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MIC and the MEDIA




TV lies. We all know this. After Vietnam, the pentagon went to new great lengths to make sure it got the coverage it wanted. So it installed embedded journalists, and even created it's own movie production team. They were involved in creating the scene for the fallen state of Saddam in 2003. The MSM took these military approved tapes and ran them. it was only online that the story was debunked and arial photos were shown exposing the lies.

War coverage from within the borders is no better, as the talking heads have generals on every channel during a war. In Gulf War 1 CNN made a report from Florida claiming that they were in Saudi Arabia. They had a fake background, fake, tree, and fake alarms.

In Gulf War 2, the BBC used a 12 year old college paper from an American student and plagiarized whole paragraphs from it and tried to pass it off as current reliable information of Saddam's infrastructure. Colin Powell quoted from this bogus report.

2006 MSNBC aired fake tapes from kids in California and claimed them to be authentic footage from terrorists.

All the MSM used so called Al Qaeda tapes of Bin Laden that had entire sections ripped off from a British fictional film called "the road to Guantanamo" where actors were playing the role of Al Qaeda.

In 2003 CNN made a report based on forgeries concerning a claim that Iraq was getting uranium from Niger and the DRC, which later were proven false. Not only was the story bogus but in their coverage they misplaced Niger on the map of Africa confusing it with Cameroon. Later CNN would go on to again screw up basic geography by placing Afghanistan a country the US has been at war with for years, in Africa.

Just recently CNN screwed up the age of Howard Zinn who they were reporting had died. It seems that some idiot just wiki-ed the information and reported it wrong since it was also at that time wrong on wikipedia. No one fact checked and this made it all the way to the news without anyone there noticing.

In 2001 the BBC reported a building that was demolished on September 11th, fell before it had fallen down.

All through Israel's last attack on Gaza, ABCNNBCBS FOX reported that Hamas was shooting "missiles" into Israel, when in reality they weren't any missiles only rockets, most of which were homemade. However no reporting was made on Israel actually using real missiles on Gaza or DU, Cluster bombs, or white phosphorus.

When Georgia started a war with Russia, the press uniformly refused to report it that way. They instead blamed Russia, without evidence and by denying contrary evidence, for the war.

In the recent 2009 xmas bombing, the media refused to report about the two other men arrested who helped the patsy on a plane or about the man who filmed the whole event.

During the earthquake of Haiti coverage, not one station has mentioned the role of the IMF and why Haiti was in the conditions it was in efore the quake.

OJ Simpson's trial had more coverage than the trial of Saddam Hussein.

Not one station compared the 9/11 attacks on the WTC to the 1993 attacks on the WTC instead they compared it to Pear Harbor.

In 2008 the media openly ignored antiwar candidates for president and would not allow them time to speak in the debates. FOX wouldn't even allow Ron Paul to participate in one of its debates despite him having higher numbers in the primaries than the other invited candidates.

No surprise, to me the two zionist chosen were the most warmongering ones, McCain and Obama. Both of whome went straight to AIPAC the instant they knew they had won the primaries.

Not one TV outlet would run news about the Israeli spies in the DOD, or the spies who were impeding on investigations into terrorist suspects prior to 911.

During the invasion of Iraq, although the rationalization about helping Kurds was tossed around not one news station mentioned that the US supported Turkey in 1997 when they were ethnically cleansing Kurds in record numbers.

The US can bomb another nation like Pakistan of Yemen several times and it won't make the news at all unless there is some reaction to it towards Americans. How fascist can a state be when the US can bomb nations and it's not even newsworthy.
How belligerent and warmongering does a place have to be, to reach a point that bombing another country isn't big enough news to report on TV?

And perhaps the worst of all. On September 11th, even with firemen reporting about bombs in the building and secodary explosions inside the building, and even with police finding vans with explosive devices at the base and most of all catching and arresting two sets of vans, one packed with explosives and one that had traced of explosives, with Israelis in them on 911, even when the false reports about anthrax being transferred from Iraq to Al Qaeda originated by Israeli sources, and even with Israelis living next door to hijackers and a multitude of stolen passports and mistake identities about the suspects, not one mass media outlet would touch any of it. Live reports were made about the arrests and bombs but after that there was a total whitewash.

