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Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:18 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!




'The Green Zone’ debacle: Why it really hurts Universal
http://www.knoxville.com/news/2010/mar/17/green-zone-debacle-why-it-re
ally-hurts-universal/?partner=RSS


'Green Zone' The Bourne Insufficiency: It's only been seven years since the U.S. led a multinational invasion of Iraq that deposed the dictator Saddam Hussein (which was good)...
[never mind the Iraq War has been non-stop for 20 years with 2.6-million Iraqis genocided]
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1633788/20100312/story.jhtml

Matt Damon: Chief Warrant Officer jew Roy Miller
Amy Ryan: Wall Street Journal reporter Lawrie Dayne (ie defrocked Mossad jew Judith "WMD" Miller, WSJ is owned by Deng Wen Di Murdoch in Commie China)
John Miller: Jewish LAPD journalist who interviewed CIA employee Usama Bin Laden (neither in movie)

It's marketed as a kosher "Bourne Conspiracy 4" to sell AllCIAduh Dictator Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden's Neverending Wars for Israel and the NWO. Without MKULTRA mind control, just brainwash propaganda.

How much bailout money will Universal get? Or got?

Isn't Universal owned by the Bushes, Bin Ladens and German Queen of England at Carlyle Group?

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:36 AM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


I'm thinking that “piratenews” and my great grandmother on my mother's side would get along really well. Grandma is constantly sharing her opinions of current events, like “piratenews” does. She is 91 years old and has dementia. Did I mention “piratenews” makes as much sense?

A not-so-nutty-as-Mr-Piratenews take on Green Zone is http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/ideology-at-the-box
-office.php

Ideology at the Box Office

Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” site gloats over The Green Zone’s poor box office:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/03/13/box-office-m
att-damons-100-million-green-zone-flops-could-open-to-less-than-15-million
/

AP confirms: “Green Zone” opens to a dismal $14.5 million.

The moral of the story? If you’re going to trash America and the troops, use Smurfs.
[...]
Compare that to the opening weekend figures for the two previous collaborations between director Paul Greengrass and Damon:

— Bourne Supremacy: $52.5 million
— Bourne Ultimatum: $69.2 million

Gee, I (Matthew Yglesias) wonder what the difference was?

I would have read the “Bourne” series as expressing severe skepticism about American hegemony and the wisdom of an unrestrained national security state. Very American, that is, in the tradition of Dwight Eisenhower and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, but anti-American in the tradition of the contemporary right-wing and Big Hollywood.

And, indeed, consider Big Hollywood’s take on the Bourne movies about a year ago:

But Bourne fights predominantly middle-aged white men in suits who are part of the military and intelligence establishments. Combine that with the character’s inherent narcissism, and he’s the perfect screen hero for the hard left. [...]

There’s talk of another Greengrass/Damon/Bourne project in Hollywood, but that series will never match Bond’s pop culture significance and historic resonance with movie fans — and that will forever burn in the guts of hard left ideologues who forget “it’s only a movie.”

I (Matthew Yglesias) am gonna say it’s only a movie, and neither the popularity of the Bourne series nor the unpopularity of Green Zone has a great deal to do with hard-left ideologues.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:58 AM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!


The problem with Green Zone is the total lack of anti-war customers, now that CIA Dictator Hussein Obama is running the wars. Bad timing plus fluoride OD.

Quote:



Whatever could be outsourced was. The job of setting up town and city councils was performed by a North Carolina firm for $236 million. The job of guarding the viceroy was assigned to private guards, each of whom made more than $1,000 a day. For running the palace–cooking the food, changing the lightbulbs, doing the laundry, watering the plants– Halliburton had been handed hundreds of millions of dollars.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the bungled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. From April 2003 to October 2004, he was The Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq and supervising a team of Post correspondents. He lived in Baghdad for much of the six months before the war [CIA], reporting on the United Nations weapons-inspections process and the build-up to the conflict. In the months following September 11, 2001, he was part of a team of Post reporters who covered the war in Afghanistan.

http://www.rajivc.com/excerpt.htm



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Green Zone

www.greenzonemovie.com

The film is "credited as having been 'inspired' by"[2] the non-fiction 2006 book Imperial Life in the Emerald City by journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which documented life in the Green Zone, Baghdad.

