Patrick Wood – Technocracy News and Trends Oct 22, 2021
America is awash with harmful and dangerous propaganda, but few people understand what it is, how it works and what can be done to overcome it. This article examines the nature, structure and intent of propaganda so readers can increase awareness and discernment.
Propaganda Defined
According to The Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University, “Since propaganda and public relations both share the goal of using mass communication to influence public perception, it can be easy to conflate the two. Propaganda, however, traffics in lies, misinformation, inflammatory language, and other negative communication to achieve an objective related to a cause, goal or political agenda.”
Britannica affirms this thought by defining propaganda as “dissemination of information – facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths or lies – to influence public opinion.”
The Oxford English Dictionary states that it is “the systematic dissemination of information, esp. in a biased or misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point of view.”
Modern propaganda was defined by Edward Bernays (1891-1995) in the early 1920s. Bernays is credited as being the “father of public relations”, but many of his ideas came from his uncle, psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. Neither were friends of society.
According to Bernays, “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society (propaganda) constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
The Intent To Deceive Is Never Right
While individuals can certainly lie and deceive on their own initiative, propaganda is invariably seen in the realm of governments and corporations that use instruments of mass communications to control behavior.
To be clear, all propaganda intentionally and deceptively manipulates emotions to create a change in personal and group behavior. Further, the most effective propagandists lay traps and defenses in advance for would-be critics.
Notably, propaganda works best whenever people don’t notice it.
Fortunately, recognizing propaganda is simple once you understand its time-tested techniques, all of which have been clearly identified and validated for many decades.
The following standardized propaganda techniques, recognized and well-documented by many authors and professional scholars, are used in various combinations to achieve a desired behavioral outcome.
The Techniques of Propaganda
Fear: The most powerful emotion, fear of loss or physical harm open the mind up to accept the solutions provided by the propagandist, that would not otherwise have been accepted. The technique of fear has been the foundation of all pandemic-related propaganda.
Bandwagon: A claim is made that because everyone else is doing it, so you should too. This is often combined with other propaganda techniques. “Everyone is taking the shot because it is safe and effective; you should take it, too.”
Card Stacking: This technique highlights the “good” information while leaving out the “bad”. In other words, only the facts that support the propagandist’s agenda are presented, while everything else is intentionally suppressed. Censorship is rampant in media, social media and search engines.
Plain Folks: The propagandist implies that he is just an ordinary person like you, with the same dreams and desires, and therefore you should believe him.
The Testimonial: Using an unrelated person such as a celebrity, to give testimony that the propaganda is true and that you can trust them to tell you so. They might also appear as “plain folks” described above.
Glittering Generalities: Sweeping statements that cannot be defined, often containing vague “virtue words”. E.g., “This program will create equity for all” and “We will create millions of green jobs with this budget.”
Name Calling/Deflection: Ad hominem attacks deflect attention away from the propagandist and toward someone else. Al Gore once said concerning global warming, “Deniers deserved to be punished.” Today, it is claimed that America has a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.
Transfer: This technique carries over the authority, prestige or acceptance of another group or organization, thus transferring those characteristics over to the propagandist’s program. Many churches, for instance, have been used to promote acceptance of pandemic propaganda by their congregations.
False Analogy: Two concepts are falsely linked together without any cause and effect. For example, “People who question vaccines are anti-vaxxers; Mary does not want the vaccine, so she is an anti-vaxxer.”
Either/Or Fallacy: With “black-and-white” thinking, only two choices are given, even though there might be other acceptable choices. This polarizes the issue and forces you to accept the desired outcome. For instance, “You are either for science or against it.”
Faulty Cause and Effect: This technique suggests that because A follows B, A must cause B. For example, Joe supports gun ownership; murderers often use guns to kill people; therefore, Joe is a killer.
Euphemisms: This is the use of a word or phrase that pretends to communicate but doesn’t. If often makes the bad seem good or the unpleasant seem attractive. For instance, “You aren’t poor, you are economically disadvantaged.”
Loaded Words: Related to name-calling, the propagandist will use extreme words to describe ordinary circumstances. For example, parents who protest at school board meetings are now labeled as “domestic terrorists” who commit “hate crimes”.
