Accuse the media of brainwashing while doing the brainwashing yourself.
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A de-radicalization program is, in effect, a brainwashing scheme—or in some cases, a reverse brainwashing.
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And Parvaiz's slow brainwashing by ISIS, and subsequent struggle against his brainwashing, only narrowly avoids becoming a wholesale cliché.
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He also worries about the implication that "medicalizing" brainwashing could have on court decisions, which have traditionally not been very receptive to brainwashing as a criminal defense.
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To the Instagram commentators who accused me of brainwashing my son with my own political beliefs: There's a difference between brainwashing and encouraging a child to consider what's going on in the world.
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He hadn't entirely shaken his brainwashing and was deeply traumatized.
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Would I be susceptible to a cult's indoctrination and brainwashing?
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Its dizzying plot twists included cult brainwashing and demonic possession.
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They dominate entire star systems by slowly brainwashing their inhabitants.
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"It was total, systematic brainwashing every day," Mr. Ungerer said.
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He alleges his mother had a "brainwashing effect" on his father.
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Personal testimonials and transformation footage help drive home the brainwashing vibe.
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They've been accused of brainwashing kids, infiltrating the government, and worse.
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Does he show us this process of isolation, brainwashing and fear?
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At what point can we call this what it is- brainwashing?
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READ: How teachers are fighting the white nationalists brainwashing their students.
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You throw in a couple of movies, and it's just brainwashing.
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The way that Pennijean described it is that I'm not brainwashing myself.
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"It's increasingly difficult to maintain a harmonious society through brainwashing," Sui said.
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She's being subjected to a great amount of Gilead brainwashing right now.
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Brainwashing was a farce, a scientific impossibility, and indoctrination can be positive.
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Cyrus and Hemsworth have known each other for well over a decade now — if any brainwashing was going on, they both had plenty of time to consult fairy godmothers and/or produce a reagent that would counteract the brainwashing.
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Due to the bee's bent-over posture, the brainwashing chip isn't implanted correctly.
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But it's also reflecting the broad cultural trope of LSD-fueled cult brainwashing.
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If Patricia's voice was a product of brainwashing, it wasn't the SLA's work.
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Kevin Sr. then launched and claimed Wendy was "brainwashing" their son against him.
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They understand that the benefits of education outweigh any risks of lefty brainwashing.
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"The syndrome is also called 'traumatic bonding' or 'victim brainwashing,'" the definition read.
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ISFP's hate confrontation, so the initial brainwashing period may be quite stressful for you.
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It feels, in essence, like Lizzie has traded one form of brainwashing for another.
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Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns.
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He said he won't miss the "brainwashing" and "fakeness" he experienced during his career.
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But doubling down on political brainwashing this way is unlikely to serve their cause.
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"I grew up in the ghetto, so I know what brainwashing is," he said.
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Brainwashing is like magic; these men can do it on anyone they want to.
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"We slowly work to undo the years of brainwashing they were subjected to," said Qassim.
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James Inhofe accused the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday of creating "propaganda" and "brainwashing" American children.
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They were released on October 18th, after Ethiopia's police chief said their "brainwashing" was complete.
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They cannot rely on brainwashing in an isolated location, as face-to-face schemes do.
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Court also said that the Devil was influencing transgender children, like a Nazi brainwashing plot.
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WM: In other words, Paul Crockett knew a thing or two about cults and brainwashing.
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But in time, accusations of sexual abuse and brainwashing surfaced, prompting some followers to leave.
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Call that brainwashing, but I call it parenting, because we instill our values in him.
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Although, she called him a "monster" ... Kelly, ironically, chalks that up to brainwashing from Drea.
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Were the First Order stealing Force-sensitive kids and brainwashing them into becoming stormtroopers, perhaps?
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The rise of 'brainwashing' The concept of "brainwashing" became popular in the United States around the 1950s, when the Communist Party took power in China and when a handful of American prisoners decided to stay in North Korea after the Korean War, according to Richardson.
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I'd like to think that the full-on brainwashing would take longer than one day, though.
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Brainwashing and Stockholm Syndrome are now taught to high schoolers, with Hearst as example number one.
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Western media's projection of techno-Orientalist brainwashing and authoritarian themes go far beyond The Wandering Earth.
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Steinberg adds as Van Houten grew up ... her brain matured and she escaped Charles Manson's brainwashing.
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Former detainees, though, have described the classes as numbing, harsh and ultimately futile attempts at brainwashing.
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Richardson said her trial was "a real watershed event" that further solidified brainwashing in popular culture.
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Outsiders assume they submit to total brainwashing, control, and even abuse before they're old enough to drive.
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Moshe did not back away from critics who may have considered his early preaching to be brainwashing.
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Friday sermons are monitored closely for radical content, says Bakir, and "re-brainwashing" projects are being launched.
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Scandals including accusations of coerced sex and abortions, and of brainwashing, eventually caused many followers to leave.
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A "red pill" is a transformative bit of knowledge that is supposed to subvert left-wing brainwashing.
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She has just published her second book, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems.
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She has just published her second book, Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems .
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And despite the government's brainwashing, they know how to use technology and obtain information from the outside.
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That's why music has been also misused for brainwashing purposes—in battle, in religion, to manipulate multitudes.
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Communist leaders engage in modern-day totalitarian brainwashing, bizarre lies and industrial-level indoctrination to suppress Muslims.
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"It became kind of a problem to use the concept of brainwashing in court," Lalich told VICE.
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So desperate was I for a brainwashing, I even tried to instigate it myself at one point.
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Ripper, convinced that the Soviets were brainwashing Americans through fluoridation, sent ordinance-laden planes toward the Soviet Union.
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Brainwashing lasted until the final moments of the USSR, but the 60s were already a more lenient period.
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The reality exposed by journalists, NGOs and former detainees includes mass surveillance, arbitrary detentions, brainwashing and even torture.
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Detainees are reportedly subjected to bizarre exercises aimed at "brainwashing" them as well as physical torture and deprivation.
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In the documentary, Dawson pointed out that Paul's been accused of brainwashing his young viewers into buying things.
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Then there's the Iron Islands, which have been led by Theon's sister Yara since his unfortunate kidnapping/brainwashing.
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But rarely has corporate brainwashing been so much fun and gone down with such a delightful aftertaste. B+
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" His theory was that white people were fending off racial extinction, using "psychological brainwashing" and "the AIDS virus.
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In 2003, Drea's mother Gerri Cruz told journalists that she feared that R. Kelly was brainwashing her daughter.
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So yes, I grew up with this sort of brainwashing or national belief that unification should have happened.
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"It was mainly brainwashing in Western constitutionalism and other erroneous ideas," Mr. Xie answered, according to that transcript.
