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    Propoganda... Today with the advent of the Internet and the ease at which people’s views amongst other agencies can be put up for the world to see. One can see why propoganda is used more than ever. It was in the past used as widely as the circumstances of the time permitted. It has always been used and always will , be it a politician using it to achieve advancing his own or party’s political aims, is used extensively in wartime to try and demean the enemy and subjugate the populance into false beliefs. It is used in Advertising household goods and in most cases succeeds as a selling point especially when figureheads are paid to recommend such items. The cost of their services no doubt going on to the retail price of the same products. It is another subject which people have to decide for themselves to believe or not. To me propoganda is propoganda and evermore shall be so, the truth is hard enough to ever come by and to anyone who thinks they have a free thinking mind , it belongs in the dustbin with all the other bits of rubbish. JS
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    Agree with you we don't know what truth is. The internet was a fantastic invention, knowledge at our fingertips. It was never intended to be a means of controlling mass populations with misinformation and invading our privacy.

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    Propoganda has been taken over in the last few years and better known
    now as the Trumpian: Fake News.

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    Propaganda, or brain washing as it's known is not new just more subtle. Think 1984 written in 1949.
    Obviously a work of fiction, but one of the characters Mr Orwell invented is part of our language- Big Brother. Some time ago the suits in Madison Avenue thought up the idea of subliminal advertising where a product would be flashed onto a screen for a millisecond. The viewer could not be sure what was there, but the message had already registered on his brain. That method was quickly made illegal, but it has been replaced with other more subtle stuff. Look at any scene in a play on tv or a soap and you'll see evidence of 'product placement' where advertisers pay to have their stuff on display. Nothing is ever on screen by accident. Try as we might to ignore or resist this propaganda, we will always be aware Big Brother is watching us all.
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    With the advent of voyage data recorders that recorded all speech in ships wheelhouse, it became impossible to curse the black barsteward who caused a near miss or to complement the female cadet on her short shorts and tanned legs. Big brother watching and listening, any racist or sexual inuendo and that would be you for the chop.
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    #5 Would have been a lot of ships sailing around with nobody on the bridge in our time .

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    #5.Ref. The racial bits, is it now illegal to call the original inhabitants of North America Redskins. ?? Know the old word of Eskimo is now Innuit or something similar. JS
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    None of us should allow propaganda to influence our thinking, but today what is truth and what is lies, you can read one article telling you something then the next day it is contradicted by another. I think it is in your upbringing and you know what is right from wrong, if we stick to what our parents taught us we should be right, always assuming they were right in the first place, and they didn't make asses of us.
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    No longer can we call a spade a spade.

    But we are under the watchful eye of big brother in all we do.
    Many moons past we waited to hear the 'wireless' as we knew it then or read the newspapers to get in formation.
    Now we have Facebook and all that crap, we can watch a war as it occurs, even see a guy on his last walk to the death chamber.
    So much has changed our lives that in reality we no longer have control of it.

    But I did notice at the BLM marches there were none there from the KKK.
    Maybe they were away at the time.
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    Still waiting for mass protests from blm regarding the sales pitch Black Friday Bargains.
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