“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as
the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State
to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of
the State.”
~Joseph Goebbels
Source
The Military control the media, for proof, all you need to do is look at the atrocities taking place in Libya; further evidence that the Nazis had
nothing on NATO when it comes to propaganda.
Below is a long video of varying quality,which may have been posted before. It is worth a listen to the whole interview because it appears to be a
genuine account of the atrocities our tax dollars are paying for.
For the purposes of this post, I ask you to pay attention at about the 32 minute and 38 minute marks to hear this young journalist's impression of the
media; that these allegedly competing media conglomerates are integrated with eachother, and with the military.
Lest you start believing this is something new, propaganda has been of paramount importance to the military since the dawn of civilization.
“The use of propaganda as a means of controlling information flow, managing public opinion, or manipulating behavior is as old as recorded
history. The concept of persuasion is an integral part of human nature, and the use of specific techniques to bring about large-scale shifts in ideas
can be traced back to the ancient world. Many artifacts from prehistory and from earliest civilizations provide us with evidence that attempts were
being made to use the equivalent of modern-day propaganda techniques to communicate the purported majesty and supernatural powers of rulers and
priests. In a largely preliterate age, dazzling costumes, insignia, and monuments were deliberately created symbols designed to evoke a specific image
of superiority and power that these early propagandists wished to convey to their audience.
The history of propaganda is based on three interweaving elements: first, the increasing need, with the growth of civilization and the rise of
nationstates, to win what has been called “the battle for people’s minds”; second, the increasing sophistication of the means of communication
available to deliver propagandistic messages; and third, the increasing understanding of the psychology of propaganda and the commensurate application
of such behavioral findings. Throughout history, these three elements have been combined in various ways to enhance and encourage the use of
propaganda as a means of altering attitudes and for the creation of new ideas or perspectives. Only in comparatively modern times, however, have
scholars and scientists begun to understand and assess the role of such mass propaganda techniques as an aspect of the social process.
Source
The Internet is a great example, originally a tool for
military communications, it is now my
preferred source of information, even though it is one that can track what I say and read, and my location when I do it.
The trust we have in the media is part of our programming; undoubtedly built into the archetecture of Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's code-name for
their effort to subvert the mass media, begun in the 1940s.:
Operation Mockingbird
In the second half of the 20th century, the burgeoning American media was co-opted by something called Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's subversion
of the free press in America. Frank Wisner, who ran the project in the 1940s and 1950s for the Agency, once famously said that the American media was
like his own "...personal Wurlitzer; I can play any tune I want on it and America will follow along."
In the 1970s, CIA director William Colby admitted, "The CIA owns assets at every major media outlet in America, TV networks, newspapers,
publishing houses, and magazines."
In a 1977 Rolling Stone article, Carl Bernstein estimated that there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of CIA-friendly assets at all the major TV
networks, newspapers and periodicals in America.
Source
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
-- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Propaganda works, and it works best in America because we think it's just a movie, or a TV show-comercial-sport-video game-hit song.
The first step in gaining your freedom comes with turning off the propaganda, a feat made extremely difficult by today's onslaught of media. At least
protect yourself by becoming familiar with the enemy, and the Pentagon considers the Internet an enemy "weapons system".
The Pentagon's Information Operations Roadmap is blunt about the fact that an internet, with the potential for free speech, is in direct
opposition to their goals. The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy "weapons system".
The 2003 Pentagon document entitled the Information Operation Roadmap was released to the public after a Freedom of Information Request by the
National Security Archive at George Washington University in 2006. A detailed explanation of the major thrust of this document and the significance of
information operations or information warfare was described by me here.
Don't be a sucker for the military message. Don't fall for every hip new organized protest. Learn how to better recognize propaganda. Hint: It's
all propaganda.
"Propaganda Techniques",:
"...based upon Appendix I: PSYOP Techniques" from "Psychological Operations Field Manual No.33-1" published by Headquarters; Department of the
Army, in Washington DC, on 31 August 1979. Appendix by Jon Roland, July, 1998.
PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES
For a change of perspective, here is an excerpt from a book entitled "
Clear
Thinking", by RW Jepson, written and appended during and after WWII "
Reading
The Newspaper" applies today to our myriad media, just as it did then..
To better recognize "Logical Fallacies", a valuable skill on the forums, here's a list:
Logical Fallacies
Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud wrote the book on it:
Propaganda
Wake up America, you've been had.
edit on 13-10-2011 by septic because: typo
