Spotting Intentional Manipulation
Mass Media is a Psychological Operation
Welcome, once again, into the asylum, my dear readers. Almost all of you know that we no longer have much news in America or in the world, just a series of psyops designed to keep us docile, controlled, distracted, and divided. This is largely achieved because nearly all mainstream TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers in the entire country are owned by just six companies (here) and the majority stake holder in each and every media giant is a company called BlackRock or a company called Vanguard. BlackRock is publicly traded, while Vanguard is privately held. This is interesting because as a publicly held company Blackrock is subject to much more scrutiny and regulation of its books and dealings, having to make them public, whereas as a privately held company Vanguard has no such requirements. I say this is interesting because Vanguard owns Blackrock, or at least a majority stake in the company. Ultimately, one company owns a majority stake in all of the mainstream media.
This becomes frighteningly obvious when every local news agency across the country use the exact same script to report on events even when they are allegedly using different sources (here, here, and here). ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC all use the same script. While this appears to have been a blatant attempt at manipulation by the Sinclair Media group, it highlights the danger of centralized control of information. While this was very ham-handed, I assure you there are many only slightly less absurd manipulations playing out almost every day in the mainstream media. Half of what I write is targeted at pointing out how we are lied to and how both the government and media are controlled by the same globalist interests.
I was asked the other day how I knew what the media was selling with COVID was garbage by April 2020 and how I seem to be so good at sorting fact from garbage in the media. As I was explaining it to them it occurred to me I have never explained it to you, my faithful readers. There is a tool used by intelligence agencies, advertising agencies, and many other organizations called the NCI Engineered Reality Scoring System (the system). This is used both to identify psychological operations of opponents and to score your own psychological operations to predict their effectiveness.
The system uses a five-point scale across twenty categories with a five being overwhelmingly present and a one being not present at all. The categories are:
1. Timing
2. Emotional Manipulation
3. Uniform Messaging
4. Missing Information
5. Simplistic Narratives
6. Tribal Division
7. Authority Overload
8. Call for Urgent Action
9. Overuse of Novelty
10. Financial/Political Gain
11. Suppression of Dissent
12. False Dilemmas
13. Bandwagon Effect
14. Emotional Repetition
15. Cherry-Picked Data
16. Logical Fallacies
17. Manufactured Outrage
18. Framing Techniques
19. Rapid Behavior Shifts
20. Historical Parallels
The system works by judging a story or group of stories on a topic by each category and then adding up the scores 0-25 probably not a psychological operation, 26-50 moderate chance of a psychological operation, 51-75 strongly suggests a psychological operation, 76-100 it is a psychological operation intended to shape not only your perception but your behavior.
I am now going to take you through the categories, and we will judge the reporting around climate change using this system.
Timing: Ask yourself does it seem suspicious, has this story been out there a while and just now became critical, is there another story of equal or more importance that suddenly disappeared with these stories rise in prominence. I rate climate change 4 in this category. Climate change is always floating around in the background and has been since the middle 1980s when it went from global cooling to global warming. It seems to me any time there is a story that comes up that might be counter productive to the current narrative, suddenly there is some new super important finding on climate change that takes over the headlines for a few days until they can move on from the undesirable story.
Emotional Manipulation: I score this a 5. Because it is always looming disaster, coastal cities flooded in the next 10-12 years, if we don’t do something it will be too late in the next 10-12 years. The funny thing is no matter how much time has passed we always still only have 10-12 years to do something. No matter that our coastal cities were not flooded by rising sea water in 2000, 2012, or 2020 they will for sure be underwater by 2030 something (here). It is always if you don’t, you and everyone you know will die.
Uniform Messaging: I give this a 3. Most all of the networks report all of the stories the exact same way, but occasionally one will have a sceptic on who derails the narrative. This is typically only to smear and belittle the sceptic, but the ideas are sometimes presented. Also, occasionally an article will be run that offers counter evidence, even if it isn’t highlighted or widely reported (here and here).
Missing Information: I rate this a 5 because while the climate people will talk all day about rising CO2 and melting sea ice, they fail to mention things like CO2 has been higher when the climate was cooler than it is today. They don’t tell you that the greening effect of CO2 in the atmosphere helps plants grow and contributes to the massive increases we have seen in food production. They don’t tell you that there has been no measurable change in arctic ice since 2012, and they leave out much more (here).
Simplistic Narratives: I give this a 5 because the beginning and the end is that humans living on the planet produce sufficient CO2 to cause warming. The problem is climate is extremely complex and we don’t fully understand how it works and have only been able to monitor it reliably for just over 100 years (here). The idea that one input is the primary cause of an observable output is extremely simplistic.
Tribal Division: Again, I give this a 5. If you have even reasonable questions, you are a climate denier. You either buy it all, without thinking about it, or you are evil. With some even suggesting doing harm to those who do not believe. The United Nations (UN), World Economic Forum (WEF), and other groups want to make questioning the climate narrative a crime (here, here, and here).
Authority Overload: This category is clearly a 5. All we hear is the science is settled, all the experts agree, and so on. When that isn’t true. In reality, science is never settled. Even things that were once thought to be constant, like the speed of light, have in recent years proven to have not always been constant. Once science is settled and unquestionable, it is religion, based on faith rather than data. We also hear the false claim that 97% of all experts agree when in fact they don’t (here).
