How I too was fooled by western propaganda

Control of the media gives control of the narrative, and control of the public psyche: The US / UK ‘anglozionist’ empire can get away with daylight robbery, murder and pillage because it can convince the world via repeated propaganda that China Russia Iran Venezuela Syria etc are bad – and they are the good guys – no matter what they do.. – their ‘Rules Based Order is a self-generated proclamation that they are above International Law – they are a law unto themselves.
Also at: https://english.dotdotnews.com/a/202104/27/AP6087ebb9e4b0dcb7f6979708.html

— Barrie VVeiss

What the world is currently witnessing, – Or rather, being made to see – with regard to the current conflicts in Ukraine – is a glaring PROPAGANDA HELL – with the horns blaring and floodlights full on – Not to mention smoke, smokescreen, and mirrors
(N.B. There’s no smoke without mirrors..)

— Barrie VVeiss

‘The milking of human kindness’

The phrase was coined, like so many, by ‘Shakespeare‘, (or at least, the group who wrote ‘under the nom-de-plume’ of Shakespeare) in Macbeth (1:5), Lady Macbeth complains that her husband “is too full of the milk of human kindness” to kill his rivals. But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

So what does propaganda feed on? Fear, Avarice. Greed, Insecurity, Human compassion: ‘the milk of human kindness‘ – it works at a deep emotional level, at a primal level.. and when used for manipulation of people, to serve vested, corporate interest, it is milking these emotions and the responses elicited – milking human kindness, and ‘milking’ humankind indeed..

— Barrie V – Best China Info / China Bazzar / Beehive China

Nobody’s perfect, sometimes, we make mistakes. WE Can All Be Fooled. A recent ‘exchange’, which sprang from a personal attack on me y by a ‘high-profile’ employee – a ‘researcher’ at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute brought into stark focus what I feel is an utterly crucial issue, in light of the constant ‘drip-feed, barrage, tirade even, of anti-China anti-Russia propaganda being dribbled and spewed from the putrid bowels of the MIC / Bank controlled mainscream mania by their sycophantic acolytes – the typing pool orifices otherwise known as the mainstream media – the msm.

‘At first, I was taken aback that this mouse jockey ‘AppBoy‘ *known by some as ‘satellite boy‘.. – and, therefore, the ASPI Raytheon et al had taken the time to trawl through more than twelve years of my twitter timeline, until they found something that they felt was ‘incriminating’ enough to publicly ‘throw back’ at me. But after pondering, I then realised this had, in fact, revealed something rather precious.. ‘
(Ruser came to be placed in the position he is in because his teeny brain figured out that a phone app can reveal the locations of people.. much like EVERYONE in China knows you can gauge locations of people on We Chat.. This paltry fact, however, was enough for the other clowns at the ASPI to give him a job as an anal-yst / researcher.. Go figure.. this is the level.. we’re talking.. slithering beneath the pond slime.. single-celled amoeba level..

‘At first, I was taken aback, astonished in fact that ASPI had taken the time to trawl through twelve years of my Twitter timeline, – until they found something that they felt was ‘incriminating’ enough to publicly ‘throw back’ at me. (dang! they would seem to have too much time on their hands and little to do eh? Or, they singled me out in particular for a personal attack..)
But after pondering, I then realised this had, in fact, revealed something rather precious...’

— Barrie VVeiss

@Nrg8000 #Twit. Not your buddy. A ‘complete backflip’? Simple.
Because, years after forming an opinion based on western propaganda,
I researched, properly;
something you fail to do because that’s NOT what you’re paid to do
by arms corporations who fund #ASPI.

— ChinaBazzar (@BestChinaInfo ~ Barrie V ~ @BeehiveChina)

So, what the MIC funded ASPI found, was that 12 or more years ago I once retweeted something, in support of what I thought, what I was fooled into believing, at the time, to be a ‘just cause’..
*(N.B. Nathan Ruser got lock-stepped into a seat of subservience to the ASPI WARPIGS by dint of him ‘discovering’ that a phone app can reveal locations of people – This then qualified him (according to the clowns at ASPI) as being an #OSINT Expert on Satellite Intel – Anal-yst – whatever.. – Duh!!! Like, 1.4 Billion people in China using WeChat can figure this on any day of any week.. This shows how weak the USUKEUNATOMIC chain is.. – ‘A chain is no stronger than it’s weakest link – Do you see? )

Yes, quite a few years ago, I quoted, verbatim, something I’d picked up from western mainscream mania, media, (msm) some ‘agitprop‘, propaganda, blarney about human rights violations against Tibet etc, without fully understanding the facts.

