Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’
January 20th, 2012Another one for your bulging For-Fuck’s-Sake-Roll-Eyes file folder. Via: Wired: Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of […]
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory
January 16th, 2012Update: Apple’s Chinese iPhone Plants Employ Forced Interns, Claim Campaigners Via: Guardian: Apple’s factories in China are employing tens of thousands of students, some of them on forced internships, according to campaigners lobbying for better labour conditions at Foxconn plants, which assemble iPhones. Some students could be as young as 16. The Foxconn chairman, Terry […]
George Lucas: Hollywood Wouldn’t Back Film About Tuskegee Airmen Due to All Black Cast
January 12th, 2012Via: Washington Post: In a series of interviews in recent days Lucas has said he himself had to bankroll “Red Tails,” a movie 23 years in the making about the Tuskegee Airmen opening Jan. 20. Lucas invested $93 million of his own money for the making and distribution of the film, according to “Speakeasy,” a […]
U.S. Army Routinely Monitors Social Media and Prepares Sentiment Briefs for Public Affairs Personnel
January 11th, 2012Via: Politico: News coverage of Pfc. Bradley Manning’s legal hearing last month on charges of being a key source for WikiLeaks was generally ‘negative’ but ‘balanced and factual,’ according to daily summaries of the proceedings prepared by Army public affairs personnel. The Army flacks also took a keen interest in news coverage of former Lt. […]
Arnold Gundersen: Fukushima Update
January 9th, 2012This is Dr. Helen Caldicott interviewing Arnold Gundersen. The audio is from Fairwinds Associates on December 26, 2011. Hint: This is very grim. Related: Dr. Helen Caldicott
U.S. to Send Troops to Israel
January 5th, 2012Watch that CNN clip with the soldier talking about voting for Ron Paul before you read the story below: Via: Global Research: In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to […]
CNN Pulls the Plug on Live Feed of Soldier Talking About Voting for Ron Paul
January 4th, 2012Update: Soldier in Trouble for Praising Ron Paul on National TV Noguru sent this in. Via: ABC: Rep. Ron Paul likes to silence the GOP rivals who criticize his foreign policy as “dangerous” by reminding them that he receives more financial support from military personal than all the other candidates combined. But the Army is […]
Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor
January 3rd, 2012Via: Library of Congress: As stated in an explanatory note published together with the Law, this act was issued to implement the Decree of the Belarusian President of February 1, 2010, on Improvements to the Usage of the National Segment of the Internet. The newly published Law imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites […]
Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy — Martin Lindstrom
December 20th, 2011This looks like a good one. (As I link to it using my Amazon affiliate code. *chuckle*) Via: Amazon: From the bestselling author of Buyology comes a shocking insider’s look at how today’s global giants conspire to obscure the truth and manipulate our minds, all in service of persuading us to buy.
Sprint Orders All OEMs to Strip Carrier IQ from Their Hardware
December 17th, 2011Via: geek.com: In an attempt to distance themselves from the increasingly volatile Carrier IQ situation, we’ve been told that Sprint has ordered that all of their hardware partners remove the Carrier IQ software from Sprint devices as soon as possible. … Sources at HTC have told us that, as a result of the lawsuits targeting […]
