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MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  

April 21, 2015

VIDEO - 9/11







SEPTEMBER 11 conspiracy








Ran into yet another online person that's absolutely convinced 9/11 is a false flag op, so I thought I'd check it out.

What piqued my curiosity was mention of an upswing in put options (stock depreciation bets) on various related companies just prior to the event.

Creeped out by all the questions raised the video.

Strange how the authorities put out a list of people responsible ... but most of them turned out to be alive and well, working in the Middle East.

Some of the information I didn't really understand.  Melting points of steel and the neat 10-second collapse of the buildings doesn't mean much to me.  It sounds like it could have been detonation ... but I'm clueless. 
Not sure what to think.  Would probably have to watch and read a heap of this info to make up my mind. Don't know that I'll get the 9/11 bug to sustain that kind of interest.
Been fun to watch ... in a spooky kind of way. 





Australia Appoints Former GCHQ Director to Cybersecurity Review Panel







Former British radio spy joins cyber security review
by The Mandarin

20.04.2015

Iain Lobban   

The former chief of Britain’s GCHQ, Sir Iain Lobban, will help shape Australia’s response to cyber security threats. He joins BCA head Jennifer Westacott and others in providing advice to the government’s Cyber Security Review.

The former head of British signals intelligence, Sir Iain Lobban (pictured), has been appointed to the Cyber Security Review’s independent panel of experts, the Australian government announced on Saturday.

Lobban, who was director of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ between 2008 and 2014, “will be extremely valuable to the review as we shape Australia’s strategy to better protect Australia’s networks from cyber attack”, said Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a statement:
    “Australia faces real and growing cyber threats. By 2017 more than nine out of 10 Australians will be routinely online and Australian businesses and consumers benefit from the opportunities that an interconnected world delivers.

    “Since I announced the government’s cyber security review late last year, the Australian Cyber Security Centre has responded to 164 incidents involving government agencies and helped businesses respond to 2981 incidents. There are many more incidents that businesses have managed themselves.”
The Cyber Security Review aims to set out ideas on how the government, industry and academia can better work together to make Australia’s online systems and internet-connected networks more resilient against cyber attacks.

Lobban joined GCHQ in 1983 and performed a range of jobs there before joining the board in 2001. That same year he was a participant in the British Cabinet Office’s Top Management Programme, a four week intensive programme for senior managers from the public and private sectors who are likely to reach the highest level within business and government.

Other members of the panel include the CEO of the Business Council of Australia, Jennifer Westacott; Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco Systems in the United States, John Stewart; the Chief Information Security Officer at Telstra, Mike Burgess; and the Director of the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Tobias Feakin.

So far, the review team has talked to over 140 large and small organisations across Australia and overseas.

After a series of delays, the Cyber Security Review is now expected to be completed near its original goal of mid-2015.

The review will:

Ø     update the Government’s cyber security priorities;
Ø     provide a view on the cyber threats and risks Australia faces;
Ø     clarify the Government’s role in cyber security for Australia, including how this contributes to the protection of critical infrastructure;
Ø     describe how Government and industry can best team up to defend ourselves jointly from those who want to harm us in cyber space;
Ø     outline an improved approach on Australia’s engagement with international cyber security forums, to further Australia’s interests and cement our leadership on cyber security; and
Ø      recommend practical initiatives to improve Australia’s cyber security, for Government consideration.
http://www.themandarin.com.au/30763-former-british-spy-appointed-cyber-security-review-panel/?pgnc=1

LOOK-UPS
Australian Strategic Policy Institute
think tank
established in 2001
still receives most of its funding from govt
(but claims to be 'independent')

purpose:  role of developing ideas on Australia's defence & strategic policy options
& helping to inform the public

Executive Director
= former Deputy Secretary in Dept of Defence

{prior to that:  Major General (Retd) Peter Abigail}

{first Director was Hugh White, now Professor of Strategic Studies at Australian National University}

[Wikipedia]

PANEL
    • Business Council of Australia ('BCA') - reps big business*
    • Cisco Systems United States - multinational, sells networking equipment
    • Telstra
    • Australian Strategic Policy Institute - govt think tank
    • former GCHQ:  Iain Lobban
*BCA - 2009 - called for taxes to be increased on consumer goods but halved for corporations; wants to increase GST while dropping corporate tax. 

