Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Japan to Remove Some Restrictions on Fukushima Evacuation Zone
October 4th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Japan’s government may lift restrictions this week on some areas outside the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear where residents had been told to prepare for evacuation. The so-called Emergency Evacuation Preparation Zone was set up in April for areas 10 kilometers beyond the 20 kilometer (12.6 mile) no-go zone. The area […]
Japan: Kan Considered Evacuation of Tokyo in Wake Nuclear Disaster, but Feared Chaos and Collapse of the State
September 30th, 2011Via: ABC: Japan’s former prime minister Naoto Kan has revealed he contemplated evacuating as many as 30 million people from Tokyo and surrounding areas during the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Speaking to Japan’s Kyodo News, Mr Kan, who was prime minister during the nuclear crisis, said evacuations on such a scale may have led to Japan […]
The Trader on BBC
September 28th, 2011I’m a bit baffled by the level of interest in this one. I watched this and thought, *meh*, “Maybe he has been reading Cryptogonzerohedgeautomaticeartheconomiccollapseblogetcetc” HAHA. I also wondered if he was trying to shill the thing down so he could go long… Because, for as many times as this was submitted, nobody mentioned what happened […]
The Federal Reserve Plans to Identify “Key Bloggers” and Monitor Billions of Conversations About the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, Forums and Blogs
September 26th, 2011Is there are Federal Reserve link for this document? Here’s the document that ZeroHedge has produced: Sentiment Analysis And Social Media MonitoringSolution RFP Request for Proposal (Event-6994) Event Information Description: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) is extending to suppliers an invitation to participate in an Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP […]
Fox News Deletes ‘Who Won the Debate?’ Poll Page After Ron Paul Wins
September 25th, 2011Update: You Can Actually Embed the Poll On Your Own Site—If You Want HAHAHA. Fox News. What a bunch of idiots. Code Someone will eventually sober up and take it down, but for now, it works. —End Update— Hilariously, the poll, originally located here, is still accessible via Google cache. It’s actually a polldaddy.com poll, […]
Google Shuts Down ActivistPost.com
September 24th, 2011Via: Before It’s News: At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hosted by Google’s Blogger since its founding in June 2010. “We remain puzzled as to why Activist Post was erased completely by Google,” […]
Japanese Government to Invite Foreigners Who Have Large Facebook and Twitter Networks to Tohoku So That They Can Tell Their Followers “Japan Is Safe”
September 19th, 2011Do they get to bring their own dosimeters? Via: EX-SKF: Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have started to make preparations for inviting people from overseas who disseminate information via the social media such as Facebook and Twitter, as part of the countermeasures against “baseless rumors” that have damaged sales of Japanese agricultural products and tourism […]
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 […]
