If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. [Falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels]
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Speech on Fake News Uses Fake Quotation
Jen Senko put out a film in 2016 titled The Brainwashing of My Dad, describing the effect of Fox News, etc., on her father. She gave a speech based on the film to the New York Society for Ethical Culture in 2017 — and cites the dubious Goebbels quotation. So a speech on fake news uses a fake quotation. If you’re curious, the reference is at about the 5-minute mark on this YouTube video.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Global Research Displays Shoddy Research
A conspiracy-type site GlobalResearch has a piece titled “Propaganda, Disinformation and Dirty Tricks: James Earl Ray Was Innocent of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.” It uses the usual dubious argumentative style and cites the fabricated Goebbels quotation as evidence that the “Deep State” is involved in all sorts of dreadful things. The conspiracy allegedly involved:
As usual, a site that assumes anything it finds on the Internet must be true should be disregarded.
Deep State operatives such as the afore-mentioned highly secretive conspiratorial groups such as the CIA, the infamous J Edgar Hoover, Hoover’s equally infamous and very racist FBI at the time, the Pentagon, the US military’s sniper squads, the racist Memphis Police Department, the Mafia, assorted war-profiteers, the mainstream media, and many elected and non-elected officials that exist at every level of government.I’m always surprised at that those who believe that such a massive conspiracy involving thousands of people could be concealed. That many people could keep the secret? Truly, the “Deep State” must have astonishing control over its participants.
As usual, a site that assumes anything it finds on the Internet must be true should be disregarded.