'Narcissists idealize potential new sources of narcissistic supply and later devalue and discard them. Cycles of over-valuation (idealization) followed by devaluation ... They reflect the need to be protected against the whims, needs, and choices of others, shielded from the hurt that they can inflict on the narcissist. The ultimate and only emotional need of the narcissist is to be the subject of attention and, thus, to support his volatile self-esteem and to regulate his sense of self worth. The narcissist is dependent on others for the performance of critical Ego functions. While healthier people overcome disappointment or disillusionment with relative ease – to the narcissist they are the difference between Being and Nothingness. The quality and reliability of Narcissistic Supply are, therefore, of paramount importance.'

'Dominant Social Theme: Blair started the Libya war. Gaddafi didn't give him and JP Morgan what they wanted and now he's paid a dreadful price. It's all about the money. Modern wars are always about resources. Besides, we're running out of aluminum. Peak Aluminum is only years away! -- The Anglosphere elites have a motive in ensuring the war-for-resources meme is spread about the mainstream media, mainly in leftist newspapers. The idea of greedy, grubbing capitalists is a quite convenient one as it confuses what is actually happening. Much better to blame wars on exploitative corporations than intergenerational familial regimes controlling central banks. Blair ... is being paid to attract heat and light that might otherwise end up striking London's City itself... Blair is yet only a pimple on a larger, uglier visage, though surely a sizeable blemish. -- The roots run much, much deeper. And so does the institutionalized malevolence. Maybe all the way back to Babylon.'

'Pre-Internet, what's happening in the EU would have been buried under mainstream media misdirection. People might not have understood the larger forces at work. But the EU unraveling along with much else has played out under the merciless glare of the alternative press, and the European tribes are aware of the manipulations that are taking place. It is realization of these manipulations that informs ... a surprisingly good piece of reporting. It is written by Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor, who is broadcasting regularly from Greece, and it seems to have concentrated his mind, at least for a while, on what's actually happening. The problems are happening to people, individual people, and it is these people, ultimately, who will formulate a response, not "Greece," not politicians, not "working groups" – not even the IMF or ECB. The EU was not an accident. The "crisis" that now affects the EU was long anticipated and was intended to build a closer political union.'

'Trader Alessio Rastani explains how Goldman Sachs rule the world, not the governments. He explains how the Eurozone crash will wipe out the savings of millions. He states Goldman Sachs rule the world, not our governments – something the BBC did not expect him to say.' -- It's nothing personal, Jack – it's just good business. -- Cutler Beckett

'Faced with a mandate to cut the state's prison population by 30,000, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Monday it would begin allowing prisoners to serve their sentences online. "Inmates are required to log in promptly every morning at 6 a.m.," CDCR secretary Matthew Cate said. "But make no mistake, this is not some online holiday resort prison. Offenders spend at least eight hours a day entering data and can only see visitors in the chat room once a week."'

'Every year the production of opiates is growing, despite the billions of dollars spent by the international community to fight the country's narcotics machine. Heroin and opium are openly used even in the center of Kabul, while NATO says stopping all this is simply not its goal.' -- Guns, Oil, Drugs, Sex. Doin' GODS work.

'The gut may be considered the mammalian second brain and its maximal function is related to many factors including diet, lifestyle, stress, exercise and a balanced microbial environment. How do we discern the intelligence quotient of the gut and its impact on our metabolic, mental and sexual health? In this neolethal age, factors include: poor maternal transfer, dietary impact, pharmaceuticals (acid blockers, antibiotics, vaccines, hormones), poor water quality, excessive hygiene, heavy metals and other toxicants. Which inhabitants in your rainforest are endangered or extinct? Farming our gastrointestinal terrain to achieve a diverse, robust balance of bacteria, microbes and biofilms not only mends the gut but also fulfills the ever expanding role of the biome: immunomodulation, the brain-gut axis, fermentation, vitamin synthesis, hormone production, and detoxification. Happiness, effortless body fat loss and hormonal health can result when the rainforest in the gut is optimized.'

'When the world's leaders begin to warn of something in concert, we try to peer beneath the surface to see what they are really driving at. Austerity – the grinding down of the West's middle class – is one aspect of it, perhaps. But the installation of a global currency is perhaps another. Problem ... solution. Thesis ... antithesis. It has occurred to us, as well, that the powers-that-be miscalculated with this latest downturn. While in another era it might be easy for the elites to utilize such a crisis to their advantage, the Internet itself is likely making this sort of manipulation more difficult. We see a kind of Internet Reformation taking shape around the world that is countering the globalist trends of the Anglosphere power elite. Things will likely get much worse before they get better, but the rising consciousness about the way the world REALLY works means that solutions meant to be implemented from the top down will likely be put in place with a good deal more difficulty.'

'...sincerity is no substitute for education. Lady Gaga, in our view, is being exploited. Her videos are supposed to shock; more importantly, her social "stands" are further confusing young people about the boundaries between what the State ought to do and what it CAN do (almost anything, apparently). In an era where an impossibly wealthy familial elite is trying to drive the world toward global governance as fast as possible, Lady Gaga's social activism fits right in. She emphasizes group rights over individual ones and ignores the larger issues of government-spawned violence to focus on the relentlessly narrow issues of sexual choice that affect small percentages of the larger population. There is her music itself and the violent and sadistic videos that accompany it. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that she is following a kind of script... The elites have always used music and musicians to effect a certain kind of social change. Can it all be a coincidence?'

