Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
“Putin Puts Out Two Wildfires in Central Russia”
August 10th, 2010This is hilarious, Soviet style propaganda. Better than the tiger incident, in my opinion. Click through to see the photo of ole’ Vlad himself at the controls. HAHAHA. Via: Ria Novosti: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took part in extinguishing forest fires in Ryazan Province on board an amphibious firefighting airplane. The Russian […]
Essays on Conspiracies by Julian Assange
August 1st, 2010There’s very little here; a vague framework for reducing “conspiratorial power” based on connected graphs. This seems like an introduction to a longer essay. Via: Cryptome: CRYPTOME 31 July 2010 These essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange (me@iq.org) were retrieved today from his website iq.org. The first from the currently active site, dated Novermber 10, […]
The WikiLeaks “Insurance” File
July 31st, 2010From now on, I’m going to include a standard WikiLeaks disclaimer in the form of a link to a previous post. — Is WikiLeaks hanging a Sword of Damocles over elements of the U.S. Government? Via: Cryptome: The file, “insurance.aes256,” is ten times the size of the seven other files combined. Appears to be encrypted […]
White House Proposal Would Ease FBI Access to Records of Internet Activity
July 30th, 2010FBI can’t just ask NSA for it, or pull the information out of MAIN CORE because the domestic intercept programs don’t officially exist. An appearance needs to be maintained that the intelligence community doesn’t already have this data. What you’re about to read below is an example of how America does Kabuki theater. Via: Washington […]
WikiLeaks Founder, “Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11”
July 26th, 2010People often ask me if I think this source is disinfo or if that source is disinfo… My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO. You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot. I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to […]
WikiLeaks: Afghanistan War Logs; Massive Leak, Over 90,000 Files
July 26th, 2010More Interesting Reading: TF 373 and OGA TF 373 refers to Task Force 373, which is a U.S. death squad. OGA is Other Government Agency. According to Salon, “In military lingo, OGA stands for ‘other government agency’ and denotes clandestine operations conducted independent of the military chain of command.” —End Update— Update: Searching for Heroin […]
Netanyahu Admits on Video He Deceived U.S. to Destroy Oslo Accord
July 24th, 2010Via: The National: The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama. The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started reinvading the main cities of […]
European Banks “Stress Test” Nonsense
July 23rd, 2010Seven of 91 banks failed (breaking on CNBC), but note the part in bold below. Via: Bloomberg: The 91 banks undergoing stress tests were examined on European sovereign debt losses only for the bonds they trade, rather than those they hold to maturity, which may make the tests easier to pass. Portfolios of sovereign five-year […]
BP Photoshopping Images
July 22nd, 2010“If you’re not monitoring it independently, you’re asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene.” —James Cameron on BP Oil Spill With the initial batch of Photoshopped images, I thought, “BP lies. Thanks, Captain Obvious.” This new one, though, is hilarious. Via: Gizmodo: This week it came to light that BP […]
Joint Special Operations University: Blogs and Military Information Strategy
July 21st, 2010Via: U.S. Special Operations Command / Hosted at Cryptome (PDF): In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of […]
