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2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
By Raúl Ilargi Meijer of The Automatic Earth
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories about World War II, and not just about Anne Frank and the huge amounts of people who, like her, had been dragged off to camps in eastern Europe never to come back, but also about the thousands who had risked their lives to hide Jewish and other refugees, and the scores who had been executed for doing so, often betrayed by their own neighbors.
And then there were those who had risked their lives in equally courageous ways to get news out to people, putting out newspapers and radio broadcasts just so there would be a version of events out there that was real, and not just what the Germans wanted one to believe. This happened in all Nazi – and Nazi friendly – occupied European nations. The courage of these people is hard to gauge for us today, and I’m convinced there’s no way to say whom amongst us would show that kind of bravery if we were put to the test; I certainly wouldn’t be sure about myself.
Still, without wanting to put myself anywhere near the level of those very very real heroes, please don’t get me wrong about that, that’s not what I mean, I was thinking about them with regards to what is happening in our media today. I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think Joseph Goebbels had anything on US and European media today.
That propaganda as a strategic and political instrument has been refined to a huge extent over the past 70-odd years since Goebbels first picked up on Freud’s lessons on how to influence the unconscious mind, and the ‘mass-mind’, as a way to ‘steer’ an entire people, not just as a means to make them buy detergent. These days, the media can make people believe just about anything, and they have the added benefit that they can pose as friends of the people, not the enemy.
But there is a reason why such a large ‘industry’ has developed on the web with people writing articles that don’t say what the mass media say. That reason for is, obviously, first and foremost that not everybody believes whatever they are told. The problem is equally obvious: not nearly enough people are being reached to make a true difference, and to question the official narratives.
Me, I have no claim to fame outside of the appreciation I get from first, my readers and second, from my colleagues and peers. I get a lot of both, and I thank you for that, but this certainly is not about me. If anything, it’s about trying to live up to the desire for truth in the face of odds squarely stacked against it, and against the people I try to reach out to. Trying to do just 0.1% of what the WWII underground press was about.
A few days ago, I wrote in About That Interview:
The FBI claims they are certain the hackers are North Korean, but they have provided no proof of that claim. We have to trust them on their beautiful blue eyes. I think if anything defines 2014 for me, it’s the advent of incessant claims for which no proof – apparently – needs to be provided. Everything related to Ukraine over the past year carries that trait. The year of ‘beautiful blue eyes’, in other words. Never no proof, you just have to believe what your government says.
And that truly defines 2014 for me. A level of propaganda I don’t recognize, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. 2014 has for me been the year of utter nonsense. To wit, it just finished in fine form with a 5% US GDP growth number, just to name one example. Really, guys? 5%? Really? With all the numbers presented lately, the negative Thanksgiving sales data – minus 11% from what I remember -, the so-so at best Christmas store numbers to date, shrinking durable goods in November and all? Plus 5%?
It really doesn’t matter what I say, does it? You have enough people believing ridiculous numbers like that to make it worth your while. After all, that’s all that counts. It’s a democracy, isn’t it? If a majority believes something, it becomes true. If you can get more than 50% of people to believe whatever you say, that’s case closed.
With well over 90 million working age Americans counted as being out of the labor force, and with 43 million on food stamps, you can still present a 5% GDP growth number, if only you can get a sufficiently large number of people to ‘believe’. And you do, I’ll give you that. As far as the media goes, we have achieved the change we can believe in. We may not have that change, but we sure do believe we have, don’t we? And isn’t that what counts? Are congratulations in order?
Well, not where I’m at, they’re not. I should do a shout out to the likes of Zero Hedge, Yves Smith, David Stockman, Wolf Richter, Mish, Steve Keen, Jim Kunstler, and so many others, we’re a solid crowd by now even if we’re neglected, and please don’t feel left out if you’re not in that list, I know who you are. The problem is, we’re all completely neglected by the mass media, even though there are a ton of very sharp minds in this ‘finance blogosphere’. And perhaps we should make it a point to break through that ridiculous black-out in 2015.
2014, in my eyes, has been the year of propaganda outdoing even its own very purpose, and succeeding too. We are supposed to be living in a time of the best educated people in the history of mankind, and everyone thinks (s)he’s mighty smart, but precious few have even an inkling of a clue of what transpires in the world they live in. Talk about a lost generation. Or two.
We really need to question the value of higher education, if all we get for it is a generation of people so easily duped by utter blubber. What do they teach people at our universities these days? Certainly not to think for themselves, that much is clear. And then what is the use? Why spend all that time raising an entire generation of highly educated pawns, sheep and robots? I can think of some people liking that, but for society as a whole, it’s devastating if that’s all higher education is.
And if you would like to raise doubts here, the very existence of finance blogosphere I mentioned before is proof that we indeed have raised a generation of sheep. If we had functioning media, there’d be no need for that blogosphere. We are the people who keep on pointing out where the mass media fail, let alone the politicians, simply by being there and being supported to the extent we are by the few people who escape the sheep mentality.
