Creeps me out! UN helps create The Hive (a modern
day propaganda machine) by Ann Corcoran, 7/8/16
If you’ve
wondered how so many warm and fluffy stories are popping up on the issue of
refugees, you might look to The
Hive as one reason for the latest flurry.
The Hive’s
brain, Brian Reich. http://www.fastcompany.com/3054496/most-creative-people/a-un-agencys-radical-experiment-in-addressing-the-refugee-crisis
Truly I’m
creeped-out when I read about the small group of social engineers hired by the
United Nations, to create a narrative, to solve what they call the “most
pressing issue” of our time—the “refugee crisis.” Here (hat tip:
Julia) is what they
say about themselves (of course they don’t tell you what they really
are—propagandists!):
THE HIVE AND A
“MANHATTAN PROJECT FOR NONPROFITS”
So what is the
Hive, and what does it do? It’s a team of 10 people working out of New York,
exploring the universe of “persuadables” in the context of the refugee crisis.
Reich and his colleagues are always asking, “Who can we get to engage around
this issue that the UNHCR might not otherwise target? And how can we measure
their behavior?” Its hiring practices are unorthodox, for the nonprofit world,
at least. “We have the first full-time data scientist in a nonprofit in the
U.S. focused on engagement,” says Reich.
And, here they
describe one of their recent successes as they work for the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (the agency choosing refugees for your towns!):
The Hive has a
wide berth to experiment with things that an august body like the UNHCR might
not typically try. It made a “Jesus Was a Refugee” bumper sticker, riffing on a line of
the Pope’s, and distributed it around the time of his U.S. visit.
The average
person just thinks a theme like that springs up from the ether. Do a google
search on ‘Jesus was a refugee’ and see how it is spread throughout social
media.
Here is
their facebook page: USA for UNHCR
where they promote their memes such as the bumper sticker project they brag
about.
And, here is what they say they are doing: We’re
building knowledge about issues relating to refugees so that Americans will
grow more committed to solving the refugee crisis.
We’re using
data science to identify and micro-target prospective supporters. And we’re
developing strategic partnership opportunities for corporations and brands that
change everything we know about philanthropy and advocacy.
This is not
about charity. We’re here to help the United States. We are here to help the
United States solve problems that truly need the United States’ support.
We’re here to unlock the potential of the U.S.
market – both in terms of fundraising and advocacy – in support of the most
pressing issue of our time.
We can’t make change happen alone or overnight
– that is why we need you. We are bringing together the smartest and most
innovative partners in the U.S. to help us reach, educate and engage American’s
on today’s most pressing issue.
Storytelling! One of the most important weapons they have
in their propaganda arsenal is STORYTELLING!
The political
Left loves stories: warm stories, family stories, children stories, stories of
hardship overcome, stories about success and stories about how ethnic groups
are reaching out to help each other with love and kindness. Blah, blah,
blah!
But, we have stories too! (and we don’t have
millions of dollars and Manhattan brains promoting them). We have stories about their
angels wandering off-message (thus destroying their carefully crafted
narrative) and raping little girls (Idaho!), becoming Islamic terrorists
(Kentucky) or terrorizing suburbs (Minnesota).
And, therein
lies the danger to the UN and its Leftist social engineers of blogs like Refugee
Resettlement Watch and other on-line media daily messing up their narrative! by pumping out the “stories” that
‘balance’ their warm and fuzzy multicultural dream theme with some cold hard
reality!
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/creeps-me-out-un-helps-create-the-hive-a-modern-day-propaganda-machine/
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