Kirk Gallaway Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, Chris Barnard said: That's what the Nartzee's did, dehumanised people with disparaging remarks who made different choices to their own in life. Are you a Nartzee Kirk? No time for cuteness, Do you think you're fooling anybody including the mods, by calling somebody a "n-z-" here Chris?? You notice my comment was a joke. But most off us want to keep people from countries with dangerous variants who refuse to get a vaccine from entering our country. That makes sense. As I said earlier, the biggest expat populations are from 1)Mexico and 2.The U.K. and their most common destination is the U.S. And we can pick and choose, and what's in it for us? And for that, no one deserves name calling. What I see is earlier I brought up the fallacy and the natural consequences of your assumptions and you were unable to defend your points, and you're playing the "victim" now, and to take a page from your NYU professor you're trying to "crybully" your way out of it by calling somebody here a n-z-.. Edited April 25, 2021 by Kirk Gallaway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 25, 2021 Share Posted April 25, 2021 1 hour ago, Kirk Gallaway said: No time for cuteness, Do you think you're fooling anybody including the mods, by calling somebody a "n-z-" here Chris?? You notice my comment was a joke. But most off us want to keep people from countries with dangerous variants who refuse to get a vaccine from entering our country. That makes sense. As I said earlier, the biggest expat populations are from 1)Mexico and 2.The U.K. and their most common destination is the U.S. And we can pick and choose, and what's in it for us? And for that, no one deserves name calling. What I see is earlier I brought up the fallacy and the natural consequences of your assumptions and you were unable to defend your points, and you're playing the "victim" now, and to take a page from your NYU professor you're trying to "crybully" your way out of it by calling somebody here a n-z-.. It seems I have rattled your cage a little bit, Kirk. You've continued with the emotive language, malice and jibes (recently at Dennis), which isn't in the spirit of debate or harmonious relations. A little mockery is sent back your way and you're all up in arms about it. Perhaps there is a lesson for you to learn here. 🙂 PS I believe you directed the previous post you refer to at Dennis and you stated you would come back to me later about what you found interesting (which you haven't). I can reply to that myself if you'd like? Let me know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Gallaway Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) My cage is rattled Chris? I wasn't driven to call you a N-z-! It sounds like you're coming unglued again, like you've very embarrassingly done with Cliff and Kerry, hurling slurs, and then not owning your hostilities and in this case, trying to project them on me. Edited April 26, 2021 by Kirk Gallaway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 9 hours ago, Kirk Gallaway said: My cage is rattled Chris? I wasn't driven to call you a N-z-! It sounds like you're coming unglued again, like you've very embarrassingly done with Cliff and Kerry, hurling slurs, and then not owning your hostilities and in this case, trying to project them on me. So you are or you aren’t? :-) heh heh You should quit with the dehumanising people you don’t agree with. It’s not nice when you’re on the end of this group identity stuff, right? My advice is; try to be civil. If you carry on, it’s no skin off my nose, it’s just your insecurities being bared for all to see. Your disparaging remarks have gone on for weeks at Dennis and I. You just got called out for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Science is science, right? Money Talks We have enormous trust in medical journals. Ever wondered how scientific research papers are manipulated to deceive the public? It actually starts a bit like the Warren Commission. You have an architect of the study/case which sets all of the conditions in place to prove the result/outcome you desire. In medical terms that may be to prove the said product is safe or has a high efficacy. The reality is the conditions you set at outset in most part determine the outcome. If you ran the study another way it may be an unsafe product or as effective as drinking water. As the public we assume a comprehensive multi-varied analysis is carried out, leaving no stone unturned, in reality it isn’t the case. The next step is a pharmaceutical company or agency ghost-writing a study from a marketing perspective, a seemingly reputable Dr or industry respected individual or institution puts his/her/their name on it, having not read the data or conducted the trials or study themselves. This helps the individual advance personally, or the institution who his reliant on pharma corporation funding. The study then goes to medical journals who are heavily reliant on pharma funding. As the consumer we then read the journal or the pharma funded articles in newspapers/TV stories and think the product is safe or effective. It’s marketing and PR driven. The video below explains this perfectly. THE ILLUSION OF EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE - Leemon McHenry, PHD. Professor of Philosophy & Bioethics, Consultant & Author Some reading on Ghost-Writing Papers: http://iibhg.ukim.edu.mk/Obrazovanie/Predavanja/MensSanaMonogr81129-1602458_042704.pdf WHY MOST PUBLISHED RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE FALSE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1182327/ JOHN P A IOANIDIS, Professor Stanford University, Author, Physician, Scientist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 On 2/16/2021 at 9:36 AM, Chris Barnard said: I think one of the most frustrating things is that if you were to mention in social circles that you believe that 35th US President, John F. Kennedy was murdered as part of a conspiracy (ie a plot involving more than one person), that people will look at you as if you think the moon is made of cheese or, that you have a poster of David Icke or Alex Jones on your wall. That is a generalisation, society is certainly staggered in terms of peoples capacities to critically think and question conventional narratives. At least in my observations, there seem to be at least five types of people who seem to indulge in conspiracy theories. There are low IQ, or limited education types who are incredibly impressionable and would believe just about anything that is in front of them, without questioning it, they are also the same type that nods slack-jawed, glassy-eyed when a president says anything at a rally. Next, there are the resentful types that hate the government, because they don't drive a new Mercedes and live in Malibu, so they will spew anything that attacks anybody or anything linked to wealth, success or authority, as it makes them feel good. Then you have the people with a decent level of education or life experience, who try to weigh things up and see what seems logical or probable based on their understanding of how things work or can work. I suspect that describes many of the people here. Next are the people who could be any of the above who have the first-hand experience witnessing a conspiracy at play, no matter how big or small, they have experience of such a thing happening. That could be a fireman, lawyer, soldier, diplomat, journalist or even Lee Bowers working on the railroad. Lastly, you have highly intelligent people who are extremely well-read and who may have studied various fields, they have a strong understanding of domains such as psychology, history, political science and anything that would allow them to efficiently analyse scenarios in a logical and informed fashion. For anyone who really gets into the JFK evidence, there can only be one conclusion, and that's that there was more than one person involved and more than one shooter. But, how many people in the public domain just will not listen or even look at it, because of the stigma attached to such a belief? I am sure you've all experienced that when talking to friends, family, or even partners at times. It is very frustrating and when you make your clear case so that a toddler can understand it, they then change the subject or make a throw-away comment to devalue the truth they've just been told. Very few people like being wrong but, there is a much deeper reason why they are reluctant to accept even when your argument is compelling, logical and backed by evidence. The main reason is that they have trouble accepting is their trust for the mainstream media and google search results. Britain's use of propaganda during the Boer Wars and WW1 was so powerful as a tool, that governments began to mimic the tactics used in peacetime. Logically, why wouldn't you make use of something that is such an effective tool in persuading the masses to comply with a government directive. For those of you who don't know, Britain was telling its citizens that Kaiser Wilhelm II's German soldiers were taking babies and driving bayonets into them on their march through Europe. You can imagine the profound effect this had on the citizens of Britain and other nations, hearing this unimaginably reprehensible thing. The result was you had the allies understandably full of passion and raring to fight this evil sweeping Europe. The problem was; none of it was true about the bayonets and babies, it was an outright lie by the British, a deception. A young German soldier who was wounded in Ypres, Belgium, toward the end of WW1, recovered and when the war was over, began to study the British propaganda campaign during WW1 very carefully. That young man was Adolph Hitler, the effectiveness of the Third Reich's use of propaganda under a man called Joseph Goebbels. led to disastrous consequences. They used a series of lies to agitate passions amongst the German people during a very depressing time for the German economy, suggesting the Jews were responsible for many of the country's misfortunes. Anti-semitism turned into people wearing badges, working as slaves and genocide. In the Soviet Union under Stalin and various propaganda chiefs (Suslov, Shepilov etc) we saw an equally effective use of propaganda which resulted in mass murder in numbers never seen before on the planet, intellectuals executed, networks of forced labour camps (The Gulag Archipelago) where innocent farmers were dehumanised, in what is now the Ukraine, who earned just a little bit more