Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
Fisk: In Tehran, Fantasy and Reality Make Uneasy Bedfellows
July 1st, 2009I’m not coming down on any side here. While my gut feeling is that CIA/Mossad/MI6 are throwing gasoline on the fire, I can’t point to any evidence of that. The past doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the present, but being familiar with how the U.S. has screwed with Iran in the past, it’s […]
Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine
July 1st, 2009I know what you’ll be thinking as you read this: That my last job in the U.S. (Wall Street Chop Shop and “We Americans Were Very Clever”) was with Goldman Sachs. Good guess, but no. The firm that I worked for is dead now. Via: Rolling Stone: THE GREAT AMERICAN BUBBLE MACHINE From tech stocks […]
China Loans Zimbabwe US$950 Million
June 30th, 2009There will be something in the dirt that China wants to dig up. Or, maybe just the dirt would do. More: China arable land fears end reforestation drive Arable land shrinking fast Via: BBC: China has agreed to give Zimbabwe a loan of $950m (£573m) to help it revive its battered economy, Prime Minister Morgan […]
Clarifying News Stories Using the Iraqis-Regaining-Their-Sovereignty Meme
June 30th, 2009Ah yes, June 30th is National Sovereignty Day in Iraq… There are dozens of boilerplate propaganda stories floating around today about Iraqis regaining their sovereignty because U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraqi cities. This, of course, is ludicrous. Within the first hour of my first International Relations class in college, I came away […]
Confidential Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq
June 30th, 2009Via: Guardian: A confidential record of a meeting between President Bush and Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq, outlining their intention to go to war without a second United Nations resolution, will be an explosive issue for the official inquiry into the UK’s role in toppling Saddam Hussein. The memo, written on 31 January […]
Bush Regime Creature Now Shilling for Financial Firms
June 29th, 2009With the Obama regime crawling with Wall Street Shills, this should make for a successful partnership in crime. Via: Mother Jones: The strategic communications specialist advising a financial industry effort to enhance Wall Street’s image has plenty of experience in spinning the American public: In the Bush White House, he was one of the aides […]
