Agencies manipulate public opinion ahead of election
From the DHS colluding with Twitter to police speech they find troublesome, to the lengthy history of the CIA manipulating public sentiment through the news media, it seems to be standard practice.
Truth is the first casualty of war, as the saying goes. From hot conflicts around the world that see both sides trying to make their own citizens and the world at-large believe they’re the ones winning, to a cold war arms race, to a current climate of impending civil war in the most powerful nation in the world, possibly hinging on election results that will decide legislative power — this is not a new concept. Propaganda remains a powerful tool to sway public sentiment on just about anything. There are countless examples of such gaslighting, and it has everything to do with money and power.
A lot of people probably don’t realize that the sugar industry paid off a bunch of scientists to obfuscate the findings in their studies in the 60s to hide the fact that excessive sugar consumption has been proven to have adverse effects on heart health. Several industries popped up from this bit of propaganda inserted into the public consciousness, and those responsible for doing so made untold fortunes as a result. After the sugar does its thing to a person, then they need insulin because they likely have developed diabetes. After all that takes its toll, they’ll then need any number of heart treatments and medications, becoming chronic patients in the medical industry for the rest of their now truncated lives.
More to the point I’m trying to make, there is an interview from 1983 showing an agent from the CIA by the name of Frank Snepp admitting that CIA agents like himself actively courted journalists to spread disinformation, and describes how he did it during his tenure in the agency. For the full interview, click here. I recommend watching it, it’s fascinating to say the least.
”When we, the CIA, wanted to circulate disinformation on a particular issue, disinformation is not necessarily a lie, maybe a half-truth, we would pick out a journalist. I would go do the briefing and hope that he would put the information in print,” said Snepp candidly.
He continued with an example relating to the Vietnam war, which was during his time of service, as he remained in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975 during the evacuation of Saigon.
”For instance, if we wanted to get across to the American public that the North Vietnamese were building up their forestructure in South Vietnam, I would go to a journalist and advise him that in the past six months, X number of North Vietnamese forces had come down the Ho Chi Minh Trail system through souther Laos. Now there is no way a journalist can check that information. That's radio intercepts, spy in the sky photography [likely classified materials], so either he goes with the information or he doesn't.”
Snepp even elaborated on their success rate. ”...Usually the journalist would go with it because it was - it looked like some kind of exclusive. And I would say our percentage [of success] planting that kind of data was 70 to 80%.”
So you can see that Snepp and his colleagues were wildly successful in planting these kinds of disinformation ‘nuggets’ into the public consciousness through his rather impressive connections in the media at the time, which included reporters from The New Yorker, Chicago Daily News, New York Times, US News, Newsweek, LA Times, the list goes on. So remember when you read spurious news from these sources that their fake news days go all the way back to the Vietnam War, at the very least.
Edward Snowden recently posted a truncated version of that interview that gets more to the heart of the matter. You know, the guy who exposed the Obama-era NSA’s extensive spying programs that spied on the American public under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’. And Obama was better than Bush how? But I digress. Here is the tweet from Snowden if you wish to watch that instead.
This definitely puts news stories that seem to defy reason or reality into perspective. I’m sure most people can point to at least one example of that. For me, I need only point to recent stories such as the ‘Ghost of Kyiv’ valiantly shooting down Russian planes. Only the footage they actually used in the news broadcasts to sell this story was from a video game. It has since been quietly accepted that mainstream news sources made it all up, which is insane to me.
Another shining example of very recent days is the attack on Paul Pelosi, which I won’t get into again, but it’s an amorphous story that keeps changing. If you wish to read more on that, refer to my article on the matter.
We can only figure that when stories change drastically or seem to upend entirely — like in the curious case of Paul Pelosi and David DePape above — that officials are tampering with the story in an attempt to gaslight the public.
We now have no greater proof of this than the Department of Homeland Security actively colluding with the previous ‘administration’ of Twitter to actively censor stories. That story is below.
And of course we can’t forget the FBI visiting both Twitter and Facebook, as confessed by Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast.
I’m starting to see a pattern in the stories I choose to cover. Anyway, all this ties into this one overarching concept, called Operation Mockingbird.
Operation Mockingbird is a program that basically ties the intelligence community in the United States government to mainstream journalists and media sources, meant to control public sentiment about matters of importance to the government at the time. That’s why you see the slow morphing of narratives masqueraded as some kind of shift in the zeitgeist but it is very likely fomented for a reason, as we have seen countless examples already.
If I wasn’t small-time on a little substack with only a handful of subscribers, then you would likely see me being called some kind of Russian agent, since that’s the favorite defense of the left going all the way back to the 60s — blame the Russians for everything. But I think those agents trying to shape our consciousness are very much domestic, as the several given examples above prove.
It ultimately doesn’t matter if facts the government-controlled media puts forth, even if it’s a giant nothingburger, as the kids would say. The effect is the same: polls will shift given enough of a shove by a damning story. And the right manipulation can affect election results, as was proven in 2020.
I refer now to a poll talked about on the New York Post about the now infamous Hunter Biden laptop story — the story that Mark Zuckerberg admitted was buried at the behest of the FBI. A staggering number of people — nearly 4 out of 5 — believe that the results in 2020 would have been different had the Hunter Biden laptop story been allowed to hit mainstream airwaves in a truthful light, rather than the way they presented it — as Russian disinformation. It’s very likely Trump would have been re-elected. Would we have avoided all the pitfalls with inflation and such? It’s hard to say. Democrats might very well have benefited more from a Trump presidency than a Biden presidency in this midterm election because then they could pin all that’s wrong with the United States on Trump more convincingly than their continued suggestions that everything going on is still his fault nearly 2 years into Biden’s term, which is a laughable assertion.
The rule I follow is this: If a story isn’t trumpeted to the high heavens, the powers that be want it gone and I should look at what they don’t want me to know, because it’s most likely true, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story. If a story is thrown in our faces daily, then it’s likely a pile of bullshit and I should then start looking at the ‘facts’ related to it and dissect them for any veracity or lack thereof, such as the Russian collusion hoax.
I know I sound like a contrarian but I’ve gotten a surprising amount of success out of operating that way.
There are a lot of benefits to an uninformed public, and very few for the opposite. I choose to try to inform, not mislead.
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