than other people were brutally raped & murdered. Because they were murdered, there was nobody to produce the food and an estimated 10,000,000 starved to death. China adopted similar methods and all told in the 20th-century experts state the number between 50,000,000 and 100,000,000 were dead as a result. There are lots of lessons to be learnt in that period but, propaganda was the tool to achieve it all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propagandaIt may seem I have sidetracked there but, it seems what is fundamentally not understood by most of the public is how powerful propaganda is as a means of persuasion. The former paragraph is ample evidence that people can be made to do just about anything. It is also evidence that human beings have a natural proclivity to conform to authority. If we think the Germans during WWII were all made to do the reprehensible things they did by force, we're wrong, some were but, it's overwhelmingly the case that most people just conformed to propaganda and the words of authority. This correlates to the conspiracy theory argument. If a human being told repeatedly, for days, weeks, months and years that something is so, it becomes truth to that person in most cases. In the same way if you repeatedly receive ads about a certain product with positive language, a lot of people will end up buying it. That is a tried and tested formula, that plays out in many forms but, works very effectively. Ideas and products are sold to the public in the same ways. As a population, most of us trust the government and the news. We may disagree with some things but, many things we might be on the same page. The human mind trusting news networks or governments is down to several variables but, ultimately as a voter or reader we must subscribe to the concept that government is doing us good, that it is in the interests of humanity, compassion and Judeau-Christian values. If a news network persistently runs stories about kindness, compassion and improving things for everyone, and exposing injustice we are likely to trust them, as it fits our values. When that same network tells us Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK and acted alone, we think, why would they lie? When that same network tells us some middle eastern or African leader is a bad guy, and we need to help restore democracy in that country for the good of its people, the same again, we think; that sounds good, why would they lie? What if the public understood that the news networks were just a bunch of people like you or me, earning a lot of money, and sorted into a hierarchy. That hierarchy has the owners at the top, then an editor and so on. Instead of our concept that all journalists are like Lois Lane or an Erin Brokovich type character exposing truths and corruption. What if the reality at a news network like Fox or CNN is that the owners/editors dictate what is covered and how? It's them who have the decision if a story goes to press or how it is told, it is they who refuse a story or assign a journalist something else to cover. Not the idealistic young Vicky Vale. We know about the late 50's Dulles moles in the press like Ben Bradley, why would we assume that those 8 or so weren't the tip of the iceberg? Why were we assume that those numbers haven't multiplied exponentially? Someone would have talked? A Dorothy Kilgallen type perhaps? For those of you that buy into Fletcher Prouty explanation of assets being placed at high levels of the military-industrial complex or FBI, why wouldn't they do the same with the press, considering its power? The press carries an enormous amount of power, the people who carry that power are not elected to that position. There is enough public information available to see how media networks are funded, we don't even need to get into special handshakes at high-brow country clubs or anything too elaborate. Let me asks the sceptics, what if they turned a blind eye to high-level corruption and were being used as a piece of apparatus for private entities to make as much money as possible? This argument will vary depending on the country and the network, the BBC for example works almost like a counterpoint in the UK. At a glance they seem at loggerheads with the conservative party, in reality, the BBC assists policy. We never sit and think; hang on, the BBC is mostly funded by the state. But, if it was Russia or China we'd make a flippant remark about the people of those countries being under a spell or brainwashed, as the government owns the media. The subconscious plays a huge part in absorbing propaganda and shaping our thoughts. I sometimes wonder how much of part it plays in whether we accept a conspiracy theory or not. If you've just had 50 years of the words; freedom, liberty, & democracy drummed into your brains through government and media channels, as well as film, documentaries, TV & books, what chance do you have of believing the US government on some levels isn't virtuous? Perhaps the most staggering example is that a person can believe there was a conspiracy to kill JFK but, that a 9/11 conspiracy is inconceivable. One apparent thing is that people from both sides will never accept the opposing view, no matter how much evidence is in front of them. But, some people