Communications, Persuasion, Propaganda, Disinformaton; and Information

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USE AND ABUSE OF OPINIONS

Opinions over wars. Analytical Tools of Gates-Crowley Cultural Opinion Groups.  Types of opinions, function as fact-aids or weapons, skepticism over police reports when the policeman is part of the action and has to justify what he did and why.

GROUP COMMUNICATIONS

Gypsies, Roma: Use of Runes in the Woods. Finding your way, who else was there. Look to the trees.

MEDIA "FREE" REPETITION OF CANDIDATE ADS TO BE CONSIDERED A POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION

Media Shall Not Proliferate Candidate Advertising as "News". Media repetition of candidate ads, without contractual purchase of time as an ad, shall be deemed to be a political gift where the exposure exceeds a single still-frame or a single 5 second snippet.

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Government as Marketer, German WWII, Nuremberg Stadium  Hitler's presentations before the crowds. The spectacles.  

Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent. Three ways to persuade: technique in delivery, spin in interpretation, and persistence.

Edward Bernays, "The Science of Ballyhoo" Focus attention and then shape behavior. Get their attention, readied, primed for persuasion, focused. Second zoom in with your great logical explanation! Repeat! Emote! There! Got 'em. Woodrow Wilson's Committee on Public Information (WWI)

Edward Bernays: Persuasion as to the Distasteful (theories in practice) The chaos of public opinion is to be scientifically manipulated.

Mother of All Labeling Matches: Civil and Military Iraq. Labeling as propaganda. Convince as to a label, and the consequences flow, regardless of truth. Institute for Propaganda Analysis.

Hyper-Negative Labeling: Gingrich, GOPAC Even you can memorize the spin words, the positive and the negative, to show off to your friends and beat up on your enemies. GOPAC. List here.

Rovism: Persuasion Focusing Techniques. Fact-Avoidance

FUD as propaganda technique

FUD and Gene Amdahl, IBM's Propaganda Target. See IBM's successful Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) propaganda model, used against a competitor's excellent computer product. Amdahl recently died, 2009 . FUD= this has been the rule for marketing and politics to defeat someone without providing a better alternative.

DISTRACTION AND DISPLACEMENT

Jack the Giant Killer on St. Michael's Mount Distract, divert, overcome the old tradition with the Christian overlay. Presto conversion.

OTHER PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

Euphemism, Unwarranted Extrapolation: Food Insecurity instead of Hunger. Agriculture Dept. use of propaganda techniques, euphemism, unwarranted extrapolation

Federalist Society, Use of White Papers to Persuade under Guise of Issue Education Propaganda: persuasion unawares; malicious use of "authority"

DISINFORMATION as PROPAGANDA

Theft of Consent, an Impeachable Offense. Proposed legislation

Navigation, Scope of Cultural Tales Site: Cultural Filters Distort

PERPETUATING PROPAGANDA

The Big Grip: Sunset Provisions vs. Group Perpetuation, Edwin Bernays' propaganda techniques, developed and applied for emergency (WWI), become our national handbook for marketing anything. Need sunset provisions to rein in groups using it.

DEFINITIONS OF TERMS
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