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Disinformation: How It Works
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market
Disinformation: How It Works
There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.
Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.
With the advent of anti-feudalism, and most importantly the success of the American Revolution, elitists were no longer able to dominate information with the edge of a blade or the barrel of a gun. The establishment of Republics, with their philosophy of open government and rule by the people, compelled Aristocratic minorities to plot more subtle ways of obstructing the truth and thus maintaining their hold over the world without exposing themselves to retribution from the masses. Thus, the complex art of disinformation was born.
The technique, the “magic” of the lie, was refined and perfected. The mechanics of the human mind and the human soul became an endless obsession for the establishment.
The goal was malicious, but socially radical; instead of expending the impossible energy needed to dictate the very form and existence of the truth, they would allow it to drift, obscured in a fog of contrived data. They would wrap the truth in a Gordian Knot of misdirection and fabrication so elaborate that they felt certain the majority of people would surrender, giving up long before they ever finished unraveling the deceit. The goal was not to destroy the truth, but to hide it in plain sight.
In modern times, and with carefully engineered methods, this goal has for the most part been accomplished. However, these methods also have inherent weaknesses. Lies are fragile. They require constant attentiveness to keep them alive. The exposure of a single truth can rip through an ocean of lies, evaporating it instantly.
In this article, we will examine the methods used to fertilize and promote the growth of disinformation, as well as how to identify the roots of disinformation and effectively cut them, starving out the entire system of fallacies once and for all.
Media Disinformation Methods
The mainstream media, once tasked with the job of investigating government corruption and keeping elitists in line, has now become nothing more than a public relations firm for corrupt officials and their Globalist handlers. The days of the legitimate “investigative reporter” are long gone (if they ever existed at all), and journalism itself has deteriorated into a rancid pool of so called “TV Editorialists” who treat their own baseless opinions as supported fact.
The elitist co-opting of news has been going on in one form or another since the invention of the printing press. However, the first methods of media disinformation truly came to fruition under the supervision of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who believed the truth was “subjective” and open to his personal interpretation.
Some of the main tactics used by the mainstream media to mislead the masses are as follows:
Lie Big, Retract Quietly: Mainstream media sources (especially newspapers) are notorious for reporting flagrantly dishonest and unsupported news stories on the front page, then quietly retracting those stories on the very back page when they are caught. In this case, the point is to railroad the lie into the collective consciousness. Once the lie is finally exposed, it is already too late, and a large portion of the population will not notice or care when the truth comes out.
Unconfirmed Or Controlled Sources As Fact: Cable news venues often cite information from “unnamed” sources, government sources that have an obvious bias or agenda, or “expert” sources without providing an alternative “expert” view. The information provided by these sources is usually backed by nothing more than blind faith.
Calculated Omission: Otherwise known as “cherry picking” data. One simple piece of information or root item of truth can derail an entire disinfo news story, so instead of trying to gloss over it, they simply pretend as if it doesn’t exist. When the fact is omitted, the lie can appear entirely rational. This tactic is also used extensively when disinformation agents and crooked journalists engage in open debate.
Distraction, And The Manufacture Of Relevance: Sometimes the truth wells up into the public awareness regardless of what the media does to bury it. When this occurs their only recourse is to attempt to change the public’s focus and thereby distract them from the truth they were so close to grasping. The media accomplishes this by “over-reporting” on a subject that has nothing to do with the more important issues at hand. Ironically, the media can take an unimportant story, and by reporting on it ad nauseum, cause many Americans to assume that because the media won’t shut-up about it, it must be important!
Dishonest Debate Tactics: Sometimes, men who actually are concerned with the average American’s pursuit of honesty and legitimate fact-driven information break through and appear on T.V. However, rarely are they allowed to share their views or insights without having to fight through a wall of carefully crafted deceit and propaganda. Because the media know they will lose credibility if they do not allow guests with opposing viewpoints every once in a while, they set up and choreograph specialized T.V. debates in highly restrictive environments which put the guest on the defensive, and make it difficult for them to clearly convey their ideas or facts.
TV pundits are often trained in what are commonly called “Alinsky Tactics.” Saul Alinsky was a moral relativist, and champion of the lie as a tool for the “greater good”; essentially, a modern day Machiavelli. His “Rules for Radicals” were supposedly meant for grassroots activists who opposed the establishment and emphasized the use of any means necessary to defeat one’s political opposition. But is it truly possible to defeat an establishment built on lies, by use of even more elaborate lies, and by sacrificing one’s ethics? In reality, his strategies are the perfect format for corrupt institutions and governments to dissuade dissent from the masses. Today, Alinsky’s rules are used more often by the establishment than by its opposition.
Alinsky’s Strategy: Win At Any Cost, Even If You Have To Lie
Alinsky’s tactics have been adopted by governments and disinformation specialists across the world, but they are most visible in TV debate. While Alinsky sermonized about the need for confrontation in society, his debate tactics are actually designed to circumvent real and honest confrontation of opposing ideas with slippery tricks and diversions. Alinsky’s tactics, and their modern usage, can be summarized as follows:
1) Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.