But that’s not nearly enough. Journalists, reporters, whatever they call themselves, working for Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC etc. should at the very least quote Zero Hedge on a daily basis, and Mish, and Steve, and Yves, and perhaps even me – though it’s fine if they continue to ignore me, as long as they give the rest their rightful place.
There are many people in the blogosphere who are many times smarter than the people who write for the mass media, and that’s a very simple and hardly disputable fact that needs to be recognized. When you read something in your paper or at your online news provider, it should be second nature to ask yourself: but what would Tyler Durden say, or the Automatic Earth, or Naked Capitalism, or David Stockman?
But we’re nowhere near that, are we? We’ve been fooled with economic stats for years, not just in the US, not even just in the west, but all over, they all grabbed on to the potential of providing people with numbers that have little to do with reality, but that simply feel good. Or even just look good.
Still, boy, have we been, and are we being, fooled. Then again, most of you wouldn’t know, would you? We people tend to discount the future, to see today as more important than tomorrow, and in the same manner we find our children’s future much less important than our own. Because that feels good too. If we are comfy right now, screw them. Not that we’d ever put it into those terms.
But you know, that’s really all old hack by now. 2014 brought us a whole other class of nonsense. And we swallowed it all hook line and entire sinker.
2014 gave us Ukraine. And you just try and find anyone today who doesn’t think Vladimir Putin is and was the evil genius mind behind the whole thing, including the 4500+ people who died there over the past 10 months. Why is it so hard to anyone who doubts that narrative? Because our media told us Putin is the bogeyman. And ‘we’ never asked for any proof. That is, except for those of us in that same blogosphere.
Meanwhile, round after round of sanctions against Russia have been set up and activated by EU and US, causing hardship for both Russian people and European businesses. But why, what exactly is Putin allegedly guilty of?
The US/EU installed a government in Kiev in February (yeah, yap about it), which is still in place, with a bunch of US citizens recently added for good measure – and for profit-. The chocolate prince president was indeed elected months later, but the prime minister – Yats – was handpicked by America, and is still -amazingly – in place. That’s the same government that had it own army murder thousands of its own citizens, and not a thing has been resolved so far.
The whole thing came to a head when MH17 was shot down over the summer. That too was blamed on Putin. Or was it? Well, not directly, nobody said Putin ordered that plane to be shot. Nor did anyone say Russia shot it. There is the accusation that Russian speaking Ukrainian ‘rebels’ did it, but proof for that was never provided in the 6 months since the incident. And there must be a best before date in there somewhere.
Is it possible the ‘rebels’ did it? We can’t exclude it, but that’s for the same reason we can’t exclude the option that little green Martians did it: we don’t know. But even then, even if they did, there’s the question whether that would have been on purpose. Which seems really stretching it: nothing they want would be served by shooting down a plane full of European, Malaysian and Australian holiday goers.
But here we are: no proof and layer upon layer of sanctions. And nary a voice is raised in the west. If one is, it’s to denounce the Russians as bloodthirsty barbarians. Even though there is no proof they did anything other than protecting what they see as their own people. Something we all would do too, no questions asked.
Ukraine defines 2014 as the year western propaganda came into its own. Not just fictional stories about an economic recovery anymore, no, we had our politico-media establishment ram an entire new cold war down our throats. And we swallowed it whole. We may have had a million more years of higher education than our parents and grandparents, but we sure don’t seem to have gotten any smarter than them.
There is a lot of information out there, written by people inspired by things other than monetary incentives or job security or anything like that, people who simply want to get information out that your trusted media won’t give you anymore than Goebbels’ media did in occupied Europe in the 1940s. And you don’t even have to risk your lives to access that information. All you have to do is to get off your couch.
The Automatic Earth is but a small part of a very valuable and fast growing resource that warrants a lot more attention than it’s been receiving to date. A reported 5% US GDP growth print is one reason why, the entire Ukraine fantasy story is another. The blogosphere is full of functioning neurons, which is more than you can say for your papers and online MSM.
As far as media is concerned, 2014 has been downright scary in its distortion of reality. Let’s try and move 2015 a little bit closer towards what’s actually happening.
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this year I have really developed an "eye" for spotting subtle propaganda
http://www.philiacband.com/propaganda.html
Maybe we will go through a 100th monkey process an we learn this fuckers like forever, and seeing propaganda becomes an instinct
Same as it ever was.
http://rt.com/usa/217895-nsa-inspector-general-reports/
Soooo......no we can't?
Things Are Looking Up!
GetZeeGold
Ohh boy! You will love these
Raúl Ilargi Meijer “2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age”
Professor Noam Chomsky: “In Russia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, classified information reports that about 44% of Russians searched news outside of the system. In America, we will be lucky if we get 2%. It’s more like 1%.”
it came of age when they repealed this
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-propaganda-b...
The Anne Frank diary is a fraud...
Propaganda indeed...
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=4297
But...that's where I learned to hate Germans and love Jews! Has my entire life been naught but a lie!?
