Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Upcoming WikiLeaks Release Could Damage International Relations Between U.S. and Allies
November 25th, 2010Via: CBC: The U.S. government has notified Ottawa that the WikiLeaks website is preparing to release sensitive U.S. diplomatic files that could damage U.S. relations with allies around the world. U.S. officials say the documents may contain accounts of compromising conversations with political dissidents and friendly politicians and could result in the expulsion of U.S. […]
Evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent
November 25th, 2010Via: TruthOut: Since 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – with the support of the United States, Israel and European allies UK, France and Germany – has been demanding that Iran explain a set of purported internal documents portraying a covert Iranian military program of research and development of nuclear weapons. The “laptop documents,” […]
Insider Trading: Criminal Charges, Fines Against Large Number of Wall Street Executives and Investors
November 22nd, 2010Upstarts get busted in an attempt to maintain appearances while public menaces Goldman Sachs and AIG are allowed to slip from the headlines. Via: Los Angeles Times: Federal investigators in New York are wrapping up an extensive investigation into allegations of insider trading and other stock-trading irregularities that could bring criminal charges or monetary fines […]
U.S. Scientists Significantly More Likely to Publish Fake Research
November 19th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Fraudsters are also more likely to be “repeat offenders,” the study shows. The study author searched the PubMed database for every scientific research […]
Texas Officials Covered Up Dangerously Radioactive Tap Water for Years
November 15th, 2010Via: Raw Story: Texas officials charged with protecting the environment and public health have for years made arbitrary subtractions to the measured levels of radiation delivered by water utilities across the state, according to a series of investigative reports out of Houston. Those subtractions, based on the test results’ margin of error, made all the […]
McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Health Policy
November 14th, 2010Via: Guardian: The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald’s and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned. In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign […]
Multiple Independent Lab Tests Confirm Oil in Gulf Shrimp
November 10th, 2010Via: Raw Story: The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America’s history. However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water […]
Mystery Missile Launch Seen Off California Coast
November 9th, 2010Update: Thomas G. McInerney, Retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General: “That is a missile, it’s launched from a submarine… I am absolutely certain that that is not an aircraft.” The venue was Fox News, but I happen to agree with Thomas McInerney’s assessment. I’ve transcribed the salient points of what he said. My ears […]
A Tale of Two Ghettoes
November 3rd, 2010Via: National Post: Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves? A week ago, in the National Post, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) accused Adbusters of anti-Semitism for publishing side-by-side photographs of the Gaza and Warsaw ghettos ( “Anti-Semitism on your magazine rack — courtesy of Adbusters,” Oct. […]
U.S. Falls in Annual Corruption Survey
October 26th, 2010Via: New York Times: Perceptions of corruption in the United States have worsened over the past year, knocking it out of the top 20 in global rankings released Tuesday by the watchdog group Transparency International in Berlin. The top and bottom three countries on the list remain unchanged from 2009: Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore […]