After my initial horror that I had, (quite obviously to me now), been well and truly duped by the western msm, came the realisation, that if I could be so easily duped, so could, and can, millions of other people who, in other circumstances, one could call, logical, conscientious, decent people with no ‘axe to grind’, no vengeful agenda to take out on some innocent ‘bystander’.

I have little doubt that the finer point of this exchange, this issue, will be indiscernible to the likes of Mr Ruser or his paymasters at ASPI, or theirs at Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc, but over and above this, the ‘point’, really is of the essence of the times we are currently living in.

Booyah? White whale? Really? Twit. So, you found a tweet I regurgitated years ago, before I’d researched this properly and fully. Amazing. And? Now I HAVE researched, and my understanding is far more complete about the actual #Facts of the past and present in Tibet and Xinjiang

— ChinaBazzar

Barrie V to @Nrg8000: “#Twit. Not your buddy. A ‘complete backflip’? Simple. Because, years after forming an opinion based on western propaganda, I researched, properly, about Tibet, Xinjiang, and many other ‘victimised places’ ; something you fail to do because that’s NOT what you’re paid to do by the WarPig Arms Corporations who fund ASPI. “

Here’s the thing: @Nrg8000 & AsSwiPe (ASPI) unwittingly provided an opportunity to understand and thence highlight just how easy it is to get completely taken in and fooled by western agitprop when your human compassion is prodded.
Yes. It happened to me too. And I thought I knew enough. Clearly I did not. I know enough now to know I was wrong, mistaken, misled.

— ChinaBazzar

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”

— Edward Bernays

Further, I wouldn’t go as far as to call myself ‘aggressive’. Nor do I support any ‘massive crackdown’,as you put it, because there isn’t.
China is doing what any nation would do to defend itself against externally instigated terrorism against China in Xinjiang and Tibet – In point of fact, the way China is dealing with this terrible problem is admirable, especially when compared to western methods, which usually involve bombing and invading other countries.

Further, I wouldn’t go as far as to call myself ‘aggressive’. Nor do I support any ‘massive crackdown’, as you put it, because there isn’t.
China is doing what any nation would do to defend itself against externally instigated terrorism against China in Xinjiang and previously, Tibet – In point of fact, the way China is dealing with this terrible problem is admirable, especially when compared to western methods, which usually involve bombing and invading other countries.

— Barrie VVeiss

Background: I, and other kindred spirits have and will continue, to take certain ‘entities’ to task on misrepresentation of facts, downright make-believe, and outright dirty lies on Xinjiang, the ‘Uyghur issue, and other matters in China, from the BBC to The Guardian and The Economist. One of these was Nathan Ruser – @Nrg8000 on twitter who works for something called the AsSwIPe – Australian Strategic Policy Institute – who are funded by the very big ‘players’, the warpigs in armament sales and weapons manufacture: Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc – i.e. the ‘MIC – the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell address (not forgetting that Eisenhower helped create the MIC…) :

‘So happy you finally found your ‘white whale’ sweetie! ‘

— ChinaBazzar

Quote from ASPI: ” ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC) has teams of researchers who concentrate on policy, technical analysis, information operations and disinformation, satellite analysis, surveillance and China-related issues.”

—ASPI

Replying to @Nrg8000 ‘Yes I too was fooled.. I’m not ashamed to admit it. And not too proud to admit I was wrong.
I wouldn’t call it ‘manic insanity’ any more than a large swathes of western populations are still ‘manic’ and ‘insane’ Nor am I ‘aggressive’. ‘

— ChinaBazzar

When I was far less-informed perhaps, yes, as many people STILL do, I regurgitated the standard western ‘agitprop’. Now my opinion is quite the reverse; – the CIA (now NED) were bribing, paying, the Dalai Lama and his brother and their cohorts – hooking Tibet to subvert + plot against China since the 1950’s; the Lama crew were CIA funded feudal overlords of a serfdom anyway.
(See also Hong Kong, XinJiang)

— Best China Info

Here’s the thing: @Nrg8000 ASPI provided impetus for me to reflect, understand, and thence highlight just how easy it is to get completely taken in and fooled by western propaganda and agitprop when your human compassion is prodded. Yes. It happened to me too. And I thought I knew enough. Clearly I did not. I know enough now to know I was wrong, mistaken, misled, duped.

