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The US Strikes Back.. With Its Own Anti-ISIS Propaganda Video
It's not just airstrikes. The US State Department has recently launched an internet-based propaganda strategy as part of its "Think Again Turn Away" psyops campaign targeting young Muslim recruits for ISIS. As WaPo reports, the US government-made video titled "Welcome To ISIL-Land" and others like it aim to counter militant propaganda using their own graphic images against them. "The point, obviously, of this is to target potential recruits, potential sympathizers, to show the brutality" of IS, said State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf, "to point out the fallacies, point out the inconsistencies." However, critics note this could backfire...
As The Washington Post reports,
The stunning rise of the Islamic State militant group as both a battlefield force and an Internet juggernaut over the summer has given new urgency to a State Department effort to counter online militant propaganda with a U.S. messaging campaign.
A U.S.-government-made video that recently made the rounds on social media — with graphic images of Islamic State executions and a beheaded body — is the best-known example of the attempt to expose the brutality of the Islamist group and undermine its online recruitment appeals.
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The short video titled “Welcome to ISIL-Land” and others like it aim to counter militant propaganda by producing eye-catching online material that uses the militants’ own words or images against them.
That’s a tricky line to walk, since by repurposing provocative or grisly images to discredit the groups behind them, the State Department also gives them wider distribution.
The US Government's Anti-ISIS campaign video... (warning extremely graphic)
But, as RT notes, using the militant group’s own words against them, to discredit and mock its mission in Syria, Iraq, and beyond, is dicey, critics say, considering the explicit source of the message is the despised US government, and that violence can appeal to potential recruits.
“Someone at the State Department has failed to recognize that most of the Westerners trying to join ISIS are actually enthused by videos of executions and suicide bombings, not deterred by them,” said Evan F. Kohlmann, chief information officer of Flashpoint Global Partners, a security consulting firm that tracks militants online, according to the Post.
Kohlmann added that messaging that reaches true sympathizers is often quite difficult to achieve.
“The problem with this video is the same problem that seems to happen over and over again with these type of initiatives,” he said. “They don’t seem to have a clear picture of what audience they are trying to reach, or how to influence them.”
The State Department is aware of the limitations of their campaign, and that recruitment for IS is tied to a long history of grievance in the region, a senior State official told the Post.
“So we poke holes in their narrative, try to turn the tables,” the official said. “You’re not going to get a knockout blow.”
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this is pathetic
Which is the worst terrorist group here? ISIS or the US gubbimint?
“"It depends upon what the meaning of the word IS IS"
ISIS is emmanuel goldstein. americans need to wake up, and wake up soon.
The US Government thinks their own people are idiots....what kind of garbage they think we watch?? Well I guess years of the Kardashians and American Idol on TV really dumbed down the sheeple.
Damn that's a lame video. I refrained from commenting on the actual video because I don't want to be droned' bro'.
I for one am happy that the US government has come out strongly against unauthorized head removal.
This is progress.
I got Langley's instructional video right here:
How To Make A Puppet
Unfortunately, at this stage the US Government is correct if it thinks its own people are idiots. By and large they are and prove it every two years.
Emmanuel, GodStein with us... based on gold rock? The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism?
Orwell and the Jews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipPH-wlkoU
1984 (novel) really does lay it all out for us. I also liked Brave new world.
As others have commented, the US Deep State is sadly using Orwell's works as an instruction manual.
As for ISIS, I have no doubt that these anti-ISIS videos were made at the same Hollywood studio as made the pro-ISIS videos, with scripts written by the same writers, produced by the same producers, and funded by... your taxes. ISIS is the greatest false flag in history, and people are buying into it being a "rogue organization". It is not. It is the culmination of the Arab Spring and was hatched in Langley, the City, and Tel-Aviv as an attempt to create an Arab superstate controlled by the aforementioned three centers of malevolence.
The more ISIS is demonized as coming after US infrastructure, or trumpeted as intercepting Obama's gameplan, or planning this or that horrible attack, the more obvious it is that this whole thing is FAKE. The US Deep State is hyping the hell out of ISIS, but not doing anything that would actually do it any damage. Hello?
What is the saddest, saddest thing of all is that this is *pure* Orwell: doublethink at its best. Getting the US sheep to flinch in fear at the mention of ISIS while at the same time not condemning the US's inaction in doing anything actually worthwhile to prevent it.
(Nuking Tel-Aviv, Qatar and Riyadh would be a good start).
Caught this off of John Oliver. Fucking hilarious.
Someone told me ISIS stands for: Israeli Secret Insurrection Service?
Nah, that can't be right can it?
"Which is the worst terrorist group here? ISIS or the US gubbimint?"
