PSYOP aspects of 9/11

[Ed Jewett]

Sunday, February 19, 2012

PSYOP aspects of 9/11

The are many ways to analyze the events of 9/11. On this blog, I've mainly focused on the crime network that benefitted from the events that day. Today, I'd like to focus on some of the PSYOP aspects of 9/11, which is an extremely important angle to consider and understand.

Major Ed Rouse explains the concept of a PSYOP quite well:

Psychological Operations or PSYOP are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of organizations, groups, and individuals. Used in all aspects of war, it is a weapon whose effectiveness is limited only by the ingenuity of the commander using it.

A proven winner in combat and peacetime, PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man. It is an important force protector/combat multiplier and a non-lethal weapons system.

Psychological Operations (PSYOP) or Psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) is simply learning everything about your target enemy, their beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. Once you know what motivates your target, you are ready to begin psychological operations.

Psychological operations may be defined broadly as the planned use of communications to influence human attitudes and behavior ... to create in target groups behavior, emotions, and attitudes that support the attainment of national objectives. The form of communication can be as simple as spreading information covertly by word of mouth or through any means of multimedia.

A psychological warfare campaign is a war of the mind. Your primary weapons are sight and sound. PSYOP can be disseminated by face-to-face communication, audio visual means (television), audio media (radio or loudspeaker), visual media (leaflets, newspapers, books, magazines and/or posters). The weapon is not how its sent, but the message it carries and how that message affects the recipient.

9/11 was a classic PSYOP, used to deceive the American public into believing that Muslim fundamentalists attacked their country, playing on their emotions, ignorance, and naivety. ....

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The rest of the long entry, with many embedded videos and links, is here:

http://mrfriendsblog.blogspot.com/2012/0...f-911.html

[Jeffrey Orling]

Nothing terribly new here. The advertising and PR industry since Bernays has studied this and figured out exactly how to influence people's thinking. See the Century of the Self which is pretty revealing. One of Bernays early projects was to work with politicians marketing them and even war to the people. Madison Avenue is one big psy op for getting people to consume and spend money for products and services which they often don't need. MaLuhan, Vance Packard, George Lakoff and many others have studied and taught this stuff to pols, corporations, and institutions with an agenda and a need to get the public to support it.

The question remains whether 9/11 was a campaign (psy op) to bring on war and more fascism or these were policies enacted by opportunists in the *disaster capitalism* paradigm as explained by Naomi Klein in the *Shock Doctrine*. There is no doubt in my mind that the shock doctrine was in play... and that itself is one of the main reasons that 9/11 was not looked at too closely... too many special interests benefited big time from it and didn't want any of those gains walked backed.

We sure have seen cases with the CIA and FBI have engaged in entrapment and creating crimes and these DO amount to false flags operation. The *underwear* bomber is an example. It looks like this was an intel (FBI-CIA) sting/operation and Abdulmutallab was a patsy. No trial... no discovery... down the rabbit hole. Nigerian teens without luggage or papers can't board International flights... and someone got him on the plane. Regardless... net effect.. people scared of flying because of terrorism and cowed into invasive screening procedures. Simple!