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Interesting reading with links.




Propaganda (lies - bullshit) is a subject that interests me. To that end, I've followed several posts to their origins. Most were about covid or jab juice. When I got to their home pages the only thing I could think of was "what country / what intellegence service came up with this" after which I beat feet to a safer land.

And let's not forget Ukraine. Whole lotta mis / dis info there.

We're living in the disinfo age.
 
Do some research on this guy........Edward Bernays. Misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, lies and bullshit. He had it all.

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“The most interesting man in the world.” “Reach out and touch someone.” “Finger-lickin’ good.” Such advertising slogans have become fixtures of American culture, and each year millions now tune into the Super Bowl as much for the ads as for the football.

While no single person can claim exclusive credit for the ascendancy of advertising in American life, no one deserves credit more than a man most of us have never heard of: Edward Bernays.

 
Disinformation and censorship

News, propaganda and confirmation bias

The two threads above both talk about propaganda to a certain degree. While I have posted in both threads, I may have stepped on toes (so to speak) or taken the threads in a direction the original posters didn't want the threads taken.

I want a thread to discuss exactly what propaganda is, how it's used to achieve certain goals be they political or religious. Ergo.......this thread.

Introduction to Propaganda​


In this lecture we investigate the nature of propaganda. We examine what propaganda is, the difference between education and propaganda, the history of propaganda, the nature of political propaganda, and the role propaganda plays in modern democracies. 11:25
 

Cognitive Warfare: Maneuvering in the Human Dimension​


By Majors Andrew MacDonald and Ryan Ratcliffe, U.S. Marine Corps
April 2023

Proceedings Vol. 149/4/1,442

Okinawa, Japan

3 May 2025

It started when the lights went out.

The blackout began just after sunset in Naha then spread quickly throughout Okinawa. One by one, even the island’s U.S. military installations fell dark. As failures rippled through the power grid and threatened vital services, the overwhelming reaction was a mix of frustration and acceptance. Okinawans breathed a sigh of relief as the island regained power three days later, but just as normalcy seemed to be returning, residents found their digital landscape had been altered drastically.

Once connectivity was restored, trusted news websites were either inaccessible or hacked to display divisive propaganda. This discovery and mounting evidence in the power grid’s network eliminated all doubt: Okinawa was under attack. The attacker’s intended target was the U.S.-Okinawa relationship. Japanese and U.S. government officials quickly warned of the ongoing assault, but their attempt to blunt the attack inadvertently increased curiosity at a time when information was scarce. As individuals sought answers, the dearth of credible sources drove them to social media—where targeted disinformation was waiting.


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How to Recognize Propaganda | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957​

Oct 7, 2017


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This Cold War era film – originally titled as "Defense Against Enemy Propaganda" – is an episode of the U.S. Army's "The Big Picture" television series. It was released in circa 1957.

This film examines enemy propaganda and its danger to American way of life. It is an absorbing film presentation set in an exhibit room containing examples of media such as pamphlets, posters, broadcasts, and photographs, which were used by the enemy (primarily by the Soviet Union) to disseminate propaganda. A member of the Office of Special Warfare, whose job it is to recognize propaganda, describe its purpose, and discuss the methods of dissemination that may be utilized, narrates this film as stock footage and original shots of enemy propaganda are shown. The film concludes with the lesson that the best defense against enemy propaganda is the ability to recognize it for what it really is – lies and distortion with little or no basis in fact.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented. Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.

In the twentieth century, the term propaganda has been associated with a manipulative approach, but propaganda historically was a neutral descriptive term. A wide range of materials and media are used for conveying propaganda messages, which changed as new technologies were invented, including paintings, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, films, radio shows, TV shows, and websites.

The West and the Soviet Union both used propaganda extensively during the Cold War. Both sides used film, television, and radio programming to influence their own citizens, each other, and Third World nations. The United States Information Agency operated the Voice of America as an official government station. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, which were, in part, supported by the Central Intelligence Agency, provided grey propaganda in news and entertainment programs to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union respectively. The Soviet Union's official government station, Radio Moscow, broadcast white propaganda, while Radio Peace and Freedom broadcast grey propaganda. Both sides also broadcast black propaganda programs in periods of special crises.

