ht to John for bringing this to mindFollowing up on the thought-line of psychological operations that manipulate you into believing or participating in activities that are not really beneficial to you as an individual. These very same activities are not only harmful and/or damaging to your well being & health, but also damaging to the health, well being and stability of your family/community and the global community at large.As mentioned in the earlier post from today- FEMEN- War whore psyop- "stabs" wax PutinA psychological operation undertaken to demonize a targeted world leader. The sexualized stabbing by the bare breast psychofemen under the watchful eyes of her 'guardians' ,the leadership and participants of the global tyranny military states of NATOJohn mentioned the Torches of Freedom
johnJune 6, 2014 at 8:00 AMInteresting interview there. Who would have thought the CIA were so liberal? As you probably well know Penny, this sort of thing goes way back, reminding me of the "Torches of Freedom" campaign of the late 1920s designed to encourage women to take up smoking.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
Good article on this shameful manipulation that played on emotions to encourage women to compromise their health and the health of their families.Torches of Freedom- Women and Propaganda in the case of smoking cigarettes Edward Bernays (1891-1995) is largely considered the founder of public relations (or “engineering consent,” as he called it) but is not known very well outside of the marketing and advertising fields. A nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the first to theorize that people could be made to want things they don’t need by appealing to unconscious desires (to be free, to be successful etc.). Bernays, and propaganda theorist Walter Lippman, were members of the U.S. Government’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), which successfully convinced formally isolationist Americans to support entrance into World War I. While propaganda was commonly thought of as a negative way of manipulating the masses that should be avoided, Bernays believed that it was necessary for the functioning of a society, as otherwise people would be overwhelmed with too many choices. In his words:
Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group.
After WWI, Bernays was hired by the American Tobacco Company to encourage women to start smoking. While men smoked cigarettes, it was not publicly acceptable for women to smoke. Bernays staged a dramatic public display of women smoking during the Easter Day Parade in New York City. He then told the press to expect that women suffragists would light up “torches of freedom” during the parade to show they were equal to menAs if smoking is any kind of great equalizer?
“Cigarettes were a symbol of the penis and of male sexual power…Women would smoke because it was then that they’d have their own penises.”
A penis in a women's mouth- wow- Sexualized subservience to male genitalia as a symbol of power?Power for who?I'm free! Though I stink and my teeth are discoloured, but dammit I am free!The campaign was considered successful as sales to women increased afterward. Cigarette companies followed Bernays’s lead and created ad campaigns that targeted women. Lucky Brand Cigarettes capitalized on recent fashions for skinny women by telling women to “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet”: Cancer slims ya right down!Believe in yourself-smoke cigarettessmoke lots and smok'em allDon't think that society is any less manipulated today! By all appearances the manipulation is greater, constant and way more insidious as it has gained in sophistication and subtlety and mediums with which to manipulate
