What Iran’s “tanker seizure” can teach us about MSM “reality”.
Kit Knightly
Earlier today, Iranian state media channels published a video of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandos seizing a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
I think we should talk about it. It can teach us a lot.
Iranian state TV aired a video of the IRGC seizing container ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the ships were operating without permits and tampering with the navigation system https://t.co/7Upc7Phlk8 pic.twitter.com/qY1XnfNeVr
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 23, 2026
Just watch it.
Reuters describes it thus…
Iranian state TV aired a video of the IRGC seizing container ships
But this is not quite true. It would be more accurate to say Iranian state TV aired a video of the IGRC pretending to seize container ships.
Because the footage must be, to one degree or another, fake.
The most real it can possibly be is that the IRGC genuinely seized a ship, then radioed to shore, flew out a camera drone and film crew, and then re-enacted their seizing for the cameras.
In the middle of a warzone.
That is the highest degree of feasible reality. It’s entirely possible it is less real even than that.
Note the angles. I’ve counted, there are at least four.
1. The opening drone footage wide shot.
2. The POV close up of the soldiers climbing the ladder.
3. he hand-held footage of the soldiers checking their corners and sweeping the decks.
4. The water-level wide shots, taken from a boat.
This is not reality. It is cinematography.
The drone footage is an “establishing shot”. The close-ups put us in the action. The hand-held camera following the troops makes the footage dynamic. This is film-making 101.
It is staged. It had to be, and yet no one is saying it.
It takes us back the heady days of 2015, when ISIS were somehow and for some unknown reason, recording their convoys of pristine, matching Toyota trucks tooling around the desert at magic hour, and then uploading them to their socials.
BEST OF OFFG: “Questions you aren’t supposed to ask about ISIS”
The IRGC clip is exactly the same, the product of obvious contrivance we’re supposed to ignore.
Does that mean the ships don’t exist? Or they weren’t really seized? Or the war is entirely fake?
No. At least not necessarily, and that’s not really the point.
The point is broader than this video or those ships or the war in general.
The point is that the mainstream media is conditioning your consumption of audio-visual content. Training us to see a video, and entirely remove it from the context of its creation. To mentally redact the camera man and lighting rigs and editing software and all the other steps that must take place between an event happening, and the video appearing on social media.
We’re so accustomed to watching movies and television that we just accept the same story telling editing techniques in our “news”. So used to there being cameras everywhere recording everything, that we’ve forgotten someone has to put them there and turn them on.
Watch the IRGC video again. When that actor and/or soldier is scaling the side of the ship toward the camera, he knows there’s no danger, because there’s already a “friendly” on board recording him. His energy and aggression is a performance.
Further, the guy at the top of the ladder has – at least – a camera. Maybe even a lighting rig or microphone. He’s probably telling the performer how fast to climb and to be careful to keep his face in shot.
This is not reality.
Life is not automatically recorded at multiple angles so you can cut together an exciting montage.
Just remember this clip…
Nailed it pic.twitter.com/ADpN4rpNwI
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) April 4, 2026
It’s a perfectly concise reminder that the vast, VAST majority of “real”, “viral” or “spontaneous” footage is no such thing.
As someone notes in the replies, people just need to “go one layer up”.
Whenever you see a video, somebody somewhere made the very deliberate decision to record it. Whenever you see a change of angle, someone recorded multiple angles and then had to edit them together.
Fakeness saturates the media market, and you’re being conditioned not to notice it.
So just remember to ask yourself who is pointing the camera, how they got there, and why.
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From now on scientific results will be what we say they are, just like peer reviews in medicine.
“We are now witnessing the dismantling of independent scientific oversight.
The President has terminated, without reason, multiple members of the National Science Board, the independent body that guides NSF and advises Congress and the President on U.S. science policy.”
Israel send Iron Dome system – and IDF troops to the UAE, early on in the war against Iran, they were sent back to Israel once Iran upped its game.
Israel and Argentina make a play – for huge gas fields off the coast of the Falkland islands.
“If you think that Milei’s claims over the Falklands the day after he meets with Netanyahu have nothing do with Iran, perhaps think again. The strategy seems clear: Starmer moves RAF resources to Iran due to pressure from Trump, then when the Falklands are undefended, Milei puts pressure by claiming them, and forces Starmer to hand over more of the Falkland gas fields to Israel which already has a 65% stake in the Sea Lion gas basin.
The Pentagon leak, that the US was considering not supporting the UK over the Falklands, was 24 April, just the day after Defence Eye reported the Voyager was withdrawn.”
