{"article":{"id":32669,"heading":"How the Propaganda System Works","author":"Orwell Chomsky","created":"2003-03-03 19:57:55","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:46","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:48:46","article":"

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<\/a>,12239,906036,00.html



MSNBC ran this headline: UAE calls on Iraq leaders to quit

http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/879265.asp?0dm=C24HN<\/a>

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<\/a> : 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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That's the way it always works.","author":"x","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 01:39:28","modified":"2003-03-04 01:39:28","fileurl":""},{"id":32759,"heading":"After All the Emperor Has Gespoken","article":"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.\r\n\r\nNevermind 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.\r\n\r\nWatch the Watch. Watch the Watch. You are getting sleeeepy....","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 02:18:10","modified":"2003-03-04 02:18:10","fileurl":""},{"id":32767,"heading":"Well let's see...","article":"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 ? \r\n\r\nBecause the entire Arab World just gave Duhbya the collective Finger.\r\n\r\nAt 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 ...)","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 02:33:57","modified":"2003-03-04 02:33:57","fileurl":""},{"id":32777,"heading":"Looking through a glass darkly","article":""And the Queen of Hearts Said: "I try to believe 8 impossible things before breakfast".","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 02:57:17","modified":"2003-03-04 02:57:17","fileurl":""},{"id":32779,"heading":"Propaganda Ops Likely Again","article":"From Australian Broadcasting Online:\r\n\r\nSunday, March\u00a0 2, 2003. Posted: 23:00:30 (AEDT)\r\n\r\nPakistani's family shocked by Al Qaeda arrest\r\n\r\nThe 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. \r\nPakistani 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. \r\n\r\nThose held included Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and 41-year-old Pakistani Ahmed Quddus, they said. \r\nAn intelligence source said the third man was an Egyptian national, but gave no details. \r\nHowever, 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. \r\n\r\n"My brother was the only man in the house when the raid took place," his sister Qudsia Khanum said.\r\n"He was taken away while his wife and kids were herded into a room and locked in. \r\n"They didn't even know when they took him... or where. \r\n\r\n"My brother has never been involved in any bad things.\r\n"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. \r\n"He does not have any links with any terrorist organisation. \r\n"They're saying such strange things about him in the press. \r\n"He's been living in the neighbourhood for 15 years and everyone knows him to be a placid person," she said. \r\nMs 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. \r\n\r\nShe said he was in Lahore for a wedding at the time of the raid. \r\n"He's a heart patient so we had to break the news gently to him," she said. \r\nComputer seized\r\nAhmed's cousin Omar Khan, a medical doctor, said the security men took away a computer when they searched the house. \r\nSome analysts questioned whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had actually been arrested on Saturday and speculated he may have been held for some time. \r\n"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. \r\n\r\nMohammed was reported to have narrowly evaded capture in that battle, when Karachi police identified him as a man hit by a police sniper. \r\nBut a suspected militant later denied this. \r\nAnother 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. \r\nThe 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. \r\n"Those who think they have ISI protection will stop feeling that comfort level," he said. \r\nPakistani officials said on Sunday local time that Mohammed had been handed over to US custody soon after his arrest.\r\n","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 03:07:43","modified":"2013-11-10 23:48:47","fileurl":""},{"id":32854,"heading":"And this is even more amazing","article":"Comet, my 5 year old golden retreiver, and I have been playing for a couple\r\nof years now. But until recently I've never been able to get him to mount\r\nmy mouth. It finally worked.