Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Do Americans Need a Health Care Equivalent of Kiwibank?
August 10th, 2009A lot of people are submitting stories about the health care issue that’s boiling over in the U.S. at the moment. As you guys have obviously noticed, I’m not paying attention to most of it because the conventional medical industrial complex is the last place that I would turn for any health related issue; I […]
Criminal Investigation Into CIA Treatment of Detainees Expected
August 9th, 2009Unless Cheney and Bush are prosecuted, this is just another bullshit distraction. Via: Los Angeles Times: U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. is poised to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A senior Justice Department official said […]
Google Pulls Sibel Edmonds’ Access to Her Blog
August 9th, 2009I don’t know what it’s going to take to make people understand that Google (and its associated brands, Blogger, YouTube, Google Video, Gmail) are NOT to be trusted for communicating controversial information. The fact that dissidents don’t understand this basic information is just more evidence of how screwed we are. Via: Justacitizen: My Blog Site […]
British Military Press Officer Quits, Got Tired of Lying About Iraq
August 6th, 2009Via: Independent: Having to peddle “government lies” about the safety of soldiers in Iraq led to a Ministry of Defence press officer suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, an employment tribunal will hear. John Salisbury-Baker will claim that he suffered “intolerable stress” through having to “defend the morally indefensible” when responding to media inquiries about the ability […]
Report “Fishy” Information to the White House
August 6th, 2009I pity the fool who has to monitor flag@whitehouse.gov. Via: Dallas News: Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an “enemies list,” has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect “fishy” information Americans see about a health care overhaul. Cornyn, who leads the Republicans’ Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday […]
Town Halls Gone Wild
July 31st, 2009Via: Politico: Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress. On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked […]
Apple’s iPhone of Mass Destruction Nonsense
July 29th, 2009If it’s not a locked down vending machine, 100% controlled by Apple, it’s a weapon of mass destruction. HAHAHA I’m very glad to have an excuse to post this Onion piece to go along with this: Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers. Via: Threat Level: The nation’s cellphone networks could […]
Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll
July 27th, 2009Via: Infowars: Many people seem genuinely baffled that western governments are hyping the arrival of a swine flu pandemic as if it’s the greatest threat to humanity since the bubonic plague, despite the relatively low number of deaths from the virus, unaware that the pharmaceutical industry has been intimately joined at the hip with the […]
The Stealth of Starbucks
July 27th, 2009This worked pretty well for the Organic© industrial complex, maybe it will work for Starbucks. Although, “debranding” didn’t go so well for my last employer. The mothership is dead now. Via: Guardian: Starbucks’ new stealth strategy sees it “rebranding”, or de-branding, stores to give them different names and more local “community personality”. A victim of […]
Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post
July 24th, 2009Via: Organic Consumers: Michael Taylor is a lawyer who has spent the last few decades moving through the revolving door between the employ of GMO-seed giant Monsanto and the FDA and USDA. Taylor is widely credited with ushering Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) through the FDA regulatory process and into the milk supply — […]
