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Monday, November 4, 2019

A Sea of Fakery, Random Stuff, and More

- in a previous post I mentioned the following formula which I came up with. It sort of can semi-predict success of an individual within this system
success in this system = opportunity/network/environment/school + capital buildup/financial backing/savings + understanding local system/capitalism + understanding craft/skill/education + ethics and/or corruption level/communication/interpersonal skills + genetics/health/physical condition + effort/hard work/flexibility
Economic Update - The Capitalist Corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3imvylCR6E
- the formula works across virtually all stories of success I've come across (including migrant success stories. There are few instances of homeless people having social mobility?). Once I discovered it (the formula) the world seemed a little less amazing then it previously seemed (because the system feels at least partly rigged towards those who are already doing well and it's generally pretty dodgy all around?)? People who aren't prepared are often put into positions of power that they shouldn't be?
“As political parties get more estranged from the people they actually are seeking the support of, then you end up with policies that are out of step,” he said.
The problem is that fewer and fewer politicians are entering parliament with the sort of life experience their predecessors had.
Run through the current list of MPs and senators. You’ll find plenty of former lawyers, consultants and political staffers, a handful of teachers, and to be honest, not a heck of lot of anything else.
Ideally, our parliament would be a reasonable reflection of broader society. It has always fallen short of that ideal.
In the past, it was sorely lacking in diversity. Now it’s increasingly lacking in experience – at least, any experience from outside the “Canberra bubble” Scott Morrison so loves to deride.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/john-howard-malcolm-turnbull-issue-the-same-warning-about-australian-politics/news-story/0e1f2a34c77d68c2d0eb79bee85e65e6
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/climate-change-2050-net-zero-emissions-green-new-deal-a9000246.html
https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/chance-encounter-that-inspired-young-kiwi-ceos-multimilliondollar-education-idea/news-story/2ed553bfea1b4829a9a9b0d7562a8421
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiebeaton/
https://www.kingscollege.school.nz/admissions/fees-and-incidentals/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_College,_Auckland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_College,_Auckland
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/education/school/primary-school/nineyearold-child-genius-with-iq-of-145-set-to-finish-first-university-degree-20191114-h1jnj0
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/development-advice/smart-parenting-how-to-nurture-your-childs-brain-with-experience-20190524-h1eq10
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/development-advice/special-needs/how-to-identify-understand-and-teach-gifted-children-20190122-h1abv0
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/development-advice/toddler-genius-and-the-great-paradox-of-parenting-20190211-h1b43f
https://www.corbettreport.com/tag/darpa/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/big-data-and-social-trading-investments.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Paterson_(Australian_politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dastyari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlöe_Swarbrick
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rashida-tlaib-democratic-claims-above-the-law-jason-chaffetz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Chaffetz
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-s-clever-politics-will-ultimately-fail-the-pub-test-20191120-p53cbx.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Hastie_(politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabata_Amaral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull
- I came up with that formula a long time ago. I didn't count on the amount of fakery within the economic system though. A lot of places you look you get a lot of fakery. I didn't realise that there was an actual term for them, so called "Contrepreneurs". They all use very similar techniques: overpromise, underdeliver, make money without any consideration for ethics, mass marketing, etc...
Contrepreneur
- fake jobs? If you look on job boards you'll realise that recrutiers use fake jobs. They're mostly using it to expand their job databases but others are using it to extract a processing fee or as part of fraud schemes?
fake job recruiters
Julia works for one of Australia’s largest recruitment agencies. She told news.com.au that fake jobs and even fake interviews are “standard practice” at her company and that fake jobs are advertised across all industries and levels of seniority.
“The reason we do fake interviews is because we don’t want to wait for a real job to come in before we speak to candidates. That would make the process really slow and we wouldn’t meet our monthly targets. This way, as soon as you get a real job you can say to the client, ‘Here’s the candidate. I already met them last week.’”
When Julia first joined the company, she broached the subject of misleading job applicants with her boss and was reprimanded.
“When I said: ‘Oh, so we post fake jobs,’ my boss told me not to use the word ‘fake’. He was defensive and said: ‘We call it ‘inventory recruiting.’”
“I understand why recruiters do it, but it’s obviously dehumanising the candidate because it’s treating them as a resource rather than a person. It feels heartless knowing they won’t ever hear back from me,” Julia added.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/fake-job-scam-hooking-thousands-of-australians/news-story/2f63b8c8c97ba28e4a3addd86f36d1ae
- which moves me on to the topic of fake job equality and opportunity? You have no idea how many dodgy hiring practices I've seen? If you ever get rejected (or are hired if you're curious) for a job try to find out who got hired or rejected via public information such as business social networks. Else, if you are ever in a position note who finally gets hired and the quality of the competition. Depending on the company in question you may be surprised at the results?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/if-only-hiring-were-so-simple-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
- fake social mobility?
But it’s not as easy as it used to be to enter the ranks of the rich in the erstwhile Land of Opportunity. Social mobility has dropped 70 percent in the US in the last half-century, according to Harvard economist Raj Chetty, to the point where by 2016 half of 30-year-olds were earning less than their parents had at the same age. The bottom half of workers by income have seen no real growth in their earnings since the 1970s, though Chetty points to 1980 as the “inflection point” after which inequality exploded. The once-secure American middle class has been decimated by offshoring and the dismantling of unions, while the “trickle-down” economic policies that kicked off the inequality epidemic have instead caused the savings of the working class to trickle up to the wealthy. And most Americans – four out of five – are struggling with some kind of debt. It’s not surprising people are starting to wake up from the American dream.
But it was one particular complaint of Cooperman’s that epitomizes the billionaires’ panic. “The idea of vilifying wealthy people is so bogus – they’re appealing to the masses!” he cried, as if appalled that any politician would speak to voters rather than the donors who typically fill their war chests.  Big-time Democratic donors have even threatened the party with the removal of their support if Warren (or Sanders, who famously threw down the gauntlet with “I don’t think billionaires should exist,” now a bumper sticker) gets the nomination.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/473455-billionaires-persecuted-class-war/
https://www.rt.com/usa/473099-bernie--sanders-bloomberg-billionaires-arrogance/
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/personalfinance/dollar20-billion-in-superannuation-is-waiting-to-be-claimed-says-the-ato/ar-BBWM1hG?li=AAgfOd8
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/08/harrods-restricts-christmas-grotto-to-2000-plus-spenders
“The deceit behind Trump’s message is that the US economy is not doing nearly as well as he suggests. Most of the economic gains he heralds are the continuation of trends inherited from the Obama administration or the result of a one-time corporate tax cut that jacked up the US stock market. The economic ‘boom’ Trump ballyhoos has been great for corporate executive’s bottom line but has left most Americans holding the bag. While the officially reported unemployment rate is historically low, the jobs created are of low quality, wages have remained stagnant and many people have to work two or three jobs to keep their heads above water,” he added.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/14/611228/American-Dream-is-dying-Scholar
For those parents the focus often falls on how hard it is to get into selective schools. About 14,000 children sit the test every year to apply for just 4000 places.
The process is so exacting that it is hard to secure a place without attending expensive private cram-schools or tutoring.
In theory, state selective-schools are supposed to offer children from all socio-economic groups the chance to receive an elite education.
But the high costs of preparing for the exams means that in practice the majority of students at selective schools come from middle-class families.
A recent study found that only 2 percent of students at selective schools come from families in the bottom quarter of socio-economic status. Often, selective schools offer a cheap alternative to middle-class families who could afford private school.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/selective-schools-are-not-working-for-their-communities-20191116-p53b7c.html
https://www.smh.com.au/education/no-time-to-be-kids-the-students-travelling-100km-a-day-for-selective-schools-20191108-p538vw.html
entry into ivy league college odds
But that’s where the happy story seems to end. At Ivy-plus colleges, those elite institutions that propel people to greatness and equalize disparities, more than two-thirds of the students are from rich households and fewer than 4% are from poor households. “Elite college campuses are almost entirely populated by the students who benefit the least from the education they receive there; the ones who were already wealthy when they arrived on campus,” Tough notes. The worst offender: Princeton, which according to the 2016 data is 71% rich and only 2.2% poor.
https://qz.com/1706334/college-admissions-are-a-game-that-still-favors-rich-over-poor/
selective school entry odds
Analysis of My School data by Guardian Australia reveals that students at selective schools are strikingly more advantaged than other nearby schools. They are overwhelmingly attended by the most educationally advantaged students and in many cases are dramatically unrepresentative of the suburbs in which they are located.
...
“Selective schools were supposed to be public schools that were accessible for gifted kids. The fact that there are almost no disadvantaged kids in these schools tells us they’re no longer accessible and they’re not genuine public schools because they’re not open to anyone except the most advantaged families in NSW.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/20/warped-and-elitist-are-australias-selective-schools-failing-the-fairness-test
iq and wealth correlation
How important is intelligence to financial success? Using the NLSY79, which tracks a large group of young U.S. baby boomers, this research shows that each point increase in IQ test scores raises income by between $234 and $616 per year after holding a variety of factors constant. Regression results suggest no statistically distinguishable relationship between IQ scores and wealth. Financial distress, such as problems paying bills, going bankrupt or reaching credit card limits, is related to IQ scores not linearly but instead in a quadratic relationship. This means higher IQ scores sometimes increase the probability of being in financial difficulty.
http://www.iqscorner.com/2007/05/temp.html
- fake free markets? Look at the following. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, etc... share prices should be down (given the 737 Max/787 crises and Saudi Arabian oil attack events recently) but they've gone up? In fact, if you examine a lot of share and commodities prices across the board they just don't make sense? It's almost like the whole system is fraudulent (or this is the impact of QE (Quantitative Easing) as some have indicated)? Easy to see why trading as a job can be difficult and why some firms and individuals are having trouble navigating it? Look at Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway. His philosophy is based on value which is very difficult to use in distorted markets. By using such massive levels of QE, markets have become distorted to the point that it's likely his margins/profitability have reduced which possibly caused the flattening of Berkshire Hathaway's share price (I haven't got the time to dig too deeply into this)? Another thing to watch for is the impact of Project Prophesy. If real then the US has a head start on information and can use this information to take a counterbet and offset any potential moves that someone is likely to bet on against the US? That said, in the long term the US will lose because of the Talent Paradox (technically, the US should be pulling out or maintaining their position relative to the world in terms of GDP but they're coming back to the pack)
JAMES RICKARDS - PROJECT PROPHESY - Does This Government “Secret” Affect You -Part 1_2 _ London Real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puh8cpI-dHM
Keiser Report - Repo Markets & UBI (E1466)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsZRyg03HI
Michael Lewis - Nobody Understands the Stock Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Yx7RnHAcw
Keiser Report - Downgrading the world on global dystopia (E1467)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-SLSTfEBNQ
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/big-data-and-social-trading-investments.html
The Big Short (2015) - Dr.Michael Burry Restricts Withdrawals from Scion Capital [HD 1080p]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hJCsc-F8Y
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=big+short+fraud
Keiser Report - Cash and debt pile (E1462)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a26knrKqGy4
https://www.rt.com/business/473518-fed-pumping-billions-liquidity/
traders success rate
“The success rate for day traders is estimated to be around only 10%, so … 90% are losing money.”  Cory Michael at Vantage Point Trading is even more pessimistic (or realistic) when he says, “Only 1% of [day] traders really make money.”  He says it’s because of the “social mood.”  Put simply, by definition, if you are buying, someone else must be selling; that is the social part.  The markets are a real-time thermometer; buying and selling, action and reaction.  If someone is making money, someone else is losing money.  You would have to join the crowd as the market is moving up and be smarter than that crowd to get out before they do, if it starts to fall.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nealegodfrey/2017/07/16/day-trading-smart-or-stupid/#507279ec1007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor
berkshire hathaway share price
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BRK-B/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway
boeing 737 sales
- lots of scams out there. If you watch the way the world works you'll realise how common these are:
Attempts to gain your personal information
Scammers use all kinds of sneaky approaches to steal your personal details. Once obtained, they can use your identity to commit fraudulent activities such as using your credit card or opening a bank account.
Buying or selling
Scammers prey on consumers and businesses that are buying or selling products and services. Not every transaction is legitimate.
Dating & romance
Scammers take advantage of people looking for romantic partners, often via dating websites, apps or social media by pretending to be prospective companions. They play on emotional triggers to get you to provide money, gifts or personal details.
Fake charities
Scammers impersonate genuine charities and ask for donations or contact you claiming to collect money after natural disasters or major events.
Investments
If you are looking for a fast way to make money, watch out – scammers have invented all sorts of fake money-making opportunities to prey on your enthusiasm and get hold of your cash.
Jobs & employment
Jobs and employment scams trick you into handing over your money by offering you a ‘guaranteed’ way to make fast money or a high-paying job for little effort.
Threats & extortion
Scammers will use any means possible to steal your identity or your money – including threatening your life or 'hijacking' your computer.
