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Freedomain Radio -- How (Not) to Achieve Freedom (PDF)
'If we lose the ability to project our negative traits onto some other person or entity, we actually experience the anxiety, fear and rage within ourselves. The growth of psychological and emotional maturity is the slow and often painful process of withdrawing your projections from the world so that you can see what the world actually is. Most people wander around the world with highly reflective sunglasses on – but pointing the wrong way – so that they are only seeing a distorted reflection of themselves, rather than the world itself. When a man hears that taxation is force, his unconscious hears all of the implications contained in that statement immediately, at light speed, and leaps into action to protect him from being tortured and killed. The hostility that he feels will arise in him as if out of nowhere. You have also provoked a feeling of humiliation in him, by creating fear and anxiety within him that he has to avoid.'
criticism  statism  intellectualism  elitism  vanity  entitlement  libertarianism  doublethink  goodthink  consensusreality  conformity  hypocrisy  delusion  projection  psychology  philosophy  freedom  StefanMolyneux  pdf  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (PDF)
'We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double-spending. We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work.'
currency  digitalmoney  p2p  cryptography  anonequiveillance  property  disputeresolution  cryptoanarchism  pdf  equiveillance  from delicious
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- Practical Anarchy (PDF)
'To gain the beauty and virtue of anarchism, we sacrifice nothing but our illusions. The truth, as Socrates gave his life to show, remains highly threatening to entrenched interests and has a very personal and volatile effect on our immediate relationships. In reality, it is not so much a stateless society that we fear, but rather a family-less and friendless society where we rock gently, hugging our useless truths to our chests; solitary, ostracized, alone, rejected, scorned, derided. The truth is a desert island, we fear, and so as evolutionarily social animals, we join our corrupt circles in mocking and attacking the truth, and resent those who tell the truth, for revealing the corruption that formerly was only visible unconsciously. You may find that as you read this book, you experience a rising frustration and irritation with its contents – and possibly with me as well, if experience is any guide. It is not my fault that you have been lied to your whole life long.'
philosophy  anarchism  voluntaryism  freedom  disputeresolution  peace  StefanMolyneux  pdf 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- Everyday Anarchy (PDF)
'...what does the word “anarchy” really mean? It simply means a way of interacting with others without threatening them with violence if they do not obey. It simply means “without political violence.” When we think of a society without political violence – without governments – specters of chaos and brutality always arise for us, immediately and, it would seem, irrevocably. However, it only takes a moment of thought to realize that we live the vast majority of our actual lives in complete and total anarchy – and call such anarchy “morally good.” ...love, marriage, family, career, finances – we all make our major decisions in the complete absence of direct political coercion. Thus – if anarchy is such an all-consuming, universal evil, why is it the default – and virtuous – freedom that we demand in order to achieve just liberty in our daily lives? ...we must recognize the basic paradox: We love the anarchy we live. We fear the anarchy we imagine – the anarchy we are taught to fear.'
*  "anarchy"  anarchism  voluntaryism  freedom  philosophy  life  StefanMolyneux  pdf 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics (PDF)
'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The reason that scientists do not need a government is that scientists have an objective methodology for resolving disputes: the scientific method. The reason that language does not need a central authority to guide its evolution is that it relies on the “free market” of accumulated individual preferences for style and utility. The reason that modern morality – and morality throughout history – has always had to rely first on the bullying of children, and then on the threatening of adults, is that it is a manipulative lie masquerading as a virtuous truth. The truth is that we need morality; the lie is that gods or governments can rationally define or justly enforce it. My goal in this book is to define a methodology for validating moral theories that is objective, consistent, clear, rational, empirical – and true. -- ...the primary danger to human beings is not the individual criminal, but irrational and exploitive moral theories.'
*  philosophy  morality  ethics  StefanMolyneux  pdf  logic  performativecontradiction  virtue  argumentation 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- Universally Preferable Behaviour: A Rational Proof of Secular Ethics (PDF)
'APPENDIX D: EVERY UPB DEBATE I’VE EVER HAD… UPB Sceptic: UPB is invalid. Me: How do you know? UPB Sceptic: It's not proven! Me: So “proof” is UPB? UPB Sceptic: No, nothing is UPB. Me: Isn't the statement "nothing is UPB" UPB? UPB Sceptic: No, that's not what I'm saying at all! I'm saying that UPB is invalid! Me: Why? UPB Sceptic: Because it's false! Me: So presenting true arguments is UPB? UPB Sceptic: No! Me: So there's nothing wrong with false arguments? UPB Sceptic: No. Me: Then why are you opposing a false argument? UPB Sceptic: Oh, it's just my personal preference. I just dislike falsehood. Me: So you're arguing for a merely personal preference? UPB Sceptic: Sure! Me: So why should your personal preference take precedence over mine? I like UPB, you don't – and why bother debating personal preferences at all? UPB Sceptic: Oh - because UPB is invalid! Me: Why is it invalid? UPB Sceptic: Because it's self-contradictory! Me: So consistency is UPB? UPB Sceptic: No!'
*  philosophy  morality  ethics  StefanMolyneux  pdf  logic  performativecontradiction  virtue  argumentation 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Scribd -- Secret Banker's Manual (PDF)
'TOP SECRET BANKER'S MANUAL - FOR BANKERS ONLY - This manual is designed for Bank Presidents and Vice Presidents only. *Do not allow lower level bank employees to review.* -- (This manual is for educational purposes only and is not intended as legal advice.)' -- More info: http://www.bankdebt.org / http://www.bankdebt.org/ts2002.mp3
*  law  legalese  banking  debt  counterfeit  accounting  scams  fraud  pdf 
june 2010 by adamcrowe
Freedomain Radio -- On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion
'The opposite of tyranny is curiosity. The opposite of ignorance is curiosity. The opposite of manipulation is curiosity. The opposite of immaturity is curiosity, because to be curious is to be wise. The reason that we are not curious is that we already know the answers, and we do not like them. We can choose not to eat, but we cannot erase our body’s need for food. We can choose to jump off a cliff, but we cannot choose to defy gravity. We can pretend that lies are true, and that vices are virtues, but we cannot turn lies into truth, or vices into virtues. We cannot erase the truth within ourselves; we can only suppress and distort it. Fundamentally, philosophy is not invention, but excavation; not exploration, but archaeology. The lies we believe today are the lives we will live tomorrow.'
