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Pentagon Propagandist Weighs in on Army Experience Center
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Pat Elder | 08.16.2009
The Pentagon feels threatened by public opposition to the Army Experience Center and has retaliated by publishing lies and distortions. Read More Photo: Philadelphia teens shoot simulated "ragheads" from simulated Humvee. Absent from the "US Army Experience" is the effect of simulated roadside bombs. A raucous, nonviolent protest is being planned for Franklin Mills Mall on September 12, 2009. See www.shutdowntheaec.net  Killing "Ragheads" at Franklin Mills Mall The Pentagon has called on Donna Miles, one of its chief propagandists, to address public opposition to the Army Experience Center (AEC) at a shopping mall in Philadelphia, a one-of-a-kind, $12 million, interactive video facility. The AEC has come under public scrutiny for luring vulnerable teens into military service using violent video games and combat simulators. In an August 10, 2009 article, Potential Recruits 'Experience' Army, Miles gives a resounding two thumbs up to the embattled Army Experience Center.
Miles is a writer for the American Services Press Service, the Pentagon's propaganda arm. Her articles are typically written to quell public dissent after damaging publicity like Abu Ghraib, Walter Reed, or the slaughter of civilians by U.S. forces.
The Army Experience Center must be pretty high on the Pentagon's list of priorities to rate an article by the enigmatic Miles, who plays multiple roles as Pentagon cheerleader, anesthesiologist, and hypnotist. Articles written by Miles and disseminated by the Pentagon's prolific propaganda arm are picked up by hundreds of outlets across the country and read by millions.
Either Miles is incredibly prolific, with 229 articles attributed to her this year, or she's a pseudonym for several under the employ of the Pentagon. In either case, her writing is shameful. Articles with the Miles byline represent the antitheses of journalistic integrity. She's given a script and she produces for the Pentagon. A simple defense link search pulls up 2,820 articles by Donna Miles in the last several years, a superhuman compilation. The production is like a sausage factory and you don't want to know what's in those sausages.
In the three months before the February, 2007 Washington Post article on deplorable conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, Donna Miles had no articles that mentioned the facility, but in the three months after the scathing piece, Miles wrote eleven articles mentioning Walter Reed. One talked about how the medical evaluation process was getting a better look, another, how soldiers were receiving excellent care. Words like, "smooth," "streamlined," "accelerated," "care," and "emphasis on treatment" are common in her glowing reports on Walter Reed.
Likewise, the Army Experience Center is "inviting," "non-threatening." The center is all about experiencing "the love and companionship, the esprit de corps and teamwork that’s all part of being in the Army." Don't swallow the sausage.
In the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, Miles is credited with articles like, Medics at Abu Ghraib Helping to Win Iraqis' Hearts. She wrote of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during his resignation speech, "He recalled how stunned he felt when he learned of abuse at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq." Not one of the more than 2,000 articles attributed to Miles provides or responds to a counter viewpoint.
Consider the most egregious, contemptible propaganda spewed by "Donna Miles."
Her recent articles, like the dispatch from Kabul on May 6, 2009, Joint Investigation Aims to Get to Bottom of Afghanistan Incident, are written to cast doubt on U.S. involvement in civilian deaths in Afghanistan:
By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service
KABUL, May 6, 2009 – U.S. and Afghan officials here have launched an investigation into a May 4 engagement in Afghanistan’s Farah province to determine the validity of claims of high civilian casualties – claims that the senior military officer here said don’t initially appear to add up.
Of course, American and international news agencies have documented American abuses, including the use of white phosphorous by the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. But it doesn't matter to Donna Miles. Her next piece was entitled, Afghanistan War ‘Absolutely Winnable,’ Top Commander Says.
In the Pentagon's mind, the world is a battleground -- and that battleground now encompasses the "homeland." We're all potential enemies in this global war, whether the resistance is violent or nonviolent or whether it's being manifested 10 miles from the center of Kandahar or 10 miles from the center of Philadelphia.
Miles, or whoever is writing this garbage, is given a mission, a script, and a deadline. In the case of the Army Experience Center, Miles is being told to address the criticism that 13 year-olds are being taught to kill. We know that 13 year-olds in the Army Experience Center have been heard congratulating each other for "killing ragheads" and "wiping out hajis." Instead, Miles writes, "Thirteen-year-old Sean Yaffee, for example, doesn’t see himself joining the military. But he’s becoming another regular at the center, where he can play the same computer games he has at home, but in the company of his buddies. Yaffee said he’s learned a lot about the Army at the center. “It just tells you about the Army experience, but it doesn’t pressure you,” he said. “I’m really just here to have a good time.”
They're beneath contempt. The U.S. led global war is being fought right here.
Consider the outrageous line in Miles' article on the AEC, "The center is billed not as a recruiting station, but as an educational facility that offers an array of interactive computer game stations and simulators visitors can enjoy to their hearts’ content." This is vile propaganda. Be careful you don't choke on the sausage.
The Army Experience Center is a recruiting station. 140 new recruits have signed up since it opened last August and five area recruitment facilities have recently closed. This is the future of Army recruiting.
