" Look Into It - Propagandizing Through Games

 

 

 

 
  
                                               

welcome

 

 

PROPAGANDA IN GAMES, MOVIES, MEDIA

Edward Bernays has been cited as the inventor of the consumerist culture that was designed primarily to target people's self-image (or lack thereof) in order to turn a want into a need. This was initially envisioned for products such as cigarettes, for example. However, Bernays also noted in his 1928 book, Propaganda, that propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. This can be seen most clearly in the modern police state and the growing citizen snitch culture, wrapped up in the pseudo-patriotic War on Terror. The increasing consolidation of media has enabled the entire corporate structure to merge with government, which now utilizes the concept of propaganda placement. Media; print, movies, television, and cable news can now work seamlessly to integrate an overall message which seems to have the ring of truth because it comes from so many sources, simultaneously. When one becomes attuned to identifying the main message, one will see this imprinting everywhere.

 


Alan Watt

 

**Please Give Page Time To Load**

 





Propagandizing Through Games

ENTICING YOUTH INTO SERVICE FOR THE BANKERS

As the U.S. economy remains on a consistent downward spiral, one thing the U.S. Government is never shy to invest endless cash in is the Pentagon. Which - on its end -- is pumping millions of dollars into luring in the young population of America into enrolling into the military. RT's Anastasia Churkina looks at some of those mesmerizing techniques, and what kind of effect they have had on those fit to serve.

LINK: MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

 

 

 

Are Video Games Propaganda

 

'THE OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY GAME?'

 

 

 

 

 

While it may rate up there with the best in gaming, America's Army is not an exercise in largesse towards the gaming community. It's essentially a propaganda tool funded to the tune of more than $US10 million ($A11.1 million) of US taxpayers' money designed to attract young people to military life.


The US Army spends an estimated $US1.5 million annually to support the game, a drop in the $US583 million ocean of the army's recruitment advertising budget last year. But the modest expense is reaping big dividends with 28 per cent of players clicking through to the US Army's recruitment site and about 40 per cent of new US Army recruits in 2005 having played the game before signing up.

 

 

 

Shoot to thrill

Fran Molloy looks at the disturbing link between gaming and the military in its efforts to lure Generation Y.

 
Fran Molloy
November 22, 2007
 

Various commentators have accused Generation Y, those born after 1981, of being disrespectful, constantly distracted, unable to live without a mobile phone, contemptuous of authority, cynical and precocious. A more unlikely batch of soldiers just couldn't be imagined.

But this much-maligned generation is precisely the target that the US and Australian defence forces are homing in on in their efforts to keep the "war on terror" well manned. And their key recruitment strategy? The humble video game.

More than 3800 US soldiers have been killed in action since the war in Iraq began more than five years ago. And as the conflict drags on with no end in sight, the US military is running desperately short of the 80,000 new recruits it needs each year.

As the horrific reality of the bloody conflict deters potential recruits back home, it seems that the US Army is pinning its hopes on a video game to solve one of George Bush's biggest headaches.

America's Army (www.americasarmy.com) is a key component of a drive by US forces to sell military careers to an increasingly cynical young demographic who ignore billboards and TV advertisements and who, by being plugged into the internet, fly firmly under the radar of traditional marketing.

Military recruitment has huge support from the US Government.

Controversial legislation passed in 2001 compels high schools to release contact numbers of graduating students to recruiters.

But with an estimated 73 per cent of US teenagers surfing the web at least weekly, nowhere is youth more readily accessible than in the gaming space. And with more than 8.6 million users registering to play since 2002, America's Army is successfully hitting its mark.

The game is a realistic and immersive tactical first-person shooter, a free download with online multiplayer capabilities and extensive input from some of the world's top game developers.

Reviewers have raved about the high production values, with sound effects and visual detail among the best in its genre.

The game requires a relatively significant commitment of time.

Experienced gamers estimate that it takes at least two hours to go through the training modules before you can log on to play the game.

The realism of the game is no surprise given its source.

 

Earlier versions were based on the experiences of soldiers in the Gulf War and later versions incorporate more recent combat data and experiences.

And the game is having an impact: America's Army has consistently been rated by GameSpy (http://archive.gamespy.com/stats/) in the global top 20 most popular online games with thousands of players logged on around the clock.

In the online gaming world dominated by products such as Quake and Half-Life, America's Army rates as a strong contender with 24 updates to the PC version released. There are also Xbox, mobile phone and coin-arcade versions of the game now available.

While it may rate up there with the best in gaming, America's Army is not an exercise in largesse towards the gaming community. It's essentially a propaganda tool funded to the tune of more than $US10 million ($A11.1 million) of US taxpayers' money designed to attract young people to military life.

The US Army spends an estimated $US1.5 million annually to support the game, a drop in the $US583 million ocean of the army's recruitment advertising budget last year. But the modest expense is reaping big dividends with 28 per cent of players clicking through to the US Army's recruitment site and about 40 per cent of new US Army recruits in 2005 having played the game before signing up.

Authors Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby, whose 2005 book Smartbomb (www.smartbomb.us) traces the origins of the video game industry, say that they were surprised by how much the military was investing in entertainment.

And unlike the movie industry, Ruby adds, most people in the video game industry welcomed the involvement of the military. Smartbomb describes game developers wearing CIA-branded jackets with pride while military officers feature as headline speakers at the prestigious E3 electronics industry expo held in Las Vegas each year.

The line between military propaganda and high-tech entertainment has always been lightly drawn. War gaming and simulation are now part of the curriculum of every US military training unit and the US Army War College in Pennsylvania has been investigating video games since they bought a commercial game called Mech War in the late 1970s.

Pong, a table tennis simulation game widely credited as the first viable home video game, was developed in 1972 by an engineer who worked as a US defence contractor. In 1975 it became Atari's first product.

 

Military game experts are heavy hitters at the Serious Games Summit conference each year where developers and industry experts discuss the application of game development and education.

From recruitment to training and simulation to active combat, computer gaming has a more sinister role in military applications than mere entertainment.

Many observers regard the military's involvement in gaming as insidious, even dangerous. Smart Bomb authors Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby argue that the military's influence in gaming and the reverence in which they are held by game developers will have serious consequences, contributing to a growing militarisation of society.

On his website (www.tomdispatch.com), Tom Engelhardt, a US author and academic at the University of California, in Berkeley, quotes a decorated US Army sergeant, Kevin Benderman, who was jailed after refusing a second mission to fight in Iraq.

"I was in charge of a group of soldiers that were in their late teens through their early 20s and I had to constantly tell them to keep their heads down because they thought that the war was like the video games that they played back at the barracks," Benderman is quoted as saying.

"War is not like that at all and until you have the misfortune to engage in it for yourself you cannot begin to understand how insane it all is. There are no restart buttons on reality . . . there is no honour in killing as many as you can as quickly as you can."

Australian artist and filmmaker George Gittoes agrees. His acclaimed 2004 documentary, Soundtrack to War, (www.soundtracktowar.com.au) followed US soldiers in Iraq and looked at the music they used to relax and the music they used in combat.

The documentary, made with his wife Gabrielle Dalton, was shown across the US on free-to-air music channel VH1 and scenes from the film featured in Michael Moore's 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

One soldier interviewed in Soundtrack to War says: "We pretty well shot everything that moved when we came to Baghdad." Gittoes says that many soldiers there were later regretful.

The film shows tanks fitted with high-end sound systems. When soldiers are heading out to battle, Gittoes says many play heavy metal soundtracks that help psyche them into a state where they can shoot without emotion - soundtracks that are often duplicated in immersive shooter games.

 

"This is a digital war on a personal level, not just on a laser-guided bomb level," Gittoes says.

The artist is no stranger to war. For decades Gittoes has documented scenes and people in combat zones around the world from Nicaragua and Cambodia to Rawanda and East Timor.

Although he has been appointed by the Australian Army to cover various peacekeeping operations and was embedded with a US military unit in Iraq in 2003, Gittoes has never made the list of official war artists commissioned by the Australian Government since World War I (www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/war_artists/artists.htm), possibly due to his critical approach to war.

The artist, whose work encompasses drawing and painting as well as photography and film, says that while soldiers may have been trained with simulators to operate planes, tanks and weapons, the real thing is very different.

"Most of them find that war is extremely different to the game," he says. "It began in 1993 in Somalia when the soldiers were wearing night-vision goggles so they weren't seeing their enemies through their own eyes. They were seeing them through the eyes of Terminator.

"They all said it's like a video game, but the consequences are far more serious and that's what they find so hard to deal with."

Gittoes went to Somalia in 1993 as an unpaid artist/observer with the Australian Army's peacekeeping force, which allowed him access to restricted regions but did not impose restraints on his art.

He recounts a story told by a US soldier about his time in Iraq when he was ordered to give a warning shot to someone approaching him. "He put a bullet in the guy's head because he was absolutely, totally reflexed into hitting the target from playing too many video games."

While video game culture has its fans, most of the "computer nerds" in Iraq are more likely to be in a supply company, Gittoes says. "While some people play games to unwind, it's often the last thing soldiers want to unwind doing."

Gittoes says video games cannot equip people for the reality of war. "There's a whole generation of young people who have spent their lives indoor playing games and they're actually not good at physical stuff and war is physical. War is putting a new tread on a tank when it comes off and carting loads of shells into a tank and dealing with unbearable heat," he says.

Gittoes says he can look at a group of soldiers and pick the ones who are into games. "Gaming has not obsessed every soldier. It just works on certain types," he says.

 

US artist and anti-war activist Joseph DeLappe (www.delappe.net) works with sculpture, interactive installation and digital media as well as being an associate professor of art at the University of Nevada.

DeLappe is engaged in his own mission on America's Army. He regularly logs into the game under the name of "Dead-in-Iraq", drops his virtual weapon and waits to be killed.

Once he is "dead", DeLappe types in the name, age, service branch and date of death of every US soldier killed in Iraq since the conflict began - that's more than 3800 names.

DeLappe says that although other players often abuse him, the impact has been profound and has generated extensive dialogue on blogs and discussion spaces associated with the game.

"As an act of online remembrance and civil disobedience, the work truly raises the general ire of those participating in this game environment," he says.

