WILL OBAMA DECONSTRUCT THE EXISTING STATE-CORPORATE FASCIST PROPAGANDA-COMMUNICATIONS-SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURE?

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
A newly declassified document called "Information Operations Roadmap" 2003 signed by Donald Rumsfeld, gives a glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.
Bloggers beware....

'Thought Crime Bill' author up for position in Obama Administration
11/10/2008
Jane Harman (D - CA) is reportedly on President-Elect Barack Obama's shortlist for a variety of positions in his upcoming administration including CIA director, Director of National Intelligence, and Secretary of Homeland Security. [Harman] slipped the Violent Radicalisation and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (HR 1955) on a "suspension calendar for non-controversial bills," making the innocuous bill pass effortlessly though the House. In October of 2007, several special interest groups and non-governmental bodies addressed Harman and the House Committee Homeland Security in a briefing entitled "Use of the Internet by Terrorists." The round table discussion was to gain congressional support for S. 1959, the Senate version of The Violent Radicalisation and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act....

“Unless a way of intervening in the radicalization process can be found, we are condemned to stepping on cockroaches one at a time.”
Social Repression and Internet Surveillance
H. Res. 1695, 1955 & S.1959
By Nikki Alexander
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18998.htm
...Jane Harman (D-CA) sponsored H.Res.1955 her partner, Dave Reichert (R-WA), authored the original bill, H.Res.1695....establishes a National Commission and Center of so-called “Excellence” to censor and crush social concerns which are subjectively perceived to be “threats” by RAND spokesmen, who supplied the content for this bill. RAND coined the folksy epithets “homegrown terrorism,” “violent radicalization” and “ideologically based violence” to invalidate expressions of social conscience that conflict with corporate interests... it characterizes individuals who care deeply about international human rights, national sovereignty and ecological protection as “homegrown terrorists” who have been “violently radicalized” by “extremist belief systems.” This bill quotes RAND ideology verbatim.
"The Internet... is being systematically strangled by surveillance devices that police the flow of information; filtering web servers, search engines, web sites, email content and keystrokes...The Open Net Initiative reports, “With respect to online surveillance, the United States may be among the most aggressive states in the world in terms of listening to online conversations.” ... Packaged as a pretext for “preventing terrorism”, the authors of this bill claim that, “The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.”..

John Doerr’s Advice for Barack Obama: Hire Bill Joy
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday, the billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr was interviewed by John Heilemann, a contributing editor at New York magazine who came in from Chicago, fresh off the Obama campaign trail. He had a few questions for Mr. Doerr that, he said, came directly from the president-elect.
First, Barack Obama wanted to know whom Mr. Doerr would recommend for chief technology officer of the United States, a position that Mr. Obama has promised to create. Mr. Doerr’s first choice was Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems...

Restore the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research and development arm of the Defense Department, “to its former glory and autonomy.”
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/john-doerrs-advice-for-barack-o...

The Media Equation - How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power ...
President-elect Obama will use his network ... that the technology was a given and that it could be used in new ways.
November 10, 2008
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=obama+will+use+technolo...

'SOFT POWER SURVEILLANCE AND DATA COLLECTION
The Political Use of Narcisssim: "Social Networking" & U.S. "Strategic Non-Violence" warfare
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE ADVANCES
The DNI Open Source Center, which gathers, translates, analyzes, and distributes unclassified open source intelligence from around the world, is steadily growing in capability and impact, according to Doug Naquin, the Center's Director.The Open Source Center, which replaced the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, is doing more analysis and outreach than it predecessor and is also exploring new media, said Mr. Naquin in a recent speech. "We're looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence," he said. "We have groups looking at what they call 'Citizens Media': people taking pictures with their cell phones and posting them on the Internet. Then there's Social Media, phenomena like MySpace and blogs.... A couple years back we identified Iranian blogs as a phenomenon worthy of more attention, about six months ahead of anybody else."...Naquin addressed the Central Intelligence Retirees' Association October 3, 2007. The text of his remarks is athttp://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/naquin.pdf

Economic Forum moves to YouTube
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700ap_world_forum_youtube.html

Microsoft Beats Yahoo and Google to Social Inbox 2.0
11/13/08... the first to actually introduce social networking features to its e-mail is a sign of Microsoft’s discipline, or maybe the lack of resolve at Google and Yahoo. Or both.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com?nl=tech&emc=tech