'Mark Rife’s narcissist manifesto reveals he put no effort into his search for meaning partly because he was not intellectually capable of recognizing meaning when he found it, but mostly because he didn’t want to find a reason not to kill himself. What he wanted to do was mythologize himself. He wanted to create this story about how he gave life a chance, so he could end it with a self-inflicted death in order to communicate to us just how deeply sad he was. It’s important for Mark to know that his friends understand how sad he is. So he’ll murder himself to make them feel it. There is a legend that people die three deaths: the first death is when your body ceases to function. The second death is when you are buried and exists nowhere but in the minds and memories of others. And the third death is when the last person who remembers you dies. I wonder if Mark considered that in killing himself, he was in a way killing his wife again by obliterating so many memories of her.'

'The backlash has been fierce. But no matter how disgruntled, users find it hard to leave Facebook because all their friends are there.' -- The Facebook has you, Neo.

'The worst part of trading in a small office filled with good traders, is you don’t have any good tells on crash days. When I traded in a larger office with more 20 or more guys, days like this were easier. You’d just watch the Urkels. Let me explain. When the market is crashing, you basically have to throw every indicator or fundamental piece of data, save short interest and debt ratios, out the window. The market is running on pure emotion. The only thing that can help you time your trades is focusing on the sentiment of those around you. The only clue of a potential change in market direction comes from watching real-time capitulation of those with skin in the game. If you think it’s morally wrong to use others as a sentiment indicator just remember they’re doing the same thing to you. The sounds and body language of others is the only indicator available to you in times of market dislocation. Use it.'

'The great central banking families that want one world government seem to be driving the West toward bankruptcy in order to get their way. Yes, perhaps the economic degeneration will not cease until global governance is achieved. People will be forced to cry out in grief and pain, accepting the political, monetary, military and judicial centralization... They will be driven toward one world government like beasts herded toward an abattoir. Is there some other explanation that makes sense? This economic system with all its dysfunction and ruin is premeditated. It didn't just "evolve." There are central banks all over the world now, where 50 years ago there were not. Most of these report to the Swiss-based BIS. And what the heck is the BIS? Did you ever hear a news item about the BIS? Did you ever see a reporter standing in front of the BIS, explaining what was going on inside? The BIS may as well not exist. It is part and parcel of a system that does not explain itself...'

'Dominant Social Theme: The Afghan war is under control and the perpetrators will be punished. -- Having helped create the "Arab Spring," NATO and the US now face the hard work of keeping it under control. The idea apparently has been to create a large, low-impact war between a resurgent Islam and the West. To this end, a number of secular regimes have been removed in the Middle East and Africa and if we are correct in our perspective, these regimes will be replaced by Islamic Republics. Most of these republics may be influenced by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, which is penetrated by the CIA at the top. This is how controlled wars are waged. A war is a war. And wars spin out of control or, as in the case of Afghanistan, don't work out so well. The Anglosphere is doing what it can to maintain control. It already has in place a kind of gulag for the Middle East's population of religious young men, many of whom are radicalized by their involuntary incarcerations.'

'Western powers-that-be also intend to drag India and Russia directly into the conflict... It would be most surprising if the current Afghan war does not resolve itself with a further, bloody civil war that pits the Northern Alliance and the remnants of NATO against the Pashtuns and an increasingly destabilized Pakistan. It is a most cynical and even genocidal outcome. ...the Afghan war was never about revenge for 9/11 or even about nation-building. It was a war to advance the one-world ambitions of the Anglosphere power elite. Having been thwarted again, the City of London will be merciless in defeat. The Afghans will pay. That bloody, tortured, irradiated land will not receive a moment's peace. This is the fate that the Anglosphere elites have in mind for the Pashtuns, to punish them for their continued resistance. The Pashtuns have doubtless slowed the rush to one-world government but the price, apparently, shall be one of continued death and despair.'

'Philosophers and psychologists down the centuries have tried to bring our attention to two important but generally neglected facts: we know more than we realize, and we affect more than we realize. Look at the human organism from an evolutionary standpoint and this isn’t hard to understand. Our rational, conscious, symbol-using minds are recent and rather rickety structures built over the top of a superbly adapted mammalian nervous system. ...a great deal of what goes on in our lives depends not on our rational, linguistic, symbol-using minds, but on an intricate and richly communicative nonrational substructure inherited from our animal ancestors, most of which we never notice at all and much of which is highly resistant to any kind of conscious control. Today’s science treats the placebo effect as an obstacle to be gotten out of the way... The operative mage doesn’t want to get rid of the placebo effect. Quite the contrary, he or she wants to amplify it and use it...'

'Most stories have a Macguffin (or two) but you want to make sure your life doesn’t use them: something you pursue, or which motivates you, drives you, that, after all, turns out to be pretty meaningless.'

'As far as their fans are concerned, celebrities fulfil two emotional functions: they provide a mythical narrative (a story that the fan can follow and identify with) and they function as blank screens onto which the fans project their dreams, hopes, fears, plans, values, and desires (wish fulfilment). The slightest deviation from these prescribed roles provokes enormous rage and makes us want to punish (humiliate) the "deviant" celebrities. But why? When the human foibles, vulnerabilities, and frailties of a celebrity are revealed, the fan feels humiliated, "cheated", hopeless, and "empty". To reassert his self-worth, the fan must establish his or her moral superiority over the erring and "sinful" celebrity. The fan must "teach the celebrity a lesson" and show the celebrity "who's boss". It is a primitive defense mechanism – narcissistic grandiosity. It puts the fan on equal footing with the exposed and "naked" celebrity.'

'The study, experts say, suggests that men’s bodies evolved hormonal systems that helped them commit to their families once children were born. It also suggests that men’s behavior can affect hormonal signals their bodies send, not just that hormones influence behavior. And, experts say, it underscores that mothers were meant to have child care help. In the new study, said Christopher Kuzawa, a co-author and Northwestern anthropologist, having higher testosterone to start with “actually predicted that they’re more likely to become fathers,” possibly because men with higher testosterone were more assertive in competing for women or appeared healthier and more attractive. But regardless of initial testosterone level, after having children, the hormone plummeted. Scientists say this suggests a biological trade-off, with high testosterone helping secure a mate, but reduced testosterone better for sustaining family life.'

