Cutting Edge Non-News on David Icke's Headlines

At 08.33 on the morning of 26th November 2013, the renowned hysterical rag, The Daily Mail, reported on its website that some Greeks were deliberately infecting themselves with HIV in order to claim specific financial benefits.

Desperate Greek citizens 'are intentionally infecting themselves with HIV' to qualify for state benefit which is set aside for addicts

The story cited a WHO report which, without any evidence, suggested that an unexplained rise in the number of HIV infections which coincides with the country's economic downtur could be caused by deliberate self infection. In the study of statistics, there is a distinction between cause and correlation and it is impossible to say that because two factors correlate that one causes the other. But even if the rise in HIV cases was in some way economically related, it does not even consider other possible socio-economic explanations.

However, by 13.42 the claims had been withdrawn stating that there was 'anecdotal evidence' that some new infections were self-inflicted to claim benefits, although the WHO has no evidence to support those anecdotes:

WHO retracts HIV self-injection claim

The sloppy logic of the suggestions in the original Daily Mail story aside, the story was posted on the David Icke forum at 16.54:

Greeks self-inject HIV to claim benefits

And subsequently, the repetition of the story in David Icke's Headlines the next day, 27th November 2013 at 04.15:

Desperate Greek citizens ‘are intentionally infecting themselves with HIV’ to qualify for state benefit which is set aside for addicts

This sorry story then linking back to the original Daily Mail article.

Not only is the Daily Mail one of the least reliable sources for any story but one which David Icke frequently counter-lambasts for their mockery of him. Why would anybody, especially at the launch of a new news bearing television station, rereport a story which does not stand up to the feeblest scrutiny? It wouldn't have anything to do with The People's Voice's recruitment of the Daily Mail freelancer, Sonia Poulton, would it?

But anybody who habitually bothers to check the sources and validity of stories will know that the reporting non-news and evidence-free stories is a regular feature of David Icke's headlines page.

Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack - Is The Answer In Britam Hacked e-mail?

It confounds comprehension to imagine that a government who knows that foreign powers are itching for an excuse to launch an attack would use chemical weapons against its own people whilst UN weapons inspectors are actually in the country. This is what we are being told by the mainstream media and what is being peddled by the war hungry in NATO.

Yet in January 2013 the UK defence contractor Britam had its e-mail hacked - which it eventually acknowledged - and a screen grab of one particular e-mail raised alarmed eyebrows across the internet and was briefly published by The Daily Mail's Mail Online website before disappearing very shortly afterwards. The Mail Online published a retraction which stated that they accepted that the e-mail was fabricated and that there was 'no truth in any suggestion that Britam or its directors were willing to consider taking part in such a plot, which may have led to an atrocity.'

The statement's choice of words is quite revealing. The Mail Online acceptance that the e-mail was fabricated is not a statement that it was indeed fabricated. Maybe Britam simply persuaded them that it was. But also stating that there was 'no truth in any suggestion that Britam or its directors were willing to consider taking part in such a plot, which may have led to an atrocity' does not mean that they had not been approached to do so or in fact that another company may well have been approached and accepted the proposed 'enormous sum'; the e-mail (click on the image below to see it full size) says:

Phil

We've got a new offer. It's about Syria again. Qataris propose an attractive deal and swear that the idea is approved by Washington.
We'll have to deliver a CW to Homs, a Soviet origin g-shell from Libya similar to those that Assad should have. They want us to deploy our Ukrainian personnel that should speak Russian and make a video record.

Frankly, I don't think it's a good idea but the sums proposed are enormous. Your opinion?

Kind regards
David

 If this e-mail was in fact genuine, whether or not Britam accepted the pproposed offer, it speaks volumes.