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.@rosenthal_jon
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#TheRosenthalMethod: how to tame an inconvenient truth through inaccuracies, errors and omissions
There are so many inaccuracies, errors and omissions in your oped that I have to go at it paragraph by paragraph.
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#TheRosenthalMethod: how to tame an inconvenient truth through inaccuracies, errors and omissions
There are so many inaccuracies, errors and omissions in your oped that I have to go at it paragraph by paragraph.
1/ It all starts with the first sentence of the first paragraph! “Frequent, violent” regime changes in “recent decades” in Ethiopia?! The last regime change in Ethiopia was in 1991! 30 years ago! Setting the ground for the usual "African"narrative?! 
2/ Here you are trying to create a parallel between Mengistu and Abiy. Mengistu was a military leader who came to power through a coup and his government was not loved by many Ethiopians. This was one of the reasons the TPLF managed to virtually walk into Addis.
Last two weeks in a nutshell – a typical example of #RegimeChange
Till around mid-October the media had been covering majorly humanitarian crisis in Tigray, so much has been said so I will leave that alone. Let’s dive into events since then.
Till around mid-October the media had been covering majorly humanitarian crisis in Tigray, so much has been said so I will leave that alone. Let’s dive into events since then.
MSM follow the narratives of and quote @reda_getachew & @ProfKindeya to a point that I think they are 🇪🇹‘s correspondents for all of them, they all created stories based on their cries about Ethiopian attack on TPLF and ignored almost completely his claims their attack on Amhara.
Oct 18 – 29 the MSM headlines:
About Airstrikes in Mekelle – Reuters 7 stories, CNN 4, France24 9, Aljazeera 5, BBC 14 while about attack in Amhara – Reuters 1 story, CNN 0, France24 0, Aljazeera 0, BBC 1 and an interview with @reda_getachew confirming ‘carnage on Amhara front’
About Airstrikes in Mekelle – Reuters 7 stories, CNN 4, France24 9, Aljazeera 5, BBC 14 while about attack in Amhara – Reuters 1 story, CNN 0, France24 0, Aljazeera 0, BBC 1 and an interview with @reda_getachew confirming ‘carnage on Amhara front’
Zecharias quotes a number of articles in an attempt to refute the Bekele-Bachelete report. Let's take a look at this remarkable pieces of long distance journalism. Shall we?!
1. The @latimes article by @berhe_lucy and @nabihbulos. Berhe is based in NAIROBI and Bulos is based in BEIRUT. They spoke to people who claim to have witnessed a massacre in Bora over the PHONE.
Mini-thread
#BloodTears&Prayers
Virginia D-day
1/ Twenty seven years of tyranny and subjugation. We wept and prayed and fought!
When we got a shot at freedom and democracy, we grabbed it with two hands!
We went to the streets and we marched to the voting booth!
#BloodTears&Prayers
Virginia D-day
1/ Twenty seven years of tyranny and subjugation. We wept and prayed and fought!
When we got a shot at freedom and democracy, we grabbed it with two hands!
We went to the streets and we marched to the voting booth!
2/ Yet, even in this day and age, the will of the people counts for nothing! Especially if you are poor and black and African!
The liberals, who preach racial equality at home are no different from their white predecessors who came to enslave us or to 'save' us.
The liberals, who preach racial equality at home are no different from their white predecessors who came to enslave us or to 'save' us.
3/ And now the Democrats are fuelling genocide in #Ethiopia!
If you need any reason to vote Red and punish Blinken and co, I give you........Maikadra.....Galicoma......Chifra.....Agamsa...Kobo....Wuchale......and Kombolcha.....
If you need any reason to vote Red and punish Blinken and co, I give you........Maikadra.....Galicoma......Chifra.....Agamsa...Kobo....Wuchale......and Kombolcha.....
