Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
George Bush: “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
December 18th, 2008Double plus good, comrade! * Queue applause * Translation: Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could […]
The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And Probably Lots of Other Fundamentalisms
December 17th, 2008In trying to understand public support for the Bush regime, I came to the conclusion that mass delusion was the culprit. The same goes for the Obama Hope and Change Industrial Complex. Average people are lost, so we don’t expect much in the way of informed opinion from them. But what about people who should […]
Russian Warships Head for Cuba
December 15th, 2008Via: AFP: Russia said on Monday it was sending a group of warships to Soviet-era ally Cuba in its latest defiant naval move around US waters, part of a drive to revive old Cold War ties with Latin America. The warships will visit Havana on December 19-23, the navy said, continuing a tour that has […]
The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems
December 15th, 2008In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
