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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Since the Town Hall protests were so loud, and the Democrat congresspeople were overwhelmed at the anger of their constituents, they have moved to phase 4 now. But don't worry Dear Reader and Friend, I will go into their Phase 2 and Phase 3 use of Propaganda Tactics.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 align="center">Why Is the Democrat Party Doing What It Accused the Republican, Libertarian Parties, Big Business and Insurance Companies of Doing?</h1>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend,</p>
<p>As I was about to go into the <b>second phase of the Democrat response</b> to the <i>true grassroots uprising and protest against the health care plan the Democrat Party is pushing</i> &mdash; Escalating name calling by using false accusations. Claiming it was big business, Republican Party, Libertarian party, drug companies, etc, who were providing funding to organize the protests&#8230; when clearly it was not&#8230; the Democrat party is now organizing what they are calling a grassroots movement. If it were truly a grassroots movement, there would be no need to organize it. People would show up of their own volition.</p>
<p>Since the Town Hall protests were so loud, and the Democrat congresspeople were overwhelmed at the anger of their constituents, they have moved to phase 4 now. But don&#8217;t worry Dear Reader and Friend, I will go into their Phase 2 and Phase 3 use of Propaganda Tactics.</p>
<h3>And Now on to Phase 4</h3>
<p>Create a <b>Fake</b> bandwagon. A <b>Fake</b> grassroots movement.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with some information I found in a book called <i>Man the Puppet: the art of controlling minds</i>. Written in 1925 by Abram Lipsky. Page 29</p>
<p>Lipsky has a very enlightening quote that pretty much sums up the Propaganda Device/Tactic the Democrat party is now using.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;<b>A minority in the political field mimics the majority by making a noise like a great multitude</b>, with mass-meetings, much public speaking, letters to the papers, league-long petitions. It thus appears like a great host attacking simultaneously at a hundred places, which is classical strategy of weaker against stronger forces in actual warfare.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<h3 align="center">Here is a story dated August 24 from the Politico.com</h3>
<p>You can find it at: <br />
<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26409.html" target="_new">http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26409.html</a></p>
<p>I will intersperse my comments within the story.</p>
<h3 align="center">Dems plan hundreds of reform rallies</h3>
<p>By: Chris Frates</p>
<p>August 24, 2009 08:24 PM EST</p>
<p>Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots (<b>Editor Note:</b> If it was truly a grassroots there would be no need for ANY organization to organize and/or push it) push Wednesday to show lawmakers that the majority of Americans still support overhauling the system. (<b>Editor Note:</b> The Democrat party is organizing their supporters for a &ldquo;grassroots&rdquo; effort to show Democrat politicians in congress that the people the Democrat party has organized want overhauling the current healthcare system).</p>
<p>Reform supporters are planning to hold more than 500 events between Wednesday and when lawmakers return to Washington Sept. 8, ranging from neighborhood organized phone banks (<b>Editor Note:</b> How can it be a grassroots effort if they are using organized phone banks? Who will those phone banks be calling? The elected representatives? The unions to come out an protest in favor of the Democrat plan?) to professionally staffed rallies with hundreds of people. (<b>Editor Note:</b> How can it be a grassroots effort if they are using professionally staffed rallies?)</p>
<p>The Democratic National Committee and its grassroots arm, Organizing for America, are helping to organize the effort along with the <i>Health Care for America Now</i>, a group pushing to create government-run insurance plan. (Editor note: So there we have it&#8230; The Democrat party, and thier organizations. Not concerned individuals, but party menbers.)</p>
<p>&rdquo;In these last few weeks of recess we want to demonstrate the energy, passion and commitment that the American people have to health insurance reform so that when members return after Labor Day they know that they can turn their attention to getting this done because they have the backing of the American people,&ldquo; said DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse. (Again, the Democrat National Committee, of the Democrat party is organizing Democrats to come out and contact Democrat legislators&#8230; <b>seems kind of like incest to me</b>&#8230; but maybe that&rsquo;s just me. Actually more like &mdash; to use a Democrat party term &ldquo;astroturfing&rdquo;).</p>
