Trump propaganda tactics- Learning from Goebbels

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Trump propaganda tactics- Learning from Goebbels

Postby Heaven Swan » Wed Nov 23, 2016 8:54 am

Excerpt from Quora thread: "Why is Melania Trump still sticking with Donald Trump" by Manuela Leal
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Melania-Trump-still-sticking-with-Donald-Trump/answer/Manuela-Leal
note:There is more plus many links to citations in the original thread

Appendix A: Learning from Goebbels

Goebbels’ famous words- “A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth”. are key here. Trump’s closest advisor is a quote-unquote white supremacist - I am not *saying this* - I read this in the “liberal media” #lockherup, which as you all know, is “full of lies” #buildthewall - y’all know they dig Hitler and shit.

Goebbels was a great guy, an excellent German. He was organized in everything, keeping immaculate records and writing coherent and persuasive sentences while killing millions of people including his own six children:

“On the evening of 1 May 1945, Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to inject his six children with morphine so that when they were unconscious, an ampule of cyanide could be then crushed in each of their mouths.

According to Kunz's later testimony, he gave the children morphine injections but it was Magda Goebbels and SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor, who administered the cyanide.”

He and his wife then killed themselves shortly thereafter.

This is the guy the president’s closest advisors have obviously read, extensively. And so have I.


And this is the guy we have to read up on, if we want to avoid the same fate happening to us, if not us, then our friends or co-workers. Reading Goebbels is key to understanding the skeletons of this dystopian present we are experiencing. He was the architect of hate speech in the Hitlerian regime and he spoke of it very clearly.

Understanding the mechanics and goals of hate speech help dispell it. Goebbels’ only gift to us, was his ability to distill his method clearly.

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” [see #lockherup #buildthewall - the use of catchy visual memes ]

“Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.”

“If you tell the same lie enough times, people will believe it; and the bigger the lie, the better.”
[ ok guys seriously: bullying people into believing that Ms. Trump is a genius is crossing the line. It’s straight SNL material right there. Even Goebbels would have been like “smh amateurs!”.]

“There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals…Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”

For an extended treatise on this subject, I recommend reading chapter 6 of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” where he goes on and on about War Propaganda.

On this chapter, Hitler describes propaganda’s spread of skillful lies and appeal to the “emotions”:

“The whole art consists in doing this so skillfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc. But since propaganda is not and cannot be the necessity in itself, since its function…consists in attracting the attention of the crowd, and not in educating those who are already educated or who are striving after education and knowledge, its effect for the most part must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect.”

On the need for propaganda to be adjusted for the “limited intelligence” of its audience:

“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be.”

There is no need to fear, reading it does not make you a Nazi. But in order to understand this behavior clearly it’s best to get to the source and study it as if you were a detached scientist observing the behavior of bacteria.

Not all people who post troll comments are self-conscious hate-mongers. But I would argue that Nazi speech IS the source of our contemporary trolling speech patterns, consciously or not. Therefore the “antidote” for hate speech must come from an in-depth understanding of the ideas, methods and speech patterns found at the source.

The strange and gripping paradox in the success of hate speech, is that throughout history, the so-called leaders have openly despised their followers. Hitler and Goebbels have WRITTEN it themselves, calling them dumb and primitive and yet, the spell of hatred as the end-all-be-all solution, remains unabated.

The simple genius of fascism goes undetected by the educated “elites” because it is purposely designed to evade the intellect. It functions by activating a magical-hate-meme that in the blink of an eye, will make all your problems disappear.

I am old enough to remember He-Man (a cartoon superhero with a Tyler Swift haircut). Skeletor is the BAD GUY. I mean He-Man’s and She-Ra’s life would be AMAZING if Skeletor were not around. Skeletor wants to destroy the world!!! HE-MAN!!! GET SKELETOR NOW!!!! Whose side are you on? Are you gonna side with Skeletor? WHAT KIND OF PERSON ARE YOU??!!! JESUS CHRIST YOU ARE INSANE CAN’T YOU SEE THAT SKELETOR WANTS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!ARE YOU TRYING TO DESTROY HUMANITY? ARE YOU BLIND!!! SKELETOR IS GONNA GET SHE-RA ANY MINUTE NOW!!!

It’s pretty simple. #1 define evil #2 go get it!!!! How? Root for HE MAN!!!!! HE MAN is the only one who can fight evil and win in the end!!! HE MAN HAS A MAGIC SWORD!!!

