The 'Disinformation' Psyop Revealed: How The US & UK Governments Conspired To Hack Our Cultural Narratives AND Our Actual Brains Using Military Grade Weapons Of Mass Distraction
Two critically important Substack articles have been published in the last 24 hours which complement each other perfectly:
I’m just going to quote from them both, and the quotes themselves should be self-explanatory as to what has been happening since 2016, when Brexit and the Trump election victory shook the establishment to its core and the establishment resolved to do something about it. First Public:
A whistleblower has come forward with an explosive new trove of documents, rivalling or exceeding the Twitter Files and Facebook Files in scale and importance. They describe the activities of an “anti-disinformation” group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League, or CTIL, that officially began as the volunteer project of data scientists and defense and intelligence veterans but whose tactics over time appear to have been absorbed into multiple official projects, including those of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The CTI League documents offer the missing link answers to key questions not addressed in the Twitter Files and Facebook Files. Combined, they offer a comprehensive picture of the birth of the “anti-disinformation” sector, or what we have called the Censorship Industrial Complex.
The whistleblower's documents describe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships with civil society organizations and commercial media, and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques.
CTIL’s approach to “disinformation” went far beyond censorship. The documents show that the group engaged in offensive operations to influence public opinion, discussing ways to promote “counter-messaging,” co-opt hashtags, dilute disfavored messaging, create sock puppet accounts, and infiltrate private invite-only groups.
Just how far beyond bog standard censorship is revealed later in the article:
The documents also show that Terp and her colleagues, through a group called MisinfoSec Working Group, which included DiResta, created a censorship, influence, and anti-disinformation strategy called Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques (AMITT). They wrote AMITT by adapting a cybersecurity framework developed by MITRE, a major defense and intelligence contractor that has an annual budget of $1 to $2 billion in government funding.
Terp later used AMITT to develop the DISARM framework, which the World Health Organization then employed in “countering anti-vaccination campaigns across Europe.”
A key component of Terp’s work through CTIL, MisinfoSec, and AMITT was to insert the concept of “cognitive security” into the fields of cybersecurity and information security.
The timeline of CISA’s work with CTIL leading up to its work with EIP and VP strongly suggests that the model for public-private censorship operations may have originated from a framework originally created by military contractors. What’s more, the techniques and materials outlined by CTIL closely resemble materials later created by CISA’s Countering Foreign Intelligence Task Force and Mis-, Dis-, and Maliformation team.
And yet a clear goal of CTIL’s leaders was to build support for censorship among national security and cybersecurity institutions. Toward that end, they sought to promote the idea of “cognitive security” as a rationale for government involvement in censorship activities. “Cognitive security is the thing you want to have,” said Terp on a 2019 podcast. “You want to protect that cognitive layer. It basically, it’s about pollution. Misinformation, disinformation, is a form of pollution across the Internet.”
Terp and Pablo Breuer, another CTIL leader, like Zaidenberg, had backgrounds in the military and were former military contractors. Both have worked for SOFWERX, “a collaborative project of the U.S. Special Forces Command and Doolittle Institute.” The latter transfers Air Force technology, through the Air Force Resource Lab, to the private sector.
In every incident mentioned, the victims of misinformation were on the political Left, and they included Barack Obama, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and Emmanuel Macron. The report was open about the fact that its motivation for counter-misinformation were the twin political earthquakes of 2016: Brexit and the election of Trump.
Now here’s the really important part, which we need to process in order to understand what they actually did to us all, especially during the Covid years:
The Misinfosec report focused on information that “changes beliefs” through “narratives,” and recommended a way to counter misinformation by attacking specific links in a “kill chain” or influence chain from the misinfo “incident” before it becomes a full-blown narrative.
The authors called for placing censorship efforts inside of “cybersecurity” even while acknowledging that “misinformation security” is utterly different from cybersecurity. They wrote that the third pillar of “The information environment” after physical and cybersecurity should be “The Cognitive Dimension.”
The report flagged the need for a kind of pre-bunking to “preemptively inoculate a vulnerable population against messaging.” The report also pointed to the opportunity to use the DHS-funded Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) as the homes for orchestrating public-private censorship, and argued that these ISACs should be used to promote confidence in government.
Terp’s view of “disinformation” was overtly political. “Most misinformation is actually true,” noted Terp in the 2019 podcast, “but set in the wrong context.” Terp is an eloquent explainer of the strategy of using “anti-disinformation” efforts to conduct influence operations. “You're not trying to get people to believe lies most of the time. Most of the time, you're trying to change their belief sets. And in fact, really, uh, deeper than that, you're trying to change, to shift their internal narratives… the set of stories that are your baseline for your culture. So that might be the baseline for your culture as an American.”
You see what they did? Sorry to use foul language, but these dirty fuckers literally crawled inside our heads and hacked into our brains and they rewired our cultural narratives too whilst they were poking around inside. That makes me mad, really mad. They literally waged war upon us, by gnawing their way into our brains, using our own tax dollar funded militaries and Communist behavioural scientists in government employ in order to do so. The Mail on Sunday only recently revealed just how influential the British Army 77th brigade were in influencing public opinion and shutting down and discrediting lockdown dissenters and anti-vaxxers online. Screw those bastards. They are traitors to the people, each and every one of them. I don’t care if they think they were working for a noble cause; their methods were both repugnant and entirely immoral and if they could not see that, then they are not worth spit in sawdust.
