Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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
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, […]
