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Narrative Managers In Overdrive After Death Of White Helmets\u00a0Founder<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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James Le Mesurier, the founder of the White Helmets, has died. He was found to have plummeted<\/a>from a height to the street outside his home, and authorities are reportedly calling it a suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Mesurier has a history with British military intelligence<\/a> and was fundamentally involved with an extremely shady narrative management operation<\/a> geared toward manufacturing support for yet another imperialist military intervention in yet another Middle Eastern nation, so obviously any claims of suicide should be taken with a grain of salt no smaller than a Buick. But it is worth noting that according to Middle East Eye<\/em><\/a>, Le Mesurier\u2019s wife told police that he\u2019d been struggling with psychological issues for which he was taking medications and had previously been hospitalized. Le Mesurier\u2019s home was reportedly only accessible by fingerprint and no video footage of anyone besides Le Mesurier and his wife entering or leaving has been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishment narrative managers, for their part, have been floating the possibility that the White Helmets founder was murdered by the Russian government. The Washington Examiner<\/em> has published an article<\/a> titled \u201cDid Russia kill White Helmets founder James Le Mesurier?\u201d, calling to mind Betteridge\u2019s law of headlines<\/a> which states that \u201cAny headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.<\/em>\u201d The BBC\u2019s Mark Urban tweeted out and then deleted<\/a> a thread (screenshots here<\/a>) in which he cites an anonymous source who claims to have known Le Mesurier\u2019s flat well enough to be sure that it\u2019s not possible to \u201cfall\u201d from his balcony, then meaningfully pointing to a \u201cblack propaganda campaign by Russia and Assad media\u201d against Le Mesurier. He apparently didn\u2019t consider the possibility of suicide until later, saying<\/a> he deleted his thread due to \u201cnew information\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Narrative Managers In Overdrive After Death Of White Helmets\u00a0Founder James Le Mesurier, the founder of the White Helmets, has died. He was found to have plummetedfrom a height to the street outside his home, and authorities are reportedly calling it a suicide. Le Mesurier has a history with British military intelligence and was fundamentally involved with an extremely shady […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[27544,17039,27543,27499,19890],"class_list":["post-49553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-british-military-intelligence","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-james-le-mesurier","tag-narrative-managers","tag-white-helmets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49554,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49553\/revisions\/49554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}