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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 20:47:11 GMT -8
Flying the flag, faking the news John Pilger, Published 01 September 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book Propaganda, published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society", and that the manipulators "constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country". Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism "public relations". The American tobacco industry hired Bernays [like Karl Rove] to convince women that they should smoke in public. By associating smoking with women's liberation, he made cigarettes "torches of freedom". In 1954, he conjured a communist menace in Guatemala as an excuse for overthrowing the democratically elected government, whose social reforms were threatening the United Fruit Company's monopoly of the banana trade. He called it a "liberation". ...... False reality The last US combat troops have left Iraq "as promised, on schedule", according to President Barack Obama. The TV news has been filled with cinematic images of the "last US soldiers", silhouetted against the dawn light, crossing the border into Kuwait. Fact They have not left. At least 50,000 troops will continue to operate from 94 bases. American air assaults are unchanged, as are special forces' assassinations. The number of "military contractors" is 100,000 and rising. Most Iraqi oil is now under direct foreign control. www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/pilger-iraq-false-war-public
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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 21:00:54 GMT -8
False reality It is not known how many Iraqis have died. They are "countless", or maybe "in the tens of thousands".
Fact As a direct consequence of the Anglo-American-led invasion, a million Iraqis have died. This figure, from Opinion Research Business, follows peer-reviewed research by Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, whose methods were secretly affirmed as "best practice" and "robust" by the Blair government's chief scientific adviser. This is rarely reported or presented to "charming" American generals. Neither is the dispossession of four million Iraqis, the malnourishment of most Iraqi children, the epidemic of mental illness, or the poisoning of the environment.
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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 21:03:29 GMT -8
The good news is that false realities often fail when the public trusts its own critical intelligence. Two classified documents recently released by WikiLeaks express the CIA's concern that the populations of European countries, which oppose their governments' war policies, are not succumbing to the usual propaganda spun through the media.
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Post by clone on Sept 13, 2010 21:13:27 GMT -8
:: Edward Bernays : on Propaganda and Public Relations :: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OrT-8gXMs"I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And, propaganda got to be a bad word because of the Germans. So what I did, was to try and find some other words, so we found the word council on public relations."Edward Bernays on propaganda and public relations with a polemic insert from Steven Pinker's 'The Staff of Thought'. Can elite bards and scribblers create new metaphors to manipulate public opinion? I think they can, and apparently they do. According to the The Government Accounting Office, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion over the last two and a half years on public relations operations. That's $1.6 billion of our tax money commandeered for, among other things, O.T.I.-style partisan propaganda here at home, aimed at affecting domestic elections. Included in this figure is a mysterious $15 million paid directly to individual members of the media.
This information comes on the tail of previous disclosures concerning covert propaganda operations including the production of fake TV news stories and Bush administration payoffs to crooked journalists to slant stories even further in a pro-Bush direction than the normal corporate media spin.
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Post by moabiter on Sept 17, 2010 2:44:52 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Dec 30, 2010 1:03:44 GMT -8
National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad Editorial by Dea Mallin The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia. From the thousands of inscribed clay tablets, including Hammurabi’s Code and the Epic of Gilgamesh, to artifacts from the excavations at Ur, including the Ram in the Thicket and golden cups, weapons, jewelry, and the first narrative image of battle, scholars must now work to identify the missing, though the collection has never been fully catalogued or published. Definitely “disappeared” is the Sumerian alabaster vase, the Lady of Warka, from Uruk, 5,000 years old and one of the earliest representations of the human face. Gone is the huge bronze statue of Basitki from the Akkadian period, hauled out despite its weight. Gone is a wooden portal of King Sargon from 720 BC. Found shattered on the museum floors were ceramic pieces and the bodies of Roman statues, no more than shards, their hacked-off heads stolen away. Lost is the collection of 80,000 cuneiform tablets with the world’s earliest writing documenting literary, mathematical, and legal matters. Also among the missing is the solid gold harp of Ur. While the frenzied destruction was first assumed to be the result of an impassioned populace, suddenly free, it looks as if most of the looting was done by professional thieves, well-prepared in anticipation of the unguarded moment. Storage rooms and steel-door vaults were breached with proper keys. Museum records were thoroughly burned. www.sun-nation.org/merkl-sumeria.html
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Post by clone on Jan 11, 2011 18:42:44 GMT -8
'Hit men kill 240 Iraqi officials' Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:13AM Nearly 360 Iraqis, including 240 high-level security officials, have been killed by so-called 'hit men,' a recent phenomenon that has taken root in Iraq, General Kamal added on Tuesday, the Iraqi daily Al-Zaman, a newspaper published simultaneously in London and Baghdad, reported. www.presstv.ir/detail/159631.html2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet#- US military policies and wars in Iraq have created severe desertification of 90 percent of the land, changing Iraq from a food exporter into a country that imports 80 percent of its food. #- “The Iraq war was responsible for at least 141 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) from March 2003 through December 2007. . . . That war emits more than 60 percent that of all countries. . . . censorshipinamerica.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/2-us-department-of-defense-is-the-worst-polluter-on-the-planet/
