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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2018-50
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
The new electronic warfare equipment arrived and the first S-300 launchers were unloaded. A Russian ship is underway to provide additional air defense materials and supplies.
The not-so-moderate 'rebels' found out that the new Turkish-Russian agreement of demilitarized zone in Idleb is to their disadvantage and reject it. It will be impossible to solve the 'anarchy and terror in Idelb without force. Either Erdogan applies it (not likely), or Syria and its allies will.
Trump wants to get through economic sanctions what the U.S. could not get by force:
The United States will pursue “a strategy of isolation,” including sanctions, with its allies if President Bashar al-Assad holds up a political process aimed at ending Syria’s seven-year war, a top U.S. diplomat for Syria told Reuters on Friday.
Jim Jeffrey, the U.S. special representative for Syria, said Washington would work with countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East to impose tough international sanctions if Assad’s government failed to cooperate on rewriting the Syrian constitution as a prelude to elections.
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He added: “Even if the U.N. Security Council won’t pass them we will just do it through the European Union, we will do it through our Asian allies, and then we will make it our business to make life as miserable as possible for that flopping cadaver of a regime and let the Russians and Iranians, who made this mess, get out of it.”
Syria, Russia and Iran are already under U.S. sanctions. They won't care about such nonsense.
Trump will meet Rosenstein in two weeks or so. The issue has been moved out of the way because the push for another lying aristocrat to the Supreme Court is the more important issue. One thing is sure, that angry dude likes his beer (vid) way too much.
The comment thread provides that the propaganda power of the immensely rich fossil fuel industry is still quite strong.
Other items:
Adel Abdel Mahdi will become the new Prime Minister of Iraq. A good choice for Iran and its allies. The U.S. is already in retreat as it evacuates its consulate in Basra.
Trump about (vid) his relation with Kim Jong Un: "We went back and forth, then we fell in love. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love." How is Melania feeling about this?
Use as open thread …
continuing from 185
Marie Jahoda, the ex-Austrian subversive, produced a series of studies that were mere variations on the theme of White ethnocentrism, something she pathologized most famously in Antisemitism and Emotional Disorder (1950).[15]
In the same year, Morris Janowitz and Bruno Bettelheim worked together to produce Dynamics of Prejudice.[16]
Meanwhile Joseph Gittler produced such works as “Measuring the Awareness of the Problem of Group Hostility,”[17] and “Man and His Prejudices.”[18]
Herbert Blumer produced “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.”[19]
Fritz Heider worked with Kurt Lewin and Solomon Asch on unlocking the ways in which conformity could alter group behavior and individual opinions.
[20] Ernest Dichter believed his studies of the mass communications in marketing could lead to the development of persuasive techniques that could “stop the new wave of anti-Semitism.” [21]
The work of Walter Weiss concerned “mass communication, public opinion, and social change as they bear on changing racial attitudes.”[22]
And aside from his secretive work with the Institute for Social Research, Paul Lazarsfeld, while working at the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, introduced the notion of “social bookkeeping,” a systematic service that would note and evaluate “prejudice” in any material appearing in mass media of communications.
I could go on.
[15] See for example, “The dynamic basis of anti-Semitic attitudes,” The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2, (1948); “The evasion of propaganda: How prejudiced people respond to anti-prejudice propaganda” The Journal of Psychology, 23 (1947), 15-25; Studies in the scope and method of “The authoritarian personality. (New York, NY, US: Free Press, 1954); “Race relations in Public Housing,” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1-2 (1951).
[16] Morris Janowitz and Bruno Bettelheim, Dynamics of Prejudice (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950).
[17] Joseph Gittler, “Measuring the Awareness of the Problem of Group Hostility,” Social Forces, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Dec., 1955), 163-167.
[18] Joseph Gittler, ”Man and His Prejudices,” The Scientific Monthly, 69 (1949 ), 43-47.
[19] Herbert Blumer, ““Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position,” Pacific Sociological Review, 1 (Spring 1958), 3-7.
[20] Irvin Rock and Stephen Palmer, “The Legacy of Gestalt Psychology,” Scientific American, Dec 1990, 84-90, 89.
[21] Ernest Dichter, The Strategy of Desire (New York: Routledge, 2017), 15.