With this logic,
How come you still believe in Nukes and “the dreaded lurgi”.?
Btw, I do believe in faked videos. I’m just not sure why they were made sometimes.
“So just remember to ask yourself who is pointing the camera, how they got there, and why.”
This is probably the best advice anyone could get when dealing with our media saturated world. Our societies are often called the “mediascape” rather than a “landscape.” Media literacy is ranging way behind the development of media domination of our minds.
Lee Harvey Trumps-personality. What a patsy to cover the real actors. The more specific our identification of particular people responsible for specific results the better our chances to uncover the whole program– to make it public.
What is the purpose of this article???
Of course war propaganda exists, we don’t need Kit to tell us.
“That is the highest degree of feasible reality. It’s entirely possible it is less real even than that.”
What is Kit insinuating, that they didn’t take over the ship at all? Or to say with other words…insinuating fake news?
“So just remember to ask yourself who is pointing the camera, how they got there, and why.”
Oh, yes Kit, indeed.
Hopefully, a proof they took over ships is here.
Western ALT media calls fake when it suits there agenda.
the kryptonite is.
Ask the same media outlets about the holo
cost 🔥 HOAX and then your get to see there true colors.Yeah. Atomic bombs don’t exist. But let’s not talk about you-know-whos.
We all carry a ‘continuity manager’ such as to weave disparate elements into our story.
On one level our story can be equated with the self-will – not a real power over reality – but the insistence on telling it MY WAY.
If I WANT IT THUS! – I also set a basis to attack or oppose anything (in reality) that then seems or is perceived and experienced to reject, abandon, deny, deprive or abandon me.
The more I push or ‘double down in ‘defences’ the more such patterns generate a structure or cage of containment, stricture, paralysis and death-in-life.
My ‘continuity manager’ or masking ‘reality-adjuster’ supports the mask as protector of a self-specialness raised from both self-lack and self-boosting aggrandisements or inflations. It can also be seen as My feed or signalling support from a composite of social and cultural identities – or identity-complexes that are fed by contractual engagement.
The cost of ‘gaining such a world’ is not much apparent or brought to the fore from the POV of the adaptive and strategic survival within its frame.
I’m called off for a walk now – but the invitation is to look up from a projected world of lockstepping locked down ‘meanings’ that guarantee conflict by self-definition – to see with innocent eyes – the eyes of a child – but not of a victimised child.
Psychopathology is inversely proportionate to curiosity.
Being driven down rabbit holes in search of The Truth is not native curiosity – but can harness our primary desire by shaping its expression to ‘external solutions’ that maintain the projections of an internal conflict – (ssshh!)—running dark!
What is the point of regaining and renewing a living perspective – when ‘it wont stop Them, ordo any good and you’re going to die anyway?
Only the loving know the law and nature of love, and only in willingness to extend such a love can the ‘split mind’ remember the true being of which it believes lost, broken, betrayed, treacherous and framed as threat by a demonising fear.
Bringing the mind to a willingness for re-evaluation will seem to support and encourage its struggles, goals and choices. Bottoming out – or tipping point – is where cost in fear and pain of loss outweighs the gain of fiction – assigned as masking defensive function.
Watch the ‘channels’ that truly activate and enliven a living curiosity.
being ‘right’ over against wrongs – can win utter isolation.
Truth of Reality is far greater than our imaged modelling conceptual technologism 0 but waits on willingness to ‘enter’ a mind set to ‘exclude it’ under rules and filters of judgements or false or mist-taken inheritances.
Erm, military personnel can carry cameras, probably headcam or bodycam. And all drones have cameras these days. No film crew needed. Yes an editor would have edited the clips. And are you sure Reuters haven’t re edited that clip? Sorry, bit of a nothing burger article tbh.
Then there was this clown:
Yes that is a good one, there’s also the false flag chemical weapons attack in Douma claimed by the Western backed “White Helmets”, that several OPCW experienced workers debunked, and they were discredited, and fired for their efforts in exposing the truth.
Of course the likes of ISIS -IS al-Qaeda etc are Western/Israeli backed terror groups.
Dubious OPCW Report on Douma False Flag Chemical Weapon Incident – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
There’s also the Kramatorsk train station bombing – which Ukraine carried itself against its own citizens, the remains of the missiles used showed this to be the case.
A False Flag in Ukraine Is About to be Unmasked – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization
As a traitor who abandoned his promise of peace to get elected, Zelensky ranks with FD Roosevelt.
As you say its either staged or two – its a recount of the capture being filmed, there’s too many filming angles for it to be live, of course propaganda plays a huge part in any conflict, and sifting the wheat from the chaff is always a difficult task.
