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12 WAYS TO RECOGNIZE a BBG PRODUCTION
By Anonymous Patriots
Why would the government support false flag events?
This question would go through our minds every time we would see a new false flag event plastered all over the media. Like many of you, we would think, “It has to be real, otherwise the government and participants would be engaging in treason.” But the narrative and the evidence never seem to match up. How odd that at Sandy Hook and at San Bernardino there were so many responders from federal agencies and that other drills were already happening on the same day just a mile away. Coincidence seemed unlikely for one event. Totally unlikely for two.
It even seemed that the “official story” that was “fed” to the news agencies was filled with holes on purpose. When 450 responders showed up in San Bernardino, including FEMA, ATF, Homeland Security, FBI, DoD, and all local agencies, within 14 minutes and had their lawn chairs and coolers set up while most of them walked around aimlessly with no worries in the world, we couldn’t take it anymore. We had always known that “false flags” usually precede severe military action and we couldn’t really imagine military action within US domestic borders since the military is not empowered to act against its own citizens.
Therefore, we decided to WAKE UP and study the false flag phenomena. Don’t presume to think this is just another conspiracy theory article. What you will read will chill you to the bone. We know this is a long article, but while you were sleeping much has been done to destroy your country. You need to see the immense work that is being done behind your back to destroy your beloved country. And, most important, when you get to the end of the article, we have a CITIZEN CALL TO ACTION.
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We beseech you, our fellow Americans, to read this article and pass it along to others. Unplug your electronic tethers and read this very important article. If not for you, then the children and loved ones in your life who will live like slaves in this hellish New World Order that is already here. Our patriotic duty was to do the research; yours is to read and distribute to other patriots.
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Like many of you, we believe that 9-11 was a false flag event. We don’t know exactly who, what, why and how, but we know that when overwhelming circumstantial evidence points in the opposite direction of the official story, something is wrong. So when the Sandy Hook and San Bernardino events unfolded, we became very uneasy as these events seemed to be a new type of false flag. In both events, the president was demanding that Americans give up their guns and constitutional rights even before the fake pools of blood on the steps of the Sandy Hook school dried.
Actually, the pools of blood on the sidewalk at Sandy Hook were the first indicator of fraud: two uncoagulated pools of liquid blood without a trail of blood, without any victims ever coming out of the building to “make” the pools, and authorities ignoring them and not even treating them as part of a crime scene. Every picture we saw or video we listened to was completely fake and looked more like a drill. Nothing added up. In San Bernardino there were ten different “black SUV” pictures released that are completely contradictory. An alarm kept going off in our heads saying, “Why are they purposely releasing contrary evidence as though they didn’t care that the evidence made them complicit with a crime, or even treason?”
We started studying the evidence. We were beyond the basic evidence—that crisis actors were used to stage both events and multiple government agencies showed up within minutes. But one thing that totally took us by surprise is that San Bernardino was the site of the largest Jade Helm 2015 military maneuvers. We asked ourselves, “Why would so many people, including so many U.S. government agencies, be involved in deceiving Americans?” It took courage to look beyond the first veil of illusion.
If you have followed Sandy Hook and San Bernardino you realize that no one (except the patsies) are killed. No one dies; therefore, no crime has been committed. This knowledge gave us some comfort, but raised many questions concerning false flag events in America.
What is the goal of the recent (since 2012) false flag events?
Who gains from the appearance of insidious criminal events?
What mechanisms are used to silence so many participants, i.e. paid crisis actors, government agencies?
How do these agencies “get away with” using creating lies, distortions, and false flags? Wouldn’t that be called propaganda?
After pondering these questions relentlessly, we lifted another veil of illusion. We asked, “What if these activities to manipulate public opinion were legal? Could there be a law that protects the president and US agencies (local, state, and federal) from conducting false flag event? So we changed our focus and began to research false flags as being legal propaganda. We found the answers in plain sight. We were beyond disbelief when we discovered that the US Congress has passed laws, post 9-11, that makes state-sponsored propaganda legal. Take a moment and think about that before reading on.
