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Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine
jasonditz writes "The BBC is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is unhappy with the existing propaganda systems in place and insists that the US must create a 'more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine' or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims. In an era where we've already got government-created and funded media outlets and the Pentagon bribing Iraqi journalists to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to endorse their positions, it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?"
Story submitter is complaining about US propaganda and then links to an article on Al Jazeera?
You got that right. These are the same savages who gleefully conspire with the captors of Jill Carroll to play sadistic tapes of her begging for her life to a to a gloating Muslim audience. All in the name of Islam, hmm? I would cheer if the Air Force put them out of business permanently.
an ill wind that blows no good
Retreat from Iraq. Cut support from Israel...
Uh oh wait a minute, there was more oil need for that SUV's...
So that mean you have to invade IRAN too, because you don't want give any drop oil and natural gas to china and india...
Mr Rumsfield, for my point of view, comments from Microsoft about Linux are more realistic...
[My english is better than most other people's Turkish, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
The left wing media bias is so great (and so blatatnly obvious) that there needs to be something to counteract all of the crap coming out of Iraq. Sure, the USA has made some mistakes (abu gharib) but has done a lot of good in Iraq, something which is never shown. Journalists are kidnapped left, right and center in Iraq and they still refer to the terrorists flowing over the Syrian border from Iran as "freedom fighters" or "insurgents." As for abu gharib, the media just drug out photos from SEPTEMBER to re-incite controversy again.
12 churches have been burned down in a matter of a few weeks in the USA. The detectives are doing everything they can to prove that there it is NOT a hate crime. If it were Mosques it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the world. There would be even more massive riots than over the stupid cartoons. I would go so far as to say the media would blame Bush for the mosque attacks claiming "Bush is doing nothing." There would be massive condemnation in the UN for the USA to "let" the burning of such holy shines continue. "Fortunately" it's only happening to Christian churches, so nobody cares.
Oh, and the king of the liberals, Bill Clinton, just called for the conviction of those cartoonists and publishers "guilty" of blashphemy of Islam by publishing those parody cartoons.
I am sick of everyone sucking up to the "nation" of Islam and defending their "rights" when Islam has absolutely no tolerance for any other religion or way of life.
There needs to be an anti-propaganda machine. Every time I turn on the t.v. I see Muslims rioting, shooting something, killing someone, kidnapping someone, starving or hacking someone to death, but this is spun in the media in a good light. Nobody says anything good about this country anymore. The USA is made out to be the eternal bad guy. The rest of the world is Jealous of the USA's power and money and whereas they would love for the USA to go in right now and take out Iran and it's nukes, the rest of the world would be the first to condemn the USA.
Oh, and before I get "modded down" for being a troll, this article is a "freebie" it should have not been posted on slashdot, as it's certainly flamebait.
"Jeremy, you need to get to an internet cafe and cut and paste some appropriate sentiments about me from the world wide
"or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims"
Try not invading countries on false pretexts, imposing sanctions that kill millions of children, lifting embargoes that crush countries and being more fair with the palestinians.
No propaganda machine could possibly change the effects of the ground realities.
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
I notice that you went from a 4 to a 1 pronto like. It didn't take the leftrolls long to find you and mod you down...
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
It's pretty clear about when to stone your kids to death (alternatively: the much less fun plain KJV version)
Curiosity was framed. Ignorance killed the cat.
OK. See ya! We really don't need people here that are too stupid to set their user prefs not to see these stories...
That is all.
Apparently you've never watched the network, because if you had, that's what they actually do.
Watch most Fox bashers don't like is that conservatives actually get to say things on TV.
Sorry, comrade, but in this country everyone has a chance to say what they want. Not just the goon squad you agree with.
Where else are you getting your tech news and *reasonable* discussion? This place has just gotten too rabid.
Begging the question does not mean what you think (despite the common misuse). Use "raises the question" in this context.
What annoys a reader about the misuse of this phrase is that it's just as easy to use the more correct "raises the question" - but it's not used because the writer wishes to appear more learned by using a catchy phrase from the study of rhetoric; he instead makes an error in usage and thereby appears even more foolish. Brilliant!
First rule: say what you mean.
Second rule: say it simply.
My god.
You still read/watch those?
Those two sources haven't released any news in years. It's all been a bunch of anti-republican tripe since (at least) Reagan.
-john
Slashdot: you'll not find a more wretched collection of villainy and disreputable types...
If I had to vote today, I would pick Bin Larden as opposed to George Bush.
Now, when do we start bombing America back into the stone age? Seriously!
Well, DUH: how's this for starters?
1. GET THE FUCK OUT OF IRAQ. AND STAY OUT.
2. DEVELOP NON-PETROLEUM ENERGY SYSTEMS, ASAP.
3. RENOUNCE EMPIRE
That would be a good start.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
As an atheist, you should have enough sense to realize that only religious people expect to live forever.
You WILL die! NO MATTER WHAT... EVERYONE DIES!!