The Army is teaching 13 year-olds to kill and is planning to open Experience Centers in malls across the country. A protest on May 2, 2009 at Philadelphia's Army Experience Center was attended by 250 people and saw 7 arrests. Not one mainstream print media outlet ran the story.
A raucous, nonviolent protest is being planned for Franklin Mills Mall on September 12, 2009. See www.shutdowntheaec.org |
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This Donna Miles person
Submitted by Rich Gardner on Lun, 08/17/2009 - 1:43pmSounds like a direct descendant of those 1930s Soviet writers who put out such memorable items as "The Happy Collectivist Farmer and His Bright, Shiny, Red Tractor Supplied by the Glorious Soviet People's Republic."
Jogen IT Proposal- Creating one million jobs in USA
Submitted by Jogen Tripathi (no verificado) on Sáb, 05/21/2011 - 3:17amYou are kindly requested to go through the proposal and help me find out a suitable collaboration that would create millions of job opportunities in and outside USA. This is a research and innovation in the field of internet, that has capacity to change the way people acquire knowledge and earn money.
Thanks in advance..
Jogen Tripathi- an avid reader and researcher
Personal Profile in brief
Let me first introduce myself as Jogen Tripathi (male -35 years) from Ahmedabad- India. I am working as Professor with a B-School in Ahmedabad. Apart from handling teaching assignments, I also handle Research & Development projects. I incessantly keep myself update with latest information and have to search out facts, figures, conclusions, opinions etc. Right from childhood, I have developed hobbies of reading informative literature and then internet surfing. Hence, my USP lies in Knowledge sector. Even during my professional career starting from the year 2000, I have got associated with knowledge sector.
Problem- Shrinking job opportunities in USA
We know very well that the job opportunities have been shrinking in the US market since BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) and LPO (Legal Process Outsourcing) activities have become a common practice among the US companies. The situation has worsened since the financial crisis have hit the US economy in September 2008. The US economy is mainly a service sector economy. As a result of vanishing jobs, innumerable social as well as economic problems have enthralled the country. The inflow of qualified manpower has slowed down, and also those not able to find satisfactory opportunities, might think of relocating to other countries or returning to their original countries.
Solution- Project ASE (Ahead of Search Engine)
Creating millions of job opportunities through innovative ideas and technology
Before explaining the project, I will talk in brief, about innovation in the Information Technology sector. The launch of Personal Computer, Web-based email, Blog, Social Networking sites, Software Programming etc. have added much to the comfort of mankind and most importantly, created billions of job opportunities.
I want to add one more innovation to the list mentioned above. My concept is—Using Information Technology for Spreading, Serving and Sharing Knowledge. The name of the proposed project is ASE – Ahead of Search Engine.
Limitations of search engine
Search Engines have indeed revolutionized the web world, and thereby the knowledge as well as IT sectors. However, like any other product of any age, it is not invincible. Modification and value addition will surely take place by some one, some day. For instance, several new features and facilities have been added to the web-based mail, since its first launch in nineties. Several companies have plunged into providing web-based mail services, thereby creating plentiful job opportunities. Still the search engine has not proved to be a one stop solution for knowledge seekers. Currently the search engines cater plethora of information in a disorganized manner or provide millions of links, from which the researcher is supposed to find out the required information. This exercise is time-consuming and sometimes the researcher ends up getting insufficient information or nothing at all. Being an avid reader and researcher, I have faced such hurdles several times. Same is the case with millions of internet users. We can never replace search engine, but can surely provide a better and powerful alternative; and thereby challenge its supremacy. For example, Tele Vision posed a challenge to the supremacy of radio, but has not been able to replace radio. Search Engine is like radio and I propose to offer TV to the world. I strive to give something innovative and unparallel to the world.
ASE Overview (ASE is a bunch of 11 Knowledge-cum-IT services)
ASE is a combination of Knowledge and IT sectors- the biggest one stop solution for net users and especially the knowledge seekers as well as knowledge sellers. A relevant example here would be a sea port that facilitates both the importers and exports. Same way, the knowledge sellers and knowledge seekers will come under single roof. Hence, it could fondly be called Research Port. It could become a melting point of catering all knowledge-based services. It could also open new ways of income for billions of people across the globe. It would cater knowledge in an unparalleled way and thereby generate innumerable employment opportunities. Around one million job opportunities could be created in USA in two years. In long run, ASE will make USA the hub and pioneer in Knowledge and IT sectors.
Objectives- Think BIG (Better, Innovative, Global)
(a) Changing the way people acquire knowledge, through the use of IT
(b) Establishing and strengthening knowledge-based economy
(c)Facilitating the knowledge seekers through fantastic knowledge-cum-IT services
(d) Creating billions of job opportunities across the world.
