Army Invades Youtube Facebook Twitter Hulu XBox…

Sell, Sell, Sell…

“More smoke, darling.  Oh lovely.  So dramatic.  And, action!”

 Your Soul to the Devil.

Touting yet another incarnation of “the truth of what it means to be a soldier” I doubt the new US Army infomercials, excuse me, “realty show” barrage, will be showing the dismembered bodies, the mutilated people in the conflict zones, the childrens’ corpses, the wheelchairs, the prosthetic limbs or the Nuremberg Statutes, etc.

I considered blowing right by this NY Times ode to the misanthropic marketing efforts of militarism, but then again, one cannot escape his nature.

“Program-length commercials are becoming more popular as part of a trend known as content marketing, sponsored content or branded entertainment. The trend is meant to counter the growing habit — particularly among younger consumers, like the target audience for the Army, ages 18 to 24 — of ignoring traditional forms of advertising.”

Young man:

You’re an idiot, a dupe, and a demographic to be sold a lifestyle of so-called “service.”  That is the job of the ad men of Madison Avenue who relish the opportunity to sell you this vision of the future.  And a number of your brethren will sign on the dotted line, not in blood, but it should be.

“The Army’s advertising agency, the McCann Worldgroup, also part of Interpublic, will undertake a promotional campaign for “Starting Strong” in realms like social media”

…We have to innovate to engage the audience,” Mr. Davis said. “That’s the bottom line.”

Well, if that’s what you’re paid to do, then I guess you “have to.”

“Joining the Army is kind of like dating somebody; you don’t marry them on the first date,” Mr. Davis said. “It’s a decision. It’s a long conversation.”

…The idea to try content marketing came after two “Starting Strong” pilot episodes “did extremely well in testing,” Mr. Davis said.

It’s a long, fucking sales pitch, and you don’t really get a guarantee on the product.  In fact, you’re the product.  They won’t tell you that.  But, you’re harvested.  Your body, mind and soul become the exclusive property of the United States Military Industrial Complex.  That’s the deal.  They offer promises of future money and education, much of the time promises not kept.  Injured soldiers find themselves kicked out on their asses with substandard medical care from the perpetually underfunded Veteran’s Administration.

And after you help out with “the mission” and go to war somewhere, for who the fuck knows what in a place you’ve never heard of, and the bodies pile up, the army doesn’t quite give a shit about your concerns.  And if you blow your brains all over the bedroom wall from the guilt of what you have done to innocents half a world away, well the Army and the Madison Avenue clowns contracted by them don’t care about that either.  Nor if you beat your family to death, become a zombie, drug addled spree shooter or whatever.  It’s really not relevant to the mission … of world domination and threat of good old American force against those arrogant little brown bastards who don’t take orders from Washington.

So have fun.  Have a nice fucking life.

“Based on testing, we’re fairly optimistic this will gain the traction we need…”

Coca Cola, Cars, Beer, Smart Phones, Exercise, Joining a Killing Machine, World Domination, Whatever.  Sell, Sell, Sell.

 

That “Freedom” the US/NATO Brings Afghanistan

Tales in a Kabul Restaurant

by KATHY KELLY

Western Hypocrites

How they wailed and moaned over the Houla massacre, one year ago in Syria.  ”Assad the Butcher” needed to be taken out.  ”Diplomats” pulled out of Syria.  Diplomacy with the mad murderer of Damascus was impossible.

How they wept for the 49 murdered children, until the moment it was revealed that the murderers were their own Salafist terrorists.  Then the news disappeared forever.

Syria : One Year After the Houla Massacre. New Report on Official vs. Real Truth

Syria: The First Casualty…

The mass murder crime remains.  The perpetrators are known, and they are being funded and armed by the US and its immoral allies.

And how we trembled at Obama, the great leader’s, “red line” concerning chemical weapons, nerve gas, the terror of “Weapons of Mass Destruction”(TM) in the hands of the evil overlord Bashar Al Assad.

When the gas was released, the line was crossed.  Only swift heroic action by valiant NATO troops and planes could save the poor “freedom fighters” from the clutches of the brute.  It was global news, an hysteria and call for more war.

