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Tuesday 5 November 2013
North Korea unveils "surprisingly impressive" rival to iPad
has unveiled its own rival to Apple’s iPad Air - a svelte touchscreen filled with apps, and described by one tourist as “surprisingly impressive”.There are, of course, a few differences between the 7-inch Samjiyon and Apple’s latest - the main one being that you can’t access the internet.
It’s also only available to a select few - North Korea’s ruling elite. Naturally, though, a few models find their way onto the black market - and offer a peek into live inside the secretive dictatorship.
Jeremy Blum of the South China Morning Post says, “It is not difficult to find one in electronics stores if you are looking in the right places - North Korea Tech, which we got the images of the device from, has reviews from tourists.”
Oddly, tourists seem to be able to freely take the machine out of the country - one of North Korea Tech’s customers said he declared it on an official form.
[When will the dead outnumber the living on Facebook?]
The machine can’t access “normal” websites, but can access the country’s intranet, offering official news, TV, and educational apps such as “Grand People’s Study House”.
The tablet costs a mere £155, and - refreshingly - has few adverts, and comes with many pre-loaded apps, including 141 ebooks about North Korea.
Unboxing the North Korean tabletIt claims to have a 1.2GHz processor - faster than some Western budget tablets - and reviewers praise its speed and responsiveness.
“I would say that the tablet is quite similar to a Western machine aside from the fact that it can't access the internet,” says Blum. “ The general architecture is the same, and it appears to be running a modified version of Android, so there are obvious similarities there.”
““I can honestly say that the Samjiyon is surprisingly impressive,” says one of North Korea Tech’s customers. “In terms of responsiveness and speed, it can almost compete against the leading tablets out there. Tapping and launching apps feels fairly fluid, instantiating the camera is as fast as the world’s leading tablets, and there is no noticeable lag when playing games I’m familiar with, like Angry Birds.”
There are no Google apps on the tablet - instead, a carefully hand-picked selection including Fishing Joy, Educational Books, and, inevitably, Angry Birds.
“This gadget is not available to all North Koreans; just as a Mercedes Benz S-class sedan is out of reach for most Germans,” says University of Vienna Professor Dr Ruediger Frank.
“The existence of this tablet does not in any way change the fact that the country is, for many of its people, a country of hard manual labour and simple living conditions. It is a useful and entertaining device for a minority in a totalitarian system with a dominant ideology.”
Given the relationship between the two countries, it’s unlikely to be used to watch South Korean star Psy’s Gangnam Style.
Within North Korea, the country’s elite are keen computer users, with Chinese-made tablet PCs and a dedicated North Korean operating system, Red Star, used in place of Windows or Mac OS.
Blum says that the product is very “niche” and restricted to the friends of the regime - and “probably pretty useless” for anyone outside Korea.
North Korea cut off mobile internet access for visitors to the country, part of the cloak of secrecy that surrounds the state.
North Korean defector Kim Heung-Kwang claims that the country’s top science universities train “cyber warriors” to attack Western targets - and that hackers also receive “tuition” from rogue groups in Russia and China.
Blum says, “I'd say that the localized apps and e-books that the device has are great for a Korean reader interested in knowing more about North Korea, but probably pretty useless to someone who has no knowledge of the language.”
'Soul' pictured leaving tree damaged in St Jude storm
A woman has photographed what she believes to be a "soul" leaving a dying tree in her garden.
The pictures show what appears to a mysterious orange mist drifting away from the roots of a small tree uprooted in Monday's storm.
Another picture of the tree and its disappearing 'soul'. Image: Svetlana Johnson, Rex Features
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/soul-pictured-leaving-tree-damaged-in-st-jude-storm
Svetlana Johnson, from Hadleigh in Suffolk, took the photos on her camera.
"I tried to wipe the lens," she explained, "but the mist was still on all the pictures of the tree roots. I took pictures of other parts of the garden and the pictures were clear.
"As I took more pictures of the tree, hoping to get rid of the mist, I then noticed that the orange mist was moving.
"It started on the roots and then moved under the chair, before completely disappearing.
"I am therefore wondering if the orange mist was the soul of the tree, which disappeared as the tree was dying."
Ms Johnson, 37, is a science and maths teacher in a secondary school.
Wife uses Daily Mail readers' comments to 'kick out husband'
A wife has apparently used the comments section on a Daily Mail article to kick out her "idiot husband".
