I have a little background in marketing, which makes me see this stuff EVERYWHERE. Sometimes I feel like Roddy Piper with his 'all-seeing' sunglasses. No matter how charming a car commercial, all I see is "CONSUME". No matter how serious the guy in a lab coat looks, all I see is "OBEY".
I shudder for those who have no ability to see through the BS and see the propaganda underneath, because IT IS EVERYWHERE.
I started studying NLP almost 40 years ago. It encompases some very effective techniques, and is very illuminating on how manipulable are humans. It is a powerful tool for helping people overcome the negative programming and beliefs that all of us were subjected to just in the process of growing up in this very "unenlightened" world, including help releasing deep-seated trauma.
But in the hands of nefarious operatives such as within the government, look out! The best strategy is to LEARN more! Knowledge is power, and to be resistant to manipulation, one needs to understand how it works!
"When everything Americans belief is a lie, we will have accomplished our job" -William Casey, then head of the CIA, in a staff meeting with top level managers.
This has been verified by his then secretary (look it up, I've forgotten the details, but had the poster up for a long time).
I can only think that this type of operation truly works on the low information voter types. As much success as they have had, there seems to be a change taking place that will get to an opposite reaction. Many people are beginning to figure out their deceptive practices and I don’t think they have enough jail cells to put us all behind bars. The wave is forming, will crest and sweep them away soon. J.Goodrich
My suggestion to anyone looking for a legit news source is always The Last American Vagabond. TLAV is consistently 4-6 months ahead of any other independent media.
The show runner, Ryan Christian, is the most objective journalist I've ever watched. He gives multiple perspectives for any story he covers, prioritiezs reporting on his own corrections and retractions (fully admits when he is wrong or falls short on journalistic standards,) and does not hesitate to call out his reporters, guests, or audience when they are falling into unjustified beliefs.
Bonus- he ends every episode of the Daily Wrap Up with the reminder to question everything including everything he says. Hell, i would trust him 100%, if it wasn't for his constant exhortations to never do such a stupid thing.
I am rapidly approaching a "turn it off" approach to every day life. Now I just need to encourage those around me to do the same.... No, I can't turn off all online activity, but I choose what I click on. Ad Blockers, VPNs and not using the msft or ggle browsers can each provide another degree of separation.
The CIA and MSM should never be trusted , the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird...
Church Committee's Reports 94-755, it has been said to constitute the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made available to the public. Much of the contents were classified, but over 50,000 pages were declassified in 1975. Not much has changed since then., if anything it has gotten worse over time.
The CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
Media assets will eventually include NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's ABC, of businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.
See original sources: Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird
The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird: This is why PBS and the MSM are not trusted, they influence by deep state.
Church Committee's Reports 94-755:Among the matters investigated were attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Deim brothers of Vietnam , Gen.Rene Schneider of Chile and C.I.A's plan to use the Sicilian Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba.Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird
The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird: This is why PBS and the MSM are not trusted, they are influenced by the deep state.
Despite these numerous challenges, the Church Committee investigated and identified a wide range of intelligence abuses by federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and National Security Agency. In the course of their work, investigators identified programs that had never before been known to the American public, including NSA’s Projects SHAMROCK and MINARET, programs which monitored wire communications to and from the United States and shared some of that data with other intelligence agencies. Committee staff researched the FBI’s long-running program of “covert action designed to disrupt and discredit the activities of groups and individuals deemed a threat to the social order,” known as COINTELPRO. The FBI included among the program’s many targets organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as local, state, and federal elected officials.
Does the Orwellian Line include the most bizzaro situations whereby Non-Gay adults bring their toddler/preschool/middle school children to the " New and Improved" asshole series of The Gay Pride Festival Parades? Please tell me what "EXACTLY" is being celebrated? Wrong....just wrong!
This is the highest form of Immersion of a Dysfunctional mental disease, Group Participations.
