Posted on 03/22/2018 9:53:48 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The company's first involvement in Africa dates to the general election in South Africa in 1994. That election marked the end of the apartheid era and the ascent of Nelson Mandela to the presidency... More recently, Cambridge Analytica worked with Kenya's ruling Jubilee Party... to re-elect President Uhuru Kenyatta... warning that a victory by opposition leader Raila Odinga would lead to disease, famine and terrorism [which was and is correct] ...in Nigeria... Muhammadu Buhari... was running against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan, and a Nigerian billionaire paid Cambridge Analytica $2.8 million to dig up damaging information... The emails included information about Buhari's health and medical records... Since assuming office, Buhari has taken extended medical leaves in London, because of an undisclosed illness... In Rwanda, SCL partnered with World Vision, a global Christian [sic -- supports same-sex marriage, supports PFLP, Hamas] aid organization, to conduct research on community attitudes about nutrition and sanitation...
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This article is so full of BS, I don’t even know where to start.
1. Saying that CA was active as a company in 1994? Dec 2014 was the point where they formed and existed as CA.
2. Involved in 1994 in the South African election? There was marginal internet existing in the region in 1994. No social media existed. In all of South Africa at the time, I would take a guess that no more than 3,000 people had actual email accounts.
3. To suggest they were involved in Kenyan elections? Pure speculation....zero facts.
4. “Open to manipulation”. The minute you bring up any African election or country....the word manipulation is the theme that drives the entire election. All parties are prone to manipulation
I could continue on, but I think this was more of a fictional piece created to fit into the news. The fact that VoA carries it? It would lead me to wonder who is the manipulator here.
As I’m digging into this, I see the founder of SCL Group, Nigel Oakes, also created another group with a similar mission that had a U.S. Army psyops specialist as one of their members—interesting.
Voice of America is generally seen as being CIA, so that explains why they’d be writing about Cambridge Analytica and not Hakluyt & Co:
18 Mar: Lifezette: Meet Hillary Clintons Other, Much More Powerful and Shadowy Oppo Research Firm
Executives with London-based Hakluyt & Co. contributed thousands of dollars to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign
by Mark Tapscott
Meet London-based Hakluyt & Co., founded by three former British intelligence operatives in 1995 to provide the kind of otherwise inaccessible research for which select governments and Fortune 500 corporations pay huge sums...
The firms style appears to be much more in the mold of the Christopher Steele dossier. Clients pay for pages of well-sourced prose from Hakluyts contacts across the globe, Williams wrote...
When the drunken junior Trump foreign policy adviser George Papodopoulous boasted in a London bar in May 2016 about Russian intelligence operatives peddling hacked emails that were damaging to Clinton, his most interested listener, according to The New York Times, was Alexander Downer, Australian high commissioner to the U.K...
Downer, a long-time Aussie chum of Bill and Hillary Clinton, had been on Hakluyts advisory board since 2008. Officially, he had to resign his Hakluyt role in 2014, but his informal connections continued uninterrupted, the News Corp. Australian Network reported in a January 2016 exclusive...
The link between Clinton and Hakluyt is ironic considering the former secretary of states strong commitment to liberal Democratic environmental causes. Hakluyts record includes being caught planting spies in Greenpeace and other environmental groups on behalf of energy giants British Petroleum (BP) and Shell.
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/meet-hillary-clintons-other-more-powerful-shadowy-oppo-research-firm/
22 Mar: Variety: Steve Bannon Defends Fire and Fury, Slams CNN and Facebook, Deflects Cambridge Analytica Questions
By Cynthia Littleton
Speaking at the Financial Times Future of News conference in New York, Bannon careened through a range of topics in a combative interview with Financial Times editor Lionel Barber. Bannon also vigorously defended President Donald Trumps track record, calling him the greatest orator weve had since William Jennings Bryant....
Theres a marketplace for your data its being sold every day, he said. He would not comment on his thoughts about Cambridge Analytia CEO Alexander Nix, and asserted that the issues in the spotlight at present were rooted in the activity of a related firm, SCL, based in Britain and run by Brits.
He said the focus on Cambridge Analytica and its work with the Trump campaign stems from the unwillingness of the political establishment to acknowledge that Trump won the election.
The progressive left and opposition media cannot get over one basic fact: Donald J. Trump is President. He beat Hillary (Clinton) and he beat her badly. Bannon asserted that investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion among Trump campaign officials is a bid to delegitimize Trumps win. You struck out on Russia so now youve got to go to Cambridge Analytica, he said...
Earlier in the day, CNN Worldwide chief Jeff Zucker spoke at the conference and slammed Fox News for being too cozy with the Trump administration, calling it a pure propaganda machine.
Bannon responded: You cant name a more propaganda outfit than CNN. Did anybody at CNN get fired for the awful mess they made of the 2016 campaign, which was a disgrace to journalism? No. That is a propaganda outfit. Every night its hate Trump.
http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/steve-bannon-fire-and-fury-cambridge-analytica-1202734013/
Data Firm Says Secret Sauce Aided Trump; Many Scoff (03/06/2017)
Cambridges parent company, the London-based Strategic Communication Laboratories Group, has a long record of trying to understand and influence behavior. Founded in 1993 by a former British adman, the firm has worked for companies and candidates around the world, as well as for government and military clients. SCL has studied Pakistani jihadists for the British government and provided intelligence assessments for American defense contractors in Iran, Libya and Syria, according to company documents obtained by The New York Times.
Several things I'm seeing make me think there's an Arab Spring Obama administration connection here--this was going on way before Trump's campaign got involved.
It’s really incredible the number of Facebook users that act like they never had a clue that by posting facts of their personal lives on the Internet was posting a permanent, intimate personal data base along with likes and dislikes to the world. It is just amazing how stupid people are. Even if they “restricted” the information to personal friends, once information is shared and digitized, it is as good as posting it on a fifty foot flashing neon sign in Times Square.
I remember, back in the day, someone meddled in the Kenya election.
He was not part of Cambridge Analytical.
In fact, he was a Senator!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0
A postcard is a more secure method of communication versus fakebook
Is Cambridge Analytica connected in any way to ‘intelligence’ groups?
Wonder why the article says it is unknown which party in S Africa Cambridge Analytica worked with but then claims ANC was the “most likely party?”
If it’s unknown why guess or why not ask?
Necklacing.
Apparently it’s talking about the parent company.
Yeah, necklacing makes it unlikely that their objective in hiring the company was to reduce election violence...
Unless the company was actually hired to “remake” ANC’s violent image - in order to meet the needs of foreign interests.
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