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The degrowth propaganda squad
The degrowth propaganda squad Degrowth. Image: Klimacamp Wien What degrowth thinkers can learn from free market economist Friedrich Hayek and the father of public relations, Edward Bernays. ‘There is no alternative.’ The infamous slogan used by Margaret Thatcher would often be flung in your face, explicitly or implicitly, whenever you tried, in recent decades, to resist […]
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in day-to-day life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion […]
We Are Ruled By Apes With PR Firms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
We Are Ruled By Apes With PR Firms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ So yeah basically we’re watching sociopathic oligarchs shore up more and more control over the global population and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it […]
Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda
Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda The oil giant would like you to know that statements from its “Senior Director for Federal Relations” in no way represent its position on federal climate policy One of ExxonMobil’s top lobbyists has been caught on camera revealing what many critics […]
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic
COVID-19: Propaganda & the Art of Exploiting a Pandemic Throughout the U.S., institutions that have no real interest in public health are exploiting our sense of vulnerability to benefit their public images and their bottom lines, says Dr. Mike Pappas. We have all likely seen or heard the commercials. They typically start with slow music and maybe […]
The Most Interesting Man in the World: Two Faces on the Same Coin
The Most Interesting Man in the World: Two Faces on the Same Coin Presidential elections are planned distractions To divert attention from the action behind the scenes Like a game of chess when the house is a mess Or a petty money squabble when your marriage is in trouble Or a football game when there’s […]
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada Tyee FOI reveals pro-pipeline PR strategy, spiraling costs. Billboard on a Kelowna roadway, paid for by Albertans as part of a national campaign with the underlying theme: ‘This is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.’ Source: KeepCanadaWorking website. The Alberta government […]
Happy New Year: Don’t Be Fooled By the Orthodoxies of the Messengers
Happy New Year: Don’t Be Fooled By the Orthodoxies of the Messengers The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We […]
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports
“Miracle of American Oil”: Continental Resources Courted Corporate Media to Sell Oil Exports A document published by the Public Relations Society of America, discovered by DeSmog, reveals that from the onset of its public relations campaign, the oil industry courted mainstream media reporters to help it sell the idea of lifting the ban on crude oil exports to the […]
Other Energy Companies Accused Of Downplaying Climate Change
Other Energy Companies Accused Of Downplaying Climate Change A growing number of energy companies could come under increased scrutiny over their involvement in funding science and public relations campaigns denying the risks of climate change. The New York attorney general made news a few weeks ago when he announced an investigation into oil major ExxonMobil […]
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking At an industry conference in Philadelphia last month, oil and gas executives gathered to hear about a little-known public relations effort with a very precise target: newly hired state and federal environmental inspectors. At a seminar titled “Staying Ahead of Federal and […]
The Revolutionary Act Of Telling The Truth
The Revolutionary Act Of Telling The Truth George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” These are dark times, in which the propaganda of deceit touches all our lives. It is as if political reality has been privatised and illusion legitimised. The information age is a […]
US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War
US/NATO Embrace Psy-ops and Info-War Exclusive: The U.S. government and NATO have entered the Brave New World of “strategic communications,” merging psy-ops, propaganda and P.R. in order to manage the perceptions of Americans and the world’s public, reports veteran war correspondent Don North. As reflected in a recent NATO conference in Latvia and in the Pentagon’s […]
10 SHADY ORIGINS OF CONSUMERISM IN THE US
10 SHADY ORIGINS OF CONSUMERISM IN THE US Consumerism and the practice of flaunting one’s status through clothes, jewelry, and other things has existed since the dawn of civilization. Yet, the endless cycle of working to buy has never been more rampant than it is now. How did the United States, a nation founded on […]
Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists
Four Years After Greenpeace Sting: PR Firm Dumps Oil Lobbyists Perhaps you heard the good news – the world’s largest public relations firm, Edelman, justspun off an advertising subsidiary so that it could show a commitment to not aiding the denial of climate change science. The Guardian explains how API’s contracts with Edelman were so massive–tens of millions […]
