Hugh Manatee goes mainstream

[chlamor]

Hollywood Is Becoming the Pentagon's Mouthpiece for Propaganda

By Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. Posted May 22, 2008.

In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.

"Liberal Hollywood" is a favorite whipping-boy of right-wingers who suppose the town and its signature industry are ever-at-work undermining the U.S. military. In reality, the military has been deeply involved with the film industry since the Silent Era. Today, however, the ad hoc arrangements of the past have been replaced by a full-scale one-stop shop, occupying a floor of a Los Angeles office building. There, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and the Department of Defense itself have established entertainment liaison offices to help ensure that Hollywood makes movies the military way.

What they have to trade, especially when it comes to blockbuster films, is access to high-tech, tax-payer funded, otherwise unavailable gear. What they get in return is usually the right to alter or shape scripts to suit their needs. If you want to see the fruits of this relationship in action, all you need to do is head down to your local multiplex. Chances are that Iron Man -- the latest military-entertainment masterpiece -- is playing on a couple of screens.

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http://www.alternet.org/movies/86093/

"Is becoming?"

Hugh knows a little more than that.

[compared2what?]

Hugh should consider filing an application for trademark registration wrt the commercial use of the phrase "keyword highjacking" in the sense with which he has imbued it. Because for one thing, if it does go mainstream, it would just enrage me beyond all reason to see some appropriator of it on late-night television promoting his or her new book.

And I'm not really joking. In a coopted, dumbed-down form, it would be exactly the kind of fun pseudo-sociological phenomenon mass media likes to beat to death before forgetting they ever knew it.

Plus in reality I got mildly irritated with the below-linked last scene of Full Metal Jacket the other day for plagiarizing Hugh's motifs. Which was definitely beyond all reason though not, as an isolated instance, also beyond all toleration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmILOL55xP0.

[rrapt]

Last night CSI Miami ran an episode including some murder-by-airplane (somebody rigged a lite plane with carbon monoxide and killed the pilot).

Point is, one of the bad guy characters was named Dekker. If you've followed much of Hopsicker's tales on the web you'll remember that Rudi Dekker, a German national, in Florida, near Miami, has been one of the major bad guys in the whole scheme there, involving a flight school, drug planes, "hijackers-before-9/11", etc etc.

Dekker (the real one) has been allowed to slip away and do more dirty deeds in the far Pacific and elsewhere, so naturally plenty of folks are asking why. Now we find out (subliminally?) thru a television story that he's just a common criminal in Miami and has been put away by our law enforcement heros. All is well.

Thought I'd share this with y'all and with Hugh is case yr not a CSI fan. It struck me like a blast of confirmation.

[Jeff]

Point is, one of the bad guy characters was named Dekker...

Thought I'd share this with y'all and with Hugh is case yr not a CSI fan. It struck me like a blast of confirmation.

Is that this episode, or the same character described: Charlie Decker?

For what it's worth, here's IMDB's compilation of characters named either "Decker" or "Dekker"

And it's Rudi Dekkers.

[orz]

Plus in reality I got mildly irritated with the below-linked last scene of Full Metal Jacket the other day for plagiarizing Hugh's motifs. Which was definitely beyond all reason though not, as an isolated instance, also beyond all toleration.

"The URL contained a malformed video ID." but that aside, shouldn't the above be in green?

[nomo]

And it's Rudi Dekkers.

And he's Dutch.

[nomo]

Also, someone should sue the Matinee for keyword-hijacking the term "keyword hijacking". As it stands, that term originated in the internet search industry, and anyone claiming that the Matinee somehow came up with that himself is showing nothing but ignorance.

[Penguin]

I like Hugh.
There. I said it again
Love, Pengy

[chlamor]

I like Hugh.
There. I said it again
Love, Pengy

Me too.

Lots.

[8bitagent]

Wait, wasn't Iron Man ultimately anti war? Where we find out "al Qaeda" are just stooges of the military industrial complex?

Then again, Transformers was a total army commercial.

Last night CSI Miami ran an episode including some murder-by-airplane (somebody rigged a lite plane with carbon monoxide and killed the pilot).

Point is, one of the bad guy characters was named Dekker. If you've followed much of Hopsicker's tales on the web you'll remember that Rudi Dekker, a German national, in Florida, near Miami, has been one of the major bad guys in the whole scheme there, involving a flight school, drug planes, "hijackers-before-9/11", etc etc.

Dekker (the real one) has been allowed to slip away and do more dirty deeds in the far Pacific and elsewhere, so naturally plenty of folks are asking why. Now we find out (subliminally?) thru a television story that he's just a common criminal in Miami and has been put away by our law enforcement heros. All is well.

Thought I'd share this with y'all and with Hugh is case yr not a CSI fan. It struck me like a blast of confirmation.

Haha!

That's like how Heroes had this storyline where an evil group staging attacks was conduiting their actions through a "Primatech"


Anyone whose research 9/11 thoroughly, knows that "Ptech" was most likely how the globalists staged September 11th through.
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1.shtml

Look at "24", where an episode had a secret cabal working with the president to help terrorists make a bomb.

Or Jericho, about a faction of the government staging nuclear terror attacks on American cities and imposing martial law

As for Rudy Dekkers, Atta's buddy even up til days before 9/11, who was running CIA linked drug running operations...

Both he, Ptech, and other complicit individuals and groups have official websites online.

[Penguin]

Yes. True, true. Nowadays I pirate my tvshows from the Intertubes, and my reason for watching them is solely (honestly!) to try to spot as many of these as I can. Its really rewarding. The best series imho are CSI, Heroes, 24, Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles, etc..

