Bellingcat Crowdsources Spycraft, Scales Up Sleuthing
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"funded by The Atlantic Council (a think-tank with deep ties to the U.S. government, NATO, war manufacturers, and their allies), and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (another infamous U.S. front organization heavily involved in so-called color revolution regime change operations all around the world)"
"an alleged group of amateur on-line researchers who have spent years shilling for the U.S. instigated war against the Syrian government, blaming the Douma chemical attack and others on the Assad government, and for the anti-Russian propaganda connected to, among other things, the Skripal poisoning case in England, and the downing of flight MH17 plane in Ukraine. It has been lauded by the corporate mainstream media in the west. "
https://off-guardian.org/2019/12/15/the-art-of-doublespeak-b...
NY Times is a long known war monger working for U.S. interests.
Search for OPCW whistleblowers and Aaron Mate for alternative view on this media story.
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of... https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-wh...
Nice website. On it you can also watch a nice video where you can hear (for instance) a psychiatrist posing as an expert to say "this pandemic is not a real medical pandemic" and "the COVID-19 vaccine has not been proven safe of effective...because there is not a clear definition for any new disease for which it can be tested." (https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/09/watch-ask-the-experts-co...)
You can also read this there: https://off-guardian.org/2021/06/29/pseudopandemic/:
> Covid 19 was and is a pseudopandemic. It was the gross exaggeration of the threat posed by a low mortality respiratory illness, comparable to influenza.
> The pseudopandemic was a psychological operation (psy-op) designed to terrorise the public. The objective was to accustom the people to draconian system of government oppression by familiarising them with the mechanisms of a biosecurity state.
Why would I bother reading it? That website demonstrated its utter unreliability in very clear terms, and I don't have the time or inclination to search for bits of edible food in piles of shit.
One of the upsides of COVID-19 is that it's made a lot of conspiracy nonsense blatantly obvious, so I don't have to waste so much time.
Do you find Aaron Maté more credible?
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-of...
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-wh...
The Grayzone is banned from Wikipedia because "there is consensus that The Grayzone publishes false or fabricated information." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...).
And pursuing the first link, I could also spot a couple of sloppy mistakes (text description showing a sloppy misreading of their document screenshot).
So is he more credible than that website you posted earlier? Probably, but only because that website is such a garbage fire. Does that mean he is actually credible? Not so much.
I'm curious what your assessment of bellingcat as a source is? Surely it cannot stand up to your scrutiny.
I've since linked to articles by Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté detailing just some of the issues with Bellingcat's work.
"In 2014, he used a Kickstarter campaign to launch Bellingcat, an online platform for citizen journalists to verify and publish research that taps into the hive mind approach to worldwide, Internet-era collaboration and open-source sleuthing. Whereas traditional investigative journalism—commissioned and published by newspapers or foundations or blogs—is only as expansive and wide-ranging as the team of reporters assigned to any given project, Bellingcat is more like an online meritocracy of ideas à la Wikipedia: Start a thread or page or investigation or project, and if it yields something good, some will read while others will contribute. Get enough people involved, and things can even start to snowball."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
> "Crowdsourcing is a sourcing model in which individuals or organizations obtain goods or services, including ideas, voting, micro-tasks and finances, from a large, relatively open and often rapidly evolving group of participants."
The fact remains, Bellingcat are funded in ways that we could expect to compromise their journalism. The IEEE article doesn't mention any of that and only mentions the Kickstarter.