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"Propaganda itself cannot be efficient unless it
brings into play the whole state organization, and particularly the police
power." Jacques Ellul, Technological Society, 1964
"All effective propaganda must be confined
to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in
stereotyped formulas.
These stereotyped
formulas must be constantly repeated, for only constant repetition will
finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd." - Adolph
Hitler |
We Make Threats Not Promises
(actual US military badge)
"Government
psychological warfare programs helped shape mass com- munication research into
a distinct scholarly field, strongly influencing the choice of leaders and
determining which of the competing scientific paradigms of communication would
be funded, elaborated, and en- couraged to prosper.
The state usually
did not directly determine what scientists could or could not say, but it did
significantly influence the selection of who would do the "authoritative"
talking in the field." - Christopher Simpson, Science of Coercion
"Pay attention
to how much propaganda goes into maintaining the propaganda machine itself.
This is done because propaganda is just that central to the maintenance
of dominant power structures.
Much effort is spent building trust in
establishment narrative management outlets while sowing distrust in sources of
dissent.
You'll see entire propaganda campaigns built around
accomplishing solely this." - Caitlin Johnstone |




"See, in my line of work you got to keep
repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to
kind of catapult the propaganda." George Walker Bush, Greece, N.Y.,
May 24, 2005
Technology has made it
possible to induce and disrupt the
cognitive functioning of
individual brains.
Your thoughts may not be your own, but rather
ones that have been implanted by
successful social engineering through scientifically validated
propaganda methods.
An American is
exposed to over 3000 messages everyday.
The Roman Catholic Church of the
Counter Reformation coined with the word propaganda for
mental
reservation.
"Propaganda is most effective when it is least
noticeable.
What the American people don't know is that American
propaganda is hidden.
In a closed society, propaganda is obvious and
reluctantly tolerated for fear of the
negative consequences.
In an open society, such as in America, the hidden and integrated
characteristics of propaganda con-vinces people that they are not being
manipulated.
This is why the concept of propaganda in America is so
problematic and painted in a strictly negative light.
Propaganda is
supposed to be something that Adolf
Hitler mastered and that his film maker Leni Riefenstahl made into a
perverse art form.
It is not supposed to be part of an open society.
What could
be more propagandistic than George Walker Bush's message that Americans are
do-gooders in a global battle against evil?" -
Nancy Snow
A great deal of time and wealth is spent to guide American
popular opinion in a predefined direction down particular avenues to the
'correct' opinion.
Euphemisms such as
misinformation, disinformation, image consulting, political consulting, news
consulting, advertising, infomercials, public relations,
damage control, and the art of
spin have taken the place of the word propaganda in the English lexicon.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent researching how best to
manipulate the opinions of the
American people over decades
while hundreds of billions have been spent on advertising agencies,
public relations
firms and political consultants
to influence American
opinion.
Taxpayer funds are used to
pay private contractors
for dissemination of
propaganda at nearly all levels of government.
An uninformed ignorant
populace is far easier to manipulate than an informed, thinking
populace.
The
human brain processes
different sensory mediums in
different ways.
Written and spoken words are put through a symbol
decoding process as the human brain deciphers the sentence structure and words
in order to properly interpret the symbols.
In this process, both the
conscious and
subconscious
mind go through an internal debate comparing and interpreting new
information with what is already known to be true.
But a graphic image
is instantly processes by the right brain as true and real bypassing the
internal debate entirely.
Information presented in a visual format or
a musical sound format has a much
greater impact on the subconscious than symbols as
the logical processing
circuits of the left brain have been put on hold.
Over long periods
of time, recurring imagery has a built
up effect on the viewer which allows for the subconscious to manifest these
images as reality.
The
best example is the American fear of terrorism implanted by the never ending
stream of death and misery seen on television and in the movies.
Television watchers claim television is a
means of relaxation.
This has been confirmed by
electroencephalograph (EEG) readings of
brain waves,
skin résistance
and heart rates of people watching television.
Attraction to moving images
is centered on the biological orienting
response.
