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| WHO sits on the boards of the "Liberal Media"? Surprising. Perfect example of obvious Media Lies on JFK For the most part, "progressive" and "alternative" forums are full of preening, ignorant bullshitters with little grasp of the evidence and no appreciation for parapolitics, who contentedly squeeze greasy farts in the faces of researchers and activists who know what time it is. (from Smirking Chimp, an anti-Bush site) America's had trouble with "normal" since the day it watched a police narcotics informant silence a self-described patsy on live television. (Oswald,Ruby) |
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Domestic Propaganda During The First World War - very familiar
THE CIA AND THE MEDIA - BY CARL BERNSTEIN (below)
"According to the 1976 Church committee's final report, approximately fifty U.S. Journalists had covert relationships with the CIA, about half of which involved money. Watergate investigative reporter Carl Bernstein charged that the total number of U.S. journalists who worked for the CIA was actually much higher." 400 was considered a low estimate.
SUBVERTING THE MEDIA (local copy)
As these stories hit the news, Senate investigators began to probe the CIA sponsored manipulation of the media – the “Fourth Estate” that supposedly was dedicated to acting as a check and balance on the excesses of the executive. This investigation was, however, curtailed at the insistence of Central Intelligence Agency Directors, William Colby and George Bush – who would later be elected US President.
“Let’s not pick on some reporters,” CIA Director William Colby stated. “Let’s go to the managements. They were witting.” ... the two most bullish media outlets to co-operate were the New York Times and CBS Television. The New York Times even went so far as to submit stories to Allen Dulles and his replacement, John McCone, to vet and approve before publication.
WHO sits
on the boards of the "Liberal Media"?
Surprising. IT'S ALL SPOOKS 24/7.As these stories hit the news, Senate investigators began to probe the CIA sponsored manipulation of the media – the “Fourth Estate” that supposedly was dedicated to acting as a check and balance on the excesses of the executive. This investigation was, however, curtailed at the insistence of Central Intelligence Agency Directors, William Colby and George Bush – who would later be elected US President.
“Let’s not pick on some reporters,” CIA Director William Colby stated. “Let’s go to the managements. They were witting.” ... the two most bullish media outlets to co-operate were the New York Times and CBS Television. The New York Times even went so far as to submit stories to Allen Dulles and his replacement, John McCone, to vet and approve before publication.
War propaganda is that branch of public relations devoted to manipulating people's attitude toward a war or war in general, rather than engaging in open dialogue.
| RCA
Radio Corporation of America
(political friendster) The
WWII operation to
use corporate media to drive American support for war tied Wall Street
and the Corporate Military complex agendas and it is still
classified. Prescott
Bush was
a
director of CBS
when the FDR
government
"requested" GE
and Westinghouse /CBS partner to form RCA and "protect"
the American airways from enemy propaganda. Formed by GE and Westinghouse to promote government propaganda, they are still on the job of waving flags and spinning facts to support wars and omit anti corporate "news" as NBC and CBS. War On Terror Propaganda amazing - "The President has requested that all members of his cabinet and sub-cabinet incorporate message points on the Global War on Terror into speeches, including specific examples of what each agency is doing to aid the reconstruction of Iraq," the May 2 e-mail from USDA speechwriter Heather Vaughn began. |
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parallels to exaggerated propaganda about communists, including the Bullwinkle cartoon with
Boris Badenov and Natasha. I saw a Sponge Bob cartoon
filled with anti-Labor propaganda for toddlers
who never worked a day in their lives.
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All about the War on Terror and Iraq War by
Boondocks.
Much profanity, voice is the Samuel
Jackson, using lines from "Pulp Fiction" in new context, incl.
remarks by Donald Rumsfeld.
From Glen Yeadon's
"From the streets of Little Beirut" (2/28/03):
"CIA censorship and media-propagandizing was supposed to have stopped in the mid-1970s after the Church Committee investigated the CIA's Project Mockingbird. At the time, every major media outlet was infected with Mockingbird. Coexisting with Project Mockingbird was a FBI operation named COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was successful in destroying not only leftist groups but also more importantly the press of the left. Ramparts Magazine was a major target eliminated by COINTELPRO. In one short decade, the alternative press had been wiped out."
David Horowitz (ex-Marxist) now has FrontPageMag.com, funding grants, Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation -- This foundation is financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time, its largest single holding was stock in Gulf Oil Corporation. Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman on COINTELPRO in 2004.
"CIA censorship and media-propagandizing was supposed to have stopped in the mid-1970s after the Church Committee investigated the CIA's Project Mockingbird. At the time, every major media outlet was infected with Mockingbird. Coexisting with Project Mockingbird was a FBI operation named COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was successful in destroying not only leftist groups but also more importantly the press of the left. Ramparts Magazine was a major target eliminated by COINTELPRO. In one short decade, the alternative press had been wiped out."
David Horowitz (ex-Marxist) now has FrontPageMag.com, funding grants, Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation -- This foundation is financed by the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune. At one time, its largest single holding was stock in Gulf Oil Corporation. Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman on COINTELPRO in 2004.
NPR
CEO Kevin Klose (Biography)
National Public Radio is CIA
all the
way.
CNN has the contract to provide a special internal news broadcast to the National Security Agency (NSA), per Bamford's book, Body of Secrets. CNN has been dubbed the CIA News Network.
The Return of PSYOPS http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1983
Military's media manipulation demands more investigation
In March 2000, FAIR and international news organizations revealed that CNN had allowed military propaganda specialists from an Army PSYOPS unit to work as interns in the news division of its Atlanta headquarters.
Time Magazine was run by Henry Luce, known to be a CIA operative and close friends with the heads of CIA Cold Warriors, like Richard Helms.
CNN-Time-Warner CEO, prior to working for NY law firm (below), was counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and a senior White House aide under President Gerald Ford. Ford was on the JFK coverup Warren Commission. (Two unusual prominent Americans served on the Warren Commission, "investigating" the murder of JFK, and concluding it was a lone gunman. One was former CIA Director Allen Dulles, who was fired after he clashed with Kennedy on a full-scale invasion of Cuba. Another was Congressman Gerald Ford (MUST SEE photorama local copy), a close buddy of Nixon with far-right connections, with both linked to the CIA.)
Chief Exec VP and Gen Counsel was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the US Dept of Justice, and formerly law clerk for Scalia. CNN is interwoven with the government and the most secretive of intelligence agencies, CIA's cousin NSA ("no such agency", National Security Administration).
Anderson Cooper, CIA Operative? His background is very similar to many CIA ops. CIA recruited him, but he 'declined' and went on to CNN.
CBS/Viacom is run by Sumner M. Redstone, Harvard University School of Law in 1947, served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II, and apparent ties to OSS/CIA figures. Prescott Bush also once held a controlling interest in CBS. CBS is pretty obviously CIA.
ABC was bought by Capital Cities a firm created to acquire media, associated with CIA and run by former CIA director Wm. Casey. Cap Cities purchased ABC. Walt Disney was a former Nazi symp. Yes children, Mickey Mouse's daddy was a fascist. Disney merged with Capital Cities/ABC on July 31, 1995, with Disney in nominal control. ABC is CIA.
