PROPAGANDA, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

From the Jan 7^th council meeting

Mayor Blum asked if there were any other items the Board would like to discuss, but it would be his recommendation to the Board that we once again do what they ask us to do, we have done this all along, and at some point there has to be foul cried on our part, we are doing everything they are asking us to do,

Including this here.

On May 21st, 2013 the Feds came back with this.

In order to address the remaining questions relating to Item 4, any future Air Evac leases should reflect a similar percentage increase in the base monthly rate to the increases experienced by other tenants from 2007-2013 pursuant to Title 49 United States Code Section 47107. In the alternative, the City should provide its cost allocation methodology for its rental rates. This methodology should be consistent with the FAA’s Rates and Charges Policy.

Also included in the 12/21/2012 letter from MoODT.

An acceptable corrective action plan would also include a City commitment to modifying its lease with AirEvac at the next available opportunity to include an escalation provision which would increase AirEvac’s rent at the same rate as the other airport tenants in order to work towards achieving airport self-sufficiency.

What did the city do to in response to the May 21^st letter?  Articles that address this issue cannot be found in any local news publications that mentioned the contents of this letter.

“Propaganda

Once understood how necessary it is for propaganda in be adjusted to the broad mass, the following rule results:

It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance.

The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.

Thus we see that propaganda must follow a simple line and correspondingly the basic tactics must be psychologically sound ...

What, for example, would we say about a poster that was supposed to advertise a new soap and that described other soaps as 'good'?

We would only shake our heads.

Exactly the same applies to political advertising.

The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.”

Mein Kampf

And for what purpose?  See the following post.