Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Europe’s Debt Crisis Prompts Central Banks to Provide Dollar Liquidity
September 16th, 2011Via: Guardian: Fears of a deepening of Europe’s debt crisis have prompted the world’s leading central banks to pump US dollars into the financial system, in a co-ordinated action designed to boost market confidence. The Bank of England joined the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank and the Bank of […]
Utility Paid $200K for Positive Web Stories on Fake News Site
September 14th, 2011Via: CBS News: A Southern California water utility paid nearly $200,000 in taxpayer dollars for glowing coverage from a website that boosted its profile on Google, according to a newspaper report. The Los Angeles Times reports that officials from the Central Basin Municipal Water District used public funds to have a consultant produce promotional stories […]
Vladimir Putin, Action Man
September 13th, 2011YES!!! The best EVER Putin propaganda photo gallery. No really. The. Best. Via: The Atlantic: Vladimir Putin, the 58-year-old former president and current prime minister of Russia, has cultivated a distinct public image over the past several years. The politician has piloted firefighting planes, darted whales, driven race cars, and even taken a submersible 1,400 […]
And Now… A 50-Year Bond?
September 8th, 2011Check Kiting: Check kiting is the illegal act of taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account; it is a form of check fraud. It is commonly defined as intentionally writing a check for a value greater than the account balance from an account in […]
Minister Claims Japan Will Phase Out Nuclear Power Plants
September 6th, 2011Via: Kyodo: Industry minister Yoshio Hachiro said Tuesday that the number of Japan’s nuclear power plants would be ”zero” in the future, based on Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s policy of not building new nuclear power plants and decommissioning aged ones. ”Considering the premier’s remarks at press conferences, it would be zero,” Hachiro told reporters in […]
China: Disappearing Dissidents
September 3rd, 2011Via: New York Times: Last Jan. 27, an Inner Mongolian rights activist, Govruud Huuchinhuu, suddenly vanished after leaving a hospital where she had undergone treatment for cancer. On Feb. 16, the Beijing human-rights lawyer Tang Jitian vanished after being forcibly taken away by police officers. On May 30, an ethnic Uighur, Ershidin Israel, vanished after […]
FEMA and Your ‘Federal Family’
September 1st, 2011Via: Palm Beach Post: Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly used the phrase “federal family” when describing the Obama administration’s response to the storm. The […]
Nicky Hager: Other People’s Wars
September 1st, 2011“This is…by far the largest leak of military and intelligence documents in the history of New Zealand.” —Nicky Hager (Audio from press conference linked below) Via: Scoop: Nicky Hager’s new book Other People’s Wars: New Zealand in Afghanistan, Iraq and the war on terror was released today at 9am by Craig Potton Publishing. A press […]
Google Explores +1 Button to Influence Search Results
August 30th, 2011I’ll re-post my commentary on this from 2008: Google Planning to Enable Mob Rule Ratings for Search Results. Fill it to the rim, with grim: Get Ready for New and Improved Google Results: Now Powered by the Zombie Consumer Death Cult! I have to make jokes because this is very, very grim. If you want […]
Wikileaks Suffers a Major Leak
August 30th, 2011Via: Inquirer: WHISTLEBLOWING WEB SITE Wikileaks has suffered a major setback with a leak of fully unredacted US State Department cables including sources’ details surfacing online, thanks to a blunder by its founder, Julian Assange. The leak occurred sometime after Assange shared the password of an encrypted ‘insurance’ file stored online with a contact believed […]
