Would our governments use mind-control techniques or behaviour modification techniques on their populations to manipulate and steer their thinking and actions? Marketers use known techniques of influence every day. What techniques could the govenment or media use and how does the (unsuspecting) individual, groupls or population react?
Behavioural Science – Mind Control
The Milgram Shock Experiment
Testing Obedience of the Individual to Authority Figures
In July 1961 Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, began an experiment to study obedience to authority figures. The aim was to see just how far participants (the “Teacher”) would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. – READ, WATCH, BACKUP, EXCERPT, Patrick Byrne – COMMENT
The experiment showed that two thirds of people can be talked into being fully compliant to an authority figure, even when it meant inflicting harm on another person, even though their conscience is telling them otherwise. The experimenter (the authority figure) would use “a series of four prods” to test obedience
The Asch Experiment
Demonstrating the Power of Conformity in Groups
The Asch conformity experiments were a series of studies published in the 1950s that demonstrated the power of conformity in groups. These are also known as the “Asch Paradigm”.
The Waiting Room Experiment – Social Conformity
Social conformity demonstration from National Geographic Brain Games with Jonah Berger (~2015) – WATCH, EXCERPT
Psychological Operations (Psyops)
Definition: psyops (From the US Department of Defense)
“Psyops are the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behaviors.”
The US Department of Defence (DOD), Counterinsurgency Operations Reports define “psyops” as the following:
“The mission of psychological Operations (psyops) is to influence the behavior of foreign target audiences to support US national objectives. A psyop accomplishes this by conveying selected information and advising on actions that influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences. Behavioral change is at the root of the psyop mission.”
Read that last sentence again. “Behavioral change is at the root of the psyop mission.”
At the heart of a psyops operations are behavioral tools or mind control techniques such as hypnosis, mass formation, censorship, security theatre, use of fear to drive anxiety and propaganda.
The Black Vault: Freedom of Information catalogue on Psychological Operations – HERE
- “Psychological Operations (PSYOP, PSYOPS) are techniques used by military and police forces to influence a target audience’s value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, and behavior.”
Nudging
What is Nudging?
“A nudge is any attempt at influencing people’s judgment, choice or behaviour in a predictable way that is motivated because of cognitive boundaries, biases, routines, and habits in individual and social decision-making posing barriers for people to perform rationally in their own self-declared interests, and which works by making use of those boundaries, biases, routines, and habits as integral parts of such attempts.” – REF
“Behavioural Science is a field of psychology used to change behaviour and views by influencing and nudging the unconscious mind. Teams are engaged by governments and institutions globally with the prime purpose of altering your decisions and behaviours.” – REF
- January 18, 2022 – HART group – Ethical concerns arising from the Government’s use of covert psychological ‘nudges’ – READ
- January 27, 2022 – PANDA: Breaking the Chains: A Guide to Nudging You – “Governments and organisations worldwide have used short media videos comprehensively to push messages of fear and compliance.” – Commentary – WATCH, READ
Mass Formation
February 3, 2022 – Stopping Totalitarianism and Mass Formation Psychosis with Mattias Desmet | MSOM Ep. 429 – WATCH
January 26, 2022 – Understanding Mass Formation with Mattias Desmet – WATCH, READ, OTHER
January 11, 2022 – REVEALED: AP source who ‘fact checked’ Mass Formation Psychosis theory encouraged ‘behavioural nudging’ people into Covid compliance, quoted Goebbels – READ
Dr Malone’s comment on above article:
So, the expert opinion that “fact-checked” the term Mass Formation is actually is an expert on the use of behavioural techniques and fear to ensure compliance within a population to support public health. So, denying that mass formation exists, while writing about it in the scientific literature. It doesn’t get more Orwellian, does it? REF
May 14, 2021 – UK Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods of the use of FEAR to control the population – READ
Propaganda
Documentary on Propaganda – WATCH
A Deep Dive into the Beginnings of the Fake News Propaganda Machine. Breaking down Edward Bernays and Woodrow Wilson laying the Foundation for all the brainwashing we have been subject to our entire lives.
