Watch, listen and shiver: someone is actually trying to make you believe the quality of life is great in Irak.
The British Lancet Journal concluded that over 600,000 Iraqis have been killed since the US invaded Irak. For the raw, hard-hitting and chilling facts you may want to read .
It s an utter disgrace that CNN is broadcasting the spin/propaganda as shown in the YouTube video above.
After a sweeping defeat in the recent US mid-term elections, conservative America is hitting back in a relentless ongoing effort to induce fear in the hearts of all American citizens. If you re living in the States, CNN (America, we get a slightly more moderate CNN Europe from London) will be airing on Wednesday Nov 15 at 7 PM, presented by right-wing hawk Glenn Back, a close friend of G.
W. Bush and well known conservative hate merchant. If you re not familiar with the propaganda/tabloid TV Glenn Back is known for, just take a took at or the rather disgusting trailer-with-child in this
But the mainstream US media keep on pushing the same message, over and over again: you re in danger, be afraid, accept the loss of your constitutional rights for your own safety .
Related: from the AP newswire, Nov 14, 2006: US: Immigrants may be held indefinitely:
Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees. In court documents filed with the 4th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., the Justice Department said a new anti-terrorism law being used to hold detainees in Guantanamo Bay also applies to foreigners captured and held in the United States.
In plain English this means that if the Bush admin doesn t like your face or opinion as a foreigner, they can simply suspect you of terrorism and hold you indefinitely in jail.
No wonder Europeans are entirely avoiding the US as a vacation destination.
( an encyclopedia collaboratively written by many of its readers. It uses a special type of website, called a wiki, that makes collaboration easy.
Lots of people are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes an hour, all of which are recorded on article histories and recent changes. Inappropriate changes are usually removed quickly, and repeat offenders can be blocked from editing.)
However, did you know that the US Bush administration is editing Wikipedia s content, from PCs connected to the US State Government?
I like to peek at the sort of Wiki edits that my colleagues at State engage themselves in when they have nothing better to do. Here s how you can do it, too:
1. Everyone who works at a US embassy or consulate abroad reaches the Internet through their intranet which then, in turn, reaches the Internet as either sherman.
state.gov or clayton.state.
gov
2. Wiki edits made by sherman.state.
gov users
3. Wiki edits made by clayton.state.
gov users (IP 169.252.4.
21)
4. This only shows what they do when they are at work. You can t see what they do when they are at home and use private ISPs.
The problem are the edits made by US State government personnel from their home computers.
When someone recently linked to my not-so-kind posting in an Wiki article regarding the movie Death of a President on Wikipedia, a presumed US state government employee removed the link to my blog in the original Wikipedia article
The Wikipedia Encyclopedia has 5 pillars as a main foundation. One of them is very clear:
Wikipedia has a neutral point of view, which means we strive for articles that advocate no single point of view.
Sometimes this requires representing multiple points of view; presenting each point of view accurately; providing context for any given point of view, so that readers understand whose view the point represents; and presenting no one point of view as the truth or the best view . It means citing verifiable, authoritative sources whenever possible, especially on controversial topics. When a conflict arises as to which version is the most neutral, declare a cool-down period and tag the article as disputed; hammer out details on the talk page and follow dispute resolution.
By using Government PC s (or by using government personnel on neutral IP s) to edit content the Bush administration just doesn t like, I feel that the US government is using Wikipedia as a tool in their spin war. Often subtle, but very visible (see US government IP edits above).
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