Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Media Farce: ‘Reporters’ Consult with Regime Censors Before Publishing Stories
July 24th, 2012Via: New York Times: They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name. Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly […]
TEPCO Subcontractor Tried to Underreport Workers’ Radiation Exposure by Covering Dosimeters with Lead
July 23rd, 2012Via: Kyodo: An executive of a Tokyo Electric Power Co. subcontractor forced its nine workers at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to cover their radiation monitoring meters with lead-made plates, the company said Saturday.
Cops Seize Cell Phone, Impersonate Owner
July 21st, 2012Via: Ars Technica: Court says sending texts using a seized iPhone doesn’t violate privacy rights. In November 2009, police officers in the state of Washington seized an iPhone belonging to suspected drug dealer Daniel Lee. While the phone was in police custody, a man named Shawn Hinton sent a text message to the device, reading, […]
‘It Was Just Beautiful’
July 19th, 2012Via: YouTube / Atom Central: On July 19, 1957, five men stood at Ground Zero of an atomic test that was being conducted at the Nevada Test Site. This was the test of a 2KT (kiloton) MB-1 nuclear air-to-air rocket launched from an F-89 Scorpion interceptor. The nuclear missile detonated 10,000 ft above their heads. […]
CNN on the Iran Threat
July 16th, 2012Via: Salon: There’s a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it’s both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant.
Verizon Wireless Wants to ‘Edit’ Your Internet Access
July 16th, 2012Via: Cnet: What if your wireless provider gave you Internet access and search results according to what it decided was a “priority”? As a Verizon Wireless customer, I’m furious at the idea that it would “pick favorites” over what I was actually looking for — especially if it was an emergency. But that’s just what […]
FDA Email Monitoring
July 16th, 2012Via: New York Times: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials, journalists and even President Obama, previously undisclosed records […]
LIBOR Rate Fixing: ‘The Most Egregious Crime in a Generation’
July 9th, 2012Now with no 9/11! Via: Time: The 21st has been a banner century for financial and accounting scandals. Enron, the dotcom bust, the subprime-mortgage crisis and the bank bailouts have all contributed to the very low esteem in which the American public holds Corporate America in general, and high finance in particular. So it is […]
Florida: Worst TB Outbreak in 20 Years Kept Secret
July 9th, 2012Via: Palm Beach Post: The CDC officer had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst his group had investigated in 20 years. Linked to 13 deaths and 99 illnesses, including six children, it would require concerted action to stop. That report had been […]
Feds Look to Fight Leaks With ‘Fog of Disinformation’
July 4th, 2012Via: Danger Room: Pentagon-funded researchers have come up with a new plan for busting leakers: Spot them by how they search, and then entice the secret-spillers with decoy documents that will give them away. Computer scientists call it it “Fog Computing” — a play on today’s cloud computing craze. And in a recent paper for […]
