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[[File:Cobalt-Baby-Blue-on-Blue.png|thumb]] | [[File:Cobalt-Baby-Blue-on-Blue.png|thumb]] | ||
'''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' is a metaphorical framework | '''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' is a metaphorical framework developed by Eric Weinstein that describes interactions between institutional state actors (termed '''Cobalt Blue''') and civilians or non-institutional actors (termed '''Baby Blue''') when the latter inadvertently interfere with, uncover, or challenge covert or sensitive state operations. The term extends and adapts military languageâparticularly ''Blue-on-Blue'' (friendly fire)âto describe asymmetric encounters between classified power structures and the general public in information or governance domains. | ||
This framework was popularized in informal discourse to explore epistemic asymmetries, informal censorship, reputational control mechanisms, and the state's response to unsanctioned civilian inquiry into protected operational or narrative domains. | This framework was popularized in informal discourse to explore epistemic asymmetries, informal censorship, reputational control mechanisms, and the state's response to unsanctioned civilian inquiry into protected operational or narrative domains. | ||
== Terminology == | == Terminology == | ||
* '''Cobalt Blue''': Symbolizes the hardened core of institutional powerâmilitary, intelligence, security, or state actors operating under secrecy or classification protocols. | * '''Cobalt Blue''' (or '''Cobalt'''): Symbolizes the hardened core of institutional powerâmilitary, intelligence, security, or state actors operating under secrecy or classification protocols. | ||
* '''Baby Blue''' (or '''Baby'''): Denotes civilians, researchers, journalists, or private actors lacking institutional affiliation or access to classified channels. | * '''Baby Blue''' (or '''Baby'''): Denotes civilians, researchers, government or military personnel without clearance, journalists, or private actors lacking institutional affiliation or access to classified channels. | ||
* '''Blue-on-Blue''': Originally military jargon for friendly fire, here generalized to intra-institutional communication or conflict. | * '''Blue-on-Blue''': Originally military jargon for friendly fire, here generalized to intra-institutional communication or conflict. | ||
* '''Cobalt-on-Baby''': Occurs when a state or institutional actor suppresses, misdirects, or retaliates against a civilian who approaches or uncovers sensitive material. | * '''Cobalt-on-Baby''': Occurs when a state or institutional actor suppresses, misdirects, or retaliates against a civilian who approaches or uncovers sensitive material. | ||
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== Origin == | == Origin == | ||
The '''Cobalt and Baby Blue-on-Blue''' framework was shared publicly by Eric Weinstein on [[Joe Rogan Experience 1945 - Eric Weinstein (YouTube Content)|Episode #1945 of the Joe Rogan Experience]] in February, 2023. | |||
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''So this is how they | ''So this is how they deconflict Blue-on-Blue. But, you see, you and I are also blue. We're having a conversation, and we may be stumbling on something the government doesn't want us to know, which is what happened when Covid maybe spilled out. ... So this is how they play keep-away from the rest of us where they tell each other what they're doing, and the rest of us can't know what's going on. Now, when you say Blue-on-Blue, there's a situation that I want to give a name to because it doesn't have a name, which I'm going to call [[Baby-on-Cobalt]] and '''Cobalt-on-Baby'''. Baby and Cobalt are two forms of blue. Cobalt is government and Baby is like civilians, like you and me. What happens when a civilian stumbles on one of these operations? They're not allowed to use these systems. All right. I called up the South Florida I think Case Explorer, had a half an hour conversation. They were telling me all sorts of stuff, and I said, "I'd like to hear about Jeffrey Epstein". Like, "who's calling?" "I'm a private citizen". "This call will be terminated in five seconds." And then they hung up on me. So I realize, okay, ordinary human beings cannot use these systems. I think a lot of what's going on is that we keep tripping over government operations in the Cobalt sector, but we're Baby Blue. And they don't have any system for figuring out how to get rid of a civilian who stumbles on, like, a drug smuggling operation. I'm like, okay, so Jeffrey Epstein traffics your daughter. What do you do if he's an intelligence asset? You don't know. You just want the creep away from your kid. So you file a complaint or whatever. Now you've got a situation where they don't know what to do because you've got a civilian and you've got some sort of super secret, dark thing that isn't supposed to exist. Â | ||