Tom Cowan of Manchester left some remarks on an article about Kelly Brook, describing the model as "so sexy". He also announced he "would leave my wife and kids for one night with her!"
His outburst prompted a response from someone called Natasha Cowan, also of Manchester.
"My idiot husband forgot his comments are linked to his Facebook account," she stated. "You don't deserve our beautiful kids and I hope your brother has room on his sofa because I'm having the locks changed."
As ever, it's not clear whether the threat is for real or if the exchange is a hoax.
But Tom's remarks have clearly gone down badly with Daily Mail readers - while Natasha has received almost unanimous support.
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/wife-uses-daily-mail-readers-comments-to-kick-out-husband
'Dracula bug' discovered by scientists
Meet the 'Dracula bug'.
Scientists at London’s Natural History Museum have discovered this spookily-coloured creature just in time for Halloween.
The insect has a series of markings on its back that could be said to resemble Count Dracula's face.
However this kind of Dracula sucks plant sap, rather than human blood.
The bug, a type of leafhopper, was found in the museum's wildlife garden. It was first spotted by museum volunteers Cagla Stevenson and Ashleigh Whiffin.
Dr Erica McAlister, fly curator at the museum, said: "The fact this looks like a vampire's face really took us by surprise.
"It's odd to see this spooky little face staring back at you. Leafhopper markings vary a lot, but I've never seen markings in this shape, and all the more appropriate with Halloween coming up.
"This bug is still young and its pattern will darken and blend in as it matures."
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/dracula-bug-discovered-by-scientists
Man spends 10 years living in his car
For 83-year-old Oscar Almaguer, life isn't so much the open road as a parking space. For Almaguer lives in his car - and has done so since he and his wife divorced 10 years ago.
His 1967 Volkswagen Beetle spends most of its time in Apodaca on the outskirts of Monterrey in Mexico.
Oscar Almaguer and his possessions. Image: Reuters, Daniel Becerril
Almaguer keeps his belongings in the trunk, including a bucket of water for washing, some petrol and a pair of shoes.
Cutlery and a plastic cup are stored in the ceiling, while a salt-shaker, a bottle of hot sauce and a container of coffee is kept in the door.
But despite all this, the car still works - more or less.
The wheels and seats are from another Volkswagen model.
Instead of a gear-stick Almaguer uses a plastic bathroom pipe.
And the engine, which comes from a modern VW Sedan, is just about in decent condition - although Almaguer has to start it by short-circuiting two wires under the bonnet.
http://news.uk.msn.com/trending-blog/man-spends-10-years-living-in-his-car
'I've worn Nazi armband in Asda for three years,' man admits
A shopper asked to leave a supermarket for dressing in a Nazi uniform has tweeted that he has worn similar items to the store for the past three years.
Paul Dutton, from Cambridge, claimed on Twitter that he was the man escorted from a branch of Asda on Thursday.
But he revealed that this was not the first time he had visited the store in Nazi regalia.
He tweeted: "I wear a black SS armband in Asda twice a week for past three years.
"I've shopped in Asda since the place was opened twice a week. This is how Asda repay me for my loyalty."
He added that he had wanted to hand out cards promoting his website, which explains the reasons for his fascination with Adolf Hitler.
Police were called to a branch of Asda in Cambridge at 2pm yesterday, following reports of a man wearing what resembled a black SS uniform complete with cap and red armband.
The manager of the Beehive Centre store asked the man to leave after complaints from other customers. A police spokeswoman said: "By the time we got there he had already left peacefully."
Rosina Rusin, 60, from Milton, told the Cambridge News: "I was waiting in a queue when a lady came up and she was really quite distressed about it.
"People's mouths were falling open. You are not going to come out like that unless you want to draw attention to yourself."
It had been thought the man was part of a Halloween stunt.
Ozil tweets picture of Arsenal 'action heroes' as Expendables cast
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil could be doing more than terrorising defences if this image is anything to go by.
The 25-year-old German international tweeted a photo of his team-mates dressed in military fatigues and looking well-armed ahead of his team's game against Liverpool.
Featuring the likes of Mikel Arteta, Olivier Giroud and Jack Wilshere, the players’ images had been superimposed over a poster for the Expendables movie, which stars Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham, by an Arsenal fan.
