Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 — […]
2012 Olympics: Laws Allow Police to Enter Private Homes to Confiscate, “Advertising of a Non-Commercial Nature, and Announcements or Notices of Any Kind”
July 24th, 2009Via: Guardian: The government was accused tonight of giving itself draconian powers to clamp down on protests at the 2012 Olympics. Critics said the powers were so broad they would potentially give private contractors the right to forcibly enter people’s homes and seize materials. Opposition parties and civil liberties groups criticised the powers as top […]
Citing an Argument Used by the Bush Administration, White House Declines to Disclose Visits by Health Industry Executives
July 23rd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: Invoking an argument used by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has turned down a request from a watchdog group for a list of health industry executives who have visited the White House to discuss the massive healthcare overhaul. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to […]
Scientific Fraud in Medicine: More Than a Few Bad Apples
July 21st, 2009Via: Alliance for Natural Health: Finding that most clinical results are misleading, or simply wrong, assumes that the studies were biased but honestly conducted. The assumption of honesty is the default approach for a scientist. You assume that the results represent the true experimental findings. However, recent findings suggest that medicine has a particular problem […]
White House Delaying Release of Budget Update
July 20th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. The U.S Dollar Index is sharply lower on this news, and gold is sharply higher. This news actually broke the dollar down and out of its recent range. Via: AP: The White House is being forced to acknowledge the wide gap […]
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, […]