''My claim is that â[[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing|conspiracy theorist]]â is basically '''Cobalt-on-Baby'''. In other words, the government warning a private citizen, get away from that thing. Okay? We will start to destroy your reputation if you do not cease and desist. But there's no plan. So, if you were the guy who figured out D-Day, youâre like. âWow. These areâthere's a huge increase in the inflatable balloonsâI think that they might be tanks. There's no troops under that Army designation.â You'd be a threat to this incredible operation because you have free speech and nobody knows how to shut you up. Right? Â | ''My claim is that â[[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing|conspiracy theorist]]â is basically '''Cobalt-on-Baby'''. In other words, the government warning a private citizen, get away from that thing. Okay? We will start to destroy your reputation if you do not cease and desist. But there's no plan. So, if you were the guy who figured out D-Day, youâre like. âWow. These areâthere's a huge increase in the inflatable balloonsâI think that they might be tanks. There's no troops under that Army designation.â You'd be a threat to this incredible operation because you have free speech and nobody knows how to shut you up. Right? Â | ||
''So consider that none of us know the answer to what does the government do when private citizens start to figure out statecraft narratives are bullshit? So, for example, Jeff Sachs was called in to supervise the investigation into the origin of Covid at The Lancet, and he puts in place all of the people who were involved with this through Peter Daszak. He later figures out, oh my God, I just put the foxes in charge of the henhouse. And he blows the whistle. So what if we have like a, since the 1970s, a 45-year-old workaround of the Biological Weapons Convention in Wuhan, we've created this thing called One Health and the EcoHealth Alliance, we took over as a hippie charity. And if you ever take a look at the board of advisors of EcoHealth Alliance, it's wildly overpowered, including my old mentor, who was the head of the Sloan Foundation and the head of the National Science Foundation. None of you guys look at the board of directors. Crazy | ''So consider that none of us know the answer to: '''what does the government do when private citizens start to figure out statecraft narratives are bullshit?''' So, for example, Jeff Sachs was called in to supervise the investigation into the origin of Covid at The Lancet, and he puts in place all of the people who were involved with this through Peter Daszak. He later figures out, oh my God, I just put the foxes in charge of the henhouse. And he blows the whistle. So what if we have like a, since the 1970s, a 45-year-old workaround of the Biological Weapons Convention in Wuhan, we've created this thing called One Health and the EcoHealth Alliance, we took over as a hippie charity. And if you ever take a look at the board of advisors of EcoHealth Alliance, it's wildly overpowered, including my old mentor, who was the head of the Sloan Foundation and the head of the National Science Foundation. None of you guys look at the board of directors. Crazy. Â | ||
''These are all '''Cobalt-on-Baby''' things. "It's horse dewormer. What's wrong with you people? You're all lunatics. You're pathological losers." Okay, I get it, you're just destroying my Wikipedia entry because I keep asking questions, because, actually, YOU need to have a timeout. YOU'RE out of control. I'm fine. But YOU'RE going to turn this into pathologizing when you pathologize people who've seen the truth. Now you've got a real problem. You gaslit American citizens because you couldn't do your effing job. Really? That's interesting. Did you kill anyone? Did you do wet work? Did you do [[Digital Wetwork]]? What did we just find out from the Twitter files? Right? How many times did I say, I'm being throttled | ''We keep tripping on these official