{"id":3212,"date":"2011-11-09T02:13:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2011-11-09T02:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:13:31","slug":"libya-war-and-propoganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"Libya, War and Propoganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Propaganda in a Time of War\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fatwar.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2011%2F11%2F02%2Fpropaganda-in-a-time-of-war%2F#?secret=kmRiCxezXl\" data-secret=\"kmRiCxezXl\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It took a few months, but a voice at the NY Times finally brings out the truth that there is no truth in Libya.  The Benghazi forces just made things up, which most of the reporters (Ed. Especially the BBC and the British Newspapers) reported as fact.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago when Israel sent troops into South Lebanon, the AP was caught red handed photoshopping images, incorrectly stating the time and location of events and omitting key details about the context of what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Americans live winners, not principles.   It was completely predictable that the day Qadaffi was killed, 20% of Americans would suddenly say &#8220;Yes, this war was a good thin and I supported it all along&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Voice of America is US government Propoganda, but at least everyone knows it.   Having said that, the VOA over the years have mostly been good journalists.  They don&#8217;t pass on rumors as facts, they require multiple independent sources.  There was a marked change in Libya &#8211; they started out being skeptical of the Benghazi claims and where they were relying solely on claims from spokespeople not backed by facts or independent witnesses, they made it clear that the spokespeople are probably lying. After a month or do, there was a marked change in their coverage, just repeating the NTC and US State Department press releases as facts.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember during the US defeat of Iraq the Iraqi spokesman stating as a fact that no American forces were in Baghdad on a split screen showing live video of the US Tanks in control of downtown Baghdad.  Governments lie.<\/p>\n<p>Now the propoganda machine wants us to militarily go after Iran.  Call of Duty video game&#8217;s new version came out yesterday.   Every teenage boy in the world with a computer is honing his skills on how to kill &#8220;the enemy&#8221; training their mind that they&#8217;re just killing zombies without souls and not troubled by principles, morality or that conscience thing.<\/p>\n<p>This week the world celebrated the 7 billionth person alive on Earth.  As long as humans have existed, people have asserted &#8220;there are too many people&#8221; and have used war to deal with that perception.<\/p>\n<p>The stage is set for a massive reduction in &#8220;the excess population&#8221;.  The troops are ready, the tactics have been refined, the technology is in place, the safety is off the trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a few months, but a voice at the NY Times finally brings out the truth that there is no truth in Libya. The Benghazi forces just made things up, which most of the reporters (Ed. 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