“An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].” GivingWarFocusTeamInformationVariousPsychologicalOperationsFundAfghanistanTroopsSenatorsTaliban Author:Michael Hastings
“The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."” WayHelpingStoriesInformationAffairPsychologicalOperationsSenatorsDefendersPentagonPublic Affairs Author:Michael Hastings
“But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs and propaganda, and essentially say there is no difference between information operations, public affairs and psychological operations. It's all one and the same. They have a new name for that too, it's called Information Engagement.” NamesDifferencesEffortInformationTearsWallAspectAffairPsychologicalPropagandaOperationsEngagementFrighteningPentagonPublic Affairs Author:Michael Hastings
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings
“I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It doesn't mean that humans are dominating the Earth, ruling over all of nature. In fact, it is a reminder that we are only a tiny part of nature, at the mercy of a system whose operations predate us by billions of years, and will continue billions of years after we're gone.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldYearsHumansMeanFactsEarthNaturalGoneTakenMercyBillionsTinyOperationsBoardsRulingRemindersNatural WorldDominating Author:Annalee Newitz
“Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.” WritingWarMatterPoliticalAmountInvolvedNo Matter WhatOperationsHide And SeekPolitical Writing Author:Sasa Stanisic
“The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.” ThinkingMatterStatesPresidentIssuesRepublicanFundamentalsDemocraticCorporateNarrativeOperationsCandidatesVotersCharades Author:Chris Hedges
“Nixon clearly broke the law in the cover up of Watergate and hush money payments. That was all criminal activity. With these guys, we're not talking about the kind of common crimes that Nixon committed. I can't tell you whether they are technically breaking the law, but basically, the American government has been hijacked by neoconservatives. They are taking an awful lot of national security operations into the White House.” KindHas BeensI CanGovernmentLawGuyHouseWhiteCommonTalkingSecurityCrimeActivityCommittedCriminalsAwfulBrokeOperationsWhite HouseNational SecurityPaymentNot TalkingHushCover UpsAmerican GovernmentWatergateBreaking The Law Author:Seymour Hersh
“Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an intelligence mission to be run covertly by the Pentagon, they don't have to tell anybody, including Congress, about it because the President is the commander in chief.” IfsWayStatesRunningLawWinningPresidentLosesIncludingCongressMissionsChiefsOperationsAnalysisDepartmentCommandersCiaPentagonCommander In Chief Author:Seymour Hersh
“I have been a spokesperson for Operation Smile for twenty years helping children with facial deformities. I also have worked with a children's mission called Compassion International. Both are doing amazing work for the children of the world.” WorldYearsChildrenHas BeensHelpingCompassionTwentiesInternationalMissionsOperationsFacialDeformityHelping ChildrenAmazing Work Author:Roma Downey
“Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.” PeopleKnowsDoneNationsUnitedKnow HowFrontsInvolvedOperationsParticipationUnited NationsFacade Author:William A. Rusher
“OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.” YearsGovernmentRunningHalfMilitaryCostDollarsPrisonIraqSpendingDefenseBillionsOperationsParksAfghanistanSeptemberSyriaFederal GovernmentOngoingOther HalfPentagonMilitary OperationsDefense Spending Author:Susan Davis
“Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?” PeopleIfsWorldShouldHeartDoeBigsGovernmentRunningCompassionTakenCuttingSubjectsStudentsProgramUniversityFolksOperationsGuaranteesLoanHeart LoveTuitionStudent LoanBig Heart Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.” DoneProblemEnjoyDealsCompanySituationDoctorsSymbolsOperationsConsultation Author:Charlie Benante
“Saudi Arabia has said that if the US-led coalition against Daesh is prepared to engage in ground operations, we will be prepared to participate with special forces. The Russians say their objective is to defeat Daesh, too. If the deployment of ground troops helps in the fight against Daesh, why is that World War III?” IfsWorldSaidWarHelpingFightingForceSpecialPreparedDefeatObjectivesOperationsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ITroopsBe PreparedArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisCoalitionsDeploymentSpecial Forces Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.” WantTwoOperationsGrievingItalianDrsHostageCondolences Author:Barack Obama