Its becoming increasingly difficult to tell the fake from the real, especially with the invention of AI – all we can do is compare and check info – and look out for any what we think might be suspicious.
As you rightly point out – we are so used to seeing events from different angles now in real time that we take it for granted that its all real, when its not all real.
I’ve noticed in society now that people instinctively reach for their phones to record an incident – when in the old days (pre-camera phones) you’d rush in first to see if you could help in any way.
Clearly you are not a farmer or you would know it is not too difficult to separate wheat from chaff. You can find the easy instructions on line.
It’s a saying its not literal.
I’m not sure it’s that difficult to spot the fakes tbh – I’m no genius but AI crap is relatively obvious, it just “feels” wrong.
Other clips, mostly you just have to ask yourself why/who is filming this? This example above is a case in point.
Now let’s move on to something more significant please…
Good for you, that you can spot the difference – I suppose if we all took a bit more time and thought more about the AI images video’s we could spot the fakes.
In S. Korea, one military pilot is being prosecuted after crashing his plane in taking a selfie.
A very expensive selfie I’d say.
2 huge stories that follow a similar theme about MSM / Msm alternative “reality”
Mikhaila Peterson, Dr Jordan Paterson daughter. (The daily wire did not repost this)
Psyche meds now blamed within the same period Trump gives Psychedelics treatment the green light.
the common response.
Peterson is vaccine-injured…
David Wilcock, UFO specialist and writer, Gaia Tv host aged 53, commits suicide. the same period FBI is investigating 11 missing or dead scientists with high-level security clearances with ties to nuclear and space research.
when we start with BULLSHIT (fake) everything falls into the place.
No preferences, No prejudices.
All the above are actors playing there roles.
Look at it on the bright side, entire wars will be fought on the viral trenches of social media rather than on a real battlefield in the future. Replace the human cost of life with downvotes and reduced advertising revenue and you have a meta war. Military R&D units across the globe will focus on how new weapons can be generated in a video rather than actually develop them.
What Iran’s “tanker seizure” can teach us about MSM alt media “reality”
You , as a blog, seem confused about what is real or fake.
October 7th is considered real to you and your colleagues, yet is fake CGI as you can get; and if anyone brings this up, comments on Substack get deleted.
Is there a book we need to follow that is real or fake according to your logic?
It seems if it is Iran, it is all fake, and if it is Western, it has to be a little bit real, and some people have died; how dare anyone say no one died.
The comments seem like 1 or 2 people have written them , and as usual, follow the article’s lead.
Lets see if the freespeechers allows this comment to stay up and me able to post later,
What an appropriate name you have.
There are always those video shots in these ‘conflicts’ where someone is conveniently pointing a handheld camera, a smartphone possibly, in the direction of an alleged missile, drone or bomb explosion seconds before impact. They must be psychic.
Dubai Airport got hit only ONCE – allegedly by a drone – during the Iran conflict yet someone caught the exact moment of the impact with a handheld camera.
These videos then go viral and become the iconic videos that are shown over and over again by snooze outlets and on Social Media.
Quite a few such psychics had cameras at WTC in NYC on “9/11”.
That was my exact thought looking at these photos.
The first shot of the first 9/11 plane conveniently, smoothly and expertly shot by the cameraman covering A Day in the Life of a Lower Manhattan Fire station.
https://fakeologistforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=2721&sid=fea155e4f2e2f132c477bba43a4384f5
Thanks!
I always wonder about videos on twitter. How many times was the action “set to go”?
And don’t forget that video of Oct 7 that Hamas supposedly made to record their “atrocities” – which are apparently “too atrocious” to be shown. Though I recall one with a lot of bodies…. or people lying down anyway. And then there was at least one re-staging in the states. A “die in”. Just to make sure people got the point i.e. saw a live version of the movie.
Israhel made an hour long video of sliced-together footage, most of which it
claimed was taken from cams the Palestinians wore during their raid. Only
media people were invited to view it, but without pen & notebook. camera,
phone, or any other means to record anything…
The showing was a thrilling success.. No media ever looked into whether the
Hannibal Directive was issued 7 October, and thus whether the IDF may
have slaughtered many of the Isr**lis that Israhel blamed the Palestinians for…
Yes I recall that media-only viewing. One of the media people even had the cheek to post a photo of a glass of whisky, saying “I needed this stiff drink after viewing!” I thought he had to be taking the piss.
I just notice “sliced” instead of “spliced” – silly damn Senior’s Moments !!
