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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (258680)	5/26/2002 1:13:03 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Journalism and the CIA: The Mighty Wurlitzer pir.org "When the CIA was launched in 1947 at the beginning of the Cold War, these pioneers felt that they had both the right and the duty to secretly manipulate the masses for the greater good... "OSS veteran Frank Wisner ran most of the early peacetime covert operations as head of the Office of Policy Coordination. Although funded by the CIA, OPC wasn't integrated into the CIA's Directorate of Plans until 1952, under OSS veteran Allen Dulles. Both Wisner and Dulles were enthusiastic about covert operations....he called it his "Mighty Wurlitzer." "...psychological warfare as a new social science: propaganda, for example, was divided into "black" propaganda (stories that are unattributed, or attributed to nonexistent sources, or false stories attributed to a real source), "gray" propaganda (stories from the government where the source is attributed to others), and "white" propaganda (stories from the government where the source is acknowledged as such)." The rest outlines who why and how we're still in a intel-influenced media environment, and why any story of political significance, especially from intel-backed papers like the WashTimes, should be read for both content, and where it came from, for any patterns that emerge in the above categories. "The Times reported that over the last twenty years, the CIA owned or subsidized more than fifty newspapers, news services, radio stations, periodicals and other communications facilities, most of them overseas. These were used for propaganda efforts, or even as cover for operations. Another dozen foreign news organizations were infiltrated by paid CIA agents. At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, "Oh, sure, all the time." Since domestic propaganda was a violation of the their charter, the CIA defined the predictable effects of their foreign publications as "blowback" or "domestic fallout," which they considered to be "inevitable and consequently permissible." But former CIA employees told the Times that apart from this unintended blowback, "some CIA propaganda efforts, especially during the Vietnam War, had been carried out with a view toward their eventual impact in the United States." The Times series concluded that at its peak, the CIA's network "embraced more than 800 news and public information organizations and individuals."[15]"

To: MSI who wrote (258680)	5/26/2002 3:55:04 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

MSI, At this point in time, the centralized federal government has a near strangle hold on the citizens. It may take something like a bloodless revolution to start the wheel turning the other direction. These little wars scattered around the globe that we are participating in, on one degree or another, are just stupid, IMO. We are not the parents of the rest of the world. We cannot solve their problems for them. Shoving dollars down the piss hole, and getting agents wounded or killed, fighting the "so called" drug war in Columbia is a farce. The way to stop drugs in America is to spend that money on law enforcement to catch the major supplier, pushers, and users, and revamp the judiciary to see that they receive adequate penalties, and make sure they stick. When the hung horse thieves without a trial, the cases of horse theft were significantly reduced. Drastic? Yes. Worth it? Yes. The type of prayer I am talking about is giving us the determination, and strength, to do what is needed to be done. Given the opportunity, we can take it from there.

To: MSI who wrote (258680)	5/26/2002 9:58:12 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well your post throws out all the rhetorical crap just like all the loser whining about the bombing in Afghanistan and then in three day the Country was liberated. " Do you think" is the standard FUD of the know nothings needing to complain. If you want to know why 75% approval. "Do you think" smear mongerers have been made to look like idiots over and over by OH SO SMART PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH. China, the return of servicemen. Russia, a monster reduction in weapons. The choices of his cabinet. The success in Afghanistan. It goes on and on. so you go find all your smear mongering vacant liberal minded leftyloons. tom watson tosiwmee