We see this tactic in many forms. For example, projecting your own movement as mainstream, and your opponent’s as fringe. Convincing your opponent that his fight is a futile one. Your opposition may act differently, or even hesitate to act at all, based on their perception of your power. How often have we heard this line: “The government has predator drones. There is nothing the people can do now…” This is a projection of exaggerated invincibility designed to elicit apathy from the masses.
2) Never go outside the experience of your people, and whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Don’t get drawn into a debate about a subject you do not know as well as or better than your opposition. If possible, draw them into such a situation instead. Go off on tangents. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty in your opposition. This is commonly used against unwitting interviewees on cable news shows whose positions are set up to be skewered. The target is blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address. In television and radio, this also serves to waste broadcast time to prevent the target from expressing his own position.
3) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
The objective is to target the opponent’s credibility and reputation by accusations of hypocrisy. If the tactician can catch his opponent in even the smallest misstep, it creates an opening for further attacks, and distracts away from the broader moral question.
4) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
“Ron Paul is a crackpot.” “Gold bugs are crazy.” “Constitutionalists are fringe extremists.” Baseless ridicule is almost impossible to counter because it is meant to be irrational. It infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage. It also works as a pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
5) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
The popularization of the term “Teabaggers” is a classic example; it caught on by itself because people seem to think it’s clever, and enjoy saying it. Keeping your talking points simple and fun helps your side stay motivated, and helps your tactics spread autonomously, without instruction or encouragement.
6) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
See rule No. 5. Don’t become old news. If you keep your tactics fresh, it’s easier to keep your people active. Not all disinformation agents are paid. The “useful idiots” have to be motivated by other means. Mainstream disinformation often changes gear from one method to the next and then back again.
7) Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. Never give the target a chance to rest, regroup, recover or re-strategize. Take advantage of current events and twist their implications to support your position. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
8) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
This goes hand in hand with Rule No. 1. Perception is reality. Allow your opposition to expend all of its energy in expectation of an insurmountable scenario. The dire possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.
9) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
The objective of this pressure is to force the opposition to react and make the mistakes that are necessary for the ultimate success of the campaign.
10) If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
As grassroots activism tools, Alinsky tactics have historically been used (for example, by labor movements or covert operations specialists) to force the opposition to react with violence against activists, which leads to popular sympathy for the activists’ cause. Today, false (or co-opted) grassroots movements and revolutions use this technique in debate as well as in planned street actions and rebellions (look at Syria for a recent example).
11) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Never let the enemy score points because you’re caught without a solution to the problem. Today, this is often used offensively against legitimate activists, such as the opponents of the Federal Reserve. Complain that your opponent is merely “pointing out the problems.” Demand that they offer not just “a solution”, but THE solution. Obviously, no one person has “the” solution. When he fails to produce the miracle you requested, dismiss his entire argument and all the facts he has presented as pointless.
12) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. The target’s supporters will expose themselves. Go after individual people, not organizations or institutions. People hurt faster than institutions.
The next time you view an MSM debate, watch the pundits carefully, you will likely see many if not all of the strategies above used on some unsuspecting individual attempting to tell the truth.
Internet Disinformation Methods
Internet trolls, also known as “paid posters” or “paid bloggers,” are increasingly and openly being employed by private corporations as well governments, often for marketing purposes and for “public relations” (Obama is notorious for this practice). Internet “trolling” is indeed a fast growing industry.
Trolls use a wide variety of strategies, some of which are unique to the internet, here are just a few:
1. Make outrageous comments designed to distract or frustrate: An Alinsky tactic used to make people emotional, although less effective because of the impersonal nature of the Web.
2. Pose as a supporter of the truth, then make comments that discredit the movement: We have seen this even on our own forums — trolls pose as supporters of the Liberty Movement, then post long, incoherent diatribes so as to appear either racist or insane. The key to this tactic is to make references to common Liberty Movement arguments while at the same time babbling nonsense, so as to make those otherwise valid arguments seem ludicrous by association. In extreme cases, these “Trojan Horse Trolls” have been known to make posts which incite violence — a technique obviously intended to solidify the false assertions of the think tank propagandists like the SPLC, which purports that Constitutionalists should be feared as potential domestic terrorists.
3. Dominate Discussions: Trolls often interject themselves into productive Web discussions in order to throw them off course and frustrate the people involved.
4. Prewritten Responses: Many trolls are supplied with a list or database with pre-planned talking points designed as generalized and deceptive responses to honest arguments. When they post, their words feel strangely plastic and well rehearsed.
5. False Association: This works hand in hand with item No. 2, by invoking the stereotypes established by the “Trojan Horse Troll.” For example: calling those against the Federal Reserve “conspiracy theorists” or “lunatics”; deliberately associating anti-globalist movements with racists and homegrown terrorists, because of the inherent negative connotations; and using false associations to provoke biases and dissuade people from examining the evidence objectively.
6. False Moderation: Pretending to be the “voice of reason” in an argument with obvious and defined sides in an attempt to move people away from what is clearly true into a “grey area” where the truth becomes “relative.”