Even for the mega-treaties purportedly for “trade” (that US later dropped out of), US and other legislators wanting to view the drafts first had to sign a “non-disclosure” agreement. They could not even take notes, and were only allowed a short time. The best democracy money can buy.
In Ukraine, there was also a die-in in the first few months of the war. But one of the “dead” fidgeted.
My fav was the guy in the body bag having a smoke during the covid scam. LOL. An addict just gotta get their fix.
What looks like an in-house field report may be a rehash from such a major news agency. The on-site TV reporter who seems to have recorded the video or to be answering questions is a mere puppet. The agency would have sent the talking points or video to the producer earlier. -Joris Luyendijk 2006
Does propaganda not serve a function in war? rally the nation etc. Reminds me of that photo of bunch of yanks pushing up a flag during ww2. completely ridiculous but iconic non the less.
Don’t think of it as reality but rather steeling a nation together in face of adversity. Thus i think this propaganda puff is valid.
The consequences of these type of puff pieces are real. See the incredible unity of iran in their nightly demonstrations across the land.
but rather than blathering on about this aggressive war of choice / distraction , its far more interesting researching Palentir, Karp Thiel, Fink, Musk et al
I would love to see such unity of the people in the “west” against those punks.
The control grid continues to tighten apace ladies and gentleman.
You mean, the MSM is fucking with us? Man, I’d have never known. Come on, man. Is this like a training article for dissident rookie? Or is there an ulterior point?
I still remember my grandpa telling me, about 60 years ago, when he himself was about 70, “don’t believe everything you read in the papers or see on the news grandson”.
Shit, if this is where we’re at, we’re fucked.
“There are two form of lies, statistics and old newspapers”, old saying.
People are scraping fake reality to serve it up as news-slop. Artificial Information.
I was just wondering. How about the triple-tap murder of Amal Khalil? Was that for real?
The Cradle on X: “VIDEO | “I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon.” In an interview recorded before her targeted https://t.co/hwLW79amjF” / X
Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Bombed and Left to Die by Israel
All the world’s a stage _ _ _ _ or film set.
Crews are hired from the cheapest sources so they’re likely to be people who are either sympathetic to Iran or unwilling to risk life and limb opposing the IRGC. So I’d guess that capturing a ship would be a matter of attracting attention using a couple of shots, then asking the crew nicely, possibly followed by a ‘for the camera’ re-enactment to cover various rears.
The H bomb does not exist nor any of the other “weapons that don’t really work”, despite their moving theatre propaganda (fear mongering). Such footage is there to “threaten us emotionally” in order keep us busy with overcrowding, overbuying, and other over-stimulating activity, all designed to “keep us a little bit removed from reality.”
Sorry. But yes, it does.
You’ve witnessed one?
The firebombing of Tokyo in 1945 killed more than 100,000 people.
The ‘atomic bombs’ dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 150,000 and 80,000 people.
Mmm. Just sayin.
No evidence of ‘atomic bombs’ on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
https://fr.scribd.com/document/597507310/Atomic-Bomb-Hysteria
Oppenheimer was a fraud:
https://mileswmathis.com/oppen.pdf
https://thosjudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Oppenheimers-Deadly-Toys-3-C25-Finally-the-Truth.pdf
Hiroshima in particular was well documented by eyewitness reports published in the west.
I’d like to think that all these events were a fantasy, just a psyop, but my parents lived through the British version. (My parents lived in SE London during the war so got got ‘up close and personal’ with the Blitz, nuisance raids, V1s, V2s and all that good stuff. She was working on the buses during the 1940-1 Blitz. My rather was in the RAF ending up flying Mosquitoes in low level ground attack and submarine pen raids. War’s surprisingly personal, its just that apart from historical accounts people who were involved don’t talk about it as much as you’d think.)(Same goes for my colleagues in the US who were involved in Korea and Vietnam.)
Yes, you’re right. People who were on the ground tend not to talk about it.
Everybody who worked on making the movie Ghengiz Khan died horrible premature deaths of cancer.
And, yet, the people, plants and animal life of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have thrived since their bombing….
As have the Nevada flora and fauna.
Certainly something’s going on with regard to certain topics, such as “space” travel and ‘nuclear’ bomb phenomena: 11 scientists involved in these topics have gone missing or have been reported dead between mid 2023 and Feb 2026.
Coincidence? Or did they stumble upon something that was not permitted to be released to the public?
Whattabout the Tsar bomb? I always looked up to and admired the Tsar bomb.
And then there is reality….
But this is the mental state of this world people are living in today.
