CNN And The American Propaganda Machine!
We have all seen the head page at CNN. It is the cornerstone for internet News, and people from countries all over the world head there on a regular basis to see what is going on in the world. What I wish to talk about right now is the upper right hand corner of the front page pictured here, which usually features the top 10 stories of the hour, and CNN's brilliant use of this section today.
The contents of the Articles this morning (8/9/05) at approximately 6am Eastern Standard time, (which figures to about 2:30pm Tehran time), CNN's top ten Stories included the following...
Iran Rejects Europe's Nuclear Deal...
Nagasaki Remembers Its Atomic Fate...
A-Bomb Pilot: We Knew It Was Going To Kill...
IAEA Seeks Iran Solution.
Chavez: U.S. Will 'Bite The Dust' If It Invades...
Four Star General Relieved Of Command...
These were among the featured stories on CNN in the early hours in America, and I might add the Prime of the day in Tehran. Every Political Somebody in every country of the world with an internet connection undoubtedly spends time on CNN's font page, watching the American propaganda machine churn out it's "spin" to the world. The leaders of the World know and understand the message that America was sending at the broad middle of the day in Tehran. Please allow me to explain what that message to the Iranian elite and the rulers of Iran was this morning, by pointing out what these articles had to say...
IRAN REJECTS EUROPE'S NUCLEAR DEAL
In this article CNN describes how reasonable the "EU 3's" (Brittan, France, Germany), deal is for Iran, and goes on to cast Iran as a "apparently defiant for no good reason" state, seemingly hell-bent on going ahead with its nuclear enrichment program. Included in the Article are the telltale signs that Iran is walking in the footsteps of doom... namely Iraq's, signified by the following statements...
Iran had already declared that any European proposal should include the country's right to enrich uranium, but the proposal did not include that issue, Asefi told IRNA.
The U.S. State Department had called on Iran to accept the offer.
The United States has no diplomatic ties with Iran, which President Bush once branded part of an "axis of evil." U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said Friday the EU-3 gave a copy of the 30-page offer to the Bush administration and briefed administration officials.
And the big daddy of them all...
He repeated the administration's threat that if Tehran breaks its nuclear agreements to resume uranium conversion, the United States and European Union may refer the case to the U.N. Security Council.
The barely disguisable warning America made to Iraq, that if Iran doesn't publicly and internationally declare that they have no intention, nor will they EVER produce nuclear weapons, (which they will never say), The inevitable result will be a full scale invasion by American forces. I think they also make it clear here that nuclear weapons will definitely be on the table, since it is a well known fact that America is not going to be able to occupy Iran as it does Iraq today. But don't worry, I have a lot more support for receiving this message from today's headlines on CNN, posted at Iranian Midday News time...
NAGASAKI REMEMBERS ITS ATOMIC FATE
This one was almost shameless. but I'll go over it anyway. CNN is appearing to be sympathetic to the cities of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, by calling the fallout "horrific" and by seeming to augment the lamentation of these people. Yet in context with the other "featured" headlines it is clear that that was not the message they were sending.
A shameless declaration to the people of the world that "we did it before" is shrouded in a seemingly sympathetic piece on past tragedy and pain caused by nuclear attacks? In light of the other "messages" in their headlines along side this one, it seems the answer is a resounding YES...
On the eve of the anniversary Tuesday of Nagasaki's devastation 60 years ago by the "Fat Man" atomic bomb, a steady stream of tourists flowed past the horrific exhibits at the city's memorial museum.
This piece of the Propaganda puzzle lays out clearly the death toll, the terrifying results of an atomic blast, what it did to land, property, and even people living many miles from the blast sites, giving the Iranian public at 2:30 in the afternoon "something to think about"...
Three days after the Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" bomb on Hiroshima, killing at least 140,000 in the world's first atomic bomb attack, another bomber, Bock's Car, took off to deliver the second A-bomb.
Roughly 80,000 people were killed by the blast or by related injuries or diseases in the months after.
"It's just mind-boggling that a single bomb could wipe out this city," tourist Naoto Otake said as he stood before a full-scale model of Fat Man at the museum. The bomb stood 3.25 meters (about 10 feet) tall, and weighed 4.5 tons.
Then the customary pat on Americas back for a job well done...
Today, Nagasaki, which has a population of about 420,000, has instead become a popular tourist destination, known for its Chinatown, one of the largest in Japan, and its vaguely European flair.
This article was a brilliantly placed piece of Propaganda work, designed to do exactly as I said, give the Iranians something to think about, by a News Depot clearly in absolute service to it's country's political designs. Let's continue with the proof of "Today's Message"...
Come and see the other pieces of the American Mesage to Iran at 2:30pm Tehran time, August 9, 2005.. Do you see it???
"CNN And The American Propaganda Machine!"
Or the text version for slower conncetions can be found here...
"The Text Version"
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