It's Propaganda, Yes, But Maybe It's From Our Side, To Reassure Us North Korea Can't Defend Itself

As war appears to be about to dawn between North & South Korea, if it didn't actually already begin two or three days ago, this very strange video appears on the UK Telegraph site.

The Telegraph story is about "propaganda broadcasts" by North Korea, which featured a female newsreader issuing warnings that North Korea won't allow it's territory to be entered by US or South Korea, on land or sea, during the joint US-SK live fire war games now underway only a handful of miles from waters claimed by North Korea.

The Telegraph claims the above HDNK (high definition for North Korea) video was also aired.

Are we are supposed to watch it and think, "Ha! North Korea is so pissweak and pathetic. Look how shitty everything looks. Fuck North Korea"?

It's only a theory, but that video looks like it was produced by us, not them. To convince us that all North Korea has in the way of defence is a few missiles and rocket-launching flatbeds.

The explanation why this video feels fake is not elaborate. Kim Jong-Il is a movie freak. He is said to have one of the most extensive DVD collections in the world, his son likewise is drenched in movies. Why would either of them release such a piece of shit video?

It's laughable, even for North Korean producers.

It's filled with the kind of stock footage you'd find in the BBCNews library, instead of recent footage from the ranks of cinematographers who are often seen filming the epic military rallies North Korea is famous for.

If it is indeed real (and it probably is, what the fuck do I know?) it only proves that no matter how many movies you watch, it won't make you a great director. By this appearance of that crapfest, it doesn't help one bit at all.

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Republicans Finally Outdo Nazis For War Propaganda

The 'Ground Zero Mosque' is actually one floor of an office tower, blocks away from the still empty World Trade Centre site, and the Republicans know it. But this is a religious war, after all.



Note that the ad clearly states that the entire Muslim population of the world declared war on the United States on 9/11. What religious lobby groups in the United States really believe that, and benefit most from spreading such outlandish, gruesome lies?

Despite everything else, they used the image of a man falling to his death from the towers. That crosses lines that even the Taliban would think it unethical and tasteless to breach.

The people who put this ad together are your enemies, they aim to sew fear, division, violence, not the quiet Muslim family down the street. They're more American than these fucking Republican scumbags.

It's Only A Lie If We Get Caught, And By Then It's Too Late

An (IDF) Israel Defence Forces' official press release, before media scrutiny :



The same IDF press release after media scrutiny, which amounted to two phone calls and a request for the evidence backing the claim to be provided to journalists. The IDF admitted they had no evidence, and so retracted the claim of 'Al Qaeda mercenaries'.

By then, of course, much of the western mainstream media had already published and aired official IDF propaganda.




It's no surprise, then, that the IDF and its spokespeople are making themselves very hard to reach now, for even the most well-resourced news organisations.

How many more outright lies have they bamboozled the media with about what happened during the Massacre In the Mediterranean?

How many in the media knowingly, willingly, then allowed themselves to be part of the monumentally failed attempt to bamboozle the majority of people who longer rely on the corporate mainstream media to tell them the truth?

Robert Fisk :

The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists – and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships – are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.

New York Times Publishes Column By War Machine Employee Demanding US Stop Thinking About All The Innocent Afghans Killed And Ramp The Fuck Up The Bombing

Glenn Greenwald of Salon uncovers a brutal mindfuck of gruesome pro-civilian bombing positive influence in the pages of the New York Times. A defence corporation employee demands the US blow more money terror bombing the civilian populace of Afghanistan.

New York Times column excerpt :

So in a modern refashioning of the obvious -- that war is harmful to civilian populations -- the United States military has begun basing doctrine on the premise that dead civilians are harmful to the conduct of war. The trouble is, no past war has ever supplied compelling proof of that claim. . . .

[A]n overemphasis on civilian protection is now putting American troops on the defensive in what is intended to be a major offensive. . . .

Of course, all this is not to say that the United States and NATO should be oblivious to civilian deaths, or wage "total" war in Afghanistan. Clearly, however, the pendulum has swung too far in favor of avoiding the death of innocents at all cost.

General McChrystal’s directive was well intentioned, but the lofty ideal at its heart is a lie, and an immoral one at that, because it pretends that war can be fair or humane. . . .

Wars are always ugly, and always monstrous, and best avoided.