What the fuck is wrong with you people... accept the fact that you'll kick the bucket sooner or later, and get over it. Go party, drink, fuck, sing, write, enjoy life, you fuckers have helped destroy the environment just as the rest of us have, so suck it up, only an IDIOT would want to live forever, given how fucked up the world will get in the next 100 years.
History is being rewritten more aggressively than ever, and few are contesting it.
Unlike Orwell's 1984, nobody will overthrow the rich... THEY are the ones he wrote about... just that such a direct allusion would've probably gotten him murdered and his book burned before it hit the presses.
No, many future thinkers were prophetic, but nobody is thinking nowadays... why think when there's American Idol to watch? And speaking of which, lets all get real, the rich will fuck this world into a shithole slum, where the only air you can breathe is from a canister on your back, which you have to "be a good citizen" "to receive your lawfully alloted air". Perfect tool of control, can't even fight when the only way to get air is to be a perfect slave. Clean air, clean water, who the fuck gives a shit about oil and money when the things you need to LIVE will be limited?
But go on, tell me how you're an atheist and scared of those mean old muslims. And then go fuck off with the rest of the religious, consumerist, shit sucking scumbags that are the majority of this world. You've fucked those of us that care by sheer weight of your numbers. If there is a god, I hope she (or he) lets me torture you for eternity. All of you... christian, muslim, atheist, or whateverthefuckian you are.
~D
PS - if you think this is a flame or troll, perhaps you should live in my shoes, and watch everything degrade, and know that no matter how much power you wield in the political and economical system, unless you are the ultra rich, and richer than those who print the money, you'll NEVER be strong enough to counteract their poisonous influence. Just like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and even the guys who run Halliburton and all the other rich *individuals* are not rich enough to counteract Alan Greenspan if he decides to hand out a loan that quadruples the debt, which you can bet everything you own that Bush and Co will gladly accept and waste almost immediately. Suddenly their funds will be worth dip shit. This is the problem, the point, the fear... the money printers wield such INSANE power (though fictitious, it is amazingly widely accepted) that nobody can fight them. Rothschild could've never asked for better avatars.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
In other words, if you believe as you suggest that Slashdot is tolerant of all well-expressed views, you may be suffering from craniorectal inversion.
/. isn't *tolerant* of one goddamned thing. It's equal opportunity hatred for anything you might say.
Point me to where I claimed that and you get a cookie.
I support the Administration. I think Mr. Bush is doing a fine job. No, I'm not joking.
Then, quite honestly, I hope to have the opportunity to shoot you right in your treasonous cowardly face.
Not in any way because I don't support your right to hold and express your opinion.
But because you are actively working toward the destruction of my goddamned fucking birthright that my ancestors killed sick mother fuckers like you to defend.
If you are truly that sickening of an individual that you despise the idea that human beings have the right to choose their own destinies, then your death could only be a boon to humankind.
If you think that you don't believe that and you still support the neocon agenda, then you are too stupid to have even researched what you are supporting.
Whether you are a moron or a sociopath isn't the issue anymore. You have actively declared war on liberty and I'm on the other side bitch. Please do the world a favor and kill your evil fucking fascist self.
That is not an ad hominem by the way. You freely stated your support for fascism. I'll bet that you're either too stupid to know it or too cowardly to admit it.
Then you are a idiot, sir.
Okay, I'll take you on. You say the war was all of Bush's doing. This is obviously a clear sign of your misunderstanding of what power the President actually has. All of your elected liberals voted for the war as well. The exception is your hero, Kerry, after voting for the war decided he didn't want to supply our troops with any armor. What a POS. Also, you might want to avoid "popular opinion" regarding the war, and stop listening to Hollywood. Do a bit of reading, it will help you out. Start with this article: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060219-092126-178 8r.htm
Katrina - I don't want to hear any of your "please take care of us because we're too damn stupid and want to live below sea level" crap. I live in Mississippi, and Katrina did alot more damage in this state than it did in the cess pool known as New Orleans. I have a family member killed by Katrina. I see the devestation done by Katrina every single day.
If you want to place "blame" on Katrina, then that lies 100% with the city of New Orleans, and the state of Louisiana. The FACT is that the city didn't have any plain in place. Their big plan? Put them in the SuperDome. Have you ever been in there? It really is a dump, and was contracted out to the lowest builder. The state didn't invest any money into the city to prepare for such things to take place.
It is NOT the federal government's responsibility to take care of a bunch of idiots that chose to live in a place below sea level. That's like saying if I wanted to build a house on top of an active volcano, that it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure my house doesn't get damaged, and to give me handouts for such stupidity.
Louisiana has the most corrupted government among all of the states in the US. There is no denying that. Do you know that in NOLA, there are only two hospitals that actually have working ER's? Guess what the city is doing right now? Spending money throwing a parade.
If you really believe it is the federal governments responsibility to take care of you, then I absolutely pity you. If you want a socialist system, there's other nations that you'd be thrilled to live in. However, I don't want nor need the federal government to hold my hand throughout my life. It's people like you that expect the federal government to give you handouts that burdens our system so badly. Now run along to your mailbox. I'm sure you've got a welfare check in it waiting for ya.