The follower’s fantasy, what he truly lives for, is for the eradication of the “evil” as presented by the Leader. The removal of the external-evil-target. THAT is exactly what the Leader presents. The removal of the pain point. THAT is why he is so powerful. So the memes presented by the leader are always related to the fulfillment of this eradication fantasy. Build The Wall, Hillary The Crook In Jail. The Liberal Media Lying about Lies. The Elites. Obama The Foreigner. The New York Times. If you only DARE get between the Leader and the meme YOU ARE JUST AS BAD AS SKELETOR HIMSELF!!! It really does not matter if the Leader is a member of the ACTUAL “Elite”. Because reason, logic, or basic math are not at play here. It’s all about having the *magical ability* to point to external- evil-targets that are “scary” and memes that are all-powerful and insta-pain-removers. How is anyone expected to believe you if you don’t have a magic sword??? GTFO!!!! Bad skin? Didn’t get a raise this year? Got ghosted on Tinder? Ran out of toilet paper? BUILD-A-WALL!!!!!

IT ONLY COSTS 10 BILLION TO BUILD A WALL BEFORE STAFFING COSTS, MAINTENANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND WE’RE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT THAT IS GONNA “CUT COSTS”. WHO YOU GONNA CALL?

GHOST BUSTERS!!!

The genius of this approach is making a tenuous connection appear solid, tangible and real. I am not disputing the problems that are real in peoples lives, such as the real opportunity gap, the lack of benefits and jobs that pay a lot lower than they once did. What I am saying is, the exploitation and “emotional connection” with the population happens outside of the problem-solution realm. It is achieved by exploiting magical thinking and presenting cartoon-like insta-solutions to the evil which is always entirely visible and right there in front of your face. How convenient! All you have to do it point to it.

(I had never written about this subject before and it all came out completely unexpectedly. Probably because I *do* speak 6 languages and have an analytical understanding of how sentences and meaning are constructed, I noticed the comments and their similarities as they popped up on here in response to the Melania marriage comment. I had never had much contact with hate speech or trolling so this was interesting to watch. Initially I would respond and get annoyed until I understood their patterns and structure, and connected it to what I understood from the Nazi regime. I am going to write a mini-guide in the next few days about how to identify and dismantle hate speech patterns, its causes and motivations).

Appendix B: What we can do:


Create memes that de-sensitize hate speech. Such as: repeating the most hateful hashtag terms in a different context, such as to cause the “primitive” mind, as Goebbels put it, to become confounded. (I will come back to this later with more examples).

“Primitives” -as Goebbels put it - act on instinct. As such they use derogatory terms in ways that are calculated to provoke fear and discomfort. It is not a coincidence. There is no coincidence.

We are educated to have empathy and as such we are the “intellectuals” that can’t be converted. However, when dealing with “Primitives”, we must get at the point that hurts them. Which is the fact that they are being used to achieve propaganda’s goals. Propaganda, according to Goebbels, is a means to an end. It is always calculated for effect.

Appendix C: Faith


Everyone has a God they call their own, or something larger than themselves to keep them going. Faith tests us in every corner. Others live by logic and that’s ok too of course, people should follow whatever path suits them.

I was not around in the days of Martin Luther King. But when I am having a hard day I think of all the people that had nothing, nothing but faith, who were slaves their parents had been slaves, and their churches were so simple they did not have instruments they had their voices and their hands and their feet and even when their churches were burned they kept going. And I think of how lucky I am that with all my mistakes and regrets I still get to walk down the street and sit at a coffee shop when so many people were denied that basic right for so long. That basic right came about when some people stood up for what they believed in. What does that even mean today? I am just a random person moving fingers aka TYPING on the internet. Big effin’ deal. All I can say is, you don’t get to write your mispelled BS hate speech on my answer and get away with it.

I know that Martin Luther King has not died in vain, and I know, the little that I know, that his dream is my dream too. And that faith casts out fear and that every religion has spoken of unity and light because that is the only way forward. Truth be told I was scared after the election. But thanks to trolls I felt compelled to respond and I was reminded of a few things and now I feel renewed and ready and full of energy.

read more (including Appendix D: Telegram from parents in the concentration camp) :
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Melania-Trump-still-sticking-with-Donald-Trump/answer/Manuela-Leal
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Re: Trump propaganda tactics- Learning from Goebbels

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:28 am

CNN’s Chyron wonders if Jews are People, inspired by Trumpist Neofascism
By Juan Cole | Nov. 22, 2016 |

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – –
Richard Spencer is a rock star of the Neofascist movement that hides behind the euphemism “alt-right.” (Since they’re always going on about how manly white people are, why don’t they man up and admit their Nazism? Why hide behind weak tea like a keyboard pun?).
Trump’s new Goebbels, Steve Bannon, had turned Breitbart.com, he said, into an organ of the “alt-right,” i.e. of Neofascism, and Richard Spencer is the leader of the movement Bannon/ Trump have empowered.
On Saturday the Neofascists met at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., and Spencer gave an unhinged rant– I mean, “speech”– during which he denounced the “Lügenpresse,” a toxic German word. The “lying press” or “mendacious press” is not just an attack on journalists in the tradition of the German far right wing. Everyone understood that the term was racialized. Pure Germans did not write lying newspaper articles. Only Jews and mongrel leftist inferior Germans would do such a thing. This connotation of the word was very deep and preceded the rise of the National Socialists. But it was especially used by the Nazis to deflect criticism. Who could dissent from the dynamic march of Nazism but the lying Jewish press?
“CNN: Alt-Right Founder Questions If Jews Are People”