Then the United Nations determined it was those same Jihadi terrorists again, who had used the nerve gas.  The so-called “freedom fighters” had killed Syrian troops at a security station with the gas.  The lie was exposed once again, and the terrorist’s PR front, all those lying “activists” trained in deceiving western publics were completely discredited again for the thousandth time over the past two years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CpYmUZTTtXM

And silence.  Silence in the US press.

The Orwellian US “free press” is nothing of the sort.  By self-censoring the truth, on behalf of US imperial interests and war propaganda, they are the enemy of the American People.  Turn off that junk noise.  Get the facts yourself.  Do not believe US media, as they are known liars.

Sibel’s Censored Sunday Times Investigation

Sibel Edmond’s case, firing from the FBI and unprecedented gag orders, proves beyond doubt that the US government is corrupt, criminal and basically a protection racket for international terrorism, drug and weapons smuggling.

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed:

“In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story
, published last year, charged senior government officials with negligence, corruption and collaboration with al Qaeda in illegal arms smuggling and drugs trafficking in Central Asia.

In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s deputy at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between 1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as ‘Gladio B’. Al-Zawahiri, she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.

According to two Sunday Times journalists speaking on condition of anonymity, this and related revelations had been confirmed by senior Pentagon and MI6 officials as part of a four-part investigative series that were supposed to run in 2008. The Sunday Times journalists described how the story was inexplicably dropped under the pressure of undisclosed “interest groups”, which, they suggest, were associated with the U.S. State Department.

…Edmonds described how the CIA and the Pentagon had been running a series of covert operations supporting Islamist militant networks linked to Osama bin Laden right up to 9/11, in Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus.

…Edmonds clarified, “the FBI counterintelligence investigation which was tracking these targets, along with their links to U.S. officials, was known as ‘Gladio B’, and was kickstarted in 1997. It so happens that Major Douglas Dickerson” – the husband of her FBI co-worker Melek whom she accused of espionage – “specifically directed the Pentagon’s ‘Gladio’ operations in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan at this time.”

This is what the 9/11 Cover Up Commission kept secret and buried.  Sibel saw the raw intelligence pouring in from the region and translated it.  The covert operations involving Jihadists in Central Asia — for the purpose of  taking away Russian territory — is long established and quite obvious to anyone who cares to pay attention.  That’s a tiny minority, though.

“…Youssef Bodansky, former Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, cited U.S. intelligence sources in an article for Defense and Foreign Affairs: Strategic Policy, confirming “discussions between the Egyptian terrorist leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and an Arab-American known to have been both an emissary of the CIA and the U.S. Government.” He referred to an “offer” made to al-Zawahiri in November 1997 on behalf of U.S. intelligence, granting his Islamists a free hand in Egypt as long as they lent support to U.S. forces in the Balkans. In 1998, Al Zawahiri’s brother, Muhammed, led an elite unit of the Kosovo Liberation Army against Serbs during the Kosovo conflict – he reportedly had direct contact with NATO leadership.”

Aggressive War By Any Other Name

Would Still Smell As Disgusting

NY Times:

Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.

AP:

US Doubles Aid To Syrian Rebels, Who Want More

“Instead, the Obama administration’s pledged to provide an additional $123 million in aid, which may include for the first time armored vehicles, body armor, night vision goggles and other defensive military supplies.”

Another $123M tax money, while schools fold.  Seniors are being denied food and medicine.  Obama is the representative of the Military-Industrial-Crony-Capital-Corporate sector.  He does not give a damn about Americans, nor Syrians.

Syria’s so-called “rebels” are majority Al-Qaeda connected “Al Nusra Brigade.”  Their atrocities have killed tens of thousands of civilians.  We are living Orwell’s worst nightmare.  Don’t beleve me?  How about a Catholic Church official from Syria?

“It’s not a question of promoting democracy or pluralism as the West wants us to understand of its policies. This is a lie, this is hypocrisy,” Syriac Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan told Catholic News Service.

Western nations did not heed warnings and so “bear responsibility for what is happening in Syria.”

“We were warning all those involved, the countries in the region and in the West — that means the United States and some of the European Union countries, like the United Kingdom and France — that this kind of violence would lead to chaos and the chaos to a civil war,” Patriarch Younan said. “And at that time, two years ago, they chose not to believe that.”

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1302115.htm

Yes America.  Your willful, criminal ignorance kills thousands around the world.  You’re supposed to keep checks on your government.  That’s called “democracy.”

