Do you know the date of the Watergate break-in? Do you know the date of Richard Nixon's resignation?
Why did everyone believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11?
Here's Mike Ryan from Australia's Gold Coast, with special guest Trevor Fitzgibbon. They'll talk about something called the “information operation” (IO) for the greater part of an hour. With things at the time of the interview (23 February) only hours ahead of culmination in Ukraine, this talk - and thereby grasping what's being played out by the MSM, and why, and how - becomes essential listening.
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zjd2s-11b4d6a
Mike begins by laying out the typically incongruous background to the narrative that the IO people have to work with. It's all about "selling" a narrative.
An important element of the "information operation" is that the fake narrative needn't make actual sense, something discovered by the time of the "WMDs in Iraq" hoax. The "information operation" builds on the Goebbels "Big Lie" but goes further - much much further. Building associations is key - mention 9/11 and Saddam together, and often enough, and people will help out, creating the narrative themselves. The CDC rewards local television outlets for simply mentioning vaccines in seemingly casual conversation. And so forth.
Smoke & Mirrors
Trevor comes in after a few minutes of intro. "Hardly anything you hear in the MSM is the truth", Trevor tells Mike for starters. He names the defunct "SCL Group" as the main manufacturers of the propaganda once upon a time. The British SCL Group had, as its affiliate, Cambridge Analytica, a name that may be more familiar to many.
SCL Group was a "behavioural" organisation that, along with Joel Harding from the US, created the information operation in the Ukraine "that put forth and spewed ridiculous amounts of propaganda, not just to influence a whole nation-state, but the key with an information operation is that it essentially convinces a whole population to act a certain way and do certain things".
That somewhat wider description can be used to define "information operation" - it's not enough to feed a false narrative ("fake news") - its ultimate goal is to change the way people behave.
That's what's been happening in Ukraine, says Trevor.
The people who implemented the information operation in the Ukraine were hired by the Clinton campaign, says Trevor. "That's where you got the Russian hacking Russian hacking Russian hacking, over and over again."
"This is bigger than presidential distraction. This is something that has been centralized as a core principle, a core goal, of the Democratic National Committee, the DNC."
"This is something that's been there for a while, heavily funded by the Clinton campaign, and now it's being carried over, and now you have the Biden family with a lot of financial ties. So it's not just a distraction, I would say."
"The War on Terror was a magnificent operation", Mike says. "Then when Covid came along it was like the whole op on steroids multiplied by two, and now we have... There's going to be a conflict, the media's been pushing for it, they've used every optic to their advantage."
Can They Let Go?
"Do you see us getting out of this for a long time?" Mike asks. "Or do you think we're in the palms of the hands of these oligarchs all over, whether they're in the US (Biden, Inc) or whether they're in Russia, Ukraine, whether they're in China..."
"These despots who are ruling the world: do you think they'll ever let go?"
"That's a tough question!" Trevor admits. "You've got essentially three investment firms that own everything - BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street. They're decoupled from nation states. They have no moral compass. It makes for chaos and information operations."
"Covid and the vaccine was the first time in my lifetime that I've seen them take it global."
Bought-In and Boxed-Up
"I look around at a lot of my former colleagues, and to see how bought-in and boxed-up they are with all of this stuff: it's demoralizing, it is shocking... It's going take a lot more people dying from the vaccine before they start to see what's happening."
A Survivor
Trevor is himself a survivor - of both Covid and an information operation.
Given Trevor's prestigious list of prestigious clients, it's little wonder people came after him, not so much to get at him but to get at his clients. The enigmatic "Jimmy's Llama" looked into this curious case just the other day.
https://jimmysllama.com/2022/02/20/20054/
Disgraced whistleblower attorney Jesselyn Radack seems to have been one of the spearheads of the coordinated effort to "cancel" Trevor. The power of the op can be seen in the fact that, although Radack was sloppy in the extreme, and ended up being reprimanded by a court, and, as a result, today cannot practice law ever again in the manner lawyers are accustomed to, the op still worked - to an extent, at least.
But Trevor's been fighting back. They got to Assange, they got to Jake Appelbaum, they almost got to me, he says.
As for Covid, Trevor had his bout as well - and is lucky to have survived, and so today knows the truth about early treatment and the vaccine hoax.
He was initially sent away without treatment, but he fought back, and ever since has been working behind the scenes to raise awareness of these and other issues.