'Social media is playing a vital role in Syria's conflict, as both sides try to shape domestic and international opinion in their favour. Chilling videos of acts of brutality have the power to go viral and be broadcast on global TV networks - but sometimes, the pictures aren't everything they appear to be.' "Some facebook pages really look like hit lists."

'The US is the foremost power when it comes to creating and applying "color revolutions". America invented the know-how and has the best experts in this area. Political scientist Mateusz Piskorski gives RT expert insight into how revolutions are being planned, coordinated and financed.'

'[Péladan's] core work of magical theory and practice, Comment on devient mage (How To Become A Mage, 1892), contains not a single magical ritual. Its theme, to borrow a typically ornate term from his writing, was ethopoeia – the making (poesis) of an ethos, one that would enable individuals to stand apart from the collective consciousness of their time in order to think their own thoughts and make their own choices. “Society,” Péladan wrote, “is an anonymous enterprise for living a life of secondhand emotions” – and the particular emotions on offer, as he discussed in some detail, are not picked at random. The collective consciousness of the age was primed for an explosion, partly by the thaumaturgy of any number of competing political and economic interests, and partly by the rising pressures of intolerable inner conflicts that, in magician states ruled by a managed consensus, was prevented from finding a less catastrophic form of expression. It took an extraordinary degree of mental independence to stay clear of the trance state and its appalling consequences, but that was one of the things the magical training available in those days was intended to do. ...the perennial mistake of Romanticism, the notion that all you have to do is fling aside the fetters of social expectations and do what comes naturally. The problem here is of course that “what comes naturally” to every one of us is the product of a lifetime spent absorbing social cues from the people around us and the media directed at us, all of which triggers a set of unthinking and unconscious reactions we share with our nonhuman relatives: social primate see, social primate do. “’Fear the example of another, think for yourself,’” wrote Péladan; “this precept of Pythagoras contains all of magic, which is nothing other than the power of selfhood.”'

'...this project is ideologically flawed... it is driven by precisely the kind of biased thinking and contempt for the public that the people behind the site believe motivates the major news outlets... they assume that all of the news is biased propaganda, but then all they do is replace the original content with skewed snarky propaganda of their own... At the root of this and many other art and technology projects is the idea of getting people to see things your way. It is deeply anti-social. It is at once an admission that convincing people through argument has failed, and also that the blame for the failure rests entirely on the public, not the speaker. -- ...these hackers aren’t interested in giving the reader a choice. That choice exists is the true radical idea. It takes what is implicit and unconscious and under the control of others and renders it conscious, explicit, and subject to our control. Taking the objects of media and government and making them subjects again.'

'Media is the science of handling the masses. The very word "HANDLING" is used constantly, not only in PR firms, but in major corporations and governments. "How are we going to HANDLE these people?" "We are going to have to HANDLE the public reaction" are sentences that are endlessly spewed all over the New York mass media, the Hollywood-based "entertainment" studios and the Federal Government in Washington DC. Handle, handle, handle. That's what the power-elite, ponzi artists are concerned with in their daily lives. So, they figure, the best way to "handle" all this is to consolidate the media down to less than 10 multinational corporations (done); take controlling ownership of each (done); and then promulgate an endless spew of false reality to the general population. Now the public can be HANDLED because they have been pre-programmed to act in "politically correct" ways. Part of this handling is done by people known as "PUNDITS" those puking, round faces and blond bimboes...'

'Initially a Facebook platform game, Shadow Government will use economic and sustainability data, and government-modeling software from the Millennium Institute to give players a chance to build and run, or destroy their own virtual countries. "[Shadow Government] will also raise awareness about the services that Millennium Institute offers to governments, the private sector and civil society as well as individuals to better inform their green and fair growth policies and responsible behavior." Millennium Institute wants the Shadow Government games to be incorporated into curriculum from primary schools through universities. "We will be able to incorporate real world news and data, sometimes in real-time. We could take a different world-focus [with the game content] depending on what is going on in the world... Seeing how people play, in aggregate, will be one way of crowd sourcing ideas to help or predict systemic issues."' -- I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY

'The big mistake in this pattern of [authoritarian] failure is projecting your subjective lack of comprehension onto the object you are looking at, as “irrationality.” The deep failure in thinking lies is the mistaken assumption that thriving, successful and functional realities must necessarily be legible. Complex realities turn this logic on its head; it is easier to comprehend the whole by walking among the [parts], absorbing the gestalt ... than by hovering above it. This imposed simplification, in service of legibility to the state’s eye, makes the rich reality brittle, and failure follows. ...legibility quells the anxieties evoked by apparent chaos. There is more than mere stupidity at work. ...the process is driven by a naive “best for everybody” paternalism, that genuinely intends to improve the lives of the people it affects. Individuals lacking the capacity for rich introspection apply dumb 12-step formulas to their lives and fail.'

And a whole new reality was set into motion.

