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kookomula
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 Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: The Secret Campaign To Sell The War |
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Rolling Stone Magazine: Issue 988, December 1, 2005.
"NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY HAS SUCH AN EXTENSIVE SECRET NETWORK BEEN ESTABLISHED TO SHAPE THE ENTIRE WORLD'S PERCEPTION OF A WAR".
"A SECRET PLAN APPROVED BY RUMSFELD AUTHORIZES THE PENTAGON TO ENGAGE IN "MILITARY DECEPTION" - PLANTING FALSE STORIES ON THE INTERNET".
"MEET JOHN RENDON (THE RENDON GROUP), BUSH'S GENERAL IN THE PROPAGANDA WAR...... SINCE 2000, HIS PRIVATE CONSULTING FIRM HAS RECEIVED MORE THAN 35 CONTRACTS WITH THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, WORTH AS MUCH AS $100 MILLION". |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: Propaganda |
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Kookomula,
Some excerpts of the article (reproduced below) and the URL for the full article were posted _here_.
Additionally the US has been accused of planting stories in the Iraqi press. "Stories were written by "US information troops," then translated into Arabic, and then "placed" in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor. The stories are often presented as unbiased news stories written by independent journalists."
See http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1201/dailyUpdate.html & also http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-13-propaganda-inside-u sat_x.htm
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Rendon's influence rose considerably in Washington after the terrorist attacks of September 11th. In a single stroke, Osama bin Laden altered the world's perception of reality -- and in an age of nonstop information, whoever controls perception wins. What Bush needed to fight the War on Terror was a skilled information warrior -- and Rendon was widely acknowledged as the best. "The events of 11 September 2001 changed everything, not least of which was the administration's outlook concerning strategic influence," notes one Army report. "Faced with direct evidence that many people around the world actively hated the United States, Bush began taking action to more effectively explain U.S. policy overseas. Initially the White House and DoD turned to the Rendon Group."
Three weeks after the September 11th attacks, according to documents obtained from defense sources, the Pentagon awarded a large contract to the Rendon Group. Around the same time, Pentagon officials also set up a highly secret organization called the Office of Strategic Influence. Part of the OSI's mission was to conduct covert disinformation and deception operations -- planting false news items in the media and hiding their origins. "It's sometimes valuable from a military standpoint to be able to engage in deception with respect to future anticipated plans," Vice President Dick Cheney said in explaining the operation. Even the military's top brass found the clandestine unit unnerving. "When I get their briefings, it's scary," a senior official said at the time.
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According to the Pentagon documents, the Rendon Group played a major role in the IOTF. The company was charged with creating an "Information War Room" to monitor worldwide news reports at lightning speed and respond almost instantly with counterpropaganda. A key weapon, according to the documents, was Rendon's "proprietary state-of-the-art news-wire collection system called 'Livewire,' which takes real-time news-wire reports, as they are filed, before they are on the Internet, before CNN can read them on the air and twenty-four hours before they appear in the morning newspapers, and sorts them by keyword. The system provides the most current real-time access to news and information available to private or public organizations."
According to the Pentagon documents, Rendon would use his media analysis to conduct a worldwide propaganda campaign, deploying teams of information warriors to allied nations to assist them "in developing and delivering specific messages to the local population, combatants, front-line states, the media and the international community." Among the places Rendon's info-war teams would be sent were Jakarta, Indonesia; Islamabad, Pakistan; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Cairo; Ankara, Turkey; and Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The teams would produce and script television news segments "built around themes and story lines supportive of U.S. policy objectives."
Rendon was also charged with engaging in "military deception" online -- an activity once assigned to the OSI. The company was contracted to monitor Internet chat rooms in both English and Arabic -- and "participate in these chat rooms when/if tasked." Rendon would also create a Web site "with regular news summaries and feature articles. Targeted at the global public, in English and at least four (4) additional languages, this activity also will include an extensive e-mail push operation." These techniques are commonly used to plant a variety of propaganda, including false information.
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kookomula
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: If anyone wants a copy... |
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If anyone wants a copy of the article, email me your address and I'll put a copy in the post.
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Jane
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject: How we are all so "manipulted" |
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Hi to All!
Don't know if this is the right place to put this, but just had to put it somewhere!
Just been watching a spot of "TV" I think it was some kind of "News" round for over the past year. At first it was bringing up the flooding in Tyland, etc, last Boxing Day - a tragic story about a baby being literally swept out of he's daddy's arms, saying "Daddy, I'm Frightened!" before the baby was swep[t away by the water. The parents have now got the babies's body back and burried him, and have sold up (I think they are Norwegian) and gone to live in Tyland to try to help the people there who were left devestated by the flood. Very moving, to say the least!
Then we move on to a BBC journalist who was shot several times (now in a wheelchir I think) in the Middle East - I was only half watching - busy making my dinner. I am very sorry for this man, but something made my ears prick up when he said something about having gone to interview "One of Bin Laden's Brothers, a good Guy, a Business Man" I am not sure whether the journalist went to interview this particular "Bin Laden" before or agter 9/11 - after I should imagine - I don't know much about it at all - all I am thinking at the moment is - the way we see things - who's the "good guy!? re the Bin Ladens? If "Bin Laden didn't knock down the towers" then exactly who is Osma Bin Laden? How can we really know? I could not possibly advocate anyone who went about killing people for whatever reaon (which is why I am disgusted with Bush & Blair) but how do we know if Bin Laden has really killed anyone?! May sound strange - but "Bin Laden's brother - the good guy, a businss man" also had a strange ring to me - a fabulously weathy Saudi "Business Man" - a "Good Guy" - I wonder!
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Andrew Johnson
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Jane
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:15 am Post subject: Bin Ladens |
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Hi Andrew
Thanks for responding!
I have just looked at the "Bin Laden" website which appears to be for sale! How I wish we could buy it!
http://www.saudi-binladin-group.com/
I will be back in touch when I have read more on this!
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