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Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use Vol. 13 Issue 11…Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race…March 14, 2010
Bit of History Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995)
Bernays chose journalism as a career and joined the Medical Review of Reviews in New York as editor. He volunteered to help Richard Bennet, an actor, who could not raise funds to produce "Damaged Goods," his controversial play about venereal disease. Bernays set up a "Sociological Fund Committee" to finance the production and rallied public support. Once Bernays enlisted many city notables in the cause, "Damaged Goods" debuted without incident and was hailed a valuable contribution to public health. Thus began Bernays theatrical publicist career, producing and promoting appearances of such artists as Enrico Caruso and the Diaghilev ballet company.
Selected to serve on the US Committee on Public Information, after the United States entered World War I, Bernays began another career. His job was generating public support for America's war aims. Bernays also served on the American Peace Commission in Paris. Returning to New York (1919), Bernays believed techniques he learned "selling war" could be applied to the business world.
Bernays had lofty ambitions that went far beyond the role of "press agent." He described himself as the world's first "counsel on public relations." He promised to actively shape public opinion in the interests of his clients. Journalist Doris E. Fleischmann became Bernays partner in his new business; the pair married in 1922.
Enlisted by United Fruit Company (today Chiquita Brands International) and the U.S. government, Bernays' techniques crossed the line from "PR" to extreme political propaganda. He facilitated the successful overthrow of the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (1954). The success of Bernays' propaganda war on behalf of UFC and the US government was based on "the big lie." Arbenz was branded a communist through lies planted in major US newspapers. The term "banana republic" actually originated in reference to UFC's control of corrupt governments like the one that replaced Arbenz in Guatemala. Bernays assistance allowed UFC to brutally exploit countries in Latin America by producing cheap bananas with slave labor for the lucrative U.S. market.
Bernays retired in the early 1960s but continued consulting and advocating public relations. Ironically, in light of his work for Lucky Strike cigarettes in the 1930s, he became an anti-smoking crusader. On March 9, 1995, Bernays died at the age of 103 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Considered a huckster by his critics, Bernays nonetheless shaped the techniques of manipulating the masses and the control that manipulation exerts over their behavior. Bernays turned America into a country of bottom feeders appealing to the darkest aspects of the subconscious. (Sources: www.bookrags.com, www.lewrockwell.com and http://en.wikipedia.org)
By John Burl Smith
Self-perception is the mental picture one holds of him or her self, which shapes one's sense of awareness. A number of philosophers, psychologists and other thinkers developed theories claiming subconscious forces control individuals and their responses to their world. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis theory had a profound impact on modern man and many have used it to try and control not only individuals but the workings of society.
Edward Bernays, his nephew, adapted psychoanalytical principals to manipulate mass behavior and became a major developer of "public relations." Bernays saw public relations as a means of controlling large numbers of people without their knowledge or consent. This type of manipulation has become known as "propaganda."
It is not that propaganda is either good or bad; it is WHY it is used that determines its purposes. The danger is that masses of people can be tricked into supporting ideas and actions they would otherwise oppose, if they understood. Moreover, the ideas or actions are not the problem, it is those doing the manipulating and their views of those they manipulate that pose the real danger.
The 'noble lie' is needed to maintain the hierarchical structure and the moral order. It should be used like medicine. The 'noble lie' should be restricted to rulers, as medicine is to physicians. The rulers of the State should have the privilege of lying for the 'public good.' Such 'lies' foster the people's belief in the State and make them care more for it and for one another. A 'noble lie' makes citizens more civic-minded, patriotic and instills a sense of community." In short, the noble lie is necessary to justify the rigid hierarchy as a "public good."
Bernays books Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and Propaganda (1928) were intended to "justify exigencies in exercising power under the pretext of the 'common good." He saw the masses as "increasingly bold and threatening to the customary interests of power. "There is an increased readiness of the public, due to the spread of literacy and democratic forms of government, to feel that it is entitled to a voice in the conduct of all aspects of society. This sense of entitlement places new and treacherous demands on the higher strata of society."
Bernays felt elites and experts were necessary. "Intellectual elites tell the people, the crowd, the herd, the mob, in a democracy, what to think as well as how to think because they are ignorant and act irrationally. Therefore, the people do not know what is the 'public good.' Their awareness is shallow, primitive, crude and unsophisticated. So, the intellectual elites are needed to aid and assist the primitive, unsophisticated and ignorant individuals in a democracy."
