Propaganda

Petition Circulators Deceive On Fracking

July 14, 2014 BlueDaze Drilling Reform, www.texassharon.com Educate! Democracy, Fracking, Propaganda, Texas

The industry has showered Texans, even those who don’t live in Denton or have mineral holdings there, with more misleading propaganda than I can count. See: Scam Alert… for a post with updated examples of letters sent to mineral owners. Today, Breitling Energy has a full page color ad in the Denton Record Chronicle. Breitling CEO, Chris Faulkner, who lives in Irving nowhere near fracking, recently invited Denton residents to “…fall on their swords for fracking.” Texas Railroad Commissioner, Barry Smitherman, suggests in a letter that could be an audition for a job with The Onion, that Russia is financing the Denton ban effort. We know Smitherman is looking for a job. Texas voters recognized him for the utter failure he is and rejected his bid for promotion to Texas Attorney General. Since I am the one and only person involved in the 100% grassroots effort in Denton who works for an environmental organization, Smitherman must be pointing the finger at me. I have receive no money from Russia but, if I do, the vodka is on me. NOTE: See Denton Councilman Roden’s response to Smitherman. Last week, and oil lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute even claimed democracy is irresponsible.

Another US Military Study Of Social Media Users

July 9, 2014 Ben Quinn and James Ball, www.theguardian.com Educate! Occupy, Propaganda, Social Media, Surveillance, Wars and Militarism

The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds. Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread. While some elements of the multi-million dollar project might raise a wry smile – research has included analysis of the tweets of celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, in an attempt to understand influence on Twitter – others have resulted in the buildup of massive datasets of tweets and additional types social media posts. Several of the DoD-funded studies went further than merely monitoring what users were communicating on their own, instead messaging unwitting participants in order to track and study how they responded.

Whose Propaganda? Lessons From Media Reaction To Liz Wahl Resignation

April 3, 2014 Steve Horn, www.whowhatwhy.com Educate! Mass Media, Propaganda, Russia

Liz Wahl’s on-air resignation as a Russia Today news anchor came amid a perfect geopolitical storm. She announced her departure from RT just as tensions escalated between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine. “I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin,” said the 28-year-old American reporter and show host, who worked at RT America for two-and-a-half years. “I am proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why, after this newscast, I am resigning.” Wahl’s camera-ready goodbye quickly went viral on the web, and made her a U.S. mainstream-media darling. Most commentators saw the Wahl resignation as a casebook study in how government-sponsored journalism inevitably degenerates into rank propaganda. Yet few have examined what this incident reveals about the mind-set of America’s corporate-owned media.

Exposed: Britain’s New Cyberwarfare Program

March 17, 2014 Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com Educate! Propaganda

The Ministry of Defence is developing a secret, multimillion-pound research programme into the future of cyberwarfare, including how emerging technologies such as social media and psychological techniques can be harnessed by the military to influence people's beliefs. With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly. Cyberwarfare of the future may be less about hacking electrical power grids and more about hacking minds by shaping the environment in which political debate takes place.

The Pentagon’s Christmas-War Message

December 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Media, Propaganda, Wars and Militarism

The Pentagon looks for every opportunity to propagandize for war -- even stealing the message of peace for Christmas and turning the Santa Claus myth into a message of war. Jack Balkwill of LUV News writes "a series of propaganda videos is out by NORAD with which to indoctrinate our children into thinking Santa Clause is escorted by fighter jets so that he can deliver toys without being attacked by bad guys. Your tax dollars in action, full of generals talking about Santa being real and participating, video after video-- some of them in French in case the Children of Quebec aren't getting their fair share of propaganda, encouraging them on to military careers when they come of age to be blown to bits for the capitalists." The military and security state is so dominant in US culture and in the federal budget as well as around the world with at least 1,180 military bases and outposts around the world. You can see their artful propaganda in this video series, let's hope that by exposing it Americans will be find their Christmas-war propaganda revolting.

Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation

November 2, 2013 H. Michael Sweeney, www.proparanoid.com Educate! Media, Propaganda

Built upon "Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression" by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums. This, sadly, includes every day news media, one of the worst offenders with respect to being a source of disinformation. Where the crime involves a conspiracy, or a conspiracy to cover up the crime, there will invariably be a disinformation campaign launched against those seeking to uncover and expose the truth and/or the conspiracy. There are specific tactics which disinfo artists tend to apply, as revealed here. Also included with this material are seven common traits of the disinfo artist which may also prove useful in identifying players and motives. The more a particular party fits the traits and is guilty of following the rules, the more likely they are a professional disinfo artist with a vested motive. People can be bought, threatened, or blackmailed into providing disinformation, so even "good guys" can be suspect in many cases.

Disinformation Strategies and Tactics

September 9, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Strategize! Media, Propaganda

Repeatedly on multiple issues we have seen how concentrated corporate wealth uses disinformation campaigns to control the dialogue, create false narratives and mislead the public. The tactics described in the slide show below are not only used by big business interests as well as government. Government has even more tools as we can see in the misinformation campaign that is currently occurring with regard to Syria and previous wars. The tactics of putting forward false experts, phony "think tanks" and echo chambers of misinformation are common ones. These tactics continue to get more sophisticated.

Americans Finally Have Access To American Propaganda

July 16, 2013 Elspeth Reeve, www.theatlanticwire.com Educate! Propaganda

A law went into effect this month that ends the ban on U.S. government-made propaganda from being broadcast to Americans. In a remarkably creative spin, the supporters of this law say that allowing Americans to see American propaganda is actually a victory for transparency. As Foreign Policy's John Hudson explains, the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 went into effect July 2, and allows government-made news — which includes products like Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks — to reach Americans. In the 1970s Sen. William Fulbright said these outlets "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics" because, as he and his allies argued, U.S. taxpayers should not have to pay for propaganda directed at them.

South Korea: 50K+ Protest National Intelligence Service Election Rigging

July 16, 2013 Lee Yoo Eun, www.revolution-news.com Educate! Democracy, Propaganda

Protests have continued for several weeks in South Korea against revelations that the country’s intelligence agency allegedly meddled in December’s presidential election by undertaking an anonymous online attack campaign against opposition parties. Nine agents from the National Intelligence Service (NIS) created hundreds of Internet IDs and wrote more than 5,000 posts on the Internet and used some of them to attack opposition parties and their candidates ahead of South Korea’s presidential election last December. The Korea Center for Investigative Journalism (or NewsTapa) shared CSV files [ko] containing raw data and their analysis revealing that 658 Twitter accounts have been used by the NIS. Among 237,000 tweets published by the accounts, more than 25 percent of them were about domestic politics and the presidential election.

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