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July 19th, 2010

Future of the News
PR/Propaganda
Discussions underway at the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission point toward a dangerous new effort to regulate what Americans read and hear. The takeover under discussion would apply across the board to print media, radio and television, and the internet. The result of proposed regulations would be nothing less than an end to free speech in America. ..The FTC and FCC proposals are convoluted and numerous, but the net effect is to subsidize liberal news while taxing and restricting conservative media. This dangerous censorship is disguised as a well-intentioned program to "save the news." In fact, it is little different from the sort of limitation of free speech that is practiced in every totalitarian dictatorship.

July 9th, 2010

CNN fires editor over Hezbollah remark
PR/Propaganda
CNN has fired a senior editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi'ite cleric branded a terrorist by the United States, U.S. and British media said on Thursday...Octavia Nasr, a 20-year CNN veteran based in Atlanta, wrote on Twitter: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah ... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot," the New York Times reported. Some supporters of Israel saw the Twitter posting almost immediately and took issue with it, the Times said.

Canada Knocks Out Flu, U.S. Public Kept In The Dark
PR/Propaganda
Canada the last four years totaled sixteen "flu-associated" fatalities for their paediatric age category, defined as everybody under 18, and this included all H1N1 and seasonal cases. Three-quarters of these deaths had severe and chronic underlying health conditions, as did the mortality of a similar percentage of adults over 18...Importantly, this has taken place with 60% (or more) of their paediatric group remaining unvaccinated.

April 5th, 2010

Senators Question Flawed NASA Climate Data
PR/Propaganda
After admitting that the United States' own climate data was worse than the Climategate-tainted University of East Anglia’s, two U.S. Senators are demanding answers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

A Superstorm for Global Warming Research
PR/Propaganda
"I am 100 percent confident that the climate has warmed," Jones says imploringly. "I did not manipulate or fabricate any data." His problem is that the public doesn't trust him anymore. Since unknown hackers secretly copied 1,073 private emails between members of his research team and published them on the Internet, his credibility has been destroyed -- and so has that of an entire profession that had based much of its work on his research until now.

April 2nd, 2010

Charlotte Iserbyt – Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World
PR/Propaganda
Video. Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), US Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms.

March 17th, 2010

Over half your news is spin
PR/Propaganda
After analysing a five-day working week in the media, across 10 hard-copy papers, ACIJ and Crikey found that nearly 55% of stories analysed were driven by some form of public relations.

November 30th, 2009

Unearthed Files Include “Rules” for Mass Mind Control Campaign
PR/Propaganda
The intruded central computer was not only filled to the brim with obvious and attempted ostracizing of scientists who don’t blindly follow the leader, the files also reveal that the folks of the IPCC made use or considered making use of a disinformation campaign through a ‘communication agency’ called Futerra...“For brands to succeed in this new world order, they will have to become eco, ethical and wellness champions.”

The bootstrap theory of propaganda
PR/Propaganda
THE New York Times and US politicians are, through assertion and repetition, attempting to create as common knowledge the idea that Iran has a nuclear weapons programme and that the last presidential election in Iran was fraudulent, even though there is no evidence to back either claim...This might be called the bootstrap theory of propaganda: legitimise an assertion by treating it as true, and when most of the world believes it’s true, offer the reality that everyone believes it to be true as evidence it is.

November 22nd, 2009

In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes
PR/Propaganda
In one e-mail, the center's director, Phil Jones, writes Pennsylvania State University's Michael E. Mann and questions whether the work of academics that question the link between human activities and global warming deserve to make it into the prestigious IPCC report, which represents the global consensus view on climate science.

November 5th, 2009

H1N1 vaccine shortage fabricated to create hysteria, boost demand?
PR/Propaganda
Jennifer pointed out that she thought the vaccine shortage had been intentionally engineered to create greater demand once the vaccines were available. This immediately got me thinking about a chapter in the Cialdini book that writes about something I call the "disappearing cookies in the cookie jar" experiment...What this study caused researchers to realize is the influence power of a recently-reduced supply of a given item. Or, put another way, people want what other people are taking, and the more other people are reducing the available supply, the more people want it!

October 21st, 2009

Pentagon used psychological operation on US public, documents show
PR/Propaganda
Raw Story has also uncovered evidence that directly ties the activities undertaken in the military analyst program to an official US military document’s definition of psychological operations -- propaganda that is only supposed to be directed toward foreign audiences.

