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BEWARE: The Documentary Deception, Fiction Presented as Fact to Deceive and Mislead
‘All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.’ ~ Upton Sinclair
When we watch a documentary film I imagine most of us suppose it to be portraying factual information, not fiction. That, after all, is what would differentiate a documentary from other genres like drama or entertainment.
With this assumption in mind I have often wondered how broadcasters, filmmakers, festivals and prizegivers could be screening and celebrating ‘documentaries’ that purvey demonstrable untruths.
As luck would have it, with the International Film Festival being in town here in Edinburgh just now, I was able to get my answer from an industry expert.
It goes like this. When a company/organisation is pitched a documentary they don’t see it as their business to be acting as arbiters of truth. If the thing has good production values and they believe the public would have a real interest in seeing it, then they’ll consider it eligible for support. My expert gave an example: we can suppose that there are scores of biographies of a famous figure like President Kennedy, and that each one has a particular take on its subject; we can readily imagine that the different authors may consider others to be plain wrong in various particulars. These disagreements wouldn’t be the business of someone commissioning or showing the film to pronounce on.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on JUNE 24, 2017.
Scientists Now Claim They Can Erase Memories and Implant Fake Ones
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New Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Think Russia Probes Are “A Distraction”
Last month, we reported on a poll showing most Americans don’t want to see President Donald Trump impeached. Today, a new poll released exclusively to the Hill shows that most Americans feel the investigations into alleged collusion between Russian officials and the Trump campaign are a distraction.
The poll found that 64% of Americans believe the investigations are hurting the country, and a whopping 73% believe that the focus on Russia is distracting Congress from important issues like health care and tax reform.
Here’s the Hill:
A majority of voters believe the Russia investigations are damaging to the country and are eager to see Congress shift its focus to healthcare, terrorism, national security, the economy and jobs.
Those are the findings of the latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey, provided exclusively to The Hill, which paints a complicated picture of voters’ opinions about the numerous probes that have engulfed the White House.
Sixty-four percent of voters said the investigations into President Trump and Russia are hurting the country. Fifty-six percent of voters said it’s time for Congress and the media to move on to other issues, compared to 44 percent who said the focus should stay on Russia.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 24, 2017.
Preparing For War? US House Wants To Create First New Military Branch Since 1947
Via TheAntiMedia.org,
There’s currently a push in the halls of Washington D. C., to establish a new branch of the military by 2019, one whose focus would be operations among the stars. Proposed legislation by House representatives would create a ‘Space Corps’ that would serve ‘as a separate military service within the Department of the Air Force.’
It would be the first branch added to the military since 1947 when the Air Force was officially established.
On Tuesday, the top two lawmakers of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, Representatives Mike Rogers and Jim Cooper, added the legislation to the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The subcommittee oversees military space operations and works within the umbrella of the House Armed Services Committee.
‘There is bipartisan acknowledgement that the strategic advantages we derive from our national security space systems are eroding,’ Rogers and Cooper said in a joint statement. ‘We are convinced that the Department of Defense is unable to take the measures necessary to address these challenges effectively and decisively, or even recognize the nature and scale of its problems.’
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 24, 2017.
How The FBI Become Irrelevant
It just happened folks.
The FBI has apparently declared that the Scalise shooting (at the baseball park) was spontaneous and not premeditated.
This, despite the fact that they found multiple pictures of the ball field in his possession.
They have also declared that he had no particular target in mind.
This, despite the fact that he had a list of Congresspeople on him at the time he committed the offense.
They have further declared that they have no particular motive either.
This, despite the reported fact that he asked one of the people there whether it was Republicans or Democrats practicing, and only after hearing it was Republicans did he go retrieve his guns and start shooting.
Oh, and this “random”, “no known motive” nutbag (at least the last word is accurate) traveled the better part of 1,000 miles in a van from Illinois to Washington DC, rented a storage locker in which he deposited a nice big cache of rounds for his weapons, and then did all of the above.
This post was published at Market-Ticker on 2017-06-24.
Angry Dems Turn On Obama, Pelosi, Schumer: “Talk Less About Russia”
It’s been a rough week for the legacy of the Obama administration. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee launched a Democrat-endorsed probe into former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s conduct during the campaign – when it’s widely believed she colluded with the Clinton’s to ‘soften’ the FBI’s probe into Hillary’s mishandling of classified information. Earlier, sure-thing Democratic neophyte Jon Ossoff lost a special election in Georgia that he was supposedly guaranteed to win, leading America’s least – preferred party of overly brazen corporatists to an embarrassing 5-0 defeat, and stoking calls for Nancy Pelosi – the Dem’s longtime leader in Congress – to step aside.
And as if all that wasn’t enough, revelations that Russian hackers targeted voting systems in 21 states – and the Obama administration did nothing about it – have inspired the president’s fellow Democrats to turn on their once-revered leader.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 24, 2017.
The New Cold War: A Chilling Prospect for the World
21st Century Wire says…
‘There is one curious thing…the Presidents of your country [US] change…but the policy…doesnt change, on matters of principle.’ ~ President Putin
NATO’s justification lies in its ability to find or create an enemy, Putin told legendary film maker, Oliver Stone. No other ‘enemy’ has served NATO and the military industrial complex as well as Russia and the ‘Cold War’. The re-emergence of the cold war construct has reached almost unprecedented levels with western media & governments bearing down on historic prejudices with renewed vigour. The new ‘cold war’ is a chilling prospect for the world if it is allowed to mushroom into something more deadly.
This post was published at 21st Century Wire on JUNE 24, 2017.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo: Trump’s “An Avid Consumer” Of Intel, Will “Punish Leakers”
In his first interview since becoming the head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo pushed back against accusations that President Donald Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, claiming that the president is ‘very interested’ in what’s happening at the intelligence communities and that his daily in-person briefings with the president typically run longer than their allotted time.
Pompeo tells MSNBC that Trump is a demanding boss who asks ‘great questions’ and is trying to enable the CIA to take a more active ‘operational’ role in countering threats posed by the US’s enemies.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 24, 2017.
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