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    Posted by Mary on November 14, 2019, 12:56 pm

    Le Mesurier Gets Cross (51 comments)
    14 Nov, 2019

    Perhaps the only fact on James Le Mesurier about which I would agree with the MSM war cheerleaders is that he was a very busy man. It is remarkable therefore that he found the time and inclination to follow “Philip Cross” on twitter. Given that “Philip Cross” has virtually never posted an original tweet, and his timeline consists almost entirely of retweets of Nick Cohen, David Aaronovitch and openly pro-Israel propaganda accounts, why would Le Mesurier bother to follow him?

    “Philip Cross” has never posted any news other than to retweet columnists. He has never given an insight into a story. In addition to James Le Mesurier, why then were all these MSM journailsts following “Philip Cross” from before “he” gained notoriety for his Wikipedia exploits?

    Oliver Kamm, Leader Writer The Times
    Nick Cohen, Columnist The Guardian/Observer
    Joan Smith, Columnist The Independent
    Leslie Felperin, Film Columnist The Guardian
    Kate Connolly, Foreign Correspondent The Guardian/Observer
    Lisa O’Carroll, Brexit Correspondent The Guardian
    James Bloodworth, Columnist The Independent
    Cristina Criddle, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
    Sarah Baxter, Deputy Editor, The Sunday Times
    Iain Watson, Political Correspondent, The BBC
    Caroline Wheeler, Deputy Political Editor, the Sunday Times
    Jennifer Chevalier, CBC ex-BBC
    Dani Garavelli, Scotland on Sunday
    Prominent Freelancers
    Bonnie Greer (frequently in The Guardian)
    Mason Boycott-Owen (The Guardian, New Statesman)
    Marko Attilla Hoare (The Guardian)
    Kirsty Hughes
    Guy Walters (BBC)
    Paul Canning

    What attracted all of these senior MSM figures to follow an obscure account with almost no original content? No reasonable explanation of this phenomenon has ever been offered by any of the above. What a considerable number of them have done is to use the megaphone their plutocrat or state overlords have given them, to label those asking this perfectly reasonable question as crazed conspiracy theorists.

    This week, on the day of Le Mesurier’s death, “Philip Cross” made 48 edits to Le Mesurier’s Wikipedia page, each one designed to expunge any criticism of the role of the White Helmets in Syria or reference to their close relationship with the jihadists.

    “Philip Cross” has been an operation on a massive scale to alter the balance of Wikipedia by hundreds of thousands of edits to the entries, primarily of politically engaged figures, always to the detriment of anti-war figures and to the credit of neo-con figures. An otherwise entirely obscure but real individual named Philip Cross has been identified who fronts the operation, and reputedly suffers from Aspergers. I however do not believe that any individual can truly have edited Wikpedia articles from a right wing perspective, full time every single day for five years without one day off, not even a Christmas, for 2,987 consecutive days.

    I should declare here the personal interest that “Philip Cross” has made over 120 edits to my own Wikipedia entry, including among other things calling my wife a stripper, and deleting the facts that I turned down three honours from the Crown and was eventually cleared on all disciplinary charges by the FCO.

    I hazard the guess that at least several of the above journalists follow “Philip Cross” on twitter because they are a part of the massive Wikipedia skewing operation operating behind the name of “Philip Cross”. If anybody has any better explanation of why they all follow “Philip Cross” on twitter I am more than willing to hear it.
    The “White Helmets” operation managed for MI6 by Le Mesurier was both a channel for logistic support to Western backed jihadists and a propaganda operation to shill for war in Syria, as in Iraq or Libya. Wars which were of course very profitable for arms manufacturers, energy interests and the security establishment. It should surprise nobody that Le Mesurier intersects with the Philip Cross propaganda operation which, with the active support of arch Blairite Jimmy Wales, has for years been slanting Wikipedia in support of the same pro-war goals as pushed by the “White Helmets”.

    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/le-mesurier-gets-cross/

    In addition to his previous post -
    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/11/the-sad-death-of-james-le-mesurier/

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