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OldDem2012

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37. I beg to differ...protests took place all across the US in about 150 cities....
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 09:56 AM
Feb 2013

...with the largest protests taking place in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.

The media in this country has been controlled by the CIA and other organizations for quite some time...maybe you should read the following:

Operation Mockingbird

QUOTE:

In 1948 Frank Wisner was appointed director of the Office of Special Projects. Soon afterwards it was renamed the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). This became the espionage and counter-intelligence branch of the Central Intelligence Agency. Wisner was told to create an organization that concentrated on "propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world."

Later that year Wisner established Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic American media. Wisner recruited Philip Graham (Washington Post) to run the project within the industry. Graham himself recruited others who had worked for military intelligence during the war. This included James Truitt, Russell Wiggins, Phil Geyelin, John Hayes and Alan Barth. Others like Stewart Alsop, Joseph Alsop and James Reston, were recruited from within the Georgetown Set. According to Deborah Davis (Katharine the Great): "By the early 1950s, Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles."


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I beg to differ...protests took place all across the US in about 150 cities.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #37
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