´´The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore.” He continued “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17). Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine.
Peter Clarence Foster (born 26 September 1962) is an Australian who has been convicted and jailed on three continents[1][2][3] for offences involving weight loss products and property transactions.[1]
He was also in the headlines following his involvement in helping Cherie Blair, wife of British prime minister Tony Blair, buy properties in Bristol.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Foster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynton_Crosby
Lynton Keith Crosby AO (born 1957 in Kadina, South Australia)[1][2] is an Australian political strategist who has been described as a “master of the dark political arts,” “the Wizard of Oz,” “the Australian Karl Rove,” and “one of the most powerful and influential figures in the (Australian) nation”.[1][3]
On 18 November 2012 Lynton Crosby was appointed as a campaign consultant by the British Conservative Party for the 2015 General Election.[4]
In the 1980s Crosby advised the Liberal Party of Australia, becoming the political organisation’s Deputy Federal Director in 1994 and then Federal Director in 1997, a position he held until 2002. During this time he masterminded successful General Election victories for the former Australian prime minister John Howard, in 1998 and 2001.
In 2002 he set up a consulting firm, the Crosby Textor Group, with Australian pollster Mark Textor. Crosby Textor has since run over 250 campaigns in 57 countries.[5]
In 2005 Crosby managed the Conservative Party‘s unsuccessful General Election campaign in the United Kingdom securing 33 additional seats, the party’s first net gain of seats from the Labour Party in 13 years.[4] He was later hired to run the London Mayoral Campaign in 2008 increasing the Conservative first preference votes from 29% to 43%[6] and electing Boris Johnson as Mayor of London. This success was repeated in 2012 where Boris Johnson was re-elected with 44% of the first preference votes.[7][8]
In March 2009 it was announced that Crosby would direct the Europe-wide Libertas campaign for the June 2009 European Parliament elections.[9] Despite running 600 candidates, the movement only managed to get one MEP elected, and folded shortly after.[10]
He holds a degree in economics from the University of Adelaide and in 2005 was awarded the Officer in the Order of Australia (AO).[11]