Cisco hardware -  NSA backdoor
  • firewalls have the ability to be compromised by the NSA.
  • firmware implant for both the ASA and PIX devices called JETPLOW can be deployed on a firewall target with an exfiltration path to the NSA’s Remote Operations Centre
  • note:  all US networking devices are required by law to have surveillance capabilities built-into them
Cisco stated that it does not work with the US govt.
https://www.certificationkits.com/cisco-asa-5500-series-compromised-by-nsa/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems

NSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits for Nearly Every Major Software/Hardware/Firmware

12/29/2013
SPIEGEL

http://leaksource.info/2013/12/30/nsas-ant-division-catalog-of-exploits-for-nearly-every-major-software-hardware-firmware/


Getting a bit late for me.  Might have to come back to this tomorrow to read the 'NSA ANT Division Catalogue of Exploits ...' article.

Don't know what to think of the panel.  Big business and the government are well represented.  The public doesn't seem to be represented, although unidentified 'organisations' have been consulted.

The Business Council of Australia sound a nasty, self-interested lot.  LOL


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April 19, 2015

Sweden Update








Sweden Labour Minister Ylva Johansson

seeks limit ability of employers to obtain criminal offences history checks
... over 220,000 sought in 2013
 up from 40,000 sought in 2003
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/utdrag-ur-belastningsregistret-ska-bli-farre/


Feminist Initiative party
leader, Sissela Nordling Blanco, forced to take a break.
She has been sick with fatigue symptoms. [DN]

LMAO .. Sweden has a 'boo' regulation!!!
Woman who booed leader of Sweden Democrats Aug. 2014 fined
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/dagsboter-for-burop-mot-akesson/
Sweden Justice System
A moderate juror in Sundsvall district court found there should be capital punishment "for certain races"
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/moderat-ville-ha-dodsstraff-for-vissa-raser/

Hacker Sweden
Suspected hacking reported to police by Sweden Democrats' youth / unauthorised e-mail access
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/sdu-ledningen-polisanmaler-misstankt-dataintrang/

{translations - *may be inaccurate}
Looks like Sweden Democrats members expelled:
> Martin Karlsson - Sapo confiscated his computer
> Jessica Ohlson
sources:
1) http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/sdu-ledningen-polisanmaler-misstankt-dataintrang/
2) http://www.friatider.se/tj-nstem-n-sparkas-av-sd-anklagas-f-r-l-ckor


Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson
red-green budget
WIN:  unemployed & families w children
LOSE:  families who have used the RUT deduction

SDP
4 priority areas: schools, jobs, climate and increased welfare
LOL ... but, wait, there's MORE BUDGETS 

S + MP govt can now begin to govern country with own economic policy
after forced to have Alliance's budget SD voted last fall


deficit in public finances & growth in the coming years is weak
Aim to balance budget in 2018 - a first.

Euro area is Sweden's biggest export market, so budget balancing / economy depends
Expect slow market.


Moderates don't believe budget solves long-term welfare issues
Others complain re raised taxes on labour, esp. youth


Sweden Democrats
report Jessica Ohlson leader of Youth League SDU
re 'wrongdoing'
criticised party for expelling or intending to expel others, I believe {translation}

Ohlson signatory to an Aftonbladet article -  harshly
critical of Sweden Democrats  expulsion of members {going by translation}

Allegation of creation of an 'illegal registry' of party members, passed to third parties.

Allegation that such 'illegal registry' = violation of confidentiality agreement + Personal Data Protection Act


[COMMENT from Twitter user:  party claims infiltration from fascists. We will find out on the 27th ]

Dagens Nyheter has a laundry list of all of Sweden Democrats
disapproved of behaviour:  massive list, but it stretches back to 2009

Iron pipe scandal
2012 altercation b/w Sweden Dems. politicians
+ comedian
footage made available by Expressen
COMMENT
The budget in Sweden is very confusing.  Sounds like they take it in turns over there to manage quarterly budgets or something like that.  Not sure.  Too lazy to check.

Budget nearly sent me to sleep.  Not my thing.

Looks like they're boo fascists in Sweden.  Apparently, you can't boo politicians over there while they're speaking ... but you may during intervals.  Otherwise, you get your ass hauled off and you cop a fine.  WTF?  Where's all that Swedish freedom?