[22] Bert T. King and Elliott McGinnies, Attitudes, Conflict, and Social Change (New York: Academic Press, 1972), 124.
Posted by: Dr. Buddy Tubside | Oct 3 2018 4:53 utc | 185
What would you say if I told you I possess a document in which an influential mass communications scholar linked to Marcuse and Adorno unambiguously sets out a scheme for the capture of the media?
the mass brainwashing of White populations with multicultural propaganda
the manipulation of in-group culture to make it hostile to its own sense of ethnocentrism, the spreading of a culture of political correctness,
and ultimately, the co-option of the West by a small clique pursuing its own interests under the guise of “promoting tolerance” ?
What you would say if I told you this same academic operated a network of hundreds, if not thousands, of other intellectuals engaged in the same single task — unlocking a psychological “backdoor” to White culture in order to completely reorient it?
Instead of calling me a hasbara troll, would you then call me a conspiracy theorist?
Would you dismiss even the possibility that such a document might actually exist?
And yet it does exist.
It is Samuel H. Flowerman’s “Mass propaganda in the war against bigotry,” The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, (1947) 429-439.
A blueprint for the most successful mass propaganda campaign in human history
Samuel H. Flowerman has been largely forgotten by history, but he was in some respects as crucial a member of the Frankfurt School circle as any other.
He was fascinated by the way peer group pressure exerted influence on the individual school children he had studied, along with the potential influence of teachers as shapers of minds as well as mere educators.
The combined result of his research and thinking in these areas was his argument that it should be desirable for people like him to obtain control over the means of mass communication.
Not only, argued Flowerman, should this control be used for blanket “pro-tolerance” propaganda, but it should also actively reshape in-group standards — thus reforming peer group pressures to become antagonistic to in-group ethnocentrism.
His (then) highly ambitious goal was a culture that POLICED itself: a politically correct culture in which Whites, via peer pressure, CONFORMED to new values — values much more user-friendly to Samuel H. Flowerman and his colleagues.
Hundreds of colleagues who trained thousands of students.
His views and goals were later summarized by Herbert Greenberg, one of his colleagues in the same field, in 1957:
Flowerman de-emphasized the value and effectiveness of propaganda as a technique for reducing prejudice. He also agrees with the conception that techniques based on group structure and inter-personal relationships are the most effective
Flowerman and Greenberg were just two members of what was effectively a series of interlinked battalions of psychologists and sociologists operating with a kind of religious fervour in the fields of “prejudice studies,” opinion-shaping, and mass communications between the 1930s and 1950s, all with the goal of “unlocking” the White mind and opening it to “tolerance.”
Flowerman and his colleagues dominance of the study of public opinion (and the potential for its manipulation) simply CANNOT be overstated.
In addition to those already named, Joseph Klapper, Bernard Berelson, Fritz Heider, Leo Bogart, Elihu Katz, Marie Jahoda, Joseph Gittler, Morris Rosenberg, Ernest Dichter, Walter Weiss, Nathan Glazer, Bernard J. Fine, Bruno Bettelheim, Wallace Mandell, Hertha Hertzog, Dororthy Blumenstock, Stanley Schachter, David Caplovitz, Walter Lippmann, Sol Ginsburg, Harry Alpert, Leon Festinger, Michael Gurevitch, Edward Shils, Eugene Gaier, Joseph Goldsen, Julius Schreiber, Daniel Levinson, Herbert Blumer, I. M. A. Myers, Irving Janis, Miriam Reimann, Edward Sapir, Solomon Asch, and Gerald Wieder were just some of the hundreds of highly influential academics working in these fields….
and who ALL concerned themselves with a degree of FANATICISM with White opinion and ethnocentrism in America.
This is to say nothing of their graduate students, who numbered in the thousands.
The host population will still need to be exposed to the productions of mass communications, and this was to be assured via “force, commercial monopoly, and/or crisis (designed or accidental).” (430)
Only then would ‘pro-tolerance’ forces see “the persuasive devices and techniques of the elite playing upon the susceptibilities of the manipulated.” (430)
(from…Samuel H. Flowerman “Mass propaganda in the war against bigotry,” The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (1947) 429-439.
Posted by: Dr. Buddy Tubside | Oct 3 2018 19:07 utc | 192
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