Thursday, May 21, 2009

Propaganda Techniques, Communications, Persuasion, Psy Ops, Disinformaton; and Information

When Roots of Belief are Propaganda. Hitler's Power Playbook. Goes to Washington. By Dint

PSY OPS IN MEDIA AND POLITICS - Psychological Operations, from Military and Diplomatic, to Political, Guerrilla, Militia, Gun Owners

Studying Wars: Wars for the Mind. Psy Ops Coming At You   Population viewpoint control.  Psychological Operations as persuasion without reference to merits.

Psy Ops for Everyman. Sabotage a Government. Nate Rudy Gets a Handbook. CIA Manual
Psychological Operations tactics go mainstream;  arms training manual, guerrilla tactics to insinuate saboteurs into the population. 

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Politics. Part II
Psy ops in political operatives.  Avoid debate on the meritsl

Fodder Site: Democracy's Pitfall Dug by Psy Ops in Media. Part I
Media news coverage lets psy ops in without comment.

Bellwether Haiku: The President's Speech Rehearsal, Hamlet's Soliloquy Redux
A President's practice session, and internal debate about the difficulties of choice. The Soliloquy and the Speech Coach. Fardels.

OPINIONS use and abuse

Opinions over wars. Analytical Tools of Gates-Crowley Cultural Opinion Groups.
Opinions as weapon, as propaganda tool.  When the report is by one of the actors. Here, skepticism over a police report concerning the arrest of  Harvard professor who was treated as a hoodlum in trying to get into his own house.

GROUP COMMUNICATIONS

Gypsies, Roma: Use of Runes in the Woods.
Finding your way, who else was there. Look to the trees.

MEDIA "FREE" REPETITION OF CANDIDATE ADS TO BE CONSIDERED A POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION

Repeat ads is a campaign contribution.

Media Shall Not Proliferate Candidate Advertising as "News".
Repeat ads on media "for free" shall be treated for tax purposes as campaign contribution. Media repetition of candidate ads, without contractual purchase of time as an ad, shall be deemed to be a political gift where the exposure exceeds a single still-frame or a single 5 second snippet.

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Government as Marketer, German WWII, Nuremberg Stadium
Hitler's presentations before the crowds. The spectacles.  

Propaganda InRoad. The 1920's Speak. Adolf Hitler and Others Look at Today's Minions
What was in the water in the 1920's?   Watch communications "Greats" look at a minion doing the bidding of covert propagandists today, Adriana Inman and FreedomWorks.

When Roots of Belief are Propaganda. Hitler's Playbook. Goes to Washington.
Discussion of the propaganda steps of the 1925 Mein Kampf, Chapter Vi, Propaganda. And use of the techniques today.

Hitler by Paraphrase. Examine Mein Kampf. Unser Kampf: Our Struggle
Chapter VI of Mein Kampf.  Take it sentence by sentence.  What did Hitler say?  If we read it closely today, will we be better able to spot his ideas under the radar now?

Media Complicit in Spreading Propaganda by Refusing to Call It Out
CBS, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, NBC, act as conduits for propaganda, channeling it without critique.  Why?  Do the owners want it that way?




Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent. Three ways to persuade: technique in delivery, spin in interpretation, and persistence.

Edward Bernays, "The Science of Ballyhoo"
Focus attention and then shape behavior. Get their attention, readied, primed for persuasion, focused. Second zoom in with your great logical explanation! Repeat! Emote! There! Got 'em. Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information (WWI)

Edward Bernays: Persuasion as to the Distasteful (theories in practice) The chaos of public opinion is to be scientifically manipulated.

Mother of All Labeling Matches: Civil and Military
Iraq. Labeling as propaganda. Convince as to a label, and the consequences flow, regardless of truth. Institute for Propaganda Analysis.

Hyper-Negative Labeling: Gingrich, GOPAC
Even you can memorize the spin words, the positive and the negative, to show off to your friends and beat up on your enemies. GOPAC. List here.

Rovism: Persuasion Focusing Techniques. Fact-Avoidance

FUD as propaganda technique

FUD and Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target.
See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.

DISTRACTION AND DISPLACEMENT

Jack the Giant Killer on St. Michael's Mount
Distract, divert, overcome the old tradition with the Christian overlay. Presto conversion.

OTHER PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Euphemism, Unwarranted Extrapolation: Food Insecurity instead of Hunger.
Agriculture Dept. use of propaganda techniques, euphemism, unwarranted extrapolation

Federalist Society, Use of White Papers to Persuade under Guise of Issue Education
Propaganda: persuasion unawares; malicious use of "authority"

DISINFORMATION as PROPAGANDA

Theft of Consent, an Impeachable Offense.
Proposed legislation

Navigation, Scope of Cultural Tales Site: Cultural Filters Distort

PERPETUATING PROPAGANDA

The Big Grip: Sunset Provisions vs. Group Perpetuation,
Edwin Bernays' propaganda techniques, developed and applied for emergency (WWI), become our national handbook for marketing anything. Need sunset provisions to rein in groups using it.

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