Thus, during the Spanish civil war the German air squadron, the Condor Legion, was loaned to Gen. Francisco Franco by Hitler. It bombarded the Basque town of Guernica in April of 1937, dropping 3,000 incendiary bombs on it. News of the atrocity provoked the horror of the outside world.
Among those deeply touched by the piles of scattered body parts was Pablo Picasso, whose masterpiece on the subject in turn caught the global imagination.
guernica
In response, the Nazi propaganda machine swung into action. There was no massacre from the air of Guernica. It was an ancient archeological site that had long been rubble. Allegations to the contrary were, you guessed it, dismissed as the work of the jüdische Lügenpresse, the mendacious Jewish press.
Richard Spencer last Sunday said the word lovingly, with a broad mischievous smile, looking for all the world like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs after a hearty meal of human and fava beans, drawing out the umlaut on the “u” . . . Lü. . . ü . . . ügenpresse. He knew exactly the Nazi dog whistle he was blowing, knew that he was using a highly racialized term.
Spencer complained of the “mainstream press” and the army of social media commentators who predicted the outcome of the election incorrectly, adding, “One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless Golem.”
Right wing rags are defending Spencer, saying that he did not direct this last sentence at Jews. But of course he did. First of all, he had already identified the target of his ire as the Lügenpresse, which has heavy racial overtones– especially in the world of white supremacism in which Spencer operates. The second dog whistle is his use of the word golem, which derives from a Jewish fable about clay that is brought to life by magic. Then there were his hysterical shouts of Heil! at the end of his speech, which rather give the show away.
Spencer went on to say that the present United States had become “a sick, corrupted society.” He alleged, “America was, until this last generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity . . . It is our creation, it is our inheritance and it belongs to us.” I somehow don’t think Spencer includes Arabs and Jews in the category of “white.” You even suspect you have a good idea who exactly he thinks corrupted American society.
Act two of this sordid tale, which deeply implicates Steve Bannon and Donald J. Trump, came on Monday on CNN when reporter Jim Sciutto asked a panel about Spencer’s speech, describing it as “hate-filled garbage against the Jews.”
Contemporary cable television news services have contracted with the Chyron company, which provides software that electronically generates captions in the bottom third of the screen as interviews are proceeding . These captions are called “chyrons” in the business.
Unfortunately, the robot script went very badly awry, when it operated on Spencer’s National Socialist screed, throwing up the caption “Alt-Right Leader questions whether Jews are People.”
Jewish viewers, who were under the firm impression that their membership in homo sapiens sapiens was uncontroversial, were shocked and horrified that this question was being posed on the small screen in bright letters, as were we other bona fide members of that genus and species. Maybe the Neanderthals of the Neofascist movement not so much.
I fear the condemnations issued by hard right pro-Netanyahu Jewish groups of Spencer’s ugly discourse will not carry much moral weight. They have squandered their credibility by crying “Antisemite” at people who care whether Palestinians are stateless, and by aligning with a Republican Party that has had its lips glued to the dog whistle for some decades. That Israeli cabinet members have stood up for Trump and Bannon further debases their coin. American Jews deserve to be represented by decent organizations who care as much about Palestinian rights as they do about those of Jews.
What happened was not Jim Sciutto’s fault– he was obviously deeply appalled by Spencer’s remarks. He was filling in for Jake Tapper, who is Jewish, so the awkwardness is, like, multidimensional. It was the gaffe of a robot, and of television producers who had automated chyron-generation.
But I’d like to point that this misstep of the chyron bot is simply symptomatic for CNN in its 2-year-long coverage of the presidential campaign. It almost nightly turned the airwaves over to Trump bloviating at his rallies and saying racist things. Moreover, its reporters have rushed to normalize Trumpism. The disgust and discomfort we all felt at seeing the Nazi chyron is not a new emotion. We had felt it when Mexicans were being excoriated as rapists and all Muslims as dangerous, and women were configured as undressed Barbie Dolls whose limbs and genitals are available for twisting.
The Nazi chyron, in short, is the perfect symbol of the complete pusillanimity and complicity of the corporate media in the dark side of the Trump phenomenon, which Steve Bannon has admitted has more in common with the planet-destroying Darth Vader than with George Washington and James Madison.
http://www.juancole.com/2016/11/inspire ... scism.html



Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By contributors | Nov. 23, 2016 |

