Keyword Hijacking Smackdown! Challenge for HMW (and poll)

[brownzeroed]

populistindependent:

No harm done there IMHO.

Seconded.

The meaning of words is shifting continually, but more importantly the associations of words is shifting, and words are very effective at steering people. So much so, that you need to be careful not to use certain trigger words in these conversations because they drag along with them a lot of baggage - emotionalized associations and implied contexts - and once used the listener's mind will shut down or head off in strange directions and communication breaks down.

Absolutely. I just think it's a lot less subtle, in fact ham-fisted, and still does the trick.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

Hugh drives me nuts because he's frequently so right on about things not related to KH, and then he'll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by concluding with a 'Nell', or a 'Nacho Libre', or a 'Mr. Limpet'.

And perversely, that's a hallmark of successful disinformation.

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." - Nietzsche

Jeff, please stop posting funny pictures in the 'Gary Webb's Legacy' thread.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=15133

There's lots of good info there on CIA drugs, Oklahoma City, IranContra, WPost disinfo, and other things...and Pan has once again started a competing thread that draws attention away from that info.

"'Nell', or a 'Nacho Libre', or a 'Mr. Limpet'" - all solid examples of psy-ops even though you don't see it.

As you like to point out, Jeff, imperfection is not necessarily intentional sabotage.
And I don't take all inability to understand the connections I make as intentional obstruction of exposing covert activities.

I am almost the only one connecting linguistics and child psychology to covert USG psy-ops propaganda in the entertainment that parents allow their kids to bathe their brains in.

At the same time I remind readers of all the scandals the USG wants covered up behind those pop media linguistic decoys.

So I think the help/hurt ratio for promoting understanding how power uses mind control
in my posts comes up - benevalent.

Think there is a similarity to cybernetics and socio-linguistic dynamics in media?
I do. The ability to control visibility and definitions of words in media is mind control and social engineering. Role-modeling and violence de-sensitization and subliminal framing and other tactics are used, too.

This use of media has been a national security priority since Edward Bernays helped George Creel sell WWI to Americans and created a cynicism about war propaganda that FDR could overcome only by allowing the Japanese to hit Pearl Harbor first.

Keywords and themes that reinforce compliance with authority are made more visible.
Keywords and themes that discredit the same are overshadowed.

Pentagon definition of counter-propaganda:
"Any action taken to minimize the effect of hostile information."

Neuropsychology has proven that the brain is strongly pre-biased towards the first definition of a keyword it learns. "First come, first served." "Strong first impressions."

This principle of 'getting there first' was already part of the official propaganda psychology lexicon in 1935 when Yale's Leonard Doob referred to it as "primacy" in his
excellent book, 'Propaganda: Its Psychology and Technique.'

Professor Christopher Simpson documented how the CIA financed and co-opted all the state-of-the-art behavioral science research at the Ivy League universities that functioned as US government think-tanks in his book, 'The Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960.'

Research into how children form their political views was carried out in many studies during the 1950s and 1960s and is known to the USG behavioral specialists advising the psy-ops beaurocracy now carrying out the mandate of the 1951 Psychological Strategy Board.

So keywords and themes hostile to power are not left unchallenged without benign definitions.
Counter-propaganda is developed and marketed to obscure those hostile keywords and themes.

Conditioning children is the easiest and most important task to influence their attitudes as adults. That's why the US government's agenda is deployed to children through Disney, a Pentagon asset since WWII. Many other US government assets deploy propaganda to children, too. Especially in the non-literate or pre-literate media of TV and movies.

CIA control of media outlets and force-magnification from allies and opportunistic imitators is widespread as historically documented and confirmed by ex-CIA, ex-FBI, ex-DEA whistleblowers and assets like Sig Mickelson, Willliam Turner, Philip Agee, Victor Marchetti, John Stockwell, Ralph McGehee, Michael Levine, D.A. Jim Garrison, and many researchers into the cover-ups around the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, plus numerous scandals, covert ops, false-flag violent acts, etc.

The OSS and the Nazis both used "imitative deception" during WWII.
The Nazis taped FDR's radio broadcasts and edited them to change their meaning for rebroadcast in Europe.

Keyword hijacking in Internet marketing has revealed the same struggle for visibility-as-influence that propagandists and churches and even parents have waged for much longer.

