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Monday, 09/18/2006 2:31:37 PM

Monday, September 18, 2006 2:31:37 PM

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History© - the manufacture and control of common perception

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new ordered world

Although this piece is not actually part of History©, I have included it on this site because of its relevance to the situation that has been created in Iraq.

New Ordered World was created as a response to the increasing hysteria being fuelled by the media post 9-11, which became more and more insidious in the days leading up to George Bush's address to the UN of September 12, 2002.

The media focused its attention on non-white Americans as possible threat, leading to a mental lock-down that allowed few to really listen and discern the quality of information being transmitted. Media was now frenzying the crowd into a blood lust mentality, focusing its attention on any story that would fuel this energy, no matter how ridiculous.

Fear had been cultured in the population, now all that was left to do was focus this energy towards a common goal, a goal laid out with all its effects so clearly by George Bush in this speech. With the media in tow and hungry for an event that would rivet viewers to their screens, all analysis of the direction dubya was steering the nation was muted.

The script was written and transmitted; now all that was left was the anticipation of a viewership waiting anxiously for the games to begin.

watch new ordered world - http://dropframe.ca/movies/nwo.html

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History© - Introduction

Born into world of digital communication, in which fact based on simulation, re-enactment and group definition reigns supreme, the first casualty is confidence in our own perceptions and ability to rationally discern reality from fantasy...

watch Introduction - http://dropframe.ca/movies/history_intro.html

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History© - Chapter 1: the simulacra

Philosopher jean baudrillard made international headlines when he claimed the first gulf war never actually happened; that for most of us in the west it was not war that we experienced.

The images and experiences that we have come to accept as being war are merely television experiences, and not of a first hand nature. We have accepted an image of war that does not include death and mutilation, and because of that we are unmoved. The war continues, a war we know is unjust (no wmd's, no terror links, no democracy), and bloody (over 100,000 iraqi civilians killed since the 'end' of the war).

I have often wondered how it was that the world allowed Vietnam to burn (4 million direct casualties as well as those poisoned by america's use of the wmd 'agent orange' and others), long after everyone understood this was an unjustified, politically and financially motivated destruction of a sovergn nation; even with this understanding the war was allowed to continue.

In his book 'the simulacra', philip k dick refers to a nation that collectively accepts a reality they understand to be false as a nation of psychotics, which is easier to rule as they have already accepted the unacceptable.

This piece was created as a response to the apache killings that were sent to me over the internet, which is discussed more fully in the next chapter.

Through frustrated attempts to get the media to address this shockingly vivid example of the realities of war and occupation, I have been left to ask why it is in the age of information, that the assassination of three unarmed individuals, one injured and writhing on the ground, can be less compelling than a tooth whitening story, which garnered investigation.

It is through the death of these individuals that I have created History©, and have vowed to find out if indeed, the war is real, and if it is real, and those were once human beings that the apache exterminated without trial or trace, how do we make them and ourselves human again?

watch Chapter 1: the simulacra - http://dropframe.ca/movies/history_simulacra.html

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History© - Chapter 2: Ghost in the Machine

On Dec 1 2003, Apache helicopters set out on missions in Iraq as they do every day in Iraq, and Dec 1 2003 may have been like any other day in Iraq since American occupation, except that people outside of the US military and outside of the Iraqi population were going to be allowed a glimpse of what is going on.

This footage did not come to me through the regular avenues of mainstream media, as the media has generally ignored this insightful footage. This video arrived in my hands as an attachment on an email sent to me early in February of 2004.

This video of the assassination of three individuals, unarmed and posing no immediate threat, became more insidious when recognizing that the media generally ignored this event for what can only be see as political reasons.

I tried to gain the interest of the media by researching this event and sending this information to cbc newsworld.

When cbc did run the story nearly 5 months after the footage came to me, they erroneously reported that the us military had no comment on the tape. I immediately called cbc and pointed out that this was not the case, and supplied them with the shocking position of the us military with regards to why these individuals were legitimate targets for eradication (posted by abc news reporter, martha radditz on Jan 19, 2004).

