western interests, and Cuba, which was under covert attack at the hands of the United States for years (and arguably still is).
Furthermore, after The Washington Post published Wikileaks cables in April of this year which showed the State Department’s funding of Syrian opposition groups, projects, and anti-government TV channels, State Department spokesman Mark Toner attempted to marginalize these activities in an article published by CNN.
The article, which was posted the day after The Washington Post published the Wikileaks cables, quotes Toner as saying, “We’re not working to undermine that government. What we are trying to do in Syria, through our civil society support, is to build the kind of democratic institutions, frankly, that we’re trying to do in countries around the globe. What’s different, I think, in this situation is that the Syrian government perceives this kind of assistance as a threat to its control over the Syrian people.”
Toner’s claims are laughable at best, given the fact that Americans have been directly interfering with Syrian domestic affairs and undermining the Syrian government.
This was exemplified by U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford openly criticizing the Assad government and even meeting with prominent opposition figure Hassan Abdel-Azim in September.
The people of Syria aren’t happy about Western meddling in their affairs, as shown by the assault on Ford’s motorcade on route to the meeting with Abdel-Azim and the attempts to break into the office where they were meeting.
Just like all of the pro-Assad protests are either glossed over or ignored entirely by the Western media, these incidents are treated selectively in order to further the manufactured narrative.
Armed with the above facts, the interview with Barbara Walters and Bashar al-Assad should be quite clearly skewed, and in the rest of this article I will detail just how dishonest it really is.
Exposing the deceitful interview between Bashar al-Assad and Barbara Walters
It is even more ridiculous when one thinks about the fact that she was invited to interview Assad by the man himself, and despite her claim that Syria is in a state of total bedlam, she was able to make it to the interview unscathed.
“You don’t have the support of your people,” Walters said, and quickly realizing that this is completely untrue she corrects herself and says, “Of all of your people.”
By Walters’ logic, President Obama (with a 44% approval rating according to a CBS poll) and our Congress (with a 9% approval rating according to a New York Times poll) should be currently faced with violent uprisings, but of course her thinking is so myopic that it can only extend to situations which she decides it can apply to.
“But you have people who are against you who are protesting every day,” Walters says, once again showing that she either supports violent revolution in the United States or only thinks that protests count in Arab countries.
I guess the Occupy Wall Street protesters and their allied movements across the nations don’t count?
Once again, Walters betrays her own myopia and proves she is either so divorced from reality that she doesn’t think people are protesting in the United States on a daily basis or only thinks that leaders need to listen to the people in foreign countries.
When Walters says that people don’t want to wait until 2014 for the next Presidential election, she yet again shows that she either a) supports violent revolution or b) doesn’t understand the democratic process.
If the people of the United States decided tomorrow that we want to hold the elections next month and not in 2012, it wouldn’t matter.
Is Walters really naïve enough to think that we have the power to demand a Presidential election whenever we want in the United States?
Or is she again applying her double standard in which other nations have to follow rules which the United States doesn’t?
Hilariously, Walters cites the uprising in Egypt as a case where a leader was overthrown. Does Walters not realize that the military junta put in place after Mubarak was ousted is arguably even worse than before?
When Walters asks if mistakes were made in the crackdown on protests, Assad nods replies, “Self-evidently yes, for one reason, because when you don’t prepare yourself for new situations you’re going to make mistakes.”
“Have the people who made the mistakes been found accountable? Have they been punished?” Walters asks.
“Some of them, yes, according to the evidence. But you cannot punish anyone according to rumors or allegations. So this judicial committee – independent judicial committee – it’s its job to detain people if they are guilty and to send them to the court for prosecution,” Assad replied.
Walters then goes on to cite the completely illegitimate United Nations human rights report, which Assad points out is totally devoid of names of people who have been raped and tortured.
People can make allegations all they like, but without evidence which can be investigated, there is nothing that can be reliably proven by independent parties.
When Assad points out that they did not provide any names to substantiate the claims, Walters reverts to saying, “They have issued this report. They have accused you and your regime,” at which point Assad interjects, “According to what?” to which Walters responds, “Well according to what they said is 225 people. Witnesses, men, women, children, who they interviewed and identified. And that’s when they called it crimes against humanity.”
“As long as we don’t see the documents and the evidence, we cannot say yes. That’s normal. We cannot say just because the United Nations – who said that the United Nations is a credible institution, first of all?” Assad retorted.
“We know that you have the double standard in the world. In the United States policy, in the United Nations that is controlled by the United States and the West, so it has no credibility,” Assad said.
Walters then seems completely taken aback and asks, “You do not think that the United Nations is a credible organization?”
