Information Warfare: Facebook is a tool of the mind control program and military interface of controling the decisions

There is a program of mass mind control to maintain population working 24 hours giving information and use the psyops and fake news to manipulate informative websites to wrong informations and also, control people's decisions into personal lives, poltical ideologies and social behavior.

Facebook works well at this program, having an interface that promotes integration of people and friends of people around, making a virtual society of unity, everyone knowing and controling everyone's opinions, and giving the capability of everyones having opinion on everything, including personal actions and decisions, personal ideologies.

Facebook also is a part of it, integrating other virtual networking and having information insert in every plataform. Wit the control of social networking, the programmers can have the personal informations, as accounts, bank accounts, passwords and everything, as the navigator and the plataforms are all connected themselves.

There is another part of this mind control program. The INCOM, a division of U.S. Army for Inteligence and Security COMmand works on softwares to receive posts on internet, having the capability of detect the hashtags and other key words, like 'terrorism' for exemple.

The social networking is implementing a step to the PSYOPs operations, and the plataforms use it together inteligence and military personal, oficialy promoted by governments to understand the social behaviors, and the and the operational instrument is the 'how many likes' people will receive when do something, to understand how they will be accepted or not, and to manipulate their opinios, givind a direction to what they must do to have popularity.

The instruments also goes to the capability to translate any language content (message text, voice, images, etc.) from the social media environment into English, and also, understand the cultural specific phrases of colloquial  spelling variations, social media brevity codes, and emojis.

New tools were insert to promote an understanding on people's feelings with emojis, ancient emoticons, using the smileys to show people how they feel at the moment. This tool make people all the time express the inner feeling, from sadness to happyness, passing through anger, suicidal emotions, starve, sexual pleasure and others.

This use is capable to understand for exemple by the posts, and together the historic of the navigator, personal desires, like favourite porns, even understand what kind of sexual life the user want to have or, even have, when we go to the Ashley Madison program.

The implementation of an Information Warfare promotes a social division and dystopia, that divides more and more the society, weakening the unities and promote a populist government, that embraces each minority individual, and with this, the basic business consultancy tactic that is to 'create a problem to sell the solution'. This tactic is well used by governments in every step, to promote social inequality, raise the particularities and use it as a question to embrace these particularities as a friend government, not a political program. 

The new programs of government are based in social cases and cultural exploitation and not economic, the educational system became corrupted by political ideologies and not the basic education of math and languages (for exemple). The political elections are based with social causes like legalization of drugs, religious or not religious representatives, if the candidate is or not black, ando not the technical abilities of the candidate, if he is capable or not to promove an economic wellfare, or he is or not is able to promote a secure society.

This is a part inserted in social media, to collect information and direct the way of thinking of the users and with the mind control program of 'likes' they can make people more unproductive in general life (work, family, training, studying), having the ncessity of always being 'giving information' on internet, posting pictures at Instagram, and giving opinions at Facebook.

In general they will justify that this trace of information is to promote national security, to track terrorism and prevent attacks, but all attacks that must happen, have happened, and the security state never anticipated any one, or at least the majority, sounding lie that this information stealing is for help. The police state is there to promote a control of people, understand and also anticipating attacks, for sure there are maps for tracking of pedophiles, drug dealers, users, terrorists agents, like lone wolves, but the police state don't anticipate any of them, they map them just as they track your money by having the informations of bank accounts accessed virtually.

To be honest, government are not interested on clash on criminal activities. Criminal activities help the crowd controling and in some cases, as Venezuela, orhter countries, including USA, they can use criminal activities as local militias as mercenaries, to achieve goals of government's will, like security borders, help on persecution, use to destroy military the opposition and the implementation of 'Eraser' tactics, etc. And in case of sexual crimes, possible export sexual activities, explore the sexual market, etc. 

Weapon control and sexual activities move the economy of a nation, and government by the shadows explore these activities.

Very well explained the movie "The Circle", shows how these big networking corporations act, stealing informatin and protecting the accounts of the businessman, the financers and the involved with the decision governemnt programs.

The idea is also, have a networking with public cams, use the facial reconigtion, have the digital reconigtion on the phones make the companies to copy the digital of the users and use the front camera all the time as a spy cam (webcams in case of notebooks). Also, the strorage clould for save archives online in a 'virtual hard disk' is not so secure, as the backbones are connected to a central brain computer that has the full storage capability to archive everything, having all data saved in a place that someone interested have access to the files.

Also, the program counts on facial reconigtion, and the 10 years challange, to promote a capability of manipulate the face for the next years, creating an artifial intelligence, capable to anticipate any actions in the future.

With these technologies working, the idea is to criminalize even to think different, not to anticipate criminal actions, but to protect the government of the opositions. It's like to promote oposition just justifying a democracy, because the result is already decided in the shadow agenda.

The use of military intelligence in PSYOPs and to determine which nation will be targeted, by the assumption of chemichal weapons, dictatorships, or terrorist activities, just focusing in how to promote geopolitical projection by military actions and implementing an environmental usurpation by big companies.

Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

So that's all OK then

By John Oates 18 Apr 2019 at 12:31

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/18/facebook_hoovered_up_15m_address_books_without_permission/

Facebook has admitted to harvesting email contacts from 1.5 million people without permission.

Since May 2016, Facebook collected all email contacts when some new users signed up to the antisocial network.

An anonymous security researcher, who sports the handle e-sushi on Twitter, first noticed that the company was asking some new users to enter their email passwords to verify their identities, a deeply anti-security request even on its own. Business Insider then spotted that if you did this a dialogue box popped up warning you – with no chance to cancel, pause or opt out – that it was importing all your contacts.

The company has now admitted that the emails were collected, analysed, used for ad targeting and to push its add-a-friend feature.

Facebook said that before May 2016 it had offered an option to voluntarily upload all contacts while using your email password for verification. It then changed the text informing users of what was happening but neglected to remove the functionality which sucked up the contacts.

The company said it didn't read the contents of the emails and that the actual contacts were "inadvertently uploaded".

Business Insider pointed out that the total number of people affected likely runs into tens or even hundreds of millions because each address book could contain hundreds of email addresses.

Facebook said: "Last month we stopped offering email password verification as an option for people verifying their account when signing up for Facebook for the first time. When we looked into the steps people were going through to verify their accounts we found that in some cases people's email contacts were also unintentionally uploaded to Facebook when they created their account."

The company said "up to 1.5 million people's email contacts may have been uploaded".

It is notifying users and deleting the illegally collected details.