PBS is a little more problematic to state clearly. Not directly Intelligence but it's former CEO Pat Mitchell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (which is a privately-held business entity that acts like a staffing house for all three branches of govt and intelligence, as well as media), she was on the White House Project Advisory Board under Clinton, and a special correspondent, past president of CNN Productions and Time, Inc., exec for Ted Turner, worked for ABC, CBS, NBC, all the major media, was on the boards of Bank of America (tied to BCCI scandal, Pakistani BCCI was set to illegally purchase Bank of America), and Sun Microsystems (supplier to CIA, NSA, DoD). She resigned in March 2006 and was replaced by the current CEO, Paula Kerger.
Al Jazeera: The Rupert Murdoch Fox News Of The Middle East? It is probably no coincidence that a useless video of old Osama bin Laden reruns mysteriously appeared on Al Jazeera ... my basic perception of Al Jazeera as yet another right wing mega media corporation controlled by the opinions and interests of international right wing rulling elite as well as the Emir of Qatar with his ties to the Bush Regime remains. (HO!!! The Emir of Qatar also gladly hosted Osama when he "fled" from Sudan to Afghanistan on a C-130 with a huge entourage of friends.)
Fox -- no need to say -- "After this embarrassment (public exposure of the CIA and Right Wing media control), it was necessary for the Right to use its own private network to replace Operation Mockingbird. As a result, there is now the Cato Institute, with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch (Fox, NY Post, TV Guide) on the Board with ATT/TCI's Malone. Fox may not be CIA directly, but close enough. Fox emerged from multi-millionaire right wing Foundation Grants and "investments". Fox was thereby guaranteed to succeed, could not fail, regardless of circumstances, and was able to hire the best PR specialists to meet these goals and take on the role of an authorative source.
Paul E. Vallely is the senior military analyst for FOX News. He also co-authored a book on PSYOP and it's evolution to MINDWAR.
USA Today and Navy Times are both part of the Gannett family of news outlets. ... Gannett also publishes Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corp Times, Armed Forces Journal, Military Market, Military City, and Defense News. In other words, it's just your typical independent, civilian media organization.
Bonesman/CIA hand William F. Buckley, Jr. is the Editor of the arch-conservative National Review. The National Review's President and Chairman is none other than Thomas Rhodes, who was recently a Heritage Foundation board member.
Nothing here
except interlocking conflict-of-interest with
govt and big business when it comes to informing the public.
AT&T
- AT&T provided NSA
eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and
shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment
installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center,
according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. May 11, 2006
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.
The NSA initiative, code-named ``Pioneer Groundbreaker,'' asked AT&T unit AT&T Solutions to build exclusively for NSA use a network operations center which duplicated AT&T's Bedminster, New Jersey facility, the court papers claimed. That plan was abandoned in favor of the NSA acquiring the monitoring technology itself, plaintiffs' lawyers Bruce Afran said.
John M. Forbes - Investing in Bell's invention, Forbes became the founder and President of Bell's successful venture.
“We'll
know our disinformation
program is complete
when
everything the American public believes is false.”
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
(hmm, how does a Mafia pursuade an honest reporter or rather newspaper editor? give him bags of money? convince him that he might feel suicidal if he doesn't play ball?)
So what news gets changed? Just reports of wars, or assassinations or disease threats or just national security stories? According to CIA Director Casey's statement, what gets changed is “everything.” Americans have been receiving the CIA view of the world since 1950's at least, regardless if it's NPR, Pacifica, New York Times, or Fox.
...the point here is that the Washington Post is really (like many other newspapers in this country) inextricable from the U.S. intelligence establishment. And that very relationship was indispensable in helping the Washington Post to grow as an institution.
Mainstream Media is belligerently resistant to talking to anyone with solid facts and evidence about September 11, let alone reporting it, even when contacted directly by people who have written detailed books in small print, preferring to continually refute "wild conspiracy theories" and recycle the "Terror" myths.
Could that be because Big Media is run by the same investor groups that also run the Federal Reserve, Defense contractors, banks, Oil and Energy, and the Fortune 100 in general. The nickname for PBS is Petroleum Broadcast Network. CNN = CIA News Network, or Cocaine News Network.
Could that be because of all the CIA agents, subcontractors, and bought people placed high up in news media, called Operation Mockingbird?
The "alternative Left" --- including Amy Goodman, David Corn, and others -- goes out of their way to "debunk" the facts, throwing up "anti-Conspiracy experts" and ad hominem attacks.
Could that be because the "alternative Left" is funded by "liberal" tax-free foundations like Rockefeller spun off of defense contractors and oil barons?? www.leftgatekeepers.com The so-called alternative Left media is even worse in a sense, because it feigns in-depth, even "anti-American", coverage of news and facts which others ignore, but then slickly provides a 2nd coat of paint on critical issues.
ON THE FAKE LEFT ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- esp. UFPJ
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Is that your final A.N.S.W.E.R.? what about Ramsey Clark? False Opposition? I'm not sure.
First off, let's just use a few examples to burst the myth of "Liberal Media":
Boards of Directors
Viacom, CBS
Sumner M. Redstone
Executive Chairman of the Board and Founder
Harvard University School of Law in 1947
served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II.
Robert K. Kraft
He is (or was) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, which includes the New England Patriots, New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, Rand-Whitney Group and International Forest Products Corporation, owner of the New England Patriots, Chairman of the NFL’s Finance Committee since 1998, director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation.
other Board Member's positions:
with Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities Division
director of Oracle Corporation (connected to the CIA and NSA)
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DND Capital Partners, L.L.C., a private equity firm
serves on the boards of American International Group, Inc., Consolidated Edison, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice Chairman, Finance and Business Development, of NYNEX, which is the "world oil exchange"
director of Akamai Technologies, Inc., The Bear Stearns Companies Inc., Consolidated Edison, Inc.
Vice President for Academic Affairs (the chief academic officer) of Yeshiva University
Dean of the Boston University School of Law
chairman of the Boston Mayor’s Special Commission on Police Procedures
member of the Legal Advisory Board of the New York Stock Exchange (also CIA)
CNN-Time Warner - CEO was managing partner of the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Prior to that, he was counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and a senior White House aide under President Gerald Ford who was on the JFK coverup Warren Commission.
Chief Exec VP and Gen Counsel was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and formerly law clerk for Scalia.
The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) includes Tom Brokow and Fareed Zakaria the CEO of Newsweek, and the Vice Chairman of Citigroup, as well as Madeline Albright and Richard N. Haass, principal Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush.
Not what one would call a "liberal crowd", except in the most obtuse sense of the word.
Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Pentagon enlists Sesame Street to help war
families
Just when you think it cannot get any more bizarre!
Among the new initiatives is laughter therapy. James Scott, a retired army colonel, is touring the country urging the families of national guardsmen to walk like penguins and laugh like lions.
The return of "Duck and Cover"
In the heyday of "Duck and Cover" and "Burt the Turtle", it was already known that the techniques being taught to children (such as trying to protect yourself from a nuclear bomb by hiding under a picnic cloth) were worthless. The point of the propaganda was to convince people that nuclear wars were survivable and winnable, to reduce public opposition to the nuclear agenda.
You should not waste energy being shocked about media coverup and complicity over 9-11.
Fortune 500 media does serve it's clients and their interests ... not YOU! You don't pay the bills. THEY DON'T WORK FOR YOU! THE JOB Mainstream Media corps are PAID FOR IS NOT TO INFORM THE PUBLIC! Mostly, it's to disinform the public.