Call for Urgent Action: This is a 5. There is never enough time and we are always just years away from a disaster. We need to end the modern world tomorrow in exchange for inefficient, unready alternative power sources or all life on the planet will end or something like that. We have all heard it (here and here).
Overuse of Novelty: I give this also a 5. It doesn’t matter what happens. Summer is hot, wildfire, or there is a hurricane. Even if average temperatures were hotter thirty years ago, an arsonist set the fires that spread due to poor forest management, or storms are average. It is always the worst ever and always because of climate change (here, here, and here).
Financial/Political Gain: This is a 5. There are massive financial and political gains to be had from climate change. Al Gore alone has profited at minimum 200 million dollars, and there are billions and billions spent on it every year because we must do something. Not to mention the political power you get with all the monitoring and tracking tech built into all the every day green items like electric cars (here, here, here, and here). Bottom line, as the climate narrative progresses many people are becoming filthy rich and most people are becoming vastly less free.
Here at the halfway point, I score 47. It isn’t looking good for climate change. Shall we continue?
Suppression of Dissent: This is an easy 5. Before we talked about how many in positions of global authority and influence are seeking to make questioning climate change a crime punishable by prison. It is to the point where if you pose a reasonable question to a true believer, rather than hold a conversation, they insult you and disregard you. Let us not forget climate gate, where it was proven research contrary to the climate change narrative was suppressed, but that scientist who questioned the methods of climate researchers had their careers destroyed simply to stop them from asking questions (here).
False Dilemmas: Again, this is a 5. We are constantly given the option of accepting all proposed solutions blindly or we all die. No time for questions or debate. It is give up the modern world as we know it or die.
Bandwagon Effect: This is also a 5. How often do you hear the false 97% of scientist claim or the settled science claim, so that it is clear only morons and the uncool don’t have faith in the rising sea levels?
Emotional Repetition: This is also a 5. All of the appeals are for your children or your grandchildren. If you ask questions, you are killing the world, you monster.
Cherry-Picked Data: This is 5. Almost all the climate model data exclude the majority of temperature sensors and favor those in or near metropolitan areas because they produce higher readings (here and here).
Logical Fallacies: This is a 2. While they do make some fallacies, the primary one being correlation is not causation. If the things they said were facts as presented and not doctored, then they would be mostly consistent and logical. The primary problem is integrity, nor poor logic.
Manufactured Outrage: This is a 5. All I have to say is ‘How Dare You!’ and you get the image of an autistic child being put in the public spotlight for no other reason than to try and stir emotions and build outrage.
Framing Techniques: I also give this a 5. Climate stories are always framed in such a way that even when we are in an increased cycle of solar output and things are getting warmer if those facts are presented, they are also discounted by the audience. Even when they are not discounted by all scientists.
Rapid Behavior Shifts: This is a 5 because in a relatively short period of time we moved from global cooling in the 70s to global warming in the 80s-90s to climate change in the 00s. We are now circling back to global warming will make an ice age (here). I thought all the ice was melting… Um.. Ice ages are cold so that is good right.. Oh well their predictions have been 100% wrong to date, so I am not losing sleep over it.
Historical Parallels: I give this a 0 because while I am sure that there is something in history that could be stretched to match, this has been so long and wide spread as I am not sure how close that would be.
In the end we have a total score of 84. So, in my opinion, global warming/climate change is a psychological operation. This is intended to shape our perception of reality and act according to the designers’ intentions. It is important to know that while I do not believe in manmade climate change, the system doesn’t indicate truth or fiction, only manipulation. Often when testing something I know to be true I find it is also presented as a psychological operation. So, knowing is just a piece of the puzzle. After we know there is an attempt to manipulate us, then using the evidence of the manipulation it is up to us to determine what the architects are trying to get us to do. In the case of climate change, the UN, WEF, and their lot want us to voluntarily live in a neo-socialist surf dome eating bugs in our 15-minute city while owning nothing and being happy. All in all a bad deal from my perspective, and I have written extensively about that.
This constant manipulation can be extremely dangerous. Nowhere is this more obvious than with the ways the young have been manipulated. I think between 16 and 25 are perhaps the most critical development decade in our lives. This is the period where we really seek a purpose and solidify our self-image of who we are and what we believe. To those ends, this is also a time of significant experimentation, exploration, and openness to ideas as we seek to find the path we will follow most of the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, much of our education system, all the way through college, have been captured and the youth are exposed to psychological operations to bend their gender, support terrorists, and believe violence is an acceptable way to deal with opposition to their ideals because disagreement is violence. From fighting federal law enforcement upholding immigration laws, shutting down college campuses, or destroying cities in a fit of peek over a black man who overdosed on fentanyl while in police custody because he ate it all rather than be caught with it (here, here, and here).
All advertising campaigns are psychological operations trying to get you to buy something from someone and always have been, but now if you watch almost all of the news, almost all of the shows, and everything else is also geared towards shaping your thoughts and actions. I use the system all the time and it was from evaluating the COVID media with the system that inside of a month I was completely sure it was a psychological operation and then I started digging to try and find out why. After a little more than a year of that the Asylum was born, mostly because I just had to tell somebody what I found. If nothing else the system will help you evaluate information more critically. So, I hope this explanation helps. Here is a link to a full system form with explanations (here).
Ephesians 5:15-17
15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
God Bless you
-Sam