Once begun, however, the goal of even a "long war" should be victory in as short a time as possible, using every advantage you have.

She means unleash the Flying Killer Robot drones, the ones with very expensive bomb payloads.

Greenwald :

Does anyone need it explained to them why causing large civilian deaths through air attacks in Afghanistan is not only morally grotesque but also completely counter-productive to our stated goals?

No.

But those bombs and missiles have to be dumped somewhere, so the warehouses and new orders can be filled and re-filled, over and over again.

Stephen Walt At Foreign Policy Responds


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War On Terror Reality Seeded 30 Years Ago In Nostradamus Documentary

By Darryl Mason

In 1980, a documentary on Nostradamus, screened all over the west to hundreds of millions of people, and repeated for years after, laid out the rise of political Islam through the 80s and 90s, leading to a terrorist attack on New York City (a nuclear attack was predicted).


I vividly remember watching this when I was about 10. It was the stuff of nightmares. It wasn't a horror movie, it was our new reality to come. And, it's probably worthy of a 6/10 for prophetic accuracy. While it might seem a bit cheesy now, watch the montages with the sound off. Repeated imagery of nuclear detonations, New York skyscrapers collapsing, dead people lying in the streets of America. What stunningly haunting images to pump into homes across half the world, claiming it was all going to come true. How many tens of millions of other children saw this and thought, 'Holy Fuck!' and were riven by nightmares? It's a visual assault.

And it was Orson Welles telling us that our future held terror wars and mega-death natural disaster chaos. How could we not believe it?



How could some not resist making it come true?


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Preparing Americans for the reality of war in the homeland :

Now BushCo. Are Gone, John Bolton Is Just Another War Mongering BobbleHead Bullshit Artist

Foreign Policy gives John Bolton, full-time War On Iran activist, a well-deserved slaparound in their Top 10 Worst Predictions For 2009 list :

"I think if they [Israel] are to do anything, the most likely period is after our elections and before the inauguration of the next president. I don't think they will do anything before our election because they don't want to affect it. And they'd have to make a judgment whether to go during the remainder of President Bush's term in office or wait for his successor."

—John Bolton, Fox News, June 22, 2008

"It will have to make a decision soon, and it will be no surprise if Israel strikes by year's end. Israel's choice could determine whether Iran obtains nuclear weapons in the foreseeable future."

—John Bolton, The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2009

An Israeli airstrike on Iran always seems to be just around the corner for former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, no matter what the circumstances. Around the same time as the Fox News statement, he expanded on his opinion in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, saying that an Obama victory would "rule out" military action. Nevertheless, a year later he was still saying, "you would have to bet" that Israel would soon launch an attack, Obama or not.

To put Bolton's warning in perspective, he was advocating military action against Iran back in 2007, saying "our time is limited."

The photo Foreign Policy chose to go with this excellent Bolton The Bullshiter sledging shows what a clown they think he is :




The rest of the Foreign Policy list is an excellent look at just how wrong politicians, journalists, government agencies, financial experts and spin masters can be at predicting the future.

Fox Cheerleaded Bush? No Way, Says Bill O'Reilly

Fox News shouter Bill O'Reilly tries to rewrite the history of how the network routinely went out of its way to vilify those who publicly criticized the Bush administration, and demanded they be held to account, for 9/11, for the War On Iraq, for the failure to catch Osama Bin Laden....

O'Reilly : I have to say that when President Bush was in trouble in Iraq, this network and this program, and your program as well, routinely, routinely hammered President Bush. On Iraq.

Hume: Well, we certainly -- we, we were very faithful about covering all the bad news that came out of Iraq for a very long period of time. The criticisms that were made of him were reported and discussed at length on Fox News. Um, now, he had his defenders, the war had its defenders, there was commentary on Fox --

O'Reilly: But there was no cheerleading -- There was no cheerleading of President Bush on this network when his administration ran into trouble. There was no cheerleading, you know -- it was skeptical coverage, Iraq's going south, when the economy started to wobble last September, we were right on that.

Here's Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch admitting he used his network, and worldwide media empire, to help the Bush administration try and shape public opinion all through the War On Iraq :



January 2007 : Bill O'Reilly Continues To Push "Six More Months" In Iraq To Help Bush Administration