(Editor’s note: This no kidding is a press release that was sent to the Defense Tech offices.)
18DoughtyStreet.com, Britains first political web tv station, has launched a two minute viral campaign to combat growing anti-Americanism across Britain and Europe.
The two minute campaign that has been posted on YouTube and is being distributed across Britain via email paints a world that would be less free, less healthy and less prosperous if America had never existed.
Through five fictional news reports from the 1950s onwards it portrays a world dominated by Soviet Russia and warns that much of the worlds prosperity and medical advances would have been lost.
18DoughtyStreet.com is the initiative of internet entrepreneur Stephan Shakespeare and a number of Britains most-read bloggers who have come together to challenge the biases of establishment broadcasters and mainstream parties.
Tim Montgomerie, Director of 18DoughtyStreet.com, said, For much of the last fifty years Europe has benefited from Americas security umbrella and from the dynamism of American enterprise and science. The advert ends by suggesting that if the US-led coalition had not intervened in Iraq the world could now be being held to ransom by a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein.
The text of the advertisement is here:
Opening caption: Imagine a world without America.
SCENE 1: 1950s STUDIO WITH MAN IN DINNER SUIT
Caption: 1959
You are watching the News from London. General Secretary Stalin was in France today to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Paris by the Red Army. Organised crowds of young people sang the Soviet anthem as troops marched down the Champs Elysees …
Caption: A World Without America … Would Be A World With Less Freedom
SCENE 2: 1960s STUDIO WITH SAME PRESENTER IN FLOWER POWER SUIT
Caption: 1969
Latest data from the British Department of Health show that deaths from polio rose again last year. The hunt for a vaccine continues…
Caption: A World Without America Would Be A World Without Many Medical Advances
SCENE 3: 1970s STUDIO WITH SAME PRESENTER IN LARGE LAPELED BROWN SUIT
Caption: 1979
Tonight the Mediterranean Sea is full of boats of Jewish refugees fleeing for their lives. Earlier in the day the poorly-equipped and under-funded Israeli army was finally defeated and Arab combined forces with Soviet air cover — entered Tel Aviv…
Caption: A World Without America Would Be A World Without Israel
SCENE 4: 1980s STUDIO WITH SAME PRESENTER IN SHOULDER-PADDED POWER SUIT
Caption: 1989
Arriving at todays hunger summit in her ministerial Lady Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher vowed to work with Austrian President Arnold Schwarzenegger in fighting increasing hunger across Asia…
Caption: A World Without America… Would Be A Poorer World
SCENE 5: TURN-OF-THE CENTURY STUDIO WITH SAME PRESENTER IN NEWSROUND-TYPE OPEN SHIRT AND JEANS
Caption: 1999
At a Downing Street press conference earlier today the British Prime Minister said that President Saddam Hussein was a man he could do business with. He was speaking after it was confirmed that the Revolutionary Republic of Iraq and Kuwait had acquired nuclear weapons…
Caption: A World Without America… Would Be A World Held To Ransom By Tyrants
CLOSING SEQUENCE
In the final sequence a whole series of words and phrases appear on the screen and then disappear… at first slowly and then fast…
A free Afghanistan
40 percent of the worlds R&D
Free Taiwan
Nylon
Elvis Presley
Air conditioning
Marshall Plan
South Korea
Democratic Nicaragua
Typewriter
A free Japan
Protection of world trading routes
Jazz
50 percent of the world food programme
The motorcar
The liberation of the Falklands
Berlin Airlift
The bra
Frozen food
Dishwasher
Denim jeans
$15bn HIV/AIDS programme
FM radio
Coca Cola
Free Haiti
Supercomputer
26 percent of global aid spending
Final message on screen with atlas of world without USA as image:
A WORLD WITHOUT AMERICA
A world with more disease, more poverty, more danger.
Sponsored by BritainAndAmerica.com
(Editor’s endnote: Wow, we’d better get on the step and make a list of things we should thank Europe for. I’ll start:
1. Pissing off our forefathers so bad that they came to America.
2. Some other things I can’t think of right now.)
– Ward
Oh, here’s the video:
1984. I’m interested could you enlighten us to your background? I say this in the form of are you a student? a student of history? a teacher of history? The reason I ask is that you sound just like a professor I had many years ago.
Max; I am lost as to this comment . “Partly this was due to McCarthyism, the attendant anti-commie fervor, and the purging from State of people who actually knew Indochina from a hole in the ground. Partly it was obstinance and wishful thinking. It was wholly a mistake, however.” Fisrt how does McCarthyism play into that. McCarthy was all about Communists/sympathizers in the Govt. Which I would add were well founded. If ANYONE says that he was wrong or just a madman go and do the research, read the Vernona files. It clearly shows that there were people in high places that we were to be afraid of. Second. at what level do you believe that the Soviets or Chicoms were not helping the NVA? It also has to be recognized that prior to Kennedy’s death there was a very real possibility that the US was going to intercede in Angola rather than Vietnam. At this point I will concede that there was a much greater threat of soviet involvment in Angola than in Vietnam. Which is why Kennedy wanted Angola. I have to do some reading before commenting on the rest.
well max is right the chinese and the vietnamese didn’t like each other.. and they still don’t.. but don’t underestimate a communist country.. the thing i hate the most is ppl who see what they wanna see and i’m not accusing you of this max i’m just saying. ppl see chinese ppl and they see ppl who love americans… just because they wear western clothes doesn’t mean they wanna be western.. now .. the ppl are not inherently bad ppl. but i wouldn’t underestimate the control the govt has on it’s people anyone remember tianamen square. and in both the korean and vietnam war.. i don’t know if this was mentioned in this post.. both wars saw action of SOVIET fighter pilots.. we never could prove this at the time but it was later proved with soviet records so ho may not have been a moscow puppet but he had signifigant help from them.. and kim (senior) had help from both beijing and moscow. anyway the point of this is. communist countries may not like each other but they have come to each others aid in the past. and russia may not be commi anymore but i wouldn’t be so eager to trust putin just yet. just look at the stink he’s makeing over the estonia statue thing
“communist countries may not like each other but they have come to each others aid in the past.“
Well, yes. And? We aided the USSR while it fought Germany. We aided the Muhajadeen vs. the USSR.
That doesn’t mean we were allies, or joined at the hip. It means that, at the time, we had a mutual enemy. Nothing more.
If it’s 1948, and the French–with American funding–are your enemy, who are you going to look to for support/supplies/training/‘advisors’? If it’s 1960, and the GVN–with American funding, equipment, training, and advisors–is your enemy, who are you going to look to for aid? If it’s 1970, and America and the GVN are your enemies, who are you going to look to for aid?
The USSR and ChiComs, of course. Who else would give you aid for the express purpose of thwarting American strategic objectives? Not the first world–they rely on America. Not the third world–they couldn’t even if they wanted to. Which leaves the second world.
“The liberation of the Falklands” huh? am I missing something here? Maybe the authors were thinking of the Argentinian ‘liberation’. The US did play a part in that seeing as they sold them the amtracs they landed in. That and the A4s the Argentinian AF used to launch CAP missions against Royal Navy ships.
The actual liberation was as a result of the British Army and the Royal Navy, and not as a result of some very minor diplomatic wrangling to save face by the State Dept.
Can we lay off the revisionist history, it is was it is.
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