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Dwight D Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrGKwkmxAU
Is it possible that the actions of the iran Contra aftermath and the flooding of the intentional Black community with drugs and high tech weapons, led to heavy drug dealing filling the prisons as well as making fratricidal music acceptable?
Just a coincidence?
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VIDEO GAME MIND CONTROL?
Video Game Used To Lure New Recruits
Charlotte Observer
March 4, 2005
This is scary and maddening. Unable to get the necessary recruits for the military the old-fashioned way, the U.S. Army has sunk $16 million into a government-sponsored video game that blurs the line between fantasy and the reality of war.
The taxpayer-financed "America's Army" is so clever a mind game that even the military folks behind it get a little confused when talking it up. Time magazine said Major Chris Chambers, deputy director of the video's development team, had to stop and correct himself when he called the violence, combat and "death animation" in the game "real." "It's not real; it's simulated. But we're simulating reality," he said.
Got that?
The computer-based video game was rolled out as a recruitment and training tool -- primarily recruitment -- on July 4, 2002. And players can click a button in the game menu and go directly to an Army recruiting Web site, Time reports.
The military thinks there's nothing wrong with this. After all, Chambers says, "We treat it openly and honestly ... we don't sugarcoat it." But is it really "honest" when the game focuses on the adrenaline rush of the fight, and doesn't or can't convey the true human costs of war?
full article;
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_game_030405,00.html
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GANGST RAP DESIGNED TO CREATE A WARLIKE MENTALITY?
Singer, Alicia Keys, recently made a statement that astounded and shocked the majority of her fans. She inferred that the U.S Government played a part in the creation of “Gangsta rap” and that its primary objective was the mis-education of young black males, and the proliferation of black on black animosity.
To be sure, a surplus of entertainment blogs and news sites, paying uncritical deference to her words; viciously attacked the singer, berating her for being involved in such conspiracy-theorist activity. What they failed to see, however, is that the “Reaganomics” era laid the foundation for the aggressively-toned form of Hip-Hop that has dominated the airwaves for the last 20 yrs. This couldn’t possibly be a product of happenstance.
EXERPT from the Black Commentator;
http://www.blackcommentator.com/277/277_weapons_mass_distraction_olorunda_student_guest.html
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NATIONAL POLICY
Fast Times at Recruitment High
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited the Pentagon into Chicago's schools. Will he promote military schools nationwide?
—By Andy Kroll
—Photo: Chicago JROTC
Sun August 30, 2009 1:12 PM PST
When Arne Duncan stepped down as the head of the Chicago Public Schools to become the secretary of education in January, the school district he left behind had little to brag about. While Duncan served as its chief executive officer, CPS received mostly average or below average rankings in "The Nation's Report Card," a Department of Education assessment of the country's largest urban school districts. Its high school graduation rates lingered at around 50 percent, well short of the national average of 70 percent. And since 2004, CPS has failed as a district to meet No Child Left Behind's "adequate yearly progress" standards. In one area, however, Chicago's schools stood out: In large part to Duncan's efforts, they were—and remain—the most militarized in America.
Nearly 10,500 of Chicago's 203,000 sixth- through twelfth-graders participate in some kind of military program on campus, from joining the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps to enrolling in Pentagon-sponsored JROTC academies. As the district's CEO (and previously as deputy chief of staff to his predecessor, Paul Vallas), Duncan oversaw the controversial move to bring full-fledged military academies to the Windy City. The district's first, the Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville, opened in 1999, and three more followed during Duncan's tenure. Today, Chicago has six military high schools run by a branch of the armed services. Six smaller military academies share buildings with existing high schools. Nearly three dozen JROTC programs exist in regular high schools, where students attend a daily JROTC class and wear uniforms to school one day a week. And at the middle school level, there is a JROTC program for sixth, seventh- and eighth-graders.
full article;
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/fast-times-recruitment-high
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdrGKwkmxAU
Is it possible that the actions of the iran Contra aftermath and the flooding of the intentional Black community with drugs and high tech weapons, led to heavy drug dealing filling the prisons as well as making fratricidal music acceptable?