Ho Ho Ho RM, it looks like you got Weasled by Eli too... Boo Hoo Hoo, Cried the 6 Million, no, wait, the 4 million, oh wait, the 1 million, oh nose, it's 420,000....
David Irving and Enst Zundel don't do propaganda....
Propaganda did not come of age in 2014, it has always been part of our society.
If you parse the word " government " for it's etymological origins.
you come up with:
(latin) gubernare:
"to direct, rule, guide, govern"
(latin) Mente: Mind
In other words, Government means Mind Control.
There truly is nothing new under the sun.
Article:
“2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age”
So, let’s make:
“2015: The Year We Are Going To Get the Facts Right and Have Less Stupid People Blogging”
And let’s start at one that can be easily proved. Easily corrected.
U.S. Agriculture Department: “101 million Americans are participating in at least one of the government [15] food programs.” Page 4, first paragraph.
it's an intersting circle of cause
as things get more and more fucked up
more and more lies are necessary
Exactly!
Look at us here. Many of us can not deal with reality either. We keep repeating, and making the same mistakes, over and over.
“The general concerns of all people - “elude” the public. The public just isn't up to dealing with them. And they have to be the domain of what he called a "specialized class" ... [Reinhold Niebuhr]'s view was that rationality belongs to the cool observer.
But because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith. And this naive faith requires necessary illusion, and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth-maker to keep the ordinary person on course. It's not the case, as the naive might think, that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. Rather, as this whole line of thinkers observes, it is the essence of democracy.
The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do.
But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard, you have this problem—it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule [Clement Walker, 1661], and therefore you have to control what people think.
And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion." -- Noam Chomsky.
Have to separate lies from propaganda.
None of these clowns come close to Goebells because folks have to have something they WANT to be true in order for the propaganda to work.
Germany had an axe to grind and was under threat going into World War II.
This made them very susceptible to PROPAGANDA....but not necessarily lies.
Nazi Germany's first act upon assumption of power in 1933 was to sign a non agression pact with Poland not to start invadimg .
The PROPAGANDA however was aggressive.
I think the problem of lies and lying is the transperancy now. What is the emotional connection to the fiction? What is the "reason to believe"?
The " lie" for lack of a better term must be " transparent " in the sense that folks focus on the necessity of what must be done and what must be "said" in order to make what needs to be done "true."
Whether true or not, its possible there was truth further embellished with some precision. After all, WW1 and WW2 were to bring in the League of Nations and then the UN. Certainly the A Frank Diary has a tremendous emotional pull conducive to supporting the UN, heavily targeted at my gender because she was so easy to relate to, especially when issued as required reading in high school so us female students were of a similar age and ripe for empathy - unfortunately we were not taught about any black swan aspects of WW2, nor the writings of people like Smedley Butler, Anthony Sutton, etc.... so we had little to go on other than a curriculum high in emotion and short on broader facts. In fact several popular war movies were part of my education at school with handsome actors, sad songs, so I cans see that a competing view point was made emotionally abhorrent...what a way to not develop critical thinking!!
http://y2u.be/VI6tBwVjyOY
disabledvet, Jeff the Terrible
The Hidden Danger
WW-2 was a continuation of WW-1. What WW-2 had more was a “Religion Tune” to it.
Hitler, or his advisors, understood that the private sector, even after been partly destroyed on WW-1, still could not take care of the German people with jobs, so Hitler went on a government spending; and Germany was very successful at it; if you were not Jew, of course.
However, Germany run out of resources and did not have the Global Reserve Currency. So, Germany had to physically invade other nations.
The Euro saved Germany this time; and from now.
Also, religion is less relevant in Europe today……….. Can’t say the same about America Christian Right.
The Weimar chosenites printed themselves in sane amounts of cash and used it to buy up everything, starving the good German people to death in their own country. Blaming the Chosenites for what they did was not propaganda. If you don't want bad Karma, don't steal from the people in their own country. Same as the foreign Chosenites are doing in the United States to the American people today.
Propaganda came of age during WWI and blossomed during WWII across the globe it just wasn't called propaganda by any government except but the Germans and Russians. The USA began using the term "Public Relations" after discovering the evidence of the manipulation (termed propaganda) used by the Germans during WWI.
How the fuck do you know? Reading the winners history?
Best Goebbels quote:
"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
He was referring to the Chosenites.
Self-enslavement
We are all Chosenites.
Some more than others.
So this is how the Germans must have felt back in 1934... The totalitarian slippage clearly visible, yet not in outright full swing. Oh well, it only took humans about 80 years to return at the same point in time...
angel_of_joy
Someone once said that if you can keep your head while all about you people are losing their's, then perhaps you do not understand the situation. Get an education first, and then come back for an intelligent discussion of this issue.
I would kindly suggest that in cases when you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, you might want to shut up. It's also a good ideea for cases where the subject is way above your level of knowledge and/or understanding. Besides, who the fuck asked you to police this place ?
