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Best of the Web: What is "mass formation psychosis?"

Sharon Rondeau
The Post & Email
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 21:15 UTC
As of 1:46 p.m. EST on Saturday, a relatively new term of art, "Mass Formation Psychosis," trended in second place on Twitter, a position it continued to hold for more than 90 minutes as of this writing.
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The phrase came to prominence in some circles in recent months after Belgian psychologist and statistician Dr. Mattias Desmet proffered a theory for what he sees as a global behavioral phenomenon stemming from the coronavirus pandemic declared in March 2020.

In Desmet's words:
Four things need to exist or need to be in place if you want a large scale mass phenomenon to emerge. The first thing is that there needs to be a lot of socially isolated people, people who experience a lack of social bonds. The second one is that there needs to be a lot of people who experience a lack of sense-making in life. And the third and the fourth conditions are that there needs to be a lot of free-floating anxiety and a lot of free-floating psychological discontent. So: meaning, anxiety, and discontent that is not connected to a specific representation. So it needs to be in the mind without the people being able to connect it to something. If you have these four things — lack of social bonds, lack of sense-making, free-floating anxiety, and free-floating psychological discontent — then society is highly at risk for the emergence of mass phenomenon.

Comment: This phenomenon of manipulated social hysteria, has been described previously by Andrew Lobaczewski, in his landmark book, Political Ponerology.See also:

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Covid variant with '46 mutations' detected in 12 people in southern France, no evidence it's a variant of concern

Callum Hoare
MSN
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:08 UTC
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Scientists have rung the alarm bells over "the emergence of a new variant" in southern France.

It comes after 12 patients tested positive in the same region, but their tests showed "an atypical combination".

The index case had returned from travelling to Cameroon, suggesting to experts that it may have originated in the African country.


Comment: Why are scientists sounding the alarm? There are no reports of anyone suffering or any signs of danger. If Omicron was even milder than the original flu-like Covid-19, then it's likely this will be just as mild.


Comment: Coronavirus variants are considered to be a cause for concern partly because scientists have been hystericised by the same propaganda campaigns that have induced mass psychosis in the public, and partly because their funding relies on them believing that they are a 'concern': Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: New Year, Same 'New Normal': Mass Formation Psychosis & Crowd Psychology



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Bizarro Earth

Texas' largest county sees more than 150 killed by suspects out on bonds, victims group says

Louis Casiano
Fox News
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:57 UTC
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© Crime Stoppers of HoustonA list of some victims killed by offenders who were out on multiple bonds in Harris County, Texas. Crime Stoppers of Houston said 156 people have been killed since 2018 by people released on multiple bonds in Harris County.
Criminal suspects released on multiple felony bonds in Texas' most populous county have killed 156 people since 2018, according to victim advocates, who have criticized bail reform efforts that have seen some people charged with violent crimes and released back onto the streets only to violently re-offend.

In Harris County, home to Houston, the largest city in the state, there are 113 defendants charged with capital murder that been granted bond, Rania Mankarious, CEO of Crime Stoppers of Houston, told Fox News. The group has been tracking statistics in the midst of a change in bond policies.

Specifically, the public safety institution tracks cases for suspects out on multiple felony bonds, including bond forfeiture and bonds for those released on their own personal recognizance (PR). PR bonds don't require cash to get out of jail but include restrictions such as GPS monitoring or drug testing.
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SOTT Focus: A Brief Exploration of COVID-Induced Mass Psychosis

Nicholas Creed
Armageddon Prose
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:12 UTC
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Guest post from Nicholas Creed (pseudonym) - a Bangkok-based journalistic infidel impervious to propaganda:

We can draw upon popular culture across film, fiction, and a vast array of dystopian novels to reference, attempt to make sense of, and draw parallels to our current shared plight.

A lesser-known, less readily-acknowledged social affliction at play — which requires a relatively high degree of critical thinking along with a lengthy attention span to truly comprehend — is the concept of a mass delusional psychosis:
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one." — Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
A psychosis can be defined as a detachment from reality, or the loss of an adaptive relationship to reality. In the place of facts and thoughts based in objective reality in the world, those afflicted by psychosis become overwhelmed by delusions — false beliefs that are believed to be true, in spite of the available evidence presented, even if witnessed first-hand by the eyes and ears of the psychotic.
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Syringe

Germany ironically herds sheep in drive to encourage vaccination


Source
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:22 UTC
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© APSheep and goats stand together in Schneverdingen, Germany, as they form an approximately 100 meters large syringe to promote vaccinations against COVID-19, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
Tasty bits of bread did the trick for about 700 sheep and goats to join Germany's drive to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The animals were arranged on Monday into the shape of a roughly 100-meter (330-foot) syringe in a field at Schneverdingen, south of Hamburg.

Shepherd Wiebke Schmidt-Kochan spent several days practicing with her animals, news agency dpa reported. But she said in the end, it wasn't difficult to work things out — she laid out pieces of bread in the shape of the syringe, which the sheep and goats gobbled up when they were let out into the field.

Organizer Hanspeter Etzold said the action was aimed at people who are still hesitating to get vaccinated.

"Sheep are such likeable animals — maybe they can get the message over better," he said.
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Fire

One in three Americans say violence against government sometimes justified: poll

Monique Beals
The Hill
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:11 UTC
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Protest that ends with setting fire to ICE building in Portland
One in three Americans said it could sometimes be "justified for citizens to take violent action against the government" in a new poll, up significantly from previous years.

The poll from The Washington Post-University of Maryland published Saturday found that 40 percent of Republicans said violent actions could be justified, compared to 23 percent of Democrats and 41 percent of independents.

Overall, 62 percent of respondents said violence was never justified, and four percent either had no opinion or answered "justified" but "said in a follow-up question that they did not think violence was justified."

