Freedom Propaganda
The instantly popular video “Collateral Murder” outputted by WikiLeaks has become the hottest news item on the Internet. This release exemplifies McLuhan’s idea of the Information War. Though it is critical that videos like “Collateral Murder” make it into the public sphere, observers must look upon situations from a distance in order to see all the elements.
Journalism has taken on a new form in which it has become harder to make a distinction between disinformation, fact, and propaganda. In this new era of open-source information, blogging, journalism, and the like intention becomes harder to discern.
The following has been lifted from WikiLeaks homepage:
“WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack…For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com.”
WikiLeaks also has another page online seeking donations and using “Collateral Murder” as the major selling point. The site claims to be a safe-haven for whistleblowers and the like, yet in the Info War all spectacles are suspect and spectators are unwittingly involved.
“Collateral Murder” has made WikiLeaks the most popular alternative media website. It has entered the public arena as an isle of protection. It invites others to submit damning material of any nature to its email address. This material will then be outputted to the public. Ironically, this is supposedly the very purpose and engine of free press itself. The concept that there is one safe spot on the Internet for any information is utter nonsense. Gary McKinnon has proven that no document is safe.
Wayne Madsen called WikiLeaks, “Too good to be true,” on the Alex Jones program. The propaganda engines of News Corp have recently reviled Jones, a veteran alternative-media journalist by placing him in their “Terror” section. Jones has retaliated with classic intellectual gusto.
As with many other sources of information, at this point there is no firm ground to stand on in deducing the intent of the operation at WikiLeaks. “Collateral Murder” as damning and anti-establishment as it is, very well could be the learned slang and mannerisms of a double agent. COINTELPRO at its finest. The jury is still out.
Interestingly, three days prior to “Collateral Murder,” blogger Steve Clemons published an article called “Communications Corruption at the White House,” and if the world press learned the lessons of George W. Bush, Clemons story would be headlined in every major media outlet.
“What I have learned after discussions over the last several days with several journalists who either have regular access to the White House or are part of the White House press corps is that there is a growing sense that access is traded for positive stories -- or perhaps worse, an agreement that things learned will not be reported in the near term.”
Either way, bloggers, free press, documentarians, and the alternative media continue to save the world from utter psychic tyranny.
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RE: Freedom Propaganda: "Common Brutality"
"Common Brutality"
There is no human nature. There is only human behavior indicative to environments. These environments are both physical and psychological. Documents of violence, corruption, exploitation, conflict, vanity, ego, fear, and all worst habits of humanity serve as evidence towards the necessity for an active, determined, and prolonged engagement with our own personal conscious awareness; for there can’t be violence in the world unless there is violence in the mind. We must come to understand that the human world we live in is a perfect reflection of the state of human consciousness.
“Collateral Murder” and all the media surrounding it is an electric snake pit. The opinions and speculations of most, including my own, do not help the matter at hand. Consider the dead. What is their deaths worth to them? Congruently, what is the value of life to the living? We commit violence everyday because we have yet to truly share ourselves with one another and that is because most of us are afraid. We are afraid to look into ourselves. And when we consider that human consciousness is the same reality as the sky, the same reality as the traffic signs, the same reality as the earth, as all life, and all the stars; in that fact all of these seemingly separate things are actually (when you look at, watch it, rather than analyze it) they are all emerging from the same platform. They are all in and of the same platform. So we must come to understand that all of our division, conflicts, violence, our perceived problems and the like are all nothing more than our psychological conditioning. We must then ask ourselves is it worth it to investigate whether or not is it possible to remove these psychological garments.
At the core of these psychological platforms is a deeply powerful reality (consciousness) capable of making decisions out of unconditional love. Out of total connection to the entirety of reality Out of its own deeper self, when met nakedly.
In retrospect I feel these “takes” on “Collateral Murder” obscure the critical document itself. If we truly observed a video like “Collateral Murder,” or a police-car video of one human being beating another, or a picture of a nerve gas bomb in freefall, if we truly observed these things for what they are, any commentary would be irrelevant. For if we were truly observing these kinds of documents we would know that we were observing human consciousness deluded by conditioned psychology. In that the human being committing these acts perceives a false difference between itself and its victim.
