Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
U.S. Special Operations Command Pays General Dynamics $10 Million to Peddle Bullshit “Web-Based Influence Products and Tools in Support of Strategic and Long-Term U.S. Government Goals”
September 16th, 2009
Via: Register: The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”. … Now SOCOM’s Joint Military Information Support Command, which “orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media […]
Biovail Paid Cash to Doctors Who Prescribed Blood Pressure Drug
September 15th, 2009Via: CBC: A subsidiary of Toronto-based drug maker Biovail Corp. will pay nearly $25 million US in fines after pleading guilty to encouraging doctors to prescribe their blood pressure drug by paying them cash on the side. The Boston office of the U.S. attorney announced Monday that Bridgewater, N.J.-based Biovail Pharmaceuticals Inc. was sentenced to […]
Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
September 14th, 2009U.S. Taxpayer money (a lot of it borrowed from China) is being used to promote crackpot religious purity propaganda in Israel. This is off the rails. Via: Alternet: The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of […]
British Secret Intelligence Service Calls the Cops on Itself
September 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph: The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has referred an unidentified case involving alleged complicity in torture to the Attorney General who has in turn referred it on to the Metropolitan Police, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. The police are already investigating MI5, the Security Service, over allegations that they colluded in the torture of […]
Charlie Sheen: Twenty Minutes with the President (PR Stunt)
September 8th, 2009Punkd: This is fake. What really happened on 9/11 enters the realm of yetti and hobgoblins. Via: Infowars: I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with our 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, while he was out promoting his health care reform initiative. I requested 30 minutes given the […]
For Your Health, Froot Loops
September 8th, 2009Related: Toxic Sludge is Good For You by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton Via: New York Times: A new food-labeling campaign called Smart Choices, backed by most of the nation’s largest food manufacturers, is “designed to help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices.” … Eileen T. Kennedy, president of the Smart Choices board […]
The Fall of Lehman Brothers
September 7th, 2009Via: Independent: It is time to “spray foam on the runway”, Tim Geithner told his sleep-deprived officials on Sunday afternoon. Lehman was going to crash. … The best defence of the decision to let Lehman fail is that it shocked Congress into providing funds to recapitalise the banking system – something it might not have […]
Van Jones
September 7th, 2009I’m baffled by the interest Cryptogon readers have in this story. It has been sent in using email, the suggestion form and posted to the subreddit. Maybe I’m too numb at this point to see why people find this story interesting. Is it the 9/11 part? I mean… Come on guys. Don’t tell me that […]
Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power: GQ Censors Article About False Flag Bombings in Russia
September 6th, 2009Gawker: Scans of English Version and Attempts at Russian Translation The article is definitely worth reading. Via: NPR: For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn’t the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found. […]
Journalist Flees Russia Over Arctic Sea Story
September 4th, 2009Via: BBC: A journalist has fled Russia after suggesting the Arctic Sea cargo ship that was apparently hijacked in July may have been carrying illegal weapons. Mikhail Voitenko said he had been told to leave Moscow or face arrest. The editor of Sovfracht, an online maritime journal, fled on Wednesday, saying he may not be […]
