Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Billboards Tell America to Cheer Up
July 19th, 2009Via: New Zealand Herald / AP: Some Americans put out of work by the latest recession are driving past billboards with messages like: “Interesting fact about recessions … they end.” Another reads: “Self worth is greater than net worth.” A third says: “This will end long before those who caused it are paroled.” Drivers across […]
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
July 18th, 2009Full text backup below. Via: ComputerWorld: The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News. By Robert McMillan July 17, 2009 07:35 PM ET They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. […]
Senator Quashes Treasury’s Bid for Humorist
July 18th, 2009Via: The Hill: The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report. Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge’s website linked to a want ad for […]
Another Russian Human Rights Activist Murdered
July 15th, 2009Via: BBC: A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus. She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. Her body was found in Ingushetia. The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed “outrage” at the murder, […]
Britain: Swine Flu Vaccine to Be Cleared After Five-Day “Trial”
July 13th, 2009Tell me another one. Via: Times Online: The path of a popular medicine from the laboratory to the chemist or doctor’s surgery can involve years of clinical trials on a select group of patients. When the new vaccine for swine flu arrives in Britain, regulators said this weekend, it could be approved for use in […]
Israeli Foreign Ministry to Hire Shills for “Internet Warfare” Squad
July 12th, 2009Via: YnetNews: The Foreign Ministry unveiled a new plan this week: Paying talkbackers to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. A total of NIS 600,000 (roughly $150,000) will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad. The Foreign Ministry intends to hire young people who speak at least one language and who study […]
New Zealand Government Orders 300,000 Doses of Untested, Unlicensed Swine Flu Vaccine for Health Workers
July 6th, 2009Via: TVNZ: The government is spending millions of dollars to import a swine flu vaccination for front line health workers – even though it has not been licensed yet. It has ordered 300,000 doses of the vaccine but it is unlikely to be available until December. The targeted campaign aimed at supporting frontline services in […]
UK Spy Chief’s Family Details Posted on Facebook
July 5th, 2009You can click the link with confidence. I made sure that I linked to a version of this story that won’t show you the new head of the SIS in his Speedo. Via: AP: He’s the spy who came in from the beach. Holiday snapshots and family details about the newly appointed head of Britain’s […]
Washington Post Sells Access to the Regime and Its Own Reporters for $25,000 and Up
July 2nd, 2009Via: Politico: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few”: Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, […]
Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists”; Should Be Jailed as in China and Burma
July 1st, 2009Via: Prison Planet: A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma. In a speech to the National Press Club, Hartigan savagely dismissed blogs […]
