By Larry Romanoff for the Saker Blog
In most nations, when a particular criminal conduct reaches epidemic proportion, the government finally acts decisively to eradicate it. Not in America; they solve the problem by legalising it. They did this with influence-peddling (lobbying) and drugs, the same now occurring with domestic propaganda which has been against the law for a very long time to protect citizens from psychological manipulation and control by their own government. The law has always been ignored, but Congress is now dispensing with the pretense in repealing two major laws, the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act (1) (2) (3) (4) and the 1987 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, so as to permit the authorities to disperse false and misleading propaganda and campaigns of misinformation against its own people. Of course, the government has always done this surreptitiously, sometimes to an overwhelming extent as in the case of war marketing, but it has always been illegal. After this, it won’t be. One Pentagon official claimed this new provision will have “No checks and balances. No one will know if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false”. In an article in USA Today, it was quoted that the US military (Pentagon) already spends about $4 billion per year on propaganda to sway public opinion, much of that directed domestically. (5) (6) (7)
We now have the sock puppets, (8) (9) the fake social media personas on the Internet, used by the US military and intelligence agencies to affect and lead public opinion in many countries, usually with the intent of inciting civil unrest and revolution. It has been obvious for some time that these tactics have been used domestically as well, the new legislation simply legalising the process. Many US government agencies have obtained this software that permits them to flood the social media with fake people making fake posts in support of government positions and discrediting those who hold contrary views or are critical of the government. The software is extremely detailed, providing extensive backgrounds for these fictitious people, permitting a single human to assume the identities of as many as 1,000 fake people, and make them appear to actually be in a certain physical place or even attending an actual event. They control the IP address, making it impossible to detect that a single person in one location is orchestrating all that activity. The program manual states, “There is a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas”. The contract requires “virtual private servers” located in and outside the US, to give false locational information, and also requires what it calls “traffic mixing”, blending the persona controllers’ internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that offers “excellent cover and powerful deniability”.
This “Persona management software” is now being used to manipulate public opinion on key issues, with unlimited numbers of virtual people regularly flooding US social media with pro-government propaganda in attempts to manage public perception and kill political activism. This is called “counter-messaging” and the Pentagon has made no secret of its activities in promulgating “black propaganda” – which means knowingly spreading lies to mislead and misinform the public for the purpose of stifling political dissent. In its increasing fear of political activism, the US government has labeled the Internet as a “breeding ground for domestic terrorists”, and appears to include in this category anyone who questions the government’s version of events. This is all part of a massive program to intimidate, manipulate, and crush all public dissent, and to control not only domestic discussion but also to actively manipulate worldwide opinion. Their activity is becoming common in China where, on the occurrence of an event containing useful propaganda fuel, we often see a flood of commentary on Weibo supporting the American position, these ostensibly being posted by native Chinese but almost inevitably originating in Fort Langley, Virginia.
The government has used these in smear campaigns (10) (11) (12) against reporters and other high-profile individuals who criticise US government policy, to the extent of creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts in their names, containing fake posts meant to be personally damaging, and have even created fake websites and Wikipedia pages purporting to belong to an individual, all for the purpose of discrediting “dissidents”. When a Taiwanese scientist aired his research identifying the 5 haplotypes of COVID-19 and proving America had to be the original source since these types existed only in the USA, the VOA harassed the man so badly online that he closed all his social media accounts and went dark.
The US government performs surveillance and infiltration in attempts to control the public dialogue in many nations, creating Twitter-like social media platforms in other countries, ostensibly local but all monitored and controlled by US agencies. Most are the work of USAID. The Americans innocently proclaim the purpose as “encouraging open political discussion” (in every nation but the US), but it’s a ‘discussion’ they mean to control entirely and skew to satisfy their agenda of inciting unrest and revolution. One such platform in Cuba was widely ridiculed when knowledge of it became public in early 2014, and was killed. (13) (14) (15) Even the Associated Press reported that it “was set up to encourage political dissent”, but White House officials claimed they wanted only “to provide Cubans with a platform to share ideas and exchange information”, claiming it was used to “share cricket scores” and by farmers to “share market prices”. Maybe, but it was used primarily for political destabilisation. The State Department and USAID actively pushed for these platforms after their successes in causing the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Iran. The State Department also provided several million dollars to a team of American hackers to develop a system known as a mesh network to enable US-sponsored dissidents in Cuba to communicate more freely and securely, with USAID committing yet another several million to the same cause. This is precisely what the US has been doing in Hong Kong for many years now.
The real owners and controllers of Google are reading from the same script. Google is not actively propagandising, but functions as an information gateway with all searches heavily censored and prioritised so that we see only what the secret government wants us to see and receive only the information they want or permit us to have. (16) Facebook and Twitter are not better. (17) Wikipedia is different, being one of the most criminally-dishonest active propagandists in the world. (18) There is surprisingly little in Wikipedia that is not either censored or outright false. If you want to know the number of protons in a Cesium atom, you will find the correct answer, but in any area related to history, politics, wars, government, the Jews, Israel, Arabs, ‘Axis of evil’ members, crimes of governments and corporations, the truths of the European bankers and their ravaging of the world, Wikipedia is 95% sanitised misinformation. And this propaganda is intense; Wiki has tens of thousands of ‘volunteers’ constantly scouring all the page entries to find items requiring editing or deleting. Many people have reported correcting an obviously false entry only to discover moments later that their corrections had been deleted and the page locked. Perhaps the biggest laugh is Wiki’s claim that “Content Requires Verifiable Data”. Maybe, but only from you.