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone is a 2006 book by Rajiv Chandrasekaran that takes a critical look at the civilian leadership of the American reconstruction project in Iraq. Centered mainly on the actions of the Coalition Provisional Authority, within the Green Zone of Baghdad, Chandrasekaran details the events from the end of the invasion phase of the war until the official transfer of power to the Iraqis and the growing insurgency in the country.

Within the prologue to the book, Chandrasekaran claims that his work does not take a side for or against the United States' invasion of Iraq, simply treating it as a given, and instead focuses purely on examining how the post-apocalyptic invasion/occupation was handled.

SPOILERS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zone_(film)



So does the nonfiction book include the Bush WMD conspiracy? Very old news.

Thank gods that Pentagon wiped out the CIA wagon train bringing WMDs into Iraq -- that's the real conspiracy.

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State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq and UK

On February 5, 2007, the Telegraph reported that, "Deep inside the heart of the "Green Zone" [in Iraq], the heavily fortified administrative compound in Baghdad, lies one of the most carefully guarded secrets of the war in Iraq. It is a cell from a small and anonymous British Army unit that goes by the deliberately meaningless name of the Joint Support Group (JSG)." The members of the JSG "are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies using methods developed on the mean streets of Ulster during the Troubles, when the Army managed to infiltrate the IRA at almost every level. Since war broke out in Iraq in 2003, they have been responsible for running dozens of Iraqi double agents." They have been "[w]orking alongside the Special Air Service [SAS] and the American Delta Force as part of the Baghdad-based counter-terrorist unit known as Task Force Black."

t was reported that, "During the Troubles [in Northern Ireland], the JSG operated under the cover name of the Force Research Unit (FRU), which between the early 1980s and the late 1990s managed to penetrate the very heart of the IRA. By targeting and then "turning" members of the paramilitary organisation with a variety of "inducements" ranging from blackmail to bribes, the FRU operators developed agents at virtually every command level within the IRA." Further, "The unit was renamed following the Stevens Inquiry into allegations of collusion between the security forces and protestant paramilitary groups, and, until relatively recently continued to work exclusively in Northern Ireland."[5]

n 1998, Northern Ireland experienced its "worst single terrorist atrocity," as described by the BBC, in which a car bomb went off, killing 29 people and injuring 300.[8] According to a Sunday Herald piece in 2001, "Security forces didn't intercept the Real IRA's Omagh bombing team because one of the terrorists was a British double-agent whose cover would have been blown as an informer if the operation was uncovered." Kevin Fulton had even "phoned a warning to his RUC handlers 48 hours before the Omagh bombing that the Real IRA was planning an attack and gave details of one of the bombing team and his car registration." Further, "The man thought to be the agent is a senior member of the [IRA] organization."[9]

In 2006, the Guardian reported that, "two British agents were central to the bombings of three army border installations in 1990." The claims included tactics known as the ‘human bomb’, which "involved forcing civilians to drive vehicles laden with explosives into army checkpoints." This tactic "was the brainchild of British intelligence."[11]

In 2006, it was also revealed that, "A former British Army mole in the IRA has claimed that MI5 arranged a weapons-buying trip to America in which he obtained detonators, later used by terrorists to murder soldiers and police officers," and "British intelligence co-operated with the FBI to ensure his trip to New York in the 1990s went ahead without incident so that his cover would not be blown." Further, "the technology he obtained has been used in Northern Ireland and copied by terrorists in Iraq in roadside bombs that have killed British troops."

Considering all these revelations of British collusion with IRA terrorists and complicity in terrorist acts in Northern Ireland through the FRU, what evidence is there that these same tactics are not being deployed in Iraq under the renamed Joint Support Group (JSG)?