Before Goebbels there was Edward Bernays. He was part of "the US Committee on Public Opinion" during the Wilson Administration in WWI. He wrote a book called "Crystalizing Public Opinion" and a more famous one in in 1928 called "Propaganda". He was not a bad man, neccessarily, he just wam=nted to selling products with his ideas, However, he gave a lot of bad men who came after him enhanced ability to manipulate people through media, one admirer was Joeseph Goebbels.
Its OK to be human. You made a very interesting post a while back about a high level business guy saying "its over". An interesting post, I read it thoughfully. It was personal not 'quoting' academic (which can be very helpful). I am interested in your follow up to that quote.
Not so excited by Noam quotes, what about reading Alan Watt for fun.... might make a few few things you see and hear and read take on a new light - always worth a try. If its comforting I am struggling through Quigely, read Sutton, Coleman, oh well the list is actually long. I do find the more i read the more compassionate many primary researchers become about people - amazing, they learn about the worst psycho's and feel warmth towards the humanity of us.
The us you belong to.
May we survive and prosper - we are not running the machinations of hell on earth, only few are with disproportionate affect.
UselessEater
Thanks. Glad that it touched you.
Agree, I like less academic as well; and in the 1st person.
Don’t know much about Watts because I have very little tolerance for spirituality and religion.
I think they are both built-in flaws in our genes.
But I will check Watts, eventually.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Weimar Germany relived. History repeats itself. Chosenites with an endless checkbook and the bill is sent to the people. The truth will be told, Chosenites will be exposed for the criminals they are.
This time let's hope Hitler wins.
Self-enslavement
You too; go get an education first, and then come back for an intelligent discussion of this issue.
But he still will not have that intelligent discussion with you. You use the words but do not use any.
Propaganda is useless and a trick played on stupid. It is something that can be funded by bankers even though it no longer serves a purpose and creates the exact opposite effect of its intent. This is because marketing of fraudulent items to military and political persons in control of funding has far superior methodologies compared to methodologies of factual significance.
Nobody is safe when a small group of people control wealth
q99x2
It has been like that “small group controlling wealth” for thousands of years.
And religion is the ultimate form of propaganda.
Why on earth would Escrava be down arrowed for this? Probably govco nipple dependents. YOU SUCK.
Latina Lover
“Government means Mind Control.”
It’s not only government.
Family. Religion. Education. Massmedia.
They all stink because they are all human creation.
Honey, humans are the most dangerous animal ever to walk the earth.
“Decayed civilizations always make war on independent intellectual inquiry, art and culture for this reason. They do not want the masses to look into the pit.
This obliteration of “false hopes,” requires an intellectual knowledge and an emotional knowledge. The first is attainable. The second, because it means that those we love, including our children, are almost certainly doomed to insecurity, misery and suffering within a few decades, if not a few years, is much harder to acquire.” – Chris Hedges
Humans are fine.
Satanists are not. Psycho are not.
They tend to run rings around humans.
We can't comprehend their sick view point.
They exert tremendous psychological crap... way beyond the scale of normal humans who just get on with the business of raising and providing for their families.
I have faith, I am working on self education, I share on media blogs, I help people and animals.
I am the least dangerous presence, I am however, the at most risk presence on this planet -a middle class hard worker; my forced pension funds are being stolen, my financial movements are under suspicion unless I use a debit card to buy iCrap, I must be a feminist in the fashion of the day and I have to be body scanned with emf shit anytime I travel while eating GMO shit I can't get info about and drink out of plastic BPA crap while paying massive fees/taxes to go scuba diving or for a walk in a nature park or (horror) own and love a semi-rural property with taxes exceeding a forever-I-do-marriage-morgtage and council bans on actually enjoying said property.
So Honey, celebrate the imprisonment of the most dangerous human on the planet with smugness. She is me. God help the attitude of smug humans to the "most dangerous" little girls that come after me.
Good rant. And true it is. I hope you are doing ok though.
Knowing too much is slowly turning into a crime, just like it was in Mao's China; Pol Pot's Cambodia; and Stalin's Russia. The only way out of this mess is to do what you do and share your knowledge while you can. If in the end they still get you, and me, well I'd rather die than live in such a dark world anyway.
Propaganda is helped along if there is a catalyst. The Nazi leadership knew this which is why they added fluoride to the water supply wherever they could. It has nothing to do with dental health (as it is advertised) and everything to do with dumbing down the populace. The mechanism at work is the calcification of the pineal gland and its neural connectors (Einstein's brain autopsy showed his pineal gland's neural connectors were many times thicker than average). Such calcification of the pineal gland (also known as the Third eye) increases lethargy and conformist behavior while diminishing ones IQ and capacity for creativity. Propaganda simply doesn't work if the people are too smart to be subservient to the will of government (using an RO filter prevents most fluoride ingestion and there are other methods to prevent exposure). PROJECT: " DUMB-DOWN AMERICA" is well under way... fight back; for starters, get the fluoride out of your drinking water.