Closer to home, late last month the Australian Defence Force launched the latest addition to its online gaming site called Advanced Urban Ops, making a total of seven free online games now available (www.games.defencejobs.gov.au)

Advanced Urban Ops puts a player in charge of six soldiers, allowing them to customise their equipment from a huge array of weapons to do battle in an urban environment.

Other games include Extreme Battleships, Supreme Air Combat and Operation Tiger, all of which allow players to compete for a listing on the Top 10 online score chart.

Advanced Urban Ops is relatively low-budget, developed for about $100,000 by Melbourne-based interactive ad agency Visual Jazz, which has been developing the ADF recruitment site for the past five years.

There's little similarity to America's Army, a behemoth that demands a long-term commitment from players who undergo a series of training sessions before playing.

"This is really designed to appeal to the casual gamer. It's a 15-minute experience online rather than a big time commitment," says Konrad Spilva, general manager of Visual Jazz.

The ADF games are "advergames" - short, arcade-style games specifically built to promote products. But in this case, the product is signing away three to seven years - or more - of your life. Despite their purpose, the advergames are still very popular. In the first fortnight after Advanced Urban Ops was launched, there were 35,000 new game players.

 

Mr Spilva says that Visual Jazz has created similar games for companies such as Holden and for gung-ho youth-targeting sellers keen to get their products in front of the eyeballs of the elusive Gen Y demographic.

Stealth marketing? Maybe. Propaganda? Perhaps. But there is no doubt that military organisations, the masters of propaganda, have joined in on a massive scale.

Yes, gaming can be addictive and many gamers joke that they would sell their soul to reach the top score on their favourite game. But there's just one catch: if you're in the target audience of these games, the developers don't just want your soul - they want your body too.

Last century saw the two bloodiest world wars in human history. In Australia, national conscription was finally abolished in 1972 after our controversial involvement in the Vietnam War.

That's more than a lifetime ago for the average Australian gamer who is now 28 years old, according to the Interactive Australia 2007 report.

Since then, armed conflict has been increasingly sanitised. We watched the 1991 Gulf War on TV and the latest conflict in Iraq was brought to you by safely "embedded" journalists who were carefully escorted to get the best 10-second grab of the day's activities with plenty of time to make the evening news.

Like military forces across the Western world, the ADF now faces an intractable challenge: a rapidly dwindling pool of eager young recruits as the population ages and young people become increasingly disinterested in giving their lives to defend their country, let alone committing to an employment contract that extends further than a year.

Gen Y now inhabits the prime military recruitment demographic and, if you believe the hype, these are the same Gen Y kids who are just emerging from the most coddled and fawned-over childhood in the world's history.

But the ADF needs 8500 new recruits every year, so this is no time to be fussy. Last year, the military put together a recruitment advisory taskforce that included Australian author, motivational speaker and Gen Y consultant Peter Sheahan.

Sheahan has a captive clientele of large organisations that are desperate to retain staff. He tells them they can attract Gen Y employees with excitement, fun and short-term rewards.

Sheahan quotes a Gen Y graduate and gamer working in a leading law firm who says: "I command an army in my spare time and they want me to photocopy."

The era of video games has brought army command within the reach of millions of casual gamers letting people experience all the power and strategy with none of the years of hard effort that real soldiers have to go through.

While the ADF has commissioned its own online games as a recruitment tool there is nothing sinister about them, says the force's Andrew Coffey.

"Our games are a marketing tool developed locally to attract people to our site and provide a fun experience along the way," he says. "They are quick, they are mobile - we can run them on little game pods - and they are specifically term-based strategy games so you are not engaging directly with other players."

The ADF has so far avoided the "serious games" intensity of America's Army with all its accompanying controversy but as recruit numbers continue to drop, there are signs that the ADF is thinking about going down that path.

"We are talking to the Air Force about potentially developing a flight-simulator-style combat game," Visual Jazz's Mr Spilva says.

It remains to be seen whether gamers like "Bronco Man" and "War Pig", who have made it to the ADF's top 10 online gamers list, will ever sign up to fight a real war.

 

 

[A-MUST-SEE] 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 
- White Helmets, “Bana al-Abed” And Killing “Evil Russians” -

South Front
Published on Jun 11, 2019

If you’re able, and if you like our content and approach, please support the project. Our work wouldn’t be possible without your help: PayPal: southfront@list.ru, http://southfront.org/donate/ or via: https://www.patreon.com/southfront, BTC: 3Gbs4rjcVUtQd8p3CiFUCxPLZwRqurezRZ, BCH ABC: qpf2cphc5dkuclkqur7lhj2yuqq9pk3hmukle77vhq, ETH: 0x9f4cda013e354b8fc285bf4b9a60460cee7f7ea9

Subscribe our channel!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaV1... Visit us: http://southfront.org/ Follow us on Social Media: https://t.me/southfronteng https://www.facebook.com/SouthFrontENTwo https://twitter.com/southfronteng 
https://steemit.com/@southfront


Link:
 SYRIA

 

 

TomDispatch Interview with author, Nick Turse


TheNationInstitute
Published on Mar 18, 2008

Editor of TomDispatch, Tom Engelhardt, interviews Nick Turse, TD contributor and author of the new book "The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives."

A mind-boggling investigation of the allpervasive, constantly morphing presence of the Pentagon in daily life--a real-world Matrix come alive. Here is the new, hip, high-tech military-industrial complex--an omnipresent, hidden-in-plain-sight system of systems that penetrates all our lives. From iPods to Starbucks to Oakley sunglasses, historian Nick Turse explores the Pentagon's little-noticed contacts (and contracts) with the products and companies that now form the fabric of America. Turse investigates the remarkable range of military incursions into the civilian world: the Pentagon's collaborations with Hollywood filmmakers; its outlandish schemes to weaponize the wild kingdom; its joint ventures with the World Wrestling Federation and NASCAR. He shows the inventive ways the military, desperate for new recruits, now targets children and young adults, tapping into the "culture of cool" by making "friends" on MySpace.
 
A striking vision of this brave new world of remote-controlled rats and super-soldiers who need no sleep, The Complex will change our understanding of the militarization of America. We are a long way from Eisenhower's military-industrial complex: this is the essential book for understanding its twenty-first-century progeny.

 

 

 

 

Black Ops 2 Militainment
"Documentary" Promotion Tied To Real War Killing, Exploits Tragedy As Fun

disposable culture
Published on Aug 23, 2012


Reversals and the Drone War
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is slated to come out in November. A not-so-futuristic story about drone warfare frames the game. In this world, the principle concern is that "the enemy" will hack into the

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly

In his exhaustively researched first book concerning the extent to which the "military industrial complex" has infiltrated the life of the average American, journalist Turse starts off by documenting how many times supposedly innocent consumer choices support major Pentagon contractors then covers similar ground in greater detail. Turse has up-to-date information on a previously well-covered subject and casts a wide net, including the movie industry, video gaming and military recruitment tactics in his analysis. Many of Turse's facts are purely economic, but some of them are astonishing. Who knew, for example, that in 2005, the Department of Defense spent $1.2 million on donuts in Kuwait? Or that Harvard received over $300 million in DoD funds in 2002, after being pressured, despite concerns about discrimination, to allow military recruiters access to its law school students? Though Turse offers plenty of interesting information, ultimately this book would have been more convincing if, instead of simply amassing and condensing such information, he had built a stronger argument about what it all means.

“This is a deeply disturbing audit of the Pentagon’s influence on American life, especially its subtle conscription of popular imagination and entertainment technology. If Nick Turse is right, the ‘Matrix’ may be just around the corner.”—Mike Davis, author of Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

“When President Eisenhower warned of the dangers to democracy posed by the military-industrial complex, he had no idea how far it would penetrate into every aspect of our everyday lives. In impressive detail, Nick Turse shows how the military is now tied to everything from your morning cup of Starbucks to the video games your kids play before turning in for the night. It's not just political anymore—it’s personal. Turse sounds the alarm bell about the militarization of everyday life. Now it’s up to us to do something about it.”—Bill Hartung, author of How Much Are You Making on the War Daddy?

“Nick Turse’s searing, investigative journalism reveals just how deeply embedded in our lives the war-making system is and why we should be viscerally alarmed. He exposes how, with a growing contingent of
corporate/entertainment/academic/media collaborators, the Pentagon has not only garrisoned the globe, but come home to dominate the United States. For anyone interested in understanding the crisis this country is in, The Complex is indispensable reading.”—Dahr Jamail, author of Beyond the Green Zone

“Americans who still think they can free themselves from the clutches of the military-industrial complex need to read this book. For example, the gimmicks the Pentagon uses to deceive, entrap, and sign up gullible 18 to 24 year-olds are anything but voluntary. Nick Turse has produced a brilliant exposé of the Pentagon’s pervasive influence in our lives.”—Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic


https://www.nickturse.com/books

buy book here: the complex


LINKS :

Propagandizing Through Games

Propaganda History

Slave Mentality

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday, Author Nick Turse On Antiwar Radio

disposable culture
Published on Jul 26, 2012

http://antiwar.com/radio/
Nick Turse is an award-winning journalist, historian, essayist, and the associate editor of the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com., author of The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives, discusses how today's military-industrial complex far exceeds the one Eisenhower warned of, the Pentagon's influence in Hollywood that often includes vetting rights on movie scripts in exchange for access to taxpayer funded weapons of war, the early-and-often bombardment of young people with military propaganda, why far too many businesses and workers are reliant on Pentagon spending and the five jaw-dropping and under-reported WikiLeaks stories.

MP3 here. (25:49) yt playlist: The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

Luke 3:14
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

2 John 1:
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Psalm 12:8
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.


 


 


 


Militainment, Inc.
Militarism & Video Games



disposable culture
Published on Mar 17, 2011


[Extensive Notes and Links. Please click on YouTube button to access]

 

 





 

***BACKGROUND INFORMATION***

 

 

Propaganda Defined:

1. I nformation, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
 
2. The deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
 
3. The particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement.
 
4. Roman Catholic Church .
 
a. A committee of cardinals, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, having supervision over foreign missions and the training of priests for these missions.
 
b. A school (College of Propaganda) established by Pope Urban VIII for the education of priests for foreign missions.
 
