Unless you’re in a cave, in which case, you wouldn’t be reading this anyway, your life has been tremendously impacted by the Covid-19 virus. Here in California, Governor Newsome has placed our National Guard on alert on March 17, 2020. As the governor noted in his press release (see: https://bit.ly/33IaACt) “As Californians make sacrifices… Continue reading PSYOP and Covid
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Will the United States Declare Freedom from COVID-19 Too Soon?
Date Meets Biden’s Goal Daily Deaths Probability 7/4/21 FALSE 2.62E-07 0.05 7/4/21 FALSE 3.14E-07 0.1 7/4/21 FALSE 3.83E-07 0.2 7/4/21 FALSE 4.29E-07 0.3 7/4/21 FALSE 4.68E-07 0.4 7/4/21 FALSE 5.13E-07 0.5 7/4/21 FALSE 5.62E-07 0.6 7/4/21 FALSE 6.26E-07 0.7 7/4/21 FALSE 7.17E-07 0.8 7/4/21 FALSE 8.54E-07 0.9 7/4/21 FALSE 9.68E-07 0.95 7/4/21 TRUE 2.14E-07 0.05… Continue reading Will the United States Declare Freedom from COVID-19 Too Soon?
Retired Doctors and Nurses First – PSYOP, PA and IO Next?
We know we are losing the information war. Our peer adversaries, China and Russia are cleaning our information clock. They waging economic war through global investments and have seized Covad-19 as a major theme for disinformation. (see: https://nyti.ms/33Yy9Xr, which is also a photo source.) The pandemic has fostered a critical shortage of medical personnel, the… Continue reading Retired Doctors and Nurses First – PSYOP, PA and IO Next?
Progress on Infrastructure, but the Devil May Be in the Details
After decades of incremental steps by Congress to address national infrastructure needs, the Biden administration recently unveiled a 32-page, $2.3 trillion plan that combines federal spending on traditional physical infrastructure with federal spending on workforce training and education, research and development of new technologies, as well as affordable housing. Senate Republicans countered with a 2-page,… Continue reading Progress on Infrastructure, but the Devil May Be in the Details
Zoombombing As PSYOP
We’re all confined to quarters thanks to Covid-19. As a result, we have turned to video collaboration platforms such as Cisco WebEx, Adobe Connect, Citrix Go To Meeting MicroSoft Team, GoogleHangout and of course, Zoom. On March 20, 2020 the New York Times ran an article ‘Zoombombing’:when Video Conferences Go Wrong (see: https://nyti.ms/2XoqJM3, which is… Continue reading Zoombombing As PSYOP
Biden’s Proposed New Health Agency Would Emphasize Innovation. Here’s How It Might Work
When President Biden recently presented Congress, and Americans, with his vision for an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the acronym may have sounded familiar. It should have. The new health agency would be modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA, a Department of Defense research and development agency. DARPA… Continue reading Biden’s Proposed New Health Agency Would Emphasize Innovation. Here’s How It Might Work
China’s Disinformation is not as important as Economic Blackmail as an Influence Weapon
It is often said that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” China has been in the forefront of the Covad-19 pandemic. The press has widely covered allegations of Chinese efforts to disinform the American public by providing false information about the virus and by trying to foment panic. Two articles chronicling the disinformation… Continue reading China’s Disinformation is not as important as Economic Blackmail as an Influence Weapon
Culture, Performance, and Assessment in Research
The unwritten, and often unsaid, concern in the debate about research culture in the UK is an apparent trade-off between excellence in research and a healthy research culture. This debate has been stimulated by the Wellcome Trust and the CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Ottoline Leyser. But the evidence shows that this is… Continue reading Culture, Performance, and Assessment in Research
A Memorial Day Like No Other
We need this long weekend, perhaps more than ever before. Whether student or teacher, parent or child, provider or patient, we have endured much over the past year. And Memorial Day weekend signals the beginning of the summer season. Although Memorial Day weekend calls for us to rejoice, we must also remember its purpose: to… Continue reading A Memorial Day Like No Other
The PSYOP of Riots
Mission High School, San Francisco, CA PSYOP is a powerful weapon and can be very effective on both sides of the riot equation: offense and defense. We have all seen the pictures and videos of demonstrations protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN. This picture is from the San Jose (California) Mercury News… Continue reading The PSYOP of Riots