statecraft narratives. That's why they won't let us question the Zelensky stuff. They won't let us question the origin of Covid. They won't let us question the vaccines. They won't let us question whether there are therapeutics. These are all '''Cobalt-on-Baby''' things. "It's horse dewormer. What's wrong with you people? You're all lunatics. You're pathological losers." Okay, I get it, you're just destroying my Wikipedia entry because I keep asking questions, because, actually, YOU need to have a timeout. YOU'RE out of control. I'm fine. But YOU'RE going to turn this into pathologizing when you pathologize people who've seen the truth. Now you've got a real problem. [[Institutional Gaslighting|You gaslit American citizens because you couldn't do your effing job]]. Really? That's interesting. Did you kill anyone? Did you do wet work? Did you do [[Digital Wetwork]]? What did we just find out from the Twitter files? Right? How many times did I say, "I'm being throttled", "I'm being manipulated"? The government doesn't want to take responsibility. We have this, what is it, the GEC that's from the State Department, we have CISA inside of the Department of Homeland Security. These people are creating fake conversations on Twitter. They're creating fake reports about the Hunter Biden laptop to influence the election. We didn't have a free and fair election and it had nothing to do with ballot stuffing or mis-counting. So I believe that partially why we're not talking is that we've done so many bad things around UFOs that we don't want to come clean.'' | ||
- '''Eric Weinstein''' on [[Joe Rogan Experience 1945 - Eric Weinstein (Spotify Content)|JRE #1945]] | - '''Eric Weinstein''' on [[Joe Rogan Experience 1945 - Eric Weinstein (Spotify Content)|JRE #1945]] | ||
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== Dynamics == | == Dynamics == | ||
=== Baby-on-Cobalt === | === Baby-on-Cobalt === | ||
Describes civilian-initiated contact with classified operations, often accidental. This includes: | Describes civilian-initiated contact with classified operations, often accidental. This includes: | ||
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Such encounters are often described by civilians as highly disorienting: they may uncover anomalous patterns, inconsistencies in official accounts, or direct physical artifacts, but find no institutional pathway for inquiry or verification. In some accounts, even credentialed individualsâsuch as PhD-level scientistsâreport being delegitimized, ignored, or subtly threatened when pursuing research areas that may intersect with black programs or classified research domains. | Such encounters are often described by civilians as highly disorienting: they may uncover anomalous patterns, inconsistencies in official accounts, or direct physical artifacts, but find no institutional pathway for inquiry or verification. In some accounts, even credentialed individualsâsuch as PhD-level scientistsâreport being delegitimized, ignored, or subtly threatened when pursuing research areas that may intersect with black programs or classified research domains. | ||
=== Cobalt-on-Baby === | |||
Describes state-initiated action directed at civilians who have entered or approached classified operational space. Typical mechanisms include: | |||
* '''Narrative suppression''' (e.g., discrediting alternative hypotheses about the origin of a pandemic), | |||
* '''Labeling and delegitimization''' (e.g., branding individuals as "conspiracy theorists"), | |||
* '''Digital containment''' (e.g., de-platforming, algorithmic suppression), | |||
* '''Institutional stonewalling''' (e.g., abrupt denial of access to investigatory tools or databases). | |||
== Examples and Illustrations == | == Examples and Illustrations == | ||
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The model also captures the state's '''lack of clear doctrine''' for reconciling open-society values (e.g., free speech) with the maintenance of covert capabilitiesâespecially when technological diffusion and investigative tools become more accessible to civilians. | The model also captures the state's '''lack of clear doctrine''' for reconciling open-society values (e.g., free speech) with the maintenance of covert capabilitiesâespecially when technological diffusion and investigative tools become more accessible to civilians. | ||
== On X == | |||
