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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear List-members,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another quiet night on Media-Watch. Perhaps folk
are just now so war-weary and scunnered that they can't see the point any more,
or maybe the sheer weight and relentlessness of the propaganda makes it almost
impossible to highlight which nuggets of twisted filth to bring to the attention
of others.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It might provide some 'relief' to get away from the
here and now, to examine one of the main reasons used to justify the destruction
of the civilisation in which literacy itself was developed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Sep 11th attacks remain the fundamental
'justification' for the US's current behaviour. There remain hundreds -
literally hundreds - of unanswered questions regarding what happened on that
day. There still has been no official inquiry or report into what
happened.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The tacit, media-peddled 'official' version
of what happened (although it has never been formally published, collated,
researched, authored etc etc) is flatly impossible for any sane person to
believe, and yet, in this country - the UK - with its fine
reputation for investigative reporting, documentary-making etc, not one
mainstream broadcaster - not a single one - has dared to raise any of the
glaring errors, mistruths and outright lies which masquerade unchallenged
as 'the truth' of what happened on that terrible day.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For many, the very notion that Sep 11th was
anything <U>but</U> a spectacular and audacious attack on the US and
Capitalism by Big-Beard Bin Laden is simply not credible. Yes, it was Al-Qaeda,
Bin-Laden. (Bin-Laden said on Sep 12th that he was right into it, thought it was
great, but had nothing to do with it. Maybe his PR boys had a wee word and told
him to shut-it.) Then, of course, we have to take into account that the majority
of the US public believe that Iraq was behind the attacks. An alarmingly high
percentage of Americans also believe (and this is according to the pollsters)
that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden ARE THE SAME PERSON !! It might be
instructive to see figures by these pollsters regarding what percentage of the
US public actually believe the cobblers published by the pollsters, but
such data is not easily available. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Polls aside - to deny the 'official' version of
events on Sep 11th is to open a Pandora's Box which exposes our own innocence
and naivete as much as it exposes the sheer evil behind the
attacks.</FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2> Were the moon-landings faked ?
That question guarantees the speaker a black-eye in many bars all over the
world, not only in the US, and we are fast approaching the point where similar
queries regarding the events of Sep 11th 2001 will draw similarly violent denial
- and this is before the question has even been addressed or any evidence
has been surveyed. As the asking of certain questions becomes
forbidden, albeit voluntarily, so self-censorship and
denial becomes endemic, irreversible. Then, inevitably, there is no such
thing as 'truth' because facts (dem pesky thangs) just don't matter any more.
Crucial, right now, is to ask those hard questions, and wonder whether or not
they could be raised in 'decent' company, and if not, why not ? (Germans, in
1936, 37 etc, being entertained by close Jewish friends and associates
must've, at some point, asked the same questions of themselves, pondered
the same awkwardness as things got worse. Maybe most of them never said
anything, would've denied even asking themselves the questions at all
?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, if you're still bearing with me, my point is
this - media-watch, and many other on-line projects, were set-up to address what
we all knew would be the inevitable tide of propaganda. Now, we're up
to our necks in it, but unlike a normal 'tide', it is not going
to recede. The 'war', as Robert Fisk's latest reports from Iraq suggest, is
really just beginning. None of us knows where it will end. But we can do our
best to find out why it started, what sparked it, where and when the Neo-cons
and their pliant mass-media buddies knew that the time was right to forge ahead
with 'the project'. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe history is now moving so fast that none of us
can reasonably expect to learn from it, but we can certainly use what is
within our collective memory, backed up by the efforts of many independent
writers, researchers and journalists worldwide who continue to do their
thankless work despite being constantly pilloried as cranks,
conspiracy-theorists etc etc.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you, or anyone close to you, really believes the
'official' explanation of the Sep 11th attacks, please go to
propagandamatrix.com. (I've no connection with the site at all, and there are
many others featuring similar material, but it's one of the most comprehensive
I've seen.) You'll find a short list of links on the left-hand side of the page,
one of which is 'September 11th'. If you do decide to click on it, be prepared -
there are maybe 600 or so links to features by writers all over the world
written in the past 18-months or so, and each and every one of them - even from
the titles alone - raises deeply troubling questions about what happened on that
day. Taken together, they constitute a compelling case for the immediate
impeachment of G W Bush and his wee pal Tony. (Don't try to read every
feature from the top-down - best to scan right down to see the various headings
- it really is a huge site)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for reading this far.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the time of
writing, the US and UK troops have encouraged the looting
of Baghdad and all other significant Iraqi cities, overseen the destruction
of ancient artefacts, priceless irreplacable copies of the Koran,
civil infrasturcture of all forms, and continue to suppress the innocent
civilian population while they 'busy' themselves guarding oil-wells and
the Oil Ministry. Disease festers in corpses on the streets and babies die
for want of water. It's happening right now, and will be for months if not
years. We are citizens of the 'democratic' country which helped make
it happen and continues to justify it. In the eyes of the whole
world, and - if we're brave enough to admit it - in our own
country, we are all guilty, each and every one of us. Okay,
maybe we couldn't and can't stop it, but surely the very least we can do now is
make an effort to educate ourselves, try to find out why it's
happening.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>People all over the planet are asking
'why ?'. We can find out if we look at the time-lines, the major players,
the evidence that is there at the click of a mouse. It's there, but you have to
look for it. List-members will be aware of this, but so many many people are not
- the BBC, ITN, AP, Reuters or any other media-outfit, mainstream or otherwise,
do not have any monopoly on 'truth'. They re-present various truths in the form
which best suits their purposes at the time. Who decides what their purposes
might be is not for us 'mere mortals' to know. But we can take the whole,
examine it, swap notes, and reach reasoned, logical conclusions.
I hope that's what the List is about. (Does it close tomorrow if Tony says
'officially' that the war is over ?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please do check the propagandamatrix.com site. If
you read even a fraction of what is there and measure it against the
coverage you have seen on 'normal', 'mainstream' media over the past 18 months,
it should very quickly become clear that the 'War on Terrorism',
the 'War on Iraq' - and 'The-War-Against-God-Only-Knows-Who's-Next'
- was only 'justifiable' if popular US rage and revenge was keen enough.
Sep 11th was the 'new Pearl Harbor' the Neo-cons and the Project for the New
American Century yearned for. How convenient it happened so soon after
Dubya was installed !!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Read it and weep. Then tell your pals, argue about
it in the kitchen with your folks. They won't like it. No-one does. But hey,
when it comes right down to it, they can't shoot the messenger. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can they ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards to all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ian Brotherhood</FONT></DIV>
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