Sweden Democrats may have been hacked and, from what I've been told, 'infiltrated' by fascists as well.  Wow!  Lots of drama for the Sweden Democrats, including some kind of internal upheaval where members look to be getting expelled.  Stand by for more on 27 April, I guess.


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The wild-card here was the court trial that was 'stopped' because of a 'moderate juror' opinion regarding capital punishment - for some.  Anyway, if they're referring to 'moderate', I wonder if it  has something to do with the Moderate party and if this is a layperson appointed by the political party - the Moderate party?  Weird system over there, so it's possible - and sure sounds like it.  Haven't checked further.

No wonder Carl Bildt is so pro European Union; it's Sweden's biggest market.  It's always about the money.  LOL
Expressen must be the go-to newspaper for burning political opponents and the like.








Foreign Service Updates









North Korea warns US envoy Mark Lippert of ‘bigger mishap’ than a knife attack if he continues insulting NorK
NorK says Lippert has:
"bad habit of rashly engaging in scheming chatter distorting the truth and instigating war"
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=262264

Iran
Protest outside SaudiArabia embassy re Yemen invasion
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/18/406799/Iranians-slam-Saudi-war-on-Yemen

China
Journalist Gao Yu, a Chinese news veteran & critic of Communist Party / 7yr sentence leaking state secrets
sentence denounced
Fmr law professor says:  political party’s internal documents cannot be regarded as a ‘state secret.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1324846-chinese-regime-sentences-senior-journalist-to-7-years-on-charges-of-leaking-state-secrets/

IRAQ Friday:
Irbil - capital semi-autonomous Kurdistan region - car-bomb explodes outside US consulate & compound
*common in Iraq, but rare in Ibril*
http://www.dw.de/is-targets-us-consulate-in-irbil-suicide-attack/a-18390760

Ireland  / Venezuela
Venezuela – Dublin solidarity rally at US Embassy 2pm Sunday
http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/24913 

Canada
Officials In Hungary To Seek Information On Roma Exodus From Miskolc
40-50 local Roma families emigrated
http://hungarytoday.hu/cikk/canadian-officials-budapest-seek-information-roma-exodus-miskolc-44835

Ukraine

Zaporizhstal
CEO Rostyslav Shurma
Ukraine 4th largest steel maker {Rinat Akhmetov}
invested abt $120 million in production modernisation
William H. "Chip" Laitinen Economic Officer, Office of US Ambassador to Ukraine, approves
http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/261154.html

India
India appointments / Ambassadors to:
> Egypt
> Venezuela
http://netindian.in/news/2015/04/17/00033396/sanjay-bhattacharyya-appointed-ambassador-egypt

UK
Ugandan High Commission in London worker
sentenced to 6yrs prison /£4.8 million tobacco duty evasion
http://en.starafrica.com/news/ugandan-jailed-in-uk-for-tax-evasion.html

NZ
New Snowden docs reveal NZ spies & America's top govt hackers cooked up plan to spy on China
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/snowden-documents-reveal-attempt-to-spy-on-china/

Op "Frostbite" NZ intel plan to spy on China
GCSB worked with the NSA's hacker team - TAO
2013 doc
= plan had verbal approval same month PM John Key was in China pledging NZ friendship

China is NZ largest trading partner
bilateral trade =  $20-billion pa
Greens Russel Norman says spy revelations put that at risk
Spying on Chinese diplomatic communications in NZ to curry favour with US govt  spy agencies = pointless & reckless

"The fact that John Key must have personally approved this operation will add insult to injury ..." 
"John Key is willing to subvert NZs broader international economic & political interests to please the US Government"
http://www.odt.co.nz/source/nzme/339554/leaked-papers-show-plan-spy-china

SouthAfrica
President Jacob Zuma cancelled trip to Indonesia
to deal with xenophobic violence
Jan 2015:
Soweto violence = 6 killed / looters rampaged
South Africa violence sparked angry responses in other African nations
http://en.prothom-alo.com/international/news/64223/Zuma-seeks-to-reassure-foreigners

Canada
Canadians rally nationwide against Bill C-51 anti-terrorist bill
PM office picketed / protests scheduled
aim to protect & maintain democratic freedoms
NDP & Green party oppose the bill
3rd reading Mon, then law
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2015/04/18/22351896.html


Pakistan
Scholars of Islamic law attend dinner at  Saudi Embassy
updates on Yemen
Pakistan ready to lay down life to defend Saudi Arabia

Pakistan SaudiArabia Yemen
Sounds like they're wanting to wage religious war?