The official comment as to why these three unarmed and unidentified Iraqis could be legally targeted for assassination was reported by abc news as:

"A senior Army official who viewed the tape said the pilots had the legal right to kill the men because they were carrying a weapon. He said there were no ground troops in the area and if the Apache pilots had let the three Iraqis go, the men might have gone on to kill American troops."

Abc news' military consultant Jack Keane went further to state:

"Those weapons were obviously not being pointed at them in particular, but they [the three Iraqis] are using those weapons in their minds for lethal means and they [the Apache pilots] have a right to interfere with that."

cbc refused to include this comment in their story, which begs the question: what is the mandate of the cbc with respect to reporting the news, and why would they deliberately misreport this incident?...

It was hard for me to include these images in my art, and only did so out of a desire to have this incident receive the attention it deserves. I believe it was picasso who made the point that a society that relies on artists to depict reality is a society in jeopardy of losing its freedom...

watch Chapter 2: Ghost in the Machine - http://dropframe.ca/movies/history_ghost.html

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History© - Chapter 3: Network

Peter Klein, NYU journalism professor, and producer of cbs' 60 Minutes II, explains the change in atmosphere of journalistic professionalism since the September 11 attacks.

His candid assessment of the impulse for suppression of reality in news leaves one to question the legitimacy of corporately controlled media in general; if corporations are allowed to dominate and control the perception of events that in turn become history, and if we continue to allow corporate entities to own our history, what will this mean (and what has it meant in the past) to the freedoms and identities of the individuals that make up our society?

watch Chapter 3: Network - http://dropframe.ca/movies/history_network.html

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History© - kuma war

As Fascism took hold in Germany, and replaced the traditional democratic mindset, it was important to create a population capable of the necessary violence for the reich to exert it's will upon the world. It was understood that this type of conditioning would be most powerful if begun in the formative years (I call this the 'happy meal' effect), and thus the Hitler Youth were spawned.

Hitler Youth were directed in playtime to understand the fundamentals of fascism, and to become accustomed to the ways of the warrior. Marching, singing, shooting, and eventually dying for the fascist ideal.

In the digital age, it has become unnecessary to actually directly interact with youth in a scouts style fashion. Social conditioning can be achieved much more effectively in the isolated relationship people now share with their computer console.

The US Military's game, America's Army (downloadable for free on it's site [F6 note -- see my next post, a reply to this post]), quickly made history with it's ultra expensive graphics and game-play, by quickly becoming the most successful computer game in history (more folks have downloaded this game than any other).

Of course, the most blatant social conditioning must be kept at arms length, through forging relationships with the private sector, much like what the pentagon has done with 'information retrieval' in Iraq (private contractors doing the lions share of the torture in Iraq, making it possible to maintain a cloak of denial). But just as Blackwater and Associates (the 'civilian contractors' burned and hung in Falluja), was comprised of ex-us special forces terrorizing the population, one has to ask how civilian is Kuma? Where do they get all the info needed to re-enact barely cold military missions (not to mention the help of Maj. Gen Thomas L. Wilkerson, who happens to work for Homeland Security).

As these efforts to replace reality with fantasy gain momentum through the medium of digital communication, so too have the efforts of some to milestone the change. The Nausea [ http://www.thenausea.com/ ] is a site dedicated to show you the images of reality in Iraq that are being so blatantly ignored (these images were censored out of a media eager to keep it's viewing audience opiated).

watch kuma war - http://www.gnn.tv/videos/viewer.php?id=34&spd=hi

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copyright www.dropframe.ca [ http://www.dropframe.ca/home.html ]

http://thesimulacra.cf.huffingtonpost.com/home.html [an additional and apt opening to all of the above viewable at this link; opens into the (somewhat confusing at first or even second glance) main History© frame with the respective descriptive texts and links to video segments above)] [found at http://cf.huffingtonpost.com/ ('the simulacra', currently ranked 7th)]

[F6 comment -- I cannot overstate how important this amazing presentation is -- please give it a good look and listen, from beginning to end per the above, at least once -- give it a chance to sink in a bit -- as I've said (quoted) before -- 'this is not a drill - repeat, this is not a drill' -- . . .]


Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07

"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790

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