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The media IS big business (big
brother is you, watching)
use the web to read domestic dissident
and world
opinion
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The biggest stories that are not
in the US corporate press:
-- global
oil production has reached its historic peak
(2000 seems to have been the peak, unless there are some last minute production
figures that show a slight increase in 2003's figures over 2000) and
-- the mountains of evidence that the
Bush administration is complicit in 9/11.
Fortunately, "peak oil" has
started to get more media coverage in the past half year than it ever has
before, although the "alternative" media has not been interested.
(An exception is Earth Island Journal, which excerpted Richard Heinberg's new book "The Party's Over: Oil, War and
the fate of Industrial Societies.") It is curious that the BBC and even
CNN have given more coverage to this than the Sierra Club, Working Assets,
The Nation, The Progressive, etc. Perhaps understanding peak oil doesn't fit
into neat ideological paradigms, and therefore these publications are unable
to comprehend it.
In addition, since September 2003, the
9/11 scandal has finally started to get a little bit of traction in the
corporate press. Unfortunately, the "gatekeepers"
on the left have gone out of their way to muzzle the story, attacking
reporters who have dared to piece together evidence that the official story
is as much of a lie (if not more so) than the "Iraqi WMD" scam. A
really good collection of this evidence is provided by the Center for Cooperative Research, whose
"timeline" of 9/11 is entirely sourced from the corporate media
(see http://www.cooperativeresearch.org).
The "liberal alternative" publication such as In These Times,
Mother Jones, The Progressive, etc. have not mentioned their quality work.
As with peak oil, the 9/11 issue gets much
more coverage in Europe than the US.
I view the output of established media as
a slurry of manure and toxic waste; a propaganda product that requires heavy
analysis and context fitting in order to recover the 5%-10% of useful
information contained within an obfuscated mess.
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Listening to NPR
hearing bombs from afar
spinmeisters kvetch
I want to retch
Fourth Reich unfurls
flag, United States
empire invades, hurls
bombs, increases hates
official lie
children die
Is it World War
Three, or Four?
To regain our freedom
show bush and cheney
the door
media keeps us dumb
even if you don't support
our fuhrer
you must support our storm troopers
reichstag fire in new york
coup d'etat
in dc
new world order won't work
if people want to be free
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“The Central Intelligence Agency
owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
— William Colby, former Director of the CIA
"During a war, news should
be given out for instruction rather than information."
- Joseph Goebbels
"We live in a dirty and
dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to
know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can
take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide
whether to print what it knows."
-- Katharine Graham (now deceased owner of the Washington Post) at a 1988
speech at CIA headquarters
http://www.namebase.org/davis.html
"Without censorship, things
can get terribly confused in the public mind." –US General William Westmoreland, Commander in Vietnam
"There has never been a war
in human history that wasn't based on lies, deceit and deception. The only
reason for watching CNN is to witness a fraudulent cover story as it is
being unfolded step by step."
- Ken McCarthy http://www.brasscheck.com
"The enormous gap between
what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are
doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate
political mythology."
- Michael Parenti http://www.michaelparenti.org/
"The de facto censorship which
leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US
foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official,
heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of
education and media. No conspiracy is needed. The editors of Reader's
Digest and U.S. News and World Report do not need to meet covertly with the
man from NBC in an FBI safe-house to plan next month's stories and
programs; for the simple truth is that these men would not have reached the
positions they occupy if they themselves had not all been guided through
the same tunnel of camouflaged history and emerged with the same selective
memory and conventional wisdom."
- from Killing Hope, Ù.S. Military and CIA Interventions since WWII, by
William Blum, p. 19, Common Courage Press, 1995.
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William Baker, CIA spokesman, to the press
"In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I
can respond 'no comment' with some degree of knowledge."
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A newspaper is not just for reporting
news, it's to get people mad enough to do something about it. - Mark Twain
"Think of the press as a
great keyboard on which the government can play."
- Joseph Goebbels
"The US military has invaded the US media. I would like tonight to call for an
immediate removal of all US troops from CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, CNN, all of
them. US troops come home!"
from Michael Moore's intended Oscar speech - delivered at the Riverside Church, March 27, 2003. http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij04012003.html
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The news (not the corporate TV news of
course, but the real news that surfaces selectively in newspapers and online
publications) is getting better. The Bush administration had to inflict
nearly cataclysmic damage before enough Americans began to wake up and take
action to create meaningful resistance to the insane policies of these madmen
who have designated themselves our leaders. But it appears to be happening.
