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Outcompete the Bad Guys
George
Washington's Blog
Monday October 15, 2007
The bottom line about disinformation is simple: Those fighting for truth
have to outcompete those fighting
to supress it. It is a good old-fashioned competition.
Understanding the tactics and styles of people spreading disinformation
is helpful to minimize the effectiveness of those trying to disrupt the
truth movement. But even more important is our ability to simply spread
more information, more
persuasively, than those spreading lies. If we spend more time
discussing disinfo than putting out important info ourselves, we've lost.
The good news is that those who use brute force to obtain imperial control
are not very creative. They are using the same false flag terror playbook
they've been using for thousands of years. They're trotting out
the same old "great leader will protect us from the bad guys" script they've
been recycling again and again ever since the days of Caesar.
WE'VE got truth, creativity, passion, brains and justice on our side.
Plus, we are defending our own own country, our
homes and our families
from people who have no loyalty to America or the Constitution.
WE CAN outsmart them and out-create them.
The Web and the Street
We all know the
power of the Internet to spread truth. We thought that we would have
years to harness the Net for good purposes, and hopefully we will. But
the powers-that-be are trying to shut it down pronto or -- at the least
-- tame it into a whimpering poodle, a sitcom-level boob-tube like media
toy to spoon-feed comforting mush to the sheeple.
The net is now under massive attack by the government and corporate America.
For example, the
BBC revealed that the U.S. military views the internet as an enemy
which should be fought (see also this
article for further detail). And the big telecom companies are trying
to erect virtual "toll booths" on the net which would limit access to
the well-to-do, and make it much more difficult for people to access content
which has not been pre-approved by the media conglomerates. See this
article.
So download and save all information which you absolutely must have to
continue to do your truthtelling and justice-seeking work. This
article explains how to do it. Save the information to your computer
or CDs. That way, even if they take down the Net, you will still have
the most important information for yourself and to share with others.
More importantly, redouble your efforts to take information on the Net
and convert it to something physical you can use out in the world
to reach people who are not as web-savvy as you. Make flyers, posters,
bumper stickers, pamphlets, CDs, DVDs, etc. Put the info on your car,
on the street. Paint 9/11 messages in chalk on the sidewalk, and affixed
to helium balloons released indoors. Make freeway
blogs. Think of new
ways to spread truth.
As a well-known 9/11 activist said a year ago "We've already won on the
Web ... now we have to go out and conquer the street" with truth.
Can We Win?
Its carpe diem time, folks. There really is is an "info war" being
waged against people's hearts and minds. And the stakes are high. The
bad guys want to suppress the truth, spread myths, and take away people's
freedom, power and options.
Alot of us are very creative, smart or passionate people. Engage that
passion, intelligence and creativity to implement RIGHT NOW the highest
possible leverage to spread the truth. Let's all work harder and
work smarter.
If we outcompete the bad guys, we will win. It won't be easy, but no one
ever said it would be. This is what we were born to do. This is why we're
here. This is our calling and
our destiny. And when we put everything we have into winning the competition
for truth, our victory will be a shining legacy we leave for future generations.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from
the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed
them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth
will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley
"There's really five companies that
control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."
- Ted Turner
"We need a program of psychosurgery
and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control
of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically
mutilated.... Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This
kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control
the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical
stimulation of the brain."
- Dr. Jose Delgado (U.S. government
mind-control experimenter associated with the "MKULTRA" program who demonstrated
a radio controlled bull on CNN in 1985)
"In March 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests
the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interest, and their subsidiary organizations
got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to
select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient
number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press ...They
found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest
papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought,
to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to
properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness,
militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international
nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers."
- U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
"There is no such thing, at this date
of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know
it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest
opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear
in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper
I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar
things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions
would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest
opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty four hours
my occupation would be gone. The business of the Journalist is to destroy
truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of
mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You
know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the
jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities
and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
- John Swinton, the former chief of
staff of the New York Times, called by his peers, "The Dean of his profession,"
in a speech at the New York Press Club.
"Our job is to give people not what
they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
– Richard Salant, former President of
CBS News
"The great masses of people will more
easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it
is repeated over and over."
- Adolph Hitler
"The victor will never be asked if he
told the truth"
- Adolph Hitler
"All propaganda has to be popular and
has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent
of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"It is the absolute right of the State
to supervise the formation of public opinion."
- Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister
of Propaganda
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
- Goebbels
"The lie can be maintained only for
such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic
and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important
for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth
is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the
greatest enemy of the State."
- Goebbels
"Strange times are these in which we
live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man
that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool"
- Plato
"The real mass media are basically trying
to divert people." ... "Let everybody be crazed about professional sports
or sex scandals"
– Noam Chomsky
"As long as each individual is facing
the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege"
– Noam Chomsky
"Where once the student was taught that
the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably
lived life is not worth examining."
– Benjamin Barber
"The conventional view serves to protect
us from the painful job of thinking."
– J. K. Galbraith
"The world's press is losing its ability
to keep power in check"
– Frank Vogl
"The New York Times is for us what Pravda
was for the Soviets"
– Gore Vidal
"The mass media is itself part of the
same power structure that plunders the planet and inflicts human rights
abuses on a massive scale"
– David Cromwell
"When a well-packaged web of lies has
been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem
utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic."
- Dresden James
"The real advantage which truth has,
consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished
once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally
be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances
falls on a time when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution
until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to
suppress it."
-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)"
"They bought the politicians and the news
They've got all the weapons (which they like to use)
But they are few and we're billions strong
We are the giant ... been sleeping for too long
Time to wake up and sing our victory song"
- The Voice
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