'This is a technical demo for face substitution technique.'

'About 3 trillion yuan (US$470 billion) of bank loans have been channeled into underground lending in the eastern coastal provinces, China Banking Regulatory Commission chairman Liu Mingkang told a recent closed-door conference with lenders. Companies are not alone in engaging in such lending businesses; individuals are welcome to join. Liu Chumei, a housewife in Liantan town in Yunfu city, in southern Guangdong province, close to Hong Kong, said credit companies had promised her family a 7.5% interest rate per month on deposits of 10,000 yuan. "Seeing the inflation rate is higher than the [official] deposit rate, we actually loose money putting our cash in the bank ... I would put my money in such credit companies if I had any, so I called some of my relatives in Hong Kong to see if they were interested," she said. "They refused on security reasons."'

'We are coming to the big face-off between top-down control by those who would be gods over us and impose value on us, and bottom up creativity which recognizes that any “god” (energy, good, intelligence) comes up through us and is connected between us. It is this “within” and “between” well-negotiated and exchanged that produces real value. We need to transfer that growth and “frontier” mentality to non-scarce, non-material assets like learning, intellect, culture, music, community, family, creativity, human connection and interest. This is now happening. This movement will be driven by the younger, Generation X and millennial generations. Baby boomers may follow, but probably only after initially resisting, and trying to make the system work long enough so they can cash in their corporate 401(k)s and extract their welfare state entitlements. ...but eventually they will have to capitulate, find a renewed purpose, dust off their 60’s idealism, and reapply themselves.'

'Great empires often turn to mercenaries to fulfill their military needs. But mercenaries are a sign of weakness, not strength. Their presence indicates that those prosecuting a war do not have the resources to do so legitimately. It means the citizens in whose name the war is being fought are not sufficiently involved in the matter to support it. It also means that the elites running the war are using extra-curricular means to prosecute it... Such mercenary power truly makes government unaccountable to the people it is supposed to serve. And the use of mercenaries gives rise to bigger questions as well. If these mysterious troops can be used in foreign wars, what stops those who are funding them from using such shadowy forces to enforce unpopular agendas at home? The use of such forces raises uncomfortable questions; unfortunately, Western mainstream media, and American media in particular, have not reported on this growing trend or the evident danger it represents.'

'Almost no modern advisers will admit that central banks fix the price of "money"... Central banking blows up economies regularly, and during economic contractions the middle class becomes increasingly unprosperous while more and more wealth is centralized in the hands of great Anglosphere banking families. These families then use their wealth to create dominant social themes – fear-based promotions featuring scarcity memes – that are intended to push Western middle classes into surrendering wealth and power to the globalist solutions (UN, IMF, WHO, etc.) that the familial elites have already prepared. One of the dominant social themes that was remarkable successful in America during the late 20th Century was the idea that various forces were conspiring to erode middle class wealth. The only way to address this potential ruination was through "investing" in a menu of pre-prepared investment solutions featuring rigid, fragile and highly controlled "public" money pools.'

'Protesters camped out, refusing to budge until their demands were met.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'That Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster, made in collaboration with the Pentagon, came out in the mid-1980s, when polls showed many Americans expressing doubts about the post-Vietnam military and about the constant saber rattling from the White House. But the movie’s celebration of sweat-shined martial machismo generated $344 million at the box office and proved to be a major force in resuscitating the military’s image. Not only did enlistment spike when “Top Gun” was released, and not only did the Navy set up recruitment tables at theaters playing the movie, but polls soon showed rising confidence in the military. For every “Hurt Locker”—a successful and critical war film made without Pentagon assistance—American moviegoers get a flood of pro-war agitprop, from “Armageddon,” to “Pearl Harbor,” to “Battle Los Angeles” to “X-Men.” And save for filmmakers’ obligatory thank you to the Pentagon in the credits, audiences are rarely aware they may be watching government-subsidized propaganda.'

'Paul’s strategy failed because he failed to recognize that Santorum just gave the audience a blue pill: a narcissistic narrative scaled up for a whole nation. They were just reassured that the entire issue was really about who they were and how they stand for American Exceptionalism (wait, does that contradict the other thing “we” stand for?), and not about any sort of vulgar details like foreign policy decisions or what the military did when. The natural antidote would be a red pill, but Dr. Paul can’t write that prescription because he’s a still a politician. Even though the odds of him becoming President are slim, he still has play by the rules of the game he’s playing, just like everyone else on stage. Here is what Ron Paul could have said that could have dispelled the effects of the blue pill: ***Do you really believe that you are important enough for people you’ve never met from a far away land to end their own lives in an attempt to kill you?***'

'That would be an insult to Ponzi schemes...' -- "A ponzi scheme is voluntary."

'Every time Merkel meets with Sarkozy in one of their "no, no, yes, yes" liaisons, European stock markets rise. There is some vague language about another round of bailouts. Investors rush in to buy, buy, buy. The fund managers are not rewarded to produce long-term capital gains. So, they cannot resist buying whenever Merkel and Sarkozy emerge from their tryst to tell the world that they are willing to let Germany bail out the Greek bond market one more time. This is great political theater. The funds' memos to major banks regarding the funds' refusal to roll over their short-term loans can go out at any time. No one wants to be the first fund to trigger a banking panic. But no one wants to be left holding the bag. This is why predictions regarding the day of reckoning are highly speculative. The major decisions will not be made by banks. They will be made by fund managers with large deposits at banks. The bankers are just sitting there, hoping for the best.'