October 16th, 2009

MIT grad shows CDC mind-behavior control duping doctors and public to buy vaccine
PR/Propaganda
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) officials are almost ready for their PR company to unleash a sophisticated, powerful H1N1 'swine flu' vaccine multimedia marketing campaign to dupe doctors and exploit society's most vulnerable through what social scientists call mind control that aims for behavior control...By focusing on the message of dire health threats and human casualties upon those who don’t really need to be vaccinated, the CDC will reach its milestone of “framing of the flu season in terms that motivate behavior."

Rivera, O’Reilly Smear Sheen As “Crazy” For Questioning 9/11
PR/Propaganda
Geraldo Rivera went after Charlie Sheen and dismissed his call for a new investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001, as the ravings of a lunatic. “It’s like one of these things like Area 51 with the aliens in New Mexico,” said Rivera (Area 51 is in Nevada). “I think [Sheen] has a trip gene, or a screw loose.”

Swine Flu Vaccine Propaganda In NY Times’ Lessons For 6th Graders
PR/Propaganda
The New York Times has produced a detailed lesson plan for students in grades 6-12 that pushes the H1N1 flu vaccine and sets about debunking what the editors describe as “myths” surrounding the swine flu shot...It then suggests that outside of the classroom the students should educate others in their school or in their community by creating posters or short videos “based on the myths they researched”.

September 2nd, 2009

Abusing School Kids With Pro-Obama Propaganda
PR/Propaganda
On September 8th (the first day of classes for many school kids) the President will address them live about the importance of education...For those who consider this an appropriate use of classroom time at the very beginning of the school year, ask yourself the question: how would you respond had President Bush ordered teachers to get students to write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president?

August 30th, 2009

MSM: WHO Warns Of Severe Form Of Swine Flu
PR/Propaganda
Doctors are reporting a severe form of swine flu that goes straight to the lungs, causing severe illness in otherwise healthy young people and requiring expensive hospital treatment, the World Health Organisation said Friday...WHO said it was advising countries in the Northern Hemisphere to prepare for a second wave of pandemic spread.

August 23rd, 2009

Swine Flu Campaign Waits on Vaccine
PR/Propaganda
The shots in the arms and squirts up the nose will happen in schools, medical offices, hospitals, public health clinics, workplaces, drug stores and at mass vaccination events, possibly including drive-through clinics in parking lots where people would stick their arms out their car windows for a stab..."People's enthusiasm will depend largely on what they see happening around them," Fauci said. "If we get into the fall season and we don't see an explosion of cases, people will be less enthusiastic. If they see a lot of young people and kids getting sick, people will be very enthusiastic about getting vaccinated."

August 17th, 2009

Healthy food obsession sparks rise in new eating disorder
PR/Propaganda
Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating. If you don't want to eat GMO foods and toxic additives you must be crazy!

August 7th, 2009

Having Children Brings High Carbon Impact
PR/Propaganda
Having children is the surest way to send your carbon footprint soaring, according to a new study from statisticians at Oregon State University. Not to mention they exhale that nasty CO2!

August 6th, 2009

Homeland Secretary Napolitano predicts severe flu epidemic for fall
PR/Propaganda
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asserted Tuesday that pandemic flu is likely to flare up soon after schools open in the fall, well before any vaccine is available.

August 1st, 2009

'The Peep Diaries': Everybody's watching
PR/Propaganda
There was only one problem with Haines' presentation: He could not explain how surveillance would do us in. From where I sat, surveillance worked on behalf of people against authority, not the other way around...So what if we breeze through camera-monitored toll plazas and stroll sidewalks policed by electronic eyes? As long as we're not doing anything wrong, the electronic witness can only help us.This is the kind of silly opinion piece that enables and encourages the end of privacy.

July 31st, 2009

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites
PR/Propaganda
Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists.

July 27th, 2009

Washington Post Attacks Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders, and Their Bills to Audit the Fed
PR/Propaganda
Confirming that the Post is just another puppet of the powers-that-be in D. C.

July 24th, 2009

Obama’s drug czar: Marijuana ‘has no medical benefit’
PR/Propaganda
Even though Kerlikowske’s former city is famously tolerant of marijuana — which is less harmful and less addictive than America’s most popular, legal intoxicant, alcohol — that did not stop America’s new drug czar from demeaning the president’s position on medicinal use, telling a crowd in Fresno, California on Wednesday that marijuana is “dangerous” and “has no medical benefit,” according to The Fresno Bee.