Some momentum seems to be developing. The Bush administration has now clearly
exposed its vulnerabilities. Its inability to cope with the disasters it has
created is becoming clearer every day. The Bushistas
are beginning to reap the fruits of policies that are driven by the
requirements of an ongoing PR campaign which is mounted for the purpose of
covering the deals they make with the cronies they reward so well at our
expense. With policies made strictly for an ongoing political campaign, there
is no capacity to follow through. Its lies are catching up to it.
The Bush machine, with all its demonstrably massive power, is looking more
and more out of control. The political machine that so deftly exercised what
appeared to be nearly perfect autocratic power, is coming apart at the seams.
The appearance of significant resistance to the Death Party is little more
than a trace of hope at the moment, but the possibilities are glorious. Do I
dare hope for great moments? Yes! We are already in a cataclysmic moment in
history. That is established and undeniable. Is it out of the question that
it could become one of those times that occur periodically in history when
democratic power asserts itself once again and a corrupt regime is toppled?
No. It is not out of the question.
The weaknesses of this corporate regime have now been revealed, awesome as
its exercise of power has been since 2000. The regime I refer to includes not
just the Bush mob, but Fox, Lockheed, most of congress, etc., etc., etc. But
there is a power that is much greater in magnitude than this corporate elite,
and when that human force is aroused it is volcanic. There is some very
powerful energy developing in the US right now. There are chains of events in process
which no one on earth can turn back, not even the apparently all-powerful
Bush regime. And changes brought about by those events are going to force
attention onto some of these areas of corruption that are at the heart of the
Bush operation. It's going to be a demanding job of putting out one fire
after another for the Bushes. It's hard to imagine how they can put it all in
place. The very question is frightening because the thought of the Bush
administration feeling forced to engage in desperate acts is too much to
contemplate.
http://www.davidcogswell.com/
What Americans see, or more likely, don't
see, is turning into the media story of the war so far.
Why the self-censorship? Is it a
matter of taste? Of not offending American sensibilities?
Then why is it that the media
corporations, including those that own most of the networks and news
channels, make millions of millions churning out "entertainment'' that
blows people up real good?
U.S. eyes wide shut to real-life gore and guts
ANTONIA ZERBISIAS, Toronto Star
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035780072949&call_page=TS_Columnists&call_pageid=970599109774&call_pagepath=Columnists
The press in this country is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated
by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the
great masses of the people that correct information concerning political,
economical and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people
shall have in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way
to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and
employing class.
- E.W. Scripps (newspaper publisher ca 1900 in memorandum sent to his
editorial executives)
The mass media become the authority at any
given moment for what is true and what is false, what is reality and what is
fantasy, what is important and what is trivial. There is no greater force in
shaping the public mind; even brute force triumphs only by creating an
accepting attitude toward the brutes.
-Ben Bagdikian (The Media Monopoly)
An able, disinterested, public-spirited
press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can
preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a
mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people
as base as itself.
- Joseph Pulitzer
In an authoritarian society there is a
ministry, or a commissar, or a directorate that controls what everybody will
see and hear. We call that a dictatorship. Here we have a handful of very
powerful corporations led by a handful of very powerful men and women who
control everything we see and hear beyond the natural environment and our own
families. That's something which surrounds us every day and night. If it were
one person we'd call that a dictatorship, a ministry of information.
- Ben Bagdikan
"Those who manipulate the organized
habits and opinions of the masses constitute an invisible government which is
the true ruling power of the country....It remains a fact that in almost
every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business,
in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the
relatively small number of persons....It is they who pull the wires which
control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways
to bind and guide the world....As civilization has become more complex, and
as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the
technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be
regimented."
- Edward Bernays in his book "Propaganda"
(1928) . Bernays was Sigmund Freud's nephew and
chief advisor to William Paley, who started CBS in
1928
"There is no such thing at this date
of the world's history in America as an independent press. You know it, and I know
it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinion, and if you
did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinion out of the paper. Others of you are paid similar
salaries for similar things. and any of you who would be so foolish as to
write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If
I allow my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24
hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to
destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the
feet of Mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You
know it, and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the
jumping jacks. They pull the strings, and we dance. Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are
intellectual prostitutes."
- John Swinden, head of the New York Times, when
asked to toast an independent press in a gathering at the National Press Club
http://jsons.collegepublisher.com/news/313047.html
Reporters Without Borders ranks U.S. 17th in world press freedom survey
By Kelly-Cullivan Smith 11/2/02
The United States is far behind other Western countries, such as, Canada,
Norway, Iceland, and France when it comes to press freedom, according to a
study published last week by Reporters Without Borders, an organization that
defends the interests of journalists around the world.
The report lists a worldwide index of countries according to their respect
for press freedom. It includes 139 countries, and places the United States 17th.
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Television: a Weapon of Mass Distraction!
