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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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Walter Cronkite was part of Operation Mockingbird.
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Exactly. Cronkite was like Big Brother talking to all the sheep. Wm Paley(CBS - his boss) worked with CIA. TV is the best mind control tool followed by Hollywood.
Walter getting all weepy when LBJ and The Company plus others punched JFK's ticket.
The freaking Kennedys had so many enemies. JFK supposedly was not gonna ramp up Vietnam, nuke the CIA and the Federal Reserve. LBJ made so much money of the Vietnam War. Insane amounts of money. LBJ was possibly the greediest MF who ever walked this earth. He would kill anybody for an extra bag of money.
Kerry did too as his family's Colliers International has the exclusive on all Vietnam commercial real estate business.
"He would kill anybody for an extra bag of money"
And as of next tueday he will have spent 40 years writhing in agony. Hardly seems worth it now does it?
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Isaiah 66
King James Version
Those that weren't then, are for sure now. Look at Neil Young for example.
So he is The Gay Spook.
Might make a good broadway play.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken
The problem is showing on the fringes. http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/police-shoot-kill-dog-when-going-t...
As long as the police are excused from reasonable behaviour we are screwed. No amount of pot flushed makes up for this kind of action.
Re: "[The dog owner] Fisher said he wants that deputy to be held accountable."
Presidential Executive Memorandum no. 24: Family pets shall be executed only after it is established by military tribunal that they are enemy combatants and/or members or affiliates of Al Qaeda.
When "Person of Interest" has the computer output the SSN of a PM owning blogger that owns an AR15, then we're fvcked.
The purpose of torture isn't necessarily to get information, but to get a confession, scripted by the torturer. Sometimes it's about sadism and power,too--sytemic and individual but often its about creating evidence to support an agenda.
if it was to get reliable information, they'd use anything but given what they know about the art
It is mostly to intimidate and suppress dissent.
Everyone is to think twice, ask if speaking out or even associating with possible dissidents is worth the risk of being tortured?
The CIA owns and has been PysOpting all Media and everyone since the beginning of time. And now all media is vertically integrated to suit the Globalist Agenda. Think about it. Only about six Media Fascist Corps. run all newspapers, magazines, T.V. and cable that have all been Monopolized. Which in turn make parrots of us all. Super Capitalism merged into a super Communism then Fascist Police State. All done by design. By their design.
List of the Criminals. GE, Time Warner, ABC/Walt Disney, Via Com.
In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. He went at the request of the CIA.
Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters.
Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services — from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go-between with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors-without-portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work;
stringers and freelancers who were as interested it the derring-do of the spy business as in filing articles, and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements America?s leading news organizations.
The history of the CIA’s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception . . . .
Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, The Miami Herald, and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with The New York Times, CBS, and Time Inc.
… From the Agency’s perspective, there is nothing untoward in such relationships, and any ethical questions are a matter for the journalistic profession to resolve, not the intelligence community.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28610.htm
The PsyOp runs deep, very deep.
Now that you mention it, why else would media exist?
I had never bothered to see Oliver Stone's movie JFK until I read how CIA journalists had been hired to slander the movie and Stone. Great movie, a real eye opener.
Oliver is the man. Not all artists are bad. Some (like King, Stone, Sheen, Corgan, Ventura) understand what is happening and are able to express themselves in ways to counteract the illuminatti (Beyonce/Sasha Fierce, Lady Magaga, Jolie, Spielberg, Schwarzenazi) and their hold on the status quo.
Oliver strikes me as someone who was completely self-conscious, an artist in the truist sense of the word; a creative. Now that he has 'arrived' (financially well off and well fed), he's willing to begin to honestly attack the shared myths. To wit, Oliver Stone -- to pitch his latest production -- calls America an 'Orwellian State'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XFvxHrx0f78
But who knows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mt1RNDEh7Y
Oddly Stone missed the hole CIA, Daddy Admiral Morrison CIA, Gulf of Tonkin thing, Jim Morrison when he did Tthe Doors movie. The Lizard King worked for The Company.
Tied right into JFK too. LBJ and The Company plus others did the deed. Two degrees of separation.
http://www.proparanoid.net/jfk.htm
Yeah - Oswald goes to the USSR and comes back. He was the patsy. Obam-MAO goes to Pakistan when he is young and comes back. He is still CIA.
I have been telling people for years to pull the plug on TV and Hollywood. They are total shit. If you watch it - you support it and it is your own damn fault that you are a serf.
You're so fucking dumb and deluded that you are not even aware that what lends maximum credibility to the MSM is viewing it in comparison to the drivel on which you have constructed your ignorant world view. And like the clowns that hover as stink on shit to any GW screed, you'll never know how uninformed you are, and you'll pass the rest of your TV and WH Moslem-obsessed miserable life completely clueless, albeit idiotically thinking you "know". You know shit, but at least you're impotent.
Come on GW, I need the Trifecta, like "classic 2, 7 and 21". Putz.
All you bozos have helped make Zerohedge everything it shouldn't have been and nothing of what it could have become. I hope at least Tyler's making some dough off of it.
