{"id":244049,"date":"2023-09-11T12:01:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=244049"},"modified":"2023-09-18T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:54:29","slug":"the-elites-5000-year-war-on-your-mind-is-climaxing-can-we-defeat-it-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/09\/the-elites-5000-year-war-on-your-mind-is-climaxing-can-we-defeat-it-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elite\u2019s 5,000-Year War on Your Mind Is Climaxing–Can We Defeat It? (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.\u201d<\/i><\/span>
\n— Steve Biko, South African freedom fighter, beaten to death in an Apartheid prison cell in 1977<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

10 Sep 2023 \u2013 <\/i><\/span>So, you think that you make up your own mind about what you will do, how you will do it, what you will buy and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good, because that is what you are supposed to believe. Especially when you are thinking what others want you to think.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of us like to believe that we have \u2018a mind of our own\u2019.eli<\/span><\/p>\n

But, in fact, any serious consideration of the evidence leads to the exact opposite conclusion. In the vast majority of cases, you haven\u2019t had a mind that was yours since you were very young. At least on anything that really matters in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me elaborate.<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, I have been writing about the Elite\u2019s 5,000-year war against humanity with the final battle in this war now being fought. See <\/span>\u2018The Final Battle for Humanity: It is \u201cNow or Never\u201d in the Long War Against Homo Sapiens\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, I have argued, it is important to understand the Elite\u2019s \u2018Great Reset\u2019, with its fourth industrial revolution (technocratic), eugenicist and transhumanist programs, as simply the latest manifestation of this 5,000-year war on Homo Sapiens during which Elites (local, \u2018national\u2019, ultimately global) have used a range of policies to contrive \u2018great events\u2019 \u2013 orchestrated wars and famines; slavery; human sacrifice; imperialism and colonialism; economic exploitation through contrived financial crises (including depressions); \u2018natural\u2019 disasters, revolutions and \u2018medical\u2019 crises to name the most obvious \u2013 to distract attention from and facilitate profound changes in world order, to kill off substantial proportions of the human population and enslave those left alive while obscuring vast transfers of wealth from ordinary people to the Elite (whether local, \u2018national\u2019 or, ultimately, global). See <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/a><\/span>Historical Analysis of the Global Elite: Ransacking the World Economy Until \u201cYou\u2019ll Own Nothing.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This includes, for example, the Elite-orchestrated war in Ukraine which is nothing more than another manifestation of this policy \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018The War in Ukraine: Understanding and Resisting the Global Elite\u2019s Deeper Agenda\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 and, for example, it is consistent with this program that depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been deployed by Britain in Ukraine, the explosion of which threatens citizens across Europe \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018Britain\u2019s Decision to Send Depleted Uranium Munitions to Ukraine Will Have Grim Consequences\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018The British Gift that Keeps on Giving: Uranium-irradiated Wind and Rain for Poland, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and London too\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 and that the United States used a nuclear weapon to destroy the Nordstream Pipelines, in this case inflicting a \u2018first strike\u2019 nuclear attack on Russia and Germany, a range of adverse environmental consequences on the populations of Scandinavia and Europe, and effectively a knock-out blow to key economies of Western Europe (by depriving them of a crucial source of energy). See <\/span>\u2018<\/a>Nordstream \u2013 Anatomy of Dante\u2019s Explosion<\/a>\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both of these nuclear attacks are readily identifiable as measures consistent with the explicit Elite program to kill off a substantial proportion of the human population.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, while I have previously identified four fundamental shortcomings in the efforts of anti-war activists over the past 100 years, which together account for the movement\u2019s failure to have any impact in undermining war as an institution \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018Rage Against the War Machine: What Rage? \u201cWhen will they ever learn?\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 it is also clear that another very old threat, now being embellished by new and more pernicious forms, is being ignored too.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, as I have become increasingly aware over recent years, there is another entire dimension of war-fighting that is only being discussed at the margin and must be considered and addressed not only by those committed to ending war but by anyone who values human identity, freedom and free will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because, as is manifestly obvious to those investigating more deeply and as captured in the title of this article, there is a battle now being fought in the technocratic realm and it is being waged against all of humanity simultaneously, not just a particular population.<\/span><\/p>\n

In essence, this battle is the final battle in the war being fought to control your mind.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

To put this another way, a primary battlefield of what many now call fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is your mind and who controls it. What is 5GW? It is defined by James Corbett in the following terms: \u2018Fifth-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.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Your Guide to 5th-Generation Warfare\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, to reiterate the distinction in Corbett\u2019s words: 5<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> Generation warfare is \u2018being waged at all levels, not just the mental.\u2019 and any review of the \u2018Great Reset\u2019 plans demonstrates the extraordinary breadth and depth of the control now being imposed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, control of our minds is central to the war being fought and any successful defense in this war requires that we identify the threats to our mind and defend ourselves adequately against them. Otherwise we are poorly placed to identify and defend against all of the other threats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, using less invasive but still very effective weapons, the war to control your mind is ancient and it is this component on which this article is focused both because it is extremely advanced and is necessary if other components of the Elite plan are to be fully implemented.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ancient? In fact, several authors have addressed this subject. For example, in their 2015 book on the subject, Marie D. Jones and Larry Flaxman observed that:<\/span><\/p>\n