By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – –
You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong.
The past few days have witnessed a bizarre pile-up of prominent Israel-supporters going out of their way to defend or excuse what seem to be obviously anti-Semitic views voiced by Steve Bannon, internal strategist for the incoming Trump administration, and his media website, Breitbart News.
Bannon is the former head of Breitbart, an alt-right media website widely considered to be a platform for white nationalism. It is a site wherein one can easily stumble across the familiar refrains of anti-Semitism in both its articles and, even more so, in its sprawling comments sections. To take only example, in the comments section on David Horowitz’s article, “Bill Kristol: Republican Spoiler, Renegade Jew,” we learn that Breitbart readers believe that the Jews run Hollywood, control the media, and care more about their “race” than their country.
Unmoved, however, is Alan Dershowitz, prominent and vehement defender of Israel, who said in an interview with Breitbart News that we have to be “very careful about using the term anti-Semitic.”
Meanwhile, Morton Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, got in a tiff with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over Bannon and Breitbart. The ADL, which bills itself as a civil rights organization, originally condemned the appointment of Bannon as an endorsement of the anti-Semitic alt-right. Klein, however, publicly attacked the ADL, arguing that both Bannon and Breitbart’s support for Israel is unimpeachable, citing the opening of a Breitbart office in Jerusalem. The ADL backed down, and now says there is no credible evidence that either Bannon or Breitbart are anti-Semitic.
Now, it’s true that Bannon’s remarks about not wanting his kids to go to school with Jews were taken from his divorce proceedings, and people say a lot of things they later regret when going through divorce. It’s also true that the comments section of news and media sites are by far the worst places to look if you’re interested in illuminating insight.
However, the fact is that folks like Dershowitz, Klein, and the ADL are not really all that shy about throwing around accusations of anti-Semitism. In fact, it is what they are perhaps most famous for.
It’s just that they only get worked up about anti-Semitism and accuse people of it when they are talking about critics of Israel. Whether it is former president Jimmy Carter, members of the international non-violent Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, or Black Lives Matter, in every case, the only folks who merit the label “anti-Semitic” in these Israel-defenders’ views are those who are critical of Israel. If one accuses Jews of running Hollywood, well…that’s apparently a tougher call.
Proponents of Zionism have spent decades trying to inculcate a popular conflation between the state of Israel and Jews. Recognizing no distinction between Jewish people and the Jewish state, Zionists have argued that criticism of Israel is by definition anti-Semitic. This is very much the view of many of Breitbart’s authors.
Of course, this is flawed logic — there is a clear difference between membership in an ethno-religious group and support for the laws and policies of a nation-state.
More importantly, however, it is a disingenuous strategy by which Zionists have (until recently, anyway) been able to silence criticism of Israel by labeling it racism or hate speech.
In other words, perhaps it is not so surprising that ardent Zionists are defending the likes of Bannon and Breitbart. Maybe, just maybe, Zionism and anti-Semitism are more compatible than Zionists have thus far led us (or wanted us) to believe.
From its very beginnings, the Zionist project was a settler colonial project aimed at dispossessing the native Palestinian population. David Ben Gurion, Israel’s founder and first Prime Minister, forthrightly admitted the necessity of population “transfer” in order to establish the state. Theodore Herzl famously foresaw a Jewish state in the land of Palestine as “wall of Europe against Asia” that would serve as “the outpost of civilization against barbarism.”
If that sounds like racism and ethnic cleansing to you, you aren’t too far off the mark. And if that vision of Israel as a “wall” of white civilization against the barbarians rang any bells, it might be because you just sat through the same rhetoric in the recent presidential election.
What the insincere antics of Dershowitz, Klein, and the ADL make clear is that commitment to Israel is in fact perfectly compatible with a hatred of Jews. These Zionists’ accusations of anti-Semitism are used to silence criticism of Israel and political dissent, not to oppose racism. If they were actually concerned with anti-Jewish racism, they would be raising hell about the appointment of Bannon, as hundreds of Jewish scholars of Holocaust history recently have in their demand that Americans “mobilize in solidarity” against Trump.
Yet even the Holocaust, so frequently invoked by Zionist fearmongers when warning against the latest ostensible Muslim or Arab or “terrorist” threat, is notably absent from Zionists’ words with regard to Trump or Bannon. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has spent his career characterizing negotiations with Palestinians as Nazi appeasement, called Trump “a great friend of Israel.” That’s because Trump wants to recognize Jerusalem — half of which remains under illegal Israeli occupation — as “the undivided capital of the State of Israel.”
Much has been made of the parallels between the UK Brexit vote and the US election of Donald Trump. But perhaps another parallel is in order: the parallel between the white nationalist project of Bannon, Breitbart, and Trump, and that of the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Both demand building walls, colonizing natives, keeping out refugees, and screening Muslims. Indeed, Herzl’s optimistic forecast of Israel as an outpost of European civilization amidst a sea of Arab barbarism may simply have been more nostalgically and pithily summed by our president-elect himself in his victorious demand to “Make America Great Again.”
The views expressed in this article are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect Ma’an News Agency’s and Informed Comment’s editorial policy.
Heike Schotten is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a member of the organizing collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
http://www.juancole.com/2016/11/analysi ... itism.html


GRAYZONE PROJECT
At Lavish New York Gala, the Jewish Right-Wing Rises to Defend Alt-Right Godfather Steve Bannon
Right-wing Jews and Israeli ministers celebrated Bannon and the Trump era.

