{"id":43103,"date":"2019-01-24T06:47:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43103"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:47:34","slug":"integrity-initiative-big-brothers-minions-or-flim-flam-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43103","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Initiative: Big Brother’s Minions \u2013 or Flim-Flam Artists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Integrity Initiative: Big Brother’s Minions \u2013 or Flim-Flam Artists?<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I’m not sure what to make of Integrity Initiative<\/a> (what a great gaslighting<\/a> name: integrity<\/em>? Hah hah: no, just furtive paid propaganda and opinion steering). But I watch the unfolding revelations with fascination. Certainly, the whole thing is bigger than it seemed at first and all the documents being revealed appear to be true<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the one hand, it looks like a group of superannuated old gits gassing on about how warfare today involves everything, especially “information warfare”, while last century it was only bullets<\/a>. (Ever read any, say, Sun Tzu or Clausewitz? Or, speaking of the last century, Goebbels? How about Bernays?) And how we concerned individuals have voluntarily come together (assisted by \u00a32+ million of the taxpayer’s money) to save democracy. Unpaid, unasked and unplotted. Completely conspiracy-free in fact. (Too late, the documents are out<\/a>). In short, that the essence of democracy is never to doubt what the Ministry of Truth tells you. There’s a na\u00efve and bubble-like quality to this: they never think any thoughts but their own. So maybe these guys, instead of kveching at the mirror and shouting at the TV set, have figured out how to flim-flam the government into supplementing their pensions in return for pages of conspiracy-babble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or are we looking at something rather bigger?\u00a0As John Helmer points out, there is a long history of British intelligence operating behind such “independent” and “disinterested” cover<\/a>.\u00a0Did they help start the Russia hysteria in the USA<\/a>? Did they not only\u00a0play up the Skripal affair but actually create it<\/a>? Did they have an effect on\u00a0Spain and Catalonia<\/a>?\u00a0Infiltrate Sanders’ campaign<\/a>? What’s this “impose changes over the heads of vested interests. NB we did this in the 1930s<\/a>” stuff? Is that a reference to the Zinoviev Letter forgery? (1924<\/a>\u00a0actually, but they don’t look like people who bother to check details).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Integrity Initiative: Big Brother’s Minions \u2013 or Flim-Flam Artists? I’m not sure what to make of Integrity Initiative (what a great gaslighting name: integrity? Hah hah: no, just furtive paid propaganda and opinion steering). But I watch the unfolding revelations with fascination. Certainly, the whole thing is bigger than it seemed at first and all the documents being revealed appear to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2472,23264,24091,17074,15282,21280,2080,827],"class_list":["post-43103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-brother","tag-integrity-initiative","tag-misiniformation","tag-patrick-armstrong","tag-russiagate","tag-strategic-culture-foundatioin","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43104,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43103\/revisions\/43104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}