Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223

by espeed • 15 years ago

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nepenthe• 15 years ago

As a former PSYOPer, I am disappointed that Rolling Stone Magazine did not use the correct term which is PSYOP and not PSY-Ops or PSYOPS.

spin2• 15 years ago

That's what bothers you? Not the subversion of democracy?

nepenthe22• 15 years ago

Can you provide me a single instance of democracy that is independent of PSYOP?

Human life is about effecting change from the first instance of cognition.

Perhaps you can share what it is that bothers you enough to prompt your question to me?

*Note: Ironic that with my username, I forgot my password.

ajays• 15 years ago

Single page: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-ge...

davidw• 15 years ago

This is most emphatically not hacker news.

espeed• 15 years ago

This is in relation to these from last week:

Air Force Contract for Persona Management Software https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id...

A rare look into North Korea's famed Propaganda School http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2238661

New open-source project called "The Propaganda Project" (http://www.propagandaproject.org/) that is building a Web service that will enable people to identify and catalog instances of propaganda techniques used in mass media with the goal of getting more truth out of the networks by influencing them to eliminate propaganda from news-related programs.

lionhearted• 15 years ago

> ...and a photo of a warning inside a Port-o-John mocking Afghans – "In case any of you forgot that you are supposed to sit on the toilet and not stand on it and squat. It’s a safety issue. We don’t want you to fall in or miss your target."

That sounds crass to Americans, but it's actually a big problem with Western-style toilets in countries that primary have squat toilets. Oftentimes people accustomed to squat toilets will stand on the toilet seat and it turns into a huge mess.

Even in nice places you'll sometimes see muddy shoeprints and mess on the toilet seats in Vietnam, for instance and it's a headache for people who want to sit on the toilet.

jimfl• 15 years ago

Fascinating. I read the whole thing. Then I flagged it.

Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators

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