Aug 11
20210
Social Engineering, Uncategorized
Amoco Big Green Big Oil Big Solar Biodiversity Capitalism Chevron Circular Economy Clean Currents Coalition Dow DuPont Ellen MacArthur Foundation Ethane Ethylene Exxon Facemasks Global Plastic Action Partnership Marketing microplastics New Plastics Economy Oceans Plastic Pollution Coalition Plastics PPE Procter & Gamble Recycling SystemIQ WWF OneSource Coalition “Plastic Neutral” and “Net Zero” “Plastic Neutral” “Net Zero”
"Larry Thomas, Lew Freeman and Ron Liesemer, former industry executives, helped oil companies out of the first plastic crisis by getting people to believe something the industry knew then wasn't true: That most plastic could be and would be recycled."
Oct 14
20201
Rockefeller Foundation, Social Engineering
Behavioural Change Build Back Better Education Emerging Markets Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Goals Great Reset Klaus Shwab Marketing Social Enginnering Social License Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Thrive United Nations World Economic Forum
"The Great Reset": Packaged in holistic linguistics, key buzzwords, new deals, and emotive imagery, those serving capital and current power structures have been tasked with building and obtaining the social license required.
"The climate crisis is being commodified and co-opted and nature is being bought. It is the final bastion of ruling class control and it has taken advantage of the latent desires for escape from the apparatus. Hence the cultic thinking and reflexive responses of a new class of true believer."
Oct 28
20190
Research & Investigative Reports on NGOs, Social Engineering
"Net Zero" Extinction Rebellion Greta Thunberg Holistic Linguistics Language & Framing Market Solutions Marketing Podcast Storytelling XR
"But a marketing campaign is about storytelling—and storytelling is, in large part, about the use of language. And the language used to sell us a movement is consciously connected by its salespeople to the language used to sell the movement’s solutions."
Jul 24
20170
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Branding Caucasian Validation Conservation Displacement Indigenous Rights Jane Goodall Institute Kenya Kenya Wildlife Service Landgrabs Marketing Nature Conservancy Northern Rangelands Trust Richard Leakey Space for Giants UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Whiteness & Aversive Racism World Bank World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."
Jan 26
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Avaaz Culture Marketing New Economy People's Climate March Purpose Inc.
"While American faith about the truth in advertising might suffer as a result of these amusements, the deaths that result take place mostly in the Third and Fourth World. As Americans are herded into waving signs and marching around Manhattan wearing the color blue, millions around the world are dying from starvation, disease and murder resulting from American consumerism"
Sep 17
2014246
350.org / 1Sky, Amnesty International, Avaaz, Earth Day Network, Human Rights Watch, Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Occupy Wall Street, Pacifism as Pathology, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz], TckTcktck Partner: Meet 'The Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change', The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Uncategorized, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, World Vision
#withSyria Avaaz Behavourial Change Branding David Petraeus FIDH Front Line Defenders Human Rights Network Human Rights Watch Marketing Myanmar Netwar Psyops Purpose Reporters Without Borders Social Engineering Syria Syrian Civil Defence The Syria Campaign Tom Perriello White Helmets World Bank
"'You have to investigate the supply of hatred,' Glaeser continues. 'Who has the incentive and the ability to induce group hatred? This pushes us toward the crux of the model: politicians or anyone else will supply hatred when hatred is a complement to their policies.'" — The Behavioural Economics of Hatred
"Indeed, the unlikely romance between Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace seems to have deepened with time. “The relationship blossomed to the point where we began sharing our five-year plans with them,” Apte says. “We want to know in advance if there are any showstoppers in there from their perspective.”
Jul 16
20142
Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism
Amnesty International Branding Clinton FEMEN Feminism Guantanamo Bay Human Rights Watch Imperialism Libya Marketing misogyny Molly Crabapple MSNBC NATO neoliberalism Odessa Oppression OWS Patriarchy Pussy Riot Racism Russia Syria Ukraine VISE
"While women who stand against oppression and imperialism are often excluded from public platform, or labeled as “crazy” otherwise, when standing for imperialism, misogyny, racism, and capitalism, women are seen as strong and independent-minded. When their representations of the aforementioned are attacked, these otherwise “modern” women simply melt back into stereotypical gender roles, and are posited as victims. I will present three case studies for this phenomenon that will seek to make this connection between feminism, traditional gender roles, agency and imperial aggression."
Mar 21
20131
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, TckTckTck, Uncategorized
Branding Campaigns Exploitation Marketing Movements Symbolism
"Campaigns are by nature tactical. Without the strategic guidance of a movement’s goals, they are sometimes rudderless beyond the moment’s objective. This is why we often see professional progressives celebrating tactical achievements that actually undermine strategic goals. Goals are not part of their purview."