Scapegoat: This technique uses guilt-by-association to assign blame to an unrelated person, e.g., economic woes caused by the current administration are blamed on the previous administration; the ongoing pandemic is caused by the unvaccinated.
Logical Disconnect: The World Economic Forum states, “You will own nothing and be happy.” This says that happiness is the result of owning nothing but this is totally illogical from experience. A corollary to this might well be “Homeless people own nothing, therefore they must be happy.”
What you can do about it
All these techniques target our emotions, which in turn drive our behavior. Without our emotional “support” and compliance, the propagandist’s efforts simply fall silently to the floor and die.
Of course, the intelligent citizen does not want anyone to manipulate his emotions for goals that are not his own in the first place. Indeed, no one wants to be fooled, tricked, duped, deceived, used or manipulated by someone else.
There are two very clear antidotes to stopping propaganda dead in its tracks.
First, the propaganda must be objectively identified and seen for what it is. With the techniques listed above, this is very easy to do.
Second, considering what you see, you must exercise self-control over your emotions. Propaganda always demands your emotional involvement to achieve its ends. Do not fall into the propagandist’s trap.
Lastly, when you finally claim victory over any element of propaganda – that is, you’ve identified it and refused emotional involvement with it – it is important to share your understanding and experience with others.
Conclusion
Keep this information handy whenever you are listening, viewing or reading the news. Analyze every article for its “propaganda quotient”. If you notice that one technique being used, take it as a clue and look for others.
If enough Americans understood these simple markers of propaganda, committing to stopping it in its tracks, then life in America could get better in a hurry.
Always remember, propagandists are self- interested, caring nothing about you or the public at-large. In order to overcome it, It is not necessary to know the full reason why it is being played out in the first place; the mere fact that it is propaganda tells you that you want nothing to do with it.
Is Propaganda Free Speech?
Throughout history, robust and often intense debates have been held between individuals of different opinions. You will find an abundance of such conflicts during the founding period of America. There were verbal arguments as well as publications that published differing ideas and opinions. In some cases, it produced quite a bit of anger and bitterness.
But was it all according to “Free Speech”?
The answer is found by examining the intent and quality of the exchange of ideas. A foul was called if one party intentionally lied or if key evidence was intentionally withheld to trick the other parties.
In other words, deceit was not tolerated. On one hand, those who deceive and lie with malice of forethought have the right to verbalize such things, but they must also bear the consequence of violating the law in doing so.
Slander, for instance, is the act of harming one person’s reputation by telling one or more other people something that is untrue about that person. Libel occurs when one person makes up or alters a statement of another, with intent to defame or damage the person’s reputation or livelihood.
Bunko is a crime that cheats one person out of privilege or possessions through lying and misrepresentation.
Merriam-Webster defines fraud as an act of deceiving and “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right”.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary also defines propaganda as “the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause or a person” and “ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause”.
Georgetown University Law Center summarizes in the Law of Deception, “Many laws address deception. Familiar examples include: the torts of deceit, libel and defamation; the crime of theft by false pretenses and federal mail and wire fraud statutes; the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Lanham Act, and state unfair and deceptive acts and practices laws; laws prohibiting securities fraud and requiring issuer disclosures; the contract defense of misrepresentation; and the law of perjury.”
All this is to say that while Free Speech provides a great latitude of expression, it is always constrained by legal and ethical boundaries.
is lying and deception Free Speech? No, never!
When propagandists hide behind the argument of Free Speech, they are using it as a propaganda technique to deceive you even further.
References
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Doeden, Matt. What is Propaganda? Lerner Publications, 2019.
Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. Knopf, 1962.
Hamilton, John Maxwell. Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda. LSU Press, 2020.
Lee, Alfred McClung and Elizabeth Briant. Fine Art of Propaganda. International Society for General Semantics, 1979.
Gleicher, Millard. The Manipulation Of The American Mind. Kindle, 2021.
Knowles, Michael. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds. Blackstone Publishing, 2021.
