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How to Make and Spread Rumors
danzarrella.com — In 1940 the British military formed an organization called the “Underground Propaganda Committee” whose mission was to create and disseminate rumors as defensive weapons against the expected Nazi invasion of the the English mainland. This is that guide.
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- pmctosh, on 04/17/2008, -0/+14What a great take on how all the alphabet agencies work. Social media too for that matter.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5i heard there was a guide detailing these techniques but i just assumed it was a rumor.
- worldinmyeyes, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3There's another alphabet agency many don't know of, the OSI. It's explicitly Orwellian mandate was to spread misinformation aimed at brainwashing the international press and "influencing public opinion and political leaders in friendly as well as unfriendly countries."
After the news broke, they changed the name, and is still working in secret today. In fact, in November 2002, Rumsfeld stated in an interview that only the name of the office was abolished, that it still exists and continues to fulfill its original intended purposes.
And yet many people think they can believe the news from the government and don't think it's mostly propaganda....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_I ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1830500.stm
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1859
- fluidfoundation, on 04/17/2008, -0/+21I heard Rob Schneider pays illegal immigrants to strangle him in the shower.
- Persian5Life, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5it's a fact.
- fluidfoundation, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Si, senor.
- HenvY, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2I heard that too...I think I saw it on FOX. Ok, it's definitely not true.
- Persian5Life, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5it's a fact.
- brantw, on 04/17/2008, -0/+9Damn Nazis.
- techresearcher, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8You can make a million dollars by typing the word "money" a trillion times in MS Word. Really.
- danzarrella, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3man, this is going to take a long time, can i cut and paste?
- fhernand, on 04/18/2008, -0/+4rumor has it you can't
- talonstriker, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2actually it doesn't (1 minute max using only keyboard). type in money once. Copy it, paste it. Recopy the whole thing. Paste it. Recopy paste...etc. If you do that it'll take approx floor( log(1,000,000)/log(2) ) steps
ok, i'll probly get dugg down for this, but I couldn't suppress my geekness.
- danzarrella, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3man, this is going to take a long time, can i cut and paste?
- amanilaenvelope, on 04/18/2008, -0/+8all you need is a couple of high school chicks who are overly spoiled and bratty and then you have your own version of this.
- OgniAsuob, on 04/18/2008, -0/+10The nazis laid the foundation for the tactics that any other modern government uses on a daily basis, creating disinformation, confusion, paranoia, fear, hate >> http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
wake up.- colonelbuckshot, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5These tactics have been around long before the Nazis.
- cyberwiz01, on 04/18/2008, -1/+2That's what they wanted you to think.
- colonelbuckshot, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5These tactics have been around long before the Nazis.
- MDubb1981, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1haha lol
- pinoyskull, on 04/18/2008, -2/+2very nice article
- danzarrella, on 04/18/2008, -2/+1thank yuou
- saffsam, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5viral marketing at its best.
- wyrdness, on 04/18/2008, -3/+2Lame article, but the site that it links too is very informative:
http://www.psywar.org/sibs.php - Fatcheeseguy, on 04/18/2008, -1/+71984 anyone?
- borez, on 04/18/2008, -1/+2How do we know this article is actually true?
- nickcozy, on 04/18/2008, -1/+5We all like to spread rumors and make gossips its a human thing admit it.
- SaveJake, on 04/18/2008, -1/+3Not all of us.............! I hope you're wrong.
- nickcozy, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Atleast the female species.:)
- SaveJake, on 04/18/2008, -1/+3Not all of us.............! I hope you're wrong.
- brokenspatula, on 04/18/2008, -2/+4spam digg with positive obama articles?
- life38, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Words verses the visual has more impact when words are linked to a visual action. Guilt by association has been the best example of linking a message to a visual action. The more a person remembers something over time the more likely the person will believe it is a true fact even when it is not.
Where the cartoons depicted in the links below are base on fact they are great examples of how a visual effect helps a person to remember.
These EMO cartoons provides another example of how to get a point of viewed to be remembered.
http://mynonprofitwebsite.com/blog/category/emo-ca ...
These nine year old cartoons are another example of getting a person to remember a point of view.
http://mynonprofitwebsite.com/blog/category/chris- ... - Persian5Life, on 04/18/2008, -1/+2***** the RIAA and the MPAA
- LeonidasStokely, on 04/18/2008, -0/+5*rumour
*humour
Digg me down but its the truth! - realwx, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2Snape kills Trinity with Rosebud.
- rexreason, on 04/18/2008, -1/+1Tory Foster murders Cally Tyrol on the latest Battlestar Galactica!
- surKaz, on 04/18/2008, -0/+2Digg's closing down!!
- angusm, on 04/18/2008, -0/+3Reported by Diggers as inaccurate.
- jmattiza40, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Methods employed can be useful for more positive purposes the spreading of truthful information, finding the communities which to share that information
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