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The CIA and Other Government Agencies Dominate Movies and Television
Rob Kall points out that the military-industrial complex is the winner of the Golden Globe award:
Homeland won best TV series, best TV actor and actress. It IS a highly entertaining show which actually portrays some of the flaws of the MIIC system
Argo won best movie and best director. It glorifies the CIA and Ben Affleck spoke with the highest praise for the CIA.
And best actress went to Jessica Chastain of Zero Dark Thirty, a movie that has been vilified for propagandizing the use of torture.
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The Military Industrial Intelligence Complex is playing a more and more pervasive role in our lives. In the next few years we’ll be seeing movies that focus on the use of drone technology in police and spy work in the USA. We’ve already been seeing movies that show how spies can violate every aspect of our privacy– of the most intimate parts of our lives. By making movies and TV series that celebrate these cancerous extensions of the police state Hollywood and the big studios are normalizing the ideas they present us with– lying to the public, routinely creating fraudulent stories as covers for what’s really going on.
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I was hoping that Zero Dark Thirty would come up without any awards. I was hoping that at least such blatant propaganda promoting the lie that torture works would be repudiated by the Golden Globes. That didn’t happen.
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The truth is we do live in a time when the police have been massively militarized. We don’t need movies or TV shows that celebrate that militarization. We don’t need entertainment that normalizes the obscene violations of our privacy that the intelligence state is inflicting upon us. We need stories that celebrate people who stand up to this seemingly irrepressible tide that is washing away our freedoms, sucking up all our resources and erasing the last bastions of privacy.
David Walsh notes that the real winner of the 2013 Academy Awards is the CIA:
Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s quasi-fascistic glorification of the role played by the CIA in the so-called “war on terror” … was tapped for five awards.
Of course,there is plenty of other war-o-tainment. being peddled by Hollywood.
The military has long had a direct influence on Hollywood. For example, a book published by the University of Texas points out:
The Central Intelligence Agency has been actively engaged in shaping the content of film and television, especially since it established an entertainment industry liaison program in the mid-1990s.
The book laments:
The significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood
Gizmodo reports:
The CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around.
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The Department of Defense and just about every branch of the military has an entertainment industry liaison similar to the CIA’s.
If you want to make a war film and need a fleet of F-22s, a crowd of Marines, or a Navy aircraft carrier, just call up the Department of Defense’s entertainment media office and they’ll tell you if the Army can spare that M1A1 Abrams tank you’ve always wanted for a day or two of filming.
“The scripts we get are only the writer’s idea of how the Department of Defense operates,” Vince Ogilvie, deputy director of the Defense Department’s entertainment liaison office, told Danger Room. “We make sure the Department and facilities and people are portrayed in the most accurate and positive light possible.”
Hollywood has been working with government organizations to make more credible films for years (for instance, Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount Pictures worked closely with the Pentagon when filming the 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun”). But the phenomenon is under newfound scrutiny. There was a bit of a kerfuffle recently when some in the press and in Congress speculated about whether the government will give Sony Pictures any pointers while they make a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
In a letter to the Defense Department and CIA last month, Rep. Peter King expressed outrage at the Pentagon’s relationship with the film’s director, Kathyrn Bigelow. King claimed that she had already been made privy to sensitive information that could put American lives at risk.
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Standard procedure is to review the script, make notes on what the Defense Department would like changed, and kick it back to the producer. If the changes are made, the military will provide whatever help they can – declassified information, equipment, personnel, etc. – for a price.
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Why has the Defense Department recently partnered with 20th Century Fox to make an X-Men/U.S. Army ad or with explosion-enthusiast Michael Bay to make all three Transformers movies? In The Washington Post, David Sirota suggests entertainment like this is “government-subsidized propaganda.”
The Guardian noted in 2001 that this has been happening for a long time:
For the first time in its history, the [CIA] has appointed an official PR liaison with Hollywood: veteran CIA operative Chase Brandon, whose 25-year career was spent defending democracy, it says here, in benighted South American theatres of the cold war.
