The Evening Standard gets my vote. Racist all the way. They really ratcheted up the propaganda against asylum seekers back in the late nineties, with their ubiquitous billboards all around London. Day after day there was some bonkers headline plastered all over the city alleging random stuff about asylum seekers, usually spurious, always negative. My particular favourite was a headline about asylum seekers committing crime disguised as London schoolchildren. Half the time there was barely any connection between the headline and what the story was really about, but that wasn't the point... The majority of people who saw the billboards wouldn't be buying the paper anyway - they just saw the negative message. After a while these things sink in. I still think they played a major role in creating the hysteria we're dealing with today.

Looks like they're still at it, too - check out these "fair and balanced" headlines:

 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/search/?query=asylum&length=0

Since the demonstrations which reversed the electoral decision in the Ukraine, I've heard and seen many Ukrainians talking about large groups of foreigners who were pivotal to their planning. Many of these groups were the ones responsible for paying for the food, shelter, and orange banners used by the protestors. I didn't think much of this, or the accusations of funding from agencies such as the CIA, until I saw the same thing occuring in Lebanon.

Then, a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (www.cbc.ca), Carol Off, did a piece explaining that the "spontaneous, gressroots" protests in the Ukraine were the result of CIA funding and planning, over a period of ten years. Sadly, the report lauded these tactics of Regime Change, but nonetheless, proved my point.

One thing I've noticed is the tightly-controlled Western media's willingness to ignore the unsubstantiated allegations made in Syria and Lebanon that the Central Intelligence Agency, or Israel's Mossad, or both, were responsible for the assassination of Hariri, and behind the recent Opposition Movements, while at the same time, parroting over and over the same unsubstantiated claims about Syria, emanating from the White House den of LIARS and thieves. Even media outlets which I consider better than the rest, like the CBC, are guilty of such irresponsibility. When pro-Syrian demonstrators turned out in the hundreds of thousands, proving the anti-Syrians to be the minority voice, the media downplayed these numbers.

Just feels a bit too staged for my taste ... What I find the most irresonsible about all of this is the fact that whoever is behind this, they are attempting (and succeeding) to divide the Lebanese People, and cause conflict both within the country, and towards Syria. This, of course, aids the Israelis and PNAC Americans, who both have an interest, and want to invade and occupy Syria (and perhaps Lebanon as well), as called for repeatedly by the agenda which has seen Bush/PNAC illegally invade two Arab nations already.

The CBC chose Janice Stein, a Zionist "Middle East Expert" to comment on the situation, and she said when she saw the demonstrations she "saw the colour orange". This was after the first anti-Syrian demo, when the colour scheme wasn't so pronounced. Since then, orange flags, placards, etc. have started "spontaneously" appearing in great numbers.

When I was in university, my Design professor brought in some Colour Researchers from the University of Edmonton, who lectured on the psychological, but also the PHYSICAL effects, colours have on the human body and mind. This red-orange colour is one of the "comfort colours", and you will no doubt remember seeing it in countless commercials (ING Direct, and the creepy, stereotypical European banker, anyone ... ?).

Since the CIA, or Mossad, or whoever is ultimately behind these carefully stage-managed displays, you know they understand what they're doing. I believe that we should be taking a cue from them, and striking while the iron is hot. This orange colour scheme has been carefully crafted in order to transmit "armchair understanding" of these two manufactured crises.

Even though it was our Enemy putting it out there, for their own purposes, we should seize the opportunity to claim it for ourselves. After all, we have been granted an unprecedented look inside the CIA's "Handbook for Non-Violent Revolution", and you know damn well that they have studied all of the relevant psychological factors.

If you are to protest, form now on, DRESS IN ORANGE, and CARRY SIGNS OF ORANGE, rally at the feet of power, and the media, DEMANDING that the democratic Will of the People not be ignored. I guarantee this will send an instant message, not only to the Bush/PNAC/Bliar Regime, but to all Americans and to the world that sees it.