Saudi Consul says support to Houthis
considered attack on sovereignty of SaudiArabia
Claims it is 'joint war' SA + Yemen vs rebels
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-37083-Troops-should-be-sent-for-protection-of-S-Arabia-whenever-necessary-Ulema

India
Shaken by Corporate Espionage Scandal, Defence Ministry issued a series of security alerts &  directives
Yikes!
Cell phone can be used as effective, unobtrusive, listening device for eavesdropping even when switched off
http://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/Spy-Alert-Cellphones-Banned-at-South-Block-Meetings/2015/04/19/article2771047.ece

Poland / FBI

Poland’s ambassador to US sent letter of protest to FBI Director James Comey over alleged historical revisionism 
FBI director Comey:  suggested that Poland shared responsibility for the Holocaust
http://sptnkne.ws/eqT

USA - Domestic
FBI forensic overstated hair 'match' evidence
in 95% of 268 trials prior 2000
14 of 32 executed or died prison

Note:   pattern-based forensic techniques in question
eg hair & bite-mark comparisons
= 25% of 329 cases DNA-exoneration

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-forensic-hair-matches-in-nearly-all-criminal-trials-for-decades/2015/04/18/39c8d8c6-e515-11e4-b510-962fcfabc310_story.html

COMMENT
Odds and ends that caught my attention.

Best is probably the New Zealand spying outed by Snowden documents.

FBI 'overstated' evidence story is pretty shocking. Didn't realise you can 'uptalk' science.  Imagined science was sure thing.





IRAQ - Ezzat al-Douri Killing







Why It Doesn’t Matter if Iraq’s Ezzat al-Douri Was Killed (Video)

Posted on Apr 18, 2015
By Juan Cole
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_it_doesnt_matter_if_iraqs_ezzat_al-douri_was_killed_video_20150418

SUMMARY
Ezzat al-Douri
= first high Baath Party official
to turn to a religious group as a power base
strategy common after 2003 US invasion

Baath Party was founded by Christians
& was militantly secular
often persecuting religious groups & parties

al-Douri = patron of Naqshbandi Sufi order in Mosul
Sufism = mystical
part Sunni tradition
diff to Wahhabi-influenced Salafi

al-Douri said to be behind
“Men of the Naqshbandi”
effective fighters against US + Shia in North Iraq

Mosul Iraq Naqshbandis
= one of groups that allied itself w. ISIL vs Shiite army
ISIL stabbed Naqshbandis in the back

Iraq Mosul
ISIL Salafism offshoot
screwed over new allies
by arresting leading Naqshbandi figures & ex-Baathist ones

USA method of eliminating heads of militant orgs
has not worked on Taliban or in Iraq;
partly b/c clan-led republics

Iraq Taliban
Leader elimination ineffective b/c
when one leader is killed, his cousin just steps in

Iraq Taliban
Other reason eliminating leaders not effective: religion
Religious charisma transferable (according to article)

That Ezzat al-Douri may have been killed is not important
He was old
[& interchangeable {by sound of article}]

Iraq
by destroying the Baath govt of Iraq,
Bush admin made vacuum of power & culture
filld by religious forms of resistance

Iraq
Iraqi Sunnis were among more secular people in Middle East
author says: desperation drove them to religious revolt.

Really enjoyed this article.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ba'ath Party
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
political party founded in Syria
Al-Ba'ath or Ba'ath meaning "renaissance" or "resurrection"
ideology mixing Arab nationalist, pan-Arabism, Arab socialist and anti-imperialist interests.
Ba'athism calls for unification of the Arab world into a single state.
[Wikipedia]


UK Foreign Office Fail - Slain Ukraine Journalists










Origin:  LeDahu













VIDEO: Wikileaks reveals Sony & US State Dept. mutual effort aimed at ISIS, Russia







Wikileaks reveals Sony & US State Dept. mutual effort aimed at ISIS, Russia






Close ties between Sony & US State Dept exposed.

WikiLeaks Sony archive belongs in public domain because:  archive shows inner workings of an influential multinational corporation; it is newsworthy & at centre of geopolitical conflict.

