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Meet The "Minerva Research Initiative" - The Pentagon's Preparation For "Mass Civil Breakdown"
About a month ago we showed photos of the Chinese police engaged in a drill designed to crush a "working class insurrection", in which the police did precisely what would be required to end a middle class rebellion. It made us wonder: what does China know that the US doesn't. As it turns out, nothing.
Because long before China was practicing counter-riot ops using rubber bullets, all the way back in 2008 the US Department of Defense was conducting studies on the dynamics of civil unrest, and how the US military might best respond. The name of the project: "Minerva Research Initiative" and its role is to " “improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the U.S."
The Guardian which first revealed the details, reports that, "The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term "warfighter-relevant insights" for senior officials and decision makers in "the defense policy community," and to inform policy implemented by "combatant commands."
The premise behind Minerva is simple: study how violent political overthrow, aka mass civil breakdown, happens in the day and age of social networks, and be prepared to counteract it - by "targeting peaceful activities and protest movements" - when it finally reaches US shores.
Among the projects awarded for the period 2014-2017 is a Cornell University-led study managed by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research which aims to develop an empirical model "of the dynamics of social movement mobilisation and contagions." The project will determine "the critical mass (tipping point)" of social contagians by studying their "digital traces" in the cases of "the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Russian Duma elections, the 2012 Nigerian fuel subsidy crisis and the 2013 Gazi park protests in Turkey."
Twitter posts and conversations will be examined "to identify individuals mobilised in a social contagion and when they become mobilised."
Another project awarded this year to the University of Washington "seeks to uncover the conditions under which political movements aimed at large-scale political and economic change originate," along with their "characteristics and consequences." The project, managed by the US Army Research Office, focuses on "large-scale movements involving more than 1,000 participants in enduring activity," and will cover 58 countries in total.
Minerva is well funded: From the outset, the Minerva programme was slated to provide over $75 million over five years for social and behavioural science research. This year alone it has been allocated a total budget of $17.8 million by US Congress.
Among the purely "theoretical" recent studies Minerva is funding is a University of Maryland project in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to gauge the risk of civil unrest due to climate change. The three-year $1.9 million project is developing models to anticipate what could happen to societies under a range of potential climate change scenarios.
But what is most disturbing is that since the pretext for Minerva is simply to conduct theoretical social science experiments, there should be zero practical uses of the knowledge gleaned. Well, no.
Although Office of Naval Research supervisor Dr Harold Hawkins had assured the university researchers at the outset that the project was merely "a basic research effort, so we shouldn't be concerned about doing applied stuff", the meeting in fact showed that DoD is looking to "feed results" into "applications," Corman said in the email. He advised his researchers to "think about shaping results, reports, etc., so they [DoD] can clearly see their application for tools that can be taken to the field."
Many independent scholars are critical of what they see as the US government's efforts to militarise social science in the service of war. In May 2008, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) wrote to the US government noting that the Pentagon lacks "the kind of infrastructure for evaluating anthropological [and other social science] research" in a way that involves "rigorous, balanced and objective peer review", calling for such research to be managed instead by civilian agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF).
And tying it all together, is - who else - the NSA.
One war-game, said Price, involved environmental activists protesting pollution from a coal-fired plant near Missouri, some of whom were members of the well-known environmental NGO Sierra Club. Participants were tasked to "identify those who were 'problem-solvers' and those who were 'problem-causers,' and the rest of the population whom would be the target of the information operations to move their Center of Gravity toward that set of viewpoints and values which was the 'desired end-state' of the military's strategy."
Such war-games are consistent with a raft of Pentagon planning documents which suggest that National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance is partially motivated to prepare for the destabilising impact of coming environmental, energy and economic shocks.
As the Guardian's Nafeez Ahmed concludes, "Minerva is a prime example of the deeply narrow-minded and self-defeating nature of military ideology. Worse still, the unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is symptomatic of a simple fact – in their unswerving mission to defend an increasingly unpopular global system serving the interests of a tiny minority, security agencies have no qualms about painting the rest of us as potential terrorists."
We wonder: why is that surprising - by the time the "mass civil breakdown" is set to take place (and grand central-planning experiments by the Fed and its peers will merely accelerate said T-zero Day), virtually everyone who poses even the tiniest threat to the collapsing regime will be branded a terrorist.
