
WWII ended in 1945, but former Nazis keep turning up. So how come they cannot find Dr. Joseph Goebbels? I know it was reported that he committed suicide in the fürhrerbunker, but somebody should check the basement in the White House:
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
What We Can Learn from Joseph Goebbels
November 26, 2012
By Sara Noble
What We Can Learn from Joseph Goebbels | www.independentsentinel.com
Socialists posing as Democrats failed to control public opinion with the Fairness Doctrine (1949 - 1987) because that form of propaganda was basically censorship in that the economic realities of broadcasting effectively silenced opponents without giving air time to Socialist propaganda. Getting the message out requires a steady hand at the helm:
For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?
Until this month, a vast ocean of U.S. programming produced by the Broadcasting Board of Governors such as Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks could only be viewed or listened to at broadcast quality in foreign countries. The programming varies in tone and quality, but its breadth is vast: It's viewed in more than 100 countries in 61 languages.
I know that the public will always fund their governments propaganda efforts in one form or another. It is safe to assume that . . . a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. will require huge amounts of tax dollars. This latest branch of propaganda notwithstanding, had Goebbels had the level of funding the FCC has the Nazis might be running Europe today.
Socialists were never shy about using many of the same techniques Goebbels pioneered; indoctrinating children, the big lie, and so on. Here are a few samples:
The topics covered include human rights abuses in Iran; self-immolation in Tibet; human trafficking across Asia; and on-the-ground reporting in Egypt and Iraq.
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U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans | The Cable
Controlling mass communications is essential to propaganda efforts aimed at adults. Does anyone want to deny that Americas government/press partnership is employing the modus operandi laid out by Goebbels?
Government controls the press in this country as surely as it did in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Cuba, etc. It is only a matter of which ideology is being promoted by the government at any given time. For most of my life it has been big government socialism. Just think how obsolete the liberal agenda would be if the press was not so biased!
War
The propaganda coming Americas way will be designed to transform Socialist touchy-feely foreign policy into a moral crusade justifying military interventions under the UNs control. In plain English choose sides in civil wars. The American people will not be polled to find out if they think a United Nations military intervention is popular or unpopular. Heres why Americans asking the question should be important:
During the Iraq War the phrase increasingly unpopular war was spoken by talking heads and Democrats more times than I can count. They never explained why a war of self-defense was becoming increasingly unpopular? The question was never asked because of the spin the liberal mainstream media puts on its coverage. A number of Americans were turned against a war of self-defense because of the press. The media, including conservative word smiths who should know better, repeatedly said the war in Iraq was unpopular when it was only unpopular to UN-loving Democrats.
NOTE: Bush the Younger was defending the country when leading Democrats and their media stooges wanted to run to the United Nations. They still want to run; only now they are running out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In any event, it is ludicrous to qualify wars by their popularity. Just and unjust is another trick designate. Was Clintons Balkan Adventure popular? Unpopular? Was Clintons Balkan Adventure just or unjust? Was it even a war? The record shows it was nothing more than killing Christians to help Muslims.
There is only one question to ask when the country is threatened and/or attacked: Is a military response self-defense? If the country is not threatened and/or attacked there is no justification for the use of military force.
NOTE: Threatened does not include the philosophical crapola the new section over at the Ministry of Propaganda is formulating as I speak. Bottom line: No American should die fighting in a foreign land so that others might live.
Islam attacked the US on 9/11/2001 yet the war in Iraq became increasingly unpopular according to the liberal spin machine. Interestingly, Goebbels never did tell Hitler that LOSING the war was becoming increasingly unpopular. This satire shows how Goebbels propaganda kept Hitler in the dark until the very end:
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To me, there is no such thing as a popular or an unpopular war. The term acceptable war would better serve the American people. Imagine media liberals dealing with that definition!
If the term unpopular must be used, then the MSM should define popular war in the interest of balanced reporting. The press cant do that because it would then have to define self-defense.
Propagandists latched onto unpopular as though it is Gods favorite word. They are never asked to define a popular war. One answer to the question depends upon when it is asked. Even the MSM would have to admit that winning is popular to the winners after the fact. A second answer depends upon who answers. I doubt if anyone who was killed or wounded fighting a war would say that it was a popular, or an unpopular, war. I think they would be more concerned with sacrificing themselves in vain.
Allow me to throw some manure into the game and look at wars using popular as well as unpopular to describe them:
If the American Revolution is not the most popular war of all time to Americans it should be. Conversely, it has to be the most unpopular war of all time to the British.
The Civil War was popular to some and unpopular to others while it was being fought. Nothing changed after it was over.
World War One is not taught as much as is the Civil War. WWI was unpopular while it was being fought. WWI became marginally popular in story and song after the Armistice. Today, WWI must be designated unpopular as its tragic consequences continue to multiply.
World War Two was an acceptable, and necessary, war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. WWII was Hollywoods most profitable war of all time; hence, it was an exceptionally popular war to storytellers. I dont know that the Americans who fought that war ever saw it as popular. WWII is acclaimed by liberals because Soviet communism was rescued. Helping communism is always popular to the Left. Fighting against communism is always unpopular to the Left.
Korea was neither popular nor unpopular. Truman did good by using the UN to stop Communist expansion. Truman also did great harm because he only acted after the UN Security Council gave him an opening. Truman unwittingly set a terrible precedent by giving the impression that the UN had a say in Americas affairs.
Vietnam was unpopular to American Communists while it was being fought. Vietnam became unpopular to many, but not to everyone, after defeat. Had America won in Vietnam the popularity tally would be reversed.
Will anyone in the press stop referring to wars as popular or unpopular? You know they wont because the Left is laying down the preliminary propaganda for popular touch-feely military interventions. Military interventions should not be confused with wars.
Unfortunately, tragedies are part of every war even the just ones. Still, Americans have much to be thankful for. Not the least of their blessings is the fact that neither Clinton or Carter was president on 9/11/2001.