The de facto censorship which leaves so many people functionally illiterate about the history of their foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. The editors of Reader's Digest and U.S. News and World Report do not need to meet covertly with the man from NBC in an FBI safe-house to plan next month's stories and programs; for the simple truth is that these men would not have reached the positions they occupy if they themselves had not all been guided through the same tunnel of camouflaged history and emerged with the same selective memory and conventional wisdom." -- from Killing Hope, .S. Military and CIA Interventions since WWII, by William Blum, p. 19, Common Courage Press, 1995

When the Pike Committee, the House Select committee established to investigate the CIA's domestic abuses, they ultimately came to the conclusion that the CIA was able to get away with so much because they controlled the press.
-- Lisa Pease, The Dangers of Wikipedia, Tuesday, February 20, 2007
http://realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/2007/02/dangers-of-wikipedia.htm

So one important aspect of infowar, it would seem, is disinformation. This makes it especially difficult: it's not enough to be merely informed, because now it's also necessary to consider the motives and agendas of every source of information. With twice as much access to information today, that means four times as much work. Few of us are up for the challenge.
Just when the stakes are highest, our major reporters, pundits, and political representatives are least helpful. Their one-liners are too predictable, they are too easily manipulated by forces they should be trying to expose, and apart from endless analyses of the nuances of presidential party politics, or what the jurors are thinking at the O.J. trial, they have little to say about issues that matter. Millions of ordinary people are sensing this, and are looking toward alternative media such as zines, the Internet, and talk radio.
We could all use some help. Academia has been out to lunch for years; there's little point in wasting much time there. The populist right and the incredible shrinking left, much to the delight of the elites who manipulate them both, still waste their time attacking each other. Small wonder that the neo-Luddites are nervous, the militias suspicious, and the authorities would like to monitor everyone. Welcome to the wonderful Information Age.
by Daniel Brandt

"The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
-- Aldous Huxley (author of "Brave New World"

"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
-- William Blum - Rogue State, on how governments control their citizens

There is only one antidote against propaganda, and that is a relevant sense of history and a strong collective memory. When we remember the lessons from the past, and when we remember what happened even a few days ago, then the job of the propagandists and their warmongering bosses, becomes much more difficult. It is ultimately when their message is challenged that war can be stopped; bloated armament budgets can be pared; international law can be upheld; and shallow mean-spirited politicians with blood soaked hands can be put on trial in an international war crimes tribunal.
Arrogant Propaganda
US Propaganda During the First 10 Days of the Iraq War
By PAUL de ROOIJ
www.counterpunch.org/rooij0401 2003.html

Are we debt slaves?

The Matrix
We can draw parallels between our current society with that of the movie the Matrix. In the Matrix, the human beings are in pod-like containers and are being used as batteries to power the machines who have taken over the world. The humans in the Matrix are asleep and unaware and live in a virtual world created for them. The parallels are too real for us right here and now.

We live in this virtual world designed for us believing that we have true freedom and democracy, meanwhile we are economic slaves to the New World Order elites who use our labor and taxes for their own benefit. They are like parasites who have silently infiltrated the world governments and societies through the economic system and are proceeding to destroy each and every nation from within. It is time to wake up?

Debt Slavery Explained http://tinyurl.com/d3mz9a

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