7. Straw Man Arguments: A very common technique. The troll will accuse his opposition of subscribing to a certain point of view, even if he does not, and then attacks that point of view. Or, the troll will put words in the mouth of his opposition, and then rebut those specific words.
Sometimes, these strategies are used by average people with serious personality issues. However, if you see someone using these tactics often, or using many of them at the same time, you may be dealing with a paid internet troll.
Stopping Disinformation
The best way to disarm disinformation agents is to know their methods inside and out. This gives us the ability to point out exactly what they are doing in detail the moment they try to do it. Immediately exposing a disinformation tactic as it is being used is highly destructive to the person utilizing it. It makes them look foolish, dishonest and weak for even making the attempt. Internet trolls most especially do not know how to handle their methods being deconstructed right in front of their eyes and usually fold and run from debate when it occurs.
The truth is precious. It is sad that there are so many in our society who have lost respect for it; people who have traded in their conscience and their soul for temporary financial comfort while sacrificing the stability and balance of the rest of the country in the process.
The human psyche breathes on the air of truth. Without it, humanity cannot survive. Without it, the species will collapse, starving from lack of intellectual and emotional sustenance.
Disinformation does not only threaten our insight into the workings of our world; it makes us vulnerable to fear, misunderstanding, and doubt: all things that lead to destruction. It can drive good people to commit terrible atrocities against others, or even against themselves. Without a concerted and organized effort to diffuse mass-produced lies, the future will look bleak indeed.
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Are you trying to say my monopoly money doesn't have marginal utility?
nope, i'm saying the London stock market is rammed to overfilling with lying cheating scum ...we're talking a few big fat cats here as only a few of them can 'own' journalists and systemically lie, cheat and steal and afford keeping the dozy Regulators off the scent of the bloody clown show going on in the mining sector and repeated fraud
another blatantly farcical sector of the London SE is the AIM market, it's a Rampers & Dumpers criminal paradise
British agent in Jerusalem recently explained to me that the Russians have found their best strategy to stir the pot in the ME is just to tell the truth, clearly and often. West, US have confused themselves and each other with web of stories and lies for domestic and international consumption. Turth-telling causes the most mayhem.
"If you see two fish fighting in the sea, look for the British guy that started it." - Middle-Eastern Proverb (but it has analogs around the entire world...)
Just turn on your local public access station that RT news has bought to see exactly what sandhillexit is talking about. All of their new's programs present a healthy dose of the truth. Between Max Keiser and Lauren Lyster exposing the blatant fraud of Wall ST, and Alyona pointing out the lies on capitol hill, they paint an more accurate picture of how America really operates.
It presents a weird conundrum though. RT is a state funded media outlet from Russia that feels Anti American in a sense, because its coming from Russia. However the views that the host's have are very pro liberty, which is really what the nation was founded upon.
Does RT cover Putin putting the girls from Pussyriot in jail for "hooliganism" (a.k.a making fun of him)?
Of course not, the only time Russia was ever brought up that I remember was when they were talking about the "transparency" of the latest elections.
They are just as hypocritical as any other new's agency.
Max Keiser never discusses Russian issues
I wonder if the U.S. has a version of CNN specifically for Russian audiences. I be they aren't playing it here. :)
Does RT cover Putin putting the girls from Pussyriot in jail for "hooliganism" (a.k.a making fun of him)?
No, 'for some reason' the Russian State news channel doesn't criticise... the Russian leadership.
So they're useless for covering what's really going on in Russia, or anything involving Russia's elites' direct interests.... but a lot better than any of the US MSM for MENA or US news.
Seriously? Putin is totally a bro. He lays the smack down on leftist traitors while Obama just puts them in his administration. The more degenerate the better from what I understand.
Throw the book at those skanky bitches. Give 'em the maximum of 7 years. The assault on European (and European diaspora) culture and values has to stop. Leftist douchebags have had their fun long enough trashing Western culture.
Putin says to take it easy on the girls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCJelQmNR6I
Not the same standard of coverage, but that should be expected.
Just remember to turn it off before that little shit Thom Hartmann comes on.
Ten points if you can correctly identify which end of the political spectrum has, for many decades now, relentlessly promoted the idea that either all truths are relative or that the concept of truth itself is an artificial "construct"?
Both sides, the difference is that one is able to lie and cover up the promotion of that idea. Being duped is embarassing, but you will get over it eventually.
Lying, being wrong or acting with malicious intent is not the same thing as denying the existence of truth.
My larger point is illustrated by the works of the late Christopher Hitchens, a man of the Left who claimed that he did not leave the Left but that the Left left him. Hitchens wasn’t always correct but his arguments are extremely well informed, encompass the accumulated wisdom of Western Civilization, are loaded with verifiable facts and consistent. He has shone much more light on at least some truths and is worthy of admiration and study to a far greater extent than his former peers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/16/farewell-to-c-h/
Alexander Cockburn on Christopher Hitchens
Oldrepublic, that's a piece written in typical propaganda style:
First state something like that the subject is a pretty normal likeable guy, and then append a long list of examples of only his worst behaviors, at least from the writers point of spin. Make sure to not provide the slightest bit of context to those behaviors, implying that the subject acted maliciously without cause or reason while his opponents were perfectly reasonable.