The chosenites didn't do anything wrong did they? Some guy named Adolfo comes along and puts toothpaste in the water supply and every one decides to go apeshit on the innocent Chosenites. I love it. You made my day.
You, sir, are ignorant...but you are in luck, as I can help with that:
http://therefusers.com/refusers-newsroom/lancet-journal-study-says-fluor...
Yup. Get a good water filter. Berkey makes one of the best: http://www.berkeyfilters.com/berkey-water-filters/systems/?gclid=CMTggJr...
Well worth the money.
How did you end up in this dark pit of the interwebz, full of religious retards and miserable simpletons? :)
shouldvekilledthem
Christians are simpletons because they lack the intellect knowledge. To understand “connect-the-dots” in life intellect is a must pre-requisite.
And Christians are hypocritical as well because they lack the emotional knowledge. Most Christians are only in it for the benefit of eternal life, but don't love God. To anyone who loves the truth, Christianity is a misguided hope.
Exactly! The author would be more honest he had titled this article, '2014, the year I took my blinders off'.
LOL!
Now that was good.
Orwell's 2 + 2 = 5 was a joke, right?
Until we realized from 9/11 that F = ma was in play and maybe F = whatever fits the narrative
Bizarro World propaganda.
You are punching outside your caste, ORI
Anne Frank never called you a wog
And you're no Woody Allen...hasbara Dave.
If there's one thing a yid hates...it's goyim with an opinion. Much too troublesome.
They prefer the ones who gleefully swallow their lies and support their crimes.
Hey Dave...one book that certainly isn't a fake is Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
It makes like a checklist of the world we live in today, complete with Shylock pulling the strings.
Protocols of the Elders of Zion is most cerainly a fake. Not even a good fake.
Set aside issues of authorship for a moment, and just look around and witness its tenets in action. Somebody wrote it, all or in part. If you came across a really good screen play would you not consider trying to produce it?
Some opinions though just suck. You want respect? Have a cogent opinion. One based on facts and understanding - not half truths and personal biases. ORI's no better than a Hillary Clinton.
Dave's not here man...Dame
You need a name change to LasVegasDick.
@LVD
There's a Baby Ruth bar in Sheldon Adelson's pool. GO FETCH IT!
what happens in LasVega's Daves' head stays in LasVegas Dave's head
Well thank Allah for that.
Dave dude, I am with you. But last night you didn't suck the blood from your child's dick properly. If you want to know how to be perfect gimme a call. I'm with you bro, We will return to our chosen homeland. Hallelujah.
The correct number accoring to the Red Cross Intenational 1948 Report is 271,000 !
You mean, they’re not jealous of our freedom after all ?
and most of them weren't jewish...those are total numbers from all camp deaths. now, what was the tally from the dresden fire-bombings again? and what of all those german pow camps set up by eisenhower in the war's aftermath? how many died in those? and then there's the american concentration camps for the japaneese...and let's not forget nagasaki and hiroshima. and there's always the issue of our golden boys mowed down for a war premised on lies to establish the promise of international bolshevism (strange that the good guys went to taiwan and mao's red-china bloomed; funny that patton died in strange circumstances for publically threatening to chase the blood-thirsty denizens of that foul coven back to moscow)... awwww, fuggitabout it, some are more equal than others -- especially when it comes to math and numbers.
janus
Mind providing a link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QlWJUk4-o check here I think he put the ref materials in links
The Holocaust Narrative: Politics trumps Science at Veterans Today
Try peddling your shit elsewhere. My grandfather's four brothers were exterminated in Babi Yar, Ukraine.
Same old, same old of blame the victim and his surviving family.
Where you going with this Ikea Boy ?
~ T.D.
Oh Regional Indian....+10
Propaganda did not come of age in 2014, it has always been part of our society.
If you parse the word " government " for it's etymological origins.
you come up with:
(latin) gubernare:
"to direct, rule, guide, govern"
(latin) Mente: Mind
In other words, Government means Mind Control.
There truly is nothing new under the sun.
ouch! I grew up with the Anne Frank story. Whether true or not, its possible there was truth further embellished with some precision. After all, WW1 and WW2 were to bring in the League of Nations and then the UN. Certainly the A Frank Diary has a tremendous emotional pull conducive to supporting the UN, heavily targeted at my gender because she was so easy to relate to, especially when issued as required reading in high school so us female students were of a similar age and ripe for empathy - unfortunately we were not taught about any black swan aspects of WW2, nor the writings of people like Smedley Butler, Anthony Sutton, etc.... so we had little to go on other than a curriculum high in emotion and short on broader facts. In fact several popular war movies were part of my education at school with handsome actors, sad songs, so I cans see that a competing view point was made emotionally abhorrent...what a way to not develop critical thinking!!
Same boat UE, shedding those engrained educated notions was hard all around.
Glad to be beyond that tripe, I'll tell you that...
can be a lonely path, but a step towards freedom of thought is... well, read this today seems perfect:
"I don't like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists.
