Or Sunday, I guess. Just remembering WMD lies.
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Category Archives: Perversion and Propaganda
To Sell a War (1992)
After the first Gulf War ended, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation produced an Emmy award-winning TV documentary on the PR campaign titled “To Sell a War.”
Hero, Speaking Out
Dr. Udo Ulfkotte speaks from personal experience on how the CIA has created methods of soft control that are every bit as anti-American as would be outright censorship. They may even be more devastating than harder control.
More War Porn from Hollywood
Fighting to Protect America’s Freedom?
We are often told that America is fighting the “war” on “terror” to protect our freedom. It is clear, I think, at this point: war does the exact opposite. War leads to the expansion of state power abroad and the diminishing of liberties at home. Read this enumeration of the Bill of Rights and their evisceration since 9/11…and weep.
Fears, Polls, Wars, Mistakes, Regrets
These polls seem hard to believe. Great article by Glenn Greenwald. Do people really feel this way or are these polls just as manufactured as the fear they purport to reflect? I don’t know anymore.
Americans Now Fear ISIS Sleeper Cells Are Living In the U.S., Overwhelmingly Support Military Action, by Glenn Greenwald
“…(8) Here’s how you know you live in an empire devoted to endless militarism: when a new 3-year war is announced and very few people seem to think the president needs anyone’s permission to start it (including Congress) and, more so, when the announcement – of a new multiple-year war – seems quite run-of-the-mill and normal.
(9) How long will we have to wait for the poll finding that most Americans ‘regret’ having supported this new war in Iraq and Syria and view it as a “mistake”, as they prepare, in a frenzy of manufactured fear, to support the next proposed war?…”
Hard to tell what to believe anymore. More important than ever to stay grounded in Truth.
War is Cute, Wink, Wink
Following the last post of babies and children dressed in camouflage, wrapped in flags, playing army, posing with dog tags, carrying guns and being indoctrinated by militant adults, we have more here in the “war is cute” category.
From Reuters: “Just as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe beefs up Japan’s military, the armed forces have turned to a 20-year pop idol for a softer touch in recruiting soldiers in a country that revels in all things cute.” “Cute Japan Pop Star Recruits Soldiers as Abe Boosts Military”
“Will Japan’s Youth Go to War Because a Pretty Girl Told Them To?“
Lenten Reflection 4: Just War
CHRISTIAN UNJUST/JUST WAR MORAL THEORY
“The first weapon of war is the lie. The first casualty of war is the truth. These two universally known and historically validated facts are truths that Christian Just War theory, Christian Just Warists, and Christian Just War Churches are adamantly and chronically culpably blind to. And this, despite the verifiable fact that this head-inthe-sand moral posture has resulted in and is resulting in Christians destroying tens of millions of human beings and inflicting intolerable human suffering on tens of millions of others by their ostrich-based Just War morality. Morally culpable self-deception is refusing to look because I know I won’t see what I want to see.” Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
This ten-minute video talk is the fourth part in a series of Lenten reflections by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
Means, Motive, Opportunity
“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44
An important new book called “Another 19: Investigating 9/11 Suspects” has been written by Kevin Robert Ryan, investigating “another 19” possible suspects besides Osama bin Laden and the handful of young Arabs, suspects who had three key things in any investigation: means, motive, and opportunity.
Before you dismiss it as a “conspiracy theory,” keep in mind that the official narrative of 9/11 is itself a conspiracy theory which has not been proven true by any acceptable standard. For a quick overview of the official conspiracy theory, watch this well done video (five minutes):
Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammunition
Praise (v): to express warm admiration or approval of.
Easy to praise. Hard to follow.