Unexpected money
Scammers invent convincing and seemingly legitimate reasons to give you false hope about offers of money. There are no get-rich-quick schemes, so always think twice before handing over your details or dollars.
Unexpected winnings
Don't be lured by a surprise win. These scams try to trick you into giving money upfront or your personal information in order to receive a prize from a lottery or competition that you never entered.
- you get a lot of Tom Foolery on online markets. Common scams include: trying to get a refund via Paypal or Credit Card services in spite of it being a fair transaction, not sending an item in spite of an item being sent, asking for addresses for pickup to scope out potential burglary sites, actually beating up and stealing items when sellers once a meet takes place, etc...
return paypal scams
paid but don't send scam gumtree
- one strange thing that you suddenly realise over time is that many places where people can make money are actually sealed off from the non-billionaire class? Some of may be for geopolitical reasons? Others are very difficult to explain? It's almost like the system makes it difficult for you to make money. Beyond a certain point it becomes easier?
Keiser Report - Cash-Burn Machines (E1458)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRAPlJ1_gR4
Huawei ban is 'unfair' - German minister sparks US anger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKNnffbEgBk
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/capitalism-analysis-religion-23-and-more.html
russian share market app
cantillon effect
https://mises.org/library/how-central-banking-increased-inequality
odds winning pokies
1 in 33 million
The odds of winning the top prize on a pokie machine may vary from 1 in 40 thousand to 1 in 33 million. For example, take the game Black Rhinos – if you are playing one line at a time it would take 6.7 million button presses and cost nearly $330,000 to have a 50% chance of getting five rhinos!
https://www.choicenotchance.org.nz/understand-gambling/how-pokies-work
odds winning scratchies
The odds of winning a prize on a scratch card varies by game but is generally in the range of 1 in 3 to 1 in 5. Of course, those are the odds of winning any kind of prize with many tickets simply returning the cash stake.
https://truebluepunter.com/lotteries-in-australia/scratchies/
odds winning lotto
There is only one certainty: that your chances of winning are about one in 2 million with a basic four-game pick. Mind you, they're not bad odds when you consider that with Oz Lotto you're looking at a one in 11 million chance and with Powerball it's one in 14 million.
https://finance.nine.com.au/personal-finance/the-secret-to-winning-lotto/20dec8e6-6aba-4360-9807-727b6eb2a436
odds to become a millionaire
The odds of becoming a millionaire in America are 6.4% to 22.3% according to data from the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances.
https://www.financialsamurai.com/chances-becoming-millionaire-by-race-age-education/
odds medical school
What are my chances of getting into med school?
Students with a GPA between 3.4 and 3.6 had a 60% chance of getting rejected at every medical school they applied to. Students with a GPA between 3.2 and 3.4 had a 73% chance of getting rejected at every medical school they applied to. Every year, a typical applicant applies to about 15 medical schools.
https://www.prospectivedoctor.com/chances-of-getting-into-medical-school/
odds become professional golfer
Well, of the 80 million players in the world, 245 play the TOUR. That means you have a 1 in 326,000 chance of seeing your name on a TOUR leaderboard, or about . 0003 percent.
https://pgatourmedia.pgatourhq.com/Tour/WebTemplate/media.nsf/2c47cc31e412bc4985256e6e00287832/90ac912dde841d6a85257b1300767e6a/$FILE/The%20Path%20to%20the%20PGA%20TOUR.pdf
odds professional sports
In football the odds are slightly better, with . 08% or 250 of just over 317,000 high school senior players being drafted. The sport with the most professional opportunities is baseball, with high school players having a . 4% chance of playing professionally.
http://www.thesportdigest.com/archive/article/what-are-odds-becoming-professional-athlete
- national interest/security terms are often used in the media switched constantly. I think it's been overused and if you examine things over time you'll realise these terms loses all all meaning because it's almost used when people feel like it? Much of what you see in the news is basically irrelevant to society and it feels like elite are just looking for manufactured consent for their policies? I suspect that the public and media are confused?
- do background on most poeple on the Internet and their work doesn't match up to their claims? Even well known financiers (the hub of the economy) rarely reach expectations in terms of real world performance?
peter schiff accuracy
dtbnguyen hedge fund accuracy
Last week's reminder that the collective investment performance of the hedge fund industry has been poor for a decade, as represented by HFR's indices, prompted some familiar objections to the analysis in the comments.
Our approach - comparing hedge fund investment gains to those of a simple stock and bond portfolio of index funds - is too simplistic, the critique goes. It isn't possible to invest in the hedge fund index, so lumping all the strategies together makes no sense, is another one.
By way of answer, we'll highlight an academic paper published in December which took an intellectually sharper blade to the question of investing in hedge funds, and skewered the whole premise for doing so.
Download the dry-sounding Hedge Fund Performance Prediction here, a piece by Nicolas Bollen, Juha Joenväärä and Mikko Kauppila.
Their work looked at what predicts when hedge funds will beat the market, by growing an investor's capital at a faster rate than an appropriate benchmark, and stemmed from a debate in the literature. A landmark 2011 study which assessed the returns of investors in 11,000 hedge funds from 1980 to 2008 found those clients might as well have invested in Treasury bonds. Hedge fund investors take more risk, for less return.
- it sounds crazy but countries fake history is more common then you think? Individuals and countries will try to convince others that their version of history is correct for political reasons (the version of history that I was taught regarding Australia was that it's history started with the arrival of the First Fleet. There was no mention of any conflicts with local Aboriginals and settling in was really easy? A similar thing seems to be happening with regards to the South China Sea conflict and in many other parts of the world with regards to indigenous populations as well?)? Once you see through fake history it's difficult not to become depressed or else laugh at at madness of it all. It feels like forced and bad rule is a common flaw in human history?
https://vdare.com/posts/race-does-not-exist-but-the-hopi-are-still-mad-at-the-navajo-after-600-years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankton_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act
https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
"Indian massacre" is a phrase whose use and definition has evolved and expanded over time. The phrase was initially used by European colonists to describe attacks by indigenous Americans which resulted in mass colonial casualties. While similar attacks by colonists on Indian villages were called "raids" or "battles", successful Indian attacks on white settlements or military posts were routinely termed "massacres". Knowing very little about the native inhabitants of the American frontier, the colonists were deeply fearful, and often, European Americans who had rarely - or never - seen a Native American read Indian atrocity stories in popular literature and newspapers. Emphasis was placed on the depredations of "murderous savages" in their information about Indians, and as the migrants headed further west, they frequently feared the Indians they would encounter..[1][2]
The phrase eventually became commonly used also to describe mass killings of American Indians. Killings described as "massacres" often had an element of indiscriminate targeting, barbarism, or genocidal intent.[3] According to one historian, "Any discussion of genocide must, of course, eventually consider the so-called Indian Wars", the term commonly used for U.S. Army campaigns to subjugate Indian nations of the American West beginning in the 1860s. In an older historiography, key events in this history were narrated as battles.
Since the late 20th century, it has become more common for scholars to refer to certain of these events as massacres, especially if there were large numbers of women and children as victims. This includes the Colorado territorial militia's slaughter of Cheyenne at Sand Creek (1864), and the US army's slaughter of Shoshone at Bear River (1863), Blackfeet on the Marias River (1870), and Lakota at Wounded Knee (1890). Some scholars have begun referring to these events as "genocidal massacres," defined as the annihilation of a portion of a larger group, sometimes to provide a lesson to the larger group.[4]
It is difficult to determine the total number of people who died as a result of "Indian massacres". In The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, lawyer William M. Osborn compiled a list of alleged and actual atrocities in what would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact in 1511 until 1890. His parameters for inclusion included the intentional and indiscriminate murder, torture, or mutilation of civilians, the wounded, and prisoners. His list included 7,193 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by those of European descent, and 9,156 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.[5]
In An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846-1873, historian Benjamin Madley recorded the numbers of killings of California Indians between 1846 and 1873. He found evidence that during this period, at least 9,400 to 16,000 California Indians were killed by non-Indians. Most of these killings occurred in what he said were more than 370 massacres (defined by him as the "intentional killing of five or more disarmed combatants or largely unarmed noncombatants, including women, children, and prisoners, whether in the context of a battle or otherwise").[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres
- the ideas of freedom of association, freedom of speech, and a free press is possibly fake as well? It feels like national security/interest is getting abused/used in ways it wasn't originally intended to?
~266~ FBI Truth, Grab The Oil, Journalists Arrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-3Bf51_A4k
ABBY MARTIN - The Detriments of Today's System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbEUsFxcdpo
Almost 90% percent of those responsible for the killing of 1,109 journalists around the world from 2006 to 2018 have not been convicted, according to a new UNESCO report, Intensified Attacks, New Defences, published ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI), 2 November.
The publication notes an 18% increase in killings of journalists in the past five years (2014-2018) compared to the previous 5-year period. According to the report, the Arab States constituted the deadliest part of the world for journalists (30% of global killings), followed by Latin America and the Caribbean region (26 %) and the Asia and Pacific States (24%). The report shows that in the past two years (2017-2018), 55% of journalists’ killings happened in non-conflict zones. This trend exemplifies the changing nature of killings of journalists, who are often targeted because of their reporting on politics, crime and corruption. UNESCO has so far recorded fewer killings in 2019 than at the same time last year, with 43 journalist killings condemned by the Organization’s Director-General as of 30 October 2019 compared to 90 at the same date in 2018.
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2019/11/unesco-alerts-on-violence-against-media.html
https://www.rt.com/news/472601-integrity-initiative-charity-report/
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/01/scott-morrison-threatens-crackdown-on-secondary-boycotts-of-mining-companies
More than 90 percent of the “programming” that we consume is controlled by just a handful of exceedingly powerful corporations, and those corporations are owned by the elite of the world. So when you endlessly consume their “programming”, you are willingly being bombarded by news and entertainment that reflects their beliefs, their values and their agendas. They openly admit that they are trying to shape the future of society, and up to this point they have been extremely successful.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/average-person-will-watch-over-78000-hours-television-programming-over-course-lifetime
- fake and foreign backed protestors seems to be a common theme?
soros fake protesters
Troll farm uncovered in Poland amid EU war on 'Russian bots'
catnet poland social media
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/undercover-at-a-troll-farm/
- fake adherence to all sorts of rules, regulations, philosophies, morality, explicit and implied beliefs, etc? There seems to be near universal practice of banning protesters now (watch news from around the world to gain perspective), mass surveillance, torture, an adequate social safety net, slavery, etc... in spite of these being in violation of UN Human Rights and many countries constitutions? Suspect that governance is a lot harder then some people think?
un human rights
Maids for Sale: Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market - BBC News
The Declaration consists of a preamble and thirty articles:
The preamble sets out the historical and social causes that led to the necessity of drafting the Declaration.
Articles 1–2 established the basic concepts of dignity, liberty, and equality.
Articles 3–5 established other individual rights, such as the right to life and the prohibition of slavery and torture.
Articles 6–11 refer to the fundamental legality of human rights with specific remedies cited for their defence when violated.
Articles 12–17 established the rights of the individual towards the community (including such things as freedom of movement).
Articles 18–21 sanctioned the so-called "constitutional liberties", and with spiritual, public, and political freedoms, such as freedom of thought, opinion, religion and conscience, word, and peaceful association of the individual.
Articles 22–27 sanctioned an individual's economic, social and cultural rights, including healthcare. Article 25 states: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services." It also makes additional accommodations for security in case of physical debilitation or disability, and makes special mention of care given to those in motherhood or childhood.[6]
Articles 28–30 established the general ways of using these rights, the areas in which these rights of the individual can not be applied, and that they can not be overcome against the individual.
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During World War II, the Allies adopted the Four Freedoms—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from fear, and freedom from want—as their basic war aims.[8][9] The United Nations Charter "reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person" and committed all member states to promote "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion".[10]
When the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany became fully apparent after World War II, the consensus within the world community was that the United Nations Charter did not sufficiently define the rights to which it referred.[11][12] A universal declaration that specified the rights of individuals was necessary to give effect to the Charter's provisions on human rights.[13]
un convention human rights
Keiser Report - What is the Fed hiding (E1457)
'Dangerous precedent': Israel court upholds deportation order on HRW chief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tza30yezc2c
U.S. Department of Energy experts are encouraging the Marshallese to move back to other parts of Enewetak, where 650 now live, after being relocated during the U.S. nuclear tests during the Cold War. But many Marshallese leaders no longer trust U.S. assurances of safety.
“We didn’t know the Runit Dome waste dump would crack and leak…. We didn’t know about climate change,” said Jack Ading, a Marshallese senator from Enewetak Atoll. “We weren’t nuclear scientists who could independently verify what the U.S. was telling us. We were just island people who desperately wanted to return home.”
