Don’t let definitions fool you. Political and psychological warfare can be used by anyone for any reason. The more money you have, the easier it is for you to do.
The more time and money you have the easier it is obtain and use the tools you need for successful operations.
Secret money funds more than 40 percent of outside congressional ads USA TODAY JULY 12 2018
Some operations go on for decades and stage the scene for the future. They may involve programming and manipulating a large portion of the electorate. Some can be short term like blanketing certain populations with lies just before an election without time for their lies to be called out.
A foreign government with malicious intent, great monetary resources and immune from prosecution, has great strength as it can engage in any criminal activity without fear. It is however subject to world condemnation if its criminal activity is discovered, so it is to their advantage to conduct such warfare covertly, covering their tracks when possible. Foreign enemy governments find psychological warfare relatively cheap compared to the expense of a military invasion.
There are few laws preventing individual people, corporations, lobbyists, campaigns, political parties, foreign governments, and even criminal enterprises from using legal political and psychological warfare strategies and tactics.
there is no easy way for U.S .voters and citizens to know who these entities are that are trying to influence them.
Listen to the music ANd READ THIS:
Voters are swimming in a sea of information often designed to influence them, without being able to turn on the light and see who all the players are, and understand their motives.
If you can not see the players, their strategy and tactics and messaging, You will not be able to fully understand the information you receive and will be easier to be mislead and influenced.
Since it is easier to manipulate voters perceptions and beliefs if you control the information they receive, media companies are important tools for psychological warfare strategists.
Imagine wanting to influence voters and being given a tool that lets you talk to them every day for more hours per day than the voter listens to or talks anyone else including their family and best friends. Imagine if you were the finest highly trained psychological operation specialist that money can buy; Do you think you could shape your audiences beliefs, perceptions, attitude, and reasoning? Radio is one such tool. Think of all the people who listen to the radio all day or night while at work.
There are many communications tools and formats that can be weaponized in an influence operation. (Broadcast TV and Radio, cable, Newspapers, internet communications, etc)
Who are these people we entrust our media to?
Factory of lies: Russia’s disinformation playbook exposed
The Ocean Knows: Psychometrics in the 21st Century March 9 2917
Psychological warfare From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Information Warfare from Wikipedia
Many deplorable political warfare tactics and tools are usually legal. (eg fake news, diversion, distraction, ATTACKING THE MESSENGER, teaching false reasoning, using racism hate and fear to form and cement a coalition, overwhelming media to bury information, infiltrating so slow they can not see you, buying the media company, adopting similar positions on core issues to develop a coalition, then imposing the position desired by the manipulator, creating divisions to harness hate and fear, etc.)
If someone was determined enough to not care about laws: the political warfare tactics are endless, only limited by imagination, and include almost any crime from voter fraud, theft (Watergate wikileaks, foment a riot, blackmail, kidnapping, spying, to murder.)
Who are these entities? When were they active? where did their money come from? what are they selling, How and why?
Without adequate resources available to answer these questions we are left to reasoning from the information we have, like determining who benefited the most and then working backward.
This however could be too late!
What chance does the average voter have to discover the truth when they do not even consider the problem and the media is being sought after by many entities for the specific purpose of manipulating voters in the most powerful country on earth?
Influence: Russia just Imitated the Rupert Murdoch/Fox Model
or is it the other way around?
Lawsuit Alleges Fox News And Trump Supporter Created Fake News: Wheeler alleges Fox News and the Trump supporter intended to deflect public attention from growing concern about the administration’s ties to the Russian government. His suit charges that a Fox News reporter created quotations out of thin air and attributed them to him to propel her story. 8/1/2017
The Secret Behind Rupert Murdoch’s Attacks on Robert Mueller 11-12-17
Journalist Sees ‘Almost No Daylight’ Between Fox News And White House Agendas July 12 2018
July 14 2018 Robert Reich: The Fog of Trump
Polarization and the Subversion of Democracy Milan Svolik, March 10 2017
The RUSSIANS:
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
HOW TO BRAINWASH A NATION; This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It’s shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps.Published on May 13, 2009
Trolling for Trump:
How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy Andrew Weisburd, Clint Watts, and JM Berger November 6, 2017
How Russia Became the Leader of the Global Christian Right Feb 9 2017
it appears that the Russian operation was designed to infiltrate conservative organizations.