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"Airbus and Boeing have been pretty successful in brainwashing airlines to think they need larger aircraft," Bole said.
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Ms. Park was determined to unite the country not through reason or dialogue but by brainwashing young minds.
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Former detainees say they were forced to endure intensive brainwashing sessions, including close studies of Communist Party propaganda.
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I'd argue that's a much simpler account of the dynamics here than attributing everything to cult-like brainwashing.
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Visitors to the HKW exhibition are not subjected to the brainwashing impact of a real Pollock or Reinhardt.
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Those techniques have been very successful in brainwashing a large proportion of our population and polarizing the political process.
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I resist the way it's used as one of these brainwashing memes to erase the complexity of the truth.
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But they treat consciousness of sexual harassment as a uniquely post-feminist phenomenon: the result of politically correct brainwashing.
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The distinguishing feature of the Chinese scams is the way they combine pyramid-type operations with cult-like brainwashing.
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In two of these cases, in order to get reduced sentences the accused followers pleaded brainwashing by Rajneesh's cult.
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It's like propaganda that is brainwashing Americans to forget the Principles of Hard Work, Ingenuity, Risk and Boundless Success!
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Their brainwashing process, according to students of the matter, severs individuals' connections to outside supports like family and friends.
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As various disciples struggled to fill the leadership void, the group found itself facing lawsuits involving claims of brainwashing.
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Democracy, without well-run controls, often can be subverted into the means for oppressing minorities and outright brainwashing people.
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Because of the brainwashing, it would take many generations, and the education system would have to be reformed entirely.
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The boy's parents accused Mr. Helbrans of brainwashing their son; Mr. Helbrans accused the parents of abusing their son.
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Rather, it's about the indoctrination of youth, and what it takes to undo the brainwashing once it takes hold.
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I snapped out of the brainwashing experiment at the exact moment before it was too late to turn back.
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US Vice President Mike Pence said in October China was involved in "around-the-clock brainwashing" in the centers.
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Earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence accused Beijing of "around-the-clock brainwashing" in the government centers.
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So yes, I grew up with this sort of brainwashing or national belief that the unification should have happened.
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The "non-repatriates" offered "living proof that Communist brainwashing does work on some persons," The Times informed its readers.
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Reports of "brainwashing" and starvation diets have certainly grabbed tabloid headlines, but don't tell the whole story, she said.
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While she was at home, and supposedly safe and sound, the brainwashing tape recorder returned to Jan during the night.
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"I don't feel like they require any brainwashing," the actor, who wed wife Kristen Bell in 2013, told the outlet.
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There might've been a decent feminist subtext to the Kree brainwashing as a metaphor for the damaging effects of gaslighting.
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That leads me to a book that touched me deeply because it depicts in great detail the effects of brainwashing.
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The insistence on their experience being the result of grooming or brainwashing diminishes the role of the individual's own agency.
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R. Kelly has been accused by multiple women of running a "sex cult," brainwashing and sexually abusing women, including some teenagers.
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Since the 50-second video was posted online, netizens have been criticising the company for "brainwashing" its employees, reported The Paper.
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In Season 9, the Movementarians take over Springfield, brainwashing Homer and convincing him to move his family into the cult's quarters.
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All of these charismatic leaders left behind death, destruction and scores of victims of brainwashing and mental, physical and financial abuse.
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But years of brainwashing has me feeling like only one of these is worthy of being seen, appreciated, loved and showcased.
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"Internet has been used by [the Communist Party of China] as en effective tool for censorship, propaganda and brainwashing," Biao said.
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The failures of Web 2.0 are also incredibly instructive: Facebook and YouTube are the premier platforms for brainwashing and recruiting extremists.
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I've been brainwashed—at least, I watched all the odd-hued, flickering videos in the "brainwashing" section of Unicole's personal website.
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Inside these camps, detainees are reportedly subjected to bizarre exercises aimed at "brainwashing" them, as well as physical torture and deprivation.
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" Soviet brainwashing, he said, might come through indoctrination or some kind of "lie serum," but whatever it was, it was "abhorrent.
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Hearst's brainwashing defense failed in court, but her seven-year sentence was commuted roughly two years later by President Jimmy Carter.
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During a six-week trial, witnesses recounted the litany of nightmares — brainwashing, starvation diets, sexual slavery — they endured under his hand.
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In February, Turkey's Foreign Ministry prominently denounced the "torture and political brainwashing" in a statement, asking for the UN to intervene.
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As much as I complain about the wedding industry brainwashing all of my friends, I am very excited for this chapter.
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R. KELLY ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING MINOR, BRAINWASHING ANOTHER WOMAN IN HIS 'CULT' Kelly says he was sexually abused as a teenager.
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R. Kelly has been accused by multiple women of running a "sex cult," brainwashing and sexual abusing women, some who were teenagers.
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"There was deep concern over the issue of brainwashing," Richard Helms, a C.I.A. hand who eventually became the agency's director, later explained.
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They "embarked on a cynical, deceitful, multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign to establish opioid analgesics as the magic drug," Hunter told the court.
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Petzold and another emissary, Martin Doluz, insist they aren't in a cult, and that their guru isn't brainwashing or sexually abusing anybody.
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Life in Israel is too good and the brainwashing—particularly the demonization and dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli media—is uniquely effective.
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Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who, in an interview with CNN last year in March, accused the EPA of "brainwashing" American children.
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That year, our government had announced a plan to overhaul the curriculum to what amounted to a mandatory course in nationalistic brainwashing.
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It will take time to penetrate the North Korean system, to overcome the brainwashing, and to help build people's courage to resist.
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In an interview on the "Today" show, he said that "brainwashing" by Jackson had led him to testify on the star's behalf.
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More than a month into a trial deciding the fate of an alleged "sex cult" leader, jurors haven't heard much about brainwashing.
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Racist posts use this term to describe the brainwashing process, whereby they recruit curious travelers by inundating them with memes and other propaganda.
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Like many survivors of despotic regimes, Park can't pinpoint exactly when the brainwashing began, other to say it started in her earliest childhood.
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As if how the public education system teaches the meaning of Thanksgiving to American children could use an additional brainwashing supplement. GTFO. 14.
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It certainly doesn't concern them the way it does Orwell's Party, which responds to denials of its power with ruthless torture and brainwashing.
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"How can I stay silent and I'm seeing Daesh brainwashing my son and teaching him how to become a suicide bomber?" he said.
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" This, Thae said, "has already made the North Korean population not believe what the regime has been teaching and has been brainwashing them.
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There is little counseling on offer for repatriated Yazidi boys to help treat their trauma or counter the brainwashing they were subjected to.
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For every conservative complaining about the "liberal agenda" of the mainstream media, there are five liberals accusing Fox News of brainwashing its audience.