Adding to the alarm is a study published this year by a team of Columbia University scientists showing levels of radiation in some spots in Enewetak and other parts of the Marshall Islands that rival those found near Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Such discoveries could give Marshallese leaders fresh ammunition to challenge the 1986 compact, which is up for renegotiation in 2023, and also to press the United States to honor property and health claims ordered by an international tribunal.
The tribunal, established by the two countries in 1988, concluded the United States should pay $2.3 billion in claims, but Congress and U.S courts have refused. Documents show the U.S. paid just $4 million.
The U.S. position is that it has already paid more than $600 million for the resettlement, rehabilitation and radiation-related healthcare costs of communities affected by the nuclear testing, said Karen Stewart, the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She said inflation brings the number closer to $1 billion.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/
Brit. Ambassador Lord John Marbury : [to Leo:]  You think you can make it stop? Well, you can't. We build a shield, and somebody'll build a better missile.
President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet : Well, it's a discussion for serious men. They say a statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years. I'd like us to be statesmen while we're still alive.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745693/characters/nm0000640
bunga bunga party
https://www.businessinsider.com/berlusconi-bunga-bunga-photos-2011-11
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunga_bunga
MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/17/berlusconis-bunga-parties/2205533/
Recently the Human Rights Watch has issued a 50-page report which says night raids and aerial strikes have led to mounting civilian casualties in Afghanistan. The report reveals that CIA-backed Afghan strike forces have once again made the lives of innocent Afghan citizens a hell. Night-time raids into homes in remote villages, forced disappearances, attacks on healthcare facilities and summary executions are the tools being used against the local people. In civilized societies such cruelties are termed as ‘atrocities’ and ‘war crimes’. The report has referred to at least 14 such cases across nine provinces over the last 2 years. Analysts are of the opinion that the basic reason behind this brutal behaviour of the Afghan troops is that most of them got their professional training from the officers of the US Army and of the US intelligence agencies. The training masters have taught them to show little concern for the local civilians’ life. That is why this training has made them callous and merciless to their own people. They don’t hesitate in shooting them direct in their heads when they are in their custody during the night raids.
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2019/11/misunderstanding-taliban.html
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1794344/air-force-develops-hybrid-jets
borgias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borgias_(2011_TV_series)
But despite all the technical arguments against law, the government has turned a deaf ear, insisting that the concerns of industry are due to a misunderstanding of the legislation.
Wilson told ABC Radio on Monday that China's Communist Party was an "authoritative regime by nature and authoritative regimes are oppressive and that's why people are standing up for their future."
He said he supported "non-violent protest."
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Wilson has been accused of hypocrisy after a 2011 tweet resurfaced where he suggested protesters from Occupy Melbourne - part of the global social movement on economic inequality - should be sprayed with water cannons.
Eco-activists threaten 2 weeks of mass action in 60 cities
- fake and inaccurate news seems to be rampant. Watch the news of two enemy states over time and it becomes obvious that they contradict constantly (we're not talking about opposing views, spin, or alternatives. We're talking about straight differences on very basic things)?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/12/explaining-prophets-fake-news-and-more_26.html
Fact and Friction - Reporting on Hong Kong's Protests (Full Documentary)_ Whose Truth Is It Anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUwA7NklTU
PressTV Documentaries
PressTV
- unbiased, honest, and informed media is more fakery? The media covers mostly stuff that only the elite should care about and just to get into the media actually requires payment a lot of the time? Most investment volume is institutional so why should the general public care?
Robots Are Taking Our Fake News Jobs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEF61jlUslA
Fake news and anonymous sources as ‘new normal’ for US journalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqLQH-VDDs
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/attacking-source-establishment-loyalists-favorite-online-tactic
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sharply divided country, here’s something many Americans agree on: It’s hard to know what’s a true and honest fact.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts finds that regardless of political belief, many Americans say they have a hard time figuring out if information is true. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they often come across one-sided information and about 6 in 10 say they regularly see conflicting reports about the same set of facts from different sources.
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“Americans want to know the facts,” said Ballmer, the former chief executive at Microsoft. “Facts (are) a driver of decision making, of common discussion and common dialog.”
But as a president with a history of making false statements and repeating debunked conspiracy theories faces public hearings this week in only the fourth impeachment inquiry in the nation’s history, the poll finds that differing political beliefs led Americans down different paths as they try to determine what’s an unquestionable fact.
Democrats are more likely to say they rely on scientists and academics, while Republicans are more likely to trust what they hear from President Donald Trump.
https://apnews.com/bcf9452cb6d7dd1b24599305b408987e
Professional journalists are losing touch with the moral code that once galvanized the profession, a new study shows. But what truth-slinger wouldn’t be having an existential crisis in an industry where facts no longer matter?
Ideology, speed, and novelty have nudged veracity and honor out of the way at the ethical core of the journalist’s trade. Journalists have become so estranged from the morality that once imbued them with a sense of purpose that the black hole where their profession’s honor used to be was actually measured in a recent study published in Journalism Practice. Working journalists “primed” to think of themselves in their professional role scored no higher on moral reasoning tests than when thinking of themselves as ordinary citizens, collapsing a sizable spread found in a similar study 13 years ago.
Given the abysmal state of journalistic ethics on display in 2019’s sordid 24-hour news cycle, it’s no surprise journalists no longer surpass all but doctors and priests in moral acuity.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/474033-journalists-moral-compass-fake-news/
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/social-networking/news/twitter-wants-your-feedback-on-its-deepfake-policy-plans-2131127
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/us/polls-media-fake-news.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/voters-numb-and-disoriented-constant-political-drama-and-fake-news-nyt
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/474033-journalists-moral-compass-fake-news/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/474100-journalists-national-security-nato/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/social-media-bot-coding-notes-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/online-marketing-and-sales-notes-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-psyops-social-systems-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/more-psyops-random-thoughts-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-feed-bias-checker-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-bias-checker-2-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/news-homepage-bias-check-random-stuff.html
financial volume institution
An institutional investor is an organization that invests on behalf of its members. Institutional investors face fewer protective regulations because it is assumed they are more knowledgeable and better able to protect themselves. There are generally six types of institutional investors: endowment funds, commercial banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds and insurance companies.
Institutional investors hold about 50% of the equities in the United States. In 1989. their trading and that of member firms accounted for 70% of the trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange [Schwartz and Shapiro (1992)].
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shleifer/files/impact_instit_trading.pdf
- ommision, obfuscation, confusion, diversion, distraction, disinformation, deflection, etc... common methods. Good example is the following. The USSR is not Russia. Not that USSR activity with regards to UN changed drastically with change in certain leaders? The US has been just as active (if not more active) then the USSR in modern times?
New Delhi’s representative, Syed Akbaruddin, compared security council reform to the Greek myth of Sisyphus: “Cursed by the gods to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down, dooming him to fruitless toil for eternity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/26/australia-says-un-security-council-reform-glacial-and-well-overdue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_the_Soviet_Union
Distract, deflect, disinform - Israeli politics in spin cycle _ The Listening Post (Full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR_6Opne00g
- which brings us to the issue of fake documentation
https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/donald-trump-accuses-impeachment-inquiry-of-releasing-doctored-transcripts-ng-fb286c83ca823e24cca5e7ef53adec79
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-12/national-security-officials-objected-to-stopping-ukraine-aid/11696646
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/she-inflated-her-resume-and-peddled-a-fake-time-cover-trump-appointed-her-to-the-state-department-20191113-p53acf.html
- are democracies fake? One thing that many people don't realise how few people (relative to the population of Earth) seem to be in control of everything?
correlation fundraising and presidential win
How strong is the association between campaign spending and political success? For House seats, more than 90 percent of candidates who spend the most win. From 2000 through 2016, there was only one election cycle where that wasn’t true: 2010. “In that election, 86 percent of the top spenders won,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks campaign fundraising and spending.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/does-more-campaign-money-actually-buy-more-votes-investigation/355154/
political funding sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_funding_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_funding
100 Companies Are The Cause Of It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpY0ymkTMcE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/social-engineeringmanipulation-rigging.html
Libertarian Katherine Mangu-Ward said in her debate against me last week "Capitalism gives people what they want, not what a group of people think they should want."
I almost fell off my chair.
You can watch the debate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROT2HjxovsE
https://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff/
Robin D Ryan That inquiry for me is generally framed around systems. Are systems designed to serve people or are people being conditioned to serve a system?
https://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff/
https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/10/lets-be-honest-about-what-a-second-referendum-means/
https://www.afr.com/world/europe/time-s-up-mps-set-for-vote-on-fate-of-october-31-brexit-20191023-p53397
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/like-caesar-leadership-gripes-all-around-in-tired-canberra-20191022-p532xm
https://www.booktopia.com.au/rainbow-revolutions-eve-lloyd-knight/ebook/9781526361264.html
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/can-dan-tehan-transform-the-higher-education-system-20191101-p536jn.html
bush recount election
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_recount_in_Florida
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/12/666812854/the-florida-recount-of-2000-a-nightmare-that-goes-on-haunting
https://theintercept.com/2018/11/10/democrats-should-remember-al-gore-won-florida-in-2000-but-lost-the-presidency-with-a-preemptive-surrender/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/donald-trump-rigged-election-bush-gore-florida-voter-fraud
Free trade stops wars. Heh, and that's it. Free trade stops wars! And we figure out a way to fix the rest.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745679/characters/nm0771493
“All of this clarified to people that big business is not on our side,” she said. “This mythology that, ‘Oh if only we behaved nicely and we brought big business to the table, things would work out.’ Well that’s been blown to smithereens. They are not on our side and in fact they will use every dollar that they can to try and crush the movement.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/09/seattle-amazon-kshama-sawant-socialist-elections
- you wonder whether obfuscation and confusion is crucial to some industries. Golf coaching sounds simple but most people haven't really improved?
handicap hasn't dropped golf
Further scrutiny reveals golf's dirty little secret: The number of American golfers with handicaps hasn't budged in almost 30 years, and handicaps are an affectation of the rich. Based on about 25 million U.S. golfers, fewer than five million have a USGA Handicap Index. An educated guess is that 80 percent of private-club members and only 10-15 percent of public-course players have a handicap. These numbers are sketchy because the USGA admits it doesn't track them—a colossal failure. In most enterprises, somebody's Key Performance Indicators would be based on growing these numbers.
- simply "having a go" can be pretty pretty difficult if you examine statistics across the board. Success seems like a rarity and most of the time you're just hoping to become successful?
franchise profitable
Average income by franchise category
Sector
Average Pre-Tax Income
Number of franchisee responses
Automotive $106,500 200
Business Services $89,784 2167
Child Services $95,276 1331
Cleaning & Maintenance $80,756 1670
Education $106,351 740
Financial & Tax Services $74,722 225
Food & Beverage $90,388 4847
Health & Beauty $91,366 721
Home Services $84,266 1898
Real Estate $96,109 861
Retail $60,405 561
Senior Services $106,205 1400
Fitness, Sports & Rec $57,019 1106
Services $79,329 901
Travel & Recreation $38,471 1571
(Source: Franchise Business Review, based on franchisee survey results compiled between June 2014 and December 2015.)
An Investigative Report on Franchise Profits
most business fail
It's often said that more than half of new businesses fail during the first year. According to the Small Business Association (SBA), this isn't necessarily true. The SBA states that only 30% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open, 50% during the first five years and 66% during the first 10. The SBA goes on to state that only 25% make it to 15 years or more. Though the odds are better than the commonly held belief, there are still many businesses that are closing down every year in the United States. (To learn more, see Keeping A Small Business Afloat.)
making money from patents
- health scams are rampant. At the inception of the Internet it was primarily related to virility and sexual (particularly erectile) dysfunction. Now it's more generalised across the board?
viagra spam
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-26/romance-scammers-know-what-victims-long-to-hear-expert-says/11350738
misdiagnosis rate doctor
Studies over the past few years have pegged misdiagnosis at anywhere from five to 44 percent, so we wondered what physicians saw in their practices. The latest study released this month found that one in 20 patients received a misdiagnosis with outpatient care, up to 12 million Americans per year.
https://www.sermo.com/how-often-do-physicians-misdiagnose/
doctor misdiagnosis rate
Graber estimates that the rate of misdiagnosis, although difficult to determine, occurs in 10 percent to 20 percent of cases. “Diagnostic error is an area where we need more research, more study and more information,” said James M. Naessens, a professor of health services research at the Mayo Clinic, who led its study.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/20-percent-of-patients-with-serious-conditions-are-first-misdiagnosed-study-says/2017/04/03/e386982a-189f-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html
Overall, about 5 percent of adults who visit the doctor are misdiagnosed annually, according to the estimates.
https://www.livescience.com/44888-misdiagnosis-doctors-visits.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/12-million-americans-misdiagnosed-each-year-study-says/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/one-in-five-medical-diagnoses-wrong-20080417-26su.html
- marketing fakery is everywhere! It's beyond comprehension how far it's gone? Bot activity seems to comprise a huge proportion of social media traffic?
bot traffic social media
Automated social media accounts known as "bots" are behind a majority of marketing messages about vaping and e-cigarettes — many of which inaccurately promote the devices as healthier alternatives to traditional cigarettes, a new study has found.