are not logical thinkers. Does patriotism and love for one's country play a part in preventing you from finding the truth? It almost certainly does. As does being at the epicentre of the propaganda, being a direct target of it. I would be more blind to any British related deception, which Americans might easily see. I might identify American government propaganda much more easily than an American person. Someone in the middle east might see both America and Britain with perfect clarity. Some will seem out of "left field" and they'll be some curveballs in there. We can judge them vs what the news networks and what our governments told us. Let's take some popular conspiracy theories in relatively recent history and ask ourselves which are credible, probable or something deserved of a tin foil hat wearing loony. The Federal Reserve Creation & Fractional Reserve Banking The Iranian Coup - Mossadeq The death of UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld 1961 The assassination of John F Kennedy The assassination of the Diem brothers The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr The assassination of Robert F Kennedy Watergate & Nixon's resignation. Iran Contra The Oklahoma City Bombing 9/11 War in Afghanistan War in Iraq IITo be honest, could look at many of the coups in South & Central America, many have been touched upon by researchers here. For a lot of this, you don't need to read authors embellishing, you can now read declassified papers from the government and see the evidence. Then we can get into the following: Operation Paperclip Project Bluebird & Artichoke Project MK ULTRA, Midnight Climax Operation Northwoods Operation Mockingbird etc etc All these are things that started as conspiracy theory or still are considered as so. We may as well consider some of the ones that get the worst reputation in the public domain. UFO's Chemtrails Covid Vaccines Eugenics Fluoride in the water supply Bayer Monsanto chemicals changing the sex of frogs How many of the above are just plain absurd or ridiculous theories? How many have some truth in what is being alleged? How many have had their original context taken and distorted into something else? These are all questions we should ask ourselves before dismissing them. Of the ones above that are true or have some truth in them, they would all need the complicity or apathy of the media to succeed without a pubic outcry. It's all very well me pointing to significant world events, but, many JFK researchers here have also come across this on more of a macro level. How many of us have seen character assassinations? Is Jim Garrison the most famous? Or JFK himself? Or the many people that spoke out in the direct aftermath of the assassination, up until the present day. Mainstream media plays a huge role in facilitating that, and as pointed out above, they are trusted by most of the public and they have the loudest voice. It simply is not possible to destroy the reputations of upstanding citizens without the use of media tools, that's the only way you convince the public. Should I add Sprague to the list? Or Gaeton Fonzi? Or even Oliver Stone, who was on top of the world after Platoon and a pariah even before the launch of JFK the film. I am sure many of you are astute enough to identify people with axes to grind in your everyday lives, why don't you see it when it comes from the media? If we take away the Republican/Democrat bias here and look at a conspiracy theory that hit the headlines in late 2019, (which should be free of that political bias). What are your thoughts on Jeffrey Epstein and how the mainstream media has covered the case? Is that good investigative reporting? Is it honest reporting? Was the president and the former president, WBC investigated enough? Were the answers satisfying in terms of what he'd been up to and with who? Were the circumstances of his death satisfying in terms of having answers? It's taxpayers money that paid for the investigation. It was a sham. Another topic relating to the media is the acceptance of 'coincidences' or ' incompetence' as a determining narrative to explain something that looks deliberate, suspicious or corrupt. We hear phrases like; "coincidences happen" or "we are all human" to explain away something that looks entirely improbable. Of all the very talented, highly educated reporters, not one of them seems to understand mathematical odds or probability. Similarly, of all these exceedingly smart media people, nobody seems to understand the concept that if you are someone who has a degree from a first-rate institution, and you have climbed your way to the top of society, that you are a very competent human being, often in multiple domains. The world is so competitive, you have to be. When people at that level make a series of catastrophic errors that costs the taxpayer a fortune, you should be raising your eyebrows. The ones who raise their eyebrows now, are the "conspiracy theorists". That, in a roundabout way, has created an environment of soft-censorship. Nobody dare speak up about what they are seeing. That is a chief complaint we see on the forum, if you question a president's motives for going to war, you're a conspiracy theorist. In the past year, we've seen press agencies and politicians reportedly