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		By: Ghost Ship		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-481&quot;&gt;JudyJ&lt;/a&gt;.

Don&#039;t knock the SOHR, it&#039;s one of the most reliable sources for casualties in the civil/proxy/terrorist war in Syria. For instance, using SOHR figures it&#039;s possible to demonstrate that Assad has not murdered &quot;hundreds of thousand civilians&quot; as was claimed on a number of occasions by the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. as in December 2016, the number of civilian dead in Syria did not exceed 100,000. Most of the dead (about 200,000 on each side) were either government forces or insurgents/terrorists.
Another claim that is easy to dismiss using the SOHR figures was that the majority of fighters on the government side were Iranians or Iranian-backed militia, a lie put about by the insurgents/terrorists and picked up by the western media, but at the time this lie was spread, the SOHR casualty figures showed that between 90% and 95% of the casualties on the government side were Syrian soldiers in tthe SAA.
There are problems with the SOHR figures, particularly relating to the number of civilian dead - in the early days of the war, fighters on the insurgent/terrorist side were regarded as civilians if they were not foreigners and had not deserted from the SAA which is in accords with the Geneva Conventions where an irregular fighter is a civilian unless he is bearing arms, and later on I suspect some insurgents/terrorists were treated as civilians by the predominantly anti-government  biased observers supplying information from within Syria to the SOHR . The true figure for civilian dead might actually be in the region of about 50,000.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-481">JudyJ</a>.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t knock the SOHR, it&#8217;s one of the most reliable sources for casualties in the civil/proxy/terrorist war in Syria. For instance, using SOHR figures it&#8217;s possible to demonstrate that Assad has not murdered &#8220;hundreds of thousand civilians&#8221; as was claimed on a number of occasions by the NY Times, Washington Post, etc. as in December 2016, the number of civilian dead in Syria did not exceed 100,000. Most of the dead (about 200,000 on each side) were either government forces or insurgents/terrorists.<br />
Another claim that is easy to dismiss using the SOHR figures was that the majority of fighters on the government side were Iranians or Iranian-backed militia, a lie put about by the insurgents/terrorists and picked up by the western media, but at the time this lie was spread, the SOHR casualty figures showed that between 90% and 95% of the casualties on the government side were Syrian soldiers in tthe SAA.<br />
There are problems with the SOHR figures, particularly relating to the number of civilian dead &#8211; in the early days of the war, fighters on the insurgent/terrorist side were regarded as civilians if they were not foreigners and had not deserted from the SAA which is in accords with the Geneva Conventions where an irregular fighter is a civilian unless he is bearing arms, and later on I suspect some insurgents/terrorists were treated as civilians by the predominantly anti-government  biased observers supplying information from within Syria to the SOHR . The true figure for civilian dead might actually be in the region of about 50,000.</p>
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		By: JudyJ		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JudyJ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-498&quot;&gt;Mulga Mumblebrain&lt;/a&gt;.

Mulga,  I see that Israel are still sustaining their contrived, underhand and completely unwarranted attacks on Syrian army posts based near the Golan Heights.  This time their excuse is that it was in response to a &#039;drone infiltration&#039;.  Probably a drone observing what the Israelis are up to in their illegally occupied sector of the Golan Heights.  The fact that these attacks serve to assist the terrorists in the region is incidental of course.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-498">Mulga Mumblebrain</a>.</p>
<p>Mulga,  I see that Israel are still sustaining their contrived, underhand and completely unwarranted attacks on Syrian army posts based near the Golan Heights.  This time their excuse is that it was in response to a &#8216;drone infiltration&#8217;.  Probably a drone observing what the Israelis are up to in their illegally occupied sector of the Golan Heights.  The fact that these attacks serve to assist the terrorists in the region is incidental of course.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Copied-and-Pasted from SyrPer:

anti_republocrat

nobody here can force Western media to report honestly, but even Sputnik reports in wrong. It reports,

&lt;code&gt;&quot;The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has announced in a report that it found that chlorine had been used in an attack in the Syrian city of Douma.&quot;
&lt;/code&gt;

But the report does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; state that chlorine had been used in an attack. It says rather, that chlorinated organics were found and they are working to find where these came from [for example domestic products]:

&lt;code&gt;&quot;Various chlorinated organic chemicals were found in samples from Locations 2 and 4, along with residues of explosive. These results are reported in Annex 3. Work by the team to establish the significance of these results is ongoing.&quot;
&lt;/code&gt;

&lt;em&gt;If even Sputnik is going to be so sloppy, it’s up to all of us to report it accurately via blogs and social media. We can back up our truth with a link to the report itself&lt;/em&gt;:

https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/S_series/2018/en/s-1645-2018_e_.pdf]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Copied-and-Pasted from SyrPer:</p>
<p>anti_republocrat</p>
<p>nobody here can force Western media to report honestly, but even Sputnik reports in wrong. It reports,</p>
<p><code>"The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has announced in a report that it found that chlorine had been used in an attack in the Syrian city of Douma."<br />
</code></p>
<p>But the report does <em>not</em> state that chlorine had been used in an attack. It says rather, that chlorinated organics were found and they are working to find where these came from [for example domestic products]:</p>
<p><code>"Various chlorinated organic chemicals were found in samples from Locations 2 and 4, along with residues of explosive. These results are reported in Annex 3. Work by the team to establish the significance of these results is ongoing."<br />
</code></p>
<p><em>If even Sputnik is going to be so sloppy, it’s up to all of us to report it accurately via blogs and social media. We can back up our truth with a link to the report itself</em>:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/S_series/2018/en/s-1645-2018_e_.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/S_series/2018/en/s-1645-2018_e_.pdf</a></p>
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		By: Mulga Mumblebrain		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mulga Mumblebrain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-494&quot;&gt;Antonyl&lt;/a&gt;.

In regard to Syria, I fully support the Government, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the others who are liquidating the invading takfiri death-squad butchers, many of whom (eg al-Nusra)were directly aided by Israel, as well as the other villains of the piece. Iraq, I support in the country&#039;s travails, where over three million have been murdered since 1990 pursuant to your darling Zionists&#039; &#039;Oded Yinon Plan&#039;. Turkey I see as villainous in its support of the takfiris attacking Syria, and I have no time for Erdogan&#039;s Islamism. Sordid Arabia, darling Israel&#039;s close ally, I believe to be the vilest regime, equal with a couple of others, on Earth, and Wahhabism to be an utter Evil. Pakistan is a country on the brink of self-destruction, run by corrupt elites, and I pity the poor Pakistani people, but love the cricket. China, in my opinion, is perhaps the last, best, hope for humanity in the face of racist and supremacist Western aggressive psychopathy, and Indonesia is much better than it was under Uncle Satan&#039;s favourite, the genocidal butcher and thief, Suharto. But none them are as arrogant, narcissistically self-adoring, constantly demanding, bullying, contemptuous of International Law and just plain racist and sadistic in the barbarity they inflict on the imprisoned Palestinians as your darling Zionists. I hope that clears things up for you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-494">Antonyl</a>.</p>
<p>In regard to Syria, I fully support the Government, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and the others who are liquidating the invading takfiri death-squad butchers, many of whom (eg al-Nusra)were directly aided by Israel, as well as the other villains of the piece. Iraq, I support in the country&#8217;s travails, where over three million have been murdered since 1990 pursuant to your darling Zionists&#8217; &#8216;Oded Yinon Plan&#8217;. Turkey I see as villainous in its support of the takfiris attacking Syria, and I have no time for Erdogan&#8217;s Islamism. Sordid Arabia, darling Israel&#8217;s close ally, I believe to be the vilest regime, equal with a couple of others, on Earth, and Wahhabism to be an utter Evil. Pakistan is a country on the brink of self-destruction, run by corrupt elites, and I pity the poor Pakistani people, but love the cricket. China, in my opinion, is perhaps the last, best, hope for humanity in the face of racist and supremacist Western aggressive psychopathy, and Indonesia is much better than it was under Uncle Satan&#8217;s favourite, the genocidal butcher and thief, Suharto. But none them are as arrogant, narcissistically self-adoring, constantly demanding, bullying, contemptuous of International Law and just plain racist and sadistic in the barbarity they inflict on the imprisoned Palestinians as your darling Zionists. I hope that clears things up for you.</p>
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		By: Mulga Mumblebrain		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mulga Mumblebrain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-490&quot;&gt;JudyJ&lt;/a&gt;.

