Stan Goff: Piss on my leg

[teryang]

http://www.counterpunch.org/goff10172003.html

Piss On My Leg
Perception Control and the Stage Management of War
By STAN GOFF


<What do Lieutenant Colonel Dominic Caraccilo and CIA Director George Tenet now have in common?

Answer: They lied for the same bosses for the same reasons in the same war.>

This is a brilliant commentary of the psy op campaign being waged 24/7 to mislead the public.

[JohnyCanuck]

1. More info on Bush/neo-con propganda techniques in the media

Check out the article Brainwashing America by the former head of the Dept. of Artificial Intelligence at the US Army War College, Dr. Norman Livergood.


The puppet Bush regime is using new, aggressive forms of brainwashing to change the very way Americans think and feel. This is the psychological dimension of the "High Cabal's" general onslaught against American workers, just as the "war on terrorism" is the military dimension and corporate crime and tax cuts for the rich comprise the economic dimension.

We are living under the beginning stages of a military dictatorship in precisely the same way that 1930s Germans suffered under the Nazi regime.

As in the case of Nazi Germany, state-sponsored propaganda (brainwashing) is a vital part of the Bush regime's strategy.

<snip>

While serving as Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the U.S. Army War College, 1993-1995, I conducted studies on profiling, psychological programming, and brainwashing. I explored and developed personality simulation systems, an advanced technology used in military war games, FBI profiling, political campaigning, and advertising. Part of my discovery was that:


unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns

these patterns can be simulated in profiling systems

these profiling systems can be used to program and control people

Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns that apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors. And sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques are being used by the Bush junta to keep American citizens under control.

Brainwashing America

[teryang]

3. Good article

I think the psychological manipulation is the most critical aspect of this anti American regime.

The James Madison quote alone is worth the visit.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. Seems like Madison and the Neocons see things a bit differently

James Madison: "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

Neocons (paraphrasing): "We'll preserve our nation's freedom by continual warfare."

[teryang]

6. That comparison is priceless

I'm saving it. Hope you don't mind if I use it.

[JohnyCanuck]

7. Not at all. Be my guest n/t

n/t

[cliss]

2. Thanks Teryang.

My favorite writer. Stan Goff usually has an article or two at Counter Punch.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. Goff's always good and I was pleased to see he didn't buy into

the lieutenant colonel coming up with this propaganda idea on his own. I only wish he had addressed the lie that this was a low ranking officer.

[RaulGroom]

8. Goff is the man

I reviewed Hideous Dream for Left Turn, but i'm not sure the review ever ran. In any case, everyone should read that book, not so much for the information it contains, but just because it is so damn great.

[librechik]

9. kick for the night shift