Now onto Naomi Wolf’s Substack:
Modern general audiences also understand that governments use “messaging”—and often, heavy-handed propaganda—to lead us to take actions that can be against our interests or our better conscious judgments; to create prejudices and divisions that may not otherwise exist; to heighten fears and to trigger a sense of vulnerability in us, so that we can be better manipulated and guided to goals that are not our own.
But Dr. Michael Nehls’s thesis in this book is revolutionary because it brings together all of these fields of inquiry and proposes a set of questions so radical that they make the mysteries of the past three years fall into place. This is the indispensable book. In The Indoctrinated Brain, Dr. Nehls brings these areas of study together in a way that has never been done before. By applying neuroscience to the otherwise bizarre events of the recent past, he explains what has happened to humanity.
Dr. Nehls’s hypothesis can explain it. “The Indoctrinated Brain introduces a largely unknown, powerful neurobiological mechanism whose externally induced dysfunction underlies these catastrophic developments,” as the publisher notes.
Dr. Nehls argues that the spike protein, along with other COVID measures, represents an intentional attack on the human hippocampus—where autobiographical memory and individuality itself originate—and that “fear porn” keeps us from holding on to the autobiographical memories that encompass our former selves. As a result, humans have become deindividualized, more suggestible, more forgetful, more compliant, and less able to engage in critical thinking and creative reasoning. This argument utterly accords with what many of us are seeing, to our horror, every day. Dr. Nehls’s The Indoctrinated Brain is an indispensable book because it applies neuroscience to politics and especially to the politics of fascism. The need for that has existed for as long as modern fascism has existed.
Neuroscience should be applied to politics and to social change, but it is rare indeed when those fields of analysis meet. By bringing these fields of knowledge together and mapping neurological science against propaganda, and vice versa, Dr. Nehls brings vast new insights to the reader that would not have been attainable previously.
After you read The Indoctrinated Brain, you will think: Of course. Of course, the propaganda of the past few years must have been predicated upon intensive study of the brain and its reactions. Of course, the hundreds of millions of dollars that were recently spent and are currently being spent by the US and other governments on behavioral science and behavior modification would result in insights that would be applied by the US and other governments to making populations more tractable, less able to reason, less creative and more compliant. Why else would they so heavily have invested in such studies? Of course, the constant messaging, especially about fear, over the past three years, would have an effect that is not just about public health or perhaps not at all about public health—but that it is rather about making humans in free societies more tractable—with public health as the excuse, the proxy, for this deployment of life-altering and consciousness-altering fear. It is not the fear porn about the specific scary thing that matters, Dr. Nehls persuasively argues here: the fear itself is deliverable. The fear itself changes and indeed damages the brain.
Dr Nehls argues that the biophysical architecture of the brain itself has been modified on a population wide scale by the military-grade psychosocial interventions of government sponsored and military trained behaviourists and by the physical actions of the ‘vaccine’-source spike protein which we now know is able to penetrate the blood-brain barrier. I cannot comment on the relative contributions of these two brain-altering mechanisms, nor hazard a guess as to their permanence or transience in the current population, but it seems fairly obvious that at least some people are still critically damaged by this assault upon humanity, and indeed they may never recover.
The current crisis in Gaza and the international response to it may be indicative of the ongoing harms inflicted upon us by our supposed ‘benevolent’ leaders:
As I write, another global crisis is being spun up, this one in the Middle East. Within a day, highly educated and formerly skeptical loved ones of mine are repeating glaring legacy media talking points without any self-consciousness. It’s upsetting not to know why they would change in this way—and it is even more upsetting, though incredibly enlightening, to read Dr. Nehls’s argument and realize what the cause may be of their submissiveness to propaganda narratives. It makes it both easier and harder to contend with loved ones, friends, and colleagues who have been intellectually blunted in this way, to understand Dr. Nehls’s point of view and realize that this sad change in cognition might be simply physical—the spike protein—and neuropsychiatric: the repetition of fear messages and their impact on the brain.
The fear-messaging around the mythical ‘climate crisis’ is ongoing and the propaganda ahead of COP28 reminds us intimately of the Covid propaganda, though it appears to be having less of an effect upon the populace as did ‘novel deadly virus fear’. Bad weather just doesn’t float that many boats, however hard they try to push it. You can lead a rewired brain to water, but you cannot force it to drink.
Thanks again for an insightful article. I found it odd, that, most of what is discussed seems so familiar. Then, I realized that I had the opportunity to interact with several, more mature, visiting scholars from China. I noted back then that they were quite different from other Chinese colleagues and friends that was outside of China. Their cultural attitudes were replaced by a strange set of Mao dictated behavioral patterns. I have observed that, in general, the Chinese have maintained many of their cultural practices and identity in many parts of the world, even as many of them have successfully become a part of the new cultures they have been embedded in. So, this stark difference, was a surprise. I then did a little research into Mao's China and found a systematic infusion of fear (public humiliations) and ill conceived plans that were usually couched in their great leaps forward. The people were reduced to a caricature in one generation despite the millennia of cultural heritage they have. I am glad to see the differences seem much less evident in the current generation. I have hope that this type of mind control has its limits. I hope I will get to read this book, it is not on my must read list as of yet. I am such a slow reader.
it's strange how some people are largely immune to the psyops and can see through the scams, mostly natural sceptics but not all - I know a few climate sceptics who were taken in by the Covid scan.
For no particular reason I'm reminded of The Day of the Triffids when only the lucky few who had their eyes covered weren't blinded by the lights in the sky.