Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Council On Foreign Relations Symposium on Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics and Foreign Policy: Fake Scarcity of H1N1 Vaccine to Convince People to Take It (Laughter)
November 9th, 2009Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director, Department of Global Health, George Washington University: I think what would work better would be to say that there was a shortage and people tend to buy more of something that’s in demand. (Laughter.) We saw that — there was one season where, really, people lined up all […]
Profit ‘Not Satanic,’ Barclays Says, After Goldman Invokes Jesus
November 8th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that “profit is not satanic.” The 53-year-old head of Britain’s second-biggest bank said banks are the “backbone” of the economy. Rewarding high- performing […]
British Nuclear Expert’s 17th Floor UN Death Plunge ‘Was Not Suicide’
November 2nd, 2009People familiar with the dead biologists/scientists phenomenon, note the part in bold below. On the perception management side of things, why am I having to link to the Daily Mail for this story? Is this part of how assassinations are managed? Put a story like this next to a feature about Posh Spice’s new hair […]
A Soldier with the Russian Army in Afghanistan Recounts What They Believed About Their Mission
October 30th, 2009Via: Salon: Lanine was drafted into the Russian Army at the age of 18 and spent several years as part of the Russian occupying force in Afghanistan. Thereafter, he moved to Canada, and in 2006, his wife’s first cousin, a medic in the Canadian Army, was killed in Afghanistan. Lanine wrote this column after attending […]
Too Big to Fail List a Secret
October 30th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. regulators on Thursday scoffed at the administration’s plan to not publicly identify financial firms the government considers “systemic,” saying such a list cannot remain under wraps for long and federal laws could mandate disclosure. “It’s likely that most, if not all, of the institutions so identified would eventually be known to the […]
Obama Declares Swine Flu a National Emergency
October 25th, 2009Via: Reuters: U.S. President Barack Obama has declared 2009 H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, the White House said on Saturday. The declaration will make it easier for U.S. medical facilities to handle a surge in flu patients by allowing the waiver of some requirements of Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health insurance programs as […]
Sid the Science Kid Gets a Flu Shot
October 22nd, 2009Stalin could learn a thing or two about propaganda from the present day U.S. Government. Via: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Afghanistan: “Hundreds of Thousands” of Ballots for Hamid Karzai Tossed Out
October 20th, 2009Via: Chicago Tribune: A United Nations-backed panel Monday tossed out hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in August for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and independent election observers said the new figures dictated that a runoff election should take place. Karzai and election officials loyal to the president appeared to balk at accepting the fraud investigators’ […]
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
October 20th, 2009Via: Wired: America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part […]
Six Accused of Insider Trading After Wiretapping Investigation
October 18th, 2009This case is a joke—not because the people involved aren’t crooks, but because the amounts of money involved are noise level. The Feds plucked some low hanging douche bags and put them on display for the retail investor to see as part of a confidence trick. “Behold, retail investor, we’re using ‘powerful investigative tools’ to […]