Because we are a visual species and have identified survival assets visually for eons of neurological evolution. "Out of sight, out of mind."
Also, ideas and attitudes are transmitted through our language so controlling our language is a way to control our attitudes and subsequent behaviors.

http://www.adwordsoftware.com/Clickrisk-Identifies-Critical-Flaw-In-Google-Adwords.html

Online Advertisers with Google Adwords Campaigns may be Affected by Keyword Hijacking (PRWEB) February 3, 2005

-- Clickrisk has identified a critical flaw in Google Adwords that [b]allows an attacker to disable campaign keywords and adopt higher ad positions[/b] at reduced costs.

Adam Sculthorpe, security specialist and CEO of Clickrisk.com, and his team of 19 researchers have discovered through extensive forensic testing and analysis of Google Adwords, a new type of click fraud—Keyword Hijacking. Keyword Hijacking is where an attacker disables campaign keywords to secure a higher ad position. Sculthorpe explains, “this is achieved by disabling targeted keywords across many advertisers’ campaigns simultaneously by artificially inflating the number of times an ad is displayed.”

Sculthorpe is concerned that “the business impact of keyword hijacking can be very high—cost-per-click (CPC) advertisers may suffer disabled keywords for extended periods of time”. This compromises return-on-investment (ROI) for online ad campaigns, where symptoms of an attack include a sudden drop in click-through rates and disabled keywords. A leading security expert, Sculthorpe has more than 18 years of combined security intelligence and technology industry experience, including providing consulting services for Fortune-500 organizations. His expertise helped to protect the integrity of daily banking transactions in excess of US$350 billion for leading Swiss and U.S. investment banks.

The incidence of click fraud risk exposure is on the rise. According to Clickrisk’s Chief Risk Officer, Jack Bensimon, “our clients have experienced substantial losses ranging from 20 – 65% of their total click costs.” Bensimon believes that “managing business risk is a critical component of online advertising” and further recommends that “online marketers should be vigilant and regularly monitor keywords”.

Clickrisk security analysts believe the keyword hijacking vulnerability may be widely exploited. Clickrisk is the leading provider of click fraud prevention software and professional consulting services to manage integrity issues for online advertisers. For more information about keyword hijacking and other types of click fraud, please visit http://www.clickrisk.com/ or call 416-850-2091 for additional information.

[barracuda]

Yes, sychronicities abound, and Joe Kennedy's death was certainly one of these. Yet the predictive quality of any theory is what, for myself, determines the value of that theory in practice. Hugh predicted a hijacking of the anniversary of JFK's death, and low an behold, when I checked google for news about services, memorials, or editorials regarding the assassination, I was swamped with links to sports news.

Serendipity is also real, and as the soup of history is made, this particular happy accident certainly threw a (however small) percentage of news readers off the track of JFK. A benefit here - some small element of confusion - accrues to the true conspirators. So I think the effect the baseball player's death had upon the 24 hour news cycle is undeniable. But was there intent present? That is (and I admit this is crucial), was that news cycle in some way, however small, manipulated to create the effective dilution of cultural awareness throughout the media wash? Is this deliberate or simply entropic? Unsure.

[orz]

Adam Sculthorpe, security specialist and CEO of Clickrisk.com, and his team of 19 researchers have discovered through extensive forensic testing and analysis of Google Adwords, a new type of click fraud—Keyword Hijacking. Keyword Hijacking is where an attacker disables campaign keywords to secure a higher ad position. Sculthorpe explains, “this is achieved by disabling targeted keywords across many advertisers’ campaigns simultaneously by artificially inflating the number of times an ad is displayed.”

Thanks for once again reminding us that you "hijacked" the term keyword hijacking from a real-life issue that is a different thing altogether, and which you apparently don't understand at all though it's quite straightforward.

How long before denial/memory loss sets in, and you start claiming that you thought of it first and the adwords fraud was named by the CIA to detract from your theories?

[professorpan]

Yes, sychronicities abound, and Joe Kennedy's death was certainly one of these. Yet the predictive quality of any theory is what, for myself, determines the value of that theory in practice. Hugh predicted a hijacking of the anniversary of JFK's death, and low an behold, when I checked google for news about services, memorials, or editorials regarding the assassination, I was swamped with links to sports news.

Serendipity is also real, and as the soup of history is made, this particular happy accident certainly threw a (however small) percentage of news readers off the track of JFK. A benefit here - some small element of confusion - accrues to the true conspirators. So I think the effect the baseball player's death had upon the 24 hour news cycle is undeniable. But was there intent present? That is (and I admit this is crucial), was that news cycle in some way, however small, manipulated to create the effective dilution of cultural awareness throughout the media wash? Is this deliberate or simply entropic? Unsure.

