Monthly Archives: March 2008

Beating Hollywood

Plagiarized from http://outsidethewire.com/blog/documentary-series/beating-hollywood.html People often complain about Hollywood’s leftward tilt when it comes to Iraq, but few do anything pro-active about it. JD Johannes is trying to do something about it.  He has nearly died a few times trying to do something … Continue reading

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Filed under Electronic Counter Media, Heroes

FITNA A film by Geert Wilders

UPDATE:  Read Samizdat over at The Belmont Club. Unless society does it job of protecting life and liberty effectively, its failure will spur the rise of freelancers. . . . information about freedom and the free world is now on … Continue reading

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Filed under Cyber Guerrilla Chieftains, Info Warriors

it’s preferable to keep the sites operating as a way of tracking the spread of radical Islam, rather than try to quell them one by one

They don’t have the credibility to convince me of that. Unwittingly hosting terror by Boston Globe journo Bryan Bender.  ”What’s useful about them is to understand the relationships between the various people that are on the sites, obviously in some cases … Continue reading

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Filed under Info Warriors, PSYOP Auxiliaries

Who Still Takes Dahr Jamail Seriously?

Never heard of him?  Lucky you. Debunking people like him is a necessary task that nobody in our government has the political backing to accomplish.  Civilian Irregular Counterpropagandists can do this. I first became aware of this via Chief Glenn, … Continue reading

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Filed under PSYOP Auxiliaries

concerned Afghan citizens dime out Taliban

First official use of the term “concerned Afghan citizens” I’ve seen so far.  Afghan, Coalition Forces Detain Taliban Facilitators

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The police in Shahjoy no longer resemble a “posse,”

Army Capt. Dave Perry and Afghan National Police Lt. Fazal Rahman brief Afghan patrolmen before a presence patrol in Nowrak village, Afghanistan. Rahman commands these patrolmen from a patrol base in the Shahjoy district of Zabul province. Perry leads the … Continue reading

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Filed under IW, The Forgotten War

No Sons of Afghanistan Need Apply

I had the honor to address this morning Major General Robert Cone, Commanding General for the Combined Security Transition Command- Afghanistan, based in Camp Eggers in Kabul.  The whole Blogger’s Roundtable transcript is here.  I added the links, bolding, and … Continue reading

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Filed under IW, The Forgotten War

This Is A Test

Dutch Quran film website shut down Will any American company host “Fitna?” Geert Wilders meets with Restrictive Measures: Restrictive measures. This technique denies the audience access to the propaganda. Jamming, physical destruction, and occupation of media outlets are some examples … Continue reading

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Jules Crittenden Saves You 4.5 Hours

and demonstrates the counterpropaganda techniques of direct refutation and conditioning. Frontline’s ‘Bush’s War’: Not About Bush or His War

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Filed under Old Media, PSYOP

There Won’t Always Be An England

PC multiculti tranzie Eurowienies.   “Home Office policy precludes applications with tattoos on lower arm, hand, face or neck that are prominent, which may cause offence and/or invite provocation from the public or colleagues.” “A family who aren’t of English origin … Continue reading

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Filed under Idea War

Blockade

Explosions and fire destroy trucks, injure dozens at Pakistan-Afghan border Cl III.  Westerners can’t fight a war in Central Asia without it.   Listen to your Loggy Toads.   H/T:  Lord Bill

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Filed under Logistics, The Forgotten War

WHY DO US COMPANIES LIKE NETWORK SOLUTIONS HELP SUPPORT HIZBALLAH AND OTHER RACISTS?

Implementing Epaminondas‘ idea for attracting attention and directing scrutiny through bots.

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Some Regulars Just don’t Get IW

Cyber Vigilantes Track Extremist Web Sites, Intelligence Experts Balk at Effort Michael Radu, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an expert on terror-related Web sites, said the government is already overburdened trying to monitor the thousands … Continue reading

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Andropov Is Dead, But His Disinformation Machine Carries On

Kerry’s Soviet Rhetoric  The Vietnam-era antiwar movement got its spin from the Kremlin. KGB priority number one at that time was to damage American power, judgment, and credibility. One of its favorite tools was the fabrication of such evidence as … Continue reading

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The Belmont Club: We’ve got him now

The Belmont Club: We've got him now

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Distributed Resistance

Wretchard’s cooking with gas today: Osama Bin Laden has just said “ouch”.  What makes the Mohammed Cartoon attack on radical Islam so potent that Bin Laden himself must oppose it, is two things. First, anyone can make fun of radical … Continue reading

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NYT to Civilian Irregular Information Operators –

Go back to the mall, the Regulars are doing much better than you give them credit for. Interviews with more than two dozen senior officials involved in the effort provided the outlines of previously unreported missions to mute Al Qaeda’s … Continue reading

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There is a known problem with Jihadist sympathizer infiltration within the media

A few amongst the readership here undoubtedly have pre-planned paragraphs protesting the paranoia of people who point out such problems. People like Jeffrey Imm at Counterrorism Blog. Last August, the New York Times demonstrated such lack of integrity in publishing an article … Continue reading

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Calling all Instigators, Ring Leaders, Rabble Rousers, . . .

  Trouble Makers, Shit Stirrers and similar reprobates interested in confusing the enemy. Red on Red IO fratricide is the mission. Can we do it? YES, WE CAN! Join This Wiki New members welcome.

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Filed under CNA, Info Warriors, IW, Morale Operations, PSYOP Auxiliaries, The Forgotten War

Illegitimi non carborundum

FM 3-0 LEGITIMACY Develop and maintain the will necessary to attain the national strategic end state. A-21. For Army forces, legitimacy comes from three important factors. First, the operation or campaign must be conducted under U.S. law. Second, the operation … Continue reading

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