Google's Revolution Factory - Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0

In 2008, the Alliance of Youth Movements held its inaugural summit in New York City. Attending this summit was a combination of State Department staff, Council on Foreign Relations members, former National Security staff, Department of Homeland Security advisers, and a myriad of representatives from American corporations and mass media organizations including AT&T, Google, Facebook, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and MTV.

http://allyoumov.3cdn.net/f734ac45131b2bbcdb_w6m6idptn.pdf

One might suspect such a meeting of representatives involved in US economic, domestic and foreign policy, along with the shapers of public opinion in the mass media would be convening to talk about America's future and how to facilitate it. Joining these policy makers, was an army of "grassroots" activists that would "help" this facilitation.

Among them was a then little known group called "April 6" from Egypt. These Facebook "savvy" Egyptians would later meet US International Crisis Group trustee Mohamed ElBaradei at the Cairo airport in Februrary 2010 and spend the next year campaigning and protesting on his behalf in his bid to overthrow the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The Alliance of Youth Movements mission statement claims it is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping grassroots activists to build their capacity and make a greater impact on the world. While this sounds fairly innocuous at first, even perhaps positive, upon examining those involved in "Movements.org," a dark agenda is revealed of such nefarious intent it is almost difficult to believe.

Movement.org is officially partnered with the US Department of State and Columbia Law School. Its corporate sponsors include Google, Pepsi, and the Omnicon Group, all listed as members of the globocrat Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). CBS News is a sponsor and listed on the globocrat Chatham House's corporate membership list. Other sponsors include Facebook, YouTube, Meetup, Howcast, National Geographic, MSNBC, GenNext, and the Edelman public relations firm.

Movement.org's "team" includes Co-Founder Jared Cohen, a CFR member, Director of Google Ideas, and a former State Department planning staff member under both Condoleezza Rice and Hilary Clinton.

Founding Movements.org with Cohen is Jason Liebman of Howcast Media which works with mega-corporate conglomerates like Proctor & Gamble, Kodak, Staples, Ford, and government agencies such as the US State Department and the US Defense Department, to create "custom branded entertainment, innovative social media, and tardeted rich-media campaigns." He was also with Google for 4 years where he worked to partner with Time Warner (CFR), News Corporation (FoxNews, CFR) Viacom, Warner Music, Sony Pictures, Reuters, the New York Times, and the Washington Post Company.

via www.globalresearch.ca

Comments

[tomslee]

That's a great set of links. If you have more commentary on it, I'm sure I am not the only one who would like to read more of your reactions.

Also, I wonder what they will be so keen on youth movements if US Uncut goes after Google for tax avoidance? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-callahan/googles-tax-avoidance-so_b_772080.html

[The Mathmos]

I allow myself to believe that the Egyptian movements are larger than April 6 and figureheads like ElBaradei, and that maybe they'll be harder to recuperate along corporate-friendly lines of conduct. For many in the street, this was as much about fighting US influence than ousting the current puppet. And I have a hard time believing that the US State Dept. enjoy the prospect of labour mobilization.

[Permaculture Cooperative]

as senior Google advisor Al Gore said in 2008, the young revolutionaries are like, well, puppies...

"Much like puppies, according to Mr. Gore, Web 2.0 has to have a purpose. The purpose he urges us to consider is to bring about a higher level of consciousness about our relationship with this planet.

"We have everything we need to save it, and in the process create millions of new jobs, reduce our national security exposure, and solve the climate crisis," he said, but, "just as Barack Obama's election would have been impossible without the new dialogue and new ways of interacting on the Web, the only way this is going to be solved is by addressing the democracy crisis."

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/al_gore_web_20_needs_a_purpose_1.php

My feeling is the Obama administration is spreading a kind of internet imperialism, coopting and redirecting the social and economic revolutions into shallow democratic spectacles...

converting neo-colonial regimes into neo-liberal ones...

Jimmy Carter on CPAN says (paraphrasing) "the US used to think that we needed dictators in the Middle East, we dont, just like South America (with maybe one exception) we can have democracies in South America and the Middle East"
http://www.c-span.org/Events/A-Conversation-with-Jimmy-Carter/10737419599/

its polyarchy, shallow democracy in the Middle East, its Hopey Changey time... the lessons from Obama 2.0 are now US Imperialism 2.0

the globalized economic system of tax havens, multinational corporations, and private unregulated finance (including now the emerging ecosystem services like climate and forest carbon) are much stronger than national states, indeed in many ways, it doesnt matter that Evo Morales is a rhetorically a commie and is implementing state capitalism with some social programs, that actually is good, it creates consumers.. the global markets force discipline

as Evo said on Democracy Now to Amy, "come on, we need to be realistic" when selling onto a world market

"Now, the internal debate. Those foundations, NGOs, said, “Amazon, no oil.” So they’re telling me that I should shut down oil wells and gas wells. So what is Bolivia going to live off of? So let’s be realistic. But since these foundations and NGOs justify using some of the indigenous brothers and sisters—I don’t blame my indigenous brothers and sisters. They use the leaders to justify their good salaries and their own way of life. "
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/bolivian_president_evo_morales_to_president

makes you wonder, "Whats Left in Latin America?"
http://books.google.com/books?id=ssmZYFsXiR4C

I would suggest, Obama would be quite happy to upgrade from US Imperialism 1.0 to US Imperialism 2.0... i.e. neo-colonialism under monarchial dicators, to neo-liberalism polyarchy under plutocrats, technocrats and the securitat

great work, keep it up

[Permaculture Cooperative]

btw, polyarchy as low-intensity democracy WI Robinson, not Rawls
http://books.google.com/books?id=ani6eaUFVIcC

[Permaculture Cooperative]

damn, wrong link
Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed, and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to an 'open' promotion of 'democratic' regimes. William I. Robinson argues that behind the façade of 'democracy promotion', the policy is designed more to retain the elite-based and undemocratic status quo of Third World countries than to encourage mass aspirations for democratization. He supports this challenging argument with a wealth of information garnered from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents, and assembled in case studies of the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, South Africa, and the former Soviet Bloc. With its combination of theoretical and historical analysis, empirical argument, and bold claims, Promoting Polyarchy is an essential book for anyone concerned with democracy, globalization and international affairs. Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Political Economy of the World section of the American Sociological Association.--Publisher description.
http://books.google.com/books?id=KSwMsA-yFhEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA317#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Nicholas Roberts]

regarding the kids today, they are infected by a New Economy mythology...

How to Run the World:
Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Google eBook)

a new mega-diplomacy consisting of coalitions among motivated technocrats, influential executives, super-philanthropists, cause-mopolitan activists, and everyday churchgoers can assemble the talent, pool the money, and deploy the resources to make the global economy fairer, rebuild failed states, combat terrorism, promote good governance, deliver food, water, health care, and education to those in need, and prevent environmental collapse
http://books.google.com/books?id=JgsQ77tOsbIC

via RAND
http://www.rand.org/topics/egypt.html

or Nicholas Carr
The amorality of Web 2.0
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php