Comment: The mass understanding of violence at the Jan. 6th protests is sorely lacking, as usual. Another poll could be conducted to see how many Americans think violence is okay when it is directed at communities and businesses under the guise of protest.

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Syringe

No 'one-size-fits-all' solution when it comes to imposing vaccine mandates at work: experts

Paola Loriggio
The Canadian Free Press
Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:59 UTC
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A year after COVID-19 vaccines first arrived in Canada, employers and workers in the country's most populous province are getting a clearer picture of when and what kind of immunization mandates can be enforced in the workplace, legal experts said following recent rulings on the issue.

However, Ontarians shouldn't expect a black-and-white, across-the-board answer on whether such policies - which in some cases involve firing non-compliant staff - can always be imposed, the experts said.

A series of recent decisions has shown labour arbitrators are considering the specifics of each workplace and policy in determining whether the mandates can be imposed in a unionized setting, said Michael Cleveland, a lawyer with the firm Miller Thomson.

"There's not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution," he said in a recent interview.
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Briefcase

Elizabeth Holmes trial: Theranos founder guilty on four fraud counts

Kari Paul
The Guardian
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:51 UTC
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Theranos and 34-year-old Holmes ran “an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology, business, and financial performance,” according to the SEC.
The jury delivered the verdict after announcing they were deadlocked on three of the 11 charges faced by Holmes

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, has been found guilty on four of 11 charges of fraud, concluding a high-profile trial that captivated Silicon Valley and chronicled the missteps of the now-defunct blood testing startup.

The jury found Holmes guilty of several charges - including conspiracy to defraud investors - following a dramatic day in which jurors said they remained deadlocked on three of the criminal counts she faced.

Comment: Breitbart adds:
At Theranos' height, Holmes had amassed a fortune of $4.5 billion on paper and was lionized as a visionary in glowing media coverage that included a famous cover story in Forbes magazine and a profile in the New Yorker.

Federal prosecutors argued that Holmes used this positive media coverage to lure the investors she is now convicted of defrauding.

Holmes' rise to power was abetted by glowing media coverage and bolstered by the reputations of the board of directors she assembled.

Theranos' board members were a who's who of political and military power players. Their numbers included former U.S. Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, former U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, former Navy admiral Gary Roughead, and former Defense Secretary and four-star general James Mattis, all of whom sang Holmes' praises before her fall from grace.

As Carreyrou explained in his book Bad Blood, these board members were "men with sterling, larger-than-life reputations who gave Theranos a stamp of legitimacy. The common denominator between all of them was that, like Shultz, they were fellows at [Stanford University's] Hoover Institution."

The vote of confidence and effusive praise from these men boosted Holmes' credibility with Fortune magazine writer Roger Parloff, who wrote the first major media profile of Holmes.

During the trial, federal prosecutors depicted Holmes as a charlatan obsessed with fame and fortune. Holmes, who took the witness stand in her own defense for seven days, cast herself as a visionary trailblazer in male-dominated Silicon Valley who was emotionally and sexually abused by her former lover and business partner, Sunny Balwani.

The fraud-friendly business ethos of Silicon Valley was also put on trial in the Holmes' case, which cast Theranos as emblematic of the "fake it 'til you make it" attitude that defined the rise of big tech companies like Google, Netflix, Facebook, and Apple. In fact, Holmes idolized Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to the point of imitating Jobs' trademark black turtle necks, as she did in her famous Fortune magazine cover image.
A recap:

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Bizarro Earth

10,000 of the UK's Iraq war veterans discharged due to mental health problems over last 20 years


Press TV
Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:43 UTC
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The file photo shows Clinton Langston (R), British army’s most senior clergyman, speaking with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
The British army's most senior clergyman has lamented his participation in the military invasion of Iraq, saying mental scars from the war zone have left him in "the valley of the shadow of death" for years even after returning from the Arab country.

Clinton Langston made the revelation in a report published by the Daily Mail on Saturday as more than 10,000 British troops involved in the Iraq war have been discharged due to mental health problems over the past 20 years.

Official figures show that another 500 quit last year after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other disorders.

Comment: Tony Blair, the Prime Minister that promoted the lies that dragged the UK into the US-led war on Iraq has just been awarded 'the highest ranking Knighthood' for his 'services' to the country. Tellingly, a significant proportion of the population are aware of Blair's leading role in the deception, and a petition to remove this 'honour' has already garnered 570,000+ signatures; however this is likely not representative of just how widely Blair is despised in the UK, and beyond.

The war on Iraq, according to conservative estimates, killed over 1 million people, devastating the lives of a great many more, and it contributed to the destabilisation of the region that helped facilitate further wars on the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

It's perhaps no surprise that, these days, Blair has adopted a new role promoting our own era's war of terror, the contrived coronavirus crisis, and in turn his own institute has received ample funding from The Gates Foundation. Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?



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Pirates

Sign of the times: Car part thefts quadruple across US


RT
Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:26 UTC
catalytic coverter being installed
© Global Look Press / Janerik HenrikssonThefts of catalytic converters are on the rise, due to the precious metals used in their manufacture
Thieves rip out catalytic converters for the precious metals within

A growing number of thieves have been stealing catalytic converters off cars amid the troubled US economy. They contain an array of precious metals, which fetch hundreds of dollars at the scrapyard, but can be dangerous to remove.

A catalytic converter can fetch as much as $300 thanks to the precious metals inside - platinum, palladium, and rhodium - whose value has skyrocketed over the past two years. While the cost of replacing the $1,000 emissions-controlling devices is usually covered by insurance, it puts the car owner on the sidelines while they wait for the part to arrive. Supply chain shortages mean the wait could be as long as six weeks.
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