There has been no word about whether Mickey Rourke would appear on the substitutes' bench.
Idris Elba hospitalised ahead of Mandela film premiere
The British actor Idris Elba has been hospitalised after suffering an asthma attack as he prepared to fly to South Africa for the premiere of his new film.
The 41-year-old, who plays Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, was taken off an aircraft before leaving the UK.
He missed a news conference in Johannesburg to promote the film, the Mail and Guardian reported, but he is expected to recover in time for the premiere on Sunday.
The film, due for release early in 2014, sees Elba star alongside Naomie Harris - who plays Mr Mandela's wife Winnie.
It follows the anti-apartheid icon's life from childhood, through to his protests and imprisonment on Robben Island and his eventual election as South Africa's head of state.
Speaking at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Elba spoke of his spending several months in South Africa to prepare for the role.
He said: "I moved to South Africa for about three months prior to shooting, just so that I could understand what South Africa was like ... and to understand the tribes, especially Mr Mandela's.
"The challenges were massive but we embraced them. He had a very difficult life, so we weren't expecting to make an easy film."
Family flees home after venomous spiders hatch from banana
A family was forced to temporarily abandon their home after dozens of venomous spiders hatched from a banana.
The Taylors, of Hampton in south-west London, spent several nights in a hotel while their house was fumigated.
Mrs Consi Taylor was the first to spot the creatures, which dropped off the banana while she was eating it.
She told the Sun: "I got halfway through the banana when I saw something white on the skin. I thought it was mould but when I had a closer look I saw some funny looking spots.
"I had a closer look and was horrified to see they were spiders."
They were later identified as Brazilian Wandering spiders, listed in the 2010 Guinness World Records as the world's most venomous spider.
Few people die from the creature's bites, however, and antivenom treatment is readily available.
The Taylors had purchased the banana from a branch of Sainsbury's.
The supermarket has apologised for the incident, and has paid £1,000 to cover the family's hotel bill, fumigation and dry cleaning.
Floating island of junk the size of Texas nears the US
An island of debris the size of Texas is floating across the Pacific towards the United States.
The junk is wreckage from the tsunami that devastated areas of eastern Japan in 2011.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the "island" is currently to the north-east of Hawaii.
A larger but less concentrated area of debris stretches across the ocean from Alaska to the Philippines.
Wreckage from the tsunami has been reaching the North American coast for the past two years.
In June 2012 a 70ft-dock arrived on a beach in Oregon, while a shrimping vessel nearly made it all the way to Alaska.
Around five million tons is estimated to have been washed into the Pacific by the tsunami, but two-thirds sank quickly near the Japanese coast.
Missing School Nurse Decapitated, Ex-Husband Overdoses As Police Hone In
Hours before police could arrest a South Florida doctor for the brutal murder and mutilation of his ex-wife, detectives witnessed his family carry his lifeless body out of a Miami home after an apparent drug overdose.
The headless body of Kimberly Lindsey, 49, a school nurse, was found in a sugarcane field in Clewiston, Fla. on Friday after she was reported missing five days earlier, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Palm Beach Post. She had also been shot in the chest and her fingertips cut off.
"This is one of the more heinous crimes I've seen in a while," Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said at a press conference, adding that Lindsey's head and fingertips have not yet been found.
Authorities say Lindsey did not show up for work at West Palm Beach’s Bak Middle School of the Arts on Monday, prompting police to visit her home where they foundsignificant blood indicating foul play.
Based on DNA evidence, police soon began 24-hour surveillance on her ex-husband, Albert Lambert, 52, an emergency room physician.
On Sunday, undercover detectives saw Lambert's sister and boyfriend attempt to carry a sheet-wrapped body from the sister's Miami home.
“We hope they were taking him to the hospital but you never know,” Bradshaw told reporters.
Paramedics tried to revive Lambert, but he was pronounced dead at a Miami hospital due to a narcotics overdose. His death has not been ruled a suicide.
The former couple, married for nearly 22 years, had three daughters together and had been divorced since February.
Just days before Lindsey's disappearance, a judge had found Lambert in contempt of court after he said he would "disappear or go to jail" before he paid any contested alimony or child support.
"The bottom line is we were going to charge him with first-degree murder, no doubt,” Bradshaw said at the press conference.
“We don’t believe there’s any other people involved in this," the sheriff told the Palm Beach Post. "Think about it: he’s a doctor — who’s got better skill to do that?”