Our research lead us to discover the tenets of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 which makes it legal to propagate and broadcast propaganda within America. We are all being treated like enemy combatants whose “perception” must be managed to come in line with presidential “national security” policies. The Department of Defense may now broadcast propaganda with the approval and authority of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) both internationally and domestically. Just Google it folks. There is actually an agency with this name.
Perception Management
Any presidential policy may be accompanied by broadcasts that use subliminal programming as part of perception management. These mechanisms that squelch dissent have been used since the Reagan Administration to shape public opinion to support administrative policies. Wars require domestic support and these “black ops” programs started to use the “psy-ops” tools of the military. DARPA, the research and development arm of the military, has created many tools to control the enemy through media that shapes public perception, which we will elucidate later in this article. It is called perception management and has been used legally in advertising since the late seventies and also in electronic warfare throughout the world to “brain-wash” our enemies and shape their perception and opinion of America.
The only question left was the issue of what the goal of the president (or the real powers behind him—the Council on Foreign Relations) might be, besides the obvious one of having few people who disagree with his policies. We then studied the United Nations Small Arms Treaty which Obama signed in 2011, but couldn’t get Congress to ratify. In this treaty we found the goal Obama is driving towards — disarm America, with the help of the United Nations. But two things have to happen: 1) we have to give up our guns or have them taken from us and 2) the UN has to have a military presence in our country. Keep in mind that the United Nations cannot have a military presence in our country, unless invited.
Have you already started connecting the dots? Remember seeing all of the images of all that UN military equipment that was distributed throughout America during Jade Helm 2015? It seemed that besides the San Bernardino exercises, moving UN heavy military equipment throughout America was the only thing that we noticed happening during Jade Helm 2015. Another veil lifted. Obama’s job was to go for a gun grab, either by Congressional action or UN treaty. But patriots started waking up and our elected officials in Congress could not ratify the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. So Obama and his political minions began to manufacture false flags, hoping that our horror to Sandy Hook and San Bernardino would cause us to lay down our rights and guns.
Keep in mind, that false flag incidents and state-sponsored propaganda could not be considered treasonous acts against Americans as Congress (through the NDAA) had made treason–legal.
Congress Does Not Ratify Gun-Taking Treaty
Congress would not, and has not, ratified the UN Small Arms Treaty, nor would they vote on Second Amendment restrictions. So false flags were used to create conscious and “unconscious” support of a national gun grab. Sandy Hook was the most heinous “example” of what “guns do.” Incredible anti-gun sentiment was created by Sandy Hook and people still reel from it with anger and hatred for “people on drugs” and “gun lovers.” San Bernardino happened right before the congressional vote on gun control. And even with images of San Bernardino a day before the congressional vote on gun control, Obama lost his attempt for gun restrictions.
Now do you see why he has taken things into his own hands and signed into effect 23 Executive Orders that move his gun control policies forward in contradistinction to the fact that Congress rejected such ideas? The motive became quite clear once you read the UN Treaty – to dismantle the Second Amendment and disarm America. Since Obama couldn’t use the United Nations or Congress to get his way, he just wrote his own laws and pretends like Executive Orders outrank congressional law. Obama is behind the UN timeline of disarmament, since the other nations who signed the treaty have already begun to disarm its citizens.
Controlling the Human Domain
Once we understood the goal and the legalization of propaganda, with its insidious DARPA electronic war devices, the rest fell into place as one Internet search after the next revealed the truth before our eyes. This is shocking and almost inconceivable. But it is law (NDAA) and Congress did not stop this law from being passed.
Another question is why our elected officials did not call out the president in using subliminal programming, psy-ops perception management and war-like marketing strategies to shape public opinion? Simple. They use it themselves in their own campaigns. Subliminal programming is openly used in the broadcasting industry – that’s why people believe untruths from the news and watch mindless TV while drinking their cola beverage (It’s the Real Thing) and imagining that the official story on main stream media is the only story.