And they targeted various conservative organizations, religious and otherwise, and they seem to have made a very concerted effort to get in with the NRA.” MARCH 2 2018
Russia Wants to Destroy Our Democracy, McMaster Says By Zachary Fryer-Biggs On 12/20/17 at 10:09 AM
Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)Yuri Bezmenov:
KGB Officer Explains Russian/NWO Agenda For “Amerika”
Wed Jun 3, 2009 13:55
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Synopsis: G. Edward Griffin interviews Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov on the 4 step program of demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization used by the KGB to subvert nations. This interview was conducted in 1985 but has only recently been re-highlighted. Yuri explains why people cannot recognize truth when presented to them and why America has difficulty resisting a Socialist agenda.
Transcript of interviewSelected portions:
Ideological subversion is the process which is [a] legitimate, old word, and open. You can see it with your own eyes. All American mass media has to do is to “unplug bananas” from their ears, open up their eyes, and they can see it.
…in reality the main emphasis of the KGB [ ]…According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, [ ] about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare.What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
Site Comment: Fake news, misinformation, disinformation, fox news etc.When you cannot separate truth from fiction you are unable to draw conclusions with conviction and you are not sure what you know
Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion.(site comment: Religious Leaders, Rupert Murdock Roger Ailes, and many others )Publishers, editors, journalists,uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science.Members of (site comment: House of Rep, Senate )parliament, representatives of business circles. Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution
Same way as in a small town of Hua in South Vietnam; several thousands of Vietnamese were executed in one night when the city was captured by [the] Viet Cong for only two days; and American CIA could never figure out – how could [the communists] possibly know each Individual, where he lives, where to get him; and [in order that they] would be arrested in one night basically in four hours before dawn, put on a van, driven out of the city limits and shot.
The answer is very simple. Long before communists occupy the city, there was extensive network of informers; local Vietnamese citizens who knew absolutely everything about people who are instrumental in public opinion – including Barbers and Taxi Drivers. Everyone who was sympathetic to United States was executed. Same thing was done under the guidance of the Soviet Embassy in Hanoi, and same thing I was doing in New Delhi. To my horror, I discovered that in the files were people who were doomed to execution. There were names of pro-Soviet Journalists, with whom I was personally friendly.
…the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, “never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes – aim higher” this was my instruction. Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media.
Site Comment:
You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.
Steve Bannon 2014
racism in the far right gets “washed out”
Steve Bannon thinking of manipulation using racism and racists since 2014
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:…they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation. When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, [] get disillusioned – when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power. Obviously they get offended;…they think that THEY will come to power. That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot.
The result? The result you can see — most of the people who graduated in the 60’s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can’t get rid of to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. In other words [for] these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible
And yet these people who have been programmed and as you say [are] in place and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept [meaning NEW WORLD ORDER]- these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents. Unlike the present [1984] United States there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America. [Now] you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being a dissident [and] for criticizing your Pentagon. In [the] future these people will simply be [he makes a squishy noise] squashed like cockroaches for criticizing the government. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful [and] noble ideas of EQUALITY. This they don’t understand and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it’s over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success.
Putin hails the fall of United States as a moral leader around the globe in annual speech Oct 18 2018
Russian President Vladimir Putin used his annual address to hail the end of the United States’ influence on the world. According to a write-up from the Financial Times, Putin told his country “luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.”
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards.
FROM THE WEEKLEY STANDARD: Conservative support for an American foreign policy that seeks to encourage and defend democratic change in other countries—once a mainstay within the GOP—is now up for debate.
“Demoskepticism” does not yet prevail among Republicans in Congress, nor among neoconservatives. But it is a growing phenomenon among conservative writers and this shift is a sign that the Trump presidency is reshaping foreign policy thinking on the right.
Some conservatives now dismiss policies that are infused with democratic values. Chris Buskirk, the publisher and editor of American Greatness, condemns pro-democracy foreign policy as a reflection of American “moral imperialism.” Others have identified certain antid-emocratic rulers as conservative kindred spirits—excusing their acts of repression, praising their leadership qualities, even fawning over their roughshod tactics.
At the top of this list of favored despots is Vladimir Putin. Some praise him as a kind of man’s man among world leaders. Matt Drudge hailed Putin as the “leader of the free world.” Rudy Giuliani described Putin as someone who “makes a decision and he executes it, quickly. And then everybody reacts. That’s what you call a leader.”