'In most countries, income tax plus sales tax plus all the other taxes come to around 40% of income. So if you need $100, you have to earn $167 just to pay the tax (because 167 -40% = 100). This means no work can be done unless it makes an instant 67% profit. If you earn very little you pay slightly less tax (but you still pay sales tax etc.), but for most kinds of work, tax is unavoidable. Now imagine you paid the same amount as last year, but this year it was a fixed land rent. All the previous work would still be done, at the same prices (so you could pay the same amount as before to the government), but any extra work is completely tax free. So all the "less than 67% profit" work would suddenly become profitable. -- With land rent, there are no hidden taxes: you know exactly what each government costs each person. So voting will have a clear price, just like buying any other product or service. If trust is abused, you simply choose a different government. Or make your own.'

'#Trust as Currency: Consider this example: Condie, who has no rep good or bad, posts a $1,050 escrow bond. The bondsman mints $1,000 worth of “trust Condie” coins and exchanges them for Condie's money. Condie then offers to paint your house for $100. You agree on terms and chop a contract. She gives you a $100 “Trust Condie” coin to back up her commitment of “satisfaction guaranteed for 30 days or your money back”. If Condie does good work you pay her. A month later you return her coin. If she spills paint on your driveway you redeem the coin from the bondsman with a copy of the contract and a photo. The coin is your proof that Condie is bonded and has not overextended her bond. Likewise she can redeem them all herself at any time for her deposit less fee. This works because the currency is specific to the trustee. It's not the same as Condie giving you a $100 coin of more broadly negotiable currency. You can only redeem it from the bondsman and only with evidence of misconduct.''

'...it is not possible to insure oneself against every conceivable "risk." Rather, it is only possible to insure oneself against "accidents," i.e., risks over whose outcome the insured has no control and to which he contributes nothing. ...the un-insurability of individual actions and sentiments (in contradistinction to accidents) implies that it is also impossible to insure oneself against the risk of damages resulting from one’s own prior aggression or provocation. Further, due to the same reasons and financial concerns, insurers will tend to require that their clients abstain from all forms of vigilante justice (except perhaps under quite extraordinary circumstances), for vigilante justice, even if justified, invariably causes uncertainty and provokes possible third party intervention. -- Just as insurers charge less if homeowners have an alarm system or a safe installed, so would a trained gun owner represent a lower insurance risk.'

"The consequences are the exact opposite of the intent." -- That which is not seen.

'#Equity follows the law #Equity will not aid a volunteer: Equity cannot be used to take back a benefit that was voluntarily but mistakenly conferred without consultation of the receiver. This maxim protects the doctrine of choice. A volunteer is not merely someone who acts selflessly. In the legal (and equitable) context, it refers to someone who provides a benefit regardless of whether the recipient wants it. For example, when someone mistakenly builds an improvement on a home, neither equity nor restitution will allow the improver to recover... The exception is if the doctrine of estoppel applies. #Equity will not complete an imperfect gift: If a donor has made an imperfect gift, i.e. lacking the formalities required at common law, equity will not assist the intended donee. A subset of equity will not assist a volunteer. #Equity will not allow a trust to fail for want of a trustee: If there is no trustee, whoever has title to the trust property will be considered the trustee.'

'This is the first draft of the specific protocols for justice in cyberspace including arbitration proceedings. Law in the absence of centralized force has worked quite well, depending upon ostracism, reputation, and outlawry as its primary enforcement mechanisms. It was generally replaced by state law, not by popular demand, but by force of arms. Our justice rests upon our commitment to these common principles. Strong commitment to our principles will give us justice that is as complete as possible; partial commitment will yield inferior justice. The protocols are voluntary. They form a reference point for commercial activity. Entities may describe their expectations in economic interactions by stating "we follow the Common Economic Protocols explicitly", or "we follow all of the Common Economic Protocols except...", or "we follow all the Common Economic Protocols, plus...". -- 3.0 Maxims of Law: #Where there is the same reason, there is the same law.'

"Everybody gets this."

'...we all unconsciously, involuntarily reveal our emotions in subtle changes of expression and the flow of blood to our skin. We give our emotions away in our eye movements, dilated pupils, biting or pressing together our lips, wrinkling our noses, breathing heavily, swallowing, blinking and facial asymmetry. And these are just the visible signs seen by the camera. Even swelling blood vessels around our eyes betray us, and the thermal sensor spots them too. The researchers acknowledge, though, that these tests can never be 100% accurate. What they detect are emotions, such as distress, fear or distrust, and not the act of lying itself. Fear can sometimes be the fear of not being believed rather than the fear of being caught.'

'The court decided that it would not issue such a complete ban, though it had already blocked them from using IRC. Instead, it said that they could continue to use social networking and chat programs... but not use their existing online personas. It is, therefore, somewhat ironic that one of the people in question used his real first name as his online persona previously: "Peter David-Gibson, aged 20 from Hartlepool, who went by the online nickname “Peter”" Yes, you read that right. A guy accused of being Anonymous, but who used his real name online, can now no longer use his real name... because he may have been a part of Anonymous. That makes sense.'

'You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes “is Mohammad Abdullah a terrorist?” and “Mohammad Abdullah al Qaeda.” Google’s search engine learns. All of a sudden, auto-complete starts suggesting terms like “Al Qaeda” as the next term in relation to your name. It’s one thing to be slandered by another person on a website, on a blog, in comments. It’s another to have your reputation slandered by computer algorithms. What are the consequences of guilt through algorithmic association? What are the correction mechanisms? Who is accountable? What can or should be done?'

'Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. The data and statistics provided by Truthy are designed to aid in the study of social epidemics: How do memes propagate through the Twittersphere? What causes a burst of popularity? We also plan to use Truthy to detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution. While the vast majority of memes arise in a perfectly organic manner, driven by the complex mechanisms of life on the Web, some are engineered...'