I havent had a TV, myself, in over 10 years. Waste of time

For my enjoyment, I watch Star Trek.

Ps. Thanks for Primatech, hadnt considered that one vs. Ptech..
In CSI: Las Vegas, there was also an episode where people had been killed with a sword - turns out they believed them to be "lizards" - based on video lectures of a guy who believes lizards masquerading as humans have enslaved us

And my favorite perverse series, MacGyver, and its Phoenix Company and all things CIA and military-industrial complex...You name it, MacGyvers been there and done that. But I still love it

Ps.Ps. I dont personally know any lizards. Ive met a couple turtles, thou.

[8bitagent]

And my favorite perverse series, MacGyver, and its Phoenix Company and all things CIA and military-industrial complex...You name it, MacGyvers been there and done that. But I still love it

Ps.Ps. I dont personally know any lizards. Ive met a couple turtles, thou.

Next we'll see an episode of Law and Order, where a bombing at a Army Recruiters office is blamed on activists who worship a "bullhorning conspiracy theorist radio host with a strong anti government streak who rallies against the new world order"

[8bitagent]

More Hollywood keyword hijacking!


Regal & RealD Reach Deal for 1,500 More Screens

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=45325

Regal Entertainment Group and RealD 3D today announced a deal that calls for a rollout of 1,500 RealD 3D screens, bringing the RealD 3D screen count to over 3,500. The rollout will allow most U.S. markets to have 3D capability and will commence upon the completion of the Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP) initiative. Regal and RealD will work together to market and develop the RealD premium 3D platform in key Regal markets and theatres throughout the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_id

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is U.S. federal law which imposes certain security, authentication and issuance procedures standards for the state driver's licenses and state ID cards, in order for them to be accepted by the federal government for "official purposes", as defined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. Currently, the Secretary of Homeland Security has defined "official purposes" as presenting state driver's licenses and identification cards for boarding commercially operated airline flights, entering federal buildings and nuclear power plants. The Act is a rider to an act of the United States Congress titled Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005.

Sneaky Pentagon bastards.

[nomo]

Keyword hijacking is bunk. Sometimes Hollywood and TV writers just like a good story:

From the New York Post.

And notice that the author's name is STASI

ELIOT, YOU'LL GET HOOKED
'LAW & ORDER' SHOW A REAL HO-DOWN

By LINDA STASI

May 20, 2008 --

NO DOUBT, when Eliot Spitzer was attorney general - or, as he was more fondly called, the Sheriff of Wall Street - you know he expected his high-profile cases to be turned into thinly disguised episodes of "Law & Order."

Tomorrow night, he gets his wish - in spades. Too bad it's not the scenario as it played out in real life.

For sure, back in the glory days, Eliot-the-Idiot was thinking it would be about his fight against Dick Grasso, king of the New York Stock Exchange. He wasn't dreaming that "his" "Law & Order" ripped-from-the-headlines episode would be the one about a New York governor and a hooker.

The unraveling of Gov. Donald Shalvoy (Tom Everett Scott), the governor with a hooker problem on "L&O," begins when a guy who owns a gold refinery is found stuffed into his furnace.

That leads homicide detectives Cyrus Lupo (Jeremy Sisto) and Kevin Bernard (Anthony Anderson) to investigate the refinery's clients. Oops.

Lo and behold! They come upon a money-laundering scheme which, in turn, leads them to the shady world of escort services.

The escort service in real life was called grandly The Emperors Club. In the show, it's the "Excalibur" (which causes the cops to wisecrack in one of the better lines of the night: "It's for guys with big swords!").

All of this sword play leads to a voice overheard on a wiretap that is instantly recognizable as the you-know-who. And he really does sound like Spitzer on that phone, I must say.

When the whole thing lands in DA Jack McCoy's (Sam Waterston's) lap, it gets even more complicated. We learn that the governor was McCoy's biggest supporter for the DA job.

One hand is supposed to wash the other (especially after sex with a hooker), but McCoy isn't a creep like the governor and won't play along.

The DA begs him to come clean and spend some time explaining everything to his family before it all becomes public knowledge.

But you don't have to worry about that because . . . it won't.

The twist "Law & Order" has put on the case is that the governor gets caught, sure, but it doesn't become a criminal case, or even a public scandal. Now I know why the show's creator, Dick Wolf, say all the episodes are fiction.

In real life, the governor of New York went from Eliot to John to Client-9 quicker than it took him to transfer money - and there was nothing he could do about it except cry "wolf!"

[Attack Ships on Fire]

Hollywood Is Becoming the Pentagon's Mouthpiece for Propaganda

This is nothing new and the military has been influencing the production of movies and television shows for decades. You can ask the military or government (any of its divisions including NASA) for permission to shoot on their property or to use their materials but one of the requirements is that the screenplay be approved by the branch in question. If you have a controversial story or a story to tell that paints the military in an unflattering light there is a good chance you will not be invited to shoot on their property or use their personnel/equipment. They will give you "suggested revisions" that, if the producers so choose, can be incorporated into the script and then they may allow you access.

Again, this is nothing new and there even exists an excellent documentary showing what kind of changes and influence the military can have shaping motion pictures. However, there is a huge difference between what Hugh peddles and what is known about the military involvement with moviemaking. Hugh is suggesting that a large scale, completely covert operation exists that alters the names of characters, plot points and approves movies to be made that bury, alter or confuse people, places and events of political importance that took place in our real world. This is a completely different beast than asking for permission to use fighter jets and to shoot on an aircraft carrier.

The military isn't the only ones that have this sort of weight with Hollywood either, they just don't get the same kind of attention that groups like right-wing Christians get when they protest or demand changes to a film's story.