The Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril was central to development of the science of propaganda:

Hadley Cantril was Nelson Rockefeller's roommate at Dartmouth in the 1920's and his 1935 doctorate

was on "The Psychology of Radio". Here's a quote from it:

“Radio is an altogether novel medium of communication, preeminent as a means of social control and

epochal in its influence upon the mental horizons of men.”

Cantril joined Princeton in 1936 and became president of the "Institute for Propaganda Analysis" and founding editor in 1938 of the Rockefeller Foundation-funded "Public Opinion Quarterly" which was associated with the US government's psychological warfare efforts after World War II. He became chairman of the Princeton Psychology department. The Rockefeller Foundation gave him a $67K grant to form the "Princeton Radio Project".

The official story is that the October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" just happened to occur outside of Princeton and Cantril and associates took the opportunity to do an extensive study of people's responses and to write a book and do studies on the event. At the time, it was the largest mass persuasion event in human history.

In 1940 Cantril wrote "The Invasion From Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic". The Rockefeller Foundation was especially interested in manipulating public opinion during wartime. Their 1939 report said: “The war in Europe has given this country an unusual opportunity for studying the development of public opinion, the changes which opinion undergoes under varying conditions, and the reasons for change.”

and that the project:

"would supply essential facts on the formation and trend of opinion from peace to war time and from one stage to another under the force of successive war crises. It is expected that further analysis of the data will demonstrate the influence of such factors as family relationship, educational experience, and occupation; the group origins of reported intensity of opinion or apparent lack of it on many issues"

They helped guide American public opinion as America joined World War II in 1941.

Rockefeller was moving their banking and oil interests into South America and were excited about using the new "soft power" of psychological operations to monitor and shape public opinion there. They funded Cantril and George Gallup to create "American Social Surveys" to assess public opinion in South America. They did the same in the US. and Roosevelt used Cantril's findings to craft his speeches during the war. They also did projects with the Psychological Warfare Branch of Military Intelligence in North Africa, the Department of State on US attitudes toward foreign affairs, and the Office of Strategic Services on German public opinion.

Over time, the Rockefellers especially but many other groups funded ever more sophisticated public opinion monitoring and manipulation techniques and used them for both business and politics.

The War of the Worlds (radio drama)

That event seems to now be understood on at least 5 levels and was related to the study of propaganda

for business and to get the US into World War II:

1. Dramatic Orson Welles radio show intended to move an audience

2. Rockefeller funded Princeton study to see how influenced a population could be by an emotionally

powerful media

1. The real manipulation was to test whether people would believe that others would believe the

performance was real and

become hysterical. Early investigation into shifting a population's beliefs about other people!

1. Denial of the panic as "fake news" and a "naturally arising" myth

2. Claim that newspaper stories created the myth because "radio was a threat to newspapers" and they

wanted to discredit it.

[Henry Murray, Harvard, more to come]

From late 1959 to early 1962, Murray was responsible for experiments, now widely viewed as unethical, in which he used twenty-two Harvard undergraduates as research subjects. Among other goals, experiments sought to measure individuals' responses to extreme stress.

The unwitting undergraduates were submitted to what Murray called "vehement, sweeping and personally abusive" attacks. Specifically, tailored assaults on their egos, cherished ideas and beliefs were used to cause high levels of stress and distress. The subjects then viewed recorded footage of their reactions to this verbal abuse repeatedly.

Among them was 17-year-old Ted Kaczynski, a mathematician who went on to become the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist targeting academics and technologists for 18 years.[5] Alston Chase's book Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist connects Kaczynski's abusive experiences under Murray to his later criminal career.

In 1960, Timothy Leary started research in psychedelic drugs at Harvard, which Murray is said to have supervised. Murray's experiments were part of, or indemnified by, the US Government's research into mind control known as the MK ULTRA project

Since the days of Key and Cantril and Murray, fMRI and ingenious experiments by cognitive psychologists /behavioral economists like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely and many others have confirmed in a multitude of ways that habits, hunches, and conditioned responses is responsible for almost all non-formal human decision making.

Even complex, procedural logic-driven human decision-making has an intuitive component, which anyone involved with the advertising, market research or media content production knows. For this reason, tactics and technologies which reliably influence the unconscious component of mind are highly developed. National, regional and local media are freighted with sounds, symbols and images, unperceived messages targeting consumers' unconscious, to be retained and held in memory to influence future decision-making.

Professor Wilson Bryan Key put it, “In spite of the evidence presented in this book, most Americans will still find it difficult to believe that their trusted, high-credibility information sources long ago betrayed them into the hands of profit hungry marketing executives who have quietly researched, developed and exhaustively applied a subliminal technology of communication that is now driving every larger segments of the population to pathological behaviors. “

Subliminal and subsonic influence tactics are seldom discussed in MSM media, not because the tactics are ineffective and rarely used, but because they are so effective that the advertising-supported media superorganism considers them critical to the function of the industry. Subliminal advertising is illegal, though the laws against it are both feeble and likely unenforceable, having been openly transgressed for the entire term of their existence; and, since the business model of advertising supported media depends on their nullity.

