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    Default Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    Very interesting, the article is a bit 'anti-nato' but in general it has very good content

    https://mronline.org/2021/10/13/behi...rn-militaries/

    Quote NATO is developing new forms of warfare to wage a “battle for the brain,” as the military alliance put it.

    The US-led NATO military cartel has tested novel modes of hybrid warfare against its self-declared adversaries, including economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, and psychological warfare.

    Now, NATO is spinning out an entirely new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare. Described as the “weaponization of brain sciences,” the new method involves “hacking the individual” by exploiting “the vulnerabilities of the human brain” in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering.”

    Until recently, NATO had divided war into five different operational domains: air, land, sea, space, and cyber. But with its development of cognitive warfare strategies, the military alliance is discussing a new, sixth level: the “human domain.”

    A 2020 NATO-sponsored study of this new form of warfare clearly explained,

    While actions taken in the five domains are executed in order to have an effect on the human domain, cognitive warfare’s objective is to make everyone a weapon.

    “The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century,” the report stressed. “Humans are the contested domain,” and “future conflicts will likely occur amongst the people digitally first and physically thereafter in proximity to hubs of political and economic power.”
    Here's an article in nato.int
    https://www.nato.int/docu/review/art...nce/index.html
    Quote Countering cognitive warfare: awareness and resilience
    Johns Hopkins University & Imperial College London

    In cognitive warfare, the human mind becomes the battlefield. The aim is to change not only what people think, but how they think and act. Waged successfully, it shapes and influences individual and group beliefs and behaviours to favour an aggressor’s tactical or strategic objectives. In its extreme form, it has the potential to fracture and fragment an entire society, so that it no longer has the collective will to resist an adversary’s intentions. An opponent could conceivably subdue a society without resorting to outright force or coercion.
    Which i believe is already put to practice with the Covid hysteria, just looking at how people react to unvaccinated people, it has completely fractured society among other things

    Quote The aims of cognitive warfare can be limited, with short time horizons. Or they can be strategic, with campaigns launched over the course of decades. A single campaign could focus on the limited aim of preventing a military manoeuver from taking place as planned, or to force the alteration of a specific public policy. Several successive campaigns could be launched with the long-term objective of disrupting entire societies or alliances, by seeding doubts about governance, subverting democratic processes, triggering civil disturbances, or instigating separatist movements.
    Here's the website where the public research documents are located
    https://www.innovationhub-act.org/content/cw-documents

    And here's the main pdf for the cognitive warfare research
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    Default Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries


    If Biden can interrupt

    NATO expansion and war profiteering,

    the U.S.-Russia standoff over Ukraine

    can be resolved...




    The U.S.-Russia standoff over Ukraine has sparked bellicose threats and fears of Europe's biggest ground war in decades.

    There are ample reasons to question the prospects of a Russian invasion, and U.S. allies including,

    France

    Germany's now-ousted navy chief

    Kiev itself appear to share the skepticism...

    Another potential scenario is that Russia draws on the Cuban Missile Crisis and positions offensive weapons within the borders of Latin American allies.



    Whatever the outcome, the crisis has underscored the perils of a second Cold War between the world's top nuclear powers.



    If the path forward is unpredictable, what got us here is easy to trace.



    The row over Ukraine is the outgrowth of an aggressive U.S. posture toward Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago, driven by hegemonic policymakers and war profiteers in Washington.



    Understanding that background is key to resolving the current impasse, if the Biden administration can bring itself to alter a dangerous course.



    https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/s..._russia229.htm

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    Default Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    It matters not whether people are dying or not, because It’s all about making the public believe in a particular causation which can arrive at any moment without preface and kill anyone at random. Mind Kontrol and manipulation - the perfect terrorist

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    Default Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    When I think about how over half of people in the United States were willing to be injected with these new vaccines so quickly I can't see how this is possible without cognitive warfare being involved.

    Knowing that our fellow humans are actively being manipulated by military level psychological operations and that they are being seriously harmed by this cognitive warfare means we have to stand up now and do what we can to prevent more people from being injured.

    People have been extremely successful recently by serving lawsuits against elected officials bonds / insurance, this is what has caused all the sudden drops in mask mandates, and will continue until we stop being manipulated.

    If you would like to learn more / help send me a private message.

    War is something we all would like to avoid but if you find yourself in the middle of it you have no choice but to fight.

