Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
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 […]
81% of Americans Think Country on “Wrong Track”
April 4th, 2008Via: Reuters: Four out of five Americans believe things are “on the wrong track” in the United States, the gloomiest outlook in about 20 years, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday. The poll found that 81 percent of respondents felt “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” […]
New York Times: “Wall Street Shows Optimism That Crisis Is Fading”
April 2nd, 2008Can UBS and Merrill Lynch customers get their money yet? No. Via: New York Times: Stocks started the second quarter with a soaring rally on Tuesday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly 400 points, its best performance in two weeks, as investors found reasons to take heart in a fresh round of […]
Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
April 1st, 2008“Hi, Kevin, um, yeah, this is Bob from U.S. Special Operations Command. We’re running an introductory offer over here that might interest you. We know that you’ve fled the U.S. for good and have several thousand pages of, well, unpleasant information on your site, mmkay. But, for a limited time only, the U.S. Government is […]
Attorney General: Piracy Funding Terror
March 30th, 2008Please see: Militant Electronic Piracy: Non-Violent Insurgency Tactics Against the American Corporate State for more context. Via: AP: Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Friday that the huge profits generated from piracy and counterfeiting are increasingly flowing into the coffers of terrorist groups. In remarks to Silicon Valley executives at the Tech Museum of Innovation, Mukasey […]
The Deep Ones and the Madness of Crowds
March 28th, 2008This thing, this situation we all face, cannot be changed by mass protests, gradual applications of pressure or any legislative process. Realize the fact that WE HAVE ALREADY LOST. Say it with me, “We have already lost.” Everyone reading this site knows it, whether you want to admit it or not. We all know that […]
U.S. Drops China from List of 10 Worst Rights Violators
March 15th, 2008What’s more absurd, the fact that China isn’t on the list, or that the U.S. issues such a list in the first place? More than a million Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. I wonder if that figures into the report at all… Via: IHT: The announcement that the U.S. […]
MSNBC: “I Hope We Have a Special Prison for 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists”
March 5th, 2008MSNBC ran a story about a 9/11 activist waving a sign at Bill Clinton. The activist was immediately dragged away, but pay attention to commentary from the goons in the studio. They want to activist, and people like him, to be disappeared and rendered in secret prisons. Via: Infowars: Video of the piece has now […]
