The War on American Culture
So the new Health Agencies Director (ARPA-H) is an Anthropologist?
ARPA-H will be tasked to drive biomedical breakthroughs – ranging from molecular to societal – that would provide transformative solutions for all patients
I am guessing as an Anthropologist he will focus more on the “societal”
Anthropologist Adam H. Russell will head the new agency as acting deputy director; Russell currently is the chief scientist at the University of Maryland’s Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.
Adam Russell
Russell spent more than a decade as a program manager at other federal ARPAs, first at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) and then at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
[Note: IARPA is the Intelligence Communities (eg CIA) DARPA-so he is a spook]
A release from the National Institutes of Health notes that “with broad technical and management experience across several disciplines, ranging from cognitive neuroscience and physiology to cultural psychology and social anthropology,Dr. Russell will guide the early stages of building the administrative structure of the agency and oversee the hiring of initial operational staff to ensure the agency is stood up as effectively and efficiently as possible.” A permanent ARPA-H director will eventually be appointed by President Joe Biden.
[Note: cultural psychology and social anthropology? Sounds like he is going to develop the tools for our Cultural and Social Engineering]
Applying the ARPA model to public health has been on the Biden Administration’s front burner since last summer. The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held 15 listening sessions in July and August with “stakeholders across the biomedical ecosystem” on a putative ARPA-H.
The sessions were generally based more on health issues – i.e. cancer, translational research or mental health– than on discipline, although the discussions centered more around technologies, rather than specific diseases.
[we will get to the Mental Health Motivations behind ARPA-H later]
Despite that physical focus (ARPA-H has already been seen by some as primarily a “drug accelerator”), the sessions did call for interdisciplinary approaches and for collaborations with organizations that offered social and behavioral approaches.
In March Biden proposed creating ARPA-H and funding it with $6.5 billion over three years drawn from an enlarged NIH budget. While the agency itself was greenlit by Congress, the full budget was not: ARPA-H’s initial funding is for $1 billion, although there is legislation to increase that on the table.
According to material from the White House, “ARPA-H will be tasked with building high-risk, high-reward capabilities (or platforms) to drive biomedical breakthroughs – ranging from molecular to societal– that would provide transformative solutions for all patients. … [it] will provide a novel pathway to catalyzing transformative health breakthroughs that cannot readily be accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity.”
Russell, who is leading the launch of ARPA-H, joined DARPA as a program manager in July 2015.
According to NIH, his work there focused on new experimental platforms and tools to facilitate discovery, quantification and “big validation” of fundamental measures in social and behavioral science and human performance. Before that, as a program manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity he oversaw projects for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
He came to IARPA from private industry where he was a senior scientist and principal investigator on a wide range of human performance and social science research projects.
Russell earned a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Duke University, and a master’s and a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
[Note: A Rhodie like Clinton
]
He begins his new job in June.
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ARPA-H is actually a renaming of HARPA which was conceived during the Trump Administration during a wave of Mass Shootings in 2019
As explained by Whitney Webb
Trump had proposed ito establish a new agency called the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency or HARPA, which would sit inside the Health and Human Services Department. Its director would be appointed by the president, and the agency would have a separate budget, according to three people with knowledge of conversations around the plan.
One of the leading proponents of this agency’s main program, called “Safe Home” (Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes), aims to develop an artificial intelligence-based system that would analyze data harvested from consumer electronic devices as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify those who might threaten others.
The program would cost an estimated $60 million over four years and would use data from “Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echo and Google Home” and other consumer electronic devices, as well as information provided by health-care providers to identify who may be a threat.
The Washington Post reported that President Trump has reacted “very positively” to the proposal and that he was “sold on the concept.”
The Post also noted that Wright sees the president’s daughter, Ivanka, as “the most effective champion of the proposal and has previously briefed her on HARPA himself.” Ivanka has previously been cited as a driving force behind some of her father’s policy decisions, including his decision to bomb Syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack in 2017.
