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In 1929, he persuaded feminists to promote cigarettes for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade - behaviour then considered outlandish. One feminist, Ruth Booth, declared, "Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!" Bernays' influence extended far beyond advertising. His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughter of the First World War. The secret, he said, was "engineering the consent" of people in order to "control and regiment [them] according to our will without their knowing about it".
He described this as "the true ruling power in our society" and called it an "invisible government".
Today, the invisible government has never been more powerful and less understood. In my career as a journalist and film-maker, I have never known propaganda to insinuate our lives and as it does now and to go unchallenged.
© The EconomistBetter watch out, Vlad. When Western propaganda throws an “-ism” at you, the gloves have come off. Think Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, communism, socialism, extremism and “Islamic” terrorism, for starters. After all, behind the Great Western Firewall, they are all the same thing, right?
I have a friend whose email signature is "Blame it on Putin". For a while, he changed it to "Blame it on China". But that didn't last long and he recently changed it back. As we have seen with the most depressing predictability, President Putin, specifically, and Russia in general are the voodoo pin dolls of Western racism and demonization of another people (Slavs) and other religions (Orthodox Christianity, as well as widespread Islam and Buddhism in Siberia).
What is so remarkable is how unhinged and psychopathic the West's racist propaganda is against Putin & Co., compared to the attacks on China's President Xi Jinping (XJP) and the Chinese people. It transgresses irrational fear, to the point of being sick, black humor. Yet, about the most polemical front cover against XJP was Time magazine in April, 2016, seen below. Making China's leader look like a Mao Zedong-Blade Runner replicant is tame and almost quaint, compared to the Orwellian "Emmanuel Goldstein" tsunami being launched nonstop against Putin.
Best of the Web: Project Veritas Exposes DNC: Rigging the Election Pt. 4 - How PVA Infiltrated Americans United for Change
Comment: See Parts 1-3 here:
Project Veritas Action has released the fourth video in a multi-part series that is sending shockwaves through the DNC and the Clinton campaign. The first video explained the dark secrets and the hidden connections and organizations the Clinton campaign uses to incite violence at Trump rallies. The second video exposed a diabolical step-by-step voter fraud strategy discussed by top Democratic operatives and showed one key operative admitting that the Democrats have been rigging elections for fifty years. The third video exposed prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton's campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. This latest video breaks down the process of the long-term investigation.
Comment: As for all the MSM claims that all this is just "selective editing", "bar room talk", and "hypotheticals", they're BS:
Best of the Web: RT visits Aleppo hospital after another round of shelling of civilians by US-backed terrorists (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
"Some of the things we saw were heart-wrenching even by Aleppo standards," RT's Murad Gazdiev reported from the Syrian city, which remains divided between the government forces and the militants.
"One man, injured by shrapnel himself, was hunkered down, rocking back and forth, clutching his two-year-old son, who had been killed and was wrapped in blankets," he said.
Comment: Update (Oct. 29): Three were killed and 40 injured today, the second day of the terrorists attack on western Aleppo:
According to Gazdiev, militants and jihadists "have been trying to seemingly blow their way into the city using whatever armaments they have, the heaviest of them actually rockets, missiles, homemade bombs packed with nails. It has been relentless, blanket bombardment of the city and civilians are paying a terrible price."
As of midday local time, three people died in the militant assaults, while some 40 more were injured. An RT crew visited a hospital in the government-controlled area, which treated those injured in the devastating shelling.
"I was heading back on my bicycle when a shell landed next to me," a 12-year-old boy who was injured told RT. A young girl said that her father died in the explosion. "That's it, he is gone! Please save us from them," she said.
An official at Aleppo's central hospital told RIA Novosti that a total of at least 15 people were killed and 150 wounded after terrorist shelling of residential areas, presumably in the last day. Over the past three days, the Russian MOD says 43 civilians were killed from 62 mortar and "Helfire" canon attacks, and 96 wounded.