Since as we reported previously, yet another current version of what previously was merely science fiction, namely the arrival of pre-crime, or where a big data NSA "pre-cog" computer will determine who is a future terrorist threat merely based on behavioral signals, is just around the corner too, it is simply a matter of time before men in gray suits or better yet - drones - quietly arrest any and all potentially threatening social network "nodes" of future terrorist behavior on the simple grounds that their mere presence threatens the status quo with an even faster collapse.
And now, just ignore all of the above, and keep buying stocks, because all is well: these most certainly aren't the droids you are looking for.
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A lot of preppers feel that a valid option is to 'shelter in place'. This is an interesting take on how the NSA database might affect your decision to 'shelter in place'. If you have been buying extra food or guns or too much survival equipment, the government will know what you have and where you are. Whatever your preps, you will not be able to stop them if the come for you. They will know about any place where you have used your cell phone or gotten any building permits or signed any purchase agreements or paid any taxes on (unless the IRS computers crash again).
If the grid ever goes down, it will all be local so fast your head will spin.
They can make it local anyplace they want with smartmeters.
Electric, Gas, Water in most places.
Now yo're getting the picture nowaySJ.
Minerva is funding a University of Maryland project in collaboration with the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to gauge the risk of civil unrest due to climate change.
In other words, somebody is getting a tax paid ski trip to Bend and Whistler.
Super. On a completely unrelated subject, Id like to say that im an author working on a book titled "Everything I ever wrote online was satire".
I spent some time testing the limits of my rigidly fixed caste... in court. After many tests I concluded that legalese is a slang language that appears to be English, but is pretty much "anti-English". I was sure enough of this that I tested it in court; and one.
The judge read me my rights, then asked me if "I understood these rights".
I looked her in the eye and said "No". The stenographer stopped, raising her head and the cop on court security cake duty shifted his lard off the wall into a more ready position. Could have heard a pin drop for half a minute, then,
The judge said to me, "you need to watch more television." Which I thought was pretty astute because I avoid TV like poison ivy. But I didn't say a thing, because I knew something was about to be revealed. What she meant was I needed to watch Aly Beale and learn my place, but I didn't know this until later.
After another pregnant pause. "looking at my file". Then the judge announced that if I agreed to plead guilty I would be fined $10. No penalty assessment. I have cornered people. I know when to take the deal. I took the lesson and walked away. The cop smiled and the stenographer looked relieved.
Everything I've ever written online is intended to induce people to question their herd mentality accepted consensus reality. Like Feynman I expect it to go over the heads of most, and since all the people online are at least literate, I'm shooting at the same mark as he was. Gear is different and I didn't make the same mistakes he made so I got something else.
You aren't helping, wira.
+ 1.............. I love it. That could tie up the courts. have them explain everything including various senarios and implications from every word that need to be defined . Haha
What was the charge?
Posting gibberish?
Good for you. We could use some more resistance.
Now that's funny right thar
by "targeting peaceful activities and protest movements"
That is just disgusting. What a shameful thing.
Being at peace is a terriss activity. YOU MUST BE IN CONFLICT TO CONFORM.
"What's going on, Sgt?"
"We thought it was a demonstration, sir. My men were scared and opened fire."
"Well, 25 dead girl scouts and ruined cookies is all you have to show for this. Good thing you have Qualified Immunity."
I think it should be called Medusa
This is all part of the Deep State's psyops, mind control programming and control grid. The civil breakdown will come when the drugs wear off.
http://winteractionables.com/?p=12564
interesting website, thanks
The deep state should worry about who is controlling their twisted minds.
"if somebody in california wants to commit suicide they climb up on their roof with an empty gun and act like they want to take on the world. the cops will do it for them..."
Cody Jarrett --White Heat -- "Top of the world , Ma!"
Will this program be as succes full as the Irak war? We see the most well equipped modern fighting force against a seemingly apathetic mass of shitizens. They will be cheering for their 'liberation' by dod as their Iraqi counterparts?
FYI, there's also research on making computer programs posing as human users to participate in, and influence social communities on the internet. These programme are not perfect yet, but could go undetected in a few years. This will be a brave new world...
Crap. We'll have to go to using those boxes you put letters and numbers in to post.
Newman! (but, I thought the USPS was slowly but surely going out of business.)
No, we are still here, thanks to an infusion of no such agency funds!
Our power is growing: you notice I offed the rabbit. He is in a Black Prison, heh heh.
Right now the rabbit is hanging by his ears, heh heh heh.
Those programs already vote in many swing states.
