Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
GlaxoSmithKline Will Pay $3 Billion to Resolve U.S. Criminal and Civil Investigations
November 3rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) agreed to pay $3 billion to resolve U.S. criminal and civil investigations into whether the U.K. company marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters, its biggest legal settlement. Negotiations over the terms are ongoing and will be completed next year, the London-based company said in a statement today. The […]
And Now: The Rogue Websites Bill Introduced in U.S. House
October 27th, 2011The “Stop Online Piracy Act” would target foreign websites for take down. I wondered what this actually meant, from a technical perspective, so I gave the proposed legislation a very quick look. It turns out that the government wants to force U.S. Internet service providers to block access to the sites. There would be a […]
Fukushima’s Cesium-137 Fallout Double What Government Claims
October 26th, 2011Via: Slashdot: “A new study posted for open peer-review suggests that the nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi released far more radiation than the Japanese government initially estimated. The study [PDF] uses global radioisotope and meteorological data to calculate the size of the release from the plant. Nature News reports that, contrary to official claims, the […]
Obama to Leno: Libya ‘A Recipe for Success’
October 26th, 2011A recipe for success? The grinning, shill, international terrorist President of the United States talks up the regime’s atrocities on a late night comedy show, with the host, audience and millions of people out in TV land going along with it… Holy shit. To me, Obama’s “recipe for success” looks and sounds like a child […]
Big Food’s Co-Optation of Nutrition Professionals
October 25th, 2011Via: Food Safety News: For years now, I have been hearing about the food industry’s influence on the annual conference of the American Dietetic Association — the nation’s largest gathering of nutrition professionals–with some 7,000 registered dietitians in attendance. Last month, I witnessed it for myself and discovered the corporate takeover by Big Food was […]
And Now: ‘The Gates Foundation Uses Genetic Modification For Good’
October 24th, 2011Wow. Just… Wow. Breathtaking. Via: FastCompany: It’s easy to demonize genetically modified crops. After all, we don’t exactly know what their long-term health effects are, and they have the nasty habit of cross-pollinating with non-GMO crops. When new stories come out about advances in the field, many people react with anger and fear. But the […]
U.S. Troops to Leave Iraq by Year’s End, Obama Says [wink]
October 22nd, 2011I was surprised that this New York Times piece actually contained the punchline, for those who kept reading long enough: There will also be 4,000 to 5,000 private State Department security contractors, as well as a significant C.I.A. presence. In Afghanistan, about 95,000 American troops remain. *chortle* Remember the Superbase? View Larger Map Anyway, this […]
Britain: CIA Lobbies for Secret Courts
October 21st, 2011Via: Independent: Secret justice looks set to be a regular feature of British courts and tribunals when the intelligence services want to protect their sources of information. Civil courts, immigration panels and even coroner’s inquests would go into secret session if the Government rules that hearing evidence in public could be a threat to national […]
Unpaid Student Loans Top $1 Trillion
October 20th, 2011This whole student loan apocalypse is another confetti currency bubble scam. There are many parallels to the housing bubble, except, of course, that people can’t live inside those useless degrees obtained with borrowed money that can never be repaid. The availability of the loans is driving ludicrous tuition increases, just like the funny money mortgages […]
MTV Real World Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street Protestors
October 20th, 2011An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will. —Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind So, Obombya, the Goldman Sachs’ shill, and MTV are now behind this Occupy Wall Street situation. [Update: Mikhail Gorbachev: Protests leading to […]