Biological
orienting response is a part of
all mammals evolutionary heritage as a biological sensitivity to movement and
potential predatory threats.
Orienting
response reactions include dilation of blood vessels to the brain, slowing of
the heart, constriction of blood vessels to major muscle groups.
The brain focuses on gathering more
information while the body relaxes.
In response to the stressor, the
body prepares for either "fight or flight."
The body responds by
releasing stored fuels (sugar and fats) to provide quick energy; breathing rate
increases to supply more
oxygen to the blood; muscle tension increases to prepare for action; blood
clotting mechanisms are activated to reduce bleeding from cuts; senses become
more acute (hearing becomes more sensitive, pupils dilate, smell becomes
sharper); heart rate and
blood pressure rise to provide more blood to the muscles and the
Veil of Cognitive
Blindness falls and you step out of the Dream
into Reality.
This protective posture allows you to cope with potential
dangers by shuting down logic processing centers that are used to identify what
is being seen.
Images may
be directly implanted into the subconscious as reality even though these images
portray a reality far from the truth.

1917 With World War
I dragging on in Europe Bernard Mannes Baruch and
Edward Mandell
House have Woodrow Wilson
enlist George Creel.
George Creel forms the The Committee of Public
Information, the Creel
Commission, which primes and greases the US propaganda machine.
Edward Louis Bernays
sythesizes the ideas of Gustave Le
Bon and Wilfred Trotter on
crowd psychology with
the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.
Edward Louis Bernays
felt it was necessary to manipulate the public through propaganda to dampen
down the "herd instinct".
Edward Louis Bernays,
author of Propaganda, is one of the first to attempt to manipulate
public opinion using the psychology of the
subconscious.
"The conscious and
intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is
an important element in a democratic society.
Those who manipulate
this unseen mechanism of society constitute an
invisible government which
is the true ruling power of our country.
We are governed,
our minds are molded,
our tastes formed,
our ideas
suggested, largely by
men we have never heard of.
This is a logical
result of the way in which our society is organized.
Vast numbers of human
beings must coöperate in this manner if they are to live together as a
smoothly functioning society.
In almost every act of our daily
lives, whether in the sphere of
politics or business,
in our social conduct or
our ethical thinking, we are
dominated by the relatively
small number of persons who understand the
mental processes and
social patterns of the
masses.
They pull the wires to
control the public consciousness." - Edward Bernays*
Walter
Lippmann argued propaganda was necessary to 'manufacture consent' and that
'the common interests elude public
opinion entirely'.
To this end Walter Lippmann suggested propaganda
could only be understood and managed by a 'specialized class of responsible
men' who are intelligent enough to
figure out what was best for
Americans.
Edward
Louis Bernays, the father of the public
relations industry, and Walter Lippmann, the dean of American journalists,
a major foreign and domestic policy critic, and
an important theorist of
neoliberal democracy were drafted along with a group of cartoonists,
writers, editors, publishers.
Within a year Edward Louis Bernays and Walter Lippmann, through the
machinations of the Creel Commission, turn a
large number of Americans from a population friendly to Germans into a fervent
anti-German populace.

1927 Ivan
Pavlov studies instinctive response to any sudden or novel visual or auditory
stimulus.
1930
Carl Byoir leases two
Cuban newspapers, the Havana Post and the Havana Telegram.
He becomes an influential intermediary for
Americans wishing to invest
in Cuba.
Byoir made his name helping FDR establish the March of
Dimes foundation.
German television is conceived primarily as a tool
of propaganda rather than a means of entertainment.
Cinema television is
used throughout the war for troop entertainment.
1933 Joseph Goebbels,
Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, combines all
media dissemination vehicles - the press,
radio, film and
theater - into
one institution he
controls.
Joseph Goebbels considers media "a piano in the hands of the
government" on which the government could play.
Joseph Goebbels
realizes monotony may set in so he developes a theory that
mass media should be "uniform in principle" but
"polyform in nuances."
Joseph Goebbels concepts are based on the
observations of Edward Bernays and
Walter
Lippmann.
