Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Fat Finger: ‘Data-Entry Error’ Led Military to Falsely Claim Taliban Attacks Are Down
March 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: The U.S. military proudly touted a 7 percent drop in Taliban violence in 2012 as a measure of progress in America’s longest war. Only one problem: The drop never happened. Its explanation: a data-entry error. The Associated Press’ Robert Burns discovered the mistake, which undercut a January claim by the International Security Assistance […]
Dairy Industry Wants to Add Artificial Sweeteners to Milk Without Disclosing This on Labels
March 1st, 2013Via: Yahoo Health / Healthline: Got diet milk? In a highly controversial move, the dairy industry wants to market artificially sweetened milk—without any special label to alert consumers. In a petition filed with the FDA, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) seek to change the definition of “milk” […]
Manning Admits Providing Classified Data to WikiLeaks
March 1st, 2013Via: Wired: Wearing his Army dress uniform, a composed, intense and articulate Pfc. Bradley Manning took “full responsibility” Thursday for providing the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks with a trove of classified and sensitive military, diplomatic and intelligence cables, videos and documents. In the lengthiest statement to a military tribunal Manning has provided since his nearly three-year […]
Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
February 28th, 2013It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that this amounts to a “nothing-to-see-here” assessment of what is happening. Consider what William Binney and Mark Klein have said and written, and what NSA is building, and then tell me if you believe that only three dozen people have access to the domestic intercepts. Come on. […]
Widespread Seafood Fraud
February 25th, 2013Via: Oceana: From 2010 to 2012, Oceana conducted one of the largest seafood fraud investigations in the world to date, collecting more than 1,200 seafood samples from 674 retail outlets in 21 states to determine if they were honestly labeled. DNA testing found that one-third (33 percent) of the 1,215 samples analyzed nationwide were mislabeled, […]
Bank ‘Profits’
February 22nd, 2013Via: Bloomberg: So what if we told you that, by our calculations, the largest U.S. banks aren’t really profitable at all? What if the billions of dollars they allegedly earn for their shareholders were almost entirely a gift from U.S. taxpayers? Granted, it’s a hard concept to swallow. It’s also crucial to understanding why the […]
McGraw-Hill, S&P Sued by U.S. Over Mortgage-Bond Ratings
February 5th, 2013*yawn* Via: Bloomberg: McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP) and its Standard & Poor’s unit were sued by the U.S. over claims S&P knowingly understated the credit risks of instruments that were central to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles, accusing McGraw-Hill […]
States Considering Laws That Would Make it an Act of Terrorism to Report on Abuses at Factory Farms
February 4th, 2013Via: Global Possibilities: How do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms? By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs and dairy products. And who better to write […]
Hackers in China Attacked The New York Times for Last 4 Months
January 31st, 2013Via: New York Times: For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. After surreptitiously tracking the intruders to study their movements and help erect better defenses to block them, The Times and computer security experts have […]
What to Do with Thousands of Tons of Radioactive Scrap Metal? Recycle It Into Consumer Goods
January 31st, 2013Via: Wall Street Journal: The Department of Energy is proposing to allow the sale of tons of scrap metal from government nuclear sites—an attempt to reduce waste that critics say could lead to radiation-tainted belt buckles, surgical implants and other consumer products. The department, in a document released last month, said the recycling proposal is […]