Windows Live eases online sharing: New services will aid social networking
November 12, 2008
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/387606_msftlive13.html
By Joseph Tartakoff
Microsoft Corp. is overhauling its Windows Live-branded online services, introducing social networkinglike features to make it easier for customers to share information with one another. Users of services such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger will soon be prompted to set up profile pages, where they will be able to share photos they have uploaded on Windows Live Photos or blog posts written on Windows Live Spaces with others who are using Microsoft services.Microsoft is also collaborating with a host of third-party sites, including Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, WordPress and Yelp, so users also will be able to share activities they do on those sites with one another...."You don't have to go to a separate service, and you don't have to enter your list of people all over again." Jones said Microsoft was not trying to get users of social networking sites to switch. Microsoft wanted to make it easy for existing users of its Windows Live services to keep track. "A lot of people don't want to go through the effort of aggregating," he said. "They want to go to one place and see it all show up.... the profiles are integrated with existing services, such as Messenger or Hotmail,
"It's a recognition that your digital life extends beyond the walls of one site," she said. "If you are already using a lot of sites outside of Windows Live, use that as a place to integrate all the other sites."

People Suggestions looks at the contacts in a user's existing Windows Live services, such as Messenger and Hotmail, to suggest potential people to add to their network. A second component of People Suggestions allows users to suggest to others whom they might want to connect with....because of the links with services such as Messenger and Hotmail, Microsoft could make its suggestions more relevant than other sites. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/387622_msftintern13.html

Microsoft and the National Security Agency
http://killinghope.org/aer44.htm
April  6, 2007
In January the Washington Post reported that Microsoft had  announced that its new operating system, Vista, was being brought to us with  the assistance of the National Security Agency... In September1999, leading  European investigative reporter Duncan Campbell revealed that NSA had arranged  with Microsoft to insert special "keys" into Windows operating systems,  beginning with Windows95. http://www.techweb.com/wire/29110640 ...
In  February 2000, it was disclosed that the Strategic Affairs Delegatio (DAS),  the intelligence arm of the French Defense Ministry, had prepared a report in 1999 which also asserted that NSA had helped to install secret programs in  Microsoft software.... the DAS report states that the Pentagon at the time was  Microsoft's biggest client in the world. The Israeli military has also been an  important client. In 2002, the company erected enormous billboards in Israel  which bore the Microsoft logo under the text "From the depth of our heart --  thanks to The Israeli Defense Forces", with the Israeli national flag in the  background.[15]

Emerging Threats
Analysis: U.S. military to patrol Internet
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2008/06/30/Analysis_US_military_to_p...
June 30, 2008

National Dragnet Is a Click Away: Authorities to Gain Fast and Expansive Access to Records
Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR200803...

Army to Use Webcasts From Iraq for Recruiting
The Army's new recruiting campaign places more emphasis on connecting with young Americans on a closer, more personal level.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/business/media/11adco.html?nl=tech&emc...

“We will wage information warfare, but we will fight with infantry”
1997 US Army War College: “WE HAVE ENTERED AN AGE OF CONSTANT CONFLICT…”
“We, the winners, are a minority……We live in an age of multiple truths. He who warns of the “clash of civilizations” is incontestably right…..One of the defining bifurcations of the future will be the conflict between information masters and information victims…….
Information destroys traditional jobs and traditional cultures; it seduces, betrays, yet remains invulnerable. How can you counterattack the information others have turned upon you? There is no effective option other than competitive performance. For those individuals and cultures that cannot join or compete with our information empire, there is only inevitable failure (of note, the internet is to the techno-capable disaffected what the United Nations is to marginal states: it offers the illusion of empowerment and community) … The next century will indeed be American, but it will also be troubled. We will find ourselves in constant conflict, much of it violent. The United States Army is going to add a lot of battle streamers to its flag. We will wage information warfare, but we will fight with infantry. And we will always surprise those critics, domestic and foreign, who predict our decline…” [...] http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/97summer/peters.htm

"The internet needs to be dealt with as if it were an enemy 'weapons system'..."
Information Operation Roadmap Part 3: "We Must Fight the Net"

U.S. Institute of Peace Study by Israeli Professor: Terrorist Groups Active on the Internet
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-4-2004_pg7_53
There are hundreds of sites on the Internet serving terrorist groups and their supporters, according to a study done by the * US Institute of Peace (USIP). The study undertaken by Gabriel Weimann, a professor at the Haifa University in Israel and currently a senior fellow at USIP, writes that today all active terrorist groups have established their presence on the Internet….. A survey undertaken for the study showed that the Internet is used by groups of all description and persuasions, from Marxist to Islamist ...