Magnetic forces to blame for 9/11 tower collapse
PR/Propaganda
Scientists can finally explain why the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11, despite the temperature of the fires being well below the 1,500C melting point of the steel girders holding up the buildings...The discovery that unusual magnetic forces within the girders made them weak at temperatures of about 500C explains away the conspiracy theories that have spread like wildfire since the disaster. I guess 911 Truth has been hitting too close to home...

July 22nd, 2009

Flesh-eating robots turn vegetarian
PR/Propaganda
It sounded like something pulled straight from a grisly scene in Terminator: an unstoppable military robot that powered itself by devouring everything in its path – including trees, grass and even, according to reports, dead bodies. But after a string of headlines that labelled the machine a "corpse eater", the robot's creators have gone on a public relations offensive to extinguish the rumour that their invention will feed on human or animal flesh.

Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda
PR/Propaganda
Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel.

July 21st, 2009

Swine flu threat greater than terrorism, says Home Secretary
PR/Propaganda
"We have been preparing for this for a long time. It came actually above terrorism as a threat to this country..." Mr Johnson told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: "What we are finding is that it is attacking the young rather than the elderly, who traditional seasonal flu would attack.

July 20th, 2009

Subliminal advertising and original thought
PR/Propaganda
Mind control techniques have taken many forms throughout history, from hypnotic speeches, instilled social stigmas, stained glass, to trenchant laws. Today, persuasive techniques are main-stream. So cleverly done, fake news, designer propaganda, and buyer-seller scripts are in wide use by both government and corporations...

July 18th, 2009

Laying propaganda out in the open
PR/Propaganda
The dictionary is a listing of 25 rules for effective communication ``with many specific words and phrases to help you communicate effectively in support of Israel''. Now widely available on the internet, the document should be a must-read for spinmeisters, political analysts and others who need to learn how to lie convincingly and get paid handsomely.

July 14th, 2009

The planet's future: Climate change 'will cause civilisation to collapse'
PR/Propaganda
Half the world could face violence and unrest due to severe unemployment combined with scarce water, food and energy supplies and the cumulative effects of climate change...the authors of the report, produced by the Millennium Project – a think-tank formerly part of the World Federation of the United Nations Associations – set out a number of emerging environmental security issues.

July 13th, 2009

States told to prepare for worst-case swine flu scenario
PR/Propaganda
Obama urged state and local officials, including school districts, to prepare for a vaccination campaign in the fall and to anticipate that the virus could significantly affect schools.

Global warming alarmism enriches Gore, bankrupts the rest of us
PR/Propaganda
For those who don't know my position on global warming alarmism and its insidious uses, it is that this phenomenon is the greatest hoax in modern times and is being used to achieve things - bad things - quite apart from its ostensible goal of "saving the planet."

Video: Blitz of “Cyber Attacks” as Rockefeller Bill Approaches
PR/Propaganda
A determined propaganda blitz is well underway as the government sets the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access. In other words, the bill allows the government to impose authoritarian control over electronic communications.

July 9th, 2009

McKinney Kidnapping Ignored By Media
PR/Propaganda
Had it not been for twitter, I doubt that I would even have been aware that Cynthia McKinney was held hostage in Israel after attempting to deliver aid and supplies to the Palestinians. There has been a resounding silence on this issue as CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream media sources rush to give us the latest news on the death of Michael Jackson.

Are “Cyber Attacks” Propaganda For Cybersecurity Act of 2009?
PR/Propaganda
You’ve probably heard or read some of the breathless corporate media reports in the past few days about "cyber attacks" against the U.S. government. Is all this a propaganda blitz to grease the skids for passage of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009? If passed, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 will allow the U.S. President to shut down the internet and will give the government authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any regulation, law, rule or policy restricting that access.

July 8th, 2009

TV ads make children choose more junk foods
PR/Propaganda
Influenced by TV ads, children tend to choose more junk food, increasing the risk of weight gain, a new study suggests.

July 7th, 2009

The Digital TV Transition: Three Conspiracy Theories
PR/Propaganda
As you (hopefully) know, the long-awaited and once-delayed transition from analog to digital television broadcasting is finally happening. ..Sometimes though, commentary on the DTV transition went beyond mere criticism and veered into the realm of those who think that the moon landing was faked, that 2pac is still alive, and that the second gunman on the grassy knoll was taking orders from Castro. That's right, conspiracy theorists!