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EARLY SUNDAY MORNING, a group of
disgruntled television viewers calling themselves "Meet The
People" disowned their television sets in front of NBC studios to
protest the pro-war media bias prevalent in Sunday morning talk shows. They
then proceeded to smash the sets. Timed for the taping of NBC's Sunday morning talk show "Meet the
Press," Meet the People barricaded the Nebraska Avenue entrance to the network's DC studios with a
motley collection of former television sets. posted by the Progressive
Review, 03/03/2003 http://www.prorev.com
SY HERSH: 'NEVER SEEN MY PEERS AS
FRIGHTENED' http://www.prorev.com
HARVARD CRIMSON - Journalist Seymour Hersh
denounced the Bush administration's approach to Iraq last night after
accepting the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the
Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum. . . Hersh
began his acceptance speech by portraying the difficulties that today's
reporters face, especially in Washington. "I have never seen my peers as frightened
as they are now," Hersh said. . . Hersh then turned his attention to the impending war
with Iraq. Hersh said skepticism about a potential war is shared by many Washington insiders. "I have never seen such dissent
even with three and four star generals. The war is particularly not popular
with the marines," Hersh said. . . .
"Congress has gotten so much dumber it's embarrassing," he said.
"There has been a collapse of Congress. It's an incredible failure. A
staggering failure."
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Media Action and watchdogs
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http://www.takebackthemedia.com
http://www.fair.org - Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (a good organization, sadly marred by their vehement
hostility toward investigating what happened on 9/11)
http://www.prwatch.org - Another very good media
watchdog (but also won't touch 9/11 complicity)
take five minutes and send in a letter
to the editor of your local newspaper. Don't worry about covering every
aspect to the issues - keep your letter focused and within the word limit.
call your local TV and radio stations
(ask for the news desk) and demand better coverage. Ask them to focus on
important issues of war, peace and sustainability - not fluff pieces on the
evening news along with the crime scare of the day.
'Die-ins' Target War and News Media by
Richard Cowen
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0328-10.htm
There is only one antidote against
propaganda, and that is a relevant sense of history and a strong collective
memory. When we remember the lessons from the past, and when we remember
what happened even a few days ago, then the job of the propagandists and
their warmongering bosses, becomes much more difficult. It is ultimately
when their message is challenged that war can be stopped; bloated armament
budgets can be pared; international law can be upheld; and shallow
mean-spirited politicians with blood soaked hands can be put on trial in an
international war crimes tribunal.
Arrogant Propaganda
US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the Iraq War
By PAUL de ROOIJ http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij04012003.html
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Alternative
news sources
These sites contain original
commentary and links to news articles from dissident US sources and from
the world media. If you only looked at these sites, you would be better
informed than nearly all of your fellow citizens - and the editors of these
sites perform an amazing function of sifting through avalanches of
information to distill down the most critical
stories, both in the US press and from around the world.
While oilempire.us does not attempt to keep 100% current with
the daily flood of news, these sites do excellent work to stay current.
Each has their specializations -- all are useful. All deserve your support
-- and to have their good work shared with as many people as possible.
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http://www.911citizenswatch.org
- monitoring the official investigation of 9/11
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
- coming together to document the historical record, numerous original
analyses, news service
www.deceptiondollar.com - guide to the best material on 9/11, daily news service
at http://www.deceptiondollar.com/News.html
www.democrats.com -
the aggressive progressives (NOT the official site of the Democratic Party)
http://falloutshelternews.com/EMERGENCY_BROADCAST_NEWS.htm
http://new.globalfreepress.com
- daily updates on 911, the war on freedom, etc.
http://www.globalresearch.ca
- excellent international news service from Canada
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info - another good news service
worthy of your web surfing time
http://www.legitgov.org Citizens for Legitimate Government
www.onlinejournal.com
- excellent commentary
http://www.orlingrabbe.com/homepage.html - daily links to articles from
around the world about war, money, privacy and police states. good
references for obscure yet important news stories. A very cynical, humorous
site that is updated daily.
http://www.stop-fascism.org
- weekly survey of fascism, lots of links to key articles in the news
www.unknownnews.net
The news you need, whether you know it or not
www.whatreallyhappened.com
- daily update of news from around the world
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Progressive
daily publications that are useful, but don't address the 9/11
"Reichstag Fire"
www.commondreams.org
progressive perspectives, links to most "alternative" media
(although doesn't link to any media on the "Deception Dollar")
www.counterpunch.org
first-class articles on Israel / Palestine conflict, domestic fascism, US foreign policy
double standards, the Iraq war
www.cursor.com following the media
http://www.newsinsider.org/front.html
www.prorev.com Progressive Review: the department
of homeland sanity - exceptionally good publication from Washington, DC with an "outside the Beltway"
perspective
www.truthout.org -
"Let's get the truth out" (but not on peak oil and 9/11 complicity)
http://www.ww3report.com
- World War 3 report
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Radio
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National Pentagon Radio
http://www.counterpunch.org/wolff03282003.html
NPR’s coverage of the war is
intelligent, exhaustive, and very carefully modulated. It reminds me of the
prose in the higher-end garden catalogues or on the packaging of gourmet
foods. The overwhelming impression is that a smart person is talking; so
much so that you forget, sometimes, that they’re trying to sell you
something.