July 9, 2015 – The Conversation: The manipulation of the American mind: Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations – Bernays pioneered public relations & rebranded “propaganda’ – READ, Ed Dowd – WATCH
1992 – Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media – ARCHIVE, EXCERPTS
1992 documentary based on the book titled Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and his ideas about corporate media
Limited Hangouts
A limited hangout is the deliberate revelation of some information (e.g. about malfeasance) to try to confuse and/or prevent discovery of other information. A modified limited hangout goes further, by slightly changing the information disclosed.- READ, CREDIT
“By presenting some true and useful information, a source may gain credibility, which can be put to use later, if a credible source is desired to disseminate disinformation….”
Links to articles on behavioural manipulation in reverse chronological order
2024
January 11, 2024 – The Highwire Ep 354: THE INDOCTRINATED BRAIN WITH DR. MICHAEL NEHLS – EXCERPT, FULL
2023
November 15, 2023 – Dr Simon Substack: Six ‘Cultural Viruses’ Sweeping Society – How to Fight Back! – READ
- The reason for this are the six viruses that are currently corroding our values and contaminating our lifestyle. These are:
- Men are being feminized.
- Women are being masculinized.
- Children are being sexualized at an alarming rate.
- Biological facts are declared misogynistic.
- Adults are being infantilized by design.
- And worst of all, everyone is being systematically dumbed down.
August 18, 2023 – Sasha Latypova Substack: Are you programmable? Mind Control-Part 1 – Understanding the technologies that target you is the first step in effective defense – READ
- “…if you are reading this – you have won so far. The predators could not defeat your mind, despite the absolute technological hell they lavishly funded and unleased on you. From this position, by seeking the truth and thinking independently, staying in control of your mind you can never be enslaved.”
April 6, 2023 – Courageous Discourse Substack | John Leake: “Confusion is the Message” – The defenselessness of the disoriented – READ
- “As Barron writes, the point of so much of what we now hear in the public forum is NOT to delineate or clarify anything, but to confuse everything. As he puts it, “confusion is the message.””
- “Disoriented people cannot defend themselves from malevolent tyrants who, through the constant broadcasting of AgitProp (Agitation Propaganda), recruit the alienated, resentful, directionless, and mentally disturbed to destabilize society.”
March 31, 2023 – The American Mind: The Mad Emperor of Ice Cream by Seth Barron – READ, recommended by John Leake – HERE
February 5, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: Covid and the Three Tests of Compliance – READ
- Tests of Compliance sold as “to end the pandemic” or to end the pandemic measures:
- Silence – Masks
- Isolation – Lockdowns
- Fear – Vaccine Mandates
- The past 3 years “seems like a crazy blur of edicts, propaganda, revelations, fear, confusion, division, and shock, so much so that it is hard to keep the history straight.” [This website hopefully helps keep things straight]
January 15, 2023 – Robert Malone Substack: 5th-Gen Warfare Terms and Tactics – “The deliberate manipulation of an observer’s context in order to achieve a desired outcome.” – READ [Learn their tricks]
- “The basic idea behind this term [fifth-generation warfare] is that in the modern era, wars are not fought by armies or guerrillas, but in the minds of common citizens.”
- January 2021 – BOOK: The Handbook of 5GW: A Fifth Generation of War? by Daniel Abbott – LINK
- March 31, 2022 – Grey Dynamics | Radio Research Group: An Introduction to Fifth Generation Warfare – READ
2022
December 2, 2022 – Daily Wire: Feds Pay Journalism Group $5M To Create Software To Turn People Into Anti-‘Misinformation’ Bots – READ, NSF Convergence Accelerator program – TIMELINE
- “The federal government has awarded $5 million to a group of journalists called Hacks/Hackers to develop software that will encourage regular Americans to confront their friends over “harmful” posts, and “correct misinformation” by replying with text suggested by the software.”
- The group led by Hacks/Hackers received $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop “the Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust (ARTT), a suite of expert-informed resources that are intended to provide guidance and encouragement to individuals and communities as they address contentious or difficult topics online,”
- Hacks & Hackers – “Where Journalism meets Technology” – began Jan 7, 2010 with a panel on “the future of personalized news” – ARCHIVE, 2020 “the media revolution rebooting journalism” – READ
- Wikipedia “reliable source list on vaccines”! Working with non-profit Knowledge Futures Group (KFG) to develop a “consensus around reliable sources” – ARTICLE – KFG – HERE (website first archived Feb 2020 – ARCHIVE, an MIT initiative – ABOUT)
November 30, 2022 – Disclose TV: Google showcases new “info interventions” informed by “behavioral science” to “build resilience to online harms.” …One approach is “pre-bunking misinformation” to “immunize” users. – GETTR, Google – READ
November 27, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Mother Hires Deprogrammer to Help Daughter ‘Unlearn’ Woke College Indoctrination – READ
November 21, 2022 – The Grayzone: The journalist-run, intelligence-linked operation that warped British pandemic policy – READ
- Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (iSAGE) – “Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods.”
