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RichM:
Just picking up on what Ms Knight Jadczyk mentioned her most recent blog piece.  Take the "International Information Programs" page of the US State Dept:

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/misinformation.html

Here we see pages devoted to rebutting "Recent Misinformation", "Conspiracy Theories", even "Urban Legends" are addressed.

Now are we to assume that these people are using a reverse psychology in promoting books while appearing to trash them?  Surely the best method is surely to "turn off the oxygen of publicity"?  Merely entering into an argument suggests that there is a debate to be had.  Is the USG really feeling that threatened by books it is so sure are fantasies?

Oh, and it does appear that COINTELPRO is alive, well and spying on book launches.

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Feb/02-767147.html

"Perkins revealed his fondness for conspiracy theories during a January 10 presentation at a bookstore in Washington.  At one point, he claimed, falsely, that the U.S. government had been involved in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., former Beatle John Lennon, and several unnamed U.S. senators who had died in plane crashes."

I love the authoritarian fed-style prose "Perkins[clearly a traitor]revealed his fondness for conspiracy theories...".  Ah that makes me chuckle.  So they actually bother to send someone along to the launch of book they know is a fiction.  Hmmm.

But this page is actually misinformation.  The feds state that: "Perkins is apparently not aware that the National Security Agency is a cryptological (codemaking and codebreaking) organization, not an economic organization.".

This overlooks one very well-know factoid about modern intelligence-gathering.  For many years now, there has been a strong focus on obtaining corporate intelligence.  To suggest that the US NSA has no part in that activity is ludicrous.  Keep in mind that the NSA consumes a vast proportion of the USA's intelligence budget.

Anyway, i've gone off on a bit of tangent there.  Am I attributing too much intelligence to these people?

For you info/amusement:

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jul/27-595713.html

How to Identify Misinformation

How can a journalist or a news consumer tell if a story is true or false?  There are no exact rules, but the following clues can help indicate if a story or allegation is true.

Does the story fit the pattern of a conspiracy theory?
Does the story fit the pattern of an “urban legend?”
Does the story contain a shocking revelation about a highly controversial issue?
Is the source trustworthy?
What does further research tell you?

Guest:

--- Quote from: RichM ---Now are we to assume that these people are using a reverse psychology in promoting books while appearing to trash them?  Surely the best method is surely to "turn off the oxygen of publicity"?  Merely entering into an argument suggests that there is a debate to be had.  Is the USG really feeling that threatened by books it is so sure are fantasies?
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Turning off the oxygen of publicity would work IMO if the uncontrollable information firestorm called the Internet did not exist. Since the Internet (which the PTB naively had thought would give them an information monopoly) that method has become the last thing they want to do. Leave the information blaze raging unchecked and it will consume you. Develop controlled fires to use up available oxygen is a viable strategy to the PTB now.

In pre-internet times books were discussed, critiqued and/or recommended person to person (with the exception of "official" critics). Now we have chat forums and blogs where one reader can spread the word along exponentially amplified parallel lines of communication. "Spread the word" has taken on a whole new meaning. Because of the Internet, if it was not true before, it is true now: one idea can change the world.

The PTB has created a monster with the Internet, and you can be sure that they are expending a lot of resources to shut it down or at least control it (the latter is more profitable to them). This is apparently not easy, or it would have been already accomplished. The only other thing they can do is damage control. The fact that they they are expending A LOT of resources on COINTELPRO is an indication that they, as of yet, have no viable method for shutting the Internet down in the near future.

These people are not just afraid of ideas spreading in the abstract or because they are superstitious. They plug in social variables into their computers and get quantified projections. It is those quantified projectitons, based on THEIR versions of social and information theory, that frighten them. And they apparently do not want people to know how frightened they are so they turn fear back on the populace wherever and whenever they can.

Laura:
Yes indeedy.  As Robin Ramsay wrote and I quoted in my Blog:


--- Quote ---[After 1996 was when] the Internet began to take hold of our intellectual lives and conspiracy theories transferred from TV and magazines onto the Net, where - ever since - they appear to have been something of a worry to our masters in Washington.

The existence of the Internet means that it is no longer as easy to control public perception as it was during the good old days of the Cold War, when mass media were fewer and more manageable, newspaper and TV editors could be recruited or bought by the authorities and stories planted with ease in the press.

Recently, the US State Department has begun trying to rebut some of the current conspiracy theories about America. Their first targets were a couple of websites - www.rense.com and Conspiracy Planet - and the late Joe Vialls, an Australian. What a boost for the named sites! Attacked by the State Department![...]

