BRAINWASHING THE WORLD: EXPOSING ESTABLISHMENT
PROPAGANDA AND THOUGHT CONTROL
DR. NORMAN
LIVERGOOD
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[NOTE: The portions of this article which are in the
New Times Roman font appeared in the version of this article entitled
"Brainwashing
The puppet Bush regime, in collusion with the
subordinate Blair regime in Britain, are using new, aggressive forms of
brainwashing to change the very way people worldwide think and feel.
This is the psychological
dimension of the "High Cabal's" general onslaught against American
workers, just as the "war on terrorism" is the military dimension,
and corporate crime, tax cuts for the rich, and globalisation
comprise the economic dimension.
We are living under the
beginning stages of an American military dictatorship in precisely the same way
that 19930's Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.
As in the case of Nazi
Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainwashing) is a vital part of the Bush
regime's strategy.
New propaganda slogans are
being overtly and subliminally implanted by Bush and his gang through their
speeches and actions:
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dissent is treason
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constitutional liberties are less important than security
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the "war on terrorism" excuses any attacks on civil
liberties
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the Bush administration has the right and duty to bring about
"regime change" in any nation it chooses
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the economy is basically sound
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only a few bad apples are found in the corporate barrel, which
requires no new oversight laws
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if Bush and Cheney say they're not guilty of corporate crimes,
then believe it and shut up
PROPAGANDA AMERICAN STYLE
Some of these mind programming
tactics are so subtle that they can be overlooked in the hubbub of everyday
life. For example, are you aware that the very way in which the "public discourse" is
being carried on is a subtle brainwashing strategy? In 2002, the US Congress, the media, and the
man and woman on the street, are encouraged to ask only this question: How should the
What about the questions:
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Should the
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Does an unelected American president have the right to force a
"regime change" on another nation?
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Why aren't Americans up in arms about Bush starting a second
battle in his "war against freedom"?
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Why should American military personnel die merely for Bush's
insane quest for world domination and oil?
The Bush puppet regime is
engaging in other rather subtle brainwashingtactics:
- The Character
Myth
- an elaborate ruse as to who was to blame for 9/11
- psychic and
political numbing in preparation for war
INSANITY AS NORMALCY
The way in which the Bush
junta is conducting itself is an interesting
brainwashing technique in itself.
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Attorney General
John Ashcroft, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the others continually commit outrages but don't excuse them, explain
them, or invite reflection on these affronts to morality and sanity. In fact, when some timid media voice
criticises the Bush junta, the person is demonised as questioning behaviour
which is beyond reproach.
People worldwide are being
brainwashed to ask only the questions the Bushites
allow and they are programmed to see everything the Bush junta does as
unquestionably correct.
PERSONALITY PROFILING AND SIMULATION
While serving as Head of the
Artificial Intelligence Department at the US Army War College, 1993-95, I
conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and
brainwashing. I explored and developed
personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war
games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:
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unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs
and emotional patterns
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these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems
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these profiling systems can be used to program and control people
Personality simulation
systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles
to control their voting behaviour. TV
commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to
control their
purchasing and viewing behaviours. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing
techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep citizens worldwide under
control.
THE TECHNOLOGY OF THOUGHT AND BEHAVIOUR
CONTROL
The long evolution of
developing procedures to control human behaviour all came to a head in the
modern world with Pavlov, a Russian scientist.
Pavlov made the discovery that you can condition a dog to salivate on command
simply by associating food with the ringing of a bell. Once that association is fixed in the dog's
mind, the food can be removed and the dog will salivate merely when it hears
the bell.
Pavlov carried out identical
experiments on human beings with the same results. Those principles have been adapted to
television and motion pictures and can now make Americans salivate in response
to a wide array of bells and whistles.
We can call it phase one in the evolution of human behaviour control.