Media IS mass marketing ... of messages, ideas, attitudes, and behaviors.
"Objective
reporting" means "quoting only official
sources".
The mainstream media does it's job of exercising positive spin or negative spin, fake "damage control" criticism, changing the subject, or use neutral (neutered) "objective" reporting to avoid obvious conclusions.
Why do we know ALL
about the "runaway bride" and nothing that was well-known about the
"runaway terrorists" in
Florida who were doing flight training with an obvious CIA
cutout? Runaway bride and Janet Jackson's nipple and Paris
Hilton's drug problem. That's the ticket. It's an insult to
our intelligence ... but people seem to like it.
The fact that truth or half-truth sometimes emerges may be due to the problem that it gets increasingly expensive to cover-up and maintain effective credibility, the further they diverge from reality.
Notice how more recently SATIRE in The Onion and on The Daily Show had a hard time diverging from the SATIRE emerging from Washington? A few decades ago, could anyone imagine a Presidential advisor stating "We create reality"?
Enormous funds have been spent by corporate America to demonize Labor in the public mind, tens of millions were spent convincing Americans of the need to defend Kuwait from Iraq, including surveys and custom creation of Video News Releases, as well as staging "events" before Congress, and staging "fake" grassroots movements.
Loss of credibility leads to loss of control of the public mind. There should be as much reasonable congruence as possible, and it takes creative writing and acting to lie while appearing to tell the truth, and especially to appear to be muckraking while actually doing coverup (exposing minor scandals to hide big crimes) ... but as you see, mass media can be nearly impermeable when they really want to cover up something.
News about American politics that Europe reads can be completely absent --- or even banned --- in the USA, yet only a small minority becomes aware of these.
(For example, with all the news about the attempted assassination of Reagan, very few people know that the family of John Hinckley had been oil associates of Bush for decades, and that Neil had a dinner meeting scheduled with Hinckley's brother the next day.
What that means ... who knows.
But the fact that nobody knows this significant fact definitely means something.)
Also, some truthtellers may get threatened, family threatened, and/or subverted, i.e. bought off, killed.
The truth sometimes accidentally slips out windows of opportunity, even in mainstream media, albeit often too late to matter.
Only independent investigators are covering 9-11 instead of covering it up --- other than an isolated story here and there in the mainstream which is not tied in to the other parts of the big picture ... but do be cautious of DISINFO ... some of the independents differ from each other on 'theories' about what did happen, which can only be deduced from other stuff ... like some say a plane could not have caused that damage at the Pentagon
(I wrote this part before developing an understanding that Intelligence had anticipated the media issue on Sept 11, and had circumvented that by creating, funding, taking over leading Internet outlets for "Patriotism" etc., which spew out facts and information mixed with heady disinformation and rightwingnut ideology of the John Birch Society. JBS itself has longstanding links to CIA.)
With crimes of this magnitude such as the Kennedy assassination, it has been found to be obvious that the CIA has the power to mix evidence in with fantasy in the media, and to "create" "fake dissidents" who can then be discredited and knocked down as straw men.
This seems obvious in that that the media has ignored or severely downplayed ALL legitimate 9-11 evidence ... EXCEPT highlighting and ridiculing some of the theories about planes carrying pods and the idea of the attacks being done by holographic laser.
Prior to joining NPR in
December 1998, Klose served successively as director of U.S.
international broadcasting, overseeing the United
States
Government's global radio and television news services
(1997-98); and president of Radio
Free Europe/Radio
Liberty
(RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
(1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio
Liberty, broadcasting to the former
Soviet Union in its national
languages.
As RFE/RL president, Klose radically downsized RFE/RL and moved it from Munich, Germany, to Prague, the Czech Republic. He also helped devise and implement a strategy to coordinate all U.S.-funded international broadcasting (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio/TV Marti, Worldnet Television) to save money, refocus the mission, and modernize operations in the post-Cold War.
Mr. Klose is a leader in psychological warfare (psywar, psyop) programming.
That's why they do socially liberal pieces with hard core Mil-Ind complex where it counts.
He was also a "Moscow correspondent and with the Washington Post, a known CIA front. (below)
As RFE/RL president, Klose radically downsized RFE/RL and moved it from Munich, Germany, to Prague, the Czech Republic. He also helped devise and implement a strategy to coordinate all U.S.-funded international broadcasting (Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio/TV Marti, Worldnet Television) to save money, refocus the mission, and modernize operations in the post-Cold War.
Mr. Klose is a leader in psychological warfare (psywar, psyop) programming.
That's why they do socially liberal pieces with hard core Mil-Ind complex where it counts.
He was also a "Moscow correspondent and with the Washington Post, a known CIA front. (below)
CNN has the contract to provide a special internal news broadcast to the National Security Agency (NSA), per Bamford's book, Body of Secrets. CNN has been dubbed the CIA News Network.
The Return of PSYOPS http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1983
Military's media manipulation demands more investigation
In March 2000, FAIR and international news organizations revealed that CNN had allowed military propaganda specialists from an Army PSYOPS unit to work as interns in the news division of its Atlanta headquarters.
Time Magazine was run by Henry Luce, known to be a CIA operative and close friends with the heads of CIA Cold Warriors, like Richard Helms.
CNN-Time-Warner CEO, prior to working for NY law firm (below), was counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and a senior White House aide under President Gerald Ford. Ford was on the JFK coverup Warren Commission. (Two unusual prominent Americans served on the Warren Commission, "investigating" the murder of JFK, and concluding it was a lone gunman. One was former CIA Director Allen Dulles, who was fired after he clashed with Kennedy on a full-scale invasion of Cuba. Another was Congressman Gerald Ford (MUST SEE photorama local copy), a close buddy of Nixon with far-right connections, with both linked to the CIA.)
Chief Exec VP and Gen Counsel was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the US Dept of Justice, and formerly law clerk for Scalia. CNN is interwoven with the government and the most secretive of intelligence agencies, CIA's cousin NSA ("no such agency", National Security Administration).
Anderson Cooper, CIA Operative? His background is very similar to many CIA ops. CIA recruited him, but he 'declined' and went on to CNN.
CBS/Viacom is run by Sumner M. Redstone, Harvard University School of Law in 1947, served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II, and apparent ties to OSS/CIA figures. Prescott Bush also once held a controlling interest in CBS. CBS is pretty obviously CIA.
ABC was bought by Capital Cities a firm created to acquire media, associated with CIA and run by former CIA director Wm. Casey. Cap Cities purchased ABC. Walt Disney was a former Nazi symp. Yes children, Mickey Mouse's daddy was a fascist. Disney merged with Capital Cities/ABC on July 31, 1995, with Disney in nominal control. ABC is CIA.
PBS is a little more problematic to state clearly. Not directly Intelligence but it's former CEO Pat Mitchell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (which is a privately-held business entity that acts like a staffing house for all three branches of govt and intelligence, as well as media), she was on the White House Project Advisory Board under Clinton, and a special correspondent, past president of CNN Productions and Time, Inc., exec for Ted Turner, worked for ABC, CBS, NBC, all the major media, was on the boards of Bank of America (tied to BCCI scandal, Pakistani BCCI was set to illegally purchase Bank of America), and Sun Microsystems (supplier to CIA, NSA, DoD). She resigned in March 2006 and was replaced by the current CEO, Paula Kerger.