[Y]ou don't have to be a PR genius to see that what you simply mustn't do is launch official attacks: all they do is amplify and legitimise the theories by announcing that they are deemed to be worth attacking. [Fortean Times 206, February 2006, p. 19]
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My own comments in that blog post are as follows:


--- Quote ---As we have noted several times, the COINTELPRO attacks on us began early in 2001 and consisted of ad hominem attacks rather than dealing with the issues at hand. It was that experience that taught us so much about COINTELPRO. The fact always remains that when people can't find fault with an argument, they will, instead, attack the person by substituting false or irrelevant assertions about the person's character, life, or whatever. Such argumentation is designed to appeal to emotions or prejudices, and people who are ruled by their emotions and prejudices are easy prey. This is part of the "special knowledge" of the psychopath that Lobaczewski refers to above.

Even though, as I noted in an earlier post here, Carol Morello of the Washington Post asserted that our Pentagon Strike video was single-handedly responsible for re-awakening the public interest in the "No-Boeing at the Pentagon" theory first put forward by Thierry Meyssan, never, EVER, have we been frontally attacked by any government agency. Nor will we be. As Ramsay notes above: "[Y]ou don't have to be a PR genius to see that what you simply mustn't do is launch official attacks: all they do is amplify and legitimise the theories by announcing that they are deemed to be worth attacking."

So certainly, we would expect real COINTELPRO operations to be attacked "officially" in order to legitimize them, but those who have figured out the real answers will not be martyred. It's way too dangerous. Keep in mind that we aren't dealing with stupid people here; they have "motivation masters" working 24/7 to manipulate the public. One of their ideas was the now well-known COINTELPRO "Third Party Attack Protocol." This includes setting up bogus groups and operations - sometimes at HUGE expense - in order to not only be a "Tar Baby" but also, when needed, to launch attacks against bona fide groups and or individuals with no one ever suspecting that it is a State Supported attack. The usual method is, of course, ad hominem attacks, spreading lies and rumors, sending letters and emails purporting to be from the attacked group or individual which seem to confirm the lies and rumors, or otherwise painting the attacked individual in a bad light.
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We notice in this latest attack from abovetopsecret.com in conjunction with Wayne Jaeschke of MoFo, it was never intended that we should have a copy of the letter.  Based on what our server people did and did NOT say, it seems that among the threats made against them if they did not make sure we removed the letter (published on my blog) from Jaeschke, he would go after them for violating the confidentiality notice at the bottom of the letter.  So it's pretty clear that this was supposed to be a stealth attack with no "official sanction."  Because, as Ramsay notes above, "official attacks" do nothing but promote the attacked party.  We are certain that this is why rense.com is listed as a "misinformation" site.  

In any event, all of these "multiple voices" seems to fall under Protocol 12 of the Protocols of the Pathocrats, as we have renamed it, though when that was written, the internet was never dreamed of, so that certainly adds certain complications:

   
--- Quote ---PROTOCOL No. 12 Control of the Press

    1. The word "freedom," which can be interpreted in various ways, is defined by us as follows -

    2. Freedom is the right to do that which the law allows. This interpretation of the word will at the proper time be of service to us, because all freedom will thus be in our hands, since the laws will abolish or create only that which is desirable for us according to the aforesaid program.

    3. We shall deal with the press in the following way: what is the part played by the press to-day? It serves to excite and inflame those passions which are needed for our purpose or else it serves selfish ends of parties. It is often vapid, unjust, mendacious, and the majority of the public have not the slightest idea what ends the press really serves. We shall saddle and bridle it with a tight curb: we shall do the same also with all productions of the printing press, for where would be the sense of getting rid of the attacks of the press if we remain targets for pamphlets and books? The produce of publicity, which nowadays is a source of heavy expense owing to the necessity of censoring it, will be turned by us into a very lucrative source of income to our State: we shall lay on it a special stamp tax and require deposits of caution-money before permitting the establishment of any organ of the press or of printing offices; these will then have to guarantee our government against any kind of attack on the part of the press.

