Government Psy-Ops,
Lies and Propaganda

FCC Launches Payola Probes of 4 Radio Giants

Documents are sought from Clear Channel, CBS, Entercom and Citadel, sources say. The agency's step comes after settlement talks stall: The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday launched formal investigations into pay-for-play practices at four of the nation's largest radio corporations, the biggest federal inquiry into radio bribery since the congressional payola hearings of 1960. Two FCC officials with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed that the agency had requested documents from Clear Channel Communications Inc., CBS Radio Inc., Entercom Communications Corp. and Citadel Broadcasting Corp. over allegations that radio programmers had received cash, checks, clothing and other gifts in exchange for playing certain songs without revealing the deals to listeners, a violation of federal rules. Read More

77 TV stations aired 'fake news reports'

A study by a group that monitors the media reveals that, over a ten month span, 77 television stations from all across the nation aired video news releases without informing their viewers even once that the reports were actually sponsored content, RAW STORY has found. The Times revealed that even though Radio-Television News Directors Association's "code of ethics" specifies to "clearly disclose the origin of information and label all material provided by outsiders," the Federal Communications Commission has "never disciplined a station for showing government-made news segments without disclosing their origin." (S. 266: Stop Government Propaganda Act - sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D-NJ] and 13 others in 2004, never got out of committee.) Read More

DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHOOTS DOWN MOVIE SCRIPT

A Los Angeles screenwriter is claiming that the Department of Homeland Security has informed him that he may not use the agency's name "or any of the Department's official visual identities" in the script for his film, Lady Magdalene, despite the fact that the film presents a positive image of the DHS. The writer, J. Neil Schulman, said Tuesday that he had received a notice from Bobbie Faye Ferguson, director of the NHS's office of multimedia, informing him that his "project does not fit within the DHS mission and that it is not something we can participate in." In response, Schulman wrote to Ferguson that he had already received assistance from a special agent of the NHS's air marshal service while he was preparing his screenplay and that the agency's notice to him now represents a violation of his First Amendment rights. "Merely the claim that you have the power to restrict such official images is chilling to the process of writing and producing a movie -- and certainly to an independent film in pre-production with a start date for principal photography only six weeks away," Schulman wrote. (Read Operation Hollywood - by David Robb for more details on how Govt. agencies need script approval, and a censor on set before approving fair use of their Trademark. Literally, EVERY film with mention of the DOD etc... needs script approval. Shocking in it's mass, Hollywood has no choice but to comply!) Read More

Declassification in Reverse: Pentagon purges National Archives

The Pentagon and the U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification Program - Washington, D.C., February 21, 2006 - The CIA and other federal agencies have secretly reclassified over 55,000 pages of records taken from the open shelves at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), according to a report published today on the World Wide Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Matthew Aid, author of the report and a visiting fellow at the Archive, discovered this secret program through his wide-ranging research in intelligence, military, and diplomatic records at NARA and found that the CIA and military agencies have reviewed millions of pages at an unknown cost to taxpayers in order to sequester documents from collections that had been open for years. Read More

NSA HIRES NEWS AGENCIES

In a recent letter released under the Freedom of Information Act, the NSA Director of Policy said that the National Security Agency (NSA) has contracts to pay news agencies for information, according to Narcosphere News. However, NSA authorities refused to reveal details of the contracts or what information is being purchased. The NSA letter gave as little information as possible, but it did reveal the names of two wire services that it is paying - Reuters and the Associated Press. In response to a request about the nature of the contracts, the letter also reportedly said, “The NSA contract with these companies precludes our release of this information. Violation of these contracts could prevent the government from obtaining similar information in the future.” Some government agencies purchase news wire services, however the level of secrecy and defensiveness in the NSA statement has analysts concerned. If the NSA simply purchased news wire services, it would have no reason to protect that information from being released. Read More

U.S. says bin Laden's tape "genuine" ( Big Brother propaganda)

Just as George W's poll numbers sink to another new low, and confidence is getting harder to come by... We get a "new" Bin Laden tape. Either someone is pulling our legs here, or the Bush regime is at it again, sending the people another "message" in the guise of Mr Goldstein AKA UBL: "The al-Qaida leadership is on the run and under a lot of pressure," McClellan said at a Marine base in Twentynine Palms, California, where Bush was having lunch with military families. "We are on the advance. They are on the run," he said. The remarks were made in response to bin Laden's new threats onan audiotape broadcast on the pan-Arab television al-Jazeera, in which he accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government. In the tape, bin Laden also urged followers to go to Sudan, his former base, to fight a proposed UN peacekeeping force. - Reports here said al-Jazeera appeared to have had the tape long enough to make significant edits, with its news reader providing background comments. The network broadcast about five minutes of the tape in all. Read More

FLASHBACK: Bush says bin Laden helped in election

President Bush said he believes his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls, The Examiner newspaper reported on Tuesday. Bush said there were “enormous amounts of discussion” inside his campaign about the 15-minute tape, which he called “an interesting entry by our enemy” into the presidential race. Bush’s comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book “Strategery” by Bill Sammon, a long-time White House correspondent. (this all makes more sense if you read the stories below, detailing audio / video forgeries of AlCIAduh) Read More