5. Archaic. an organization or movement for the spreading of propaganda.

 

 

Meet Edward Bernays, Master of Propaganda

SHOW NOTES AND MP3 AUDIO: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=259

You’ve heard of his uncle Sigmund, so how come you’ve never heard of him? In this classic episode from The Corbett Report archives James dishes the dirt on Edward Bernays, Freud’s American nephew. Learn how to break societal taboos, get the public to demand poison in the water, and prep the way for an overthrow of a foreign government from the man who literally wrote the book on propaganda!

 

 

Propaganda's Founding Father: Edward Bernays EXPOSED!

Propaganda's Founding Father: Edward Bernays EXPOSED!

 

In Propaganda (1928), Bernays argued that the manipulation of public opinion was a necessary part of democracy: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. He then told the press that a group of women's rights marchers would light "Torches of Freedom". On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: "Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of 'Freedom'". This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public.

Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign.

Edward Bernays has been cited as the inventor of the consumerist culture that was designed primarily to target people's self-image (or lack thereof) in order to turn a want into a need. This was initially envisioned for products such as cigarettes, for example. However, Bernays also noted in his 1928 book, Propaganda, that propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. This can be seen most clearly in the modern police state and the growing citizen snitch culture, wrapped up in the pseudo-patriotic War on Terror. The increasing consolidation of media has enabled the entire corporate structure to merge with government, which now utilizes the concept of propaganda placement. Media; print, movies, television, and cable news can now work seamlessly to integrate an overall message which seems to have the ring of truth because it comes from so many sources, simultaneously. When one becomes attuned to identifying the main message, one will see this imprinting everywhere.

 

 

 

 

Video Games now gross $82 Billion more than Hollywood movies

http://libertygalaxy.com/video-games-now-gross-82-billion-more-than-hollywood-movies/

 

With the considerable jumps in improvement in the areas of realism by improved graphics and interactivity by integrating peripherals into the gaming systems such as motion sensing cameras and controllers in recent years, the video game industry is steadily pulling away from all other forms of digital media in terms of gross profits. The past couple of years have marked a time for the video game industry in which the single video game industry has surpassed the total gross profits from cinema, recorded music and DVD sales combined.

With a total year gross profit expected of $10 billion dollars for the Hollywood movie industry, they can no longer compete in terms of making profit with video games as the video game industry is expected to gross $100 billion dollars this year. Making the total gross profit of the video game industry 10 times more profitable than the Hollywood movie industry. A major shifting of the cards in the multimedia industry that has been a long time coming. However, going forward I would suggest to the reader of this article that TV and movies will eventually catch up when every person has an “interactive television” in their homes. This will happen but it will be up to the private industries as to when it will happen depending on how efficiently they can make and provide the technology to make it feasible not just for corporate CEO’s but for every person in their homes. We could then have interactive TV shows, news, movies, etc, and then Movies and TV will have that “interactive” factor which will level the playing fields. But the TV and movie industry currently has no interactive infrastructure in place and will therefore suffer in the meantime as we see from sales how people respond to the ability to be interactive and have a say in the way their multimedia entertainment or learning plays out.

An example of interactivity in the future for a movie made like a video game could have multiple different scenarios that play out in multiple different ways just like they are currently programmed into some video games where two different players can play the same video game with completely different outcomes. In the future we could have an audience in the movie theater that could provide interactive feedback in one way or another (possibly even by reading brainwaves in the theater as there is brainwave reading toys that you can fly toy helicopters with and play PC video games, or read your own brainwaves EEG style with the NeuroSky headset that are currently available rather cheaply) and then based on that input decide which segments of the pre-recorded movie to play in real time as its programming would instruct in the exact same way video games are programmed today. It would also translate to the DVD / home release but you would have full control of where the story goes as opposed to a vote in the theater. In this way two different people could watch the same movie or go to see the same movie on different nights and get different endings and outcomes of the story. Exactly the same way video games are programmed today.

 

 

 


 

Video Game Casts Tea Party and Patriot Groups as Enemy Terrorists

Magazine article literally asks, “Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?”

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
June 13, 2013

The latest installment of the popular Rainbow Six video game franchise casts Americans fed up with government corruption and banker domination as domestic terrorists intent on carrying out killings and bombings, yet another startling indication of how media is influencing the public to accept protesters and people generally upset with the way their government is being run as the new terrorist threat.

“In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the ‘True Patriots,’ a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country,” Ubisoft’s description of the game states.

The description goes on to label members of the fictitious movement as the “new breed of terrorists,” stating, “…players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.”

Game Informer Magazine, national retail video game chain Game Stop’s exclusive magazine, claimed a tumultuous political atmosphere was the motivation for Ubisoft to pit American citizens against federal agents.

From the December 2011 issue of Game Informer:

“Americans are angry and why shouldn’t they be? With an exponentially expanding national debt, crippling foreclosures, corporate bailouts, degrading infrastructure, dwindling job market and widening income gap between the haves and have-nots, it’s getting harder to believe politicians when they speak of American exceptionalism as if it were a fundamental truth.

“In response to gradual erosion of our beloved nation, resentful citizens of all kinds of political backgrounds are rising up in the form of new political movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street.”

Reading further in the magazine’s short intro for the game, we find the real motivation behind the game’s inception.

“In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a massive resurgence in anti-government paramilitary groups, which have jumped from 43 militias in 2007 to nearly 300 in 2010. The sudden surge has captured the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, NSA, CIA, and FBI, who all view these groups as a real threat to the stability of the nation. Moreover, many of these disenfranchised groups frequently put their members through intense military training exercises – for what, no one knows.”

In their final introductory paragraph, the Game Informer writers ask, “Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?”

Rainbow 6: Patriots was announced in 2011, but its actual release has been held back. When GameStop pulled pre-sales from its database without explanation, some speculated the game had been shelved entirely.

However, in a June 2013 interview with IGN, Ubisoft senior vice president of sales and marketing Tony Key confirmed that Rainbow 6: Patriots would likely be held over for next-gen systems like Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

A look at the game’s trailers shows players that play as members of the Rainbow Six squadron will have no choice but to shoot innocent people (and even police officers) in certain situations. According to Game Informer, players will also have the opportunity to play as the terrorists.

This is just the latest example of an ongoing media campaign to demonize Constitutionalists and those seeking to uphold the principles of the Founding Fathers of the nation, as terrorists.

Earlier this year, we reported on how the cable TV network AMC was producing a show titled, “We Hate Paul Revere,” following two brothers that hate the famous patriot activist who became a hero during the American Revolutionary War when he went on his “midnight ride” to warn patriots and patriot militias that the British were coming.

In March, we also discussed how the Fox TV series “The Following” attempted to portray Constitutionalists and militia members as serial killers and terrorists.

Add these “coincidences” to a July 2012 report we wrote covering a DHS study that characterized Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists, and you begin to see a pattern.

Recently, the Internal Revenue Service was also forced to apologize for targeting patriot and Tea Party groups with extra scrutiny and audits when they applied for tax exempt status.

As the federal government further embroils itself in scandal after scandal, and as it takes huge strides to implement a hellish vision of a free society, using an unchecked police state as its muscle – now police in New York can arrest you for merely annoying them, and recently the Supreme Court ruled that police can take DNA swabs from citizens as a “legitimate police booking procedure” – the desperation to stifle opposition has become readily apparent.

 

 

Watch the propaganda slickly disguised
as a video game in the preview below:


 

 

 

 

Watch the Infowars Nightly News report on Rainbow Six: Patriots:


 

 

This article was posted: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 2:24 pm

Tags:

 

 

 




 

[Rainbow Six video game] ...In their final introductory paragraph, the Game Informer writers ask, “Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?”

 

 Propagandizing Through Games

SEAL Veteran: Military Leaders Being Asked if They Will Disarm Americans

http://www.infowars.com/ex-navy-seal-military-leaders-being-asked-if-they-will-disarm-americans/

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

 

 

 






 

PROGRAMMING FOR A DESIGNED ECONOMIC COLLAPSE?

DECIDE FOR YOURSELF BY COMPARING WHAT YOU SEE BELOW TO THESE LINKS:

DHS Preparing For 7-Year War Against American People | Police Trained That Informed Americans Are Terrorists

Boy Scouts Trained To Disarm Public | The Balkanization of America | You Are Being Targeted | BLACKLISTED | We Can't Pay It Back! | International Monetary Fund | Prisons for America's Veterans | Terror Storm Final Cut movie

 These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Rest Of America Will Look Like Soon

 

 

 

 Propagandizing Through Games

 

 

Homefront (2011)

A fictional future scenario in which America has been economically devastated and occupied by a foreign power.  You must choose whether to submit to military forces, take the fight to the enemy or even throw your lot in with the invaders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS IS NOT A GAME


The Economy Isn’t Going To Recover, U.S. Government Preparing for Collapse (And Not In A Nice Way)
Government knows and is getting ready, but in ways that are very disturbing.

national debt 

The Economy isn’t going to recover. The government knows this and is getting ready,
but in ways that are very disturbing.


Published on Mar 13, 2013

The Economy isn't going to recover. The government knows this and is getting ready, but in ways that are very disturbing.
Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/StormCloudsGathering
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SCGupdates
Donate: http://StormCloudsGathering.com/donate
Visit our website: http://StormCloudsGathering.com
Get weekly email updates: http://tinyurl.com/naturalrightsnewsl...

One of the massive purchase orders for hollow points and buckshot:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jvs3ajoz5s...

Unfunded liabilities
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001...

Leaked Document: Government setting up military detention centers for Activists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfkZ1y...

The document itself: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jvs3ajoz5s...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/a...

Why a dollar and Euro Collapse is Guaranteed: http://stormcloudsgathering.com/why-d...

 

 

LINKS :

NDAA

Police State 1

Police State 2

Police State 3

Police State 4

Fema Camps

Fema Camps 2

Posse Comitatus Act

Posse Comitatus Act 2

Economy Destroyed By Design!

Doomsday Preppers Will Be Treated As Terrorists

Police Trained That Informed Americans Are Terrorists

DHS Preparing For 7-Year War Against American People

These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Rest Of America Will Look Like Soon

 

 

SPECIAL LINK:  Military Takeover Plans and Psyops

 

 

 






Propagandizing Through Games

 

Rainbow 6: Patriots, a Ubisoft game, portrays those concerned about their personal liberty as terrorists.  More than that it begs the question "Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?"