    Disclaimer- My use of the words war and fight refers to a cognitive war and fighting does not imply violence but instead using legal means and legislation to fight back

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    Default Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    NATO is nothing more than a weapons marketplace, a bomb bazaar. That's all it is. Normal people have this vague idea that it is an organization somehow striving for world peace, when nothing could be further from the truth. You read about countries supplying other countries with arms all the time, and this is where the deals take place.

    Brussels, Belgium is a very grey city and a total illuminati town. This is where NATO is located. The surrounding blocks are populated by some of the highest paid prostitutes in Europe, and this is where they conduct their business; the buying and selling of weapons of mass destruction.

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    Default Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    Key to "understand" USA/UK/NATO warmongering… Warning!...triggers!


    Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova declaring yesterday:

    „15 February 2022 will go down in history as the day Western war propaganda failed… The West has been shamed and destroyed without firing a single shot“

    a declaration not fully understood by the socialist indoctrinated peoples of Amerika, but whose historic significances of was not lost on the peoples of Eurasia, the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia, a continental area Sir Halford John Mackinder, one of the founding fathers of both Western geopolitics and geostrategic, called the „Heartland of the World“ in his seminal work „Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction“ published over 100 years ago, and over the past century that s caused two world wars and countless other conflicts, sees it all being caused because Western policy makers in Amerika and Britain have followed Sir Mackinder s maxim:

    „Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world“

    Now seeking to rule over the „Heartland“, is the Biden-British-NATO Axis, but whose failed attempt to ignite a war in the East European nation of Ukraine located in Eurasia today sees them being obliterated—an obliteration allowing a new German-French Alliance to form, that when joining with the Russian-Chinese Alliance will allow the peoples and nations of Eurasia to expel the warmongering Amerikan and British forces from this region.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halford_Mackinder

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ge...vot_of_History
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    Partial 2023 Updates:
    • NATO's Cognitive Warfare To Control Your Brain, Thoughts, & Behavior - Operational

    Cognition Workshop Innovative Solutions to Improve Cognition
    Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries
    Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
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    Since 2020, NATO has been pushing ahead with plans for a psychological war, which should be on an equal footing with the military alliance's five previous areas of operation (land, sea, air, space, cyberspace). It's about the battlefield of public opinion. NATO documents speak of “cognitive warfare”. How specific is the project, what steps have been taken so far and who is it aimed at?

    A point of view from Jonas Tögel.

    To be victorious in war, the battle for public opinion must also be won. This has been carried out for over 100 years using increasingly modern tools, so-called soft power techniques. These refer to all those psychological influence tools with which people can be controlled in such a way that they themselves do not notice this control. The American political scientist Joseph Nye defines soft power as “the ability to persuade others to do what you want without using force or coercion.” (1)

    Mistrust in governments and militaries is increasing, and at the same time NATO is intensifying its efforts to wage increasingly sophisticated psychological warfare in the battle for people's minds and hearts. The overarching program for this is “Cognitive Warfare” . With the psychological weapons from this program, humans themselves are to be declared the new theater of war, the so-called “human domain”.

    One of the first NATO documents on these plans is the essay NATO's Sixth Domain of Operations from September 2020, written on behalf of the NATO Innovation Hub ( IHub for short ). The authors are the American August Cole, a former journalist for the Wall Street Journal specializing in the defense industry, who has been working for the transatlantic think tank Atlantic Council for several years , and the Frenchman Hervé le Guyader . The IHub, founded in 2012, says it is a think tank where “experts and innovators from everywhere work together to address NATO’s challenges” and is based in Norfolk, Virginia, in the USA. It is not officially part of NATO, but is funded by NATO Allied Transformation Command , one of NATO's two strategic headquarters.

    The essay tells several fictional stories and ends with a fictional speech by the US President, who explains to his listeners how cognitive warfare works and why anyone can be involved in it:
    “Today's advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science, driven by the seemingly inexorable advance of the troika of artificial intelligence, big data and our civilization's 'digital dependency', have created a much more ominous prospect: an embedded fifth pillar, where everyone, without his or her knowledge, is behaving according to the plans of one of our adversaries.”
    The thoughts and feelings of every single person are increasingly at the center of this new warfare:
    “You are the contested territory, wherever you are, whoever you are.”
    In addition, there is a “constant erosion of the morale of the population” to complain about. Cole and le Guyader therefore argue that the human domain represents the greatest vulnerability. This operational area (“domain”) would therefore be the basis for all other battlefields (land, water, air, space, cyberspace) that need to be controlled. Therefore, the two authors call on NATO to act quickly and consider the human spirit as NATO's “sixth domain of operations”.
    Participatory propaganda

    Almost at the same time, the former French officer and innovation manager of the IHub François du Cluzel was working on the extensive strategy paper “Cognitive Warfare” , which was published by the IHub in January 2021 has been published. Du Cluzel did not use fictional scenarios, but rather wrote a detailed analysis of the war for the minds. Like the authors of “NATO’s Sixth Domain of Operations” he emphasizes that “trust (…) is the goal.” This can be won or destroyed in information warfare or through PsyOps, i.e. psychological warfare. However, the conventional soft power techniques are no longer sufficient; what is needed is cognitive – i.e. mental – warfare, “participatory propaganda” in which “everyone takes part”.

