Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
February 20, 2017
The fake news media is going for broke.
Just inventing a random assassination plot really takes the hoaxery to a whole new level of absurd.
. @Telegraph: recycling long-discarded news to stoke tensions with Russia. As usual, no evidence, pure innuendo. What next Sunday? pic.twitter.com/kc3Xgh7Jib
— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) February 19, 2017
I have no idea what their plan is. As an impartial outside observer, it looks as though they don’t really have a plan, and are just lashing out in the most outrageous conceivable manner.
RT:
The Russian Embassy in London has rejected as pure innuendo a report in The Telegraph which claimed Moscow had conspired to overthrow Montenegro’s government during the 2016 poll, describing the report as recycled “fake news.”
“As usual, no evidence, pure innuendo,” the Russian mission posted on Twitter in response to the Telegraph’s lengthy article that ran under a sensational headline and then proceeded to accuse Russia of orchestrating a coup plot in Montenegro last fall, allegedly “to sabotage the country’s plan to join NATO.”
Citing unnamed “senior Whitehall sources,” the Telegraph, which is considered a rather respected publication, claimed in its report that Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic had been targeted by “Russian intelligence officers with the support and blessing of Moscow.”
The alleged plot “would have caused heavy bloodshed and plunged the tiny country into turmoil,” the paper told its readers in the unverifiable article, which was promptly picked up by other Western media.
The entire report is a recycling of long discarded news in order to “to stoke tensions with Russia,” according to the embassy. Moscow had in October already “categorically denied the possibility of official involvement in any attempts to commit any unlawful activities” during parliamentary elections in Montenegro.
The Montenegrin Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime, Milivoje Katnic, who at the time, accused a “powerful organization” of the coup plot, has also admitted that apart from several suspected “nationalists from Russia,” there’s no “evidence that the state of Russia is involved in any sense.” There have also been no official inquiries from Podgorica to Moscow with regards to the alleged coup attempt, the Kremlin confirmed.
The Telegraph, however, backed their conspiracy with a photograph of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov taken in December, apparently after he laid a wreath at the Liberators of Belgrade memorial and posed with locals, one of who happened to be an “alleged plotter Nemanja Ristic.”
The report also said UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and his US counterpart Rex Tillerson “discussed the issue” during their first meeting. It further cited the Montenegrin Defense Minister, Predrag Boskovic, as saying “there is ‘not any doubt’ that the plot was financed and organized by Russian intelligence officers alongside local radicals.”
So this is a fake news story placed by the British government. No doubt it was shopped around. But the Telegraph is a serious paper. If I were them, I would have been like “yeah, maybe call the Daily Mail…”
Because now, we’re reaching the point where anything printed by any media is simply going to be dismissed as a hoax by at least 50% of the population of Western countries. At least 50% of the American population. And based on the Brexit vote, the UK has a similar portion of anti-globalist skeptics.
I would think they would want to keep a couple of outlets that people believe don’t lie.