\r\n\r\nWe usually start out playing around on the floor with each other. I'll get\r\nhim a bit excited, then reach under him and rub his sheath. As soon as my\r\nhand makes contact he stops and stands perfectly still. He knows what is\r\ncoming.\r\n\r\nI'll stroke his cock a few minutes till it starts peeking out. Then I'll\r\nusually play around with him some more. Then back to stroking his cock\r\nagain. This time is pops right out of his sheath, red and shiny. If time\r\nis short, I'll have him mount me then. If we have time to play, I'll suck\r\nhis cock for a while first. He gets very nervous when I get under him.\r\nSomething to do with the master\/dog roles, I assume. If I want his cock to\r\nstay hard I have to lay him on his back and then I can suck him for a long\r\ntime.\r\n\r\nYesterday I tried something different. I got him hard and on his back.\r\nThen sucked him for a few minutes. Then let him get back up. At this point\r\nhe is ready to mount. Instead of letting him mount, I reached under him and\r\nstroked his cock. Grabbing his sheath around his swelling knot, I rubbed it\r\nfirmly and vigorously for a minute or so. Needless to say he began humping.\r\n As soon as he was humping, I grabbed his front paws and put them on the\r\ncouch, while continuing the cock stroking.\r\n\r\nNow he is raised up and humping. I quickly layed down and sucked his cock\r\ninto my mouth. With one hand still stroking his knot, I reached around with\r\nthe other and hugged him to my face.\r\n\r\nHe continued humping, fucking my mouth!! Finally, I had figured out how to\r\nget him to do this. Once he was humping furiously I stopped stroking his\r\nknot and just held him to me. He fucked my mouth for about five minutes\r\nbefore his knot came out of the sheath. By this time his cock is quite\r\nlarge, a mouthful to say the least. I am having to steadily swallow his\r\nsmall squirts of precum, yummy!\r\n\r\nHe is close now, he is fucking his knot against my lips forcefully. I had\r\nthought about this, but was'nt sure I could take it in too. But I had tried\r\nfor so long to get him to facefuck me that I was gonna try. I opened my\r\nmouth wide and pushed my face into his underbelly. Oh yeah! His knot got\r\nbehind my teeth and his cockhead was past my gagreflex. I tried to keep my\r\nlips covering my teeth as best as I could. I don't want to hurt my buddy.\r\nNow he is humping against my face, I can feel his cock throbbing in my\r\nthroat. It seems that his cock can still stroke in and out a bit, because I\r\nhave his knot filling my mouth but everytime he humps forward I feel his\r\ncock go a bit deeper in me. Then back out on his backstroke. I can't tell,\r\nand really don't care at this point, if his cock strokes seperate from the\r\nknot or if his knot is pushing into my mouth. I just know that I love\r\nhaving Comet fucking my mouth.\r\n\r\nWhen he is fucking my ass, I can relax and let his knot slip in and out of\r\nme sometimes. But I quickly realize that I won't be able to do this with my\r\nmouth. He is just too big, my teeth would tear his knot up. So I just keep\r\nmy mouth closed on his knot and enjoy the ride!!\r\n\r\nAnd what a ride it is, too!! My eyes are tearing up, my nose is running and\r\nmy throat and mouth are full of dog cock. Hard, thick driving dogcock. So\r\ngood. Then Comet stopped humping and I felt his cum shooting down my throat.\r\n I would have liked to pull back and get a mouthful, but I did'nt want to\r\nlet his knot go. I just stayed with my face in his underbelly and enjoyed\r\nthe feeling of his throbbing cock filling me with his watery cum.\r\n\r\nI began rubbing his ears and neck. I usually tell him he is a good boy and\r\nstuff after he fucks me, but with a mouthful of cock I could'nt say\r\nanything, so I just petted him. Damn his knot is big, I was thinking as I\r\nlay there with it in my mouth. I had seen it and it has been in my ass more\r\ntimes than I can count, but it sure seems bigger in my mouth!\r\n\r\nWhen his knot began to shrink a bit, after maybe 4 or 5 minutes, I opened\r\nwide and let him pop it out. I held on to him so he could not pull his cock\r\nout. I sucked him for a minute or two, then let him pull out of me. He\r\nlicked at my face a bit then lay down to clean his cock. I pushed him onto\r\nhis back and got him in my ass before his cock could slip back in its\r\nsheath. It only took a few strokes on my cock before I was shooting cum all\r\nover his belly with his cock in my ass.\r\n\r\nI love my Comet!\r\n","author":"Diogenes","parent_id":32669,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-04 06:04:10","modified":"2003-03-04 06:04:10","fileurl":""}]}