 

 

Propagandizing Through Games

TERRORISM HITS HOME IN TOM CLANCY’S RAINBOW 6® PATRIOTS VIDEO GAME FROM UBISOFT®

 

 

 

Propagandizing Through Games

 
 
 
 
Best-Selling Shooter Franchise Returns with Gripping New Storyline, Missions and Multiplayer Experience 

 

SAN FRANCISCO – November 3, 2011 – Today, Ubisoft announced the development of the latest edition of its best-selling Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 franchise, Rainbow 6 Patriots. Developed by Ubisoft Montreal with the support of Ubisoft Toronto and Red Storm, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots revolves around a dynamic single-player storyline that captures the reality of modern-day terrorism and allows players to experience it from multiple characters’ perspectives. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots is due for release on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

Propagandizing Through Games

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 franchise has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and has been hailed as one of the best first-person shooter series of all time.  The games are known for depicting high-tech counter-terrorist operations set within the Tom Clancy’s game world.  With Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Ubisoft is building upon the success of the franchise while also taking it in a bold new direction. 

 

“Terrorism has evolved, and so has Rainbow 6. In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, all the team play, tactics, and realism that fans of the series love have been coupled with an exciting new narrative direction,” said David Sears, creative director at Ubisoft. “This adds an unprecedented level of humanity that will make Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots an extremely tense and immersive experience.”

 

In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the “True Patriots,” a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests.  The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country.  Playing as Team Rainbow, players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.

 

In addition to the immersive single-player storyline, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots will introduce a huge variety of new innovative co-op and multi-player experiences. Players will be rewarded for working as a team and mastering the game’s new features that enhance communication and tactical execution between teammates. Success will come from a mix of split-second decision making and working to coordinate attacks against the enemy.

 

Additional details on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots can be found in an exclusive cover story in the December 2011 issue of Game Informer Magazine, available this month.

 

For more information about Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, please visit www.rainbow6.com and “like” the game on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Rainbow6 

 

 

 

 

 

Propagandizing Through Games 

Conditioning? Xbox Poll Shows Overwhelming Gamer Support for “More” Drone Strikes

 

Melissa Melton
Infowars.com
October 24, 2012

Throughout Monday night’s final debate between President Obama and hopeful Mitt Romney, viewers watching it on their Xbox 360 consoles were allowed to participate in a live poll. When asked, “Do you support more use of drone aircraft to attack suspected terrorists?,” 72 percent of respondents replied, “Yes.”

Notice the question asks, “Do you support more use,” in regards to sending unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with missiles to bomb suspected terrorists in other countries, not just continuing business as usual killing people at the current pace.

 

Propagandizing Through Games

 

Following the debate, the screen capture above was posted on popular video game blog Kotaku.com under the headline, “Xbox 360 Owners Sure Do Love Drone Strikes.” Of those polled, 20 percent answered “No” and another eight percent were “Not sure.”

The last time a group came forward to claim America needs more drones, it was the CIA.

Xbox Live polling is performed in conjunction with a company called YouGov to provide “cutting-edge interactive television and polling techniques that…will be instrumental in both entertainment and information gathering in the future,” wrote David Rothschild, XBOX head pollster and member of Microsoft Research NYC.

These are not small polls, either. According to Rothschild, an average of 20,000 unique respondents are answering questions over their Xbox consoles per day; over 30,000 Xbox Live users participated in a similar poll during the vice presidential debate on October 11, 2012. Considering this was the last presidential debate before the election, the total polled this time was likely higher.

So how does the Xbox Live polling on America’s drone attacks stack up to other polls?

According to the Pew Research Center, Americans support drone strikes more than citizens in 20 other major countries. Of 1,011 Americans the center polled via landline and cell phone, 62 percent favored Obama’s unmanned drone campaign — the most all other similar samples polled throughout the rest of the world.

However, the Xbox Live poll, which showed greater support for these strikes, had a much larger sample.

This widespread support comes regardless of the well-documented fact that drone strikes have been shown to kill way more innocent civilians than suspected terrorists. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik recently stated that up to eight out of 10 people killed by drone strikes in his country are innocent, meaning only a mere 20 percent can even be deemed militants. Other estimates show that 50 civilians have to die for every single militant killed in a strike.

Note that the word “militant” is nothing but propaganda considering Obama redefined it to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone.” These people are blanket classified as “militants” even though our government officials may literally know nothing more about them than age and gender.

Also note the phrase “suspected terrorists” is tossed out by our government and mainstream media all the time in addition to it having been used in the Xbox poll. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, to be “suspected” of something means one is to be “regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion.” Nowhere in that definition does it say “is proven guilty” or “is deserving of being bombed to death.”

The U.S. is currently running regular drone campaigns in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen. What’s considered regular? At one point in summer 2011 it was declared that at least one U.S. drone strike hit Yemen per day. According to Pakistani government estimates, 336 drone strikes in Waziristan alone have killed an estimated 2,300 people (figures for the entire nation are even higher). Using Interior Minister Malik’s math would mean 1,840 innocent people have died in Waziristan at the hands of the U.S. government. Other estimates show that 176 children have been killed by U.S. drones in Pakistan since 2004. Only 41 people were ever confirmed as terrorist targets.

There was a time when killing innocent people was considered “murder”; now it’s simply chalked up to “collateral damage” without a second thought. There are no checks and balances. No one is punished for innocent lives lost.

Some of the details of Obama’s so-called “kill list” — the file he uses to determine who deserves drone assassination — were released by The New York Times earlier this year. The article outlined how several Americans were included on the list, as were two teenagers, one of whom is female. It also mentioned that Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama nominated himself to helm the “top secret” process of designating who gets added to the list and who will ultimately receive a drone visit.

Keep in mind all of these people are still “suspected terrorists,” meaning none of them have had any official due process whatsoever. Also keep in mind The New York Times has two interesting habits: sending articles to the White House for preapproval and substantially editing articles the White House disagrees with after post without informing its readers.

It is concerning that Xbox 360 users would be more inclined to support drone strikes, especially since the U.S. military has a history of recruiting gamers to become drone pilots. One 19-year-old high school dropout became a drone pilot instructor based solely on his video gaming skills. Not only that, but many video games today are laced with military propaganda including a burgeoning proliferation of drones, as revealed in this Infowars report Jakari Jackson filed below on Call of Duty: Black Ops II:

 

 

Black Ops 2 Revealed

 

 

 

 

Propagandizing Through Games

 

 

 

Secrets of Black Ops 2 Revealed

 

Infowarriors attend the "Black Ops 2" release to ask gamers about
the domestic use of drones.See it in HD Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3xJNk...

 

 

In “Portrait of a Drone Killer: I Have a Duty, and I Execute My Duty” featured on Lew Rockwell Blog, one drone jockey is quoted as saying, “It’s like a video game. It can get a little bloodthirtsty. But it’s f***cking cool.”

So “cool” in fact, that many drone pilots are now beginning to show signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. That’s okay though, the Pentagon wants to make it all better by awarding drone pilots Distinguished Warfare Medals.

Have video games desensitized some players to the very real and consequential aspects of murder and death? Is all of the military propaganda and conditioning really that effective?

The results of the Xbox Live poll would certainly suggest they have and they are.

As disconcerting as (if not more so than) the overwhelming support for more morally bankrupt drone strikes expressed in that poll is the responses to Kotaku.com’s posting of the poll screen capture.

While many of the site’s members left disapproving comments emanating a complete distaste for Obama’s murderous, unaccountable drone policies, others came to its defense:

 

Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games
Propagandizing Through Games

 

Blasé attitudes and sarcasm aside, it is believed that thousands of innocent people — including women and children — have perished in America’s morally reprehensible drone strike campaign. These people were all killed by somebody sitting at a control panel thousands of miles away, staring at images on a screen. Just as the drone pilot above was quoted as saying, it is in many ways exactly like a video game; the only difference is, when these people die, they don’t respawn.

This is reality. These drone killings are not constitutional acts; they are war crimes even though Congress has never officially declared war in these countries. In fact, two separate court cases involving drone strike deaths fought by Shahzad Akbar of Pakistan’s Foundation for Fundamental Rights may now trigger a formal murder investigation and the issuance of international arrest warrants for two high-ranking CIA officials.

At the last presidential debate, the topic of drones came up briefly, which may have triggered the Xbox Live poll question; unfortunately, it was made abundantly clear that, no matter who wins the election, America’s ruthless drone strike rampage will continue.

If the court does rule in Akbar’s favor, hopefully it will start a trend to help stop this grave injustice.

Nothing about this is justifiable. Nothing.

 

 

 

 


 

 

THIS IS NOT A GAME

 

Activists to Obama: Stop the proliferation of drones

 

 Anti-drone activists from across the country poured into Washington D.C. this weekend for a three day call to action, starting with a march from the White House to the headquarters of drone manufacturer, General Atomics. What followed was two-day summit that took an in-depth look at the US' controversial drone warfare program -- one, activists, say stands in direct violation of international law. RT's Ameera David reports.

 

 

 

 

A Drone Warrior's Torment: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant
on His Trauma From Remote Killing

 http://www.democracynow.org - We look at how the United States uses drones in war, and their impact, through the eyes of one of the first U.S. drone operators to speak out. Former U.S. Air Force pilot Brandon Bryant served as a sensor operator for the Predator program from 2007 to 2011, manning the camera on the unmanned aerial vehicles that carried out attacks overseas. After he left the active duty in the Air Force, he was presented with a certificate that credited his squadron for 1,626 kills. In total, Bryant says he was involved in seven missions in which his Predator fired a missile at a human target, and about 13 people died in those strikes -- actions he says left him traumatized. "The clinical definition of PTSD is an anxiety disorder associated with witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event," Bryant says. "Think how you would feel if you were part of something that you felt violated the Constitution."

 

 

 

 

Obama Orders Children Murdered!!

Obama Orders Children Murdered!!

Scahill, a national security correspondent for The Nation magazine and producer of the 2013 documentary Dirty Wars, has been on the ground and experienced first hand the devastation wrought by U.S. drones upon innocent civilians in places like Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen where he says the Obama administration is killing people indiscriminately in covert, undeclared wars.