However, one takes heart from the breathtakingly amateur incompetence of such ‘agencies as AsSwIPe (ASPI: Australian Strategic Policy Institute) For the so-called ‘big players’ of arms corporations to fund these clowns to conduct anything other than tea-making is a most comforting sign.

— ChinaBazzar

ASPI – Australian Strategic Policy Institute – are funded by the US and UK governments and armament sales and weapons manufacturers: Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc – i.e. the ‘MIC‘ – the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell address: :”

Eisenhower‘s farewell address, January 17, 1961.

President of the United States (and five-star general during World War II) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961^[12]: (Eisenhower helped create the MIC)

“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military–industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.“

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

( It should be noted that Eisenhower was actually instrumental in creating the M I C )

I have little doubt that the finer points of this exchange, this issue, will be indiscernible to the likes of Ruser or his paymasters at ASPI, or theirs at Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc, but over and above this, the ‘point’, really is of the essence of the times we are currently living in.

— Barrie VVeiss

Background: I, and other kindred spirits have and will continue, to take certain ‘entities’ to task on misrepresentation of facts, downright make-believe, and outright dirty lies on Xinjiang, the ‘Uyghur issue, and other matters in China, from the BBC to theGuardian and TheEconomist. One of these was Nathan Ruser – @Nrg8000 on twitter who works for something called the AsSwIPe – Australian Strategic Policy Institute – who are funded by some very big ‘players’ in armament sales and weapons manufacture: Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc – i.e. the ‘MIC – the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell address:

A quote from ASPI: ” ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC) is a leading voice.. blah.. The centre has a growing mixture of expertise and skills with teams of researchers who concentrate on policy, technical analysis, information operations and disinformation… satellite analysis.. surveillance and China-related issues.”

—ASPI

The milking of human kindness indeed. Yes. It happened to me too. And I thought I knew enough. Clearly I did not. I know enough now to know I was wrong, mistaken, misled, duped.

— ChinaBazzar

Read this superb curation of the actual unseen truths:
Tibet-feudalism-slavery-CIA-Dalai Lama-Terrorism

I and many others are
aware of the truth of
the history of Tibet.
< this from
DanielDumbrill

André Vltchek on #US / western aggression toward #China: Recommending this most excellent and important article by #AndréVltchek – Perhaps even more relevant now than ever in light of recent events in #Afghanistan.
https://t.co/IqyhuZDowF

— China Beehive – Harmony + Unity = Peace + Progress (@BeehiveChina) September 16, 2021

From the hugely respected Andre Vltchek, Jul 08, 2020:
“Western, particularly British and the US demagogy, have managed to reach ‘heights’ of deadly perfection. Already they’ve conditioned billions of brains, in all corners of the world into a servile way of thinking. All this is not just propaganda anymore; it is the true art of indoctrination. It hardly ever misses its target. And even if it fails to convince some strong individuals completely, it always leaves a mark on the psyche. In short: Western propaganda is perfect. Deadly. Until now, it’s been bulletproof.“

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So. Yes, 8 years ago, I quoted, verbatim, actually just ‘retweeted’, something I’d picked up from western mainstream media, (msm) some propaganda, about so-called ‘human rights violations’ , without fully checking, verifying or understanding the facts.

For my own part, yes, in the past I was taken in, duped, fooled, by the western propaganda playing on my natural human compassion for the ‘plight of the oppressed’, my indignance on behalf of people suffering human rights abuses.. But. I hadn’t checked to see if what I was regurgitating was actually true. Now I know it wasn’t true. it was a lie. See: /bestchinainfo.com/guest-posts/tibet-the-dalai-lama-feudalism-slavery-and-the-great-game/
After my initial horror that I had, (quite obviously to me now), been well and truly duped by the western msm, came the realisation, that if I could be so easily duped, so could, and can, millions of other people who, in other circumstances, one could call, logical, conscientious, decent people with no ‘axe to grind’, no vengeful agenda needing ‘outlet’’.

— ChinaBazzar

So. ‘How could I have been fooled by western propaganda? (To be fooled or not to be fooled.. that is the question..) Well, the same way everyone else gets fooled. We don’t take the time to check facts, verify the veracity of information. We take as ‘gospel’ that what the MSM and US UK EU governments tell us is the truth. Factual. Iraq was all but destroyed and hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost on the basis of.. some pictures of.. trucks.. buildings.. white powder..