Mind control is probably as old as our awareness that we each had a mind of our own. Throughout the course of history, there are a number of names for mind control that describe a common goal: to take over a person\u2019s innermost thoughts and control his or her behaviors and actions. Brainwashing, coercion, thought reform, mental manipulation, psychological warfare, programming, conversion, gas lighting, indoctrination methods, psychic driving, crowd control: They all describe a method by which a person\u2019s individual thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions are disrupted, dismissed, and destroyed \u2013 even replaced with the thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions of someone else. Whether designed to create the perfect assassin or super soldier, indoctrinate prisoners of war, recruit members into a cult or religious belief system, or control the consuming masses and direct their behaviors in accordance to the political whims of the day, mind control has been used extensively in our past, is in use today, and no doubt will be used in the future.<\/i><\/span> See <\/span>Mind <\/a>W<\/a>ars: <\/a>A<\/a> H<\/a>istory of <\/a>M<\/a>ind <\/a>C<\/a>ontrol, <\/a>S<\/a>urveillance, and <\/a>S<\/a>ocial <\/a>E<\/a>ngineering by the <\/a>G<\/a>overnment, <\/a>M<\/a>edia, and <\/a>S<\/a>ecret <\/a>S<\/a>ocieties<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And by 1956 Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D. had already written a book canvassing a wide spectrum of mind control techniques and technologies in a variety of categories with, for just one example, an insightful discussion on how readily justice is subverted within legal systems by such techniques and technologies. See <\/span>The Rape of the Mind<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, for the purposes of this article, I have distinguished four distinct categories of mind control, which have evolved at different times historically. I then explain each in turn. In chronological order, I label these different categories as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. psychological mind control,<\/span><\/p>\n

2. political mind control,<\/span><\/p>\n

3. medical mind control, and<\/span><\/p>\n

4. technological mind control.<\/span><\/p>\n

Psychological Mind Control<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By far the oldest form of mind control is graphically illustrated by what I have previously characterized as \u2018the adult war on children\u2019. See, for example, <\/span>\u2018Humanity\u2019s \u201cDirty Little Secret\u201d: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This war, to briefly reiterate its essential nature, has its basis in the manner in which human adults \u2013 as parents, teachers, religious figures and in other roles \u2013 use a potent combination of \u2018visible\u2019, \u2018invisible\u2019 and \u2018utterly invisible\u2019 violence to terrorize children and adolescents into submissive obedience under the pretext of \u2018socializing\u2019 them. See<\/span> \u2018<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>Why Violence?<\/a>\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice<\/a>\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018Do We Want School or Education?\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This works well for the Elite because it creates a human population that readily follows orders from parents, teachers, religious figures, employers, police, judges, military personnel, governments and anyone else \u2018in authority\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, human societies everywhere are essentially populated with adults who are easily scared into uncritically obeying Elite directives, conveyed through a variety of its agents, as the past 3.5 years have graphically demonstrated. But because the fear is largely unconscious, most adults can easily be led to believe they are acting out of their own free will or, at worst, following \u2018reasonable\u2019 orders \u2018for the good of the community\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, this can occur for a number of reasons. Denied safe opportunities to focus on feeling their fear and terrorized out of expressing their anger and other feelings during childhood \u2013 the logical response to \u2018visible\u2019, \u2018invisible\u2019 or \u2018utterly invisible\u2019 violence inflicted by an adult \u2013 t<\/span>he child \u2018learns\u2019 a range of ways to suppress awareness of these feelings, almost invariably unconsciously, which is why their fear, anger and other feelings are<\/span><\/span> not necessarily obvious to the person or those around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

A variety of psychological mechanisms such as <\/span>denial<\/b><\/span> \u2013 denying the existence of a reality that frightens\/angers in order to feel safe \u2013 and <\/span>delusion<\/b><\/span> \u2013 constructing a delusion in relation to a frightening\/infuriating reality that cannot be denied or suppressed in order to feel safe \u2013 are everyday occurrences for most people. But these two psychological mechanisms are not the only ones. For one discussion of several key ways in which fear manifests but is unconsciously psychologically concealed by the individual, see <\/span>\u2018The Disintegrated Mind: The Greatest Threat to Human Survival on Earth\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But another outcome of suppressing awareness of how one feels \u2013 including angry \u2013 also denies the child the awareness and capacity to defend themselves against violence and other injustices. As a result most children \u2013 even those who learn to \u2018bully\u2019 \u2013 end up acting very powerlessly in the face of violence and injustice as they grow up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And this continues into adulthood. Having \u2018learned\u2019, under threat of violence from parents, teachers and other adults, not to defend themselves against their parents, teachers and other adults as a child, the child grows into an equally powerless adult.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, in the current context of threats posed by the Elite program \u2013 the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u2018Great Reset\u2019 with its fourth industrial revolution (technocratic), eugenicist, transhumanist, political and economic components \u2013 even among those who have been able to perceive the most obvious delusions being presented to them, the bulk of these individuals have proven incapable of doing little more than complaining powerlessly, begging an Elite agent to \u2018go easy\u2019 on them (by lobbying or petitioning a government or international organization such as the World Health Organization), cross-posting the latest irrelevant post from one social media platform to another, possibly advocating unspecified resistance (or strategically irrelevant action), or attending a protest demonstration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeking out and applying strategic means of resistance to the \u2018Great Reset\u2019, or recognizing and acting on it when offered, has remained beyond them.<\/span><\/p>\n

