Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Neocon Ghoul Announces Plan Underway to Ensure Hillary Clinton Becomes President
May 30th, 2016Wealthy Republicans Planning to Run Third Party Candidate to Stop Trump: Some other flunky Republican-as-3rd-Party candidate would simply take votes from Trump, making it more likely that Clinton would win. These guys don’t think that their candidate will have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning. In other words, these Republicans would rather have Clinton […]
Special Operations Troops Assaulted Downtown Tampa … All to Thunderous Applause
May 26th, 2016Via: Washington Post: On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city. The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a […]
Cardiologist on Dietary Guidelines Promoting Low-Fat Foods: ‘Perhaps the Biggest Mistake in Modern Medical History, Resulting in Devastating Consequences for Public Health’
May 24th, 2016And billions of dollars in profits for the ghouls behind the scam. Via: Guardian: Prof David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said: “As a clinician, treating patients all day every day, I quickly realised that guidelines from on high, suggesting high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets were the universal panacea, were deeply flawed. “Current efforts have […]
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds – from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist
May 20th, 2016Via: Medium: Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely defend our right to make “free” choices, while we ignore how we’re manipulated upstream by limited menus we didn’t choose. This is exactly what magicians do. They give people the illusion of free choice while architecting the menu […]
UK Developing Digital Driving Licence
May 16th, 2016Via: BBC: The UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency is working on a smartphone version of its driving licence. Chief executive Oliver Morley tweeted a photo showing a “prototype” using Apple’s Wallet app on an iPhone. He says it will be an “add-on” to the plastic card rather than a replacement. Research Credit: Jb
Parents’ Smartphones Harming Children’s Ability to Hold Conversation, Say Teachers
May 9th, 2016I know! Sit them in front of screens in school as well! Increased Use of Computers in Classrooms: “More Likely to be Associated with Lower Results” Oh. Via: Telegraph: Parents’ immersion in smartphones has left some neglected children starting primary school unable to hold conversations, new research warns. Almost a third of children starting school […]
Professor Suspected of Being a Terrorist Because of a Math Equation
May 8th, 2016Via: USA Today: A math equation landed an Ivy League professor on an American Airlines flight in questioning Thursday under suspicion of being a terrorist. Guido Menzio, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, was working on a differential equation while waiting for the Syracuse-bound plane to take off from Philadelphia, the Washington Post reported. […]
Foreign ‘Dirty Bomb’ Responders Will Start Training in Nevada
April 25th, 2016Via: Las Vegas Review Journal: In today’s world it could be called the University for Dirty Bomb Studies. Founded in 1998, it was a niche at what was then the Nevada Test Site for emergency responders to learn how to deal with disasters caused by weapons of mass destruction. Since then, about 180,000 firefighters, police […]
Cisco’s Latest Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses: Export Rules
April 19th, 2016Via: EFF: Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its marketing pitch to China and in an effort to […]
Children of Sydney’s Business and Political Elite Attend School That Bans Screens in Classrooms
April 18th, 2016Via: The Australian: A top Australian school has banned laptops in class, warning that technology “distracts’’ from old-school quality teaching. The headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, John Vallance, yesterday described the billions of dollars spent on computers in Australian schools over the past seven years as a “scandalous waste of money’’. “I’ve seen so many […]
