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Google, the US presidential elections and the new mind control

Google mind control

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do


Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity's future. In The Iron Heel(1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a handful of wealthy corporate titans - the 'oligarchs' - kept the masses at bay with a brutal combination of rewards and punishments. Much of humanity lived in virtual slavery, while the fortunate ones were bought off with decent wages that allowed them to live comfortably - but without any real control over their lives.

In We (1924), the brilliant Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, anticipating the excesses of the emerging Soviet Union, envisioned a world in which people were kept in check through pervasive monitoring. The walls of their homes were made of clear glass, so everything they did could be observed. They were allowed to lower their shades an hour a day to have sex, but both the rendezvous time and the lover had to be registered first with the state.

In Brave New World (1932), the British author Aldous Huxley pictured a near-perfect society in which unhappiness and aggression had been engineered out of humanity through a combination of genetic engineering and psychological conditioning. And in the much darker novel 1984 (1949), Huxley's compatriot George Orwell described a society in which thought itself was controlled; in Orwell's world, children were taught to use a simplified form of English called Newspeak in order to assure that they could never express ideas that were dangerous to society.

These are all fictional tales, to be sure, and in each the leaders who held the power used conspicuous forms of control that at least a few people actively resisted and occasionally overcame. But in the non-fiction bestseller The Hidden Persuaders (1957) - recently released in a 50th-anniversary edition - the American journalist Vance Packard described a 'strange and rather exotic' type of influence that was rapidly emerging in the United States and that was, in a way, more threatening than the fictional types of control pictured in the novels. According to Packard, US corporate executives and politicians were beginning to use subtle and, in many cases, completely undetectable methods to change people's thinking, emotions and behaviour based on insights from psychiatry and the social sciences.

Comment: We already know why Hillary Clinton will probably win the next election (a proven track record of doing the Empire's bidding), now we know how. But this is assuming, of course, that there will even be a another election considering where things are going.


Nuke

Another nuclear power plant seems to be leaking contaminated water, this time in Turkey Point outside of Miami, FL


Comment: Indian Point north of NYC is still leaking and the latest information demonstrates that cancer rates in the area have spiked. So while I'm sure we'll be told that there is 'no threat to the public' how can anyone believe that? That's not even the worst of it, Vermont's Yankee Nuclear Power Station has been under investigation since 2010 for leaks. There's also the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Scriba, NY which has also been plagued with leaks. Fukushima is still leaking with TEPCO suggesting that it will continue for another four years... one has to wonder what it will take in order to shut down these plants and provide alternative sources of energy that doesn't cost the lives of citizens.


Turkey Point
© US Nuclear Regulatory ComissionTurkey Point's cooling canals are leaking radiation into Biscayne Bay, a new study confirms.
As Florida Power & Light finalized plans to expand its nuclear reactors at Turkey Point three years ago, critics were aghast. The nuclear plant already stands on environmentally fragile land, and upping the power production would seriously threaten the ecosystem, they argued.

Turns out they may have been right. This morning, the county released the results of a study into whether Turkey Point has been leaking dangerous wastewater into Biscayne Bay. County water monitors found more than 200 times the normal levels of tritium, a radioactive isotope linked to nuclear power production, in the bay water, a finding environmentalists say justifies their concerns.

"This is one of several things we were very worried about," says South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard, who is also a biological sciences professor at Florida International University. "You would have to work hard to find a worse place to put a nuclear plant, right between two national parks and subject to hurricanes and storm surge."

The study is just the latest blow to FPL, which lost a state court ruling last month when a judge found the utility had failed to prevent hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater from seeping into the bay.

County commissioners and other local politicians are scrambling this morning to get answers about how threatened Biscayne Bay is by the leakage.

Comment: It would be funny if it wasn't so terrifying, FPL says it needs more time to review the specifics but there's no threat? So which is it FPL - is there no threat or are you not sure because you haven't reviewed the data? You can't have it both ways unless you're suffering some serious cognitive dissonance.