But while childhood terrorization is enough to immobilize most people into behaving powerlessly under threat, Elite agents have also invested enormous effort to work out how best to capitalize on this fear. And while fear isn\u2019t the only psychological motivator used, it is the most powerful, with more gross or subtle versions used depending on the context. As the historical record demonstrates.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obviously, as you may know, there is an extensive history of psychological manipulation of human populations particularly in relation to mobilizing national populations to support and participate in wars, which any investigation of Elite-driven propaganda prior to and during wars will illustrate. But war is only one context in which human populations are psychologically manipulated by Elites. Much of the Elite propaganda around the \u2018Covid-19 pandemic\u2019, for example, was grounded in manipulating people\u2019s fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the knowledge of how to manipulate us did not drop out of the sky. But while earlier periods of human history clearly demonstrate the Elite\u2019s intuitive understanding that triggering fear was a powerful form of behavioural control, since World War II particularly, Elite-sponsored institutions, including governments, have invested enormous sums of money to find out, as precisely as possible, how to manipulate our psychological responses to stimuli in order to control our behaviour. An excellent example of these institutions is <\/span>The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> in the UK, <\/span>founded in 1947.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But as Dr Daniel Estulin has described in great detail in his book <\/span>Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>the Institute\u2019s sanitized name \u2013 The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations \u2013 does not describe its real work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. [In fact] it is the world\u2019s center for mass brainwashing and social engineering activities. It grew from a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House into a sophisticated organization that was to shape the destiny of the entire planet and, in the process, change the paradigm of modern society.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The book details both the Tavistock Institute network \u2013 identifying connections to research institutes, think tanks, and the drug industry, including the Stanford Research Center, Rand Corporation, Harvard Business School and Office of Naval Research in the U.S. \u2013 demonstrating its enormous reach around the world, and exposes the methods of brainwashing and psychological warfare employed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the words of Estulin:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018The <\/span><\/span>essential premise of the work of Tavistock is… that certain kinds of democratic \u201cinstitutions represent far more efficient instrumentalities for fascist dictatorship than the traditional, straightforwardly\u201d authoritarian models\u2026. The psychological sciences have followed the route initially outlined in 1945 by Dr. John Rawlings Rees, grand master of psywar counterinsurgency.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Discussing the work of psychiatrist Rees, who wrote the book <\/span><\/span>The Shaping of Psychiatry by War<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> in 1945, Estulin observes that \u2018Rees called for the development of psychiatric <\/span><\/span>shock troops<\/i><\/span><\/span> in order to develop \u201cmethods of political control based upon driving the majority of the human population toward psychosis\u201d through procedures of so-called programmed behavioural modification. He proposed this to render the population submissive under the post-World War II economic world order.\u2019 See Estulin <\/span><\/span>Tavistock Institute<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span> p. 6.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, the budget to research ways to manipulate us psychologically to perform Elite-desired behaviours has expanded dramatically since World War II as is evident from the number and identity of organizations conducting the research. See, for example, <\/span>Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>. Moreover, much of this is now focused on manipulation related to the current Elite program to impose on us their \u2018Great Reset\u2019. See <\/span>\u2018Government Nudge Units Find the \u201cBest\u201d Ways to Manipulate the Public\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, a range of Elite organizations has spent millions on research to identify the most effective ways to terrorize people into submitting to injection. See the US Social Science Research Council & National Science Foundation\u2019s <\/span>\u2018Mercury Project\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>\u2018Mercury Project to Boost Covid-19 Vaccination Rates and Counter Public Health Mis- and Disinformation in 17 Countries Worldwide\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018Rockefeller Foundation, Nonprofits Spending Millions on Behavioral Psychology Research to \u201cNudge\u201d More People to Get COVID Vaccines\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, to highlight the point that it is our fear that is the Elite\u2019s greatest asset (and trumps intelligence, no matter how great), intellectuals who, in theory, should be more capable of investigating what is happening in relation to those key issues of concern to society \u2013 such as those discussed here: <\/span>\u2018The Treason of the Intellectuals\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 are routinely exposed as simply frightened (again, even if unconsciously so) and support an Elite-driven narrative that is readily exposed by serious scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, if you would like to explore this dimension of mind control more fully, Daniel Smith has compiled a straightforward summary of what he considers those methods most frequently associated with the practice: brainwashing, hypnosis, manipulation, persuasion, and deception. See <\/span>Banned Mind Control Techniques Unleashed: Learn The Dark Secrets Of Hypnosis, Manipulation, Deception, Persuasion, Brainwashing And Human Psychology<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in his own study of \u2018mind games\u2019, psychologist Roy Eidelson argues that \u2018five issues consistently and profoundly shape the way we understand ourselves, our lives, and the world around us. They are vulnerability, injustice, distrust, superiority, and helplessness. Each of these is a core concern and the basis for one of the questions I mentioned earlier: Are we safe? Are we treated fairly? Who should we trust? Are we good enough? Can we control what happens to us?\u2019 Focusing on these questions which could, in theory, usefully be at the centre of an enlightened public policy, Elites specialize in producing misleading, self-serving and widely promulgated answers that usually \u2018lead us away from the more equal and more humane society most of us desire\u2019 in order to \u2018exploit these concerns for the specific purpose of advancing their own narrow interests while bringing harm and suffering to so many.\u2019 In his book, Eidelson goes on to explain these five core concerns and examines \u2018the specific mind games that the 1% use to take advantage of them\u2019. Given their power, Eidelson concludes that \u2018it\u2019s not surprising that these five concerns figure so prominently in the propaganda campaigns of plutocrats who aim to discourage resistance to their agenda.\u2019 See <\/span>Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What\u2019s Happening, What\u2019s Right, and What\u2019s Possible<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond any specific measures, however, the sheer complexity and far-reaching nature of the Elite \u2018Great Reset\u2019 program is frightening for most people to contemplate, let alone investigate in detail. Thus, like some other books with a futuristic or dystopian perspective, Alvin Toffler\u2019s 1970 book <\/span>Future Shock<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span> describes a phenomenon we are witnessing now: a population that is psychologically overwhelmed by the rate of change: \u2018Future shock is a time phenomenon, a product of the greatly accelerated rate of change in society. It arises from the superimposition of a new culture on an old one. It is culture shock in one\u2019s own society.\u2019 See Toffler <\/span>Future Shock<\/i><\/span> p.11. So unlike the traveler who can return home to a familiar culture, the victim of future shock cannot. There is no going back and this is fearfully disorienting for most people (and another reason why people submit to the injection: the hope that things will then \u2018go back to normal\u2019). The adverse psychological impact of the \u2018Great Reset\u2019 has been discussed by several commentators but few realized it was deliberate and why it was so.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is simple: as those involved in this research have long known, fear is the most important factor driving human behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n

