keywords of deception

the whole language thing is striking yet again. new keywords: "structural problems" re: intelligence and "extremely precise" re: targeting of resistance fighters in fallujah, despite:

"Of 1200 injured, it said 243 were women and 200 children. The groups warned their estimate might be too low. "Dead bodies are lying in the streets. Ambulances are being shot at by snipers. Medical aid and supplies have been stopped by US occupation forces," a statement from the NGOs said. The Marines conducting the week-long operation in Falluja have been accused of firing indiscriminately on people in the city, killing women and children."

you will see that all representatives use these words religiously, while the media does all it can to swallow them uncritically and accepts any semantic that is thrown at it.

the best new word however, is "specific". as condi points out and gwb reiterated yesterday, it is certainly correct that the pdb makes no "specific" mention that terrorists were going to fly hijacked airliners into the wtc towers on 9/11. how silly. as bush says, he would have "moved mountains" to prevent such an attack, had he known of its "specific" arrival. no shit. if only it had been more "specific" hey...

strangely though, keyword "specific" doesn't seem to apply in any area of u.s. policy, especially not when it comes to generating a casus belli. nor has any "specific" action since 9/11 really accomplished anything. and we all know that the bush league was internationally asleep pre-9/11, instead focusing on nmd, alaskan oil, tax cuts, medicare and other moves of public corporatism (= fascism) via international capital transfer (= imperialism). how convenient to wake up suddenly, and divert popular attention away from internal affairs and launch a "war on terror".

sadly their "war on terror" is a complete farce. afghanistan is said to have been a victorious war, yet it did absolutely nothing to reduce the al-qaeda threat. if anything, it gave radical islam a reason to group itself globally, in a more extensive manner than ever before. and as everybody knows by now, the pre-emptive attack on iraq with no link to the "war on terror" proposed, has thus nothing to do with anything, other than fascism and imperialism. these are the only two fitting words - by definition, not popular use.

yet, despite global opposition to iraq policy (which must be looking increasingly shaky to the Führer and his Stab), condosleazy maintains that "they hate us for who we are", thereby attempting to emphasize that the "u.s. is at war" (with someone completely unrelated to 9/11), in this so-called "war on terror". straight deception, open lying.

unfortunately, the stupid majority in red america will never wake up to these specific deception strategies. looking at history though, we are relieved to know, that generating public support via patriotic and militant emotions is always a first symptom of a brownish-völkisch flight of madness coming to an end.


billmon had a great orwellian excerpt to this end:

"A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four metres high [cf. hicks re: saddams "elite" republican guard, "desert warrior, two feet tall, never lost a battle, we shit bullets!"], striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip. From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed to be pointed straight at you. The thing had been plastered on every blank space on every wall, even outnumbering the portraits of Big Brother. The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism."

like this, it will happen again.