These days, his brief is to preach a revised CIA gospel to Tinseltown, to overcome the lamentable image the agency acquired during the 1977 Church Congressional Commission on Assassinations, which it has struggled to shake off.
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Other government agencies like the FBI, the Secret Service and the armed services discovered long ago the benefits of lending their cooperation to movies like Silence of the Lambs, In the Line of Fire and Top Gun.
Coming late to the game, the beleaguered CIA now has to overcome 25 years of suspicion – not to mention a grim history of covert assassinations, secret wars, illegal coups d’état, and the damaging revelations of former agents such as Philip Agee or John Stockwell – if it wants to clean up its image. This may be an uphill struggle, as the agency faces criticism for its failure to predict the events of September 11 – but suddenly, perhaps fortuitously, a slew of movies and TV shows about the CIA will be launched this autumn.
Brandon and the agency have approved eye-opening stuff. The Agency is a new CBS drama, full of best-and- brightest types rolling up their sleeves and attacking problems of national security, West Wing-style. Its first episode depicted a CIA attempt to foil an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro. This might surprise anyone remembering the agency’s attempts in the early 1960s to knock off Fidel with exploding cigars, sub-contracted mobsters and chemicals designed to make his beard fall out – to say nothing of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion.
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The company also lent their support to Alias, an action series featuring Jennifer Garner as a grad student-superspy a few degrees
away from La Femme Nikita. The Chris Rock-Anthony Hopkins comedy Bad Company traffics in similar comic-strip depictions of the CIA that Brandon was happy to help.
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Receipt of the CIA’s corporate imprimatur is conditional upon only one thing: a totally sympathetic portrayal of company business.
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It used to be the case that if a movie explicitly condemned CIA actions – such as Under Fire – the studios could be counted on to bury it.
In fact, the CIA first started working with Hollywood in the 1950s:
The CIA has been working with Hollywood since the 1950s.
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The CIA first started working with Hollywood to influence foreign audiences. “Their purpose was essentially to shape foreign policy or to win hearts and minds overseas during the cold war,” she says.
The CIA developed a think tank to fight communist ideology, which negotiated the rights to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” — getting a talking pig on the screen 20 years before “Charlotte’s Web.” Jenkins says the CIA also wanted to promote a certain view of American life, for instance pressing for line changes in 1950s scripts to make black characters more dignified, and white characters more tolerant. This “politically correct” image was intended to promote an attractive image of America to a world picking sides in the Cold War.
Of course, pro-torture productions such as Zero Dark Thirty and the CIA-sponsored tv show 24 are 100% false: the top conservative and liberal interrogation experts say that torture hurts rather than helps national security.
And the CIA’s drone problem creates many more terrorists than it kills.
And the CIA’s other efforts have made us more vulnerable … not safer.
But this is Tinseltown we’re talking about … so no one expects the truth.
Of course, the CIA and other government agencies have long directed the mainstream media as well.
No wonder the mainstream media is always pro-war, and happily trumpets disinformation about supposed enemies to drum up support for new wars. Even after the Iraq WMD propaganda was thoroughly debunked, the old media is at it again
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The marvel is, so many que up clutching their meager dollars vying to buy the latest big screen device so that they might pay enormous cable bills to receive the latest propaganda. It's like paying someone to punch you in the face, over and over.
Thank you Maleducation for producing a preprogrammed society of dunces, who's desire for truth and understanding has been subverted to acquiesence, obiedience and the acquistion of ever more consumer goods to fill the voids in their pysches.
Totally agree with you both!
this is old news. from it's humble beginnings as news reels before movies during ww2 until the 60s and active production of feature length propaganda leading to argo and zed dark thirty hollywod has been used very effectively as a critical tool of .gov.
what is surprising is the movie "argo" not sweeping all the awards for reminding everyone why the obliteration of iran is necessary for the glory of isra....uh, emp...., uhhh good of the world and lasting peace on earth.
did they not want to seem too obvious?
"this is old news."
Yes, sad and true. What is also blatantly true is America's greatest enemy during it's entire history IS THE LAME STREAM MEDIA OCTOPUS!