Such accounts are believed to generate nearly 80% of all Twitter traffic around vaping and tobacco products, with much of the information directed at minors, according to the report, from The Public Good Projects (PGP). Posts often include misinformation about e-cigarettes, and also aim to discredit scientists and public health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, the public health nonprofit group found.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bots-behind-majority-of-vaping-marketing-messages-on-social-media/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/social-media-bot-coding-notes-random.html
- if you understand academia then you'll understand that it's still a system of patronage as much as any other else. Ironically, it deals with dissidents in a similar fashion as modern politics. The following are good examples of this. People are effectively banned from thinking or reading particular books, banned from getting a vast and exploratory education, banned from critical and certain styles of thinking, whistleblowers are banned from social mobility, etc... For those who can see through all this, they're made to believe in the beauty of "alternate thinking/facts" or the post-truth era?
How You Know We’re Seeing The Death of Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqr0ABwOsmU
http://nicholaswilson.com/about-me/
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/drunk-driving-and-fake-science
"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.
Part of the new cavalier approach to accountability must be based in the view that the public isn't watching, and isn't interested, a self-perpetuating position thanks to the depressing spectre of politics.
The media, or at least parts of it, might be watching.
But that apparently holds no concerns for the Government either, as Scott Morrison made clear in his response to the media "right to know" campaign earlier this week.
It may be depressing. But no-one can afford to look away.
"It's pretty clear in the academic world that there is a bias with regards to academic promotion towards people with lots of papers — it's more about quantity than it really is about quality," Mr Hamilton said.
Dr Oransky said that was something that needed to change to increase public trust in science.
"The longest-term solution is getting rid of these publish-or-perish incentives. So part of it is just creating a better incentive structure or figuring out how to fix the incentive structure," he said.
"We're going through an interesting time in science where all of these issues are really coming to the fore and people are exploring them in ways that they haven't before, a lot of it made possible by the internet and by other technology.
"It's going to be a bit of a painful time for some scientists because things that have been hidden before are no longer hidden."
Political opposition in the USSR was barely visible and, with rare exceptions, of little consequence.[8] Instead, an important element of dissident activity in the Soviet Union was informing society (both inside the Soviet Union and in foreign countries) about violation of laws and human rights. Over time, the dissident movement created vivid awareness of Soviet Communist abuses.[9]
Soviet dissidents who criticized the state faced possible legal sanctions under the Soviet Criminal Code[10] and faced the choice of exile, the mental hospital, or the labor camp.[11] Anti-Soviet political behavior, in particular, being outspoken in opposition to the authorities, demonstrating for reform, writing books were defined in some persons as being simultaneously a criminal act (e.g., violation of Articles 70 or 190-1), a symptom (e.g., "delusion of reformism"), and a diagnosis (e.g., "sluggish schizophrenia").[12]
Sluggish schizophrenia or slow progressive schizophrenia (Russian: вялотеку́щая шизофрени́я, vyalotekushchaya shizofreniya)[1] was a diagnostic category used in the Soviet Union to describe what was claimed to be a form of schizophrenia characterized by a slowly progressive course; it was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, on the assumption that these symptoms would appear later.[2] It was developed in the 1960s by Soviet psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky and his colleagues,[3][4] and was used exclusively in the USSR and several Eastern Bloc countries, until the fall of Communism starting in 1989.[5] The diagnosis has long been discredited because of its scientific inadequacy and its use as a means of confining dissenters.[6] It has never been used or recognized outside of Soviet Union,[7] or by international organizations such as the World Health Organization.[8] It is considered a prime example of the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union.[9]
Sluggish schizophrenia was the most infamous of diagnoses used by Soviet psychiatrists, due to its usage against political dissidents.[10] After being discharged from a hospital, persons diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia were deprived of their civic rights, credibility and employability.[11] The usage of this diagnosis has been internationally condemned.[12]
In the Russian version of the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), which has long been used throughout present-day Russia, sluggish schizophrenia is no longer listed as a form of schizophrenia,[13] but it is still included as a schizotypal disorder in section F21 of chapter V.[14]
According to Sergei Jargin, the same Russian term "vyalotekushchaya" for sluggish schizophrenia continues to be used and is now translated in English summaries of articles not as "sluggish" but as "slow progressive".[1]
In 2014, when Police Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, Missouri, police brutality rocketed to the center of the national discourse on race. Law enforcement needed more accountability, activists argued, and body cameras became the state’s preferred corrective. The Obama administration’s Department of Justice offered more than $23 million in grants for new cameras in 2015, the year after Brown’s death, and another $20 million in 2016. Then-candidate Hillary Clinton called for mandatory body cameras nationwide. In 2018, a New York judge mandated that all NYPD officers wear them, as part of efforts to end “stop and frisk” tactics. The future of policing, it seemed, had arrived.
Less than five years later, though, that momentum has slowed. Cameras have allegedly fallen off; data have been deleted or mislabeled. A 2018 report found that most body-camera footage from fatal shootings never sees the light of day. As of June, the NYPD had a backlog of nearly 800 footage requests.
And now some police-reform advocates argue that recent technological advances mean these cameras are increasingly used not to scrutinize police, but to surveil the public. Recorded footage uploads to the cloud, allowing police to hold more images and videos, and to hold them longer. Object recognition lets officers quickly search through hours of footage to find items of interest (a red backpack, for example). With live-streaming, officers can send everything they see back to department headquarters nearly instantaneously.
The Sikh peer, who has been a contributor on Radio Four's Thought For The Day programme for more than three decades, is also accusing Radio Four bosses of "prejudice and intolerance" and over-sensitivity in relation to its coverage of Islam, after he says he was "blocked" from discussing the forced conversion of Hindus to Islam, under the Mughal emperors in 17th century India.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/exposing-bbc-thought-police
- which brings us to the issue of fake illness. It's been said that some of the medical fraternity actually over diagnose so that that they can bill people for more unrequired treatment and/or surgery?
Economic Update - US's Profit Driven Medicine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKOMSfnXr2E
pharmaceutical fraud
Pharmaceutical fraud involves activities that result in false claims to insurers or programs such as Medicare in the United States or equivalent state programs for financial gain to a pharmaceutical company. There are several different schemes[1] used to defraud the health care system which are particular to the pharmaceutical industry. These include: Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Violations, Off Label Marketing, Best Price Fraud, CME Fraud, Medicaid Price Reporting, and Manufactured Compound Drugs. Examples of fraud cases include the GlaxoSmithKline $3 billion settlement, Pfizer $2.3 billion settlement, and Merck $650 million settlement. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act, most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual for being a "whistleblower", or relator (law).[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_fraud
medicare fraud rate
fake diagnosis money
The Chinese appetite for beef has reached unprecedented levels with Australian exports to China up 73 per cent on last year, making it our biggest export market for beef.
Chinese consumers are prepared to pay hundreds of dollars a kilogram for the right cut of steak from a country they trust, but often don't get what they think they're buying.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) estimates that every second kilogram of beef sold in China under the banner of being Australian isn't Australian beef.
PwC agribusiness leader Craig Heraghty said it is notoriously difficult to put a finger on the exact meat fraud figure.
"Based on clients we have spoken to who are selling red meat into that market, based on distributors on the mainland and based on discussions with feedlotters serving the Chinese market, we have come up with that estimate and it's probably a lowball estimate," he said.
fake meat
https://futurism.com/angry-backlash-fake-meat
- fake education and qualifications seem a common scam now. The irony is that you can get a lot of education and training for free!
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/getting-free-education-and-training.html
fake qualifications
http://theconversation.com/fake-qualifications-are-on-the-rise-how-universities-can-manage-the-risk-109962
https://hagueaustralia.com.au/fake-certificates/
http://au.noveltydiplomaprinting.com/
https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/7-ways-to-spot-a-fake-degree-certificate
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/careers/the-great-aussie-degree-scam-forgers-raking-in-thousands-selling-bogus-qualifications/news-story/37a95801652821f9357ba94c20bbf29a
- while we're at it there are fake universities and educational institutions as well!
More international students who said they were attending a university that was actually a shell created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been arrested in Michigan on immigration charges in recent months.
DHS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) created the University of Farmington to expose weaknesses in the student visa immigration process, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Helms wrote in a sentencing memo, as reported by the Detroit Free Press. The paper broke the story last spring.
“While ‘enrolled’ at the university, 100 percent of the foreign citizen students never spent a single second in a classroom. If it were truly about obtaining an education, the university would not have been able to attract anyone, because it had no teachers, classes or educational services,” the memo said.
While the students were granted student visas to enter the U.S., they were in violation when they did not actually attend the school, federal agencies said. Of about 250 people arrested, more than 200 students voluntarily left the U.S., and 50 stayed until being arrested or deported, the Free Press reported. ICE officials said many of the students were from India.
The paper reported that some students — claiming they were entrapped by the U.S. government, which operated the fake university — hired attorneys to defend their right to stay.
It remains unclear what happened to the tuition and fees paid by the students. It cost approximately $12,000 to enroll in the fake school, the Free Press reported.
https://www.voanews.com/student-union/more-students-fake-university-arrested-deported
- fake drugs even exist now?
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-heroin-shipped-to-australia-by-the-pong-su-was-probably-a-knock-off-brand-20191126-p53e7i.html
- fake insurance seems to be quite common. If you examine reviews of a lot of insurers you'll realise that many of them have mixed reviews. Common complains are of useless policies, not paying out, looking for technicalities so that they don't have to pay out, etc...
The class action, taken by law firm Slater and Gordon in the Federal Court, alleged NAB and subsidiary MLC engaged in unconscionable conduct in selling consumer credit insurance (CCI) to customers.
They included pensioners, casual workers, and unemployed and critically ill people who were ineligible to claim or unlikely to benefit from the policies.
It was also alleged NAB engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when selling the insurance.Slater and Gordon practice group leader Andrew Paull said the policies were "next to worthless" to many of the people they were sold to.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/personalfinance/nab-to-pay-compensation-to-400000-customers-sold-junk-insurance/ar-BBX18BW?li=AAgfOd8
- fake "rules based world order"? It's always been America First and if it's not America it'll be the same if country takes over?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/keating-and-experts-dish-out-a-series-of-brutal-truths/news-story/911af9d21b81d6063461815b413f6ebb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_Diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_diplomacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkbook_diplomacy
- humans deserve this system and are just as fickle and feckless as the supposed God (if God is even real?) that they sometimes wish to admonish?
The West Wing 222 - Two Cathedrals - President Bartlet shouts at God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVgK5HKj3P4
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jed+bartlet+church+scene
Bartlet: [standing in the National Cathedral, walking towards the altar and talking to God about Mrs. Landingham] You're a son-of-a-bitch, You know that? She bought her first new car and You hit her with a drunk driver. What, was that supposed to be funny? "You can't conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God," says Graham Greene. I don't know whose ass he was kissing there 'cause I think You're just vindictive. What was Josh Lyman? A warning shot? That was my son. What did I ever do to Yours except praise His glory and praise His name? There's a tropical storm that's gaining speed and power. They say we haven't had a storm this bad since You took out that tender ship of mine in the north Atlantic last year, 68 crew. Do You know what a tender ship does? Fixes the other ships. Doesn't even carry guns, just goes around, fixes the other ships and delivers the mail, that's all it can do. Gratias Tibi ago, domine (I give thanks to You, O Lord). Yes, I lied. It was a sin. I've committed many sins. Have I displeased You, You feckless thug? Three point eight million new jobs, that wasn't good? Bailed out Mexico, increased foreign trade, 30 million new acres of land for conservation, put Mendoza on the bench, we're not fighting a war, I've raised three children... that's not enough to buy me out of the doghouse? Haec credam a deo pio? A deo iusto? A deo scito? Cruciatus in crucem! Tuus in terra servus nuntius fui officium perfeci. Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem! (Am I to believe those were the acts of a loving God? A just God? A wise God? To hell with Your punishments! I was Your servant on Earth - I spread Your word and did Your work. To hell with your punishments! To hell with You!) [walks away from the altar, lights a cigarette, takes one puff, throws it to the ground, puts it out with his foot and proceeds to leave] You get Hoynes!