‘WMD’: Weapons of Mass Delusion.

It’s clear to see exactly the same ‘methodology’, technique, or to be more precise; ‘flim-flam’, being used again and again (Especially now in Ukraine) by ASPI and MainScreamMania in the same way that Bellingcat do; Bellingcat, by the way, have been proven to be abject liars; a disinformation propaganda operation, many times) Dang.. are ‘they’ so unimaginative and short of ideas that this is the best ‘they’ can come up with? And are people so easily fooled that they believe it?
Unfortunately, yes.

Update Latest: Denmark’s Politiken now chime in with the rest of the piggies..
See also BBC attack on Barrie VVeiss :
bestchinainfo.com/barrie-v-bbc-full-transcript/

Background: There are kindred spirits that have, and will continue, to take certain ‘entities’ to task on misrepresentation of facts, downright make-believe, and outright dirty lies on Xinjiang, the ‘Uyghur issue, and other matters in China, and around the world; from the BBC to theGuardian and TheEconomist, from Bellingcat to ASPI.. Recently, One of these was the ASPI, and a ‘researcher’ for them, Nathan Ruser – (@Nrg8000 on twitter) the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

N.B. ASPI, just like ‘Bellingcat‘ – are funded by the US propaganda operation known as the NED, the UK government and ‘big names’ in armament sales and weapons manufacture: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc.

The agenda of ASPI is clear – demonise China – create an ‘enemy’, continue to create profit from ‘necessary military build’-up in the name of ‘defence’ against the ‘enemy’. (Read Orwell’s 1984 lately?!)

So, to clarify: For NED, CIA, Arms corporations: Read: the ‘MIC – the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned the world about in his farewell address.

A quote from ASPI:

”ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC) is a leading voice.. blah.. The centre has a growing mixture of expertise and skills with teams of researchers who concentrate on policy, technical analysis, information operations and disinformation… satellite analysis.. surveillance and China-related issues.” ‘Nuff said?

—ASPI International Cyber Policy Centre (ICPC)

MIC ASPI T.W.A.T PNAC MSM 1066 2001 2003 2014 2022 and all that..

Now I look back at this with some regret; I saw straight through the illegal US UK NATO led war on and invasion of Iraq in 2003, from the moment two (three) steel-frame buildings were demolished, (N.B. steel frame buildings don’t totally freefall collapse neatly in their own footprint through fire..) in 2001 in New York I knew what game was afoot; The War Against Terror – or T.W.A.T for short – George.W.Bush’ initial phrase for the (well laid out and still viewable) PNAC plans for the anglozionist takeover of the MENA: See General Wesley Clark: “We had a coup ~ In America” : https://youtu.be/TY2DKzastu8 From: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8NlWg8t8BBruxKhLvlFyoROicRBKfWdE

I say ‘initial phrase’ because I had pointed out the acronym T.W.A.T in theGuardian and it was swiftly changed to The War ON Terror.. ;>

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

Anyway, the way I saw it was that everything was staged and ready for the world press, the ‘MSM‘, in the same way that ASPI’s ‘satellite image analysis’ is ‘msm ready‘, in the same way that the Capitol Buildings ‘riots‘ were ‘media ready’..

—ChinaBazzar

I have little doubt that the finer point of this exchange, this issue, will be indiscernible and moreover, of little consequence to the likes of Mr Ruser or his paymasters at ASPI, or theirs at NED, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, Thales, Raytheon etc, but over and above this, the ‘point’ of this article really is of the essence, the zeitgeist of the times we are currently living in. Propaganda. And its’ (mis)uses.

Propaganda: Take a proper gander..

Propaganda  modern Latin word, propagare, meaning to spread or to propagate, that which is to be propagated. Originally derived from a new admin body of the Catholic Church circa 1622 aimed at “propagating” the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.
The term began taking on a negative connotation in the mid-19th century, when it was used in the political sphere.
From wikipedia.org/wiki/

‘The manipulation of the American mind:
Edward Bernays and the birth of ‘public relations‘

From: https://theconversation.com

Edward Bernays pioneered ‘Public Relations’

Often referred to as “the father of public relations,” Bernays in 1928 published his seminal work, 
Propaganda, in which he argued that public relations is not a gimmick but a necessity:

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.

– Edward Bernays

Bernays came by his beliefs honestly. Born in Austria in 1891, the year Sigmund Freud published one of his earliest papers, Bernays was also Freud’s nephew twice over. His mother was Freud’s sister Anna, and his father, Ely Bernays, was the brother of Freud’s wife Martha.