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office referred queries to Ireland's Data protection office – The Reg is still are waiting for a response. We also asked Facebook if the contacts were stored securely or in plain text, but have not heard back

The UK's data protection watchdog last year chucked Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, universities and political parties into the dog house as it condemned a "disturbing disregard" for personal privacy across the system.

This is just the latest in a string of screw-ups by the company. Last month it emerged that top management knew about Cambridge Analytica's shenanigans at least four months before the story hit the news. Facebook previously claimed, and testified in court, that it was completely unaware until alerted by the media.

The ad giant made revenues of over $55.8bn in 2018, up 37 per cent from $40.6bn in 2017. It had 1.52 billion daily active users, up 9 per cent on the year before. ®

Bots, Hashtags and Fake Social Media: How Facebook Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Divide and Conquer America

https://www.globalresearch.ca/bots-hashtags-and-fake-social-media-how-facebook-psychological-operations-psyops-divide-and-conquer-america/5637860

“Analytica’s personality model has allowed it to create a personality profile for every adult in the U.S. – 220 million of them, each with up to 5,000 data points.”

Much of this is done through Facebook dark posts, which are only visible to those being targeted…. Bots, or fake social media profiles, have become its foot soldiers – an army of political robots used to control conversations on social media and silence and intimidate journalists and others who might undermine their messaging….

This post features excerpts from my new report which can be read here.

In a Bloomberg interview, Analytica’s CEO Alexander Nix explained:

“Your behavior is driven by your personality and actually the more you can understand about people’s personality as psychological drivers, the more you can actually start to really tap in to why and how they make their decisions. We call this behavioral microtargeting and this is really our secret sauce, if you like. This is what we’re bringing to America.”

By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion….

It was a piece of a much bigger and darker puzzle – a Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine being used to manipulate our opinions and behavior to advance specific political agendas.

This new wave has brought the world something exponentially more insidious – personalized, adaptive, and ultimately addictive propaganda. Silicon Valley spent the last ten years building platforms whose natural end state is digital addiction….

“This is a propaganda machine. It’s targeting people individually to recruit them…. It’s a level of social engineering that I’ve never seen before. They’re capturing people and then keeping them on an emotional leash and never letting them go,” said professor Jonathan Albright.

Led by Dr. Philip Howard, the team’s Principal Investigator, Woolley and his colleagues have been tracking the use of bots in political organizing since 2010. That’s when Howard, buried deep in research about the role Twitter played in the Arab Spring, first noticed thousands of bots co-opting hashtags used by protesters.…

The world these informants revealed is an international network of governments, consultancies (often with owners or top management just one degree away from official government actors), and individuals who build and maintain massive networks of bots to amplify the messages of political actors, spread messages counter to those of their opponents, and silence those whose views or ideas might threaten those same political actors.

They also frequently respond automatically to Twitter users who use certain keywords or hashtags — often with pre-written slurs, insults or threats….

They assume fake identities with distinct personalities and their responses to other users online are specific, intended to change their opinions or those of their followers by attacking their viewpoints….

Never has such a radical, international political movement had the precision and power of this kind of propaganda technology…. Elections in 2018 and 2020 won’t be a contest of ideas, but a battle of automated behavior change…

[Imagine an election campaign with] 250 million algorithmic versions of their political message all updating in real-time, personalized to precisely fit the worldview and attack the insecurities of their targets…

Instead of having to deal with misleading politicians, we may soon witness a cambrian explosion of pathologically-lying political and corporate bots that constantly improve at manipulating us.

While Facebook and Twitter get most of the attention, Google, YouTube and fake websites also play pivotal roles:

“Albright started looking into the ‘fake news problem’. As a part of his research, Albright scraped 306 fake news sites to determine how exactly they were all connected to each other and the mainstream news ecosystem. What he found was unprecedented — a network of 23,000 pages and 1.3 million hyperlinks….

They have been able to game Search Engine Optimization, increasing the visibility of fake and biased news anytime someone Googles…. ‘This network,’ Albright wrote in a post exploring his findings, ‘is triggered on-demand to spread false, hyper-biased, and politically-loaded information.’…

‘I scraped the trackers on these sites and I was absolutely dumbfounded. Every time someone likes one of these posts on Facebook or visits one of these websites, the scripts are then following you around the web. And this enables data-mining and influencing companies like Cambridge Analytica to precisely target individuals, to follow them around the web, and to send them highly personalised political messages.’…

The web of fake and biased news that Albright uncovered created a propaganda wave that Cambridge Analytica could ride and then amplify. The more fake news that users engage with, the more addictive Analytica’s personality engagement algorithms can become….

Albright’s most-recent research focuses on an artificial intelligence that automatically creates YouTube videos about news and current events…. It spooled out nearly 80,000 videos… in just a few days….

Instead of battling press conferences and opinion articles, public opinion about companies and politicians may turn into multi-billion dollar battles between competing algorithms, each deployed to sway public sentiment.

Stock trading algorithms already exist that analyze millions of Tweets and online posts in real-time and make trades in a matter of milliseconds based on changes in public sentiment. Algorithmic trading and ‘algorithmic public opinion’ are already connected. It’s likely they will continue to converge….”

With behavioral microtargeting, politicians now know exactly what to communicate to each individual to win their allegiance. Our last two presidential elections are proof of that.

In 2012, with the support of Facebook employees the Obama campaign sucked up all Facebook data on every American citizen who has ever used their platform. Once they knew all of our “likes” and who our “friends” were, the “whole social graph,” it was like taking candy from a baby. They were able to manipulate us on an unprecedented level; knowing exactly what to say to each individual and even going as far as to tell people what friends they should share specifically tailored messages with.

Then, in 2016, the Trump campaign hired SCL’s infamous Cambridge Analytica, of which Trump’s Chief Campaign Strategist Steve Bannon was a Vice President and founding board member.

Like the Obama campaign in the previous presidential election cycle, Cambridge Analytica also leveraged Facebook data. CEO Alexander Nix summed up their work for the Trump campaign by saying:

“We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy.”

For more detailed information on how they handled the Trump campaign, here is a Channel 4 News report:

“Mr. Turnbull described how the company could create proxy organisations to discreetly feed negative material about opposition candidates on to the Internet and social media.

He said:

‘Sometimes you can use proxy organisations who are already there. You feed them. They are civil society organisations. Charities or activist groups, and we use them – feed them the material and they do the work…. We just put information into the bloodstream of the internet and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again over time to watch it take shape. And so this stuff infiltrates the online community and expands, but with no branding – so it’s unattributable, untrackable.’

Cambridge Analytica’s senior executives were also filmed discussing a twin-track strategy to campaigning, putting out positive messages through the official Donald J Trump for President campaign, while negative material was pushed out through outside organisations.