'"Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They consolidate memory, shape emotions, cue heuristics and biases in judgment, influence in-group/out-group distinctions, and may affect the fundamental contents of personal identity. It comes as no surprise that these influences make stories highly relevant to vexing security challenges such as radicalization, violent social mobilization, insurgency and terrorism, and conflict prevention and resolution. Therefore, understanding the role stories play in a security context is a matter of great import and some urgency," DARPA stated. According to DARPA, STORyNET has three goals: #Are particular approaches or tools better than others for understanding how stories propagate in a system so as to influence behavior?'

'It is no coincidence in our view that one now finds Assange and his WikiLeaks at the center of many recent “historical” events. He is to be subject of a major motion picture and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (shades of Barack Obama). He is being promoted. He is a “special deal.” Transparency works well as a faux-rallying cry for Internet rebels such as Assange because it does not imply a wholesale change in the way that modern societies are built or operate. Governments, according to Assange, are not intrinsically bad—even regulatory democracy itself is tolerable. What is necessary is accountability, provided by far-seeing democratic activists such as himself. With so many of its dominant social themes essentially foundering in the era of the Internet, the powers-that-be may have launched their “blond stranger” promotion without fully vetting the consequences. Ironic is it not? In a somewhat panicked reaction to the Internet, the powers-that-be may have miscalculated.'

JA: 'If you control the present, you control history and then you control all the decisions that are made based on history. What I said before is that political parties, philosophies, all limited by what is our intellectual heritage. What is the historical record. If you control the historical record, you are in control, you control what decisions can be made. If you do not know about something, you can not make an accurate decision. So that is extremely worrying, that in fact the Internet is the easiest thing in the world to control. -- ...people have been censored, and they do not reveal that they are censored. The reason that they do not reveal that they are censored is because it reveals to the readership that it has been been betrayed. So the censorship is being self censored. -- We are going to get harmonization. Question is; is it going to be the walls of China, is it going to be the Swedish press freedom act? Is it going to be an Internet full of black lists?'

'Murdoch's problem was that he really wasn't in the publishing business. He was a propagandist. Even as a supposed free-market, conservative, small government type there was a lot he did not wish to cover and a good deal that his vast army of journos could not cover. Murdoch's publications wrote of smaller government, but never managed to cover the West's military industrial complex that spent trillions on unnecessary wars every year. Murdoch's publications covered business mostly from a corporate perspective, neglecting to address issues regarding multinationals and mercantilism—how the state favored large enterprises and facilitated them. Murdoch might even cover issues of personal liberty but only within the accepted confines of Leviathan's grasp. No discussions of anarchy for Murdoch. Nor even of the problems with monopoly state justice. Or the general dysfunction of regulatory democracy. This was his deal in fact, the reason he likely had access to so much power elite money.'

"The first spell we were put under was our NAME."

"To change the perception of reality of every American – to such a extent that despite the abundance of information – no one is able to come to a sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their family, their community, and their country. Marxism/Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students – without being challenged... The result: most of the people who graduated in the 60s – drop outs or half-baked intellectuals – are now occupying the positions of power in the governments, civil service, business, mass media, educational system – you are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them; they are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind – even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black... In these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible."

'The News Media had a central role in pulling off the 9/11 psy-op. The operation involved airing on television a substitute, computer-generated version of reality. It has temporarily succeeded to sell to the world the preposterous tale of 19 young terrorists using hijacked airliners to attack the USA. This longstanding research has established the falseness of the images shown on LIVE TV on 9/11 – as well as all the subsequently released video material. The 9/11 hoax is definitively exposed by method revealed.' -- Woah! You may agree or disagree, can validate or invalidate – but one thing is certain: this is a MUST watch.

'...is a psychology non-fiction book on brainwashing and mind control, by Robert Jay Lifton. Lifton outlines the "Eight Criteria for Thought Reform": #Milieu Control #Mystical Manipulation #Demand for Purity #Confession #Sacred Science #Loading the Language: The group interprets or uses words and phrases in new ways so that often the outside world does not understand. This jargon consists of thought-terminating clichés, which serve to alter members' thought processes to conform to the group's way of thinking. #Doctrine over person #Dispensing of existence: The group has the prerogative to decide who has the right to exist and who does not. This is usually not literal but means that those in the outside world are not saved, unenlightened, unconscious and they must be converted to the group's ideology. If they do not join the group or are critical of the group, then they must be rejected by the members. Thus, the outside world loses all credibility.'

'Doomsday forecasts of global warming are used as social manipulation and political leveraging. The idea is used to corrupt any sense of self worth and to leave its victim filled with self hatred. Desperate to reverse such feelings, victims lash out at others including themselves. Caught up in this lethal psychological web, the victims quickly lose sight of reality. This is all part of the globalist agenda outlined in countless papers, books, and speeches. They will rid the planet of the low sucking human scourge and deliver those left into a new technocracy. Don't believe their lies! DON'T KILL YOURSELF FOR THE ELITE!' -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.

'The powerful US media-entertainment complex has done the bidding of the Anglo-American axis' for decades, or perhaps for even a century or longer. Hollywood movies often aggrandize Cold Warrior themes that celebrate the US military industrial complex while television is filled with law-and-order programs celebrating the war on drugs, glamorizing anti-terror activities, etc. The difference between the West's brand of media control and control in non-Western countries is that the West does not advertise it, and individual Western democracies are apt to pooh-pooh the reality and denigrate its necessity. This only tends to make such programs more effective. -- The only way that the power elite can hope to retain credibility for its mainstream media holdings is if they are seen as reporting honestly and credibly on issues of importance to Western populations. The Internet has forced this evolution on elite media properties and it is one to be welcomed.'

