Showing posts with label Graham Phillips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graham Phillips. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 July 2017

The end of journalism

BBC trounces taxpayer while belittling independent journalism

July 24, 2017 - Fort Russ News - 
24 July, 2017
I woke up this morning to Sam Bright's BBC hit piece on Donbass journalists who use crowdfunding to support their work. It was not unexpected, but it was worse than I expected. "Worse" in the sense that it was even more pathetic, biased and misleading than I expected. But there are some important lessons about propaganda, freedom of speech and of the press, and how "presstitutes" like Bright, King, and the BBC have become the absolute antithesis of what they pretend to be.
Sam Bright is a freelance writer affiliated with the BBC, which is a state-run propaganda outlet controlled by the British government. Bright is also the journalistic buttboy of a pro-nazi propagandist named Alex King, who produces provably false misinformation on a Youtube channel and Twitter. Bright and the BBC have both sold any pretensions they ever had about having anything related to journalistic integrity by publishing this bogus piece whose only purpose it try to cut funding to real independent journalism in Donbass, which counters the outright lies of propagandists and bullshit artists like King, Bright and the BBC.
King, who also funds his "work" through donations, was recently perturbed by a successful crowdfunder I am doing to publish a book about my first 6 months in Donbass, as a soldier in the Novorussian Armed Forces. So he complained to Indie Go Go, the platform I am using to fund my book. They laughed him off, so he got his mindless minion followers on Twitter to start complaining to Indie Go Go that I'm a "terrorist", "child-killer", "Russian mercenary" and "in Ukraine illegally".
All bullsh1t, of course, and Indie Go Go wasn't buying. They laughed , the campaign continues. Enter buttboy Bright and the BBC.
They have now published an article that has exactly nothing to do with English news, and is filled with lies from the title to pretty much every other sentence in the article. And the most important thing to consider is the motivation and timing of this tripe that they try to pass as "news".
This article by Bright and the BBC, at the behest of King, is an actual attack on freedom of speech and of the press, and an attack on the truth, by presstitutes who pretend to be journalists, but who are, in fact, propagandists and liars who are trying to suppress the truth. Because what they sell is lies...
Alex King, of London, got his start on Twitter with the "Free Savchenko" campaign. 
Nadiya Savchenko is a convicted murderer of two Russian journalists in Donbass, a rabid psychopath, neo-nazi, and more of a man that King and Bright are, combined. And King was demanding "Justice" for his heroine. But justice was not to be. Less than 2 years after her conviction, she was released by Russia in a prisoner exchange for Donbass P.O.W's. Two years for two murders? Ask yourself if that's justice...
King now begs his 3,000+ followers for money "to buy satellite images that "prove" the Russian Army invaded Ukraine". Never mind the facts, that the EU,Ukrainian government officials and even the ICJ in the Hague have stated openly and conclusively that NO "Russian invasion" has occurred. King still gets money from his idiot "followers" to finance his obviously false propaganda. But I think he doesn't get much. He thanked one of his credulous and imbecilic donors for sending 10 English pounds by saying "With 100, I could do more". LOL. My book fundraiser has averaged about $1,000 a week for the past 6 weeks, King is begging for the equivalent of $130. Begging.
And conniving to shut down my widespread and successful support. With help now, of the BBC.
The crowdfunder to publish my book is in no way illegal. What King and his flunkies and followers say - that I'm a "terrorist", "mercenary", "criminal", "child-killer", "paid by Moscow", these are all lies. And yet what they, and now to its eternal shame, the BBC, have done is try to shut down funding, not just for me, but for all the independent journalists who do not sell the same BS they do about the neo-nazis in Kiev and the war in Donbass.
This is a literal attack on free speech, freedom of the press, and the truth, by lying scum who call themselves "journalists", but are in reality the embodiment of the word "presstitutes". They sell lies for money, and try to cut off grassroots funding to people who are risking their lives on the ground, to report the truth. If people didn't support us and our work, they would not send us money to continue. But they do, of their own volition. And these nazis want to shut them down. Shut YOU down.
The goddamned BBC requires Brits to pay a TV license fee every year. It is mandatory. What I and other journalists here are doing is getting support from people who know we are telling the truth. Ours is optional, yet many people do it, for thousands of dollars. Because they respect and appreciate our risk and our work. And the Truth. What the BBC, King and Bright are doing is to try to stifle the truth, and suppress freedom of speech and of the press, to prevent people who support us from being able to do so. This is The Big Lie, writ large. "Minitrue". And they (King, Bright, BBC) are doing it, not me.
The goddamned BBC gets $4.8 Billion USD per year, to publish their tripe and lies. I am trying to raise $9,000 USD to publish a book of my firsthand experiences that counter their lies. And the BBC is now working with, and for, professional liars and pro-nazi propagandists like Alex King to shut me down. There's a lesson here, for those who want to learn it.
If you support freedom of speech, freedom of the press, if you support The Truth, you can contribute to my crowdfunder to publish my book. There are 9 days left, and I'm at $5,528. 61% of my goal. The best way to stick it to professional liars like King, Bright, and the BBC is to support those who expose their lies and their campaigns to suppress Truth and freedom of thought, speech and press.
Cowards hate the brave, fools hate the wise, and liars hate the Truth. THAT is the deal here.
It's us or them, and it's up to you to figure out which is which. And which side you're on.
Graham Phillips and Donbass Rose are journalists I trust, support and respect here in Donbass. I am ready to work with them at anytime to counteract the pro-nazi propaganda of scum like King, Bright and the BBC. King, Bright and the BBC are threatening the RIGHT of people to support our work.
Don't let this attack go unanswered. Do your part. Support the Truth and freedom of speech against those who are its enemies. Pitch in if you can.
Make a statement for Truth and freedom of thought, speech and press. Let's turn these clown's attempt to suppress freedom of the press into a lesson for them. Let's thank these professional liars for publicizing my crowdfunder. This is Journalistic Judo, let's turn their power against them.
Pitch in if you can. For the Truth. It's a rare commodity these days...