As Jade Helm 2015 taught us, the military is interested in Controlling the Human Domain, the very motto of their operation emblazoned on their logo. Fellow patriots, we are in a war which is coming from all sides towards the middle. We cannot trust authorities and politicians to have our best interest at heart. We need to wake up and observe more carefully and ask more questions even when a nagging voice in the back of our minds says, “It is the official story, I should not question it,” or “I should trust my elected officials to come forward and blow a whistle if such heinous propaganda was being perpetrated upon unsuspecting Americans.” Better yet, perhaps we need to know how we are being controlled! So before we lose you in our web of deception and lies, remember that Jade Helm is telling us that the goal is to control the human domain.
First we need to drill down on some of the basic terms and strategies before we bring the full picture into view. Stay with us and keep reading, fellow patriots.
The Deceptive Art of Perception Management
Throughout human history, governments have been interested in “mastering the human domain.” The mind control of their populations, what we once called propaganda, is now called perception management, political diplomacy and other such deceptive names. This theme is echoed in the slogan for Jade Helm, “Mastering the human domain.”
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which was just updated for 2016, provides that the Department of Defense, through the Broadcasting Board of Governors, controls all broadcasting both international and domestic. Therefore, Obama is acting legally carrying out “false flag” events inside the US borders. Obama is not a traitor for this activity; he is a lawyer who made it legal to be a traitor. Obama is not only at war with Syria, Libya, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen; he is also at war with Americans who don’t support his policies.
Obama has made a commitment to disarm Americans called the United Nation’s Small Arms Treaty. This treaty is consistent with his efforts to dismantle the Second Amendment. It is this motivation that seems to have driven his non-stop agenda for disarming America and empowering the executive branch of the government, i.e., his own agenda of bombing sovereign nations and bringing America under the control of the United Nations and his administration. This, coupled with his continued efforts to broaden his powers through the NDAA, Executive Orders, and Presidential Policy Directives creates a clear picture of manipulating public sentiment with the force of a military war on his American opponents.
United Nations Small Arms Treaty
In 2011 Obama signed the United Nations Small Arms Treaty and since then there have been 108 mass shootings in America in less than a 4 year period. In the four years before Obama was elected (2003-2007) there was a total of 27 mass shootings. Prior to 2003 there was an average of 2.5 mass shootings per year. In 2015 alone, there have been over 58. That is over 20 times higher than it was before. (MSA Data, 2015)
The Small Arms Guns Treaty has been passed by the UN and is ready to go into effect across the world. The treaty passed in the general assembly in April 2013. The treaty, which seeks to prevent and control the illicit trade of weapons while regulating the international trade of them, includes measures such as creating a national gun registry; mandating control of firearms and ammunition; regulating the manufacture of gun parts; and limiting stores’ ability to sell firearms. The NRA and a bipartisan majority of pro-gun Senators have succeeded in blocking this treaty’s ratification in the United States. This treaty violates the Second Amendment. For any UN treaty to have any effect on American laws, it must first be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
NDAA Provides for Legal Propaganda
Through the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act the US government has the legal regulation to use propaganda against foreign audiences and American citizens. The intention is to sway public opinion by using television, radio, newspapers, and social media targeting American and foreign targets in controlled psy-ops or perception management.
The NDAA has an amendment added that negates the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 (SMA) and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987. These laws made propaganda used to influence foreigners and US citizens illegal. The Broadcasting Board of Governors is not new as it was created from SMA; although today it is quite a different agency as you will read. Originally, this agency claimed to “inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy.”
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Amendment 114 of the NDAA was approved by the House in May of 2012.
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) reads:
Sec. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication.
(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or disseminated abroad.
According to Michael Hastings: “The new law would give sweeping powers to the State Department and Pentagon to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public.”
“It removes the protection for Americans,” says a Pentagon official who is concerned about the law. “It removes oversight from the people who want to put out this information. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.”
Representatives Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and Adam Smith (D-WA) in the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act (2012) (H.R. 5736), advocate that it is time to liberate the authority of the US government to broadcast American produced foreign propaganda in the U.S.
