\u201c<\/em>British and American state intelligence agencies are \u2018weaponizing truth\u2019 to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced \u2018cyber war\u2019 to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nCyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9\/11 \u2018war on terror\u2019 are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting \u2018vaccine hesitancy\u2019 and information related to COVID-19 that runs counter to their state narratives \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe UK\u2019s GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters<\/em>5<\/span><\/sup>] \u2018has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states\u2019 and \u2018is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State\u2019 to do so.<\/em>6<\/span><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn addition, the UK government has ordered the British military\u2019s 77th Brigade, which specializes in \u2018information warfare,\u2019 to launch an online campaign to counter \u2018deceptive narratives\u2019 about COVID-19 vaccine candidates.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe newly announced GCHQ \u2018cyber war\u2019 will not only take down \u2018anti-vaccine propaganda\u2019 but will also seek to \u2018disrupt the operations of the cyberactors responsible for it, including encrypting their data so they cannot access it and blocking their communications with each other.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the \u2018Five Eyes\u2019 alliance (U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such \u2018propaganda\u2019 sites hosted within their borders.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nVaccine Discussion \u2014 A National Security Risk?<\/h2>\n According to a November 9, 2020, report in The Times,7<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0the British \u201cgovernment regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer.\u201d<\/p>\nIn July 2020, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, told The Independent8<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0he considers anti-vaxxers \u201can extremist group that pose a national security risk,\u201d because \u201conce someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it\u2019s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism.\u201d<\/p>\nIn other words, Ahmed implies that people who question the safety and necessity of a COVID-19 vaccine might be prone to violent extremism. His statement is no small matter, considering Ahmed is also a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government\u2019s Commission for Countering Extremism.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems that, from the perspective of the UK national-security state, those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental COVID-19 vaccine candidates (all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Webb writes.9<\/span><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Government With Help of Big Tech Is Seizing Online Domains<\/h2>\n U.S. intelligence is also part of this campaign. According to Webb, the U.S. government will help the GCHQ determine whether a website is part of a foreign disinformation operation or not. While the GCHQ claims that only foreign state actors will be targeted, and not \u201cordinary citizens,\u201d there\u2019s little evidence to suggest citizens won\u2019t be swept up in this information blackout operation.<\/p>\n
For example, November 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had seized 27 online domains \u2014 including that of the American Herald Tribune \u2014 suspected of being founded by Iranian interests.10<\/span>,<\/sup>11<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The domain seizures are said to be part of the U.S. enforcement of sanctions against Iran.<\/p>\nIn early September 2020, 92 online domains suspected of belonging to Iraqi government-backed militia were similarly seized.12<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0All of these DOJ seizures were done in collaboration with the FBI, Google, Facebook and Twitter.13<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0As reported by Webb:14<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n\u201c<\/em>The U.S. government made this claim about the\u00a0<\/em>American Herald Tribune\u00a0<\/em>after the cybersecurity firm FireEye, a U.S. government contractor, stated that it had \u2018moderate confidence\u2019 that the site had been \u2018founded in Iran\u2019 \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government, a government contractor, or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council\u2019s DFRLab that a given site is \u2018foreign propaganda\u2019 in order to launch a cyber offensive against it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSuch concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources \u2026 bluntly stated that \u2018GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda,\u2019 which suggests that the targets of GCHQ\u2019s new cyber war will, in fact, be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected \u2018foreign\u2019 origin.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe \u2018foreign\u2019 aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ\u2019s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nClues that U.S. intelligence supports this cyberwar against the public can also be found in a white paper15<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0published in the InfraGard Journal in June 2019. InfraGard, founded in 1996, is a nonprofit national security group affiliated with the FBI.16<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0They collaborate on a variety of educational and information-sharing initiatives \u201cthat help mitigate threats.\u201d17<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nThe InfraGard paper18<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0claims the American anti-vaccine movement is being orchestrated by Russian government-aligned organizations seeking to \u201csow discontent and distrust in topics and initiatives that serve U.S. interests,\u201d19<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and that \u201cThe biggest threat in controlling an outbreak comes from those who categorically reject vaccination.\u201d20<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nDoes InfraGard speak for the FBI? Not directly, but considering it serves as \u201ca public-private partnership among U.S. businesses, individuals, and the FBI,\u201d according to an FBI spokesperson,21<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0it\u2019s bound to have some degree of influence.<\/p>\nAccording to The Guardian, the unnamed FBI spokesperson noted that \u201cIt is important to distinguish among the statements, views and comments made by official FBI representatives and InfraGard Members.\u201d He or she declined to comment on or clarify the FBI\u2019s stance on whether vaccine safety advocates might be classified as a national security threat.<\/p>\n