The final pillar of this social engineering is the Jewish-owned and/or controlled media and entertainment industries which have long since abandoned the dissemination of truth and information and wholeheartedly adopted the primary task of propagandising the public mind. Today, the topics are different than the war marketing of Bernays, but – and this is very important to understand – the intensity remains the same. Just as Bernays once flooded every possible media channel with war-mongering hatred, today those same channels are directed to nations other than Germany (China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Libya Cuba, Syria, Venezuela), to the instillation of fear (the war on terrorism) which is easily manipulated to achieve astonishing measures of social control, and to detail-less information to maintain public ignorance and confusion on all important issues. Paul Craig Roberts wrote that “The American media does not serve the truth. It serves the government and the interest groups that empower the government. The function of the “mainstream media” is to sell products and to brainwash the audience for the government and interest groups.” (19) That is precisely correct.
The book publishers are also onside in this vast propaganda campaign. The content of educational texts especially is heavily controlled by the disparate elements of the propaganda machine, with countless topics and theories proscribed. Howard Zinn was a notable exception in having some of his “radical” (i.e. accurate) history books published, but today, only shortly after his death, all his books are being removed from school libraries and destroyed. During the past two or three generations it has become increasingly difficult, and now almost impossible, to publish books on topics that would pose a threat to the activities of the secret government, and more than a few individuals have been killed for trying. The concentration of media and publishing power is not an accident, but part of a plan to eliminate information contradictory to the best interests of Bernays’ invisible people. Today, many publishers and authors will testify that Amazon actively suppresses many books while pretending to sell them.
Neal Gabler, author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews invented Hollywood, (20) (21) wrote “What is amazing is the extent to which they succeeded in promulgating this fiction throughout the world. By making a ‘shadow’ America, one which idealized every old glorifying bromide about the country, the Hollywood Jews created a powerful cluster of images and ideas so powerful that, in a sense, they colonized the American imagination. Ultimately, American values came to be defined largely by the movies the Jews made.”
The US movie industry is the worst of all media for fictionalising history and reality and replacing them with fabricated mythology. A recent example is Steven Spielberg’s unforgivably distorted portrayal of Lincoln and slavery and the American civil war. It was the Rothschild’s Barings Bank that financed the slave trade, and a great many if not most of the slave traders were Jewish. Furthermore, we have adequate documentation that it was European Jewish bankers who stimulated the slavery-related rift in American society to instigate the civil war. In this context, Spielberg’s movie is an especially offensive false and mythical portrayal of the true facts. As one columnist noted, Spielberg’s movie “had too many negroes and too few Jews”. The upshot is that tens of millions of gullible Americans will take with them to their graves a totally and absolutely false understanding of a critical period in their nation’s history.
That is the real issue, and that brings us back to Bernays who wrote: “The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world to-day. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation.” It also begins very early to indoctrinate little minds.
“The American Jews have always used their films as an active propaganda channel to transmit not only their own political agenda but the fiction of US culture, values and way of thinking to people in other nations, these films containing an outpouring of individualism or struggles in pursuit of freedom or the realisation of the American Dream. They have always portrayed an idealised society intended to evoke in others a kind of yearning for America and the things it appears to be. All is cleverly arranged, with meticulous attention paid to the smallest details of setting, with the American flag so often prominent and Americans always portrayed as leaders of the world. All of this is a large and persistent attempt at a kind of cultural colonisation of the world, the Jews excelling at the presentation of a superficial layer of intense audio and visual effects that are “so image rich and content poor that they manipulate our emotions and short-circuit our reason”.”
The great objection to all this is that the presentation is totally false, the US being nothing like the mythical movie presentations, and the values promulgated and unconsciously accepted are not actually held by Americans, and certainly not by the nation’s leaders. Like everything similar emanating from the US, American movies are stimulating, high-quality lies, which is why many nations restrict American content.
All of the above, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the advertising industry, Hollywood movies and TV programs, book publishing and book selling, Wikipedia, and the social media, are controlled by Jews. Their control over information is almost complete, giving them the power to directly influence people’s thoughts and behavior and to alter the course of events. All of these follow the same inescapable propaganda script. (22) (23) (24) They are not apologetic about this control; Philip Weiss wrote an article in Mondoweiss titled, “Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?”. (25) I can think of several objections.
Control over the mass media and of the movie industry have always been central to the dissemination of propaganda in the US, with the media presenting the narrative to be adopted and the movies glorifying the propaganda myths disguised as entertainment. The US is the one nation most thoroughly saturated by the media, Americans being bombarded daily with thousands of images on what is essentially political ideology, guiding popular opinion in a predefined direction. The media themselves and many branches of the government spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the art of public propaganda directed at the bewildered herd, this mass media bombardment daily shaping the American view of reality. American author Gore Vidal wrote:
“You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It’s just grotesque. The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity, much less dissent.” (26)
All of the so-called values that Americans hold so dear and appear so determined to inflict on all other nations, have their origin in the propaganda disseminated by Bernays’ invisible government through this tightly-held media cartel. Dr. Nancy Snow, an assistant professor of political science, wrote “Propaganda is most effective when it is least noticeable. What the American people don’t know is that American propaganda is hidden, and its characteristics, integrated into communications and entertainment, convince people that they are not being manipulated. Propaganda is not supposed to be part of an ‘open society’. Much of our media now are so image rich and content poor that they just serve to capture the eye, manipulate our emotions, and short-circuit our reason. The propaganda and advertising industries therefore function increasingly like adult obedience industries. They instruct their audiences in how to feel and what to think, and increasing numbers of people follow and accept the cues without question.”
