the burbank digest

The Emerging Risk of Virtual Societal Warfare
Social Manipulation in a Changing Information Environment
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2714.html
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2700/RR271...
Research conducted by RANDNATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DIVISION

The year 2016 and beyond saw an explosion of interest in issues of disinformation, propaganda, information manipulation and fakery, “fake news,” “Truth Decay,” and related trends—a broad phenomenon that can be termed hostile social manipulation. In this study, we define this concept as the purposeful, systematic generation and dissemination of information to produce harmful social, political, and economic outcomes in a target country by affecting beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Examples of this rising challenge include Russian efforts to influence elections and sow discord in the West through propaganda and disinformation; the role of social media platforms such as Facebook in spreading such misinformation; and burgeoning Chinese programs to shape regional narratives and gain political leverage in specific countries. U.S. intelli- gence services have concluded that Russia employed such techniques to influence the 2016 election, and Moscow continues to employ them— sometimes brazenly despite U.S. warnings—in the United States and Europe.

As significant as these developments have been, they may only represent the beginning of what an aggressive nation can accomplish with techniques and technologies designed to disrupt and shape the information environment of a target country. This report’s primary conclusion is that, as significant as social manipulation efforts have already been, the United States and other democracies have only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg of what these approaches may someday be able to achieve.

DIGEST: US 911 expanding state terrorist world war 3
18 YEARS MORE US PERMANENT WORLD TERROR AND DESTRUCTION TO SAVE ITS ‘WORLD ORDER’ FROM REVOLUTION
911 US GREENLIGHT: IT’S ALL LEGAL OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF LIBERAL FASCIST STATE  PERMANENT STATE OF EMERGENCY
US imperialist existence, is dependent on preventing or destroying communist revolution for classless society. This requires counterrevolutionary war to create a high-tech AI world order. In it’s fascist scheme, politically and philosophically akin to Plato's "formed ideas" Republic ruled by US governors of its ‘full spectrum dominant’ world order, no revolution-threatening class of billions of working and oppressed peoples.
The hitch? 911 didn’t work long as a ‘unifier’ as US wars expanded but made-in usa al qaeda conveniently spawned another US state terrorist proxy ISIS redeployed from Iraq in 2014. [ ISIS :2012 Pentagon Document: http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf]
So US needs to unify the world against the world’s major enemy, itself US. Which its Trump-card appears to do by threatening all:
“Trump to Pope Francis: 'ISIS wants to get you'”: "I'm gonna have to scare the pope ...The pope, I hope, can only be scared by God... if you look at what's going on, they better hope capitalism works because it's the only thing we have right now. And it's a great thing when it works properly...In our country ...it has not been working properly"
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/08/21/donald-trump-says-he-wou...

911 didn’t work long as a ‘unifier’ when wars expanded but made-in usa al qaeda conveniently spawned another US state terrorist proxy called ISIS redeployed from Iraq in 2014.

digest: Every strategic US move —including Trump-card play -- is part of its global terror war to salvage a major chunk of its collapsed post WW2 global dictatorship. Kissinger explained US has no permanent friends or enemies, it has interests, summarizing both US imperialist white supremacist geostrategic ‘national security/ politics, and philosophical pragmatism. US manages ‘cooperative’ Bahamian domination ---now a “failed state”.

digest: Media influence’ directed question for ‘correct’ answer
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-grand-bahama-abaco-latest-news\
“It’s all gone. What we’re doing to Mother Earth and the way this turns around on areas like here … I just can’t. Never … never in my life. My heart is broken. I’m in shock.”
Did she consider herself a victim of the climate crisis?
“We are the biggest victims of climate change. But how can we fight for ourselves against bigger, global countries? How do we move forward?”
Limited aid recently arrived in Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands – with officials battling flooding and poor weather conditions for days.

Trump says US 'sending crews' to help Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian
 -09/03/19 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459806-trump-says-us-is-send...

Trump says U.S. is sending aid to the Bahamas for Hurricane Doria
9/4/19 https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/trump-says-u-s-is-sending-aid-to-the-b...
President Trump gave an update on Hurricane Dorian from the Oval Office said Florida was "very lucky" but storm could still affect the Carolinas said he would send aid to the Bahamas "hit like few people have seen before."

Foreign aid for the Bahamas could spark a new China threat
9/5/19 https://www.axios.com/hurricane-dorian-foreign-aid-china-bahamas-infrast...

