This document discusses staged massacres and false flag operations that have been used by Western powers to justify regime change in other countries. It provides examples from recent decades in Romania, Kuwait, and Iraq where manipulated media coverage of alleged massacres and weapons of mass destruction were used to build public support for military interventions and regime change. Regarding Syria, it questions the logic of the Syrian government carrying out a chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun while winning the war, and cites this and other incidents as following a pattern of false allegations made by groups like the White Helmets to promote Western intervention.
The article analyzes the structure, content, properties and effects of the
Russian-Ukrainian ‘hybrid war’ in its non-military dimension. Particular emphasis is
placed on the aspect of the information and propaganda war, as well as activities in
cyberspace. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is described in the context of the new war
strategy of General Valery Gerasimov. Contemporary practice of hybrid actions in the
conflict in Ukraine has revealed that, for the first time, a stronger opponent, Russia,
uses the full spectrum of hybrid interaction on an opponent who is weak and unable
to defend the integrity of its territory. The military conflict of 2014 showed not only
the weakness of the Ukrainian state, but also, more importantly, the inefficiency of the
organizations responsible for ensuring international security: NATO, OSCE and the
UN. In the longer term, it should be noted that the escalation of hybrid activities in
Ukraine clearly threatens the states on the Eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance.
The analysis conducted refers to the problem defined in the form of questions: what
is the essence of hybrid operations? What is the nature of non-military hybrid operations? What was the course of these activities in Ukraine? How was international law
interpreted in relation to this conflict?
The article analyzes the structure, content, properties and effects of the
Russian-Ukrainian ‘hybrid war’ in its non-military dimension. Particular emphasis is
placed on the aspect of the information and propaganda war, as well as activities in
cyberspace. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is described in the context of the new war
strategy of General Valery Gerasimov. Contemporary practice of hybrid actions in the
conflict in Ukraine has revealed that, for the first time, a stronger opponent, Russia,
uses the full spectrum of hybrid interaction on an opponent who is weak and unable
to defend the integrity of its territory. The military conflict of 2014 showed not only
the weakness of the Ukrainian state, but also, more importantly, the inefficiency of the
organizations responsible for ensuring international security: NATO, OSCE and the
UN. In the longer term, it should be noted that the escalation of hybrid activities in
Ukraine clearly threatens the states on the Eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance.
The analysis conducted refers to the problem defined in the form of questions: what
is the essence of hybrid operations? What is the nature of non-military hybrid operations? What was the course of these activities in Ukraine? How was international law
interpreted in relation to this conflict?
Three curable symptoms of an ailing global economy and their treatmentSUN&FZ Associates
It goes without saying that poverty and inequality beyond rationally acceptable limit are caused by wrong economic, monetary and fiscal policies; legislative, legal and regulatory flaws; and imbalance between pro-business and pro-people and pro-employer and pro-employee policies.
The transfer of money through channels other than strictly regulated and monitored companies cannot be ruled out but that money’s unchecked investment in bonds, shares, properties and business companies clearly and convincingly points out that the countries and their governments at both ends are intentional accomplices of white collar crimes for a number of understandable but inexcusable reasons.
Is it possible that those who are responsible to monitor the inter-state flow of money don’t know from which countries money is transferred to their countries? Who in regulatory, banking and financial circles doesn’t know whose money is parked in which tax haven for how long? Who doesn’t know who manages the illegally transferred funds on whose behalf? Why do the tax havens hide the information?
Why these questions have not been answered so far?
Who is responsible?
What can be done about it?
The Answers follow…
First published on 22nd February 2011 in American Chronicle, Buzzle and AfroArticles
Only 11 days after Mubarak was overthrown, I was the first, worldwide, to state the absolute truth that "No Revolution Occurred in Tahrir Square" in 2011.
This article concludes my Egyptian pentalogy of February 2011; links to the earlier four articles are here:
https://www.academia.edu/43418877/The_Collapse_of_the_Mubarak_Regime_and_the_Re-birth_of_Egypt_-_2_2_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43419343/Egypt_in_Crisis_Self-governed_Cairo_and_the_Emergence_of_Egypts_Civil_Society_-_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43419926/Egypt_Mass_Media_Gave_Fake_Numbers_of_Protesters._Example_the_New_York_Times_Fallacy_-_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43437556/Egypt_Cairo_in_Turmoil_the_Tahrir_Square_Facts_and_the_Freemasonic_Mass_Media_Myths._An_Insight_-_2011
The world hybrid war: Ukrainian forefront. Volodymyr HorbulinDonbassFullAccess
In this multi-authored monograph the scholars of the National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine present an unprecedented study of the phenomenon of the world hybrid war, which manifested itself in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The nature of the hybrid war was analyzed in the context of the global security crisis and was studied as a new type of global confrontation. This monograph is a complex analysis of the causes and preconditions of the Russian aggression against Ukraine with respect to the strategic purposes and special aspects of conduct in various dimensions including military, political, economic, social, humanitarian, and informational. This monograph also presents research of the local success of our country in resisting the hostile plans of the Russian Federation in certain areas. The conclusion reached by this study is that Ukraine is capable of fighting against an aggressor for her sovereignty. The reformation of international security institutions and attainment of balance of power in the new hybrid reality are also addressed in the monograph. This book is meant for politicians, political analysts, senior government officials and scientists in the field of security studies. The research results would also be interesting for academia, representatives of civil society, as well as patriotic and responsible citizens.
➽=ALL False flag-War Machine-War profiteering-Energy (oil/Gas) Iraq, Iran,…oil and gas
USA invades other countries just to own their natural resources and to place them in the hands of American corporations. Facebook doesn’t call that terrorism. They call it democracy. BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4, SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV trash Sun paper,… Facebook all are protector and preserver of the propaganda classifying IR Iran as a dangerous terrorist organization. But FB, BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4-SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV do know well, that USA is the biggest terrorist country in the world.
