Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
The Frankenfood Industry’s Strong Arm Tactics with Researchers
October 13th, 2009Via: GM Watch: The increasingly fractious relationship between public sector researchers and the biotech seed industry has come into the spotlight in recent months. In July, several leading seed companies met with a group of entomologists, who earlier in the year had lodged a public complaint with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over restricted […]
Russian Mafia/Government Crooks vs. Hedge Fund Crooks
October 13th, 2009Via: Guardian: Thousands of Russians are watching a YouTube video that accuses their government and officials of high corruption. A Russian version of a video by Hermitage Capital, the London-based hedge fund claiming to be victim of a $230m (£146m) scam, has attracted over 12,000 hits, and is the most viewed news clip on YouTube […]
The Westminster Conspiracy: Former BBC Director General, Greg Dyke, On the Media-Political Opposition to Radical Change
October 12th, 2009Via: Media Lens: Last month, Greg Dyke, who was the BBC’s director general from 2000-2004, described the BBC as part of a “conspiracy” preventing the “radical changes” needed to UK democracy. Speaking at the Liberal Democrat party’s conference, Dyke said: “The evidence that our democracy is failing is overwhelming and yet those with the biggest […]
The World’s Largest Shopping Mall — Is Empty
October 10th, 2009Must see. Beyond must see, especially for connoisseurs of the surreal and the absurd. Via: PBS: Is nothing American sacred anymore? The largest mall in the world turns out not to be the famous Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. It’s the South China Mall outside of Guangzhou, China. Outdoing the techniques of American consumerism, […]
