This is a follow-up to last week’s piece about the brainwashers and silencers of Lynn Group Ltd and Lynn Global Ltd. The latter company seems to have superseded the former, for the website is now Lynn Global.
And the piece was very popular. It got a record number of hits the day it went out, with even more hits the following day. Maybe someone was trawling through my output for ‘wrongthink’. If so, I’m done for!
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RECAP
That earlier piece, ‘It’s Getting Sinister’, was inspired by a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, the response to which told us there had been a lot of interaction between Lynn and the self-styled ‘Welsh Government’, in the year from July 1, 2022, relating to the imposition of the 20mph speed limit.
Clearly, Lynn was working for the ‘Welsh Government’, using ‘behavioural science’ to promote acceptance of WG’s imposition of 20mph speed limits. Behavioural science is shortened to ‘BS’, which you’ll realise is hilariously appropriate.
Naturally, learning of this connection piqued my interest, and so I did some more digging. Since then, others have helped. Including someone who keeps me updated on Bute Energy and its grandiose plans to cover Wales in wind turbines.
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UPDATE
This source directed me to an article on a site, We Are The City, where in February you might have read, Inspirational Woman: Shayoni Lynn CEO & Founder, Lynn, a piece that, interestingly, mentions Covid.
In answer to the question, ‘Have you faced any challenges along the way?’ Shayoni Lynn responds:
I launched Lynn just weeks before the Covid pandemic took hold. . . . Behavioural science was critical to both Covid response and recovery. . . . Lynn was able to establish itself as a firm that deeply understood human behaviours and then embraced, interpreted and integrated these into creative communications to drive persuasive content and calls to action to deliver change for good.
We know that Lynn Group Ltd was Incorporated October 7, 2019, as Lynn PR Ltd (a name it kept until May 5, 2022). The first admitted case of Covid-19 was in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The first confirmed case in Wales, according to Wikipedia, was February 28, 2020.
So Shayoni Lynn formed her new company just in time for Covid. Such propinquity! The answer above seems to suggest that Lynn might even have had some involvement in fighting Covid.
Would that have been in Wales? And if so, might it help explain both the ‘Welsh Government’s reluctance to have an independent, Wales-only inquiry and also its refusal to answer the FoI about its dealings with Lynn?
Possibilities strengthened by learning that the company had a contract from January to April 2021 with Cwm Tâf Morgannwg University Health Board to help the board combat, “anti-lockdown sentiment and hesitancy“.
Nice work if you can get it for a company with no track record. But then, this contract would not have been awarded without the OK from Corruption Bay.
Sticking with the same February article, under the section, ‘What has been your biggest achievement to date?’, we read something explaining how Lynn and others in the field operate:
. . . most meaningfully, provided innovative behaviour change solutions that have measurably improved and saved lives.
“Behaviour change solutions” in the sense of telling people what to think and how to behave. But most importantly, telling people who and what to believe.
And it should go without saying that dictating to people “measurably improved and saved lives“.
And if you believe that then they’ve got you by the balls!
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GOODIES AND BADDIES
Let’s kick off this section with a mercifully short film that’s nevertheless revealing about where Lynn stands politically. In the video below the company claims to be “empathetic“, “objective“, and “packed with integrity“. (The final phrase borrowed from Amazon?)
Clearly, the good guys.
In contrast, Trump and Putin are cast as pantomime villains, by being rather crudely associated with “misinformation“. Boo!
We read the boast that, “Our campaigns have improved vaccine uptake by 77.8%.”
Given all we know now about Covid, the lies about its origin, the damage caused by lockdown – especially to children’s health and development – and the surge of deaths caused by untested vaccines, I’m amazed that video hasn’t been taken down.
What it lays out is a political position, a world view. The Globalist agenda.
The agenda of the United Nations, the World Economic Form, the European Union; assorted asset managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street; various multi-billionaires like old money Rothschilds and Rockefellers, joined by arrivistes like Bill Gates, George Soros and Mark Zuckerberg.
Something else that turned up after the original piece was written is an article from the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) website entitled ‘How Disinformation Arrived in Wales, and Where It’s Going Next‘.
Published last September, lead billing was given to Adam Belcher, deputy head of Lynn’s Misinformation Cell; with his boss, Stefan Rollnick, also credited.
A ‘Misinformation Cell’! Bloody hell! And here it is on the Lynn website.
I can’t be sure who Adam Belcher is, and for some reason he doesn’t appear in Team Lynn (has he left?), but Rollnick has a predictable background for this work. Here’s his Linkedin page. (Pdf format.) One section tells of his time at the ‘Welsh Government’.
It may be nothing, it may be something . . . Rollnick started working for Drakeford within a month of Lynn getting the health board Covid contract. Then he went to work for Lynn.
The IWA article might strike you as unremarkable, if slightly hysterical, but read between the lines and it betrays the nature of the beast. And it’s oh so predictable.