<p>Supporters have their work cut out for them. Many lawmakers were thunderstruck over the August recess by the anger and outrage expressed by their constituents in town hall meetings across the country (<b>Editors Note:</b> Now those protests were truly grassroots. The people speaking out did not have to be organized to speak out. They did it of their own volition.). And in poll after poll, support for reform has eroded throughout the month.</p>
<p>But Democrats and their allies insist that the majority of Americans still support reform (<b>Editor Note:</b> And exactly how do thye know that?) and have organized the grassroots campaign to buck up lawmakers as they get ready to head back to Washington.</p>
<p>A health-insurance-reform-now bus will travel the country starting Wednesday and anchor events in 11 cities: Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Des Moines, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Charlotte, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio.</p>
<p>But the talk of broad health insurance reform does not mean that progressives have backed off their push for a government-run insurance option.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We want members of Congress to get back to work and pass reform that means something. We need affordable care. We need real insurance regulation. And we need a strong public health insurance option,&rdquo; said HCAN spokeswoman Jacki Schechner. &ldquo;It’s doable and we expect it to get done now.&rdquo;</p>
<p><b>Editors Note:</b> HCAN is the acronym for Health Care for America Now.</p>
<p>Please go to their site so you can see who they are and who they represent.<br />
<a href="http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/who_we_are/" target="_new">http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/who_we_are/</a></p>
<h3 align="center">It&rsquo; a Good Lesson on Critical Thinking.</h3>
<p>Asking questions like:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>How do you know that&rdquo;s True? What proof do you have?</ul>
<ul>Who are you?</ul>
<ul>Who is behind you? What&rsquo;s your motivation?</ul>
<ul>What&rsquo;s in it for you?</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>This type of question can bring out the truth. Questioning the source of thier information,. who they are, and making them explain and prove what they say is true.</p>
<p><b>Remember the quote from the book <i>Man the Puppet</i> I started this post with</b></p>
<p>&ldquo;A minority in the political field mimics the majority by making a noise like a great multitude, with mass-meetings, much public speaking, letters to the papers, league-long petitions. It thus appears like a great host attacking simultaneously at a hundred places, which is classical strategy of weaker against stronger forces in actual warfare.&rdquo;</p>
<p>And to paraphrase the words of the young boy asking <i>Shoeless Jackson</i> about his helping to throw the World Series.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Say it ain&#8217;t so&#8230;&rdquo; Say it&rsquo;s not Democrat politicians, and Democrat party controlled organizations that are leading the protests for health care. Say and prove it&rsquo;s truly the will of the people being governed, that they really do want the Democrat propsed Healthcare. Unfortunately, they can not honestly say that. And they can not prove it. So unfortunately these efforts are &ldquo;astroturf&rdquo; &mdash; as the Democrat party would call it.</p>
<p>To paraphrase the words of Elmer Fudd &ldquo;da da, da da, da dat&lsquo;s all for today folks!&rdquo;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1 align="center">Town Hall Health Care Propaganda Devices At Work</h1>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend,</p>
<p>Thank you for joining me today! I know it&#8217;s been quite a while since we last spoke.</p>
<p>Today we are going to discuss something interesting. <b>Something current.</b>... today we are going to look at <b>the Health Care Town Hall Meetings</b>. How the Citizenry are rising up, and how the Democrats and their allies (AARP, the Unions, the Big Media -- TV news, newspapers, news magazines, etc. who have given up objective reporting and now specialize in puff pieces, and attacking the Democrats foes) are countering.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 align="center">Town Hall Health Care Propaganda Devices At Work</h1>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend,</p>
<p>Thank you for joining me today! I know it&rsquo;s been quite a while since we last spoke.</p>