In a public plea for help in finding her missing mother, Lindsey's oldest daughter called her a "self-made, independent woman" and a mother who was a "nurturing" and "loving."
Bak Middle School officials say that the clinic where Lindsey worked will be named in her honor and grief counselors will available for students, teachers, and parents, reports NBC 6.
Bak Middle School officials say that the clinic where Lindsey worked will be named in her honor and grief counselors will available for students, teachers, and parents, reports NBC 6.
14-Pound Utah Baby May Be America's Biggest For 2013
A 14-pound baby may just be America's heaviest for 2013.
Joel Brandon Jr., nicknamed J.J., was born on May 9 by cesarean section at Timpanogos Regional Hospital in Orem, Utah. He weighed 14 pounds exactly and was 22 inches long at birth.
"My last ultrasound showed that he was going to be around 11 pounds," J.J.'s mom, Sara Brandon, told The Huffington Post over the phone Wednesday. "So when he came out and he was 14, I think everyone in the whole room -- even the doctors -- was so surprised."
Local news outlet KSL.com reported last week that J.J. may very well be the biggest baby born in the United States this year. KSL also wrote that the "closest American baby to J.J.'s weight reported so far in 2013 was ... Addyson Gale Cessna of Pennsylvania." She weighed 13 pounds 12 ounces.
“We’ve kind of been watching and waiting to see if there is a baby who is bigger, because he might be the biggest of the year," Brandon told KSL of her big bundle of joy.
Because of his size, Brandon says that J.J.'s birth was quite tricky.
"Since they knew he was going to be a big baby, I had two doctors delivering him instead of just one," she explained to the HuffPost. "They said that they had to use some maneuvering for shoulder dystocia that they normally only use in vaginal births -- in other words, he was so big and crammed in there that they had a hard time getting him out."
Born at 38.5 weeks, J.J. suffered respiratory problems and was "blue and floppy" when he was delivered, his mom says. He had to spend his first week and a half of life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Fortunately, J.J. recovered and has been pink and strong ever since.
"He's super healthy and happy now, he's just a really big guy," his mom said.
At his last check-up, J.J.'s pediatrician told his parents that he's in the 150th percentile for height and weight in his age group. Brandon says J.J.'s so large that his diapers are the same size as those of his 2-year-old identical twin sisters.
"This big bubba melts my heart," the happy mom said of her baby. "I love him more than I ever imagined I could love a sweet baby boy. He is my squishy cuddle bug."
J.J. may be the largest baby born in the U.S. this year, but KSL says that the title of biggest newborn in the world may be held by George King of England, who tipped the scales at a whopping 15 pounds 7 ounces when he was born in February.
Though babies weighing 14 pounds or more are still a rarity, experts say that heavier babies have been on the rise in recent years. Citing a report from medical journal Lancet, NBC News wrote in August that there's been a "15 percent to 25 percent increase in babies weighing 8 pounds, 13 ounces or more (or 4,000 grams, the weight where a baby is considered oversized) in the past two to three decades in developed countries."
Friday 17 May 2013
HOW DISNEY RUINED SEX FOR EVERYONE
So stop me if you’ve heard this one before. There’s this guy. He’s like a prince, or an orphan, or kind of a loser — like an orphan-prince-loser-type guy.
And then there’s this girl. And she’s hot.
And then usually there’s a bad guy too. And he’s bad.
So, logically, our orphan-prince-loser-type guy has to save the hot girl, and usually does it by beating up the bad guy. He solves the super secret conspiracy to overthrow the government, or destroys the evil space ship, or has a sword fight to the death where his ear gets hacked off and he barely lives. Shit blows up. People die. The bad guy ultimately loses.
The crowd goes wild. And our former orphan-prince-loser guy is now a capital-H Hero. And what do heroes get as their reward for saving the universe? Duh. The hot girl.
What I just described to you is loosely the plot of practically every story you’ve ever been told — from Star Wars to Iron Man to Good Will Hunting to Super Mario Bros.
And, of course, every Disney movie ever made.
