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Executive Summary: There is strong evidence that Henry “Hank” Paulson (former Goldman-Sachs CEO and, more recently, United States Treasury Secretary) took some initiative in the case of Lehman Brothers (the downfall of which is discussed extensively in Wall Street’s Naked Swindle at RollingStone.com) and rigging the game to the advantage of Goldman Sachs (a direct [...]

Thursday’s SPD blotter reads like something out of an action flick: On October 22nd at approximately 4:53 a.m. police and fire department personnel responded to a fire at a city maintenance facility located in the 700 block of South Charles Street. City employees who were working on site saw a suspicious male subject walking inside [...]

In response to yesterday’s CIA Invests in Social Media Monitoring post, I’ve put together a friendly little disinformation feed for unwanted bots which may happen upon the Operator Speaking blog. If you see items like the following when you subscribe, then you’re operating from within a netblock I’ve decided to poison: (please don’t take it [...]

Former inmates at Guantanamo have previously testified that songs from AC/DC, Britney Spears, the Bee Gees and Sesame Street were played as part of a psychological onslaught. A jingle for a cat food and the theme tune for Barney, a dinosaur children’s television character, were also pumped into cells in the facility in Cuba. Thomas [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a winner. Executive Koala is a Japanese movie from 2006 which stars a typical salaryman… typical in every way except that he is actually a giant koala. After a girlfriend is murdered, he descends into a world of psychosis marked by increasingly violent fantasies where his koala-rage is [...]

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a [...]

All I ask of you is to perform a certain scientific experiment. You go to hospitals and dead-houses, and the horrors that you do there don’t affect you. If in some hideous dissecting-room or fetid laboratory you found this man lying on a leaden table with red gutters scooped out in it for the blood [...]

… A couple of US senators have introduced legislation to eliminate the federal tax deduction on advertising for prescription-drugs. This could affect marketing budgets and the bottom line of many BDA’s to the tune of millions, and as I say in the chapter devoted to health care advertising in my latest opus… The Ubiquitous Persuaders, [...]

Matthew Freud, relative of Edward Bernays… makes sense…