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- 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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- - Sott.net: No doubt psychopathic and pathological individuals are well aware of this knowledge about human psychology, in which psychopathic individuals use as a weapon against any data, and facts that stand in their way of creating reality in the shape that will serve their nefarious interests. - on 2009-09-17
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- The
  downside of belief retention is its prevention of the
  recognition of facts.
- There would be nothing whatsoever
  left of a device that contained Semtex. It is
  obvious to an expert that the piece of circuit board was
  planted after the event.
- What
  is the explanation of fires so hot that steel fails but
  paper does not combust?
- despite the
  obvious fact that access to thermite is strictly
  controlled and NO ONE except the US military and
  possibly Israel has access to nano-thermite.
- These readers never have any comprehension
  of the subject. They are simply emotionally
  offended
- Why
  are the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are
  demanding a real investigation dismissed as conspiracy
  theorists?
- There
  are, of course, some kooks. I have often wondered
  if these kooks are intentionally ridiculous in order to
  discredit knowledgeable skeptics.

01 Jul 09

Global Warming Pathology: How we know they know they are lying -- Signs of the Times News

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propaganda climatechange

29 Jun 09

Evidence of Revision: BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda -- Signs of the Times News

www.sott.net/...Deception-With-Iran-Propaganda - Preview

911 iran media propaganda

15 Mar 09

Khaleej Times Online - Here We Go Again With the Iranian Nuclear Scare

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iran nuclear propaganda

so-far non-existent nuclear weapons must be seen as part of efforts by the Israeli lobby to block President Barack Obama’s proposed opening to Teheran, and to keep pressing the US to attack Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

08 Feb 09

The Politics Of Bollocks : Information Clearing House - ICH

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21912.htm - Preview

middel-east propaganda

20 Jan 09

Signs of the Times News for Tue, 20 Jan 2009

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zionism propaganda

By promoting killing, murder, dehumanization of Palestinians, starvation, torture, geographic walled imprisonment, cutting off of electricity, water, bulldozing houses with humans in them, stealing the land of entire towns of human beings.
Yes. Creating the conditions to attack Iran is a number one priority. Iran is the one thing that prevents Israel from killing every single Palestinian. Eliminating Iran has the added benefit of allowing Israel to kill every single inhabitant of Lebanon and taking the entire country as their own.
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- And the United States and the United Kingdom are completely responsible for promoting, arming, and funding the terrorist government of Israel.
- And Israel has fired thousands and perhaps millions of tons of technologically advanced munitions at the indigenous Semitic population of Lebanon and Palestine for over 60 years, massacring tens of thousands of human beings, taking their lands, and spitting in the face of the world. The leaders of Israel were and are terrorists. The Israeli nation was created by terrorists and terrorism. It is organizations such as "The Israel Project" that have re-written history through psychological programming of the masses and changed the Israeli terrorists of the 1930s and 1940s into the heroes and leaders of Israel.
- We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
- ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the Occupied Territories, engaging in theft and funding justification for all these activities.. we [Israel] established an apartheid regime."
- rather than the punishing blockade of Gaza and the 1,700 Palestinians killed in Israeli military attacks since Jewish settlers were pulled out of Gaza three years ago.

31 Dec 08

Israel to mount emergency international PR effort in wake of Gaza campaign

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zionism propaganda

12 Nov 08

Condoleezza Rice says Bush made the Middle-East a better place

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middle-east empire propaganda

- SOTT.net: Ms Rice also said Iraq had become a "good Arab friend" of America which, she said, far from being destroyed, had been fully integrated into the Arab world.
  
  Considering the actual facts on the ground in Iraq and Palestine, we can safely conclude that Rice subscribes to the idea that 'a good Arab is a dead Arab'. - on 2008-11-12
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11 Nov 08

The End of International Law?

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empire society war propaganda

Is it really that easy? To say: We declare your regime criminal, and so we will attack you anytime we care to?
The military's argument is that 'you can only claim sovereignty if you enforce it,
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- On any given day that we wake up, our Special Operations Forces are in some sixty countries around the world.
- If it becomes a standard part of U.S. military doctrine that any country can be declared "criminal" and thus lose its sovereignty, then there is no such thing as international law anymore.
- And this is the guy that Barack Obama's advisers say ought to stay on at the Pentagon under an Obama administration?

15 Jul 08

Action-as-propaganda can reinforce an oddly reassuring feeling of certainty, helping to bend reality into line with a distorted and propagandistic image of the world. It also distorts our perceptions of this reality so that the gap between public perception and official propaganda is further diminished.

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society psychology propaganda

- sott:The author, although seeming to have an excellent grasp of the mechanics used to sway mass public opinion and to perpetrate attrocities, still appears to be affected by the 'evil arab terrorist' line being sold to him by those aforementioned methods!
  
  When he says the following:
  
  "It is hard to imagine that Bush and Blair consciously wish to make things worse;"
  
  he may be missing a vital clue: psychopathy. His statement above, is best explained in the words of Andrew Lobaczewski:
  
  Goaded by their character, such people thirst for just that even though it would conflict with their own life interest.... They do not understand that a catastrophe will ensue. Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing. - on 2008-07-15
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"We're
an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And
while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will--we'll
act again, creating other new realities, which you can study
too." This is a path to madness--but a perversely persuasive
one.
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- You watch, public opinion
  will change. We lead our publics

02 Jul 08

The Bush Cult: "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality"

Now we come at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from their own words, that the Bush Regime is a cult -- a cult whose god is Power

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7137.htm - Preview

empire propaganda

First, the top Bush insider mocked the journalist and all those "in what we call the reality-based community," i.e., people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." Suskind's attempt to defend the principles of reason and enlightenment cut no ice with the Bush-man. "That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality," he said. "And while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

30 Jun 08

Bush: Beyond reason

“That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the Bush aide told the journalist. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.”

www.consortiumnews.com/...101904.html - Preview

empire pathocracy propaganda

28 Jun 08

Bob Barr: Stop the war threats against Iran

www.independentpoliticalreport.com/...p-the-war-threats-against-iran - Preview

warpimps propaganda zionism

Our own intelligence services tell us that Iran is not actively working to build a nuclear bomb and is years away from having nuclear weapons capability.
Neither Sen. McCain nor Sen. Obama can be trusted to keep the peace,”
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- the Bush Administration refuses to engage one of the largest and most important countries in that part of the world - Iran. This makes no sense.”
- also served as an official with the CIA for eight years. He has graduate and undergraduate degrees in international relations and has lived in both Iran and Iraq.