Neuharth Ph.D., Dan. 12 Classic Propaganda Techniques Narcissists Use to Manipulate You, PsychCentral, 2017.
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What is Propaganda Analysis?, www.PropagandaCritic.com.
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The BBC has been the propaganda tool for the BBC back to he 30s when rothschild sent letters of introduction to his apostles those homosexual deviants who were hell bent on bringing us to war with Germany
Recently the BBC has supported and even covered up for the crimes of stephen fry jimmy saville philip schofield paul gambacinni and a host of other child abusrs
they are not just heterophobic but abroad the BBC is free but here we have to paya TV licence even if we dont watch BBC
makes me sick
look on youtube for how not to pay the licence
Re-inventing the wheel when the Church is an international rail network.
The origin of the word ‘propaganda’ tells all! The Vatican in 1622 created the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, a congregation for propagating the faith – the start of the war with the Protestants. And later in 1877 Propaganda Due pops up, a clandestine organisation implicated in, amongst other mysteries, the fall of the Vatican Banco Ambrosiano and murder of a Roberto Calvi found hanging under (enter stage left The Jesuits) Blackfriars Bridge.
Propaganda been finely crafted and tuned by The Control System, aka Empire, for long, long time… even myself writing this is falling under its influence, as in I’m reacting to it at least… so I guess I should stop!
I got as far as this:
“Since propaganda and public relations both share the goal of using mass communication to influence public perception, it can be easy to conflate the two. Propaganda, however, traffics in lies, misinformation, inflammatory language, and other negative communication to achieve an objective related to a cause, goal or political agenda.”
This is from an official brainwashing establishment. This has been written to project their definition on everything not under their control.
If we cast our minds back to the early years of the ‘War on Terror’, the fake news (AKA the BBC) started a media/political debate about the ‘definition of terrorism/terrorist’. After about 6 weeks, this all faded away, because no matter how they looked at it, the biggest culprits were the US and UK.
Vaccine mandates, bioweapons, rules and regs controlling our freedoms, are all acts of terrorism. We can say the same about the green agenda and especially this war against CO2. Wildlife has been thriving since CO2 went up, & one of Harvard’s top minds said the Earth has been in a CO2 drought. But on one front, that makes sense, because the NWO is all about scarcity, and food is a very important tool to use against the sheeple.
Make no mistake, this site is propaganda, my comments are propaganda, because I am disseminating lies. We are in a sea of swample sheeple XXXX, so I must be a liar, but I can live with that.
I was talking to a medical professional last night. They work for you know who, I briefly told them my opinions on Covid & that it is a bioweapon. They agreed with what I said. The deep state will know all of this. wall have ears and I had my phone with me. I am sure there are many convos likes these, but the aren’t many like me who will initiate a high-level (ideas) out of the box discussion. A ‘person’ (lol) like this will not have these chats with their peers, that could be job suicide. The fact that they were willing to express such a clear and decisive opinion with almost no time to consider what I had said, indicated that this person was rather desperate on an emotional level to release their feelings.
A bit like going on a protest march, if 100k march, it probably means that 10 or 15 million are with you on that march mentally, & some didn’t go on that march because of family or friends ridiculing them, & that is aside from costs, work, & social commitments.
Some of the best propagandists are (so called) truthers, the Alex Jones’s, & the Icke’s of our world. They offer glimmers of insight, but also bundles of garbage.
I wouldn’t get too bogged down with the semantics (language) of propaganda. Much of the fake news is just that, reportage of information. Even with slight bias it is still fairly good news, but these calm periods are like the calms between the storms, although these days one storm seems to merge into the next. This is part of the brainwashing process. They do the same with propaganda stories dragged out over an extended period of time. Take the murder of David Amess, the accused killer Ali Harbi Ali may have done the deed, but he wasn’t allowed to attend court, and as far as I know, he has been charged, but there’s no report of any plea. One must wonder if A.H.A. has control over his faculties. I am sure that over the next six months before his trial, & during his trial, the deep state will move the goal posts perceptively. In recent years, it has all been about the lone crank terrorist patsy, the pre fitted up loan nut who is either fake killed by the state, or bundled away where they are probably subjected advanced brainwashing. This case will be a good example of layered sheeple brainwashing
The key to truth is ditching your predjudices. If you were cast out on some desert island with a regular Jew, two possibilities will happen. One, one of you will kill the other, & the survivor will deeply regret this. Second, you will become the best of friends. And this is because your environment forces you to abandon your predjudices, You can do this without the desert island.