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_West_Wing
Josh: What's Islamic extremism? It's strict adherence to a particular interpretation of 7th century Islamic law as practiced by the prophet Mohammed, and when I say "strict adherence," I'm not kidding around. Men are forced to pray, wear their beards a certain length. Among my favorites is there's only one acceptable cheer at a soccer match: 'Allah-hu-Akbar.' "God is great." If your guys are getting creamed, then you're on your own. Things are a lot less comic for women, who aren't allowed to attend school or have jobs. They're not allowed to be unaccompanied, and oftentimes get publicly stoned to death for crimes like not wearing a veil. I don't have to tell you they don't need to shout at a soccer match because they're never going to go to one. So what bothers them about us? Well, the variety of cheers alone coming from the cheap seats at Giants stadium when they're playing the Cowboys is enough for a jihad, to say nothing of street corners lined church next to synagogue, next to mosque, newspapers that can print anything they want, women who can do anything they want including taking a rocket ship to outer space, vote, and play soccer. This is a plural society. That means we accept more than one idea. It offends them... You want to get these people? I mean, you really want to reach in and kill them where they live? Keep accepting more than one idea. It makes them absolutely crazy.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_West_Wing
- fake recyling?
fake recycling
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/5-recycling-myths-busted-plastic/
Or, at least, that’s how it used to work. Then, on the first day of 2018, China, the world’s largest market for recycled waste, essentially shut its doors. Under its National Sword policy, China prohibited 24 types of waste from entering the country, arguing that what was coming in was too contaminated. The policy shift was partly attributed to the impact of a documentary, Plastic China, which went viral before censors erased it from China’s internet. The film follows a family working in the country’s recycling industry, where humans pick through vast dunes of western waste, shredding and melting salvageable plastic into pellets that can be sold to manufacturers. It is filthy, polluting work – and badly paid. The remainder is often burned in the open air. The family lives alongside the sorting machine, their 11-year-old daughter playing with a Barbie pulled from the rubbish.
For recyclers such as Smith, National Sword was a huge blow. “The price of cardboard has probably halved in the last 12 months,” he says. “The price of plastics has plummeted to the extent that it isn’t worth recycling. If China doesn’t take plastic, we can’t sell it.” Still, that waste has to go somewhere. The UK, like most developed nations, produces more waste than it can process at home: 230m tonnes a year – about 1.1kg per person per day. (The US, the world’s most wasteful nation, produces 2kg per person per day.) Quickly, the market began flooding any country that would take the trash: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, countries with some of the world’s highest rates of what researchers call “waste mismanagement” – rubbish left or burned in open landfills, illegal sites or facilities with inadequate reporting, making its final fate difficult to trace.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html
- in some countries fake relationships area  common and necessary way of life?
China's Fake Boyfriends | Witness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqRt5boELkQ
- crazy and unrealistic expectations bring about the advent of fake and dodgy engineering?
The Volkswagen emissions scandal, also known as Dieselgate[22] or Emissionsgate,[23] began in September 2015, when the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to German automaker Volkswagen Group. The agency had found that Volkswagen had intentionally programmed turbocharged direct injection (TDI) diesel engines to activate their emissions controls only during laboratory emissions testing which caused the vehicles' NO
x  output to meet US standards during regulatory testing, but emit up to 40 times more NOx  in real-world driving.[24] Volkswagen deployed this programming software in about eleven million cars worldwide, including 500,000 in the United States, in model years 2009 through 2015.[25][26][27][28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
volkswagon diesel filters hack
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-08/diesel-filter-problems-in-australian-cars-widespread/11655040
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/17/diesel-particulate-filter-removal-air-pollution-department-for-transport
- fake war on corruption?
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/america-needs-war-waste-100-examples-federal-taxpayer-abuse
http://archive.org
[to lawyer Bennett Holiday] Some trust fund prosecutor, got off-message at Yale, thinks he's gonna run this up the flagpole, make a name for himself, maybe get elected some two-bit, congressman from nowhere, with the result that Russia or China can suddenly start having, at our expense, all the advantages we enjoy here. No, I tell you. No, sir! Corruption charges! Corruption?!! Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. That's Milton Friedman. He got a goddamn Nobel Prize. We have laws against it precisely so we can get away with it. Corruption is our protection. Corruption keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are prancing around in here instead of fighting over scraps of meat out in the streets. Corruption is why we win.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Syriana
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-impeachment-probe-transcripts-1.5348715
- when governments know that they're in trouble I suspect that they may be faking economic data? They know that they have limited power over their economies and this is sometimes the only option that they have to keep things going because running an economy is really, really difficult?
The Big Short - "Jenga" Clip (2015) - Paramount Pictures
FULL SHOW - World on brink of recession IMF thinks so
Do you want financial crisis? Because that's how you get financial crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ps3RKxkt4
In 2016, China admitted its economic data was fake, pointing out that "some local statistics are falsified, and fraud and deception happen from time to time."
In 2017, China (again) admitted its economic data was fake, saying that a nationwide audit found some local governments inflated revenue levels and raised debt illegally, with some local GDP data as much as 20% "over-cooked."
In 2018, we exposed China's "cooked" numbers in China's industrial profits growth data.
And early in 2019, a team of researchers from the Brookings Institute published a carefully researched paper detailing the exact mechanism by which authorities in Beijing inflate the country's GDP figures, while estimating that China's economy is roughly 12% smaller than the official figures would suggest.
And so here we are, nearing the end of 2019 and China's economic growth is lagging badly - at or near the lowest since record began over 30 years ago (and expected to grow at less than 6.0% next year for the first time) - we get new from China's National Nureau of Statistics that 2018's GDP data is to be adjusted...
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/fake-growth-china-adjusts-2018-gdp-21-higher-due-census
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-rebound-fake-chinese-data-ahead-slump-us-payrolls
- fake accounting holds the economy pushes the economy towards greater heights but also has been the root cause of massive job losses and economic downturns as well. Notice how often they seem to occur? Humans never seem to learn?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wework-disaster-aftermath-97-companies-using-non-gaap-metrics-everything-fake
accounting scams
https://www.accounting-degree.org/scandals/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/other/top-accounting-scandals/
- fake hype. If you didn't know already much of the economy runs on pure hype and much of it is wrong? Success is actually much rarer then you think
https://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-toysreview-7-year-old-makes-22-million-per-year-youtube-2018-12
Let’s play “Would You Rather.” Would you rather invest in the latest high-growth tech IPO or in a long-established firm with a decent amount of debt whose best days are behind it? Human experience tells us that retirees have shorter life expectancies than teenagers. This intuition might lead investors to be more worried about the risk of permanent capital loss in old, indebted businesses than young, high-growth new issues.
But is this correct? Are investors more likely to lose money betting on an aging company that owes the banks money or in today’s bell-ringing darlings of Wall Street? We decided to run the numbers and see.
Our conclusion is that, by far, we believe the easiest way to lose nearly all of your money is IPOs, and the more exciting the IPO, the more the catastrophic the base rates. For those watching the recent near-death experience of WeWork as it limps along at about one fifth of the value it was about to IPO at just last month, or the slew of disappointing results from high-growth high-expectation IPOs like BlueApron, you would be right to ask how extraordinary these “shockingly” bad outcomes really are.
Of the last 3,700 US IPOs since the late 1980s for which we have data, the median IPO lost about 31% of its value from day-one close price to three years later and 41% to five years later. But what is most astounding is just how frequently investors lost a lot more than that. Below we’ve highlighted not just the percentage of time investors would have lost money, but the percentage of time investors would incurred bankruptcy-level losses of more than 75% of their capital.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/growth-bankruptcies
https://www.drudgereport.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudge_Report
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/bleak-year-for-ipo-launches-in-aus-4026225/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-18/last-minute-ipo-rush-may-save-australia-s-awful-year-for-deals
- it's possible that some government bodies may be faking figures for geo-political reasons?
The exact source of the World Bank’s data also remains a mystery. It used data from 228 respondents – including from 22 on taxes – to create the index, yet the sources have been kept anonymous. While the majority of respondents are believed to be major consulting companies, lack of any data on the index sources hampers the potential efforts on further improving the taxation system, the FNS explained.
“The FNS has very positive experience in working with the World Bank and is well aware that its specialists have in-depth expertise and knowledge of the world's best practices. Yet, we regret the lack of meaningful professional dialogue and the secretiveness of the Doing Business team's representatives regarding the taxation,” the tax administration said.
https://www.rt.com/business/472858-russia-taxes-world-bank/
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/11/07/Impeachment-Diplomat-accuses-Giuliani-of-campaign-of-lies-against-ex-ambassador/5021573131154/
- despite all the talk of freedom and fairness most governments are top down command and control economies. It's obvious some of the things they may resort to if the economy is in trouble. Fake scandals, manipulation, covert operations, etc... possible if governments can't figure out how to redistribute wealth. If the bank sector is genuinely in that much trouble governments have been aiding the rise of Fintechs and cryptocurrency development to provide bailout points if the financial sector does fall?
https://www.rt.com/news/472522-smartisan-founder-travel-spending-ban/
- the trouble with the massive amount of manipulation with this system is that at a certain point no one believes anything anymore?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/19/australian-privacy-watchdog-fails-to-deliver-findings-on-cambridge-analytica-scandal-after-18-months
- people talk about doing things right but it's obvious that we have fake ethics and expertise all over the place?
mckinsey fraud book
A global powerhouse, McKinsey counts 2,000 entities, including corporations and governments, as its clients, with former partners — investors in MIO’s funds — now sitting near the top of many of those same corporate clients and in positions of government power. In addition, several of the more prominent hedge funds its partners invest in via MIO — Citadel and Cerberus Capital Management, for example — are clients of McKinsey, and their top ranks are peppered with former McKinsey executives. Other former McKinsey executives are running MIO, and current and former partners are not only investors in MIO — they dominate its board. (Their staffs, McKinsey points out, are separate.)
“It’s alarming they have a hedge fund,” says Matthew Stewart, a former consultant at a firm that was started by ex-McKinsey consultants, which he detailed in his book The Management Myth.
“They have a huge amount of inside information, which raises serious conflict issues at multiple levels,” Stewart says, adding that McKinsey’s power in the world of business and government “puts them in a kind of an oligarchic position.”
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1g5zjdcr97k2y/The-Story-McKinsey-Didn-t-Want-Written
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/304883/
https://www.amazon.com/Management-Myth-Debunking-Business-Philosophy/dp/0393338525
https://www.amazon.com/Management-Myth-Experts-Getting-Wrong-ebook/dp/B002PQ7B72
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6100832-the-management-myth
- alien contact is constantly intimated throughout modern culture but I suspect that it's a fake otherwise the US/West should pull out significantly relative to the rest of the world with regards to science and technology but it seems to be the opposite? Even if it's true then they can't even make maximum use of it because they have keep the program secretive?
project blue book
https://www.sbs.com.au/programs/project-blue-book
- fake animal rights? It's obvious that a lot of animals are smarter then most people believe? My guess is that we don't really talk about it so that we can put them in zoos, pet them, force them to do things against their own interests, and eat hamburgers (and other protein based foods) without having to deal with a guilty conscience?
https://www.dominionmovement.com/
Dominion (2018) - full documentary [Official]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/10/human-like-animal-behaviours-and.html
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2019/11/fans-in-anguish-over-heartbreaking-orangutan-scene-in-new-david-attenborough-documentary.html
https://www.republicworld.com/india-news/general-news/andhra-pradesh-a-cow-enters-a-cloth-shop-to-cool-herself-under-fan.html
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/stubborn-as-a-mule-the-champion-racehorse-that-went-on-strike-20191007-p52ydd.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/it-s-viral/gorilla-uses-sign-language-to-tell-onlookers-this-watch-jaw-dropping-video/story-Hbwy1kZxtm19D9M8PDdezH.html
- fake stories and image/public relations management seem to be huge nowadays? Why and what is the fascination behinds some celebrities especially if many of the stories are possibly manipulated or even outright fake?
- fake sexual equality, racial equality, equal opportunities, etc... It becomes obvious that after a while that the reason why politicians have to kow tow to Multi National Corporations/Trans National Corporation (MNC/TNC) is that they may no longer have the power to genuinely fight it, don't want to, don't understand the system, don't have inadequate systems in place, etc? Else, other more cynical and devious people divised a system which would filter for "Yes Men" and people who have less of an the ability to genuinely navigate it (examine profiles for a lot of parliaments and you realise that many politicians have limited experience of life outside of it?. That's their main experience and perspective of life?)? The obvious funny thing is that the eugenicists got what they wanted through stealth?
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/06/religious-conspiracies-is-capitalism.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/01/conspiracy-theories-understanding.html
https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-keep-men-s-secrets-sleazy-politicians-and-crude-bosses-still-plague-us-20191105-p537gm.html
Maids for Sale - Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market - BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxz-vmbFXd4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
Don't fit the narrative: BBC list of 100 most influential women lacks political diversity
Do Genes Determine Politics?
Facebook Vows to Fight Antitrust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqrspjhIhp0
steve keen job level false
Universities have also been turned into bullshit job factories (to use David Graeber’s term) by politicians and bureaucrats in the last 30 years. Funding for non-mainstream economics is also virtually non-existent because the gatekeepers who decide who gets funded are almost all Neoclassical (mainstream) economists.
https://blog.patreon.com/creator-profile-professor-steve-keen
Yet in the UK, the calls were rising for the oligopoly to be broken up; too big, too profitable, too failed in its self-appointed role as the Guardian of Global Commerce.