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It is to ask, for example, if this second-naturing of women, servants and others can be done without coercion, constraint and brainwashing.
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"Through this project, I get to view not brainwashing, but how things imprint on our memory," Mr. Jao said in a telephone interview.
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Using, you know, radical brainwashing techniques, like a mixture of what they do in 'A Clockwork Orange' plus electric-shock therapy plus hypnosis?
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Religious studies experts began giving counter-testimony arguing there was no such thing, and that brainwashing claims undermined religious freedom and free will.
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In a crucial moment, one of the victims is able to break free of his brainwashing and warn Chris that he's in danger.
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Hajjaj refers to Coca-Cola as the "rich man's drink" in Morocco, explaining that capitalism's brainwashing makes us instantly recognize the bottles and cans.
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They "embarked on a cynical, deceitful, multibillion-dollar brainwashing campaign to establish opioid analgesics as the magic drug," Hunter said in his opening remarks.
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It denied that ISIS militants had burrowed their way into the country, brainwashing disillusioned college kids that Bangladesh's secular life is antithetical to Islam.
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Some of this brainwashing, he thought, had happened in a secret clinic in Sweden run by one of the leaders of the deserter movement.
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Instead of agreeing and helping out, Mel claims Stephen waited a few months to file docs in which he accuses her of brainwashing Madison.
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Evie is so desperate to belong and to win the approval of a sultry older girl that she ignores signs of abuse and brainwashing.
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But former detainees have reported torture and brainwashing inside the detention centers, including forcing inmates to repeat Communist Party propaganda praising President Xi Jinping.
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The Islamic Republic of Iran was brainwashing [children] to make them believe that they will be martyrs, that Allah will take them into heaven.
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Former detainees have also spoken out, with a former teacher in the camps telling CNN they witnessed abuse and attempts at brainwashing of detainees.
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Hayek described Weinstein's "brainwashing" that, even to this day, makes her doubt her value in the industry, and which kept her quiet — until now.
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It has repeatedly denied reports of torture and brainwashing inside the Xinjiang facilities, saying they are voluntary "vocational training centers" designed to combat extremism.
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They have an argument about brainwashing, and then there's a montage of Catherine doing the daytime TV circuit, sounding the alarm about the cult.
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This modern-day totalitarian brainwashing is revealed in a remarkable trove of documents leaked to The New York Times by an anonymous Chinese official.
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The parents of two women now living with Mr. Kelly, Azriel Clary, 21, and Joycelyn Savage, 23, have accused him of brainwashing their daughters.
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For a short time, brainwashing expert Margaret Singer was "winning a lot of cases hand over fist," says Lalich, who was mentored by Singer.
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But the public soon turned on the concept of brainwashing, which at the time was based on new and admittedly much simpler psychological theory.
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" Similarly, Collier County resident Deirdre Clemons complained that "evolution is now taught as fact"—part of what she called "globalist brainwashing in public schools.
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My interest as a card-carrying member of society is to stop the brainwashing Hollywood and the media have for too long gotten away with.
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What if she was really just part of a massive conspiracy to control celebrities, politicians, and athletes, all while brainwashing normal people for world domination?
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Based on his research and the nature of the changing story, Toobin doesn't find the lawyer-confabulated stories about Hearst's assault, torture, and brainwashing credible.
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"I did undergo a brainwashing process that did erase and eliminate a lot of things that are considered negative," he told XXL magazine last December.
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However, after the death of Mr Shah the Ahmadi are asking whether this sort of propaganda is brainwashing young Muslims and inciting them to violence.
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So I think the NRA just has a really strong grip on people, and it's a bit of brainwashing, in my opinion, on their end.
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" Street person John Irwin told the Richmond Times-Dispatch, "There's rampant sex and they're trying to twist people's minds in these all day brainwashing sessions.
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As the cult grew, the families of members began to raise the alarm, and complaints of brainwashing and abuse within Aum Shinrikyo became more common.
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China has since changed its tune and admitted to the camps and the brainwashing, but have credited them with ending violent terrorist incidents in China.
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That is disputed by former inmates, who claim that even individuals with no connection to extremism have been taken in and subjected to harsh brainwashing.
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Other experts have long pushed back against the concept of brainwashing, arguing that it is a loaded term that doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny.
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In 1967, when Republican George Romney complained about the "brainwashing" he'd endured from the Lyndon Johnson Administration on Vietnam, his presidential campaign effectively was over.
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READ: How teachers are fighting the white nationalists brainwashing their students It's not uncommon for hate groups to co-opt the meaning of everyday things.
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A vast majority of American P.O.W.s who survived captivity did return home — as, eventually, did almost all of the 21 men supposedly lost to brainwashing.
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D. V. Gallery speculated that the Communists had expended so much energy on brainwashing American P.O.W.s to create a network of sleeper saboteurs awaiting activation.
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We get further proof of Meadow's deep brainwashing when she uses the word "anesthetize" while telling Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson) of her pre-Kai life.
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Reboot used Jones-like warnings about FEMA camps and "communist food brainwashing" to sell products with names like Food4Patriots (preserved food) and Power4Patriots (home energy kits).
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Luckily, I didn't encounter any branded brainwashing attempts on premises, though what followed was certainly weird, in a take-me-to-your-guru kind of way.
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Host Buffalo Bob rather aggressively tells his viewers to tell their moms to buy Hostess Sno-Balls in the most blatant form of child brainwashing imaginable.
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Having a child exposes anti-gay prejudice and the gender binary for the brainwashing they truly are, because the fact is, kids don't give a shit.
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"Brainwashing" was supposed to explain American defections in Korea, and the idea made its way to outlets like Argosy , a pulp men's magazine of the period.
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The researchers also believe that women and children are more susceptible to Boko Haram's recruitment efforts than their male counterparts, through violence, brainwashing or false promises.
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But on the other hand, there is a real problem here where there's an orthodoxy that prevails that is even detrimental to so-called progressive brainwashing.
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Brainwashing, forced labor, and sex trafficking are just some of the haunting stories from family of current and former NXIVM members to emerge in recent months.
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But the testing to determine whether the drug could be used for interrogation, brainwashing or worse wasn't plain and simple; it was downright cruel and sinister.
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There is no propaganda, no brainwashing and no rose-tinted stories of happy-go-lucky communist do-gooders tricking kids into drinking the Marxist Kool-Aid.
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It's brutally misogynistic: In Shakespeare's original, Petrucchio deprives Katherine of food, sleep, and clothing until she agrees with whatever he says, essentially brainwashing her with abuse.
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This creature of fantasy is no pup, but your relationship with it starts at zero when you break its brainwashing and begin training it to trust you.
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According to docs obtained by TMZ ... Lyfe's ex and mother of their two sons claims he's tried brainwashing their boys against her and threatened her with violence.