“No, for one reason. They haven’t implemented – they never implemented any of the resolutions that related to the Arab world. For example, to the Palestinians, to the Syrian land. Why don’t they? If they talk about human rights, what about the Palestinians suffering in the occupied territory? What about my land and my people that left their land because it is occupied by Israel? Of course it’s not,” Assad said.
Walters then repeats the question as if she is going to get a new answer or that his last answer wasn’t detailed or legitimate, which it clearly was.
He points to the fact that the entire region does not see the United Nations as legitimate, and I might add that many outside of the region, like me, do not see the United Nations as a legitimate or credible institution.
When Walters asks Assad about the defections in the military, Assad says that defections are a relatively common occurrence but he says that they are indeed happening more often now.
However, he points to the fact that the majority of Syria is stable as evidence that most of the military is not defecting as the Western media is portraying.
Despite the picture Walters is trying to paint in the interview, even she has to admit that since they had been in Damascus it was “business as usual.”
When Walters claims that most of the world is against Assad and he confronts her on this question, she points to nations like Turkey and the members of the Arab League as proof that he is losing favor even among his neighbors.
In response, Assad rightly points out that these countries don’t care about the Syrian people, they have their own agendas.
The fact that Walters would make such an absurd statement while the members of the Arab League crack down on their own domestic protests once again shows she is either wildly ignorant or a propagandist.
When Walters presses Assad to say what exactly the agenda is, he tells her to go ask them as they will tell her that they have an agenda themselves.
“You should ask them. I cannot talk about their will, I don’t know about their will, to be frank,” Assad said.
He then said that they would indeed allow monitors dispatched by the Arab League, so long as they respected Syria’s sovereignty and cooperate with the Syrian government.
Assad added that they are currently discussing the conditions on which monitors will be allowed in Syria.
Walters then asked if foreign journalists would be allowed, claiming that they had been blocked, when in reality Webster Tarpley, a foreign journalist, was allowed in Syria and was featured in an interview on Syrian TV just last month.
When Assad asks if in the two days Walters had been in Syria if she had been told where she could and couldn’t go, she just ignores the question entirely.
Walters then boldly lies and claims that Assad has not let any foreign correspondents into Syria, which is clearly untrue as Tarpley has proven.
Assad emphasizes the fact that the crackdowns were not a product of Syrian policy, but instead the product of mistakes made by a few people.
However, he does say that they have an official policy of fighting militants and points to the fact that the United States sent the National Guard, the Army and the Marines to put down the 1992 riots in Los Angeles.
Walters erroneously claims that in the United States people are not killed which is, once again, untrue as 10 people were murdered by law enforcement and the National Guard during the 1992 riots.
Furthermore, the recent violence at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations doesn’t paint the glorious picture of American law enforcement Walters seems to be pushing.
Assad said he did not give the order to attack protesters and that whenever military forces used machine guns against protesters they were breaking the law.
He further said that most of the civilians who have been killed are in fact pro-government and not anti-government protesters as the media has portrayed
“Our view is that there are peaceful protesters, they were killed, some were tortured, it was a brutal reaction. Are we wrong in thinking that?” Walters asked.
“Every brutal reaction was by individuals, not by institutions. That’s what you have to know,” Assad said.
“Done by the military or done by whom?” Walters asked.
“We don’t know everything. In some cases done by the police, some cases done by civilians. Civilians who support the government, not by police,” Assad replied.
“But not by your command?” Walters asked.
“No. No one’s command. There was no command to kill or to be brutal,” Assad said.
“Do you feel guilty?” Walters asked, even though he repeatedly said throughout the interview that he didn’t order any acts of brutality.
“I did my best to protect the people, so you cannot feel guilty when you do your best. You feel sorry for the lives that have been lost, but you don’t feel guilty when you don’t kill people. So it’s not about guilty. You do your best and you have to do your best. You have to fight terrorists to protect other civilians in Syria,” Assad answered.
I am very curious to know what was so damning in the press conference footage to justify Facebook removing the page in a blatant act of censorship.
Clearly the interview was rife with leading questions, presumptions, and the repetition of questions but I would love to know how the footage was manipulated as it is almost impossible to tell what the original was when watching the end product.
I also wonder how Facebook will respond, if at all, to clear attempt to steer the narrative in the direction preferred by the West.
Hopefully this action taken by Facebook will serve to wake more people up and make them start looking into the Syrian issue with a more critical eye, if not, we could likely see much of the West get suckered into another Libya.
[H/T: Tony Cartalucci]
This article originally appeared on End The Lie
