Threads- Chapter Two: The Mainstream Propaganda Machine

Charles "Ghost" Coutts
Jul 25
6 min read

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

― Noam Chomsky,

(Opinion)

Out of all of the topics I cover this had to be the most obvious to me and the easiest to predict the outcome of, which it turns out a couple decades later I would be proven right. Now, I am not attacking CNN, I am simply stating a fact because this media company was the spear head of 24-hour news, they were the beginning of how I saw this all play out.

So, we need a little context here as to why it was so obvious and recognizable to me. First, we must consider the fact that I was not a normal child. I had read the full set of the World Book encyclopedia by the time I was out of grade school. I had a pathological fascination with history which eventually led me into the psychology of human behavior so even at an early age I knew all about Marxism and its many bastard children.

Secondly, I am Gen X through and through. When we had a TV, it got 3 channels on a good clear day and us kids were both the antenna adjusters as well as the remote control. Then came cable TV, wireless remotes and CNN, the first ever 24-hour news channel and at the time being a movie fanatic having 40 plus channels, some dedicated to just movies I was like a kid in a candy store, until the new wore off, the excitement faded and I stopped ignoring that niggling in the back of mind concerning CNN because for a while it was my news channel and millions of other people's news channel as well. It was in every restaurant and bar, every airport and mall playing constantly.

That niggling in the back of mind was trying to get me to realize that this could and most likely would become a problem, a BIG problem down the road. So, me being me I went into dissection mode playing out all possible outcomes and angles until through a simple process of elimination and attribution the most likely outcome was that it would be abused and turned into a means of manipulation. The majority of the people I knew at the time thought the same thing and I only learned after the fact that it was much more widespread of a belief than I ever imagined. In the end though, those voices faded away and CNN is still here with a countless number of copycats doing the very thing we were warning about back when it first came out. CNN is a propaganda machine for the progressives/Marxists trying to overthrow our republic and make us a pure democracy which can then be transformed into socialism. Using CNN as my example let's get into it.

For informational/educational purposes only.

I was not nearly as learned as I am now back then of course, but I was very good at identifying patterns as well as minute disruptions in those patterns. That being said it was inarguably true that CNN was a major disruption in the previous patterns of our worldwide flow of information. Within a very short period of time, it would not be false to say that they pretty much cornered the market on it, everyone watched CNN, including me which meant we for the most part all got our information from the same place. Realizing that set off my alarm bells big time!

Backing up a bit, the reason we all watched CNN at the time is because CNN reported the news just like the news channels we grew up watching, they were legit so everyone, again including me, started trusting CNN for all of their information because at the time we checked by comparing CNN to our old tried and true big 3, ABC, CBS, and NBC to see if they were telling the truth. After a while we as a whole stopped checking, even me and that was part of what kept bugging me until I figured it out, we were not questioning the information we were being told anymore and again, alarm bells going off. Why you may ask, because I knew then what this video shows you now.

It was not just Hitler either, "communists" were just as bad at censorship and control of the flow of information because as I have stated many times, they both spring from Marxism so they both have the same goal, totalitarianism. Fascism and "communism" are simply siblings fighting over the same toy, us.

Does any of those methods or tactics sound familiar, because they should. They are being used on all of us right now, in real time. The problem for the left is us "conspiracy theorists" who the programming didn't take with no matter how hard they propagandized us we still see through the bullshit and know what they are really up to. That makes us dangerous which is of course the reason for the massive propaganda campaign to demonize us by calling us primarily Nazis.

Guess where that comes from. The following is an excerpt from the documentary "The Great Awakening" which you can find HERE. He is reading this 50 or so years ago guys, let that sink in.

Today's progressives/Marxists.

Media manipulation (propaganda) in action.

The message: it is only bad if certain people do it and that is a form of dehumanization because one is claiming superiority over those people who fall into that category, a favorite tactic of... you guessed it, Marxists.

Now, CNN has become exactly what my generation predicted it would become back when it first came out, a propaganda machine for the progressives/Marxists in both parties of our government. They were legit for a long time which is why people came to trust them so much and made the mistake of trusting them too much by becoming complacent to the point of allowing CNN to basically do their thinking for them. I don't know about anyone else, but I cannot count the number of times I have heard "but I saw it on CNN" or something similar like that was the end of it as far as they were concerned never questioning it, just accepting it as a fact because CNN said it. This was intentional and highly orchestrated.

Now that CNN and more importantly certain elements of our government knew they had millions of people on the hook and trusting them explicitly, I saw the shift as the media group moved or should I say was pushed further and further away from a news channel into analysis into opinion and finally into being a full out propaganda machine for the left, or the progressives/Marxists that control that machine. Now to clarify, I am not picking on CNN, they may have been the idea but many, many other media groups picked up the Marxist mantel and joined them along the way to our current state of affairs which is undeniably media censorship as well as flat out lies and accusations that have no proof to back them up. And President Obama made it not only easy but perfectly legal for them to do so.

But people still believe the lies because well, they saw it on CNN so it must be true. Brainwashing complete. That is how one hijacks the media and turns it into a propaganda machine to create and perpetuate only the side of the story that benefits the Marxists. I not only watched it happen I predicted it having since been proven to be correct. It happened exactly as I thought it would and no matter how much I tried to warn people they just dismissed me as another crazy "conspiracy theorist", they still do even though I have a 98% accuracy rate on the things I predict based on my knowledge of human history and behavior patterns as well as the psychology behind those behaviors. I still get called one over things that have been proven true or false, it really is a state of mass psychosis.

Remember guys, saying "history is repeating itself" is a cop out, ignorant people repeat history, and we are witnessing it firsthand right now, all around us as well as the consequences that come with it. If ignorance based on lies is the problem, then truth-based knowledge is the only solution. First, they used the education system to dumb us down by teaching us what to think instead of how to think and then they use the media to control the information we are allowed to consume. Lies become truth and truth is declared to be lies under penalty of law. This is not something that is coming folks, it is already here and has been for at least a couple of decades now so if this is your first time hearing about it, I strongly suggest you take some time to catch up with reality before reality catches up with you. Denying this will not make it any less true. Just saying.

That's how I saw it happen, until next time. ~Ghost

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