‘Bernays ..eventually helping the Woodrow Wilson Administration promote the idea that US efforts in World War I were intended to bring democracy to Europe…’

Bernays rebrands ‘propaganda’

Having seen how effective propaganda could be during war, Bernays wondered whether it might prove equally useful during peacetime.

Yet propaganda had acquired a somewhat pejorative connotation (which would be further magnified during World War II), so Bernays promoted the term “public relations.”

Drawing on the insights of his Uncle Sigmund – a relationship Bernays was always quick to mention – he developed an approach he dubbed “the engineering of consent.” He provided leaders the means to “control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it.” To do so, it was necessary to appeal not to the rational part of the mind, but the unconscious.

Bernays’ ideas sold more than cigarettes and cups: Bernays also used fear to sell products. For Dixie cups, Bernays launched a campaign to scare people into thinking that only disposable cups were sanitary. As part of this campaign, he founded the Committee for the Study and Promotion of the Sanitary Dispensing of Food and Drink.

Even though Bernays saw the power of propaganda during war and used it to sell products during peacetime, he couldn’t have imagined that his writings on public relations would be tools of the Third Reich.

In the 1920s, Joseph Goebbels became an avid admirer of Bernays and his writings – despite the fact that Bernays was a Jew. When Goebbels became the minister of propaganda for the Third Reich, he sought to exploit Bernays’ ideas to the fullest extent possible. He created a “Fuhrer cult” around Adolph Hitler.

Bernays learned that the Nazis were using his work in 1933 – He later recounted in his 1965 autobiography:

They were using my books as the basis for a destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me, but I knew any human activity can be used for social purposes or misused for antisocial ones.

— Edward Bernays

What Bernays’ writings furnish is not a principle or tradition by which to evaluate the appropriateness of propaganda, but simply a means for shaping public opinion for any purpose whatsoever, whether beneficial to human beings or not.

From https://en.wikipedia.org:
(see also: https://swprs.org/wikipedia-disinformation-operation/)

‘ Hermann Göring: “Why, of course, the people don’t want war.‘ Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”

Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. (hmm..)

Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Hermann Wilhelm Göring, also rendered as Goering (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946), was a German politician, military leader and leading member of the Nazi Party. Founder of the Gestapo and the head of the Luftwaffe.
From https://en.wikiquote.org/

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonizing_the_enemy: Demonising the enemy, Demonisation of the enemy or Dehumanisation of the enemy^[1] is a propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being a threatening, evil aggressor with only destructive objectives.^[2] Demonisation is the oldest propaganda technique aimed to inspire hatred toward the enemy necessary to hurt them more easily, to preserve and mobilise allies and demoralise the enemy.

The demonisation of the enemy has been routinely conducted throughout the history. ‘Demonisation of the enemy (first enemy leaders and later enemy individuals) became a predictable pattern followed by Western media, the final stage being atrocities.’^[6]

I hold it to a sign of great prudence in men to refrain alike from threats and from the use of insulting language, for neither of these things deprives the enemy of his power, but the first puts him more on his guard, while the other intensifies his hatred of you and makes him more industrious in devising means to harm you.

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The portrayal of one’s enemy as demonic has often led to the treatment of the whole population or political apparatus associated with the enemy group or leader as equally demonic. This also often results in a tendency to reduce an enemy’s more complex motives to simple promotion of pure evil.

Edward Bernays Guatemala Regime Change and Bananas: History will teach us nothing?

Potted propaganda section; read more, have a proper gander: History will teach us nothing. If we don’t know it., or if we’ve ‘been fed’ and ‘swallowed’ a false version..
Bernays Guatemala Regime Change Bananas

From wikipedia: The United Fruit Company (today’s Chiquita Brands International) hired Bernays in the early 1940s for the purpose of promoting banana sales within the United States.

Bernays worked on the national press and successfully drummed up coverage of Guatemala‘s Communist menace. The company became alarmed about the political situation in Guatemala after Jacobo Árbenz Guzman became president in March 1951. On March 21, 1951,

Bernays told United Fruit’s head of publicity, Edmund Whitman, that Guatemala could reprise Iran‘s recent nationalisation of British Petroleum (BP): 

See also: Rob Newman – The history of Oil

‘We recommend that immediate steps be undertaken to safeguard American business interests in Latin American countries against comparable action there. News knows no boundaries today. . . . ‘
(Or morals, apparently) .