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|content=@keith44beat It has been extended. I learned about its extension into event deconfliction while researching how we keep different branchâs of government from tripping over each other when working in âneed to knowâ operations. I had thought it meant just what youâd think as you said it. | |||
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|content=I have been told that â[[Sources and Methods]]â of the IC must be protected by any means necessary. | |||
That is likely the most parsimonious explanation for why the [[Jeffrey Epstein|Epstein]] case never resolves. Something seems to happen to everything and everyone who could clear it up. | |||
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|content=Is this a conspiracy theory? | |||
Well, think about it like this. When the Intelligence Community is doing its job properly itâs supposed to generate conspiracies for the public good. [[Conspiracy Fact|So saying the IC is a conspiracy factory isnât a conspiracy theory; itâs part of a job description]]. | |||
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|content=Further, we definitely have an â'''Event Deconfliction'''â system to make sure that local law enforcement & district attorneys donât bust & prosecute undercover federal agents, screwing up our secret programs. Events are called â[[Blue on Blue]].â | |||
So that isnât a conspiracy theory either. | |||
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|content=Additionally, the use of honey traps, honey pots, and kompromat are all well known as tools of the IC, as is disinformation. | |||
None of that is conspiracy theory either. | |||
The only thing you can object to as [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing|irresponsible conspiracy theory]] is the assertion that this may apply here. | |||
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|content=I submit this to you that âThis likely is the best explanation of all the improbable things that keep happening which keep us from learning the truth in this case.â | |||
This isnât remotely tin foil hat territory. This looks like state protection of the [[Sources and Methods]] of the IC. | |||
|timestamp=5:10 AM · Dec 19, 2021 | |||
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|timestamp=5:34 AM · Dec 19, 2021 | |||
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== Related Pages == | == Related Pages == | ||
* [[Abomination Ratio]] | |||
* [[Anechoic Era or Anechoic media]] | |||
* [[Anti-Interesting]] | |||
* [[Baby-on-Cobalt]] | * [[Baby-on-Cobalt]] | ||
* [[Break-Glass-in-case-of-Emergency People]] | |||
* [https://thebasics.guide/collateral-damage/ Collateral Damage] | * [https://thebasics.guide/collateral-damage/ Collateral Damage] | ||
* [[Communication Security Complex]] | |||
* [[Church and Pike Commissions]] | |||
* [[Conspiracy Fact]] | |||
* [[Cult of the Art of the Possible]] | |||
* [[Deaths of Accountability]] | * [[Deaths of Accountability]] | ||
* [[Digital Wetwork]] | * [[Digital Wetwork]] | ||
* [https://thebasics.guide/dual-use/ Dual-use research] | * [https://thebasics.guide/dual-use/ Dual-use research] | ||
* [[Event Deconfliction]] | * [[Event Deconfliction]] | ||
* [[Fact Burning]] | |||
* [[Fact-Checker]] | |||
* [[Follow the Silence]] | |||
* [[Image Cheapening]] | |||
* [https://thebasics.guide/influence-operation/ Influence Operation] | * [https://thebasics.guide/influence-operation/ Influence Operation] | ||
* [https://thebasics.guide/information-asymmetry/ Information Asymmetry] | |||
* [[Institutional Gaslighting]] | * [[Institutional Gaslighting]] | ||
* [[The Invisible World is First Detected by the Visible Worldâs Failure to Close]] | |||
* [[Jessupization]] | * [[Jessupization]] | ||
* [[Kayfabrication]] | |||
* [[Law of Gaslighting]] | * [[Law of Gaslighting]] | ||
* [[Managed Reality TM]] | |||
* [[Map the Silences]] | |||
* [[Neo-Debunker]] | * [[Neo-Debunker]] | ||
* [[No-Living-Heroes Theory]] | |||
* [[Nothing Burger]] | |||
* [[Physics got NERPhed]] | |||
* [[Prebunked Malinformation]] | * [[Prebunked Malinformation]] | ||
* [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]] | * [[Responsible Conspiracy Theorizing]] | ||
* [[Seberging]] | |||
* [[Steady Hands]] | |||
* [[The United States of Absolutely Nothing (U.S.A.N.)]] | |||
* [[Tuskegee Principle]] | |||
* [[UAP=SAP]] | |||
* [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]] | * [[Universal Institutional Betrayal]] | ||
[[Category:Ericisms]] | [[Category:Ericisms]] | ||