Keyword Hijacking

[nomorefascizm]

Hello all,<br><br>My year (or so) of lurking on rigint has ended. I never intended to post, but what the hell. The NSA can probe my anus in so many ways what does it matter if I stick my IP address out in the public?<br><br>I finally am compelled to post concerning all the bitching and misunderstanding regarding keyword hijacking.<br><br>For heaven's sake STOP ALL YOUR DAMN BITCHING! Some of you have all appearance of a bunch of old ladies with bad hearing. <br><br>As I've lurked many of your board names are familiar and I've come to respect many of the opinions of posters on this board. Some of you have done your research! Others may be enthusiastic about truth and justice, but need to bone up a bit on certain topics.<br><br>Hugh Manatee Wins ( I would really like to know what the heck that name refers to ) has been lambasted lately by some of you for his postings on keyword hijacking. <br><br>Hugh is right!<br><br>While Hugh is sometimes a bit liberal in his broad brush strokes about disinfo and how sophisticated the media is, he hits the nail on the head more than many of you realize. I know a bit about the media as my career has been rooted in the MSM for many years. I make it my living to study how the web works and how search engines function. I have learned how to successfully manipulate search engines to bring desired results regarding "words." <br><br>Hugh is onto much much more than some of you give him credit for. Quick example of one of the most famous keyword hijackings for you boy scouts:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=santorum&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">www.google.com/search?cli...8&oe=UTF-8</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>That url is what I got back from doing a search for "santorum"<br><br>Ever heard of Santorum? His name was hijacked a few years back. A rather humorous and highly ironic twist as he is a big basher of gays. Do the search and you'll see just how funny it all is. I'm sure the senator is still livid about how his name is associated with leftovers from sex. <br><br>Also, I've seen similar trends in the media that Hugh has regarding how certain stories and topics are timed. You really need to spend time looking for patterns, but there are A LOT of unusual things that happen in the media that about 99% of most people NEVER realize because they don't know what to look for, or they have no interest or both.<br><br>All of you, if you don't work in the media, you have no frackkin' idea how dumb and lazy newsrooms and editors can be. Most are following the pack. Most take for granted what spews across the Associated Press network is true. "Well, golly gee. I heard the same story on CNN, it must be true. Isn't it?" I'm being sarcastic but that mentality is most dominant. <br><br>However, there are some in the media who obviously know the game and are part of it. Some are easy to name, and all of them are very very well connected. Woodward is one of the most obvious. These few, with the unseen hand of many others in intellignce services, foundations, corporations etc.....shape and guide stories and topics. Not all the time, but many times. There are still those wild things that happend they can't control.<br><br>Well, I've rambled enough. Stick together you guys! For crying out loud, there are so very very few of us out there who are willing to discuss these topics. Jeff is a real gem for doing what he does, and most of you are really interesting folks who must have a decent sense of reality, or you wouldn't be on this board. Well, except for the pussies who work for the gov't who are paid to read this stuff but are too stupid or greedy to see the error of their ways.<br><br>Stop all the damn bickering, do a bit of your own research, and please be kind to your fellows who seek the truth.<br><br>Yours Truly,<br><br>Sparky <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Stop all the damn bickering, do a bit of your own research, and please be kind to your fellows who seek the truth.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Our problem is that two words on the internet which are the same is not evidence of anything. We will welcome your research into examples where you can tell us that some media figure inserted a particular word into the culture in order to take away from a second meaning of that word. <br><br>I think everyone here accepts that the media is lazy...but that's not proof of keyword hijacking.<br><br>I think most of us accept that there's a great deal of misinfo and propaganda in the media, but that's not evidence of keyword hijacking.<br><br>What we have invited Hugh and now you to do is "do your own research" and show us one case where there is some evidence that it was deliberate. Hugh's last example was "Mockingbird." "To Kill a Mockingbird" is one of the most assigned novels in grade school and has been since I was in grade school 25 years ago. So naturally, it shows up on the internet a lot. Meanwhile, a search on "mockingbird and CIA" still returns lots of hits. <br><br>The trick would to be to find some case like this and then some evidence that it was intentional or even statistically unlikely. <br><br>So since you have called us whiners and told us to do our own research, we look forward to seeing yours. Which, oddly, you happened to leave out of this post. <p></p><i></i>

[starroute]