What guides the masses, the people, in a democracy? According to Walter Lippmann, "Images in our heads, we are all captives of the picture in our head--our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. The image, not the actual reality, is everything. Manipulate the image and you change the perception of reality. This is the dominant 'narrative' or paradigm in 'manufacturing consent' in a democracy and is the way it actually works."
"Manufacturing consent" or "engineering consent" is crucial in a democracy for Bernays. "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element of control in democratic society. These elites pull the wires which control the 'public mind' or the 'group mind.' The ultimate object is to control the masses in a democracy, to manipulate them with the noble lie to do what they otherwise would not do. If we understand the mechanism that motives the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?"
Clearly, Americans are not in control of anything, particularly if they believe they live in a democracy. Public relations experts, media talking heads, politicians, lobbyists, you name it, manipulate images to make the people believe what they want them to believe. The Tea Parties, Swiftboat Veterans, opposition to healthcare, grassroots support for Sarah Palin are all PR stunts designed to trick the masses. What is thought to be democracy is simply a neural matrix of residual self images as described by Lippmann. If you believe differently, "You're living in a dream world Neo."
The "BIG LIES" are what the people were told during the run up to the invasion of Iraq - there were WMDs, Condoleezza Rice's "next smoking gun could be a mushroom cloud," Bush's claim that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11 and the outing of Valerie Plame. What the elite wanted the people to believe was drilled into their heads by the American media, marching in lockstep as the White House's echo chamber. The real trick of PR magic was to convince Americans that they are too smart to be fooled by propaganda. That way they never think about or question "the big lies" they are told.
Propaganda (Excerpts) By Dead Prez
Let me now turn, to our program for the future... The economy right now is extremely supportive of the president and his policies FBI scientists have found chemical traces, consistent with a bomb or a missile, on a piece of wreckage... Police using clubs and tear gas against demonstrators... They called me a mother (bleeped out)-ing so-and-so...and a white Fascist...like they said, 'you're getting some of your own medicine'...
Verse 1: You can't fool all the people all of the time But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind Tell me who's got control of your mind? Your world view? Is it the news or the movie you're taking your girl to? Know what I'm saying because Uncle Sam got a plan If you examine what they telling us, then you will understand What they planting in the seeds of the next generation Feeding our children mis-education No one knows if there's UFO's or any life on Mars Or what they do when they up in the stars Because I don't believe a word of what the president said He filling our head with lies got us hypnotized When he be speaking in cold words about crime and poverty Drugs, welfare, prisons, guns and robbery It really means us, there's no excuse for the slander But what's good for the goose is still good for the gander
I don't want no computer chip in my arm I don't want to die by a nuclear bomb I say we all rush the pentagon, pull out guns And grab the intercom; my first words will be I believe Man made god out of ignorance and fear If God made man, then why the hell would he put us here? I thought he's supposed to be the all loving The same God who let Hitler put the Jews in the oven We don't fall for the regular sh*t, they try to feed us All this half-a*s leadership, flipping position They turn politician and shut the hell up and follow tradition For your TV screen, is telling lies to your vision Every channel got some brainwashed cop sh*t to watch Running up in nigg*s cribs claiming that they heard shots It's a plot, but buster can you tell me who's greedier? Big corporations, the pigs or the media? Sign of the times, terrorism on the rise Commercial airplanes, falling out the sky like flies Make me wonder what secrets went down with Bob Brown Who burnt churches to the ground with no evidence found? It's not coincidence; it's been too many studied incidents It could have been the Klan who put that bomb at the Olympics But it probably was the FBI, deep at the call Cause if they make us all panic then they can start martial law
I don't believe Bob Marley died from cancer 31 years ago I would have been a Panther They killed Huey because they knew he had the answer The views that you see in the news are propaganda
Police is telling lies fooling millions What are they teaching our kids in these school buildings? Televised, enterprise in all the killing Controlling our lives, this ain't living
FBI, CIA, ATF, KKK, IRS, TNT, CBS, NBC FBI, CIA, ATF, KKK, IRS, TNT, CBS, NBC.
Stimulus' Failure to Benefit Blacks By Hazel Trice Edney
A little more than a year ago, Feb. 17, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama took his first corrective action to quell the escalating economic crisis.
That action was to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), known as the stimulus bill, a $787 billion package to create and preserve jobs and spur economic growth.
