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US Military Launches YouTube Channel
Jenga717 writes "The US military has launched its own channel on YouTube, in efforts to shift the media's focus of Iraq from a negative to a more positive light, and to 'counter the messages of anti-American sites.' From the article: 'The footage is not picked specifically to show the military in a good light ... and is only edited for reasons of time or content too graphic to be shown on YouTube ... And while all the clips currently posted have been shot by the military's combat cameramen, soldiers and marines have been invited to submit their own clips.' The question is, where are they supposed to submit them? Starting 'on or about 14 May 2007', the Department of Defense will block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, and more sites, due to a 'growing concern for our unclassified DoD Internet, known as the NIPRNET'." More commentary below.
The troops will be unable to access these sites from any computer on the DoD network, yet are still able to access them from their home computers — which they can't use on the DoD network. So why the censorship? The DoD cites security reasons, but the Commander of Global Network Operations (DoD's Joint Task Force)"has noted a significant increase in the use of DoD network resources tied up by individuals visiting certain recreational Internet sites." The PDF released by the DoD reminds troops that this "benefits not only you, your fellow Servicemembers, and Civilian employees, but preserves our vital networks for conducting official DoD business in peace and war." Sounds like quite a sticky situation."
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Destruction is Development
We're not killing babies, we're preventing terror.
Fuck 'em all, and the horse they rode in on. 50 years from now, when the USA is a pathetic, second-rate banana republic, the world will marvel how the people let it happen.
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Look, MSGT McPervy, just because you can't look at TnA while working at your avionics bench, doesn't mean you are prevented from the rest of the internet.
As a civilian, I did that job for USN, using SuperScout, I WAS Mister Access Denied, and, backed by regulations, was very strict in sites I blocked. We even had several prosecutions. Do it on your own time.
As a former MTI at Lackland, in the pre-web era, I was used to whining airmen. But, please, you do know the military has a mission other than making sure you can look for Borat videos on YouTube, right?
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
"How many bad cops are there, really?"
That's not really the right question to ask if you want to make your point. It's pretty well accepted that the question isn't of how many bad cops are their, but one of how bad is each individual cop, as well as how bad are they on average.
BS. The news media concealed atrocities in Vietnam, such as the destruction of Huan, and the widespread use of defoliants that killed thousands of children. The bombardment of Laos, and the creation of the world's biggest minefield were all ignored. They ignored the death squads in El Salvidor, and are currently ignoring the genocide in Sudan. The NY Times had the balls to publish a picture of US Soldiers attacking a hospital in violation of the Geneva Convention without mentioning that they had been committing a war crime. The American news media is a propaganda arm of the US government.(Source: Noam Chomsky). No mention of the fact that we assisted Saddam with the crimes we executed him for has been made, or that the only chemical weapons he ever had were the ones that we gave him.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.-- Frontinus, 1st cent. AD
I am sure good things are happening, but NO amount of good things can make up for the damage we (The US) have done. I personally hold Bush and his clan responsible for ~3500 American deaths and more importantly over 1/2 million Iraqi deaths. Not to mention all the injuries, destroyed lives and a destroyed country. The SOB Bush has killed more Americans than Osama bin laden and more Iraqi's than Saddam had in a long time. We talk about catching Osama (or not..) We should be catching Bush. Everyday that goes by I find myself more furious over what he has done to my country (and what we have let him do). This is like some horrible nightmare. I am going to stop here so I don't get into a rant and type 3 pages. On an individual level our troops are good people, doing their job, but as a whole they have been sent to do a horrible thing.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Or not kill innocent people
Or not rape their girls
Or make a youtube channel
Seriously, I'm not sure about the first three.
You state the existence of that vast disproportion based on what empirical evidence, exactly?
Because those who know better have this.
Don't fall prey to a blind, unthinking, tibal nationalism. The "Good Germans" have pioneered that one before you to perfection and you should mind the results.
Just because they are "your" guys, that does not automatically make them (or even a vast majority of them) "good".
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So you reject all statistical sampling then, and subsequently nearly all of the empirical sciences? Glad to know.
And you plan to replace the said statistical sampling with what? "Faith" based "science"? Gut feelings? Delusions?
Talk about "horrible at math"... and physics ... and chemistry ... and economics ... all based on statistical sampling and extrapolation from those samples to determine models of large scale empirical phenomena.
After all if a sample of 2000 coin tosses came up roughly 50% heads, it surely must, according to you, mean that another 120000 tosses will nearly all come up tails, no? It could happen, except that the probability of that event is lower then that of you growing a brain.
That study was conducted by the Pentagon. "Idiots" apparently includes everyone but you, who are, seemingly thanks to divine intervention, better informed then the Pentagon about the state of the Army and the Marines.
I love pseudo-intellectual ranting. You manage to say so little with so many words.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
To those who hate the United States (or any government for that matter), ANY information released by any governmental department is spun as "propaganda".
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