You most likely have never heard of it. You probably celebrate the day in April that was orchestrated by Dennis Hayes, a pimpled-faced tool of the PetroElite. If you visit their related sites you will see that you are carefully herded away from any source with technologies that would discourage your continued use of oil as a fuel source. If you are old enough to remember the cultural expectation of the 70s you probably remember that most people expected solar energy to become a substantial alternative to oil as a source of power. That did not happen because of the successful redirection and because along with that the PetroElite bought up the solar patents then marking the edge of that technology. The devices were never actually produced.
The funding for this came from oil companies through other nonprofits they established to steal the media and the public face of environmentalism. The original organization, still run by one of the original founders, Helen Garland, continues to ward off take over attempts by sleazy types associated with - Maurice Strong.
That is an illustration of how it is done.
OK. Now we get into the meat of the thing. There are two main lines of attack using organizations.
Use No. One Redrawing the Playground; funding from corporations.
In this approach you redirect the dialog on opinion, inserting useful policy intended for use in future disinformation campaigns. Policy is determined by what you know you will be doing. You choose issues because, like Rove, you know which of your 'core constituents,' you are marketing for.
Ideas are just tools. It is dead easy to use them like that blow dryer once you get over the idea you need to believe in the actions they represent.
Along with taking over or starting organizations to create a 'front' another essential component for Redrawing the Playground are public relations personalities. These are most often drawn from the ranks of the young and hungry; willing to do anything for the money and prestige that will flow into their lives. This can be a role for a life time. Likely candidates for this sort of position include the less than independently successful off spring and other relations of prominent people.
Sometimes the organization used is dictated by the PR Icon; sometimes it is constructed for the purpose. And example of this is the placement of Robert Kennedy, Jr. where he has no earthly reason to be. I am sure his relations were relieved to see him gainfully employed.
To shift public awareness on issues NeoCons use existing organizations, or build their own organizations for the purpose. If it is a think tank it then churns out 'policy' and 'opinion' papers that shuffle the facts, build and then cross reinforce specious arguments, use attacks on the basis of personality, and place 'experts' on the subject who are being paid through - the organizations. You buttress their reputations by having the 'experts' 'pundits' write books. You drive up sales of the books by buying huge amounts and giving or selling them through a circle of the same organizations.
Some of these pundits, for instance Ann Coulter, become icons, helping you change the opinion and cultural make up of your organizations, for instance, the Republican Party. Look for the faux websites that work to redirect traffic and bleed off available funds intended to enact change.
Use No. Two The Playground as Profit Center; funding your projects from the public pockets.
This phase is the 'died and gone to heaven' portion of the strategy. Before the Corporations had to shell out their own money to provide cover for the policies they wanted adopted into law. Now that source for funding is decoupled and the whole structure is directly attached to the funding sources that come through government. Wow. This is a heady moment for the NeoCon. For them it is like a perpetual ATM machine with an unlimited credit line.
The whole is buttressed and reinforced by the linking structure of nonprofits serving as holding tanks for pay-offs to pundits and other bogus experts and to provide the essential iconic front. These are a recycling of those well known arguments from authority that can be summed up as a loud and empty, because I said so!!! Please refer to any elementary level book on logic.
In the case of the NeoCons they have also cobbled on a structure of 'religious institutions' for the same purpose. These pay off the 'leaders' who guarantee their political base in the same way pundits are paid through nonprofits but instead of the cash coming from the PetroElite through nonprofits it comes through the pockets of tax payers.
That is an outline of the strategies used as tools by the NeoCons. Start looking around for examples, they are thick upon the ground and many are now soaked in blood and oil.
And now we return to the issue of those bad placements in MZM. If you turn down the volume on the covering rhetoric exuded by the NeoCons, both visibly in the administration and as covering fire in media and elsewhere, you will start to correlate their frequent insertion of wordage with policy they then push. You will also notice that they are telling you very plainly what they are really about; their actions, as opposed to their wordage, are reliable indicators.
Placing operatives of various kinds in positions intended to support what we think of as the proper functions of government is a clear extrapolation of the previous strategy that enhances their control. That is why these individuals were there. NeoCons make mistakes but this is not the kind of mistake they make. The real mistakes come in the form of miscalculating how far they can do at a given time and in misunderstanding things like the laws of physics; they are not wonks in those disciplines.
Further uses of pundits still in play:
After Bush II stole his way into office using the then in beta test mode Diebold End Run they realized that the question of election fraud would be raised. Early in 2000 John Fund began work on a book intended to provide the covering fire on that issue. Of course it blamed liberals. Since I am a Republican and former Libertarian I used to assume that there actually was a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Then, when I realized what was happening, I hoped there might at least be some folks there who had a clue. Life is full of disappointments. But having once been a Brownie Leader and also a Libertarian Political Organizer I knew that every problem is also an opportunity.
