13.2 - Propaganda/Psyops
“The greatest asset of the propagandists is your belief that you haven't been propagandized.” - Unknown
a. Propaganda
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"If the situation were hopeless, their propaganda wouldn't be necessary. If their propaganda worked, they wouldn't need to keep doing it." - Unknown
“There's no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia.” - Russian proverb under communism. In Russian Pravda means 'Truth' and Izvestia means 'News'.
"Russia US
Authoritarian Law & Order
Crush Dissent Riot Control
Gulags Prison Labour
Oligarch Entrepreneur
Secret Police Undercover Cops" - Unknown
“A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow headed toward the United States. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and is on his way to learn American propaganda techniques. ‘What American propaganda techniques?’ asks the American. ‘Exactly,’ the Russian replies.” - Unknown
prop·a·gan·da - noun - information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. From Latin propagare meaning to set forward, extend, spread, increase.
"The colors or propaganda... If you examine propaganda closely, you can typically identify the techniques used to appeal to emotion. What is not always evident is who produced the material. Communication experts classify propaganda as white, black, or gray depending on the transparency of the source. Determining the source of a message is an important tool in the analysis of propaganda:
White Propaganda - In white propaganda, the producer of the material is clearly marked and indicated.
Gray Propaganda - Information and messages without clear producers are considered gray propaganda. Material of unknown origin leaves a viewer unable to determine the creator or motives behind the message.
Black Propaganda - One of the most deceptive forms of propaganda involves material created by one group but attributed to another. Black propaganda falsely claims a message or image was created by the opposition in order to discredit them." - Unknown
"Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." - Michael Rivero
"The news department used to lose money. Information -> ratings -> create news & propaganda " - Unknown
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." - Joseph Goebbels
"All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news." - Willi Munzenberg
"54% of the imbeciles that watch CNN and Fox know they're being lied to but consume the propaganda anyhow. You deserve slavery." - Unknown
"What you think is controlled by what you watch. And what you watch is controlled by the elite." - Unknown
“The value of reporting the news is dwarfed by the value of controlling its distortion.” - Unknown
“The rich and powerful piss on us, and the media tell us it's raining.” - Unknown
“Media is not 4th branch of government. The media is in bed with the government.” - Unknown
“If the fourth estate is beholden to the state, it cannot function in its proper role.” - Unknown
"The news' role is not to inform you. It's to program you." - Unknown
"The purpose is not to inform but to humiliate" - Unknown
"My ADHD actually saved my life because I wasn't paying attention in class when we were being spoon fed US propaganda." - radicalsapphic
"The propaganda system allows the US leadership to commit crimes without limit." - Edward S. Herman
"Propaganda and the protection of military secrets are vital both to participants and to nations near the brink of involvement. Thus a mighty power in the struggle for world dominion by nations, forms of government, and ideals is radio. International radio is just now beginning to be evaluated adequately as the powerful though invisible weapon it is. Just as dominance in the air by plane may be the key to victory on land and sea, so the use of the ether waves may be the most potent means for mastery of the minds and hearts of men, without which no nation or ideal can survive." - John Grombach, The Invisible Weapon, 1940
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is a lie." - William Casey, CIA
"In order to control public opinion of the masses, the ruling class should regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments [soldiers'] bodies." – Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)
"Ivy Lee is the man who first invented the press release and is considered the 'Grandfather of Propaganda.' As his ideas of 'public relations' were precisely what the ruthless Gilded Age American industrialists (and later the Nazis) needed to polish up their reputations If Ivy Lee was the grandfather of propaganda, Edward Bernays was the father. The nephew of the great psychologist Sigmund Freud sought to utilize his uncle's work in the real world. In 1928, he published his landmark work, 'Propaganda.' The word held no negative connotation. Bernays would be remembered for things like:
- Getting women to smoke by running a feminist advertising campaign, using models at public events, and referring to cigarettes as 'Torches of Freedom.'
- Helping the CIA overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala
Bernays was the great-nephew of renowned psychologist Sigmund Freud, who studied how aspects of the subconscious control human behavior. His methods relied on a strategy he called 'engineering consent.' The key is not to appeal to the logical, thinking mind but to circumvent it by invoking STRONG emotions. In this way, he communicates with the UNCONSCIOUS & makes his target believe the idea implanted is theirs. What does this have to do with today, you ask? Would you believe me if I said Bernay's great-nephew co-founded Netflix and was its first CEO? Marc Bernays Randolph" - Unknown
"To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses." ~ Adolf Hitler (1998). "Mein Kampf," Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Mein Kampf originally published July 18, 1925)
"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 pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader
"I'm seeing no Hawaiian flags on people's profiles like I did the Ukraine flag. Guess the news didn't tell anyone to do that." - Unknown on the massive fires in Lahaina and how our attention is being directed away from that tragedy
"Should I hang a Guyana flag on my porch, next to my Ukraine flag, my pride flag, my BLM flag and my Palestinian flag - or is it too early?" - Unknown, on the border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana
"If you understand that the media is your enemy, everything else becomes crystal clear." - Unknown
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities..." - Unknown
"Early in a conflict an atrocity committed by The Enemy is selected and given considerable publicity…It is elevated to be the moral yardstick against which your side’s atrocities are judged, and, by comparison, your side’s atrocities always pale … Thereafter The Enemy’s atrocity is the central referent of your side’s propaganda…Their atrocity justifies any your side subsequently commits." - Unknown
"Every single thing coming out of msm is designed to sabotage your life, f*ck up your family, disgrace your ancestors, ruin your pride, riddle you with self doubt and stop your genetic lineage from being a threat to the elite globalist-marxist power. Media is in the hands of people who hate you beyond your capacity to understand." - Brannon1776
"You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the 58 million Russians who died from 1914-1958 under Bolshevism
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." - William S. Burroughs
b. PsyOps
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"It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"You do realize.. they are trying to exhaust you & break you down mentally. So that when they attempt their next 'step' in their plan... you just give up & fold & comply. They think because you're tired & sick of arguing you'll start giving up your freedoms. This is PSYCHOLOGICAL warfare. It is NOT for the weak." - Unknown
psy·ops - noun - psychological operations. military operations are usually aimed at influencing the enemy's state of mind through non-combative means (such as distributing leaflets).