Keep your signs easy to read and understand, things such as "FIRE THE LIARS", and at media centres, "LIARS", or "TRAITORS", or "COWARDS". Groups should design some Talking Points, and designate members to speak with the reporters on-scene. In larger centres, you should inform the media of what's going to happen, and call the stations' News Director or Assignment Editor, and request to be interviewed. You could even take it further, and offer your services as an Activist Analyst for the day, just like they use ex-military personnel, and members of Right-Wing "Think-Tanks".

Let's test these LIARS and criminals, and their media puppets, and see just how much they truly respect "Freedom & Democracy", the words upon which they attempt to justify the attrocities upon which they've built their fortunes. Regardless of what happens, the message will be sent. We have nothing to lose. If something comes of this, then great. Follow up and celebrate. If the rallies are ignored, or treated by the police as those in the past, then you've just PROVEN these men to be the Hypocrites we all know them to be.

I'd like to see as many people as can not simply Rally for a few hours, but for DAYS. Those who cannot make it there, plan and hold your own local rallies, and not only gather where your Government officials meet, but also where the media does its business.

Let's take this thing that was designed to dupe people into supporting what the Fascists in DC/No. 10 want, and turn it on its head. Let's use it as a tool for bringing that Fascism to its knees, and demonstrate the good intentions that were to be assumed about the "Orange Revolutionaries".

Remember, that we are the Majority, and Truth is our greatest Ally.

The only way we can fail, is if we fail to ACT.

P E A C E . . . ?

"No matter how far you have traveled down the wrong road, turn back"
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

an internet search on

'soft power'


Soft power rests on the ability to shape the preferences of others.
 http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4290&t=leadership


Soft power is the ability to get what you want by attracting and persuading others to adopt your goals. It differs from hard power, the ability to use the carrots and sticks of economic and military might to make others follow your will. Both hard and soft power are important in the war on terrorism, but attraction is much cheaper than coercion, and an asset that needs to be nourished.
 http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/opeds/2003/nye_soft_power_iht_011003.htm



Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics
Joseph S. Nye
 http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/4466

i found this interesting little ditty

DITCHLEY FOUNDATION LECTURE
AMERICA AND EUROPE: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF SOFT POWER
 http://www.ditchley.co.uk/news/Annual Lecture 2004.htm


Information Operations: The Hard Reality of Soft Power
 http://www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/jiopc/io-textbook.pdf

Soft power" means emphasizing diplomacy, economics, and cultural relationships in a national security strategy broadened to cover such "transnational threats" as environmental change, AIDS, population growth, and decline in biological diversity. The State Department disavows any intent to lessen the strategic emphasis on military power, although the "international affairs resources budget" might need some adjusting.



"Soft power" is said to be the work of Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, a friend of President Bill Clinton since their Oxford days, when they roomed together as Rhodes scholars. His opinions count in this Administration. Furthermore, the new focus on "transnational threats" fits a pattern of ideas that have been floated intermittently over the past year.
 http://www.afa.org/magazine/may1994/05edit94.asp



after reading these definitions of 'soft power'
now read

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
An introductory programming manual

supposedly written in 1979

by ????????

is it for real? Urban Legend?

 http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/murder_inc/swqw.html


maybe these nutsos read it too...
and thought it sounded good

How about we protest about lying fraudster self-proclaimed canadian journos who go around baselessly accusing any he disagrees with as "spooks", "trolls" or "brownshirts"?

We could call it "Fuck off Lying Loon Day!"?

Just a thought...

Funny how focused you are on myself and my activities here.

Just because you're Indignant (Disinformation), doesn't mean that you aren't a Spook or creepy "freeper/LGF" volunteer.

Then prove it or shut the fuck up! I'll keep reminding you till you do.

In case you have forgotten. You need to prove that:

a) all the people you have been insulting baselessly here are guilty
b) that your claims of being a spookcatcher are true

I told you where you could find the relvant info, and who to talk to.

Your Distracting Disinformation is transparent.

The "Orange Revolution" Tactics will work, if applied, for they were developed by people who make it their business to know how to destabilize Governments. It's time we reclaimed their tactics, for the good of the People of this floating rock.

PROVIDE you OWN defence, lair!