Snow described one of her previous jobs as being a “propagandist” for the US Information Agency. She said, “In the US, we don’t think of ourselves as a country that propagandises, even though to the rest of the world we are seen as really the most propagandistic nation”. According to her, the US has more PR professionals than news reporters, and the global reach of what Bernays called Public Relations is just a euphemism for propaganda that involves the entire US media. One example of this was the appointment of an advertising professional as Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy and public affairs. In an article in the LA Times, Naomi Klein wrote that “[Charlotte Beers] had no previous State Department experience, but she had held the top job at both the J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather ad agencies, and she’s built brands for everything from dog food to power drills, and that her task now was to work her magic on the greatest branding challenge of all – to sell the United States and its war on terrorism to an increasingly hostile world”. (27) (28) (29) Secretary of State Colin Powell actively defended this: “There is nothing wrong with getting somebody who knows how to sell something. We are selling a product. We need someone who can re-brand American foreign policy, re-brand diplomacy.” (30)
I wrote elsewhere of the fake stories the US military produced for its invasions of Iraq and Libya, with fabricated video of locals apparently cheering the American invaders as liberating heroes. You may have wondered why ‘protestors for freedom’ in many foreign nations (Iraq, Libya, Jugoslavia, Iran, Ukraine) inexplicably seem to create all their protest signs in English; they are all fake, meant for an American audience. Here is some background for you, from a speech given at the US Air Force Academy by John Rendon, a PR consultant employed by the US military. Rendon said, “I am not a national security strategist or a military tactician. I am a politician, an information warrior and a perception manager”, at which point he reminded his audience that when US troops entered Kuwait City during the first Persian Gulf war, they received a wildly enthusiastic greeting from hundreds of Kuwaitis waving US flags. He then asked, “Did you ever stop to wonder how the people of Kuwait City were able to get American flags? Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs then”. (31) (32) It is interesting that Americans boast so openly about their perverted manipulation of the world’s peoples. This was Pompeo boasting, “We lied, we cheated, we stole.” And the American people cheered.
American propaganda foolishness knows no bounds. Some years ago, prior to President Bush’s helicopter landing in a public downtown park on his visit to Italy, I watched dozens of Secret Service agents with cans of paint, spray-painting all the grass a lovely shade of green so Bush would look prettier on TV. When a US President or State Secretary speaks to an empty hall at the United Nations, the media obligingly cut and paste an audience from another speaker’s talk to make Americans proud that their leader was enthusiastically applauded by a full house.
Today, every part of America is all about marketing the brand, selling the sizzle instead of the steak. The operating philosophy is termed “perception management”, the attempt to substitute a utopian fictionalised version of events for reality. Great efforts are made to determine which actions or attitudes or sentiments to portray to the American public and the world, which items of information should be denied to the public, and which “indicators” are necessary to convey to audiences to influence their emotions and dull their objective reasoning. This perception management combines some facts, some unrelated truths, a great deal of deception, all wrapped in layers of what is termed “psychological operations”, and used to sell patriotism, wars, capitalism, fear and fascism. This is the legacy of Lippman and Bernays: an entire nation has degraded to the point where product substance is irrelevant and brand perception is everything.
The picture in Americans minds of their own country consists of a vast array of misinformation, falsehoods and myths, covering every facet of the human experience and which they fervently, and even belligerently, believe to be true. The reason I have dwelt on the topic of propaganda to the extent I have done, is to demonstrate the equal truth that the picture foreigners hold in their minds of the US also consists of the same vast array of lies, misinformation, falsehoods and myths, their understanding of the US equally as flawed as that of the Americans themselves. Almost everything we read, see and learn about the US is mythical propaganda far removed from reality. We are buying the sizzle without the steak, paying for the brand without understanding or even receiving the product.
Bernays’ secret government has been taking control of the ideological foundations of all of America, the propaganda onslaught including the political, corporate, banking, foreign policy, military, media, and academic sectors of the nation, attempting to force all into a single cohesive mental state. It isn’t simply information or misinformation. By controlling the sources and so deciding what you can and cannot see or learn, they plan to decide how you feel and what you think, and ultimately who has or does not have a voice. This is what led CIA Director William Casey to state, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” (33)
The world finally appears to be awakening to the fictional foolishness that is America today. The Pew Research Center has done several recent studies which document a growing distrust of everything American in most countries (34), including China and Western Europe. At the same time, it notes that American citizens are receiving an increasingly narrow view of important world issues, exacerbating their already fabled ignorance. Pew also note that while the American people receive limited information reduced to child-like sound bytes lacking breadth, depth and context, this deliberately fabricated ignorance also increases the ease of propagandists to make false claims that appear real and are difficult to question.
One recent example was the political coup in the Ukraine, the second time the US has overthrown an elected government in that nation. The Americans first instigated a mini-revolution and installed Julia Tymoshenko as their puppet president, this queen’s reign terminated prematurely when she was imprisoned for massive fraud, embezzlement and murder. The Americans then invested – by their own admission – more than $5 billion to destabilise the country with an impressive amount of violence in a second attempt to take control. This disintegrated when most of Eastern Ukraine, especially the Crimea, objected to the US effort and voted to separate from the Ukraine and rejoin Russia. For background, the Crimea had always been part of Russia but was only recently ‘given’ to the Ukraine as a peace measure; its citizens are virtually all ethnic Russians and wanted to return home.
However, the US media carried only the news and video of riots, omitting the fact that they were all US-inspired and financed and that the CIA had a huge contingent resident in Kiev that was masterminding the events from the US Embassy. They specifically omitted video of the “democratic protestors” returning to the US Embassy compound afterward to collect their pay. The riots were attributed to Russia’s “meddling” and presented as cries for freedom by the Ukrainian people, and the secession vote by the Crimean residents which was entirely self-initiated, was described in the US media as a “Russian invasion” of the Crimea. It is in this context that the US climbs on its hypocritical moral white horse and pretends to “warn” Russia about “interfering in Ukraine’s elections”, filling American hearts with pride in their nation’s fight for truth and freedom. With this heavily-propagandised false picture flooding the US media, most Americans believe they clearly understand the situation in the Ukraine and that Russia is indeed “the evil empire”. In fact, they understand nothing clearly and what little they know is wrong, but when a nation’s government so thoroughly controls the media and the narrative, and is a pathological liar, what hope is there for the people?