A former school teacher from Copacabana Beach has just locked horns with the four most powerful private institutions on the planet. And they don’t like it. The shoddy audit standards, massive government consulting business and global tax avoidance operations of the Big Four accounting firms, EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC, now finally face government scrutiny. Michael West reports.
Burgess was a strong influence on the Dunning School of Reconstruction. Burgess "agreed with the scholarly consensus that blacks were inferior,"[3] and wrote that "black skin means membership in a race of men which has never of itself succeeded in subjecting passion to reason, has never, therefore, created any civilization of any kind."[4]
https://www.governmentnews.com.au/anti-corruption-heads-join-forces/
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-02/interest-rate-cut-not-passed-on-by-banks-in-full-for-good-reason/11565594
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This last year's real GDP (total income) rose 2.5 %. But incomes of workers, bosses, and owners of capital did not equally share that growth. Most workers had real weekly wage growth = 1.6%. Supervisors' and capitalists' incomes grew more. US inequality worsened... again.
https://www.facebook.com/RichardDWolff/
Real Earnings Summary
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
Americans are hungry for personal loans that they can use as quick cash to pay for anything from vacations to credit card debt, a potential red flag for the economy.
Personal loans are up more than 10% from a year ago, according to data from Equifax, a rapid pace of growth that has not been seen on a sustained basis since shortly before the Great Recession. All three of the major consumer credit agencies -- Equifax, Experian and TransUnion -- report double-digit growth in this market in recent months.
Experts are surprised to see millions of Americans taking on so much personal loan debt at a time when the economy looks healthy and paychecks are growing for many workers, raising questions about why so many people are seeking an extra infusion of cash.
"Definitely yellow flares should be starting to go off," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, which monitors consumer credit. "There's an old adage in banking: if it's growing like a weed, it probably is a weed."
https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Personal-loans-are-growing-like-a-weed-a-14852251.php
- the same game over and over again. The elite basically play with statistics and odds. They have to give off the impression of fairness even if the odds are heavily in their own favour to keep the game going? When and if the tables get turned the laws and rules are changed to reverse the odds. Whether the game is sports betting, lottery, financial trading, casino games, politics, etc... the same theme over and over again? Examine the types of trades that Dalio, Marks, Buffett, and others engage in and it's the same style of trading as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks_(investor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Buffett
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/big-data-and-social-trading-investments.html
won lottery multiple times
https://www.multilotto.com/en/lotterynews/has-anybody-ever-won-the-lottery-more-than-once
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/harvard-prof-on-odds-of-winning-multiple-lotteries-like-these-people.html
https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/76987/lottery-jackpot-winners-who-won-more-than-once
His legacy lives on in US legislation: All 44 states that run lotteries have enacted laws preventing the profitable replication of Mandel’s strategy. In effect, this secures him a title as the first and last man to ever successfully game the lottery by buying every possible combination.
Reflecting back on wilder times, he played off the riskiness of his gambit.
“I’m a man who takes risks, but in a calculated way,” he told the Romanian paper, Bursa. “Trimming my beard is a lottery: There is always the possibility that I’ll cut myself, get an infection in my blood, and die — but I do it anyway.”
“The chances,” he concluded, “are in my favor.”
https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times
https://www.multilotto.com/en/lotterynews/720-5-lucky-people-who-won-the-lottery-multiple-times
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-one-guy-won-the-lottery-14-times-2016-1
ban sports banning wins
Most ‘soft’ bookies will ban you very quickly.
In the UK this means that you be banned usually within three wins maximum or maybe after just one bet.
My record was with Bet Bright when I was banned for just placing one losing bet before it was even settled.
Most people lose so the bookmakers can easily afford to ban or limit bettors who win or look like they might.
The best is to stick to the betting exchanges if you are a consistent winner but even then they will eventually apply premium charges.
The trick is to find ways of winning first and then you will understand how to circumvent the restrictions which are easy to do with experience.
The best way of learning is to start with matched betting and then you will see how easy winning consistently is.
https://www.quora.com/Will-I-be-banned-if-I-win-too-much-in-sports-betting
https://www.winningedgeinvestments.com/posts/how-do-i-avoid-getting-banned-by-the-bookies/
ban card counting casino
It's important to remember that card counting in blackjack isn't illegal. However, casinos have the right to refuse service to anyone they please, and a number of things are likely to happen if you are pegged as a counter. First, you may just be “asked” to quit playing blackjack or to leave the casino.
https://www.casino.org/blog/how-do-casinos-spot-and-catch-card-counters/
When the pit boss suspects something, he might use the phone and call the security for a skills check. They turn the cameras on you and may analyze your previous play, [and see] if you are in the system. If you're in the system, the pit boss may also mark you as a counter in his or her notes (play unrated if you count). The security employed by the casino is basically retired card counters and the like so they can tell easily who's counting and who isn't. Now they assess if you're a threat or not. If they think you're a threat to the casino, then they come down with a group of people, tap you on the shoulder and tell you that you're too good for the game.
Then they might share your information/picture (they have footage of you playing when they analyze your skills) with other casinos. Then you'll find out you're banned from other casinos before you even play there.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-casinos-know-that-you_b_6857442
correlation fundraising and presidential win
How strong is the association between campaign spending and political success? For House seats, more than 90 percent of candidates who spend the most win. From 2000 through 2016, there was only one election cycle where that wasn’t true: 2010. “In that election, 86 percent of the top spenders won,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks campaign fundraising and spending.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/does-more-campaign-money-actually-buy-more-votes-investigation/355154/
political funding sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_funding_in_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_funding
tattersalls political contributions
Big donations from the gambling lobby are clearly not new. But this year’s returns demonstrate that even when the stakes aren’t that high, the gambling lobby continues to defend its interests with major political parties.
Between 2010 and 2012, when stakes were higher, these actors and others spent $3,478,581 on campaign costs to defeat the gambling reforms agreed between then prime minister Julia Gillard and independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
Wilkie and another long-time gambling reformist, Senator Nick Xenophon, list donations reform as an important element of any decent gambling reform package. They know how much influence the gambling lobby can afford to buy.
http://theconversation.com/gambling-lobby-gives-big-to-political-parties-and-names-names-73131
https://www.theage.com.au/national/our-democracy-encourages-corruption-and-undue-influence-20070202-ge44mg.html
- one has to wonder whether it's a known scam by the elite to filter mostly "Yes Men" to keep the masses poor and powerless and the elite as they? If it is, it's both funny and depressing? Many countries have a history of human experimentation. Much of it was towards mind control and perception. If the research went into this particular area it's pretty obvious where it's ended being used (politics, marketing, intelligence, medical science, defense, etc...)?
human experimentation
Keiser Report - Glass Floors & Ridiculous Charts (E1452)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9z3UEyvHTc
It seems like a simple and easy to identify pattern, but for some reason the public keeps falling for the same old globalist tricks. A well-worn tactic the money elites use to endear certain puppet political candidates to Americans is to encourage those candidates to use anti-elitist rhetoric, only to then flood their cabinets with those same elites once they get into office. The rule of politics seems to be, “Say whatever you want to get the people on your side, but once you're in office, you do as we tell you...”
These candidates will aggressively attack the banks, corporations and wall street, lamenting the rapid decline of the middle class or “working class”. They will point out that a mere handful of ultra-rich, the top 1%, control more wealth than nearly half of the population combined. They will seize upon the travesties of the poor and argue for “change” to bring balance back to the system. They will pretend to expose the crimes of the banking cabal and the upper echelons of Wall Street. They will put on a grand show; and then, they will do the bidding of their masters and play the role they were groomed for...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-vs-warren-fake-battle-against-elites
Sims noted that, at the time of Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, DoubleClick reportedly denied that the data it collects through its system for serving ads would be combined with Google’s search data.
And eight years later, Google updated its privacy policy and removed a commitment not to combine Doubleclick data with personally identifiable data held by Google.
Sims also pointed to the fact that when Facebook acquired WhatsApp, Facebook claimed it was unable to establish reliable matching between Facebook users and WhatsApp users’ accounts.
Then two years later, WhatsApp updated its terms of service and privacy policy, indicating it could link WhatsApp users’ phone numbers with Facebook users’ identities.
“Given the history of digital platforms making statements as to what they intend to do with data and what they actually do down the track, it is a stretch to believe any commitment Google makes in relation Fitbit users’ data will still be in place five years from now.”
https://www.itwire.com/market/accc-chief-warns-digital-takeovers-or-rivals-pose-threat-to-consumer-choice,-privacy.html
Democracy is hard. That is not news to the societies struggling for democracy against tyrannical regimes which time and again have been ridiculed by the West as "banana republics" and "shithole countries" for their trouble. What is news, though, is the cost of trying to fake it as the West has been trying to do.
Plato warned that "one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors". To that we can now add the lesson from the ongoing political debacles in the US and the UK: the penalty for reducing democratic participation to mere voting is that you will be governed by "morons".
Jihad (English: /dʒɪˈhɑːd/; Arabic: جهاد‎ jihād [dʒɪˈhaːd]) is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.[1][2][3][4] In an Islamic context, it can refer to almost any effort to make personal and social life conform with God's guidance, such as struggle against one's evil inclinations, religious proselytizing, or efforts toward the moral betterment of the ummah,[1][2][5] though it is most frequently associated with war.[6] In classical Islamic law, the term refers to armed struggle against unbelievers,[2][3] while modernist Islamic scholars generally equate military jihad with defensive warfare.[7][8] In Sufi and pious circles, spiritual and moral jihad has been traditionally emphasized under the name of greater jihad.[9][3] The term has gained additional attention in recent decades through its use by terrorist groups.
- fake illusion of choice. Free market capitalism actually works strongly in favour of those who are already wealthy. Understand the system in question and you realise how unfair it actually is?
Richard Wolff on the Free Market
- fake politics. Genuine capitalist, liberalist, democracy is really, really hard and I have no idea where many countries are and what the intentions of a lot of politicians are? The balance of power lies with business? The left has moved towards slight centre right and the right has moved way right probably in many countries (I think this is a Charity Pardox issue. The more money you have the more charitable you can be while the opposite is true if you're poor?)?
correlation fundraising and presidential win
How strong is the association between campaign spending and political success? For House seats, more than 90 percent of candidates who spend the most win. From 2000 through 2016, there was only one election cycle where that wasn’t true: 2010. “In that election, 86 percent of the top spenders won,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks campaign fundraising and spending.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/does-more-campaign-money-actually-buy-more-votes-investigation/355154/
'We've legalized the abuse of the person through the personal' – Snowden on Facebook data collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1kpI-XnCOs
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2019/nov/03/if-you-think-labors-too-progressive-you-couldnt-be-more-wrong
- fake, biased, or controlled news feeds? Note, how news is often heavily slanted in one direction or another for many news feeds?
Project Veritas in the crosshairs & TikTok alleged political bias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O36jwOhjsQk
Ray Henry The best way to get the truth about a story like this is to ask the people whose jobs are supposedly in jeopardy. Based on the comments I'm seeing, it looks the the article is more fear than fact.
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do, you are misinformed."
--Mark Twain (apocryphal)
- fake or biased narratives incredibly common everywhere? Few people dig genuinely deep into data? They often just look at a tiny set of data but neglect to look at all inputs and outputs?
The most obvious explanation behind the connection between life expectancy and income is the effect of food supply on mortality. Historically, there have been statistically convincing parallels between prices of food and mortality [2]. Higher income also implies better access to housing, education, health services and other items which tend to lead to improved health, lower rates of mortality and higher life expectancy. It is not surprising, therefore, that aggregate income has been a pretty good predictor of life expectancy historically.
south africa history 1990s
- fake desire for peace (watch what has happened in the South China Sea, North/South Korea, Israel/Palestine, India/Pakistan/Kashmir, Sudan/South Sudan, Libya/Iran/Saudi Arabia/UAE, etc... areas. It just never seems to end)? The militarisation of everything makes it impossible for a peaceful life to exist for everyone?
fake end to cold war
"What we've seen during the Cold War, somewhat counter-intuitively, is artisanal active measures - very labour intensive at the front end, down to using white gloves when you sign the letter in order to avoid fingerprints, the letter that you then mail anonymously," says Prof Rid.
"It really required good tradecraft. But what we see in 2016 is the opposite: lazy industrial scale hacking and dumping."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39419560
https://uatribune.com/en/russia-is-desperately-seeking-recognition-for-its-crimea-annexation/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-cold-war-economic-crisis-and-more.html
moscow rules
Agent Tony Mendez wrote:
Although no one had written them down, they were the precepts we all understood for conducting operations in the most difficult of operating environments: the Soviet capital. By the time they got to Moscow, everyone knew these rules. They were dead simple and full of common sense.[1]
In the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., the Moscow Rules are given as:[2]
Assume nothing.
