Isn't it just a logical progression from spin and PR? They're just a bit more up front about it.

Well, I'm grateful to Hypnotised for the link. I'm sure this company is just a 'logical progression' from PR in the same way Belsen was a logical progresion from Krystallnacht but its neither logical nor progressive.

Further reading that I've googled from Hypnotised's info :
 http://bc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/6205/index.php
 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Strategic_Communication_Laboratories
 http://www.howtheychangeyourmind.com
 http://slate.msn.com/id/2126479/


Equally creepy:
 http://www.davidfellowesassociates.com/

I've also managed to find on the census the home address for Nigel Oakes, the CEO of that bunch of melon-twisters. Now whats the logical and progressive thing I should do with this information Boab ? Fancy a wee trip down south to see how he likes a taste of his own medicine ?

I notice that the director of their big influence the Behavioural Dynamics Institute uses some nice NLP tricks on his website -  http://www.davidfellowesassociates.com - his past clients sound interesting from what he's allowed himself to tell us!

And Googling "Nigel Oakes" will let you know that while SCL has now gone public, it's not a new company.

It's interesting and alarming that disinformation has become so widespread and acceptable that these groups are now openly touting for trade.

Propaganda and disinformation is an old, old art form, this is nothing new. Fortunatly there is a network of dedicated American and International Anarchist hackers and activists who are activilly working disrupt and destroy the operations of fascist companies and governments like this.

Old Etonian smoothie fails to buff Indonesian leader's image

By Richard Lloyd Parry, in Jakarta
6 August 2000 The Independent
...
The Englishman in question is 38-year-old Nigel Oakes – Old Etonian, former
lover of a minor royal and, most recently, image consultant to President
Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of the world's largest Muslim nation. Their
association, which appears to have come to an end after being embarrassingly
exposed last week, is unlikely enough in itself. But it also tells a
depressing story about Indonesia and Mr Wahid, and about the depths to which
his reputation and credibility have sunk during his nine months in office.
...
Although it is now considered unlikely, a few weeks ago there was even talk
of sacking Mr Wahid. And it was around this time, in early June, that members
of the president's family met Mr Oakes, head of a company called Strategic
Communications Laboratories. Under discussion was the crescendo of attacks on
Mr Wahid in the media: when Mr Oakes outlined ways of turning this around,
his listeners were impressed. Money changed hands – reports vary from
$300,000 to $2m (£207,000 to £1.3m). Within days, the gleaming operations
centre had been set up.

The use of international PR agencies by national leaders and their
governments has become commonplace; under Suharto, Indonesia retained the
international firm Burson-Marsteller to counter the negative publicity in
East Timor. But for all his computers and camera equipment, Mr Oakes was
hardly in the same league.

His career has included working in the record industry, giving lectures at
Harvard and running a company which fills shops with nice smells to encourage
spending. Indonesians who have met him speak of his charm, good manners and
immaculate tailoring. But during the 1980s, he was known for rather different
reasons.

Mr Oakes enjoyed a brief period of notoriety as the boyfriend of Lady Helen
Windsor, now Lady Helen Taylor, the daughter of the Queen's cousin. On her
engagement in 1992, he gave an interview to the Sunday Mirror which was
perhaps less than discreet. "She was quite passionate and demonstrative," he
said of their physical relationship. "It would be done in an old-fashioned,
romantic way, wearing a nightie and pyjamas."

According to diplomats he first made his presence known in Jakarta towards
the end of Mr Suharto's new order. He unsuccessfully offered his services to
Mr Habibie and set up an earlier version of his ops room in Jakarta's
Mandarin Hotel. Finally he was introduced to Mr Wahid's daughter Yenni. Two
months later the fusillade of criticism of the president has eased somewhat,
but whether that is Mr Oakes's doing is another question.

His work appears to have been rather limited. A series of television messages
were produced in the name of the obscure Foundation of Independent
Journalists, stressing religious and ethnic harmony – implicitly saying
only
Mr Wahid could deliver this. He then organised a seminar on journalistic
ethics and independence; ironically, its participants appeared to be unaware
that it was subsidised by the presidential palace.

Otherwise, the operations centre monitored stories about Mr Wahid, but its
primary function appears to have been cosmetic. "It was just like a movie set
to impress the clients, to calm down the family," said one Indonesian who
visited it. "They are really desperate." ...

When I referred to Nigel Oakes as a 'melon-twister' I was of course referring to his professional activities in messing with peoples heads, and not his former relationship with Lady Helen Taylor, the Duke of Kents daughter who the British tabloids used to refer to as 'melons'.



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The Independent [UK]
6 August 2000

Old Etonian smoothie fails to buff Indonesian leader's image

...Mr Oakes enjoyed a brief period of notoriety as the boyfriend of Lady Helen
Windsor, now Lady Helen Taylor, the daughter of the Queen's cousin. On her
engagement in 1992, he gave an interview to the Sunday Mirror which was
perhaps less than discreet. "She was quite passionate and demonstrative," he
said of their physical relationship. "It would be done in an old-fashioned,
romantic way, wearing a nightie and pyjamas."

According to diplomats he first made his presence known in Jakarta towards
the end of Mr Suharto's new order....

Lads, stop a minute. Look around, and re-read the posts.

Now think.

This is a piece about Psy Ops and yet Twilight, who spams the site regularly with accusations of such things, has said nothing! Hurrah! A miracle!!

Hypnotised more like paraletic lol, there is disinformation every day on this website trouble is most of you actually believe it.

The force be with u

I'm sure most of us take much of the 'news' here with large pinches of salt. I hope so anyway.

Well..i surely hope that with all the credible people he seems to have in the management team nowadays, perhaps projects will eventually see completion.

I was one of Nigel Oakes trusted hand for 4years, and worked with him in 5 projects, none ever really bare results.

Op centre is nothing but a movie set, however..he is a perception management master, and he'll be long gone before clients realise..its all nothing but fancy tricks.