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These government-sponsored lies set the stage for illegal invasions, the destruction and pillage of target countries, the mass slaughter of innocent civilians, and global destabilization --- all for the perceived benefit of the few, and the certain detriment of the many.
Virulent lies, perpetrated and embellished by Public Relations (PR) firms, and repeated incessantly by governing media, create Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD), a common PR strategy, with a view to conditioning the public to previously-planned, illegal invasions abroad. And once the invasions start, the false messaging continues unabated.
Public Relations strategists call it "Perception Management", but it is more than that. Propagated lies, such as those listed above, derogate international principles and conventions.
Christopher Black explains in "NATO War Propaganda: A Danger To World Peace", that propaganda which incites aggressive war (i.e illegal invasions) was codified by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966.
Article 20 states explicitly :
"1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law;
2. Any advocacy of national, racial, religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence shall be prohibited by law."
Black argues further that the current media frenzy to bash Russian President Vladimir Putin is particularly dangerous. (The West, after all, is raising the stakes, and pitting us ever closer to a senseless war with a nuclear-armed country.)
He concludes that we must "protest the constant manipulation of (our) minds towards hatred and violence and war and demand the full implementation of the international covenants that prohibit it, and the arrest and trial of those that use it."
A first step towards this end is to prevent or repeal State Terror Legislation -- which de-politicizes, infantilizes, and subdues people -- wherever it arises (ie Bill C-51 in Canada).
Once free from the shackles of State propaganda and Police State legislation State, we will be better equipped to address titanic threats, such as global warming, that are currently being ignored or supressed.
If we choose Life, and Freedom, over Death and Destruction, we will put an end to imperial conquest, and we will recognize and end its hidden driver: the globalist predatory business model.
We are running out of time.
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