Sometimes there will be a wrinkle in the story too, making it “tragic.” Like the hero will even die for the hot girl (Terminator, Titanic) or the hot girl dies and the hero decides to go on a murderous rampage to for love and righteousness (Braveheart, Gladiator), or the girl turns out to be batshit insane and the hero realizes he threw away his entire life for nothing (Gone with the Wind, Vertigo). And in rare instances, the hero cannot be with the hot girl for legitimate capital-H Heroic reasons and must live a life of solemn “what if?” misery (Casablanca, Shawshank Redemption, etc.)
Yes, this practically is every movie you’ve ever watched, every comic book you’ve ever read, every video game you’ve ever beaten, every story book that your parents read to your drooling face.
And it’s fucking up your sex life.
Yes, Disney is wholly responsible for your lack of sexual confidence. And here’s why:
These stories send messages to us as we’re growing up. Some of the messages are nice, like “Trees are good!” and “Greed is bad!” Other messages are bad. They’re messages that are hammered into our drooling faces our whole lives and they give us really screwed up expectations. One of those bad messages is: You must earn the vagina.
If you want to be with a beautiful girl, you have to do something capital-H heroic, you have to stand out, be someone unique and amazing and awe-inspiring. Otherwise pretty girls will never like you. You have to save the fucking world. Then you are rewarded with vagina. That’s all you are and all you’re worth, a proud vagina-recipient. So start blowing shit up.
Obviously, the vast majority of us haven’t saved the world or blown anything up recently. In fact, the reality is that even if all of us are unique and special, none of us actually feel particularly unique or special at any given moment. None of us feel like we’ve done anything capital-H Heroic. We all feel like, well, just us. And apparently that’s not good enough.
It’s the storybook narrative. And in the 21st century, it really screws up our dating lives:
- Men spend their entire lives believing they’re not good enough to be with a woman.Men are taught to feel an immense pressure to impress women, to perform for them, to show off their money or their cars or how many digits of Pi they can memorize, so chicks might like them. This is needy and unattractive behavior and reinforces low self esteem as well as sexual anxiety. There’s a reason most guys need to be hammered to even tell a girl they like her. They all feel like they’re not good enough to like her.
- Women spend their entire lives waiting for a man to do something amazing to impress her. Or, in other words, she spends her entire life waiting for her prince charming, her knight in shining armor to come “sweep her off her feet.” Women are conditioned to believe that they’re a prize that men are supposed to win through some great achievement. And when no man is saving the world or cutting off people’s heads off with a badass broad sword in the name of her love, then she inevitably ends up disappointed. It sends the message that she’s not good enough. No man is killing himself for her vagina. Therefore her vagina must be faulty in some way.
The storybook narrative instills sexual insecurity and promotes lofty standards, which, when unmet, causes both men and women to become ornery and unaccommodating to the realities ofattraction and the courtship process.
When men feel like they can never be good enough to win the vagina, they decide to come up with ways to take it. Sometimes they do it through manipulation. Sometimes they do it through over-compensation. In extreme cases, they may do it by force.
When women feel like they can never be good enough to have their vagina won from them, they try to trick men into earning it. They play hard-to-get, create a bunch of unnecessary drama, or always keep the man guessing as to their intentions.
SEX AS TRANSACTION, SEX AS PERFORMANCE
But I’ll be real for a second, Disney isn’t actually responsible for this stuff. The storybook narrative has been going on for most of western civilization. It’s littered throughout Shakespeare and medieval texts. Even the Trojan War in The Iliad is started because of a beef over a hottie named Helen.
Hey, girl. You want me to build a giant wooden horse and ransack the ancient city of Troy for you?
The reason this narrative has existed so long is because marriage was the economic and political building block for most of the existence of civilization. In feudal societies, the way you guaranteed security to your estate was through marrying women of wealthy (and often competing) families. If you were a man of one of the underclasses, the only way to “marry up” into wealth or greater power was through accomplishing some amazing feat, usually in war. Hence, the epic tale of valiant knights saving the princess that is so often repeated.
But we live in the 21st century. Our politics and economics are no longer arranged through marriages. No one marries for political power. Women have jobs and earn their own money. We live in free-market democracies. 99.9% of us will never see a battlefield in our lives.
Years ago, sex writer Clarisse Thorn introduced me to the idea of sex as performance versus sex as transaction. The idea was originally put forth by Thomas MacAulay Millar in Yes Means Yes (a book that, I won’t lie, made me cringe a little the first time I read it). The idea is also backed up and expanded upon in books such as Sex at Dawn and Marriage: A History.