Cambridge Analytica’s chief data scientist Dr Tayler said:

‘As part of it, sometimes you have to separate it from the political campaign itself. So in America you know there are independent expenditure groups running behind the campaign… Super PACs. Political Action Committees.

So, campaigns are normally subject to limits about how much money they can raise. Whereas outside groups can raise an unlimited amount. So the campaign will use their finite resources for things like persuasion and mobilisation and then they leave the ‘air war’ they call it, like the negative attack ads to other affiliated groups.’

In a different meeting, Mr Turnbull described how the company created the ‘Defeat Crooked Hilary’ brand of attack ads, that were funded by the Make America Number 1 super-PAC and watched more than 30 million times during the campaign.

Coordination between an official election campaign and any outside groups is illegal under US election law.”

As Nix (image on the right) also said:

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“Many of our clients don’t want to be seen to be working with a foreign company… so often we set up, if we are working then we can set up fake IDs and websites, we can be students doing research projects attached to a university, we can be tourists, there’s so many options we can look at. I have lots of experience in this.”

When questioned by the undercover reporter about his meeting with Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill regarding their investigation into presidential election interference, Mr. Nix scoffed at it and dismissively said:

“They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works.”

He went on to say,

“They don’t understand because the candidate never is involved. He’s told what to do by the campaign team.”

The undercover reporter then asked,

“So the candidate is the puppet?”

“Always, in every election, or nearly,” replied Mr. Nix, before breaking into a chuckle.

When you analyze political demographics, you find that liberals tend to hope for the best, while conservatives tend to fear the worst. With Obama we had an amazing public speaker who knew all the right things to say to evoke liberal hopes. With Trump, we have a Reality TV host who knows all the right things to say to stoke conservative fears.

Is Mr. Nix right? Are politicians PSYOP puppets of covert Intel interests who are actually running the show?

4) Full Spectrum Dominance, Psychological Operations (PSYOPS)

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War

In addition to using surveillance and illegal activities to create “behavioral change” in targeted individuals and populations worldwide, SCL specializes in psychological operations (PSYOPS).

As SCL’s Mark Turnbull describes it:

“The two fundamental human drivers are hopes and fears, and many of those are unspoken and unconscious. You didn’t know that was a fear until you saw something that just evoked that reaction from you. And our job is to drop the bucket further down the well than anybody else, to understand what are those really deep-seated, underlying fears, concerns.

It is no good fighting an election campaign on the facts, because actually it is all about emotion.”

Keep in mind what SCL’s Alexander Nix said,

“these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true, as long as they’re believed.”

Turnbull continued:

“We just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then, watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again… like a remote control.”

For insight into how that “remote control” manipulates the minds of the masses, let’s read how SCL describes their “behavioral change” programs:

“SCL Group provides data, analytics and strategy to governments and military organizations worldwide.

We have taken on the challenge of big data in the intelligence community. We augment IC data with our own ongoing proprietary quantitative research and our behavioral data sets.

Our industry-leading data scientists use this data to build predictive models using machine learning, so that analysts are able to focus their time and tools on the right data subsets.”

In a section on “Psychographic Market Segmentation” SCL says:

“The barrage of media and communication noise becomes impossible for the audience to process, psychographic segmentation is proving most effective.

SCL uses advanced psychological models to segment audience data into usable target sub markets. This dramatically increases the effectiveness for each segment.”

SCL is by no means the only Global Private Military company engaged in these psychological operations. Palantir, SAIC, AggregateIQ, DataTrust and i360 Themis are all significant players. After all, Big Data is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar industry. It is a dream come true for advertisers and Intel PSYOPs experts. It’s a boom market, and U.S. Intel agencies, such as the NSA and CIA are leading the charge.

They are using everything that we do on our computers, mobile phones, televisions and credit cards — every purchase, change of the channel, online search, website-visited, comment, like, friend, follower, private message, email, text, phone call — every digital thought-print is recorded and fed into Big Data analytics and algorithms to create your “personality profile,” so they can predict, manipulate and increasingly control your behavior.

This is a major front in what the Pentagon calls “Full Spectrum Dominance Psychological Operations.”

The 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is now null and void. Privacy laws have become absurdly corrupt.

In a significant way, our computers and mobile devices are an externalization and extension of our minds. Our cell phones are deeply infiltrated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithmic bots and PSYOPS agents.

Make no mistake, they can “drop the bucket further down the well” of your consciousness then you realize, and may know your “hopes and fears” better than you do.

If you think that is an exaggeration, or some futuristic dystopian conspiracy theory, consider Artificial Intelligence created by Dr. Michal Kosinski, who specializes in Psychometrics, Big Data and Social Psychology.

Dr. Kosinski reveals, “with a mere ten ‘likes’ as input his model could appraise a person’s character better than an average coworker. With seventy, it could ‘know’ a subject better than a friend; with 150 likes, better than their parents. With 300 likes, Kosinski’s machine could predict a subject’s behavior better than their partner. With even more likes it could exceed what a person thinks they know about themselves.”

Now ask yourself: How many social media posts have you “liked”?

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This article was originally posted on the David DeGraw’s Facebook. David DeGraw is a frequent contributor to Global Research

The Internet, Psychological Warfare, and Mass Conspiracy

Controlling minds and manipulating behavior through social media

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201803/the-internet-psychological-warfare-and-mass-conspiracy

"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work…when you go to church…when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth... That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more."

— Morpheus, The Matrix (1999)

 It’s official. On March 18, 2018, I became a conspiracy theorist.

Many conspiracy theorists claim to have started as skeptics searching for the truth, only to stumble upon some hidden seed that crystallizes and spreads within a moment, resulting in a sudden broader awakening in which the world is seen in a new and often ominous light. I would seem I fit that mold — since embarking as the author of Psych Unseen four years ago, I’ve spent each post trying to debunk false beliefs, fake news, truth denialism, Alex Jones and Infowars, flat earthers, and even “breatharians” by explaining the psychological forces that allow them to thrive and highlighting the role of the internet in the rampant spread of misinformation within filter bubbles and echo chambers.

So, what was my moment of satori? It started, predictably enough, on Twitter. A tweet from my psychiatrist colleague, fellow Psychology Today blogger, and occasional co-author Dr. Allen Frances, linked an article that he described as “the scariest story I’ve ever read.” The piece, authored by Carole Cadwalladr and appearing in the March 18 edition of The Guardian, was called “The Cambridge Analytica Files – ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower.” In it, Cadwalladr shines the spotlight on Christopher Wylie, a young man pursuing a behavioral economics PhD who was hired as a research director for a “behavioral research and strategic communication” firm called SCL Group to apply his knowledge of fashion forecasting to political elections. Apparently disregarding non-disclosure agreements out of a guilty conscience, Wylie provided Cadwalledr with ample quotations and source material that connects the dots of a conspiracy that links SCL Group to an offshoot shell company called Cambridge Analytica funded by Republican donor Robert Mercer, to another company called Global Science Research (GSR) owned by St. Petersburg University psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan (aka “Dr. Spectre”), to Cambridge Analytica board member/investor and later Trump presidential campaign manager Steve Bannon, to Russia and Vladimir Putin.

