11 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy. Sigmund Fraud, Staff WriterWaking Times The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the ‘major’ outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and manufacturing consent for government and the oligarchs. The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them.
The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 11 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world. 1. Lying by Omission – What is not on the nightly news? 2. 3. 4. 5. And so on. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Surveillance: another battle is won – but the war goes on. There are victories in the war on surveillance. Just this April, years of campaigning by the Open Rights Organisation, Privacy International, NO2ID and Liberty, among others, helped kill off the British government’s ‘Snooper’s Charter’ that sought to monitor all our internet and social media usage in a ‘massive extension of state power’ as even one Conservative called it, while a committee of MPs said the bill ‘trampled on the privacy of British citizens’ while adding nothing to their security.
When Deputy PM Nick Clegg refused to back the bill, this rare good deed seemed to be the fatal blow. But for every high-profile victory, another stealthy assault on our privacy continues as the government thinks our most private medical data is its to sell. The privatization of the NHS will abolish our medical privacy in the name of profit. The Coalition is consistently inconsistent regarding privacy.
Repeatedly, what the one hand gives, the other takes away. NeuroFocus Uses Neuromarketing to Hack Your Brain.
Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space. Star Wars is no longer science fiction. The prospect of Earth being ruled from space is no longer science-fiction. The dream of the original Dr. Strangelove, Wernher von Braun (from Nazi rocket-scientist to NASA director) has survived every US administration since WW2 and is coming to life. Today the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives, and nations are maneuvering for advantage. Pax Americana tackles this pivotal moment. Are war machines already orbiting Earth? With startling archival footage and unprecedented access to US Air Force Space Command, this elegant, forceful documentary reveals the state of play through generals, space-policy analysts, politicians, diplomats, peace activists, and hawks.
This documentary is available for preview only. The Enterprise Mission. Telstra, Optus to start censoring the web next month | Latest Broadband and Wireless News. MOST Australian internet users will have their web access censored next month after the country's two largest internet providers agreed to voluntarily block more than 500 websites from view. Telstra and Optus confirmed they would block access to a list of child abuse websites provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority and more compiled by unnamed international organisations from mid-year. But internet experts have warned that the scheme is merely a "feel-good policy" that will not stop criminals from accessing obscene material online and could block websites unfairly.
Opinion — why industry censorship is a bad idea The voluntary scheme was originally proposed by the Federal Government last year as part of a wider, $9.8 million scheme to encourage internet service providers to block all Refused Classification material from users as an optional service. "There is a question about where the links are coming from and I'd like to know the answer to that," Mr Jacobs said. Mind Control. Hidden Knowledge Course: Lesson Eight Government Mind Control Programs The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. ~ Gloria Steinem Are you ready for another wild trip down the rabbit hole?
Now that we have explored our own deepest personal challenges, it is time to explore what is possibly the deepest challenge facing our planet. The term "mind control" can bring up all kinds of thoughts and feelings. Yet as with almost any tool, mind control techniques can be used for the good of all humankind or used to gain personal benefit at the expense of others. Though this lesson may be the most disturbing of all for some, it is also vitally important as far as understanding how some of the top secret, sophisticated operations which have a major impact on our world have been carried out. First, you are invited to explore some highly reliable information on how mind control has been used to forward hidden, disempowering agendas in our world. Www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrolvideo. Master of Internet Puppets. A post on Daily Kos reports on a leaked email from HB Gary Federal, a U.S. defense contractor, about using persona management software to create a whole cast of sock-puppet marionettes.
The software makes one person seem to be many--the manipulation of online discussions has never been easier. The Kos article reports that according to an embedded Word document discovered in the leaked email, it appears the intention behind using these confabulated crowds was so that one person could easily gang up on bloggers, commenters and otherwise 'real' people to smear enemies and distort the truth,"in the equivalent of an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.
" Faking identities online is nothing new. Many users express themselves in something like a digital charade and play with an invented privacy that ultimately protects their real lives. Image by estherase on Flickr Courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing. Human Resources - Social Engineering in the 20th Century - FULL. Starsuckers | Documentary Heaven | Watch Free Documentaries Online.
How does science justify debunking mysteries without investigation? | My Secret Projects. The Century Of Self Part 1 (of 4) Happiness Machines. Inception's Meme Ecology. Regardless of whether you loved or hated it, or worse, you were indifferent, Inception is a good object to think with. And I think Christopher Nolan is a clever filmmaker. Mind you, clever doesn't always mean wise. But he has a knack for making films that can splinter your mind.
Even the Batman franchise's The Dark Night had some deep guano buried within its pyrotechnics. But is Inception the zeitgeist film it aspires to be? I was about to write a ho-hum review when I realized that Nolan was a bit smarter than I had initially understood. As I wrote here about Nolan's The Prestige way back when, I had noted that though the movie was ostensibly about rival magicians on screen, in fact it was really about film as an act of magic. Inception's primary meme is a simple concept that drives Dominic Cobb's (Leonardo DiCaprio) wife mad: reality is just a dream. As the film suggests, ideas have an ecology. Inception had one detail that I liked quite a bit. My final verdict? Who Owns The News? Media Ownership By Corporations. FRONTLINE: digital nation: watch the full program. I wanted to wait a bit because it seemed like it'd be more interesting to listen to all of you.
There used to be a name for what I was doing, "lurking" -- it dates back to a very different time in the net's history, when usenet and mailing lists were the main forms of communication. It was hard to talk about lurkers then, for the obvious reason that no one knew much about them; it hasn't gotten much easier since. The idea of lurkers has all but vanished now, buried by a succession of ways to try and slice and dice them: "eyeballs," pageviews, users, subscribers, friends, followers, etc, etc.
I think these changes are relevant in this context because Doug's initial questions put a lot of emphasis on expression: participation and activism on the one hand, and a concern that "social networks" (as if there were any other kind) might be diminishing the quality of people's engagement, on the other. That's good and bad. But it definitely has downsides, too. So the problem is simple (ha!). DHS_SNMC_Inauguration_monitoring.pdf (application/pdf Object) CONFIRMED: Psychiatric Manual DSM-IV-TR Labels free Thinkers, non conformers as Mentally Ill - USWGO Alternative News. Author: Brian D. Hill It is now confirmed by USWGO News that the DSM-IV-TR Manual labels free thinkers, non conformers, civil disobedient advocates, those that question authority, and people considered hostile toward the government (aka Oath keepers and local militias) as mentally ill with the illness titled “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.
It was reported on October 8 2010 from OffTheGrid News that anybody who is disobedient, defiant, a free thinker, or even considered hostile toward authority was to be labeled by psychiatrists as ‘Mentally Ill’. Now I have got my hands on a ebook version of the year 2000 version of the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision) By the American Psychiatric Association version DSM-TV-TR (The non TR Version was said to be older and so I got the newer one which had the information that Off The Grid News warned about).
So now according to the ebook it states that: for at least 6 months.