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Brainwashing, Propaganda & Psychological Conditioning
// "Looking back I feel completely brainwashed. I didn't even know what I liked or what sort of person I was. I was just a robot of the church." -Jenna Miscavige //

[|The Muppets Brainwashing Children]
===This article explains how the Muppets are accused of brainwashing children because there is a bad character called Tex Richman who wants to tear down the Muppets theater. People feel that this brainwashes into disliking wealthy (rich men) and oil companies. ===

[|Brainwashing In Labor Camps]
===This news article is about a young girl, Jenna Miscavige, a former Scientologist, and was put in a labor camp of her uncle's at a young age and never got to see her family and was always doing labor work. She was made to sign a billion-year contract that bound her immortal spirit to lifetime after lifetime. She believes she missed out on a childhood and wrote a book in 2012 called My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape, which is about her life story in the church. ===

[|Hamas Brainwashing High School Students]
===This news article is about the Hamas, a terrorist group in the Middle East, is brainwashing Palestinian children into hating Israel by having them read textbooks that are false and one sided narratives. There are 55,000 students between the eighth and tenth grade that don't even consider modern Israel. ===

Obamacare In Television Shows
==This news article explains about how The California Endowment gave directors of television programs $500,000 to incorporate pro Obamacare messages into their TV shows because it may persuade the viewers to believe in the message. ==

North Korea Uses Propaganda Through Social Media
==This news article explains how the country of North Korea is using propaganda by showing their country Youtube videos of an animated version of Manhattan in flames. The propaganda in the article is showing how militarily strong North Korea is by sending missiles to New York to destroy the United States. ==

Syria Cracks Down On Social Media
==This news article explains how Syria is forcing citizens to give them their Facebook username and password and turning off their 3G mobile network at certain times, which will make it harder for citizens of Syria to upload videos of protest to Youtube. The propaganda in the article is that the citizens are uploading videos to Youtube that the government did not want people to see. Some people are creating fake Facebook usernames and passwords because they know they are being monitored. ==

=Psychological Conditioning - =

Operant And Classical Conditioning
==This webpage explains the difference between operant and classical conditioning. It also talks about what behaviorism is and different examples of these types of conditioning. ==

Types of Conditioning & Ivan Pavlov
==This webpage is describing more about what classical and operant conditioning are. It also talks about in detail about Ivan Pavlov, the man who discovered classical conditioning. He discovered it while doing research on digestion and was better at understanding the digestive patterns in dogs. ==



= Blog Post: = Wendy's Brainwashing Customers

= This blog post is trying to show how the Wendy's logo is brainwashing their customers into thinking that their food is healthy, nutritious, and is the same in comparing to a mom's home cooked meal. =

Podcasts and Radio Programs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tphSPRbiP6g

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wmD0C52NgY

This video is about how people are brainwashed into following the crowd. In this video it shows how one person says an answer no matter if it’s wrong or right the other people in the room copy that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fG3whcEjI

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This video shows many different propaganda commercials. Some commercials in this video is its shows when a person is hungry they should eat a snickers bar to make them feel better, also a smart car it shows how fast,and how it looks, and what the car has to offer you, and that you should buy it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf0xAxFw4zg

This video is about how this fourth grade teacher brainwashed the kids to write on a piece of paper “ I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be more safer and secure.” These fourth graders don’t even really know what that means. The teacher just made them right on a piece of paper, and lots of the children's parents were very upset and called this brainwashing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxDSQ23cWhE

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=** This commercial is an advertisement for e trade, which is a business that helps you save money. This commercial is effective because it grabs the audience's attention with humor. **=

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= RSS Feeds = http://www.religionnewsblog.com/27378/hijab-outcry

=** This feed includes information about religious brainwashing. One of the examples describes a situation where a psychologist at Castlewood Treatment Center has three separate lawsuits filed against him for brainwashing women into believing that they were members of satanic cults. **=

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23998/french-aristocrats-break-free-from-sect-leader-thierry-tilly

= This feed describes a situation in which French aristocrats were brainwashed into giving up their fortune. Oxford-based "guru" Thierry Tilly was arrested for kidnapping and torture, two of the methods he used to convince six members of the Védrines family to give him their money. =

Criticism on Brainwashing and Propaganda:
= **Pros-** =
 * **It may help sell products better, which may get companies more business.**
 * ** There may not be as big as a conflict between people over controversial issues.  **

= Cons- =
 * == It doesn't allow people to form an opinion or think for themselves. ==
 * == Propaganda is only one side of the story .==
 * == Propaganda is only one side of the story .==

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