That %$#$ Harf US State Dept spokesperson referring to 'a very high level of Russian propaganda' to 'hide' what Russia is doing in Ukraine ... errr, ... never mind the CIA coup in Ukraine and what the imperialist US is doing in Ukraine (and all over the WORLD) - including decades long dissemination of poison: US propaganda - makes me want to puke all over the keyboard.
US State Dept attitude, as conveyed by Harf, summed up by reporter:
US government in talks with entertainment giants to promote US foreign policy can be summarised in two words:  so what.
Richard Stengel is not the first US official to put Russia and ISIL in one list of 'challenges'. 
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That's Obama in Brisbane, Australia, vilifying Russia (by linking Russia to the 'fight' against ISIL, America's terrorist proxy in the Middle East) and calling on the 'international community' (but, really, his corporate serving allies), sounding off about the 'fight to destroy the terrorist group ISIL and opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine," in the same breath.

Thus Obama smears and vilifies Russia, while writing off the ethnic-Russian people of what is now eastern Ukraine (historically a territory of the Russian Empire), dismissing their legitimate struggle for their very lives and for independence from US installed and backed Ukraine fascists that have attacked these civilians with US and European Union backing and blessing.

Support for Obama's aggression against the people of eastern Europe is a stain on every government and people that has supported this US aggression, and the insatiable American political-corporate-military drive for domination and exploitation of Europe.

Yet this imperialist aggressor paints the Russians as a 'threat'; which is the standard tactic for this lying, despicable, imperialist invader.

Check this out:


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The US imperialist is aiming to invest millions in 'countering' what it calls Russia's drive to reclaim lost territories.  Never mind the US drive to claim territories on Russia's doorstep, eh?  And this from the hypocrite US government that declared the Monroe Doctrine, basically claiming control of North America and South America (entire continents, Hello????), functioning as a declaration of US hegemony (see Chomsky).
Note that this is a priority over countering ISIL propaganda.  Of course it is; ISIL serves their purpose in the Middle East.

What is of utmost priority to the US, is US propaganda funding to sell US incursions into eastern Europe.
Note also, that propaganda funding amount referred to above is trifling, compared to the US Broadcasting Board of Governors' annual US taxpayer funded propaganda budget:

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The 2014 Broadcasting Board of Governors budget was:  $733 million


Loosely quoting Richard Becker, Answer Coalition:
This is a revival of the cold war, particularly in the field of culture (see book:  The Culture of Cold War). 

USA - for decades - used reporters, film companies, radio broadcasting - all different forms of communication & culture to promote the cold war against the Soviet Union, and now they are doing the same.  It has never stopped, really.

The Broadcasting Board of Governors has funded anti Cuba propaganda by paying journalists & creating radio & TV stations (spending 100s of millions of dollars over the years), so the notion that has been presented by the US State Dept. spokesperson (ie Harf above) that this isn't something that the US government engages in or that it's up to the entertainment company is COMPLETELY FALSE.

This is a COLLABORATIVE effort and IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES, and now it has been revived in a big way against Russia as well as against others.

US propaganda can be produced for the State Dept by Hollywood as follows:  TV shows, movies, music video ... list goes on and on; Sony (and they're not the only ones approached) is an extremely large corporation and have many means by which to propagate a narrative that shows them as a bastion of democracy, while whoever they're targeting is portrayed in the worst possible way.

Presenter:  [If we look at the WikiLeaks Sony archive revelation] ... it shows us a case of private companies becoming an arm of US interests ...
Richard Becker:

These entertainment corporations are huge capitalist corporations and they have a government that is very much on their side along with other big corporations, so there's nothing really new about this.  But after the end of WWII (70 years ago), this collaboration was exponentially intensified to turn the big media - newspapers, movies, TV, radio etc - into ARMS OF THE GOVERNMENT and, in effect, they serve that purpose as arms of the government.

[Cooperation between movie companies, the US government and the US military] has been going on for a very long time ... most people are hearing about that for the first time, but in reality the Pentagon and the military - again, going back to the time of WWII - have collaborated with the film studios and TV production and other forms of media, when they were doing programming that the military / the Pentagon felt was helpful to the US wars around the world.  That's been going on a long time and it's good that at least some of the population here is finding out about this.

