{"id":15669,"date":"2014-01-06T10:16:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15669"},"modified":"2014-01-06T10:16:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T15:16:15","slug":"top-10-proofs-people-can-be-completely-manipulated-without-hypnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/06\/top-10-proofs-people-can-be-completely-manipulated-without-hypnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Firedoglake<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Firedoglake post\" href=\"http:\/\/my.firedoglake.com\/davidswanson\/2014\/01\/04\/top-10-proofs-people-can-be-completely-manipulated-without-hypnosis\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we have been had.\u00a0 There are actually some interesting items, not that #1 isn&#8217;t true and interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4. According to U.S.ians the greatest threat to peace on earth is a nation that hasn\u2019t threatened any other, and hasn\u2019t attacked any other in centuries, a nation that suffered horrible chemical weapons attacks and refused to use chemical weapons in response, a nation that has refused to develop nuclear weapons but been falsely accused of doing so by the U.S. government for decades. That\u2019s right: a bit of laughably bad propaganda, regurgitated in variations for 30 years, and the smart critical thinkers of the Land of the Free declare a nation with a military budget below 1% of their own \u2014 Iran \u2014 the Greatest Threat to Peace.[4] Edward Bernays is cackling wickedly in his grave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Iran&#8217;s reputed support for Hezbollah in Lebanon might be considered a threat to someone.\u00a0 So I have to wonder who is being manipulated,\u00a0 the people who believe that Iran is a threat or the people who believe #4 that Iran is not a threat?<\/p>\n<p>I started out liking this article, but I must be waking up from my hypnotic trance. So maybe even the title is misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firedoglake has the article Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis. 1. Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read. I guess we have been had.\u00a0 There are actually some interesting items, not that #1 isn&#8217;t true and interesting. 4. According to U.S.ians the greatest threat to peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15670,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669\/revisions\/15670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}