So long your "Elite" dual passport-owners,kill you in your country , I am fine with it.
But please do not come to EU, as you did to Ua.
Stay at home and kill yourself there. Do not make harm to us.
A lot of ppl need to apologize to ALEX JONES
I'll apologize to Alex when he covers the Mossad's role in the New World Order.
i asked alex jones once what he thought of the 911 dancing jews.
he said
what.
the dancing who's
i said no the dancing jews
he said
the dancing who's
i said alex just forget about it ok.
Heard of Kurt Sonnenfeld?
WTC FEMA Videographer. 1:13 in
Recommned the whole thing.
He does leave a certain group alone, eh what?
Looks like an O-Bot showed up, we are all getting reds at once!
If he explicitly said the "Juice" was involved you bet his operation would be shut down fast by the Gov.
So he is saying just enough and still remain broadcasting.
Thats my guess anyway.
"Mr Resident, this is the first time a Totalitarian Regime has been computer-programmed and war-gamed in advance. Our Twin Reggie 5000 Computers have assured us there can be no failure. The computers are infallible using the best code-writing we could get at low-bid! Dr, Chandra here will exlplain how they are Foolproof."
"Excellent, Minions. I want to speed up the Brief. I have a new Uniform to fit and a conference with the Mexican Cartel after Lunch."
As long as they think this is all about cyberspace, they lose.
'Americans' are funny people. You have to give it to them.
They show no innovation sign and always come with their same old trick.
So it states
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The premise behind Minerva is simple: study how violent political overthrow, aka mass civil breakdown, happens in the day and age of social networks, and be prepared to counteract it - by "targeting peaceful activities and protest movements"
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Lets rewrite it:
The premise behind Minerva is simple: study how violent political overthrow, aka mass civil breakdown, happens in the day and age of social networks, and be prepared to provoke it - by "initiating peaceful activities and protest movements"
Does it ring a bell?
The Arabic Spring? The Maidan revolution? etc
Victimhood is high among 'americans' They are this unnegotiated urge to paint themselves as victims, even though they are the victimizers.
Sure, 'americans' have been studying how violent, political overthrow happens in these days but not crush a never to come insurrection by the 'american' middle class, the knowledge they've gathered, they have put it to use in other countries to achieve destabilization of government and overthrow them.
That is why the Chinese are preparing. They are aware of the situation and cant, contrary to 'americans', wallow in fantasy.
'Americans' always speak about hypothetical situations to divert attention from what they are doing.
It's been the case since 1776, July, 4th. Same trick used, used again and again.
Overused by now.
How do you define 'americans'? You always quote and rarely capitalize the word.
How do 'americans' define themselves?
'Americans' are proponents/believers/supporters etc of the system they name 'americanism'
'Americanism' is that system that was initiated on 1776,July, 4th and that has been growing and growing up to evict every other system and come to dominate the world.
This sums it up...
The Congress ALLOWS a communist despot to "rule" without Constitutional authority and then promotes a study to best address HOW the population can be controlled DUE to the unrest it generated.
I think a majority would now agree The Tyrant is operating without any consideration for Law; time is growing short, and we will soon perhaps see a geometric increase in Tyranny.
Seems like the Congress is now irrelevant as well as the Courts.
There is NO control over the Tyrant's actions.
The courts were lost a long time ago. They were appointed by the Fed Gov. Voting wouldn't have mattered much, as it would have only slowed down the tyranny, in the end, Diebold wins every time.
Many, including myself, have joked about the "phone and the pen," yet we will soon see government only by Decree; it seems we have passed the point of any other Authority to resist the illegal declarations of the Tyrant.
"There is NO control over the Tyrant's actions."
The Russian president and his allies are doing what American citizens appear to be incapable of - restraining the crony-capitalists and their political minions.
They have the international front almost under control; however, it is not in their best interest to help Americans rebuild their domestic infrastructure, build a sound monetary system and return to a constitutional government.
American citizens will have to do that themselves.
As more and more Invaders cross the border, BP has found many are Gang members; BP cannot refuse them entry.
It would seem a big part of the Cloward-Piven plan initiated by the Tyrant is to not just overwhelm the system into chaos, but to also allow a very large increase in crime.
It is possible part of the scheme is to allow such chaos as to prompt the Tyrant into claiming the situation is out of control and requires the deployment of UN troops. Once those international, non-American forces are deployed, the Tyrant will once again overreach and call for confiscation of firearms. The UN mission can then be morphed into a martial-law confiscation operation, as the foreign troops would have no loyalty to our traditions or Rights. They could be moved region to region in their confiscation plan (until they meet resistance) disarming one state or area at a time.