July 6th, 2009

Global warming cover up?
PR/Propaganda
Global warming may not be occurring primarily because of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

July 4th, 2009

Obama Admin to Depopulate This Fall 2009
PR/Propaganda
Video. The View's Meredith Viera interviews NBC News Chief Medical Editor on Obama's unprecedented plan to vaccinate the US population against the swine flu with a series of three injections

June 30th, 2009

Swine flu parties 'a bad idea'
PR/Propaganda
Dr Jarvis, who was speaking in his BMA capacity at the union's conference in Liverpool, admitted getting the virus now was likely to give people immunity even if it mutated slightly to become more virulent. Does that sound like a bad idea to you?

Ex psychiatric bible chief slams new secret committee:
PR/Propaganda
The forthcoming revision of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual, the DSM-V, is controversially being written behind closed doors and has already sparked criticisms for its lack of openness to outside scrutiny.

June 28th, 2009

Daily Kos ban on 9/11 Truth
PR/Propaganda
As many of us are aware, the Daily Kos is one of those supposedly "progressive" websites which puts an outright ban on 9/11 truth...

June 27th, 2009

Census Bureau: We're Working With Bachmann To 'Explain The Rules Of The Census'
PR/Propaganda
In a radio interview with the Washington Times, Bachmann said that she and her family would ignore most of the survey's questions and answer only "how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that." The site calls her a 'fearmonger' suggesting she needs to be re-educated...

June 25th, 2009

Myths and Lies
PR/Propaganda
We are being told that the elections were rigged, even though western pollsters all had Ahmadinejad ahead by a 2 to 1 margin on election’s eve. This matters not to our government which continues to place politicians in press conferences dutifully covered by a pliant press corps...Democracy has never…I REPEAT NEVER been a real principle animating our foreign policy.

June 24th, 2009

Fox New caught using a plant!
PR/Propaganda
Douglas Maher, was planted in the room to give his Neocon speeches. He called Ron Paul insane and said none of the candidates were to the right enough.

June 15th, 2009

How the spooks took over the news
PR/Propaganda
For the first time in human history, there is a concerted strategy to manipulate global perception. And the mass media are operating as its compliant assistants, failing both to resist it and to expose it.

Iran's Election: The Odds of Fraud
PR/Propaganda
An outfit caled Terror Free Tomorrow claims in an op-ed in today's Washington Post that the contested Iranian elections likely were not fraudulent...

June 13th, 2009

'Lone wolf' terrorists harder to stop
PR/Propaganda
"Today the vast majority of domestic terrorist attacks are in fact lone wolf or so-called leaderless resistance attacks," said the center's Mark Potok. "There are very few ways to prevent them ... short of assigning a police officer to every person in America."

China’s Porn Filter Blocks Falun Gong Sites
PR/Propaganda
Internet filtering software that China plans to distribute nationwide blocks content related to a spiritual movement banned in China, despite government claims that the software targets only porn.

May 14th, 2009

Swine flu pandemic declared by World Health Organization
PR/Propaganda
The H1N1 virus is spreading in distinct regions of the globe. But the WHO says the pandemic is only 'moderate in severity' and cautions against overreaction by the public.

May 13th, 2009

Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote
PR/Propaganda
The sociology major's obituary-friendly quote -- which he added to the Wikipedia page of Maurice Jarre hours after the French composer's death March 28 -- flew straight on to dozens of U.S. blogs and newspaper Web sites in Britain, Australia and India. They used the fabricated material, Fitzgerald said, even though administrators at the free online encyclopedia twice caught the quote's lack of attribution and removed it.

Recession is Over According to Financial Experts
PR/Propaganda
There is a growing belief among financial experts that the recession is over.

May 11th, 2009

No Room for Info Warriors in YouTube’s Hulu-ized Universe
PR/Propaganda
In order to realize a profit, YouTube has penned deals with with CBS, Lions Gate, MGM, Disney, ESPN and other corporate leviathans...“Those overtures have led some observers to question YouTube’s long-term ability to serve both its homegrown community and Hollywood, with its emphasis on professionally produced content and tight copyright controls,” Chris Snyder wrote for Wired last month...YouTube and its parent Google are in th e process of "ghettoizing user-generated clips" and deliberately Hulu-izing the site in order to make it acceptable to its corporate partners. YouTube claims it can and will balance both.

