Information Warfare

In the last days there will be wars and rumors of wars....

There are wars being fought in many places around the globe at present, Afghanistan and Iraq to name two. However, it's hardly a global war like WWII. The “war on terror” is giving the US an excuse to bully countries that are too small to fight back, but again this is a fake war on a phantom enemy. However, there is a real war that is being waged right now. That's the information war.

Tyrants worked out long ago that it's a lot less messy to win people's minds rather than their land. Hitler turned this into an art form with the help of his propaganda minister Goebbels (Goebbels' Principals of Propaganda). Not only is it cleaner, but propaganda is cheaper than bombs and guns, is more pervasive and comprehensive in its coverage and offers a great bang for the buck. Whether it's the dropping of leaflets, the broadcasting of state radio or mainstream TV, mind control is the goal. This may be as simple as selling a particular brand of soap suds or as sinister as political control of mainstream news broadcasts to manipulate our interpretation of reality.

It's not just advertisers and politicians who want your mind, religions want your mind too, whether it be Jesuit indoctrination of the child or the radicalisation of the fundamentalist Islamic terrorist. For many of us, we allow ourselves to be influenced by more than one source and we try to put it all together into some kind of mental construct of the world we view around us. We read our Bibles, then turn on CNN to catch the news.

As technology advances, new tools like the internet and mobile communications are opening up more and more new avenues by which we can connect minds around the globe. This is a two edge sword. We have access to the thoughts and opinions of a global network of people banging away at keyboards. The information revolution has been instrumental in destabilising repressive regimes as dissidents are able to blog their news reports of repression to the free world, poking holes in the fabric of the propaganda shields. Countries such as China understand fully the danger that a free internet poses to their totalitarian control, hence the heavy state censorship of their internet. Moves are afoot now to clip down the western internet to a more concise offering of commercial websites that will make the net look more like a selection of pay TV channels (Internet 2). The genie is out of the bottle and the mainstream media want us back in their control.

So here is the battle. The internet has brought uncontrolled information to the fingertips of the people. There is a sharing of ideas, news reports, discussion, pics and videos that is cutting through the mind formers agenda that is creating an awakening across the globe. We have seen this happen in Iceland and Greece, where the citizens have protested against the raping of their countries by the international banksters and sparked grassroots demands for freedom and democracy. For this reason, web sites like youtube.com are invaluable.

The controllers have launched a broadspectrum response. Media is being controlled at every level to ensure that the mainstream TV, newsprint and radio only transmit approved news and won't show you the stories they don't want you to see. If they don't get you there, they will fill your life with bread and circuses, endless distractions of entertainment. Sports, gadgets, games and porn for the blokes, gossip, glamour, fashion and Facebook for the girls.

When they do want us to move in a certain direction, they will use fear as the goad. The swine flu scare and global warming are two recent examples. They want you to buy vaccines and carbon credits. A large band of medical and climate experts that were being silenced on the mainstream media have found a soap box on the internet. Through simple videos and web site posts they have been able to present the other side of the case to an audience that hungers for the truth.

In this modern information war the truth is the enemy and our minds are the theatre for the conflict. As a truth seeker, you shall be labelled as a sympathiser of the enemy. As a proponent of the truth, you shall be identified as an enemy combatant. The weapons for our fight are the simple truth, distributed in video links, DVDs, forum discussion and speaking with your family and friends.

The truth is powerful. In the presence of truth, lies cannot stand. The age old battle for truth has been waged since the Garden of Eden and the fight ultimately exists between God and Satan. Those on the side of truth are rising. The world is awakening from a deep sleep of falsehood and a new day of clarity is dawning. If you are a Christian, you should be on the front line. Noone else should desire and seek the truth more than the followers of Jesus, for he claimed to be “The Truth” itself.

It is clear that if you do not actively seek the truth, you will without doubt remain living within a construct of lies and deception created for you by the mind moulders. Your Christian faith does not lift you out of the false front western town that we were born into. It is up to you to walk through a doorway and see for yourself that it's all propped up with sticks.