The Money-Empathy Gap
Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior
Ronnie Moas
The world is in fact run by seven-foot lizards:
“Influence Technicians”
“Weapons of Influence”
The Politics of Misinformation
Propaganda Critic
The results are in for Happy-Town:
In a country where people are automatically registered to vote – and do not lose this right for any reason – this takes some explaining.
Show Some Respect!
Tools of the trade (tradesmen & who pays them?):
The “Propaganda model” and it’s components: Agenda Setting, Predetermine, Select, Shape, Control and Restrict by: Selection of Topics, Distribution of Concerns, Emphasis, Framing of Issues, Filtering of Information and Bounding of Debate.
A new ‘farming’ season has just started. Well crafted public relationship exercise, with all the usual ingredients, from sweet words to celebrities and nationality.
No mention of private profits, or dangers of exploiting personal information.
– No Place to Hide and ‘Secrets‘ expose the myth of secure data.
Endorsement from captured ‘bodies’ does little to support informed opinion, – when a ‘label’ and a ‘flag’ is used to hide the actual owners. 2011/12 Amagen acquires deCODE for $415 million (from Chapter 11 Furniture Sales?).
The guardians of public interest also forgot to mention, that, in 2012 Amgen paid $762 million after pleading guilty to criminal charges of improper promotion and sale of misbranded drugs.
in a minuscule country we have little use for revolving doors, classmates and bridge partners suffice.
And who are the masters of disguise? – The Snakes in Suits. Those parading under the Mask of Sanity. Their Character traits are well known.- But how do we protect our self?
What about the ‘consent’ media, – why are they calling what they do ‘churnalism‘?
Liz Hayes? – Anyone?
Is this inability to learn and tendency to line up to be pruned a subject worthy of a paired study with e.g. Nulandistan?
By the way, there is no need for amateur postmen, except of course to foster “aggressive narcissism”.
The Five Ws:
Perception management
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
Search and Rescue for Social influence
The Mask of Sanity
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Big Parma: What?, Who? Amgen?
Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher
Pill Pushers
Is your Doctor for Sale?
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‘Nothing to Hide‘
SophieCo / Eric King – Privacy International
Ethics in Science and Medicine
Decoding broken promises
Manufacturing Consent 25 Years Later
At long last, – a response to the blitzkrieg:
Contrary to practices in a mature democratic society (is)
Scientific rationality, uncertainty and the governance of human genetics
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We have TWO (2) News media actually doing journalism (my bad):
Abused the rights of thousands of Icelanders (.is)
Same 100,000 they are after now? – Grounds for Class action lawsuit?
kjarninn (.pdf .is) pointed to conflicting information about what Amgen actually bought, and NextCODE (a spin-out), also tells a different story. – More on the Synonym.
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Our leaky vessel (sic)
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In jet another teachers strike, – is there time for reflection?
Commodities for the (not so current) job market or free and creative minds?
Rose, Jonathan, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Wilhelm Fon Humboldt
Wage slavery
Adam Smith: Gain wealth, forgetting all but self.
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Charter of the Forest
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – Confidential Memorandum: Attack on the American Free Enterprise System.
Trilateral Commission: The Crisis of Democracy
Thomas Ferguson: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics
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Edward Bernays (The global PR industry: $11bn rev., 75,000 EE)
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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
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Gold 2.0
The Bankers’ New Clothes
Controlling the Lens: (Every Fairytale Needs a Good Old Fashioned Villain)
WhoWhatWhy
.| “Without delay” | maybe someday |
|---|---|
| “Live broadcast” | ‘enhanced’ tape-delay |
| “Not privatization” | cronyism |
| “Impossibility” | nuisance |
| “Unimplementable” | irritating |
| “Integrity” | broken campaign promises |
| “Safeguards” | broken campaign promises |
| “Reasoned discussion” | shut the fuck up |
| “Speculations” | the government budget |
| “Campaign promises” | speculations |
| “Immediately” | never |
| “Simple” | impossible |
| “National Consensus” | the will of the minister |
| “Nature reserves” | more Power Plants |
| “Restructuring” | cutbacks |
| “Solidarity” | obedience |
| “Safeguarded” | abolished |
| “Untraditional” | the MP is lying |
| “Thinking aloud” | the MP is lying |
| “Money in the Post” | more comities & no fulfillment |
Adapted from Jonas.is
Repeat after me:
“Redundancies reasonable and necessary”
– today it is Public broadcasting – to morrow it will be …
“The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.” ~ Arundhati Roy
Now that we have one, – we can continue to enjoy the regurgitated BS they call news.
Even our FM took cookies to Kiev à la Nuland, – not doing to well at home?
Newspeak Dictionary
The real battlefield is your mind (1/8)
Reality Asserts Itself (1/4)
Friendly Dictators Trading Cards
Stick it to China, Russia and F**k the EU’.
What will (Neocons only) US look like without the $?
