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Photo Fraud
Re: Photo Fraud
by nwildmand » Wed 23 Aug 2006, 16:16:05
very nice link. i knew about the doctered smoke photo from little green fooballs blog. i wonder how much of this propaganda is getting through. it makes me take everything i hear about lebanon with a grain of salt.
here is the website that first exposed the doctered photos. they have kept up with everything else it seems.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
passing around and posing with dead children seems to be a hobby in lebanon.
here is the website that first exposed the doctered photos. they have kept up with everything else it seems.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
passing around and posing with dead children seems to be a hobby in lebanon.
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Re: Photo Fraud
by rogerhb » Wed 23 Aug 2006, 17:16:36
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', 'p')assing around and posing with dead children seems to be a hobby in lebanon.
Similar in Iraq. Just as well there are so many to go round.
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Re: Photo Fraud
by Miki » Thu 24 Aug 2006, 13:56:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('nwildmand', ' ')i wonder how much of this propaganda is getting through. it makes me take everything i hear about lebanon with a grain of salt.
passing around and posing with dead children seems to be a hobby in lebanon.
passing around and posing with dead children seems to be a hobby in lebanon.
You probably prefer the Abu Graib pics. Those are the hobbies of your honourable military. Along with raping 13 year old Iraki girls and killing all their familes after (including their 5 year old brothers).
It makes me take everything I hear about Irak with a grain of salt. I wonder how many of those incidents we've never heard about.
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Re: Photo Fraud
by seahorse2 » Thu 24 Aug 2006, 14:23:51
What is propaganda? Propaganda has to include limiting "speech" as much as it includes doctoring speech (photos). In the United States, its illegal to photograph the flag draped coffins of the war dead coming home, so, everyone, including my own country, is limiting or using the press to manipulate public opinion.
Check this out how the United States military is using psyops on its own people via the media coverage:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')y law, the Bush administration is expressly prohibited from disseminating government propaganda at home. But in an age of global communications, there is nothing to stop it from planting a phony pro-war story overseas -- knowing with certainty that it will reach American citizens almost instantly. A recent congressional report suggests that the Pentagon may be relying on "covert psychological operations affecting audiences within friendly nations." In a "secret amendment" to Pentagon policy, the report warns, "psyops funds might be used to publish stories favorable to American policies, or hire outside contractors without obvious ties to the Pentagon to organize rallies in support of administration policies." The report also concludes that military planners are shifting away from the Cold War view that power comes from superior weapons systems. Instead, the Pentagon now believes that "combat power can be enhanced by communications networks and technologies that control access to, and directly manipulate, information. As a result, information itself is now both a tool and a target of warfare."
Check this out how the United States military is using psyops on its own people via the media coverage:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')y law, the Bush administration is expressly prohibited from disseminating government propaganda at home. But in an age of global communications, there is nothing to stop it from planting a phony pro-war story overseas -- knowing with certainty that it will reach American citizens almost instantly. A recent congressional report suggests that the Pentagon may be relying on "covert psychological operations affecting audiences within friendly nations." In a "secret amendment" to Pentagon policy, the report warns, "psyops funds might be used to publish stories favorable to American policies, or hire outside contractors without obvious ties to the Pentagon to organize rallies in support of administration policies." The report also concludes that military planners are shifting away from the Cold War view that power comes from superior weapons systems. Instead, the Pentagon now believes that "combat power can be enhanced by communications networks and technologies that control access to, and directly manipulate, information. As a result, information itself is now both a tool and a target of warfare."
The article confirms how the military paid a private citizen, Rendon, to manipulate the media with false information confirming WMD in Iraq.
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')Rendon is a man who fills a need that few people even know exists. Two months before al-Haideri took the lie-detector test, the Pentagon had secretly awarded him a $16 million contract to target Iraq and other adversaries with propaganda. One of the most powerful people in Washington, Rendon is a leader in the strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired result. His firm, the Rendon Group, has made millions off government contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name -- the Iraqi National Congress -- and served as their media guru and "senior adviser" as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam. It was as if President John F. Kennedy had outsourced the Bay of Pigs operation to the advertising and public-relations firm of J. Walter Thompson.
RollingStone Article
Moral of the story, everyone is manipulating everyone, or trying to.
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