And once that fear has been deeply embedded in the unconscious by childhood terrorization, it is a straightforward task, for those who know what they are doing, to manipulate it later in life in accord with Elite prerogatives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But it also makes<\/span><\/span> virtually all humans particularly vulnerable to other forms of mind control too, including those that are political.<\/span><\/p>\n

Political Mind Control<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Since the dawn of human civilization, history records a long and steady (if occasionally interrupted) process of Elite efforts to capture and control the minds of those people within their domain, sometimes coupled with efforts to expand that domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether intent on extorting labor, securing military service, payment of taxes or imposing other forms of control, a submissively obedient population made the task immeasurably easier.<\/span><\/p>\n

And even when violence was used to impose physical control, it was occasionally accompanied, but almost invariably followed, by efforts to subdue the prospect of any further resistance using less physically violent means. For a thoughtful discussion of how illiteracy and then literacy, for example, have been historically exploited by Elites, see <\/span>\u2018Risen Word\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t until the C19<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> century when \u2018modern\u2019 methods of political mind control started to be seriously developed and deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not content with the existing and highly effective psychological methods \u2013 again, all founded on terrorizing individuals throughout childhood into submissive obedience to parents, religious figures, school teachers, employers and other significant adults in the child\u2019s life and designed to train the child for a life of servitude \u2013 development of political forms of mind control (including \u2018news reporting\u2019, advertising, propaganda and censorship) advanced dramatically during the 19<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> and 20<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, at least since the emergence of the international news agencies that started in the 1830s, the quality of what qualifies as \u2018news reporting\u2019 has been steadily in decline although it is uncertain that there has been a time in history when news reporting actually reported any sort of objective truth. In one sense, this is understandable. Inevitably, those who own and control a media channel have a perspective and the outlet invariably reports from that perspective, declared or not. And provided we are aware of this, we may choose to consume news from a declared perspective or ignore it if not to our taste. In any case, it is a rare outlet in the C21<\/span>st<\/span><\/sup> that publishes a range of perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the corporate news world, however, these days we are bombarded with what is called \u2018news\u2019 through a variety of media: television, radio, newspapers and social media via the internet. But because the corporate (mainstream) news world is owned by the Elite and its agents who therefore control the major international news agencies (Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press and United Press International) as well as the major news corporations (such as Alphabet, Comcast, Disney, AT&T, News Corporation, Time Warner, Fox, Facebook, the BBC, Bertelsmann and Baidu), the population that chooses to pay attention to it is fed a uniform and carefully-crafted narrative which is designed to promote Elite interests. This is graphically illustrated in this brief video compilation. Watch <\/span>\u2018Local News Anchors Repeating Same Script Compilation\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>. There are no genuinely alternative worldviews in this domain.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, these days, the education of journalists starts the process, with most journalists now attending a tertiary institution to learn their craft. But how effectively these institutions turn out graduates committed to unearthing and reporting the truth, whatever the cost, is something worth considering. Given the way news reporting is now so tightly controlled, while this article by Professor Bill Willers might illustrate an unusually graphic example of how news reporting has been corrupted, it will come as no surprise to those familiar with corporate journalism. See <\/span>\u2018What Is Taught in Schools of Journalism?\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Because the reality is that virtually every journalist in the corporate media world becomes a hack, employed to simply write and present stories from the scripts they are given that promote the Elite narrative. And any journalist with genuine integrity keen to report the truth is not employed. Or dismissed once exposed as a truth-teller.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, journalists with genuine integrity and courage \u2013 such as Julian Assange \u2013 must create outlets of their own and the Internet now features a significant number in this category. But this does not mean that their freedom to express views that contradict the Elite narrative is respected. Of course not! Just ask Assange, now imprisoned in solitary confinement for four years in Belmarsh prison following seven years imprisonment until losing his asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, for simply reporting the truth we are all entitled to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018He ripped back the veil on the dark machinations of the U.S. Empire, the wholesale slaughter of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, the lies, the corruption, the brutal suppression of those who attempt to speak the truth. The Empire intends to make him pay. He is to be an example to anyone who might think of doing what he did.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018The Crucifixion of Julian Assange\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond Assange, other journalists with integrity outside corporate media suffer a range of outcomes, including \u2018deplatforming\u2019: removing their capacity to communicate by reducing those outlets willing to publish them. For a range of examples, see <\/span>\u2018The Disappearance of Integrity: Organized Suppression of the Facts, Only Writers Who Support \u201cOfficial Narratives\u201d Are Tolerated. Americans are blue pill people\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Needless to say, every journalist in a corporate or government media setting is well aware of Assange\u2019s fate and, while some might make use of the tolerance occasionally afforded a slight variation on the Elite-driven narrative, cowed into submissively reporting what they know to be the permissible perspective. It is safer than risking jail. Or even unemployment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The outcome of these combined factors is that, in essence, much of what is called \u2018news reporting\u2019 by the legacy (corporate) media is nothing more than propaganda. And this has been the case for a very long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