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Raniere — or "Vanguard," as he was referred to by the group — and Mack are accused of brainwashing women and keeping them as sex slaves for Raniere's pleasure .
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Some Twitter users threatened to boycott the company in response to the cup, accusing Starbucks of "political brainwashing" and spreading "liberal bias" by wading into the election.
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During 15 days as a volunteer teacher in a remote, mountain village, he complains that party-picked legislators are all "fucking CEOs" and political mobilisation is "brainwashing".
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As for Belafonte's brainwashing allegations -- Mel B says they're all nonsense ... and he has absolutely no evidence to support his claims Madison is acting differently toward him.
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"It's exactly the same phenomenon: It's just a different set of content beliefs, but the actual structure and process of brainwashing and mind control is the same."
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More filth from boxing star Tyson Fury ... this time he's blasting society as a world full of porn-obsessed perverts ... and blaming the Jews for "brainwashing" people.
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" He said the Uighurs "endure round-the-clock brainwashing" as part of a "deliberate attempt by Beijing to strangle Uighur culture and stamp out the Muslim faith.
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Most people outside China think of it as "1984," a dystopian society ruled by a repressive government with powerful brainwashing machines, which it is in many ways.
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Beginning in 1950, the agency, fearful of reported Communist brainwashing, began a top-secret project initially known as Bluebird, to explore ways to influence the human psyche.
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It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
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"Everyone understands without money supporting separatists, without [the] propaganda war, brainwashing, without weapons deliveries," this conflict would never happen, said Klitschko, referencing Russia's role in Ukraine's east.
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The Black Panther credits scene suggests that Shuri — the genius behind all of Wakanda's most impressive technological advancements — has since figured out how to fix Bucky's brainwashing.
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" But there's more ... Mathieu went on to blast rap music ... claiming it's "brainwashing [people like Hayes] to believe drugs and killing are the cool thing to do.
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Adding to this mix is the reemergence of Rogers's best friend Bucky Barnes, who we find out isn't actually bad but rather the victim of intense Hydra brainwashing.
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Government propaganda, brainwashing, and censorship were topics angrily sung about on Beijing indie band Birdstriking's 22012 debut album, causing it to be banned by China's Ministry of Culture.
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In the clip above, which was shot between scenes on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah breaks down West's recent remarks on BigBoyTV about Democrats brainwashing black Americans voters.
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According to media reports, prosecutors in Georgia have contacted an attorney for an Atlanta-area couple who appeared in the documentary and accuse Kelly of brainwashing their daughter.
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When planning an MLM intervention, Ross first advises the spouse or loved one of the MLMer to start educating themselves on the concepts of thought reform and brainwashing.
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Olson's family accepted this explanation as fact until 1975, when details of the CIA's Project MKUltra — enacting mind control and brainwashing through psychedelic drugs and torture — were uncovered.
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We see both of these tendencies in Trumpism--from Michael Anton's "Flight 93 election" essay to TPUSA's dire warnings about the communist brainwashing that happens on college campuses.
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She's embarked on public speaking tours, extensively studied the cognitive neurology of brainwashing, and counseled numerous other former cult members (including ex-followers of Al-Qaeda and ISIS).
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Her short narrative series tells the story of a girl who cuts off parts of her body after finding herself infected by a mawkish, brainwashing, Disney-inspired virus.
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Fox had become so influential among conservatives that many refused to believe any news or opinion that wasn't vetted by the network (an effect I called "self-brainwashing").
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Even Richardson, generally opposed to the term "brainwashing," said that "if you were ever going to use the term," Hearst's violent case is the closest you might get.
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Perhaps the most surprising twist to the 1950s brainwashing scare is how quickly Americans lost interest in the brutality of P.O.W. camps and turned instead to self-criticism.
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Others who have been radicalized online have said they find that within one to three months their views have changed completely and they have fallen prey to the brainwashing.
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Broberg's captor, Robert Berchtold, was a close family friend, and used that relationship to get away with multiple abductions of Broberg, as well as alleged molestation, rape, and brainwashing.
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As we previously reported, the heavyweight champ went on a vile rant about transgenders -- calling them "freaks of nature" -- and accusing the Jews of running a global brainwashing scheme.
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Hearst was convicted for her part in SLA activities—the jury didn't buy "brainwashing"—but President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence and Bill Clinton gave her a full pardon.
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The church has denied previous reports by Christian news organizations describing it as a "brainwashing cult," calling those accusations "blatant lies" and a plot to rein in its expansion.
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Thus the longest lasting damage they do occurs through their brainwashing of a captive audience: It is their way of carrying their militancy and chauvinism into the next generation.
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So, I would take the word "brainwashing," put it aside, and think about the science of social influence and all the research that's being done, especially about online influence.
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We got a lot of backlash [when Zara came out] because me and my wife are queer—so we were "teaching Zara how to be transgender" and "brainwashing" her.
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In the movie, we see Shuri heal bullet wounds in a matter of a few days, so removing Cold War brainwashing seems like something that she's fully capable of.
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Through systematic brainwashing, Applewhite concocted a narrative convincing the group they needed to free their mortal souls to board a spaceship flying in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet.
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In his 2013 interview with Matt Lauer (who has since faced allegations of sexual abuse), Robson claimed that Jackson had engaged in "complete manipulation and brainwashing" to influence his testimony.
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Sitting amid uncharacteristically smog-free air on the porch of a central Beijing recording studio, the band members explained why they didn't write lyrics about government brainwashing this time round.
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"At some point they knew — we knew — that dissemination of fake news, propaganda and outright intentional manipulation and brainwashing was being committed through their platforms," de Lima wrote from jail.
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The show's seventh season, American Horror Story: Cult, which premieres on FX tonight, is about the "hive mentality," so its ads have included images of bees and hints about brainwashing.
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Acid was at the start of its own long strange trip: from research chemical to psychiatric wonder drug, brainwashing tool to agent of ego-dissolution, cosmic insight and cultural revolution.
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On the other, he's brainwashing himself, actively trying to convince everyone present that Judy is the bad person and the one to blame because she was in the driver's seat.
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Inhofe told CNN last year the EPA was "brainwashing our kids," and famously once brought a snowball onto the Senate floor to demonstrate his belief that global warming isn't real.
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The camera first finds her sitting in an industrial junkyard under a defiantly planted Japanese flag, working on bitter rhymes — "I'm dodging the brainwashing" — while American planes fly low overhead.
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CNN has published stories of a Uyghur journalist who condemned the campaign as "cultural genocide," and a former teacher in the camps who described brainwashing and abuse behind barbed wire.
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But while we're familiar with the concept and may even feel some sympathy, court cases of the last few decades show juries are rarely kind to so-called brainwashing victims.