    Who exactly the target of this propaganda should be remains unclear, but du Cluzel emphasizes that everyone is involved in this new form of manipulation and that it is about protecting “NATO's human capital”. The area of ​​operation refers to “the entire human environment, whether friend or enemy”. Although the enemy's cognitive warfare capabilities and threat are "still low," du Cluzel calls for NATO to act quickly and advance cognitive warfare :
    “Cognitive warfare may be the missing element that enables the transition from military victory on the battlefield to enduring political success. The human domain could well be the deciding factor (…). The first five theaters of operations [land, sea, air, space, cyberspace] can bring about tactical and operational victories, but only the human theater of operations can bring about the final and complete victory.” ( p. 36 )
    Neuroscience as a weapon

    A few months later, NATO complied with the strategists' demands. In June 2021, it held its first scientific meeting on cognitive warfare in Bordeaux, France. In an anthology for the symposium, high-ranking NATO officials as well as the Innovation Hub 's strategists had their say. In the foreword, French General André Lanata thanked “our Innovation Hub” and emphasized how important it is to “exploit the weaknesses of human nature” and to wage this “battle” in “all areas of society”. It is also about involving neuroscience in the arms race (“Weaponization of Neurosciences”). It was highlighted that cognitive warfare NATO is a defense against similar warfare by China and Russia. Their “disinformation activities” led to “growing concern” among NATO allies.

    The symposium discussed intensively how neuroscience could be used to carry out digital attacks on human thinking, feeling and acting:
    “From the attacker’s perspective, the most efficient – ​​albeit most difficult – action is to encourage the use of digital devices that can disrupt or influence all levels of an adversary’s cognitive processes.” (p. 29)
    NATO wants to confuse potential opponents as completely as possible in order to “dictate their behavior”. (p. 29) As part of the symposium, Du Cluzel wrote an essay together with the French cognitive researcher Bernard Claverie, in which it is explained that - contrary to the claim that one only reacts to threats from Russia or China - it is also about “well to carry out well-thought-out attack processes as well as counter and preventative measures” (p. 26):
    “The stated goal is to attack, and to exploit, devalue or even destroy how someone builds their own reality, their spiritual self-confidence, their trust in functioning groups, societies or even nations.” (p. 27)
    Strategists rarely openly admit that these techniques can be used not only on enemy populations, but also within NATO countries. The statements about this often remain vague. Nevertheless, there are indications that NATO's own population is also being targeted. The French general Eric Autellet writes in an article in the aforementioned anthology (p . 24):
    “Since Vietnam, our wars have been lost despite military successes, largely because of the weakness of our narrative (that is, 'winning the hearts and minds'), both in relation to the local populations in the theaters of operation and in relation to our own own populations. There are two things at stake in our actions toward enemies and friends, and we can choose passive or active courses of action—or both—when we consider the limits and limitations of our model of freedom and democracy. When it comes to our enemy, we must be able to 'read' our opponents' minds in order to anticipate their reactions. If necessary, we must be able to 'penetrate' the minds of our opponents in order to influence them and get them to act in our favor.
    The NATO innovation competition from autumn 2021

    The next step was taken by the IHub , which officially announced the NATO innovation competition Countering Cognitive Warfare in October 2021 . The Innovation Challenge has existed since 2017 and the competition has been held twice a year since then. In order to collect as many ideas as possible, NATO always emphasizes the open nature of the competition: “The challenge is open to everyone (individuals, entrepreneurs, start-ups, industry, science, etc.) who are in a NATO member country Whoever wins can look forward to prize money of $8,500.

    The topics are selected in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. It is always about topics that are “particularly influential for the development of future military capabilities”, according to the motto “the best way to anticipate the future is to invent it”. The areas are: artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, space, hypersonics, quantum technology and biotechnology.