<p>Today we are going to discuss something interesting. <b>Something current.</b> Something that if this country keeps going the way it is and this gets posted in a few years I would end up in a gulag (or prison on a military base for civilians). Let&rsquo;s hope it doesn&rsquo;t get that far.</p>
<p>Anyway, today we are going to look at <b>the Health Care Town Hall Meetings</b>. How the Citizenry are rising up, and how the Democrats and their allies (AARP, the Unions, the Big Media &#8212; TV news, newspapers, news magazines, etc. who have given up objective reporting and now specialize in puff pieces, and attacking the Democrats foes) are countering.</p>
<p><P>Remember, as the <i>New York Times</i> itself back in the days when it was more objective &mdash; said in an editorial, <b>September 1, 1937</b> said
<p>&ldquo; What is truly vicious, is not propaganda but a monopoly of it.&rsquo;</p>
<p>The now defunct <i><b>Institute for Propaganda Analysis</b></i> followed with &ldquo;This monopoly is seen most clearly in totalitarian states where all channels of communication are controlled by the government. The extent to which the propaganda machinery of a country has been brought under the control of one organization or a group of related organizations is a useful measure of the degree to which absolutism dominates it, of the extent to which democracy has been eliminated.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>For a while you saw almost exclusively grey haired grandmothers and grandfathers expressing their outrage at the proposed health care changes. They &liquor;Had it up to here!&rdquo; You saw well dressed business men and business women, mothers and fathers all showing up at the Town Hall Meetings making their voices heard. And their numbers felt. It was not organized protests, in the sense that a particular party or group called all their members and gave &ldquo;marching orders&rdquo; to go and protest. Far from it.</p>
<p>The Senators and Representatives home from Washington figured they would talk to some friendly audiences and then say &ldquo;Well, my constituents didn&#8217;t protest much so I can feel safe about voting for the President&#8217;s Health Care Bill, and I will still be re-elected&#8230; I&#8217;ll have the excuse that since they didn&#8217;t let me know they were against it, I thought they were for it.&rdquo;</p>
<h3 align="center">A Shot Heard Round The Country</h3>
<p><b>Then the first meeting took place.</b> The representative ran out of the Town Hall meeting completely flustered at the resistance to the Health Care Plan he was holding the Town Hall meeting on. Immediately, the media friendly to the Democrats came on TV stating something about how the &ldquo;Independents&rdquo; and &ldquo;Middle America&rdquo; (both Glittering Generalities) would see these protesters as &ldquo;wacko&rdquo;s&rdquo; (name calling), and become irritated. Editors Note&#8230; Here we see the start of a Propaganda Device. The Device is Name Calling. It also is subtlety combined with Bandwagon, and Glittering Generality, and a big dose of Card Stacking (of the name calling and glittering generalities).</p>
<p>You had some people who took video cameras with them and posted the videos &mdash; of the protests and the Washington politician running away &mdash; on the web. Soon people from other cities who had the same belief saw it was OK to protest. And protest loudly. Editors Note: the effect of putting the protests on the web and making them available to others is also a propaganda device of Bandwagon. As in &ldquo;See, we are doing it. Everyone is doing it. Come join.&rdquo; And so the common people flocked to the Town Halls.</p>
<p>Soon the Big Media talking heads started criticizing the people demonstrating, and speaking their minds. Shortly thereafter, the Big Media talking heads started looking for something&#8230; anything they could find to show these demonstrators at the Town Halls linked to insurance companies, the republican party, or anything else they cold intimate was controlling the protesters as if they were puppets. But alas for Big Media, they could not find anything solid to pin their claims to.</p>
<h3 align="center">Then it came time for the embattled Democrats to start firing their propaganda weapons.</h3>
<p>First they started with the Propaganda device and tactics of Card Stacking of Name Calling with Glittering Generalities.</p>
<p>Here is a sampling:</p>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend, these are in no particular order (Chronological or otherwise)</p>
<p><b>Let&rsquo; start with Senator Arlen Spector (D-PA)</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p>as reported <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_protests" target="_new">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_protests</a><br />
Sen. Arlen Specter said he thinks people who have been angrily disrupting town hall meetings on overhauling the health care system are &ldquo;not necessarily representative of America,&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Angrily disrupting &mdash; what picture does that conjure up in your mind?</p>
