- The American media's one-sided and propagandistic coverage
of the Iranian election has made an American hero out of the defeated candidate,
Mousavi.
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- This leaves one wondering if anyone anywhere in the US
media or US government knows that Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who served as prime
minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989, the decade
following the overthrow of the American puppet government by Khomeini,
has been fingered as the Butcher of Beirut, responsible for the bloody
attacks on the US embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut during the
Reagan administration that blew to pieces 241 US Marines, Sailors, and
Army troops.
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- According to <http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22903.htm>Jeff
Stein writing in the June 22, 2009, CQ Politics, Mousavi "personally
selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur,"
who presided over the terror cell responsible for the attacks.
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- The National Security Agency had a tap on the Iranian
ambassador to Lebanon, according to Admiral James Lyons who was deputy
chief of Naval Operations at the time. Admiral Lyons told Jeff Stein that
"the Iranian ambassador received instructions from the foreign minister
to have various groups target US personnel in Lebanon, but in particular
to carry out a 'spectacular action' against the Marines."
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- Stein reports that Lyons "also fingered Mousavi
for the 1988 truck bombing of the US Navy's Fleet Center in Naples, Italy."
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- Bob Baer, a CIA Middle East field officer at the time,
says that Mousavi "dealt directly with Imad Mughniyah," the person
responsible for both attacks.
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- All of these facts have gone into the Memory Hole. The
US media and government have turned Musavi, the bloody butcher of US servicemen,
into the would-be liberator of Iran from theocracy.
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- Only in America and in George Orwell's fictional population
in his <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15531.htm>predictive
book, 1984 can we find such citizen ignorance.
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- Every day in America, a.k.a. Oceania, we see the growing
power of Big Brother's three slogans: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
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- From ignorance comes the strength to create a hero out
of America's terrorist enemy, Mousavi.
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- From freedom comes the protection provided by being constantly
spied upon, no longer endangered by privacy which might keep Big Brother
from discovering a terrorist plot. This freedom from terrorists morphs
into the slavery of being held in indefinite detention without evidence
or charges. Habeas corpus has become the opposite of freedom as it prevents
our protection from terrorists.
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- On June 23, 2009, Big Brother Obama, following in the
tradition of Big Brothers Bush and Cheney, declared that Oceania and the
"entire world" are "appalled and outraged" by Iran's
violent efforts to crush protests organized by Oceania's interference in
Iran's election. Meanwhile, Oceania continued its wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and Pakistan, crushing people right and left while gearing up to bring
peace to Iran. No one is outraged at the violence. War is Peace. Those
who don't fight wars can't bring peace. Peace results when Big Brother's
hegemony extends over those regions that do not understand that War is
Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.
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- "The face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several
seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's
eyeballs were too vivid to wear off immediately. The little sandy-haired
woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of
her. With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Savior!' she extended
her arms toward the screen.
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- "<http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/0.html>At
this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical
chant of 'Big Brother, Big Brother, Big Brother!' over and over again,
very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second--a
heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of
which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms.
For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain
that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was
a sort of hymn to the wisdom and Majesty of Big Brother, but still more
it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness
by means of rhythmic noise."
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- The drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise
sums up well enough the performance of Oceania's Ministry of Truth.
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- How long do Americans have before doubting Big Brother
and the Ministry of Truth is a Thoughtcrime?
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- "Whether he wrote 'Down With Big Brother,' or whether
he refrained from writing it, made no difference. The Thought Police would
get him just the same. He had committed the essential crime that contained
all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it."
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- The neoconservatives have set up in America Thoughtcrime
watch committees over professors. Academics who depart from or challenge
the neocon line are reported and are subjected to vilification campaigns.
Sami Al-Arian, a computer science professor at a Florida University, was
destroyed by the US Department of Justice (sic) because he gave the Palestinian
side of the story.
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- The neocon academic spy operation has been given a boost
by Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence. Writing in CounterPunch
(June 23), David Price reports that Blair has announced plans for a program
to train intelligence officers, whose identities and activities would not
be known to professors or administrators, to conduct covert missions in
university classrooms.
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- This is as Orwellian is it comes. Thinking independently
is rapidly becoming a serious Thoughtcrime. Winston Smith was the only
one among Big Brother's subjects capable of independent thought. His ability
to think independently was discovered and terminated.
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- Already we see that the US media is incapable of independent
thought. Independent thought in the universities, where careers are dependent
on government grants, is already half dead. Independent thought does not
exist in think tanks, which serve the interests of donors. In America independent
thought is rapidly becoming an anti-American act, which is itself morphing
into a terrorist act.
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- Newspeak handles effortlessly the morphing and transforming
of meaning. New generations born into the new system know no difference
and, thus, do not need to be silenced. Once the older generations are brought
to heel, truth is whatever Big Brother says.
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