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VP Debate - a true "natural" and a wannabe
The New Energy Expert Doesn’t Blink - She Winks.
Tonight, we met the latest version of Sarah Palin. A mix between the RNC pitbull and the brawling Ross Perot.
We’ve been winked at, mavericked, joesixpacked, hockeymummed, heckofaloted,mainstreeterlikemeed, waktawaktaktataked by the new self proclaimed national expert in energy issues.
Tonight, Joe Biden was controling himself (he only managed to lose the gay-lesbian voters, who anyway won’t rush to Sarah Read My Lipstick Palin*). Like Obama the other day**, he missed opportunities on economics (he could for instance denounce the politics of "fear" of her opponent).
But he didn’t blink when it came to put a label on the Bush legacy, "an abject failure", Dick Cheney, "the most dangerous Vice-President in History". And he shed a tear that looked more genuine than Palin’s fake and nervous compassion. His support of Israel sounded more sincere than her AIPAC leaflet... The true "natural" was the one who didn’t have to train clumsily to look and sound like one.
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Posted: 2008/09/13
From: MNN
The British Israel Communications and Research Centre `Bicom` was reported Friday to be in dispute with the US-based Israeli Project over lobbying information to the UK media.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, Bicom was "angry" that the Israeli regime is working closely with their US counterparts over what was called "public relations initiatives aimed at British media."
"There is intense competition between the two groups when it comes to working with the British media, with Bicom telling us that the Israel Project doesn't understand how to work with journalists from Britain," a senior Israeli official was quoted saying.
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By Leonard Pitts - Miami Herald
Published 12:00 am PDT Monday, September 8, 2008
"We need change, all right. Change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington. We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington – throw out the big-government liberals."
– Mitt Romney,
Sept. 3, 2008
And then the gorilla run knee socks paint porno on the Cadillac. But school laughed and didn't we sing hats?
Ahem.
Maybe you wonder what the preceding gobbledygook means. I would ask which gobbledygook you mean: mine or Mitt Romney's? If he's allowed to spew nonsense and people act as if he's spoken intelligently, why can't I? If he gets to behave as if words no longer have objective meaning, why can't I?
I mean, baffle grab on the freak flake. Really.
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Funny, that a Jewish run Media Group, Ben Venzke's IntelCenter, is AGAIN the first to get their grubby little paws on this info, since their logo is clearly displayed in the upper right corner of the video shown on FOX.
Let's see, the next scheduled "aL-Qaeda" tape will be around 9/11, when one of the Jewish Media Groups, either IntelCenter or Rita Katz's SITE, digs up--literally, by using a shovel--Bin Laden to rave about AQ's actions on 9/11, when even the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist page on BL doesn't say anything about BL and 9/11.
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Anyone who's seen McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin's speech at last night's RNC must of had shivers running up and down their spines. And not the shivers you get from embracing a long-lost love one, but the kind of shivers one might feel when watching a slasher gore fest movie.
The parallels between Adolph Hitler's Rally's at Nuremberg, shown vividly in Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 movie, "Triumph of the Will" and the RNC staged love in at St. Paul's Xcel Center were too eerie to discount. Instead of torchlights, we had laser lights.
Instead of speeches by various Nazi leaders like Rudolph Hess and Joseph Goebbels, and portions of speeches by Adolph Hitler, we had speeches by Rudolph Giuliani and Joseph Lieberman with today's reigning Fuhrer, GW Bush, sending in his speech via satellite.--MORE--
Possibly-Fake Pics Fueled Georgian Propaganda Push
Did major international media, including wire service Reuters, clumsily help spread pro-Georgian propaganda during the recent war with Russia? It appears so, based on apparently staged photos by George Abdaladze, a Reuters contributor.
Several blogs, most notably Byzantine Blog, have highlighted some, ahem, curious details in a series of photos claiming to portray civilian casualties of Russian attacks on the town of Gori.
DANGER ROOM pal Bryan William Jones, himself a photographer, brought our attention to this. On his own he noticed similarities between several of Abdaladze's pics that he says "made me sit up and say WTF?" One series of photos from Gori show "corpses" changing location and poses, while one photogenic Georgian man (pictured above in black) appears in nearly all the photos "grieving" for the dead.
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Why I don't like those kind of articles?
Because they are not honest with you or me. On my computer I have - like you - a command key and an 'F'. (Apple) The 'F' stands for 'find'. And it's always the same with gatekeepers like Klare, Tom Engelhardt, Zinn and all the other 'Chomskys of this world': they can write and write about the effects of the present usury system which makes 99% of humanity suffer. But they never explain about the origins, the financiers of all trouble, the ;false flags' and of the illegal invasions for power and profit. So, if I with the 'F' for instance look for the word 'Israel' in the article, I don't find it in this text. And that's not honest, it's gatekeeping.
Klare writes for instance: "Clinton made a secondary decision - to convert the new Georgian army into a military proxy of the United States, equipped and trained by the Department of Defense." That's not reality again, because in Israel they were mighty proud of the arming and training of the Georgian military and special forces, and their $billion investments.
Gatekeeper Klare also writes: "Boris Yeltsin, was far too preoccupied with domestic troubles." Klare knows very well that Boris Yeltsin for years also was kept permanently drunk by the robbing thieves around him, by the BBC portrayed as Russia's 'business oligarchs' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ytrsks
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'Without doubt, psychological warfare has proved its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal.' - Eisenhower
The recent De Telegraaf article[i] 'revealing' the Dutch intelligence cooperation with the CIA is a propaganda piece aimed at undermining the credibility of the United Nations specialized agency, the IAEA, and its chief Mohammad ElBaradei's findings on Iran's peaceful civilian nuclear program. As importantly, it presents war as the solution to a non-existent threat.
De Telegraaf would have the readers believe that the Dutch intelligence has been secretly operating inside Iran and the information gathered is being shared with the CIA. It is common knowledge that the American administration is frustrated with the lack of information it has on Iran and its civilian nuclear program. Equally frustrating is the Administration's dissatisfaction at being in the dark about the complex Iranian society and its government. There are no or few Iran specialists; certainly few who are willing to cooperate with the CIA. Likewise, it is an open secret that the terrorist cult Mojahedeen-e Khalg which according to sources receives its information from Mossad, has been providing the CIA with -- not reliable and accurate-- information. There is no doubt that the Dutch are cooperating with the CIA – but the extent of their cooperation is limited to communication – disseminating rumors.
Writing in Mein Kamp, Adolf Hitler claimed that the masses were more influenced by their emotions than by their brains; to this end, "all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogans". It would seem the neoconservatives are students and fans of Adolf Hitler. |
Keith Olbermann warns America that the Bush Administration is attempting to manufacture phony evidence linking American deaths in Iraq to weapons supplied by Iran. Why would they do this? Well, to justify attacking Iran, for starters.
YOU DO REALIZE, THEY ARE MAKING THIS UP ABOUT IRAN!
Please keep this video in mind in case the Bush (or, god forbid, McCain) Administration claims that Iran launched a terrorist attack on America somehow. It's clear that the Republican war profiteers want an excuse to invade Iran, and it's clear that they are willing to manufacture any excuse to do so.
Originally aired on May 13, 2008 on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Sorry about the Windows Media Center border around the video; I had to use screen capture software to get around all the DRM garbage built into Windows.
The Liar called out in this clip is US Major General Kevin J. Bergner, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Winter PatriotMistakes were made when the so-called "Liquid Bombers" were arrested, and in two instances, British national dailies reported information which turned out to be false. These false reports led to claims of defamation which have cost the publishers hundreds of thousands to settle out of court.
In the first instance, it was reported that a British man had been arrested, held overnight, and released without charges. But later a consortium of newspapers published an apology saying he had never been arrested at all, and they paid £170,000 (about $330,000) to settle a claim filed on his behalf.
The second instance concerned a man about whom many different reports were published. Thus it was variously reported that he had been arrested or detained for questioning, in Britain or in Pakistan. But later a group of newspapers apologized, saying that he had not been arrested or detained or even questioned by any police, anywhere. Again a substantial settlement was paid, but in this instance the amount was not disclosed.
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Monday, August 18, 2008
In covering the story of Iran's role in Iraq, far too many reporters have passed on blatant propaganda without the slightest effort to point out its inconsistency with documented facts, much less to try to uncover the truth. But a story by Pamela Hess of Associated Press distributed Aug. 15 sets a new standard for abetting official disinformation.
In the story, she acts as an enthusiastic megaphone for a patently phony story from an anonymous "senior intelligence officer."
Hess' hit-squad training story should be assigned to journalism classes for the next generation to open a discussion about what went wrong with American journalism before and during America's overtly imperial war in the Middle East. And Hess should be seen as a stunningly clear illustration of what happens when a reporter gives up any pretense of independence from the national-security state.
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While large-scale military operations may be coming to an end, the political war over Georgia is likely to escalate. (Reuters: Vasily Fedosenko, file photo)
On 12 August, President Dmitry Medvedev declared the end to Russian military operations in Georgia on the basis that they have accomplished set tasks: Georgian forces were pushed back from Southern Ossetia and their fighting capability was seriously curtailed. However, the end of the Russian counter-offensive will not halt the information war that carries on.
In his highly emotional article on the ongoing conflict in Southern Ossetia, Mr Grigol Ubiria was quick to identify Russia as the root cause of the problems in the south-eastern Caucasus and the world in general. The conflict over Southern Ossetia is a complex multi-layered phenomenon that requires a balanced analytical approach. To be able to get a comprehensive picture, apart from the viewpoints of the United States and Georgia, Russia's motives and strategic intentions have to be examined also.
Russia's claims about its traditional role in the area are based on the history of its engagement in regional affairs. The nation's influence over the Caucasus was established in the 18th century as a result of the nation's prolonged struggle with the Ottoman Empire. After yet another war with the Ottomans (1768-74), Russia secured the Crimean Peninsula, the Sea of Azov and further south along the Black Sea coast. In 1783, the Russian Empress Catherine II (the Great) and the ruler of two Georgian provinces (Kartly and Kakhetiya) Irakliy II signed the so-called Georgian Treaty, according to which Russia offered Eastern Georgia a status of a protectorate and guaranteed the safety of the local Orthodox Christian population against the neighbouring Ottoman Empire. After the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-91, the Russian protectorate was extended to the rest of Georgia.
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Topics: activism | propaganda | secrecy | U.S. government | war/peace
As reporters and researchers know all too well, releasing information isn't necessarily the same thing as releasing useful information.
Pentagon pundit Ken AllardCase in point: the Pentagon's military analyst program. In early 2002, the Defense Department began cultivating "key influentials" -- retired military officers who are frequent media commentators -- to help the Bush administration make the case for invading Iraq. The program expanded over the years, briefing more participants on a wider range of Bush administration talking points, occasionally taking them overseas on the government's dime.
In April 2006, the group was used to counter criticism of then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The apparent coordination between the Pentagon and the pundits piqued the interest of New York Times reporters. Two years later -- after wresting some 8,000 pages of internal documents from the Defense Department -- the Times exposed the Pentagon's covert attempts to shape public opinion through its so-called "message force multipliers." A few weeks later, the Defense Department posted the same documents publicly.
It wasn't the high-octane data dump it first appeared to be. Sure, paging through the emails, slides and briefing papers is interesting, and occasionally you come across something noteworthy. But the documents are formatted in such a way that systematically exploring them via keyword searches is impossible. A cynic (or realist) might think the Pentagon was doing damage control by putting the documents out in the open, while making it near-impossible to find crucial needles in a very large, chaotically-compiled haystack.
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An Iraqi boy moves through a gap between concrete blocks in the Sunni Arab quarter of Azamiyah, in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin) | |
Few governments have relied more on euphemism than the Bush administration. Euphemism is different from spin. Spin puts the best face forward on a given policy; euphemism uses its opposite to describe itself. Hence the Clear Skies Initiative to weaken the Clean Air Act; the Freedom Agenda to describe military domination of the Middle East; or Enhanced Interrogation to discuss torture.
The Iraq War has been characterized by euphemism since its inception. The name "Operation Iraqi Freedom" denotes a foreign military occupation of Iraq endlessly described as liberation -- a term that, in practice, means the absolute opposite of any common-sense definition of "freedom." For over five years, foreign troops have enjoyed the legal right to kill any Iraqi whom commanders deem fit to kill; to search any house commanders deem fit to search; and to detain any Iraqi whom commanders deem fit to detain. This is, clearly, a condition Americans would never accept for themselves. Debate can reasonably occur over whether the war is worth it or whether the rules of engagement are appropriate. But no one can responsibly call this condition "freedom" for Iraqis.
Here's a guide to some of the most pronounced, and pernicious, euphemisms of the Iraq War.
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And What You're Not Learning from Them
The Associated Press is a monstrous contradiction. On one hand, the 162-year-old, corporate-media collective feigns high concern for accuracy, objectivity, and other journalistic principles; on the other hand, it operates at the expense of same.
By way of its being a corporate collective, its top priority is to maximize revenues of its members. While this is not an illegal goal in and of itself, no corporate enterprise should be able to get away with accomplishing that goal at any cost and by any means, including deception and flat-out lies.
Too many people in the world are fooled by AP’s self-styled image of being the most trustworthy source for breaking news the world over. Sure, it is the world’s largest and most widely-distributed news service; but in light of certain patterns of shoddy and sometimes blatantly fraudulent reporting, this only makes it the most dangerous and subversive.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Last week former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and said the White House distributed "talking points" to friendly Fox journalists.McClellan's confirmation of an operation inside the White House of providing comprehensive talking points to Fox News and other Conservative talk show personalities to manipulate the media and control the message regarding the Iraq War and the "war on terror" is a violation of anti-propaganda laws. By law the government sources must be disclosed by the reporting news outlets.
Yesterday a report prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general and its internal ethics office found that a few aides to Alberto Gonzales and White House officials were actively involved in hiring decisions for non political positions at the DOJ. Being a loyal Republican was the main criteria for being hired, not education or experience.
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Info on Intel Center's home page about their operations is sparse, but one would think that some intelligence operation that spanned the planet, scooping up Islamic threat videos before even the world's assembled intelligence agencies had a clue would have a legit mailing address and not just a measly Post Office box, like this one:
PO Box 22572
Alexandria, VA 22304-9257
US
Here's some info from Source Watch on Ben Venzke and his IntelCenter and the various aL-CIA-duh videos this Jewish media group was able to ferret out even before the FBI, CIA, NSA and Britain's MI 5 knew the videos were available.
The perversion and demise of the U.S. Republic and the global shakedown of U.S.- and Israeli-chosen enemies would not be possible without the neocon-Likudnik empire’s Propaganda Ministry.
This three-part document makes a layman’s case against the members thereof — most notably, News Corporation, The Associated Press, and the various ideological agents that are keeping media and state incestuously bonded and heading down the road to fascist self-destruction and global immolation.
Bite the Lamb; Cry Wolf
On September 6, 2007, Israeli Air Forces (IAF) jets violated Syrian airspace and destroyed a construction site which was alleged by Israeli officials to have been a nuclear facility intended for weaponization. The evidence accompanying the Israeli allegations, which was not officially put forward until months later, showed no wrongdoing on Syria’s part. That any mainstream news outlet would report the Israeli accusations without a healthy dose of skepticism would be a travesty.
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