Alternative Radio
http://democracynow.org
Democracy Now! is a national,
listener-sponsored public radio and TV show, pioneering the largest
community media collaboration in the country. We air Monday-Friday on over
120 stations including Pacifica radio stations, Pacifica affiliates,
WBIX.org, public access TV stations, Free Speech TV (DishNetwork
Channel 9415), and Shortwave Radio (Radio for Peace International).
http://www.kboo.fm KBOO-FM, Portland, Oregon
http://www.rise4news.net
Radio Internet Story Exchange
http://www.radiofreeamerica.tv
Independent Network News
RadioFreeAmerica is a progressive television production company
dedicated to providing alternative news and informational programming to
make up for the lack of bal ance in the American
Corporate News Media. Our premier program is INN World Report a one hour
weekly show featuring international news perspectives, in depth analysis
with activists on current events and interviews with progressive authors
and film makers. Nationally the program can be viewed on Free Speech TV
which is channel 9415 on the Dish Network Satellite System. Locally INN
Report is running on public access cable channels. Check our scheduling
page to see show times and listings. Additionally, you can view each week's
segments here on our site as well as archived stories from past shows.
http://www.rfpi.org Radio for Peace International
(non-governmental shortwave radio station in Costa Rica)
http://www.blackopradio.com
http://www.pacifica.org
Pacifica Radio network
Guns and Butter: the economics of
politics http://gunsandbutter.net/
http://www.alternativeradio.org
- a news service from Boulder, Colorado - hour long tapes of speeches by leftist /
progressive commentators. Generally very good, but refuses to examine what
happened on 9/11. If you want to hear Noam Chomsky over and over, Alternative Radio is
your show of choice.
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Propaganda
from Clear Channel Communications
(largest owner of US radio stations)
http://www.clearchannelsucks.org
most of the pro-war rallies have been organized by and sponsored by Clear
Channel Entertainment,
under the name of "Rally for America(tm)," in a faux-grassroots
campaign known as "astroturfing."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/Frank_ClearChannel.htm
Manufacturing News and Promoting War -- Texas Style
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Global Public Media - interviews
on energy, sustainability and food
http://globalpublicmedia.com/INTERVIEWS/
Which "truth" is true?
Information Access
The New York Twin Tower attack and the Internet as alternative information
source
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2001/10/31/which_truth_is_true.htm
March 9, 2003
Look Out Bush & Co., Here Come the Quakers
Resistance to the war machine is building to awesome proportions
http://www.davidcogswell.com/
As a survey in Editor & Publisher, recently showed, even
establishment newspapers have been swayed by the fierce popular resistance to
the war machine's latest plans, and papers like the Washington Post are
reporting a movement their owners kept out of their pages until recently.
Yesterday's article in the Washington Post said, "Once spearheaded
largely by leftist students, hippies and draft-card burners, the peace
movement is now taking on more support from the mainstream: labor unions, war veterans, middle-aged professionals,
and teenagers born years after the last draft. Almost 100,000 backers have
donated to Peace Action, one of the biggest anti-war groups, over the past
six months, coordinators say."
Some of our elder, more experienced voices have come right out and said what
the establishment media has run scared of for years. The venerable reporter
Helen Thomas recently said in plain terms that Bush was the worst president
in history. The efforts of the Bush administration and the Republican
National Committee to isolate her and target her for destruction are just
further embarrassment and will fail pathetically.
Gore Vidal said some time back that Bush will leave office the most unpopular
president in history. He's just caused too much damage, Vidal said. When you
realize that it's coming true, it almost makes you feel sorry for the fool.
But not quite, not yet. Meanwhile some are saying, "'60s redux?" It
reminds me of a saying I've heard: "This is going to make the '60s look
like the '50s."
What we witnessed on February 15 was the appearance of a worldwide,
self-conscious movement for democracy and justice, a phenomenon of awesome
power. History happens in spite of the efforts of rulers to contain it and
maintain their power and control. Looking back at history we see the Magna
Carta, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and within the last few
years, the fall of the massive totalitarian Soviet empire. Each of these was
a massive natural phenomenon. Efforts to stop such movements are doomed to
failure.