- “[iSAGE] presented itself as a non-governmental organization composed of forward-thinking health experts, … iSAGE not only maintains an array of ties to the British security state, while relying largely on political, rather than scientific, considerations when crafting policy recommendations.”
September 6, 2022 – Fox News: Liberal goes viral by making friends at Trump rally – TikTok user ‘100New Friends’ Samuel Donner shares how he made friends at a Trump rally and sought common ground with people across the political aisle [He expected violence – media narrative?] – WATCH
September 2, 2022 – Spotify accused of “manipulating its main chart” to keep Meghan Markle, the California-based royal, at the top (Big Tech psyop) – ARTICLE
May 19, 2022 – Yahoo News: Biden’s counter-disinformation advisor resigns after a few weeks on the job – Nina Jankowicz, who was named as executive director of the DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board last month, resigns – READ, WATCH
May 18, 2022 – Yahoo News: Biden Administration Considers Shutting Down Disinformation Board amid Blistering Criticism: Report – READ, OTHER
April 18, 2022 – Igor Chudov Substack: Vaccine Skeptics are the True Critical Thinkers – We Overcame the Most Sophisticated Forms of Manipulation – READ
- The Asch Experiment, conducted by Solomon Asch in 1951, found out that most people, when seeing a “consensus” of participants agreeing on something that is fairly obviously false, actually ends up agreeing with those false opinions just because everyone else seems to think so. – WIKI
- Now apply this to the statement “All experts agree that the vaccine is safe and effective”!
- “Seeing a slowdown and a dip in confidence [Sept 2021], vaccinators realized that they need to do more than mere manipulation with fake “expert opinion”. [Government sanctioned] Vaccine mandates and hate propaganda supplanted “nudges” to drive vaccination forward.”
- “We literally lived through a worldwide Asch experiment. Every newspaper, TV station, every YouTube recommended video, kept telling us how the vaccine was “safe and effective” and how “all experts agree”.”
- “Enormous efforts were spent to silence “misinformation”. Why? Because Solomon Asch found out that any expression of disagreement — lack of consensus — immediately kills compliance“
March 31, 2022 – Grey Dynamics | Radio Research Group: An Introduction to Fifth Generation Warfare – READ
March 21, 2022 – Expose News: Here Are Some Names and Faces of The UK’s Nudge Unit – READ
- The Nudge Unit has offices in the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France and Singapore.
- Governments use subliminal methods to secretly manipulate the public
- Weaponising FEAR – BOOK, WATCH, regarding masks – WATCH
March 22, 2022 – The Naked Emporor Substack: Why Anger towards the Unvaccinated was Intentional Psychological Manipulation – A look at a study from 2020 – READ
February 2, 2022 – Matt Taibbi – The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking” – READ
January 7, 2022 – Danish media admit they regurgitated the government narrative WITHOUT QUESTION during the pandemic and they “have failed”! – REF, READ!
January 6, 2022 – Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure – Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic. REF
2021
December 12, 2021 – Neil Oliver: We Now Know Government Leaders And Media Fear-Mongers Were Never Really, Personally, Afraid Of Covid-19 [but they made sure the people were] – WATCH
December 9, 2021 – The Defender: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone – OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD – PART 1, PART 2
- “In 1948, the year after its founding, the CIA created a top-secret program — Operation Mockingbird — to wield influence over the American media. From its inception, this clandestine project was yet another of the CIA’s outlaw enterprises.”
- The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act had illegalized the use of CIA funding to broadcast propaganda to Americans. When a congressional investigation in the mid-1970s first revealed Operation Mockingbird’s existence…”
November 18, 2021 – 7 News Australia: How to deal with unvaccinated family members this Christmas – WATCH
September 15, 2021 – Documentary by Logical Faction: Population Control – Predictive Programming! – WATCH
September 6, 2021 – Natural News: American Medical Association releases stunning document teaching doctors to LIE to patients while deliberately exaggerating covid death claims… the AMA admits to its own complicity in crimes against humanity – READ, BACKUP, WATCH, see “COVID-19 Language Swaps”- DOCUMENT
May 28, 2021 – Brian Gerrish of UK Column speaks with the German Corona Investigative Committee in 2021 discussing that since 2010 the UK government has been employing “Applied Behavioural Psychology” techniques on their people. WATCH, TRANSCRIPT
May 14, 2021 – Telegraph: Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists – Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods – READ
- Members of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour (SPI-B) expressed regret about the tactics in a new book about the role of psychology in the Government’s Covid-19 response.
