Censorship and Propaganda in the USSA
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 7:08PM While much of the world is erupting into protests, riots and revolutions, many look quizzingly at the US and wonder why there hasn't yet been mass protests inside the US.
The main reason is that the US, still clinging to the last few months of having the world's reserve currency, has been able to avoid any and all attempts at "austerity" because the US Federal Reserve Note (dollar) can still be printed with impunity to "pay" for the massive debts of the US Government.
The other reason the US has managed to avoid massive social uprisings to date is because the US Government propaganda machine is unmatched in history.
Many in the US are familiar with the tools of the Soviet Union's propaganda machine and their two newspapers, Izvestia and Pravda. In the Russian language, Izvestia means "news" and Pravda means "truth".
There is an old saying in Russia that "there is no Pravda in Izvestia and no Izvestia in Pravda".
The main difference with the USSR of old and the USSA of today is that in the USSA the people believe the propaganda. People tune in to Katie Couric or Brian Williams or read the New York Times as though it is not just an apparatus of the state and is actual, real news.
The propaganda in the US has been incredibly successful mainly because the US Government has managed to use the propaganda to convince people that they are free. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
And that is the case today in the US.
The propaganda is absolutely everywhere but even worse than what is said, what may be even more controlling of the masses is what is left unsaid and that which is censored.
Take for example, the man who burned himself to death on Monday on the steps of a New Hampshire courthouse to protest years of being oppressed and attacked by the "legal" system. Never heard about it? Well, you certainly wouldn't hear it from the mainstream presstitutes. Only what is called the "alternative media" (AKA honest, true news) picked up on it.
Even on the internet, government censorship has been growing at an alarming rate.
Recently, Google founder Eric Schmidt was caught on video attending the Bilderberg conference in Switzerland. Alex Jones posted the video on YouTube and soon after YouTube had made most of Alex Jones videos very difficult to find. So much for "Don't be evil,", eh Eric?
One TDV subscriber, Maurizio B., even forwarded us a screen capture of when he tried to post a URL of a recent article we had linked to in our post, "Riots and Mobs Coming to a Town Near You". Ironically, enough, the article was entitled, "Government Orders You Tube to Censor Protest Videos".
Here is a screen capture of him trying to post the article on Facebook:
And here is the result:
The irony, Facebook was censoring stories about You Tube censoring videos.
The US Government has already taken down tens of thousands of websites and blogs with no warrant or any evidence of wrongdoing. And the prince of peace himself, Barack Obama, continues to clamor for an internet kill switch. To protect us, of course, from those horrible terrorist cyber attacks that, well, never happen.
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Much of what we have discussed above is all similar to what occurred in the book, 1984. However, the US Government also takes a lot of its cues from another dystopian novel from the same time period, Aldous Huxley's, "Brave New World".
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, because there would be no one who wanted to read one. And on this count also, the American masses have been drugged, brainwashed, "educated" and entertained into a stupor.
TDV subscriber, and long time friend, David S., recently remarked about a US Cable TV convention he had attended. According to David, the cable industry is very worried because statistics show that 40% of their customers can't afford cable TV.
This at a time when American Idol and NFL Sunday Ticket may be the last thing standing between serious social uprisings in the US.
In fact, with the NFL players threatening to go on strike, one of the NFL's top players has already warned that an NFL strike will erupt in increased violence and crime across the US. Baltimore Raven's star, Ray Lewis, stated, "If we don’t have a season, watch how much evil, which we call it crime, watch how much crime picks up when you take away our game."
You never know where the spark may come from that can cause a revolution. In Tunisia, it was a man lighting himself on fire to protest government oppression. In the US, that is widely ignored and unreported.
Wouldn't it be poetic justice if the event that triggered the US to finally revolt against its oppressive government is if the Government arbitrators cannot negotiate a pay package for NFL millionaires and Monday Night Football riots erupt across the homeland?
No wonder the US Government has put The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a US Government agency, in charge of negotiations! This is an issue of national security!
Reader Comments (8)
The man who burned himself to death in front of Cheshire County Superior Courthouse in Keene NH may yet be the match that ignites the revolution. If you haven't read his fifteen-page Last Statement, I highly recommend reading it. Though I do not necessarily agree with the tactics he advocates, the information presented in those pages was a real eye-opener for me. Just follow the link in the TDV blog, the full statement is posted there.
This is local news for me. I was working less than five miles from where the incident occurred, when the rumors started circulating that a man had burned himself to death in the middle of Keene. This may not be in the MSM's version of national news, but it is taking off rapidly on the internet. Kudos to the Keene Sentinel editorial staff for choosing to publish this man's Last Statement in full for all to see!
Terrific post! By the way, there is no such word as "quizzingly".
I realize that Americans are misinformed by local media, the culture of looking at one's navel was cultivated for many centuries in that country. I have a brother living in the United States and he always asks how the issues are in the world because he was accustomed to a wide open and news about the world.h e noted in US it was limited and censored the news.
@ Brian: "there is no such word as "quizzingly"... NOW there is ;)
@Menno: please keep us all informed of any developments in the area... we have dollar vigilantes everywhere!
love your site. right on in so many ways. Shame so many people in the country are brainwashed by the media. Thank God for people like yourself who tell it like it is!!!!
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I truly love all of the tough effort you have devoted to keeping this website around.
I really hope this remains for a really long time.
Bit coin a cureency give me a break.
The hackers and computer geeks hoard the bits then run it up to make millions.
Sounds like an arm of criminals to me.
Not even backed by anything except the ability to exchange it and use it.
The day i can use bitcoin some where useful except a bunch of computer geeks is the day i will never see.
Don't waste your time telling me there is no value in the us dollar.
More usefil than a bitcoin.
Sounds like the computers are trying to take over hahaa.
Any so called unit that has a stock exchange crisis like that is a JOKE. I find it hard to read your "blog" after crap like that