Liz Fed — president of the Susan Wright Foundation, which is led by Robert Wright and created the proposal for HARPA and “Safe Home” — told The Post that the proposal emulated DARPA because “DARPA is a brilliant model that works.
They have developed the most transformational capabilities in the world for national security…We’re not leveraging the tools and technologies available to us to improve and save lives.” Fed further asserted that DARPA’s technological approach had yet to be applied to the field of healthcare.
Given that HARPA’s lead scientific adviser is Dr. Geoffrey Ling, former director and founder of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which “merges biology, engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security,” it seems likely that DARPA’s neurological-focused research programs, like SUBNETS and N3, would be folded into HARPA’s portfolio, making the proposed agency’s approach to mental health very questionable indeed.
Aside from the dystopian nature of both DARPA and potentially HARPA’s approach to mental health, there is grave cause for concern regarding the Trump administration’s moves to address U.S. mass shooting events by implementing pre-crime technology based on artificial intelligence, data-mining and mass surveillance, technologies already laying in wait thanks to companies like Palantir and numerous Israeli tech start-ups led by former Unit 8200 officers.
Though HARPA ultimately failed to gain traction, a similarly mass surveillance system is now being promoted in its place , with coronavirus now replacing mass shootings as the official justification.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/meet-companies-poised-build-kushner-backed-coronavirus-surveillance-system/
Obviously Biden is taking this to another level in terms of spending.
It tied in nicely with Bill Barrs Pre-crime Program as Trumps Attorney General
October 16 , 2019 -Attorney General William Barr develops a “pre-crime” program. Officially known as the “National Disruption and Early Engagement Program” (DEEP), it aims to “identify, assess and engage” potentially violent individuals “before they strike.”
Barr first announced this in an official memorandum and therein stated that the program was to be implemented sometime over the course of 2020 and would involve “an efficient, effective and programmatic strategy to disrupt individuals who are deemed to be mobilizing towards violence, by all lawful means.”
In his memorandum, Barr further notes that the program’s “early engagement tactics” were “born of the posture we adopted with respect to terrorist threats” following the September 11 attacks, essentially stating that this pre-crime program will utilize methods from the “War on Terror” domestically and on a massive scale.
In the part of the document where Barr outlines what actions will be taken once an individual is deemed potentially violent or threatening, he writes that those individuals will be subject to detention, court-ordered mental health treatment and electronic monitoring, among other measures.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/03/reports/what-newsweek-conveniently-failed-to-mention-about-continuity-of-government/
Back to Anthropology. Its sounds like a rather innocuous profession.
Anthropology is the study of what makes us human. Anthropologists take a broad approach to understanding the many different aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. They consider the past, through archaeology, to see how human groups lived hundreds or thousands of years ago and what was important to them.
https://www.americananthro.org/AdvanceYourCareer/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2150
However, lets take a look on how the profession was Weaponized during the Iraq and Afghanistan Occupations under a counterinsurgency program called Human Terrain Systems (HTS)
The counterinsurgency program generating the greatest friction among anthropologists today is Human Terrain Systems (HTS) – a program with over 400 employees, originally operating through private contractors and now in the process of being taken over by the U.S. Army.
Human Terrain embeds anthropologists with military units to ease the occupation and conquest of Iraqis and Afghanis – with plans to extend these operations in Africa through expanding units with AFRICOM
[in the context of today read that as “to ease the occupation and conquest of Americans”]
Supporters of HTS claim the program uses embedded social scientists to help reduce “kinetic engagements,” or unnecessary violent contacts with the populations they encounter.
The idea is to use these social scientists to interact with members of the community, creating relationships to reduce misunderstandings that can lead to unnecessarily violent interactions.
HTS sells itself to the public through remarkably well-organized domestic propaganda campaigns that have seen dozens of uncritical articles on HTS, with personality profiles, as a “peaceful” means of achieving victory.