Phase two of Pavlov's work is
not as well known. During a particularly
severe storm in
What mysterious influence
could account for this remarkable turn of events, Pavlov wondered. So, being a good scientist, he studied
carefully what had transpired while he was away from the dogs. They had been left without food or
warmth. They had been isolated for days; some of them had
drowned. They had been subjected to
extreme stress, nevef knowing if they would live or die. These were the factors that had produced the
washing away of the previous conditioning from the dogs' brains - brainwashing.
Pavlov and other Russians
followed up this line of research, but it was the Chinese communists in the
1950's who first saw its real potential for use with
human beings. They employed these very
principles in brainwashing American and other Allied prisoners of war during
the Korean conflict. Isolation, periodic
denial of food or water, cold and exposure, extreme stress associated with
uncertainty of life or death - these conditions, together with a continual
barrage of indoctrination resulted in erasure of previous beliefs and behaviour
patterns in American soldiers in particular.
But brainwashing is not very
reliable, as the remarkable film "The Manchurian Candidate"
shows. The trigger mechanisms can be
tampered with, sometimes even erased, before the desired behaviour can be
carried out.
These procedures are only
used now by the CIA and other intelligence services for programming special
assassins (see the movie "Parallax View"). Neither classic Pavlovian conditioning nor
brainwashing can produce the general results that black-budget project
directors of intelligence services desire:
absolute control of a human personality.
To show to what extremes
the CIA is willing to go in developing the technology to control human behavior, they funded the "research" of Dr. Jose
Delgado. Delgado was infamous for implanting radio-activated electrodes in
animals (and possibly in humans).
In the pictures to the left he is demonstrating that his implants in a bull's
brain can stop it even after it starts to charge Delgado.
You may get a slight whiff of sulphur and brimstone as you read this quote from
Delgado:
"We need a program of psychosurgery and political
control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone
who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.
"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own
existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical
perspective.
"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal
orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day
armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the
brain."
Dr. Jose Delgado (MKULTRA experimenter who
demonstrated a radio-controlled bull on CNN in 1985) Director of
Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School Congressional Record No. 26,
Vol. 118, February 24, 1974
Phase three in the
development of thought and behaviour control techniques occurred at
In the mid-twentieth
century, B.F. Skinner developed the concept of operant conditioning in which a
subject - animal or human - receives reinforcement for desired behaviour.
The techniques of Pavlov,
Colby, and Skinner have been taken over by politicians, campaign managers,
television producers, and advertising executives. Today, the average person is bombarded with conditioning
messages throughout each day. We are
conditioned to believe, see, think, and act as other people choose. In study after study, cultural conditioning
instruments (TV, popular music, websites, newspapers, magazines) have been
shown to elicit specific behaviours on the part of the "receiver."
In this article I'm using
the word "brainwashing" in a non-technical sense to refer to any
attempt to influence or coerce another person.
All communication has some element of persuasion, even if only to persuade
a person to receive and/or consider the communication. So in some sense I'm attempting to
"brainwash" the reader of this article as does any communicator. You can distinguish between the positive and
negative "propaganda" or
"brainwashing" by asking these questions:
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Does the communication make it clear that it is trying to
persuade ("brainwash") the recipient? (reader,
viewer)
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If the propaganda is hidden or subliminal (below the ordinary
threshold of awareness) then the purpose of the communication is often to
control or manipulate the recipient.
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If the propaganda overtly acknowledges it is trying to persuade
or influence the recipient, and invites reflection on the message, then the
purpose may be benign or
positive.
* Does the
communication have the purpose of persuading the recipients to believe or act
In ways that are inimical to their own interests?
"The threat from the Elders of
Peter Phillips. (1969). The Tragedy of Nazi
In the case of the Bush administrations's propaganda efforts, I am arguing in this
article that persons being "brainwashed" are
being encouraged to believe and act in ways that are destructive of their
personal interests.
This article encourages
readers to reflect on what kind of propaganda ("brainwashing") they
are experiencing. Such reflection I
consider to be of benefit to the readers.
