Archive for the 'Perception Management' Category
More Than 92 Million Americans Remain Out Of Labor Force
May 2nd, 2014Via: CBS: Despite the unemployment rate plummeting, more than 92 million Americans remain out of the labor force. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent in March, the lowest it has been since September 2008 when it was 6.1 percent. The sharp drop, though, occurred because the number of people […]
U.S. State Department Propaganda Office Active on, “Blogs to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, Instagram, and Others”
May 1st, 2014Via: Ars Technica: The State Department unveiled Wednesday that it is widely employing social media as a method to counter online violent extremism from Al-Qaeda and others. Buried in an intelligence report published Wednesday, the government said that the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC), established in 2011, last year produced more than 10,000 online […]
China Just Revealed a Major State Secret: Nearly 20% of Its Farmland Is Polluted
April 18th, 2014Does one double or triple this number to approach the reality of the situation? Via: Quartz: Almost one-fifth of China’s farmland is polluted, according to a government report released this week. Officials have acknowledged the country’s problems with water and air pollution, but the extent of soil contamination has been a closely guarded “state secret,” […]
Reid: Bundy Supporters Are “Domestic Terrorists”
April 18th, 2014Via: CBS: Supporters of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy have been called domestic terrorists by Senator Harry Reid. He made the comments during an appearance at a Review-Journal event, and repeated them, saying “what happened there was domestic terrorism’ The government says Bundy owes more than a million dollars in grazing fees and fines stemming from […]
TurboTax Maker Linked to ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing
April 16th, 2014Via: ProPublica: Intuit and its allies are continuing to work against proposals for what’s known as return-free filing.
America’s Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953
April 16th, 2014Via: AlterNet: Soon after the 2004 U.S. coup to depose President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, I heard Aristide’s lawyer Ira Kurzban speaking in Miami. He began his talk with a riddle: “Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?” The answer: “Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.” This introduction was […]
Florida: Coast Guard in Miami Beach Unloads Bales of Cocaine with a Street Value of About $350 Million
April 15th, 2014The 80-pound bricks, which were seized in two separate cases in Southwestern Caribbean waters, were handed over to federal agents and will be destroyed. *wink* Ah well, at least they didn’t need U.S. Air Force transports this time. Via: Miami Herald: Wearing protective gloves and masks, members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare carried […]
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
April 9th, 2014Via: Reader Supported News: Ever since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, Washington and its European allies have worked openly and covertly to extend NATO to the Russian border and Black Sea Fleet, provoking a badly wounded Russian bear. They have also worked to bring Ukraine and its Eastern European neighbors into the neoliberal […]
Leaders of Teaching Hospitals Have Close Ties to Drug Companies
April 3rd, 2014Via: ProPublica: Pharmaceutical company payments to doctors extend far beyond rank-and-file clinicians — and deep into the leadership of America’s teaching hospitals, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center examined the boards of the 50 largest drug […]
This Is a Generic Brand Video
March 26th, 2014Vis: Dissolve.com / Vimeo: This Is a Generic Brand Video from Dissolve on Vimeo. Research Credit: JL
