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  • Reply to: Bush Threatens to Bomb Media, Blair Gags It   18 years 4 months ago

    You seem to be very knowledgeable, I would like your opionion on this article Iraqi Freedom next episode. Goto www.expertnthought.com and tell what you think, thanks a million. http://www.expertnthought.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=2

  • Reply to: Bush Threatens to Bomb Media, Blair Gags It   18 years 4 months ago

    Sounds like you've read David Ray Griffin's books too. They certainly raise a lot of questions that MUST be answered. One thing's for sure-the 9/11 Commission Report was pure hogwash. Maybe the tide is turning and we're getting closer to learning the truth.

  • Reply to: Shocked (or Not?) at PR and PsyOps in Iraq   18 years 4 months ago

    [[Richard Edelman]] has written a [http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/blog/archives/2005/12/pay_for_play_ba.html strongly-written criticism] of the Lincoln Group on his blog: "This is utterly unacceptable behavior. In no way does this describe public relations. It is pay for play and a PR firm based in the US is doing it. ... If a free media is a central aspect of a democratic society, then we cannot allow our PR industry to impede its development. It is a perversion of our business, an intentional blurring of a clear demarcation between paid and earned media."

    Comments posted in response range from agreement with his statement to various defenses of pay for play, on grounds such as "everyone does it," "it's been going on for years," Edelman is engaged in "faux outrage," "we're at war, so ethics are irrelevant," "propaganda in the land of our enemies is a legitimate weapon of war," etc.

  • Reply to: Shocked (or Not?) at PR and PsyOps in Iraq   18 years 4 months ago

    Rozen [http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003180.html notices the following passage] in a [http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13295806.htm Knight Ridder story]:

    Under military rules, information operations are restricted to influencing the attitudes and behavior of foreign governments and people. One form of information operations - psychological warfare - can use doctored or false information to deceive or damage the enemy or to bolster support for American efforts.

    Many military officials, however, said they were concerned that the payments to Iraqi journalists and other covert information operations in Iraq had become so extensive that they were corroding the effort to build democracy and undermining U.S. credibility in Iraq. They also worry that information in the Iraqi press that's been planted or paid for by the U.S. military could "blow back" to the American public. ...

    On at least one occasion, psychological warfare specialists have taken a group of international journalists on a tour of Iraq's border with Syria, a route used by Islamic terrorists and arms smugglers, one of the officials said. ...

    The result is a "fuzzing up" of what's supposed to be a strict division between public affairs, which provides factual information about U.S. military operations, and information operations, which can use propaganda and doctored or false information to influence enemy actions, perceptions and behavior....

    Rozen comments: "In plain language: Rumsfeld is using psyops specialists and information warfare specialists on US journalists, and by extension, the American public."

  • Reply to: Swiss Freeze Biotech Rollout   18 years 4 months ago

    We, the voters of the U.S. SHOULD be able to do
    the same! However, we are not seeing this
    happening in our "free" country which is, through
    sneaky means being methodically taken over by Big Chema, Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Techno, and Big Business via Codex Alimentarious--international laws that will errode our health freedoms, making
    our Constitution secondary to international laws
    of Codex. For example the 350,000 emails sent to
    Congress over a two week period did nothing to
    thwart the ammendment which was sneakily added to the
    2006 Agricultural Funding appropriations which
    allows organic foods to be sprayed with
    pesticides and then labeled ORGANIC by the USDA!

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