He recommended a campaign in which universities, lawyers, and the US government would all induce the President and State Department to issue a policy pronouncement comparable to the Monroe Doctrine concerning expropriation.” The New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek, and the Atlantic Monthly had all published articles describing the threat of Communism in Guatemala.

A Bernays memo in July 1951 recommended that this wave of media attention should be translated into action by promoting: (a) a change in present U.S. ambassadorial and consular representation, (b) the imposition of congressional sanctions in this country against government aid to pro-Communist regimes, (c) U.S. government subsidising of research by ‘disinterested groups’ like the Brookings Institution into various phases of the problem.[53]

Per Bernays’s strategy, United Fruit distributed favorable articles and an anonymous Report on Guatemala to every member of Congress and to national “opinion molders”. They also published a weekly Guatemala Newsletter and sent it to 250 journalists, some of whom used it as a source for their reporting.
(Ring any bells? Hong Kong, Reuters – Uyghurs – Xinjiang)

In January 1952 he brought a cohort of journalists from various notable newspapers on a tour of Guatemala, sponsored by the company. This technique proved highly effective and was repeated four more times. In June, 1954, the US Central Intelligence Agency effected a coup d’état code-named Operation PBSuccess. The CIA backed a minimal military force, fronted by Carlos Castillo Armas, with a psychological warfare campaign to portray military defeat as a foregone conclusion. During the coup itself, Bernays was the primary supplier of information for the international newswires Associated Press, United Press International and the International News Service.

Following the coup, Bernays built up the image of Guatemala’s new president Carlos Castillo Armas, giving advice for his public appearances both in Guatemala and in the US. In 1956, Bernays produced a pamphlet comparing the Communist way and the Christian way. 
In 1959, United Fruit dispensed with all external advisors including Bernays

‘Bad things happen when good people do nothing.’

China is now the main engine driving the world economy (See Angus Maddison and Chinese economic performance in the long run) The One Belt One Road Initiative ‘BRI’ will ensure the well-being of many nations in Eurasia for the foreseeable future.

The US and UK governments are attempting to maintain their hegemony by trying to curtail China’s rise: the trade War, hybrid war, and military build-up attempting to encircle China (see John Pilger), bolstered with the bluster of the constant anti- China narrative being promulgated in the west.

How should China proceed? Riposte? Should China counter every attack? Parry every blow? Probably

Very pertinent and worthwhile viewing from Adam Curtis: https://www.youtube.com The Century of the Self – Part 1: “Happiness Machines” The story of Sigmund Freud‘s nephew; Edward Bernays, father of modern ‘propaganda’ – or Public Relations, as it’s now known, the art of keying into and thence, manipulating, the instinctual, subconscious drives in mankind.. https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?t=1820

Even more pertinent, especially following the ‘apparent’ departure of US forces from Afghanistan is this, also from the inimitable Adam Curtis: https://youtu.be/GB8m6nNWpMA?t=421 – Osama Bin Laden was never that powerful, or that significant, he had no ‘worldwide terror network’ – – Al Qaeda was not his invention – – ‘Vested interests’ in the US administration invented it for him.

Barrie VVeiss via Adam Curtis ‘Power of Nightmares‘

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”

— Edward Bernays

So what does propaganda feed on? Fear, Avarice. Greed, Insecurity, Human compassion: the milk of human kindness – it works at a deep emotional level, at a primal level.. and when used for manipulation of people, to serve vested, corporate interest, it is milking these emotions and the responses elicited – ‘milking human kindness’, and milking humankind indeed..

— Barrie – Best China Info

“Nobody ever won the battle of ‘Public Relations’ by overestimating the intelligence of ‘General Public“

— Barrie V – Best China Info

So, what should I do, any of us? Check facts first! Verify! Go to the root of a ‘story’. Understand the agendas. Counter, parry and riposte! Then try to increase human understanding, real communication, understanding of China, Chinese people, the Chinese ‘mindset’; Try to counter the negative propaganda that, if left unchecked, could see the worst of consequences for all of humanity.

I don’t need to believe, I know this: China is not your enemy! China’s goal
is not world domination, that’s soo last millennium darlings, so passé, the page we’re on now is world unification, working together for a shared future ~ Unity.