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For perspective, it's worth noting that authorities outside the United States courts tend to be more open to the concept of brainwashing and coercive influence, and prosecuting the people responsible.
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But "election hacking" and "brainwashing" share an aura of dark magic that obscures the precise mechanics believed to be at work in shaping the thoughts and actions of freethinking adults.
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In an interview with Splinter News, actress Kimberly Birch—the show's eventual victor—laid out some of the brainwashing tactics used to gaslight her into believing Hicks really was a prince.
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Trying to reverse the brainwashing is a prison teacher who is astonished that the bright-eyed young women seem untroubled by their crimes and the fact they will die in jail.
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" In February, Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the people detained in the camps were subject to "torture and political brainwashing" and called the camps a "great shame for humanity.
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Rules of personal conduct, written in English on a blackboard, serve as a chilling metaphor for the brainwashing of the hereditary caste system in Hinduism, which disables autonomy and critical thinking.
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He'd abandoned its children to Assad's warplanes, he said, or to brainwashing by his former colleagues and the Islamic State, or to drowning in the Mediterranean while trying to flee both.
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While Tony Stark patted himself on the back for getting his Iron Man suit to fly faster, Shuri was curing Bucky Barnes of his Cold War brainwashing in her spare time.
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The case captivated the entire country as it stirred the national consciousness about issues such as brainwashing, free will and the collective insanity that gripped the United States in the 1970s.
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It's about a woman falling in love with an animal, and like all such tales — and there are many, with both animal men and animal women — it's an exercise in brainwashing.
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She is the director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Worker's Party of Korea, where she helps oversee the brainwashing and psychological terror apparatus of the North Korean state.
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We've all heard of "brainwashing"—the idea that through a mix of threats, isolation, and indoctrination people can be made to do things that no free-thinking human would otherwise do.
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One of the most high-profile brainwashing cases involved an heiress to a newspaper fortune who was kidnapped, confined, and allegedly abused by a radical militia trying to start a revolution.
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We celebrated the 20-year anniversary of John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace" manifesto, and looked at how you can donate your old USB drive to fight North Korean brainwashing.
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READ: How teachers are fighting white nationalists brainwashing their students But in the months since, Schoep has publicly disavowed his neo-Nazi views and now touts himself as an expert on deradicalization.
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In a pioneering 1961 study called Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, Yale psychologist Robert Lifton in effect rewrote Orwell's 1984 in academic, empirical terms.
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said prisoners were subject to "torture and political brainwashing" in China's camps, and claimed thousands of children had been separated from their parents by the Chinese government.
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But in 2012, students as young as 15 turned out to protest a plan for a "national education" curriculum, calling it an attempt at brainwashing by Beijing in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
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After you enter, someone follows you like a shadow, like a retail salesperson, constantly brainwashing and scaring you... denying you the opportunity for independent thought or time to consult friends and family.
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I had been equipped through years of ex-gay ideological brainwashing to dismiss American gay male identity, with its vapid materialism, its promiscuity, and its idolization of youth, wealth, and sex appeal.
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With entertainment and education, it was the more nebulous fear of brainwashing, a worry that there was a softness in the American mind that could be exploited by nefarious filmmakers — and professors.
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When I read about her struggle to unlearn what her parents had taught her, I kept thinking of my own struggle to undo all the brainwashing I grew up with in China.
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His attempts to monitor Eurus from afar have been abject failures, considering he seemingly had no idea she'd been brainwashing the entire staff of her prison, up to and including its administrators.
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Hundreds of thousands have been held in the camps — one estimate says a million — and former inmates who have fled abroad have described them as virtual prisons that engage in harsh brainwashing.
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Future is worried Eliza is brainwashing, demoralizing and ruining the self-esteem of the child, and he wants the mental health evaluation to help determine if she's fit to be a mother.
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Bucky told Cap that until they figured out how to counteract the brainwashing he'd been exposed to, putting him into some sort of hibernation or stasis pod was the best way forward.
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The brave women who spoke with me provide crucial new accounts -- of rape, brainwashing, gaslighting, physical and mental abuse, and collusion among the enablers -- that significantly advance what we know about this scandal.
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Mel B says Stephen Belafonte is trying to pull a fast one by making it look like he decided to get their daughter into therapy, and she adds his brainwashing allegations are desperate.
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"The left-wing media is engaged in a Bolshevik hunt, brainwashing and character assassination against me and my family," he said in Hebrew, before going on to invoke one of Trump's favorite phrases.
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He added that his initial examination of the woman had not found evidence of "brainwashing" and that she appeared "happy," though troubled by what she described as false media reports about the group.
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We're told the 2 women were Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary, both of whom have maintained they were with R. Kelly voluntarily, despite their parents' strong claims they were the victims of brainwashing.
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Writing from Hotan, a city in the western province of Xinjiang, Buckley describes a system of internment camps, brainwashing programs, and pervasive surveillance, all aimed at the region's Muslim majority, mostly ethnic Uighurs.
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It's easy to dismiss this outpouring of patriotism as evidence of the Communist Party's successful brainwashing of the Chinese people, or as a result of heavy surveillance and heavy-handed tactics against dissenters.
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READ: How teachers are fighting white nationalists brainwashing their students White nationalists on Telegram quickly cloned the shooter's Twitch video before it was ultimately removed by the company and it on the platform.
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We're living in a very different world where the conventional idea of "brainwashing" is really obsolete and the idea of a cult as a small group of people sharing physical space is outdated.
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Rather than berating yourself, though, please recognize the enormity of what you're up against as a young woman in America: a culture steeped in misogyny, devoted to brainwashing women and criminalizing female ambition.
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What might have registered as a symbolic victory for the "free world" — 22,000 to 21 — was lost in heated contention over how brainwashing was performed and why Americans had seemingly succumbed en masse.
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It's a game that leans all the way into the debunked "brainwashing" view of cults, despite Ubisoft hosting interviews with expert consultants who emphasize that cults work through social pressure, not drugs and programming.
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Islamic theologians around the world agree that ISIS leadership manipulates the interpretation of the Quran to fit its personal agenda and then disseminates this message through clever propaganda, charismatic speeches and intensive instruction/brainwashing.
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Those espousing such views present Islam as an inherently hostile ideology whose adherents are enemies of Christianity and Judaism and seek to conquer nonbelievers either by violence or through a sort of stealthy brainwashing.
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Capitalism (though not democracy) had to be defended at all costs, while foreigners were commonly viewed as subject to brainwashing, manipulation and mass irrationality — just what we fear today in the United States itself.
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With their bag of brainwashing techniques, they hope to trick civilization into destroying itself, bringing on a new dark ages in which the world's riches will be firmly in the hands of the oligarchs.