Hiroshima, Nagasaki: Lies, Terror and Genocide Operating Today
The War Was Won Before Hiroshima—And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
8/6/15 https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/
“The use of this barbarous weapon…was of no material assistance in our war against Japan” —Adm. William Leahy, Truman's Chief of Staff...
The Navy Museum acknowledges what many historians have long known: It was only with the entry of the Soviet Union’s Red Army two days after the bombing of Hiroshima the Japanese moved to finally surrender....The record is quite clear: From the perspective of an overwhelming number of key contemporary leaders in the US military, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a matter of military necessity. American intelligence had broken the Japanese codes, knew the Japanese government was trying to negotiate surrender through Moscow, and had long advised that the expected early August Russian declaration of war, along with assurances that Japan’s Emperor would be allowed to stay as a powerless figurehead, would bring surrender... (digest emphasis)

70 Years Ago US Proposes Marshall Plan to Rebuild Post WWII Europe 
6/5/17 Voice Of America https://www.voanews.com/a/seventy-years-ago-us-proposes-marshall-plan-to...
The U.S. Marshall Plan (photo courtesy/U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency/USAID)

 The Marshall Plan and the Shaping of American Strategy
2/28/17

“Terrorism” is the unlawful use or threat of violence in furtherance of political, religious, ideological or social goals that is intended to (a) evoke fear, intimidate or coerce a civilian population or any segment thereof; (b) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.
COUNTERRORISM ANALYTICAL LEXICON (U//FOUO) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE· COUNTERTERRORISM DIVISION

digest note:
North America began white supremacist with genocide against the indigenous peoples and its fascist ideology grew into Manifest expansionism pn its way to conquer the world by killing its deadliest threat, revolutionary communist-led uprisings---sold with Vatican partners. Every step of the way it’s weaponized propaganda narratives had to turn the truth inside out and upside down, with higher tech means of psychological and military persuasion. As Hillary Clinton declared soft and hard power was merged for smart powers olong with literally hundreds of thousands of State Dept/ USAID and George Soros managed ‘civil society NGOs, with democracy, humanitarian assistance, Gates Foundation vaccine ‘healthcare’. (use burbank digest search for major topics, names, for ex Africa, ‘eugenics’, ‘climate’. ‘al-qaeda’., ‘Obama,’ ‘information war’,’vatican’ ‘ISIS’, etc
US counter-revolutionary terror strategy proxy narratives, murderous strategic global chaos, made-in-usa terrorist proxies from al-qaeda to GWOT and ISIS. US played Trump card to regain voter loyalty and international support, lost more ground— intensifying instead of staunching US collapsing post WW2 global dictatorship, deepening the capital crisis.
When major thinktank geostrategists started discussing future ISIS possibilities it was clear a new strategy and narrative framework was in the works..

Narrative Construction of Reality

Digest note:
don't miss very rare discussion-debate by top US geostrategists about global geopolitical dilemma solutions

Charlie Rose - Hour with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft & Henry Kissinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzIcbhT6AMg

CLIMATE CONTROL, the main topic of this issue may be 2 or 3 parts. Since all things under US world fascist domination must be intractably interconnected to aid its doomed survival, some geopolitical context.
 
All ruling States and state-keepers of class-based systems know classless society is their expiration date and do anything to ward it off.
The US conquered the ‘world order’ via WW2, with its vast power, wealth“, eager to impose its rule everywhere  for national security” to prevent or crush any signs of potential working class potential revolutionary leaders. States have a monopoly on violence so US white supremacy uses terror and genocide worldwide on ‘people and nations ‘of color’
Information to create its fascist high tech ‘platonic’ new world order, demands surveillance and control .Very helpfully it discovered that “narratives construct reality”, not objective reality (e.g. existing outside your mind). The main reason so many don’t believe the ‘News’ is because it lies.
For many years the digest has focused on the ways, means and impact of the weaponized information war. If interested, explore it socially, politically changing the world and our human brains with rapidly expanding AI deep machine learning‘
by using the digest search.
 
By any name & pretext, the capitalist zionist State is supported by ‘humanitarian aid’, corporate and religious institutions led the Vatican in psychological war against communism.
Senator John F. Kennedy, speech October 18, 1960 American Legion Convention, Miami Beach, FL
American strength relative to that of the Soviet Union has been slipping, and communism has been advancing steadily in every area of the world, until the Iron Curtain now rests on the island of Cuba, only 90 miles away.