Al Jazeera: The Rupert Murdoch Fox News Of The Middle East? It is probably no coincidence that a useless video of old Osama bin Laden reruns mysteriously appeared on Al Jazeera ... my basic perception of Al Jazeera as yet another right wing mega media corporation controlled by the opinions and interests of international right wing rulling elite as well as the Emir of Qatar with his ties to the Bush Regime remains. (HO!!! The Emir of Qatar also gladly hosted Osama when he "fled" from Sudan to Afghanistan on a C-130 with a huge entourage of friends.)
Fox -- no need to say -- "After this embarrassment (public exposure of the CIA and Right Wing media control), it was necessary for the Right to use its own private network to replace Operation Mockingbird. As a result, there is now the Cato Institute, with Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch (Fox, NY Post, TV Guide) on the Board with ATT/TCI's Malone. Fox may not be CIA directly, but close enough. Fox emerged from multi-millionaire right wing Foundation Grants and "investments". Fox was thereby guaranteed to succeed, could not fail, regardless of circumstances, and was able to hire the best PR specialists to meet these goals and take on the role of an authorative source.
Paul E. Vallely is the senior military analyst for FOX News. He also co-authored a book on PSYOP and it's evolution to MINDWAR.
This
is just from a mainstream NYT
Blue/Red rant:
Fox News is a rising profit center within his News Corporation, and each red-state dollar that it makes can be plowed back into the rest of Fox's very blue entertainment portfolio. The Murdoch cultural stable includes recent books like Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" and the Vivid Girls' "How to Have a XXX Sex Life," which have both been synergistically, even joyously, promoted on Fox News by willing hosts like Rita Cosby and, needless to say, Mr. O'Reilly. There are "real fun parts and exciting parts," gushed Ms. Cosby to Ms. Jameson on Fox News's "Big Story Weekend," ...
Thomas Frank, the author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?," by common consent the year's most prescient political book. "Values," Mr. Frank writes, "always take a backseat to the needs of money once the elections are won." Under this perennial "trick," as he calls it, Republican politicians promise to stop abortion and force the culture industry "to clean up its act" - until the votes are counted. Then they return to their higher priorities, like cutting capital gains and estate taxes. Mr. Murdoch and his fellow cultural barons - from Sumner Redstone, the Bush-endorsing C.E.O. of Viacom, to Richard Parsons, the Republican C.E.O. of Time Warner, to Jeffrey Immelt, the Bush-contributing C.E.O. of G.E. (NBC Universal) - are about to be rewarded not just with more tax breaks but also with deregulatory goodies increasing their power to market salacious entertainment. It's they, not Susan Sarandon and Bruce Springsteen, who actually set the cultural agenda Gary Bauer and company say they despise.
Fox News is a rising profit center within his News Corporation, and each red-state dollar that it makes can be plowed back into the rest of Fox's very blue entertainment portfolio. The Murdoch cultural stable includes recent books like Jenna Jameson's "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" and the Vivid Girls' "How to Have a XXX Sex Life," which have both been synergistically, even joyously, promoted on Fox News by willing hosts like Rita Cosby and, needless to say, Mr. O'Reilly. There are "real fun parts and exciting parts," gushed Ms. Cosby to Ms. Jameson on Fox News's "Big Story Weekend," ...
Thomas Frank, the author of "What's the Matter With Kansas?," by common consent the year's most prescient political book. "Values," Mr. Frank writes, "always take a backseat to the needs of money once the elections are won." Under this perennial "trick," as he calls it, Republican politicians promise to stop abortion and force the culture industry "to clean up its act" - until the votes are counted. Then they return to their higher priorities, like cutting capital gains and estate taxes. Mr. Murdoch and his fellow cultural barons - from Sumner Redstone, the Bush-endorsing C.E.O. of Viacom, to Richard Parsons, the Republican C.E.O. of Time Warner, to Jeffrey Immelt, the Bush-contributing C.E.O. of G.E. (NBC Universal) - are about to be rewarded not just with more tax breaks but also with deregulatory goodies increasing their power to market salacious entertainment. It's they, not Susan Sarandon and Bruce Springsteen, who actually set the cultural agenda Gary Bauer and company say they despise.
USA Today and Navy Times are both part of the Gannett family of news outlets. ... Gannett also publishes Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corp Times, Armed Forces Journal, Military Market, Military City, and Defense News. In other words, it's just your typical independent, civilian media organization.
Bonesman/CIA hand William F. Buckley, Jr. is the Editor of the arch-conservative National Review. The National Review's President and Chairman is none other than Thomas Rhodes, who was recently a Heritage Foundation board member.
Nothing here
except interlocking conflict-of-interest with
govt and big business when it comes to informing the public.The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY. May 11, 2006
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.
The NSA initiative, code-named ``Pioneer Groundbreaker,'' asked AT&T unit AT&T Solutions to build exclusively for NSA use a network operations center which duplicated AT&T's Bedminster, New Jersey facility, the court papers claimed. That plan was abandoned in favor of the NSA acquiring the monitoring technology itself, plaintiffs' lawyers Bruce Afran said.
John M. Forbes - Investing in Bell's invention, Forbes became the founder and President of Bell's successful venture.
John
Rendon and his public relations firm, The
Rendon Group, specialize
in making images, manipulating scenes and managing news. He is
currently under a $100,000
per month
contract
with the White House to
track foreign news reports and offer
advice on media
strategy. Rendon
consulted with the
Pentagon
when it created the Office
of Strategic Influence, i.e. Office of Disseminating
Lies.
Supposedly this office was snuffed after
publicity leaked that the Pentagon planned to use it to spread
disinformation. But, whether it is gone or just gone underground is a
legitimate question. (Don Rumsfeld quietly said it is NOT gone,
but continues surreptitiously, quietly.)
"Persuasion works best when
it's invisible. The most effective marketing worms its way
into
our consciousness, leaving intact the perception
that we have reached
our opinion and made our choices independently." (George
Monbiot, The
Guardian, UK 5/14/02). This is what Beers and Rendon do best and it is
why Mr. Bush's administration hired them.
This just makes it easier and cheaper.
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http://www.namebase.org/foia.html
from Freedom of Information Act 2. CIA Document: How to Co-opt Academia 3. CIA Employs Propaganda Assets to Refute Warren Commission Critics 4. Report from CIA's 1970 Anti-Allende Task Force 5. FBI Report on Chile's DINA 6.
Gloria Steinem
Spies on Students for the CIA
(Women's lib or doubling the workforce) From this document, dated 20 December 1991, and released 1
April 1992, to the Director of Central Intelligence from the Task Force on Greater CIA Openness, on page 6: "PAO [the Public Affairs Office] now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some intelligence failure stories into intelligence success stories...In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold or even scrap stories..." more info: cia-death.html |
- Subverting The Media
- "No such beast as a free press exists. Long ago it fell under the control of the CIA and corporate wealth."
The govt and private corporations
pays professional bloggers, with OUR tax dollars, to create
propaganda to "sell"
their war to us. They expect us to
email their military-industry propaganda about "supporting our troops"
to our closest friends. We comply.