Today, in Iraq and Afghanistan, anthropologists are being told that they’re needed to make bad situations better. But no matter how anthropological contributions ease and make gentle this conquest and occupation, it will not change the larger neocolonial nature of the larger mission; and most anthropologists are troubled to see their discipline embrace such a politically corrupt cause.
Human Terrain Systems is not some neutral humanitarian project, it is an arm of the U.S. military and is part of the military’s mission to occupy and destroy opposition to U.S. goals and objectives.
Central to anthropologists’ criticisms of the HTS program are concerns that HTS social scientists’ reports can be used by military and intelligence agencies in ways that can make studied populations vulnerable.
Safeguards protecting gathered data for use by military or intelligence agencies are absent.
Over the last few months, so many managerial problems with HTS have come to light that it is being discontinued as a program run by private contractors, BAE Systems, and, as noted above, plans are underway for the program to be taken over by the Army.
McFate today categorically rejects claims that Human Terrain Teams are involved in using anthropology for what she referred to in 1994 as “better killing.”
McFate’s dissertation identified two counterinsurgency elements requiring anthropological skills. The first involved psychological warfare operations, where cultural readings could be used for defining perceptions of one’s enemy because “creating a mask for the enemy to wear is essential for psychological warfare,” while the second argued that “knowledge of the enemy leads to a refinement in knowledge of how best to kill the enemy”.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/12/01/human-terrain-systems-anthropologists-and-the-war-in-afghanistan/
To visualize this lets consider the movie Avatar which Trumps Secretary of Treasury Stephen Mnuchin’s studio produced
Avatar is set in a world where the needs of corporate military units align against the interests of indigenous blue humanoids long inhabiting a planet with mineral resources desired by the high tech militarized invaders.
The exploitation of native peoples to capture valuable resources is a story obviously older than Hollywood, and much older than the discipline of anthropology itself; though the last century and a half has found anthropologists’ field research used in recurrent instances to make indigenous populations vulnerable to exploitation in ways reminiscent of Avatar.
Avatar draws on classic sci-fi themes in which individuals break through barriers of exoticness, to accept alien others in their own terms as equals, not as species to be conquered and exploited, and to turn against the exploitive mission of their own culture. These sorts of relationships, where invaders learn about those they’d conquer and come to understand them in ways that shake their loyalties permeate fiction, history and anthropology.
Fans of Avatar are understandably being moved by the story’s romantic anthropological message favoring the rights of people to not have their culture weaponized against them by would be foreign conquerors, occupiers and betrayers.
It is worth noting some of the obvious the parallels between these elements in this virtual film world, and those found in our world of real bullets and anthropologists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Since 2007, the occupying U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan have deployed Human Terrain Teams (HTT), complete with HTT “social scientists” using anthropological-ish methods and theories to ease the conquest and occupation of these lands.
HTT has no avatared-humans; just supposed “social scientists” who embed with battalions working to reduce friction so that the military can get on with its mission without interference from local populations.
On the big screen the transformation of fictional counterinsurgent avatar-anthropologists into insurgents siding with the blue skinned Na’vi endears the avatars to the audience, yet off the screen in our world, this same audience is regularly bombarded by media campaigns designed to endear HTT social scientists embedded with the military to an audience of the American people.
The engineered inversions of audience sympathies for anthropologists resisting a military invasion in fiction, and pro-military-anthropologists in nonfiction is easily accomplished because the fictional world of a distant future is not pollinated with the forces of nationalism and jingoistic patriotism that permeate our world; a world where anything aligned with militarism is championed over the understanding of others (for reasons other than conquest).
https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/12/23/hollywood-s-human-terrain-avatars/
The Military has a long history of Cultural Engineering. From this article in 1962
Just as human engineering arose in response to the increasing complexity of military equipment, so a new function—cultural engineering—is today being required because of the growing complexities involved in the worldwide Military Assistance Program
https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/January-February-2022/Vallance-Cultural-Eng-1962/
It worked Wonders in Vietnam, leading to the Phoenix Program.