    The key questions of the previous competitions are therefore mixed and have very different focuses. In autumn 2018, the focus was on systems that can be used to intercept unmanned drones. The Dutch drone manufacturer Delft won here. In fall 2019, the focus was on helping soldiers with psychological stress or fatigue in order to improve performance in combat. Spring 2021 was about space surveillance. The French start-up Share My Space won here.

    Despite the different focuses, one topic keeps coming up: the handling of information and data on the Internet. In spring 2018, the innovation competition was dedicated to this topic under the motto “Complexity and Information Management”, in spring 2020 the topic was “Fake News in Pandemics” and in autumn 2021 “The Invisible Threat – Neutralizing Cognitive Warfare”.

    “Most Advanced Form of Manipulation”

    Shortly before this competition was advertised on the IHub website, NATO broadcast a livestream in October 2021 discussing cognitive warfare and calling for participation in the innovation competition. The task is “one of the hottest topics for NATO at the moment,” emphasized du Cluzel in his opening speech. The French defense expert Marie-Pierre Raymond took this opportunity to explain what cognitive warfare actually is, namely “the most advanced form of manipulation that exists today”.

    There were ten participants in the final of the competition, which was broadcast almost two months later . Eight of them had developed computer programs that use artificial intelligence to scan and analyze large amounts of data on the Internet in order to better monitor and, it is believed, predict people's opinions, thoughts and information exchange. The most popular destination for computer programs is social media: Facebook, Twitter, Tik-Tok, Telegram.

    Change beliefs and behavior

    The winner was the US company Veriphix (motto: “We measure beliefs to predict and change behavior”), which has developed a platform that can be used to identify so-called nudges, i.e. unconscious psychological “nudges” on the Internet. The Veriphix platform has been in use for years and works with several governments and large companies, according to its boss, John Fuisz, who has close family ties to the US security apparatus. For him, cognitive warfare is the changing of beliefs (“belief change”). His software can analyze these changes "within your military, within your population and within a foreign population," as he explained to the competition's judges.

    Considering that Cognitive Warfare is already taking place and the most modern manipulation techniques are currently being used in the Ukraine War to direct the thoughts and feelings of the populations of all nations involved in the war, an education about the soft power techniques of Cognitive Warfare would be necessary more urgent than ever.

    About the author: Dr. Jonas Tögel, born in 1985, is an American scholar and propaganda researcher. He received his doctorate on the subject of soft power and motivation and is currently working as a research assistant at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His research interests include propaganda, motivation and the use of soft power techniques.




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    Exclamation Re: Behind NATO’s cognitive warfare. Battle for your brain waged by Western militaries

    • Your Guide to 5th-Generation Warfare:

    We are in the middle of a world-changing war right now.

    Oh, I don't mean the war in Ukraine, the one that all the media are asking you to focus your attention on. Yes, that conflict continues to escalate, and every day there are new stories about provocations and threats that could lead to a nuclear exchange . . . but that's not the war I'm referring to.

    No, the war I'm talking about is an even broader war. A war that is taking place everywhere on the globe, even as I speak, and that involves virtually everyone on the planet, young and old, male and female, military and civilian. It is the war of every government against its own population and every international institution against free humanity.

    This is no ordinary war, however. Most of the victims of this warfare aren't even able to identify it as war, nor do they understand that they are combatants in it.
    It's called fifth-generation warfare, and I'm here to tell you all about it.

    I am James Corbett of The Corbett Report and this is Your Guide to Fifth-Generation Warfare
    • WHAT IS FIFTH-GENERATION WARFARE?
    What is fifth-generation warfare, anyway? And, come to think of it, what were the first four generations of warfare?

    Good questions. For an in-depth answer to the latter question, you'll want to read "The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation"—a 1989 article from the Marine Corps Gazette co-authored by William S. Lind—and you'll want to watch "William S. Lind & Philip Giraldi – Fourth Generation Warfare & The Deep State."
    WILLIAM S. LIND: This city and every capital in the world is completely oblivious to the fact that it is caught up in a change in warfare so great that it not only makes our current defense and foreign policies obsolete, it essentially makes obsolete the whole framework within which we think about defense and foreign policy.
    [. . .]
    The change is what I call the rise of fourth generation war and this is specifically the fourth generation of modern war. [. . .] We now think of foreign affairs and defense within the framework of the nation-state. Armed forces are designed to fight other state armed forces. But that reality is changing.
    [. . .]
    What's happening around the world today in more and more places is that state armed forces find them find themselves fighting not other state armed forces, but fourth-generation forces. Non-state forces.
    SOURCE: The State and Modern War
    In a nutshell, Lind et al.'s thesis is that the "modern age" of warfare began with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, which, Lind opines, "gave the state a monopoly on war." From that point on, modern warfare went through three generations, namely:
    • First-generation warfare: the tactics of line and column, developed in the era of the smoothbore musket;
    • Second-generation warfare: the tactics of indirect fire and mass movement, developed in the era of the rifled musket, breechloaders, barbed wire and the machine gun; and
    • Third-generation warfare: the tactics of nonlinear movement, including maneuver and infiltration, developed in response to the increase in battlefield firepower in WWI.
    This, according to Lind and his co-authors, brought us to the late-20th century, when the nation-state began to lose its monopoly on war and military combat returned to a decentralized form. In this era—the era of fourth-generation warfare—the line between "civilian" and "military" become blurred, armies tend to engage in counter-insurgency operations rather than military battles, and enemies are often motivated by ideology and religion, making psychological operations more important than ever.

