Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
Higher Education Conformity
May 3rd, 2007Via: Alternet: My theory is that employers prefer college grads because they see a college degree chiefly as mark of one’s ability to obey and conform. Whatever else you learn in college, you learn to sit still for long periods while appearing to be awake. And whatever else you do in a white collar job, […]
Wal-Mart to Open 400 In-Store “Health” Clinics
April 25th, 2007Will people show up to be diagnosed for diabetes and high blood pressure and then waddle over to the in-store eatery to dine on some tasty freedom fries, reconstituted chicken parts and 100% synthetic cheeze food? Wash it all down with a slurpee? Pick up prescriptions for ineffective and dangerous pharmaceuticals from the in-store pharmacy […]
Virginia Tech Shooting: I’ve Already Seen Enough
April 18th, 2007I thought that I should designate a single post to all of the Virginia Tech related analysis, to parse out some of the key signals from the noise. Within 30 minutes of actually sitting down to read about the incident, I had already seen enough. At first, I was looking for—and found—indications of trauma induced […]
London Police Radio Announcement Tells People to Report Anything or Anyone Suspicious to Counter Terror Hotline
April 13th, 2007I just learned of an almost unbelievable radio ad campaign that has been running in and around London. This sounds like a British version of the, Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter, or the Unofficial Collaborators, of the infamous East German Stasi. Listen for yourself (mp3 hosted on Cryptogon). And don’t miss the insightful posters if you click through […]
Pearls Before Breakfast
April 9th, 2007Most people are trained, from a very early age, to stop noticing goodness and beauty. People who don’t notice goodness and beauty don’t notice evil and lies either. The Machine doesn’t want you dead, per se, but it wants to rewire your brain so that you forget that you’re alive. It wants you undead, because […]
Children Face Criminal Checks from the Cradle
March 31st, 2007Via: Telegraph: Checks will be made on all children to identify potential criminals under an extension of the “surveillance state” announced by Tony Blair. A Downing Street review of law and order also foreshadowed greater use of sophisticated CCTV, an expanded DNA database and “instant justice” powers for police. The review is intended to chart […]
U.S. Government Has Spent More Than Half the Public’s Treasure on Past, Current and Future Military Operations
March 30th, 2007Free trade. The invisible hand of the market. Capitalism. Would you like an order of Freedom Fries with that? Via: Common Dreams: In the words of the great economist and engineer Seymour Melman, we live in a “permanent war economy.†Since the end of World War II, the federal government has spent more than half […]
47 Large Core Columns, More Than a Dozen of Which Retained Dimensions of 54 x 22 Inches Through the 66th Floor
March 29th, 2007For the most part, I stopped thinking about the demolition of the WTC towers about three years ago. I filed that one away right next to my JFK folder. While it’s not intellectually rigorous to be content with, “The usual suspects did it. I don’t know exactly how. But They did it,” I sleep well […]
The Right to Raw Milk
March 27th, 2007Excellent raw milk article. Via: Acres USA: ACRES U.S.A. Fresh or raw milk producers are having problems just about everywhere, such as in Michigan, where they pulled over a guy and destroyed his product and raided his house and took the records — and similar things have happened in state after state. I’d like to […]
Imposter Sits in On Aussie Defense Meetings
March 16th, 2007This is hilarious, but it’s also a good lesson in social engineering. Via: Yahoo / Reuters: A truck driver who was once jailed for armed robbery posed as an army officer, mixed with the top brass and talked his way into high-level security meetings, an Australian court has been told. Peter Bennett, 54, started his […]
