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The Campaign Contributors of the Media Anointed
The USA is controlled by the Corporatocracy, by the lobbyists and big business interests. The people that own these corporations are the people that own and run this country. They are not interested in...
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Look who's getting the most lobbyist money
From http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?cycle=2008(Note that the exact numbers may change over time.)And her supporters probably think that she won't kowtow to lobbyists, due to the mass...
View ArticleReader comments on "Media Anointed"
Anonymous said in reaction to my post The Campaign Contributors of the Media Anointed:It seems the media is guilty of ignoring any candidate that isn't in their owner's pocket, like say Ron Paul.But...
View ArticleConsumerism, Corporatism, and 3rd World Oppression
I recently spent several weeks vacationing in a 3rd world country with several friends. This 3rd world country was well known for their ancient civilization which was very advanced for its time. I had...
View Article"Remove" Ron Paul?
If the report below is true, it suggests that Ron Paul is truly the only serious anti-establishment presidential...
View ArticleKnee Jerk Reactions: Monkey See Monkey Do
I've written about knee jerk reactions before, and how people seem to be conditioned to react in certain ways to anything that's "outside the mainstream".Here's an interesting psychological experiment....
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Human See, Human Do
I got a great link in a reply to my previous post "Monkey See Monkey Do".http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/12/aschs-conformit.htmlBelow is an excerpt:Asch's Conformity Experiment Solomon Asch, with...
View ArticleWhat would happen if Ron Paul were "removed"?
A sleeping giant would awaken, the likes of which the world has never seen before:http://www.newswithviews.com/Stang/alan21.htm
View ArticleThe Assault on the Individual
Woman spills coffee on herself, wins millions from McDonald's.Child gets sick right after vaccination; tests show strain of disease is different from vaccine; court orders vaccine maker to pay millions...
View ArticleThe Attack on the Free Market
There has been a constant attack on the Free Market since the turn of the last century, just as there has been a constant attack on Individual Freedom. The crash of the stock market in '29 and the...
View Article"What About the Children?!!"
One of the easiest ways to influence people is to appeal to emotion. I mentioned fear in my previous post "The Ministry of...
View ArticlePsychopaths, Corporations, and Government
In the book "Snakes in Suits", the authors claim that the corporate world attracts psychopaths because the corporate structure rewards ruthless behavior. 1% of the general population are psychopaths....
View ArticleThe Pyramids, Food Production, and Economic Inefficiency
5,000 years ago the civilization of ancient Egypt had signs of wealth... in their pyramids, the temples, the medicine they practiced.Civilizations arose in areas of the world where agriculture allowed...
View ArticlePublic Schools and Propaganda
I have blogged about this before. The public school system does not teach critical thinking, and produces dumbed down masses that are "good little consumers".John Lott in his book Freedomnomics, has a...
View ArticleMore on the Compound Interest Paradox, and why Corporations are Obsessed...
I found a great article:"Is This the Beginning of a Worldwide Depression?"by Paul Rye,http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5751The coming economic crisis is "due to the nature of our...
View ArticleThe Roots of "Public Opinion"
Almost everything that is "accepted" as "public opinion" is, in reality, carefully crafted propaganda.Take Bacon and Eggs for breakfast. One would think that this is a cultural thing since antiquity....
View ArticleThe Truth About Obama
Many people think Obama is an outsider, an anti-war candidate, and whose rise to stardom is something for Americans to be proud of:"Sen. Barack Obama’s amazing climb from relative obscurity to the...
View Articlelinking to my posts
I received some feedback:"I think you ought to consider putting each post on its own page, that way I could post the link for others to read without them feeling overwhelmed by a whole page of...
View ArticleThe Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
This post has the same title as a book by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Education, who blew the whistle in the 80's on government activities withheld...
View ArticleSpitzer Schmitzer
The corporate media is all over NY Governor Eliot Spitzer. The thing that riles me the most over this whole thing is not that prostitution is illegal; it's the fact that he was caught because of...
View ArticleRise of the IMPs
First I'd like to say that I've been in a sort of funk so I haven't been posting much recently. I don't know if I can go back to my former pace. Some bloggers say you should post several times per...
View ArticleThe Gatekeepers
Most of the population fall for the Left vs. Right argument, believing that the Democrat vs. Republican debate is valid. They are simply playing out the role of Good Cop / Bad Cop.If the left/right...
View ArticleThe Free Market is like the Internet
The internet is a web that isn't controlled by a single person or a single group. If there is a defect, data gets routed around it.If I were a baker and my flour supplier screws up, I can find another...
View ArticleThe Media's Memory Hole
In George Orwell's 1984, the Memory Hole was the tube into which workers placed documents to be sucked and destroyed. This way, if no documents of an event existed, the event never occurred.The...
View ArticlePsychopaths Have (Mis)Shaped History and Rule the World
When I wrote the blog post on Psychopaths, Corporations, and Government, and Rise of the IMPs, I had inferred that psychopaths rise to power in government in the same way they are attracted to the...
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