Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By Horde of Fake Accounts
June 21st, 2012Have you ever wondered how Reddit’s shit-for-brains Hive Mind formed? Read on. Via: Slashdot: “How, exactly, did Reddit get so big? Well, according to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it ’til they made it.’ In a video for Udacity, Huffman describes how the first Redditors populated the […]
U.S. Bolsters Ties to Fighters in Syria
June 14th, 2012In other news: Syria: Clinton Admits U.S. On Same Side As Al Qaeda To Destabilize Assad Government. Via: Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence operatives and diplomats have stepped up their contacts with Syrian rebels in part to help organize their burgeoning military operations against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, according to senior U.S. officials. As part […]
‘Visit America: It’s Easier Than You Think’
June 14th, 2012The spoofs of this will be brutal. Via: U.S. State Department:
Mexico’s Largest Television Network Sold Favorable Election Coverage to Top Politicians
June 13th, 2012Via: Narco News Bulletin: The US Embassy in Mexico City in 2009 issued a series of cables indicating that Mexican political candidates, “are paying networks to provide them with television coverage” and that leading presidential contender Enrique Peña Nieto, in particular, “is paying media outlets under the table for favorable news coverage.” The documents were […]
Russia Is Sending Syria Attack Helicopters
June 12th, 2012Here it is, in black and white: The Real Reason to Intervene in Syria: Cutting Iran’s link to the Mediterranean Sea is a strategic prize worth the risk. We’re not done with the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iran. Given that the current round of negotiations with the world’s major powers will not fundamentally […]
Australia: Blaming Price Increases on Carbon Tax Could Result in Million Dollar Fine for Businesses
June 4th, 2012Via: The Telegraph: SHOPS and restaurants could face fines up to $1.1 million if waiters or sales staff wrongly blame the carbon tax for price rises or exaggerate the impact. … ACCC deputy chairman Dr Michael Schaper told the Herald Sun companies were entitled to increase their prices and did not have to justify or […]
50,000 Pages of JFK Assassination–Related Documents Still Classified
June 1st, 2012Via: Salon: Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. And the Obama Administration thinks we need to keep secret the records on the matter … a little longer yet. Believe it or not, more than 50,000 pages of JFK assassination–related documents are being withheld in full. And an untold number of […]
Military to Avoid Embarrassing Pictures by Banning Photography
May 30th, 2012Via: Anti War: It sounds like the punchline of a bad joke, but after years of dealing with photographs of troops torturing prisoners, desecrating corpses and generally behaving badly, commanders in southwestern Afghanistan have announced that they are going to solve the problem by banning photography. The command, which covers some 36,000 troops including 15,800 […]
To Avoid Counting Civilian Deaths, Obama Re-Defined “Militant” to Mean “All Military-Age Males in a Strike Zone”
May 30th, 2012Via: Salon: Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were ”militants” – even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed. They simply cite always-unnamed “officials” claiming […]
Tepco Admits Fukushima Disaster Released 2.5 Times More Radiation Than Indicated by Initial Government Lies
May 29th, 2012Imagine my shock. But if they’re admitting this, what is the real number? Via: Reuters: The radiation released in the first days of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was almost 2-1/2 times the amount first estimated by Japanese safety regulators, the operator of the crippled plant said in a report released on Thursday. Tokyo Electric Power […]
