Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Wikileaks Cracks NATO’s Master Narrative for Afghanistan
February 27th, 2009It appears that Wikileaks is distributing NATO classified documents that some imbecile at CENTCOM left on an open webshare. The Wikileaks people ran a dictionary attack on the files and found the password on them was progress. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan. The […]
Aussie Web Censorship Plan Doomed
February 26th, 2009Good news. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: The Government’s plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator’s decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.
And Now… The ‘Summer of Rage’ in Britain
February 23rd, 2009Please read about “Pseudo-Gangs” before you wave any signs or consider joining some dumbshit group. The groups mentioned below are going to be crawling with counterinsurgency personnel. Via: Guardian: Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has […]
‘Absurd’ Conspiracy Theories Prevalent in Afghanistan
February 19th, 2009Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted. Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province. The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of […]
Mystery Fireball Streaks Across Texas Sky
February 16th, 2009Via: News8Austin: The U.S. Strategic Command Monday said there’s no relation between the collision of two satellites over Siberia last week and the weekend shower of fireballs over Texas. What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris. Preliminary reports from […]
Wikileaks: A Billion Dollars Worth of Quazi Secret Congressional Reports
February 9th, 2009For those who want to cut right to the chase: Torrents. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from […]
Pentagon Sets Sights on Public Opinion
February 6th, 2009bullshit.mil? Via: AP: As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls “the human terrain” of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law. An Associated Press investigation found that over […]
Russian Newspaper Mourns Another Murdered Reporter
February 1st, 2009Via: AP: That journalist was Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old cub reporter. She and a human rights lawyer were shot execution-style by a masked man with a silenced pistol as they walked together a few blocks from the Kremlin. In a country considered one of the most dangerous for journalists, no Russian newspaper has suffered like […]
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
January 28th, 2009Another way of stating the headline would be: Many Foods Consumed by Poor People Cause Brain Damage. Via: Washington Post: Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or […]
Ex-K.G.B. Agent Buying London Tabloid
January 22nd, 2009HA. Oh well, what’s better? The CIA bribing American “journalists” to constantly look the other way, or a former Soviet spook simply owning the paper? Via: New York Times: Yet the fact that Moscow-based Mr. Lebedev is presumably the first former Soviet spy to own a major British daily “adds a different dimension,” said Roy […]