Just like any old con artist with some skills, behavioral psychologists and PR consultants seize upon our deepest desires, our highest moral, ethical, and religious values, and our noble love of America, because they know they can twist us around, confuse us, and screw us with the very best values we possess, and USE us for their benefit.
Just like any old con artist with some skills, behavioral psychologists and PR consultants seize upon our deepest desires, our highest moral, ethical, and religious values, and our noble love of America, because they know they can twist us around, confuse us, and screw us with the very best values we possess, and USE us for their benefit.
They have to spin it,
because dropping bombs on people, destroying property essential for
life, and destroying homes that people have worked their whole lives
for, raiding someone's private home and lining up wives, mothers, and
children and tying them up and shooting them, has nothing whatsover to
do with love of America, but they know enough Americans are
stupid enough to fall for the lies if they spread them thick.
They know, because it's
a predictable pattern throughout history, and because they do surveys
on the
'effectiveness' of varous propaganda vehicles, just like Neilsen
surveys on TV shows and other consumer surveys.
"I admit it --
the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was
often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
William Kristol, editor of Weekly Standard, head of Project for a New American Century (PNAC), The New Yorker, 5/22/95
Kristol was the cofounder (along with another neocon scion, Robert Kagan) of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a pressure group created in the late 1990s by a passel of prominent neoconservatives and foreign policy hawks.
During the lead up to the Iraq War, PNAC was one of several so-called letterhead groups led by neoconservatives—others included the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, for which Kristol served on the advisory board, and Americans for Victory over Terrorism—that helped promote public and official acceptance of an aggressive "war on terror" aimed at reshaping the Middle East.
In his 1993 book Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (hawk himself, once close friends with Irving Kristol and the young William Kristol) wrote of the neocons: "They wished for a military posture approaching mobilization; they would create or invent whatever crises were required to bring this about."
William Kristol, editor of Weekly Standard, head of Project for a New American Century (PNAC), The New Yorker, 5/22/95
Kristol was the cofounder (along with another neocon scion, Robert Kagan) of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a pressure group created in the late 1990s by a passel of prominent neoconservatives and foreign policy hawks.
During the lead up to the Iraq War, PNAC was one of several so-called letterhead groups led by neoconservatives—others included the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, for which Kristol served on the advisory board, and Americans for Victory over Terrorism—that helped promote public and official acceptance of an aggressive "war on terror" aimed at reshaping the Middle East.
In his 1993 book Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (hawk himself, once close friends with Irving Kristol and the young William Kristol) wrote of the neocons: "They wished for a military posture approaching mobilization; they would create or invent whatever crises were required to bring this about."
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a
map of the Left
Media funding landscape (drag full sise)
Regulated Resistance - Is It Possible To Change The System When You Are The System.pdf (Acrobat)
Regulated Resistance Pt. 2 - Gatekeepers of the So-Called Left.pdf (Acrobat)
Inside The LC :
The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the
Hippie Generation
How We Got Here,
The Culture of Spin,
What the Rest of the World Sees
excerpted from the book
Bad News
The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to All of Us
Regulated Resistance - Is It Possible To Change The System When You Are The System.pdf (Acrobat)
Regulated Resistance Pt. 2 - Gatekeepers of the So-Called Left.pdf (Acrobat)
The Culture of Spin,
What the Rest of the World Sees
The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to All of Us
...
debates over Iraq ... are aberrations. Most of the time, in truth, most
of the media take their cues from the government in deciding which
foreign stories to cover.
... politicians
and
the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American
public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle
complex truths, and the news media, especially television news,
basically agrees.
Vladimir Putin: "The press is not an institution, it's an instrument."'
The Saudis have ... acted for years as clandestine proxy financiers for U.S. foreign policy objectives. In the 1980s, they helped President Reagan dodge Congressional interference by supplying funds directly to the Nicaraguan Contras. From the 1970s onward, they helped the U.S. counter communist ideas by funding madrassas around the Muslim world at a time when it made sense, when pro-Soviet propaganda dominated the region-and that was even before the Afghans' ideological gearing up against the Soviets. Remember the BCCI bank scandal in the early 1990s? Gulf and Saudi money underpinned the bank, which funneled funds to Islamic groups fighting the Soviets, all of which was allowed to unravel once the Soviets withdrew.
... today's regimes - such as China or the Arab countries, or indeed most halfway-developed countries manipulate their public more effectively, using lessons they learned from America. Since they can no longer stop it, these nations now allow TV news competition. On one hand, it gives the illusion of variety; on the other, it generates bottom-line fever-which in turn leads to more entertainment, more gossip and scandal, and less real news. In that thin intellectual atmosphere, television news barely has the will or wherewithal to resist spin, to make a complex case for or against anything-and certainly not against strident patriotism or religion. News independence gets especially weak if corporate owners have higher business agendas. Indeed, these days governments deliberately allow corporate owners of news channels to prosper in other businesses.
Vladimir Putin: "The press is not an institution, it's an instrument."'
The Saudis have ... acted for years as clandestine proxy financiers for U.S. foreign policy objectives. In the 1980s, they helped President Reagan dodge Congressional interference by supplying funds directly to the Nicaraguan Contras. From the 1970s onward, they helped the U.S. counter communist ideas by funding madrassas around the Muslim world at a time when it made sense, when pro-Soviet propaganda dominated the region-and that was even before the Afghans' ideological gearing up against the Soviets. Remember the BCCI bank scandal in the early 1990s? Gulf and Saudi money underpinned the bank, which funneled funds to Islamic groups fighting the Soviets, all of which was allowed to unravel once the Soviets withdrew.
... today's regimes - such as China or the Arab countries, or indeed most halfway-developed countries manipulate their public more effectively, using lessons they learned from America. Since they can no longer stop it, these nations now allow TV news competition. On one hand, it gives the illusion of variety; on the other, it generates bottom-line fever-which in turn leads to more entertainment, more gossip and scandal, and less real news. In that thin intellectual atmosphere, television news barely has the will or wherewithal to resist spin, to make a complex case for or against anything-and certainly not against strident patriotism or religion. News independence gets especially weak if corporate owners have higher business agendas. Indeed, these days governments deliberately allow corporate owners of news channels to prosper in other businesses.
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intellectual prostitutes
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Washington Post Conspiracy-Phobia
How the Washington Post Censors
the
News (1992)
http://www.copi.com/articles/holmes1.htmRecall how the Post saved us from the truth about Iran-Contra Though the Post does its best to guide our thinking away from conspiracy theories, it is difficult to avoid the fact that so much wrongdoing involves government or corporate conspiracies (list of dozens of real conspiracies that the Post has discredited) The Post's crusade against exposing conspiracies is blatantly dishonest And it's not as if the Post were new to conspiracy work. Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham "believing that the function of the press was more often than not to mobilize consent for the policies of the government, was one of the architects of what became a widespread practice: the use and manipulation of journalists by the CIA". Today, the Post and its world of big business are apparently terrified that our elite and our high-level public officials may be exposed as conspirators behind Contra drug-smuggling, October Surprise, or the assassination of President Kennedy. "A Reporter Looks Back in Anger -- Why the Media Cover Up Corporate Crime" What is more important, however, than speculating about how the Post communicates within its own corporate structure and with other members of the cartel, is to document and publicize what the Post does in public, namely, how it shapes and censors the news. |
"According
to the Church committee's final report, approximately fifty U.S.
