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Why Propaganda Trumps Truth

    • sott.net: Please also consider the following, from QFQ's research into Psychopaths, and Cleckley's book 'The Mask of Sanity' :

      What kind of psychological weaknesses drive people to prefer lies over truth?

      This may have something to do with what is called Cognitive Dissonance. Leon Festinger developed the theory of Cognitive Dissonance in the 50's when he apparently stumbled onto a UFO cult in the Midwest. They were prophesying a coming world cataclysm and "alien rapture." When no one was raptured and no cataclysm he studied the believers response, and detailed it in his book "When Prophecy Fails." Festinger observed:

      A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

      We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks.

      But man's resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before. Indeed, he may even show a new fervor about convincing and converting other people to his view.

      It seems that part of the problem has to do with ego and the need to be "right." People with a high "need to be right" or "perfect" seem to be unable to acknowledge that they have been conned. "There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker." People will go along with and support a psychopath, in the face of evidence that they have and ARE being conned, because their own ego structure depends on being right, and to admit an error of judgment would destroy their carefully constructed image of themselves.       - on 2009-09-17
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    • sott.net: Our years of experience in dealing with these types, leads to the conclusion that this seems to be the case. In the majority of cases, they are no other than cointelpro agents. - on 2009-09-17
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08 Sep 09

Former Italian President: "9-11 Carried Out By Mossad And CIA"

  • the falseness of the [latest Osama] video is evidenced by the fact that in it Bin Laden 'confesses' that al-Qaeda was the author of the September 11th attacks at the two towers in New York, while all democratic elements in America and Europe, with those of the Italian center-left party at the forefront, now know very well that the disastrous attack was planned and carried out by the American CIA and the Mossad with the help of the Zionist world order to accuse the Arab countries and to induce the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

Independent Investigation Into Pentagon Attack Yields Alarming Information

  • The doubts were initially fueled by the dubious damage to the building, which seemed incompatible with a 757 crash, the deliberate lack of transparency by the authorities, and many other issues, but they really intensified after a team of professional pilots (Pilots for 9/11 Truth) analyzed the data obtained from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) via a Freedom of Information Act request in 2006, which was supposedly from the black box of American Airlines Flight 77, and found that the last reported altitude of the plane was far too high to have struck the light poles or the building.
  • a Pentagon police officer who saw the plane flying away from the Pentagon immediately after the explosion"
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