This has particularly included the use of propaganda, often designed to play on unconscious fears, sophisticated enough to manipulate vast proportions of large national populations to do the bidding of those responsible for controlling the methods deployed. See the 1928 book <\/span>Propaganda<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most notably perhaps, in this case, was Adolf Hitler\u2019s understanding of the \u2018big lie\u2019 in manipulating the German population during World War II and its use by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels who is (perhaps incorrectly) attributed with these words: \u2018If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Joseph Goebbels: On the \u201cBig Lie\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, more recently, in a video interview, Professor Michel Chossudovsky thoughtfully discusses the importance of lies in various contexts, including in relation to 911, wars and the Covid-19 crisis. Watch <\/span>\u2018When The Lie Becomes The Truth\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, to reiterate, it has been the case for very many decades already that even the most basic communication in government and corporate media is effectively devoid of educational material or truthful information designed to inform you so that you can make your own thoughtfully-considered evaluation in response to it. For another account of this, written in 1988, see <\/span>Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>. Of course, this is precisely how the Global Elite wants it and why it has unfolded this way.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, this article by Lara-Nour Walton at Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) thoughtfully identifies six different ways that prominent corporate media outlets lie in relation to Israeli violence against the Palestinians, now including the use of artificial intelligence. See <\/span>\u2018Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel\/Palestine Coverage\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, it is well known and has been thoroughly documented that Elite agents, including the US government, have long subverted what is euphemistically referred to as \u2018the free press\u2019. One example of this is \u2018Project Mockingbird\u2019. This project uses CIA spies as journalists in order to control the public debate. See <\/span>\u2018The CIA and the Media: How America\u2019s Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It U<\/a>p\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> and<\/span><\/span> \u2018U.S. Government Projects & Programs That Have Included Criminal and Unethical Actions Against Civilians\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

For other work that thoughtfully teases out more of the nuances employed to manipulate our minds, you can read what the following authors have identified in their respective articles: Lynn Hasher, David Goldstein and Thomas Toppino highlight that frequency of repetition makes something seem true; Jordan Hall points out the increasing difficulty of making sense of anything given the variety of plausible explanations deliberately promulgated; John Pilger reminds us of the value of \u2018omission\u2019 of relevant history, truths and facts; and Caitlyn Johnstone, among other points, mentions Elite efforts to \u2018exploit glitches in human cognition like the illusory truth effect, which causes our minds to mistake the experience of having heard something before with the experience of having heard something that is true.\u2019 See, respectively, <\/span>\u2018Frequency and the Conference of Referential Validity\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>\u2018<\/a>The War on Sensemaking\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>\u2018Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018Why Propaganda Works\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, in an update to the \u2018bread and circuses\u2019 trick used in ancient Rome, another simple but extremely effective method is to make sure that most people are comfortable enough economically (if not made vulnerable by their marginal economic existence) while deluging us with a huge range of issues to consider as well as many forms of entertainment (sport, cinema, theatre, art galleries, museums…) and use these to distract us from any central issues. So, in the current context, while most people are debating the latest controversies in the recent game of football, tennis or basketball, and some others are arguing about whether or not the SARS-CoV-2 \u2018virus\u2019 exists, whether or not the various WHO-approved, government-imposed lockdowns and other measures were necessary, and whether or not the \u2018vaccines\u2019 are \u2018safe and effective\u2019, a multitude of other issues are presented (the war in Ukraine, a range of gender and sexual identity issues, environmental threats, economic and financial challenges\u2026 each with a range of subsidiary issues) to further overwhelm and confuse us. This works very well with people who are already busy with work, families, financial obligations and other responsibilities, and draws our attention away from the fundamental threat: the Elite\u2019s \u2018Great Reset\u2019 and its component eugenicist, technocratic, transhumanist, political and economic programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Obviously, I am not suggesting that other issues \u2013 the risk of nuclear war, many environmental and human rights threats\u2026 \u2013 are not vitally important too. It\u2019s just that the current Elite program threatens to destroy our capacity to consider and engage in all other issues, such as those just nominated, if it is not defeated.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, with so many tools at its disposal, the Elite\u2019s political war against our minds is invisible to virtually everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you will not be surprised to read, these days, the political mind control industry is huge, embracing substantial sections of national economies.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, with virtually all human adults effectively terrorized out of the capacity for independent thinking and investigation at a young age, once an Elite narrative has been decided, the relevant propaganda is then prepared by its agents in the massive \u2018public relations\u2019 industry, worth $US107billion globally in 2023 \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018Public relations market size worldwide from 2022 to 2027\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 before being promulgated through its agents in international organizations, governments, the corporate media (and a relatively new and powerful weapon: corporate social media such as Facebook, Twitter [now X], Instagram, TikTok, YouTube\u2026), education systems and the entertainment industry, while its vast censorship network \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know. The citizen\u2019s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018Docs Offer Glimpse Inside Censorship Industrial Complex\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 is deployed to ensure that the truth, labeled variously by Elite agents as \u2018misinformation\u2019 (false information unintentionally created or shared), \u2018malinformation\u2019 (information based on fact but used out of context to mislead, harm or manipulate) and \u2018disinformation\u2019 (false information deliberately created to mislead, harm or manipulate) \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018We\u2019re in This Together. Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation Stops with You\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 is prevented from being widely exposed.<\/span><\/p>\n