I often warn people: 'Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, there is no 'I' in team. What you should tell them is 'Maybe not. But there is an 'I' in Independence, Individuality and Integrity"
G.Carlin
;-)
My saying that out loud to the world...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XijsnujcFg
LOL!! lovely but guess what? After school, I grew up, got more education and got a nice professional job helping to improve performance, disdain un-performance and remind people there is no "i" in team. Oh dear!
My remedial rehab journey in the last few years, has been uncomfortable to say the least, hence the Carlin quote above strikes a chord.
When people tell me there is no "I" in team. I tell them there may be no "I" but there sure is a "me."
There's no "I" in TEAM but there is an "M" and an "E"
But there IS an "I" in TEAM.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb8f97spxV1qz7mcro1_500.png
When Michael Jordan was told that, his response was "there's an 'I' in WIN."
Checkmate!
Yes Bangalore Temple... my former profession had/has a workshop or two, already prepared for the "M" and "E" dissidents that skillfully ended with 'consensus'. Not sure I'd get re-employed by same organizations today!!
There is no 'I' in team.
And team is an anagram for meat.
Conflict and consumption thrive on prey who think they are predators.
it like opening Pandora's box...
The scale and quantity of lies is overwhelming at times.
The rabbit hole of lies is deep indeed DEP...
So curious that questioning the big lie is a crime in Germany.....a criem where you cannot present any defense at that.
And Germans think they are a free country....
Guilt makes you poor, gilts makes you rich and certain people specialize in both...hah!
Germany and Japan are occupied territories, just like the southern US states.
North and South America are occupied continents.
There, fixed it for you.
Oh wait, I forgot, idigenous people don't count.
shit, it is like Pandora, they keep repeating the same songs
Exactly. We all need to think about the reasons as to why a 'psychopath' named Adolf was obsessed with exterminating the people who were 'affiliated' with the Rothschild's et. al. Where did the first Rothschild bank originate? Germany.
Is that the same RafterMan that frequents the comments on my videos? Give Joker my regards..
Top 10 Facts about the "Holocaust"
I doubt it; I make it a point not to 'sign in' to YouTube or whatever to 'verify my age' either for content or post comments on video sites.
I also don't watch much video content as I can read 10X faster than somebody can recite, so I find it boring and time wasting to watch video news... Transcript or nothing.*
*Celente, The Jackass, PCR and some other interviews excepted. Even then I cast about for a transcript.
Well that video is a short (6 minute) summation of 10 facts I put together. Red cross numbers, Leuchter testimony etc.
My Evangelical Christian family knows how I feel about holohoax dogma, the official lies of 9/11, and everything else. I don't really care if the NSA and Mossad put me on a list... "Everybody gotta die sometime Red" - Sgt. Barnes
From my experience with family evangelicals, they are the most brain washable sort there is. If the gov. ever offers rewards for turning folks in, they will be the first to profit! I keep my distance from them. I told one, a few weeks back, that John 'Boner' s car better not break down in these parts, or else, something bad might happen. The relative, on the phone, nearly went into a panic. He was worried about the NSA listening to our conversation. I kid you not! I'm sure, he thought he might spare himself by mentioning it.
The jew has taught the white person to hate themselves and to love blacks. The jew has taught the black to hate whites and to blame them for everything. The jew has taught all to love jews and to feel sorry for them and to deomonize hitler/germany. The jew has taught us that blacks don't kill whites. The jew has taught us that white racism is our biggest threat to humanity. The jew has taught us to hate our own religion. The jew has taught us to hate muslims. The jew has taught us to fight all of israel's wars. But white people still buy bullshit from foxnews, when you know foxnews knows damn well who owns them? Never addresses the jew. Trafficante was a guest one day and hannity or combs, can't remember which disgusting tool it was.... was SCREAMING YOU ARE ANTISEMETIC, YOU ARE ANTISEMETIC, YOU ARE CRAZY, and wouldn't even let jim talk, who was trying to say that Israel influenced us foreign policy. That's when I said FUCK YOU FOXNEWS!!!! And then Glenn Beck started nosing around pointing the finger to soros, goldman and the fed..... Well, even though beck was the number one guy on fox, he was let go the next day. Or his "contract was up and won't be back." The jew is the most disgusting thing the planet has ever seen and if there is a satan, it is 100% him.
Chad_the_short you wrote: “Jew is the most disgusting thing the planet “
I, Escrava Isaura, approve this disclaimer: “I am not a Jew; and never will be.”
Now my darling Chad, you are, most likely, a “Christian Neocon” or an “Islamic Neocon.”
So, go and get an education first, and then come back for an intelligent discussion of this issue.
Did you actually read this article that you provide as "proof"? A completely hysterical rant of opinion layered upon assumption layered on wild assed guess. Sounds like ORI has been duly propagandized!
Oh, the article you referenced is full of misspellings and some outright lies. Can't you do better than that?
Speaking of Propaganda (and Revisionist History)...
I'm still waiting for material/archeological proof for things like...