It’s the Globalist agenda of those listed above, promoted and defended by shills or useful idiots like those at Lynn.
We are presented with the sole accepted narrative, this is the one pushed by Lynn and others, such as Big Tech, and the mainstream media, either owned or funded by Globalists. Anyone contradicting or challenging that narrative will be guilty of “misinformation” or “disinformation“.
Or smeared in other ways. Such as we see in the IWA article, where the term “far-right” is used no less than eleven times to describe those with whom Lynn’s Disinformation Cell disagrees. Eleven bloody times!
A frame of mind perfectly illustrated by this cartoon I saw on Twitter / X when I was writing this piece. The workings of serendipity, eh!
It’s easy to ridicule brainwashed youngsters who may genuinely believe in the nonsense they spout, but those who’ve brainwashed them, and those whose agendas they promote, are not to be laughed at.
They are a threat to the democratic system, and to the liberty of the individual.
Take this segment highlighted in the IWA article. Read it and think about it.
Our major political parties have a duty to be the first line of defence, not adopting adversarial narratives for opportunism’s sake or political popularity
“Adversarial narratives” competing for “political popularity” is the lifeblood of healthy democracies. It’s almost the sine qua non of a democratic society.
Lynn wants a single, unchallenged voice; in other words, totalitarianism; yet still argues that attacking and silencing those who challenge this totalitarianism is defending “democratic institutions“.
How fucked up does your head have to be to push such bollocks?
And look who these threats to “democratic institutions” are!
Little old ladies protesting about giant wind turbines killing skylarks must be vilified and silenced because they’re opposing “large-scale green infrastructure projects“. When and how did such projects achieve sacred status?
For those who still don’t get it, let me explain . . .
The Globalists instil fear over an imaginary climate crisis in order to enforce compliance with the Globalist agenda.
Get people to believe in the ‘climate crisis’ and those behind the lies can make billions of dollars by enforcing Net Zero, and renewable energy, energy that they will of course own and control. And when they’ve forced farmers off the land they will also control the land, and the food supply, and have us eating insects and lab-made ‘meat’.
We face a future of engineered hardship and shortages designed to give more power to the Globalists, and to take away our control over own lives; whether it’s by restricting our movements with 20mph and 15-minute neighbourhoods, climate lockdowns, vaccine passports, or by removing cash so that every penny we spend is recorded, and we can be punished by a CBDC system if we step out of line.
It’s a return to feudalism, but it will be 21st century feudalism enforced by facial recognition technology and digital passports rather than private armies. (But don’t rule ’em out!) And the people at Lynn Global, together with similar companies and organisations, are the prophets and the praetorians for this New World Order.
But only if we submit, and allow it. And believe BS outfits like Lynn Global.
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CONCLUSION
Of course, there will be those who’ll reject what I say about the Globalist agenda and the New World Order. Perhaps because what I’m suggesting sounds too far-fetched. And there’ll be some who don’t want to believe it for fear it might be true.
Others may seek comfort in a reassuring analogy. “Come on, Jac, it’s just persuading people – like adverts on the telly, mun“. But is it?
If my wife doesn’t like Daz she can buy Persil, or Bold, or some other detergent. If I’m looking for a bottle of wine I’m spoilt for choice even in Tywyn Coop. With Lynn and its behavioural science it’s a case of, “We have a monopoly on truth, you must therefore accept what we say.”
Which means that my wife has choice over washing powder, but left to Lynn and their ilk none of us would be allowed to hold divergent views on the major issues affecting us and the world around us.
We are living under a creeping form of totalitarianism, and like all totalitarianism, from the Inquisition to 20th century Communism, it allows no divergent views.
At the moment Wales seems badly afflicted by these Green-Woke-Left servants of the New World Order. And much of it stems from Cardiff University. Which is where Shayoni Lynn would have been found ere she donned her armour to confront the twin evils that have dominated this article.
And yet, I find it revealing that Shayoni Lynn doesn’t actually want to confront them. The excuse given in ‘The Dangers of Debating Disinformation‘ is:
. . . debunking misinformation requires a careful and nuanced approach in the battle against falsehoods, with hidden risks to addressing false claims directly . . .
This is the kind of approach adopted towards a child who’s caught an adult lying, or proven an adult wrong. The little smart-ass is either ignored, ordered to shut up, or banished to the naughty step.
But the bigger problem is that behavioural science – i.e. censorship – now pervades political and public life in Wales. We see it manifest its ugly self all the time. We saw it in recent posts on this blog about Extinction Rebellion and other pressure groups with far too much influence over the ‘Welsh Government’.
A term I picked up, used by Extinction Rebellion, and then adopted by the ‘Welsh Government’ itself, was “trusted messengers“. The passage below is from page 24 of ‘Climate Change – A Strategy for Public Engagement & Action (2022-2026)‘.
I translate the opening phrase as, “We’ll only engage with people who agree with us. People who’ll tell us what we want to hear“.
