Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
Coast Guard Bans Reporters from Oil Cleanup Sites
July 6th, 2010Flashback: U.S. COAST GUARD THREATENED CBS NEWS CREW WITH ARREST FOR FILMING OIL SPILL DISASTER; COAST GUARD SAID THAT THEY WERE ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF BRITISH PETROLEUM; “THIS IS BP RULES. IT’S NOT OURS.” Via: Raw Story: Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 […]
Why Morning People Rule the World
July 6th, 2010Via: London Evening Standard: We are all morning or evening people. Scientists have established that our genes dictate around half of what they call our “chronotypes” — our natural preference for certain times of the day. Evolution has produced a range of humans capable of being alert to danger at every hour of the day. […]
TSA to Block Websites that Contain Controversial Opinions
July 4th, 2010Via: CBS: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency’s computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a “controversial opinion,” according to an internal email obtained by CBS News. The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday […]
Blair to Receive U.S. Peace Medal
July 1st, 2010Tell me another one. Via: BBC: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious US medal and $100,000 (£67,000) prize for his work in conflict resolution. The National Constitution Centre is awarding him its Liberty Medal for “steadfast” efforts to broker peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Previous winners include […]
Science Historian Cracks the ‘Plato Code’
June 30th, 2010Via: PhysOrg: A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked “The Plato Code” – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher’s writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy’s findings are set to revolutionise the history of the […]
