{"id":59372,"date":"2016-10-04T21:48:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=59372"},"modified":"2016-10-04T03:49:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T10:49:18","slug":"if-pentagon-paid-540m-to-pr-firms-for-false-videos-who-is-behind-the-c4-videos-against-sri-lankaif-pentagon-paid-540m-to-pr-firms-for-false-videos-who-is-behind-the-c4-videos-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/10\/04\/if-pentagon-paid-540m-to-pr-firms-for-false-videos-who-is-behind-the-c4-videos-against-sri-lankaif-pentagon-paid-540m-to-pr-firms-for-false-videos-who-is-behind-the-c4-videos-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"If Pentagon paid $540m to PR firms for false videos \u2013 Who is behind the C4 videos against Sri Lanka?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

They say, the first to be killed at wars is the truth. The discovery of the US Government paying foreign firms to produce lies that have justified illegal wars and occupations leading to the suffering and displacement of so many is certainly of concern. Tragically, the mainstream media are silent and the big mouths wailing about human rights and freedoms are also silent as are many others. This now raises the question of how credible the C4 videos on Sri Lanka are timed perfectly before Geneva Resolutions and now gone into silent mode! US tax dollars are being used to make false films and videos. Manufactured news is not ethical. Playing with people\u2019s minds is unfair. It has justified false wars and illegal occupations and even regime change. People have every right to be questioning \u2013 nothing is as it is or is shown to be.<\/p>\n

The USA pattern of lies, deceits, and pretends know no ends, and will continue until people wake up and begin questioning the lies.<\/p>\n

A joint investigation by the Sunday Times and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism claims that the US White House tasked Bell Pontinger to make fake terrorist videos in Iraq as part of an enormous propaganda campaign between 2007 and 2011. Bell Pontinger took $540m to fabricate short TV segments inside the US camp in Iraq with 300 British and Iraqi staff. Bell Pontinger staff reported to the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon on the project with a mandate to portray Al-Qaeda\u00a0in a negative light and track suspected sympathizers. Bell Pontinger was used because US law prohibits the government from using propaganda on its population.<\/p>\n

Colour labels distinguished the type of operation – Grey ops \u2013 television commercials showing Al Qaeda negatively shown as designed by Arabic TV. The CDs would be taken by US marines and dropped at houses they raided.\u00a0 Read more at http:\/\/thefreethoughtproject.com\/pentagon-fake-terrorist-videos\/#0MC5d5cuu2t7YG6M.99<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2009, it was reported\u00a0that the Pentagon had hired controversial PR firm, The Rendon Group, to monitor the reporting of journalists embedded with the U.S. military, to assess whether they were giving positive\u201d coverage to its missions. Talk about media freedom!<\/p>\n

Washington based PR company the Lincoln Group had been placing articles in newspapers in Iraq which were secretly written by the US military. Where\u2019s the access to the war for journalists if these coverages are written by US military?<\/p>\n

Please listen to Martin Wells who reveals what he was tasked to do. http:\/\/labs.thebureauinvestigates.com\/fake-news-and-false-flags\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity in their facebook asks<\/p>\n

Did you ever wonder about those Osama bin Laden videos, or beheading videos, or other “al-Qaeda” videos? Turns out you were right to be suspicious. The Pentagon paid a UK public relations firm half a billion dollars to make fake terrorist propaganda and false-flag videos, some of which came back to the United States to propagandize us. Do you feel safer? Money well spent?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This takes us back to 2010 when CIA admitted staging fake Jihadist videos in 2010<\/p>\n

http:\/\/asheepnomore.net\/2014\/09\/04\/cia-admitted-to-staging-fake-jihadist-videos-in-2010-questions-arise-after-experts-say-foley-isis-beheading-video-likely-staged\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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In another 2010 Washington Post article authored by former Army Intelligence Officer Jeff Stein features a detailed account of how the CIA admittedly filmed a fake Bin Laden video during the run up to the 2003 Iraq war<\/p>\n

In 2015 President Obama even explained why they needed a false flag every week \u2013<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yYCokZcYve0&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

So we have a military intervention and occupation of Iraq based on lies, to sustain the lies we have PR firms to fool the masses with false videos and the day before 9\/11 Pentagon couldn\u2019t account for $2.3 trillion and now in 2015 audit reveals they can\u2019t account for $6.5trillion!<\/p>\n

So when ISIS releases a list of US cities it plans to attack \u2013 you seriously have to wonder who is behind the stunt! http:\/\/www.conspiracyclub.co\/2015\/11\/17\/alert-isis-false-flag-on-america\/<\/a>\u00a0paid a UK public relations firm half a billion dollars to make fake terrorist propaganda and false-flag videos, some of which came back to the United States to propagandize us. Do you feel safer? Money well spent?<\/p>\n

We now enter another false intervention \u2013 Syria where in 1957 \u2013 the British and American leaders approved the use of Islamic extremists and false flag attacks to topple the Syrian government. History repeats and has repeated. http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/07\/57-years-ago-u-s-britain-approved-use-islamic-extremists-topple-syrian-government.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Patrick Welch an American writer and political analyst says US and Western media coverage of Russia and Syria consists of virtually nothing but lies<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2016\/09\/23\/486043\/US-media-coverage-Syria-full-of-lies<\/a><\/p>\n

It has reached such a point that only <\/strong>6% of Americans trust the mainstream media: All the lies about vaccines, GMOs and false economic statistics are finally sinking in<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/053759_mainstream_media_lies_public_trust.html#ixzz4M2Ek5rkG<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some views of people around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have every right to question the C4 footage against Sri Lanka. C4 has won awards though not one footage was shot by C4 and none of the eyewitness accounts comes from journalists. What is the authenticity of bits and pieces put together and declare it a documentary. How do we know whether these were not filmed by LTTE tv crew who had a habit of doing the same. In fact Shyam Tekwani an expert in terrorism and media working for Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies compared the \u2018tone and tenor\u2019 of the documentary to LTTE\u2019s propaganda production wing saying it was \u2018clearly an effort to sensationalize and shock with carefully selected and edited footage, the documentary weakens its case and invites and investigation into its own credibility and accountability to journalistic norms. The volume of the testimony it uses as evidence is not enormous and most of its derived from leading questions\u2019.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, C4\u2019s star witness Vany K was a LTTE cadre.<\/p>\n

A A Gill described the footage as \u2018unattributed and uncorroborated\u2019<\/strong> saying \u2018not a second of this has been shot by Channel 4 \u2013 none of the witness accounts comes from journalists\u2019. He also said Jon Snow\u2019s narration was \u2018intemperate and partisan\u2019 and \u2018was all held together by assumptions\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Put all this in the context of money being paid for false videos we can only demand to know who was behind the production of the C4 videos, who paid for it and who wrote the scripts?<\/p>\n