PROGRAMMING PEOPLE WORLDWIDE TO
ACCEPT NEW VIEWS OF WAR AND THE MILITARY
My time of service at the
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the varied mind-sets in the military
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the dynamic relationship involved in the civilian control of the
military
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brainwashing in the military
When the
"A Standing Army,"
From the beginning of the
establishment of a standing military, military personnel have had one of two
primary mindsets:
1) I will remain loyal to my sworn pledge to
uphold the US Constitution, no matter what.
If I consider a civilian or military order or operation to be
contradictory to the Constitution, I will not follow the order and will do
whatever is in my power to stop the unconstitutional operation.
This mind-set is represented
by such military leaders as (to name just a few):
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Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty
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General Frederick Woerner - commander
in
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Admiral William Crowe - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
replaced by Bush sr. when he wouldn't obey an illegal military order to attack
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the six US Joint Chiefs of Staff in the time frame:
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Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane
2) I will do whatever my civilian and military
commanders tell me to do, without reflection on whether or not what they are
ordering is permitted by the Constitution (since I want to get ahead in the
military). This mind-set is represented
by such people as:
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Colin Powell Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during George
Bush sr's presidency (took over when Admiral William
Crowe wouldn't agree to Bush sr's illegal invasion of
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General Norman Scharzkopf, commander of
the 1991 Gulf War against
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General Maxwell Thurman, commander of Operation Just Cause, the
military attack on
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the six Joint Chief's of Staff in the time frame:
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General Tommy Franks, current
"Militarism means a domination of the military
man over the civilian, an undue emphasis on military needs, policies, spirit,
values and ideals. . .
"Militariness means a
readiness to defend one's country's interests by force of arms, the acceptance
of the military profession as honourable and necessary. Only a complete
pacifist could validly condemn militariness. Others,
aware that wars are facts of life, however unpleasant, would agree that every
nation has to cultivate some militariness."
Peter Phillips. The Tragedy of Nazi
DISTORTED CONCEPTS OF WAR AND THE
MILITARY
On August 22, 2002, the
Department of Defense and the National Guard Bureau
in Washington, D.C. announced that the Iowa Army National Guard's 1st
Battalion, 194th Field Artillery, was being ordered to federal active duty to
locations within the United States for homeland security missions as part of Operation Noble
Eagle II.
This
constitutes an illegal operation on the part of the Bush junta in scrapping the
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. In a nutshell, this act bans the use of the
military against American civilians. 
Dubya's use of military personnel to control and harass the American civilian
population (and General Eberehart's and other
military leaders' mindless acceptance of this illegal action) is such an
outrage that the American people should immediately speak out against it and do
everything possible to see that this presidential crime is punished to the full
extent of the law.
The
use of
- Janet Reno's 1993 use of the Texas National Guard
and the army's Joint Task Force Six in attacking, burning, and murdering
more than 80 people, including 27 children in Waco, Texas
- the 1972 operation called
Since the Korean War, the
"High Cabal" has been brainwashing the public worldwide into new,
distorted concepts of war and the military:
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the military can be used by the
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for a police action in
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for a police action in
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of Panama to capture Noriega, a criminal that had been hired by Bush sr. as a
CIA operative and now threatened to reveal Bush's criminal activities in the
Iran-Contra and other gun-running, drug-smuggling operations
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for the invasion of
"Of
all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded
because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the
parent of armies;
from these proceed debts and taxes.
And armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing
the many under the
domination of the few.
In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is
multiplied; and all
the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of
the people. The same malignant aspect in
republic-
anism may be traced in the
inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state
of war…and in the degeneracy of manners and
morals, engendered by both.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual
warfare." James Madison,
THE "HIGH CABAL"
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
A number of rabid right-wing
organisations provide the Bush junta propaganda support:
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Project for the New American Century
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Center for Security Policy
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American Enterprise Institute
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Americans for Victory Over Terrorism - empower.org (William
Bennett, Jack Kemp)
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World Anti-Communist League (John Singlaub)
Any informed American is
aware that the "High Cabal" carries on its efforts to turn
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Council on Foreign Relations
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Trilateral Commission
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Bilderberg Group
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Carlyle Group
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World Bank and International Monetary Fund
The Council on Foreign
Relations is the "High Cabal's" mandarin stable, where sycophants
write articles and chair meetings to discuss what policies and strategies the
current puppet government must follow. A
recent Council on Foreign Relations Task Force report ordered the Bush
administration to upgrade public diplomacy because too many people in the
world, especially Arabs, don't like Americans.