'Dominant Social Theme: It is possible though not prudent. -- Once people have granted the possibility that it could happen, then the jump to expecting that it might or would happen is not nearly so broad. This is how even the most shocking possibilities can become tomorrow's realities. It happens gradually via constant discussion over time. As mainstream media discussions about Iran continue, the possibility of a war with Iran will gradually become less shocking, at least on the surface. People will be desensitized to the process. -- ...it is perfectly possible that the power elite feels it has no other choice. Western economies are not easily salvaged at this point and war is a good alternative to social unrest that would be aimed at the power elite itself. War is indeed the health of the state. There will of course be arguments pro and con about such a war but it will be pro-offered within the elite's fear-based paradigm: Iran is an existential threat and must be confronted.'

'...to compile articles that follow one of the system’s pre-defined narrative arcs.' -- Efficiency savings at the Ministry of Truth

'...ritual can have remarkable properties when it’s applied in the right way, for the right purposes. This is the secret of magic – the art and science of causing change in consciousness in accordance with will. If what you’re trying to do depends on the choices of conscious beings, magic works. -- To bring his vision of a triumphant Germany into reality, [Hitler] had to cause changes in the consciousness of the German people, on the one hand, and in the minds of the leaders of other European nations on the other, and the magical knowledge he got on the fringes of the Vienna occult scene proved more than adequate to that task. Once he went past those goals to pursue the fantasy of military conquest, though, he passed out of the range of effects that could be accomplished by changes in consciousness, and into a realm that depended on the hard material realities of oil, steel, and geography. Once he crossed that line he was doomed...' -- (Comment: JMG: "abiotic oil is a complete crock")

The Death of Socrates: Socrates asks Glaucon to consider the condition of the man returning to the cave: "Wouldn't he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn't he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn't he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness? Wouldn't it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it's not even worth trying to go up? And if they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead up, wouldn't they kill him?"

"In the beginning was the word and the word was made flesh. The world is a thing of words; the world is made of language. I can't say that enough." -- ;^)

"A dark-haired girl shows up at the door of the protagonist and tells him that his [word] is delusional." -- We are living in a word-programmed reality and whenever one word is changed an alternative reality branches off.

On legalese: "All of these statutes are legislated rules of a particular 'society' which have been given the force of law -- but that 'society' is the Law Society. All of these rules are *for* the Law Society... Societies can claim that no-one else can understand their rules because they can create their own language and they can do this by taking an existing language eg. English, and change the definition of just a few words and not tell anyone else how those words have been changed and so they've created an entirely new language that appears to be English but it's not and only they know it. And this is the magnificency of the deception: when this whole thing unfolds, they think they're going to lock us up in their cage?? No. All they're doing is creating a set of rules that is only going to be applicable to them. And if they ever try to step out of the cage they have made for themselves, they're going to step out into our courts and they will face charges for fraud."

'In the 20th century, when a promotion was launched, the mainstream media reported on it like an echo chamber, each major newspaper and television station reporting the same thing in different ways, until eventually it sunk in. People began to believe it. But the power elite doesn't have that sort of power in the 21st century, thanks to the widespread debunking by the Internet. It's not just the sour economy, for there have been sour economies before. It's the information that is being spread by electronic communications. It's a kind of meme itself – or anti-meme. People are waking up, as if from a bad dream. Many elite promotions are unraveling or at least becoming less convincing. The EU has been built on lies, as those behind it never admitted the final destination was a United States of Europe. Now, thanks to the Internet and the economic crisis, such lies are unraveling and patience is running out. That's what the German leaders are seeing. That's the reason for the desperation.'

'In this important interview attempting to link the Patriot movement and the Tea Parties with "violence", Alex Jones shows us what goes on behind the scenes of the CNN attack piece apparently set on demonizing tea parties and pro-Constitutional movements as "violent". Alex instantly recognizes the attempt to demonize him personally, as well as to discredit other grassroots political movements by the tone of the producers questions. The interview, filmed on Friday, was set-up by Anderson Cooper's producers, but so far hasn't aired. Was Alex too controversial, or will excerpts of the footage be used in a future segment?' -- Part 2. Woah! That'll never air. But then again, it just did – kinda.

'Facing an outcry on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon on Tuesday killed a program that would have had investors betting on the likelihood of terrorist attacks and assassinations. "I can't believe that anybody would seriously propose that we trade in death ... How long would it be before you saw traders investing in a way that would bring about the desired result?"'

"If you are not a programmer, you are one of the programmed."

Watts on televisual magick: "It's a war *of* terror, not on terror. There's so many TV series out now on terrorism and government agencies dealing with it all, but people are lapping that stuff up, they can't tell fact from fiction any more. They see the guys in the streets with combat boots and that's all quite normal to them now. What happens is, you get into a state of flux – they call it flux 'at the top' – where you can't rationalise reality and separate it from fiction using your own perceptions to ask yourself, 'Am I really under attack right now, or is it all in my head?' But all the symbols they're giving you say, 'I'm under attack! I'm under attack! Comply! Obey!'

