Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
Longtime CIA Case Officer and Chief Propagandist in Hollywood Claims JFK Was Shot from the Front, and ‘That There Was a Craft from Beyond This World that Crashed at Roswell’
June 27th, 2012In this Coast to Coast interview, longtime CIA employee, Chase Brandon, establishes limited hangouts for conspiracies related to the JFK assassination and the Roswell incident. In case you don’t know what a limited hangout is, this definition is from Wikipedia: A limited hangout, or partial hangout, is a public relations or propaganda technique that involves […]
Pilger on ‘Insidious Propaganda’
June 27th, 2012Via: John Pilger: Arriving in a village in southern Vietnam, I caught sight of two children who bore witness to the longest war of the 20th century. Their terrible deformities were familiar. All along the Mekong river, where the forests were petrified and silent, small human mutations lived as best they could. Today, at the […]
China Downplays Risk to Children from Lead Poisoning
June 27th, 2012Via: Reuters: Chinese children suffering lead poisoning from polluting smelters and factories have been denied testing, effective treatment and even basic information by officials who downplayed health threats, a human rights advocacy group said on Wednesday. The report from Human Rights Watch comes after China’s latest lead pollution outbreak, when 103 children and scores of […]
Wikipedia Is An Editorial Warzone
June 24th, 2012Via: MSNBC: The Internet is a wonderland for sociologists, and one of the richest areas of study is Wikipedia, with its years of open collaboration and communication archived for posterity. But with collaboration comes conflict, and the “edit wars” that embroil hot Wikipedia topics are dissected in detail in a new paper by researchers in […]
Proposed HTTP Status Code for Censored Websites: 451
June 22nd, 2012Via: Guardian: Ray Bradbury’s fiction looks set to enter the structure of the internet, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451. Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is […]