May 10th, 2009

GCSE pupils 'brainwashed to support the MMR vaccine'
PR/Propaganda
Teenagers sitting a GCSE science exam were awarded marks only if they agreed that the study that first raised fears over the safety of MMR was bad science and biased because money changed hands.

Bloggers, TV, Go Nuts Over Misleading ‘Patriot Act’ Arrest Claim
PR/Propaganda
It’s the false TV news report heard ’round the world. Raleigh, North Carolina’s WRAL-5 reported last week that a 16-year-old bomb hoax suspect was hauled out of his mother’s home by federal agents, and is now being held without any legal rights on the authority of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, which “supersedes the Constitution.”...The claim that the boy is a victim of USA PATRIOT, though, appears to have been cut from whole cloth. While there’s plenty to criticize in that post-9/11 law, it doesn’t contain any provision that abrogates a defendant’s right to a trial. It’s also not responsible for making it illegal to phone in a bomb threat. That’s been a federal crime since 1939.

May 6th, 2009

Big Pharma tries to sugar the pill
PR/Propaganda
The pharmaceuticals industry needs to rebuild its image with a public sceptical of science and genetically modified crops, and at Bayer they are trying to do just that...The company holds a series of seminars for 12 to 18-year-olds in "Baylabs", trying to overcome their initial boredom, and claims success in opening young minds to the complexities of the GM debate.

May 1st, 2009

Air Force One, Flaps Up!
PR/Propaganda
The Obama team prides itself in how they are so, twittered up, tech savvy and Internet geeky but apparently none of these folks have ever heard of a little think called Adobe Photoshop! Forget flying around New Your Harbor. I could have shown The President’s jet sitting in the middle of the Rose Bowl, buzzing Kim Jong Il’s palace or pulling the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders water-skiing across Crater Lake!

April 21st, 2009

Obesity causes global warming, say scientists
PR/Propaganda
Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that overweight people were likely to be more responsible for carbon emissions than slim people because they consume more food and fuel...The researchers estimated that a lean population of one billion would emit 1,000million tonnes less carbon dioxide per year than a ‘fat’ nation of the same size.

Fox Launches Infowars Clone in Attempt to Cannibalize Patriot Movement
PR/Propaganda
In their latest attempt to realign themselves with all that’s good with America, FOX News has launched a website very similar to the layout of Alex’s Jones’ infowars.com. Known as foxnation.com, the site is basically everything you’d expect from Republicans trying to put themselves back together after a disastrous eight years.

April 20th, 2009

The Shill World Order: Pushers Of The False Left-Right Paradigm
PR/Propaganda
Phony Left/Right Paradigm
Outside the political boundaries that seek to control dissent against the unconstitutional apparatuses of government, lies a group of independent people who have been attacked under the Bush administration as communist terrorists, and under Obama's as fascist racist. The people who propagate this fraud are millionaire media shills who push partisan propaganda to the benefit of the owners of both parties, the special interests, military industrial complex and banking oligarchy to name a few. This is extremely evident on the heels of the corporate media co-opting of the highly publicized Tea Party movement.

April 18th, 2009

Wikipedia editors livid over new [Active Thermitic Material] paper
PR/Propaganda
Activist editors at Wikipedia have changed the name of the "World Trade Center Controlled Demolition Hypothesis" page to "World Trade Center Demolition Conspiracy Theories", are removing all links to the paper "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" recently published in the refereed Open Chemical Physics Journal (including from the 9/11 Truth Movement page and even Dr. Steven Jones' page), and have banned and/or restricted some users that re-add the links and question their policy.

April 16th, 2009

Teabag protesters should ask: Am I being duped by Fox News?
PR/Propaganda
As a writer, by witnessing these protests spirited on by Fox News, they have lost their right to call themselves journalists.

April 15th, 2009

DHS Sees Resurgence in Rightwing Extremism
PR/Propaganda
“The consequences of a prolonged economic downturn–including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit–could create a fertile recruiting environment for rightwing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities,” according to a new assessment (pdf) from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

April 3rd, 2009

Harmless toy or recruiting sergeant?
PR/Propaganda
Hasbro Toys ended production of Action Man in Britain after more than 30 years in which he had been the boy's toy of choice...It has signed a deal with toy company Character Group to create a new range of military figures based on the Navy, Army and RAF. These will be sold under the "HM Armed Forces" brand, with weapons currently in use in Iraq and Afghanistan.