Edward
Bernays popularized tobacco smoking with American women by hiring beautiful
women to walk down Madison Avenue while smoking cigarettes, giving women the
idea that smoking is synonymous with beauty.
1937
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company hires
Carl Byoir to help it fight
the powerful anti-chain-store movement, which sought to break up big chains in
order to protect independent retailers and wholesalers.
Working behind
the scenes, Byoir organized a campaign to highlight the benefits of chains in
reducing consumer prices.
September 15, 1938
1,600 publications run a full-page
advertisement headlined "A Statement of Public Policy by the Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company."
The
advertisement criticizes a bill introduced
by Representative Wright Patman of Texas to impose punitive taxes on chain
stores.
The bill is blocked, and the power of the anti-chain movement
wanes.
1954Bernays most infamous project was the
propaganda effort behind the CIA
coup in Guatemala.
He framed it as a "liberation from
communism" when in fact it was to rekindle the decades-long dictatorship to
protect the interests of the
United Fruit Company
who had hired him to manage the media
campaign against the democratic socialist government of
Guatemala.
"The 1960's witnessed a democratic upsurge of
democratic fervor in America." Samuel Phillips
Huntington
1976
Trilateral Commission, issues report labeled 'Governability of
Democracies.'
Samuel Phillips Huntington, a political science
professor at Harvard University and a long time consultant to the
White House on the war in Vietnam, wrote
there was a huge growth of citizen participation 'in the forms of marches,
demonstrations, protest movements, and cause organizations,' 'markedly higher levels of
self-consciousness on the part of blacks, Indians, Chicanos, white ethnic
groups, students and women', 'marked expansion of white-collar unionism,' and
all this added up to 'a
reassertion of unalienable rights in social, economic and political
life'.
"The essence of the democratic surge of the 1960's was
a general challenge to existing
systems of authority, public and private. In one form or another,
this challenge
manifested itself in the family, the university, business, public and
private associations, politics, the
governmental
bureaucracy, and the military
services. People no
longer felt the same obligation to obey
those whom they had previously
considered superior to themselves in age, rank,
status, expertise,
character, or talents." - Samuel Phillips
Huntington
At the forefront of
White House thinking is
the command and control of the
global marketplace through
information
manipulation and control.
Corporate
movies, television programs, recorded music,
theme parks, advertising and
news broadcasts offer a Talmudwood
perspective.
A Talmudwood program structure has been exported to
television stations all over the
Earth, resulting in a corporately branded
style which include shorter news segments,
a de-emphasis on government and
politics, fewer talking heads, more graphic material,
"warm and fuzzy" stories and more
corporate image burnishing.
"The president,
to win the election,
needed the support of a broad coalition, however,
the day after his
election, the size of his
majority is almost - if not entirely - irrelevant to his ability to govern
the country. What counts then is the president's ability to mobilize support
from the leaders of key
institutions. This coalition must include
key individuals in
Congress, the executive
branch, corporate media and the
corporate industrial sector." -
Samuel Huntington

1986
Byron Reeves of Stanford University, Esther Thorson of the University of
Missouri and their colleagues began to study whether the simple formal features
of television - cuts, edits, zooms,
pans, sudden noises - activate the biological orienting response, thereby
keeping attention on the screen.
By watching how brain waves were
affected by cuts, edits, zooms, pans, and sudden
noises they concluded that stylistic tricks can indeed trigger involuntary
responses through the evolutionary significance of detecting movement.
Their findings explain the never ending action of
broadcast advertisements and why older
people prefer peaceful drama over youthful action movies.
Passivity and a lower level of alertness
correlate with televison veiwing.
Once the television is turned
off, the sense of relaxation
dissipates quickly, but passivity and lowered alertness
remain for a considerable time.
As
relaxation occurs quickly,
people are conditioned to
associate viewing of television with a lack
of tension.
Once the screen is turned back on
astral projection
begins and a hypnotic
state is once again entered into.