P2OG in Action

In September of 2003, months after the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Iraq’s most sacred Shiite mosque was blown up, killing between 80 and 120 people, including a popular Shiite cleric, and the event was blamed by Iraqis on the American forces.[14]

On April 20, 2004, American journalist in Iraq, Dahr Jamail, reported in the New Standard that, "The word on the street in Baghdad is that the cessation of suicide car bombings is proof that the CIA was behind them." Jamail interviewed a doctor who stated that, "The U.S. induces aggression. If you don't attack me, I will never attack you. The U.S. is stimulating the aggression of the Iraqi people!" This description goes very much in line with the aims outlined in the Pentagon’s P2OG document about "inciting terror," or "preempting terror attacks."[15]

Weeks after the initial incident involving the British SAS soldiers in Basra, in October of 2005, it was reported that Americans were "captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad," as, "A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday. … Residents of western Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district [said] the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon. Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the … police." However, "the Iraq police arrived at approximately the same time as allied military forces - and the two men were removed from Iraq custody and whisked away before any questioning could take place."[16]

t was reported that in May of 2005, an Iraqi man was arrested after witnessing a car bombing that took place in front of his home, as it was said he shot an Iraqi National Guardsman. However, "People from the area claim that the man was taken away not because he shot anyone, but because he knew too much about the bomb. Rumor has it that he saw an American patrol passing through the area and pausing at the bomb site minutes before the explosion. Soon after they drove away, the bomb went off and chaos ensued. He ran out of his house screaming to the neighbors and bystanders that the Americans had either planted the bomb or seen the bomb and done nothing about it. He was promptly taken away."

Further, another story was reported in the same month that took place in Baghdad when an Iraqi driver had his license and car confiscated at a checkpoint, after which he was instructed "to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license." After being questioned for a short while, he was told to drive his car to an Iraqi police station, where his license had been forwarded, and that he should go quickly. "The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors. The only feasible explanation for this incident is that the car was indeed booby trapped by the Americans and intended for the al-Khadimiya Shiite district of Baghdad. The helicopter was monitoring his movement and witnessing the anticipated ‘hideous attack by foreign elements."[17]

On October 4, 2005, it was reported by the Sydney Morning Herald that, "The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials." Further, "The inquiry began after coalition troops raided a Falluja bomb factory last November and found a Texas-registered four-wheel-drive being prepared for a bombing mission. Investigators said there were several other cases where vehicles evidently stolen in the US wound up in Syria or other Middle Eastern countries and ultimately in the hands of Iraqi insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda in Iraq."[18]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9447



British SAS Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra and Perping "Large Numbers of Murders" in UK
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00052.htm

More nonfiction from the Green Zone:


Saddam's WMDs Made In USA, UK and Israel
www.beyondtreason.com


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Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:37 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Green Zone cost some 100 million to make.

Domestically, it yielded some 14 million at the box office ( sound familiar ? )

The DVD sales won't come near Serenity's numbers.

Financially, Green Zone is quite a quagmire for 'versal, where as our BDM actually made money.




Though, not a lot.


Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor


Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

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Thursday, March 18, 2010 3:10 PM

CLJOHNSTON108


Ummmm, why is this thread not in Real World Event Discussions?

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Friday, March 19, 2010 2:15 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Ummmm, why is this thread not in Real World Event Discussions?



Asking any legitimate question like that would make sense for anyone else but PN.


Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor


Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

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Friday, March 19, 2010 3:39 AM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb


Quote:

Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Ummmm, why is this thread not in Real World Event Discussions?



I think the thread is about a movie and not the actual "Green Zone". I guess, I sorta skipped most of PN's post, so it could be about anything.


Serenity is like my car. It probably can't pull a heavy trailer, but it hauls itself very well.

Green Zone burns up in atmo.

Serenity she floaty!



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Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay

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