By Dan Cohen / AlterNet November 22, 2016
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Alan Dershowitz rises in defense of Bannon and bashes Black Lives Matter at the ZOA gala.
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The rise of Donald Trump has elevated white nationalism to the forefront of American politics, but neo-Nazi-oriented groups are not the only ones feeling empowered by his election. On Sunday night at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City, the Zionist Organization of America hosted its largest gala since its inaugural dinner in 1897. Scheduled to attend was Steve Bannon, the former Breitbart News head whom Trump named as his chief White House strategist.

Since taking over Trump’s campaign last Summer, Bannon has faced sustained charges of anti-Semitism. He has boasted that Breitbart is “the platform for the alt-right,” a loose collection of open white nationalists, men’s rights advocates and anti-Muslim fanatics joined together in support of an all-white ethno-state. Richard Spencer, the white nationalist posterboy who coined the term “alt-right,” recently concluded a speech by roaring, “Hail Trump!” while several crowd members leapt to their feet and joined him in delivering Nazi sieg heil salutes.

Outside the ZOA gala, hundreds of protesters gathered to protest Bannon’s appearance. Organized by progressive Jewish groups like IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, the crowd chanted “Say it loud, say it clear, Nazis are not welcome here!” and sang the traditional Jewish hymn Hine Ma Tov (“Behold how good and nice if brothers could sit together in unity”).

Under police protection, some of the bigwigs of right-wing pro-Israel politics filed into the event. They included Israel’s far-right education minister Naftali Bennett; Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, a top funder of Trump and right-wing pro-Israel causes; the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, who has declared his support for annexing the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank; Republican Rep. Ed Royce; and philanthropist Ken Langone.

The dividing lines were clearly drawn around this gala. Outside were progressive Jews of all stripes: liberal Zionists, anti-Zionists, and those in between, all united against the domestic threat of extreme right-wing Islamophobes, anti-Semites and white nationalists gathered under Trump’s banner. Inside were the Jewish Republicans who consider unfailing support for Israel’s Likud-led government and the illegal settlement enterprise to be the ultimate measure of Jewishness. As long as Trump was willing to bend to Netanyahu’s will at every opportunity, ZOA would support him and his appointees, even those who have knowingly cultivated an online home for fascist Judeophobes. Given that ZOA was wholly dependent on the generosity of right-wing casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, also a key funder of Trump, the relationship was a natural one.

As the gala got underway, news gradually spread that Bannon, the man of the hour with an air of white power, would not attend. The mood in the VIP room turned against him.

“After all that, the f*cker didn’t even come!” event planner Rachel Glazer seethed to me as she exited the VIP room. I asked her half-jokingly if she thought Bannon’s non-appearance made him an anti-Semite.

“Probably. I believed that before,” she said before backtracking. “He’s not an anti-Semite...” she said. “I think he’s anti-women, anti-gay, and anti-African-American.”

Her statement belied ZOA’s official line on Bannon. “If there was a hint of anti-Semitism with this guy, I’d be all over him,” ZOA president Morton Klein told me. “Believe me, I’m a child of Holocaust survivors.”

Inside the main event, the disappointment over Bannon’s absence was overshadowed by the excitement of Trump’s election, as a who’s who of right-wing Zionists took the podium in front of 1,200 attendees. Following a performance of the Star Spangled Banner by Yeshiva University's a capella group the Y Studs and a video of Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva, the event host earned applause when he claimed Trump’s victory was by the “hand of god” and “Divinely directed.”
Despite the Bannon no-show, Morton Klein pledged to defend far-right gentiles on the condition that they are Zionists. “We will defend non-Jewish Zionists who are routinely attacked by other Jewish groups as anti-Semitic,” he railed, before launching into a fanatical and ahistorical tirade dripping with Islamophobia. “It is a propaganda myth that Jerusalem is holy to Muslims,” he shouted to the eager crowd as they sipped white wine and ate salmon. Klein went on to invoke Israel’s apocalyptic right-wing Temple Movement. “It’s not called the mosque movement!”

After reciting Bob Dylan’s ode to Zionism, "The Neighborhood Bully," Klein assured the audience, “We in this room and the Jewish people in Israel are right, and the whole world is completely and totally wrong!”

Israeli education minister Naftali Bennett claimed his birthright to all of historic Palestine. “Not a foreign land did we conquer,” he recited, quoting the Hashmonean Dynasty-era rebel Simon Maccabeus, “but what we did was return our parent’s estate.” Bennett later admitted his parents are from the San Francisco Bay Area.