warn of the dangers of conspiracy theories, there has been a concerted effort. That will now look justified after the attack on the US Capitol. But, the cost to us all is free speech. On top of that, we have big tech zealously censoring the public, removing channels, content, comments, and it's implied its because they are compassionate or woke. The MSM has openly supported social media and internet censorship, even the BBC suggesting we follow China on this. That kind of talk would be unheard of 20 years ago. What was one with the legal apparatus and framework prosecuting individuals for breaking laws? Did it work right? Yes. Now we have another unappointed, unelected body deciding what enters our thoughts daily. Young people are sometimes spending 5 hours+ on social media each day, the impact is profound on the human mind and tech companies are deciding what we are exposed to and what is hidden. Their algorithms will throw up what they think is best from a web search, their social media platforms will show you content based on their engineering. If you're thinking, who cares?! Just consider how that works in the run up to elections promoting candidates. I would highly recommend you have a look at how Cambridge Analytica did this in 2015/16. If you're writing articles about JFK conspiracy or any others, don't expect it to get seen. Those organisations have tremendous power. Others are more qualified than I who could perhaps shed light on the origins of some of these tech giants, leading back to DARPA/ARPA and the Pentagon. That's another conspiracy theory you may want to look at. Interestingly, since Covid began, the sales of "1984" by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Bair) have rocketed. Another author from that same ilk is Aldous Huxley who (he coincidentally died on the same day as JFK, along with CS Lewis), wrote "Brave New World". The two of them differed in their opinions on where the next big threat would come from and how, and the two books have been much debated by intellectuals. Huxley's book was released in 1931, but, in 1958 he released another version having changed his mind. In 1961 he felt that the next threat of totalitarianism or tyranny would not come overtly through force, but, through the subconscious, he said: “There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will, in fact, have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkymdspups&t=4s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioningIf you struggle with that concept of freedom being an illusion, this video makes you ponder your current situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92GG5k6aUfs If I look at Robert F Kennedy's "Ripples of Hope" speech in South Africa, Some of the warnings are so prescient, they so aptly describe what we are seeing now and so many of the mistakes made between 1966 and 2021. The reference regarding timidity rings particularly true in terms of the pubic apathy toward the loss of our rights, free speech and resistance to immoral things. "First is the danger of futility; the belief there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills – against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. "Give me a place to stand," said Archimedes, "and I will move the world." These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation. Thousands of Peace Corps volunteers are making a difference in the isolated villages and the city slums of dozens of countries. Thousands of unknown men and women in Europe resisted the occupation of the Nazis and many died, but all added to the ultimate strength and freedom of their countries. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage such as these that the belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. "If Athens shall appear great to you," said Pericles, "consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty." That is the source of all greatness in all societies, and it is the key to progress in our own time. The second danger is that of expediency; of those who say that hopes and beliefs must bend before immediate necessities. Of course if we must act effectively we must deal with the world as it is. We must get things done. But if there was one thing that President Kennedy stood for that touched the most profound feeling of young people across the world, it was the belief that idealism, high aspiration and deep convictions are not incompatible with the most practical and efficient of programs – that there is no basic inconsistency between ideals and realistic possibilities – no separation between the deepest desires of heart and of mind and the rational application of human effort to human problems. It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. It is this new idealism which is also, I believe, the common heritage of a generation which has learned that while efficiency can lead to the camps at Auschwitz, or the streets of Budapest, only the ideals of humanity and love can climb the hills of the Acropolis. A third danger is timidity. Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to change. Aristotle tells us "At the Olympic games it is not the finest or the strongest men who are crowned, but those who enter the lists. . .so too in the life of the honourable and the good it is they who act rightly who win the prize." I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. For the fortunate amongst us, the fourth danger is comfort; the temptation to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of an education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. There is a Chinese curse which says "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty, but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself – on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort. So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are – if a man of forty can claim the privilege – fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and with your difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and for the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but men and women all over the world. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with your fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country that I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generation in any of these nations; you are determined to build a better future. President Kennedy was speaking to the young people of America, but beyond them to young people everywhere, when he said "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it – and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." And, he added, "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth and lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo_91HbhHTo President John F Kennedy said: "The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know." https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/american-newspaper-publishers-association-19610427 That was taken from the 1961 speech to the American press, which was largely centred around the threat of the Soviet Union but, he makes it very clear about an internal threat in that passage. That speech was one week after the Bay of Pigs failure. He references that nobody should attempt to stifle the news, he probably had experienced that first hand.I see most of the public are now like the toddler who falls over, and before crying, looks at his parents to see their reaction to see if they should cry or not. Society does that with the news. The human neurochemistry is being cheated by all manner of things, including the blue light emitted by your phones and computer screens, which induces the release of dopamine, a chemical associated with pleasure. That same chemical is released when we get likes on Facebook or Instagram, the more likes we get, the better we feel. It's no wonder people are running about virtue signalling to collect likes. It's no wonder there is so much attention-seeking behaviour in general. Our body is supposed to function on an effort vs reward system. If you complete a difficult task, you get a flood of dopamine in the brain. If you do exercise, you get serotonin release too, a chemical associated with feeling happy. Originally we needed those chemicals to motivate us to get out of our cave and go hunting to feed our family. What tech giants, food manufacturers, or any manufacturers of stimulants have tapped into, is that our neurochemistry can be hacked. You may say, oh that's great, people feeling happy or pleasure but, there is a big downside, depression and feeling low. Alcohol for an example is a depressant, initially, you get this flood of dopamine, you feel great and the next day you have never felt lower, emotions all over the place. We wonder why so many kids and teenagers are self-harming now, it's because they are tracking their social status on Facebook, Instagram etc and they feel incredibly low when they can't get the 'likes' or engagement. The government knows the reason for this, as do psychologists, as do the media, as do tech companies, as do those marketing and selling products. When I read the words of Huxley above, I see another facet of this manipulation of society. If we are a democracy, which means "rule by the people, for the people", then why are government, big tech, and the mainstream media doing this directly to the detriment of the many and only benefitting the few? We can say it's just capitalism, the best system so far but, it is not democracy. If we have our thoughts shaped by news sites, academia, film, tv, documentaries, social media ads and books, to our detriment, is that democracy or something dystopian? To me, the question is not whether the mainstream media and government are deliberately complicit in suppressing conspiracies, the question is; to what extent are they doing it? Great stuff, Chris. Not a dull moment. I am in agreement. Though I get some flak for it, I repeat: One reason to study the JFKA in depth is to understand how government, media and commerce work together---in the present day, more so than ever, due to the internet, and the scale of the multinationals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 2 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said: Great stuff, Chris. Not a dull moment. I am in agreement. Though I get some flak for it, I repeat: One reason to study the JFKA in depth is to understand how government, media and commerce work together---in the present day, more so than ever, due to the internet, and the scale of the multinationals. Thanks