As you might have immediately realized, such definitions vastly expand the capacity of Elite agents to censor narratives that compete with the one that is endorsed by the Elite \u2013 that is, to suppress free speech \u2013 which, of course, is how they have been used. For more on this, see <\/span>\u2018A Century of Censorship\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the latest UN report on this subject uses a classically Orwellian newspeak to justify censorship in order to maintain \u2018information integrity\u2019. For the unwary, the superficially benign wording used in the report might conceal its true intent but you can judge for yourself from its opening paragraph which calls for an<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018empirically backed consensus around facts, science and knowledge. To that end, the present brief outlines potential principles for a code of conduct that will help to guide Member States, the digital platforms and other stakeholders in their efforts to make the digital space more inclusive and safe for all,<\/span><\/p>\n

while vigorously defending the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to access information. The Code of Conduct for Information Integrity on Digital Platforms is being developed<\/span><\/p>\n

in the context of preparations for the Summit of the Future. My hope is that it will provide a gold<\/span><\/p>\n

standard for guiding action to strengthen information integrity.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 8: Information Integrity on Digital Platforms\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given the Elite\u2019s extensive history of using propaganda and censorship to control what people believe in order to manipulate their behaviour \u2013 while suppressing any forum that endeavours to share alternative perspectives, arguments and critiques \u2013 the problem with an \u2018empirically backed consensus around facts, science and knowledge\u2019 is that it simply means that Elite deceit, lies and manipulation would be shielded from scrutiny. Which is why this report is just another attempt to conceal Elite propaganda and censorship, in this case by labeling the Elite-endorsed narrative as the one with \u2018information integrity\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is why major international organizations such as the EU, WHO and UN are putting enormous effort into clamping down on those seeking to expose the truth behind Elite manipulation and manoeuvring.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Taylor Hudak explains in a recent article about censorship proposals in the European Union, concern has been expressed about \u2018loopholes that would allow the surveillance of journalists while paving the way for unprecedented interventions in the internal media market by the European Commission.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Centralizing Information Control! Inside the EU\u2019s Latest Proposal to Censor the Media\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But any straightforward interpretation of the draconian censorship measures being introduced by the European Union leads to the obvious and inevitable conclusion that free speech is being terminated in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Ben Bartee points out in an article summarizing three previous ones he has written: \u2018Nation-states under EU jurisdiction can no longer be rationally said to be \u201cfree,\u201d to the extent that they ever truly were to begin with. They are now part of a wholly integrated slave colony of the multinational technocracy, headed by the World Economic Forum and similar organizations outside of the reach of any democratic control.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Brutal EU Censorship Regime Takes Hold, \u201cFree Speech\u201d Advocate Elon Musk Folds, YouTube Adopts WHO \u201cMisinformation\u201d Policy\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not content with measures being taken by the UN and EU, the WHO has developed its own programs to censor us, carefully outlined in their document <\/span>\u2018Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As explained by Dr Michael Nevradakis the WHO \u2018claims \u201cmisinformation\u201d has resulted in an \u201cinfodemic\u201d that poses a threat \u2013 even in instances where the information is \u201caccurate.\u201d\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018WHO Initiative Would \u201cPromote Desired Behaviors\u201d by Surveilling Social Media\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, not to be left out, the US military is vitally concerned with what we are led to believe as well and US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) \u2018has contracted New York-based Accrete AI to deploy software that detects \u201creal time\u201d disinformation threats on social media. The company\u2019s Argus anomaly detection AI software analyzes social media data, accurately capturing \u201cemerging narratives\u201d and generating intelligence reports for military forces to speedily neutralize disinformation threats. Synthetic media, including AI-generated viral narratives, deep fakes [a digitally manipulated image to replace one person\u2019s likeness with that of another], and other harmful social media-based applications of AI, pose a serious threat to US national security and civil society,\u201d Accrete founder and CEO Prashant Bhuyan claimed. \u2018Social media is widely recognized as an unregulated environment where adversaries routinely exploit reasoning vulnerabilities and manipulate behavior through the intentional spread of disinformation.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

