Interesting Video - Psychology of Power - Rule From The Shadows

[Lauren Johnson]

I imagine it is the same in the UK but I see clearly in Sweden and Australia how closely connected the PR industry and politics is. The main political advisor the present PM in Oz is from PR and it shows. Lots of smoke and mirrors and spin machines. Lots of manufactured images of how life should be rather than practical plans to manage how life is.

Many intelligence proprietaries are PR firms...so they can do their dirty deeds both covertly and overtly! If my memory serves me correctly, John Perkins [Economic Hitman] was emplaced by the NSA [!] in a PR firm to do his arm twisting for Empire. Now with all the electronic surveillance of everyone, targets can have 'tailored' propaganda and mind-twisting....while the LOUD general hum of the propaganda machinery and the sonorous notes of the Mighty Wurlitzer play on.

Peter, in fact, his company was Chas. T. Main, which was an engineering consulting firm, or that was it's cover story. It was an extension of the NSA, as far as Perkins can gather. He says this:

Claudine [Perkins' trainer as an economic hit man] told me that there were two primary objectives of my work. First, I was to justify huge international loans that would funnel money back to MAIN and other U.S . companies (such as Bechtel , Halliburton, Stone & Webster, and Brown & Root) through massive engineering and construction projects . Second, I would work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans (after they had paid MAIN and the other U.S . contractors, of course) so that they would be forever beholden to their creditors, and so they would present easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, U N votes, or access to oil and other natural resources . (p. 15)

MAIN was certainly an excellent example of rule from the shadows.