Until covid, there was perhaps no greater psyop than global warming-climate change- climate crisis..."The Science" was developed here, as an alternative to actual inquiry. The official story presented through thousands of astro turf outlets, the outright purchase of organs such as Sierra Club, magazines, developments of NGO's, the enlistment of "stakeholders," i.e. corporations that wish to conceal their pollution, etc. The capture of unaffiliated institutions like the military to laughably pretend that climate is a military enemy and threat. The list os comprehensive, lengthy, and totally, bullshit.
Here's another...starting in the 1990's it was determined that the American family needed to be undermined by the degradation of sex from procreative and associated with interpersonal obligation and love to frivolous exploitation of others as "love." The currents became a flood and now heteronormative living is ridiculed while even children are immersed in depraved and revolting theater of the grotesque distortions of the "pride" parades. Most young people think there is something narrow minded and even bigoted in normal sexual relations and the family is portrayed as dysfunctional, a source of horror and psychological torment, whereas only the deviant lifestyle is authentic or sustaining or emotionally healthy.
In a true and free democracy, there is no place for this garbage. That our gangster government is up to its ears in this perversion, speaks volumes. Is this the government we want? No sane person would say "yes."
One way of evaluating news stories is asking the questions that are not asked. The absence of those questions often tells you all you need to know. Example; the c.e.o. of that company that owned the deep sub recently lost made comments comparing his venue to aviation. Anyone in the know about aviation is familiar with stress effects and how it accumulates. You would think the same applies to something undergoing 5000 lb/square inch yet have not heard too many questions re how many dives that sub had made and what. kind of stress testing is done. What I have heard is beginning to sound like is a window may have failed. And no, it had not been properly tested????? So the questions not asked often tell us a lot
Yes, fully Orwellian. The Federal bureaucracies are now fully weaponized to target political opponents. America under Globalists and the Marxist left has become almost an image of Stalin's Russia. Gulags, show trials, stolen elections, Ministry of Truth, and all.
We are running out of time to fix this. Trump and election 2024 is probably our last chance. January 6 was not an insurrection -- it was, most likely, a well planned coup with both parties going along. The rules were suspended, so there was no debate (and probably no records of attendance kept), but votes should have been recorded. To prove that we must release the videos and have Congressional hearings to find out what happened.
Excellent article, thanks for that Dr M! Also a lot of wisdom in the comments, and thanks for that too.
I'll stick with Lincoln's classic about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time.
Everyone and every source carries some bias, in the nature of things. As GB Shaw said, one must allow for it as a marksman allows for the direction of the wind.
There is a lawsuit now in progress that addresses a few of the core issues raised by your article. Here is one summary of what it is about:
https://www.ntd.com/judge-dismisses-biden-admins-motion-to-dismiss-big-tech-collusion-case_908620.html/. It is slowly chugging its way through the court system. These AGs in Missouri and Louisiana are being quite thorough and patient and have compiled loads of "discovery" of facts re: what the current admin has been up to. Some of you may find it interesting. I have another cite but not sure I can add to this, will try to add separately.
I have a little background in marketing, which makes me see this stuff EVERYWHERE. Sometimes I feel like Roddy Piper with his 'all-seeing' sunglasses. No matter how charming a car commercial, all I see is "CONSUME". No matter how serious the guy in a lab coat looks, all I see is "OBEY".
I shudder for those who have no ability to see through the BS and see the propaganda underneath, because IT IS EVERYWHERE.
“The truth is that our government has become a master at information control and propaganda”
It was so, so naive of us to assume this would only be used overseas and not on us. Now everything is a psyop!
I started studying NLP almost 40 years ago. It encompases some very effective techniques, and is very illuminating on how manipulable are humans. It is a powerful tool for helping people overcome the negative programming and beliefs that all of us were subjected to just in the process of growing up in this very "unenlightened" world, including help releasing deep-seated trauma.
