Propaganda – US News Media : Veterans Today

Yes, precisely why I posted this.

The internet is full of people who are paid by corporations and governments to push their side of the truth. Some are even obvious on this site.

I hope that by reading the definitions and types of propaganda more people will be able to spot it and avoid it.

The more internet users become aware of this the harder it will be for these disinformation agents to destroy intelligent debate and the easier TRUTH will be able to be found.

Cool, sorry to be so hasty, the propaganda artists came out heavy on this one and I got emotional, even after I warned not too, I'm back, ate a 'green' brownie and I'm cool.

She was backing Obama until he became George W the second.

So, basically, you are saying that since she began to point out the fascist maneuvers by the Republican Party you decided to tune her out. That is precisely the point of my post. Everything is propaganda anymore and by using the two party system the government gets us to choose which propaganda to believe. Naomi's points are non-partisan. When non-partisan information that is not propaganda is spoken, both sides attack. You see, that doesn't fit into their life that propaganda has invented for them. Truth has no place in a two party government to the detriment of it's citizens.

I believe the Arizona shooter can be shown to have been manipulated. Think Manchurian.

I'm not sure how that differs from Wolf's definition but it is still appropriate for these current times.

Hit hard.

The propaganda is in the ways it is advertised and promoted by various entities.

Was there a message in all the yelling and screaming and cheering?

Actually, China announced on Russia Today that this was a missile launched from a Chinese submarine in International waters outside of California. This was a direct response to Obama for ignoring China's warnings. The response and claims that this was a chemtrail/contrail even from the Daily Show are examples of propaganda. Though often more truthful than Fox News, shows like the Daily Show are perfect outlets for government propaganda and don't be naive enough to think even the Daily Show is used for this.

And you believe China's announcement to the Russians because it appeals to your emotional desires? Or what the leaders of China desire to have the leaders of Russia to believe?

The difference is fact-checking which wasn't done when the speculations were of a missile. Is there evidence to back up those claims that you say China has? What the submarine was it that launched it? Serial number of the missile and photo's of it being used? Witnesses from the crew?

What about the speed that Jon pointed out was too slow to be a missile? Without something to show otherwise that TDS was using propaganda that claim has no more evidence than Wyatt had when he reported the missing sun, a dragon terrorizing Canal St. or becoming a werewolf.

Wyatt had just as much proof for his conspiracies as you showed for your China announcement. Do the Chinese have evidence to show that wasn't "a giant sky-cock" as Jon speculated because at least it was moving at a more reasonable speed to be tracked for 10 minutes that a missile couldn't be?

Would I have stated that without a plethora of information to support my claim? Of course not.

In addition, I will provide scientific evidence why this could not have been a contrail 'distorted' in some sort of mysterious way that usually never occurs but did this one time even though 'contrails' aren't puffy cloudy smoke, 'chemtrails' are, but this was neither.

I have promised to cook for my nieces and nephews tonight but will return with documents, videos, and 100% proof that China flexed their muscles and we were told propaganda so we wouldn't know the truth.

As they say, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" until it is tasted then judgment is suspended.

"A good disinformation agent uses mostly the truth and just a little spin. That little bit of 'spin' changes everything."

All the better if it can be backed up, but they also say "the best laid plans of mice and men, oft times go astray"

Too bad this is not on newspaper so he could make you eat your words as I'm sure he will. Do you not follow his posts? He always backs it up. Always.

Then don't "say" it, it is necessary to "show" it to do that Always.

The ratio of claims to evidence is very poor especially in the outrageouness of the claims that require more extensive evidence of facts to prove them. Far too many of the former and a definite lack of the latter.

"The question that still must be answered is why NORAD's muted response was simply that North America was not threatened, and later our government approved the lame excuse that the picture recorded was simply an aircraft leaving a contrail," said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jim Cash.

A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and commander of an F-15 squadron and an F-16 wing, Cash was assigned to NORAD as an assistant director of operations at the Cheyenne Mountain complex near Colorado Springs, Colo., and is fully knowledgeable of NORAD procedures.

"There is absolutely no doubt that what was captured on video off the coast of California was a missile launch, was clearly observed by NORAD, assessed by a four-star general in minutes, and passed to the president immediately," he said.

Even more ominously, cautioned Cash: "We must question the timing of this shot across our bow. The president was abroad being diplomatic, which means trying to placate China which is becoming overly concerned with our handling a totally out-of-control deficit in spending."

"It's not an aircraft contrail," says Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology, and international security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, Mass. "That I'm confident of. It looks like a big missile, but who knows what a contrail looks like from long range."

It's hard to know for sure, he acknowledges. But the contrail had features reminiscent of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, similar to the US Navy's Trident II.

After reviewing the video, he noted twists to the contrail that could have been caused by wind. But, he adds, it also is consistent with a twisting maneuver that solid-fuel, long-range missiles perform to control their speed and range.

