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Propaganda, Censorship, Power, & Control -- Inside the Submissive Void

• https://russia-insider.com by Greg Maybury

Brief: The use of propaganda and censorship is more frequently associated with totalitarian, corrupt and/or despotic regimes, not modern democracies in the West. Yet the history of how western governments and their ever vigilant overlords in the media, financial and business spheres have controlled the political narrative of the time via these means is a long, storied and ruinous one, going back well before 1914. Along with serving the contemporaneous political objectives of its perpetrators as contrived, such activities often continue to inform our understanding, and cement our interpretation, of history. If as the saying goes, "history repeats itself", we need look no further as to the main reason why. In this wide ranging 'safari' into the disinformation, myth-making, fake news wilderness—aka The Big Shill—Greg Maybury concludes that "It's the narrative, stupid!"

Controlling the Proles

The following yarn may be apocryphal, but either way the 'moral of the fable' should serve our narrative well. The story goes like this: sometime during the height of the Cold War a group of American journalists were hosting a visit to the U.S. of some of their Soviet counterparts.