The lines of connection are outlined in the article, as well as another co-authored by Cardwalladr in the New York Times, but the short version is that Kogan, replicating the work of Cambridge University psychologists Michal Kosinki and David Stillwell, developed an app called “thisismydigitallife” that collected “psychographic” data on the personality traits of users while gaining access to their Facebook profiles and those of their friends under the guise of academic inquiry. Kogan’s GSR then partnered with Cambridge Analytica to mine the profiles of some 30-50 million Facebook users without their permission and, under the direction of Mercer and Bannon, directed Wylie to develop ways in which their personal data could be used to promote and shape the political campaigns of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. The issue of a “data breach” from Facebook and the use of personal information without informed consent aside, the partnership of GSR (with Kogan’s ties to Russia) and Cambridge Analytica (staffed mostly by Canadians and Europeans) is now under scrutiny for possibly violating US laws that limit the involvement of foreign nationals in American elections. According to The Guardian article, Cambridge Analytica also made a business pitch in 2014 to a Russian oil company with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin that had nothing to do with anything related to petroleum, but instead focused on “election disrupting techniques” involving the use of misinformation to influence voters based on their online psychographic profiles. It is suggested that Cambridge Analytica thereby handed a loaded gun to Russia, if not through any formal business arrangement, giving it the means to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election.

It’s still not yet clear whether there’s cause to invoke conspiracy or collusion within the Trump campaign — that part of the story will no doubt continue to unfold as the FBI investigation under the direction of Robert Mueller trudges on and as Wylie, Kogan, and Cambridge Analytica become household names. But even if that piece of the puzzle does materialize into something beyond a liberal echo-chamber fantasy, it could be considered trivial within the larger context of something else destined to become a household word — “information warfare.”

If information warfare has a chief conspiracy theorist with a mainstream voice, it might be NYU philosophy professor Tamsin Shaw who is quoted at the end of Cardwalladr’s article. In a recent New York Times book review, Shaw defines modern information warfare as “the exploitation of information technology for the purposes of propaganda, disinformation, and psychological operations.” Writing in another New York Times book review that highlighted Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data a year ago, Shaw explained:

“The findings of social psychology and behavioral economics are being employed to determine the news we read, the products we buy, the cultural and intellectual spheres we inhabit, and the human networks, online and in real life, of which we are a part. Aspects of human societies that were formerly guided by habit and tradition, or spontaneity and whim, are now increasingly the intended or unintended consequences of decisions made on the basis of scientific theories of the human mind and human well-being.

The behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason; they do not seek to persuade us consciously with information and argument. Rather, these techniques change behavior by appealing to our nonrational motivations, our emotional triggers and unconscious biases. If psychologists could possess a systematic understanding of these nonrational motivations they would have the power to influence the smallest aspects of our lives and the largest aspects of our societies.”

In connecting her own conspiratorial dots, Shaw traces the origins of modern informational warfare back to Daniel Kahneman, who shared a 2002 Nobel Prize for his pivotal work in the field of behavioral economics. She suggests that at the heart of his theory of binary systems of thought described in Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman’s lasting practical contribution to economics was to reveal how psychological “nudges” can guide human decision making and therefore be harnessed to influence choice. Shaw seems to have a dark view of psychology’s potential for evil, highlighting the role of psychologists in developing torture/interrogation techniques in the wake of 9/11 and indicting the moral authority of psychology as a field along with the specific contributions of noteworthy psychology luminaries like Steven Pinker, Jonathan Haidt, and Joshua Greene.

Beyond psychology at large, Shaw takes “the Big Five” tech companies Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google to task for exploiting the psychology of choice in her recent review of Alexander Klimsburg’s The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace:

“Only in recent months, with the news of the Russian hacks and trolls, have Americans begun to wonder whether the platforms they previously assumed to have facilitated free inquiry and communication are being used to manipulate them. The fact that Google, Facebook, and Twitter were successfully hijacked by Russian trolls and bots (fake accounts disguised as genuine users) to distribute disinformation intended to affect the US presidential election has finally raised questions in the public mind about whether these companies might compromise national security.

…the Internet has exacerbated the risks of information warfare. Algorithms employed by a few large companies determine the results of our web searches, the posts and news stories that are featured in our social media feeds, and the advertisements to which we are exposed with a frequency greater than in any previous form of media. When disinformation or misleading information is fed into this machinery, it may have vast intended and unintended effects.”

For Shaw, the most concerning “intended effect” of weaponizing psychology has been to transplant it from its initial military applications into corporate and political sectors. Indeed, it's hardly conspiratorial to note that “psychological operations” (aka PSYOP) have been a tool of the US military and the CIA since the 1950s, applied in the name of winning over “hearts and minds” during military conflicts as well as in steering foreign elections in favor of democratic regimes and US interests. Nor can it be disputed that wrangling the wedded power of psychological influences on behavior and social media by US presidential campaigns began before Bannon and Trump. After recruiting a Social and Behavioral Sciences Team (SBST) to advise and direct his campaign efforts, it was President Obama that came to be dubbed “the first social media President.” A 2012 article’s title appearing in The Atlantic — “Meet the Psychologists Who Convinced You to Vote for Obama” — speaks for itself. A subsequent 2017 article in The Atlantic suggests that President Obama was “too good” at social media, which “blinded him to technology’s dangers” and all but set the stage for the Trump campaign. Already, there are claims that little beyond personal bias allows us to condemn the use of informational warfare by the Trump campaign, and by extension Russia, while praising the innovation of President Obama’s, though Mike Masnick, writing for techdirt.com’s (Mis)Uses of Technology blog, notes:

“…there is one major difference between the Obama one and the Cambridge Analytica one, which involves the level of transparency. With the Obama campaign, people knew they were giving their data (and friend's data) to the cause of re-electing Obama. Cambridge Analytica got its data by having a Cambridge academic (who the new Guardian story revealed for the first time is also appointed to a position at St. Petersburg University) set up an app that was used to collect much of this data, and misled Facebook by telling them it was purely for academic purposes, when the reality is that it was setup and directly paid for by Cambridge Analytica with the intent of sucking up that data for Cambridge Analytica's database.”

