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Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-01): New Delhi: Thursday saw a major victory for India as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was confirmed to be released by Pakistan. The news surely comes as a welcome one as over a billion Indians and many more worldwide were praying for the safe return of the brave Indian Air Force Pilot to the Indian soil. [...] India on Wednesday demanded the immediate and safe return of IAF pilot, Abhinandan after his MiG-21 Bison was brought down by Pakistani forces.
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-02): After days of increasing hostility between India and Pakistan, things seem to be de-escalating. Yesterday, Pakistan Prime Minister announced the release of Wing commander Abhinandan Varthaman, who was captured by the Pakistani armed forces when he landed in Pakistan occupied Kashmir after his jet crashed in aerial combat with Pakistan. As per the reports, he shot down a Pakistan F-16 before being downed. [...] On Wednesday, Wing Commander Abhinandan was taken into custody by the Pakistani army after his. Pakistan then released a video in which the 38-year-old fighter pilot, who has 16 years of experience with the IAF, is seen sipping tea, as a Pakistani major questioned him. WC Abhinandan Varthaman is being hailed as a hero for the calm and composure he exhibited while refusing to share any information about his mission with the Pakistani army. [...] Fighter pilot Abhinandan Varthaman was first taken to Indian High Commission in Islamabad from where he was handed over to Indian officials. A convoy of 8-9 cars reached Wagah border which had Abhinandan in one of the cars. According to the reports, two top officers from the Indian Air Force officials were also present to receive Wing Commander Abhinandan at the Wagah border on Friday evening. After spending over 60 hours in the custody of Pakistan, Wing Commander Abhinandan was escorted by the Pakistani soldiers as he marched towards the Indian territory.
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2020-04-20): Welcome home Wing Commander Abhinandan: PM Modi "Welcome Home Wing Commander Abhinandan! The nation is proud of your exemplary courage. Our armed forces are an inspiration for 130 crore Indians. Vande Mataram!," PM Modi tweeted. [...] PM Modi hailed Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman saying every Indian was proud of him and lashed out at political rivals for suspecting the armed forces which, he said, helped Pakistan, according to a report in PTI. [...] The parents of Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman were given a standing ovation when they de-boarded an IndiGo Chennai-New Delhi flight here. The family
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-02): A video is being shared on Facebook with the title ‘Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan’s Wife Request to Modi Government – Don’t play politics’. Let’s try to analyze the claim made in the post. [...] Fact: The woman shown in the video is not IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife. So, the claim is FALSE. The woman shown in the video is Sirisha Rao (Boom Live has used advanced searches to find the identity of the woman and contacted her to confirm that she was the one in the video). In the video, she says that she is a wife of an Indian army officer; but Abhinandan is an Indian Air Force Wing Commander. So, it can be concluded that she is not the wife of Abhinandan. Also, she has clarified on her Twitter account that her identity has been forged.
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-08): New Delhi (Team Vishvas). A video is going viral on social media in which a woman can be seen appealing to the government not to politicise the sacrifice of the soldiers. According to the description, the woman in the video is the wife of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Abhinandan who was in the captivity of Pakistani Army. In our investigation, we found that the woman in the viral video is not the wife of Wing Commander Abhinandan. In the video being shared, this lady says, " Hello everyone I am wife on an army officer, I request all Indians and political leaders not to politicize the sacrifice of our soldiers. It takes so much to be a soldier and imagine the kind on pain the family of Abhinandan is going through. So please, at least till the tension is eased at the Indo-Pak border, stop your rallies, and don’t you dare to snatch away the credit of our soldiers. You have enough time to play politics but not now. It’s my humble request specially to the BJP political leaders". The video is going viral with the description "The message of the wife of Wing Commander Abhinandan, BJP should stop politicizing the sacrifice of soldiers".
