What is propaganda in ww1?
Propaganda is "advertising" to go to war. An example of propaganda used today is Uncle Sam. If people didn't go to the war, they felt like cowards. If people did join the war, they regret it and have a strong urge to go home and see their families.
How are propaganda and blackmail similar?
Blackmail is when 1 party forces another to perform actions against their will by means of threats of public embarrassment. The threat itself is not limited to public embarrassment however it is the most common. An example would be if I told you to give me 1000 dollars or else I would tell everyone about your affair. Propaganda is when a party (typically a political or corporate group) provides false information or limited true information in order to influence public opinion. I'll give you 2 examples for this one. One example would be when the North Korean government publishes a false report to it's citizens that the North Korean heath industry has been named the best in the world, causing citizens to maintain faith in their great nation. Another example would be if a car company advertises the awards for fuel efficiency on their vehicle, but they leave out the poor safety ratings. Sorry that so many people are idiots who have to turn everything into a political statement.
What are the most successful types of propaganda?
I’ll have do disagree with Dima on this one.He asks the right question:how can we objectively measure the success of propaganda?However the criteria he comes up with are lackluster.I propose that success of propaganda be measured by the degree to which it gets people to change their mind about the state of the world.By this criterion, there is no doubt that US propaganda is by far the most successful.In North Korea where you can be sent to a labor camp if the regime doesn’t like what you say, its hard to judge how effective propaganda is. Soviet propaganda in the second half of the 20th century wasn’t accompanied by Stalin’s repressions and by the 80’s it virtually lost hold on the population. By the time the USSR collapsed, no one went to the streets to defend it.US propaganda is much less clumsy and much more decentralized. While US did have its radio stations such as Voice of America, the most successful propaganda campaigns for the US arguably came from Hollywood showcasing the world from a US perspective.My favorite image illustrating the success of US propaganda is:This is an image asking people in France which nation contributed the most to defeating Germany in 1945.Over the past 70 years, US propaganda successfully convinced the French that it was the good old USA.
The Illuminati Conspiracy Theory : True, False or Propaganda? Write me your opinions.?
They say that behind our great governmental structures, lies an architectural foundation built by the political leaders that are within the witchcraft societies which is involved with Satanism, Occultism, Pagan Rituals, they are obscurely moving in our community with their secretive and destructive agenda throughout the years: Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq & The Middle East War, The Increasing of Oil Prices, The Economy Crisis, Jobless Citizens, Mysterious Diseases, Political Errors, UFOs, Missing Children & Women, MK Ultra and so much more. Who runs the world? Behind these transparent walls, they are yet unseen, so who are these maniacs who seem to have taken over our minds and its systems? Is it true that The Illuminati & Freemasons = The Elites are part of these madness? What do you think?
Isn't it disgusting to regard a country that blackmails gays to make them informants by threatening to expose them as gay friendly?
Israel blackmails Palestinian gays to make them informants, if they refuse, Israel exposes them. So, if or when the lives of LGBTQ Palestinians are in danger, Israel is also a part of it. It seems to me Israel tries to exploit LGBTQ right issues just for propaganda purposes on Israel's behave in the West. And, that hypocrisy of Israel just makes me sick, and makes me want to puke, when they try to portray their country as gay friendly. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-idf-gays-who-help-blackmail-gays-1.5305326
Could Israel survive without propaganda?
Probably not. Remove the propaganda and there is simply no basis for their presence in Palestine. They claim direct descendancy from a people who lived there 2000 years ago. Can you imagine what the odds of that are? A single community of people sitting around waiting in Europe for two millenia to return to an ancestral homeland in the Middle East? But the curious thing about that is one can actually convert to Judaism, and also renounce the religion. Judaism is not an ethnicity. The idea of a Jewish race was incorporated into Nazi propaganda and picked up on by the Zionists to strengthen their tenuous claims. & what’s their other claim to the land - God promised it to them. Well, so did Lord Balfour - in his declaration to Walter Rothschild - but it wasn’t his to promise at the time. That promise was therefore null & void. Balfour, incidentally, was an antisemitist whose main concern was ensuring the Jews didn’t try to immigrate to Britain. Zionism was often seen as an antisemitic attempt to rid Europe of its Jewish population, but now the Zionists themselves have appropriated the term antisemitic to blackmail all their opponents into silence on Israel’s crimes against humanity. They claim to be the indigenous people of Palestine, and that the Palestinians are the hostile foreigners, which is an appalling inversion of the truth. They claim the Palestinians are terrorists for throwing stones, but international law allows for resistance (including armed resistance) against an occupying force. & it is clearly Israel which is indulging in (state) terrorism with its periodic bombings of densely populated residential areas, mass shootings of lawful protesters, nights raids and summary executions. They claim the Palestinians don’t want peace when the terms are always so weighted against them it amounts to accepting Apartheid. & when peace does actually threaten to break out, Israel finds a pretext to bomb them. Zionism is pure propaganda, from start to finish, 100%. Look beyond the lies and there is nothing but an illusion; the delusions and deceptions of radical religious extremism.Jaffa, PalestineCirca 1930..before the British and Israel stole it.Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian from behindVideo: Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian from behind
Has social media become a bullhorn for Trump & Putin propaganda?
You are raising an important question. A Univ. of Toronto professor was on radio this week. He reported that not one of the students in his political science class raised a hand, when he asked which of them read a daily newspaper.They’ll get some news on radio and t.v., but the worry is that they’ll also get a lot of unsubstantiated opinion from (1) social media and (2) what I call ***anti-social*** media. This means they are hearing from dubious sources who have targeted them with biased and often inaccurate information.It is a worry.
What are some terms or technique similar to "controlled opposition" that you know of?
Agent Provocateurs, Black Propaganda, False Flags, Collusion, criminal conspiracies, Infiltration, Blackmail, Misinformation campaigns/fake news, character assassination, and the use of military/political/organizational proxies are some of the strategies which are used to attain the goals often associated with the use of controlled opposition.