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   textsurfer@cda.net to Chom Noamsky   
   Re: The Propaganda about Canada "Coming    
   20 Feb 11 12:34:00   
   
   XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.british   
      
   "Chom Noamsky"  wrote in message   
   news:F4SdnUZAQLF6vsLQnZ2dnUVZ_uCdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > On 2/18/2011 5:14 PM, anarchore wrote:   
   >> I don't remember having heard this line until quite recently.   
   >>   
   >> Now it is inserted into Canada's media (CTV, CBC,etc) reports at every   
   >> opportunity.   
   >>   
   >> They tell us that Canada came of age via bloodletting during WWI.   
   >>   
   >> We all watched the behaviour of a compliant media in propagating   
   >> numerous and unrelenting alarmist stories which were later exposed as   
   >> outright government deception and lies after 9/11 and leading up to   
   >> war against Iraq.  A lot of the lies were being exposed in real-time   
   >> but the media did not question the government.   
   >>   
   >> Today the same dynamic plays out in the language used, as discredited   
   >> propaganda terms like 'Al Qaeda' and  'Arab hijackers' continue to be   
   >> fed to through what is clearly the undisguised voice of the military   
   >> industrial complex and it's Zionist handlers.   
   >>   
   >> In this light, to hear the same militarized media say that Canada   
   >> supposedly came of age through warfare alongside it's parent   
   >> corporation Great Britain(by succumbing to British lies of that time)   
   >> is obvious and crude jingoistic propaganda.   
   >>   
   >> The slaughter of millions is a hell of a thing to consider as the   
   >> defining moment of a nation.    I thought it was 'national health   
   >> care', but it seems that this is being shifted, Winstons Smith   
   >> rewriting the history books before our eyes.  Is violence and mass   
   >> murder a cherised Canadian value?   
   >>   
   >> Are Canadians that succeptible to blind and false pride, that they   
   >> can't see that this kind of propaganda is being used to justify the   
   >> current wars?   
   >   
   > When outing propaganda it's generally a good idea to refrain from using   
   phrases like   
   > "military industrial complex and it's Zionist handlers". You exposed your   
   agenda so quickly   
   > and clumsily.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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