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How the Propaganda System Works

by Orwell Chomsky Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 11:57 AM

Arab League Vote against war is ignored

How does the U.S. and British propaganda system work? Today’s news provides a textbook example. Yesterday the Arab League voted unanimously to oppose the war in Iraq. The 22 member Arab League includes Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and other Middle Eastern and African countries. These countries are Saddam Hussein’s neighbors, yet they are against the war.

That is big news, especially combined with the vote in the Turkish Parliament which denied the U.S. the use of Turkey as a staging ground for war. And it follows the Non-aligned meeting of 116 countries in Malaysia last weekend which came out strongly against the war. And of course that followed the huge world-wide Feb. 15 protests which were largest in the three European countries, Great Britain, Spain and Italy, whose leaders support this war. What the Arab League vote shows is that NOBODY in the world supports this war.

Yet, how did the U.S. and British media report the Arab League’s vote? They focused on a suggestion made by the U.A.E.. that Saddam Hussein should go into exile. This issue did not even make it on the agenda of the meeting!

So, for the media to focus on the U.A.E.. suggestion, and to ignore, or bury in the bottom paragraphs of the article, the actual statement made at the end of the meeting of the Arab League, shows clearly that the U.S. and British mass media are part of a propaganda system which is an accessory to planned mass murder, an accessory to the unprovoked attack of another country, which will result in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.

The Observer, a newspaper in England made no mention of the vote!
Headline: Arab Emirates leader calls for Saddam to quit
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,906036,00.html


MSNBC ran this headline: UAE calls on Iraq leaders to quit
http://www.msnbc.com/news/879265.asp?0dm=C24HN

This is the Washington Post Headline: UAE Urges Hussein To Go Into Exile

Fox news headline: Arab Summit: Feuding Over Call for Hussein to Step Down

Buried in the Fox news story is this sentence: “The summit ended with a vague anti-war declaration that was short on specifics, the diplomats said.”

In fact the anti-war statement was not vague in the least, and it was passed unanimously, but you have to go to another news source to discover that. This is from associated press, which all U.S. newspapers and television stations subscribe to
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030301/ap_wo_en_ge/me_gen_arabs_iraq_communique_1 : the headline is:

Main points of Arab summit final communique
Arab leaders registered "complete rejection to any aggression on Iraq or threatening the security of any Arab country and considering it a threat to Arab national security and (reiterate) the necessity of resolving the Iraqi issue through peaceful ways."
_ Called for giving weapons inspectors enough time carry out their mission and called on inspectors to use objectivity in their work.
_ Called on Arab countries to refrain from "participating in any military action that targets the security, safety and unity of Iraq or any other Arab country."

So, the mass media makes a bare mention of the most important news, the complete rejection of the war against Iraq, and they bury it under misleading headlines, and focus on something relatively trivial, which expresses the opinion only of the leadership of one tiny country.

This is the membership of the Arab League:
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Quatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.

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Meanwhile ...

by x Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 5:39 PM

Meanwhile, the news has been monopolized by the capture of "al Qaida's top operations chief" - no small prize, to be sure ( IF you believe he's actually responsible for everything he's accused of). This provides a new and very convenient diversion and allows the media to ignore some of the more embarrassing revelations of bribery, threats, concealing evidence, eavesdropping on UNSC members, etc. that have come to light in the last few days. When they shift the focus back to Iraq it will be THEY - not actual events - that shape the debate. That's the way it always works.
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After All the Emperor Has Gespoken

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 6:18 PM

Shut up, shut up, shut up. The Emperor has spoken kill them all and let God sort them out. Or so BA and the other shills would tell us.

Nevermind that Saddam poses no threat to us or apparently his neighbors. No that's insignificant that all of his Arab neighbors would oppose the war and support inspections.

Watch the Watch. Watch the Watch. You are getting sleeeepy....
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Well let's see...

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 6:33 PM

With most of the World in opposition why yes - it does loom large. Why do you think the Oil Soaked Monopoly Media has tried to bury it ?

Because the entire Arab World just gave Duhbya the collective Finger.

At this point the support FOR the War is the U.K. and about 6 other countries with the combined firepower of New Jersey (which admittedly is not insignificant - why the Gambinos alone ...)
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Looking through a glass darkly

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 6:57 PM

"And the Queen of Hearts Said: "I try to believe 8 impossible things before breakfast".
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Propaganda Ops Likely Again

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 7:07 PM

From Australian Broadcasting Online:

Sunday, March  2, 2003. Posted: 23:00:30 (AEDT)

Pakistani's family shocked by Al Qaeda arrest

The sister of a Pakistani arrested in a swoop that authorities say also netted the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks has said he was the only man present at the time of the raid and had no ties to any extremist group.
Pakistani authorities said on Saturday local time they had arrested three Al Qaeda suspects in an early morning raid on a house in the city of Rawalpindi near Islamabad.

Those held included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and 41-year-old Pakistani Ahmed Quddus, they said.
An intelligence source said the third man was an Egyptian national, but gave no details.
However, members of Quddus's family said he was the only person arrested in a raid by 20 to 25 security men armed with Kalashnikov rifles on their house in Westridge, a middle-class area of Rawalpindi at 22:30 GMT Friday.

"My brother was the only man in the house when the raid took place," his sister Qudsia Khanum said.
"He was taken away while his wife and kids were herded into a room and locked in.
"They didn't even know when they took him... or where.

