Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Bush’s ‘Appeasement’ Speech in Israel
May 16th, 2008Useful Context: How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Perhaps an Amnesia category would be useful. Via: Independent: President George Bush lavished anniversary praise on Israel yesterday, as Palestinians commemorated the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” when 700,000 were forced from or fled their homes 60 years ago. In a special address to the Israeli Knesset, […]
Iranian Weapons in Iraq? Woops
May 13th, 2008Via: Los Angeles Times: A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously […]
Al-CIAda No. 2 Says 9/11 Theory Propagated by Iran
April 23rd, 2008HAHA! I really need to add a Humor category. Via: AP: Osama bin Laden’s chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror network by spreading the conspiracy theory that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 attacks. The comments reflected al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri’s increasing […]
Sending in the Marines (to Recruit Women)
April 21st, 2008Via: New York Times: THE Marines are looking for a few good women. Actually, they will take as many as they can get. Faced with the difficulty of recruiting during a long and unpopular war, the United States Marine Corps has started marketing itself to women in a concerted way for the first time. It […]
France: Camembert Wars Get Dirty
April 21st, 2008“The war against raw milk is very interesting and illustrative; it sums up the political and economic situation that has the world in a death grip.” —Raw Milk and Lifting the Veil that has Been Pulled Over Our Eyes Via: Guardian: In his tiny workshop with a view of his cows, Francois Durand stood lovingly […]
Gripping Revelations from New York Times (Sarcasm): Media Military Analysts Are Shills
April 20th, 2008Thanks Captain Obvious! Via: New York Times: To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind […]
Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors
April 17th, 2008Via: New York Times: The drug maker Merck drafted dozens of research studies for a best-selling drug, then lined up prestigious doctors to put their names on the reports before publication, according to an article to be published Wednesday in a leading medical journal. The article, based on documents unearthed in lawsuits over the pain […]
Tim Robbins’ “Controversial” NAB Speech
April 16th, 2008It reminded me of his speech in The Player. Also, the NAB organizers telling a room full of journalists to turn off their recording equipment was probably the best way to ensure that the message made a decent sized plop in the memepool. There’s a lot of news this morning, I don’t want to get […]
Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart
April 11th, 2008Priceless. Via: Wall Street Journal: For nearly 30 years, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employed a video-production company here to capture footage of its top executives, sometimes in unguarded moments. Two years ago, the retailing giant stopped using the tiny company. At first, the decision threw Flagler Productions Inc. into a panic. Now it’s Wal-Mart that’s squirming. […]
The Audacity of Depression
April 7th, 2008I don’t do it justice by just quoting this little bit. Settle in, pour yourself a nice, stiff drink. Via: Joe Bageant: Over the past couple of years I’ve had hundreds of encounters with reading Americans — and by encounters I mean conversations, not falling off chairs — which is to say book loving, thinking […]
