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June 28, 2008 at 13:25:42

Headlined on 6/28/08:
Ball Girls, Big Lies and Bombing Iran

by Mac McKinney Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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In a word, the race to dupe public opinion about a "clear and present danger" posed by Iran's nuclear program, to justify Israel's threatened attack (with the US's tacit approval) is in full gear and the US media are by and large about to receive another "F" card, just as they did with the US's 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the "pluralistic" media became a shell of itself by blindly echoing the White House's spin about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. (Asia Times source)

Kaveh excoriates the corporate media, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal and the other usual propaganda channels for what is a cartoonish distortion of facts about Iran's legal nuclear energy program. To wit:

With leading nuclear experts, media pundits and members of the US Congress recycling it, this serious distortion has now acquired the status of a truism about Iran, and a dangerous one that lends itself to an unprovoked attack on Iran by Israel and or the US.

But, no matter what the influential position of their signatories, the narratives in the US media that persist in their claim that Iran has manufactured "weapons-grade" enriched uranium simply cannot stand the weight of scrutiny and are refuted by the IAEA's findings to the contrary. These narratives routinely refer to the IAEA's reports on Iran, yet turn a blind eye to those reports' explicit references to Iran's "low-enriched uranium" (up to 4%). (ibid.)

Meanwhile, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, speaks about the non-existent Iranian nuclear weapons program as if it already in place and being poised for launch against Israel, against Europe and against us, while, simultaneously, every little tidbit about any IAEA criticism against Iran is immediately blown out of proportion by disingenuous journalists like the smug Michael Gordon:

Thus, for instance, in a front-page article in the New York Times, [3] dated June 20, Michael Gordon and Eric Schmitt break the sensational news about Israel's extensive maneuvers in preparation for an attack on Iran, indirectly rationalizing Israel's belligerency by omitting any mention of the IAEA's latest report confirming the absence of any evidence of military nuclear diversion and, instead, confining themselves to the following comment: "In late May, the IAEA reported that Iran's suspected work on nuclear matters was a 'matter of serious concern' and that the Iranians owed the agency 'substantial explanation'."

What ought to have been added was that the same IAEA report states unequivocally that it had received "no credible information" regarding the alleged "weaponization studies", nor has the agency detected any nuclear activity connected to those alleged studies. Besides, the same IAEA report more than a dozen times stresses the evidence of peacefulness of Iran's nuclear program. (ibid.)

So Hell-bent are the Bush Administration, AIPAC, the Israeli government, and certain blood-sport Europeans to attack Iran that all of Hitler's tenets of successful propaganda have already come into heavy and ever increasing play: the full-court press against the public and media and the constant, daily repetitions of the "mushroom cloud" fear factor, "killing Americans" and "evil terrorist state" from multiple directions. Glaring contradictions to their hype, such as the recent NIE report, as well as regular IAEA reports, are simply ignored. For example:

Thus, Mike McConnell, the US national intelligence director, told the right-wing Fox TV last Sunday that Iran was a year or two from developing its first nuclear bombs. McConnell's alarmist estimate on Iran is clearly at odds with the US's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, released late last year, that confirmed that Iran's nuclear program was, and had been since 2003, peaceful.

McConnell's own deputy, Donald M Kerr, has repeatedly defended the NIE report before the US Congress, stating that the US intelligence community does not plan to "revise" it. (ibid.)

If Iran was actually manufacturing weapons-grade uranium, Kaveh points out, the IAEA would certainly know it:

.....with the IAEA's robust inspection of Iran's enrichment facilities, any such diversion to "weapons-grade" enrichment would be instantly detected, simply because significant modifications, re-assembling and re-configuration of the cascades of centrifuges would be necessary and that could not possibly evade the IAEA's watchful eyes.

Yet, all of this is ignored, with the tacit suggestion that Iran's program is "unsupervised" when, in fact, it is one of the most exhaustively inspected and supervised nuclear programs in the world, in light of some 3,500 hours of inspection of its facilities since 2003. (ibid.)

Neocon Failure

Despite employing the Hitler paradigm again against Iran, the Neocon movement has been unable to maximize the tenet regarding a unified organization forcing its doctrine upon the public. The recent NIE report is a case in point. The Bush Administration is no longer able to repress dissent within the federal government and military. Too many people have woken up and are moving against the Neocons, just as within Nazi Germany during WWII, at a certain point, key generals and officers began plotting Hitler's overthrow. The only way the Neocons can whip everyone back into lockstep, and that may not work anyhow, is if another "9/11" occurs to provide the emotional drive to rally everyone around "the Fuhrer" once again. (Houston on the Fourth of July anyone?)

And while the Neocons may control the corporate media, they are getting racked through the coals endlessly on the Internet. Their lies are being lacerated daily on various sites.

On the world stage, many governments, no longer enthralled with the "War on Terror", are disputing the Neocon agenda, in particular Russia, which has stated that it has asked the United States and Israel for any real proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons program and received none (see my diary entry, "Russia Calls Israel's and the White House's Bluff" (click here)) How damning a proof is that that the whole game is a charade?