'...it is the high-ranking Inner Party members -- the D.C. cadre of think tank "scholars," government and academic functionaries, and journalists and pundits who fancy themselves sophisticated political junkies and insiders -- who are the True Believers. They cling to institutions of political power and officialdom, plant their careers, self-esteem, self-importance and social circles in its belly, and are thus the most incentivized to believe in its Rightness and Goodness and the least able to critically assess it. Intoxicated with supreme loyalty to the organs of political power and societal institutions which support it, they become its most ardent, faithful evangelizers. The more they gather together in their insular royal court realm, the more they reinforce each other's trite convictions.' -- It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair)

'Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.'

'Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket and can’t resist the dealer’s offer to rustproof their new car. No matter how rational and high-minded you try to be, you can’t make decision after decision without paying a biological price. It’s different from ordinary physical fatigue — you’re not consciously aware of being tired — but you’re low on mental energy. The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expending the energy to first think through the consequences. The other shortcut is the ultimate energy saver: do nothing. To compromise is a complex human ability and therefore one of the first to decline when willpower is depleted.'

'...the attention that we receive as babies impacts on our brain structures. Babies rely on their carers to soothe distress and restore equilibrium. -- ...children who lived with a depressed parent in infancy are more reactive to stress later in life; children who lived with a depressed parent later in childhood showed no such effect. This makes sense if we remember that the stress response is probably being "set" like a thermostat very early in life. It also makes sense in evolutionary terms to have newborn brains which are unfinished, because they can be adapted to fit the needs of the social group. In effect, they can be programmed to behave in ways that suit their community. However, it is a risky strategy. In a harsh environment, a baby's cries may be ignored, or he may be punished for being distressed. This is likely to produce an individual who becomes, in his turn, relatively insensitive and prone to aggression – and this could be useful in a tense, hostile community.'

'Volunteers whose posterior medial frontal cortex, an area in the middle of the brain that is associated with reward processing, were exposed to the magnetic pulses suffered reduced levels of conformity. The researchers believe this part of the brain dates back a long way in the evolution of animals and is responsible or automatically "correcting" our performance when we fall out of line with a group. They say that by suspending this mechanism, it allows people to think and behave differently. They now believe it may be possible to develop drugs or behaviour changing techniques that could increase or decrease people's conformity. "Right now we can search for behavioural techniques that modulate activity of the posterior medial frontal cortex without any physical intervention. Hopefully, with help of these techniques someone would be able to partly immune themselves to 'group pressure'." -- Monkey see; Monkey wear pulsating tinfoil hat.

"You can discharge all these taxes just by your signature. Your signature alone has value because you are the creditor of the [government]. If the [government] can use your signature to create money, then you can use your signature to create money. And that's all discharging debt is. It's not coming out of some magic fund somewhere. You're just discharging obligations. For private companies, send a promissory note with your signature. They can cash that. Look up the definition of cash. A promise to pay is cash." -- "All becoming a citizen in another country is, is getting formal recognition of your TRUST to do business with that country. Becoming a citizen, and achieving citizen-ship, is just getting recognition from this new jurisdiction that you can do business with it." -- Full MP3: http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-39904/TS-523050.mp3

"You are your own sovereign. Your LEGAL PERSON, your agent in commerce, they can use that to interact with you but they don't have jurisdiction over it; they can only gain jurisdiction over it by contracting with it. Other than that, it's yours, it's sovereign, and it's your agent in commerce. it's your vessel, your commercial vessel, to use to engage in commerce around the world with whoever you want, and that's your common law 'right' ... ['Business'] is described in their own [codes] as anything performing the function of government. Of course they only have jurisdiction over their own business; their business is their business! So they have to make you believe that your business is their business as well."

Trusts: The Holy Trinity: #The Father/God/Testator/Executor/Administrator/(Beneficiary acting as Executor/Administrator/Director)/(Beneficiary-appointed Power of Attorney/Executor/Administrator/Director) ORDERS—> #The Holy Ghost/Legal Fiction/Corporation/Government/Justice/Lawyer/Employee/Agent/Public Servant/Public Trustee/Fiduciary/Trustee FOR THE BENEFIT OF—> #The Son/Man/Share-holder/Equity-holder//Sole Beneficiary/Beneficiary/(Grantor) -- "You're not showing up at court as a legal person. You're showing up because a hearing is being conducted for a legal person you have an interest in. The NAME doesn't matter, only your function, what role you're there to play. If you're a Man then you're the Beneficiary and the Executor/Administrator – not the Trustee. You set policy. Statutes only apply to Public Trustees. Your Birth Certificate is evidence you are the sole shareholder. It is your receipt for the investment which makes you the shareholder. You own all the equity in that NAME."

Unoriginal sin is unoriginal.

'2b. “The cost of the drug test is the responsibility of the individual tested.” But if you are clean you get reimbursed. Would you pay to fail?' -- 'The largely irrelevant debate about whether poor people take drugs (yes) or whether this is state intrusion (yes) deliberately avoids exposing the true systemic corruption of the process: commitment not to identifying, and then solving, actual problems; but a society insisting that appearances/narratives/ideology are paramount.'

'As the world focuses its attention on the siege of Tripoli in the NATO-led overthrow of the Libyan government, those very same western powers who are responsible for the war crimes against the citizens of Libya are working behind the scenes to set the stage for yet another potential military intervention, this time with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.' -- The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. (George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four)

'Can you have one without the other?'

'The uncensored cables are contained in a 1.73-GB password-protected file named "cables.csv," which is reportedly circulating somewhere on the internet, according to Steffen Kraft, editor of the German paper Der Freitag. Kraft announced last week that his paper had found the file, and easily obtained the password to unlock it. Assange had reportedly given the password for the file to an "external contact" to access the file's contents. With both the file and the password now online, the leak is complete. WikiLeaks responded to the leak on Twitter on Monday by writing: "There has been no 'leak at WikiLeaks'. The issue relates to a mainstream media partner and a malicious individual."' -- Implausible deniability is implausible.

