Kids eating Venezuelan garbage poisoned, dead

[Judi Lynn]

8. Referring to your hot "news" story? They all sound like they were cranked out by the same people.

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I can remember a period of time the Cuban "exiles" told, among the other whoppers, the yarm that Cubans were eating the cats and dogs running in the streets.

Amazing.

They ARE the whopper meisters to consult for constant propaganda assaults against any progressive government or official. Their own dirtbag, Otto Reich was Ronald Reagan's Office of Public Diplomacy head, and he was sanctioned by Congress for his filthy propaganda blitz, trying to lie to the US public about Iran-Contra, using the US taxpayers' hard-earned tax dollars to lie to them through every outlet within his considerable reach.

Dirty "news" has been a staple of right-wing spun "news" officially since Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of a progressive President, in a total propaganda blitz by




How the CIA and Corporate America Used Propaganda in 1954 to Overthrow a Democratic Nation:

the ideology and purpose of the propaganda campaign
In the case of the Guatemalan counterrevolution of 1954, the ideology was pro-capitalist, anti-communist, and pro-American. The purpose of the U.S.government's propaganda campaign was to remove Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz from power using the least amount of direct intervention possible and replace him with a leader sympathetic to U.S. economic and political interests and to keep communism outof the Western Hemisphere. The purpose of the United Fruit Company's propaganda campaign was to influence the American general public and lobby the U.S. government to act in its defense against the expropriation of land which occurred under Presiden tArbenz's agrarian land reform bill, Decree 900.

https://www.scribd.com/document/50930814/How-the-CIA-and-Corporate-America-Used-Propaganda-in-1954-to-Overthrow-a-Democratic-Nation

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Sourcewatch:

Edward Bernays

This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch funded from 2006 - 2009 by the American Legacy Foundation.

Edward Louis Bernays
Edward Bernays.jpg
in the early 1920s
Born November 22, 1891
Vienna, Austria
Died March 9, 1995 (age 103)
Cambridge (MA), United States
Occupation Public relations, advertising

Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) is considered one of the fathers of the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. As a member of the Creel Committee, he helped U.S. President Woodrow Wilson propagandize in support of allied war aims during World War I. He went on to design PR campaigns for politicians and companies such as General Motors, Procter & Gamble and American Tobacco. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the subconscious.

He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd instinct' that Trotter had described. Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.[1]

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Overthrow of government of Guatemala

On behalf of the United Fruit Company (today's Chiquita Brands International), Bernays orchestrated political propaganda in concert with the U.S. government to facilitate the overthrow of the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Bernays' propaganda (documented in the BBC documentary, The Century of the Self), branded Arbenz as communist and was published in major U.S. media. According to a book review by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of Larry Tye's biography, "The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays & The Birth of PR",

"the term 'banana republic' actually originated in reference to United Fruit's domination of corrupt governments in Guatemala and other Central American countries. The company brutally exploited virtual slave labor in order to produce cheap bananas for the lucrative U.S. market."

More:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edward_Bernays

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The Consortium


Guatemala -- 1954: Behind the CIA's Coup
By Kate Doyle

Most historians now agree that the CIA-sponsored military coup in 1954 was the poison arrow that pierced the heart of Guatemala's young democracy. Code-named "PBSUCCESS," the covert operation overthrew Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the second legally elected president in Guatemalan history.

Over the next four decades, a succession of military rulers would wage counter-insurgency warfare that also would shred the fabric of Guatemalan society. The violence caused the deaths and disappearances of more than 140,000 Guatemalans. Some human rights activists put the death toll as high as 250,000.

In recent weeks, after five years of promises to come clean on the Guatemalan operation, the CIA has released 1,400 pages from its secret files on the coup. Those pages represent only about one percent of the CIA's records on the topic.

Still, the pages shed important light on the CIA's first covert operation in Latin America. Citizens can now examine the anatomy of a CIA covert operation, in all its gory details: assassination plots, paramilitary and economic warfare, provocation techniques, psychological operations, rumor campaigns and sabotage. Plus, because of its success in toppling Arbenz, PBSUCCESS became a model for subsequent CIA activities in the hemisphere, many of which also have included massive loss of life.

More:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story38.html

To those who won't want to settle for quick, stupid, hard to believe "news stories" designed to pander to one's lowest, and goofiest instincts, any time you decide to spend looking for the reality behind the cloud of propaganda surrounding Latin American history at US hands, please step outside your routine and dive into research. You will be more than rewarded, and will feel clean again once you start putting the pieces together to see through the ####storm US citizens have been handed throughout their lives. It time, as the world continues to get smaller, and people can gain awareness so much more easily, the truth will eventually become IMPOSSIBLE to bury any longer. Your own answers lie at your fingertips.