This ‘perception management’ marketing of the US brand is not limited to US soil; even more time and money are spent on managing perceptions in other nations, one of these being China. The US spends more than $300 million in China each year on marketing their productless brand. It isn’t only obvious outlets like the Voice of America; the Americans make Herculean efforts to plant pro-American messages in newspapers, magazines, social media Weibo and WeChat, in the topic outline of speeches, placing visiting professors in schools and universities in China, and in thousands of other sources that reach the public. This is entirely a psychological warfare operation and is described by the Americans in these terms. The aim of this huge effort is simply to employ all manner of lies and misinformation to make China’s government look bad in the eyes of its people (and the world).
As one example, the U.S. Consul-General in Guangzhou, Jim Levy, filled the internet with outright false or badly-twisted information about sudden racial discrimination against blacks in China. For background, all visas expired during the COVID-19 epidemic, requiring foreign nationals to return home and wait for approval of new visas. Many Africans, in China to purchase low-cost goods to ship home, and reluctant to lose their income source, failed to comply, essentially hiding underground. As health officers were making the rounds to test foreigners and obtain health codes, there were many stories of Africans jumping out of windows (hopefully first-floor windows) to escape the medical authorities and avoid the necessary quarantines. Finally, the police had to instruct apartments and hotels to not provide accommodation to anyone lacking a valid visa, but the US Consulate filled Chinese social media and foreign airwaves with stories titled, “African nations, US decry racism against blacks in China”. (35) (36) My opinion of Levy is not high, especially since he was using his American diplomatic post to further the political aims of his Jewish masters. In a similar manner, Alan Dershowitz, another American Jew, this one from Harvard, not long ago gave a speech to AIPAC, the Godzilla of Jewish influence in the US, where he asked all Jews to create as much pressure as possible on China’s imaginary human rights violations in Tibet, to take the world’s attention off the Jewish atrocities in Palestine. International politics supported by propaganda, i.e. “perception management”, is a dirty business.
Hong Kong today is saturated with CIA and other US-based media control, their long-term propaganda campaign being the entire source of the Western-oriented political agitation and the persistently negative views of China that originate there. George Soros, another American Jew, finances the seditious “China Media Project” at Hong Kong University, creating a massive anti-China campaign and responsible for much of the violence there. The violence and chaos in Tibet and Xinjiang all have the same source. Philip Agee, a former CIA agent (37), wrote that the US has been conducting this illegal interference in Tibet since prior to the 1950s and 1960s, claiming that his duties in the CIA involved attempting to penetrate and manipulate the institutions of power, infiltrating and manipulating political parties, trade unions, youth and student movements, intellectual, professional and cultural societies, religious groups, women’s groups and especially the media. He details how he paid journalists to publish American propaganda as if it were the journalists’ own information, and how the CIA spent huge sums of money intervening in foreign elections to promote and elect an American puppet candidate. The NYT had very little nice to say about Agee in their obituary. (38)
Jonathan Power told us of one highly-placed British diplomat who stated, “One reads about the world’s desire for American leadership only in the United States. Everywhere else one reads about American arrogance and unilateralism”. (39) (40) Power wrote further that “America Is Sadly In The Grip Of ‘Exhausted Ideas'”. (41) And as Naomi Klein noted, nations don’t generally object to America’s so-called ‘values’, but to the fact that the US never adheres to them. Critics see only US unilateralism, defiance of all international laws, great wealth disparity, and increasing unjustified crackdowns and violations of civil rights. She wrote that America’s problem “was not with the brand but with the product”, and that the great and increasing international anger – and it is anger – arises “not only from the facts but also from a clear perception of false advertising”. In other words, American hypocrisy, the Utopia Syndrome I wrote of earlier. However, Americans seem oblivious to these realities and are redoubling their efforts to propagandise not only all Americans but the world.
Introduction – If America Dissolves… https://10.16.86.131/if-america-dissolves/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5 — https://10.16.86.131/bernays-and-propaganda/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 2 of 5 — The Marketing of War — https://10.16.86.131/bernays-and-propaganda-the-marketing-of-war/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 3 of 5 –– Democracy Control – http://10.16.86.131/bernays-and-propaganda-democracy-control/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 4 of 5 –The Transition to Education and Commerce – http://10.16.86.131/bernays-and-propaganda-the-transition-to-education-and-commerce-part-4/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 5 of 5 — Propaganda Continues Unabated — You are now here.
Mr. Romanoff’s writing has been translated into 30 languages and his articles posted on more than 150 foreign-language news and politics websites in more than 30 countries, as well as more than 100 English language platforms. Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He is one of the contributing authors to Cynthia McKinney’s new anthology ‘When China Sneezes’.
