Showing posts with label Propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Propaganda. Show all posts

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Brain Editing

The latest achievement from our scientific community and their research is “Brain Editing”, a means to remove selective parts of our memory, the parts that the government may want us to forget. In other words, are we intended to become the idealized Citizen of the World?

It is our memories that make us who we are, and then who we become! By changing our memories, we thus become a different person. Perhaps that it the intent!

This research is merely an extension of a surgical procedure called lobotomy but with a chemical rather than a surgical component.

During the 40’s and 50’s it was believed that by cutting certain nerves in the brain could eliminate excess emotion and stabilize a personality. Indeed, many people who received a lobotomy seemed to lose their ability to feel intense emotions, appearing childlike and less prone to worry. But the results were variable, according to Dr. Elliot Valenstein, a neurologist who wrote a book about the history of lobotomies: "Some patients seemed to improve, some became 'vegetables,' some appeared unchanged and others died."

What type of patient was chosen for a lobotomy?

The most common reason for lobotomizing a patient was to treat schizophrenia, especially in patients who had just recently been diagnosed with the disease. The procedure was also used to treat chronic pain and suicidal depression. According to a New York Times article from 1937, people with the following symptoms would benefit from a lobotomy: "Tension, apprehension, anxiety, depression, insomnia, suicidal ideas, delusions, hallucinations, crying spells, melancholia, obsessions, panic states, disorientation, psychalgesia (pains of psychic origin), nervous indigestion and hysterical paralysis."

About 50,000 people received lobotomies in the United States, most of them between 1949 and 1952, and most were without the patients consent.

Rosemary Kennedy, the oldest sister of President Kennedy

In the summer of 1941, Rosemary Kennedy underwent a lobotomy. This operation was a famous failure, leaving her inert and unable to speak more than a few words. After her lobotomy she was sent to live at St. Coletta's School in Wisconsin, where she remained until her death at the age of 86.

The actress Frances Farmer was another example of a failed lobotomy.

Is this drug a new approach to lobotomy by taking us to a new level as the Ideal Globalized Citizen, ever smiling, and ever content, never questioning our rulers?

What is the Idealized Citizen?

Idealized Citizens are men and women that do not question their government, its actions and its policies. They accept their role as the servant of the masters of finance and politics. Free thought is eliminated instead we are to become the ever smiling, dogmatic evidence of arrogance, accepting all without discourse.

This is the ultimate mind control that the CIA sought for decades. The “Manchurian Candidate”, the perfect assassin, whose memory of the killing is lost even before it takes place.

If this drug is to advance, as we believe it will, we are to become the Stepford Citizen. Men and women detached from reality.

A headline in The New York Times April 6 2009 announced: "Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory."

Scientists are now able to erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain: Researchers in Brooklyn have recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory.

From life’s experiences, we know that there is more than one way to be "editing memory."

This new drug will eliminate the immediate need for media censorship as an expediency of government. Once the drug gains popular use in the appropriate circles, will we who question, rather than accept, be unwitting victims?

Dominant media have blotted out memories for decades- - by treating them as irrelevant or incidental to news and concerns that really count.

Schools have blotted out memory by eliminating important historical documents and purposes from the class room and the text books from which our children learn of history. We call this propaganda.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing.

Great is truth, but still greater, is silence about the truth.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Brainwashing and Propaganda Techniques used by the Media and their CIA "Handlers"



Clear cases of propaganda arise when a group uses extensive means to persuade others of some "truth" without any opportunity for opponents to disagree or offer a rebuttal.

Ever since the CIA-OSS Operation “Mockingbird” (officially beginning in the early 1950’s) which began under CIA Director Allen Dulles, the Agency has placed CIA Assets and Stringers in positions of control over ALL Media resources in the United States and many foreign countries. CBS is the most perfect and exposed example where CIA Director from 1976-77 George H. W. Bush, and Frank Carlucci (a CIA hit man) were on the Board of CBS. CBS is further controlled by the Carlyle Group, and shuns all efforts at fairness (the firing of Gen. John Batiste for having an opposing view to the Iraq War.)

The Media uses a brainwashing tactic through Propaganda as follows:

A point is made and re-made repeatedly without changing the substance or allowing another opposing view. This is called Propaganda.

The Media makes a scapegoat for the Propaganda it is offering; e.g. IRAQ and Weapons of Mass Destruction. No credible evidence was actually shown to support this belief. Moreover, no investigative reports were conducted. No opposing view was allowed; those who tried were prevented from doing so; e.g. the firing of General John Baste.

The position (Propaganda) is promoted by a constant repetition, on a regular and recurring basis.

Fear is often raised in the targeted group or the group is made to feel that some person or event has deceived them.

Propaganda is the manipulation of ideas, images, and symbols to persuade a large group of people to think a certain way. The goal of Propaganda is to prevent people from questioning the message or from thinking critically outside the parameters of the message so that the message is considered an unchallengeable truth.

There are various examples of Propaganda throughout the world. However, since Propaganda can be defined in a variety of ways, (according to an individual's ideology and perception of the world) it is easier to start with a hypothetical situation:

Suppose there is a country where a person has ascended to power. That person wants to convince the citizens of that country that they should think, for instance, that there is a group of people that are evil. In order to successfully make people believe that and follow that belief, the leader will come up with a slogan (or slogans) that contain the message he or she would like people to believe. The slogan has to reach all the people in the country, so the leader would use the Media to broadcast the message in a variety of ways. The leader could also use governmental institutions to convey the message, in addition to influencing non-governmental entities to further put out the message. Bush used Propaganda continually with his slogans; e.g. The Axis of Evil!

One example from history of a leader who used Propaganda was Adolf Hitler, who created a government that disseminated Propaganda through movies, art, the radio, newspapers, speeches, schools, youth programs, and other cultural and political outlets.

The reason why Hitler is a useful example of someone who used Propaganda is because his program was formalized, and many people agree that he exemplifies a person who used it "effectively"; there is not much disagreement or debate that he used it at all - it is accepted as fact.

Again the reader should understand: Clear cases of Propaganda arise when a group uses extensive means to persuade others of some "truth" without any opportunity for opponents to disagree or offer a rebuttal.

Certain personality traits of the brainwashing targets can determine the effectiveness of the process. People who commonly experience great self doubt, have a weak sense of identity, and show a tendency toward guilt and absolutism (black-and-white thinking) are more likely to be successfully brainwashed, while a strong sense of identity and self-confidence can make a target more resistant to brainwashing.

We must always be vigilant of the Media and its propensity for Propaganda, and we must require of the Media that opposing views be allowed. This is a fundamental requirement of democracy and the purpose of the First Amendment - a “Free Press”. The Media must be removed from all government control, or exposed for its role as a protagonist of government interests.