US plans to 'fight the net' revealed (Pentagon psyops on Americans!)

[Angry Girl]

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.

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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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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm

[bpilgrim]

1. Thank GORE, HE 'invented' the INTERNETs ;-)

:bounce:

peace

[Angry Girl]

2. yup, a perfect example of psyops

we're so f*cked...

[bpilgrim]

6. they HATE the POWER of the WWW

because weTHEpeople use the WWW against them much more EFFECTIVELY than they do against us.

dual use is their Achilles heel :evilgrin:

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. The clampdown is coming.

Too powerful to let it be. I predict a bill within 18 months. Or they'll chip away at accessibility.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. We'll just have to go Underground. Seems like we are already

there.....

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

27. This ain't underground.

Passing covert messages by the type of shoes you're wearing is underground. This...this is running through the Central Machinery. As underground as a fart in an elevator.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

28. All my messages are coded, and you will need the secret decoder

ring to get the real meaning out of them, I wish.

[and-justice-for-all]

43. What is Psyops?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Psyops

[VegasWolf]

3. American "media" not covering this story. Gee, I wonder why?

:sarcasm:

[jimshoes]

4. What in the name of jeezus

are they afraid of? The truth getting out?

[wordpix2]

23. oh, yeah, "the truth getting out" is surely what they fear

[jimshoes]

26. I know

they avoid it like a vampire avoids holy water.

[0007]

5. I think the Pentagon should worry more about maintaining

an army and taking care of what they have. This article sounds like paranoia has old Rummy by the balls.

[Lindsay]

7. I don't know that it's so much paranoia

as the mistaken belief that anyone who disagrees is The Enemy. That's why people from the Pentagon infiltrate Quaker anti-war meetings.

Have I mentioned lately how much I despise those people?

[Sydnie]

8. I saw something about Cuba on the news last night

"It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support."

I saw on a news progam last night that the US has electronic tickers in the embassy in Cuba and they are displaying "democracy" messages on that board for the population to read. they are using quotes from Jefferson and such on that board, mixed in with national news stories. Castro is so pissed, he is building a wall to prevent it from being seen at all.

I remember thinking, while watching that segment, that we really had gone over the propoganda falls with that move.

This just proves that I was understanding the story correctly, even though it's intended message was to build support for such actions. It made me sick to my stomach then, and even worse now.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

10. They're already doing it: corporate media talking heads spewing

Republican talking points to the masses.

This is truly "1984." How did we get here???

[Bushwick Bill]

12. Got caught watching Faux today

because I was at the gym. I nearly had a stroke. They explained that the greatest threat to the U.S. is "communist" South America and their explanation was that these regimes are sympathetic to Al Qaeda. It was possibly the most laughable thing I have ever seen on Faux. I knew it was only a matter of time before Hugo and Co were somehow connected to terror. Why do the terrorists keep ending up where the oil is? You will know we are near the end game of this fascism when we label the Chinese terrorists in order to compete with them for resources. I think this report from last year was a preview.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-19-boston-terror_x.htm

Anyway, the minute they mess with the internet, it is over for us.

[Mika]

22. Castro is awsome! He's a bricklayer also, now.

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[Sydnie]

31. That's really freaky!

Did you see the report too? That is almost what the damn ticker looked like. It was obviously behind a wall as the letters disappeared but they were continuous enough that you could read the message. It was really freaky.

[NVMojo]

33. I just downloaded that pdf and read it ...these assholes are nutts!

[Ian David]

11. It's called Fox News. n/t

[LiberalEsto]

13. Spam is just practice

for psyops.

[bobthedrummer]

15. Here's some useful background on perception management

from the USAF Air War College-this is part of what Rumsfeld acknowledged Thursday.
He should know, his "Message to the People of Iraq" was a Commando Solo II (PsyOps) mission.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-pcep.htm#perception_mgt

[jimshoes]

17. We the people

need to start sending messages of our own. Let them know we're not buying what they're selling.

[UncleSepp]

16. The blessing of the right misfortune at the right time...

I see these things, and I am deeply, deeply thankful that I never got my commission. When I was in Army ROTC, I was being recruited by an officer from PsyOps. If that had worked out... I'd be up to my nose in that mess right now.

[lovuian]

18. The Internet is the enemy They love it but they also hate it

Its like their worst enemy... They need it but they also need to control it...

Can they??? thats the ???

