" But these weren't leaders of the protest movement that has challenged the country's ruling Sunni monarchy. They were members of a "youth delegation" put together by a top American public relations firm, Qorvis, which has been working with Bahrain to shore up the country's image in the United States. "

" The "its a tactic not a group" line seems to substantially be for external consumption. ... Internally, BB does not appear to maintain the "this is just a tactic not a group" illusion: "

" Usually, though, the Kremlin line is enforced the way it is everywhere else in Russian television: by the reporters and editors themselves. “There is no censorship per se,” says another RT reporter. “But there are a lot of young people at the channel, a lot of self-starters who are eager to please the management. You can easily guess what the Kremlin wants the world to know, so you change your coverage.” "

" Meanwhile, the family that OWS claimed to be putting into the vacant house has not yet permanently moved in. And it turns out the family is not a random victim of the foreclosure crisis, but cast for the part, thanks to their connection to the OWS movement.

" OWS last week said it has spent $9,500 breaking into the house and setting it up for the homeless Carrasquillo family. A photo of the smiling family covers a window, under the slogan, “A place to call home.”

" The head of the family, Alfredo Carrasquillo, 28, is an organizer for VOCAL-NY, a group that works with OWS. His Facebook page shows him in a “99 Percent” T-shirt at an OWS protest in November.

" The Post visited the Vermont Street home last week — six weeks after OWS announced that the Carrasquillos were moving in — and the family was nowhere to be found.

" In fact, the only people occupying the house were occupiers themselves. "

" In December, in the middle of Belarus' postelection protests, a number of opposition websites were forced down by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. But instead of just pulling them down, some independent media websites were also mirrored, including the website of RFE/RL's Belarus Service. "

" The mirrored sites seemed to have two primary purposes: 1) to present an exact mirror minus any overtly critical stories of the authorities. 2) disinformation, for example by presenting inaccurate information about the time/location of opposition rallies. "

" After repeated attempts at facilitation, however, even the most noble Expat Aid Workers realize that if they want to succeed at their job, rather than facilitatation, they need to learn the gentle art of facipulation: a delicate blend of facilitation (catalyzing, easing and supporting conversations and actions around themes and issues important to the community and/or program participants) and manipulation (steering conversations towards their INGO’s established themes and goals, and ensuring that actions and decisions made by local people support their INGO’s interests and happen within the time frame stipulated by their donors). "

"The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda... deleting detainee ID numbers from Wikipedia, the systematic posting of unattributed "self praise" comments on news organization web sites..."

"Over the past year, I have run clandestine marketing campaigns meant to ensure that promotional videos become truly viral... I will share some of the techniques I use to do my job: to get at least 100,000 people to watch my clients’ “viral” videos"

"Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit.""

"The decision to distribute public service announcements and other videos over YouTube represents the first concerted effort by the U.S. government to influence customers of the popular service, which shows more than 100 million videos per day."

""Mounting" evidence? Shouldn't we already have lots of evidence after over a year of intensive surveillance? WTF is going on here?"

"So far as we know at this point, no bombs have been found. No chemicals. No equipment. No labs. No testing ground. Maybe this will come out later, but it hasn't so far, even though the authorities seem anxious to tell just about everything they know."

"BE AFRAID!! Oh God, the Brown Bad people could strike any moment! ... AAGAGAHAHAHHAG! Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"

"Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for "Another 9/11". The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shovelled."