Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Iranian "neutron initiator" hoax: A Murdoch-Israeli IO

by anderson

U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published
recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian
plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron
initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a
former Central Intelligence Agency official.


Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to
1992, told me that intelligence sources say that the United States had
nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary
suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication,
however.


The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source
of the document. But it quoted "an Asian intelligence source" - a term
some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as
confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron
initiator as recently as 2007.






















The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to publish false intelligence from the Israelis and occasionally from the British government.








-- Phil Giraldi







Formerly, Central Inculcation Agency














Of course, the Murdoch-Israeli io reaches far and wide.








"There's been a public report about an issue related to�
Iran's nuclear program. It's safe to say the United States government
will be investigating those reports," Crowley told reporters.


The "revelation this week about nuclear triggers� all adds up to the
fact that Iran has yet to really come to� the international community
and address our concerns in a meaningful way," he continued.
















Yes, let's all bunch up the panties and demand that Iran come clean on
those nuclear trigger plans the Israelis drew up, shall we?


It's difficult to conjure a more blatant example of how corporate media
act as stove pipes for the dissemination of disinformation designed to
further the agendas of corporately controlled or influenced
governments, and governments enthralled to establishment plans of world
domination, to ply, or lie, the public into forming whatever opinion is
deemed desired to serve sufficient ruse as democratic judgment.
Usually, that opinion level is one dependent upon the fracture of a
noisome House of Representatives, public opinion here only serving as a
source of congressional dispute, and the House is most responsive to
that opinion, however slight that responsiveness maybe.


We have watched corporate media onslaughts of war driven disinformation
and propaganda.  We have watched the corporate media love-fest of
militarism and military service.  We have watched the repeating,
despicable display play out for almost a year regarding $80 billion a
year healthcare for Americans, while the Pentagon's budget of $638
billion was passed without comment. (Except, of course, when GOP hacks
threatened the DoD budget bill � over healthcare.) Despite an abysmal
historical record, we have watched military intelligence evoked as
scripture.  And we have watched that psyop work wonderfully.


In the case of disinformation campaigns supportive of war, this can't
hold for long, however.  But it is a majority or large plurality
opinion that only needs maintain before the initial onslaught. And
let's face it, once the onslaught begins, the media make sure we revel
in the fearsome displays of American might, blowing up, in all
likelihood, Muslims.  And even as the corporate media show these
pictures, they will still innocently wonder, "why do they hate us?"


This does lead to the question as to just how long the media and the
larger establishment think the American population -- not to mention
the rest of the world on the target list -- will keep getting suckered
into war with forged documents, false confessions, and former generals
cum defense contractors on teevee, continuously.  Frankly, I'd be
hiding something if I didn't say I'm rather curious about that myself;
in a purely academic sense, of course.


Perhaps we can gleen a minor eureka moment here amidst the burgeoning
piles of unrepentant war-humping bullshit: we now know that "public
report" means "Israeli disinformation operation," insofar as such a
phrase appears in a Murdoch rag or other similar outlets of ill
repute.  Another notch in the encryption key.



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