Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
Former Senior Analyst at Moody’s: Agency Rotten to Core with Conflicts, Corruption, and Greed
August 20th, 2011Via: Business Insider: A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public with his story of how one of the country’s most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for Moody’s for 11 years, from 1999 until his resignation last year. From 2006 to 2010, Harrington was a […]
Government Transparency on Deployment of Body Scanner Technology in Surface Transit Venues and Street-Roving Vans
August 19th, 2011Via: Electronic Privacy Information Center: New documents released by the Department of Homeland Security to EPIC indicate the the agency continues to hide details about body scanners. In November 2010, EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency regarding the deployment of body scanners in surface transit and street-roving vans. In its […]
Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
August 19th, 2011Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth:
Goldman Sachs VP Changed Name, Now a Top Congressional Staffer
August 19th, 2011Via: Think Progress: Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then later went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect […]
SEC Illegally Destroyed Files and Documents Related to Thousands of Early-Stage Investigations
August 18th, 2011You’ll love this one. Via: New York Times: An enforcement lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission says that the agency illegally destroyed files and documents related to thousands of early-stage investigations over the last 20 years, according to information released Wednesday by Congressional investigators. The destroyed files comprise records of at least 9,000 preliminary […]
