Hi Lew,
Ive been sending friends Lord Posonbys Ten Rules of Propaganda. He was one of the few Brits to oppose WWI and predicted the slaughter it would create for all. He then predicted the propaganda that would be used to sell it.
Little has changed.
Posonbys Ten Rules of Propaganda:
1. We dont want war, we are only defending ourselves
2. The other guy is the sole responsible for this war
3. Our adversarys leader is evil and looks evil
4. We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest
5. The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes
6. The enemy is using unlawful weapons
7. We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big
8. Intellectuals and artists support our cause
9. Our cause is sacred
10. Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.
#1: NeoconsNailed To: Ada (#0)
NeoconsNailed posted on 2022-03-17 11:10:30 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2022-03-17 11:28:08 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#0)
The Russians have turned Kiev into a ghost town and wasteland. Plus, there are a million and a half to two million refugees in Poland. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-03-17 16:44:40 Reply Private Reply
#4: Ada To: BTP Holdings (#3)
AFAWK the Russians are not yet inside Kiev. Whatever damage has been done is probably attributable to the militia.
Ada posted on 2022-03-17 17:51:53 Reply Private Reply
#5: randge To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
It sure is.
Edward Bernays ran that stuff up on a scientific basis and made it pay big time.
Bernays got millions of women to smoke who wouldn't otherwise have been seen holding a cigarette and helped the U.S. gov't install leaders where necessary by using the big megaphone and mass psychology.
Promotion of war is a stock in trade, and Bernays figured guys like him were doing a lot of good. As I remember, Mark Twain had something to say about those sorts of pikers.
randge posted on 2022-03-17 18:23:14 Reply Private Reply
#6: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
Josef Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister said, "The lie has no place in propaganda." ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-03-17 18:37:45 Reply Private Reply
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StraitGate posted on 2022-03-17 21:07:21 Reply Private Reply
#10: BTP Holdings To: randge (#5)
When we drove big trucks, some of my co- drivers were married. There was a sticker they put on window of a lizard wearing lipstick and smoking a cigarette. It had red circle slash overlaying the lizard. It meant NO LOT LIZARDS. They didn't care and would still knock on the door. :-/
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#11: BTP Holdings To: randge (#5)
Charles Lindberg warned that Germany was rearming in violation of the Versailles Treaty. But he was ignored.
Lindberg was also a non-interventionist. He redeemed himself by flying 50 missions in a B-26 in the south Pacific. ;)
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#12: randge To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
I avoid pejoratives, but I cannot say that I disagree with you at all.
randge posted on 2022-03-18 11:35:24 Reply Private Reply
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#16: NeoconsNailed To: BTP Holdings (#6)
www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15704991-hitler
NeoconsNailed posted on 2022-03-22 12:04:41 Reply Private Reply