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The Pentagon plans to launch a $US300 million operation to place pro-American messages in foreign media and on items such as T-shirts and bumper stickers without disclosing the US Government as the source, USA Today said on Wednesday.
Run by psychological warfare experts at the US Special Operations Command, the media campaign is aimed at countering terrorist ideology and swaying foreign audiences to support US policies, one of the military in charge of the program told the daily.
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After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.
Written by: Patriarch917
“The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.”
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Written by: Seye
I recently went to the communism museum in Prague (/Praha) and was amazed by the number of similarities between the propoganda methods adopted by the Stalinist communist party and those now used by the US and UK (I'm not entirely sure about the rest of the world). Most of this is directed at their own people.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Written by: Pyrolific
without knowing the author, how can you evaluate the intent?
actually by masking the author of the information and presenting it as authored by someone else, is being deliberately misleading.
I think intent is important - especially when it comes to information that can not easily be objectively evaluated.
Alls fair in love and war (and everything else)? I would hope that there are some traits like empathy that might be able to distinguish humans from bacteria or viruses - however the behaviour of many people lead me to think that there really isnt that much difference...
much of the war on terror is supported through a moral high ground stance...bringing democracy to the east and all that. Surely it is highly inconsistent for the power that is waging that war to employ tactics which are themselves unethical?
Written by: Seye
I recently went to the communism museum in Prague (/Praha) and was amazed by the number of similarities between the propoganda methods adopted by the Stalinist communist party and those now used by the US and UK (I'm not entirely sure about the rest of the world). Most of this is directed at their own people.
Smile.. It confuses people..:)
Wonders never cease as long as you never cease to wonder.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Rules and responsibities:
These are the ties that bind us.
We do what we do,because of who we are.
If we did otherwise,we would not be ourselves.
I will do what i have to do
And i will do what i must..
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: jeff(fake)
Please give some examples, I'm curious (and have a slight niggling suspicion you're exaggerating slightly ).
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
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Written by: Antonio Gramsci
The centre [of a society] is not so much a set of values commonly taken to have sacred significance but the home of a dominant class that promotes a world view to the population at large that serves it's own interests at the expense of others. This world view comes to be accepted by subordinate groups as common sense, and so they conspire in their own subordination, accepting beliefs and values that justify the unequal distribution of power and rewards in society.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Written by: Pyrolific
I think the use of deception as a weapon in a war on terrorism is inconsistent.
my question to HOP;
Is it wrong to use a wrong method (deception) against a wrong method (terrorism)?
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I reckon deception is wrong (we can start a whole nuther thread on this one tho )
Therefore this part of the war on terror is not moral or ethical.
Written by: Immanuel Kant
Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it would become a universal law.
Written by: The Bible (So Pay attention!)
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Written by: Patriarch917
A hardcore materialist might reply that there is no true good or evil, but that these are merely preferences.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Written by: jeff(fake)
The big problem with the-ends-justify-the-means is that nothing really ends.
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Written by: i8beefy2
"I could have killed you but instead chose to appeal to your heart to stop the violence"
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
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'given the current world climate and the attitudes and societies involved, etc., propoghanda may very well be justified. ie if your religion brainwashes your fundamentals to believe its a good idea to go blow themselves up to hurt lots of people, perhaps propoghanda is justified (not saying this so, just extrapolating).
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Nietzsche
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