Arc Of The Covenant. How the most holy or items (of this size) can simply be 'lost' is beyond me.
Kind David's town. Nice promotion... from shepherd to national leader and King, in 1 day. No other credentials in Resume/CV? "Hey, you, rock slinger, you're now King of us all". Good one. LMAO.
Solomon's Treasures. "Donde estan?" Must be in a London or NY vault, or in Fort Knox.
"Noah's Flood". Why does so much material in the OT rhyme with much older material from Babylon -- with the latter having archeological proof?
"Slavery in Egypt". About that... still NO archeological history or said "Slavery" or of "Moses". It turns out that archeological history shows that Egyptians did not have slaves, but used corvee laborers (forced, paid labor). Parting of the Red Sea, or Reed Sea? 10 Plagues, or series of Natural Disasters resulting from explosion of volcano at Santorini?
Etc, etc.
When you look at "Bible Battles" through the eyes of Military Historians, you get a different and a very Natural explanation for the events and battles. Subsequent documentation and revisions of said events and battles, are a different matter altogether: "All the Battles and Events that's fit to be written" was the motto and precursor the today's motto at the NY Times: "All the news that's fit to be printed".
The more things change... Maybe I need to drink more Kool Aid, but when does the re-writing, inventing and re-inventing end?
I'll be happy just to see the video released of the plane that hit the Pentagon on 911. And I want to know why bin Laden's body was unceremoniously dumped overboard when his head could have been displayed in a case at the Smithsonian for millions to see. So easy, yet seemingly so hard.
Well ORI I have another big lie to expose. This one has kept your people down since time began, since most of you even blame India's pre-19th Century problems on Brits, too, since unlike Westerners, you guys aren't stuck in that "time is linear" meme.
Here's the truth: India was never colonized by the Brits. It was merely three drunk Brit subalterns on holiday, but the entire sub-continent thought a new Caste, above the Brahmins and even above Ganesh, albeit just below Shiva, had arrived. All of your people went prostrate, and the adoration began.
Sure, there's even links if you want to escape the lies you've lived your whole life. www.thatsnotmynavelImgazingatitsmybutthole.com
Time for you and your people to cowboy up.
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
-Confusius
To see the banal evil of a police state brought to life, go rent The Lives of Others.
RafterMan gives in 5/5 stars.
"I see and remember" ... obviously why teevee replays so many false flags in explicit detail, complimented by "see something, say something" and getting felt up by TSA... thats the "I do and understand part"
Alan Watts - The Draam of Life (3:38)
Then there is Alan Watt,
-Cutting Through The Matrix
-A Course in Deprogramming
http://cuttingthroughthematrix.com/
enjoy this xmas gift: creatio ex machina
If seeing beautiful bare-breasted women piss on photographs of politicians and chainsaw down giant wooden crosses makes you queezy then maybe you shouldn't watch this video
http://vimeo.com/101652794
On the other hand if you find it refreshing that the music theme of the video is "You can't fool the children of the revolution", and if you hope that young people in the US and EU will catch on and take this form of protest viral, then by all means watch and send the link to every young person you know. I can think of a few photos they could start with - can't you?
swami sez: read my mind
Quote "Goebbels first picked up on Freud’s lessons "
I believe you mean Edward L. Bernays, not Freud.
Hitler was a huge Bernays fan.....as was Alinsky.
Everyone in the global warming industry adores him....they think he's a righteous dude.
I like the 'sauce' recipe. Does that count for anything?
'Abe Froman' - the 'sausage king'...?
From Wikipedia:
"Born 1891 in Vienna to Jewish parents, Bernays was by two branches of his family tree the nephew of psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud. His mother was Sigmund's sister Anna and his father was Ely Bernays, brother of Freud's wife Martha Bernays."
I guess that means you'll need kosher salt to make that sauce then.
Correct.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
4 parts:
http://vimeo.com/85948693
http://vimeo.com/48842898
http://vimeo.com/54417979
http://vimeo.com/75784765
A very fine production by Adam Curtis.
He also did "The Power of Nightmares", which examines the use of emotional terrorism by the State to produce subservience in the population.
Propaganda is useless unless it makes it to Facebook. Nobody I know reads anything else.
I can hardly bear watching the news anymore. In fact, I can't abide the commercials, either. I go to websites around the world reading news. And Ad Block Pro keeps advertising crap off.
None of what I hear and less than HALF of what I see. Easier to find the needle in the haystack than the truth.
it might be easier to spot the truth
It started in 2001 when they pulled the tower bldgs and bldg 7 right before the publics eyes....they realized that amerikans were blind....down hill since
Goebbels runs America and all its fat assed, omlete eating, psychopathic people. Lets watch football, eat cheeseburgers, not leave the couch, and never doubt the lifestyle will live forever.
Mmmmmmm... Cheeseburgers.
"Mmmmmmm... Cheeseburgers."
With or without sawdust, hormones and GMO?
(Yuck)
Heaven on earth with an onion slice.