“We’re doing night raids, drone strikes, cruise missile attacks. We’re killing a tremendous number of innocent civilians and we’re killing people whose identities we don’t even know,” Scahill told Colbert talking about a secret war being conducted in Afghanistan being concealed by a larger, more public war.

[The] major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might is greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Zbigniew Brzezinski - Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Advisor, Author of The Grand Chessboard

 

 

 

 

Counter Intelligence, Part V

- Drone Nation -

 Unmanned:

America's Drone Wars

 We Have to Talk

About the Boy in the Ambulance...



EuropesHeart
Published on Jul 7, 2013
Source: http://metanoia-films.org

Shining a Light on Black Operations

Part 5: Drone Nation
After President Obama signed the 2011 NDAA, the US government is allowed to kidnap and detain its own citizens without any warning or notification. A simple accusation of "terrorism" is all that is needed to murder innocents with drones from command centers thousands of miles away. Whatever your opinion of Anwar al Awlaki, his 2011 murder by drone strike, and subsequent lack of outrage, sets a dangerous precedent for Americans' liberty and security from its own government.

 

 

"Unmanned" investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad, observing their effect on the War on Terror, the lives of individuals, and U.S. foreign policy.

 

I CONFRONTED A DRONE PILOT

 

I wasn't going to, but then I saw the CNN anchor pretend to cry...

Truthstream Can Be Found Here:
Website:

http://TruthstreamMedia.com
 (under construction! Currently using Tumblr backup: truthstream-blog.tumblr.com/)
FB: http://Facebook.com/TruthstreamMedia
Twitter: @TruthstreamNews
DONATE: http://bit.ly/2aTBeeF
Amazon Affiliate Link (help support TSM with every Amazon purchase, no cost to you!): http://amzn.to/2aTARRx
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bbxcWX

 


 

Heartbreaking Video Footage from Syria

End Times News Report
Published on Sep 26, 2017


This moving video footage from Syria is haunting. All patriotic Americans must know what our government is doing in the Middle East. PLEASE SHARE! Crowd funding keeps this channel alive! Please support my work:

 

Killing For Peace? More Civilian Deaths Now Than Under Obama

RonPaulLibertyReport

Streamed live 5 hours ago

Changing rules of engagement, increased bombing runs, and granting field officers more authority to call in drone strikes has resulted in far more civilian casualties in the ongoing US wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Will this acceleration lead to quicker victory? Or is it planting the seeds for yet more expansion of the war?

 

President Trump To Unleash The CIA Drones

According to recent media reports, President Trump is planning to lift the restrictions on the CIA's use of drones worldwide. Will this new "counterterrorism" strategy create more terrorists than it kills?

https://airwars.org/
Monitoring and assessing civilian casualties from international airstrikes in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Seeking transparency and accountability from belligerents, and advocating on behalf of affected civilians. Archiving open-source reports, and military claims by nations.


 





The US Gov’t Killed More Civilians This Month Than All Terrorist Attacks in Europe Over the Last 12 Years

In the last 12 years, terrorist attacks in Europe have killed 459 civilians. The U.S. killed at least 472 civilians in Syria, just in the last month.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/us-killed-more-civilians-europe-terrorist-attacks/

 

LINKS:

KILLING CIVILIANS WITH DRONES | DRONES | Assassination Program

Yes Your Government Can Use Armed Drones Against You

 

 

 

 

 


 

LINK:

FALSE LEFT/RIGHT PARADIGM

 

 

 

 

 

September 17, 2008
New Book Lets Winter Soldiers Be Heard

by Dahr Jamail

Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has brought to Iraq, in the soldiers' own words.

Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation, published by Haymarket Books Tuesday, is a gut-wrenching, historic chronicle of what the U.S. military has done to Iraq, and its own soldiers.

Authored by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) and journalist Aaron Glantz, the book is a reader for hearings that took place in Silver Spring, Md., between Mar. 13-16, 2008, at the National Labor College.

"I remember one woman walking by," said Jason Washburn, a corporal in the U.S. Marines who served three tours in Iraq. "She was carrying a huge bag, and she looked like she was heading toward us, so we lit her up with the Mark 19, which is an automatic grenade launcher, and when the dust settled, we realized that the bag was full of groceries. She had been trying to bring us food, and we blew her to pieces."

Washburn testified on a panel that discussed the rules of engagement in Iraq, and how lax they were, even to the point of being virtually nonexistent.

"During the course of my three tours, the rules of engagement changed a lot," Washburn's testimony continues. "The higher the threat the more viciously we were permitted and expected to respond."

His emotionally charged testimony, like all of those in the book that covered panels addressing dehumanization, civilian testimony, sexism in the military, veterans' health care, and the breakdown of the military, raised issues that were repeated again and again by other veterans.

"Something else we were encouraged to do, almost with a wink and nudge, was to carry 'drop weapons,' or by my third tour, 'drop shovels.' We would carry these weapons or shovels with us because if we accidentally shot a civilian, we could just toss the weapon on the body, and make them look like an insurgent," Washburn said.

Four days of searing testimony, witnessed by this writer, is consolidated into the book, which makes for a difficult read. One page after another is filled with devastating stories from the soldiers about what is being done in Iraq.

Everything from the taking of "trophy" photos of the dead to the torture and slaughter of civilians is included.

"We're trying to build a historical record of what continues to happen in this war and what the war is really about," Glantz told IPS.

Hart Viges, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army who served one year in Iraq, tells of taking orders over the radio.

"One time they said to fire on all taxicabs because the enemy was using them for transportation. … One of the snipers replied back, 'Excuse me? Did I hear that right? Fire on all taxicabs?' The lieutenant colonel responded, 'You heard me, trooper, fire on all taxicabs.' After that, the town lit up, with all the units firing on cars. This was my first experience with war, and that kind of set the tone for the rest of the deployment."

Vincent Emanuele, a Marine rifleman who spent a year in the al-Qaim area of Iraq near the Syrian border, told of emptying magazines of bullets into the city without identifying targets, running over corpses with Humvees, and stopping to take "trophy" photos of bodies. "An act that took place quite often in Iraq was taking pot shots at cars that drove by," he said. "This was not an isolated incident, and it took place for most of our eight-month deployment."

Kelly Dougherty, the executive director of IVAW, blames the behavior of soldiers in Iraq on the policies of the U.S. government. "The abuses committed in the occupations, far from being the result of a 'few bad apples' misbehaving, are the result of our government's Middle East policy, which is crafted in the highest spheres of U.S. power," she said.

Knowing this, however, does little to soften the emotional and moral devastation of the accounts.

"You see an individual with a white flag, and he does anything but approach you slowly and obey commands, assume it's a trick and kill him," Michael Leduc, a corporal in the Marines who was part of the U.S. attack of Fallujah in November 2004, said were the orders from his battalion JAG officer he received before entering the city.

This is an important book for the public of the United States, in particular, because the Winter Soldier testimonies were not covered by any of the larger media outlets, aside from the Washington Post, which ran a single piece on the event and buried it in the Metro section.

The New York Times, CNN, and network news channels ABC, NBC, and CBS ignored it completely.

This is particularly important in light of the fact that, as former Marine Jon Turner stated, "Anytime we did have embedded reporters with us, our actions changed drastically. We never acted the same. We were always on key with everything, did everything by the book."

"To me it's about giving a picture of what war is like," Glantz added, "because here in the U.S. we have this very sanitized version of what war is. But war is when we have a large group of armed people killing large numbers of other people. And that is the picture that people will get from reading veterans testimony … the true face of war."

Dehumanization of the soldiers themselves is covered in the book, as it includes testimony of sexism, racism, and the plight of veterans upon their return home as they struggle to obtain care from the Veterans Administration.

There is much testimony on the dehumanization of the Iraqi people as well. Brian Casler, a corporal in the Marines, spoke to some of this that he witnessed during the invasion of Iraq.

"But on these convoys, I saw Marines defecate into MRE bags or urinate in bottles and throw them at children on the side of the road," he stated.

Numerous accounts from soldiers include the prevalence of degrading terms for Iraqis, such as "hajis," "towel-heads," and "sand-n*ggers."

Scott Ewing, who served in Iraq from 2005-2006, admitted on one panel that units intentionally gave candy to Iraqi children for reasons other than "winning hearts and minds."

"There was also another motive," Ewing said. "If the kids were around our vehicles, the bad guys wouldn't attack. We used the kids as human shields."

Glantz admits that it would be difficult for the average U.S. citizen to read the book, and he believes it is important to keep in mind while doing so what it took for the veterans to give this historic testimony.

"They could have been heroes, but what they are doing here is even more heroic – which is telling the truth," Glantz told IPS. "They didn't have to come forward. They chose to come forward."

http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Soldier-Afghanistan-Eyewitness-Occupations/dp/1931859655

 

 

 

 

How To Stop Veteran Suicides

Adam explains his personal experience with PTSD and how he managed to avoid committing suicide when 20-27 veterans are committing suicide per day.

LINK: U.S. Military Killing Its Own Troops!

 

 

 

 

 

Published on Mar 18, 2015

For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, telling of inaccurate body counts, and recounting the process of destroying a village. The atrocities are casual, seem routine, and are sanctioned or committed by officers. Images from the war illustrate the testimony; there's a side discussion among veterans about racism and a couple of interviews about the soldiers' self-realization. The testimony appears in the US Congressional Record on April 6 and 7, 1971. A "winter soldier" contrasts with Paine's "summer soldier and sunshine patriot."

http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/

 

 

 

 

THE KILL TEAM goes behind closed doors to tell the riveting story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. Tragically, his father's pleas for help went unheeded. Once Adam's fellow soldiers got wind of what he'd done, they threatened to silence him -- permanently. Forced to choose between his conscience and his own survival, Adam found himself drawn into a moral abyss, faced with a split-second decision that would change his life forever.

With extraordinary access to the key individuals involved in the case – including Adam, his passionately supportive parents, and his startlingly candid compatriots — THE KILL TEAM is an intimate look at the personal stories so often lost inside the larger coverage of the longest war in US history.

http://killteammovie.com/

 

 

 

 

‘The Kill Team’
examines moral dilemmas facing young soldiers at war

 

By Holly Bailey
April 22, 2013 11:54 AM
The Lookout
 

Three years ago, the U.S. was stunned by a horrific story that emerged from the front lines of the war in Afghanistan: Several members of an Army platoon had killed at least three unarmed Afghan civilians, apparently for sport. The soldiers referred to themselves as ‘the Kill Team”—a nickname that seemed tailor-made for television news, which devoted hours of coverage to the case.