The manipulation of individuals, identity groups and national populations after world war 2 was held critical to “national security;” subliminals are key to that manipulation. Advertising and media content targeting viewer’s unconscious mind has been augmented by techniques like hypnotic induction, subsonic “whisper” acoustics and images which stimulate aggression, sexual arousal or instinctual response. As previously noted, the power of these exploits, their depth of penetration and range of their reach has been greatly enhanced by the advent of networked media technologies.

The presumed independence and competitive operation of entertainment and communications industry is illusory. The media may be considered as a single functionally integrated parasitic organism which includes the advertising industry. “Simply expressed, what is consciously perceived by individuals, groups or nations has little or nothing to do with the physical, biological, economic and social realities the perceptions represent. “

Advertising supported media viewers are not citizens whom broadcasters compete to inform but consumer victims to be coerced and manipulated until pacified and enslaved.

Advertising supported MSM legacy media is not a passive partner in subversion - they are the "experts" in social control, supposed Masters of Social Programming, planners of and profit participants in, the exploitation and slaughter of the public; and today they’re principal architects of an psychological warfare campaign intended to destroy America.

Subversion is nothing new advertising supported media has been for sale since advertising supported media came into being. Karl Kraus the Viennese satirist, documented the media’s role in fomenting the incompetent and disastrous charade of WW I. One of Kraus’s recent translators, Michael Russell, summarizes, “Kraus saw a powerful influential press in Vienna becoming ever more mendacious, manipulative, corrupt and self-serving, forming ever stronger ties with the aristocratic, industrial, financial and above all political elites of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later, after the war, with the struggling democracy of a new Austria.”

Kraus recognized (as did many at that time) the media was an apocalyptic threat, creating a false reality, one which it was impossible to reject publicly without being considered a fool or a mad man. Since Kraus’s day the advertising-media superorganism has developed technologically and consolidated economically until six five companies today enjoy near total control over all human communication. 99% everything we learn about the world comes to us today through a screen. This has created an extended perceptual loop, information we receive about the world via a screen is treated the same way that information about the world which we receive via our senses - it is trusted.

Kraus knew, again, as many people did then, that the first world war was started for profit and that the advertising supported media complex - newspapers and magazines in that day - were not passive agents reporting this, but active partners in fomenting and initiating the war and provoking public fear, hatred and palpably fraudulent patriotism to support it.

The media participated directly in the profits reaped by their advertisers; bankers, arms makers, suppliers of goods and services.

Advertising supported media organizations prospered so greatly from the first, mass mechanized, slaughter of civilian populations in the history of warfare, that they’ve been at it ever since.

Six companies today exert near total control over the entirety of human mass communication. As they danced, they sang: "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands."

The manipulation of individuals, identity groups and national populations after world war 2 was held critical to “national security;” subliminals are key to that manipulation.

Advertising and media content targeting viewer’s unconscious mind has been augmented by techniques like mass hypnotic induction, subsonic “whisper” acoustics and hidden and overt images which stimulate aggression, sexual arousal or instinctual response. As previously noted, the power of these exploits, their depth of penetration and range of their reach has been greatly enhanced by the advent of networked media technologies.

UNCONSCIOUS COMPONENT OF MIND

The unconscious is not subordinate to the conscious mind. There is nothing “sub” about the unconscious component of our mind. The unconscious is that part of our mind which lies beyond the shifting perceptual border dividing what we consciously know from what we intuit or imagine. The unconscious is the repository of our enduring belief systems, our most cherished cultural values, attitudes and basic assumptions. By comparison our conscious opinions are transitory and superficial.

Behavioral economists and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and Dan Airley have both written bestselling books characterizing the nature of the unconscious component of mind, establishing that it plays the dominant role in all our non-formal decision making. The unconscious component of mind can be, has been, conditioned to respond emotionally to consumer commodity products.

Professor Wilson Bryan Key, in the 1980s said, “Subliminal embedding can make celebrities, models, automobiles, food products, politicians or scapegoats or any other merchandise more attractive, exciting, flavorful and appealing. Modern media usually avoid confronting the audience with factual realities at the level of conscious perception. Fantasies are far more engaging than unembellished perceptions.”

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belgium

>Belgium's most hated man, convicted paedophile Marc Dutroux, has been locked up for the last six years without trial. Andrew Osborn wonders why it is taking so long for justice to be done

Fri 25 Jan 2002 07.13 EST

> Accused of committing the vilest of crimes - of raping, torturing and murdering young girls as young as eight for his own sexual gratification. And yet Marc Dutroux, already a convicted paedophile, has still not been brought to justice.

>Dutroux, Belgium's public enemy number one without equal, has been incarcerated since 1996 and yet still there is no trial date. It might be this year it might be next - who can say, officials shrug.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jan/25/worlddispatch.dutroux