More concretely, in regards to the Niger forgeries, the MSM would not even report on them after the fact when they KNEW that the reports were lies. And there STILL hasn't been coverage of this scandal. But now close to a million Iraqis are dead. But you can't report on the war dead. The pentagon doesn't even bother to count the enemy killed. And if you so much as take a picture of a coffin with an American flag on it you would be fired.

It is crucial for one to understand that this isn't some big conspiracy of silence. The US essentially has state run media. The directors are all MIC profiteers and sponsors are pretty much big pharma. They lie to you. They do it everyday.

TURN OFF THE TV NEWS. IT'S PURE BULL.

I hope this helps.

Tomgram: Iraq, 2003-2008, Two Recipes for Disaster

The Feasters (a non-inclusive list):

Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR): Until April 2007 a subsidiary of Halliburton, KBR garnered $20.1 billion in Iraq contracts from the Bush administration. The company reported a $2.3 billion profit in 2006. According to a Center for Public Integrity investigation, KBR was the single biggest corporate winner from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In terms of the dollar value of its Iraq contracts, it received nine times as much as the second largest Iraq contractor, DynCorp.

Halliburton: In 2002, Halliburton was number 37 on the Pentagon's list of top 100 contractors with $500 million in contracts. By 2006, it was number six, with $6.1 billion in contracts, an increase of more than 1,000%.

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Peter W. Singer puts this in context, noting in a September 2007 policy paper that "the amount paid to Halliburton-KBR for just that period is roughly three times what the U.S. government paid to fight the entire 1991 Persian Gulf War. When putting other wars into current dollar amounts, the U.S. government paid Halliburton about $7 billion more than it cost the United States to fight the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Spanish American War combined."

Bechtel: In all, Bechtel was granted about $3 billion in contracts for work in Iraq between 2003 and 2007. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, some of its projects included: $1.075 billion for repairs to power stations and the electrical grid; $210 million for water and sanitation projects; $109 million for surface transportation repairs, including roads and railways; and $90 million for repairing or replacing buildings. The company ran afoul of investigators for not finishing many of the jobs it started. Stuart Bowen, the U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, issued a report in 2006 that repeatedly cited Bechtel mismanagement, including for the construction of the Basra Children's Hospital, a project that was supposed to be completed by December 2005 at a cost of $50 million. By July 2007, costs had soared to between $90 million and $131 million. The company was dropped from the project which to this day remains uncompleted.

Blackwater: According to investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater, the notorious private security company, has won about $1 billion in State Department contracts.

Lockheed Martin: This company is the largest recipient of Pentagon contracts. It received $26.6 billion in contracts from the Pentagon in 2006, a 36% increase over 2005. Since 2003, when the war against Iraq began, the company has seen its Pentagon contracts jump 20% or nearly $5 billion. Lockheed Martin's slogan, "we never forget who we're working for," clearly refers to the Pentagon, the company's best customer by a long shot. According to the Orlando Business Journal, "Lockheed Martin Corp. reported profits up 9.6 percent last quarter The Bethesda-based defense contractor posted fourth-quarter [2007] net income of $799 million, or $1.89 per share, compared with $729 million, or $1.68 per share in the same quarter a year ago Sales rose in every category of Lockheed's business except its aeronautics division."

Boeing: In 2003, the number two recipient of Pentagon contracts received $17.3 billion worth of them. By 2006, the Pentagon had upped that figure to $20.3 billion. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Boeing's net income rose a better-than-expected 4 percent, to $1.03 billion, or $1.36 per share" in the fourth quarter of 2007. The paper went on to note that the company "expects to build on its strong results from 2007, when its net income jumped 84 percentto $4.07 billion on sales of $66.39 billion."

Northrop Grumman: The third largest recipient of Pentagon contracts recorded a net profit of $454 million for the last quarter of 2007, according to Reuters. In 2003, the company took in $11.1 billion in Pentagon contracts. Three years later, that figure had jumped nearly 50% to $16.6 billion.