Another group, consisting primarily of Christian social conservatives, has lauded Putin for his close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, his denunciation of a morally corrupt Europe, and his crackdown on Russian LGBT activists. In response to Russia’s adoption of a law banning “gay propaganda,” Franklin Graham hailed Putin for protecting “his nation’s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda.”
American conservatives are not Putin’s only admirers in the world’s leading democracies. He is widely revered by European populists and radicals on both ends of the political spectrum, who cheer his hostility toward the European Union and his anti-Americanism.
But for conservatives in this country, an embrace of Putin means setting aside basic principles, including representative government, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the proposition that history should be written by historians, not the state. None of these fundamental tenets of democracy is respected in Putin’s Russia.
Domestic abuses during his tenure have run the gamut, encompassing the assassination of political opponents and journalists, rigged elections, persecution of religious minorities, show trials in kangaroo courts, the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin in state propaganda, and the arbitrary seizure of billions of dollars in assets from private businesses as part of a kleptocracy. (It’s fun to contemplate how Trump-supporters can make excuses for Putin while simultaneously decrying the the supposedly-outlaw Mueller investigation.)
On the global stage, Putin’s record is similarly unambiguous. He has invaded foreign countries to grab their territory, and provided critical military and diplomatic support for some of the world’s most odious regimes. Admiration of the Russian leader requires American conservatives to ignore the many instances in which his government has undermined American interests, menaced the United States’ democratic allies, and interfered in the workings of American democracy.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued: As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him the concentration camps…he will refuse to believe it…. until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom. When the military boot crashes – then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.
The next stage is destabilization….this time, subverter does not care about your ideas and the patterns of your consumption. Whether you eat junk food and get fat and flabby doesn’t matter any more. It only takes 2 to 5 years to destabilize a nation.This time what matters is essentials1) Manipulating and Extorting Degrading communications outlets: (added)
Facing mounting criticism from the right, Facebook has quietly ramped up donations to Republican politicians
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Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
2) economy,
(running up vast amount of debt)
Seeing red: US deficit jumps $779 billion, adding budget pressure 10-19-2018
Disrupting and changing trade alliances, Trade war with chinaTrump’s trade war with China will affect all of us – this is howThe idea that one can limit the domestic economic impact of tariffs by carving out exemptions for certain popular or sensitive products is naïve in the extreme Ben Chu
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:3)foreign relations,Disrupting NATOAttacking and weakening United Nations(Pulling out of treaties and disrupting trade agreements, acting like a bully and irritating our friends, bringing into question our reliability, weakening our allies)
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:4) defense systems.(withdraw from Treaties Iran Neuclear treaty) Disrupting and weakening Nato,), United Natiions.
‘Nearly All’ of the Pentagon’s New Weapons Systems Are Vulnerable to Hacking
Cybersecurity tests of new major weapons exposed simple passwords and other big software holes, according to government auditors. 10-10-2018
A new report from auditors at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded on Oct. 9 that “nearly all” of the weapons systems in the Pentagon’s $1.7 trillion dollar purchasing pipeline have glaring cybersecurity holes.
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Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:And you can see it quite clearly that in some… sensitive areas such as defense and [the] economy, the influence of Marxist-Leninist ideas in the United States is absolutely fantastic. I could never believe it 14 years ago when I landed in this part of the world that the process will go that fast.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
The next stage of course is crisis, which may take only up to 6 weeks to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You can see it in Central America now; and after crisis, with the violent change of power structure and economy, you have the period of so called “normalization” [which] it may last indefinitely.
Normalization is a cynical expression, borrower from Soviet Propaganda. When the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in 1968, comrade Brezhnev said “Now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is normalized”.
This is what will happen in [the] United States if you allow all the shmucks to bring the country to crisis.
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
To promise people all kinds of goodies, and the paradise on Earth. Uh to destabilize your economy to eliminate the principal of free market competition; and to put a big brother government in Washington D.C.; with benevolent dictators….
who will promise lots of things – Never mind whether the promises are fulfilled or not. He [the dictator] will go to Moscow to kiss the bottoms of a new generation of Soviet Assassins.
So much winning Trevor Noah
Trump says ‘major tax cut for middle-income people’ coming in 10 days Oct 20 2018
Ex-KGB Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov continued:
Never mind [nothing to see here, move along], he will create false illusions that the situation is under control. Situation is NOT under control. Situation is disgustingly out of control.