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Stephen Kent of the University of Alberta told VICE the West's first wave of "brainwashing" panic came in the 1950s when American soldiers captured in the Korean War reportedly came back with communist ideas.
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This is why every society invests so much effort in propaganda and brainwashing people from a very early age to believe in the dominant story of the society, because if they don't believe, everything collapses.
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But sitting in the cafe, listening to these two strangers share their stories of escape, it became clear that no matter how much dogma and brainwashing one endures, our true personality remains in our core.
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It's not until the end that we begin to see some of the beginnings of a harder edge forming on him: he kills Shrike in a confrontation, and Bria leaves him, struggling with her brainwashing.
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Green's team combined the power of Google's search advertising algorithms with YouTube's video platform to target aspiring ISIS recruits with messaging — based on insights from interviews with ISIS defectors — that could reverse the organization's brainwashing.
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The idea is to prevent the hardline Sunni group from brainwashing a new generation of suicide bombers and fighters into threatening Iraq's stability again after an ongoing army offensive in their stronghold of Mosul ends.
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The work mimics and appropriates music videos by the likes of Kanye West in a meditation on pop and digital culture, suggesting an algorithm of entertainment, maybe even brainwashing at the hands of machine overlords.
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It is part of a campaign of breathtaking scale and ferocity that has swept up hundreds of thousands of Chinese Muslims for weeks or months of what critics describe as brainwashing, usually without criminal charges.
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Recently, one of Kelly's former live-in girlfriends, Azriel Clary, has come out and accused the singer of brainwashing her and forcing her to lie to the public about their relationship when she was underage.
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Newly-leaked government documents offer the first official look at the mass brainwashing and imprisonment of the Uighurs, a Muslim ethnic minority group in the western China region of Xinjiang, implemented by the Communist Party.
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The American Psychiatric Association's official manual of mental disorders lists "brainwashing" and "thought reform" as possible root causes for a dissociative disorder, a type of disorder that can affect one's memory and sense of identity.
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Using children for military purposes is a highly concerning issue that isn't exclusive to Ukraine, and their president supports this premature training and patriotic brainwashing to help fight the pro-Russian rebels in the east.
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And this abhorrent brainwashing process is breeding a violent, hate-inspired generation of children who are trained to believe that becoming a terrorist is a legitimate way to secure the financial future of their families.
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" This epic opening is followed by aggressive agitprop against women of all kind, including Oprah ("she needs to do a little less brainwashing and a little more sock washing") and Ally McBeal ("more like Ally McBullshit!
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Last month Turkey broke a long silence over the fate of China's Uighurs, saying more than one million people faced arbitrary arrest, torture and political brainwashing in Chinese internment camps in the country's northwestern Xinjiang region.
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Among other things, Sweet found, CIA agents and their allies successfully infiltrated the deserters in hopes of fomenting discord, setting off a vicious cycle of internal scrutiny and paranoia marked by interrogations and allegations of brainwashing.
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Beginning in the early 1980s, day care workers around the country were accused of committing brutal, grotesque sexual crimes against the children they cared for, with allegations that included group sex, brainwashing, and Satanic ritual worship.
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"I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and communist brainwashing techniques and I am right in the middle of the whole thing where I can and will do the most good," he wrote.
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However, former detainees able to speak more freely have complained of being separated from their families, held for indefinite periods of time and forced to endure intensive "brainwashing" sessions, including close study of Communist Party propaganda.
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They illuminate longstanding forensic doubts about the idea that Frank Olson jumped from the window, and theorize that something even darker than mind-control techniques and brainwashing — biological warfare; state-sanctioned murder — lay behind his death.
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"The foreign women of the Islamic State, while often reduced to simplistic narratives about 'jihadi brides,' 'brainwashing' and 'online grooming,' aided and abetted many of these atrocities and in some cases directly perpetrated them," he said.
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But trying to extinguish national identity through what amounts to mass brainwashing is an atrocity that smacks of some of the worst experiments of our time — including China's own Cultural Revolution — with some thoroughly modern twists.
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She feels a soft-spot for Marcus and returns with him to his dimension: This sudden change in Danvers's demeanor doesn't strike Earth's mightiest heroes as weird, even though they've heard her tale of brainwashing and rape.
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But it has already done incalculable harm, kidnapping thousands of women and children and bullying and brainwashing many of them into becoming suicide bombers and child soldiers, a tactic it has ruthlessly invoked as it loses ground.
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"Free for All" demonstrates the failures of liberal democratic electoral politics, while "Change of Mind" depicts harrowing social control via brainwashing, secretly administered sedatives, and cultivated mobs, which prefigure budding economies of affect structuring consumer identity-formation.
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Coal companies have carried out a sort of mass brainwashing, the film suggests, using their status as the only significant employer around to generate support even among the workers they are exploiting and exposing to hazardous conditions.
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In using the mythological term "brainwashing" to describe cults — a popular term that scholars have debunked because it condemns rather than explains cults' techniques — Mr. Cain captures the psychological power of these exploitative online right-wing communities.
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Professional deprogrammers, the term used for those who claimed to specialize in undoing the effects of brainwashing, went on Donahue and testified before congressional committees about the continuing dangers of cults hidden in the midst of Reagan's America.
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" Another question asks if the candidate agrees that public schools should be "prevented from brainwashing elementary school children with the Homosexual Agenda - such as California's current policy speculating widely about the sexual activity of past presidents and figures?
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Held in heavily guarded, often secret camps and cut off from their families, prisoners are forced to listen to indoctrination lectures that human rights activists describe as brainwashing, write self-criticism letters and renounce their commitment to Islam.
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It is seen in the use over the past three decades of propaganda in the public media and in the education system, which has been used as a brainwashing machine for the separatist movement started five years ago.
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"It is no longer a secret that more than one million Uighur Turks incurring arbitrary arrests are subjected to torture and political brainwashing in internment camps and prisons," said the statement from Hami Aksoy, the Foreign Ministry spokesman.
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The class context was brainwashing, and I remember those elements: Hearst's confinement in a closet, her drugging, her sexual assault at the hands of deranged cult leader Donald DeFreeze, her ideological programming, her flat voice on the coerced recordings.
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Richardson doesn't deny that manipulation and coercion can occur -- he describes what happened in Nazi Germany as "indoctrination," for example -- but he believes that ex-cult members weren't as passive in joining groups as the term "brainwashing" might suggest.
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Drawn by a victim of torture, they show, in raw and agonizing detail, the methods that Americans — soldiers, psychologists, spies, women and men — have devised to break down prisoners through pain, panic, brainwashing and other barbaric and illegal tools.
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Bella says she's not going on "The View" anymore, because she doesn't want to be judged by a bunch of older women ... and she's calling out the hosts for brainwashing the next generation and accusing them of some serious double standards.