    But, some argue, we have now entered a new era of warfare, namely fifth-generation warfare.

    There is still much debate about what defines fifth-generation warfare, how we know we're engaged in it, or even if it exists at all (Lind, for one, rejects the concept). Various scholars have made their own attempts at defining fifth-generation warfare (5GW), like Dr. Waseem Ahmad Qureshi, who identifies it as "the battle of perceptions and information," or Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui of the People's Liberation Army, who write of the era of "Unrestricted Warfare" in which "a relative reduction in military violence" has led to "an increase in political, economic, and technological violence."

    If academic debates about the changing nature of warfare are your thing, then there's plenty of reading for you to do on the subject, from The Handbook of 5GW: A Fifth Generation of War? to a slew of academic articles.

    But for the purposes of this editorial, I'm not interested in that debate. In fact, we're going to use a decidedly non-academic definition of fifth-generation warfare from an Al Jazeera article as our starting point: "The basic idea behind this term [5GW] is that in the modern era, wars are not fought by armies or guerrillas, but in the minds of common citizens."

    There are two important things to note about this definition. The first is that fifth-generation warfare is not waged against either standing armies of nation-states or guerrilla insurgents but against everyday citizens. The second is that this war is not being fought in a battlefield somewhere, but in the mind.

    I will expand the definition somewhat to include the fact that this war is being waged at all levels, not just the mental. The gist of it is this: Fifth-generation warfare is an all-out war that is being waged against all of us by our governments and the international organizations to which they belong. It is being waged against each and every one of us right now, and it is a battle for full-spectrum dominance over every single aspect of your life: your movements and interactions, your transactions, even your innermost thoughts and feelings and desires. Governments the world over are working with corporations to leverage technology to control you down to the genomic level, and they will not stop until each and every person who resists them is subdued or eliminated.

    The most incredible part of all of this is that so few know that the war is even taking place, let alone that they are a combatant in it.

    The best way to understand this war is to look at some of the ways that it is being waged against us.
    • INFORMATION WARFARE
    Stop me if you've heard this before, but this is an infowar and the powers-that-shouldn't-be are engaged in "a war for your mind."

    Of course, you have heard of "Infowars" if you've been in the alternative media space for any length of time. And for good reason: information warfare is an absolutely essential part of the war on everyone that defines fifth-generation warfare.

    The most obvious way to understand this is to look at the actual military forces that are engaging in psychological operations against their own citizens.
    DAN DICKS: It says here:
    "A letter from the Nova Scotia government sent out to residents to warn about a pack of wolves on the loose in the province was forged by Canadian military personnel as part of a propaganda training mission that went off the rails.

    "The letter told residents to be wary of wolves that had been reintroduced into the area by the provincial and federal governments and warned the animals were now roaming the Annapolis Valley. The letter, which later became public, sparked concern and questions among residents but was later branded as 'fake' by the Nova Scotia government which didn’t know the military was behind the deception.

    "The training also involved using a loudspeaker to generate wolf sounds, the Canadian Forces confirmed to this newspaper."

    Guys, let that sink in for a second. They created a fake letter from the government, put it out there saying that there's dangerous wolves, and they set up loud speakers in the area projecting out wolf noises!
    This isn't just research, you know. This isn't just a training exercise. They're actively engaging in this psychological operation to scare people using loudspeakers. This is unbelievable.
    SOURCE: Canadian Military Fake Wolves Fear Campaign Exposed! but You Won’T Believe What They Are Doing Next!
    But it's not just out-and-out military operations by soldiers dressed up in camo fatigues that are part of this fifth-generation infowar. In the war on everyone, the establishment uses every means at its disposal to manipulate the public's perception.