This Site Identified as a Cyberwar Target<\/h2>\n Five sites specifically targeted by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as promoting extremism that poses a national security risk to the U.K. are:<\/p>\n
\nMercola.com<\/li>\n Children\u2019s Health Defense (run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)<\/li>\n The Informed Consent Action Network<\/li>\n The Organic Consumers Association<\/li>\n The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIn fact, the organization specifically named yours truly as being one of just two people responsible for funding the \u201canti-vaxx nonprofits\u201d that have the greatest reach. Financier Bernard Selz is the other. Selz allegedly finances The HighWire and Physicians for Informed Consent, as well as \u201csome of the tech giants that make the modern anti-vaxx movement possible.\u201d22<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nIt was really entertaining to read what the Centre for Countering Digital Hate wrote about me in their report, as I consider their disparagement a badge of honor. I encourage you to read it.23<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For example, they commented that we have a decreasing Facebook following. Well that isn\u2019t surprising at all as we haven\u2019t posted for 18 months as a part of our \u201cForget Facebook\u201d campaign. As noted by Webb in her article:24<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n\u201cIt is worth pointing out that many so-called \u2018anti-vaxxers\u2019 are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels \u2018anti-vaxxer\u2019 and \u2018anti-vaccine\u2019 misleading.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nGiven that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making COVID-19 vaccines donate heavily to politicians in both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIntelligence Apparatus Weaponizes \u2018Truth\u2019<\/h2>\n Indeed, it certainly appears as though the U.K. and U.S. are now lumping enemies of the state and enemies of private companies into the same category. If you criticize one you criticize the other. In short, if you impede or endanger the profitability of private companies, you are now viewed as a national security threat.<\/p>\nPrimer\u2019s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of \u2018truth,\u2019 as defined by the state.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\nImportantly, the right and freedom to critique one\u2019s government is a hallmark of democracy, so this state-sponsored war against truthful information is in turn evidence of a radical detour from democratic rule. Technocratic totalitarianism is quite literally banging at our front door. As reported by Webb:25<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n\u201cSimilar efforts are underway in the United States, with the U.S. military recently funding a CIA-backed firm \u2014 stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State \u2014 to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting \u2018suspected\u2019 disinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis and the U.S. military-led COVID-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn early October, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command announced that they had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the U.S.-based \u2018machine intelligence\u2019 company Primer. Per the press release,26<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u2018Primer will develop the first-ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess\u00a0<\/em>suspected disinformation \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPrimer\u2019s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of \u2018truth,\u2019 as defined by the state \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAccording to Primer\u2019s director of science, John Bohannon, \u2018Primer will be integrating bot detection, synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD \u2026 This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter COVID-19-related disinformation in near-real time \u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nGiven that the Covid-19 vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer is expected to be approved by the end of November, it appears that the U.S. national-security state, which is essentially running Operation Warp Speed, along with \u2018trusted messengers\u2019 in mass media, is preparing to enter the second phase of its communications strategy, one in which news organizations and journalists who raise legitimate concerns about Warp Speed will be de-platformed to make way for the \u2018required\u2019 saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media landscape.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nProtect Your Human Rights<\/h2>\n As mentioned at the beginning, health and geopolitics are far from separate issues. One is feeding into the other, as mass vaccination is being used as a way to implement a whole host of \u201cnew world order\u201d directives, including the introduction of an all-digital centralized currency model tied to digital IDs and a social credit system.<\/p>\n
Together, all of these bits and pieces will allow an unelected technocratic elite to dictate every facet of your life, from where you live to what you own (which\u00a0according to the World Economic Forum will be nothing<\/a>). For an introduction to this globalist takeover, which is now being rolled out at a rapid clip, see James Corbett\u2019s report featured in \u201c What You Need to Know About the Great Reset<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\nAs for the sharing of information, it seems inevitable that the attacks on Mercola.com will intensify. Already, Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have either throttled down or banned our online presence, making it very difficult to find and share our content.<\/p>\n
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Remember, your personal data is being used against you. It\u2019s fed into machine learning programs that train artificial intelligence, which is then used to manipulate you and shape your perception of the world. This technology is so sophisticated, most don\u2019t even realize it\u2019s happening in general, let alone that it\u2019s happening to them specifically.<\/p>\n
To say that we\u2019re living in extraordinarily dangerous times would be an understatement, but if we keep our wits about us and continue to share the facts and coordinate our resistance, we still have a chance to turn away from the dystopian future that has been planned for us. For some encouragement, listen to Kennedy Jr.\u2019s speech in \u201cHope Despite Censorship<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n