'The unicursal hexagram is symbol considered to be sacred by members of the O.T.O. and is used in actual Black Magick rituals. Should it be in children’s games? -- "By means of the newly burgeoning genre of science fiction, the OTO was able to shape the vision of America through predictive programming, which forecasts an ‘inevitable future,’ thereby influencing everything from the architecture of our cities to the design of our automobiles and conception of what constitutes ‘progress and liberation’ in the future. The OTO’s ability to transform America consisted in the linkage of this brazen lying with science and science fiction, molding media and medicine in their image and likeness and creating a new ‘Thelemic’ religion for the masses.” – Michael A. Hoffman, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare'

'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.'

'One of the most important films ever made.' -- The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men.

'...if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action ["cognitive diversity"]. ...there are intrinsic costs to the strategy of giving up on the hard core and directing government efforts solely towards inoculating the mass audience. For one thing, the hard core may itself provide the most serious threat. For another, a response geared to a mass audience (whether or not nominally pitched as a response to the conspiracy theorists) will lead some to embrace rather than reject the conspiracy theory the government is trying to rebut. This is the legitimation dilemma again: to begin a program of inoculation is to signal that the disease is already widespread and threatening. Under pluralistic ignorance, the perverse result may actually be to spread the conspiracy theory further. -- With an audience already thoroughly in the grip of conspiracy theories, open counterspeech may simply be more grist for the conspiratorial mill.'

'...dominant social themes [('promotions')] are falling apart in the era of the Internet, which has taken them apart piece by piece. -- But, still it is tough to let go. We hold onto our cherished beliefs. We want to believe that we are really smart. We want to believe that we are in control of our environment and that we have chosen rationally and well for ourselves and our families in all things. We do not want to think we have been "promoted' into our life-choices. If we work in public schools, we want to think we are doing what's right for the children. If we work in the legal field, we want to think we are helping to sustain "justice." If we work for policing agencies, we want to believe we are fighting "bad guys" on behalf of the free world. We want to believe our wars are just, our science is independent and our political systems are rational. They are not. Instead, we live in a world, if we choose to, that has been made up for us.'

'...It is centrally targeted at my generation (20 somethings, who grew up in a binge drinking stupor and with glorious apathy) who quite happily buy anything the government tells them (not that they pay attention to that anyway, they actually think MI5 works similar to on TV and is there to protect the public from "terrorists" [hilarious I know]). -- The program speaks of "camps" set up by the government to keep dissidents in and people displaced by the radiation from the blast and whatnot (and all the other things coming in the near future, I.D. cards, security checkpoints etc. I was just surprised they didn't have everyone microchipped yet!). The second episode portrayed protesters as terrorists (which has obvious propaganda purposes that any idiot can grasp)...'

'This documentary probably gives one of the best explanations into why the Mainstream Media works in the way it does, distorts the truth and twists words to fit their personal agenda.' -- !!!

'1983, Bezmenov explains his background, some of his training, and exactly how Soviet propaganda is spread in other countries in order to subvert their teachers, politicians, and other policy makers to a mindset receptive to the Soviet ideology. He also explains in detail the goal of Soviet propaganda as total subversion of another country and the 4 step formula for achieving this goal: #DEMORALIZATION #DESTABILIZATION #CRISIS #NORMALIZATON'

'The fall of the Tower of Babel is where the [2+2=5] first made their appearance.' -- 'When all the old control methods the [2+2=5] have used against the people no longer work and there are too many people that have woken up and will no longer do as they are told, that means that people will stop giving the [2+2=5] their energy and faith. When people stop giving the [2+2=5] their energy and direct their energy towards themselves and others, then it will be inevitable that the [2+2=5] will start losing everything, they will lose their money, they will lose their claims over all the land they have taken over the centuries and they wil lose their power over the people. The [2+2=5] doesn't have any power, they just have the power that their subjects give to them, when the people stop giving their energy and power to the [2+2=5], then that means that the [2+2=5] has no power. It's that simple. The [2+2=5] know their game is almost up, and they are going for broke.'

'New words: #Extremist: Somebody that thinks differently than you. Anybody that has an opinion that differs from current government policy. This term allows politicians to speak of their rival's agendas without actually having to explain exactly what their rival's beliefs are. #Hate Crime: A real crime which is punished more severely because the person is also guilty of a Thoughtcrime. #Left and Right Wings: Terms that limit the range of expression when discussing issues. The idea that there are only 2 sides to every argument. These terms give the public the idea that there are only two possible sources of ideas, and that these two "opposing" sides represent the entire gambit of thought. #New World Order: A world in which all people live peacefully, under the control of the U.N. #Peace Process: A process which will ultimately lead to war. The process of getting oppressed people to shut the hell up and embrace their occupiers.'

