CNNs Lou Dobbs - The Minister Of Propaganda And Enlightenment
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gul fagforeningIn accordance with -- Propaganda is really a sort of communication directed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. Often, instead of impartially providing information, propaganda can be deliberately misleading, or use fallacies, which, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid.
Propaganda techniques include -- patriotic flag-waving, glittering generalities, intentional vagueness,...
Before we proceed further we need to define the word: "Propaganda."
In accordance with -- Propaganda is really a sort of communication directed at influencing the opinions or behavior of people. Often, instead of impartially providing information, propaganda can be deliberately misleading, or use fallacies, which, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid.
Propaganda techniques include -- patriotic flag-waving, glittering generalities, intentional vagueness, over simplification of complex issues, rationalization, introducing unrelated red herring issues, using appealing, simple slogans, stereotyping, testimonials from authority figures or celebrities, unstated assumptions, and encouraging readers or viewers to "jump on the bandwagon" of a particular ideology.
With that in mind, please read on.
Recently, Lou Dobbs, the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," used yet another of his therefore called "Broken Borders" city hall meetings, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
Needlessly to say, Mr. Dobbs, published a deviously choreographed conference, where he hand picked a "powerful" choice of "anti-immigrant professionals,[1]" as members -- provided with distorted "economic estimates" and monstrous fabrications, rather than a pittance of illustration from the pro-immigration reception -- several Hispanic Americans, who although well-meaning, could not go to town with an amount of complexity matching that of Lou's employed right-wing "distortionists."
To ensure the pro-immigrant players never completely set their points across, Mr. Dobbs, on numerous occasions, cleverly cut to commercials each time a strong point grew up.
That conference, as most of the the others Lou has done, and including his daily TELEVISION show( s), was boring and laden with malicious disturbances and un-substantiated claims against immigrants.
"We are defending English!," screamed Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta -- "I am doing what my group decided me to do!" "The people that are in this region illegally are draining the resources and draining costs that are designed to be properly used to supply services for all those that are here legally and paying taxes," mentioned Mr. Barletta, without bothering to say -- the very fact that a large piece of the "illegal immigrants" are paying taxes like everyone and are also adding to a security program [and Medicare Insurance] that they'll never take advantage of so long as they remain "illegal."
One employed "expert" from the Heritage Foundation, a business that spends a lot of it's money driving "right-wing" a few ideas in the press, announced to the gathering that legalizing 12 million "illegal immigrants" would bankrupt america.
Now, this is definitely an outright lie, and by the definition of propaganda above -- this is really a deliberate distortion by an "authority figure," chosen, approved and given by the "Minister" himself -- Dr. Lou Dobbs.
America government has spent nearly 500 billion dollars up to now -- at the rate of approximately 6 billion dollars per week this season, fighting the war in Iraq...and you know what, the absolute most powerful economy on the planet is getting better still, and actually successful.
The therefore called expert from right-wing Heritage basis never bothered to demonstrate the way the legalization of 12 million immigrants will bankrupt America, as an alternative he resorted to spouting deceptive numbers, using fallacies, with which to persuade the audience that his lies and distortions are factual.
"Immigrants are leaving my city in the centre of the night!," gloated Barletta, amid wild cheers by a large area of the group -- probably a lot of blood thirsty right-wingers choking with racism and bigotry. Note: The city of Hazleton is among a few dozen in america to enact improper anti-immigrant ordinances[2].
There is one funny time each time a totally mis-informed (possibly paid by Lou Dobbs) 82 year old black man, resplendently bedecked with military medals, got onto the stage proclaiming that immigrants have "stolen jobs" from his two daughters in Nj-new Jersey.
For a man, gul fagforening who will need to have experienced racial intolerance at its worst, in his early life, to stoop therefore low -- is hypocritical and very disturbing indeed. The sources of Black America's continuous financial reach isn't grounded in immigrants. Bill Fletcher, Jr., a long-time work and global activist, and author clarifies: "The mental and hallucinatory appeal of fighting immigrants as a method of protecting the Black worker isn't only morally bankrupt, nonetheless it can be politically bankrupt." Study his article: "Anti Immigrant In Black Face[3]," to learn more.