‘terrorism’ the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
"the fight against terrorism" is the fight against the unlawful use of violence and intimidation and carpet bombing.
Ever since the beginning of the 19th century, the West has been sucking on the jugular vein of the Moslem body politic like a veritable vampire whose thirst for Moslem blood is never sated and who refused to let go. Since 1979, Iran, which has always played the role of the intellectual leader of the Islamic world, has risen up to put a stop to this outrage against God’s law and will, and against all decency.
What is an "Independent Journalist" is this someone who can be trusted with telling the truth or disinformation propaganda strategies. Armed with social media and internet this "Queen of Disinformation" along with her loyal cult following has taken over Social Media Syria narratives with their brand of the truth. In the war of words and propaganda, Syria wasn't as prepared as they are as physically fighting passionately for their motherland. Who will win the war of words?
AS THE WORLD POWERS HEAD TO WAR THEY IMPLY THAT YOUR FAITH IS PART OF THEIR P...manufacturerd-age
This is a non-politically motivated research paper that exposes religions involvement in political policies that are leading the world to war. It is designed to help the reader see exactly why religious freedoms as we once understood them are coming to an end.
Three curable symptoms of an ailing global economy and their treatmentSUN&FZ Associates
It goes without saying that poverty and inequality beyond rationally acceptable limit are caused by wrong economic, monetary and fiscal policies; legislative, legal and regulatory flaws; and imbalance between pro-business and pro-people and pro-employer and pro-employee policies.
The transfer of money through channels other than strictly regulated and monitored companies cannot be ruled out but that money’s unchecked investment in bonds, shares, properties and business companies clearly and convincingly points out that the countries and their governments at both ends are intentional accomplices of white collar crimes for a number of understandable but inexcusable reasons.
Is it possible that those who are responsible to monitor the inter-state flow of money don’t know from which countries money is transferred to their countries? Who in regulatory, banking and financial circles doesn’t know whose money is parked in which tax haven for how long? Who doesn’t know who manages the illegally transferred funds on whose behalf? Why do the tax havens hide the information?
Why these questions have not been answered so far?
Who is responsible?
What can be done about it?
The Answers follow…
First published on 22nd February 2011 in American Chronicle, Buzzle and AfroArticles
Only 11 days after Mubarak was overthrown, I was the first, worldwide, to state the absolute truth that "No Revolution Occurred in Tahrir Square" in 2011.
This article concludes my Egyptian pentalogy of February 2011; links to the earlier four articles are here:
https://www.academia.edu/43418877/The_Collapse_of_the_Mubarak_Regime_and_the_Re-birth_of_Egypt_-_2_2_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43419343/Egypt_in_Crisis_Self-governed_Cairo_and_the_Emergence_of_Egypts_Civil_Society_-_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43419926/Egypt_Mass_Media_Gave_Fake_Numbers_of_Protesters._Example_the_New_York_Times_Fallacy_-_2011
https://www.academia.edu/43437556/Egypt_Cairo_in_Turmoil_the_Tahrir_Square_Facts_and_the_Freemasonic_Mass_Media_Myths._An_Insight_-_2011
The world hybrid war: Ukrainian forefront. Volodymyr HorbulinDonbassFullAccess
In this multi-authored monograph the scholars of the National Institute for Strategic Studies of Ukraine present an unprecedented study of the phenomenon of the world hybrid war, which manifested itself in the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The nature of the hybrid war was analyzed in the context of the global security crisis and was studied as a new type of global confrontation. This monograph is a complex analysis of the causes and preconditions of the Russian aggression against Ukraine with respect to the strategic purposes and special aspects of conduct in various dimensions including military, political, economic, social, humanitarian, and informational. This monograph also presents research of the local success of our country in resisting the hostile plans of the Russian Federation in certain areas. The conclusion reached by this study is that Ukraine is capable of fighting against an aggressor for her sovereignty. The reformation of international security institutions and attainment of balance of power in the new hybrid reality are also addressed in the monograph. This book is meant for politicians, political analysts, senior government officials and scientists in the field of security studies. The research results would also be interesting for academia, representatives of civil society, as well as patriotic and responsible citizens.
➽=ALL False flag-War Machine-War profiteering-Energy (oil/Gas) Iraq, Iran,…oil and gas
USA invades other countries just to own their natural resources and to place them in the hands of American corporations. Facebook doesn’t call that terrorism. They call it democracy. BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4, SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV trash Sun paper,… Facebook all are protector and preserver of the propaganda classifying IR Iran as a dangerous terrorist organization. But FB, BBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, FR 24, ITV/CH 4-SKY, EURO NEWS, ITV do know well, that USA is the biggest terrorist country in the world.
‘terrorism’ the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
"the fight against terrorism" is the fight against the unlawful use of violence and intimidation and carpet bombing.
Ever since the beginning of the 19th century, the West has been sucking on the jugular vein of the Moslem body politic like a veritable vampire whose thirst for Moslem blood is never sated and who refused to let go. Since 1979, Iran, which has always played the role of the intellectual leader of the Islamic world, has risen up to put a stop to this outrage against God’s law and will, and against all decency.
What is an "Independent Journalist" is this someone who can be trusted with telling the truth or disinformation propaganda strategies. Armed with social media and internet this "Queen of Disinformation" along with her loyal cult following has taken over Social Media Syria narratives with their brand of the truth. In the war of words and propaganda, Syria wasn't as prepared as they are as physically fighting passionately for their motherland. Who will win the war of words?
AS THE WORLD POWERS HEAD TO WAR THEY IMPLY THAT YOUR FAITH IS PART OF THEIR P...manufacturerd-age
This is a non-politically motivated research paper that exposes religions involvement in political policies that are leading the world to war. It is designed to help the reader see exactly why religious freedoms as we once understood them are coming to an end.
