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Selling AmeriKKKan Imperialism
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
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"Information
warfare" blurs the line between distributing
factual information and psychological warfare. During
the current buildup against Iraq, for example, the Bush
administration's statements have been calculated to
create confusion about whether an actual US invasion is
imminent. Such confusion can be a useful weapon against
an enemy, forcing Saddam Hussein to divide his efforts
between diplomatic initiatives and military
preparations. The confusion is so complete, however,
that even the American people have little idea what
their leaders are actually planning.--"War Is Sell"
Laura Miller, PRWatch,
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Most AmeriKKKans are unaware they are active
targets of an intense media blitz designed to control their
thinking, define how they see reality and shape what they
believe. Most of us are cognizant of the advertising industry,
how it uses images, voices and text to deceive us, make us feel
inadequate and prompt us to buy things we don't really want let
alone need. The manufactured desire for these things fuels
AmeriKKKa's fixation with consumerism, materialism and mindless
Pavlovian spending. People don't realize in addition to the
advertising industry stream we are also being manipulated via
the media by cunning PR and propaganda experts. I suggest you
log onto the Website www.PRWatch.org
and peruse their archives and current articles which explain
just how insidious this process it.
For example, it is not widely known that the
propaganda campaign that helped win AmeriKKKan support for the
first Gulf War was not only false, it was the work of a high-powered
Washington D.C. based PR firm Hill and Knowlton, whose client
the Kuwaiti government paid them $11 million dollars to get
Bubba and Louise to give their blessings to a war that was
unnecessary at best, a sham and set up at worst. I won't go into
all the details but let's just say Saddam Hussein had every
reason to be angry with Kuwait, they were slant drilling into
Iraq and stealing oil! He even checked with Washington before he
invaded to get Bush the First's feelings on the issue. Hussein
was told the U.S. would not intervene in the issue. Needless to
say they double crossed him and in so doing also deceived and
double crossed the AmeriKKKan public.
They claimed thousands of Iraqi soldiers were
poised on the border ready to invade Saudi Arabia; later it was
discovered the photos of the so-called Iraqi army Bush used were
false! The U.S. government deceived the public by employing high
powered PR firms who sold the idea that the Gulf War was a good
war, one on which AmeriKKKa was the good guy. Bush's message
resonated with an AmeriKKKa desperately in need of a military
self-image make over in light of the Vietnam debacle. For a
better understanding of PR in general and how Hill and Knowlton
duped the AmeriKKKan public read Douglas Rushkoff's book Coercion
Why We Listen To What "They" Say published by
Riverhead Books.
Now Bush Jr. is using the same tricks, what
the Black Muslims used to call Tricknology, to deceive the
masses and manipulate them to support blatant imperialism and a
global bum rush for god (gold, oil and drugs) in Central. Asia,
Afghanistan, Iraq and coming soon Columbia, South America. Bush
and Co. are pathetically obvious with their stuff. I don't know
whether they have no respect for the intelligence of the
AmeriKKKan public or they just think people will go for the
proverbial okie-doke. At any rate the Bush administration is
leaving no stone unturned as they use disinformation, stealth,
and psychological operations on the AmeriKKKan public.
This combination is lethal to our minds, as
Africans in AmeriKKKa we have been under this relentless
psychological assault and brainwashing for three hundred
eighty-four years. It has proven to be so successful we
unconsciously deny and negate our genocide at the hands of white
people. The sad reality is the ruling elites have been dong this
since day one, playing ethnic groups against each other,
instigating gender and class warfare to divide and rule. The
game goes on unless it suits their fancy to manipulate the
people to come together and rally for a cause that enriches or
benefits them; like the impending war in Iraq.
The ruling elites are pulling out all the
stops to trick us into going for the okie-doke that Saddam
Hussein and Iraq pose an imminent threat to this country and the
world, that he was involved in 9-11. As Laura Miller points out
in her article in PRWatch,
"The techniques being used to sell a war in Iraq are
familiar PR strategies. The message is developed to resonate
with the targeted audiences through the use of focus groups and
other types of market research and media monitoring. The
delivery of the message is tightly controlled. Relevant
information flows to the media and the public through a limited
number of well-trained messengers, including seemingly
independent third parties."
Bush's plans include public and private
resources to obfuscate the issues and make war seem like peace,
evil like right. Miller also states, "A seamless blend of
private and public money and organizations are executing their
war campaign in the face of a sinking US economy and increasing
public opposition to attacking Iraq. But with a
Republican-controlled Congress and a largely pliant corporate
media, there is little to challenge the White House agenda. Its
diplomatic and political maneuvers have been tightly
choreographed in concert with a handful of right-wing think
tanks, the newly concocted Committee for the Liberation of Iraq,
and well connected PR and lobby firms that now dominate media
coverage of US foreign policy in the Middle East."
While Bush's PR campaign is thorough it's
still not potent enough to overcome the natural skepticism most
AmeriKKKans have about this war. Bush and Co. are not about to
let up, they have invested too much into this charade to turn
back now. They plan to keep pressing their case no matter how
fascist and megalomaniacal they look doing it.
AmeriKKKa is at a critical juncture in its
existence. It has always been genocidal but now the ruling
elites are drunk with arrogance. We don't have to go out like
this. The time to resist is now! Make the time to research the
power and influence PR and propaganda play in our lives, it's
real. Over 60% of what passes for news in the newspapers and
electronic media is really PR/ propaganda. These fascist
warmongers are skilled at getting their point across.
Check out how they do it. Start recognizing
it when you see it and think for yourself. Form your own
opinions and conclusions so you don't continue to fall for the
okie-doke. Once we understand how they are manipulating us, then
the question becomes, what are we going to do about it?!
POSITIVELY BLACK (2/15/03)
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In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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