Of course, the trouble with conspiracy theories is that every once in a while, they end up being true. In retrospect, this one seems obvious, hardly requiring a stretch of the imagination and lying just under our noses all this time. Make no mistake though, the “real conspiracy” — because there’s always a bigger picture in conspiracy theories — isn’t about Trump and Russia. It isn’t about one country, or one political party, or one corporation. It’s about the potential exploitation of cognitive biases as cognitive vulnerabilities at every level and in every sphere.

Though cynical to say, it was probably an inevitability that psychology, as a science set on understanding human behavior, would be applied to not only predict, but manipulate that behavior. What couldn’t have been foreseen 50 years ago with the start of modern PSYOPS, and what is just now coming into focus, is just how the internet has made that possible on a much larger scale and in a much less ridiculous way compared to say, mass atmospheric spraying (aka “chemtrails”). Nor how a tool seemingly devised for beneficence could be applied for more nefarious purposes (realizing full well the quagmire of moral relativity in the realms of economics and politics where one can forever debate the merits of democracy, capitalism, and globalism as the best models for the “greater good”).

Although Shaw draws a bold line between the exploitation of cognitive vulnerabilities and the moral bankruptcy of psychology, we can hardly fault psychologists for revealing cognitive biases that are already there. And if there’s blame to be laid, we shouldn't point fingers at an inanimate entity like the internet either, but at those who exploit its power, glossing over ethical responsibilities related to autonomy, privacy, data protection, and informed consent. In the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the “rise of the machines” can be traced back to the work of Miles Dyson, an engineer who develops artificial intelligence called Skynet for a company called Cyberdyne Systems. In our current version of art-becomes-life, it’s not so much the machines that we have to worry about, but the people. In the coming years, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg could come to be known as a real-life Miles Dyson, the man responsible for unwittingly causing the downfall of humanity.

Chamath Palihapitiya seems to imply as much in recently coming out to apologize for the unintended effects of his own role as former “vice-president of user growth” at Facebook:

“It literally is a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is truly where we are. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem.”

…Bad actors can now manipulate large swaths of people to do anything you want. And we compound the problem. We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even more, admit it, vacant and empty before you did it.”

In the end though, the worst and most insidious part about the conspiracy to hijack social media for the purposes of psychological warfare is that we’re all willing, or at least semi-willing, participants. We know that decades of television advertisements have biased our choices as consumers, but we still eagerly tune in to Superbowl commercials. We’ve read that internet search engines offer a biased view of what’s out there in cyberspace and that online algorithms are designed to make us more prolific consumers, but we still go to Siri and Alexa for knowledge. We’ve come to accept that Russian “web brigades” and “troll farms” churn out social media "bots" that attempt to foment dissatisfaction with living in a multicultural democracy at every click, and we've recently been told that real human beings are 70% more likely to retweet falshoods than facts, but we still rely on Facebook and Twitter as our main news sources. And now that we learn how social media platforms are bypassing consent to access personal information and use it for agendas beyond our awareness and potentially contrary to our own on the scale of a presidential election, we still click on Facebook quizzes and submit photos of ourselves to apps that purport to analyze our ancestry or find our dopplegangers in fine art.

We do all of this because we tell ourselves the opposite of what psychologists like Kahneman have told us, holding onto our own intuition that we have unmitigated contra-causal free will and are immune to hidden forces that manipulate our behavior. We tell ourselves that the power of the internet, with its fake news and Russian bots, is limited.

In short, we’re in denial. On some level, we know that we should devote less time to debating anonymous strangers online and more time to face-to-face discourse and human interaction. Palihapitiya suggests that the path to salvation is to unplug and notes that he doesn’t allow his own children to use social media. But can we really unplug? Will we? Do we want to?

The right wing schizophrenia and Cultural Marxism and Communism is a Judeo-Christian Teleologic proccess

The fact of nowadays philosophers is that, right wing are searching for explanations to consider the only right movement is the neoliberal conservative capitalism, puting all other - including Third Position - as leftist ideals, promoting a confusion in mind of the new scholars. This loutish conclusion comes from the ideology that promotes the christianity as the end of the religions, and re jewish religion as a way of save the soul, for considering the christians the decendants of jews and being, too, the chosen people.

Well, this article is about communism and the communism couldn't be capable without a religious process of condemnation by fear.

The theologists and right wing christian philosophers are giving explanations on communism as being an antichristian process, satanic ideology of enslavement, etc. A very poor explanation and conclusion on a political ideology that began promoted into judeo-christian religious process.

There is no philosopher giving a good explanation on how communism grew and became so accepted, except these stpid authors that explains it as satanic process.

There is no author that explains communism as most simple as it really is, and people prefers to polemize as it's a sin, but no one tells it's simple a Teleologic process.

Even in the conclusion of capitalistic process, the communism can also be foreseen as a cyclic process, being an end for an elitist politician interested on communism be the main ideology in society.

Communism is a Teleologic process of judeo-christianity to maintain people under constant fear, but, beliving that the society must be equal, adapting the social process and basis to it's needs. The communism adapts to society in its reality and can put on the desire of the governor, like in the case of Venezuela and/or Soviet Russia.

Christianity, talking about catholicism, promoted the idea of equality on it's faith, being everyone at the same level, promoting an hierarchy on society between civilian equals, the chevalry with it's military capability and the priesthood, with hierarchical pyramid that ruled the population, and condem them to death those who opose.

This proccess is same of the communism, to promote a dictatorship and take the production methoods to the State, and distribute them to the chosen to each proccess, and create a legal proccess against the society. Also, the intention on adapt itself to the society's pathology and start a politician of liberation, implementation of a psychological and social engeneering, promoting a form of crowd controling in by manipulation of media, epidemy of some diseases and pro-homossexuality legislation.

In judaism, is the same of catholicism, with the idea of the one god above everything, the idea of god creator and the ruler of everything, with one leader that can 'talk' to god and the equality of every single individual in the proccess.

The low capability of the right wing nowadays is to divide the theoretics on what is this proccess of control of society, not done by Satan, but done by a religious elite to spread fear of unfollow the rules, and a political elite, plutocratic, that promotes a control of environment, and these leaders write the legislation to them.

Also, these philosophers and theoretics cannot understand the whole proccess, natural and metaphisical, and adapt the philosophy to their faith, even if it's completely adverse, and this loutish stupidity (being redundant), creates new ideologies completely far from the seed, like they use Julius Evola's philosophy to their christian faith, and promotes christianity, as they justify christianity as an end by Guénon.

