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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 12:45 PM Jun 2013

Main Stream Obfuscations Forces One's Mind Stream to Engage in Cognitive Dissonance

Wikipedia explains 'cognitive dissonance" as the result of Leon Festinger's 1956 book "When Prophecy Fails" which chronicled followers of a UFO cult. The cognitive dissonance phrase was coined in the writing and immortalized by the public's penchant for the term and Festinger's follow up 1957 book titled 'A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance".

During such current mass media/ mass public attention grabbing cases such as the NSA spying on U.S. issues, compounded further by the plethora of banter of the whistleblower Snowden, America is thrust into a quagmire of subjects and babbling banter that is ill fated due to the fact that we all are well aware that Main Stream Media is unduly influenced by powers upon high.

Malcom X warned U.S. that;

"The media is the most powerful entity upon the earth".

"They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the make the guilty innocent and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses".

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America's Media Quest - a foreboding tale!

As I'm one type of victim, who is labeled also as a whistleblower, I've studied the main stream, blogs, websites and issues relative to the quest for truth. For is it not Truth that we all seek?

I'm not so sure!

Wikipedia details the fact that Festinger and his associate Carlsmith engaged in a 1959 experiment that became a classic (in the Wiki thread this is titled "Induced-compliance paradigm&quot . They charged parties to do an extremely mundane task for 1 hour (such as turning a screw 1/4 turn - over and over again). Then various parties were paid nothing, or paid $1 or paid $20 (remember 1959 is the year) - to seek to beguile others to believe the task was important or enjoyable.

Those who were "bribed" by the $20 experienced less "dissonance" to justify their behavior.

Then Wiki talks of other cases, issues and things, such as Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Grapes. How, upon the realization that the grapes could not be reached, the fox simply justified in his mind that the fruit was either rotten or not worth eating. Thus Aesop was cognitive of the dissonance factor (and thus "crowd" control) eons ago.
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Media Control - is it here to stay?

Given the fact that you and I - as a person - are able to see through the B.S. and can readily admit/ understand the fact that main stream media is a tool for special interests; we "s h o u l d" be able to overcome the efforts to "control" U.S. through babbling verbal repetitive reinforcing B.S.

However, as MIB 1 Agent K pointed out - "A person is smart; but people are dumb".

Gore Vidal is quoted as stating, germane to this discussion - that;

"When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the united States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please".

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How can this be? What makes you and I become less intelligent once we are in purported unison? Is it our fear of public rejection that compels U.S. to join the mob. Has 'Arrested Human Development' become the norm in modern day society?

Martin Luther King Jr. was much more highly critical of the real issues transpiring


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Dividing Your Heart From Your Mind - is a Conquer's Quest

I'm one of those former bible thumping, RWNJ who believed all Liberal's were the debol's minion's. That is until Meteor Blades of DailyKos said to me "how can you appear to be so bright and so stupidly follow those leaders who could give a [c]hit less about you".

Hmmmmmmm - Do our leaders "REALLY" care about ME?

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Howard Zinn has it right on with this remark

"Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience; but from obedience".

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On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld stepped out into the public main stream and said "We've lost $2.3 Trillion dollars and have no idea where it went". (Here's a link to the website Pilots for 9/11 Truth on the issue).

The 9/11 issue is a classic example of extreme 'Cognitive Dissonance'!

If one dares to bring up "ANY" questions about 9/11 - you are automatically booed, scorned, people turn a deaf ear, the ground quakes as everyone distances themselves from your "conspiracy thinking" ways.

Well, fellow humans upon the earth, I'm that guy. He who IS living a Conspiracy Theory through and through. Mitt Romney stole our eToys.com company after I turned down a bribe from his team that included huge cash bonus and a chance to join Pitten's (Eccckkk).

I've seen judges promoted off the case, Deputy DOJ Directors who joined the dark side (including Off Shore Tax Haven fraud schemes). People are dead in our case, including Michael Sesseyoff (whom eToys shareholder Robert Alber had to shoot n kill in his Kingman, Arizona home). Jack Abramoff and his ilk are involved. Marty Lackner (purportedly) committed suicide. The issue REAL STRANGE about Marty is that he was involved in Petters Ponzi (that Romney/Traub are connected to). Marty Lackner's brother is J. Lackner.

That's Minnesota Assistant U.S. Attorney (former head of criminal division) - J. Lackner.

Inexplicably the Minnesota Star Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and even Matt Taibbi refuse to delve into how nationally significant and important the Marty Lackner homicide is. Did Marty 'EVER' benefit his brother J? Are there emails between the 2 of them? If so, what did they say? (I'm more skeptical of the issue if there are NO emails existing).

Did anyone else in the MN DOJ know of the relationship?


They sure do know now! Just as it was before the FBI raided Tom Petters offices and seized his billions (such things as Sun Country Airlines and Polaroid), I've been hounding the entire Department of Justice over the issues. So much so that I was put in contact with "another" DOJ Public Corruption Task Force unit. However, that person has now (also) "Promoted OFF" the case with a new position. (Why I'm of the mindset that it is for the worse, the guy "changed" his email address and ceased to have discussions with me).

Then there's the death of John ("Jack&quot Wheeler!

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For 12 years now, I've been fighting Mitt Romney and his Racketeering Gang.

Soon, I'm going to go straight at Mitten's and Bain Capital (Goldman Sachs too - as they partnered up in our case). In so doing, there's bound to be a war of words. The evidence I have is massive, including "Confessions". But - EVERYONE - on Mitt's side "believed" he was going to become President of the United States and hand pick that "friendly" U.S. Attorney General that Mr. Adelson was paying $100 million to receive.

Now, they are bound to start making up stuff about me. After all, Romney's Bain owns Clear Channel Communications with 800 stations and more than 100 million listeners through such babbling B.S. mouthpieces as Rush Limbaugh, Hannity & Beck.

The big question is, will the TRUTH win out - or will the "making the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent" main stream media persuade "people" to blindly follow the babbling, repetitive, reinforcing B.S. of the dark side. We came too dang close to nearly electing a RICO Boss as POTUS. They still own Clear Channel and will work that heavily to defeat YOU and your choices in 2014; because that is what the bad guys do. The question that remains in the meantime, is "IF" Romney and his GANG are now engaged in 'Cognitive Dissonance" too? For he spent $1 billion and yours truly was only armed with the inflexible sword of truth that sought to keep Bain Capital in the News.

And Romney - by the way - Didn't Make It!


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Whether or not they "get me" - you can be my hero, just by being a person. Look into the facts - not the babbling B.S. - so that we no longer go to WAR and KILL innocents; because you are too busy to avoid having your mind's stream of common sense engaging in main stream's obfuscations

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