Have you noticed that the Zionist lynch-mob and the Fraudian sewer have re-vivified their hate propaganda campaign against Labour under Corbyn. Apparently the impertinent &#039;antisemites&#039; in Labour refuse to grovel properly, and adopt the entire Zionist &#039;antisemitism&#039; definition, which outlaws all criticism of the actions or behaviour of any Jew, anywhere, and all criticism of the Israeli state and its clerico-ethno-fascistic ideology Zionism, and, by direct inference, any support for the Palestinian Amalekites. I&#039;m sure Antonyl will be over the moon.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-490">JudyJ</a>.</p>
<p>Have you noticed that the Zionist lynch-mob and the Fraudian sewer have re-vivified their hate propaganda campaign against Labour under Corbyn. Apparently the impertinent &#8216;antisemites&#8217; in Labour refuse to grovel properly, and adopt the entire Zionist &#8216;antisemitism&#8217; definition, which outlaws all criticism of the actions or behaviour of any Jew, anywhere, and all criticism of the Israeli state and its clerico-ethno-fascistic ideology Zionism, and, by direct inference, any support for the Palestinian Amalekites. I&#8217;m sure Antonyl will be over the moon.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-466&quot;&gt;Mulga Mumblebrain&lt;/a&gt;.

After the war, minor Nazi functionaries like hack journalists, who had not committed atrocities, but who were cogs in the machine, were not executed or imprisoned in many cases. But they were banned from holding any position of influence of responsibility. They were free to earn a living as manual workers, eg, building work, road sweepers, brussels sprout pickers etc. This would be the best sanction to apply to people like Grauniad and all other MSM hacks. Don&#039;t jail them, just make them do an honest day&#039;s work for the first time in their miserable lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-466">Mulga Mumblebrain</a>.</p>
<p>After the war, minor Nazi functionaries like hack journalists, who had not committed atrocities, but who were cogs in the machine, were not executed or imprisoned in many cases. But they were banned from holding any position of influence of responsibility. They were free to earn a living as manual workers, eg, building work, road sweepers, brussels sprout pickers etc. This would be the best sanction to apply to people like Grauniad and all other MSM hacks. Don&#8217;t jail them, just make them do an honest day&#8217;s work for the first time in their miserable lives.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-473&quot;&gt;Antonyl&lt;/a&gt;.

No, just truthful. The previous BBC director was a fanatical, rabid Zionist called Mark Thompson. (Not Jewish, he wasn&#039;t.) He had private meetings with Nitwityahoo where he promised that no criticism of Israel would ever appear on the BBC.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-473">Antonyl</a>.</p>
<p>No, just truthful. The previous BBC director was a fanatical, rabid Zionist called Mark Thompson. (Not Jewish, he wasn&#8217;t.) He had private meetings with Nitwityahoo where he promised that no criticism of Israel would ever appear on the BBC.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 06:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-493&quot;&gt;Mulga Mumblebrain&lt;/a&gt;.

Zionism is just a variety of imperialism. Why are you so obsessed with this mini imperialism in Palestine, but mum on Syria, Irak, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, PR China, Indonesia etc.?
This is what make you look a.s.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-493">Mulga Mumblebrain</a>.</p>
<p>Zionism is just a variety of imperialism. Why are you so obsessed with this mini imperialism in Palestine, but mum on Syria, Irak, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, PR China, Indonesia etc.?<br />
This is what make you look a.s.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mulga Mumblebrain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2018 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-492&quot;&gt;Antonyl&lt;/a&gt;.

False accusations of &#039;antisemitism&#039; concerning utterly unarguable observations regarding Zionist power, of both Jewish Zionists and goy Zionists like the Blairite scum, are a sure sign of a slandering Zionist racist.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://off-guardian.org/2018/07/08/lying-by-omission-mainstream-medias-distortion-of-the-opcw-report-on-douma/#comment-492">Antonyl</a>.</p>
<p>False accusations of &#8216;antisemitism&#8217; concerning utterly unarguable observations regarding Zionist power, of both Jewish Zionists and goy Zionists like the Blairite scum, are a sure sign of a slandering Zionist racist.</p>
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