Everyone Is A Baddie

(Apart From Me, Obviously. And Maybe Helen and Dick. You Too, Possibly, Though How Would I Know?)

By James Delingpole - April 26,2026

Source: https://delingpole.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-baddie

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A couple of weeks ago my attention was drawn to an extraordinary document in a post by a fellow Substacker called alimcforever. Though the document has been in the public domain since 2014, when it was exposed by Glenn Greenwald, this was the first I’d heard of it. I’ll let Alimcforever sum up the contents, which she does in a piece titled The Intelligence Playbook - Co-Ordinated Comment Campaigns Work and How Audiences Can Spot Them.

In February 2014, Glenn Greenwald published a classified GCHQ training presentation from the Snowden archive in The Intercept. It was called “The Art of Deception: Training for a New Generation of Online Covert Operations” and it was classified SECRET//SI//REL TO USA, FVEY, which means it was shared across the Five Eyes intelligence alliance — the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The presentation came from a GCHQ unit called the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group, or JTRIG. According to its own slides, JTRIG had two core purposes: injecting false material onto the internet to destroy the reputation of targets, and using social sciences to manipulate online conversations and activism to produce outcomes the government considered desirable. That is GCHQ’s own description of what they were doing.

The slides laid out what they called a “Disruption Operational Playbook” — infiltration operations, ruse operations, set piece operations, false flag operations, false rescue operations, disruption operations, and sting operations. They also listed named tools. UNDERPASS manipulated online polls. SLIPSTREAM inflated page view counts. GESTATOR amplified approved YouTube content. SILVERLORD censored videos flagged as extremist. SPRING BISHOP found private Facebook photos. CHANGELING spoofed email addresses so messages appeared to come from someone else.

By early 2013, over 150 JTRIG staff were fully trained, and a separate initiative was rolling out a reduced version of the tradecraft to more than 500 other GCHQ analysts.

Did you get that? Thirteen years ago, just one of the three branches of UK intelligence had already trained at least 650 operatives in the art of internet black ops. And not only against ‘terrorists’ or ‘hostile nations’ but, as the article goes on to note, “against people suspected but not charged with ordinary crimes or against people engaged in online protest activity.” Against people like you and me, in other words. If freedom movements were already that heavily infiltrated and manipulated in the pre-Covid, pre-Slava-Ukraini, pre-Gaza, pre 77th Brigade eras, can you imagine how much more so they are now?

Here’s where it gets even more interesting. The article lists, from JTRIG’s Art of Deception training slides, the 10 Principles of Influence which GCHQ staff can use to divide, dispirit and disrupt the State’s enemies. [That’ll be you and me again, btw].

Flattery — compliment the target first, build a sense of connection before introducing doubt. The slides describe this as constructing an experience in the target’s mind that they accept without realising what is happening.

Social Compliance / Authority — invoke expertise or institutional credibility to pressure conformity.

Herd — make it look like everyone disagrees, create the appearance of consensus where none exists.

Consistency — hold people to past statements to trap them in contradictions.

Reciprocity — give something first (praise, engagement, attention) so the target feels obliged to respond.

Distraction — redirect the conversation away from the core point.

Time — create urgency or delay, whichever serves the operation.

Deception — present false information as true.

Dishonesty — misrepresent who you are, what you want, or who you work for.

Need and Greed — exploit what the target wants, whether that is validation, engagement, or audience growth.

For me Ali’s piece - and explanatory TikTok video - were Eureka moments. They opened my eyes to the reasoning behind phenomena which had hitherto made no sense to me, such as all those critical comments I so often get online which employ the “I usually love your work but…” or the “James Delingpole used to talk a lot of sense but…” formulae.

> You can read the full - lengthy but very worthwhile - essay here > https://delingpole.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-baddie

Most conspiracies turn out to be true, but we need a candle in the Stygian darkness. I choose to believe in human ingenuity and the iterative nature of technological advancement. Believing that the Moon mission is fake, etc., must be a miserable headspace to be in. I'm good.

That's soooo lame… 😂

14 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Everyone Is A Baddie

(Apart From Me, Obviously. And Maybe Helen and Dick. You Too, Possibly, Though How Would I Know?)

By James Delingpole - April 26,2026

Source: https://delingpole.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-baddie

= = =

A couple of weeks ago my attention was drawn to an extraordinary document in a post by a fellow Substacker called alimcforever. Though the document has been in the public domain since 2014, when it was exposed by Glenn Greenwald, this was the first I’d heard of it. I’ll let Alimcforever sum up the contents, which she does in a piece titled The Intelligence Playbook - Co-Ordinated Comment Campaigns Work and How Audiences Can Spot Them.

Did you get that? Thirteen years ago, just one of the three branches of UK intelligence had already trained at least 650 operatives in the art of internet black ops. And not only against ‘terrorists’ or ‘hostile nations’ but, as the article goes on to note, “against people suspected but not charged with ordinary crimes or against people engaged in online protest activity.” Against people like you and me, in other words. If freedom movements were already that heavily infiltrated and manipulated in the pre-Covid, pre-Slava-Ukraini, pre-Gaza, pre 77th Brigade eras, can you imagine how much more so they are now?

Here’s where it gets even more interesting. The article lists, from JTRIG’s Art of Deception training slides, the 10 Principles of Influence which GCHQ staff can use to divide, dispirit and disrupt the State’s enemies. [That’ll be you and me again, btw].

For me Ali’s piece - and explanatory TikTok video - were Eureka moments. They opened my eyes to the reasoning behind phenomena which had hitherto made no sense to me, such as all those critical comments I so often get online which employ the “I usually love your work but…” or the “James Delingpole used to talk a lot of sense but…” formulae.

> You can read the full - lengthy but very worthwhile - essay here > https://delingpole.substack.com/p/everyone-is-a-baddie

Maybe there has been a few posting on TV, AN and TT in recent years.

For me, the covid hoax, exposed them. I could see through their nonsense because I know differently. And this nonsense, exposedby covid, is echoed through out the medical world. Theories, models, and computer programmes have replaced nature, facts and common sense.

I'm not so sure that some of the pro-virus posters on here are even real.

Nature rules OK!

6 minutes ago, Stiddle Mump said:

Maybe there has been a few posting on TV, AN and TT in recent years.

For me, the covid hoax, exposed them. I could see through their nonsense because I know differently. And this nonsense, exposedby covid, is echoed through out the medical world. Theories, models, and computer programmes have replaced nature, facts and common sense.

I'm not so sure that some of the pro-virus posters on here are even real.

Nature rules OK!

Covid was a disaster, but it was also a transformational event which woke up a lot of people (albeit brutally).

Edited April 26Apr 26 by rattlesnake

13 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

Covid was a disaster, but it was also a transformational event which woke up a lot of people (albeit brutally).

Don't disagree there Rattles.

But there were other events that should have woken people up out of their apathetic slumber. Top for me was 9/11. But there have been many others.

JFK

RFK

Moon landings

John Lennon assassination

USS Liberty

AIDS

Princess Di assassination

Robin Cook assassination

Dr D Kelly assassination

9/11

London tube bombings

Covid

Fartemis 11

Plus all the wars.

The deep state is not yer mummy and daddy. Just a branch of the evil elite.