Argh.
Thanks, Slings and Arrows.
Posted on 02/24/2014 5:29:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The good news is that government work groups specialize in creating incredibly indecipherable charts and graphs, present them to each other, nobody understands a damn thing but everybody nods shrewdly in approval. But they had a meeting, so they “worked”.
Argh.
Thanks, Slings and Arrows.
As long as they don’t TROLL here on FR........
Remember, all this comes from a British red. He is an enemy of America. The only question left is, is he working for someone or some nation.
Phil Agee and Mark Hosenball did this in the 1970’s/80’s before being kicked out of England.
Know your history!
Keeper of Odd Knowledge?
And how does that work to undermine?
This would be a better story if it named someone who has been targeted with this technique.
No specific instances where the “honey trap” was successfully employed is mentioned, but a so-called “Royal Concierge” program took advantage of hotel reservation systems to track the physical location of foreign diplomats and issue “daily alerts to analysts working on governmental hard targets.” Royal Concierge then attempts to manipulate the reservation so the diplomat in question stays at a hotel friendly to the GCHQ’s SIGINT (signal-intelligence) program. Others are tracked so they can be monitored in-person.
http://rt.com/news/gchq-sex-dirty-tricks-snowden-116/
BFLR
its late in the evening and I want to go through this post and try understand what the point is. So I’ll ping myself for tomorrow. Ping!
Sinai Desert and the ‘Haversack Ruse’[edit]
Meinertzhagen was frequently credited with a surprise attack known as the Haversack Ruse in October 1917: during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, according to his diary, he let a haversack containing false British battle plans fall into Ottoman military hands, thereby bringing about the British victory in the Battle of Beersheba and Gaza.[21] The incident and attack are depicted in the 1987 film The Lighthorsemen. “Near the end of 1917, having participated in no battles, he was ordered back to England for reassignment [and] found office duty as dreary as ever.”[22] It was also the inspiration for a scene in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles in which Indy is present when the briefcase with the “plans” is captured.
Though Meinertzhagen’s participation in this ruse has been discounted (he may have neither planned nor executed it), his stories of the ruse themselves would have a major impact on events in the Second World War. According to Garfield, it appears the idea was that of Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. Belgrave and the rider was Arthur Neate. It inspired Winston Churchill to create the London Controlling Section, which planned countless Allied deception campaigns during the war, and such operations as Mincemeat and diversions covering D-Day were influenced by the Haversack Ruse.[23]
I like the Disrupt tips.
I just hate being ignored.
Ocean-Personality-Assessment
http://www.testsonthenet.com/atctests/Ocean-Personality-Assessment-Specimen1.htm
I didn’t read much of it, but GCHQ is a British agency: “The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information …..”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCHQ).
That is why the spelling is British.
Obama czar proposed government 'infiltrate' social network sites
If they can get you to distrust everything, then they will be the only ones with the ‘truth’
They DO.
It's been very effective too.
As the article makes clear, it's not just disinformation. Many good Freepers have left because they could not stand the personal attacks.
Stupid and/or extreme comments (and articles) have also been posted in order to provide examples that can be used to discredit FreeRepublic. This has also worked.
You may even notice the site runs slow sometimes...
It's a wonder FreeRepublic is still around.
Reminds me of dissecting frogs in high school biology. I liked the part of applying electrical current to make the frog’s foot wiggle, but I don’t see that part in the digram. Guess I’ll need to experiment at the next delphi meeting.
6 key principles of influence by Robert Cialdini[edit]
1.Reciprocity – People tend to return a favor, thus the pervasiveness of free samples in marketing. In his conferences, he often uses the example of Ethiopia providing thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid to Mexico just after the 1985 earthquake, despite Ethiopia suffering from a crippling famine and civil war at the time. Ethiopia had been reciprocating for the diplomatic support Mexico provided when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. The good cop/bad cop strategy is also based on this principle.
2.Commitment and Consistency – If people commit, orally or in writing, to an idea or goal, they are more likely to honor that commitment because of establishing that idea or goal as being congruent with their self-image. Even if the original incentive or motivation is removed after they have already agreed, they will continue to honor the agreement. Cialdini notes Chinese brainwashing on American prisoners of war to rewrite their self-image and gain automatic unenforced compliance. See cognitive dissonance.
3.Social Proof – People will do things that they see other people are doing. For example, in one experiment, one or more confederates would look up into the sky; bystanders would then look up into the sky to see what they were seeing. At one point this experiment aborted, as so many people were looking up that they stopped traffic. See conformity, and the Asch conformity experiments.
4.Authority – People will tend to obey authority figures, even if they are asked to perform objectionable acts. Cialdini cites incidents such as the Milgram experiments in the early 1960s and the My Lai massacre.
5.Liking – People are easily persuaded by other people that they like. Cialdini cites the marketing of Tupperware in what might now be called viral marketing. People were more likely to buy if they liked the person selling it to them. Some of the many biases favoring more attractive people are discussed. See physical attractiveness stereotype.
6.Scarcity – Perceived scarcity will generate demand. For example, saying offers are available for a “limited time only” encourages sales.
If these people are so smart, are they smart enough to stop and wonder if hell is real?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.