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January 31, 2007 at 08:12:22

Hitler, Propaganda and Recycling Iraq as Iran

by Mac McKinney     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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"The people in their overwhelming majority are so feminine by nature and attitude that sober reasoning determines their thoughts and actions far less than emotion and feeling."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Ralph Manheim translation, p.183)

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Adolf Hitler expounded upon propaganda considerably in his massive autobiographic polemic against the Jews, Bolshevism and most things civilized, Mein Kampf (My Life), first written in 1925. Actually, Hitler was the director of propaganda for the Nazi Party for a time.


In the above quotation, he is cynically observing that for mass propaganda to work on the masses, one has to throw logic out the window and hit them with images and rhetoric that provoke fear, anger, patriotism, disgust, etc., and on a more primal level, by triggering their archetypal longings through symbols like the Swastika. However, I would hesitate to say that the Nazis themselves understood all the attractions of the Swastika, especially its sexual connotations, other than on a subconscious level.

To circumvent logic for emotions was a critically important point for a movement that was itself illogical at its core. Nazi ideology depended on a mystical belief system to promote its notion of Aryan superiority, which, like eugenics in general, it could only disguise as science.

Hitler also underscored several other key propaganda tenets, such as repetitiveness and simplicity:

"But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success." (ibid, p.184)

Then there is what may be described as the Nazis' grand propaganda principle:

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (James Murphy translation, p. 134)

The world has seen how effective the above principles were in the Nazis' ultimate goal, the "victory of the idea". They succeeded not only in Nazifying Germany, but spread their toxic ideology across Europe and even overseas, America itself seeing the rise of such Fascist organizations as the American Bund Movement in the 1930s:

"Propaganda tries to force its doctrine on the whole people.....Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea, while the organization achieves victory by the persistent, organic, and militant union of those supporters who seem willing and able to carry on the fight for victory."
-Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Ralph Manheim translation, p. 582)

Thus, all the above principles must be implemented by a strong propaganda apparatus, a dedicated and single minded organization that brooks no internal dissent, and ultimately no external dissent. Reality has been pigeonholed and the pigeons must not be allowed to debate the shape of their hovels.

Enter the Bush Administration

Whether or not Karl Rove and the apparatiks in the White House have actually read Mein Kampf I do not know. Have they incorporated those same propaganda principles espoused by Hitler? The answer is a resounding YES!

Let us look at the run-up to the war in Iraq after 9/11 as a case in point, although I will not get into the raging debate as to whether 9/11 was the American Reichstag fire. However, let me ask, soon after the lightning collapse of the Towers, was a dominant idea promoted that had to be indoctrinated into the American people as widely as possible? Yes, the idea that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat who must be dealt with immediately before he could strike with "weapons of mass destruction", a good, chilling phrase meant to terrify mothers and children and alarm the men.

Was going to war justified primarily by reason or appeals to emotions? Emotions largely. Balanced, reasoned debate based on real facts was largely absent. Debate was skewed to begin with by false reports about alliances between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, non-existent chemical/biological mobile stations, "yellow cake and aluminum tubes", and so forth. I won't even dwell on the obvious fact that Saddam Hussein's military capacity was largely impotent in 2003, especially against the United States. Emotionally speaking, there were strident appeals to patriotism, always against the looming background of the vaporized Twin Towers of 9/11, not to mention the great fear, anger and disgust this evoked in the average American. The mindset became, for millions of Americans: 9/11=al Qaeda=Iraq, so protect ourselves and get revenge!

Was this mantra that Saddam's regime was an evil, al Qaeda-loving threat to international security repeated constantly? Yes is not a strong enough term. Repetition was 24/7 from multiple sources: government, radio, TV, websites, newspapers, magazines, Right-wing pulpits, and on and on.