ISIS: JV terrosits (according to Obummer)
US Govt: Varisty terrorists
Funny you should ask, but the answer is already given, approximately 15 million people directly or indirectly killed by USA since the second world war. You just don't hear or see it in the western world, because the press is sympathetic to USA and will never show their atrocities.
strange isn't it? and in spite of all the brutality of ISIL, they are amateurs compared to USA.
"Funny you should ask, but the answer is already given, approximately 15 million people directly or indirectly killed by USA since the second world war. You just don't hear or see it in the western world, because the press is sympathetic to USA and will never show their atrocities. strange isn't it? and in spite of all the brutality of ISIL, they are amateurs compared to USA."
Only a delusional Marxist drug addict would post stupid shit like that.
Who was the greatest mass murderer of his own people? It was Communist China's Mao Zedong.
According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with -- by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/02/the-legacy-of-mao-ze...
Yes, and pay attention to their battlecry: "Elohim gadol! Elohim gadol!"
p.s. To the ZHer who posted yesterday "Depends on how you define ISIS", I say: "I define them by this battlecry"
Leave it to our State Department to fuck up the translation.
"See something, say something."
... oh, wait a sec ....
"Yes, and pay attention to their battlecry: "Elohim gadol! Elohim gadol!"
Wrong. Their battlecry is: "Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!"
They are being funded by wealthy Islamists in countries like Qatar and Saudia Arabia:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29004253
I define them by this battlecry as they exterminate Christians, Jews, and moderate Muslims.
Might as well post all this shit on the US Dept of Defence social media website...btw, does ISIS have their own Facebook or Twitter page?
This was created by a man with a Kenyan mentality. Look at how they are able to control the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa, says a lot about how they are organized and structured. No structure! Obama is a no structure Kenyan & he should go back to his birthplace.
Don't worry. They'll follow this up with a strongly worded tweet.
ISIL - Israeli State in Israel and Levant
Elohim gadol! Elohim gadol!
("Elohim Gadol" is He-brew for “God is Great”, but kinda sounds like: ‘Ello, him Got oil.)
Yeah, there’s a lot of “Him got Oil” going on over there in the Levant.
Wrong again! It's the Islamic State (IS) formerly known as or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),
Their battle cry is: Allah Akbar! Allah Akbar!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Yeah, over there in the Sunni caliphate there’s a lot of “Allah got Oil” and all infidels will be exterminated.
Kirk2NCC1701 needs to take her tired old star fleet costume off and put on her burka on to please her Islamic masters.
What did no expect Obama to do? Not make a recruitment video for ISIS?
Hopw many millions to produce the video?
pathetic strategy to scare 95% of population may backfire and actualy create surprising amounts of new recruits.
Congrats!
we always knew that you never really stop supporting them
"POW" "KABOOM" "SPLAT!"
This is fuckin terrible. Just stop it, no one in the US is any good at propaganda. Shut this down and divert funds to the poor kids in Africa that can't feed themselves.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!!? NOBODY IN THE US IS ANY GOOD AT PROPAGANDA??!!! The entire population's been turned into a fucking mob of overweight, pharma-addicted smart-phone addicts, their future sold out from under them, and the biggest fucking issues on the domestic agenda are who's winning in Dancing with the Stars, what's up with Kanye and Kim, and can be done about 'the gay marriage issue'. No good at propaganda....
Exactly. People should consider that this video may have a doubled meaning. But even if it's a failure the state's other propaganda is quite brilliant (and sick). Go watch Zero Dark Thirty if you disagree, or basically any show or movie as there is a 50% chance of it having psyop input.
They are good at propaganda aimed at US subjects, works for Europe too, Russia, Asia and Arabs not so much.
So you don't think this is a good recruiting video?
That's a ridiculous assertion. It may be hard to swallow for you but most people are perfectly fine with being fat, lazy slobs, subtly nudged along by tptb. One read on these comment threads makes me think that may not even be such a bad thing after all.
That is because the US's propoganda machine is the Media establishment. Monkey See, Monkey Do. Kardashinans and the other mindless crap are targeted at people so that the people emulate the behavior seen. The people think that acting like an idot or being self absorbed is the "right" way becasue that is what they "their brain" has interperted as normal behavoir. Even though you concouisly know TV is fake, your sub-conceious still just chalks it up as an experince wheather it was yours or the TV's. We are being filled up with Bull Shit experince and the people emulate that experince. So if you happen to be a parent, be that parent and keep the TV as far from you children as possible.
Come on, the state dept obviously has everything under control.
I blame the movie.
The anti-isis isis recruiting video... brought to you by your friends at the state department
Without narration by Jen Psaki, its influence will be limited. Hah.