Israeli high-tech companies work for U.S.
U.S. law enforcement wiretaps authorized by the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)
[Isreali] Amdocs provides billing and directory assistance for most American phone companies, Comverse Infosys handles telephone tapping equipment for US law enforcement, Odigo runs "Instant Message" systems on computers. All three are closely tied to the Mossad and the Israeli Defense Force, which is massively funded by u.s. Most firewalls on US corporate and government computer systems are provided by Israeli Checkpoint Systems. Odigo's offices near the World Trade Towers allegedly received two hour advance warning of the 911attacks...

Microsoft CEO: Our company almost as Israeli as American
By Maayan Cohen, TheMarker Correspondent, and Reuters
Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, on a visit to Israel, said Wednesday that Microsoft is an Israeli company almost as much as it is American.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the American software giant's new research and development center in Herzliya, Ballmer said that the proportion of Microsoft employees per capita in Israel is almost similar to that in the United States. Ballmer noted that the IT sector in Israel is very advanced, and that Tel Aviv is a lot like the Silicon Valley. He said he knows very few places around the world that offer such a variety of startup opportunities, and that his company intends to purchase more Israeli startup companies... the CEO said Microsoft is not looking to buy all of Yahoo! but is currently engaging in negotiations about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine.
Related articles:
# Microsoft Israel creating new R&D center in Herzliya
# Yahoo! President Susan Decker takes interest in Israel
# Internet giant Yahoo! to follow rivals Google, Microsoft to Israel

"From the depth of our heart --  thanks to The Israeli Defense Forces"
Microsoft logo under the text with the Israeli national flag in the  background.

US government wants bloggers to register : Bloggers Who Criticize Government May Face Prison
Global Research, January 24, 2007
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070124...

Marching into Cyberspace
http://www.cfr.org/publication/15127/marching_into_cyberspace.html
Greg Bruno Dec. 2007

Spychief Wants to Tap Into Cyberspace:
Spychief Mike McConnell is drafting a plan to protect America’s cyberspace that will raise privacy issues and make the current debate over surveillance law look like “a walk in the park..."
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/01/13/dancing-spychief-wants-to-tap-i...

Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail
...There is also a growing agreement that it is not enough for an e-mail sender to identify itself. The sender must also earn the trust of e-mail recipients, by promising to follow certain standards and having violations tallied and published.... "Just because we can verify your identity doesn't mean you send good email," said Miles Libbey, the manager for antispam products at Yahoo. "You absolutely need identity and you also need reputation."
Deciding whose mail will be delivered and whose will be bounced is a thankless task, and most proposals envision that several independent groups would publish e-mail standards. A sender would choose one of these to follow, and that group, in turn, would monitor its compliance. Truste, a group that monitors Web site privacy policies, wants to get into that business.... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/06/technology/06SPAM.html?ex=1066468960&e...

OBAMA'S JOB: ENHANCE IMPERIALIST AGENDA EXECUTION, PREVENT REAL POLITICAL CHANGE

2/9/08 "Information Warfare" digest issue
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/69

Strategic Information Warfare and Defense
Strategic Information Warfare and Defense - The RMA Debate
"The RMA Debate -- articles and links about the Revolution in Military Affairs, information war, and asymmetric warfare. Gateway to US defense modernization ..."
http://www.comw.org/rma/fulltext/stratinfo.html

White House Targets 'Conspiracy Theorists' As Terrorist Recruiters'
'Strategy for winning the war on terror': contaminated, corrupted by misinformation
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/print/20060905-4.html
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism September 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nsct/2006/

Secret Pentagon Propaganda "Roadmap"
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 177
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm
For more information contact:Kristin Adair / Thomas Blanto 202 994 7000Washington, D.C., January 26, 2006 -
A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003...The document calls on DoD to enhance its capabilities in five key Information Operations (IO) areas: electronic warfare (EW), PSYOP, Operations Security (OPSEC), military deception and computer network operations (CNO)....
President Clinton's secret Presidential Decision Directive (PDD-68), issued on April 30, 1999, expanded public diplomacy and public affairs operations beyond USIA and the Department of State to include all agencies and set out the objective of IPI "to synchronize the informational objectives, themes and messages that will be projected overseas . . . to prevent and mitigate crises and to influence foreign audiences in ways favorable to the achievement of U.S. foreign policy objectives."...

