Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
March 19th, 2016Woh. Via: Stanford:
Monsanto Sues to Keep Glyphosate Off California List of Carcinogens
March 5th, 2016Via: Reuters: Monsanto Co stepped up its defense of a widely used weed killer on Thursday by filing a lawsuit in California seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, from being added to the state’s list of known carcinogens. The seed and agrochemicals company said it filed the suit against the […]
Beijing Is Banning All Foreign Media from Publishing Online in China
February 19th, 2016Via: Quartz: In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in Chinese) could, if they were enforced […]
Petrofascism: The Koch Brothers’ Dirty War on Solar Power
February 16th, 2016Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Rolling Stone: After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal […]
HTTP 451
December 23rd, 2015New HTTP status code. Nope, this isn’t a joke. It was approved by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) on 18 December 2015. Via: Wikipedia: In computer networking, HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons is an error status code of the HTTP protocol to be displayed when the user requests an illegal resource, such as […]
U.S. Drone Whistleblowers Have Their Bank Accounts Frozen
December 7th, 2015Via: Hang the Bankers: The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack. “My drone operators went public this week and now […]
Homeland Security: “An Entirely New Phase”
December 6th, 2015The whole ISIS mess originates with U.S. activities in Iraq (which, even the mainstream hive mind admits had nothing to do with 9/11), and now, “We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat.” Via: Reuters: U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by homegrown extremists, are rethinking […]
Former Russian Propaganda Chief, “Inspiration” for Russia Today, Found Dead in U.S. Hotel
November 7th, 2015Via: Guardian: Vladimir Putin’s former press secretary, who was an “inspiration” for the Russia Today (RT) news channel, has been found dead in a hotel room in Washington. The body of Mikhail Lesin was found in a room in the plush Dupont Circle hotel on Thursday morning, the Russian embassy in Washington said, confirming reports […]
New British Killer Drone Called “Protector”
October 6th, 2015Maybe “Reaper Overkill Edition” didn’t do so well in focus groups. Via: Janes: The UK is to receive 20 new ‘Protector’ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of a wider ramp-up of unmanned, surveillance, and special forces capabilities to combat militant Islam in the Middle East, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on 3 October. Speaking […]
The Fed’s Grotesque “Explanation” Why 94.6 Million Are Out Of The Labor Force
October 3rd, 2015Via: ZeroHedge: And this is where the wheels fall off the Atlanta Fed narative. Because the regional Fed’s very next sentence shows why the world is doomed when you task economists to centrally-plan it: The decrease in labor force participation among prime-age individuals has been driven mostly by the share who say they currently don’t […]