"80% of the population do not have the psychological or moral resources to defy an authority's order, no matter how illegitimate the order is. Therefore, only 20% have critical thinking capacity. This explains quite a lot!" - Stanley Milgram, Psychologist
"I have suggested in this chapter that human being come equipped with strong and pervasive pro-authority biases that operate even when an authority is illegitimate or issues illegitimate and indefensible commands." - Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
"Research shows it only takes telling a child 14 times for them to start to believe something. For adults, it's only seven times." - Unknown
"[The pschological experiments that took place in the 60's, 70's, and 80's have been weaponized against the masses. The main techniques used to manipulate people are:]
1) people will do anything if they are told they won't be held responsible.
2) people tend to abuse any power they're given OR believe they are powerless if they're treated that way
3) people respond to peer pressure especially if you make them feel completely alone.
4) people will complete a task if they can get a small reward
5) people mindlessly do whatever everyone else is doing without ever asking for a reason
6) people will happily believe something that never happened if it is repeated often enough" - Kitt Knightly via OffGuardian
If you live your life understanding the media is your enemy, everything else becomes crystal clear:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - HL Mencken
"They're known as Curtis LeMays leaflets in the PsyOp community. The LeMays leaflet campaign was arguably the most successful PsyOp operation in WWII against Japan. They sowed mass panic and made it impossible for Japanese leaders to maintain order. Where are you going to go if nobody knows where the bombs are going to fall? What do you do if the streets are jammed? Panic! Also, dropping leaflets implies a humanitarian effort on behalf of the aggressor. Here's some of the stuff they printed on them:
- These leaflets are being dropped to notify you that your city has been listed for destruction by our powerful air force. The bombing will begin in 72 hours.
- The advance notice will give your military authorities ample time to take necessary defensive measures to protect you from our inevitable attack. Watch and see how powerless they are to protect you.
- We give the military clique this notification because we know there is nothing they can do to stop our overwhelming power and our iron determination. We want you to see how powerless the military is to protect you.
- Systematic destruction of city after city will continue as long as you blindly follow your military leaders whose blunders have placed you on the very brink of oblivion. It is your responsibility to overthrow the military government now and save what is left of your beautiful country. In the meanwhile, we urge all civilians to evacuate at once." - Unknown
"If you own the mind, you won't need to enslave the body." - Unknown
"The most basic form of mind control is repetition." - Unknown
"When all the MSM are saying the same 'thing' it's a psyop. Every. Time." - Unknown
"MSM + whistleblower = psyop --> Real whistleblowers are ignored by the MSM and ended by the .gov." - Unknown
"If you have these four things—lack of social bonds, lack of sense-making, free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent—then society is highly at risk for the emergence of mass phenomenon.” – Mattias Desmet – The Psychology of Totalitarianism on Trauma-Based Mind Control and Mass Formation Psychosis
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." - Bertrand Russell
"A mind full of fear has no room for its own thoughts." - Unknown
"We want to ensure the American people are so confused they don't know what is happening." - Obama
"Fear, confusion, and pollution are the key ingredients to getting the public to comply with psyops:
1) Fear lowers IQ. The back of the brain is activated in an attempt to reestablish safety.
2) Confusion - Prisoners of war are more cooperative if you confuse them. Do what I say, and the confusion will go away. Confusion drives people toward authority figures.
3) Pollution - Unhealthy living puts the body in a fearful state on a subconscious level. Anytime a psyop is about to be carried out, you'll notice that pollution is up-regulated and healthy living is down-regulated.
Remember when masks didn't work, then we suddenly were required to wear a mask, then 2 masks, then no masks? Remember when we had to wear a mask while standing in a restaurant but could remove it when we sat down? Remember when some people wore plexiglass face shields to stop a virus? That's fear and confusion. Masking naturally invokes a fear response. Remember when you couldn't go to the gym, but you could buy alcohol, and marijuana was being legalized all over the place? That's pollution and confusion. The psyop was designed to maximize fear, confusion, and pollution in order to get the public vaccinated." - Unknown
"Q: Got any fatherly advice for me?
A: Ships don't sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down." - Unknown
"Someday we may face a real crisis. How will you know when to be worried? The same way you know if the turbulence on an airplane is really bad or not. By looking at the stewardesses. If they look worried, you should be worried. So if a crisis is unfolding and you see politicians and journalists heading for bunkers, screaming, crying, or acting distraught then you should panic." - Unknown
"The status quo doesn't have a monopoly on these tricks. If infomercial grifters can successfully employ these techniques to sell potty putters and shake weights, so can you against political opposition." - Unknown
"They tried to do too much too quickly and people have started to develop pattern recognition on the go that allows them to recognize when the unproductive class is attempting to manipulate their minds. This pattern recognition is accelerated and enhanced by our ability to communicate directly with each other in real time over the internet." - Marty Brent
"Grandson: Wow, you fought in WW3? What weapons did you use?
Grandpa: Mostly memes." - Unknown
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