This is a must read for anyone who is truly interested to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, as it pertains to US sponsored propaganda.
The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.
Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee.
The agency’s staff worked alongside high-ranking US military officers in their Baghdad Camp Victory headquarters as the insurgency raged outside.
Bell Pottinger’s former chairman Lord Tim Bell confirmed to the Sunday Times, which worked with the Bureau on this story, that his firm had worked on a “covert” military operation “covered by various secrecy agreements.”
Bell Pottinger reported to the Pentagon, the CIA and the National Security Council on its work in Iraq, he said.
Unbelievably, the U.S. paid upwards of $500m to a Brtish firm, in order to produce propaganda. Perhaps this was a small concession to the UK for their ardent support of our efforts in Iraq and throughout the middle east.
The third and most sensitive programme described by Wells was the production of fake al Qaeda propaganda films. He told the Bureau how the videos were made. He was given precise instructions: “We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use al Qaeda’s footage,” he was told. “We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.
The American origins of the news items were sometimes kept hidden. In 2005, revelations that PR contractor the Lincoln Group had helped the Pentagon place articles in Iraqi newspapers – sometimes presented as unbiased news – led to a DoD investigation.
Here is an interview with Bell Pottinger, regarding his work there.
A firsthand account of Bell Pottinger’s top secret work in Iraq from The Bureau on Vimeo.
I wonder if the Pentagon is softly suggesting some articles to be placed at the NY Times or Washington Post? Nah, they wouldn’t impune on our great experiment in democracy.
Remember those wonderful Jihad John beheadings, acted out by an English citizen? What wonderful HD footage that was. I always found the cinematography to be first rate, in spite of its dreadful content.
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Briebert?
Sorry, Breitbart was killed, umm I mean died of natural causes. The person doing the autopsy, however, to identify the cause of death, he was definitely murdered.
https://www.rt.com/usa/coroner-arsenic-death-breitbart-456/
– Matt Simmons
Always Toyota pickup trucks. Always. Clever or they simply sell a bunch to the gad guys worldwide.
I remember when we laughed about how nice and crisp those videos were.
Dam. We were spot on with our humor and the same time underneath it all convincing ourselves it was only a joke.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
Ps. Made another 40-75 percent on VHC today.
The bullshit was piled so high that shit is popping up everywhere.
Its a shit storm and italy would love it if DB died before they do.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-03/italy-prepares-impact-hypothetical-worsening-deutsche-bank-crisis
Italian referendum hits 12/4
UniCredit is Finito. Done. Stick a fork in them.
Only reason they are alive is an illegal backdoor liquidity by italy cb but germany said it is against eu law. Shit storm.
Italexit will happen cus they need sovernty to save their banks and to print their own fiat.
The only thing faker is the Hillary “support and polls”. Here in brain dead Cali basically zero signs or bumper stickers. This election is a fucking fake terrorist video. Crazy times.
Right it’s all fake and Nate Silver is in on it all. Right.
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=mobilebar&v=1
That piece of shit beast can not get 500 people to a “rally”. Wake the fuck up you tool. Oh by the way they beat a kid half to death today for liking the popo on Facefuck. How about those fake riots in cities everywhere? When it is you dragged out of the car screaming for help like a classic lib desperately trying to explain you understand. Good luck chump.
That’s because they have jobs.
lol Enough. Over it. Go fuck yourself. See you in the hospital if you make it.
I don’t watch anything that isn’t available through Fandango.
I once went underground on Twitter with a fake account that I was switching around from pro-Muslim/anti-Israel to anti-cop/BLM, and to white supremacist…
It was amazing the hatred that comes out of the woodwork, some folks are easily led based on their hate.
no way CIA plants stories in US newspapers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ED63A_hcd0
Comrade Obama pushing the US into communism via debt.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-03/us-ends-fiscal-2016-14-trillion-debt-increase-third-largest-history
Fly, have you ever heard of Macro Voices’ podcasts? Really good stuff and I think you would love the content. 100% free of course. You always post summaries and solid content from other blogs, and this may be another good one to pick up.
Not trying to take viewership away from your site, it’s not a blog at all. Just podcasts.
The while point of this program was to encode the video so the military could track who was viewing it and where it was viewed. Easily could have a virus in it as well for other data mining purposes.
This is a good use of the taxpayers dime.
Why is this an issue to you all?