Was the Big Lie utilized? Yes again, as already inferred above. Everything was a lie except for Hussein's track record as a tyrant, and even this was embellished. How much bigger a whopper, to mention just one, can you contrive than the B-movie scenario that Iraq planned to use unmanned drones launched from merchant ships to spray American cities with deadly chemicals. We are half-way to Orson Welles' famous 1938 radio show, War of the Worlds, which scared the Hell out of countless Americans, with concoctions like this. All told, this was a rather fantastic fairy tale, all explained away after the fact as the product of faulty intelligence. Of course, some, such as diehard Congresswoman Thelma Drake, are still striving to depict several hundred degraded, 20-year old chemical artillery shells recovered from the Iraqi desert as the missing WMDs. Good luck.

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Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee.

December's Children

You're right except Hitler also said this: "It is fortunate for leaders that people do not think."

It's also unfortunate that most people don't have the time to assimilate what they might hear, see or read.

We will be going into Iran and the calculations of this folly are almost too horrible to comprehend. WWIII is upon us and if any of us survive it I can't imagine it will be the kind of world we'd want to live in.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 1067 comments) on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 3:22:46 PM
 


Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect.
Mac McKinneyStudent of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect.

Brace up!

Toshiro Mifune used to say "Brace up!" in the old Akira Kurasawa Samaurai movies, meaning that, when all looked grim and dark for the protagonists against the enemy, it was time to straighten the backbone, firm the jaw, and go on the offensive. This is what we have to do now. Defeatism is not an option.

Remember this when you say "we". We is you and I and everybody. "We" are not going into Iran, some criminal warmongers may try, but we are going to stop them.

by Mac McKinney (41 articles, 56 quicklinks, 127 diaries, 902 comments) on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 4:33:54 PM
 


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meremarkdigital programmer turned thought specialist, sorta: rocket surgeon.

Good BIG PICTURE outline, now look at Specific DOTS

Oh, this comes so close to revelation when 'scales fall off the eyes.'

First of all, right off, THIS is WRONG: Let us look at the run-up to the war in Iraq after 9/11 as a case in point, although I will not get into the raging debate as to whether 9/11 was the American Reichstag fire. However, let me ask, soon after the lightning collapse of the Towers, was a dominant idea promoted that had to be indoctrinated into the American people as widely as possible?

What is wrong is any separation between Nine-Eleven Op and "the run-up to the war in Iraq." N.E.O. IS the run-up. That there were fanatic religious hijackers aboard the airplanes IS the dominant false idea promoted and indoctrinated -- there were NOT any, the airline reservation systems and passenger lists published later in the day on Sept. 11 showed none of them bought tickets, and immediately the airline reservations computer systems were seized and classified and scrubbed in the name of the FBI.

Nine-Eleven Op was done by the Bushes to get to invade Iraq and conquer the oil. Separating the N.E.O. 'dot' from the run-up to (and conduct of) invading Iraq-'dot' is like separating dawn from noon -- the former is required before and leads to the latter.

Just to get that out of the way. None so blind as "I will not get into the raging debate" who refuse to see.

Now to come round to polishing some points in the well-said big picture. Hitler was sentenced to, and began serving, 5 years in jail in April 1925. For inciting mob riots earlier. Google some Hitler bio for details.

Hitler was freed in December 1925, when his bail was paid by Prescott Bush, as courier-agent for Warburg/Morgan. Supposedly, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in jail those nine months. Warburg/Morgan financed publishing the book, funding Hitler with a 'book deal' as he re-entered political posing.

Who is this "Warburg/Morgan"? That would be J.P.Morgan, American, and Paul Warburg, German. Bankers.

This would be their story: Secrets of the Federal Reserve: The history, organization and controlling interests behind the Federal Reserve -- by Eustace Mullins, [1953], in which the U$ dollar is invented, 1907, and Prescott Bush is made eager gopher-agent, 1919, for their courier and other managing needs.