If you had said 'frenemies at the State Dept" you would have fucking nailed it.
I'd say they need rappers singin' about how cool football and basketball are and you get all the hotties - but perhaps that is wearing thin stateside.
The US wants ISIS in Syria. They will draw them in to defeat Assad and then they'll blow the country to pieces. This is all prep work for when that time comes.
Where were the US propaganda films while ISIS ravaged Syria for years? And where is the mention that the US founded and funded ISIS?
The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.
ISIS, formed in 2004, later incorporated a number of Sunni insurgent factions in Iraq. It was responsible for three terrorist bombings of hotels in Amman, Jordan in 2005, but remained a small group until the demonstrations that began in Dera’a in southern Syria in March 2011.
The Western powers, flush with success after organising an Islamist insurgency in Benghazi in order to justify NATO’s overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, thought they could use similar forces to overthrow Assad in Syria, whose regime draws its main base of support from the Alawite sect, a Shi’a offshoot, and Sunni businessmen.
For three years, the US, along with the Gulf states and Turkey, poured billions into “opposition” groups, supposedly to unnamed “moderates,” but in reality to Al Qaeda-linked Sunni groups such as al-Nusra and ISIS to spearhead a sectarian war. The US, Turkey and Jordan have operated a base in Jordan where US instructors trained dozens of ISIS members. In an article last year, the New York Times confirmed that the CIA assisted Arab governments and Turkey by airlifting weaponry to these groups in Jordan and Turkey. The Guardian reported last March that British and French instructors were also involved.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
No, I know that ISIS just magicaly appeared out of nowhere. The TV told me so.
That video will be just as effective as all the War on Drugs commercials FedGov has spent millions and millions on over the years.
Because if you're willing to cut off some heads to achieve your goals, this might just be a recruitment video. There is some bad shit going on over there that is outside of the realm of what most westerners have the experiences to understand.
Did Al-CIA-DUH approve this message?
"Did Al-CIA-DUH approve this message?"
Of course! You saw the State Department logo, right?
Our aim is to steer the weak minded, easily influenced back into the capitalist/imperialist/oligarchy/world domination camp and away from any ideals that seek to overthrow that empire.
Thank you,
Marketing & Promotions Dept.
So, videos criticizing Islam are bad for Benghazi, but good now? Got it! Surely nobody will get offended.
Really, the important thing here is that US FedGov is spending money.
That's reassuring, because everyone who has ever listened to any Congressional testimony from anyone in the Executive branch knows these two things:
1. Success is measured by how much money is spent.
2. If anyone is damn fool enough to publicly announce a shortcoming on any metric besides how much money was spent, the shortcoming is due to there not being enough money to spend.
If you fail, you get more money. If you succeed, you get a cash reward in your paycheck, but some of your budget money is appropriated to things that aren't working because, obviously, they don't have enough money.
It's about time, sheesh. Get some cojones, people.
And if you pronouce ISIL-Land
It sounds like Iceland.
Duh
Wait, we're invading Iceland now?
I guess that's OK.
I mean, they have cool volcanoes and Bjork and stuff.
More like IS ra IL
Fucking Embarassing this Government of the US.
Wow, DC US producing propaganda against their own propaganda.
I'd bet that not even Goebbels thought to do that.
An American, not US subject.
More breaking news --
First, there's this:
"Secretary of State John Kerry will travel on a coalition building trip to the Middle East with planned stops in Amman, Jordan, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, State Department says"
soon followed by this (coincidentally)
"State Department says it has seen reports about Jordan sending forces into anti-Islamic State fight but won't confirm; says up to government to comment -"Nothing like having client states to do some work for you. Another friendly monarchy. Of course, now there's "coalition building"....where have we heard that before....Groundhog Day for real.
Dear Jordanians,
You occupy Israel's greater part. Better get used to "cookies."
An American, not US subject.
NOBODY has more experience with propaganda than the DC establishment (except maybe the ECB) - this should turn the tide for sure, ISIS will be humiliated.
EDIT - I was going to say 'and the Israelis, but then realized there's no need to distinguish them as a separate entity from the DC establishment.
Ok I got an idea here: shut down the federal reserve and isis goes away. Probably would work. Or we could send Bernanke into the iraqi hills since everyone thinks he's such a fuking genius, and we can see how that works out.
Guillotine the Fed! And save the American country.
An American, not US subject.
This campaign tests message and techniques, in preparation for the real war against the terrorist-heartland; West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas.
Which sounds more Middle Eastern to you? One of these is not “like” the others. Question origin and context …always.
A) A
Mujahidin
B) B
Al Qaeda
C) C
Hamas
D) D
Taliban
E) E
Hezbollah
F) F
ISIS?????
