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NATO 2030: Toward A New Strategic Concept

(That concept being social media censorship “to protect its political center-of-gravity”)



During the Cold War, we prioritized conventional military

But in the social media age, we’re losing our political support because people spread “anti-NATO narratives and conspiracies” online

So we need to think of war as stopping our own citizens from speaking freely online



We need to switch our censorship focus from external enemies to our own citizens
Because our own citizens talk badly about us online, we need to treat their tweets as a theatre of war

We need to remove the basic distinction between peace and war

We must preserve our political mandate

We need to push national censorship policies across all NATO countries

We, NATO, need to spy on and psychologically dissect our own citizens in order to see how they interpret narratives online that threaten our political mandate
We need “24/7 disinformation monitoring system driven by artificial intelligence”

Every word our citizens speak. Every sentence they write. Analyzed by a NATO political thoughtcrime radar system.
We need to use our muscle as the military to get political bodies across NATO to pump millions of dollars into brainwashing our citizens (“psychological defense”) & financially steroid-injecting censorship NGOs.

Oh and we need to capture the media.

The, erm, independent media

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Jun 30
Recommendations To The NATO Alliance: How To Collectively Combat Misinformation

(a US taxpayer-funded censorship proposal by the McCain Institute)

https://t.co/3WFMSDsuiFmccaininstitute.org/resources/blog…


NATO should target people who post “misinformation” online with sanctions

Sanctions.

Also, promoting the censorspeak concept of “media literacy” which means mental brainwashing presupposing that reading the wrong news sources online makes you cognitively “illiterate”
NATO should co-opt domestic media to mindwar citizens into increasing government commitment to NATO

NATO should pump up “digital literacy” (cognitive brainwashing) so opposition is seen as mis, dis & malinformation (MDM)

Launder ops thru Atlantic Council, ISD, RAND corporation
Read 9 tweets
Jun 30
NATO Review: Countering Disinformation: Improving the Alliance’s Digital Resilience

AI censorship is king

https://t.co/1LNxhKZoMGnato.int/docu/review/ar…
Remember, “resilience” is a censorspeak word for psychologically or censoriously stopping citizens from believing or spreading populist news or narratives online

See @FFO_Freedom guide:
@FFO_Freedom Here’s the fuller @FFO_Freedom entry on the censorspeak term “resilience” 👇

Plug this translation into the NATO article above when you read it:

https://t.co/2XQqyQoeZaweb.archive.org/web/2023033009…


Read 5 tweets
Jun 26
I was joking with friends over the weekend that the State Dept was probably having an emergency meeting to remove Prigozhin's sanctions & reframe Wagner as a pro-democracy organization.

I was joking...

wsj.com/livecoverage/r…
I'm not weighing in on Ukraine-Russia here, I'm weighing in on US sanctions policy -- because it's the exact same group responsible for US censorship industry.

The message sent here is US sanctions have no basis in universal principles - just cold, hard, cynical self-interests.
This is the same way the State Dept obviously leaned on Facebook to uncensor Azov Battalion from FB's "dangerous orgs" list when the conflict started.

The message to the world was clear: censorship is not basis on principle, just whatever's good for us.

engadget.com/meta-takes-ukr…
Read 4 tweets
Jun 23
It's hard to overstate the importance of what House Armed Services Committee just passed.

NewsGuard, Graphika, Institute for Strategic Dialogue, all DEFUNDED from Pentagon cash.

This will send shockwaves through the censorship industry.
dailycaller.com/2023/06/22/hou…
Graphika has gotten $7 million in Pentagon cash in just the past 2 years. That money goes toward pumping up a marquee domestic censorship org.

Add up ISD, NewsGuard, Graphika & others and you're in the ten millions - all to pay salaries of domestic censorship professionals.
Just imagine, now, every other House committee copying this template, for:

- National Science Foundation grants
- State Dept grants
- USAID grants
- National Endowment for Democracy grants
- DHS grants
- & heck, we can dream, CDC/NIH misinfo grants

Censors would be *crushed.*
Read 5 tweets
Jun 20
Reminder: it’s quite conceivable Hunter Biden was a witting or unwitting intermediary for CIA activities in Ukraine to pry Ukraine’s gas market off of Russia.

Conceivable CIA leaned on Justice Dept to avoid trial.

Saying this bc of huge CIA-Burisma ties to censorship industry.
Reminder: Hunter Biden joined the Burisma board in May 2014, just 1 month after the CIA-backed war in the Donbas broke out.

Hunter Biden was on the Chairman’s Advisory Committee of NDI, a famous, WaPo-acknowledged multi-decade CIA-out. ImageImageImageImage
On Burisma’s board w/ Hunter was Bush-era CIA director Cofer Black.

Cofer Black won the CIA’s highest award for achievement. 30 years CIA + State Dept.

Black advised Burisma on “security & development” corporate goals that happen to overlap w/ CIA strategic goals in the region. ImageImageImageImage
Read 6 tweets
Jun 18
Fascinating: ImageImage
So “Digital ID Tied To Bank Accounts” is a project of CIA funding conduit USAID in:

-Ukraine, NATO’s top regional focus

-Estonia, the most captured NATO vassal state in the Balkans

-Colombia, the CIA’s beachhead in South America

-Zanzibar, a 60-year hotbed of US covert ops
It appears the State Dept froze $500 million in funding to Zanzibar in 2016 when the wrong guy won the election there:

reuters.com/article/uk-tan…
Read 5 tweets

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