Why I'm Not Scared of the North Korean Missile 'Crisis'

...it already happened

from JoeUser Forums
FOX NEWS ALERT

NORTH KOREA MAY FIRE TEST MISSILE WITHIN ONE MONTH CAPABLE OF REACHING THE U.S.

Fuck Fox. Where were they in 2003? In fact, where the fock was any of the news media in the United States?

North Korea has already fired a missile that landed in the United States.

Let me share with you the number of corporations that control the the media (newspapers, magazines, TV, Radio Stations, books, music, movies, videos, wire services, and photo agencies) within the United States today.

Are you ready?

The number is down from 50 (fifty) in 1983 to ........................................


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..............................................5.

In 2004.

Five (5).

5 !!!

No wonder such important news as a North Korean missile hitting the Alaskan coast never made it to viewer's ears. They were too busy being bombarded with the latest 'Fox News Alert' that Iraq was capable of taking out Cleveland with a mushroom cloud (false), had biological weapons trailers manufacturing WMD's (false), and was the most dangerous threat known to friends, family, Apple Pie, and our fortunate son G.W. Bush (hmmmm....maybe).

Our capitalistic system of free trade has failed us. Our Media is not serving our best interests by keeping us misinformed by omission.

A graph generously provided by http://www.corporations.org/media/media-ownership.gif illustrates the failure of the competitive media market as one large corporation devours another and then feeds us what is deemed correct for the time. A consolidation of media outlets encourages homogenization of newsworthy substance not competition, variety of perspective, or contradictory report to consumers. Flip from Fox, to CNN, to MSNBC - the same story is there, the spin is slightly different to attract a different market but the substance - the evidence - the lynchpins of the story remain the same - how curious.

It's simply a fact of everyday living - switch the channels. Compare / contrast, then, between the commercials that loop in between the looping 'news' segments find that common strain in every story and you realize you're not getting the whole story unless or until you consult outside U.S. media including, but not limited to:

the BBC
the London Guardian
the Sydney Morning Herald
Al-Jazeera.net
PrisonPlanet
and hosts of independent alternative media.


You are living in a media bubble.

Here's the skivvy on the N. Korean nuke that hit U.S. soil.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200303/kt2003030417272311970.htm

A much fuller and broader article is here which details the complicit U.S. involvement in assisting N. Korea in it's nuclear propagation from the Clinton ('94) to the Bush Era ('03):

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ww3/nk_mock_nuked_alaska.htm


Kind JU readers, take care and good night - I'm going to sleep without worries.

Bush&Co. have already declared they won't shoot back - 'cause they know it's all fun and wargames anyway.

http://www.sabcnews.com/world/north_america/0,2172,129868,00.html

Hope they didn't scare you all too badly - like they did last time with weapons they supplied to 'the enemy'.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

(donald rumsfield acts as special envoy of Pres. Reagan, shakes hands and gives Saddam WMDs and millions of taxpayer money in 'aide' - check out the video)

Then go to Resident JU SingrDave's report on the 500 chemical weapons from pre-1991....

https://forums.joeuser.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=254&AID=121479

Why doesn't the current admin. trumpet the new WMD's found in Iraq? Gee, maybe it's because they all have MADE IN AMERICA stamped on their side.

It's simply a matter of public record.

Nothing more, nothing less.

What do you think JU?
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Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
If the second and third links don't work for you here it is in it's entirety for your cut n' paste pleasure - remember to delete all + signs:

h+ttp://w+ww.infowar+s.+com/+articles/ww3/nk_mock_nuked_alaska.htm

ht+tp://sa+bcnews.+com/world/north_america/0,2172,129868,00.html
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

nice to see you writing again def. welcome back.

 

MM

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hope you are feeling well, MM. Thanks for the welcome.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I dont think the media is a conspiracy, but it sure is sloppy (but then we have lots of evidence of the latter) in not reporting the earlier missle.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
4 by Deference
Mon, June 26, 2006 0:15 PM


hope you are feeling well, MM. Thanks for the welcome


thank you, very kind to remember I am ill and ask.

I am doing ok def, I shall keep fighting the good fight, or as we hep c people say continue to "slay the dragon"
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Well, I dont think the media is a conspiracy, but it sure is sloppy (but then we have lots of evidence of the latter) in not reporting the earlier missle. - Dr. Guy

Sure, conspiracy is certainly a word I would like to stay very far away from but I am curious as to what JU derives from this. What do you make of it? How is this to be explained?

I guess I'm most upset about this entire ordeal as it is a prime example of the way the media conducts itself today and the failure of the American public to have a fair shot at having the full of the story.

Moderateman, good to know you're ticking along.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
This article has been reposted in the Politics forum.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Simple for me def, the old newspaper adage still applies. "if it bleeds it leads" the news folk will always go for the story with the most shock value.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
YOu could have just moved it, are you going to delete this one? Oh, well, I'll just post my reply here too...

It is so sad to see people who are so blinded by their bias. You realize that no one was ever able to confirm that story of what you call a "nuke" in Alaska? You are willing to believe the fearmongering of Korean news outlets and Al Jazeera, but you don't trust US news?

Frankly... are you on crack? This is akin to 9/11 conspiracy theories. They can't keep people INSIDE the white house and the CIA quiet, and the can't keep the NYT from publishing stories, but they had a total press blackout on a story of a North Korean "nuke" hitting Alaska.

