Military Grade Persuasion

Don’t let the cute name fool you that’s another persuasion trick.

Yet while the government’s medical scientists have been front and centre on the public stage almost every day since last March, the behavioural scientists have mostly been operating under the radar. If you know where to look, though, evidence of the behaviour-nudging team keeps peeking out under all those public proclamations from Canada’s COVID-19 crisis managers.

When Trudeau and the premiers use their podiums to calm fears or tell hard truths about the pandemic, for example, their words don’t just come from hunch or political instincts. Reams of behavioural data is being collected by government throughout the pandemic, on everything from people’s general emotions about COVID-19 to their willingness to get vaccinated.

Most people don’t have a clue how their thoughts have and are being constantly manipulated. Even when the Toronto Star tells them it’s being done. At this point the corporate press is no better than Tobacco execs.

50 Replies to “Military Grade Persuasion”

    1. “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” – Milton Friedman.

      We should all be wary, very wary. The Government’s ultimate goal remains a ‘Great Reset’.

    1. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”

      ― Edward Bernays, Propaganda

  1. An actual propaganda research and dissemination office. Who’d’ve thunk?

  2. People who pay for cable are actively funding this military grade persuasion.
    The are essentially people living in the Matrix, and are prone to becoming an Agent at any time, indeed, most of them already are.

    1. Cable? Anyone who has a phone or a smart TV is being monitored for every web page and every click. Not even by government. Private companies collect the data, collate it and sell it.

      Government -buys- the data. With your money.

  3. “Tam went on to explain how people’s views on vaccines are shaped by where they get their information”
    Unfortunately ‘people’s views’ are being shaped without the sketchiest idea of why experts who have worked with vaccines are skeptical about these treatments. Why have all those experts been silenced on social media and why is it these treatments have been able to call themselves vaccines when they’ve been shown to be nothing of the sort, but are simply trading in the good name ‘vaccination’ has earned over the years?

    1. I had someone ask me where I got my information on invermectin, from Facebook? I replied, no, from National Institute of Health’s Pubmed page. The person replied saying you can’t trust the internet you know.

  4. Herd animals. Government looks upon us as herd animals. Authoritarians have won.

  5. The push on the vaccines has changed from “It’s good for so do it!” to more subtle persuasion. My doctor’s office called to ask me to come in and have a sit down to talk to the doctor directly and get my vaccine. I declined and insisted on a telephone conversation. My doctor actually behaved in a very ethical fashion. He asked us to explain why we were refusing and we gave him our personal risk/benefit position. He then said he accepted that and no pressure. However there is no doubt in my mind the government informed him of every patient in his practice who had not been vaccinated and he was instructed to contact those patients and urge them to get the vaccine. This happened at the same time a huge advertising campaign began with doctors in their uniforms looking so serious and thoughtful and saying “You trusted us to fix your broken leg or deliver your baby, so trust us now and get vaccinated.”

    Thing is I know doctors who dissent lose hospital privileges and are otherwise punished. I know the professional association in Ontario and BC have publicly stated doctors who don’t push public health requirements or who contradict them will be punished. The result is even though my family doctor behaved in a reasonable and ethical fashion in that instance, I do not trust him on this issue further that I can pick him up and throw him.

    Furthermore, if a health department official told me water is liquid at room temperature I would go check my tap. Those who say this entire pandemic was a test to see how compliant people can be are probably right.

    1. Doctors the same Fuckers who used to shill for Tobacco Companies encouraging smoking. Doctors the same ones who gave Hitler the Final Solution.

  6. If you have not already done so, read the CBC articles reporting on the inquest detailing what happened in the Quebec nursing homes. There you will read of staggering incompetence, horrific mismanagement and some outright murders by government public health officials. CBC keeps emphasizing how the inquest is not about assigning blame but rather about preventing such an event from happening again but even though I am not a believer in capital punishment government officials responsible for things like ignoring requests for PPE or directing patients be given overdoses of drugs should be hung, literally hung. Well maybe a firing squad.

    And these monsters care more about covering their assess than helping Canadians and they are using psychology to manipulate us. Never forget they are monsters.

    1. It would be a shame to waste a bullet. Reduce, reuse, recycle Mr. Burch.

      Did you know that fat can be made into biodiesel? Just an interesting fact I recalled and put here for no particular reason.

      1. You’re right. The rope can be reused multiple times and biodegrades naturally.

  7. Military Grade, perhaps.

    When I started my adventures in parenting years ago I did a lot of reading about parenting and child psychology. 1-2-3 Magic was a useful, practical guide to child behavior modification. It is best known for “timeouts” and how to stop bad behavior and start good behavior. It also discusses the 6 most common manipulation techniques used by children (and adults): Badgering, intimidation, threats , martyrdom (guilt) the butter-up and physical tactics.

    From timeouts (lockdowns) to the 6 common manipulation techniques…our government has used them all and more. Since most behavioral buttons and triggers are installed in childhood, this makes sense in a perverse and highly unethical way.

