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It is becoming increasingly clear that the mainstream press have become 'information brokers' who present very specific information in a manor which meets a very specific agenda. "Baghdad Bob" serves as an example even a casual viewer can understand of the crucial role control of the news media and the dissemination of propaganda plays in the ability to gain and maintain control of an entire nation. Yet here in the US, where we treasure our heritage of a free press, we've have hardly seemed to notice that ownership of vast media entities has been consolidated into the hands of just...

The Iraqi Minister for Defense Sultan Hachem Ahmad ensured Thursday that Baghdad was "impregnable", grateful however that the first American units were with 140 kilometers of the doors of the capital. "the enemy is currently in the east of the town of Diwaniah, that is to say to some 140 km in the south of Baghdad", declared Mr. Ahmad at the time of a press conference. "We will not be astonished if the enemy encircles Baghdad from here five to ten days but it will have to take the city. Baghdad will remain impregnable for the Americans and the...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Up to 15 people were killed in a poor Baghdad residential district on Wednesday in what enraged residents said was a missile strike during intensified air raids on the city. Reuters correspondents counted at least 15 scorched corpses lying in the street in Baghdad's Shaab district, amid blackened and mangled cars and rubble from broken buildings. Flames poured from an oil tanker truck. "There are at least 13 killed and some 30 injured. Two missiles hit the street," local civil defense official Haneed Dulaimi told Reuters. Yelling residents pulled a man with a bloody head from rubble....

The bridges into Baghdad are rigged with explosives, and a large convoy of Republican Guard units was heading south toward U.S. troops, wire reports said today. Those reports, quoting intelligence officers with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said at least 1,000 Republican Guard vehicles were advancing toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq. But at a press briefing today, the U.S. military dismissed those reports. "We have not seen any significant movements ... in and around Baghdad. There have been some local positionings. There have been some survival positionings ... but we certainly remain, we believe, well in control of the...

Last August, Andrew Card, President Bush's chief of staff, was asked by a New York Times reporter about the timing of the administration's campaign to garner congressional and public support for war with Iraq. Card explained that the persuasion would begin after Labor Day, because from a marketing point of view it is not a good idea to introduce new "products" in August. Our first MBA president is certainly not the only public official to apply business principles to running a government, but the war on terror and the plans for war against Iraq have highlighted new and startling trends...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20021126/sc_space/endeavour_docks_with_space_station__crews_greet_each_otherhttp://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/26/shuttle.spacewalk.ap/index.html The above articles have inaccuracies that will help students flunk physics. Both the AP and Reuters have botched articles on the space shuttle Endeavor doing work on ISS. The articles refer to the "weight" of the girder to be put in place and, even the AP article refers to the weight of the Space Station. However, this shows how uneducated the media really is: A quote from CNN-AP article: The 14-ton girder, an aluminum beam crammed with wiring and loaded with a rail cart and radiators, increased the mass of the entire space station to almost 200 tons....

The report stated that "there had been three "hunting" accidents reported in Virginia ,so far this season. In one ACCIDENT, a 62 year old man was found dead of an apparent heart attack, as was a second 70 year old man who had been out hunting. He was found next to a dead deer. In the third incident, a VA lawman had an accidental discharge from a black powder gun, which wounded him, when getting down from a tree stand."

Okay, uh, I ran across this site tonight, and it freaked me out, because it is ACTIVELY CALLING FOR MILITARY TO DESERT. Go look and judge for yourself. And it's located in *Washington (the state)*. Someone tell me this is government propaganda...*please*...whois information listed below -- it's hosted by EARTHLINK! If this thing is for real they should get FReeped HARD! Enter the site and check out: "Coming; "Who do you serve?" A page for military and law enforcement personnel." PUBLIC WHOIS INFORMATION: Organization: Roger Bullock Roger Bullock 2101 South 324th St. #16 Federal Way, WA 98003 US Phone: (253)...