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Thirty-Two Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation
Thirty-Two Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises together in such a way as to extract favors, […]
The Lab Rat That Survives Is The One Who Escapes
vinepair.com The Lab Rat That Survives Is The One Who Escapes To prosper, break free of society’s efforts to control you. If you’re feeling like a lab rat in a science experiment, manipulated by shadowy forces for unknown purposes, that’s because you’re waking up to the reality of the situation. We are a nation of […]
America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control
America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops. The first and foremost means of […]
“I’m Committing Professional Suicide”: CBS Star Reporter Admits “Mostly Liberal” Journalists Are Now “Political Activists”
“I’m Committing Professional Suicide”: CBS Star Reporter Admits “Mostly Liberal” Journalists Are Now “Political Activists” CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan has broken ranks and admitted that journalists have lost their objectivity and become “political activists.” During an appearance on the Mike Drop podcast with retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan admitted that “the media […]
Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle Jerk
Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Venezuela Coup Circle Jerk Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop talking points. Before they implement crushing starvation sanctions, they demonize and condemn. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing starts, manipulation paves the way. For this reason, the front line of any antiwar […]
Google Manipulated YouTube Search Results To Program Users’ Behavior
Google Manipulated YouTube Search Results To Program Users’ Behavior In a new leak that can be accurately labeled “the smoking gun,” Google has been busted manipulating search results on YouTube in order to manipulate social behaviors and control minds. An internal discussion thread leaked to Breitbart Newsreveals that Google regularly intervenes in search results on […]
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia
The Curious Case of The Economist: How It Manipulates Its Readers with Slanted Comment on Russia The Economist magazine is an admirable publication to which I have subscribed for over fifty years, with gaps now and then. While serving in Vietnam in 1970 its weekly arrival was a major event, as we were bereft of sensible reportage about […]
The Bank of England and the Manipulation of Sterling
The Bank of England and the Manipulation of Sterling In a recent article where I discussed the Bank of England being at the heart of the Brexit process, I mentioned how the fall in the value of sterling following the 2016 referendum was pigeonholed by the bank as being the sole cause for inflation breaching their […]
Deepfakes And Political Manipulation
Deepfakes And Political Manipulation Not a day seems to go by without the American media writing about Russia’s Internet meddling in the US elections. Major international and specialist publications headquartered in the US are routinely regurgitating the myth about “Russian trolls” and “GRU hackers” without a single shred of evidence besides unsubstantiated accusations. Actually, evidence […]
Paul Volcker’s Fed Criticism Hints at Potential Recession
Paul Volcker’s Fed Criticism Hints at Potential Recession From Birch Gold Group In the 1980’s, amidst out-of-control inflation, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker employed a controversial economic strategy of high interest rates to combat the issue. In that case, the economic band-aid, dubbed “The Volcker Rule”, worked. Volcker is 91 now, and as reported in […]
Dollar Libor Jumps To Fresh 10 Year High, Adding To Funding Headwinds
Dollar Libor Jumps To Fresh 10 Year High, Adding To Funding Headwinds It may be the bete noir of the credit market, but despite the gradual phase out of the infamous manipulated benchmark, Libor remains the reference rate for trillions in floating rate debt instruments, and in a further indication that monetary conditions are tightening […]
We Should Ditch GDP as a Measure of Economic Activity
WE SHOULD DITCH GDP AS A MEASURE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY This article exposes the false economic concepts behind GDP, which is only the visible tip of a large iceberg of economic deceit. Describing an increase in GDP as economic growth owes its meagre validity to imprecise definition. An economy does not grow, only the quantity […]
Mother Jones Writer Shows What Happens When You Apologize To A Manipulator
Mother Jones Writer Shows What Happens When You Apologize To A Manipulator Have you ever noticed how rare sincere apologies are in politics? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Normal people apologize to each other every day, for accidentally interrupting someone or standing in their way, for being inconsiderate or forgetful, for being […]
The Employment Report Has Become Orwellian In The Extreme
The Employment Report Has Become Orwellian In The Extreme “Today’s job numbers might be the biggest disaster I’ve ever seen reported. This Fall could get real ugly real fast. The deterioration of the participation rate is so big it makes me suspicious of earlier numbers.” – John Titus, producer of Best Evidencevideos. Titus goes on […]
