{"id":4367,"date":"2011-02-24T18:40:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2011-02-24T18:40:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:40:54","slug":"psyops-on-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/psyops-on-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"PsyOps on Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of creepazoid tactics beloved of governments: I&#8217;m not sure why <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> is so scandalized that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Army in Afghanistan used PsyOps<\/a> to try to manipulate senators and other power-mongers into sending more troops and more taxbux.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously now. It&#8217;s illegal. It&#8217;s a waste of money. It&#8217;s a sneaky attempt to gain more power and influence. It&#8217;s business as usual! Where exactly is the news here???<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Maybe the idea that government officials actually have brains to be manipulated? Otherwise, can&#8217;t imagine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of creepazoid tactics beloved of governments: I&#8217;m not sure why Rolling Stone is so scandalized that the U.S. Army in Afghanistan used PsyOps to try to manipulate senators and other power-mongers into sending more troops and more taxbux. I mean, seriously now. It&#8217;s illegal. It&#8217;s a waste of money. It&#8217;s a sneaky attempt to gain more power and influence. It&#8217;s business as usual! Where exactly is the news here??? Oh. Maybe the idea that government officials actually have brains to be manipulated? Otherwise, can&#8217;t imagine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}