Dan Krauss, a San Francisco-based filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award for his debut documentary, “The Death of Kevin Carter,” was captivated by the case and, in particular, one of the soldiers under arrest: Adam Winfield, who was described by the Army as both a whistle-blower and a murderer.

“I wondered how he could be both of those things,” Krauss recalled in an interview with Yahoo News. His quest to answer that question is the basis of his latest film, “The Kill Team,” which is playing at Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week and premieres at the San Francisco Film Festival on Friday.

Winfield, an Army specialist who was just 20 at the time of the crimes, had tried to warn the military about the killing spree by telling his father, Chris, a retired Marine, who then tried to alert authorities. But Army officials told Chris Winfield they could do something only if Adam were to report the crimes to a superior in the field.

The only problem: Winfield’s squad leader was the ringleader of the murders. When fellow soldiers in the platoon began to sense that Winfield was about to rat them out, they threatened to kill him, too.

Scared, Winfield was pressured to run with the crowd, and in May 2010, he was implicated in the murder of an unarmed Afghan man. The killings were discovered after another soldier complained about drug use in the unit, and in June 2010, Winfield and four other soldiers were back at Fort Lewis in Tacoma, Wash.—imprisoned and charged with heinous war crimes.

Krauss wanted to get access to Winfield and the other accused soldiers, but since they were in confinement, he knew he was unlikely to get to them “through conventional media channels” with the military, he said. So he approached Eric Montalvo, Winfield’s attorney, who told Krauss he needed someone to help film a 10-minute video of Winfield and his family for the military court.

Krauss volunteered—with the condition that he would have editorial control over the footage and, if the family agreed, he could continue filming for an eventual movie.

The result is an unprecedented inside look at the military justice system and the soldiers caught up in the case—many of whom speak about the killings for the first time on camera.

Much of the film takes place inside a tiny conference room at Fort Lewis where Winfield worked with his parents on his defense—and where Montalvo, at one point in the film, warns them against speaking outside of “this zone” about the case because they are potential enemies to Winfield's quest to be cleared.

“You don’t talk to anybody,” the attorney warns.

But Krauss is right there, filming Winfield and his parents in their most vulnerable moments—from the soldier’s psychiatric evaluation to the family’s debates over whether he should take a plea deal in the case, even though they believe, in their words, that he’s being used as “a pawn” by Army officials who want to resolve the case quickly.

“I would have never in a million years imagined that I’d be going to jail,” Winfield says in the opening moments of the film. His parents openly worry their son will commit suicide.

Krauss also interviews some of the other soldiers involved, who not only corroborate Winfield’s claim that they threatened to kill him but openly discuss the murders they committed, speaking about them in such a casual way that it’s likely to be disturbing and depressing to some viewers.

Discussing how he and another officer killed an unarmed 15-year-old Afghan boy, Andrew Holmes, a private first class who was 19 at the time of the killings, says, “Man, we straight up murdered that dude.”

Another soldier, Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, who was 21 at the time, matter-of-factly admits why he and others decided to “get some kills,” as he puts it: They were bored.

After months of training for heavy combat, platoon members were dropped into an area of rural Afghanistan where they saw little fighting and instead were instructed to help local Afghans drill wells, construct schools and perform other nation-building efforts that many had not been trained to do. War, Morlock says at one point in the film, “was nothing like people hyped it to be.”


Krauss told Yahoo News that many of the soldiers expressed a sense of betrayal.

"They had been promised an experience, they had been trained in the application of force, and the training, the culture, did not match with the experience. ... It was about hearts and minds, and they were there to kick ass and defend America and defeat terrorism. And that's what they had grown up thinking the military was about, and that was the culture they had trained for and wanted."

The turning point for the platoon came when the sergeant in charge was severely wounded in a roadside bomb attack—only worsening the low morale, especially among the younger soldiers.

His replacement was Calvin Gibbs, a 25-year-old staff sergeant, who allegedly began bragging about murders he had gotten away during an earlier stint in Iraq. According to Winfield and others, Gibbs said he shot people and then planted weapons like grenades that he had obtained “off the books” on his victims.

Gibbs then took fingers as trophies—with the ultimate goal of making a “bone necklace.” (Gibbs, who declined Krauss’s interview requests, has maintained his innocence, insisting he shot only when he was fired upon. He is serving a life sentence for his role in the murders.)

Eventually, Morlock and others joined Gibbs on a killing spree. In the film, Morlock says he felt little guilt, telling the camera that he “buried it, just ... powered through it" before killing again.

Now in prison, he explains how he views his role in the killings: "It’s not that you’re a murderer. It’s that you were convicted of murder."

But Winfield was horrified by what he was seeing, telling his father at the time that he was mystified at why no one else thought this was wrong. Krauss’s film centers around that moral dilemma Winfield faced—especially in May 2010, when the soldiers decided to kill an Afghan man in Winfield’s presence.

As Winfield says in the film, his choice was, “Should I do the right thing and put myself in danger, or should I just shut up and deal with it?”

He chose the latter—which ultimately earned him a sentence of three years in prison and a bad conduct discharge. He was released from prison in August 2012.

In an interview, Krauss says the film is meant to cast a light on how young people are sent into war with little preparation for the emotional choices they will have to make.

“Some of these kids were literally teenagers,” Krauss said. “I wanted to examine the idea that we are sending very young people into situations where they have to make decisions, sometimes instantly, about incredibly complex situations where you face moral questions that would be difficult for anyone, much less for someone who is 18, 19 or 20."

In spite of the subject matter, Krauss’s film does not have an explicit anti-war sentiment—and in fact, he says, he left footage on the cutting room floor in order to keep the movie from coming across as overtly political. But he acknowledged it will be hard for some to watch without coming away with a sense of alarm about the horrors of war, especially as one soldier says that killings like this happen all the time, “We’re just the ones that got caught.”

“You’re training us from the day we join to the day you’re out to kill. Your job is to kill. … Your job is to kill everything that’s in your way,” Justin Stoner, the soldier whose initial complaint about drug use within the platoon exposed the murders, says in the film. “Well, then why the hell are you pissed off when we do it?”

In the film, Stoner, who was not charged with any crimes, says he never wants to be referred to as a “whistle-blower” in the case.

“It’s worse than what they are being accused of,” says Stoner, who is now a member of the Army Reserve. “If I could go back, I wouldn’t have said anything.”

Krauss’s film doesn’t cast Winfield as a hero or a saint, but does convey his anguish over doing nothing to protect the Afghan man he saw murdered, or the other victims of "the Kill Team."

Krauss said his goal was to give the soldiers involved a chance to tell their side of the story "without political or moral judgment."

"This is a film about morality in the context of war," Krauss said. "I am hoping that people who watch the film come away with a deeper understanding of what the young men and women we send to war are confronted with."

 

 

 

 

The enduring impact of Iraq Veterans Against the War

Published on Jan 24, 2015

While running errands yesterday, this guy recognized me from a very old video
and wanted to share how it changed his life.

 

 

 

 

Published on Apr 22, 2015

After the CIA recruits a 15 year old girl to lie to congress about baby killers from Iraq, celebrities across the U.S. rally for war. Meanwhile CNN launches a collection of fake news broadcasts and Whitney Houston wows the nation with her Super Bowl performance of the National Anthem.

 

Globalist Wars Killed Over 2 Million People in Last Decade
Propaganda has hidden toll from the American people

 

by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | March 26, 2015

 

U.S. wars initiated at the behest of a global financial elite killed more than 2,000,000 people, according to a report published by Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Body Count: Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” summarizes:
The investigation produced results seriously at odds with what the government and its corporate media have reported.

This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war zones such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.

The average American, the report notes, is a victim of a massive propaganda campaign designed to propagate lies about these undeclared an illegal wars.

“A poll carried out by the Associated Press (AP) two years ago found that, on average, US citizens believe that only 9,900 Iraqis were killed during the occupation,” the reports reads.

Physicians for Social Responsibility places the blame for this on the corporate media. The NGO, however, does not indicate why the government and the establishment media deliberately downplay the death and destruction inflicted by the Bush and Obama administrations, although they say the current “state of affairs could be very different if the public were made aware that the actual number is likely to be more than a hundred times higher” than the numbers reported by The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox, et al.

“The report is sure to fuel outrage over one of the most controversial wars in US history, one in which ‘the original pretexts for going to war quickly turned out to be spurious, and from then on only the ‘liberation of the country from a violent dictatorship’ and the “democratization” and “stabilization” of Iraq remained as justification for the war and occupation,’” reports Sputnik, a news agency owned by the Russian government.

It may fuel outrage in Europe and Russia, where the media covers studies indicting the U.S. government and its foreign policy, but is unlikely to do likewise in the United States.

Growing Support in U.S. For Unlimited War

In February the Pew Research Center reported growing support for the ISIS war. “The public has grown more supportive of the U.S. fight against ISIS, as about twice as many approve (63%) as disapprove (30%) of the military campaign against the Islamic militant group in Iraq and Syria. Last October, 57% approved and 33% disapproved,” Pew reported.

Earlier this month a Quinnipiac poll showed American voters strongly in support of sending ground troops to battle ISIS by more than a 2-to-1 margin.

In February a proposed a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force was left deliberately undefined “because we believe it’s important that there aren’t overly burdensome constraints that are placed on the commander in chief,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

Critics interpret this to mean the executive branch of the government wants to expand the reach of the imperial presidency and allow it to wage war against ill-defined enemies anywhere in the world.

Additionally, the administration believes the deliberately ambiguous AUMF will bring lawmakers together in a bipartisan coalition calling for a war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq without restraint, including the use of ground troops.

LINKS:

Pawns On The Chessboard

The War You Don't See

RAND Corporation

C.I.A.

 

 

 

 

War Christianity and the Warfare State by on play.fm

 

 

 

 

 

Published on Apr 22, 2015

Only 6 corporations control what most of you see, hear and read every single day.
Darrin McBreen looks at the history of the CIA propaganda machine and the latest release from WikiLeaks that reveals the Obama Administrations' cozy relationship with Sony Pictures. Are you being manipulated by the mainstream?

