Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces
April 11th, 2011If any component of this is noteworthy, it’s the scale. The core of this is as old as the hills. Many of the TwitFace kids today haven’t even heard of the The Mighty Wurlitzer, but every crop of kids that fascists harvest are generally ignorant of who they’re actually serving, and there’s a fresh crop […]
The Budget Pie Illustrated
April 10th, 2011I didn’t post a single story about the absurd Kabuki theater, brain rot, nonsense that came to a head last week, but this cartoon sums up the whole thing very succinctly. Via: IBD:
Fed Releases Discount-Window Loan Records Under Order
March 31st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve released thousands of pages of secret loan documents under court order, almost three years after Bloomberg LP first requested details of the central bank’s unprecedented support to banks during the financial crisis. The records — 894 files in PDF form that must be individually opened and read — reveal for […]
While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It’s a War
March 24th, 2011Via: Wired: It’s one thing to say that the U.S. is right to take action against Moammar Gadhafi. It’s quite another to insist that it’s not even a war. And it’s simply dishonest to do so while escalating the war. But that’s the spin from the Obama White House. While the president travelled through Latin […]
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
Fukushima Engineer Says He Covered Up Flaw at Shut Reactor
March 23rd, 2011Via: Bloomberg: One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago. Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed […]
Secret Libya Psyops, Caught by Online Sleuths
March 21st, 2011I wonder if the U.S. has enabled the “Internet” for people on the ground there. Listen! Via: Wired: The U.S. military has dispatched one of its secret propaganda planes to the skies around Libya. And that “Commando Solo” aircraft is telling Libyan ships to remain in port – or risk NATO retaliation. We know this, […]
Commander of U.S. Military Forces in the Pacific On Prospect of Reactors Being Abandoned to Melt Down: ‘That Can’t Happen’
March 18th, 2011Reminder: Voice of America is the official propaganda outlet of the U.S. Government. Via: Voice of America: The commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific says he is sending his troops into the danger zone near the Japan’s crippled nuclear power plants as needed, and if necessary he will send more to help prevent […]
Japan’s Disastrous Nuclear Operators
March 15th, 2011Via: Greg Palast: I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations. I don’t know the law in Japan, so I can’t tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about […]
Anonymous Airs Bank of America Emails for Wikileaks
March 14th, 2011Via: Daily Tech: The emails detail what seems like suspicious actions at Balboa (and by proxy, Bank of America). The unit makes most of its money from placing mandatory insurance policies on liens, such as home mortgages, farm loans, etc. The insurance policy increases the amount the mortgage holder has to pay in escrow. It […]