Most Jews be they in Israel or in one of their ‘ultra-tight’ communities around the world, they are imprisoned by the system and culture imposed on them. Jews have lived under their elite imposed tyranny since time began… almost, just like the tyranny being placed on the wider world by the Zionist NWO. All these Muslim based terror groups are run by the Zionist NWO, so that is the tyranny put on them, which is used to inflame mostly white sheeple with their strong implanted predjudices. They have everyone xxxxing over everyone else. My dog is bothering me. lol
i see every day on may browser their things
lies, distortions what moves them + pays
them . a lot of commentators bla bla but no
intension to listen to other opinions . its
just bla bla noise and i understand their trix.
im only sorry for the jung who have no
life experience to distinguish.
The secret to effective communication in order to get a point across isn’t difficult to fathom. It starts with simple language.
The gutter tabloids are able to get away with what they do (disseminating fake news/propaganda dressed up as news to a far wider audience) because they are easy to digest in simple language.
Unlike the complicated language and terminology favoured by most alternative news outlets which would be more akin to a university paper than straightforward news propagation) and a total turn off for the average Joe who wouldn’t necessarily have the time or the patience to go through it all when access to a local newsagent or tv would be the easier option.
The key to reaching a wider audience? Keeping it simple, short and to the point. Not too difficult I would have thought.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
The London Metro newspaper broke the story
on Friday Oct 22, that a large police operation against London black gangs netted
49 firearms 120 knives 22 machetes eight samuria swords 12 zombie knives and 4 crossbows
cash totalling £1,254,344 and a huge cache of class A were seized ina cross county police clean up.
Police targetted the drug pushers in organised crime, where black gangs would force or threaten young children usually white and often from care homes to pick up and deliver drugs.
Mobile phones are used to transfer drugs from London to towns and villages across Britain.
Graham Mc nulty the natonal police chiefs said officers had made a significant inroadinto the 250 London black gangs network, and to dismantle the viol;ent gangs, he praised the work of the Chirldrens Society Charity which helped their children identify black gang members responsible, and aded not all were black. county line gangs have fallen from 2000 in 2018 officers said.
police can now bring prosecutions for modern slavery offences which ensure children and vulnerable adults
do not have to face their accusers in court.
Black MP Diane Abbott has condemned the police as action as ” racist in the face of black history month”
Sky News is leading its bulletins today with the news that Russia is ‘at war’ with the UK. These claims are made by the ‘former’ MI6 operative, Christopher Steele – he of the infamous Steele Dossier that alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Again the Zionist-controlled US and their UK lackeys show themselves to be absolutely hell-bent on a third world war and the inevitable apocalyptic cataclysm this will bring about. This is the level of insanity we are dealing with here.
Sky is, of course, a subsidiary of Comcast, whose Chairman and CEO is the billionaire Jew, Brian L Roberts. Its Vice-President is the Jew, David L Cohen, soon to be US ambassador to Canada.
dont laugh Londons main streets going to renamed after black people
https://www.rt.com/uk/538165-london-mayor-fund-renaming-streets/
ellis c taylor: not having a dig, but this is just a scratch. The Metropolitan works very closely with organised crime leaders. If you take significant drugs out of the market, the price goes up and you get more drug related crime. The weapons taken looks pathetically low. The City crime cartels rely on drugs, vice and trafficking cash to stay in business. Take soft drinks, if everyone stopped buying Coke and Pepsi, the City and Wall St. would be rocking within a week.
Propaganda has been mainstreamed/mainlined into the population since 2012. Thanks O’Bomber.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
That good old Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 which made the dissemination of propaganda inside the US a legal and encouraged thing to do, “in order to confuse enemies”, has dumbed-down so very many people that it is truly astounding!
Every body is now an enemy of the US Government, by this metric, so off to war we go!!
