but in the Post Edward Bernays World of Getting Women (not his wife, though) to suck on cancer sticks for the perceived coolness of it, we will see more of this 3rd grade reading level shit!!!!!!
And the juxtaposing of these images and fake stories (they are never real journalists asking the hard questions, the so-called Doubting Thomases, the IF Stone’s of the profession) can do many terrible tricks on the brain — i.e. psychology and intelligence.
[Photo — The Hasbara Blinken, the head of the Nuland-Garland-Yellen-Kagan White House, with the prick of a man, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, at fucking McDOnald’s. ]
Then, the disasters of the day: More than 5,200 dead —
[The initial floods in northeastern Libya — after torrential rain this past weekend — were bad enough. But the worst of the damage was not a result of those floods. It has instead come from the subsequent bursting of two dams near the coastal city of Derna.]
Is there anything more tragic than that? The Golden Shower Arches with two death star stars, and then death death death?
Over at Caitlin Johnstone, she headlines her piece, “Putin Doesn’t Think US Foreign Policy Will Change If Trump Is Re-Elected (And He’s Probably Right)”.
I’m not sure why she states, “…and he’s probably right . . .” but then Caitlin is full of hope about humanity, you know.
Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday that he wouldn’t expect any meaningful changes in US policy toward Russia if former president Donald Trump secures re-election next year.
TASS reports the following on the Russian president’s comments:
“I think there will be no fundamental changes regarding Russia in US foreign policy, no matter who is elected president,” Putin said. “Mr. [Donald] Trump (ex-president and Republican Party candidate — TASS) says he will solve acute problems, including the Ukrainian crisis, in a few days, this can only please. Nevertheless, he too imposed sanctions on Russia during his presidency,” Putin recalled.
The US, according to the Russian president, “views Russia as a permanent adversary, or even an enemy, and has hammered this into the heads of ordinary Americans.” “The current authorities have tuned American society into an anti-Russian vein and spirit — that’s what it’s all about. They have done it, and now it will be very difficult to somehow turn this ship in the other direction,” Putin said.
Of course, the USA, in its very fiber, in the DNA of fourth, tenth or first generation Americans, they HATE Russia and Russians. Fulll-Stop.
Her conclusion is a bit milquetoast:
The most significant thing about all US presidents is not their differences, it’s their similarities. The truth of the matter is that if you were to only watch the movements of troops, war machinery, resources and money from year to year, you wouldn’t be able to tell when one president’s term ended and another began, or what party they belong to or what their campaign platform was. The empire marches on completely uninterrupted, regardless of who Americans elect to be the face at its front desk.
It reminds me of Orwell’s concept of doublethink: the capacity to maintain two seemingly contradictory viewpoints, a deep-seated indoctrination that’s absolutely void of rationalism. I am all on-board for counter-intuitive thinking, but double think, or 360 turnaround think as the Green German Minister said, well, that is another kettle of fish.
This is it for the fucking stupid WEST: “A 360-degree turnaround in Russian politics, and in particular President Vladimir Putin, would make the whole world happy the very next day.” This statement was made by the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Annalena Burbock, during her speech at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, February 18.
Burbock compared Russia and Germany. She explained that Berlin in its policy “turned around 360 degrees” and ceased to be neutral, starting to provide military assistance to Ukraine. In her opinion, only desire is enough for such changes in politics.
Ahh, the schooling in Germany . . . . Here, stupid,
Here, smart as a whip,
The Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has pointed out that German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock had no idea what a 360-degree turn means.
Zakharova said that if the German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock does not learn at least one school subject, then there is no way to ensure the security of Germany on a long-term basis under her rule.
Western Russophobia did not appear yesterday; it has a very long history. Several hundreds of years ago there were attempts to discredit our country. Take Ivan IV – who for some reason is called “The Terrible” in the West. Western chronicles started to circulate the dark legend about him as a fearsome tyrant already at his lifetime. They wanted to distract the attention of the Europeans from what was going on in their countries. They did not like that the Russian tsar did not succumb to their claims on political and moral leadership.
Here, Jeremy:
Quoting: Guy Mettan’s book, Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017) provides needed historical context for our current political moment, showing how anti-Russian hysteria has long proliferated as a means of justifying Western imperialism.