The Soviet empire could not withstand the information explosion. Information
and culture coming from outside showed its subjects another world was
possible. The same thing could happen here as more Americans realize their
major media are a fraud. There is evidence that this is happening. Americans
are increasingly going abroad via the Internet to seek their news (see
journalism.co.uk). Once the lid is off and Americans begin to discover the
world outside their controlled media system, things could change drastically,
and very quickly.
We get used to thinking of things in certain ways, but this regime is not
inherently permanent. Its support system is based on a very deep structure of
lies, which is why it is acting so quickly to hide as much information as
possible from public view. It knows it's in a race against time. But don't
think for a minute that it can't come crashing down. We saw the Berlin wall
come down; we saw the Soviet Empire crumble. Very few people predicted that
to happen even very shortly before it happened. It was practically
unthinkable. Empires like that didn't just fall down of their own weight. But
it happened. And it can happen again.
Someone said, "In the '80s capitalism defeated communism; in the '90s it
defeated democracy." And that is true, as far as it goes. As far as we
are now. But history is not over. The New World Order may be overthrown just
as the Thousand Year Reich was, just as the Soviet Empire was. And I'm
betting that it will be. After February 15 we have seen a glimpse of the
power that will overthrow it.
The corporate state, with the ascension of George W. Bush and subsequent
events, is making an all-out play for power. The goal is to come into the
open with its dictatorial character and no longer have to maintain the pretense of democratic government. By making the power
play, the corporate barons are forcing the confrontation which will, I am
betting, bring them down. They are coming into the open with their tyranny,
and it is arousing the awareness of a population that has long remained
politically dormant, believing that it is part of a democratic system.
Globalization began with the transnational
corporations, who were best positioned to take advantage of the Global
Village that was made possible by global electronic communications. But that
was only the vanguard of globalization. Trailing behind is a global people's
movement. It's going to dwarf the globalization of corporations in its scope
and power.
We will see what happened in the '60s peace movement played out on a global
scale. We will see the New Deal, which regulated and humanized capitalism and
in fact gave it a new lease on life, playing out on a global scale. We will
see the American Revolution, which dethroned kings and established democratic
republics, take place on a global scale.
It was the international corporate pirates who initiated globalization who
are now in fact responsible for setting off the global people's movement. The
excessiveness of their tyranny is sparking a reaction of outrage that is
burning itself around the world at electronic velocity. Mussolini himself
defined fascism as corporatism, the marriage of corporate and state power.
The colonial pirates of the European empires, from Columbus on through
Cortez, Coronado, Da Gama
and on and on, are the precursors of the corporate plunderers who are behind
the New World Order. What we are witnessing is the approaching confrontation
on a world scale of the old forces of aristocratic tyranny with the forces of
democracy.
History is on the side of democracy. The people have always had to seize
power from autocrats, but they have done it before against more daunting
powers than these. De Tocqueville said, "Can it be believed that the
democracy which has overthown the feudal system and
vanquished kings will retreat before tradesman and capitalists?"
http://www.counterpunch.org/potter02242003.html
War and the Press
Watchdogs, Lapdogs and Sleeping Dogs
03/29/2003 Entry: "CNN/CIA - THE
ENEMY WITHIN - by voxfux"
http://www.voxfux.com/archives/00000082.htm
Media Misquote and Excise Bush Comment
About "Scripted" Press Conference
http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/scripted-scrub.htm
War coverage could alter U.S. media policy
Reporting may influence debate about ownership; More consolidation coming?;
FCC to decide soon on any rules changes By Andrew Ratner
Sun Staff Originally published March 30, 2003
http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/tv/bal-bz.media30mar30,0,297961.story?coll=bal-artslife-tv
"What's so interesting is the stark comparison of coverage from
elsewhere and the U.S. TV networks, especially since the networks have their
hand out right now for the Bush administration to grant them this
change," said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a public interest group in
Washington.
"Just because the Internet exists does not mean we should have to go
outside our borders to get serious in-depth news coverage," Chester
said. "We only have a half-dozen broadcast companies left standing and
that's why we're getting cookie-cutter coverage - all former generals all the
time. We need a new policy with many voices and channels while we're moving
in the other direction."
Critics point to radio-giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. as a
cautionary example of media might in wartime.
The San Antonio, Texas, company, owned by a former business associate of
President Bush, has sponsored several rallies in support of American troops,
while a single correspondent "embedded" with the Marines provides
news from Iraq for the company's 1,250 stations. (Clear Channel also owns 37
television stations and more than 775,000 billboards and is the largest
producer of concerts in the world.)
A New York Times columnist conjectured that a corporate radio conglomerate
would be unlikely to "rock the boat" by airing the kind of anti-war
music that emboldened opposition to the Vietnam War.