'Tired of trying to be a prophet, avatar or visionary but can't get anyone to blindly follow you? Have you always wanted to know how to manipulate people in the name of any deity, religion or philosophy you want to hide behind so you can advance your OWN agenda of nakedly abusing power? Look no further!'

'To control society and to move people from point A to point B, one need only find a spokesperson for a certain argument and position that spokesperson as an authority. That person becomes Goalpost One. Another person or spokesperson can then be positioned on the other side of the argument as Goalpost B. Argument A and B are now in the position to be used as a way of manipulating a given social discussion. If one wishes, for instance, to promote IDEA C, one merely needs to promote the arguments of Goalpost One (about IDEA C) more effectively than the Arguments of Goalpost Two. This methodology results in a slippage of Goalpost Two's position. Thus both Goalpost One and Goalpost Two advance downfield toward Goalpost One's position. Eventually Goalpost Two occupies Goalpost One's position. The "anti" argument now occupies the pro (IDEA C) position. In this manner whole social conversations are shifted....'

'It's not easy to get someone to leave a destructive cult. Talking is always the first step. But sometimes, the cultist is too well indoctrinated to really hear anything an outsider has to say, and other times there's no opportunity to talk at all. A cult member may have severed all ties to the outside world.'

'...the signifiers of an elite dominant social theme is its imperviousness to reality. Climategate - the falsification of data over numerous years to "prove" global warming - has definitively arrived and the damage to the global warming meme is immense. But don't expect the banking and political class to acknowledge that. It is fairly easy for the monetary elite itself (a few thousand individuals) to enlist hundreds of thousands and even millions of functionaries to promote these dominant social themes through a variety of governmental and private organizations (and public schooling as well). But ultimately, in order for these themes to gain traction, the promotions themselves (for that is what they are) must reach a receptive public. These days, the Internet is exposing each of these promotions. When the credibility of these promotions is eroded, then they cease to work as planned.' -- FAIL

<code> // Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures.</code> ... "corrected" ... 'You can claim an email you wrote years ago isn’t accurate saying it was “taken out of context”, but a programmer making notes in the code does so that he/she can document what the code is actually doing at that stage, so that anyone who looks at it later can figure out why this function doesn’t plot past 1960. In this case, it is not allowing all of the temperature data to be plotted. Growing season data (summer months when the new tree rings are formed) past 1960 is thrown out because “these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real temperatures”, which implies some post processing routine. Spin that...' -- So, how do you like living in a programmed pseudo-reality?

'Propaganda techniques -- #Bandwagon: Pump up the value of 'joining the party'. Play heavily on people's need for belong. #Card-stacking: Build a highly-biased case for your position. Confuse real statistics with high availability of supporters. #Character assassination: Destroy the person: Discredit, Defame, Denigrate, Demonize, Dehumanize. Mud sticks. #Glittering generalities: Use vague power words that appeal to values and evoke emotions. Speak in hypnotic linguistic patterns. #Information management: Knowledge is power. Spin information: Amplification, Downplaying, Distortion, Statistics, Lies, and Meta-propaganda. #Plain folks: Make the leader seem ordinary to increase trust and credibility. #Stereotyping: Classify the other side negatively. Polarize. #Testimonial: Use the testimony of a respected independent person who is seen as more trustworthy. Use celebrities, experts, police, scientists, clerics and divinities. #Transfer: Associate the leader with these trusted others.'

The engineered vaccine/virus is "both very lethal and very infectious." -- 'Teresa Forcades is a nun at the monastery of Sant-Benet, in Monserra-Barcelona. She is a doctor physician specializing in internal medicine, PHD in public health at Barcelona’s university, specializing in the USA at the State University of New York. She gives verifiable scientific data and the disturbing irregularities related to this subject. This is relevant to all countries, all people. She explains the consequences of the declaration of a [weakened definition of] PANDEMIC, the political consequences from this declaration and makes a proposal to keep calm. She calls for an urgent activation of all legal mechanism and the participation of all citizens in this matter.'

FORCED MEMES ARE FORCED -- '...dominant social themes include the deadly swine flu, the ticking time bomb of overpopulation, the flooding of the world from global warming, the freezing of the world from peak oil - and on and on. In all these instances—every one—a government solution is proposed that will ameliorate the difficulty. And all the solutions, we note, are increasingly international and involve the United Nations and other global bodies. -- Enmeshing memes within the regulatory process gives them nearly unimpeachable authority. The police enforce the supporting regs. The courts create a judicial process regardless of whether the memes are true or not. The mainstream media then deals with the memes as if they were established fact. A nation's education system retells them with certainty and even quizzes students on them. Businesses are built around the demand generated by a given dominant social theme.'

'...reality is either what exists, or what we can agree by consensus seems to exist; the process has been (perhaps loosely and a bit imprecisely) characterised as "[w]hen enough people think something is true, it... takes on a life of its own." The term is usually used disparagingly as by implication it may mean little more than "what a group or culture chooses to believe," and may bear little or no relationship to any "true reality", and, indeed, challenges the notion of "true reality"'

'There prevails in the writings of many contemporary authors the disposition to represent every extension of governmental power and every restriction of the individual's discretion as a measure of liberation, as a step forward on the road to liberty. Carried to its ultimate logical conclusion, this mode of reasoning leads to the inference that socialism, the complete abolition of the individual's faculty to plan his own life and conduct, brings perfect freedom. It was this reasoning that suggested to socialists and Communists the idea of arrogating to themselves the appellation liberal.' -- CRIMETHINK. PARTICULAR IS GENERAL. FALLACY IS ORTHODOXY. NEWSPEAK IS OLDSPEAK. THIS WARN YOU.