Mettan is a Swiss journalist and member of parliament who learned about the corruption of the media business when his reporting on the world anticommunist league rankled his newspapers’ shareholders, and when he realized that he was serving as a paid stenographer for the Bosnian Islamist leader Alija Izetbegovic in the early 1990s.
Mettan defines Russophobia as the promotion of negative stereotypes about Russia that associate the country with despotism, treachery, expansion, oppression and other negative character traits. In his view, it is “not linked to specific historical events” but “exists first in the head of the one who looks, not in the victim’s alleged behavior or characteristics.”
Like anti-semitism, Mettan writes, “Russophobia is a way of turning specific pseudo-facts into essential one-dimensional values, barbarity, despotism, and expansionism in the Russian case in order to justify stigmatization and ostracism.”
The origins of Russophobic discourse date back to a schism in the Church during the Middle Ages when Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Roman empire and modified the Christian liturgy to introduce reforms execrated by the Eastern Orthodox Churches of the Byzantine empire.
Mettan writes that “the Europe of Charlemagne and of the year 1000 was in need of a foil in the East to rebuild herself, just as the Europe of the 2000s needs Russia to consolidate her union.”
Before the schism, European rulers had no negative opinions of Russia. When Capetian King Henri I found himself a widower, he turned towards the prestigious Kiev kingdom two thousand miles away and married Vladimir’s granddaughter, Princess Ann.
A main goal of the new liturgy adopted by Charlemagne was to undermine any Byzantine influence in Italy and Western Europe.
Over the next century, the schism evolved from a religious into a political one.
The Pope and the top Roman administration made documents disappear and truncated others in order to blame the Easterners.
Byzantium and Russia were in turn rebuked for their “caesaropapism,” or “Oriental style despotism,” which could be contrasted which the supposedly enlightened, democratic governing system in the West.
Russia was particularly hated because it had defied efforts of Western European countries to submit to their authority and impose Catholicism.
In the 1760s, French diplomats working with a variety of Ukrainian, Hungarian and Polish political figures produced a forged testament of Peter 1 [“The Great”] purporting to reveal Russia’s ‘grand design’ to conquer most of Europe.
This document was still taken seriously by governments during the Napoleanic wars; and as late as the Cold War, President Harry Truman found it helpful in explaining Stalin.
In Britain, the Whigs, who represented the liberal bourgeois opposition to the Tory government and its program of free-trade imperialism, were the most virulent Russophobes, much like today’s Democrats in the United States.
The British media also enflamed public opinion by taking hysterical positions against Russia – often on the eve of major military expeditions.
The London Times during the 1820s Greek Independence war editorialized that no “sane person” could “look with satisfaction at the immense and rapid overgrowth of Russian power.” The same thing was being written in The New York Times in the 2010s.
A great example of the Orientalist stereotype was Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, whose main character was modeled after Russian ruler, Ivan the Terrible. As if no English ruler in history was cruel either.
The Nazis took Russo-phobic discourse to new heights during the 1930s and 1940s, combining it with a virulent anti-bolshevism and anti-semitism.
A survey of German high school texts in the 1960s found little change in the image of Russia. The Russians were still depicted as “primitive, simple, very violent, cruel, mean, inhuman, cupid and very stubborn.”
The same stereotypes were displayed in many Hollywood films during the Cold War, where KGB figures were particularly maligned.
No wonder that when a former KGB agent, Vladimir Putin, took power, people went insane.
Russophobia in the United States has been advanced most insidiously by the nation’s foreign policy elite who have envisioned themselves as grand chess-masters seeking to checkmate their Russian adversary in order to control the Eurasian heartland.
This view is little different than European colonial strategists who had learned of the importance of molding public opinion through disinformation campaigns that depicted the Russian bear as a menace to Western civilization.
Guy Mettan has written a thought-provoking book that provides badly needed historical context for the anti-Russian delirium gripping our society.
Breaking the taboo on Russophobia is of vital importance in laying the groundwork for a more peaceful world order and genuinely progressive movement in the United States. Unfortunately, recent developments don’t inspire much confidence that history will be transcended.
Jeremy Kuzmarov is the author of The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce (Monthly Review Press, 2018) and Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting for the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2019).
And this is a phobia that is also a Sinophobia, no?