Here's an example dissection. 'They' (as bankers, continuing blur between transactions as bankers and transactions as/of the Fed.Reserve), loaned 'dollars' to expand arms manufacturers Colt, Remington, Winchester, (mainly Connecticut), AND SIMULANEOUSLY (c. 1915) 'they' loaned 'dollars' to Hitler (et al.) German (European) to buy arms. Germans paid their dollars borrowed, to 'Connecticut,' for guns and arms orders, thus 'CT' manufactured more and paid back (Warburg/Morgan) the industrial loans which financed 'CT' expansion. Germans took the guns and pillaged Austrian-Hungarian (Hapsburg) Royalties, by invasion, stealing gold, jewels, etc., and thus with booty, paid back (Warburg/Morgan ... Prescott) the loans which financed German war machinery.

'They' also made the same loan arrangements at the same time (about 1915) to 'White Russian' rebels and revolutionaries, and the sort, all along the Dnipro River down to the Black Sea. (Byelorusse, Ukraine, Romania, Crimean, Odessa, Bucharest, are names to google 1914 history with.) The results, known as the 1917 Russian Revolution, murdered the Royalty (Czar) of Russia, stole the gold and jewels and yadda yadda, and paid back (Warburg/Morgan) their loans for guns. and shipping. (The bankers owned the ships and shipping lines, but that's another 'deal.')

The target of Germany in marching southeast (sudenland) into World War I was the Black Sea ... and beyond, i.e., the Caliphate, 'Iran,' and regions over the known oil sources. (Cf. Lawrence of Arabia.) The target of Hitler's Germany in World War II was ... the Black Sea and beyond, regions over the known oil supplies. It takes oil, to make steel, to make guns, tanks, bombs, to steal wealth, to pay back dollars to Warburg/Morgan, which is the Federal Reserve.

The intricate and interwoven 'deals' for military industrializations, (as opposed to food-clothing-shelter-sociality industrializations which was NOT 'dealt' in), back-and-forth across the Atlantic, (esp. notice House of Rothschilde, UBC, Bank of England, and Federal Reserve business ... too bad and how ironic the 47-story WTC 7 building exploded in Nine-Eleven Op, and NOT hit by airplane, housed the SEC records and original documents back to its founding, including the 'deals' of business in the 1930s and so forth), is a bowl of spaghetti to comb apart and get straight. Here are two references to start in with:

* London newspaper The Guardian: How Bush's grandfather [Prescott] helped Hitler's rise to power, Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell in Washington, Saturday September 25, 2004 -- in which, one detail is Prescott being the only American indicted and guilty by the (U.S.) 1942 Trading With The Enemies Act.

* Worldwide bloggers and documents, such as The Dubya Report -- in which is a LINK to a crucially important book to read: George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, By Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin.

And there are more 'dots,' 1910 - 1953, to focus in fine on, besides Mein Kampf and its principle ideas, (e.g., ideas of Freud and Jung and others, in the '30s mostly, inventing 'psychology,' hence, obviously, 'psychological operations' and 'psych.warfare,' as in the annals of foreign relations is (psycho.) the reason for being of the CIA, read HERE: The Truman administration's concern over Soviet "psychological warfare" prompted the new National Security Council to authorize, in NSC 4-A of December 1947, the launching of peacetime covert action operations. NSC 4-A made the Director of Central Intelligence responsible for psychological warfare, establishing at the same time the principle that covert action was an exclusively Executive Branch function. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) certainly was a natural choice but it was assigned this function at least in part because the Agency controlled unvouchered funds, by which operations could be funded ...).

We'all can comb out the 'deals' spaghetti later, as we go along, in whatever documentation survived Nine-Eleven Op. Here, let's look at the BIG TURNING POINT in the BIG PICTURE.

