by Oui
Fri Mar 23rd, 2018 at 01:41:18 PM EST
Steve Bannon on Cambridge Analytica: 'Facebook data is for sale all over the world' | The Guardian |
Besides, he said, "Facebook data is for sale all over the world".
Bannon - Donald Trump's former chief strategist - later said outside the conference room that he "did not remember" being part of any scheme to buy data that came from Facebook and divert it to use for election propaganda, as the Observer revealed last weekend.
He blamed any "dirty tricks" on Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group, which he described as "the British guys, old Etonians and guys from Oxford and Cambridge".
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And he denied that his former benefactor, US hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who co-owns Cambridge Analytica, had any financial links to SCL. Mercer was also a major donor to Trump's election campaign.
It was Bannon's first public appearance and statement since the explosive reports by the Observer and the Guardian, sister publications, last weekend, that the personal data of about 50 million Americans had been harvested and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
SCL received British government contracts and shared in military secrecy ...
○ MoD granted 'List X' status to Cambridge Analytica parent company, SCL Group
From my diary on February 2, 2017 ...
○ Cambridge Analytica (Mercer) the Real Election Cycle Culprit
From my diary on February 28, 2017 - Brexit: Putin Did It.
Covering one's tracks, pointing fingers towards the East, gullible readers ...
○ Revealed: how US billionaire helped to back Brexit | The Guardian |
My earlier diary ...
○ Cambridge Analytica (Mercer) the Real Election Cycle Culprit
Trump Data Gurus Leave Long Trail of Subterfuge, Dubious Dealing | Bloomberg |
Cambridge Analytica now hopes to leverage that success--and its ties to Trump--to do more business with the U.S. government. Working from offices just blocks from the White House, it's been pitching itself to defense and national security agencies. In February it signed a $500,000 U.S. State Department contract to fight radicalization of young people abroad.
While Cambridge Analytica has faced scrutiny before over whether its data models actually work, a closer look at the past practices of its London-based affiliate, SCL Group Ltd., reveals a corporate DNA less predisposed to dazzling technologies to sway voters than to using old-fashioned tricks and political subterfuge.
Alexander Nix set up Cambridge Analytica in 2013 to target the U.S. market, installing himself as chief executive officer after 14 years as a director of SCL. In the past year, Nix, 41, has become a darling in tech and marketing circles, popping up on the international speaking circuit to promote the firm's data-driven approach.
UK and US military using data mining and social media tricks to undermine terror and fight proxy wars in the Middle East.
U.K.: Bell Pottinger acted for controversial Yemen organization
Special Projects
Bell Pottinger Sans Frontieres (BPSF) the arm of the firm which managed the Yemen account, has a `special projects' unit which describes itself as the `SAS of strategic communications'. Services offered by the special projects team include `geo-political reputation rebuilds'; `conflict zone influence operations'; `psychological warfare' and `counter-radicalisation'.
`The company develops and delivers influence campaigns, products and events that address civic populations or adversary forces in support of political, military or diplomatic objectives,' its website says.
The NGO Reporters without Borders recently highlighted the difficulties in covering the protests in Yemen against a background of harassment of journalists including abductions, murder attempts, arrests, expulsions and attacks on offices.
Iona Craig, a freelance reporter based in Yemen, said: `The media situation is particularly tough for local Yemeni journalists who have come under consistent intimidation and sometimes direct physical attack from supporters of the regime. Several foreign journalists have been deported and others have been turned away at the airport as they tried to enter the country.'
Bell Pottinger has not done anything illegal, but Mike Harris, a spokesman for Index on Censorship, which has campaigned against British PR firms working for undemocratic regimes, said: `Bell Pottinger agreed to try and spin international coverage of Yemen, despite the appalling human rights situation in the country.'
Full Circle - Breitbart Jerusalem. Back to the roots of Islamophobia, the nation of Bibi Natanyahu.
Breitbart's Jerusalem chief explains site's `nationalist' appeal | JTA |
Bannon has described himself as an "economic nationalist" and has railed against globalists who have "gutted the American working class." He has warned of a brewing war between "the Judeo-Christian West" and "Islamic fascism." Under his leadership,
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Bannon said Breitbart had become "the platform for the `alt-right,'" as he put it, using the term for a loose far-right populist movement that mixes anti-Semitism, racism, white nationalism and disdain for "political correctness." Bannon has also said he rejected the racism and anti-Semitism heard among the alt-right and that it would wash out of the movement over time.
○ Breitbart News Network: Born In The USA, Conceived In Israel
From that humble beginning grew Breitbart News Network.
One thing we specifically discussed that night was our desire to start a site that would be unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel. We were sick of the anti- Israel bias of the mainstream media and J-Street. By launching Breitbart Jerusalem, the journey comes full circle and a promise between two friends is fulfilled. And in a very real sense, Breitbart News Network returns to its roots.
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○ Steve Bannon's Romance with Hollywood Islamophobia | Tikun Olam |
○ Protest at ZOA Bannon gala shows, Zionism does not unify Jewish community | Mondoweiss |