The sheeple are conditioned to flock to the nightly dribble of propagandist mind control on the drug TV. The addiction becomes about control through dis/mis-information, and lies spewed out to cover-up truth, and real justice from prevailing. To cover up and hide the out right criminality and corruption that is being paid well to self-destruct America for the greater of the one world digital money god glory. Of course, many of you reading this now will be gone before that happens. The modern media system of lies will be the real reason most people never had a clue about what came and went in the night to conquer them. The enemy within IS the lying dying lame stream media propaganda machine.
Another small factoid is now if anyone wants the truth, they have to go to the communist stations to get it. How bad is that America? We have to go to an aggressivly about to go to war with us country to get the truth in the media. Almost every lying propaganda machine of the west is owned by the rottenchild bankster empire of dust. Here presented for educational and prosperity purposes is this video with some interesting things to say. In no way is it supported, or endorsed. It is for propaganda purposes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4DuR4ccUFg&feature=youtu.be
Also, some background.:
http://www.krusch.com/articles/Propaganda101.pdf
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Lay up your treasure well and know, there is no escape from the certain engraved in Stone Laws like Cause and Effect.
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Jeez, and for all these years I thought it was mossad, which ran Hollywood.
Herzliya, Israel is actually the Sister City of Beverly Hills, California.
oops, Duplicate Post.
Along with the movie and tv media belongs the videogames like Call to Duty which many teens become addicted or obsessed.
Violent video games plus perscription drugs for kids.
Video Game industry is also Hollywood.
This!
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php
And this is what they do not want the majority of people to see.
http://www.sandyhookhoax.com/
Check this out from the intel hub.
Now, there was a report fake nuns were seen at the crime. Enlarge the picture of the 2 nuns. One looks like they are carrying a carbine on the left. They both could pass for guys. They have tactical shoes on.
http://theintelhub.com/2013/01/09/evidence-sandy-hook-school-shooting-st...
Read Richard Cottrell's book, GLADIO.
We are in some serious totalitarian shit here, people.
"Violent video games plus perscription drugs for kids."
Deadly combination.
No psychotropic sp(?) drug ban by Obama. No ban on Tarantino's violent whitey hating BS movies or other violent movies or video games. F Hollywood and F TV. Hollywood controls video games now too.
Let's see, The CIA runs the drugs accross the boarder with Planes owned by the TBTF Banksters. Then, TBTF Banksters are insolvent so they prop up their phony balance sheets with the money they launder for The Criminal CIA to fund their BlackOps to destabilize soverign countries and steal their natural resources for the Criminal TBTF Banksters.
With me so far, good. Let's keep playing. So, the Criminal Executive in Cheif, Crimianl DHS Janet Nepalatono, DEA, BATF and DOJ Criminal Eric Holder run guns ala "Fast & Furious" to arm the favorable US Zeta drug cartel to unleash mayheim against the innocent Mexican people and their arch rival Sinoloa drug cartel. Then blame innocent second Amendment right's US Citizens as cover to gun confiscation.
Thanks for playing,
yes that's pretty much it. Don't forget Afghanistan and the fact that as the above ground goes under, the underground grows (and needs to grow) rapidly
don't forget the CIA/UFO connections.
http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/13504/refuse-to-acknowledge-everyt...
Wrong site.
Try imfreakedoutaboutUFO's.com
Up to the minute reporting...
From 70 years ago.
Freddie will be along shortly to clue everybody in, ad nauseum.
Is there really anyone over the age of 6 that does not know that almost all TV and movies are not reality and are designed to elict an emotional response and/or to convey an 'approved message' by a scriptwriter with a little ghost GOV. help?
Number 15?
Nailed him George.
Number 10 Here http://www.proparanoid.net/truth.htm
The press and politicians, both sides, have been glorifying the military for years, hollywood got their tax breaks, you think it was free? Now veterans are the latest special interest group. Think that crop of college graduates are going to have any hope of getting any job against a "veteran" or former government worker when companies get a tax break for hiring one, think again.