They wake up in the morning, take their Iphone as the first, go to job and open their computer as second, in the afternoon, they see a powerpoint with graphs and statistics.
They get home and start the TV. they go to bed with their Iphone as the last film of today.
24/7 with media false reality.
one of my favorite things about the Bible is how Antiquated all the things that are supposed to take place in the future are already how all the prophecies how completely Antiquated they are because you know when the when the Bible was uh written and then Rewritten and then edited then re-edited and then translated from dead languages and then re retranslated and then re-edited and then re re re-edited and retranslated and then uh give to Kings for them to take their favorite Parts out and then re-edited then rrate and then re-edited and then given to the pope for him to approve and then re-retranslate then re- Rewritten then Rewritten reedited R-rated re-edited again all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years after they happened to people who didn’t know how to write
so I guess what I’m saying is the Bible is literally the world’s oldest game of telephone.
David Cross – The Bible
And not only that, but the vast number of interpretations from the vast number of Christian sects who can never seem to agree on those interpretations.
And the vast number of different rituals followed by the vast number of believers.
“Truth is a pathless land” (Jiddu Krishnamurti).
“Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.” (Ramana Maharishi).
“You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.” (Barry Long).
Your and Johnny’s comment and your false Jew David are easy to debunk.
The Bible claims to be THE truth.
So If we say the grass is green, the sky is blue, and 2+2=4. This is THE truth.
The it doesnt matter how many different interpretations or how many different Christian sects we have, who bring in their own interpretations, translations, perceptions.
Because everything else than green, blue, and 4 will be false yes!
Everything else will be LIES.
We also have this modern liberal bs that there are many truth, yes?
But there are not many truth, there are only 1 truth and many lies as we can see from the above.
The sky is blue The sky is green, The sky is black, The sky is red, The sky is gold, The sky is grey……..many lies. Debunked!
It is NOT the Bible’s fault that we have so many liars of the world today.
The Bible and Christ call organised religion for the big prostitute. Why? Because they lie about the Bible.
There’s a billion Muslims who disagree.
If that keeps you asleep at night, then sleep tight and don’t worry about reality.
” Reuters describes it thus…”
Reuters is a global news agency. Previously British, it is now owned by the Canadian company Thomson-Reuters. Together with two other agencies, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press, it provides up to 90% of all contents in allcorporate media in the entire world…
History
The British government secretly funded Reuters in the 1960s and 1970s at the behest of Information Research Department (IRD), the British government’s anti-Soviet propaganda unit linked to British intelligence. The source of the funding was concealed by using the BBC as a conduit to make the payments.
The secret government financing of Reuters amounted to 245,000 pounds ($317,838 at 2020 exchange rates) per year before 1969 but then reduced to 100,000 pounds per year in 1969-1970.
“The new relationship established with Reuters in the Middle East and Latin America can lead to valuable goodwill and cooperation with the Agency on a global scale,” John Peck, former head of the IRD, said in declassified government documents.[2]..
Thomson Reuters Special Services
Reuters also runs a private intelligence service, with commercial ties to governments and national intelligence services. The president of the company,Timothy P. Murphy, was previously the FBI’s Deputy Director and worked for the Bureau from 1988 until 2011, and the board is full of deep state operators.
The Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) provides “research and actionable insights for national security missions.”
Many of the people TRSS employs comes “from academia, law enforcement, and defense and intelligence agencies”… “the same organizations as the clients we serve”.[6]
After the Integrity Initiative (II) was exposed, one of the members, Maria de Goeij, moved over to TRSS.
Some of the TRSS commercial services points to similar work as the II, (witch hunts and psychological operations) with the claim to be able to “uncover foreign influence in sensitive and vulnerable environments” in support of “action-based missions”,[7] presumably giving governments plausible deniability for dirty operations.
https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Reuters
So Reuters is now The Oracle of Delphi
Yes. Reuters and AP feed all other News Media Giants.
Guess what famous family is majority stockholder in Reuters. Yup, you guessed it. No second-guessing allowed.
First line of the article you’re replying to…
The video is FROM IRAN’s STATE MEDIA, you utter genius. So either you gave yourself five upvotes or there are five people on this forum as stupid as you are.
Moon landings and the spherical Earth.
They’re better edited than were the White Helmets in Syria vids, though the
latter did strive to make their vids unprofessional and rough, to give their
vids a “authentic”, “spontaneous” look…
Then, again, do you need cameramen etc when you can use cameras mounted on
drones with which to do the filming ? Technology has advanced since The White
Helmets video’d their staged events in Syria…
The Cameraman never dies, because he can shoot Drones …