In the early days of solid-fuel motors, engineers built ports into the missile body near the nose. The ports could be opened on command to bleed off some of the hot gases that would have gone out the nozzle, thus controlling the rocket's velocity. But the ports also represented a weak spot in the missile's body, which led to missiles destroying themselves.

As guidance and navigation systems improved, missiles could be programmed to perform the cork-screw-like maneuvers to bleed their speed – so-called general energy-management maneuvers.

The contrail "has the spirals you would see in an advanced solid-rocket missile," he says.

If it was a submarine-launch missile, he dismisses the notion that a US launch was timed as a show of strength during President Obama's current trip to Asia. Countries there "have no early warning systems to see this thing," he says.

FAA spokesmen say nothing unusual showed up on air-traffic radar at the time the contrail was videotaped. But that could be an artifact of the contrail-generating object's speed and the relatively slow rotation rates the radar use. If an object was moving at rocket-like speeds at the distance reports indicate, it would have been a single blip on the screen at best, Dr. Postol says. Controllers tend to dismiss a single blip as noise, rather than a craft of some sort, which would generate repeated blips.

Jon Stewart regularly point out, 'the talking heads' spin the same talking points (propaganda?), regardless of which media they are on. I think so!

Yes, he got this one right but there is no reason for the government to pay him to spin this one. He was just correcting the tabloids not serious information.

A good disinformation agent uses mostly the truth and just a little spin. That little bit of 'spin' changes everything. However, it is much harder to call out a 99% truth than 100% BS.

You are right Argon18. But, as Mr. Spock found out---you can't fight emotion with reason and logic. All you can do is be like Yogi---"smarter than the average bear". You have to use their own weapon against them. And it works.

This post is the proof that it works. Why else would they(conservatives) be howling "FOUL, FOUL"?

I posted this and I'm not a Conservative. I voted for Obama.

The United States uses propaganda not necessarily the Dems or Republicans but both interchangeably in order to get the dumb-asses to do their bidding.

The best propaganda is convincing people that there is a difference in the two parties thereby keeping the public divided on party lines. They will argue along party lines without doing any research or looking at the topic logically as many of you have shown on this post.

Your posts here can be taken, written down and shown to be by-products of the propaganda you have been fed.

Our lives consist mostly of propaganda these days. We decide which of the propaganda to believe depending on which side we have already chosen to follow. Then we spew the propaganda back out spreading it like a virus.

This has caused the human race to begin devolving. Nothing is the truth anymore and nobody wants the truth. We actively seek the propaganda that fits 'our' truth.

Intelligent progress will cease to continue until we all tire of this and demand TRUTH and use our brains logically without emotion or partisanship.

Yes---you are right.

-------" Intelligent progress will cease to continue until we all tire of this and demand TRUTH and use our brains logically without emotion or partisanship."---------

I agree. How? Even the most logical of people have trouble doing that(hence the reference to Mr. Spock)-----I'm not sure we have much of a chance of that happening in the current climate.

@WeAreChangeKY----I agree with most of what you say----that is why I ^'d this post.

I must admit, you are correct. Propaganda over truth is the course America is on and it's driving us over a cliff. Until honesty becomes a requirement, in politics and media, nothing will change.

It is time for change, not along party lines, but along the line of truth! Honesty should be a requirement, not a choice.

This post only contributes to the noise made by propaganda, the "howling" only increases the volume and does nothing to change the signal.

It only "works" to increase the ratings for the sponsors of Current and their ad revenues, it does nothing to change the effectiveness of proganda methods, the partisan bickering goes on in these comments, just the same.

But of course you are immune to propaganda. lol

If one reads the links I first added, it teaches how to understand, spot and defend from propaganda. Yes, the comment section is already full of propaganda, just look below this message. That just further proves the point of the article.

My intent was to inform or re-inform the public that it is out there, describe the types and teach others to spot it so that they may be better protected from it.

I am an expert on the study of propaganda, passed down from my father. I spot it in a heartbeat and loathe it. You see, I believe that the most erotic thing on the planet is finding out the truth about something. I see the games we play with information in this day and age as disgusting. I also loathe the smart-alec way that blog sites have become places for people to have fun distorting and avoiding the truth.

Information is everything and the key to peace, understanding, science and even less crime. We talk about wanting all of these and then go right back to behaving like children with the information gathering and learning available through the internet.

Humans are not as advanced as we like to think. Surely our intelligence lags behind while our personalities and egos play catch up.

And did your dad learn about propaganda from his sister, your mom? Did they home school you real good little buddy?

My father was an operative in the US intelligence community and now works for Raytheon. He was involved in the Iran-Contra affair and spent ten years as an ambassador in several countries. He continues to work for the intelligence community.

Where do you get your training from?

I have US intelligence documents in the thousands and many of their training materials in my files. Due to my father's position, my brother, MonkeyFilms, and I spent most of our childhood on military bases and in the field with my father.

This is why I have no problem spotting your tactics, my dear misinformation agent...or are you just ignorant and enjoy destroying intelligent debate with name calling?