I like mine with lettuce & tomato, Heinz 57 & freedom fried potato
LOL ~ Just think of all the variations you could do with that song AFTER Dan Quayle, FAUX News, & OHamburgular came on the scene.
Washing it down with a 32oz soda here boss.
Screw the commie in the mayor's office.
All the school kids are eating the Agenda 21 school lunches....word is they think it's crap. They're kinda making a big ruckus about it on Twitter....which means we might have to kill them.
GetZeeGold
"which means we might have to kill them." Indeed, we must kill the children in order to save them.
Yum-yum, and gasoline/petrol at the pump for about $2 per gallon. Three cheers for the American way of life! (Well, o.k., maybe just two cheers.)
Only a Commie would hate omelets.
I love omlets. I am American, afterall.
It's pretty safe to assume everything is bs propaganda until you can verify other wise! (See ZH article "Everything is Awesome" as prime example!)
It's all that keeps the system in operation. The old adage "believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see."
Yes, I've become so sceptical of everything I hear in the MSM and from our gov't. I assume it's not true until proven otherwise. It's like the boy who cried wolf. They've lied to us so much I can't believe anything anymore.
excluding the .gov trolls....I assume thats why all of us read ZH....maybe it's just a giant reverse spin cycle!
Now, take the red pill for real and stop saying "our government." For as long as you continue, you're an unwitting accessory to the crime in progress.
Ukraine defines 2014 as the year western propaganda came into its own
American Propaganda has been dominant since the 1950s and Operation Mockingbird - that was more than 60 years ago, not 2014, Mr Rip Van Winkle:
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
"By the early 1950s," writes formerVillage Voice reporter Deborah Davis in Katharine the Great, "Wisner 'owned' respected members of the New York Times, Newsweek, CBS and other communications vehicles, plus stringers, four to six hundred in all, according to a former CIA analyst."
http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php
A typical propaganda operation today:
Since the beginning of the week, the three most influential mass circulation newsmagazines of the United States, Britain, and Germany—Time, The Economist, and Der Spiegel—have published cover stories that combine wild accusations against Vladimir Putin with demands for a showdown with Russia.
The most striking and obvious characteristic of these cover stories is that they are virtually identical. The CIA has scripted them all. The stories employ the same insults and the same fabrications. They denounce Putin’s “web of lies.” The Russian president is portrayed as a “depraved” mass murderer.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/pers-j30.html
True, very true. What the point of this article seems to address is the increase in the propaganda's reach as tools of the people have blunted its effectiveness in recent years. It seems the point is that 2014 was the year that a lie could be told and then bannered on every media outlet that chooses, despite video or other hard evidence to the contrary. For that reason alone, 2014 is more dangerous, the propaganda dominates even with all the tools being used against it.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -- William Colby, former CIA Director
You're almost there... And who is the puppet-master of CIA policy, directives and operations?
"...not everybody believes whatever they are told."
Re-education camp for you!!! The IRS, now in charge of health care (thanks Obamacare!), will "cure" you of that independent, critical, thinking disease that you have.
Audit, audit, audit...
Alan Touring gave him "what for". At least...
Try "Turing".
Ahhh.
Great, William!
Someone doesn't think so......who IS that guy?
the beauty of the internet is in the obvious ways people use it.
to confirm what they already believe,
and to discard all areas they can't imagine.
and now, of course, the internet is beginning to show the true intentions, as links and bookmarks are co-opted, screened, removed.
national(s) security, and all that. . .
I suspect quite a few people have stumbled (after indulging in rubbish and getting bored) onto info that made them question the meme or atleast partially confirm their uneasiness with the meme.
Its worked that way in my families experience. The best aspect - after discovering information, we have bought many hard copy books from various era's and authors. Books can be shared, retained without future censoring, and require considered time and effort. We buy books that often go against our view point - sometimes the education is trans formative, other times eye opening in the deception... its a journey. A gift to your family may be a few coins and a few books; we never know when which will suddenly become relevant and useful.
Just to nitpick a little bit... Goebbels didn't invent propaganda, he just made it famous, propaganda was born in USA and the father is Edward Bernays...
As a side node, I was watching TV news today and they were reporting Syrian Government strike on ISIS, with such a huge emphasis on the 56 civilian deaths, but they likely "forgot" the civilian deaths of US coallition strikes...
Funny how animals don't lie, eh? Feed prices seem to be steady...where is the deflation I was promised? Sort of like that promised LSD flashback that never appeared? Or was that the Bush years?
My garden doesn't propagandize me, ever. AND Colorado is close, ha-ha!
The deflation is with the Global Warming® (since rebranded Climate Change®, since rebranded CO2 Pollution®, since rebranded Climate Disruption®...)
If only we could get McCain and Pelosi together again....we could save the planet.
It would also be a pretty sweet payday for them.
Cats always lie to you, that is the truth.
Dogs not so much.
https://www.thedodo.com/11-dogs-who-have-no-idea-where-639775634.html