Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
Google Bends Over for China
July 21st, 2010Imagine my shock. Via: Washington Post: China renewed Google’s Internet license after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site, an official said Tuesday. It was Beijing’s first public comment on its decision to allow Google to continue operating a China website following a public […]
Gordon Brown on Saddam Hussein: “This New World Order That We Were Trying to Create Was Being Put at Risk”
July 21st, 2010NSA Falsified Intercepted Communications in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
July 16th, 2010Via: New York Times: In an echo of the debates over the discredited intelligence that helped make the case for the war in Iraq, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday released more than 1,100 pages of previously classified Vietnam-era transcripts that show senators of the time sharply questioning whether they had been deceived by […]
SmithKline Hid Test Data on Dangerous Diabetes Drug
July 14th, 2010Via: New York Times: In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda. Avandia’s success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. […]
Bradley Manning Charge Sheet
July 8th, 2010Bradley Manning charge sheet – PDF Bradley Manning charge sheet – HTML Via: bradleymanning.org: CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 92 SPECIFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station […]