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Notes
(1) https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
(2) https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736/text
(3) https://newswithviews.com/smith-mundt-act-of-1948-and-the-coup/
(4) https://www.rt.com/usa/smith-mundt-domestic-propaganda-121/
(7) https://www.usatoday.com/story/nation/2013/07/08/pentagon-propaganda-post-somali/2498339/
(8) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
(9) https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/04/18/military-sock-puppets-nsa-trolls-cia-shills/
(11) https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/03/03/how-and-how-not-to-beat-a-smear-campaign/
(12) https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/18/us-government-funded-coda-story/
(13) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-created-cuba-twitter-sow-unrest-reports-ap
(14) https://apnews.com/article/904a9a6a1bcd46cebfc14bea2ee30fdf
(15) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest
(17) https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/ted-cruz-twitter-most-brazen-and-google-most-dangerous/
(18) https://www.serendipity.li/cda/censorship_at_wikipedia.htm
(19) https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/01/24/the-media-destroyed-america/
(20) https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Their-Own-Invented-Hollywood/dp/0385265573
(21) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/118657.An_Empire_of_Their_Own
(22) https://researchlist.blogspot.com/2011/06/jewish-ownership-of-big-media.html
(23) http://tapnewswire.com/2015/10/six-jewish-companies-control-96-of-the-worlds-media/
(24) https://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jews-in-the-media-hollywood/
(25) https://mondoweiss.net/2008/02/do-jews-dominat/
(26) https://www.latimes.com/la-bk-gore-vidal-1989-08-04-story.html
(27) Naomi Klein | The Spectacular Failure of Brand USA; https://naomiklein.org/spectacular-failure-brand-usa/
(28) http://www.pbs.org/pov/borders/2006/de_sellingamerica.html
(29) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-mar-04-fg-beers03-story.html
(30) https://www.alternet.org/2002/03/brand_usa/
(31) https://nexus23.com/warfare2/the-rendon-group-reloaded/
(32) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Pentagon%27s_Information_Warrior
(33) https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/03/the-dangers-of-privatized-intelligence/
(34) https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/07/22/how-americans-see-problems-of-trust/
(37) http://www.philipagee.com/
(38) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/obituaries/10agee.html
(39) https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7021898632.pdf
(40) https://www.globalissues.org/article/163/media-in-the-united-states
(41) https://www.eurasiareview.com/22042020-america-is-sadly-in-the-grip-of-exhausted-ideas-oped/
I hope that with the disintegration of the USA this propaganda will disappear. They cannot finance their propaganda with the destruction of the dollar. This is the only way to stop the European catastrophe. Especially the Germans are bombarded with perverse propaganda. And in “liberated” Eastern European countries there are enough people who join in and destroy their countries. They forget that they are the first victims of the US empire.
It’s a well known fact that when an empire collapses, it resolves to tyranny. Not only is the US Empire collapsing, but the neocons who control it have huge financial and political problems inside the country, which they are unlikely to resolve so easily, if at all. Hence tyranny is applied inside the country and abroad, all for the sake of diverting attention from home problems and attempting some more “democratic” plundering of sovereign countries, like Venezuela.
When the Rothschild’s created the US back in 1776, using Freemason George Washington, they had a tough time completely controlling the country, not only due to it’s huge size, but also due to the technical means available to them. In the 1850’s they come to the conclusion that breaking up the US was more practical than trying to control it. We thus get the US Civil War. Lincoln is assassinated not only because he won, but because he introduced a Government controlled dollar. The Tzar of Russia was deeply impressed, and does the same, trying to distance himself from Western bankers. Russia starts to industrialize and the bankers introduce two world wars as well as the Russian “revolution” of 1917, trying to break up the country and prevent a German-Russian political and economic alliance, as advocated by Bismarck. Two Russian Tzars are also assassinated to prevent all this.
After the Civil War, the neocons start buying up all the major US newspapers and in 1913 they introduce the US Fed, a private central bank created by the Rothschild’s. And yes, Hollywood was created and transformed into a gigantic propaganda machine, followed by almost full control of US TV corporations.
Why do I watch Hollywood movies ? For the political message first and for the entertainment second. In 1998 Morgan Freeman made Deep Impact, in which he played the first Afro-American President in US history. The moment I started watching the movie, I knew what was going on, namely psychological conditioning of the US population for the arrival of the first Afro-American President. And sure enough, Obama comes along.
Will this neocon propaganda control of the US population work ? We shall see. If you look at the November election results (the true ones), it would appear that they did not succeed in polluting the minds of the majority of the population, although the minority who believe them is huge in number. For the sake of argument, let us state that the ratio is 50:50. However, in a controlled political and financial crisis, will the ratio stand at 50:50 ? This remains to be seen. It can go both ways. What the neocons are doing with population control via the media is a very dangerous thing, as the whole enterprise could backfire. Secessionist movements are slowly gaining popularity in the US. Any more political and media tyranny in the US, and these secessionist movements could drastically gain in popularity.
A couple things you may have over looked, apparently it is not illegal to be a tyrant or even a gvt based on tyranny, it all depends on ones definition and the direction one takes after defining the term.
And secondly, way too many American people were never taught the actual issues of slavery and really what brought about Lincolns assassination.
Booth was not disturbed at Lincoln for freeing the slaves, but once he learned that Lincoln had planned to let the freed slaves vote, that was the straw that broke the camels back.
A great quote by Marshall McLuhan:
“Today in the electronic age of instantaneous communication, I believe that our survival, and at the very least our comfort and happiness, is predicated on understanding the nature of our new environment, because unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitute a total and near instantaneous transformation of culture, values, and attitudes. This upheaval generates great pain and identity loss which can be ameliorated only through a consciousness of its dynamics. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.”
and another great quote by the preeminent expert Malcolm Muggeridge:
“Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.”
and what is the antidote really to it all? Simple I’d say the Laws and Commandments of God. Hosea 4:6
Thank you Romanov for helping us to ‘understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media.’ you like the two above are or certainly will be one of our future historians!!!
‘All of the above, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the advertising industry, Hollywood movies and TV programs, book publishing and book selling, Wikipedia, and the social media, are controlled by Jews.’
My two part videos (2 min each) on Jewish influence are still up yet for how long I do not know after reading the above article!
The Merchant of Venice: A Satire on The Merchant of Venice with a completely new cast. The theory is that the US has not paid it’s debt to Israel and hence Biden is in the chair ready to loose his pound of flesh! I did not get to the ‘not a drop of blood’ part however.
https://youtu.be/O5yr5yJ2i9A
The Merchant of Venice part2: Part 1 was all satire. Part 2 is a little differnt. In this video I concentrate on the ‘mercy’ element asked for from Shylock and rejected yet when Shylock begs it is granted. During this I interlock some images of a Palestinian child in the conflict zone in a unusual situation.