Democratic Great Power Support for Contested Autocracy: Understanding the U.S...Jason Fasano
Undergraduate honors thesis investigating the role homophily (ideological similarity) and expected utility play in US foreign policy formation, utilizing empirical evidence from the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Bahrain, Syria, Egypt, and Libya.
Abstract: This study examined United States and democratization in Iraq. The study was anchored on the
democratic peace theory as propounded by Immanuel Kant in 1795. The study adopted ex-post research design
while data was gotten from secondary source such as textbooks, journal articles, newspapers, magazines and
internet and the data generated was analyzed through content analysis. The findings of the study showed that The
United States efforts to adoptive democracy was widely implemented by a range of governmental and nongovernmental actors in Iraq, but it has yielded far less than what was promised and United States interest has had
negative effects on democratization in Iraq as the dissolution of the Iraqi army has resulted to security vacuum in
Iraq. Based on the findings the study recommended among others; Democracy should not be seen as a United
States import but rather an indigenous adaptation of general principles by Iraqi people.
Except for the statements of historical fact contained herein, the information presented constitutes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, including but not
limited, to those with respect to the price of silver, lead and zinc, the possibility, timing and amount of estimated future production, costs
of production, and reserve determination and reserve conversion rates, involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievement of Silvercorp Metals Inc. (“Silvercorp” or the “Company”) to be
materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such
factors include, among others, risks related to international operations, risks related to Chinese government issuance of mining and
related development permits, risks related to joint venture operations, the actual results of current exploration activities, conclusions of
economic evaluations, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, commodity price fluctuations especially in prices
of silver, lead and zinc, as well as other factors. Readers should review the Company’s most recent Form 40-F for a more complete
discussion of these factors and other risks, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors”.
This Management’s Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) is intended to help the reader understand the significant
factors that have affected Silvercorp Metals Inc. and its subsidiaries’ (“Silvercorp” or the “Company”) performance
and such factors that may affect its future performance. This MD&A should be read in conjunction with the
Company’s audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2019 and the related notes
contained therein. The Company reports its financial position, results of operations and cash flow in accordance
with International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board
(“IASB”
Chris Helweg
Chris Helweg
World Silver Survey 2019
This is the twenty-ninth annual edition of the World Silver Survey produced for The Silver Institute. The World
Silver Survey 2019 was produced by the GFMS team of metals market analysts at Definitive. The information
contained herein is based in part on the analysis of publicly available data such as hallmarking series, trade
statistics, company reports and other public-domain information. More importantly, it is also based on a large
series of interviews with the industry’s main players, carried out over the year by the team. This work generates
the essential data to allow the compilation of reliable estimates for world supply and demand and inform the
analysis of market structures, and the degree of significance of any changes and developments.
Chris Helweg, Vlagtwedde, De groeiende rol van mineralen voor een koolstofarm...Chris Helweg
Chris Helweg, Vlagtwedde, Groningen.
De groeiende rol van mineralen voor een koolstofarme toekomst
World Bank
grondstoffen vragen prognoses tot 2050 de wereldbevolking zal tegen 2050 naar verwachting meer dan 9 miljard bereiken, duurzame ontwikkeling, met inbegrip van koolstofarme ontwikkelingsstrategieën, hernieuwbare energie en veerkrachtige steden en landschappen
commodities demand projections up to 2050
global human population expected to reach over 9 billion by 2050,
sustainable development, including low carbon development strategies, renewable energy, and resilient cities and landscape
Silver in medicine – past, present and future Chris Helweg
Silver in medicine – past, present and future
Silver potentially has a role to play in tackling both antimicrobial resistance and improving common antibacterials, but for these efforts to positively impact communities around the world applications must be cost‐effective. Small quantities of silver help to enable this requirement.
Een inzicht in de Amerikaanse streven naar wereldheerschappij, Chris Helweg
By Chris Helweg,
Een inzicht in de Amerikaanse streven naar wereldheerschapij, wat zijn de doelen, wie zijn de spelers, wanneer is dit begonnen, wat is bereikt, hoe gevaarlijk is Een korte blik voor geïnteresseerde mensen, wat een echt beleid is dat de VS de afgelopen 25 jaar heeft geregeerd. Ik ben niet echt een goede schrijver of vertaler, maar dit is vrij eenvoudig te controleren, oprechte feedback is welkom. Op mijn LinkedIn-pagina kun je de afgelopen jaren over mijn doel lezen. Waakzaamheid blijft noodzakelijk, ik hoop dit beleid transparant te maken door middel van deze publicaties. Want kijk eens naar het nieuwe budget van Donald's Trump met deze kennis in gedachten? Wat dan?
An insight in the us strategy for global dominationChris Helweg
An insight in the US strategy for global domination. The Project for the New American Century
PNAC goals of the neocons
Eliot Abrams
John Bolton
The Project for the New American Century
Essential social, medical, educational and retirement services have to be gutted so that those funds can be directed towards a military buildup
the WTO and the IMF will dictate financial terms to the entire planet.
Trumps new Budget.
Een inzicht in de US wereldwijde strijd voor dominantieChris Helweg
Een inzicht in de Amerikaanse streven naar wereldheerschapij, wat zijn de doelen, wie zijn de spelers, wanneer is dit begonnen, wat is bereikt, hoe gevaarlijk is dit, en werkt Donald Trump hier ook aan mee?
An insight in the us strategy for global dominationChris Helweg
An insight in the US NEOCON strategy for global domination.
These are the PNAC goals
Who are behind PNAC?
The bankrollers from the WTO and the IMF
Essential social, medical, educational and retirement services have to be gutted so that those funds can be directed towards a military buildup.
An empire cannot function with the slow, cumbersome machine of constitutional democracy on its back. Empires must be ruled with speed and ruthlessness.
Chris Helweg:
Last year, for the fifth year in a row, the silver market
recorded another deficit; this time of 26.0 Moz (810 t).
