posted 08-04-2003 02:51 AM            

"It seems that guerrilla warfare is a real thing. Too much looting,
assaulting Iraqi women, too much Muslim-bashing. No discipline in the US forces and the
commanders have a hard time in controlling their men. Protestors are to be
shown to be "die-hard Baathist supporters of the evil Saddam" and show pictures
of a "commando" camp with pictures of Saddam and anti-US slogans." (June 12)

Since April, The Barnes Review News web site (www.tbrnews.org) has posted
memos like this from an executive at a major TV network to selected News Division
staff.

If they are authentic, these memos represent the most important revelation of
government deception since the Pentagon Papers, and suggest the "news" is
little more than mass psychological control. There are shocking references to
cover-ups of government domestic terrorism, SARS, Mad Cow, and events in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Korea, Iran and much more.

In mid-March TBR Webmaster Walter Storch received an email from a man who
claimed to be a mid-level executive at a major U.S. TV network. He said he had
"serious doubts" about the strict control of the media by the government.

He sent Storch a disc containing 1500 pages of memos dating back to 2001. All
were on corporate stationary signed by the sender and recipients in the News
Division.

Storch asked for current directives and was able to ascertain that they were
followed both in print and on TV. He posted the memos in excerpt or in full
and watched "as ordained news was created before our eyes."

"We are now printing the more outrageous and serious aspects of the incoming
papers with the hopes that this will cause serious public relations problems
[for] those directly involved," Storch wrote recently.

Named for "revisionist" historian Harry Elmer Barnes, TBR sees accepted
history as propaganda by the winners. Presumably the TV executive thought this web
site would have the courage to expose contemporary propaganda as well.

The memos so far have created a minor sensation. TBR news gets 3,000-10,000
viewers of this item per day, about half foreign. About 95% of the email
response is positive while 5% are from government and press people who are "outraged
by the implications. "

The memo writer is probably an executive at a media conglomerate in New York
charged with coordinating with government. His directives seem to be followed
by other networks and newspapers, although he refers to "unreliable"
newspapers (June 2).

He decides what to suppress ("blackout"), what to promote ("puff pieces"),
what angle to take on anything controversial. About SARS, which did spread to
the US but was called pneumonia, he says," Get the usual medical people and give
them the usual script." (May 25)

He has a cynical, conspiratorial, chatty style and makes the newsmen feel
they are "in the know." They do not include the public in this charmed circle.

RECENTLY A CHANGE OF TONE

In July, the memo writer starts to distance himself from Bush policy in Iraq,
which is becoming a quagmire like Vietnam. He implies that "our circle"
predicted this from the start. This suggests that his master may be the
Rockefeller-CIA-CFR elite network.

For the first time, the writer urges a "completely neutral position" in case
Bush goes the way of Richard Nixon. On July 12, he tells the executives to
follow the example of "bellweather" New York Times. On August 1, the New York
Times described Bush's performance at a recent news conference as "vague and
sometimes nearly incoherent.... [he gave] rambling non answers."

On July 17, the writer says, "The White House is moving into a bunker
mentality, very much like Nixon during the end of the Watergate business." The elite
media may be getting ready to dump George W. Bush. Why would they report every
U.S. casualty in Iraq when they have blacked out Afghanistan?

Iraq may be Bush's Watergate. He may have been tricked into invading Iraq,
just as Nixon was tricked into sanctioning Watergate. The whole affair from Sept
11 to the Iraq war may be designed (like Vietnam) to bleed the U.S. taxpayer,
destroy American morale and undermine the US's stature in the world.

SHOCKING REVELATIONS FROM WWW.TBRNEWS.ORG:

Ultimately you will make your own mind up about the authenticity of this
material.

For me it reads like the script of a play I have been seeing. Play down North
Korea. Black out Rachel Corrie. It's all followed. I have always been
disturbed by the uncanny uniformity of the three TV network newscasts.

Go to www.tbrnews.org and click on "Controlling the News". The latest reports
are at the bottom of Storch's introduction. There is a link to about 10 pages
of excerpts since February. You can subscribe to a full service for $5 a
month.

Here is a sample:

"Speculations of the actual nature of SARS are not under any circumstances to
be permitted. Keep in mind the currently in- place rules following the
outbreak of "Legionnaires Disease." (March 30)

"If this gets any credence, it could wreak havoc with the US cattle industry,
not to mention the fast food and restaurant business. Mad-cow has been in the
US before and kept very quiet. Let's see if we can't repeat this now." (May
24)

"Regarding North Korea, it is urgently requested by the White House that any
reference to the President?s determination to remove the existing leadership
of that country be downplayed. It should be mentioned as an "option" rather
than the intention of the President." (April 19)

"Re. Enormous amounts of US currency found in Iraq. Under no circumstances,
it has to be stressed, should any mention of amounts in excess of the publicly
stated $600 million be made. And absolutely no mention of the possibility of
these $100 bills being counterfeit." (May 3)

"The decision to proceed against Iran has been taken." (May 25)

MARTHA STEWART: "BETTER THE SMALL FRY GET COOKED"

Re. Martha Stewart: "Better the small fry get cooked than the really
important ones. Campaign funding? Hah, hah!" (June 7)

"There is a black-out on guerrilla attacks in Afghanistan. The fear is that
these are part of a coordinated attack in the Arab world." (June 12)