    For any attempt to attack us, if such still be possible, we shall inflict fines without mercy. Such measures as stamp tax, deposit of caution-money and fines secured by these deposits, will bring in a huge income to the government. It is true that party organs might not spare money for the sake of publicity, but these we shall shut up at the second attack upon us. No one shall with impunity lay a finger on the aureole of our government infallibility. The pretext for stopping any publication will be the alleged plea that it is agitating the public mind without occasion or justification. I BEG YOU TO NOTE THAT AMONG THOSE MAKING ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO BE ORGANS ESTABLISHED BY US, BUT THEY WILL ATTACK EXCLUSIVELY POINTS THAT WE HAVE PRE-DETERMINED TO ALTER. WE CONTROL THE PRESS

    4. NOT A SINGLE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL REACH THE PUBLIC WITHOUT OUR CONTROL. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them.

    5. If already now we have contrived to possess ourselves of the minds of the GOY communities to such an extent the they all come near looking upon the events of the world through the colored glasses of those spectacles we are setting astride their noses; if already now there is not a single State where there exist for us any barriers to admittance into what GOY stupidity calls State secrets: what will our positions be then, when we shall be acknowledged supreme lords of the world in the person of our king of all the world ....

    6. Let us turn again to the FUTURE OF THE PRINTING PRESS. Every one desirous of being a publisher, librarian, or printer, will be obliged to provide himself with the diploma instituted therefore, which, in case of any fault, will be immediately impounded. With such measures THE INSTRUMENT OF THOUGHT WILL BECOME AN EDUCATIVE MEANS ON THE HANDS OF OUR GOVERNMENT, WHICH WILL NO LONGER ALLOW THE MASS OF THE NATION TO BE LED ASTRAY IN BY-WAYS AND FANTASIES ABOUT THE BLESSINGS OF PROGRESS. Is there any one of us who does not know that these phantom blessings are the direct roads to foolish imaginings which give birth to anarchical relations of men among themselves and towards authority, because progress, or rather the idea of progress, has introduced the conception of every kind of emancipation, but has failed to establish its limits .... All the so-called liberals are anarchists, if not in fact, at any rate in thought. Every one of them in hunting after phantoms of freedom, and falling exclusively into license, that is, into the anarchy of protest for the sake of protest....

    7. We turn to the periodical press. We shall impose on it, as on all printed matter, stamp taxes per sheet and deposits of caution-money, and books of less than 30 sheets will pay double. We shall reckon them as pamphlets in order, on the one hand, to reduce the number of magazines, which are the worst form of printed poison, and, on the other, in order that this measure may force writers into such lengthy productions that they will be little read, especially as they will be costly. At the same time what we shall publish ourselves to influence mental development in the direction laid down for our profit will be cheap and will be read voraciously. The tax will bring vapid literary ambitions within bounds and the liability to penalties will make literary men dependent upon us. And if there should be any found who are desirous of writing against us, they will not find any person eager to print their productions. Before accepting any production for publication in print, the publisher or printer will have to apply to the authorities for permission to do so. Thus we shall know beforehand of all tricks preparing against us and shall nullify them by getting ahead with explanations on the subject treated of.

    8. Literature and journalism are two of the most important educative forces, and therefore our government will become proprietor of the majority of the journals. This will neutralize the injurious influence of the privately-owned press and will put us in possession of a tremendous influence upon the public mind .... If we give permits for ten journals, we shall ourselves found thirty, and so on in the same proportion. This, however, must in no wise be suspected by the public. For which reason all journals published by us will be of the most opposite, in appearance, tendencies and opinions, thereby creating confidence in us and bringing over to us quite unsuspicious opponents, who will thus fall into our trap and be rendered harmless.

    9. In the front rank will stand organs of an official character. They will always stand guard over our interests, and therefore their influence will be comparatively insignificant.

    10. In the second rank will be the semi-official organs, whose part it will be to attack the tepid and indifferent.

    11. In the third rank we shall set up our own, to all appearance, opposition, which, in at least one of its organs, will present what looks like the very antipodes to us. Our real opponents at heart will accept this simulated opposition as their own and will show us their cards.

    12. All our newspapers will be of all possible complexions -- aristocratic, republican, revolutionary, even anarchical - for so long, of course, as the constitution exists .... Like the Indian idol "Vishnu" they will have a hundred hands, and every one of them will have a finger on any one of the public opinions as required. When a pulse quickens these hands will lead opinion in the direction of our aims, for an excited patient loses all power of judgment and easily yields to suggestion. Those fools who will think they are repeating the opinion of a newspaper of their own camp will be repeating our opinion or any opinion that seems desirable for us. In the vain belief that they are following the organ of their party they will, in fact, follow the flag which we hang out for them.

