Here is
another sector soon to be occupied entirely by private companies:
staging successful false flag operations and the subsequent suitable
psyops.
As the
World Socialist Web Site reported
early this year:
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Cambridge
Analytica’s parent company is British-based SCL. Formerly
Strategic Communication Laboratories, it is a private behavioural
research and strategic communication company, founded in 1993 by
Nigel Oakes.
As
with Oakes, SCL’s board members include scions of the British
ruling class, from former military officers and defence
contractors to major Conservative Party donors.
SCL
boasts of providing “data, analytics and strategy to
governments and military organizations worldwide,” notably
the British Ministry of Defence, the US State Department and NATO.
It states that it has carried out “behavioural change
programs” in more than 60 countries. One of its first
contracts in 1999 was promoting Indonesian President Abdurrahman
Wahid. It has worked to influence elections in Afghanistan,
Latvia, Ukraine, Nigeria and Kenya among others.
Cambridge
Analytica was launched in 2012 by SCL to extend its operations to
the US. In partnership with hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer,
this included the Republican primaries for the 2016 election,
where it worked to support Ted Cruz and then Donald Trump.
According
to Liam O’Hare at Bella Caledonia, SCL went public in
2005 at the DSEI conference, a global arms fair in London,
promoting itself as the first private company to provide
psychological warfare services to the British military: “Its
‘hard sell’ was a demonstration of how the UK government could
use a sophisticated media campaign of mass deception to fool the
British people into thinking an accident at a chemical plant had
occurred and threatened central London.”
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We can
imagine that the false flag operations will not be restricted on
"accidents". Some "terrorist attacks" could be
easily staged too.
Such
false flag operations could be proved very useful during extremely
difficult situations for the establishment. For example, the recent
terrorist attack in Strasbourg in the middle of the 'yellow vests'
protests, immediately justified extended anti-terrorist measures that
eventually could be used to suppress these protests.
In the
end, what truly matters is the success of the related psyops to
transform the perception of a large part of the population. Recall
that today's technology permits the real-time
manipulation of the picture. After a 'real time'
false flag operation, all that a PR private company will have to do
is to run successful psyops.
But it
could get even worse. With all that power in their hands, giant
corporations could take the initiative to hire private PR companies
for themselves. They could stage false flag operations according to
the agenda of their own interests and force the increasingly
powerless governments to align with that agenda.
It
appears that simply buying politicians and governments, becomes an
increasingly insufficient practice.
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