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Divide And Conquer: Unpacking Stratfor’s Rise To Power

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Stratfor precursor,Pagan International,built the corporate public relations playbook still utilized by the firm today.The goal of a corporate PR plan "must be to separate the fanatic activist leaders from the overwhelming majority of their followers:decent, concerned people who are willing to judge us on the basis of our openness and usefulness, Pagan stated in 1982, fully understanding that the public should never know this was the game plan.Hammond " perhaps without knowing every detail of the history of the playbook itself "essentially cited it as the rationale behind his Stratfor hack and leak to WikiLeaks. "I believe in the power of the truth. In keeping with that, I do not want to hide what I did or to shy away from my actions, he stated in a press release announcing the plea deal. "I believe people have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing..."
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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