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Graham Phillips arrested at nazi rally in Riga

BREAKING: RI Contributor Graham Phillips Arrested at Latvian SS March


16 March, 2016

Graham Phillips, the popular blogger of the website The Truth Seeker and former RT stringer known for his coverage of the Donbass conflict, has been arrested at the annual march of Latvian Waffen SS veterans in Riga.

Sputnik reported that Phillips had attempted to place himself at the head of the column of marchers when he was arrested. At the time of his arrest he reportedly called out to police officers, "Why are you glorifying fascism?"


UPDATE 16.03.16 18:55 Moscow -


Graham Phillips has confimed his release on Twitter:


I was arrested by Latvian police while covering pro-Nazi demo in Riga today. Now released, and ill be doing my report soon from Latvia!

The question arises for me how these Nazi SS veterans made it through the post-war Soviet eэra. The answer would appear to be that it is impossible to punish a whole nation of collaborators.

Latvia’s Waffen-SS veterans march alongside far-right lawmakers (VIDEO)

RT,
16 March, 2016



Latvian veterans of Waffen-SS units and their supporters have celebrated Legion Day, an unofficial holiday honoring Nazi collaborators during WWII, with marches through downtown Riga, Latvia’s capital.

This year the march attracted hundreds of participants. as seen in the live footage by Ruptly video agency.



Those taking part in the procession, some dressed in old Latvian military outfits, were carrying the national flags of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, reports RIA Novosti.

The Latvian government officially opposes the event, but does not prohibit it on the grounds of free speech.

Latvia’s anti-fascist activists staged a small protest, as they do every year when Latvian Waffen-SS veterans march in the capital Riga.

Latvians who served in Waffen-SS not only fought against the Soviet Army, but also were a part of the atrocities committed against European Jews.

Of the 70,000 Jews that lived in Latvia when the Nazi Germany entered its territory, it's estimated that 67,000 died in the Holocaust.

Russia says the Nazi veterans’ march is a violation of international law. Anti-fascist and Jewish human rights organizations, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center, believe such rallies glorify Nazism.

Some of the people prior to joining the [Latvian Waffen-SS] Legion served in Latvian security forces, which played an active role in mass murder of the Latvian Jews,” Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told RT. “People who fought for victory over Nazi Germany should be considered heroes.”

The head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center called attention to the fact that thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe were brought to Latvia and exterminated in concentration camps by the German Nazis and their Latvian collaborators.

Ahead of the event, Latvia’s State Border Service was reported to be operating on a robust security regime, officially to prevent radicals from abroad from taking part in the Nazi procession.

Yet instead of barring people praising neo-Nazi ideology from entering the country, Latvian border protection refused to grant entry to representatives of three German anti-fascist organizations, co-chair of the Latvian Anti-Fascist Committee Joseph Koren said Tuesday.

Altogether, six delegates from the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime, an organization of resistance veterans and Germany’s Anti-Nazi League were turned away at Riga Airport and banned from entering Latvia.

The border guards explained their actions by an order coming from the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs of Latvia.

Two days ahead of the Nazi celebration, lawyers of the Russia’s Rossiya Segodnya news agency (the parent organization of RT) were denied entry to Latvia. The lawyers were to attend a court hearing following the decision of the Latvian authorities to deny official registration for Sputnik news agency (another part of Rossiya Segodnya) in Latvia last August.

The Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS consisted of almost 150,000 Latvians and was split into two divisions. The legion was created in 1943 on the orders of Adolf Hitler. On March 16, 1944, the legion was deployed against the Soviet Red Army near the town of Pskov. It was among the last of the Nazi forces to surrender in 1945.

The Waffen-SS march has been held annually on March 16 since 1998.