Attention

Boston Marathon bombing survivor killed in alcohol-fueled car crash in Dubai

Boston Bombing survivor Victoria McGrath
© Gretchen Ertl / Reuters Boston Bombing survivor Victoria McGrath (C) appears with the first responders who rescued her, including Alicia Shambo (2nd L), during the Boston Strong benefit concert at the Boston TD Garden in Boston, May 30, 2013.
The post-9/11 stat that you're more likely to die in a car crash than a terrorist attack became horribly clear this weekend when Boston bombing survivor Victoria McGrath died in a sports car crash in Dubai.

Nearly three years after suffering shrapnel wounds to the leg from the first of two bombs, McGrath, 23, was killed along with three others after their rented Ferrari 458 Spider slammed into a pole.

The car was said to be going close to 90 mph in a 25 mph zone when it crashed, breaking the car in two on impact.

USA

The truth about the Pledge of Allegiance: Obedience training

Pledge of Allegiance
A look into the origins of the pledge of allegiance - mandatory regurgitation for school children - reveals that it was actually created by a magazine in 1892 in order to sell flags to schools, and the pledge was created by Francis Bellamy to create a reason for schools to buy the flags.

In turn, this social ritual creates cohesion and unity in the mind of the public with the federal government.

Until it was changed in the 1940s, the salute was actually a military salute wherein children then "hailed" the flag in a fashion very similar to what was done in Nazi Germany. American children were instead trained to put their hand over their hearts... and the phrase "under God" wasn't added until 1954 in the Eisenhower Administration - controlled from the shadows by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen.

Comment: The ugly truth about the American school system:


Brick Wall

Facebook censors the truth of what's happening in Ukraine by banning Donbass News Agency

facebook censors donbass
Facebook has censored a popular, accreditated and officially supported DONi Donbass International News Agency main FB-site on Tuesday 1.3. evening. Banning of DONi was done in the midst of harsh escalation of the armed conflict in Donbass, and it happened just after the press conference which had been held in the Lugansk capital, where opening of the new DONi Lugansk branch was announced by the Director and Chief-Editor Janus Putkonen. Also Putkonen's personal FB-account was frozen for the coming three days.

FB closed the official DONi news page having accused DONi News Agency of breaking FB-rules and we are charged with "spreading hatespeech". DONi Director's personal FB-account was frozen under the same pretext. "I am amazed, I haven't heard before about any official news agency site banned from Facebook", said the Director of DONi News."Was this done only because we keep widening our news coverage from Donbass?"

"It's clear that we haven't broken any rules, so this means, that there are no rules left", commented Janus Putkonen on Facebook's sudden decision to close the rapidly growing DONi FB-site which had gathered almost 4,000 likes and kept collecting averagely 200 likes per week.

Book 2

Someone tell Trump! Hitler's personal copy of Mein Kampf to be auctioned in Maryland

Mein Kampf
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Adolf Hitler's personal copy of Mein Kampf, found by US officers in his Munich flat in May 1945, will be auctioned off in Maryland along with other Nazi-era artifacts. The inflammatory diatribe was never banned in the US and can be bought in bookshops.

Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland will open up bidding on the 1927 edition of Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto for March 17 and 18.

"This edition of 'Mein Kampf,' volume II, was published by official N.S.D.A.P. publishers Verlag Franz Eher in Munich, 1927 ... in a finely-grained red leather cover with four raised hubs on the spine," the auction's listing says. "It is a rare edition of the work, not available to the general public, and was likely kept by Hitler for his own use or as a potential gift for an admirer."

The book was originally found by 11 US officers of a field artillery battalion of the 45th Infantry Division in Hitler's Munich flat following his death in April 1945, and it remained in the possession of one of the officers' daughters until last year.

Question

Texas: Crazy, naked woman dancing on truck shuts down highway traffic

naked woman on truck
© KHOU
A naked 25-year-old woman dancing on top of a big rig completely shut down the westbound lanes of a major highway in Houston, Texas yesterday morning.