It's the race for votes -- and the non-military civilian is going to be outside looking in. Me personally, am sick of seeing "veterans" who never fought once but drove a truck, or those that did but needed every advantage they could get (air support, ship support, fly in and out, etc.) just to hope to win a little battle against those that do not have the same, playing hero to the adoring press and public. Go ahead, idolize them, wait till they figure out they can run the criminal element like those new drug lords in Mexico, and see where it gets you.
A glimpse of light I saw in Skyfall :
BBC News Anchor: Good evening. The controversy surrounding the Ministry of Defense has escalated today as images of the Hussein assassination continued to circulate. We should warn you, some viewers might find these images disturbing. Captain Hussein, an MI6 operative imbedded in the
Middle East was one of the five agents exposed in what is now being considered the greatest internal security breach in modern British history. The Prime Minister continues to express public support for MI6 while the opposition has taken the position...
[Mallory turns the TV off and looks at M]
Gareth Mallory: ...has taken the position we're a bunch of antiquated bloody idiots fighting a war we don't understand and can't possibly win.
what will the next James Bond be like? will he notice he's fighting deamons that he created?
"A glimpse of light I saw in Skyfall :BBC News Anchor:Good evening. The controversy surrounding the Ministry of Defense has escalated today as images of the Hussein assassination continued to circulate. We should warn you, some viewers might find these images disturbing. Captain Hussein, an MI6 operative imbedded in theMiddle East was one of the five agents exposed in what is now being considered the greatest internal security breach in modern British history. The Prime Minister continues to express public support for MI6 while the opposition has taken the position...
[Mallory turns the TV off and looks at M]
Gareth Mallory: ...has taken the position we're a bunch of antiquated bloody idiots fighting a war we don't understand and can't possibly win. what will the next James Bond be like? will he notice he's fighting deamons that he created?"
Tis but an atom as to the universe, but in that context, reconsider the murder of princess Diana? MI6 all powerful, no controlling authority, no questions asked ever. Or was she a bit player and still happily alive and enjoying a beautiful life somewhere?
Worst bond ever.
Next double O will be a british black anderson cooper doing double A- a modernized bond.
I agree. Skyfall was monumental shite (except for Adele).
The previous QoS was perhaps a little too genius for its concise Illuminati imagery and corruption insight so they had to bring in the old ladies (Mendes et al...Bond Save the Queen!) to put the proles' noses back into their Soma*
* a stiff upper lip is a side effect of too many pats on the head
Goerbells and Reifenstahl would be proud.
Just wait until they make a movie about those white, wig wearing terrorists who crafted that dastardly Declaration of Independence....
...That is when you will know that Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, and not Eurasia.
Person of Interest win any awards? Pure propaganda. Glorifying the NSA.
The Academy needs a new catagory.
Best propaganda.
The category is implied. All awards are a subcategory of propaganda. ie best actor (in a work of propaganda), best script (for a work of propaganda) etc.
Years ago, an Army major was embedded in the CNN newsroom in Atlanta, Ga....
Heck, they got a full time spook employee named Anderson "Fuck Me In The Ass" Cooper. It's like the fuck'n Matrix. They have Agent Smiths in all instituions. Banking, Finance, Education, Military, Police, Politicians, Ambassadors you name it. What do you think Bengazi was about?
CNN's Anderson Cooper spent summers interning for a career with the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a report at a gossip website.
"Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency's monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work," reports Radar Online.
"His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper's CIA involvement to Radar." See this article. And thanks to Brad Funkhouser for this post.
Of course, if the evil Cooper were one of many CIA assets in the media, he would hardly admit it.
UPDATE from Chris VanLandingham: "According to Wikipedia, after Anderson 'left' the CIA he went to Burma and got involved with dissident students fighting the government there while claiming to be a reporter though having no affiliation with any news outlet. After that he went to Vietnam, Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Nope can't be CIA. He would have told us."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/19025.html
Obama's first job out of college was working for a CIA front company:
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Fathers, Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as “a consulting house to multinational corporations” in New York City, and his functions as a “research assistant” and “financial writer”.
