PSYOP as Entertainment
January 14th, 2013I’ve been trying to understand what France’s war in Mali is really about, but I’m coming up short. During my reading, though, I came across something interesting that’s related to a previous post on Cryptogon.
Do you remember the one about, Population Reduction Through ‘Long-Running Serialized Dramas’?
Well, you brought up Population Media Center. One of the things that we do – and that is the primary thing we do – is to use a strategy of communications that has turned out, from everything we have been able to measure, to be the most cost-effective strategy for changing behavior with regard to family size and contraceptive use on a per-behavior change basis of any strategy we have found on the planet. And this is the use of long-running serialized dramas, melodramas like soap operas, in which characters gradually evolve from the middle of the road in that society into positive role models for daughter education, delaying marriage and childbearing until adulthood, spacing of children, limiting of family size, and various other health and social goals of each country.
Now, in researching drug trafficking in Mali, I came across a New York Times piece called, Mali Tackles Al Qaeda and Drug Traffic. Look at this:
“Development is critical in dealing with the north,” Ambassador Milovanovic said, but “so long as security is unstable, it is hard to get those projects going.”
“We cannot just throw money up there.”
After her own visits, she has tried to meet local requests by offering training for midwives or supplying four-wheel-drive ambulances. As part of its broader efforts to counter extremism in northern Mali, the United States also underwrote a series of radio soap operas whose plot twists emphasized the dangers of extremism.
Question: In how many countries is the U.S. government running PSYOP-as-entertainment campaigns?
You know… Besides the U.S.
I think it’s what it has always been about: building the case for world government
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/11/chalk_up_another_policy_victory_to_good_enough_global_governance
Estimates of Mali’s current gold reserves are 500 tons. That’s easy pickings at gun point. Future gold production is unknown, of course, but reducing the population makes stealing future reserves easier and cheaper.
Bundesbank is collecting their gold from the NY Fed, so I’m betting that interest in procuring foreign gold to back fill what is probably already pawned off is suddenly a high priority.
Gold- It’s a funny that an obsolete relic still draws such interest….
Neighbouring Niger provides most of the uranium we, the French people, need for our “independent” energy production. Mali is said to be rich in that resource too. The major uranium mine city of Arlit is located at about 300 km from the Jihadist zone in Mali. I read that some (most?) of the hostages the radio constantly talks about were in the uranium extraction business.
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/blood-uranium-frances-mali-intervention-terrorism/