This trade war between the U.S. and China comes at the heels of multiple decades of investment in foreign labor by American companies – often to take advantage of looser regulations and cheaper, exploitable labor – particularly in China and Taiwan. The government’s inaction to regulate this previously has led to grim consequences, and the withdrawal of big business from the American labor market puts American workers at risk of losing their jobs, predominantly blue-collar workers. These are not particularly novel struggles, but more often than not, they have resulted in prejudice against foreign labor, both abroad and in the U.S. American xenophobia dating back to the Industrial Revolution was rooted in competition for jobs, especially due to the willingness of large employers to pay foreign or migrant workers less, fueling animosity from rural Americans. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act – which established an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese migrant laborers – is a perfect representation of these attitudes, validating an ethnic-based animosity that still has effects today.
[An act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to the Chinese, May 6, 1882. ]The Chinese know this, and so do the Russians, though the past two decades before Trump and then Biden, both Russian and Chinese thought many in the USA — you know, the average Joe and Jill, Juan and Wanda — did not hate them, their cultures, who they are.
Pure idiotic thinking, since the West has Disneyfied and Holly-Dirt-ized a whole hell of a lot of societies, toward their population’s (partial) SELF-Hate.
Think of the doll test: It was the psychological study that shaped a generation, this Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark’s doll test.
The husband-and-wife team studied the self-image of Black children, and their psychological experiments performed in the ‘40s found African American children preferred dolls with white skin.
Their work helped win the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, and the couple opened a non-profit a Harlem that has been helping community for over 70 years.
“The children basically rejected the Black dolls and really said the white doll was the good doll, the Black doll was the bad doll,” Northside Center for Child Development Executive Director Dr. Thelma Dye said.
[Photo: Kenneth Clark and Mamie Phipps Clark in 1945. ]
This is the way of Bernays, man . . . hate thy self, perception is reality, want that which is not needed, or want that which is dangerous . . . hold stupid ideas about almost EVERYTHING under the sun and just smile.
Of course, most of the writers on Substack who want a following, and want to be faux-balanced and appeal to some bizarre rhetorical framework, who are also thinking that attacking the person is so wrong, they just will not admit the power of PERSUASION, and in this case, marketing, Hollywood, propaganda, geopolitics, science, psychology, culture, the arts, literature, the press, and so much more.
Blinken and Big Macs, or breakfast sandwiches?
[But standard American policy (among everyday people as much as politicians) for a long time maintained that what the rest of the world was up to was really none of our business. This changed right about the time we entered the first world war, though even having entered it, public opinion mostly stood opposed. It was Edward Bernays’ first large-scale project in fact, working on a team for the military to convince the average Joe that war was good and right. As such, Bernays helped to present a paint-by-number framework for such convincing that governments have since mastered – with flair.]
Even the shit food, that Jewish nephew brought to the Goyim: HAM. FUCK.
[Our more extravagant meal was conjured up when Edward Bernays secured the Beech-Nut Packing Company as a client who wanted him to raise their pork sales. Bernays went to work collecting testimony from nearly 5,000 doctors across the U.S. who said simply that a heavier breakfast was a healthier one, while some of them specifically cited bacon and eggs as an example. The ploy worked.]
Then this fucker harassed his own wife to NEVER EVER smoke: [Lucky Strike cigarettes proudly bore a bright green package when they hired Bernays to raise sales. Through polling, he discovered that women in particular were opposed to the brand because it clashed with just about every outfit.[4]
Rarely one to take the straight-forward route, Bernays didn’t demand a change in packaging from the company but instead – by planting supportive articles in fashionable magazines and hosting “green balls” where, perhaps obviously, everyone invited wore green in an environment decorated with the same –, he created a massive fashion trend for the color green. It worked. People wore more green and Lucky Strike, appearing well ahead of the game, became a popular brand accessory.]
This fucker and lung cancer? Will the people of dead and dying women go after Bernays and his estate and his little Eichmann family?
That women were targeted as consumers at all was due largely to Bernays’ influence. Up until he was contracted by Virginia Slims, it was unsociable or, even in some states, unlawful for women to smoke. But Bernays saw an opportunity in growing support for the suffragette movement. When a womens’ march was scheduled in New York, he encouraged a group of its participants to light up at the same moment, a moment when his hired newspaper photographers were in position with cameras ready
You want even more of the death spiral this Jewish man brought to the world (I’m pointing out this since this is a hundred years ago, more or less, and we have had legions of hucksters and middlemen ruin the world, and with ZioAzovNaziLensky and the Nuland-Kagan-Blinken soilers, we are still in that world times 1,000,000!