.@timnitGebru Rebuttal
[re-purposing my arguments form the Rand-Corp thread]
1/ @timnitGebru, the fatal flaw at the very heart of your reasoning is your decision to equate information from MSM with truth with regard to the conflict in N. Ethiopia, which begs the question:
[re-purposing my arguments form the Rand-Corp thread]
1/ @timnitGebru, the fatal flaw at the very heart of your reasoning is your decision to equate information from MSM with truth with regard to the conflict in N. Ethiopia, which begs the question:
How does one know the news articles and reports from HR groups are not disinformation?
If your arbiters of absolute truth are these media outlets and this was at the time of the Iraqi war, you would have concluded that Iraq possessed WMDs!
If your arbiters of absolute truth are these media outlets and this was at the time of the Iraqi war, you would have concluded that Iraq possessed WMDs!
If it was during the war on Libya, you would have endorsed the claim by Amnesty that soldiers of Gaddafi were being given free Viagra to encourage mass rape.
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#BlindInsight
This article written by a certainMoriah Assefa & published by @EthiopiaInsight aka @wdavison10 is an attempt at analysis that falls even below the abysmal standard set by many pseudo intellectuals in the pro-#TPLF camp.
#BlindInsight
This article written by a certainMoriah Assefa & published by @EthiopiaInsight aka @wdavison10 is an attempt at analysis that falls even below the abysmal standard set by many pseudo intellectuals in the pro-#TPLF camp.
1/ The writer dismisses every claim ever made about the geopolitical nature of the USGs stance regarding Ethiopia by branding them as conspiratorial, pseudo intellectual and propaganda.
Yet he doesn't put forward any credible reason why any of them aren't plausible explanstions except his conviction that they 'just are.' He just wants us to take his words for it!
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#FakeBombardment in the making?
1/ The attempt by Professor Moriarty to portray a couple of haystacks as targets of air bombardment was laughable and cringeworthy. However, I think it is a prequel to a more sinister #TPLF plan!
#FakeBombardment in the making?
1/ The attempt by Professor Moriarty to portray a couple of haystacks as targets of air bombardment was laughable and cringeworthy. However, I think it is a prequel to a more sinister #TPLF plan!
2/ We #Ethiopians know two things about TPLF. They are very predictable and very dogged! As the air bomanradement continues and the capacity of the #TPLF keeps getting degraded, I suspect they will resort to Plan C, which is committing unspeakable atrocities in #Tigray.
3/ The #TPLF might blow up residential areas or even shoot down a UN flight as @stesfa has predicted and lay the blame on #Ethiopia.
The disinformation will then be recycled through the likes of @martinplaut @berhe_lucy @nimaelbagir or Cara Anna and echoed by @StateDept & @UN!
The disinformation will then be recycled through the likes of @martinplaut @berhe_lucy @nimaelbagir or Cara Anna and echoed by @StateDept & @UN!
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#ResistEthiopia: Resistance Flourishes in Darkness
1. For the past eleven months, the pro-#Ethiopia camp has been screaming bloody murder regarding the virtually complete media blackout of Pro-#Ethiopian voices.
#ResistEthiopia: Resistance Flourishes in Darkness
1. For the past eleven months, the pro-#Ethiopia camp has been screaming bloody murder regarding the virtually complete media blackout of Pro-#Ethiopian voices.
The media blackout and the negative coverage of #Ethiopia by the MSM has resulted in a cascading effect, leading astray not only ordinary citizens but also academicians who you think would know better.
For this thread, demonstrating the the media blackout, I have collaborated with another exceptionally talented Ethiopian, @Samriethio!
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#BadScience: activism masquerading as scholarship
Three scholars started out with a commendable research question: to see whether disinformation was being used in the ‘Tigray’ conflict by both sides! The bad news is they did a very bad job! Exceptionally bad!
#BadScience: activism masquerading as scholarship
Three scholars started out with a commendable research question: to see whether disinformation was being used in the ‘Tigray’ conflict by both sides! The bad news is they did a very bad job! Exceptionally bad!