While paranoia about left-wing and Islamic threats was plentiful at the ZOA banquet, irony was in short supply. When he approached the dais, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz launched into a stemwinder warning about the rise of European far-right figures like Marine le Pen and Geert Wilders, then hammered what he called the shift to the “hard left” of universities and the Democratic National Committee. Suddenly, he veered off into an attack on the Black Lives Matter movement: “It was very hard for me to come out against Black Lives Matter,” he explained. “But as soon as I saw they put in their platform an accusation against only one country—the nation-state of the Jewish people—and accused them of genocide and being an apartheid country, I totally severed all relations with Black Lives Matter.”

This was met with gales of applause from people who had come to celebrate the far-right operative who had streamlined Breitbart News into a full-time anti-black activism attack machine.

'Treason will not go unpunished'

As Dershowitz concluded, I left the ZOA gala and hurried seven blocks up Lexington Avenue to the Marriott Hotel. Inside, a few dozen people gathered to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the assassination of Meir Kahane, the Brooklyn-born rabbi who organized squads of Jewish Defense League thugs against black New York City youth and Arab activists before winning election to Israel’s parliament on a platform of ethnically cleansing all indigenous Palestinians from within Israeli-controlled borders.

Though attendees at this event reflected a much smaller, more ideologically extreme subset of pro-Israel activists, the rhetoric was strikingly similar to that at ZOA’s $700-per-plate gala. Jonathan Stern, a New York-born former Israeli soldier who runs a combat training camp in Pennsylvania implored Jews to arm themselves against “Muslims and Black Lies Matters thugs.”
“Rabbi Kahane used to say, Every Jew a 22," Stern said. “Personally, I prefer a more powerful caliber such as 9 millimeter or a 45, but his message still rings true.”

Most of those who had come to honor Kahane were elderly Jews, remnants of the now defunct Jewish Defense League Kahane founded in 1968 before he left for Israel. Among them was Yaniv Baron, a Kahanist activist who agitated against other Jews using harder and more direct rhetoric than Morton Klein had just an hour before.

“The Jewish traitors of J Street, the ADL and even the Jewish Federations who help fund radical left-wing anti-Semitic groups such as B’Tselem, Jews for Justice in Palestine and Peace Now, should know that treason will not go unpunished,” Baron said. “Everything has a price and god will see to that punishment.”

Before I arrived, the Kahanists had played a pre-recorded video greeting from Yehudah Glick, the public face of the Temple Movement who became a member of Israel’s parliament earlier this year, and whom the Israeli police described as the most dangerous man in the Middle East. Just moments before, I had listened to ZOA president Morton Klein celebrate Glick’s apocalyptic organization before a crowd of hundreds.

As the event concluded, the Kahanists recited the mourner’s prayer for the late rabbi, followed by the night’s second rendition of the Israeli national anthem. Blocks away, police had dispersed the largely Jewish crowd of nearly 1000 chanting its lungs out against Bannon outside the ZOA gala. Trump is not yet president, but he has already brought simmering Jewish divisions to the fore and out into the streets.http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-projec ... ther-steve
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Re: Trump propaganda tactics- Learning from Goebbels

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:53 pm

DECEMBER 9, 2016
American Nazis and the Fight for US History
by ERIN MCCARLEY


“Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” Richard B. Spencer yelled in front of more than 200 attendees at his annual conference on November 19th, in the nation’s capitol. Several of his supporters then raised their right arms to give the Nazi salute. This video, taken by a reporter for The Atlantic, features Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white-nationalist think-tank in Washington D.C. Spencer is known for having created the term “alt-right.” He is also known for advocating for “a peaceful ethnic cleansing” of the United States.

“America was, until this past generation, a white country designed for ourselves and for our posterity. It is our creation. It is our inheritance. And it belongs to us,” Spencer declared during his speech.

When I first watched Richard Spencer at his NPI annual conference, like many, I was horrified by Spencer’s intentional references to Nazi language, imagery and ideology. In this political moment, as President-Elect Trump appoints to his cabinet, a crew of known white supremacists: Stephen Bannon as Chief Strategist; Jeff Sessions (Attorney General); and Michael Flynn (National Security Adviser), Spencer’s Neo-Nazi D.C. conference takes on a whole new, chilling power—not of a fringe, right-wing hate group, but of a mainstream, right-wing hate group.

After absorbing the initial shock of his fascist message, what disturbed me next about Spencer’s speech caught me somewhat off guard. The philosophy he was espousing didn’t sound totally foreign. In fact, something about it felt sickeningly familiar, like a relic from childhood.

I grew up in one of the most right-wing states in the country: Oklahoma. Formerly Indian Territory, Oklahoma was first created by the US government as an official dumping grounds for indigenous nations that were standing in the way of “white progress.” Under the doctrines of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny, the US government removed at gunpoint, dozens of indigenous nations from all over North America. They were sent in death marches, on foot and by boat, to Indian Territory, an area the US government viewed as a wasteland, a place where no one should survive. US Explorer Stephen Long referred to this area as the “Great American Desert.”