curiosity  morality  honesty  integrity  philosophy  illusion  delusion  doublethink  hypocrisy  StefanMolyneux  books  pdf 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 34/34
'SUMMARY #3. The only way out of this mess is either to remove ourselves from the Commerce Game – completely – so that we are no longer dependent upon banksters or to learn how to win. Their sole agenda is to control and destroy us. Compensation which involves the banks is hazardous; we can create for ourselves all that is way bigger and better – love and light, peace and joy, compassion and forgiveness – that which we were meant to Be, Do, and Have. By remembering who we are we will learn to do what we love to do and serve ourselves by serving others, thereby leaving the banksters completely out of our new way of life. It is happening.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 33/34
'SUMMARY #2. The only law in existence today is Contract Law. What you think of as ‘laws’ are only statutes and do not apply to you; they apply only to corporations. If you have no contract with the entity from which you receive a charging instrument, you are not financially liable ... and ... you couldn’t possibly have a contract because corporations cannot lawfully contract. What you signed was a unilateral, and hence, unenforceable contract. All Law is Commerce; All Commerce is Contract; No Contract – No Case. There is not one government agency, department, or ministry in the world that can prove that you must pay what we have all been indoctrinated to believe we are ‘bound by law’ to pay. Do not fall for this incredible deception any longer. Your ticket to financial freedom is to REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 32/34
'SUMMARY #1. THE NAME on any ‘charging instrument’, e.g.: traffic tickets, tax bills, statements, loans, lawsuits, debts, etc. is not you. It is the name of a government-created corporation, cleverly disguised, in upper case letters, by the bureaucrats, to cause you to think it is you and, hence, surety for the ‘debt’. Do not blow off this fact. It is to deceive you into believing you are liable for its debts. You are not. By the way, this applies also in reverse: what you think you ‘own’, e.g.: your house, because you think it is in your name, is not in your name, ergo, you do not own it. The Commerce Game was set up by the Global Elite/World Bank to confiscate your funds and property in order to make economic slaves of the entire population of a New World Order under their complete control.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 31/34
'Many people still want to remain under the 'protection' of the banks and have been programmed to believe that removing themselves from that is folly when, of course, the opposite is true. The only freedom is getting out from under their control. Initially, we can do this whilst still using their currency. Once we quit falling for their ‘fear for our survival’ programming, we will feel free to exchange only our time and talents with one another and quit using all ‘payment’ systems. Finally, we will feel safe enough and loving enough simply to do what we love to do and find a way to serve our fellows whilst doing so. When we can give our time and talents from knowing that we are all one, only then will our belief in ‘separation’ disappear.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 30/34
'None of this has to occur. We have two ways out and I suggest you begin now to implement them. The first is to establish your property as your own and the second which is vastly more important is to practise remembering that none of this matters. What does matter is our peace of mind. We must forgive those for what we think they did to us, including the International Banksters. Those whom we believe to be thugs are really just very frightened because they know the IMF can call in the loan at any time and they are frantically trying to confiscate as much [property] as possible to give them. The longer they can do this, the longer they can stave off the crash, but if we don’t pay them as much as we can, the system will collapse like a house of cards. Be willing to put their minds at rest – sign over as much of your exemption as they ask. Remember, their intent is not to hurt you as much as it is to save their own skins. Have some compassion; remember – its only business.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 29/34
'All property will revert back to a belligerent, foreign corporation, the IMF, and where will we be after we all lose our houses and cars? Dare I say detention camps? Where else will we have to go? Properties are being foreclosed by the thousands every day. Do you still believe it is because we “lived beyond our means”? We never had to pay for any of those things we believed we ‘bought’ anyway; they were already ours. Many of us are filing the correct papers to ensure that what we believe we ‘paid for’ does indeed remain ours. This must be done. If you have not actively recorded (rather than registered) your property including your children and grandchildren in your true title/name, you will lose your property and your descendants; it is just a question of time.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 28/34
'Think of the game of musical chairs. There simply are not enough chairs ($$$ to pay interest) to go around. Those who are forced to leave the game, as there is not enough money in the economy to pay back all the debt the banks have created by their expansion of credit, and profited from creating it, will lose all they have worked to accrue. It is the banks which will receive the hard asset, representing the fruits of your labour, and you have to start all over, with nothing. Who sets the interest rates in this country? The interest rate, e.g.: 6% is always commensurate with the percentage of those who will go bankrupt. The bankster’s crime of pre-meditated expansion of the debt beyond the amount of money in circulation will create a predetermined number of innocent victims, commensurate to the percentage of interest that the banks charge each year.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 27/34
'We must discharge the bankster’s debts for them or they will become more and more desperate. If the debt that the banksters created, using as collateral the properties we are presently using and which we believe belong to us – houses, autos, our bodies, etc. – is not discharged, and only we have the lawful right, means, and energy to do this, we will find ourselves without the use of said property because we have neglected to claim it as such. The name of their game is to confiscate as much of our property as possible. The feds become more frantic as each day passes as the IMF tightens the screws on them. The fact that interest rates are at an all-time low ought to give one pause. Think about it: low interest rates are prompting us to buy property. When we are all ‘indebted’ they will hike property taxes and get all ‘their’ property back.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 26/34
'What do banks do with this credit which we created with our signing of promises to pay? They lend it. Banks are not permitted to lend their money or their assets; they are allowed to lend only credit – credit which WE created. So, it is only liability which is being spread around with the added liability of interest (tax) attached to it each time it is used to ‘pay’ someone. Banks now charge a service fee for any and all transactions and most recipients still declare the liability as, and pay tax on, the income. The value of the note is thus diminished each time. Hence, we have inflation. When I ostensibly ‘pay’ you $50 for a service you provided me, since I am paying you with funds which were borrowed into existence, and now have interest attached to it, how can it ever get paid? From whence comes the interest to pay when the interest has yet to be borrowed into existence? Every transaction gets us further into a debt which does NOT exist. The only way for us to win is not to play.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 25/34
'The solution to the problem of ‘not enough money’ is to learn that there is no money. Remembering that cause and effect are always reversed from what our egos believe, the idea is to get rid of our alleged money. I know this sounds anathema to most people but if $$$ represents debt, why would we want it? Anything we think we are ‘buying’ with it doesn’t belong to us because how can we own anything for which we did not give value. Those of you who are proud of yourselves that you have worked hard all your lives and can now admit to living in a house that is ‘paid off’ and driving a car which is ‘paid for’, and have enough $$$ for retirement due to wise investing, are in for a big surprise. All you have done during those years of labour and slick investing is moved from steerage up to first class on the Titanic. The system is about to collapse. Having more of ‘nothing’ than everyone else still leaves you with ... nothing. The only way to win the Commerce Game is not to play.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 24/34
'Most people in the world are wholly dependent upon ‘The System’ and cannot function without it. This system forces them to live in a debt cycle which never ends. The biggest con game the world has ever known was perpetrated by those who control education, law, media, churches, banks, medicine. They played upon our innate belief that we must earn our right to life, that we are unworthy, not to trust our intuition, that we must depend upon the authorities, that any punishment we sustain is justified and deserved, that we have no self-generated power. They have confiscated our health, wealth, love, and peace of mind under this ruse. This scam is known as The Matrix. -- How could we ever have fallen for this nonsense? Someone on this planet had the most brilliant, scathing idea in the history of mankind – to appeal to our egotistical belief that we are all guilty and deserve punishment, that we are something other than who we truly are ... and capitalized upon it.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  thematrix  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 23/34
'The amount of credit the feds earned from investing in securities the credit borrowed from us via the registration of our births has pre-paid anything you might ever want or need. We are the creditors, and the federal mafia is the debtor. They owe us interest for using our credit, yet, since they ('the Public') are bankrupt, there is no ‘substance money’ so we, as creditors, will have to get paid by taking equity, in the form of our houses and cars, as the ‘set-off’ – the balancing of the account. They owe us interest on our credit which they are using to pay for the manufacturing of all the goods and services we are buying. We have already paid for the product before we buy it. We are still the principals of the securities because said investment was never disclosed to us. The feds are hoping we won’t request the profits of our investments, however, if and when we do, it is substantial enough that we would never have to work again. We could never spend it all.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 22/34
