noun
ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause
Everything happens in the world with the permission of the people. Therefore the real battles in the world are not between religions, countries or systems, it is in winning the hearts and minds of the people. The war behind the war is the propaganda war.
QUOTES:
Hermann Goering, Hitler's #2 Man had this to say about war
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood.
But it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along to fight a war, ... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
-- Hermann Goering
"The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the masses' attention to certain facts, processes, and necessities, whose significance is thus for the first time placed within their field of vision. The whole art consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct."
-- Hitler
"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists - for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil."
-- Attorney General John Ashcroft answering critics of his anti-terrorism measures
How dare the liars challenge the patriotism of the truth-tellers!
"denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism," Goering said. Are we to not challenge the central federal government when we are so blatantly wronged about the great external threat of terrorism? Shall we go back into the closet and fall fast asleep and not bother to ask for reasoned debate? Who will protect the people when trust in an opaque governance wanes?
The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie and if the state is lying then the truth-tellers become the mortal enemy of the state and are made to look like traitors.
Long live the truth!
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
- John Philpot Curran, 1790
If the people desire liberty, the price comes in the obligation to discover and tell the truth. To speak out and to defend our freedom and liberty or be complicit in the nightmare. The truth is the War on Terror is a FANTASY! It is a conspired set of hobgoblins designed to excuse the developing totalitarian state. The hobgoblins are channeled through the propaganda war in the United States; and only a minority of Americans are aware of this war at all. Those on the right excuse all media truth telling as biased liberal media. Those on the left call it the corporate media. The point is Americans are being played like a violin at Nero's burning.
Propaganda has tools or weapons of mass deception to pull the wool over the eyes of Americans. If there is no propaganda campaign, no agenda, no plan to fool America, the rest of the world would not be yelling at us to WAKE UP! Double Speak and double think are two propaganda tools that Orwell mentions in his book "1984". Mis-information and dis-information and out and out misleading the people are sophisticated ways of lieing to the public. Testimonials, bearing false witness, branding nationalism are also propanganda tools used in the war to win the hearts and minds of Americans.
Hers is a column on propaganda. "The Function of Propaganda", Excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Hitler was a master at understanding propaganda and along with Geobbels drove the worlds Super Power (Germany) into war. This understanding of how the game is played gives us understanding of what is being done to us. We must be aware of the tools of this engagement to have a chance of overcoming them. We must not fall asleep in these times; Americans must keep an open mind to all the possibilities as to what the truth really is.
There is a longer segment in the book "Beyond Iraq" on propaganda.
War is Peace - Work is freedom - Ignorance is Strength
-- Orwell, "1984"
"In a time of universal deceit, TELLING THE TRUTH is a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell
We are living in a time of universal deceit.
I urge all citizens of the world to recognize that they are responsible for the actions of their countrys' leaders. If those actions are deceitful then change the leaders to ones with integrity.
The censored lies from the administration through the corporate owned media are thinly veiled. They are there to be seen through and are laughable. Pretzels? Shoe Bomber? Searching the bras of our grandmothers for bombs? When you consider who are the few men that control the stories one can understand that the news can be set up. One example is "Praise The Lord" Pat Robertson owning the UPI newswire in 1993-7. This was a major source of news and dovetailed with the agenda of his personal news show called, "The News According To GOD." Rupert Murdoch - The Moonies and other nefarious characters involved in owning our media should create a doubt in our minds that the truth is not being served or worse twisted.
These are beyond a doubt historical times. History is being written before our eyes, a history that will have lasting effects on our civilization for centuries to come. Who will meet the challenge to steer the world through these perilous times? Who will care enough to guarantee the freedom we had before Bush took office will be returned?
The wealthy elite are driving toward a concentration of wealth and power at the expense of the helpless. The people are responding with rebellion and in protest. The working people are facing huge challenges to their freedom and liberty and across the globe they are claiming their power through solidarity and fighting their battles by engaging in truth telling or Satygraha. Each individaul must become the Ghandi of their communities, inspiring, motivating and organizing the people around them. I have complete faith in the people to do the right thing by rising up in defense of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our leaders keep coming up with very funny stories. This is the propagnada of th eunited States in Afghanistan.
U.S. Planes Rain Dollars, Not Bombs, on Afghanistan
Reuters | February 14
CHAMAN, Pakistan - U.S. aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes.
"C-130 planes dropped white-coloured paper envelopes with a photo of President Bush and two bills of $100 each," said Abdul Hadi, a resident of Chaman, Pakistan on the border with southern Afghanistan.
"They are actually dropping these over areas across the border but a few were carried away by the wind to this side," Hadi said. "People pushed and fought with each other to get their hands on the envelopes."
full story = http://in.news.yahoo.com/020214/64/1gefq.html
Commentary - Has Bush been reading the Onion.com? Where are these stories coming from? Who is running this show and who wrote the script? I guess the best way to get people into materialism and promote capitalism is to drop money out of the sky.
During Valentine's week, the FBI put the country on high alert for terrorist attacks. Then issued a warning about red and white teddie bears. Nothing is sacred, not even teddy bears. Put this together with the keep off the bridges on the west coast, the money falling out of the sky with a picture of George Bush and the pretzel story and the shoe bomber and on and on and my intelligence is thoroughly insulted. Enough said about the bizarre - its as though we have stepped into a version of the Twilight Zone hosted by Mad TV.
And then they give us this!
BUSH nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize?
But he may not get it, there is stiff competition from other nominations that include Rudolph Giuliani and Tony Blair.
This is proposterous and so way over the line that common sense cannot grasp it. First Bush stole the election and was named man of the year. Now he is threatening to start WWIII and they want to give him the Peace prize?
This is big --- bigger than the shoe bomber, bigger even than Bush firing up some pretzels and then falling over on the bong and getting a black eye. Well lets give him a black eye on this one; here's how you can stop the madness - http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel.html
George Bush is MAD tv at its best...... and the prize is?
5 lbs of pretzels and a new bong to fire them up.
An example of propaganda
Otto the rise of the 4th Reich
November 6, 2005 | This brief is to refute an interview of Bush's man in Latin America, Otto Reich on MSNBC. Reich said there were three reasons for the riots in Argentina during Bush's visit there in December to attend a WTO conference:
1 - they are paid demonstrators, paid by Castro and Chavez
(I find this proposterous)
2 - they are romantics that glorify Che Guevara
(I find this amusing)
3 - the prosperity of globalization has not reached these people
(I find this naive)
I say they are rioting because:
1) Argentina, the poster child of the globalization Free Market Economy, is a proven dismal failure
2) the people of South America do not want the Free Market Economy or Free Trade
3) it is a widely perceived belief that Bush is killing the planet