    Thus, Richard Stengel—the former editor of Time who bestowed Time's person of the year (dis)honour on You! back in 2006—is happy to chair a Council on Foreign Relations conversation in which he defends the US government's use of propaganda against its own citizens.
    RICHARD STENGEL: Basically, every country creates their own narrative story. And, you know, my old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist job.
    We haven't talked about propaganda. I'm not against propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and I don't necessarily think it's that awful.
    SOURCE: Political Disruptions: Combating Disinformation and Fake News
    Or take Hill & Knowlton—the PR firm hired by the Kuwaiti government to create the Nayirah deception in the First Gulf War . . .
    "NAYIRAH": They took the babies out of incubators . . . They took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor.
    SOURCE: Human Rights Violations in Kuwait
    . . . who were retained by the WHO in 2020 to identify celebrity "influencers" who could be used to amplify the scamdemic messaging.
    ANNOUNCER: The One World Together At Home event showcased a Who's Who of top music stars and celebrities, who came together over the weekend for a special broadcast of music, comedy and personal messages, all in gratitude to those around the world on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
    MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: So what can we do? We've got to take care of our health workers and we've got to buy them time by taking care of ourselves.
    ANNOUNCER: The event was led by the World Health Organization and the non-profit group, Global Citizen.
    SOURCE: Celebrities Perform Virtual 'One World' Concert: 'A Love Letter to the World'
    Or take the UK government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours, which outright admits that they use psychological techniques to manipulate the public into fearing the scamdemic, a move that some of the panel members called "totalitarian" . . . and no one bats an eyelid.

    Perhaps the most insidious part of the fifth-generation infowar is that it has become so normalized that everyone knows it is happening, but no one thinks of it as warfare. Of course everything is "advertising" and "propaganda." And of course it's being used to manipulate our behaviour. That's just how the world works, isn't it?

    But we ignore the real nature of the infowar at our own peril. After all, I have often observed that this is a war for your mind and that the most contested battlespace in the world is the space between your ears. You might have thought I meant that metaphorically, but actually I mean it quite literally. Which brings us to . . .
    • NEUROLOGICAL WARFARE
    If you listen to Dr. James Giordano speak without listening to what he's saying, you get the impression he is merely an articulate, well-informed scientist who is passionate about his research. When you do listen to what he's saying, however—or even just look at his PowerPoint slides, like the "NeuroS/T for NSID" slide—you realize that he is Dr. Strangelove. Or, if not Dr. Strangelove himself, then at least Dr. Strangelove's spokesman.
    But it's not nuclear Armageddon that motivates Giordano, it's what he calls "weapons of mass disruption"—the various technologies for neurological intervention that the US military and militaries around the world are developing.

    These include (in Giordano's well-rehearsed patter) the "drugs, bugs, toxins and devices" that can either enhance or disrupt the cognitive functions of their target, like the "high CNS aggregation" nanoparticulates that, according to Giordano, "clump in the brain or in the vasculature" and "create essentially what looks like a hemorrhagic diathesis." As sci-fi as this sounds, he insists these nanoparticulates (and many, many other horrific neurological weapons) are already being worked on:
    JAMES GIORDANO: The idea here is that I can get with something called high CNS aggregation material that is essentially invisible to the naked eye and even to most scanners because it is so small that it selectively goes through most levels of filter porosity. These are then inhaled—either through the nasal mucosa or absorbed through the oral mucosa. They have high CNS affinity. They clump in the brain or in the vasculature and they create essentially what looks like a hemorrhagic diathesis; in other words, a hemorrhage predisposition or a clot predisposition in the brain. What I've done is I've created a stroking agent, and it's very, very difficult to gain attribution to do that.

    I can use that on a variety of levels, from the individual to the group. Highly disruptive. And, in fact, this is one of the things that has been entertained and examined to some extent by my colleagues in NATO and to those who are working on the worst use of neurobiological sciences to create populational disruption. Very, very worried about the potential for these nanoparticulate agents to be CNS aggregating agents to cause neural disruption.
    SOURCE: Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons | CGSR Seminar
    And just in case you didn't get the point, you'll notice he illustrates his slide with an image of a human brain in the crosshairs of one of these neurological weapons. There's nothing hard to understand about the picture that is being painted here: we are at war with an enemy who is literally targeting our brains.