The amendment empowers the State Department and Pentagon to utilize all forms of media against the American public for the sake of coercing US citizens to believe whatever version of the truth the US government wants them to believe. All oversight is removed with Amendment 114. Regardless of whether the information disseminated is truthful, partially truthful or completely false bears no weight.
Four billion dollars per year is spent by the Pentagon on propaganda aimed at the American public; as well as $202 million spent by the Department of Defense on misinformation operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2011. The Pentagon is using fake handles on social media sites to purvey false information, harass users and enact perception management to influence Americans. Sophisticated software allows military to engage in online conversations with coordinated answers, blog comments and instant messaging remarks that are solely meant to spread pro-American propaganda.
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This new perception management is called Information Operations (IO), which is defined as “the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.”
Repealing the Smith-Mundt Act allows the direct deployment of these tactics on the American public.
Information Operations activities are undertaken to shape the essential narrative of a conflict or situation and thus affect the attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience and equates descriptions of combat operations with standard marketing strategies. With the NDAA 2012 in its current form, the State Department and Pentagon can go beyond manipulating mainstream media outlets and directly disseminate campaigns of misinformation to the U.S. public. Successful wars require domestic acceptance.
The NDAA 2012 – specifically Section 1021(b)(2) – has already institutionalized the U.S. military’s ability to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and non-citizens alike. Major parts of the legislation are based on the assumption that key legal protections for individuals are incompatible with the requirements of national security.
The purpose of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 is “to authorize the domestic dissemination of information and material about the United States intended primarily for foreign audiences.” The act was added to the 2013 NDAA bill as section of 1078 to amend certain passages of Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 passed Congress as part of the NDAA 2013 on December 28, 2012. Amendments made to the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1987 allow for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released within US borders.
National Defense Resources Preparedness Order
In 2012 Obama signed an order called National Defense Resources Preparedness giving himself explicit control over the nation and declaring a permanent state of Martial Law in the U.S. The very same year, Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which gave the U.S. Government the right to detain anyone for anything indefinitely. He has renewed that order every year since then. The Obama administration was even able to get a court ruling overturned after the ruling had successfully removed the Indefinite Detention provision from the NDAA.
Virginia Wakes Up
A bill introduced in the Virginia assembly (HB2144) would take the next step in stopping illegal federal kidnapping under the 2012 NDAA. Virginia stood alone and passed the first bill in the country addressing detention provisions written into the NDAA in 2012. That law forbids state agencies, in some situations, from cooperating with any federal attempts to exercise the indefinite detention provisions written into sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act.
What Did They Say about NDAA?
“NDAA, and SOPA would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world.” Sergey Brin, Google co-founder
“I never thought I would have to write this: but – incredibly – Congress has now passed the National Defense Appropriations Act, with Amendment 1031, which allows for the military detention of American citizens.” Naomi Wolf, author
“…bold and dangerous attempt to establish martial law in America.” Presidential candidate Rand Paul
“…was carefully crafted to mislead the public.” Justin Amash, U. S. Representative
“Provisions that were snuck into the bill with little notice from mainstream media could spell indefinite detention without a hearing, keep Guantanamo open, and hinder fair trials.” Amnesty International
“Myth #3: U.S. citizens are exempted from this new bill: This is simply false, at least when expressed so definitively and without caveats. The bill is purposely muddled on this issue which is what is enabling the falsehood.” Glenn Greenwald, constitutional lawyer
“What the American People are witnessing now with this new legislation is the further development of an American Police State into a Military Dictatorship, a process that was started by the so-called USA Patriot Act in 2001.” “If it is enacted into law, America will lose all pretense of having our Military subjected to the control of democratically elected civilian leaders as originally envisioned and required by the Constitution. Professor Francis Boyle, constitutional law authority at the University of Illinois, Champaign.
