{"id":251868,"date":"2022-04-06T07:53:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T07:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251868"},"modified":"2022-04-08T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:12:15","slug":"trial-by-media-russia-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251868","title":{"rendered":"Trial By Media: Russia Condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Introduction \u2013 April 5, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>We are now being inundated with stories about alleged Russian atrocities but note that none of reports, some of which are linked below, actually investigate those claims. The allegations are simply repeated with Russia\u2019s culpability implicitly assumed.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t journalism. It\u2019s propaganda, pure and simple, and it&#8217;s intended to prepare us psychologically for a military confrontation with Russia. Because make no mistake, that\u2019s what is planned.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Western MSM journalists are no longer impartial observers in this conflict. They are, in effect active participants, helping to guide public perception so that we see Russia as our enemy.<\/p>\n<p>For example, as several observers have pointed out, Russian troops withdrew from the outskirts of Kiev last Thursday, March 31. Yet despite this we didn&#8217;t hear about Russian massacres in Bucha until Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>So for two whole days after the Russians had left the town on the outskirts of Kiev there were no reports of Russian atrocities. If nothing else this should prompt questions about the MSM\u2019 narrative of events.<\/p>\n<p>Why did we hear nothing about bodies on the streets of Buchas for two whole days?<\/p>\n<p>Well now this rather obvious anomaly has been conveniently removed with the aid of satellite technology. Because according to no less than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/60981238\">BBC fact checkers<\/a>, bodies littered the streets of Bucha before the Russians left the commuter town on March 30. Although Western media reports argue that this debunks Russian claims of a \u201cstaged atrocity&#8221;, they fail to say how the dead were killed or provide a shred of evidence that Russians were actually responsible.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_251867\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Satellite-image-of-alleged-Russian-massacre-in-bucha.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251867\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-251867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Satellite-image-of-alleged-Russian-massacre-in-bucha-300x240.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satellite photo of Bucha claiming to show the bodies of civilians killed by Russian troops in the streets. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nor do the photos show anything more discernable than blurred blobs, which could be anything from dead dogs to abandoned domestic debris. And that is without even taking into account the possibility that they may have been digitally altered.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the Western MSM is unanimous in its condemnation of Russia for its part in the alleged atrocity.<\/p>\n<p>As far as this writer is concerned, that makes these \u201cjournalists\u201d culpable for whatever ensues. Because, whatever happens, we suspect that this in preparation for a much wider, more devastating conflict. The MSM is preparing the way for this so knowingly or not these journalists are stoking the fires of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at some of Tuesday morning\u2019s headlines:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The horrors of Bucha: mass graves, bodies \u2018left to rot in bags like rubbish\u2019 and the 89-year-old shot dead in bed<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/bucha-bodies-killings-ukraine-russia-b2050913.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/bucha-bodies-killings-ukraine-russia-b2050913.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Will Putin ever be held responsible for the atrocities we\u2019re seeing in Bucha?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/04\/vladimir-putin-responsible-atrocities-bucha-international-justice\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/04\/vladimir-putin-responsible-atrocities-bucha-international-justice<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Tuesday briefing: Fears of more atrocities in Ukraine grow<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/tuesday-briefing-atrocities-ukraine\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/tuesday-briefing-atrocities-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Russian troops tortured and executed a village mayor and her family, Ukrainian officials say<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-accused-killing-ukraine-mayor-olga-sukhenko-family-motyzhyn-mass-grave\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-accused-killing-ukraine-mayor-olga-sukhenko-family-motyzhyn-mass-grave\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Russia leaves a trail of atrocities in Ukraine<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">FT.com \u2013 April 5, 2022<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Bodies lying in the street, many apparently shot at close range, some half-incinerated to try to cover up the traces; civilians in mass graves, their hands tied behind them. As with much else about Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the atrocities being reported in Bucha, just outside Kyiv, call to mind some of the darkest moments of Europe\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Continues \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1e1f2245-898c-4722-b771-bbc39419d126\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1e1f2245-898c-4722-b771-bbc39419d126<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You get the picture. It\u2019s no longer Saddam Hussein or President Assad or even Hitler who is the enemy. Now it\u2019s President Putin and the Russians. The powers that control the MSM and Western governments \u2013 and maybe Moscow too \u2013 want us to view things this way so as to launch a massive, global depopulation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We warned a few days ago that we would soon see a spate of reports detailing Russian \u201catrocities\u201d in Ukraine and that is exactly what is happening <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":251866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,25,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-The_Media","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251878,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251868\/revisions\/251878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}