STRATEGY OF TENSION
Feb 8, 2019 https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
.. The strategy of tension (Italian: strategia della tensione).... to help roll out the "war on terror" promoting US/NATO-sponsored

digest comment:
US DESPERATION TO DEFEAT CHINA FOR GLOBAL AI DOMINATION WITH OUTRIGHT FASCIST TERROR LIKE ITS FAILED INFORMATION WAR AND WARS IN LITERALLY COUNTLESS NATIONS. BORN AGAIN CHINESE IMPERIALISM'S ABILITY TO EXPAND IN ITS EARLY STAGE WITHOUT THREATS AND LIES. AND THE MORE BEHIND AND DRIVEN FOR SURVIVAL TO EVER MORE DEADLY AGGRESSION. WHY? BECAUSE WHEN WORLD-ENEMY #1 LOSES ITS POST WW2 GLOBAL DICTATORSHIP, ITS STATE'S RULING CLASS IS DONE, POWERLESS, 'MANIFEST DESTINY' TO TURN HISTORY BACK TO A SELF-PROCLAIMED SELF-CONTAINED NATION-STATE. WE KNOW THE DEPTHS THIS MONSTROUS BEAST HAS GONE TO, AND THAT OBAMA INITIATED A $30 TRILLION NUCLEAR UPDATE PLAN. HAVE WE BECOME SO DANGEROUSLY DEGRADED AND STUPID TO VOTE THE US-TRUMP CARD ? ACTIVELY VOTING FOR ANY/ALL-AMERICAN ARROGANT GANGSTERISM? LIKE 2000 THE SUPREMES SELECTED GWB IN TIME FOR THE 911 GREENLIGHT TO THE US WORLD TERROR WAR.

War is a continuation of politics by other means
   Clausewitz  

Counter-Intelligence: Part III – Gladio and The Strategy of Tension
https://vimeo.com/66019647
digest: very important until about last quarter with 3 useless comments
search burbankdigest.com: Gladio; strategy of tension; Trump card and strategy of chaos
OPERATION GLADIO http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/577

American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump
Brookings meme “order out of chaos”
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/chapter-one_-americ...

*MIT Technology Review’s WIRED magazine very cool ‘love child’ acts as a “ltd hangout” for propaganda that ‘exposes’ something attention grabbing to cover or bury really BIG story.
HERE’S A good example, making this new world order cute — read acutely and share widely!

ALEXA, WHAT'S MY BLOOD-SUGAR LEVEL?
04.04.19 https://www.wired.com/story/alexa-whats-my-blood-sugar-level/
Amazon  may be known as the “everything store,” but the company’s tendrils extend far beyond ecommerce. On Thursday, Amazon said Alexa-enabled devices can now handle customers’ sensitive medical data, and it teased the release of a new kit that would allow approved outside developers to build Alexa skills that access users’ private health information, paving the way for the voice assistant to play a bigger role in health care.

With the announcement came the release of new skills giving Alexa  the ability to relay and store blood sugar measurements from internet-connected monitoring devices, help schedule doctors’ appointments, pass on post-op instructions from hospitals, and provide prescription delivery updates by securely accessing customers’ private medical information.

As part of the announcement, Amazon said it had committed to protect personal health information according to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, which protects the privacy of medical records. Alexa’s health and wellness team had been working  to obtain HIPAA compliance for months. For now, only six companies invited by Amazon will be able to build skills that can access sensitive medical information, but Amazon expects to add more developers to that list in the coming months.

Voice of America
Telling America's Story
Official website of the United States government
https://www.bbg.gov
In 2018 VOA documented the Russian government’s disinformation campaigns...accurate, objective, and comprehensive news and information to global audiences... New name, same mission... Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is now US Agency for Global Media.(USAGM)

Syrian Director of Oscar-Nominated Documentary Posed as Extremist to Film Jihadists
Voice of America https://www.voanews.com/a/syrian-director-of-oscar-nominated-documentary...
The Syrian-German director Talal Derki’s Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Father and Sons’ about the life of al-Qaida-linked extremists in Syria is in Los Angeles where his film will compete with four others in the Best Documentary Feature category Sunday at the 91st Academy Awards....In 2011Derki worked as a cameraman reporting from the ground for international news agencies fighting Syrian government forces...
In 2014 Derki told VOA in an interview, he began a risky journey traveling as an al-Qaida sympathizer to northwestern Syria "I convinced them I sympathized with their beliefs and wanted to show an inside look at daily lives in my country," to establish an Islamic state Caliphate...and stayed with them until the end of 2016....to establish an Islamic state Caliphate ...

Ryan Mauro Director of Clarion Intelligence Network
February 21 at 3:12 PM