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*looking at the news this week , you wonder why do the bushites call it "free press" when just as they did here in the states with bought-off journalists like sex escort jeff gannon and sellout , bought-negro armstrong williams , they obviously paid iraqi "reporters" to write propaganda articles clearly slanted in the bushites favor--if it is ’free press’ , why do the bushites insist on always paying for it ?
to that travesty of blatant hypocrisy add the fact that halliburton is making a fortune ($12 billion in usa taxpayer dollars already ?) subcontracting the job of feeding and cleaning up after usa troops to a company that imported africans from sierra leone to iraq to work for 45 cents per hour ,12 hour shifts , six to seven days a week . http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051201-030751-2473r
a capitalist ’globalist’ formula in its purest form :
a. secretly promote civil wars (ethnic conflicts ) in africa to drive down the price of raw minerals , like diamonds for instance (back in the 1500s it was slaves--war captives--sold to be field hands--stolen labor on stolen lands-- instead of today’s diamonds )
b. as the africans slaughter each other and their nations degenerate into chaos you sit back and from your cold war era of obsolete weapons stockpiles ,sell arms and set up ’private companies’ to rent military expertise to the rebels AND at the same time to the african government they are fighting against , while publicly condemning the violence you are constantly feeding from both sides--violence that would itself most likely subside without your continuous supply of weapons and ’experts’ in "organization" , psychological warfare , logistics and ’training’ .
c. when both sides are exhausted and finally the fighting dies down , but the ethnic hatreds that you helped stir up, live on as a permanent barrier to national unity in the regions of africa--use the economic desperation of these same africans and hire them on as the cheapest labor--illegal mexicans in the usa won’t even work for 45 cents an hour--inmates in usa prisons can make that much
d. put these desperate africans to work feeding and cleaning up after your troops in iraq as you try to crush an insurgency that stubbornly refuses to capitulate to the fact that you want their oil and you want control of their land and are willing to kill , spread lies and terror--spread depleted uranium dust , drop white phosporous and other chemical agents on civilians and exploit old ethnic hatreds while arming and training local militias in order to accomplish your goals .
e. like the old "triangular atlantic slave trade" that promoted wars , an arms race and three centuries of catastrophe in africa , while providing western capitalism with the slaves and the cheap labor capitalism needs to maintain its consistent rate of profits , the corporations make big money at every corner of the triangle--the more things change-- the more they resemble elements of the past--elements surprisingly similar to those that created this american ’empire’-- with stolen labor on stolen , bloodsoaked land
each human life is only made up of so much time and the resulting physical energy that each human body can generate . as we reach adulthood , each human becomes distinctly more aware of this fact of human physiology .
remember that people do not willingly undervalue their precious time or their physical energy ---labor is ’cheap’ only to the degree that it is also desperate-- why are so many people KEPT desperate ? ...so they will work 6 days a week , 12 hour shifts for 50 cents an hour ---d sekou
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/politics/01propaganda.html?hp&ex=1133499600&en =3af8aaf9fa1cb0bc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
December 1, 2005
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
By JEFF GERTH and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Titled "The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq," an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders’ pessimism about the country’s future.
"Western press and frequently those self-styled ’objective’ observers of Iraq are often critics of how we, the people of Iraq, are proceeding down the path in determining what is best for our nation," the article began. Quoting the Prophet Muhammad, it pleaded for unity and nonviolence.
But far from being the heartfelt opinion of an Iraqi writer, as its language implied, the article was prepared by the United States military as part of a multimillion-dollar covert campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay friendly Iraqi journalists monthly stipends, military contractors and officials said.
The article was one of several in a storyboard, the military’s term for a list of articles, that was delivered Tuesday to the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations firm paid by the Pentagon, documents from the Pentagon show. The contractor’s job is to translate the articles into Arabic and submit them to Iraqi newspapers or advertising agencies without revealing the Pentagon’s role. Documents show that the intended target of the article on a democratic Iraq was Azzaman, a leading independent newspaper, but it is not known whether it was published there or anywhere else.