Yowsuh! The Bush
puppet gang replied, and went into immediate action, creating a new Office of
Global Communications (OGC) to coordinate the administration's foreign policy
message and huckster
The
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the Voice of
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the Office of
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the Worldnet Television and Film
Service
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a new service, the Middle East Radio Network (MERN)
MERN's Radio Sawa, which began
broadcasting overseas on
The umbrella group running
this propaganda operation is Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an agency
of the
Pattiz, a wealthy contributor to former President Clinton,
describes the Radio Sawa mission as follows: "We are committed to making sure people
can hear
Programming includes
talk-radio shows where people can call in and ask questions about the
Fortunately, a large number
of people in the Arabic world are not taken in by the Bush regime's clumsy
effort to brainwash youth in the
"What's wrong with
propaganda?" asks Ayman El-Amir in the article just referred to. "Nothing, except if you claim that it is not
what it appears to be. Almost all
countries practice propaganda in one form or another, depending on the policy
agenda and the region of interest."
"The
"The
chances are the Arab youth themselves will split the strategy: take the
BUSH'S FAKE
ECONOMIC FORUM
As this article is being
written (August 2002), President Bush is trying to brainwash the American
people into thinking that the economy is okay, that only a few
"bad-apple" CEO's of corporations have
crossed the line of criminal behaviour, and that no new legislation is
necessary to stop runaway corporate crime that his administration has
encouraged.
Fortunately, a considerable
number of Americans, including even some of the usually supine press, are
seeing through this propaganda swindle.
A 13 August, 2002 MSNBC opinion piece by William Saletan
brands the effort "Bush's Fake Forum."
"This afternoon at the
President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, President Bush and Vice President
Cheney sat side by side on the stage of a packed auditorium for more than an
hour. That's the first time they've been
that close together for that long in public since Sept. 11. Evidently they're no longer afraid of
terrorists. What they're afraid of is
Americans."
A 14 August, 2002 Washington Post editorial called the
"forum" a confidence game.
"The theme of those
reports was that the country needs lower taxes, that most corporate executives
are honest and that the solution to corporate scandals is less, not more,
regulation.
"Recession and the cost
of war and the cost of homeland defense have
increased our deficits," Mr. Bush said yesterday. At his forum, there was no one to remind him
that tax cuts are playing their part, too.
In the real world, they're part of the arithmetic."
Frank Rich's 8/17/02
Op/Ed, "The
Waco Road to Baghdad" caught even more of the brainwashing
aspect of the fake forum.
"Though the
president's harshest critics think he's stupid, I've always maintained that the
real problem is that he thinks we are stupid. He never doubts that his show
will distract us from bad news. Waco was supposed to make us
forget the latest round of economic headlines: stagnant wages, slowed growth,
new all-time records in personal bankruptcies and consumer borrowing."
The fake forum was seen in
its true colours when the Bushites had to admit that
the participants were coached in what to say.
Their attempt to call the coaching material "talking points"
just didn't cut it.
PARADOXICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL
MANIPULATION
A powerful strategy of
clandestine brainwashing is to send a communication with, paradoxical messages.
For example, the movie
series "The Godfather," contained these two contradictory messages:
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mafia crime families are just like ordinary people
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a mafia criminal will kill his own family if necessary; don't think he would hesitate to kill you if
ordered to
Even intelligent people can
be taken in by this brainwashing technology of paradoxical messaging. An example of this phenomenon is a current
operation by the Advertising Council in the United States.