She had reportedly been involved in two separate car wrecks before making her way out into traffic on the highway, taking off all of her clothes, and climbing on top of the truck.

Helicopter footage (below) shows her dancing naked on the truck

Heart - Black

Man permanently disabled after being set on fire by cop's taser

man set on fire
A lawsuit filed in Richmond City Circuit Court in Virginia says a Chesterfield County cop ignored orders against discharging his Taser and deployed it anyway, setting a gasoline soaked man on fire.

According to police, 26-year-old Miles November eluded officers and drove without a license after officers pulled his vehicle over for a suspected DUI during the early morning hours of Feb. 8, 2015.

Police said they had November's 2012 Volkswagen sedan stopped in the 7200 block of Jefferson Davis Highway, but when an officer walked toward the car, he drove away heading south toward the intersection of Chester Road.

Comment: Heartless.


Eye 1

Amazon uses Orwellian surveillance, intimidations and threats to keep underpaid, overworked workers in line


Comment: With hourly wages averaging around $12, or less, Amazon's warehouse workers also have to deal with walking 10-20 miles per shift and Orwellian surveillance constantly reminding them 'You are being watched.' It's all completely legal. The American dream...


While waiting to clock in each morning, workers at some Amazon.com warehouses get a steady stream of company-provided reading: the stories of co-workers fired for theft.

In an effort to discourage stealing, Amazon has put up flatscreen TVs that display examples of alleged on-the-job theft, say 11 of the company's current and former warehouse workers and antitheft staff. The alleged offenders aren't identified by name. Each is represented by a black silhouette stamped with the word "terminated" and accompanied by details such as when they stole, what they stole, how much it was worth, and how they got caught—changing an outbound package's address, for example, or stuffing merchandise in their socks. Some of the silhouettes are marked "arrested."
amazon.com, amazon warehouse
© Geoff RobinsonOne example of an Amazon.com warehouse
Theft is a persistent concern for Amazon, with warehouses full of small but valuable items and a workforce with high turnover and low pay. Workers interviewed for this story say the range of thefts posted on the screens is as varied as the company's sprawling catalog: DVDs, an iPad, jewelry, a lighter, makeup, a microwave, phone cases, Pop Rocks, video games. Several recall a post about an employee fired for stealing a co-worker's lunch.

The digital bulletin boards also occasionally display information about firings related to workplace violence. There are cheerier announcements, too, such as updates on incentive bonuses or a message about Black History Month. In some warehouses that don't have flatscreens, workers say, tales of firings are posted on sheets of paper tacked to bulletin boards or taped to the wall.

Bizarro Earth

Mystery spike in radioactivity being investigated by Finnish authorities

Radiation Spike
© AFP Photo/Pekka SakkiFinnish officials said 4,000 microbecquerels of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 per cubic metre of air were detected between March 3 and 4 over Helsinki.
Helsinki - Finnish authorities are investigating a mysterious "highly exceptional" spike in levels of radioactive caesium-137 detected over Helsinki, officials said Tuesday.

Nuclear safety regulator STUK said that while the radioactive surge last week posed no danger to human health, it was keen to get to the bottom of the cause.

"The detection was highly exceptional but from a nuclear safety perspective this level of caesium does not have any effect on human health," Tarja Ikaheimonen, the head of radiation surveillance at STUK, told AFP.

She said 4,000 microbecquerels of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 per cubic metre of air were detected between March 3 and 4, which is a thousand times more than usual but only one-millionth of a level that would require people to shelter themselves from the radiation.

One day later, on March 5, the amount of caesium was back to12 microbecquerels per cubic metre of air. "It means the level of radiation is down to a normal level," Ikaheimonen said.

The nuclear safety regulator said the measurements from its other detection spots around the country did not reveal similar anomalities during the same time period.

"We shall however continue to investigate the source of (this radiation) very actively," Ikaheimonen said.