'London Metropolitan police have reportedly urged British media outlets to hand over footage of the riots that swept the capital in early August voluntarily, without recourse to official procedures. ­Police say the images could help them identify criminals, and have vowed to obtain the footage through court action if the broadcasters and newspapers do not comply. Officers have been approaching media corps privately, appealing to their sense of social responsibility. According to the Guardian newspaper, the police want to get their hands on all the material British newspapers and broadcasters have shot, regardless of whether the material has been published or not.' -- Winston: Does Big Brother exist? O’Brien: Of course he exists. Winston: Does he exist like you or me? O’Brien: You do not exist.

From the book: 'A baby cries out. It is frightened, hungry, dirty or cold. The baby wants comfort, a parent and some human contact, an adult's strength, power and protection. The initial call is in Second Circle and expects and deserves a Second Circle response. If there is no response the cry will get more distraught and desperate, and will move into Third Circle. If there is still no response, the baby will withdraw into a detached First Circle. A genuine cry should have a genuine response. Is that too much to ask? The parent won't become the baby's slave, which is the parent's fear. Actually, the unanswered call will eventually come back to haunt parents and society. If appropriately answered, the baby will stop crying out, knowing they will be answered. In this way they develop confidence and self-esteem which allow them to stay present to and in the world. Confidence is a manifestation of entitlement and entitlement starts with the answered call.'

'...when people experience anxiety, they try to reduce their anxiety by seeking closeness with relationship partners. The third strategy is called the hyperactivation, or anxiety attachment, strategy. Something provokes anxiety in a person, who then tries to reduce anxiety by seeking physical or psychological closeness to a partner. The partner rebuffs the request for greater closeness. The lack of responsiveness increases feelings of insecurity and anxiety. The person then gets locked into a cycle with the partner: the person tries to get closer, the partner rejects the request for greater closesness, which leads the person to try even harder to get closer, followed by another rejection from the partner, and so on. The cycle ends only when the situation shifts to a security-based strategy (because the partner finally responds positively) or when the person switches to an attachment avoidant strategy (because the person gives up on getting a positive response from the partner).'

'Insecure attachment: Anxious–preoccupied attachment: People who are anxious or preoccupied with attachment tend to agree with the following statements: "I want to be completely emotionally intimate with others, but I often find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I am uncomfortable being without close relationships, but I sometimes worry that others don't value me as much as I value them." People with this style of attachment seek high levels of intimacy, approval, and responsiveness from their partners. They sometimes value intimacy to such an extent that they become overly dependent on their partners – a condition colloquially termed clinginess. Compared to securely attached people, people who are anxious or preoccupied with attachment tend to have less positive views about themselves. They often doubt their worth as a partner and blame themselves for their partners' lack of responsiveness.'

From the book: 'When Attachment Styles Clash: The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Conflict is often left unresolved because the resolution itself creates too much intimacy. If you are anxious or secure, you genuinely want to work out a relationship problem. However, the resolution itself often brings a couple closer together – this is a scenario that, however unconsciously, the avoidant partner wants to avoid. While people with an anxious or secure attachment style seek to resolve a disagreement to achieve greater emotional closeness, this outcome is uncomfortable for the avoidant who actually seeks to remain distant. In order to dodge the possibility of getting closer, avoidants tend to grow more hostile and distant as arguments progress. Unless there is recognition of the process involved in an anxious-avoidant conflict, the distancing during conflict tends to repeat itself and causes a lot of unhappiness. Without addressing the issue, the situation can go from bad to worse.'

'It isn't just saying that the beliefs converge; it is saying that since the beliefs converge along with greater confidence in their "truthfulness", it becomes more difficult for any individual to not converge as well – and feel confident about it. Now consider the more general implications. "Well, I'm going to be an independent thinker and not be affected by the herd and make my own educated guess." No, you won't. The moment you have the other people's guesses, you cannot shake that information. Your "independent" guess necessarily includes that guess in some way, you can't unlearn it. Either your guess converges towards the herd, or your guess is characterized as against the herd. Either way, the herd affected your thinking in ways you don't realize. You're part of the dialectic and you didn't even want to be. That you don't want to be part of it ensures you are part of it. ...it makes a third independent idea highly unlikely (unless, again, it forms in opposition to ideas 1 or 2.)'

'Coupland perceptively characterizes McLuhan's tendency to talk in a monologic way as involving a kind of disinhibitory release of his thought processes: "[H]e had what you might call a sort of low-grade disinhibitory condition in which certain modes of being and thinking could only take place as long as there was an audience present. He found it much more preferable to do his thinking in real time, out loud, with an audience or a classroom as his catalyst". McLuhan thought of this kind of monologic presentation of his thought as conversation. By contrast, most of us would think of conversation as more of a two-way street, involving give and take between (or among) the speakers. ...this disinhibitory release of his thought processes posed a difficulty for him when it came to writing up his thoughts: "This mild disinhibitory condition also helps account for his inability, especially later in life, to create books unless [he were] collaborating with at least one other person."'

'"Environments are invisible." That's Marshall McLuhan' overarching big idea. We are fundamentally, almost inherently, unable to see the largest thing in our lives -- our environment. It takes a peculiar stance and foolishness to step outside it long enough to perceive it. Marshall McLuhan was strange and clownish enough to see it. -- Marshall’s other cliché, “the global village,” is a way of paraphrasing the fact that electronic technologies are an extension of the human central nervous system, and that our planet’s collective neural wiring would create a single 24-7 blobby, fuzzy, quasi-sentient metacommunity. And one must remember that Marshall arrived at these conclusions not by hanging around, say, NASA or IBM, but rather by studying arcane sixteenth-century Reformation pamphleteers, the writings of James Joyce, and Renaissance perspective drawings. He was a master of pattern recognition, the man who bangs a drum so large that it’s only beaten once every hundred years.'

