Hollywood & The Pentagon: A Dangerous Liaison

Playlist: Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes & Censors The Movies

-- U.S. Army Commercial Targets PG13 XMen Audience

-- The Pentagon Channel presents "The Reel Military. Straight from the war-horses mouth.

-- Act Of Valor Film Described As 'Beyond Propaganda'

-- Nobel Peace laureates vs NBC scandalous reality show

25 years later, how 'Top Gun' made America love war

studios in the post-"Top Gun" era instituted an unstated rule telling screenwriters & directors to get military cooperation "or forget about making the picture.

Politics & Hollywood's images are linked. They reinforce one another. Policy enforces mythical images; mythical images help enforce policy. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, has said, quote, "Washington & Hollywood spring from the same DNA," end-quote. - JACK SHAHEEN, director of

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

From the documentary, "Hollywood & The War Machine", Michael Moore, on the reason people haven't gone to see films with an anti-war bent as of late:

"We know we're complicit in this.

We know that our tax dollars are going to fund the killing of civilians,

using predator drones now in Pakistan to kill innocent civilians.

And after working hard all week to go to the movie theater on a Friday night and be reminded that you are a part of the

annihilators..."

Playlist: Returning Fire: Interventions In Video Game Culture

-- US Army Commercial Targets Video Gamers

-- GamePro: Video Games Are Most Effective Army Recruitment Tool

-- Army Training Video Games Tech In Kids Homes Today

"60-70% of Army Video Game Simulation Technology in Our Kids Homes Today", (like CryEngine 3)! ~

Military contractor, Intelligent Decisions Director, Floyd West

US Army spending $57 million on military simulator using CryEngine 3

-- Army Trains W/ Call Of Duty

"It's a great training product. I've had 'em link the Xboxes together and the sergeant will actually train his teams with the Modern Warfare game." ~ Call of Duty representative, lead military adviser, lieutenant colonel, Hank Keirsey

-- Sony Trademarked Shock & Awe Amid Iraq War ~ Militainment: Rise Of The Video Game

Sony was founded by a former naval lieutenant named Akio Morita and a defense contractor named Masaru Ibuka.

FedEx and Pepsi Are Top Defense Contractors? 5 Corporate Brands Making a Killing on America's Wars (Sony)

-- Microsoft Flight Simulator & US Army Business Partnership

(Lawmakers heavily invested in defense) (Microsoft)

-- Halo As Official Tool For Army Recruitment & PR

-- Atari's Battlezone & US Army Business Partnership

-- Sega produced training simulator for Lockheed-Martin

SErvice GAmes:"Air Force vet David Rosen founds company, makes (pro)military commercial and simulation games to this day.

-- Army PR & Video Games (@ Elementary Schools!)

(six in ten current US soldiers entered the military as teenagers)

-- Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. (1 Corinthians 15:33)

-- 'Army & Video Game Industry, Same Difference'

In the 1960s, The Inventor of video games Ralph Baer worked for defense contractor Sanders Associates.

Sanders licensed the technology to Magnavox, which introduced the Odyssey system in 1972.

Somewhere in Texas, one of the most famous episodes of the Iraq war; the heroic rescue of U.S. Private Jessica Lynch was turned into a scene for a made-for-TV movie. The movie was broadcast on TV earlier this Fall, but not without sparking some controversy. The official military version of the rescue had been contradicted by several investigative journalists. But when the film was produced, a U.S. Army official was on the set overseeing the operation. The U.S. Army also had direct control over the script, but at what expense to reality? With the help of interviews with key military officials and filmmakers, Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Dangerous Liaison attempts to explain the behind-the-scenes relations between Hollywood and the Pentagon.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalm 34:14

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.