Operation Phoenix was begun in 1967 was overseen by Ted Shackley, CIA station chief in Saigon from 1969-1972; later CIA deputy director for operations. Some sources have claimed that Singlaub was involved in Phoenix on the military side, although he denies this vigorously. He certainly was close to many people involved, including Shackley.
William Colby told a Senate hearing that Phoenix killed over 20,000 Vietnamese civilians (men, women and children) suspected of being communists; others put the total over 70,000.
Congressional hearings declared that Phoenix was a ˜totally unlawful operation. Yet Phoenix continued in rogue violation until the U.S. pulled out of Saigon in 1975.
But I suppose we do better today.
OK, so then the question for today is if ARPA-H is an Intelligence Community and Military Operation using Health as a Front to apply a Human Terrain System run by Anthropologists to accomplish its objectives on the Homeland?
We all know that to get the American Population to accept the Great Reset will require significant Cultural Engineering.
This could be possibly be done with the help of Intelligence Collected by Anthropologists.
Otherwise, they will be forced to hammer us Blue Monkeys like they did in the movie Avatar. I think the Ending wont be the same.
On a related not, last year a story broke almost a year ago about Signature Reduction Forces in US. Not a peep since.
https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881
The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagonover the past decade. Some 60,000 people now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction."
The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domesticand foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies
Maybe some of them are Anthropologists?
Consider this NATO review Article
In cognitive warfare, the human mind becomes the battlefield. The aim is to change not only what people think, but how they think and act.
Waged successfully, it shapes and influences individual and group beliefs and behavioursto favour an aggressor’s tactical or strategic objectives.
In its extreme form, it has the potential to fracture and fragment an entire society,so that it no longer has the collective will to resist an adversary’s intentions.
An opponent could conceivably subdue a society without resorting to outright force or coercion.
The aims of cognitive warfare can be limited, with short time horizons. Or they can be strategic, with campaigns launched over the course of decades.
A single campaign could focus on the limited aim of preventing a military manoeuver from taking place as planned, or to force the alteration of a specific public policy.
Several successive campaigns could be launched with the long-term objective of disrupting entire societies or alliances, by seeding doubts about governance, subverting democratic processes, triggering civil disturbances, or instigating separatist movements.
https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2021/05/20/countering-cognitive-warfare-awareness-and-resilience/index.htmlfsvffcdddddddsxggdf
Now if you were going to embark on a major Cultural Engineering Mission where would you start? Well, you probably start with the young people in the schools. Right? Anyone hear about the Military Industrial Intelligence Academic Complex (MIIAC)?
Henry Giroux’s 2007 book, The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial Academic Complex, details how two decades of shifts in university funding brought increased intrusions by corporate and military forces onto university.
After 9/11, the intelligence agencies pushed campuses to see the CIA and campus secrecy in a new light, and, as traditional funding sources for social science research declined, the intelligence community gained footholds on campuses.
Post-9/11 scholarship programs like the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP) and the Intelligence Community Scholarship Programs today sneak unidentified students with undisclosed links to intelligence agencies into university classrooms (both were first exposed by this author here in CounterPunchin 2005).
A new generation of so-called flagship programs have quietly taken root on campuses, and, with each new flagship, our universities are transformed into vessels of the mitarized state, as academics learn to sublimate unease.
The programs most significantly linking the CIA with university campuses are the “Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence” (ICCAE, pronounced “Icky”) and the “Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity”.
Both programs use universities to train intelligence personnel by piggybacking onto existing educational programs.
Campuses that agree to see these outsourced programs as nonthreatening to their open educational and research missions are rewarded with funds and useful contacts with the intelligence agencies and other less tangible benefits.