For this thread I collaborated with the exceptionally talented @malesadin and here are our findings.
1/ In terms of methodology, the researchers used qualitative methods to contextualize their SM data analysis, but don’t give the details of the qualitative side of the research
1/ In terms of methodology, the researchers used qualitative methods to contextualize their SM data analysis, but don’t give the details of the qualitative side of the research
This makes it almost impossible for other researchers to replicate their research and confirm or dis-confirm their findings. Why the authors chose to do this is anyone’s guess!
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#DavisonsWebOfDeception
1/ @wdavison10’s favorite trope is his claim that he is an ‘Independent Analyst’ of all things #Ethiopian. So much so that he DM’d me following my previous thread👇 on him, saying that it was full of errors & inaccuracies.
#DavisonsWebOfDeception
1/ @wdavison10’s favorite trope is his claim that he is an ‘Independent Analyst’ of all things #Ethiopian. So much so that he DM’d me following my previous thread👇 on him, saying that it was full of errors & inaccuracies.
I took his outrage seriously and asked @Kings_of_Nile to undertake a network analysis of Mr. @wdavison10's twitter outputs and interactions. If truly independent his network would have reasonably proportional representation from both camps. This is what we have uncovered!
2/ @wdavison’s twitter community is a virtual who is who of #InformationLaundering & #DisinformationRecycling. He virtually occupies the same space as @ZekuZelalem and their next door neighbors are @RAbdiAnalyst & @reda_getachew.
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The Evolution of a #PhantomBlockade
1/ Dec-June
UN - Impending famine
GOE - No famine
TPLF - There is already famine
2/ June
UN - Impending famine
GOE - Humanitarian ceasefire
TPLF - Ceasefire is a joke
The Evolution of a #PhantomBlockade
1/ Dec-June
UN - Impending famine
GOE - No famine
TPLF - There is already famine
2/ June
UN - Impending famine
GOE - Humanitarian ceasefire
TPLF - Ceasefire is a joke
3/ July
UN - Aid needs to get to Tigray
GOE - We need to check the trucks
TPLF - Invade Afar
4/ August- September
UN - Aid needs to get to Tigray
GOE - Will cut number of chk points
TPLF - Will Invade Amhara & massacre civillains
UN - Aid needs to get to Tigray
GOE - We need to check the trucks
TPLF - Invade Afar
4/ August- September
UN - Aid needs to get to Tigray
GOE - Will cut number of chk points
TPLF - Will Invade Amhara & massacre civillains
5/ Sept
UN - Our trucks are missing
GOE - No backlog of trucks on the road to Tigray
TPLF - Fuel shortage, drivers refused
UN - TPLF says 'no fuel, no drivers' but road is safe
US - THERE WAS, IS AND WILL BE A DEFACTO HUMANITARIAN BLOCKADE BY GOE BECAUSE WE SAID SO!
UN - Our trucks are missing
GOE - No backlog of trucks on the road to Tigray
TPLF - Fuel shortage, drivers refused
UN - TPLF says 'no fuel, no drivers' but road is safe
US - THERE WAS, IS AND WILL BE A DEFACTO HUMANITARIAN BLOCKADE BY GOE BECAUSE WE SAID SO!
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#CNNwhereTruthGoes2Die
@mekdes_asefa has done a great job of exposing CNN's bias against #Ethiopia & a possible direct line of communication with Getachew Reda himself. This thread will highlight this & other aspects of CNN's #InformationLaundering activities.
#CNNwhereTruthGoes2Die
@mekdes_asefa has done a great job of exposing CNN's bias against #Ethiopia & a possible direct line of communication with Getachew Reda himself. This thread will highlight this & other aspects of CNN's #InformationLaundering activities.
1/ For this thread I focused on 45 articles produced by CNN since November 4. @nimaelbagir was involved in 20 of these articles followed closely by @bethlehemfel. Unsurprisingly, all the @CNN articles I looked into were highly negative in their coverage of GOE.
