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George Orwell | horrible features of war

“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” George Orwell | Homage to Catalonia, 1938 “Eines der schrecklichsten Merkmale des Krieges ist, dass die gesamte Kriegspropaganda, all das Geschrei, die Lügen und der Hass, ausnahmslos von Leuten kommt, die nicht kämpfen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | why the propaganda system works

“I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.” Noam Chomsky “Ich denke, es gibt einen guten Grund, warum das Propagandasystem so funktioniert. Es erkennt, dass die Öffentlichkeit die eigentliche Politik nicht unterstützen wird. Deshalb ist es wichtig, jede Kenntnis oder jedes Verständnis von ihnen zu verhindern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…

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Richard Schickel | tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive

“The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don’t need and mostly don’t want” Richard Schickel – Brill’s Content, Juli/August 2000, S. 122 “Die heutigen Mogule haben verstanden, dass die wahre Macht der Medien nicht darin liegt, unsere Empörung zu schüren, wie es Hearst tat, sondern darin,…

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Don Pettit | The only limit to human future is in our own imagination

“I’d go to the moon in a Nanosecond, but the Problem is that we no longer have that technology to do that anymore, we used to have it, but we destroyed it and it’s a painful process to build it back again, but going to Mars should be one of the next series of steps that humans do. The first step should be going back to the Moon for a number of technical reasons and exploration reasons. And then after that Mars, maybe high orbit in Venus atmosphere maybe going…

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Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner

“In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [….] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics.” Professor Christoph Degenhart | (72 | Leipziger Medienrechtler) “In der Darstellung politischer Prozesse sehe ich oft eine gewisse politische Einseitigkeit. Zum Beispiel werden bei den Themen Ökologie oder Europäisierung Kritiker immer wieder in die rechte…

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M.A.Verick | The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media

“The most dangerous Weapons of Mass Destruction are the Mass Media. For they destroy the people’s spirit, creativity and courage, replacing them by fear, mistrust, guilt and self-doubt.” M.A.Verick | (DAS MEDIEN MONOPOL – Gedankenkontrolle und Manipulationen) „Die gefährlichsten Massenvernichtungswaffen sind die Massenmedien. Denn sie zerstören den Geist, die Kreativität und den Mut der Menschen, und ersetzen diese mit Angst, Misstrauen, Schuld und Selbstzweifel.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Noam Chomsky | The smart way to keep people passive and obedient

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow a very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people a sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of debate.” Noam Chomsky “Der schlaueste Weg, Menschen passiv und gehorsam zu halten, ist, das Spektrum an akzeptabler Meinung streng zu beschränken, aber eine…

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Walter Lippmann | a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion

“…a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion when the selection rules of the journalists who have been brought into line largely coincide. This creates a consonance of reporting that acts like a confirmation to the audience (everyone says it, so it has to be right) and installs a stereotype-supported pseudo-environment” Walter Lippmann | Public Opinion (1922), dt.: Die öffentliche Meinung) “Das Auseinanderdriften von öffentlicher Meinung und veröffentlichter Meinung entsteht, wenn die Auswahlregeln der gleichgeschalteten Journalisten weitgehend übereinstimmen. Dadurch kommt eine Konsonanz der Berichterstattung zustande, die auf das Publikum…

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Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” Gustave Le Bon “Nie haben die Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen…

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Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” Charles MacKay | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds “Wir sehen, daß ganze Gesellschaften plötzlich ihre Gedanken auf ein einziges Thema fixieren und den Verstand dabei verlieren; daß Millionen von Menschen gleichzeitig von einer einzigen Wahnvorstellung ergriffen werden, bis ihre Aufmerksamkeit von…

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C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government

“I do not like the pretensions of Government — the grounds on which it demands my obedience — to be pitched too high. I don’t like the medicine-man’s magical pretensions nor the Bourbon’s Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet’s Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands ‘Thus saith the Lord’, it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I…

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Just.A.Thought | Being a “conspiracy theorist”

“Being a “conspiracy theorist” is spending endless hours for years & years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you’re crazy.” Just.A.Thought “Ein ‚Verschwörungstheoretiker‘ zu sein bedeutet, jahrelang endlose Stunden damit zu verbringen, so viele Informationen wie möglich aus so vielen Quellen wie möglich zu sammeln und kritisch darüber nachzudenken, was diese Informationen bedeuten, und sich dann von Leuten, die nichts anderes tun als fernzusehen, sagen…

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Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths

“If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths, then tomorrow’s whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake.” Erich Limpach (1899 – 1965), deutscher Dichter, Schriftsteller und Aphoristiker “Wenn die Menschen sich weiterhin die Lügen von gestern als die Wahrheiten von heute aufreden lassen, dann wird die Peitsche von morgen ihnen zu spät schmerzhaft bewußt machen, welche Gefahren die Denkfaulheit im Gefolge hat.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen

“If it is not in the media… it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media… we believe it has happened.” Charles T. Tart “Wenn es nicht in den Medien steht, ist es nicht passiert. Wenn es nicht passiert ist, aber in den Medien steht, dann glauben wir, dass es passiert ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jean-Luc Godard | Cannes is a propaganda tool

“Zelensky’s intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called “staging”: a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not…

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Jesuit Guy Consolmagno | Aliens for their salvation

“Very soon the nations will look to Aliens for their salvation.” “contemporary societies will soon see extraterrestrials as the saviors of mankind” “Jesus might be the son of a star child.” Jesuit Guy Consolmagno (Chief Astronomer of the Vaticans) “Sehr bald werden die Nationen ihre Rettung bei den Aliens suchen.” “zeitgenössische Gesellschaften schon bald Außerirdische als Erlöser der Menschheit ansehen werden” Quelle “Jesus könnte der Sohn eines Sternenkindes sein.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Elon Musk | Some of the smartest people

“Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing” Elon Musk Buck Sexton: “So many high IQ people recognize the press as their emotional and cultural enforcers, so they become deeply attached to the propaganda machine- Facts be damned.” Elon Musk: “Well-Said” “Einige der klügsten Menschen, die ich kenne, glauben aktiv der Presse … erstaunlich” Elon Musk Buck Sexton antwortet: “So viele Menschen mit hohem IQ erkennen die Presse als ihre emotionalen und kulturellen Vollstrecker, so dass sie der Propagandamaschine zutiefst verfallen. Fakten werden verdammt.” Elon…