Journalists had covert relationships with the CIA, about half of which
involved money. Watergate investigative reporter Carl Bernstein charged
that the total number of U.S. journalists who worked for the CIA was
actually much higher." |
“We'll
know our disinformation
program is complete
when everything the American public believes is false.”
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)
-------------------------
(hmm, how does a Mafia pursuade an honest reporter or rather newspaper editor? give him bags of money? convince him that he might feel suicidal if he doesn't play ball?)
So what news gets changed? Just reports of wars, or assassinations or disease threats or just national security stories? According to CIA Director Casey's statement, what gets changed is “everything.” Americans have been receiving the CIA view of the world since 1950's at least, regardless if it's NPR, Pacifica, New York Times, or Fox.
WHOA: Sen. Bob Graham
(brother of Phillip Graham see below) was eating a "power breakfast" on
9-11 with his good ol' buddy Porter Goss (Goss standing in the 'warmup box' for CIA
director, later picked by Bush) with other Intelligence
members AND
with a Pakistani General who FBI confirmed had sent money to the alleged
Sept
11 hijackers
in
Florida just days earlier. When it was revealed, Goss said
it was no big deal and amounted to 'finger-pointing'. I
learned about that from Dr. Michel Chossudovsky who found it buried in
national and international media. Condi bypassed questions about
this by an Indian reporter. India broke the story first.
Sen Graham is brother of the late Phillip Graham, who was publisher of the Washington Post before his 1963 suicide, along with his wife Katherine. Phil Graham was very close to the CIA, and WaPo is a newspaper at the core of Operation Mockingbird, the propaganda program of the CIA started by Frank Wisner of the CIA, control and manage public thought particularly on the Left. WaPo helped to squelch serious crimes like Iran-Contra, Gary Webb's stories on CIA-Drugs, and the Bush election fraud in Florida in 2000 and 2004, as well as countless other spins.
Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee's brother-in-law is Cord Meyer of the CIA (he married Toni Bradlee's sister), his close friend is Richard Ober of the CIA, Bradlee's childhood friend is the infamous Richard Helms of the CIA who was fired by Kennedy along with Allen Dulles around the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Helms wrote portions of the National Security Act of 1947, a set of laws creating a Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, etc.
This could have something to do with WHY THE MEDIA IS NOT EXPOSING 9-11 facts. (and NEVER WILL, unless it's to "tame" the issue or blame it on a dead guy) NO SHIT!!! more on Bob Graham and CIA and Sept 11
Sen Graham is brother of the late Phillip Graham, who was publisher of the Washington Post before his 1963 suicide, along with his wife Katherine. Phil Graham was very close to the CIA, and WaPo is a newspaper at the core of Operation Mockingbird, the propaganda program of the CIA started by Frank Wisner of the CIA, control and manage public thought particularly on the Left. WaPo helped to squelch serious crimes like Iran-Contra, Gary Webb's stories on CIA-Drugs, and the Bush election fraud in Florida in 2000 and 2004, as well as countless other spins.
Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee's brother-in-law is Cord Meyer of the CIA (he married Toni Bradlee's sister), his close friend is Richard Ober of the CIA, Bradlee's childhood friend is the infamous Richard Helms of the CIA who was fired by Kennedy along with Allen Dulles around the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Helms wrote portions of the National Security Act of 1947, a set of laws creating a Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, etc.
At higher
levels, informal
cooperation between the CIA and corporate media executives
was
often instrumental in censoring the publication of information
that the CIA found objectionable. This informal cooperation was made
easier by the fact that, in addition to the cozy relationship shared
between the CIA and reporters, the executives
at many of the nation’s largest press outlets such as CBS,
the New
York Times, the
Washington
Post, U.S.
News and World
Report, Time, Newsweek and Life
magazines were intimate friends
with individuals at the highest levels of management at the CIA.
The New York Times summarized in 1977 that “most C.I.A. directors, especially Richard Helms and the late Allen Dulles, have been close friends with the chief executives of some of the nation’s most influential news organizations.” Kathryn Olmsted, who did her Ph.D. thesis on the subject of the relationship between the intelligence community and the press, was more specific with respect to the ties between the CIA elite and the elite that owned and managed establishment papers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times:
For example, Wa Post editor Ben Bradlee’s brother-in-law was [CIA] covert operations chief Cord Meyer; Post publisher Phil Graham was probably the closest friend of Frank Wisner, the man who directed the Agency’s propaganda machine (the "Mighty Wurlitzer"); and the Times publishing family, the Sulzbergers, socialized with CIA chiefs Allen Dulles, John McCone, and Richard Helms. (sure glad they cleared up those conflicts of interest ... NOT!!!)
The New York Times summarized in 1977 that “most C.I.A. directors, especially Richard Helms and the late Allen Dulles, have been close friends with the chief executives of some of the nation’s most influential news organizations.” Kathryn Olmsted, who did her Ph.D. thesis on the subject of the relationship between the intelligence community and the press, was more specific with respect to the ties between the CIA elite and the elite that owned and managed establishment papers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times:
For example, Wa Post editor Ben Bradlee’s brother-in-law was [CIA] covert operations chief Cord Meyer; Post publisher Phil Graham was probably the closest friend of Frank Wisner, the man who directed the Agency’s propaganda machine (the "Mighty Wurlitzer"); and the Times publishing family, the Sulzbergers, socialized with CIA chiefs Allen Dulles, John McCone, and Richard Helms. (sure glad they cleared up those conflicts of interest ... NOT!!!)
This could have something to do with WHY THE MEDIA IS NOT EXPOSING 9-11 facts. (and NEVER WILL, unless it's to "tame" the issue or blame it on a dead guy) NO SHIT!!! more on Bob Graham and CIA and Sept 11
...the point here is that the Washington Post is really (like many other newspapers in this country) inextricable from the U.S. intelligence establishment. And that very relationship was indispensable in helping the Washington Post to grow as an institution.
| I have serious doubts
about this entire webpage
on the illuminati and David Icke links and whatnot, but I think this section is factual and
corroborated: Mockingbird - This
unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD. It was
conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold war,
when the CIA began a systematic
infiltration of the corporate media, a process that often
included direct takeover of major news outlets.
In this period, the American intelligence services competed with communist activists abroad to influence European labor unions. With or without the cooperation of local governments, Frank Wisner, an undercover State Department official assigned to the Foreign Service, rounded up students abroad to enter the cold war underground of covert operations on behalf of his Office of Policy Coordination. Philip Graham, __a graduate of the Army Intelligence School in Harrisburg, PA, then publisher of the Washington Post., was taken under Wisner's wing to direct the program code-named Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Operation MOCKINGBIRD — The CIA begins recruiting American
news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of
propaganda. The effort is headed by Frank
Wisner, Allen
Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham is publisher
of The Washington Post, which becomes a major CIA player. Eventually,
the CIA’s media assets will include ABC, NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek,
Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst
Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service and more. By the CIA’s
own admission, at least 25 organizations and 400 journalists will
become CIA assets.
as well as the other paragraphs on other more individualized experiments with mind control, some used on random people in the general public, some tested overseas: For
research purposes, here is a list of
mind control projects that have been exposed over the years:
Project CHAPTER, 1951 Project CHATTER, 1950 Project BLUEBIRD rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951, 1952 Project CASTIGATE, MKNAOMI - 1952, 1953 MKULTRA, MKDELTA, 1964 MKULTRA, 1968 Project OFTEN/CHICKWIT, I991 operations Bug, Third Chance, Derby Hat and MKUltra continued, Project MONARCH - Mind control is absolute. Park Avenue Cowboys Allen Dulles I.G. Farben |
very interesting history, links
Hoover the Director at FBI was having a
pissing match with CIA, a power struggle. Hoover called up his
buddy, Joe McCarthy, to smear some CIA guys Hoover called "Wisner's
Weirdos". Wisner was a Wall
Street lawyer or banker,
before he became CIA. Cord Meyer and others in
the Frank Wisner Group were accused of being COMMUNISTS by
McCarthy. Some lost their jobs, on innuendo.