Even amid the militarization prevailing in America today, the silence surrounding this quiet installation and spread of programs like ICCAE is extraordinary. In the last four years, ICCAE has gone further in bringing government intelligence organizations openly to American university campuses than any previous intelligence initiative since World War Two.
Yet, the program spreads with little public notice, media coverage, or coordinated multi-campus resistance.
In 2005, the first ICCAE centers were installed at ten campuses: California State University San Bernardino, Clark Atlanta University, Florida International University, Norfolk State University, Tennessee State University, Trinity Washington University, University of Texas El Paso, University of Texas-Pan American, University of Washington, and Wayne State University.
Between 2008-2010, a second wave of expansion brought ICCAE programs to another twelve campuses: Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, North Carolina A&T State, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Florida A&M, Miles College, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Nebraska, University of New Mexico, Pennsylvania State University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
But the CIA and FBI aren’t the only agencies from the Intelligence Community that ICCAE brings to American university campuses.
ICCAE also quietly imports a smorgasbord of fifteen agencies – including the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, and Homeland Security.
ICCAE’s stated goals are to develop a “systematic long-term program at universities and colleges to recruit and hire eligible talent for IC [Intelligence Community] agencies and components,” and to “increase the [intelligence recruiting] pipeline of students … with emphasis on women and ethnic minorities in critical skill areas.”
Specifically, ICCAE seeks to “provide internships, co-ops, graduate fellowships and other related opportunities across IC agencies to eligible students and faculty for intelligence studies immersion,” and to “support selective international study and regional and overseas travel opportunities to enhance cultural and language immersion.”
ICCAE’s aim is to shower with fellowships, scholarships and grants those universities that are adapting their curricula to align with the political agenda of American intelligence agencies; also to install a portal connecting ICCAE campuses with intelligence agencies, through which students, faculty, students studying abroad, and unknown others will pass.
While ICCAE claims to train analysts, rather than members of the clandestine service, the CIA historically has not observed such boundaries.
The post-9/11 political climate casts a pall of orthodoxy over critical discussions of militarization and national security, and the rise of anti-intellectual media pundits attacking those who question increasing American militarization adds pressure to muzzle dissent.
Faculty at public universities often feel these pressures more than their colleagues at private institutions.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2010/04/09/silent-coup/
Is it any surprise the Military and Intelligence Communities are now on the front lines pushing the Woke Cultural
Movement (IMO - the antithesis to American Culture)
Consider the Navy’s Professional Reading Program. It includes books that portray America as systemically racist and promotes the view that the Constitution was written to perpetuate white supremacy.
The Defense Department is now reportedly considering hiring a private company to monitor the free speech of military personal on social media, using key words or algorithms that by their very nature reflect the perspective of those who select the words and write the algorithms. The relentless drive to enforce conformity within the military
https://nypost.com/2021/05/23/the-woke-takeover-of-the-us-military-endangers-us-all/
In a Homeland Threat Assessment from October 2020, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security said, “…I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years.”
And this CIA Recruitment Ad
Granted, Biden’s Administration has allowed them to come out of the closet, but the seeds no doubt were planted long before, most likely during Obama stint in office.
Now I don’t mean to suggest the Military and Intelligence Agencies, or more accurately the leadership of these institutions, is acting on its own. I believe they are just a tool of the Globalists much like the leadership of the Regulatory Agencies and Politicians
How did this happen? I took a stab at that here. Obviously these guys get to retire early and those who get promoted high enough make a bundle after retirement, and you only get promoted high enough if you go along
As for the Globalists driving all of this Culture Change over the last 70+ years I provide a timeline here of their activities
How Tavistock, CIA, Futurists, Philanthropic Foundations, Academia , Psychologists , Scientists , Corporate Leaders, and International Institutions conspired to Remake the World
I suspect some of them may be Satanists
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino joined the original Church of Satan in 1969, becoming one of its chief officials by 1975 when he founded the Temple of Set
He was in Military Intelligence, U.S. Army, and qualified as a Special Forces officer, Civil Affairs officer, and Defense Attaché.
