Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Hackers Cut Cities’ Power
January 19th, 2008The spook’s moving lips tell us nothing we don’t already know, so… What is the spook really trying to tell us? Via: Forbes: Cyber-security experts have long warned of the vulnerability of critical infrastructure like power, transportation and water systems to malicious hackers. Friday, those warnings quietly became a reality: Tom Donahue, a CIA official, […]
Australia Joins China in Censoring the Internet
January 11th, 2008There will be optional, uncensored connections! Oh joy. I bet people who opt for the uncensored connections will have a great time with airport security. “Mr. Smith, your papers appear to be in order, however, we see here that you have opted for a connection to the Internet that has not been cleansed by the […]
AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter
January 11th, 2008I know, I know. Don’t panic, “They’re just going to target the file trading traffic.” Oh sure. For years, tech savvy employees would game corporate IT environments to get what they wanted, at work. Those same skills could become necessary at home. Via: New York Times: For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have […]
ACLU Rips Plan to Track Students with RFID
January 9th, 2008Via: Guardian/AP: A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers’ backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary. The pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing […]
MPAA Rejects Movie Poster Depicting U.S. Soldiers Leading a Hooded Detainee Away
December 19th, 2007The CIA tortures innocent people until they try to kill themselves, but the CIA won’t let them die and uses doctors to keep the victims alive to endure more torture. That’s allowed. But, you know, these movie posters… Via: Variety: The MPAA has rejected the one-sheet for Alex Gibney’s documentary “Taxi to the Dark Side,” […]
Texas: Background Check Required Before Evacuation; Different Buses for “Criminals”
December 17th, 2007What do you want to bet that the thought criminals will wind up on the buses with the wanted felons, and that those buses will go to different camps. Surely, if there are going to be different buses for “criminals,” there are going to be different camps. Right? Of course, the article doesn’t get into […]
Major U.S. Airports Offering Flu Shots
December 9th, 2007U.S. news reads like the script of a B grade horror movie. Via: AP: After taking off their shoes, emptying their pockets and passing through the security checkpoint, travelers at some major U.S. airports can now roll up a sleeve and get a flu shot. “The convenience is great,” Danny Manzon, a busy, 53-year-old restaurant […]
Google: The Cornerstone of Clean, Green Fascism
November 28th, 2007So few people can see the big picture with regard to clean, green fascism. I’m going to make it painfully clear and simple with the juxtaposition of two of today’s stories about Google. Story #1) Google Hopes to Undercut Coal with Cheap, Renewable Energy: By now, everyone is familiar with Google’s corporate motto, “Don’t be […]
CLUB OF ROME PLAN FOR EUROPEAN, MIDDLE EASTERN AND NORTH AFRICAN ENERGY NETWORK: TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN RENEWABLE ENERGY COOPERATION (TREC)
November 25th, 2007Of all the hate-to-say-I-told-you-sos on Cryptogon, this one probably takes the cake… They—the elite, the people who run the world—have a Plan. And anyone who’s trying to convince you that the world is ending because we’re running out of energy is either ignorant of basic, observable, physical phenomena, or they’re in on the scam. It’s […]
Chart: The Cost of the War in Iraq vs. Spending on Solar Energy Research
November 10th, 2007In The Power Crisis Mythology, the 40% Efficient Solar Cell and the Cost of the War in Iraq, I wrote: Spectrolab, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing, has developed a solar cell technology that has a conversion efficiency of 40.7%. They accomplished this with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. […]
