The following is the beginning of a series of reports by an EIR team on the mind-control operations—policing what people can think and say—on the part of the nexus of finance and political control, best called “MICIMATT,” as former CIA senior analyst Ray McGovern terms it: Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academic Think Tank.
The state legislature of New Jersey passed a bipartisan bill Nov. 21, 2022, requiring its K-12 public schools to teach “media literacy,” to combat “misinformation.” It will become law immediately, when signed by Gov. Phil Murphy, making New Jersey the first state to require information literacy curriculum standards statewide. The Philadelphia Inquirer, described the intent as benign: “They want school librarians and media specialists and teachers to help develop standards for information learning.”
But the “information learning” they refer to could not be more insidious. It is a curriculum to prevent the young person from knowing how to think, and to brainwash young minds with fabricated narratives.
A push is on to enforce this in classrooms in other states, in Europe, and in other targeted nations. On Oct. 11, the EU Commission released an incredible document. “Guidelines for Teachers and Educators on Tacking Disinformation and Promoting Digital Literacy Through Education and Training.” (https://education.ec.europa.eu/news/guidelines-for-teachers-and-educators-on-tackling-disinformation-and-promoting-digital-literacy-through-education-and-training)
The developers of the methods discussed in that document demand the schools interconnect with researchers on “information inoculation” at NATO and related financial and other circles, to police any opposition to their approved narratives regarding everything from what is happening in Ukraine, to what you are supposed to think about China, to how an economy works.
U.S.A. ‘Media Literacy’
The national agency promoting “combatting disinformation” in U.S. schools is the Media Literacy Now group, based in Massachusetts, which keeps a map of all 50 states, and where this can be rammed through. The group’s founder and President Erin McNeill praises New Jersey as the first state for this program in K-12. Illinois has it only for high schools.
There is a media literacy curriculum, described as teaching the young person how to determine credible sources, etc., in order to “address the mis- and disinformation,” according to the New Jersey chapter of Media Literacy Now. Olga Polites, a retired teacher, and major lobbyist for the new bill, offers as an example of disinformation, being the charge that 2020 elections had problems. Other concerns on the Media Literacy Now blog are to stop what it calls “media stereotypes” about gender broadcast to young children.
These moves in the U.S. are parallel to the European Union actions to dictate school curricula in the name of combatting disinformation.
EU ‘Tackling Disinformation’
Much of the 40-page EU Commission set of guidelines for “tackling disinformation” is deliberately vague, while offering tips for “Working with your students on pre-bunking and debunking” (p. 29). But the content can be inferred from what fellow EU agencies put out as acceptable “information,” against which any contradictory view is to be declared dis-information, mal-information, or fake.
For example, the East StratCom Task Force, created by the European Council in 2015, keeps an open, current list of “false narratives” and “Russian disinformation” that no one dare believe or investigate. Some examples of what the EU agency currently declares as fake information:
• NATO’s eastward expansion poses a serious threat to Russia.
• NATO is using Ukraine to fight Russia
• Missiles that fell on Poland are Ukrainian but the West blames Russia anyway