Edward Bernays was hired by Alcoa to present industrial-grade fluoride, a common byproduct (and regulated pollutant) produced by the manufacture of its big seller, aluminum, as a benefit to public health. Bernays himself is quoted as saying that he took the job because he was fascinated to see if he could convince an entire nation to vote against what it knew instinctively to be its own good health interests. Using methods like calling up every dictionary and encyclopedia he could find and having them add a then-non-existent entry on “fluoridation,” giving the whole concept a sense of authority, he, as per usual, succeeded with flying colors.
A fucking egg, man, this is how evil this Bernays is!
It was once a sign of lazy homemakery to use instant cake mix. No self-respecting parent or baker made cake out of the box. In fact, instant anything was still generally a shameful prospect. But, with Bernays on the case, it wouldn’t be much longer. He polled and researched and observed. Eventually, the man realized that potential consumers felt guilty if they made cake from a box, as if they were not giving enough to their families. So, he had manufacturers add one simple step to the process: an egg. Everything about the instant cake was provided except the egg, which one had to buy separately and beat into the mixture.
Oh, those unwashed, poor, stupid.
Bernays literally wrote the book on an idea he termed “engineering consent.” He presented the argument that democracy could not be left in the hands of the unwashed masses, that the world’s wealthy and powerful must protect those lower on the class rung from themselves. The method of providing this protection was to manipulate their votes by the same kinds of campaigns which Bernays had perfected, all the while promoting the beauty of free election.
So, while his ideas about the upper classes’ role in manipulating the rest of society seem anything but progressive, he also worked very hard to see that the masses received a sexual education. He fought censors and police of the time, built a fake committee to show support, and rallied some of the wealthiest and most famous people on the planet to allow a theatre play to run whose focus was to educate its audience on venereal diseases. If Bernays were alive today, such an M/O might be something like promoting climate change denial, then funding Planned Parenthood.[10]
Fucking Trump and the two parties’ (sic) conventions and the media madness? One of the first publicity campaigns for a U.S. president was created by Bernays. Calvin Coolidge, running in the 1924 election, was apparently perceived by many as uptight, so his PR advisor orchestrated celebrity visits and a Vaudeville performance on the White House lawn. If we look at the media circus that accompanies American elections today and wonder about the degree to which they seem like reality TV shows or even adult cartoons, this may have been the moment that made it all possible.
[Source for the above on Monster Bernays, 10 Ways That Freud’s Nephew Duped Us All (And Still Does)
And, so, duh — Nuland-Kagan-Blinken and an entire army of Russia haters, the Maddows and others in the stable, and in academia, in mass media, Holly-Dirt, from the Ivy (poison) League schools — this is how they kill people: It was clear to United Fruit’s leadership, in particular company president Sam Zemurray, that the country was moving left. Guatemalan military leaders confirmed these fears in October 1944 when they overthrew the Ubico government, in what came to be known as the October Revolution. In the aftermath, Guatemala elected “spiritual socialist” Juan José Arévalo as its new leader.
United Fruit needed something—or someone—to save its business.It should come as no surprise that Sam Zemurray sought out the services of Edward Bernays. In the wake of Arévalo’s ascendance, Guatemala continued to experience political turmoil.
Between 1945 and 1951, there were anywhere from 25 to 30 coup attempts against the Arévalo government. [6]
Bernays was not troubled by this violence. In fact, he found a use for it. His strategy in Guatemala would be simple: He would encourage further unrest. His goal, as described in Biography of an Idea, was to help the public “learn more about the countries in which [United Fruit] functioned and what social, economic, or other purposes it fulfilled.” [7] But this would be no innocent public relations campaign. Bernays, the Father of Lies, went back to his time in the tobacco industry to pull from his bag of tricks. [Edward Bernays: Propaganda and the U.S.-Backed 1954 Guatemalan Coup]
And, all those prognosticators, they just do not know the roots of and the evil seeds of that dirty man, Bernays.
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Chinese Exclusion Act was approved on May 6, 1882. It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
In the spring of 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur. This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. For the first time, federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities.