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NDAA Versions Continue to Erode Bill of Rights and Constitution
NDAA 2013
The 2013 version of the NDAA allows the State Department and Defense Department to direct the same kind of massive propaganda campaigns here in the U.S. that are presently waged as part of American war efforts in foreign lands. The US government propaganda is directed at the American people with the belief that successful wars require domestic acceptance.
The 2013 NDAA overturned a 64-year ban on the domestic dissemination of propaganda which is described as public diplomacy information. It preaches freedom of the press abroad while practicing censorship at home. The resources and personnel who focus on talking about America overseas are diverted in favor of domestic perception management. There are no checks and balances. No one knows if the information is accurate, partially accurate, or entirely false.
NDAA 2014
NDAA 2014 underwrote $662 billion for continued US aggression in our many foreign wars while, on the domestic front, it violates the Bill of Rights. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, it authorizes presidents “to order the military to pick up and imprison people, including U.S. citizens, without charging them or putting them on trial.”
The ACLU charges the provisions of NDAA “were negotiated by a small group of members of Congress, in secret, and without proper congressional review (and), are inconsistent with fundamental American values embodied in the Constitution….(our) fundamental freedoms are on the line.”
We had already had many of the provisions of the Bill of Rights supplanted by the Patriot Act. President Carter has denounced the Patriot Act for authorizing federal agents “to search people’s homes and businesses secretly, to confiscate property without any deadline or without giving notice that the intrusion had taken place, and to collect without notice personal information on American citizens including their medical histories, books checked out of libraries, and goods they purchase.”
NDAA 2016
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2016 is costing Americans $612 billion. Obama skirts around the Constitution by having the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Sections 1021 and 1022, which authorizes indefinite military detention, without charge or without trial, any person, including an American citizen, and applies the “Laws of War,” to U.S. soil, making the United States legally a battlefield.
Obama claims he will develop “An Appropriate Legal Regime” to permanently detain people prior to having committed any crime. The idea of these detentions would be to prevent any individual from committing a possible future crime. Obama says that he might detain someone up to ten years before they might commit a crime. The NDAA removes all of the rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights except the 2nd Amendment, and you know how hard Obama is trying to get rid of that also.
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Obama’s Executive Orders
President Obama has been using executive orders (EO’s) in ways they have never been used before. He is using them to do end-runs around Congress by legislating from the White House. Some EO’s are dormant but pose a potential future threat. One of those is EO 13603 which was signed EO 13603 on March 16, 2012. The purpose is to delegate authority and address “National Defense” resource policies and programs under the Defense Production Act of 1950. It provides the framework and authority for the allocation or appropriation of resources, materials and services to promote “National Defense.” It is an update of a prior EO’s on the National Defense Resources Preparedness. One difference which is concerning is that the definition “national emergency” is now broader and quite vague.
Executive Order 13603 – National Defense Resources Preparedness allows the government to completely control our lives through the “industrial and technological base,” should the president declare a “national emergency.” It gives Obama the power over “all commodities and products capable of being ingested by human beings and animals; all forms of energy; all forms of civil transportation; all usable water from all sources; health resources; forces labor such as military conscription; and federal officials can issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources.”
Presidential Policy Directives
In the Barack Obama Administration, the directives that are used to promulgate Presidential decisions on “National Security” matters are designated Presidential Policy Directives (PPDs). Directives that are used to initiate policy review procedures are called Presidential Study Directives (PSDs). In May 2013, the Administration issued a previously unknown category of directive known as a Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG).
Presidential Policy Directives have the same legal force as an Executive Order, forming a body of largely secret law. Executive Orders are public and must be published in the Federal Register whereas PPDs are not. It is a secret law.
President Obama’s directive on hostage policy was originally released as Presidential Policy Directive numbered PPD-29. When the White House corrected that number to PPD-30, it meant Obama had issued a secret directive as PPD-29. Of the 30 PPDs issued by Obama, 19 have not been released. And for 11 of those, the White House has not disclosed even the subject of the order. Not even Congress has a copy. It’s a domain of unchecked presidential authority.