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This is not the first time Moses has defended his father, having blamed Mia in January for brainwashing Dylan into believing the abuse allegation, as a parade of entertainers inspired by the #MeToo movement vowed not to work again with Allen.
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Despite being found guilty of armed robbery after her story of brainwashing and coercion was deemed unbelievable by a jury, Hearst was released from prison after only two years when her original seven-year sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
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"It started slow but escalated over time, including threats against my life, severe gas-lighting and brainwashing, waking up to the man that claimed to love me raping what he believed to be my unconscious body," Wood said during the panel.
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Coming from a systemic oppressive church culture that was brainwashing and made me feel like it wasn't okay to be my truest, best self, I wanted to shine a light on seeing that change, and the hope for a better future.
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She's starting a non-profit that examines the link between vulnerability and mental manipulation, and is collaborating with former white supremacist Christian Picciolini to create workshops that help mental health professionals understand the brainwashing tactics used by cults and hate groups.
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According to the University of Melbourne's Emily Dunn, who wrote her doctoral thesis on Eastern Lightning, the group has been linked to reports of murders and beatings, as well as more general harassment and the brainwashing of members and recruits.
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Bernie Sanders in 2016, is a critic of the political establishment and mainstream media himself, but he said that he worries that by branding the press as "fake news," Trump is "brainwashing" his supporters into believing in a fact-free narrative.
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Up to a million ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have reportedly been detained in the past year inside enormous "re-education camps" in the tightly-controlled province, where former detainees say they were forced to endure intensive "brainwashing" sessions.
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" He then accosts another passerby who calls Jones "trash" and tips coffee on him, Jones babbling that "this literal slave of the system" was the victim of "brainwashing" before concluding, apropos of no-fucking-idea: "That's why they're allied with jihadis.
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"We are entering a new era of censorship by this ultra Catholic rightwing Polish government which lets the Catholic Church to be in charge of sexual education and brainwashing of a young generation…" Polish photographer Slywia Kowalczyk wrote on Instagram.
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Bringing to mind a brainwashing Korean psychological thriller wrapped in monochromatic illustration, the weighted stills of women with gleaming white eyeballs and pasted-on grins are all suspicious precursors for the impending horror movie and music video called Flight Attendant / 승무원.
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READ: Uighur parents say China is ripping their children away and brainwashing them SenseTime, an AI company valued at $7 billion, said it was "deeply disappointed" by the Department of Commerce's decision and rejected allegations it had done anything wrong.
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While Kelly largely avoided public scandal for almost 10 years after the trial, he made headlines again in 2017 when reports surfaced that he was holding multiple young women in his home and brainwashing them in a "cult-like" atmosphere.
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BCIs equipped with a "write" function can enable new forms of brainwashing, theoretically enabling all sorts of people to exert control over our minds: religious authorities who want to indoctrinate people, political regimes that want to quash dissent, terrorist groups seeking new recruits.
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To the Editor: The notion that voters inevitably favor whoever spends the most money brainwashing them can be traced to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who in 1958 postulated that advertisers can create demand for any product they might wish to sell.
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Parker Molloy, a writer at Upworthy, rounded up some tense reactions, ranging from a request for snowflakes to an accusation that Starbucks is guilty of "political brainwashing": Starbucks releases a cup designed to represent shared humanity... Gets this type of response... pic.twitter.
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Marvel has explored Bucky's backstory in the previous Captain America movies (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier), and fans have come to know his history with Steve Rogers, the friendship those two cultivated, and Bucky's brainwashing at the hands of Hydra.
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These flashbacks, combined with quiet scenes of these women desperately trying to hold onto Manson's dogma in prison, even as they start to realize they might have been fooled, paint a compelling portrait of the lasting psychological effects of domestic abuse and systematic brainwashing.
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It's research that has led her into worlds of surveillance, torture, CIA brainwashing, celebrity training, and "through to pop culture, mainstream media and celebrity breakdowns, all the way back to politics and a comment on the post-culturism state we are in now," Kay notes.
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Methods used by al-Shabaab revealed Musa's experiences reveal the extent to which "brainwashing" by al-Shabaab continues after volunteers have been smuggled into Somalia and offers a rare insight into the methods the terror group uses to instill absolute loyalty among its followers.
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Later, it became a specific reference to the abduction of children, and is still cited as such in Scottish law, while another derivative, plagio, formerly a statute in Italian law, is loosely translated as brainwashing: the subjugation of another's mind, bending it to one's will.
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Harriet Mills, a Fulbright scholar from New York who was imprisoned as an American spy in Communist China for more than four years and was widely believed to have been a victim of brainwashing, died on March 5 in Mitchelville, Md. She was 95.
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Before he wrote and directed Get Out, Peele referenced code switching frequently on his sketch comedy show Key & Peele, and he uses it here to create one of the film's creepiest aspects: the brainwashing of the black men and women Rose's neighborhood has previously abducted.
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" CNN reported both candidates responded "yes" to that question and another asking if either agreed that public schools should be "prevented from brainwashing elementary school children with the Homosexual Agenda — such as California's current policy speculating widely about the sexual activity of past presidents and figures?
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Those ads link to Arabic- and English-language YouTube channels that pull together preexisting videos Jigsaw believes can effectively undo ISIS's brainwashing—clips like testimonials from former extremists, imams denouncing ISIS's corruption of Islam, and surreptitiously filmed clips inside the group's dysfunctional caliphate in Northern Syria and Iraq.
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Tadae Takubo, Nippon Kaigi's chairman, says its aim in pushing for "moral education" in schools and for a glossier interpretation of the war in textbooks is to "correct the pendulum" after seven decades of "brainwashing" by left-wing teachers, who object even to compulsory singing of the national anthem.
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Anyone who isn't a Jehovah's Witness may well be appalled not just by the brainwashing and all-round cultishness on display, but by the matter-of-fact callousness: doubters can be expelled from the group with less ceremony than if they were being downsized from an office internship.
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As one of the FLDS escapees I spoke to at the event sees it: The brainwashing within the community is too strong for many people to overcome; instead, we must continue to offer glimpses of how good life on the outside can be, because they are paying attention.
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The world is fascinated by cults, and we totally get why: Filled with brainwashing, strange rituals, crime, intrigue, and sometimes murder, groups like Jim Jones and the People's Temple and The Children of God have represented the darkness in humanity and are incredible lessons in the human psyche.
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Normalize them to newly define industry standards and jargon so they don't question any metrics or compare the influence to that of TV. Instead, the Newfronts serve as a brainwashing process to make the realm of digital video worthy of more than a sliver of media buying budgets.
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A lot of people, especially on the liberal side of the spectrum, will certainly identify with "The Brainwashing of My Dad," Jen Senko's documentary about how right-wing news programs, talk shows and Internet sites turned her once reasonable father into a raging embodiment of intolerance and suspicion.
