Notes de lecture du 16 décembre 2020
"When six corporations control more than 90% of media communications, the media does not inform, it indoctrinates. Corporate media provides selective information, often unreliable, for the express purpose of controlling public opinion, rather than informing it."
-Egberto Willies and Keyan Bliss
"The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that-whether from fear, careerism, or conviction-uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function."
- Glenn Greenwald
"What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do."
- Mortimer J. Adler
"Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay
"Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it but when they get it they don't believe it because it's not the truth they want to hear.": Helena Cassadine
"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.": George Orwell, 1984
"When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril" Harry S. Truman
"They are longing for a war with Iran. Iran is no more a harm to us than was Iraq or Afghanistan. They invented an enemy, they tell lies, lies, lies. The New York Times goes along with their lies, lies, lies. And they don't stop. When the public that's lied to 30 times a day it's apt to believe the lies, is not it?" - Gore Vidal
Thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to the war profiteers of this country who rob the people on the one hand, and rob and debase the government on the other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with the filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap the sacred folds of the Stars and Stripes about them and [about] their blatant hypocrisy to the world."
Kate Richards O'Hare's Address To the Court Proceedings on the Sentencing of Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare by Hon Martin J. Wade, 1 P. M., Friday, Dec 14, 1917. -
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless."
-- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi - (1828-1910) Russian writer Source: On Life and Essays on Religion
"Free inquiry requires that we tolerate diversity of opinion and that we respect the right of individuals to express their beliefs, however unpopular they may be, without social or legal prohibition or fear of success."
-- Paul Kurtz - "A Secular Humanist Declaration," in On The Barricades, 1989
CamilleSchmiedel --Propagande complotiste
Traduction : Article de Caitlyn Johnstone --censure croissante d'internet
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Nineteen Tragic Facts About COVID-19
By Bill Quigley
Des chiffres qui parlent : les ravages de la covid aux USA
Psychologie : What Motivates COVID Rule Breakers?
Scientific American
Un dénominateur commun pourrait être ce que les spécialistes du comportement appellent la «réactance psychologique», plus communément appelée psychologie inverse. En 1966, le psychologue américain Jack W. Brehm a publié une théorie classique postulant que les gens croient avoir des libertés comportementales spécifiques et que lorsque ces libertés sont menacées ou éliminées, ils deviennent motivés à les réaffirmer. En d'autres termes, quand quelqu'un vous dit de faire quelque chose, vous faites le contraire.
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Cette tendance humaine à résister aux restrictions des libertés personnelles est si forte que dans les années 1970, des chercheurs en Floride testant la théorie de Brehm ont découvert que lorsque un détergent à lessive spécifique a été retiré des étagères dans un comté en raison de niveaux élevés de phosphates, qui sont dangereux pour la santé humaine, «les gens ont commencé à faire passer du détergent phosphaté des comtés voisins ou ont acheté le produit en grandes quantités.» Les mêmes forces psychologiques qui motivent quelqu'un à parcourir des centaines de kilomètres pour un savon interdit peuvent correspondre à la riposte actuelle à la pandémie.
Bien sûr, pour mettre en œuvre des politiques significatives qui changent les comportements publics, les gouvernements doivent susciter la confiance auprès d'un large public pour dissuader la violation des règles. Sans surprise, nous avons constaté qu'une confiance plus forte dans son gouvernement pour lutter contre le COVID-19 était significativement associée à une plus grande volonté de faire des sacrifices personnels pour protéger les groupes vulnérables du coronavirus et de ses conséquences économiques. Nous avons constaté que le contraire était vrai parmi les personnes qui se sentaient lésées et impuissantes dans la société.
Dans la crise actuelle, il suffit de quelques personnes pour enfreindre les règles et exposer des communautés entières au risque d'infection.
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Imperialism 2.0
By Caitlin Johnstone
Les gens pensent seulement que la Chine, la Russie et l'Iran se comportent de manière agressive sur la scène mondiale parce que leur aveuglement face à l'agression impérialiste occidentale les rend incapables de voir que ces nations se comportent réellement de manière défensive.
The Most Lethal Virus Is Not Covid. It Is War
By John Pilger
US Hits “Search and Destroy” Against China’s New Silk Roads
By Pepe Escobar
impérialisme, Chine, propagande
Rationalizing human depravity
America’s War on Syrian Civilians
By Anand Gopal
Sunday Times claims Russian secret agents poisoned Navalny twice
By Paul Robinson
propagande fakenews désinformation
The Case For a Pardon of Edward Snowden by President Trump
The real criminals are those he exposed: the security state officials who illegally and unconstitutionally spied on innocent people by the millions, and who still do so.
By Glenn Greenwald
With News of Hunter Biden's Criminal Probe, Recall the Media Outlets That Peddled the "Russian Disinformation" Lie
By Glenn Greenwald
The now-validated facts about Hunter are precisely those the U.S. media and the intelligence community -- suppressed based on lies.
How-did-Native-Americans-know-who-their-fathers-were-if-their-mothers-had-more-than-1-husband
société, polyamour