The latest fad is to import other people’s problems, those who question the wisdom of that, are lynched.
Topics that spark Wikipedia ‘edit wars’ revealed
The most controversial topics in Wikipedia (pdf)
‘a bucket of cold water on the head of a drunk’
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?
Newly elected government has prioritized, ~ repaying the 13 families who have declared ownership over our most valuable natural resource is legion.
Paying only half of what is customary in Production sharing agreements is to much for these reptiles.
” The most obvious device the business community has to influence politicians are direct financial contributions, both to political parties and individual politicians.
Ways must be found to draw a clear distinction between financial life and politics.
It is not acceptable that the current custodians of the public interest, serve private interest in a manner as was done in the running up to the banking crisis. ”
~ Special Investigation Commission (SIC) vol 8, p.164-170.
Óbreytt veiðigjald (Petition 35,000+)
Óbreytt veiðigjald (Facebook)
Obvious nonsense (is)
HowTo in 5 Easy Steps (is)
Faceless Money Power?
Interesting BA Thesis in Political Science (is)
The Power of the Powerless
Production sharing agreements
Ludicrous folly (is)
Wall Street: Crime Never Sleeps
Óbreytt veiðigjald (Too Rich To Pay)
HowTo in 5 Easy Steps (is)
The Ministry of Public Enlightenment is pleased to deliver us all the way into (and out-of) the voting booth. – but why? – Come and join the feast of Fools!
“Today’s pollsters have become our secular priests, and politicians and journalists flock to them for guidance.
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Susan Herbst has offered a timely and sophisticated analysis of the history and meaning of public opinion. Herbst’s central argument is that the method for measuring public sentiment profoundly shapes the expression and meaning of public opinion. Herbst convincingly challenges the prevailing treatment of polls as simply a neutral measuring mechanism for producing a clear, objective rendering of the mass public’s attitudes. Instead, she argues that public opinion is a constructed category and a mechanism that politicians and others use to control or domesticate the mass public.”
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” ~ Tim Berners-Lee
Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped … Politics.
The Privatizing of Public Opinion
Manufacturing Consent
The Asset Striping of the Credit Unions
List of cognitive biases
100 Systematic Thinking Errors (mp3)
Fairies spin the yarn and pipers lead the children
Having inherited the monarchy from Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm of Glücksborg – the ‘ruling élite’ of Disney~Land has no intention of surrendering any of their power to the people.
A likely member in the next government equated his opposition to the new constitutional draft with the war on communism. Even in the land of ‘hope and change’ they have long since replaced that -ism with another.
However, the aversion towards Europe (and anything foreign) is because of their continued interference in internal affairs. – Politically connected wealth is obviously a problem we don’t have.
Networks of Power
OSCE – “structural imbalances in weight of the vote” (pdf)
GRECO – “Regarding members of parliament” (pdf)
Verfassungsexperiment ist so gut wie gescheitert
Stockholm syndrome (traumatic bonding)
The “war of the lists,” (we never got to see)
Offshore secrets (Is there still hope?)
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
TheICIJ ~ YouTube
List of depreciation to companies in the wake of the economic collapse 2008 (is)
Kissinger Cables (jan 2009)
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
This video isn’t available anymore
Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
The Koch’s legacy
Property rights vs. human rights
The Power Elite by C.Wright Mills
Who Rules America
Neil Barofsky on the Need to Tackle Banking Reform
Before the Election was Over, Wall Street won
The Seventeen Solutions
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Infrastructure Report Card
‘Lagarde List’ ~ Kostas Vaxevanis