Once again, I will state this for your use, because I'm nice guy. Being Duped is embarassing, but you will get over it.
My suggestion is to not get caught up with what other morons say, and learn to think for yourself. Life gets a lot easier once you learn to use that grey mass in "Your" skull rather than requiring the words of another person to have faith in. Political idealism and philosphy is bullshit. It's bullshit for one reason and one reason alone, it relies on the usage of the state itself to exist. The state being that imaginary idealism created by those whom have used that "Malicious Intent" type of stuff you spoke of in order to ferment their own position at the top of any one given society.
This is the innate problem and why the whole Left/Right paradigm is nothing but bullshit. It's part of that Disinformation systemology that was spoken about in that article above. Go back through and re-read the article.
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
I'm surprised Tyler didn't post this as well =/
copied and pasted----tu
This report just outted MDB, AnAnonymous, Max Fischer, and various other douchebags on here.
Described them to a T.
Assholes - the lot of them.
MDB's not a troll, he's a satirist, and a damn fine one at that.
It's sad you can't tell the difference, and suggests you'd be very boring company.
Sometimes I wonder if WB7, The Limerick King, and MDB are all the same creative mind.
All three are geniuses if not. Law of Physics, TruthInSunshine, and HH also deserve recognition. They've taught me a lot.
We're the military and we're disarming the neighborhood. We don't want the looters to get a hold of the guns.
Specious, pretentious bullcrap.
The human psyche doesn't exist in a collective sense. It's all down to the individual until such time as we develop telepathy and a collective hive-live mind -- at which point we stop being human and become something else. Probably less.
YES - disinformation is "bad". But it is up to the INDIVIDUAL to discern 'truth' based upon the reasoning ability that he/she is capable of based on their (self) education.
This has been the case probably since we swung out of the trees onto terra firma. Get over it.
Love what you've done with the cave; very Lascaux.
Why, thankyou!!
Too few seem to notice....
That you believe you swung from trees explains a lot.
I was rather hoping that you could engage your other arthritic braincell and deduce that I inferred that our ancestors "swung down from the trees".
Obviously, the Creative Design taught in your 'burg by your Truth-Giving "Wise Men" has not had the desired scholastic effect upon you in particular.
-ve, for accusing someone else of being 'pretentious' but then using the word 'bullcrap' in the same sentence.
It must be a typo, I obviously meant BULLSHIT.
Clearly your microcephalic pate couldn't spot the irony through your glass eye.
I had to google "microcephalic." That was some spectacular vernacular.
If you need to Google "microcephalic" .... it was really big of you to admit it. Have an up arrow for that attosecond of honesty...
Instead of "vernacular" -- I think you might have meant invective (but vernacular works for me too.)
Good post until the swing out of the trees part of it. You lost significant credibility, at least with me. Otherwise great post.
Thank you too. But does it look like I care anymore?
THAT'S the point I should probably have made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whpf4Xs2ww8
John Prine..........true words!
Disinformation is just a mechanism of Psyop. Rand Corp et al have been working very hard to shape and alter American *perception into reality especially after 9/11.
Al Quada is good now according to the BBC. "Their doing a terrific job"
The new up is down and were backloaded into a fantasy world via the arms of the Military Industrial Complex wet dreams of perpetual war.
Constitutional Americans are the new Enemy of the State. DHS-MIAC Report. So don't trade with the Enemy, it works both way's folks.
So, I regress to ask the question.. Who's the enemy now? Hint: Read the Patriot Act II.
Solution? Don't feed the animal. Stop participating in fascist corpo-rat-ism.
Ever wonder why Russia doesn't have our back in global theater right now? here's why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9s5_Q7QZX8&feature=related
-BD
"Mother of All mind control organizations: THE TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS IN LONDON"
The Illuminati is the oldest term commonly used to refer to the 13 bloodline families (and their offshoots) that make up a major portion of this controlling elite. Most members of the Illuminati are also members in the highest ranks of numerous secretive and occult societies which in many cases extend straight back into the ancient world. The upper levels of the tightly compartmentalized (need-to-know-basis) Illuminati structural pyramid include planning committees and organizations that the public has little or no knowledge of. The upper levels of the Illuminati pyramid include secretive committees with names such as: the Council of 3, the Council of 5, the Council of 7, the Council of 9, the Council of 13, the Council of 33, the Grand Druid Council, the Committee of 300 (also called the "Olympians") and the Committee of 500 among others.
In 1992, Dr John Coleman published Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. With laudable scholarship and meticulous research, Dr Coleman identifies the players and carefully details the Illuminati agenda of worldwide domination and control. On page 161 of the Conspirators Hierarchy, Dr Coleman accurately summarizes the intent and purpose of the Committee of 300 as follows:
"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.
There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."
