A Communiqué from Deep Upriver, Somewhere Near the Czech Border

EDITORS NOTE: No sooner than had we warned you it would probably happen in our previous post, it appears our missing employee, CJ Hopkins, somehow gained access to our blog and posted the following, which, for legal reasons, we are going to let stand. The Corporate Media Echo Chamber (first published Counterpunch, April 25, 2016)… Read More A Communiqué from Deep Upriver, Somewhere Near the Czech Border

A special advisory to our readers regarding the questionable nature of the content on this blog

It has recently come to our attention here at Consent Factory headquarters that we may have a bit of “situation” developing in our Berlin offices. The long and short of it is, it appears an employee of one of our German subsidiaries has gained access to our official Consent Factory blog (i.e. this very blog), and… Read More A special advisory to our readers regarding the questionable nature of the content on this blog

How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 3)

We want to wrap up the first three installments of our How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People series with something really special. So we’re going to take a look at an opinion piece by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Krugman, which is an absolutely classic example of how to smear… Read More How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 3)

How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 1)

OK, we want to kick off our series on Using the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People by examining two recent pieces on the 2016 US elections. The first one we’ll look at ran in the Guardian, a Pulitzer Prize-winning British newspaper that most people think of as “progressive,” and the second in… Read More How to Use the Power of the Media to Subtly Manipulate People (Pt. 1)

How to generate and manage the appearance of free and fair elections in developed markets

One of the essential parts of establishing and maintaining your globalized corporatist empire is creating and stage-managing a simulation of actual democracy every few years. This allows the millions of people you’ve trapped in debt peonage, and are otherwise exploiting, to blow off a little steam, and to not feel completely powerless and hopeless about… Read More How to generate and manage the appearance of free and fair elections in developed markets