General Dynamics: According to analysts, because the work of General Dynamics is concentrated on Army systems, it has reaped the most direct benefits of all the large weapons makers from the Iraq war. "The combat-systems business... it's a cash cow for them, it's a solid business," said Eric Hugel, an industry analyst for Stephens Inc. The New York Times reported that fourth-quarter 2007 earnings for General Dynamics were up 42%. "For all of 2007, General Dynamics had net earnings of $2.1 billion," up 11% from $1.86 billion in 2006.

The Oil Majors: The oil majors have not actually entered Iraq (yet) in any significant way, but they have profited enormously from the havoc the Iraq War has unleashed in the Middle East as well as from the fact that, in these years, less Iraqi oil has been heading to market than in the worst years of the Saddam Hussein era. The Washington Post reported, for instance, that Exxon Mobil set new records for quarterly and annual corporate profits in 2007, breaking its own 2006 record by making $40.6 billion. Chevron was next in line with an almost 30% increase in profits from 2006 to 2007. The Post went on to note that profits from the five biggest international oil companies have tripled since 2002.

Parsons: This Pasadena-based engineering and construction company has been awarded more than $5 billion in contracts to rebuild the country's health care and security facilities as well as its water and sewage systems. With Worley Group of Australia, Parsons has also received $800 million in contracts to restore Iraq's northern oil infrastructure. In negotiating its Iraq reconstruction contracts, Parsons built in an additional bonus of up to 12% for good performance. Fortunately for taxpayers, good performance has been in short supply. Awarded a $75 million contract to build a police academy, Parsons typically cut corners. In the "completed" project, the bathrooms leaked waste water into student barracks to such an extent that one room was dubbed "the rainforest." The Pentagon terminated one contract when an audit found that, after two years' work, only six of the 142 health clinics Parsons had signed on to build were completed.

Great chart, Ry! The top 5 military corporations don't change much but after poking around(for some reason Boeing doesn't come up for defense, military, or security corp. in the google finance search engine..) I was surprised to find that the gap between first place(in total capital) Boeing and second place Lockheed Martin was about 16.5 billion whereas the difference between #2 Lockheed and #5 Northrop Grumman a hair over 10 billion. Rounding out the top 5 is #3 General Dynamics and #4 Raytheon.

Not sure if this link will work for you guys... http://www.google.com/finance/portfolio ... eb571ca1b1

I'm still trying to graph out the earnings of those 5 for the past decade.... I'll see if I can't get it lined up on teh googlz

Looks like an updated version of an older topic you did? This is great stuff and one of the more important issues imo. People need to wake up and see the MSM for what they really are. It's almost impossible to have gainful discussions with people when they put up some bullshit CNN link (to discredit you) and 10 other guys agree with it and slam your little independent link. It always ends with moronic groupthink prevailing and some tinfoil hat comment. This is one of the major shifts I had in the way I see the world...realizing that the MSM is total bullshit and propaganda and starting to look elsewhere for my news. My dad's a doctor, brilliant guy, but if he was one of these internet warriors in the political forums, people would be rightfully shaking their heads at the crap he would parrot. He just doesn't get it. Solid connect-the-dots stuff like this is exactly what we need....

Yeah it's something I did before but I was PMed to do it again.

Man this is turning out to be bigger than I thought. It;s going to take me a while to finish. Every rock I turn over seems to have something new.

How Separate is AT&T from Verizon? Not Very



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Anyone remember how both these two companies cooperated with the government and allowed spying on their phones? Well no look they are the last two standing.

some 2.3k saw that video yesterday. Someone linked it on wrh. I wish they had linked to the thread. I didn't o that write up for my health.

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Man the slimy web of interconnections of the corpocracy knows no bounds!
Great in depth research, investigative reporting and diagrams/tables everybody! you're schoolin' me madly!
I wanted to get this in: a new, hopefully all-inclusive acronym for the power elite and their propaganda parrots.
We of course all know the MIC and what those blood-drenched letters stand for. Even Eisenhower wanted to go it a step further and call it the MICC:
Military-industrial-congressional complex, but that idea was quickly reigned in by his handlers.
I propose the following new name for it:

M.I.M.I.C.C. - (Mimic, like corporations mimic personhood)

Military-Industrial-Media-Infotainment-Congressional Complex.

Nah, MIC gets the point across well enough although pronouncing it as a word sounds a little racist towards us blessed Irish!

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