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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:18 PM
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Propaganda machine already rolling for 5th year anniversary of 9/11.
http://www.defenselink.mil/advisories/2006/pa20060719-13483.html

Media Support for September 11th Documentary Efforts Announced

Beginning July 20, 2006, the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Services will assist media organizations with September 11th fifth anniversary documentary efforts every Thursday at 1 p.m. until August. The assistance will include the opportunity to film background footage, memorials and interviews with survivors.Interested media should contact the Washington Headquarters Services communications department at (703) 614-1771 no later than noon the Tuesday prior to the Thursday they wish to participate.



http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/69308.htm

One-on-One Interviews with 9/11 Survivors at the Pentagon Memorial, Washington DC

WHAT: One-on-one interviews with 9/11 survivors at the Pentagon Memorial in Washington, DC.

WHEN: Weds., Aug. 2nd. Exact time to be determined. Journalists should plan to spend at least a half-day. If there is significant media interest another day may be added later in August.

WHERE: Journalists should arrive at the Pentagon at least an hour before the scheduled start time so that they can screen themselves and their equipment through security. They should bring their media credentials and two other types of photo identification. Journalists must be escorted through the Pentagon and can only film or use recording devices in designated areas.

DESCRIPTION: Journalists will have the opportunity for several 5 to 7 minute one-on-one interviews with 9/11 survivors that may possibly include U.S. military and government personnel, first-responders, fire, police, and family members. All participants will be given b-roll footage and photos of the Pentagon and its Memorials as well as archive footage from September 11, 2001. A list of additional media opportunities on 9/11 is available at http://fpc.state.gov.

APPLICATION DETAILS: If you are interested in participating, please contact Andrew Strike at StrikeAP2@state.gov or 202-504-6356. This event is for foreign media only, please.

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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:24 PM
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1. Gee what to get Georgie.. I think Paper is for the 1st Anniversary
don;t recall the 5th... Diamonds are for the 75th..gold for the 50th.. hmmm what's a patriot to do
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:31 PM
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2. Why is this considered propaganda?
it is a major event in our history, people were heavily affected by it, and like many other things (pearl harbor, et al) we tend to have a desire to revisit historical mile markers.

The importance/impact will fade in time with some people (like pearl harbor has - if you weren't alive and lived through that day and the ones that followed the impact is less on you).

I don't mind reflecting on 9/11 on it's anniversary. It was a time when, for many of us, the world changed.

I don't see how it helps bush either - as it happend on his watch. One could argue it is propaganda from the dems in that case :)
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:37 PM
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3. It's on the Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs website.
Under the Foreign Press Center. The PD & PA bureau absorbed the old United States Information Agency. Regardless of this, by the simplest of definitions it's propaganda.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:47 PM
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6. So in 3 years, when a dem is in office, and they do this
is it still propaganda?

I just think a lot of people, including folks in the government, were affected and see this as something outside politics.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:49 PM
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7. Outside politics??? 9/11? Bush?
Bwaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:56 PM
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8. um how does it help bush anyway?
He failed us on 9/11. The repugs held a majority. And we got slammed.

I just don't see how this helps him, especially now.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 12:27 AM
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10. Despite his complete failure on 9/11.
Rethuglicans still see Bush as "MR Tough-guy" on terrorism. That may be only one of the messages they wish to propagate with a stunt like this. Everything they have done has used 9/11 as the excuse.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:41 PM
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4. Let's review...
"the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Services will assist media organizations..."

Anything that read like that can't be good.

The media would have no trouble finding their own sources or people to interview. The WH wants its spin on anything made pertaining to it.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-22-06 11:45 PM
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5. Golly
Think Katrina's one-year will get the same loving attention?

(where's the gullible smiley?)
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Klimmer Donating Member (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 12:09 AM
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9. I can't help but think those in control of this media dog and pony show
Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 12:38 AM by Klimmer
will not allow their hand-picked witnesses to stray from the official big lie.

Every witness there will no doubt say exactly what the Bush Crime Family and the GOP Neo-con Rethug administration want them to say in support of the Official Conspiracy Theory (OCT).

It is sad really, that they are trying so hard and fewer and fewer people are buying it.

9/11 MIHOP all the way --- absolutely no doubt about it:

The WTC twin towers plus building 7 were taken down by controlled demolition (thank you Dr. Jones in discovering the Thermate evidence).

No boeing 757 plowed into the Pentagon squeezing through a 16 foot hole. Something else did. Lots of evidence suggests a Global Hawk like missile is what did it. We have witnesses! And watch the Pentagon footage for yourself.

Flight 93 was shot down, if it really was flight 93, might have been a substitute. Where are all the bodies? Wreckage covering many square miles in the area. Why were cell phone calls faked? Cell phones don't work above 3000 - 4000' ft in altitude in a commercial jetliner. Try it yourself. Pretty much 100% failure. And on that flight many calls got through with great reception, and they were not all air-phones, how does this happen? Some new kind of alternate reality and laws of science going on?

No matter how hard our nation's criminal President "Shrub," and VP "Dick," and the Neo-con Rethug administration try, oh they can sure violate the laws of this country, lay waste to our constitution, ignore international law, and they do so with abandon, but they can't violate the laws of nature --- Physics. Never.

The gig is up.
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