The Highwire with Del Bigtree - THE ART OF MANUFACTURING FEAR

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

The fear and panic produced by The War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 paved the way for media and government predictive programming of an imminent cyberattack. The HighWire takes a deep dive through this historical timeline.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Let's move back from the whole picture here and talk about really one of the overarching themes of how the messaging worked and how messaging works in general and propaganda. Let's start the conversation here with H.G. Wells. He was a prominent author of his time. He wrote a lot of books and he had an inside track just looking at some of the books he wrote. One of them was the idea of the League of Nations. Now, the League of Nations was the predecessor to the United Nations. And he wrote this book in 1919. So the League of Nations was just a idea of the League of Nations. getting up and running and he's writing this this book this article of just kind of the nuts and bolts of how this thing's going to get moving okay well maybe he was just making commentary at the time of that but then he writes a book in the 40s literally called the new world order and this was a in here nonfiction he proposed a framework for a socialist government a scientifically planned world government that would be formed to guide the planet towards peace so it's interesting how that piece

works in but to give an idea who hs you wells was and his kind of his lineage we have to start with thomas malthus and we've covered this in the show mouthus he has he brought forward the malthusian ideology of overpopulation family planning we have to get the world population down this is a lot where bill gates kind of picked up the ball uh for the billing malinda gates foundation we talked about it in the earlier show would why sort of the father of eugenics really this idea of you know that we we need to reduce population. We have to, we have to, you know, take care of ourselves. You've got to prune our own society. Right, right. And the earth has a caring capacity and God forbid, we get past that. Now, his ideas influenced later down the road, Charles Darwin, evolutionary

biologist, survival of the fittest. And the eugenics was rooted in social Darwinism. So that just carried right into eugenics at that point. So there was a gentleman named Thomas Huxley. Thomas Huxley formed what was called the X club, no association with Elon Musk and Twitter, but the X club in the 1860s. And the idea of the X club, and he was a big proponent of Darwin. He was actually called Darwin's Bulldog because he just, he spouted this ideology out. And so the X club was this meeting of the minds. They met regularly and they wanted to rid the discipline of natural science of spirituality

and remove God from science completely. So remember, Joe LaDopo said. DNA is part of our connection to God. That kind of talk would never be a lot at the X club. So really, bottom line, Hugsley helped make science the new religion. And H.G. Wells, let's bring it back here. H.G. Wells won a scholarship to study biology under Huggsley, under Thomas Huggsley. So he becomes his protege.

They kind of see differently eye to eye when it comes to influencing society. So H.G. Wells then goes on in the late 1800s to write a book. book called War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds, it's basically these unknown gases from Mars come from above from the planet and they come to Earth, an object hits the ground on Earth. And in 1938, on a Sunday evening, if you were sitting around a radio at that time, the only median of information dissemination besides newspapers and books, you would have heard the War of the Worlds by Orson Wells. Now, there's really no. no combination of people there.

They're not related whatsoever. It just happened to have a similar last name. So you have to understand at the time, too. Radio in 1938 is as popular as Amazon Prime, Netflix, social media, Twitter, X, Facebook, put all that in a one. That was radio. So people just clamor to huddle around this radio every night and listen to the shows. So let's pick up War of the World.

If you were there that night, this is what you heard. Take a listen. Ladies and gentlemen, my aunt, ladies and gentlemen, here I am, back of a stone wall that joins Mr. Wilma's garden. From here I get a sweep of the whole scene. I'll give you every detail as long as I can talk and as long as I can see. More state police have arrived, they're drawing up a cordon in front of the pit. About 30 of them. No need to push the crowd back now.

They're willing to keep their distance. The captain is inferring with someone. Can't quite see who. Yes, I believe it's Professor Pearson. Yes, it is. Now they've parted, and the professor moves around one side, studying the object while the captain and two policemen advance with something in their hands. I can say it now.

It's a white hexatheaval tied to a pole. Flag of truce. Those creatures know what that means. What anything means. Wait a minute. Something's happening. Humped shape is rising out of the pit. I can make out a small beam of light against a mirror.

What's there? There's a jet of flame springing from the mirror that leaves some. right to be advancing men strike them head on water they're turning in a plane the whole field colored by the wood of the fire that gas heading everywhere coming this way out about 20 yards to my right ladies and gentlemen due to circumstances beyond our control we are unable to continue the broadcast from grover's mill evidently there's some difficulty with our field

transmission so it's cool to hear that i've never heard that story so many time i never actually like listen to what that must have sounded like. It's brilliant. Extremely dramatic if you listen to the whole thing. They really did a great job. Orson Wells did in the cast there. So the next couple days, you saw this in the headlines. This is New York Times from that time, 1938. Radio listeners in panic talking war drama, taking war drama as fact. Many flee homes to escape gas raid from Mars. Phone call, swamp police, and another one, FCC to scan script of war broadcast radio system expressing its regrets

at panic will curb simulated news items. So that's pretty much the first time we're hearing about fake news or misinformation in the news purposefully. And so that event was really a kickoff of how this new form of media can influence the population. And it was studied too. We have a Princeton professor, Henry Cantrell. He wrote a book on this two years later. It's called The Invasion from Mars, a study in the psychology of panic. And so let's now fast forward to, to 2013. You have the National Defense Authorization Act, and that was signed into law by Obama in 2013, this version of it. And let's take a look at specifically what was put in there. So it says in this article, the National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA for fiscal year 2013, allows U.S.

government officials to disseminate in the United States news and information programs produced by the government at taxpayers' expense for audiences abroad. So you can propagandize the United States in motion pictures, in media, and podcasts, you can use taxpayer money. The government can specifically use this for its citizens. Now it goes on to say this. This change in law, which earlier under the Smith-Mund Act of 1948 prohibited U.S. government officials from actively distributing such material domestically raises constitutional and civil liberties questions. So you have that piece there and that was done. It's such a weird thing for Obama to go in and say, look, I want to be able to put out propaganda from the government. This act is getting on our way.