    But yet again, it isn't just the literal use of neurological weapons by conventional militaries in conventional warfare settings that we—the largely unwitting combatants of the fifth-generation war on everyone—have to worry about. As my listeners already know, avowed technocrat Elon Musk is trying to sell his Neuralink brain chip technology to the hipster crowd as a cool and sexy way to upgrade your cognition . . . or so that the coming A.I. godhead will have mercy on us. Or something like that. Anyway, you should totally stick the Neuralink in your head at your earliest opportunity! And definitely don't ask any questions about why so many of the macaque monkeys and other test animals that Neuralink was using as test animals in their "brain-machine interface" experiment have dropped dead.

    To anyone not yet a victim of the information warfare operation designed to prepare humanity for the coming transhuman dystopia, all of this sounds insane. But for those who have fallen for the infowars psyop of the enemy, these types of mind-altering technologies are exactly as advertised: exciting opportunities to "upgrade" the feeble biological wetware we call our brain.

    But if you think you can avoid the biological aspect of the fifth-generation war by simply avoiding the brain chip, you're out of luck. You're also going to have to deal with . . .
    • BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
    The biowarfare narrative is, understandably, back at the forefront of the public consciousness in recent years, not just because of the scamdemic but also because of the questions being raised about the US-backed Ukrainian biolabs and whatever work they may or may not be doing on Russia's doorstep.

    This picture, for example, comes straight from Army.mil, which was only too happy to brag as recently as last July [2021] that US soldiers were conducting "hands-on training and field training exercises with Ukrainian troops in laboratory and field environments" that included ensuring the readiness of "deployable mobile laboratories." Nothing to see here, folks. (Perhaps the only surprising thing about the article is that they haven't scrubbed it from their website . . . yet.)

    Yet, once again, if we are only thinking of biowarfare in conventional military terms, we neglect the much, much wider operation to manipulate, control and weaponize all aspects of our environment, our food supply and even our genome itself for the purposes of the ruling oligarchs. This fifth-generation biological warfare being waged against us includes:
    I'm sure you can fill in the blanks with myriad other examples of the attacks upon the world's air, water and biome that constitute this unconstrained fifth-generation biological war being waged against us.

    When and if you do put the pieces of this puzzle together and seek to warn people en masse that they are under attack, your ability to resist this agenda will be predicated on your ability to use your accumulated resources (your wealth) to foster communities of resistance. Don't worry, though; the enemy has that domain covered, too. . . .
    • ECONOMIC WARFARE
    Given the events of recent weeks, even the sleepiest of the sleepy now realize that we are in a period of economic warfare.

    This war, too, has its conventional aspects. On the 2D board, we've seen the NATO empire launch its Weapons of Financial Destruction at Russia in recent weeks, and, exactly as predicted, it has resulted in the consolidation of a convenient geopolitical bogeyman bloc and a gigantic loss of faith in the international monetary system itself. And, also as predicted, it has supplied the "Problem" and "Reaction" needed for the technocrats to present their pre-determined "Solution" of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Just ask Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock:
    The war will prompt countries to re-evaluate their currency dependencies. Even before the war, several governments were looking to play a more active role in digital currencies and define the regulatory frameworks under which they operate.
    This is not merely a battle between nation-states or even competing power blocs. This is a battle being waged by every authoritarian power structure and every government (but I repeat myself) against their own citizens for control of the most important resource of all: their wallets.

    Yes, we are seeing the beginning of a truly world-historic moment: the collapse of Pax Americana, the death of the dollar reserve system, and the beginning of an entirely new monetary paradigm, the "Central Bank Digital Currency" system of programmable money that will be able to algorithmically control when, how and if you are allowed to transact in the economy at all. We only have to look to recent events in Canada to understand what this will look like.

    This perfect control of humanity down to the level of being able to witness and, ultimately, to allow or disallow any transaction between any individuals at any time, represents the apotheosis of technocracy and one of the key objectives of the fifth-generation war itself. As this nightmare comes closer and closer to reality, all seems hopeless.
    But then again, that's exactly the point. . . .
    • THE REAL WAR
    I could go on. And on and on and on. But hopefully you get the point by now: There is a world war happening right now. It is a fifth-generation war (or whatever you want to call it). It is being waged across every domain simultaneously. It is a war for full-spectrum dominance of every battlefield and every terrain, from the farthest reaches of the globe (and beyond) to the inner spaces of your body and even to your innermost thoughts. And it is a war on you.

    Recognizing this, the task we face seems nearly insurmountable. How are we to fight back in a war that the majority of people don't even recognize is taking place? How do we fight back against an enemy that has spent decades refining its weapons of economic and military and technological and biological control? How do we fight back in a war that is not taking place on two fronts or even three fronts, but in every domain and battlespace simultaneously?