The actual name of what the West calls ISIS is in Arabic.
Arabic: ad-Dawlah l-Islamiyyah
just because the new enemy has a convenient and catchy western style acronym for a name does not mean it is not a legitimate grass roots terror .org. it is just the 21 cwntury version so everyone can participate. the rest of those words are difficult to pronounce and spell.
It's hard to take serious lecturing on morality from the goverment of a country that has none.
All you got to do is show Muslims eating pork and bacon chesseburger sandwhiches while holding the black flag riding on a tank down that dirt road somewhere in Syria. Seems simple to me.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Holy Christ...that's some pathetic propaganda...did they even consult with Hollywood?
This is so fucking stupid and pathetic. It's like all the evidence of Russia's supposed invasion of Ukraine. Total useless bullshit.
DNC/RNC state dept terrorist
ISIS/ISIL other name terrorist
vote same turd and douche bag choices
When the U.S.Assholes show a video of an ISIS member being tortured then buried alive with a pig carcass that's when I'll know we're making progress on the propaganda front.
After viewing the video, well one of my impressions was that it could've been produced by terrorists about the U.S, , Hasn't America done all the things in the video ? Mayhem wise the terrorists are rank amateurs compared to the US of A these days. Crucifixions ? Check ! Decapitations ? Check ! Torture ? You bet ! Spilling blood or oil the terrorists are orders of magnitutes below the US. Not caring about their victims ? Number of victims ? Once again the US is orders of magnitute above anyone out there. Once again the biggest problem is the propaganda reeks to high heaven of hypocrisy.
I saw a clip of a drone shooting of isis fighters today, and althoughnthe world is certainly better of with these isis people dead, i keep thinking how much hatred an agression such drone killings create. Killing people from the air, and not even sitting in the airplane. This way of warfare is as evil al isis. Please put boots on the ground for fair fighting.
Stop Loyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Bandar and Cheney.
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With this state dept, I have no idea how were not already blown to smithereens.
This is Obama's plan to defeat ISIS, a FUCKING VIDEO?
I've seen 7th grade student councils that display more leadership than the Obama administration.
Obama's teleprompter does not want to defeat ISIS, only to go through the motions of doing something.
ISIS is a false flag like no other... The stakes on this are huge, folks - control over most of the middle east and a big insulating cushion around Israel, from where the idea of ISIS originates.
What exactly is the point of this video? The ISIS videos are clearly intended to instill fear in people. Not sure what this video accomplishes.
Bob: I think I am going to fight on behalf of ISIS. They seem like a reasonable, well-intentioned bunch.
Joe: I completely disagree. I was going to join them but I saw this US goverment video showing their true nature. Convinced me not to join.
Bob: Hmmm...maybe I should watch that before buying my plane ticket.
Joe: You might also find Michelle Obama's website of some interest. You could stand to lose a few pounds there Bob.
I'm sure it won't have near enough jihadis getting covered in napalm for my taste.
Horrifying ... watching them pour all that expenisve oil out wasting it...simply shocking!
New label for an old war
SYRIRAQ
GREAT USE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY
GASWARS 0.14.9
harf + psaki
laurel + hardy
another "the video caused it" moment brought to you by the statist pravda department.....
exactly what the fuck do employees at state do all day....... climate change ??? hahahahahaha
never send a horse to do a man's job
how can oanyone take our "diplomats" seriously.... #incompetent assholes
from the creators of the isis promotional movies cum
the us promotional movies.
coming soon promotional movies from turkey,israel,london qatar and saudi.
soon we will have enough movies for a freedumb filum festival
You'd have thunk they'd be astute enough not show even moar blood to an audience that's already gorged with gore and quite immune to it, courtesy of Hollywood.
But you'd have been wrong. They're not astute enough. By a very long chalk.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT JOB OPENINGS - 9/8/2014
Director of Video Propaganda Strategy and Development
Develop new video and media campaigns to discourage young terrorist wannabes from joining ISIL.
Assistant to Director of Video Propaganda Strategy and Development
Responding to a shitload of applications from young terrorist wannabes to join ISIL, resulting from recent videos produced by the last Director of Video Propaganda Strategy and Development.
#BrangBackOurHumvees, I think ISIS just tweeted.
I didn't see the Video. Did it include the same Dame that was on the UKR Coup Supporing Wag-the-Dog Viral Video produced by the CIA Friendly Firm based in the North American Continent?
Someone should make a satire of this stupid video. That could actually be funny. :-)
Phew i thought for a moment that someone was going to go to Marie Harf, and point out the fallacies, point out the inconsistencies. of everything she says.