'[The] “you are in a minority, you are wrong” message DOES dissuade a lot of people. It is remarkably poisonous. And it discourages people from taking concrete action.' -- Comment: craazyman: "The issues of central banking, credit, regulation and capital ratios are so esoteric and so remote that few Americans can really build a world view around them. Not out of lack of intelligence but simply because it’s a completely foreign language. There is nothing in this crisis to grab on to — intellectually and ideologically — for most people. Just a stewing frustrated rage that something isn’t right with the big picture. There’s no center, no point of communal traction that could be sloganeered into a reference point to rally around. And so people acquiesce to a state of affairs that they know is messed up, but they don’t know quite why or what to do about it – other than tune out the morons on TV and try to survive the night in the jungle." -- Blurtman: "The Depression Will Not Be Televised."

'Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.' -- THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE WORST THE WORST THE WORST THE WORST THE WORST

'The idea, one that is generally accepted in social psychology, is that word choice can reveal a person’s mood. This is true in ordinary writing, these experts say, and even more so in writing like Facebook updates or the tweets of Twitter users, which ostensibly are attempts to describe what you are doing right now and how you feel. The Facebook happiness index could be the first step in reorienting the nation’s sense of self-worth. “We have tracked the economic health of the nation for a long time. The reason we track those things is that the government is full of economists, not psychologists. I could imagine it would allow us to look at a group of people, get a sense of what their concerns are, how insecure they feel. It could be an advertiser’s dream. Yes, it is creepy from a government perspective, but it is even creepier from an advertising perspective.”' -- Creepy and extremely dumb. Measure actual behaviours not claims on behaviours. "I'm happy." "I'm sad." You're confused.

Shades of PKD's 'Now Wait For Last Year' -- Max Keiser: "nobel prizes before he does anything ... we live in a world so pressed for time, things happen before they happen now. it’s a by-product of the futures markets.. as if they are trading time on futures markets – time futures that don’t allow for time to happen yet before a transaction must be made.. any transaction.. the pyscho program trading computers are running everything now.. including parts of the collective unconscious. did obama win the prize? yes, I remember that happening in the future. Is he still president.. no, he had to retire or bets made on his policies would have gone bad and bankrupted the bankers on wall st. i explain it all in my novel; Buy Love, Sell Fear"

'Psychopathic lying is not mere deception, it is "creating reality" so that it conforms to the psychopath's wants. Psychopaths demonstrate an extremely distorted understanding of what we call facts. Normal humans really have difficulty conceiving of this because to us, facts are a basic part of our lives. We live by them, base our assessments and decisions on them. We establish facts, and then test things and establish more facts. When we debate, we start with facts and show how we derive our conclusions from those facts. When we perform such operations, we place value on those "facts" being true. Psychopaths do not do that. Being devoid of real emotional depth, they have no attachment to the idea of "truth". But, because people project their own internal structure onto the psychopath, most do not understand this. -- A psychopath becomes an expert at creating "facts" that cause normal people to form beliefs that benefit the psychopath.'

Newsy [creates] short video clips with their own reporters highlighting how various sources reported the same news item. The sources comprise a gamut of news organizations and blogs around the world, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ABC, The New York Times and Fox News. The service’s core demographic is presumably adventurous news junkies who think they can gain a better understanding of what they may already think they know well by seeing it though a different prism. -- “The media is losing credibility in peoples’ minds, and one of the reasons [for that] is this myth that people are only interested in hearing their version of the story. We are interested in hitting what I consider to be the larger percentage of the population, who understand that we live in a global marketplace…. The person who is paying attention to [the news] on a global basis and is paying attention to multiple sources and multiple perspectives will probably have a competitive advantage over the person who isn’t.”'

'Converging technology, transhumanism, and our future in the making. The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history of eugenics and its new cutting edge transformation.' -- Transhumanism is a eugenics cult. Well, yeah. The idea is to man-u-facture better slaves. This is what humans lust to do to each other. 'Twas ever thus.

'The news doesn't just influence our values. It changes the way we think so that certain values become inevitable.' -- Comment: Joseph Bergevin: "I agree that our reality is one of convenience more than comprehension, but I don't see a way around this. People don't care about truth, they care about other people. If an effort or cost doesn't advance their esteem with others, most people don't see its value. You just can't make them care about things they don't - only sell it in terms of what they do."

'Pack journalism is an often derogatory term used to describe the tendency of news reporting to become homogeneous. Pack journalism occurs because the reporters often rely on one another for news tips or are all similarly dependent on a single source for access (which is often the very person they are covering). A type of groupthink occurs, as the journalists are constantly aware of what the others are reporting and an informal consensus emerges on what is newsworthy.'