Benjamin. I am not sure if you read the first post or the follow ups on subsequent pages, I know this is a very wordy thread. - The 5k word follow up to Paul Brancato is interesting. - The two videos about how big oil conquered the world are really a tutorial on how the Rockefellers dominated multiple domains and used PR as the facilitator. - The Gates video is very thought provoking and shows him to mirror the Rockefellers. - Mark Crispin Miller (who modernised Edward Bernay's book Propaganda) sheds some light on how we think it all works with PR, he actually taught the subject at NYU for 20 years. - The Zelicow Warren Commission / 9/11 / Covid Commission post is dead interesting to, the videos talk more about it. For me; JFK & how the second war in Iraq orchestrated were the wake up calls. It made me start to look at everything else, there are so many commonalities with all of the other events. You have to be scientific about it and ask what the probability of all these coincidences and patterns are but, I am satisfied with the maths. As this Lance de Havem-Smith is not going to be on the government Christmas list. He has looked at all these events in context with each other, identifying hem as SCAD's (State crimes against democracy), timings with elections and foreign policy. It's been a great read. I will do a long post here on the book soon, there is so much analysis on the JFK assassination, not how many guys were shooting but, how it was handled, laws that were broken, cui bono, and how the WC/investigation should have been handled. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18699376-conspiracy-theory-in-america I'll do a post here outlining the pertinent points in the book, when I get time soon. Cheers Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Burrows Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Chris Barnard said: Thanks Benjamin. I am not sure if you read the first post or the follow ups on subsequent pages, I know this is a very wordy thread. - The 5k word follow up to Paul Brancato is interesting. - The two videos about how big oil conquered the world are really a tutorial on how the Rockefellers dominated multiple domains and used PR as the facilitator. - The Gates video is very thought provoking and shows him to mirror the Rockefellers. - Mark Crispin Miller (who modernised Edward Bernay's book Propaganda) sheds some light on how we think it all works with PR, he actually taught the subject at NYU for 20 years. - The Zelicow Warren Commission / 9/11 / Covid Commission post is dead interesting to, the videos talk more about it. For me; JFK & how the second war in Iraq orchestrated were the wake up calls. It made me start to look at everything else, there are so many commonalities with all of the other events. You have to be scientific about it and ask what the probability of all these coincidences and patterns are but, I am satisfied with the maths. As this Lance de Havem-Smith is not going to be on the government Christmas list. He has looked at all these events in context with each other, identifying hem as SCAD's (State crimes against democracy), timings with elections and foreign policy. It's been a great read. I will do a long post here on the book soon, there is so much analysis on the JFK assassination, not how many guys were shooting but, how it was handled, laws that were broken, cui bono, and how the WC/investigation should have been handled. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18699376-conspiracy-theory-in-america I'll do a post here outlining the pertinent points in the book, when I get time soon. Cheers Chris Don't forget how G.H.W.B. used "fake news" to lie the U.S. into the first Iraq war. Like father like son. https://citizentruth.org/fake-news-1990-that-ignited-gulf-war-sympathy/amp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 25 minutes ago, Robert Burrows said: Don't forget how G.H.W.B. used "fake news" to lie the U.S. into the first Iraq war. Like father like son. https://citizentruth.org/fake-news-1990-that-ignited-gulf-war-sympathy/amp/ You’re absolutely right, Robert. I am sure I mentioned the Kuwaiti diplomat’s daughter who lied on the stand to congress, saying Sadaam Hussains troops were throwing babies from incubators onto the hard floor. That was the ‘cassus belli’ for that conflict, and it’s since been proven to be 100% a conspiracy and a lie. It mirrors the British ‘Bayonet’s and babies’ posters to rouse support for the WW1 conflict against Kaiser Wilhem II. Which was again pure propaganda, a total lie to manipulate and play on the emotions of the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 The stuff about how great India did with CV 19 needs amending. The guy leading that country today is not anywhere near Gandhi or Nehru. And that is putting it mildly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 30, 2021 Share Posted April 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said: The stuff about how great India did with CV 19 needs amending. The guy leading that country today is not anywhere near Gandhi or Nehru. And that is putting it mildly. Hi James, Which page and whose comment? I think there have been multiples. There is a bit of an argument going on right now about what we are seeing in Delhi vs