(Black propaganda is false information and material that purports to be from a source on one side of a conflict, but is actually from the opposing side. It is typically used to vilify, embarrass, or misrepresent the enemy. Black propaganda contrasts with grey propaganda, the source of which is not identified, and white propaganda, in which the real source is declared and usually more accurate information is given, albeit slanted, distorted and omissive. Black propaganda is covert in nature in that its aims, identity, significance, and sources are hidden.)

When describing life in capitalist countries, in the US in particular, propaganda focused on social issues such as poverty and anti-union action by the government. Workers in capitalist countries were portrayed as "ideologically close". Propaganda claimed rich people from the US derived their income from weapons manufacturing, and claimed that there was substantial racism or neo-fascism in the US.

When describing life in Communist countries, western propaganda sought to depict an image of a citizenry held captive by governments that brainwash them. The West also created a fear of the East, by depicting an aggressive Soviet Union.

George Orwell's novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four are virtual textbooks on the use of propaganda. Though not set in the Soviet Union, these books are about totalitarian regimes that constantly corrupt language for political purposes. These novels were, ironically, used for explicit propaganda. The CIA, for example, secretly commissioned an animated film adaptation of Animal Farm in the 1950s with small changes to the original story to suit its own needs.

How to Recognize Propaganda | Cold War Era Educational Film | ca. 1957

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This shit goes on as I type.

Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947​

Mar 12, 2017


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Don't Be a Sucker! is a short educational film produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943 and re-released in 1947. The film depicts the rise of Nazism in Germany and warns Americans against repeating the mistakes of intolerance made in Nazi Germany. It emphasizes that Americans will lose their country if they let themselves be turned into "suckers" by the forces of fanaticism and hatred. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces by simply revealing the connection between prejudice and fascism.

This film is not propaganda. To the contrary, it teaches how to recognize and reject propaganda, as was used by the Nazis to promote to bigotry and intimidation. It shows how prejudice can be used to divide the population to gain power. Far more significantly, it then shows how such tactics can be defanged by friendly persuasion; that protection of liberty is a unifying and practical way to live peacefully.

Plot:
A young American Free Mason is taken in by the message of a soap-box orator who asserts that all good jobs in the United States are being taken by the so-called minorities, domestic and foreign. He falls into a conversation with Hungarian professor who witnessed the rise of Nazism in Berlin and who tells him of the pattern of events that brought Hitler to power in Germany and how Germany's anti-democratic groups split the country into helpless minorities, each hating the other. The professor concludes by pointing out that America is composed of many minorities, but all are united as Americans.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP). Under Hitler's rule, Germany was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life. The official name of the state was Deutsches Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Großdeutsches Reich ("Greater German Reich") from 1943 to 1945. The period is also known under the names the Third Reich (German: Drittes Reich) and the National Socialist Period (German: Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, abbreviated as NS-Zeit). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945, ending World War 2 in Europe.

Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by the President of the Weimar Republic Paul von Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hindenburg died on 2 August 1934, and Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the powers and offices of the Chancellery and Presidency. A national referendum held 19 August 1934 confirmed Hitler as sole Führer (leader) of Germany. All power was centralized in Hitler's person, and his word became above all laws.

Racism, especially antisemitism, was a central feature of the regime. The Germanic peoples (the Nordic race) were considered by the Nazis to be the purest branch of the Aryan race, and were therefore viewed as the master race. Millions of Jews and other peoples deemed undesirable by the state were murdered in the Holocaust. Opposition to Hitler's rule was ruthlessly suppressed. Members of the liberal, socialist, and communist opposition were killed, imprisoned, or exiled. The Christian churches were also oppressed, with many leaders imprisoned. Education focused on racial biology, population policy, and fitness for military service. Career and educational opportunities for women were curtailed. Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels made effective use of film, mass rallies, and Hitler's hypnotizing oratory to control public opinion. The government controlled artistic expression, promoting specific art forms and banning or discouraging others.

