Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
‘So, who does gain from the drugs trade?’
October 3rd, 2012The private prison scam is a key component of this as well. Via: Al Jazeera: Clearly a small number of criminals make significant sums from the trade. But most people are working for little more than subsistence wages, from the peasants growing coca plants in the Andes or opium poppies in Afghanistan to the dealers […]
The One About the Unemployment Rate Dropping in Los Angeles
September 28th, 2012Via: CNN: The unemployment rate has been falling lately in Los Angeles County, but not for the right reasons. Last month, the jobless rate for the county fell to 11%, down from 12.4% a year earlier. While that’s far higher than the 8.1% unemployment rate for the nation as a whole, it nevertheless seems to […]
Israel Lobbyist Suggests False Flag Operation to Get U.S. Into War with Iran
September 26th, 2012Via: The Passionate Attachment: Last Friday, during question time at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout,” the director of research at the pro-Israel think tank hinted that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get the United States […]
Ghost Warehouse Stocks Haunt China’s Steel Sector
September 20th, 2012This one about the steel will seem very familiar to anyone who has looked into various “gold” ETF and storage schemes offered by large banks around the world. Via: Reuters: Chinese banks and companies looking to seize steel pledged as collateral by firms that have defaulted on loans are making an uncomfortable discovery: the metal […]
Beijing Hints at Bond Attack on Japan
September 19th, 2012My guess is that this is, at present, little more than bloviation. But tomorrow, or next week… Who knows… Via: Telegraph: Jin Baisong from the Chinese Academy of International Trade – a branch of the commerce ministry – said China should use its power as Japan’s biggest creditor with $230bn (£141bn) of bonds to “impose […]
Boy Scouts Helped Alleged Molesters Cover Tracks for Decades
September 17th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: Over two decades, the Boy Scouts of America failed to report hundreds of alleged child molesters to police and often hid the allegations from parents and the public. A Los Angeles Times review of 1,600 confidential files dating from 1970 to 1991 has found that Scouting officials frequently urged admitted offenders […]
Moody’s Says U.S. Faces Loss of Aaa Without Budget Deal in 2013
September 11th, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Moody’s Investors Service said it may join Standard & Poor’s in downgrading the U.S.’s credit rating unless Congress reduces the percentage of debt-to-gross- domestic product during budget negotiations next year.
U.S. Jobless Rate Drops for the Worst of All Reasons
September 10th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, but that was only because 368,000 people left the labor force. The share of working-age people who are either working or looking for work—known as the labor-force participation rate—fell to its lowest level since September 1981. Related: Real Unemployment Rate: 20+%
Open Thread: The One About Organic Food vs. Conventionally Produced Food
September 8th, 2012I saw the headline come up in a few places in my feed reader, but I didn’t bother to click through. I’m sure you know the one I’m talking about. Readers are submitting it now. Feel free to discuss, agree or disagree with it, but this one is like debates about Republicans and Democrats to […]
Gates Foundation Funds ‘Anti-Vaccine Surveillance and Alert System’ and ‘On-Demand Vaccine Delivery via Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’
August 29th, 2012Via: TechNet21: An anti-vaccine surveillance and alert system Seth Kalichman of the http://www.uconn.edu/ in the USA will establish an Internet-based global monitoring and rapid alert system for finding, analysing, and counteracting communication campaigns containing misinformation regarding vaccines to support global immunization efforts. … On-demand vaccine delivery via low-cost unmanned aerial vehicles George Barbastathis of the […]