Only one articles coveres the alleged misdeeds of #TPLF. The article by @bethlehemfel, @eoin_mc_sweeney, covered the #MaikadraMassacre as reported by @amnesty but conveniently left out parts of the report identifying the victims & perpetrators.
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@wdavison10 of @CrisisGroup:
'the Mechanical Turk' of #InformationLaudering
1/ Davison is an employee of the @CrisisGroup, a New York based organization that claims to work to "....prevent wars....& ...build a more peaceful world."
@wdavison10 of @CrisisGroup:
'the Mechanical Turk' of #InformationLaudering
1/ Davison is an employee of the @CrisisGroup, a New York based organization that claims to work to "....prevent wars....& ...build a more peaceful world."
@CrisisGroup claims to be an independent organization but a cursory examination of their finances tells a different story. A very different story!!
Their biggest nongovernmental donor is Soros' Open Society Foundation (nothing to look here)
Their biggest nongovernmental donor is Soros' Open Society Foundation (nothing to look here)
49% of their funding (19 mill USD) actually came from government grants. And who are these gracious countries? The Netherlands (5.9 mill), Canada (3.5 mill), Norway (1.5 mill), Sweden (1.03 mill). Other funders include EU (2.7 mill), France, Finland and Ireland. 🤔
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Black Bodies and White Newspapers
[#TPLF #ChildSoldiers #MSM]
1/ In July @nytimes described #TPLF #ChildSoldiers as "motivated young fighters" and now @guardian guardian has followed suit with their most recent coverage of the conflict in Ethiopia.
Black Bodies and White Newspapers
[#TPLF #ChildSoldiers #MSM]
1/ In July @nytimes described #TPLF #ChildSoldiers as "motivated young fighters" and now @guardian guardian has followed suit with their most recent coverage of the conflict in Ethiopia.
Many #Ethiopians and independent observers are enraged by the portrayal of #ChildSoldiers in the MSM. The refusal of the 'International Community' to unequivocally condemn this exploitation of Tigrayan children has been baffling for for many.
2/ The western world has been objectifiying black bodies for the past 500 years. Look at this pictures of black Africans naked and chained like wild animals or with hands chopped by the soldiers of their Belgian masters, taken by white photographers.
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[longer than usual, please indulge me]
#TPLF & #Genocide, a love affair, 1991-2021
1/#TPLF came to power in 1991, in the eve of the Yougoslavian civil war and genocide. It was against this backdrop that it started reshaping #Ethiopia into an ethnic federation.
[longer than usual, please indulge me]
#TPLF & #Genocide, a love affair, 1991-2021
1/#TPLF came to power in 1991, in the eve of the Yougoslavian civil war and genocide. It was against this backdrop that it started reshaping #Ethiopia into an ethnic federation.
The constitution that remade Ethiopia into an ethnic based state was ratified in 1994, while bodies were floating down Kagera River. While genocide was being facilitated by identification cards that advertise your ethnicity, #TPLF decided to enforce the same rules in Ethiopia.
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Reintroducing #TheMasterplan in time for new year
Whenever the West plans to destabilise a certain region or regime, they mobilize the MSM, AO and HR groups in a concerted manner.
1/The media will start a campaign that prepares the ground for future interventions...
Reintroducing #TheMasterplan in time for new year
Whenever the West plans to destabilise a certain region or regime, they mobilize the MSM, AO and HR groups in a concerted manner.
1/The media will start a campaign that prepares the ground for future interventions...
...while swaying public opinion towards the needed direction. They start labeling the government as #totalitarian if not elected, and #populist if elected. Terms such as #genocide #EthnicCleansing #famine would get bandied around. They cultivate a new "reality" on the ground.
2/ Aid organizations would join the chorus and paint a picture of impending humanitarian doom. From one day to the next the number of people facing famine grows in leaps and bounds. The talk shifts towards #unfettered humanitarian access and humanitarian corridors
