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MediaLens, July 6th, 2005.
"The best relationship with our viewers is no longer one of parent-child but of consenting adults trying to piece together the best picture of the world." (Roger Mosey, head of BBC TV news)
"A good case can be made that propaganda is a more important means of social control in open societies like the United States than in closed societies like the late Soviet Union... This system of thought control is not centrally managed... It operates mainly by individual (…)

More terrorist attacks. More people dead and dying and hurting — this time in London. Damn the terrorists! Damn the Al Queda ! Damn the Islamofascists!
I grieve for those in London who have been affected by this trajedy, and yet, is all really as it seems? Is this just another act of terror?
But why create terror just to create terror? Historically, terrorists engage in their chosen venue as a means to an end. Terror creates fear, fear results in either concessions (stopping actions the (…)

Even British reaction to the London bombing is racist and hypocritical. Our leaders and the media are trying to fool the public by treating them ’special’ and some kind of superior beings. When Blair says our ’way of life and our values’ he is actually inciting hatred and division. We all are Londoners, we live in Britain and we like it. But many of us disagree with Blair and his talk of ’our way of life’. In fact it is Blair who took Britain to unprovoked wars. A majority of British public (…)

"We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been washed with many waters. We have learned the arts of dissimulation and ambiguous speech. Through experience we have become distrustful toward people and often owe them truth and the free word. We are worn-out or perhaps even cynical through the unbearable conflicts. Are we still needed? We will need plain, simple, direct people, not geniuses, cynics, misanthropes or clever tacticians. Will our inner power of resistance against what (…)

Michael P. Wright Norman, Oklahoma July 11, 2005
[Links to documents which substantiate this article are below the text.]
Former CIA director George Tenet has publicly accused Time magazine of making a false report about the agency’s conduct shortly before the 9/11 attack. The accusation was made during a speech at the University of Oklahoma on March 8, 2005. According to Time, in August 2001 the CIA had misinformed the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui, who was later indicted and accused of (…)

Birmingham city centre was closed down Saturday night, and 20,000 people were evacuated for 10 hours. West Midlands Police put up an exclusion cordon around the A38 inner-city ring road, blocking off the city’s Broad Street entertainment district and the city’s Chinese quarter, an area full of pubs, theatres, restaurants, flats and hotels. Four controlled explosions were carried out on a bus on Corporation Street, but officers say the item destroyed had not posed a threat.
Birmingham city (…)

"Special interest groups" is a phrase that conservative pundits use to describe various advocacy groups that, when added all together, constitute the majority of Americans.
Though it may be unintentional, it’s a classic example of divide-and-conquer.
African-American advocacy groups? No, special interest groups, coded language that really means "those minorities are trying to impose their narrow and selfish agenda on the majority, which is obviously wrong because in a democracy, majority (…)

The three British party leaders Blair, Howard and now Kennedy have all said that the London bombings have no connection with Iraq and that ’’they want to destroy our way of life’’.
This, and the immediate statement by Blair returning prematurely from G8 were parrotting Bush.
Pre scripted, with us/without us, childish Texan rhetoric.
He has now gone on to say to people who link the bombings to Iraq, that this can’t be the case as 9/11 happened before Iraq. What he means is before the (…)

The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted on one of the dozens of Islamic websites that are routinely monitored by western intelligence services.
The statement, under the name of the Secret Organisation of the al-Qaida Jihad in Europe, said: "The heroic mujahideen have carried out a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern and western quarters."
It was posted on an Arabic website, (…)

Benjamin Franklin said “The only two things in life that are certain are death and taxes.” There is a third certainty for the American people that is sure as the sun rising or any law of nature. In the future any day that the war and occupation of Iraq continues you can say with certainty “It only gets worse from here.” There is no getting around the basic fact. The Iraq War was plotted and hatched with lies and deceptions, so it is evil in nature. As long as Americans go along with the war (…)