'There is NO American Government and hasn’t been in scores of years. To what they refer is USG, the belligerent, foreign corporation masquerading as ‘the American Government’. It has named itself The Government of the United States of America for the sole purpose of conning the American people into believing that it represents them and that it is their government. The USG, a private, fictitious, for-profit corporation, has no more to do with the American people or the American territory than does SEARS, another private, fictitious, for-profit corporation. No one alive today has experienced a representative government – which brings us to another point: why would anyone vote in a foreign election for a foreign corporation? There is no one for whom to vote who could possibly represent us.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 21/34
'#Crime: Impeding commerce, via Breach of Contract, is the only crime. #National Debt: The interest on fraudulent bonds also has to be created by more borrowing. The money supply has to be constantly expanded because the interest has to be paid. Interest on the bonds (national debt) is paid before any other gov’t expense. If not, the entire system will collapse. The debt can’t be reduced because when funds are paid to reduce the debt (buy back the bonds and retire them) the money disappears from circulation since it returns to from whence it came – nowhere. When there is no money, there is depression; the standard of living drops which is why there is no middle class any longer. This is why the debt must be ‘discharged’ as opposed to being ‘paid’, because it CAN NOT BE PAID. #Remedy: Since we are operating in commerce we can not own property by paying for it; we cannot pay our debts at law, we can only discharge our debts in equity.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 20/34
'The basis of 99% of all legal actions is derived from a ‘person’ (strawman) being sued, or accused of having entered into and breached a commercial contract, or being presumed to have entered into and breached a commercial contract. If the contract does not meet the four legal requirements, it is void. In order to live free we must remain eternally vigilant of these invisible contracts and avoid the presumption of their existence. The most significant presumptions are: 1. that you are a resident; 2. that you depend upon the government for benefits; 3. that you are not responsible for your behaviour; and 4. that you need protection – an attorney, a financial advisor, a doctor, a fiat currency, etc. All are based upon the presumption that certificates of ‘birth’/ ‘title’, etc., in commercial law, waive our right to take responsibility for our own affairs, our bodies, our life, our liberty, and our property, if we don’t object to or arrange our affairs otherwise.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 19/34
'At common law, these eight elements are essential to the creation of a contract: offer, acceptance, intention, sufficient and equal consideration, mental and lawful capacity to contract, legality of purpose, genuine consent (knowingly, willingly, and voluntarily), certainty of terms and conditions. You are usually tricked into contracting. I heard of a woman who was charged with writing ‘bad cheques’ and prior to sentencing was asked by the judge if she had anything to say. This is called, ‘allocution’ and is the time for the ‘defendant’ to say what’s so. Unfortunately, most defendants fail to take advantage of this opportunity to set the record straight. She, however, told the judge, “With all due respect, I do not accept your sentence.” The judge's final words, to the dismay of the attorneys, were, “I hereby dismiss this case and all charges are dropped.” He couldn’t do anything without her agreement. This is the power of contracts.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 18/34
'Never go to court. If you find yourself in court it is because you have relinquished your sovereignty or you wouldn’t be there. All lawyers are members of the BAR (British Accreditation Registry) and controlled by the Lawyer's Guild of Great Britain. They created, formed, and implemented the new bankruptcy law and are sworn to uphold the bankruptcy/collect revenue for the Crown. We can never know the true ‘nature and cause of the accusation’ because it is the collection of interest on the bankruptcy. We are denied our right to challenge the creditor/banker because if we could ‘face our accuser’ we could ask about our indebtedness and this would blow their cover. They would have to provide us with the contract proving we knowingly, willingly, and voluntarily, agreed to pay the corporate public debt which, of course, we did not do. We have moved from real law to statutes made up by the attorneys for the sole purpose of collecting revenue and property.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 17/34
'What is the job of policemen these days? It is not “to serve and protect”, unless this refers to ‘serve the World Banksters’. Their sole purpose is to collect revenue for the interest on the debt due to the bankruptcy. This is why there are so many idiotic statutes which are a result of Admiralty Law which simply do not apply to living souls; they apply to corporate entities. Laws cannot do anything but protect the life, liberty, property, and rights of a living soul. Laws are to serve us; we are not here to serve laws. “if your laws don’t protect me, your laws do not apply to me.” So, yes, we are above the ‘law’ (when the word ‘law’ refers to ‘statutes’). Statutes have replaced the true ONE LAW. Where before, we could be found guilty for actively breaking the only law there was we can now be found guilty for doing ‘nothing’ – meaning neglecting to perform precisely as the statute dictates. Since there are so many, this will occur automatically just in the affairs of daily life.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 16/34
'Your ‘income tax’ does NOT go to operate the Federal Government. You make out [a cheque to the government but it] goes to The Governor-Secretary of the Treasury of the IMF, Inc. of the United Nations. Those who pay taxes on ‘income’ are giving away hard-earned ‘money’ to the United Nations, a world wide Communist organization, the intent of which is [Oligarchical] Collectivism. Tax funds do NOT run the gov’t or any of its alleged programs; the IMF runs the gov’t; your $$$ is inconsequential to gov’t operation. Taxing is simply the means to confiscate your personal power. No sovereign can be taxed; only corporate entities can be taxed and only by the agreement of the principal/surety – you – if indeed you agreed to it. Why might you voluntarily, willingly, and knowingly do that? You wouldn’t. You’ve been tricked into it.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 15/34
'People complain about paying taxes yet they defend [the taxation/interest system]. This conflict of emotions is tantamount to the Stockholm Syndrome: Captives begin to identify with their captors initially as a defense mechanism out of fear of violence. Small acts of kindness (read: ‘government benefits’) by the captor are magnified, since finding perspective in a hostage situation is, by definition, impossible. Rescue attempts (by those of us who intend for the sheeple to WAKE UP!) are also regarded as threat since it is likely the captive would be injured during such attempts. Those who pay taxes are aggravating the problem; they believe they have no choice – they have been held hostage. Whether they pay the tax or not is not important in the grand scheme. What IS important is what is going on in their minds, which happens to be fear. There is no freedom, no aliveness, where there is fear. People actually lie awake at night in fear of how they are going to pay their ‘taxes’.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  socialism  stockholmsyndrome  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 14/34
'The Common Law which applies to all living souls is: We are free to do what we please, as long as we do infringe on the life, liberty, property, or rights of another. It does not allow for any government to prosecute or fine us for victimless crimes. Statute laws have arisen for this purpose, but their power is limited by common sense and by the resolve of those who would stand up for their natural rights. One can be fined only if he has signed and breached a contract. Under common law, however, a contract must be entered into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally or it is unenforceable. Remember that one of the requirements of a contract is full disclosure. Government departments are aware of this and circumvent it by intimidating us into signing agreements that are meant to void common law rights. This one law which takes all real crime into account has now been replaced by commercial statutes all of which compel one to do something. Laws can’t compel; they can only protect.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 13/34
'We used to have real money, now only our ‘strawman’ has worthless notes – valuable within the game – think Monopoly™ – but worthless in the grand scheme of our lives. The gov’t created the strawman in order to engage us in their game. The strawman’s name is similar to ours, only it is in upper case – it shows up on everything which you think identifies you, but the identification is government-issued. Remember THE NAME is the government-created corporation which they want you to believe is you. So that the strawman can pay a debt, the banksters set up an account for it. This is your SSN/SIN/Social Security Number. Notice your name isn’t on that card. The corporation name is in upper case letters. They have legal title, we have only equitable title – we are allowed only the use of our bodies, finances, property, all of which are owned by the gov’t, yet the privilege of our ‘using’ them demands a ‘use tax’.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 12/34
'If I borrow something from you and hand you collateral to guarantee you get back what you lent me, then upon return of said loan, you will hand me back the collateral. Usually with a personal loan it would be something of substance. In the case of the banks, however, your collateral is your signature and if you fail to ‘repay’ the loan of credit they will come after you, but for what? Remember that debt exists only on paper; therefore, it can be discharged only with other pieces of paper; it can not be ‘paid’ because there exists nothing with which to pay. Your promissory note IS the collateral and if you ‘repay’ the loan with the proceeds of your labour and then request the return of your collateral, the promissory note, they might indeed return the original note to you but not before having lent the alleged asset – the funds – several times for at least 90% of the amount which you authorized by your signature.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 11/34