MONDAY, MAR. 24, 2003
Written in a moment of anger
by Sanjay March 24, 2003
http://www.unknownnews.net/a0328.html
CNN has gone too far. I just saw a stupid blurb that says Iraq is in
violation of the Geneva Convention because its media aired images of captured
American soldiers and such.
I'm going to keep repeating this till someone gets it: Guantanamo
Bay, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo
Bay, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo
Bay, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo
Bay.
CNN must be shut down if we hope to have any sanity in this world. You cannot
even argue with its absurdity any more because that's just what it is —
absurdity. Like the repeated showing of Baghdad being bombed in the
"shock and motherfuckin awe" campaign,
reminiscent of 9/11, no? Except here we're supposed to be happy. Except here
we don't get to see the faces of those dead, or get to read about the stories
of their lives, of their children. Except here those who are trying to save
them are not "heroes", but some sort of villains. and the people
who perpetrated these attacks are brave soldiers, not suicidal cowards.
I'm just going to go cry now.
Everything is twisted. Please, someone, do something about CNN...© 2003, by
the author.
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INTERNET 10 - WARMONGERS 0
by William Thomas
EXCERPTS:To everyone following this global cliffhanger,
it looks like we're coming quickly down to a tripwire that could capsize the
global applecart. Within weeks, a conscienceless Frankenstein armed with
wicked weapons of mass destruction may be once again loose in our midst.
For the first time in known human history, power-crazed bureaucrats are
finding it difficult to get away with almost anything. In this truth-telling
time of personal camcorders and computers, exposure of official deceptions
can be embarrassingly swift -- posted on the web for a whole wide wired world
to see.
As Iran accelerates its nuclear weapons program to defend against an American
attack they know is coming, and France moves this morning to block NATO from
initiating plans to involve Turkey, mainstream media in Canada, Britain and
across the USA continue to ignore revelations that shared U.S. and British
"intelligence" on Iraq is years out of date. And cribbed from
public sources. [Global TV Feb. 10]
Commenting on the media's self-censoring stories that trash all pretenses for war, Lifeboatnews
editor Paul Grignon gripes, "It's as fixed as
wrestling."
When critical mass is reached and the hundredth monkey logs on, it's all over
for the Bush regime and their successors. Even now, with more than 620
million people logged on worldwide, incessant Internet revelations are
illuminating a gang who... (continued)
NOTE: William Thomas served as a member of a three-man Gulf Environmental
Emergency Response Team in Kuwait during and immediately after Desert Storm.
Producer of the award-winning documentary, "Eco War", he is the
author of Bringing The War Home, Chemtrails
Confirmed, Alt. Health and All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass
Persuasion. THIS ARTICLE IS EXCEPTIONAL. If only enough good people networked
this as far and fast as they could, with fervent prayers for the binding of
this plot out of hell, then by God's grace, the Bushwhackers would be stopped
in their tracks with SOVEREIGNTY restored at home and abroad. All Ways
Victory When We <http://www.heartcom.org/>LOVE Enough!
-<http://www.heartcom.org/bio.htm>Christopher
----------------------- article follows:
Commentary Lifeboatnews.com
Feb. 10, 2003
I couldn't make this up. Five days ago, the man who covered up the MyLai massacre was on a roll. Addressing the UN Security
Council and a worried wired world, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell repeatedly
remonstrated, "Every statement I make today is backed up by sources,
solid sources. These are not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and
conclusions based on solid intelligence."
Hot stuff! The globally-televised 75 minute briefing put forward Washington's
best case for massacring a defenseless population,
still reeling from the last big American bombardment, and 11 years of
strangulating sanctions that followed.
"Here is the evidence," ranted a righteous Powell at tight-lipped
representatives from 15 nations, who may also have been listening to the
ghostly chorus of 38 million Europeans killed during World War II.
"Ignore it and become irrelevant as a world body whose strongest
resolutions have been consistently ignored by Israel throughout our ally's 35
year illegal occupation of the West Bank," Powell puffed. "Or join
our unprovoked aggression against the people of Iraq and become irrelevant
for violating international laws -- just like Americans do all the time in
places like Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Colombia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Grenada,
Panama, Kuwait, Bosnia and Afghanistan."
I'm paraphrasing here...
Powell called Blair's intelligence scoop "a fine paper" of
"exceptional quality" that detailed "Iraq's deceptions."
The U.S. Secretary of State went on to praise a pompous Prime Minister for
supplying what Blair boasted was an "up to the minute" assessment
of Saddam's sadistic arsenal.
The latest information on Iraq's elusive weapons programs came from Britain's
vaunted intelligence services, MI5 and MI6. Anyone on the Net could punch in
Downing Street's official website and check out all 19 pages of intelligence
available to London concerning "Iraq's Infrastructure of Concealment,
Deception and Intimidation". [BBC Feb. 5, 2003]
OOPS!
Within hours of Powell's pronouncements, TV crews descended on the
"chemical weapons sites" featured in his presentation -- only to
find old dust atop ancient rubble. The reason was revealed the following
morning, when the BBC's Channel 4 reported, "Downing St. Dossier
Plagiarized".
Plagiarism is a form of theft. It turns out that Powell's "top
intelligence" briefing to the UN had been lifted verbatim from a
woefully outdated student thesis! [BBC Feb. 6, 2003]
CLIP
GOING NUCLEAR IN BAGHDAD
They're just getting started.
Cancer rates across Iraq -- particularly among children -- are already 12 to
15 times higher than pre-war levels. For the people of Iraq, as well as any
occupier, constant exposure to uranium dust from hundreds of tons of Depleted
Uranium munitions fired during Desert Storm (and hundreds of tons more from
any new invasion) carries lethal risks. DU is 60% as radioactive as the
uranium used in nuclear bombs. It enters human lungs, wombs and DNA as easily
as it does open wounds and the food chain. And exploded DU rounds remain
lethal for millions -- some experts say billions -- of years. [Bringing The
War Home]
Now the boys around Bush are keen to try out their new "Robust Earth Penetrators" by gang-raping Iraq. (You're right,
it's obscene.) These cosseted men, who have never been near a battlefield or
seen the dazed expressions of maimed children, figure their
"little" nuclear bombs will burrow far enough into their mother
planet to stop radiation from leaking out and freaking out the entire world.
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sept. 29, 2002]
But common sense and many experts warn that a more likely scenario would see
"dirty" detonations raining a radioactive dust storm downwind,
killing plenty of people in mosques and souks in
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait or Iran -- depending on whether the Shamal
is blowing. Entire regions would be rendered uninhabitable for tens of
thousands of years.
But hey, say Rumsfeld and others who pushed for the
"baby nukes", we won't know till we try it.
Just like Hiroshima.
GEORGE, DICK, DONALD AND PAUL MEET THE "INFORMATION AGE"
To everyone following this global cliffhanger, it
looks like we're coming quickly down to a tripwire that could capsize the
global applecart. Within weeks, a conscienceless Frankenstein armed with
wicked weapons of mass destruction may be once again loose in our midst.
Or maybe not.
For all their firepower and media mesmerization techniques, the Bush junta
never reckoned on running head on into an uncontrollable source of constantly
updated, augmented and corroborated information available 24/7 to anyone who
can log online.
No one did.
For the first time in known human history, power-crazed bureaucrats are
finding it difficult to get away with almost anything. In this truth-telling
time of personal camcorders and computers, exposure of official deceptions
can be embarrassingly swift -- posted on the web for a whole wide wired world
to see.
If you can type it, you can probably find it online: Flight 800, Oklahoma
City, Gulf War Illness, Operation Northwoods, the
"sober drunk" syndrome. The real stories behind official mythology
can be found in leaked documents, declassified papers, eyewitness accounts,
expert commentary, fully referenced mainstream and alternate news stories,
magazines and e-books, news photos, video footage and recorded interviews.
All are available in an instantly accessible, exponentially-expanding,
electronic library called the Internet.
HOW IT WORKS
Forget B-52s. Real power comes from networked hominids tapping keyboards. As
a Secretary of State discovered, all it takes to verify an official
"story" is to go online and type in a few key search words. Try
"powell presentation" or "bush
cocaine" -- then hit the key appropriately labeled
"Enter".
The results can be spectacular. Thanks to a Cambridge professor's
recollection and online retrieval, Bush's only buddy willing to send
reluctant soldiers into the irradiated ruins of Baghdad could face a
humiliating non-confidence vote within days.
Former Labour minister Glenda Jackson told BBC Radio 4, "If that was
presented to Parliament and the country as being up-to-date intelligence and
in fact as we now know they simply lifted it from a university thesis, it is
another example of how the Government is attempting to mislead the country
and Parliament on the issue of a possible war with Iraq."
Another former Labour minister, Peter Kilfoyle,
said he was "shocked" at the way the dossier had been doctored.
"It just adds to the general impression that what we have been treated
to is a farrago of half-truths, assertions and over-the-top spin. I am
shocked that on such thin evidence -- a Californian postgraduate thesis --
that we should be trying to convince the British people that this is a war
worth fighting." [Telegraph Feb. 8, 2003]
The implications for Washington's war plans are serious. If Tony Blair loses
a vote brought against him by his own party, the present Prime Minister of
England will find himself suddenly unemployed. And Bush will be bereft of
major backers.
