Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
U.S. Helicopters Over Bay Area Scanning for Radiation
August 29th, 2012You know, “Natural radiation levels,” *wink* Via: Contra Costa Times: Helicopters will be flying low over San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Pacifica through Saturday to record natural radiation levels, federal authorities said Monday. The flyovers are part of research by two federal security agencies to set baselines for radioactivity in the event of a nuclear […]
U.S. Slips to 47th in Press Freedom Index
August 22nd, 2012Via: Reporters Without Borders: The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.
Facebook Now Actually Deleting Photos After Users Delete Them?
August 17th, 2012Breaking URLs is not “confirmation” that Facebook is deleting the data. It’s confirmation that the data isn’t accessible from the Internet. This says zippo about what they’re actually doing with the data. I suppose it’s possible that Facebook is deleting the data, but claiming that the data was deleted because it’s not accessible is a […]
California: The Companies Trying to Stop Mandatory Labeling of Products Containing GM Ingredients
August 16th, 2012For a complete list, see the link. Via: California Secretary of State: MONSANTO COMPANY $4,208,000.00 E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO. $4,025,200.00 PEPSICO, INC. $1,716,300.00 BASF PLANT SCIENCE $1,642,300.00 BAYER CROPSCIENCE $1,618,400.00 DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC $1,184,800.00 NESTLE USA, INC. $1,169,400.00 COCA-COLA NORTH AMERICA $1,164,400.00 CONAGRA FOODS $1,076,700.00
America’s Secret Drone War in Africa
August 13th, 2012Via: Wired: More secret bases. More and better unmanned warplanes. More frequent and deadly robotic attacks. Some five years after a U.S. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle flew the type’s first mission over lawless Somalia, the shadowy American-led drone campaign in the Horn of Africa is targeting Islamic militants more ruthlessly than ever. Thanks to media […]
White House Pulls Down TSA Petition
August 12th, 2012Via: EPIC: At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House “We the People” website. About 22,500 of the 25,000 signatures necessary for a response from the Administration were obtained when the White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition. […]
Huawei: The Company that Spooked the World
August 6th, 2012Via: The Economist: BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set up there by Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, […]
The Unemployment Rate Is a Farce
August 2nd, 2012Via: Breakout: It is widely regarded as the most important barometer of them all, and fittingly, the monthly jobs report gets more attention and more coverage than almost all other economic data combined. Unfortunately, it is also broken. That’s right. For all its stature, the payroll report (which will be released Friday) has a major […]
Company Finds Facebook Advertising Results in Clickthroughs That Are 80% Bots
July 31st, 2012This is some incredibly timely news for me. I just started running an ad campaign on Facebook for my wife’s business two days ago. Just a tiny test, $5 budget per day. I looked at the Google Analytics data for the site to reconcile what Facebook was charging me vs. what was showing up on […]
The Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies
July 27th, 2012Via: Cryptome: 1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of an internet forum 2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation 3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist 4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent) 5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression Research Credit: HPLovecraft666