What peace and truth-loving people have to do now is to continue to neutralize the three tenets of Hitler, by debunking the Big Lies, confronting the daily repetition of these lies with equal intensity, and resisting all attempts to beat and brow-beat, threaten and intimidate everyone into conformity, conformity to a sick death cult. For us to fail now invites further disaster. And, I might add, watch out for ball girls.

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fake films

The government has been doing it at least since November, 1963.

by miles mathis (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 19 comments) on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 2:53:20 PM

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fake films

For instance, see http://geocities.com/gggbarlow

by miles mathis (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 19 comments) on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 2:57:59 PM

Wolfie

911, AND THE RESULTS OF VISUAL FAKERY

Everyone loves the flicks with fake computerized hoakum.

We saw, we believed, we lost out.

Most are still enchanted. Most are still in a mesmeized state.

Most are being lead to slaughter.

Most are oblivious.

Fun, isn't it?

by Wolfie (9 articles, 0 quicklinks, 33 diaries, 1208 comments) on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 6:27:22 PM

Richard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.
Richard MynickRichard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.

Terrifically good article, Mac. It would be hard to find

a single point to take issue with. The parallels are there, all right. Hitler & Goebbels would be impressed, even flattered, by the direction the US has taken, some 3 generations after their deaths. Goebbels himself studied Bernays, & would hardly be astonished by the way PR principles have been applied in this country.

The "Ball Girl" video is a very striking way to make your point!! Kudos on that. When I read that it's just a fake, I simply didn't want to believe it. In this, I realize, I'm simply showing my own personal version of "...in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie." I liked the "big lie" of the Ball Girl's catch so much, that I resisted the idea that it could be just an illusion.

by Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1216 comments) on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 9:29:40 PM

Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck, published by San Francisco Bay Press.
Mac McKinneyStudent of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck, published by San Francisco Bay Press.

Powerful Speech by Ron Paul on Iran

Here is Ron Paul's excellent speech fighting against the latest draconian resolution meandering through Congress that would impose sanctions on Iran that no nation could possibly accept. This resolution is a strong step toward war and would likely provoke naval battles if the US Navy tried to implement it. See:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/280608Paul.htm

by Mac McKinney (48 articles, 75 quicklinks, 176 diaries, 1128 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 12:25:18 AM

randall is a married carpenter in wisconsin very very much an outdoorsman, who's family goes back, over 120 years in the same town in n. wisconsin. who is concerned about global warming after the realization of the major changes in his own town's weather,and knowing nobody can stop it now. whether you believe in GOD or we are just animals something is happening? JUSTIFICATION IS COMMING!!!!!
skiidogsrandall is a married carpenter in wisconsin very very much an outdoorsman, who's family goes back, over 120 years in the same town in n. wisconsin. who is concerned about global warming after the realization of the major changes in his own town's weather,and knowing nobody can stop it now. whether you believe in GOD or we are just animals something is happening? JUSTIFICATION IS COMMING!!!!!

july 4

do something about this government--start the revolution or become the conqured slave to the system---your food is poisened-as your water and air so get off your butts get some guts and do something this forth of july for you cant honestly say you are celebrating your freedom---------

by skiidogs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 148 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 11:00:52 AM

Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she a...

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Meryl Ann ButlerMeryl Ann Butler is an artist, author and educator who counts First Lady Dolley Payne Todd Madison as well as two signers of the Articles of Confederation among her ancestors. Mary Ball, mother of George Washington is in the ancestral lineage of Butler's great grandmother, Blanche Ball. Grateful to know that the blood of America's founding mothers and fathers runs in her veins, Butler has been newly filled with matriotism as a direct result of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Lest she a...

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GUNS AND DOGS

Great article! Brings to mind the fabulous movie, Wag the Dog, as well as the famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding the gun - which so conveniently has the top of the papers he is holding covering his neck area, making photo manipulation oh, so much easier. And while the slight difference in the direction of the shadows on Oswald's face verses the body may have fooled many people, any artist or scientist worth their salt can detect that there are two different light source directions in this photo. (This is problematic in an outdoor photo, since there is only one sun.) As am experienced Photoshop artist, I see no tchnical problem in others being able to fake these images, (tho' it would have taken alot longer and required more skill in 1963!) I do it all the time myself, but generally I am just repairing photos of great-grandma or removing an ex-husband from a family photo. But once the new image is created, the new reality has power.

by Meryl Ann Butler (47 articles, 52 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 412 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 1:10:44 PM

Not a Great Omen

Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers

(http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvzKq9RB7EKl5o0yjM9QNPsqPPRw )

3 hours ago

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday.

"In implementation of the Geneva Conventions... the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers," the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.

"We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000," the general said, some of them mass graves if necessary.

Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country... and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War."

To read the full article, click here.

by Mac McKinney (48 articles, 75 quicklinks, 176 diaries, 1128 comments) on Sunday, June 29, 2008 at 4:59:41 PM