Just a coincidence?
--------------------------------------------------------------
VIDEO GAME MIND CONTROL?
Video Game Used To Lure New Recruits
Charlotte Observer
March 4, 2005
This is scary and maddening. Unable to get the necessary recruits for the military the old-fashioned way, the U.S. Army has sunk $16 million into a government-sponsored video game that blurs the line between fantasy and the reality of war.
The taxpayer-financed "America's Army" is so clever a mind game that even the military folks behind it get a little confused when talking it up. Time magazine said Major Chris Chambers, deputy director of the video's development team, had to stop and correct himself when he called the violence, combat and "death animation" in the game "real." "It's not real; it's simulated. But we're simulating reality," he said.
Got that?
The computer-based video game was rolled out as a recruitment and training tool -- primarily recruitment -- on July 4, 2002. And players can click a button in the game menu and go directly to an Army recruiting Web site, Time reports.
The military thinks there's nothing wrong with this. After all, Chambers says, "We treat it openly and honestly ... we don't sugarcoat it." But is it really "honest" when the game focuses on the adrenaline rush of the fight, and doesn't or can't convey the true human costs of war?
full article;
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_game_030405,00.html
______________________________________________________________________________
GANGST RAP DESIGNED TO CREATE A WARLIKE MENTALITY?
Singer, Alicia Keys, recently made a statement that astounded and shocked the majority of her fans. She inferred that the U.S Government played a part in the creation of “Gangsta rap” and that its primary objective was the mis-education of young black males, and the proliferation of black on black animosity.
To be sure, a surplus of entertainment blogs and news sites, paying uncritical deference to her words; viciously attacked the singer, berating her for being involved in such conspiracy-theorist activity. What they failed to see, however, is that the “Reaganomics” era laid the foundation for the aggressively-toned form of Hip-Hop that has dominated the airwaves for the last 20 yrs. This couldn’t possibly be a product of happenstance.
EXERPT from the Black Commentator;
http://www.blackcommentator.com/277/277_weapons_mass_distraction_olorunda_student_guest.html
____________________________________________________________________________
NATIONAL POLICY
Fast Times at Recruitment High
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited the Pentagon into Chicago's schools. Will he promote military schools nationwide?
—By Andy Kroll
—Photo: Chicago JROTC
Sun August 30, 2009 1:12 PM PST
When Arne Duncan stepped down as the head of the Chicago Public Schools to become the secretary of education in January, the school district he left behind had little to brag about. While Duncan served as its chief executive officer, CPS received mostly average or below average rankings in "The Nation's Report Card," a Department of Education assessment of the country's largest urban school districts. Its high school graduation rates lingered at around 50 percent, well short of the national average of 70 percent. And since 2004, CPS has failed as a district to meet No Child Left Behind's "adequate yearly progress" standards. In one area, however, Chicago's schools stood out: In large part to Duncan's efforts, they were—and remain—the most militarized in America.
Nearly 10,500 of Chicago's 203,000 sixth- through twelfth-graders participate in some kind of military program on campus, from joining the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps to enrolling in Pentagon-sponsored JROTC academies. As the district's CEO (and previously as deputy chief of staff to his predecessor, Paul Vallas), Duncan oversaw the controversial move to bring full-fledged military academies to the Windy City. The district's first, the Chicago Military Academy at Bronzeville, opened in 1999, and three more followed during Duncan's tenure. Today, Chicago has six military high schools run by a branch of the armed services. Six smaller military academies share buildings with existing high schools. Nearly three dozen JROTC programs exist in regular high schools, where students attend a daily JROTC class and wear uniforms to school one day a week. And at the middle school level, there is a JROTC program for sixth, seventh- and eighth-graders.
full article;
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/fast-times-recruitment-high