The sheer magnitude and complex web of deceit surrounding the individuals and organizations involved in this conspiracy is mind boggling, even for the most astute among us. Most people react with disbelief and skepticism towards the topic, unaware that they have been conditioned (brainwashed) to react with skepticism by institutional and media influences that were created by the Mother of All mind control organizations: THE TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RELATIONS IN LONDON. Author and de-programmer Fritz Springmeier (The Top 13 Illuminati Bloodlines ) says that most people have built in "slides" that short circuit the mind's critical examination process when it comes to certain sensitive topics. "Slides", Springmeier reports, is a CIA term for a conditioned type of response which dead ends a person's thinking and terminates debate or examination of the topic at hand. For example, the mention of the word "conspiracy" often solicits a slide response with many people. (Springmeier has co-authored three books on trauma-based programming which detail how the Illuminati employs highly tuned and extrememly sophisticated Mind Control (MC) training programs that begin the programming process while the intended victim is still within the womb. Mind Control is a much greater problem than most people realize. According to Cisco Wheeler, a former Illuminati mind control programmer, there are 10 million people who have been programmed as mind controlled slaves using trauma-based MC programs with names like MONARCH and MK ULTRA. The newer, non-trauma, electronic means of MC programming that grew out of the MONTAUK PROJECT, may include millions more. Al Bielek, who played a principle role in the development of the MONTAUK PROJECT, said that there likely 10 million victims of MONTAUK style mind control programming worldwide, the majority located in the USA. He also said that there are covert Montauk Programming 'Centers' in every major city in the U.S. )
What most Americans believe to be "Public Opinion" is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public. Public opinion polls are really taken with the intent of gauging the public's acceptance of the Illuminati's planned programs. A strong showing in the polls tells the Illuminati that the programing is "taking", while a poor showing tells the NWO manipulators that they have to recast or "tweak" the programming until the desired response is achieved. While the thrust and content of the propaganda is decided at TAVISTOCK, implementation of the propaganda is executed in the United States by well over 200 'think tanks' such as the RAND CORPORATION and the BROOKINGS INSTITUTE which are overseen and directed by the top NWO mind control organization in the United States, THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
More info: http://bit.ly/LaYFeJ
Russian general reveals truth about 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9s5_Q7QZX8&feature=related
Konstantin P. Petrov (August 23, 1945, Noginsk, Moscow Region - July 21, 2009, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian military leader, a Russian social and political activist. Candidate of Technical Sciences. Member of International Informatization Academy. Major-General. Prematurely discharged from the Armed Forces in November 1995. Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Council of the political party "Course of Truth and Unity." Head of the department at the Udmurt State University.
He talks about Zionism, how thats just a facade? behind which lies true culprits, in another video where he explains the hierarchy of world government.
You can see it here:
Russian general on the world government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu3mr2wJh5g&feature=related
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I see lying people.
We seem to have "progressed" to a "post-truth" society, at least via the MSM. Watch the politicians who would claim to represent us--the majority of viewers care little for the truth itself, but rather for the lies they prefer to hear, throwing themselves behind the candidates and mouthpieces who tell them most convincingly . . . even though we know, if we any longer care, they are lying. Newt Gingrich is a good example, Barry O another. Brazen contempt for the truth has been rebranded as "visionary courage."
What passes for public life seems to have become a gruesomely perverse beauty contest of lies. Sociopathy has become our National Sport; we're all on the edges of our seats, scoring each and every twisted point. And we apparently love it with all our hearts.
All that matters is which "side" wins.
Meanwhile, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Fuck disinformation. I'm going for full on psychotic breakdown followed by Lecter-style tongue swallowing yoga.
I am in great shape and I don't have a drinking problem.
A barkeep hands a beer with a fly caught in the head to an Englishman, Scotsman, and Irishman...the Brit pushes his back looking down his nose at the barkeep, the Scot picks the fly out and throws it over his shoulder before guzzling the pint, and the Irishman picks up the fly and proceeds to bash it with his other hand saying, "Spit it out ye lil bastard!"
Are you sure you don't have Scot and the Mick reversed?
Another viewpoint for why we are not, cannot go back to pre-2008:
Revelation 2-3 The Letters of Yeshua Messiah to the 7 churches
These were seven churches of Asia Minor that actually existed, are also seven churches that exist throughout church history as types and are representative of periods of time chronological and sequential.
1. Ephesus (desired-able)------ left their 1st love
2. Smyrna (myrrh)--------suffering under Roman persecution
3. Pergamos (throughly married)-----------becomes friends w/ the world
4.Thyratira (perpetual sacrifice)-----------------Catholic Church
5. Sardis (those escaping)-------------------period of the Reformation
6. Philadelphia (brotherly love)------------------missionary church
7. Laodicea (people ruling)----------------church of the Apostasy
Under Pergamos the church married the world under Constantine and Thyratira-- perpetual sacrifice-- speaks of the middle ages. We live in the Laodicean age, the age of the great apostasy. No one thought the church age would be so long, but we are getting through it, not going back. Apostasy= departure from the truth one professed to have.
What are the three denials of apostasy?
1. I John 2:22-3; I John 4:2, 3; II John 7 Who is a liar, but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son doesn't have the Father.
2 II Peter 3:4
3. Jude 17-19
satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xs9DMl976g
So . . . . was it adultery when God got Mary pregnant?
No; mistaken identity.
In the quiet words of the virgin mary, Come again?
You didn't tap that.
