There are an amazing number of websites where fake headlines or fake news stories can be created.
If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.
Monday, April 3, 2017
DIY Fake News
There are an amazing number of websites where fake headlines or fake news stories can be created.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Russia is winning the war.
While this information is still available research "Russian influence on political elections" BEFORE the United States Presidential election of 2016.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/01/09/russia-engineered-election-hacks-europe/96216556/
FAKE NEWS has become a strategic weapon in the fight for the hearts and minds of the people. Social media is the delivery vehicle. In a military journal, Russian General Valery Gerasimov wrote of using covert and propaganda tactics to turn a “perfectly thriving state” into a victim of “foreign intervention” causing it to “sink into a web of chaos.”
While guarding our hardware on cyberspace something else was attacked.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/how-russia-wins-an-election-214524
Today the attack continues.
In the U.S., Russia’s blending of semi-overt and covert social media accounts use common hashtags and phrases to create what appear to be conservative supporters or alt-right cheerleaders. These social media personas, whose bios are littered with words like “country,” “Christian,” “America” and “military,” then push pro-conservative hashtags loaded with skewed and fake news at American audiences, helping generate organic right wing support and distrust of the U.S. government. These accounts tweet hashtags and keywords in unison at specified time intervals and carry odd follower relationships fitting inorganic, mathematical patterns.
https://warontherocks.com/2016/11/trolling-for-trump-how-russia-is-trying-to-destroy-our-democracy/
As early as August 2015, Russian English-language outlets and their social media allies were promoting Trump—at a time when the idea that he could actually win seemed a distant fantasy. And they kept going throughout the Republican primary, surging at key times. Put differently, Russia didn’t just intervene in the general election against Hillary Clinton—it helped him defeat his anti-Moscow GOP rivals, too. The United Kingdom observed a similar campaign. Dating back to the earliest parts of 2015, Russian media outlets incited fear of immigration and promoted Brexit advocate Nigel Farage’s accusations of American manipulation to foster popular support for the British to leave the EU.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-brexit-referendum/
Some Russian campaigns didn't work. Stories predicting doom from climate change or nuclear war have gained little to no traction in the U.S. Liberal supporters didn’t gravitate to Russian propaganda in substantial numbers, either. But when Russia’s digital propagandists find a message that resonates among a disgruntled American audience, they refocus their efforts to exploit where they find success—predominantly among conservative audiences seeking damaging information against liberals.
Do your own search. Our Intelligence community missed this attack and is now trying to make up for the damage done to our democracy. Do it soon. This information may vanish.
Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC)
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Make America GREAT Again.
Reduce Environmental and other Regulations?
Kepone...
In the US, kepone was produced by Allied Signal Company and LifeSciences Product Company in Hopewell, Virginia. The improper handling and dumping of the substance into the nearby James River (U.S.) in the 1960s and 1970s drew national attention to its toxic effects on humans and wildlife. The product is similar to DDT and is a degradation product of Mirex. The history of Kepone incidents are reviewed in Who's Poisoning America?: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age (1982). In 2009, Kepone was included in the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, which bans its production and use worldwide.
The James River was closed to fishing for thirteen years.
Volkswagen...
The EPA discovered Volkswagen had intentionally programmed turbocharged direct injection (TDI) diesel engines to activate certain emissions controls ONLY during laboratory emissions testing. The programming caused the vehicles' NOx output to MEET US standards during regulatory testing but emit up to 40 TIMES MORE NOx in real-world driving. Volkswagen deployed this programming in about eleven million cars worldwide, and 500,000 in the United States, during model years 2009 through 2015. The EPA fined Volkswagen US$2.8 billion criminal and US$1.5 billion in civil penalties, 6 executives have been charged.
Kepone...
In the US, kepone was produced by Allied Signal Company and LifeSciences Product Company in Hopewell, Virginia. The improper handling and dumping of the substance into the nearby James River (U.S.) in the 1960s and 1970s drew national attention to its toxic effects on humans and wildlife. The product is similar to DDT and is a degradation product of Mirex. The history of Kepone incidents are reviewed in Who's Poisoning America?: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age (1982). In 2009, Kepone was included in the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants, which bans its production and use worldwide.
The James River was closed to fishing for thirteen years.
Volkswagen...
The EPA discovered Volkswagen had intentionally programmed turbocharged direct injection (TDI) diesel engines to activate certain emissions controls ONLY during laboratory emissions testing. The programming caused the vehicles' NOx output to MEET US standards during regulatory testing but emit up to 40 TIMES MORE NOx in real-world driving. Volkswagen deployed this programming in about eleven million cars worldwide, and 500,000 in the United States, during model years 2009 through 2015. The EPA fined Volkswagen US$2.8 billion criminal and US$1.5 billion in civil penalties, 6 executives have been charged.
Positive Train Control...
Since 1990 the technology and hardware has been available to prevent accidents. Positive train control (PTC) is a system of functional requirements for monitoring and controlling train movements as an attempt to provide increased safety. The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) describes Positive Train Control as having these primary characteristics. President George W. Bush signed the 315-page Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 into law on October 16, 2008 Among its provisions, the law provides funding to help pay for the development of PTC technology, limits the number of hours freight rail crews can work each month, and requires the Department of Transportation to determine work hour limits for passenger train crews.
In October 2015 Congress passed a bill extending the compliance deadline by three years, to December 31, 2018 Meanwhile many passengers have been killed or injured in accidents that could have been prevented.
This list could go on for thousands of violations of environmental regulations that caused direct harm to humans and animals. There are reasons for the regulations we have and why we update them as new knowledge is acquired regarding human safety.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
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