But, one year later, a non-partisan study by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University has found that despite the President's noble efforts, the economic stimulus has not only failed to boost the economy for African-Americans and other historically disadvantaged people, including women, but it has produced starkly disparate results between white workers and people of color and failed to correct long-standing racial disparities.
The report continues, "White unemployment has started to decrease (from a peak of 9.4% in October 2009 to 8.7% in January 2010), while Black unemployment rates continues to rise (from 15.5% to 16.5% during the same time period). Latino unemployment rates have also decreased slightly but remain very high, decreasing from 13.1% in October 2009 to 12.6% in January 2010."
Among other disparities listed in the report: (1) One in five children were living in poverty in 2008, and poverty rates for children of color are climbing above 40 percent in some states; (2) While one in 10 workers are unemployed nationally, one in six black workers and one in eight Latino workers are unemployed; (3) Nearly half of all subprime loans went to African-American and Latino borrowers, even though many qualified for prime loans; (4) African-American and Latino homeowners are expected to lose $164 - $213 billion in assets due to the housing crisis.
The report, released late last month, comes just as President Obama's proposed 2011 budget seeks to boost programs aimed to improve the quality of life for African-Americans, according to the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The Kirwan report comes as no surprise to African-Americans who are well aware of the economic pains experienced first-hand. Many have expressed disappointment in Obama's lack of a targeted plan in the Black community; including civil rights leaders Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Al Sharpton of the National Network and Marc Morial of the National Urban League, who two weeks ago trudged through a snow storm to a White House meeting with President Obama just to express what most Americans already know: That his "rising tide lifts all boats" theory about unemployment, expressed in a press conference, is apparently not working.
It continues, "Although consistent state level data on ARRA contracting to minority firms is not widely available, figures from federal procurement indicate troubling and disparate contracting patterns. While Black-, Latino-, and Women-owned businesses represent 5.2%, 6.8%, and 28.2% of all businesses respectively,12 as of February 1, 2010, they had only received 1.1%, 1.6%, and 2.4% of all federally contracted ARRA funds. Of the $45 billion in direct federal contracts allocated by February 1, 2010, less than $2.4 billion (5% of the total) were allocated to black-, Latino-, and women-owned businesses."
Black contractors have long complained that they were not getting their fair share of state and federal dollars. That complaint continued specifically about the economic stimulus dollars. Also, Black-owned newspapers point out how they've been consistently shorted in allocation of advertising dollars from federal agencies such as the U. S. Census Bureau as well as private corporations that received stimulus money, including car dealerships.
Financial Manipulation of the American People By John R. Deahl
The Federal Reserve causes financial boom times by lessening this ratio. If a bank only has to have 6 to 7 dollars on hand to back loans, they can lend out more money.
The crash comes when the Federal Reserve requires the banks go back to the 9 to 10 ratio. Banks would have to scramble to get as much cash on hand as possible. This causes them to stop lending and foreclose on customers. The economy slows down and can almost stop.
When the cash flow is disrupted, recessions and depressions result. The international bankers know this and planned it, and use it to steal even more money from governments and the public. During these times the international bankers use these financial crises to their advantage.
In this financial crisis they received bailouts from the government. Many of the recipients used the bailout money to raise rates on customers and buy out other banks and mortgage corporations.
There has also been a backdoor swindle going on. The federal government has a program to pay more than the going value for bad mortgages; these same banks have been buying even more of the bad mortgages and selling them at a profit to the government.
This was all made possible by a couple of corrupt presidents and their appointees. Some of these appointees were the cause of the financial crisis when they worked for the banks and Federal Reserve.
This last financial crisis has seen more laws passed to give more power to the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, which they are using to create a world wide banking cartel to usher in their one world government.
Let me give you an example of how little the congress cares for the public. After the financial crisis started, congress passed some banking laws. One of which was supposedly for the protection of bank credit card holders. Congress passed some restrictions on the credit card companies, but the restrictions did not go in to effect until the banks had time to defraud their customers one last time.
I also might add that Bank of America was one of the companies that caused the financial crisis. They were one of the leaders of credit cards and loans to illegal aliens.
I have noticed one thing that has been blatantly absent in all the financial debates. That is the cost of the wars. Over a trillion dollars has been spent in the last decade for these wars.