Some of them use Parvulesco and Spengler to promote christianity as an end. Completely adverse, also, use these authors to promote an anti-pagan reality. Really impressed the hipocrital form of manipulate the extreme right, once into a non religious proccess of social behavior and now following christianity to justify that right is christian and left is atheist-satanist-pagan ideology.

This abjuration of the natural proccess to a christian affirmative is for sure the unconstant political moment of two decades of socialism, that destroyed the economies of many countries.

These same authors cannot give a reasonable form of think that, the dialectic on a haegelian proccess can promote the causes and effects of the communism, implementing the questions and giving possible rational answers, justifying the meas.

Also, the teleologic process that the religious philosophies promoted, to intensify the proccess of equality on society, and the political intention to maintain an elite, destroy the oposition by legal process and promotes a complete control of everything.

The cyclic process of the communist uprise is very well explained by the a procedure that the accumilation of capital and the capitalistic failure is cyclical. These 'eras' are completed by an uncertain behavior that promotes a social disruption and illegitimation of the government to control the economic system. This crisis are being prevent and in the cyclic methood of analysis can be found these answers.

The Arrighi cycle of the procedure of accumulation of capital and the hegemonic creation of the financial system can explain and also, much more explained, the Kondratieff cyclic process that can prevent the capitalistic crisis and implement preventive measures.

Kondratieff analised the proccess that every 50 years the capitalism can suffer a crisis and these preventive measures implemented can postopone or avoid the crisis.

But when the theoretics can adapt their needs to society's reality, the crisis can pass unnoticed, because the failure at the proccess is maked up by the economic politician and the leftist politic of socialist implementation adapts to the social pathologies, like pro-homossexuality programs, and the multiculturalism, drug legalization and the Frankfurt Scholars theoretics, of decriminalization of the marginality and the figures of the social 'heroes' to promote illegitimation of the right state and raise a new oposition, now in society, that are searching for an alternative identity of the drug addicters, homossexual marriage, transgender childhood, etc.

Kondratieff when analysed the capitalistic crisis identified the weaken points of the economic system, and the notorious right wings philosophers didn't still understand that economic proccess is the maing key of it, but also, didn't understand that the philosphy between the social control could be used in society to it's means at social behavior. These authors neglected the society for decades and now they came with solutions of a Satanic proccess of left... this is one of the biggest stupidity they could say, to unblame their own fault, to outsource their blame to some one who were never involved into a politician of a control and condemnation, but with a human politician of liberty and social respect.

The uncapability of right wing to promote the proccess of restore of social values, are going to a new politician of fundamentalism of christianity and affirmation of the christianity as the only religion that can subjulgate and legislate, with a new christian political bench on congress and ministry and not undersanding that the systemic chaos is implemented yet, by it's social politician of the left of divide and conquer, creating minorities and embrace them as the only savior, raising right wings as the oposition of liberty, when the truth is that these polices weakens the capability of population to a uprise.

Check the Lenin politician, the marxist politician is to promote a 'pacific' society by the equality and distribution of capital and natural resources, beneath a 'uncorruptive' leader that can promote this peaceful conditions, with no police state and weapon control.

The teleologic proccess of christianity as a charlatan politician, involvind an apolitical ideology inside the political proccess taking the men to a direction of servitude and the adaptation of it's politician to the impoverishment and a dictatorial proccess is the basis of the communist state. Marx was a jewish and he had adapted the Calvinist ideology to it's judeo concept of enrichment and capital accumulation and directed the communism to an elite, that could implement it concrete.

The Frankfurt scholars were into judaism, and raised it's ideology as a proccess of destruction of capitalistic and anarchical proccess, implementing the idea of marginality in society, adapting the ex-militarized Soviet State to a libertarian ideology of consumption, crowd controling and destruction of the self. But see that the christian elite and the jewish elite don't blend with other social scaled religious and don't accept other religious groups - these ones targeted to the marginality programs of Frankfurtian theoretics.

See that South America is the playground of the Frankfurtian, with the Bolivarian politician and the Foro São Paulo controling the political actions, they could promote almost two decades of leftist government and made South America a chaotic geopolitical system, next stage to a geopolitical warfare between elites who want to control the geographical envirionment and test the local as laboratories - as great corporations, pharmaceutical industry, etc.

Also, the Fabian society creating a theoretic of the capitalistic socialism, promoted a social democracy, with assistential system and raised society to the previous marxist State. The Kondratieff cycle explained this system. The failure of the capitalistic system promoted a level os social democracy, with the Clinton adminsitration, in South America the Foro São Paulo and the Cardoso's government, Tony Blair in England, raised the next stage of socialism post Fabian Social Democracy. Later on the globalist governments in Europe and South America socialist governments and George Bush plutocratic system, that implemented the cultural marxism.

Cultural Marxism is the base for the pathologies and the Hegaelian dialect for the divide and conquer proccess of rape the educational system, spawning a youth of dumb people, drug addicted and sexual pandemic liberation. The political parties has an important paper on it, to subvert the educational system at the university and when in power, to promote a basic education of political indocrination and use the legislation to disrupt the paternal influence at the child and adolescents.

The churches has an important paper too, on the promotion of fear and indocrinate a need of protection, influenting the mind controling and the denounce of knowledge of a scientific proccess and natural proccess of evolution of humanity.

This model inserts not only a Plutocratic government, of those who have economic capability on spawn a pro-socialit society, as it forms a criptocratic government, a kind of shadow government, making an elite capable to rule behind the curtains, like a freemason government, Skulls, Bilderberg and others, like NGOs with hidden proposals, as for exemple a fraudulent virtual monetary quotation, or a virtual ambient of social networking, where can control the information exchange and monetary transactions, making speculative attacks and a legal form of tax charging.

Proposals that induce a common wealth and limitate the capability of gains and promote a bureucratic system of great corporations, legislators, bankers and politicians with unlimited resources and limitation of capability of growing. The very well explained system at the Limits to Growth book of Club of Rome and the Reports from the Iron Mountain.

So, communism rises into a dystopian movement, raised by the economic system failure and the implementation of social behaviors that promotes the destruction of the society itself. Social manipulation and media control helps this procedures. This proccess is a freedom proccess that was based on judeo-christianity teleologic proccess of control everything by fear, not by a Satanic mean, as the right wing philosophers affirms.

Pedophilia and Children Traffick promoted by Global Elite

It's not abnormal when we see connection between the globalist elite and their strange sexual interests, comming from the god's complex of money can buy everything.

The connection between money and sexual perversity goes beyond the bloodline, it goes to the perversion and their plummy for the prohibited. The eschatology comming from the next generations of pervertion is born from kind of scatological programs, sex under non natural conditions of physical atractions, but the necessity of the flesh pleasure and ejaculation.