Greenwald Kicks Bill Maher’s Ass

Glenn Greenwald calls out bigoted imperial apologist Bill Maher for his biased, blinkered views, and it looks like he might not be returning to that TV show.  That’s the way it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYG7GR13DnU&feature=player_embedded

I can’t stand Bill Maher, a really loathsome despicable propagandist who masquerades as a critic.  File him with Rush, Sean and Beck.

Evil Plus One

Psychopathic warmongers in high places, be they government, think tanks, and particularly media, are some of the foulest, deceitful, loathsome monsters our culture has ever produced.  While Dahmer and Manson killed a few, these deceivers stand to kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, milllions, …blillons?

BIG LIE SYRIA

Media Theatrics and the Syria Chemical Weapons Saga

See also:

US Mercenaries Trained Syrian Terrorists in Handling of Chemical Weapons

See also:

UN Exposes Syria False Flag Gas Attack

See also:

Syria, The First Casualty (the truth)

 

Israel’s Latest War Crimes

“Israeli strike kills 42 Syrian soldiers”

-Stars and Stripes

The psychotic double-standard in international relations could easily compare to WW2 Nazi rationalizations.  If any other country does the same thing — invade a country’s air space, drop bombs on its facilities, murder its soldiers, it suddenly becomes quite clear what’s happening.  If Canada flies down into New York and bombs a military base, the United States would have a problem with that.  If Russia flies into Alaskan air space and sinks a US patrol boat, this is clearly to be interpreted as an act of war, a war crime and an atrocity.

But imperialists and “exceptionalists” don’t adhere to reality, morality, common sense or anything approaching ethical behavior.

The big story that US media doesn’t want to talk about:

UN: Rebels, not Assad, appear to have used chemical weapons

United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad’s regime, may have used chemical weapons.“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Carla Del Ponte, a member of the independent commission of inquiry on Syria, told Swiss-Italian television. “This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities.”

-The Hill

If the ignorant sheeple don’t hear about it, then it never happened, clearly.

US Neocon Monsters Ready to Chop Up Syria

 

BOILING FROGS POST (BFP):

Uber-Neocons: The Main Architects of Post-Assad Syria at Work

Satan is always hiring.

 

 

 

Censorship is a Moral Crime

I’ve been battling censorship head on this past week, and it is staggering.

Another piece of hard evidence on US media censorship has become too glaring and offensive to ignore.  Yesterday I posted a piece from the Jerusalem Post.

Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson:

“A former senior official in the Bush administration said on Thursday the use of chemical weapons in Syria might have been a “false flag operation” of Israel, meant to implicate Syrian President Bashar Assad.”We don’t know what the chain of custody is. This could’ve been an Israeli false flag operation, it could’ve been an opposition in Syria… or it could’ve been an actual use by Bashar Assad. But we certainly don’t know with the evidence we’ve been given. And what I’m hearing from the intelligence community is that that evidence is really flakey,” retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, told Cenk Uygur in an interview with Current TV.”

There is not one article in the entire US corporate media reporting this, or mentioning Col. Wilkerson’s concerns over the “chain of custody” of nerve gas evidence.  Wilkerson, of course, knows the nerve gas is in the possession of the Jihadist lunatics supported by our “good friends” in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.  These Jihadists already made a Youtube video spilling the beans and testing the gas.

America doesn’t have a Nazi Volksaufklärung und Propaganda.  It doesn’t need one.  It functions smoothly in the interest of a narrow, elite set of warmongers’ interests right now.

Censorship on matters of war and peace leads to mass murder, war crimes, atrocities beyond words.  That is the game US corporate media plays, and their actions surrounding the Iraq War lies in 2002-2003 should have been the wakeup call tot he world that these shills cannot be trusted.  They do not tell the public the whole story.  It is not in their interest to keep you informed.

Israel Attacks Syria

The fraudulent “nerve gas” claims are cited by Israeli warmongers as they launch World War 3.  In a completely propagandized western public, the truth of official claims is no longer relevant.

Israel Bombs Syria as the U.S. Considers Its Own Military Options

 

“All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true within itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.”
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

 

Kucinich: Al Qaeda Flag Flying Over Libya Capital City HQ

“What is going on in America?  …It’s time for America to get its story and its priorities straight about what we stand for as a nation.”

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OywA0ry610