Propaganda

>>BRUNETTE: I want help, I do, I want help

>>NARRATOR: This is a film about psychological warfare.

A specific type of warfare designed to distract

Misinform

>>COLIN POWELL: Trust me. Trust me.

>>NARRATOR: and anaesthetize the brain.

It has many disguises...

and is used against every one of them...

against them...

and against them.

Of course, such Machiavellian activity requires a disguise

which is why the propagandists call themselves the 'Public Relations' industry.

But do not be fooled...

'Public Relations' and propaganda are interchangeable

and it is the massive Public Relations industry

that is designed to alter perception

reshape reality

and manufacture consent.

>>NEWSREADER: A Hollywood set-designer was brought in to create a $200,000 backdrop for official war briefings.

>>NARRATOR: Today, America alone has more public relations propagandists than reporters

which means that nearly half of what people in the West hear, see or read

is written by professional liars.

Professional liars whose job it is to keep people in front of their televisions

reading gossip magazines

eating vast amounts of toxic food

and shopping - always shopping - for the latest fashions and trends.

That's the ideal for propagandists

and great efforts are made in trying to achieve and maintain that ideal.

Anything that keeps the masses from organizing themselves

and asking important questions about what their masters are really up to...

The 1960's. A period of heightened awareness and rebellion against the establishment

with students leading the resistance.

But when the situation seems to be getting out of hand

the establishment ordered it to be stopped

and the propagandists moved quickly to lead the young people away from dangerous protests

into such fashionable protests.

That was then.

This is now.

Fashion

celebrity

sex

music

technology

any kind of a revolution except the social revolution.

In this film we will reveal the methods used by the propagandists to control populations

on behalf of their owners.

>>TO REAGAN: You're gonna have to speed it up

>>NARRATOR: Although these rich and powerful owners only make up 1% of the world's population

they have mastered the use of propaganda over the other 99%

turning them into consumer slaves who work harder and harder to buy things they don't need.

These consumer slaves are also made to pay 'taxes' to their government

money which is used to develop new weapons for the pernicious invasions

and occupations of other countries.

In the last five years alone

they've given their owners more than $US 1 trillion for these illegal and immoral wars that can't be won.

and are even encouraged to send their own children to fight them.

This is Doctor of Psychology, Professor (deleted)

You have just been exposed to a range of propaganda devices used by the West to control

Manipulate, neutralize, and anaesthetize entire populations.

It's own. And that of other nations.

The success of these mind-warping devices depends on their remaining hidden from the masses.

But Our Dear Leader has insisted that you see with your own eyes

exactly how this war against the mind is used

to turn Western citizens into compliant slaves.

Creating Ideas and Illusions

Has this man just broken a world record?

Has he just created a medicine that can save thousands of lives?

Perhaps he has been chosen to represent his community in some way...?

No. This man has just purchased...a telephone.

And these people...

what is making them scream and cry with such profound joy?

They are on a television program where they are receiving consumer items.

This...for some boots.

This...for some clothes shelves.

and this hysteria is not because they have found God

but because they are receiving sneakers.

The propagandist knows that an individual has a natural desire to be on a winning side

and appear to fit in with the crowd.

One of the easiest ways to achieve this

is to make them chant favourable, yet deliberately vague slogans like

"This Changes Everything"

"Just Do It"

"I'm Lovin' It"

or "Support Our Troops".

"The point of slogans like "Support our Troops" is that they don't mean anything...that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means because it doesn't mean anything". - Professor Noam Chomsky

Points out Professor Noam Chomsky.

With this in mind propagandists can provide simple answers to complex problems and ask for approval without question.

>>GEORGE BUSH: Either you're with us. Either you love freedom. Or you're with the enemy.

>>NARRATOR: They can use this method to sell phones

Violence

Cosmetics

or even false wars like the unwinnable 'War on Terror' announced by these degenerates.

and the hypocritical 'War on Drugs' announced by this master criminal

who is awarding a medal to this man for joining the war on drugs

despite this man being a drug addict.

The most popular slogans contain 'virtue' words that embody what slaves in the West have been conditioned to value most dearly.