I've been skeptical of some claims of keyword hijacking here, but recently one hit me in the face hard enough to cause a bloody nose -- and has me convinced that the process goes far deeper than mere web searching:<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Ground Zero</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Here's the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero">wikipedia definition</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->:<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Ground zero is the exact location on the ground where any explosion occurs. The term has often been associated with nuclear explosions, but is also used in relation to earthquakes, epidemics and other disasters to mark the point of the most severe damage or destruction. Damage gradually decreases with distance from this point.<br><br>The term may also be used to describe the impact point of any exploding bomb. In the case of a bomb which explodes above ground, the term refers to the point on the ground directly below the bomb at the moment of detonation (see hypocenter).<br><br>The term was military slang�used at the Trinity site where the weapon tower for the first nuclear weapon was at point 'zero'�and moved into general use very shortly after the end of World War II (see Manhattan Project).<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>So somehow a term formerly used to refer to the impact point of an atomic blast -- and most specifically that at Hiroshima -- has gotten hijacked to refer instead to a situation where there was no impact, no epicenter and no ring of gradually decreasing damage. In fact, the new meaning has almost nothing in common with the original meaning except a mental image of buildings reduced to rubble.<br><br>In the process, the original complex of meanings implicit in the phrase -- most notably, the fact that the United States is the only nation ever to have used atomic weapons on another -- got transmuted into one which enables the US to think of itself as the great victim rather than the great aggressor.<br><br>In fact, what might seem like a major semantic glitch -- that there is no visible ring of damage around this "epicenter" makes it possible to imply that the entire country lies within a metaphorical ring of damage.<br><br>I just did a little googling to try to find the point of origin of this hijacking, but without luck. I did come up with an <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=8&mod">excellent article</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> that discusses this same inversion of meaning I've been talking about -- and thoroughly deconstructs the "good war" meme of World War II in the process -- but even it merely says, "Within days of the September attacks, the topos 'ground zero' was being used in every kind of discourse, popular and official, to refer to the site of the destroyed World Trade Center complex in Manhattan. Whoever first used the term in this new context, its appropriation and dissemination by mainstream corporate media was astonishingly rapid."<br><br>And that "astonishingly rapid" dissemination in itself is well worth thinking about.<br><br><br>On edit: A check of Google Groups indicates that the phrase was being used by 11:19 am on the morning of 9/11:<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.artists.springsteen/browse_thread/thread/172511b5ec0a22fa/17b81759691e3d45?lnk=st&q=*+ground+zero&rnum=3&hl=en#17b81759691e3d45">Here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/6ee25a503eff05ac/6999ebf5583cc717?lnk=st&q=*+ground+zero&rnum=126&hl=en#6999ebf5583cc717">Or here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=starroute>starroute</A> at: 10/4/06 9:10 am<br></i>

[MASONIC PLOT]

The patterns are very easy to see in the media. We get two weeks straight of planes with landing gear problems landing on one tire, two weeks of terror videos, two weeks of school shootings, two weeks of child abductions, two weeks of mines collapsing on miners, each two week interval followed by the congress passing some sort of legislation designed to take away our freedom on one level or another. Its painfully obvious how these freaks operate. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=masonicplot>MASONIC PLOT</A> at: 10/4/06 8:54 am<br></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Excellent example of redefining historical terms to make the US the victim instead of the aggressor.<br><br>The civil rights song <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'We Shall Overcome' was also used by the TV networks after 9/11.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Instead of US racism and police dogs in Birmingham, bin Laden became what we had to overcome.<br><br>That song was also used after Katrina with Bruce Springsteen picking up that ball. Different meaning to black and white peace and justice Americans and GOP/Fox TV viewers tsk-tsk-ing over physical hurricane damage.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[kermujin]

MP, you said this:<br>"The patterns are very easy to see in the media. We get two weeks straight of planes with landing gear problems landing on one tire, two weeks of terror videos, two weeks of school shootings, two weeks of child abductions, two weeks of mines collapsing on miners,..."<br><br>and IIRC, you mentioned the same thing yesterday (or at least in a thread I read yesterday). For some reason, this stuck with me, and as I mulled it over, much to my shock, someone (I think!) utterly unrelated to this board came up with the same theory in a discussion last night.<br>Either all of us are flexing our pattern-recognition muscles at the same time, or someone out there is getting into a lazy rut!<br>- kermujin <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>For heaven's sake STOP ALL YOUR DAMN BITCHING! Some of you have all appearance of a bunch of old ladies with bad hearing. <br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I refuse to "stop bitching" if bitching means separating truth from fiction.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Hugh is right!<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>No he isn't. Maybe tangentially, metaphorically -- but literally? Absolutely not. His examples do not hold up under the most basic scrutiny.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[orz]

As i've often stated, I agree with much of what Hugh has posted here, but violently disagree with the details of his theories. I too refuse to stop seperating good ideas from bad merely to avoid confrontation with a couple of total strangers on a web forum. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Hugh's examples are unfeasibly specific without any evidence to back them up, and ignore too many variables in the process of getting an idea out of someone's head (whether ad-man or CIA) and onto billboards etc.<br><br>The whole supposed purpose of 'Keyword Hijacking' makes no real sense. Certainly the media twist words into meaningless gibberish as a matter of course, but there's no evidence it's for the specific purpose of foiling people's google searches etc, and no evidence that would even have any real effect in making people forget the government's various transgressions.<br><br>The 'Ground Zero' example is actually very interesting and valid. Thanks for mentioning, that's one of the first examples of 'keyword hijacking' anyone's posted here that come close to being feasible. It's classic 1984-style Newspeak, turning a phrase into something totally different/opposite in order to prevent meaningful dialogue on a subject. Actually quite different from Hugh's theory tho it appears superficially similar. ...much broader and less literal/google-minded. <p></p><i></i>