I don’t need to believe, I know this – I’ve lived and worked in China for the past eight years: The People of China, the Peoples Republic of China and The Chinese Communist Party, who work for the people, have the best interests of the Chinese people, of the world, and of humanity, at heart – this is the Chinese way; Unity, family, friendship, peaceful co-existence.

I don’t need to believe, I know this: China’s ‘vested interest’ is not corporate, nor avaricious, but one of mutual beneficence, unity and peace – the Chinese mindset is mutual cooperation and mutual benefit;
‘We’re all in this together’ – Let’s pull together!’

— Barrie VVeiss

Thought: In seven years living in China I’ve never even seen a fist fight. Though I’ve seen a woman smack her boyfriend / husband once or twice. (!) This says a lot about a country. Back in ye olde Englande or the good ol’ US of A.. well,, I don’t need to tell you do I ?
Aggression is NOT in the Chinese nature.

Video goes viral that students display their excellent combat skills after school in C China's Hunan combines the daily PE lessons with military training. pic.twitter.com/vWBwFJRXln

— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) October 23, 2020

These Chinese children are not being trained to attack. As part of their physical exercise they are taught how to defend self + country. Anyone who thinks otherwise simply does not understand China or Chinese people. Chinese people are ready to defend. Always. They’re fit, smart, mobile and prepared, from infancy to old age. They will DEFEND China, as will I.
To reiterate: China is NOT interested in attacking anyone!

See also: From the late great Andre Vltchek, Jul 08,2020: “Western, particularly British and the US demagogy, have managed to reach ‘heights’ of deadly perfection. Already they’ve conditioned billions of brains, in all corners of the world into a servile way of thinking. All this is not just propaganda anymore; it is the true art of indoctrination.

From the hugely respected Andre Vltchek, Jul 08, 2020

“Western, particularly British and the US demagogy, have managed to reach ‘heights’ of deadly perfection. Already they’ve conditioned billions of brains, in all corners of the world into a servile way of thinking. All this is not just propaganda anymore; it is the true art of indoctrination. It hardly ever misses its target. And even if it fails to convince some strong individuals completely, it always leaves a mark on the psyche. In short: Western propaganda is perfect. Deadly. Until now, it’s been bulletproof.“

— Andre Vltchek

It hardly ever misses its target. And even if it fails to convince some strong individuals completely, it always leaves a mark on the psyche.

In short: Western propaganda is perfect. Deadly.
Until now, it’s been bulletproof.“

‘Bad things happen when good people do nothing‘

‘The Game’

Well, of course, ‘the game’ is rhetoric, as used for propaganda purposes. As comrade Vltchek so rightly stated, the UK US MIC ‘machine’ are masters at this. Especially as regards ‘spinning’ world opinion against China, Russia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, etc.

“By establishing a baseline lie and painting the enemy as a monster, atrocity propaganda serves as an intelligence function, since it wastes the time and resources of the enemy  counterintelligence services to defend itself. Atrocity propaganda can either be white, gray, or black. Atrocity propaganda is often white, as it makes no attempt to hide its source and is overt in nature. The propagandists’ goal is to influence perceptions, attitudes, opinions, and policies; often targeting officials at all levels of government. Atrocity propaganda is violent, gloomy, and portrays doom to help rile up and get the public excited. It dehumanizes the enemy, making them easier to kill. from wikipedia

Understanding how to play ‘this game’ is crucial. The key phrase here: Understanding how to play ‘the game’. Whether there is any truth in the aforementioned rhetoric or not, is not the important issue.
Neither is disproving or countering false accusations.

The rhetoric and diatribe has already left it’s mark on the psyche of the masses. The goal has already been achieved. The target has been hit. No matter what refutation or counter-argument is issued as retort after the fact, it matters not. Their ‘arrow’ already left a barb in the minds of the masses.

— Barrie – Best China Info

I’m writing this as an ‘ex-westerner‘, who has lived and worked in the UK, US, EU, North Africa, Australia and now resides in China – I’m a ‘re-pat‘, not an ‘ex-pat’ – And I’ve seen a lot of life from a western perspective, the untied snakes and their star bangled spanner, (always preferred the Jimi Hendrix version myself)

Recommended reading: swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

See also: Chinabazzar speaks to China

See also: Barrie on Youtube on WHY there is a relentless torrent of anti China propaganda from western msm and governments

Better sound on this re-upload version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbaFcW1H_Zc
See also: https://bestchinainfo.com/how-i-was-fooled-by-western-propaganda/
and https://bestchinainfo.com/barrie-v-bbc-full-transcript/