His theory isn't predictive, it simply latches onto any coincidence and calls it evidence.

In your example, what were the media supposed to when Joe Kennedy (the pitcher) died? NOT report on it? Of course they are going to report it -- it is news when a professional sports figure dies.

Of course, taken to its extreme, one could suggest that the pitcher was murdered to hijack the anniversary of Kennedy's death... Sigh.

Really, your example in no way verifies any sort of predictability of "keyword hijacking."

[Sepka]

There's a way to test the hypothesis, you know. Movies aren't made in several weeks to cover up some inconvenient bit of news. They take several years to make, and the themes, characters, and title of upcoming films are available on IMDB. If Hugh's correct, then the government has to be planning out their actions several years in advance to be able to cover up breaking news with movies.

Let Hugh examine the upcoming movies for 2008 on IMDB. Go to http://www.imdb.com/nowplaying/ , and use the little dropdown menu to see upcoming movies to July, 2008. If there's anything to the theory, then Hugh (or others, for that matter) should be able to forecast which embarassing news items will break each month.

[IanEye]

I voted for the second choice.

By the way, how is this about "proving" anything? Who cares about that? He is just pointing out things he sees for our consideration. No harm done there IMHO.

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The meaning of words is shifting continually, but more importantly the associations of words is shifting, and words are very effective at steering people. So much so, that you need to be careful not to use certain trigger words in these conversations because they drag along with them a lot of baggage - emotionalized associations and implied contexts - and once used the listener's mind will shut down or head off in strange directions and communication breaks down.

pi - your response is very articulate and well thought out.

Pan asked for proof here:
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=153182#153182

Prove to me that "The Color Purple" or Star Trek's Captain Kirk are "keyword hijackings" related a Pearl Harbor LIHOP.

Hugh responded here:
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=153207#153207

How about you tell us what the Psychological Strategy Board was set up to do in 1951.

Give us your proof that the WWII Office of War Information's command of Hollywood
stopped completely despite movies being tremendously effective forms of conditioning.

Tell us that the widespread journalist psy-ops system exposed in the 1975 Senate Church Committee hearings doesn't continue and doesn'r show governance through media as proven.

Tell us how marketing and psy-ops are nothing alike.

This is a dodge, a good dodge, but a dodge all the same. It reminds me of Huckabees' "Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office" dodge in a direct response to the "what would Jesus do regarding the death penalty" question.
Huck got a big laugh, and the next day everybody in the media was saying that the response was in regards to the question "would jesus run for public office?", when in fact that wasn't the question at all.
All of the things Hugh mentions about the Church Committee and WWII is great, but it offers no proof about Star Trek and The Color Purple Movie being used to deflect attention from Pearl Harbor LIHOP.

Hugh does this all the time, which is why he is failing.

If i am studying Jazz Piano at Berklee and I am asked to play something in 5/4 time to show my skill and I play a polka in 3/4 time, i will get a failing grade, it is that simple.

pi, you said:
"The meaning of words is shifting continually, but more importantly the associations of words is shifting, and words are very effective at steering people."

This is a great statement, and it highlights one of the troubles i have with Hughs' theories. Take "red state - blue state"

If i ask you to define that in the present day, I am pretty confident that will say that red = right wing conservative and blue = left wing liberal

but in the early seventies these colors were reversed. Blue was the GOPs color, some suggested it represented the blue blood Establishment, meanwhile, it was very convenient that the Dems had red, as in, Cold War Commie get it? blue elephant - red donkey

So, if you are in the early '70s working for the CIA and you do a hijacking based on this color meme to benefit the right wing, it is now totally inoperable in the present. And the real killer is the color green, as in $money$. Hollywood want to use product over and over again, they make more money that way. Hollywood will tell the mighty CIA to go fuck itself if the CIA tries to tell them they can't re-issue "Love, American Style" on DVD because it now runs a counter color meme. Hollywood wants green cash, period.

So, these keyword hijackings are only useful for a fleeting time. I have no doubt that they are an arrow in someones quiver, but Hugh simply sees them everywhere.

It's all too much for me to take
A love that's shining all around you
All the world is birthday cake
So take a piece, but not too much

[Hammer of Los]

I thought option three looked real good personally.