'When we ‘borrow money’ from a bank our signature upon a ‘promise to pay’ is not only what gets us the loan but also what immediately repays the loan. Whenever someone takes a ‘loan’ from a financial institution, the signed promissory note is ‘deposited’ to the bank's credit. The bank then issues a cheque to the borrower. The bank’s books are now balanced. When the bank deposited the signed note to the asset side of its ledger the bank is indebted to the borrower. In other words, the borrower actually originates the credit so he winds up paying back, with interest, what he originally lent but the bank doesn’t repay the ‘credit’ which the borrower issued. In fact, if there is collateral involved, the bank stands to confiscate this property if the ‘borrower’/creator of the credit does not pay back over three times the amount of his own creation. The entity which is entitled to the pay-back of ‘borrowed’ funds is always the ‘principal’ and that is you – the creator of the funds.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 10/34
'Since we use debt notes to ‘purchase’, which denotes having only equitable title (‘buy’ denotes having legal title) then all we’re doing is passing along the debt and increasing the interest with each transaction (presuming those in receipt of said debt note are declaring it as ‘income’ and hence feel obliged to pay tax (interest on govt debt) on it.) This is precisely the agenda of the banksters. This is the classic “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”. It is they who get the taxes and it is we who get the notes which we are trying to spend before they become completely devalued. Powerful bankers essentially bribed the politicians in almost every country of the world into giving up their Constitutionally-protected right to print notes for the Treasury. What we think of as ‘money’ does not exist; it is borrowed into existence. It is not a substance, or a commodity, or anything which simply exists, for example, as water exists. It does not exist until someone creates a debt.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 9/34
'In order to get one's liberty and independence back, one must first secure the title and ownership of the Strawman. Once one controls the Strawman, then one controls the rights of the property that the Strawman acquires. For one to regain title to his body the Birth Certificate must be secured. After we have redeemed it and filed public notice via a financing statement, then we have the right of property ownership through our Strawman whom we now control. The bond created and sold in the market place for the Strawman now becomes our property. Now, no statutes, codes, rules, regulations apply to us; they apply only to the Strawman of whom we now have control. So the feds have no jurisdiction over us, as they have not our consent, nor are we within their fictional, commercial venue. Those of us who opt to take charge of our commercial affairs become part of the solution instead of remaining part of the problem.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 8/34
'NONE of what you have been led to believe about ‘national or personal debt’ is true. -- Our promissory note (‘money’) was taken, recorded as an asset of the bank, and sold by the bank for cash without ‘equal valuable consideration' given to us for our note. The bank gave us a deposit slip as a receipt for the money we gave them, just as the bank would normally provide when we make a deposit to the bank. It then created an account at the bank which would contain this $$$ which we just created. A check on this account was issued with our signature and this account is the source of funds behind the cheque which we received as a ‘loan’. The bank risked none of its own assets in the so-called ‘loan’ to us; rather it used our note to pay the seller, in order to raise an asset for itself, and also used the face value of our note as ‘principal’ which it claims it ‘lent’ us and against which it charged interest. ...the entire transaction/contract is fraudulent.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 7/34
'The UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) is the rules of the game and any entity within that game is ‘corporate’, since no living soul can play this game, only Strawmen. Therefore, the Income Tax Act, being part of the Commerce Game, applies only to fictitious entities as they are the only entities who can play. Because the name of the game is confiscation of funds, they hold us, who want only to live life as freely as possible and ‘not infringe upon the rights of another’, as surety for our Strawman’s alleged debt. But Public Policy tells us that as there is no substance with which to ‘pay’ a debt, then all debt must be ‘discharged’. How can we ‘pay’ a debt when there is nothing with which to ‘pay’. We can’t; so all we can do is discharge it. Since there is no money, then the only thing left is credit, so we must ‘pay’ a debt with credit. How is credit created? VIA OUR SIGNATURE. Every time we sign our name to any promissory note, we have created credit.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 6/34
'The property which you think you own (and this includes your body) already belongs to the IMF and soon they will make this known by asking for proof of title which you cannot evidence. Birth Certificates are only evidence that the Title of Origin (legal title) rests elsewhere. You do NOT have legal title to your body, unless you have claimed it. This is why you are not permitted to put particular substances into it. When the feds become desperate enough they will come for all your property, including your body. They will demand all collateral ‘now’. Its nothing personal; its just business. Don’t let them kid you about why they want you to wear your seatbelt. It has nothing to do with saving your life – it has to do with protecting the potential revenue/tax which you will earn/pay over your lifetime... Don’t kill the goose which lays the golden egg. I’m not making this up. So, are we clear on government racketeering?'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 5/34
'How do you want to ‘pay’ for goods which are already yours? Via working forty hours a week? Or via your signature, thereby giving them your tax exemption? It's important that we see the fraudulent banking system as rather outside of normal reality; sort of a middle-man. [Your] signature is what creates the amount of funds mentioned on the cheque [because you have unlimited credit]. Since these funds are debt funds we just created more debt. Actually, we created the credit against which the entity, which handed you the cheque, will create a matching debt – yet, essentially, we are responsible for the creation of this alleged ‘debt’ because, since there is interest on debt funds, we climbed deeper into an inescapable chasm. The bank hands us other pieces of paper which we take out into the market place. Although you believe you bought goods with these debt notes you can’t possibly own these goods because you gave nothing of substance in exchange. All you did was double the debt.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 4/34
'[Because centrally-bankrupted countries have been 'bailed out' for interest] we cannot pay for anything; there is nothing with which to pay. It is all just book-keeping entries. Who owes what to anyone? When you purchase something from a shop and then return it, why are they so intent on getting back your receipt? No, not to prove you paid for it, because you can’t pay for anything. This receipt is the evidence of exchange. The goods don’t matter, any more than the principal on a ‘loan’ matters. All they want is the interest. They MUST pay the IMF the interest on the loan. Do you ever question your bills (which are not true bills in commerce but rather ‘statements of account’) – not the ‘amount due’, but the concept? What if you found out that everything you ever needed or wanted was already paid for – that you didn’t owe anyone anything? Our bills are already paid. Why is the telephone company sending us a statement (not an invoice) with an ‘amount owing’ on it? We paid up front.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 3/34
'Think of the board game Monopoly®™ where you pick up a ‘Chance’ card which reads, “Pay School Tax $150”, so you hand over the $$$ to the ‘banker’. (I think the Parker boys were trying to tell us something.) When the government charges the Strawman a tax we, the ostensible ‘players’, are held as ‘surety’ for our token/Strawman and ‘required to pay’ even though the charge is not directed towards us. It is directed towards our token (the top hat, race car, old shoe). We are paying for the token because our token isn’t real and so it can’t do anything. We are the energy for the token/Strawman. Since the ‘money’ is not real, there could be no real loss to us as natural beings except that this seems to be all there is. We used to be able to live real life with real money. Now we are playing a game with Monopoly money. We have been prevented from living real life; we are caught in a game. This did not come about by our conscious agreement.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 2/34
'We have been deceived into thinking that we were lent other depositor’s deposited funds. Banksters cause us to think that if we do not pay back those funds, the bank and its depositors will be out the cash. Remember, all you 'borrowed' was what your signature created. You lent yourself the funds. Why are you paying back anyone? Ask a banker about this, as I did, and watch him stop breathing. If a counterfeiter counterfeits $$$ and lends it to us, do we have any moral or legal obligation to repay the loan? NO! The law says counterfeiting is illegal and that we do not have to repay the counterfeiter. But the banksters are careful. The bank’s own published manual claims, “Money does not have to be issued by the government or be in any special form. Money is anything that can be sold for cash and which the banks accept as money”. Aren’t they a riot? We are entrenched in a game of commerce about which we have been kept in the dark for the purpose of our slavery.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN ... a Spiritual Economics Book on $$$ and Remembering Who You Are by Mary Elizabeth: Croft (PDF) 1/34
'The more ‘money’ we have, the more debt we have. “Get out of debt” means to discharge the debt and quit accumulating debt notes. It also means to put those things which you have slave-laboured to acquire, into Your Name. He who dies with the most cash LOSES. Cash represents your labour and the amount of cash you have in your possession represents the worthlessness of your labour. How can we repay more than exists? Only our labour can begin to do this, so the banksters capture our labour in the form of taxes. They give us some of the proceeds of our labour for the purpose of keeping us in the dark about their scheme, yet take a huge amount in order to cover the interest on the loan which *we lent them*. EVERY tax we pay goes to ‘pay’ the interest on this loan that *we lent them* (or is kept by the politicians to enrich themselves). No, you are not paying to keep your country functioning. You are paying to make rich the politicians who have tricked you into believing their scam.'
