"The main threat to Democracy comes not from the extreme left but from the extreme right, which is able to buy huge sections of the press and radio, and wages a constant campaign to smear and discredit every progressive and humanitarian measure." - George Seldes

"There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself."--- Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Senator

"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." --- Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913)



In Mark Hedsel's book, The Zelator, we are informed that:

"At the end of the last century an astounding revelation was made, as a result of dissent among members of secret Schools. Information, hitherto guarded jealously by the most enclosed of the inner Orders, was made public. The secrets disclosed pertained to a far deeper level of knowledge than has hitherto been made exoteric by the Schools - even in this enlightened age. In a nutshell, what was made public during this conflict in the Schools was the truth that our Moon is a sort of counterweight to another sphere, which remains invisible to ordinary vision. This counterweighted sphere is called in esoteric circles the Eighth Sphere. The truth is that this Eighth Sphere does not pertain to anything we are familiar with on the physical plane, yet we must use words from our own vocabularies whenever we wish to denote its existence. Were we to use a word which fits most appropriately this Sphere, then we should really call it a vacuum. Certainly , Vacuum is a more appropriate term than sphere, for the Eighth Sphere sucks things into its own shadowy existence."




Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Friday December 17, 2004
The Guardian

Hollywood has joined the war. Universal Pictures announced yesterday that it is to make The Battle for Falluja. To prove it is serious, it has enlisted Indiana Jones himself, actor Harrison Ford, to help defeat the insurgency.

The film - Hollywood's first foray into the second Iraq conflict - is due to go into production next year and will be based on a yet-to-be-finished book, No True Glory: The Battle for Falluja by Bing West, a former marine, politician and now war correspondent.

The movie and book take as their starting point the killing of four civilian contractors in Falluja and the ensuing decision to order an assault on the city by US marines. That first assault, which was abruptly stopped by the White House, was led by General Jim Mattis, who will be played by Ford.

Six months later, shortly after the US presidential election, the marines attacked Falluja for a second time, successfully occupying the city. Almost 80 US marines were killed in the two assaults, while some sources have estimated that 800 Iraqis and insurgents died in the April assault on the city and a further 1,000 in November.

The film promises to depict the story from the point of view of US soldiers and politicians; it seems unlikely that the plight of the Iraqis will figure too prominently in Hollywood's take on the subject.

Writing last week for the online journal Slate.com, West said: "If America needs a hard job done, the marines will do it, and they won't lose their humanity in the process or any sleep over pulling the trigger. Yes, they are 'the world's most lethal killing machine.' That's what America needs in battle."

Comment: And millions will go to see it, unaware that history and their own minds are being scrubbed clean. The dangers of such deliberate propaganda cannot be overstated. Our minds are our reality-reading instruments and, when functioning properly, help to protect us from the danger that results from mistaking lies for truth. Sadly however, as a result of years-long exposure to lies and disinformation masquerading as "news" and "television", the mind of the average citizen has been made pliable, weak and overly susceptible to all manner of manipulation.

The result is a population that lives most of their lives in illusion. What they believe to be the truth of what is happening in the world is in fact nothing more than a fantasy, provided for them by their corrupt leaders. This time next year then, millions of Americans and others will have been persuaded by a mere two hours of cinema that the presence of the American military in Iraq is in the interest of "peace and democracy", and the actual truth of the matter - that the Iraq invasion is an illegal resource grab by immoral US politicians - will be but another "conspiracy theory".

As Alex Constantine says in the July 2002 issue of High Times:

"Films," Heinrich Goebbels opined, constitute a "scientific means of influencing the masses," of molding attitudes, and he cautioned, "a government must not neglect them." Movies were central to the Nazi regime's domestic propaganda blitz. Under Nazi rule, some 1,300 movies were approved or commissioned by the Reich.

Robert Hertzstein, a former consultant to the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, notes in "The War that Hitler Won" that Goebbel's ministry salted popular films with repetitious words and symbols that stirred the emotions of the German populace:"heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murder," "hatred for Germany."

(in Robert Edwin Herzstein, The War that Hitler Won: Goebbels and the Nazi Media Campaign, New York: Paragon, 1987, p. 272.)

A half century later, "Black Hawk Down" -- with its profuse "heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murder," "hatred for America" -- swept the next bellicose right-wing "homeland." The parallels were glaring.



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