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Those who believe Britney Spears is a Monarch operative point to her time on the Mickey Mouse Club (obviously the site of brainwashing and superspy training), her first tattoo (a butterfly, hello!), and her adoption of a British accent during the 2007 meltdown as evidence of her conditioning.
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SSB: Every six or nine months, there's a guard rotation, so what I have observed is that these very young men go through a training (one might rudely term it "brainwashing") that indoctrinates a regimen of treatment designed to consider the detainees superhuman in strength and subhuman in spirit.
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Documentary-style videos portrayed Islamberg as a jihadi training camp and terrorist sleeper cell, and people who present themselves as national security experts have published reports online alleging a culture of "militant brainwashing," forced marriages and doling out lashes and other forms of draconian abuse for violating its rules.
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In its story, Breitbart suggested Karvelis is brainwashing Arizona students with Marxist propaganda, and highlighted a tweet in which he urges teachers to discuss feminism and race in the classroom: Things more educators should discuss (especially if they work with young (white) men) in the classroom in 2018: 1.
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After a follower confessed to seven murders and then assisted authorities, investigators were able to expose the Nation of Yahweh as a cult of personality whose charismatic leader aggressively consolidated power in his secretive group by intimidating and brainwashing followers to the point where several were willing to kill for him.
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Originally interested in working on a project about MK-Ultra, a mid-century CIA program incorporating a variety of behavioral experiments (among them, brainwashing and mind control), Morris honed in on the Olsons as the gateway into a larger exploration of conspiracy and the perils of searching for the truth.
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" In a strongly-worded statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said hundreds of thousands of prisoners were subject to "torture and political brainwashing" in China's camps, and called on the UN and the international community "to take effective measures in order to bring to an end this human tragedy in Xinjiang.
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But while Kim has leaned on decades of brainwashing tactics to elevate himself as a "god," a growing curiosity about foreign culture and the increasing penetration of free-market capitalism have begun to pose an internal threat to his domestic system of control in recent years, Thae told lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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But by strategically producing and distributing tailor-made content that challenges the North Korean population to critically analyze their own living conditions, the US could counter the Kim regime's brainwashing operation over the long-term -- a move that could foster domestic dissatisfaction that may eventually help drive Kim toward a willingness to compromise, he said.
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"We want to deliver the services, we want to make things clean, but we're going to take all this stuff that comes out of the EPA that's brainwashing our kids, that's propaganda, things that aren't true, allegations," said Inhofe, who famously once brought a snowball to the Senate floor to argue against evidence that global temperatures are rising. Sen.
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That I was subjected to brainwashing tactics that forced me to stare at an empty chair and yell at a father I was supposed to hate; that I was told my "urges" were sinful, hateful to God, an abomination; that I was forced to play sports in order to become more masculine: these seem impossible realities.
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"They're total, they're all encompassing, and you may not also have any other beliefs," Terror, Love and Brainwashing author Alexandra Stein, who literally got her PhD in cults, told Refinery29 over the phone about the topic, noting that in normal society one may be both an avid churchgoer and an involved member of a political party.
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It's telling that even Elliot's idealistic vision for freedom from corporate greed has been co-opted by an equally opportunistic faction, working under the auspices of changing the world and freeing the sheeple from their capitalist brainwashing, when Mr. Robot and Whiterose are just as unconcerned about the consequences for little guys as the conglomerates are.
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At that time, Pence shocked China watchers with a speech in which he laid out a litany of complaints, chastising China for building "an unparalleled surveillance state" and for government-run camps in the Xinjiang region where Muslim Uighurs "endure around-the-clock brainwashing" just ahead of a major Asia-Pacific conference that he attended on behalf of Trump.
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Far Cry 5's premise is potent enough: For years, Hope County has been slowly coming under control of the Project at Eden's Gate, a well resourced cult that is preparing for the end of the world by buying up local businesses, building up a sizable militia, and converting the county's residents through a cocktail of schlock-y Hollywood brainwashing techniques.
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In a new book, " Poisoner in Chief " (Henry Holt), about the C.I.A.'s MK-ULTRA program—the attempt, mostly in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, to achieve mind control through drugs—Stephen Kinzer, a former Times correspondent, points out that the entire idea of Communist "brainwashing" was a classic piece of Cold War propaganda, popularized by a writer with C.I.A. connections named Edward Hunter.
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The red pill symbolizes an awakening from brainwashing by the status quo—and though it has been an iconic emblem within trans communities since The Matrix's release, it has also been appropriated by a community of cisgender heterosexual men who have perverted the concept by casting themselves as the unwitting victims of a master plot in which they have been subordinated by social progress.
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According to various international newspapers that recently covered the story and the Reddit thread discussing the game, the tasks range from watching horror films, listening to disturbing noises, committing acts of self-harm such as carving a whale into one's own skin, killing animals, and waking up at 4:20 AM (the game's secondary name is "Wake Me Up At 123:20"), in a sort of all-consuming brainwashing process.
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But every so often, Erkin comes across a video that reveals something about the realities of China's mass surveillance crackdown and brainwashing policy in Xinjiang: a video of a propaganda rally, with Uyghurs singing songs praising the Communist Party of China; footage from inside a Uyghur orphanage for children with parents in detention; crowds of Uyghurs chanting in Mandarin rather than their native Uyghur language; a mosque being demolished.
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The mechanism is complicated, involving brainwashing, fake heroism and an assassination scheme, but the core conceit has a distinctive genius: The agent of influence the Communists intend to raise to the presidency is basically a Joseph McCarthy figure — a right-wing politician named Johnny Iselin who rants about Red infiltrators even as he's actually being manipulated himself, by a Machiavellian wife who takes her orders from Moscow or Beijing.
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The other main points Stein stresses to identifying a cult are a strict hierarchy (from the leading Sons Of Jacob commanders down to the Eyes and wives and Marthas and handmaids, Gilead is good on that one), constant busy work (how many knitting circles and grocery store trips are truly necessary?), brainwashing (which is created through chronic trauma, a staple of life in Gilead), and controllable, exploitable followers, which is what the entire petrified citizenry of Handmaid's are.
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J.P. Let me offer you some free advice: reject a universe in which Maroon 5 swaps its usual not-always-unpleasant twee pop-soul for somnolent tropical house; guard your eyes from the group as it feels secure enough to attempt a concept video about … the celebrity grind, I guess; pray that the brainwashing required to convince Kendrick Lamar to contribute a dumbed-down verse still five times too smart for this song is only temporary.
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Watching Evelyn Farkas admit on TV that the Obama administration wanted the intelligence community to "get as much information as you can" before Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE took office resembles some sort of social science experiment gone bad — and it frames the problems wrought by PC/political brainwashing.
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