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We Are Being Played
We Are Being Played If any evidence existed to be found that Donald Trump had illegally colluded with the Russian government to rig the 2016 presidential election, that evidence would have been picked up by the sprawling surveillance networks of the US and its allies and leaked to the Washington Post before Obama left office. Russiagate […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
Cyclical Synchronization & the Global Economy Make Manipulation Impossible
Cyclical Synchronization & the Global Economy Make Manipulation Impossible A metronome is an instrument to measure the time and that the musicians use for their work. One of the most curious phenomena is observed when different metronomes that have a different frequency between themselves end up synchronizing perfectly. This symbolizes what I find so fascinating […]
How To Beat A Manipulator
How To Beat A Manipulator I’ve been busy working through some of my own stuff lately, while marveling at how closely my personal journey has been mirrored in the larger world. I wrote out the following as a personal exercise while meditating on all the similarities between abusive personal relationships with manipulators and our relationship as […]
SELCO: “The media manipulated people, bombarding us with fear and hate” during the Balkan Wars. Sound familiar?
SELCO: “The media manipulated people, bombarding us with fear and hate” during the Balkan Wars. Sound familiar? Editor’s note: A point I’ve been harping on a lot lately is how we in the United States have been divided by politics and the media lately. Many have become callous and lost their humanity. People havebegged for […]
From Bernays to Trump, Hooked on Misery
From Bernays to Trump, Hooked on Misery The father of modern public relations and spin, Edward Bernays was a cold, cynical manipulator of mass perception. He knew that by shaping people’s desires in a certain way, governments and corporations could sell just about any notion to the masses and manipulate them at will. Whether it […]
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid
Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic TreeAll of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That’s a bad enough sign all by itself. It means they all either have been asleep, complicit, or they’re not very […]
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is
The US Empire Is Acting Like A Desperate, Cornered Animal, Because That’s What It Is I love Americans. I get friendly flak from some of my more jaded lefty readers whenever I say that, because having to deal with the flaws of one’s own countrymen is a very different experience than appreciating them from afar, but […]
Misconduct, Manipulation, Or Malfeasance? – US Regulators Begin Probe Of VIX Funds
Misconduct, Manipulation, Or Malfeasance? – US Regulators Begin Probe Of VIX Funds Ten days after the reality of “rampant manipulation” in VIX was exposed yet again, perhaps because this time the market went down, US regulators are reportedly escalating their investigations into whether any wrongdoing occurred within VIX ETPs. Following previous reports that The Financial […]
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home
The Worst Threat We Face Is Right Here At Home The Federal Reserve is ruining us Last week, volatility made a long-overdue return to the US and global equity markets. It began with a 2-day back-to-back violent drop. Day 3 saw a big rebound, swiftly followed by two more days of gut-wrentching losses. And then […]
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change
Upon The Next Crisis, The Rules Will Suddenly Change For the benefit of the elites; not the rest of us We can add a third certainty to the two standard ones (death and taxes): The rules will suddenly change when a financial crisis strikes. Why is this a certainty? The answer is complex, as it […]
The danger of patriotism
The danger of patriotism My friends, it is frightening how simple we are and how easily we are manipulated simply because we are intellectually lazy. The U.S. establishment has confused cause and effect by and through a flag-waving mania in America. “Patriotism” throughout history has covered a multitude of mischief. We are seeing it now! […]
We Need to Admit the Government Story About 9/11 is Bullshit
We Need to Admit the Government Story About 9/11 is Bullshit It wasn’t just me of course. It was an entire nation that was callously manipulated in the aftermath of that tragedy. The courage and generosity exhibited by so many New Yorkers and others throughout the country and indeed the world was rapidly transformed into […]
Another shoe drops in the FX fraud manipulation conspiracy
Another shoe drops in the FX fraud manipulation conspiracy FX is quite literally, a rigged game. Not like the stock market, well not exactly. FX has been, a game of ‘how many numbers am I holding behind my back?’ and the guess is always wrong! As we explain in Splitting Pennies Understanding Forex – FX […]