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Post by moabiter on Jan 12, 2011 10:11:07 GMT -8
Saturday, January 8, 2011 CIA Asset Susan Lindauer blows the whistle on 9/11, Iraq Susan Lindauer, author of Extreme Prejudice, is the first CIA asset to have spoken out, under her own name and for the record, on Israeli complicity in 9/11, the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and the specific, detailed foreknowledge of the time, target, and means of the 9/11 attacks held throughout the months prior to 9/11 by the CIA in general and Lindauer's CIA handler, Richard Fuisz, in particular. She has also exposed her first-hand knowledge of pre-war intelligence and negotiations showing that Iraq was willing to give the US "anything it asked" and that the war was therefore--from the perspective of US interests--not only utterly unnecessary, but wildly counterproductive. Lindauer's evidence points strongly to 9/11 being a coup d'etat by hard-line Zionists determined to steer the US into a self-destructive war on Israel's enemies. truthjihad.blogspot.com/2011/01/cia-asset-susan-lindauer-blows-whistle.htmlAlso posted here: 9/11 Reinquiry - Pentagon, AA Flight 77, er...www.pyrelog.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=weapons&action=display&thread=138&page=7
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Post by clone on Jan 12, 2011 22:48:07 GMT -8
In the three weeks since the April 20th explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the start of the subsequent massive (and ongoing) oil leak, ... Iraq Oil Bases Sprout as Halliburton Chases Growth (Update2) April 21, 2010, 4:14 PM EDT Schlumberger Ltd., Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. are among companies this past week that said they’re expanding operations in Iraq. Weatherford International Ltd., the fourth- largest oilfield-services provider by market value, will expand staff in Iraq to more than 1,000 by July, Chief Executive Officer Bernard Duroc-Danner told investors yesterday on a conference call. ... BP, which is leading development of Iraq’s biggest oil field, known as Rumaila, awarded $500 million in service contracts last month. Included were projects won by Geneva-based Weatherford and a partnership between Schlumberger, based in Houston and Paris, and state-owned Iraqi Drilling Co. www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-21/iraq-oil-bases-sprout-as-halliburton-schlumberger-seek-profit.html
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Post by clone on Jan 15, 2011 18:59:14 GMT -8
Flying the flag, faking the news John Pilger, Published 01 September 2010 Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book Propaganda, published in 1928, Bernays wrote that the "intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society", and that the manipulators "constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power in our country". Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism "public relations". The American tobacco industry hired Bernays [like Karl Rove] to convince women that they should smoke in public. By associating smoking with women's liberation, he made cigarettes "torches of freedom". In 1954, he conjured a communist menace in Guatemala as an excuse for overthrowing the democratically elected government, whose social reforms were threatening the United Fruit Company's monopoly of the banana trade. He called it a "liberation". ...... False reality The last US combat troops have left Iraq "as promised, on schedule", according to President Barack Obama. The TV news has been filled with cinematic images of the "last US soldiers", silhouetted against the dawn light, crossing the border into Kuwait. Fact They have not left. At least 50,000 troops will continue to operate from 94 bases. American air assaults are unchanged, as are special forces' assassinations. The number of "military contractors" is 100,000 and rising. Most Iraqi oil is now under direct foreign control. www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/pilger-iraq-false-war-public An Iraqi soldier killed two U.S. soldiers and injured a third. January 15 2011 In Mosul, Iraq today, two United States soldiers were killed at a military camp when an Iraqi soldier opened fire. The facility was a camp to train Iraqi security forces. One other officer was wounded in the incident, and the military has no answers as to why the Iraqi soldier opened fire. Another United States officer was also killed today in an undisclosed location. Details on that death have not yet been released. tothecenter.com/index.php?readmore=15088
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Post by oh see can u say on Sept 11, 2011 19:29:34 GMT -8
Obey your government! Subliminal TV anthem in the 60's UNCOVERED! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvGnKCZ3mlAIDIOCRACY : Freud´s ideas misused by nephew Bernays www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23PF2b9tAIThis is the first stepping-stone to the western society-propaganda of yesterday, today and tommorow... Campaigns This list is incomplete Some of the campaigns Bernays worked on: * In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. He then told the press that a group of women's rights marchers would light "Torches of Freedom". On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: "Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of 'Freedom'". This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public. During this decade he also handled publicity for the NAACP * Bernays once engineered a "pancake breakfast" with vaudevillians for Calvin Coolidge in what is widely considered one of the first overt media acts for a president. * Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud's ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast * In October 1929, Bernays was involved in promoting "Light's Golden Jubilee." The event, which spanned across several major cities in the U.S., was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the light-bulb (note: the light-bulb was in fact invented by Joseph Swan). The publicity elements of the Jubilee including the special issuance of a U.S. postage stamp and Edison's "re-creating" the invention of the light bulb for a nationwide radio audience provided evidence of Bernays' love for big ideas and "ballyhoo." * Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign. * In the 1930s, his Dixie Cup campaign was designed to convince consumers that only disposable cups were sanitary. Beyond his contributions to these famous and powerful clients, Bernays revolutionized public relations by combining traditional press agentry with the techniques of psychology and sociology to create what one writer has called "the science of ballyhoo."
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Post by clone on Nov 6, 2011 9:35:52 GMT -8
THE LOOTING OF THE BAGHDAD MUSEUM Iraq Museum International MOSAIC/Abu Dhabi TV/Link TV Broadcast April 16, 2003 When the Taliban regime threatened to destroy huge Buddha statues in Bamiyan, people, governments, organizations, archaeologists, and even Islamic clergies tried to convince the Taliban not to destroy these statues and said that they represent historical treasures that belong to all humanity. The calls for help from the Baghdad Museum and Al-Mosul University were not heard. Instead, thousands of archaeological locations were shaken by thousands of American bombs. The priceless artifacts, some of which are more than 6,000 years old, were stolen from Baghdad Museum in front of the American and British forces. UNESCO provided the U.S. forces with information and maps about the historic locations of Iraq before and during the war. www.baghdadmuseum.org/looting/index.htm
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Post by freedom fries on Nov 29, 2011 22:56:04 GMT -8
Vienna best place to live, Baghdad worst: survey Reuters – 7 hours ago Baghdad's political turmoil, poor security enforcement and attacks on local people and foreigners made it the worst place to live in 2011, both in terms of life quality and safety, Mercer said. Political and economic unrest in Africa and the Middle East also pushed down scores in those regions. "Many countries such as Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen have seen their quality of living levels drop considerably," Parakatil said. ca.news.yahoo.com/vienna-best-place-live-baghdad-worst-survey-121226526.html
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Post by clone on Jan 7, 2012 21:30:13 GMT -8
The War You Don't See – review Thursday 9 December 2010 22.49 GMT Documentary-maker John Pilger has returned to a subject that can't be revived often enough: the grotesque untruth of "weapons of mass destruction": a cloudy concept, eagerly amplified and lent credibility by credulous and submissive journalists who, after 9/11, lost their nerve en masse. Pilger's contention is that on Afghanistan, on Iraq and on Israel and the Palestinian territories, the mainstream media simply take the official line. The force of his film is in its contention that the colossal scale of civilian casualties is, within the grammar of news, downgraded in importance so that it doesn't figure as news at all, but as all-but-invisible deep background to be ignored. Released on Sunday.www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/09/the-war-you-dont-see-reviewThe War You Don't See trailer johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-you-dont-see-trailer
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Post by burger clone on Jan 13, 2012 19:05:07 GMT -8
May 1, 2003. President Bush: "major military combat actions in Iraq have ended." Permanent U.S. bases in Iraq "From the start, in 2003, the first Army engineers rolling into Balad [Air Base in Iraq] took the long view, laying out a 10-year plan envisioning a move from tents to today's living quarters in air-conditioned trailers, to concrete-and-brick barracks by 2008," Charles J. Hanley wrote March 22, 2006, for the Associated Press. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Permanent_U.S._bases_in_Iraqweird ^^ (Charles J. Hanley) 404. Der Crypto-Jude und andere Schweinereien… Beobachtungen und Kommentare zu täglichen Schweinereien Extended presence of U.S. in Iraq looms large - updated 3/21/2006 9:11:15 AM ET $1 billion for construction of American military bases and no public plans The swimming pool at Balad air base, as seen through the window of a Black Hawk helicopter, 44 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 25, 2005.U.S. soldiers eat meals from Burger King in al-Asad air base west of Baghdad. Elaborate bases like this one raise questions about how long the U.S. intends to stay in Iraq. Charles J. Hanley / AP file www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11072377/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/extended-presence-us-iraq-looms-large/
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