[MASONIC PLOT]

KERMUJ---<br><br><br>Thanks for sharing that! It is indeed interesting how it works isnt it? Im glad others see it, although I cant say it impresses me that they do since it is so plainly obvious to anyone who simply takes the time to look!<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=masonicplot>MASONIC PLOT</A> at: 10/4/06 2:21 pm<br></i>

[MASONIC PLOT]

I appreciate Hugh taking the time and effort to share his ideas, right or wrong doesnt matter much, it is important that we all continue to share what we see and how we interpret what we see. I doubt anyone really knows exactly what is going on. The best we can all do is speculate, throw out our 2 cents and use whats thrown out there to try and make sense of this crazy world we live in <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm27.showMessage?topicID=450.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...=450.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Decoy film hides US-Nazi connection from US school kids.<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Summary: <br>The Johnson Group (CIA cut-out like Rendon Group and Lincoln Group) plus a German Karl Rove-type strategist named Peter Schroeder were behind the making of documentary about US school kids doing a class project about the Holocaust. <br><br>The film is called <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Paper Clips.'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The documentary has <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>almost the exact same name</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> as the US project of making Nazi war criminals into assets in the CIA, NASA, and South American death squads.<br><br>The WWII US-Nazi alliance was called <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'Project Paperclip.'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The film is now being marketed as a history lesson to American schools so kids will think 'Paperclip' means something warm and fuzzy about the US instead of something bloody and atrocious.<br><br>Orwell would say "I told you so."<br>All the evidence is in the link above. <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

Google the word "paperclip."<br><br>Result #1: "One Red Paperclip." A film about Kyle MacDonald, the guy who traded a paperclip for a house. Kyle is also part of the megaconspiracy to deflect attention from Operation Paperclip.<br><br>Result #2: Paperclip Software. Illuminati front, clearly.<br><br>Result #3: History of the lowly paperclip.<br><br>Result #4: Wikipedia "paperclip" entry about the lowly paperclip.<br><br>Result #5: Wikipedia entry about Operation/Project Paperclip -- a secret operation which smuggled Nazi scientists into the U.S.<br><br>Paper Clip Project (a link related to the film) doesn't even show up until the second page of hits -- <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>after another reference to the secret Nazi smuggling program.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Hmmm. Seems that "Keyword Hijacking" is about as useful as a Halliburton electricity crew in Bagdhad.<br><br>Sigh.<br><br>One other thing that bothers me, Hugh. Your theories amount to accusations against thousands of human beings -- people who work in media, publishing, broadcasting, and advertising. In this case, you're saying the Whitwell Middle School teachers who organized the project to collect paperclips in memory of Holocaust victims are liars.<br><br>That's pretty lame, HMW.<br><br>If a theory cannot be supported by evidence -- if it is, in fact, contradicted by evidence -- it should be abandoned. <br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Your theories amount to accusations against thousands of human beings -- people who work in media, publishing, broadcasting, and advertising. In this case, you're saying the Whitwell Middle School teachers who organized the project to collect paperclips in memory of Holocaust victims are liars.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Back to the straw man argument of focusing as low in the process as possible, ay? Are you really going to imply that I'm indicting middle school children and Hollywood gaffers as masters of mind control? sheesh, PP. <br><br>We've been through this before, PP. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Who makes decisions that get 'product' on the shelf and determines when and where?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Editors, moguls, honchos. *Elites.* Not us.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Any idea how big the budget is for Voice of America, Radio Marti, etc.? Enormous. Why? Media mind control of attitudes, values, and beliefs...WORKS.<br><br>But surely the National inSecurity State wouldn't use exactly the same psycho-political technology here at home on Americans!<br>lol. Yeah, right.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>So you know nothing about the history of the CIA, CFR, and US media, ay?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> If you research that you might stop trying to imply that I mean to point at a zillion minions as social engineering perps and thus portray me as an "irrational paranoid just emotionally attached to an idea that doesn't work."<br><br>I'm also "emotionally attached" to the idea the the Earth is round.<br>lol.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Why don't you stay on the top of the decision chain to film and market to schools, the very spooky Johnson Group and Peter Schroeder?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Why don't you stay on the top of the decision chain to film and market to schools, the very spooky Johnson Group and Peter Schroeder?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>See comments in previous thread linked by HMW. Rinse, repeat. <p></p><i></i>

[rain]

hey nomorefascism, and welcome.<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Hugh Manatee Wins ( I would really like to know what the heck that name refers to <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>I had to say it out loud before I got it,(maybe?)<br><br>doh. <p></p><i></i>