The association is positively
reinforced as viewers remain relaxed throughout viewing, and it is negatively
reinforced via the stress
and dysphoric rumination
that occurs once the television screen goes blank again.
Habit forming drugs work in
a similar manner.
A tranquilizer that
leaves the body rapidly is much more likely to cause dependence than one
that leaves the body slowly, precisely because the user is more
aware that the
effects of the drug are wearing off.
2009 Archives of General Psychiatry report finds for
each hour of television viewed per day male teenagers had a statistically
significant greater likelihood of developing depression in young
adulthood.
"Media is so image rich and content poor that it just serves
to capture the eye, manipulate emotions, and short-circuit reason. Propaganda
industries function increasingly like
adult obedience
industries . " - Nancy Snow
"Moving from one stimulus to
another, the mind develops a higher and higher tolerance to stimulation.
So the dosage must increase:
video games that are more
exciting, television is faster-paced, more dramatic.
Movies and
television programming have
over the last few decades become increasingly fast-paced, the editing faster,
the scenes shorter, the
special effects more dramatic."
- Charles
Eisenstein
"People see the headline, see what the story is
supposedly about, there is already a built-in set of expectations from the
audience. When we write the stories we can play off of and play against those
expectations." - Rene Balcer 1988 Talmudwood has skimmed stories from headlines for decades
and television has followed
suit.
Millions of Americans watch the
evening news.
Even more watch the entertainment that surrounds
it.
The most popular programs are
fictionalized accounts of pseudo
real events.
Media psychology,
the effective use of propaganda, uses the theories, concepts and
methods of
psychology to study the impact of media on individuals, groups, and
cultures.
Media psychology is concerned with the social and
psychological parameters of communications between people that are
mediated by some
technology or conduit other than simply air.
The field of media
psychology is interested
in delivering psychological treatments and intervention strategies through
print and electronic media to modify aspects of human behavior.
This
is done through the media of movies and television, by use of music,
camera angles,
editing, lighting, color and black/white recording, image
size, and all facets of sound and image production that
create impressions and facilitate
our immersion in the pseudo
reality presented.
The field of media
psychology has found the most effective means of indoctrinating and
conditioning people is to embed
the message to be conveyed into the narratives of the compounded fictionalized
stories.
People
are branded when the prescribed message is able to bypass the conscious
attention of the receiver.
Social and political agendas
can be subconsciously set and the manner in which reality is understood can be
easily revised.
Corporations spend thousands of
hours and millions of dollars devising ways to decieve the public,
the public has little time to design
counter strategies.
In order to
adequately control a target population
an emotional response must be
conditioned into the subconscious of the
target population - a
manufactured desire the
target population is
consciously unaware of.
Media literacy, knowing how the messages
conveyed by media affect us emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally, and how
to defend against indoctrinating messages, is vital for an informed, free
society.
"Propagandists for a long while realized that a lie
is not good alone, that "truth pays," that propaganda must be based upon
facts." - Jacques Ellul
"There are two kinds of propaganda: rational
propaganda in favor of action that is consonant with the enlightened
self-interest of those who make it and those to whom it is addressed;
non-rational propaganda that is not consonant with anybody's
enlightened
self-interest, but is dictated by, and appeals to,
passion." -
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Revisited There are three 'colors' of
propaganda:
'white'- truthfully attributed and non-attributed
messages
'gray'- falsely attributed to a third party
messages
'black' - nothing less than
a form of intellectual
subversion
Propagandists prepare a three stage strategic campaign -
the propaganda techniques they
chose are "Desensitization," "
Jamming," and "Conversion"
to build moral indifference.
Desensitization through
indoctrination reduces public sensitivity and
moral outrage by
inundating the public with a continuous flood of repulsive
ideas.
Desensitization convinces a very weary public to view the issue
under discussion with moral indifference or apathy rather than sharp emotion.
Jamming is
psychological terrorism used to silence dissenting opinion.
People
that display strong moral conviction are castigated as reactionaries.
Conversion is the manipulation of perception and belief through
allusion, insinuation and false association.
Propaganda 'converts' the
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