As soon as somebody wins, the show's over, and everyone goes home or gets back to work. That is just a maxim I made up last week, but it sounds good. The big thing to see is, after WW II, we won, but NObody went home and went back to work. The military machinery and generals made for 'the war,' stayed. We didn't disarm. We should have, according to the natural maxim -- fight's over, we have a winner, move along, folks. Instead, we USA enacted a permanent military. Workers at aircraft and A-bomb manufacturers did not go back to making cars and mass-transit trains, did not go back to farming with new-manufactured plows and implements and windmills generating electricity. Could have. Didn't. That was when, and that was the (wrong) choice that allowed, USA to start to become the nazi in it we see today. To get the nazi out of USA, we must roll back all enactments after and since we won 'the war.' Back to the 1930s, when the crux of politics was labor and laborers, worker's rights, and such social things as Social Security, were the people's concerns for representative self-governance, i.e., democracy. Once 'the government' psychologized the masses (with the apocalyptic A-bomb to terrify us and the new-fangled television to spread the terror) that 'the government' knew what it was doing -- all militarism, all the time: all Orwell -- and we the people did NOT know what 'the government' should do, well, that was USA's Rubicon crossed about 1947, September 11th, the cornerstone-laying day of the Pentagon, and Americans have all been nazi-ized ever since. This key power-point digression is meant to orient us (all progressives) to combine our efforts in one direction: Abolish the CIA, defund the Pentagon, (just as is debated in the House today, in microcosm as defunding Bushnazi's 'Iraq surge'). All of our issues -- jobs, economy, health care, education, energy crisis, global warming, rigged ballot-counts, on and on -- are all, each and every one, resolved and remedied, redressed as grievances, by abolishing the CIA and defunding the Pentagon. And it is simply and quietly and nonviolently done, just as it was begun ... by this Congress blanking out the budget line items in its appropriations. And going back to New Deal discussion and debate where the last American Congress of Democracy left off, in the 1930s, progressing toward social betterment, not militaristic belligerence and brutality. Beat the swords into plowshares, and it does NOT take mass riotous demonstrations in the streets. It takes educating information for Congresspersons, and for us who are (to be) those persons and elect them.

But to get back to the storyline. The national German interest for their sociality as supremaracist better than any other nations and socialities, ('national socialist' = nazi), begun in 1915's military violence aiming at selfishly taking Persian-Arabian oil wealth, we see accomplished in 2003's military violence of Americanazi invading and conquering Iraq, with Iran scheduled next. This telling now jumps from Hitler's 1925 exit from jail with Mein Kampf, to 1953-54.

These pieces, and together we might assemble them in a coherent composition, narrating the great invalidation of American democracy by the military enslavement of 1953-54:
* First, of course, McCarthyism. Related: the "UN's" Korean War. Most subtext detail, strangely, is in the bio's of J. Edgar Hoover. Crossing with: Nixon bio's, and he's elected V.P.
* Prescott Bush elected Senator from Connecticut.
* Allen Dulles made CIA Director, brother John Foster Dulles made Secretary of State. Add: Averill Harriman. See all three in league with Warburg/Morgan.
* Secrets of the Federal Reserve is published and immediately censored by CIA wherewithal, and the book stays unseen for thirty years.
* Ibn Saud dies, founding father of Saudi Arabia, richest man on Earth.
* CIA overthrows Mussadeq, democratically elected President of Iran, as he nationalizes (socializes = citizens share) his country's oil wealth. CIA installs dictator Shah.
* First commercial jet travel, 'airlines' invented.
* CIA concocts LSD, (from 1930s Swiss recipe), mescaline, and more psychodelics, in the pursuit of 'truth serum' and mind control (neuro)chemistry; released into populace.
* George Hitler Worker Bush, WW II pilot who fragged his own crew, enrolled inaugural class of CIA agents, goes messing around in Texas oil wild-catting. After some sidetrack (sales) training tour at Hughes Tool & Aerospace in California. Goes to inventing off-shore oil drilling structures, (see The Unauthorized Biography, noted above). Ends up selling out to a financing 'white knight' in Saudi Royal family. Oil (dryhole) drilling business is restructured as Dresser Industries, which begets Brown & Root, which begets Halliburton. (Ironically, the business -- ZAPATA! -- is named from the year's Oscar winning movie, dramatizing the social uprising led by Emilio Zapata in the 1910 Mexican Revolution for people's democracy over Royalty, and for whom the zapatistas today are among the encamped mobs in Oahacha Town Square demonstrating for justice and valid ballot counts.) After undocumented and unknown visible means of support and whereabouts from 1946, on, then in 1968 is elected to Congress, and where he meets, with Dick Cheney, and soon, the two together, meet Don Rumsfeld, the three minds and master-control of Nine-Eleven Op about 30 years later. N.E.O. needed CIA participation, as only GHWB in the whole world can deliver: his name is on the Headquarters building.
* Howard Hughes last appearance in public. His ownership of TWA (TransWorld Airlines -- "transworld," get it?) having become a major asset of ... that's right, Warburg/Morgan, or Fed.Reserve, in 'deals' of the '20s and '30s. Disappears, he does, after some Senate exposure and rumors of undefined psychological instabilities, (see Hoover, again), and is said thereafter to reside in another transworld celebrity bubble of the uber-rich. Meanwhile, a man of vague biography comes out of nowhere, who looks just like him, named Richard Helms, becomes CIA Director. (RICHARD HELMS - A DOUBLE IDENTITY?, by George LoBuono, 2001.) Anecdotal: Hughes' Spruce Goose (airplane made out of wood), is the main and about the only attraction in the Air Museum invented as the laundered-legit, asset-rollover, of the CIA's Evergreen Airlines (you never heard of) airfield, home base of many Flying Tigers piloted by cavaliers such as GHWB in invasive post-war incursions into China, out of McMinnville, Oregon, (my neck of the woods).
* Junior Bushnazi, 7 or 8 years old, in Texas, entertaining himself shooting his brothers with b-b guns, firecrackering frogs, has his younger sister die in the hospital and his parents not tell him, and not attend the funeral ... she merely 'never came home.'