See also this report from RT's Murad Gazdiev: War crime: U.S.-backed terrorists kill 6 civilians, 71 wounded in Aleppo
Once again, unnamed sources and al-Qaeda in White Helmets are claiming that either the Syrian or Russian air force are responsible for deaths of civilians, this time an alleged 22 children in Idlib province.
Once again, American claims need no actual proof and defy damning satellite imagery contradicting the accusations.
Once again, the hypocrisy not only of American exceptionalism but also of the United Nations is staggering.
© Reuters/Carlos BarriaHillary Clinton has proven to be hawkish on foreign policy.
In this largely policy-free contest, Hillary Clinton's approach to the immense challenges facing the United States has escaped serious scrutiny. Yet, how America views its place in a rapidly transforming world has far-reaching implications not only for security at home and abroad, but for the economy, financial markets, the environment and much else.
How is it, then, that a former secretary of state, who loudly proclaims her intimate knowledge of world affairs, has given so little attention to the grave dangers looming on the horizon? Part of the explanation is that Clinton's campaign has judged the electorate as unwilling or unable to tune in to a serious discussion of international risks and opportunities.
Comment: Indeed, for all of Donald Trump's unbecoming characteristics, Hillary Clinton has a proven track record of murder by proxy, accepting cash for pushing policy directions while holding office, covering up sexual assaults against women and silencing those women. We can be sure of what her election would lead to, and it won't be change for the better.
Best of the Web: Project Veritas Exposes DNC: Rigging the Election Pt. 3 - Killary Wanted "Ducks on the Ground"
Hillary's idea.
Part III of the undercover investigation dives further into the back room dealings of Democratic politics. It exposes prohibited communications between Hillary Clinton's campaign, the DNC and the non-profit organization Americans United for Change. And, it's all disguised as a duck.
Several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Democracy Partners founder directly implicating Hillary Clinton in FEC violations.
"In the end, it was the candidate, Hillary Clinton, the future president of the United States, who wanted ducks on the ground," says Creamer in one of several exchanges. "So, by God, we would get ducks on the ground."
It is made clear that high-level DNC operative Creamer realized that this direct coordination between Democracy Partners and the campaign would be damning when he said: "Don't repeat that to anybody."
Comment: Check out parts 1 and 2 here: 'Conflict engagement': How Democrat Strategists Plotted to Incite Violence at Trump Rallies. And SOTT's follow-ups:
- SOTT Exclusive: Newsflash! Candidates Should Not Concede Stolen Elections
- Clinton Campaign, White House Squirm after Project Veritas Exposes DNC Dirty Tricks
Clinton strategist Joel Benenson flails just as miserably:
But even CNN couldn't ignore the actual evidence (O'Keefe's credibility notwithstanding):
Brown has gravitas to write such a book. First, he is fluent in Mandarin (as well as learning Portuguese, Arabic, and French). Second, he has lived 13 years in China, currently in Shenzhen. He has also traveled to most of its regions. This served as a foundation for a political travelog Brown wrote, 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass.
In addition to his years of having lived in China, Brown's having grown up in Oklahoma and having graduated from Oklahoma State University has provided him an ringside seat from which to compare and analyze the imperialist war-making United States and the anti-imperialist rise of China, now in concert with Russia, described in rich, colloquial detail (e.g., Brown refers to the Chinese government as Baba Beijing; a colloquialism that I'd translate to as Big Daddy Beijing) in China Rising. I carried out an email interview with Jeff Brown to illuminate western media fabrications about China and to examine US political and military machinations against the next preeminent economic power, a socialist nation whose rise can be viewed as an ominous signal portending capitalism's demise, or at least its competitive equal.
Best of the Web: In Memoriam: 5 Years Ago Today US and NATO Psychopaths Butchered Libya and Publicly Murdered Gaddafi
Comment: See also: The Rise of China: What it Means for the World - Interview with Jeff Brown