Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Meat Glue
May 9th, 2011Via: Yahoo Shine: It has recently come to my attention that a substance called transglutaminase (i.e. meat glue) has been used in the food industry for many years in order to trick us into thinking the food we eat is of a better quality. … Meat glue is banned in the EU, but in the […]
And Now… Bin Laden Is Dead
May 2nd, 2011No, Really: Bin Laden Buried at Sea Via: AP: A U.S. official says Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea. After bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan, senior administration officials said the body would be handled according to Islamic practice and tradition. That practice calls for the body […]
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship at United Nations
April 29th, 2011Via: Comics Alliance: The key scene takes place in “The Incident,” a short story in Action Comics #900 written by David S. Goyer with art by Miguel Sepulveda. In it, Superman consults with the President’s national security advisor, who is incensed that Superman appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian […]
USDA Moves to Let Monsanto Perform Its Own Environmental Impact Studies on GMOs
April 24th, 2011Via: Grist: In early April, the USDA made what I’m reading as a second response to Judge White, this one even more craven. To satisfy the legal system’s pesky demand for environmental impact studies of novel GMO crops, the USDA has settled upon a brilliant solution: let the GMO industry conduct its own environmental impact […]
U.S. Government Printing Office Needs 350,934 National Detainee Handbooks Printed by 29 April 2011
April 19th, 2011Update: U.S. Government Printing Office Deletes Solicitation Page and “Jacket Number” Specification Document I thought that might happen, but not after just a few minutes. So: Here’s a screenshot of www.gpo.gov/gpo/bidopps/bidopps.action?region=chicago before it was taken down: It’s also still visible in Google cache as of this writing. And here’s a Cryptogon mirror of the Jacket […]
U.S. Secretly Backed Syrian Opposition
April 18th, 2011Via: Reuters: The State Department has secretly funded Syrian opposition groups, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, The Washington Post reported on Monday. The cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million since 2006 to a group of Syrian exiles to operate a London-based satellite channel, Barada TV, and […]
How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic
April 14th, 2011Here’s commentary from, U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators: …When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. For example, when you type in cnn.com or google.com, what you see may be quite different from what the rest of the world sees. The military could […]
Arnie Gundersen: “This is about a thousand times worse than ever anticipated by the nuclear planners.”
April 14th, 2011Fukushima Accident Severity Level Raised to ‘7’: Gundersen Discusses Lack of US Radiation Monitoring Data from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Egypt: Blogger Gets 3 Years for Criticising Military
April 11th, 2011The U.S. is the master of meet the new boss, same as the old boss, so watch as “democracy” goes on to be basically Mubarak by other means. —Egypt Protests: America’s Secret Backing for Rebel Leaders Behind Uprising? It’s the new, NEW freedom. Via: AFP: A military court has jailed a blogger for three years […]
The Hidden Job Crisis for American Men
April 11th, 2011Recovery. Via: Business Week: The March jobs report released on Apr. 1 seemed like the best in years. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis released a statement noting that the four-month drop in the jobless rate, to 8.8 percent from 9.8 percent, was “its largest decline since 1984.” Behind the headlines, though, statistics on jobs are […]