Alarming Trends in the Military
Since Obama took office, an unprecedented number of top military leaders have been removed from their posts – nearly 200 generals, flag officers and other high-ranking officials. They are being “removed” at a rate of about one per week. In 2013, an ex-Navy Seal came forward and warned that Obama is firing soldiers who say they would not fire upon US Citizens if ordered.
Recently, the Department of Homeland Security was caught buying 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, enough to have sustained our war in Iraq for twenty years. Earlier this year, the DHS purchased another 62 million rounds of AR-15 hollow point ammo claiming it was allocated for “target practice.”
The military wants to transform Information Operations into a core military competency on a par with air, ground, maritime and special operations including: the integrated employment of electronic warfare (EW), computer network operations (CNO), psychological operations (PSYOP), military deception (MILDEC), and operations security (OPSEC), in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own.
IO intends to shape the essential narrative of a conflict or situation and thus affect the attitudes and behaviors of the targeted audience and equates combat operations with standard marketing strategies.
History of American Internal Propaganda and the BBG
In January 1983, President Reagan took the first formal step to create an unprecedented peacetime propaganda bureaucracy by signing National Security Decision Directive 77, entitled “Management of Public Diplomacy Relative to National Security.” Reagan deemed it “necessary to strengthen the organization, planning and coordination of the various aspects of public diplomacy of the United States Government.” Reagan ordered the creation of a special planning group within the National Security Council to direct these “public diplomacy” campaigns. This group was run through the Department of Defense.
The DoD’s Broadcasting Board of Governors traces its beginnings to the early Cold War years, as a covert propaganda project of the newly-created Central Intelligence Agency to wage “psychological warfare” against Communist regimes and others deemed a threat to US interests. In 1948, National Security Council Directive 10/2 officially authorized the CIA to engage in “covert operations” against the Communist Menace. Clause 5 of the directive defined “covert operations” as “propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including sabotage, anti-sabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance movements, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.” Propaganda quickly became one of the key weapons in the CIA’s covert operations arsenal. The agency established and funded radio stations, newspapers, magazines, historical societies, research institutes, and cultural programs all over Europe.
The BBG was officially formed in 1999 and ran on a $721 million dollar annual budget. It reports directly to the Secretary of State and operates a host of Cold War-era CIA spinoffs and “psychological warfare” projects: Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, Radio Martí, Voice of America, Radio Liberation from Bolshevism and a dozen other government-funded radio stations and media outlets pumping out pro-American propaganda across the globe.
The BBG is managed by a military think-tank and is no longer funded by the CIA’s black budget. Its role in “psychological warfare” continues but its operations are openly funded. The BBG and its subsidiaries still engage in propaganda warfare, subversion and soft-power projection against anyone deemed hostile to US interests and “National Security.” And it is still deeply intertwined with the same military and CIA-connected intelligence organizations. The Broadcasting Board of Governors runs a propaganda network that blankets the globe.
The BBG is also involved in the technology of post-Cold War, Internet-era propaganda. It has bankrolled satellite Internet access in Iran and continues to fund an SMS-based social network in Cuba called Piramideo.
As the BBG outlined in a 2013 fact sheet for its “Internet Anti-Censorship” unit: “The BBG collaborates with other Internet freedom projects and organizations, including RFA’s Open Technology Fund, the State Department, USAID, and DARPAs SAFER Warfighter Communications Program. IAC is also reaching out to other groups interested in Internet freedom such as Google, Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy’s Center for International Media Assistance.”
Today, the Congressionally-funded federal agency is also one of the biggest backers of grassroots and open-source Internet privacy technology. These investments started in 2012, when the BBG launched the “Open Technology Fund” (OTF). The BBG endowed Radio Free Asia’s Open Technology Fund with a multimillion dollar budget and a single task: “to fulfill the US Congressional global mandate for Internet freedom.”
The Open Technology Fund supports many new encryption programs like: CryptoCat, Tor, Open Whisper Systems, LEAP, GlobaLeaks, ChatSecure, and Orbot. In 2014, Congress increased the BBG’s “Internet freedom” budget to $25 million. In 2014, OTF launched a coordinated project with Dropbox and Google to make free, easy-to-use privacy tools, and Facebook announced it was incorporating the underlying encryption technology of one of OTF’s flagship projects – OpenWhisper Systems – into its WhatsApp text messaging service.