<p>&ldquo;representative of America&rdquo; a nice glittering generality. What is representative of America? And then add the words &ldquo;not necessarily&ldquo; meaning they are not.</p>
<p>Taken together he is saying the protesters are not American in their behavior or attitudes.</p>
<p><b>Claire McCaskill (D-MO)</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p>as reported <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_protests" target="_new">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_protests</a><br />
&ldquo;Representative Claire McCaskill admonished the rowdy crowd, saying &lsquo;I don&#8217;t understand this rudeness. I honestly don&rsquo; get it.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;rowdy crowd&rdquo; Once again we see a good example of name calling by the press</p>
<p>And according to McCaskill Protesters who are voicing their complaints are now (Name Calling)<b>&ldquo;<font color="#FF0000">Rude</font>&rdquo;</b></p>
<p>Let&rsquo;s move on to Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>as he said in an MSNBC interview &ldquo;Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it,&#8230; At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Let&lsquo;s see &ldquo;last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill&rdquo; Propaganda tactic/device of Transfer &mdash; Dingell is attempting to transfer the authority of the Civil Rights Bill (a glittering Generality in the sense &ldquo;Civil Rights&rdquo; is hard to define because it means so many things to different people). But he is attempting to transfer the authority and good feeling of Civil Rights to the Democrat proposed Health Care Bill.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it&rdquo; So Dingell is implying if you are against the Democrat Health Card Bill you are against Civil Rights&#8230; Looks like card stacking in one sentence, and a bit of Name Calling too</p>
<p>Then Dingell really get&lsquo;s into the Name Calling device &ldquo;Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Comparing the Town Hall protesters he represents to <b><font color="#FF0000">KKK</font></b> and <b><font color="#FF0000">White Supremacists</font></b>. Meaning if you are against President Obama&rsquo;s and the Democrats plan you are racist because Obama happens to be Black. And you sure don&#8217;t want to be (Name Calling) <b><font color="#FF0000">Racist</font></b>, or a (Name Calling) <b>&ldquo;<font color="#FF0000">White Supremacist</font>&rdquo;</b> so you better go along with the plan. And not speak out.</p>
<p>This fits in nicely with the portrait of US Citizen protesters Speaker of the House of Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) chimed in with</p>
<blockquote>
<p>as reported by <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=106158" target="_new"></a><br />
&ldquo;House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has accused attendees at health care town hall meetings of carrying swastikas – and the Democratic National Committee is now featuring photos of protesters with swastikas in its new video, claiming (Name Calling) <b>&lsquo;<font color="#FF0000">angry mobs</font>&rdquo;</b> are (Glittering Generality) &lsquo;seeking to destroy Obama.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>Pelosi was asked if she thought it&#8217;s legitimate grass roots opposition<br />
She responded, &ldquo;I think they are (Name Calling)<b><font color="#FF0000">Astroturf</font></b> … you be the judge,&rdquo; Pelosi answered. &ldquo;They&#8217;re carrying (Name Calling) <b><font color="#FF0000">swastikas</font></b> and symbols like that to a town meeting on health care.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And amazingly enough&#8230; shortly after this quote a Georgia Representatives office was defaced with a Swastika and gleefully reported on by the Big Media. Is it possible there was some sort of Hitler trick going on. You know, when he went to far as to have his Socialist Party cronies blow up the Reichstag and blame it on Communists.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Another Elected Democrat attack on the protesters&#8230; this one by Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA)</p>
<p>As reported <a href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/callaghan/story/841056.html" target="_new">http://www.thenewstribune.com/callaghan/story/841056.html</a><br />
Rep. Brian Baird (Tacoma WA) is the poster child, breaking with his tradition of holding frequent meetings with constituents (300 since 1999), because &ldquo;it&rsquo;s a lynch mob mentality out there.&rdquo; He even told his hometown Vancouver Columbian that reform opponents are using &ldquo;Brown Shirt tactics.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>So the people protesting have &ldquo;a <b><font color="#FF0000">lynch mob mentality</font></b>&rdquo; &mdash; nice bit of Name Calling and Glittering Generality</p>