Documents of conflict and violence of any sort really have one useful purpose—they encourage introspection. The longer and deeper that introspection, the more likely one is to walk away from a document like “Collateral Murder” a whole, sane, compassionate human being.
For if this video makes any real statement, it is but another disappointing example of humanity’s current limited state of conscious awareness—Its total ignorance of the depth of consciousness and reality (same thing). This unfortunate fact becomes more obvious by the day. I’m reminded of DJ Earworm’s latest “Blame it on the Pop,” and the determination of just a few decades prior that was an undeniable awakening of human consciousness, detriment to outgrow our learned violence, our learned conflict, our learned identity, our learned psychology, our learned pathological behavior.
People are killed. The murders that survive are wounded psycho-spiritually, they are wounding their own consciousness, their own shared reality. And we, the spectators are also hurt. And so, through any means available, attempt to clothe our fearful ignorance within a within the polite, cultural arguments and agreements of a profoundly sick society. We are too afraid to do what’s right. Which is to discover, what is that which feels this fear. Why do I, a corner of reality, allow myself to act out of conditioned fear, our of conditioned belief, out of conditioned identity? How does this stop?
What do you do when the ship is slowly sinking? I feel most are running into the casino for one last kick, or into the verbal hobbies of our favorite whomever, whatever, or into mollycoddling one abstraction after abstraction another, concocted by dulled imaginations and the tales of strangers.
The psychology that is one’s accrued fears, desires, hates, bents, prejudices, beliefs, assumptions, the entire self-“image,” is not the fingerprint we’ve be taught it is. Psychology is clothing; this has been the essence of “spiritual” (sane) persons. One may remove these accoutrements if one is so inclined to greet reality, the multiverse, completely and nakedly. This is the only activity that will end the lengthy, tragic embarrassment of human history.
As long as we assume that there is human nature, a set path of habit and programming that humans must indulge, we will not learn, grow, or survive our own being.Thank you Eliott
THE AWAKENING OF HUMAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEN7KAoaFc4
Alex Jones?
"Wayne Madsen called WikiLeaks, “Too good to be true,” on the Alex Jones program. The propaganda engines of News Corp have recently reviled Jones, a veteran alternative-media journalist by placing him in their “Terror” section. Jones has retaliated with classic intellectual gusto."
As someone who knows Alex Jones, has been on his show, and seen him in action in the 9/11 movement, I am utterly convinced that he is a paid and protected disinformation agent. His work is ridiculous, unsubstantiated, fearmongering. He's extremely well-funded and never once runs afoul of the FCC. And no one just waltzes into Bohemian Grove with a camera and lives to tell about it. He shows all the behavioral characteristics of an agent provocateur, and pretty much hits every item on the disinfo checklist.
Do you know that in 1999, on NYE, he was on the air for hours claiming that Y2K had happened, martial law had been declared and US troops were moving through American cities? Oh yes he did. You can find the recording on the internet.
The bottom line: I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. At the very least, apply hyper-rigorous skepticism, and try not to get caught in the waist high bullshit flowing out of Austin,.
Charles Shaw
Author - Exile Nation
RE:Alex Jones???
Would you mind providing the archives of your time on Mr. Jone's show? Yes Alex definitely fucked up with the Y2K situation. Yet he also successfully predicted 9/11.
Do you have any evidence to substantiate your claims other than your own anecdotal recollections?
Also given that Alex is one of the rare media outlets to inspire people to learn and understand their constitutional rights on a continuing basis, routinely exposes high level government conspiracy in his films and continues to allow a wider spectrum of guests on his show than any mainstream media outlet, wouldn't you say that as a "paid disinformation agent" he would be doing a pretty crappy job for the C.I.A?
I look forward to your response.
-Nano
cargocollective.com/pinkelephantcollective
"An Elephant Never Forgets...."