March 24th, 2009

9/11: Flight Recorder Analysis - Wikipedia Displays Blatant Disinformation Once Again
PR/Propaganda
Recently it has come to our attention that an edit was made to the "9/11 Conspiracies" page containing factual errors and disinformation regarding Flight Data Recorder (FDR) analysis.

Shocker: 'Global warming' simply no longer happening
PR/Propaganda
For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA.

March 23rd, 2009

The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food?
PR/Propaganda
The tobacco industry had a playbook, a script, that emphasized personal responsibility, paying scientists who delivered research that instilled doubt, criticizing the "junk" science that found harms associated with smoking, making self-regulatory pledges, lobbying with massive resources to stifle government action, introducing "safer" products, and simultaneously manipulating and denying both the addictive nature of their products and their marketing to children. The script of the food industry is both similar to and different from the tobacco industry script.

March 17th, 2009

Growing pollution leads to 'global dimming'
PR/Propaganda
Aerosols, tiny particles or liquid droplets belched into the air by the burning of fossil fuels and other sources, are responsible for the dimming, the researchers said.

March 16th, 2009

Fed chief Bernanke: recession could end in '09
PR/Propaganda
"[We] do have a plan. We're working on it."

March 9th, 2009

Climate 'denial' is now a mental disorder
PR/Propaganda
At the University of the West of England in Bristol this weekend, a conference of "eco-psychologists", led by a professor, are solemnly exploring the notion that "climate change denial" should be classified as a form of "mental disorder".

March 7th, 2009

The Elements of Information Control
PR/Propaganda
Nearly everything you see, hear and read that isn't from a friend — whether on TV, the radio, or even on the Web — comes from a for-profit gatekeeper. "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one," as they say, and these corporations own most of the 21st-century presses in America.

March 6th, 2009

Fox Admits To Planting Political Brainwashing In Popular TV Shows
PR/Propaganda
A corporate video currently being showcased on another part of Murdoch’s media empire, MySpace.com, shows Fox executives and stars of its universally recognized shows bragging about how they use the platform of hit shows that are broadcast globally to implant messages about the supposed threat of global warming..This is not the first time Fox have been enthusiastic in propagandizing for the establishment. In 2003, Rupert Murdoch himself admitted that the corporation had “tried” to help the Bush administration sell the war in Iraq.

February 26th, 2009

February 26, 2009: Fox News Reports Joe Biden's Gaffe
PR/Propaganda
Video. Jon Stewart mocks Fox News' reporting of another Joe Biden gaffe that nobody cares about.

February 25th, 2009

Hollywood to make 30 anti-Iranian movies
PR/Propaganda
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, has said that Hollywood film makers have thirty anti-Iranian movies in the offing.

February 12th, 2009

Primary Cause of Global Warming Discovered
PR/Propaganda
JACKSON, WY - Sulfur dioxide emitted from volcanoes and from burning fossil fuel is the primary initiator of global climate change, according to Dr. Peter L. Ward, a retired U.S. Geological Survey scientist..."Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas compounding global warming, but it is not the initiator of climate change," according to Ward.

February 10th, 2009

Irish minister bans climate change adverts
PR/Propaganda
An advertising campaign urging people to help tackle climate change has been banned by Northern Ireland's Environment minister because he does not believe humans are the main cause of global warming.

February 4th, 2009

Cheney warns of new attacks
PR/Propaganda
Cheney said “the ultimate threat to the country” is “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter – a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” that is deployed in the middle of an American city. “That’s the one that would involve the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people..."

World depression claim 'a slip'
PR/Propaganda
"At prime minister's questions he told MPs: "We should agree as a world on a monetary and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of ... depression." The Tories urged him to clarify his comments and be careful with language.

January 10th, 2009

Does The Government Manipulate Social Media?
PR/Propaganda
As revealed by an official Pentagon report signed by Rumsfeld called "Information Operations Roadmap"..."Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public...Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system".

January 9th, 2009

Atheist bus adverts claiming 'There's probably no God' are reported to watchdog
PR/Propaganda
An atheist advertising campaign claiming 'there's probably no God' has been reported to the regulator.

January 7th, 2009

BBC blackout on Gaza
PR/Propaganda
The London Daily News has learned there is an informal news blackout at BBC Radio over the mounting public outrage following the Gaza incursion by Israeli troops.

January 6th, 2009

Israel censors the Media: What have they got to hide?
PR/Propaganda
"Not the conduct of a democratic state."