'"People who invest in print media are going to see their holdings grow by leaps and bounds, and they'll probably ask themselves, 'How can this be real?'" continued the experts, every single one of whom described print media as "the closest thing there is to a money tree." "Well, trust us, it's real. You can expect to make a lot of money very quickly, and best of all, you'll do it by supporting a pillar of American society." In explaining print media's remarkable appeal, the entire financial community said citizens rely, and will continue to rely, on printed newspapers to keep them not only informed about current events, but better prepared to function as the kind of knowledgeable citizens a robust democracy requires.'

'The case of Japan is cited as the reason why inflation will not take place in the UK and US. However, there is a fundamental difference between the UK, the US and Japan. During the period of the carry trade, Japan was generating a large current account surplus, so the flood of yen onto the market did not result in significant currency weakness. By contrast, both the UK and US have been (and continue) to run large current account deficits. In both cases the currency is already sitting on weak foundations and, therefore, export of the dollar and sterling into the carry trade will simply put more pressure on the value of those currencies. They are flooding the market with currencies for which there is already a potential over-supply. At the moment, the increase in money has not entered into the real economy, but it will do at some point. I suspect that it will be through the back door of the carry trade.'

'If you are a central banker in the destination country, it might be that the flood of carry-trade money could push inflation upwards. What is the central banker or policymaker to do? The ‘hot’ money flooding into their country might be causing an asset-price bubble, or inflation. Something must be done. The problem is this: if interest rates are increased, the incentive for the carry trade is likewise increased – and might even cause the inflow of even more ‘hot’ money. If the central bank targets low interest rates, then there is the possibility that this might end the carry trade, but at the cost of creating an internal stimulus to inflation. The strengthening of the destination country’s currency might, in turn, have a negative effect on the balance of trade and the export sector of the economy. Exports will fall... Despite this, assets in the destination will be going up, while the underlying performance of the economy will be going down (albeit disguised by the inflow of money).'

Exporting inflation through the carry trade: '...if the money exits the economy via the carry trade, it will severely weaken both nations’ currencies and re-enter the economy through the back door of import-price inflation. For the proponents of QE, the lack of massive inflation is used as a justification for continuation of the policy. For those who are arguing for a return to gold, they can see that somehow, at some point in time, the massive expansion of the monetary base in QE countries must eventually see a rise in inflation. For the latter, they are not always clear in their understanding/explanation of why massive inflation has not taken place. However, their instinct that QE must eventually have a price is correct. Furthermore, the price is already being paid around the world as easy money has flooded into other economies. That in turn is creating distortions in markets, and those distortions will ripple back towards the countries that caused the problem in the first place.'

'The FBI writes: “Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country [ie. unconstitutional Federal Reserve notes] are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Tompkins said in announcing the verdict. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence [ie. they are voluntary systems with no victim], they are every bit as insidious and represent a clear and present danger to the economic stability of this country [ie. their wide spread adoption may collapse the corrupt banking system],” she added. “We are determined to meet these threats through infiltration, disruption, and dismantling of organizations which seek to challenge the legitimacy of our democratic form of government.” [ie. we will engage in acts of domestic terrorism to prevent the voluntary trade of private property.]' -- Competition is a sin!

'The shocking science about the long-term effects of corporal punishment, essential viewing for every parent.' -- "Changing from how you were parented to how you are parenting is one of the most difficult – and essential – things in the world."

'None of the three super-states ever attempts any manoeuvre which involves the risk of serious defeat. When any large operation is undertaken, it is usually a surprise attack against an ally. The strategy that all three powers are following, or pretend to themselves that they are following, is the same. The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep. Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. It follows that the three super-states not only cannot conquer one another, but would gain no advantage by doing so. On the contrary, so long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up, like three sheaves of corn.'

'A majority of Americans also agreed that the spate of roadside bombs, suicide attacks, and ethnic murders might—and this is just an opinion, they claimed, which may or may not actually hold water—cause one to deduce that the federal government had sacrificed 4,500 troops, not to mention more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians, in a campaign that ultimately, perhaps, proved ruinous for both nations. "Sure, through the narrow prism of the violence that has resulted, I guess it'd be possible to conclude we accomplished nothing and threw away a staggering number of human lives as well as trillions of dollars for no real reason," Boise, ID resident Tricia Booth said. "This latest carnage almost makes it seem as if this war were something we shortsightedly got ourselves into and were woefully underprepared to conduct. Fortunately, I have the benefit of all the facts."'

'Don't underestimate him! I don't think he is stupid at all. Obama is a political ideologue with a dogmatic adhesion to communism that he plans to shove down our throats whether we like it or not. He is what Eric Hoffer called a "true believer." Take this man seriously as the student of Frank Marshall Davis, the black CPUSA member who was his mentor during his formative years in Hawaii. Consider his communist "class warfare" references, his Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) membership, his repeated inferences to colonialism, class struggle and other communist "hit words." There is not one successful case of a socialist or communist state in world history. Did any of these Obamaites ever study history? Well, of course they did but just exactly like every one of their predecessors, their effort will be different and it will work because they are so much smarter than the rest of us.' -- None dare call it communism.

