Zwicker to 9/11 truthers (#4 snowshoefilms

ZWICKER MEMO -- Barrie Zwicker, author of Towers of Deception: the media cover-up of 9/11, offers a partial list of techniques used by those determined to avoid or suppress discussion of the evidence:
absurdities, ad hominem sallies, bald assertions that are misstatements, bandwagon psychology, bizarre non-sequiters, bullying, diminishment of importance (of the important), dismissiveness, diversion (e.g., not answering the question), failure to provide minimal evidence, fake humility, fake open-mindedness, false parallels, false syllogisms, framing to exclude contrary outlooks, ignorance flaunted as admirable, insinuation, internal contradiction, major premises hidden in passing, misdirection, misleading asides, mixing metaphors (apples and oranges), obfuscation, restriction of options, scare tactics, setting up straw men, sweeping generalizations, and word inflation. In future parts of this series, we will illustrate Chomsky's post-9/11 use of many of these techniques. Zwicker here also explores cognitive dissonance, psychological projection, hypnosis, trance state induction (largely as covered by Douglas Rushkoff and his book, Coercion as well as Steven Pinker (a Chomsky protoge).
Rushkoff's book is useful, but limited, especially in comparison to Julian Jaynes' work, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Rushkoff examines consciousness and the manipulation of it from sort of a reformed behaviorist perspective.
We've arbitrarily inserted in this video three images that aren't especially integral: George Estabrooks' 1949 how-to book, Using Hypnosis; (two) Leon Festinger's how-to book, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance; and finally (three) Jaynes' book.
Jaynes, for all his brilliance and principled being, ignored the government-corporate exploitation of the vestigial bicameral mind that he identified in his great work. George Estabrooks (Hypnosis) was a happy cold war psy war technician: he believed in 'the mission'. Commies were evil and conniving and he would do anything he could to beat them at their purported game. For Estabrooks, hypnosis was a gimmick and he could get anybody to do anything under hypnosis and said so. Like a good behaviorist, he didn't give a rats ass how hypnosis worked, only that it did work and you had to be careful with it. Dr. Estabrooks (Colgate University) worked for various branches of secret government, undoubtedly integrated into MKULTRA. Leon Festinger's book, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance, was commissioned by the CIA (via the Ford Foundation). Festinger lead a team of cold-war behaviorists to figure out how to exploit cognitive dissonance. Stanford published their manual in 1957. Like Estabrooks, the behaviorists don't bother much about why or how of hypnosis or the exploitation of cognitive dissonance works, only that it works. Julian Jaynes (of Princeton), wasn't paying attention to the behaviorists he stidently but prematurely dismissed in the 60s. Another arbitrary sort of insertion in this video: Frank Luntz, one of the psy-warriors Zwicker generically refers to. A free-lance psywarrior, Luntz famously sold the Bush administration on pounding 9/11 and 'the terrorists' up front in all Bush admin. speeches. David Brancaccio's July 1974 (on NOW, PBS) interview with Luntz is revealing. Luntz recalls that one of the tricks he learned from mentor Tony Schwartz (The Responsive Chord), is that you don't try to inform or teach, what you do is find narrow self-interest and fear and connect with that, find the responsive chord. In this sequence, Luntz demonstrates another Schwartz technique: throw the target off guard with rhetorical questions. The questions are rhetorical to Brancaccio because he's imprisoned in the construct (belief system, or collective cognitive imperative) that Luntz, like Zelikow, is committed to reinforcing. snowshoefilms / yoryevrah

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[orbis2009]

Music is not appropriate while showing building falling. People were dying there.

[Yoryevrah]

@orbis2009

BUILDING 7 WAS CLEARED OF PEOPLE. UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T.

[washingstonian]

looks at the world polls concerning 9/11. Canadians and Citizens of Mexico belief at a much higher percentage that it was a false flag. What do those two countries have to do with us? Well, they know us well, as they have been our neighbors since we became the usa. Its demonstrably more easy to see as a non-usa resident. Our neighbors can much better see it, for they have less of the 'patriotic chaff' and mainstream media to fight off for control of their independent thought. Retards no.

[Aanthanur]

wow psychological projection.

[GoSolar]

Where is part 5?

[Bongofury361]

@pentagon28

It sounds like you and tobiasaurusrex might be more knowledgeable about physics and mathematics than I, but, in my years of investigating 911, I have learned a lot about planes (their structure and max. speeds), about the "twins" (their structural make-up, etc.), about fire temperatures and their influence on structural steel, and how physics dictates the way a compromised building falls...and there can be NO denying that there was CD!

I DON'T believe real planes were used AT ALL!

[xirishmagicx]

I suggest staying away from mentioning hypnosis and trance in your videos. There's a lot of information lacking and the information present is simply inaccurate. Not to be hostile however, I believe in your values and stance. The info in inaccurate though.

[1quasar1]

What's with reference to the left? The majority of corporate thugs are well known to be on the right and and damned proud of it I might add. Republicans protect their interests at all costs and you want credibility with this. Better figure out who's on what side first. Left my ass.

[SlackerSlayer]

@pentagon28 Try the same calc with a 737-400 model.

[SlackerSlayer]

@Yoryevrah "BUILDING 7 WAS CLEARED OF PEOPLE. UNLESS YOU KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T."

Barry Jennings tells what you need to know. I must agree, the tone of the tune seems more apt as a demonstration of something for children. At first I thought you were going to be wrapping something. You started to ryhmn,,, oh good he's not going to wrap.

To me, the evidence of obstruction of justice will ensnare the perps responsible for those demolitions and murders. No statute of limitations for murder.

[tobiasaurusrex]

@cwlldoran It's still made up. He made up this 1/3 velocity. Even it it were true, it still wouldn't approach hurricane forces, or the 13,000 ton threshold, let alone the overpenetration effect that would nullify a plane's excessive force.

Neither of you have made any valid points, and you both outright lie.

Pickled red herring breakfast, lunch, and dinner is not much of a diet.

[cwlldoran]

@tobiasaurusrex

E1=0.5 x M x V^2

E2=0.5 x M x (3V)^2

E2=0.5 x M x 9(V^2)

E2=E1 x 9

Division by 2 applies to both E1 and E2. The units don't matter - if it is km/h or m/h it is still 3 times the speed and 9 times the kinetic energy.

[tobiasaurusrex]

@pentagon28 In trying to get the 300 ton plane to have 13,000 tons of force, take into account the crumpling of the plane, and the fact that the plane applies it's force to a select area, and puts its energy into flying out the other side of the building, affecting the steel columns it strikes.

With bullets this is called overpenetration, where the bullet passes through a body, only delivering a portion of it's energy. So is that portion 13,000 tons of force?

Show your work.