Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
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 […]