It crops up a number of times in that document I linked to, and in many other ‘Welsh Government’ publications. And whaddya know – on the Lynn website Shayoni herself presents a wee opus on trusted messengers.
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Wales has a government failing on all fronts and still pushing what’s becoming an increasingly discredited Globalist narrative, which means those politicos are forced to rely on the pyscho-spivs at Lynn, with their ludicrous ‘behavioural science’.
And this explains why we’re fed so much BS.
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© Royston Jones 2023
While I doubt any wine of any worth may be found in a coop, nevertheless I can envisage you cooped up with a bottle, delivering your polemics as only you can!
You begin by sounding rather snobbish, but then you redeem yourself. You rascal, you!
After a long battle with the Cabinet Office and a complaint to Information Commissioner’s Office. I managed to extract information from U K Government regarding the activities of their “Behaviour Insights Team” during the Covid plandemic. The correspondence was protracted: well over a year. The final FOI response letter – following instruction from ICO – is dated 29 September 2022. It’s in pdf format so I assume I am not able to attach it to this note. It appears that only images can be attached. If necessary, I can email it to you Jac, and perhaps you can make the content available on your blog.
I can upload it to My Drive and make it available to everybody in pdf format.
It has been sent to you Jac. Perhaps you can redact my contact details in the letter. Thanks.
Here it is in pdf format, Wynne, with your e-mail address redacted.
There were a number of ‘behavioral nudge theory’ consultants employed during the Covid pandemic. Of prominence was the ‘face mask mandate’ which had millions of people wearing non-compliant face coverings useless against viruses and even those which were compliant only effective in surgical settings.
It’s purpose was more to manifest a consciousness in daily life.
The strange thing, and rather unique about policy in Wales was the ‘non-essential shopping’ mandate, also based on nudge theory. There is of course no difference in susceptibility to Covid in Tesco, whether you’re buying a can of beans or a garden trowel.
It’s purpose also was more to manifest a consciousness in daily life.
The most effective policy in preventing NHS surge from Covid was person-to-person infection. The only policy which originated from clinical science. It was a delight to see English tourists being fined and sent home on the A48 in Carmarthenshire, however, it was also the failing that caused most deaths in hospitals, discharge and care homes.
Whilst the Covid pandemic shows us when sociology consultants run the show, it’s also a problem in other policy areas. Where claims like 20mph limits reduce emissions when in fact all the scientific data shows the opposite. Paying stooges to give you the answers you desire rather than the reality of a situation.
The worry for me is that ‘nudge theory’, ‘behavioural science’, ‘trusted messengers’, suggests a shared vocabulary and common thinking by groups of people pushing messages and legislation with which most of us would disagree – yet we are paying for this. We are effectively paying to be lied to and brainwashed.
I don’t think that it’s a case of “sociology consultants”running any show. There may be a smattering of corporate psychologists in there somewhere, you know the sort who have worked for ad agencies for years devising ways to con unsuspecting mugs to part with their money to enrich people who often peddle trash. Most of these new species have evolved from a multitude of disciplines but now drawn to the idea of earning big bucks while inflicting constraints and misery on the rest of the public, or at least that segment gullible enough to fall for their patter.
In among this lot there may loiter some old hands from PsychOps, a seriously nasty bunch of operators who were known to work within CIA, and probably existed within the UK’s host of covert operations with bags of experience in making illusions into a new reality in Northern Ireland and more recently in their confrontations with ISIS, AQ and others. It starts within relatively small fibs and ends in the Big Lie, and we are already hearing and seeing loads of those.
Since Demigod Liz the Second snuffed it, I’ve grown even more sceptical and weary of orthodoxies and ‘received wisdom’ than I already had been. MournFest ’22™ was an all-out orgy of sickmaking state-sanctioned snivelling, almost negligibly (in my admitted anecdotal observation) borne out by the people I encountered undertaking their day-to-day business. The same goes for wokeism, myriad genders, Black Lives Matter, and similar such tripe. The Horseshoe Theory in action, in an oblique way.
There is a massive disconnect, for my money, between what officialdom spouts and what people actually believe and buy into. How many people actually, with gusto, support city centres being shut down for Pride marches? Rainbow flags every-fucking-where. It reminds me of the mission or value statements big business put out. Nobody believes the marketing spiel, but nobody dare call it into question openly. A lawyer defending a scumbag also springs to mind, where he knows the defendant is vermin but his payday depends on him extolling whatever virtues he conjure, to fight his case. Perhaps this sort of ‘two tier’ system of truth is an integral function of the human condition?
Behavioural Science – B.S – quite ! Bull Shit it is, although that’s a bit harsh on bulls. After all they are part of the “global manure threat” that being conjured and promoted by Drakeford’s regime.
Whoever came up with the term ‘behavioural science’ abbreviating to ‘BS’ must have been unfamiliar with its usual application of ‘BS’. If not, then he was warning us that behavioural science is bullshit.