'Like most pupils, Merkel was a member of the official, Socialist-led youth movement Free German Youth (FDJ). However, she did not take part in the secular coming of age ceremony Jugendweihe, which was common in East Germany, and was confirmed instead. Later, at the Academy of Sciences, she became a member of the FDJ district board and secretary for "Agitprop" (Agitation and Propaganda). Merkel herself claimed that she was secretary for culture. When Merkel's onetime FDJ district chairman contradicted her, she insisted that: "According to my memory, I was secretary for culture. But what do I know? I believe I won't know anything when I'm 80." Merkel's progress in the compulsory Marxism-Leninism course was graded only genügend (sufficient, passing grade) in 1983 and 1986.' -- Did not inhale.

'Mrs Merkel has cancelled a high-profile trip to Russia on September 7, the crucial day when the package goes to the Bundestag and the country's constitutional court rules on the legality of the EU's bail-out machinery. If the court rules that the €440bn rescue fund (EFSF) breaches Treaty law or undermines German fiscal sovereignty, it risks setting off an instant brushfire across monetary union. While the bill is likely to pass, the furious debate leaves no doubt that Germany will resist moves to boost the EFSF's firepower yet further. Most City banks say the fund needs €2 trillion to stop the crisis engulfing Spain and Italy. Mrs Merkel's aides say she is facing "war on every front". The next month will decide her future, Germany's destiny, and the fate of monetary union.' -- Implausible deniability is implausible.

'...in the early part of the century, dock labor was a truly Darwinian world of competition, since there were spikes of demand for longshore labor followed by long periods of no work. Since it was a low-skill job, requiring little formal education and a lot of muscle, there was a huge oversupply of willing labor. Stevedoring companies — general contractors for port operations – picked crews for loading and unloading operations through a highly corrupt system of mustering, favors, bribes, kickbacks and loansharking. The longshoremen, for their part, formed close brotherhoods, usually along ethnic lines (Irish, Italian, Black in the US) that systematically kept out outsiders, and maintained a tightly territorial system of controls over individual piers. ... workers fought for steady work and regular hours and pay, longshoremen fought to keep their free-agent/social-network driven labor model alive, and resist systematization.'

'To put it too simply, things have moved from a style of relating where one thinks: "I have a feeling, I want to make a call" to "I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text." In other words, the act of sharing a nascent feeling becomes part of the constitution of the feeling. The problem is that when we use other people in this way, as needed elements on the path toward our having our feelings, we can move toward a misuse of others. We are not relating to them as others but as what psychologists call "part objects." We are using them as spare parts to support our fragile selves. This takes the notion of an "other directed" self to a higher power. Our technology supports a culture of narcissism digital-style. It is a kind of self that does not tolerate being alone. And yet, psychology teaches us that if you do not teach your children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. We are forgetting this lesson in our culture of hyper-connection.'

'The great banking families want radical Islam. They want a war between East and West. At least a cold war if not a hot one. Again, it's part of building world government. The more chaos and hate that's being spread, the more you need the trans-national organizations such as the IMF, World Court and UN. The globalists solutions have all been constructed. Now you just need enough problems to activate them. The dictators being deposed in the Middle East are all secular. Hosni Mubarak of Egypt; Ben Ali of Tunisia; Muammar Gaddafi of Libya – all of them are non-Islamic types. And what will come about now? Probably the Muslim Brotherhood one way or another. The Brotherhood is apparently penetrated and to a degree controlled by the CIA. So you have the spectacle of the West actively deposing secularists in order to replace them with controllable Muslim entities. The Muslim Brotherhood will be painted as a radical sect that poses an immediate danger to the West.'

[Chart 2004–2011] -- 'If we don't reverse the current trend in food prices, we've got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists. ...Lagi and co say that high food prices don't necessarily trigger riots themselves, they simply create the conditions in which social unrest can flourish. "These observations are consistent with a hypothesis that high global food prices are a precipitating condition for social unrest," say Lagi and co. In other words, high food prices lead to a kind of tipping point when almost anything can trigger a riot, like a lighted match in a dry forest.'

"The next time there's a Lehman-style crisis the bailout will not come from The Fed, it will not come from the ECB, it'll come from the IMF in the form of SDRs."

'This is the value of Ben Bernanke, a shill for Money Power. He is trotted out like the proverbial potted plant to verbalize the statist nostrums that will then be elaborated on by the manipulated media of the mainstream. The goal is to keep people believing in the system until world government is established. The real point has to do with the continual establishment of wise men. This dominant social theme is one of the biggest and most important of all the power elite's memes. The world needs to be run by a few good, gray men in expensive, understated suits. Ben Bernanke is the oracle of the day (and it is an oracular phenomenon) but there are others. They are infinitely important and endlessly replaceable. These men are plucked from Harvard, Yale and MIT. They learn the lingo... They are launched into society to save the world. The most successful men are doubtless those who are able to lie to themselves the most effectively. One cannot be a successful liar if one does not BELIEVE.'

'“We’ve got a nice four weeks of thinking Libya represents a triumph of liberty before the situation begins to deteriorate and some new form of authoritarianism inevitably asserts itself,” said Michigan-based architect Wes Reinhorn, adding that while he was looking forward to the nation potentially serving as a model for other Arab countries, he would eventually realize the situation in the region was very complex, and any hope he had of Libya transforming things for the better would presumably fade away by October.'

'If Yemen is destabilized, Bahrain and eventually Saudi Arabia itself could become embroiled in domestic turmoil, which many observers believe could eventually end the fragile Saudi regime... A failed Saud regime would likely collapse the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. The results would make the financial turmoil from the current downgrade of US Treasuries look minor, indeed. The failure of the US dollar reserve could create a world depression of the sort that has not been seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The purposeful degradation of civilization itself is apparently the aim of the elites. The goal is world government. Out of chaos, order. With secret, illegal, unconstitutional wars like the one in Yemen, this goal is advanced. The gravity cannot be overstated. The mounting recklessness and lawlessness of these actions provide evidence that opposition to freedom and civil society – embedded in mainstream Western institutions themselves – grow ever more bold.'