Army's information technology strategic plan Army CIO/G-6 Campaign Plan, 2008-2015
Published October 2007
Normally released as 500-day plans, this version of the Army's information technology strategic plan discusses future goals for 2008-2015.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14780/army_ciog6_campaign_plan_20082015.h...

Air Force Cyber Command
July 21st, 2008
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/air-force-cyber-command-building-t...

Truth from These Podia: Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II,
by Sam Gardiner, Colonel, USAF (Retired)
www.indybay.org/news/2003/10/1653148.php
4/21/08 http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/90

Technology Leaders Favor Online ID Card Over Passwords
The Information Card Foundation is an effort to create a single industrywide approach to managing identity online.... to bring the concept of an identity card, like a driver’s license, to the online world. Michael B. Jones, Microsoft’s director of identity partnerships, said the information card system would depend on the support of Web site owners in the same way that early Web browsers like Netscape waited for the support of Web server developers. The technology will first be used on desktop systems but will eventually find its way to mobile phones and other hand-held devices, he said. Microsoft has been working on the concept of an identity card for some time. The new organization will ensure various approaches adhere to the same standard.... The foundation, which also includes Equifax, Novell, Oracle and nine industry analysts and technology leaders, will try to set open standards for the technology industry. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24card.html?th=&emc=th&page...

Microsoft  Palladium: Next Generation Secure Computing Base
http://www.epic.org/

Microsoft Tries to Explain What Its .Net Plans Are About
by John Markoff, The New York Times,
July 24, 2002.
Microsoft warned today that the era of “open computing,” the free exchange of digital information that has defined the personal computer industry, is ending....

US pulls the plug on Muslim websites
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4253580,00.html
Islamic groups have condemned a government crackdown on a Texan telecoms company as part of a "witch-hunt", writes Brian Whitaker
September 10, 2001
...Wall Street Journal on August 13. Written by Daniel Pipes, director of the foreign policy research institute in Philadelphia, it called on the US to "support Israel in rolling back the forces of terror" by shutting down websites belonging to the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Holy Land Foundation. "The federal authorities should use the tools it already has in closing down these websites and organisations," the article said.

Full Spectrum Dominance: Information Warfare Without Limits
Brent Jessop
Information Operation Roadmap Part 1: What Are Information Operations?
Information Operation Roadmap Part 2: Maximum Control of the Entire Electro-Magnetic Spectrum
Information Operation Roadmap Part 3: "We Must Fight the Net"
Information Operation Roadmap Part 4: Information Warfare Using Aggressive Psychological Operations
Information Operation Roadmap Part 5: Information Warfare Without Limits
http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200711/20071105_IOR_1_...

The  Dangers of Digital Imprimatur
How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
by John Walker, Knowledge, Technology & Policy,
Fall 2003, Vol. 16, No.  3
In discussing these issues with numerous people over the last two years, I have been amazed at how few comprehended how all the pieces fit together in the way I saw them inevitably converging. Once I explained the end-point I envisioned, which I hope I've conveyed to you in this document, the general reaction was shock and horror, especially when I explained how every single component was already being developed or deployed.

I have little truck with conspiracy theories. Most of the people advocating or implementing the technologies which underlie the Digital Imprimatur mean well and sincerely believe their work will ameliorate one or more specific problems. But in technology, the sum is often more than the parts. You can cause much more mischief with explosive assembly and isotope separation than with either one by itself. And even though many people involved with these technologies haven't seen the big picture, is it safe to assume nobody does, or will? If a balding programmer in Swiss cow country can figure it out, is it safe to bet none of the People In Charge haven't? Not on your life. Not on our Internet.

If I thought there were the slightest possibility that refraining from publishing this document would reduce the probability of the advent of the Digital Imprimatur, you would not be reading it. But I don't; in fact, I'm convinced that the only hope for preserving the Internet as we presently know it is to alert as many technologically literate people as quickly as possible to where we're going and the consequences once we arrive. As in my Unicard paper, I've cast the bulk of this document as a seductive sales pitch in favour of the technologies I fear, since that is how they will be sold to those whose liberty they will eventually restrict. To counter such arguments, one must fully appreciate how persuasive they can be when presented only in the light of their obvious benefits.