economics  law  legalese  commerce  banking  oligarchy  oligarchicalcollectivism  TheCrown  corporation  government  bankruptcy  debt  chattel  slavery  thematrix  PDF 
may 2010 by adamcrowe
Fortune -- Warren E. Buffett: America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation (PDF)
Squanderville and Thriftville: 'Over time Thriftville accumulates an enormous amount of Squanderbonds, which at their core represent claim checks on the future output of Squanderville. A few pundits in Squanderville smell trouble coming. But the residents of Squanderville are in no mood to listen to such doomsaying. Meanwhile, the citizens of Thriftville begin to get nervous. So the Thrifts change strategy: Though they continue to hold some bonds, they sell most of them to Squanderville residents for Squanderbucks and use the proceeds to buy Squanderville land. And eventually the Thrifts own all of Squanderville. At that point, the Squanders are forced to deal with an ugly equation: They must now not only return to working eight hours a day in order to eat—they have nothing left to trade—but must also work additional hours to service their debt and pay Thriftville rent on the land so imprudently sold. In effect, Squanderville has been colonized by purchase rather than conquest.'
economics  china  america  debt  intergenerationalwarfare  WarrenBuffett  pdf 
april 2010 by adamcrowe
zero hedge -- Gary Gorton On The Shadow Banking System
'..."banks opened up their books to each other, and hated what they saw." The only backstop to this risk - the Federal Reserve. It is no secret that the entire investment community now realizes that the Fed's experiment is doomed. The US is no longer a viable going concern: when the CBO notifies the public that the debt/GDP in a decade will be 90% and that total marketable debt will double to $20 trillion, the game is over. What we know is that we now have a t-10 years timer before the US economy is certainly finished. But the real question is when the defections against Bernanke et al will begin in earnest. ...should shadow banking disappear, the tranche above it (or below it by seniority) would disappear as well. And with 90%+ of global liquidity gone, and no additional source of "credit" money to fill the Fed's infinite demand for monetary supply, asset prices will explode (forget about gold - one apple will be $6,000 an ounce).' -- PDF: Q and A on the Crisis. Feb 2010
economics  shadowbankingsystem  banking  pyramiding  pdf 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
MacHacks.TV -- Free Mac OS X Security Manual
'MacHacks.TV has put together this security and privacy manual pdf for OS X. Although written for Tiger the majority of its content is relevant to Leopard too.' -- Also grab a rootkit scanner: search: How to check your Mac for Rootkits
osx  mac  security  pdf 
march 2010 by adamcrowe
JoNova -- CLIMATEGATE: 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING - Revised and Edited ClimateGate Timeline (1.1)
'This is One Spectacular Poster of ClimateGate Covering 3 Decades. You have to see this up close to believe it. Look up close and admire the detail while you despair at how long science has been going off the rails. To better appreciate the past and what was exposed by the CRU emails, the Timeline chart consolidates and chronologically organizes the information uncovered and published about the CRU emails by many researchers along with some related contextual events. That the chart exists at all is yet another example of how skilled experts are flocking in to the skeptics’ position and dedicating hours of time pro bono because they are passionately motivated to fight against those who try to deceive us.'
climate  globalwarming  AGW  scams  fraud  corruption  disinformation  manipulation  consensus  consensusreality  realityprogramming  propaganda  IPCC  climategate  timeline  pdf 
february 2010 by adamcrowe
High Alert: How the Internet and the Global Power Elite are Causing a Financial Hurricane by Anthony Wile (PDF)
'Free-market thinkers are a relatively new phenomenon, one that Western public schooling, and the “group think” it fosters had nearly snuffed out late in the 20th century. Education is obviously part of what constitutes the power elite’s “information lever”— and is still an effective way of dumbing down children who go into school eager to learn but are soon discouraged by the factory-like atmosphere, the lack of creativity and a rising tide of peer pressure. Into this environment has come the Internet, and with it the first stirrings of change. On the ‘Net, most anything can be located and children are far more apt to find it — truthful substantiations of history, especially — than most adults. The true impact of the ‘Net has yet to be felt, but it is certainly possible that many of the individuals going forward — characterized herein as two percenters —will be free-market thinkers over time. The “greatest generation” is yet to come.'
corporatism  statism  oligarchy  globalgovernment  countermeasures  internet  immunesystem  cognitivesurplus  history  economics  businesscycle  investing  pdf  mercantilism 
january 2010 by adamcrowe
Bold Voices -- Lord Christopher Monckton: Definitive report on ClimateGate
"Climate science is too important to be left to politicized scientists, just as climate politics is too important to be left to unscientific politicians."
climate  scams  pdf 
december 2009 by adamcrowe
JoNova -- [CO2-Driven Climate Change] Skeptics Handbook II: Global Bullies Want Your Money
'It’s unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won’t debate in public and won’t provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they’ve “lost” the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions.'
climate  scams  skepticism  pdf 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
Dr. Michael Hudson -- The New Road to Serfdom: An Illustrated Guide to the Coming Real Estate Collapse (PDF)
'Never before have so many Americans gone so deeply into debt so willingly. Most members of the rentier class are very rich. One might like to join that class. And so our paradox (seemingly) is resolved. With the real estate boom, the great mass of Americans can take on colossal debt today and realize colossal capital gains—and the concomitant rentier life of leisure—tomorrow. If you have the wherewithal to fill out a mortgage application, then you need never work again. What could be more inviting—or, for that matter, more egalitarian? -- The bubble will burst, and when it does, the people who thought they would be living the easy life of a landlord will soon find that what they really signed up for was the hard servitude of debt serfdom.' -- '...commercial real estate investors hide most of their economic rent in “depreciation” write-offs for their buildings, even as those buildings gainmarket value.'
economics  land  rent  banking  debt  fraud  financialization  interest  ponzi  mortgage  predation  parasitism  feudalism  serfdom  MichaelHudson  pdf 
november 2009 by adamcrowe
The Chaos Makers: The Dreamers & The Deceived by Fred Harrison (1997) (PDF)
'INSUFFICIENT attention has been paid to the ways in which the chaos makers in the land market shape our destinies. Land supply is in fixed supply in those places where people need to live, close to the opportunities for employment. ...speculation in land pushes its price beyond affordable limits ...instability manifests itself in myriad forms of conflict that torture the industrial economy (labour relations, unemployment, etc). -- The treatment of rent as a public revenue would eliminate the acquisitive force behind the booms and busts. The fiscal reform proposed here would ensure that the short-term private interests of the individual would converge with the long-term interests of the community. This would enable people to plan the accumulation of savings over their earning lifecycle to the point where the price of capital would drop to very low levels: it would be at this point that poverty and unemployment would be permanently eliminated within a system of sustainable development.'
