{"id":65154,"date":"2023-03-12T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65154"},"modified":"2023-03-12T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T12:07:44","slug":"the-10-rules-of-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65154","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Rules of Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 10 Rules of Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n

Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871\u20131946.<\/p>\n

This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda. They are these:<\/p>\n

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1. We don\u2019t want war, we are only defending ourselves.<\/i><\/p>\n

2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war.<\/i><\/p>\n

3. Our adversary\u2019s leader is evil and looks evil.<\/i><\/p>\n

4. We are defending a noble purpose, not special interest.<\/i><\/p>\n

5. The enemy is purposefully causing atrocities; we only commit mistakes.<\/i><\/p>\n

6. The enemy is using unlawful weapons.<\/i><\/p>\n

7. We have very little losses, the enemy is losing big.<\/i><\/p>\n

8. Intellectuals and artists support our cause.<\/i><\/p>\n

9. Our cause is sacred.<\/i><\/p>\n

10. Those who doubt our propaganda are traitors.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just Look at the News<\/b><\/h2>\n

A daily scan of the newswires calls to mind three or more of these propaganda rules. On some days, six or seven. On others still, all 10.<\/p>\n

We refer specifically to the conflict presently arage in the eastern European nation of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Let us now consider these rules. We will not take up each of them since some rules relate closely to others. We will instead weld these together. To proceed\u2026<\/p>\n

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1. We don\u2019t want war, we are only defending ourselves.<\/i><\/p>\n

2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On how many occasions have you read or heard condemnations of Mr. Putin\u2019s \u201cunprovoked\u201d act of aggression?<\/p>\n

To phrase it differently, when has it\u00a0not<\/i>\u00a0been described as unprovoked?<\/p>\n

Yet a man can argue very persuasively that Mr. Putin\u2019s war was indeed provoked.<\/p>\n

The Russian autocrat warned on several occasions that NATO expansion into Ukraine was a \u201cred line.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russia would not abide the NATO dagger pressing against its vitals (parts of Ukraine actually lie east of Moscow).<\/p>\n

Yet the NATO alliance had announced its intentions to incorporate Ukraine \u2014 despite Vladimir\u2019s moans and grimaces.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 10 Rules of Propaganda Lord Arthur Ponsonby was a British diplomat and politician, dates 1871\u20131946. This keen and cagey fellow pinpointed 10 rules of propaganda. They are these: 1. We don\u2019t want war, we are only defending ourselves. 2. The other guy is solely responsible for this war. 3. Our adversary\u2019s leader is evil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[15378,10851,553,655,694,21387,862],"class_list":["post-65154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-brian-maher","tag-evil","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-the-daily-reckoning","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65155,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65154\/revisions\/65155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}