"The Administration has gotten burned by attacking [Ariel] Sharon. It won't
happen again." (June 13)

"North Korea is a back issue for now. We are pulling troops away from the DMZ
in case we have to nuke Pyongyang..." (June 13)

"SARS is officially dead. Monkeypox is replacing it. We have beaten SARS to
death so it is best to keep the file footage for when it comes back with a bang
this winter. With no vaccine in sight, buy masks, kids! If SARS combines with
something else, watch out on this one..." (June 14)

"Unemployment is soaring but let's keep this minor key unless some trouble
breaks out over it. Justice has evidence of serious labor unrest, especially
among ghetto minorities." (June 15)

"Serious problems with the growing resistance movement in Iraq... Iraqi oil
is being interdicted before it can be shipped out of the country. Casualties
cannot be concealed but can be minimalized....[No pictures of] Iraqis that
appear to have been beaten." (June 15)

DIRE MEASURES PLANNED IN IRAQ

"The most severe methods of interdiction are currently being indicated
including setting up detention camps, curfews, the issuance of ID cards, the closing
of mosques, the detention of religious leaders...An order is being prepared
to exclude all foreign media..." (June 16)

"For a decade, the establishment has taken a very dim view of the Internet.
It is seen as a method by dissident elements to propagandize the public and
publish material that might cause great disruption in the public mind..."
[Counter measures are discussed.] (June 16)

" Nailing the people at the tabloid press in Florida was a shot across our
bows?the media had best shut its mouth or look what can happen to you. There is
no substantive control over the military and official Washington is terrified
that they could pull another Northwoods game again..." (June 22)

" Bush was warned repeatedly by Pentagon experts that there was the strong
probability of dangerous insurgent activity [but] he and his close advisors such
as Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz discounted it. ... Pacification could take years,
not weeks or months, and with elections coming up next year, inside White House
sources have said the President and Rove are in a panic." (June 28)

"The best way to cover this [fraudulent claims of uranium sales to Iraq ] is
to be strictly neutral in comment and we must now maintain a completely
neutral position in all of this. If Bush has the same problems Nixon did over
Watergate, our viewers cannot see us as being blindly partisan. We have to have
plausible deniability in this. The NYT is now beginning to crack the wall of
silence surrounding the Presidency and as they are the bellweather, best to watch
them closely. " (July 12)

"THE IRAQIS WOULD GET NONE OF THEIR OIL SALES"

"The major disaster for the White House is that they cannot get oil out of
Iraq. The plan always was to root out Saddam, occupy the country after securing
the oil fields first and then put a CIA trained and controlled local
governments into place. This puppet government (let's face it gentlemen, that is what
it would be but we can call it Iraqi autonomy) would graciously grant to the US
the right to protect their oil resources and assist them in recovering their
pre-Desert Storm production levels. In fact, the Iraqis would get none of the
proceeds of the oil sales...(July 13)

"The Administration is over a barrel on this [prior warnings of Iraqi
guerrilla resistance] because if they try to make too many scapegoats, someone will
let the cat out of the bag over who really knew what and what kind of specific
warnings the White House had actually received?the same scenario as the 9-11
warnings..." (July 13)

"There is a growing fear in counter intelligence circles that if the
resistance movement in Iraq is not stopped, the resulting very bad PR might cause an
"incident" somewhere in the US just before election time to whip the voters up
to vote for Bush as a "wartime leader" who can put a number of draconian laws
and edicts in place to "protect the American people." Someone in the FBI said
to one of our people, entirely off the record, that quote it will probably be
the Statue of Liberty endquote.

There must be no speculation on this subject under any circumstances. If some
rigged incident does happen and we comment on it in advance, new regulations
could cause us serious problems... If this happens, it will be Rumsfeld who
plans and executes it. This will give the President the usual deniability. It is
more than likely that we will get some advance notice of such an action and
then decisions can be made relative to going to the public. On one hand, it
would be a magnificent media coup guaranteeing ratings off the chart and on the
other, a death sentence..." (July 14)

"OPEN MUTINY"

"The White House is now moving into a bunker mentality, very much like Nixon
during the end of the Watergate business. With mounting Iraqi opposition and
facing a very capable guerrilla movement, supplied by Syria and Russia, the US
has run into the stonewall we all predicted. His personality will not permit
the President to withdraw in good order; the neocons and the oil people will
simply not let him. Bush is stuck between the rock and the proverbial hard
place... Serious growing unrest in the troops coupled with very low morale, growing
death tolls, lack of rotation, real fear of being fatally attacked are all
leading to a situation that our Pentagon source informs us could actually erupt
into open mutiny.

Couple all of this with the terrible economy, the insistence of the Bush
people on insane tax cuts (to help out corporate America), the obvious right wing
political and religious fanatics supporting the President and we have the
makings of serious, probably fatal, domestic problems. The fear is that a frantic
Administration could connive at some kind of domestic terrorism if and when
they perceive the President slumping badly in the polls. He already is and it
looks like it might go like the economy. Today, a 65% favorite; tomorrow
matching [Grey] Davis' 20%. " (July 17)

posted 08-08-2003 02:12 AM            

I've happily posted this thread on several other forums.
(another 3-4 thousand reading it thanks to you)

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

Well done!

Post more truths that I may help spread the truth worldwide.