Iraq manufactured their own Sarin and Mustard gas, so the "made in the USA" stuff is a lie, too. We didn't face US hardware when we invaded in the gulf war, we faced Russian, French, and Chinese hardware. You know, those peace-loving countries that were still inking deals with someone like Hussein a month before we invaded the second time.

I guess it makes no difference that the US finally washed their hands of him once he got bad enough. It's much more morally correct to keep right on swapping spit with him. I'm sure we're all in on it, Deference. Be careful, we might inform on you. When the last person you know refuses to believe you, you'll know that you're the only one left...

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I remember seeing a report that the supposed "nuke" in Alaska ended up being old plane wreckage, anyway. I can't believe anyone is so paranoid as to think that the press in America will post classified CIA information and then sit silently when a "nuke" hits the US... ...idiot.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

then sit silently when a "nuke" hits the US... ...idiot.

I beleive he said a Missle, not a nuke.  At least the article talked about a missle, not a nuke.

Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
It is so sad to see people who are so blinded by their bias. - Bakerstreet

I'm guessing that's why you stay away from mirrors.

Good to have you aboard the S. S. Bad Ship Deference, it's been a while.

You realize that no one was ever able to confirm that story of what you call a "nuke" in Alaska?

As Doc pointed out, it was a missile - not a nuke that was reported.

I've given a source - the Korea Times. Keep in mind that is the South Korean Times which is obviously extremely concerned about their next door neighbor's armament. So much so that (as their story reveals) the South Korean National Assembly sent out an "oversea delegation to five countries [regarding] the North Korean nuclear crisis...and gave a report on [the] region's current showdown over nuclear weapons and missiles."

This led to former Japanese foreign minister Tara Nakayama to comment; ""the last piece of a missile warhead fired by North Korea was found in Alaska." He cited his source a United States document. Why would the Japanese be concerned about the U.S. getting burnt? Not only have they helped support our currency against inflation by buying our bonds but it also means North Korean missiles could reach Japan as well. So they've a highly vested interest.

"The South Korea legislators used the claim to note that Washington and Tokyo have "underrated Pyongyang's missile capabilities," according to the newspaper. "

Link

What's really classic is this bit concerning the document Nakayama-San referred to also contained within this article:

"Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Lehner, spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said the report probably referred to a three-stage missile tested by North Korea in 1998."

Wow. Even further back. Great.

The Drudge Report has listed this as a developing story. The stalwart Conservative website FreeRepublic also picked up the story. Independent media outlets all over the 'net are reporting the story. But I've not heard a whisper of it from any U.S. mainstream media.

You are willing to believe the fearmongering of Korean news outlets and Al Jazeera, but you don't trust US news?

S. Korea is an ally in the war in Iraq. They were a part of the 'coalition of the willing' deploying over 3,000 troops to Iraq in '03. Maybe you feel threatened by the freedom of their press and that is why you attack them?

Link

Al-Jazeera has been more critical of the U.S. in the volumes of information they have to give regarding things developing in their own backyard - I'm certain you wish they also would be silent so as not to disturb Americans with prima facie reporting.

One of the major points alluded to in my article was the lack of diversity of reporting within the U.S. media. It's not that I don't trust the American media, it's just that I find a more complete story sans spin and rhetoric by examining it from many angles.

I find the S. Korean assembly report and Japanese official's remarks to be particularly newsworthy and to have heard nothing from U.S. media is a red flag of failure to me -the consumer. I don't want to hear about the latest white female gone missing nor do I want to hear about Michael Jackson's latest nose job or Britney or Jolie's latest baby. Save that shit for Entertainment Tonight - get me some real fucking news.

Then we get the endless commentary - forget substance - we are granted a milquetoast token attack from Colmes to Hannity or Olberman's latest jab at O'Reilly - fuck that. I'm not rooting for a sports team, I want something substantive and in-depth. I want the truth.


YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! - Jack Nicholson

Out of the few hours a day I have for personal time, I can drain two hours of it simply filling in the gaps of a story headlined by Fox, the NYT, or whomever and then compare / contrast it to the fashion and substance found from foreign and independent media so that I can make a slightly informed decision about what is actually going on. I've found so many times that missing some of the more delicate angles of a story can cause an incorrect impression for the media consumer.

Don't you also support a more complete and thus accurate record of current events so Americans can make the best informed decisions possible?


Iraq manufactured their own Sarin and Mustard gas, so the "made in the USA" stuff is a lie, too. - Bakerstreet

Yeah, well, you didn't have much to say about that when Resident JU Blogger Sean Conners gave his testimony back in March 20th 2006.

Remember?

That was when Conners detailed his conversation with Marine Dustin Harmer. You commented once on that blog and gave not one word in contest to the assertations he served.

" One slight problem...they all had a stamp on them...each and every tube full of Ricin, Mustard Gas and all those nasty things everyone has been talkin bout for years now. The stamp was simple, but incriminating. They were all property of the USA."

Link Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq! Really! One slight problem tho'...

Link The comments (Yours included)

You also did not contest the Rummie / Hussein meetings wherein food, financial aide and, yes, WMD's where provided for Iraq to assist against Iran which Conners mentioned in the comments and I have linked to in the above article.

Are you now revoking that silence with some contradictory links?

No. You aren't.



P.S. Was that jab about crack your way of asking me if I could get some for you? 'Cause I've got this friend in Iraq with a mobile weapons lab and he can make you some sh*t that will get you sooo laid back...you know they really have them over there - true believer.