It should seem suspicious that DoD’s money would be so warmly welcomed by some of the Internet’s fiercest anti-government activists. Why is a federally-funded CIA spinoff with decades of experience in “psychological warfare” suddenly blowing tens of millions in government funds on privacy tools meant to protect people from being surveilled by another arm of the very same government? It is called: “Perception Management.”
Perception Management Is Being Used Against You
Perception management is a term originated by the US Department of Defense. It defines it as: “Actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator’s objectives. In various ways, perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.”
The factors that influence the targeted audience consist of the following:
Ambiguity: If ambiguity increases, the perceiver may find it harder to form an accurate perception.
Social status: a person’s real or perceived position in society or in an organization.
Impression management: an attempt to control the perceptions or impressions of others.
The phrase “perception management” has often functioned as a euphemism for “an aspect of information warfare.” The distinction between “perception management” and public diplomacy, which “does not, as a rule, involve falsehood and deception, whereas these are important ingredients of perception management; the purpose is to get the other side to believe what one wishes it to believe, whatever the truth may be.”
Although perception management operations are typically carried out within the international arena between governments, and between governments and citizens, use of perception management techniques have become part of mainstream information management systems. Businesses may even contract with other businesses to conduct perception management for them, or they may conduct it in-house with their public relations staff.
The term “perception management” is not new to the lexicon of government language. For years the FBI has listed foreign perception management as one of eight “key issue threats” to “National Security”, including it with terrorism, attacks on critical US infrastructure, and weapons proliferation among others. The FBI clearly recognizes perception management as a threat when it is directed at the US by foreign governments. Deception and sleight of hand are important in gaining advantages in war, both to gain domestic support of the operations and for the military against the enemy
In late 2001, after 9/11, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld created the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence (OSI). The Office of Special Plans was created with a goal of selective intelligence vetting outside the normal chartered intelligence apparatus, with foreign propaganda activities moved to the Office of Information Activities under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Strategic influence, special plans, psychological operations (psy-ops), and perception management are all direct synonyms within the DoD.
The DoD has identified the information domain as its new “asymmetric flank.” The level of use of perception management is continuing to grow throughout the military. There are now specialists, known as psychological operations officers and civil affairs officers, whose only purpose is to decide how to present information/propaganda to the media and to the people of the current country.
False Flag (Perception Management) Characteristics
Let’s compare what Wikipedia tells us are the “12 basic strategies of perception management” with what might be its counterpart in “characteristics of a false flag event.”
Ambiguity: if ambiguity increases, the perceiver finds it harder to form an accurate perception.
Counterpart: Eyewitnesses have conflicting accounts.
Social status: targeting a person’s position in society or in an organization
Counterpart: The official narrative has obvious domestic and geopolitical advantages for the governing body.
Impression management: the perceptions or impressions of others
Counterpart: The narrative behind the attack serves to leverage emotions like fear, as well as patriotism, in order to manufacture consent around a previously controversial issue.
Preparation – having clear goals and knowing the ideal position you want people to hold.
Counterpart: Military and law enforcement training drills occur on the same day very close by causing confusion to obscure eye witness testimony and allow orchestrators to plant both patsies, disinformation and backup operatives. Immediate calls for gun control or restricting civil liberties.
Credibility – all information uses prejudices or expectations to increase credibility.
Counterpart: News agencies keep saying that they are “being given reports” or “being told” and do not cite who reported or told them the unconfirmed information they broadcast as real.
Multi-channel support – have multiple arguments and fabricated facts to reinforce your information.
Counterpart: No obvious motive for the mass attack and no prior indicators. Shooter leaves manifesto or lots of evidence “proving” they were “radicalized” or “on drugs” or other were other undesirables.
Centralized control – employ entities to promote propaganda.