FLASHBACK: AP Recycles Old Bin Laden Tape For New Propaganda

"I will not be taken Alive" says the "new" Bin Laden tape... Using the justification that it was 'complete' - the Associated Press reported on a month old alleged bin Laden audio tape as if it was a new story. Either it was a quiet weekend or this is another branch of Rumsfeld's black propaganda campaign. It's a shame that the major disinfo news organs don't have as much zeal to update other fairly important news items. Did the fact that several of the alleged 9/11 hijackers turned up alive weeks after the attack provoke a rash of top of the bill headlines? No, it was picked up by a couple of outlets and it certainly wasn't given any major play. Some Islamic websites re-posted the old bin Laden tape and the AP thought this deserved major coverage, as did Drudge who put it at the top of his page. If the same websites had re-posted old articles about 9/11 would we be reading 'Twin Towers Attacked' headlines today? No we would not. Should it concern us that such websites have very strong US connections? Read More

Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government

Pakistan's Musharraf: Bin Laden probably dead Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease. [A Bush administration official] said U.S. intelligence is that bin Laden needs dialysis every three days and "it is fairly obvious that that could be an issue when you are running from place to place, and facing the idea of needing to generate electricity in a mountain hideout." [CNN] Karzai: bin Laden 'probably' dead Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead, but former Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. [CNN] FBI: Bin Laden 'probably' dead The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead. [BBC] Israeli intelligence: Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen Israeli sources said Israel and the United States assess that Bin Laden probably died in the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December. They said the emergence of new messages by Bin Laden are probably fabrications, Middle East Newsline reported. [World Tribune] Read More

Bin Laden tapes are as phony as Sept. 11's connection to Islam

The top American bin Laden expert agrees. Professor Bruce Lawrence, head of Duke University's religious studies department, has just published a book of translations of bin Laden's speeches. He says that the recent tape is a fake and that it is possible bin Laden is not even alive. Fake bin Laden tapes, "verified" by the CIA, are nothing new. Every supposed bin Laden statement since 2001 has been blatantly bogus. The last we heard from the real bin Laden came in his post-9/11 statements to Pakistani journalists: "I stress that I have not carried out this act, which appears to have been carried out by individuals with their own motivation. ... I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. ... I had no knowledge of these attacks." Read More

Latest Osama Tape Appears Fake, Experts Conclude

May 30, 2006 -- The latest audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden appears to be one more installment in a succession of evidence fabricated by the US government to deceive the American people, according to Scholars for 9/11 Truth. "This tape is only the latest in a series of fabrications intended to mislead the American people," said James H. Fetzer, the society's founder. "The closer we get to revealing the truth about 9/11, the more furiously the government fights to conceal it!" He said members of Scholars and other experts had detected evidence of fakery. Read More

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Dead Again

SUMMER OF FEAR: I’d have to say this is backwards. In fact, the “propaganda program” was aimed primarily at Americans, who need a scary Freddy Kruger Muslim to convince them the occupation of Iraq is necessary. More scary demons will be required soon for a shock and awe attack unleashed against Iran. - Of course, it is only natural to kill off al-Zarqawi once again. Earlier this year, the Pentagon released a video, allegedly discovered “by US forces in a hideout in the Al-Yusufiyah neighborhood of southern Baghdad,” showing al-Zarqawi (or a person we are told is al-Zarqawi), wearing New Balance tennis shoes and fumbling with a U.S. M-249 squad automatic weapon. It appears the purpose of this video is to make al-Zarqawi out to be a bumbling idiot. “Is the recently released video, which consists in ridiculing rather than villainizing ‘Enemy Number One’, part of the Zarqawi PSYOP program?” muses Michel Chossudovsky. - It appears the neocon-dominated Pentagon wants to retire the al-Zarqawi PSYOP program, as al-Zarqawi has served his purpose—demonizing the resistance and kicking off a “civil war” in Iraq. (Wayne Madsen writes: The U.S. military spokesman’s revelation that Zarqawi’s body was partly identified from tattoos is noteworthy. Abu Abdel-Rahman al-Iraqi, described as the Deputy Emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq on an Al Qaeda web site, stated that Zarqawi was a martyred mujahed sheikh. Zarqawi was a lieutenant of strict Wahhabi Islam adherent Osama Bin Laden. However, why Zarqawi would have had tattoos is baffling. Islam specifically forbids tattoos. According to Islamic texts, the Prophet Mohammed forbade tattooing…) Read More

Does Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Really Exist ?

Stories about al-Zarqawi have been carefully fed to the media, suggesting his key role as the connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam. Most of them have been unsourced. And all have been dismissed by those who have followed the career of this veteran of the global jihad, who was fighting for Islam long before the world had heard of Osama bin Laden and whose al-Qaeda credentials have, in part, been created to fulfil the agendas of those who want him for other reasons. - ( Many reports have been made that Zarqawi A) Never Existed to B) Has been Killed - Multipal times! Who would you believe?) Read More

COLORADO WOMEN SUES LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR AIDING IN THE 911 COVER-UP - by Jack Blood

Is it possible that for the last four plus years that we have been going about this thing all wrong? We have complained tirelessly about the establishment media cover-up of the facts, ALL the facts about September 11th 2001. We have waited for them to “see the light’ and come over to our side, or hoped that the right information, delivered by the right pen, or profile might open the door to long awaited coverage to debunk the Bush administration’s conspiracy theory about 19 Arab high-jackers armed with box cutters, took down four of the most highly defended buildings in the world. Now thanks to one brave woman in Durango Colorado we might be witnessing a full on epiphany cum reality, the stage is set. Judith Pheif, no relation to Barney Fife, has taken the infowar to a new level for 911 truthers as she takes on Colorado’s Durango Herald. Armed first with a petition, and when that didn’t move the editors at the Esteemed Durango, a civil suit in small claims court… Judith Pfeif has become the paper’s worst nightmare: A citizen with national support that wouldn’t take it anymore! Read More