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2021-12-02): Politicisation of the Armed Forces Once no distinction is left between a political government and the military, the next logical step is exploitation of the latter for electoral gains. Military-themed political posters and politicians campaigning in military fatigues post-Balakot are examples of that trend. Have no doubts that what we are likely to witness in the near future is politicisation of the Armed Forces. Politicisation implies that the Armed Forces identify with a political ideology or a political thought-process and start exercising influence in the affairs of the State. Military advice on national security becomes biased as does its actions with respect to internal security. This does not augur well for a multi-cultural, multilingual and multi-religious society that requires a secular and apolitical military. [...] Politicisation of the Armed Forces is a self-defeating exercise in a democracy and political parties who attempt it, do so at their own peril. Once the Armed Forces are politicised, they become a law unto themselves!
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-01): Humble request.@BJP4India dont count your seats at the cost of soldiers sacrifice #MeraJawanSabseMajboot pic.twitter.com/v749N8ygBy — Sirisha Rao (@SirishaRao12) February 28, 2019 "Hello everyone, I am the wife of an army officer. On behalf of the families of all the armed forces, I request my fellow Indians, especially the political leaders not to politicise the sacrifice of our soldiers. It takes so much to be a soldier and just imagine the kind of tension, the kind of pain the family of Abhinandan is going through right now. So please till the time the tension is eased at the border stop your political rallies and don’t you dare, I repeat, don’t you dare snatch away the credit of our soldiers. So please stop counting your tickets and stop doing your politics. You have enough times to play your politics but not at this time and not at the cost of our soldiers’ sacrifice. It is my humble request to all political leaders, especially the BJP political leaders", Rao had said in the video.
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2020-10-29): Request letter to not to politicize animals [...] Fw: Request letter to not to politicize animals
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2020-04-28): The language irked the opposition that believes Modi is increasingly politicising the armed forces for his benefit. [...] Later on, Wednesday when the opposition met, leaders spoke harshly against Modi and BJP for politicising the armed forces. "The meeting of 21 parties expressed their deep anguish over the blatant politicisation of the sacrifices made by our armed forces by a leader of the ruling party. National security must transcend narrow political considerations," the Hindu quoted the Opposition joint memorandum saying.
Claim: IAF Wing Commander Abhinandan’s wife requests the Modi government not to play politicize the sacrifices of the soldiers (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-03-02)
Evidence (2019-03-01): The Indian government on Thursday asked YouTube to pull down videos which showed IAF pilot Abhinandan in Pak custody. "We had received complaints...yesterday an unfortunate instance had come up where humiliating videos of the Wing Commander (Abhinandan) had been uploaded on YouTube from Pakistan side. We had sent a notice to YouTube and complying with the same they took down 11 such videos," Union IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told media at press briefing the cabinet meeting in New Delhi. [...] In another development on Wednesday, twenty-one opposition parties expressed anguish over what they alleged was "blatant politicisation" of the sacrifices of armed forces and urged the government to take the nation into confidence on all measures to protect India's sovereignty, unity and integrity. [...] "Anguished over blatant politicisation of sacrifices of armed forces by ruling party. Urge government to take the nation into confidence on all measures to protect India's sovereignty, unity, integrity.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2023-03-22): There is no evidence to support this conspiracy theory. The theory was propagated by British author Robin Gardiner, but it was debunked by many authors and experts, including Steve Hall and Bruce Beveridge. The differences between the Titanic and the Olympic were more than just cosmetic and included many structural differences that would have made it impossible to switch the two ships. The insurance fraud theory also does not hold up to scrutiny. Several documentary films have presented expert evidence to debunk the conspiracy theories surrounding the Titanic disaster. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2023-11-17): CLAIM: The Titanic did not sink. It was switched with one of its sister ships, the Olympic, before it set sail. [...] But maritime historians told The Associated Press that switching the RMS Titanic and the RMS Olympic would not have been possible. "There’s a mountain of evidence against this switch conspiracy," said J. Kent Layton, who has published multiple books about the Titanic. [...] Speculation that the Olympic, which was damaged in a 1911 collision with the HMS Hawke, a British warship, was sunk in place of the Titanic as part of an insurance fraud scheme to build an entirely new boat with the Titanic’s policy also doesn’t hold up, in part because the Titanic wasn’t insured for its full construction value. The ship cost $7.5 million to build, but was insured only for $5 million, meaning that its sinking was a financial loss.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