    13. In order to direct our newspaper militia in this sense we must take special and minute care in organizing this matter. Under the title of central department of the press we shall institute literary gatherings at which our agents will without attracting attention issue the orders and watchwords of the day. By discussing and controverting, but always superficially, without touching the essence of the matter, our organs will carry on a sham fight fusillade with the official newspapers solely for the purpose of giving occasion for us to express ourselves more fully than could well be done from the outset in official announcements, whenever, of course, that is to our advantage.

    14. THESE ATTACKS UPON US WILL ALSO SERVE ANOTHER PURPOSE, NAMELY, THAT OUR SUBJECTS WILL BE CONVINCED TO THE EXISTENCE OF FULL FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND SO GIVE OUR AGENTS AN OCCASION TO AFFIRM THAT ALL ORGANS WHICH OPPOSE US ARE EMPTY BABBLERS, since they are incapable of finding any substantial objections to our orders. ONLY LIES WILL BE PRINTED

    15. Methods of organization like these, imperceptible to the public eye but absolutely sure, are the best calculated to succeed in bringing the attention and the confidence of the public to the side of our government. Thanks to such methods we shall be in a position as from time to time may be required, to excite or to tranquillize the public mind on political questions, to persuade or to confuse, printing now truth, now lies, facts or their contradictions, according as they may be well or ill received, always very cautiously feeling our ground before stepping upon it ....

    WE SHALL HAVE A SURE TRIUMPH OVER OUR OPPONENTS SINCE THEY WILL NOT HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSITION ORGANS OF THE PRESS IN WHICH THEY CAN GIVE FULL AND FINAL EXPRESSION TO THEIR VIEWS owing to the aforesaid methods of dealing with the press. We shall not even need to refute them except very superficially.

    16. Trial shots like these, fired by us in the third rank of our press, in case of need, will be energetically refuted by us in our semi-official organs.

    17. Even nowadays, already, to take only the French press, there are forms which reveal masonic solidarity in acting on the watchword: all organs of the press are bound together by professional secrecy; like the augurs of old, not one of their numbers will give away the secret of his sources of information unless it be resolved to make announcement of them. Not one journalist will venture to betray this secret, for not one of them is ever admitted to practice literature unless his whole past has some disgraceful sore or other .... These sores would be immediately revealed. So long as they remain the secret of a few the prestige of the journalist attacks the majority of the country - the mob follow after him with enthusiasm.

    18. Our calculations are especially extended to the provinces. It is indispensable for us to inflame there those hopes and impulses with which we could at any moment fall upon the capital, and we shall represent to the capitals that these expressions are the independent hopes and impulses of the provinces. Naturally, the source of them will be always one and the same - ours.

    WHAT WE NEED IS THAT, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE ARE IN THE PLENITUDE POWER, THE CAPITALS SHOULD FIND THEMSELVES STIFLED BY THE PROVINCIAL OPINION OF THE NATIONS, I.E., OF A MAJORITY ARRANGED BY OUR AGENTUR. What we need is that at the psychological moment the capitals should not be in a position to discuss an accomplished fact for the simple reason, if for no other, that it has been accepted by the public opinion of a majority in the provinces.

    19. WHEN WE ARE IN THE PERIOD OF THE NEW REGIME TRANSITIONAL TO THAT OF OUR ASSUMPTION OF FULL SOVEREIGNTY WE MUST NOT ADMIT ANY REVELATION BY THE PRESS OF ANY FORM OF PUBLIC DISHONESTY; IT IS NECESSARY THAT THE NEW REGIME SHOULD BE THOUGHT TO HAVE SO PERFECTLY CONTENDED EVERYBODY THAT EVEN CRIMINALITY HAS DISAPPEARED ... Cases of the manifestation of criminality should remain known only to their victims and to chance witnesses - no more.
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We just wonder what will come next?  An "official" attack, or a stepped up Third Party Flame Throwing attack?  My bet is on the latter.  

Funny that we found links to the Bush gang behind the scenes of Godlikeproductions AND abovetopsecret.com.  I've always suspected David Icke of being cointelpro - even gov funded - and his recent inclusion in the abovetopsecret.com "family" tends to confirm this.

What seems to be a developing benchmark as to whether or not a site is gov funded/cointelpro is whether or not they link to Signs of the Times.  

Naturally, we don't expect everyone to link to Cassiopaea because it's just too big a leap for the average person.  While many people can handle government conspiracy, the social cointelpro that has been run on hyperdimensional realities is too long running and too well entrenched.  But certainly, it is our perception of hyperdimensional manipulations that enables us to "read" the current reality as we do even if we endeavor to present it in strictly 3 dimensional terms.  