I used some clips from the excellent Al Pachino as Shylock preformance. I could not make this otherwise. Make of it what you will.
https://youtu.be/UPaLfnUkq24
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Bernays and Propaganda – Part 5 of 5 — Propaganda Continues Unabated
In his excellent analysis of propaganda, he omits what the end goal of the Transnational Financiers is in this web of deceit, manipulation and lies. Namely a New World Order that Professor Carol Quigley, who wrote as an insider, described in very great detail in his book Tragedy and Hope. To the real rulers of the US and their vassal states, nations are irrelevant to them, their purpose is the complete subjugation of all the peoples of the world and a return to a type of financial feudalism as outlined by the economist Professor Michael Hudson.
All the wrongdoing and crimes US accused the old URSS and KGB back on cold era time, become “legal” and daily used, many times even diabolically improved, in the “land of the free” (sic !) ;
I wonder when the worlds dictionaries will finally complete the definition of “hypocrisy” adding as the primary origin of the term, and especially, the use as national religion – the “great” USA….
How USA used CIA to collate and develop ex nazi intellience people to establish and promulgate the cold war against Russia
https://off-guardian.org/2021/03/11/return-of-the-leviathan-the-fascist-roots-of-the-cia-and-the-true-origin-of-the-cold-war/
Former CIA supremo, William Casey is reputed to have once boasted: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
Today, Casey’s statement can be updated to: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the the entire world believes is false.”
One of the best examples of this American disinformation campaign–which fortunately did not quite succeed– are America’s lies about non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, which the Land of the Free deployed to justify its ongoing war of aggression and now colonial occupation against Iraq.
But this example is only the tip of the iceberg of deceptions that the United States pushes around the entire planet, particularly against its hated enemy nations like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.
The entire American Free Press is in reality an American Free Lie.
The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/17/the-mighty-wurlitzer-how-the-cia-played-america/
The article is nice and all but lacks one thing: What to do about it?!
I recommend from now on only articles by any author that offer a solution to problems be published, it is getting tiresome to read about problem-descriptions without any problem-resolutions.
Anon; Well the what to do about it is actually known. That being personal spiritual growth. And the socialization of that personal growth. The primary driver of all of this propaganda madness is generated by the totalitarian impulse coming from the human ego mind. The really challenging reality is the human liberation has one determined enemy. And that enemy is very powerful. That enemy is the human mind. The human mind is the enemy of human liberation. This may sound ridiculous. To say that the human mind is the enemy of humanity is really just to say that the Western patriarchal, bourgeois organization of mind is the totalitarian enemy of our own innate divinity. It is a culture specific psychological construct. The bourgeois ego is a fear driven control freak. This is the hidden driver which motivates the madness of the whole universe of Bernays propaganda. All of this propaganda is really a drive on the part of Western mass ego to rule over and obliterate any possibility of the unity of the human and the divine. That is the psychological origin of class war. But lets not face that. It is a matter really of the manner in which the modern mind is organized. Not its essential nature. When the ego-mind assumes that it is supposed to rule the roost it becomes a threat to the life of the soul. At this time the mass awakening of the soul is felt by the ego mind to be a terrible terroristic threat. The great psychologist Carl Jung discovered that the modern Western psyche has two competing poles of consciousness. One being the ego-mind and the other being what he calls the Inner Self which is located at the root of the soul. Jung called it “the unkown Self.” In the modern world the two are actually in a state of war and struggle for dominance within the psyche. That is all externalized in the political drama which obsesses us. Just as Carl Jung said. But what Jung did not do is put this conflict into political terms. He was “prudent”.
The reason for his prudence being the following. The really tricky bit is that the truth of which Jung hinted at must stay hidden for as long as possible. Because if everyone was to grasp that spiritual growth was the key to political liberation then so would the evil totalitarian enemy. The enemy watches us very carefully and if we all understood clearly what to do to fix the world then so would the oppressor. Then the enemy would declare spiritual growth to be a dangerous terrorist threat and the CIA would harass and crush anybody who was advocating and supporting spiritual growth. All spiritual teachers would be treated like communists. That would be fatal for all of us. The moment the intimate relation between spiritual liberation and political liberation becomes clearly and widely understood promises to be a cosmic flashpoint in culture. The timing of that flashpoint is contingent upon the ruling class being so degraded by crises that it is no longer able to mount effect mass suppression of this interlinkage. We have not quite reached that magic moment yet.
So victory lies in the solution being still hidden in the “unknown” for as long as possible. This is the hidden reason why there appears to be massive alienation between the political definition of liberation and the spiritual definition of liberation. That alienation is really a form of protective military strategy, organized by what moderns call “the collective unconscious” and pre-moderns would call God. It is really a form of guerrilla warfare between ego mind and spirit. Wherein Maoist style misdirection of the enemy is vital. It is a struggle which we all live inside. So best that people just refute and deny and ignore all that I have written here. Or do their best to avoid understanding the point.
Sneaky, sneaky and gently does it – Putin style
Beautifully put once again my friend. This will be a ground up personal transformation rather than a top down hierarchical transformation. As such, it will of course be much more challenging and take much more time to enact, but then again, name one thing of true value that isn’t?
Perception of “problems” catalyses and frames Mr. Rove’s observation that
““We are an Empire
We create our own reality to which others react
and whilst they are reacting
we create another reality to which others react.”
which can include but not be restricted to perceptions of the requirement of “a solution to problems”.
Some social relations tend to be more prone to launch such odysseys for various reasons including seeking attribution and/or proclivities of making noise.
