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Hint No. 15 - Media & Propaganda - Part 1

by Michael Winkler
sent on September 3, 2002

 

Some time ago I adverted to the telecast of the public channel ZDF “The day which changed the world – The faint of the mighty on September 11th(Link:  http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/einzelsendung/0,1970,2036883,00.html). The high water of the river Elbe was then responsible for the missing short (own) summary. Well, to cut a long story short – that telecast was simply ridiculous. But it made the condition of the official media clear – stagnation. They showed pictures of “September 11th” and the reactions of some statesmen on that day – they “recalled” their memories. Joschka Fischer, Peter Struck, BND head August Hanning, Shimon Perez and some others whose names I have already forgotten unfortunately (actually they could have asked Paul Müller from Buxtehude – same effects & results J) – they all remembered their faint. I believe, they are still faint. Anyway, the ZDF even indulged to make this telecast to a “critical reflection” by granting the Secretary General of the Arabic League Amr Moussa almost one (!) of 45 minutes of the telecast. He asked the very legitimate question how all that could happen at all. HOW COULD THE AIRPLANES COME THAT FAR??? Cut: the next scene showed then – for the fifth time – the airplane crashing into the WTC South Tower – or was it the North Tower?! At that moment you had already forgotten about the question of the Secretary General. What a faint! And how contagious this faint was. One was more fainted than the one before and that collective coma got almost boring if there hadn’t come a bit cheer into that “Punch and Judy Show”. Mrs. Condoleezza Rice - Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs!!! Wow, what a woman! I didn’t know whether she was about bursting into tears or dying of laughter every next second when describing the occurring of September 11th. Why? Well, the situation was the following. For the forth airplane, which came down somewhere in Pennsylvania then, President Bush had given the order to shoot it down in case it wouldn’t land. Some original parts (in Italics) of the ZDF- Online-Version (http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/0,1872,2009487,00.html - in German only):
„Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: ‚The President gave the order, a dreadful order, to shoot the plane down if it won’t land.’”
The plane is heading on Washington, Cheney is refreshing resp. confirming the order to shoot it down. Then, approximately 60 miles far from Washington, the plane is disappearing from the radar screen.
„Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs: ‚It was an atrocious moment, after the crash, when we asked ourselves, if the plane was really shot down by an American hand. We really sighed with relief when we came to know that it was a prowess of the passengers which brought the plane down. They didn’t allow to kill even more Americans.’”
The ZDF- Online-Version continues:
„Until today there are doubts about this version. But the order to shoot at an American passenger plane shows, that the superpower was with its back against the wall, being at the mercy of the terrorists.
The time in which the world believed, that there was no global threat, was over at this moment. And the answer of the US government to this is war.”  
 

Two questions to Mrs. Rice: “If the plane wasn’t shot down, why could parts of the airplane be found miles away from each other?”, “When will you give the order to Hollywood to shoot a movie about the heroic behaviour of the passengers killed on flight 93?”
Two questions to the ZDF: “What doubts do you mean?”, “Why do you go back to the old stories after a sentence which expressed slight doubts?”
Two questions to both: “Do you really believe, that all human beings believe such stupidities?”, “Do you believe indeed, that there won’t be any revenge of the public and people who listened to you for dishing up such fairy-tales and absurdities?”

In the end I found the telecast really amusing. A good thing was that I finally understood the 2 year old ZDF slogan “On the second you can see better” (ZDF means “Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen” – Second German Television). Now I know why all the celebrities, who were chartered for that campaign, had to cover one of their eyes. Most probably they were/are blind on the other one. 

Since I came across the topics “Pearl Harbor” & „Cinema“ within the last e-mails, I would like to affiliate at that point. It is getting interesting if you believe sources which say that the USA had already known a lots of details long time before the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) – there are hundreds of links in the WWW – I didn’t want to favour one in particular. Even the German journal GEO (Volume 5/2000 was it, I believe – a search in the GEO-online-machine was unsuccessful – in May I could still find that page) covered this topic. America wanted to go for war and in fact, Japan was just a beginning. The final destination was Europe. There the Americans have operated excellently for the past 50 years – politically, economically and “culturally”. Japan could also be used as an exercising and testing area for the new nuclear technique. Today, 57 years later, “experts” even talk about a possible nuclear preventive stroke. And at the latest the word “preventive stroke” should even alarm the last of us, that this is anything else than a prosperous perspective for the entire human mankind. Therefore the speech of US Vice President Richard Cheney to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Nashville on August 26, 2002 (Link: http://www.useu.be/Categories/GlobalAffairs/Aug2602CheneyIraqThreat.html) was not that surprising.

This July a cutup of the new John Woo movie “Windtalkers” (starring Nicolas Cage) caught my eyes – two Navajo Red Indians working as operators in World War II and therefore as a secret weapon against the Japanese. The July edition of the Dresden Cinema Calendar writes to that – literally! (okay, at least literally translated J): “… In the year 1942 the American Navy recruited therefore hundreds of Navajo Red Indians for the Signal Corps and used their native language for the operating. A code which simply couldn’t be cracked by the Japanese. This helped the Americans to win the war. So to speak the last weapon before the nuclear bomb which finished the war finally …”

I summarise: The American Natives, who where have been ejected from their homeland for centuries and whose traditions are almost annihilated (because the dream for freedom of the “American people” wanted and needed that to do), “may” help the same Americans to fight new enemies. All parties apparently don’t like their jobs that much, but when “lower races” have capabilities which can help the “superior race”, then you can easily become friends for 134 film minutes. Unfortunately one of the Navajo Red Indians has to get killed by Nicolas Cage – the mission makes it necessary; according to the motto of the American war of conquest: “Only a dead Red Indian is a good Red Indian.” But “Life is hard” and also a young American has to get that in his brain as fast as possible. Not within the movie, but at least within the cutup, the “Evil” – the Japanese – may get to know the effects of the nuclear bomb. Summary of the summary: “Perverse distortion of history” (no matter if with or without intention) and the inside of me arising sarcasm resp. cynicism may help temporarily, but they are no solution.

For each Hollywood movie a dozen reasons come to my mind why I decided almost 5 years ago to boycott Hollywood movie if possible. And today I know again what the two Americans (who I have recently met on a street in Dresden) meant when they mentioned the “social experiment”. I am afraid indeed (although I have never been to the USA) that this experiment already became a “fast-selling item”. And its first victims have already bred children.

This experiment and its scions will culminate in a world-wide “Aid and Rescue Mission” called “Globalisation” which will be enforced by military power if necessary. For some of you it shouldn’t be a secret that this so-called “Globalisation” – how nice the idea of “one big coalescent world” may be in our eyes and ears – it’s just a world-wide enforcement of the economical interests of the industrial countries. In case of opposition they call it then “War on Terrorism” in the name of “Infinite justice”. And villains you can find all over the world. And if there isn’t any, you pay one for playing it. At first they came to Europe, then to the Near East and now the whole world. The sky is the limit! If the small people on Mars already know that they will come next? J

But seriously ... I can understand everyone who imputes Anti-Americanism and scary stories on me. Anyhow, in fact this has nothing to do with that at all. Americans, who really love America, realised long ago that their country is collapsing. And if Europe won’t learn to swim alone as well then we will follow this collapse faster than we could ever imagine.

Have a nice, sunny day. Yours, Michael. 

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