<p>And the people protesting&#8230; his constituents protesting&#8230; the people he represents&#8230; he says because they are protesting they are <b>&ldquo;<font color="#FF0000">Brown Shirt tactics</font>&rdquo;</b> good bit of name calling. Referencing Hitler the Nazi&lsquo;s (the National Socialist German Worker&rsquo;s Party)</p>
<p>Then to truly drive her name calling points home Pelosi then teamed up with Representative Steny Hoyer of MD as reported in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-pelosi-hoyer-health11-2009aug11,0,5370363.story" target="_new">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-pelosi-hoyer-health11-2009aug11,0,5370363.story</a><br />
By Mark Silva<br />
5:05 AM PDT, August 10, 2009<br />
Reporting from Washington &mdash; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, insisting at the start of a long and politically heated summer congressional recess that health-care reform can be achieved this fall, today are calling the disruption of town-hall meetings by vocal protesters <b>&ldquo;<font color="#FF0000">simply un-American</font>.&rdquo;</b> (Name Calling)</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe it is healthy for such a historic effort (Glittering Generality) to be subject to so much scrutiny and debate,&ldquo; Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Hoyer (D-Md.) wrote in a USA Today opinion piece published today.<br />
&ldquo;However, it is now evident that an <b><font color="#FF0000">ugly campaign</font></b>(Name Calling) is underway <b><font color="#FF0000">not merely to misrepresent</font></b> (Name Calling) the health insurance reform (Glittering Generality) legislation, but to <b><font color="#FF0000">disrupt</font></b> public meetings and <b><font color="#FF0000">prevent</font></b> members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue (Name Calling combined with Glittering Generality and Card Stacking),&rdquo; the two leaders wrote. &ldquo;These disruptions are occurring because <b><font color="#FF0000">opponents are afraid</font></b> (Name Calling) not just of differing views &#8212; but of the facts themselves (Glittering Generality). Drowning out opposing views is simply <b><font color="#FF0000">un-American</font></b>.&rdquo;(Name Calling)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>And we will wrap up this segment with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) spoke up attacking the protesters in his district.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>As reported <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul" target="_new">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul</a><br />
WASHINGTON – The Senate&rsquo;s most powerful Democrat on Thursday scolded health care protesters dogging his party&rsquo;s lawmakers at local meetings, arguing that some critics on the political right have run out of ideas — and ditched their civic manners. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada accused the protesters of trying to &ldquo;<b><font color="#FF0000">sabotage</font></b>&rdquo; the democratic process.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Here we see the combined tactics of Name calling, Card Stacking, Glittering Generality, when Senate Majority Leader Reid says &ldquo;some critics on the political right have run out of ideas — and ditched their civic manners.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend, I have to say&#8230; these tactics the Democrat politicians are using smack of the Nazi propaganda template. Take a bit of name calling, and combine that with glittering generality, than add in a big heap of card stacking to try and drown them out.</p>
<h3 align="center">Name Calling Falls On Deaf Ears&#8230; What&lsquo;s Next Device/Tactic?</h3>
<p>As the Democrat Elected Politicians insults of their protesting constituents started having no effect. The Democrat leadership decided to move to another method.</p>
<p>In the next post, we will go into some other tactics being used.</p>
<p>To paraphrase the words of Elmer Fudd &ldquo;da da, da da, da dat&lsquo;s all for today folks!&rdquo;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>What has just been announced that is going to take place this evening June 16, 2009 is simply amazing. It shows the death of independent journalism. </p>
<p>The following has been excerpted from Taken from the newsletter dated <b>May 1938 </b>by the <i><b>Institute for Propaganda Analysis</b></i> the issue entitled</p>
<p align="center"><i>PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES OF GERMAN FASCISM</i></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1 align="center">ABC News&#8230; New State Propaganda Arm</h1>