Never go against your gut.
Everyone is potentially under opposition control.
Do not look back; you are never completely alone.
Go with the flow, blend in.
Vary your pattern and stay within your cover.
Lull them into a sense of complacency.
Do not harass the opposition.
Pick the time and place for action.
Keep your options open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moscow_rules
https://www.amazon.com.au/Moscow-Rules-Secret-Tactics-America/dp/1541762193
"You'd think about the people that had risked their lives to get that information on film and you'd just be so careful," she recalled. "Every time you did it, I mean, your heart would just pound."
Their book looks at the Soviet era, and some of the spycraft may be a bit dated.
But the espionage game carries on, Oleg Kalugin said. Many years ago, he was Vladimir Putin's boss at the KGB and said Putin's background is essential to understanding today's Russia.
"Putin brought back some of the worst sides of the Soviet regime," said Kalugin, now 84. "As a former KGB guy, his psychology is based on the old traditions of the Soviet system."
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/724099134/moscow-rules-how-the-cia-operated-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-kgb
- fake pledges and promises are rife? Can you honestly imagine if your friends, spouse/partner, or family attempted to differentiate between core and non core promises?
united nations broken promises
The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of May 2019, the pledge has 204 signatories, either individuals or couples, from 22 countries, though some of the signers have died since signing.[1] Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, and their pledges total over $500 billion. It does not actually dictate that the money will be spent in any certain way or towards any particular charity or cause, and there is no legal obligation.
- fake negotiations (mostly for political reasons) and finger pointing (to assuage the public) make it very difficult to know what the intentions of the people in charge are?
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1607484-lebron-james-china-comments
Kim Myong-gil, North Korea’s chief negotiator, blamed the U.S. for the failure in talks. He threatened that if the U.S. is “not well prepared” for future discussions, a “terrible incident could happen.” Despite North Korea’s persistent attacks on Washington’s unwillingness to provide concessions such as sanctions relief, the Trump administration rightly continues to withhold them due to North Korea’s lack of reciprocal actions. Washington recognizes that diplomacy cannot succeed unless Pyongyang makes a strategic decision to relinquish its nuclear program.
Unfortunately, the regime has yet to get the message. In a post-Stockholm propaganda blitz, North Korea introduced a new acronym to describe its broad demands of America: “complete and irreversible withdrawal of the hostile policy” (CIWH). This formulation appears to be a tongue-in-cheek answer to the U.S. demand for “complete, verifiable, irreversible dismantlement” (CVID) of Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/465502-stockholm-breakdown-reflects-north-koreas-failure-to-compromise
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has underlined the need for a ban on negotiation with the US, saying it is one of the ways to block American infiltration.
"A repeated ban on negotiation with the United States is one of the important means to block their infiltration into our dear Iran," the Leader said in a meeting with university students in Tehran Sunday.
"This prohibition has a strong logic: it will block the way of the enemy's infiltration, display the Islamic Republic's impressiveness to the world, and shatter America's false aura before the world," the Leader added.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/03/610261/Iran-Leader
In the Chinese anti-dumping ruling, the WTO faulted two techniques that the United States uses to set penalties for dumping. Its so-called “zeroing methodology” — long a problem for the trade body — involves cherry-picking violators and neglecting law-abiding producers in a way that lets U.S. officials artificially inflate the penalties imposed.
The other technique involves treating multiple Chinese companies of a product as a single entity, in essence penalizing some producers that do not violate anti-dumping rules along with those that do.
While these tariffs are allowed by the WTO under international trade law, the Trump administration has in its disputes with China and other commercial partners exchanged tariffs unilaterally, without any green light from the WTO.
The U.S. and China have filed a number of complaints with the WTO against each others’ tariffs, but dispute resolution can take years.
The President has said trade wars are “good and easy to win”, and he maintains the tariffs do not harm American consumers or producers.
Mr Hockey directly contradicted him.
“I understand the reasons for his frustrations. Australia supports both free and fair trade. But these types of measures are not a sustainable long term solution,” he said.
“Let’s be really clear. Tariffs are taxes imposed by governments on their own people. Quotas are access limits placed by governments on their own people.”
He also shot down Mr Trump’s fixation on America’s trade deficits with other countries.
“I have heard suggestions, and perhaps you have heard them too, that to ‘win’ in trade with another country, you need to sell more to them than you buy from them. That is, you should have a trade surplus. I disagree,” Mr Hockey said.
“The argument put by protectionists in favour of tariffs and quotas is akin to saying that instead of spending my time working for my employer, I should make my own food and sew my own clothes. Trust me, no one wants that.”
More broadly, Mr Hockey said critics of free trade were arguing based on “sentimentality and fear, rather than hope and opportunity”.
“The sensible middle ground of society understands that when we trade freely with other nations, our nation gets richer. Protectionism discourages growth and rewards mediocrity. Consumers pay more for the average, rather than less for the best,” he said.
“The United States is the most innovative nation on earth but, like every market leader, it will be beaten if it thinks it can do it all on its own.”
- financing/venture capital scams are more common then you think. When I was involved with this sector heaps of companies wanted complete access to intellectual property (demonstration wasn't enough) for simply having a look at a potential client's work. In some cases, I found out later that some of these VC firms stole ideas and gave their money to others who they believed in more? Other scams I've seen are pump and dump type schemes without caring about sound business models, sourcing of dodgy/funny money in effective money laundering type operations, forcing founders to give up indecent equities in their own firms, funding people for political reasons or only people that they personally like, etc... That said, very difficult to pick winners and losers in business
- deep down I think most people realise the way humans live is exploitative but there's not much that people can do about it (check reviews for many employers and most aren't great. Good employers are exceptionally rare and even then I suspect many of their reviews are fake (I know due to my involvement with the fake marketing and fake review world)?)? "Power of One" stories are used to keep many going? In religion they have an Apocalyptic component where all the corrupt people are supposed to be neutralised somehow. Many radicalists seem to adopt a similar mentality?
According to the Australia Talks National Survey, 86 per cent of new migrants think companies will always try to exploit workers if they can.
And 68 per cent said they'd be happier with a better job.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/qantas-stares-down-activists-on-asylum-seeker-transportation-20191025-p53457.html
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/EFG-Bank-Reviews-E477049.htm
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/National-Australia-Bank-Reviews-E4262.htm
https://au.indeed.com/cmp/Absolute-Domestics/reviews
https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Lombard-International-EI_IE37805.11,32.htm
In the past few years, journalists have reported shocking stories about the work environments at game studios around the world. Crunch is an industry term that refers to a 40-hour workweek spiraling into 60, 80, or even 100 hours without extra pay. This can happen not just in the final weeks before release, but throughout the development cycle. Kotaku’s Jason Schreier wrote that many producers, “see mandatory overtime not as a contingency plan but as a natural part of game development, to be regularly used as a way to cut costs and make the most ambitious games on the shortest schedules.” Crunch isn’t just an overtime problem; it eats into workers’ ability to enjoy their lives, spend time with their families, and can even lead to severe health issues when they’re overworked for extended periods of time.
https://onezero.medium.com/toxic-workplaces-are-driving-video-game-developers-to-unionize-cda5c8b73317
"Philosopher and Big Think Expert Noam Chomsky makes a stark comparison between the modern workplace and the most oppressive totalitarian regimes. He dubs them:
"...more brutal and destructive than a totalitarian state. If you live in a totalitarian state, they don't tell you you're not allowed to the bathroom, okay? Or you can't talk to this person, or you have to wear this kind of clothes and so on. That's where people spend their working lives, living under totalitarian rule in which you may admire what they do, but you despise what they are."
Combine this with broadly defined insubordination clauses and random drug tests, and you may notice that many workplaces also have control over what you say at work and what you do in your own time."
https://www.facebook.com/democracyatwrk/
https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/workplace-productivity-democracy
- it's difficult to believe that there is such a thing as fake beggars but there are?
fake beggars
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/fake-beggars-on-melbournes-streets-flown-in-from-china/news-story/4f64585e423225fbba991c357737213b
https://www.news.com.au/news/national/chinese-beggars-revealed-to-be-professional-after-police-crackdown/news-story/5c743d10e9d1cf1c7745ecfa8dc31b8e
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/pictured-bogus-beggars-who-making-16458744
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-spot-the-difference-between-homeless-people-and-professional-beggars
- it's been obvious for a long while that some sports have more to do with the pharmaceutical industry then sports and health industries? Oddly, I don't think some spectators would mind if atheletes came out into the open and competed either way but declared their status?
tour de france drugs
Rivière quickly passed the blame for his fall and his broken back on the team mechanic, accusing him of leaving oil on the wheels and the brakes for not working. The mechanic was outraged, and the doctors soon found the real reason – that so much painkiller was in Rivière's blood that his hands were too slow to operate the brakes. He had taken a heavy dose of the opioid painkiller dextromoramide (Palfium), to help him stay with Nencini on Col de Perjuret.[22] Rivière later admitted to being a drug addict, telling a newspaper how he had doped to beat the world hour record,[25] and admitted downing thousands of tablets a year.
...
On 8 July 1998, French Customs arrested Willy Voet, a soigneur for the Festina team, for the possession of illegal drugs, including narcotics, erythropoietin (EPO), growth hormones, testosterone, and amphetamines. Voet later described many common doping practices in his book, Massacre à la Chaîne.[38] On 23 July 1998, French police raided several teams' hotels and found drugs in the possession of the TVM team. As news spread, riders staged a sit-down strike during the 17th stage. After mediation by Jean-Marie Leblanc, the director of the Tour, police agreed to limit the most heavy-handed tactics and riders agreed to continue. Many riders and teams had already abandoned the race and only 111 riders completed the stage. In a 2000 trial, it became clear that the management and health officials of Festina had organized drug-taking within the team. Richard Virenque, a top Festina rider, finally confessed after being ridiculed for maintaining that if he was doping he was somehow not consciously aware of it – as the satirical television programme, Les Guignols de l'Info, put it: "à l'insu de mon plein gré" ("of my own free will but without my knowing").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France
olympics doping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Olympic_Games
olympics doping germany
Jean-Pierre de Mondenard, an expert in performance-enhancing drugs, contended that doping existed in other countries both communist and capitalist, but the difference with East Germany was that it was a state policy.[10] From 1974 on, Manfred Ewald, the head of the GDR's sports federation, imposed blanket doping,[11] with the development of a "highly centralized and clandestine program",[12] called State Research Plan 14.25 and the establishment of the ‘uM’ work group – ‘uM’ being abbreviation of ‘unterstützende Mittel’ or ‘supportive means’ – in 1974, which oversaw the distribution of drugs to all sports.[13] The person in charge of the doping system was Dr. Manfred Höppner a recognised East German sports doctor. He was appointed head of the "UM Group" which was responsible to deliver the drugs to the federations. Each federation had a distinct UM group as the variety and the dose differs with the disciplines.[14]
The pervasiveness of the dealings of the ‘uM’ work group and the element of secrecy it commanded in society, as well as the extent of abuse that athletes suffered because of it, have been noted by scholars and athletes alike. The state research program has been described as "a clandestine activity that demanded the collaboration of sports physicians, talented scientists and coaching experts under the watchful eye of the GDR Government".[15] The involvement of GDR's Ministry of State Security (Stasi) in this doping program has also been well documented and highlights the extent to which the state went to secure the secrecy of the doping program. Indeed, athletes were often sworn to secrecy, not informed or deceived about the drugs they were taking; they were told instead that they were being given ‘vitamins’. For example, Birgit Boese was just twelve years old when she became part of the doping program. She was instructed by her coach not to tell anyone about the vitamins, not even her parents. Ewald was quoted as having told coaches: "They're still so young and don't have to know everything."[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_East_Germany#Systematic_state_doping
- charity scams pretty common now?
- scams exist everywhere. Does the supposed battle between good and evil (insert whoever you want to on either side because that seems to be what's happening nowadays anyhow?) help keep the world going? Does this ever end?