Carlos
In Eliott's Article:
You said "...at this point there is no firm ground to stand on in deducing the intent of the operation at WikiLeaks."
This may, at first glance, seem to be a disadvantage for those of us who have been convinced that it is the responsibility of others to decide for us what to believe, and what not to believe. Some of us have grown so comfortable with such spoon-feeding that we feel that sense cannot be made of the world without it.
I think that the realization that no one is to be believed; that everyone has an agenda, and that some views of reality are held from a perspective of fear, and other views are held from a perspective of love, is a blessing in disguise.
It's about time that we began to think for ourselves, and if we must be forced to do so out of the sheer chaos of it all, so be it. The firm ground on which we need to learn to stand is the soil from which our root distinctions grow. This strong stance is internally calibrated, self reflective, and intuitively balanced.
well said, Leon.
You're very right Leon. As
RE: In Elliot's Article
Yes and Yes!
My sentiments exactly.
-Nano (The Nano Thermitic Pink Elephant)
cargocollective.com/pinkelephantcollective
"An Elephant Never Forgets...."
When consciousness of separation bleeds into form healing begins
JMT, Great to hear from
JMT,
Great to hear from you!
It’s hard to guess what Campbell would say – outside of perhaps what I mentioned earlier: that the world outside of us is a perfect reflection of our understanding (or lack thereof) of the world inside us (the Greater Consciousness System).
Personally a document like "Collateral Murder" does nothing but make me want to work even harder to help the living curious come upon the SCIENTIFIC nature of consciousness evolution: that being the difference between a high-entropy consciousness (fearful, egoic, etc.) and a low-entropy consciousness (open, love).
PS - JMT I have a few blogs up now that may interest you
http://realitywideweb.tumblr.com
http://educatingearth.tumblr.com
http://typeonecivilization.tumblr.com
http://aprofoundlysicksociety.tumblr.com
White House Access
They demand positive coverage in exchange for more and deeper access to the White House. Thus, the only way to get the dish on what's really going on AND report it to the masses would be to renege on that promise to the White House.
Doing this would destroy the reputation of the journalist in question, but could be worth it if the information was juicy enough. The problem is that the only journalists they let in that close have reputations that they are not willing to sacrifice.
And so the information trap is complete and very little gets out, unless it's leaked like this. The difficulty with this situation is that it should be pretty easy for military intelligence to trace this leak right back to the source, and depose or even imprison the individual who shared it. There just aren't a lot of people who would have had access to this information. The same is true for White House information. If information was leaked, in many cases, there's only a small handful of people who would have known that information in the first place.
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Regarding the main subject of this -- that is whether Wikileaks is too good to be true or not -- no one can ever be sure whose side someone is batting for. You can have more or less trust for people, but when it comes to COINTELPRO or VERSUS type operations, the whole idea is to muddy information so much that you don't know who is on whose side.
I would even argue that Alex Jones, as over the top as he is, could even feasibly be part of that disinformation. However, I don't follow him that much, so I'm not an authority on that. I just know I laughed through much of his Bohemian Grove documentary, because he naively mistook nature worship and pagan ritual for devil worship. But really, I have no idea what kind of a man Alex Jones really is inside. I have never met him, and I wouldn't make a final judgment on that without that level of understanding.
I remember hearing that Wikileaks databases are based in Iceland, a kind of somewhat safe haven for online information. Also notice at the bottom of the website are listed the people who donate to Wikileaks. One of them is the Hearst Corporation, a company that stems from one of the men who specifically used disinformation and yellow journalism to ignite the Spanish-American war. Now they may have changed their tune in the last 100 years, but again, all of this is gross speculation.
If you want to know the truth, look within and be it.
Great retort, Ora!!
Alex Jones
Olllllld Charles Shaw
Interesting to find this link. Charles Shaw in June of 2005, shortly before his prison experience. He was a very different person back in the day.
Take this with not just a grain of a salt, but a small Siberian salt mine...