Army's Wicked New Mallrat Recruitment Tool
PR/Propaganda
A $13 million video arcade in suburban Philly.

January 5th, 2009

Terrorists could use 'insect-based' biological weapon
PR/Propaganda
Terrorists would find it "relatively easy" to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.

Cheney: Financial Crisis ‘Developed’ Only ‘Over The Last Six Months’
PR/Propaganda
On CBS’ Face The Nation this morning, host Bob Schieffer asked Vice President Cheney whether Americans were “better off now than we were years ago.” “I think we’ve done some very good things in the course of the last eight years,” replied Cheney.

January 4th, 2009

Did Talksport Radio censor George Galloway?
PR/Propaganda
George Galloway was swapped with another presenter without notice. It is suspected that the pro-Israeli Lobby put pressure on Talksport radio.

January 3rd, 2009

Typical US Press Zionist Spin On Gaza
PR/Propaganda
"If this isn’t a holocaust I don’t know what is."

Propaganda war: trusting what we see?
PR/Propaganda
Israel has tried to take the initiative in the propaganda war over Gaza but, in one important instance, its version has been seriously challenged.

January 1st, 2009

YouTube, Twitter: Weapons in Israel's Info War
PR/Propaganda
Days after sending aircraft to strike Hamas militants in Gaza, the Israeli government is launching a campaign to dominate the blogosphere.

December 30th, 2008

Has Obama Adopted the Bush Media Doctrine?
PR/Propaganda
President-elect Barack Obama's close advisers "tend to shudder at any parallels to George W. Bush," writes Mark Leibovich, "but many reporters and rivals have noted the 'Bush-like' tendencies the Obama campaign demonstrated in its ability to control information.

List of banned websites in Thailand and Denmark leaked online
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A list of 3863 website addresses banned in Denmark was published yesterday by a whistleblower group and is believed to contain links to illegal material including child pornography.
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Rice: Much Of Bush’s Foreign Policy Agenda Deserves An ‘A+'
PR/Propaganda
Rice dismissed the poll’s results, claiming that the
Bush administration has “left a lot of good foundations”.

December 23rd, 2008

Google versus the news
PR/Propaganda
Have we been seduced by Google's 'don't be evil' motto and ceded to it our right to free speech?

December 21st, 2008

Cheney: I told Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself because ‘I thought he merited it.'
PR/Propaganda
Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol remarked that he thought Cheney’s comments represented “a beautiful statement, really, of justice.”

December 19th, 2008

Bush: I might not give a farewell address because I don’t want it to be too ‘emotional.'
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The American people take their shoes off to you, sir.

Rice: As A ‘Political Scientist,’ ‘I Absolutely Am So Proud’ Of Invading Iraq
PR/Propaganda
Reporter Zain Verjee asked Rice if she “regretted her role in the Iraq war.” Rice responded by saying that she had no regrets about the war and is “absolutely so proud” of invading Iraq.

December 17th, 2008

Perino: We’re not occupiers in Iraq; we’re guests.
PR/Propaganda
During today’s White House press briefing, spokesperson Dana Perino echoed President Bush’s claim that Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi’s frustrations are not representative of the Iraqi public’s sentiments. (Etiquette tip for guests: When your host throws his shoes at you, it's time to leave.)

Bush to claim terrorism success
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U.S. under Bush embraced U.N. more than ever -Rice
PR/Propaganda
Condoleezza Rice cited many examples of how Bush embraced the U.N. -- insisting that Security Council resolutions be respected, d

December 15th, 2008

Terrorists in Pakistan planning over 20 attacks on Britain, says Gordon Brown
PR/Propaganda
More than twenty serious terrorist plots to stage attacks in Britain are being planned in Pakistan, Gordon Brown said.

December 14th, 2008

Vauxhall Insignia 2.8 V6 - An adequate way to drive to hell
PR/Propaganda
I have spoken to a couple of pretty senior bankers in the past couple of weeks and they don’t refer to the looming problems as being like 1992 or even 1929. They talk about a total financial meltdown. They talk about the End of Days.
The guy who reviews cars for the Times has been talking to guys who drive Rolls Royces ...

December 13th, 2008

Off the Record: Media bias affects reader trust
PR/Propaganda
It is definitely a world of media spin. Readers, and listeners, need to protect themselves.

Drug Maker Accused Of Paying Ghostwriters To Pen Journal Articles
PR/Propaganda
A drug company is accused of paying ghostwriters to write favorable articles about their drugs — even after one drug was shown to raise the risk of cancer.