From the War-To-End-All-Wars, (they didn’t call it the first world war as that would’ve tipped their hand) “Over here, over here. They won’t go back til it’s over over here”
@Carl Jones, it still hasn’t been isolated, still isn’t a bio weapon and you still haven’t had Covid. You are the proof that propaganda is indeed powerful.
@ DR CRAY
it is not only with jews prisoned in their
system . it is also in german provincial
places and surely in other ultra tight
provincis in the world . any where we
are anyhow prisoners of a system . it
is good to learn that we are living in
hell with enemy neighbours even of
the own tribe . surely the jews also
have their quarrels bitween themself.
but what unites them as a mafia is their
leadership. . and they make them
successful against us goyim because
we dont have this strict leadership .
and they know this using their knowledge.
On the public level we need free speech no matter what. The ‘oh-too-sensible’ and little kids need avoid political arena because it might hurt their feelings. Trolling in political forums is unwelcomed it subtracts rather than construct however it’s a source of political dissent as well.
If we give one inch to Bolsheviks they’ll take a mille. In politics there is no such thing as taboos or forbidden speeches. Leftists freak out when someone crosses their red lines. They want to shut you up and cancel your political position, worse they want YOU canceled. The swastika prohibition is the most emblematic case of government illegitimate censorship.
“Propaganda” means reaching a lot of people with your message; it is a neutral word.
@david lambert bury….yeah, Colin Jordan in his book ‘Merrie England 2000’ predicted all this..
Well, there is one sure way to identify a lie. If it is on JEW TV, it is a LIE!
@ antiseptic
“a lot of commentators bla bla but no
intension to listen to other opinions”
this is the truest statement on this page
@ KLINGON
I DID NOT MEAN OUR COMMENTATORS
OF TRUTHSIDES . i meaned the commentators
of the MSM on my browser, the jewassliker
presstitutes .
every opinion of ours is more worth than
the MSM.
Qatar hires David Beckheim as a 15 million pound a year “ambassador” for the Football World Cup.
There is something not right here because it is fairly widely known that the Beckheims are crypto jews.
You could imagine the whole islamic world would be against this REDICULOUS deal.
Qatar MAY have fallen into the hands of the JPC (Jewish Power Complex) like the British Monarchy.
The whole thing is absurd…Beckheim is a well known halfwit and he never became one of the greats of football…..his management have kept the preposterous dimwit in the limelight by constant social media posting.
His halfwitted son Dorklyn is famous for once decking himself out in a deerstalkers hat like a country squire……In short the Beckheims are a living crime against good taste and proprietary….
The perfect example of one of the Jews characteristic attributes….GREED$$$$$$$$.
Incidently….hundreds of third world labourers have purportedly died building the world cup facilities…..Youll notice the British media avoids mentioning this too much….the Qatari elite will have millions salted away in “the LAUNDROMAT “…otherwise known as “The City”….Londons financial centre.
The author seems to accept that ‘hate crimes’ are valid. Wrong! They’re just a way to turn malum in se crimes to become new malum prohibitum crimes. More bludgeons for the law to wield in PC prosecutions. The problem is with ALL malum prohibitum crimes. It’s a typical liberal failing.
As far as I read, (I gave up) he never mentioned the most important tool which should come first. Who would benefit from this which of course requires you seek out who the author and their supporters are, etc., i.e., cui bono?
R.C.
EVERYTHING IS PROPAGANDA = SUGESTION !
already from beginning what told our parents
is propaganda ! even our name they gave us is
propaganda + sugestion . our teachers gave us
their propaganda they got from others . this
world IS MAKE BELIEVE . it is the spider web
of Maya as the hindus say .Quantum physicists
know about . our souls are in the flesh of materia
to experience pain + pleasure , hell (for the poor)
+ paradise (for the rich only) . thats the game +
satan is the master to keep the game going .
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
https://www.activistpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cia-william-casey-quote.jpg
The fact that we associate the word propaganda with the more manipulative techniques employed should not change its real meaning, but people always take their eye off the ball with language. This always bothers me because it is laziness and destroys our language, which could actually help us communicate if preserved.