Even as the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development pay contractors millions of dollars to help train journalists and promote a professional and independent Iraqi media, the Pentagon is paying millions more to the Lincoln Group for work that appears to violate fundamental principles of Western journalism.
to that travesty of blatant hypocrisy add the fact that halliburton is making a fortune ($12 billion in usa taxpayer dollars already ?) subcontracting the job of feeding and cleaning up after usa troops to a company that imported africans from sierra leone to iraq to work for 45 cents per hour ,12 hour shifts , six to seven days a week . http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20051201-030751-2473r
a capitalist ’globalist’ formula in its purest form :
a. secretly promote civil wars (ethnic conflicts ) in africa to drive down the price of raw minerals , like diamonds for instance (back in the 1500s it was slaves--war captives--sold to be field hands--stolen labor on stolen lands-- instead of today’s diamonds )
b. as the africans slaughter each other and their nations degenerate into chaos you sit back and from your cold war era of obsolete weapons stockpiles ,sell arms and set up ’private companies’ to rent military expertise to the rebels AND at the same time to the african government they are fighting against , while publicly condemning the violence you are constantly feeding from both sides--violence that would itself most likely subside without your continuous supply of weapons and ’experts’ in "organization" , psychological warfare , logistics and ’training’ .
c. when both sides are exhausted and finally the fighting dies down , but the ethnic hatreds that you helped stir up, live on as a permanent barrier to national unity in the regions of africa--use the economic desperation of these same africans and hire them on as the cheapest labor--illegal mexicans in the usa won’t even work for 45 cents an hour--inmates in usa prisons can make that much
d. put these desperate africans to work feeding and cleaning up after your troops in iraq as you try to crush an insurgency that stubbornly refuses to capitulate to the fact that you want their oil and you want control of their land and are willing to kill , spread lies and terror--spread depleted uranium dust , drop white phosporous and other chemical agents on civilians and exploit old ethnic hatreds while arming and training local militias in order to accomplish your goals .
e. like the old "triangular atlantic slave trade" that promoted wars , an arms race and three centuries of catastrophe in africa , while providing western capitalism with the slaves and the cheap labor capitalism needs to maintain its consistent rate of profits , the corporations make big money at every corner of the triangle--the more things change-- the more they resemble elements of the past--elements surprisingly similar to those that created this american ’empire’-- with stolen labor on stolen , bloodsoaked land
each human life is only made up of so much time and the resulting physical energy that each human body can generate . as we reach adulthood , each human becomes distinctly more aware of this fact of human physiology .
remember that people do not willingly undervalue their precious time or their physical energy ---labor is ’cheap’ only to the degree that it is also desperate-- why are so many people KEPT desperate ? ...so they will work 6 days a week , 12 hour shifts for 50 cents an hour ---d sekou
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/politics/01propaganda.html?hp&ex=1133499600&en =3af8aaf9fa1cb0bc&ei=5094&partner=homepage
December 1, 2005
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers
By JEFF GERTH and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Titled "The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq," an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders’ pessimism about the country’s future.
"Western press and frequently those self-styled ’objective’ observers of Iraq are often critics of how we, the people of Iraq, are proceeding down the path in determining what is best for our nation," the article began. Quoting the Prophet Muhammad, it pleaded for unity and nonviolence.
But far from being the heartfelt opinion of an Iraqi writer, as its language implied, the article was prepared by the United States military as part of a multimillion-dollar covert campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay friendly Iraqi journalists monthly stipends, military contractors and officials said.
The article was one of several in a storyboard, the military’s term for a list of articles, that was delivered Tuesday to the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based public relations firm paid by the Pentagon, documents from the Pentagon show. The contractor’s job is to translate the articles into Arabic and submit them to Iraqi newspapers or advertising agencies without revealing the Pentagon’s role. Documents show that the intended target of the article on a democratic Iraq was Azzaman, a leading independent newspaper, but it is not known whether it was published there or anywhere else.
Even as the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development pay contractors millions of dollars to help train journalists and promote a professional and independent Iraqi media, the Pentagon is paying millions more to the Lincoln Group for work that appears to violate fundamental principles of Western journalism.
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