The idea goes something like this:
Anthropological evidence suggests that in pre-history, hunter/gatherer societies were, umm, rather “loose” with their sexual morals. The idea of marriage or sexual possession was (and still is) largely anathema to most of these groups. But with the rise of agriculture, humans, for the first time in our species’ existence, had surpluses of resources. And not only did we have surpluses of resources, but men, due to their size and strength, gained a large competitive advantage at acquiring them over women. Men began to compete against one another economically, hoarding surplus resources and then using those resources to dominate the others around them. Economic hierarchies were born. City/states followed. Monarchs and lords and the feudal system followed from that, as did organized warfare and the first empires.
(Famous scientist and author Jared Diamond went as far as to call agriculture “The biggest mistake in human history.” I’m not sure I would go that far.)
The problem with this new social structure was that men, for the first time ever, had two major concerns: 1) they needed to guarantee paternity of their own children and 2) they needed to manage their political competition through marriages, alliances and familial bonds.
Thus female chastity began to matter. Fidelity began to matter. Fertility began to matter. Sex became an economic and political transaction, and women — who were now useless for war and physical labor — became pro-creating assets for men. Women provided sex and procreation. In return, their families were given resources, dowries, political alliances, land, etc.
Men now had to win the vagina.
And so they did, for about 7,000 years plus or minus.
But as I mentioned earlier, times have changed. We don’t arrange our society through marriages anymore. We can will our resources to anyone of our choosing when we die. We have legal systems in place to guarantee our assets. Women have jobs and their own incomes. STD’s are no longer lethal. Women (and soon men) have birth control and can dictate their own procreation. We live in the most non-violent period of human history. People are living to almost 90.
Treating sex as a transaction no longer makes sense. In fact, now that the economic deck has been shuffled and largely equalized, treating sex as a transaction harms the self-esteem and emotional health of both men and women.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
In terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we no longer need to use sex to fulfill our physiological and security needs. Now we can move on to using it to meet our needs for intimacy and esteem.
What Millar proposes — somewhat radically — is that we should treat sex as a performance, as an activity that is done for the sake of doing it, for the sake of self-expression and pleasure and intimacy.
When sex is treated as a transaction, it’s often in both men and women’s interests to hide or misdirect their intentions, creating the perception of higher value so they can earn as much as possible from the interaction. As I’ve detailed before, this leads to all sorts of unpleasant processes that makes dating a pain in the ass and interferes with intimacy and self esteem.
When sex is treated as performance, then it’s in the best interest of both men and women to approach it with clear intentions, without shame, and without judgment — strategies which are proven to attract more members of the opposite sex, to create more satisfying sexual relationships, and to remove any ambiguity as to each person’s intentions.
Is it possible to ever 100% reach a model of sex as performance? Probably not. Despite contraception and medicine, women will always bear more risk for sexual behavior than men. Men will always have higher sex drives than women. It’s an ideal. And as an ideal it should be strived toward even if it’s never met. For all of our sakes. And so maybe the next generation won’t have to be brainwashed by the same Disney movies we were.
Thursday 25 April 2013
Propaganda
If you have never heard of Edward Bernays, then you should have. This is the man who told President Woodrow Wilson that they were going to have to SELL the idea of WW1 to the American people if he was ever going to get their support. He created the iconic image of the burning, flame engulfed, Statue of Liberty, surrounded by German aircraft. The campaign was so successful that most people can't tell you what WW1 was really all about. The posters became the single most important image that Represented WW1. If that seems strange to you, then its only because you know no such event ever took place. It was hung in schools, libraries, universities, government offices and buildings, police stations, train stations, lamp posts, Repeatedly published in many papers across the nation. Up to that point in time, most Americans were against the war.
The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have a negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War when the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things.
Edward Bernays is the same man who hired 500 models to parade on 5th avenue with lit cigarettes purposely and intentionally creating an environment that encouraged women to start smoking. The campaign got so much attention from the press, women started lighting up publicly and smoking became a symbol of the liberated woman ..