*  economics  land  rent  tax  taxreform  commonsense  FredHarrison  pdf  rentseeking  geoism 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Deconstructing Global Warming by Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PDF)
'It is generally agreed that doubling CO2 alone will cause about 1C warming due to the fact that it acts as a ‘blanket.’ Model projections of greater warming absolutely depend on positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds that will add to the ‘blanket’ – reducing the net cooling of the climate system. The fact that all models show a negative slope corresponding to a positive feedback, has led virtually all scientific bodies including the IPCC to declare this property to be ‘robust.’ But, what does the data show? We see that for models, the uncertainty in radiative fluxes makes it impossible to pin down the precise sensitivity because they are so close to unstable ‘regeneration.’ This, however, is not the case for the actual climate system where the sensitivity is about 0.5C for a doubling of CO2. From the brief SST record, we see that fluctuations of that magnitude occur all the time. ### What we see is that the very foundation of the issue of global warming is wrong.' ###
climate  science  pdf  RichardLindzen 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Science and Public Policy Institute -- Manufacturing Money and Global Warming
'Banking is a con that is, not coincidentally, just a little too complicated for the average person to grasp unless they really try... If everyone understood what really goes on, who are the winners and who are the losers, it would be outlawed in an instant. The newest game by the banks is carbon emissions trading. The plan is to manufacture emission credit certificates out of thin air, trade them between big financial companies, and compel the rest of us pay for them by producing real goods and services. The new financial slavery. Carbon emission permits are the latest paper currency, brought to you by the same crowd who profited from the world’s largest financial bubble. Same structure, same modus operandi, same beneficiaries, same exaggerations, half-truths, and tricky government statistics. Banks want carbon trading. They do not make a profit from a carbon tax, which would be fairer and simpler. Governments are not offering a carbon tax, only cap and trade. Ever wondered why?'
economics  climate  carbon  tax  scams  fraud  fiat  money  currency  pdf 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
Too Big To Live: Why we must stamp out State Monopoly Capitalism by Niall Ferguson (PDF)
'It is ... vital that we understand the true character of the crisis, and do not fall into the trap of accepting that it was the result of deregulation [(it was the most regulated parts of the financial system that proved to be the problem)] and market failure. In reality, this was a crisis born of a highly distorted financial market, in which excessive concentration, excessive leverage, spurious theories of risk management and, above all, moral hazard in the form of implicit state guarantees, combined to create huge ticking time-bombs on both sides of the Atlantic. Unanticipated losses on US subprime mortgages were merely the catalyst for an implosion that was bound to come sooner or later. The greatest danger we currently face is that the emergency measures adopted to remedy the crisis have made matters even worse by increasing concentration, scarcely reducing leverage, leaving the spurious theories in place and making the state guarantees explicit.' -- Lenin: 'Stamokap'
economics  banking  oligopoly  regulatorycapture  corporatism  statecapitalism  cronyism  statism  government  moralhazard  NiallFerguson  pdf  mercantilism 
october 2009 by adamcrowe
JoNova -- The ["Man-Made Global Warming"] Skeptics Handbook
'Rise above the mud-slinging in the Global Warming debate. Here are the strategies and tools you need to cut through the red-herrings and avoid the traps. -- #Believers are becoming skeptics: These notable people all felt global warming should be taken seriously until new evidence changed their minds. -- Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, says “I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden notes, “Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly [from promoting warming fears], without having their professional careers ruined.”'
*  science  climate  globalwarming  skepticism  guide  pdf 
september 2009 by adamcrowe
Remedying Hyperopia: The Effects of Self-Control Regret on Consumer Behavior (PDF)
'The self-control literature is premised on the notion of myopia (short-sightedness or present-biased preferences) and assumes that choosing vices generates regret. An alternative perspective suggests that consumers often suffer from a reverse self-control problem—namely, excessive farsightedness and overcontrol, or “hyperopia.” This research examines whether consumers can foresee the detrimental long-term consequences of hyperopia. Five studies demonstrate that anticipating long-term regret relaxes self-control and motivates consumers to counteract their righteousness.' -- #Practical Implications: Marketers of luxuries and leisure services can prompt consumers to consider their long-term regrets, thus stimulating sales of indulgences and enhancing the postpurchase satisfaction of customers. [The message should be:] greater balance in life and “indulging responsibly” will provide the greatest satisfaction in the long run.' -- Corrective indulgence
psychology  selfcontrol  consumption  behaviours  hyperopia  myopia  virtue  vice  prudence  hedonism  regret  guilt  correction  pdf 
august 2009 by adamcrowe
How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons From the First Hackers’ Conference by Fred Turner (PDF)
'The Hackers’ Conference of 1984 was only one moment in the wedding of the libertarian idealism of the counterculture to the inventions and inventors of computing technology, but it was an important one. Over the next fifteen years, its attendees would play major roles in shaping both the computer industry and the press’s coverage of that industry. In the Hackers’ Conference, we see that it is not hackers alone who bring together countercultural ideals and computer-based work; rather, it is hackers acting in concert with cultural entrepreneurs such as Stewart Brand and journalists such as John Markoff. In this sense, we can see that the hip, entrepreneurial hacker who would become so visible in the 1990s was not so much a hippie in his own right as the representative of a cultural category cobbled together by counterculturalists and technologists working in collaboration.'
technology  hackersvsvectoralists  precuperation  ideology  technoutopianism  utopia  StewartBrand  pdf 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't by Irwin Schiff (PDF)
'With wit and humour Schiff explains: #1. The roots of economic growth #2. The economic benefits of underconsumption #3. Where savings come from #4. Why economic growth is dependant on savings #5. How consumer spending stiffles economic growth #6. How capital is created #7. How governments destroy capital #8. The four uses of capital #9. How capital benefits those who don't have any #10. The destructive nature of consumer credit #11. How free enterprise forces capitalists, no matter how mean and greedy, to benefit society, if they want to get richer #12. Why government can not expand credit #13. How the federal government loots society's limited store of savings #14. How the Federal Reserve operates as the US Government's partner in crime #15. Where inflation comes from and why prices go up #16.How the government creates unemployment #17. The myth of government "jobs" programs #18. Why most politicians are deceivers #19. How the US government destroys America's ability to produce ...'
economics  comics  commonsense  IrwinSchiff  pdf  "capitalism" 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
YouTube -- How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't by Irwin Schiff
Awesome economics comic by the father of Peter Schiff. (Peter said he's going to revise this comic and republish it.) PDF: http://freedom-school.com/money/how-an-economy-grows.pdf
*  economics  comics  commonsense  PeterSchiff  IrwinSchiff  pdf  "capitalism" 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Scribd -- Vanity Fair: The Man Who Crashed the World by Michael Lewis (PDF)
'Cassano set out on a series of meetings with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the rest—all of whom argued how unlikely it was for housing prices to fall all at once. "They all said the same thing," says one of the traders present. (The lone exception, he said, was Goldman Sachs. Two months after their meeting with the investment bank, one of the AIG FP traders bumped into the Goldman guy who had defended the bonds, who said, Between you and me, you're right. These things are going to blow up.) -- The problem with Joe Cassano wasn't that he knew he was wrong. It was that it was too important to him that he be right. More than anything, Joe Cassano wanted to be one of Wall Street's big shots. He wound up being its perfect customer.'