Mine supply fell for the second consecutive year by 4%
in 2017, following 13 consecutive annual increases prior
to 2016. This was a result of years of Capex reductions
in combination with supply disruptions, particularly in
the Americas. With scrap supply contracting by 1% in
combination with net-hedging of 1.4 Moz (44 t), total silver
supply fell by 2% to just under one billion ounces.
World Gold Council
Gold Outlook 2018: Watch the Fed, Debt and Geopolitics
Analysts share their thoughts on the gold outlook for 2018. Most agree that it will take a sharp shock to the market to move the price significantly higher.
Fight over arctic region ( images & bad dutch translation) Chris HelwegChris Helweg
Chris Helweg
The proportions of the Arctic mineral reserves are by all means impressive. The region estimatedly contains 25% of the world’s hydrocarbons, mostly in the form of natural gas. Russia’s portion of the Arctic is known to hold at least 560 billion barrels of crude which is 2.5 the total in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the lures of the Arctic region include deposits of diamonds, gold, platinum, manganese, nickel, titanium, coal, etc. which are mostly found on the territory of Russia. Importantly, the Northern maritime route is the avenue opening access to all of the above.
De verhoudingen van de Arctic minerale reserves zijn oké indrukwekkend. Het gebied bevat estimatedly 25% van's werelds koolwaterstoffen, meestal in de vorm van aardgas. Ruslands gedeelte van het Noordpoolgebied is bekend dat het houden van minstens 560 miljard vaten ruwe olie die 2.5 is het totaal in Saoedi-Arabië. Bovendien omvatten de kunstaas van het Noordpoolgebied afzettingen van diamanten, goud, platina, mangaan, nikkel, titaan, kolen, enz., die meestal te op het grondgebied van Rusland vinden zijn. Nog belangrijker is, is de noordelijke maritieme route de laan die toegang tot al het bovenstaande te openen.
VANCOUVER, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Silvercorp Metals Inc. ("Silvercorp" or the "Company") (SVM.TO) (NYSE American: SVM) reported its financial and operating results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2017. All amounts are expressed in US Dollars.
0x01 - Newton's Third Law: Static vs. Dynamic AbusersOWASP Beja
f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
About the Speaker
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Diogo Sousa, Engineering Manager @ Canonical
An opinionated individual with an interest in cryptography and its intersection with secure software development.
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
Sharpen existing tools or get a new toolbox? Contemporary cluster initiatives...Orkestra
UIIN Conference, Madrid, 27-29 May 2024
James Wilson, Orkestra and Deusto Business School
Emily Wise, Lund University
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This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
Bitcoin Lightning wallet and tic-tac-toe game XOXO
Syria, Iraq, Libya: The Staged-Massacre Routine and False Flag Operations For Regime Change
1. Syria, Iraq, Libya: The Staged-Massacre Routine
and False Flag Operations For Regime Change
The original source of this article is Global Research
From Timisoara to Khan Shaykhun. Part I
By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli
Global Research, October 28, 2017
In-depth Report: SYRIA
1. Introduction
This investigation aims to inquire into the staged-massacre routine and similar false flag
operations implemented by Western powers to justify military and/or political interventions for
regime change. The series comprises:
I) The Staged-Massacre Routine for Regime Change;
II) Role of Western media and NGOs in the anti-Syria campaign;
III) Epidemiological questioning of the ‘UN-Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab
Republic’ Report on the Khan Shaykhun incident.
This first part gives a brief synopsis of such a false flag operations assayed in recent decades in a
number of countries, and regarding to Syria, this first section focuses on allegations done by the
“Third report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons / United Nations Joint
Investigative Mechanism”, a document delivered for the Security Council consideration on 24
August 2016.
Ensuing section II in the series assesses the psychosocial role of Western media and stream rights
organizations such as “Human Rights Watch”, in the staging and dissemination of this deceitful
war propaganda. Inevitably, the role of the “White Helmets” –a propaganda organization of locals
established by Western powers in occupied territories of Syria, also associated with other jihadist
combat organizations – is also commented. One main reason being that “White Helmets” has
been instrumented as the main media source for ‘massacre’ allegations. Invariably, these claims
have conveyed a role of pledging for military action against the Syrian government. I may
summarize such a role partly with this statement read in the recent “handbook for U.S. Army
formations”, “Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook”: [1]
“The new objective is not victory in a conflict, but regime change…Not all regime changes have
to be resolved with a military option, but when a military lever is activated, it is done by, with,
and through segments of the local population. The involvement of locals gives validity to military
action on the world stage.”
The ending section, N° III in the series, focuses on a recently issued report about the Khan
Shaykhun purported “sarin attack” of April 2017, published by the “UN Independent
Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic” (COI). [2]
Interestingly, while the new COI-report exhaustively list the claims of chemical attacks taken
place in Syria since the conflict began –and where the COI found “reasonable grounds to
believe” that it was the Syrian government who had perpetrated those attacks– there is no
mention at all about the alleged “chemical attack” on Sarmine, Idlib, 16 March 2015. Those
allegations, originally put forward by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and sourced in the White
2. Helmets, were focus of an analysis-series undertaken by Swedish Doctors for Human Rights
(SWEDHR) in March-April 2017. [3] [4]. Our investigation demonstrated the falsehoods in the
pseudo evidence claimed by a HRW-report [5] as well as serious pseudo-medical fabrications in
the corresponding ‘life-saving’ videos showed by the White Helmets as ‘evidence’ for the claim.
[See details on this staged-massacre routine further bellow, in section Syria].
