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Category: Media

There’s a phrase for modern PR techniques…

David Sirota has up an article on how public relations and media messaging is done today, and how’s it’s changed in the last ten years.

It’s good, and you should read it.  But it’s also a lesson that there’s actually little that’s new under the sun, because all he’s really discussing is the Big Lie.

… the broad masses of a nation… more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.

– Mein Kampf

To Be or Not To Be A Sheep

This picture of a huge crowd congregating on the Bank of England to protest the G20 meeting is worth looking at, but more interesting is this:

For a second straight day, French workers facing steep layoffs at a Caterpillar factory held four of their bosses at the U.S. manufacturer’s plant in the Alps, union officials said.

Short of the Soviet Union I wonder if there has ever been a population as saturated with propaganda and lies as the American one.  Wonder how long it’ll be before such things happen in the US.  Wonder if it does  happen, if the SWAT teams will go in and start killing people.

Bankers lost trillions of dollars over the last 8 years due in large part to outright fraud, paying themselves billions in bonuses.  Under both Bush and Obama, the response to their theft has been to give them trillions of dollars worth of money.  Trillions have not been spent on helping people destroyed by the bankers greed, corruption, incompetence and theft.

If Americans continue to put up with this, they aren’t just sheep, they’re serfs.

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