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People have their heads in the clouds with these nonsensical paradigms of propaganda and paranoia ( "Paradigms of Propaganda and Paranoia," I like the sound of that!
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Schwarzenegger's Big Lie About Fish vs. Jobs he Big Lie "is a propaganda technique developed by Josef Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, and Adolph Hitler in the 1920s prior to their taking power in Germany in 1933.
CounterPunch 2009
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'Propaganda' is the one everyone quotes in BG&E music threads, however, because it has lyrics and it kind of serves as an overture for the themes of the game.
Beyond Good and Evil Official Soundtrack - A Review Ben Abraham 2009
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Propaganda is propaganda and it has absolutely nothing to do with reasons for and goals of wars.
Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts 2010
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Already Americans had read of numerous attacks in Europe and in the United States where a small but ruthless minority of anarchists practiced a violent strategy they called Propaganda of the Deed.
Scott Miller: The McKinley Assassination and Terrorism Today Scott Miller 2011
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- Edward Bernays writing in Propaganda, l928, from “Food & Water Journal”
It appears that liberal judges are allowing Al Franken to steal a seat in the senate. 2009
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As Chomsky noted, “Propaganda is to democracy as violence is to dictatorship.”
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Propaganda is a heady power, and lust, and perversely corrupted.
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- Edward Bernays writing in Propaganda, l928, from “Food & Water Journal”
It appears that liberal judges are allowing Al Franken to steal a seat in the senate. 2009
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Propaganda is when you make something up and spread it as truth (Tune in to Rush Limpnoodle for a perfect example of propaganda) No it's not propaganda, the Iraqi leader did go and talk to the Iranian leader after the Bush crew said it was a bad idea for any talks with Iran.
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"Every movie is technically propaganda, it just depends on what the themes are."
>>>http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/propa.html
Social proof is the tendency to believe what most people believe.
Identifying a few people who believe a proposition, and encouraging them to go public (especially repeatedly) creates the impression that lots of people are experiencing something real. Repeated affirmations create the impression that the assertion is true.
Appeals to authority
It may matter little that the expert is the only one in the universe with that opinion, if he or she is the only one whose opinions we often hear.
Politicians are persuaded to join in unfounded but politically advantageous rhetoric.
If a popular actor, media figure, politician, or local hero joins the process, more people will endorse the perceived reality.
Vivid examples -- especially dramatic case histories -- often influence judgments more than dull but more accurate quantitative examples.
Inviting the single child with a birth defect to the town hall meeting may overwhelm the fact that there are fewer birth defects in the neighborhood than in most similar residential areas.
Manipulators strive to divorce us from the facts rather than encouraging us to examine the evidence and reasoning of people who appear to disagree with us, they block communications and openly or indirectly try to persuade us that people who disagree with their views are dishonest, not trustworthy, incompetent, biased, racist, only concerned with money, insulting our intelligence, corrupt, betrayers of the American dream, and so on.
The subtext is: "Do not consider alternative points of view. Do what we tell you, without realizing that we are controlling you."
Like cult leaders, manipulators encourage us to close ranks and form an in-group suspicious of those who question the party line.
People tend to assume that the sensational represent reality.
Multiple chemical sensitivity and Gulf War syndrome are prime examples.
The existence of a name does not necessarily mean that there is a corresponding real event.
However, spurious allegations may appear plausible if associated with common symptoms. of human existence, especially if depicted by an expert.
Another misleading technique is the use of categorical terms that lead away from a more reassuring (and more reasonable) quantitative reality.
January 3, 2010