I don't think you can put the genie back in the jar here...

[entanglement]

25. Exactly, and thanks to the 'anarchy by design' nature of the

Net, no one is going to have 'control' }(

[Rex]

19. That's what happens in a dictatorship

gotta keep the propaganda machine running, otherwise poor people start waking up.

[CatholicEdHead]

20. Caught part of NPR's Weekend Edition this morning

or was it Friday's Morning Edition? Either way they talked about internet information conduits about how a few large corporations try very hard to control more and more for their increased profits. They named MSN and AOL as two examples. Some of this comes from large ISPs, who can control their content for many thousands of people at a corporate whim. The power to shut our net down like China does is there. More than likley it will be a gradual shutdown of information, as a people will suddenly wake up and complain if they are suddenly cut off from multiple "non-approved" sites.

[Judi Lynn]

21. There's so little reason to believe they merely claim the disinformation

we read daily, and have been reading, was simply imported from their plants in foreign sources. That has probably become their pattern: always making sure an article is run somewhere outside the country first before getting it run here for its real target audience, the jerks paying their salaries.

Well, one can only spend so much time in shock & outrage, then something must be done to get past and around it, and not settle to be the victem here. There has to be a way to pry this insideous power out of their control, or at least neutralize it. The first step would be to get personally informed. People who actually know what the hell is happened are not vulnerable to propaganda. They recognize it quickly. If it seems they've taken over all the former trustworthy news sources, then something else must be created. If they finally control the "internets," something else MUST available.

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[redacted]

24. What does the quote below from the BBC report do to your gut?

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

Consider that for a moment.

The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

[MakeItSo]

29. Good luck to them, our geeks are waaay smarter than the traitors' geeks

No matter what they won't be able to shut down the free flow of information among patriots. When there is a will, there is a way.

[NVMojo]

36. reminds me of the DUer who does Ham Radio and thinks the FBI

came to his house ... I am thinking he was right ...why else would they be photographing his ham radio tower?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2402716

[sam the dawg]

41. cars to

and your computer controlled vehicle ootay

[Nothing Without Hope]

42. OH. MY. GOD. No surprise, but still a shock to hear it. Natch, this isn't

from a US journalism venue - other modes of suppression and blackouts are working well for the Bushies now. But the scope of what they long to do...

Handwriting's on the wall unless they are stopped.

[WinkyDink]

44. There go the airplanes, also.

Elaine Scarry wrote a couple brilliant articles (NY Review of Books) on electromagnetism and plane crashes off NYC (e.g., TWA 800; e.g., the plane crash over Queens a few days after 9/11). It seems that AF1 is fitted to be especially protected against EM disturbances (say, from mysterious Navy ships near-by), but the domestic fleet (of 747's et al.) is not.

[pinerow]

30. So...Why the surprise...?

The media has been a partner in this for a very long time...even before the shrub even thought about politics...mark my words...there will be no election in '08...

[NVMojo]

32. So they finally found the WMD they were looking for and it was in homes

across the nation! Idiots!

[slipslidingaway]

34. Documents are at the National Security Archives, a great site.

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

[NashVegas]

35. "Find the Boeing in the Pentagon"

I've always suspected that was a psy-ops to discredit those who questioned 9/11.

[JanusAscending]

37. Earlier this evening, I'd thought it had already begun!!

I have DU bookmarked, and I stay signed in. For 2 hrs. tonight, between 7 and 9 PM I tried to get on, and I can't explain the fear in my "gut" that the Feds. had already shut us down!!! I was able to get on other sites I had bookmarked, but not here. Has anyone else had problems tonight? To console my self I thought maybe there was so much traffic on line this weekend in re to the fillibuster, that maybe the site crashed!! I got on this time with no problem! Thank God!! Don't know what we'd do if this ever happens! Think about that and get MAD!! Let's not quit fighting these BASTARDS!!!:nuke: DC

[area51]

38. server problems

I think there's an admin message about one of the servers having problems tonight.

[JanusAscending]

39. I see that, now that you mention it!!!

Thank you for pointing it out. Whew, I was really concerned there for a while!!:hi:

[oscarguy]

40. Of Course You are Right

This has been going on for a very many years. What can we do about it ? NOTHING !The only thing we can do is to set the military`s priorities by changing the Administration. I am a veteran myself and am aware of how omnipotent they are. Throughout history this has been so, ALWAYS.