{"id":139926,"date":"2014-10-01T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139926"},"modified":"2014-10-01T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T21:21:01","slug":"beheading-psy-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/beheading-psy-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beheading Psy-Ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Western Foreign Policy Based on Sheer Propaganda<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vivian Lee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With a rash of \u201cbeheadings\u201d sweeping the world, a horrified public is asked to see this depraved barbarity as The New Normal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First we had the August \u201cmurder\u201d on video of U.S. journalist James Foley, shown kneeling before a black-robed, masked figure brandishing a knife. Yes, even a rather small knife can do it (just as box-cutters can enable the hijacking of commercial airplanes). The perpetrator is identified as a member of the terrorist group ISIS (or IS or ISIL), which supposedly wants to install a new Islamic caliphate based in the region.<\/p>\n<p>However, the video did not actually show the beheading, but faded to black at the appropriate moment. A subsequent frame purports to show Foley\u2019s head propped up on his headless body. This video was staged, however, as proved by numerous researchers, and even admitted in the British press.[1] According to a report in<em>The Telegraph<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026a study of the four-minute 40-second clip, carried out by an international forensic science company which has worked for police forces across Britain, suggested camera trickery and slick post-production techniques appear to have been used\u2026no blood can be seen, even though the knife is drawn across the neck area at least six times.[2]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nonetheless, the U.S. media continue to report this \u201cbeheading\u201d as a real occurrence, over and over again, followed by another \u201cbeheading\u201d of an American journalist, Steven J. Sotloff, in a video released in early September. This was supposedly a \u201csecond message to America\u201d from ISIS: \u201cJust as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.\u201d[3] This video too is problematic, with no blood in evidence before the scene fades to black.[4]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memoryholeblog.com\/2014\/10\/01\/the-beheading-psy-ops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Foreign Policy Based on Sheer Propaganda Vivian Lee With a rash of \u201cbeheadings\u201d sweeping the world, a horrified public is asked to see this depraved barbarity as The New Normal. First we had the August \u201cmurder\u201d on video of U.S. journalist James Foley, shown kneeling before a black-robed, masked figure brandishing a knife. Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}