Most of the American politicians, media, and educational system train another generation of people who think they are living at the peacetime. False.
United States is in a state of war; undeclared, total war against the basic principles and foundations of this system. And the initiator of this war is not Comrade Andropov of course – it’s the system. However, ridiculous it may sound, [it is] the world Communist system, or the world Communist conspiracy.
Whether I scare some people or not, I don’t give a hoot. If you’re not scared by now, nothing can scare you. You don’t have to be paranoid about it. What actually happens now; that unlike myself, you have literally several years to live on unless United States wake up. The time bomb is ticking. With every second the disaster is coming closer. Unlike myself, you will have nowhere to defect to, unless you want to live in Antarctica with penguins. This is it, this is the last country with freedom and possibility.
ED GRIFFIN:
Okay, so what do we do? What is your recommendation to the American people?YURI BEZMENOV:
Well, the immediate thing that comes to mind is, of course, there must be a very strong national effort to educate people in the spirit of REAL patriotism, number one. Number two, to explain [to] them the real danger of socialist, communist, welfare state, Big Brother government. If people fail to grasp the impending danger; nothing ever will help the United States. You may kiss goodbye your freedoms, including [sending] homosexuals to prison inmate. All this freedom will vanish in 5 seconds – including your precious lives.
The moment at least part of [the] United States population is convinced that the danger is real, they have to FORCE their government, and I’m not talking about sending letters, signing petitions, and all this beautiful, noble activity, I’m talking about FORCING [the] United States government to stop aiding Communism….
AP Exclusive: Before Trump job, Manafort worked to aid Putin
Intel chiefs warn Congress Russia intent on interfering with 2018 midterms
ABC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of the nation’s top intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday that they have seen evidence of Russian meddling in the upcoming midterm elections — part of what they say is Moscow’s escalating cyber assault on American and European democracies. “We have seen Russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle,” CIA Director Mike Pompeo told the Senate intelligence committee. National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, agreed that Russia’s interference is ongoing. “This is not going to change or stop,” Rogers said.
Federal vote-protection efforts lag ahead of first primaries…..experts say far too little has been done.
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ROBERT MERCER:
Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media … The Guardian … With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network.
Trump backer Robert Mercer helped fund anti-Muslim ads in 2016, new documents show
April 5 2018
WASHINGTON — Robert Mercer, a billionaire supporter of President Trump, spent $2 million to help target voters in swing states with anti-Muslim advertising ahead of the 2016 election, according to documents released Thursday by a nonpartisan watchdog group.
An unredacted tax return obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics shows Mercer was the largest individual contributor that year to Secure America Now, an ultra-conservative nonprofit group that funded ads, which envisioned a Muslim conquest of Western countries. The commercials ran on Facebook and Google.
One commercial welcomed viewers to the “Islamic States of America,” a land where “weak leaders” and “unsecured borders” had allowed jihadi fighters to overtake the country. It showed the Statue of Liberty cloaked in a burka and Los Angeles’ iconic Hollywood sign replaced by the Arabic phrase, “Allahu Akbar” or God is great.
The IRS filings were the first documents linking the group to Mercer. Attempts to reach him Thursday by USA TODAY were unsuccessful.
Mercer paid millions to target anti-Muslim ads at voters: report
Billionaire investor Robert Mercer pumped $2 million into a conservative nonprofit group that used Facebook and Google to target anti-Muslim ads toward certain voters in swing states in 2016, according to tax records obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The ads — three in all — mimic travel advertisements intended to stoke fears of Muslim influence in France, Germany and the United States. Most voters were never exposed to the ads because they were targeted toward people most likely to be receptive to them, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Mercer spent millions of dollars in 2016 to support the campaign of President Trump and is a prominent backer of conservative causes.
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The amount Robert Mercer spent on politics in 2016 probably topped $30 million April 5 2017
Robert Mercer-Trump-Russia connection: Yachts of Trump financial backer, Russian oligarch seen close together March 14 2017
Manipulation
We think we’re the ones who control what we see, read, think — and remember. But is that true? Who decides? And who should decide? This hour, TED speakers reveal how easily we can be manipulated Oct 13 2017.
Ali Velshi:
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STEVE BANNON 2014:
You know, Putin’s been quite an interesting character. He’s also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the United States where he’s playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it’s something that we have to be very much on guard of.
