"PENTAGON TV" HITS THE AIRWAVES ON ADELPHIA

I guess. Having experiance with the beauruecratic system involved, I think it's more likely that some sensitive writer types found themselves in the military and wanted to get that GI Bill without doing anything too strenuous. Flash forward a few decades, and now they have rank and all it's privaledges, and they would prefer to stay in their field instead of go off and command a post that could come under fire, or be more impressive on their resume if they want to stay in their field when they retire from the military.
Anyway, I see this as something more akin to a highschool AV department than nazi propaganda. If this were a broadcast channel, or if they were producing segments which would be shown before ever movie in America, then maybe it would matter. Coca-cola saying that its product makes something more real, now that's something to worry about.

Talk about product placement, if selling war wasn't so ludicrious, it is a marketers dream come true. Just the demographics of such a target audience is ripe for advertisers.

No wonder they got rid of the Dan Rather's of the evening news cycle, those CIA front men are so passe under the new direct market approach. This makes me want to HURL...

"My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes...That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication...That is how I will create the New Order." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933.

Teutonic Order?

The Teutonic Order (German: Deutscher Orden; Latin: Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum) was a German crusading military order under Roman Catholic religious vows which was formed at the end of the 12th century in Acre (Akko) in Palestine to give medical aid to pilgrims to the holy places. They wore white coats with a black cross. After Christian forces were defeated in the Middle East, in 1211 they moved to Transylvania, from where they were soon expelled in 1225. After that they moved to northern Poland, where they soon created the independent Teutonic Order state. The agressiveness of the Order posed a threat to the neigbouring states, especially those of Poland and Lithuania. In 1410 at the Battle of Grunwald (also known as the battle of Tannenberg), a Polish-Lithuanian army decisively defeated the Order and broke its military power. The power of the Order declined since then and in 1525 its then Grand Master, Albert of Brandenburg, converted to Lutheranism and assumed the title and rights of hereditary Duke of Prussia. The Grand Masters, often members of the great German families (and, after 1761, by members of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine), continued to preside over the Order's considerable holdings in Germany until 1809, when Napoleon ordered its dissolution and the Order lost its last secular holdings. However, the order continued to exist, headed by Habsburgs through the First World War, and today operates primarily with charitable aims.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_order

Habsburgs?

House of Habsburg-Lorraine: the Austrian Empire

On August 6, 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was wound up under the French Emperor Napoleon I's reorganisation of Germany. However, in anticipation of the loss of his title of Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II declared himself hereditary Emperor of Austria (as Francis I, thereof) on August 11, 1804, three months after Napoleon had declared himself Emperor of France on May 18, 1804.

Emperor Francis I of Austria used the official great title: "We, Francis the First, by the grace of God Emperor of Austria; King of Jerusalem, Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, and Lodomeria; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Würzburg, Franconia, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola; Grand Duke of Cracow; Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Sandomir, Masovia, Lublin, Upper and Lower Silesia, Auschwitz and Zator, Teschen, and Friule; Prince of Berchtesgaden and Mergentheim; Princely Count of Habsburg, Gorizia, and Gradisca and of the Tyrol; and Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Istria".

In 1867 effective autonomy was given to Hungary under the terms of the Ausgleich or "compromise" (see Austria-Hungary) until the Habsburgs' deposition from both Austria and Hungary in 1918 following defeat in World War I.

The current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, Emperor Karl's eldest son.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg

Otto?

Early advocate of a United Europe

Well after the end of the Second World War, Otto finally renounced all claims to the Austrian throne (1961) and was eventually allowed to return to his home country in 1966. An early advocate of a unified Europe, he served from 1979 till 1999 as a Member of the European Parliament for the conservative German CSU party.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg

CSU Party?

Christian Social Union in Bavaria

The Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU ? Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V.) is a conservative political party in Germany. It operates exclusively in the state of Bavaria, while its sister party CDU operates in the rest of the country. Only in 1957 in the state of Saarland (in the first election after it had rejoined Germany) the CSU ran against CDU candidates, but this section of the CSU later merged with the CDU. On the federal level, the CSU is often perceived as the more conservative of the two parties, and at times, especially when the CDU showed weaknesses, there has been considerable tension up to threats to break up the cooperation. Most of the time, however, they work together very closely.

