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Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without HypnosisBy David
Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/content/top-10-proofs-people-can-be-completely-manipulated-without-hypnosis
1. Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read.
2. A poll <https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-6> of people in
65 countries, including the United States, finds that the United States is
overwhelmingly considered the greatest threat to peace in the world. The
consensus would have been even stronger had the United States itself not
been polled, because the 5 percent of humanity living here is largely
convinced that the other 95% of humanity -- that group with experience
being threatened or attacked by the United States -- is wrong. After all,
our government in the U.S. tells us it's *in favor* of peace. Even when it
bombs cities, it does it for peace. It's hard for people under the bombs to
see that. We in the U.S. have a better perspective.
3. Polls in the United States through the 2003-2011 war on Iraq found that
a majority in the U.S. believed Iraqis were better off as the result of a
war that severely damaged -- even *destroyed* -- Iraq[1]. A majority of
Iraqis, in contrast, believed they were worse off.[2] A majority in the
United States believed Iraqis were grateful.[3] This is a disagreement over
facts, not ideology. But people often choose which facts to become aware of
or to accept. Tenacious believers in tales of Iraqi "weapons of mass
destruction" tended to believe more, not less, firmly when shown the facts.
The facts about Iraq <http://warisacrime.org/iraq> are not pleasant, but
they are important. To believe that the people who live where your nation's
government has waged a war are better off for it, despite those people's
contention that they are worse off, suggests an extreme sort of arrogance
-- and a misplaced arrogance because you've just proven that a few slick
politicians can make you believe up is down.
4. According to U.S.ians the greatest threat to peace on earth is a nation
that hasn't threatened any other, and hasn't attacked any other in
centuries, a nation that suffered horrible chemical weapons attacks and
refused to use chemical weapons in response, a nation that has refused to
develop nuclear weapons but been falsely accused of doing so by the U.S.
government for decades. That's right: a bit of laughably bad propaganda,
regurgitated in variations for 30 years, and the smart critical thinkers of
the Land of the Free declare a nation with a military budget below 1% of
their own -- Iran -- the Greatest Threat to Peace.[4] Edward Bernays is
cackling wickedly in his grave.
5. Because no cartoon character has ever been named after Edward Bernays,
nobody's ever heard of him.
6. In poll after poll after poll, 75% to 85% in the United States say their
system of government is broken. Yet, what remains the top piece of advice
to agitators for change? That's right: "Work within the system." And what
remains the fallback ultimate reliable justification for launching or
escalating or continuing a war: That's right: "We need to bring our system
of government to others."
7. When U.S. military spending begins to inch below $1 trillion a year,
military-friendly journalists
declare<http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/how-the-defense-lobby-became-irrelevant-20140101>the
weapons lobby dead. When it begins to inch back slightly above $1
trillion a year, slightly less military-friendly journalists
declare<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/pentagon-budget-cuts_b_4533349.html>the
weapons profiteers alive but struggling. In both scenarios the level
of
spending remains roughly $1 trillion and the difference between the high
end and the low end, while greater than most other public programs will
ever see, is less than the Pentagon "misplaces" in an average 12-month
period.
8. On Tuesdays, President Barack Obama goes through a
list<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?_r=0>of
men, women, and children, picks which ones to have murdered, and has
them murdered. Knowing this would conflict with hating exclusively a
particular sub-group of our public sociopaths, so most people simply choose
not to know it.
9. If Iraq had really had those weapons, and if Syria had demonstrably
really killed a small number of its victims with the wrong type of weapons,
and if Iran were really building nuclear weapons, . . . then launching wars
on those countries would still be illegal, immoral, and disastrous. We all
have opinions about the question the warmakers want asked, but not about
the insanity that lies behind the question.
10. People have been dying since before recorded history, and yet only
those who pretend to believe nobody dies can be considered serious, honest,
upstanding folk. That there's another longer life helps us not worry so
much about getting screwed during this one. Perhaps it also helps us in
allowing our "representatives" to routinely end the lives of so many
foreign, and thus ignorant, people.
Footnotes:
1. The last such poll may have been Gallup in August 2010.
2. Zogby, Dec. 20, 2011.
3. The last such poll may have been CBS News in August 2010.
4. Check out Gareth Porter's forthcoming book, *Manufactured Crisis: The
Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare.*
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David Swanson's new book is *War No More: The Case for
Abolition*<http://davidswanson.org/warnomore>.
He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works
for http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation
Radio<http://davidswanson.org/taxonomy/term/41>.
Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson <http://twitter.com/davidcnswanson>and
FaceBook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Swanson/297768373319#>.
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