Some other social relations are not prone to such practices and further understand that silence is often a more productive endeavour and evaluation a function of purpose.
Hence some other social relations limit the audiences with whom opportunities rather than “problems” are shared, thereby enhancing/facilitating tiredness derived from your perceived problem “to read about problem-descriptions without any problem-resolutions.” instead of enjoying the surprises including slings and arrows of outrageous fortune facilitated by the implementation of “resolutions”.
Putting aside the whitewash of the use of similar tactics by the CCP. ( i.e. flooding Tibet withHan Chinese akin to Israel flooding the West Bank with settlers and then proceeding to cut military roads through olive groves in order to “develop” the area in ways that meet their needs and not the needs and wishes of the people originally living there)… OK. I should know enough to just skip the last two paragraphs of your analysis because your conclusions are one-sided and, I don’t “buy” them. 72 million Americans are no longer “buying” the sizzle presented to them by their technocratic elites –i.e. where is the beef? They do have a “beef”, well at least 1/3 of the 72 million do, with the ruling class. Let’s see who brings the cows home at the end of the day.
That said:
The management of perception in the West is not just run by “Jews” but rather a certain type of Jew. Witness the absolute barbarity of the crack down on the people of Israel. Lest I destroy all my feeble credibility, let me just say that David Icke ( yes, the humans-are-shapeshifting-reptile guy) is correct about what he calls the Sabbatean-Frankist cult that runs Israel and most of the top Jewish organizations in the world. They hate humanity and they hate Jews and they hate the religious Jews the most.
No footnotes for me….just my good-old lived reality…Here is something for you to balance out your rather academic ( what else could it be after all?) yet worthy analysis ( even if I disagree with your pro Glorious CCP run China conclusions). And, no I am not a bot but of course that is precisely what a clever bot-ess would say!!! Just remember, bots do not usually have a sense of humor, especially self deprecating humor.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/real-reasons-why-millions-americans-will-defy-covid-mandates-and-vaccines
They tried very hard, but the Anglo Propaganda Failed! Germany (using its power within EU) has made its decision- for trade with eurasia instead of anglo saxons. Nord Stream 2 will happen regardless of what Biden says. Europeans will have reliable cheap gas for at least two generations. The Democrats have become deeply unpopular with European leaders, EU does not want a war againts Russia or China, Europeans aleady had two world wars and Jugoslav war in a century, they dont want more.
Sputnik V clearly has the least side effects of the current vaccine, so European countries are approving it, while they are suspending AstraZeneca. If Biden refuses to make peace and stop sanctions on Iran, the Europeans will do it themselves, a huge new market for European exporters.
China has been given a much more comprehensive EU trade agreement than most economists predicted, Germany and EU will benefit greatly. There is no ‘human rights’ component to the deal, Germans know USA and UK have worse human rights than China.
Meanwhile UK EU trade declined by almost half and EU is refusing to ratify the Brexit deal due to brits already having broken their side of the agreement. Scotland will be Independant taking its oil with it. Soon england will run out of food! (thats if they dont die before thanks to AstraZeneca) Who will feel honestly sorry for them? A case of centuries of Imperial agression and greed backfiring specacularly.
Propaganda is the most cost-effective weapon for the USA in its endless quest for world-domination. This sounds paranoid to most people but I know, from my own exposure to the foreign policy Blob in Washington that this is the central operating principle of that community. I heard this from more than one official–“it’s either us or the Chinese.” The internal conflicts have to do with the how not the why.
Propaganda works. In the USA most people are very skeptical of the mainstream news media, yet, they believe almost all the propaganda thrown their way. There are a few of us who are grounded in reason and critical thinking (at most 15% of the population) that see through at least some of this bullshit. The good news is that those of us who do dissent are made stronger, at this point in history, because of the active repression going on in social media and the professions. It is crucial that we tell the truth as best we can to those we can speak with but, currently, we cannot do that in casual conversations without suffering a risk to our careers and social and even family life (I know people who have suffered from this exile not only from social media but members of their own family).
Here’s the most important question for all you incredibly woke folk reading my comment. After living another few hundred Groundhog Days, will the tens of millions of supposedly un-woke Punxsutawney People who go to the polls on Groundhog Voting Day, ONCE AGAIN repeat what they or their similarly un-woke predecessors did many, many times in the “past” — vote for R or D, didn’t matter which, More Of The Same (MOTS), as they did on:
November 3, 2020 —
November 8, 2016;
November 6, 2012;
November 4, 2008;
November 2, 2004;
November 7, 2000;
November 5, 1996;
November 3, 1992;
November 8, 1988;
November 6, 1984;
November 4, 1980;
November 2, 1976;
November 7, 1972;
November 5, 1968;
November 3, 1964 (– the year I turned 14, which was the year I “woke up” and realized that Election Days were going to be in the future what would today be referred to as Groundhog Days.)
The US’s wars were ordered by Rs or Ds right up to today. Millions around the world have been murdered by the US R or D governments. It just so happens, amazingly coincidentally, that over the past decades tens of millions of un-woke people/voters have been/still are directly or indirectly employed by, or invested in (pension plans, hedge funds, etc.) the MIC. Their paychecks or dividend payments don’t enter the “how to vote” equation.
The US still does not have Medicare for All right up to today because Rs or Ds did whatever it took to make sure that didn’t happen.
Tens of millions of Americans are poor and more are being added as I type. Many are homeless and more are added as I type. The rich are getting richer and richer as I type. Censorship is getting more and more common.
Police are still murdering innocent people as I type. Rs or Ds have not changed this.