Oddly, Obama doesn’t mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Timesstory of October 30, 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. Equally odd is that the Timesdid not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.10
The British journal, Lobster — which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters — has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji.11 In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons-carrying ships could not make port calls.12 After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington’s nuclear desires, was reinstated to power — R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987.
In his book, not only doesn’t Obama mention his employer’s name; he fails to say exactly when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left — including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)13 — it’s reasonable to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/tag/cia-front-companies/
Christopher Stevens - the gun running ambassador for Ob-MAO and Al Qeada/Mo Bro Hood was CIA and was a boyfriend of Anderson Cooper and probably O.
The poor saps who tried to save him were ex-SEALs and CIA. This is after you know who had Seal team 6 killed.
Looks like a lot of the Calif 1970s hippie music movement and bands were - kids of intel agents and the military industrial complex. Including Zappa.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread861138/pg1
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html
Is everyone in entertainment miltary/intel shills?
F TV and F Holywood.
Freddie said:
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr93.html
Interesting story, isn't it Freddie? I've been a long time Morrison/Doors fan and I knew his Dad was a Navy man, but learning he was the Admiral riding herd on the Gulf of Tonkin incident has given me pause...Many more such dots are connected in the story Freddie linked.
The formatting will probably go to shit, but...Here's links to all parts(I'm working on XVII right now):
Inside The LC The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie GenerationPart I May 8, 2008
Part II May 13, 2008
Part III May 13, 2008
Part IV May 19, 2008 Part V June 6, 2008Part VI June 6, 2008
Part VII June 22, 2008
Part VIII July 24, 2008 Part IX August 11, 2008 Part X August 29, 2008 Part XI November 13, 2008 Part XII November 27, 2008 Part XIII January 26, 2009 Part XIV March 17, 2009 Part XV June 6, 2009 Part XVI June 13, 2009 Part XVII May 21, 2010 Part XVIII May 26, 2011 Part XIX August 14, 2011 Part XX March 13, 2012 Part XXI March 19, 2012 Part XXIINow I know you've lost your mind... you have your tinfoil helmet on so tight, your ears are leaking brain fluid. Just about every baby boomer's parents were ex-military, there was a little thing called WWII that actually required just about everyone's participation.
Really? Zappa's house was ground zero. His old man was in biolgical weapons and Frank was a semi neo con.
Jim Morrison's old man was the head of the Navy convoy in the Gulf of Tonkin that faked the start of the Vietnam War. His dad is leading the convoy. LBJ said N Vietnam started shooting. Navy aviators like James Stockman were flying air cover and they said much later that nothing happened.
Oh yeah it is really fu***** normal that a big rock star's dad is covering up for LBJ to start the Vietnam War. No coincidence that all these stras were very connected. They were safe little puppets for NOW/CIA.
You speak like someone who knows next to nothing about Frank Zappa - you certainly know nothing of his music if you think, for even a moment, he could be CIA.
Yep, Freddy is totally out in left field regarding Zappa. He must be getting his info from television or kook radio.
Did you read this:
Inside The LC The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation
before making your comments? What that author writes can be verified from other sources...
This is from Part I:
If Zappa were still alive, he'd probably get a pretty good laugh from all that. Although it's fiction, it's certainly creative and rather entertaining in an odd sort of way.
Thanks for taking the time to research it more thoroughly. /s
Remember the 'Black Dahlia' case? In this part of the what you call 'fictional' story you'll see pictures you may never have seen before of that:
Part XVIII
http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr110.html
NSFW and very disturbing...you've been warned.
The Laurel Canyon crew and those they associated with were/are a nasty bunch.
THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS twelve thirty (young girls are coming to the canyon)
I find it both hilarious and really really sad that you've done all that work compiling info and very obviously never sat down to actually listen to Zappa's music. If you had, you would know how ridiculous the "Zappa as CIA" thesis is.
Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.
From:
Frank Zappa Biography @http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Frank-Zappa/biography/
Maybe he wasn't quite the anti-war love and peace dude that you(and I) thought he was...
Quotes from:Frank Zappa's contradiction -- brilliant music by a nasty man