Media and the Intelligence Agencies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The mainstream media has had an intimate relationship to the\nintelligence services. For example, in Britain, the BBC is essentially an\nintelligence agency. An essay on E-International Relations points this out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Journalism, or the media in general has been a part of intelligence related activities for a long time, one of the cases being the BBC\u2019s emergence as an intelligence agency during the years of the Second World War. Britain\u2019s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was established to conduct SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) by capturing and decoding encrypted enemy transmissions in 1939 (Calkins, 2011: 1). At the same time, a new unit was created within the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to \u2018intercept, monitor and report on the open broadcasts of enemy, neutral and Allied radio stations\u2019 (Calkins, 2011: 2). This BBC Monitoring Service was meant to listen to, record, transcribe and translate open radio transmissions, in this way producing OSINT i.e. open source intelligence. BBC Overseas Intelligence Department analysed the material and started issuing a Weekly Survey on \u2018propaganda broadcast by enemy, neutral and allied countries\u2019 in 1939 (Calkins, 2011: 2). Also, in the same year BBC began producing Daily Digest, which was mainly edited items broadcasted by foreign radio stations. This information was provided to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Information, MI9, MI5 etc. (Calkins, 2011: 3), thus making BBC not only involved in data collection, but also in its analysis. Therefore the role of BBC was equal to the role and functions of an intelligence agency.\u201d<\/p>(Source: https:\/\/www.e-ir.info\/2013\/03\/22\/the-relationship-between-all-forms-of-media-and-intelligence-activity\/ <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Here in the US, the media has long been connected with the intelligence community, ever since the National Security Act, which created the CIA, was signed by President Truman in 1947. If you want to find out more about this, look up Project Mockingbird. You\u2019ll find everything from the assertion that Mockingbird USED TO BE a project by the CIA to influence reporters to write stories favorable to the \u201cEstablishment.\u201d Others say it is an ongoing process; that the media is comped and that as long as you don\u2019t stray into dangerous subjects, you can write what you want. Dr. Steven Greer\u2019s work on the Disclosure Project is helpful to read in the area of the secrecy behind the special access projects and UFOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An important document in this regard was released by Glenn\nGreenwald (who worked with Edward Snowden) in 2014, and details a program\ncalled JTRIG. This program is part of the British intelligence service GCHQ. We\nknow that GCHQ works with the CIA and American intelligence agencies, because both\ncountries are part of the Five\nEyes<\/a> intelligence network. In the article, titled \u201cHow Covert Agents\nInfiltrate The Internet To Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations,\u201d\nGreenwald says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It\u2019s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents. <\/p>
Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about \u2018dirty trick\u2019 tactics used by GCHQ\u2019s previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking \u2018Five Eyes\u2019 alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled \u2018The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.\u2019 <\/p>
Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: \u2018false flag operations\u2019 (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting \u2018negative information\u2019 on various forums….<\/p>
These GCHQ documents are the first to prove that a major western government is using some of the most controversial techniques to disseminate deception online and harm the reputations of targets. Under the tactics they use, the state is deliberately spreading lies on the internet about whichever individuals it targets, including the use of what GCHQ itself calls \u2018false flag operations\u2019 and emails to people\u2019s families and friends. Who would possibly trust a government to exercise these powers at all, let alone do so in secret, with virtually no oversight, and outside of any cognizable legal framework?\u201d <\/p>Glenn Greenwald, at https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2014\/02\/24\/jtrig-manipulation\/<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, false flag operations are not conspiracy theories at all, but tactics used by intelligence agencies to promote agendas. Unfortunately, these intelligence operations interface with news media, and influence the integrity of journalism itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New Diplomacy <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There is a war now in journalism for credibility and\nlegitimacy, with the battle now emerging from the shadows into the public eye.