My Vision
I am sure that if the current age is called “Age of Information”, the forthcoming age would be called “Age of Knowledge”. The fast growth of KPO industry beacons the advent of Age of Knowledge. If a professional working in any sector or if a businessman doing any business, want to earn out of their knowledge- by selling the knowledge- it is not possible now. People are hardly able to utilize all their knowledge, because no such facility is available. With the use of Research Port, they would be able to do the same easily; and also the precious knowledge will be spread thereby bringing money. The one who captures the boom of knowledge industry early, will rule over the IT industry and also give the same a new identity as well as respect. Moreover, if the IT industry has to spread its wings up to the common people in the developing countries, it should provide more of knowledge, rather than the current areas of focus such as entertainment, information, news, data, music, e-commerce, games, images etc. In future the day might come when children would stop going to schools and get better education through internet. Researchers would submit their Ph.D. thesis to Research Port instead of submitting the same to universities. Several such astonishing phenomena could take place. I can foresee that ASE project has the capacity to beat all search engines. A whole new genre of fresh IT and knowledge services could be created further. For instance, after the success of Orkut, several other social networking sites were launched. Following the phenomenal success to Google search engine, several other search engines have been launched. Hotmail could also be added to the list of pioneering IT services. ASE will work as a revolution, both in the IT and Knowledge sectors. After all, innovative ideas decide who the winner is – the conventionalist or the revolutionist. Here, the million dollar question is- Who will work for innovative ideas? Who will take risk? Who will invest for it?
Knowledge is industry
I view information and knowledge as two different entities- “Information impacts your action, while knowledge changes your vision”. I take knowledge as an Industry- world’s oldest and biggest industry; covering everyone and everything. So far the industry has developed in a scattered way, now it is high time it should be developed in a structured and organized way.
Seeking Collaboration
Like a script writer, I have conceptualized the ASE Project; it needs the expert director to craft a super hit movie. Apart from my ideas and determination, I have nothing else. I seek collaboration with an IT company to launch the project. The investor company needs to provide active support, guidance, resources and finance to turn my ideas into reality. Above all, the investor company must be ready to be a pioneer in a new genre of knowledge-based services.
Stage One- Year One
Brief outline of Research Port- a Pilot Product under Project ASE
The researchers, scholars, scientists, professors, doctors belonging to different sectors would put their introductory/pilot/sample article-presentation-report-views-research papers on the site for the target users to see. The target users could be other researchers, corporates, universities, governments, etc. (Currently the scholars and researchers publish their articles in journals or periodicals or newspapers or websites that reach to few others in the same circle. The writer gets almost nothing.) The report would include names, contact details, areas of specialization and profile of the researcher. On the basis of the sample report, the user or user group would contact the researcher and ask for the whole detailed report or also place an order to prepare another such research report. This way the scholars, business entrepreneurs, corporates, students etc. would be in better position to take wise decisions. Details of market scenario, latest trend, history, and other such relevant information would be easily accessible to them.
Everything related to a particular sector would be available on Research Port, the users would not have to surf through thousands of links or sites. However, this will not work as news updates. Each section on the site would be assigned to a separate sector. I know how to segregate the sectors and how to popularize the concept. The various sections on Research Port would be sponsored by the companies engaged in same or related operations. Also, the Knowledge sellers will pay some nominal amount for placing their sample assignment on Research Port. Knowledge seekers will pay only to the sellers and not to Research Port. This will work like online consultancy. So far those who are spreading knowledge, get a nominal amount or fame. Now they will get much more, and would be prompted to conduct more research or write more. Sellers will not hesitate in paying some nominal charges to Research Port when they are sure to get big deals.
Many a time the consulting companies or group or individual consultants charge so high that small scale companies or middle class individuals can’t afford to hire their service. Here, everyone is a target user as well as contributor. Currently several scholars cant work in the field of their interest as they don’t get opportunity. They also don’t get proper guidance and information. Research Port will popularize the concept- “Knowledge is Money”. The writers, designers, researchers and knowledge sellers would be prompted to utilize their intellectual property thoroughly. One need not attain any license from any university or organization to have a tag of “Researcher”. However, this new concept will of course take some time to be popular, like for example; people across the world gradually shifted to e-mail and blog. The response to Research Port will give valuable inputs to launch the subsequent services- which are also a part of ASE.
Stage Two- Year Two
List of subsequent knowledge-cum-IT products under Project ASE
To be launched after reviewing the response to Research Port
(1) Government Watch
(2) Smart Surveyor
(3) Mother Nature
(4) Toppers Tell
(5) Foretell Frontier
(6) Idea Trade
(7) Kids’ Castle
(8) Net Novel
(9) Language Law
(10) University Research
Guiding Principle for ASE
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. ---- George Bernard Shaw.
Awaiting Response from interested organizations, towards building a better, richer and healthier society. For further details regarding estimated investment and implementation process, please contact me; details are given below. Only few choose to be trendsetters.
Thanks and Regards,
Jogen Tripathi (Project Innovator- ASE),
B/27, Navkar Apartment,
Near Monapark Society,
Vejalpur, Ahmedabad- 380051.
Gujarat, INDIA.
Contact-091-09998502915
Email- jogentripathi@gmail.com
jogentrip@aol.in
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