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Boeing, the Pentagon and Australian-based Propaganda Units

Wage Peace friends have been out disrupting the US propaganda machine because the weapons companies are pushing for war

On 6 September 2023 our friends interrupted this public lecture.  General Mick Ryan is there at the lectern. He’s an ex-ADF General – now a #USPropagandist – and he’s about to tell people about why we must prepare for war by buying more US weapons.

ALP stalwart Paul Lucas moves in. But even 30 minutes later we were still there telling an alternative story about what is going on!

greg holds 'US propaganda' banner next to Mick ryan at public lecture

Watch on YouTube as we disrupt his latest propaganda engagement. 

#BewareBoeingsWars  Boeing is a weapons company

Our friends also attended Boeing slowly walking up to their suburban location in Brisbane. We prevented the weapons dealers arriving for work. Beware Boeing’s wars we warned. Boeing is a weapons company. With BAE, Thales, and General Dynamics, Boeing is pushing for war while taking the big bucks from Australians. #EarthCareNotWarfare

Keep watching. Keep speaking up. You are all making a difference when you talk about what weapons companies are doing. 

Watch this short video as we present the neighbourhood with the reality of having the third biggest weapons company in the world in their residential area.

#USPropaganda

Boeing couldn’t have a better friend than General Mick Ryan. He’s always suggesting Australia buy more weapons from the United States. (Which is one of the reasons we suspect him as a propagandist).

At Mick’s lecture we discovered another connection between the University of Queensland (UQ) and the Pentagon’s propaganda arrangements. 

Turns out Ryan was being shepherded by the deputy head of “Defence” and “Space” Research at UQ, Greta Nabbs-Keller.  Dr Nabbs-Keller has a history as an ADF “intelligence” officer. She is a Bahasa Indonesian speaker. She is also director of the  “Hypersonics Program” research at UQ that Boeing is central to. 

In his introduction ALP stalwart Paul Lucas acknowledged Nabbs-Keller for her UQ position. It appears she set this lecture up. Is she on the propaganda team too? We wonder why someone who organises research partnerships is accompanying an unpaid adjunct ‘professor’ for a novel he’s written about the “war over Taiwan”?

General Mick Ryan has been propagandising for the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) – for the Pentagon, for Empire since early 2022 (according to his LinkdIn). He’s been given ‘expert strategist’ status by the mainstream media. 

We have to wonder why no other “strategist” can be found to back the Pentagon talking points he does. Whether on the payroll (he claims not) or a “useful assistant” it is unclear. He is certainly centring himself. And UQ is part of that story. 

One of General Ryan’s “positions” is adjunct professor at UQ, but it’s hard to find what he researches there. Or how he got professor status as someone with a minor masters degree.

The Pentagon is the US’s Empire Department. With the mega weapons corporations, the MIC drives the plans for war. It’s good for the MIC businesses. The propaganda organisers involved teams of people operationalising the plan.  They are tasked with drawing people into their pro-war scenarios. They spruik for war.

The propaganda units have to soften up and prepare populations – to build a consensus that war is a good idea. Dr Binoy Kampmark gives another view on Ryan here. And Caitlin Johnstone here.

You can make a difference with us on this – so stick with us! Tell this story and tell other stories that you see. The more you are out and about with us, the more you can help confirm these relationships.

We will be at UQ again and again over the next few weeks. Please join us if you are in Brisbane = just email us to say “I’m in”! 

If you are following from afar  – please use the social media amplifier effect!

We Need you to Call Out the Propagandists #USPropaganda

Label articles pushing for war, and the people who organise them #USPropaganda is pentagon propaganda. You see them – YOU label them. Tell people. Talk about it. We have to make visible what they are doing in real time. 

Watch on YouTube as we disrupt Ryan’s latest propaganda engagement. 

What you can do: 

  • Retweet this almost viral tweet!
  • Repost that or this Facebook version and from Instagram
  • Start using our “slogans” as hashtags because they help frame our work:  #USPropaganda #EarthCareNotWarfare and … #BewareBoeingsWars 

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