The infrastructure of government does not work; at the best of times it costs too much applied to the services it provides when compared to obtaining the same services through alternative nonprofit and for profit organizations. That is the bad news. The good news is that America has grown alternatives without even thinking about it and with some relatively modest modifications we can handle everything we actually need locally.
The funding for this came from oil companies through other nonprofits they established to steal the media and the public face of environmentalism. The original organization, still run by one of the original founders, Helen Garland, continues to ward off take over attempts by sleazy types associated with - Maurice Strong.
That is an illustration of how it is done.
OK. Now we get into the meat of the thing. There are two main lines of attack using organizations.
Use No. One Redrawing the Playground; funding from corporations.
In this approach you redirect the dialog on opinion, inserting useful policy intended for use in future disinformation campaigns. Policy is determined by what you know you will be doing. You choose issues because, like Rove, you know which of your 'core constituents,' you are marketing for.
Ideas are just tools. It is dead easy to use them like that blow dryer once you get over the idea you need to believe in the actions they represent.
Sometimes the organization used is dictated by the PR Icon; sometimes it is constructed for the purpose. And example of this is the placement of Robert Kennedy, Jr. where he has no earthly reason to be. I am sure his relations were relieved to see him gainfully employed.
To shift public awareness on issues NeoCons use existing organizations, or build their own organizations for the purpose. If it is a think tank it then churns out 'policy' and 'opinion' papers that shuffle the facts, build and then cross reinforce specious arguments, use attacks on the basis of personality, and place 'experts' on the subject who are being paid through - the organizations. You buttress their reputations by having the 'experts' 'pundits' write books. You drive up sales of the books by buying huge amounts and giving or selling them through a circle of the same organizations.
Some of these pundits, for instance Ann Coulter, become icons, helping you change the opinion and cultural make up of your organizations, for instance, the Republican Party. Look for the faux websites that work to redirect traffic and bleed off available funds intended to enact change.
Use No. Two The Playground as Profit Center; funding your projects from the public pockets.
This phase is the 'died and gone to heaven' portion of the strategy. Before the Corporations had to shell out their own money to provide cover for the policies they wanted adopted into law. Now that source for funding is decoupled and the whole structure is directly attached to the funding sources that come through government. Wow. This is a heady moment for the NeoCon. For them it is like a perpetual ATM machine with an unlimited credit line.
The whole is buttressed and reinforced by the linking structure of nonprofits serving as holding tanks for pay-offs to pundits and other bogus experts and to provide the essential iconic front. These are a recycling of those well known arguments from authority that can be summed up as a loud and empty, because I said so!!! Please refer to any elementary level book on logic.
In the case of the NeoCons they have also cobbled on a structure of 'religious institutions' for the same purpose. These pay off the 'leaders' who guarantee their political base in the same way pundits are paid through nonprofits but instead of the cash coming from the PetroElite through nonprofits it comes through the pockets of tax payers.
That is an outline of the strategies used as tools by the NeoCons. Start looking around for examples, they are thick upon the ground and many are now soaked in blood and oil.
And now we return to the issue of those bad placements in MZM. If you turn down the volume on the covering rhetoric exuded by the NeoCons, both visibly in the administration and as covering fire in media and elsewhere, you will start to correlate their frequent insertion of wordage with policy they then push. You will also notice that they are telling you very plainly what they are really about; their actions, as opposed to their wordage, are reliable indicators.
Placing operatives of various kinds in positions intended to support what we think of as the proper functions of government is a clear extrapolation of the previous strategy that enhances their control. That is why these individuals were there. NeoCons make mistakes but this is not the kind of mistake they make. The real mistakes come in the form of miscalculating how far they can do at a given time and in misunderstanding things like the laws of physics; they are not wonks in those disciplines.
Further uses of pundits still in play:
After Bush II stole his way into office using the then in beta test mode Diebold End Run they realized that the question of election fraud would be raised. Early in 2000 John Fund began work on a book intended to provide the covering fire on that issue. Of course it blamed liberals. Since I am a Republican and former Libertarian I used to assume that there actually was a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Then, when I realized what was happening, I hoped there might at least be some folks there who had a clue. Life is full of disappointments. But having once been a Brownie Leader and also a Libertarian Political Organizer I knew that every problem is also an opportunity.
The infrastructure of government does not work; at the best of times it costs too much applied to the services it provides when compared to obtaining the same services through alternative nonprofit and for profit organizations. That is the bad news. The good news is that America has grown alternatives without even thinking about it and with some relatively modest modifications we can handle everything we actually need locally.
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