economics  bubble  malinvestment  subprime  CDS  AIG  delusion  JoeCassano  GoldmanSachs  pdf  narcissism 
july 2009 by adamcrowe
Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness -- Networks and Heterarchies
From the linked PDF 'Neither Hierarchy nor Network: An Argument for Heterarchy by Karen Stephenson': "There is no archeological precedent for heterarchy that we know of, largely because the world and our institutions have never been this interconnected. Heterarchy is a good idea, but very difficult to implement compared to more familiar forms of hierarchies and networks. Heterarchies can be seedbeds of contagion—of ineptness, of disease and of fraud as we have witnessed in the unintended consequences of ENRON, AIDS [etc]. Or, heterarchies can link together people and institutions to solve a complex task and/or achieve a grand design. Heterarchy could portend a premier form of 21st-century governance. Or it could be a harbinger of unimaginable perversity. -- Connection by technology without trust is merely traffic. Trusted connection without technology is an opportunity lost. To survive
heterarchy  networks  hierarchy  communities  collaboration  coordination  trust  collectiveintelligence  serviceecologies  #socialization  #complexity  #diversity  pdf  retribalization 
may 2009 by adamcrowe
Papercraft & Origami Database -- Guy Fawkes Mask
anonymous  masks  papercraft  PDF 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Rolling Stone -- Philip K. Dick: The Most Brilliant Sci-Fi Mind on Any Planet by Paul Williams (November 6, 1975)
'Philip K. Dick has described his novels as books that "try to pierce the veil of what is only apparently real to find out what is really real." Paranoia is true perception. Dick's characters are all ultimately small (that is, ordinary, believable) people made big by their stamina in the face of an uncertain world. Dick cares about the people in his books–true, he contrives horrible things to happen to them, but that is in some sense beyond his control; he is like a god condemned to watch his universes fall apart as fast as he creates them, with his poor beloved characters are trapped inside–and ultimately we, the readers, empathize with the characters as much as the author does. We share their small triumphs and disappointments; we laugh at their absurd behaviour because we recognize their anxieties as our own.'
storytelling  writing  sciencefiction  paranoia  reality  PKD  pdf 
april 2009 by adamcrowe
Jenova Chen -- Flow in Games (PDF)
"Video games do not read what player thinks yet. Up until today, the most common connections between players and video games are still going through game controllers. With limited inputs, the possibility to sense player's Flow state directly is very low. Although there are biofeedback devices on the market, people still lack the knowledge for imaging data into Flow and emotions. Most of the measurements are still based on assumptions and incomplete statistics."
psychology  flow  immersion  gaming  games  gamemechanics  biometrics  interface  interaction  experience  design  JenovaChen  pdf 
march 2009 by adamcrowe
An Austrian Taxonomy of Deflation by Joseph T. Salerno (PDF)
Murray Rothbard on the correlation between falls in industrial commodity prices and general deflation: "The fact that industrial commodity prices have fallen sharply means precisely nothing for the reality or the prospect of inflation or deflation. Industrial commodity prices always fall in recessions. Most laymen and economists think of industrial commodity or wholesale prices as harbingers of the move of consumer prices, which are supposed to be ‘sticky’ but moving in the same direction. But they are wrong. One of the most important and neglected truths of business cycle analysis is that consumer prices and capital goods or producer prices move in different directions. Specifically, in boom periods capital goods or producer prices rise relative to consumer prices, while in recessions, consumer prices rise relative to producer prices. As a result, the fact that industrial commodity prices have been falling in no sense presages a later fall in consumer prices. Quite the contrary."
economics  deflation  prices  fallacy  MurrayRothbard  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
An Austrian Taxonomy of Deflation by Joseph T. Salerno (PDF)
Notes added -- 'There are four basic causes of deflation—two operating on the demand side and two on the supply side of the “money relation.” The economic processes associated with these factors may be categorized as #Growth Deflation [Demand-side. Benign. Falling prices due to technological improvement and using capital more productively], #Cash-building Deflation [Demand-side. Benign. Savings and underconsumption], #Bank Credit Deflation [Supply-side. Benign. Lack of confidence in fractional reserve banks, purgative bank runs, eventual collapse, reduced lending in the short run.], #Confiscatory Deflation [Supply-side. Malign. Government "austerity measures" resulting in severe restrictions on bank withdrawls and the expatriation of money.]'
economics  deflation  money  history  argentina  inflation  prices  malinvestment  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Herd -- Free gift: influence and how things really spread
Linked PDF: 'Forget influentials, herd-like copying is how brands spread' --"The simple truth is that humans, being first and foremost social creatures, rather than independent agents, rely on copying to learn and to negotiate the rich and sophisticated social reality they inhabit. Copying is our species’ number one learning and adaptive strategy. Copying among a population with frequent interactions creates a pull mechanism by which things – visible behaviours, opinions, skills, fashions and so on – spread through populations. -- Two kinds of copying: #Random copying is a continual [unconscious] process. #Directed copying is somewhat more conscious. Random and directed copying leave different signatures, particularly in patterns of turnover in what constitutes the most popular behaviours. The direction of random copying is quite unpredictable over the long term. Directed copying often results in more steady, potentially predictable, change."
psychology  anthropology  behaviours  copy  spread  memes  mimicry  emergence  flocking  trends  habits  rituals  herd  influence  conversation  scale  networks  socialnetworking  socialmedia  marketing  planning  #socialization  #ubiquity  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- Virtuality and its Discontents (PDF)
"Is the real self always the naturally occurring one? If a patient on the antidepressant medication Prozac tells his therapist he feels more like himself with the drug than without it, what does this do to our standard notions of a real a self? Where does the medication end and the person begin?"
psychology  virtualworlds  MUDs  communities  authenticity  reality  virtuality  simulation  simulacra  roleplay  self  multitude  transformation  reflexivity  SherryTurkle  pdf  mecosystem 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle et al. -- Encounters with Kismet and Cog: Children Respond to Relational Artifacts (PDF)
'... three major themes that emerged from our study of first encounters: Children display #perseverance in their efforts to communicate with the robots, including finding ways to explain and excuse the robots' failures to communicate with them, perseverance that expresses a range of personal styles. A similar range of styles marks children's ways of #anthropomorphizing the robots. For the most part, children come to see the robots as ‚"sort of alive" because they feel in a social relationship with them and use a range of strategies to overcome disappointments and system failures. Finally, children's stake in preserving a sense of relationship is so strong that they actively resist any #demystification of the robots. With few exceptions, children were uninterested to the point of unwilling to understand the robots in terms of underlying mechanism. Once defined as social, any lack of particular competencies is treated as an unfortunate disability for which the robot deserves empathy."
psychology  relationalobjects  relationships  toyfriends  toys  robots  transparency  anthropomorphization  aliveness  sentience  nurturance  empathy  Kismet  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
New York Times -- At Heart of a Cyberstudy, the Human Essence (PDF)
'There are some people who use the Net to act out. That is, they use this new medium to express the unresolved conflicts in their lives, to run the "old tapes" in unproductive ways. But there are people who are able to use this medium to work through issues, who are able to use the Net to effect change in their lives. In the best cases, looking at one's life on screen causes one to reflect on the self and on what one seems to desire, what seems to be missing, what seems to be gratifying. Of course, in some cases, what people experience in the on-line world is disquieting or disturbing. but here again, the most constructive response is to use this experience as grist for the mill for thinking about the rest of one's life.'
psychology  computers  embodiment  body  aliveness  toyfriends  toys  liminality  liminalobjects  objects  evocativeobjects  reflexivity  therapy  transformation  SherryTurkle  pdf  ambivalence 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
I.D. -- Q+A: Sherry Turkle (PDF)
'The new generation of "sociable" or "relational" robots has been built to engage us, creature to creature. They can recognize faces, learn the names of individuals, make eye contact, all things that push our simple Darwinian buttons. When an entity does these things, we are toast; we believe there is a sentient creature before us.' -- 'Q: Have we gone too far in our devotion? A: 'I call it technological promiscuity. We are prone to attaching to technologies even if there is no authenticity in the forthcoming "relationship". From there, it is a small step to wanting the object to care for you in return. So we have to exercise our critical faculties. We have to ask about our human purposes. The first thing designers as well as consumers should think about is the human purposes being served by the design. It is more crucial now than ever before to consider how to respect, not exploit, our human vulnerabilities–particularly the emotional programming of our animal past and present.'