Lobaczewski's Ponerology research is the 3 dimensional explication of hyperdimensional manipulations and can be grokked by anyone.  So, I guess we can use that as a benchmark also: those sites that do not recognize this work as the key to what is happening on the planet today are still just blowing smoke and snowing their readers.

Guest:
IMO the path the PTB walks here regarding COINTELPRO is not a guaranteed path even in their eyes. It is very true that the Internet very much complicates the Pathocratic plans as expressed in the above Protocol article. I truly wonder if the authors of the Protocols would have even endorsed putting something as volatile as the Internet into action.

Methinks their descendants had grown overconfident, and are in a bit of a quandary as to how to clean up their mess. The miscalculation of MoFo where you got their letter to your server is a case in point. It was clearly a mistake and these people are infamous for not making mistakes. Apparently that is another myth they set up about themselves.

So this is an interesting and critical nexus of events IMO because like it or not the conspiracy meme is now quite accepted compared to what it was fifteen years ago. And while the PTB believes they are satiating the public with their COINTELPRO they may actually be acclimating people to thinking along cospiracy lines. People's minds adapt to environmental conditions, and when you end up bombarding minds with confusion some go numb, but others adapt to a more complex level of thinking.

Both strategies of mental adaptation are geared to minimize the dissonance caused by the imposed confusion. In other words some will cope by shutting down, and others by thinking harder. The PTB could not have forseen this because they took the association between information and power for granted.

In other words, the assume they have the power and with that assumed that they would never lose control of the information. Psychopaths are notorius for going into denial when power starts slipping from their grasp, and often that tendency leads to their downfall. Perhaps before Cssiopaea was too big a leap for the average person, but I am beginning to suspect that one of the results of relentless COINTELPRO is a collective adaptation (at least for those who can adapt) where it is NOT such a big leap.

The unique feature of Cass is Ponerology, which IS something any intelligent person can grok. Adaptation can simply lift the blinders of imposed confusion so they can take the step to be WILLING to accept it objectively. From there they will be well on the path of clear thought and will represent a kind of "audience" the PTB has not counted on evolving through the Internet medium: one that can call their bluffs.

What does not kill you makes you stronger, and the Internet is very similar to a complex ecosystem, with COINTELPRO acting as a force of natural selection of the mentally strongest. I am beginning to suspect (regarding the abovetopsecret debacle) that what to the PTB should have been a routine operation is beginning to spiral out of control in their eyes, and may draw more attention from higher up.

To these people the absolutely WORST thing that can happen is that Cassiopaea will set an example for others to follow, because if that happens they will have far more than they can deal counter with the tactics they are using. It is not farfetched that they are trying to find ways to take their infowars to the next level, whatever that may be.

RichM:

--- Quote from: EsoQuest ---To these people the absolutely WORST thing that can happen is that Cassiopaea will set an example for others to follow, because if that happens they will have far more than they can deal counter with the tactics they are using. It is not farfetched that they are trying to find ways to take their infowars to the next level, whatever that may be.
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That point is well made - didn't Chomsky write about "the threat of the good example"? (admittedly in the context of emerging states trying to throw off the shackles of US corporate dependency).

Certainly I agree that the internet has become something of a Frankenstein's monster, up off the lab table and walking around, smashing up all it's inventor's precious things.  I'll bet some of the more avaricious PTB folk rue the day they encouraged the public use of the internet.  Can't put that one back in the bag.

Not martyring the legitimate outside info sites would also seem correct.  No control freak type wants a well-publicised and oft-recalled internet version of Joan of Arc.  No, best to undermine such thorns via "dirty tricks".  I suppose the other strategy is to simply deluge the internet with as much inconsequential BS as possible.

ATS seems to me to be a dual use site.  It is there to make money but by morphing into a one-stop conspiracy shop.  Buy up or run all the competition out of town - this site is surely seen as a rival and a rival that is offering a lot of info free of charge.  That altruism on your part guts their profit motive.

And destroying or disabling the rivals is surely easily done if you've got USG slipping you a few greenbacks.  Once the competition is running scared, then I would imagine it should be relatively straightforward to focus/distract to whichever conspiracy is PTB flavour of the month.

(I have a strong feeling that the "Did we go to the moon?" speculations are an establishment fake conspiracy, one that has been fairly easy to expose as nonsense but nonetheless popular.  A sort of attempt to hope the disbelief will extend to other genuine conspiracies.  Why is the moon conspiracy the only one that seems to get a frequent late night TV airing?).

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