Nevertheless, the fact that the UN-panel omitted the above-mentioned “Sarmine episode” from
the list of alleged chemical attacks in Syria given in their report, a) It further indicates the
accuracy of the SWEDHR analysis and our fact-based conclusions on that new murky episode
enacted by the proxies White Helmets. b) It once more confirm that the mentioning of our
investigations at the UN Security Council session of April 2017 done by the Syrian ambassador,
[6] as well as the citations by Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova of SWEDHR
independent analyses, [7] [8], including her reference to the denounces in The Indicter
Magazine [9], were relevant and legitimate. I thank these diplomats for the attention drawn to the
work done by our independent organization Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. c) The omission
of the “Sarmine attack” allegations in the COI-report it also invalidates the unjustified attacks
against SWEDHR and its representatives done by some pro-NATO media in Europe – such as
Swedish DN [10] or the French Le Figaro. [11] See also my statement published by the Journal of
the Swedish Medical Association, “SWEDHR is absolutely independent”. [12]
I draw attention on the facts above as means of encouraging further analysis from the
international research community on any spurious claims of that kind against the Syrian people,
its secular government, its armed forces, and its friends and allies combating for the victory over
religious fanaticism. Unsubstantiated allegations deprived of beyond-doubt evidence, or blunt
attacks as hominem, self-expose a desperate strategy intended to find public support for a
continuation of the Syrian conflict. Ultimately, for those Western powers and mercenary proxies
it is about pursuing a political reversal at the eve of a military defeated campaign. And more
victories to come for the human-rights-for-all struggle.
3. 2. False flag operations for regime change
In the various endeavours for regime-change assayed to fit the geopolitical and economic interest
of western powers, a foremost argument has consisted in allegations on infringements of human
rights and accusations of insufferable oppression against the population. These claims have often
culminated with the staging of ‘massacres’ against civilians. Subsequently, to these blames the
strategists have added a corresponding pledge “by the locals” for external military interventions.
Such false flag
The practice of false flags to justify political overthrown or military interventions steams from an
old geopolitical tradition of deceptive strategy. However, during the last decades it has been
surreptitiously established a geopolitical routine. It has a clear aim, which is regime change, and a
clear design, which is war propaganda. And its effects are not solely in the sphere of ‘fake news’
for purely propaganda aims, but also used as the pretext for the initiation of bloody overthrows or
cruel, long lasting wars.
A most classic episode, and which represent the reestablishment of the false-flag routine in the
post world ward era, was the psy op known as “Gulf of Tonkin incident” enacted on August 4,
1965. Then, the false claim consisted in that Soviet-built North Vietnamese torpedo boats would
have attacked the U.S. destroyers “Maddox” and “Turner”. To this false claim followed the same
day an order by President Lyndon B Johnson’s for a deadly retaliatory air strike against Vietnam.
[13 ]
Amidst the media dramaturgy around this ‘patriotic response’ to the made-up attack in the Gulf of
Tonkin, President Johnson obtained the approval of Congress (the “Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”)
for the waging of a war which at its ends had killed over one million North Vietnamese –most
part civilians– but also over 50,000 American military. [14] President Johnson later blamed the
military for the fabricated events in the Gulf of Tonkin. [13]
President Trump and the retaliatory attack “due to” the Khan Shaykhun incident
In resemblance, President Trump’s order on a retaliatory missile strike against Syria this year
would have also been based in manipulated information, namely, allegations of a “chemical
attack” in Khan Shaykhun attributed to Syrian forces. It was, again, about a routine allegation
sourced in testimonies originally provided by the White Helmets, and for which no conclusive
evidence has ever been produced.
Military-wise, the tactical damage effected by that missile operation was neither significant (in
relation to the weaponry chosen), nor deterrent for the Syrian army. In the general context of the
warfare on Syria, the attack could be also considered as a relatively ‘mild’. This would indicate
that there were other political factors that prompted Donald Trump to order the show of force on
Syria. For instance, Trump’s order on the Tomahawk-missile strike should be also evaluated
against the backdrop of his then deteriorated political status in the U.S. domestic sphere, and the
missile-attack as contributing to change the public approval rate towards his government. [15].
According to the Gallup poll, the approval rate for Trump was 35% before the missile attack on
Syria, increasing to 40% after that. [16]
Stressing this argument, it could be said that a similar impact in the approval rating [AR, for
brevity] of U.S. presidents can be historically found associated to presidents’ belligerent
executive-decisions argued on false flag operations. For example, George W. Bush obtained an
4. increase from 58% to 71% following the invasion of Iraq – based on the false claim regarding
‘Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction’. The same phenomenon regarding his father,
George H.W. Bush, after the U.S. initiations of hostilities in the Kuwait War, or Ronald Reagan
and the Granada / Panama military operations. [15]
Further, there are in my opinion other consideration to include in that background, and that put in
doubt the seriousness of the reasoning argued for the Tomahawk-missile attack (the alleged
“Khan Shaykhun chemical attack”. I refer to the spectacular military dispay exercised by the
Russian armed forces when 26 Russian Kalibr cruising missiles were fired from a submarine and
a combat ship in the eastern Mediterranean, to eleven different targets nearly 1,000 miles away in
Syria (near Akerbat, Hama province), successfully destroying ISIS weapons depots and ISIS
command posts. The New York Times reported at the time, flabbergasted, [17]
“…A demonstration that Russia has the ability to strike from virtually all directions in a region
where it has been reasserting its power — from Iran, from warships in the Caspian Sea, from its
base in the Syrian coastal province of Latakia and now from the Mediterranean.”
I mean that the 59 Tomahawk-missile strike ordered by Trump may have been an operation also
intended to balance a domestic public opinion impressed by the Russian military might, as shown
not only by the objective effectiveness of the above mentioned Russian missile launch, but also
by the wide reporting of it in the news.
Nevertheless, the Syrian government and the Russian Federation well calibrated their reaction to
the U.S. “retaliation”, and thus a risk for World War III was averted. An escalation would
possibly have taken the conflict to a scenario similar to a “No-Fly Zone”. Neither Trump pursued
a further escalation, as for instance in the line advocated by the U.S. hawk-lobby pursuing a No-
Fly Zone in Syria. In these regards, it is worth to mention the statement by the chairman of the
U.S. military’s Joint Chief of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, during a hearing at the U.S. Armed
Services Committee: ‘For us, to control all of the airspace in Syria will require us to go to war
against Syria and Russia’. [18]
An illogical allegation
As to the allegations that President Bashar al-Assad would have ordered a chemical attack in
Khan Shaykhun, I have already pointed out in The Indicter shortly after those claims were made,
and thereafter in interviews with media [19] that such “self-destructive” move from Bashar al-
Assad appears inconceivable, or plain illogical. His forces were then, as they are now, clearly
wining the war. Namely, Assad was on top of an irreversible winning position – militarily and
politically – particularly since the recapture of Aleppo last year, or even before, since the debut of
the Russian military support (as well as from other allies forces, such as Iran and Hezbollah).
Secondly, at that time, the previous more hostile position of the U.S. government (and by a
variety of EU countries) had shifted substantially in reference to the Syrian president. U.S.
Ambassador Nikki Haley had declared just a few days prior the incident: [20]
“Our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out”
So, why would President Bashar al-Assad indulge in that kind of ‘harakiri’ decision that it would
instantaneously decimate all the positive odds his geopolitical position was enjoining by the
beginning of April 2017?
5. Further, as I declared in the Radio Sputnik interview of the same month, [21] why the
international community would be so eager to, and uncritically, to trust ‘denounces’ made by
organization such as the White Helmets after it has been demonstrated on and on the spurious or
even fabricated ‘evidence’ they have presented in the past regarding similar allegations?
Such attacks initiatives comprising chemical or other prohibited weaponry, are only in the losing
parties’ options. Only the side in a war that is desperate to turn the odds, as its total defeat seems
imminent, would need to essay the trespassing of that highly hazardous red line.
Another relevant issue is that President Trump had given signals all across his election campaign
that he would cooperate with Russia, and eventually with Assad, to end the Syrian conflict.
Furthermore, just days before the White Helmets false flag operation, Donald Trump had
announced a drastic change in U.S. policy towards Syria. So the question is, why would have the
Syrian government issued such a political catastrophic and self-destructive order?
3. From Timisoara to Khan Shaykhun.
Phony allegations on ‘massacres’ falsely attributed to the government targeted for a regime
change, is a false flag routine that has been repeated in the last decades at increased tempo. While
those initiatives most certainly steam from operation rooms of a variety of Western Intelligence
services –included on the field– the role of the stream media has been pivotal. In episodes of
recent years it can be also observed a more often participation of stream right organizations.
I here review some examples historical examples selected from recent decades, and which ends in
this report referring the current situation on Syria.
Timisoara
In fact, the events of December 1989 in Romania were not a revolution, but a putsch. It was a
bloody coup that intended a pro U.S. ‘regime change’.
Here we find a classical example of the role of western media, for instance in the dramatic
narrative around the staged mass graves, intended to depict an allegedly gruesome massacre in
Romania 1989. Namely, a toll of 4,500 bodies it was said been found on exposed mass graves,
allegedly been massacred by security forces in a three-days repression orgy ordered by the
government in December that year. It was the main argument used to speed by violent means the
regime-change in Romania and to legitimate the prompt execution of President Ceausescu and his
wife. Subsequently, western media had distributed deceitfully photographs, manipulated to depict
the claimed Timisoara mass graves. The world opinion was horrified.
However, according to the testimony given the year after by Dr. Milan Dressler, a lawyer and
also pathologist working at the Timis District Morgue, “the mass grave never existed”. In fact,
the corpses piled in the infamous picture background have been transported there from a
cemetery for indigent people. [22]
The ‘evidence’ turned out being a bunch of manipulated photographic work. One of the pictures
[see below] was described by the stream media as a man crying over the massacred body of a
mother and her child. It was showed later that the woman wasn’t that man’s wife nor was she the
mother’s infant. It was also demonstrated that the bodies depicted in the photograph as massacred
victims had instead a completely different causes of dead. The woman in the picture, for instance,
has died of cirrhosis, and the infant of crib death. [23]
6. Meanwhile, the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported, “Immediately after the
December revolution, the Bush administration welcomed the changes that had occurred in the
country”. HRW also praised the U.S. government of Bush for its commitments in favour of the
human rights there. [24]
The Kuwait war
The same type of manipulation for propaganda war and regime change took place when
mainstream media all over the world showed in 1991 pictures of an agonizing cormorant (Socotra
Cormorant), blackened, drenched in oil, left to die in the Persian Gulf waters. It was said that the
“black cormorant” was a victim of a ruthless Saddam Hussein that had opened the oil pipelines.
It was instead a manipulated imagery, filmed in another country. No cormorants are present in
Kuwait before the spring season; Besides, CNN could not have ever filmed those cormorant
scenes in Kuwait since it was a territory at that time occupied by Iraq. Some reporter admitted to
have taken a cormorant from a Zoo and purposely soaked it with oil. [25]
Source of the image above, including caption: Alamy Stock Photo
Iraq – “Weapons of mass deception”
7. Then we have the staged “weapons of mass destruction”, a chapter that would be better known as
“weapons of mass distraction”. The same false flag routine was again implemented by the media,
now to obtain the public support for a U.S. military intervention that would ultimately obtain the
regime-change in Iraq, and the execution of President Saddam Hussein. This at the price of
thousands killed in combat, added later fatalities resulted from combat-injury sequelae or related,
[26] plus the infamous political consequences in the region. And all in exchange of a
misappropriation of Iraqi oil resources.
Among the public protagonists in the false-flag operation “Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction” –
which was a plain lie– were high rank officials in the U.S. administration. Colin Powell, the
then U.S. Secretary of State, affirmed in the United Nations on the 5 of February 2003:
“My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are
not assertions. What we’re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence”. [27]
In fact, his sources were spurious and based in plagiarized excerpts from an older study. A
variety of inspection commissions were set by the UN, the Security Council, and/or belligerent
forces, such as the Iraq Survey Group, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and
Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and also a team from the International Atomic Energy
Agency. No weapons of mass destruction that could pose a threat were ever found.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald affirmed in an interview that,
“Most notoriously, The New York Times did more than everybody to convince Americans of the
need to attack Iraq. But even since then the model of the US media is very much to show faith
and loyalty to the US government” [28]
Thus, it is no coincidence that the same paper has been advocating for the need to attack Syria,
and, in spite of its stance on the Trump presidency, the NYT has echoed staunchly support to the
military actions ordered by Donald Trump on Syria. [29]
Libya
The staged massacre routine continued was then essayed in Libya, and again as instrument for
regime change and the execution of the government leader.
Amidst reports that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the aerial bombing of civilian
crowds, the mainstream media reported at the end of February 2011 that over 10,000 have already
been killed. It was a plain lie. The source was a Libyan member of the International Criminal
Court, the same court that had previously declared an impossibility to estimate the commitment
of war crimes in Libya in absence of reliable sources. [30]
While inventing massacres attributed to Gaddafi’s orders, the Western media invented
achievements ascribed to the rebel forces, which in fact neither had occurred. For example, the
BBC aired in August 2011 a news video intending to show the vast popular support to the rebels
in a demonstration said been held in Tripoli’s Green Square. In fact BBC was using footage from
a demonstration held in India. [See the Indian the flags in the screenshot from the BBC news
program]. [31]
The regime change in Libya, according to Hillary Clinton:
“We came, we saw, he died”.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
8. Syria – False flags and the staged-massacre routine in the Syrian conflict
There are countless examples of fabricated news about the Syrian conflict, and where the blame
about alleged atrocities is regularly put on the Syrian government.
One method used on and on, has been the production of false or retouched photographic material
representing ‘victims’ portraits, particularly children. This issue has been well documented
elsewhere. For instance, The Independent’s report “Egyptian police arrest five people for using
children to stage fake ‘Aleppo’ footage”. [32] The image above is a screenshot from the video
embedded in the reportage published by The Independent. [32]
Another famous case is “the girl running to survive” (image below)
Or the case of the 8 babies demise reported by CNN sourcing on “a Syrian human rights group”:
9. The photo of the eight “Syrian babies” reported by CNN (above) was in fact taken in Egypt
(below)
10. However those innumerable falsified photographic material distributed by Western media, a more
severe form of disinformation on the Syrian war has been the staged-massacre routine, most often
around allegations of “chemical attacks” on civilians.
The debunking around the modus operandis of those false flag operations is well documented, for
instance by the work of Professor Tim Anderson, [33] [34] or by the independent
researcher Adam Larson in The Indicter Magazine. [35] [36].
As mentioned in the Introduction section above, Swedish Doctors for Human Rights (SWEDHR)
had the opportunity to analyze “life-saving” videos published by the propaganda
organization “White Helmets”. [3] [4] The White Helmets materials claimed documenting the
alleged clinical/forensic sequelae of a ‘chemical attack’ in Sarmin, in the Syrian province of Idlib.
In studying the background and sources used, SWEDHR did review all the published material
claimed as the base for such allegations. With the help of these data, I will debunk here
accusations done by “the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – United
Nations Joint Investigative Mechanism”, [35] and referred to the “Sarmin attack”.
For the sake of clarity, I repeat that the last report of the “UN Independent Commission of
Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic” (COI) of September 2017 did excluded the “Sarmin attack”
from the incident-listing of allegations of chemical attacks. [2]
The psy op ‘Sarmin’ and the White Helmets videos
11. The “Third report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – United Nations
Joint Investigative Mechanism” is a document delivered for the Security Council consideration
on 24 August 2016. [37] At the time it was included an alleged ‘chemical attack” on Sarmin
[Note that “Sarmin” or “Sarmine” refers to a locality in the Idlib province. Not to be confused
with “Sarin”, the chemical agent]. The attack would have occurred on the 16 of March, according
to the OPCW report.
As it can be seen in the corresponding ”Sarmin” section (pages 13-14 of the document), the all
allegation inculpating the Syrian government is based in one premise: the alleged presence of a
Syrian helicopter.
12. The ‘conclusion’, “there is sufficient information for the Panel to conclude that the incident at
impact location N°2 was caused by a Syrian Arab Armed Forces helicopter…” is based solely on
that:
a) “Witnesses confirmed that at least one helicopter flew over Sarmin at the time of the incident”.
And,
b) “(The panel) found no evidence that armed opposition groups in Sarmin had been operating a
helicopter at the time and location of the incident”.
However, the “Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – United Nations Joint
Investigative Mechanism” chooses not to provide any information about who or how many those
witnesses were, or if the ‘witnesses testimonies’ were independent of each other, and/or
independently verified. The panel reports neither how that information was obtained. Why?
Because, as I will show below, the “confirming witnesses” were the same two subjects from the
place ascribed to the jihadist forces in Idlib (one of them a White Helmet official) who also were
the ones initially making the allegation. That was one main observation in our analysis of the the
report published by Human Rights Watch, [38] that echoed the “denounce” done by the White
Helmets on the alleged Sarmin incident. I quote here from the SWEDHR analysis in The Indicter
Magazine: [3]
The “Sarmin attack” report published by HRW in April 2015 is, in itself, a remarkable feat of
evidence engineering. HRW refers to two witnesses – anonymous “Sarmin residents” – stating
they have “heard” helicopters “shortly before the attack”.
They heard them but did not see them. Both witnesses also reported hearing “no explosions”. [38]
In the entire HRW report there is not one reported sighting of a helicopter, the existence of which
should be an essential element of the White Helmet claims, uncritically reproduced by HRW and
never questioned by the UN.