psychology  evolutionarypsychology  verisimilitude  robots  toyfriends  relationalobjects  objects  relationships  aliveness  sentience  nurturance  companionship  friendship  ethics  purpose  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- The Immeasurables (PDF)
"Young scientists are encouraged by a personal experience with an object they an understand and with which they can tinker. Playing with objects inn their own way leads children to build a personal scientific style. There has been no simple migration to a new digital world. Children grow up in many worlds–they are seduced by the virtual but always brought back to the physical, to the analog, and, of course, to nature. ...from the periodic table of the elements (because it offers an image of perfect and reassuring organization) to LEGO blocks (because they offer a way to create perfect and reassuring symmetries) can become points of entry to larger transformative experiences of understanding and confidence very often at the point they are shared."
psychology  evocativeobjects  objects  theoryobjects  theory  thinking  metaphor  simulation  experimentation  learning  teaching  science  play  cognition  synaptics  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
New Scientist -- Living Online: I'll Have to Ask My Friends (PDF)
"Our society tends toward a breathless techno-enthusiasm: "We are more connected; we are global; we are more informed." But just as not all information put on the web is true, not all aspects of the new sociality should be celebrated. We communicate with quick instant messages, "check-in" cell calls and emoticon graphics. All of these are meant to quickly communicate a state. They are not meant to open a dialogue about complexity of feeling. Although the culture that grows up around the cellphone is a "talk culture", it is not necessarily a culture that contributes to self-reflection. Self-reflection depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, taking one's time to think it through and understand it, but only sometimes electing to share it."
psychology  ambientimmediacy  ambientintimacy  emotion  emotionalintelligence  feedback  reflexivity  statusupdates  lifecasting  behaviours  extensionsofman  centralnervoussystem  tethered  self  aloneness  solitude  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- Multiple Subjectivity and Virtual Community at the End of the Freudian Century (PDF)
"We construct our objects and our objects construct use." -- "Online experiences of playing multiple aspects of self are resonant with theories that imagine the self as a multiple and fragmented, or as a society of selves."-- "Appropriable theories, ideas that capture the imagination of the culture at large, tend to be those with thich people can become actively involved. They tend to be theories that can be 'played' with. So one way to examine the social appropriability of a given theory is to ask whether it is accompanied by its own objects-to-think-with, objects that can help theory move beyond intellectual circles. For Freud's work, dreams and slips of the tongue carried ideas... today computational experiences carry ideas."
psychology  virtualworlds  behaviours  identity  self  multitude  simulation  virtuality  roleplay  acting  multiplepersonalitydisorder  Freud  ideas  language  diffusion  theory  theoryobjects  objects  reflexivity  subjectivity  transformation  SherryTurkle  pdf  mecosystem 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- A Nascent Robotics Culture: New Complicities for Companionship (PDF)
"... computational objects do not simply do things for us, they do things to us as people, to our ways of being [in] the world, to our ways of seeing ourselves an others. Increasingly, technology also puts itself into a position to do things with us, particularly with the introduction of 'relational artifacts,' here defined as technologies that have 'states of mind' and where encounters with them are enriched through understanding these inner states. In the case of relational artifacts for children and the elderly, nurturance is the new 'killer app.' We attach to what we nurture. How will interacting with relational artifacts affect people's way of thinking about what, if anything, makes people special?"
psychology  evocativeobjects  computationalobjects  relationalobjects  companionateobjects  objects  toyfriends  toys  robots  pets  anthropomorphization  nurturance  transitionalobjects  rorschach  projection  self  selfobjects  simulation  relationships  intimacy  aliveness  sentience  emotionalintelligence  philosophy  therapy  reflexivity  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Sherry Turkle -- The Objects of Our Lives (PDF)
"to solve her mysteries, Nancy Drew was called upon to decode an object. Nancy's deft intellect would unravel [metaphorical secrets] after days of turning the object over and over in her mind. I searched my neighborhood for mysterious objects to decode. My grandmother, grandfather, and aunt would sometimes come into the kitchen to watch me at my investigations. At the time I didn't know what I was looking for. I think they did. I'm looking, without awareness, for the one who is missing. I'm looking for a trace of my father. If there is a sense of vocation to become attentive to the detail of other people's narratives, mine was born in the smell and feel of the memory closet. That is where I determined that I would solve mysteries, that I would use objects as my clues to the heart of the matter. That is where I decided that when objects could not tell a full story, I would find a person willing to talk to me before a voice was silenced before someone was forever cut out of the picture.'
*  psychology  evocativeobjects  narrativeobjects  objects  puzzle  mystery  science  transparency  reflexivity  missing  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
openDOOR -- Interview with Professor Sherry Turkle (PDF)
"Psychopharmacology, genetic engineering, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and robotics are among the technologies now raising fundamental questions about selfhood, subjectivity, relationships, development, and what is means to be human. An unstated question lies behind much of our current preoccupation with the future of technology. The question is not what will technology be like in the future, but rather, what will we be like, what are we becoming as we forge increasingly intimate relationships with our machines?"
psychology  transhumanism  technology  relationalobjects  relationships  objects  self  humanity  philosophy  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Discover -- A Psychologist in Cyberspace (PDF)
"From the earliest stages of life, we have a profound need to connect. Infants experience themselves as if the objects in the world are pat of them and they are part of the objects in the world. These objects, such as Linus's baby blanket or a teddy bear, are perceived as being imbued with the self. A computer, too, can evoke in its users a sense of connection and personality." -- "Toys like the Tamagotchi ask for nurturance. By doing so, they push a profound button is us. As a species, we're programmed to attach to the things that we take care of and that blossom under our care."
psychology  relationalobjects  selfobjects  objects  self  projection  nurturance  toyfriends  toys  pets  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
Connection Science -- Relational Artifacts with Children and Elders: The Complexities of Cybercompanionship (PDF)
"... children and seniors develop philosophical positions that are inseparable from their emotional needs. Affect and cognition wok together in the subjective response to relational technologies." -- "Orelia wants the kind of love that only a living creature can provide. She fears the ability of any creature to behave 'as if' it could love. She denied a chilly emotional reality by attributing qualities of intuition, transparency and connectedness to all people and animals. A philosophical position about robots is linked to an experience of the machine-like qualities of which people are capable, a good example of the interdependence of philosophical position and psychological motivation." -- "Relational artifacts, as objects between the living and not living, may have some special. As one nursing home resident said about Paro: 'I don't care if he is real or not. I love him."
psychology  relationalobjects  objects  rorschach  nurturance  aliveness  cognition  philosophy  subjectivity  learning  liminality  Freud  uncanny  prosody  verisimilitude  transference  emotion  simulation  relationships  companionship  therapy  sharedobjects  socialobjects  selfobjects  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
New Scientist -- The Secret Power of Things We Hold Dear (PDF)
"What is the power of objects to move us, to forge important new ideas or to link us to other people?" -- "In the cyborg world, we move beyond objects as tools or prosthetics to become one with them. The natural and the artificial no longer find themselves in opposition. As we live with implanted computational materials, we come to be on a different footing with computers. Since we started to share other people's tissue and genetic material, we have increasingly been on a different footing with the bodies of others. As we live with objects that challenge the boundaries between the born and the created, between humans and everything else, we will need to tell ourselves different stories."
psychology  selfobjects  objects  body  cyborg  prosthetics  liminality  SherryTurkle  pdf 
february 2009 by adamcrowe
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