what is being shown in the news. Sky is running stories daily in our media. Most Indians I speak with think Mohdi is a messiah. Oddly enough Ghandi seems not to have the reputation in India that he does in Britain, I heard a fair few critics which was surprising. Thanks Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 This Professor pulls apart the misrepresentation of Covid data, explains 'precautionary principle' and worst case scenario planning. He also talks about the government using fear to ensure obedience. He also explains how ineffective test & trace is for Covid19. He isn't alleging a conspiracy at play, he is pointing out that our information is from a very narrow source, that there is a dysfunctional relationship between science and government. Science normally works by debate and contention and that in this case discourse has been shut down and it hasn't worked. We need to question what we are being told vs the reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/this-biden-proposal-could-make-the-us-a-digital-dictatorship/ A pal just pinged this one over to me at breakfast. I haven’t looked into it yet and seen how MSM are covering it. Have any of my American fellow forum users heard about this or looked into it? At a glance are we moving into Minority Report? There is the usual propaganda to get us on board is linked to compassion, the promise of curing cancers to assure compliance with the idea. The thought had occurred to me that we could stop polluting the environment, and poisoning the food and water supply?! Carcinogens in food alone are poisoning the world. Then there is the propensity for misuse with biometric ID’s, having our health data harvested to sell us things we don’t need, whilst media tells us we do, making us neurotic or, they may use it to commit people to psychiatric care at the touch of a button, perhaps for thought crimes like opposing a tyrannical government. We sit here while governments have told us for months that they don’t want Vaccine Passports (Biometric ID’s), yet they’ve all been running trials on them. How right Huxley was ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Berube Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 Good instincts Chris, this is the goal, total control. If Biden cared about health of the public he could have subsidized organic farmers, told the FDA to remove toxins from food, yelled to the public about the FDA approval of soy leghemoglobin, helped states improve their water supply, etc... Instead, he only seems to care about aligning himself with the desires of globalist types emanating from places like the WEF. This is for those who emotionally reacted when I suggested there was massive censorship regarding anything out of the covid narrative line... Facebook working with BigPharma and the CDC to quash objective information. Again, this was obvious last year when US and UK intelligence announced they would start cyber operations against anyone questioning vaccines or lockdowns, but now it is beyond any reasonable debate. Remember when the MSM ostracized and removed social media accounts for suggesting a lab origin? It's difficult to see people who understand how the corporate media can turn science into a fantasy for the sake of a narrative, buy into it all over again hook, line, and sinker. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/05/31/facebook-censoring-vaccine-hesitancy.aspx?ui=f15ab20a4fdd6880671c85e576ed09bb765ec49e4da52b670e4fa63050b20122&sd=20210405&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210531_HL2&mid=DM898856&rid=1171768859 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 3 hours ago, Dennis Berube said: Good instincts Chris, this is the goal, total control. If Biden cared about health of the public he could have subsidized organic farmers, told the FDA to remove toxins from food, yelled to the public about the FDA approval of soy leghemoglobin, helped states improve their water supply, etc... Instead, he only seems to care about aligning himself with the desires of globalist types emanating from places like the WEF. This is for those who emotionally reacted when I suggested there was massive censorship regarding anything out of the covid narrative line... Facebook working with BigPharma and the CDC to quash objective information. Again, this was obvious last year when US and UK intelligence announced they would start cyber operations against anyone questioning vaccines or lockdowns, but now it is beyond any reasonable debate. Remember when the MSM ostracized and removed social media accounts for suggesting a lab origin? It's difficult to see people who understand how the corporate media can turn science into a fantasy for the sake of a narrative, buy into it all over again hook, line, and sinker. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/05/31/facebook-censoring-vaccine-hesitancy.aspx?ui=f15ab20a4fdd6880671c85e576ed09bb765ec49e4da52b670e4fa63050b20122&sd=20210405&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210531_HL2&mid=DM898856&rid=1171768859 Cheers Dennis. History will prove you right, it’s just a great shame that more people can’t see it or, don’t want to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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