So today, Jughead there, Poppy's young Puppet Bush, has taken Iraq to finish the 1991 job Poppy didn't do, and now sets aim at Iran, to finish the 1954 job Prescott's Warburg/Morgan/Fed.Reserve/CIA didn't do.

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Postscript. This might seem too long for a comment and could run as a self-standing article. But seeing the sense of revelation and eye-scales falling in it, relies on reading the cited reference works, and being read in tandem with a work such as Mac McKinney's which sees the continuity of nazi-think and -philosophy from Mein Kampf to My Pet Goat, yet lacks sight of the nazi mechanisms and nazi personalities (psychology) which have achieved that continuity. And seeing the ideas come, but not the means of coming, to these 2007 ends, leaves readers halfway across but not concluding that Nine-Eleven Op is the crime of Poppy Bush and his gang. Only. No religious fanatic hijackers were on board. Think about it.

That's why this 2007 comment belongs together with this 2007 article. They each need the other's supplement to complete the triad of revelation -- in one: the motive, in the other: the means and opportunity -- in this case. When we look at the scope of Nine-Eleven Op, and take out the Big 'muslim-fanatics' Lie obstructing our view, we see continuity all the way back to 1925, or 1910, where it began. Americans' own leaders mass murdering American citizens. It has come to this. No replacement of Congresspersons or other politicians now, is going to put things right for the future. The problem is systemic. The solution is rebuild the system. And staff it with new political personalities who are informed, educated, about alternative socio-political systems. The only other system design than totalitarianism is socialism.

Meanwhile, over in another arm of the information galaxy, around the fringes of the human-genome mapping project, and research, some are beginning to espouse that political consciousness is encoded in our human genes. And that that politics is socialism, or humankind-ness, which naturally obtains more and more in the progress of natural evolution more and more. ( Philosophy of Genetics, considering free will. World Socialist Movement. )

When (1850) Darwin's sight in 'evolution' showed God is dead, of course it specifically meant that Kingly Royalty obtained by 'divine right from God' is an unsubstantiated basis for their political contraptions. Yet it also generally meant, in the populace, is total void of 'divine rightness' in religious people's and group's political contraptions.

All the deprecation of 'godless communism' applies exactly in 'godless capitalism.' Socialism can be defined as 'half-communism, half-capitalism.'

And there is no one here to enact the rules of politics, and obey them, except us sapient monkeys.

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