- SPI-B is one of the sub-committees that advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), led by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser.
May 3, 2021 – BOOK: The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times‘s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History by Ashley Rindsberg – BOOK, Relevance to FAUCI – LISTEN
April 2, 2021 – The Telegraph: State of fear: how ministers ‘used covert tactics’ to keep scared public at home – Government’s ‘psychological strategies’ to manipulate unwitting public’s behaviour may backfire and lead to long-term damage, experts claim – READ
February 24, 2021 – The Telegraph: The Government’s campaign to terrify people into compliance with Covid rules was shameless and cruel – READ
- “As we welcome the end of lockdown, dare we hope to see the banishment of its companion communication strategy, a deliberate strategy of terror that has been mercilessly executed by the Government and its scientific advisers in pursuit of maximum compliance with the restrictions? “
- As a consequence we now have children who are too frightened to go outdoors lest they kill their parents, adolescents isolated at home suffering from anxiety, eating disorders and self harm, parents battling with depression, desperation and suicidal thoughts, and many old people fading away from loneliness.
February 3, 2021 – Mirror: Inside the minds of Covid deniers breaking lockdown – and how to stop them – READ, “Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions” – CREDIT
- “EXCLUSIVE: The emergence of dangerous conspiracy theories in the midst of a global pandemic is unsurprising, psychologists tell the Mirror, as people feel ‘uncertain and powerless’ and seek out simple answers ‘rather than to try to deal with what is happening'” –
2020
November 30, 2020 – Amazing Polly: This is Too Important – Take off the masks – for your health and that of the community! (Links to experiments under video) – WATCH, BACKUP, more videos – HERE
Polly shows “group think”, social confirmity experiments that will make you stop and think…hopefully:
- The Asch Experiment: During the 1950s Solomon Asch conducted and published a series of experiments that demonstrated the degree to which an individual’s own opinions are influenced by those of a majority group. Pressured by people they deem as authority figures, or by the consensus of opinion around them – WATCH
- Social Conformity experiment – In a waiting room – all actors but one! – WATCH
- First Follower: Leadership [human behaviour] Lessons from Dancing Guy – WATCH
July 21, 2020 – Amazing Polly:Your Body is Their Weapon – We’re all Patients Now – WATCH, “The Body As A Torture Chamber” by by Sam Vaknin – ARCHIVE, WATCH
July 10, 2020 – The Stanford Prison Experiment Was One of the Most Disturbing Studies Ever – In 1971, professor Philip Zimbardo put together one of the most intriguing and famous psychology experiments ever: the Stanford Prison Experiment, designed to study the effects of incarceration on prisoners and guards – WATCH
July 2, 2020 – Amazing Polly: Is This Torture? Does the handling of the pandamic amount to torture?
Comparing our situation to the study of torture & coercion on Prisoners of War (breaking our will, interrogation techniques, mental torture, confusion technique, isolation, comparing lockdown to torture) – WATCH, Followup “The Body As A Torture Chamber” Chronic Illness Outpatients – WATCH
May 14, 2020 – UK Column: COVID Coercion: Boris Johnson’s Psychological Attack on the UK Public – READ
May 4, 2020 – Australian Times: Virus denialists and sceptics puzzle – and worry – Aussie academics – Are anti-vaxxers, climate-change sceptics, moon-landing denialists, civil libertarians and others undermining the fight against COVID-19? – READ
“It does seem to be the same kind of mindset that will deny vaccines work, that will embrace treatments that clearly don’t work for diseases, and that will deny that the earth is round and that the moon landing happened,”…“They are the kind of person who isn’t happy with [what] they are told by experts and prefer to go and seek their own narrative.”
Professor Ian Mackay of Uni Qld
This short article has managed to pack-in all these phrase:
- COVID-19 has killed
- coronavirus sceptics and denialists
- conservative fringe groups
- right-wing groups
- Climate-change sceptics
- moon-landing denialists
- anti-vaxxer
- anti-science
- conspiracy theorists
- multiple strains of QAnon
- anti-New World Order conspiracy groups
“Understanding the variations of the conspiracy is probably less important in the short term than simply getting on top of this trend before it spreads further and causes real damage.”