“One of the issues with some of these lenders is going to be, where will their provider of credit be when there's a crisis? That's why some of these smarter services, to support their operations, are courting more permanent capital. They want a source of longer-term funding that can survive a crisis.” WantTermSupportIssuesSourceCrisisCreditPermanentOperationsSmarterFundingProvidersLenders Author:Jamie Dimon
“My guess is the big Chinese banks will be in 100 countries by then. They will have very sophisticated operations, and they may very well have bought banks around the world in countries that allow it. I mean, I don't think the American government would allow them to buy JPMorgan. But they will be able to buy a sizable big bank in the U.S. at some point. Whether they do or not, or if it's allowed or not, I don't know.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWellsMayMeanCountryBigsGovernmentAbleAround The WorldChineseOperationsSophisticatedAmerican Government Author:Jamie Dimon
“If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.” IfsWayFirstsLooksGroupsBlowOperationsIslamicBombsRegionsTargetPalestineJihadHamas Author:Michael Scheuer
“Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.” ReasonPoliticianIsraelOperationsOfficialsCriticizeOur RelationshipAmerican PoliticsMartyrdom Author:Michael Scheuer
“I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we’re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week...” ThinkingShouldGovernmentKidsAbleThreeWeekSafeOperationsReviewsLunchMinimumThree TimesPeanutsPeanut ButterFda Author:Barack Obama
“Journalists go to press briefings at the Ministry of Defense in London or the Pentagon in Washington, and no critical questions are posed at all. It's just a news-gathering operation, and the fact that the news is being given by governments who are waging war doesn't seem to worry many journalists too much.” WarFactsSeemsGovernmentGivenWorryToo MuchNewsPressesCriticalDefenseLondonJournalistOperationsMinistryGatheringPentagonWaging WarBriefing Author:Tariq Ali
“Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.” MindGivenPrayerCreationExerciseSeriesIntentionWork OutOperationsFacultyLinksMakersContinuingLenten Author:E. Stanley Jones
“Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.” MeanPersonsCertainPrayerPrayingCommitmentOperations Author:E. Stanley Jones
“What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what's going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he'd have millions of dollars in the bank.” KnowsYearsHas BeensHappensKidsSchoolLastsHurtMillionsPicksHigh SchoolDollarsOperationsLast YearKentuckyAfter High SchoolNoelLife After High School Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I also miss the support that I had of so many people. You know I'm a very Ma and Pa operation right now, and I was used to having everything working for me. It was a similar situation when I left Anne Klein and started Donna Karan. All of a sudden I was working in my apartment and it was, "Oh my god, what am I doing?"” PeopleKnowsUsedLeftSituationSupportMissingRight NowOperationsApartment Author:Donna Karan
“I was one of the first people to put [Ambassador] Joe Wilson on TV and, of course, exposing that entire attempt to smear him by exposing his wife [CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson]. And we sat down to do a long interview by satellite and we publicized it for several days.” PeopleFirstsLongCoursesWifeTvsOperationsSatInterviewsOfficersCiaAmbassadorsExposingSatellitesWilson Author:Keith Olbermann
“I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.” PeopleHandsWonderExampleFairsTradeWestAidsOperationsReliefGoodsAffectedMore MoneyDeliveryFair Trade Author:Paul Kagame
“I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.” YearsTwoHardWholeSchoolLinesPathHard WorkSucceedShotsDecidedProfitCreditCardsOperationsRanRestaurantsTwo YearsModestVisaBusiness SchoolBootstrapsRestaurant Business Author:Ryan Holmes
“In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.” WayUseNaturalEssentialsBenefitsResourcesDestructionSpeciesOperationsHuntingWildlifeTourismBreedingNatural Resources Author:David Jeremiah Barron
“Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.” IfsMayPoliticalCertainSituationConflictProfitSurfaceAriseOperationsManifestation Author:William S. Burroughs
“I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.” FeelsHumansFeelingsCertainLinesConsciousnessPressureInstrumentsImpressionOperationsHostPrincipalExpansionMonopolySensoryMutation Author:William S. Burroughs
“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] Laâbi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.” IfsHas BeensArtBodyAbleRiskTenComfortablePercentOrganizationProfitOperationsGrantsPensNinetyTranslationsSalaryFundingNicheSpecialists Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely
“All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.” EnergyActivityOperationsCognizant Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.” MenImpossibleNegativeOperationsOne ManMessed UpFiling Author:Garry Winogrand
“Russia will not take part in any field operations on the territory of Syria or in other states; at least, we do not plan it for now. But we are thinking of how to intensify our work both with President al-Assad and our partners in other countries.” ThinkingCountryStatesPresidentPlansFieldsPartnersRussiaOperationsAlsTerritoryOther CountriesSyriaAssad Author:Vladimir Putin
“The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed.” SpecialEarsIndiaAncientIndianNosesOperationsBranchesDedicatedHinduismPhysiciansSurgeryImprovingSurgeonsBorrowed Author:Howard W. Hunter
“I find it hard even now not to look on your North African strategy with a jaundiced eye. Cross Channel operations for the liberation of France and advance on Germany, we should finish the war quicker. Yes, probably, but not the way we hope to finish it.” WayShouldLooksWarHardEyeHistoryCrossesStrategyFranceLiberationOperationsGermany Author:George C. Marshall
“My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.” WorldLooksI CanNationsJusticePrinciplesSupportBecomingOperationsPakistanImpartialityGuiding PrinciplesBecoming One Author:Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.” WorldTodayOperationsRealisingDiplomacyAmbassadorsDiningPredictingToday's WorldAnalysing Author:Chester Bowles
“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.” IfsTurnsGivenMemoriesRiskSubjectsJudgmentPerceptionAimOperationsEtcAffirmationCompetenceCompetentAssessmentInference Author:Ernest Sosa
“We're at war with the ISIS caliphate that sprang up because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama precipitously withdrew all American forces from Iraq and created a vacuum of power, that ISIS was able to overrun vast territories that our soldiers had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom.” WarAbleForceClintonSoldierIraqBarackOperationsTerritoryIsisVacuums Author:Mike Pence
“If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.” IfsWayTryingDifferentProblemAnswersKnownCreatingPerformancesOperationsSomething NewEnginesExecutionRight WayRight AnswersCreating Something Author:Scott D. Anthony
“If you go to chefs all across America and ask them, 'What's your biggest problem right now?,' It is finding people to cook in their restaurants. They're having an enormous, countrywide problem here staffing their operations.” PeopleIfsProblemAmericaAsksRight NowFindingsEnormousCooksOperationsRestaurantsChefStaffing Author:Anthony Bourdain
“In fact, The Party has provided so much of the ground game and field operation and data operation to supplement what we already had, when I got here, and what we're building on, that we literally are doing it with them, in these swing states. The RNC is the party. And the RNC is also helping these candidates.” StatesFactsHelpingGamesPartyFieldsBuildingDataOperationsCandidatesSwingsSupplements Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I believe military force can be used to redress or change the balance of power in the world, but I think that that's always a losing operation if you're not trying to do it in a way which corresponds to the basic desires of the people on whom you are acting.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayTryingBelieveUsedDesireForceI BelieveActingMilitaryBalanceLosingOperationsMilitary ForceRedressBalance Of Power Author:Pierre Trudeau
“The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.” DoeCountrySometimesStatesForceUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryWillingThreatOperationsPermitOther CountriesMilitary ForceUs Military Author:Noam Chomsky
“Experts on both sides, both parties say that, [Donald Trump] is going to turn over the operation to his three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka. That's not a blind trust. According to experts we talked to, they're involved now in choosing the next government.” ChildrenGovernmentTurnsThreeNextSidesPartyTrumpInvolvedBlindOperationsExpertsBoth SidesEricBlind Trust Author:Brian Ross
“Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.” TogetherFightingResultsAchieveCommunicationApproachProgramIntelligentIncludingOperationsAlsHostInitiativeMinistryPreciseInteriorsEmployedImpressiveFacilityStrategicComprehensiveExtremistArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisCorrectionsSuperbRiyadh Author:David Petraeus
“Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.” CountryEffortSignificantOperationsOther CountriesAssistancePakistan Author:David Petraeus