The Ad Council expresses its
overall purpose in this way: "We marshall [sic] the volunteer forces of advertising agencies
and media companies to affect [sic] positive social change." You can, in the example below, interpret
"effect positive change" as "brainwash people into fearful
submission."
One of the Council's current
operations is called the "Campaign for Freedom." If you believe the Council,
"The initiative is designed to assist Americans
during the war on terrorism through the development and distribution of timely
and relevant public service messages.
The first round of PSA's for the campaign has
been created to celebrate our nation's freedom and remind Americans about the
importance of freedom and the need to protect it for future generations."
"According to research, Americans are looking for
messages that will inform, involve and inspire them during the war on
terrorism. This inspirational campaign
is advertising's gift to America on the occasion of its birthday, Independence
Day." All of the ads conclude with
the powerful tagline, "Freedom.
Appreciate it. Cherish it. Protect it."
The first of six video clip
"messages" involves the image of an American urban block, with the
voiceover:
"On September eleventh, terrorists tried to change
America forever." The image changes
to the same urban street but this time with American flags hanging in front of
every house. "Well, they
succeeded." Now, that seems rather
prosaic, doesn't it? The message
is: "We showed those terrorists
what we're made of!" Nothing to
quarrel with, is there?
Well, maybe. Note the critical element of the
image/message: every house has a flag in front of it. So the paradoxical message is: America is changed forever to a 200 per cent
patriotism that can see no wrong with whatever the Bush administration
does.
I recommend you examine all
six Ad Council "messages" to see the paradoxical communications in
each (see www.adcouncil.org/campaigns)
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Theme
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Ordinary
Message |
Paradoxical
Message |
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Main Street |
We showed those 9/11
terrorists what we're made of. |
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Church |
Aren't you happy you
don't live in a war zone. |
You actually do live
in a war zone. |
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Library |
Aren't you glad you
live in a country where you can read what you want to and no one will bother you. |
You're living in a
country where police and intelligence agencies monitor what you read and can
arrest you on suspicion of subversive activity. |
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Diner |
Aren't you glad you
live in a country where you have free speech. |
You're living in a
country where you must be careful of what you say, because you can be
arrested for nothing more than dissent. |
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Arrest |
Aren't you glad you
live in a country where you can't be pulled over by a police officer, your
car searched, and your being arrested on nothing
more than suspicion. |
You actually live in a
country where you can be pulled over by a police officer, your car
searched, and your being arrested on nothing more
than suspicion. |
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Choice |
Aren't you glad your
supermarket aisles are full. |
Get ready for the
possibility that food won't be available. |
The other one I'll analyse
here is one in which a college age kid goes into a library and hands a list of
books on a request slip to a female librarian.
The boy says to the
librarian, "I can't seem to find these books anywhere." The librarian types them into a computer and
says "These books are no longer available." He says "I didn't know." The librarian says, in an accusatory voice,
"May I have your name please?"
"Why?" the boy replies. As he walks away, he's seized by two
men. "What did I do?" he asks in
desperation. "we
just have a couple questions." We
hear the kid gasping as they roughly drag him off.
The "message"
ends, as all six do with the tag:
"Freedom. Appreciate
it. Cherish it. Protect it."
Some rather bright people
have taken the "message" of this video clip to be" "Thank God, that can't happen in
You can only believe that
"message" if you don't know that the FBI is already checking
libraries to see what people are reading.
In other words, that isn't a scene of a non-reality but of a very
present reality.
"The average person
in the
Duane
People worldwide must wake
up to the Bush junta's brainwashing machinations and counteract the effect of
such mind manipulation.
FOOTNOTE: (1) The term used by L. Fletcher Prouty to designate the junta of elite rulers
Reference
- They Just Don't Want to Know; Of Dissidents and
Dissonance
- Political
Propaganda Is Cult Brainwashing
- Television and the Hive Mind
- Doublespeak and
the New World Order
- Mind Control and
the Secret State
- Mind Control
Experiments on Children
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