[American Dream]

"Keyword Hijacking" is somehow similar to the analysis of Michael Hoffman who invokes concepts like "Twilight Language" and "Revelation of the Method" to explain world happenings such as the JFK assassination. It's all brain candy for cannabis aficionados in my book, but it ain't evidence, and it sure ain't proof. One can appropriate Semiotics and Psyops theory for varied agenda, and in the case of Hoffman, there's a toxic surprise at the center: Hoffman's anti-Jewish, White Supremacist, Far-Right line. The packaging is anti-Fascist, anti-Elite, but it deceives.

In the case of HMW, I would admit that he is creative, and glib, but his presentations of alleged "Keyword Hijacking" are lacking in the logic department, and ultimately fail to satisfy.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

...Movies aren't made in several weeks to cover up some inconvenient bit of news. They take several years to make, and the themes, characters, and title of upcoming films are available on IMDB. If Hugh's correct, then the government has to be planning out their actions several years in advance to be able to cover up breaking news with movies.

A significant amount of American mass psychology simply follows the media psy-ops agenda stuck in front of their faces.

But flexibility to accomodate events on the ground to obtain 'best results' would recommend the creation of multiple projects standing by ready to be deployed depending on strategic need. Which ones get top billing is easily adaptable.

So psy-ops cards can be held until other cards are played and on the table, psy-ops poker.

Many political events and landmark dates can be prepared for a long long time ahead.
>Like the 2008 anniversary year of the JFK-MLK-RFK murders
>elections in the US
>elections in other countries
>legislation cycles
>court cases, using PROMIS
>whistleblower media in progress
>release of research studies
>release of economic statistics
>sporting events
>holiday, work, and school schedules
>INTERNET DISCUSSION BOARDS INSTANTLY
...etc.

Then keyword/theme visibility can then be selected with hyping from Operation Mockingbird assets like best-seller lists, awards, and basic advertising.
And that's the value of having big commercial ad companies as CIA assets.

The 1953 letters from CIA-asset at Paramount Pictures, Luigi Luschari, back to his boss at the Psychological Strategy Board decribed his ability to influence AWARD SHOWS, scripts, directors, casting, keywords, etc.

That was one guy acting secretly 54 years ago.
Imagine if the CIA sets up its own media units to do exactly what it wants.

[orz]

Imagine if the CIA sets up its own media units to do exactly what it wants.

We know you do, but this thread is about proving it.

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

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Pan asked for proof here:
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=153182#153182

Prove to me that "The Color Purple" or Star Trek's Captain Kirk are "keyword hijackings" related a Pearl Harbor LIHOP.

Hugh responded here:
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?p=153207#153207

How about you tell us what the Psychological Strategy Board was set up to do in 1951.

Give us your proof that the WWII Office of War Information's command of Hollywood
stopped completely despite movies being tremendously effective forms of conditioning.

Tell us that the widespread journalist psy-ops system exposed in the 1975 Senate Church Committee hearings doesn't continue and doesn'r show governance through media as proven.

Tell us how marketing and psy-ops are nothing alike.

This is a dodge, a good dodge, but a dodge all the same. .....

You don't think asking for "proof" and ignoring all the historical precedent of USG use of word psychology and CIA activities since WWII as governance...is a dodge?

Pan repeatedly says there is NOTHING whatsover behind my posts and dismisses me TOTALLY.

What do you think of that? Is Pan denying history and science and first-hand testimony?

[IanEye]

Hugh wrote:

The Nazis taped FDR's radio broadcasts and edited them to change their meaning for rebroadcast in Europe.

The Nazis could do this and the Allies couldn't. because the Nazis had figured out recording on magnetic tape.

Alex Constantine has a great piece on this and ties in Bing Crosby, Hogan's Heroes and a whole lot of other stuff.

if you haven't read it, you should look it up Hugh, i think you'll be intrigued.

Also, did i see that you had rented "Gus", that awful Disney movie about a football playing donkey? What did you think of Bob Crane's performance in that as the sports commentator?

[Trifecta]

I voted 3. And Jeff I thought your rule about calling people disinfo applied to everyone? You have effectively called hugh a disinfo agent ...wtf?

PI nails it. I deal with keywords as a marketeer and business blogger everyday, its a science and a psy op. All the media companies and advertising companies use it, its called keyword manipulation for ROI. You think the SS agencies, governments a social controllers don't for public consumption?

Question I have been meaning to ask Prof Pan for awhile, are you the same PP that was on Educate Yourself forum a few years back?

Love suckingeggs!

[Et in Arcadia ego]

I voted 3. And Jeff I thought your rule about calling people disinfo applied to everyone? You have effectively called hugh a disinfo agent ...wtf?

Let's ban Jeff!

Who's gonna be the new head admin?