TheRefusers – How Covert Agents Infiltrate The Internet To Manipulate, Deceive, And Destroy Reputations – 25 February 2014

By Glenn Greenwald 24 Feb 2014 The Intercept

Among the core self-identified purposes of JTRIG are two tactics: (1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable. To see how extremist these programs are, just consider the tactics they boast of using to achieve those ends: “false flag operations” (posting material to the internet and falsely attributing it to someone else), fake victim blog posts (pretending to be a victim of the individual whose reputation they want to destroy), and posting “negative information” on various forums …

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Laura Bruno – Blend In Or Let Your Light So Shine? – 25 February 2014

Zen Gardner posted an article called, “When Chaos Hits: Blending In With Your Surroundings is a Must.” That post has generated some interesting discussion ranging from “just lie low and blend in” to “you can’t hide” to “Better to burn out brightly, sharing one’s light with all one might reach. than fade away deservedly.” I thought I’d share the portion of the conversation that I participated in, and you can read the rest of the comments by clicking here.

by NFR2014 on February 24

ZeroHedge – Bank Run Full Frontal: Ukrainians Withdrew 7% Of All Deposits In Two Days – 25 February 2014

Well that escalated quickly. It seems the ouster of Yanukovych, heralded by so many in the West as a positive, has done nothing to quell the fear of further economic collapse in Ukraine:

• *UKRAINIANS WITHDREW AS MUCH AS 7% OF DEPOSITS FEB. 18-20: KUBIV
• *DEPOSIT WITHDRAWALS STILL HIGH IN THE EAST, KUBIV SAYS

ZeroHedge – Ukraine Calls Russia’s Bluff, Slashes Nat Gas Imports By 80% – 25 February 2014

Twice in recent years, Russia has suspended gas supplies, or notably raised prices, as the somewhat well-known “trump card” of Russia’s oil and gas supply to Ukraine (and Europe for that matter) remains Putin’s easiest option for clenching his iron-first against the divided nation. Following a pre-emptive move in November by Ukraine to diversify its energy supply,  Russia had reduced the price of gas for the highly indebted Ukraine in December (to entice Ukraine under Russia’s wing); but, after recent events, Dmitry Medvedev signaled on Monday that the price could be raised again. However, today we find that Ukraine’s state oil and gas company, Naftogaz, has slashed gas imports from Russia’s Gazprom by  stunning 80% in February as Ukraine tries to show Russia it can’t be pushed around… of course, with limited (and more expensive) alternative supplies, we fear this could well shoot them in the foot.

This action is similar to that taken in November (before the EU accession discussion)…

Read the full story at: www.zerohedge.com / link to original article

Jon Rappoport – Top shareholders In Whole Foods And Monsanto: Identical – 25 February 2014

Is there a Whole Foods-Monsanto connection?

The answer is yes.

But the important question is: what does this connection mean?

What does it imply?

Is it significant?

If you consult open listings (for example, investors.morningstar.com), you can look at the major shareholders of these two publicly traded companies, Monsanto and Whole Foods.

WakingTimes – Marco Torres – False Science – How Bought And Paid For Propaganda Masquerades As Scientific Progress – 25 February 2014

The pursuit of truth in modern scientific query is marred by greed, profit and only a concept of truth built on the assumption of an unexamined good. While pharmaceutical drug approvals, genetically modified foods and various other controversial technologies may appear to be based on “science”, corporate interests and profits often interfere with the true meaning of what science represents to both academics and the public.

James Corbett – The Corbett Report – Smart Tyranny: How To Resist The Smart Grid – 25 February 2014

Link to podcast

by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
February 25, 2014

You would have to have been living under a rock to have missed the rollout of so-called “smart” technologies in recent years, but for those unfortunate rock dwellers who have somehow avoided the “smart” propaganda, there is no shortage of flashy, cartoonish PR puff pieces that are willing to sell it to you.

John Ward – Professional Troll Manipulation: Today’s Example At The Slog – 25 February 2014

There’s been a lot flying round the internet today about deliberate site manipulation. Mainly this has come from Zero Hedge, whose piece today announcing ‘Guess what: it was all true” does suggest to me that in some areas, ZH remains several beats behind the bandleader. Trolls on econo-political and investment sites are a fact of life, and have been for over two years at least.

After my last piece on sad DJ gropers not being paedophiles on the whole, this new entry popped into my Comments moderation area. It purported to be from a person called Holly Dewinter, and this is what the lady had to say:

Keiser Report: Financial Death Shriekers (E567) – 25 February 2014

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Lucas : Sunny Side Up – X Flaring – 25 February 2014

Lucas : New energetics are pouring in due to sun’s activity. We will see where things go. It is about going to show soon enough… as on deeper levels things will be flushed out…Some energetic explosions on either side of the broad energetic human and groups range will shake things up.
Enjoy the ride!

GOES 15 X-Ray Events 1-8A
Cur	25/1732	C1.1	Ratio 0.011
Beg	25/1504	C1.4
Max	25/1510	C5.7	Int 3.2e-03 J m-2
End	25/1518	C3.3

The GOES X-ray flux plot contains 1 minute averages of solar X-rays in the 1-8 Angstrom (0.1-0.8 nm) and 0.5-4.0 Angstrom (0.05-0.4 nm) passbands. Data from the SWPC Primary GOES X-ray satellite is shown. As of Feb 2008, no Secondary GOES X-ray satellite data is available. Some data dropouts will occur during satellite eclipses.