If you have not realized it by now, all of this is about debt --the United States government's debt to the international bankers. In a few years the American government's yearly interest on the national debt will be approximately one third of the government's yearly revenue. (Source: www.stopnwo.com)
Disgruntled wants to know: I am always amazed by the insensitivity of some people, particularly those who live well above the fray of the day-to-day struggle of American blue collar workers. Among the US elite, there is this self-serving philosophy about workers that dates back to slavery. It basically says that workers are inherently lazy and must be driven to produce. I call it the "Southern Plantation Style of Management (SPSM). Recently, former US House Speaker Tom DeLay (R-Texas) came to the defense of Senator Jim Bunning, the Kentucky Senator who single-handedly held up passage of an extension of unemployment compensation benefits. According to DeLay, Bunning was right in opposing any such extension, because unemployed workers receiving unemployment benefits are not actively seeking jobs. Moreover, as long as unemployment compensation benefits are available, they will remain unemployed. The problem with DeLay's analysis is obvious. Millions of unemployed workers do not receive unemployment benefits. I suppose someone, such as DeLay, who adheres to SPSM would say these would-be workers are simply lazy and satisfied living on other sources of the public dole. The only problem with that assumption is the fact that under Clinton welfare as we knew it changed. Today, the public dole provides too little assistance to feed, clothe and shelter an individual or family. So, what then prevents them from filling those millions upon millions of job vacancy announcements published in newspapers across the country? Could it be those job announcements are non-existent?
Email www.cbsnews.com...Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) railed against the Washington press corps today on the House floor for paying more attention to the likes of scandal-ridden Eric Massa than the war in Afghanistan. "There's two press people in this gallery," Kennedy yelled during a debate over an anti-war resolution. "We're talking about Eric Massa 24-7 on the TV, we're talking about war and peace, $3 billion, 1,000 lives and no press? No press." "You want to know why the American public is fit?" he continued. "They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they're sent to do. It's because the press, the press of the United States is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. It's despicable, the national press corps right now." Kennedy's comments came during a three-hour floor debate over a resolution sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) that would force President Obama to bring troops home from Afghanistan within 30 days, or longer if it were necessary because of safety issues.
Email http://journals.democraticunderground.com ...You Say You Want a Revolution? By David Glenn Cox...You say you want a revolution? Call your cable or satellite providers and say, "This is me and this is you; this is f*ck and this is off." This would be a step in the right direction. Outside of the time and money you'll save to pursue more meaningful activities, you will find your own ideas emerging from what you read. You might have to buy gasoline from huge corporations but you don't have to buy their opinions. You will never overthrow a government such as this with guns and violence as long as they control the media. They can shoot you down like dogs in the streets while vilifying you in the press until before long the public will condemn you for stopping their bullets. The media and the government spend billions of dollars each year trying to sell you things, wars, torture, Toyotas, bath beads, tax cuts, hemorrhoid creams and political ideas. The oil companies all have bloated TV budgets explaining how green they've become, and the sheep say, "Baa, baa." You say you want a revolution? Step one: Stop listening to them! Stop buying from them and stop giving them access to your most important possession, your mind.
Email www.noonehastodietomorrow.com ....at this point in history, many people are too credulous to whatever "authority" tells them and too willing to follow. People in a state of shock seek guidance. People who are afraid are manipulable. And being able to manipulate the masses results in unimaginable benefits to a lot of very rich and very powerful people. War is incredibly expensive, but the money has to go somewhere. War is very profitable for the very few. And somehow their sons always end up in Washington DC, making the decisions and writing the budgets, while the sons of the poor and the poorly-connected always end up on the enemy lines, taking their orders and fighting their battles. The enormous black-budget of the US Department of Defense represents an unlimited money machine for the military-industrial complex, figuring in the multi-trillions of dollars, and it will continue to be so until the masses wake up, recuperate their skepticism and demand accountability. Wars (and false pretexts for war) will not cease until the people realize the true motive of war and stop believing "official" explanations. - Kurt Sonnenfeld- American ex-FEMA video-grapher in exile in Argentina.
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Edward
L. Bernays was born in Vienna, Austria on November 22, 1891. He was the son of
Ely and Anna Bernays. Anna was the sister of Sigmund Freud. His family
immigrated to New York when he was just an infant. Ely, a successful grain
merchant, expected Edward to join the family business. After graduating from
high school, he entered Cornell University and graduated with a degree in
agriculture in 1912. 