2014 Steve Bannon addressing the Vatican via skype. Transcript published by BUZZ FEED
And we’re at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict, of which if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs, but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years.
2014 STEVE BANNON addressing Vatican Via skype transcript published by BUZZFEED
racism in the far right gets “washed out”
Steve Bannon thinking of manipulation using racism and racists since 2014
The War Against Pope Francis
The following sections taken from various parts of the article.
From: The War against Pope Francis:
In 2013, shortly after his election, while he was still surfing a wave of almost universal acclaim for the boldness and simplicity of his gestures – he had moved into a couple of sparsely furnished rooms in the Vatican grounds, rather than the sumptuous state apartments used by his predecessors – Francis purged a small religious order devoted to the practice of the Latin Mass.
The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, a group with about 600 members (men and women), had been placed under investigation by a commission in June 2012, under Pope Benedict. They were accused of combining increasingly extreme rightwing politics with a devotion to the Latin Mass. (This mixture, often seen alongside declarations of hatred of “liberalism”, had also been spreading through online outlets in the US and the UK, such as the Daily Telegraph’s Holy Smoke blog, edited by Damian Thompson………
…Cardinal Burke’s combination of anti-communism, ethnic pride and hatred of feminism has nurtured a succession of prominent rightwing lay figures in the US, from Pat Buchanan through Bill O’Reilly and Steve Bannon, alongside lesser-known Catholic intellectuals such as Michael Novak, who have shilled untiringly for US wars in the Middle East and the Republican understanding of free markets.
…When the commission reported in July 2013, Francis’s reaction shocked conservatives rigid. He stopped the Friars using the Latin Mass in public, and closed down their seminary. They were still allowed to educate new priests, but not segregated from the rest of the church. What’s more, he did so directly, without going through the Vatican’s internal court system, then run by Cardinal Burke. The next year, Francis sacked Burke from his powerful job in the Vatican’s internal court system. By doing so, he made an implacable enemy.
……… It was Cardinal Burke who invited Bannon, then already the animating spirit of Breitbart News, to address a conference in the Vatican, via video link from California, in 2014. Bannon’s speech was apocalyptic, incoherent and historically eccentric. But there was no mistaking the urgency of his summons to a holy war: the second world war, he said, had really been “the Judeo-Christian west versus atheists”, and now civilisation was “at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism … a very brutal and bloody conflict … that will completely eradicate everything that we’ve been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years … if the people in this room, the people in the church, do not … fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that’s starting.”
Everything in that speech is anathema to Francis.
The War Against Pope Francis (The Guardian) continued
…The outcome was that Francis reinstated the man Burke had sacked, and appointed another man to take over most of Burke’s duties. This was punishment for Burke’s quite untrue claim that the pope had been on his side in the original row.
What Does it Take to Use Data to Change Behavior in Collective Impact? May 4 2016
Cambridge Analytica and the creation of right wing media
Psychometrics: The latest craze in tyranny
Cambridge Analytica did something new and revolutionary
Using psychographics they know more about you than you know about yourself.
They can understand you better than you understand yourself.
It understands your personality
They know what you respond to what you respond not so well to… They know it all.
more dangerous than anything that came before on the web.
They go leaps and bounds in their understanding of human nature while we the public understands very little.
Steve Bannon Robert Mercer THOUGHT CONTROL Cambridge Analytica Data 4 SALE #4UTWO
A law making some kinds of Political Warfare and Psychological warfare illegal:
Actions may assume the form of oral pronouncements. The utterance of words frequently constitutes a crime. For example,to advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence, to urge some one to commit a crime, to disseminate obscene literature, to foment a riot, are all criminal offenses, even if they are committed merely by verbal statements.
Words uttered with intent to betray one’s country may well constitute treason. For instance, to deliver valuable secret information to the enemy by word of mouth is treason. It is a fallacy to contend that to constitute treason there must be some act other than the utterance of words.
To traffic with the enemy and to accept employment from the enemy for the purpose of preparing speeches to be used in a program of psychological warfare designed by the enemy to weaken the power of the United States to wage war successfully, is treasonable conduct. It is not protected by the First Amendment. Acting as a radio commentator, as the defendant did in this case, for the purpose of spreading and disseminating proenemy propaganda, constitutes treason. United States v. Burgman, 87 F.Supp. 568 (D.D.C., 1949)
SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY……… PASS THE LAW