Our involvement, – is it “Good” or “Bad”
In short succession: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Somalia + Egypt, Ukraine, Venezuela etc.
Our own government writes off referendums and prevents new ones.
Democracy is useful only if it cements the cartel’s rule.
‘Dumbing Down’ the News
American Primacy And It’s Geostrategic Imperatives
Covert United States foreign regime change actions (!Fox/CNN)
The Untold History of the United States
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Washington’s hubris, evil set stage for war
THE//INTERCEPT
Encryption-Cracking Quantum Computer?
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Wo Warst Du, Adam?
Warmongers are not taken by the Olympic spirit:
“to build a peaceful and better world in the Olympic Spirit which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play – Olympic Spirit strives to inspire and motivate the youth of the world to be the best they can be through educational and entertaining interactive challenges. Olympic Spirit seeks to instill and develop the values and ideals of Olympism in those who visit and to promote tolerance and understanding in these increasingly troubled time in which we live, to make our world a more peaceful place.”
A Common(s) Problem:
“Yet again the current … Minister of … shamed our country, this time by … Please do not judge … by the … actions of this man, most of us voted against him but we split our votes among opposition parties and must now endure his …”
THE//INTERCEPT
Officer Wolfgang Schmidt
A Dream Come True
Misplaced Conclusions (is)
The Cost of Offshore Revisited
The Giant Pool of Money (..transcript) (..Return)
Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload
Trust
Planet Ponzi
Suiting Themselves
Trust Us, We’re Experts
Language of Persuasion
Wolf of Wall Street
“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.” – Cardinal Richelieu
2013 mass surveillance disclosures
Costs of War Project
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Mailpile – taking e-mail back
All power originates from the people. – Except for real issues foreign or domestic, and god forbid money.
Institutionalized representative democracy stands naked but not ashamed.
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” ~ Frédéric Bastiat
Only if it suits Olaf V.
Pure falsehood and missing filibuster (is)
clearly not very knowledgeable in parliamentary procedure (is)
The Russian Connection in Iceland’s Collapse
Gangsta’s Paradise
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E-stonia’s E-Voting Source Code Made Public
Power of the narrative, what is true and what is false, controlling the world view.
Who gets to narrate: ‘terrorist’, ‘secret’, ‘national security’ ~ high priests, peeping toms or psychopaths?
Inner Party members will all be reelected next spring by grateful Outer Party members (the proles are naturally self-excluded).
It has been successfully proven that the so-called “pots and pan revolution” was only a series of, malreports, misprints, and malquotes which now have been rectified, and that the big unreport never existed.
Assuming any wrongdoing of Inner Party members is certainly a thoughtcrime.
A Prominent Party member was reelected to his post, but 82% of the voters were so appalled by their unwavering loyalty being doubted, that they refused to reply to the question.
Minitrue has succeeded in mediating all articulate speech from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all.
Miniluv is stepping up the heroic campaign against unproductives (unpersons), this obviously is an addition to the highly successful deportation program.
The Two Minutes Hate, continues to be our most revered pastime.
In this the best of all possible worlds 4,000 daily doses of Fluoxetin (Prozac/Soma) are consumed. However, questioning the interplay between Big-Pharma, health workers and actual benefit/recovery of any treatment is of course a thoughtcrime.
The decease is it’s own cause. Q.E.D.
“Our main point is very simple: it is difficult enough to be critical of our own mistakes, but it must be nearly impossible for us to persist in a critical attitude towards those of our actions which involve the lives of many men. To put it differently, it is very hard to learn from very big mistakes.” ~ Karl R. Popper
Modern Newspeak Dictionary
The Poverty of Historicism
Félagsvísar (is)
Who’s your daddy?
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Do you speak Mandarin? (is)
Global Commission on Drug Policy
“..it is a tale. Told by an idiot..”
The Law of Jante
The ten rules state:
An eleventh rule recognized in the novel is:
11. You are not to think that there aren’t a few things we know about you.
The Formation of Men’s Attitudes (Notes..)
Perception management
Ecstatic over SFO failings
The Lonely Crowd
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Escape from Freedom
The Medium is the Massage
MediaGoblin!
What we’ve got:
Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride.
And how did we get there? – According to the North Koreans by:
Creating Ideas & Illusions, Fear, Religion, (not) Beware the 1%, Emulating Psychosis, Rewriting History, The Birth of Propaganda, Cover Ups and Omissions, Complicity, Censorship, International Diplomacy, Television, Advertising, The Cult of Celebrity, Distraction, Terrorism, The Revolution Starts Now (or the lack there of).
Lies! It’s all lies! – Liar (It Takes One to Know One)
Fair and balanced (We report, you decide.):
The Heritage Foundation
The Cato Institute
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Global elite hides £13tn from taxman
Super-rich stash $21 tn in offshore havens
What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
How much of Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness, and Humility can we get for a TRILLION?
Small green pieces of paper
The Screwtape Letters
The Culture Industry
Media literacy