Good job feeding into
Good job feeding into unfounded paranoia and fear. Yes, we should be skeptical of every information source, but this article doesn't provide any legitimate arguments for why wikileaks should be suspect.
We just CAN'T deduce for sure just WHAT exactly their intentions might be... they COULD be cointelpro... *rollseyes*
Obviously if you are a whistleblower, and your ass is seriously on the line, then you need to take steps to protect yourself when submitting materials to anybody. This means anonymizing your IP address, etc.
This article is a waste and doesn't add anything to the common dialogue about media and freedom of information. If somebody thinks that WikiLeaks isn't actually safe, then THEY can take up the responsibility of creating a non-cointelpro website that performs that function... That's the beauty of the internet!
Fair Thee Well
Admittedly, I was rather hesitant to write this article.
1. My interest is largely in science, technology, and consciousness; not the politics of information. It’s easier to write an article about the latest Hubble data than something like this.
2. This is a videotape of a tragic multiple murder and the tape itself is the only empirical evidence. Everything surrounding it is at this point is speculation, hearsay, opinion, etc—NOT science (provable via experimentation).
3. Hence the lengthy aside, “Common Brutality.” One can look upon Collateral Murder and easily make a statement regarding consciousness, psychological conditioning, and the active violence such programming engenders, but outside of that it’s hard to imagine what else is worth saying.
Regardless of our pettiness about who’s a spy and who isn’t let’s keep in mind that what we see with Collateral Murder is in fact a document of multiple homicide. Our speculations on Wikileaks, Jones, and whomever else we’d like to throw in the mix is going far beyond the point; that point being the obvious necessity for humanity to discover what exists beyond the gross reductions that cultural clothing provides the ignorant.
Given the emotional fervor of some of these comments, I imagine some of you would be better suited for political discourse than I. My reiteration of “could be”, “may” and the like are only there to illustrate our collective naïveté on what is actually going on at the other end of these screens. The Internet has doubtlessly become one of the major battle-grounds of a great information war.
This is why I stick to the big guns of science, math, good data, experimentation, and the like. It's either provable or not. With every passing day, science is becoming ever more inclusive and evolving. To me this makes it far more interesting than our largely stagnant, violent cultures which, are unfortunately only familiar with the worst of science and technology (bigger guns, bigger screens, stronger pills, dogmatic assumptions).
Meditation is a form of science in and of itself. Fringe science has broken exciting new ground into other experiencing independently freestanding realities via conscious awareness, exposed the widespread applicability of indiscriminate compassion, and provided BOTH the psychological platform as well as the technical means by which to save us from the overgrowth of militarism, thoughtless overproduction, and our deeply limiting cultural systems.
For the curious, check out the above links I posted a couple days ago to see what the hell I'm blathering about.
Fair thee well folks.
" I just know I laughed
The big owl? Molech? The
The big owl? Molech? The nature deity who was reviled by the Hebrews in their version of the events in the Bible (see "Gehenna")? Revering "the mother"?
Devil worship my ass. It's WAY older than devil worship and has parallels with the myth of Hunbaba (wild nature = evil) and Gilgamesh (civilized authority figure = good). Anyone who calls that devil worship has a very tenuous grasp on mythology and historical world religions.
I'm not defending the wealthy elites who go to Bohemian Grove, but I really wish people would stop damning nature worship, simply because they believe their God gave them total "dominion." Dominionism is the kind of rhetoric to be expected from conservative, partisan, disinformation voice boxes.
Come on... Really...
David Icke?
Paranoia...
Reading through these replies and keeping the insane reality of VERSUS in mind, it is not hard to come to the realization that WikiLeaks could indeed be a disinformation type of operation. It would easily explain their covert online techniques, offshore databases, etc..
That being said, I donated to them. Whatever way you want cut it, this is Exhibit A in a multiple-murder case. And everyone has to see it. If my name is now on some sort of list, then so be it. They can lock me up for fighting for the truth. I will rest easy when my time comes.
That is worth $10 to me.
nature worship?
the law of nature is cruel, human nature isn't the law of nature