However, I have come to think the Administration has become sodden with Hubris and Arrogance. I am not sure how much in touch with reality they are anymore.
USA is going to have to stand up soon, or see total chaos and huge crime increases. At this point in time, a legal way needs to be found to eject this Administration or we may pay a very heavy price.
Drones, killer robots, and ugly possibilities is a continuation of a subject I have written about before. Blame it on an imagination gone wild or a distrust of those with too much power. Unfortunately more recent revelations about the American government spying on us, our friends, and the leaders of our allies across the world does little to calm my concerns.
We must take note that technology is quickly blurring the line between drones and robots at the same time that the killing power of these machines is being ramped up, we should be afraid! To say these machines have the potential to become formidable and a danger in the wrong hands is an understatement. The article below is a reminder that what they have planned is not limited to what we have seen.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/11/drones-killer-robots-and-ugly.htm...
Just stop paying them. There is nothing else you could do that would be more effective than simply stop paying for your own abuse.
So how do they fund themselves? Taxation? Nope. Taxes don't come close to covering the costs of a militarised state. They cover the costs by debasing the currency. Simple debasement of coinage historically, and these days by issuing promises; debt. Which will result in the debasement of the currency as they are unable to pay.
So. Get rid of the currency they are debasing. Get rid of any of their debt from your investments especially your pension and store your wealth elsewhere. Somewhere that benefits you and not them. Is this a hassle? Yes it is, but the world is the state it is because the citizenry are asleep at the wheel.
You never heard of ink?
You think they use ink? You're about 50 years behind the times.
Bits dear lad. Bits.
I always figured the plan was to just use OVERWHELMING FORCE.
all tavistock instit jew tute the brits have been doing this shit for a hundred years.
it sure has worked a treat.
mind control soft power of the bbc on to police breaking up groups from the inside sometimes working under cover within groups for 5-7 years even living and having kids with the target.
developing drugs for child rape in care homes mk ultra before mk ultra hit america.
no need to riot folks just learn your rights under common law.
disconnect from the real evil doers stop propping up these corporations buy local when you can.
any of you angry types still going to massive super markets buying your monsanto gm corn syrup foods then going on forums talkin revolution are rather silly no.
decouple disconnect no need to riot reclaim your health cut down on your support for corn and soya.
filter your water pause and ask who are you supporting by buying this product.
or just carry on and fund these child rapin vampyres and satanists whatever your pleasure.
There are some interesting parallels:
You wonder how National Socialism took over the Germans:
USA like Germany, has huge unemployment, a weakening currency, first a foreign enemy (Muslims) now a domestic enemy (Americans), but with the marxist Cloward-Piven twist.
Americans like the Germans, unaware, wake up one day to the Tyrant's followers/party demanding the wealth of certain people, Law and Order (no private weapons), open riots, widespread criminality in the community, etc.
Mind Boggling. Human nature does not change with these Tyrants. As the Regime deteriorates, more and more enemies are found, then the extermination/mass imprisonments begin....
And, who were the NAZIs by and large? A criminal gangster class; personified in the Tyrant's senior adviser, an Iranian-born "marxist" whose monetary exploits in Chicago are legend...
Can the USA avoid this fate?
We don't really have that ruthless German efficiency that gave the Third Reich its edge. I mean, I don't think Hitler was a big golfer.
Lakecity, -- another view of that history; http://kevinmacdonaldespanol.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/americas-unpardonable-crime/
The fucking clowns can't arrest everyone. Thanks to the internet at this point in time they'd be better off putting a fence around the entire US. LOL. Fuck 'em raw!
You sound like Alex Jones, ten years ago.
REX 84
GARDEN PLOT
NSPD-51
NOW.....MINERVA
If just 1 out of 10 Americans stopped paying their taxes the state would unravel almost overnight.
We really have them by the balls but we don't seem to know it. We have a slave mentality that they are our masters.
i wouldn't be so sure. you already have 2.9% of adult population under correctional supervision. more arrests would only do good for the american economy as there would be more cheap labor in prisons (silver lining is that production would come back to america). increase in prison industry would cover the fall of gdp due to public sector contraction from the decreasing tax revenue.
do i need /sarc? it actually makes sense.