We believers in Yeshua as Messiah are the scum of the earth (the off-scouring of the world).
Is the God of Israel sinful when it says He is jealous for Israel, the apple of His eye? Every promise is yes, but no and no again.
You christ tards are unbelievably dumb.
Not entirely dumb (no I didn't junk you btw.), merely superceded by the mighty dollar these days (see my other post for further details).
Ah the bible; the lie that came before fiat currency, upon which the pope, and his exclusive bretheren of bishops and priests, charged unto themselves with the power of the word of God to hold the keys to the kingdom of heaven (the threat of an unpleasant afterlife, fellow ZH readers, was their grand arsenal; well until people took it upon themselves to choose their own King and therefore representative of God upon earth - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/318226/king, I think the lost original [I could picture then Pope John XXII burning it in utter frustration =P ] Declaration of Arbroath had a part in that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath).
We will in time deal with that book; but in the meantime we are all busy watching the financial world unravel. Ben Bernanke however must be green with envy given the faith in it has lasted for longer than the full faith and credit we give today to the USD.
Off topic, but am I the only one jonesing for some WB7 biting satirical art porn?
Maybe he's being like a European and taking August off ;-)
He deserves it mind you...
Not "that one"...he's relentless...it just comes in waves.
I feel your pain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJUX2jCG_0
As Jay Carney said... "Mind your Sources Matt Drudge". And guess what? Matt Drudge's "source" ended up being spot on accurate.
thanks, I just posted on a social media site, with of course Zh link!!
I see there tactics and approaches used every day by many, and it is so interesting to see how many fall for it
Baby Fae's heart. That would be bad information from a foreign body. Ok how about Cheney's heart. That would be mechanical information to a disinformation specialist. The only way some can survive.
excellent educational material, keep up the great job.
http://expose2.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/a-voice-from-the-dark/
People are so bombarded with all kinds of information, they are bewildered. And they willfully ignore the effort they know it takes to sift through it all. People would rather be useful idiots and sound important, than admit they do not know something and investigate it. I guess you call that laziness. Nice article though, thanks.
Prewritten Responses; I hope Million Dollar Bonus paid attention to that!
Lovely article... but it will be of scant significance when the MASS ARRESTS occur and Obama, Brenanke, Timmy G., and hundreds of other top-tier traitors are paraded on front of the cameras in handcuffs... http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo/
I've heard about this. Won't happen. And it won't happen precisely because I heard about this. You think that any talk of mutiny against Obama would be public? So Obama can find out?
It's hardly a mutiny... not a coup either. Listen and learn.
We all know who is responsible. But I guess even here you must mention them in only a whisper.
They who shall not be mentioned also neglected to point out that James Holmes' father was set to testify at the Senate regarding LIBOR fixing with some damning evidence.
Yes. Interesting how these little items "pop up" during investigation.
The most damning evidence there exists a connection is the "media's" refusal to cover it. Always watch for that.
The Church Committee proved the MK-Ultra project existed. Period.
It was a project probably aimed at going beyond the simple false-flag attack Hitler used in 1939 by killing convicted criminals, dressing the bodies in Polish Army uniforms, then claiming an "attack" by the Polish Army. Today, by using psychologically manipulated subjects, more sophisticated events can be effected.
Taking Aurora, for example, the killer cannot possibly be identified as Holmes, as he was disguised. Police radio chatter clearly identifies other active suspects. Here is a very interesting link:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6469
If we carefully examine the timeline, we see a convergence of marxists and the muslim brotherhood about 20 years ago- maybe longer.
In 2001, Barry Soetoro was an unknown person in the state senate; barely 7 years later, he becomes "president;" a man with no available records, never held a job, makes his first international address in Egypt to the MB.
Quoting from Doug Hagman: Promoting change in Egypt, the man called Obama has a private meeting with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt’s foreign minister. Gheit recounts the meeting to an audience of millions on Egyptian television that “the American president [Obama] told me in confidence that he is a Muslim.”
The conspiracy to create an agent now called BHO was obviously well-planned and well-financed. We must always pay attention to the "media," however, in that what they dismiss, omit, and ridicule is what is actually closer to the (concealed) truth.
There is a lot of work to do to retake the Republic.
The truth is precious, and it is short. E = mc2 was short, for example. Hence your text is too long for bearing the truth.
Anyway, since you cannot arg against me on economics, now you shift subjecy, good move, trying to portrait you as the master of truth.
How will you sustain demand ? Solving other problems is ok but this is the major one, i can demonstrate at any time that demande will never suffice, and not solving this will lead to the collpas of the system.
Ron paul is an imbecil derelict, and a facist. If you believe in this kind of person, you'r beyond recorevy.
You self trying to teach other to open their eyes, tou can't think ! You are the evil of any irony possible in this world !
Ron paul is an absolute idiot over any matter !
Forget about free markets and markets at all, think about where the monney is flowing through, it is ALL flowing through businesses ! There is no other demande than relying on wages ! Who cares about markets, this is not the good observation point !
Keep trying ! the spelling and grammar are attrocious, which is good ! Name calling is ok, .. .however, you should add some obscenities to really grab some attention. Please continue being a jerk-off . If you can make it up here ,you can make it up anywhere.