 

Related:
THESE 6 CORPORATIONS CONTROL 90% OF THE MEDIA IN AMERICA - http://www.infowars.com/these-6-corpo...

THESE 10 CORPORATIONS CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU BUY - http://www.infowars.com/these-10-corp...

7 THINGS ABOUT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW - http://www.infowars.com/7-things-abou...

WHO RUNS THE WORLD? SOLID PROOF THAT A CORE GROUP OF WEALTHY ELITISTS IS PULLING THE STRINGS - http://www.infowars.com/who-runs-the-...

Central Control of Information and The Death of Journalism - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhlSw...


Help us spread the word about the liberty movement, we're reaching millions help us reach millions more. we all want liberty. Find the free live feed at http://www.infowars.com/watch-alex-jo...

 

 

 



LINK: Pawns On The Chessboard

 

 

 

WAR IS A RACKET

 

 

 

From a Veteran: Why YOU Should NOT Join The Military 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo-SbTNrw5Y

Hrodebert tjern
Published on Sep 14, 2018

My own reasons behind why you should NOT join the military.

My Views do not represent any group and are solely my own from experience and understanding of world events. I no longer serve the Military and I am no longer loyal to my government. I am not a "Pacifist" I merely believe our Young people should not be involved in wars that only benefit a few filthy rotten individuals.

If you like, like - if you dislike, dislike - if you want to see more or have any questions let me know,
if this gets any views i may do more videos.

Most of all thanks for watching and always remember; PEACE IS PATRIOTIC

Links:  Pawns On The Chessboard , MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX , SYRIA , NATO , WE WHO DARE SAY NO TO WAR! , FALSE LEFT/RIGHT PARADIGM , U.S. Military Killing Its Own Troops! , Obama Orders Children Murdered!!

 

 

 

 

"Let's look at the track records, what kind of news source in the U.S. let's say in the past fifteen years, twenty years, has the highest level of disseminating fake news? I'm talking about factual grounds, I'm not talking about sensationalism or embellishment okay. What were the sources for the WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) stories that were sold to the public, marketed on hourly basis, not even hourly on minutely basis to the public?...Mainstream Media: NBC, NPR, CNN, all these sources. And now that we all know it has been established that for example that WMD stories were all fake, they were lies, they were false...can you recall any of these publications Mainstream Media publications: NBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, ever coming and issuing an official formal retraction? Have you heard any of these channels coming and actually apologizing, and saying we disseminated fake news. And we basically got us into the war by manufacturing consent from the public and that caused tens of billions of dollars if not trillions of dollars in terms of dollar costs, and all these lives, you know...People in Iraq and also American Soldiers died. So you're looking at criminal lie in this case, but what kind of consequences those Mainstream Media channels have faced?"

-- Sibel Edmonds --

 

MSM IS GARBAGE!

Sound Clip Features Darrin McBreen
 

LINK : MSM IS GARBAGE

 

 

 

 
...And Beware of ALT-Media

LINK: Beware of Alt-Media

 

 

 






 

 

 

 

The US Military’s Totally Cool Mobile Enlistment Exhibits


 

By Hannah K. Gold, November 17, 2014

For decades, the US military has been using souped-up mobile exhibits to recruit prospective soldiers. In July of this year, the military deployed the latest addition to a fleet that roves the country hoping to win the hearts and minds of American youth. The new vehicle, known as the Extreme Truck, is equipped with two 32-inch gaming stations, a 60-inch flat-screen television, several smaller TVs, and pull-up and push-up platforms. It has its own Facebook page, which, at press time, has been liked 111 times.

According to Mobile Exhibit Company commander Captain Korneliya Waters, who recently talked to Recruiter Journal, the Extreme Truck is "a symbol of independence and power." Her description reminded me of the jacket Nicolas Cage wears in Wild at Heart, which, for him, "represents a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom." Except the Extreme Truck is funded by tax dollars and designed to assist in contractually binding young people to America's wars.

Recruiting vehicles have been around in some form or another since 1936, when the government established the US Army Accessions Support Brigade, the only department of the Army dedicated exclusively to marketing (the MEC falls under its purview). Three years later, the secretary of the Army sent a team of soldiers to operate a high-profile mobile exhibit at the New York World's Fair.

The military expanded its marketing efforts dramatically in the 1970s, when it lost unfettered access to new recruits after the draft was repealed. In 1973, the year the all-volunteer force was instituted, the Army launched its first successful campaign-"Join the People Who've Joined the Army"-with the help of advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Son. In 1991, Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced plans to expand the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps-a program that instructs high school students in basic training skills-to 3,500 units in five years' time. Thanks to anti-recruitment activism, the plan slowed significantly. Today, JROTC units, which are filled with MEC vehicles and exhibits, are about to reach that goal. And as Sam Diener, a visiting professor of peace studies at Clark University, notes, "Both the ROTC and the military recruiting trucks are ways in which youth in the United States are militarized."

By 2013, MEC vehicles drove a collective 600,000 miles to more than 48 states. USAASB operations stopped at more than 1,200 high schools in 2011. "The people who advise the armed forces on marketing are the top advertisers in the profession. And the audience they are seeking are millennials," says Rick Jahnkow, an anti-recruitment activist.

 

The Extreme Truck, a 15,700-pound mobile recruitment vehicle that roams the country dazzling prospective soldiers. Photo courtesy of the US Army

 

Another mobile unit, the STEM experience truck, is plastered with pictures of young people dressed as astronauts and staring intently into microscopes, and is pitched to aspiring engineers and scientists. Once inside, the visitor encounters a depressing scenario: The year is 2032, and there's been an attack on a chemical plant in Eastern Europe. An officer then leads the visitor to a screen, where he or she can choose from a range of tactical counterinsurgency options, including the use of drones. Speaking of which, the MEC currently operates three trucks that contain aerial simulators-the most recent being a UAV, or drone, simulator.

"The STEM truck in particular is used to gain access instead of recruiting a certain kind of student. They try to get cooperation from science teachers and math teachers," Jahnkow told me.

In June 2006, the first of 50 new H3 Hummers hit the road to increase interest in recruiting events. At the time, Sergeant First Class Anthony J. Colarusso told Recruiter Journal, "The H3 is a real 'icebreaker' in itself, so it should allow recruiters the ability to attract bigger crowds, which will allow us to work our magic." In the same issue, United States Recruiting Command director Donald Bartholomew referred to the Hummers as "just another tool in our kit-admittedly a really big one-that will turn heads and get feet moving toward the sound and excitement." That would be the sound of a $9,000 entertainment system that blasts waves of rap and death metal at potential recruits. (Article Continued Below)

DISNEYLAND OF WAR


The U.S. government is manipulating children to think that war and violence is fun and glorious.

Director Chris Smiley and Producer Mike Hanes, an Iraq War combat veteran, challenge the glorification of war and violence in our culture while exposing the propaganda of the Miramar military air show. This air show is one of many outlets where war and violence is given a warm, inviting, and exciting aura. The utter horror and brutality is never understood by so many. Promoting a positive image of war and violence to people, especially children, is extremely dangerous. There is absolutely nothing cool, exciting, or heroic about ripping limbs, burning flesh, or shredding the organs of another human being. We need the public to understand the horrific nature of war and violence to be able to stand firm and vigorously question calls for war.

Please share this video and consider a donation here:https://igg.me/at/gb4-4tJIiWo​

or Venmo: @Chris-Smiley Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/ChrisSmileyMedia

We made this film with no funds and need some help to be able to cover fees at film festivals and public events to be able to share this message.

Originally Published Dec 6, 2016

 

(Article Continued)

The MEC also offers things called "Immersa-Domes," weapons simulators, and various other interactive semis, including one that has the capacity to switch from "game mode" to "classroom mode" so students can watch videos about anti-bullying campaigns and basic training in the same sitting.

Late adolescence is an impressionable age, but the military is after kids who are even younger. If you meet GI Johnny, an inflatable goofy-grinned doll dressed in Army fatigues, and you're young enough to believe you've met a real person, then you are too young to start thinking about enlisting. But that's exactly the age group the Army has gone after lately. Sergeant Laddie Matula, who helped operate GI Johnny at a rodeo in an undisclosed American town, recounted the experience positively to the Recruiter Journal back in 2007, saying, "Parents love to bring up their little kids to meet with Johnny... Teachers take pictures while their kids shake my hand. The kids love it. The little kids are very comfortable with Johnny." Just this past spring, GI Johnny started tweeting-to little fanfare.

The military is not at all coy about its intentions to make as many impressions as possible on the emerging generation of recruits. While the media knocks itself out trying to make sense of what a millennial is, the military already has its sights set on what they call "Generation Edge." In the September/October 2013 issue of Recruiter Journal, Steve Lambert contributed a short op-ed titled "Advertising Update: Know Your Audience: Generation Edge," in which he argues that although millennials are "digital disciples and highly sociable," new recruiting tactics need to be developed now to attract the next generation of cadets. Generation Edge (those born since 1995) are, in his estimation, drawn to messaging that promotes the "three R's": "resilient," "resourceful," "realistic."

 

 

Screens in the STEM experience truck display fictional news coverage of a chemical attack in the year 2032. Photo courtesy of the US Army

 

Some will argue that these marketing schemes pale in comparison to the kinds of career opportunities the armed forces can provide. To demolish this argument you only need to consider the ripe age at which many recruits agree to the life-altering commitment of enlisting, the fact that war is hell, and the high rates of homelessness, unemployment, mental illness, and substance abuse among veterans.

But in the case of the MEC's efforts, another question emerges: one of privacy, consent, and equitable access. Diener says that the idea of giving equal access to the military and anti-recruiting efforts "goes back to the 1980s, when we noticed that the military recruiters were having essentially free access to high schools across the country, so students were getting a very one-sided view of the military."

But the purpose of these vehicles, as stated by the military in its own publications, is to give the military a distinctly unequal edge, by parking at high schools they might not usually have access to, collecting data from students, making impressions, and, ultimately, producing leads on future recruits. USAREC Regulation 601-93, which went into effect in July 1996, outlines the uses of the support unit. The regulation explicitly states that USAREC should "schedule in the primary market whenever possible (i.e., HS and colleges). Priority should go to the hard-to-penetrate schools."