Counterpart: Fake “victims” and crisis actors.
Security – the nature of the deception campaign is known by few.
Counterpart: All drill participants and crisis actors sign Non-disclosure Agreements with “National
Security” clause promising swift and severe punishment if broken. Everyone involved is on a “need to know” basis and kept in the dark about the overall intent of the event.
Flexibility – the deception campaign adapts and changes over time as needs change.
Counterpart: Evidence gets destroyed or tampered with and the details don’t matter because the culprits are dead. No more interest in an investigation.
Coordination – organize in a hierarchy to maintain consistent distribution of information.
Counterpart: The federal agencies trump the local law enforcement agencies due to the “National
Security” element of the drill which is ultimately controlled by the Department of Defense.
Concealment – contradicting information is destroyed.
Counterpart: Culprit is dead and evidence disappears from news reports, Internet, and media. Patsy has no military training, yet shoots extremely fast and accurately but no authority looks at the evidence.
Untruthful statements – fabricate the truth.
Counterpart: Families of “victims” have acting backgrounds and receive payoffs in GoFundMe
accounts and direct payoffs, especially mortgages. They often show little to no emotion, and even smile or laugh. The lie perpetuates and the “official story” is shaped by the media into truth.
Narrative Networks
In 2015, DARPA’s “Narrative Networks” (or N2) program is producing results. The project is intended to analyze how “narratives” play into human psychology, delving into the way these constructs affect the mind. A narrative is a way of phrasing something, a choice of words that is likely a biased strategy to frame information.
“Narratives exert a powerful influence on human thoughts, emotions and behavior and can be particularly important in security contexts. Conflict resolution and counterterrorism scenarios and detecting the neural response underlying empathy induced by stories is of critical importance.” From DARPA researchers in a paper published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
Mastery of “narratives” could potentially be used to manipulate the perception of a population using platforms of communication like television to subtly and potently make a person think a certain way.
“Governments often use stories to present information, so understanding how we comprehend them is important,” said co-author Eric Schumacher, an associate professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Researchers observed a phenomenon of “tunnel vision,” or impaired reasoning, triggered in the brain when viewers processed a suspenseful moment. When suspense grew, brain activity in the viewers’ peripheral vision decreased.
The US Military has a long history of funding psychological experiments, some entrenched in human rights violations. Now we have the Pentagon-funded DARPA program which pays researchers at colleges and other scientists millions of dollars to enhance and bolster methods of war. Such work places great technological power in the hands of the Department of Defense.
DARPA’s Narrative Networks as Mind-Control
DARPA launched the Narrative Networks program to understand how narratives influence human cognition and behavior, and apply those findings in international security contexts. Narratives may consolidate memory, shape emotions, cue heuristics and biases in judgment, and influence group distinctions.
The Narrative Networks Program has three parallel tracks of research and development:
Develop quantitative analytic tools to study narratives and their effects on human behavior in security contexts;
Analyze the neurobiological impact of narratives on hormones and neurotransmitters, reward processing, and emotion-cognition interaction; and
Develop models and simulations of narrative influence in social and environmental contexts, develop sensors to determine their impact on individuals and groups, and suggest doctrinal modifications.
DARPA is studying Narrative Comprehension and Persuasion in a study entitled: Toward Narrative Disruptors and Inductors: Mapping the Narrative Comprehension Network and Its Persuasive Effects. The DARPA-funded research project ($6.1 million) is studying the effectiveness of different narratives in efforts of mass persuasion. Using MRI and EEG they will map areas of the brain involved in narrative comprehension and even attempt to enhance or disrupt narrative understanding using this information as well as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. It will study the neurobiology of narrative comprehension, validate narrative theories and explore the connection between narrative and persuasion. This groundbreaking research study will employ multi-modal neuro-imaging, combining the temporal resolution of EEG with the spatial resolution of MRI.
This project will provide empirical evidence integrating brain regions and cognitive processes into a neural network of narrative comprehension. By virtue of the experimental design, these relationships will also directly inform the primary aspect