It's not secret that elitists need their bloodlines and restrain their money to their own families, so the incest is a natural and cultural practice in the elites, comming since from Egypt, Rome and Greece, and nowadays in the elites of bankers, philantropists, political leaders and also artists and socialites, that use their sexual desires and the capability of have everything for money to practice their perversions.

Connection also including pedophilia and children traffick, buying and selling kids to promote international connection of prostitution, sexual slaves, illegal adoption and organs traffick.

Many of these child smuggling comes from rich men requesting kids from the thrid world countries, and buyng for cheap cost from poor families and hijackers, feeding other criminal-economic activities as prostitution, drug traffick and health system, including vaccine test and organs trading.

The problem of this traffick is that, the promotion of the global legislators, bankers and political influencers, it's hard to dennounce the practice, as the 90% of great media is controled by them and the politics depends on them to maintain the themselves in the govern.

This case, religion don't still, never, tried to protect the children. These last defamatory actions in catholic church against pedophile is to promote scapegoats in the church, but not to blame other elitists involved. 

Catholic church was always involved in pedophilia cases, including not only catholic, but protestant churches also. These churches hide the truth about the cases and, also, consecrate some of the involved, as they are baptized and blessed by the religous leaders in charge of money, and in charge of a politic of manipulation of the massess, those who have fear and can trust the enticing of them.

The religious leaders have a secret connection with the bankers and some political leaders, initiated in religious orders that came from an important past, from orders, economic conspirators, legislators and sure, now, members of a secret and selected group of investitors, promoting legal media and illegal activities, that are free from taxes and feed their own sexual-ego and position in society.

Another question on try to legalize pedophilia is that philosophers and sexual politicians, those who militate for gay rights and decriminalization of pedophilia, try to manipulate the society with theoretics about how old tribes would wed with women after menstrual period, calculating the fertility to raise families. But these theories are to justify their own sexual phantasies. In general leftists are involved with pedophilia and these practices of introduce teenagers into sex life and promote homossexuality in teenagers.

Another practice comes from, many of them, christian far right movements, that promotes imbreeding, poligamy and ephebophilia, justifying a non-child wedding but using minors to introduce teenagers in sexuality and with a self-affirmation of non criminal act.

In general these actions are promoted into religious camps, orders, promted and blessed by masters, priests, sheppards and other wise men, that has their sexual perversity still latent and want to justify a possible salvation.

Rothschilds Implicated In Elite Pedophile Ring Investigation

https://thepedogate.com/politics/rothschilds-implicated-in-elite-pedophile-ring-investigation/

Investigator discovers disturbing links to Pedogate

By: Jay Greenberg

For centuries the Rothschild family have been at the center of conspiracy theories, but now an investigation has discovered evidence connecting the banking family to an Elite pedophile ring.

After analyzing the leaked Pedogate emails of Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, investigator Carolyn Limaco has discovered a link between a Satanic Illuminati pedophilia network and the Rothschilds.

By using the code words used in the emails, Limaco has uncovered a dark web of child trafficking and pedophilia symbolism through the more public Rothschild social media accounts.

Not only has Limaco connected the dots between the Rothschilds and Pedogate, but she has also found links implicating the Rockefellers and the Clintons.

Elite Pedophile Ring

The Pedogate scandal first came to light when Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta’s emails were leaked to WikiLeaks by DNC staffer Seth Rich.

Seth Rich was shot dead near his home in Washington D.C. shortly after the emails were passed over to the whistleblowing organization and many now believe that this was the reason he was murdered.

Seth Rich’s death was officially recorded as a “robbery gone wrong”, but with recent revelations about him being the leak of the emails, truthers everywhere are demanding for the investigation into his death to be reopened.

The emails revealed mass corruption and criminality as well as a connection to a Washington D.C pedophile ring.

The email conversations appeared to used known food-based pedophilia code words that seemed completely out of context until crowd-sourced investigations exposed their true meaning.

John Podesta has denied the allegations of his connection to child trafficking, but has never explained the contents of the emails or offered an alternate meaning to the code words.

The Rothschild Dynasty

According to conspiracies.net, the Rothschild family has amassed a family fortune estimated to be $500 trillion and that’s a low estimation.

They are so powerful that they have a family coat of arms that is recognized internationally.

In addition to that, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild is the personal financial adviser to the Queen of England.

Some people say that this fortune was built using unscrupulous means.

The Rothschild family are known to have funded the losers and the winners of all wars since the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815.they fund both sides so that whichever side wins, they profit. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was campaigning to take over Britain itself. Seeing an opportunity, the Rothschild family got together and made a plan. Jacob Rothschild was stationed in Paris, France. He was told to fund Napoleon’s war effort to conquer Britain. On the other hand, Nathan Rothschild, stationed in London was told to fund General Wellington’s war effort against Napoleon. The two sons did that and the war raged. Soon, the family decided that it was more profitable to them if Britain won the war and the British royal family was indebted to the Rothschild family. Thus, Jacob limited the funds to Napoleon’s army and General Wellington began to win.

They fund both sides so that whichever side wins, they profit. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was campaigning to take over Britain itself. Seeing an opportunity, the Rothschild family got together and made a plan. Jacob Rothschild was stationed in Paris, France. He was told to fund Napoleon’s war effort to conquer Britain. On the other hand, Nathan Rothschild, stationed in London was told to fund General Wellington’s war effort against Napoleon. The two sons did that and the war raged. Soon, the family decided that it was more profitable to them if Britain won the war and the British royal family was indebted to the Rothschild family. Thus, Jacob limited the funds to Napoleon’s army and General Wellington began to win.

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte was campaigning to take over Britain itself. Seeing an opportunity, the Rothschild family got together and made a plan. Jacob Rothschild was stationed in Paris, France. He was told to fund Napoleon’s war effort to conquer Britain. On the other hand, Nathan Rothschild, stationed in London was told to fund General Wellington’s war effort against Napoleon. The two sons did that and the war raged. Soon, the family decided that it was more profitable to them if Britain won the war and the British royal family was indebted to the Rothschild family. Thus, Jacob limited the funds to Napoleon’s army and General Wellington began to win.

The original founder of the Rothschild family; Mayer Amschel Rothschild personally dictated that the female descendants of the family were not to receive any direct inheritance. This meant that a Rothschild lady could not inherit wealth from her father or mother. As soon as they reached the age at which they should marry, they were disconnected from the family wealth so that they had to figure out a way to fend for themselves. This was an indirect way to ensure that these girls married back into the Rothschild family. Having lived like princesses all their lives, it made more sense to marry their cousins, inherit the wealth of their new husbands and then continue to live like royals. Thus, for over 200 years, the Rothschild family have intermarried among themselves. This is officially known as avunculate marriage. It is where an uncle can marry a niece and an aunt can marry their nephew. Nathan Rothschild married his brother Carl’s eldest daughter.