But Accrete will also launch a business version of its Argus software for disinformation detection later this year. \u2018The AI software will provide protection for \u201curgent customer pain points\u201d against AI-generated synthetic media, such as viral disinformation and deep fakes. Providing this protection requires AI that can automatically \u201clearn\u201d what is most important to an enterprise and predict the likely social media narratives that will emerge before they influence behavior.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018USSOCOM to Use AI to Detect Disinformation Threats on Social Media\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As \u2018Sundance\u2019 astutely observes however, the \u2018Argus detection protocol\u2019 is incredibly expensive so by using military funding to pay for the research under the auspices of \u2018national defense\u2019 but then allowing major corporations privileged access to the technology, the US government gains effective control of a technology to manipulate its own citizens while bypassing constitutional limits on such activity (in this case, the Posse Comitatus Act which limits the power of the US government to use federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States). See <\/span>\u2018US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from \u201cPain Points\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

To reiterate: the purpose of this AI technology is for \u2018military forces to speedily neutralize disinformation threats\u2019; that is, anything that contradicts the Elite-driven narrative. Free speech is vanishing before our eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the threats keep accumulating.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent publication on its iVerify initiative, the United Nations Development Program noted that \u2018Understanding online information pollution is an urgent global challenge. Misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech threaten peace and security, disproportionately affecting those who are already vulnerable.\u2019 Thus:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018iVerify is UNDP\u2019s automated fact-checking tool that can be used to identify false information and prevent and mitigate its spread.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018iVerify: Supporting actors around the world for the prevention and mitigation of disinformation, misinformation and hate speech\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as noted by one critic, the program\u2019s \u2018automated fact-checking service\u2019 will be funded and conducted by Elite agents in Big Tech. See <\/span>\u2018U.N. Unveils \u201cAutomated Fact-Checking Tool\u201d to Counter Disinformation with Big-Tech, Soros-Funded Orgs\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how reliable is fact-checking in defense of the truth?<\/span><\/p>\n

