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Old 05-03-2008, 09:08 PM   #81 (permalink)
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The truth is that the US military is infinitely more technologically advanced than how your comment potrays it to be.
"balls up" is not in the language of the US military. There are security clearances, protocols, backup plans, control hierachies - they couldn't (for example) put a man on the moon if they weren't extremely intelligent people and had their technological advances planned to the finest and most minute detail.
You can't say someone cocked up because it would not depend on the failure of just one person - it would have to be a multitude of serious errors.
The words Dr. and Strangelove leap to mind.....
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Old 05-03-2008, 09:10 PM   #82 (permalink)
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They do blow up small issues to suit their own agenda a lot. That is pretty normal behaviour for most people though. Everyone likes to think they have been proven right.
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They do blow up small issues to suit their own agenda a lot. That is pretty normal behaviour for most people though. Everyone likes to think they have been proven right.
Sure it's a fair point though I have to beg to differ slightly....

I'd say occasionally, but often they do need smaller "real life" stories to highlight why the MSM agenda/propaganda is wrong, but like you say of course, this is indeed their agenda they want to promote.
So they report news, but are also a politcal awareness website.

To say 'a lot' to me sounds like they're fitting a false agenda of spin on the scale of the mainstream media - not sure if that's completely fair to them.
Not that I'm saying you're saying that of course.....

Not sure if I can say "false agenda of spin" doesn't apply to the the MSM however !

But yes they do blow up small stories sometimes(maybe without even consciously knowing it ? Ok maybe they do...), but I still believe 98% of them are accurate and trustworthy.

And again, I'd say that any error from alternative media is latched upon 10 times worse - if they're not squeaky clean - they get derided out of hand by conspiracy theory haters.
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The words Dr. and Strangelove leap to mind.....
Oh, No!!! My Arm....
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I haven't seen the film so your humour is lost on me I'm afraid....

Fill me in if you like, I won't bite you.
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Oh I've seen this film before yeah.


So funny ! I love Stanley Kubrick.

Oh god, do I sound like that ?
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