<p>Dear Reader and Friend,</p>
<p>What has just been announced that is going to take place this evening June 16, 2009 is simply amazing. It shows the death of independent journalism. At least ABC is being honest about their beliefs and politics. They have dropped their facade of being unbiased in reporting.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe me?</p>
<p>Could this be the start of some form of Journalistic Totalitarianism and Fascism?</p>
<p>Read on dear reader&#8230;</p>
<p>The following has been excerpted from Taken from the newsletter dated <b>May 1938 </b>by the <i><b>Institute for Propaganda Analysis</b></i> the issue entitled</p>
<h2 align="center"><i>PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES OF GERMAN FASCISM</i></h2>
<p>Their newsletter starts&#8230;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo; &lsquo;What is truly vicious,&rsquo; observed The <i>New York Times</i> in an editorial, <b>September 1, 1937</b>, &lsquo;is not propaganda but a monopoly of it.&rsquo; This monopoly is seen most clearly in totalitarian states where all channels of communication are controlled by the government. The extent to which the propaganda machinery of a country has been brought under the control of one organization or a group of related organizations is a useful measure of the degree to which absolutism dominates it, of the extent to which democracy has been eliminated.</p>
<p>In democratic countries this monopoly aspect of propaganda is held in check by rivalries between competing organizations. Political, economic, educational, and religious spokesmen are able to and actually do disseminate rival propaganda. This gives those at whom the rival propagandas are directed some freedom of choice among the alternatives offered them.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Think about that for a minute&#8230;</p>
<p>&ldquo;What is truly vicious,is not propaganda but a monopoly of it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>In democratic countries this monopoly aspect of propaganda is held in check by rivalries between competing organizations.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s change the word democratic to free thinking&#8230; or better yet, populations who think critically</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s make that read&#8230;
<p>In democratic countries this monopoly aspect of propaganda is held in check by rivalries between competing organizations.</p>
<p>A few paragraphs later in the newsletter they state the fact &ldquo;The power of propaganda increases as its control becomes more centralized, as the trend to monopoly increases.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Remember this point&#8230; it is very important to understand what is going on today.</p>
<p>The power of propaganda increases as its control becomes more centralized.</p>
<p>The article continues&#8230;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;This process is stimulated by the centralization of the control of the economic structure of a country. A tendency toward a monopoly of wealth is accompanied by a corresponding tendency toward a monopoly of propaganda.</p>
<p><b>Contrasted with the relative freedom for the dissemination of propaganda in democracies is the complete or nearly complete elimination of this freedom in totalitarian countries.</b> Fascist Germany illustrates how propaganda is used both to bring a dictator into power and to aid him in maintaining that power. In Germany the propaganda which helped convince the people of the efficiency of the National Socialist solution for the country&rsquo;s political and economic problems was reinforced by an army of storm troops that weakened opposition through terrorism. Such methods made difficult and dangerous the promulgation of competing propagandas. The power of the Nazi propaganda was increased further by the financial support of certain business men and by the political intrigues of Colonel Franz von Papen and other officials of the Weimar Republic.</p>
<p>With the establishment of the National Socialist regime its monopoly of propaganda was rapidly achieved. Suppression of opposition was thorough. Every source of public information and nearly every instrument capable of affecting public opinion came under its control. Although some of the church groups were difficult to dominate, in general the National Socialist propaganda drive went forward with a thoroughness which exceeded at of World War propaganda.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 align="center">Basic Totalitarian Propaganda Control</h2>
<p>Let&rsquo;s have a quick look at what this teaches us about how a dictator, or group can gain complete control&#8230; the first basic steps.</p>
<p>
<ol type="A">
<b>
<li>Shut down the ability of opposing voices to be heard.</li>