Half the population pays no taxes and it has made no difference. You forget the whole purpose of the Federal Reserve. It was created to make the tax base irrelevant. The bankers got to create money out of thin air and lend it to the government and the government got to finance its big wars and grow itself into every aspect of our lives. All of this was made possible by magic money.
The problem faced by all of these schemes of centralization and control is oil. The system runs on it and without it the system stops. I know, we will never run out of oil. The only problem is that the infrastructure needed to extract it is collapsing. Look at the ten year charts on gasoline retail sales and look at the ten year graph on Harpex. We are in a contraction that will bring us back to what we were before the oil boom began.
You, Sir, are an idiot. We, the middle class, are the back bone of any healthy society.
No society can function without us. The reason is simple: we are good, solid tax payers.
And the tax base was made irrelevant? That would mean that we, the middle class, the productive class, are irrelevant.
The idea is so fucked up. No, really, the resources that back the USD are more important than WeThePeople? You are effing kidding me.
Signed: an American.
Nothing beats the wisdom of self absorbed, satanically inspired, psycho/sociopaths.
1972 Rothschild Party
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Uh....really....I would not get too excited by all this.
Much like a few years ago when the Feds were buying up all the Mountain House survival food for awhile....this is their job.
Preparing for the possible/inevitable.
The C.I.A. had warned back in the early 80s about Africa destabilizing into anarchy because of A.I.D.S.
It was also a concern (and occurrance to some degree) that society would fail during the Spanish Flu epidemic.
A butterfly flapping its wings (revolt in Mayanmar) could create a hurrican (domino effect resulting in Asia going dark).
Learn history my friend. Today, it’s HFT, petrodollar recycling and speculative Wall Street bidding on Global Forex
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/John_D._Rockefeller
To the willing and complicit tools used for the purposes of the PLAN.
All of you have been, are and will be used to violate the laws and the rights of the people of the United States of America and of the world. You are told what to think, believe and what to do and are not allowed to do anything else.
The PLAN has been in place for a long time and there are a small group of people in power that direct all your actions towards the PLAN. The time is nigh for the final action.
For the people in power, they are lucky that you do not realize that you are a tool of the PLAN, that you and your family do not have a use or a place in the PLAN after the final action. You will be discarded, by these evil people, like an empty candy wrapper into the trash.
For the rest of us, the people, we will have no room for you either as you are not our friends.
Discarded like a used rubber, more like.
Shit and piss countries have "Mass Civil Breakdowns".
In America, we have by far the single largest army on earth to keep the peace when the shit hits the fan, and I ain't talking about uniformed military or the cops.
Worldwide, there are one million of them and 7.5 BILLION of us, dammit. Why are we even discussing this?
Perhaps the recent multibillion bullet purchases by various domestic federal agencies might have something to do with it.
Because 1 billion of "us" work for their security/military establishments and the other 6.5 billion are clueless.
'Americans' all over the world are much more numerous than that.
The worst part: as days pass by, more and more 'americans' appear as more and more people are turning to 'americanism'
That is the big issue for 'americans': way too many 'americans', not enough indians...
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Yep, read about Minerva on Global Research just the other day. Lovely, isn't it? We're all fucking terrorists now. Maybe we should stop paying taxes, since we're all terrorists now, huh?
They are watching you.
Shit! Now they are watching me too.
"mass civil breakdown, happens in the day and age of social networks, and be prepared to counteract it - by targeting peaceful activities and protest movements"
Do they really think there will be peaceful activities when Twitter, Facebook and the grocery store have no power. Holey shit, we are fucked!
I wish I had two acres way, way out in the country.
I been watching airplane for two hours in repeat, no quotes, were just in a satirical fuck up from every direction and that's all there is to it.
Ok
"I gave at the office"
Everyone else can suck herpe nuts.
Give credit to Mikey for airplane, I usually catch all of them, haha
good luck last house on the block and get an ak and decent mags, the metals jam once Ina while.
I like to know the ratio of rubber to lead(steel) rounds purchased by the various Federal Police forces
ALERT: Armored UN Trucks Moving Through Southeast U.S. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/06/alert-armored-un-trucks-mov...
What does it matter were in a cage as it is. Step out of line and go to jail.
The thefts in broad daylight are now picking up both speed and exceptions for the "favoured" to our Rule of Law. This is how all revolutions......past and future......begin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-13/goldman-sachs-wins-dismissal-of-mortgage-security-suit-in-n-y-.html
Don't target me bro.