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Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2024-09-24): The Olympic–Titanic Switch Theory, for the uninitiated, rests on a proposal by Robin Gardiner that the damage inflicted on the Olympic in 1911 after a collision with the elderly warship Hawke, armed with a quaint but effective underwater ram, prompted the WSL to attempt an insurance scam. The crocked-up Olympic would be disguised as her almost identical sister, the new Titanic, then sailed out into deep waters, safely abandoned on a pretext, and allowed to quietly sink. The real Titanic would become the Olympic, sail on happily ever after, and the WSL would claim on Titanic’s insurance. Thus Gardiner’s thesis is that the ship two and a half miles down in the Atlantic is not the newer Titanic, but actually the older and terminally un-seaworthy Olympic. This proposition might make even the most factually-challenged of Titanic enthusiasts frown and say "But…..", and it would be a brave person, on Encyclopedia Titanica, who publicly defended Gardiner’s conspiracy theory.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2020-09-13): The RMS Titanic sank at approximately 0215 hours on 15 April 1912. Since this fateful event, a number of people have suggested that it wasn’t the Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic, but her sister ship, the Olympic. Their registries were changed as an insurance scam stemming from a collision RMS Olympic suffered a year before which caused extensive and costly damage to the hull. Here are the facts concerning the RMS Olympic and Titanic Conspiracy Theory. [...] Olympic managed to head back to Southampton for repairs under her own steam without any major injury or fatality aboard. But it is exactly this collision that is at the center of people’s belief that the Olympic and Titanic were switched. The White Star Line discovered that the damage to the RMS Olympic was more extensive than initially believed, and an insurance scam of epic proportions was put into action. [...] It has been suggested that while both RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic were in dry dock together in Belfast, both ship registries were switched and that it was the RMS Olympic, not the Titanic, that set off for New York on 10 April. Was it possible that Capt. Smith deliberately scuttled his own ship at the behest of the White Star Line?
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2022-03-21): It takes a complete separation from all logic to believe the Titanic never really sank, but occasionally you can find an argument that the vessel sailed off to safety in an insurance scam gone awry. The story lays out a theory that White Star Line switched out the Titanic for its sister ship, the Olympic, during the journey. The Olympic, one of the line’s other massive ships, had been damaged during a collision in 1911. Hoping to recoup the expensive repair costs not covered by insurance, White Star Line launched the similar (though not identical) Olympic in place of the newer Titanic, which would then be purposely sunk to collect an insurance payout. While it’s true the Olympic was damaged, insurance coverage for the Titanic makes the plan nonsensical: Titanic had an estimated value of $7.5 million, but White Star Line’s insurance was capped at $5 million.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2012-04-14): The biggest ship of its kind, Titanic was billed ‘unsinkable’ by its owners White Star Line. But on April 15, 1912, it hit an iceberg and sank in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, with the loss of 1,517 lives However, according to Mr Gardiner, 64, the ship that sank was not Titanic at all – it was Olympic, her sister ship, in what was planned as one of the world’s greatest insurance frauds. Mr Gardiner, 64, a plasterer and father-of-one from Barton, said: "My new book, The Great Titanic Conspiracy, has new, conclusive photographic and documentary evidence of the swap of Olympic and Titanic. [...] "Swapping the identities of Olympic and Titanic was also the opportunity for Morgan, with the collusion of the British government, to quietly ship £8m of gold to the US.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2023-03-14): "What if it wasn't the Titanic that sank?" they posited. "What if it was actually the Olympic? What if it was a ploy to remove a faulty ship that was costing them more money than she was bringing in for White Star Line and cash in on her million-pound insurance policy?" [...] This is the point at which facts turn into conspiracy. In fact, conspiracy theorists say, all these disasters were part of an insurance scam: the Olympic collision had been such a money sink, the idea goes, that White Star Line simply swapped out the two ships, sending the bashed-up Olympic to sink in the Atlantic while the Titanic stayed safe in the docks. [...] So much for the arguments in favor of the conspiracy – but is there any reason to seriously doubt the idea? Well, Occam’s razor notwithstanding, there’s actually a very major flaw in the idea that the Titanic was sunk as a phony insurance claim: basically, the math doesn’t hold up.