Following the Allied invasion of Normandy (6 June, 1944), Germany was conquered by the Soviet Union from the east and the other Allied powers from the west and capitulated within a year. The victorious Allies initiated a policy of denazification and put many of the surviving Nazi leadership on trial for war crimes at the Nuremberg trials.

Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947

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Taking propaganda to new heights...............

Paranoid Posting​

Psyops on TikTok


HAILEY LUJAN is big on TikTok. With blue eyes, chestnut brown hair, and a preternaturally symmetrical splatter of freckles, she’s not unlike many twenty-one-year-old influencers—save for the fact that Lujan is a psychological operations specialist in the U.S. Army. In most of her videos on TikTok, where she has over seven hundred thousand followers, she pouts adorably in full camo somewhere on the JFK Special Warfare Campus at Fort Bragg. In one, Lujan pets a YF-6000 stealth unmanned vehicle as if it’s a precious puppy. In another, she dances inside an army bunker while offering lip-contouring tips to the Sex and the City soundtrack.

Lujan may seem like most Gen-Z influencers on the lucrative side of surveillance capitalism’s commodity chain, one of the lucky few whose penchant for self-promotion swept them from suburban banality into viral celebrity. But while she has spent some of her newfound social capital partying in Vegas penthouses owned by political moguls—including Donald Trump Jr.—she hasn’t quit her day job as an expert in audience analysis and information dissemination on behalf of the U.S. empire. Her personal brand blends military pin-up aesthetics with the post-irony of a Gen-Z art-school dropout, all broadcast in the paranoid syntax of covert military operations. When Lujan isn’t posing with night vision goggles and guns, she posts provocative selfies interspersed with CIA and FBI logos with captions like: “No one is immune to propaganda.”

In recent months, Lujan’s sudden virality has stoked conspiracy theories that she is a DoD-sponsored troll, created to bolster recruitment numbers amid near-record low enlistment among Gen Z. But whether or not this is true, Lujan reveals how the army benefits from America’s influencer economy. The military is not just relying on cute e-girls to attract chronically online Gen-Zers to the armed forces (although it’s also doing that). Influencers like Lujan help the army stoke ontological crises across the internet in a bid to consolidate its own authority.

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Shame people didn't bone up on propaganda before they went and became guinea pigs for the WEF.


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Do some research on this guy........Edward Bernays. Misinformation, disinformation, propaganda, lies and bullshit. He had it all.

From the link:

“The most interesting man in the world.” “Reach out and touch someone.” “Finger-lickin’ good.” Such advertising slogans have become fixtures of American culture, and each year millions now tune into the Super Bowl as much for the ads as for the football.

While no single person can claim exclusive credit for the ascendancy of advertising in American life, no one deserves credit more than a man most of us have never heard of: Edward Bernays.


How Consumer Propaganda Changed America | Epic Economics​

Jul 16, 2023


24:15

Dive into the compelling world of Edward Bernays with Epic Economics, the creators behind Economics Explained! Unearth how the father of PR engineered modern consumerism and set the stage for an era of overconsumption and planned obsolescence.
From his audacious role in boosting production in the auto industry, to the birth of President Wilson's propaganda initiatives and the legendary "Torches of Freedom" campaign, Bernays' influence stretches further than you can imagine.
Get ready to be fascinated by our exploration of the notorious "Green Ball" event and its role in shaping our insatiable appetite for the new. Discover the connections between Bernays' work, the Great Depression, and the advent of a consumerist society.
Powered by riveting narratives, expert insights, and captivating archival footage, this documentary will challenge your understanding of our consumption-driven world. Ready for the ride?
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Propaganda (lies - bullshit)
It's much more than just that.

Propaganda is the dissemination of information—facts, arguments, rumours, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion.

In other words, anything that is used influance others, could be considered as propaganda. Not just lies and bullshit. The truth itself can be used as propaganda.

So if there are times when you label something as propaganda and dismiss it, you could be dismissing the truth.
To know for sure would require further investigation, but most people have no interest in that.
 
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