Anonymous ID: 65fdff July 30, 2020, 6:23 p.m. No.10132520   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10132401

 

Remember that there is a fierce struggle going on within China. The CCP is divided. The PLA is divided. There is every possibility that one faction will blow the dam to create a pretext for open civil war, believing that their side has enough power to prevail.

 

The warnings from Qiao Liang and Dau Xu are veiled warnings. They cannot speak directly of what they really mean.

 

However, when they warn Xi to consider China's weaknesses as well as strengths, when they warn that putting all effort into defeating Taiwan leaves China vulnerable, they are effectively warning aboutpaying too much attention to one thingand not looking clearly enough at the balance of all strengths and all weaknesses. There is a weakness of which these people CANNOT SPEAK, but Xi will know what they mean. If, and only if, he is truly leadership material. Otherwise he will make foolish choices, and other waiting in the wings will push him out of power.

 

Of course, this may involve a dam failure. Or it may not. The Looking Glass cannot see the future, it can only see how the forces are arrayed at present, and extrapolate probably futures and suggest possible counters. And, of course, the counters are those that protect/enhance American interests because the Looking Glass system was built by, and is operated by, the US Military.

Anonymous ID: 65fdff July 30, 2020, 6:29 p.m. No.10132595   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2653 >>2767 >>2865 >>2971 >>3075

How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

The media are still feeling the impact of an executive order signed in 1917 that created ‘the nation’s first ministry of information’

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-180963082/

 

When the United States declared war on Germany 100 years ago, the impact on the news business was swift and dramatic.

 

In its crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” the Wilson administration took immediate steps at home to curtail one of the pillars of democracy – press freedom – by implementing a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history.

 

How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

The media are still feeling the impact of an executive order signed in 1917 that created ‘the nation’s first ministry of information’

The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right

The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right. (Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress)

By Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM

APRIL 28, 2017

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When the United States declared war on Germany 100 years ago, the impact on the news business was swift and dramatic.

 

In its crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” the Wilson administration took immediate steps at home to curtail one of the pillars of democracy – press freedom – by implementing a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history.

 

Following the lead of the Germans and British, Wilson elevated propaganda and censorship to strategic elements of all-out war. Even before the U.S. entered the war, Wilson had expressed the expectation that his fellow Americans would show what he considered “loyalty.”

 

Immediately upon entering the war, the Wilson administration brought the most modern management techniques to bear in the area of government-press relations. Wilson started one of the earliest uses of government propaganda. He waged a campaign of intimidation and outright suppression against those ethnic and socialist papers that continued to oppose the war. Taken together, these wartime measures added up to an unprecedented assault on press freedom.

 

I study the history of American journalism, but before I started researching this episode, I had thought that the government’s efforts to control the press began with President Roosevelt during WWII. What I discovered is that Wilson was the pioneer of a system that persists to this day.

 

All Americans have a stake in getting the truth in wartime. A warning from the WWI era, widely attributed to Sen. Hiram Johnson, puts the issue starkly: “The first casualty when war comes is truth.”

 

And now we are in the middle of World War 3

Anonymous ID: 65fdff July 30, 2020, 6:34 p.m. No.10132644   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>10132479

>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.143.0_2.pdf

 

In the case of this PDF, this does appear to be true. I only tried it on the first page though.