But in the hands of nefarious operatives such as within the government, look out! The best strategy is to LEARN more! Knowledge is power, and to be resistant to manipulation, one needs to understand how it works!
"When everything Americans belief is a lie, we will have accomplished our job" -William Casey, then head of the CIA, in a staff meeting with top level managers.
This has been verified by his then secretary (look it up, I've forgotten the details, but had the poster up for a long time).
I can only think that this type of operation truly works on the low information voter types. As much success as they have had, there seems to be a change taking place that will get to an opposite reaction. Many people are beginning to figure out their deceptive practices and I don’t think they have enough jail cells to put us all behind bars. The wave is forming, will crest and sweep them away soon. J.Goodrich
My suggestion to anyone looking for a legit news source is always The Last American Vagabond. TLAV is consistently 4-6 months ahead of any other independent media.
The show runner, Ryan Christian, is the most objective journalist I've ever watched. He gives multiple perspectives for any story he covers, prioritiezs reporting on his own corrections and retractions (fully admits when he is wrong or falls short on journalistic standards,) and does not hesitate to call out his reporters, guests, or audience when they are falling into unjustified beliefs.
Bonus- he ends every episode of the Daily Wrap Up with the reminder to question everything including everything he says. Hell, i would trust him 100%, if it wasn't for his constant exhortations to never do such a stupid thing.
Nice Robert. Yet another topic worth it's weight in gold to attempt a total understanding of.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change. (Repeatedly.)
Joseph Campbell
I am rapidly approaching a "turn it off" approach to every day life. Now I just need to encourage those around me to do the same.... No, I can't turn off all online activity, but I choose what I click on. Ad Blockers, VPNs and not using the msft or ggle browsers can each provide another degree of separation.
The CIA and MSM should never be trusted , the CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird...
Church Committee's Reports 94-755, it has been said to constitute the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made available to the public. Much of the contents were classified, but over 50,000 pages were declassified in 1975. Not much has changed since then., if anything it has gotten worse over time.
The CIA began a secret project called Operation Mockingbird, with the intent of buying influence behind the scenes at major media outlets and putting reporters on the CIA payroll, which has proven to be a stunning ongoing success. The CIA effort to recruit American news organizations and journalists to become spies and disseminators of propaganda, was headed up by Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, and Philip Graham (publisher of The Washington Post). Wisner had taken Graham under his wing to direct the program code-named Operation Mockingbird and both have presumably committed suicide.
Media assets will eventually include NBC, CBS, Time, Newsweek, Associated Press, United Press International (UPI), Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Copley News Service, etc. and 400 journalists, who have secretly carried out assignments according to documents on file at CIA headquarters, from intelligence-gathering to serving as go-betweens. The CIA had infiltrated the nation's ABC, of businesses, media, and universities with tens of thousands of on-call operatives by the 1950's. CIA Director Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale with figures like George Herbert Walker Bush from the "Skull and Crossbones" Society.
See original sources: Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird
The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird: This is why PBS and the MSM are not trusted, they influence by deep state.
Source links:
https://archive.org/details/finalreportofsel03unit/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I.pdf
Church Committee's Reports 94-755:Among the matters investigated were attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Deim brothers of Vietnam , Gen.Rene Schneider of Chile and C.I.A's plan to use the Sicilian Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba.Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird
The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Senate Report 94-755 - Operation Mockingbird: This is why PBS and the MSM are not trusted, they are influenced by the deep state.
Source links:
https://archive.org/stream/finalreportofsel03unit/finalreportofsel03unit_djvu.txt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_I.pdf
https://hanesydd.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/the-dangers-of-intelligence-agencies-in-a-democratic-nation-the-findings-of-the-1975-church-committee/
Despite these numerous challenges, the Church Committee investigated and identified a wide range of intelligence abuses by federal agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and National Security Agency. In the course of their work, investigators identified programs that had never before been known to the American public, including NSA’s Projects SHAMROCK and MINARET, programs which monitored wire communications to and from the United States and shared some of that data with other intelligence agencies. Committee staff researched the FBI’s long-running program of “covert action designed to disrupt and discredit the activities of groups and individuals deemed a threat to the social order,” known as COINTELPRO. The FBI included among the program’s many targets organizations such as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as local, state, and federal elected officials.