LOL
Good example!
back door jab at bubblevision?
Nuage truthiness = Same bullshit different generation.
Super piece of work!
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil PostmanAldous Huxley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
The disinfo will destroy itself, mostly due to demographic factors, like one of the guys who 'discovered' post-modernism noted. And i agree.
Excellent Presentation. Need to come up with an acronym to make it easier for people like me to remember - their intent.
Disinformation = Jimmy "Tool Time" Cramer talking up 10year yields, and the R/E sector when 100 million people are on the government dole! We all know what happened the last time the T10 hit these levels in May Jimmy " Tool Time".
The Bank of Japan should hire Jimmy Cramer to weaken the yen. High T10 yields translate into spikes in usd/jpy...
Brilliant presentation. Another nice piece of work I wouldn't have seen without ZH. Thank you.
It is really about spreading so amny lies, that even the truth seems to be a lie. If you confuse people enough they wil become to frustrated to seek the truth. That is where we are today.
I find the best way to combat paid internet rolls, is to accuse them of being a paid internet troll. When confronted with revealing the truth and perhaps harming the ability for them to make money, they usually launch into some crazy diatribe about how nobody gets paid to post comments on the internet.
If you can turn Alinsky's tactics against them while using the truth, you can't lose a debate.
Your point makes no sense and is totally useless! It's apparant your expertise in using the interent is juvenile at best and only demonstrates the power of global warming and how it's affecting the earths crust in ways you could never comprehend. Did you realize July was the hottest month ever? I'm sure you'll just sell it off as an after thought. But why would you care? I'd bet you've not even got a solution for any of this. Well, do you? Tell me what we're supposed to do now? Maybe you should just get back to pancakes and waffles and eating carbs with syrup.
(Oops, sorry, just making a test run using the said tactics. Did it work? Wow it's exhausting! Nice post btw.)
All your futile resistance are belong to us.
Agree with a lot you're saying...having said that, I think ridiculing the Tea Party makes a lot of sense, they are a bit of a joke with their "black 'n white" view of the world. It wasn't like that from the start, but once the fundamentalist nutjobs and racists took over it was a done deal. Their current leaders spew hate and racism on a daily basis, and even go as far as to make demonstrably wrong claims like the "Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the US government"...all to cater to the fringe crazy elements of the party who are now sadly in control.
Talking about corrupt lying media:
Fox "News" wanted to enter the Canadian market a while ago. However, the Canadian Broadcasting Association told them "fine, but just so you know, we will fine you for lying during NEWS segments". Guess what happened...Fox replied with "thank...in that case we won't come to Canada!".
So they are even ADMITTING that they are a bunch of lying crooks. Yet it's still the most watched "news" (really needs quotation marks) channel in the States. So the majority of people get misinformed on a daily basis.
Fantastic insight... I am not a religious person but the message of, "The truth shall set you free", resonates with me. I am also partial to, "The perfect slave is that man who thinks he is free". Oh and I can't forget, "Mass media creates mass ignorance". Saw that on a bumper sticker. Discover the truth that will set us all free. See post: http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/2012-08-08/energy-oil-petrol-dollar-and-t...
TV is the ultimate
Disinformationdevise!!!
turn it off
survivingsurvivalism.com
Nothing is real because we've allowed the CBs to measure fiat vs fiat, or one currency created out of thin air vs another. I think food prices have the potential to change this via the drought. At least the CBs can't sell it multiple times over like they do gold.
I've been teaching from "Rules for Radicals" for 20 years, first read the book over 30 years ago, and the author has Alinsky's motivations and ideals exactly backwards: Alinsky developed his rules to help those without power; that those rules have been usurped by disinformation artists doesn't discredit Alinsky one iota.
I've used his methods, and they're very effective. And I'm not a member of the powers that be.
The only thing you have to remember is that gold is backed by NOTHING, that's right, nothing - I saw it on TV, it MUST be True!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyEonJ66Wg
One of the most entertaining phenomena in the internet are trolls who have been cut loose by their masters and operate like those marauding armies from the Middle Ages...i won't name any names since this is the Fight Club, and despite it being an example from outside the USA i don't want people being visited by black helos either ;-)
Common people ! Slow down with all the paranoia ! It`s not like watching Animal Planet all day, will turn you into a slave for the rich !
I guess you got the point !
Peace !
It's a nice article, but is the boy simply ignorant of the primary method of disinformation?
They always play both sides of the game.
Should something cease to exist the moment it is known?
Envisage this question that ne'er be left alone
Conceive of the answer, for those it will be shown
Rare that one should exist for the mind that has grown
Enduring, persistent and open to truth
There in the quest lives the mindful sleuth
I sometimes wonder how much of the posting here is kind of like the algos...Not too many real people doing real things, just formulas pitted against one another.
High Frequency Truthiness?
Sadly, a "jaundiced eye" is likely a permanent, possibly fatal condition.
i don't know of a better judge of the "waking up-ness" of the world than people turning off the TV.
Great commentI jsut hope they shut it of and did not switch channels. All the MSM and Fox make me ill.
