Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Federal Reserve: 24x7x365 Interbank Settlement Service with Clearing Functionality to Support Instant Payments in the United States
August 10th, 2020Via: Federal Reserve: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced details of the FedNow? Service, a new 24x7x365 interbank settlement service with clearing functionality to support instant payments in the United States. … Based on ongoing stakeholder engagement, additional features and service enhancements will be introduced over time. The target launch date for the service […]
Don’t Do Your Own Research
August 9th, 2020Via: Corbett Report:
Homeschooling Hits the Mainstream
August 9th, 2020Via: Reason: DIY approaches to education—including homeschooling, learning pods, and microschools—are gaining popularity as public schools fold under pressure.
Oatly: The New Coke
August 8th, 2020Via: Substack: What actions has Oatly taken that would make us trust them? They’ve built an incredible marketing engine and raised 100s of millions of dollars convincing you that you should put sugar and vegetable oil into your coffee each morning, while hand-waving away evidence that they’re harming you.
YouTube Deletes The HighWire
August 7th, 2020Via: The HighWire: CORONAVIRUS: THE FRONTLINE PUSHBACK https://t.co/JQa2nTqOFY — The HighWire (@HighWireTalk) August 6, 2020
Number of Americans Who Plan to Get Coronavirus Vaccine Falls to 42%
August 6th, 2020Via: Yahoo News: Now the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll, conducted July 28 to 30, shows that just 42 percent of Americans plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19 — the smallest share to date. The outlook for universal vaccination is clouded by political considerations from both sides: skepticism about medical authority and expertise (more common among […]
New York City: COVID Checkpoints
August 5th, 2020Via: MarketWatch: New York City will set up checkpoints at bridges and tunnels into the five boroughs to help enforce a state-mandated quarantine order for people traveling from high-risk states. “We’ve got 35 states now that have dangerously high infection rates. There’s a lot to be concerned about,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said as he […]
U.S. Government And Yale Hold Trials On How Best To “Persuade” Americans To Take COVID-19 Vaccine
August 5th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: The study essentially looks at the best possible messaging that can be used on Americans, ranging from expressing vaccine benefits, to using messaging about economic impact, making someone feel guilty or embarrassed for not taking the vaccine, and so on. The study looked at around 4000 participants aged 18 years and up, all […]
How Congress Maintains Endless War
August 3rd, 2020The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election […]
“Political Operatives, Former Government and Military Officials, and Academics,” Game Scenario in Which Trump Refuses to Accept Election Loss
August 3rd, 2020It really does seem like things are going to get weird weirder. Via: Boston Globe: On the second Friday in June, a group of political operatives, former government and military officials, and academics quietly convened online for what became a disturbing exercise in the fragility of American democracy. The group, which included Democrats and Republicans, […]