In 2011, USAASB had more than 230,000 visitors, producing approximately 88,000 leads. The leads are gathered and sorted using a system perhaps not ironically named I-ELMO, which stands for Interactive Electronic Leads Management Options. According to Jahnkow, it is commonplace for recruiters to require all students to fill out personal information before participating in the interactive war games. This information is then transmitted into I-ELMO and comes out the other end as thousands of targeted campaigns to potential recruits.

In other words, it would seem that these trucks aren't symbols of independence or power, or any other beliefs. They're well-funded marketing tools that project fantasies custom-made for teens and steer young people onto the warpath, leaving so many unexplored roads in the dust.

 

 

 

 

Games Are Most Effective
Army Recruitment Tool

 

By Alex Wawro, GAMEPRO 

Not only are games like Modern Warfare 2 bringing more new recruits to the Army than any other marketing strategy, they may be training players to thrive in the fast-paced protean environment of modern conflict.

A political column in this morning's Washington Examiner claims video games like America's Army are the most effective recruitment tools of the U.S. Army.
"30 percent of all Americans age 16 to 24 had a more positive impression of the Army because of [America's Army] and, even more amazingly, the game had more impact on recruits than all other forms of Army advertising combined."

Taking advantage of the massive media blitz surrounding the recent Modern Warfare 2 release, military professional and regular contributor to the D.C. Examiner Peter Singer wrote at length about the connection between video games and modern combat. Citing Congressional testimony by U.S. Army personnel claiming that video games are their most effective recruiting tool, Singer also quotes a 2008 MIT study as finding "30 percent of all Americans age 16 to 24 had a more positive impression of the Army because of [America's Army] and, even more amazingly, the game had more impact on recruits than all other forms of Army advertising combined."

Most gamers recognize the hallmarks of a blatant marketing tool in the trappings of America's Army (mandatory registration with an Army website, glorified profiles of current personnel and free recruitment videos) but what's more disturbing is Singer's suggestion that video games are training players to be better warriors. Singer recalls meeting an Air Force Colonel and Predator squadron commander who was continually impressed by the ease new recruits demonstrated in adapting to "the fast-moving, multitasking nature of modern warfare."

Still, the familiar concerns abound about the desensitizing effect of virtual violence. Singer recalls the same commander claiming that "the video game generation is worse at distorting the reality of [war] from the virtual nature. They don't have that sense of what really going on," recalling the cold precision of the AC-130 gunship level "Death from Above" in Call of Duty 4 that may teach gamers how to "compartmentalize" the emotional trauma of combat.

 

 

 


 

 

 Social Engineering & Eugenics

 

(Call of Duty Article @ 21:11 - 37:00)

LINKS:

TOTAL POPULATION CONTROL | Soft Kill Depopulation Prgm. | Slave Mentality | IMF | Wall Street | Abortion Genocide! | BANKS RULE THE WORLD | American Border Debacle | Educational System Dismantlement

 

 

 

 

 

Call of Duty increases risk of Alzheimer's disease

University of Montreal study finds video game players navigate the screen using a key area of the brain

 

By Agency

6:52PM BST 19 May 2015

 

Millions of boys could be at increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other mental illnesses in later life through playing action video games such as Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed, according to new research.

Scientists say players navigate the screen using a key area of the brain called the caudate nucleus, which leads to loss of grey matter in the hippocampus.

Previous studies have shown reduced volume in the hippocampus, which controls memory, learning and emotion, is associated with neurological and psychological disorders including dementia and depression.

The Canadian team said if action gamers have less grey matter, as people who rely on the caudate nucleus normally do, then they may be more prone to mental illness.

In the study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they tested 26 players and 33 non players who wore skull caps recording their brainwaves and eye movements as they negotiated a virtual maze decorated with trees and mountains from which they had to retrieve objects.

It found the players were twice as likely to use their caudate nucleus (80.76%) during navigation rather than the non-gamers (42.42%) who tended to rely on the brain's spatial memory system, the hippocampus.

The caudate nucleus is the brain's reward system and has also been linked with drug and alcohol addiction.

Dr Gregory West, of the University of Montreal, said: "For more than a decade now, research has demonstrated action video game players display more efficient visual attention abilities. Our current study again confirms this notion.

 

 

 

"We, however, also found action video game players use navigation strategies that rely on the caudate nucleus to a much greater degree than non video game players.

"Past research has shown people who rely on caudate nucleus dependent strategies have lower grey matter and functional brain activity in the hippocampus.

"This means people who play a lot of action video games could have reduced hippocampal integrity, which is associated with increased risk for neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease."

The researchers said people across the world now spend three billion hours a week playing video games, and it is estimated the average young person will now have clocked up almost 10,000 hours by the time they are 21. But the effect of intense gaming on the brain are just beginning to emerge.

As past research has promoted video games as having positive effects on attention, it is important for future research to confirm gaming does not harm the hippocampus.

Playtime's over: the rise and rise of professional video-gaming 

The researchers said brain scans will be required to further underline the findings and should investigate the direct effects of specific action video games on the caudate nucleus and the hippocampus.

Previous research has also shown brains of people who regularly play computer games differ from those of infrequent gamers.

A study in teenagers showed the "reward hub", which is involved in addiction, was larger in regular players.

Brain scans showed a larger ventral striatum, which is the hub of the brain's reward system, in regular gamers. Playing computer games has been linked to a range of effects from addiction to improved reasoning.

 

 

 


 

TSA Now Needs
False Flag Event

 

Propagandizing Through Games

 

Modern Warfare 2 - Mission 4 - No Russian

(airport mission)

The controversial mission that I am sure all of you have heard about in the media - the airport mission. We are back with Allen who is acting as an under-cover agent to try and get intelligence on a Russian named Makerov, by attacking a Russian Airport

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TSA Now Needs False Flag Event 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sick Sandy Hook ‘Game’ Lets You Shoot Kids, Then Preaches On Gun Control

Victim’s relative: “It’s absolutely disgusting that somebody thinks this is funny”

 

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Nov 20, 2013

A sick online ‘game’ allows players to slaughter children with an AR-15 in a recreation of the Sandy Hook school shooting of December 2012, before preaching pro gun control messages at them.

Entitled The Slaying of Sandy Hook, the crude and disgusting creation simulates killer Adam Lanza’s actions at the Elementary School, where he murdered 20 children and six teachers last year. It also depicts Lanza killing his own mother at home, and finally committing suicide after his shooting spree.

 

 

During the game play, the sound of gunfire and bullets hitting bodies rings out as stick figure children attempt to run away from the shooter, or fall to the ground in fear. The user is supposed to kill as many as he or she can.

A timer ticks down to zero, representing the arrival of police at the school. The game is then over as the Lanza figure shoots himself.

Players are then shown a kill ratio screen detailing how many people were murdered and wounded, and how many managed to survive by either hiding or playing dead. The numbers are then compared to the actual body count at Sandy Hook.

 

 

Next, users are encouraged to play the game in “gun control mode”, and challenged to kill as many as they can using a sword instead of a gun.

Several sarcastic messages appear as the mode depicts a locked gun safe (which many responsible gun owners have anyway) meaning that the Lanza character cannot access the firearms.

 

 

As the credits role at the end of the game, there are several links to pro gun control websites and to elected representatives’ contact details. The creator of the nauseating piece, an Australian named Ryan Jake Lambourn, has stated via his twitter account that the purpose is to cause outrage and spread a pro gun control message.

A relative of a teacher who died protecting children from gunfire at Sandy Hook is outraged at the sick creation.

“It’s absolutely disgusting that somebody thinks this is funny,” Donna Soto told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers Tuesday.

“We’re all suffering. All the families are suffering. We’re coming up on December. My daughter’s birthday just passed.” added Soto, whose daughter received a posthumous Presidential Citizens Medal for shielding students from Lanza.

It just adds insult to the suffering that we’re dealing with. It’s just incomprehensible that someone would think this kind of thing is wanted.” she added.

Meanwhile, Lambourn seems to be proud of the game and the fact that he has managed to appall everyone:

 

Following media coverage, some websites have taken down the ‘game’, yet it is still to be found on other online gaming sites.

—————————————————————-

Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

This article was posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 11:59 am

Tags: ,

 

 

 

 

 

Syrian Girl: NWO Hijacking Video Games to Socially Control Youth

 

Published on Oct 4, 2014

Paul Joseph Watson talks to Syrian Girl about the news and covers #GamerGate and what this actually means. Paul then takes calls for Syrian Girl. https://twitter.com/Partisangirl
https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianGi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45H25...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/...
http://www.infowars.com/young-isis-re...



 

 

 

 

 

The Truth About #Gamergate With Syrian Girl

Published on Apr 10, 2015

What is Gamergate and why does it matter?

Syrian Girl lifts the lid on the scandal that has rocked the gaming world - how the video games industry - the biggest entertainment media on the planet - is being infiltrated and subverted to re-educate the next generation.

http://infowars.com

Syrian Girl's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SyrianGi...

 

 

 

 



 

***COMING SOON***

Propagandizing Through Books, Magazines, Movies, Technology, and TV.

Captain America and The Police State

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- Harriet Tubman --

 

"I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more,
if only they knew they were slaves."

 

Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently
on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures.

"A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.”

- Aldous Huxley -

LINK: Bread and Circus

 

 

 

 

 

REACH OUT TO OTHERS

[Help Educate Family And Friends With This Page And The Links Below]

 

 


 

MORE:

Propaganda History | Slave Mentality | Subverting The Public | Media Controllers | Media Controllers2 | Media Controllers3

 

 

MORE:

DRONES | Obama Orders Children Murdered!! | International Monetary Fund | Food Crisis | Posse Comitatus Act | Martial Law Rise of The Police State |

These 12 Hellholes Are Examples Of What The Rest Of America Will Look Like Soon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

look into it videos


 

 

 

 







  

 

invisible empire

 

 

hollerith dvd

 

 

obama deception

  

Aaron Russo 

 

Terror Storm final cut 

 

  

police state 4

    

blueprint of madmen

 

endgame

 

documentaries