I would like to remind everyone that the CIA does actively recruit cinema and theater majors from colleges. Theatrics and misdirections are part of their operating procedure. Even without looking at the evidence, this is totally the type of thing they would do.

Oh my god!! That's that most fake thing I've ever seen.

Fake as shit.

so fucking fake. anyone that works in SFX should be laughing if it wasn't such a serious fraud.

Look at the bottom edge of his body.... TOTALLY GREENSCREENED/COMPOSITED.

This would be so easy to assemble in AfterEffects, make a long panoramic still, then pan across in post. Voila! Film!

And top right body edge too... Very jagged. Bad ChromaKey.

fotoforensics

Proven fake. Surprise!

This reminds me of a point critical of the Nick Berg video from 2003. Eerily similar, and also, totally fucking fake.

"Providing another basis for their findings, in the course of such an assault, an individual's autonomic nervous system would react, typically doing so strongly, with the body shaking and jerking accordingly. And while Nordby noted that "they rotated and moved the head", shifting vertebrae that should have initiated such actions, Simpson said he "certainly didn't perceive any movements at all" in response to such efforts."

[ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FE22Ak03.html ]

Edit to change the quote.

His mouth moves while being beheaded. The Berg video is fake in what regard? The movie magic if so was 100x this garbage they are pushing on us today. Fake az fuck.

So clearly staged. Hollywood Zionist movie magic.

Why is there so much blood on his head?

Make it look "realer." Give us your best dead face, buddy.

Held by bloody hands perhaps.

Fake blood, dude.

Sorry dude, I'm fairly certain they fucking cut his head off. There would be no reason to say otherwise. We can all agree it is too dangerous now for him not to be dead. So since he is dead, why wouldn't they cut his head off?

And if they didn't cut his head off (although we are all agreeing he is still dead), then they simply faked it to scare us which is consistent with their message and motivation.

I don't think trying to wonder if its a real head or not is going to provide any answers, even if you find Sotloff drinking coffee in a Starbucks (actually, that would probably be the only thing that could provide answers, if he would be stupid enough to talk).

Nobody's agreeing that he's dead and nobody's agreeing that his head's chopped off. The video was released by the Islamic hate mongering propagandist group SITE Intelligence. It's another fraud.

And why do people have such difficultly comprehending how CIA/Mossad assets could "disappear" without having to be offed.

Look at Sclotlof's wikidpedia page - all entries begin in August of this year.

Look at Scotlof's TIME Magazine articles - all are three months of activity two years ago.

I think he's a pseudonym. The guy in the video is an actor pretending to be this pseudonym.

If they cut his head off why didn't they just show them cutting his head off?

They had a two-camera set-up.

They could have easily demonstrated that they really did cut his head off.

Why hide it? Why would they choose to not show the thing they're claiming they did?

I heard something about how IS(whatever you wanna call them) don't show the heads coming off because it can turn off potential western recruits. People like seeing "Fuck yeah, our religion can capture americans and kill them if we wanna!" but don't like the graphic "Holy fuck they just literally cut this human being's head off".

That's just an explanation for that kinda question. Not that I necessarily buy it.

I don't buy it in the least.

If they're operating under the idea that beheading poeple will alienate western recruits then they simply wouldn't behead people. Showing it is irrelevant if they're still doing it. Not that I think ISIS is anything but a CIA front for wagging the dog.

They've become so outrageous that I don't even pay tribute [Federal Income Tax] any longer.

I want nothing to do with these villains; U.S. Federal government or their proxies or their front groups.

Idk man, I don't really go for it, that's just an "official" answer i've heard.

All I know is that the U.S. Federal government kills people.

And they use spurious information as a basis to kill people.

I'm not for it. But that's just me.

Maybe the self-censorship allowed the video and the message to be distributed through more channels. They already are miccing and editing with effects, why not think about distribution as well?

I wonder who their agents are?

I'll bet they're in talks with some studio about a reality TV show or something by now.

Or maybe a romantic comedy with Michael Cera.

Maybe I should get in contact with their attorneys.

My agent sucks. I could use better representation.

Sorry dude, I'm fairly certain they fucking cut his head off.

You are. We are not. Because we didn't see it happen, and our newsreaders and newstypers are telling us so.. Which makes at least myself highly skeptical.

There would be no reason to say otherwise.

Unless somebody really wants war with Syria,/Iraq again and we are over a year overdue. The Syrian-rebels-have-Sarin! Story didn't work and we need something more emotional, which affected Americans. This is perrrrfect.

We can all agree it is too dangerous now for him not to be dead. So since he is dead, why wouldn't they cut his head off?

We do not agree with this at all. So stop saying it.

And if they didn't cut his head off (although we are all agreeing he is still dead),

Why do you keep repeating this? Just to make sure we all read it a few times?

then they simply faked it to scare us which is consistent with their message and motivation.

This we agree on - but the 'they' you believe is the big scary brown people of ISIS, when most of us here think otherwise. Considering this video was leaked by the same group who leaked bin Laden videos 3 years after they stopped appearing on the news, some of us are skeptical of its authenticity.

I don't think trying to wonder if its a real head or not is going to provide any answers, even if you find Sotloff drinking coffee in a Starbucks (actually, that would probably be the only thing that could provide answers, if he would be stupid enough to talk).

He might be dead, he might not be. I don't know for sure, because I didn't see him die and haven't seen him appear alive since the video. But that doesn't really matter. What matters is the message, and when I ask my friends and family about it - they are content to glass the place. Which means these videos were far more effective than all that Syria-Sarin gas crap from last summer.

I don't think there has ever been a case where the US has invaded another country based on a couple of American hostages being killed, at least not in this century or the one before.

America was engaged in military operations against ISIS weeks before the James Foley video appeared.

The US doesn't need to stage a few US journalist executions for a pretext to invade Iraq or Syria, they already are engaging militarily in that region.

I cannot see the sense in going to all the trouble of staging these videos, and to apparently stage them really badly as well.

Unless I'm missing something here?

I agree with your final conclusion.

We can all agree it is too dangerous now for him not to be dead.

what? this is illogic.