Propaganda - Goebbel's Principles

PROPAGANDA GOEBBEL'S PRINCIPLES Hitler's Basic Principles These principles are abstracted from Jowett & O'Donnell.     Avoid abstract ideas - appeal to the emotions.     Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases.     Give only one side of the argument.     Continuously criticize your opponents.     Pick out one special "enemy" for special vilification. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.     They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.     They must be capable of being easily learned.     They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.     They must be boomerang-proof. SOURCE - http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html ................................................................. Should be a fun game picking off phrases and slogans. 'Boomerang proof' must be the final step, when everyone's sucked up the smear campaign, and they're ready to believe anything by virtue of the subject being the personification of 'evil'. Hey, check this out: Bush Copied Hitler’s Propaganda Technique The “preventive war” propaganda used by President Bush to justify his attack on Iraq in 2003 copied that used by Hitler when he invaded Russia in 1941. Starting a preventive war was a foundation of the “Bush Doctrine.” David Walsh, a contributor to the World Socialist Web Site, writes in a new book that the Nazi regime asked the German press to portray Hitler’s invasion of Soviet Russia as a “preventive war” that was “forced” on Germany. Walsh adds this propaganda tactic “did not originate with (George W.) Bush, (Dick) Cheney, or (Donald) Rumsfeld.” It was used by Hitler. ... [the media] long ago abandoned any sense of responsibility for educating and informing the public or carrying out the critical democratic function traditionally assigned to the ‘Fourth Estate’, i.e., serving as a watchdog and check on government abuses and falsifications.” Walsh goes on to say that, “Instead it (the media) slavishly carries out the function assigned it by the ruling elite: to confuse, terrorize and intimidate the American public.” He explains how the TV networks and major dailies “are the prime source of news and information for tens of millions of people in the U.S” and are “in the hands of giant firms, controlled by fabulously wealthy individuals who will stop at nothing to defend their profits and property. The corpses of thousands, or, if necessary, millions of Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians and others are a small price to pay, as far as the media billionaires are concerned, for achieving American military and economic domination of the globe.” [Source - VeteransToday - here] ................................................................. So are Obama's bosses planning on using the Hitler-GWBush technique on Russia? Check out what David Walsh has to say about media ownership and how the media's used by the elite. Think he might have a point. edit:  oops.   Looks like I forgot link the VeteransToday article those extracts are from.  Linked to article today (Sept 2015).