US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" | |
Pollyannuh (OP) User ID: 46877 United States 01/29/2006 10:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" Hey, folks, by the feds own words, we really ARE being manipulated.... <<snip: "Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. "Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads. "Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on." |
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AC V1.0 User ID: 500 United States 01/29/2006 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" POor, POor POlly, the serial thread killer... I've noticed that you & your-separated-at-birth "twin" BMG's posts are sure not attracting the replies & the reads like they used to....Could it be because that you're both so far left that you're NEVER right???? Just for my "buddy".... :dubya: "Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." --Elbert Hubbard, American writer and publisher |
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BUSH MUST GO User ID: 67500 United States 01/29/2006 11:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" It's reminiscent of the old folk warning that a frog placed in water slowly brought to a boil will make no effort to escape. True or not, there's a serious point to the message. Perhaps Milton Mayer explained it much better in another manner... "What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap between the government and the people. And it became always wider.....the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think....for people who did not want to think anyway gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about.....and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated.....by the machinations of the 'national enemies,' without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us..... "Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures'.....must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing.....Each act is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. "You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone.....you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. "That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. "You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father.....could never have imagined." Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1938-45 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955) 'Link, Copy, Paste, & Disseminate!' |
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Pollyannuh (OP) User ID: 46877 United States 01/29/2006 11:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" D.T., it ain't good, and it's getting worse by the day. It's almost like I have to stop and say, where were we 5 years ago?? THIS is where we are NOW?? Geeze. BMG's got the right article posted on this thread. Thanks, BMG. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 60195 United States 01/29/2006 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" you cannot have a free society and a government together.... while one group is out dancing and smelling the flowers the other is building fences and lusting for power... try focusing on a whole new world and some different ideas rather than screaming to fix this house of cards teetering on a cracked foundation.... for pete's sake let it go and move on.... fate is not without a sense of irony nor justice.... expand your horizons some and forget politics....it's a deadend [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] |
an nonymous User ID: 67721 United States 01/30/2006 01:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" Such a difference in the 'net today and five years ago, particularly pre-911. Information highway has had the speed limit reduced considerably even without the new Pentagon Plans. We may have to return to raising carrier pidgeons. |
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Emperor Kenton User ID: 68018 United States 01/30/2006 10:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" Aw the hell with the Net. Let's get psychic. The Net has been ESP training ground anyways. Look at all the friends we have that we've never met face to face and yet we have them fully visualized in mind and imagination. Time for step two. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 43368 United States 01/30/2006 10:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" Propaganda The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. like himmler used it they will use it and they do follow certain people alot-and question or interview-they know this board and they follow up on things as well they will not be happy until they get totally into your head Brave New World meets 1984 psychic is the wave to ride shielding is imperative and coding even then filters of all kinds are helpful as are dummy shields-they do send 'readers' out when they question you-there will be 3 of them(1 is a reader) and they interrogate heads up |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25432105 United States 08/27/2014 09:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: US plans to 'fight the net' revealed in declassified docs - called "Information Operations Roadmap" EVERY pluckin', dirty, rotten, no-good trick in the book is being perped, and don't think for one minute that the release of this document isn't for a reason, too! Quoting: Pollyannuh THEY want you to know that THEY know that YOU know THEY'RE pulling this bushchit!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... [link to news.bbc.co.uk] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. Bloggers beware. As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader. The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare. The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance. Propaganda The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. All these are engaged in information operations. Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. "Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads. "Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on. The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write. But they don't seem to explain how. "In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad," says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive. Credibility problem Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness. When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications. And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon. But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear. Story from BBC NEWS: [link to news.bbc.co.uk] Does Ferguson come to mind?????? |