He attended 16 separate military schoolsduring 1968-87, including advanced courses in "Psychological Operations" at the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and "Strategic Intelligence" at the Defense Intelligence College, at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.
Aquino was deeply involved in what has been called the "revolution in military affairs" ("RMA"), the introduction of the most "Third Wave," "New Age" ideas into military long-range planning, which introduced such notions as "information warfare" and "cyber-warfare" into the Pentagon's lexicon.
In the early 1980s, at the same time that Heidi and Alvin Toffler were spinning their Tavistock "Third Wave" views to Air Force brass, Aquino and another U.S. Army colonel, Paul Vallely, were co-authoring an article for Military Review.
The article, titled "From PSYOP to Mindwar: The Psychology of Victory," allegedly endorsed some of the ideas published in a 1980 Military Reviewarticle by Lt. Col. John Alexander, an affiliate of the Stanford Research Institute, a hotbed of Tavistock Institute and Frankfurt School "New Age" social engineering.
Aquino and Vallely called for an explicitly Nietzschean form of warfare, which they dubbed "mindwar.""
And what is "mindwar?" For Aquino, "mindwar" is a permanent state of strategic psychological warfare against the populations of friend and foe nations alike.
"In its strategic context, mindwar must reach out to friends, enemies and neutrals alike across the globe ... through the media possessed by the United States which have the capabilities to reach virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media were, of course, the electronic media—television and radio. “
Aquino argues, mindwar must target the population of the United States, "by denying enemy propaganda access to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the rationale for our national interest.... “
Rather it states a whole truth that, if it does not now exist, will be forced into existence by the will of the United States."
Aquino would later be caught upin a series of pedophile scandals involving the sexual abuse of hundreds of children, including the Franklin scandal, and children of military personnel serving at the Presidio U.S. Army station in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 2016 Michael Aquino published a book titled Mind War. He is also author of Temple of Set. He died in 2019 a month after Kary Mullis.
https://www.amazon.com/Mind-War-Michael-Aquino/dp/1635241294
Aquino supposedly received a direct revelation from Satan, later published as The Book of Coming Forth by Night (1985). In the book, Satan identified himself as Set, presented the twentieth century as the beginning of a new satanic dispensation and included Crowley’s prophecy of a new Age of Horus, marked by power politics and mass destruction.
The temple was dedicated to Set, the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, sometimes interchangeable with the dying-god Osiris, and regarded by Grant as Sirius, which according to Albert Pike is the “blazing star” of Freemasonry.
Aquino had also composed a “Call to Cthulhu” ritual before he left the Church of Satan, and adopted aspects of Lovecraft’s mythos. Aquino devised the “Ceremony of the Nine Angles,” which includes an evocation of Lovecraft’s deities, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath.
Impressed by the power and conquests of the Third Reich, Aquino also dabbled in Nazi occultism. In Church of Satan, his account of his time within the organization, Aquino provides a communication he sent to prominent members, including LaVey, in 1974, where he discusses in detail the relationship between Nazism and Satanism:
“According to Satanic criteria, the importance of Nazi Germany is that it succeeded in touching the very core of human behavioral motivation factors. In short, Adolf Hitler knew what really makes people tick, and he formed a political party designed to make those desires legitimate and respectable in German society. As you know from the Satanic Bible, people are motivated basically by crude and bestial emotions—greed, lust, hatred, envy of others’ success, desire for power, desire for recognition, etc. Civilization has repressed such anarchic emotions in order that people may live together with a certain amount of peace. When one deliberately unleashes those emotions, consequently, there is going to be a bit of unpleasantness—war, domestic purges, or the like. The keys are there for those who can read them. “
[I don’t mean to suggest Aquino’s beliefs are widespread but they were certainly tolerated]