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Mason B's avatar

Very thoughtful and well presented piece! Miles Mathis causes me no end of bother in my mind though - his pieces are a maddening mixture of common sense and weirdness and his site just does not say "convincing" does it? However, I have actually talked to him - he suspected me of being an agent because of the people I'd managed to speak with through doing a biography of a guy who knew just about everybody in 60s London :-) We also talked about Paul McCartney and he was adamant Sir Paul is the very same guy, but he did offer to put one of my articles up on his site if I could convince him otherwise! I was impressed by his Lennon piece. When I spoke later to Peter McNamee, the director of Let Him Be, he (obviously) told me the film was entirely fictional (speaking in a very Lennon-esque voice on the phone) It is so very hard to sift through stuff:-/

Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

Excellent article - you've laid out all these logical points in good order!

As you're aware from all our little comments on Iain's article about Manchester all these aspects have been in my contemplation recently. I like the way these things kind of 'digest' inside us and then get ordered and written out.

I'll probably have to go and think about all this even more but for an initial reaction I was thinking the following, mainly related to your point about 'they don't care about human life'.

I think one way of thinking about it is a kind of game theory approach, namely, 'think from your opponent's point of view'. In this case, I am minded to simply visualise their 'planning meeting'. In such a meeting they will have an 'objective' - let's say it's 'do terrorist attack'. And as you say, a psyop is actually about creating a publicly-consumed narrative, not necessarily about actually setting off a bomb (if we're using Manchester as our example). So, the approach they will take will simply be 'what is the most efficient way of achieving our objective?'. The point about them 'not caring about human life' is important here - if they decide that the most efficient way really is to just set off a bomb then that's what they'll do. Of course, if it's more about 'narrative control' then they will think a little differently about it, and will not want to 'overcomplicate' things and absolutely try and minimise, or eliminate entirely, the 'random' element. Thus, for example, in order to 'get the narrative message across', yes, they will need to have 'actors' involved, because otherwise they simply can't control what 'statements' the (genuine) victims will make. They also can't rule out the possibility that one or more of the victims might be 'someone important' or 'someone with important connections' - and that, especially, is a very, very important note there.

So, I think we should bear this in mind vis a vis the hypothesis of 'hybrid' events - i.e. 'a real attack' combined with 'actors involved in a psyop'. If their planning meeting decides that a hybrid is the most efficient way to achieve the objective, then that's what they'll do. If 'only actors' is most efficient, they'll do that. And if 'just setting off a bomb' is most efficient, then they'll choose that option.

Anyhow, you're laying down of all this logical analysis is excellent! Great article!

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