Thursday, February 22, 2007

 

UK Indymedia Peddles Lies

UK Indymedia is carrying, unchallenged (and plagiarised), an Iranian news agency article concerning US munitions, apparently found at the site of terrorist booby traps.
Booby Traps Detonated by US Remote Controls

James Jones | 21.02.2007 15:55
Indymedia supporting terrorists
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An informed source said in Tehran on Tuesday that after terrorists' hideout in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan was conquered, Iranian police discovered several US-made remote controlled detonators there.
The story has remained on their newswire for over 24 hours. Any number of other blogs and news sources, have confirmed the photograph used as 'evidence' is a (badly) Photoshopped and wholly doubtful fraud, no doubt aimed at discrediting the US.

Yet there it is, right there on UK Indymedia, known for supporting terrorists.

What a quality 'news source'. Come on 'Sam Wilson', we're all dying to hear your latest excuse.

Update: Wilson's latest excuse in comments:
I could have sworn you just evidenced your post with little green f***tards and onward christian soldiers.
I could have chosen from hundreds of sites, however felt the sites with the scoop and up to date links, were the most appropriate.

Beyond that, Wilson has no actual argument of course.

Others tried pointing this out earlier on UK Indymedia, with comments on the post such as:
Charles Johnson and others debunked a crude Iranian PhotoShop purporting to show U.S. munitions being used to subvert the government of Iran over the weekend, it didn't keep the ever-gullible Indymedia UK from running the photo.

Bloggers did a good job showing the PhotoShopping faults that Indymedia should have quickly and rather easily caught, but simply doing a Google image search should have quickly proven the rifle ammunition claim questionable.
and
O come on, this picture was proven as a fake by a number of people. It's all over the web, this sort of stuff makes IM look stoopid
Naturally both comments were hidden, with the usual unbelieveable message that:
This posting has been hidden because it breaches the Indymedia UK (IMC UK) Editorial Guidelines..
I'd love to know which "Editorial Guideline" prohibits pointing out that an article is a fraud.

Update: The whole post has been hidden - only after festering on the newswire for at least 48 hours. Such quality...

Comments:
I for one would love to hear Spam Wilson's rationale for the hiding of the totally damning comments by the posters "fact checker" and "Graham".

Remember, boys and girls, it's called the Nazimedia for a reason.
 
"What a quality 'news source'."

I could have sworn you just evidenced your post with little green f***tards and onward christian soldiers.

Yee Hah!
 
Lemme get this straight - two comments get hidden, but the steaming pile of fakery remains.... that is, until Herr Wilson gets called on it?
 
It is a bloody shame UK Indymedia and folks like Wilson can not deal with their lake of journalistic integrity. Sadly, it’s what too many Indymedia sites have become. A bloody shame, but a reality none the less.
 
Interesting that when the post was finaly hidden no notification to the lists was given. Now it is a hard and fast rule on Indymedia that when a moderator is hiding a post he or she must notify the public list with a reason why. The hidden page clearly shows scores of posts that have been hidden with no notificaion.

In particular a lot of recent posts concerning something called 'port scanning' and spy ware which confirm what a few people have been saying for some time about Indymedia loading spying software onto user computers while they are reading the site.

ex IMC'er
 
Well, I note that not all my comments are being posted up.

'Ex-IMCer':

"Interesting that when the post was finaly hidden no notification to the lists was given."

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-features/2007-February/0222-wm.html

'Ex-IMCer':

" Now it is a hard and fast rule on Indymedia that when a moderator is hiding a post he or she must notify the public list with a reason why. The hidden page clearly shows scores of posts that have been hidden with no notificaion."

They're your posts, aren't they?

Give an honest answer on that, and then this one:

DO YOU SUPPORT A FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE REASONS THOSE POSTS WERE HIDDEN?

and I'll see what I can do. If you want to email the list and request full disclosure of the reasons, you clearly know the adress, and it may be the most effective way to address your complaint.

ohmss:

"perhaps the Little Brown (shirted) fucktards Spam Wilson"

Thanks for the invite - I don't have a brown shirt, and I'm not part of Arizona IMC.

Now back to the original post - Iranian disinformation is bad - identical USA disinformation is good.

Thats the indy media watch/lgf/onward christian soldiers line isn't it?
 
Well, I note that not all my comments are being posted up

You are a liar.
 
"They're your posts, aren't they?"

*BIG SIGH*

Yes that's right Roy, all from me. Nobody else ever complains about Indymedia except for me. I work 24/7 in a secret MI5 bunker assisted only by Mossad, posting to Indymedia UK. You've caught me, I admit everything, I am Sparticus.

In other news I'm pleased to see that the constant diet of "Jews are taking over the world" is getting the full reatment once again on the UK site with such delights as,

"The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions"

"Israel: State - Land - People"

"Power Of Canada's Zionist Lobby Grows"

Curious how this is of interest to a site dedicated to matters in the UK. But then we've all come to accept the UK newswire and its obsession with Jews by now.

ex IMC'er
 
erm ex-IMCer

You forgot to answer this one:

"DO YOU SUPPORT A FULL DISCLOSURE OF THE REASONS THOSE POSTS WERE HIDDEN?"
 
WOW. What a neat trick! You post junk of nazi posts under one name, then bitch about it in another name. Wish I had thought of that! Man, talk about taking advantage of the policy to protect whistle blowers on indymedia to support your real cause, I guess you didn't notice that some of the posts you sh*theads complain about can only be seen by you? That's because uses cookies on indymedia is not against policy, and now if a post gets flaged for certain content, it gets closed off from the rest of the site (some sites so far, we're working on the rest) and only those who posted the original can see them. Guess that makes you guys the same jerks! Well, watch out which IMC sites you post to from now on guys, not all sites that LOOK like indymedia are going to be part of the collective, and when you post your nazi crap to those, cops called. By the way, how the elevator ad biz in Victoria BC.
 
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