Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
BP Admits Underestimating Oil Leaking from Gulf of Mexico Well
May 21st, 2010Imagine our shock. Via: Telegraph: BP was on Thursday accused of seriously underestimating the flow of oil from its Gulf of Mexico well. In a further blow the beleaguered oil giant was also ordered to use less toxic chemicals to disperse its growing slick. It came as more damaging, heavy crude hit Louisiana’s coastal wetlands […]
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.”
May 19th, 2010Via: CBS: Kelly Cobiella reports that a CBS News team was threatened with arrest by Coast Guard officials in the Gulf of Mexico who said they were acting under the authority of British Petroleum. Watch CBS News Videos Online
Plug in and Be Lit up by the American Hologram
May 18th, 2010Via: Joe Bageant: Ahhhh … Safely in the American national illusion, where all the world’s a shopping expedition. Or a terrorist threat. No matter, as long as it is colorful and wiggles on the theater state’s 400 million screens. Plug in and be lit up by the American Hologram. This great loom of media images, […]
U.S. Government Can Execute Its Own Citizens With No Judicial Process And Based On Secret Intelligence
May 15th, 2010What do we learn from the New York Times in the article below? Some legal authorities are deeply uneasy about the U.S. Government’s arbitrary assassination of Americans. That is supposed to soothe us, I think. We can rest assured that someone feels deeply uneasy about the government murdering its own citizens. I don’t know about […]
Barrick Gold Moves to Block Mining Book
May 13th, 2010Via: CBC: The threat of legal action from mining giant Barrick Gold has forced Vancouver-based Talonbooks to postpone publication of a book about the Canadian mining industry. Publisher Karl Siegler calls it a clear case of “libel chill” by one of Canada’s largest mining companies. The book, Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for […]
Journalists Barred from Gitmo for Revealing Already-Public Information
May 10th, 2010Via: Wired: For reporters covering the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the ground rules are pretty draconian: As a condition of attending, they have to sign agreements not to disclose anything the court deems secret; media officers review all photos and videos shot on the island; and there sure as hell ain’t no Tweeting […]
Plan for Congressional Audits of Fed Dies in Senate
May 7th, 2010Looks like that one thousand point pants shitter from yesterday sent a pretty clear message. Via: Wall Street Journal: Last-minute maneuvering in the Senate allowed the Federal Reserve to sidestep legislation that would have exposed its interest-rate decision-making to congressional auditors. Pressure from the Obama administration led Senate lawmakers to alter a provision pushed by […]
U.S. Not Accepting Foreign Help On Oil Spill
May 6th, 2010Any ideas as to why not? Via: Foreign Policy: When State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley refused to tell reporters which countries have offered assistance to help respond to the BP oil spill, the State Department press corps was flabbergasted. “As a policy matter, we’re not going to identify those offers of assistance until we are […]
U.S. Reveals Size of Nuclear Stockpile
May 4th, 2010As with just about everything that the rotten to the core Obama regime does, this apparently straightforward story requires heavy context fitting. 1. The Obama regime’s most recent nuclear weapons budget request, “A complete surrender to Senate Republicans,” represents the biggest increase in nuclear weapons related activities since the, “Early years of Ronald Reagan.” 2. […]
NYPD Bomb Squad Closes Times Square
May 2nd, 2010Update: Times Square Car Bomber Got the Wrong Fertilizer Via: ABC News: The would-be car-bomber who left an SUV loaded with propane and gas cans, fireworks and timing devices on a Times Square street also had more than 100 pounds of fertilizer, but not the kind that would explode, police said today. Instead of ammonium […]