FBI yanked Cord Meyer's security
clearance and ordered him in for questioning.
Allen Dulles refused FBI's request to allow Meyer to be questioned. Well! I can just imagine all the ways Dulles told Hoover to fuck off.
Allen Dulles refused FBI's request to allow Meyer to be questioned. Well! I can just imagine all the ways Dulles told Hoover to fuck off.
Instead, Wisner
unleashed Operation
Mockingbird on McCarthy (but I think not on Hoover).
Do
you remember reading/watching about when the tide turned on McCarthy,
when the Washington
Post, and Edward
Murrow at CBS and
others started piling it
on McCarthy and his commie witchhunt, justifiably calling HIM anti-American? Joe
McCarthy settled into full-time alcoholism and died. However McCarthy's
cohort, Richard M. Nixon, ran
for President, losing to JFK in 1960, winning in
1968. http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_35.pdf
Nixon was a protégé also of
Allen Dulles, and
he was a
protégé of Dulles' protégé, Prescott Bush. The Presidency was
the reward Nixon got for helping keep the CIA-Nazi connection away from
McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee. In turn, Nixon allowed the CIA's wishes
in Vietnam and the coup run on Chile's
President on Sept. 11, 1973
(what's up with that date?) (Pentagon broke ground on Sept 11, 1941)
Meyer,
a fanatic anti-communist agent, who ran all sorts of illegal and
terrorist operations against communists and leftist groups in Europe,
probably involved in Operation Gladio
terrorism,
but with a liberal stance on domestic policy (like JFK),
Meyer was finally cleared.
Amazing how much control
the CIA
has over the media, and WaPo
was one of the main conduits, but they all are now. Also reveals
some of the myths about Edward R. Murrow, depicted in the movie Good
Night and Good Luck.
Mainstream Media is belligerently resistant to talking to anyone with solid facts and evidence about September 11, let alone reporting it, even when contacted directly by people who have written detailed books in small print, preferring to continually refute "wild conspiracy theories" and recycle the "Terror" myths.
- SEE BELOW: who sits on Board of Directors of major media outlets
- what media jocks sit on the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
- Meet The Man Who Sold the War
Could that be because Big Media is run by the same investor groups that also run the Federal Reserve, Defense contractors, banks, Oil and Energy, and the Fortune 100 in general. The nickname for PBS is Petroleum Broadcast Network. CNN = CIA News Network, or Cocaine News Network.
Could that be because of all the CIA agents, subcontractors, and bought people placed high up in news media, called Operation Mockingbird?
The "alternative Left" --- including Amy Goodman, David Corn, and others -- goes out of their way to "debunk" the facts, throwing up "anti-Conspiracy experts" and ad hominem attacks.
Could that be because the "alternative Left" is funded by "liberal" tax-free foundations like Rockefeller spun off of defense contractors and oil barons?? www.leftgatekeepers.com The so-called alternative Left media is even worse in a sense, because it feigns in-depth, even "anti-American", coverage of news and facts which others ignore, but then slickly provides a 2nd coat of paint on critical issues.
ON THE FAKE LEFT ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT -- esp. UFPJ
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Is that your final A.N.S.W.E.R.? what about Ramsey Clark? False Opposition? I'm not sure.
First off, let's just use a few examples to burst the myth of "Liberal Media":
Boards of Directors
Viacom, CBS
Sumner M. Redstone
Executive Chairman of the Board and Founder
Harvard University School of Law in 1947
served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II.
Robert K. Kraft
He is (or was) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, which includes the New England Patriots, New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, Rand-Whitney Group and International Forest Products Corporation, owner of the New England Patriots, Chairman of the NFL’s Finance Committee since 1998, director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation.
other Board Member's positions:
with Morgan Stanley's Institutional Securities Division
director of Oracle Corporation (connected to the CIA and NSA)
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DND Capital Partners, L.L.C., a private equity firm
serves on the boards of American International Group, Inc., Consolidated Edison, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Vice Chairman, Finance and Business Development, of NYNEX, which is the "world oil exchange"
director of Akamai Technologies, Inc., The Bear Stearns Companies Inc., Consolidated Edison, Inc.
Vice President for Academic Affairs (the chief academic officer) of Yeshiva University
Dean of the Boston University School of Law
chairman of the Boston Mayor’s Special Commission on Police Procedures
member of the Legal Advisory Board of the New York Stock Exchange (also CIA)
CNN-Time Warner - CEO was managing partner of the New York law firm Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler.
Prior to that, he was counsel for Nelson Rockefeller and a senior White House aide under President Gerald Ford who was on the JFK coverup Warren Commission.
Chief Exec VP and Gen Counsel was Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and formerly law clerk for Scalia.
The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) includes Tom Brokow and Fareed Zakaria the CEO of Newsweek, and the Vice Chairman of Citigroup, as well as Madeline Albright and Richard N. Haass, principal Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush.
Not what one would call a "liberal crowd", except in the most obtuse sense of the word.
Board of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Virtually every key U.S. national security and foreign policy adviser has been a CFR member for the past seventy years.
And
the media is not about to challenge these folk.
One good reason may be found in a 1995 membership roster of the Council
on Foreign Relations as reported by Public Information Research. Here are just a
few of the media CFRers: (many of them from the NYT)
Roone
Arledge, Sidney Blumenthal, David Brinkley, Tom
Brokaw, William F. Buckley Jr. ("new"
conservative), Hodding Carter III, John Chancellor, Arnaud de
Borchgave, Joan Didion, Leonard Downie Jr., Elizabeth Drew, Rowland
Evans Jr., James Fallows, Leslie Gelb, David Gergen, Katharine
Graham, Meg Greenfield, Jim Hoagland, Warren Hoge, David
Ignatius, Robert Kaiser, Marvin Kalb, Joe Klein, Morton Kondrake, Charles
Krauthammer, Irving Kristol (father Wm.
Kristol and of Bush's PNAC), Jim
Lehrer, Anthony Lewis, Michael Lind,
Jessica Matthews, Jack Nelson, Walter Pincus, Norman Podhoretz, Dan
Rather, Stephen Rosenfeld, A. M. Rosenthal, Diane
Sawyer, Hederick Smith, Laurence Tish, Garrick Utley, Katrina
vander Heuval (editor of the "liberal" Nation Magazine),
Milton Viorst, Ben Wattenberg, Lally Weymouth, Roger Wilkins, and Mort Zuckerman.