You see the propaganda right here. Why would anyone vote down what you said here? I voted it up but you are at zero. I'm guessing uni...

And on cue, you spew propaganda. Where's Vierotchka, was expecting her first. Do you two work for the same people?

I spew truth - your source is some moron's blog that is nothing but right wing propaganda - you have zero credibility and only embarrass yourself - all one need do is follow the link.

Wow, more blatant propaganda spewed from an operative. Information vampires suck!

My first responses to the article list all of the techniques used, you have used three so far. Additionally, I then posted links to dozens of research documents, you won't read because it was in your training already.

What do you add to this site? All you do is troll around and attack anyone spreading the truth about subjects your handlers don't want people informed about.

You make no enlightened responses. You just call names, attack the information, distract and spread misinformation.

How do you add to society? How will your actions help humans evolve? How do you add to enlightenment?

The answer is you don't... and won't until you morally decide that information is worth more than your paycheck to distort it.

You're holding the rest of humanity back, please quit or become extinct, the rest of us would like to move on.

The point is that it comes from both sides. Read the descriptions of propaganda that I posted.

they really grasping now!

Up on your perch can you see us little people? We with little minds, we not as bright as you..... please help us see the light! You haven't got a clue!

You fell for it.

Notice my post above and the score of minus one. All I posted was links to college studies on propaganda. Even voting down information can be used as propaganda as is shown by the down votes on nothing but scientific links.

So, this post served as a classroom on propaganda as well.

I wish I could voter her up twice.

+^'d. This is a great talk.

She should have written a book called the end of Palin, Rush and Beck and the rest of the fools - including herself - idiot that she is

Video made during the Bush Administration along with several other Wolf videos. She had an online fit of hysteria when Obama was elected. She needs lithium and a Wii. Strong on history, weak on prediction.

Rule #1 Don't let the commander and chief get you down.

I was looking for their version of "I need a hero". In the video you posted Naomi Wolf was spot on. I feel like our country is split along belief fractures; many rather small. Depends on what media people our watching. Its feels as if Rome is crumbling.

She doesn't believe in the two party system therefore would never blame the trend this country is on on either party. The truth is that the bankers, the Fed, the IMF and others pull the strings and her warnings are as good for Obama as they were during the Bush administration.

Why do you even bother commenting? When you go to sleep at night do you count Palins?

I understand that she supported President Obama. Her fit of hysteria came about from the conspiracy that the Bush Administration would orchestrate an emergency to keep Bush in power.

Conspiracy theory. You need to read better websites.

Wow, you need a propaganda re-hab. Detoxification and re-education I guess is necessary for some people.

These links were taken from college classes and course studies. The others were done by legitimate research institutes. I'm not sure what you consider better websites but I'm not into celebrity gossip, so no thanks.

Plain Folks:

The plain folks propaganda technique was another of the seven main techniques identified by the IPA, or Institute for Propaganda Analysis. The plain folks device is an attempt by the propagandist to convince the public that his views reflect those of the common person and that they are also working for the benefit of the common person. The propagandist will often attempt to use the accent of a specific audience as well as using specific idioms or jokes. Also, the propagandist, especially during speeches, may attempt to increase the illusion through imperfect pronunciation, stuttering, and a more limited vocabulary. Errors such as these help add to the impression of sincerity and spontaneity. This technique is usually most effective when used with glittering generalities, in an attempt to convince the public that the propagandist views about highly valued ideas are similar to their own and therefore more valid. When confronted by this type of propaganda, the subject should consider the proposals and ideas separately from the personality of the presenter.

Simplification (Stereotyping):

Simplification is extremely similar to pinpointing the enemy, in that it often reduces a complex situation to a clear-cut choice involving good and evil. This technique is often useful in swaying uneducated audiences. When faced with simplification, it is often useful to examine other factors and pieces of the proposal or idea, and, as with all other forms of propaganda, it is essential to get more information.

Testimonials:

Testimonials are another of the seven main forms of propaganda identified by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Testimonials are quotations or endorsements, in or out of context, which attempt to connect a famous or respectable person with a product or item. Testimonials are very closely connected to the transfer technique, in that an attempt is made to connect an agreeable person to another item. Testimonials are often used in advertising and political campaigns. When coming across testimonials, the subject should consider the merits of the item or proposal independently of the person of organization giving the testimonial.

Transfer:

Transfer is another of the seven main propaganda terms first used by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in 1938. Transfer is often used in politics and during wartime. It is an attempt to make the subject view a certain item in the same way as they view another item, to link the two in the subjects mind. Although this technique is often used to transfer negative feelings for one object to another, it can also be used in positive ways. By linking an item to something the subject respects or enjoys, positive feelings can be generated for it. However, in politics, transfer is most often used to transfer blame or bad feelings from one politician to another of his friends or party members, or even to the party itself. When confronted with propaganda using the transfer technique, we should question the merits or problems of the proposal or idea independently of convictions about other objects or proposals.