One more thing...before someone jumps on it. I'm NOT saying that a vast number of people in government and media are in on some "conspiracy". It doesn't work that way in a power system that's set up like a pyramid....meaning that there are just a very few people at the very apex of the power pyramid, right at the top, who start the ball rolling on any false story. They know the real story. The rest of the people below them don't. The story could be the phony story about Saddam's Iraqi soldiers pulling babies in Kuwait out of incubators, for example. Somebody in the USA government, probably someone in the CIA, cooked up that story. They got the daughter of a high Kuwaiti official to bear false witness to it. From that point on the story was disseminated down through all levels of the world media and it was believed by hundreds of millions of people AND by Amnesty International (who later admitted to having been fooled), but the media people themselves were all fooled by the story, so they were NOT co-conspirators. The vast majority of people in a pyramidal power system simply pass a story or an order on down the chain of command without questioning it, and they do so in all innocence. Almost none of them realize if it's a false story or a wrongful command.

And that is how it's done...by usually just a handful of well-placed people who start the ball rolling. If the propaganda is efficiently dispensed, then virtually everyone will believe it, and they will NOT consciously be members of a conspiracy at all...but they will unwittingly make that conspiracy go forward anyway. That is how you succeed with propaganda. You only have to fool most of the people most of the time...and it works like a charm.