"You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact," Nick Turse wrote He also wrote Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnamhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175808/
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No need to keep secrets. Just keep the public bamboozled.
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I generally agree that the public is very bamboozleable, but then again, that's why I also post numerous reactionary anti-democracy screeds.
At a scale of 300 million, any common feeling is far too heterogeneous to distill into meaningful (to say nothing of legal) public action against scoundrels in government, or business, or anything that has the entire public as a field to flee to. Unless you're writing to your Congressman or special prosecutor, I wouldn't advise expending any of your energies on outrage over dealing with root causes.
Also, drones are probably the best offense against these types, as no one can propagandize a drone.
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post"You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact," Nick Turse wrote He also wrote Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostWell that is exactly what you do, ain't it?"I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostWell, I don't know if what he posts is generally accepted as fact, but...
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post"You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact,"
Nick Turse wrote He also wrote Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by seasanctuary View PostIs this thread about the ability of the US government to keep secrets, or the ability of it to spin things when failing to keep secrets?And how does this line of thinking draw a line between plausible conspiracy theories and crazy ones?
Why not accept the possibility some conspiracy theories do have evidence?
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postwell that is his goal and the propaganda sites he frequents, like Mercola.com - spread enough half-truths and lies and use fear to get people to believe your conspiracy theories.Last edited by Truthseeker; 02-20-2014, 08:07 PM.
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View PostBut the way to keep the public from knowing what really happened or is going on is to churn out "misleading information, half truths, and fictions" and use propaganda tricks to "guide" public thinking. Click on this link and get some idea of how to bamboozle the public.
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Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post"You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact," Nick Turse wrote He also wrote Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnamhttp://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175808/"The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostYou know, if you are going to attack what I have said, you might want to try what I have actually said. What I have actually said is that the government is very bad at keeping secrets, not that it was impossible for it to do so (at least for a time). Sorry though, I don't feel like reading your conspiracy theory nonsense and watching you argue that a lack of evidence is just more evidence for your case, so I'll let you argue with yourself on this one.
Arguing "that a lack of evidence is just more evidence for your case"? Too bad she will not be around to point out at least one example of that. Possibly she meant that she didn't see any witness evidence, therefore it is a lack of evidence--I don't know.
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