Words like FREEDOM

TRUTH

PEACE

LIBERTY

and most importantly...

DEMOCRACY

"The 20th Century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy" - Howard Zinn

writes Howard Zinn.

Let's look at that last line again:

the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

Is this true? Let's look at the facts:

Since 1945, America has tried to overthrow 50 governments. Many of them democracies.

In the process, over 30 countries and their people have been attacked

including our own great and powerful Socialist sovereign nation.

And the result?

Not one single undemocratic country has been turned into a genuine democracy.

>>NIXON: I want peace as much as you do

>>NARRATOR: The grotesque act of invading other countries,

claiming them as your territory

and stealing their resources to keep your emperor

crown

or corporate owners in power used to be known as 'empire building'.

The latest propaganda slogan for empire building is:

'Globalization'

a vague word with warm connotations of unification.

But what it really means is the acquisition of other people's resources at any cost

and unlimited slave labour.

Slave labour needed to produce the unnecessary goods sold to these slaves.

Slaves to persuasion and influence...

In reality, these are "debt slaves" since they can't even afford the things they buy.

Even in times of peril and economic meltdown

at the orders of their President they must keep consuming.

Is this democracy?

On February 15, 2003 millions of people worldwide took to the streets in the worlds' largest ever day of protest.

a protest against the pirate Bush regime and their British and Australian lapdogs

who wanted to go to war on manufactured grounds.

The majority of the world voted against this war...but were ignored.

Is this democracy?

The powerful 1% went ahead with their pre-planned war

as always using the poorest people's children to do the fighting.

>>US SOLDIER: We're here for your fucking freedom, so back up right now!

>>NARRATOR: It is important to note that these cowards were happy to order mass death and destruction

despite never having been in battle themselves.

Is this democracy?

No.

Real democracy is when the majority of people make a decision and it is upheld.

For example, in polls taken throughout the world

the vast majority of citizens want to see these war criminals committed to stand trial for crimes against humanity

since 90% of the casualties of their false 'War on Terror' were innocent civilians.

'War on Terror' is a vague propaganda slogan as a real war on terror would include direct intervention in Darfur

Myanmar

and Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has made a mockery of the American's claim to love democracy.

A real war on terror would start with American citizens refusing to pay taxes that support Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine.

Taxes that could be used to help Americans who are unemployed

working without healthcare and homeless.

Of course, if you dared to point this out in America you would be named "Anti-American" and a traitor

or one of those "who hate freedom"

so people keep quiet because they are afraid of expressing how they feel.

"You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened that all sorts of devils are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them." - Professor Noam Chomsky

points out Professor Noam Chomsky.

Before you can distract and marginalize them, however...

...you first have to know what motivates them.

Fear

>>J EDGAR HOOVER: Communism in reality, is not a political party.

It is a way of life.

An evil and malignant way of life.

It reveals a condition akin to disease that spreads like an epidemic.

And like an epidemic

a quarantine is necessary to keep it from infecting this nation.

>>NARRATOR: Fear is the engine room of imperial propaganda.

>>GEORGE BUSH: We cannot wait for the final proof. The smoking gun...that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

>>NARRATOR: Those who have understood this have manipulated people for centuries. Indeed millennia

by manufacturing and controlling religion.

The Western religions of Judaism

Christianity

and Catholicism

use a propaganda manual called The Bible.

Although it is the same story, each brand claims its version is the best one.

As with any advertising the propagandist knows that there is no idea easier to sell

than the idea that you are vastly superior to everyone else.

So they tell their followers that they are unique in human history

that they are descended from the first man and first woman

and that they are chosen by their Supreme Creator to rule over all other cultures.

To secure the deal, they add the idea of an eternal soul

That way, death doesn't seem so bad

and they won't resist being sent to fight against competing brands.

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca the Younger

Religion

Of course, only the truly ignorant believe that books like the Bible are really the word of God.

Religion is horribly

unmistakably

human.

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction:

jealous and proud of it;

a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak;

a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser;

a misogynistic, homophobic, racist,

infanticidal,

genocidal,

filicidal,

pestilential,

megalomaniacal,

sadomasochistic,

capriciously malevolent bully."