Remember everything you Read, see on TV or hear on Radio is made up propaganda to benefit the Govts,Local, State and or Federal .

"It's all a dream."

Learn to Think Sense.

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Live well....

Speaking before an audience during an event held by the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Stengel, a former high-level U.S. government official, head of the office for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the State Department from 2013 to 2016, and regular commentator on the f**e news network MSNBC, argued that governments have a responsibility to direct propaganda at their domestic populations and ultimately control the political narrative.

Basically, every country creates their own narrative story and, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the ‘chief propagandist’ job,” Stengel explained during the CFR event. “We haven’t talked about propaganda… I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population, and I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”
Read the whole article @...https://www.newstarget.com/2018-06-10-cfr-admits-all-governments-use-propaganda-to-control-the-narrative.html


Goebels, Hitler's propaganda minister is said to have stated, " If you tell an outlandish lie, and repeat it over and over enough times, the average person will believe it.

Pravda..."T***h", the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic's major news paper, was pointed out as being nothing but made up stories having little or no relation to any t***h, by our news papers during the f**e "Cold War" that everybody believed was real. Our news media p***ed itself on telling us the t***h. Yeah, sure.

Btw, note that the USSR never really was or even called itself "C*******t"...because they weren't. They were a Socialist system of citizen control and oppression.


Now you can understand why you think the way you do. It has nothing to do with reality. Your thinking has been controlled by imaginary narratives. Starting in kindergarten. Kinder is the German word for "children". Yeah your brain washing goes back at least that far.

I've tried to tell you, but only been attacked and insulted whenever I have written about it. Now you have a member of the CFR telling you. Maybe you'll believe that. And think sense.

Let's get back to what this string was about when it started.....OK?

Btw, that swab jockey story from Oceanside was one not of harm but comedy. That I can appreciate. Thanks for throwing it in.

Actually, making a better thermostat or doorknob is not only a breakthrough, but a good example of mankind advancing by developing needed things.

It is interesting that the inventors who invented, in most cases didn’t popularize (in many cases because of insufficient finances) and therefore benefit much financially from their invention. Someone else either stole or “bought”, advertised, sold and made money from that invention and, eventually was thought by the Hoy Poloi to have been the inventor. Which our children, to their detriment, were taught to revere and emulate.

Undeserved and unearned credit creating another clay footed hero. We have all too many of them in our history books.

This whole string started by giving unearned credit to an ordinary fellow who just happened to be born to the rightly connected wealthy family, and and thusly is able to sail through life with little effort. He got that credit because Clayy footed hero worshiping fools gave him credit for speaking some important t***hs that teenagers need to hear.

But he never said them. And doesn’t deserve being held up to the American Public as some kind of hero our kids should emulate. He isn’t a hero, or an inventor, he is just a person connected by the accident of birth with people who helped him become a successful entrepreneur.

I pointed that out. And that is all. Nothing more.

Thank you Rafterman, I didn't know of these.

Btw, did you ever get your camera back??????

The idea of legalizing all drugs would be a great step forward.

Yes there would be some fools who would abuse them. But we already have that.

But if drugs were legal we would have less societal harm. Look what happened when the Govt. made alcohol illegal. That quickly was followed with increased criminal behavior. Vicious gangs developed, and not only circumvented the laws, but started a period of brutal criminality, which gradually was growing worse, even to the point of destroying our country.

Then the Prohibition laws were repealed and the gangsterism started to reduce and the country got back to moving forward. Alcohol is not a good drug, but it really seldom causes trouble for anyone but the abuser, and his/her family who can help him/her. As long as the drugs are illegal you make things worse for the family by adding the legal problems and expenses.

Drug use for any reason, except medical emergencies, is stupid and dangerous. But the only one who is really injured is the abuser. Yes, I know that the abuser’s family is also affected to a degree, but less so if the drug were legalized than takes place with the extra problems brought on by criminalizing drugs.

Educate children at home and in school to the dangers of drugs and when the kids “experiment” you’ll find that all but a few deranged ones will quickly turn away from them as they mature.

Yes, we will still have some abusers, but there will be a lot fewer, and the abusers will in effect take themselves out of the society, as they are doing now anyway.

Drug Gangs would disappear, because the profit would be gone. Most of the cost of illegal drugs is caused by the fact that they are illegal. Illegality creates a shortage of drugs the addict wants, creates a criminal risk for both the supplier and user, and raises the prices to the point that addicts, already looked upon as criminals will engage in criminal activities to get the money to buy the drugs.

Drugs are very cheap to make, and if they were legal to obtain would not create the criminal who robs or steals to accommodate the costs of a strong “habit”.

And we would get rid of a large number of “drug war” police and the corruption and societal stress that they create.

To me all these effects of legalizing drugs should be considered a good thing and a big win for all of us.

Think about it.

Never proven?

What do you atribute human "progress" to?

We've come from using stones and sticks to get our lunch by hunting, to grocery store or the restaurant where we hand over bits of paperlike cloth for our lunch.

From sitting by the campfire in a cave, we have come to temparature controlled living spaces.

From walking ten miles a day to reach a distant goal, to flying at 450 miles per hour....etc., etc.

What is not proven?

Do you really think that someone else wouldn't have popularized something similar to windows?

Whenever somthing is needed, someone will find a way to supply it. That is a rule of human nature, and I'll bet if you had thought a little more before writing the above you wouldn't have bothered writing it. I"ll bet that right now there are people working on the next breakthrough in computing which will make Windows obsolete. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't already developed a number of times and bought up to keep it off the market. What do you think?

Since you are so well meaning and concerned for all these poor children I suggest that you v**e for a Government that will come to you, who will apparently be happy to give them money that you could otherwise use to take care of your family.

But do tell them not to come to my house for money since I need all of that to take care of my family and responsibilities, so that they don't end up needing "snap".

I retired.

I'm sorry you misread what I wrote as reflecting a whining, jealous person with failures in his background.

Guys like Mr. Gates, are often given credit for things they did not do or say, and that is the case for this particular string where he's given credit for an 11 point comment that he never made.

Anyone who has followed his career knows that he not only did not follow those 11 points, but on a more important level would never agree with them. And I don't like to see people fooled by the advertising/public relations people that people like Bill have working for them.

Land of the Free???? When did you last hear or seen that applied to the Occupied States of America? We ised to hear that all the time, but not in a long time now.

Where have you been the last 30 years?

Me too.

No, it was because you couldn't get any sleep. You are generally awake. I averaged about 2 hours sleep each day. You can get by on that, but it leaves you constantly tired. There is just the instinctive need to stay awake and ready for wh**ever. Then when you got busy you didn't have time to notice anything but what you needed to be doing.

Right..and I didn't.

I made enough money during my carreer that I am comfortable, and I made it, not stole it from fools.

1... The prime rule of investing is...Don"t lose money. ( I wonder how much you have lost over the years (that I didn't). And you must have lost some, if only you will add up the commissions you've paid. You do realize the stock market is a zero sum game, right?

I too own everything that the state allows. That means things that they rent to me, such as my long since fully paid houses and ranch, that the state claims by charging me tax every year. No one owns their own house, etc.

I have no debts and haven't had since 1970.

Btw, ... What got your hackles up at this time? You usually seem to think sensibly, (meaning on this board, we generally post alike). What toe did I step on inadvertantly?