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A couple of extracts from that paper.

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Henningsen was actually disputing that his site has an "extreme right bias". Triggered.

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Climate change denier loon.

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An incredibly boring but useful look into the red-brown echo system, part of a wider investigation into white helmet smearing. Of course, at the centre of it is 21st century wire, the site happy to host Holocaust deniers etc that's edited by beeley (pdf):

Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains

http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Starbird-et-al-ICWSM-2018-Echosystem-final.pdf
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and one British man from the safety of his bedroom is a living ,breathing part of the 'russian bot' amplification process. He was foaming away on Sky News recently.

How “Ian56” keeps the false flags flying on Twitter
 
Greenwald must sack them soon:

Russia Brings Syrians to The Hague to Make Underwhelming Case Chemical Attack Was Fake

The russians used every official channel to openly bill this as the head of the OPCW saying the white helmets fake attacks and are in fact al qaieda terrroists - come, come to the press conference and have your mind blown. Odd that never happened in the end eh?

This is after wilkie - the one who made stupid claims about mattis clearing the regime of any involvement in chemical attacks when he said the opposite (pimped on here by camouflague) was caught out in some grim stuff, claiming they had faked attacks after the regime ghouta chemical attack - at a time when they hadn't yet been formed and using the bodies of dead kids for their disgusting ends.

 
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Have a look at these scumbags:

The ‘crazy club’: Inside the British propaganda trips that seek to legitimise Assad’s barbarism











Cox's wikipedia says this btw "Cox is currently working for the people in Syria who have been suffering at the hand of ISIS.[citation needed]"
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Update - posted in full as behind paywall:

Guests rebelled at Syria trip ‘lunacy’

A British fact-finding mission to Syria led by sympathisers of President Assad backfired when guests on the trip rebelled against perceived pro-regime propaganda.

Baroness Cox, 80, who helped to run the trip, has become embroiled in a row with the BBC after Justin Webb, the Today programme host, claimed that she used the visit to have tea with mass murderers. In her complaint to Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC director-general, which was seen by The Times, she relied on a website notorious for conspiracy theories to challenge Webb.

Her tour of Syria coincided with western bombing in retaliation for Assad’s forces having gassed civilians.

Lady Cox — who began the trip by telling travellers: “Welcome to the Crazy Club!” — helped to lead the trip, which was hosted by the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate. An international campaigner for persecuted religious minorities, Lady Cox believes that many Syrians regard Assad as a bulwark who will save them from being slaughtered by Islamist terrorists.

Members of the 18-strong party of clergy, academics, journalists and peers included the Rev Canon Giles Fraser, the broadcaster. Some became increasingly irritated at being subjected to people they considered Assad apologists. Lady Cox insisted yesterday that it had been a pastoral visit and the presence of critics “shows, I hope, that we are democratic”.

The first campaigner brought to their hotel in Damascus was Vanessa Beeley, a blogger who claims that the White Helmets volunteer rescuers are “al-Qaeda affiliated” and a legitimate target for the dictatorship’s military.

Diana Darke, an expert on the country who was also on the trip, said: “I never heard of her in my life. I listened to what she said and thought this is some sort of lunatic woman.” Lady Cox told The Times that Ms Beeley was a “very brave independent journalist” who opposed regime change.

Next came Tom Duggan, a commentator based in Damascus who has absolved Assad of gas attacks by claiming that they were the result of the Syrian air force hitting chemical weapons dumped by terrorists. Canon Fraser was reported to have assertively challenged Mr Duggan.

As the party toured Damascus, Homs and Aleppo, factions appeared. “The bus became a kind of battleground,” one member said. “The pro-Assad people were sitting at the front and the sceptics at the back. Every now and then one would come to the back of the bus and there would be a blazing row.”

A low point was watching Revolution Man, a film made by Najdat Anzour, the deputy speaker of parliament. “They made us watch this film in Aleppo about the chemical attacks,” a source said. “The film suggested western journalists wanted to fake it so they could win journalism awards. It was just such blatant propaganda.” Mrs Darke joked: “The rest of the group reacted against it as a really crass piece of propaganda by the regime. I reacted the opposite way: I didn’t think they were capable of that level of sophistication.”

The visitors were taken to a “reception centre”, apparently assisted by the church, for refugees from Ghouta where the latest chemical attack took place. “Up until that point everything we saw was manicured,” Mrs Darke said. “You are talking thousands of people who have lost everything. Some were badly injured. They couldn’t stage it. They tried. They had people at the front they tried to steer us towards, people who would tell us stories about how the ‘terrorists’ had been treating us badly. We were nearly 20 people. They couldn’t control us.”

As the only woman who could speak Arabic, she gained access to displaced women. “They had been better nourished in Ghouta under the siege where they had meat and vegetables,” she said. In the camp “they were treated like animals. They have been cleared out from their homes and they will never be allowed back. It’s gutting.”

The tour ended with Lady Cox giving tin plates from the Buckingham Palace gift shop to the group’s half-dozen minders from Syria’s internal security service, the Mukhabarat. Mrs Darke said: “They had no idea what these things were. I said to my husband, ‘I bet these get used for target practice’. ”

Gareth Browne, a reporter at the Middle East paper The National who joined the trip, asked Lady Cox whether Moscow had a more ethical foreign policy than London. “I think in Syria they do,” she replied.

She appeared on the Today programme this week where Webb, citing Amnesty International, claimed that the Grand Mufti, whom she met, was a mass murderer. She had been unaware of the allegation and later wrote to Lord Hall demanding an apology. She attached “a relevant critique of the Amnesty report”, which was an analysis by the Canada-based Centre for Research on Globalization. It has made outlandish claims about 9/11.

The BBC said it was confident the interview met its editorial standards.
 
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Just vaguely musing whilst bored on what will happen to Beeley longer term. Like think she'll keep vanishing down ever more increasingly bonkers paths until she ends up like David Icke or David Shayler? Is there any comeback to normality from this kind of fucked-up-ness she's in anyone think?
 
LynnDoyleCooper said:
Just vaguely musing whilst bored on what will happen to Beeley longer term. Like think she'll keep vanishing down ever more increasingly bonkers paths until she ends up like David Icke or David Shayler? Is there any comeback to normality from this kind of fucked-up-ness she's in anyone think?
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As jesus would have said, the 'loons will always be with us
 
"In an article in the London Evening Standard in 2009, Shayler further discussed the Messiah claim and revealed that he was living as a woman in a squat in Abinger Hammer, Surrey. His former girlfriend, Annie Machon, claims Shayler's long battle with the intelligence services led him to suffer a breakdown. Shayler has since told newspapers that his transvestite 'alter ego' is called Delores Kane."

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LynnDoyleCooper said:
Just vaguely musing whilst bored on what will happen to Beeley longer term. Like think she'll keep vanishing down ever more increasingly bonkers paths until she ends up like David Icke or David Shayler? Is there any comeback to normality from this kind of fucked-up-ness she's in anyone think?[/QUOTE.
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LynnDoyleCooper said:
Just vaguely musing whilst bored on what will happen to Beeley longer term. Like think she'll keep vanishing down ever more increasingly bonkers paths until she ends up like David Icke or David Shayler? Is there any comeback to normality from this kind of fucked-up-ness she's in anyone think?
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Have you not seen the state of her blog and the loonocracy she was enmeshed with before her name took off? This is not someone who's had a firm grip on reality in a very long time, if ever. But I was talking to someone about this as well. At some point, her usefulness to the regime will expire and then what.
 
copliker said:
Have you not seen the state of her blog and the loonocracy she was enmeshed with before her name took off? This is not someone who's had a firm grip on reality in a very long time, if ever. But I was talking to someone about this as well. At some point, her usefulness to the regime will expire and then what.
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Yeah I have, I guess that was what I was meaning is like you say, when the Syria 'issue' passes for her or she is too much of a liability, wonder what she'll end up doing? Well trodden path to ever more bonkers ideas I guess.
 
copliker said:
Have you not seen the state of her blog and the loonocracy she was enmeshed with before her name took off? This is not someone who's had a firm grip on reality in a very long time, if ever. But I was talking to someone about this as well. At some point, her usefulness to the regime will expire and then what.
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I imagine her usefulness will not last very much longer. Not with all the negative publicity she's had in mainstream publications recently.
 
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Another Huff Post piece on these ne'er-do-wells.

UK Academics To Discuss Whether Reporters In Syria Should Be Branded Criminals

Two UK academics are due to speak at an event to discuss whether British journalists reporting from opposition-held areas in Syria should be prosecuted under the UK Terrorism Act.


Professor Piers Robinson of the University of Sheffield, and Professor Tim Hayward of the University of Edinburgh, will appear at the Media on Trial event at Leeds City Museum next month.

They will be speaking alongside, among others, a man (Patrick Henningsen) who has described the Sandy Hook massacre as a “mass shooting hoax”.
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Other speakers are listed to include:

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Leaving aside the palling around and supporting fascists, holocaust-deniers etc here is a look at the her 'work' when put up against even minimal standards of serious journalism - good piece that hits multiple targets without too much fuss:


Vanessa Beeley — the Syrian conflict’s goddess of propaganda

Those leading the attack claim they are simply asking questions that need to be asked. It’s healthy scepticism, they say. But it’s a selective kind of scepticism where reports from some sources, primarily mainstream media in the west, are dismissed as untrue — not because evidence shows they are wrong but because they don’t fit the desired narrative.
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At the same time, reports that do fit the narrative win praise on social media, regardless of supporting evidence, and people who venture to question them are liable to be assailed with abuse.

A prominent example is the work of Vanessa Beeley, a supporter of the Assad regime whose reports from Syria have turned her into a social media celebrity. The Russian propaganda channel, RT, describes her as “an independent investigative journalist” and, in addition to her Russian TV appearances, she is associate editor of 21st Century Wire, the conspiracy theory website that publishes most of her work.
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Henningsen having his annual loon do this weekend. Who is this nothing, Alex Thomson (Rugby school, Cambridge, GCHQ) on about I wonder.
We will focus on a series of seminal decades in human history when wickedness broke cover in significantly new ways and reached major milestones in its manifestation within religions, philosophies and technologies. We will see that every social evil that has surfaced in the past generation is not unprecedented but is merely a revisiting of the preoccupations of the mystery religions of antiquity (refined in Egypt and Babylon and documented in Greece and Rome), in which an illuminated (gnostic) sacerdotal caste, relying upon semi-initiated mercantilist underlings, regards the world as its fiefdom and humanity as livestock. The key battleground will be seen to be the human psyche.

Since history means ‘inquiry’, this talk will be given for the benefit of today’s inquirer and will end with a section focusing on the cabals which implanted themselves in the world’s most advanced countries as Late Modernity dawned, which concern themselves with the thieving of intellectual property, the dominance of the legal system, the hoarding of precious commodities and the maintenance of a global war economy, whose next development is the nuclear war for which this cabal longs.
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It's joos isn't it
 
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Another piece on snopes.

Assad Supporters Plan to Put the ‘Media on Trial’ for Doing Journalism in Syria

Additionally, Radsch said, Syria is currently the deadliest place in the world for journalists to work. Since the start of the years-long war, 119 journalists have died covering it. Creating lists of journalists a group aligned with the government doesn’t like, she said, is “not going to go over well.”

Although characters like Henningsen and Beeley have been propelled into the limelight by casting themselves as heroes in a supposed anti-imperialist movement against Western-initiated regime change in Syria, their ideas would otherwise be considered fringe. Henningsen has written that mass shootings in the United States — such as the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre — are hoaxes, as was the moon landing and 9/11. Beeley, meanwhile, has written that she believes the struggle for human rights in Gaza and the civil war in Syria are proxy battles against an overarching Zionist conspiracy to dominate the world.
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e2a: Victory to Leeds City Museum.

A spokesman for Leeds City Council said in a statement: “Leeds City Museum recently received a request to host a panel discussion on May 27. Since accepting the booking, we have been made aware of further details regarding some of the content and discussion topics which would be part of the event.

“Whilst the council and museums service are always in favour of promoting free speech and debate, our booking policy clearly states that events are subject to cancellation.”

The statement added: “In line with that policy, we have decided that the museum is not an appropriate venue for this event and have informed the organisers that their booking has been cancelled.”
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Ta - let's see what we can do about that. That redhouse on saturday is loon central. Let's see what the lefty organisers think of holocaust deniers, pals of fascists and the like on their stage. I reckon Heken Steel Dave Smith etc may not be too chuffed to be associated with/on the same stage as these people.
 
Beeley's Ayn Rand quote retweet was funny, followed up almost immediately with a Corbyn 'vote Labour' one. They are doing lot of whinging over the fact that their do, which was essentially about their desire to see all non-loon journos persecuted, got cancelled on world press freedom day.
 
Unbelievable! The Merthyr Rising Facebook page has banned me from posting. I wasn't even abusive or rude.
 
After some...er 'robust' debate overnight, the organisers are now claiming that Beeley is no longer speaking, due to 'other commitments'. One down, two to go!

What makes me laugh is that they demanded 'evidence of my libellous claims' but when I provided them with the evidence, they just delete the whole thread.

Unfortunately did not have time to screenshot it.
 
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