"My brother has never been involved in any bad things.
"Actually, he's a bit slow, he's not very clever, so I can't even begin to imagine that he could be involved with any terrorist organisation.
"He does not have any links with any terrorist organisation.
"They're saying such strange things about him in the press.
"He's been living in the neighbourhood for 15 years and everyone knows him to be a placid person," she said.
Ms Qudsia said her mother was a district administrator of Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's largest Islamic political party, and her father a retired microbiologist who used to work for the United Nations and had lived abroad.

She said he was in Lahore for a wedding at the time of the raid.
"He's a heart patient so we had to break the news gently to him," she said.
Computer seized
Ahmed's cousin Omar Khan, a medical doctor, said the security men took away a computer when they searched the house.
Some analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time.
"I think he was arrested several months ago in the shootout in Karachi," one expert on Pakistan who declined to be identified said, referring to a gunbattle in September in the southern port city that netted another Al Qaeda figure, Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, known as Binalshibh.

Mohammed was reported to have narrowly evaded capture in that battle, when Karachi police identified him as a man hit by a police sniper.
But a suspected militant later denied this.
Another terror expert said several weeks ago he believed Mohammed had been arrested and that he expected the news would be only be made public when it was in the interests of the United States and Pakistan.
The first analyst said the arrest could make Islamic militants even more wary of the Pakistani Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) that they had considered an ally when the country was backing the Taliban in Afghanistan before September 11.
"Those who think they have ISI protection will stop feeling that comfort level," he said.
Pakistani officials said on Sunday local time that Mohammed had been handed over to US custody soon after his arrest.
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And this is even more amazing

by Diogenes Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 10:04 PM

Comet, my 5 year old golden retreiver, and I have been playing for a couple
of years now. But until recently I've never been able to get him to mount
my mouth. It finally worked.

We usually start out playing around on the floor with each other. I'll get
him a bit excited, then reach under him and rub his sheath. As soon as my
hand makes contact he stops and stands perfectly still. He knows what is
coming.

I'll stroke his cock a few minutes till it starts peeking out. Then I'll
usually play around with him some more. Then back to stroking his cock
again. This time is pops right out of his sheath, red and shiny. If time
is short, I'll have him mount me then. If we have time to play, I'll suck
his cock for a while first. He gets very nervous when I get under him.
Something to do with the master/dog roles, I assume. If I want his cock to
stay hard I have to lay him on his back and then I can suck him for a long
time.

Yesterday I tried something different. I got him hard and on his back.
Then sucked him for a few minutes. Then let him get back up. At this point
he is ready to mount. Instead of letting him mount, I reached under him and
stroked his cock. Grabbing his sheath around his swelling knot, I rubbed it
firmly and vigorously for a minute or so. Needless to say he began humping.
As soon as he was humping, I grabbed his front paws and put them on the
couch, while continuing the cock stroking.

Now he is raised up and humping. I quickly layed down and sucked his cock
into my mouth. With one hand still stroking his knot, I reached around with
the other and hugged him to my face.

He continued humping, fucking my mouth!! Finally, I had figured out how to
get him to do this. Once he was humping furiously I stopped stroking his
knot and just held him to me. He fucked my mouth for about five minutes
before his knot came out of the sheath. By this time his cock is quite
large, a mouthful to say the least. I am having to steadily swallow his
small squirts of precum, yummy!

He is close now, he is fucking his knot against my lips forcefully. I had
thought about this, but was'nt sure I could take it in too. But I had tried
for so long to get him to facefuck me that I was gonna try. I opened my
mouth wide and pushed my face into his underbelly. Oh yeah! His knot got
behind my teeth and his cockhead was past my gagreflex. I tried to keep my
lips covering my teeth as best as I could. I don't want to hurt my buddy.
Now he is humping against my face, I can feel his cock throbbing in my
throat. It seems that his cock can still stroke in and out a bit, because I
have his knot filling my mouth but everytime he humps forward I feel his
cock go a bit deeper in me. Then back out on his backstroke. I can't tell,
and really don't care at this point, if his cock strokes seperate from the
knot or if his knot is pushing into my mouth. I just know that I love
having Comet fucking my mouth.

When he is fucking my ass, I can relax and let his knot slip in and out of
me sometimes. But I quickly realize that I won't be able to do this with my
mouth. He is just too big, my teeth would tear his knot up. So I just keep
my mouth closed on his knot and enjoy the ride!!

And what a ride it is, too!! My eyes are tearing up, my nose is running and
my throat and mouth are full of dog cock. Hard, thick driving dogcock. So
good. Then Comet stopped humping and I felt his cum shooting down my throat.
I would have liked to pull back and get a mouthful, but I did'nt want to
let his knot go. I just stayed with my face in his underbelly and enjoyed
the feeling of his throbbing cock filling me with his watery cum.

I began rubbing his ears and neck. I usually tell him he is a good boy and
stuff after he fucks me, but with a mouthful of cock I could'nt say
anything, so I just petted him. Damn his knot is big, I was thinking as I
lay there with it in my mouth. I had seen it and it has been in my ass more
times than I can count, but it sure seems bigger in my mouth!

When his knot began to shrink a bit, after maybe 4 or 5 minutes, I opened
wide and let him pop it out. I held on to him so he could not pull his cock
out. I sucked him for a minute or two, then let him pull out of me. He
licked at my face a bit then lay down to clean his cock. I pushed him onto
his back and got him in my ass before his cock could slip back in its
sheath. It only took a few strokes on my cock before I was shooting cum all
over his belly with his cock in my ass.

I love my Comet!
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