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"Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control." Joost A.M. Meerloo
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"He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses" Joost A.M. Meerloo
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"to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." Hastings Lionel Baron Ismay
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"How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist." Adolf Hitler
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"The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class." Walter Lippmann
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"Senator LaFollette publicly charged that a money trust of fifty men controlled the United States. George F. Baker, partner of J.P. Morgan, on being queried by reporters as to the truth of the charge, replied that it was absolutely in error. He said that he knew from personal knowledge that not more than eight men ran this country." Eustace Clarence Mullins
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"We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing" Gore Vidal
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"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." H. L. Mencken
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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Henry Louis Mencken
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"People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." Karl Rove
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"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [...] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore." Yuval Noah Harari
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"We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie." Alexander Solschenizyn