    How to teach people to stop being so easily manipulated may be the important question.

  8. It is all about division. Divide and conquer is the oldest strategy to gain and retain POWER. The more categories you have, or create, the more you can divide populations. Thus RETAINING POWER. Once everyone can see that POWER, they WILL unite and correct the power balance. Then it might get a little messy for those trying to maintain THEIR power. That is why there is racial division on TV non-stop EVERY DAY. Shut off your TV, cancel your cable, go outside and get some summer sun. You will soon find the virus exists ONLY in your TV.

    1. OT64, sadly, it also seems to exist in businesses that force me to wear a mask if I wish to patronize them, and so on.

  9. Resistance is futile?
    Maybe, but compliance is surrender and death to your liberty.
    Never trust strangers, wild animals or strange dogs.
    The government is a whole other level of mistrust. Call it paranoia and you’re on the right trail.

    1. I repeat.
      Sentience is no wheres near common enough.
      Pareto principle prevails always.

      The sentient of North America see their daily media/government forecast a beautiful, sunny, cloudless day and immediately grab their rain coat, rain hat, galoshes, umbrella and if it’s the CBC, possibly a rowboat.

      Such ZERO level of credibility is now owned by every politician, government, bureaucrat, big corp, big institution, “journalist” and media org, with the medical society and scientific community apparently aspiring to same.

      The truth is harder to find than a 20 year old virgin in Hollywood, while lies outnumber trees, tattoos, fake boobs and lip enhancements.

      If we could only figure out why we keep electing the Trudeaus, the Obamas, the Macrons, the Newsomes and other news anchor quality minds.

      1. Actually, I give too much credit to the medical and science communities.
        The vast majority are as honest and brave and forthright as your typical Librano.
        Just another dumb, servile, subservient, cowardly canuck.

  10. Speaking of manipulation, the most pervasive one was fear. The pushing of constant and never ending fear. Is this a good time for a Frank Herbert reference, I think it is:

    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” – Frank Herbert

    Here’s a rather good take explaining the quote, although the film deviates from the book a bit .

    “The goal of the litany against fear is to help the mind overcome the primal instinct to recoil or flee when facing pain or fear. By controlling their emotional reactions and conquering fear, a person can remain logical, aware, and ready to strike at the real threat, making long-term plans. According to the Bene Gesserit, humans incapable of surpassing their most basic emotions are doomed to be controlled by them, frozen and paralyzed by fear and unable to ascend to a higher level of consciousness. Fear blinds animals and stops them from evolving.
    In the trailer, Reverend Mother Mohiam is seen testing Paul. She asks him: “An animal caught in a trap would gnaw on his own leg to escape. What will you do?”

    1. For anyone who doesn’t read classic sci-fi, the Frank Herbert book referenced above is Dune.

      1. DUNE….the ABSOLUTE greatest & incredibly VAST SciFi Universe ever created:
        By Frank Herbert & later on Finished by his son.

        I’ve read them all – 18 books in total I do believe….twice.
        If you like SciFi – start with the Butlerian Jihad….you will be hooked..!!

        1. I’ve read quite a few, some twice, but not all. Mostly in my younger years. They were quite good.
          IMO, good fiction writers think deeper and clearer than 99% of experts and academics.

        2. Frank had a much deeper insight into the human condition than his son, IMHO, I’d say Frank was also an excellent philosopher as well as author.
          I think some of Dan Simmons’ and Peter F. Hamilton’s work are worthy competitors to Dune. Hyperion and The Dreaming Void come to mind.

          1. Thanks. Might check out on my next beach vacation, assuming free movement “rights ” are ever restored for Canadians.
            I wonder if anyone has hired coyotes to smuggle them from Canada to Mexico. /s

    2. If you like Dune, read also “Years of Rice and Salt” by Kim Stanley Robinson and “Chung Kuo: the Middle Kingdom” by David Wingrove. Both are excellent reads and very germane to the situation the West is in now.

  11. Here’s one way to answer The Question:

    Them, “Have you been vaccinated?”
    Me, “Have you?”
    Them, “Of course!”
    Me, “Good, then we’re both safe.”

  12. Agreed with OZ

    1. Constant Fear porn based 100% on a BS test (PCR) “CASES CASES CASES”..!!

    2. Purposeful trashing of prophylactics that WORK. Fraudulently..but never stated reported.

    3. Continued push to get all of the herd inoculated with experimental non vaccines:
    Witness the oft seen statement: “Covid 19 vaccines go through many tests for safety & effectiveness and are then monitored closely”. from the WHO.
    A Classic pile of UTTER BS.

    4. Flat out COERCION using Lotteries to try to have the 30% of us who do not and have not bought their BULLSHIT

    All of the above truly makes me think we have seen this before…no?

    “arbeit macht frie” comes to mind.

    The Jews being told they were going to work kampfs as they are told to embark the Cattle Cars to Eastern Poland..

