Our minds are rocked to sleep by propaganda

– the conscious manipulation of information

It's designed to direct popular support for,

or against, various forms of power and privilege

It’s the hand that rocks the cradle of mass culture

Propaganda in a word: “terrorist”

It serves as a shield to justify

even the most heinous injustices

These include the illegal occupation and

the slow genocide of the Palestinian people,

the occupation and on-going massacre of Iraqis

and the military occupation of Afghanistan

Any form of resistance to

imperialism and foreign occupation

is loftily conflated with terrorism,

in a type of Orwellian double speak that turns

the colonizer and oppressor into the victim

Remember, children. Propaganda works because

we don't know we're being propagandized

How could anyone suggest that in this

beacon of 'freedom and democracy',

the magnificent United States of Amnesia,

that we are programmed to to follow an ideology?

A Beautiful Example of US Propaganda

Americans Are Being Manipulated By Radical Left & News Media Propaganda

The American people are being manipulated by an extraordinary propaganda campaign and a political agenda that mixes deadly force with the desire for complete political power and the lever is the war against radical Islam.

Stateside, the mainstream media and radical leftists in Democratic Party leadership are joining together to use the al Qaeda propaganda machine to gain more hegemonic control over the nation.

As they spin the news that America is losing the war, that America should unconditionally withdraw from Iraq, and that conciliatory meetings with the very sponsors of terror against American interests is the desired path, the enemy is emboldened and the cycle gains momentum.

From radical Islam’s perspective, the more Congress debates appeasement and surrender, the more death and destruction should be meted on American troops.

From radical Islam’s perspective, the more the media reports that the terrorists are killing civilians and some soldiers, the more foreboding the Islamic army appears.

The U.S. State Department recently released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism.

The report emphasized that Iran and Syria were behind much of the terrorist activity in Iraq.

And the strategy of al Qaeda and Iran is to demoralize America’s will to fight by using the combination of media and terror attacks.

The State Department indicated that al Qaeda was “using a combination of terrorist attacks, insurgency, media broadcasts, Internet-based propaganda, and subversion to undermine confidence and unity in Western populations and generate the false perception of a powerful worldwide movement.”

State said that al Qaeda was using the immigrant population in Europe and other places to radicalize youth and minorities by manipulating their grievances.

Here in the United States, illegal aliens are becoming more and more vocal, demanding the rights of citizenry while they have no legal standing.

Indeed, we are beginning to see the open signs of terror cells here in the U.S. with the recent plan to kill soldiers at Ft. Dix

Whether we like it or not, America faces an enemy in radical Islam that will not go away peacefully.

Unfortunately, America also is in a culture war with the radical left whose vision about this country is contrary to its Constitution and its leaders have co-opted the support of what was once considered the defenders of the Republic—the free press.

That the radical left would use radical Islam and a supportive news media to gain power is a danger to every American.

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free…” -- Galatians 5:1

Bush: A Bundle of Clichés'>Bush Lives in Cloud Cliché Land

Iraq has dominated the Bush agenda for four years now, yet he still sees the conflict through a prism rife with cliché.

The topper, which he has recited several times before, is that if we fail in Iraq, the terrorists will follow us home. He uttered a few variations of the line this morning:

"If we were to fail, they'd come and get us. … If we let up, we'll be attacked. … It's better to fight them there than here."

Bush's Mother of All Cliches must be that one about "bringing democracy..."

Bush still seems to think that democracy is the answer to all problems and that elections are the essence of democracy.

Once more, he touted the 12 million Iraqis who turned out at the polls—ignoring how the pattern of their voting only hardened the country's sectarian divisions.

"Democracy," he said, "has proven to help change parts of the world from cauldrons of frustration to areas of hope."

Maybe, but it has to be 'democracy' on America's terms. Democracy is just great, so long as the 'right' side wins.

Hezbollah became a major political party in Lebanon, Islamist militia leaders gained a foothold in the government in Iraq, Hamas came to power in the Palestinian territories - all through democratic elections that the Bush Regime encouraged.

But because the results didn't suit the Bushies they didn't count. They weren't 'our' democracies.

Maufacturing Indifference

Much of the media agenda is noisy and negative, stripped of all meaning:

Superficial, often celebrity-dominated with little in-depth explanatory or investigative journalism.

They would rather market American Idol as the American Ideology. To them, the only “hegemony” in Canada is its beer and hockey.

The people who run our media are, after all, in the end, promoting a culture of consumption, not of engaged citizenship.

They want eyeballs for advertisers, not activists to promote change.

The sound-bytes presented as substance are there for entertainment, not illumination. It’s heat, not light, all the way

They foster passivity, skepticism and resignation. Forget beliefs of any kind-just buy, buy, buy. Why even use deception when distraction works just as well?

Even more distressing is the tend towards the depoliticalization of politics through the merger of showbiz and newsbiz to assure that much of the media agenda is noisy and negative, stripped of all meaning:

Superficial, often celebrity-dominated with little in-depth explanatory or investigative journalism.

They would rather market American Idol as the American Ideology. To them, the only “hegemony” in Canada is its beer and hockey.

The people who run our media are, after all, in the end, promoting a culture of consumption, not of engaged citizenship.

They want eyeballs for advertisers, not activists to promote change. The sound-bytes presented as substance are there for entertainment, not illumination. It’s heat, not light, all the way

So truth be told, the real propaganda in an era where with more pundits than journalists, is less real coverage.

It is pervasive and invisible at the same time-omission more than commission. They want to dumb us down, not smarten us up.

They foster passivity, skepticism and resignation. Forget beliefs of any kind-just buy, buy, buy. Why even use deception when distraction works just as well?