\nIt doesn\u2019t really matter what you think of Trump or his administration because what\nwe\u2019re seeing in current events isn\u2019t traditional politics. Trump doesn\u2019t read\npresidentially from his teleprompter, he doesn\u2019t conduct international\nrelations as we\u2019ve come to know it. That\u2019s because the gloves are off now in\nthe battle between dark and light. That which has been hidden is now going to\nbe exposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A good example of the \u201cnew diplomacy\u201d \u2013 not diplomacy approved by traditional think tanks and media outlets like the New York Times<\/em> \u2013 is Trump\u2019s recent, almost off-hand visit to North Korea to shake hands with Kim Jong Un, which I found inspirational. The old system thinking is represented perfectly by a quote from Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State, in May 2017: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hillary Clinton called North Korea one of the world’s \u2018wicked problems\u2019 on Tuesday \u2014 and took a swipe at President Donald Trump\u2019s tweeting habits at an appearance in New York City. \u2018Negotiations are critical,\u2019 Clinton said of the efforts to achieve peace with the nuclear-armed nation. \u2018But they have to be part of a broader strategy, not just thrown off on a tweet some morning that, \u201cHey, let\u2019s get together, you know, see if we can\u2019t get along and maybe we can, you know, come up with some sort of idea.\u201d That doesn\u2019t work.\u201d\u201d <\/p>Source: https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/hillary-clinton-tweets-won-t-solve-threat-north-korea-n753951<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer wasn\u2019t impressed, however. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘It’s reality show foreign policy. He wants that photo op, he wants that little hit,\u2019 Schumer said. \u2018He had no strategic, long range sense of where to go or what to do, and if anyone thinks this doesn\u2019t hurt America in the short term and the long run They’re sadly mistaken. This was one of the worst few days in American foreign policy and American diplomatic history in a long time,\u2019 Schumer said Monday in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.\u201d <\/p> Source: https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/451273-schumer-trumps-meeting-with-north-korean-leader-one-of-the-worst-days-in<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Interesting, I\u2019d say. Trump makes an offhand tweet to Kim at\nthe G20 meeting in Japan, 24 hours later he\u2019s the first president to walk into\nNo Ko. In official statements, both the North Koreans and the South Koreans\nwere very pleased with the visit. How can this be a bad thing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Apparently, in the new diplomacy, you can get things done in\na hurry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
De facto Military-backed Government?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In my opinion, there is de facto a military government in\nthe USA right now running the show, fighting a \u201cdeep state\u201d shadow government. This\nmilitary-backed government gets things done very quickly, without a lot of red\ntape. This relationship can be seen if you examine Trump\u2019s first cabinet, which\nhad no less than 4 military generals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go to the \u201cQ\u201d board at qanon.pub. There is little difference\nbetween Q and Trump; that\u2019s because Trump has the backing of certain segments\nof the U.S. military. \u201cQ\u201d is military intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evidence of the shadow government is everywhere, most\nrecently in the skirmish in the Gulf of Oman, where Iran supposedly attacked a\nU.S. drone. Later, Trump\u2019s military helpers traced back to who really did\nattack the drone, and it wasn\u2019t Iran. So who did it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cdeep state,\u201d or whatever you want to call it, is a group of people who have no national or planetary loyalty, except to themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My theory is that, in order not to scare the crap out of the\npopulation, a civilian facade is maintained within the military-backed Trump\nadministration. People on the left are understandably alarmed by this, so their\naccusations of fascism and their hatred of Trump have some basis in fact. But\nspitting on Eric Trump in restaurants, kicking Trump\u2019s Press Secretary out of the\nRed Hen, and beating up reporters (Andy Ngo) who are known to sympathize with\nTrump, isn\u2019t a very effective way to beat the Trumpster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What seems odd to me is that those who hate Trump don\u2019t mention the involvement of military intelligence, or promote the line that Trump has created a fake military-backed administration. Not even AOC or Bernie mention it! This could be a great talking point for 2020, but instead the Democrats are talking about free health care for illegal immigrants, raising taxes (Bernie), and the Russiagate idiocy. \u00a0Could it be that these people are following a script? 25 candidates and they are all (except Marianne Williamson and Tulsi Gabbard) talking about stuff that most people aren’t excited about. That\u2019s a weird conspiracy theory, but I don\u2019t get why the \u201cTrump de facto military coup\u201d angle isn\u2019t being mentioned by the mainstream media. More than likely, to mention it would alert the public to the connection between the intelligence services and the media \u2013 who want to maintain the fiction of their objectivity and credibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social Media and the Intelligence War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In my opinion, Trump is trying to get U.S. troops out of\nIraq, Afghanistan, and the Korean Peninsula. Edward Snowden has shown us the\npower of the intelligence agencies (NSA) to collect information. The public\narms of the intelligence services are social media organizations like Google,\nFacebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. These are thinly disguised information\ngathering organizations that interface with the intelligence community. The NSA\nwas painted by Snowden as the bad guy, but Snowden worked for Booz-Allen\nHamilton, a CIA contractor. The CIA also gathers intelligence, as does the FBI.