In total, 64 nations were forcibly removed to Indian Territory between 1831-1878. After the Removals, these nations, having survived near genocide, then endured POW camps, rotten food rations, smallpox, massacres, multiple invasions, multiple land sequestrations, the Boarding School era, the Dawes Act, the Allotment era, the Curtis Act, the Land Run era, commercial oil discoveries on their lands, and finally, the complete annihilation of reservation land that remained, when Oklahoma became a state. The fact that many of these tribal nations are still here today, after all of this history, is an incredible testament to their strength, determination, spirituality and cultural resilience. These nations have been decimated since European settlers set sight on their lands over 500 years ago. And Oklahoma Native tribes have continued to survive and thrive, no thanks to the US government, who broke every single one of the more than 500 treaties it made with sovereign nations.

Today, the Oklahoma tourism industry brags about the fact that Oklahoma is currently home 39 federally recognized tribes. But how those 39 tribes got to Oklahoma is still a giant mystery for many non-Native Oklahomans, whose public school textbooks were ethnically cleansed of non-white histories a few generations ago.

Instead, the state history we were taught as kids was much more in line with the Doctrine of Discovery, Oklahoma style. We were taught that white settlers “discovered” vast open prairies when they came to settle this (presumably) uninhabited area in the late 1800s. These vacant lands were then “opened up” for (white) settlement in a series of Land Runs and Land Lotteries, which schoolchildren in Oklahoma still proudly re-enact to this day, during Western Heritage Week. The US government was giving away “free land,” our teachers said. People traveled from all over the country to grab 160 acres and “stake their claim.” We were never taught, as kids, that this land was somebody else’s. We were never taught that this land was treaty-protected Indian Territory. Nor were we taught the concept of “settler colonialism,” a distinct type of imperialism practiced in many parts of the world, where settler societies invade and replace indigenous populations.

No, we didn’t learn any of this. Instead, we were taught to embody, celebrate and emulate a “white cultural mythology” designed to elevate European colonial history above all other histories. This narrative–based on Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion, and the Doctrine of Discovery–placed European Americans at the very center of every story, as the primary actors, agents, and engines of Western civilization, development and progress. If any non-white histories were presented at all, they were peripheral to European history and not explored in any depth.

Our public education therefore served its primary function of patriotic indoctrination, creating an inflated sense of self-importance about European American history and white culture. For young white students, US history was served up as a myopic, self-congratulating, historical fantasy.

Without any kind of outside interference, I believe this one-sided view of history, projected some 10 or 15 years out, could easily manifest itself into a deeply-rooted sense of white superiority– a cultural mythology that goes something like this:

“America was, until this past generation, a white country designed for ourselves and for our posterity. It is our creation. It is our inheritance. And it belongs to us.”

These are, again, the words of Herbert Spencer– the white supremacist, Nazi-saluting president of the National Policy Institute, and poster child for the “alt-right” movement. The fact that I recognize his origin story as the same one I was taught at a young age, is a fact that I find terrifying.

Spencer’s rhetoric, unfortunately, is not (just) the lunatic ravings of a sociopathic madman. No, this is a man who believes he has integrity, a man who bases his (fascist) conclusions on a core set of values and beliefs that he has likely embraced throughout his life, beliefs that have been supported in some large way by his community, his education, and his culture, without any major interruption. His rhetoric is also the logical result of a US history narrative that has, for generations, boldly lied about how this country was formed.

Had we all been taught in public schools that our country was founded on genocide (which is ongoing), and built on slavery (which is still legal in some states), as US schoolchildren, we might have evolved very differently, with a much more humble and critical perspective on our nation’s history of white supremacist violence, and a realistic vision for a more peaceful and just future–starting with a national truth and reconciliation process.

Imagine the possibilities for national healing, if most Americans could agree on some universal truths about our nation’s origin story—a story that recognizes the many atrocities of its founding; a story that embraces at its core human rights for all people: indigenous peoples, Africans, poor people, and immigrants from every nationality, every faith/religion, from all over the world.

This kind of democratic history education is perhaps most famously demonstrated by Howard Zinn in his seminal work, A People’s History of the United States. If a history book like this were required reading in US public schools, it would have a profound national impact. For example, it would render absolutely false any cultural narratives about white people’s entitlement to land and its fortunes. And the racist notion of all non-whites as “foreigners” and “illegal immigrants” would also be unlikely, given that we would have a shared understanding of the many thriving, non-European societies that were productively living on this continent long before Columbus, and long before US boundaries were ever formed.

There are international educational models that can guide us in an effort to address the atrocities of our nation’s history. Germany, for example, has made great strides in integrating holocaust history into its national curriculum. South Africa created, in 2000, an Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), with came out of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Process. The IJR “works with education officials and teachers, exploring two aspects – the impact of the past on teaching and teachers, as well as on how to teach a challenging ‘past’ in classrooms.” The US could learn a lot from these efforts. But without this kind of national process, we will continue to live in a country with extreme political factionalism and ideological polarization.