    I fully believe the intent here is IDENTICAL and those pushing for it no Different than those who came before. You know damned well who I mean.
    C-10 simply buttressing that and you can bet ANYTHING – ANYONE making statements regardless of platform that is detrimental to their NAZI Narrative will be de-platformed instantly and likely one will get arrested.

    Do ya’ll get it.??? I do and have for quite a while….
    This has been the Elites desire for Near a Century now….the REAL NAZIS are your Global Uber Capitalists….the Same MOFO’s who financed Adolph – now Finance Trudeau et all.

    1. Good video. Subscribed to the channel.
      I like at the end how he says (left amygdala) people get really angry because you’re not as afraid as they are…very true.

  13. They have really gone all out when they didn’t need to. Canadians don’t need much of a push. They’re already stupid and pliable.

    Who follows floor-stickers because a snowboard instructor told them to?

    When this Fourth Reich ends (as history dictates that it must), what will these morons do to hide the fact that they stood in line, wore masks and burned books because their government merely suggested it?

    The shame will be permanent and I hope that Canadians wear it well.

    1. I think this 4th Reich can last a lot longer than its previous incarnations. They are using every trick in every book to pull it off this time, from Machiavelli to Orwell to Huxley to Mao to Stalin to Hitler, combined with much better tech and weaponry, and much more subtle propaganda, not to mention having learned from the failures of the past, like the USSR, and present “successes”, like China and North Korea.

      1. History repeats itself.

        Nothing this injurious and patently absurd can last forever, no matter how much money the Chinese or certain Americans throw at it.

        I’m not in charge of history. I just live by its rules.

    1. Exactly, she was cheerleading the whole Orwellian, state-institutional leftist combined theatre of Covid Stalinism. The media were mindless dupes at their best and complicit agents at their worst.

  14. Dunno where this “military-grade” expression comes from. I was in the military, and 90% of the equipment was crap. Crappy, old sidearms that fell apart. Crappy boots, and after hundred of years of trying, the military is buying civilian boots. Crappy coats; the ones they got right were phased out or verboten for wear in Ottawa. Shitty trucks (except for the deuce and a half), shitty Jeeps (the Iltis). The F-18 was allright but it’s 40 years old. CP 140 is older. Frigates are the same age. Subs? Yeah, they are British military grade allrigh. I could go on. If you want a term to describe a wall of bullshit, use “Liberal-grade”. The current media, government and big business alliance (gee I wonder what that is called when it pushes Socialism) have broken all record of lies, obfucation, bullshit and propaganda.

    1. I bought some surplus clothing to wear in the Arctic as I thought it would be quite good.
      It all went into the garbage can very quickly. The winter jackets weighed a ton and weren’t warm compared to what I could buy commercially.
      It was depressing to see what junk our military is given.

      1. It was probably decent when it was designed in the fifties & bought in the sixties. It was worn for 30 years by troops, then disposed of and sold to surplus. I’ve worn that stuff and you feel like the Michelin man. Walking for a way or dirving with the Muklucks is almost impossible. Compare this stuff to a modern snowmobile jacket or boots with goretex…

  15. That’s how our masters have always preserved their own existence. Lies and manipulation.

    They don’t even tell themselves the truth, except when it has become impossible for them not to see the truth.

    Their response to finally being unable to deny reality or the consequences of their own iniquity was observed in Jonestown—mass murder-suicide.

    It’s just possible that’s what their Chinese friends have really been working on. If the globalists can’t rule the world, a genetically modified pox or lyssavirus will see to it the righteous can’t do so.

  16. I regularly participate in sessions where I watch an hour of video, wearing an EEG sensor, and get paid for it.

    Last week, I sat in on one where it was Covid propaganda and more Covid propaganda. It was so heavy handed I began to think “What if I were a sheep? What would I think of this?” and the answer was “Ya, it would make me feel good.” So the ads were actively reinforcing their decision, lest people start getting vaccine remorse, I suppose. I will be interested to see which ones make the cut.

  17. You often hear comments regarding “How Could The Good German People Have Gone Along With Hitler” or “The German People Had No Idea” all BS. How did Hitler and the Death Camps happen, look around you.
    Just like we all know what is going on, and are powerless as individuals. We are censored and dealing with a massive brainwashing campaign by our governments and their media. All media in Canada has as much Freedom and Integrity as Cuba or the old USSR.
    In the end there will only be one way out.

    1. What you are looking at, Watcher, is a willingness to take part in evil.

      Sure, Canadians are unthinking and unfeeling but with a little nudge, they are happy to turn on their neighbours and support any kind of evil the government establishes.

      Complicity, is my point.

    2. And it gets worse as they crack down on alternative sites with Bill C-10.
      I notice the article explains that those who are hesitant about the vaccine tend to follow alternative news. Well, duh. The main stream news has nothing to say about vaccine risk or alternative therapies. Those who don’t follow alternative news are uninformed.

  18. Nudge hardly seems the correct word for the coercive measures now being implemented towards the “hesitant”.

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