'The media is fond of saying that no one in the mainstream saw this coming except Roubini. How stupid is this? The media is the sole decision maker about who we get to pay attention to. If they feature only liars and fools, then of course it will seem that no one saw this coming. And they feature almost entirely liars, fools, and criminal manipulators. Let’s consider who got this right in addition to Roubini. [A long list of truthers] Why did we almost never see these guys on the tube or in print. And why, when we did see them, was the usual purpose to ridicule and harass them? Because the media was and is a co-conspirator, witting or unwitting, with the Wall Street criminal distribution machine. The media is populated by conformist morons, too fat and lazy, too coddled by their Wall Street sponsors to be bothered by anything so mundane as to search for the truth. Only the mainstream infomercial media didn’t get it, because they are, after all, on the payroll of the Wall Street Mob.'

'Celebrated author and essayist Will Self launches the festival arguing that the way the mind is portrayed in most novels is preposterous. Why are we so resistant to attempts to represent the mind as we really experience it, in all its terror, exhilaration and confusion? Are many of our finest novels designed to reassure us that we are 'normal'?'

'"History, unendingly revised and reinterpreted, is seen upon examination as merely a different class of fiction [...]. Still, it is a fiction that we must inhabit. [...] All that remains in question is whose map we choose, whether we live within the world's insistent texts or else replace them with a stronger language of our own." --- ... Moore understands that in order to change history one must become a part of history, and thus engage in a kind of human sacrifice, as much as he would like to imagine some other way. -- "There's no space and there's no time. It's just as easy for you to think about what you were doing this morning as Victorian street scenes. You can go there instantly. You can imagine a scene from ten years in the future." Idea Space is the medium through which human consciousness draws connections across space and time, finds meaningfulness in the immediate through its mediation within larger contexts. -- Fiction is how reality is made...'

'I tend to take it for granted that brands of products function only to help individuals brand themselves, to allow them to project certain traits along the lines described in the previous paragraph. (For producers, brands allow for the elaboration of differences between competitors’ commodities where there are more or less materially indistinguishable.) But Red Moscow suggests that brands could be contrived to close off avenues for the development of a superficial self. Nationalist brands would enlist users into helping complete the ideological project of the state, not the self—a state that may not allow for an autonomous self. Such brands would demonstrate conformity and obedience in a much more direct way than our brands.. Consumerism is soft coercion in that sense; it allows for a space where conformity can comfortably coexist with rebellion—the revolution is reduced to continually turning over one’s personal affect within a game whose rules are thereby protected from change.'

'...how can a data stream be turned into real-time action, reaching the people who need it, when they need it, and in a form they can easily digest? At the most abstract level, history and computation are the same thing: the evolution of systems over time. Twitter has several remarkable properties that allow us to finally leverage this correspondence in tangible ways. The simplicity of its data, the openness of its system, and its extreme time resolution make it possible for us to detect atoms of history, those moments when something is triggered and society is reconfigured ever so slightly. Simply tracking the volume of various phrases gives us a sense of what is happening on the street, literally and figuratively. But that signal is but a shadow of a far more complex and intricate reality, an interwoven web of individuals and actions. -- Disruptive events lead to information elites.'

'Curtis: I'll tell you what I think about the neo-conservatives. In a way, I admire them for nostalgic reasons. They are the last revolutionaries - and some of them actually came out of a Trotskyite revolutionary tradition. They are making an awesome attempt to remake and reshape the world, much as Trotsky tried to do in the Russian Revolution, using military power. It's amazing. It has an epic-ness to it. I feel nostalgic for it, in the face of a managerial politics that just seem to want to tweak and adjust its policies to those of the focus groups and the soccer moms. -- ...when it becomes obvious that a lot of this is a constructed fantasy, based often on idealism and not necessarily on conspiracy, there will be a growing public distrust about the very nature of how reality is described to them. ...the neoconservatives have taken us into a philosophical quagmire, which is, "How do you describe reality, how do you make sense of the world? How do you construct it?"'

#5 Search for Authenticity: If you are smart, you realize that ‘authenticity’ is yet another archetypal persona that seduces you into a static self-conception. If not, you go down an obsolete path blazed by a stoned generation. #8 Skill: Some of your personas become increasingly comfortable to inhabit. You start noticing that you are now acting out the role so well that you are actually as good or better in those roles than people you previously considered “authentic” non-actors. This leads to the epiphany that everybody grows into roles this way. #11 Fluidity: Jumping among the set of point-like roles in the space of personas yields to continuous movement. You become aware of the gradual expansion of the space you can inhabit. It starts acquiring, through its growth, a shape and character. #12 Brandhood: The integrated, growing space which you can inhabit with fluidity starts acquiring an overall sum greater than the parts consistency, that has only one analogy: the notion of brand.'

'An unperson is a person who has been "vaporized"; who has been not only killed by the state, but effectively erased from existence. Such a person would be written out of existing books, photographs, and articles so that no trace of their existence could be found in the historical record. The idea is that such a person would, according to the principles of doublethink, be forgotten completely (for it would be impossible to provide evidence of their existence), even by close friends and family members. Mentioning his or her name, or even speaking of their past existence, is thoughtcrime; the concept that the person may have existed at one time and has disappeared cannot be expressed in Newspeak. Compare to the Stalinist practice of erasing people from photographs after their execution (see photos, right).'

'Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the Tourist Remover blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.

On twitter stampedes feedbacking volatility markets. -- Subscribe to the herdfeed. Bringing you falseflags daily.

"Diane Benscoter talks about how she joined the Moonies -- and stayed for five long years. She shares an insider's perspective on cults and extremist movements, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts." -- The circular logic of exceptionalism.

'“...appealed to the media not to use Twitter names because, they say, doing so could put people’s lives in danger.” One of the difficulties of asking us to not identify our anonymous sources is that, given how easy it is to stage hoaxes on Twitter, we have tried to identify those feeds that seem most reliable and we have reason to believe are actually coming to us from inside Iran. In other words we have tried to point only to feeds that have established a reputation for accuracy in the past few days. That said, it is entirely likely that the authorities in Iran may well be monitoring these Twitter feeds themselves and we will refrain from identifying individual feeds from now on.' -- With no verifiable usernames and the spread of Tehran timezone spoofings, it is '...impossible for journalists to trust that any Twitter feeds are in fact coming from inside Iran.'

"...rumors can have a longer lifespan on a network of sympathetic blogs, Facebook postings and Twitter feeds. None of this is to excuse the behavior of the government after the election results came out. Or to diminish the bravery and courage of the people who are out in the streets in Tehran getting beaten. But what if it’s based on a lie? A Twitter-fueled, mass delusion of a lie? That the one third of people who voted for Mousavi convinced themselves, via a social media echo chamber that selectively picked rumors and amplified them until they appeared true, that they in fact represented two thirds of the country? And then tried to bring down the government based on that delusion? Maybe it’s not the case this time. But doesn’t this entire episode seem to show how such a thing could happen? And then what?" -- And a whole new reality was set into motion.

'As a consequence of the social promise of recovered false memories, individuals become lazy about generating their own authentic memories, expecting instead that society will perpetually supply a steady stream of synthetic ones that will make everyone feel unique in their life experience, what they have endured. Many of us may feel exempt from this disturbing method of personality structuration, but the nature of recovered memories, once granted an iota of credibility, is that anything any individual believes he or she knows about themselves can be called into question by a perceived therapeutic authority. A state-sanctioned psychologist can always tell you what you must remember and what you must know to be true about yourself.'

"The iPlant is a type of brain implant advocated as a means of programming yourself. The idea is that an iPlant would be similar to today's deep brain stimulation implants. The iPlant would electronically regulate the release of monoamines in the brain. Monoamines effectively determine motivation, mood, learning and creativity."

'"There exists," Cohn wrote, "...a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history." -- ...they are driven as much by a psychological need as a totalitarian ideology. Their delusions impose a comforting coherence on the mess of life and randomness of death. By "suggesting that there is an explanation, that human agencies are powerful and that there is order rather than chaos," the conspiracy theorist places himself in a sophisticated elite that discerns connections where the multitude sees only happenstance.' -- Um, spot the 'coherence' -making?

Doublethink: "holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind, and accepting both of them." ...a Party member who needs to "revise" his own memories to conform with the Party's latest revision of history will necessarily know that he is playing tricks with reality, "but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies—all this is indispensably necessary. Using this technique, the Party can stay in power indefinitely—"for the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes... The prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity." -- Unread.

'The goal is not happiness itself, the prime minister explained, a concept that each person must define for himself. Rather, the government aims to create the conditions for what he called, in an updated version of the American Declaration of Independence, “the pursuit of gross national happiness.” ... the government has determined that the four pillars of a happy society involve the economy, culture, the environment and good governance. It breaks these into nine domains: psychological well-being, ecology, health, education, culture, living standards, time use, community vitality and good governance, each with its own weighted and unweighted G.N.H. index. All of this is to be analyzed using the 72 indicators. Under the domain of psychological well-being, for example, indicators include the frequencies of prayer and meditation and of feelings of selfishness, jealousy, calm, compassion, generosity and frustration as well as suicidal thoughts.' -- Engineering a touristy Happyland. Grim.

'But if the placebo is bizarre, the 'nocebo' effect, is downright sinister. Dubbed 'placebo's evil twin', the nocebo effect happens when negative expectations produce harmful, real-life effects. In one extraordinary example from the Seventies, an American patient was diagnosed with cancer and given just months to live. He duly died in the allotted time frame - but the autopsy revealed the doctors had made a mistake: there was no cancer. According to Clifton Meader, a doctor from Tennessee who has studied the nocebo effect: 'He didn't die from cancer, but from believing he was dying of cancer'. The nocebo effect explains the extraordinary power of occult or voodoo medicine. Witch doctors in the American Deep South and the Caribbean use voodoo 'magic' to put curses on people and convince them they will die. To the astonishment of medical science, they often do.'

"271 are dead after an Onion News Network Special Investigative Report on airport security."

"Today Now! utilizes computer technology to show a mother how rampant drug use and prostitution has ravaged her little girl's body."