Posted on 03/22/2018 9:53:48 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
In other words, less to motivate voters [with little internet access] than to motivate financiers [who would have some internet access] to support the party.
Though their campaign then could have been radio, I suppose.
The prospect of that level of, uh, retribution would tend to make any pencil-neck wet themselves.
It’s ANC—see post #12.
Yes.
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 Clinton’s 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 firm’s “style appears to be much more in the mold of the Christopher Steele dossier. Clients pay for pages of well-sourced prose from Hakluyt’s contacts across the globe,” Williams wrote...
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wary inkterestink.
Cambridge’s 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.
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so, SCL begat Cambridge?
spooky.
Neil Heywood the British guy murdered in China that caused the big scandal among China’s elite a while back worked for Hakluyt, according to the NYTimes
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