Edward Bernays invented the word public relations. To this very day, public relations firms all over the world use his book "Propaganda" as a manual. It starts off by saying "it is possible to regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies. These new techniques of regimentation of minds, have to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it because we now have a synthesis of new techniques. "
So he engineered the public relations effort behind the US-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala. The term public relations entails a number of issues that confuse most people. But just to give a idea of the pervasiveness of the public relations industry we can examine one aspect of it. Most people have seen or heard the word publicist. Every single celebrity, ballplayer athlete, politician (including congressmen, senators, and presidents) musician, movie actor, television actor, and film director, has a publicist. If did Seems trivial or insignificant to you then think back a couple of years When film actor Tom Cruise went on Oprah and made a common douchebag's spectacle of himself. It all happened because He had a falling out with his publicist at the time and hired his sister to do the job. His sister had zero experience in the area thus did the clamor around Oprah. Any time you ever see any public figure being interviewed, regardless if its a news broadcast or a talk show, the details of that interview had been worked out earlier by a publicist who picks and decides what questions will be asked as well as the answers that will be given..
Which brings me now to the reason I am making this post There is a pattern of behavior by the public relations industry as a whole where they use symbols instead of anything that rings of truth to sell their ideas to the public. If you really believe those ads you see on TV , then you need to understand did an ad is just a sales pitch. Everyone knows there is a certain amount of BS is indigenous to any sales pitch and so that works for ads too. The next time you see a pricey ad for a new car or something along that line, pay attention to the words being used. You will begin to see that what advertisers are really selling are dreams. They tell you how much better your life will be if only this kind of car you drove. They tell you how many more friends you will have who love you if only you wore this brand of shoes. Remember what I just said about BS. I mentioned the burning Statue of Liberty image. There was another image of a huge gorilla with bloody hands wearing a German soldier's helmet embracing the globe and squeezing the blood out of it. More recently there was to association made by the media between the imagery of the World Trade center on fire and Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. Even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, it did did not matter anymore. When you use symbols that have been separated from their original meanings, the truth itself does not matter any more
The term "propaganda," incidentally, did not have a negative connotations in those days. It was during the second World War when the term became taboo because it was connected with Germany, and all those bad things.
Edward Bernays is the same man who hired 500 models to parade on 5th avenue with lit cigarettes purposely and intentionally creating an environment that encouraged women to start smoking. The campaign got so much attention from the press, women started lighting up publicly and smoking became a symbol of the liberated woman ..
Edward Bernays invented the word public relations. To this very day, public relations firms all over the world use his book "Propaganda" as a manual. It starts off by saying "it is possible to regiment the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments their bodies. These new techniques of regimentation of minds, have to be used by the intelligent minorities in order to make sure that the slobs stay on the right course. We can do it because we now have a synthesis of new techniques. "
So he engineered the public relations effort behind the US-backed coup which overthrew the democratic government of Guatemala. The term public relations entails a number of issues that confuse most people. But just to give a idea of the pervasiveness of the public relations industry we can examine one aspect of it. Most people have seen or heard the word publicist. Every single celebrity, ballplayer athlete, politician (including congressmen, senators, and presidents) musician, movie actor, television actor, and film director, has a publicist. If did Seems trivial or insignificant to you then think back a couple of years When film actor Tom Cruise went on Oprah and made a common douchebag's spectacle of himself. It all happened because He had a falling out with his publicist at the time and hired his sister to do the job. His sister had zero experience in the area thus did the clamor around Oprah. Any time you ever see any public figure being interviewed, regardless if its a news broadcast or a talk show, the details of that interview had been worked out earlier by a publicist who picks and decides what questions will be asked as well as the answers that will be given..
Which brings me now to the reason I am making this post There is a pattern of behavior by the public relations industry as a whole where they use symbols instead of anything that rings of truth to sell their ideas to the public. If you really believe those ads you see on TV , then you need to understand did an ad is just a sales pitch. Everyone knows there is a certain amount of BS is indigenous to any sales pitch and so that works for ads too. The next time you see a pricey ad for a new car or something along that line, pay attention to the words being used. You will begin to see that what advertisers are really selling are dreams. They tell you how much better your life will be if only this kind of car you drove. They tell you how many more friends you will have who love you if only you wore this brand of shoes. Remember what I just said about BS. I mentioned the burning Statue of Liberty image. There was another image of a huge gorilla with bloody hands wearing a German soldier's helmet embracing the globe and squeezing the blood out of it. More recently there was to association made by the media between the imagery of the World Trade center on fire and Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein. Even though Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, it did did not matter anymore. When you use symbols that have been separated from their original meanings, the truth itself does not matter any more
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