When Will It Happen?
When forecasting trends in technology and society, it is often easier to predict the destination than estimate the time of arrival. This is certainly the case with a collection of technologies as disparate as those discussed here, deployed across a geometrically growing global network connecting more than a hundred million computers and five hundred million people. Such a large installed base, and the compromises required to keep up with its ongoing growth, create great hysteresis in the system. And yet new technologies can be rapidly adopted; one need only look at broadband to the home or Wi-Fi for examples.

Deployment of Trusted Computing, Digital Rights Management, and the Secure Internet are, by their nature, primarily a “vendor (or government) push” effort rather than “market pull”, so matters of strategy on the part of those who wish to see these technologies deployed must be taken into account. It is likely they will be introduced in conjunction with desirable new features which induce customers to accept them. (For example, Version 9 of Microsoft's Windows Media Player incorporates some Digital Rights Management technology, but users upgrade to it not because they're hungry for DRM, but to obtain other features it includes.)

Trusted Computing Deployment
Work is already underway to develop and deploy Trusted Computing systems. In their August 2002 business overview, Microsoft said of their own project, then codenamed “Palladium”, since renamed the “Next-Generation Secure Computing Base for Windows”:

“Palladium” is a long-term endeavor. The first “Palladium”-enhanced personal computers will not appear on the market for several years, and Microsoft does not foresee widespread adoption for some years after the introduction. However, now is the time to begin planning for—and working on—“Palladium.”

BIOS manufacturers are already at work on chipsets to support Trusted Computing operating systems, and hardware manufacturers are designing the “sealed storage” such systems will use to prevent unauthorised access to protected data. As with the roll-out of any technology, it will be a protracted process, probably taking longer than even conservative estimates, and there will doubtless be stumbles and changes in direction along the way. Yet the destination is clearly defined, and the key technological players are investing heavily in the effort to get there. Barring surprises, I expect the overwhelming majority of new computer systems sold in the year 2010 to include Trusted Computing functionality.
Digital Rights Management Deployment

Digital Rights Management deployment is presently underway; current mass market multimedia players are beginning to support various schemes, and as online commercial sales of multimedia content as exemplified by Apple's iTunes Music Store expand, increasingly more secure and restrictive implementations will follow, culminating in the eventual integration of Digital Rights Management with Trusted Computing.

Secure Internet Deployment
A logical point at which one might expect implementation of the Secure Internet to begin in earnest is concurrent with the mass deployment of the IPv6 protocol. Observers of the Internet scene may immediately heave a sigh of relief, since IPv6 is one of those technologies of tomorrow which remains securely anchored in tomorrow no matter how many tomorrows pass into yesterdays. It is ironic that had IPv6 been aggressively adopted starting in 1995, some of the accountability problems of today's Internet would not have become as serious as they are today (see Appendix 1 for details). Still, there is nothing in the architecture of the Secure Internet as I have described it in this paper which requires IPv6 in any way; should IPv6 be indefinitely delayed or supplanted by a different design, the introduction of the Secure Internet need not.

The consequences of the Secure Internet will only be fully realised when most machines connected to it incorporate Digital Rights Management and Trusted Computing technology. It is probable that major efforts to put the Secure Internet in place will be deferred until those technologies reach the market in large numbers. If we estimate a date of 2010 for that, then the years 2008-2015 could see the Secure Internet replace the present architecture....

Summary and Conclusion

Global Internet,
Once a spring of liberty,
Autumn chill so near. [...]

Fresh Start for the Internet
Stanford University researchers not just dreaming of  a new Internet: they're building it.
By Rachel Ross, March 19, 2007
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18397/

WHAT  IS TCPA? WHY SHOULD YOU GIVE A DAMN?
http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html

“TRUSTED COMPUTING”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1H7omJW4TI

"The process of mass-media deception has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary."
George Orwell, 1984

"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
--former CIA Director William Colby

" If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. "
John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.

"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising".
former NBC news President Rubin Frank

"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."
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale
c. It must oversee other agencies' activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy's policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy's prestige or lends support to the propagandist's own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.

Based upon "Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda" by Leonard W. Doob published in "Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues."