tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post7047801654864205127..comments2024-02-19T11:10:16.893-08:00Comments on Brown Moses Blog: Seymour Hersh's Volcano ProblemBrown Moseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17562126209980810351noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-89204339807979704412014-04-11T20:21:00.987-07:002014-04-11T20:21:00.987-07:00Why would Doha and Riyadh compensate in Israeli cu...Why would Doha and Riyadh compensate in Israeli currency? Oh god, I am so confusedtacobathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00256401045016896178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-81193780529746745512014-04-10T04:51:41.593-07:002014-04-10T04:51:41.593-07:00In my most recent post I specifically mention the ...In my most recent post I specifically mention the MIT report, which you can read here<br />http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-knowledge-gap-seymours-hersh-of.html<br />Brown Moseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17562126209980810351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-84048291860399912872014-04-10T04:31:10.608-07:002014-04-10T04:31:10.608-07:00You completely ignore the findings of a team of ex...You completely ignore the findings of a team of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has kiboshed your virulent propaganda in support of vicious Islamist cannibals beheading Christian Syrians. In every study performed so far by the U.N. team and others, not to mention, George Galloways trenchant speech to your Parliament about new definitions of "stupidity", the Syrian government is absolved of guilt. Enjoy the few shekels you get from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Ziad Fadelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01677797397957341802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-64991819841019161612014-04-09T04:08:42.543-07:002014-04-09T04:08:42.543-07:00WTF? He was never on-the-ground in My Lai. He didn...WTF? He was never on-the-ground in My Lai. He didn't even start investigating it until Calloway's court martial. He's an investigative journalist - there are no primary sources for war crimes, government cover-ups or exposing politician's lies to the American public.<br /><br />A glance at his accomplishments in Wikipedia hardly shows 'declining capacity'. And although mainstream media and the government regularly crow about his undisclosed sources and attack his credibility, he is more often right than not. <br /><br />If you have some compelling evidence of his 'decline', then you should be able to easily pick apart his nutty KAL700 theories. Except the government pretty much admitted (later on, of course) most of what he said.<br /><br />I can't see much wrong with the way he called out Maxwell and Davies of the Sunday and Daily Mirror for ratting out Vanunu and disparaging him in their rags. What 'primary source' was he suppose to use - the Mossad?<br /><br />What's next? Iraq? He was one of the first ones all over Bush and Cheney for premeditating that war and lying about the WMDs. He was on that since 2002. That beat most of mainstream media and their embedded sycophants by a decade. Which part of his now well-verified claims based back then on his unreliable, secret secondary sources evidence his 'decline'?<br /><br />Iran? He busted Bush for his plans to use a nuclear bunker buster to take out enrichment facilities in Iran. He also reported secret meetings Bush had to stage false flags to justify a war with Iran. Granted, none of these are ever going to be 'legally' verified, but the evidence has been stacking up for years. Do you really think Hersh had to fabricate either one? <br /><br />Hersh's reporting record speaks for itself. The cowardly mainstream media's record speaks for itself. I'll take Hersh's street smarts, secondary sources or just wild-ass speculation ANY day over the pablum corporate newz crams down the sheeple's throats.PavewayIVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17329924099308073556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-4382082336017980412014-04-08T18:52:08.918-07:002014-04-08T18:52:08.918-07:00I find your inclusion of visuals of the three diff...I find your inclusion of visuals of the three different types of volcano rockets very useful. Up until this point, it has been very hard to understand the difference between them. Especially the two larger diameter rockets as, apart from size (something that is difficult to determine without an object of known size for reference), they appear very visually similar.<br /><br />I also appreciate your differentiation between the two lines of argument he is making and your statement that the argument you are not contesting may still be valid.<br /><br />Finally, your courtesy towards Mr. Hersh is very heartening. Your recognition that he is a distinguished reporter is something that is very important in maintaining a level-headed discussion. If these types of things get out of hand, then they quickly lose their useful and informative nature.Noha307https://www.blogger.com/profile/00370569155512909375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-66869345381832993122014-04-07T12:39:17.894-07:002014-04-07T12:39:17.894-07:00Ita a myth that Hersh's first article demonstr...Ita a myth that Hersh's first article demonstrates - or even claims - that the US intelligence on the Ghouta attack was false: what he said was that the US authoriries had “altered the available information – in terms of its timing and sequence”. This was an allegation about the presentation of the data - not its validity. Jim's comment above seems spot on.The Magpie's Nesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540906098106833025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4871088750473093560.post-7712281445418841002014-04-07T08:57:38.603-07:002014-04-07T08:57:38.603-07:00Seymour Hersh became famous and respected because ...Seymour Hersh became famous and respected because of his reporting on the Viet Nam war, which was important to waking the world up to what the US was doing there and was some of the first reporting which was truly independent of the military's information warfare line. Unfortunately, since that time, as his capacity for on the ground personal reporting work has declined, he seems to have been forced to use secondary sources. And it seems that some disinformation sources have taken perverse delight in "rathering" him, that is in providing him single source or falsely sourced information from seemingly credible and well placed individuals who he, for unknown reasons, places his trust. It seems he has been rathered yet again.Jim Pivonkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10424472145012767058noreply@blogger.com