May 3, 2020 – UK Colunm: Behavioural Insights: The Second Team Leading the UK Government’s Covid-19 Response – READ
- Feb 2011- UK Columnexclusive report, “British Cabinet Office Collaborates With French Brainwashing Guru To Change The Way We Think, which warned that the public is to be reframed or ‘nudged’ into politically acceptable ‘social norms’ including healthy eating, voluntary work and tax-gathering. – READ
- During the current ‘pandemic’, the nudging of the public has gone into overdrive, fully facilitated by the mainstream press and media.
- Dr. David Halpern is co-author of the 96-page report MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy, published by the Cabinet Office and the Institute for Government, as a “Discussion document – not a statement of government policy” – 2009? REPORT
- ‘Nudging’ is described as ‘cues [that] act on people without their conscious knowledge: indeed, people actively resist the suggestion that their actions are being influenced.’
April 2, 2020 – UK Independent: Coronavirus: Inside the UK government’s influential behavioural ‘nudge unit’ – Former intelligence analyst specialised in China and cyber warfare has just joined key team – READ,
Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) = The Nudge Unit – WIKI
March 22, 2020 – UK Gov: Options for increasing adherence to social distancing measures, 22 March 2020 – READ, ARCHIVE
2012
September 20, 2012 – UK Gov: Government’s nudge unit goes global – The UK government ‘nudge unit’ is to sell its expertise worldwide after saving the UK taxpayer millions of pounds – READ
2011
February 14, 2011 – UK Colunm: British Cabinet Office Collaborates With French Brainwashing Guru To Change The Way We Think – READ
- Exposing insider dealing between the Cabinet office (government) and political behavioural training charity Common Purpose (private)
- David Cameron set up Cabinet Office Behavioural Insight Team – July 2010 – tasked to “dream up psychological tricks to alter our behaviour” – and on a massive scale.
- Now also Cameron “is colaborating with the French Government”government is collaborating behind closed doors with similar sinister units in the French Government, to develop further plans and techniques to change our natural behaviour.”
- Meet Rosie Donachie (or Rosalin) who is Senior Advisor with the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team, and also a Trustee of the Franco-British Council, and is involved with the Party of European Socialists, based in Brussels.
- Secret meeting held “on 17 November 2010, the Franco-British Council had hosted a meeting inside 10 Downing Street attended by a mix of the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team and their French counterparts” with Professor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Olivier Oullier (WEF)
2010
September 10, 2010 – The Guaridan: David Cameron’s ‘nudge unit’ aims to improve economic behaviour – “the unit could change the way citizens think” – READ
2010 – Founded: The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), also known unofficially as the “Nudge Unit“, is a UK-based global social purpose organisation that generates and applies behavioural insights to inform policy and improve public services, following nudge theory – WIKI, ARTICLE, Official WEBSITE, Nudge Theory – WIKI, old website – ARCHIVE, ALL
- “The Behavioural Insights Team is a unique company. We started life inside No.10 Downing Street as the world’s first government institution dedicated to the application of behavioural sciences.” – REF
- “We coined the term ‘behavioural insights’ in 2010 to help bring together ideas from a range of inter-related academic disciplines (behavioural economics, psychology, and social anthropology).” – REF
2009
2009? or 2010 – UK Cabinet Office and the Institute for Government: MINDSPACE: Influencing behaviour through public policy – a “Discussion document – not a statement of government policy” – REPORT (The report is not dated)
- The programme began with a behaviour change summit in May 2009
- Behavioural insights team – ARCHIVE
2004
2004 – The Black Vault: CIA MKULTRA FOIA – CIA drug research and mind control project – Following a 1990’s Freedom of Information request, some CIA MKULTRA documents are finally released, another batch was released in 2018 – READ, MORE
- “The Black Vault filed a FOIA request for all documents pertaining to MKULTRA and related projects back in the late 1990s. Despite the reports that MKULTRA documents were destroyed in 1973, the CIA did locate some files…” but it wasn’t until 2004 before they released these on CD ROM.
- 1975 Memo Documenting the Destruction of CIA Drug Research Programs like MKULTRA – READ
How the narrative is controlled
Mask & Distancing madness
