Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Israel Recruits ‘Army of Bloggers’ to Combat Anti-Zionist Web Sites
January 19th, 2009The shill-o-matic is going into afterburner mode. Via: Haaretz: The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German. The program’s first volunteer was Sandrine Pitousi, 31, […]
Crook Hands Out Presidential Medals of Freedom to a Bunch of Other Crooks
January 14th, 2009It’s not the Onion. Via: CNN: Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time on Tuesday when President George W. Bush awarded America’s top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia. In his last days in office Bush presented Tony Blair and John Howard with […]
As Israeli Atrocities Haemorrhage Into Mainstream Consciousness… What’s That? Bin Laden on Line One
January 14th, 2009The PSYOP payload is: “If I mention Israeli atrocities, people will associate me with Bin Laden. Maybe I better just keep quiet.” Via: CNN: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has apparently released a new audio message calling for a jihad, or holy war, against Israel for its Gaza campaign. The message is “an invitation” […]
Holocaust Denied: The Lying Silence of Those Who Know
January 9th, 2009Full text. Via: John Pilger: Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the ‘why’ of Israel’s bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza – an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel’s right to exist. “When the truth is replaced […]
Air Force Releases ‘Counter-Blog’ Marching Orders
January 7th, 2009Via: Wired: Bloggers: If you suddenly find Air Force officers leaving barbed comments after one of your posts, don’t be surprised. They’re just following the service’s new “counter-blogging” flow chart. In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to […]
So Many Israeli Atrocities, So Little Time
January 5th, 2009Israel’s ghastly slaughter of civilians in Gaza amounts to genocide. Frankly, I can’t manage to keep up with the links on this. As usual, however, whatreallyhappened.com has more of it than you are likely to be able to stomach. I’d seen enough after reading these stories just this morning: Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter […]
New Law in Russia Ends Jury Trials for ‘Crimes Against State’
January 2nd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: President Dmitry Medvedev signs the controversial measure with little publicity. A pending Putin-backed law widens the definition of treason. Government critics fear the stage is set for a crackdown. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paused in the last, quiet hours of a dying year to sign into law a controversial bill that […]
Rice: People Will Soon Thank Bush for What He’s Done
December 29th, 2008Bitch, please. Via: CNN: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush’s low approval ratings, people will soon “start to thank this president for what he’s done.” “So we can sit here and talk about the long record, but what I would say to you is that this president has faced tougher circumstances […]
Germany: Head of BND Threatens Wikileaks
December 23rd, 2008Via: Raw Story: In the latest twist in a scandal involving the presence of the German intelligence service or Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in the Balkan nation of Kosovo, the head of the BND has ordered whistleblower website Wikileaks to remove all BND-related files under threat of “immediate prosecution.” Wikileaks has responded with a press release noting […]
Deep Throat: Mark Felt Dies
December 22nd, 2008Via: AP: W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he helped The Washington Post unravel the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 95. Felt died Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa under hospice care after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family […]
