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Well... another reason why
everybody loves americans around the world.
Salvador
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:04
PM
Subject: RE: [Futurework] [Fwd: how to
create morons? DOD handbook CECTV Show]
The US has about 169,000 soldiers spread around the
world
(even 1,900 in Iceland).
Iceland!
Most, or all, should
come home.
Let's see - how can we blame Bush for
that?
Harry
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School of Social Science
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Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:38
PM
To: M.Blackmore; [email protected]
Subject:
RE: [Futurework] [Fwd: how to create morons? DOD
handbook CECTV
Show]
see the book "Imperial Grunts" by Kaplan. I saw it
reviewed
on educational TV in Ontario. Kaplan makes the case
that
Grunts are stilled needed to maintain the global power of
the US.
He contends that the US is active in 59 countries
with troops of one sort
or another.
http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,091205_Imperial_G
runts,00.html
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From: john
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Subject: how to
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:19:17
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Military Recruitment for the Toddler in your
Family
Cec
Via Truthout, a piece written by Victoria Harper, about
the
Department
of Defense's latest efforts to prepare the 2-10 year
old
near you for
future adventures in military
recruitment:
The toddlers
were at the pizza parlor to
celebrate
Kristina's
3rd
birthday. A dozen youngsters jumped and clapped
their
hands
as a giant rat, Chuck E.
Cheese, came out to greet
them.
The
Iraq War was far from my
mind.
If you
have never been to Chuck E. Cheese, it is
a mix
of
carnival and play park, with
so-so pizza, lots of
video
games,
coin operated kiddie
rides, and arcade games like
ski ball.
The
place is designed for 2- to
10-year-olds, with
occasional
adults
playing the games. There
is even a designated play
area
for
babies. I was escorting 4
little boys for the
evening, to
free
their parents for a night
out without the children.
A
birthday party in progress caught my
attention, and
I
watched the children clapping
and singing. The stage
above
the
little party was equipped
with a number
of
seven-foot-tall
animated
puppets. From time to time, they would move
around
to
music, shifting their eyes
from side to side and
batting
their
eyelashes. They all sang
"Happy Birthday to You"
and
clapped
their hands. The
ringing of the bells and sounds
of
children
playing the
arcade games provided the background to
the
animated
show, which ran for
about 15 minutes, ending with
Chuck
E.
Cheese walking about the room
to greet the tiny
children,
who
were thrilled to meet
him.
When
the birthday party settled into eating
pizza
and
birthday cake, a second
feature began. A series of
large
screen
TVs came to life to show
Chuck E. Cheese TV. The
program was,
at
first, MTV-like. Performers
in large animal garb
sang and
danced
through an idyllic scene
with herons and alligators.
A man
clad
in a blazing yellow shirt
and red vest skipped
across
the
screen, singing and snapping
his fingers to the
lively
music.
The scene shifted to a
person dressed in a dog
costume
fishing
in the lake with 3- and
4-year-old children and
then
shifted
again from
pictures of the children to mothers
holding
small
babies. Although it was
disjointed and a bit crazed,
it was
what
one might expect at Chuck E
Cheese.
Then my
jaw dropped: the MTV segment shifted
to
a
promotional piece
compiled by the Department of
Defense!
The
promo showed happy, smiling
soldiers in Iraq handing
out
toys
and candies to delighted
children. This was followed
by a
series
of scenes showing war
planes, tanks and more
happy
soldiers.
This
production lasted for 5 minutes of the
15-minute CEC
TV
show. Throughout the segment,
the large animated
puppets'
eyes
shifted toward the TV as
they nodded in approval
and
clapped.
Then their eyes
shifted back to the children,
who
were
spellbound by the
movie.
Several
telephone calls I made to Chuck
E.
Cheese
headquarters were
not answered. Finally reaching
someone at
the
local outlet, one of over
500 company owned
and
operated
locations, I
learned that the CEC TV show was a
regular part
of
the offerings at all CEC
sites and that it was run a
number
of
times during each
day.
Pizza, soda,
animated puppets, and military propaganda. Get
those
preschoolers
ready for their All American future -- you can
never start
too
soon.
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