I'm going to override it so that we can once again produce materials to manipulate people's thought. Right, right. And so we look at the wide net cast by propaganda. And it's very sophisticated now, as we saw through the COVID response, extremely sophisticated. You have censorship taking place. You have nonprofits that are really influencing a lot of the conversation. But as we start to triangulate ideas, we see a couple ideas really rising to the top. And one of them was given to us by Klaus Schwab, the head of the W.E.F. in 2020, he was out there talking about how the COVID pandemic was such a great opportunity for the fourth industrial revolution. Remember, to put humanity in the back seat. Well, he was talking about something else in 2020 that a lot of

people didn't hear about. Here it is. We all know, but still pay insufficient attention to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack, which would bring to a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison. in comparison to a major cyber attack. To use the COVID-19 crisis as a timely opportunity to reflect on the lessons the cybersecurity community

can draw and improve our in preparedness for a potential cyber pandemic. I've been saying it all along, you know, when they're telling you there's a another virus coming, we're going to, you know, have another pandemic. In this case, a cyber pandemic, I would take them for their word at this point. I would go ahead and say, you know, these crazy people are either just brilliant psychic seers or they seem to have their finger on some pulse that we need to get a hold of. But listen to them. And so it's hard to this guy,

he talks out of both sides of his mouth or he's talking in inverted language because He's someone that's saying he wants to really just be done with current society the way it is because that's a whole fourth industrial revolution. So that society as we know it is over, it's going to change and it's going to change for the better. But then he's saying here that these cyber attacks will disrupt society in unimaginable ways. I thought that was his whole purpose of doing all this. So anyway, so you have the World Economic Forum. It's actually doing, remember with COVID, they had event 201 where they were simulated.

these these coronaviruses turned back to be. The pandemic that came just a few weeks later. Exactly. Well, the WEF is doing the same thing for cyber attacks. And this is the headline here when they started doing it. Prepping for a cyber pandemic worldwide drill underway. It says the World Economic Forum kicked off its annual Cyber Polygon exercise Friday, which gives companies and governments the opportunity to participate in a simulation of a cyber pandemic.

And then about a year ago, the WF puts out a press release and so, starts to really put a fine point on timelines here. Geopolitical instability raises threat of catastrophic cyber attack in the next two years. So now we have a big timeline. And then we start seeing government start to talk about this. So this was last year, 2022. Biden releases Russian cyber attack warning to all Americans. Here it is.

So Biden's talking about that. And then just last week in the UK, UK could be brought to a halt at any moment by cyber attack report warns. So this is where we're going. So again, triangulating this information, you have, you know, power centers, thought leaders like Klaus Schwab at the WEF, this cyber polygon. They're wargaming this thing, talking about how it's going to change society. Then you have presidents and politicians and governments saying this is going to happen. And then this brings us back to the propaganda. What are the motion pictures doing?

Well, it turns out 10 years after that NDAA was signed in 2013, you have, this headline, the Obama's produced movie about cyber attack called Leave the World Behind. And if you haven't seen it, here's a clip from that show. Take a listen. Because my primary client works in the defense sector, I spent a lot of time studying the cost benefit analysis of military campaigns. There was one program in particular that terrified my client the most. A simple three-stage maneuver that could topple a country's government from within. First stage was isolation. disable their communication and transportation.

Make the target as deaf, dumb, and paralyzed as possible, setting them up for the second stage. Synchronized chaos. Terrorized them with covert attacks and misinformation, their defense capabilities, leaving their weapons systems vulnerable to extremists in their own military. Without a clear enemy or motive, people would start turning on each other.

Done successfully, the third stage would happen on its own. on its own. What's the third stage? Kudita, Civil War, collapse. You know, I... Maybe a movie you don't want to watch for Christmas with family. You know, I had to watch it because I knew we were going to be talking about it. And the truth is, it's kind of boring, really slow. And I say that because when we do stories like this, we end up funding these stupid movies because we're all so curious what's going on here. But, you know, you're right. I mean, here it is. You have... They're, they're on.

on the pulse, or they are the pulse, but either way, the fact that this is like the first movie the Obamas are going to get into film production, it is, we just live in a very, very strange time here, and nobody's hiding anything, right? They're just doing right out in plain sight, and are we all going to say when there's a cyber attack that wipes out, you know, societies, we know it, wow, it's amazing, how brilliant they were, how they somehow just really knew this was going to happen. And it seems like there's this move to push a little bit of division into society with threats. These external threats were seemingly powerless against.

And one of the next movies, the Obama's production company is working on is this one right here. UFO abduction story of Barney and Betty Hill coming to Netflix with a new feature film. So here we are right back to the War of the World essentially with this ideology of this scary situation. Literally the guy that's had that meeting, right? That when we all think about your president of the United States, I'm sure everyone, even if you're not a consultant. All right, so lay it on me. Do we have aliens?

Are there UFOs? What's going on? And now when the person that's been in that room comes out and says, I'm going to make a movie about UFOs, Jesus. Okay, help us. On the back of cyber attacks. Wow. Predictive programming, who knows.

But we have to just really pay attention to this and see who's pulling these strings and putting these movies out and talking about. what they're talking about. Amazing, Jeffrey. Well, I know you're paying attention, so we will all be paying attention to see how all these things roll out in the year 2024. I have a feeling this one's gonna be a doozy.

All right, I'm looking forward to it though, because, you know, certainly we will be a part of whatever's going on. Great reporting, Jeffrey, very, very interesting stuff.