Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions
June 16th, 2007Entertaining the author’s proposed solution will waste valuable time that people should be using to escape/prepare, but he describes the situation well. Via: OpedNews: Part of the genius of our contemporary ruling class elites is that they have engineering a state of political and economic oppression that paradoxically is still embraced by the Lower Class. […]
Tony Blair Calls for Media Regulation to Contain Pernicious Conspiracy Theories
June 13th, 2007Ahhh, poor Tony needs Soviet style censors to hide his grave and despicable crimes. Via: Telegraph: Tony Blair hinted today at new restrictions on internet journalism, saying online news coverage had become “more pernicious and less balanced” than traditional political reporting. In a farewell lecture on public life, he said that much of the British […]
Arkansas GOP Head: We Need More ‘Attacks on American Soil’ So People Appreciate Bush
June 4th, 2007Via: Rawstory: In his first interview as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan told a reporter that America needs to be attacked by terrorists so that people will appreciate the work that President Bush has done to protect the country. “At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is […]
Big Brother, Big Business
June 3rd, 2007Here’s a two hour CNBC piece about privacy, surveillance and the emerging biometric lockdown. Even though the situation presented here is grim, we know that it’s much worse. If, however, you or someone you know is looking for a general, easy to understand presentation on these issues, and have about two hours to spare, this […]
Volkswagen’s 282MPG Car
May 29th, 2007This story is five years old. Do you get it yet? Via: Canadian Driver: A few years ago, Volkswagen took on a task that many people thought was impossible: they decided to develop a fuel-efficient, road-going compact car that could achieve an average fuel consumption of just 3 litres per 100 km (94 mpg). Not […]
Scientists Cast Doubt on Kennedy Bullet Analysis
May 17th, 2007Watch out! Red flag! Excuse me for not having more optimism about this… But I find it interesting and ominous that this story is breaking within days of E. Howard Hunt’s death bed confession that, YES, They did it. Where was that story in the mainstream press? Why doesn’t this bullet fragment story mention Hunt’s […]
The Poverty Business
May 17th, 2007This reads like another evil-corporations-fleecing-ignorant-poor-people article, and it is, but it’s a huge mistake to think that the poor mindset only affects poor people. I know people who make a quarter of a million dollars per year who live week to week and are always struggling for more. I also know people who have declared […]
Spin
May 15th, 2007My favorite part is when that Larry King creature is talking to Slick, fifteen minutes in: “He would — uh — serve you — you know what I mean?” Woh. Not before bedtime kiddies. Not before bedtime. Via: Google Video: Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes […]
Is This What the Army Thinks of Us?
May 9th, 2007Via: cjrdaily: It looks like it’s official: the United States Army thinks that American reporters are a threat to national security. Thanks to some great sleuthing by Wired’s “Danger Room” blogger Noah Shachtman, the Army’s new operational security guidelines (OPSEC) hit the Web in a big way yesterday, and the implications they have for reporters […]
Baby, You Can Fuel My Car
May 9th, 2007As you know, my wife and I don’t watch TV. We don’t have one in the house. But I remember somehow being exposed to those freaky pharmaceutical adds. Do you know the ones I mean? Pills hovering in purple fields with weird sunsets, and frightening, doped up women with Laura Bush smiles, etc… The kind […]