Furthermore, with a rapidly changing US demographic that will soon place European Americans in the minority population, the emerging fear for many white supremacists of losing racial power and privilege is already manifesting itself in a violent death grip. “A dying mule always kicks the hardest,” and so we see that white supremacist ideology is on the rise. We cannot censor Breitbart news, Fox news, and the National Policy Institute, but we can insist on dismantling white supremacist history. And we must.

In this moment, there’s little support for progressive history education on a national level. Even under Democratic administrations, the United States has long lacked the political will to institute a national Truth and Reconciliation Process for genocide or slavery. It has failed to acknowledge, let alone apologize, for these atrocities. And given the current direction of an incoming Trump administration, this kind of national healing is not even on the horizon.

And so we must take these fights to state and local levels. Our work is cut out for us. And one thing is painfully clear: Until we stop teaching history through a lens of white supremacy, Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and white supremacists like Richard Spencer will have a socially-sanctioned platform for a kind of fascism that should never be possible in a country that would dare to call itself a democracy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/09/ ... s-history/



poor Germany ..just not enough Nazi for Breitbart anymore

German Companies Pull Ads From Breitbart
By: Zero Hedge | Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:08 am EST

While the WaPo admitted, two weeks after its infamous hit piece on "fringe media" which it labelled as "Russian propaganda fake news", that its entire article was based on reporting that was wrong, the adverse consequences are piling up for the sites named in the list, among which the popular conservative hangout Breitbart. German carmaker BMW, the restaurant chain Vapiano, supermarket chain Rewe, and Deutsche Telekom have all pulled their ads from the pro-Trump news site due to concerns about its content, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.


"The positions held by Breitbart.com contrast with Vapiano's values, such as openness and tolerance," said the restaurant chain offering Italian food across Europe and the US.


Deutsche Telekom is also present on the American market through its subsidiary T-mobile, the third-largest wireless carrier in the US. Replying to a DW inquiry, Deutsche Telekom said they "very much regret" that their ads appeared on Breitbart, which according to Deutsche Welle "is often branded a far-right hate site."


The company "does not tolerate discriminatory actions or statements in any way," a representative for the company said. "We reacted immediately, taken the ads off and put the site on a blacklist," they told DW.


The move by German corporations coincides with Twitter campaigns that pressure companies to cut off ad revenue to far-right outlets - the Stop Funding Hate in the UK and the Kein Geld Für Rechts (No Money for the Right) in Germany. It follows a similar decision last week, when as we reported before US cereal company Kellogg's also pulled its ads from Breitbart, saying that its "values" were not aligned with those propagated on the website.


Breitbart, whose former executive chairman is currently Obama's right hand man Steve Bannon, responded with a slew of anti-Kellogg's articles, decrying the cereal company as "far-left" and calling for a boycott of its products.


The "left-wing causes and projects" backed by Kellogg's included Save the Children Fund, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the World Wildlife Fund, according to information presented on the site.


While it is unclear how the spat between advertisers and content providers will be resolved, and if it will ultimately see the involvement of Donald Trump as an "arbiter", it is becoming increasingly clear that the push to starve any website that opposes mainstream media ideology has only just begun.
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German Advertisers pull ads from Breitbart, having seen this Picture
By contributors | Dec. 9, 2016 |

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The decision to drop advertising from the far-right mouthpiece came on the back of a “No Money for The Right” campaign.
German companies are the latest to pull their advertising from website Breitbart, whose former director, Steve Bannon, is now President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist. The companies, including car manufacturer BMW, are concerned that the website — known as a mouthpiece for Trump’s campaign and anti-immigrant rhetoric — is promoting racism and white nationalism.
BMW, Deutsche Telekom, supermarket franchise Rewe and the European-wide restaurant chain Vapiano have all pulled their advertising and distanced themselves from the controversial website, which recently ran headlines such as “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer” and “Hoist It High And Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims A Glorious Heritage.”
The withdrawal from the companies comes after a social media campaign kicked off in Germany with the hashtag #KeinGeldFuerRechts, meaning “No Money for The Right.” A similar campaign, #StopFundingHate, has been used against the hate campaigns of British outlets the Sun, Daily Mail and Daily Express.
Deutsche Telekom said that executives “very much regret” their association with the far-right outlet, commenting that company “does not tolerate discriminatory actions or statements in any way,” a representative told AFP.
Similarly, the major restaurant chain to pull its ads said, ” The positions held by Breitbart.com contrast with Vapiano’s values, such as openness and tolerance.”
Other companies including Kellogg’s and one of the world’s largest advertising agencies, AppNexus, have also pulled their advertising from the website.
Breitbart already operates a website out of London and is reportedly planning to open up in Germany and France, which will be holding elections next year.
Across Europe, there is growing support for far-right candidates who are aiming for Trump-like victories in what has been dubbed the “post-truth” era of politics.
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen called Thursday for cuts to free education for foreign children. “Today the United States, tomorrow France,” she said following Trump’s shock presidential win.
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Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
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