The CSU has led the Bavarian state government practically since it came into existence, and without the need for a coalition government for most of the time. This level of dominance is unique in post-war Germany. On the federal level, it forms a common faction in the Bundestag (Federal Parliament) with the CDU. Edmund Stoiber took over the CSU chairmanship early in 1999. He ran for chancellor in 2002, but lost. In 2003 the CSU was re-elected as the Bavarian government with an overall majority. Franz Josef Strauss (1915-1988) is seen as having set the ideological basis of the party, although he was too young to be a founding leader of the party, which began as a continuation of the Weimar-era Bavarian People's Party.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Social_Union_in_Bavaria

Franz Josef Strauss?

Dr. h.c. Franz Josef Strauß (spelled Strauss in English) (September 6, 1915 - October 3, 1988) was a German politician (CSU) and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria.

Born as Franz Strauß in Munich as the second child of a butcher, Strauß studied germanistics, history and economics at the University of Munich from 1935 to 1939. In World War II, he served in the german Wehrmacht(army), on the Western and Eastern Fronts.

Political life

After the war, he was appointed deputy Landrat (county president) of Schongau by the American occupiers and was involved in founding the local CSU there. He became a member of the first Bundestag(governing body) in 1949 and, in 1953, Federal Minister for Special Affairs in the second cabinet of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in 1955 Federal Minister of Nuclear Energy, and in 1956 defense minister, charged with the build-up of the new Bundeswehr(new german armed forces) ? the youngest man in this office to that date. He became chairman of the CSU in 1961.

Der Spiegel scandal

Strauß was forced to step down as defense minister in 1962, in the wake of the Spiegel scandal, in which Rudolf Augstein, owner and editor-in-chief of the influental Der Spiegel magazine, was arrested on his request for 103 days. After Strauß had to admit that he had lied to the parliament, he was forced to resign

Ever since the infamous Der Spiegel affair of the 1960s, he had also become the target of the broacasting and publishing media blitz that Herbert W. Armstrong has unleashed upon Europe through the daily offshore pirate radio station broadcasts by his son Garner Ted Armstrong; his magazine called The Plain Truth and his Ambassador College campus at Bricket Wood in Hertfordshire, England. Strauß was portrayed with great probability as being the coming Führer who would lead a United States of Europe into a prophetic and victorious future World War III against the USA and UK at some time between 1972 and 1975. For some strange reason in 1971 Franz Josef Strauß played along with the prophetic interest shown in him as Herbert W. Armstrong recalled in a 1983 letter: "I entertained him at dinner in my home in Pasadena, and he spoke to the faculty and students of Ambassador College. I have maintained contact with him." Strauß also appeared in an interview on The World Tomorrow television program.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss

The Plain Truth is a magazine founded by Herbert W. Armstrong who also founded the Radio Church of God (later renamed the Worldwide Church of God), Ambassador College and The World Tomorrow radio and television programs. Herbert W. Armstrong began his ministry headquarters in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Pasadena, California.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plain_Truth

Edmund Stoiber?

Dr. Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber (born September 28, 1941) is a German politician, currently minister-president of the state of Bavaria and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU).

Stoiber's conservative world view has a very polarizing attraction which means that many people either love or hate him. For example, there has been a campaign "Stop Stoiber!"

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Stoiber

"But then another man came into the picture, throwing a wrench into this modern family's chance at happiness. He's Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, a member of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU). His state government is taking a case to the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, in an attempt to reverse the new law, which permits homosexual partners to adopt children, as long as they satisfy certain requirements. The Bavarian officials are trying to preserve what they call the "traditional trinity" of the German family -- father, mother, child.

Guido Westerwelle, leader of the opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP), has characterized Stoiber's move as nothing short of a "renaissance of narrow-mindedness." Stoiber, in turn, is convinced it is his duty to rescue the German constitution. For the benefit of the child, he says, the state should prevent people from becoming adoptive parents when their living situation "is incompatible with the guiding principles of the constitution and with the role of mother and father." In other words, adoption should be reserved for married people."

 http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,353942,00.html

The more things change the more things stay the same.