<p></b></p>
<li>Once the ability of opposing voices can easily be heard, there is no major dissention. The party controlling the message gets their way.</li>
<p>
<b>
<li>In totalitarian states all channels of communication are controlled by the government&#8230; or at least the major ones are in sympathy with the government and have lost their objectivity in their reporting</li>
<p></b></p>
<li>The extent to which the propaganda machinery of a country has been brought under the control of one organization or a group of related organizations is a useful measure of the degree to which absolutism dominates it, of the extent to which democracy has been eliminated.</li>
<p>
<b>
<li>This process is stimulated by the centralization of the control of the economic structure of a country. A tendency toward a monopoly of wealth is accompanied by a corresponding tendency toward a monopoly of propaganda.</li>
<p></b>
</ol>
</p>
<h2 align="center">Chicken Little?</h2>
<p>So am I a <i>Chicken Little</i>?</p>
<p>I invite you to consider this&#8230; In pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany, the government forcefully took over the message. The broadcasters and news reporters had little choice. Get arrested, or beaten up by Storm Troopers, or Killed&#8230; or go with the government.</p>
<p>The government here in the USA is not threatening the big media/mainstream media. Not with violence. Not with beatings. Not with organized protests. Not with taking away their businesses should they not toe the government line, or question government authority or proposals. None of that is going on.</p>
<p>While the majority of the news organizations in pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany had to be forcefully brought into compliance with the government leaders demands they (the independent and free news organizations) toe the government line. They did not willfully abdicate their independence. No my friends it was forced on them.</p>
<h2>So What Is Going On Today?</h2>
<p>News flash of today&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm"target="_new">http://drudgereport.com/flashaot.htm</a></p>
<h3 align="center">ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE</h3>
<p>Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET</p>
<p>On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care &mdash; a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm! </p>
<p><b>Highlights on the agenda:</b></p>
<p><i>ABCNEWS</i> anchor <i>Charlie Gibson</i> will deliver <i>WORLD NEWS</i> from the Blue Room of the White House.</p>
<p>The network plans a prime time special &mdash; &lsquo;Prescription for America&rsquo; &mdash; originating from the East Room, <b>exclude opposing voices on the debate.</b></p>
<h3 align="center">ABCNEWS&rsquo; Unfair Use of Propaganda Devices</h3>
<p>Can you see the propaganda tactics ABCNEWS is using?</p>
<p><b>Very Blatant for people who understand how to see propaganda being used.</b></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s enumerate them&#8230;</p>
<ol type="i">
<li><b>Transfer &mdash;</b> Remember the Propaganda Device of Transfer carries the authority, sanction, and prestige of something or someone respected and revered over to something or someone else in order to make the later acceptable; or it carries authority, sanction, and disapproval to cause us to reject and disapprove something the propagandist would have us reject and disapprove.<br />
 Good ol Charlie Gibson is broadcasting from the Blue Room of the White House. According to Wikipedia the Blue Room is one of three state parlors on the first floor in the White House, the residence of the President of the United States. It is distinct for its oval shape. The room is used for receptions, receiving lines, and is occasionally set for small dinners.<br />
 And the ABCNEWS Prime time special &lsquo;Prescription for America&rsquo; originating from the East Room of the White House. The East Room is also where a lot of Presidents of the USA give press conferences, and speeches.</li>
<p></p>
<li><b>Card Stacking &mdash;</b> this is taking place in the prime time special. Remember the Propaganda Device of Card Stacking involves the selection and use of facts and half truths and even lies, illustrations, distractions, and logical or illogical statements in order to give the best or worst possible case for an idea, program, person, or product. Just keep piling on &ldquo;evidence&rdquo; in his/her favor.<br />
In the case of the ABCNEWS Prime time special, they are not allowing dissenting voices to be heard to refute their &ldquo;journalists, and unbiased reporters&rdquo; claims in their piece.</li>
<p></p>
