Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Dan Rather: What Mueller Knows Will Make Cohen/Manafort “Pale By Comparison,” “Stay Tuned”
August 25th, 2018When Rather says, “We’re in a kind of political theater of the absurd now,” I think he’s right! Talk of impeaching Trump, as Bill and Hillary Clinton walk free, is pretty absurd. Via: Real Clear Politics: Dan Rather warned Wednesday night that if you think Tuesday was a shock with the Cohen guilty plea and […]
Tech Companies Are Gathering For A Secret Meeting To Prepare A 2018 Election Strategy
August 24th, 2018The article mentions a Russian, “Troll factory.” How about American troll factories? Here’s what the U.S. Air Force wanted back in 2011: Software will allow 10 personas per user, replete with background , history, supporting details, and cyber presences that are technically, culturally and geographacilly consistent. Individual applications will enable an operator to exercise a […]
A Milestone in Afghanistan
August 22nd, 2018Via: Ron Paul Institute: Sometime late next year, possibly as early as September, news crews will gather in Afghanistan for a unique event: To interview an American serviceman or woman who was not born when the war they are fighting began. He or she will not remember 9/11, and will have grown up with the […]
Robots Can Effectively Brainwash Children
August 22nd, 2018And now, children, we’ll learn how jet fuel can melt structural steel. Via: SHTFplan: “People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. We know this as conformity. But as robots will soon be found […]
Image-Conscious China Appoints New Global Propaganda Czar
August 22nd, 2018Speaking of images, Chinese internment camps visible from space. Via: U.S. News/AP: China’s increasingly image-conscious government has appointed a trusted member of the ruling Communist Party to head up its international propaganda operation. Former top internet regulator Xu Lin will be in charge of efforts to portray China as a progressive force for good in […]
In Guilty Plea, Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Says He Made Payments at Candidate’s Direction
August 21st, 2018Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016 election at the direction of a candidate for federal office. The guilty pleas came in the same hour that a federal jury […]
Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet
August 17th, 2018Via: Reason: A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in “our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets,” it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into […]
Facebook, Apple and Spotify Ban Infowars’ Alex Jones
August 6th, 2018Update: YouTube Deletes Alex Jones Channel — Via: Guardian: Facebook has banned four pages run by the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for “repeated violations of community standards”, the company said on Monday. The removal of the pages – the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly […]
Venezuela: President Nicolas Maduro Survives Assassination Attempt by Terrorists Using Explosives-Laden Drone
August 4th, 2018Via: Daily Mail: Seven national guards have been injured in Venezuela after what is believed to have been an assassination attempt on socialist President Nicolas Maduro using an explosive-laden drone during a Caracas military parade. Footage broadcast by state television shows Maduro abruptly cutting short his speech before looking to the sky. Thousands of soldiers […]
Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China
August 1st, 2018Via: The Intercept: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December […]