- fake war on crime and terrorism? My suspicion is that there is a semi-detente between major organised crime and many states (seems feasible given the way the Yukuza operates in Japan, Mafia operates in Italy/Russia/Europe/etc, drug cartels operate in Mexico and South America, gangs in the United States, Triads operate in Asia, Islamic Extremists in Middle Asia and Africa, etc...)? It's possible that organised crime lobbies against significant anti-crime policies via covert and overt means? The main stream press just can't see through it or doesn't report about it? The great irony of criminal groups such as drug cartels is that they somehow manage to take care of people in spite of the havoc they otherwise create?
organised crime income source
Organized crime groups generate large amounts of money by activities such as drug trafficking, arms smuggling and financial crime. This is of little use to them unless they can disguise it and convert it into funds that are available for investment into legitimate enterprise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime
https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/mexico-probes-narco-group-la-linea-mormon-murders-doc-1m20io2
According to one estimate, the cartels rake in between $US25 billion ($36 billion) and $US30 billion a year, employing 450,000 people in vast networks that take in street and prison gangs, police, customs officials, front companies, banks, and many others, according to a study by Stephen Morris in the Latin American Research Review. More than 3 million Mexicans are reliant on the cartels for a livelihood. The drug lords act as patrons of the communities, funding schools, hospitals and charities. In turn, members of the public sometimes revere them, romanticising them in song and images.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/who-are-the-mexican-drug-cartels-and-why-are-they-so-deadly-20191106-p537y3.html
- if you read around there are many bemusing aspects to this system. People are trained to be good, honest, fair, decent, etc... people as they grow up but those who rise to the top are often hypocrites (my formula holds either way). Ironically, it also makes it more difficult for a fair balance to work out if the system is out of kilter or corrupt?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/oh-cool-more-bullshit-anonymous-white-house-officials-trash-book-anonymous-ex-white-house
Keiser Report - What is the Fed hiding (E1457)
United States Secretary of State and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director (2017 - 2018), Mike Pompeo, admitted to an audience from Texas A&M University on April 15, that the agency especially trains employees to “lie, cheat and steal.” 
“When I was a cadet, what’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment,” Pompeo boasted as the audience laughed and celebrated the statement. 
Essentially liberal internationalists from Europe, Japan and the United States, the liberal wing of the intellectual elite. That's where Jimmy Carter's whole government came from. [...] [The Trilateral Commission] was concerned with trying to induce what they called "more moderation in democracy"—turn people back to passivity and obedience so they don't put so many constraints on state power and so on. In particular they were worried about young people. They were concerned about the institutions responsible for the indoctrination of the young (that's their phrase), meaning schools, universities, church and so on—they're not doing their job, [the young are] not being sufficiently indoctrinated. They're too free to pursue their own initiatives and concerns and you've got to control them better.[16]
- artificial blockades everywhere on people who may challenge current elite (whether good or bad is up to the beholder) both sideways and upwards? 
- everybody says they want peace but the system is setup perfectly for never ending conflict for what seems like forever? The reason why this seems obvious is because no country or network of countries at the moment can overcome the Talent Paradox (due to differences in talent certain individuals or groups should pull away from the pack) and Empire Paradox (no country has ever been able to manage to genuinely take care of 100% of it's own people and keep them happy over an extended period?)? In the absence of being unable to overcome the Talent Paradox countries resort to divide and conquer? It wouldn't suprise me if many of the foreign backed regime changes were quid pro quo deals that provided for favourable trade or cheap access to resources in future?
- in this system the concept of justice becomes irrelevant? It can come down to how good your lawyer is and how many appeals you can afford? Notice that even within the justice system people play with words constantly? Results are highly variable? Conflicts of interest constantly appear?
Al Jazeera Investigations _ Diplomats for Sale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Yba1-ijh4
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/thinking-like-political-elite-random.html
Controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden, living in exile in Russia, said Monday he would like to return to the United States -- but only if he can get a fair jury trial.
“That is the ultimate goal, but if I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison then my one, bottom-line demand that we all have to agree to is that at least I get a fair trial,” Snowden said Monday on “CBS This Morning."
Snowden told CBS’ morning show that the U.S. government has “refused” to guarantee a fair trial.
“They won’t provide access to what’s called a public interest defense,” Snowden said.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/george-pell-seeks-leave-to-appeal-child-sex-abuse-convictions-in-high-court/ar-AAHpGOI?li=AAgfYrC
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/20/606644/Saudi-coalition-attack-Yemen-Hudaydah-violate-stockholm-ceasefire
More and more Americans are now representing themselves, with just one in four civil defendants represented by counsel, according to Bloomberg. This is down from nearly all defendants having lawyers in 1992, according to a 2015 study. The number of litigants without lawyers has risen in the four years since the study, as well.
An opportunity for justice is the "bedrock" of the American legal system, but pro se litigants up against attorneys are unlikely to win their cases or settle on beneficial terms.
Trish McAllister, head of the Texas Access to Justice Commission said: “It’s really a crisis. People aren’t able to get into the courts and they’re not able to navigate them once they’re there.”
Money is the holdup in most cases: litigants simply can't afford counsel and most attorneys won't take cases where the payoffs are too small to justify the court appearance. Last year, the Trump administration effectively closed the Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice, which was set up to provide access to lawyers for all Americans.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/americans-simply-cant-afford-lawyers-anymore
justice vs cost of lawyer
That was in 1976. In recent decades, the scientific validity of forensic hypnosis has been called into question by experts who study how memory operates, especially in police interviews and courtrooms. It is one example of a growing number of forensic practices – including the analysis of blood spatter patterns and the study of what distinguishes arson from accidental fires – that prosecutors once relied on to secure convictions, but which are now considered to be unreliable. “The breadth of scientific error in forensic disciplines is breathtaking,” Ben Wolff, an attorney for Flores, told me.
After reading about Flores’s case, Gardner got in touch with a hypnosis expert named Dr Steven Lynn. As a young psychologist in the 1970s, Lynn was a “true believer” in the power of hypnosis to retrieve memories, he later testified in a hearing in Flores’s case. But when Lynn began to test this assumption, he found that in study after study, hypnosis actually harmed subjects’ recall. It led them to “recover” at least as many false memories as accurate ones, while increasing their confidence in the memories’ accuracy. “Maybe they’re having a very vivid experience during hypnosis, but that experience is not necessarily a truthful experience,” Lynn told the court.
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According to the last examination done by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 15 percent of civil trial decisions were appealed, about half by plaintiffs and half by defendants. Of these appeals, about 43 percent were dismissed or withdrawn, often due to the parties’ ­settling. In the ­remaining 57 percent, about a third were modified or reversed, either by an intermediate court or a court of last resort. Interestingly, verdicts in favor of plaintiffs were modified or reversed twice as often as judgments favoring defendants. So roughly one in five appealed decisions are invalidated, but most of those cases are sent back for a new trial, some with instructions for modifying an award.
- the scary part of the legal system and religion in the past was the use of systems like mandatory justice and hard, strict, interpretations of the law. If you follow certain religions to the letter no much abuse a spouse, child, friend, classmate, workmate, manager, etc... is given the victim is somehow supposed to always forgive the perpertrator. There are serious problems with this. In another post, I'll outline some of what happens to someone who follows this perspective 100%. Stress, abuse, bullying, torture, etc... all produce similar effects and most of them aren't great. How this ties into justice, recidivism rates, illness, odd/bad behaviour, etc... will make more sense if you understand PSYOPS and how the human body works (I'll build a humanoid type being from a single cell and a double helix DNA style strand at some point (I've done most of the work but just need to collate my notes) and it may make things easier to explain? You can infer a lot of how particular illnesses occur by thinking how humans may have been created using this exercise? I suspect the chained nature of DNA/RNA multi-cellular style technology is reason why humans are having difficulties dealing with certain illnesses?)
wrong judgement law system
mandatory justice
- we're approaching a dangerous period in history? The impact of bad Artificial Intelligence (AI) is similar to mandatory processing? AI doesn't have experience of life? It's currently too simplistic and doesn't understand the nuances of life?
police buy food for shoplifters
- unbrainwashing yourself is critical to understanding life and the systems as is if you want to lead an easier life? Just opposing views over and over again and you'll get rid of a lot of your bias. Crucial is seeing the main important truths though?
- once you understand things you understand how and why it's so difficult for many to make a living? Way too many shenanigans to deal with? Even if you have employment and make some money life can still be difficult?
Profits over people? Childrens’ cancer drug put on hold
FULL SHOW: Why the rich are planning babies in space
Fierce debate: Facebook wants all power, but no rules — fair? (Full show)
amazon pe ratio trend
- you can actually tell what politicians will do and why they do it if you understand how this system works? Highlighting the few stories of those who have managed to navigate the system is one of mechanisms through which to maintain belief in the system as is? Satire is a means of blowing off steam for a lot of unlucky people? The primary cause is that the existing elite don't really give back enough into the right places in the economy? Instead of creating jobs themselves they invest in assets? It's when you understand how difficult it is to navigate the system that you understand why some people are so filled with hatred, contempt, disconnected from others, etc? It's also when you begin to understand how/why debt fueled Unicorn IT firms exist? If the existing wealthy don't/won't/can't invest in people then this is the only real choice that governments have? Even if most of them fail, a few of them may make it, swamp their respective market, and employ people over the long term?
How the rich get richer – money in the world economy _ DW Documentary
IMF’s neoliberalism loses, left wins in Latin America – Kovalik
Keiser Report: ‘Blitzscaling’ Unicorns Losing More Money Than Frackers (E1378)
Debunking The Steve Jobs & Elon Musk 'Genius Entrepreneur' Myth  ft. Ben Burgis & Artesia Balthrop
Keiser Report - What is the Fed hiding (E1457)
Keiser Report - Money burning unicorns & shale slowdown (E1456)
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-responds-bernie-sanders-billionaires-shouldnt-exist-2019-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10293918/jeremy-corbyns-could-dost-9-5bn/
Denis S.
RFP Response Specialist at BlueCat Networks
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 "The governing class had become, through its indifference, its selfishness and its vices, incapable and unworthy of governing the country" (Alexis de Tocqueville, 1848) …and a few years later, the French Revolution erupted. Historically, such situations rarely resolve in a peaceful manner.
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Ron Mayer
Consulting small/medium sized companies on applications of a.i., machine learning, and robotics to their businesses.
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 A deliberate debt jubilee worked for a long time when "money" first came on the human scene... and has always worked since, but now we make the system force us into it instead of coordinating the event our own terms.
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- Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technology has expressed its willingness to sell its 5G technology to a Western company and allow the latter to develop it as it wished, while the Chinese firm continued on its own chosen path.

The offer was made by chief executive Ren Zhengfei during an interview with the British magazine, The Economist. Ren said, for a one-off payment, the buyer would have access to all Huawei’s existing 5G patents, licences, code, technical blueprints and production secrets.

The buyer would be allowed to modify the source code which meant that nobody could in future accuse either Huawei or the Chinese Government of being able to have any control over such hypothetical equipment built by the buyer.

Huawei is under attack from the US which has claimed, for some years, that the Chinese firm’s equipment can be used for spying by Beijing. The US, Australia and Japan have banned the use of Huawei gear in their 5G networks; New Zealand has banned one telco, Spark, from using the equipment, but claims that it has not yet instituted a ban.

The offer is reminiscent of what the Russian security firm Kaspersky (then known as Kaspersky Lab) did after it came under attack in the US and was banned from providing software to the public sector. The company set up transparency centres in Switzerland and Malaysia, where it said all its code would be reviewed in order to ensure that there was no suspicion that backdoors were planted to allow the Russian Government access.
Ren told The Economist that the money from such a deal would allow Huawei to make progress in its development. A US ban on purchases from American companies has hit Huawei hard and the company is expected to make losses this year and in coming years as well. It has cut nearly 100 staff in Australia.

There has been no indication from Beijing as to whether the Chinese Government would agree to such a proposal; Huawei is the biggest 5G supplier worldwide, well ahead of Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia. The fourth company with the ability to build end-to-end 5G networks, ZTE Corporation, is also Chinese.
https://www.itwire.com/government-tech-policy/huawei-chief-offers-to-share-technology-with-western-firm.html
Kirk: What happened to you out there, Edison?
Edison: Edison? I have to say, Kirk, I missed being me. We lost ourselves, but gained a purpose! A means to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong.
Kirk: I think you underestimate humanity.
Edison: I fought for humanity! Lost millions to the Xindi and Romulan wars. And for what? For the Federation?! To sit me in a captain's chair and break bread with the enemy!
Kirk: We change. We have to. Or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Beyond
Scout Barry : We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210166/characters/nm3195860
The Soviets held Moscow despite the Nazis obtaining air superiority.

Another thing to notice is that the Chinese cut military spending when the then-hostile Soviets were at their strongest; i.e, they'll rely on non-military offsets if needed to deal with their defense situation.

You have to remember, the Chinese have had to put up with having no credible defense against American stealth aircraft since the F-22 hit IOC, and the numbers of their 4th generation aircraft are those needed to deter regional opponents, not face up against the Hyperpower.

Even if you look at naval assets, the military expansion still seems more developmentally-oriented than intended to face the United States symmetrically. The number of operational Type 055s, a rough Arleigh Burke analogue despite its greater mass, is only 1. They may have more in production, but that's far below the 82 Arleigh Burkes floating around.

What's more impressive about the Type 055 is qualitative; i.e, they claim to have gotten GaN AESA radar running on the Type 055s, and the Type 055 radars seem to have a greater aperture than the latest Arleigh Burkes. Later iterations of the Type 055 are supposed to have IEP; i.e, the Chinese are more focused on increasing quality and bridging tech gaps than pumping out competitively large numbers of inferior equipment.
http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=55903&p=426596#p426596
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