Update – Musings on Nazism, Russia, Ukraine, NATO :

#JiCYMi#Nazism never went away.. it just moved house.. houses.. With Israel’s recent assassination of Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, (amongst many others) and the extradition and persecution of #JulianAssange, It’s worth pondering on #AlbertEinstein‘s warning from 1948 – #Einstein‘s letter to the #NewYorkTimes: https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524518696538243072 : “What would Uncle Albert say about the #US#NATO#Biden#Ukraine#Nazism.. #Israel and #zionism if he were alive today? Well my guess is #AlbertEinstein would be saying exactly the same as he said in 1948 #Einstein‘s letter to the #NYT – 1948 See Also: #UkraineOnFire https://youtu.be/T_H_9rxosi4?t=765” – Ans also considering the stated policy of #Zelensky‘s regime:

https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524276041086541825 “

#Zelensky handler #Arestovych: “We must be like Israel squared: #Ukrainian Identity is this: To Lie as much as possible to ourselves, our people and to everyone else. If we tell the truth for one moment #Ukraine will fall apart.” The same can be said for #USA#UK#Israel#EU. ”
So. It’s the Same old gang, same old game..
Further reading – Nice and simple – Condensed into #Tweets: https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524276041086541825

https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524518696538243072

https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524521374408404992

https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524569535428567040

From one of many threads: https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524276041086541825

See Also: “1929-1939 #Ukraine infested by Fascists terrorising killing people. 1945 #Russia stopped them. #Nazism re-emerges #Maidan 2014. 2019-2022: Journalists ‘disappeared’ by #US puppet #Zelensky #Fascistregime. #UkraineOnFire: https://youtu.be/T_H_9rxosi4?t=764 See Also: #ShireenAbuAkleh #Israel”

https://twitter.com/BeehiveChina/status/1524511911676891136

Footnote: I’m happy enough knowing that thanks to the wisdom and strength of #Russia and #China working in unity that I will yet live to see the end of an evil era.. the total demise of the #HolyRomanEmpire’.. whateverthefcukyouwannacall’em.. and happier times for #Humanity

N.B. 1929-1939 #Ukraine infested by Fascists terrorising killing people. Western Ukraine collaborated with the Nazis. These neo-Nazis were protected and hidden by the #US #CIA and hidden in #Europe / #NATO. 1945 #Russia stopped them.

2014: Nazism re-emerges Maidan 2014.

2019-2022: Journalists ‘disappeared’ by US puppet Zelensky’s Fascist regime.

MUST WATCH: Ukraine On Fire:
https://youtu.be/T_H_9rxosi4?t=764

From George Orwell’s Animal Farm:

One day in early summer Squealer ordered the sheep to follow him, and led them out to a piece of waste ground at the other end of the farm, which had become overgrown with birch saplings. The sheep spent the whole day there browsing at the leaves under Squealer’s supervision. In the evening he returned to the farmhouse himself, but, as it was warm weather, told the sheep to stay where they were. It ended by their remaining there for a whole week, during which time the other animals saw nothing of them. Squealer was with them for the greater part of every day. He was, he said, teaching them to sing a new song, for which privacy was needed.

It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening when the animals had finished work and were making their way back to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse sounded from the yard. Startled, the animals stopped in their tracks. It was Clover’s voice. She neighed again, and all the animals broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. Then they saw what Clover had seen.

It was a pig walking on his hind legs.

Yes, it was Squealer. A little awkwardly, as though not quite used to supporting his considerable bulk in that position, but with perfect balance, he was strolling across the yard. And a moment later, out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on their hind legs. Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully. And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gambolling round him.

He carried a whip in his trotter.

There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard. It was as though the world had turned upside-down. Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything–in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened–they might have uttered some word of protest. But just at that moment, as though at a signal, all the sheep burst out into a tremendous bleating of–

“Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!”

It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.

Benjamin felt a nose nuzzling at his shoulder. He looked round. It was Clover. Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written. For a minute or two they stood gazing at the tatted wall with its white lettering.

“My sight is failing,” she said finally. “Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?”

For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

All is not lost, while there’s life, there’s hope:

‘I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay.
Small acts of kindness and love.’ ~ Gandalf 
(Quote is actually by Peter Jackson – maker of six great films based on the books by J. R. R. Tolkien ~ The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)

Peter Jackson

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— Barrie V for @BeehiveChina