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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 03:29 AM
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How to FOOL so as to RULE: 101.011...Fear, Deception, etc., including EMPTY LANGUAGE
http://www.alternet.org/story/16243

Use link to learn of various techniques to FOOL whoever falls for it...

This is Reality......its a Cousin to Sanity, and REASON.

America must break the grip of Negativity and all of her children....the D Kids...disparge, distortion, distraction, deception, denigration, distructive, etc.

Our Future depends on an expedient growth of TRUTH, Reason, and Sanity
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:02 AM
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1. If you haven't seen it yet, watch the BBC documentary "Century of the Self".
"Century of the Self" shows how Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, used the results of Freud's studies in psychoanalysis to develop sophisticated propaganda techniques. These techniques were put to use by Bernays in the PR industry and in his work for the US government and were proven to be very effective in manipulating public opinion by appealing to peoples' subconscious fears, desires etc.

It is posted on Googe video in 4 episodes
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=century+of+the+self&emb=0&aq=f#
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:39 AM
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3. I highly reccommend these documentaries.
If people knew just how hard and how often the powers that be fuck with their heads there would be hell to pay.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 02:38 PM
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5. I have saved it....appears to be very informative...thanks for the link
:toast:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 07:11 AM
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2. Managing the human herd
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1881351#1881856

Managing the Human Herd

These influences culminate with Bernays, who happened to be a double nephew of Sigmund Freud. (His mother was Freud's sister; his father was Freud's wife's brother.) Bernays combined Le Bon's fear of the masses with the theories of Freud and others regarding the subconscious, irrational motivations of human behavior. In books titled Crystallizing Public Opinion, Engineering Consent and Propaganda, he defined public relations as an "applied social science" which society's masters could use to manage the human herd. "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind," he argued, it would be possible to "control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it. . . . Theory and practice have combined with sufficient success to permit us to know that in certain cases we can effect some change in public opinion with a fair degree of accuracy by operating a certain mechanism, just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline."

This is scary stuff, and required reading if you want to understand what motivates U.S. businesses to spend over $10 billion a year on PR. But it should be read for what it is--marketing hype, using reverent technocratic imagery to package Bernays' services to his corporate clients as the latest shiny new must-have gizmo.

Lee's "statement of principles" was designed to create the public myth that PR is natural, honorable and honest--part of the "two-way street" process of democratic communications between businesses and their "publics." Bernays' created an equal and opposite corporate myth--that public opinion could be manufactured for a price, bought and sold like any other commodity. Ewen easily debunks Lee's mythology, and he properly deplores the elitism in Bernays. He fails, however, to deal with or even mention the fact that Bernays was a controversial and frequently disliked figure within the PR industry--a man who was not invited to parties, who was deliberately excluded from professional associations, and who had a problem keeping clients.

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1996Q4/ewen.html

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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 02:39 PM
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6. Thank you Hubert...you is da man on dis here board...
Mucho :beer: and cheer to ya
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 04:53 PM
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8. Thanks for the
:beer: and here's to the asswhipping the GOP is about to get in November! :toast:

They have earned all the lumps they are a-fixin' to get!

I hope the repo man takes every one of McSame's "COMPOUNDS" ASAP!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 05:15 PM
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9. McLapse....is revealing his CHARACTOR....the many signs of Good and Bad body language,
in his Speeches, writings....., reveal signs of devious leanings...he is the bully....by POW Card only.....

Obama gonna kick his ass....and btw....he had to seek help...couldn't do it by himself...not against the Duo...so he went and got the Babe Who Can Talk Card.....not very Manly...kinda wuss really...rescued by Mrs PTA???
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 05:25 AM
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10. McTurdhead bounces up and down like a do-do bird when he lies
Check him out. And he bounces a lot.

I think John boy is a bigger liar than W.

McGigolo is always letting the ladies do the heavy lifting for him. The lady with the thousand yard stare and the beer busts, Miss Buffalo Chippy and now the Holy Rollin "Beauty" Queen. John couldn't make it without his ladies.

CBS is saying this morning that McCain is winning...McCain 54% Obama 44%? The GOPers are fixin' to steal another election with the blessing of the corporate owned M$M.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 12:47 PM
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11. This Nation has a crush on STUPID.....its all about EMOTIONs and the GOP uses that to FRAME
Fuck REASON, LOGIC, Common Good, ain't working...

The GOPs Fantasy is

Damn, Hubert, I am sick this crap of Palin is selling....we need the best in there...and the GOP gives us mediocre and hype...

We will bve truly fucked if McLapse gets in....Hero my ass

Country First my ass....Both are not thinking Patriotism...both are ME people...its all about self serving AMBITION.....
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 04:59 AM
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12. Special Needs Sarah and Crazy John are the cream of the GOP
crop. They really are! The GOP is in a serious blight if that is the cream of their crop.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 10:03 AM
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4. The paragraph about * never using the word "you"
That contrasts with Obama who often uses it.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-07-08 04:43 PM
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7. Obama has a way with words to fit his description of whats on his agenda
Just as important, he has a track record of colleting sincere support...which is an indication of good Leadership

He is AHEAD OF THE PACK.....and the Pubs know this....They too are Flailing,,,thrashing with gritted teeth...(insert pic of Mac ithw dirty teeth)

Obama should take it....
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