    Framed like this, our prospects do indeed appear hopeless. But therein lies the key: our perception that it is our duty to "fight back" against the enemy in their war on their battlefield on their terms of engagement is itself a narrative frame. And that narrative itself is a weapon that is being wielded against us in the battle for our minds.

    You'll allow me space here to quote myself at length because this is a point I have made many times before, perhaps most notably in my conversation on "The Anatomy of the New World Order" that I had with Julian Charles on The Mind Renewed podcast ten years ago:
    I’m intrigued by the idea that we’ve been given false templates to follow in terms of solving our problems—one being to "fight our enemies"—templates provided for us through so much social conditioning and the media. Here, the idea is that we must find the heart or the head of the organization and somehow kill that person or that group, or whatever it is; eliminate that, and everything will magically turn to the better!

    Thinking in broad terms, that false template appears in virtually every science fiction dystopia you’ve ever seen: if it turns out well in the end, it’s only because they have managed to decapitate the Head of the Beast, whether it be The Lord of the Rings or Tron, or any such movie. I think that’s fundamentally and completely the wrong way to look at it, because at the end of the day the particular individuals who may or may not be holding the ‘Ring of Power’ are replaceable. Indeed, there are very many people who would be chomping at the bit to get into that position of power should that old guard be swept away for whatever reason.

    I think what's needed is a more fundamental revolution: not of overthrowing a specific instantiation of this idea, but of overthrowing the idea altogether. And that can only come, I think, from building up an alternative system to which people actually want to apply themselves. I think we have to detach ourselves from this system that we’ve been woven into. Unfortunately that’s probably as difficult to do as that analogy would make it sound, because we are so woven into the fabric of society that it's difficult to imagine extricating ourselves from all these processes.

    We rely for so many of our daily needs on this vast, unwieldy corporate system that ties into these very organizations that pull the strings of governmental institutions, that it can seem quite overwhelming. How can a single individual affect this? But I think we have to look for any and every possible point at which we can start to detach ourselves from those systems of control, and to start to reassert some kind of independence. That can be an extremely small thing like, just for example: instead of buying groceries at the grocery store, perhaps buy them at a farmers’ market, or at least some of your groceries. Or perhaps you could grow them yourself in a vegetable garden. Something of that sort is a tiny thing on the individual level, but I think it's the only thing in the long run that can lead to the type of society we want to bring to fruition. Again, I think it’s small things like that, if we start to apply ourselves with diligence and perseverance, that will eventually be able to overthrow this. But, unfortunately, as I say, we are on the cusp of this scientific revolution which makes scientific dictatorship possible, so unfortunately we don’t necessarily have generations of time. That gives a time perspective to all this—I won't say it's a time bomb—but you get the idea. We don’t have a lot of time to waste.

    We have a choice. Either we continue going into this technological, corporate matrix—which involves even things like buying the next generation of iPhone, which they’re already saying is going to have its own fingerprint scanning technology, and all of these corporate, military, Big Brother elements to it that we're willingly signing up to every day of our lives, and actually paying money for—or we start to create alternative structures which don’t rely on that system. It's a choice that we have to make in our lives, I would say more quickly than has been apparent at any other time in human history.
    My regular viewers will understand what I am proposing here: the creation of a parallel society. We will not achieve this by asking for more scraps from the master's table, or by gently complying as we are herded into ever more constrictive technological pens, or by thinking that we can win this war by engaging the enemy in their controlled domain. We can only achieve this by creating our own table, our own economy and our own communities of interest. This will require the long and difficult task of increasing our independence from the authoritarian systems in every domain: the information domain, the food domain, the health domain, the monetary domain, the mental domain and every other contested battlespace in this all-out, fifth-generation war.

    Easier said than done, of course. But there is no alternative.

    Some will say "But won't they come after that parallel society?" as if that is a rebuttal to what I have laid out here. The point is that you are already the target of the enemy in a war that most people but dimly understand is happening. Yes, the enemy will come after you. But they are already dominating you in more ways than any one person can fully understand. That does not stop just because you comply with their demands or take part in their system.

    We must stop playing their game. We must stop fighting their war. We must stop ceding our power, our authority, our time, our attention, our energy and our resources to engaging the enemy in their terms in their battlefield.
    • We must create our own parallel society on our own terms.
    And so we rediscover an old piece of wisdom. To paraphrase: "Fifth-generation warfare is a strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
    War is over . . . if we want it.


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