Pedophiles in Politics: An Open Source Investigation

https://www.corbettreport.com/pedophiles-in-politics-an-open-source-investigation/

As 2015 begins, high-profile cases involving accusations of pedophilia in the highest ranks of political power are making headlines on both sides of the Atlantic.

MPs Caught in Pedophile Network

The first case involves the exposure of five VIP pedophile rings operating in Britain in the 1970s and 80s that have been researched in a dossier compiled by John Mann, an MP for Bassetlaw in the Midlands, which was then submitted to the London Metropolitan Police for further investigation. These five rings all included at least one current or former member of parliament, with a total of 24 politicians having been identified in Mann’s dossier. Six of those 24 are currently serving members of the UK government, including three MPs and three members of the House of Lords. As an MP himself, Mann enjoys parliamentary privilege to name the accused politicians in the House of Commons but has said he will not do so because he believes the accusations should be investigated by police first.

The Met are already investigating claims made by an alleged victim of the network that a Conservative MP strangled a boy to death during one of the ring’s sex parties, and that he personally witnessed two other boys murdered by the gang, including one who was run over in broad daylight. Mann has also indicated that he believes two men may have been murdered as part of a cover-up of the network’s activities.

One of the hurdles in investigating the claims is the Official Secrets Act, which prevents the disclosure of state secrets and “sensitive” information. “It is clear there are a lot of people who could provide a lot of information, potentially vital information, to support ongoing criminal investigations,” Mann said regarding the investigation. “But they are not doing so because of the Official Secrets Act. They are fearful of not only breaking the law but the potential effect on their pension. This is absolutely crucial if we are to get some of these ex-officers coming forward and to get prosecutions of some of the former MPs.” He has asked Home Secretary Theresa May to lift the restrictions, allowing former officials to speak up about what they know about the case, but so far there is no indication that this has been done.

Epstein Accuser Names Names

Meanwhile in the United States a similarly shocking set of allegations are emerging from a Florida court case surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, the prominent American financier and billionaire who was convicted in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. In the years since his conviction, dozens of women have come forward to accuse him of abuse, and he has made 17 out-of-court settlements in various civil cases arising from these accusations. There is now an ongoing federal civil suit in Florida in which two women are alleging violations of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act in the remarkable plea deal that saw Epstein emerge from the scandal with a single count of solicitation of underage prostitution and a 13-month prison sentence.

Late last month, Virginia Roberts made headlines by submitting a motion to be added to the legal action in Florida. Those documents allege that Roberts was one of Epstein’s underage sex slaves and names both Prince Andrew, Duke of York and fifth in line for the British crown, and Alan Dershowitz, a well-known lawyer and author, as men with whom she was forced to have sex while underage. Buckingham Palace has emphatically denied the claims, and Dershowitz threatened to sue Roberts’ lawyers over the allegations but was instead counter-sued for defamation.

The scandal threatens to re-focus attention on the Epstein case, which raises many important questions about the billionaire’s connections with the rich and powerful. It has since been revealed that Epstein had 21 different phone numbers for contacting his friend Bill Clinton, who, court records allege, “frequently flew” on Epstein’s private jet between 2002 and 2005. The American tabloid press is now reporting that the new claims have created problems for Clinton’s marriage, with Hillary allegedly visibly angry at Bill at a recent public appearance.

Nothing New

Allegations of pedophilia networks amongst the political and entertainment “elite” are of course nothing new. In recent years Britain has been rocked by revelations of repeated, serial sexual abuse of children by popular children’s television entertainers Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris. These scandals have raised questions about institutional support for these activities at a number of levels, including the BBC, the political classes and even royal participation in the enabling and cover-up of the abuse.

Likewise in America, allegations of political pedophile rings date back decades, with the most notorious being the Franklin scandal in which Lawrence E. King Jr. was accused of running an elite child prostitution ring for Nebraska Republican Party members and high-ranking U.S. politicians. The story involves accusations that link the ring to CIA drug dealing, murder and cover up, including accusations of ritual abuse in the Bohemian Grove. The investigation was championed by former State Senator John De Camp and eventually brought before a grand jury in Douglas County but was eventually thrown out as a “carefully crafted hoax” and two of the alleged victims were themselves convicted of perjury after two other witnesses recanted their supporting testimony. Still, questions still surround the cover up of the case as documented in suppressed documentaries like Conspiracy of Silence.

Cover Ups

The question of whether the London Met will be adequate to the task of properly investigating Mann’s dossier is not an idle one. Just last year reports revealed that the Met had 260 crates of evidence documenting police corruption in the north-east corner of London alone. The evidence relates to Operation Tiberius, a 2002 investigation that concluded there was “endemic corruption” in the Metropolitan Police force and that organized crime networks had been able to infiltrate the Met “at will.” The report that issued from that investigation was 170 pages long, but only six heavily-redacted pages were provided to a parliamentary committee that had requested the information. Only a handful of the scores of then-serving officers and officials identified by the investigation were ever prosecuted.

In the Epstein case, as well, there are numerous questions surrounding the possibility of high-level cover up. In recent weeks it has emerged that Epstein struck a remarkable secret deal with the US Attorney’s Office that barred more than 500 pages of documents detailing negotiations of the deal and a staggering 13,000 documents from the investigation into Epstein’s activities that were shelved as a result of the bargain. Moreover, the victims were not told of the plea bargain until after it had been concluded. All of this resulted from the US Attorney Office’s pledge to avoid turning the case into a “media circus” and disclosing the names of people like Prince Andrew.

Clearing the Smoke, Smashing the Mirrors

As always with ongoing legal investigations, it is important to sort the credible from the incredible, the proven from the unproven, and the mere allegations from the actual findings of fact. Hoaxes, lies and moral panics have erupted in the past that have proven fraudulent in the long run.

So what are the credible sources in investigations like these? How can those with a monetary or other interest in slandering the rich and powerful be separated from those with credible claims of abuse? What bodies or institutions can be relied on to investigate claims of this nature, especially when they involve sitting politicians and others in the highest reaches of political or financial power?

These questions and others like them will be answered in an upcoming edition of The Corbett Report podcast. In the meantime, Corbett Report members are encouraged to sign in and leave their own thoughts on these issues, including sources for further reading on theses topics and discussion of why pedophilia accusations of high-ranking politicians continue to crop up, and what these claims might mean if they are indeed true.