One of the key witnesses cited in the HRW, April 2015, report is a White Helmet operative by the
name “Leith Fares”: [39]
“Leith Fares, a rescue worker with Syrian Civil Defence, told Human Rights Watch. “A
helicopter always drops two barrels.” “You know, we were at first actually happy,” Fares said. “It
is usually good news when there is no explosion.” [38]
A notably peculiar factor of the White Helmet footage of this alleged attack is that they do not
film any external shots of the attack itself, despite their declared anticipation of being targeted,
having “heard” helicopters.
Instead, the only footage is of an enclosed indoor space with no contextual filming to evidence
where they are in Syria or that an attack has just taken place. The indoor environment certainly
resembles a makeshift hospital emergency room. White Helmet “rescuers” parade in and out,
manhandling and maneuvering the limp, lifeless bodies of three children. The naked bodies of
these children have no external, visible injuries and do not respond when the various “medics”
perform all manner of ostensibly “life-saving” procedures, in a haphazard effort to resuscitate
these children.
The operation Sarmine videos to deceive UN Security Council
These ‘Sarmine-videos’ were simultaneously published the very same day in which the news of
the Sarmin allegations reached the media (16 March 2015). The two separate uploads in YouTube
were made by the White Helmets, [40] respectively by another associated jihadist organization
13. (“Coordinated Sarmine”) which is baring in its video-logo the jihadist Shahada flag used by Al-
Qaeda formations. [41]
In the main: The Sarmin videos uploaded by the White Helmets in conjunction with the “al-Nusra
flag group” contained fabricated scenes of life-saving, including faked intra-cardial injection
procedures on a presumably already deceased infant. This can be shown in sequences shown in
the videos below [click on image below for the videos].
Representatives of the Syrian American Society (SAM) then managed to show those fabricated
‘Sarmine videos’ published by the White Helmets, at the UN headquarters in New York on 16
April 2015, [42] at a meeting sponsored by then U.S. ambassador Samantha Powers. She said
after the meeting: ““If there was a dry eye in the room, I didn’t see it,” [See the news article, “UN
officials in tears watching video from alleged chlorine attack in Syria”. [43]
14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=9nj6fc69qjM
CNN reproduced, uncritically, fake scenes of a video uploaded simultaneously by White Helmets and an
organization presumably derived from the jihadist organization al-Nusra
Based on the deceitful SAM coup at the UN gathering, made possible by the fabricated White
Hemelts “Sarmine videos, a series of news articles appeared in mainstream media, e.g. The New
York Times, [42] BBC, [44], etc.
The video was subsequently reproduced by CNN. [45] [46] In none of those cases where
the Sarmine videos put forward by the White Helmets, “Coordinated Sarmine”, and SAM, were
referred or broadcasted, a fact-verification of the content of such a material was ever performed.
Or simply the material was reproduced in full awareness of its deceptive content. To this, added
the coverup by other mainstream European media. [47] Isn’t this scandalous?
15. Now have emerged “new” allegations on chemical attacks (the “Khan Shaykhun incident” )
issued to further blame the government of Syria. The sources of the allegations are basically the
same: the White Helmets.
(In a brief dialogue I had in Twitter with Dr Zaher Sahloul, the President of SAM and a presenter
of the unethical White Helmets video at the above-mentioned UN meeting, I challenged him to
retract such a material. [48] He replied that he would. [49] It never happened.
Introducing the next section (“Part II, Role of Western media and NGOs in the anti-Syria
campaign”) of the series “From Timisoara to Khan Shaykhun.
Apart of Intelligence outlets, a variety of other actors get together in the war propaganda against
Syria, to produce the misinformation that reaches the public. Here we find
a) prominent Western corporate media,
b) mainstream human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch or Amnesty
International, [50] and
c) some new established “NGOs” of ‘first responders” created and financed by Western powers –
like the ‘White Helmets’ founded under the Obama administration in 2015, and
d) other façade ‘right-organizations’ set up by the Western powers such the “London-based
Syrian Observatory of Human Rights”.
These last two mentioned have retained the assigned role of ‘sources’ regarding the alleged
‘attacks’ claims that we hear from time to time. [More details in the chapter “White Helmets”, in
Part II of this series].
Most interesting, is that every such attack-claims are made by the White Helmets and its
associated Al Qaeda formations, is accompanied by a pledge for military intervention from the
part of the U.S. and it sallies, issue that regularly makes its way to the UN Security Council. For
example, an identical pledge for a No-Fly Zone in Syria was done by the White Helmets during
their claim on a “chemical attack” in Sarine 2015, as well as now in April 2017 about Khan
Shaykhun.
The subject of Part II in this series: “Role of Western media and NGOs in the anti-Syria
campaign”. And Part III: “Epidemiological questioning of the ‘UN-Commission of Inquiry on the
Syrian Arab Republic’ Report on the Khan Shaykhun incident”.
*
Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli is professor emeritus of epidemiology, medicine doktor i
psykiatri (PhD, Karolinska Institute), and formerly Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
He is the founder and chairman of Swedish Professors and Doctors for Human Rights and editor-
in-chief of The Indicter. Also publisher of The Professors’ Blog, and CEO of Libertarian Books –
Sweden. Author of “Sweden VS. Assange – Human Rights Issues.”
This article was originally published by The Indicter.
Notes
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Malpractice and ‘Misuse’of Children for Propaganda Aims”. The Indicter Magazine, 6 March
2017. http://theindicter.com/white-helmets-video-swedish-doctors-for-human-rights-denounce-medical-
malpractice-and-misuse-of-children-for-propaganda-aims/
[4] M. Ferrada de Noli, “White Helmets Movie: Updated Evidence From Swedish Doctors Confirm Fake
‘Lifesaving’ and Malpractices on Children”. The Indicter Magazine, 17 March
2017. http://theindicter.com/white-helmets-movie-updated-evidence-from-swedish-doctors-confirm-fake-
lifesaving-and-malpractices-on-children/
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