Now, class, why will the Oligarchic Transnational Elite Collective (OTEC) spend billions upon billions of dollars, 24/7, over the next few years, on propaganda? Just exactly WHAT do they want the individual members of their well-conditioned Bewildered Herds to do when they once again enter the voting booth on what OTEC is betting will be yet another Groundhog Day November 8, 2022 and Groundhog Day November 5, 2024? Think real hard now. What does OTEC want to happen on November NINE, 2022 and November SIX, 2024? Again, think really, really hard.
(And, oh, BTW, what will the tens of millions of purportedly brainwashed, un-woke people/voters who have-been/still-are directly or indirectly employed by, or invested in (pension plans, hedge funds, etc.) the MIC do on those just-around-the-corner Groundhog Election days? Take a wild stab at it. Again, their paychecks or dividend payments, or how they’re going to put food on the table next week, won’t enter their “how to vote” thought process. It’s all about their brainwashing and being un-woke.)
“Now, class, why will the Oligarchic Transnational Elite Collective (OTEC) spend billions upon billions of dollars, 24/7, over the next few years, on propaganda?”
Omniscience is never an option but perhaps the following will be of utility.
“Propaganda” often relies on premastication facilitated by pre-existing socially derived assumptions ..”
Among the premasticated assumptions derived from “representative democracy” by those “represented”, is that that those “represented” have material agency/significance, underpinned by “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident…..” in case of “unfortunate accidents”.
This can be enhanced by the represented’s perception of being “surveyed/objects of surveillance” and of being “propagandised.“.
These are useful components of practices within “surveillance” and “propaganda”, the potency and “opacity” of both being enhanced/obscured by resort to “nonsense/untruths” –
the practice of the-dumber-the-betterness derived in part from Mr. Rove’s observation that
“You can fool some of the people all of the time
and those are the ones you should concentrate on.”
This simultaneously enhances further iterations of another of Mr. Rove’s observations that
“We are an Empire
We create our own reality to which others react
and whilst they are reacting
we create another reality to which others react.”
Further enhancements can be achieved through stimulation of other reliances on premastication facilitated by pre-existing socially derived assumptions, such as “victimhood” and “smartest-kid-on-the-blockness” to limit examples to two.
The resorts outlined above are implemented in the hope of increasing the assay of complicity of those being “represented”, thereby facilitating the purpose of attempting to limit processes of change within lateral spectra, sometimes known as “Bandaging corpses “.
Given that their purposes and framing are often enmazed in linear paradigms, some practitioners refer to such interactions as a “self-organised system”
However such immersion facilitates opportunities for others not so enmazed to test hypotheses of “How to drown a drowning man with the minimum of blowback ?” enhanced by opponents’ prior resorts to practices of the-dumber-the-betterness.
“We are deep in denial about what is plainly visible to see all around us.”
in emulation of “We the people hold these truths to be self-evident.”
Bandaging corpses offers opportunities of deepening denial as illustrated in the process of first perestroika then glasnost in attempt to facilitate perestroika, indicators of the trajectories from fantasyland to wonderland with limited effort on the part of opponents.
“Bernays and Propaganda – Propaganda Continues Unabated”
One of the purposes of a state is to attempt to reproduce/sustain itself linearly within spectra framed by the outcomes of testing hypotheses such as “What are the United States of America and how are they facilitated?” sometimes represented as “The national interest” derived by “Think tanks”.
Methods of facilitation include varying assays of agency and of belief : a decrease in agency facilitating/requiring an increase in the assay of belief.
Hence a phrase such as “Propaganda Continues Unabated” is a misrepresentation of these oscillating processes, futher aided by the framing “Bernays and Propaganda” in part synonymous with Mr. Fukuyama’s “End of History” predicated upon immersion in the rubbing sticks school of thermodynamics.
“Propaganda” often relies on premastication facilitated by pre-existing socially derived assumptions, encouraging those so immersed to dissipate efforts in attempting to return to a “paradise” which never existed but which they believe could be attained by the co-operation of others if “Only they knew” – a replication of the Papa Czar ideology underpinning Okhrana’s “strategies” during the “Zubatovschina” – a process of “Bandaging Corpses”, all in illumination of Mr. Rove’s observation that
“We are an Empire
We create our own reality to which others react
and whilst they are reacting
we create another reality to which others react.”
informed by his further observation
“You can fool some of the people all of the time;
and those are the one’s you should concentrate on.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/03/12/chris-hedges-bandaging-the-corpse/
I agree with 95% of what Romanoff says.
“All of the so-called values that Americans hold so dear and appear so determined to inflict on all other nations, have their origin in the propaganda disseminated by Bernays’ invisible government through this tightly-held media cartel.”
I think that the origin is previous to Barneys, at least previous to the involvement in WW1. Remember Randolph Hearst and its propaganda leading to the American-Spanish war of the late XIX – early XX centuries. It could be argued that Cuba and Puerto Rico were after all the backyard and it doesn’t count as global projection, but that war should be taken at least as a starter.
Propaganda and manipulation always existed (remember the Cruzades and the pervasive motto “Because God wants it!” – who was interpreting what God truly wanted??), but not at such a deep degree as in the US after WW1, when it was taken to scientific, astronomic levels.
The root problem of the US is that the cultural, identity-forming values of the country were based on two pillars:
– Escape from crazy religious persecution in England
– Become wealthy and undisturbed in your domains
The first one died very soon, as the history of Mary Dyer illustrates: The persecuted became persecutors of their own people.
The second one was based on huge, untapped natural resources and a vast mass of land ready to colonize (and to deploy infrastructure and job-creating works in order to “civilize” it: Roads, dams, utilities, etc). Social problems were easy to shift moving the excess population West. The own American Dream seemed possible, despite many injust situations.
That illusion of prosperity started to decline from the early 70s and now is in a very, very delicate status, reaching critical “implosion-mass”.
Once prosperity fades away, what glues the American population together? A somber future, indeed.