Big Pharma Spends More On Advertising Than Research
PR/Propaganda
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development, contrary to the industry’s claim.

December 12th, 2008

Peter Schiff identifies real cause of financial disaster, CNN cuts the feed
PR/Propaganda
“Capitalism is not about propping up failed companies, we need to let them fail,” said Schiff, before adding, “Now of course behind it all is the Federal Reserve, if the Federal Reserve had not intervened….had they not poured all this alcohol then Wall Street wouldn’t have got drunk, but they did.”

“I am convinced that everything the government is doing to fight this off is gonna make….” said Schiff before the feed was cut.

Pentagon May Have Mixed Propaganda With PR
PR/Propaganda
The Pentagon's inspector general said yesterday that the Defense Department's public affairs office may have "inappropriately" merged public affairs and propaganda operations in 2007 and 2008 when it contracted out $1 million in work for a strategic communications plan for use by the military in collaboration with the State Department.

December 11th, 2008

The 2008 Falsies Awards: In Memory of the First Casualty
PR/Propaganda
This year marks the Center for Media and Democracy's (CMD's) fifth annual Falsies Awards. The Falsies are our attempt to shine an unflattering light on those responsible for polluting the information environment over the past year.

December 10th, 2008

British TV Will Show Assisted Suicide
PR/Propaganda
British television plans to air a documentary that shows a terminally ill man taking his own life at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. Craig Ewert, 59, dictates a final letter to his children in 'The Suicide Tourist,' a Point Grey Pictures production directed by John Zaritsky.

December 9th, 2008

Hard Questions Are Not Gotcha Questions
PR/Propaganda
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Townhall blogger Hugh Hewitt that she's "surprised that so much has changed since I received my education in journalistic ethics."

For some patients, life is like a reality show
PR/Propaganda
Researchers have begun documenting what they dub the "Truman syndrome," a delusion afflicting people who are convinced that their lives are secretly playing out on a reality TV show. Scientists say the disorder underscores the influence pop culture can have on mental conditions.

Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories”
PR/Propaganda
A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to “vet” websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates “conspiracy theories”.

White House sends memo to Cabinet officials with talking points on Bush’s successful presidency.
PR/Propaganda
Titled “Speech Topper on the Bush Record,” the talking points state that Bush “kept the American people safe” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained “the honor and the dignity of his office.”

The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success.

JUPITER Cholesterol Drug Trial: Marketing Tactics Threaten Public Health and Wealth
PR/Propaganda
A recent study seems to suggest that cholesterol lowering medication should perhaps be given to everyone, regardless of their level of cholesterol, to prevent future heart attacks. This is big money. At present, sales of cholesterol lowering medications are worth tens of billions of dollars, on a much more limited set of prescribing guidelines.

Yet, there are huge numbers of people suffering from the side effects of statins, which include severe muscle pains, cognitive trouble and even Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

'Mastermind' of 9/11 among Guantanamo Bay suspects who say they want to confess
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In defiance of US president-elect Barack Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay, the self-styled mastermind of the September 2001 terrorist attacks and four accomplices yesterday told a military judge at the prison camp that they wanted to confess and plead guilty.

White House sends memo to Cabinet officials with talking points on Bush’s successful presidency.
PR/Propaganda
aTitled “Speech Topper on the Bush Record,” the talking points state that Bush “kept the American people safe” after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lifted the economy after 2001 through tax cuts, curbed AIDS in Africa and maintained “the honor and the dignity of his office.”

The document presents the Bush record as an unalloyed success.

December 7th, 2008

After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’
PR/Propaganda
The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image of the United States overseas.” Karl Rove attended at least one of the meetings. One of the participants in the meetings, former RIAA chairwoman Hilary Rosen says Rove “put pressure” on them to “produce propaganda”

December 1st, 2008

Obama's Idea Factory
PR/Propaganda
Scherer notes that CAP (Center for American Progress) was founded just five years ago by John Podesta as a deliberate attempt to imitate the previous success of conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.

November 25th, 2008

CNN News and Report, Live from 1991
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THIS WAS NOT A BAD COMEDY SHOW .THIS WAS CNN 17 YEARS AGO

"It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it."

- John Pilger

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"We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."

- Katherine Graham, Washington Post publisher and CFR member.
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"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim."

- Gustave Le Bon

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