Does the Orwellian Line include the most bizzaro situations whereby Non-Gay adults bring their toddler/preschool/middle school children to the " New and Improved" asshole series of The Gay Pride Festival Parades? Please tell me what "EXACTLY" is being celebrated? Wrong....just wrong!
This is the highest form of Immersion of a Dysfunctional mental disease, Group Participations.
Until covid, there was perhaps no greater psyop than global warming-climate change- climate crisis..."The Science" was developed here, as an alternative to actual inquiry. The official story presented through thousands of astro turf outlets, the outright purchase of organs such as Sierra Club, magazines, developments of NGO's, the enlistment of "stakeholders," i.e. corporations that wish to conceal their pollution, etc. The capture of unaffiliated institutions like the military to laughably pretend that climate is a military enemy and threat. The list os comprehensive, lengthy, and totally, bullshit.
Here's another...starting in the 1990's it was determined that the American family needed to be undermined by the degradation of sex from procreative and associated with interpersonal obligation and love to frivolous exploitation of others as "love." The currents became a flood and now heteronormative living is ridiculed while even children are immersed in depraved and revolting theater of the grotesque distortions of the "pride" parades. Most young people think there is something narrow minded and even bigoted in normal sexual relations and the family is portrayed as dysfunctional, a source of horror and psychological torment, whereas only the deviant lifestyle is authentic or sustaining or emotionally healthy.
Orwellian.
But, of course, we knew that.
In a true and free democracy, there is no place for this garbage. That our gangster government is up to its ears in this perversion, speaks volumes. Is this the government we want? No sane person would say "yes."
Well, they used to be better at it. The Emperor has no clothes - see straight thru it.
One way of evaluating news stories is asking the questions that are not asked. The absence of those questions often tells you all you need to know. Example; the c.e.o. of that company that owned the deep sub recently lost made comments comparing his venue to aviation. Anyone in the know about aviation is familiar with stress effects and how it accumulates. You would think the same applies to something undergoing 5000 lb/square inch yet have not heard too many questions re how many dives that sub had made and what. kind of stress testing is done. What I have heard is beginning to sound like is a window may have failed. And no, it had not been properly tested????? So the questions not asked often tell us a lot
Yes, fully Orwellian. The Federal bureaucracies are now fully weaponized to target political opponents. America under Globalists and the Marxist left has become almost an image of Stalin's Russia. Gulags, show trials, stolen elections, Ministry of Truth, and all.
We are running out of time to fix this. Trump and election 2024 is probably our last chance. January 6 was not an insurrection -- it was, most likely, a well planned coup with both parties going along. The rules were suspended, so there was no debate (and probably no records of attendance kept), but votes should have been recorded. To prove that we must release the videos and have Congressional hearings to find out what happened.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jtrudel/p/major-news-the-fact-pattern-fits?r=6r9ya&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Excellent article, thanks for that Dr M! Also a lot of wisdom in the comments, and thanks for that too.
I'll stick with Lincoln's classic about not being able to fool all of the people all of the time.
Everyone and every source carries some bias, in the nature of things. As GB Shaw said, one must allow for it as a marksman allows for the direction of the wind.
There is a lawsuit now in progress that addresses a few of the core issues raised by your article. Here is one summary of what it is about:
https://www.ntd.com/judge-dismisses-biden-admins-motion-to-dismiss-big-tech-collusion-case_908620.html/. It is slowly chugging its way through the court system. These AGs in Missouri and Louisiana are being quite thorough and patient and have compiled loads of "discovery" of facts re: what the current admin has been up to. Some of you may find it interesting. I have another cite but not sure I can add to this, will try to add separately.