Mainstream Media Lies: CNN Broadcasts 2011 CCTV Footage Claiming It Was The Original Footage Of The Attacks In Brussels

When we advise you to never believe all the things you see, hear and watch in the mainstream media, we mean business. It is not a joke. You can easily be misled if you don’t go the extra mile to seek alternative news sources.

Many of the news stories in the mainstream media are biased. They serve a particular interest and purpose. A large percentage of the stories within the mainstream media serve the interests of the government, the ownership or advertising companies. You can read more on this in Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

On March 22 2016, the city of Brussels was shaken by multiple bombing attacks at the airport, and later at the metro station located next to the headquarters of the European Union.

When the attacks happened, the news media, including us, were all busy putting something together to inform our audience about the situation on the ground. For us, in order not to misinform our audience, we were very careful when selecting information from the situation room.

While some media outlets were giving an independent and balanced account of the situation, the Cable News Network (CNN) switched on its propaganda machine. CNN is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. For whatever reason, the network decided to mislead its audience during the immediate aftermath of the devastating attacks.

As security and emergency service officials were busy trying to save the lives of those injured and take control of the situation, CNN started showing a segment of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage, claiming it was from one of the scenes of the attack.

The footage showed a chaotic scene of a smoke-filled subway tube, with people running for their lives. In the video, people were frantically attempting to escape a burning subway, while Chris Cuomo pretended he was a reporter.

CNN then cited a Twitter handle, @OnlinMagazine, as its source of the video. The Free Thought Projectlater revealed that @OnlinMagazine is a non-existent source.

The Free Thought Project also revealed that the video CNN claimed was from the March 22, 2016 bombings in Brussels, was actually recorded on April 11, 2011 during the bombing of the Minsk Metro in Belarus.

CNN has not retracted and apologized for using the fake video to deceive its teeming audience worldwide. The video is still available for viewing on its YouTube channel. When the attacks happened, many fake videos went viral, especially on social media. At the time of CNN’s broadcast of the fake video, authorities in Brussels had not released any footage of the attacks.

In such highly sensitive situations, CCTV footage is always carefully reviewed before it is released to the public.

Many mainstream media critics have described CNN’s actions as ridiculous. Some have said CNN should do the honorable thing and issue a categorical apology to its audience.

But looking at the situation, it is unlikely that CNN will issue any form of an apology. The best thing for you to do is to never believe all the things in the mainstream media. The mainstream media is there to serve the interests of a number of unseen people. Be aware and stay vigilant!

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BOMBSHELL: Western Intelligence Had ‘Precise Warning’ Of Brussels Attack — Did Nothing To Stop It

On Monday, ISIS members Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui loaded up suitcases filled with explosives and detonated them inside Belgium’s Zaventem Aiport, killing dozens of people.

An hour and twenty minutes after the airport blasts, another explosion was reported on a train that was stopped at the Maelbeek subway station, near the headquarters of the EU.

Immediately after the attacks, on Tuesday, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said, “What we feared has happened.”

The reason Michel and the rest of the Belgium top brass ‘feared’ this attack, according to Isreal’s oldest newspaper, is that they knew precisely where it would take place — yet they took no precautions to stop it.

As soldiers walk the streets and families mourn their lost loved ones in Brussels, the question being asked now is — Could this attack have been stopped? According to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, the answer to that question is likely, yes.

In their report, Haaretz claims that they were given information showing the Belgian security services, as well as other Western intelligence agencies, had advance and precise intelligence warnings regarding the terrorist attacks in Belgium on Tuesday.

The security services knew, with a high degree of certainty, that attacks were planned in the very near future for the airport and, apparently, for the subway as well.+

Despite the advance warning, the intelligence and security preparedness in Brussels, where most of the European Union agencies are located, was limited in its scope and insufficient for the severity and immediacy of the alert.

The attacks were apparently triggered by the capture of terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who was involved in both the preparation for the Paris attack and its implementation. Fearing that he would reveal information about ISIS plans to his captors, the terrorist group activated its cells and implemented the plan to bomb the airport and the train station.

The testimony of the detained terrorist, alongside other intelligence information, part of which concerned ISIS operations in Syria, should have resulted in much more stringent security preparedness in crowded public places in Brussels, along with a heightened search for the cell, reports Haaretz.

Apparently the intelligence agencies have knowledge of other future attacks as well that could occur in Belgium and other Western countries who’ve waged a war against ISIS in Syria. A massive manhunt is now underway as authorities try to locate the terrorist Najim Laachraoui, who built the explosive vests worn by the attackers and escaped from the airport at the last minute.

The idea that Belgian authorities took no action in spite of precise knowledge of these attacks is chilling. The other ‘Western intelligence agencies’ who knew about the bombings are also culpable for their inaction as well.

On Thursday, Belgium’s interior and justice ministers have admitted that they failed to heed the warnings and offered their resignations. However, Michel refused to accept their resignations, saying, “In a time of war you cannot offer to leave the field.”

The town of Brussels is now a total police state as soldiers walk the streets, conducting door to door searches while the citizens are kept under close watch, and dozens are dead all because the government failed to act on information about a known attack.

By allowing these attacks to happen, the governments of the West have justified decades of war, their bloated military budgets, and endless expansion of the police state. This is terrible news for the citizens of these countries, but music to the ears of the military industrial complex.

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