As it turns out, one recent study concludes that censorship now sometimes masquerades under the guise of \u2018fact checking\u2019. Originally an honorable attempt to confirm something as fact, it is now just a corrupt way of concealing censorship and eliminating truthful analysis from the discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her detailed report of her research into the fact checking industry, Dr Judith Brown identified about \u2018500 active fact check platforms\u2019 \u2013 noting that it is \u2018likely that the number of fact check platforms is far greater than those located\u2019 \u2013 with about half linked to media outlets. After explaining many aspects of the fact check industry, it is clear that it is big business. In her report she notes a long list of fact checking \u2018grants and donations\u2019 from such entities as the US National Endowment for Democracy, Ford Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society, Rockefeller Fund, the EU, American and European Embassies, large media corporations, Google, Meta, and various UN agencies. She concludes her report simply:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Fact checkers are the mechanism of censorship. They can only do this with immense sums of money that come from the rich and powerful to support their industry…. The fact check industry\u2019s access to wealth and power undermines democracy throughout the world.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Fact Checking the \u201cFact Checkers\u201d\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Ilana Rachel Daniel notes in a recent video presentation: \u2018The very definition of living in a free world means access to a full spectrum of information and choices where discussion and debate of those facts lead us to a life of self-determination.\u2019 But in her two-part presentation, which acknowledges the work of Antonio Pasquali \u2013 see <\/span>\u2018Society can be controlled through its means of communication\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> \u2013 she provides a fine overview of how mind manipulation is a polished art among those keen to control our behaviour and how their technologies (such as the television and smart phone) and tools (such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the Metaverse) play a vital role in this. See <\/span>\u2018Mind Manipulation – Who is in Control? Part 1\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018Mind Manipulation – Who is in Control? Part 2\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their analysis of censorship, John and Nisha Whitehead highlight the role of technology now too. \u2018By \u201ccensor,\u201d we\u2019re referring to concerted efforts by the government to muzzle, silence and altogether eradicate any speech that runs afoul of the government\u2019s own approved narrative.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, the Whiteheads label this phenomenon \u2018technocensorship\u2019: \u2018we are technically free to speak. In reality, however, we are now only as free to speak as a government official \u2013 or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube \u2013 may allow.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Technocensorship: The Government\u2019s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this depends, in part, on direction from government intelligence agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Larry Sanger, a cofounder of Wikipedia, noted in a recent interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald, the online \u2018encyclopedia\u2019 has \u2018become an instrument of \u201ccontrol\u201d in the hands of the\u2026 establishment, among which he counts the CIA, FBI, and other US intelligence agencies\u2019. Noting that this was being observed as early as 2008, Sanger reports that \u2018A great part of intelligence and information warfare is conducted online, on websites like Wikipedia.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, earlier this year, Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), released a trove of documents showing how the platform\u2019s former executives colluded with the FBI to remove content the agency wanted hidden\u2019 and \u2018assisted the US military\u2019s online influence campaigns\u2019 on behalf of multiple US intelligence agencies. And \u2018Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also admitted that Facebook, the biggest social media platform on Earth, censored accurate information that was damaging to President Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election campaign at the direct request of the FBI.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018Former Editor: CIA Moderating Wikipedia\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the number of hurdles to a mind free of control by outsiders just keeps expanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elite agents routinely employ \u2018trolls\u2019: People employed as part of \u2018online armies\u2019 to secretly promote particular perspectives on social media. This distorts people\u2019s sense of what is happening, and why, towards the Elite perspective promoted by the \u2018trolls\u2019. See, for example, <\/span>\u2018Inside Israel\u2019s million dollar troll army\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And to reiterate a point illustrated earlier, the political component of the Elite war on our minds is not solely the preserve of international organizations, intelligence agencies, military forces and Big Tech. It is being waged by other Elite agents as well, including national governments. For just two of the latest examples you can check out recent efforts by the Australian and Canadian governments but they are typical. See <\/span>\u2018<\/a>Online misinformation\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>\u2018BREAKING: The Australian Government colluded with big tech to suppress speech on Covid: The Censorship Industrial Complex Down Under\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span> and <\/span>\u2018<\/a>Canada\u2019s censorship bill explained: A chilling law that lets the government censor user-generated content\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span> as well as <\/span>\u2018Is this the End of Natural Health Information? Google, Meta Ban News in Canada\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, governments, including that in the United States, are resisting efforts to halt their censorship of perspectives at variance with the Elite-driven narrative. See, for example, <\/span>\u2018Biden Administration Pushes Back Against Request For an Injunction Against <\/a>G<\/a>overnment-Directed Censorship\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And even the courts, when they actually defend free speech, are resisted by governments with a range of tools. See <\/span>\u2018Deny, Deflect, Defend: The Censors\u2019 Strategy on Display\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A more blunt tool of censorship is the use of cyber attacks to close down independent news outlets, as happened to the highly reputable but unforgivably independent outlet \u2018SouthFront\u2019 on 18 August 2023, thus destroying the public record of a large body of thought on vital issues. See <\/span>\u2018Cyber Attacks against Independent Media, Censorship and Double Standards\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Fortunately, after much effort, the site was restored at a new Internet address: <\/span>\u2018<\/a>SouthFront\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A perfect illustration of how effectively promotion of an Elite-driven narrative, combined with massive hidden censorship (including \u2018fact checking\u2019), works occurred during the past three years when most people readily accepted that a nonexistent virus was killing off a substantial proportion of their fellows and they needed to take many experimental, toxic injections to remain healthy. See <\/span>\u2018We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite\u2019s \u201cGreat Reset\u201d: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively?\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Already victims of psychological mind control from childhood, and now under the barrage of Elite propaganda and the cover provided by massive censorship, relatively few people were capable of investigating the evidence for themselves: Had a unique pathogenic \u2018virus\u2019 been isolated (when none had been previously)? Were the measures taken \u2013 lockdowns, mask-wearing, PCR testing, mandatory injections \u2013 scientifically justified? What else was going on behind the scenes? Which should have led to discovery of the obscured but profound threat posed by the Elite\u2019s \u2018Great Reset\u2019 \u2013 with its related fourth industrial revolution, eugenicist and transhumanist programs \u2013 and consideration of what it all meant for themselves and those they love.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is simple: Elite control of most human minds is already so extensive that most people are disinclined to even countenance an alternative to the Elite-driven narrative. For an illustration of this, see <\/span>\u2018The Corona War. They\u2019re Coming After Our Thoughts\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if someone does decide to challenge or expose Elite dogma in a particular context, there is yet another hurdle they might be required to navigate. Elite agents (and those in their thrall) might seek to discredit the offending individual. One way of attempting this is by applying the label \u2018conspiracy theorist\u2019 to the person concerned. This tactic has been used extensively, and effectively, since the 1950s, scaring many people into renouncing the evidence and conscientious beliefs that shaped their original perspective while scaring many others into believing that the truth-teller was lying.<\/span><\/p>\n

As explained by academic philosopher David Coady, use of the term \u2018conspiracy theorist\u2019 serves \u2018a function similar to that served by the term \u201cheresy\u201d in medieval Europe. In both cases these are terms of propaganda, used to stigmatise and marginalise people who have beliefs that conflict with officially sanctioned or orthodox beliefs of the time and place in question.\u2019 See <\/span>\u2018In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer)\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In essence, navigating the psychological and political hurdles that stand in our way to knowing and acting on the truth is an enormous challenge. Unfortunately, these are not all.<\/span>\"\"<\/a>_______________________________________________<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Part 2 of this study<\/a> will consider the medical and technological methods used to control our minds and explain what is necessary to win this war.<\/span><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. is a member of the <\/span><\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span> and has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of <\/span><\/em>Why Violence?<\/span><\/a><\/span> Websites:<\/b><\/span><\/em> (<\/span><\/em>We Are Human, We Are Free<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>) <\/i><\/span>(<\/span><\/em>Charter<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>)\u00a0 (<\/span><\/em>Flame Tree Project<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>)\u00a0 (<\/span><\/em>Songs of Nonviolence<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>) (<\/span><\/em>Nonviolent Campaign Strategy<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>) (<\/span>Nonviolent Defense\/Liberation Strategy<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>) <\/span>(<\/span><\/em>Robert J. Burrowes<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/a>) (<\/span><\/em>Feelings First<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0Email: <\/span><\/em> flametree@riseup.net<\/a> <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.\u201d
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