The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few non-laborers who sought entry to the United States (such as diplomatic officers) to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove their status because the 1882 act defined laborers as “skilled and unskilled…and Chinese employed in mining.” Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.
The 1882 exclusion act also placed new requirements on Chinese who had already entered the country. If they left the United States, they had to obtain certifications to re-enter. Congress, moreover, refused state and federal courts the right to grant citizenship to Chinese resident aliens, although these courts could still deport them.
When the exclusion act expired in 1892, Congress extended it for 10 years in the form of the Geary Act. This extension, made permanent in 1902, added restrictions by requiring each Chinese resident to register and obtain a certificate of residence. Without a certificate, they faced deportation.
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA “capitalist”) society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
–Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US
OR.
“Admen like Bernays are professional poisoners of the public mind, exploiters of foolishness, fanaticism, and self-interest.”
— Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter when he warned President Franklin Roosevelt against allowing Bernays to play a leadership role in World War II
Or this Mafia Club:
“Always tell the truth. Tell a lot of the truth. Tell a lot more of the truth than anybody expects you to tell. But never tell the whole truth.”
— quote from one of the participants of the 1924 annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World (from Stuart Ewen’s 1976 book, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Now now, this is the face of evil, brothers and sisters: “Tell a Lot of the Truth, but Never Tell the Whole Truth.” — Gary Kohls
However, it was only much later in my adult life that I realized that I had been the victim of a subtle propagandizing in my childhood. Simply by reading the bland history books that had been approved by some school book committee down in uber-patriotic, pro-war Texas that I began to realize that I had been deceived by half-truths. I finally understood that my beloved nation was no triumphant, exceptional “shining city on a hill” like I had been led to believe. The religion I was accidentally born into, which endorsed every genocidal war its leaders started, was not superior to all the others. I realized that my teachers, my journalists and even my pastors had never gotten around to teaching me about the whole truth about America’s unethical, murderous, racist and genocidal military campaigns that started with Columbus and the conquistadors and continued with the mass killings of Native Americans and the theft of their homeland.
Bernays made use of his uncle’s psychological insights to control the public mind and manipulate it to create public acceptance for a product or idea.
He wrote, “if you can influence group leaders (ie ”thought leaders”), either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.”
One of Bernays most influential ”accomplishments” occurred in the mid- to late 1940s, when he was hired by ALCOA (the Aluminum Company of America) to orchestrate a public relations campaign to convince the public that it would be good to add ALCOA’s highly toxic by-product (fluoride salts) to the nation’s drinking water supplies under the guise of preventing tooth decay. It was one of Bernays’ most successful campaigns, with some state legislatures passing laws that compelled reluctant municipalities to fluoridate their water with the toxic waste product that had been responsible for poisoned – for decades – the air, soil, water, food, livestock and many other living things surrounding ALCOA’s manufacturing plants. The aluminum industry, with the help of the American Dental Association (who is still in denial about the serious neurotoxicity of their mercury fillings), got rid of their poisonous by-products and made a profit at the same time!
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Poison in the water, and poison in the minds of the rotten Ivy League and Stanford and a few hundred other colleges polluting minds, a la Bernays:
The process of creating a kind of “anti-China” on the basis of Taiwan issue, which has been carried out by Washington since the early 2000s and finally entrenched under the current democratic administration of Tsai Ing-wen, is alarming. The United States is actually implementing the “Ukrainian scenario”, promising security guarantees and military support, as well as drawing allies — Japan and some NATO countries — into a potential conflict zone. [ The East on Fire: Who Benefits from a War in Northeast Asia?]
If he were alive, Edward Bernays would be masturbating all over the place, from Pelosi et al ramping up their lies, to Russia-Gate, to e-cigarettes owned by Big Tobacco, to the Planned Pandemic (Event 201) and the trillion$ stolen in the poison regime’s ‘99 vaccines in the drawer and 99 jabs before you turn four’ song an dance.
Fucking One Hundred Years Old!
Blood on that BLOODLESS Bernays’ hands . . . . and so many millions taught by bloodless ones after him on how to scam, grift, deal in graft, lie, half-lie, sort-of-lie, double-speak, un-news the news . . . . THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY AND THE 1954 GUATEMALAN COUP
Ahh, what would Patrick Lancaster say about Edward Bernays?
