{"id":43033,"date":"2012-02-13T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=43033"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T09:37:58","slug":"spinning-the-news-from-reliable-ngo-sources-london-based-syrian-observatory-consorting-directly-with-british-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=43033","title":{"rendered":"Spinning the News from &#8220;Reliable&#8221; NGO Sources: London-based &#8220;Syrian Observatory&#8221; Consorting Directly With British Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Tony Cartalucci \u2013 via Global Research December 27, 2011<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The coverage by the corporate-owned Western media exclusively relies on &#8220;activists inside and outside the country,&#8221; the London-based &#8220;Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre&#8221; which apparently has no web presence, the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dchrs.org\/english\/news.php?aboutus\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Damascus Center for Human Rights which boasts memberships<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> with the <\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fidh.org\/-Financial-Statements-\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">National Endowment for Democracy and Tides Foundation-funded<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iccnow.org\/?mod=supporters\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Coalition for the International Criminal Court<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, funded by the European Union, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, and Humanity United.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityunited.org\/all\/partners\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Humanity United in turn boast partnerships<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>with the BBC World Service Trust, NED\/Open Society\/US State Department-funded <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benetech.org\/about\/strategic_partners.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Benetech<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">,<\/span><\/strong> the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityunited.org\/all\/partners\/page:7\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Open Society Institute<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ned.org\/where-we-work\/middle-east-and-northern-africa\/mena-regional\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">NED-funded<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityunited.org\/all\/partners\/page:8\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Solidarity Center<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>which <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/who-are-egypts-protesters_09.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">mobilized Egypt&#8217;s labor unions<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>just as the US-stoked unrest began to falter. In other words, every organization involved interlocks with the vast corporate\/foundation-funded imperial network masquerading as individual &#8220;human rights organizations&#8221; and benign NGOs. In reality this &#8220;civil society&#8221; network seeks to supplant national governments, and interface with global &#8220;institutions&#8221; like the IMF, World Bank, and the UN, all of which have been contrived by corporate-financier oligarchs. It is a modern day empire in the making.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US National Endowment for Democracy&#8217;s journal, Democracy Digest, would report in their August 2011 article titled, &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demdigest.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/syrian-military-strained-as-clinton-meets-opposition-activists\/\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Syrian military \u2018strained\u2019, as Clinton meets opposition activists<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">,&#8221; (warning: link automatically plays very loud video clip) that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights made one of many joint statements with the above mentioned US-funded Damascus Center for Human Rights. Meanwhile, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photos\/rami-abdelrahman-head-syrian-observatory-human-rights-leaves-photo-195213346.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Reuters featured a photograph<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> of the Observatory&#8217;s head, Rami Abdelrahman, leaving a meeting with the British Foreign Minister William Hague.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is quite clear that the &#8220;Syrian Observatory for Human Rights&#8221; based in London and receiving the entirety of their reports via &#8220;phone&#8221; &amp; YouTube videos from Syria, is working in coordination with both US-funded NGOs and the British Foreign Minister. Considering that Hague <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/libyan-rebels-inspired-by-globalization.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">similarly coddled Libyan opposition leaders in London<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> while playing a key role in promoting the NATO attack on Libya and the subsequent <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/new-libyan-pm-big-oil-goon.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">installation of a BP oilman as &#8220;prime minister<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">,&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> Abdelrahman&#8217;s consorting signifies a verbatim repeat of the now openly fraudulent and genocidal NATO campaign in Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Just as in Libya, where &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/lies-behind-humanitarian-war-in-libya.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">human rights activists&#8221; have now admitted to fabricating the evidence<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">used by the International Criminal Court and the United Nations to rubber stamp Wall Street and London&#8217;s designs for regime change, likewise the &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/un-report-on-syria-based-on-witness.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">evidence&#8221; from Syria has turned out to be a complete fraud<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, derived by opposition &#8220;witnesses&#8221; and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/syria-nato-genocide-approaches.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">compiled by a corporate D.C. think-tank director<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> into a UN &#8220;human rights report.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights serves as the exclusive source of &#8220;reports&#8221; coming out of Syria despite the fact that it is actually, entirely based in London. While it is verified that the NGOs it works in tandem with are US-funded, the Observatory itself fails to publish where its money comes from or the backgrounds of those that constitute its membership. We then, are expected to simply believe on face value a mysterious organization whose head meets with the British government and their unverified &#8220;witness accounts&#8221; as evidence to initiate military intervention at the cost of potentially millions of lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That the corporate-media has utterly failed to hold the Observatory accountable for its lack of transparency and parrots verbatim its absolutely unverified. undocumented reports as if they were factual gives us a new appreciation of the level on which we are being deceived across the Western world by the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/Free-Syrian-Army-commanded-by\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">already confirmed that NATO-backed Libyan terrorists<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>are on their way to Syria to oversee the &#8220;Free Syria Army,&#8221; led by Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) commander Abdul Belhaj. It should be noted that LIFG is currently <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/ct\/rls\/other\/des\/123085.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">listed by the US State Department as a foreign terrorist organization (#26)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>.<\/strong> <\/span>Shortly thereafter, two bombs detonated in Damascus killing 44 people. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20111224-syrian-muslim-brotherhood-claims-damascus-bombings\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">France24 reported<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span>that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s official website claimed responsibility for the bombings, confirming that indeed, the &#8220;protests&#8221; were armed militants all along.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite later retractions by the Brotherhood&#8217;s London-based leadership, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/landdestroyer.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/iiss-syrias-opposition-is-armed.html\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">mounting evidence suggests that NATO and its proxies are behind the unrest and increasing violence<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">, while London-based NGOs like the Observatory disingenuously spin responsibility back onto the Syrian government as part of a malicious hoax aimed at triggering the same genocide and destruction that delivered Libyan into the hands of global corporate-fascism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=28374 \">Source<\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based in London and in close contact with the British Foreign Office, the Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Centre\u2019s appears to be working in tandem with Western governments as it distributes reports on events unfolding in Syria   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033","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\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43793,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43033\/revisions\/43793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}