There's a lot of bad facts out there. Unfortunately, there's a lot more bad fiction. You and your ilk have promoted the fiction to Nobel status, and because of it, you've all helped make the bad fact much more difficult to address.
Nice fucking job you useless moonbats.
I do not own a TV. Gave it up 6 years ago, but I have an extensive DVD collection without commercials. TV is good for the entitelment crowd to occupy empty time with an empty mind.
Hell, I gave up television during Reagan's first term.
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Bless you Merkel
Peope that watch TV are way worse than serfs.
They are infected; they carry the Virus and actually aid in spreading the illusion.
CIA = Bankers
The CIA is the pretorian guard for the American establishment.
No, Bankers=CIA.
@ lakecity 55/Goldwing,
Al CIA-duh
A division of an intelligence agency or entity who's primary purpose is to create the illusion of, or appearance of, a real threat for the purpose of consumption by the general population, while conducting clandestine operations which are often in opposition to the benefit, needs, or desires of the general population.
· "The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that from the CIA's inception in 1947 to 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations."
Throw in another 2 million from 1987 to 2007, interpolated from the above estimate.
"At least 869,720 people have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since the U.S. and coalition attacks, based on lowest credible estimates." So let's call that another 1 million.
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That makes 9 million total.
Regards,
Miggy
I meant the bankers' families created and staffed the CIA.
Go back to WW1 and Skull&Bones.
My personal favorite is the fake Bin Laden video that was foisted on the sheeple a few months after 9/11 - didn't look anything like him, yet nobody seemed to care... kind of like when NORAD said their planes flew in the wrong direction on the most important day of their organization's existence... oh well, back to honey boo boo
You could tell he was bin Laden by his hat.
LMAO. I think I cracked a rib.
Sorry u have it backwards. Think scissors, paper, rock.
The CIA can print it's own money, they already do in more than one foreign country. But the Federal Reserve can not bomb the CIA back into Medeival times...
so who trumps who?
The money system pays for the murder system;
the murder system backs up the money system.
They were in toroidal vortices, without any beginning...
You guys missed the middle (and highly secretive part)....
Bankers = Skull and Bones/CFR/Trilateral Commision/Bilderberg Group/Bohemian Grove = CIA
You see the middle part of the equation is the back door meetings, the set up or the future, the training of the new guard by the old guard - the establishment.
The bankers set these groups up to come up with other groups that take orders from the establishment, like the CIA.
You're wrong. I was never invited to join the CFR. Get your facts straight. By the way, just one of my lapel pins (all of the organizations of which I am a member have a toenail of Satan imbedded in them) is worth more than all your silver. Oh, and please have David Icke link to this (plus GW, as he's rather fond of links) so that Icke can "prove" that Reptilian Satan-worshipping 33rd Degree Freemason baby-eaters are trolling the interwebs influencing opinion and directing our policy of complete global domination. Can't fool you guys, though; you're just too "awake".
You don't make decisions when there are nuclear bombs pointed at you. Who aims those bombs? Not the Bankers, they're only a front. The Military gives all the orders.
It's a revolving door. Ever hear of Buzzy Krongard?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/alvin-b-buzzy-krongard-former-in...
http://911review.org/Wget/wtc-the-truth.i8.com/
http://truthmovecom.blogspot.com/2008/11/cia-brothers-krongard.html
Who funds the military? Xi and other private militias have to meet payroll too.
The banking industry functions like the mafia....
Who or what do they all worship. That is the key to understanding all of it.
I think we all have figure out by now it is.......Satan.
As an agnostic, I have to say that you'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to worship satan. Satan, if real, is a loser. Why align yourself with a known loser? It makes no sense.
Naw, some people are just psychopaths that have psychopath offspring.
"Why align yourself with a known loser?"
Why do you say that? Did you read the ending? Of what book?
psychopath or psychotic? psychotic is more applicable
Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that usually includes: False beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions)
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14
King James Version
So it should not be surprising that the followers of a created being who also claims to be the creator would be psychotic or delusional does it?
http://archive.org/details/MyronFagan-TheIlluminatiAndTheCouncilOnForeig...
Ah yes, the " the elites", "the galactic federation of reptilians", "the secret handshake illuminati society". I know those dudes, far out man, they control the planet and beyond.
Get with it, it's the "muslims" now, they are disproportionally overrepresented in the Western central banks, investment banks, SCOTUS, Congressional special interest/lobby groups, Ivy League academia, mass media, and political activist groups. Most importantly, they are simply importing themselves and the third world en masse into the EU and the West.
Now go get'em!
For crying out loud, I would say everyone is so wound up, they can't detect sarcasm anymore.
When they come for your guns, the time for joking is over.
Thank you for your excellent demonstration on the subject of propaganda.
In case there is any confusion, the Terrorists are the ones pointing at others and calling them terrorist's...
I was told by a friend of mine if you are ever about to get in a fight yell, "Don't hit me!" and then punch the guy right in the face. Everyone will turn around while you are yelling and they will think you are defending yourself.