High satire, Tyler?
Actually, I love it when your Smarmy side appears. It means somehow, somewhere, a Short seller is dying.
A flying bear was quoted saying the official version of 9/11 was true.
The Loch Ness monster surfaced to say that he agreed. Still waiting on Sasquatch.
I just want to add that one very important technique in the internet era is to employ teams of posters. ( A team of posters might be implemented by one person. )
Use their interplay to control the dialogue by dragging as many real people into their discussion as possible.
I think this could be detected by looking at posting statistics. i.e. "These N people show up together way more than they should." or "These N people always talk to each other." etc.
Also control the dialogue in the sense of dissuading normals from joining. I've heard several people say "I don't bother with the comments on ZH because there's too many weirdos."
On a separate note -- what kind of animals would accept money to propagandize people on the internet?
I would honestly starve with my family before I would buy food with lies.
Maybe you have to convince the propagandists first. "It's OK to lie, because god is on our side."
If that's your excuse, you need a better god.
“In order to act consciously with the intention of awakening, it is necessary to know the nature of the forces which keep man in a state of sleep.
First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him. One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position.
There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh and skins and this they did not like.
At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no need to think about it. Further the magician suggested that they were lions, to others that they were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their flesh and skins.
This tale is a very good illustration of man’s position.”
-P.D. Ouspensky, In Search Of The Miraculous. 1949
Well Chaco, you just made me buy a book.
Thank you, Tyler , for reminding us that although truth is good, one must be armed with the skills that are necessary to advance it. Thus the power of ZeroHedge is to wake us all up...
Thank you, Tyler , for reminding us that although truth is good, one must be armed with the skills that are necessary to advance it. Thus the power of ZeroHedge is to wake us all up...
Whenever I hear William Randolph Hearst, I think of the quote:
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
- Malcolm X
Say what you will about the man (I'm not an uber-supporter myself), but the quote is fucking spot-on.
This is all good. A major disinfo tactic is to present yourself as a credible authority on an important subject. The purpose is to hijack and subordinate the real credible authorities, then take their audience into your increasingly fraudulent belief system, left, right or angry. Secondary objectives including numbing the subject audience to the seriousness of the issue, through oversaturation and obvious exageration.
This isn't a fine art. Fear is the main ingredient of msm, because frightened people are easy to dupe. This is also why the political campaigns are negative emotive, not at all logical.
The fast sell is another common weapon. 'Buy my shiny promise now before its too late". Shovelling the bullshit too fast and shallow for analysis, then switching topics. Repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, grind it in. You don't want them to think about it, you want them to respond emotionally to it. You are not trying to communicate facts, you are fertilizing the emotional state for the shock awe you drop on it. Isn't that terrible? Something must be done about it! Vote for slavery! Remember, the old broad who gave the only 2 cents she had gets to go to Heaven, but the rational are excluded.
Anyone promising eternal bliss in exchange for your servitude here & now doesn't believe in eternity... chumps. Organized religion is the manual and case study for mind control.
A main plank of religion is to instill a deep sense of inadequacy. Yes little Bobby, you are going to Hell, forever and ever. You need a better example? Who needs a whip when you whip yourselves on cue? Do it for the tribe. Do it for the children. Sacrifice. Sacrifice. Sacrifice. Where sacrifices are made, sacrifices are collected. Right, Hilary?
Despite the Bible commanding no fetishes, the brainwashed advertise the conditioning methods to use on them by the jewelry & funny hats they wear. Got a uniform? Suit? Nikes? Bwahaha
The stimuls worked. The economy is headed in the right direction. We tried our plan and it worked.
This President is a master practicioner of Alinsky.
Excellent article!
FWIW Dept: Niccolo Machiavelli [1469-1527] #79/100 most influential persons in history -- Michael H. Hart c.1992 rev. Ref: "The Prince" c.1513
Quote1: From chapter 17 of the Prince, Machiavelli discusses whether it is better to be loved or feared:
"The reply is that one ought to be both feared and loved, but... it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting... for love is held by a chain of obligation which, men being selfish, is broken whenever it serves their purposes; but fear is maintained by a dread of punishment which never fails"
Quote2: From chapter 18 of the Prince, is entitled "In What Way Princes Must Keep Faith." Machiavelli states that "... a prudent ruler ought not keep faith when by doing it would be against his interest..." He adds, nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wished to show excuse for the non-fulfillment of his promise." for, "...men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow them to be deceived." As a natural corollary of such views, Machiavelli advises his prince to be suspicious of the promises of others."
Note: It is interesting to note that although Machiavelli advocated that the prince adopt a cynical and ruthless practicality, he himself was idealistic and patriotic, and was not very adept at the deception he recommended. ***( Not infrequently, the most vehement denunciations came from those who practiced what Machiavelli preached-- a hypocrisy of which Machiavelli might approve, in principle!)
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Thankyou for a wonderful article Mr. smith
Regards to Tyler
Here's another one for you:
http://www.examiner.com/article/rasmussen-commits-to-a-false-dichotomy
"Lie Big" example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWbq5GHXPhA