When will the Russia Ukraine War end? It’s a question everyone in the world is wondering. To help us better understand what’s really happening in Ukraine, I sit down with American journalist Patrick Lancaster who discusses the latest updates on the Russia Ukraine War. Listen to the interviewer, yet another propagandized freak — “I am obviously not for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.” What the fuck?
What would the new Bernays do to spruce up Canada’s failed reputation? Canada was once the cool country, the pacifist country, but now? How Canada Came to be One of the World’s Leading Arms Dealers
Oh, those Russia Gate Campaigns:
NOT ONE CASE OF Irritated throats in these lies: NO MURDER BY ZELENSKY EVER FOUND! OR THEFT?
Finally, a shout out to Bernays who helped design this reality: Poverty in America is by design w/Matthew Desmond | The Chris Hedges Report.
Of course, the facts and figures — numbers — Hedges brings up are not full, not reality, and poverty and security, and discussing homelessness as living in cars and abandoned buildings, well, that ain’t it. Evictions, ZioAzovNaziLensky?
Matthew Desmond is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. His primary teaching and research interests include urban sociology, poverty, race and ethnicity, organizations and work, social theory, and ethnography. In 2018, Desmond’s Eviction Lab at Princeton University published the first-ever dataset of more than 80 million American eviction records. The Lab currently is pursuing nearly a dozen lines of inquiry analyzing this groundbreaking dataset that will help scholars, policymakers, and advocates better understand eviction, housing insecurity, and poverty.
NOTE to TOOTHLESS IN WISCONSIN — He mentions living in Milwaukee, and the poverty there. Any discussion? Selling poverty as NEVER PULLING YOURSELF UP BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS!
Sad Side Note: And, unfortunately, I did with a non-profit that was setting up a pay for success, impact investing scam. Program aim: enrolling families to end poverty by Paul Haeder Sep 23, 2019
Here, another piece around this fucking program: Makwirituni Erakuni – “I’d Like to Introduce You to My family”
Love Thy Neighbor — One Woman’s Fight for Her Husband
An American story of working undocumented
BERNAYS is orgasmic now with these new monsters, social impact, Universal Basic Bumbling Income Fuckers! Philadelphia’s 5th District City Council Race: A Call For A Town Hall on Social Impact Investing
Human Capital Markets, Digital Identity, & the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The screenshots below are from the website of the Family Independence Initiative. The organization has ties to New Profit and is part of the GreenLight Fund’s national portfolio, though it is not in Philadelphia yet. It seems like something straight out Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You.” Such hubris, compelling families to upload personal details of their “income, savings, health, education, housing, leadership, and connections” to the “UpTogether” software platform, so they can “take control of their own success” through the wonders of data analytics and profiling. It is Orwellian; it is horrific.
So, no, I did not buy into this bullshit of having my clients’ bank accounts and school grades and such tied to digital dashboards. The $720,000 FII got for this pilot came from Salem, OR, DHS, and I was paid $35 an hour, and I tried to get people some emergency money, $800, for 12 months of journaling. It was a fucking scam, because signing up meant having knowledge of computers and navigating that. Many did not have smart phones or WiFi or computing experience. I also was told I would be fired from this 1099 job if I “helped” my participants with too much of anything.
What the fuck do you think these poor people, who saw me as a navigator, wanted help with? Food, clothing, medical help, section 8, education for their kids, tired, furniture, and, so much more, including having me as a listening point, and all of that I did, but I lied lied lied to these fuckers running FII, man. And they harped on me weekly for supposedly breaking their paradigm of not helping people but getting them to get help from peers, who happened to live miles and miles away and had no cars or decent public transportation.
FII is now Uptogether, and it is getting funding from Koch Brothers and their bullshit foundations— Donors.
Stand Together? KOCHS.
Read Alison’s stuff, and watch her videos. Edward Bernays on Crack Cocaine, Pay for Success, Social Impact Investing, all of this is part of the Big Data, Big Algorithm, Big AI, and again, Social Impact Investing = Poverty Mining. Bernays? Your evil spawn? Where are you?
Not good if any rich man, rich woman, corporation, group of corporations, banks, investors are involved even in one aspect of working in these arena. Data MINING is a huge red flag, and again, Orwellian and Bernays Speak: Predicting poverty. Data mining approaches to the health and demographic surveillance system in Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua
Might as well go on a slum tourism gig, no?
Fuck them all:
Paul Haeder, Author 