[Segment concludes]
LOOK-UPS


RICHARD STENGEL





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"Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs" must mean under secretary for propaganda.
Politico reported:
At the State Department, Stengel will find himself in the company of other veteran journalists. Last week, as first reported by The Huffington Post, the White House announced that Douglas Frantz, late of The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, has been named the State Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs. Glen Johnson, formerly The Boston’s Globe’s political editor, took a position as a senior state department advisor earlier this year.

Source:  http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/richard-stengel-leaving-time-state-department-96732.html
So judging by the US State Dept. appointments from the commercial sector, there's also a cross-over between corporate journalism and the US State Dept.
RICHARD BECKER

Richard Becker

West Coast Coordinator at ANSWER Coalition

    San Francisco Bay Area
    Political Organization

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Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
Criticism

Critics of the Monroe Doctrine, such as Noam Chomsky, argue that in practice the Monroe Doctrine has functioned as a declaration of hegemony and a right of unilateral intervention over the Americas  ...
[wikipedia]

MORE ON US PROPAGANDA

USA 'MINISTRY OF TRUTH'
'Freedom News Network'

House Measure to Change Voice of America’s Mission Is Drawing Intense Debate


EXTRACTS

WASHINGTON — A bill to overhaul Voice of America has prompted an intense debate among supporters of the legislation who say it will better enable the broadcast news service to counter Russian disinformation and opponents who say it will turn the service into an American propaganda tool.

The legislation, which recently passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee with bipartisan support, would make changes to the mission of the government-financed Voice of America that its sponsors say would more clearly define its role in support of the United States. Specifically, the bill revises the language of Voice of America’s mission to explicitly state that the outlet has a role in supporting American “public diplomacy” and the policies of the government.

Walter Isaacson, a former chairman of the Board of Governors as well as a former chairman and chief executive of CNN, said that the legislation was a response to changing times and that Voice of America should have a dual mission to clearly present American policy as well as provide objective news LMAO!!!

Inside Voice of America, the legislation has created widespread fear among staff members who have long considered themselves professional journalists rather than spokesmen for government policy. During a recent staff meeting, journalists angrily voiced their concerns to managers. One journalist said the broadcast network could see a mass exodus if the legislation passed.
Dan Robinson, who worked at the service for more than two decades before retiring this year, said the legislation would create additional problems if passed into law: It could endanger the lives of journalists and broadcasters who work abroad.

“So do foreign governments now start seeing journalists from V.O.A. as agents of U.S. policy rather than as journalists?” he said. “That’s a real concern.”

But Helle C. Dale, a senior fellow for public diplomacy at the Heritage Foundation, who supports changes to overhaul Voice of America and other international broadcasting, said such claims were absurd.

It’s not like people don’t already know,” she said. “It’s completely funded by the U.S. government, and it’s called the Voice of America. How does this legislation change this reality?”

In addition to Voice of America, the federal government runs Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Under the legislation, those broadcast outlets would be reorganized into a single organization called the Freedom News Network.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/us/politics/house-measure-to-change-voice-of-americas-mission-is-drawing-intense-debate.html 

Director of Voice of America Is Planning to Step Down


WASHINGTON — David Ensor, who as director of the Voice of America has presided over significant growth in the news agency’s audience despite budget cuts, announced Tuesday that he was stepping down.

According to survey data prepared for the board, the Voice of America’s international radio, television and online audience has reached 172 million people a week, an increase of 49 million during Mr. Ensor’s tenure.

Mr. Ensor, 64, a former reporter for NPR, ABC News and CNN, was the director of communications and public diplomacy at the United States Embassy in Afghanistan before joining the Voice of America.

The House passed a bill last year saying that the Voice of America should support American “public diplomacy” and policies. The move set off a revolt among staff members, who said the change would affect their editorial independence.
The Senate did not take up the measure. It is expected to be introduced again in the House.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/director-ofvoice-of-america-is-planning-to-step-down.html?_r=0 

CONCLUSION
The entire entertainment industry & corporate media, as well as the US state funded media, is a propaganda arm of the US government ...





EDIT - LOL, I WRITE BADLY ... SO MELODRAMATIC
MELODRAMA IN PICTURES IS AT LEAST FUNNY
BAD WRITING IS ... BORING
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