Mark Fiore video spoofs former military psy ops being used in fracking fields

[kgrandia]

Last edited Tue May 21, 2013, 06:30 PM - Edit history (1)

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Advice: Put "Mark Fiore" in your subject line if you want hits...

Mark is well-known and beloved here on DU.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Excellent idea! Mark Fiore will land this on The Greatest Page!

[kgrandia]

3. Good advice

Edited. Thanks!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. You're more than welcome, K&R from me!

Loved Mark Fiore since I first discovered him in 2003...

[Oerdin]

4. Psyops vet

I spent 9 years in psyops and got deployed twice before leaving the service and I hate to see stupid junk like this. All psyops really is is public relations yet ignorant people always seem to think it's something nefarious.

[alfredo]

5. I saw it as an abuse of their training. Instead of using their skills for the benefit of the US,

they are using it against us.

I was in counter insurgency. I had opportunities to use my training in the field of industrial espionage, but I wanted no part of that world.

[limpyhobbler]

6. It's creepy to see war training and propaganda techniques turn inward toward our own country.

usually that's creepy I guess.

[cprise]

8. And all public relations is

...just a nice-sounding term for propaganda.

Edward Bernays 101

[siligut]

7. There is a movie out that touches on this sort of manipulation (SPOILERS IN POST)

Storyline

Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2091473/

It is the movie "Promised Land", another spoiler below.











And Krasinski plays a covert operative in it.

[Mika]

10. Human Resources

Get some - its long, but worth it.

Human Resources (documentary)
Social Engineering in the 20th Century
http://metanoia-films.org/human-resources/#watch

[siligut]

11. Right up my alley, thank you

I have hope that everyone will learn about this sort of manipulation.