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the formal creation of the intelligence community in 1947, parts of it have grown into a rogue operation. Over the years the CIA has given a lot of bad intelligence to civilian policy makers, and has orchestrated coups and overthrown foreign governments, replacing these leaders with dictators or amenable puppets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we are seeing in U.S. politics today is an intelligence\nwar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because the Powers-That-Be\/shadow government\/intelligence services largely control the mainstream press, the Trump\/military de facto government has had to use non-traditional social media to get its message across. Paradoxically, Trump uses Big Tech against those within the intelligence community who created social media as an information gathering platform. If you think Mark Zuckerberg is really behind Facebook, think again. Facebook and Google were funded by the CIA\u2019s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. There is lots of info about this, look it up. For example, \u201cSocial Media Is A Tool of the CIA. Seriously,\u201d CBS News, at https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or, \u201cRevealed: Facebook\u2019s CIA Connections,\u201d at https:\/\/stpaulresearch.com\/2018\/03\/29\/revealed-facebooks-cia-connections\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re out of the old paradigm where the fix was in and everything was settled in a pretty dark place. People were comfortable with that though, and could build nice lives for themselves. Many people don\u2019t understand why there\u2019s so much chaos, and why Trump is behind so much of it. Yes, he is behind a lot of it because he is seen as an outsider by the Establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you don\u2019t believe that a billionaire like Donald Trump is seen as a dangerous outsider, “not one of us,” look at this headline from the New York Times<\/em> the day after the 2016 election: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Photo from The New York Review of Books, \u201cWhy Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing,\u201d at https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/25\/why-trump-is-winning-and-the-press-is-losing\/ <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Yeah, this guy is an outsider. In Washington DC, and to a hard core element of the intelligence services, he is seen as a dangerous monster. A guy who will break up the old order — their order — and laugh about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New Timeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There was only one problem with the old system: At the\nhighest levels it was controlled by the dark, not the light. I was born in 1951\nand lived through almost all of the post-World War 2 era. Back then, if you had\nvery little self awareness, and no spiritual understanding, you could get along\njust fine. If you were like me, you had a harder time of it. You could make money\nand \u201cget ahead,\u201d get married, have kids, play golf, go to book club meetings,\nall that normal stuff. But that timeline had no future folks. That old timeline\nwas supposed to end in an extinction event: nuclear war. Thank God (or the co-creative\npower of human consciousness) it didn\u2019t. I kiss those \u201cgood old days\u201d goodbye,\nand have no regret that we are on a new timeline; a new timeline that is\nsomewhat terrifying, but one that is leading to a psychic cleanup of the entire\nhuman race, and that is bringing in more light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Old fogies like me don\u2019t ask for sympathy, some of us are\njust glad to GTFO of that 1951- 2012 period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, we are on a new timeline, but with the old timeline\nstructures. The election of Donald Trump is the very first major wildcard on the\nnew timeline after December 2012. We know Trump is a major wildcard because he\nis having a huge, planetary effect. He is bulldozing everything down in the old\npolitical structures. This just doesn\u2019t \u201chappen.\u201d (See my book, The Old Soul<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 1947, the intelligence community has gone out of control.\nTrump and his military-backed government are fighting these elements (as in The\nGulf of Oman), but the battle is largely behind the scenes so as not to create\ntoo much fear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we find out the scams that have accumulated a $22\ntrillion debt for the American people, there\u2019s going to be a lot of anger.\nThere\u2019s NO WAY that debt was accumulated through \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d and \u201cbudgets\nas usual.\u201d Sure, the civilian government spends more than it takes in, but not\n$22 Trillion worth. No, the diversion of a lot of that money was accomplished\nvia hidden means. Hidden = dark = deep state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t want to go any further into this. Hopefully, if\nTrump is able to do his job, these scams will be exposed. And if Trump gets out\nof line, my guess is that he won\u2019t be around for very long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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