To emphasize the fact Lou Dobbs is a man enthusiastic about the Mexican border and illegal immigration, I mentioned the language "illegal" and "alien" at the least 30 times in his initial speech, when his approximation of how many "undocumented immigrants" increased considerably from 12 million to a "certain" 20+ million.
Lou Dobbs features a penchant for applying code phrases like "illegal aliens," "comprehensive amnesty," "invasion," "immigrant criminals," "illegal immigrant drug dealers," "immigrant company members" and "disease carriers," etc., sometimes such unreasonable combinations and permutations, that also internet search engine algorithms -- which don't "think" yet, can easily find as "racist 'spamdexing'," if published on a -- code messages to his other bigots and dislike mongers, urging them to occupy "arms" from the "filthy cultural" invaders.
Again and again Lou Dobbs declared that illegal aliens are giving back to Mexico significantly more than $20 million in remittances each year, without similarly mentioning the multi-billions of revenue dollars US firms operating abroad repatriate back home by using cheap labor in Mexico and the remainder of the planet for that matter, therefore allowing U.S. Customers to buy services and products and services at super-low rates.
Also, based on the U.S. Division of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics[4], the U.S unemployment rate stands at 4.5% (Apr. 2007 Estimates) -- an archive lower in modern times, rivalling the Clinton "prosperity years," when unemployment dropped from 7.5% to 4%.
In order that it makes me question what jobs immigrants are taking from Americans.
Though it mustn't be interpreted to constitute a justification to gate-crash the edges of the Usa, I must observe that this state is what it's -- an giant, to a sizable degree due to years of hostile economic exploitation and extortion of the rest of the world through it's large and greedy multi-national corporations, and the tactical usage of arm twisting methods like the World Bank, the IMF (International Monetary Fund )[5] among numerous others.
Nearly every third world state has been touched by western imperialism in a single way or another -- western governments have colluded with infected third world leaders to use natural resources, and have appeared the other way, when these thieving leaders have pocketed gains, and "invested" the amount of money back in western banks, making their people poor and powerless.
Probably, before any anti-immigrant zealot starts spewing clear rhetoric, she or he must study Walter Rodney's guide (1973 ): How Europe Underdeveloped Africa[6], where Rodney convincingly argues that a lot of the "Third World" is really a solution of European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rodney believes vigorously about the "natural and "cultural" resource" plunder of Africa, which remains up to now -- from West African oil, to South African diamonds, to minerals like copper and bauxite in the interior places like the Congo.
The Europeans designed arbitrary boundaries for their benefit, with total disregard for the local people, their records or previous animosities -- the tumultuous Middle East concerns mind. The violence in Rwanda can be directly caused by the colonial divide and rule strategies of the Germans and the Belgians[7].
Decades of political repression by Europeans on Africans followed by difficult and hurried departures, with little planning or education of Africans for the preservation of the economic and political structure -- left many African countries in disorder, glorious today's political unrest, economic doubt, wide spread poverty and illness. The same pertains to African-Americans in the Usa -- which itself is really a creation of Europe, and consequently most of the above refers.
Note: Due to his principled are a symbol of the down-trodden Africans in Africa and the diaspora, Walter Rodney was assassinated in 1980 in his native state Guyana.
All the above are applicable to virtually every country colonized by the Europeans, primarily Britain, the "soul brother" of the Usa -- the present torch bearer of 21st century economic[8] and social imperialism[9],.......and are causes for the surge in migration from poor third world countries to the therefore called developed world.
First world greed, along with the inability of third world nations to govern themselves successfully and the requirement for inexpensive labor[skilled and unskilled] within an aging first world populace -- really are a mixture of facets that'll always encourage migration to developed nations. These excerpts from the book: If You Love This Planet[10], by Helen Caldicott, provides a clear picture about how exactly "predatory" some developed countries are to the 3rd world.
The war in Iraq is mostly perhaps not about the "fear of terrorism," but about economic dominance -- had their been no oil in the centre east, there would never have been a war. The notion that: "We are fighting them in Iraq so that we don't fight them here," is just a propagandist "chant," designed to provide cover for what is really going on in Iraq -- "Massive Theft," and "Wanton Killing." gul fagforening
If western countries want to reduce migration from the 3rd world, they must make a genuine effort to "reverse" the effects of colonialism, and to assist these countries to be self-sufficient.