BLACKOUT
Back in the USA, if "news managers" chose to expose the mass
marketed "threat" of a shattered country they know to be bogus,
outraged Americans would not take such betrayal lightly. And a blueprint
drawn up long before Sept. 11 allowed its architects to kick it into high
government gear could quickly come unraveled. [BBC
Feb. 6, 2003]
But extensive U.S. televised coverage of Powell's prevarications and a story
taking the rest of the world by storm never occurred.
The spookiest episode in this story came 24 hours after the BBC exposed empty
excuses for mass murder in Iraq. By then, TV-watching, newspaper reading
Americans interviewed by Lifeboatnews in Florida
and California had yet to learn of a gaffe that has punctured Powell's
pretensions and blown Bush's credibility abroad.
As Iran accelerates its nuclear weapons program to defend against an American
attack they know is coming, and France moves this morning to block NATO from
initiating plans to involve Turkey, mainstream media in Canada, Britain and
across the USA continue to ignore revelations that shared U.S. and British
"intelligence" on Iraq is years out of date. And cribbed from
public sources. [Global TV Feb. 10]
Commenting on the media's self-censoring stories that trash all pretenses for war, Lifeboatnews
editor Paul Grignon gripes, "It's as fixed as
wrestling."
WHITE HOUSE WATCHERS
The American media's big snooze is good news for pretenders who remain in
power only as long as they continue to hoodwink the people they seek to rule.
By waving flags, suppressing contrary information, and pointing to successive
"threats" of their own devising, the Bushwhackers depend on the
zombie-like behavior of sedated and distracted
masses, and a military as robotic as their weaponry. In their mutual rush to
parrot empty slogans and do the bidding of "authorities" bent on
conquest and murder, few question the consequences, veracity or legitimacy of
their actions.
But deep questions are being raised, in an intense international forum called
the Internet. Immune to cruise missiles and faked intelligence briefings, the
power of the ever-wakeful web is to network the global village outside the
filters of controlled information -- exposing official lies almost as fast as
they can be floated.
No wonder the day after Sept. 11 a President-select announced that one of his
first objectives was to get control over the Internet. Since then, his
lavishly funded Department of Cyber Security is working to force all servers
to submit to federal surveillance. [CBC Sept. 12, 2001]
But it may already be too late.
When critical mass is reached and the hundredth monkey logs on, it's all over
for the Bush regime and their successors. Even now, with more than 620
million people logged on worldwide, incessant Internet revelations are
illuminating a gang who:
1. Stole an election by rigging votes in Florida
2. Blocked investigations and interceptors that could have foiled 9/11
3. Experimented with mailing an army-designed strain of anthrax to Americans
to boost sales of a vaccine jointly controlled by the Bushes and bin Ladens
4. Paved the way for a police state with freedom-canceling
proclamations copied almost verbatim from laws issued by someone named Adolf Hitler. [NUA Internet Trends 2002; All Fall Down:
The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion]
All this with nary a murmur from a cushy, compliant and culpable press owned
by the same corporations who manufacture costly armaments for the conflicts
their news networks "sell".
It's all documented online for anyone who cares to look. But information is
only as powerful as the actions it prompts. Next weekend, organizers say that
worldwide protests coordinated through the worldwide web could outnumber the
massive anti-war demonstrations that ended years of unprovoked aggression
against the people of Vietnam.
BAGHDAD OR BUST
Despite the ballyhoo over a bogus briefing that appears to have hardened
Russia's resolve to stick with China, France and Germany in opposing a war
they cannot justify, the Gang of Four still intends to crush Iraq. [BBC Feb.
9, 2003]
It only makes sense when they admit that their long-standing agenda is not
really concerned about Baghdad's bogeyman. "Project for the New American
Century" notes that while Saddam Hussein poses no threat to the United
States, the dictator can be "used as an excuse" to further aims
that are all about oil. Whoever controls the world's last big oil fields,
also controls a world running on empty. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sept.
29, 2002]
What happens next is anybody's guess. Intended as an indelible lesson to the
world, we could be weeks away from unprecedented "live fire"
demonstrations over Baghdad, Basra and Tikrit.
Or maybe not.
Type "peace protests" and hit Enter.
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See also, "The Psychology of Mass
Subservience to Terror" at www.heartcom.org/psychtyranny.htm
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed --
and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken (In
reference to U.S. terror threat assessment now raised at "Orange"
level... "FBI officials stressed that they had no specific information
indicating that new attacks were planned." accordinh
to MSNBC and NBC NEWS) - See also: Terror Alert Raises Security Nationwide at
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&e=3&u=/ap/20030208/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_alert"
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