Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Harvard Medical School Facing Trial Over Massive Alzheimer’s Disease Research Fraud
May 21st, 2012Via: Alliance for Human Research Protection: The US Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit overturned a summary judgement by a lower court ordering a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Dr. Kenneth Jones against Harvard Medical School, its teaching hospitals, Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Marilyn Albert (Principal Investigator) and Dr. Ronald Killiany to […]
The Future of Sustainable Agriculture at Disney EPCOT: GMO and Styrofoam
May 21st, 2012Sponsors of “Living With The Land” at Disney EPCOT: Kraft: The Sierra Club has launched a campaign against genetically engineered foods. We’re targeting Kraft Foods, which is the largest packaged food producer in America. We’re asking Kraft to remove all genetically engineered products from their foods. This includes not using milk from rBGH-treated cows (the […]
U.S. Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
May 20th, 2012Ah well, might as well make it official. Via: Buzzfeed: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, […]
Spain’s Intelligence Services Investigating Role of British and American Media in Fomenting Financial Turmoil
May 18th, 2012Via: Guardian: It is the only economy in Western Europe still in recession: property prices are crashing, unemployment has risen to more than 4 million, and some are already muttering that it could end up with a financial crisis worse than Greece’s. But at least Spain now has someone to blame: the country’s intelligence services […]
Apple Sends Siri to Re-Education Camp Over Double Plus Ungood Statements
May 17th, 2012Via: BBC: The debate over “what is the best smartphone ever?” took an unexpected twist after Apple’s voice-activated assistant Siri appeared to favour the iPhone’s rival. Over the weekend, users of Siri were told the answer was Nokia’s Lumia 900. But Siri now responds to the same question with a jovial: “Wait… there are other […]
The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You
May 17th, 2012I’ll never be for anything that hands more money to the state, but I do like the idea of a maximum compensation ratio applying to all employees of corporations. This is an old comment of mine on the subject: One of my impossible to implement ideas would be to have a maximum total compensation ratio […]
Syrian Rebels Get Influx of Arms with Gulf Neighbors’ Money, U.S. Coordination
May 17th, 2012I’ll just cut and past my commentary from, Obama Administration Moves to Aid Syrian Opposition: In the piece below, we read that this, “Stops short of providing any direct military assistance to the armed opposition.” If you want to read detailed, voluminous accounts of how the U.S. covertly and illegally provides weapons to any state […]
Gareth Williams: Voluntary DNA Screening of MI6 Personnel to Find Killer?
May 9th, 2012Voluntary? What’s the point of making the screening voluntary? Maybe the killer will have a few too many pints and think, “I better go get my DNA screening so they can figure out it’s me.” Also, wouldn’t the SIS have DNA records of all personnel? In a DNA database crazed nuthouse like Britain, it seems […]
Pope Calls in Opus Dei Troubleshooter to Uncover Source of Vatican Leaks
April 26th, 2012Via: Guardian: Vatican staffers who have been leaking embarrassing letters about corruption and nepotism inside the tiny city state are to be hunted down by a crack squad of cardinals led by a senior member of the religious group Opus Dei. Irritated by the anonymous release of documents to the press this year, Pope Benedict […]
Misinformation Campaign Targets USA TODAY Reporter, Editor
April 21st, 2012Via: USA Today: A USA TODAY reporter and editor investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors have themselves been subjected to a propaganda campaign of sorts, waged on the Internet through a series of bogus websites. Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created in their names, along with a Wikipedia entry and dozens of message board postings […]