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Olympic exchange hypothesis [edit]One of the controversial[5][6] and elaborate theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic was advanced by Robin Gardiner in his book Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank? (1998).[7] Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact Titanic's sister ship Olympic, disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam by its owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2007-10-19): Claim: The sister ship to the Olympic and Titanic was originally intended to be named the Gigantic. [...] The planned ships were so large that the shipbuilders, Harland and Wolff, had to allocate space normally used for building three hulls to handle just two of the new behemoths. Harland and Wolff planned to construct the liners on a staggered schedule so that White Star would have one ready to go into service each spring between 1911 and 1913, and initially everything went according to plan. The keel of the first ship, the Olympic, was laid in December 1908, and the Titanic followed suit three months later. The Olympic was launched in October 1910, and the Titanic in May 1911. The Olympic's maiden voyage took place in June 1911, and the Titanic's in April 1912. [...] From a purely logical point of view, Gigantic seems the more likely choice. The names Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic all evoke a sense of size and strength that Britannic simply does not. And White Star had considered naming a ship Gigantic on at least one other occasion, as demonstrated by this brief article that appeared
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2022-08-06): Robin Gardiner (24 May 1947 – 23 July 2017) was an English Titanic conspiracy theorist who made several theories in which the Titanic never sank. Most of the conspiracy theories revolved around an alleged switch with Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic. [...] Gardiner's Ship That Never Sank [edit]One of the most controversial[2][3] and complex theories was put forward by Robin Gardiner in his book, Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?.[4] In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact Titanic's sister ship Olympic, disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam by her owners, the International Mercantile Marine Group, controlled by American financier J.P. Morgan that had acquired the White Star Line in 1902.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2022-04-15): The Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, had two sister ships almost identical in size and luxury: the Olympic and the Britannic. The White Star Line hoped to conquer its rivals in the booming transatlantic passenger trade with this state-of-the-art trio. [...] The RMS Olympic launched on October 20, 1910, and was the oldest of the three ships. Like the Titanic, it held a contract with the British government to carry mail ("RMS" stands for royal mail ship), and it would follow the same route from Southampton, UK, to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland; and New York City. The Olympic could carry more than 2300 passengers at the very height of luxury. Its first voyage took place on June 14, 1911, without incident. The Titanic’s shocking sinking on April 15, 1912, suggested that the Olympic could suffer the same fate. White Star executives brought the ship back to the yard for extensive safety modifications, including raising the height of the watertight compartments and adding more lifeboats. The Olympic resumed transatlantic service a year after the Titanic disaster.
Claim: The Titanic ship was switched with the HMS Olympic and deliberately sunk as part of an insurance fraud scheme (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-03-22)
Evidence (2021-03-05): This tl;dr of this theory is that after the Olympic was damaged, the White Star Line switched it with the Titanic and purposely sunk it to claim the Titanic’s insurance. So, how did the Olympic receive the initial damage? During its fifth for-profit trip, the Olympic literally had a run-in with the HMS Hawke, off the tip of southern England. Both ships received extensive damage from the accident, though ultimately currents from the Olympic were found to be the fault of the incident. It was out of commission for nearly four months, meaning the White Star Line not only lost money on repairs, but also lost out on the cruises the Olympic could have run during that time. In comes the sinister theory – executives on the White Star Line decided to rebrand the Olympic as a new ship – the Titanic. They then took out an insurance policy on the "new" ship to get a larger payout than they would have gotten from the damaged "old" ship. So let’s get into why this is ridiculous, and why it didn’t happen. [...] Apart from those ethical holes in the plot, the Olympic showed so much wear and tear after having been used for a year that calling it new surely would have raised eyebrows. Additionally, the insurance coverage for the Titanic would not monetarily cover the loss of the Olympic. And while the ships were nearly identical from the outside, the Titanic boasted far more amenities – especially when it came to dining. Those improved dining rooms were found in the wreckage.