<li><b>Testimonial, and Plain Folks &mdash;</b> are being used in the title of their Prime time Special&#8230; &ldquo;Prescription for America&rdquo;. Remember the Propaganda Device of <b>Testimonial</b> this can either be telling a story of how someone or something got to this point, or it can be having a respected or hated person say a given idea, action, or person, or group is good or bad. And the Propaganda Device of <b>Plain Folks</b> is the method to make people feel the speaker or group the speaker represents is just like them “one of us” or the speaker attempts to convince his/her audience that he/she and his/her ideas are good because they are &ldquo;of the people&rdquo; the &rdquo;plain folks&ldquo;</li>
<p>
</ol>
</p>
<p>Now, bear in mind&#8230; President Obama did not force ABC to do this. He did not force any news organization to do or report anything, or eliminate reporting on dissenting voices. Not at all, though I&#8217;m sure he appreciates the brown nosing of the news organizations. They are doing it of their own volition. Their own free will.</p>
<h2 align="center">Something Stinks!</h2>
<p>Quite Frankly&#8230;</p>
<p><b>It&#8217;s Disgusting!</b></p>
<p>In protest I am boycotting ABC&#8230; Every show on ABC&#8230; Until they have a change in management that is willing to present balanced viewpoints. Not engaging in propaganda techniques, and not shutting out those who believe differently than they do.</p>
<p>I invite you to join me. There are better things to do than to watch ABC TV.</p>
<p>Rather than masquerading as a News Show&#8230; Charlie Gibson should just admit it is a political speech he is giving. He could run an editorial and state it <b>IS</b> and editorial <b>BEFORE</b> giving it. If he and ABCNEWS producers and staff believe their side is right. Give the editorial from wherever they choose. But clearly state it is an editorial.</p>
<p>For anyone&#8230; of any belief&#8230; If you believe your side is right, then you welcome debate. Because then you can show how right your side is and how wrong the other side is. That is the worst case. The best case is both sides eyes get opened, and an even better solution comes about.</p>
<p>So ABCNEWS&#8230; What are you afraid of?</p>
<h2 align="center">But with the big media (newspapers, magazines, tv) behaving the way they are now&#8230;</h2>
<p>No wonder people turn to <i>Fox News</i>, the Internet, blogs, etc. to get their unbiased and clearly stated biased information that does not toe the party line.</p>
<p>And before you attack me over &ldquo;Fox News is a right wing conservative bias network.&rdquo; Have you heard the news how their main Prime time news anchor Shepard Smith had a melt down calling people who are demanding to see President Obama&rsquo;s birth certificate &ldquo;crazies&rdquo; and are &ldquo;way out there on a limb &#8230; out there in a scary place.&rdquo; Have you watched the programs where they have smart thinking people who vociferously defend their side in debates on the shows. Yes they have republican AND democrat politicians, campaign managers, and party leaders.</p>
<p>Unfortunately they do not include the Libertarian party spokespeople as well. It would be nice to get a full well rounded debate&#8230; but that&#8217;s for another time and post.</p>
<p>Personally, being a critical thinker, I like to get all sides of an argument and un-skewered facts and figures BEFORE making up my mind. How &lsquo;bout you?</p>
<p>As Porky Pig says Da, da, da, da, da,  dat&rsquo;s All Folks!</p>
<p>See you next time.</p>
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		<title>Congratulations President Elect Barack Obama!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations President Elect Barack Obama!
Congratulations go out to President Elect Barack Obama.
You sir, did a magnificent job. In fact your whole team did&#8230;. From your winning smile, you oratory abilities, your ability to suppress and not show anger, your choosing a superb campaign manager who ran a pretty much brilliant campaign, the way your staff [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1>Congratulations President Elect Barack Obama!</h1>
<p>Congratulations go out to President Elect Barack Obama.</p>
<p>You sir, did a magnificent job. In fact your whole team did&#8230;. From your winning smile, you oratory abilities, your ability to suppress and not show anger, your choosing a superb campaign manager who ran a pretty much brilliant campaign, the way your staff was able to utilize the &ldquo;new media&rdquo;, the people who worked your web site and created all the grass roots support and ability to instantly mobilize them; the long hours and hard and dedicated work of your grass roots; you planning and being in it for the long haul; and more&#8230; BRILLIANT!</p>
<p>Additionally, your use of propaganda in swaying people to your side was unequaled in quite some time.</p>
<p>All I can say is&#8230;</p>
<h2>Genius! Genius! Genius!</h2>
<h1>Congratulations Again!</h1>
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