Council on Foreign Relations Col. House was (allegedly) a Marxist whose goal was to socialize the United States. (J.T. Gatto described this as "socializing" society for people to be more obedient and compliant when working for Corporate America's capitalists. Little to do with any normal concepts of socialism, social democracy, human rights.) In 1912, House wrote the book "Philip Dru: Administrator" in which he stated that he was working for "Socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx." In this book, House laid out a plan for the conquest of America, telling how both the Democratic and Republican Parties would be controlled, and be used as instruments in the creation of a socialistic government.(House meant being a Global Manager, but not in any sense for "the people". This is what John Birch type people call "socialism" -- hyper-capitalist rule, with government backing, as per usual -- ignoring that socialism involves seizure or control over of the means of production, away from private control by a tiny investor class consisting of a few thousand people.)
Pentagon enlists Sesame Street to help war
familiesJust when you think it cannot get any more bizarre!
Among the new initiatives is laughter therapy. James Scott, a retired army colonel, is touring the country urging the families of national guardsmen to walk like penguins and laugh like lions.
The return of "Duck and Cover"
In the heyday of "Duck and Cover" and "Burt the Turtle", it was already known that the techniques being taught to children (such as trying to protect yourself from a nuclear bomb by hiding under a picnic cloth) were worthless. The point of the propaganda was to convince people that nuclear wars were survivable and winnable, to reduce public opposition to the nuclear agenda.
You should not waste energy being shocked about media coverup and complicity over 9-11.
Fortune 500 media does serve it's clients and their interests ... not YOU! You don't pay the bills. THEY DON'T WORK FOR YOU! THE JOB Mainstream Media corps are PAID FOR IS NOT TO INFORM THE PUBLIC! Mostly, it's to disinform the public.
Media IS mass marketing ... of messages, ideas, attitudes, and behaviors.
It's
behavioral
programming.
The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
Per
William Blum:
Q. Why do you put down the establishment 'media so much when you cite them so often as your source?
A. The main shortcoming of the establishment media lies in errors of omission, much more than errors of commission. It's not that they tell bald lies so much as it is that they leave out parts of stories or entire stories, or historical reminders, which if included might put the issue in a whole new light, in a way not compatible with their political biases.
Or they may include all the facts, leading to an obvious interpretation, but leave out suggesting an alternative interpretation of the same facts which stands the first interpretation on its head. But the information they do report is often quite usable for my purposes.
Q. Why do you put down the establishment 'media so much when you cite them so often as your source?
A. The main shortcoming of the establishment media lies in errors of omission, much more than errors of commission. It's not that they tell bald lies so much as it is that they leave out parts of stories or entire stories, or historical reminders, which if included might put the issue in a whole new light, in a way not compatible with their political biases.
Or they may include all the facts, leading to an obvious interpretation, but leave out suggesting an alternative interpretation of the same facts which stands the first interpretation on its head. But the information they do report is often quite usable for my purposes.
The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
MEDIA
GETS PAID:
- to sell to diverse or select audiences,
- to sell goods and services,
- to sell capitalism, complacency, and unthinking obedience,
- to sell "plausible explanations" and "official conspiracy theories",
- to sell FEAR, guilt, insecurity, and confusion ... and their solutions,
- to sell disinformation and distractions like "minor scandals" and "outrage",
- to sell humor, titillation, and perversion ... and prudery ... and
- to sell contempt for both prudery and morals, which they confuse,
- to generally sell support for the establishment (or for "regime change" in the establishment),
- sometimes even to channel and market ineffective dissent,
- to trust business to be more efficient than "bad guy" government and
- to trust government to effectively police business and crime ... when government IS business and crime ... and
- to sell the idea that the corporate media is working in our interests, and things are not that bad, that things can be reformed as needed ... if we just sit back and trust the experts.
The mainstream media does it's job of exercising positive spin or negative spin, fake "damage control" criticism, changing the subject, or use neutral (neutered) "objective" reporting to avoid obvious conclusions.
Why do we know ALL
about the "runaway bride" and nothing that was well-known about the
"runaway terrorists" in
Florida who were doing flight training with an obvious CIA
cutout? Runaway bride and Janet Jackson's nipple and Paris
Hilton's drug problem. That's the ticket. It's an insult to
our intelligence ... but people seem to like it.The fact that truth or half-truth sometimes emerges may be due to the problem that it gets increasingly expensive to cover-up and maintain effective credibility, the further they diverge from reality.
Notice how more recently SATIRE in The Onion and on The Daily Show had a hard time diverging from the SATIRE emerging from Washington? A few decades ago, could anyone imagine a Presidential advisor stating "We create reality"?
Enormous funds have been spent by corporate America to demonize Labor in the public mind, tens of millions were spent convincing Americans of the need to defend Kuwait from Iraq, including surveys and custom creation of Video News Releases, as well as staging "events" before Congress, and staging "fake" grassroots movements.
Loss of credibility leads to loss of control of the public mind. There should be as much reasonable congruence as possible, and it takes creative writing and acting to lie while appearing to tell the truth, and especially to appear to be muckraking while actually doing coverup (exposing minor scandals to hide big crimes) ... but as you see, mass media can be nearly impermeable when they really want to cover up something.
News about American politics that Europe reads can be completely absent --- or even banned --- in the USA, yet only a small minority becomes aware of these.
(For example, with all the news about the attempted assassination of Reagan, very few people know that the family of John Hinckley had been oil associates of Bush for decades, and that Neil had a dinner meeting scheduled with Hinckley's brother the next day.
What that means ... who knows.
But the fact that nobody knows this significant fact definitely means something.)
Also, some truthtellers may get threatened, family threatened, and/or subverted, i.e. bought off, killed.
The truth sometimes accidentally slips out windows of opportunity, even in mainstream media, albeit often too late to matter.
Only independent investigators are covering 9-11 instead of covering it up --- other than an isolated story here and there in the mainstream which is not tied in to the other parts of the big picture ... but do be cautious of DISINFO ... some of the independents differ from each other on 'theories' about what did happen, which can only be deduced from other stuff ... like some say a plane could not have caused that damage at the Pentagon
(I wrote this part before developing an understanding that Intelligence had anticipated the media issue on Sept 11, and had circumvented that by creating, funding, taking over leading Internet outlets for "Patriotism" etc., which spew out facts and information mixed with heady disinformation and rightwingnut ideology of the John Birch Society. JBS itself has longstanding links to CIA.)
With crimes of this magnitude such as the Kennedy assassination, it has been found to be obvious that the CIA has the power to mix evidence in with fantasy in the media, and to "create" "fake dissidents" who can then be discredited and knocked down as straw men.
This seems obvious in that that the media has ignored or severely downplayed ALL legitimate 9-11 evidence ... EXCEPT highlighting and ridiculing some of the theories about planes carrying pods and the idea of the attacks being done by holographic laser.
The Pentagon itself cannot account for $3.3 trillion dollars of defense allocations, nor missing nuclear weapons, despite functioning computers and no lack of electricity.
Iraq's "lack of compliance" included very minor issues -- a brief delay in opening up a closed office building at 5pm on a Friday, and daring to object and question why it was necessary to interrogate undergrad college science students.
The media forgot to mention this too.
THE CIA AND
THE MEDIA -
Originally published in Rolling Stone, October
20, 1977. |